March 8, 2022 — City Council Regular Meeting

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Captions from City of Boulder YouTube recording.

[0:00] [Music] your name as much as i can to [Music] [Music] oh you guys are great we are live and i have councilman yates coming over now so we are ready to go erin when you are ready to go all right we got bob here so that gives us full council i understand we are

[1:02] online as well so let's get things started um welcome everyone to the tuesday march 8th welcome everyone to the tuesday march 8th special meeting of the boulder city council and uh alicia should we call the roll alicia yes sir did you want to do your slides first or your announcements first or no i can certainly do that it's up to you except my zoom minimized itself okay let's go with the slides right covered 19 testing vaccinations so testing for information and provider locations for free code 19 testing please go to www.boco.org testing the boulder site is at 2445 stasio drive it's open seven days a week from 8 am to 6 pm and for vaccine information and provider locations you can go to

[2:00] www.voco.org covet vaccine next slide please boards and commissions well annual recruitment is closed and in fact we are uh talking about who is going to get appointed to the boards tonight but there are a few boards that did not get an adequate number of applications so these are still open they are boulder junction access district parking as well as the travel demand management board board of zoning adjustment the cannabis licensing advisory board the design advisory board and the university hill commercial area management commission a number of those do have specific requirements for residency or professions so please do check those before you submit an application but if you meet them we'd love to have you apply and we do not have a deadline yet for when those are closing you can find the descriptions of those boards and commissions and the exact vacancies online at www.bouldercolor.gov

[3:01] boards commissions if you have any questions or need assistance please contact the city clerk's office at city clerk's office at boulder colorado.gov final announcement for tonight price couching colorado law prohibits charging excessive prices for certain essential products goods or services during a disaster period it makes clear that such price gouging is a deceptive trade practice under the colorado consumer protection act so if you witness price gouging or you think you might be the victim of price gouging please file a report with the attorney general's office at 800-222-4444 or stop stopfraudcolorado.gov and i believe that completes our announcements for tonight and how about a roll call now alicia all right sir thank you and good evening everyone councilmember benjamin

[4:00] president folkerts present mayor pro tem friend here alicia councilmember joseph present spear present wallach here weiner here yates here and mayor brockett president you thought i forgot didn't you i was getting ready to talk about being drunk liver mayor we have our quorum wonderful thanks so much for that okay so now i'm hoping that we can get a motion to amend the agenda so we have item two items that we would like to add item one a a declaration for recognizing arts week and item one b uh

[5:02] declaration for international women's day anyone give a solution on that so moved second okay we have a motion in a second to amend the agenda does anyone object seeing no objections the agenda is duly amended and with that amendment we can launch right into the declaration regarding arts week and uh i believe council member focus will be reading this thank you aaron um boulder arts week is going into its ninth straight year and it is the city's only large-scale inclusive celebration of our communities artists and robust arts and cultural offerings boulder's boulder arts week 2022 will feature digital and in-person offerings as artists and art organizations continue to adjust to the pandemic

[6:00] boulder is one of the most vibrant arts communities in the u.s ranking in the top 2 in the concentration of artists and arts and cultural organizations and businesses the arts and cultural sector contributes to boulder's economic vitality by stimulating creativity and innovation by creating jobs attracting new businesses and creating an environment that attracts skilled and educated workers it also generates important ancillary spending by tourists and residents at local restaurants bars retailers and hotels arts and cultures are also an economic engine in their own right according to the national endowment for the arts the arts sector contributes 16.3 billion to colorado's economy socially and economically the arts and culture sector remain at significant risk from the covid19 cross crisis losses have been staggering due to restriction

[7:00] venue closures and widespread event cancellations in the denver metro region the economic impact of arts and culture non-profits fell 49 in 2020 from record highs in 2019. employment fell by almost 10 000 jobs or 28 this is the equivalent to a decade of growth in this sector many artists and art organizations adapted and serve on our com serve our community in innovative ways using online platforms and outdoor spaces while weather allows and in-person performances have started to return despite continuing risk of shutdowns still recovery of arts and the arts and culture sector is lagging that of other sectors through november 2021 the rate of unemployment in the sector is more than four times greater than all non-profits in the u.s the pandemic the tragic march

[8:02] 22nd 2021 mass shooting the recent march marshall and middle fork fires which destroyed over a thousand homes and businesses of our nearby friends and colleagues and growing awareness of deeply rooted racial and social injustices in the u.s and locally have altered our community in unprecedented ways arts and culture are critical to boulder's recovery and sustainability and play an essential role in individual and collective healing decades of research so show that arts build emotional health cultural literacy social cohesion and creative expression boulder arts week will enhance visibility of all arts within the local community it will be an opportunity for the community to show the arts much needed appreciation residents are hungry to engage in the communal nature of art participation

[9:00] that strengthens society it will be vital to boulder as we come together again after prolonged social distancing loss and polar polarization the arts foster beauty originality and vitality to the benefit of all of connecting all members of the boulder community we the city council of the city of boulder declare march 25th april 2nd 2022 as boulder arts week thanks so much for that lauren it's been a phenomenal week i know let's turn now to nicole spear for the declaration on international women's day thank you mayor each year international women's day offers an opportunity for us to celebrate the many social economic cultural and political achievements of women women of every race class ability sexuality age and ethnic background have

[10:02] and continue to contribute to the growth and strength of our city state country and the world in countless recorded and unrecorded ways despite these contributions the role of women in our past and present continues to be overlooked and undervalued particularly for women of color transgender women and other women in the lgbt community disabled women immigrant women older women lower income women and women without a formal education women and girls continue to lead the fight against voter suppression the abolitionist movement the labor movement civil rights campaigns climate activism gun violence prevention advocacy for missing and murdered indigenous women the struggle for transgender rights and so much other work to create a more just and equitable society for all for this reason international women's day is also a call to action for accelerating women's equality because the best way to celebrate women is to

[11:01] join them in their work for gender equity we the city council of the city of boulder colorado declare march 8 2022 as international women's day and invite the community to join us in the celebration of all women and the progress we've made as a society as well as commit to action in the work needed for full gender equality thanks so much for that nicole and today is the day so i appreciate you reading that very important declaration there for us okay well now we are proceeding to our first public hearing our first and only public hearing and i think nuria is going to give us a brief introduction on that uh thanks so much mayor and so happy to be doing it on international women's day let me lift that up all the time right uh i wanted to recognize that this uh for the first time we made some major changes to the long-standing process

[12:00] um and that when you do that that can have its own growing pains but we're proud of the results of our improved boarding commission's interview process uh the team set out to address several challenges with the old approach a lack of individual attention for applicants a sort of repetitive nature of group interview responses limitations to participate when interviews took place all on one evening in council chambers one-way questions and responses that did not allow applicants to ask questions to learn more about surveying and a great a greater variety of more meaningful interview questions thanks to the exceptional work of two of our great women leaders uh and city council council members folkers and winer and support from a cross-departmental staff team participation by all of council i'm happy to share that early feedback indicates we did successfully improve upon our previous work by addressing those challenges through conducting individual zoom interviews with more direct interaction among applicants council members and city staff

[13:02] some bright spots that i heard about included conducting our first ever spanish interview for an applicant of the human relations commission which is just phenomenal creating extremely flexible scheduling options to meet community members on their own time not the city's time necessarily and anecdotal feedback during the week of interview showed applicants appreciation for getting direct attention and interest during their interview from council and staff members we're going to continue to strive to make all support process to boards and commissions more inclusive and supportive of our city goals and look forward to beginning the next phase of conversation with you in late april but for tonight's appointments i will turn the meeting over to another phenomenal woman leader elisha oh thank you for that nuria and thank you council and good evening i would also like to just take this moment to introduce my support team with me that'll help me uh keep track of everything tonight and make sure we document accurately your wishes as far

[14:02] as the appointments are concerned i have john morse our elections administrator who has also helped with this process and done a phenomenal job and he will again take notes and make sure i document your wishes accurately and we also have taylor reiman who is the city council administrator and she will be handling the slides for us tonight and also assisting in keeping track of the nominations in lifetime and with that before we begin the process of nominating boards and commission candidates to fill the vacancies i'm going to provide an outline of our process for this item there are three steps i want to bring to your attention first i will present the slides for each board and commission and with those slides we will identify which seats are vacant along with their required qualifications the eligible candidates that we currently have listed and whether they have applied to other

[15:01] boards second i will ask the mayor to open our public hearing close when it is completed and turn the discussion back over to me third following the public hearing i will provide counsel with guidance on how the nomination process will proceed so with that taylor if you would go ahead and pull up the slides we will go ahead and review the boards and commissions that identify the areas we outline next slide please our first board we'll be addressing is your arts commission we have one seat available on that commission that is seat two and that residents will be appointed for a five-year term through march 31st 2027. we have barbara bronk gwyneth barack robin mitchell allen ohashi and we did have kadia

[16:02] diario that who applied but did not show for her interview next slide next we have our beverage licensing authority we'll be appointing for seat two which is in a resident to the unexpired four-year term through march 31st 2026 and seat three which will appoint the resident a resident to a five-year term through 331-27 please be reminded that the brc boards and commissions section 2-3 2-3-3-a that city council at its regular meeting before the april shall appoint members to city boards and commissions who are city residents and not all of one gender next slide our next board is the cannabis licensing authority board we have seat two which is appointing a resident to a five-year term through march 31st 2027 that appointment must be

[17:02] a must have a health education background and seat six is appointing a resident to a five-year term through 331-27 it must be a marijuana business owner we have sandy franklin which means to seek two requirements and the education background requirement brian keegan who is a current member who was appointed in march 31st 20 for seat two and cadillac fiero again did not show for her interview and tucker wentz who meets the seat two education background requirements please also note that no applicants that we received meet the requirements of seat six so this will be one of the boards that will remain open next slide please next we have our downtown management commission seat two is for a resident to be appointed for a five-year term through

[18:01] march 31st 2027 and seat three is appointing a member to an unexpired one-year term through 331 2023 and that appointment must be a property owner or a representative of a property owner in the downtown management commission i'm sorry the downtown management area we currently have jim freeman who meets the seat two residency requirements and justin calvin who meets the seat to residency requirement please note again that no applicants we received met the requirements of seat three next your environmental advisory board seat two is to appoint resident to a five-year term through 331-27 and seat five is appointing a resident to an unexpired three-year term through 331-2025 we have applying brooke brockett

[19:00] chloe constant thomas crane paul coonan jack staccalo duncan gilchrist amanda groszek who also applied to tab we have sherry hack kathleen hancock graham hill who applied to the human relations commission as well jimmy hole who applied to the housing advisory board and daniel mckinnon and andrea ventidis please excuse me if i pronounced any of those names wrong next we have the boulder housing authority we have see three seats available on this board we have seat two which is appointing a residence to a five year term through three thirty one twenty seven we have the same stipulations for seat four and seat six we have applying mary falinsky giograno

[20:00] ahila nation emily reynolds julie schofield who is a current member who was appointed at 331 2020 in seat two and we also have james bob walker who is a current member as well who was appointed 327 2017 and he is currently in seat four next the housing advisory board both the seat four and seat six is to appoint residents a resident to a five-year term through 3 31-27 we have matt applebaum richard collins daniel glazer richard harris jimmy ho who also again applied to the eab phillip ogren and julianne ramsey next we have our human relations commission

[21:02] c2 will appoint a resident to a five-year term through 331-27 and c3 will appoint a resident to an unexpired one-year term through 331 2023 we have salanise altis lisa bowen who was a no show for her interview graham hill who also applied to the eab mill liz marshall marsaco again apologies carlos valdez and vicker jacob our landmarks board is next we have one seat available here which is seat two to a point of residence to a five-year term through three thirty-one twenty-seven we have chelsea castellano and myron guthman our library commission has one seat and that seat is to appoint a resident to a five-year term through 331-27

[22:01] we currently have michael carr who has also applied to the bla and sylvia werba open space boards of trustees has one seat open to appoint a residence to a five-year term through 331-27 we have applying john carroll harold halstein who is a current member and was appointed eight to 2019 and he is currently in seat two ben cadlick joel cohen michael nelson kevin rice ariel show spur again who applied to tab brigger tomlin and andrew trees mr trees applied also to the prat our planning board we have three seats available seats two and three will appoint a residence to a five year term through three thirty one twenty seven and seat

