Tax decreaseA 2014 authority to raise taxes up to $1 million a year for regional improvements
Repeals the district’s 2014 Ballot Issue 5D, which authorizes multi-year financial obligations for regional improvements and property-tax increases of up to $1 million annually to fund the agreements.
Stone Creek Metropolitan District
On the November 3, 2026 ballot
Kim's Recommendation
YES
Vote Yes on Stone Creek Metropolitan District Ballot Question 6E
Ballot Issue 5D exists to pay for improvements the question calls regional. It lets the district take on agreements or contracts that run beyond one fiscal year to fund them, and raise the property tax in Stone Creek by up to $1 million a year to cover them.
I support ending it, because property owners in Stone Creek pay the district to serve Stone Creek, not to fund regional projects.
I recommend a yes vote on Stone Creek Metropolitan District Ballot Question 6E.
Kim Monson
Host, The Kim Monson Show · President, Colorado Union of Taxpayers · Colorado Voter's Guide 2026
Certified ballot question
Prohibit Funding of Multiple Fiscal Year Non-Debt Agreements outside of voter established tax limitations
Shall Ballot Issue 5D, unanimously approved by three voters at a special election held on November 4, 2014, be forever repealed and rescinded effective immediately, which ballot issue authorizes Stone Creek Metropolitan District to enter into one or more multiple fiscal year financial obligations evidenced by intergovernmental agreements or contracts to fund regional improvements and to increase ad valorem taxes up to $1 million per year to fund such agreements?
A yes vote means
Permanently repeals the 2014 agreement and tax authorization, effective immediately.
A no vote means
Leaves the 2014 Ballot Issue 5D authorization in place.
Regional Projects Paid by Property Tax01
A yes vote on Question 6E removes Ballot Issue 5D, one of the authorizations Stone Creek Metropolitan District received at its special election on November 4, 2014. Question 6E describes 5D as letting the district enter "one or more multiple fiscal year financial obligations evidenced by intergovernmental agreements or contracts to fund regional improvements" and increase ad valorem taxes, the tax on property, "up to $1 million per year to fund such agreements."
The repeal is permanent and takes effect immediately. A no vote keeps 5D in force.
What 6E repeals
Now
If 6E passes
Ballot Issue 5D (approved November 4, 2014): multi-year agreements for regional improvements, funded by raising property taxes, up to $1 million a year
Granted
Repealed
Douglas County ballot, Stone Creek Metropolitan District Ballot Question 6E
The Electors Who Approved It02
The question states that three voters approved 5D unanimously. The district's audited financial statements for 2024 say all three electors were "employees or spouses of employees of the Developer."
The Other Stone Creek Questions03
Five Stone Creek Metropolitan District questions appear on the Douglas County ballot. Question 6C repeals all unused debt authorization from prior elections. Questions 6D, 6E, 6F and 6G each name one 2014 ballot issue: 5C, 5D, 5S and 5T.
Ballot Issue 5C, which 6D repeals, carries the same mechanism as 5D without the word regional: agreements or contracts, with a tax increase of up to $1 million annually to fund them. Question 6E does not name it. Ballot Issue 5T, which 6G repeals, also concerns regional work: it covers agreements "with a regional authority or one or more other political subdivisions or governmentally-owned enterprises," with payments capped at $82,800,000 in total from the district's mill levy.
Sources04
Official documents
Douglas County composite sample ballot, November 3, 2026 election
