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City of Boulder City Council Study Session 04-24-18
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AI-read · unreviewed50 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personwe have adequate reserves reserves are very important for times of uncertainty for emergency events and we saw that with the 2013 flood
we saw that with the 2013 flood but another component of this budget flexibility relates to how proactive are we
reserves by 2020 so that's our strong position now I'm going to turn to the economic climate both domestically and here in Colorado
there have been more apparel store closings than openings so it's something to look at we will also see on a later slide
we definitely saw sales tax decline from that area of the city in 2017 in the next area we thought we'd focus on
some of the shopping areas around the mall those retail pad sites have vacancies some anchor vacancies so I think they're having some analysis to do
if the more rooftops are built then they get to a certain tipping point and then all the retail follows
at the end of 2017 we always take the opportunity to look at what our revenues did which you just get a large context of how we ended the year
the Transportation says CIP reductions prioritized do we have a specific list of how it's been reprioritized
the most recent example or the one that's most prominent is the flood right we had 28 million dollars in damage
one of the things that I know is a huge goal and something that we are personally very happy with is this capital improvement program
because we're still working on our contracts with Xcel Energy those contracts will be provided to the council on May 22nd as you know
when you come back to us I'd be really curious to see some benchmarking you know what other cities comparable cities with $30 linkage fees
if you take sales and property tax that's almost 75 percent of our budget and in times of bad economic times even property tax stagnate
there were a few other items like affordable housing funds that we if we had enough money we would love to be able to address those issues
one of the things that we've talked about is those other needs could be addressed through property tax perhaps but that was different than your question
if the council said oh we would like to have a mill of property tax dedicated to affordable housing so the attorney would write that ballot question
we have less flexibility because we're only talking about our general fund which is like a third of our budget right the other 2/3
the rescue vehicle is a public safety vehicle that was part of the original project suggested for the community culture safety tax
what happens to that does it go to resource so carry working past its lifetime carry one our deputy chief of police
so ability to leverage grant funding and those types of things what we're not doing is sacrificing any grant monies that we already have
it's positioned to really give us a lot of flexibility around whether we get grant funding and so the dollars that are identified
the way that the CIP is programmed right now is is it's positioned to really give us a lot of flexibility around whether we get grant funding
every year after the new board and commissions appointees are made we meet for our tab retreat which is going to be held next week
meaningful parking reform really we're talking about adopting accelerating the adoption of the access management parking strategy that's what amps is
how that relates to transportation demand management which is the TDM you see there we spent a lot of time last year
more social media activity and kind of spearheaded by bill really challenging staff every time they gave us a proposal
solutions enhancing accessibility to transportation considering the financial costs associated with the various transportation modes and promoting Complete Streets
helps us achieve our other goals like reducing greenhouse gas emissions increasing transit use that kind of stuff
we would really appreciate Tabs encouragement of increased collaboration between tab and planning board there are a lot of activities
the TMP plays a very important role in supporting our broad range of sustainability goals it certainly supports accessible and connected
each transportation master plan builds on the one that came before and so it's kind of a building blocks approach with again with the community
reducing vehicle miles traveled and air quality emissions versus more of the dystopian which could actually go the other way
through this TMP update what are we doing to help influence that slope of the line and make more significant progress
the ideas that our streets are for people therefore people using all modes of transportation at all ages and stages of life
last year we created the access management and parking strategy document which was very helpful in multiple years of work
our Chautauqua access management plan all of the great things that are happening at Boulder junction
with that for this section we're very interested in counsels feedback on the proposed focus areas for the TMP
as part of the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan it's one of the goals that got rolled up from the new TMP into the comp plan
so these projects of a certain size my plan review kind of makes them of a certain size
we are doing that on a smaller scale visas currently in the downtown and civic area but that could
some of the strategies that we have been using to try and mitigate crashes include the way that we operate our traffic signals
we certainly have identified that we need to take a look at our traffic signal practices for years that we have operated our traffic signals
that's really more the what we think will move the bar on vision zero is that distinction and then as far as your question about the bike indicators
it's grant funded through the states and it's something that we pursue and have received grant funding for each year
we've got eight red-light camera locations to photo radar vans and that program has been in operation for twenty years
staff from multiple departments at the city the county the state the school district see you and and community
we have some sketchy we have some fatalities happening like on J road which is not maybe strictly I mean technically right outside our city limits
not only several years ago did they raise a quarter of a million dollars for jamestown flood recovery efforts that was collected from cyclists
obviously we would need to come up with a mix of local regional state and state and federal funding sources to deliver that service
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