O’Reilly: Special districts bank on your ignorance, residents need to push for transparency
By Chuck O’Reilly | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice
Meet Colorado’s special districts. Your wallet knows them better than you. Your tax dollars feed special districts most can’t even name. They siphon cash quietly until they are exposed.
Wherever you live in Colorado, you will be in some type of special district for water, fire protection, sanitation, open spaces, metro districts and schools.
Many Colorado voters are uninformed or unaware of how the various special districts, in which they reside, function. They don’t grasp their rights related to those districts or how the property taxes they pay get regulated, assessed or used by those districts.
New property owners are not informed about assessments or the board member election process for their districts. For mos...