June 22, 2021 — City Council Regular Meeting

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Captions from City of Boulder YouTube recording.

[0:23] i'm ready to go all right and so are we so welcome to the june 22nd 2021 study session and we have some announcements to start with we have a slide waiting for a slide there we go all right and we have um vaccinations for local information

[1:01] on getting your vaccine and to sign up for notifications you can go to boco.org forward slash covet vaccine notify sign up second slide on boards and commissions so um the city is accepting [Music] applications for several boards and commissions the boulder junction access district parking and boulder junction access district travel demand management and beverage licensing authority so if you're interested in applying please visit the boards and commissions webpage at boulder colorado.gov forward slash boards hyphen commissions and be heard boulder third slide

[2:05] the city has launched a reimagined policing effort and is seeking community feedback a questionnaire is available at be heard boulder dot org forward slash reimagine hyphen policing until july 31st it's a great way for individuals to provide input on their own time in a safe anonymous space if you would prefer to provide your feedback verbally or participate in a conversation with city staff other community members please sign up for an upcoming online forum you can access the sign up sheets and available dates on the same be heard folder page so before we launch into our official business tonight we'd like to reflect

[3:02] on the sad news that another shooting has claimed lives including that of a police officer the shooting yesterday in our neighboring city of arvada brings up grief that remains all too raw for many of us as we continue the process of healing from the march 22nd shooting in our own community it reminds us that even on what seems like a beautiful summer day public safety employees face significant risk in performing their jobs we wish to express our gratitude for these colleagues and their selfless service from what we understand officer gordon beasley was well respected by his colleagues and the community he served he was a 19-year veteran who most recently worked as a resource officer for oberon middle school many parents today

[4:01] are needing to have painful and difficult conversations with their children about the loss of a man many saw as mentor and role model there was little doubt that he responded to this situation here entitled of community hero our city organization has already sent resources and reached out to peers in our beta we in boulder received the warm embrace and support of our neighbors during our time of need and now we stand ready to offer that kindness in the form of whatever assistance is needed as a council we remain committed to having the tough conversations and taking meaningful action to address the pervasive issue of gun violence in our country lastly i would like to acknowledge that for a community is just barely starting to heal learning about another shooting tragedy at all

[5:02] never mind one that is so close by can be triggering we have a terrific community resource available called the boulder strong resource center it offers counselors and other free support services for anyone who may be struggling a more complete list of mental health services for boulder residents is available at boulder colorado.gov forward slash mental health in closing i would like to ask my fellow council members and community members who are watching tonight's session to join me in a few moments of silence

[6:01] thank you all so um we can move on to our business uh nuria just coming off of you thank you thank you mary and thanks for those words uh we as staff have also reached out and send our prayers to our community in arvada uh as chief harold prepares to tell us about the data innovation happening in the police department today i sort of wanted to take a moment if you would to remind people of the broader context of all this great ongoing work which is part of the integration with reimagining policing the master plan process going on right now in which you mentioned that we're still looking for input on the department has made many changes in the last year as part of the chief strategic action plan and we see reimagining policing as an opportunity to build on those changes with an in-depth process to establish the community's values and priorities around policing

[7:00] and make sure we're implementing the best strategies to achieve the vision reflected in those values and priorities we've gotten several questions about the strategic action plan versus the reimagining master plan and we want to make sure that we convey that they are not separate efforts they are integrated processes that ensure the department can keep moving forward with reform while working with the community to clarify a local public safety vision for the long term right now reimagine public policing is in the first community engagement window hopes values and concerns through the end of july people can participate by completing a questionnaire or signing up for an online community forum through be heard boulder.org slash reimagine hyphen policing spanish language options are included for the forums and questionnaires so that's a great way to sort of have access for our bilingual or monolingual spanish residence this window has been open for two weeks but so far we've gotten

[8:00] uh and so far we've gotten really good response in be heard boulder with over a hundred responses but we've also have special outreach happenings through our latinx leadership team black and american leadership team and people with lived experience and homelessness we have had lower sign-up numbers than we'd like for the virtual community forum so we're encouraging people who would like to give feedback in more of a discussion setting to sign up for those opportunities the reimagining timeline has been revised a bit since the project was last discussed at council for a variety of reasons including putting some additional project elements on hold after the hill riot and the king super shooting this spring so the next time this project is scheduled for full council discussion will be late november when there will be a new council and you'll be reviewing the key issues and focus areas for the plan emerging from the first two engagement windows in the meantime juni and bob continue to shepherd this project as your representatives on the process subcommittee and we really thank them for their input

[9:00] and their service for today though and i'll say as a data geek i'm really excited about today's presentation we're ready to hear more about crime science techniques and how the department is shifting to more data informed strategies that will help them identify and isolate specific root causes of crime and quality of life complaints this approach will not only help the police department but can better inform other departments across the city organization so that our collective interventions can be better aligned and narrowly tailored to achieve the outcomes we're truly looking for the department will also be able to share data with the community and institutional partners too as we all know that some of our quality of life or nuisance abatement issue will require more than just city involvement and finally i'd say grounding ourselves in data enables us to come back to you with more precise tools to further address crime and quality of life concerns across the city so with that i'll turn it over to the chief and her team to introduce us to the crime science principles that are setting the stage for future work

[10:02] thank you noria good evening council my name is maris harold i'm the police chief of boulder um mary uh i'd be remiss if i didn't thank you and counsel for those kind and thoughtful words um and in that vein i just want to take an opportunity to tell the boulder police department members and remind them of the great work that they do on a daily basis under the most challenging circumstances so thank you um so i committed to you almost a year ago that i would give you full commitment on police reform and part of that police reform that we're going to talk about tonight is my passion in policing and that is understanding crime strategies how we are using data and problem solving to reduce community harm by embracing a crime science approach which is the most overlooked aspect of any police reform

[11:01] movement and i would think that many criminologists across the country would agree that crime science and crime strategy is the most important part of police reform so later in the presentation we will have two presenters provide a live demonstration of our community dashboard and the exciting part of this community dashboard is we can build upon it is so we start going through our master plan process what is important to the community council other departments we can build upon this dashboard to add traffic stop data use of force data citizens complaint data really anything that we have becomes transparent and we all understand and all are working from the same data sets so tonight i'm excited i'll have three presenters with me tonight that i've worked with extensively and very talented group of people the first is julie wartell

[12:00] she is an internationally recognized researcher works for the san diego prosecutor's office and is a consultant for the national institute of justice and the bureau of justice administration administration translating research into practice next up we will have mike zadar who is a crime analyst for the university of cincinnati and finishing up his phd program in information technology he builds technology platforms for police to assist with problem solving and accountability and then we have our own uh katie bridges who is a senior data analyst with the city of boulder's innovation and technology team and she has led the city with numerous capital analytic projects for the city so i'm very excited i really believe that by the end of this year if we continue to go at this pace boulder police department in the city of boulder will be leading and data consumption and data understanding and crime strategy and crime science principles so i'm very

[13:00] excited about the work so as julie is presenting tonight um she will present the crime trends right now in boulder so crime has somewhat stabilized across the city over our 2020 numbers however property crime continues to be very problematic and there's lots of reasons for that boulder is experiencing a flood of methamphetamine coming into boulder it's very cheap this is creating motivated offenders there's also economic factors at play in boulder right now and across the region metal prices are extremely high and that is resulting in motor vehicle theft catalytic converter theft in addition to that we have some extremely recognizable hot products in boulder most importantly we have very high in bikes that are easily accessed and stolen and so with that julie is going to take over and she will be presenting some

[14:01] crime science techniques with her and dad so thank you julie good evening everyone thank you chief i am looking forward to sharing this information with you all let's see if i can oh i can't control it nothing's happening julie um if you press the view options button on the top of your screen yep you'll have the opportunity to request control you can't give it to me until i request it huh that's right okay it's now requested all right and i actually i think that's taylor that probably has to give you that permission here we go here we go perfect thank you so this presentation will provide an overview as the chief said of crime crime science concepts and theories while demonstrating how the boulder

[15:00] police department is addressing crime through this approach so what is crime science it applies scientific methods to study and prevent crime and disorder it also uses evidence to understand crime trends and patterns it promotes a multi-disciplinary approach to crime problems integrating policing with geography statistics psychology computer science urban planning and other disciplines simply put it explains or helps us explain how and why crime events occur so why is it important to apply crime science well overall crime science promotes ethical effective and equitable policing there are some core principles of crime science these are that prevention is more effective than apprehension and for most effective

[16:01] prevention this requires partnerships with a wide variety of stakeholders in addition to members of the police department at all levels and all roles we also rely on community members businesses and many city departments secondly high intensity enforcement alone for prevention is not sustainable or desirable third community members want police to address not just crime but quality of life issues as well and lastly efforts and strategies should be highly focused on conditions that create community harm so the four core theories of crime science that i'm going to talk about tonight are the 80 20 rule routine activity theory crime pattern theory and situational crime prevention i will be discussing these concepts

[17:00] and using examples from bolder data and different police department efforts so first the 80 20 rule the 80 20 rule is also known as the pareto principle which means that 80 percent of consequences stem from 20 of causes and this is not just about crime but in this case as it relates to crime crime is highly concentrated across people offenders and victims as well as places and we often visualize this as a j curve that you see here so what you see looking at the graph is that a few places or a few people or types of people have the most amount or account for the most amount of crime and we're going to see this in some data in criminology this is also known as the the rule is known as the law

[18:00] of crime concentration a systematic review of all existing studies of crime concentration amongst places offenders and victims shows that about 20 percent of people and places usually account for at least fifty percent to sixty percent of all crime and this graph depicts the outcomes of these 66 studies this was written up there's a reference to the article below on the slide so with the goal of reducing crime and quality of life problem solving and improving community safety we can examine how this 80 20 principle applies to rental properties in and around university hill oh sorry

[19:00] this map depicts all rental properties in the university hill and surrounding areas by type of property along with the concentration of calls for service at each property in addition to examining call counts i've accounted for property size by standardizing by the maximum number of unrelated occupants which is comes from the rental license data for the city of boulder so what you see here are all of the 1500 properties that are focused on university hill and focused on university related housing and what we're going to look into are the 18 000 calls for service that occurred between january of 18 and april of 2021 and just uh sorry uh one more note on that is that um it might be hard to see on the screen that the mean call per maximum occupant

[20:02] is 1.03 and the median call is 0.67 so those very large dots are well above average next i will show some of the charts by property type so these charts display calls for each fraternity or sorority house in the area the chart on the left has places ordered according to the raw counts from highest to lowest while the chart on the right orders the places based on the counts standardized by the maximum occupancy while some places may switch in rank when the counts are standardized the important thing to note is that both charts depict the j curve that we expect to see there have been 944 calls for service to 24 fraternity and sorority houses in a little over three years and that some produce more calls than others the top 20 percent of these places account for 43.4 percent of calls

[21:01] to this housing type of fraternity sorority house you can see the same pattern if we look at the area's 98 rental condominium complexes both standardized and under unstandardized analyses reveal these same j curves 70 of the 2620 calls for service to condominium complexes originated from only 20 of these locations these patterns hold true for other rental housing types excuse me i yep we're good here you see the j-curves associated with call concentrations around apartments and single-family dwellings although not displayed the standardized counts hold the same pattern for both apartments and single-family dwellings 20 percent of the locations account for more than fifty percent of

[22:00] calls across these housing types the same is true for duplexes triplexes and fourplexes this type of analysis is important because it shows that one places are not equally problematic and two even when we control for the number of occupants some places have larger concentrations of problems than others suggesting a need for better property management at these locations the next crime science theory that i wanted to talk about draws attention to the importance of place management and its routine activity theory crime occurs when three elements come together the motivated offender which you heard the chief talk about in terms of the property and the drugs a suitable target and a facilitating place controllers can prevent the crime event these controllers are the handlers or

[23:01] the guardians or the managers for the purposes of the next portion of this presentation we will focus specifically on the place element and the manager as the controller based on the crime triangle i will highlight a deeper dive into crime and calls for service at one apartment complex the san juan community is a very vibrant and healthy community but there are a high number of calls for service to this location this suggests a need for police to work closely with the management team to address community concerns when compared to other apartment complexes of comparable size over a hundred units the san juan del central apartments have significantly higher numbers of police calls for service whether we standardize the calls by the number of units or by the maximum occupancy the san juan community has a call rate

[24:00] three to four times higher than the apartment complexes with the next highest standardized number of calls for service looking at calls per year in the san juan community over the last five full years and through april of 2021 we see a big jump from 2017 to 2018 and a continued trend upward through 2020. based on the first four months of this year if we extrapolate it out it is anticipated to go back to the 2018 level one thing to consider is that increased trust in the police can sometimes lead to more people calling that would not have called previously similar to calls for service we also see a large increase in crime reports between 2017 to 2018. these then level off a bit and go slightly down

[25:00] anticipated again by the first four months of the year if we triple those numbers so what changed from 2017 to 2018 in order for the police to work with management to help reduce victimization in the san juan community our problem analysis should focus on determining what caused the significant increase in calls and crimes between 2017 and 18. we can start to do this by attempting to answer these three questions did the management practices change or were there new offenders or fewer handlers the controllers of the offenders from the crime triangle and was there an increase in vulnerable victims or fewer guardians again these controllers however to thoroughly understand the problems and develop effective solutions crime science suggests that it is very important to be crime specific so we need to examine different calls and crime types

[26:02] separately as you can see most of the top call types are not part one or the more serious crimes nor is the most frequent crime type although the amount of assaults and domestic violence crimes are concerning the evidence base concerning what works for particular crime issues is growing we do know that place managers can block specific crime opportunities and reduce crime in many ways there are just a few examples relating to some of those top call and crime types in this example for instance when dealing with disturbances and noise complaints one of the most effective strategies that larger complexes can employ is to have a 24 7 management presence on site this minimizes the need for police response

[27:04] the next theory that we are looking into is crime pattern theory when we look at crime across an entire city crime pattern theory helps to explain why and how crime hot spots develop crime pattern theory considers the journey to crime and overlapping victim and offender activity spaces as illustrated here showing the nodes paths and edges there are multiple ways that offenders find suitable targets they know the victim personally they live or work with or near the victim or their paths overlap in boulder one of our most active activity spaces is our downtown corridor during the pandemic the foot traffic in downtown was significantly reduced leaving many businesses vulnerable to break-ins the business community suffered higher numbers of burglaries following the emergency health order that closed businesses which reduced the downtown activity

[28:00] and the guardianship that was present there to begin to address commercial burglaries an analysis of burglaries between january 18 and march of 2021 was conducted as you can see again we see a small number of street segments account for a large percentage of the burglaries additionally a small number of victims were repeat victims accounting for 52 percent of the burglaries in these hot segments and intersections the police department deployed a directed patrol strategy to begin to disrupt the downtown burglary patterns we followed the copper curve deployment which says that 10 to 16 minute intermittent patrols increase the visibility and positive community engagement in risky activity spaces officers engaged with

[29:00] repeat victims and helped identify and address environmental facilitators this is only a preliminary analysis and a comprehensive evaluation will follow you can see from the monthly averages from 2018 and 2019 that it was normal for the downtown corridor to experience between one and three burglaries per month this number jumped significantly in march and april of 2020 when the emergency health order was issued and was much higher than normal in january into february of 2021 when the directed patrol started situational crime prevention the last concept we'll talk about is grounded in rational choice theory which acknowledges that much of the crime is opportunistic crime is more likely to occur when crime opportunities

[30:00] are effortless meaning it takes little physical effort to commit the crime if they're less risky low risk of being detected highly rewarding quick gratification or great compensation provoked people can be incited in the moment or excusable have justifications for the harmful behavior the situational crime prevention framework offers techniques to block each of these crime opportunities going to illustrate this with our bike theft concentration so this map shows an analysis of bike theft locations for the most recent two and a half years similar to what we've seen and talked about earlier in the presentation we see the 80 20 principle law of concentration in this case the vast majority of street segments had zero thefts and under five percent of the street segments accounted for nearly two-thirds

[31:02] of the theft locations i've listed here a couple of the top street segments as well as the top addresses illustrating several of the situational crime prevention techniques the boulder police have worked on reducing the opportunity in three distinct ways by situational crime prevention the first increasing the effort and the risk via the distribution of theft prevention cards on the high crime segments so again focusing on the problem places reducing rewards through encouraging bicycle registration and disrupting organized operations and lastly by reducing provocations through a community awareness campaign as you can see some of the examples here there has been a 30 reduction in incidents and number of bikes stolen since these efforts have

[32:00] started next i'm going to move into a general crime update as the chief suggested about boulder crime looking at about five years of data and in relation to year-to-date data a little background initially about the national incident-based reporting system this is maintained by the fbi and designed to account for multiple offenses in one crime incident this is a way to measure crime across the country so jurisdictions are defining and counting crime equally in 2021 there have been 4 150 reports involving neighbors offenses keeping in mind that one report can have multiple offenses neighbors is broken down into three categories offenses against persons such as robbery

[33:02] assault and harassment offenses against property such as theft burglary and property damage and offenses against society such as drugs prostitution and liquor violations this first slide is showing all offense reports by month with the five-year average and the trend we've seen so far in the first five months but we had a way above average january crime has now leveled off and even decreased below the normal average this slide summarizes what you will see in the next few slides in more detail offenses against property have increased steadily since 2019 with year to date up by 29 percent over the five year average offenses against persons are down by 13 percent from 2020

[34:01] but stable when compared to the five-year average and lastly offenses against society have declined in the most recent year including 33 percent from the five-year average this latter is likely due to decriminalization trends and the coven 19 impacts here we see a breakdown of trends by category and year showing what i just talked about on the previous slide so you can see the breakdown and the specific numbers looking at the weekly trend for property offenses we see the big spike in week two most of this week two spike is due to a significant increase in identity theft and we will see on the next slide some other property crimes that also had a large percentage increase this year in more details

