Adds 4.85 mills of property tax beginning January 1, 2027, with no end date, for fire and emergency services, staff, vehicles, equipment and facilities.
Peyton Fire Protection District
On the November 3, 2026 ballot
Kim's Recommendation
NO
Vote No on Peyton Fire Protection District Ballot Issue 6A
The $327,903 printed on Ballot Issue 6A is not a ceiling. The question fixes a rate of 4.85 mills on top of the 6.077 mills Peyton Fire levied in 2025, sets no end date, and lets the dollars follow assessed values.
Since 1989, state law has held a fire district's property tax revenue, with some exceptions, to the prior year's amount plus 5.5%. This question exempts the new levy's revenue, and its earnings, from that limit, permanently. I oppose lifting it from a new tax that has no end date.
I recommend a no vote on Peyton Fire Protection District Ballot Issue 6A.
Kim Monson
Host, The Kim Monson Show · President, Colorado Union of Taxpayers · Colorado Voter's Guide 2026
Certified ballot question
SHALL PEYTON FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT TAXES BE INCREASED $327,903 ANNUALLY COMMENCING JANUARY 1, 2027, OR BY SUCH AMOUNT AS MAY BE RAISED, BY INCREASING THE DISTRICT’S PROPERTY TAX RATE BY AN ADDITIONAL 4.85 MILLS, FOR THE PURPOSES OF PROVIDING FIRE PROTECTION, AMBULANCE, EMERGENCY MEDICAL AND PARAMEDIC RESPONSE, RESCUE, SAFETY, AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE RESIDENTS, PROPERTY OWNERS, AND BUSINESSES SERVED BY THE DISTRICT, INCLUDING: • HIRE FULL-TIME FIREFIGHTERS, EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS AND PARAMEDIC STAFF TO EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY RESPOND TO SERVICE REQUESTS AND EMERGENCIES. • PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN EMERGENCY VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT AND MODERNIZE FACILITIES TO BETTER PROTECT THE PUBLIC AND FIRST RESPONDERS. AND SHALL ALL REVENUE AND ANY EARNINGS ON THIS TAX CONSTITUTE A PERMANENT VOTER-APPROVED REVENUE CHANGE WITHIN THE MEANING OF ARTICLE X, SECTION 20 OF THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION AND AN EXCEPTION TO THE LIMITATIONS SET FORTH IN SECTION 29-1-301 OF THE COLORADO REVISED STATUTES, AND ANY OTHER LAW?
A yes vote means
Approves the added 4.85 mills for the specified services and makes the tax revenue and earnings a permanent exception to TABOR, statutory property-tax revenue limits and other legal limits.
A no vote means
Rejects this property tax increase and its revenue-limit exception.
Key facts
Added property tax
4.85 mills
Begins
January 1, 2027
End date
None stated
Peyton Fire's Added Levy01
Peyton Fire Protection District's Ballot Issue 6A raises the district's property tax rate by 4.85 mills starting January 1, 2027, and sets no end date. As an example, at 4.85 mills, $100,000 of taxable assessed value pays $485 a year. The question asks to increase taxes $327,903 a year "or by such amount as may be raised" by the added mills. The rate is fixed, and the dollars follow the district's assessed value.
In 2025 the district, in El Paso County, levied 6.077 mills in total, with no bond levy and no temporary tax credit, on a total assessed value of $68,100,870, according to the state Division of Property Taxation.
Added annual property tax
The additional 4.85 mills cost $4.85 per $1,000 of taxable assessed value.
Example at $100,000 taxable assessed value
$100,000 × 4.85 ÷ 1,000 = $485.00
Taxable assessed value is not a home's market value. For 2026 it is about 6% to 7% of the actual value the county assessor sets. A home with an actual value of $500,000 has an assessed value of about $30,600 for local government taxes and $35,250 for school district taxes.
This estimates the added annual tax, not the total property tax bill. Use taxable assessed value applicable to this district, after exemptions and adjustments; tax changes when that value changes. Begins January 1, 2027, with no end date. Rounded to the nearest cent.
Estimated annual added property tax
Enter a value of zero or more, with no more than two decimal places.
El Paso County certified sample ballot, Peyton Fire Protection District Ballot Issue 6A
Full-Time Crews and Equipment02
The revenue pays for fire protection, ambulance, emergency medical and paramedic response, rescue, safety and support services for the district's residents, property owners and businesses. The question names two uses within those purposes: hiring full-time firefighters, emergency medical technicians and paramedic staff to respond to service requests and emergencies; and providing and maintaining emergency vehicles and equipment and modernizing facilities.
At the board's March 10, 2026, meeting, the deputy chief reported 27 firefighters, 13 on full status and 14 on probationary status, and 38 calls received in February. In April 2025 the board discussed planning and financing options for Station #2, and its August 11, 2026, agenda listed the status of Station #2 for discussion.
A Permanent Exemption From Growth Limits03
The question's second part makes all revenue from the tax, and any earnings on it, a permanent voter-approved revenue change under Article X, Section 20 of the Colorado Constitution, the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights. It also makes that revenue an exception to the limits in section 29-1-301 of the Colorado Revised Statutes "and any other law."
For collection in 1989 and after, section 29-1-301 bars a fire district from levying more property tax revenue than it levied the year before plus 5.5%, with exceptions such as bond payments. A district may take an increase above that limit to its voters.
One question decides the rate and both exemptions: a yes vote approves them, and a no vote rejects them.
Sources04
Official documents
El Paso County certified sample ballot, November 3, 2026 election
The Peyton Fire Protection District's Aug. 11, 2026 meeting agenda lists consideration of a resolution calling a special election on Nov. 3, 2026 on increasing maximum mill levy rates.
