STEAMBOAT SPRINGS The Steamboat Springs City Council is exploring a stormwater utility fee that would be charged to city residents and used to cover costs of stormwater management, such as water quality and drainage.
As the city’s infrastructure grows older and federal and state governments increase their standards for environment and watershed health, the city’s general fund has faced a significant strain in trying to keep up, Steamboat Water Resourced Manager Kelly Romero-Heaney and Steamboat Public Works Director Jon Snyder told council members Tuesday.
“Providing these services can be costly, and it is common for cities and towns in Colorado to finance these expenses through a user fee based on storm water utility,” Romero-Heaney said.
The city of Steamboat Springs proposed events permitting process. (Courtesy)
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS Sparked by a community discussion around Triple Crown Sports, Steamboat Springs City Council is revisiting its special events policy, which all groups, local or otherwise, are required to follow if they want to hold an event in town.
Council members first suggested taking another look at the city’s special events process after they voted 4-3 not to renew a contract with Triple Crown Sports, and Triple Crown applied to return through the special event process.
During a discussion at Tuesday night’s council meeting, council members said they mainly wanted to focus the conversation around local versus non-local events, as many members said they believed local events should be given priority.
FORT COLLINS and STEAMBOAT SPRINGS Triple Crown Sports Inc., the Fort Collins company that
in January lost its contract with the city of Steamboat to host multiple youth and adult tournaments, will be permitted to host at least two baseball tournaments in June this year.
The Steamboat City Council voted this week to permit the tournaments after being threatened with lawsuits if access to Steamboat fields was denied to the company and allowed to other tournament organizations.
In a three-page letter to City Manager Gary Suiter, Triple Crown CEO Keri King outlined the economic impact that his company has had in Steamboat Springs since 1982 and outlined what the company would do if denied access to fields.
Matt Hanson, pitcher for the Colorado Elite out of Castle Rock, fires toward home in a game against the Saddleback Cowboys of California. The teams were competing in the 13 s elite bracket of the 2019 Triple Crown World Series at Howelsen Hill.
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS After voting 4-3 not to renew a contract with Triple Crown Sports, the Steamboat Springs City Council will again discuss the youth sporting organization’s future at its Tuesday night meeting.
Triple Crown CEO Keri King reapplied to hold summer tournaments in Steamboat through the city’s special event permit process, which all outside event groups are required to apply for if they’d like to hold events in town.
Rendering from Steamboat Resort
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp. on Wednesday made official its plans to redevelop Gondola Square into a multiuse plaza with additional restaurants, shopping and entertainment venues. The project is slated to break ground in April.
“This is the biggest proposed project since the resort first opened in 1963, and it will benefit visitors and the entire Yampa Valley community, which have been so supportive of the resort through the years,” Ski Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Rob Perlman said. east out onto the base of the mountain, specifically over Burgess Creek onto the snow where the magic carpets are now.