Bonds Proposal for Wide Variety of Infrastructure Needs To Be Decided By Denver Voters in November

The campaign, both pro and con, is now underway in Denver centered on passage of a sweeping $450 million infrastructure bond package.

Earlier this summer Mayor Michael Hancock suggested one comprehensive proposal that would fund more than 80 individual facility, housing, transportation, and parks and recreation projects.

Members of the Denver City Council, however, objecting to a portion of the Mayor’s proposal, calling for $190 million to fund the building of a new arena for the National Western Center, decided instead to break the proposal down into five separate questions that will appear on the November ballot.

The objections to the National Western Center project came from council members who wondered whether the project would benefit the surrounding north Denver neighborhood.

Ultimately it was decided to keep the National Western Center project intact, but as a separate ballot question.  

Question 2A is asking for $104 million for a variety of city library, museum, and entertainment venue projects. Nearly $39 million in Question 2B will go for the acquisition and or building of homeless shelters.

The third proposal, Question 2C, will see $63.3 million spent on bike and pedestrian projects, while Question 2D is calling for $54 million to be spent on park construction and maintenance projects.

A final Question 2E proposes spending $190 million on a new National Western Center arena.

By a better than two to one margin, Denver voters in 2017 approved a series of bond proposals totaling $937 million and funding more than 260 citywide projects.  

​By Garry Boulard

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