[23:00] five appoints a resident to the unexpired two year term through three thirty one that must be a typo so that would be three thirty one twenty six we will correct that we have paul cureplaying mary h cooper ellis stephen hennessy lauren kaplan mark mcintyre who is currently serving on tab since 331-23 we have richard monchi kirk norback ariana proctor m l robles and diani wood just checking in alicia i made those changes live does that look correct no it's 3 21 26 those should have stayed seat five is the one that needs to be corrected till 20 okay thank you taylor

[24:00] you bet next we have our parks and rec's advisory board seat two is a appointing a resident to a five-year term through 331-27 and seat six is asking for an appointment of a resident to an unexpired three-year term through 331 25. we have paul bradley george kraft catherine crane neil anderson larry ko mccull tom souvenir catherine has also applied to rabb and tom has also applied to tab we have anita spears douglas stevens carrie tanner patrick terry andrew trees who applied to osbt and sarah sunny vanderstar

[25:01] our transportation advisory board has one seat open which is seat two and that will be to appoint a resident to a five-year term through three twenty one twenty-seven we have a rebecca davies amanda grossiac which also applied to eab stephen haydale heather house who did not show up for her interview david marchus gary mcclellan mary morrissey jamie pledger megan ricker ariel slosper who applied to osbt tan tom souvenir who applied to prabh maria trini willerton and jonathan woodard last but not least we have our water resource advisory board which has two seats open seat one is to appoint a

[26:00] resident to the unexpired four-year term through 331-26 and seat two is to appoint a resident to a five-year term through 3 31 27. we have applying barbara amy brockton michael cohen catherine kane who applied to prabh as well stephen maxwell and woodrow meyer mr meyer did not show for his interview i will now turn it over to the mayor to open and close the public hearing elisha if you go back to the planning board was that where we were altering dates [Music] because i think the there's two years left on seat number five which i think does take it through 24. okay all right i will double check that but i think you're right i appreciate that perfect okay so and

[27:01] that was extremely helpful thanks for that um so now i will open the public hearing and elisha do we have anyone sign up for that public hearing no sir we did not and i tested the form twice to make sure it was working accurately and so no we did not have anybody signed up okay interesting well in that case i will close the public hearing and bring it to city council for discussion so i'll make a few points and guidelines here uh one is to note about recusals uh i do have a family member applying to the environmental advisory board so when that board comes up i will hand the virtual gavel over to mayor pretend friend to conduct that board and then rachel i will turn off my camera and turn off my screen leave the room rachel field just text me when that board is done and i will pop back in again and take it from there and then um tara also has a family member applying to i believe it's open space and parks

[28:02] so chair if you don't mind when we get to those you can do the same turn off the camera leave the room and i'll text you when we finish those boards and you can come back in and then procedurally i think we're going to work our way through board by board alphabetically i think when there are multiple boards seats open my thought is that we will do one seat at a time starting with the longest term so let's say there's a five-year term and a two-year term i would first take nominations for the five-year term people can make nominations of whoever they want and then we'll have our straw poll on that and then someone will be selected and then i'll move on to the two-year term and we'll take nominations for the two-year term straw poll on that and then move on to the next board does that work for folks does anybody have any complaints about that or concerns okay very good um and then i'm thinking uh that we probably want to have those slides up so

[29:01] that we are all looking at the the full information and then um what i would ask is uh when i call after i we do nominations for each seat and i call for a straw poll um that you uh do the raise hand function and zoom for your desired candidate so let's try to be pretty efficient about that but let's say in this let's say that that barbara bronco were nominated and would have beer just to be totally random the first two names so i would say who's for barbara bronk everyone who's interested raises their virtual hand would register it then you'd lower your virtual hand and i would ask for votes for gwyneth burak and i'm happy to take input i see alicia and rachel have their hands up i just wanted to check to see if you wanted me to go over the actual guidelines for how the process would work would that be easier or was that something that you wanted to

[30:01] include in what you were just saying well this was a kind of a procedural thing i wanted to check in with people on and then i'm just about to hand it over to you and then i'll take it from there if you don't mind no that's fine i just wanted to make sure i wasn't uh missing something yeah thanks for checking in lisa rachel i just wanted to make the point that the first year we did this on zoom um and we i think we used the raised hand function function we didn't read it in to you know read it out for members of the public so um i think we got some some feedback from journalists that we we needed to take our time and make sure that that we could be transparent because members of the public can't see the hand raised function so just make sure we build that in i appreciate that and uh rachel if it's if it's okay what i'll do is i'll record the number of people for each candidate although not call out all the names of who voted if that works so like let's say barbara got three votes i'd say okay that's three votes for barbara now lower your hands and how many votes for what

[31:00] and then i know it adds a little time but i do think when we were in real life members of the public could see you know who who we all were raising our hands for and so we lost that in translation here i think at first would let me do that i'm happy that i can i can rattle off names pretty quick any objections to me saying council members names you're voting okay seeing none all right i have a question real quick can you repeat one more time so should we actually raise our hands or use the participant raise if you could use the raise hand function and zoom please i think i think that'll work better um although i do have pretty good visibility to you i tell you what at least if you don't mind going over reading through the guidelines and then we'll check in one more time before we get started of course sir thank you so i will now outline the formal candidate nomination process for those of you who have been involved in the past you'll remember this process is

[32:00] outlined in detail in our city code we will proceed through nominations one board or commission at a time in alphabetical order by board title council members will make nominations to fill the vacancies one seat at a time once nominations for the seat has been made by council members council is welcome to discuss with each other before taking final action taylor will also assist counsel in remembering who has been nominated by keeping the slides up and annotating them in real time once a person has been nominated taylor will change that person's name to red if one person is nominated for a seat that appointment will stand and there are no if there are no objections if more than one person is nominated for the same seat we have a specific process for narrowing the candidates down to one finalist a vote of support will be held

[33:00] for each individual nominated candidates must receive a minimum of five votes to be declared the finalists for a vacant seat if the first round of voting does not produce a clear winner the candidate with the fewest votes will drop from the nominee list and the vote will be conducted again this continues until a single nominee remains the order of nominees will be called either alphabetically or reverse alphabetically by last name of the nominees depending upon a flip of my coin from then on i will alternate the order for all further nominee votes during this meeting if a person is not selected for the first seat they are nominated for they can be nominated for one of the other available seats on the border commission or for another board or commission seat they applied to

[34:00] this process is followed for each board or commission once council has determined a single nominated candidate for each seat this item will conclude for the evening the final vote to appoint all candidates selected will take place on the consent agenda on march 15th if there's no questions mayor i will turn the meeting back to you and i'm here to support the process as it continues thank you alicia i appreciate that and i'm as i'm thinking about it i can actually see you all quite well um through the videos so it might be easier and a little quicker if people just actually physically raise a hand so i think i can see that just fine and then we don't have to hassle with the raising and lowering the virtual hands is that all right with people okay great so then we'll just need to make sure and keep your video on and raise raise your hand keep your hand up until

[35:00] i've said everyone's name for a candidate if you don't mind and then you can lower your physical hand all right so i think uh alicia i believe we start with a coin flip to see if we're going alphabetically or universe you're needed still needed see it's too many steps my handy dandy coin is right here and you have to designate heads or tails for each item for each designation alphabetical is heads normally and reverse alphabetical is tails but you tell me which way you want to go alphabeticals all right flip we are tails so we will start in reverse alphabetical order okay we'll we'll trust you on that one alicia usually we like hold it up it is but i i know your your integrity is without challenge so thank you for that so we'll we'll start um

[36:02] that's that'll be for the voting by the way that's not we'll take nominations for whomever people want to nominate so but when we start the voting the straw polls it will be start with reverse alphabetical okay are we ready are you ready hey woohoo here we go all right so arts commission one seat you can use the raise hand function to let me know if you'd like to nominate someone let's see junior are you having an issue i don't see my raise hand button it's not activated on my side and i don't know why all right yeah i don't have that button let me see if i can help with that juni thank you give it a try now great thank you woohoo brenda works some magic all right obviously mark stands up

[37:00] and then jeannie i'm going to nominate gwyneth burke genie i would like to nominate robin or yalid mitchell uh aaron i'd like to nominate alan ohashi any other nominations all right seeing none we've got three people nominated we'll go in reverse alphabetical order um and i you know people let me just say this we could spend all night talking about the different candidates um so i mean people can certainly i think when you um when you nominate i think you're certainly welcome to say a few words about the reason why you're nominating candidate so i'll just put that out there feel free as you nominate to say a few words but it is optional we've all read the packets we've watched the interviews and

[38:01] we know the amazing qualities that these folks have so i'll just say does anyone want to speak to their nominations before we begin voting and seeing none then we'll just go right into it reverse alphabetical how many votes for alan ohashi i'm seeing none robin yoli mitchell okay i've got rachel lauren juni nicole and myself and then i do think it's worth finishing out even if there's a majority out just so we can see who's voting so gweneth burak and we've got tara bob mark and matt and so that's that would be robin mitchell with five votes okay beverage licensing authority this

[39:00] one it is a little tricky um because uh it is required by our code that one of the appointments be someone who does not identify as male and currently um i think if we appointed um michael carr and noah westby everyone on the board would identify as male which is against our code um so hey bob do you want to say something to this well i'm just going to nominate lisa swelling okay which is great um but legit let's just say that that uh lisa is essentially guaranteed a seat and so just wanna make sure people are okay with that because we were trying to hold the boards open until we had a number of um there was a multi there were multiple options for every board so i just want to make sure everybody's fine with that uh map i mean i mute uh yeah so i'm glad you said that aaron i was more of a it was a question about process just because we're trying not to have one person for

[40:00] one seat and so i didn't know if we wanted to agree to sort of broaden out the field but if that's not the case i will just say i'm going to make a nomination for michael carr on this great uh laura um just from the boards and committee side you know we did talk about holding open any seats where there was not choice that was sort of a specific directive council gave us in the last meeting and this would be the only seat that we will look at tonight in which one of the seats does not really have a choice so to me it seems like in the interest of fairness we would either hold open one or both seats okay bob and then rachel thanks um we've never done that before we um certainly have held open for sometimes we hold open boards when we have um the same number of applicants as seats sometimes we just think the applicant is just

[41:00] better than a can of peaches and we go ahead and point that person anyway so there's no rule on that i think there's some tradition of sometimes keeping open sometimes keeping it not this is a little different than that this is a situation where we need a woman to fell asleep because they're all guys on the board right now and we have a woman who is qualified to serve on the seat and i don't think i've ever seen my this is my seventh boarding commission process i don't think we've ever declined appointing a person because of their gender that's kind of a weird thing especially when that person has the gender that we need so i i stand by my nomination of lisa spaulding she's qualified she's actually served on the bla many many years ago i could talk about her qualities but but she also happens to be a woman and we need gender balance so i don't know why we would deny her when we have somebody who meets that qualification rachel it's fair point bob makes um you know i i do think we want to be consistent with what we're doing so i i

[42:00] appreciate bob that we haven't done this before and and definitely appreciate like it's a little bit um i mean i i think maybe we need to just go back and and re-look at our rules all together on what we're requiring in in seats but um yeah we are changing things this year i think for the first time so i don't know if looking back to what we've done historically is relevant when we i think we made a commitment as a council to hold open seats like i think we went both ways with it in two years i've been on like if there was not competition for a seat we did a point or we didn't but i thought that we were saying like in non-competitive seats going forward we're going to hold them open but i also just want to know how long are we holding seats open like it leaving people in limbo when they have and that applies not just to this seat but to others what what's our timeline looking like there do we have a timeline alicia do you know currently no sir we you have not council has not designated a time when the boards and

[43:00] commission applications should close at this point so i guess sorry no finance go ahead and finish up rachel well just one more i guess for like for all of these we're holding open and maybe this is just one where we just don't decide what to do with this board tonight and and come back to it overall and and and figure it out um in in a conversation with like we have these open seats or non-competitive seats i guess uh and and i don't think we want a terribly long timeline because that just doesn't seem fair to applicants who you know may be timing like i might be joining a board in in april like what they need to be able to plan so i'm i'm i'm happy to go kind of either way with this i think that we did change things this year so we should just be consistent however that shakes out um but but also make a decision and churchill before i go to the next council members can i just ask teresa or elisha if if there's any code like would be we be required to hold this open for longer by any code

