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County government is a political subdivision of state government, created to carry out the will of the state. The County is not an independent governmental entity existing by reason of any sovereign authority. As a political subdivision, the county and its board of commissioners possess only such implied powers as are necessary to carry out expressed powers (Colorado Constitution, Article XIV, Section 6). Colorado counties with a population of 70,000 or more may have a three or five-member board of commissioners. In 1976 the voters of El Paso County chose to have a board of five commissioners, each elected to represent a district. The districts are equal in population, and the boundaries are established by the board every two years. The Board of County Commissioners holds Public Hearings and Meetings on a regular basis. All such meetings are subject to state open meeting laws, the Colorado Sunshine Act of 1972, and the Colorado Open Records Act. The Commissioners update their Rules, Procedure, and Ethics Standards annually. The Board’s regular published hearings are held on Tuesdays (except legal holidays) beginning at 9 a.m. in the Auditorium of Centennial Hall at 200 South Cascade Avenue, Colorado Springs. Board of County Commissioners Contact: (719) 520-7276 Telephone Meetings: Board of El Paso County Commissioners regular meetings are scheduled weekly at 9 a.m. on Tuesdays Live Stream the Meetings View Meeting Agendas Location: Centennial Hall 200 South Cascade Avenue, Suite 100 Colorado Springs, CO 80903 Cami Bremer District 5 Chair Learn About Commissioner Bremer Carrie Geitner District 2 Vice Chair Learn About Commissioner Geitner Holly Williams District 1 Learn About Commissioner Williams Stan VanderWerf District 3 Learn About Commissioner VanderWerf Longinos Gonzalez, Jr. District 4 Learn About Commissioner Gonzalez, Jr. A Letter to Governor Polis Governor Polis, We thank you for your recent letter acknowledging how difficult it has become for families to make ends meet in Colorado, and for inserting the state into local matters. El Paso County Commissioners remained focused on providing exceptional services to our constituents. Out-of-control government spending and the resulting inflation have contributed to historic property assessment increases. With the same inflation driving up groceries, gas, and other necessities, we have continually asked our state legislature to help keep rising costs at bay by not passing any more expensive, unfunded mandates, not adding more burdensome regulations that drive up the cost of goods and services, and of course by halting the ever-growing, staggering number of fees enacted by the legislature in the last few years. Sadly, you have continued to sign laws that did precisely those things. Voters were told that if they repealed the Gallagher cap on property taxes, a better plan would be put in place. Unfortunately, that has not happened. Voters saw right through the Prop HH scheme, seeing it for the TABOR raid and dishonest ploy that it was, and rejected it. Even after the special session where the majority party ignored the will of the voters and passed a repackaged version of HH, as Representative Epps acknowledged on the House floor, we know that Coloradans are still looking for meaningful relief from the steep increases, the relief they did not get at the hands of our Democrat-run legislature. Fortunately for El Paso County residents, their county commissioners still abide by our local TABOR cap, specifically in place to keep government budgets from growing too quickly and to protect residents from bloat and waste. As such, El Paso County has been planning to reduce our mills for months, resulting in approximately a 20% decrease to provide relief for our residents. El Paso County already had a solution to keep taxes low for our residents long before Prop HH, and long before the failed special session. Perhaps you were unaware of how TABOR is helping El Paso County residents because you haven’t had the chance to...