[35:04] this table shows all property crimes listed out comparing year-to-date in 2021 through the same time for last year as well as compared to the five-year average we've highlighted the five crime types with the largest percent increases as i mentioned the identity theft as well as several others next we have the persons crimes by week similar to the chart we viewed with property you can see the weekly change somewhat mirrors the five-year average with a few weeks being above the normal range and a few weeks being below it lastly we have the same type of chart but with crimes against society as i noted above this year has generally had a lower number of these types of crimes

[36:05] now i'd like to turn it over to katie bridges and mike zidar who will demonstrate the community crime dashboard as you will see the dashboard will also use the neighbors categories and crime types that we just discussed hi thanks julie um my name is katie bridges i am our senior data analyst oh i think we might have an echo i think you're the echo maybe we're good um okay i'm a senior data analyst in our iet department here at the city of boulder i'm very excited to be here tonight to talk about the partnership between it and police on an open data set focusing on crime addressed by the boulder police department and a dashboard that's been created with that data this data set and dashboard are incredibly important in terms of transparency we as city

[37:02] staff have an accountability to the public and these tools give folks a way to monitor and track some of the work that we do every day it's also important internally as it allows other departments across the city to use this data in their work i'd like to quickly note that open data is only one piece of the partnership between it and police for example another project we're working to deliver is our enterprise data warehouse which will allow for cross-departmental city-wide analytics and public safety data is a top priority for the data warehouse here i am going to screen share a um our open data portal there we go here we go so this is a public website um the city of boulder open data so anyone with internet access can go to this site at open

[38:01] data.bouldercolorado.gov there are several ways to navigate the site so folks can browse by topic or a look at recently updated data if you have a specific data set you're looking for you can use the magnifying glass at the top right of the page before i hand it off to mike zadar for a live demo of the dashboard that we've created i want to talk about the crime data that we used to create this dashboard and how folks can download it in excel to view or do their own analysis on this data so to access this data from our open data site we can search for bpd the boulder police department and we'll see all of the relevant options and data sets that are available come up as options here we are going to first click on the bpd offenses data and we're going to view that data table here so since our open data portal is through arcgis we do have spatial data for crimes the

[39:01] first thing you'll see on this page is a map of where these offenses have occurred in this situation here we want to download the underlying data so in the top right corner we're going to click on that view table button so here you will be able to see all of the data that we have we have over 30 000 records since the beginning of 2018. as julie noted there can be multiple offenses on a single report so this data is offense data you can sort this data by any column by clicking on a column header so for example we have sorted here by report date and you would just click on that report date column header it will sort first ascending and then descending you can also filter this data before you exported it so for example if we wanted to look at all credit card or atm fraud crimes that have occurred in 2021 on the left side of the screen you'll see this funnel icon you can click

[40:01] on that and here we want to first select where the report year equals 2021. once that's selected the table to the right with the data will filter to show that selection the second selection here as julie mentioned is um the neighbors sorry and that's not popping up here but we could also filter by the neighbors definition of credit card fraud and if we did that there we go and we can see we can search those neighbors descriptions and search for credit card fraud again once that selection is made in this filter panel on the left side of the page the data to the right would automatically filter to show the data that folks were interested in looking at so now that we have this data that we wanted to export on that same menu we do have the options a little cloud icon with an arrow underneath it so we can click on that cloud icon and choose to export this data by default all data is exported so if

[41:02] you only wanted to filter what you were interested in in this case 2021 credit card fraud information there's this option at the top to toggle filters so you could select that and to open this in excel i would recommend choosing a csv or comma separated value format so if this is your first time downloading data from open data you'll just see a notice here that the file does not exist and it will take time to create if you click that download button it will automatically download to your computer if you've downloaded data here before you would see the option to either request a new file with current data so this data is updated daily so if folks wanted to continue getting updates you could download a different file every day we also do have an api connection to our open data site if that's of interest to folks so those are options available in our download options

[42:00] once that downloads to your computer folks can have access to look at this crime data and julie's been speaking to these trends so folks wanted to dive into that further again this data goes back to the beginning of 2018 and and is publicly available on that open data site so you could filter you could sort you could do your own analysis there so this is available not only on our boulder police crime data this is available on all of our data sets that are on our city website for open data so we're really excited that this crime offenses data is out there to the public now we're also excited we have several more in the pipeline so you'll see here in the search option we have stolen bikes data and also some interactive dashboards we've created here so from here i'm going to pass it off to mike zadar who's going to give a live demo of the dashboard using the data that i just showed and it will allow folks to further analyze um the data that's available

[43:00] here so you can access this dashboard yourself under this bpd offenses app on the open data webpage and from here i will turn it over to mikezidar thanks so much katie i appreciate it uh let's see if we can share here there we go i think that worked um cool all right so um i'm super excited to be talking to you guys about um the dashboards and things that we are building um at the boulder police department so um as katie mentioned this is all based on arcgis and the esri platform so as we uh develop more of these out you'll start to see more and more data available to the public but this is kind of the first or one of the first things that katie and i have have pushed out to the public um so on our dashboard here let me see if i can get rid of that yeah on our dashboard here we have all of that offense data that katie was talking about from the file which is available here if we click on this link you can go and see

[44:01] sort of live what katie was talking about out here so from our dashboard you can link to that data but here you get the neighbors offenses for um an extended period of time and you're able to sort and filter and play around with it so let me just run through here and show you exactly what we're looking at so if you go out and want to play with this or or do some analysis before you download the data and do further analysis it's available to you here so i'll start with this little hamburger menu at the top it's got a couple of links in here so you can go to the boulder police home page you can file a report online through this other link and then you can jump to that open data from here as well the map in the center has a few icons here at the top our first one is our base map so if you don't like this sort of night type nighttime style base map you can come in here and select a bunch of base maps that are available through the city's gis as well as some other base maps here so if you would like a navigation based map or something like that that's available to you out here for

[45:02] this i'll switch back to the the darker basement you also have this little button here that will show you what's on the map so you can see little red dots are a bpd offense um and then the colored areas here on the map are the police beats you also get this little um nap like what do you call that magnifying glass icon there if you click on that you can search for a location um so if we look for the boulder police department click on that and it'll zoom us right into the public safety building there and so if you have an area of the city that you're interested in or what not you can search for it there and it'll take you right to that location so on the map you've also got the little the little red dots here if we click on one of those dots we're able to see some information about that offense report so um we get you know the report number the when it was reported the the year uh the neighbors offense code the description

[46:01] we also get an obscured address for where this occurred so one thing to keep in mind when you're looking at these data is that we do obscure the addresses to the block level and we also randomly offset offset the location of the point so it isn't a general area of where that offense occurred but it's not going to be exactly like on the dot where that that offense occurred um so that is that all right so um let's let's explore a little bit more here so off off here to the right we have this uh these different totals here of what of what these offenses are um and as we sort and filter so if we select like year to date our data will update and there's a whole lot of points there i don't know if that's super useful but it is a you are able to see um the counts here which i do think is useful where you can see that you know offense is against people we've had 450 uh for year to date here um and if we wanted it to sort you know and filter even more we can do that as well so uh for just let's say we're just interested in property crime we can

[47:01] click on property crime and let's say we're interested in burglary we can click on burglary uh and there we go we have 278 burglaries we can see some of that crime concentration that julie was talking about um in certain areas of the city and we also get this chart here that we'll update uh so you can kind of see some of the trends here and there's that that peak that julie was talking about and the reduction that we have seen you also get this charts tab so at the bottom you can click on this on these tabs and there's various items inside these tabs so if we unselect burglary we can look at all of the different crime types here and you get you know a variety of ways of examining the data and looking through some of these things so by hour of day day of week you know and the top offenses and all of these are interactive as well so if you click on friday for example it'll filter that hour of day for just friday so if you're only interested in crimes on on a weekend or something like that this gives you the ability to sort and filter and look at that data in that way same thing with the map and our selectors over here if we're

[48:00] interested in burglaries that happened on let's say wednesday thursday and friday we can look at that and let's look at those for the last 30 days and so we can see that you know our map view changes and you can really dig in and explore some of these some of these different things um the next tab we have here are some crime prevention tips so um just some some safety tips uh in general around um you know crime uh issues as well as uh tips about um you know being prepared for uh for emergency situations our last tab on the bottom here is the neighbors offense descriptions and and codes here so if you have questions about what a specific code means or something like that we have links here to tell you about what that is if you want more information about neighbors we also have a link up here at the top where you click on this and that will take you to the uh fbi's webpage on nibras where there is a ton of information if you're a data geek like me this is fantastic there's there's data from all over the country the fbi has you know an api that you can access

[49:01] and pull in a bunch of data and look at look at data from uh neighbors reporting agencies across the across the country go back here all right so let me clear some of these filters out here and we can look at that okay cool all right so that is our crime dashboard um like i said we're going to be building several more of these i can tease another one here we do have a bike theft dashboard out here which is pretty interesting it breaks down uh the number of stolen bikes uh the the number of crime reports we have and also the cost for those for those bikes so this is the last 28 days um here in the city of boulder and you can also look at like 90 days and those those figures will update so you can see what what the cost of some of these uh crime categories is and as the chief said you know more of more of these type of types of dashboards are going to be coming along as as we produce them so that is what i have on the dashboards

[50:02] let me see if i can stop sharing here there we go all right um katie what is next on our list there i think that is it if there are any questions um or anything we can certainly answer those yeah thanks mike and katie and julie uh we'll be glad to answer any questions i know that was a lot of information to throw in a very uh short amount of time but i did want to cover as much ground as possible so i'll be happy to answer any questions about any portion of the presentation thank you all for that very fascinating presentation um council does anybody have any questions i don't see any hands going up

[51:01] there's one um rachel and then bob i i think that you answered this question and thank you all for the great presentation i'm looking forward to digging into the data set myself um so when when you look at the dots or any of the um i think there was a list too with the crimes listed you can't identify any particular victim by their house right like you have kind of anonymized it in that way just want to confirm yeah that's correct it's it's um we obscure the address to just the block address um and like you said we also randomly offset that point so if the point were to fall on an individual house there's a random offset so it's going to be in the again like i said i'll be in the general area within you know maybe a five house sort of area but it will certainly not be uh identifiable as an individual address okay perfect um and is that true like there was some question about a previous um data set that people could sort of

[52:01] identify complainants i think chief harold you probably know what i'm talking about it was a i think hill related you know if you had called in on a certain address you could see sort of the address of the complainant and that was possibly problematic i wanted to make sure that that was also not identifiable that yeah right rachel that will not be identifiable as part of the dashboard if if a person calls in and makes a complaint and that becomes public record somebody could request that data point um through a public records request request if it went through 9-1-1 or a report was made with the commitment this was this was more somewhere on a website you could pinpoint sort of where complaints were made from it was on our enquirer boulder site um that has been updated that is anonymized in the same way so no one could find the address from our inquiry boulder dashboard yeah cool thank you um and then on the there

[53:01] was a slide like with a u-lock your bike recommendation um and have we given pretty good recommendations for what kind of locks people should buy i saw there was a 20 off thing and if that's a big um thing that we're pushing are we making it really easy for people to know what is the best lock to prevent a theft and getting that the card in people's hands if the 20 i mean bike locks are pretty expensive for the good ones they're very expensive um they're like 50 bucks for the really good ones um we are trying to make it um as available to everyone as possible um the bike shops in boulder have been very supportive of giving the discounts um but for preventing bike theft the u-lock without a doubt i've tested it myself it is the only way to prevent bike theft the the chain link or the all the other locks can be defeated within five seconds with a good pair of pliers so u-locks any type of u-lock is uh is what

[54:01] is needed awesome and then there was a picture that showed like you know locking both tires so that must be another a secondary kind of lock that that people should be getting too sorry to dig in but that seems like a big a big crime that's happening so i want to make sure people have the information it is and i'll tell you our crime prevention officer has done an outstanding job working with all the bike shops and they are boots on the ground getting this information out especially on those hot street segments but if the community is listening please uh put your bikes in a u-lock it works uh we've tried to defeat the u-loc u-locks ourselves we can't do it um and it is the only way to prevent bike theft that's great and then um and thank you for getting that information out and then my last question um you mentioned that property crimes are still up and it looked like they spiked a lot in january and i couldn't tell from the quick presentation like is that still trending up each month as we're going forward or

[55:00] is there more information on specifically property crimes because that's the one that sounds like it's not coming back down so just it's not i don't think it's staying at the january peaks this is is it still significantly up yeah we're trending we're about 29 up um and i expect in our prediction models property crime is going to continue to be problematic uh throughout the fall and there are multiple reasons for that we're still struggling with jail restrictions um even though i i've had great conversations with sheriff kelly and we're working on a strategy that i think that he's going to have a public uh statement on july 1st about his strategy but i can i i think we're going to continue to see property crime and that's why this is so important for the community to understand the crime trends patterns in their in their particular areas so we can start to target harden um you know locks lights the basics um to prevent some of this property crime right now the state of colorado has seen

[56:00] 60 increases in motor vehicle theft we are no different in boulder and these motor vehicle thefts are being stolen from major um uh roadways and um it is all based on economics right now and so not only boulder but the rest of the state is struggling mightily in these areas and is there anything else in terms of hardening like with the ulocs that we want to make sure to highlight right now yeah and that's one of our one of our education public awareness campaigns is most certainly uh instructing the community on these crime patterns what we're seeing there's certainly crime concentration in certain areas but burglaries are all about lighting blocks watching out for your neighbors and mike's dashboard has all of these crime prevention techniques on the dashboard but it really is most of these uh property crimes are crimes of opportunity and can be prevented if people lock their car doors don't put stuff in your vehicles um you know lighting becomes

[57:02] so important um and public awareness of what's going on around them the catalytic converter issue is very hard to prevent um and this we have partnered with the state of colorado the public safety department um so they're providing education and training as well as as us but these catalytic converters can be sold they can be removed off a car within i've seen people do it within 15 seconds and they can be sold for 100 to 300 uh quick and they usually hit 15 to 20 cars in a in a series of crimes within minutes and so the best advice is really you can either paint or etch a serial number in your catalytic converter so at least they can't be sold quickly to area recycling companies around the region thank you for that and for those of us who may not know what a catalytic converter looks like like is that up on the website like if

[58:01] you want to etch or spray paint your own here's the thing to look for underneath your car uh it's right next to your muffler and it's uh it's it's all about the metal it's uh it's all about palladium and it is the economic factors of really international or driving this crime and this trends like you know copper prices when they go up you see copper theft so these are economic factors and we try to block as many of these opportunities as possible all right thanks so much bob thanks mary thanks chief thanks team that was a great presentation just a quick question i'm sorry if i missed this um can you give us some examples of crimes against society yeah that's a great question um crimes against society or are liquor usually a lot of liquor law violations uh animal cruelty um prostitution which now you know i think the best practice way to say that is

[59:00] human trafficking issues um drugs uh all of the drug uh would fall into that category as well those are your major crimes against society great thanks chief that's all i had thank you bob sam thanks mary and thanks chief and all for the presentation super helpful um great to see the open data available this quickly to everyone um i look at the five property crimes that were highlighted so it was slide 35 it was the red boxes around the the largest increase in crimes and we've already heard about one which is um theft of motor vehicle parts or accessories but it also seems like motor vehicle theft itself is up quite a bit um and so those two are ones that we've heard a lot about along with bike thefts so do you have any not only suggestions but ideas about

[60:01] what the police department might do to bring those rates back down to where they've been over the last five years i the motor vehicle theft is challenging because people are leaving their extern spare keys what we find when we look at the reports is that they're leaving their spare keys or their valet keys in the car so this is really about public awareness not to do that because people are looking for those valet keys um leaving your cars open is also very problematic and so when you read these reports through these reports you find that people are either leaving their keys in the car their cars open and they're easy targets and the areas that we want to get out and we have a public education campaign these cars that are being stolen are the cars that are parked near the major exits and entryways into boulder and out of boulder

[61:00] so this really is about educating the public on please do not leave your keys in the car please don't leave property in the car put it in the trunk don't leave your valet keys and please don't leave your keys in your ignition or somewhere in the car because people are going through these cars and finding these keys and they are being dumped in different parts of the region and so it really comes down to a public awareness campaign on on both uh motor vehicle theft and then also theft from vehicles which is also problematic as well mayor thanks for that um it does seem that whatever habits people might have had with leaving their ballet and spare keys in their car is something that probably hasn't changed a lot but people are taking advantage of it it seems like more frequently um you did mention that there are more vehicles being stolen near entrances and exits to the city i think that's revealing in and of itself um so i just wanted to highlight that

[62:01] because that seems like it's a pretty big increase in a pretty big ticket item for a lot of people so thanks for that and thanks for the great report thank you mayor thank you sam um any mark thank you mary chief thank you for that presentation that was a lot of data and it was really really quite useful um going back to the slide that shows the calls for service on the hill um one of the at least perceptions is that when a call for service is made by the time um it is responded to it becomes impossible to actually identify who is responsible for whatever the activity was that that was causing the uh the call in the first place um are there any strategies that could be used to either shorten the response time or somehow um make a better correlation between uh the call for service and identifying

[63:02] the action and the people involved that are that are committing that activity that that is a great question i don't think it's the response time issue i know the community has a perception of that what is challenging is to prove the to understand what offense occurred that they're calling about especially as this relates to noise the police have uh good response times to the hill um but it's proving that the loud noise and what occurs is the uh community members when they see the police car pull up they turn the music off they shut the lights down and they don't answer the door um this makes it very complicated for the police to investigate these very low level um you know ordinances and so i think what the data clearly demonstrates is that we have severe place management issues on the

[64:00] hill and i think it's clustering around certain uh landlords management teams and i think that we really need to understand the the amount of calls for service being generated from a very few places on the hill and i'm sure this would remain consistent as we look at the rest of the city in the same way we we have started to look at the hill but in my opinion we're not going to be able to police our way out of these noise complaints and disorder complaints um it's it is just overwhelming when you look at the data how many calls for service we have um across the hill area it's just it's overwhelming and i think the data clearly demonstrates the 80 20 principle there yeah okay thank you any other questions from council all right um if not i have um one thank you for that very fascinating um presentation and all the way around

