10-20-25 Water Resources Advisory Board Meeting

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• Local food and farming0:03:04at this moment

  The city and county will partner with local ditch companies, farmers, and ranchers to upgrade our ag water delivery systems

• Local food and farming0:04:14at this moment

  Boulder Valley farmers have been dealing with chronic water shortages for decades and have developed creative strategies for dealing with shortages

• Local food and farming0:05:06at this moment

  These actions would ensure the survival of Boulder Valley agriculture, local food, and the green fields which surround and cool our city

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan0:06:02at this moment

  She's been following closely this Boulder Valley Comp Plan. generally coordinating with us as staff

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan0:08:00at this moment

  The next touchpoint for the board on the comprehensive plan will be in the November meeting

• The Israel–Hamas war and community dialogue0:13:05at this moment

  it's hard to talk about water here when in Gaza, they don't have any water at all

• The Israel–Hamas war and community dialogue0:14:05at this moment

  is definitely gonna use more and more water when we've got people starving and having no water in Gaza

• Water and sewer rates0:18:04at this moment

  looking specifically at water budgets and how they will inform the water rate study that we have coming up in 2026

• Water supply and drought0:18:04at this moment

  water budgets were started in 2007, after the 2002 drought

• Water supply and drought0:23:00at this moment

  After that devastating drought, there was a combined regional push to update planning, policies, and projections to be more resilient to drought

• Water supply and drought0:24:01at this moment

  So water budgets are just one drought response tool. Drought response really needs to be comprehensive in nature

• Water and sewer rates0:42:03at this moment

  The water budget policy evaluation is just phase one of a much larger and more comprehensive rate study starting next year

• Flood mitigation and stormwater0:51:08at this moment

  there was an inequity that came to our collective attention, the board, staff, council, around the way we charge stormwater fees

• Manufactured housing and mobile home parks1:23:04at this moment

  or those conversations with the mobile home department, owners, and facilitating that construction

• Flood mitigation and stormwater1:36:06at this moment

  generally, what we've still heard feedback on, from last meeting on is policies related to floodplain and flood management

• Climate action and emissions1:37:10at this moment

  Consideration of climate change impacts. I think maybe you specifically said in the flood management work

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan1:41:09at this moment

  It could be policy changes, or things associated with the comp plan.

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