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Prior to the repeal of the Gallagher Amendment, many communities asked local voters if they could buffer themselves from the potential decreases in the residential assessment rate by ‘floating up’ their mill levies to offset any revenue loss. Examples of the most inclusive ballot language that helped achieve this goal can be found here. While […]

On June 23rd, Jose Esquibel, the director of the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse, provided a presentation regarding new data and details about various evidence-based approaches that are making a difference at the state and local levels. Materials from the presentation and the recording are available here: https://old.ccionline.org/research/opioid-recovery/.

CCI recently learned that the Regional Air Quality Council’s (RAQC) Electrify Lawn & Garden Work Group is developing two strategy proposals that it intends to present to the Air Quality Control Commission. One of those strategies would prohibit public entities – including local governments – within the Denver Metro/North Front Range ozone nonattainment area from

Each year we develop a cumulative listing of all our Steering Committee meetings, conferences, district meetings, and policy development meetings for the year. CCI is about to begin developing the 2024 meeting calendar. If there are considerations you would like us to keep in mind as we develop this document, please let Brittney Becerra know.

In recent years, a number of unfunded – or underfunded – mandates have been passed. CCI staff is hearing about the strain these mandates place on county budgets and their infringement on community investments that residents want to see. Some of the more recent examples include investments in public safety (body cameras, restrictive housing, reporting,

Each fall the membership of CCI adopts a legislative agenda as well as a policy statement.  The CCI Policy Statement serves as a general guide to the association’s positions on a wide-ranging number of policy issues and provides CCI staff with guidance absent specific action by a steering committee.   As part of the steering committee