{"id":2449871,"date":"2019-10-14T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/3as-passage-will-help-basalt-move-forward\/"},"modified":"2019-10-15T13:31:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T19:31:25","slug":"3as-passage-will-help-basalt-move-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/3as-passage-will-help-basalt-move-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"3A\u2019s passage will help Basalt move forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As a resident of Basalt, I am happy to support ballot issue 3A and am in favor of keeping the current property-tax mill levy. I do not believe there was any purposeful ignoring, or ignorance of, the myriad potential pitfalls of TABOR by any previous administration, council, or town staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A mistake was made, the town has shown courage and transparency in dealing with, and correcting the problem, and for that I applaud Town Manager Ryan Mahoney, Finance Director Christy Hamrick, Town Attorney Jeff Conklin and the Town Council. 3A asks voters to approve the current 2019 rate for the town of Basalt which, it is important to remember, was previously passed by voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The town is finally able to move forward with several long discussed and planned projects. If 3A fails, not only will these projects be stopped or indefinitely delayed, but town services will be curtailed by a nearly $700,000 shortfall. The difference between passing or rejecting is $121 per year on a home valued at $500,000. That\u2019s one-quarter of what the Town is currently refunding each homeowner for a similarly valued property, and the current tax rate will not go up as a result of passage. Let\u2019s keep moving forward and not be stuck in the past. Vote \u201cyes\u201d on 3A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Paul Hilts<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Basalt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/3as-passage-will-help-basalt-move-forward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a resident of Basalt, I am happy to support ballot issue 3A and am in favor of keeping the current property-tax mill levy. I do not believe there was any purposeful ignoring, or ignorance of, the myriad potential pitfalls of TABOR by any previous administration, council, or town staff. A mistake was made, 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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2449871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 18:16:18","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449891,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449871\/revisions\/2449891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}