Election

The Town of Mountain Village will hold a regular municipal election on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, to elect three Town Council members. The municipal election will also ask voters six ballot questions.

2025 Town Council Candidates

Eight electorates are running for three seats in the 2025 Town Council election. The candidates are listed in alphabetical order. On Monday, May 12, the order in which candidates appear on the ballot will be drawn at random and updated accordingly.

Alline Arguelles
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Huascar E. Gomez (Rick)
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Jonathan Greenspan
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Bradford Hewitt
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Michael Kirn
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Heather Knox
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Harvey Mogenson
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Bryan Woody
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Voter Registration Information

The Town of Mountain Village takes your right to vote seriously and includes both legal residents and non-resident property owners. A legal resident is any person who has maintained a principal residence within the town for at least 30 consecutive days prior to a scheduled town election and fulfills voter registration requirements. A non-resident property owner is an owner of real property located within town limits who is not a legal resident of the town but may become a registered elector and thus qualified to vote in Town of Mountain Village elections.

The deadline to register to vote in the June 24, 2025 election is Friday, May 23, 2025 at 5 p.m.

Voter Registration Information

Residential Voter Registration Requirements

Electors must be at least 18 years old on the election date and live in Mountain Village full-time.
Must be registered to vote with the State of Colorado-residents should register at govotecolorado.com.
For address changes, please complete a Change of Address Request Form.
To verify your voter registration status with the State of Colorado visit govotecolorado.com.

Non-Resident Property Owner Requirements

Electors must be at least 18 years old on the election date.
Hold the title to a property in your natural name, not in the name of a trust, partnership, corporation, etc.
Owner of record of real property for 30 consecutive days immediately prior to the election date, during which time you have owned at least 50 percent of the fee title interest in the real property. However, such property interest shall not include ownership of parking spaces, religious or other charitable facilities, hotel units, roads or common areas intended for non-profit use.
To register to vote as a non-resident, you must complete the Mountain Village Voter Registration Form and submit it to the Town of Mountain Village Clerk's Department by 5 p.m. Friday, May 23, 2025.

If you meet these requirements and have registered and/or voted in a Mountain Village election during the past four years, or if you have registered to vote with the San Miguel County Clerk with a Mountain Village address during the past four years, you are automatically registered to vote in the Mountain Village Regular Municipal Election. Contact the Town Clerk's Office with questions or to confirm your voter status.

** Please note: voter information on this webpage is for Mountain Village Town Council elections only, and if you wish to vote in San Miguel County, State of Colorado or Federal elections, you must register with the State of Colorado or San Miguel County.

Voter Registration List

The Town’s Voter Registration List is maintained to facilitate the municipal election process. Individual voter records may only be changed with written notice. Records will be kept as to the most recent date you voted in our municipal election. Records will be purged if:

You fail to vote in two consecutive municipal elections or for four consecutive years, whichever period is longer; or
During our audit process or otherwise, we receive notification of the sale or transfer of Mountain Village property, or we determine that you no longer own a minimum of 50 percent of the fee title interest in the subject real property, or you no longer hold title to the property in your natural name.

Voter Ineligibility

You will receive a notification if you are no longer an eligible voter for Town of Mountain Village elections, and the reason for your ineligibility. For more details regarding the maintenance of our voter registration list, you may review the resolution regarding Procedures for Maintaining the Voter Registration.

Additional Ballot Questions

Six ballot questions will be on the June 24 ballot. Below you will find the approved ballot language for each question. A sample ballot will be posted to this page as soon as it is available.

The Town is soliciting Pro and Con statements for a voter ballot issue notice, which will be mailed to all registered voters prior to the election.

Per Colorado state law, comments received regarding all questions will be summarized for inclusion in the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR) ballot issue notice, which notice will be mailed to all registered voters prior to the election. To be included in the summary, comments must address the specific ballot questions and include the submitter's name, signature and the Mountain Village address where they are registered to vote.

Only registered Mountain Village voters may submit comments on the issues. To provide comments, please fill out this form or email .

Written statements must be received no later than 12 p.m. (noon) on Wednesday, May 21. Comments will be summarized for the ballot issue notice.

