{"id":19,"date":"2025-02-18T03:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T03:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feetransparency.org\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2025-02-18T03:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T03:04:25","slug":"proposed-solution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/feetransparency.org\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Denver citizens deserve realistic and objective information about trash and sidewalk programs before being charged new fees in perpetuity.&nbsp; To achieve this, FeeTransparency.org will start a ballot measure to require the City to do the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Pause the fees for trash and sidewalk programs and revert to funding them funding them through the General Fund and\/or General Obligation bonds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Hire an independent, objective expert to provide realistic financial forecasts for fully loaded costs, revenues, rates, levels of service, and delivery options so that citizens know what to expect.&nbsp; Share the report publicly and hold public input sessions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Create a new ballot measure for voters to decide if they want fee-based sidewalk and trash programs based on the realistic and objective cost and rate information from the expert report.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The independent expert\u2019s report will include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An executive summary that is easy for the public and non-experts to understand.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>10-year financial forecasts showing key assumptions, all sources and uses of cash, and estimated future rate increases, with fully loaded cost assumptions (including operating, capital, debt service, and indirect costs).\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Source, amount, timing, and duration of any program subsidies (both cash and non-cash) from other funds.\u00a0 The impact on rates once those subsidies are removed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Realistic timeframes for the delivery of program services.\u00a0 There shall be no open-ended time frames (i.e., \u201cas soon as practicable\u201d).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program delivery options (in-house, alternative delivery, privatized, etc.) and explanations of how they impact rates.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Source of funding for and costs to administer affordability programs for low-income citizens<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Debt financing plans and impact on ratepayers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Private sector alternatives and their costs, if applicable<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Public input sessions for citizens to participate in the report process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver citizens deserve realistic and objective information about trash and sidewalk programs before being charged new fees in perpetuity.&nbsp; To achieve this, FeeTransparency.org will start a ballot measure to require the City to do the following: 1)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Pause the fees for trash and sidewalk programs and revert to funding them funding them through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feetransparency.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feetransparency.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feetransparency.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feetransparency.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feetransparency.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feetransparency.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feetransparency.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}