Moving Fountain Forward

MOVING FOUNTAIN FORWARD

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In 2009, the citizens of Fountain approved the Moving Fountain Forward ballot initiative, providing the necessary resources to improve the quality of transportation infrastructure throughout the City.   Under the initiative, various projects were designed to address issues across our community, to include improvements to road safety, vehicle congestion and a reduction in noise pollution.  This page provides more detailed information regarding the history and progress of the Moving Fountain Forward Initiative.


What is Moving Fountain Forward?


Moving Fountain Forward is a 2009 citizen based ballot initiative that focuses sales tax money’s (0.75%, three quarters of a cent on each one dollar purchase) to three areas of transportation funding:

1. Streets Resurfacing (0.15%) – This work has been ongoing and all money accrued has been spent each year on resurfacing projects throughout the City.

2. Public Transportation (0.25%) – The City of Fountain Municipal Transit Bus Service was created in April 2012 and is funded annually through this portion of MFF.

3. Capital Projects (0.35%) – Includes 10 Capital projects, please see attached timeline for updates on each project. Estimated project costs have not kept pace with current construction costs leaving a major funding shortfall to complete projects. This is attributed to the fact that budget projections in 2009, amidst the Great Recession, were far lower than current 2018 project construction costs. NOTE:The Capital Projects portion was given a sunset date of Jan 1, 2020.  In November of 2019, Fountain citizens voted not to continue this portion of the MFF special tax. 

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