In 2010, Boulder County voters approved a five-year property tax to help prevent people teetering on the brink of financial disaster from falling over the edge. The Temporary Human Services Safety Net has pumped about $5 million annually into county services in an effort to close some of the gap in human services funding resulting from state budget cuts. With an emphasis on prevention, that money has helped keep more people in their homes, keep more kids with their families, and make sure our most vulnerable residents have the resources they need to make ends meet. To learn more about the tax and its impacts, we speak with Boulder County Housing and Human Services Director Frank Alexander and Simon Smith of Clinica.
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