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HomeMy WebLinkAboutminutes.council.19820614Regular Meeting Aspen City Council June 14, 1982 Mayor Edel called the meeting to order at 4:15 p.m. with Commissioners Klanderud, Madsen, Blake, Kinsley and Child and Councilmembers Parry, Michael and Knecht present. 1. Animal Control Contract. Li~Russell explained the cOntract is basically the same as past years. Madsen said it appeared that the city is getting more time from the animal control officers. Ms. Russell said originally is was a 50/50 split; when they were cut one person, they were told to respond to complaints rather than patrolling in the county. They still patrol routinely; however, they don't spend as much time in the county. Commissioner Child moved to approve the animal control contract; seconded by Councilman Knecht. Ail in favor, motion carried. 2. Environmental Health Contract. Tom Dunlop told the Boards his contract is also basic- ally the same. Dunlop has updated the performance requirements. Dunlop told the Boards he had attended a meeting an Denver with the Colorado Health Department to deal with the issue of Giardia, which is a parasitic organism endemic to all mountain streams in:~he Rocky Mountain region, among others. This conference was to discuss standards and treatments. Dunlop said there were some unflattering remarks about coming to a ski area in Colorado and going home with Giardia. Dunlop told the Boards that some antiquated statistics were used. City Manager Chapman reported part of the water managemen~ plan is to rebuild the filter beds; these will be of higher speed and have a better potential for screening out giardia cysts. Commissioner Kinsley suggested identifying who said what things and speak to them through their agencles. Kinsley said a letter should be drafted to these people and agencies for signed by Ms. Klanderud and Mayor Edel. Councilwoman Michael moved to approve the joint agreement between Pitkin County and the City of Aspen for environmental health; seconded by Councilman Parry. All in favor, motion carried. 3. Communications contract. Jim Fitzgerald, communications director, told the Boards teh agreement is the same as last year except that Snowmass is contributing 12 per cent instead of 8 per cent. Commissioner Blake moved to approve the communications contract; seconded by Councilman Knecht. All in favor, motion carried. 4. Building Department contract. Patsy Newbury suggested changes from last year's contract contract; deleting reference to Clayton Meyring, adding a zonin? enforcement office, and collecting PIFs and park dedication fees for the city is a duplication. Ms. Newbury said that part is best handled by the city finance department. Councilwoman Michael moved to table the building department contract pending a re-write of the contract including the recommendations in Patsy Newbury's memorandum; seconded by Commissioner Blake. All in favor, motion carried. 5. PCPA Jogger Trail to Difficult. Raymond Auger said the the PCPA has allocated $30,000 for the creation of a trail going to Difficult campground. PCPA requested participation by the city in financing and management. There was a high estimate of costs from the engineering department based on a communications misunderstanding. The estimate is now $15,000; the quote is about $9,000 for what they want to do. The $30,000 seems adequate for 2.2 miles. There was a trail laid out by Henry Thurston; this will be a running trail within the right-of-way for highway 82. Except for the North Star property, Auger said he knew where the trail will be. Auger request a contribution from the city towards the costs of matching the PCPA fund. They are asking the county's participation in management of the trail and for permission to go through the NOrth Star ranch. The county is not in a financial position to give a cash contribution. Auger said they would like this trail to become part of the public trail system and to be maintained. Curt Stewart, county manager, said the county does have the staff to oversee the construction of the trail. Stewart is proposing that the engineers meet with Auger and report to the BOCC how much time the trail will take. Councilman Knecht pointed out he would rather spend the money and get a bike trail. Council- man Parry said he would like to see this trail progress. Councilwoman Michael agreed. Mayor Edel told Auger that PCPA has approval of $15,000 at the maximum with no other costs jumped in. The county has agreed to help with overseeing. Councilwoman Michael said the $15,000 is a cash contribution with no in-kind from the city. JAIL PRESENTATION Curt Stewart, county manager, told Council that the county is trying to build a new jail. The present one is too small to meet current demands; the department of health limits who can be housed - five males on a thirty day maximum; no women or ~uveniles can be kept in the facility. The current jail was constructed in the 1890's and cannot meet the existing jail standards. Right now prisoners are being transported to other facilities, many of these have the