The following are current state ballot initiatives that Vail Valley Partnership’s board of governors has taken a position on:

2016 Ballot Initiatives:

• Amendment 69 (Colorado Care):
  Partnership Positon: OPPOSE
  Rationale: VVP’s vision is to develop and enhance the economic vitality of the Vail Valley. Our board – consisting of community leaders from a wide range of industry and geographic locations throughout the county – believe Amendment 69 (Colorado Care) believes the 10% payroll tax and the 10% tax on sole proprietors and LLC’s would be devastating for our small business community and would negatively impact Colorado’s economy, and our local economy. We further believe that the Colorado Constitution is not the best place to address health care issues, and would prefer to see a legislative solution.  See Colorado Care One-Pager for more information.

• Propositions 107 & 108 (Let Colorado Vote)
  Partnership Postion: SUPPORT
  Rationale: VVP’s board of governors supports Proposition 107 (to open primary elections to Colorado’s 1.3 million unregistered voters) and Proposition 108 (to restore Colorado’s presidential primary). We believe good governance requires the participation of the greatest number of citizens, and that Colorado’s economy will be better served by working to increase engagement of citizens throughout the process. As Colorado’s unaffiliated population continues to grow and our state is increasingly important in election cycles, it is important to ensure everyones voice can be heard.
  See LetCOVote Fact Sheet for more details

• Amendment 71 (Raise the Bar Colorado)
  Partnership Position: SUPPORT
  Rationale: Colorado law requires gathering nearly 100,000 signatures to place a Constitutional amendment on the ballot. This initiative would require that those signatures be collected from each state senate district across the state. Specifically, proponents of a Constitutional amendment would need to collect signatures from 2% of registered voters in each of the state’s 35 senate districts to place the initiative on the ballot. Once on the ballot, the bar would be set higher to pass a Constitutional amendment compared to a law change. In order to amend the state Constitution, ballot issues would need 55% of the voters to pass instead of a simple majority. Colorado sees more citizen initiatives than any other states other than Oregon & California, resulting in an abuse of the process by out of state special interest groups. VVP’s board supports these higher thresholds as a minimum standard to change the state constitution, believing that good governance still allows citizen initiatives and helps remove statutory legislative changes to to our constitution.
  More details available at RaisetheBarCO.com