The Greater Woodland Park Chamber Board of Directors has taken the position to oppose Ballot Initiative Proposition HH.

The board cited the following reasons for its opposition:

• SB 23-108 eliminates any need for Prop HH — The act allows a local government to provide temporary property tax relief through temporary property tax credits or mill levy reductions and later eliminate the credits or restore the mill levy. A temporary reduction in property taxes must be annually renewed by the local government. A school district may not temporarily reduce its mill levy below an existing statutory minimum mill levy amount.

• The language of Prop HH is misleading. The measure offers very small relief on the front end while paying heavily for a property owner down the road, i.e. If HH is actually a tax reduction as billed, how does a tax reduction make more money for schools?

• After the first few years, property taxes would grow just as if the law does not exist.

• When considered over a 10-year period, it is a multi-billion-dollar tax increase. Possibly the largest state tax increase in a single action — while it guts TABOR.

• Almost every local government in Colorado is against this bill — it further erodes local control.