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preservation including priority parcels as determined by the Open Space Advisory Board and City Council; • Trail development, reducing deferred maintenance for aging infrastructure, enhancing Community Outreach and Education programming; • Increased or enhanced trail maintenance, natural resource management, habitat restoration, and general day to day maintenance practices; • Land management best practices to assist with wildfire mitigation such as regenerative agriculture, mechanical controls, and invasive species control; and WHEREAS, if the ballot issue set forth herein is approved by the City's voters, the City will establish separate open space and parks funds, into which the revenues will be deposited until spent for the voter -approved uses; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that an emergency exists because, due to the coordinated election deadlines set forth in the Intergovernmental Agreement between the City and Boulder County, the City must certify the ballot content for the November 7, 2023 election by no later than September 8, 2023. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE, COLORADO: A. Subsection A of Section 3.20.200 of the Louisville Municipal Code, regarding the sales tax levy, is hereby amended to read as follows (words added are underlined; words deleted are striGlken through): Sec. 3.20.200. Levy of tax; rate. A. There is hereby levied, and there shall be collected and paid, a sales tax equal to 3.15 percent 3.15% of the purchase price of tangible personal property at retail or the furnishing of services, except that: For the ten-year period beginning on January 1, 2024 2014, there is hereby levied, and there shall be collected and paid, an additional sales tax of three -eighths of one percent 0.375% of the purchase price of tangible personal property at retail or the furnishing of services, as authorized at the November 7, 2023 NoyembeF 6, 2012 election, and 2. For the ten-year period beginning on January 1, 2019, there Ordinance No. 1856, Series 2023 Page 3 of 8