[44:01] provisions or is this a discretionary decision mayor brockett teresa taylor tate city attorney the code does require gender diversity so that we have at least um that no board is comprised of all one gender that's the only requirement here there is not a requirement to have a competitive um process necessarily for a seat so you could you could appoint with only one applicant if that was the wish of counsel that's helpful all right uh nicole tara and mark and let's try to figure this out pretty quick i can i can be quick um what i'm thinking about right now are the folks who applied for other boards where there was only one applicant and we decided to not um kind of consider them and discuss them and think about them um right now and so to me this feels like a very analogous situation and if one of those folks who was one person applying to a board calls me tomorrow and says hey

[45:00] nicole what happened i'm not going to have an answer for them because i i just i to me those are very analogous situations um and i think we we need to decide when we already decided so for me this feels like just um extending the decision we made when we first talked about it um and uh and just holding i totally agree with rachel's point though i don't want to wait it's not cool as an applicant to have to wait for too long so i'd like to try to get this done quickly if no one else applies an x number of weeks then you know those those folks are appointed if they need the qualifications thanks chairman mark i do want to say for the other seat that i don't feel it's fair to michael or noah to have to wait i don't i'm hoping that we can do at least that seat no matter what we decide on the other one since they've been extremely patient and that would be that would be i don't think it would be fair to keep that open since we have two applicants i think we should go ahead

[46:00] with that scene do you have an opinion on the other seat um i'm gonna i'm gonna wait to hear from the rest of council and i'm more opinionated about the first thing yeah mark why could we not simply go through the applicants uh see where sentiment of council lies for two seats and uh lisa may or may not be among those two applicants um but if she's not um then we can hold that seat open she might well be on a competitive basis a selection of this council um in a three-way race is that creating an impediment that we let's see but mark we were not allowed to pick both of the men because that would make a board uh consisting only of men so well if we picked both of the men then we could simply hold the whole thing open until we had adequate diversity in applicants but it might not be necessary

[47:02] um if lisa would have been one of the top two candidates meg colloquy on that i i hear what you're saying mark and it makes it makes sense so i just i just want to say i follow it and you know we did i think somebody just said like we have two candidates for that like we actually have three candidates for two seats so i think that's correct we have a we have three candidates that it could be like it's almost like we're pre saying lisa's not going to get those seats which isn't at all fair to the candidate to say like she would only get the second seat so i i i hear you mark and i agree with it like this discussion is only relevant if she's not a top choice for either of those two seats could we proceed in that direction is there violating procedure in some way i i i guess i guess so i just uh and the second one i guess you're saying that uh we would consider the the the man who didn't get the first seat as well as lisa and

[48:01] if we selected the man then we say well but we can't do that and then we hold it open if we were otherwise if we would otherwise have selected the man and yes we would have to hold it open interesting okay uh bob yeah so i kind of lost the plot here because we do have a four-year term and a five-year term and i um i'm not sure that we can appoint a man to one of those terms without mis disrespecting the woman whoever that is would be appointed because i don't know how we could do that i mean if you want all the candidates to be nominated for a four five year term and a four-year term that's fine but i'm just commenting i guess on on tara's point of just appointing the man because i don't demand to what before your term or the five-year term i do find a little ironic we're having this discussion moments after nicole wrote that lovely decoration about women and women in positions of power and we have a qualified woman who would uh provide gender diversity so it's a little puzzling to me that we're grappling with this one but

[49:01] whatever the willow council is i've nominated lisa you all can vote or not vote as you wish all right well this is uh clear's mud um so i think our options are to proceed tonight or to hold the seat open i think is basically i don't know about vote or to hold the board seats open i don't know about um voting for a man that can't serve like that's i'm not sure that that's a path we can take um so i i guess i would what i would suggest would be a a straw poll for like a will of counsel about whether we want to hold one of these seats open um would people be comfortable with with weighing in on that question matt yes i guess to help maybe clarify action

[50:00] forward so i my proposal would be that we select one of these seats because we'll be handicapping the bla until we fill them anyway and being down two people i think on a on already a short board so i think we should go ahead and nominate since we've got two men for technically one seat because the other seat has to be reserved for for someone who's not a man so so i think we go ahead and nominate the one seat and then we uh by by the will decide whether to uh leave open or appoint lisa on the other but i think we bifurcate uh the one seat that we can appoint because we have the candidates to fill it and then we separate a separate discussion to decide whether to nominate and vote on uh uh lisa or or to leave that particular seat open with the very narrow requirements that it be specifically for gender gender diversity uh for this board and that way it can sort of narrow the scope on potential candidates versus opening both up then we're going to get more men more women and others coming in and then that sort of then kind of muddies the

[51:00] water again and maybe isn't fair to michael and noah who who meet that bob go ahead and then i'm going to yeah i'm going to disagree with matt because so so are we gonna give the guy a five year seat and leave the junior seat the four year seat for a woman that feels really really weird to me so i i think i find aaron with with having a vote about keeping it open or not keeping open but i think it's all or nothing i think it's keep both seats open or appoint both seats tonight i don't think we can say let's let's give the guy a five-year seat and leave that four-year seat for for some woman that doesn't feel very nice to me at all so i think it's all open or all closed not let's appoint the guy's seat tonight because i don't know which seats the guys see let's get to pick okay i got um rachel i wonder if theresa had any guidance for us on what we must do um you know and i guess i'm a little confused because i think we're in this position because um a woman resigned and so i assume this board is operating as an all

[52:01] male identifying board right now um and so does that mean that the yeah that the yeah i just would like teresa's input if possible i'm afraid i don't have any sage words for you at the moment i wish i wish i did um this is um this isn't contemplated under the boards and commissions portion of our code um and and so unfortunately i i think you know you are hashing out the potential options and and i don't have any legal basis to say that you have to proceed one way or another here's what i'm going to suggest i'm going to suggest that we we appoint we start by appointing to the five-year term which could be any of the three applicants and then we have then we have a seat filled if lisa wins that seat then we can proceed to the second seat and choose between the two men

[53:00] if a man wins the seat i will ask council very quickly to decide if we want to grant the second seat to lisa spalding or if we want to hold the board's uh recruiting open for a small number of weeks to see if another female applicant is available will would that work for folks okay so then let's let's start over again all right so uh lo if you can lower your hands let's take nominations for the five-year term considering all three candidates bob bob nominates lisa spalding for the five-year term thank you anyone else sarah i nominate michael carr for the five year term any others okay so let's let's vote uh we have michael carr and lisa spaulding we go in alphabetical order so votes for michael carr

[54:03] all right i've got junie rachel lauren matt tara nicole and myself i believe that's seven votes and for lisa spalding we got bob and mark okay so um clear vote we got michael carr for the five year term i i am now going to put on the table the um whether people would like to appoint lisa without uh just by acclimation or hold the board open for a few more weeks so all those in favor of moving forward with the appointment tonight and i've got three bob mark and tara and so folks who'd like to leave it open for a few weeks all right so i got the looks like the rest of us so that's majority decision there so we'll hold the the recruiting open for a few weeks

[55:01] i just wanted to say so lisa about lisa she's an extremely qualified candidate this is in no way a knock on her abilities um but we have i think nicole made a very good point earlier that other people were the only applicant for a seat and we are holding the recruiting period open and it would be hard to go back to them and say yeah we didn't just give it to you but we did just give this with one option to someone else for uh so we'll do this for a handful of weeks and then um if we get another applicant we'll consider them and if we don't then i think at that point we say thanks so much lisa and the suit sawyers are people who are alright with that okay thank you for working that through juni sorry i am making this comment right now right in the middle um i receive a message in a cauldron or meeting from len sego she mentioned that she during the public hearing or public comment period

[56:00] she tried to raise her hands but the rey's hand button wasn't working so she could not have she didn't have the opportunity to speak and i said okay i'll just relay that information to council um let's see i don't know that she signed up ahead of time i don't see her in the meeting elisha do we have any options for allowing lynn to testify at this point yes sir at the willow council i can send ms siegel the link now if you want to consider her testimony but again no one signed up for the public hearing in advance and she is not currently in the meeting okay rachel well just i think if we're gonna open up the meeting to people who didn't sign up in advance we'd need to somehow telegraph that to anybody else who might want to also speak and so well i would love to give lynn the opportunity to speak to this if we had a process in place i don't think we can

[57:00] i i'm just leery of breaking it in the middle of a meeting and other people won't have that opportunity i think that's a fair point so i would go in that direction personally if that's all right with folks we had a previous sign up period that has passed but thank you for bringing it to our attention journey okay now let's see we we can get more on a smooth path here moving on to the next board cannabis licensing advisory board we're appointing a person to a five-year term for seat number two all four candidates are eligible i've got rachel um i would like to nominate brian keegan yeah uh that's who i was going to nominate so rachel beat me to the punch any other nominations seeing none that looks like brian keegan gets it by acclimation

[58:12] okay downtown management commission we have two people that are eligible for seat number two and no one who is eligible for seat number three so we're going to take nominations for seat number two lauren i'd like to nominate justin thank you any other nominations seeing none looks like justin calvin gets this one okay this is where i recuse myself so rachel let me take over love to um and and uh please staff do feel free to remind me to text aaron when we're done so i don't get power hungry here and continue um has aaron

[59:02] left don't see anybody see aaron i think he he said goodbye and took off yes the mayor has excused himself all right thanks okay so we're on environmental advisory board we have a two seats one's um seat number two resident for a five year term through 2020 through march 2027 second seat five um unexpired partial three-year term through 2025. so we'll start with the five-year seat um can i see hands for who would like to make a nomination matt i'd like to nominate jimmy howe all right lauren oh can i pause here um alicia this elisha did i need to do order at this point or is that just when we get to a vote because i supposed to have a coin flipping that's when we get to the vote once the nominations are set thank you

[60:01] you're welcome you've got my minor responsibility here already okay lauren who would you like to nominate um i'd like to nominate duncan gilchrist okay mark wallach nomination yes i'd like to nominate kathleen hancock and i'll take the liberty of saying she's got an extraordinary background in the field she's been working in energy equity programs and i think she'd make a fine addition to the board thanks nicole i would like to nominate amanda um and i also just want to take the opportunity um just to comment only how excited i am that there are so many young folks who have applied to our boards this time around um and i think amanda was one of ours for me thanks juni

[61:00] oh my goodness um we have so many great candidates i feel like i want to nominate two people because of the great application and interviews i think at this time i would like to nominate brooke brockett that's great do you just want to do the one nomination can i do two is that even well i don't i you know i'm i'm not really the boss here but i i bet you could i was gonna nominate brooke anyhow so if you for that reason you can have two regardless i think so go ahead i'd like to nominate graham hill as well thank you okay um tara you're i want to first say that there was so many great candidates it's really hard to pick but i'm going to throw chloe constant in there as a nomination

[62:00] thank you nicole did you have another nomination that was going to be chloe sorry i didn't realize we could do two at the same time so thank you tara uh bob i don't have an additional nominee these are great nominees but i was like a process suggestion let's if if the nominations are closed let's vote on these for the five year term and then without don't don't highlight their names and then whoever doesn't get appointed to the five-year term let's consider the remaining uh highlighted people for the three-year term obviously we can reopen nominations briefly if anyone wants to add a name for the three-year term but i would just suggest for sake of speed we can we can probably vote on these one one right after the other great um okay so that makes sense to me um and any objections to bob's suggestion we'll leave these nominations up for round two great okay elisha are we are we at a coin flip moment here no we are at the reverse alphabetical so

[63:01] we will start with mr ho okay so um show of hands um for votes for mr ho i see lauren and matt okay um graham hill show of hands junie kathleen hancock mark wallach one amanda agroziak tara and nicole that's two uh i i'm gonna go ahead and vote for amanda as well so i will make that three um duncan gilchrist i see i don't see any hands for duncan chloe constant so bob and mark

[64:01] and that's is that both of your first votes for this round i'm just making sure no no i'm sorry that was my second vote so i think we can i unless i'm doing it wrong i think we can only vote for one yeah that is correct only one the first go round eric that's a that's a violation i don't know if you have to turn your camera off or like i get to ref this um okay so i believe that was one vote and that was for chloe um and last uh brook rocket one vote um junior and this is your one vote for this round not a second vote right well we only get to vote once this round this would that be a set we only have a total of nine votes so far so yeah but but mayor bracket's missing so we should only have eight you should only have eight right that would be a second vote for juni okay juni so do you want to i put my vote for brooke for this round

