Overshadowed by Tuesday’s main event: a whole lotta local ballot issues
Thanks to Colorado Municipal League Executive Director Sam Mamet for sharing this recap of which questions faced municipal voters in which communities, and how those issues fared.
Municipal broadband
All 19 measures passed.
Colorado statutes require an election to allow a municipality to provide broadband service or partner with the private sector to provide that service. Voters in 46 cities and towns have already approved municipal broadband and this fall, 19 municipalities have put the issue on the ballot: Arvada, Aspen, Basalt, Black Hawk, Breckenridge, Carbondale, Cripple Creek, Dolores, Golden, Green Mountain Falls, Hudson, Lafayette, New Castle, Palisade, Parachute, Silt, Superior, Victor and Woodland Park.
Marijuana
Where marijuana sales or grow operation were approved: Englewood, Palisade,
Where sales or grow operations failed: Del Norte, Federal Heights, Florence, Lochbuie, Palmer Lake, Pueblo and Simla.
Where marijuana taxes passed: Central City, Englewood, Palisade, Palmer Lake, Parachute, Pueblo, Silt, Thornton.
Where marijuana taxes failed: Del Norte, Florence, Sheridan, Yuma.
Term Limits
Boulder voters set term limits for City Council members at three terms in a lifetime.
Parachute voters set term limits for City Council members at three consecutive terms.
Tax and bond issues
Failed: $3.1 million park project in Basalt.
Passed: $28.6 million for Recreation/Senior Center in Louisville.
Passed: $54 million for streets and bridges in Glenwood Springs.
Failed: $4 million for streets in Hayden.
Passed: $4.2 million for parking improvements/parking garage in Telluride.
Passed: All five TABOR override ballot questions in Castle Rock, Fort Collins, Georgetown, Palmer Lake and Williamsburg.
Non-marijuana tax proposals on the ballot
Passed: 2-cent-per-ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in Boulder.
Passed: lodging tax to support economic development program in Dacono.
Passed: extension of existing 1-cent sales tax in Glenwood Springs.
Passed: 1-cent sales tax increase for streets and sidewalks in Grand Lake.
Passed: mill-levy increase to construct recreation/senior center and sales-tax increase to fund operation of the center in Louisville.
Failed: a property tax to finance free-ride RTD bus passes for Lafayette residents using the service within Lafayette.
Failed: sales tax for crime prevention and youth programs in Pueblo.
Failed: lodging tax to finance a convention center in Sterling.
Passed: a sales tax to support San Miguel Authority for Regional Transportation in Telluride.
Other issues
Passed: allow backyard chickens, ducks, pigeons, and doves in Lochbuie.
Passed: use of existing park land for the site of a new civic center complex in Edgwater.
Passed: allow future rooftop patios in the Commercial Transition District, with limitations, in Morrison.
Passed: allow publication of ordinances by title only in Palmer Lake.
Passed: (Unofficial) collective bargaining for police officers in Thornton.
Passed: (unofficial) collective bargaining for firefighters in Westminster.

