The warnings from county officials in Northern Colorado were dire, but Larimer County voters said no to a tax increase that would have gone toward fixing roads and bridges throughout the county. Now, Larimer County officials are working to figure out what to do next.
Earlier this year, Lesli Ellis told CBS Colorado that the county’s budget for bridge and road projects was set to go off the edge of a cliff in 2027. But in the Nov. 4 election, voters rejected a measure designed to bolster funding for those projects.
“We’re obviously disappointed,” said Ellis. “We still have an unfunded gap of about $650 million worth of projects that are in that plan. We have basically 14% of the funding that we need to do many of those projects.”…