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HomeMy WebLinkAboutcclc.min.04062005COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES OF APRIL 6~ 2005 Chair-person Bill Dinsmoor called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m. Commissioners in attendance: Mark Goodman, Terry Butler, Shae' Singer, Stan Hajenga, Don Sheeley and John Stax. Excused was Marc Breslin. Jannette Murison, Environmental Health Department. The City Council has requested a recycling ordinance. Jannette handed out a copy and requested comments or concerns from the board. The two major components are volume based trash which will be in the residential area. You pay for one container and more for each additional container. The second component is that recycling will be included in the base rate service for trash. Bill said if he hauls his own trash he shouldn't be billed. Shae' inquired about recycling bins. Jannette said waste haulers will supply bins. Council wants to focus on card board etc. from the businesses. There are a lot of resources that are going to the landfill. Council wants recycling and waste reduction measures and compost etc. The landfill will close in 15 years and when that happens, our rates will sky rocket. Mark asked what the increase would be. Bill said it is free market and the price will be different for each hauler. Bill requested a copy of the memo that went to council. Terry said her concern is if we have an extra picket that it doesn't come at 6:00 a.m. or in the middle of the night. It should come after 8:00 a.m. or sometime during the day. Terry said there is a rumor around town that all the trash goes to the same place anyway and recycling is not worth it. Jeannette said they talked to 100 people in the core area. Shae' suggested that the haulers slip an information sheet in their monthly bills to get the word out. Valet parking. Bill said an article was in the paper that the City might take over valet parking. Since that article he has had numerous phone calls. COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES OF APRIL 6~ 2005 Tim Ware, parking supervisor stated that he was asked to put together an operating plan, budget revenue formula and forecast if the city were to run a valet parking service vs contracting it out. The report also had us running it during the day in additional locations. Tim said if the parking dept. took this on he would need to hire more employees. If he took it over it would be run appropriately. Andrew said the valet service during the day would capture the visitor driving around the Wheeler. Bill said numerous people feel the valet service is an inappropriate service to offer. Stan said he would like to see the valet contract and review it. Don said he doesn't like the valet program at all. It is something that we are showing the world, here is elite Aspen and they throw down their money. A lot of people do not want to pay the $20. It gives the City of Aspen a bad name. Andrew said one doesn't have to spend the $20. We are a Tourist economy. Tourist like the service of dropping off their car. Don said the solution would be a parking garage under Wagner Park. It would be simple to use and get too. Shae' said the valet parking in front of the Caribou is self serving and it is a bad location. Possibly the City could have a drop off situation to the parking garage and you pick up your car by the shuttle. The City could have a shuttle. John said the existing valet is operated poorly. They must go. Maybe we should call it another name instead of valet parking. It is a needed amenity in town and he strongly feels a proposal should be drawn up. The parking department is good at making money. Alternate spaces are also a great idea. Give us something concrete to get the CCLC behind it and then go to city council. COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES OF APRIL 6, 2005 Terry said our town desperately needs parking under Wagner Park but until we get it our biggest problem in town is parking. She would offer to have valet parking in front of her hotel if she could. Possibly call it community parking on wheels. If we identified a few spots people would use it. Mark said people with heels do not want to walk around town. He also agreed with Don that the ultimate solution is a parking garage under Wagner Park. Shae' said the catalyst team brought this up and one issue is making it affordable for local people. Andrew pointed out the valet parking in the winter is completely different than the summer. Before we remove it completely you need to remember that people are used to it and they know where to go. During the daytime we need to eliminate all the circular driving around town. Bill said several people expressed a similar solution as Don did. The price has to be affordable for all. We have talked about extending paid parking for years. That alone would make a profound difference in this driving around situation around town. Don said if this valet service is going to occur on a trial basis it should occur several places throughout town. JoAnn Walpole applied and was denied because we were trying to limit the amount of jewelry vendors and even out the different categories. JoAnn said she didn't realize that her photographs would play such a heavy part. She has been part of the crafts for 3 years. She makes jewelry and her profession is not photography. She though everyone knew her work. Bill said Julie Irving's fabric was imported from Indonesia and then hemmed or bordered. The decision was that this represents more of an import and not so much artistic. Julie Irving said her fabric comes in pieces and she cuts and sews all the pieces and it is difficult to cut and get a professional finish on them. She shared a booth with two other vendors. 3 COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES OF APRIL 6~ 2005 She found that the women purchasing the scarfs wanted to wear them as skirts also. Terry asked if anyone else in town was selling her product. Julie said no she just sells through the farmers market. Shae' says she sells something very similar in her store. Andrew said he feels the board should have looked at the tax returns in determining who would be accepted. Allegheny said seven of us worked out what the criteria would be for the market. The highest level is people working with raw materials and who are making something totally unique. We were told that the quality of the market need to be raised, not the tax base but the quality of the product. Shae' said the process is done. Allegheny said we looked at different criteria such as hand painted silk and Julie's product dos not have the handmade look. Terry said when you have a group that makes the booth work we should have thought about that. Stan said he wants to know how many booths we have and what is open. Andrew said we left 30 feet open in front of the park and as soon as you close that area to the park you kill the use of the park. The board reviewed the additional rotational applicants. JoAnn and Julie were accepted into the market and will be in with existing booths. The marble sculpture is accepted if room. Meeting adjourned at 10:30 a.m. Kathleen J. Strickland, Chief Deputy Clerk