[65:01] okay who had you voted for graham hill all right okay okay so elisha where does this leave us with uh one one three one two all right jimmy hole has a total of two votes and amanda has a total of three votes so those are your two highest voted candidates great so now we will revoke on those two amanda and jimmy so do do i do am i sticking with jimmy first or is it now amanda first no we'll go with jimmy we're still on the same board great um please raise your hand for jimmy as your first five-seat round vote jimmy i see lauren and matt uh show of hands for amanda roziak i see tara bob myself

[66:01] and nicole and i think that's all we'll be voting for in this round is that right alicia so felicia i think if you didn't vote for for this if you'd like to go back and vote if there's any confusion here which i will take full blame for if there is like how did i get up for this one um hearts looked very easy um okay so how many votes did we get total for that round six four and two yes and we're only voting for amanda and jimmy right because that's yes they got the two they were the two top vote getters in the last round yes we just narrowed our votes to them for this round so um would anybody who didn't vote like to vote for let's just re-vote again now that we all understand um votes again for jimmy howe sorry i know it's a lot of hand-raising i see lauren and matt for jimmy votes for amanda

[67:01] i see myself tara nicole mark bob and judy junior i'm counting you for amanda yes great okay so we have amanda in the seat number two all right all right she's going over to the red um so now we're going to vote on the remaining candidates for um the second seat for the three-year term the people who are in highlight i'm starting again at the bottom i believe with uh jimmy howe so um would you like to everybody will get one vote for this round of applicants with one two three four five six applicants left so who would like to vote for jimmy oh teresa am i goofing it up uh mayor pro tem friend i wonder if you would like to briefly reopen nominations i sure would are there any additional nominations before we vote for the second candidate applicant seeing none thank you

[68:01] theresa um we will now uh start again are there who would like to vote for jimmy howe in round two for seat five i see matt and lauren graham hill juni um kathleen hancock see tara bob and mark um duncan gilchrist i do not see any votes um chloe constant okay and brooke brockett i see myself and nicole okay so um now we will vote i think on brooke kathleen and jimmy does that sound right elisha brooke kathleen and jimmy that is

[69:00] correct or you can vote on your two highest which is kathleen and brooke i think jimmy also got two i think we have a chance that's true you were right thank you okay yes um so uh we will start again with um votes for jimmy howe for the seat number five i'm not seeing any hands lauren okay um kathleen hancock i see tara bob and mark so that's three and then brook brockett i see myself nicole juni and matt so that is four and i believe that's that concludes this vote then with brooke getting the second seat teresa is kindly nodding junior did you have a question did i miss count your vote no i do have a question

[70:00] can someone oh no sorry so that's not concluding we i guess we need to do one more right because that's we could have a yeah although with a with us being down a council member four is still not that's exactly what i was thinking yeah okay right okay uh but so we take jimmy out then is that right elisha that is correct and we go with kathleen and brooke great okay um a show of hands uh round 27 would you like to vote for kathleen hancock for the seat number five for eab i see three hands tara bob and mark i appreciate the consistency um a show of hands for brook brockett for eabc5 i see myself nicole lauren matt and junie one two three four five we are calling it done and i'm calling the mayor back in congratulations to the new eab appointees amanda and brooke

[71:00] you did a fabulous job man protein rachel may i say something until aaron pops back in i'm on mute because i'm calling aaron but yes you hear me i just texted him rachel awesome well thank you so it was said earlier and i just bears repeating uh this is a bounty of riches and i think the the smirks on some of our faces are just that we're debating over a lot of really good candidates and and so i just want to recognize that and this won't be the end there's a lot of really good candidates throughout our our boards and commission nominations so uh this might play out similarly a few times later tonight but uh just credit to all the candidates it was just about it's been a bounty of riches and so uh just just happy to go through that lengthy process to arrive but uh we're in good hands nicole i'm i'm turning it back over to aaron but um

[72:00] maybe i just need to make a comment and i may get a little bit emotional because for those of us in the lgbt community this is a big deal and i just wanted to recognize that especially on international women's day that we just appointed the very first transgender person um in boulder's history to one of our boards and commissions and i just want to know that moment thank you thanks for that nicole yep giving me chills and and i don't did we scare aaron away because we were still talking about this there he is uh yes yes you did i was trying to come in after all of it but um all right well just clear up a little bit so um okay moving on um uh boulder housing authority all right we've got three

[73:00] five-year seats here we have six people who are qualified to serve in those three seats so can we take nominations rachel um i'll nominate jill grano bob i'll nominate julie schoenfeld mark i'm going to nominate bob walker [Music] matt i'm gonna nominate uh mary faltinsky all right any other nominations okay where are we in terms of alphabetical reverse alphabetical we are on alphabetical sir okay um votes for mary foltinski let's see i got lauren and matt and jeannie

[74:02] uh jill grano we got mark tara aaron rachel jooney okay so that's we got five of course we get two more cracks here but i just want to check julie schoenfeld uh tara and nicole and that's that's erin in the in the last round we had hold on i think this is another one where we're just voting once on this round right correct so vote once on this round for the first seat and you get to vote for we're going to nominate three people here folks so you get to vote for multiple people over there start all over again can you start all over again let's start all over again okay this is round one vote for only one person okay mary feltinsky uh

[75:00] matt and lauren that's two jill grano all right got rachel genie aaron okay three julie schoenfeld bob nicole and mark and bob walker tara so we got one uh oh okay so that means that i believe bob walker drops off i was definitely going to vote for him on a subsequent round but that's the way the rules work so um uh aaron i i should uh state that we did amend the rules a bit for the last round i would say and we just left everybody who was highlighted in the running for for the the second and third for the second c yeah thanks for clarifying that rachel right because this is we're leaving him off for the first seat

[76:01] but we can still vote for him on the subsequent seat so i have i i have my opportunity to vote for my subs program great so for this first seat only we've still got mary jill and julie in the running so let's go reverse alphabetical for this vote i believe so julie schoenfeld uh we've got mark nicole lauren and bob junior you're right i'm just wondering um why are we voting on mary as well when she only got two i thought it would be between julie and jill i believe we drop off the lowest vote getter only alicia correct me if i'm wrong about that i think that is not correct i think we have to vote on the two highest because they did have the highest number of votes so and we also i'm just gonna

[77:00] and pardon me if i'm getting this wrong but from the guidelines that i i was sent it says if the first round of voting does not produce a clear winner the candidate with the fewest votes will drop from the nominee list and the vote will be conducted again okay and it says this continues until the single nominee remains okay okay great so i think i got that so i think we're just dropping the lowest vote getter off and then we'll continue from there okay so julie schoenfeld got four uh jill grano okay we got tara aaron rachel juni and matt so that's five so looks like the first seat goes to jill okay so now taking nominations for the second seat i mean do we want to just leave the same

[78:00] three candidates up and just keep voting is that all right with folks um i i was i think encouraged by teresa to open nominations for legal purposes again ah okay great so nominations i was just wondering i know this was a little bit um out of order but i forgot that with our nominations we had a chance to say a couple words about the person we nominated um and i know bob nominated julie but i was wondering if i might say a couple words about her go for it okay so one of the things that has really impressed me about julie and her service is the degree to what she has really pushed for racial equity and equity in general um the way that um she has kind of leaned on boulder housing partners to to do equity training for example for the foundation to uh do uh to appoint residents to the board um

[79:00] i think you know she's got she worked on a racial equity plan um for you know me this is somebody who has just been a consistent voice for uh equity and um i just i greatly appreciate that about julian honestly her conversational spanish is much better than mine and you know i i also appreciate that she's working so hard to make herself a better service person to groups in our community that often don't have representation thanks for that nicole did you want to make a nomination as well no i was just hoping i could use the time because i forgot to i forgot that i had the opportunity to speak earlier right mark first of all i want to say a couple words in support of what nicole has said i have worked with julie on the board of bhp and she is an excellent excellent member of that that organization however for this round i'm also going to make a nomination

[80:00] um for bob walker who is an affordable housing developer and probably knows more about affordable housing than anyone in this city other than perhaps the executive director of bhp himself um he is extraordinarily knowledgeable about the subject um probably has forgotten more than than most of us know about the field so i do recommend him for one of the remaining seats along with julie but this is my formal recommendation for bob thank you and should we clear the yellow because does yellow mean the people nominated in this round what how are we tracking who's nominated in this round i believe last time we left the folks that had been previously nominated up and offered that if anybody wanted to make additional nominations we would highlight them as well okay so in other words we don't need to re-nominate the people already we're just asking for additional nominations

[81:00] i misunderstood okay great so in other words then we've still got mary julian james or bob under consideration for this round so now the question i'm asking is does anyone want to add someone to that list of three nominations tara i don't but i do want to say one thing if that's okay mayor that um can somebody tell me now how many um what is our uh how many men versus women we have or how does the genders look so we can be relatively um fair i'm just curious about that i actually happen to know this one often somebody can come up correct me if i'm getting this wrong other than these three seats i believe it is mark plus um three women and two men great i don't know if you're getting it wrong i'll check and so um

[82:01] yeah so that's where we are matt you comment yeah i think since we were sort of going back filling some of our comments on on our nominations i i did want to make a a comment with regards to mary you know one of the things that we pride ourselves on is having difference of perspective and what what is missing from from bhp is a perspective from someone who works intimately and in many ways serves many of the marginalized and lower income people that bhp's mission is driven by and and and the medical work as a nurse that mary does is exactly that and so having anot another window into the very residence that bhp serves i think is really valuable especially when we think about the resident's needs rather than just building the housing itself but how to meet the needs where they are with the residents and i think that perspective is something that's not quite there um and and she would really bring that and elevate that on this board

[83:03] okay and i'll just add a comment here that i want to agree with all the sentiments that is said about the three people remaining and i wish we had four seats to appoint two tonight instead of three uh we're very very well served here and i just want to say one more thing i'm sorry i love the people that are running for this board so much that this pains me to know and you know who you are that we have to just pick two more i wish there were three more so badly for sure okay so seeing no additional nominations i think we're ready to vote for the second seat let's see and alicia's saying there's three females and four males but some of those that includes that includes the current members julie and james there you go thank you okay uh and you should remind me are we alphabetically reverse at this point now i was going with the same order for

[84:00] each board that we started with now do we need to change it up with each vote i don't need to i'm happy to do the same order for the whole board so that's what we did last time we are on alpha alphabetical okay um mary foltinsky we got rachel genie matt uh julie schoenfeld bob lauren mark nicole and tara so that's five and then i'm the the bob walker vote over here uh and so julie gets the second seat all right so now we've got mary voltinski and bob walker uh up and does anyone make want to make any additional nominations for this third seed

[85:00] and terry you've got your hand up okay seeing no additional nominations uh we'll go in alphabetical order i believe again so um mary feltinski we got nicole lauren rachel junie nicole lauren rachel genie so4 and bob walker all right sarah aaron mark matt bob that's five i that was tough i do wish we could have had all four okay so that gives uh the three seats go to jill grano julie schoenfeld and bob walker and thanks to everyone who applied all right housing advisory board we've got two seats both five-year terms

[86:02] and seven people who are qualified uh except nominations nicole i would love to nominate julianne ramsey i think i mentioned earlier how thrilled i was that we've had so many younger folks applying to our boards and i think julianne is another one of those um who's given a lot to our community and i'm very very uh ear for um just you know for folks to have more opportunities to serve here so but um again i think this is the board where we have a wealth of riches bob i'd like to nominate richard also known as dick harris um dick had served for many years on the board we just appointed to boulder housing partners and before that he served on the board of thistle he probably knows as much about housing and it's just about anybody in town junie thank you i was going to nominate dick assault we actually served on boulder

[87:02] housing partner together he's such a well-balanced person i'd like to nominate matt applebaum what rachel rachel you meet it thanks um jimmy how is my nominee please lauren and i'd like to nominate philip ogren all right a lot of nominations here all right some great applicants um okay so seeing no more nominations we will go in reverse alphabetical here so let's start with julian ramsey

