January 11, 2024 City of Boulder City Council Special Meeting

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• Reforming boards and commissions0:02:00at this moment

  the 2024 boards and commissions recruitment period is now open until January 29th 2024

• Eviction prevention and rental assistance0:33:00at this moment

  housing and rental assistance programs um and then further this question

• Homelessness0:33:00at this moment

  how much of a problem if at all they felt homelessness was in the city of Boulder

• Downtown vitality0:42:00at this moment

  it would be interesting to know how people feel at night in the downtown commercial areas

• Affordable housing policy0:45:00at this moment

  we also very much need more affordable housing um so

• Indigenous peoples, tribal relations and Indigenous arts1:01:01at this moment

  a people whose land this actually is with our indigenous brothers sisters and others

• Homelessness1:18:01at this moment

  the most recent largest survey of unhoused people

• Homelessness1:19:01at this moment

  the unhoused and and homeless population is by definition I would say the hardest to reach

• Downtown vitality1:25:01at this moment

  we're now at a 30 to 35% vacancy rate in our offices downtown

• Healthy and resilient buildings1:41:01at this moment

  we can provide better healthy indoor air uh indoor envir air environments which is increasingly critical

• City budget1:42:00at this moment

  it's made up of you see in Blue City dollars from our general fund or other dedicated sources

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures1:42:00at this moment

  last May um we presented a long-term Financial strategy to help Implement these key initiatives

• Capital improvement program1:43:01at this moment

  the sale of some of those buildings will generate proceeds necessary to help fund new capital projects

• Civic Area plan1:44:01at this moment

  most of the buildings being vacated are in the Civic area

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures1:45:02at this moment

  the second policy was to ring fence savings or put like a virtual barrier around that savings

• Capital improvement program1:46:01at this moment

  the challenge with putting a total Capital cost is it's so subject to timing

• Alpine-Balsam redevelopment1:47:01at this moment

  it's $1 150 to $200 million estimate uh just for Alpine Balsam

• Climate action and emissions1:54:00at this moment

  we do have uh bonding capacity against the climate tax that was authorized uh by voters

• Climate action and emissions2:02:02at this moment

  I have two questions on I guess climate and energy strategy

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan2:05:01at this moment

  we started to look at where the Boulder Valley comp plan was uh forecasting growth in the future

• Travel demand management for new development2:07:00at this moment

  we do have to do Transportation demand management studies on those projects

• Alpine-Balsam redevelopment2:09:02at this moment

  it's not that easy to get to the Alpine Balsam with our existing Transportation

• Alpine-Balsam redevelopment2:10:00at this moment

  I'm also beginning to have some concerns about the cost of the Alpine Balsam project

• Climate action and emissions2:15:00at this moment

  it impacts achieving our climate action targets and decarbonizing our building stock

• Capital improvement program2:21:03at this moment

  now looking at some of the major capital projects we're advancing in 2024

• Recreation centers2:23:00at this moment

  the three Recreations the three recreation centers make up a third of our annual energy consumption

• Flood mitigation and stormwater2:25:01at this moment

  that'll include flood improvements in a new Greenway along balam uh Road

• Power outages, reliability and Xcel rates2:35:00at this moment

  we noticed actually through some power outages in particular the Brenton building performed better

• Recreation centers2:41:00at this moment

  which could be more uh work on the recreation centers and the development of the proposed Eastern City Campus

• City budget2:42:02at this moment

  help us develop what could be um that availability payment within our budgets

• City budget2:51:01at this moment

  we have identified sources in the general fund um but we've also been looking at

• Minimum wage3:02:01at this moment

  conversations that we're having am around minimum wage right

• Area III Planning Reserve3:03:00at this moment

  the areas that we're considering uh for Area 3 and other areas

• Urban trees and the forestry corps3:03:00at this moment

  I'm always going to be curious of what are the implications of um you know wildlife of our Urban um canopy

• Alternative crisis response (CARE)3:21:01at this moment

  the care team HHS Communications Transportation um all all of our emergency services

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