HomeMy WebLinkAbout1222 - IN SUPPORT reauthorization of The State Lottery DivisionRESOLUTION 1222
A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING REAUTHORIZATION BY THE COLORADO
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COLORADO LOTTERY DIVISION IN 2018
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BOULDER, COLORADO, HEREBY FINDS
AND RECITES:
A. Colorado voters provided for a statewide lottery, and in a subsequent election adopted the
Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) amendment to the state constitution, which directs that
lottery profits be used for parks, open space, wildlife, and outdoor recreation purposes.
B. Following the voters' approval of a lottery, the General Assembly created a Lottery Division
in the State Department of Revenue to administer the lottery.
C. As provided in the GOCO amendment, lottery profits are allocated to the Great Outdoors
Colorado Trust Fund (GOCO Trust Fund), the Conservation Trust Fund, and to the Colorado
Division of Parks and Wildlife.
D. Since 1992, the GOCO Trust Fund has distributed approximately $1 billion in grants for
projects to improve communities in all of Colorado's 64 counties. Funds have helped connect
families to the outdoors, improved local trails and parks, built outdoor recreation facilities,
preserved ranchlands, water resources, and view corridors, improved river access and quality
and conserved wildlife habitat.
E. The GOCO Trust Fund has distributed over $1,129,947 directly to the City of Boulder for
these purposes.
F. Since 1983 the Conservation Trust Fund has distributed approximately $1 billion in grants to
counties, municipalities, and special districts for acquisition, development, and maintenance
of new conservation sites, capital improvements, and maintenance for recreational purposes
on public sites.
G. The Conservation Trust Fund has distributed over $25,765,471 directly to the City of
Boulder for these purposes.
H. Since 1992, the GOCO Trust Fund has distributed approximately $215 million of lottery
proceeds in support of Colorado's 42 state parks, funding parkland acquisition, park
development and operations, trail construction and maintenance, environmental education,
youth and volunteer programs and stewardship and natural resource management.
I. The Colorado Lottery Division is critical to the administration of the entire GOCO program
and the Division is set to expire unless extended by the General Assembly, which during its
2018 session will consider legislation to extend the Division to 2039.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BOULDER, COLORADO strongly urges the General Assembly to approve legislation during
its 2018 session to reauthorize the Colorado lottery division.
ADOPTED this 21' day of November, 2017.
ATTEST:
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