same problems as Pitkin County. There are costs involved in this, there are liabilities involved. Stewart told Council what is being built has been determined by the jail advisory committee, a citizens group who made recommendation to the BOCC. Their recommendation was 25 cells with segregation and classification capabilities; an exercise area; day rooms, storage, office for the administrator; the dispatchers and communications center be included. They also recommended the jail be built behind the courthouse. The building will have a 10,000 square foot footprint and be 16,700 square fee~ in total. The cost estimate is $2,400,000. The county is planning to fund $1,800,000 through a general obligation bond and cash ou~ $600-,000 from existing revenues. Gary Ross, architect, went over the site plan and where the various buildings will be located. The jail is planned not to use multiple levels because that expands the number of staff persons needed; one level is more efficient. There are sixteen exterior parking spaces and six spaces inside the building. Ross went through the jail set up and told Council there are only two offices in the building; one for the jail administrator and one for the communications director. The exterior will be brick and be harmonious with the courthouse. Rob McClung asked where the decision was made to put the communications center into the jail. Ross said the directive came from the county and from the jail advisory board. McClung said his opposition is that the dispatch will turn into security for the jail. Sheriff Kienast said this was done for staff savings. Ross said by having master control and communications in the same building, they can act as back up for each other when necessary. McClunb said this would necessitate the police department having to man a records center, if the communications center leaves. Chapman pointed out there is one full time records person right now. The communications board can work out a plan for the two departments. COUNCIL MEETING ACCOUNTS PAYABLE Councilman Collins moved to approve the accounts payable; seconded by Councilman Knecht. All in favor, motion carried. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION 1. Valerie Burns, representing the Aspen Theatre company, requests permission to park a jeep in the mall. This jeep is going to be raffled off. City Manager Chapman told Ms. Burns she could get a mall permit from the city clerk's office. Council has no problem with the jeep being parked there. COUNCILMEMBER COMMENTS 1. Councilman Parry requested that Council send something to Tom Isaac. Mayor Edel requested the staff to pick out something Isaac would like. 2. Councilman Parry said people had complained to him about no flag flying over city hall over Memorial day weekend. City Manager Chapman said he was not sure what happened and Mayor Edel asked Chapman to resolve this. 3. Councilman Parry commended Jim Holland, parks director, for the nice job done on the park by Cemetery Lane. 4. Councilwoman Michael said she had been stopped by people mentioning that Rubey Park needs to be watered. 5. Councilman Knecht moved to add a planning discussion to the agenda; seconded by Council man Collins. All in favor, motion carried. 6. Councilman Collins told Council he had received a letter from Bill Jamison regarding the sculpture work in the mall. Councilman Collins said he would like to contact Jamison and follow up on some of the things he outlined and report back to Council. 7. Councilman Collins said he felt the literature regarding the ballot issue on the Cap's/perfOrming arts center was misleading that the land trade could be accomplished at no additional cost to the taxpayers. This is a contribution of property which belongs to the taypayers. Mayor Edel said it would be worth Council seeing these mailers before they go out. 8. Mayor Edel said he thought that Olof Hedstrom, past-chairman of P & Z, was going to serve longer and that his passing was somewhat unnoticed. Mayor Edel said the entire Council is indebted to Hedstrom for his work. Mayor Edel said Council will miss Hedstrom and is soory he resigned. Councilwoman Michael said she was impressed with Hedstrom's ability ~o run meetings. Council gave Hedstrom a book on Aspen. 'Hedstrom said he was very moved and touched by Council's expression of appreciation and kind words. 9. Mayor Edel referred to City Manager Chapman a letter from Tom Wells requesting consid- eration regarding the parking lot at the Rio Grande. Council will have 5o start thinking about this in more concrete terms. 