HOW WOULD YOU BUILD A BETTER COLORADO?

Building a Better Colorado wants to address our common challenges in a way that brings people together.

We are a diverse, nonpartisan coalition of Coloradans that have come together with the shared belief that Colorado can do better than the divisive arguments that have come to dominate our political discourse.

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Our Colorado Fiscal Policy pages can make you the smartest person in the room this season. Learn about the Gallagher Amendment, TABOR, or get a primer in the Colorado State Budget!

Building a Better Colorado Resources

Here are some ways to use this website to learn about Colorado policy issues and join the statewide conversation!

LEARN ABOUT FISCAL POLICY

Learn more about key policy issues in Colorado and some challenges we face with our single-page explainer series:

POLICY INTERACTIVE VIDEOS

Share your opinion on the best path forward for Colorado while learning more about these issues in our interactive video policy series.

TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

Tell us what you think about some of the most complex policy issues facing Colorado today in our guided online poll series:

Our Interactive Fiscal Policy Series Now Available Online!

Throughout 2019, we engaged 1800 civic leaders in 37 communities across Colorado in a conversation about Colorado’s three fiscal constitutional amendments — the Gallagher Amendment, the TABOR Amendment, and Amendment 23 — and how those policies affect our Colorado quality of life.
NOW IT’S YOUR TURN TO WEIGH-IN!

Click on the buttons below to watch the presentations, tell us YOUR opinions, and see how your opinion compares to other civic leaders across the state!

We are engaging citizens to create a path to a better Colorado.

Building a Better Colorado” (BBCO) is a non-partisan non-profit effort formed in 2015 by a group of Colorado civic leaders with the shared belief that Colorado can be better, and that the pathway to a better Colorado rests in engaging Coloradans from across the state in an honest conversation about how we can improve public policies for our state and, in so doing, create a brighter future for us all.

BBCO does not advocate for any specific solutions to those challenges. Rather, BBCO engages citizens in a constructive conversation through community meetings and online to understand the facts about our policy choices, and seek consensus ideas for improving our state.

Latest Video – Where do Our Tax Dollars Go?

If you’d like to participate in BBCO’s conversation in your community, please tell us who you are!

All information which you share about yourself will be kept strictly confidential. BBCO won’t share your information with the hosts of your community’s meeting (or anyone else, for that matter) without your explicit permission.

Take our Colorado Fiscal Policy Series Polls

Already know about TABOR, The Gallagher Amendment, and Amendment 23? Take some time to answer a few quick questions on our poll series to tell us what YOU think is the best path forward.

Testimonials From Around Colorado

This was a great opportunity for me … to hear the issues in a way that made a lot more sense and to be educated about them and say what my thoughts were on a common sense solution and then build a consensus around that. So this is truly a grassroots citizen-led effort.

Cristina Oxley

Craig, Colorado

I love that it’s being worked on so carefully to maintain it’s non-partisan aspect and that there’s a broad spectrum of support on both sides.

John Clark

Ridgway, Colorado

We heard a lot of diverse opinions and by and large 100% of the people said we need to do something – and we didn’t all agree on what it was, but we need to do something because we are not in a good place.

Jan Tanner

Colorado Springs, Colorado

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