The introduction of an ordinance to impose a 20-cent fee on each paper or plastic bag provided to Aspen grocery-store customers sparked a lot of questions at Monday night’s City Council meeting.
The council voted 4-1 to support the ordinance on first reading, with the lone nay vote coming from Adam Frisch.
Most council members expressed a desire for more details, including how the city’s Environmental Health Department arrived at 20 cents instead of a higher or lower figure.
They also cautioned against any measure that would overburden the two grocery stores that would collect the fees, City Market and Clark’s Market, and debated whether the stores should keep a greater percentage of the fee than the 5 percent city staff proposed.
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