10. Mayor Edel read a letter from the All Citizens Action Committee requesting that if the sale of Castle Ridge passes that a committee be established by Council consisting of Councilmembers, employees, employers, private sector and businesses to evaluate the sale of Castle Ridge to local employers. Councilman Collins moved to add the Castle Ridge task force to the agenda; seconded by Councilman Parry. All in f.avor, motion carried. Councilwoman Michael moved to add the support of jail resolution to the agenda; seconded by Councilman Parry. All in favor, motion carried. CoUncilwoman Michael moved to add to the agenda naming of a lending institution for borrowing $1,850,000; seconded by Councilman Collins. All in favor, motion carried. EXEMPTION FROM COMMERCIAL GMP - Aspen Ski Patrol/Storage Addition Alice Davis, planning office, told Council this is a request for an exemption from GMP. Last year Council passed an ordinance which allows commercial expansions 500 square feet or less. This addition Ks between 250 and 500 square feet to increase a crawl space to a full basement which will be used 10D per cent for storage. The review criteria for this exemption are how many more employees will be generated. There will be none generatec by this expansion. Parking concerns are another; none will be needed for this storage space. The visual impact will be minimal. Ms. Davis told Council the planning office as well as P & Z recommends approval with conditions. Councilman Knecht moved to approve the request for exemption from GMP for a 433 square foo expansion to the Lift lA terminal subject to the following conditions; (1) the 433 square foot expansion must be constructed with material which match the existing building; (2) the applicant must be responsible for the relocation of the existing phone lines and any other utilities which may be in conflict with the proposed expansion; (3) the expansion must not encroach further on the traditional access provided by the skier right-of-way; seconded by Councilman Collins. All in favor, motion carried. SUBDIVISION EXCEPTION Grace Paul Colette Penne, planning office, passed out plat maps and told Council this is a new duplex at 1415 Sierra Vista drive. It is in the R-15 zone. The owner has committed to do the conditions in the memorandum. Councilman Collins moved to approve Subdivision exception for the purpose of condominiumiz tion of the Grace Paul duplex at 1415 Sierra Vista with the following conditions; (1) that the requirements of Sec. 20-22 be met and committed to through the executive of the statement of subdivision exception and the declaraction' of covenants, restrictions and conditions; (2) the five plat amendments listed in the engineering department memo be made prior to recordation of the final plat; seconded by Councilman Knecht. All in favor, motion carried. ASSIGNMENT OF WOODSTONE INN CONDOMINIUMIZATION APPROVAL John Plat told Council that RHD is a wholy-owned subsidiary of Vilcor which was used to acquire the Woodstone. Spence Schiffer, representing Vilcor, told Council they wanted an assignment of condominiumization approval which Council previously approved to Hans Cantrup and Soderling. That transaction did not go through and the contract was termina- ted. Schiffer prepared the necessary documents for the assignment of any and all rights Cantrup had in the approval to RHD. RHD will be taking over that approval subject to the condtions of that approval. City Attorney Taddune told Council that the new owners have agreed to abide by all the conditions imposed by Soderling. Schiffer told Council the conditions in the agreement come verbatin from the minutes of May 11, 1981. Taddune told Council the planning office has reviewed this and he has compared the agreements and they are identical. Councilman Parry moved to consent to the assignment of the condominiumization exception approval for the Woodstone Inn from Hans and June Cantrup to Resort Hotel Development, Inc. and to authorize the Mayor to execute the City's consent on the assignment document, if the document is approved as to form by the city attorney including the lease documents that have been given to the city attorney for 23 parking space and 3 employee units; seconded by Councilman Knecht. All in favor, motion carried. RESOLUTION #17, SERIES OF 1932 Benedict Annexation Jim Moran was present representing the applicant. City Attorney Taddune told Council his office has reviewed the application and finds it acceptable as to form. Taddune told Council that Moran has agreed, as a formality, to tender to the city any water rights attendant with the property. Moran showed Council a map and the locations. Moran told Council all the Callahan subdivision is in the city except lot 11. Moran told Council whel Callahan was annexed, the water rights 'from the Nellie Byrd ditch that were attributable to this land were conveyed to the city as well as some water rights on Red Mountain. Taddune told Council that the PUD for this that is approved doesn not encompass the land that will be annexed. If this land is annexed, there will have to be an amendment to the existing PUD. Moran said people have looked at lot 11 and asked about the property between lot 11 and the river. People would prefer not to have anything built there. Benedict placed a covenant on this land so that nothing could be built there and recorded it. Moran said then people wanted as part of their lot to own the land all the way to the river. In order to make lot 11 more attractive, this is an attempt to attach that portion to lot 11. Moran said he felt the size of the building on lot 11 should be