[65:01] really appreciate it um my question has to do with the call data and um specifically on the hill and at the san juan community where you mentioned during the presentation that um all of this suggests that there's a better that there's a need for better property management so what are the strategies to [Music] attain better property management and how can we implement them in boulder uh great question mary and i think this really comes down um to landlord education training that is sponsored by the bureau of justice administration and i think a lot of landlords don't know how complicated it is to actually run a property and not have high calls for service or high crime so i think that there's an educational component which we most certainly could do in boulder and um each city department could take a lead on on the training and then secondly i

[66:01] think that the city has put together a team under nuria's direction to really start exploring uh model policies across the country on chronic nuisance abatement and then thirdly we really have to get a clear understanding and of our data across the city and standardize it for different apartments and different types of properties across across the city but i would bet my bottom dollar that the principles will remain consistent as we start to look at other parts of the city as well thank you marissa and i have um so just a follow-up if um if like you said we're gonna not gonna police our way out of this problem what could we do on a small scale to begin with say a pilot program that would get us going on some of these strategies that you mentioned well uh nuri's already put together a

[67:01] really good team in the city um to start uh refining our data which is step number one um we're also exploring uh landlord education training uh with the university um in short term the university myself and the planning director are going to pilot some code enforcement and intelligence work up on the hill um and then as we're looking at the san juan property which is really fascinating to me because our team here in the police department is indicating um you know a few years ago the community members of san juan did not have a lot of trust in the police department and now that they they see the police on a daily basis that trust is building and so maybe that's why we're seeing high calls for service so all of this is exciting to me because it look at least we have actionable data to start tearing apart these problems and working together as a team but i think the team will continue to work on these uh you know these high calls for service

[68:01] locations and i think that we really have to start educating these landlords and then at the end of the day if if if we need to have a stronger chronic nuisance abatement uh ordinance i i think that's an order um when you look at when you look at the amount of calls for service to some of these locations it must be traumatizing for the community uh to see the police in these communities so much and i don't think that's the direction that we want policing to go so i think this again isn't a great example of where the city could use holistic governance um and work together as a team to start solving these community problems that really is causing a great amount of community harm thank you um marist what i'm hearing then is that um y'all are on it um and that's great i think we are and i think it's just because we're really getting an

[69:01] understanding of our data and it's going to get better and we're going to be able to really pinpoint and isolate the 80 20 principle across the city and i think that's very powerful and so i'm excited for the work um because i think that the biggest part of police reform that people miss is trying to extract police um from constantly going back and forth back and forth to some of these problem areas but use a whole city holistic approach and i'll tell you that other city departments have levers that are much more impactful on some of these crime and disorder issues than the police and so i'm excited i think we have a great team under naria's leadership and i think we're going to do big things thank you and um thank you for um all the work you all are doing any other questions from council seeing none we'll move on to the next item thanks mary

[70:02] i know this item has been bumped a couple times and i'm excited that amp's implementation and action plan is before you today so i'll invite uh chris hagelin in public works and chris jones and community vitality to present thank you thank you thank you i'm going to share my screen real quick and hand it over to chris haglin all right wait till that comes up make sure it comes up yes so good evening mayor city council my name is chris haglin i am the acting manager of the transportation planning division of transportation mobility and as you know i am joined by chris jones deputy director of community vitality next slide please yes thank you this is the agenda for this evening study session on our current amps efforts following a refresher of the project background i will share the process that we have taken for the development uh and refinement of these strategic

[71:02] options which we'll present to you tonight and then chris jones will share with you the specifics on our neighborhood parking management parking pricing strategies and then also our parking fine strategies uh and then it will return to me and i will share some of the feedback that we have received from boards and councils and the next steps that we will are prepared to take and then the questions we have for you tonight as you know uh the work that we've done in amps is guided by three major documents the boulder valley comp plan our transportation master plan and the access management and parking strategy documents known as amps uh these have all shaped our work and as you may recall the amps guiding principles were adopted by council in 2017 and and they include that in boulder our residents employees and visitors use a variety of transportation options and we need to plan and provide access for all of those we

[72:01] need to employ new innovative tools and strategies to improve multimodal access and manage demand in different parts of our city we need to be inclusive and recognize the diversity within our community and strive to advance social and racial equity we need policies and programs that not only provide transportation access benefits but also meet our economic vitality and climate goals and lastly in our fast changing and very unpredictable world as we have certainly felt in the last couple years we need to plan for the present but also adapt to the future uh and it's social environmental technological and economic changes next slide please it's stalling for a moment sorry all right there we go thank you chris um this chart uh which you i believe you've seen before provides some examples of the variety of projects underway under the amps umbrella uh as you know camp is our annual

[73:01] parking management and free shuttle service to chautauqua which is currently operating right now for our city government offices and the main civic library we implemented a new parking management strategy and also a parking cash out program for our city employees staff continues to work on a possible tdm ordinance for new developments to mitigate the impacts of new development on our transportation system and that project is directly linked to our parking code changes project which uh unfortunately has been delayed uh due to staff reductions in the planning and development services uh however we hope to get that back on track in the near future this fall we're also kicking off a curbside management uh program we received a grant from dr cogg and we'll be looking at developing a set of curbside management policies and an implementation guideline so we can begin looking at how we employ that in our

[74:00] city the final two projects are really what we're here today to discuss with you our neighborhood parking management our parking pricing and our parking fine strategy this graphic illustrates our project timeline uh currently we are designing the implementation and action plan uh which outlines our preferred strategies our next steps and our costs following months of community outreach uh alternative analysis and input from our boards and commissions we are bringing preliminary recommended strategies for this discussion tonight the study section and i apologize if you hear my dog barking outside um overall the project objectives are to rework both our neighborhood parking management and parking pricing approach uh and we want this to be more aligned with our broader city goals around access mobility and climate to meet these project objectives we've analyzed our existing conditions

[75:01] we've conducted extensive community engagement and we've also looked at best practices in other communities we have also taken time to incorporate the teachings of donald trump into our strategies as well in terms of community engagement we have shared information on our project website we've collected responses to polls and surveys and conducted focus groups within our current npp neighborhoods we've tracked these demographics closely and we're pleased with our results in reaching people of color both younger and older residents and also renters we've met with community organizations boards and commissions and we also formed a community working group that which we dubbed the access allies um this was made up of representatives from boards and commissions uh and also property owners other and other stakeholders such as the downtown boulder partnership we also had an access allies light group this was a group that was made up solely of our boards and commissioner representatives so we can

[76:00] really dive deeper uh into policies and strategies we've also worked with our community connectors who are our paid liaisons uh to help us reach some of our harder to reach uh groups in our community uh and with that i will turn it over to chris jones to go over the the strategies thank you chris haglin good evening council um on the screen you see in front of you the the goals that we vetted with you earlier this year for neighborhood parking management i'm not going to read through these one by one but these are the goals that we look to in the development of the strategies that we considered and wanted to evaluate through this process the three strategies that we have considered for neighborhood parking management are the first minor program adjustments this would be a status quo approach to our existing mpp creation expansion and management but would have included some modifications to mitigate some of the persistent program challenges that we've heard from from residents who participate in mpp or

[77:01] are adjacent to neighborhoods that are in npps um with some parking challenges associated with that another strategy we looked at was data-based decision making this would bene this would have been a staff driven approach to neighborhood parking management where we identify and implement changes in neighborhood parking management but really largely proactively led by staff delivering management strategies to neighborhoods the third strategy we looked at was priority based neighborhood access management this is similar to the database decision-making making approach where we would identify available management tools prioritize based on key performance indicators that we would measure and evaluate but implementation of these tools would still require a neighborhood petition process when we measured those three strategies against the goals that we vetted with you earlier this year priority-based neighborhood access management was identified as the most aligned with those goals in all areas

[78:02] achieving the same or better results other than feasibility so we acknowledge that with that approach it would require additional staff time and resources to implement if we were to pursue this strategy what that might look like is first in order to achieve cost recovery we acknowledge we need to increase the permit costs for residents and commuters in the years ahead in order to we project get to cost recovery by 2024. we're proposing a 13 increase in the annual permit for residents a 20 increase in commuters next year with again incremental adjustments until 2024 when we can achieve cost recovery beyond that we can certainly continue a conversation to identify other ways that we might use uh surplus if we want to continue cost increases for residents and commuters that could translate into additional benefits to add value to the the products we're providing in neighborhoods um

[79:01] concurrent with this work over the next couple years the city would review our parking supply utilization adjacent land uses and multi-modal access scores within residential areas throughout the city and existing mpps to determine which zones and residential areas would be eligible for various management tools and depending on how they meet these set metrics um existing npp zones would um could be deemed no longer eligible um for neighborhood parking management based on those key performance indicators and we would possibly seek to phase those npps out um again though a petition process would be need to be received from neighborhoods who want to pursue new tools in their communities and the petitions would be evaluated and prioritized based on those key performance indicators and this is really similar to the neighborhood speed management program that transportation and mobility currently pursues on an annual process

[80:02] today for parking pricing and fines we again identified a number of goals we've added with you earlier this year again not going to read through them but these are the goals that we look to to identify various strategy for both parking pricing in our current managed districts and our fine strategy so the three strategies we looked at for parking pricing were first static price adjustments this would be periodic base price increases based on our budget needs and peer assessments similar to how we've pursued price increases in the past another strategy we looked at was place based pricing so looking at the aggregate parking utilization for specific geographic areas and pricing on street and off-street facilities appropriately based on the geographic utilization a third strategy we looked at is performance-based pricing and this would be more fine-tuned pricing adjustments based on occupancy data along specific corridors throughout the city when we evaluated

[81:02] those three strategies against our goals performance-based pricing was identified as the most aligned with those goals in performing the same or better in all areas except for achieving transparency and predictability where if we are having different pricing on different corridors there will be some challenges in making sure that the public is aware of where those higher prices might be and again feasibility of this more refined approach to parking management will require more staff time and effort to implement if we pursue the performance-based pricing what that might look like is we want to make sure that our on-street parking is priced higher than off-street parking so that folks who are aware of that that those pricing structures can just go straight to an off-street facility instead of circling trying to find cheaper parking on street corridors would then be evaluated and set at high medium and low parking rates depending on their typical peak

[82:00] occupancy um and then some high demand corridors where we're not able to we're even at the high rate where the parking pricing is not able to ensure that there is at least about 15 capacity on those corridors we'd want to identify some priority spaces for short-term pickup and drop off for business freight loading unloading uber lyft things like that corridor rates would be updated regularly based on our typical peak demand and um fortunately the new meters that we've just installed throughout the downtown and university hill are able to be programmed easily with these variable rate structures on the right here you see an example of a possible approach we could use for branding to make this more transparent and predictable for customers the suggestion here is maybe using cu's school colors to identify the different rates from high standard to a base rate um for our fine strategy again we have three approaches that we've considered

[83:02] the first would be status quo not making any change to our fine strategy the second would be graduated fines and mobility safety fines for repeat offenders and higher fines for violations that impede other users travel choices such as parking in a bike lane or blocking access to a transit stop or an ada ram the third strategy includes that approach but also adds having different fines for different parts of the city based on parking utilization rates when we measured those strategies against our goals the second strategy graduated fines and mobility safety fines has identified has been identified as the most aligned in all areas except for recognizing the value of the right-of-way where if we were using parking utilization to determine fines it would be harder to implement on a staff level but it would be more in alignment with utilization of right-of-way um if we were to pursue

[84:03] the graduated fines on mobility safety fines we would want to first increase our base fine rate for a standard parking violation from what's currently 15 to 30 from there second and third violations would be set with a graduated premium capped out on the third violation which we're currently proposing at sixty dollars mobility safety violations would be set automatically at that premium rate proposed at sixty dollars from that i'll hand it back over to chris and he can let you know what we've heard from boards and commissions thank you chris um during our touches with boards and commissions we received a wide variety of feedback and we incorporate that into the strategies that chris has shared with you for neighborhood parking management we shifted to a more equitable split between residential and commuter pricing and accelerated cost recovery to 2024. we also tied key performance indicators to trip generation for new developments to make neighborhood parking management

[85:00] a proactive tool during our planning process for parking pricing we increased the difference between off street and on-street parking prices and included the 15-minute free on-street parking we have committed to regularly tracking vehicle miles of travel and greenhouse gas reduction impacts to understand the impact of these parking management changes we are also committed to expanding tdm and mobility initiative programs uh following the achievement of cost recovery uh parking pricing will be responsive to changes in parking demand distribution and intensify in transitional districts like boulder junction as they evolve and densify and we've also changed some of the terminology we've used in our parking fines uh in regard to overall board and commission sentiments sentiments on these strategies the downtown management commission is generally supportive and interested

[86:00] in increasing off street uh parking use uh and and also very interested in the uh up and coming curbside management work getting started this fall uh the university hill commission supports the strategies developed through this process uh bjd boater junction access districts is also supportive of the strategies and the approach but is also open to some higher off street parking prices within their district uh planning board views this uh the approach that staff is taking as uh conservative and incremental and that a more aggressive approach could be taken but they understand the need to balance equity economic vitality and environmental goals tab desires that council directs staff to take a more aggressive approach to parking prices and to really use it as a tool to address greenhouse gas reduction needs and to decrease vehicle use tab also believes that residents can and should pay more for their neighborhood

[87:01] parking permits and that the price for residential permits should rise faster to achieve cost recovery sooner uh we do have ryan shushart from tab at this meeting and he is available to elaborate on tabs feedback if so desired considering council's earlier feedback and recent discussions at tab we believe it's important to explain how staff has incorporated donald trump's teaching into these strategies essentially there are six main principles in donald trump's approach to parking management and we have taken the time to incorporate these the first is charging the right prices for on-street parking the right prices are really those lower the lowest prices that will achieve 15 parking availability so there is never a parking shortage prices will balance demand and supply on these on-street spaces uh staff is going to collect data

[88:01] and over time uh adjust pricing to balance supply and demand just as this principle indicates the second is to charge demand-based pricing for off-street parking to optimize occupancy staff are proposing that the city change pricing to make uh on-street parking more expensive to optimize this our off-street parking use and which i think is currently uh underutilized the third principle is to spend parking revenue to improve public services so staff is proposing this idea and really the city has been doing this for decades through property taxes and parking revenue in our districts cage it has supplied supplied eco passes to our downtown employees in boulder junctions uh tdm access district we provide not only eco passes but also bike sharing car share memberships and soon micro mobility memberships the city periodically also issues bonds uh against anticipated

[89:01] parking revenue for projects within these districts to improve safety aesthetics and walkability the fourth is to remove off street parking requirements uh planning and development services uh we'll be working to identify uh changes in these parking code and i would say that our preliminary recommendations uh before we got to the pause uh was to transition away from parking minimums to parking maximums uh the fifth being promoting parking cash-out programs uh the city initiated a program for its own employee employees in the civic area to great success uh employers throughout boulder are already doing this voluntarily and border transportation connections which is our local transportation management organization is focused on increasing parking cash out programs and uh before covid had acquired a congestion mitigation air quality grant or cmac grant to promote uh parking cash out so we're going to

[90:01] continue to work on that as we adjust to this postcode environment the final shoe principle is to use parking fines that increase with each successive offense and as you've just heard this is definitely part of our proposal tonight so um to go over just kind of our next steps if we were to implement these strategies uh for the neighborhood parking management we would adjust the resident and commuter annual permits by ten dollars and twenty dollars respectively to achieve cost recovery uh by 2024 with additional increases uh we would update the ordinance and regulations for our new npp process we'd maintain the pause on any new npp zones uh requests throughout this just this next year uh and then we can start revisiting those we will conduct extensive data collection in those residential zones to look at the impact of these changes we would establish eligibility and priority for the

[91:00] possible creation of new neighborhood management zones and also look at possibly phasing some out that no longer meet our kpis we would also develop of course the the outreach materials to communicate these changes to the public in terms of parking pricing we would update the ordinance and regulations with help of our city attorney's office uh we'd increase the base on street rate throughout the city by 25 cents but maintain the current rate in our garages we will eliminate the four hour graduated fee but implement a flat max pricing after six hours and also extend the evening flat rate to the weekends and of course we would need to develop outreach materials to communicate this uh to the public and then we'll really begin that whole process of collecting data to implement this performance-based pricing based on occupancy so that we can dial into that right price to achieve that 15 occupancy

[92:02] uh and finally for the parking fine strategy you know uh if we move forward with these strategies we will need to update the ordinance and publish the fine schedule and then of course communicate those changes to the public overall for the for this entire effort additional next steps include making any changes to our action plan and the strategies based on your feedback tonight we will continue our community engagement uh based on those refined strategies and then we plan on returning to council uh with our uh finalized 2022 work plan on these amps efforts in the fourth quarter of this year um that leaves us with the the questions that we have for for council uh and just to let you know the third question we thought uh after the the feedback that we had received that we wanted to hone in

[93:00] the third question a bit more so we have revised that third question uh just to just to help guide the uh discussion tonight so uh with that uh we look forward to an interesting discussion thank you for your time thank you chris and chris for the presentation and information um looks like we have a bunch of hands up and i didn't see i think i believe aaron was first um and then followed by bob and then sam and real quick um mary i'm glad to stop sharing my spring because i know people like to see faces but i just want to make sure folks have an opportunity to review the questions and um council members um the questions are on page packet page 24 if you want to go to them on your packet great thanks mary and yeah thanks so much chris and chris for the presentation and all your work on this it's

[94:00] wonderful to see this coming forward i feel like i started working on this when i was just a wee planning board lad many many years ago so uh it's it's great to see some some steps happening here i have a few questions but first i just wanted to see if our tab representative ryan shoeshart wanted to offer a few comments on tabs uh deliberations and um and their recommendations so would it be possible to get ryan on board to say a few words hi erin i think i'm here is that my cue that is your cue hi ryan okay great well um good good evening council members uh so i'm ryan shewhart uh and i represent tab i'm not our chair but tila has um given me the role tonight to represent us because i've been somewhat engaged on the topic um so i if yeah if i could i'll just say a few words um so and first i just do want to acknowledge chris and chris and erica and natalie um partly for all of their great work as

