Council adopts consolidated election-code amendments to clarify petitioning and campaign rules

Apr 8, 2025

Council adopted Ordinance 22‑65 on second reading to consolidate city, charter and state election rules into the city code, streamline petitioning and campaign-finance complaint processes, and update a candidate information booklet to be more user friendly.

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Staff presented a set of amendments to Golden’s election code intended to consolidate and clarify procedures that now live across state law, the city charter, and municipal code. The stated aims were to have more uniform, user-friendly standards for petitions, campaign-finance reporting, and complaint processing, and to avoid unintentionally narrowing residents’ reserved powers under the state constitution and charter.

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