It’s been over a week since residents in Adams and Broomfield counties sealed the fate of two school measures that could have produced big changes for schools and staff across the Adams 12 Five Star School District.
“First of all it was really strange that the bond passed but the mil levy didn’t pass,” said Heather Delair, a parent of two students in the Adams 12 school district.
On election night, voters approved a $830 million bond measure (5E), which will now be used to improve schools and other facilities across the district. However, a $34.5 million mill levy override proposal (5D) did not gain majority support in that this measure asked for an increase in residents’ taxes.
“I think in the current political climate, and this economy, it doesn’t surprise me,” said Dave Lockley, President of the District Twelve Educator’s Association. “Colorado and Adams County particularly have been kind of a tax adverse state.”