The following is a press release submitted by the City of Woodland Park
On Monday, March 10, 2025, the City Council of Woodland Park voted unanimously to repeal the 1.09% sales tax first levied for the benefit of the Woodland Park School District. This measure reduced the tax rate to 3.0%. Below is the verbiage from Ordinance 1493, Series 2025:
Section 1. The foregoing recitals are hereby incorporated as conclusions, determinations, facts, and findings of the City Council.
Section 2. Section 3.08.030 A of the Woodland Park Code is amended by the addition of the following new language: “The 1.09% tax first levied for the benefit of the Woodland Park School District in 2016 and reauthorized by City voters at the November 5, 2024, City election is repealed, effective March 10, 2025, thereby reducing the tax rate under this subparagraph to 3.00% .”
Section 3. Emergency Ordinance. It has come to the Council’s attention that imminent action by the Woodland Park School Board is directly aimed at impairing the prerogative of this Council to act in the best interests of City voters with respect to the tax referenced in the foregoing section, all for the benefit of a single charter school in the District. Consequently, an emergency exists; this ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of public property, safety and public health. In particular, this ordinance must take effect immediately upon passage in order to prevent subversion of the interests of every single city voter and taxpayer in the City of Woodland Park to interests of a single charter school and to prevent City taxpayers from being willfully leveraged by the School Board in the artless manner proposed.
The foregoing Ordinance is now hereby adopted by the City Council of Woodland Park, Colorado, on the 10th day of March 2025, effective immediately.
