City council recall, Woodland Park, Colorado (2025)

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Woodland Park city council recall
Officeholders
Jeffrey Geer Carrol Harvey Teri Baldwin Steve Smith Catherine Nakai
Recall status
Underway
Signature requirement
721 signatures (Geer, Baldwin, & Smith) 577 signatures (Harvey & Nakai)
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An effort to recall City Councilors Jeffrey Geer, Carrol Harvey, Teri Baldwin, Steve Smith, and Catherine Nakai is underway in Woodland Park, Colorado.

Recall supporters

Richard Caviness, Jeffrey Cole, and Warren Dickenson are organizing the recall effort. The recall effort was initiated following a February 20, 2025, meeting of the city council in which the council voted to hold a public hearing about repealing a 1.09% city sales tax that goes toward funding Woodland Park School District over concerns about financial transparency.

A November 5, 2024, ballot measure that would have repealed the sales tax was rejected by voters. Dickenson has said, "At this point, they're using their powers to say, 'We don't care what the voters said, you know, we're just going to repeal it on our own." He has also said, "It seems like a personal attack on the school board itself, and the children and the teachers are the ones that are going to really pay the repercussions for that."

The Woodland Park City Council voted unanimously on March 6, 2025, not to repeal the sales tax.

Recall opponents

Regarding the recall effort, Geer has said, "This group that is attempting to recall us seems to be upset with the fact that we still haven’t received the answers that we have been asking for and we remain committed to getting that level of accountability and transparency that the community is desperately asking us to get."

Smith has said, "We don’t want to take the money away from the kids, the teachers or the school district. We don’t," as well as "What we want is the transparency and the accountability of the school district for our community. That’s the bottom line."

Baldwin has said, "The citizens decided to keep the tax, but the first report sent to city council at the end of January was inaccurate and incomplete," and "And then when it was corrected, it still showed that money was spent on things that weren’t passed in the original ordinance back in 2016. And it also demonstrated sort of a continued lack of integrity and honesty about where the money is being spent."

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing recall in Colorado

No specific grounds are required for recall in Colorado. The number of signatures required for a recall to qualify for the ballot in Colorado depends on the office type. After the petition is approved by the relevant election office, petitioners have 60 days to gather signatures.

The deadline for recall organizers to submit signatures is April 29, 2025, for Geer, Baldwin, Smith, and Harvey. The deadline to submit signatures for Nakai is May 5, 2025.

See also

• Ballotpedia's Recall Report
• Woodland Park, Colorado
• Recall campaigns in Colorado
• Political recall efforts, 2025
• City council recalls

External links

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• Woodland Park city website