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City Council · regular
Boulder City Council Meeting 10-20-22
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- regular
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AI-read · unreviewed40 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personso I am very concerned about this initiative and I ask Boulder City Council to lead the way and restorative justice to decriminalize the use of psychedelic medicines
I'm here once again to discuss Boulder's flawed affordable housing and housing first programs
I want to talk about CU South how you shove that down our throats to make us think it's a good thing
it's inadequate flood protection and why in God's name this small town needs a third campus
integral to that healing over the last year in particular has been microdosing psilocybin mushrooms
I ask that Boulder City Council make decriminalization of psychedelics a priority in order to end arrests
a stricter camping ban one mile from all schools
climate inaction has the logic wrong Boulder government has electrified their own buildings and helped rich people Electrify their homes
the Harvest House the millennium is a takings of Cu from the city of Boulder 931 bedrooms for students
all up and down 36 coming into Boulder every hotel's been turned in a student housing
the recommended budget as presented in September does include all district related Affairs
513.5 million dollar package and as amended is now a five 515 million point 515.4 million dollar recommended budget
the University Hill General improvement district or eugid the two Boulder Junction access District
then lastly the downtown Boulder business Improvement District uh this is a little bit different statute
if Council would be able to change any of these individual budgets without impacting the appropriation ordinances later
I would say for the the general Improvement districts those are specific taxing mechanisms so it allows us
the role of the camping ban is not to solve homelessness it's to keep our public spaces Clean safe and managed
they have very little oversight at the federal and state level all residents such as myself can hope
that the state has 300 million dollars that they are going to be focusing on affordable housing
were not even funded for General operating support grants impacting them for three years
thank you for funding the amounts specified in the 2016 Community cultural plan that the Arts need more funding
I appreciate your funding for public art and the American Rescue plan act funds for covid-19
192 000 would provide two years of General operating support grants for five Boulder Arts organizations
recently received the general operating support Grant from the boulder Arts commission thank you for supporting this program
because we rent space at the Dairy Center we did not qualify for shuttered venue funding
Compares in terms of the targets within the community cultural plan
through the community cultural plan looking at updating those funding targets based on inflation
his questions often surround BHP and I was the representative the council representative
I would characterize BHP as perhaps no offense to any other component of our city government
during the pandemic they evicted absolutely no one on the basis of economic hardship
research shows that camping Bans are a failed approach to homelessness because when
you saw the Flood Master Plan and heard about the how the racial Equity work was integrated into that plan
it provides guidance for recognizing droughts that will affect the city's water supply and also responding
The Guiding principles include Equity ecosystem climate and local food production considerations
prioritizing the maintenance of trees over the maintenance of Lawns due to the cooling effects the benefits from a tree canopy
through our Capital Improvement program second there's been a lot of attention on the drought
the city receives about one-third of its annual water supply or drinking water supply from the Colorado River
we have two other utilities water and and Wastewater we'll have future Master
I'll take this reminder to vote Yes on 2A for our climate tax and also the County ballot measure
I'll take this reminder to vote Yes on 2A for our climate tax and also the County ballot measure