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Water Resources Advisory Board · regular
6-16-25 Water Resources Advisory Board Meeting
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- regular
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AI-read · unreviewed26 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personshould the city of Boulder give them a subsidy so that we have another affordable housing crisis
the CU South Horrendous. Outrageous. Should never have been.
how about Sundance Event Center? 2500 people. That's a lot of water.
it's attributable to water rights in the state. And so there's a designated amount of water and flow capacity that the state has associated
and that is to look at our capital improvement program. Um each year
each year the city goes through the budget process and it's really we're in year 2025 now
the capital improvement program and rates and a recommendation to city council in July is probably the most important thing
What standard is the flood management being built to?
they readjusted the way they look at dam safety related to the hydraologic hazard of a dam
we did a uh dam stability project and looked at the hydraologic and seismic loading
we have an ongoing corrosion control disinfection uh project at the Passo water treatment plant
that where we talked about what storm level are we designing for.
in our comprehensive storm and flood plan that gets to climate change and and we have some language in there
striving for the highest that we can get building in climate change considerations when we can
flood acquisition program is an example of we fund it every year we buy a property every month
we did recommend a 6% increase for 2027. Um, but due to some, you know, growing capital deeds
does the city like forecast how much in the rates they're anticipating not collecting from those equity programs? Is that factored into like the budgets and things?
we're planning to pay for that project with bonds and finance it over time and that allows us to keep reasonable smooth rate increases
it would require like two years of roughly 70 or 80% rate increases
council did pass a 75% rate increase in the storm water and flood fund
we bonded about four times in the water fund
those rates of as I mentioned earlier tended to be between six and 8% annual rate increases per year
a large portion of that bond helped to pay for the MS project
What what's the time frame on issuing one of these bonds? How early do you have to start work on that?
we'll be talking to the board in July about water supply and water supply policy
we're going to need one of the levers we're going to need is water conservation probably more heavily in the future