July 15, 2025 — Downtown Management Commission Regular Meeting

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Captions from City of Boulder YouTube recording.

[0:01] Are we are recording. Welcome to the downtown Management Commission meeting. It is July 15, th 2025, and I have a phone role here. Calvin Poe and Nathan and Stephanie. Trees are not present today. and I will now hand the meeting over to. So 1st we have the meeting minutes with someone like, is there any public where they are approved? Do we have any public in attendance? How we there is no one online great. So next. We have, then the consent, agenda, which we will not discuss unless people have questions. If any of the members have

[1:00] questions to the consent. Agenda Nope. Nope. I had one quick question bottom of page one of the consent. Agenda. Central pages, supplemental bending card program applications to both vacant spots in the past. You've always had full use of the small licenses, do we have some? Are we not full right now? We are not full right now we have 2 vacancies. And so we bought 2 applications. Actually, Brian, our certified quality specialist, is currently reviewing those applications. One is dark chocolate. It's like a chocolate cart of stir hot chocolate. pop it! Pull through in the summer, and then an atthodontic park as well. Well. Who did we lose to have vacant? Oh, good question. I will be

[2:00] kind of circle back with you, sure, if I can do that this week. Well, and then I did see that there was kind of a action item in here that in curbside management Down Management mission to Chris, England. They're looking for staff or looking for one or 2 commissions to serve as project liaisons. I'm assuming that meant commissioners definitions. We need to do anything with that. Know that he's gonna be reaching out to commissioners to liaison. I'm not sure mine, but I will find out. Well, do you know if that would be before our next meeting? I believe so it was. So.

[3:05] Can anyone here explain that I can read what's written here? Does anyone hear more than what's written here? Got it, Christine? My mouth is full. So right now he's going through the process of suggesting locations where there should be flexible loading zones throughout the downtown area, and he'll be presenting that to community members and ideally commissioners. Just make sure his proposals are in conjunction. I mean, I didn't volunteer for that liaison. I don't need this push on spot, because I'll do implement recycle care. Yeah, we're having. All of ours are in an alleyway. But sure cool. Yeah. You were dipping out it behind. Hold on.

[4:02] Well, well, if it doesn't fit out, or it's easy, you know, and you want to ask for more responsibilities and timings and stuff. I totally understand that, too. do that. This also includes, like we work with as well. which does affect our books. Yes. and as soon as they stop them they'll probably yeah. So that's the the intent is to prevent some of the traffic backups that we've seen from Tncs just stopping at random places and encourage better behavior. Chris Haitlin, during the Kmc. Mentioned that there's some geofencing that they can do to really help with the uber and lyft drop offs and the more we've heard. The reception from book is that they really even the drivers really like it, because it gives them a little bit more safe security as well. I feel like we we're told about the Geofencing year ago. We did pilot it. Yeah, as part of the curbside management project, or did we just do it on Pearl Street just piloted it downtown. That's my understanding. And now I think that was informing sort of the recommendation and the adoption of the curbside management program. Now, they're actually implementing the representation. So

[5:21] I think I can't speak for Tristan. But I can say that they're likely trying to determine approach to it. Okay? One other question I had on the consent agenda talked about that. I have their dining program going to a proposed permanent program, and I didn't know if that. how does that look different moving from a temporary to a permanent program? How does that work? Yeah, what's different with it being a permanent program. Is there still annual licensing and payments and stuff other other than it's permanent. They can count on happening every year. Is the big difference? Yeah? Actually, yeah.

[6:06] the logistically, if anything changes to make it well, you're not doing the budget right now. But one thing I have wondered is, where does the payments for that go. Does that go to the Dfc's budget, or whose budget gets the payments? It goes to the planning department. Which which is general fund revenue. Awesome thanks restin anything else on consent. Agenda moving on to Placer AI and Cajun visitation reports not discussed unless there's questions any questions. The Transcript. Good month moving on right on to.

