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Shay Castle

10 Nov, 7 tweets, 2 min read

Hey, #Boulder. It's Tuesday, and the last meeting of this city council. I know you're all heartbroken about that.

They're in person, but I'm still remote. I hear Swetlik will be wearing a suit.

What have we got tonight? Not much. A whole hour(!) scheduled to honor outgoing council members Weaver, Young, Swetlik, Nagle. Some discussion of a new council email system.

The big items are the COVID update, of course (Hint: It's real bad) and an update on the recent deaths of Jessica Aldama and her baby. That will likely consist of the city explaining why they aren't telling anyone anything.

Oh, yeah, and "election" of the new mayor and mayor pro tem. Council members vote on that, not the general public. At least not until 2023. So this will be Boulder's last peer-appointed mayor.

Joseph and Nagle participating remotely, but everyone else is settling into chambers.

And do mine eyes deceive me, or did Swetlik bring neon lighting as an homage to his backlit couch????

OMG I *live* for this man! We are losing a real one, folks.

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Shay Castle

@shayshinecastle

10 Nov

Moving on: An update on the death of Jessica Aldama. City isn't even using her name.... the update is really about the privacy rules that prevent information from being released.

Jessica and her baby, to clarify.

This is being referred to as "the recent death of an unhoused woman."

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Shay Castle

@shayshinecastle

10 Nov

Joseph is leaving early, so she's kicking us off by saying goodbye to outgoing council members Weaver, Young, Swetlik and Nagle.

They're gonna spend an hour-plus on this. I'm not gonna tweet much, bc I have little patience for ass-kissing.

Although to be fair, spending 8 years on council (Weaver, Young) may warrant a little ass-kissing.

I'll still listen, tho. Maybe someone will surprise me and give a spicy goodbye speech.

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Shay Castle

@shayshinecastle

10 Nov

COVID briefing. Things are bad and have only been getting worse. Presentation: documents.bouldercolorado.gov/WebLink/DocVie…

Oh no! Dr. Chris Urbina, my fave local public health official, has retired.

Good for him. He will be missed.

Never thought I'd be the type of person to have a fave local public health official, but that's what beat reporting will do to you, I guess.

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Shay Castle

@shayshinecastle

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

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Shay Castle

@shayshinecastle

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.

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Shay Castle

@shayshinecastle

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.