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26 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Hey, #Boulder, it's city council night (again). Tonight we've got:
Parking price increases
Restaurants in (some) parks
Xcel update
Climate resolution (yeah, another one)
You can read about some of these things here: boulderbeat.news/2021/10/23/bou…
Also, not relevant, but I just learned that some people send in ballots *from previous years' elections* — often enough that elections officials mentioned it in a briefing today.

Like, who? How?? Why???
(This was shared as an example of ballots that won't be counted, obviously.)

I have so many questions.

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27 Oct
Ugh. I want to tweet this Xcel update even less than I wanted to tweet the Rez public hearing.

Staff presentation: documents.bouldercolorado.gov/WebLink/DocVie…
Basically it's just an update on all the work that's been done, and will be done coming up.
Top 3:
Community Advisory Panel will recommend projects for Xcel/city to partner on by mid-2022
First undergrounding project (paid by Xcel) underway on north Broadway; second will be 29th street
Read 17 tweets
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27 Oct
God we still have more to do. A newly added item: A raise for municipal judge Linda Cooke.
Reminder: Council hires and approves the salary for the city manager, city attorney and municipal judge. Typically every year they are given performance evaluations and merit raises.
That didn't happen in 2020 (COVID) and the city attorney and manager were replaced. So Cooke is still at 2019 salary.
Read 10 tweets
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27 Oct
This one will prob be more exciting. It's a rule change — which Planning Board was unanimously opposed to — to automatically allow restaurants in 3 city parks: Valmont, Boulder Rez and Flatirons Golf Course.
Staff presentation: documents.bouldercolorado.gov/WebLink/DocVie…
You'll recall (or maybe not — hopefully you have a life, unlike me) that this all started bc of the Boulder Rez Drama.
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27 Oct
OK, moving onto parking changes. Boulder is in the middle of a big overhaul of policies and prices.

Tonight is just a couple of things: increases in costs for neighborhood permits, fines and city spots. documents.bouldercolorado.gov/WebLink/DocVie…
Already dropped this link earlier, but you can read more about those here: boulderbeat.news/2021/10/23/bou…
The highlights:
- Resident permits will increase from $17 to $30 per year in 2022, $40 in 2023 and $50 in 2024. Staff anticipates that the program will start to pay for itself by that time; additional increases will be reviewed by council.
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27 Oct
#Boulder is passing yet another climate resolution. documents.bouldercolorado.gov/WebLink/DocVie…
As you'll remember, the city recently switched up its focus and efforts to fight climate change. These new things are being incorporated into this new climate resolution.

boulderbeat.news/2021/06/12/bou…
(Pre-meeting story) boulderbeat.news/2021/06/05/bou…
Boulder's last climate resolution was in 2019, when they declared a climate emergency
dailycamera.com/2019/07/23/bou…
Read 16 tweets
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24 Oct
"Chavez and others call it the patrón fantasma, the phantom boss — always watching and quick to punish you for being late but nowhere to be found when you need $10 to fix your bike or when you get doored and have to go to the hospital."
theverge.com/22667600/deliv…
"Linking rising crime to police pullbacks provides a justification to maintain or increase police power and resources. Notably, the term “Ferguson effect” was itself invented by the St. Louis police chief in 2014—effectively a police public relations ploy.
slate.com/news-and-polit…
Political correctness in the '90s, stranger danger in the '80s, now cancel culture... beautiful explanation of moral panic journalism. michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/moral-panic-…
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