HomeMy WebLinkAboutbocc.min.reg.10121955 O Leber 12, 1955
A special meeting was held in the District Court Room on Wednesday, October 12, 1955
at 8 :00 P.M. Present were C. 0. Quam, T. J. Sardy, Commissioners; Robert Delaney, County
Attorney and Wm. C. Stapleton, Budget.
The meeting was called to order by Robert Delaney and the Notice of Public hearing on
the budget as well as the Notice of Public Hearing and Resolution concerning the proposed
[building fund for a new hospital were read.
Thereupon Wm. Stapleton explained the proposed budget as the same is filed, including
the request for revenue and the necessary mill levy required to raise such revenue.
Mr. McLeish, of the State Board of Health, was present as were the Chairman and members
of the Hospital Board of Directors and an estimated sixty citizens.
A discussion resulted concerning the proposed resolution for the creation of a sinking
fund to build a new hospital in or near Aspen. Numerous questions were asked and answered
and it was the concenus of opinion that a public hospital was a necessity in Pitkin County.
Mr. McLeish stated that the hospital is now subject to annual licensing by the State Board
Iof Health; that the present hospital in many respects does not comply with the standards
required by the Health Department; that the present hospital building by extensive renovatior
(could be made to comply with these standards, but that he strongly recommended new constru-
lction rather than the expenditures of money on the existing structure.
The Chairman of the Hospital Board and various members of the Board expressed opinions
'din favor of new construction. Others present objected to a three mill levy because of the
1 1arge increase in budget requirements for 1956 and because of other demands for improvements
in Aspen and vicinity as requested by the State Board of Health and for other reasons.
Thereafter the Commissioners indicated that a vote be taken by secret ballot to which
strenuous objection was voiced on the basis that the group ws not representative, following
which a show of hands was called for on th- • est "o •f whether the resolution creating the •inking
fund shoudl be passed or not passed — '= - = -- ha the group were approximately equally 1
k ivided as to the passage of the resolution.
Thereupon the meeting was declared adjourned for further consideration at the regular
1 Welfare Meeting of the Corruriissioners.
Approved: �j ®.
C.O. Quam, Chairman
Attest_
gP P Clerk
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