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If it passes, voters would see the question on the November ballot.

Over-collected revenues from a sales tax for the Cortez Recreation Center cannot legally be used to fund parks in the city of Cortez. Officials explained that several times during Tuesday’s meeting of the city council.

Sponsors of industry-backed data center bill say they are amending it in ways that will change the fiscal projections.

The $95 million a year voters approved when they passed Proposition MM in November is expected to generate enough to fund the Health School Meals for All program. But it might still go back to the ballot.

Each year the cycle continues, state lawmakers will have fewer ways to address the gap without cutting state programs and services. Skyrocketing Medicaid costs are primarily to blame.

One reason is that the state is paying out more to lower-income residents through targeted tax credits.

Democrats at the Capitol also pushed back the start date of Colorado’s first-in-the-nation AI law, shored up subsidies on health insurance and tweaked a pair of measures on the November ballot

A local citizen spoke up at Tuesday’s meeting of the Montezuma County commissioners to challenge the idea that the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and other sovereign nations don’t pay their fair share for public services.

The state lawmaker currently serves as chair of the committee that prepares the state budget.

The Montezuma County commissioners have voted to join several other counties in suing the state of Colorado over its use of the severance-tax fund.