COLORADO SPRINGS — Sheriff Terry Maketa experienced an odd feeling the morning after the election, in which El Paso County voters passed ballot measure 1A.
“I was driving to work in a mind-set I hadn’t been able to experience since I became sheriff,” Maketa said. “It was the first day in 10 years I felt we’d have the resources to address what we need.”
Maketa’s tax proposal passed by a wide margin — 64 percent of voters approved 1A — and is expected to generate about $17 million yearly for the sheriff’s office. It’s scheduled to sunset in eight years.
Most of the money will go for personnel and equipment. Maketa plans to add 46 patrol deputies, a 60 percent increase in the force, and about 30 civilian employees, mostly as dispatchers, security technicians in the jail and record-keepers.
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