Mapleton Public Schools Adams County School District No.1 591 E. 80th Avenue, Denver, CO 80229 Phone: 303-853-1000 Fax: 303-853-1086

Mapleton "de-Brucing" issue passes 2-1

Mapleton's voters gave the district the green light to retain about $750,000 over a statewide revenue cap set in 1992. The district will also be able to keep revenues above the TABOR cap in future years.

Mapleton became one of the last of Colorado's school districts to approve such a measure. At least 168 school districts of Colorado's 178 had already approved de-Brucing questions.

Charlotte Scarpella, the district's superintendent, called the 64-36 percent vote a strong measure of confidence for the school district.

An amendment to the state constriction approved in 1992 and spearheaded by anti-tax activist Doug Bruce required school districts and other government jurisdictions must send any revenue over a certain cap to the state for redistribution from the state's general fund.

"In essence, we would have been penalized for aggressively pursuing grants and other forms of revenue necessary beyond state money to fund a quality education system," Don Herman, Mapleton's finance director, said. "Our foundation grants count against our TABOR cap. When we reach that cap, every dollar of every grant we get would have been offset by dollars we'd have to return to the state."

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