based on the combined lots The city has just finished an ordinance saying the appropriate size of a building is the function of the lot size. Alice Davis, planning office, has addressed three considerations that would be more appropriately addressed at the rezoning stage; the zoning and whether a mandatory PUD should be put on the property; the floor area ratio - whether this should include the second lot or not; whether this annexation is taking lot 11 out of the Callahan subdivisiol or adding this lot to it. Using just lot 11, the building would be about 4900 square feet; using both lots, the building would be 6400 square feet. Councilman Parry moved to approve Resolution #17, Series of 1982; seconded by Councilman Knecht. All in favor, motion carried. GOLF COURSE PRO SHOP Jim Holland, parks director, put up a rough site plan for the pro shop with exterior renderings and interior floor plans. The interior of the pro shop will cost $68,000. Chapman said the money will come out of the land fund because the lease revenue from the Plum Tree goes into that fund. Councilwoman Michael moved to authorize staff to proceed with the selection of contractors for the purpose of completing the interior of the new golf pro shop; seconded by Council- man Knecht. Holland said he felt this was going to be a nice building. Councilman Parry asked about the showers. Holland said these have been taken 'out after talking to the men's and women'~ golf associations, who did not feel there would be a 'demand for showers. Holland said if there is a big demand, these may be set up under the Red Roof Inns. The pro shop will be 2500 square feet at 1250 each floor. All in favor, motion carried. ANNUAL REPORT ON CASTLE RIDGE APARTMENTS Ron Kinnell, manager, told Council his management costs were lower than what the city has anticipated. City Manager Chapman said the county housing director and the prospective buyer for the Castle Ridge have looked at the operating costs. Mayor Edel asked why the discrepancy in the snow removal. Kinnell said the city originally said they would cover the cost of removing the snow in the parking lot area; Kinnell's costs were for snow shovelling. The street department could not get their trucks through there, so Kinnell got a bid on this and had Council approve this expenditure. Mayor Edel asked about building B. Chapman said there is some settling in the fill. The staff is looking at what needs to be done and who is liable, what is the problem and the solution. APPLICATION FOR A THREE-WAY LIQUOR LICENSE Coteaux Ltd. d/b/a Charlemagne Mayor Edel opened the public hearing. City Clerk Koch reported the files, posting and publication were in order. Jeffrey Sachs told Council this is an application for a three- way liquor license. Howard Gunther told Council this will be a country French type restaurant with a full liquor license and outside dining. Councilwoman Michael stepped down due to a conflict of interest. Councilman Parry moved that based on the evidence presented at the public hearing held June 14, 1982, relating to the application of Coteaux, Ltd., for a three-way liquor license, the City Council finds that the needs of the community have not been met and the license as applied for is hereby granted; seconded by Councilman Collins. Peter Alder, resident for 12 years, stated he thinks Howard Gunther could do an excellent job; however, this appears to be a reorganization of Galena Street Corporation with new money but under the operation of Ronnie Morrison. Alder said he had a list of 29 employee with past salaries due 'in excess of $14,000 which Morrison has not taken care of. Alder said there is a man in t.he community that does not seem to have any respect for employees wages. Mayor Edel asked what the involvement of Morrison is. Gunther answered that Morrison is an employee of his; he has no stock in the corporation but may purchase some at a later date. Gunther said Morrison is being hired to put together a restaurant for him. What happened with Galena Street Corporation had nothing to do with Gunther. Gunther is coming to Council for a liquor license for himself. Gunther told Council he was at Andre's for over a year and paid all employees at all times. Jeffrey Sachs told Council that there are a lot of problems with the Galena Street Corporation owner, who is going into bankruptcy, this is Morrison's ex-partner. Mayor Edel said the Council totally empathisezes with the employees. This is a new set of circumstances; the Council cannot impugne on the new owner. Mayor Edel closed the public hearing. All in favor, motion carried. COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES REQUEST Sherre Sonfield, reminded Council that in February staff recommended to review this request for $3500 at a later date. The funding by the state has run out. Ms. Sonfield recommended waiting for review until the July 26 agenda when other secondary budgets will be reviewed. Ann Knowlton told Council they had asked the city and county each for $24,900. The city cut their contribution to $21,400; the county gave the CHS their full