EPRD board envisions projects a property-tax extension would buy

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

e Evergreen Park & Recreation District wants to check a lot of items o its maintenance to-do list plus make improvements to indoor and outdoor facilities if voters agree to extend an existing property tax after 2025.

e rec district board during a work session on July 13 agreed that it wanted to ask for the extension on the November ballot. e board must vote by Sept. 8 to o cially put the question and the ballot language on the ballot.

If voters approve the property-tax extension, the rec district would receive about $1.4 million a year. e property tax that will be paid o in 2025 was a bond request approved in 2005 for money to buy land adjacent to Buchanan Park, so the district wouldn’t lose it to development. e board plans to delay asking voters for additional money for new projects until 2024 or later to allow more time to esh out the projects and to wait as property assessments have increased substantially this year.

Board members agree that getting community support for the proposals once they are nalized will be instrumental when asking voters to extend the existing property taxes or to ask for a future bond.

“We need to have a combination of both projects that are visible to the public such as improving trails, repaving something or establishing areas for pickleball at Marshdale Park,” board President Peter Eggers said of the list of projects that could

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