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Budget ready to be passed
The town’s 2013 budget is ready for adoption. The council set the necessary resolutions and ordinances for a public hearing on December 3.
Skip speak
Former councilperson and Nordic Council representative Skip Berkshire came before the Town Council to tell them they are doing a wonderful job. Berkshire reported the Nordic Council “appreciated the relationship between the staff, the Nordic Council and the town. We want to thank you for everything and sometime down the road talk to you before the next budget cycle about the Town Ranch Trails again and how we can work better together.
“I don’t want to beat a dead horse…but no horse is so dead it can’t be beat. But not tonight,” Berkshire said in typical Skip fashion. “We’ll do that later. But thanks for all the good work you do.”
Raise for the council
Council will consider upping the pay for future councils. Currently, council members make a whopping $3,600 per year. Under the new plan to be considered at a public hearing on Monday, December 3, new council members would get $4,800 and the next mayor will get $9,600.
We want another Pro Challenge
Mayor Aaron Huckstep informed the council that local leaders put in an application to host another stage of the USA Pro Challenge bike race next summer. The two-year-old race has come to the north end of the valley for both years. It brings a dash of Euro excitement to the town in August and both Crested Butte and Mt. Crested Butte actively lobby to be a host city. Both municipalities have budgeted about $25,000 to pay for the privilege.
RETT
The council instructed town attorney John Belkin to continue tweaking the town Real Estate Transfer Tax to allow some exemptions dealing with foreclosure issues and close some loopholes in the process. Council will hold a public hearing on the suggested changes in December.
Mickey Cooper day?
Nah. No one from the town staff suggested such a day, after the former mayor wrote a letter to the paper last week implying town staff made too much money.
