Boulder City Council Study Session 2-23-21

Agenda

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• Reforming boards and commissions0:03:00at this moment

  we do however have three boards and commissions that did not receive applications to proceed on to the interview portion of recruitment

• City budget0:50:01at this moment

  it does get revised based upon new budgets for those support departments

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures0:59:01at this moment

  wouldn't we need a charter change because we're close to our charter limit on property taxes

• City budget1:00:00at this moment

  it wouldn't provide the base budget relief of taking the library off the books

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures1:02:00at this moment

  because it wouldn't be a municipal property tax our charter limit on property taxes wouldn't apply

• City budget1:32:01at this moment

  budget reductions because of public health requirements as well as budget reductions because of the need to offer up

• Homelessness2:12:02at this moment

  we will be talking more about um financing when it comes to um services for the homeless

• Climate action and emissions2:45:00at this moment

  electricity generation and energy more broadly has consistently represented the majority of boulder's emissions and that really makes it a key target for our climate action

• Climate action and emissions2:46:01at this moment

  council has also endorsed a package of relatively ambitious energy targets including an aggressive 100 renewable electricity target by 2030

• Xcel Energy partnership agreement2:47:00at this moment

  voters approved a new settlement agreement really signaling the community's desire to pause municipalization for now and instead focus on partnering with excel

• Xcel Energy partnership agreement2:48:01at this moment

  at this point our armeni team has been focused on a handful of activities really over the past couple of months since the november vote

• Xcel Energy partnership agreement2:49:00at this moment

  if we determine that continuing with the partnership is no longer in the best interest of the community

• Climate action and emissions2:55:01at this moment

  it's really to advance our goals around our greenhouse gas emissions reduction

• Alpine-Balsam redevelopment3:00:00at this moment

  we have had kickoffs um for our alpine balsam project so looking at our energy infrastructure opportunities there

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

  attachment b we've laid out a lot of the criteria for how we're going to inform a five-year undergrounding plan

• Power outages, reliability and Xcel rates3:09:00at this moment

  the cost of undergrounding as a citywide project is going to be half a billion dollars is that correct

• Alpine-Balsam redevelopment3:14:00at this moment

  how we may deploy microgrids to our projects at alpine balsam and chautauqua

• Power outages, reliability and Xcel rates3:31:01at this moment

  while we're looking at a half a billion dollars in undergrounding

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