Amendment 60

By Jack Weinstein
Steamboat Pilot

Steamboat Springs – Steamboat residents Neil and Helen Bergman wanted to get information about November ballot measures intended to reduce taxes and government spending.

One of those measures, Prop­­osition 101, would repeal the Funding Advancement for Sur­face Transportation and Eco­nomic Recovery legislation. FASTER, which was approved last year, resulted in higher vehicle registration fees to generate revenue that would be used to fix the state's ailing road and bridges.

Many Coloradans get their water from municipal enterprises, including customers of Aurora Water, Denver Water, Fort Collins Utilities and Pueblo Water Works.

These are local enterprises funded by the fees they charge for providing water and other services to their customers. The Bad Three – Amendment 60, Amendment 61 and Proposition 101 – will drive up water rates for these and other customers throughout Colorado.

Many Coloradans get their water from municipal enterprises, including customers of Aurora Water, Denver Water, Fort Collins Utilities and Pueblo Water Works.

These are local enterprises funded by the fees they charge for providing water and other services to their customers. The Bad Three – Amendment 60, Amendment 61 and Proposition 101 – will drive up water rates for these and other customers throughout Colorado.

By Rachel Cernansky
Colorado Independent

If Amendment 60 passes in November, students across Colorado will know it. They will soon be in more crowded classrooms and are likely to have fewer after-school and enrichment programs, course offerings and textbooks.

Colorado schools will lose more than $1 billion if Amendment 60 passes; operating at about half or less of their current budgets, school districts will not be able to afford full staffing or maintenance of existing programs.

By David Harrison
Stateline Staff Writer

Glenn Gustafson, chief financial officer for the Colorado Springs school district, says three anti-tax initiatives on Colorado's ballot this year would devastate school districts across the state.

There's plenty of bad medicine when it comes to rural health care and the Bad Three.

Amendment 60 and Proposition 101 would cut operating revenues, and Amendment 61 would make it much harder to invest in the latest technology, let alone bricks-and-mortar expansion.

Amendments 60, 61 and Proposition 101 will have an immediate and long-term negative impact upon health care in Yuma County.

Amendments 60, 61 and Proposition 101 will have an immediate and long-term negative impact upon health care in Huerfano County.

Amendments 60, 61 and Proposition 101 will have an immediate and long-term negative impact upon health care in Garfield County.

By Bob Semro

Warning: Amendments 60, 61 and Proposition 101 will be hazardous to rural health care in Colorado. Looking at three hospital districts – in Yuma and Garfield and Huerfano counties – make this clear.