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Home My WebLink About1989-05-09 Support Documentation Town Council Work Session.~,; IDW~ 06 V8! ~'~~ ua F - ~'~ i T+ 75 south 9rontage road vail, Colorado 81657 (303) 476-7000 office of the town manager THE VAIL TOWN COUNCIL WORK SESSION SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY, MAY 9TH V.~II.,19~~ WILL BE CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF A QUORUM. Planning and Environmental Commission May 8, 1989 2x30 Site Visits 3:00 Public Hearing 1. Approval of minutes of March 27, 1989, and of April 24, 1989. #1 2. A request for a conditional use permit to allow two additonal tennis courts and a pro shop at Ford Park. Applicanto Vail Metropolitan Recreation District 3. A request to amend SDD #4, Area D in order to relocate a bus stop, add a deceleration lane, enclose a stairwell and amend previous conditions of approval. Applicant: Vail Brewery Company. To be tabled. 4. A request for minor subdivision for Area D, SDD #4, Glen Lyon Office Building. Applicant: Vail Brewery Company. To be tabled. 5. A request for an exterior alteration in order to construct an addition at the Up The Creek Restaurant, Gore Creek Building, Vail Village. Applicant: Up The Creek Bar & Grill, Inc. To be tabled. TM Powo 06 ras 75 south 4rontag® road vall, Colorado 89657 (303) 478-7000 o~fic® 04 4h® mayoP May 4, 1989 Mr. Robert A. Lowry, President Sandstone Park Condominium Association 7856 Arlington Drive Boulder, Colorado 80303 Dear Mr. Lowry: ~/~ ~~~~ Thank you for your letter concerning the Sandstone parcel presently owned by the Upper Eagle Valley Consolidated Water Districts. We are presently in negotiations with the Water Districts to try to trade some land the Town owns next to the sewage disposal plant for. two parcels of land owned by the Water Districts including the Sandstone parcel. We hope that those negotiations will be successful and the swap will be consumated. If the Town is successful in acquiring the Sandstone parcel, it will be analyzed by the Planning Department and Planning Commission and recommendations made to the Council on what type of use should be made of it. My guess is that the most appropriate use will be open space. If any landscaping is to be done in the future, it will be placed into the Town's capital improvements program as prioritized by the Council. We appreciate your concern and your willingness to communicate with us on this matter. Sincerely, v ~~ Kent R. Rose Mayor cc: Vail Town Council Ron Phillips /rmc ~ ~ All Music... All Memories MaY 39 1989 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For further information contact: Robert Joyce (619-544-6838) K-LITE GENERAL MANAGER BECOMES PARTNER IN PARENT FIRl9o JOYCE COMMUNICATIONS, IA1Co Vail, CO -- Joyce Communications Incorporated, the parent company of Vail, Colorado radio station K-LITE, announced today that K-LITE General Manager Richard W. Teeters will become~a partner in the San Diego-based firm. Teeters, 38, is a six year Vail resident who has been the General Manager of K-Cite for one of the radio and television station's two and a half year history. He will join the partnership June 1, according Robert Joyce, chief executive officer of Joyce Communications, Inc. "Rich has done a fantastic job with the station in a relatively short time," Joyce said. "It is our projection that the steady increase in popularity and the success of K- LITE will continue to rise as result of Rich becoming a partner in JCI." Joyce added that in addition to expanding the working relationship between the station and parent company, the partnership "will also insure the long range input of Teeters in current and future acquisition of JCI." Joyce describes as "instrumental in the current and future success of K-LITE." K-LITE is a soft adult contemporary station which broadcasts live to a population total coverage of 80,000. Through a partnership with Vail Associates, K-LITE exclusively broadcasts resort, winter and summer visitor information obtained directly from Vail Associates. Through its two T.V. channels, K-Cite presents national quality recreational features, a Vail Valley special travelogue, Vail information, and represents CNN and ESPN. 4~ ~~ P. O. BOX 939 ~ VAIL, COLORADO 81658 c (303) 476-8900 ~ 1-800-332-6007 May 9, 1989 ~`OE EAOLE YAL6EIF EM~~~~®t~~ ~®d111~~S~i®~ers fel9~ ~~~eafl®~ suibc®mlrniffe~ Land acquisition should. be primary by Robert Ritter Plans unveiled 'two weeks ago for con- struction of multiuse recreational facilities in Eagle and Edwards may be a little too zealous, according to Eagle County Board of CommissIonera Chair- man