Louisville's citizen petition-borne ballot issue 2A seeks to switch authority for revitalization efforts (specifically financial decisions) currently given to the Louisville Revitalization Commission back to City Council. The opponents argue that's how things are already set up, proponents see an appointed body having control of millions of dollars. So besides the public getting two versions of the truth, the City Council last week debated passing a resolution in opposition to 2A, an interesting effort - can a Council make a formal resolution against an issue to which it is a party? I guess so. But isn't it redundant? If they agreed with the ballot supporters point, they would have done what they asked. By the ballot issue's own existence, Council has shown its opposition, so what's the point of taking time making it official? There was going to be clarifying language in the resolution regarding Council's ultimate authority; they'll take it up again next week.
Of course this plays into the conspiratorial assertions of the ballot supporters. I can't see the distinction being made by the ballot proponents. It appears to me the City Council has final approval power over any of the LRC's decisions. Check out the voluminous detail on why that interpretation is wrong at www.preservelouisville.org.
(The Louisville City website is down this morning, I couldn't create any links to topics)
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The Lafayette City Council has been advised countless times that once it approves putting a ballot issue on the table, it CANNOT make any further statements or take any furhter actions pro or con using city resources. We are free to express our opinions in other non-city related forums as individuals.
Where did I recently read that the Louisville council was motivated to consider this resolution because members of the public, they allege at least, might be confused that the City government was the proponent of Louisville's 2A? Seems like the Camera ran that article very recently.
In any event, the resolution would be legal. The citation in state statute is C.R.S. 1-45-117(1)(b)(III)(A) and (B).
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