Boulder voters may be presented with three ballot measures in November.

Boulder City Council indicated interest in pursuing up to three measures for the 2025 ballot at its virtual study-session meeting Thursday.

Those possible measures include:

• Extending an existing 0.3% Community, Culture, Resilience and Safety Sales and Use tax, or CCRS tax, for capital infrastructure.

• Creating a new tax that would increase an existing property tax for parks and recreation to 2.252 mills, up from 0.9 mills — referred to as the “Public Realm tax.” A “mill levy” is the official term for a property tax rate. A “mill” is one-thousandth of a dollar.

• And whether the council should again pursue a measure that would amend section 130 of the city charter and allow the council to set the terms and criteria of board and commission members, a measure that narrowly failed in 2024.

On a fourth issue, the council opted to push the timetable for looking into a fee or tax on vacant homes back to 2026.

“We’re likely heading into a recession, and it diminishes the prospects to have two tax measures at the same time,” Councilmember Mark Wallach said. “I think the CCRS tax is absolutely critical for us, and I would not want to do anything that jeopardizes that.”

As mentioned in a memo to the council, the CCRS tax would help sustain support for major projects around the city. The existing CCRS tax played a role in the renovation of the East Boulder Community Center, the second phase of the Civic Area project and improvements along Pearl Street Mall, among other projects.

City staffers will next conduct a polling survey and present the findings at the council’s June 26 meeting. The results of that polling will determine whether the council pursues the so-called Public Realm tax.