Dennis Gallagher to discuss eponymous amendment

FORT COLLINS – Colorado State University’s Everitt Real Estate Center will host a panel discussion about the Gallagher Amendment with the legislation’s author.

The Dec. 9 event will feature the release of the results of a new study, conducted by the center, on the statewide and regional effect of the Gallagher Amendment. Passed into law in 1982, the amendment requires that the portion of residential property subject to taxation, the assessed value, declines when home values rise faster than business property values.

Panel participants include:

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• Dennis Gallagher, author, Gallagher Amendment, and current Denver city auditor;
• Susan Kirkpatrick, executive director, Colorado Department of Local Affairs;
• Steve Laposa, director, Everitt Real Estate Center;
• Don Marostica, director, Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade;
• Scott Moore, professor of political science, CSU;
• Jim Mulligan, real estate attorney, Snell & Wilmer;
• Ron Stewart, director, Boulder County Parks and Open Space.

The event, co-hosted by Everitt Real Estate Center and the Urban Land Institute, will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Embassy Suites, 4705 Clydesdale Parkway, in Loveland. The cost to attend is $40 for non-members and free for members of the center. To register contact 970-491-5522 or go to http://biz.colostate.edu/EREC/events/Documents/q409/GallagherRegistration.pdf.