Amendment 81 (Initiative 95): Requiring law enforcement to notify Homeland Security after criminal charges
Requires law enforcement to notify federal authorities within seventy-two hours after certain people are charged with a crime.
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Requires law enforcement to notify federal authorities within seventy-two hours after certain people are charged with a crime.
Would put a right to buy natural gas for cooking or heating, and a right to sell it, into the Colorado constitution.
Adds a constitutional right to hunt, fish and take wildlife, with species exclusions and conditions preserving state regulation.
Requires a signature and qualifying ID number on mail ballots in federal or statewide elections; discrepancies must be corrected.
Requires state and local ballot questions to be written in plain language at no more than an eighth-grade reading level.
Reenacts congressional redistricting rules and requires three public meetings, commission approval and Colorado Supreme Court adoption for changes to final maps for 2028 or later.
Would tax income at six rates from 3.70 to 8.40 percent in place of Colorado's single 4.40 percent rate, starting in tax year 2027.
Would reduce TABOR refunds by an estimated $329.9 million in the first year to fund K-12 education and children’s programs.
Makes selling any amount of fentanyl a level 1 drug felony punishable by 8 to 32 years in prison, and possession of a gram or less a felony.
Makes human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude punishable by life without parole, and adds knowingly trading anything of monetary value to buy or sell sexual activity with a minor to the offense.
Requires K-12 and college sports teams to be designated by biological sex and limits which students may join them.
Prohibits surgery on anyone under eighteen to alter biological sex characteristics, and bars public and insurance money from paying for it.
Initiative 232 would cap Colorado's individual and corporate income tax rates at 4.4 percent, the rate in current statute.
Lets Colorado retain sporting goods sales tax revenue for conservation; TABOR refunds would fall $175 million in FY 2027–28.
Colorado's 2026 ballots carry statewide measures and local questions in the counties this guide covers. The categories below group every question by what it would do: create or raise a tax, authorize debt, keep revenue above a limit, change how a government is organized, or change how elections are run. The groups also cover criminal penalties, school sports, health care, energy and a constitutional right to hunt and fish. Questions in the same category differ in what they would cost, how long they would last and who votes on them.
These questions create a tax a jurisdiction does not collect today, raise a rate it already charges, or extend a tax due to expire. Most name the rate, the amount expected in the first year and the purpose the money is pledged to.
61 measuresThese questions change how a county, city or town is organized and what its governing body may do: whether a community incorporates at all, the size and form of a governing body, charter powers, closed meetings, term limits, the start of a term, and a utility franchise.
35 measuresThese questions add mills to a county, city or district property tax, create a levy for a newly formed district, extend a tax due to expire, or bring a district under another government's existing levy. Each states the rate or the dollar amount it would raise, and many state whether the tax ends.
30 measuresSchool districts ask voters to raise the district property tax for operating money, most often through a mill levy override. Each question states a first-year amount, and most state whether the tax rises or ends.
21 measuresThese questions authorize a government to borrow. Most name the projects, the amount borrowed, the cost of repaying it with interest, and the tax, fee, assessment or utility revenue that repays it. Boulder 2M instead changes the city's debt limit.
18 measuresMost of these questions let a government keep and spend revenue above the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights limit or the 5.25 percent property tax revenue limit without changing a rate. Four change a rate or a tax's purpose as well.
16 measuresSeven local questions change when elections are held, how votes are counted and how seats are filled. Three statewide measures, Amendments 84, 85 and 86, change mail-ballot identification, ballot wording and congressional redistricting.
11 measuresSchool districts ask voters to approve bonds for buildings and grounds, repaid from property taxes over years. Each question states the principal and, in most cases, the maximum repayment cost and the yearly tax.
10 measuresThese questions change which decisions a council may make on its own and which must go to a vote of the people, and what it takes to put a question on the ballot.
10 measuresThese measures continue an existing tax beyond its expiration. Each question sets its own terms: a rate or annual revenue amount, permitted uses and a new end date, if any.
9 measuresStone Creek Metropolitan District asks its Douglas County voters to repeal five authorizations they granted earlier, covering unused debt authority and 2014 authority to enter multi-year agreements funded by property taxes.
6 measuresTwo statewide measures change Colorado's income tax: Amendment 87 would replace the single 4.40 percent rate with six graduated rates from 3.70 to 8.40 percent, and Proposition 136 would cap the rate at 4.40 percent.
2 measuresTwo statewide measures would raise the penalty for a crime. Proposition 132 would make selling any amount of fentanyl or certain synthetic opioids a level 1 drug felony punishable by 8 to 32 years, and Proposition 133 would set life without parole for human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude.
2 measuresThese measures change how revenue from an existing tax may be spent. Read each question for its spending rules and any separate authority to retain revenue.
2 measuresAmendment 81 would require Colorado law enforcement to notify the federal Department of Homeland Security within seventy-two hours after charging a person who is not lawfully present with a crime of violence, or who has a prior felony conviction.
1 measureAmendment 82 would put a right to purchase natural gas for cooking or heating, and a right for distributors and utilities to sell it, into the Colorado constitution.
1 measureAmendment 83 would add a right to hunt, fish and take fish and wildlife to the Colorado constitution, excluding nongame and endangered species.
1 measureProposition 134 would require Colorado school and athletic association sports teams to be designated male, female or coeducational based on biological sex, and would limit which students may join each team.
1 measureProposition 135 would prohibit surgery on anyone under eighteen to alter biological sex characteristics, and would bar state funds, federal funds, Medicaid and insurance from paying for it.
