Driving Greeley: Infrastructure Improvements
For over 30 years, Greeley residents have renewed a sales tax on groceries to support funding of facilities, parks, and street maintenance that benefit all Greeleyites.
About Food Tax
Funding from Greeley’s food tax funds important upgrades, safety improvements, and ADA accessibility to our community centers, recreational fields, public schools and other city facilities.
The city would ask voters to permanently extend the already existing food tax without raising taxes to support our community programs and improve the quality of Greeley residents present and future.
About Financing Critical Transportation Infrastructure
The city is considering a low-interest, long-term financing option that could fund important infrastructure and transportation projects. This is similar to obtaining a mortgage for your home and would allow the city to take advantage to a federally subsidized program to make much needed improvements to our community, including:
- Constructing new Highway 34 interchanges at 35th and 47th Avenue to improve traffic flow, decrease congestion, and improve safety
- Expanding Greeley’s regional bus service with routes to Loveland, Severance, Denver, and the airport; and
- Constructing traffic safety improvements and beautifying major traffic corridors such as Greeley’s downtown 8th Avenue
The financing measure is a formality required by the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) but would allow Greeley to take advantage of a federal program for low-cost transportation financing without increasing or creating new taxes.
Updating Greeley’s Facilities and Roads Without Paying More Taxes
By pairing the existing food tax with a new financing program, we can take Greeley into a new generation and keep up with the greater demands on our city streets and facilities for our families, friends and neighbors.
These two measures mean no new taxes, and simply the extension of an existing sales tax, which has existed for over 30 years, and approval of a financing mechanism that allows the city to take advantage of a federally subsidized program for transportation infrastructure.