Dick Gustafson. "It's like putting the cart before the horse," Gustafson said. "It seems to me you started with a conclusion and now you're trying to Justify it." Gustafson was referring to the Eagle County Recreation Task Force subcom- mittee's plans revealed at a special meeting two weeks ago to elected of- ficials. - ~ Gustafson's comments came during a work session Monday between the Eagle County Board of Commissioners end Sid Fox, acting director of the Eagle County Department of Community Develop- ment, end Jim Curnutte, a member of the subcommittee. Gustafson said the nature of the sub- committee's presentation to elected of- ficials wasn't entirely what he expected. "I was surprised," he said. "I think it was more of a softball meeting. That's all we talked about was softball. 1 was under the impressi~n'when we started the task force that it was their purpose to identify potential recreation needs and services." He said he felt the subcommittee's em- phasis should be more on recreation as stated in the task force's 1985 master plan. Two Complexes Proposed The subcommittee's plans call for con• struction of recreational complexes in Edwards and Eagle. The Edwards facili- ty would include four softball fields and two athletic fields while the Eagle facility would include two softball fields and one athletic field. Under the proposal, the county would pay half of the $468,000 annual bond costs for 15 years. The other half would be paid by the towns of Eagle, Vail, Avon, Minturn and Gypsum and the various metropolitan dialricta in the county. The facility in Eagle would be built on acreage already owned by the county at the Eagle County Fairgrounds site, while land would have to be purchased for the Edwards site. One of the subcommittee's primary recommendations in its report was that some kind of intergovernmental agency be formed to purchase a 100-acre parcel behind the Texaco station next to the Inleralale )0 exchange in Edwards. Commissioner Don Welch and Guataf• son told Curnutte the subcommittee should first try to acquire the land at Ed- wards before discussing financing op- tions. - -'~~~ "li you can't buy the lend at a reasonable price, then the rest of the discussion becomes meaningless," Gustafson said. "You should get the land, than master plan the whole thing. Then figure out who's going to pay for it." "1 think you need to focus on ills silo and how you're going to acquire the land," Welch said, Curnutte said the subcommittee's pro• posal is not set in stone. ");.don't think this first draft.hit thp,nail right on the head.[ think we're a long way from a final decision. We just want to keep moving on it," he said. Welch agreed the plans should not stagnate but questioned the subcommit- tee's proposal of two complexes, saying he would rather support construction of a single facility at Edwards. "I think we should address (the issue) more as one site than two," Welch said. "It seems it would be as easy to build one facility as it would to support two separate end, distinct facilities. If we focus on softball; I tliink'we should' Cociis on Edwards, on one site. Financing Questions "And there ere some questions about the financing," he added. Part of the subcommittee's proposal to finance construction calla for the county to establish a recreation district that would parallel the boundaries of the Western Eagle County, Berry Creek, Arrowhead, Eagle-Vail and Beaver Creek metropolitan dialricta. Tho proposed new dlatrict could bo e'atebliahad without a vote and would in- clude only properties in unincorporated areas. District taxes would be on the scale of about $8 annually for the owner of a $10b,000 home. "We have a proliferation of apeciel districts in the county," Gustefaon said. "1 think the existing dialricta should do their Job. I don't think you should be -ooking et a super dlatrict. We're getting so damned many governments in the county wo can't keep them straight." `goo He gave as an example some house• holds in Vail that pay taxes to three dif- Cerent water districts for the same sor- vice. Welch, Gustafson and Commissioner George "Bud" Gates agreed they would not commit any Increase in the county's 1 percent salsa tax revenue to help finance the complexes. They said the 5 percent expected annual growth .has been earmarked to help reduce outstand- ing debt on the administration building the county will build in the next two years. "We said if we get more than 5 percent growth, we would not Implement the mill (increase) to pay for the building," Gustefaon said. "f, [or one, am not will- ing to back off that atatament." Welch suggested the subcommitte should