For more information about the TABOR notice, contact Mountain Village Town Clerk Susan Johnston at or 970-369-6429.

Ballot Question No. 1: Voter Qualification of Non-Natural Persons

Shall Section 2.3 of the Town of Mountain Village Home Rule Charter be amended to allow owners of residential real property within the Town that are LLCs or trusts to designate a natural person to act on behalf of such owner as a registered elector and be qualified to vote in municipal elections so long as:

the designated natural person registers with the Town Clerk at least 29 days prior to the date of the election;

the owner is an owner of record of at least a 50% interest in the residential real property for at least 30 consecutive days immediately prior to the date of the election, provided that if two entities meet this requirement for a single parcel then each may only designate one natural person to vote;

each designated natural person has owned at least a 50% interest in the entity that is the owner for at least 30 consecutive days immediately prior to the date of the election, or if the owner is a trust, then the trustee(s) may designate only one natural person for each qualifying trust; and

each designated natural person is at least 18 years of age at the time of the election?

Ballot Question No. 2: Ordinance Effective Date and Referendum Deadline

Shall Sections 5.2 and 5.4 of the Town of Mountain Village Home Rule Charter be amended to establish that, except for emergency ordinances enacted pursuant to Section 5.8, ordinances shall become effective 14 days after publication following second reading and that a referendum petition challenging any ordinance must be filed with the Town Clerk prior to the date that the subject ordinance becomes effective?

Ballot Question No. 3: Publication of Ordinances and Public Notices on the Town Website

Shall Section 5.9 of the Town of Mountain Village Home Rule Charter be amended to authorize publication of ordinances and public notices via the Town's official website rather than a newspaper?

Ballot Question No. 4: Issuance of Revenue Bonds

Shall Section 8.2 of the Town of Mountain Village Home Rule Charter be amended by deleting the requirement for an election to authorize the issuance of revenue bonds?

Ballot Question No. 5 Design Review Board

Shall Section 12.l(b)(2) of the Town of Mountain Village Home Rule Charter be amended to provide that the Town Council shall establish the terms of Design Review Board members by Ordinance?

Ballot Question No. 6: 5% Excise Tax on Ski Lift Tickets Exempting Local Season Passes and Local Products Defined by Ordinance

Shall Town of Mountain Village taxes be increased $2,500,000 in 2025 (collection commencing on July 1, 2025) and by whatever additional amounts as are raised annually thereafter, by imposing a 5% excise tax on the purchase price paid for each ski lift ticket for the dedicated purposes of maintaining and improving the gondola by funding:

The acquisition and construction of gondola capital improvements; and
For paying gondola operations and maintenance expenses;

And shall the Town be authorized to pledge the tax revenues collected by the Town pursuant to this question to the San Miguel Authority for Regional Transportation ("SMART") pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement as a multiple fiscal year financial obligation of the Town to be used by SMART for the purposes authorized by this ballot question, including the pledge by SMART of such revenues to any debt or multiple fiscal year financial obligations of SMART to finance the acquisition and construction of gondola capital improvements; and shall all amounts received by the Town of Mountain Village from such tax and the earnings thereon be collected and spent without limitation or condition as a voter-approved revenue change under Article X, Section 20 of the Colorado Constitution, or any other law?

Ballots Mailed

All Town of Mountain Village elections are conducted by mail ballot. ‘Voter Verification Cards’ will be mailed 45 days in advance of the 2025 election. Please verify that the information on the card is correct and return it promptly to ensure a mail ballot is sent. Please contact the for any questions. Ballots will be mailed to active registered voters between June 2 and 9 and may be returned either by mail or in-person to Town Hall, located at 455 Mountain Village Blvd. Suite A or before 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 24. On Election Day, the polling place at Town Hall will be open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m.

Election

2025 Town Council Candidates

Alline Arguelles

Huascar E. Gomez (Rick)

Jonathan Greenspan

Bradford Hewitt

Michael Kirn

Heather Knox

Harvey Mogenson

Bryan Woody

Ballots Mailed

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