1 measureFront Range Passenger Rail District 7A adds a 0.333 percent district sales and use tax with no end date and authorizes $580 million in debt for the Colorado Connector passenger rail line. It appears on the ballot in Arapahoe, Boulder, Denver, Douglas, El Paso, Larimer and Weld counties.
1 measureDenver 2K would approve a twenty-year franchise contract with Xcel Energy from 2027, continuing the utility's undergrounding work and its payments for the city's rights-of-way.
1 measureDenver 311 would adopt an ordinance prohibiting the force-feeding of birds and the sale of products from force-fed birds, including foie gras.
1 measureWalsenburg 2A, a citizen-initiated ordinance, would change the zoning rules for the city's Criminal Detention Center District. It creates no tax or fee and authorizes no debt.
1 measureHolyoke School District RE-1J 5A asks voters to accept a $37.5 million state Building Excellent Schools Today grant, which is not repaid, as a match for the school bonds approved in 2024.
1 measureA new 0.129 percent city sales and use tax from 2027 to 2057 and up to $105 million of bonds, for libraries, recreation centers and parks.
A new 0.064 percent city sales and use tax from 2027 to 2057 and up to $53 million of bonds, for public safety needs.
A new 0.132 percent city sales and use tax from 2027 to 2057 and up to $108 million of bonds, for transportation.
Increases the city accommodation tax from 5% to 8% in 2027 for general city spending, with no expiration.
Lets the school district collect the full override revenue voters approved in 1988, 2002 and 2018, up to its state limit; about $2 million more a year by supporters' figures.
Permits up to $125 million school borrowing and $235 million repayment, backed by up to $11 million in additional annual taxes.
Permanently repeals the metro district's $840 million of unused voter-approved borrowing authority.
Repeals a 2014 authority to fund multi-year agreements with levies of up to $280 million a year; new ones would need voters.
Repeals a 2014 authority to levy up to $20 million a year for capital projects; new capital taxes would need voters.
Lowers the metro district's operations tax ceiling from $20 million a year to $9 million, adjusted for inflation.
Adds a 1% district sales tax, excluding groceries, gas, prescriptions and diapers, estimated at $11,732,488 in the first year.
Authorizes up to $250 million borrowing and $470 million repayment; the property-tax mill limit includes a statutory exception.
Adds $1.5 million in subdistrict property taxes in 2027, adjusted annually for inflation afterward, with no stated expiration.
Permanently waives the statutory 5.25% property-tax revenue limit, allowing the district to retain previously approved revenue above that limit.
Adds a 0.75% sales tax excluding groceries and other exempt purchases, and permits retention of all district revenue beyond legal limits.
Permanently waives the 5.25% property-tax revenue limit and permits retention of all district revenue beyond legal limits.
Removes the term limit for the district attorney, allowing repeated reelection to four-year terms.
Raises the city sales and use tax to 3.50% in 2027, adding one percentage point for streets, bridges and other public works.
Gives Xcel utility-service and facility rights for January 1, 2028 through December 31, 2048, covering twenty-one calendar years.
Asserts local land-use authority in the charter, rejecting state-mandated rules unless the City Council or city voters enact them.
Raises sales and use taxes by half a percentage point in 2027 to fund police, emergency response and other public safety purposes.
Adds a 0.129% sales and use tax through 2057 and permits $105 million borrowing for libraries, recreation centers and parks.
Adds a 0.064% sales and use tax through 2057 and permits $53 million borrowing for fire stations, 911 and police facilities.
Adds a 0.132% sales and use tax through 2057 and permits $108 million borrowing for roads, bridges and pedestrian safety.
Aurora would move regular city elections to even-numbered years and allow one-time shortened terms to make the change.
Adds $10,289,724 for 2027 school tax collections, with later statutory limits and a one-mill annual rate-increase limit after 2026.
Permits up to $125 million school borrowing and $235 million repayment, backed by up to $11 million in additional annual taxes.
Adds $105,000 in district property taxes in 2027 for operations, amenities and maintenance, with later inflation and local-growth adjustments.
Adds a 0.333% sales and use tax with no end date and authorizes $580 million in debt for Colorado Connector passenger rail.
Adds a 0.75% sales tax excluding groceries and other exempt purchases, and permits retention of all district revenue beyond legal limits.
Permanently waives the 5.25% property-tax revenue limit and permits retention of all district revenue beyond legal limits.
The district could borrow up to $79.9 million for school facilities, repaid through property taxes, if it receives a state BEST grant that does not have to be repaid.
Local measures are still to be confirmed.
No local ballot measures in this county in 2026.
Adds 2.579 mills for child care and preschool, with $30 million stated for 2027 collections and no expiration.
Enlarges the county commission to five members from three; a separate question determines how they would be elected.
Offers five commissioners elected by district, or three by district and two countywide, if voters enlarge the board.
Extends the Lamont Does Park property tax through December 31, 2046, with annual revenue from the levy limited to $713,000.
Extends the 0.125% historic preservation sales tax to 2038, expands permitted uses and increases the museum campus allocation to 30%.
Expands closed-session subjects to those allowed by state law and permits boards, commissions, task forces and committees to hold closed sessions.
Begins newly elected mayoral and council terms at the first regular meeting following certification of election results.
Raises initiative petition signatures to 7.5% of registered electors and referendum signatures to 5%, from 5% and 2.5% respectively.
Allows public bodies to meet beyond public buildings and facilities when the location remains accessible to everyone.
Requires public City Manager review before an initiative petition; staff could comment but could not change the text or add requirements.
Combines charter wording changes concerning pronouns, citizens, city offices and television in a single vote.
