Thread by @shayshinecastle

Right now, tho, is a public hearing on the adoption of the city's first facilities master plan.

We looked at and discussed this on Aug. 10 threadreaderapp.com/thread/1425251…

Not gonna go over all the details for you again, but the two big takeaways were: We need to do a better job maintaining our buildings. And the plan is to (eventually) consolidate them all into 2 campuses: East and West.

Staff presentation: documents.bouldercolorado.gov/WebLink/DocVie…

Lots of good stats and data in my thread and that presentation. If you're into arcane pieces of knowledge that are useful for exactly nothing, because there is no "Boulder city gov't" category on trivia night, sadly.

Like this:
The city owns 75 buildings, over 1.8M square feet, with a replacement value of $577M

This relates to Alpine Balsam, bc the city intends to consolidate the operations/staff of 3-4 current buildings there. One of the reasons Boulder bought the hospital campus in the first place.

The other, of course, being that Boulder frequently buys land and/or developed property so that it can control what gets built there.

Wallach Sigh-O-Meter: 1.3

Wallach: The funds you're contemplating (for consolidation) I assume will be in addition to what we're spending at Alpine Balsam?

Michele Crane: We've included that in the figures.

Wallach: I assume the bonds you are contemplating to be issues will be in addition to any bonds we're issuing for the CCS tax (on ballots this November).

Crane: I think we need to parse that out. And we're considering other tools than debt to fund consolidation.

And maintenance, which we are woefully behind on.
Crane went over that in her presentation, but we'd already talked about it in Aug. so I didn't tweet it again. It's in the thread and staff presentation.

Young asks about the possibility of reusing city buildings as housing as services consolidate into central location.

Some can't be, bc they're in flood areas. But for others, those decisions will be made at the time, Crane says.

It will be a decision for "the community and council and others," Crane says.

Swetlik asks: When will there be a fleet master plan? The dept is facilities and fleet — buildings and vehicles — but we've only got a master plan for the buildings.

Joanna Crean: We've been thinking about it.

Fun fact: Boulder has (or had — this info is pre-pandemic) 969 different vehicles that it owns/maintains.

That's all the cop cars, snow plows, etc. Anything that drives, I think.

Weaver: "When we do consolidation, if we have land, we should think about not selling that and land-banking."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_bank…

In case you're unfamiliar.

Wallach: I would urge you to spend a little more time on the financial aspects of this plan. "I'm v curious as to how we will pay for it. ... I'm still a little perplexed as to where we're going to find the very, very substantial" money that is required.

Even the $11M needed to properly maintain buildings each year, Wallach says. "It's completely desirable" but where are we going to get it? What are we going to have to cut?

Unanimous vote approves the facilities master plan. Moving on.

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