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KDNK News Brief: CO River District Considers Vote to Free Up Tax Revenue

AspenJournalism.org

The Colorado River Water Conservation District is facing some funding problems but hopes a recent successful effort by Colorado Mountain College to free up tax money will also benefit them. To dive deeper into a slightly murky issue, Brent Gardner-Smith of Aspen Journalism joins Mark Duggan for this week's KDNK News Brief.

The river district has been pinched for years by a state law - known as the Gallagher Amendment - that limits how much tax revenue they can use. Past efforts to get voters to relax the law have gone nowhere.

But CMC recently had overwhelming success convincing voters to let them bypass Gallagher. The river district hopes the CMC vote will bode well for them. A recent survey they commissioned seemed to indicate public support for such a move.

Brent Gardner Smith of Aspen Journalism has been following the district's funding challenges for several years and wrote a recent article about their latest attempt to seek funds.