Aspen City Council's regular meeting is scheduled Oct. 9, which happens to fall on Columbus Day, a federal government holiday. It also happens to fall on the day that council members will vote to proclaim the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples Day, which an increasing number of American municipalities are adopting.

Aspen elected officials, who had been generally mum when Councilman Bert Myrin brought up the idea at previous meetings, became more vocal after former Northern Ute Chairman Roland McCook and Deanne Vitrac-Kessler, the founder of the Aspen Ute Foundation, urged them at Monday's meeting to consider Myrin's request.