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2009: Local Government Local Government 2009/10 Fast Facts
Local Government
• Steamboat Springs is governed by an elected, seven-member city council that appoints a city manager.  | | Steamboat Springs City Manager Jon Roberts. Photo by Ken Wright |
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• Steamboat’s volunteer boards include a planning commission, board of adjustment, historic preservation, and parks and recreation commission.
• Steamboat primarily generates revenue through sales, use and lodging taxes.
• Steamboat does not have a municipal property tax.
• In addition to normal municipal services such as police, fire, utilities, a general aviation airport and community development, Steamboat also provides public transit and parks and recreation services and facilities including an Olympic-size ice arena, an 18-hole golf course, a six-court indoor tennis center, a PRCA rodeo facility, hundreds of miles of community walking and bike trails and the Howelsen Hill Recreation Complex.
• Routt County encompasses 2,331 square miles or 1,491,840 acres of land. More than 735,000 acres (47%) are publicly owned, and most of that public land is in Routt National Forest. There are four state parks in Routt County – Stagecoach, Steamboat Lake, Pearl Lake and Yampa River.
• An elected three-member board of county commissioners with staggered four-year terms governs Routt County. Volunteers are appointed for the planning commission, board of adjustment, purchase of development rights advisory board, airport advisory board, right to farm and ranch mediation board, extension advisory board, fair board and Yampa Valley Housing Authority board.
• Routt County raises money from property, use and sales taxes, in addition to various state and federal sources. County services include law enforcement and jail, planning, building permits and inspection, environmental health, road and bridge, clerk and recorder, motor vehicle, treasurer, assessor, agricultural extension office, county and district courts, regional airport, multi-agency emergency communications center, coroner, district attorney and health and human services.
• Steamboat is the county seat with a population of about 12,000. The three other incorporated municipalities in the county are Hayden (pop. 2,000; 22 miles west), Oak Creek (pop. 950; 23 miles south) and Yampa (pop.500; 30 miles south).
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