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RESOLUTION NO. ~
SERIES OF 1999
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ASPEN, COLORADO,
APPROVING A 1999 SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET EXPENSE ITEM FROM THE PITKIN
COUNTY 1/2 CENT TRANSIT SALES AND USE TAX 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
WlIEREAS, 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 on August 10, 1999, the Parties considered and
approved supplemental funding in an amount not to exceed $40,000 for additional RFTA backup
service as needed for construction mitigation to help keep buses on schedule from the midpoint to
the end of their routes; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to voter approval the use tax had to be used first for the acquisition
of the rail right-of-way and then for other transit projects; and
WHEREAS, the Parties desire to approve the attached 1999 supplemental budget item
with the understanding that upon the successful acquisition of the rail right-of-way in 1997, the
one-half cent use tax revenues became available for other transit projects on an equal footing
with projects funded by the one-half cent sales tax revenues; and
WHEREAS, the City of Aspen wishes to ratify the approvals given at the August 10,
1999 meeting by adoption of this resolution.
('"-< NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Aspen,
Colorado, that the following 1999 one-half cent transit sales and use tax expenditure budget item
is hereby approved.
1/2% Transit Sales and Use Tax
Supplemental Expenditure 1999
RFT A Backup Bus Service
$40,000
RESOLVED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 13th day of September 1999, by the
City Council for the City of Aspen, Colorado.
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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 September 13, 1999.
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Kathryn S. ch, City Clerk
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