[95:00] i've gotten to know them but also because i'm pretty new to tab and they've been at this for years as you mentioned um and also i should just clarify we as tab we have not voted on a resolution so um i'm not here to you know represent a specific position but it's it's more that we've had quite a bit of dialogue over the last um couple of months so i'll just try to represent what what i think we've um i think we've talked about and and i'll just say that chris is exactly right that tab would like to um move more aggressively and um i'll just try to summarize it with one big idea and it's that if there's one thing that's worth council's attention today on this subject it's that if you take the various measures individually with parking it it rapidly becomes very technical and it and it makes it's kind of hard to make sense of unless you're really inclined to that kind of technical analysis and you and you have the time to spend with with the data um but if you zoom out what you start to see are some things that are more in the domain of values and priorities that council has

[96:02] expressed a lot of opinion about um and things that if you really wanted to put parking to work for then staff would require your direction support and cover so what am i talking about well um parking is a few things of course it is a place to put cars but beyond that it's it's at least three more things first it's one of the city's most powerful assets for climate action uh in in the council session which i study session which i attended a couple of weeks ago uh boulder's climate office staff were very direct in saying the progress on climate to date has been shallow and the city needs to act with climate on climate with a lot greater urgency um i thought i saw council members mostly agreeing with that um and to that end parking policy is truly one of one of the city's big opportunities for climate we see that through all kinds of different studies around transportation demand management and including from the work of donald trump who's been mentioned

[97:00] and this is because parking economics is a major determinant maybe one of the key determinants of local driving which is of course one of the biggest chunks of ghg parking policy is also one of the city's rare big levers in which it itself directly controls and can literally overnight change and fine-tune and and if you think of the corollary it's that parking is just in a general policy sense it is a significant source of potential conflict with with climate um and ghg reduction versus gst reduction and vehicle mouse travel reduction uh envision zero and um so to to really uh if you wanted to put parking really to work for climate you would be looking at what are the ways that we can really pull the lever on on parking pricing and some other related subjects so that's the first thing second thing what is what is parking parking is also a large amount of publicly owned real estate on street parking is a valuable public good and hence it's something

[98:01] that the general population of residents pay for directly and indirectly and which a subset of residents benefit from and it is not predestined that the public space we currently use to provide public subsidized car storage needs to be used that way um so if you just think about the value of the real estate of the parking you'll the numbers will start that up very quickly and the question one might ask is if you were starting from scratch would you use 50 dollar you know square foot real estate um and just give that away for free or for you know mostly for free um and the third and final thing that parking is at least for tonight is it's a service with the market price and so that means that cheap prices for on-street parking storage means that cars will appear to take up the space if you increase the prices it means that cars will begin to disappear as people choose private locations to park to get rid of an extra vehicle and or take the bike or bus and more parking spaces will free up if

[99:01] you remove subsidized parking altogether people are still free to park their cars at a market rate and you can imagine local businesses and even private residents who have who have garage driveway and other space they'll com they'll compete to supply it and we've seen this everywhere so just to tie it up if you take a hard look at climate or equity and you say we really care about making serious changes you should expect it to look a lot like moving away from status quo not just incrementally but really saying how we are going to do showing how we're going to do things fundamentally differently um and so this is a question i would offer maybe less for staff and more for council to consider um it's a question of relative priorities and has political dimensions um and it's and it's not the thing you can obviously expect a professional staff to push on unless they have real direction from the elected leaders to say to go outside it's okay to go outside the normal lines um and the final thing i'll just i'll

[100:01] just offer on this that i think represents our view from stat from tab is that i thought that the council's study session on climate a couple weeks it was fantastic um and you know one of the one of the implications is we need to do more and do more faster but i'd just like to offer that that the one of the the key things that led to was the idea of doing modeling and study and what a study is going to give you is this exact type of a decision on your desk so if you if you really want to move on climate here you have today no need for for deep deep modeling um you've got you've got an opportunity um so from that i'll i'll step down and just wanted to offer that um from from tab we we think the tech the staff is great but at least i think this app is great i'll speak for myself um and just want to make sure that the council knows what they have here thank you so much thanks very much for that ryan i apologize for uh pronouncing your last name before um so uh unless anybody has questions for

[101:01] ryan i i can proceed with my questions i have questions for ryan okay go for it sorry here i'll i'll go back over to mary mary is it okay if i ask her any questions yeah it's okay um aaron actually had the floor for questions but if if aaron is seeding his um questions to um to others that's fine as long as i get it back after we're done with ryan i just had a question for ryan i'll wait my turn that's okay go ahead no no no please ask ryan your question i just want to ask the staff questions after you after you're done sure so do i so ryan thanks for all of that exhortation to do more and as a person who's studied this a lot could you tell us like just to put a fine point on it what would you do as far as the three recommendations we're looking at tonight so we've got neighborhood parking management we're looking at setting prices for three different categories

[102:00] we've got um fines and we've got um kind of downtown paid parking so you've exhorted us could we get a dollar figure for what you would do for those or would you like us to you mentioned also that we could do a study and the study would tell us that we need to do more i'm just curious if you have any detail behind that or if it's just a general lean in kind of comment may we thank you for that i'll give you my take i i i hesitate to make this you know be something tab would necessarily say but i'll give you a few ideas one um thousand dollars i think that that that sounds reasonable um for a day or an hour or a year i'm sorry i should specify i think i'm we a lot of the discussion has been on the neighborhood neighborhood parking pricing so right now it's 17 a year so a couple of couple of cups of coffee to store your you're on you know your private vehicle for a year um and it would move to 50 something um i think a thousand seems like it like a pretty good start i mean that's a hundred dollars a month to store your car a lot a lot of cities

[103:00] people pay 150 250 a month to store their car um again people are free to park wherever they want that would be one starting point second starting point would be to can i interrupt you you said that i assume that's for the residential so then we've got the commuter which is about 420 a year or so would you keep the commuter at the staff recommendation would you go higher for that it's car storage too right right so i mean you're just using round numbers here um but but sure i mean i i'm in that in a sense i think you know a hundred dollars or so ish a month for both of them i think is not it's not unreasonable it's not taking away people's parking they're still free to park their driveways for free and so on um so if you want if you just want a dollar figure i'll give you that um i think another thing you consider is paris who's been to paris loves to go to europe they just announced plans to cancel half of their on-street parking so that's another thing to think about is is just you know just getting rid of about half of it um you could also think about it from a square footage perspective um you know think about 50 a foot it's

[104:00] about 200 square feet per parking spot um just think about what the you know what you'd expect for for business to pay um you know for for business lease that's that's another starting point okay and anything on fines or downtown parking rates we were so thank you we were actually been quite focused on the uh at least i have been through this pretty focused on the parking rates uh itself i do think one one point on fines is is to take you know i think there's a national kind of awakening to the um the challenges that that happen when you have cars parked in bike lanes and keeping you know forcing vulnerable road users to swerve out of the way of trucks and cars and suvs that's a good place to to be more aggressive with parking and taking it seriously you know if you let you have a motor vehicle that was left in the middle of the street people had to drive around it that would be taken pretty seriously i would say to start to consider that the philosophy for for black bike lanes so any kind of concrete so you say serious fines for blocking bike lanes do you have an idea of what that might be

[105:01] like for us to kick around tonight well thank you so you know we purposely didn't come in with like a rebuttal to everything so i'm afraid that i don't have a specific but i would say you might tell the card be treated the same as you would if it was in the in the middle of a lane okay thank you aaron back to you okay thanks sam um okay so a few few questions for staff um uh one is so what one of the things that's not on our agenda tonight is the parking code update in the planning department and understand the staffing issues there but since a lot of our parking policy in the city kind of revolves around that a lot of our aspirations might might be achieved through that do we have a sense is there anybody from the planning department who has a sense of when we're going to be able to get to that i'm not sure if we have anybody from planning on the call tonight but i do believe that they are working

[106:00] to focus on that for their 2020 work plan at this point but i don't want to speak for them does anybody else chris or eric you know what i've heard is you know let's try and get it on next year's work plan so 2022. and the intent had been to make sure that that work was moving forward in conjunction with the work that we presented with you tonight and just you know unforeseen circumstances um we are we're not able to be in that position today but we will very much look forward to um that work coming soon and i would i would just add real quick that you know we've already done a lot of data collection on the parking code changes granted covid poscovid but i think we have a good foundation and we've also already developed a lot of preliminary recommendations for consideration so i think once we start we can hit the ground running and come very quickly with uh recommendations on parking code

[107:01] changes i i think the the key factor is you know what has been the impact of covid and that may take a little bit to understand okay thanks yeah not that anybody from the planning department need to be here for this item but that's helpful to understand because i think it like i say a lot of our aspirations in this area i think can be achieved through that program with that policy uh those policy changes so uh next question is on the neighborhood parking permit can you refresh my memory as to how many permits do people get both kind of year round and guest access with that program sure so we we don't we don't limit the number of permits extensively i think we allow three permits outright with the program for a resident who can demonstrate that they live there and they purchase one for each vehicle um and so that will get the the price for those permits will go

[108:00] up and then each household or demonstrated resident gets two visitor permits included with their household permit to to hand out to friends folks who are staying temporarily for house cleaning a project or or visitor for a short period of time and then they're also eligible for guest permits um up to two weeks of permits are allowed for free per year for them to register a guest to be able to park on the street for an extended amount of time um uh on their block so the guest permits are time limited are those visitor permits time limited i mean could could you use them for 24 7 or would there be a restriction on that so they they are so there's two permits allowed and they are not they're not time restricted in the sense of when our parking enforcement officers see a visitor permit they'll certainly pay attention and see it if that car stays there in that same spot beyond the

[109:00] allowable number of hours which is largely 72 hours then even though they have a visitor permit they would still be ticketed for leaving their vehicle in a residential zone or on the in the public right-of-way for too long without moving right well those are the rules that apply city-wide right i've been sort of specifically around the visitor permit would there be a period of time at which they would say hey you know this isn't really a visitor um you know we do not currently um have those type of restrictions i'm getting a note from one of my staff so visitor permits can be used for 24 hours um on a block um of the residents okay thanks and so the these new or the pricing that we currently have and that we're proposing to increase that's a per permit price rather than a per household price um i want to confirm that but yeah uh two permits max per resident um if they have two vehicles registered

[110:00] to them and i believe it is a per permit price got it and do we charge it all for those visitor permits say it one more time no the visitor permits are included with the price of your resident permit got it okay um and then on the the pricing increase the proposal is to increase that gradually over the next i think three years to get to that cost recovery level of fifty dollars and then um you mentioned the possibility of increasing to the point where there'd be some additional revenue that we could use on other programs like other transportation demand management program kind of things is that would we have to kind of specifically how could we make that happen like do we have to come back in 2024 and talk about it again or could we give direction to say you know what build that into these tiers that you're going to increase so if we wanted to do that what would be the path there so our intent is over the next couple of

[111:01] years as we're increasing these rates and doing the the key performance indicators and measures is um identifying the the various parking management tools that we want to make available that are customized to the conditions and so we would anticipate that we're going to continue to have conversations with our boards and commissions tab and you all on what those specific management tools could look like and again similar to what transportation mobility does with the neighborhoods feed management program is on an annual basis we would share what we have learned as far as our data collection and our recommended parking management strategies where i think we acknowledge that the the npp as it currently exists was designed to mitigate a certain type of parking spillover that occurs adjacent to our managed districts and it's not necessarily the the most appropriate tool for parking challenges in other parts of

[112:01] the city that might have intensifying land uses or they're adjacent to a trailhead so what we really want to do is is model our approach after what was done with camp where we identify specific set of strategies that might work better for that area of town as opposed to just identifying the current npp approach of these residential permits plus visitor and guest permits um made available because you have a parking problem because what we've learned from a number of of our focus groups with mpps is folks have entered into the the program they've permitted to be a part of it and discovered that it did not actually solve or or make a significant change to their their unique challenges and what we really want to move toward is yeah more customized approach based on those key performance indicators and so that is still going to evolve if that's the direction that we're receiving from you all tonight um our

[113:02] intent is to evolve those tools okay thanks very much that's all my questions i'll have comments later appreciate it thank you aaron um next uh is bob i think i just have one question relating to parking garages first i want to disclose that my wife's great grandfather opened the very first parking garage for motor vehicles in boston on may 24 1898. you can look it up his name is thomas mcculloch it cost a dollar a day which was a lot of money back then um my question i didn't quite follow the the memo on what we're gonna do on parking pricing for parking garages i know we have the three for three for three program you know which is great and i know it's been very successful currently i think we have free parking on the weekends is that i understood from the memo that's going to shift a little bit can you walk us through that again yes so the changes in parking garages will be first we're going to keep the dollar 25

[114:02] rate for now because we want parking in garages to be cheaper than on street currently if you stay in a downtown garage beyond four hours the rate increases to two dollars and fifty cents per hour so if you leave your vehicle in there for an extended amount of time it becomes even more expensive to a total daily max of 55 um so we're working to adjust those rates because we want to encourage people to utilize the the off-street assets that we have so we can understand how that dynamic is going to play out with our on-street assets and so we're keeping the dollar 25 in the garages we are going to implement a flat rate if you stay after six hours then you're more like a long-term permit holder and we don't want a long-term stay to be cheaper than our permits that we sell because then we will lose a lot of customers on our permit front um so that's one change that we detail

[115:00] the other change as you mentioned bob was the uh the three dollar evening rate will continue um three dollars from three pm to three a.m monday through friday our intent is to extend that three dollar flat rate throughout the weekend as well so if you come on a weekend it will no longer be free but regardless of the duration of your day stay it will be three dollars okay thanks and so that just on that last bit so that three dollars will kick in from three o'clock on a friday to 3 a.m on the following monday effectively yeah okay great thanks a lot thanks that's all i had thanks bob next up is sam thank you guys great comprehensive presentation much appreciated chris and chris um a couple quick questions um you focused on the neighborhood parking permit first um you talked about the price adjustments and then you also

[116:01] talked about potentially eliminating some neighborhood parking programs or having them redo petitions um and so i wasn't clear first of all if the price increase is independent of the concept of eliminating or adding to npps that's just something you're proposing to do straight away right correct and the fundamental purpose of that it seems like is financial stability for the program is that correct well to meet the the pricing uh goal so one of our goals was to achieve cost recovery and looking to previous pricing strategies um we're it's been 17 for residents for quite some time and so while that might have been the appropriate price in 1994 to make sure we are achieving cost recovery for the program having not increased that over time um we are no longer in that space so that's that is the the primary um cause of of increasing the rate for the existing

[117:00] npp um as it as it stands the the additional um petitions would be if there were other tools that were identified based on the data collection that we will be doing that might warrant maybe the addition of on-street pay stations in a residential zone similar to what we've done near chautauqua we wouldn't just outright put those out there on the street without working with the neighborhood we would present that as a as a tool based on data collection as a maybe an appropriate next step for neighborhood parking management and then work with them to determine if they want it then it will be through a petition process that they would resubmit so for instance whittier would maintain their npp as it currently exists until we might identify other strategies that could be deployed in whittier but it would still based on again direction that we've received from council and this was a question that we had for you earlier in the year of what is the right

[118:01] way to involve the communities and neighborhoods in these decisions we're making in residential areas and the direction that we had received previously was that a neighborhood petition process was still desired rather than a staff driven delivery of change in nebraska parking management so that's in a large part where that comes from right i'll come back to that comments but that's very clarifying thank you for that um then the other question i have is you talked about key performance indicators and the one that was mentioned was 15 vacant parking spots is kind of a sweet spot that you shoot for so you adjust your pricing until you hit that sweet spot um are there other key performance indicators that you would use when you have a look at pricing besides just the vacancy rate or is that like you talk about multiple but is that the one that you're really focused on that i'd say that that's the primary

[119:00] goal and i might call on mallory our consultant at walker who really was instrumental in developing the nuances of these strategies i would say that that is our number one factor the other element of course is going to be the overall utilization in the districts for instance what's happening in the garages if we are filling up the garages um and um the streets outside the garages are able or maintaining a 15 vacancy then we're going to have an imbalance there in our assets that means that that we need to make an adjustment to our garage prices to be higher which then will translate into changes that we need to make on street to maintain that that balance but mallory i'm wondering if you might have anything else to add on that front sure thanks chris and and thank you sam for that question so on the neighborhood parking management side as chris mentioned the primary key performance indicators that we would use um in terms of existing conditions are the parking supply and the utilization

[120:00] because that really tells us if a parking issue that needs to be solved is present um another indicator that we would use on a more proactive level is trip generation that's generated by new development so that's an area where the planning department and this effort are really working in tandem and working in coordination so one thing that we heard in our project process and through our board and commission effort is that the planning department frequently hears about parking and the need to solve parking problems that are sort of preemptive when new development is is on the horizon but they really don't have a recourse for that so in this case a key performance indicator would be a trip generation cap for new development and the subsequent condition that that new development is not providing um its own parking or sufficient parking per the code so that means that it would trigger a review and potential for a neighborhood parking

[121:01] permit program to be looked at in that neighborhood given that that new development might cause or is likely to cause that condition where there is a parking challenge another sort of secondary indicator that we are looking at is transit richness and access in the neighborhood so um in an in a residential area where parking management is being considered as an option we will also want to look at the access richness so a combination of walk score bike score and transit score to see if um parking and single occupancy vehicles are truly the primary necessary mode for mobility um in an area and that kind of draws on on the equity piece um as well thank you so how would how would you use that latter one which sounds pretty interesting so if you've got an area like whittier which has got lots of transit nearby bikeable walkable would you have a higher price for an npp in that area would you have a higher on street

