Denver voters will decide whether the city can take on new debt to pay for projects like a new park at the former Park Hill Golf Course, improvements to Red Rocks Amphitheatre and various road repairs after the City Council approved the ballot questions during a meeting Monday.

The five bond questions, which will appear on the November ballot, would allow the city to take out $950 million in general obligation bonds, which officials would then pay back through property taxes. The debt would finance about 60 capital projects.

Despite weeks of negotiations and frustration among council members, they approved the package, called the “Vibrant Bond,” nearly unanimously. That comes despite complaints that Mayor Mike Johnston’s administration, which announced the bond in February, rushed the

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