[88:00] we got nicole aaron matt lauren and rachel okay that's five but let's just continue here quickly um phillip ogren uh jimmy howe not seen any uh dicaras bob and matt applebaum tara and jenny um it's hang on i i don't think my vote was recorded for it for dick harris okay sorry about that so that's two for ridiculous okay very good so that's this one goes to julian ramsey all right so then we have for the second seat we have nominated matt applebaum dick harris jimmy howe and philip ogren would anyone like to make any additional nominations

[89:02] okay seeing none let's go ahead and vote again from the bottom of phil bogren yeah uh aaron matt and lauren jimmy howe nicole rachel too jake harris bob and mark two and matt applebaum genie and tara that's two okay well i think by the technique hold on hold on hold on hold on i was gonna vote for richard harris there i'm sorry okay i raised my hand a little late you missed okay okay so that's that's three for decarous and one for matt applebaum and i think

[90:00] excuse me that looks like ten votes three four five six seven eight nine ten we take one off there we got nine nine votes okay so that i think that has matt apple bomb falling off uh thank you matt for your application your service um so let's i think that's we'll start over again with dick harris jimmy howe and phillip ogren okay phillip ogre we got three we got aaron lauren and matt here jimmy howe nicole and rachel take cares tara mark junior and bob so that's four

[91:00] okay so that means jimmy howe's lowspecgator with two falls off it's like a long process here okay so last round head to head dick harris phil pogren we'll start with philip beaugren okay we got aaron nicole lauren matt rachel it looks like we got five there and then dick harris just you want to just raise your hands i assume we've got four uh tarantulas there you go what's happening so that was tara mark juni and bob so that seat goes to philip o'green and i just want to thank everyone who applied here we again we had a real wealth of issue of applicants and i just want to call out there's some folks matt applebaum and richard collins and dick harris have all been in service in our

[92:00] community for for many years i just want to recognize them in particular for many many years of service i any of them or the applicants could have done a fantastic job but you know sometimes it's time to give some new folks a try in the shop all right human relations commission we got two seats a five-year term and a one-year term we have six candidates who are all eligible so we're going to start with a five-year term and i've got nicole it is my honor to nominate carlos feldes for this seat um carlos says uh um just since i will forget to say a few words otherwise um i appreciate that carlos is a worker um in our community uh i appreciate that he requested for the interview to be done in spanish and i just i appreciate his leadership

[93:02] within our community and i think he would be a wonderful uh person on the human relations commission thanks matt uh nicole still couldn't have done a better nomination for carlos which i totally agree with but but i'd like to move to my second which would be uh thicker i just absolutely loved uh the interview she brought and i think her perspective is going to be fantastic having just graduated at cu and her current where she currently works and just that perspective i think is going to be very valuable for hrc so i hope she gets a good shot and uh lauren and i'd like to nominate selassie i think um you know just how involved he is with so many different organizations in our community and um the focus that he put on programming and and activities

[94:01] specifically targeted towards our underserved sections of our community i think is something that i've heard a lot of desire for in our community thanks any others all right seeing none i'd like to i second lauren and i said matt and nicole as well we had so many great candidates i just also would like to nominate graham hill because of his work in the community he worked closely with a lot of these community members as well great and um i'll just i'll echo the the great words people said about other people and then um while i'm not nominating her i just want to recognize liz morasco's deep work in the community for for racial equity uh so thanks to her for everything that she's done she should also do a phenomenal job okay um so i think we're

[95:01] alphabetical this time that is correct sir all right let's start with uh selassie atiyasi apologies if i get names mispronounced um hands yeah lauren and juni since two uh graham hill not seeing any carlos valdes all right we got aaron nicole rachel bob matt so that's five and then fakir jacob tara engine uh jenny i think you already voted terran mark so two okay carlos wins that seat and i'll just note the historic nature of his first ever interview in spanish and

[96:00] and really applaud him for applying and excited to be putting him to the board okay um so now we have uh for the second seat this is one year term we have nominated chiassi uh graham hill and jacob does anyone want to add any nominations to those three and junior hand others seeing no additional nominations then i think we go into voting here so salasi atiyasu and i'm the only one looks like one uh graham hill uh juni for one kiriaka all right tara nicole lauren matt rachel bob congratulations for cure very exciting all right

[97:09] landmarks forward one five year seat two applicants both qualified take nominations i feel like i'm kind of running an auction here this is this chelsea chelsea do i hear america do i hear my room okay uh lauren well i there was pans were going up slowly so i was going to try and nominate both of them i just can't they're both so qualified for the seat um i'm going to nominate chelsea i think her background in rehabilitating structures to make them more sustainable um really aligns with our city's goals uh that chelsea was gonna be my nominee so uh i'll be done with that

[98:00] bob i'll nominate myron um gutman and as lauren said just really well qualified also history professor trained in archival research that we need for landmarking he renovated and preserved two historic houses in the woodyear and i thought he has answers about the balance between his direct preservation environmental responsibility we're outstanding thanks for that okay uh reverse alphabetical yes sir so myron goodman okay bob tara mark chelsea castellano all right that's aaron nicole lauren matt rachel juni six so chelsea gets the spot thanks congratulations chelsea and i agree myron was also very qualified

[99:02] library commission so i believe we appointed michael carr let's see all right so we got one one five-year seat we got two people uh so um rachel uh i was going to nominate sylvia wierba okay match yeah uh yes second second rachel everyone's gone the same track here more or less so thanks for that rachel tara i have a question am i on mute no good so if sylvia is really the only candidate right because michael carr already got um appointed to beverage licensing am i wrong that's correct yeah all correct yes what are we going to do about our only one choice candidate here similar to

[100:00] i loved sylvia don't get me wrong but i just want to make sure that everything is fair as all i i'll just add in a quick comment i i would see consistency would have us keeping this open would be my thought um nicole and rachel yeah i'm just going to echo that yes and again i hope that we can do this quickly right that we're not waiting for a month or two right like rachel yeah well i got i mean i raised my hand and then somebody said you know michael got appointed and that's why i said i was gonna nominate sylvia because i got confused about like would we be appointing if there's only one so i would agree that this is not um i think consistency requires us to hold this open too so uh i'll just ask if anyone objects to us also opening this holding this board open for a few weeks to see if we get an additional candidate who um would be qualified for the board man so i so i don't object i just i just to put it out there i just want to just for sylvia like she knocked this out of the park she did great um but i do want for consistency

[101:02] we do need to move forward but i want to make sure she's acknowledged for having a tremendous candidate and a phenomenal interview i'll second that i mean as i said before with lisa spaulding um you know sylvia is eminently qualified and had a fantastic interview and this is in no way saying that she's not suitable for the board but just that we're looking to make sure that we have at least two candidates for every seat at least for a while at least do our best for a while to get to that point all right okay open space board of trustees we've got one seat available it's a five year term and we have nine people let's see we got to get tara out of here tara did you already leave that looks like a yes okay all right tara's recused on this one we have nine qualified applicants

[102:02] um so i think we can dive in and start taking nominations matt i'd like to nominate john carroll for this role and and just to say a few words um john is an incredibly mild-mannered even keeled person i would look at him as very much a steady rudder um never gets too high never gets too low and you know he brings welcomed needed diversity to this board the fact that he got married on open space is is a great plus and and i think the other part is you know in his application he didn't shy away from bringing up the elephant in the room which is cu south and i think that's an acknowledgement of exactly the issues that we have and not shying away from that and really conveyed a clear equity lens in talking about marginalized communities regarding access and also you know leaning into the discussion discussions we have about fort chambers so he just has a very clear

[103:01] understanding of the issues facing open space um and i think would just be an absolutely tremendous candidate uh for this board uh and and i i highly recommend thanks mark yeah i'm going to nominate hal holstein um i've known him for a while worked with him uh i think he is excellent at what he does um it is very customary when somebody fills a short term to grant that person a full term and he in fact has served as the uh the chair of osbt and i'm not sure there's a very compelling reason not to allow him to continue in that role thanks lauren i'd like to nominate bridger tomlin i think that their experience um with so many areas different types of open space around our community was just fantastic

[104:02] good any other nominations it's not seeing any so i think you know alicia if we skip a board then i think we just go back to alphabetical that is correct sir great okay um votes for john carroll let's see i've got aaron nicole matt rachel bob all right so that's five uh hal halstein just finished this out yeah mark and richard tomlin so you got lauren and julie i didn't i didn't see a hand from you yes my vote is for john carroll okay so that's six there uh and then one each for hal hall's team richard tomlin okay so john carroll gets that seat i

[105:01] just wanted to say note of uh thanks to hal holstein for his service he's done an able job on the board these last few years and um really appreciate the work that he's put in i think each each seat gets looked at anew but this is no comment on the quality of the work he's done which has been very high planning board all right let me get tara back here just hold off for a second while we get tara back in the room i'm here all right we've got tara back and we've got a number of hands raised mark i don't know i'm sorry i should

[106:00] have lowered my hold hand bob i'd like to nominate mary cooper ellis i'll save my words now um mary serves on the uni hill executive committee she has a reputation for objectivity and fairness she has a master's degree in both urban planning and architectural landscaping and um i think one of the things that playing board is great is they are suffered from is we've lost all of our professionals we don't have any architects or design professionals or even real estate lawyers on this board and we used to have lots of them and so i think that mary brings that as a matter of fact she used to serve on the equivalent of the planning board in crested butte so she's already got a reputation for community service and she is unshakably calm and collected so i think she'd be a great addition to our leading board thanks nicole i would love to nominate laura kaplan to this board laura has served our community exceptionally well as part of the east boulder uh sub-community planning group um i think that her skills as a mediator i mean this is kind

[107:00] of literally what she does um with her with her time during the day is um you know working with groups of people helping to build consensus um trying to get to the heart of issues and you know really moving communities forward on their goals and i think these are exactly the qualities that uh our city could benefit from right now thanks tara oh may i oh yeah yeah so one more thing um this is not a nomination um and because this particular person is going to be studying abroad this next year and noted that they would not have reliable internet uh connectivity um but i did want to note and thank ariana proctor for applying um i i just um invest at cu is one of my um favorite programs in terms of turning out highly qualified community leaders and so i really see ariana as being an up and coming uh leader in our community i think that um she would

[108:00] bring all kinds of perspectives that this board has never had before um and i i just would really love to encourage ariana please when you when you return to boulder please consider applying again um because i was just absolutely thrilled by your application in your interview you are another one of those young rising stars in our community and i would just really love to see an application again when the timing fits with ariana's study schedule thanks lauren i'd like to nominate ml um you know as was mentioned by bob i think i was really excited to see architects applying i think um ml her focus also um on you know alternative and smaller kinds of housing i think really aligns well with our work plan and what we have laid

[109:00] out ahead of us it's rachel i would love to nominate mark mcintyre um he's he's got a breadth of experience and expertise that i won't go into but i think that we have struggled um over my years on council to to really build in um and just create a framework for ensuring that our planning decisions have transportation um community members eyes on them so mark will just like build that into tab um and i think it's also important as you know whoever we appoint to the five year seats this time we'll we'll participate in the in the comp plan discussions and and i think it's important that we have um voices who are sort of interconnecting our issues and um and who who are um able to to kind of work through those hard discussions with with strong voices so um i think mark would be good at those two things

[110:00] thanks bob you got a hand up well i was going to nominate another person kurt nerd back but if somebody else i don't want to hog up the nominations already nominated one i just see junie's hand just his hand went down well if no one's going to nominate kurt nor back okay please please anybody who hasn't nominated me i nominate kurt nordback he's awesome very good all right um i can say i can say more than uh the two words for tim from tara on kurt um um no yeah i mean kurt has been uh very active in our community for a lot of years and in many ways outside of maybe some of our planning staff he could probably recite title ix uh back to us and so you know i just think kurt brings a ton of knowledge and and similar to mark does bring some crossover um understanding of the transportation needs and really trying to bridge that gap and then so until we more formalize like rachel said more of a greater integration between transportation and

[111:01] planning having two people that come at it from that point of view i think is going to be very very useful and very handy for us going forward in the next few years thank you all right rachel is that an old hand okay my only challenge is only having three votes wait wait wait i want to say one more thing more than two words thanks matt for that he is so dedicated to this community kurt is and um he is also dedicated to the planning board i know that he goes on a regular basis to i guess most or all of the meetings and um that is dedication yes yes yeah my as i say my only problem here is only having three three people to only being able to approach three people this is a challenge great great folks here um okay i think we're reverse alphabetical so for the first five year term let's start with ml robles

