Wayne Harrison wrote: If you incorporate and have your own cops and government, doesn't that mean more taxes for those living within the incorporated area? You can't get that stuff for free.
PosterYoYo,
Reinforcing what Wayne said above, this will not work because of the following.
1.) The entities that you are making reference to would each need to be organized under either a metropolitan district (government) or a special district (more government).
2.) Their are legal cost to organize each district referenced in item 1, above.
3.) Their would be a cost to have the organizational initiative on the ballot, based on the defined geographical boundaries of the district(s) referenced in item 1, above.
4.) When a district is organized, it typically loses the benefit of FREE county services. This means if you did not create an InterGovernmental Agreement (IGA), you would have to bear the cost of such services. IGAs have a cost as well.
5.) Each district would require a board which typically involves salaries.
6.) Each district would have to supply its own services as eluded to in item 4, above. Those services include, but are not limited to, law enforcement, fire, sanitation, water, planning/zoning, building, jail (if new county), courthouse (if new county), clerk (if new county), etc.
7.) With regards to paying for all of the above, how would the revenue come in? INCREASE PROPERTY TAXES? Yeah, right!
8.) If you can not raise property taxes, will you vote in a sales tax? Let's say you do. Does your district have sufficient business to raise sales tax? They would have to be located in your district for you to "potentially" receive tax benefit.
9.) Okay, so you are good and you convince Wally World to build a supercenter in your town of 223 folks, you voted in a sales tax and all 223 of you shop there. Did you know that the county currently has municipalities within in the county boundaries that are currently charging sales tax? In fact, the tax rates are at the highest allowed by TABOR. What this means, is that if you wish to add a sales tax, you will need to "buy down" the other municipality's tax so that you do not cause an excess TABOR collection. That is a completely different issue that we do not have the time to discuss.
While I appreciate your desire to see an end to the good ole boy establishment in this county, you in effect, would be creating multiple good ole boy networks, all within one county.
As MTNTrekker put it,
"soooooo the really short term good solution is to select a commissioner and sheriff who will represent your wishes and concerns."
Why not get collectively behind voting these folks out by building an army, search for LEADERSHIP grade folks that will PROACTIVELY bring in a solid business base to this county, AND elect them.
Best wishes!