After close race, Boulder keeps municipalization efforts alive

BOULDER — Boulder’s municipalization future just barely held on, with just 51.71 percent in favor of continuing funding the effort to create the city’s own electric utility.

Extending and increasing the utility tax (issue 2L on the ballot) was one of three key municipalization-related votes in Boulder. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the votes were swinging the other way, with 50.22 percent against extending the tax. Were the issue to faile, it would have ended the city’s seven-year quest to separate from Xcel Energy and form its own municipal utility, unless it found alternative funding.

Although funding will continue, the city still needs…