[112:02] okay nuts see we got one from mark uh kurt norback we got tara and jimmy um mark mcintyre not seeing any hands here laura kaplan all right we got nicole aaron lauren matt rachel bob so that's six and and i think everybody's already voted so i don't think there's anybody left who might vote for mary ellis so first seat goes to lower capital okay so now we have four people nominated for the next five year term mary mark kurt and ml does anyone want to add any additional nominations

[113:02] okay see none uh let's go for start over again with ml robles mayor i i saw council member spears hand up oh sorry i didn't see him and i'm sorry aaron i was just wondering um if this is an opportunity where rather than nominating i could make a comment about somebody that i did not nominate the first time is that appropriate or not okay i just wanted to say um that i uh i'm not going to echo the comments about ml being a practitioner i just also wanted to note that ml is one of our few kind of bicultural bilingual applicants to boards and i i just greatly appreciate the perspective that folks can bring when they're fluent in another language especially one that's spoken by a large group in our community um so that that's my comment any other comments before we get into the voting

[114:00] all right so from the bottom ml robles all right we got nicole aaron mark lauren rachel that is five uh let's finish it out uh kirk morback uh tara it's one mark mcintyre uh genie and matt and then mary ellis that's fun okay but ml crossed the five line so ml gets the other five-year term okay so we have still mary ellis mark mcintyre and kurt nordbach um for this last two year term does anyone want to make any nominations or offer any additional comments okay that's our last one um let's go

[115:01] with uh kurt nordbach so we got bob genie and tara and mark mcintyre yeah aaron nicole lauren matt rachel and mary alice uh mark that gets us to nine so uh mark mcintyre gets the two-year term like with five votes rachel did you want to offer comment i did um congratulations to those who were elected this was a really um i think a lot of us liked a lot of these people and and especially sort of um you know the yeah anyways i wanted to suggest specifically um for for people who were not appointed that that we do have openings on like bozo which has which which requires some some expertise and knowledge and it would be great if you all considered

[116:01] um applying to that board and and i really appreciate it and this was just hard so thanks and design advisory board sorry more more relevantly perhaps even design and any others that are relevant but that one stood out and then sorry sorry to forget about dab you're bored lauren's board uh bob i'm gonna make a suggestion which is probably a little premature but since mark mcintyre still has a year left on tab and presumably would be resigning from that as we've pointed to planning board and since we have such wonderful candidates as we'll see in a few minutes on tab i'd like to suggest that we at least provisionally subject to mark's resignation appoint a additional person to tab that way since we have great applications um applicants i believe we'll see in a second um that we fill all those spots including mark's spot great point bob let's uh just nail that down once we get to tab a great point and um i'll just echo that this was this is really tough one where i would have loved to appoint more people and echo

[117:01] rachel's encouragement of uh applying to uh one of the other boards that's still open because we could certainly use your expertise in other areas okay here's the next one parks and rec right tara i'm afraid you got to go away again all right so we've got uh two terms here we got a five year term and a three year term we've got lots of qualified applicants we've got 12 people here um and we will start with the five year term uh rachel well um i believe that is an old hand but i will go ahead and it would be my honor to nominate anita spears you um like mice to be my honor to nominate sonny vanderstarr nicole

[118:00] um thank you i um while i'm looking this up in my spreadsheet i just want to add a note about anita i just um i i really uh she would have been my my nomination if rachel didn't beat me to it and i just greatly appreciate the diverse experiences that she would bring to parks and rec advisory board as well as just her her wonderful application and interview which i appreciate it very much i would like to nominate neil henderson i greatly appreciated sort of his uh talk about practitioner right practitioner in sort of the recreation center world as being a fitness instructor i thought that was a really unique perspective um so thank you thanks okay any other nominations bob uh well i'm going to defer to lauren since she has nominated me yet lauren i was going to nominate carrie tanner i

[119:02] think her experience creating boards and commissions um works with park and rec you know that's just so much relevant experience there that was my nominee thank you lauren mark i'm going to nominate tom souvenir good all right i'm not seeing any of the any other hands another case of an embarrassment of riches here so i believe we are alphabetical this time so let's get started with neil henderson all right not seeing any votes tom's souvenir mark for one uh anita anita spears that's aaron nicole lauren matt rachel so that's five

[120:00] carrie tanner not seeing any and uh sunny vanderstar bob i think i didn't get a vote from somebody maybe junie did you record a vote are you up for sunny all right sorry okay got it so two percent all right well we had anita across the five lines so anita spears gets the five-year term congratulations anita and now we will do the three-year term we've got neil henderson tom souvenir carrie tanner and sonny vanderstarr nominated does anyone want to add any additional nominations to that list not seeing any so we can start in on the voting neil henderson uh i got nicole for one tom souvenir mark for one

[121:02] carrie tanner we got aaron for one and sunnyvanderstar all right we got lauren matt rachel bob juni so that's five that gives sonny the three-year term congratulations sonny okay another case where it would have been great to have a few more positions all right transportation advisory board so there's one five-year seat open but there's also someone who looks like they will be getting moving over to planning board so teresa do you want to advise us on what to do here yes uh thank you mayor while efficiency would would counsel to a point for what we know as an upcoming

[122:01] vacancy we don't currently have a vacancy so we can only appoint for the vacancies that we have thank you for clarifying that so i guess we will be appointing to one seat tonight and then what um i would say is um you know we can open this board well we'll see i mean the one when i think we'll look to our boards and commissions subcommittee for a recommendation here that uh when and if uh mark resigns from the board and creates an opening on how to proceed whether we just take the many other applications that we had or add additional to them i'll look to that subcommittee for recommendation when the time comes uh mark yeah i just wanted to ask a question of teresa you're saying it's not possible to we're not appointing somebody if we if we try to fill a mark mcintyre's thing can we not take the will of counsel as to where we would be if in fact that seat opens

[123:02] it's not a formal it's not official and we can confirm it on consent presumably if and when it becomes official i was going to second that because it seems very similar to what we're doing actually tonight sure members of council um certainly you could express your will here um you you could um perhaps even go so far as to say who you would nominate if you had a second nomination um however come the 15th when you will actually be making the appointment you'll want to appoint for the currently vacant seats okay okay that's fair so i i might suggest that we do a straw poll for the second nomination it would not go on the consent on the 15th along with the other ones but would be that we could potentially use when that vacancy became open if it did i i would note just one other point if

[124:01] you if you don't mind mayor um that the vacancy will be different in kind in that it won't be a full five-year term and so certainly i wonder about whether there might be additional applicants if there was a different term i thought makes sense matt i guess my question is even if we said here's our preference if mark were to like like submit his letter of resignation tomorrow that seat would effectively open up and so wouldn't that then just allow us to roll in for consent on next week that's a question for me yes i think so yeah um you know my concern here is that we didn't open up nominations for that specific seat or rather we didn't open up vacancies for that specific seat and so it's certainly possible that there are community members who are interested

[125:02] um in a truncated term and they've not yet had the opportunity to apply okay that's our point bob i'm going to respectfully disagree with our lawyer which is dangerous um because um people don't apply for a particular seat they don't apply for a five year seat or a one year seat so no one knew what term that they were getting and that we've seen that throughout the evening and so i don't think that there would be someone to say well gosh darn i would have applied to tab now i'm going to it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me and we're not voting tonight we're voting week for not going to guest and mark would be happy to submit a resignation tomorrow and the position will be open by the time the consent agenda comes next next week i'd like to do a straw poll tonight for mark's position position mark yeah i you know somebody called up mark right now he'd probably resign on the spot um and you know further to what matt was saying i i

[126:00] you know it's just trying to minimize the the process a little bit um and getting an indication of where we're going to go with his seat when it becomes um available sometime between 10 minutes from now and tomorrow at 10 o'clock um he's obviously going to take the planning position so i i would vote for a um a smoother process okay should we ask him to call in just kidding well actually he is texting and saying can i be of help and send in my resignation right now and would that be helpful teresa so mark mcintyre if you're still watching please please resign that would certainly address some of the issue i think our city clerk also has something to add to the conversation um but before before she does you know i'll say obviously i advise that you all decide and you know i respect the will of counsel and then i had one more thing but i'll

[127:00] wait for alicia okay alicia thank you council i just wanted to note that mr mcintyre's term or whoever you appoint to mr mcintyre's term if in case he does resign would only be until march 31st 2023 so it would be a one-year term yes just wanted to make sure you knew that thanks for clarifying the alicia so i i sorry i would suggest that we go ahead and straw straw poll for both the five year and the one year term and assuming mark's official resignation comes through before next week to just go ahead and do this because we do have a great deal of applicants who are quite qualified um so and i thought bob made a good point about people applying to a seed rather than a term most likely rachel did you want to add to that well just it seems like sometimes in the past we've had you know openings and we've just said like let's just go back to the people who already applied and invite them like you know

[128:01] ask them if they're still interested right so like that we could just sort of commit to that now right like we will go back to this pool of applicants and say hey you know you know were you still willing to be considered and especially the person that straw polls is as the person would like if that's legal then that seems like it also fits with some stuff we've done in the past we we have in the past not reopened applications when a board opening came pretty quickly and we had had additional applications applicants in the past so we do have precedent for that um okay so i'm going to go ahead and take the straw poll on both seats um it seems like that's the will of council i've been seeing a fair amount of nodding heads and um and then we'll just check in with our our lawyers about how to approach it for consent next week um all right so five year term and i've lost the threat on alphabetical versus well first let's take nominations we've got a lot of great applicants here uh mark

[129:01] yeah um i was one of the two members of the council who was sitting in on these uh interviews and one individual really just stood out uh tremendously to me um and it was megan richard she worked for a global mobility company uh via she's got an extraordinary background in the field uh she's worked with underserved communities um as a transit advocate and i i just there were many many good candidates here but i just want her to be sort of a head and shoulders above everyone thank you thanks man thanks aaron and mark thanks for your nomination to megan i absolutely i love her her nomination as well but i do want to um nominate rebecca davies um you know as much i thought she was the really an amazing candidate but furthermore i think that it's about just she had just a clear understanding both

[130:00] in what she wrote in her interview of the issues and a path forward really for us to truly achieve vision zero which we're going to be talking about later tonight um so i think she knows the the issue of the hour and what we need to do and really understanding that safety is a limiting barrier for more people using alternative modes of mobility in our community so so really liked and thought that rebecca was just really strong so i think she's gonna be a tremendous candidate rachel um i was actually going to nominate rebecca as well i will instead nominate or additionally nominate uh maria trini willerton um but i just want to mention about rebecca that i appreciated that that she lives in southeast boulder and when we just rolled out the the can core arterial network if you look at that map southeast boulder is not not well covered there and there's also a dearth of representation from current tab membership i think everyone's north of um pearl and and i don't know west of

[131:01] 28th maybe but it it's a we are very concentrated geographically and it we're sort of where you bike and live does matter when it comes to transportation knowledge thank you i would like to nominate stephen haydale he is again a transportation advocate like many of the people who've applied and i think as well stephen's been applying to boards since i've got on council two years ago and i don't think he's gotten into any boards and i think we tell people to come back and apply and he's well qualified as well and all our applicants are well qualified or people who care about the community and i hope that council will give him the opportunity because he keep coming over and over again each year and not being selected or appointed

[132:01] thank you lauren i'd like to nominate ariel schlossberg i am just their experience having grown up gone to undergraduate and graduate school all in boulder i think that they've experienced this transit system in a number of different ways as their own personal transit needs have changed they not only understand a youth perspective but also because of that they're changing need and understanding um sort of a role of being more dependent on public transit i think that they will represent a diverse set a more diverse set of needs beyond their own thanks bob yeah i just want to see a few more great candidates nominee i want to say a few more words by trini willerton um she was the founder and is the head of it could be me which is a survivor's organization of people who have been on non-motorized