Taxes homes occupied no more than 183 days: $4,000 annually, with inflation increases capped at $7,000.
Permits up to $400 million in bonds and $650 million repayment, supported by up to $32.5 million annually in property taxes.
Puts full-time fire employees’ bargaining rights in the charter, with factfinding and a citywide vote when necessary to resolve impasse.
Revises the charter debt limit to 3% of taxable property’s actual value; the question does not identify the current limit.
Creates a municipality within the proposed Niwot boundary; separate questions address charter drafting, taxes, revenue retention and borrowing.
Establishes an elected nine-member commission to draft a home rule charter for the proposed Niwot municipality.
If Niwot incorporates, begins a 2.5% sales and use tax in 2028 for capital improvements, debt repayment and other lawful municipal purposes.
If Niwot incorporates, adds four mills for operations and maintenance, with $900,000 stated for the first full year.
If Niwot incorporates, adds a 3% retail marijuana sales tax in 2028 on top of other applicable sales taxes.
If Niwot incorporates, permits retention of revenue counted toward fiscal-year spending above state limits from 2027 onward.
Permits up to $15 million in transportation debt and $28 million repayment from separately approved sales and use taxes.
Funds police and fire through an initial levy up to 2.44 mills and a 0.33% sales tax; the levy may later adjust.
Requires a public vote before the city sells or conveys open space, adding it to the charter’s protected lands.
Introduces ranked choice voting where possible for mayor and council elections starting in November 2029.
If 3C passes, puts the three at-large council seats and three ward seats on alternating election cycles.
Taxes stays of 30 days or less at 3.5% beginning in 2027, for parks, infrastructure, public safety and other general purposes.
Adds a 0.501-percentage-point sales and use tax increase and authorizes up to $32.5 million borrowing for the Community Center.
Finances wastewater treatment improvements with up to $1 million in debt, repaid through special assessments on district properties.
Creates a road improvement district with up to 14.47 mills in property taxes and a $3.5 million multi-year obligation.
Establishes a road district, permits up to 17.34 mills in property taxes and authorizes a multi-year obligation up to $1.25 million.
Adds a 0.333% sales and use tax with no end date and authorizes $580 million in debt for Colorado Connector passenger rail.
Adds six mills for firefighting, wildfire mitigation and general operations, with $1.2 million stated for the first full year.
Adds 5.3 mills in 2027 for fire protection and emergency response, up to $331,000 in the first year, with no expiration.
Local measures are still to be confirmed.
Asks Salida voters whether to approve Ordinance No. 2026-09, the city's zoning of the 5-H LLC property as R-2.
Asks Salida voters whether the city may publish its ordinances by title only instead of in full.
Brings all Buena Vista property not already in the Chaffee County Fire Protection District into the district, on the condition that the town has committed to cut its own levy by the district's 3.936 mills.
No local ballot measures in this county in 2026.
Raises lodging taxes from 2% to 6% in 2027, excluding Georgetown, for infrastructure, public safety, childcare, housing and tourism.
Imposes $3 per customer per paid outdoor recreation experience in 2027 as a business occupation tax; council may raise it to $5.
Creates two school levies: initially up to $4 million for capital needs and $80,000 in overrides, with different later-year adjustment formulas.
Begins a 0.89% district sales tax in 2027 for emergency services, wildfire work and capital needs, retaining existing funding.
Removes the term limit for the district attorney, allowing repeated reelection to four-year terms.
Removes the term limit for the district attorney, allowing repeated reelection to four-year terms.
Starts a 2% town sales and use tax in 2027 for town purposes, including vehicle and construction-material use taxes.
Local measures are still to be confirmed.
Ends a $5 per transaction occupational tax and adopts a 5 percent marijuana sales tax; the question states taxes would fall by up to $40,000 in 2027.
A new 0.75 percent town sales tax from 2027, $210,000 in the first year, for the general fund.
An additional 1 percent town sales and use tax from 2027, $500,000 in the first year, with minimum shares for roads, recreation, law and code enforcement, and economic development.
A new 0.4 percent district sales and use tax from 2027, $280,000 in the first year, solely for fire protection services.
Amends the charter to state that the Auditor's Office may keep enforcing wage and workplace laws under council ordinances.
Lets City Council choose a two-year budget term while keeping annual spending authorization.
Amends the charter on the Civil Service Commission and Department of Safety, including probation extended for approved leave.
Approves a twenty-year franchise contract with Xcel Energy from 2027, continuing undergrounding and its payments for city rights-of-way.
Adopts an ordinance prohibiting the force-feeding of birds and the sale of products from force-fed birds, including foie gras.
Raises Denver Public Schools' property taxes by up to $44 million for 2027 collection and up to that amount each year after, through a mill levy override.
Adds a 0.333% sales and use tax with no end date and authorizes $580 million in debt for Colorado Connector passenger rail.
Adds $2,674,059 in school taxes for 2027; later new and existing overrides combined would equal 50% of total program funding.
Keeps every county voter voting for every commissioner seat if the board grows from three members to five.
Increases the board of commissioners from three members to five, at an estimated $760,000 to $1,300,000 a year from county revenue.
If the board grows to five, chooses how commissioners are elected: all five by district, or three by district and two at large.
Amends the city charter so annexing property over 20 acres under one owner or ownership group requires approval by city voters.
Amends the city charter so parcels over 20 acres under one owner or ownership group, annexed within 180 days of the change taking effect, go to city voters for ratification.
A new 0.129 percent city sales and use tax from 2027 to 2057 and up to $105 million of bonds, for libraries, recreation centers and parks.
