Colorado Business Roundtable understands the importance of an efficient, integrated transportation system to our business community. Our infrastructure is the platform for a modern, competitive economy, one that allows for productivity, innovation, safe movement of goods, and supports a high quality of life.
Colorado, like the United States, has failed to make adequate investments in transportation. Disagreements among business groups mirrors the challenges legislators have faced on finding the right strategy to fund our $9 billion dollar shortfall. Priorities should center on statewide solutions, accelerating our permitting process, attracting private investment, and allows for local input on pressing priorities.
Thanks to the leadership of many in and out of the Capitol, a compromise version of SB1 passed unanimously out of the State Senate and has become the consensus choice among Colorado’s leading business organizations. The two key components that business groups are rallying behind is the $495 million from this year’s budget surplus, and a long-term commitment of funding towards transportation. If SB1 passes, it will represent the largest commitment towards transportation in over 20 years.
A large and growing coalition of business groups have begun rallying around SB1, urging the House to pass the Senate’s bill. The coalition is particularly notable as it includes groups that have disagreed in the past on transportation funding, and still may disagree about future steps towards a solution, but they all agree that SB1 is the most important first step.
Colorado Business Roundtable stands in support of SB1 and encourages leadership in the House to pass this key piece of legislation that is critical to our economic future, safety of our workforce and residents, and the quality of life we enjoy in Colorado.
SB1 Coalition Members
- Colorado Farm Bureau
- South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce
- Colorado Business Roundtable
- Colorado Concern
- Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce
- Colorado Motor Carriers Association
- Colorado Contractors Association
- Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry
- National Federation of Independent Business
- Colorado Springs Chamber & Economic Development Corporation
- Northern Colorado Legislative Alliance
- Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce
- Denver South Economic Development Partnership
- Colorado Association of Mechanical and Plumbing Contractors