Whereas, the Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD) and Pikes Peak Genealogical Society (PPGS) have had a strong strategic partnership for the past thirty years since the founding of PPGS; and
Whereas, the combined fiscal impact of these three ballot initiatives could reduce
PPLD’s revenues by up to 30% in addition to the reduced tax revenues from the current recession which would necessitate significant reductions in library services and would adversely impact PPGS’s historic and strategic relationship with PPLD; and
Whereas, likely reductions in staff, services, and purchases of new library materials as well as possible branch closures will not only affect our strategic relationship with PPLD and our members but will also deny the citizens of the Pikes Peak Region from the wide array of educational, cultural, and social programs currently provided by PPLD; and
Whereas, these reduced services will extend to other Colorado genealogical societies
associated with their local libraries which will impact their services which PPGS’s membership uses to pursue their avocation and to promote the use of family history as a cultural history for not only our state’s citizens but citizens in other states; and
Whereas, these ballot initiatives will impact other public educational and governmental institutions in a similar manner adversely impacting the quality of life in the Pikes Peak region and Colorado.
Now, therefore, the Pikes Peak Genealogy Society opposes these three ballot
measures known as Amendment 60 and 61 and Proposition 101.
