Certificate of Ballot Language - 2008 General Election
STATE OF COLORADO )
COUNTY OF BOULDER ) SS.: CERTIFICATE OF BALLOT
LANGUAGE -Revised
CITY OF BOULDER )
I, Alisa D. Lewis, City Clerk of the City of Boulder, County of Boulder, State
of Colorado, do hereby certify that the attached is an exact copy of the approved
ballot language for the Coordinated Election to be held in the City of Boulder,
Colorado, on the 4`h day of November, 2008.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and the official Seal
of the City of Boulder, Colorado, this 8th day of September, A.D., 2008.
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City of Boulder 2008 Ballot Language:
BALLOT ISSUE NO. 201
CITY RETENTION OF PROPERTY TAX FUNDS
Without raising taxes, and in order to pay for necessary city purposes such as
fire apparatus, information technologies, energy costs, facility maintenance and
city services, shall the city of Boulder, pursuant to Ordinance No. 7608, be
allowed to retain and spend property tax funds collected in tax collection years
2009 and beyond, and retain and spend any earnings therefrom, without
limitation or condition, and without limiting the collection or spending of any other
revenues or funds by the city of Boulder, under Article X, Section 20 of the
Colorado constitution or any other law?
And in connection therewith,
(1) shall any increase in retained taxes starting in tax collection year 2009
that is authorized by this measure be limited to .5 mills per year, and (2)
shall any tax monies that are collected above those that the city may
retain be credited to property owners as an offset against the subsequent
year's taxes?
For the Measure Against the Measure
BALLOT ISSUE NO. 202
SALES AND USE TAX EXTENSION
Without raising additional taxes, shall the city of Boulder, pursuant to Ordinance
No. 7607, have authority to extend indefinitely, beyond its current expiration date
of December 31, 2011, the existing 0.38% city sales and use tax that is
described in section 3-2-5 of the Boulder Revised Code, 1981. These revenues
will continue to fund general fund services such as police, fire, library, parks and
human services.
And in connection therewith,
Shall the full proceeds of the tax and any earnings therefrom, be collected and
spent without limitation or condition, and without limiting the collection or
spending of any other revenues or funds by the city of Boulder, under Article X,
section 20 of the Colorado constitution or any other law?
For the Measure Against the Measure
Ballot Question No. 2A
City Council Compensation
Shall Section 7 of the Charter be amended pursuant to Ordinance No. 7599 to
provide that starting in 2009, city council members will be compensated at the
rate of $1000 per month, adjusted in the future by reference to the Consumer
Price Index?
The proposed amendment would delete existing language that currently
compensates city council members at $174.31 per meeting, not to exceed four
meetings per calendar month.
For the Measure Against the Measure
Ballot Question No. 2B
City Council Executive Sessions
Shall Section 9 of the Charter be amended pursuant to Ordinance No. 7600 in
order to allow city council to meet in executive session to discuss sensitive
matters where premature disclosure would be contrary to the public interest?
Executive sessions will only be held in conformity with locally enacted procedural
rules that are at least as restrictive as those set forth in the laws of the state of
Colorado and only upon a 2/3 vote of council members present at a meeting. No
final action will be allowed at executive sessions.
The only subjects that will be discussed in executive sessions are:
(1) Confidential issues associated with the purchase, acquisition, lease,
transfer or sale of property;
(2) Confidential legal advice;
(3) Confidential security matters or investigations;
(4) Confidential issues relating to ongoing negotiations and negotiating
strategy; or
(5) Hiring and personnel matters pertaining to one of the council's three
employees, so long as the subject council employee is able to require
that the discussion be held in public.
For the Measure Against the Measure
Ballot Question No. 2C
Amendment of Recall Election Procedures
Shall Sections 56, 58, 59, and 62 of the Charter, relating to the method to
be utilized to recall holders of elective office, be amended pursuant to
Ordinance Number 7603 to:
(1) Provide that the city clerk will make forms for recall petitions
available and will, within two days of submission of proposed
recall petition (and prior to their circulation to the public), review
the petitions for form;
(2) Limit to two hundred words statements of reasons supporting
and opposing a proposed recall and provide for the posting or
publication of those statements at least twenty days prior to a
recall election;
(3) Allow a recall election to be held between seventy-five and
ninety days after the city clerk certifies that a valid recall petition
has been filed;
(4) Provide for the coordination of recall elections with other
municipal elections if such other elections are to be held within
ninety days;
(5) Provide that a council vacancy that occurs after a removal
election has been ordered will be filled by the procedures for
filling of council vacancies that appear in Section 8 of the
charter;
(6) Clarify the requirements for recall ballots, allowing for
coordination with county election procedures, and specify that
"yes' votes will be counted in favor of recall;
(7) Provide that any vacancy created by a recall election will be
filled by an election held in the manner set forth for filling council
vacancies in Section 8 of the charter; and
(8) Specify that an official may not serve on any elected or
appointed official city body for a period of one year following the
date on which that official is recalled from office or resigns while
recall proceedings are pending.
For the Measure Against the Measure
Ballot Question No. 2D
Permit City Lease Up To Forty Years
Shall Section 111 of the charter be amended pursuant to Ordinance
No. 7604 to allow the city to grant a lease of streets or public places
or property for a period of up to forty years (rather than the current
maximum of twenty years) upon approval by atwo-thirds vote of all
council members?
For the Measure Against the Measure
Ballot Question No. 2E
Qualifications for Appointment to City Commissions
Shall Section 130 of the charter be amended pursuant to Ordinance
No. 7605 to provide that city residents may be appointed to serve
on city commissions even if they are not city electors, if they are at
least eighteen years old and if they have resided in the city of
Boulder for at least one year immediately prior to their
appointment?
For the Measure Against the Measure _