[122:00] parking price like how would you use transit walkability to interface with your management of your parking system so right now i'm sorry chris i'm it's okay if i continue to answer this question right now we're not um showing any we're not recommending specific price differentials based on access score in um the implementation act an action plan we're more recommending it as a consideration tool because part of this is you know staff is and and the city are responsible for prioritizing and areas and determining which areas are eligible for the neighborhood parking management program so right now the petition is really the only tool used to determine eligibility for a neighborhood parking permit program this requires some additional robust knowledge in order for staff and um elected and appointed officials to consider that prioritization we certainly could

[123:02] look at some price differentials um based on access richness but that's not included in this and these steps correct right and so what i'd like to follow up with that on is it we have not yet identified what additional tools um the the myriad of additional tools we intend to make available in a neighborhood but one thing that could be considered in a neighborhood that currently has neighborhood parking management that's focused primarily just on this residential parking versus spillover parking but if they perform really well on access to bike share car share or transit that there could be a tool that includes delivery of of memberships to b cycle and maybe an eco maybe a neighborhood equal pass subsidy or some other benefit that has a cost to it so the cost of the program in whittier

[124:00] would certainly be different than the cost to a program in a in a neighborhood that might have some parking challenges but they don't have the same level of access to tools that cost us money to deliver more value for their higher priced products so it wouldn't be strictly because they're they're parked up and there's a lot of people um that are spilling over in their neighborhood that we would want to increase those prices and say oh we have transit so it's more expensive but what is how do we make sure that if we're going to charge more for one neighborhood versus another neighborhood what is the added value um to the program that they are getting um outside of the the same product just a different price because their kpis are different got it that's super helpful but it seems to me like price and as you say services are the key reaction to whatever kpis that you're you're monitoring so that's all great one more question um so looking at fines and looking at

[125:00] um the fines for what you call mobility safety fines which i appreciate i always hate having to go into traffic around the delivery vehicles however those delivery vehicles are performing a service that people greatly appreciate when they're receiving their packages so i was kind of curious how you're looking at the balance between community vitality and you know curb management versus mobility safety fines because i personally would love to never come across a delivery vehicle in the bike lane but it happens all the time and there are people who want those deliveries so i'm just kind of curious what the thinking is on how to balance those two competing interests sure i'm happy to speak to that and i know that our friends and transportation mobility would probably share on that as well but that's really our curbside management work it's acknowledging even if we have these higher priced gold parking rate

[126:00] zones where it might be as much as five dollars per hour to park they might still not have um space available on those blocks for deliveries or or curbside pickup drop off for whatever purpose and so that's where we want to make sure we're dialing in on our curbside management effort to really take a closer look at the provision of these priority spaces that we've mentioned in that strategy to designate make sure that there is designated space on those high demand corridors that we can mitigate that to the greatest extent possible we're not going i mean i always say a parking problem is a good part is a good problem to have but it doesn't make it any less challenging and frustrating um on these on all this competition for space um and so that is something that we are looking at in curbside management and so we will certainly be talking more with you that uh uh on that in the months ahead uh chris anything else you want to add on yeah um i'd just like to add you know what we

[127:00] one of the ideas in curbside management is to identify locations you know that could be like throughout our downtown and caged that are flexible loading zones you know loading zones that could be used by commercial vehicles your cisco truck delivering food uh during the the morning hours but then later transition into a lifter uber pickup or drop off spot or even a you know a quick uh stop place where you can go if you if you've ordered food and you've got curbside delivery of that food so i think looking at how we develop those flexible spaces that way you limit the actual number of these loading zones uh and you use them most efficiently i think that is the key i think another key especially in some of our areas like our downtown is maximizing use of our alleyways uh you know i see you know from our curbside management inventory that we've already started on we've been

[128:00] working on that uh prior to get receiving the grant you know we could make greater use of these alleyways for some of those deliveries as well to eliminate some of the problems that that you mentioned sam great thanks all right thanks sam next up we have juni followed by rachel and then adam juni thank you mary um i have quite a few questions going back to um violations the increase of by fines or parking violations and i'm looking at the memo but i don't see how do you intend to issue these citations is it based on for instance you mentioned in the memo give me a second i'm pulling it up you mentioned violations around public

[129:02] safety but also people parking for instance if someone were to park at a meter is it the same amount as someone let's say who parked maybe on a bike lane are you looking at it that way or are you just looking at a universal parking violation that is thirty dollars no they we have a number i'm not sure of the total number i think there are 42 different parking related violations that are enforcement officers look to as as people are behaving badly in the right-of-way and so those basic or standard violations such as overtime at a meter that would be treated a lot differently than someone who's blocking a driveway or a bike lane or impacting other people's ability to to move around safely would be considered differently and so the fine schedule would be adjusted depending on the type of

[130:00] violation that uh is being experienced okay from what i'm hearing from you it would be because in the memo you mentioned that cu charges between 35 to 60 dollars so you're saying we would increase our fees and it would probably be on that medium of 30 to 60 dollars and if you are at a meter it could be that the lower 30 and if you parked in a bike lane it could be that 60. correct okay okay thank you um i also have a question about the repeat offender because i've traveled and i've lived in many places and and i have gotten a lot of uh well let's just say my fair share of parking uh violations and i wanted to know from you what is the process for repeat offenders and why

[131:01] what is the thought behind either increasing the find and do we have any research that's somehow increasing the fine as the person you know um how how that data impact behavior basically yeah so what we've found from members of our community is that with our current standard fine of 15 there is a high willingness to to take chances because 15 doesn't seem like all that much and they're willing to press their luck and every now and then they're going to get caught and they're going to pay their 15 and they're going to keep doing it over and over again and so we're trying to implement a fine structure that that discourages folks pressing their luck and it improves their likelihood to um be compliant and pay for parking like everybody else that that chooses to to

[132:00] participate in in our management program um and so that's that's really part of the intent of the graduated fines as is those repeat offenders there's the we have usual suspects and that's we hear from them over and over again and then we have folks that they get that one ticket and they change their behavior and they and that we don't have that that repeat issue that's also what we've heard from our partners at the university their approach is your first violation is always a warning if it's the first time that their enforcement officers have approached you automatic warning if they see you do it again then you get a ticket as opposed to the first time you do it you're automatically in trouble and you're automatically paying a fine um and so that's another thing that we're intending to to do is is we we all make mistakes um but we we if there are folks that are are feeling more willing to just do it over and over again and take their chances we don't want we don't want uh to send the message that

[133:00] that that's okay it's going to be the same price over and over again yeah yeah no i hear you but i'm wondering aside from the university you mentioned have you seen any city around the country where people get one ticket because as i mentioned to you i'm speaking from experience here um you know having gotten one or two tickets going downtown and parking and not parking properly but i never remember you know whereas oh your ticket is twenty dollars but because you got a second ticket now it's forty dollars i've never seen that before or i've never heard of it before so i'm wondering if you have best practices around somewhere yeah maybe valerie you can speak to the communities that employ the graduated fines which is a strategy that is used in a number of places yeah and one of donald trump's

[134:01] principles yeah um first i'll say that this this is a pretty standard um parking management principle just because for the reasons that chris is saying and um really based on the data in boulder about 25 of your violators are these repeat offenders and while 75 percent are just first-time violators and then they changed their behavior 25 is a big chunk um so they're really having a detriment on the parking system and what happens is you know and i'll i'll i'll answer your actual question julian in a moment i'm sorry to delay it further but um what what happens is it erodes the ability of your existing parking supply to meet demand so instead of serving many people in the day um one space is serving maybe only one person because they're violating the meter they're not paying and of course the enforcement officers are incapable of towing vehicles you know multiple times per day of course the enforcement officers don't

[135:01] want to do that um so so that's you know why these graduated rates are helpful the equity concern is there but but really what we want to do is get these specific 25 percent of people to change their behaviors um while giving people appropriate parking options so they can follow the rules and that's really what we want people to do to do we don't want to make this a revenue grab we want people to follow the rules and that's the goal here seattle and portland both have graduated parking violation fines i might call on my colleague chrissy jones to see if she knows of any of our municipalities in colorado that have graduated fines i think greeley does but i'm not 100 sure on that i believe greeley did implement uh two years ago with the graduated fines and then claremont california also employs graduated parking fines

[136:02] so there are a number of communities that that have them and and there are others um i'd be happy to provide council with with a broader list as well um i just am not sure of any more off the top of my head thank you for this um my last question is and i think it's probably a i'm having a hard time understanding the commuter um the commuter fees or of 400 per year i'm trying to understand is that something new we're trying to implement because of the way it is written in the memo it seems like it's either something that's been around it's something new so i can't quite figure it out yeah so traditionally we know that we have um on-street capacity in the residential areas surrounding our downtown university hill cu managed districts and so we do

[137:01] sell commuter permits we have for some time for folks who would rather pay the 400 a year to park on street in a neighborhood while they're at work versus the um 1800 plus dollars a year for a permit in one of our downtown garages um because that's their alternative um so that's a it's a it's an affordable alternative that has helped us to achieve cost recovery in the npp zones that are surrounding our our managed districts and we don't have a lot of commuter permits sold in our npp zones that are farther away from these managed employment centers yeah no thank you for this i think this is great um and i know receiving comments for later i notice the part when you talked about community connectors and the memo i really appreciate that again because it takes into account

[138:00] uh community members and diverse communities and people we probably wouldn't hear from but as you were talking about the parking and i'm sure that's probably something that you are already doing because again you know you are the expert here and you're probably sleeping thinking about all this but um just for my understanding um as part of the work how closely are you working with either the chamber or small businesses when it comes to all these parking changes and the impact it will have on a lot of the people who are commuting here because of a lack of affordable housing uh thank you for that question we do have representatives from the boulder chamber on our access allies team so they've been participating with us throughout the process we also have a very close relationship with the downtown boulder partnership and i'll be going to their public policy meeting here in a couple weeks just to

[139:01] to present to them where we're at with these strategies and and with feedback from council um to make sure that that we're bringing that community the business community along um with this work for sure thank you mary thank you very much chris and the team thank you thank you junie um next up rachel okay thanks mary um and junie's last questions were a great segue into mine so first question um is looks if i understand it we're looking at pricing for three different types of permits residential commuter and business i i understand residential but want to make sure i understand where the permits get people parking in the other two categories so for both of them are we talking about permits for neighborhood parking to a neighborhood permit to park on a particular street correct so both of them are permits that

[140:02] are localized to specific block faces um the computer permit is made available to for instance downtown employees who don't want to pay for a permit in a garage they are eligible if we have space and capacity to purchase a commuter permit in specific block faces um but that's they're the la that they're last on the totem pole as far as uh permit availability the business permit is for there are a few small businesses um that that exist within our current mpp zones so it's old like little pocket business uh uh retail centers where they have employees that they need to make sure that they have uh parking nearby so that's that business permit that's priced a little bit differently i think we have maybe i don't and mallory knows the exact number but a dozen of those types of permits okay um and so i maybe don't understand then what what the difference like 75 versus 400 for the

[141:00] business versus commuter and the business one's not going up at all um and the other two are so i'm just trying to understand how you got to that outcome um i understand it sounds like it doesn't impact a lot of permits wanted to understand that better and then um well i guess i'll start there yeah so largely it's it's they're not a huge burden on our parking supply they're already paying more than residents and again the commuter permit is made available to folks who have access to ecopasses they're employed by downtown businesses they have other options available to them and that is not something that we make available to businesses that are that are in these um neighborhood zones um and so given that they're already paying more than residents um and that increasing the the rate um was would be inconsequential to our ability to get to cost recovery it's not being proposed that we increase we can certainly entertain it um if you feel like we want to make sure that we're we're

[142:00] um asking everybody to pay a little bit more but that was really the the reasoning behind why we're not making changes there okay i'm just trying to understand it sounds like maybe the businesses are giving those permits to staff but then some staff then get those permits kind of for free and others are paying 400 a month but those others get some other options that these employees don't get right but these are employees that are that are in a business i'm trying to think of a really good example of a small business that's in a neighborhood zone maybe in uh near goss grove where it's a you know i don't know if backcountry pizza is a good example um but they're they're it's a business that's in a neighborhood zone um and so it's we treat them in their employees and they only get access to three permits um we we treat them a little bit differently than we would a business that's that's in cajun district that has other benefits available to

[143:00] them and yet they still choose to park in neighborhoods and contribute to the spillover challenge and where these businesses their employees aren't necessarily part of a spillover challenge they're part of general just use of of of on-street spaces near their place of business okay that helps thank you um and then so for the people who are using the commuter permits um and i understand that they have some of these other kg options that you're talking about i'm using the right language there um nonetheless there i i imagine a lot of them are coming into boulder to kind of provide the services that we all need and they work for employers in those districts who don't have on-site parking available to them so question is for the access allies team were there members of that group who solely represented kind of the working class or commuters

[144:00] which i think could be a little bit different than um the business owner perspective um i that's a really good question and i don't know that that our access allies was was where we would have had those conversations but we did have a number of focus groups um in our conversations with the community connectors um mallory i would love to hear from you a little bit more on on your thoughts on that question absolutely um thanks rachel for that question so we did have community connectors who worked on both phases of the project and we had the pleasure of continuation with that group of community connectors that we had in our work in 2020 continue working with us in 2021 so at the on that was i think we had five community connectors and we had six meetings with them over the course of um the project work that effort um was at the be at the onset primarily um we were talking about their

[145:01] transportation behaviors and how they they make transportation choices and a major um [Music] issue that they brought up was parking pricing availability of affordable parking in the downtown core many of them make trips to the downtown core for errands for shopping for their work and so you know the ability to drive and park somewhere at a reasonably affordable price was hugely important to them another um issue that they brought up was um making sure that if we you know char that we had some subsidy opportunities for these types of commuter permits um and we actually have specific subsidy options that are um discussed in the implementation and action plan that would be income qualifications based and tied to existing social services programs that the city of boulder has so the second part of our work in 2021 with those community connectors was really

[146:01] asking some pretty targeted questions around what would those subsidies look like to what extent should they be subsidized and those specifically focused on those commuter options rachel that you're talking about so people coming into work um how how can we you know offer them something affordable um so that we don't impede their ability to work in the city of boulder and contribute um to our community so that that's um expressed in the implementation action plan so these the prices that are included in the presentation are the straight unsubsidized prices so those would be available to people that are you know able to pay that price and then we would um we have some recommendations for subsidies that would be available on an income qualification basis and again tied to programs that um like the food the the food tax rebate program i think is one that we we mentioned um and other programs that the city of boulder already implements that are income qualified okay um i

[147:02] appreciate that you know i it may or may not have made sense but um it feels a little bit siloed like if the community commit connectors you know were sort of separately um consulted and then there's a group that's that's access allies that just maybe it's a little bit siloed from the group dynamic discussion um next just a question on board feedback i very much appreciate tab cab looking hard at the climate impacts and ryan shoehard if i'm saying it right advocating for that but it did make me wonder you know the focus on the climate impacts if we consulted the environmental advisory board they were asked to weigh in on this or if they should be and kind of the same question for hrc on equity impacts excuse me so we have not consulted with them in a formal manner um as we have with

[148:02] with the boards and commissions for our management districts and tab and planning board just given their their direct connection to parking policy um it doesn't mean that we can't i'd say we're happy to um uh get more feedback from different perspectives on this work as we are finalizing our 2022 work plan okay all right that's all my questions for now thanks thank you rachel adam thanks mary uh sorry i have no video tonight i have a poor internet connection so um let me know if you can't hear me my uh main question is all these policies they're only as good as the enforcement so um are we gonna be stepping up enforcement in any way along with these policies or is it sort of the same level of enforcement just with different rules what's the general take there that's a really good question and that's

[149:01] part of why um we've been really careful about how much we're we're proposing we want to implement in 2022 we're not we're not communicating that we want to start installing new pay stations in all commercial districts across the city because that would uh generate some significant resource needs for an expanded enforcement so um our enforcement team is is ready and prepared to to address the changes in the the types of violations and fines and be being looking out for those things mallory has done a great job of meeting regularly with with all the different work groups that have um various responsibilities in implementing all these changes and so they are certainly prepared um one of the big changes that we've implemented in our enforcement team recently is expansion of license plate recognition capability which is going to be leading to significant efficiencies in our ability to to not require someone to

[150:03] park a vehicle and walk and and look at receipts in people's windshields or enter a license plate into their handheld devices to determine whether or not they have a valid parking session so we have been instant we have been implementing a number of efficiencies in that operation um and we'll be able to take advantage of that to not just do better enforcement in our managed districts but do much better data collection um in support of the development of these kpis where previously in order to do a great data collection uh analysis for the implementation of neighborhood parking management we need to have people walk through that neighborhood and count cars in the middle of the night various hours of the day to get a broad perspective of of what's going on on street and it was it were quite a lot of time and energy and now it'll be very easy for us to to utilize our

[151:00] license plate recognition to it'll still require us to collect data in the middle of the night but we can do it much more effectively and efficiently so that's been part of the conversation the mallory is mallory's done a great job of making sure that everything that we are proposing um is going to be able to to be implemented by our existing teams with minimal expansion of resources that's great to know along those lines so i know this is going to be a tough question to answer but i know there's some point where um there are diminishing returns for the amount of people that you staff to you know have fines and along those lines do you think you've sort of met that point do you know where that spot is um or would additional staff actually generate the additional revenue in some ways at this point we are appropriately staffed for the amount of of coverage required

[152:00] for parking management in both neighborhoods and our managed districts i would say that the the challenge would be if we expand regular coverage for instance if we had a parking district in gun barrel and that included neighborhoods surrounding the gun barrel town center then that would likely require additional staff and additional fleet um and that's where our challenge will be is is right now our workspace that we house our enforcement officers out of um where they have lockers and showers and those types of things the more we expand the coverage and and the amount of of area that they need to be enforcing and the number of staff we would require to do that effectively then we would certainly find ourselves running up against existing workspace and fleet limitations so not that we couldn't step up and meet those demands it would just get more expensive and we'd have to certainly keep track of

