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ORDINANCE NO. 1856 SERIES 2023 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE FOR EXTENDING THE CITY'S THREE -EIGHTHS OF ONE PERCENT (0.375%) SALES TAX FOR PARKS AND OPEN SPACE PURPOSES FOR AN ADDITIONAL 10 YEAR PERIOD, IMPOSING AN ADDITIONAL ONE - EIGHTH OF ONE PERCENT (0.125%) SALES AND USE TAX FOR OPEN SPACE PURPOSES AS PROVIDED HEREIN; AND PROVIDING FOR THE SUBMISSION OF THE BALLOT QUESTION TO A VOTE OF THE REGISTERED ELECTORS AT A REGULAR ELECTION TO BE HELD NOVEMBER 7, 2023 Section 1. The following ordinance of the City of Louisville, Colorado, is hereby adopted to read: WHEREAS, the City of Louisville (the "City"), is a Colorado home rule municipal corporation duly organized and existing under laws of the State of Colorado and the City Charter (the "City Charter"); and WHEREAS, the members of the City Council of the City (the "City Council") have been duly elected and qualified; and WHEREAS, Article X, Section 20 of the Colorado Constitution, also referred to as the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights ("TABOR"), requires voter approval for any new tax, any increase in any tax rate, the creation of any debt, extension of an expiring tax, and the spending of certain funds above limits established by TABOR; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Article 12 and Section 4-8 of the City Charter, the City may authorize the issuance of bonds, the imposition of new taxes and the increase of a tax rate by ordinance and upon approval of the registered electors of the City; and WHEREAS, the City will hold a regular election on November 7, 2023, as a coordinated election pursuant to the Uniform Election Code of 1992, as amended; and WHEREAS, TABOR requires that the City submit ballot issues, as defined in TABOR, to the City's registered electors on specified election days before action can be taken on such ballot issues; and WHEREAS, November 7, 2023, is one of the election dates at which TABOR ballot issues may be submitted to the registered electors of the City pursuant to TABOR; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Ordinance No. 1119, Series 1993, the City Council referred to the voters a TABOR ballot issue concerning imposition for a ten-year period of a temporary %% sales and use tax increase for the acquisition of land in and around the City of Louisville for open space buffer zones, trails, wildlife habitats, wetlands preservation and future parks, and such ballot issue was approved by a majority of the Ordinance No. 1856, Series 2023 Page 1of8