Rio Blanco commissioners discuss asking CCI to press for clearer county fiscal notes, and to track fee increases

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At a July 8 Rio Blanco County work session commissioners asked staff to pursue Colorado Counties, Inc. involvement to ensure legislative fiscal notes and fee changes account for county impacts; they discussed TABOR, recent recording fee changes and a fast CCI deadline for proposed legislative priorities.

Rio Blanco County commissioners on July 8 discussed asking Colorado Counties, Inc. (CCI) to press for clearer fiscal analyses of proposed state legislation and to track fee increases that affect county budgets.

Commissioners said they want CCI to push for fiscal notes that explicitly account for costs to counties and other local subdivisions, and to clarify how some state-level fee changes are implemented. “CCI is interested in that conversation and would be a good voice to pressure them into paying more attention to that,” one commissioner said during the work session.

The discussion centered on two linked concerns. First, commissioners said some fiscal notes attached to bills or ballot initiatives appear inaccurate or inconsistently applied. One commissioner cited a program whose projected cost rose from an initial…

Rio Blanco commissioners discuss asking CCI to press for clearer county fiscal notes, and to track fee increases

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