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Colorado: Maria Garcia Berry

May 21, 2009 - 10:21 am
NEWS FEED: Denver Post

Metro mayors back year delay on RTD tax vote

Denver-area mayors have reversed course and now favor a year's delay and a November 2010 vote on a sales-tax increase for RTD's FasTracks transit program.

On June 2, the Regional Transportation District board of directors is expected to back the mayors' recommendation and set the vote for next year.

In March, the Metro Mayors Caucus, which includes about 40 area mayors, backed a proposal for a vote in November in the eight-county metro area on a proposal to double the current 0.4 percent FasTracks sales tax.

Such an increase — whether this year or next — would close a $2.2 billion shortfall in FasTracks funding that has developed because of shrinking sales-tax collections and higher-than-planned construction costs.

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February 23, 2009 - 09:36 am
NEWS FEED: Denver Post

Mayors: Limits needed for FasTracks tax fix

By Jeffrey Leib

If a sales-tax increase is needed to bail out RTD's FasTracks program, some metro-area mayors want the new tax revenues to be dedicated to finishing train lines that are in danger of being truncated.

"If we want voters to pass this, it has to go into a separate bucket," Aurora Mayor Ed Tauer said at Monday's meeting of the Metro Mayors Caucus task force on FasTracks.

Voters also will need to know when the additional tax "sunsets," or ends, he said.

"I don't know if that will work, but without it we don't have a shot" at getting voters to support another FasTracks tax, Tauer said of his proposal to dedicate proceeds and identify when the tax will end.

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February 11, 2009 - 03:04 am
NEWS FEED: Denver Post

Mayors: Limits needed for FasTracks tax fix

By Jeffrey Leib

If a sales-tax increase is needed to bail out RTD's FasTracks program, some metro-area mayors want the new tax revenues to be dedicated to finishing train lines that are in danger of being truncated.

"If we want voters to pass this, it has to go into a separate bucket," Aurora Mayor Ed Tauer said at Monday's meeting of the Metro Mayors Caucus task force on FasTracks.

Voters also will need to know when the additional tax "sunsets," or ends, he said.

"I don't know if that will work, but without it we don't have a shot" at getting voters to support another FasTracks tax, Tauer said of his proposal to dedicate proceeds and identify when the tax will end.

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There have been 23 comments posted in response to this story.

February 10, 2009 - 02:35 am
NEWS FEED: Denver Post

Mayors: Limits needed for FasTracks tax fix

By Jeffrey Leib

If a sales-tax increase is needed to bail out RTD's FasTracks program, some metro-area mayors want the new tax revenues to be dedicated to finishing train lines that are in danger of being truncated.

"If we want voters to pass this, it has to go into a separate bucket," Aurora Mayor Ed Tauer said at Monday's meeting of the Metro Mayors Caucus task force on FasTracks.

Voters also will need to know when the additional tax "sunsets," or ends, he said.

"I don't know if that will work, but without it we don't have a shot" at getting voters to support another FasTracks tax, Tauer said of his proposal to dedicate proceeds and identify when the tax will end.

Read More at Denver Post >
There have been 23 comments posted in response to this story.