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REGULAR MEETING COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION NOVEMBER 7, 2018
Commissioner Bill Dinsmoor opened the meeting at 8:34 a.m.
Commissioners in attendance: Bill Dinsmoor, Terry Butler, Amanda Tanaka, Angi Wang, Jeb Ball. Absent
were: Charles Cunniffe, Kiki Raj and Steve Fante.
Staff present:
Nicole Henning, Deputy City Clerk
Mitch Osur, Parking Services Director
MOTION: Mr. Ball motioned to approve the October 17th minutes, Ms. Wang seconded. All in favor,
motion carried.
COMMISSIONER COMMENTS: Mr. Osur mentioned he ran into Toni Kronberg and she said people
weren’t voting for the Hopkins option due to their dislike for Mark Hunt. Obviously, option B won for
the Rio Grande space and people didn’t like that Mar. Hunt was selling the Hopkins building for 5 million
more than it was appraised for. Ms. Butler also heard rumblings about Mr. Hunt deterring people from
voting that way. Mr. Osur was surprised that RFTA won. Mr. Dinsmoor noted that Mr. Blankenship said
in his presentation that one electric bus would cost 1 million to 5 million. He was shocked by that
because it’s such a huge amount of money. Mr. Osur said we are the exact opposite of the rest of
Colorado as far as voting taxes in. We approved all of the tax hikes and they were denied everywhere
else. Mr. Blankenship thought the RFTA item would lose so I think everyone was surprised. RFTA has
had a huge impact on the entire valley. Mr. Osur mentioned the election date was changed and won by
a landslide. Mr. Dinsmoor said Aspen is obviously sick of Mick finally too and that it was a surprising
outcome. Patty Clapper won by double this time around and that was surprising too. Ms. Clapper can
make small talk and people just like her. Mr. Dinsmoor said that Rob Ittner attended a Woody Creek
caucus meeting and he was full of good ideas and was not shy at all. He made a great impression on
everyone. Mr. Osur said starting December 1st in Colorado, anything a retailer sends to someone within
the state, you have to pay that sales tax in the city and county. CCLC could have taken a role to get the
message out about this. Ms. Tanaka said this is heinous. Ms. Wang said it’s an accounting nightmare. If
Ms. Tanaka ships something to Boulder, she has to charge the taxes from Boulder and send the money
to them. There is 3.3 percent collector’s fee. Ms. Tanaka might have to get a business license in Boulder
for this to work and this came about because of a lawsuit. Someone sued Wayfare.com for not paying
taxes.
SATURDAY MARKET: Mr. Osur brought up customer complaints and the situation that happened with
the Pergande Art Gallery. He said a lady bought three paintings from the Pergande Art Gallery and at
the time, Rosalind had two in stock and not the third. She charged her 250.00 and told her she’d send
all three together, but the lady never received any of the paintings. Ms. Pergande claims she tried to
refund the money, but she couldn’t because her credit card is in dispute status. The lady thinks CCLC
should pay her the money. The board unanimously agreed that it is not for CCLC to get involved with
and that it needs to come from the Pergande Gallery.
SATURDAY MARKET VENDOR PROCESS: Ms. Henning informed the board about speaking to the mayor
alongside Jim True first about having council rule on the political booths and the second-tier spaces and
then Mr. True and Kathy Strickland will come to the first meeting in December, so we can revise the
application for 2019 and Ms. Strickland can get it posted on the web that next day.
REGULAR MEETING COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION NOVEMBER 7, 2018
Mr. Dinsmoor said the benefit of the non-qualified people with store fronts is that it’s business friendly.
Ms. Wang said if we got rid of that, it would be walking the line of making those businesses mad and we
don’t want to do that.
Mr. Dinsmoor felt that having Little Annie’s in the market added a lot of vitality. He said Clarks wants in
next year and thinks it will be great for the market.
Mr. Dinsmoor asked about expanding if we should lose the Hunt space. Mr. Osur said he spoke with Ms.
Strickland about that and she has no desire to do that. We can adjust vendors spaces to be smaller and
just make things a bit more compact.
Mr. Osur went on to discuss the scoring system for the vendors moving forward. He said he will bring an
example of their scoring system they used to rate the valet parking vendors and how they ended up
choosing a new vendor. Mr. Osur suggested using criteria such as, how unique the product is, package
presentation and completed application. Mr. Osur and Ms. Henning will come up with five categories
for this and will bring it to the next meeting.
Everyone agreed to have two full sessions for choosing the vendors this time. Last year we rushed
through it and we need to give more time to this especially now that we will be scoring each vendor.
Mr. Osur suggested that the score card will be part of the application, so they can see what they are
being scored on ahead of time, so no one can claim an unfair process.
Mr. Osur asked about feedback received on the newsletter and everyone agreed that it’s all positive.
Ms. Wang said 80 percent of people didn’t know we existed.
WINTER SEASON: Mr. Dinsmoor said the part of the winter marketing that Ski Co doesn’t do is to
market anything else other than skiing. There’s a big hole here. He said he would like to see the city
pony up with some marketing. He also said he would encourage new members of CCLC, moving
forward, to ask for a budget from council. He said the hole in our wintertime business plan is December
and that the Christkindlmarket market costs less to do than a bus.
Mr. Ball mentioned that Tom Yoder from Kemosabe wants to come to the 28th meeting and make a
presentation about something they are doing with their storefront.
MOTION: Mr. Dinsmoor motioned to adjourn, Ms. Wang seconded. All in favor, motion carried at 10:02
a.m.
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Nicole Henning, Deputy City Clerk