Outside of Pitkin County, winning the lottery means you got lucky on a scratch-off ticket or your kids’ birthdays were finally the winning Powerball numbers. But within Pitkin County, it means a path to affordable.
First looks at the 2024 proposed Pitkin County budget forecast a seemingly unprecedented opportunity for spending a surplus of fund dollars on capital projects in the commissioner-prioritized areas: affordable housing, criminal justice, and sustainability/electrification.