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Pitkin County commissioners coalesce around real estate transfer fee, keep sustainable aviation fuel on list for CCI priorities
Summary
Commissioners discussed CCI priority-setting and signaled support to continue pushing a real estate transfer fee (RETT) effort, keep a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) proposal active and ask staff to submit a study request on shifting from sales taxes to a service tax.
Pitkin County commissioners on July 15 discussed potential Colorado Counties, Inc. (CCI) legislative priorities and directed staff to submit several county proposals by the CCI deadline later that week.
The board agreed to continue advocating for a real estate transfer fee (RETT) as a Pitkin County priority, keep the county’s sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) proposal active, and to take a less-prominent item — a legislative study into replacing or supplementing sales tax with a service tax — forward to CCI for consideration. Management analyst Levi Borsch (introduced in the meeting) said he could submit two proposals immediately and asked for language for a third by the end of the week; he told the board the…
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