explore the possibility of a merger between WECMRD and the Vail Metro- politan Recreation District that would encompass an area from East Veil to Dotaero. "That would be Ideal," he said. "Let the people who know what they're doing with recreation do it." "It seems to me we've barely scratched the surface with regard to all the posaiblUtlea," Gustafson said. "One way to do It la to get the recreation dialricta to combine. Make one large recreation district that can pay for all the costs and pay for the whole thing that way. 1 think that would be a good first step." Another avenue to explore, Gates said, is the possibility of developing the com- plexes in phases instead of constructing everything at once. The commisaionera designated County Manager ]im Fritze to represent them at the aubcommittoe's next meeting in two weeks. ~ ~ ~ ~,~ ,s- ~ ~ ,~,- mow, - ,``a_~ allay ~, a9s9 .~ 2 i `~'~~ ~{~~~~ YA~~~~l ~~~~~~w9~~ gage 7 County. reports 31 percent sales tax :gain by iPam ~ohnea Eagle County sales tax receipts, when compared to 1988 figures, show a healthy increase for the year.to date. County Manager Jim Fritze says re- ceipts from the countywide 1 percent sales tau are 31 percent higher for the first three months of 1989, compared to 4he "same period in 1988. Receipts 4his year to date are $1,244,648, compared to $947,851 in the fast quarter last year. Fritze said the county . is obviously - happy with the 31 ~x'cent grovvPh rate in sales tau oofledioas. ;':. -. -._ "lAle would love for:lti Yo sta~•thaY way for the entire year." be acknowledged. "For budgetary purposes, we. had. pro- . jeered a 5 percent increase." He credited a strong ski season, 4he • 1989 World Alpine Ski Champiogships and a revitalized building market as three ' factors spurting the increase. He noted incroas~ building in 4he Basalt/El Jebel >.. area combined with large economic fac- ' `Yore such as:the wallboard plant under ' .construction in Gypsum and the Hyatt Hotel 4o be opened in Beaver Creek _ should continue the upward trend. The Hyatt, for instance. will bring a good deal of convention business Yo Beaver Creek and increase receipts during the off- season. Fritze said. "Those people (convention goers) spend money year around." he soled. "H think things like Wal-Mart allow .more money 4o stay in 4he county." he added. Wal-Mart opened a store in Avon in early 1988. ®ver a 8ve-year period. the county's • sales tax receipts have risen 39 percent. From 1984 to 1985, 4he gain was 8 per cent from $1.9 million to $2.1 million, bu4 :the figure dropped toe 5 percent growth the following yeae with 1988 receipts of $2.2 million. From' 1988 to 1987, the climb was again at 8 percent and year • end sales tax receipts were $2.4 million. Cast year's increase was the most =drematic in recent times. The total sales tax figure of $2.7 million for 1988 .represented-a 12 percent increase over the previous year. Eagle County voters recently approved a $6.25 million bond issue to finance con- struction of an administration building in downtown Eagle. VNhile campaigning for the property.tax.increase, the Eagle County Board of Commissioners prom- ised to finance the propasal, to whatever degree possible. from sales tau receipts. The increased collections bode well foe that promise, according 4o Fritze. He added the increase makes the coun- ty's property tau scenario more appeal- ing for residents. The commissioners say they haven't raised taxes in the Iast five yeais," Fritze noted. "They can do that partly because of their fiscal coasen+atism, but also part- ly because 4he sales tau has been healthy." The increase was reflected in the re- ceipts of all incorpora4ed towns in 4he county, with the exception of Red Cliff. and in figures 4allied from unincorpor sled areas. Ia March. Vafl-topped the county sales 4ax receipts list with cellec- Yions of $333,532 in 1989, compared 40 $269,764 in 1988. During the same month uninooipor sled Eagle County, which includes Beaver Creek, Edwards and Eagle-Vafl among other areas. netted $79,709 in 1989, compared to $57,500. Avon saw We most dramatic increase with 1989 March collections of $40,969, compared to a 1988 figure of $19,151. The communities of Eagle, Basalt, Min- 4urn and Gypsum recorded modest sales tax increases in March. Eagle's figures climbed from $8.100 in 1988 to $7,200 in 1989. Basalt's receipts grew from $3,600 in 1988 to $5,3Q0, in 1989 and Minturn's from $4,100 in 1988 to $5,400 in -1989. Gypsum's receipts jumped fmm $586 in 1988 to $1.047 in 1989. .. Red Cliff was the only community to record a drop in county sales • tax receipts. The town collected 5195 in March of 1988 compared to $141 in 1989. ~AGg.