Steamboat Springs has been moving steadily ahead, for over three years now, to take the second place seat under Vail Resorts as the best overall value for ski destinations in Colorado.
Yampa Valley Regional Airport just got a huge boost from voters who know that.
All across Colorado, the vote of the common man can be seen this morning.
Informed voters turned out in record numbers statewide. They passed the ballot issues that made sense. And soundly defeated the majority of all requests to raise taxes and to continue putting money into the apathetic and systemic failure that is our public education funding. Only a couple of school districts, still entrenched in either cronyism or through a spurt of energy from parents who rise up only when it's time to ask for further handouts; saw bare margins of success in passing mill rides. However, even those districts saw a complete disintegration of incumbents making their way back in to keep that cronyism alive. A clean sweep in most all school and post-secondary seats took place in Colorado yesterday. Statewide.
Good job, Coloradans.
But, this effort on the part of the folks over in the Routt County area is one of the ones that feels the best.
Congratulations!!
"Steamboat Springs — The sales tax rate in Steamboat Springs will go up a bit after voters here resoundingly approved Referendum 2B on Tuesday, a 0.25 percent tax increase that will help fund the winter air service program at Yampa Valley Regional Airport.
Referendum 2B passed with 61 percent of the vote.
Donning pilot hats and inflatable airplanes, about 40 supporters of the tax initiative celebrated its passage at Old Town Pub on Tuesday evening.
“We knew from the beginning that if everyone understood how important this was to our economy, then we had a good chance to pass it,” Yes 2 Air campaign manager Bill Stuart said. “It was a nonpartisan issue. People from all spectrums of life supported it.”
Referendum 2B was conceived by a group of community leaders to reverse the eroding ability of the business community to attract commercial airline flights to YVRA during the ski season. Without those flights, advocates of the tax fear the resort community’s ability to bring in high-spending winter vacationers would be compromised, further eroding the local tourism economy.
Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Chris Diamond praised the air tax passage Tuesday night...."
(Scott Franz, Tom Ross)
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Great turnouts all over our great State of Colorado. Not just a record turnout but a record turnout that sent a real clear message.
It may take more than this one election to get the cronyism out of RE-1 School District and a couple others. It may take another 4 years of pounding the points out into the view of the folks. We voted in the fresh blood to do that with. In RE-1 it's a huge, huge victory to penetrate the walls that are Judy Haptonstall. Count on it that every dime of that so-called great financial stewardship is going to be watched and brought out into the open.It's a whole new program now. Count on it that a lot of questions are going to be raised on how to get our district self-supporting. BTW, congrats on all that upwards of $20,000 fundraising for the political effort, parents. Now that you've shown you really can move if you need to, voters will be watching to see you continue your fundraising efforts so you can eventually stand up on your own.
Voters made a point in this election. A big one. They're not just blindly buying anymore. They're informed. They're not afraid to get into the mud and trenches if they can't get answers through diplomacy.
You're right, Nanny. The Skico needs to be even more afraid than they already are. Steamboat Springs is filled year round with powerful revenue drawing events and thriving businesses. They also don't have the crony problems we do over here.
Congratulations to the folks over in the Yampa Valley. Good job.
And the very next day Aspen Ski Corp announces some big collaboration between them and Steamboat Springs.
Steamboat has the cat-bird seat on that one as poorly as Aspen is doing.
Good luck in making a great deal.
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