ASPEN — —Aspen voters will be asked to approve a sales tax for education on the November ballot.
The Aspen City Council agreed Tuesday to put the measure — which could bring as much as $1.75 million into Aspen School District coffers annually — to a public vote.
“We are very, very excited to win the support of the City Council,” said Robin Hamill, former interim director of the Aspen Education Foundation, which is the Aspen School District’s nonprofit fundraising arm. “It is a relief to be moving forward.”
At a work session Tuesday, the three City Council members present offered their support of the initiative and instructed City Attorney Jim True to begin drafting ballot language. Ballot language must be approved by Sept. 7, though the City Council has scheduled a Sept. 4 meeting to approve all ballot items formally.
In the works for some months now, the measure as presented would increase the Aspen sales tax rate by 0.35 percent. The tax would expire in four years, with an independent, appointed board overseeing its distribution.
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