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Local board adopts conservative 0% sales-tax forecast, flags revenue shifts
Summary
Staff presented a conservative 0% sales-tax projection for the 2026 budget and flagged other shifts — a roughly $50,000 highway-user tax increase and steep declines in mineral and severance revenues — while trustees agreed to proceed cautiously and revisit numbers before final adoption.
Speaker 11 (Unidentified speaker) presented the staff revenue forecast and urged a conservative approach, saying the town assumed a 0% sales-tax increase for 2026 and that "for every 1% increase in sales tax revenue is about a $100,000." Trustees discussed regional differences — Pitkin County and Aspen showed stronger growth — but accepted the conservative…
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