Complicated Gallagher: Voters asked to repeal property-tax regulator

Ballot language doesn’t get much more complicated  than Amendment B, the legislatively referred measure to repeal the Gallagher Amendment.

The ballot language says, “Without increasing property tax rates, to help preserve funding for local districts that provide fire protection, police, ambulance, hospital, kindergarten through twelfth grade education, and other services, and to avoid automatic mill levy increases, shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution to repeal the requirement that the general assembly periodically change the residential assessment rate in order to maintain the statewide proportion of residential property as compared to all other taxable…