Rainbow Valley Water District Revenue and Spending Authorization

Issue 6A authorizes the Rainbow Valley Water District to collect, retain and spend all the revenue it receives each year, from any source. The question lists ad valorem property taxes and specific ownership taxes; fees, rates, tolls, penalties and charges; state, federal and private grants and gifts; and "any other source." The authority begins in fiscal year 2027 and covers each fiscal year after it. The question names no new tax, no tax rate, no dollar amount and no end year.

Because the question treats the revenue as a voter-approved revenue change, the district may collect and spend it without regard to any spending, revenue-raising or other limit in Article X, Section 20 of the Colorado Constitution, the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR). The waiver also reaches "any other law which purports to limit the District's revenues or expenditures," both as that law exists now and "as it may be amended in the future." The authority does not limit, in any year, the other revenue the district may collect, retain and spend.

Rainbow Valley has a second question on the same Teller County ballot. Ballot Question 6B asks whether the district should waive the 5.25% property tax limit in Section 29-1-1702, C.R.S., for the property tax year beginning January 1, 2026, and all later property tax years. Question 6B makes that waiver conditional: it applies "if the District's revenue and spending authorization ballot issue is approved by the voters." That authorization is Issue 6A. Voters mark a separate yes or no on each question.

In the Colorado Division of Property Taxation's 2025 property tax map, the Rainbow Valley Water District row for Teller County shows a total assessed value of $7,423,150. For tax year 2025 the row shows a general levy of 9.891 mills, less a temporary tax credit of 1.312 mills, for a total levy of 8.579 mills.