While ballots with these questions on them are already out, limited information was provided to voters about what they will actually do. Of greatest concern, the information provided when the questions were adopted by Council to go on the ballot is misleading or just inaccurate in several instances. The final language also did not incorporate the amendment Council made at first reading to one of the ordinances and the process did not follow appropriate noticing publication requirements. 

Voters have been left to figure out for themselves what these questions say, with vague assertions by the City these changes are 'inconsequential clean up.' The actual language placed on the ballot for the questions is incomplete and in places inaccurate.

This work was rushed and the changes to the charter not fully considered particularly for their impact to voters. Any changes voters approve now will need further amendment, at additional expense to City taxpayers, and will create interim circumstances where the rights guaranteed to Fort Collins voters by the Colorado Constitution to exercise recall, initiative and referendum processes are significantly curbed due to the impact of these ill considered language changes.

Barring other legal intervention by the City itself or others who are impacted (i.e. Fort Collins voters), the recourse for voters right now to stop these changes is to vote against City Ballot Questions 2B, 2C, and 2D at the November 5 election coordinated with Larimer County. Those ballots have already been mailed out to registered Fort Collins voters.