{"id":800192,"date":"2019-10-08T18:30:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T00:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=372686"},"modified":"2019-10-08T18:30:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T00:30:36","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-election-booklet-shows-spending-far-outpacing-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-election-booklet-shows-spending-far-outpacing-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Election booklet shows spending far outpacing inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My notice of \u201cCoordinated Election\u201d appeared in my mailbox yesterday. I found it very enlightening. We are being asked to vote on four ballot issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1A: tax on tobacco and e-cigarettes<\/li>\n<li>1B: mill levy extension for trail and open space<\/li>\n<li>1C: bond issue to pay for Peak 7 paving<\/li>\n<li>4A: extension of a current tax for full-day kindergarten approved in 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1A exempts itself from TABOR permanently. It also includes the ominous words \u201cimprovement of the public health and welfare including, but not limited to the following.\u201d In other words, they can spend it on whatever they wish contrary to what the ballot issue indicates, which sounds appealing.<\/p>\n<p>1B and 4A start with the tantalizing phrase \u201cwithout increasing current tax rates.\u201d Both issues exempt them from TABOR permanently. 4A goes on to state, \u201cdeposited in the General Fund and used for educational purposes including but not limited to the following.\u201d In other words, the school district can spend it on whatever they wish contrary to what the ballot issue indicates which sounds appealing.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some facts straight out of the Coordinated Election notice booklet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Between 2015-16 and 2019-20 fiscal year spending by the school district increased 24%.<\/li>\n<li>Between 2015-19 (a five-year period), fiscal spending by the county increased 32.4%.<\/li>\n<li>According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the increase in consumer prices from 2015 to 2019 has been 8.24%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bottom line is the county has spent 24.16% above inflation for the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>The school board has only spent 15.76% above inflation over the same five years.<\/p>\n<p>If only we taxpayers had been as fortunate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-election-booklet-shows-spending-far-outpacing-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My notice of \u201cCoordinated Election\u201d appeared in my mailbox yesterday. I found it very enlightening. We are being asked to vote on four ballot issues: 1A: tax on tobacco and e-cigarettes 1B: mill levy extension for trail and open space 1C: bond issue to pay for Peak 7 paving 4A: extension of a current tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-800192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 02:57:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}