{"id":2449919,"date":"2019-10-15T21:52:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T03:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/3a-the-right-way-for-basalt\/"},"modified":"2019-10-16T08:11:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T14:11:03","slug":"3a-the-right-way-for-basalt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/3a-the-right-way-for-basalt\/","title":{"rendered":"3A the right way for Basalt"},"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\">Dear Basaltines,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Please join me in voting \u201cyes\u201d to 3A to keep our property taxes at their current rate. The town of Basalt is a very efficient municipality and doesn\u2019t deserve a revenue shortfall for being fiscally responsible. For many years Basalt adjusted its property tax rate to save us money and not create a windfall for itself. Then when property values plummeted, Basalt only raised the rate to maintain existing levels of services. I am thankful for this fiscal prudence and urge like-minded voters to support 3A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Jon Fox-Rubin<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Basalt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/3a-the-right-way-for-basalt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Basaltines, Please join me in voting \u201cyes\u201d to 3A to keep our property taxes at their current rate. The town of Basalt is a very efficient municipality and doesn\u2019t deserve a revenue shortfall for being fiscally responsible. For many years Basalt adjusted its property tax rate to save us money and not create a [&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":["post-2449919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 14:59:55","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\/2449919","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=2449919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449935,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449919\/revisions\/2449935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}