October 8, 2026 Community and Council Forum

Craig Tower, a Boulder resident and also work with the Center for People with Disabilities here in Boulder.

we tabled at the farmers market. We s tabled at a Primos Park event.

as our urban trees become more and more stressed, we're we're more prone to trees actually failing, collapsing on power lines.

undergrounding a power line that serves our wastewater plant and then also undergrounding to our south along Highway 93

The goal here would be to drive more enrollments in emergency alerts.

it's not taking over our utility system from Excel but rather thinking about how the um bonding power and the financing ability

you could maybe tell us what's within the city budget. How many dollar signs,

these are the things that are already built within our existing budget and we have work plan items associated with these

on the community resilience hubs, we're anticipating a a funding opportunity through Excel um where we could seek additional dollars.

they are locations that meet needs or services um during a an outage or a disaster that and they they have different flavors

We're fortunate to have um Chad here this evening. They're one of our selected um community resilience hub grant recipients at Harvest of Hope.

the PSPS event um we pre-staged generators um and and kept a lot of those major intersections going.

I'm wondering if my house is going to burn down on April 8th of of 2026 with a goat trail fire.

I just want to clarify um the conversation we're having tonight around the the road map that we're preparing that really informs the advocacy with Excel

the flood and storm water master plan. Great example of that.

what are are we looking at uh fuels that don't necessarily add to our carbon neutral goals of 2050?

we added a couple of strategies overall. The first was a heavy emphasis on the regulatory framework and the second was municipalization.

we had a strong advocate for municipalization and then re regulatory changes that include clear penalties and payments from Excel

is this really something that community would just sort of broadly be interested in? Um because I I'm I'm not quite sure

use the legislature to compel them to provide the service that they are legally responsible for providing.

maybe a map of high-risk areas can help small businesses make decisions that do I want to sign a five-year lease in this place

Don't put your things here. Thanks Paul.

our franchise agreement with Excel does not have a lot of hard things. they either meet the goals and our options are to uh take an off-ramp.

I know we have some of the stronger uh IEC, International Energy Conservation Code.

distribute it to our community, including undocumented residents, like really make it accessible to people.