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January 8, 2026 City of Boulder City Council Special Meeting
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AI-read · unreviewed56 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personSo, the announcement is about 2026 boards and commissions
the 2026 boards and commissions recruitment period is now open until midnight January 25th, 2026.
I'm here to ask Boulder City Council and PD to reconsider with the renewal of Flock Safety's contract.
In those places, the trash, recycling, and compost system can be confusing or just new.
Trash recycling compost and simple ways to save energy and water.
Flock began as an automated license rate plate reader company and are rapidly expanding into a data collection company.
There's a reason why across the country, people are pushing flock out of their cities.
Even if XL Energy meets some of our objectives as an energy provider from outside of our community
resilience hubs can be very powerful economic, health, and well-being multipliers for our community.
We just went through the PSPS. I didn't see places to go in Boulder.
I'm here to ask the council as we go forward to look at how we create community resilience hubs.
Young Palestinians and Israelis come together to create something powerful and rare.
I'm here to talk about our rec centers.
the community community is absolutely not okay with losing our lap pool at the South Boulder Rec Center.
before plans for East Boulder Rec Center are finished
it is an accessibility issue and so I was curious if there's any considerations or opportunities
I believe there's at least one that talks about um strengthening and building community resilience hubs.
It was really wonderful to see their efforts around circular economy.
residents in manufactured home communities who often bear the worst wind wind impacts in events like these
PSPS would have been a much more dire situation had we not had generators at our water treatment plants.
Our utilities department really had a demonstration of why capital investments matter.
Later this month, the city plans to host a virtual community town hall to focus on this recent PSPS.
We have this um on consent, the agreement with the Sundance Institute.
I continue to be excited about um some of the climate components um as well as the opportunities.
having the Sundance Film Festival come to Boulder starting in 2027 is going to be uh transformative for our cultural scene
approving incentives offered to the Sundance Institute and authorizing the general manager to negotiate and execute a lease
the site review by having people do form-based code to just call it up into the discretionary process.
So all in favor of the motion to call up the project, please raise your hand.
appropriating money to defay the expenses and liabilities of the Nwood Metropolitan District for the 2025 fiscal year
We we act a little bit differently than than most of the other districts here at the city.
amended budget for 2025. So that is correct. It's not a New Year's typo.
so just breaking down the supplemental appropriation here
Resolution four of the Nwood Metropolitan District Board of Directors is hereby approved unanimously.
we are here for the second reading of the annexation and initial zoning of 915 Fifth Street.
The comprehensive plan states that the city will actively pursue annexation of substantially developed area 2 properties
Uh therefore, staff recommends that council consider approving the annexation
the applicant is requesting annexation of the city of Boulder with re zoning
BRC1981 related to landscaping, water conservation, and wildfire resilience and setting forth related details.
before the council tonight is ordinance 8721 related to the wildfire hardening and
that holds moisture and doesn't add to urban heat island effect
the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan, the water efficiency plan, and the community wildfire protection plan
we have urban heat island effect that we're concerned about um with cool boulder goals
it would also enable us to comply with recently uh passed state laws that relate to nonfunctional turf
we've also created an exception process to site review and formbbased code for anyone who wants to do those turf conversions
We removed the three-foot height requirement from the urban agriculture requirement.
The non-combustible zone doesn't allow any combustible materials, including vegetation.
there's also requirements in there that we've maintained tree uh canopy distances.
aspens um particular Swedish aspens are not on the list um because they aren't resilient to our water conditions.
I really appreciate that like water conservation, um, fire resilience, biodiversity.
we're moving our landscaping standards out of the land use codes so the manual can um, be changed more administratively
BRC C1 1981 related to landscaping, water conservation and wildfire resilience and setting forth related details.
adoption of international wildland urban interface code with modification
Next is the boards and commissions committee who might be interested in this one.
Now, we have financial strategy committee. Currently, we have council members
there was the uh county's working group on homelessness that um former mayor
it is a public good to ensure that our tree canopy is strong.
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