BOULDER — After more than four hours of testimony, city officials Thursday afternoon continued until Friday a hearing on allegations of fraud on the part of petitioners gathering signatures for an Xcel-supported charter amendment concerning Boulder’s municipalization efforts.
The complaint was filed last month by New Era Colorado based on what the youth-focused political organization’s attorneys allege were cases of petitioners lying about what the debt-limit amendment would do, as well as alleged instances of petitioners altering or forging names on petitions.
The hearing was held in the City Council chambers at the Boulder Municipal Building and was presided over by City Clerk Alisa Lewis. It was Lewis’ office that verified the more than 5,000 signatures submitted by Voter Approval of Debt Limits, the group seeking to have the amendment placed on the November ballot.
The charter amendment says voters would have to approve the total debt limit of a municipal utility, that affected customers in unincorporated Boulder County would need to vote in that debt limit election if the city serves outside its boundaries and that those elections can occur only in odd years.
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