Adjustment to Aspen Leaf Vehicle Pass
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Campground-Use Permit Discounts

Basis and Purpose Statement:
Colorado Revised Statutes allow Parks to charge user fees at parks and recreation areas and states that these areas “should be financed as much as reasonably possible through revenues derived from the users of such system.”  Given this legislative direction, Parks Division and the Parks Board have aggressively established and periodically increased a variety of user fees to help support the park system.  Such increases have been pursued to balance the need for maximizing fee revenue with the desire to ensure state parks are affordable to the average Coloradoan.
The Division has analyzed its current fees and has identified that reducing the Aspen Leaf discount will generate fee revenue to assist with a 3.3 million dollar funding shortfall for fiscal year 11-12.  If fees are adopted by the Board and implemented by June 30, 2011, revenue can be generated for the next fiscal year to help decrease that shortfall.
The statutory authority for this regulation can be found in sections 33-10-101, 33-10-106, 33-10-107, 33-10-110 and 33-12-103 of the Colorado Revised Statutes. 

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