Title
Ordinance No. 22-16 declaring the organization of the Colorado Springs Briargate General Improvement District 2021, approving a mill levy not to exceed 4.409 mills, and approving a maintenance schedule describing the areas to be maintained along with the description of the maintenance, and providing the effective date of this ordinance
Presenter:
Charae McDaniel, Chief Financial Officer
Eric Becker, Special Improvement Maintenance District Administrator
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Summary:
The attached Ordinance creates the Briargate General Improvement District 2021 ("the GID"). At the November 2, 2021 elections, voters approved the organization of the GID and the imposition of a not more than 4.409 mill levy. The GID will assume all pertinent powers and functions of the Briargate Special Improvement Maintenance District (BSIMD), which will have its mill levy set to zero (0) in 2022 for taxes payable in 2023 by separate resolution of City Council.
Background:
The current BSIMD's purpose "is to provide for the maintenance of certain public improvements of general benefit to the residents of the district." The public improvements, "may include parks, open space, trails, bicycle paths, landscaping, fencing, pillars, medians, entry islands, utility rights-of-way, irrigation facilities and associated water system improvements, theme areas and neighborhood theme signage," located primarily, but not exclusively, on and along primary streets within the district.
In 2018, then District 2 City Council Member David Geislinger held a series of community Town Halls to provide property owners a general update on the BSIMD with a focus on the history and resulting financial challenges facing the BSIMD. He called for citizen involvement and input to help determine the best way forward. A BSIMD Planning Committee was formed at his request. The group held four additional public meetings in 2019 at Library 21C in the Chapel Hills area and used an online survey to continue the in...
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