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On November 3, 1992, state voters approved an amendment to the state constitution entitled "The Taxpayers' Bill of Rights" in article X, section 20. This initiated amendment to the constitution has been referred to as "Tabor" or "Amendment 1." This amendment links annual revenue and expenditure growth of state and local governments to an inflation-based index and requires advance voter approval of any increase in taxes or the establishment of any multiyear debt obligation. The provisions of this constitutional amendment took effect on December 31, 1992, and contained explicit language providing that its provisions were to supersede conflicting Charter or other "local provisions." In response to this constitutional amendment, the city has referred several tax increase or debt measures to the electorate in accordance with the election provisions of the amendment. This article is intended to set out and incorporate those measures submitted to the electorate which received a majority vote and, therefore, became law. The succeeding sections of this article relate to individually approved measures and contain an effective date of such measures. The codifier of this Code is authorized to make an appropriate editorial comment or note in section 11-19 of the City Charter and any other existing Code provision which is affected by the passage of a measure, since some of the measures contain amendments to the City's preexisting debt limitation of three percent of the assessed valuation of taxable property and the sales tax rate. Each succeeding section also reflects the actual vote in favor and against the measures. (Code 1979, § 36-1)