{"id":1319447,"date":"2020-04-14T20:34:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T02:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=995621"},"modified":"2020-04-15T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:17:23","slug":"glenwood-voters-approve-selling-moc-property-during-tuesday-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/glenwood-voters-approve-selling-moc-property-during-tuesday-special-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenwood voters approve selling MOC property during Tuesday special election"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/moc-gpi-041520-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/moc-gpi-041520-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/moc-gpi-041520-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/moc-gpi-041520-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/moc-gpi-041520-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/moc-gpi-041520-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Volunteer election judge Kacee Stewart organizes ballots at the ballot drop-off location at Glenwood Springs City Hall on Tuesday morning.<\/strong><br \/><em>Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Glenwood voters overwhelmingly approved authorizing the city to sell its municipal operations center in Tuesday\u2019s special election.<\/p>\n<p>Ballot Issue A, the only question on the ballot, asked voters to authorize the city to sell or otherwise convey its interest in the 19-acre property at 2307 Wulfsohn Road and the access road leading to it.<\/p>\n<p>According to unofficial election results, which came in around 8 p.m., 1,019 residents supported Ballot Issue A whereas 454 did not.<\/p>\n<p>The municipal operations center was constructed in 2002 and has required significant foundation and structural repairs over the years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"row gspi-donation gspi-donation-mobile p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/pi-banner-paypal.jpg)\" class=\"col-xl-8 p-3 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/donate\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=donation&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=mid-article\">Donate<\/a><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2014, the city spent nearly $2.5 million trying to stabilize the roughly 35,000-square-foot facility, but to little avail.<\/p>\n<p>Citing employee safety, the city decided to move its Electric, Fleet, Parks, Streets and Special Works Activities Team departments out of the building last year.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of pouring additional resources into the structurally ailing facility, the city wanted to sell the property, but needed voter approval to do so.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, RFTA has expressed interest in purchasing the 19-acre MOC property and access road leading to it.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, RFTA provided the city with a non-binding letter of interest that included $1.2 million for the property and $60,000 for the access road leading to it.<\/p>\n<p>The city mailed out approximately 5,600 ballots to Glenwood Springs residents on March 23 for the special election.<\/p>\n<p>In November, approximately 2,074 Glenwood voters participated in the regular election, which authorized a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/tobacco-taxes-pass-in-glenwood-springs-and-new-castle\/\">tobacco tax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, last April roughly 2,195 votes were cast when residents ultimately said no to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/local\/glenwood-springs-voters-bulldoze-street-tax-proposal-at-the-ballot-box\/\">street tax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the COVID-19 crisis, the city strongly recommended that voters mail their ballots in to avoid in-person contact.<\/p>\n<p>Residents could still drop off ballots inside the county courthouse or in the gray box outside of the courthouse along Eighth Street.<\/p>\n<p>City hall was also open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday for residents to drop off ballots or get a replacement one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got quite a lot dropped off, but we also got quite a lot mailed in,\u201d Catherine Fletcher, Glenwood Springs city clerk, said. \u201cIt\u2019s probably about 50\/50.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because city hall has been shut down, a few city employees from various departments assisted in the ballot-counting process.<\/p>\n<p>Ballot counters wore face coverings and gloves as they stacked envelopes, verified signatures and ran ballots through the counting machine in council chambers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWearing a mask, wearing it for a whole day, all day, it\u2019s a lot,\u201d Fletcher said. \u201cNobody realizes until you have to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kacee Stewart, who generally works in the police department as a records clerk, had been helping process ballots since last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s different,\u201d Stewart said. \u201cIt feels nice to be helping out with something like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Executive Administrative Assistant Sara Weigel was also helping count ballots in addition to her usual, day-to-day responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s really important that we still have the election and have some sort of normalcy,\u201d Weigel said. \u201cAnd, make sure that everybody is able to vote and that right isn\u2019t taken away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:mabennett@postindependent.com\">mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/glenwood-voters-approve-selling-moc-property-during-tuesday-special-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteer election judge Kacee Stewart organizes ballots at the ballot drop-off location at Glenwood Springs City Hall on Tuesday morning.Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent Glenwood voters overwhelmingly approved authorizing the city to sell its municipal operations center in Tuesday\u2019s special election. Ballot Issue A, the only question on the ballot, asked voters to authorize the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1319447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 00:25:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319454,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319447\/revisions\/1319454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}