A new 0.064 percent city sales and use tax from 2027 to 2057 and up to $53 million of bonds, for public safety needs.
A new 0.132 percent city sales and use tax from 2027 to 2057 and up to $108 million of bonds, for transportation.
Moves Aurora's regular municipal elections from odd-numbered to even-numbered years by charter amendment.
A school mill levy override starting at $54 million for 2027 collection, with no end date, for teacher pay, security, career programs and restored student programs.
Raises the district's property tax by 3.97 mills from 2027, $925,225 in the first full year, with the rate adjustable to hold revenue.
$4.5 million of district bonds, repaid up to $6.4 million by a tax increase of up to $427,333 a year, for equipment, work toward a future station and training grounds.
Repeals all of the district's unused voter-approved debt authorization, effective immediately.
Repeals the district's 2014 authority to enter multi-year agreements and raise property taxes up to $1 million a year for them.
Repeals the district's 2014 authority to enter multi-year agreements for regional improvements funded by taxes up to $1 million a year.
Repeals the district's 2014 authority to enter intergovernmental agreements that may be multi-year obligations.
Repeals the district's 2014 authority to enter multi-year agreements with other governments for up to $82.8 million of tax revenue.
Adds a 0.333% sales and use tax with no end date and authorizes $580 million in debt for Colorado Connector passenger rail.
A new 0.75 percent district sales tax from 2027, up to $36.3 million in the first year, for firefighting and emergency medical services.
Raises the district's property tax by 4.0 mills from 2027, $400,000 in the first full year, about $2 a month per $100,000 of residential property value, as the question states.
Gives the town a 4 percent lodging tax, $200,000 the first year, taking over what Eagle County now collects.
Raises the town's sales tax by 0.5 percent for up to 20 years, up to $1,700,000 the first year, for public services facilities.
Up to $13.3 million of school district debt, up to $24.97 million to repay, by extending taxes approved in 2006.
A school property tax starting at $10.1 million a year and rising to the maximum the statute allows, with no end date.
A school district override of up to $5.6 million, to the maximum the statute allows with its other overrides.
Waives the 5.25 percent property tax limit in all future years and lets the district keep everything it collects.
A new 0.55 percent fire district sales tax, excluding groceries, for fire protection and emergency services.
Continues the existing 0.23% public safety sales and use tax to January 1, 2037, for specified law enforcement, jail and emergency response uses.
Raises the city's excise tax on tickets and admissions from 5 percent to 9.03 percent, $1,128,000 the first year.
Raises the town's use tax on construction materials and equipment from 2.0 percent to 3.5 percent, $2,272,500 a year.
A half-percent town sales tax for four years, $58,684 the first year, for the Old Town Marshal's Building.
$775 million of school district debt, up to $1.48 billion to repay, and up to $49.8 million a year in taxes.
$80 million of school district debt, up to $162 million to repay, and up to $8.8 million a year in taxes.
A 4-mill school district property tax, $231,788 the first year, for staff pay and benefits.
A 4.85-mill fire district property tax increase, $327,903 the first year, with no end date.
Adds a 0.333% sales and use tax with no end date and authorizes $580 million in debt for Colorado Connector passenger rail.
$497,646 a year in fire district taxes through collection year 2051 for new fire stations, and the 5.25 percent property tax limit waived in all future years.
Local measures are still to be confirmed.
Widens the existing 0.3 percent pool sales tax to cover the pool's operations, keeps revenue already collected and pledges it to the recreation district.
Extends the 2017 school mill levy override at $1,385,000 a year with no end date.
Up to 6.9 more mills for the fire district from 2026, $361,851 in the first year.
Raises Rifle's lodging tax by three percentage points to 5.5% from January 1, 2027, with an estimated $350,000 increase that year and no end date.
Adds 7.9 mills to Glenwood Springs' city property tax for fire and emergency services through December 31, 2046, with $3,132,000 stated for 2027.
Adds $4.7 million in annual school property taxes for educational operations, with the levy rate set each year to produce that amount and no end date.
Authorizes up to $118 million in school debt and $225 million in repayment, funded by extending the 2006 bond tax at no more than $9.2 million annually.
Authorizes an additional $10.1 million in school property taxes in 2027, followed by amounts tied to the statutory limit for general-fund levies, for educational purposes.
Raises property taxes by up to $5.6 million for collection in 2027, with an ongoing school mill levy override and no end date.
Adds 5.9 mills to the rural fire district's property tax for fire and emergency services through December 31, 2046, with $980,000 stated for 2027.
Extends the library district's existing 1.00-mill property tax beyond its 2027 expiration, with an estimated $2,666,876 in 2028 and no end date.
Waives the statutory 5.25% property-tax revenue limit and permits retention of all-source revenue, including gaming, for infrastructure and maintenance.
Adds six mills for firefighting, wildfire mitigation and general operations, with $1.2 million stated for the first full year.
Creates a 4% use tax on construction and building materials used in Hot Sulphur Springs from January 1, 2027, with exemptions and credits; the question states $200,000 for the first full fiscal year.
An additional half-percent countywide sales tax, $3,811,363 the first year, for county roads and bridges, with none of it going to the towns.
Raises the town's short-term rental tax from 4.9 percent to 9.9 percent, up to $2,500,000 the first year, for community housing.
A yearly tax of $1,400 to $3,400 on homes that are not a primary residence and $3,000 on vacant land, $1,250,000 the first year, for the capital fund.
Moves regular town elections from April to November in even-numbered years. The town’s resolution starts the change in 2028 and anticipates extending current trustees’ terms.
