A series of public meetings begins Tuesday in Denver to help city and county officials decide the amount of general obligation bonds to ask voters to approve next year.

Periodically, the City and County of Denver authorizes these types of bonds to restore, replace and expand infrastructure and capital assets across the city. The next general obligation bond authorization is to go to city and county voters in November 2017, based on Elevate 2020, the 2015-2020 six-year capital improvement plan. It identifies Denver’s major asset rehabilitation investment needs in capital infrastructure. Projects that the bonds can pay for must be city-owned and operated assets.

The last such bond was the $550 million Better Denver Bond Program in 2007, which helped fund more than 380 projects related to health and human services, public safety and culture. As with earlier bond measures, the amount of the 2017 bond will not be finalized until the stakeholder process ends in spring 2017.

Public input on the 2017 bond process begins with public meetings in November and December of this year to gather feedback from residents on their ideas for areas of capital investment. Information gathered will help find a package of proposals to submitted to City Council for referral to the Nov. 2017 ballot. These meetings, all scheduled for 6-7:30 p.m., are co-hosted by Mayor Michael Hancock and City Council members:

Tuesday, Nov. 15, Montbello Campus, 5000 Crown Blvd.;Thursday, Nov. 17, Teller Elementary School, 1150 Garfield St.;Tuesday, Nov. 29, Corky Gonzales Library, 1498 Irving St.;Thursday, Dec. 1, Lincoln High School, 2285 S. Federal Blvd.;Tuesday, Dec. 6, Bruce Randolph School, 3955 Steele St.; andThursday, Dec. 8, South High School, 1700 E. Louisiana Ave.

Along with the community meetings, residents can give their ideas using comment cards available at Denver Public Libraries and recreation centers across the city until Dec. 21. Residents can also ask questions and give comments any time during the yearlong process by emailing 2017GOBond@denvergov.org.