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Parks and Recreation Advisory Board · regular
3-31-25 Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Meeting
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- regular
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- past
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AI-read · unreviewed31 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personNow, more than ever, for the reasons we've known all along, we've known that downtown parks can spur economic vitality.
The Sundance Film festival, when it comes to Boulder in 2027 is going to live on the Pearl Street Mall
including a large potential partner like Sundance coming in 2026 will do technical documentation
I just wanna highlight the floodplain analysis. Specifically.
I'm I'm curious, like the flood plain based on 100 year flood 100 year flood 100
Now, we would provide or propose amenities like playgrounds in this gray area of Central Park.
I didn't realize that the bandshell was in the high hazard or was in the floodplain.
so that buildings and and sites, including park, can be accessible to all that, you know, young people, older people, people with disabilities.
one accessible parking will always be a thing, so that buildings and and sites, including park, can be accessible
we're always looking for more affordable housing or more varied home types in boulder, especially downtown
Market local food service is sort of a big theme, especially as we're hearing from the community.
Creekside Social is one of the schemes that we showed the public.
Everyone loves the farmers market. We get a lot of comments? How do we expand? How do we make them permanent?
having family friendly spaces with youth is very important access to Boulder Creek community and social spaces
So you can just see how some of these are breaking up, and what people are talking about in terms of a family friendly space.
So we are looking to have a nature play pop up in Central Park as well for engage engagement.
accessible parking, I think is is good, but you have elderly people who may not have a handicap sticker
just talking to the Bridge House folks to kind of understand a better level of comfort and inclusivity with that population.
It's very rare. You can get capital improvement money through these governance bodies.
So they are the our partners and operating and activating the Pearl Street Mall parks and recreation operates that site as an urban park.
The light green is our point 2 5 cents sales tax. That's the dedicated sales tax that the department receives.
So you are seeing the slow ramp back up in Cip spending on this next slide.
What I really want to highlight is for operating budget. We spent 96% of our overall budget.
the gray line at the bottom is the amount that we've received from the general fund in our annual subsidy
Recreation centers. Have increased visitation 20 plus percent
You will see that our General Fund subsidy has remained relatively flat throughout all of these years.
We're seeing that predominantly on the cip side of things.
There's been pending legislation at the state level that changes property tax that there's obviously concerns with that citywide.
the optimistic part is that we are having the long term financial strategy conversation
So as we make a really great choice to increase our minimum wage, that is a great choice.
And the south wall Rec center is a wonderful facility.