Hello on this very hot Tuesday, #Boulder. It's city council night, and it's gonna be a long one.
Tonight we've got:
Ballot content (first reading)
Banning tents on public land (public hearing)
Discussion on extending the CCS tax this fall (putting q on ballots)
Also possible call-up of the Celestial Seasonings project / Spine Road (230 homes, library, cafe, etc.)
Update on the city attorney search
Resolution about the Boulder Rez, where neighbors recently shut down a series of nonprofit events
Oh, let's see what else...
A trio of law enforcement type changes. All fairly standard, we'll breeze through them.
I may be forgetting things bc it's A LOT.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to cram risotto in my mouth for the next 8 minutes.
City going hard promoting this online survey about reforming (maybe) the police department. Take it here: beheardboulder.org/reimagine-poli…
Bob Yates was in a car accident yesterday, so he's doing the meeting with his camera off. "My face is a little bit messed up," he says.
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OMG last item: Update on the city attorney search!
Friend, Yates (subcommittee) recommending continuing the search process. They didn't get enough applicants (12) and were apparently unhappy with the 2 finalists.
Quick update on board and commission vacancies:
2 on HAB, 1 on downtown mgt commission
Nagle/Brockett will notify ppl who have applied in past years and open it to new folks as well.
HAB = Housing Advisory Board
Brockett responding to Young's concerns last week that maybe there's an issue with HAB since it has a lot of turnover. The 2 resignations were ppl moving out of town.
Jump-starting this thread on the Boulder Rez resolution, bc it's so damned interesting and somewhat unprecedented. We rarely get pushback on neighbor opposition from the city.
Some background: The visitor center at the Rez got a serious redo in recent years, after the 2012 Parks & Rec master plan ID'd it as a need.
That included a restaurant/bar, to meet the goals of the 2017 concept plan for the new facility:
“extending shoulder season use opportunities, establishing partnerships with various groups to expand programming and offset construction and operating costs...
This is part of larger effort to stop unsheltered people from living in public places, including with increased removal of homeless camps. It was last discussed May 11 as part of annual homeless update. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1392280…
How the city's camping ban works right now is that it requires "activities of daily living" before cops can consider it violated, so they can't remove tents that aren't being lived/slept in overnight.
Moving on to consent agenda, which has quite a few things we're going to talk about.
All 3 law enforcement type things are on here, so I'll do a super quick rundown of those.
No booze on open space or parks land
Since mid 1980s, applies to public places within city limits - makes it hard to enforce on most OSMP land, which is not within city limits
Exemptions: Coot Lake, Boulder Reservoir, Flatirons Golf Course, East Mapleton Ball Fields, and Stazio Recreation Complex
Can get a permit, typically for special events (Boulder Creek Fest)