Thread by @shayshinecastle

Here's your open comment list. Please keep it clean tonight, Boulder. My anxiety is just too high for me to handle any shenanigans. But, you know, you do you. www-static.bouldercolorado.gov/docs/October_2…

Would rather have f-bombs than dry, pre-written comment tho, tbh.

Couple pro-muni speakers tonight.

And a couple folks from Macy's.
"When one of our stores closes, it runs the very real risk of sitting vacant," says Jessica Fraser. (Missed her title, sorry)

"That's why we've put everything we have into recycling this building," Fraser says.

Also I've decided to try and stop using pronouns for speakers unless I know what they are. It's something I've really sucked at and will need continued help, so please call me out (gently, if possible) when you can.

Evan Ravitz with some interesting info: A CORA he filed in 2017 showed that the head of Downtown Boulder Partnership sent 200 emails in the first 8 months of the year. He got an answer to nearly every one, Ravitz says; most of us are not so lucky.

This gets at a point councilwoman Friend raised last week: She wants council to think about if they are answering phone calls and emails with equity. boulderbeat.news/2020/10/15/bou…

Another Macy's speaker, a lawyer representing Two Nine North Apartments. They're unhappy with the city process for Macy's redevelopment. They want council to call it up.

LOLOL Lynn Segal: "I'm not going to swear. I'm going to do worse. I'm going to speak truth to power."

Get it, Lynn.

Omg Mayor Weaver's face right now.

Susan Peterson introducing a new term: "Astroturfing," when a campaign pretends to be local and grassroots but is actually backed by big money.

Which reminds me I need to update campaign filings on all the city issue stories.