February 8, 2024 City of Boulder City Council Study Session

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• Homelessness0:11:00at this moment

  address the VAR and very individual needs of all those that are in our community experiencing homelessness so with that I will um send it over to Carl

• City budget0:14:01at this moment

  these individuals have a significant impact on the budgets of the agencies that serve and respond to them so what you see in this slide here

• Alternative crisis response (CARE)0:21:00at this moment

  significant mental and Behavioral Health Services provided through case management coordinated staff um includes mental health nursing referrals to particular treatments

• Downtown vitality0:30:01at this moment

  thanking me for another successful Pro uh prosecution of Anthony but that thank you to me just highlighted that he was once again caught up in the criminal justice system

• Police chief hiring and equity in policing0:38:00at this moment

  I have the honor of being your interim police chief I want to briefly discuss Boulder PD's involvement with I utilizer program

• Police oversight panel and its independence0:41:01at this moment

  while non-traditional this program is also a form of police reform by reducing the number of potentially contentious interactions between our police officers

• Homelessness0:48:01at this moment

  being on the huti this list is usually correlated and overlaps with you have been here for a while um that being said there is also a natural response that people ask for any program

• Downtown vitality1:02:02at this moment

  when we were looking over some of the data with the downtown ambassadors today

• Human rights ordinance1:07:01at this moment

  I don't think we can tie it to time I think that's that is a a way that we um kind of perpetuate discrimination and bias within our community

• Downtown vitality1:23:00at this moment

  the Boulder Police Department had responded to calls from community members and business owners in the downtown Boulder business area on 60 occasions

• City budget1:27:01at this moment

  we would be looking that as City dollars and we would look at all the Departments so we try not to siphon out these are City monies not Department Monies

• Homelessness2:07:00at this moment

  connect people to housing um and so I think it's important to look at the context that both meeting folks where they're at um as well as as helping them to exit homelessness

• Boulder Housing Partners2:08:00at this moment

  we fund um Boulder housing Partners to provide the housing piece and they partner with Boulder shelter to provide the case manage case management fees

• Boulder Housing Partners2:11:01at this moment

  Boulder housing Partners also add is um developing Hilltop down in South Boulder that will have some vouchers for for folks

• Eviction prevention and rental assistance2:16:06at this moment

  epis is the eviction prevention and rental assistance it is the program run through HHS in the city um that you know interacts with folks who are facing eviction

• Affordable housing policy2:18:00at this moment

  these are some just some data points that were shared at the um affordable housing conference last week and so some of you may have already seen these

• School enrollment and city-school coordination2:37:00at this moment

  our keep families House program which is a partnership between um the schools EA and the city um that because there's a high degree of City participation

• Eviction prevention and rental assistance2:42:00at this moment

  our um eviction prevention team um the the percentage of individuals that they served um which are often families um from 20202 from 2022 to 2023 doubled

• School enrollment and city-school coordination2:42:00at this moment

  we we know the the number of um uh um students in the bbsd school district um you know who are experiencing homelessness doubled

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures2:45:02at this moment

  thank you for bringing up the implementation of the safe zones ballot measure which was talked about a lot in the Fallen past and um just wondering what the communication strategy

• Affordable housing policy3:07:00at this moment

  somewhere between between um uh8 and10 million a year sometimes upwards as much as12 million a year is going into affordable housing um developments

• City budget3:07:00at this moment

  just trying to make sense of the budget numbers and I think I saw on an earlier slide that our um budget is $9 million for expenditures

• Affordable housing policy3:09:00at this moment

  currently um with the uh uh developments that are in our pipeline which is about 1100 units of affordable housing over the next um five or six years

• Climate action and emissions3:21:00at this moment

  I certainly think some of that is migration and some of that is climate migration and um and other issues and I think you know we're making needing to make investments

• Human Relations Commission work plan3:24:01at this moment

  we as staff have created out of that very necessity kind of a strategic plan we hope we get feedback you hope we hope you'll see how our work plan is um is driving into that strategic plan

• Alternative crisis response (CARE)3:28:01at this moment

  we have a a monthly meeting with um Mental Health Partners to collaborate on our work um we've also been uh meeting regularly with them about um one particular um property

• North Boulder subcommunity plan3:32:03at this moment

  we've had a lot of discussion from the North Boulder Community about the new day shelter that's coming and we have issues at the Rosewood underpass

• North Boulder subcommunity plan3:34:03at this moment

  raising again the feedback that we heard from Community um and I also want to thank her for going to uh a community meeting in addition to that virtual meeting

• Downtown public safety3:35:00at this moment

  I am interested in having more information about the efforts that we have done um both from a a public safety perspective um as well as some of the other issues

• Disability access in city policy3:36:02at this moment

  again I understand the virtual context allows for more accessibility so I'm not saying that's not necessary but I am saying um or rather I'm hopeful

• Regional housing needs (DRCOG)3:38:02at this moment

  we just learned from the Regional Housing uh meeting that in uh 2018 the uh rent assistance needed across the county was $900,000 and in 2023 that increased to 14 million

• Indigenous peoples, tribal relations and Indigenous arts3:49:01at this moment

  things like the tribe Recovery Home are really beneficial have a deep need so love to see us do more in that area in particular

• Alternative crisis response (CARE)3:58:02at this moment

  there's quite a few items in there that are clearly behavioral mental health and addiction related programs just as our CARE program is that our CT program

• Arts grants4:11:01at this moment

  we will be coming to you with a larger conversation about arpa and frankly other grant-funded things it's not just arpa we also get grants from a variety of other um needs

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