January 18, 2024 City of Boulder City Council Special Meeting

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• Alternative crisis response (CARE)0:23:01at this moment

  Coes responders from the CCH and Care teams were part of the Staffing to provide expertise on managing our residents who had mental health and addiction experiences

• Recreation centers0:24:00at this moment

  Parks and Recreation staff kept the East Boulder Recreation Center open maintained and continuously addressed issues as they arosed

• The Israel–Hamas war and community dialogue0:32:03at this moment

  I believe concerned citizens of Boulder call upon the Boulder City Council to adopt the following resolution regarding the conflict emanating from the Gaza Strip

• Homelessness0:40:00at this moment

  I have founded two homeless nonprofits streetcape being the latest I also spent 5 years on Boulder streets as a chronically unsheltered High system user

• Homelessness0:41:00at this moment

  many of our most visible homeless live by their own rules in outdoor drug infested conditions that we deem illegal

• The Israel–Hamas war and community dialogue1:00:00at this moment

  Boulder Community and I call upon the Boulder City Council to adopt the following resolution to prevent the further loss of life in Israel's war with Gaza

• The Israel–Hamas war and community dialogue1:01:00at this moment

  a ceasefire would limit the worldwide growth of anti-Semitism which is a direct result of Israel Israel's Slaughter of civilians

• E-bikes, scooters and shared micromobility1:23:00at this moment

  bikeways micromobility and improvements and um I'm sorry that uh he and others have experienced an issue with

• Zero waste, recycling and plastics1:27:02at this moment

  at Alpine balam we've gone to Great Lengths to demolish the buildings in a way that that we can recycle most of the materials

• Travel demand management for new development1:31:00at this moment

  if they do include like a TDM plan that will be listed in um a condition of approval

• Energy conservation code1:33:02at this moment

  if we successfully pass our updated energy code here in the next couple months they will be subject to that updated energy Cod

• Travel demand management for new development1:34:01at this moment

  I'd certainly happy to send it to tab to evaluate the connections to the multi-use path as well as the strength of their TDM program

• State housing laws and compliance1:36:01at this moment

  this is in reaction to a state law that was passed last year that prohibits municipalities from enacting or enforcing anti-growth laws

• Annexations at the city edge1:38:00at this moment

  areas that um are intended for future incorporation into the city through annexation

• Capital improvement program1:38:00at this moment

  it also informs spending for Capital Improvement projects

• State housing laws and compliance1:41:01at this moment

  the law is intended to remove zoning and land use barriers to housing units

• Affordable housing policy1:42:01at this moment

  some examples of that are permanently affordable units residential units within mixed use projects

• Affordable housing fee on single-unit additions1:48:01at this moment

  impact fees when you go to sleep at night just dream impact fees jobs housing balance it's imbalance

• Alpine-Balsam redevelopment1:49:01at this moment

  the freaking drugstore at Alpine Balsam you know we're we've got a deficit of these Services

• State housing laws and compliance1:52:01at this moment

  it is required by state law so we should comply with state law

• Energy conservation code2:11:00at this moment

  compliance with energy code may require purchase of off-site solar credits

• Affordable housing policy2:15:01at this moment

  be creating about 40 to 50 uh affordable units um on that site

• Alternative crisis response (CARE)2:21:01at this moment

  you know the The CARE program is about um 800,000

• City budget2:23:01at this moment

  some of them are supporting things that are already uh coming out of the uh um the general fund budget

• City budget2:30:01at this moment

  we don't have a good answer where where we left our budget projections in November was that we had about half a million in the general fund

• City budget2:31:01at this moment

  we could look at other mechanisms other levers that we could pull within the 2025 budget uh process

• Homelessness2:36:02at this moment

  the expectation was that we were actually going to try and reduce the amount of encampment sweeps by actually offering a place for people to have authorized encampments

• Affordable housing policy2:55:01at this moment

  we don't quite have enough funding to deliver all those units um from an affordable housing standpoint

• Regional housing needs (DRCOG)3:40:00at this moment

  Regional Housing needs assessment that has been going on um and what we're seeing

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