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Guest Commentary: City officials must heed the red flags flying over Colorado’s special districts

20 November 2019 by Welton Corridor

 
“It has become clear to me, after careful study, that we face a day of reckoning over the unchecked proliferation of special taxing districts across Colorado.

Local officials for years have been approving an unmanageable, crazy-quilt of these districts — quasi-governments that operate with little accountability over huge sums of money they collect and spend annually — often without fully understanding the long-term consequences for the local tax structure, economic vitality and delivery of services.

By my count, there are roughly 118 special districts of various types operating in my hometown of Colorado Springs — metropolitan, general improvement, special improvement maintenance, downtown development authority, business improvement, and urban renewal areas. These areas provide public financing for public improvements; water and sanitation; fire protection; parks and recreation; public safety; street improvement; etc. And we seem to add a new one to this hodgepodge almost every month.

Hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ dollars flow through these districts annually. Collectively, the city has granted districts billions of dollars in bonding authority — on the backs of homeowners and businesses, not the city. Each district purports to deliver a variety of public benefits, but what participants and the general public get for their expenditures and indebtedness is often hard to discern, given the lack of oversight and transparency with which these districts operate.”
 
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Hoiles, Tim. Denver Post 20 November 2019.
 
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Posted in: IN THE NEWS Tagged: Colorado Springs, Creekwalk Marketplace Business Improvement District, Denver Post, Michael Roslin, quasi-governments, Scheels All Sports, special taxing districts, tax-increment financing, taxes
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  The Agenda, Proposed Consent Agenda, and the Meeting schedule do not contain any items related to Welton Street.   The full Council meets most Mondays in regular session at 5:30 p.m. at the City ... [Read more...]
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  Agenda for the Wednesday 24 July 2019 meeting:   “2019-COA-280 2650 Welton Street Description: Phase I – Mass, Form, & Context Recommendation: Approval Brittany Bryant”   The commission generally meets the first and third ... [Read more...]
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  The Agenda, Proposed Consent Agenda, and the Meeting schedule do not contain any items related to Welton Street.   The full Council meets most Mondays in regular session at 5:30 p.m. at the City ... [Read more...]
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  The Agenda, Proposed Consent Agenda, and the Meeting schedule do not contain any items related to Welton Street.   The full Council meets most Mondays in regular session at 5:30 p.m. at the City ... [Read more...]
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Curtis Park Neighbors Public Mee... @ Mile High United Way
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  The Curtis Park Neighbors meets at 6:30 pm the first Thursday of every month at Mile High United Way 711 Park Avenue, Denver, CO.   AGENDA   Curtis Park Neighbors website.   Meeting dates ... [Read more...]
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