Voters in Montezuma County will have several local questions to answer in November’s election, depending on where they live.
Montezuma County Clerk and Recorder Kim Percell told the county commissioners at their meeting Tuesday that there are contested school-board races in two districts.
She said the Mancos school district will also have a mill-levy override question and the Cortez Cemetery District and Montezuma County Water District No. 1 will have ballot measures.
No one from those districts could be reached for further information about what the actual questions are.
Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 has five seats open on its board, and those races have generated considerable interest. In one race, the candidate is unopposed, but ten people are competing for the four remaining open seats.
Mancos School District Re-6 has four people running for two seats on its board.
However, Dolores School District Re-4A canceled its board election because there are just two people running for two open seats.
In addition, Colorado voters will decide two statewide questions referred by the legislature.
Both Proposition LL and Proposition MM are designed to fund healthy school meals for public schoolchildren. MM would also support the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, after federal funding cuts.
Monies for both propositions would come from taxes on people making more than $300,000 annually.
Gail Binkly is a career journalist who has worked for the Colorado Springs Gazette and Cortez Journal, and was the editor of the Four Corners Free Press, based in Cortez.