Boulder Civic Map snapshot 2026-10-23 · latest source read 2026-10-31

City of Boulder · office · OCED

Office of Cultural and Economic Development

“The City of Boulder’s Office of Cultural and Economic Development (OCED) serves the community by advancing opportunity, innovation and vibrancy through collaborative partnerships, informed investment and forward-looking policy.” source as of 2026-10-30

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Who runs it

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Researcher's note: The 2026 budget book's 'Community Vitality' department and this office: the city's release of October 6, 2025 says the City Manager's Office would host a new Cultural and Economic Development division from January 2026, with most staff from Community Vitality, 'which will cease to exist in its current form'. Community Vitality was itself formed in October 2015 (Wayback snapshot of its About page, 2025-11-16). The city's Community Vitality pages answer 403 now. The Arts Commission is on OCED's board list but is staffed by its Office of Arts and Culture division, so its staffs entry is in that file, not here. A parent_id of the City Manager's Office was left out because no department file for it exists yet; reports_to is party:city-manager (the City Manager's Office).

Head
Mark Woulf, Assistant City Manager as of 2025-10-06 source source
Answers to
City Manager. A division hosted by the City Manager's Office since January 2026, incubating under Assistant City Manager Mark Woulf until it becomes a standalone department with its own director. It replaced most of the Community Vitality Department. The city manager appoints its staff and head (Charter Sec. 64(b)). Head appointed by City Manager. source source source as of 2025-10-06
Legal basis
  • City Manager reorganization announced October 6, 2025, effective January 2026 (2025-10-06) · creates · City Revamps Organizational Structure To Bolster Cultural and Economic Development source source source
  • Charter Sec. 64 · governs · Special powers and duties as city manager source
Contact
303-441-3090 · EconomicVitality@bouldercolorado.gov · 1777 Broadway Boulder , CO 80302 · contact page source as of 2026-10-30

Boards and commissions it staffs

Budget

from the city's approved budget books; each figure printed, to the dollar, in its source (hover a source for its words). A year may come from a different book or table than the next: the table says what each covers
2024 approved: $17,417,287$17.4M20242025 approved: $21,158,774$21.2M20252026 approved: $24,696,003$24.7M2026
YearBasisAmountWhat it covers
2024approved$17,417,287All funds: expenses of the Community Vitality Department (the department most of whose staff became OCED in January 2026), FY2024 budget column of the 2026 book's 'Department Budget by Program and Expense Type (FY2024-2026)' table. source
2025approved$21,158,774All funds: expenses of the Community Vitality Department, FY2025 budget column of the 2026 book's 'Department Budget by Program and Expense Type (FY2024-2026)' table. source
2026approved$24,696,003All funds: expenses of the Community Vitality Department as budgeted for 2026 (adopted before the reorganization took effect; it includes $12,139,956 of capital), FY2026 budget column of the 2026 book's 'Department Budget by Program and Expense Type (FY2024-2026)' table. source source

Divisions

in the city's own words; heads only where an official source names them

What a resident can do here

services and programs, linked to the city's pages