On your ballots this November is issue 2A, which would permanently remove the TABOR revenue cap. We have heard the arguments put forth by various Council members during the Council meetings and concluded that none of those arguments made sense. Those arguments were…

The declining revenue argument goes like this, “sales tax revenues have gone down $1 million since (pick a year), therefore we need to de-TABOR.” This argument is flawed for two reasons.

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PROBLEMS

The Littleton Police Department is suffering from some real problems.

They do not have enough space for the police. This became clear to the City Council five years ago when they read the $131,000 Space Needs Assessment of the Police Department. That study was the first step in a process that cost the taxpayers $739,000 and ended in a defeated proposal to build a 50,000 square foot police facility.

The problems tied to the inadequate space were deemed so important that the council asked the voters for Ten Million Dollars to build and Five Million Dollars more to finish and furnish a police building. Their campaign literature and messages sounded as though a building was urgently needed.

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