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RESOLUTION NO. '-If
SERIES OF 1995
A RESOLUTION APPROVING EXPENDITURES TO BE FUNDED FROM THE ASPEN
PARKS & OPEN SPACE FUND
WHEREAS, the Aspen City Council, the Pitkin County Board of County Commissioners
and the Town Council of Snowmass Village (the "Parties") have previously identified general
elements of their Comprehensive Valley Transportation Plan (the "Plan") which are eligible for
funding from the Pitkin County one-half cent transit sales and use tax; and
WHEREAS, by intergovernmental agreement dated September 14, 1993, the Parties
agreed:
a. to conduct regular public meetings to continue to refine and agree upon
proposed projects and transportation elements consistent with or complimentary
to the Plan; and
b. that all expenditures and projects to be funded from the County,wide one-
half cent transit sales and use tax shall be agreed upon by the Parties and
evidenced by a resolution adopted by the governing body of each party; and
WHEREAS, in November of 1993 Pitkin County voters authorized the issuance of ,up
to $13,650,000 of revenue bonds for the purpose of improving the public mass transportation
system in the Roaring Fork Valley (the "Revenue Bond Authorization") if such improvements
are authorized by agreement between the Parties; and
WHEREAS, at a public meeting held in the Aspen City Council Chambers on July 13,
1995, the Parties considered and approved several projects to be funded in 1995 from the Pitkin
County one-half cent transit sales and use tax and approved a request for supplemental funding
for the Maroon Creek Pedestrian/Bicycle Bridge from the three upper,valley jurisdictions; and
WHEREAS, the Pitkin County Attorney has determined that funding from the one,half
transit sales tax originally approved for the Maroon Creek Pedestrian Bridge is not allowed
under State authorizing legislation; and
WHEREAS, the City of Aspen has available funds in the Parks & Open Space Fund; and
WHEREAS, the City of Aspen wishes to ratify the approvals given at the July 13
meeting by adoption of this resolution.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Counci1.of the City of Aspen,
Colorado, that the following expenditures are hereby approved from the City of Aspen Parks &
Open Space Fund:
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$150,000 to be used in the construction of the Maroon Creek Pedestrian/Bicycle
Bridge.
RESOLVED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 24th day of July, 1995, by the City
Council for the City of Aspen, Colorado,
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John S. Bennett, Mayor ,
I, Kathryn S. Koch, duly appointed and acting City Clerk do certify that the foregoing
is a true and accurate copy of that resolution adopted by the City Council of the City of Aspen,
Colorado, at a meeting held July 24, 1995.
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