PLEASE WRITE-IN AURORA CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER AND
CHERRY CREEK SCHOOL DISTRICT LONG RANGE
COMMITTEE MEMBER, MATT SNIDER, IN THE VOTING BOX FOR
COLORADO SENATE DISTRICT 27
WHICH INCLUDES ALL OF ZIP CODES
80016, 80015, AND MOST OF 80111 AND 80112

Background and Experience:
– First term Civil Service Commissioner, City
of Aurora
– In eight year serving on Cherry Creek School
District Long Range Committee
– Served on other CCSD subcommittees including
Attendance Boundries, Innovation and
Facilites Planning
– Former Director, Corporate Secretary and
Treasurer of the Beacon Point Metropolitan
District. Also served as Acting-President in
2015 and signed for $24 million in reorganized
district debt funding saving district over $7
million over life of new bond
– Served on South Aurora Regional Improvement
Authority
– Retired business owner and ordained United
Methodist pastor
– Served as a volunteer for many non-profit
organizations

The following will be my legislative priorities:
1. Full funding of public eduation and elimination of the “budget
stabilization factor”
2. Prevent the reduction of funding from the general budget for
large school districts such as: Cherry Creek, Denver, Douglas
County, Aurora, Academy and Colorado Springs, Jefferson County,
Adams 12, St. Vrain Valley, Boulder Valley, Poudre Valley, etc., in
order to contribute their funding to smaller school districts
3. Fully fund all police and sheriff’s departments statewide
4. Increase mandatory penalties for violent criminals and reopen
closed state-run detention facilities (no private, for-profit prisons)
5. Eliminate income taxation of senior citizens’ out-of-state pensions
(age 65 and older)
6. Eliminate income taxation of senior citizens’ income for those
age 65 and older with incomes below $100,000 (single) and
$200,000 (married couples)
7. Develop a state-run program to assist senior citizens on Medicare
with payment towards the new $2,000 cap for medicines
8. Accelerate PERA full-funding timeline and make year-to-year
full actuarial funding a Constitutional requirement
9. Lower the cost of automobile and truck registration and taxation
10. Lower the cost of automobile insurance
11. Lower the cost of home insurance
12. Increase educational opportunities and incentives for people
who choose building trades and blue-collar professions as their
careers
13. Development of a 10-mile wide, reduced-tax agricultural technology
enterprise zone running along I-70 from E-470 to Limon
14. Redevelop Front Range Airport in Watkins to serve that agricultural
enterprise zone and other rapid manufacturing to shipping
commercial customers
15. Develop at least 12 new major reservoirs throughout Colorado
16. Develop, in conjuction with the Federal government, three new
East-West highways to relieve congestion on I-70
17. Build and staff a consolidated government center (Federal, state
and east region) on the Eastern Plains so citizens who live out there
do not have to travel all the way to Denver to conduct business
18. Enhance current nation-leading protection for voting and voting
rights and ensure every citizen is registered to vote and every
citizen’s vote is counted