Reduces Lake City’s trustees from six to four beginning with the 2028 municipal election. The mayor remains, and current elected terms cannot be shortened.
The district could borrow up to $79.9 million for school facilities, repaid through property taxes, if it receives a state BEST grant that does not have to be repaid.
Continues the district’s authority to collect, retain and spend all its revenue above constitutional and statutory limits each fiscal year, without raising taxes.
Raises the county's property tax by 2 mills from 2027, about $354,692 a year, for parks, recreation and cultural facilities and programs.
Adopts an ordinance amending two Walsenburg code sections on the Criminal Detention Center District; the ballot does not say what changes.
Raises Walsenburg's sales and use tax from 3% to 3.5% in 2027, about $525,000 a year, for law enforcement costs.
Adds 11.652 mills of property tax for ten tax years, estimated at $1,098,568.97 in the first year.
No local ballot measures in this county in 2026.
Adds a percentage point to sales and use taxes for infrastructure, school community spaces, a pool, city facilities and operations.
Adopts a council-manager government, assigning department supervision and budget preparation to a manager appointed by the council.
Lets the Town Council establish boards and commissions by ordinance, replacing the charter’s requirement for a voter-approved amendment.
Ends the room-count lodging-tax exemption in 2027, covering all lodging facilities; a separate vote would change the tax rate.
Increases the lodging tax to 8% from 6% in 2027, adding $2 per $100 in taxable charges.
Sets staggered four-year Town Board terms without term limits in the charter.
Increases city sales and use taxes from 3% to 3.5% for public and traffic safety, exempting food from the increase.
Begins newly elected mayoral and council terms at the first regular meeting after regular municipal election results are certified.
Replaces obsolete 7% charter wording with an express requirement for voter approval of property-tax increases and compliance with the Colorado Constitution.
Sets initiative and referendum elections 60–150 days after the final determination that petition signatures are sufficient.
Raises the city sales tax by half a percentage point for accessibility and mobility, including sidewalk work.
Adds $73 million in school property taxes for 2027 collections; later override amounts follow the statutory limit.
Adds an initial $60 million annual school levy for construction, technology and maintenance, with later inflation adjustments permitted.
Permits up to $1.2 million water-system debt and $2.082 million repayment from legally available revenues, without additional tax authority.
Creates a separate 4.5-mill levy in 2027 for fire apparatus and vehicles, with no expiration.
Imposes a 1% district sales tax in 2027 for emergency services, staffing and equipment, with specified purchase exemptions.
Imposes 2.6 additional mills in 2027 for recreation facilities and operations, with no expiration.
Permits up to $6.6 million recreation bonds and $13.1 million repayment, with additional annual taxes up to $440,000 for at most thirty years.
Adds a 0.333% sales and use tax with no end date and authorizes $580 million in debt for Colorado Connector passenger rail.
Begins a 0.89% district sales tax in 2027 for emergency services, wildfire work and capital needs, retaining existing funding.
Adds a 0.75 percent West Metro Fire district sales tax, up to $36.3 million the first year, for firefighting and emergency medical services.
Adds four mills in 2027 and adjusts the resulting 16-mill levy annually to offset refunds and abatements.
Local measures are still to be confirmed.
Continues the district's existing 3.515-mill override, due to end after 2026, through 2035, with no rate increase.
Authorizes $2 million in debt for street and road improvements, with repayment up to $3.5 million and a district property tax levy of $210,000 a year or less if sufficient to pay the debt.
Permits a $1.8 million wastewater loan from a state agency, with property-tax backing and repayment capped at $4.14 million.
Backs a $1.8 million state loan for water distribution with property taxes; maximum repayment is $4.14 million.
Adds a 0.3% countywide sales and use tax beginning January 1, 2027, with no end date. Commissioners could spend the revenue on wildfire protection, infrastructure and other county needs.
Adds a 0.50% town sales and use tax for law enforcement and public safety, with revenue above the budget for those services available for other lawful town operations.
Berthoud would borrow up to $28 million for parks and recreation, including Mountain Vista Park. Repayment could total up to $60 million, paid from existing sales and use taxes without a tax increase.
Extends the district’s $4 million annual school tax beyond December 31, 2030, with no new end date stated.
Creates the district and levies up to 13.791 mills from 2027, $48,000 in the first year, for roads and operations.
Colland Center would have a new public improvement district and a property tax of up to 22.942 mills for roads and district operations, starting with 2027 collections.
Terry Point Estates would have a new public improvement district and a property tax of up to 26.970 mills for roads and district operations, starting with 2027 collections.
A new district sales tax of up to half a percent from 2027, $3.5 million in the first full year, for any lawful purpose.
Authorizes up to $16 million in bonds for a paved trail and refinancing, with repayment capped at $36 million, using property taxes approved in 2001.
Adds a 0.333% sales and use tax with no end date and authorizes $580 million in debt for Colorado Connector passenger rail.
Raises the district's property tax by 5.3 mills from 2027, up to $331,000 in the first year, permanently.
Permanently waives the 5.25% property tax revenue limit and lets the district keep all revenue outside legal revenue limits, without creating a tax or setting a higher rate.
Phases in up to 4 additional mills of property tax between 2027 and 2034 for fire and emergency personnel, equipment, services and facilities.
Local measures are still to be confirmed.
Raises the county lodging tax from 2 percent to 6 percent, $294,337 the first year, with the new 4 percent allocated by an appointed board.
Raises the fire district's property tax from 3.500 to 8.500 mills, $230,201.71 the first year, for a new fire station and services.
Adds a temporary 1% city sales and use tax for five years beginning January 1, 2027, dedicated to streets, roads and related improvements.
