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City Council · regular
Boulder City Council Meeting 5-11-23
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- regular
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- past
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AI-read · unreviewed28 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personif we see higher office vacancy rates uh we then think about that multiplier effect if people aren't in the community
if there were to be kind of a minimum wage increase starting
governmental Capital fund to support continued development of Alpine Balsam and the Western City Campus site
you can see our 2023 adopted budget where we've increased 22 million in general fund
for the behavioral health or CARE program we programmed
for the downtown ambassador program and the urban Parks Rangers
fund the day Services Center and The CARE program which are great opportunities there
the capital Improvement program will include long-range facilities planning to ensure sustainable funding strategies
we have three recreation centers that need to be addressed in some format two fire stations
five of which would come from the affordable housing fund and then five from the general fund
why we couldn't use the fund from affordable housing for the day Center and it looks like we can 5 million yay
especially our Capital Improvement program is is beginning to think about our long-range facilities planning
figure out uh the best approach to our recreation centers
the community who values our rec center so much and it's used across the board with all incomes
that we can put into our budget terms and help guide departments as they develop budgets over the next
Capital Improvement costs infrastructure costs certainly seem like they are going up is that something that we take into account
hearing from what some folks in East County experienced in a climate crisis
our climate initiatives folks could expand on in terms of working with Community
with our over Reliance on sales tax one of the concerns is from an equity perspective of who's who's paying the majority
you will see a structural deficit this year when we produce the fund financials for the general fund
I did notice that it went from Pilot to ongoing needs
we have not made a determination on guaranteed income and some of our other pilot programs
I was also really interested in the idea of boards and commissions um and them being paid because they are almost completely unpaid
this is just an update on the potential 2023 ballot measures for the state and the region
continuing crisis response Services currently funded with temporary funding support
funded with temporary funding support for plan day shelter programming increased support
we do know that we have a needs for the day shelter
some an expert in homelessness recently wrote to me and said that she didn't feel like