~ ~®4~T~5f J1 ~ San]L~a~ . 7P~z ~tce:~y~anna~ . 3 Tear Comparfson Chart; 1984 1983 c' 1986 1987 1988 - ;, . 1.936,482 2,092,537 2,203,439 28384,801 2,ti82,807 Page 10 ~~~ EA~iLL YAL,aE~ E~TEW~®1=` May @. 1999 Town resolution- opposes county seat move Eagle Town Manager Wllly Powell and Trustee Jerry Craghead wW be delegated spokesmen for the Town o[ Eagle Mon• day, May 8, when the Eagle County Board of Commlealoaers holds a public hearing to discuss removal of the county seat Erom Eagle. The Eagle Town Board met la spacial session Moadey night to formally adopt a resolution opposing relocation of the county seat. The unanimously adopted resolution asks the county coramis• olonero to "lmmedlately continue plan- ning of the admlalstraUve complex In Eagle sad execute the binding mandate given by the votero" to construct the new buUding la Eagle. Complete texts o[ the town's resolution and another resolution by the. Eagle Valley Chamber o[ Commerce appear below. Translator District By a vote of a-a, the town board also voted to support the proposed Eagle VaUay Translator McUopolitan District. A service plan for the overtho-eir telo- vision translator district gained condl• Clonal approval Tuesday from the Eagle County Board of Commlealoners. "Getting approval by the county com• mlaeionere is just our first step," Trustee Glen Ewing told the Eagle Town Hoard. Ewing la the town's representative on the translator committee which hao drafted the service plan over the pest several months. "1 see ue supporting lelevlaion translator improvements;' Trustee Mike Bradley said. "The citizens of Eagle are somewhat held hostage by the local cable company for quality TV." , Bradley, however, voted against sup• porting the proposed district, and argued Instead [or an intergovernmental agrao- ment to avoid creating another layer of government !n the county. "Unfortunately, inclusion of mosquito control has really clouded the issue, physically and environmentally," Craghead told Ewing. "1 don't Ilke It (mosquito control), but 1 don't think It's a fatal flaw,"~Truatee Bill Cunningham suggested. "Valleywide 1 don't think It's a major concern," Ewing added. Ewing, Cunningham, end Truslooa Marian McDonough and Sonja Beesley voted to support the district. Craghead joined Bradley in opposition to the board motion. RESOLUTION NO. e (Series 1989) A RESOLUTION POR THE SUPPORT TO HAVE THE TOWN OF EAGLE CONTINUB TO SERVE AS THE COUNTY SEAT OF EAGLE COUNTY AND TO IMMEDIATELY CONTINUB WITH • THE PLANS TO CONSTRUCT THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLEX AS MANDATED BY THE VOTERS IN A SPECIAL ELECTION HELD ON MARCH 31, 1989. WHEREAS, the Town of Eagle has served as the County Seat since 1920; and WHEREAS, The Town of Eagle has consistently had a good working releUonship with the government of Eagle County and Its residents; end WHEREAS, County taxpayers have recently made a olgalt(caat Inve~t~ meet In building an updated Justice Center la the Town of Eagle; and WHEREAS, legal end other practical complexltieo involved In changing the location of the County Seat would make a relocation extremely difficult and divert the focus otCounty Government from many important issues; end WHEREAS, the coat involved w(th relocation of the County Seat would make County aervicea incrementally more expensive end constitute an added burden to the taxpayers of Eagle County; and WHEREAS, removal of the County Seat wW cause unprecedented adverse social and economic Impacts to Eagle County; and WHEREAS, the permanent population of the County Is end wW coa• tinue a pattern of movement to the west; and WHEREAS, moving the County Seat to the eastern pert of the County would constitute a eubstantlal disservice to the clUaeno of the Basalt and EI Jebel area; end WHEREAS, the voters of Eagle County on March al, 1989, voted la the majority of 1,101 l0 778 to construct a new Admlalatralive Complex !n the Town of Eagle financed by issuance of General Obligation Sonde; and WHEREAS, said election is a binding mandate given by the electorate to the Board of County Commissioners; end WHEREAS, the new County Administrative Complex will be designed to provide the moat current and modern systems for transmittal end retrieval of information to all parts of the County; and WHEREAS, the ettort to relocate the County Seat ie being advocated only by a small minority of Eagle County reaidanto, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Trustees of the Town of Eagle, that the Eagle County Commissioners lmmedlately con• tinue planning of the Administrative Complex In Eagle end execute the bind- ing mandate