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Articles by Yolanda L. Avila
Opinion: Election maps could silence Southeast residents, change representation
Southeast, this is a call for you to engage in the redistricting effort. This is crucial for each and every one of us to ensure that voters choose their elected officials instead of the elected officials choosing their voters. Here’s the skinny and how you can get involved in ensuring an equitable redistricting process. As a result of the 2020 Census, redistricting of state and senate local seats as well as U.S. Congressional districts has begun through various commissions.
Opinion: Community news: The carport issue
Iam grateful to have the opportunity to serve this community as your city councilor for the next four years. I am dedicated to continuing the incredible momentum on improving transit, roads, sidewalks, ADA ramps, and bridges. I look forward to the groundbreaking at Panorama Park on Saturday, May 8, as well as the investment and rollout of two urban renewal projects with affordable housing components.
Opinion: Southeast can lead the way into the light
We’ve all endured the Valentine’s weekend freeze. Thanks to Colorado Springs Utilities, there were no blackouts as there were in numerous cities across the country. There is so much to look forward to as springtime approaches. Let’s take a peek into our future. The equitable rollout of the vaccine is in full swing. The virus respects no boundaries and it behooves all of us to help one another defeat this pandemic so we can get back to our lives and livelihoods.
Opinion: 2020: The times that tried Southeast COS - and showed its resilience
Yolanda Avila Courtesy Yolanda Avila Last year was a historic year in many ways. Under the umbrella of COVID for most of the year, the disparities that we experience in the Southeast have been exacerbated and can no longer be denied. Our two zip codes, 80910 and 80916, have been the most consistently impacted in El Paso County by this pandemic. Many of our residents are front-line workers, rely on public transportation and in several instances live in multi-generational families.
POINT/COUNTERPOINT: Should Colorado Springs implement a plastic bag fee?
POINT: Yolanda Avila Yolanda Avila Olympic City USA must be the model of a trash free city. It’s been more than a year and a half that I’ve been contacted by constituents throughout the city requesting the reduction of plastic bag use. Colorado Springs City Council had a work session regarding this initiative on June 22nd. It was decided that we would consider a 10-cent bag fee on all plastic bags sold in retail stores.
GUEST COLUMN: Southeast neighborhood will support a stadium
The southeast neighborhood I represent is poised to play a key role in the hot topic of a $27.7 million investment toward a stadium for Olympic City USA. City for Champions (C4C) funding has been appropriated for the Gateway Visitors Center at the Air Force Academy, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs William J. Hybl Sports Medicine and Performance Center and the downtown U.S. Olympic Museum. The energy and momentum for revitalization is building in the southeast.
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