Buffalo School District RE-4J would borrow up to $1.25 million for school improvements and, as funds allow, refinancing its capital lease. Taxes approved in 2007 would be extended to repay up to $1.7 million.
Raises the town sales tax from 2% to 3% through December 31, 2034, for specified street, park and pool projects and emergency services; $600,000 is estimated for the first full fiscal year.
Raises the city sales and use tax from 3.39% to 3.46% and authorizes up to $12 million in debt, with up to $19 million in repayment costs, for the Orchard Mesa pool. Part of the increase would continue after repayment.
Authorizes a tax of up to $5 per pound on specified medical marijuana sales and transfers from January 1, 2027, with $40,000 stated for the first full fiscal year.
Authorizes up to $23.2 million for collection in 2027 through a school property tax override starting at up to 7.850 mills, with inflation adjustments and no expiration.
Raises the operating levy from 5.242 to 11.5 mills, for a 12.5-mill total district levy from 2027, and permanently exempts all district revenue from the specified limits.
Removes the term limit for the district attorney, allowing repeated reelection to four-year terms.
Continues the district’s authority to collect, retain and spend all its revenue above constitutional and statutory limits each fiscal year, without raising taxes.
Asks Creede voters whether the Board of Trustees may publish new or proposed ordinances by title only, with the full text kept for inspection at the city clerk's office.
Asks Creede voters whether the city may stop publishing its bill payments and contract statements in a newspaper, so long as they are available online and at the city clerk's office.
Authorizes up to $37 million in Moffat County school debt and up to $67 million in total repayment, extending the 2007 bond tax to pay new obligations.
Adds a 0.5% sales tax for regional transportation from January 1, 2027, with a stated $7,875,197 in the first full fiscal year, authority for higher later collections and no end date.
Removes the limit on how many consecutive terms the county's assessor, clerk and recorder, surveyor and treasurer may serve.
Raises the county lodging tax from 2 percent to 5 percent, $404,598 the first year, for tourism and visitor infrastructure, outside Cortez.
Raises the city lodgers' tax from 2 percent to 6 percent, up to $900,000 the first year, with the council free to set the rate up to that ceiling.
A four-tenths-percent town sales tax, $325,000 the first year, for streets and broadband, bringing the town's total to 4.4 percent.
Moves Montrose's general municipal election from April to November of even-numbered years.
Limits Montrose councilmembers to eight years of elected service in a lifetime, consecutive or not, for any candidate after November 3, 2026.
Lets the Montrose City Council approve or disapprove the city manager's decision to appoint or discharge the police chief.
Lets the Montrose City Council approve or disapprove the city manager's decision to appoint or discharge the city clerk.
Local measures are still to be confirmed.
Raises sales and use taxes by 1.5 percentage points for public safety from 2027 through 2029.
Borrows $2.43 million for school facilities, with up to $4.8 million repayment funded by extending an existing tax.
Adds a countywide disaster-recovery sales tax, initially 0.5% and then 0.3% after 2030, without an expiration.
No local ballot measures in this county in 2026.
Divides Haxtun's existing 0.5% sales and use tax from January 1, 2027: half for streets and drainage, half for the community center.
Extends Holyoke's 2.5% lodging tax for recreation programs, due to expire at the end of 2026, through December 31, 2032.
Allows a $37,511,924.54 state grant to match the bonds voters approved in 2024 for a new elementary school. The grant is smaller than the amount required by the original bond measure.
A new 0.853 mill county property tax for up to 25 years from 2028, $5,266,081 in the first full year of collection, for the Healthy Community Fund.
Up to $100 million of city debt, repaid at up to $255 million from water utility revenue, for the water treatment facility.
A 0.5 percent sales tax increase for up to 20 years from 2027, up to $1.7 million the first year, for public services facilities.
A school mill levy override, up to $5.6 million for 2027 collection and, with the district's other overrides, the most state law permits in later years, for teacher and staff pay.
Up to $15 million of Snowmass Water and Sanitation District bonds and taxes up to $2 million a year, to expand Ziegler Reservoir.
A new 0.55 percent district sales tax from 2027 with no end date, excluding groceries, for fire protection and emergency services.
A new 0.55 percent district sales tax from 2027 with no end date, excluding groceries, for fire protection and emergency services.
Allows $1.35 million in school bonds, repaid by up to $120,000 a year in property taxes, only if the district wins a state BEST grant over $23 million.
Adds a permanent 0.25% Pueblo sales and use tax from January 1, 2027 for fire and public-safety technology; the question states $5,878,267 for the first full fiscal year.
Adds a Pueblo sales tax of one-sixth percent, printed as 0.167%, for the zoo from 2027 through 2031; the question states up to $3,769,615 for the first full fiscal year.
Waives the 5.25% property tax limit for the library district in all future years and lets it keep all revenue; the rate does not change.
Makes Pueblo West's 1% sales tax for fire protection, now set to expire at the end of 2030, permanent at the same rate.
Lets Pueblo West retain revenue above TABOR and state limits from 2026 onward, including the 5.25% and 5.5% property tax limits, with the excess dedicated to parks and recreation.
Brings land in northeast Pueblo County that is in no fire district into the Edison Fire Protection District; no tax rate is stated.
Adds a 0.333% sales and use tax with no end date and authorizes $580 million in debt for Colorado Connector passenger rail.
Adds 11.652 mills of property tax for ten tax years, estimated at $1,098,568.97 in the first year.
Lets Rio Blanco County's assessor serve an unlimited number of consecutive terms, removing its term limit.
