Colorado Politics

City elections across Colorado feature candidates, loose dogs, Internet and fluoride

It’s campaign season for city elections across Colorado in the coming weeks, and this year’s ballots collectively pack an interesting punch.

Besides council races, voters will decide on pot taxes, faster internet, sales taxes and fluoride, to name a few.

There’s not hustle and bustle of governors or presidents blowing through when there’s loose dogs and nepotism to debate on the local ballot.

“This illustrates why many municipal elections are held in the spring – so communities can focus on local needs and issues,” said Sam Mamet, executive director executive director of the Municipal League.

Georgetown cancelled its election because none of the incumbents were challenged. If it ain’t broke …

Voters in Central City, Colorado Springs, Craig, Durango, Fort Collins, Grand Junction, Glenwood Springs, Ridgway and Ward will elect city council members or town board trustees on April 4.

Residents in Otis, a town of about 500 on the Eastern Plains, will vote on recalling four of the five town trustees, in a campaign led by a former trustee over, among other things, enforcement of an ordinance on “animals running at large, dangerous buildings or structures, inoperable vehicles, junk vehicles and public nuisances,” according to a meandering set of circumstances described by the Akron News-Reporter.

Aspen and Gunnision will hold city elections May, then Mountain Village in June.

Candidates aren’t the only thing Coloradans will be voting on.

Among the most interesting ballot questions:


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