[7:02] But. hey, guys, thanks for having us again. My name is Steve Redfern, police chief. I think I know everybody for the most part. I'm gonna just say a couple of things and turn over to Mike for more, a little bit more robust info on what some things we're doing. Obviously, since we met last, there's been a lot going on. The month of June for us was solely, almost slowly focus the first, st at least half on recovering from the working on the case for the terrorist attack. We've really been focused, and Mike will tell you more about having more presence down here. We're doing really well, staffing. I think I shared last time. But we're still essentially fully staffed. We've got about 25 officers of training that are not certified to be out there by themselves yet. So even though we're fully staffed getting getting working on, getting them trained and out there. Where? Then, we're going to see where we need to deploy them, where additional resource for the malls obviously a priority. Had a lot of of discussion after the attack, and what I've continued to explain to people is.

[8:05] You know, we can have a cop on every corner, and it's not going to stop every bad thing from happening. And and we you know we we there was there was some it was. It wasn't mean, spirited, but we there were some discussions, and we got beat up a little bit, for you know, not being right there when it happened. And it's it's you know we had officers on foot on them all that day. They were actually dealing with another issue. So it's 1 of those things that we're very aware of of the need to have additional resources here. Mike's been really working hard to do that. I hope you've seen that we had the guy doing the chain attack. I'm happy to say he is still in custody on a $200,000 bond. We had some concerns based on some of the recent decisions the judges have made that some people would like him would get let out. The guy that attacked the the performer is still in custody as well. So we're working with the da's office when those serious things pop up to to to make sure people are held, or at least asked. The good thing for us is, even though I think.

[9:06] perception of crime and perception of safety and actual data are 2 different things. I got updates yesterday from our data analysts, and we are down in every crime category year to date this year, citywide compared to last year. And so that is exceptional, especially in summertime, when we see crime always tend to rise and year to date compared to last year, we're down double digits in a lot of things like burglaries, car theft from auto assaults. We ended the year pretty high on assaults, especially for the simple assaults that is also down now, year to date. Everything is down. So I credit a lot of that to the officers getting out being more visible on bikes on foot. But I also credit it to some of the technology that we're using catch bad guys. And it's making a difference. So we're still constantly trying to address that fear of crime as well. And of course, I encourage people not to read everything they read on next door, or believe everything they read on nextdoor or other social media sites.

[10:08] and I will always continue to. It's an open invitation to any of you all, to all the business owners can reach out to me 24, 7 by the time things tend to get around a lot of times. The the actual facts have gotten to a point where they're not real facts anymore. We're always happy to engage and hopefully bring down the temperature on things. So that's really what I wanted to just say, thank you for the patience of the last month or so while we've been dealing with quite a bit my big focus has been ensuring as we've worked past June and taking care of our staff, ensuring that the things that they dealt with on June first, st which nobody really should have to experience. they're doing okay. And I'm happy to report that they are so that guy's is in court today. It's held over for trial. That case is going to move forward. So other than that I'll turn over to Mike and then we can take up questions at this time. Thanks, Chief, thanks. I think everybody knows me. But in case. Not. I'm biking from a troll commander, and also see the ball team.

[11:12] So one. The unfortunate news is Sergeant Skable, who, I think a lot of you may have met. We just put him into the ball sergeant's position at the beginning of the year. That was that newly created position. He has moved on. So he has family back in Minnesota, and he's moved on to there. The good news is we didn't, and we're not skipping a beat with that position. So we have already done a transfer right now it's a temporary transfer to for Sergeant Brianco. He was actually also involved in the process for the Mall sergeant. He was a real close second on that. He's going to be a great addition, but we recognized how he just couldn't have that gap. And so we put him in that position until we can do a formal process for that position. We've also had a little bit of movement on the officers. But again we have filled those immediately. So in particular, Officer Steidel, who's been working down on the wall for quite some time, has kind of moved into another role with us.

[12:11] But we have replaced that, and we are still at our authorized strength for mall positions at 6. Those those dates that they're working. The times that they're working are all consistent with what they have been. So we did recognize that we needed to fill those spots, and we needed to fill immediately. Everybody that's on that team is is great. In fact, off Officer Mastriana just got put on the team. He was an officer that took the suspect on attack into custody. He is a new Swat officer. Great addition to the team, so wanted to cover cover all those bases. We've also had some conversations with our other patrol commanders. They have been increasing patrols, so I know some of the issues that have come up, or the concern is spring. We've got our Mall team. That is only here now up until 7 Pm. And we're missing some of that not maybe seeing enough officers in the nighttime.

