Breckenridge voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot question 2A to impose a 4.5 percent lift-ticket tax that will guarantee the town $3.5 million annually for transit projects forever.
Breckenridge Town Council has been engaged in finding a long-term solution to parking, traffic and transit problems for a number of years. This past summer, the process involved a Transit and Parking Task Force, a variety of community forums and other means. In July, a poll of Breckenridge voters conducted confirmed that parking and traffic congestion is a serious problem and should be a top priority for town leaders.
In late August, the town council and Vail Resorts reached an agreement on language for the ballot question regarding long-term funding for parking and transit solutions. The agreement provides that the town will exclude all season passes and summer lift tickets from its proposed admissions tax, and that Vail Resorts will guarantee that the tax will raise at least $3.5 million per year for the town.
The agreement reached in August was mutually beneficial.
“Vail Resorts and Breck are joined at the hip,”said Jerry Dziedzic, who worked with the 2A For a Better Breck . “Neither could survive without the other.”
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