request. Ms. Knowlton requested the Council reinstate what they cut, the $3500, to get them through the year. Ms. Knowlton said the CHS asked the city and county for the small- est amount possible. Councilman Collins said he felt this program is an important one to the community. Counci man Collins said he would like to see support continue for the rest of this year; it is important that communicable diseases be kept at a minimum. Councilman Collins said he would not like to compromise Aspen's status as a tourist town. Councilman Collins moved that Council approve the request by the Community Health Services for an additional $3500 specifically to be used to implement the V.D. clinic; seconded by Councilman Parry. Environmental Health officer Tom Dunlop urged Council ~ ~ss this; his department and Ms. Knowlton's interact. Dunlop said the state has reduced his contract 8.4 per cent and the services Ms. Knowlton are providing are vital. All in favor, motion carried. ORDINANCE ~25, SERIES OF 1982 - Borrowing for Golf Course Improvements Councilwoman Michael moved to read Ordinance ~25, Series of 1982; seconded by Councilman Collins. All in favor, motion carried. ORDINANCE #25 (Series of 1982) AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THE BORROWING OF UP TO $90,000 PAYABLE OVER A PERIOD OF NOT MORE THAN FIVE YEARS AND APPROPRIATING SUCH FUNDS FOR GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS TO THE GOLF COURSE was read by the. city clerk Councilman Parry moved to adopt Ordinance ~25, Series of 1982, on first reading; seconded by Councilman Collins. Roll call vote; Councilmembers Michael, aye; Parry, aye; Collins, aye; Mayor Edel, aye. Motion carried. BUDGET POLICY City Manager Chapman told Council the city is trying to follow the major points of the five year financial plan and show Council how the 1983 budget policy would react to that. Mayor Edel said he is concerned about the budge projects this year as well as next. These could be touch years having nothing to do with Aspen as a resort but with the national economy and Aspen should be prepared for some touch cuts. Chapman said the staff has gone back historiCally and looked at the trned of the city's 2 per cent sales tax which can be quite different from the county's two per cent. The staff has adjusted the city's share to be more realistic. This results in a downward revision of a growth rate from 8 per cent to 6 per cent. This implications for the city to maintain a healthy financial balance, the city has to keep the expenditures one per cent below the growth rate. For 1983 the expenditure growth rate will be adjusted down from 7 per cent to 5 per cent. Chapman said the CPI for Denver is going up at a 5.8 per cent annualized quarter; the nationalized CPI is much lower a .6 per cent. The staff is recommending the 1983 budget policy incorporate a 6 per cent growth rate in sales tax. The private sector is striving to keep prices the same as last year, which means for the city to increase sales tax, there will have to be an increase in volume. The growth rate in the sales tax has been primarily from inflation. Chapman said he felt the city could hit the 5 per cent expenditure rate; however, it will be hard for departments that are labor intensive. Chapman said the big item that needs to be addressed is the capital improvement program. There are a lot of capital improvements the Council needs to consider very seriously. The staff is recommending the property tax levy stay the same but recommend a property tax levy for general obligation bonds for ~ome of the basic improvements. The Council made some initial decisions in December and will see the ~five year capital budget next month. Lou Buettner, engineering department, told Council over the last five years, City employees have been biting the bullet pretty hard. At the present time, city wages are approximately 30 per cent behind the CPI in Denver, Any consideration the Council might be able to give to to wages to bring them in line and get more buying power for the employees within reason would be greatly appreciated by all the employees. Mayor Edel asked how we compared with Vail. Chapman said he thought Aspen was lower. Chapman told Council after going over the possibility with the employees that one cannot protect employees from inflation as well as give job security also, Chapman asked what the preference was. Chapman told Council it was fairly close, the slight majority going for job security. Chapman told Council the turn over rate has gone from 48 per cent to 13 per cent; the city is getting employees with longer range views. Chapman said if the city hits these targets, the employees will get a 7 per cent increase in wages; this may by the first year Aspen can provide any increase in buying if the inflation stays at 6 per cent. Chapman told Council the staff has implemented a one time salary distri- bution, which will come back to Council in July. This has not been done in the past because of sales tax has been lower than estimated. Councilwoman Michael moved to approve the budget policy for 1983; seconded by