Summit Daily News
A Breckenridge citizen group working to get a term-limit elimination question on the ballot in November was unable to collect the needed 411 signatures in time for the June 23 deadline. The ballot question, a topic of some debate in Breckenridge, would have asked voters to remove the state-imposed two-term limit on town council members and the mayor. Two sitting council members, Eric Mamula and Jeffrey Bergeron, are term limited in the spring and will not be able to run again unless the council elects to put the question on the ballot, which it has previously declined to do.
To kick off a campaign to extend a portion of a property tax mill levy benefiting the Summit School District, numerous community members and officials ”” even a student or two ”” gathered Tuesday at the Summit County Community and Senior Center. The Summit Board of Education recently voted unanimously to go to local voters with a school funding measure in November. Due to cuts, declines in revenue and new initiatives on the ballot that could further affect school funding, the school district is now asking voters to help make up the difference with a $2.1 million mill levy.
Leadville may follow in the footsteps of Breckenridge come November by decriminalizing marijuana through a ballot initiative. A group of Leadville residents asked its government to decriminalize marijuana use at a city meeting Wednesday ”” the measure will now go to a vote of the people. According to Leadville city clerk Joe Swyers, approximately 20 people came to Wednesday’s meeting to comment on the marijuana issue. He noted that almost half the speakers were for decriminalization.
With early voting in Summit County now open, Sensible Breckenridge ”” the local marijuana reform group ”” held a press conference Monday to promote ballot measure 2F, or the decriminalization of marijuana in the town. Breckenridge voters will consider whether to remove criminal penalties from the Breckenridge town code for the private possession of up to an ounce of marijuana by adults 21 and older. The county’s official election day is Nov. 3.