What's on your ballot, Denver.

Read onlyShall the Charter of the City and County of Denver be amended to expressly clarify that the Auditor’s Office may continue to enforce wage laws, worker protection laws, and other workplace rights laws in accordance with ordinances passed by City Council?

Read onlyShall the Charter of the City and County of Denver be amended to adjust the City and County’s budget and appropriation process, and in connection therewith, allowing the City Council to adopt a two-year budget planning and adoption process and modernizing or repealing certain charter sections?

Read onlyShall the Charter of the City and County of Denver be amended to modernize the Civil Service Commission and Department of Safety by removing outdated language, giving City Council the ability to add duties via code, and providing for an extension of probation when required for medical, military, or other approved leave?

Read onlyShall the City and County of Denver approve the terms of a twenty-year franchise contract, starting January 1, 2027, with Public Service Company of Colorado (Xcel Energy) to continue its program for undergrounding overhead electrical lines, maintaining infrastructure safety, and partnering with the City for emergency management coordination, and to require that Xcel Energy continue to pay the City for reasonable use of public rights-of-way and other City property necessary to provide safe and reliable utility services for the benefit of the City, its residents, and its businesses?

Read onlyShall the voters of the City and County of Denver adopt an ordinance prohibiting the force-feeding of birds and, in connection therewith, prohibiting the sale of products derived from force-feeding birds, including foie gras?

Read onlyShall denver public schools (school district no. 1) taxes be increased up to $44 million in 2026 (for collection in 2027) and annually thereafter for educational purposes, including, but not limited to: · increasing educator pay; · offering students more career and technical education courses in high demand fields; · student mental health and special education; with all spending of such revenues reported in the district's annual independent audit published on the district's website; by the imposition of a mill levy that, when combined with other mill levy overrides approved by denver voters for the district's general fund, equals the amount permitted by section 22-54-108(3)(b)(vi), by the levy of property taxes at a rate sufficient to produce such amounts; which taxes shall be deposited into the general fund of the district and shall be in addition to the property taxes that otherwise would be levied for the general fund; and shall investment earnings on the proceeds of such taxes be treated as a voter-approved revenue change under article x, section 20 of the colorado constitution?

Read onlyShall front range passenger rail district taxes be increased $295,000,000 annually and by whatever amounts are raised annually thereafter, and shall front range passenger rail district debt be increased $580,000,000, with a repayment cost of $785,000,000; to construct, operate, and maintain colorado connector (coco) passenger rail service on colorado’s front range and connect communities, including pueblo, colorado springs, sterling ranch, littleton, denver, westminster, broomfield, louisville, boulder, longmont, loveland, and fort collins; in order to: · remove vehicles from highways and increase travel capacity; · connect travelers to employment centers, colleges, sports arenas, and entertainment hubs along the front range; and · invest in station area improvements and local connections to rail stations; by establishing a 0.333% sales and use tax (equal to one third of a penny on a $1 purchase), with exemptions provided under colorado law, including those for gasoline, food, residential electricity and gas, prescription drugs, and medical supplies; and to retain all such revenues, public and private contributions, and any investment income on revenues and debt proceeds, as a voter-approved revenue change under section 20 of article x of the colorado constitution; and requiring that all such dedicated revenues be reviewed annually by an independent auditor and a rotating group of citizen taxpayers who live in the district?