With the nine-member West Greeley Citizen Oversight Committee poised to hold its first meeting Thursday to consider the city’s next steps for the proposed Catalyst entertainment district, the mayor and City Council agree that better communication is key.
Over the next eight weeks, committee members will review key components of the project, including legal considerations, zoning and infrastructure, design, financial structure and obligations and the General Improvement District framework. But as council member Johnny Olson put it during a work session Tuesday, “I want to make sure we articulate what the problems are so the committee understands it.”
Those problems were outlined in a presentation by Deputy City Manager Allena Portis, who presented a detailed slideshow to illustrate the city’s financial situation in the wake of the Feb. 24 special election in which voters overturned planned-unit development zoning for Catalyst and the surrounding Cascadia mixed-use development on the city’s western edge…