{"id":1030,"date":"2018-05-21T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/05\/21\/anatomy-of-a-transportation-tax-increase-coalition-in-a-flyover-state\/"},"modified":"2018-05-21T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T17:32:00","slug":"anatomy-of-a-transportation-tax-increase-coalition-in-a-flyover-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/anatomy-of-a-transportation-tax-increase-coalition-in-a-flyover-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Transportation Tax Increase Coalition in a Flyover State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado has a new statewide coalition supporting more transportation funding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coalition members:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce<\/li>\n<li>Denver South Economic Development Partnership<\/li>\n<li>Club 20, an association of counties in Western Colorado<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The tax increase supprted by the coalition:<\/strong> 0.62 increase in sales tax dedicated for transportation, raising the statewide sales tax to\u00a03.52 percent\u00a0starting Jan. 1, 2019\u00a0for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are contractors supporting the coalition?<\/strong> maintenance and construction for Colorado roads is funded by the gas tax which has not been raised for 25 years<\/p>\n<p><strong>How would funding be distributed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>45% Colorado Department of Transportation<\/li>\n<li>15% to regional projects, ( local bus, bike and pedestrian improvements)<\/li>\n<li>40% \u00a0split evenly between cities and counties. \u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kunc.org\/post\/statewide-coalition-selects-tax-increase-option-transportation-funding-fix\">KUNC |\u00a0Statewide Coalition Selects Tax Increase Option For Transportation Funding Fix<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/news\/story\/proposed-tax-hikes-to-fix-roads-unveiled-by-business-coalition\">CPR |\u00a0Now There Are 3 Possible Tax Hikes Focused On Fixing Colorado&#8217;s Roads<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado has a new statewide coalition supporting more transportation funding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coalition members:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce<\/li>\n<li>Denver South Economic Development Partnership<\/li>\n<li>Club 20, an association of counties in Western Colorado<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The tax increase supprted by the coalition:<\/strong> 0.62 increase in sales tax dedicated for transportation, raising the statewide sales tax to\u00a03.52 percent\u00a0starting Jan. 1, 2019\u00a0for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are contractors supporting the coalition?<\/strong> maintenance and construction\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,38,8,10,30,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-business-trend","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}