August 13 2026 City of Boulder City Council Special Meeting and Study Session

Civic Area East Bookend Development Partnership RFP Staff Time: 20 Min Council Time: 70 Min Total Time: 90 Min

2026 State/County Ballot Measures Staff Time: 15 Min Council Time: 15 Min Total Time: 30 Min

I'm excited to introduce an update on the redevelopment of the East Book End of the Civic area.

Um main offering for the request for proposal would be the east bookend. So we'll focus a little bit more on this bookend.

you all saw a brief preview of some of these ballot measures um, earlier on and I'm going to give you uh, this evening an update uh, updated summary and ask for some direction from council.

Um so this is the Boulder County Early Childhood Care and Education Mill levy increase.

Boulder County Early Childhood Care and Education Mill levy increase. The ballot measure would increase property taxes in Boulder County by 2.579 mills

This would change uh how Boulder PD currently handles uh immigration enforcement.

This would change uh how Boulder PD currently handles uh immigration enforcement.

Our policy statement speaks pretty directly to opposing mandates on the city when it comes to enforcing federal immigration laws

Then the effects on top of that of House Bill 14:30, which passed this last legislative session, uh was designed to counter this measure.

We do anticipate that this could restrict funding for city programs like the transportation master plan um vision zero plan among others

reduce greenhouse gas emiss emissions. Um so next up, Proposition NN.

it could have implications for the city's energy code requirements which currently require new builds to use electric over natural gas.

it could have implications for the city's energy code requirements which currently require new builds to use electric over natural gas.

the state being able to retain revenue for large programs um could ease budget pressure elsewhere in the in the uh in the budget potentially increasing funding for state programs and grants that the city also uses.

this ballot measure designates all state sales tax revenue collected from sporting goods and equipment as wildfire and conservation revenue.

Um the city is a frequent uh recipient of go grant funding and it's likely that the city may benefit from the increased funding.

it does pull 175 million that would otherwise go to the state's general fund for use for other programs.

And in addition, it would specifically allow for more funding of affordable housing, transportation, multimmobile projects, education, all of that.