The Chaffee Housing Authority (CHA) will hold its regular monthly meeting on Thursday, January 18, at 4:30 p.m. There will be no in-person meeting; according to the agenda, it is online only. A link to the agenda with remote access instructions can be found here.
The main action item on the agenda is consideration of Resolution 2024-02, approving the wording for a political survey to be undertaken by Magellan Strategies. The survey is intended to measure Chaffee County citizens’ inclination toward voting for a CHA-sponsored measure on the 2024 ballot.
Questions address a countywide “affordable housing fund” tax and whether respondents would be more inclined, or less inclined, to vote for a dedicated housing fund tax after learning more about the issue.
The proposed survey measures respondents’ attitudes and ideas about affordable housing as well as laying out the tax alternatives:
- A two mill or four mill property tax increase, which would expire in ten years;
- Or a 0.25 or 0.5 percent increase in sales tax, which would also expire in ten years.
Each alternative would be expected to raise $1.78 to 3.5 million per year to help CHA fund affordable, workforce, and deed-restricted housing, as laid out in a ten-year plan for the funding.
Voters overwhelmingly a related rejected Ballot Issue 6A in November, 2022 which requested a 3.5 mill property tax. Contributing to that defeat were factors such as a lack of cohesion between the CHA board and other stakeholders, inadequate time and resources for preparation and outreach, and a young organization working hard to get its feet on the ground.
Featured image: Affordable housing is deeply woven into community issues in the high country. Photo: “Tiny Homes” Salida RV Resort Park
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