Lets Rio Blanco County's treasurer serve an unlimited number of consecutive terms, removing its term limit.
Lets Rio Blanco County's clerk and recorder serve an unlimited number of consecutive terms, removing its term limit.
Lets Rio Blanco County's commissioners serve an unlimited number of consecutive terms, removing its term limit.
Removes the term limit for the district attorney, allowing repeated reelection to four-year terms.
Adds two percentage points to the town sales tax from January 1, 2027, for capital improvements, with no end date and authority to exceed the stated $400,000 in later years.
Adds $525,861 in school taxes in 2026–2027, then sets the levy each year to produce that amount or the revenue from 3.0 mills, whichever is higher, with no end date.
Brings property in the Hayden school district into the Colorado Mountain College District and its property tax levy, listed at 3.82 mills but subject to future annual certification.
Authorizes an additional $10.1 million in school property taxes in 2027, followed by amounts tied to the statutory limit for general-fund levies, for educational purposes.
Adds up to 3.0 mills for West Routt fire and emergency services, beginning with 2028 collections, with a stated $448,950 first-year increase and no end date.
Waives Morrison Creek’s 5.25% property tax revenue-growth limit permanently, fixes its adjusted levy at the adjusted 2026 level for 2027–2031, and authorizes a future total levy up to 20 mills.
Adds a 0.5% sales tax for regional transportation from January 1, 2027, with a stated $7,875,197 in the first full fiscal year, authority for higher later collections and no end date.
Removes the term limit for the district attorney, allowing repeated reelection to four-year terms.
Local measures are still to be confirmed.
Adds $2,674,059 in school taxes for 2027; later new and existing overrides combined would equal 50% of total program funding.
Adds a 1% sales and use tax for four years to fund county ambulance service, with continuing permission to retain revenue from that tax and the county’s mill levy.
Allows a $37,511,924.54 state grant to match the bonds voters approved in 2024 for a new elementary school. The grant is smaller than the amount required by the original bond measure.
Extends the existing 4.652-mill levy from 2028 without an expiration, continuing funding for wildfire prevention and other specified county programs.
Adds $5.9 million in school taxes for 2027 collections, with later override revenues subject to the statutory limit.
Borrows up to $13.3 million for facilities and grant matching, repaying up to $24.97 million through extended taxes; the grant is conditional.
Decides whether the city adopts its proposed home rule charter.
Adds 0.25 percentage points to sales tax for existing school district certificate of participation debt payments, without an expiration.
Adds 0.5% sales tax for 2027–2030 for the Old Town Marshal’s Building, with surplus revenue allowed for other capital projects.
Permits retention and spending of all-source revenue beyond specified revenue and spending limits from fiscal year 2027, with no expiration.
Permanently waives the statutory 5.25% property-tax revenue limit from tax year 2026, contingent on approval of 6A.
Adds 3.2 mills for fire facilities, equipment and emergency services, with $320,000 stated for 2027 collections and no expiration.
Local measures are still to be confirmed.
Allows $5 million in street debt and $7.9 million maximum repayment from legally available town revenue, without raising taxes.
Continues Kersey's existing 17.205-mill town property tax for 2028 through 2037, without increasing the rate.
Expands food tax uses to city facility operations and performance-based economic development incentives, keeping the rate and prioritizing maintenance of previously funded improvements.
Adds one percentage point to sales and use taxes in 2027 exclusively for transportation; borrowing under 2E also requires a separate yes vote.
If 2D also passes, permits up to $26 million borrowing and $57 million repayment for streets and transportation.
Adds 0.6 percentage point in sales and use tax for civic and recreation projects, excluding city food sales tax; ends by 2067.
Funds police and fire through an initial levy up to 2.44 mills and a 0.33% sales tax; the levy may later adjust.
Requires a public vote before the city sells or conveys open space, adding it to the charter’s protected lands.
Introduces ranked choice voting where possible for mayor and council elections starting in November 2029.
If 3C passes, puts the three at-large council seats and three ward seats on alternating election cycles.
Taxes stays of 30 days or less at 3.5% beginning in 2027, for parks, infrastructure, public safety and other general purposes.
Adds a 0.501-percentage-point sales and use tax increase and authorizes up to $32.5 million borrowing for the Community Center.
Berthoud would borrow up to $28 million for parks and recreation, including Mountain Vista Park. Repayment could total up to $60 million, paid from existing sales and use taxes without a tax increase.
Increases the city accommodation tax from 5% to 8% in 2027 for general city spending, with no expiration.
Authorizes up to $3.686 million for 2027 collections; later override revenue is subject to a combined 25% total-program ceiling.
Raises $1.3 million annually for school staff through a variable property-tax levy, with no expiration.
Extends the district’s $4 million annual school tax beyond December 31, 2030, with no new end date stated.
Adds $1,192,406 for 2027; later new and existing overrides combined would equal 37% of total program funding.
Combines up to $4.9 million in new annual school taxes with continuation of $2.675 million in expiring taxes.
Adds one mill in 2027, another in 2028 and another in 2029 for staffing and equipment; the three-mill increase continues afterward.
Adds a 0.333% sales and use tax with no end date and authorizes $580 million in debt for Colorado Connector passenger rail.
Authorizes up to $250 million borrowing and $470 million repayment; the property-tax mill limit includes a statutory exception.
Adds $1.5 million in subdistrict property taxes in 2027, adjusted annually for inflation afterward, with no stated expiration.
Permanently waives the statutory 5.25% property-tax revenue limit, allowing the district to retain previously approved revenue above that limit.
