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Downtown Management Commission · regular
11-12-24 Downtown Management Commission Meeting
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AI-read · unreviewed32 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personDid anyone have any questions on the financials for the sales tax report.
do you think that the vacancy rate is the biggest contributor to that?
We have no other questions. We can move on to the Public safety update.
we are purchasing some more e-bikes to get more of our mall team onto those bikes
Those are mostly going to be our people that are setting little fires are unhoused that are setting up fires by their camps.
But then we added e-bikes, which made a huge difference.
there's a decrease for coming to the farmers market, which is quite odd, because I talked to
Survey that's connected to the farmers market like it's very expensive.
We do not have a 1st floor vacancy problem in downtown boulder.
So they're new improvements to the improvement districts or new improvement districts.
a big part of the work is actually related to our challenges for financing, for projects in the hill area.
that is mostly tied into the update of the comprehensive plan.
The 1st step is to state comprehensive plan update outreach.
people who really want to get involved early on the long term future and help with the General improvement district.
So some of the annual business stuff that we work on is the residential access management program known as Ramp
So again, the accredited parking organization also requires certain level of performance of our garages. Hence all of the investments in our garages
And annually we're working on capital improvements, managing assets and cages on the hill
they have to manage every single paid parking spot throughout the city.
We're going to be entering into another year of that pilot, making agreements, trying to deploy more resources
There's also going to be a boulder arts blueprint. That's a strategy document we produce next year.
the cultural grants program, public art our civic dialogue program, including boulder Arts week
So each a new permanent piece of public art does have a selection panel that is formed of community members
the blueprint is the place where we get to have that kind of input.
Big project over at Alpine balsam big investment.
when we asked that question in 2015, in the original cultural plan.
So part of that is us diving deep into our revenue sources and uses.
But you know budgets are standing for our priorities.
to address a gap in the market for more affordable commercial space
Applications were scored on the following criteria. So supports for local small businesses
and we're budgeting for a future phase of affordable commercial.
it turns out we have to follow the the budgeting process.
There are murals that are going to be happening in this building, and one of them will be visible to the public.