[133:02] vehicles particularly bikes who've been hit by cars and have survived and trini is a survivor i think was four years ago that she was in her accident i can't think of anyone better to serve on a transportation advisory board and figure out how to make our roads safer for walkers and bikers and someone who has already suffered that consequence and as somebody mentioned we're going to talk about that later tonight in vision zero and i can't think of anybody better to lead our vision zero effort than someone who um barely survived a traffic accident herself thanks for that bob i know i'll echo those words i've worked with trini on that project i've been very impressed with what she's accomplished there okay i'm not seeing any other nominations see i think we're reverse alphabetical this time around so um let's start with trini willerton we got bob and tara for two

[134:02] uh ariel shashburg not seeing any hands making richer got one stephen heidel junie for one rebecca davies nicole aaron lauren matt rachel so that's five okay rebecca gets the five year term with five votes and so i'm not now going to take a straw poll for the potential opening it's it's not terribly potential i did get an official communication from uh tab member mark mcintyre with an official resignation so it does seem like that that position is opening up so but let's start let's just call it a straw poll and then we'll we'll figure out exactly how to proceed forward for the one year term

[135:00] that's opening up does anyone want to make any additional nominations seeing none um let's start with trini willerton again uh nicole aaron rachel bob that's for ariel shawsburg lauren for one aaron can i put him with trini please i'm sorry sure go ahead so tara add that in for five let's finish this out though megan richard mark with mark and matt two and stephen heidel that's juni okay so uh trini has the five votes in the straw poll for the potentially new open seat here okay well congratulations rebecca and provisionally trini and thanks everyone else uh there really were such good

[136:01] applications i could have voted for at least seven of those people easily um we got nicole did you want to make a comment before i talk about this board i did want to make a comment i just wanted to remind folks that i think elisha put up like six boards at the very beginning that still need applicants and we've discovered a couple more tonight um so i just i really want to encourage people that um that at least for me a lot of folks are left that i would still love to see on board so i hope those of you who are interested might consider applying to another board absolutely okay last board of the night water resources advisory board last but definitely not least very important board we've got a five-year term and a four-year term up for grabs here five applications and let's take nominations tara

[137:01] you're muted i nominate barbara amy brown matt i nominate steve maxwell any others okay i believe we're alphabetical this time around so barbara amy broughton nicole aaron mark lauren rachel bob matt so i think that's seven oh and tara and juni does that make it unanimous wait rachel what's up well um just making sure i just it's okay that's that they're in reverse order of time like i was i was wanting to vote for barbara for the five-year seat even though the top one's the shorter term but i assume we were voting for the five-year seat we're voting for the five-year term yes yes this is voting for the five-year term so that looks like it was nine votes

[138:00] there so amy brown gets the five-year term all right um so we've got one more term four-year term we have steve maxwell nominated would anyone like to add any additional nominations okay seeing none we're closing this out with an easy one steve gets it okay that's it well um i want to thank everybody that was a little challenging i don't remember ever having that many process questions come up in a boards and commission's nomination so thanks for waiting through all of those with us um appreciate all of your your votes and your comments uh bob yeah i i wanna follow on the comments that nuria made earlier at the very beginning of the session and i think both nuria and then council uh last week acknowledged the great work of of staff particularly alicia and john and pam and

[139:01] taylor for all the hard work but i want to acknowledge the committee which was tara and lauren i know this was so so hard and so time consuming way way more than ever before but i think you guys came up with a really great process uh certainly some some things we can improve on next year but you know having this is my seventh time doing borders and commissions on a scale of one to ten this is a nine and all the others were twos and three so you guys just really rocked on this one you made this so much better and i think it was much more meaningful for the applicants where they could spend quality time with council members and have some exchange and back and forth and so i really appreciate lauren and tara what you've done to this process and i think it's something we can build on for future years well said rachel echo all that and would just add that i think tonight itself went smoothly as well so thank you to staff for that and also aaron i thought you did a really good job like this has never been sort of as painless and and efficient so uh good job to to everyone who was nominating

[140:00] and to you for shepard shepherding that appreciate that thanks rachel uh elisha thank you all for your patience as we maneuvered through the new process but i just wanted to give you the notification that mr mcintyre has submitted his resignation and i have asked him for an effective date and i'm pretty sure it will be um immediately so we can close that circle great thank you for that man uh thank you uh um you know what bob and rachel said were were spot on and the one thing i just i'll add is one having staff participate to me was also a major added benefit i know that hadn't been done before i really valued being able to check in with them because at the end of the day they check in and work with the boards and commissions far more than we do and i thought that was really value added and then also just to give credit to to tara and lauren as as those of us that are new council members

[141:00] to just get thrown into the weeds of of a big process pretty early on when we're still learning everything else and they really do a great job i just my hat's off to you guys you did a great job so so thanks for really knocking it out and uh just sets us up for for great success success down the road so thank you well junie thank you i just want to say this was an interesting experience um i did feel that the interviews were much more personal than the one we've had with you know the panel of nine so you know that part i find very exciting and i felt a little bit more ownership because i had to sit there i had to just have this one-on-one conversation um through zoom so all in all i'd say that was an interesting experience is it better than

[142:00] the year before i'm not so sure i think you know i'd be happy to you know get an overall perspective from staff whether um you know the number of applicants have improved whether zoom has really improved the process when it comes to accessibility and equity um but you know i think all of us put a lot of work i spent hours hours listening to these videos and i know a lot of my colleagues have as well and staff as well put in a lot of work night that we spent together so i think that was really overall a great experience um of course it's an experience that can probably be improved on but overall i'd say thank you to all of you it was truly a tremendous experience to be on the other end now seeing all the appointments thank you it's tara did anybody thank pam davis i'm just making sure i was about to you go ahead

[143:00] we can't forget pam she was incredible i would say she was awesome but probably matt would tell me to use a different word remember the last time i said they were awesome matt anyway um i do want to say that it was an incredible experience first of all lauren and i got to know each other and we had a really good time so thanks lauren but i think what i will say is the hardest part about it was that you get to know people really well when you're interviewing them and also watching them so for me it made the pain of not picking those that i now love it's really intense i want to go out to coffee with people so you're going to see me reaching out to people a lot of the people who who applied and again i just want to know that it was incredible meeting you all everybody was special and i wish we could have voted for way more people we would have done and it made it a lot harder i think in that way but

[144:00] also a really special experience thanks nicole echo everything everyone else has said and just really give a shout out to our community for stepping up for taking the time to apply for these boards especially with a new process um it was just such a joy to meet every one of you um through either your recordings or those new interviews and i wanted to just give a special shout out to all the gen z folks who stood up the younger millennials as well just for really getting involved i certainly was not even thinking about that when i was your age and we we need you desperately uh clearly we need all hands on deck for the times that we're in and so just from the bottom of my heart thank you um to everybody who's stepped up and tried something new um for this cycle i just so grateful to be in community with all of you

[145:00] i just wanted to say thank you both to applicants council to staff for sort of going with us on this experiment um i think that we've certainly learned a lot there's things that worked really well things that can be improved on and we look forward to taking what what has worked and making it better for the next time around thanks rachel no okay hold hands sorry all right well so i'll just i just have to add my own thanks you know first of all to the community members who applied uh such an abundance of talent and creativity in our community and i'm really excited to get the people that we appointed tonight on board and really disappointed about a lot of the people that we didn't appoint and like tara said there's like a there's a real sadness mixed with the excitement of the new folks because there are so many talented people that we didn't have spaces for so i hope a lot many of you will apply again next year in a future year

[146:00] and and just the the enormous thank you uh to city staff working on this process like this this was a very heavy lift that was put upon you you know uh alicia john morse pam davis uh you know taylor um you know you all worked so hard and uh you brought this process to a successful end point and um and then tara and lauren i know how many hours that you put in on this um so a huge kudos and thank you and i'm sure we'll we'll take some lessons learned and make a few tweaks but we got here and uh and now we're done and congratulations everyone so yay um and i think we can we can move on and wrap up now if that's all right and i'll just say i found the last two and a half hours to be exhausting so maybe we can take a 10 minute break before we hit the the last item great so let's come back at 8 35.

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[157:06] item started thank you very much i'll make this very brief i know that council has been having a great interest in um both division and the 20 is plenty report and with that i will turn it over to devon joslin our principal traffic engineer very much erica [Music] all right well good evening uh mayor brockett and members of council my name is devin joslin and i'm the principal traffic engineer for the city of boulder and i'm pleased to be here tonight to present an update on the safe streets report and 20 is plenty and i'll

[158:00] reiterate that 20 is plenty was a council priority that was implemented in 2020. so there are four main things that i'd like to talk about tonight uh the first is to present key findings from both the safe streets report and the evaluation of 20 is plenty the next thing is to show how this work relates to the core arterial network and highlight projects that are already underway on arterials next i'll discuss our approach for updating the vision zero action plan which is a key work item for our transportation and mobility department this year and finally i'll go over next steps in terms of finalizing work on these two projects and outline anticipated council interaction on the vision zero action plan as well as the core arterial network this slide highlights the key findings and trends from the analysis analyses conducted on the 2018 through 2020 crash data

[159:00] and the key findings remain the same as presented to you in december so i won't spend too much time pointing these out again what i do want to point out is that total crashes per year have been trending down since 2016. severe crashes have remained steady in general since 2016 ranging between 55 to 60 severe crashes per year except for 2020 which of course was impacted by the coca-19 pandemic and had 38 severe crashes our areas of concern remain largely the same as the prior safe streets report and involve crashes involving bicyclists pedestrians people speeding people making left turns as well as crashes involving older adults those that are 65 years and older and you'll see down at the bottom a key point there that i'll emphasize throughout this presentation and that is that

[160:00] 65 of our severe crashes occur on our arterial roadways yet those roadways make up just sixteen percent of our center line miles within the city so in terms of the twentieth plenty evaluation the key findings are listed on this slide but there are three other points that i'd like to make here again local streets make up 54 percent of our center line miles and account for just 11 of our severe crashes well as i mentioned on the previous slide arterials account for 16 of our center line miles and 65 of our severe crashes and i do just want to point out there that centerline miles measure the length of a road or highway regardless of how many lanes it has but what we found is that despite the results of the evaluation local streets continue to generally not exhibit speed related crash patterns as was shown in

[161:02] our safe streets report and the key findings support that the methods to reduce speed that were proposed within the evaluation should be balanced against other priorities and implemented over time as part of a comprehensive vision zero strategy and this is something that the vision zero action plan will aim to address i wanted to highlight on this slide the relationship between where crashes are occurring within the city as compared to the coral arterial network and what is evident again is that not only are most severe crashes occurring on arterials but crashes in general even those resulting in property damage only tend to occur more frequently on arterials and you can see the correlation there between the map of total crashes within the city for the period that was analyzed within the safe streets report to the core arterial network on the right hand side

[162:00] of the slide and then again here these are some key points as to how the these two studies relate to the core arterial network and next steps that staff intends to take again most of our speeding crashes particularly those that result in severe crashes occur on arterial streets and we found that programs to address local streets require extensive community engagement and staff time and it's not to say that projects and programs to address arterial streets require less time engagement or staff time but that the highest benefit cost ratio in terms of potential crash reduction can be achieved by focusing on arterial streets and i wanted to highlight that there are many projects along arterials that correspond to the core arterial network that are already underway the 13 projects identified in the core arterial network

[163:01] six are already underway five of which will start construction in the next year or two and those that will start construction are 28th street 30th street vertically separated bike lanes iris and 15th 28th in colorado the east arapahoe multi-use path and the gun barrel belmont multi-use path and our key focus areas within the core arterial network are pedestrian and bicycle facility enhancements as well as traffic signal system upgrades i want to transition now to talking about our approach for the vision zero action plan in our strategy to update it this year and the goals of the vision zero action plan update are shown here we envision the plan to be a key component to helping the city achieve vision zero we recognize that as we do this work there will be competing interests and

[164:00] priorities along the way and we see the plan though as being foundational to guiding discussions with council in a data-driven way that considers both crash history and equity elements to prioritize and implement projects we want the vision zero action plan to use a data driven approach to recommend proven safety countermeasures that both complement and enhance the core arterial network and address clear crash patterns that emerge and we plan to implement proven safety countermeasures that address both reactive that is to say address crash patterns that we've identified through the data analysis as well as proactive that try to get out in front of crashes occurring by identifying systemic or risk factors along our streets and aim to address them before crashes occur so in terms of next steps there are four

