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Commissioners approve letter of support for small-county PILT parity bill
Summary
The board voted to send a letter backing a bill to reduce the per-resident PILT cap from 5,000 to 500, a change the chair said would boost Dolores County's federal payment share; the board approved drafting the letter and sending it to Jeff Hurd and legislative contacts.
The board unanimously approved preparing a letter of support for what participants called the "Small County PILT Parity Act," a proposal described at the meeting as reducing the per-resident cap on federal land payments from 5,000 to 500. Chair summarized the projected local effect, stating the total program could be "a little over 2,000,000 broken out across 45 counties," and commissioners moved to assemble a support letter for Jeff Hurd to advance the measure in the current session.
The chair said Dolores County could see increased allocations under the proposed cap change but added the county's precise increase was not yet calculated: "Because right now, what we get, less than $208,000 in built," the Chair said, and staff agreed to prepare an estimated breakout to show what the change would mean locally. The board voted in favor of sending the support letter and will review a cost breakout when staff prepares it.
