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City Council · regular
Boulder City Council Meeting 9-8-20
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AI-read · unreviewed42 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personwe're in conversations with the the the boulder shelter for the homeless to uh come up with a plan for this week
so we've communicated with um lots of different organizations that work with the homeless um and most of the people
our tax forecast while it is still negative it has improved over the last few months
attention was given to individual homeowners with temporary inconveniences versus the structural integrity and safety of entired manufactured home communities
if you look at sales tax property tax and other taxes um taxes do account for 80% of All City Revenue
property tax is up as you recall the year 2020 was an assessment year and we saw a pretty big increase in assessments
we begin that budget process we look at what is our revenue forecast and then we look at what were our previously approved ongoing budgets
$341.25 million is operating and just over 69 million is capital
this is that same uh recommended budget uh by Department however it excludes that utilities piece
in order to really focus on Mental Health um response we are suggesting that positions from the police department be moved over to housing and Human Services
the school district does not actually pay for those officers it's completely paid for by the taxpayers of the city of Boulder
rather than reducing all of the school resource officers instead we would keep two of them and we'll be working with the school district
we'll be working with EA and Boulder housing Partners to make sure that they're receiving the funds that they need
in the Arts area we have reduced the Arts fund in um and we have done that in collaboration with the Arts commission public art maintenance will
one thing that the Arts commission as you all know has wanted for a long time is another staff member to assist in the public art program
obviously there'll be a phase reopening of facilities and I think that Parks and Rec has been doing a great job this summer
strategies and to um pilot affordable commercial efforts which are some of the goals that the council had
one of the things that was a result of the pandemic is that there's been substantial reduction in the number of people driving downtown
they've been focused during this time of covid on process improvements and have made really great strides over the course of of those months
Channel 8 support for boards and commissions will be reduced
I want to start off by reminding us of the amazing and great work that was done last year uh for the 2019 Transportation master plan
expected in 2020 to be focusing on ways in which we could um increase fees or find other Revenue sources
transportation and Mobility is really going to be not able to complete all of the things that we hoped for in the um transportation master plan
the CIP program is a comprehensive six-year plan for the capital investment in maintaining and enhancing public infrastructure
for the 2021 to 2026 CIP funding this is the break down by department
that's the um Alpine Balsam rent Rehabilitation project that we're anticipating to issue some debt
it's really about storm water flood management and a big chunk of this utilities portion
there's this final trch of funding for the design of the Alpine Balsam Redevelopment
in our water utility we have critical system components that in some cases are 100 years old
in our storm water and flood utility we've discussed in in some previous Council meetings the need to bring a city
so the middle photo on this slide represents replacement of the the main Interceptor uh Wastewater pipe
to balance those two things we we are proposing rate increases as shown on on this slide
so that's kind of the a snapshot of our our strategy for utility rates and and increases
we need to hire the mental health professional that will be part of that cohort of people that will be um servicing our community
I've also I understand that the the school board is undergoing a kind of a multi-month process about the future of SRO um within the school district
in the capital Improvement projects there was a line about continuing payment support for Hogan pancost
Boulder housing Partners has also allocated funds within their own budget towards um towards rent relief
next question um was about the channel 8 support um decrease on boards and commissions
we won't be broadcasting it on Channel 8 or via our YouTube channels that saves significant staff resources
for some people elevators are you know people with disabilities are the way that they can access um facilities
the cuts for Grants to homeless service um I realize you know we all we all are aware of our struggles um with unhoused population
I would imagine that there will still be at that point a need for um for supports for people for rental assistance