Boulder City Council Study Session 11-28-17

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• Civic Area plan0:27:01at this moment

  the last thing that we have on the list really in terms of a cost center is the potential renovation of the North Building of the Civic area

• Homelessness0:28:00at this moment

  primarily they point to the presence of the homeless population or people who they perceive to be homeless as an issue within the library

• Homelessness0:31:01at this moment

  so we use bridge house ready to work in the area outside of the library

• Boulder Housing Partners0:35:01at this moment

  we do have a partnership and Boulder housing partners and that's a contractual relationship for the North Boulder library

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan0:49:02at this moment

  the comp plan the places of largest growth within the city are in that area around Valmont and xxx

• City budget0:57:00at this moment

  contributes to sales tax and general fund which is the other eighty percent of our budget

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan0:57:00at this moment

  the only one that we've looked at that makes sense is the comp plan map

• Annexations at the city edge1:00:01at this moment

  the other question it's just another argument for annexation

• Affordable housing policy1:10:03at this moment

  we've been talking at Council about reserving some of that capacity for possibly other matters like affordable housing

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures1:13:01at this moment

  some of our property taxes that we assess are go to the general fund correct so would it be conceivable

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures1:22:01at this moment

  I'm wary of continuing to increase our sales taxes it is a regressive tax

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures1:23:02at this moment

  so the idea of property taxes raising property taxes is seems like a sort of politically infeasible direction

• Annexations at the city edge1:27:00at this moment

  gun barrel is going to fight you tooth-and-nail for annexation

• City budget1:33:02at this moment

  we could talk about general fund dollars and how those allocations are done

• City budget1:39:01at this moment

  priorities within our existing budget without raising taxes or the sales taxes or use taxes or annexations

• Climate action and emissions2:02:01at this moment

  that still only reduces our emissions by 43 percent and so the other half of the reductions

• Alpine-Balsam redevelopment2:11:01at this moment

  the city's working to redesign the new Alpine balsam site to be consistent with our long-term climate goals

• Energy conservation code2:11:01at this moment

  moving into local policy the city updates our energy codes every three years and we do this

• Flood mitigation and stormwater2:38:01at this moment

  back in 2013 we had some devastating floods as well

• Transportation master plan and safety2:43:00at this moment

  we're also in the early stages of a transportation master plan that will provide hopefully enhance sustainable multimodal transportation options

• Transportation master plan and safety2:45:00at this moment

  I wondered if I'd heard a rumor that one of the aspects of the transportation master plan was going to be

• Alpine-Balsam redevelopment2:51:01at this moment

  as we're starting to acquire Alpine balsam sights and new sights in the city

• Climate action and emissions2:51:01at this moment

  therefore what shows up in our greenhouse gas inventory by following international protocols

• Power outages, reliability and Xcel rates3:08:04at this moment

  we're not getting what we should be getting with the rates that we're paying

• Power outages, reliability and Xcel rates3:22:00at this moment

  we're being completely ripped off on our undergrounding fee

• Climate action and emissions3:26:01at this moment

  Copenhagen commits to being carbon neutral by get this 2025

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