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What the fire district cannot tell voters

The world is becoming more and more complex with each passing year, and the problems with this growing complexity is apparent in this year’s election. Colorado has 72 amendments in its constitution currently and is working on adding up even more. But it’s not the number of laws and amendments that is the main issue for Colorado citizens, it’s how the laws interact with each other; with each additional law, the work involved to mesh it into legal code grows exponentially. Locally, adhering to the law for local government districts is becoming increasingly difficult to accomplish and often, laws keep districts from speaking clearly and openly to citizens. The best/worst example of clear communication is the recent mill levy increase that the fire district is…