[153:01] of that level of effectiveness versus uh the return understood but currently you think you're sort of near maximum effectiveness based on those diminishing return ideas i don't know that we included that level of analysis in this specific work i feel really good about my team's capabilities and where they're at right now and i don't know that mallory and your discussions with are are proposed steps forward that that there were any concerns raised by our enforcement team on that front but in short yes i feel good about where we're at in our capacity to to take on a little bit more on the enforcement side but it's certainly something that we will continue to track and in the event that we identify that we need to expand our enforcement staff acknowledging that that they do bring in more money for the organization in the german fund than it costs to pay

[154:01] them um that's certainly something that we would want to follow very closely yeah go ahead mallory yeah oh sorry i can add just a little bit um more color i suppose i think um so so chris mentioned the the meetings that we had with staff teams we had two sets of pretty intensive meetings with individual staff teams noting that amps is a hugely interdepartmental effort that requires a lot of um staff liaising and and manpower or person power i'm sorry um so we when we first talked about these recommendations we had an individual meetings with the enforcement and muni court's team both of whom said this this is doable and then when we were developing the implementation and action plan we again met with um enforcement and munich in addition to many other um staff teams to make sure that this was implementable they're confident about their staffing capabilities and also confident about the software software and technology capabilities

[155:01] that was a huge consideration given that we're adding a bit more nuance and complexity to how we're issuing issuing fines so the city's current software package is capable of doing this work without any upgrades so that was very very important to us um we looked at stuffing in the in the um next couple years the the immediate term 2022 near term and mid to long term and we're not projecting any big overhauls or staff ads to get this work done as chris mentioned this does require some additional proactive study of whether parking management needs to be extended to other parts of the city so of course that might necessitate some more enforcement officials but for now we're feeling quite confident about the staff levels that we have to get these implementation action steps done in the next year and then in the next several years great thank you both thanks mary thank you adam um juni looks like your

[156:00] hand is up again yeah i just have a few questions and i think part of it as well is me thinking on the type of feedback i want to give you when we get to that point and i see that in the memo it says that parking revenues generated are sufficient to pay for current expenses associated with the parking program and other transportation demand management access initiatives led by the city so and i hear everything that you said to adams earlier and i believe it was mallory who mentioned that um increasing the fees from 20 to closer to um the cu violation amount which is between 35 to 60 is not a way to raise revenue but a way to curtail behaviors

[157:02] but nonetheless we will have more money than before so i'm trying to figure out what will this money be used for and i looked in the memo really quickly i did not see um your annual revenue coming from violations so i'm sure that's going to be a substantial amount from what it used to be to what it will be and i just want to know what will that money be used for so we and community vitality and transportation and mobility do not have the benefit of receiving those resources into our operating uh budgets and so we certainly are making sure that as as the finance and budget folks are working through the 2022 budget that that they can take into consideration these proposed changes in their overall budget outlook for 2022

[158:01] i know they are they are taking a more conservative approach uh just because uh parking behavior has not returned uh back to um 2019 levels um but uh um i would love if there is anybody from finance that that is that is on the call right now that wants to share where they're at with this right now i do know that we are in conversations with them to make sure that it's included in your overall uh 2022 budget conversation um it's just it's not money that we um are in a position to propose how you spend it we do have asks coming in the 2022 budget directly um associated with the implementation of these uh strategies michelle scans was an awesome project manager in community vitality that helped us through this work but she left us for a private sector job a couple months ago and so we certainly know that we need some some help in community vitality to help make these things happen but the general fund allocation will be

[159:01] determined and considered among the broader needs of the the community is that all juni anything else thank you thank you marion thank you chris all right um any other questions um for staff seeing none um i have um a couple one um one of the lines of questioning um from one of my colleagues had to do with um the delivery vehicles and um and how um and the response was that you'll have these zones um and um where people can park to make their deliveries there are other mobile businesses and um i was curious to know what you found out in your outreach to the mobile

[160:00] businesses people who are doing um yard work or are doing housekeeping things like that where they have to pull down equipment or carry things back and forth what kinds of accommodations were made for those businesses in terms of the the curbside management and um and and fines and things like that so thank you very much mary for that question we did hear you loud and clear at our previous study session earlier this year on the need to reach out to those businesses specifically and the project team did have um some focus group or a survey that was sent out specifically to those types of businesses neighborhood-based mobile businesses mallory i would love to hear from you if you want to provide a high-level overview of that conversation and then we also are proposing a new mobile based business

[161:02] uh parking permit product um in this work um and so i'd love to hear maybe mallory if you want to share more about that detail yes thank you um so we did a number of outreach specifically to mobile businesses as well as npp holders who employ mobile business owners via survey or questionnaire i guess is the technical term and then we did a number uh we did three i believe npp focus groups with npp permit holders and that included some questioning around how they currently use um or have mobile businesses park um when they're when they're conducting services at their home so those are things like domestic you know home cleaners yard workers construct contractors etc and what we learned was to some extent the existing visitor permit system is where is working for that purpose but there really needs

[162:02] to be a more differentiation between these mobile businesses that are frequenting these zones and doing work in these zones on a regular basis so that they can have their own permit rather than always having to ask the the person that they're working for for the permit that extra layer of communication and coordination and sometimes you know the contractor is coming to do work and the the resident isn't there to assist them or help them so that person ends up getting penalized for doing doing their work so that's why um one of the reasons why we wanted to have this separate product um for them that would be priced identically to the business the existing business permit um and would have you know similarly um [Music] equal impacts on our cost recovery goals and then the other consideration is we want to be able to track those permit types separately because

[163:01] there's also been some issues with planning and permitting and building granting permits to contractors who then have parking permits um to work in the zones and and kind of over permitting in those areas so what happens is everyone on one street is getting their kitchen redone let's say and so you have you know four or five contractors doing work in that area and the customer service team doesn't have the ability to track those separately because they're using visitor permits or guest permits or permits that are already in the system so that's you know those are the issues that we heard and we that we wanted to work to solve with this separate mobile business permit that would be priced similarly to the business permit and tracked separately so those businesses would have their own opportunity to park in the neighborhoods thank you for that i appreciate that work um and then um kind of uh and ryan um shouchard from tab who was advocating for thousand dollar

[164:01] npp um permits and um and to take a bolder move i'm wondering um you know he also mentioned the um climate study session that we had a couple weeks ago and um as part of that climate study session the other things that came up were that actions have to be systems changes and and scalable as well as the whole climate action focuses on equity and resilience so um what my question is for staff is how does the work that you are doing here how and or where does it run up against policies that are basically outside of our area of influence or change and all of those intersections that were

[165:01] focused on in that study session that is an excellent question and i'm wondering if chris haglin wants to get some face time or i'm happy to speak to that a little bit well i i guess mary could you rephrase your question i i'm having a little difficulty following what you mean by outside of so what a so for example yes yes so for example um with um our climate work um one of the things that we were up against was the 120 percent rule with solar um and that was one of the things that we were able to overcome through a partnership that kind of went outside the path that we were previously on so i'm wondering in order to um achieve more of those climate goals

[166:02] that are um being advocated for by um by tab then what what do we run up against in terms of um say state laws that are limiting what we can do so say for example also we can't control rtd and there's only so much there's only so much that we can do in terms of um transit um so what kinds of things of that sort do we run up against all right well well thank you for that clarification so you know when we look at the the climate action plan and we look at the transportation sector and we look at our goal of an 80 reduction um primarily though that reduction that we anticipate comes from two things uh changes in cafe standards the the

[167:00] automobile efficiency standards and electric vehicle adoption those are two major sectors uh that we need to see progress in to meet that 80 reduction goal and you know we certainly can incentivize you know electric vehicle adoption to some extent uh maybe not so much locally but cafe standards you know so that's something that is completely outside we had the obama standards and some of those were were pulled back during the last administration so i think those are two examples you know mode shift certainly is another factor uh to reach that 80 percent goal but it is smaller compared to the progress we can make in electrical electric vehicle adoption and cafe standards and and one thing i just say is you know parking management and parking pricing alone uh while it is a tool it is an effective tool for changing travel behavior it is alone

[168:03] not sufficient to do so we have to have a multimodal system that provides options for people that are competitive to the private automobile and not just in terms of cost but also in terms of reliability in terms of convenience frequency and so that you know what you said that reminds me of rtd right i mean we work closely with rtd staff um but we've seen rtd's financial position and we've seen services cut you were on the pass program working group with me we saw changes made to the past to the eco pass programs our master contracts in the districts that have been detrimental to that and you know significantly increasing the cost um you know and now we have covid um we you know we have seen as such a significant

[169:00] decrease in transit use and so far we have not really seen the recovery uh we're look just now looking at some uh preliminary rtd service changes for the fall and we are seeing some increases but we're not seeing the increases that we need uh and you know it reminds me of when boulder county was doing their tmp and they received some data from cell phones and that indicated that 60 of the trips on the diagonal were coming from larimer and weld county those are outside of our rtd service area those people are coming and transit is is never going to be a great option for those people uh in comparison to the private automobile so i think those are the things some of the things um that we're running against that are somewhat outside of our control you know hopefully we can move forward with rtd and discussions about expanding our hop model which would provide

[170:00] more local control of our transit service and i hope that we can make some progress with them on on making changes again to our past program so that we can extend the benefits that we provide say through our neighborhood ecopass program we know it's not the most socially equitable program but we know that there are options especially through technology with mobile ticketing and the myride card that that we can we can make changes and and hopefully change that but it's going to take rtd's willingness and their uh financial input to to make those changes so those are you know some of the things that immediately come to mind and i want to maybe point out just more locally in consideration of of the things that we do have control over um in the city and the things that we don't you know if we wanted to charge a lot more for parking in the downtown in university hill um in boulder junction we don't have any control over how much mace rich charges for parking at their shopping center and so that's another consideration that we want to be

[171:01] really careful and thoughtful about and until we change our parking code and redevelopment happens which translates into a different way of parking being being managed on private property we're not well positioned to have a lot of leverage when it comes to the nuances between the areas where free parking still is is prolific and we don't currently have any ability to to change that thank you chris and chris i appreciate those answers any other questions from council seeing none we can move on to the um comment phase with anybody like to kick us off seeing no hands ah aaron and then sam since nobody else wanted to go first

[172:01] i'll go ahead and dive in uh well uh chris and chris and uh mallory and everyone else has been working on this thank you for years of effort and a very thoughtful approach to these problems you know you've come up with some really nuanced responses to challenging situations and difficulties i appreciate the attention to donald shoots uh great parking ideas we we wouldn't want to disappoint the pistas in our community uh by not taking those ideas into account so i think uh i think generally y'all are on the right track it sounds like you've got a lot of work to do right i saw that each of these is going to require looks like years of work to measure everything appropriately and tailor the the next steps to the program i appreciate how you're thinking about doing that carefully um and deliberately so good luck with all that work um i do

[173:00] have a couple specific so the the number of permits that people are able to get is uh substantial right so they can use by your answers you know can get up to three for their individual vehicles plus their um their visitor passes and their guest passes and so i think uh increasing the price for those is a reasonable thing to do but it also seems like maybe we should include pricing for those visitor passes as well as for their um their per vehicle passes particularly given that that you're doing those new mobile business type parking passes which by the way i think is a great idea and i appreciate your attention to that issue so uh seems i seems like part of of right sizing the the fees for this program would be to include those additional passes and and i would say to make sure that each individual pass has its own separate cost so that you know people can have uh two visitor

[174:00] passes if that's important to them but it seems like having a cost for that would be appropriate and then i'll say that um yeah i appreciate you looking for cost recovery in that program um but it seems like in terms of you know making a little bit of a dent on climate issues with our parking policies here that if we could go somewhat past cost recovery uh in terms of and not not throwing all that necessarily straight into the general fund but look at ways that we could i think you talked about a transportation wallet in the packet right about being able to fund maybe some tdm measures with some additional revenue that could go right back into those neighborhoods or their adjacent areas to help improve multimodal access in ways that could take some additional pressure off of the neighborhood parking while also encouraging non-motor vehicle

[175:00] approaches to transportation so um i get that you know chris you had a good answer about chris jones you had a good answer about um how you were going to be you know going about this very carefully in terms of looking about what those price numbers should be over a few years but i would i would go ahead and personally give the direction that i i would like to see you build into that process of thought of how can we increase prices a little bit more and and then fund some other tdm measures that can reduce our reliance on the single occupancy vehicle in town so other than that i feel like you all have a lot of work to do and and i look forward to the next steps um and also uh if there's any uh anybody from the planning department here uh i really do look forward to working on our parking policy for our new projects because i think that'll have a really big impact on on again um reducing uh single occupancy vehicle used in the community

[176:00] that's all i got thank you thank you thanks aaron um we have sam and then bob thanks mary um i just want to say again that i think you've done a really nice job of breaking it down uh the parking problem for us into some bite-sized chunks and you've got some good proposals i would support all of them um generally speaking starting with the neighborhood parking management price increases um and i think they're pretty substantial i mean they're not the 50x that we heard from tab that might be good or or so but they are a forty percent increase um from one year to the next the following year to thirty percent increase year over year following year to twenty five percent increase year over year so i think those are substantial i wouldn't object to what aaron talked about as long as we got enough feedback from the each of the parking permit

[177:03] areas themselves that they wanted to see that extra money used for some kind of tdm in their area i think that's kind of a neat idea to do it that way but i will say that from a climate perspective it is an interesting concept to try and keep residents from parking near their home through increased prices when those residents may well not commute very far generally speaking um we have 110 000 people live in boulder 40 000 of those work in boulder another 20 000 give or take commute out of boulder to work but by and large it would appear to me that a lot of the folks who are part of the npp programs don't necessarily commute with those cars a lot or very long distances so one thing i'd ask if we're going to have the neighborhood parking strategy be part of our climate response is that we quantify that somehow like if you're increasing the price of

[178:01] the commuter parking passes by double you probably would see a response in the number of commuters who bought those passes right but that wouldn't necessarily reduce the their commute unless they were in other modes so there's a question of other modes and then i think a key point that was brought up in the idea of using parking as a climate tool is what about all the private parking so if we look at where 40 of our employment is out in the flat irons park area in east boulder almost all that parking is private and so if you wanted to make a dent in the commuting habits of people who worked in east boulder you'd have to address the private parking much as mace rich was mentioned which will now be the site of our largest single office building in boulder and all the people who will be working there will be parking in private parking areas and may not be paying anything for their parking so it's nice that we want to really

[179:00] you know hammer on the folks who are parking in their neighborhoods but the question really needs to be asked what's the bang for our buck you know for the political capital that we're going to spend on any of this parking stuff where are we getting the most climate response and i would climb that we need to really seriously look at private parking and in commuters is maybe the first place for that to mary's point which i thought was really good you know we just signed a new transportation bill in the state which is statewide and which really will promote that eb adoption chris that you were talking about and i think that is an important step to what extent can we do the same thing regionally with parking and transit like is there a way that we can form a coalition regionally to do these same kinds of things at the same time so that we don't hear complaints from businesses that you're making us less competitive than our neighboring communities who don't do this so it's a super

[180:01] complex problem because you can address the travel habits with parking pricing and maybe not really impact the carbon emissions piece very much unless you think carefully about how you're directing your price increases so i would just say that as a general comment i i also think that your idea of um performance base pricing for parking pricing the gold silver and base looks like a great way to go and so i think you've done a nice job with that and with fines as well i mean i really would like to the one thing i certainly agreed with um mr shachard about was um what we do in response to complaints of people parking in bike lanes you know if it's a delivery truck it's there and it's gone but when there's somebody that parks there for half an hour i kind of agree i'd like to see that car towed so i don't know what to do about that but i think

[181:00] upping the fines is useful i think making the fines for parking in a way that blocks buses or bikes is something that should be at the high end of the charges for that so let me go to your questions and see what else so there's the refined strategies next step for implementation i think you've done a great job reaching out i think one of rachel's suggestions of making sure that you're talking to some end commuters and maybe not the highest income in commuters because i think they can take care of themselves but the middle and lower income in commuters might be ones to hear from about how they'd react to strategies that are proposed and i think i've made my response to the third bullet how parking interfaces with climate action is complex there's good reason to want to reduce single occupant vehicles across the board even in the absence of climate but if we're focused on climate

[182:00] we should make sure that the actions we're taking on parking have the maximum impact on emissions thank you thank you sam uh next up bob followed by nearby thanks mary um i'm going to agree with with aaron and sam i think this is a great first step and and um i don't have a lot of pushback on anything's been recommended so if i don't say anything assume that i support uh what staff is recommending the one area i'm a little bit concerned about is is um is is the increase in the parking rate uh in the garage is downtown for for two reasons one right now our downtown parking garages are free on saturdays and sundays we have a um so reason number one we have a perception and i think it is just a perception we have a perception by some members of our community that it's difficult to park um downtown and so some people don't come downtown and some people don't have access to to transit or bikes and so

[183:00] driving to downtown whether they're coming from a transit desert or they're coming from another city is their only option and um the one thing that i know the downtown has been successful about is touting the fact that well on weekends it's free you can come on saturday and come on sunday or the farmers market you can go shopping stroll them all and you know three dollars may not seem like a lot of money but it's just one more barrier it's one more reason why people can say geez i'm not coming downtown and i think that's a it's an attribute that we have and i'd hate to lose it um second if i understood you correct it sounds like that three three dollar parking you can also apply on sundays which doesn't make a lot of sense to me since the on street parking is free on sundays so it seems like we got that upside down if that's the case if it's only three dollars on saturday i'll withdraw that comment but if we're charging three dollars on either saturday or sunday we're now charging more in the parking garage than when we be on street which i think is exactly opposite of what you're trying to achieve and then third i guess i had three

[184:00] points i want to echo concerns that rachel raised oftentimes the workers we have working downtown on the weekends are the lowest wage workers they're the dishwashers the people waiting tables the people at the cash registers are not the office workers or the people that are making minimum wage or thereabouts and three dollars may not seem like a lot but if it's three dollars on a friday night because they they have to go home and three dollars again on a saturday night three dollars again on a sunday night and suddenly that's um that's that's upwards of an hour's worth of their their wage that weekend and so um i appreciate the fact you're going to be doing some more outreach to low-income folks and trying to find some subsidy programs but i for all three reasons i would really encourage us to stick with our free parking on the weekends uh in the garages that's all i have thank you bob um nearby uh i just wanted to give a quick response and say i appreciate everything i don't have much pushback on anything as well

