ASPEN — —Officials played the role of ballot-language editors during a City Council work session Tuesday, simplifying a proposed Nov. 6 advisory question on the future of the Castle Creek hydroelectric plant.
The final revision reads as such: “Shall the city of Aspen complete the hydroelectric facility on Castle Creek, subject to local stream health monitoring and applicable government regulations, to replace coal-fired energy with renewable energy?”
At the beginning of the 4 p.m. meeting, Randy Ready, assistant city manager, and City Attorney Jim True laid out three separate ballot-language options, with the second alternative being the most verbose. It described a “1.175-megawatt renewable hydroelectric energy facility” to bring the city’s electric utility “closer to the goal of 100 percent renewable energy by the year 2015.”
Councilmen Adam Frisch and Steve Skadron then argued for more simplicity, leading to the revision, a mix of the three options.
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