To the community,

Once the money goes into the General Fund it can end up anywhere, that’s why this Measure C is a good tax (if there is a good tax) because it is a specific fund that cannot be used for anything but what it’s voted on.

Kenny Curtzwiler

Specifically this started as a way to keep CalPERS from robbing the General Gund for unfunded pensions and liabilities. The problem is it not enough and everyone knows it even the authors. There is a scare tactic right now that if we don’t pass it we will be driving on dirt and nothing is further from the truth. If we defeat the measure now, it can be rewritten in time for the next election and that will give us time to get more funding.

The council is afraid to go after other funding sources. We are the only town that Vail is in that does not have a lift ticket tax. Vail gets $4.5 million per year, Breckenridge gets $3.5 million per year. That is why they look like they do. The council is afraid to go after other funding sources. Tax the TOT on VHRs only. You can also divert a portion of the TOT on VHRs to Measure C II. Tourists visiting VHRs and Vail use our infrastructure so why not have them help to pay for it. Raise the Measure C tax to 1 percent and lower the time involved.

Measure C as written will work but it can’t due to inadequate funding. We are kicking another can down the road for our kids as 15 years is too long to fix the roads. By the time we get to the really bad ones the bad ones will have reached a level of really bad.

Thank you,
Kenny Curtzwiler, Meyers