Ending Stone Creek's $82.8 Million Agreement Authority
Tax decreaseA 2014 authority for up to $82.8 million in intergovernmental payments
Repeals the district’s 2014 Ballot Issue 5T, which authorizes multi-year agreements for public improvements with total payments of up to $82.8 million from district property taxes.
Stone Creek Metropolitan District
On the November 3, 2026 ballot
Kim's Recommendation
YES
Vote Yes on Stone Creek Metropolitan District Ballot Question 6G
The number I look at in 5T is its ceiling: up to $82,800,000 of Stone Creek property tax revenue may be promised to other governments, on terms the board sets, in agreements that bind the district beyond a single budget year. That ceiling covers all such agreements together, the ballot's description of 5T gives no yearly amount, and the ceiling is larger than the district's total assessed value for 2025.
A payment promise that runs for years works the way debt does for the owners who pay the district's levy: later boards inherit it, and the levy on every taxable property in the district pays it. I judge a pledge of that size the way I judge borrowing, and I do not want it resting on terms the board alone sets. Repealing 5T takes the power to make a commitment of that size out of the board's hands.
I recommend a yes vote on Stone Creek Metropolitan District Ballot Question 6G.
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Shall Ballot Issue 5T, unanimously approved by three voters at a special election held on November 4, 2014, be forever repealed and rescinded effective immediately, which ballot issue authorizes Stone Creek Metropolitan District to enter into one or more multiple fiscal year financial obligations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 concerning the provision of public improvements with a regional authority or one or more other political subdivisions or governmentally-owned enterprises, containing such terms and conditions as the District Board of Directors may determine to be necessary and appropriate and providing for payments by the District in an aggregate amount not to exceed $82,800,000 of tax revenues derived from an ad valorem mill levy imposed by the District on all taxable property?
A yes vote means
Permanently repeals the 2014 agreement and payment authorization, effective immediately.
A no vote means
Leaves the 2014 Ballot Issue 5T authorization in place.
Payments to Other Governments01
Ballot Issue 5T lets Stone Creek Metropolitan District sign agreements with other governments that commit district tax money for more than one budget year. The question names the possible partners: "a regional authority or one or more other political subdivisions or governmentally-owned enterprises." The agreements concern "the provision of public improvements," and each may contain the terms and conditions the district board determines "to be necessary and appropriate." The payments come from "an ad valorem mill levy imposed by the District on all taxable property."
The question states that three voters approved 5T unanimously at a special election on November 4, 2014. A yes vote on Question 6G repeals Ballot Issue 5T forever, effective immediately. A no vote keeps it in force.
What 6G repeals
Now
If 6G passes
Ballot Issue 5T (approved November 4, 2014): multi-year agreements with a regional authority or other governments for public improvements, paid from property taxes, up to $82,800,000 in total
Granted
Repealed
Douglas County ballot, Stone Creek Metropolitan District Ballot Question 6G
One Ceiling Across All Agreements02
Under 5T, the district's payments may reach "an aggregate amount not to exceed $82,800,000" of tax revenue. The ceiling applies to the total across every agreement the district signs under it. The question's description of 5T gives no yearly amount, no mill rate and no end date.
State property tax data for tax year 2025 put the district's total assessed value at $16,178,800. The same data show no levy for contractual obligations that year; the district's 44.386 mills went to general operations and bonds.
Where 6G Fits Among Five Repeals03
Five Stone Creek repeal questions share the ballot, each aimed at a different grant of authority. Questions 6D, 6E, 6F and 6G carry the same ballot title: "Prohibit Funding of Multiple Fiscal Year Non-Debt Agreements outside of voter established tax limitations." Question 6E repeals Ballot Issue 5D, which covers agreements to fund regional improvements and a property tax increase of up to $1 million per year to fund them. Question 6D repeals 5C, and 6F repeals 5S, which covers intergovernmental agreements that may bind the district for more than one year to jointly finance "any public improvements"; its description states no dollar amount.
Question 6C repeals "all unused debt authorization." The district's audited financial statements for 2024 list $18,000,000 of the borrowing its electors authorized in November 2014 for intergovernmental agreements, all of it unused at the end of 2024. Question 6C, not 6G, repeals that borrowing authority.
Sources04
Official documents
Douglas County composite sample ballot, November 3, 2026 election
