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4-14-25 Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Onboarding Study Session
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AI-read · unreviewed28 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personThat involved a purchase of property with the University of Colorado Annexation, and then land use
There's an issue in our community in the last few years regarding property in South Boulder called Cu South.
whether or not central brush be landmarked. And we? We came up with a consensus, opinion and position
I think one time we we listen to like an hour and a half of of testimony about about the Rec center.
with the exception of the Pearl Street Mall, which, for the design codes, they contribute so much to the economic vitality
So they also do the capital improvement program. And that's how we any project
We have an incredible Gis data system for our trees. We have over 50,000 public trees.
So I get to help provide the services at the recreation centers. And so the North Boulder Rec center on this side of town
We're working on making it less so because there's just a lot of attention on conditions downtown.
It's predominantly used for capital improvement plan. So you'll hear about it as part of the cip.
We don't do a true budget balanced budget between revenue and expenses on a yearly basis
Whatever we're awarded from the general fund is considered as revenue, and we are expected to spend the same amount.
This is our dedicated sales tax fund. That's really towards the operations and maintenance
As we get into our capital projects, you will see that we have capital between 5 different funds.
The point 2 5 and the Recreation activity fund are really our predominant operating funds, and then everything else
We are paying for civic area phase 2 Pearl Street Mall and is that another project?
There's 2 measures on the table. One is to extend the Ccrs through 2050
things like major things like civic area rec centers like, they will probably warrant 2 members of the prep
That month of August is flood mitigation at North Holder Park.
Do we engage with climate modelers, do we, you know, is there is there?
it serves an incredible site of stormwater detention that does protect a lot of the area nearby homes
as to how we design and operate parks, climate is a lens, as is equity on everything that we do
let's say that Boulder were to follow other communities and and disallow any turf in lawns.
in the city's drought plan parks are actually protected now, because they, the irrigation, is critical
the city has recently finalized the Wildfire mitigation plan. I encourage you to Google and read on about it
it's climate initiatives and boulder fire rescue working together on the wildfire mitigation links
what does it mean for the urban forest? And how are we looking at tree selection, and other things
The biggest impacts to us are where the parks are in the Wildland urban interface
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