The Wyoming Association of Municipalities President, Mayor Scott Dellinger of Mountain View, announced an effort by WAM to educate Wyoming citizens about Constitutional Amendment A. Dellinger points out that this is a critical ballot measure that will be on the November 3rd general election ballot to help ensure safe and reliable infrastructure in communities across the state. The question will update the limits on the amount of debt a municipality can incur to maintain and improve local sewer systems. Specifically, it removes sewer system debt limits from the Wyoming Constitution, and it allows those debt limits instead to be set in the future by the Legislature, just as is done for other utilities. The current method was instituted in 1890 during the Wyoming Constitutional Convention when only a handful of towns in Wyoming had any sewer system at all. This antiquated cap severely hinders cities’ and towns’ ability to fund improvements to municipal sewer systems as those cities grow.
