October 1, 2026 City of Boulder City Council Meeting

adopt Resolution 1383 finding the annexation petition to annex approximately 5.43 acres of land in compliance with state statutes

Consideration of a motion to accept the September 10, 2026, Study Session Summary regarding the 2027 Recommended Budget for City of Boulder

Consideration of the following items relating to the 2027 Budget:

adopting the 2025 major 10-year update to the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan

Front Range Passenger Rail sales tax measure discussion Total Time: 5 Min

I'm working towards establishing either a Boulder Housing Partners Tenants Union or a City of Boulder Tenants Union.

providing protections of discrimination for tenants, um denials of medical reasonable accommodations that are being denied

We have the homeless living in a radioactive area. Do you know what the liability is to the city for that?

all the way up to the shady land annexation deal between the city and CU.

so they could build a fourth campus and more student housing when college enrollment is on a decline

Israel claims self-defense, but the Israel Defense Force is the leading cause of death for children in the world today.

The actual mitigation has to happen at the other end of the property to allow the water to flow through.

I come here from just walking my dog out in the open space that's called CU South.

I'm aware of the Boulder Housing Partners pro uh uh product and approve of that.

And you will not have peace as long as there is no justice either for the indigenous people of Palestine

pass a resolution that you do not support apartheid. Divest more than $38 million a year

do not have axon as a substitute or any surveillance tech for flock.

concerns um about the site closure of CU South that we have um starting on Monday.

unless it is annexed in the city, we cannot develop it.

we can do that keeping the uh utility rates um as we proposed for 2027

Two community votes have been taken on it to further support the building of flood mitigation along South Boulder Creek.

Other notable changes in the 2027 budget include the transportation maintenance fee implementing this fee planned for 2027

7% for storm water flood management utilities to support the utilities enterprise

to lead a formal WOOI fuels mitigation crew in the open space and mountain parks department

There are significant investments in affordable housing in the 2027 budget, including 5.3 million

including 5.3 million for the Alpine Balsam site, supporting the city's largest affordable housing projects with 144 units

enhancements for homelessness and affordable housing, including 300,000 in one-time funding for the building home program

the 2027 recommended budget reduces the child watch program at the community center

the 2027 capital budget totals 135.4 million and 827.7 million across the six-year capital planning horizon

Across the six-year CIP, there's a total of 126.1 million to support 16 capital projects

Our long-term financial strategy was indicated a top council priority in 2024

staff provided a summary of board and commission recommendations in last week's memo shared with city council

we didn't um budget in any positive impact from revenues from the Sundance Film Festival

expenses um that we we will need to consider for the Sundance Film Festival

Um are the drones that can do the thermal detection, are those fully paid by the police department

what are the ways in which we leverage our um new building in Alpine Balsam

it sounds like you're doing the beginning of the update to the 10-year-old agricultural plan in 2027

I'm talking about work workforce housing that our our agricultural plan addresses.

It's more so a concern as our inter as our food costs continue to arise

the three highest priority program areas that the open space leads and that would be the prescribed burn program area

merging some of our specific funds to a public realm tax where we could have more flexibility from year to year

that there was one um commission uh that did not recommend the budget

there's no 15 minutes uh neighborhoods like the Boulder Valley Comp plan directs

what the voters voted on was the annexation of CU South which had absolutely nothing to do with the dam

the annexation of CU South which had absolutely nothing to do with the dam

to implementing the sustainability, climate goals, inclusion and other objectives outlined in the comprehensive plan

based on the appropriate use of the word Sundance to raise all the money for the Botanic Gardens

These programs work best for facilities such as recreation centers that are used by large and diverse populations

To help solve this problem in the simplest way possible, I propose the creation of a senior pass

we're going to make an appeal that we continue to invest and bring back funding for the um tax rebate program

very important element of our effort to address homelessness in our community

We need to continue to drive forward economic vitality that brings the resources to our community

I have heard from our indigenous and tribal communities around um, you know, this particular issue

as we say in our land acknowledgement, all of Boulder sits on the ancestral homelands

we have looked carefully at this site and consulted with our formal tribal partners to see if there's anything specific about this property

going back to tribal consultation it really should be council to council leader to leader

There's roughly $5.85 million in next year's budget for CIP.

there there were some reasons for why we uh chose to move away from the care program

I was suggesting that the pilot did not run for a suffic sufficient amount of time

We have some draft dispatch protocols for the relaunch of non-p police response that are currently undergoing internal review

our boards and commissions get to weigh in on these items