HomeMy WebLinkAboutresolution.council.135-25RESOLUTION NO. 135
(SERIES OF 2025)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ASPEN,
COLORADO SETTING THE 2025 MUNICIPAL MILL LEVY RATES AND
CERTIFYING SAME TO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR
PITKIN COUNTY.
WHEREAS, the City Manager, designated by Charter to prepare the budget, has
prepared and submitted to the Mayor and City Council the Annual Budget for the City of
Aspen, Colorado for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2026 and ending December 31,
2026; and
WHEREAS, the net assessed valuation of the taxable property for the year 2025
in the City of Aspen returned by the County Assessor of Pitkin County was certified on
November 29, 2025, is the sum of $2,837,242,7906 and
WHEREAS, the net assessed valuation of taxable property in Aspen decreased
approximately -3.2% between 2024 and 2025 assessment years; and
WHEREAS, under section 9.9 of its Home Rule Charter, the City of Aspen shall
constitute a levy of the property taxes incorporated into its adopted budgets and
WHEREAS, a general purpose mill levy has been established at an amount not to
exceed 5.410 mills, and is calculated to produce gross ad valorem tax proceeds in the
amount of $15,349,483 for collection year 2026; based upon the assessed valuation as
determined by the County Assessor, and
WHEREAS, a temporary reduction in general property tax collections is desired
by the City Council in order to reduce the tax burden on owners of taxable property within
the City of Aspen while preserving the City's ability to increase property taxes to levels
previously authorized by City of Aspen voters as described above, and
WHEREAS, C.R.S. section 39-1-111.5 authorizes a local government to certify a
refund in the form of a temporary property tax credit or a temporary mill levy rate
reduction, provided that the certification includes the gross mill levy, the temporary
property tax credit or temporary mill levy rate reduction expressed in mill levy equivalents,
and the net mill levy and under C.R.S. section 3 9-1-111.5(4), the Assessor shall, concurrent
with delivery of tax warrants to the Treasurer, itemize duly certified temporary property
tax credits or temporary mill levy rate reductions in the manner set forth in C.R.S. section
3 94411.5 (2), and under C.R.S. section 3 9-1-111.5 (5) the tax statements shall indicate by
footnote which local government mill levies reflect a temporary property tax credit or
temporary mill levy rate reduction for the purpose of effecting a refund, and
WHEREAS, voter approval on November 6, 2007 established the separate City's
Stormwater Fund mill levy rate at an amount not to exceed 0.650 mils upon each dollar of
assessed valuation on all taxable property within the City annually with no date of
expiration, permitting collection of property tax revenues in excess of the mill levy
limitation provided in Article X, Section 20 or the Colorado Constitution for property tax
collection in all future years beginning in 2008, and
WHEREAS, said mill levy rate is calculated to produce gross ad valorem tax proceeds in
the amount of $1,844,208 for collection year 2026; based upon the net assessed valuation
of the City of Aspen as determined by the County Assessor.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ASPEN, Colorado hereby approves and adopts the following:
SECTION 1
For the purpose of balancing the 2026 budget, and providing a reasonable closing
fund balance for said fiscal year, levies the following taxes upon each dollar of the total
valuation for assessment of all taxable property within the City of Aspen for the year 20250,
that a temporary mill levy rate reduction is authorized; and that the individual mill levies
are expressed in terms of the gross mill levy, the temporary mill levy rate reduction shown
in mill levy equivalents, and the net mill levy as shown below, which includes a temporary
credit of 1.770 mills for the General Purpose mill levy:
2025 Tax Rate
General Property Tax 5.410
Stormwater Fund 0.650
Total 6.060
General Fund
g
Asset Manaement Fund
Total General Mill Levy
Total Stormwater Mill Levy
2025 Assessed
Valuation
$21837,242,790
$218371242,790
$2,837,242,790
2025
Temporary
Credit
1.770
0.000
1.770
.Updated Mill
LevML Rate
1.820
1.820
2025 Mill
Levy Rate
3.640
0.650
4.290
2025
Property Tax
$5,163,782
$5,163,782
3.640 $104?3270,564
0.650 $1,844,208
Refund/Abatements $2,837,242,790 0.045 $127,676
Total 2026 Property Tax 4.335 $12,299,447
SECTION 2
The City is hereby directed to certify and deliver this Resolution to the Board of
County Commissioners for Pitkin County on or before December 15, 2025.
ADOPTED THIS 2"d day of December 2025,
Rachael Richards, Mayor
I, Nicole Henning, duly appointed and acting City Clerk of the City of Aspen, Colorado,
do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the Resolution adopted by
the City Council at its meeting held on December 2, 2025, which Resolution was adopted
subsequent to public hearings on the City of Aspen's 2026 Municipal Budget and prior to
the final day established by law for the certification of the tax levy to Pitkin County, all
was required by the Sections 9.8 and 9.9 of the Aspen Home Rule Charter.
Nicole Henning, City