BOULDER — City Councilman Macon Cowles — saying that municipalization holds “great promise” — lambasted a petition effort to place a proposed charter amendment on the November ballot.
The charter amendment, he said, could make it impossible for the city to follow through with forming a municipal energy utility.
“Some of the people circulating the petitions are ill-informed, and they are informing people that another vote is needed because the city made a mistake,” Cowles said Tuesday. “I don’t want people to be misled by petition circulators.”
The charter amendment would require a vote on debt limits and repayment costs before the city could issue bonds for a municipal electric utility. It also would prevent a future municipal utility from extending outside city limits unless affected county residents are allowed to vote in that election.
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