09-28-26 Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Meeting

Consideration of City Manager’s Office Recommended Budget for 2027

I think this is especially important because the city has completed its new Boulder Valley comprehensive plan.

integrating nature-based solutions into public projects, and creating opportunities for environmental education.

supporting access and connection to ancestral homelands for local indigenous community members and recognized tribes.

Boulder has a land acknowledgement. We read it. We hear it at meetings and community gatherings.

BRS successfully designed the South Lake Tahoe Rec Center with the Wauo tribe creating a beautiful intergenerational

we would like to request for a moratorum actually to wait about a year so we can actually form the indigenous council

I was very happy to see this idea of reuse of some of the buildings andor structures at CU South where the tennis courts are.

It also was meeting ADA standards and also hopefully improving the experience at the band shell.

Uh so city council's first decision was whether or not to call up

Uh city council did call up that decision. So now city council will make the final decision um based on the criteria.

staff recommended an adaptation approach which was sympathetic to the historic site but again allowed for ADA access

As a part of that initial guidance this year, departments were asked to submit at least 4% reductions across the board across all funds.

For 2027, minimum wage will be at $18.17 per hour. This increase in minimum wage has a significant impact uh on the operating costs

As I mentioned, there is a significant increase in minimum wage.

when you u pull up the number of hours worked by our um minimum wage employees or slightly above minimum wage employees

So a realignment that was proposed is our urban forestry and tree canopy where we do planting and um community advocacy work related to the urban um canopy.

this really supports our um youth services initiative, which provides access to uh children and low-income families uh that generally reside at manufactured home communities.

The 0.25 25 cent sales tax fund is expected to go negative starting in 2031 and that negative amount grows to 1.2 million negative by 2032.

All right, the final section is focused on the capital improvement program.

Urban forest strategic plan was adopted in 2018 and that really focuses on investing in the urban tree canopy.

Um and also focuses on minimizing water waste as we're in a drought.

been flooding in that area. They actually bumped this part of the project up for them so it coincide with ours.

I think something that wasn't touched on is we are looking specifically at the parks and recreation CIP.

you can unite with climate initiative departments as well that can um you know produce more permanent solutions

who is remodeling the um dairy center to appropriately use the word Sundance.

from California associated with the the Sundance Film Festival to pour money into Boulder

mostly through the Sundance Film Festival, descendants of soldiers who are producers

And I know that this large of a budget shortfall is new territory for both PREB and staff.

the minimum wage increase and the energy code requirements are another example of areas that we can look at.

our longterm strategy talks about identifying these and I think that we need to fully pursue more of these strategies

We would return to you next year um and go through what the capital priorities are and identify the next six-year CIP.