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Counsel briefs board on state school‑finance bills, TABOR measure and concurrent‑enrollment changes
Summary
District legal counsel Nate Fong told the board that early school‑finance legislation and related ballot measures could change long‑term funding assumptions, that some bills (lead‑testing expansion, concurrent‑enrollment rules) may impose administrative costs, and that several teacher‑focused programs are sunsetting.
GREELEY, Colo. — At a work session meeting of the Greeley School District No. 6 board, district legal counsel Nate Fong reviewed a package of state legislative items and a November ballot measure that district leaders said could materially affect K–12 funding and operations.
Fong told the board the Joint Budget Committee relied on the Office of State Planning and Budgeting (OSPB) forecast — an optimistic revenue view that included an assumed partial sale of Pinnacle (the state’s workers’ compensation association) — to close a multi‑hundred‑million‑dollar gap and allow implementation of the new School Finance Act (referenced by counsel as Senate Bill 23). He warned that the OSPB assumptions are partly speculative and therefore not guaranteed.
On a proposed TABOR-related ballot measure (referred to…
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