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July 30, 2026 City of Boulder City Council Special Meeting
- Date
- Series
- special
- Status
- past
- Starts
- 18:00
- Sources
- Laserfiche: 3 files; PrimeGov: 3 files (meeting 228); YouTube playlist; YouTube's automatic captions
- 1.Call to Order and Roll Call
- 2.Consent Agenda
- A.Consideration of a motion to cancel the October 8, 2026 Study Session and replace it with a Community and Council Forum on Power Reliability and Resilience
- B.Introduction and consideration of a motion to order published by title only and adopt by emergency measure Ordinance 8767 adopting Supplement 167, which codifies previously adopted ordinances and other miscellaneous corrections and amendments, as amendments to the Boulder Revised Code, 1981; and setting forth related details
- 3.Public Hearings
- A.Second reading and consideration of a motion to amend and pass Ordinance 8754 amending Chapter 12-6, “Minimum Wage,” B.R.C. 1981, setting a local city of Boulder tip offset amount for food and beverage industry workers; and setting forth related details Staff Time: 20 Min Council Time: 220 Min Total Time: 240 Min
- 4.Matters from the City Manager
- A.Direction on the Wildfire Resilience on Open Space ballot measure Total Time: 20 Min
- 5.Discussion Items
- 6.Debrief
- 7.Adjournment
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AI-read · unreviewed22 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personSecond reading and consideration of a motion to amend and pass Ordinance 8754 amending Chapter 12-6, “Minimum Wage,” B.R.C. 1981
Direction on the Wildfire Resilience on Open Space ballot measure
I'd like to request a motion to amend the agenda to add item 4A, direction on the wildfire resilience on open space ballot measure
I encourage you uh in particular to look at the challenges skyhigh rents present small businesses owners.
A vacancy tax proposed for uh commercial rent shot down.
Let's look at capping third party delivery fees, providing commercial rent relief, or better yet, working towards a vacancy tax on unused commercial properties
just before Boulder welcomes the Sundance Festival, bringing one of the biggest boosts to the restaurant business our city has ever seen
In downtown Boulder alone, 85% of our restaurants are locally owned and operated.
you are considering rolling back the planned wage increases that council already passed
I am against the alteration of the uh tip offset because low wages are inhumane, bad for the economy
homelessness services are cutting programs and laying off staff
I do urge you guys to vote no on changing the tipped um, offset schedule
We need to encourage residents who can afford to to come downtown and spend a lot of money
We need to end these destructive power outages.
And finally another fee that I supported was the transportation maintenance fee which
potential for a DDA on August 6th that would be looking at economic stimulus
We own 16 acres of agricultural land. We own more water rights than we use.
We own 16 acres of agricultural land. We own more water rights than we use.
We also know that food systems globally are collapsing for a variety of reasons
Onethird of our water supply is currently at risk with the Colorado River
continuing to push Excel as hard as we possibly can to end these incredibly damaging uh power outages
4 A is the direction on the wildfire resilience on open space ballot measures
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