given by the votero to construct said tecUitiea in Eagle In a pru• dent and timely manner. INTRODUCED, READ; PASSED, AND ADOPTED this let day of May, 1989. TOWN OF EAGLE, COLORADO ]amen H. Seabry ATTEST: Mayor Martians Miller Tows Clerh ~ub~~ b~ar~ng ~~ address ~o®s~ng r®ad~~ ~ Eagle A public hearing has been celled [or 7 p.m. Monday, May 1S, for Eagle residents to identity issues of concern related to the possible closing of Broadway between.Fifth and Sixth slreeto. Closure of the one-block atreot section hea bean requeeted by Eagle Coun- ty as part of Its plann[ng process for a new county administration building at the site of the format McDonald Building. The Eagle Town Board hea Indicated its willingness to consider the to- quest, but has identified concorna about traffic Impecta to other stroets, pedestrian access from proportias south of the county property, and poten- tial s[t(ng of a future recreation center on the properly. ,The board has also agroed.to considor vacation of the alley right of way. behind Cho courthouse to,accommodate county building and parking noads.' Citizens aro invilod to commont on the ponding street and alloy closures aLthe May 15 public hearing. .... IN~IITA°T%®%d ~°® ~%~ I989 Pe4VEMEId'I'. CEId'TERLIIVE MARI{ING PROGRAM Eagle Cotulty will receive sealed bide for approitimately 46 miles of pavement centerline marlsinQ, with beads, ur:t+! 2:00 p.m., May 10, 1989 i>z the Office of the Eagle County Engineea at which time bide will be_p,,~e~,ed;and r®ad:~lpud in ~~the confeit~nce soom~n the offic®~of '4he Eagl~`~~:ounty Engineer at 725 Chambers Avenue, Suite 12, Eagl®, Col- orado. Bidding documents may be obtained at the office of the Eagle County Engineer (telephone 32x}7311, Ext. 545). Each bid shall be accompanied by Rid Security in accor- daace with the %astruction 4013idderat3. EAGLE VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RESOLUTION WHEREAS, members of the Eagle Valley Chamber of Commerce have carefully considered suggestions to remove the Eagle County seat from the Town of Eagle, Colorado; and WHEREAS, a majority of Eagle County voters in the special election March a1, 1888, approved a 58.25 million proposal to con• atruct a new county administration building In the Town of Eagle; and WHEREAS, no additional land acquisition coats wW be incurred by coun- ty taxpayers s[rice Eagle County owns the land upon which the proposed new adminlatretion building will be con- atructed; and WHEREAS, estimated coats of a relocetlon study would take funds away from vital aervicea already planned for county residents: and WHEREAS, a relocetlon election would require en extremely doubtful lwo-lhlydo majority vote among the county's registered elec• • fora; and • WHEREAS, it le Imperative for the county seat to be et the moat affordable location for county employees; end WHEREAS, It ie equally important for the county's admintatretlve head- quariero to be constructed at a location where yearround maintenance and operational expenses are held et a minimal level; and WHEREAS, the Eagle Valley Chamber of Commerce has undertaken en e[ fort to eliminate the sometimes degrading designatlona of "down valley" and "up valley" end replace the references with the more accurate descrlpt[ona of "west central" end "east central" Eagle County; and WHEREAS, each area of the geographically defined Eagle Valley is dependent upon the others for vital aervicea, and WHEREAS, relocation of the Eagle County seat will not help resolve queo- liana of lelevialon reception, recreational facilities and others • which may have prompted the Issue of county seat location; NOW, THEREFORE; BE IT RESOLVED, the Eagle Valley Chamber of Commerce unanimously favors retaining the ~. • county seat In the Town of Eagle;. and • BE IT FURT HER RESOLVED, the Eagle County Board of Commissioners la reapecl[ully requosted to honor binding results of iho ' March al election end is encouraged to address quoations of increased taxpayer sorvicea in the oest•contral and middlo Eagle Valley areas•by providing: u satellite' otRgos, oquipped with modorn tochnological devices, to provide convonlenl eccosa to county rocords. c additional toll-free tolaphone lines to all Eagle County departments, and particularly loll-tree tolophono access to the • Eagle County Juatlce Center. a and ouch other courtesies as may be determined necessary to provide maximum governmental response at minimum tax• payer expense. . DATED, thin aoth day o[ AprU,19e9. _:' ~ By: 8. Tom Harped, Prealdeat Bys Sherry Brandon, Secretary C~dQ~~O[~OC~D~3 ~L~4 G°3G~Md4~ .......•....•••.•.........e•.........•.••, ••••ese•,•••.yyea•••:eaoe