Get the portable power stationThe court specifically rejected the ballot summary’s claim that the amendment is “Ensuring funding for core services.” Cooper wrote that the amendment “does not ‘ensure’ funding” for public safety or other services. Instead, “by substantially reducing the local property tax base, the proposed amendment is likely to decrease the revenues available to local governments to fund core services.” “I support meaningful tax reform, but I do not support the property tax amendment as currently written,” McPartlan said. “Deciding whether the proposed amendment is a good idea or not is the exclusive domain of the voters,” Cooper wrote.