Councilman Collins. All in favor, motion carried. ORDINANCE ~24, SERIES OF 1982 - Jail Rezoning Colette Penne, planning office, told Council there have been minor changes since first reading. This ordinance rezones two parcels on the jail'isite; one from S/C/I to Public and one from SPA to Public to match the zoning of the present courthouse. The ordinance will also adopt an SPA of sorts, the area and bulk requirements for the site and the development plan for the site. This ordinance will give final plat approval to the subdivision exception process. City Attorney Taddune told Council this is a governmental facility and will be exemption from the growth management quota system. Section 1 gives conceptual approval for the plan for the jail facility on the site. Section 2 sets forth the area and builk requirements. Section 3 rezones the site to Public. Councilwoman Michael moved to adopt Ordinance #24, Series of 1982, as amended; seconded by Councilman Parry. Mayor Edel opened the public hearing. There were no comments. Mayor Edel closed the public hearing. Mayor Edel said part of this deal is the city buying the Oden property so that the county can buy the Bealmer property. City Attorney Taddune said he did not know the status of the land discussions. Dr. Oden has some enquiries on how the total deal will affect his tax status. Roll call vote; Councilmembers Knecht, aye; Parry, aye; Michael, aye; Mayor Edel, aye. Motion carried. RESOLUTION ~i~9, SERIES OF 1982 - Jail Support County Manager Curt Stewart has presented a resolution of support f~om the City Council for the bond issue to build the jail. Councilman Knecht moved to adopt Resolution #19, Series of 1982; seconded by Councilman Parry. All in favor, motion carried. CONSENT AGENDA Councilwoman Michael moved to approve items 2 and 3; Change of licensed premises, Galena Street East; and Temporary Judgeship to Perform Wedding, Resolution ~t8, Series of 1982: seconded by Councilman Parry. All in favor, motion carried. LIQUOR LICENSE RENEWAL . Takah Sushi Environmental Health officer Tom Dunlop requested Council conditionally approvel the renewal based upon complaince with the most recent inspections. Dunlop had discussions with the owner and manager last week; there were not many improvements made in the interim. Dunlop said he had asked a representative be here. City Attorney Taddune suggested Council postpone action until they are in compliance. Councilwoman Michael moved to table Takah Sushi renewal; seconded by Councilman Knecht. All in faVor, motion carried. TRAILS MONEY FOR HIGHWAY CLEANUP Councilman Knecht said the county is taking back over the trails program and the city has $40,000 budgeted for trails. Councilman Knecht met with the city manage and talked about getting somebody to clean up the highway entrance on a regular basis. Councilman Knecht said this would be about $8,000 per year. Councilman Knecht said he would like Council's approval to get this started. The county will take the highway from the airport to the dump; the city will clean from the airport on in. City Manager Chapman said the highway should probably be cleaned twice a week. Councilwoman Michael said she is concerned about the long term implications about the city picking up other people's responsibilities. Councilman Knecht pointed out this is taxpayer's money. The job is not getting done. Councilman Knecht said this will be shared with the county and he would like to get started before the summer is over. Mayor Edel suggested investigating spending money for the information building on highway 82 or flowers for around the city. Councilman Knecht said there is $40,000 the city is not spending for trails and he would like authorization of $8,000 to get the highway cleaned up for the rest of.the season. Councilwoman Michael said she did not have a problem doin¢ it this year; however, would like to discuss the implications of making this a yearly program. Councilwoman Michael moved to put the clean up item on the agenda; seconded by Councilman Parry. All in favor, motion carried. Councilman Collins asked what the city would be getting for $8;000. Chapman said the program will run from the end of April until November and be 16 to 20 hours a week. The big expense is a vehicle. Councilman Collins said he thought this is a good idea and a good beginning. Councilman Knecht moved to approve $8,000 for clean of of highway 82 for the rest of the year on Main to the end of the airport entrance; seconded by Councilman Collins. Councilwoman Michael requested a review this fall during budget time. Councilman Parry said he would like support to move the Chamber booth from Aspen Village to the Brush Creek turn off. This is a joint venture with the Chamber and SRA; they need funds to physically move the building and to get it hooked up. Mayor Edel suggested setting a meeting with all interested entities to get this going. Councilmembers Parry, Knecht and Mayor Edel said they would'meet with the Chamber and SRA. All in favor, motion carried. CITY BUS ROUTE ANALYSIS AND VAN EXPERIMENT AND TRANSPORTATION CONSOLIDATION