{"id":2457805,"date":"2020-04-29T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=325008"},"modified":"2020-04-29T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T11:00:00","slug":"snowmass-town-briefs-food-distribution-seasonal-trail-and-park-closures-town-meetings-covid-19-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/snowmass-town-briefs-food-distribution-seasonal-trail-and-park-closures-town-meetings-covid-19-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowmass Town Briefs: Food distribution, seasonal trail and park closures, town meetings, COVID-19 relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"776\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/council-svs-0422201-1024x776.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/council-svs-0422201-1024x776.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/council-svs-0422201-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/council-svs-0422201-768x582.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/council-svs-0422201-1536x1165.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/council-svs-0422201-2048x1553.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>An image showing the requested Burnt Mountain Wildlife closure area extension. Snowmass Town Council approved the first reading of an ordinance that would enact the closure extension on April 20, 2020.<\/strong><br \/><em>Town of Snowmass Village\/courtesy photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadLarge\">Food distribution in Snowmass starts Friday<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Aspen Family Connections will begin distributing food to Snowmass Village residents in need this Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">From 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., residents can pick up free food items at the Rodeo Lot. Aspen Family Connections asks residents to enter at the Rodeo Lot and exit through the Town Park\/recreation center parking lot. Signage will be posted to help traffic flow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The village-specific food distribution is set to take place every two weeks on Fridays and is open to any and all Snowmass Village residents.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Town park facilities closed to public starting Wednesday<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">On Wednesday morning, all town park facilities were closed to the public to align with Gov. Jared Polis\u2019 updated public health order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Facilities closures include the skate park, basketball court, tennis courts, volleyball courts and playground at Town Park, along with the Cathy Robinson Park off of Owl Creek Road. Town Park fields will still be open to the public, however social distancing and public health order requirements must be followed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Andy Worline, director of the town\u2019s parks, recreation and trails department, said town staff had been monitoring park facility usage and issued park guidelines to ensure residents maintained social distancing up until Wednesday, which had been working well, but that Snowmass Village\u2019s COVID-19 public safety requirements cannot be less restrictive than the state\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadLarge\">Seasonal trail closures in effect for Snowmass<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">On April 25, a handful of Burnt Mountain trails closed to help protect sensitive wildlife habitats for spring calving season:<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText ListBullet\">Anaerobic Nightmare Trail, closed April 25 through June 27 (opens June 28)<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText ListBullet\">Sequel Trail, closed April 25 through June 20 (opens June 21)<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText ListBullet\">Tom Blake Trail, closed April 25 through June 20 (opens June 21)<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The Government Trail east of Elk Camp Work Road also will be closed from May 15 through June 27 (opens June 28). Rim Trail North, Sky Mountain Park and Seven Star Trail closures will be lifted May 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">For more information on spring trail closures and enforcement, <a id=\"N0x2254df0N0x23a59b0:N0x2254df0N0x240e260\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tosv.com\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit tosv.com<\/a><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Board and commission meetings on hold<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Over the past month, all town board and commission meetings have been canceled due to the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The only town meetings that have continued are Town Council meetings, which will be conducted virtually through the GoToMeeting video conferencing platform until it is safe for council and community members to gather again in Town Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">According to Clint Kinney, town manager, town staff is working to enable board and commission meetings to also take place virtually in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Kinney said the inability to host board and commission meetings, namely Planning Commission, has not significantly delayed any town projects or affected the flow of getting issues and discussion topics before Town Council yet. He did say things like the Town Park redesign and some public art projects aren\u2019t as far along as they would be if April town meetings had carried on as planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe should have a plan in place by May 1 but if people could be patient with us, we would really appreciate it,\u201d Kinney said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">County COVID-19 relief breakdown for Snowmass<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As of April 20, the town of Snowmass Village has allocated $200,000 to Pitkin County\u2019s COVID-19 relief fund to support village residents and employees in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\"><a id=\"N0x2254df0N0x23a5ad0:N0x2254df0N0x240e848\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/snowmass-doubles-its-virus-relief\/\">At the April 20 Town Council meeting<\/a>, Town Manager Clint Kinney said April 16 numbers showed the village had received roughly 16% of the county\u2019s relief funds, amounting to more than $98,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On April 27 just before 2 p.m., that amount had more than doubled to $270,562.75, according to Pitkin County data. That\u2019s nearly 18% of the overall relief funds distributed, which was over $1.5 million as of April 27 at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Old Snowmass Village resident relief is not included in the Snowmass Village statistics, but amounted to more than $73,000 and 4.5% of the overall funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Kinney said the town is choosing to contribute money to the county relief fund because it is a well-vetted way to get financial assistance to village residents and employees in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">However, Kinney also said the town is open to suggestions and other relief effort ideas for Snowmass specifically and welcomes locals to reach out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Email Kinney at <a href=\"mailto:ckinney@tosv.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ckinney@tosv.com<\/a><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i> and\/or Town Council at <a href=\"mailto:council@tosv.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">council@tosv.com<\/a><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/snowmass\/snowmass-town-briefs-food-distribution-seasonal-trail-and-park-closures-town-meetings-covid-19-relief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image showing the requested Burnt Mountain Wildlife closure area extension. Snowmass Town Council approved the first reading of an ordinance that would enact the closure extension on April 20, 2020.Town of Snowmass Village\/courtesy photo Food distribution in Snowmass starts Friday Aspen Family Connections will begin distributing food to Snowmass Village residents in need this [&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-2457805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-17 21:50:06","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\/2457805","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=2457805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}