[13:10] So they've been pushing that out to our patrol staff as of right now you should be seeing a lot more presence in the evenings. If you're not, please let me know, but I trust that you're going to be seeing a lot more officers in the evenings. Once we get up to like, the chief said, those officers that are in training. we can start building up some of our other units. So the neighborhood impact team. I was the sergeant of that years ago. We had up to 12 officers right now. We only have 4 officers on that team, but part of what we did in the evenings is, we provided that those patrols downtown as well. So that is a priority for us to get some more of those spots filled that will also help reduce the need to put some of our patrol officers down. So any questions on any of that.

[14:04] So one of the things that I also wanted to talk to you all about. She mentioned it, mentioned the 2 cases that we had recently. I just kind of want to talk to you guys about how we respond to some of these things in particular, the the person that was make that was committing all the assaults with the chain throughout the city downtown. You know we recognize that very quickly. That this was something that we need to get on. Get it on immediately, and put a ton of resources to that, including our motors, officers and our bike officers on the creek paths, because that's how he was getting around on bicycle. We had drones up. We did everything in our power to put that person into custody as soon as possible. Fortunately, you know, we that stopped the attacks once we got out on it, and then we were able to take him into custody the next day. But that's the type of response that you're getting.

[15:00] We also made sure that we push people downtown. So we're not just leaving downtown open for that person to come back around, because I think a lot of you probably saw assaulting people down Safeway like he was making his way around town pretty quickly. But that's those are the programs that we have in place. or to be able to respond to those. So again, that drone program, that bike program or motors program. Everybody's getting involved in cases like that. like, the chief said. Those parties are still being held. There's the $200,000 bond. The other party is being held on a $10,000 bond. So, considering some of the things that we've seen in the past, those are good things, it's a Testament to, I think, the chief working directly with the da's office and making sure that we have good communication. And we're not seeing these people any questions on any of those pieces or any other places. I have a question. Yes. So

[16:01] for the June 1st attack there was like, it happened around 2 Pm. I believe, and then it wasn't until 4 Pm. That officers came and occupied them all, and like that's like within, like, if I got the reverse 9, 1 1 call. At the same time I was still kidding. There's something I can sign up for to find out about things like that sooner, or is there a reason there is a 2 h delay, or simply, just like you guys are so occupied. I think that it's there's a lot of different factors right? There's a lot of like the unknown and people getting there and responding in and trying to figure out what we had. We didn't know a lot of the details that we knew that prompted us to make those evacuations. So part of that was, oh, this person's got a vehicle! Oh, now we found this vehicle the vehicles downtown. Now it's getting to a point where we feel like there's a potential threat here. So we're we're constantly assessing reassessing. And I know especially now we're talking about that. It's like, Oh, that is a long time

[17:02] when we're working through all those things. It's not, it's it is as soon as we made a determination that we had potential other threats. And we're working with bomb squad and our other partners. Once we found that vehicle to determine. Okay, if there's an issue here, what does that look like? How far out? What kind of evacuations do we need to do? We're pushing that out as soon as possible. I know there were some things that were done in a on a smaller footprint initially for evacuations. Where where were you? So yeah, we did some immediate area evacuations. And then, based on kind of everything else that they're putting together, it was determined. Well, let's just extend this out until we have a better sense of what's happening. Sure. I just heard about the

[18:00] eat a cop walked with a cop on the Mall. I think it's July 23, rd July 23.rd Yep. And just if you want to talk about that, just so that other people know about it. Yeah, absolutely so. It was an idea that I had a couple of months ago, and it was something that I was trying to figure out all right. What's the best way to do do this started talking to the chief and to our Pio? basically it is. I want to get out there. I want the community to be able to come. Speak with me. Get introduced to myself and to other members of the police department. So you know this 1st one we're doing with Sergeant Cabo Bianco to get people to know him ask questions. Just a better way to con to connect with the community, so at some point should have the chief down there with me. I we'll see how it goes like, I said it was kind of something that I've been mulling over, and I got to a point. It's like we need to make this happen, and so got Dion to put that together for me the 23rd from this one there, so should I should know one to 3. Thank you. Wonderful.