[185:01] um a little bit of what bob was saying uh with the parking garages um making sure that people can get down to town uh there's lots of people who cannot take other forms of transportation uh and so i just wouldn't want shops uh small businesses to get harmed by that a little bit concerned about some of the neighborhoods um for residents who live there but i'm willing to kind of watch and see see how it goes and hear from the community as we continue on with the next steps so pretty pretty mild feedback um i think you guys are doing a wonderful job and i'm excited to see how this progresses um so well done from my side thank you nearby um aaron um have is that an old hand or a new hand oh hold hand rachel

[186:00] thanks i'm gonna echo most of what's already been said um i'm largely in support of the staff memo i like aaron's suggestion to look into raising um the the rates uh and using the additional funds for kind of transportation related purposes to sam's point in getting data on residential kind of travel patterns and whether they will have an impact on climate um i agree we need to do that and i would again welcome um consulting with eab or our staff experts it feels like um it's not yet like a holistic look at this because we are all concerned with the climate impacts and um it's again while i appreciate transportation department really lifting them up our tab um i do think that it should be from our resident experts on on climate and environmental issues so we'd love to see that um in the next

[187:01] step um and then i i also like sam's idea of a regional approach um kind of like we were looking at with minimum wage we were going to look at at raising that regionally so that we could stay regionally competitive and and not kind of drive people to neighboring cities so i don't know how we would get at that with with some of our rates but i think that's a great idea um and then again kind of like sam was getting out with uh private parking if our goals are in part to get people to move away from driving both for climate and vision zero kind of purposes seems like we should also be looking more at residential neighborhoods like mine where there's just lots of street parking and so we do get the benefit of the street parking just without the the crowding and so we don't need in neighborhood parking permits um so i don't know what other cities are doing if anything on that front but i would be curious if if other places are sort of

[188:00] converting more residential street parking to something that offers a better community benefit so i guess i would just be curious to hear if that's happening and what the options might be and otherwise we'll again just lift up i think it is important as part of our overall strategies that we look very seriously at um using this opportunity to promote our climate crisis uh response goals thanks thank you rachel um junie thank you mary um that was really a great memo great presentation very thorough i agree with the residential parking program plan i am not sold on the increased parking fine because i just i'm not sold on

[189:03] the full benefit of it um i don't know where is the evidence and data even though you mentioned there are a few cities around the country that have implemented the graduated fine but i'm just not sure if that can really impact behavior um and you mentioned it's a small group that is often repeat offenders so i'm thinking well does a small group really should be or what's the word almost like um the anchor as to why we change or or or find the amount of fine that we charge um i do agree with this idea of that was mentioned earlier about reaching out to hrc to get it to get a sense i mean i know

[190:03] that's a lot of work because we're talking in commuters that's a lot of people and people who are not living in the community but they also impact us as was mentioned earlier when we talk about climate change and climate resiliency but i think they play a huge role because i live near downtown and i can just walk just about anywhere but these people can't and so they really um they impact our behavior in a work so finding a way of reaching some if not all but i i get a sense that maybe the chamber and the small businesses somehow you know are somewhat a substitute but nonetheless um knowing the impact it would be um would be very informative and helpful because again they are the one communing in i agree wholeheartedly with bob um and there's

[191:02] something as you were having this discussion tonight when i heard all the different processes the different type of engagement and programs i was thinking to myself i've walked around boulder for the last three years i do believe this is a very friendly community it's inviting it's beautiful and the more i hear about the different programming i'm thinking my gosh this is sounding very unfriendly and the reason why i said that is because i have visited new york city and their parking system it's a beautiful city it's a very very inspiring city anyone who well i remember the first time i went to new york it was so overwhelming that i cried and i cried because of how beautiful it was um but parking in new york is horrible it's almost like uh i went to law school it's almost like you have to read it in a way you park at this time and just hearing you tonight i thought

[192:01] to myself you know some of the parking processes are sounding unfriendly to people who are just coming to visit boulder and i hope that's not what what end up happening in the end that is not the result even though we intend something good and hopefully we don't keep people away and as bob mentioned the people who come to boulder to work on the weekends are blue colors or working-class people and providing them access to parking goes along with our equity and another thing that i wanted to say as well with what i heard earlier with increasing the end commuter um uh you know the in commuter pass to close to a thousand or more because of our climate goals and but i think it's so important as a community as we think about these things that we think about again we care about equity what does that really mean if we increase it to a thousand dollars

[193:02] who are those people who are in commuting into boulder every day and i think taking into account of who these people are and what they do well really help inform how much it should be and i think again part of that discussion having hrc might actually help us in in in figuring that out um again thank you for the presentation i think it was really really great presentation very thoughtful make us think about the hard questions but i think um some some things definitely we need to think along the line of equity and the impact of the working-class people who are coming into boulder and we need them that's another thing too is that these people are needed you know how do we make life easier for them as well as we're contemplating how to make the environment better so it's it's multi-pronged it's

[194:00] not one thing it's not um you know it's not curbing people's behavior in that sense where we somehow penalize them from coming into boulder thank you thank you junie mark now first uh i'd like to say she has nailed um new york parking in her description of it it's the home of breathtakingly high fines um and uh close combat if you actually want to get a parking spot um my my comments are very very brief i think it was an excellent presentation very comprehensive um i share bob's concern um about the impact on uh workers of increased parking i'd ask you to look at that a little bit and i also liked uh aaron's suggestion that maybe we go a little bit past cost recovery um in our parking programs and and see if there's a little bit of revenue that can be raised they would do it modestly but i think it's

[195:01] certainly a concept worth taking a harder look at but other than that i'm i'm very supportive of what you've done uh it obviously is reflective of a lot of work and you should be very pleased with the product that you produced so thank you thanks mark um any other comments i will weigh in then um i agree with aaron on um kind of tweaking the the neighborhood parking permit program so that each type of permit has its own pricing especially with the visitor parking i know of folks that hand over those visitor parkings to people who actually work downtown um so you might want to you know kind of reconsider that one a little bit um i um

[196:02] agree with sam that the whatever extra money is brought in past cost recovery needs to be used for tdm and that if we're going to use npp as a climate response we need to quantify it and i don't think that was within the scope of this particular project so um the performance-based pricing is um good agree with that the the fines that are stepped up for blocking um buses and bikes i think that's that's um a good recommendation as well talking to more in commuters especially middle and lower income i really like the idea of taking a regional approach and then trying to find the levers

[197:01] that we can move from there but again i don't believe that that was part of the scope of this particular project and i agree with bob with respect to um the parking garages on weekends uh for all the reasons that he stayed it as far as the the graduated fines for repeat offenders i'm i'm going to have to disagree with juni because i think that is a strategy that people use um as as as staff convey to us in the presentation that people will take their chances because fifteen dollars is so low that hey they can pay lots of fifteen dollar tickets um and as we learned in the in the policing presentation with the pareto principle it's probably 20 of the people they get 80 of the tickets so um if it does change

[198:01] behavior maybe we'll um you know we may get um those repeat offenders to quit repeat offending um so that's really all i have i really appreciate the outreach that you did to the mobile businesses and um i really appreciate it the responses to my question about the systems and scaling of parking policies again i don't think that was part of the scope of this particular project but um thank you very much i think that you are on the right path that's all i have um counsel any other comments all right thank you thank you thank you mary thank you council i would say there i feel like there's a little bit of ambiguity moving forward on the garage pricing on weekends and the great graduated fines as far as any um

[199:00] not of of of counsel on whether or not we should continue to include those as i was just going through my accounts and i'm not sure if we want to try to provide clarity now or consider that later on i i think that we could do that right now um if we can do just um you know a quick poll and and see how people are feeling about um let's start with the um the graduated fines who would like go ahead who would like to change them i guess you mean to to have graduated fines yes to have the graduated fines it looks like everyone but junior's okay okay and um the uh parking garages um maintaining the free on weekends for parking garages who is supportive

[200:02] can i make a comment mary yes please aaron just said i'm open to considering starting to charge on the weekends at bob's point about the sunday being free on street i thought was a good one um so i don't know that uh if maybe the place to start would be saturday if we did start charging for weekend parking but i would want some if we did it sounds like a majority doesn't want to consider if we did consider i would want additional downtime business outreach before we did and and i think that um the the point that bob made about the free on sundays was sort of defeating the the whole purpose behind um having the the parking garage price go up so a little more um analysis i guess is what i would support on um to aaron's point before deciding that both days would be free um would be

[201:02] my um my suggestion so to pull again um is there support for doing a little more um analysis on the sunday piece of it and um holding on to the saturday i count one two three four adam we need your vote no hand from adam so i i think it is evenly split mary okay there's ambiguity chris we we do not it doesn't sound like there's a clear message from council on weekends so you'll have to go think about that yeah we can bring back some some options and do some more outreach that'd be great thank you very much thank you for all the great input okay

[202:02] good night chris and chris thank you and thank you mallory thank you all bye-bye all right on to the next item thank you mary and i apologize that my video is off i've been popping in and out because i have some video malfunction but just appreciate a the thoughtful discussion and really the feedback of incorporating particularly climate and equity concerns into the previous conversation and personally appreciated hearing more of junie's personal driving habits so thank you genie our last and final presentation you have asked us to talk a little bit more about the capital infrastructure tax renewal and to do that we have cheryl patelli and joe wagner in finance to talk a little bit more about the work what that went into that thanks nuria and um thank you taylor for for running the presentation for us next slide

[203:00] so the main purpose of tonight's presentation is really to review the city's unfunded needs and provide rationale around which projects were chosen for the community survey also joel is here to provide a brief update on community outreach in this in the survey next slide [Music] so we've seen this slide several times before just wanted to remind everyone of our capital infrastructure funding strategies for the last decade it started with the capital improvement bond in 2011. we then asked voters and they graciously approved a three-year 0.3 percent sales tax for community culture and safety uh that was followed by a renewal of that tax for four additional years and a portion of both of those uh were given to community nonprofits and then also in 2018 um the city uh dedicated some of its

[204:02] operating revenue from the general fund to develop a government capital fund so we put around five to seven million a year into that fund next slide [Music] so direction um we just wanted to remind council regarding direction from the february 9th study session in this direction was given to both the f's financial strategy committee and staff and the first was there was to be no community committee that like we had with ccs and really a big reason behind that related to covid uh back in 2020 and early 21 priorities were really shifted due to the pandemic so time uh they're it really shortened the time frame for work on this project also the fsc to collaborate with outside experts in developing a statistical

[205:00] valid community survey also recommend a tax structure so term and designated uses based on the community outreach results which mainly is the community survey and then recommend initial project or categories for the ballot language and as a reminder at the july 20th study session fsc will be providing recommendations to the full council on term community split projects and debt amounts related to the ballot measure to be considered for discussions in august regarding the language next slide so here's a look at all of the city's unfunded infrastructure needs and really here we're talking about general fund departments without a dedicated funding source so departments such as osmp and utilities do have dedicated funding

[206:00] and they're not included in this list and back in february and also in your memo you will notice that the amount was slightly lower than what we're presenting this evening there were two um climate projects that we also included in this list so we're looking at 312 million uh through a variety of projects most of which we are hoping to fund in the next seven years so over 220 million of that and all of the projects identified in this list are either essential or import important per our budgeting for resilience definitions so again to remind you essential is for basic city functioning critical to life and safety important valued by the community with clear legislative support also if we look at our current or pending master plans 93 of these projects fall into fiscally

[207:02] constrained or action plans so these are really uh to support basic city services not really rising to the level of the visionary plans in those plant master plans next slide so this slide shows it's a little busy but these 314 million dollars of unfunded projects both by category and department and i will define these project categories in the upcoming slides these are the same categories that we used in the community survey as you can see the safe and prepared boulder accounts for over half of these unfunded projects followed by active and healthy and transportation and the departments similarly line up fire and rescue 45 percent and then facilities uh excuse me facilities transportation

[208:01] police and parks and rec all equate for 11 to 12 percent of these projects next slide so the purpose of this evening i'm not going to go through every single and explain every single project there is summary information in your packet but we if you have questions about specific projects please be sure to ask them we do have staff here this evening who will be able to answer your questions just to note on these pages the next several slides the bolded projects represent projects that were designated as projects that may be funded on the community survey and more to come about these projects but i will define each of these areas as we defined in the community survey so for safe and prepared boulder emergency response is a critical component of boulder's ability to be resilient in the face of increasing

[209:00] environmental and other challenges that can affect safety and well-being of boulder residents and visitors boulder has fallen behind in maintaining and replacing the capital infrastructure that supports its first responders as and clearly as you can see we have a lot of aging fire stations that need to be replaced in addition if we are looking at doing advanced life support these will will have to be replaced we don't have the current infrastructure for those uh that program also in this list you'll notice the public safety building expansion for approximately 30 million along with some other smaller police department projects next slide so transportation system resilience maintaining and modernizing boulder's transportation system to allow for safer and more efficient flow for all

[210:01] modes of transportation pedestrian bikes vehicles better traffic flow ultimately leads to lower ghg emissions and what we put on the survey is certainly the largest item here transportation maintenance also included in unfunded projects are hot bus electrification as well as transfer transit partnerships and some other projects next slide active and healthy boulder the capital stock needed to provide residents the amenities and opportunities to recreate and maintain healthy and active lifestyles physical health and well-being are critical to the resilience of boulder residents here included we had the rec center renovations and i will note we do have a special climate category but these certainly include retrofitting to our climate

[211:01] standards a boulder creek corridor various parks throughout the city along with athletic fields and cultural preservation [Music] next slide customer service modernization providing high quality customer service in a timely manner relies on information flow from the city to the customer and residents and vice versa modernizing and consolidating the city's data infrastructure and outreach tool will allow for better customer service for all needs we talked last month about the constituent relationship management or crm as well as the enterprise data warehouse also included on these lists are some large systems throughout the city replacements of those systems as as well as some smaller i.t projects

[212:01] next slide progress toward climate goals of boulder's ambitious climate goals require a broad effort as it relates to city capital at a minimum boulders aged facilities need to be renovated and retrofitted to reduce carbon uh footprints so these are the projects that were added uh from the february meeting and they include utilities undergrounding streetlight acquisition and again just to note many other projects that i've talked about include or contribute to climate goals certainly the fire stations if built would also be up to our code as well as many of these other projects next slide this is our final category other which is basically anything that didn't fall into the previous categories we have things such as alpine balsam uh the the largest one here of course is our maintenance backlog

[213:01] of our buildings it's pretty sizable as you can see as well as the boulder civic area phase 2 development plan next slide so those are the projects uh that total well over over 300 million dollars and based on the direction that we were given in february 9th staff and the fsc financial strategy committee set out to narrow down the list to a small number of projects in some project categories that can be included in the community survey and the full unfunded need list was informed by master plans facility assessment and other tools that we have here at the city again the intent here was not to choose the final projects just the projects that will be listed in the survey as those that may be funded so from the greater list of 47 projects departments presented a sub set of 15

[214:02] high priority near-term projects to the financial strategy committee these were carefully selected to maximize imp impact so we wanted to make sure it had a broad benefit and solve pressing capital needs they also could start in the next few years and then the final projects selected for the survey did include criteria or were selected based on the criteria that both the financial strategy committee and staff worked on before we even started this entire exercise so that criteria is in your memo it's pretty extensive and i think important to the overall selection here next slide here again are just all of those bolded projects that were included in the survey listed on one page for you um

[215:02] so what you'll notice when i get to the next slide is our total is 88 million which is less than what we're looking at receiving for the tax itself next slide so we do the community survey really to gauge community support for a tax extension ballot item some of the things asked potential uses what i've talked about this entire presentation specific city projects and project categories term and our length of tax so we did ask questions about a 10-year term and a 15-year term portion of tax proceeds that would be dedicated to community non-profits through a grant program we asked questions on a 10 15 and 20 and then related debt authorization questions for both a 10-year uh debt

[216:00] issuance and a 15-year debt issuance and as a reminder these revenue estimates were based on cu's may modeling so certainly we do expect that they will change throughout time but this is the best information that we have as of right now and then for my final remarks i did want to provide a little bit of exciting news regarding the survey itself we currently have 828 completed interviews we sent out a reminder today a text reminder and we will send another one out on friday and start the live dialing early next week i do encourage the public uh to take this online survey you can find it on the home page at boulder's website bob i just have some questions when you're done okay we have one more slide and um i'm going to turn it over to joel who will talk about the community

[217:00] nonprofit outreach thanks cheryl good evening council uh joe wagner tax and special projects manager so uh in addition to the community survey we're also having some conversations with the local nonprofit community because this proposed structure for the community nonprofit component is a departure from the prior two ccs ballot measures uh we wanted to ensure that we're on the right track so we're starting this outreach to community groups we're organizing focus groups in the next three to four weeks and we're targeting two groups of non-profits in two separate categories of focus groups the first would be non-profits that received matching grants in the first and second ballot items and the second would be the broader non-profit community either organizations that came forward in the first two rounds and did not end up on the ballot or organizations that we haven't spoken to yet that might have capital projects that they're thinking about so we'll be hosting several meetings with opportunities to attend both during the work day and in the evening and really the goal of these meetings is

[218:00] to share the current council vision for the nonprofit component and to gather feedback from these organizations on how to present this concept to voters um what feedback they might give us for administration of the program if it's if it's approved and we're also hoping to form connections and understand what the nonprofit community's needs are as well as gauge interest in and support for the ballot item with this concept and we can go to the next slide the questions all right then thank you very much joel and cheryl um bob you have your hand raised yeah first of all thank you to staff for for this update this this is very helpful for for catching several of us up on on the process and and more information about um some of these prospective projects that could go in the ballot i have a a a couple questions about specific projects then i have a few questions

