Denver City Council members struggled this morning to set the order of the infrastructure questions on the November ballot.

Saying they didn't want to be perceived as biased or manipulating the election, they finally agreed to randomly pick the questions out a cowboy hat.

But it wasn't exactly random.

Council members decided to pair the two questions related to cultural facilities together because "it's a logical order," said Councilman Doug Linkhart, who advocated for adjacent placement of the two cultural questions.

The question on the proposed 2.5 mill levy, a property tax hike that would generate $27 million annually to pay for ongoing maintenance, has to appear first because of TABOR.

The remaining eight questions, which contain $550 million worth of infrastructure projects grouped by category, will appear in the following order:

Health and human services

Libraries

Public works

Parks and recreation

Deferred maintenance for city buildings

Deferred maintenance for cultural facilities

New construction of cultural facilities

Public safety

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