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REGULAR MEETING
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
JANUARY 4, 1972
A regular meeting of the Board of Trustees for the Town of Vail
was held pursuant to call and notice at the hour of 7:30 p. m. , Tuesday,
the 4th day of January, 1972, in the Council Chambers of the Vail
Municipal Offices.
The following trustees, constituting a quorum, were present:
Mayor John Dobson
Trustee John Donovan
Trustee Dr. Thomas Steinberg
Trustee Dick Bailey
Trustee Clay Freeman
Also present at this meeting were:
Terry Minger, Town Manager
Larry Robinson, Town Attorney
Mike Di Miceli, Police Chief
Pete Burnett, Street Superintendent
The meeting was called to order by Mayor Dobson.
The first matter on the agenda was adoption of a Resolution by the
Board creating a Town of Vail Library Fund. The trustees read this
resolution, were polled as to whether they understood it, which they
all did; the resolution was explained to the audience; Trustee Bailey
motioned for adoption of this Resolution, Trustee Freeman seconded,
and the Resolution was adopted by unanimous vote.
An amendment to the dog ordinance was discussed. Mayor Dobson asked
Mr. Burnett what problems he saw with the existing ordinance, which
states that the dog must be in direct control of its master. Mr. Burnett
said that the dog catcher was not able to determine whether the dog was
in direct control, that the dogs were being tied up creating traffic and
pedestrian problems plus attraction of other dogs, dog fights, etc. He
also cited the garbage problem and the dog litter itself as reasons for
tightening up the ordinance. Police Chief Di Miceli was asked what he
felt were the problems, and he stated most of the same reasons that Mr.
Burnett had presented as the worst problems, plus the fact that a lot of
the dogs that were brought to work and tied in front of the employee's place
of work were causing problems by having their lines cross in front of other
stores, and generally being a nuisance.
Mayor Dobson then asked the store owners of Vail if they felt there were a
problem; if so, what was it? Most of the shop owners felt there were not
a problem in the Town, and that the dog catcher should concentrate on the
problem dogs in the Town (those causing fights, running in packs, etc.)
rather than implementing the leash law in the core.
Chris Moser of the Colorado Game Fish and Parks stated that there was
a tremendous problem outside the core relating to dogs running in packs
and attacking wild life. He would like to set up a county -wide leash
law, or at least some way of controlling dogs from running at large.
Several have been shot, which he noted, is condoned by law if a dog is
seen to be attacking wild life.
The trustees then were polled as to whether they felt there were a problem.
The consensus was that the existing dog ordinance should be more strictly
enforced, the licensing of all dogs should be enforced; and until such time
as more people of the Town feel the dogs constitute a real problem, the
existing dog ordinance will stay as is. The amendment creating a leash
law in the commercial cores was defeated. Furnishing "visiting dogs"
with temporary licenses was also discussed and tabled.
AN ORDINANCE FOR THE REGULATION OF TRAFFIC BY THE TOWN
OF VAI L CO LORADO FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING A SYSTEM OF
TRAFFIC REGULATIONS CONSISTENT WITH STATE LAW AND GENERALLY
CONFORMING TO SIMILAR REGULATIONS THROUGHOUT THE STATE
AND THE NATION; ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE 1971 EDITION OF
THE "MODEL TRAFFIC CODE FOR COLORADO MUNICIPALITIES;"
REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH; AND PRO-
VIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOF. was read for the first
time by the Board. Police Chief Di Miceli explained that there were hardly
any changes in this ordinances from the 1970 edition. This ordinance will
be read again and voted on at the meeting held February 1, 1972.
Other matters brought up at the Town Meeting were: that the Town and
the various districts should give consideration to prices for children's
recreation programs, such as ice skating; that the shop owners would
like to have the sales tax vendors' fees explained to them (Mayor Dobson
suggested that the Board study this, then have a meeting at a later date);
and that the grading around the Post Office and the Municipal Building
was dangerous. (It was explained that this whole area is being worked
on at present.)
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 9:50 p. m.
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