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April 10, 2007 02:25 AM UTC
23 Comments
I would be happy. But I’m telling you, we just need to combine school districts to one per county and even out county property taxes. With that in line, we could formulate a good state wide way of getting tax dollars to the districts that need it.
I presume you pay rent, the land owner uses some of that for property taxes.
I’m no tax expert. But I saw what happened in California under Prop 13, and although the problems differ, Colorado now has a messed up system, too.
I wouldn’t want to be in any position to slice through this Gordian knot, but your suggestion sounds reasonable.
In a way I do pay property taxes. I wonder how exactly it figures out….if I pay proportionately more or not by renting. Thanks for reminding me about that! 🙂
If I’m not mistaken, Denver county only has one school district. Why not? One adminstration building and staff, maybe less red tape….if I had the resources, I would lobby hard for that change.
And the mortgage and the maintainence and if the owner has done his homework right, his retirement!
It’s in the state constitution. Of course, that was part of the impetus behind the Poundstone Amendment, which made it very difficult for Denver to annex new land.
Do you live in Denver? Can you tell me how that idea has panned out up there? Does it seem to work pretty well?
…I don’t really have an opinion as to whether the single school district has worked well. I really don’t have any basis for such an opinion. You don’t hear debate about the merits of it because…well….there is no choice. The state constitution says that all of Denver must be served by one school district.
I suppose this fact had the indirect, negative consequence of leading to the Poundstone Amendment, which I think was/is silly. People in the suburbs were afraid of having their children attend Denver Public Schools so they changed the constitution to stop Denver from annexing (in all but unusual circumstances)…because, once Denver annexed the land, the children who lived there would have to attend Denver Public Schools. If there were not this one-school-district-for-Denver requirement, I doubt there would’ve been a Poundstone Amendment. (Of course, why these people didn’t simply change the constitution to eliminate the requirement that Denver be served by one district, I don’t know! — perhaps because it was less politically palatable to be truthtful and say that you didn’t want your kids in DPS?)
Good information.
On top of this article the office of legislative legal services issued an opinion nearly 2 weeks ago that not only backs the plan but states that it may be constitutionally required to maintain fair and equitable property taxes.
Well, that should make things interesting. It doesn’t seem right that the schools vary so dramatically in funding.
got his butt kicked on this by both parties. It was a dumb idea last month and is a dumb idea now. He is not presenting anything new. It is a tax increase in poor disguise. No matter how he dresses up the pig it is still a pig. There are also serious questions about it’s legality under TABOR.
And it matters a lot for getting the poorer schools fixed. Rather than just throwing stones at Ritter come up with an alternative.
You did see his handle didn’t you ? Bill Ritter could walk on water and come up with the cure for cancer tomorrow but bitter on ritter is still going to find something wrong with it.
our glorious Gov…….2nd Choice Ritter.
Would that be socially acceptable here?
But since that dude that is mayor from some little podunk town in Colorado…..ummm, oh yeah, Denver, backed out, ya’ll went with your 2nd choice.
If Hick actually ran, Ritter would have been kicked to the curb like a drunk whore in Vegas on a Friday night.
But I will defer to your professed expertise on whores.
An area everyone should be an expert in….
🙂
what legal issues? The non-partisan office of legislative legal services doesn’t see any issues. In fact they believe this fix may actually be constitutionally required. What specific legal issues do you see that paid non-partisan lawyers on staff did not see?
but that’s not really news, is it.
from the article above:
“homeowners in resorts and oil-and-gas boomtowns have already benefited from deep cuts in property-tax rates while state taxpayers foot the bill for their schools”
I’m assuming this is referring to the fact that the resort towns benefit from large revenue on low property tax rates and for the o/g towns because they receive severance tax monies to mitigate the energy impacts. What I don’t understand is how would this help them further? Especially the o/g towns, where if they could raise the property tax they would, but to do so means a vote, which would lose since most towns are Republican. Seems like a Catch-22.
They have already voted to raise the Mill Levy’s and that is why they will recieve the boost. 174 of 178 districts have voted to raise the mill levy’s already but without this fix the votes are meaningless and the state is forced to cover costs and the will of local voters is thwarted. No more votes will need to take place – they’ve already occured. The voters have spoken but a technical glitch in the school finance act jas prevented their wishes from being implemented.
The only districts that haven’t voted to raise the mill levy’s are Cherry Creek and a few of the Co Springs schools.