By Brian Eason | The Colorado Sun
The $95 million a year voters approved when they passed Proposition MM in November is expected to generate enough to fund the Health School Meals for All program. But it might still go back to the ballot.
Just two months after Colorado voted — for the second and third times — to raise taxes for a school meals program, legislative analysts are warning state lawmakers they might have to go back to the ballot for round four.
The news reduced Joint Budget Committee Chair Emily Sirota to a three-letter response during a December meeting: “O … M … G …”
This time around, the stakes aren’t quite as high. The $95 million a year voters approved when they passed Proposition MM in November is expected to generate enough to pay for the Health School Meals for All program, with some leftover for SNAP — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for low-income families.
But — unlike the first school meals election in 2022 — lawmakers thought they’d asked voters for permission to spend enough money to avoid issuing taxpayer refunds under the state constitution.
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