Steve Adams, city manager, Loveland.
Darin Atteberry, city manager, Fort Collins.
Harold Dominguez, city manager, Longmont.
Jennifer Hoffman, city and county manager, Broomfield.
Roy Otto, city manager, Greeley.
Cheryl Patelli, chief financial officer, Boulder.
The session will be moderated by Jack Reutzel, director, Fairfield & Woods PC.
“COVID-19 has had an enormous effect on municipal finance,” said Jeff Nuttall, BizWest publisher. “This panel will highlight those impacts, including the effects on city services, cash reserves, and municipal staff furloughs and layoffs.”
Richard Wobbekind, associate dean for business and government relations, senior economist and faculty director for the Business Research Division of the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business, will deliver a keynote address, providing his own economic forecast for Northern Colorado and the state overall.
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Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021 7:20 PM Updated: Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021 11:32 PM Tourism was down 52% in 2020 from 2019 in Colorado, according to an economist from the University of Colorado Boulder, who spoke Thursday to 200 attendees of the Southwest Colorado Economic Outlook 2021 forum held this year on Zoom. Richard Wobbekind said it might take the state four years to recover to pre-COVID-19 tourism numbers. Jerry McBride/Durango Herald file