[219:01] that are more general i think my first question really is probably addressed to chief calderazzo and it relates to the fire station if we go back to slide number seven on the public health or public safety one that would be helpful i'll start asking my question as that's coming up so um among the 88 million dollars that's being po projects that are being pulled uh two of them are for fire station stations one is 11 million dollars for uh completion of fire station number three and another 35 million is for a new fire station either a new one for number two or number four so that's 46 million dollars which is a little bit more than half of the 88 million dollars so that obviously kind of swamps things a bit um chief is it possible that um a fire station replacement can be done for less than 35 million and if so what would we be giving up for for that if we made it if we did station for 25 or 30 million just to pick numbers out of the air

[220:01] first of all good evening council that's a late evening um again for the record i guess my name's up there but my colorado fire chief and bob i appreciate the question i know these take a huge chunk out a lot of it is um the the expected land cost and the the construction costs that have escalated over the last few years we've learned a pretty tough lesson with with fire station three um the short answer to your question is i don't know exactly whether or not we can trim um if we're asking whether we can trim the size of the stations that's a different conversation most of the expense actually is in the support services areas of the stations which is what which is why all of our stations are so undersized um and in need of either rebuilding or renewal of some form or fashion so i i would i'd hesitate to be able to give you a good answer there part of this is so that we can be

[221:00] opportunistic going forward so to jump on potentially a good deal so to speak would be something we'd want to be able to do to minimize the overall cost so we'd like to be able to do these for lesser costs i can't guarantee it and i can't even guarantee the time frame depending on when either land uh becomes available or we can strike a deal whether it's a public private partnership or public public partnership but in terms of the size of the stations we've sized them actually where we think they need to be to support advanced life support um at the present time and for the life of the master plan and hopefully for the next 50 years so so that's what's in there right now and it's entirely based on land and construction costs thanks chief maybe go for i have a couple other specific questions i think the rest of these are for ally rhodes go forward to slide number nine which is two more on active and healthy lifestyles um

[222:01] ali um could you elaborate a little bit more on on both those that are bolder the boulder creek corridor could you talk a little bit more about what that is what we would get for that seven million dollars i can do that but parks planning manager and ecological services manager jeff haley is here and i can do it better great well we'll see if i can do it better thanks for the question bob uh yeah the boulder creek corridor we're actually just getting ready to do a pretty comprehensive study and management plan for the creek corridor um basically stretching from evangee fine at towards the west end of town perhaps all the way out to 55th street what this would do we anticipate having implementation priorities from that plan that would outline new visitor areas recreation areas along the creek um specific access points to the creek

[223:00] you know ecological restoration throughout the corridor so if you think about a lot of the trees we've had to remove due to emerald ash borer along the stream and some of the other water water quality issues we're hoping this project will address a lot of that and if you also think about ebon g fine the stream bank stabilization we did several years ago they're along the park where there's designated uh ecological restoration areas then there's very designated recreation it's that type of approach where you'd like to restore the creek back to a very usable open visible corridor to increase safety usability and that sort of thing thanks jeff that's real helpful and then my final specific question i have a couple of general ones is on slide 12 which is the miscellaneous category i think these are for you or for for you ali um could you talk a little bit more about what um the community would get on the third and fourth ones the pearl

[224:00] street mall refresh what would four million dollars do for that and then on the civic area phase two development of the eight million what would what would we get for that sure so on the pearl street mall it's it's it would be generally you know bob we've talked with community vitality and downtown boulder and there are not specific plans but we know there are needs for updates and especially as we approach the 50th anniversary of the mall and so certainly this project would include updates to the visitors information center in the restrooms which are dated and regularly encounter issues it can include enhancements to other amenities that would enhance both accessibility safety and just general welcominess in the downtown corridor potentially event area in the 13th street but for details of it we would want to work with our downtown business partners and the community to say exactly what those refresh would be for the civic area i'll remind council that we have an incredible civic area master plan that the first

[225:01] phase was the park at the core that jeff just talked about the enhancements we made between the civic area and the library and between arapaho and canyon still yet to be completed other other elements of that plan and specifically enhancements on the east book end that that would really help achieve a lot of community goals and so specifically that phase two again i might call on jeff for the specific elements of that project if i did not cover it yeah just to tag onto that thanks ali in terms of the civic park it's really that area central park and east book inn which is primarily 13th street over to broadway and then from canyon to arapahoe what the plan showed for that area was better activation better functionality of that central park space as you know recently transportation improved the underpass there to arapahoe and so what this would do is actually up in the park

[226:01] area provide more flexible multi-use areas to support um events like the farmers market we've been doing a ton of activation at the band shell now to really use that space and and provide opportunities for the community it would enhance that area there's a multi-use path connection that would lead folks up to the intersection of broadway and 13 i'm sorry canyon and 13th to create a better connection with the pearl street mall down to the civic area so it's that general functionality access to and through the site and just better using the space for all the great activation and events that have really kicked off more since we've done that phase one project uh west of broadway i would i would just recommend this does not get into a lot of the vertical construction and infrastructure that you'd seen some of those concepts years ago this is still more within the park um an adjacent roadway

[227:01] great that was really helpful both ali and jeff and just have some general questions and probably more for cheryl um charles as we as we've learned more about um arpa and the the money that we're getting from the federal government um i assume that we're gonna apply that filter to our final list of projects here as we develop them in late july early august so that if there is a project um that we're really keen on but we can we can we're allowed to use harpa funds for that project it probably wouldn't make sense to also put it on the ballot and free up that money for for things that would not qualify for arpa and similarly i assume that you're for example in the transportation projects you're applying kind of a doctor cog filter so if there's money that could be obtained from dr cog or from other i know there's lots of transportation money available i can't count on the federal infrastructure bill quite yet but i know that we get sometimes support on the state level for

[228:00] those things so i assume that those filters either have been applied or will be applied as we know more about availability is that right oh correct staff is working um working on that and we hope to present that with our uh july 20th presentation that's great that's great and the the last thing i'll i'll just suggest i guess um as you guys prepare for that july 20th presentation i know this is tough i'm just gonna throw it out there to the extent that any of these projects have a return on investment some of them are just things we got to do i mean we we got to patch the roads we don't get any money back for that i get that but some of these projects as i go through and look at them some of the recreation projects some of the pearl street products some of the other projects probably have a bit of a return on investment that is if we improve the infrastructure um more people will participate whether it's at the rec center or on pearl street or whatever to the extent you guys can do a little bit of a back of the envelope on some of these projects in the return on investment i know it's a swag but a little bit of information at that july 20th session on

[229:01] return on investment for those that do or might would be kind of helpful as we make our decisions we'll go back to the departments and see what information they can provide i'm sure a lot of that has probably been done for these many of these projects yeah that's great that's all i had thanks for everybody thank you thank you bob um sam thank you mary i want to start out with a big thank you to staff and to the financial strategy committee for having done a huge amount of work winnowing these projects down so um as mary reminded us it was many hours of their life um hearing about the possible projects and presenting them to us so thank you all for that i really have questions pretty much around where bob did on the first few so um chief calderazzo i wanted to speak about advanced life support and i believe if i recall correctly when

[230:01] we had this conversation several months ago there were a few flavors of advanced life support one is where all of our responding firefighters are trained as paramedics and another was where we do transport and so i understood that getting everyone trained up and equipped as paramedics was one level of effort and then certainly adding ambulances and doing transport would require a lot more both equipment and infrastructure so is the estimate that we have here two and a half to four and a half million dollars is that just for creating paramedics on for all firefighters paramedic skills for all firefighters or does that also include ambulances and other equipment um i'm not i'm sorry sam which which number are we referring to i might i don't think i tracked i'm sorry i'm on slide seven slide seven

[231:00] uh we've got advanced life support capital infrastructure three and a half million dollars and then somewhere in the memo yes i believe it said it includes training and equipment as well as capital yes that did include the rolling stock and potentially adding those units to the system so what if we were to do it in two phases one where we're not doing transport but all our responding firefighters are trained as paramedics you know what that would cost so that is built into the system so so the way we have it set up in the master plan it actually is to roll out where we would begin with just the firefighters and increasing their skill level to paramedic on existing apparatus so that would not only require the training and whatever the additional expense is associated with that as well as retrofitting vehicles if we needed to to put um and the stations as well to put uh uh medications and you know temperature

[232:00] control uh locking mechanisms so on um so that that's already built into the progression um over the next 10 years so the idea is start at the core and it would be the the core areas of the city where we received most of our um calls now where all the demand is so twos threes and fours which are right around the central portions of town from there we could branch out and we could take over ambulances and that would engender the additional three or four million that we've got built into the capital infrastructure or council may decide that's not what we want to do um we prefer the the contractual approach where you provide the advanced life support or the paramedic capabilities but patient transport will be handled by a third party or or so on so so it's built in that way where we have options we have points where we can we can even off ramp and do a a different system that still has us at the core providing the advanced life support and bringing those response times down which is what

[233:01] the ultimate goal is so um it is built in a system that is a cost that could be um we may decide we don't want to spend the money the four million on the ambulances and all of that um this the these uh the expenses associated with the structures though those need to be done um pretty much regardless of of how als unfolds um over time we need to make those changes so sorry to interrupt but i just want to make sure i'm clear on your answer we will be moving towards paramedic training for all of our firefighters under the current budget and the current plan without this component of the capital infrastructure we can yes we can do that without the capital piece of it um we can trade we can additionally train people however we'll never realize the full build out even with everyone going als if we don't build in the support structures in our stations hence the

[234:01] need to do station two and four um but but we can begin the training we can start we've already begun in fact some of our budget requests for next year will in fact engender some of those ideas in them so that that's all operating of course so it would be a different source right but there there's the medication and the storage there's capital involved it's just not huge stellar amounts okay so so again we are moving forward with that we'll see that in the 2022 budget proposal we can talk about that operational piece and the budget proposal what is here um in the community culture and safety tax proposal and it did not get included that three and a half million is for ambulances is for going all the way with als so if we if we do not put that in and do not include it it's not going to stop us from increasing our capability

[235:00] for als it's just not going all the way true yes okay thank you that's super helpful and i guess i would repeat bob's question um it certainly does seem like if you could shave 10 to 15 percent off of the station two or four replacement you could fund everything for going all the way with als so um i i just wanted to make sure i understood where where you're planning right now that's super helpful thank you and then the other question i've got um back to you ali and jeff is about the same things that bob asked about which are the boulder creek corridor and the east boulder rec center um retrofit and renovation would it be possible to do those in phases like boulder creek corridor get seven million um is that something we could decide that we wanted to fund it four million and and get you know half

[236:01] of the benefits of similarly with east boulder rec center is it possible to phase that or is that like need to all be done at once i'll i'll take that and let jeff add if if i miss something so with the crete corridor absolutely and you've seen how we've done that with the improvements at m g fine park and in the civic area a recreation center is much harder to phase out it it would have a bigger impact on the community because of taking a facility out of commission it also would have cost escalation when you when you mobilize for vertical construction and a project there's real um efficiencies in that and so the more you can do all at once the more effective it is in costing and the less impact there is for the community so i do think for a facility if you're going to do major renovations the more you can do all at once the better it is for everyone okay great um i think that that answers all of my questions um i guess i have a similar one about the mall um if we end up back at that conversation

[237:01] would be phasing it or doing partial work on that and i guess what i'll put out there for council to think about is both from a public relations standpoint and from a kind of mission of the city standpoint it certainly seems to me like we want to be thinking about the advanced life support piece here because it is a fraction of what the facility costs are 3 million as opposed to 30 million and because the creek corridor could be phased one of the things i want us to think about as we finalize it is what we want to do to include advanced life support so that's why i asked those questions because it seems to me that that is a critical life safety issue and i just wanted us to have that in our thought process as we go forward that's all my questions mary thank you thank you sam junie thank you mary um thank you for the presentation and i have several questions and i'm

[238:02] trying to think where do i want to start um but i just wanted some clarification about i think i heard a comment about the rpa funding and i just wanted to make sure that am i correct to think there's no correlation between the arca funding and the community uh resilience in safety tax renewal programming you are correct um what we're doing as it relates to both is looking through our project list that we presented tonight and seeing what if any projects would may be eligible for arpa funding and then bringing that information back to you but there is no relationship between the two okay thank you oh and i think the comment i wanted to add as well because i was looking at um just looking at our slides it says there are 47 projects that are unfunded for

[239:03] 312 million dollars and that 20 to 20 i believe 20 to 22 million dollars that we're getting from the arka funding it's barely a drop in the bucket for that type of programming and my thought or at least my understanding from different [Music] conferences that i have attended and working groups i'm wondering if the city is doing any type of community engagement around that money to find out how to bet to best use it because i understand your um your proposal or where that's heading where you're looking at programming and how that money could be used

[240:00] but i'm wondering this is taxpayer money and again we have a community here that is suffering some people in the community are suffering and how do we best serve them as opposed to putting this money toward programming so my question is is the city doing any type of community engagement to find out how to best spend that money on behalf of the community so the answer is yes and i just want to clarify at this point staff is not recommending that we utilize any or part of that money um for these projects it's just something that we're reviewing to put out on the table so we do have a group of folks who are working to develop the plan for our arpa funding and and really we're thinking initially trying to find the the most the most

[241:01] critical needs and then for the remainder of the money making sure that we have a strategic approach which most certainly would involve um outreach to different organizations and and folks throughout the community yeah thank you for that and i i just remember as well as part of this conversation the staff did send us an email um based on from an email on how to spend the money from i believe from one of awards um the name of the board just escaped me but they had a lot of great idea on on how to reach community through this funding um yes and i think my next question to you is it's slide well i can't tell the slide number but it's about the library deferred capital maintenance the pre 3.3 million dollars

[242:00] and since we've just recently had the discussion about the districting i'm wondering is this funding necessary because if we're if the hope is to district let's say the next year or the year after um how is this funding is it a good use of the funding right now to put it toward the library or is that something that is still needed no matter what even if we district so i'm gonna ask devin or someone to provide more information about this because i'm i'm not aware of the specifics and the timing yes uh thank you for that uh shh harold um so um uh junie yes to um

[243:02] answer your uh question um that um a particular pr project um did not uh um make it um onto the uh these for that exact uh uh reason um so the the uh thinking was that um that it is a current need but um there is an um uh and all an alternative uh funding um mechanism that um that that we could uh use um if uh if

[244:02] districting were to occur um in the next two years or so um and if uh if in fact that that um uh uh districting were were um then uh this uh this object could uh could uh s certainly um uh uh r uh r return um uh so um as uh shh cheryl had uh had mentioned the uh these herve does only include um

[245:01] 88 uh um a million which is um not the the uh the total um uh amount that that the uh tax could uh generate so perhaps maybe two or three years uh uh down the uh road this uh this uh uh particular uh project could could um uh get get funding through the capital tax but we did not think that it was uh uh appropriate to uh to be in [Music] rooted in um this uh process at this uh time

[246:05] thank you devon thank you cheryl aaron yeah thanks for all this information really appreciate that uh just to clarify in terms of next steps right so we've this is a list of potential projects that we've identified needs for right and we have put a few of them on the survey to judge community interest but when it comes time to put this on on the ballot assuming that we do we'll pick a few projects that we that we commit to right as the ballot measure passes and then give a list of other types of projects like x y and z but more general and then from that point on we would have a process to determine where the funding would go but it we're not other than the projects that actually make it onto the ballot we're not committing to any of these right this is just all potential things that we could run yes correct

[247:01] great so then our decision this year is really about picking the top however many it is for eight or ten that we put in the ballot measure and the rest of it is really a decision for you know future councils of the future process yeah yes that's correct aaron along with some of the other like the term and the debt um those are what we will be coming to you for got it so that's helpful that in terms of what we have to decide in the next two or three months is not about this entire list or ranking all of them but just really about those top two projects that we put on the measure thanks that's all i had thank you aaron um any other questions from council oh yes bob yeah just aaron maybe think of something that i want to just throw out there's a scheduling suggestion so i i think we haven't had any public hearings on this we've had a few study sessions um we're gonna have another study session on july 20th

[248:01] um and then we're scheduled to do first reading on the ballot measure on august 3rd which of course is not a public hearing well it's not yet a public hearing and then the first and only public hearing we'll have on this will be a second reading in august 17 which also happens to be our last clear date to put something on the ballot and what i'm a little bit concerned about is is that because we haven't i know we're going to do a survey but we haven't had public hearings on this the very first public hearing we'd have the first time we would hear from community members who choose to come out and speak to us about what they think should be the you know the headliners that aaron was just referring to is when we're already a second reading and it'll be too late for us to make changes uh i guess we could pass that emergency that night and i'm just wondering if cac might think about flipping the order of the public hearing and actually doing a first reading public hearing on august 3rd so we have the benefit of hearing from the community and can make some adjustments at first reading rather than scrambling at first reading which is our last clear date to put this on the ballot i don't know what the

[249:00] the night looks like on the third i think it's national night out so we may not have a ton of ton of time in that night but it just might be nice to have on our public hearing not be the last day that we make a decision on what the headliners are for the ballot just throwing that out there so i can respond to that bob you know one thing that we have considered and i brought it up at cac yesterday was having first and second reading or public hearing for first reading on august 3rd so that would be a way to kind of address the issue of timing is to have a public hearing on both items that are related to the tax and bond measures and then also on any initiative petitions i i would support that if that's the will of counsel and that's what csu wants to do

[250:00] thanks sandra and bob i'll just jump in here and say i think there is room potentially to do that on the third we would have to shuffle a few things around but i think there's one item that's not time sensitive um that we could move and or what sandra just said i think the other two items that we have now are ballot measures to talk about as well thanks sam all right thank you um sandra i think you put up your hand but that's that's an old hand i think um sorry about that oh no worries um all right any other questions from council all right um [Music] does council want to make any um comments or have um has everybody made them as we went along

[251:01] all right it sounds like um [Music] this item met our needs and has um and i guess i'll ask council has this presentation um address the concerns that were brought up a few weeks ago all right great so i think that's it um and if no one has any other comments i think that we are done for the evening for three whole weeks yay happy recess everybody um see you on july 13th enjoy the break bye thank you much everyone take care everybody