Loveland voters likely will have an opportunity Nov. 1 to shield the city from a Colorado constitutional amendment that caps revenue and spending in ways that some say would constrict city services.
The Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR, in 1992 imposed the revenue cap, and since then most Colorado municipalities, school districts and other taxing districts have conducted elections to allow revenue to rise above what the amendment would otherwise allow.
Loveland has done just that in three previous elections, with voters agreeing with city finance managers that TABOR’s provisions would force service cuts including deferred street and park maintenance and equipment purchases for police and fire use.
City councilors tonight will review language they asked City Attorney John Duval to draft for the November election ballot.
The proposed ballot language is short and simple, a single sentence that has appeared on more than 400 ballots statewide since TABOR came to be.
The difference this year is that the cap lift applies “in 2013 and every year thereafter,” as the ballot language says. Prior TABOR questions in Loveland have been for limited periods of time.
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