[19:07] I don't know how often I'll do it. My goal is. I'd like to do it a couple of times a month. It'll kind of depend on the response that we get. but we'll see. We'll see how it goes. But you guys can put it out there and encourage people to come. I would appreciate it. Where are you meeting? We're gonna meet at 1,300 block kind of about a busy December. If I recall, yeah, we'll probably congregate there except for the big guy in a uniform. So what else? What else can I answer for, you guys? Thanks for going in the positions? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. We knew that we couldn't. Couldn't let those fall short. So It was a pretty easy decision by everybody involved.

[20:03] So alrighty. Well, thanks, everybody. Appreciate your time. See this feeding right along patina tours is yours. right wonderful. I'm gonna see if I can share my screen here. So bear with me while I figure that out. I also just want to echo now that they're not in the room, and I can't give them the credit. But we had a meeting today with one of our block captains, 2 of our captains, and a block officers. and Officer Badley was there. We've had about 12 businesses there, so just a really nice conversation about how things are going downtown. One of the things Officer badly said is that the Mall positions are actually really sort of coveted within the department. It's it's a fun, lively place to be all the time, and so it's it's kind of cool to see them work their way up through the Academy and then talk to each other. And it's also a 5 year position which I didn't know.

[21:08] Who knows? I was talking, and I wasn't sharing my screen. Sorry piece of innovation. Yeah, I will try to. Okay. So as the chief said, we spent a lot of time last couple of months really dealing with the after effects of the attack. I'm pleased to say that one of our big accomplishments as an organization is, we moved into a new office space after being in office 20 years, so that also took up a lot of our managerial administrative time. On the pedestrian counts which I shared in your packet. I'd love to spend some time, and Elliot has now left the room to talk about the intersection between the data that we're gathering from our pedestrian cameras and what we're seeing in Placer AI, because Placer AI is showing things pretty consistent overall. And our pedestrian cameras, which we have 3 located throughout downtown are showing about 7% down

[22:26] May. So that was just a piece of data analysis. I'd like to figure out moving forward. But I do still think it's important for us to have both of those pieces because we're actually capturing the pedestrian impressions and place the data is attached to people's cell phones. I also wanted to just share with you that we have been tracking the new numbers of businesses in the downtown. And so far, in 2025, we've had 22 new businesses open, which is really great, everything from a tattoo shop to a florist, to a hairstylist, to a bakery, and a really new fancy cocktail bar. So we're seeing a lot of different kinds of services not just being saturated by one kind of business

[23:12] and the number of new businesses dramatically outpaces the number of closed businesses. So you saw 13 leave the downtown. We don't know if that means they they went out of business completely, or they went to another location. Some of these were national chains that were dictated like they shut down all their nationwide retail stores. So some of these things are within our control and some of them aren't. But I thought that would be helpful data for you all to see here today. Our marketing campaign continues this year the heart of Boulder. We did really pause a lot of our promotions after the June 1st attack. We certainly didn't want to be coming across as tone deaf, and we had a lot of different campaigns running, so we were able to start those back up again about the second or 3rd week of June. We're getting really good traction with that.

[24:07] We also have been working behind the scenes with our restaurant. It's been affected a lot this past year by very variety of things. Higher inventory costs, minimum wage challenges, the economy writ large. And so we worked with a contractor and a newly formed restaurant task force that was put together. That's not just downtown restaurants, but really citywide trying to create an identity and some advocacy platforms around the restaurant. and we published a restaurant playbook which is available to anybody who's part of this restaurant task force, or is a downtown business. And so that's just another sort of thing that we can. It's another arrow in the quiver when somebody arrives in town. So there's a way that the business improvement district we are helping you. This is just a chart of some of our flow up our flow of traffic. I'm going to be on Kvr. Tomorrow morning.

[25:03] going Wall Street Arts fest. This is my prop that I will have on screen. But we also have have a lot of bus kings running, so you'll probably see the ads on the buses. This is just an example of a print ad. We've taken out print ads in a number of different magazines, and some of the program books like Shakespeare Festival. We're really targeting women between the ages of 40 and 65, not because that's my demographic, but because they're the people who spend the most money and make the decisions about what people do in their families and the spare time. So that's been really successful this year, and, as usual, all of the models that you see in these ads are people who actually live or work downtown. Just another example of some of our campaigns that we've had going. And then we're collaborating with downtown Colorado, Inc. Our statewide advocacy organization and all the business improvement districts in Denver, and there are many have formed a little mini. Denver bid coalition, and we're going to be giving a sort of half day presentation about how to provide stronger, safer collaborations for business improvement districts and

[26:21] Terry from our team, has put together a panel where we're going to talk about our really strong collaboration between the city of Boulder and the Boulder Business Improvement district. So from the past it'll be Sean Maher, who was one of my predecessors, and Blake Landres, who just retired from community vitality. And then Chris and I will be talking about the current collaboration and the work that we've been able to do through the ambassador program through event sponsorship, through banners, and all the other things that we collaborate on. So the Commissioners are invited to join this. If you'd like just you can register through like. get you in there.

