North Range Metropolitan District No. 3, in Commerce City's Reunion community, holds authority to levy a property tax for operations and maintenance of up to $20,000,000 a year, with no limit on the rate. The district's 2025 budget traces it to a November 4, 2014, election in which every elector was an employee, or an employee's spouse, of Shea Homes, then the sole landowner. Ballot Issue 6D lowers that ceiling to $9,000,000 a year, adjusted each year by the Colorado Consumer Price Index. The tax pays for maintenance of parks and open spaces, the district's general operations and any public service it provides.
The board may set the mill levy at whatever rate it chooses, or under limits it sets, so long as the revenue does not exceed $9,000,000 a year, adjusted for inflation. A yes vote also lets the district collect and spend the tax and its investment income from 2026 on, outside the limits of the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR) and of section 29-1-301 of the Colorado Revised Statutes.
Companion Issue 6A repeals unused borrowing authority. Issues 6B and 6C repeal earlier authority for multi-year agreements and capital taxes while preserving performance under existing valid and lawful agreements. They require specific voter authorization for future multi-year obligations that are not subject to annual appropriation and for the new tax levies described in those questions. Issue 6D keeps the operations tax and leaves alone the separate debt levy that repays the district's bonds. The $20,000,000 capital levy that 6C repeals is a separate authority; the county's headings for 6B and 6C describe both as barring funding outside the operations limit that 6D lowers.