Permanently waives the 5.25% property tax revenue limit and lets the district keep all revenue outside legal revenue limits, without creating a tax or setting a higher rate.
Phases in up to 4 additional mills of property tax between 2027 and 2034 for fire and emergency personnel, equipment, services and facilities.
Local measures are still to be confirmed.
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Colorado Supreme Court · William W. Hood, III
Eighteenth Judicial District - Arapahoe County Court · Cheryl Rowles-Stokes · Christina Marie Apostoli · Colleen Clark
Eighteenth Judicial District - District Court · Christine A. Washburn · Darren L. Vahle · David N. Karpel · Jacob A. Edson · LaQunya Latrese Baker-McKay · Michelle Ann Amico · Michelle Jones · Natalie G. Stricklin · Thomas W. Henderson
Eighth Judicial District - Jackson County Court · Chelsea Williams Ryan
Eighth Judicial District - Larimer County Court · Katharine "Jenny" Ellison · Matthew R. Zehe · Thomas L. Lynch
Eleventh Judicial District - Custer County Court · Michael Patrick Halpin
Eleventh Judicial District - District Court · Amanda Hunter · Dayna L. Vise
Eleventh Judicial District - Fremont County Court · Alexandra Robak
Eleventh Judicial District - Park County Court · Brian Louis Green
Fifteenth Judicial District - District Court · Tarryn L. Johnson
Fifteenth Judicial District - Prowers County Court · Curtis Lane Porter
Fifth Judicial District - Eagle County Court · Inga Haagenson Causey
First Judicial District - District Court · Andrew C. Poland · Chantel E. Contiguglia · Christopher C. Zenisek · Christopher Rhamey · Meegan Miloud · Ryan P. Loewer · Tamara S. Russell
First Judicial District - Gilpin County Court · Timothy Lane
First Judicial District - Jefferson County Court · Corinne Magid · Jennifer Lynn Melton · Sara Garrido
Fourteenth Judicial District - District Court · Brittany Schneider
Fourteenth Judicial District - Grand County Court · Nicholas Catanzarite
Fourteenth Judicial District - Moffat County Court · James Hesson
Fourth Judicial District - District Court · Amanda J. Philipps · Dennis L. McGuire · Erin Lynn Sokol · Gregory Robert Werner · Hilary Gurney · William B. Bain
Fourth Judicial District - El Paso County Court · Ann M. Rotolo · Marika Frady · Meredith Patrick Cord · Sam Burney
Nineteenth Judicial District - District Court · Audrey A. Galloway · Timothy Gerard Kerns
Nineteenth Judicial District - Weld County Court · Dana Nichols · John J. Briggs · Michele Lynn Meyer
Ninth Judicial District - District Court · Elise Myer
Ninth Judicial District - Garfield County Court · Jonathan Bruce Pototsky
Ninth Judicial District - Rio Blanco County Court · Jay A Edwards · Jay A. Edwards
Second Judicial District - Denver County Court · Andrea Eddy · Chelsea Malone · Isaam L. Shamsid-Deen · Judith Smith · Kerri Lombardi · Michelle Martinez-Thomas · Olympia Z. Fay
Second Judicial District - District Court · Andrew Luxen · Christopher J. Baumann · John Eric Elliff · Jon J. Olafson · Michael W.V. Angel · Sarah Block Wallace
Second Judicial District - Juvenile Court · Elizabeth Joan McCarthy · Lisa Gomez
Second Judicial District - Probate Presiding · Elizabeth D. Leith
Seventeenth Judicial District - Adams County Court · Lara M. Jimenez · MaryAnn "Mariana" Vielma
Seventeenth Judicial District - District Court · Caryn A. Datz · Jeffrey Dean Ruff · Kelley R. Southerland · Priscilla Loew · Sean Patrick Finn
Seventh Judicial District - District Court · D. Cory Jackson · Kellie L. Starritt
Seventh Judicial District - Hinsdale County Court · James R. McDonald
Sixteenth Judicial District - Crowley County Court · Jeremy P Boyce
Sixteenth Judicial District - Otero County Court · William Culver
Tenth Judicial District - District Court · Allison P. Ernst · Michelle Chostner · Tayler M. Thomas · William David Alexander
Third Judicial District - District Court · Pierce L. Fowler
Third Judicial District - Huerfano County Court · Dawn Mann
Thirteenth Judicial District - District Court · Dina M. Christiansen
Thirteenth Judicial District - Washington County Court · Kelly S. Hansen
Twelfth Judicial District - Alamosa County Court · Daniel Walzl
Twelfth Judicial District - Costilla County Court · Tamara McSherry Sullivan
Twelfth Judicial District - District Court · Amanda C. Hopkins · Michael A. Gonzales
Twelfth Judicial District - Mineral County Court · Hollie Wheelwright
Twentieth Judicial District - Boulder County Court · Elizabeth House Moulton Brodsky · Monica Haenselman · Zachary Ilya Malkinson
Twentieth Judicial District - District Court · J. Chris Larson · Michael Kotlarczyk · Nancy Woodruff Salomone
Twenty-First Judicial District - District Court · Craig Peter Henderson · Gretchen B. Larson · JenniLynn E. Lawrence · Jeremy Chaffin
Twenty-First Judicial District - Mesa County Court · Bruce R. Raaum · Scott Joseph Burrill
Twenty-Second Judicial District - District Court · William Young Furse
Twenty-Third Judicial District - District Court · Andrew Baum · Daniel W. Warhola · Theresa Slade · Victoria E. Klingensmith
Twenty-Third Judicial District - Douglas County Court · Kolony L. Fields · Lawrence Bowling
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