Transportation Director, Duane Fengel, told Council this is a two part informational series. The first part, transportation 'consolidation group, Fengel told Council he is quite proud of the group; they have accomplished a lot. The goals of the committee were alimination of duplication of service; coordination of the bus service through all entities; decrease in the amount of buses on the road; advantages of combined purchasing; utilization of equipment; driver's pools, and economies of scale, and advantage of new and large maintenance facility. There are completed descriptions of each operation and all aspects.. Pengel told Council the School district cannot get out of the bus business and the city cannot relieve the School district from transporting children. Snowmass is caught in the middle as far as transportation goes; they are not sure what they want to do. There is little input from Highlands. Little Annie's no One knows what will happen to. This leaves the city and the county. Fengel said he needed input from the Council on the next step as he did not want to commit himself to designing a service without Council's input. Councilwoman Michael reported she had attended a committee meeting and had a list of questions from the committee which should be addressed by Council at a study session. Councilwoman Michael pointed out when the bus systems were started, there was more money and gas was cheaper. The philosophy of the bus system was convenience for the greatest number of people. One of the questions Council must face is whether to keep the conven- ience level of increase the budget of transportation. Councilwoman Michael said there could be reductions in mid-morning, mid-afternoon, evenin~ or weekends or at all of the non-peak times. Another is going from a four bus system in town to a three bus system. Would Council consider going to vans. A question from the committee is whether Council would consider using seventh penny monies in a consoli= dation effort for other than in town routes. The last is would Council consider fares on in -town buses of deleting the fare structure altogether. Mayor Edel suggested having these questions sent to Council and then setting up a study session. Councilwoman Michae2 said if the city and county are serious about consolidation, they will have to come up with some financing mechanism to achieve consolidation while protecting the separate interests. Council set the study session for Wednesday June 30th at noon. Duane Fengel told Council 8 years ago the city had a very lucrative system running 7 days a week at all hours. The routes were $50,000; now it costs $150,000 per route. Fengel said based on budget constraints, he is asking Council to consider letting him cut back on services in the fall. Fennel said he would like to put together an exercise of cut backs and experiment with the county van. Councilman Parry said he has always been in favor of vans. Councilman Collins agreed that vans are handier and quieter. Councilman Parry said he would love to try anything Fengel thinks will work. Councilwoman Michael said the operation figures are stunning and would welcome some specific cuts. Council agreed to consider Fengel's proposal for route cutbacks in the off season. CASTLE RIDGE TASK FORCE Mayor Edel read a letter from Bill Martin suggesting a task force to look at local employers and employees purchasing Castle Ridge. Mayor Edel said the city has a current offer which they have examined in great detail and have had much input on. Councilman Knecht said he was not interested. City Attorney Taddune said the proposals the city Regular Meeting Aspen City Council June 14, 1982 has received have been unsolicited and the Council has been advised not to solicit bids. Councilwoman Michael said she appreciated the feelings behind the proposal; however, people who have proposed buying Castle Ridge came to Council unsolicited and it is not fair or right to have a task force. Councilwoman Michael said if there is interest, they can come in and help negotiate the proposals. Taddune said the package is not signed, sealed and delivered. This will be done through ordinance and public hearings. Chapman said this process was done with much input from tax consultants; the county housing director said this is one of the strictest contracts he has seen. Two employees who are residents of Castle Ridge have sat in on some of the negotiating sessions. This contract got to this point through substantial public process including people who have experience and who are residents. There will still be substantial input. Council agreed not to establish a task force and to let anyone review the contracts. LENDING MOTION Councilman Parry moved to approve Central Bank of Denver as the approved lending institu- tion cited in Ordinance ~22, Series of 1982, with a quoted interest rate of 10.75 per cent; seconded by Councilwoman Michael. All in favor, motion carried. Councilman Parry moved to adjourn at 8:35 p.m.; seconded by Councilman Collins. All in favor, motion carried. 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