Lakewood City Council approves ballot measure to permanently lift Colorado's TABOR limits

The City of Lakewood wants to extend a measure lifting TABOR limits for the city. The city council approved putting the question on the ballot which will ask voters to not only extend the measure that expires next year but make that move permanent.

"We are asking the voters to be able to continue to retain excess sales tax revenue in excess of the TABOR revenue caps," City Council member Rebekah Stewart said.

Stewart also chairs the Budget and Audit Committee. That committee, she says, has spent years discussing the future of TABOR and recent community surveys led to their recommendation to put the question on the November ballot.

"The City of Lakewood... our infrastructure is aging. We are coming up on being 60 years old as an incorporated city and it's starting to show in a lot of our infrastructure and our city services and we need to make sure we can plan and have steady income expectations," Stewart added.




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