Pitkin County commissioner candidates

For this primary election, voters can only choose one candidate. The two with the most votes advance to the November election, according to the Home Rule Charter. Greg Poschman, Scott Writer and Hawk Greenway, all longtime valley residents, are vying for the seat. It is currently held by Michael Owsley, who has to step down because of term limits.A polling place will be set up at the Aspen Jewish Community Center for early voting from June 20 to June 27. Ballots returned in the mail should be sent eight days prior to the election deadline — 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 28.

Pitkin County clerk's office on the move

Aspen Public Radio

Published October 12, 2015 at 6:43 AM MDT

Pitkin County residents will be registering their cars and voting in a different location soon.

The Pitkin County Clerk and Recorder’s office is planning to move into three different locations next year so the annex building it currently occupies can be remodeled. County staff on Wednesday will ask the commissioners to approve three leases that combined will cost the county nearly $19,000 a month in rent. That’s almost a half a million dollars over the 2 years the departments will be in their temporary offices. That doesn’t factor in altering the new spaces. Janice Vos Caudill is Pitkin County’s clerk and recorder.

“The leases will start, as far as I know, immediately and so we will have to go in and look at remodel, potential remodel so we can move our offices down in those areas,” she says.

The department of motor vehicles will move into the lower level of the Vectra Bank building on Hyman Avenue in the spring. The clerk and recorder and elections department will operate out of two spaces in the Ute City Banque building a block away. Vos Caudill estimates the move will happen in January.