{"id":800687,"date":"2019-10-24T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=373484"},"modified":"2019-10-24T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T22:00:11","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-proposition-dd-funding-puts-cart-before-the-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-proposition-dd-funding-puts-cart-before-the-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Proposition DD funding puts cart before the horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/LettersWebCard-SDN1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>You want to build a new home. Your contractor says, \u201cThere\u2019s<br \/>\nno need to develop blueprints first, trust me. It will be great and incredible!<br \/>\nIt will be the best ever in the history! (Sound familiar?) Give me a check.<br \/>\nI\u2019ll bring the plans later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Would you do it?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly what Proposition DD is asking of us.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/proposition-dd-what-it-means-for-water-gambling\/\">Page 4 of Monday\u2019s Summit Daily News, we read the DD summary<\/a>. We find:<\/p>\n<p>1. The Colorado Water Plan was unveiled in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201cRevenue from DD will also go toward water plan grants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>3. \u201cThe projects the water plan grants fund belong to nine<br \/>\nbasin roundtables\u2019 Basin Implementation Plans (BIP).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>4. \u201cIn the BIP, some projects are pretty rough and a best guess at the time,\u201d says CWCB Deputy Director Lauren Ris.<\/p>\n<p>5. \u201cMany of the projects in the BIP\u2019s don\u2019t specify how much funding is needed and have only partial and inconsistent information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>6. Roundtables will soon embark on an update to their BIP, with the goal of refining project details including cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>7. DD supporters say, \u201cThey realize that the $15,000,000 raised annually is a far cry from what is needed and a down payment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I have a couple questions about Proposition DD:<\/p>\n<p>1. We will be creating a new sports betting industry to net an estimated $15,000,000 per year in revenue. $130,000 per year goes to treat gambling addiction that this legislation helps create. Why is that in anyone\u2019s best interest?<\/p>\n<p>2. What have the BIPs been doing since 2015?<\/p>\n<p>3. Would it not be prudent to have a game plan first with<br \/>\ndetails and current costs on the front end before we seek funding?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Knowing this would you give the contractor a \u201cdown payment?\u201d<br \/>\nI wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-proposition-dd-funding-puts-cart-before-the-horse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want to build a new home. Your contractor says, \u201cThere\u2019s no need to develop blueprints first, trust me. It will be great and incredible! It will be the best ever in the history! (Sound familiar?) Give me a check. I\u2019ll bring the plans later.\u201d Would you do it?&nbsp; This is exactly what Proposition DD [&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-800687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 13:14:15","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\/800687","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=800687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}