March 20, 2025 City of Boulder City Council Meeting

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• Boulder Housing Partners0:13:00at this moment

  We convened a panel of homeless housing providers, including All Roads, EA, BHP, and Bridge House, who shared their strategies and success stories.

• Homelessness0:13:00at this moment

  First, in fall 2024, HAB investigated housing solutions to homelessness. We convened a panel of homeless housing providers, including All Roads, EA, BHP, and Bridge House

• Affordable commercial space0:14:00at this moment

  our meeting explored the adaptive reuse of commercial spaces into a range of housing from transitional to market rate.

• Boulder Housing Partners0:14:00at this moment

  Pete Weber from Coburn who is working with BHP on the geological building as well as other projects with other developers.

• The Israel–Hamas war and community dialogue0:17:01at this moment

  I heard the news of Israel breaking the ceasefire and by only carpet violent violently carpet bombing Gaza again and killing more than 400 people

• Landmark designation and call-up process0:44:16at this moment

  Our 1855 Flat Iron Court project is on your agenda tonight for call-up consideration.

• Landmark designation and call-up process0:46:01at this moment

  We respectfully requesting city council call up our 1855 flat project tonight so we can time.

• The Israel–Hamas war and community dialogue0:51:01at this moment

  100,000 people that have been murdered by Israel are all Hamas when that is not true. But you know what? something I know a scionist is a Nazi

• Alpine-Balsam redevelopment1:02:00at this moment

  Mark? Yeah, I have both uh questions and comments with respect to the financing proposals for Alpine Balsam.

• CU South1:03:00at this moment

  we are moving ahead with a financing that is um one and a half times the size of uh CU South without any uh discussion

• Capital improvement program1:05:01at this moment

  the approval of the project budget in the 2015 or I'm sorry, 2025 capital improvement program and 2020 annual budget.

• City budget1:05:01at this moment

  the approval of the project budget in the 2015 or I'm sorry, 2025 capital improvement program and 2020 annual budget.

• City budget1:07:01at this moment

  there's also an emergency ordinance appropriating $100 million um, for the debt in for the budget for 2025 as well.

• Landmark designation and call-up process1:11:01at this moment

  Thanks so much. Can we go to our call-up check-in, please? Yes, sir. Thank you. Our call-up check-in tonight is item 4A

• Xcel Energy partnership agreement1:18:02at this moment

  A brief reminder of what a cable franchise agreement is. Federal law allows local governments to require a franchise agreement

• Xcel Energy partnership agreement1:19:00at this moment

  So, so in January, the city entered into a 20-year agreement with Ella to lease the city's dark uh fiber backbone

• Xcel Energy partnership agreement1:20:02at this moment

  Alo submitted a cample a cable franchise agreement application on February 18th, and the parties have negotiated an agreement

• Annexations at the city edge1:25:02at this moment

  Uh a small little uh development outside may not have been annexed yet. Uh is 25 and and as I mentioned Lincoln, Nebraska

• CU Boulder housing1:27:03at this moment

  It's more and more important uh, you know, in uh, our larger communities that have large universities

• Student housing near campus1:27:03at this moment

  Um, student housing, um, MDUs, most people call those apartments or or or condo associations.

• Power outages, reliability and Xcel rates1:36:00at this moment

  we just had our conversation with Excel um about the partnership and one of the components was undergrounding.

• Power outages, reliability and Xcel rates1:37:01at this moment

  Yeah. Um, Excel, uh, we've done several projects with them. Um, uh, you know, being co-utilities

• Reforming boards and commissions1:44:00at this moment

  tonight's second public hearing is item 5B, and it is the consideration of a motion to approve the 2025 boards and commission appointments.

• Downtown vitality1:45:00at this moment

  Now, two boards, the Shiitakwa Association and the Downtown Management

• Downtown vitality1:46:01at this moment

  Commission were not receiving applications at this time because there was no vacancies.

• Downtown vitality2:09:03at this moment

  Is by not nominating does this board become unable to serve its function if it has two vacancies?

• Travel demand management for new development2:21:01at this moment

  he's arguably one of the most overqualified people for this role in Bjad uh TDM.

• Climate action and emissions2:27:00at this moment

  we have an an incredible climate initiatives team that has expertise that always amazes me.

• Zero waste, recycling and plastics2:27:00at this moment

  he's even written a paper on achieving a zero waste program.

• Manufactured housing and mobile home parks2:29:01at this moment

  our mobile park communities and mobile home communities still have a lower water quality.

• Valmont coal ash cleanup2:29:01at this moment

  We also have the Valmont coal ash issue as well. Um as uh we also have Marshall the Marshall not fire but the Marshall Mesa

• Climate action and emissions2:30:00at this moment

  consider applying for other boards that you may not think because every board should have a climate expert

• Affordable housing policy2:36:01at this moment

  I would regard Matt as of the nine of us easily the most knowledgeable and the strongest of the board members.

• Boulder Housing Partners2:36:01at this moment

  I've uh been a representative of this council to the board of BHP for a couple of years now

• Affordable housing policy2:37:00at this moment

  he's got a very, I think, uh, interesting focus with middle-income housing as it really pertains to our school enrollment challenges.

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

  he's got a very, I think, uh, interesting focus with middle-income housing as it really pertains to our school enrollment challenges.

• Urban trees and the forestry corps2:49:03at this moment

  Paul I think has u a lot of service experience um in neighboring communities and uh just really appreciated his um expertise in uh forestry

• Local food and farming2:50:01at this moment

  experience with extension and our agricultural um footprint which is currently a stepchild um of our of our components

• Recreation centers3:07:00at this moment

  Um, our transit um system, we're going to do an update with the county this year.

• Student housing near campus3:10:01at this moment

  I appreciated this applicant and their um interest in balancing um sort of the changes in what it takes to be a college town

• Reforming boards and commissions3:16:00at this moment

  commissions appointments as noted. Second. All right, we got a motion to second.

• Reforming boards and commissions3:18:01at this moment

  you elected to keep the human relations commission's boards open or extend that recruitment by vote.

• Local food and farming3:24:00at this moment

  I also wanted to thank those who participated in the council chat around food security.

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