Alta Town Council directs staff to draft two-year lease with Alta Community Enrichment for Our Lady of the Snows

Alta Town Council on June 4 directed town staff and legal counsel to draft and execute a lease giving Alta Community Enrichment (ACE) primary occupancy and booking responsibilities for Our Lady of the Snows (OLS) under an initial two-year trial term, the council unanimously agreed.

The two-year term is intended as a “trial marriage” that the council and ACE will use to test shared operations, revenue sharing and maintenance roles before negotiating a longer-term arrangement, council members and ACE representatives said.

Council and staff said the draft guidelines the council approved for staff to follow call for ACE to manage bookings through an online platform, operate certain event staffing and day-to-day tidiness between events, and for the town to retain major maintenance and utility obligations as owner. Councilmembers and staff also discussed a three-tier revenue-sharing concept intended to let ACE recover administrative booking costs first, allow the town to recoup operating costs next, and then adjust the split to incentivize ACE as revenue grows.

"This lease will make us still feel like a little bit of ownership even though we don't…