[165:01] that you can see listed here uh really we'd like to wrap up work and finalize the safe streets report as well as the evaluation of 20 is plenty we intend to begin work on the vision zero action plan later this month through solicitation of a consultant who helps with that effort and we also intend to begin assembling teams to work on core arterial networks and one of the ones that we intend to prioritize is the baseline vertically separated by claims and with that we had three questions for counsel tonight that were in your packet what feedback does council have regarding the draft save streets report fourth edition 2022 what feedback does council have regarding the 20th plenty evaluation and what feedback does council have regarding the proposed approach for completing the vision zero action plan in 2022 and that concludes my presentation

[166:02] thank you thanks steven that was both very informative and succinct i appreciate that so uh let's start off with uh see if you have any questions for staff from council members i'm see okay there you go matt and i was kind of i was kind of waiting to see who else was going to jump in so i finally as well i guess i'll break the ice um for one uh thank you uh staff um erica devon i think that report is really great in the sense that it sets a really important baseline for us um and really sort of tracks a lot of these important trends from which we can evaluate our successes going forward especially as we have some clear goals and outcomes that we want to achieve um so first that's just really good stuff um and and thanks for already wrapping in which is really recent with the can and um wrapping in a lot of that in how folds division zero and the safe streets

[167:00] i think the ability to sort of adapt pretty quickly given we just sort of made that change at our retreat you know within two months again credit to the department and and working with tab to make those adaptations so first just thank you for that um i do have a question with the route and it wasn't mentioned in your proposal but it is in the safe streets report it it's uh pertaining to um uh you know photo and uh enforcement program i know that was a part of it and i was just curious because we have such good metrics on everything else we're doing i was wondering if we had any data showing like you know is it reducing uh running red lights um you know you know is it creating are we having the positive benefits that investing in that infrastructure is designed to achieve and then really there's a budgetary question that are we you know are we necessarily raising the funds from it to cover the cost of doing it and so i'm just sort of curious about where that photo enforcement is in terms of achieving the outcomes that they're designed uh to to propagate

[168:03] sure so in terms of photo red light enforcement we have found that that is a very effective program at reducing red light running crashes um we have about 11 photo radar cameras throughout the city and i don't have the numbers at the tip of my fingertips but i know it has been effective at reducing crashes and we could certainly get back to you with more exact information on that in terms of the photo radar van enforcement again i don't necessarily have numbers on that that we can directly attribute to crash reduction what i will say is that in terms of 20 is plenty what we did find is that following the change to 20 miles an hour we did see for the sites that we evaluated an increase in the violation rate per hour on the streets where the photo radar van was deployed

[169:01] thank you for that it's a call i just had a few questions and um i i love the study and i loved having statistics and tests and things there that that was wonderful anything very helpful for me just in thinking about um you know ways to uh interpret the data and you know the conclusions from the report so um thank you for that and i just had a couple of questions um about the data one of them was um and maybe this is just uh i think it's a question but um having severe crashes as just sort of a total number and then having the total crashes as a total number i'm wondering if the data can be presented in terms of percentage of total crashes that are severe because for me it's that it's that difference and how those two are are showing up that um is quite concerning right so our total crashes are going down but our severe crashes are staying steady which

[170:01] means that they're likely making up a bigger number of the total um and and that you know for me i think just helps me grasp um why uh some of the proposals that are you know there in terms of focusing on some of the arterial um straights are is so essential right because we really do need to decrease these um severe crashes so i think that was a question just if the data could be presented that way um as well and i apologize if i missed it and it was um in there um and then the other question that i had um was just whether whether any sort of insights about um why the arterials versus the local um straights are kind of increasing crashes and i think you know you went into this a little bit in the report in terms of sort of narrower streets and things like that kind of naturally reducing speeds but i wondered if it gives a volume of traffic is it speed is that um if you have any if you could shed any light on that and then my last question was just about

[171:01] an interaction in terms of the severe crashes um that are happening kind of by location right on local streets versus arterials is there an age interaction there at all or do we have data to know that based on who is the victim of the crash and the reason i'm asking this question is because i do hear from um parents who are living in some of these neighborhoods that they are concerned about people speeding on those streets and that the risk it poses to their child and i was wondering if we had any data they could speak to that not to say that it is a um i mean it's it is tragic and awful when anybody is involved in a crash so i just want to express i'm not um i'm not saying that anybody matters more or less this is just a question particularly uh to inform the folks who may be concerned um about focusing on these arterial straights where a lot of the crashes are happening yeah thank you for those questions to

[172:00] your first one i would say what we did in terms of representing severe crashes that you probably saw in the report and it's how we identified our areas of concern was we did pull out those crash types where the severe crashes represented a significant percent of the total crashes relative to that crash type so in terms of cyclists for example we saw that a lot more crashes involving cyclists result in severe outcomes compared to the total number of crashes so we did present the data in that way but i hear you in terms of what you're saying as far as understanding how the severe crashes have changed in relation to the overall total so that is something we can take a closer look at to your second question i would say that the arterial roadways certainly are our busier roadways that do have higher speeds and of course also have

[173:00] higher just a higher number of lanes right so there's a lot more opportunity for conflict and interaction between modes at those locations and we also found within the report that it's our signalized intersections as well where most of the conflicts occur and crashes are happening so those are going to be some of our areas that we emphasize moving forward in the vision zero action plan to try to identify the best ways to mitigate crashes that are occurring in those areas and then to your third point we did a you know a fairly detailed look at age ranges in the report that you probably saw although i don't think we did the exact analysis that you're referring to to try to correlate crashes that are occurring on local streets attributed to speeding uh looking at the age of the victims of those crashes so that that is not something that i don't believe we have done um but it is something that we

[174:01] could do with the data that's available to us from the crash records we have what i will say though that you probably also saw within the report is the the trend that older drivers um have been involved in more crashes recently within the city and then as well there's some pretty obvious trends in terms of impaired driving and it's pretty evident who is often most at fault in those crashes involving impaired drivers and there's ways to certainly develop education campaigns that can target those specific audiences as a way to try to change those behaviors yeah thank you yeah and i think you know i was just trying to get at the sort of victims of crashes when it's not the person driving the vehicle right when it's a pedestrian or bike list i think um oftentimes in these more local roads you know those are those are the folks that you know people are thinking of are little kids and things and i just i'm wondering if there's any uh kind of reassurance for the

[175:01] parents that we're not we're not ignoring um anything they're really just trying to focus on where the spots are in our community that are creating the most risk to everybody sure and we do have ongoing coordination meetings with between transportation mobility staff and the boulder valley school district staff to try to get out ahead and address issues of concern around schools and that is something that we do take very seriously as well great lauren thanks um so i thought the packet graphically everything's beautiful thank you that so many so much good data in there um moving forward i would love to know you mentioned about preventative measures um i think i've asked this before but is it possible to have our red light cameras

[176:01] or speed cameras look at intersections and do [Music] used to identify near misses i know that that's something i've heard other communities do to try and look at designs of particular intersections before they're sort of overhauled and updated and as we look forward i was just wondering if we have the capabilities to do that kind of analysis my understanding is that that would require a separate camera camera system uh beyond our photo red light camera system it would be a more robust camera system with the analytics you're talking about built into it i would say that we are working toward that we are working extensively throughout the city to upgrade our fiber backbone which will allow for you know better data transmission and reception uh from those types of devices that may be put out in the future

[177:02] i think we're probably taking more of a wait and see approach with that i would say and it is something that is being discussed and talked about as part of a broader uh smart city project that's going on within the city as well looking to develop a framework for how the city strategically deploys those types of devices throughout the city to make sure that everything we do deploy is cross talking appropriately across our network if you will but i think what we intend to do as part of the vision zero action plan is look at some of the factors that may be contributing to crashes and begin to overlay those risk factors on top of each other to identify areas within the city where crashes uh may be most likely to occur um and it may involve things like um you know where are we seeing our people our impaired crashes or

[178:02] um where do we have bike lanes that are directly next to traffic and they maybe don't have a buffer next with them and some of them may just be where do we have roads that have spew limits above 35 miles per hour for example those are some of the kind of risk factors that we may overlay on top of each other to try to proactively get out ahead of where crashes may potentially occur on our system okay thank you matt do you have a follow-up uh yeah i mean it's kind of a turn of a general planning question which is you know looking at at the can and all those pieces acknowledging that they do require a long runway to get done and also you know carry a significant expense when you look at sort of all of them packaged together you know my question is is there anything you need at least from council to maximize the ability to get funds but be it dr cog or safe street grants

[179:01] is it staffing is it capital funds for matching opportunities i'm just sort of generally asking are we at are we in the best position possible to take full advantage of the resources that are coming down the pipeline um to to make the most use of these plans and more or less expedite a lot of this stuff so that we can um turn those numbers that that might be either static or or go in a different direction in a more positive direction as quickly as possible i could answer that just briefly um i think that inside in terms of the department itself we try to keep within our budget and certainly whenever we have an additional ask and so forth we do that in the context of the budget you know going forward and um i think that we really have tried to work together with tab and with the community and the council both in the past and certainly going forward to be able to address those issues i think that you know in terms of what devin was saying that um

[180:03] we are just getting we know we've just gotten this information back we've just gotten the can and so we're trying to find ways to be able to use our resources to leverage that first and i just want to say thank you so much for your invitation to ask but we'll ask within the context of the budget overall that's coming forward so thank you i'll just add to that matt and i appreciate the question because i i just appreciate eric and her team so much but certainly as we do think of funds that are coming down the pike whether that's the federal transportation or infrastructure package or other potential arpa opportunities or things will certainly be involving and putting that there is a process in place for departments to think through that and so please know that we will be leveraging every last dollar we have to make them stretch as far as we can and i know erica and her team have a key eye on anything that could apply to them

[181:02] all right thanks for all that so those are the questions i'm seeing so we had three questions for us um so the first is what feedback does council have regarding the safe streets report i'll just say it was very informative and i appreciate how you're using it the information to take a data-driven approach towards making our city safer in the next steps so very well done i'll just throw that out there any other comments not seeing any other nicole i was just going to say ditto i really really appreciated this very informative and i love the data oriented approach thank you next is feedback on the 20 is plenty evaluation i'm trying to take the lead here but i'm not seeing any hands it was informative you know it was oh there's matt matt go ahead

[182:02] you started let your role you might you might take exactly what i was going to say so go for it well it was informative you know again appreciate the data-driven approach um so we've learned about um what effects it had and again it's i think everything keeps directing us in towards making our core arterial network safer right like that that's where the injuries happen and that's where the the major investments need to be made so this is a piece of it i thought matt and nicole yeah i mean i think the question is is hearing about oregon and washington and that they've had sort of similar results as we have had my question is is there a timing issue i mean we're still pretty fresh into making that adaptation and there's some of this just habituation and and habit forming that needs to take time in order to sink in and have some of those communities done this for long enough that maybe habituation isn't it and it needs to be more prescriptive solutions to drive that change so i'm kind of wondering

[183:00] where where those changes might rely in trying to get out of the it isn't having a statistical or significant impact in reducing speed so i think what we found in terms of those pure cities is that they had done their evaluations i would say within a fairly similar timeline timeline to us doing ours they didn't wait you know years after doing it it was within one or two years i would say of doing the change that they had also done their evaluation but i think similar to our study they the belief throughout the industry is that it really is the street design that drives uh speeds as opposed to just the posting of signs or changing of the default speed limit nicole this is a little nerdy um but i just wanted to say how much i appreciated um

[184:00] that there was a line about how the photo radar may have uh influenced the um kind of had that interaction effect right with the the signs and i just i just wanted to commend you for kind of going down that path and you know looking into that as a possible explanation it was uh it was very pleasantly surprising to me to to kind of read that level of detail in this report so just truly outstanding work thank you thank you okay and then finally what feedback do we have regarding the proposed approach for completing the vision zero action plan in 2022 i'll just want to get started big thumbs up you all are doing great work i'm excited for the next steps other comments all right i guess we're all a little tired there's not as many comments as usual but i'll just once again say just fantastic work really appreciate the data driven

[185:01] approach and great presentation in the packet was really helpful to look forward to the next steps great well thank you very much appreciate it thanks okay uh anything else all right well all in that case i'll 9 05 p.m i'll gavel is closed [Music]

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