Douglas County School District RE-1

Three of the 129 questions print the reversed form Section 20 of Article 10.

Jefferson County School District R-1, Ballot Issue 5A, would raise taxes $73 million for collection in 2027, and asks, shall the revenue from such taxes and any earnings from the investment thereon be collected and spent as voter-approved revenue change under Article 10, Section 20 of the Colorado Constitution, and any other law? Douglas County School District re-won ballot issue 5A would raise taxes $54 million for collection in 2027 under nearly identical wording.

None of the 10 questions that use Monson's second phrase cites Article 10, Section 20, so a reader who looks only for the section would miss them.

In all 10, the phrase continues notwithstanding any revenue limits provided by law.

My wife, Eileen, and I, we've been married for 39 years and got three children.

And they all went through the Douglas County School District system through the Thunder Ridge feeder area.

And at that time, I was on the school board in Douglas County.

We can talk about that a little bit.

I will link that in the show notes.

I will be voting yes on 5A, which is funding for Douglas County School District.

That will be in your Tabor book if you want to know more details on that.

If you have even more basic questions on school funding, such as what is an MLO, you can go back into my archives and listen to episode 36.