Erie's Board of Trustees has voted to chip $7,000 towards the cost of hiring a consultant tasked with identifying and developing methodologies related to regional revenue sharing among Boulder County municipalities. This effort is coordinated by the Boulder County Consortium of Cities, and the Times Call had supportive, cautious endorsement of the program yesterday that revealed the persistent resentment at Boulder's proclivity to champion - and force cooperation - with its ideals.
The editorial ends with the dig on not letting Boulder run the show, but also describes the melting of southeast BoCo communities into each other as being more likely to benefit from revenue sharing than Longmont ever could. Longmont is "relatively isolated from other cities in Boulder County" and anyway, more revenue isn't worth it if Boulder's telling us what to do.
The seeds of discontent are already being sown...
By the way, Broomfield's been asked to join in and hasn't answered yet.
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"Even then, the plan may backfire. Louisville, Lafayette, Superior and Erie can agree to complement one another economically, but they’ll have NO agreement with Broomfield, a neighboring sales tax-generating juggernaut in its own county."
Sound familiar.
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