[27:00] Our bands on the Bricks Series has been going great. We have 3 more weeks. This Wednesday. We will have Los Mojaves. They're a really fun band, and they're going to be opened up by a really talented classical guitar player. So should be very fun right before that. We're also going to have our office Olympics down, called the downtown showdown in front of the courthouse. So we have 7 teams participating, and I believe, community vitality. Next year, next year. But we've had some really great engagement. We had a member appreciation night last week. Night, the 25.th And we're just. We're just having some great success with our dance series this year. So 3 more chances to enjoy that.

[28:01] We've also had some great success with sort of a guerrilla marketing campaign. So in addition to those bands on the bricks, general posters, we've been really highlighted. In fact, this is a free show every week, trying to highlight the individual personality of each band that's playing and that's helped a lot, too. I think we're getting a little bit of a different crowd that maybe don't know what bands on the bricks is that they might understand free show and think that that band looks good or know their their audience. and then We also have the Pearl Street Arts fest coming up, which I think I may have neglected putting in here astonished and shocked my apology. But the Pearl Street Arts fest is this weekend Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so you can expect that 14th will be closed between canyon and walnut. In addition to having about 111 different artists all set up tents and booths around the downtown. We have 21 different States represented this year. So a lot of people come from far away to attend and show their wares. And we'll have arts activities with the

[29:11] Mobile Arts lab as well. Studios. So that's quite a bit of a heavy lift. But we're looking forward to that this weekend and on the Ambassador side, I included in your packet our second quarter report. So I'll I won't go over that in great details. Because you can take that and look at it on your own time. But, we're working with our team and also with steam and her team to make sure that we're accurately tracking what is actually happening? And the vocabulary that we're using to talk about things so. And Atlv block face, what does that mean? That's the giant snucleopagus gutter, cleaner thing that we have. That's what I call it. But that's what an Etlp is. That's been a great tool. You can't get it out there every day. It's weather defended. Can't put it out. But it's been a great thing. We have been really focusing our getting our team aligned on what is actually an outreach conversation. And what is a hospitality? Conversation just

[30:14] smiling at something that does not go with hospitality contact, but saying, Hey, are you looking for a place to eat, or like a suggestion for something to do this week. That's actually I'll have to tell it. The Tebow train has had almost 1,400 riders. That's, of course, a great thing that we have for the kiddos Monday through Friday. And they've been really trying to weed as much as they can with the rain in June weeding season. and, as you can see, it's pretty hard to read over these 3 grades, so I don't think you can hear the 4 letter words that are coming out of that really doing a great job and also working with the forestry team to remove some of the small suckers on the trees that cause real problems for those trees later on.

[31:01] We're also getting out the Mega brute. Which is this rolling trash can thing, which is great because it gets out the phone number and the logo for the program about what it is. We've got the East End planters thriving and flourishing because we've watered them. And then a team is, of course, helping out with bands on the bricks and setting up the stage every week for bands on the bricks. and that concludes my report any questions I was speaking to trash. This might be in a different aspect, but I saw that the hill has different trash receptacles is that coming downtown as well? Those are not inexpensive. So budget considerations we are looking at how to integrate that into the downtown. So Tvd. And it is going to be in my slideshow later. Thanks for calling. They're called big belly. They are.

[32:06] Yeah. Any other questions just very sympathetic to all the stuff that happened downtown. Just efforts that, you know do need to promote or anything. Big things happen. Thank you. Appreciate that. Yeah, it's been really wonderful to see the community come together. It's thank you. So speaking right along, we're doing long time right? Mattress with staff garage made by signage. Yeah, I think, Sam, are you ready for this? I am ready believe I need to be quoted should have a screen one side. I'm multi.

[33:06] I agree with what I'm saying. and so I have a short presentation on this, and get into a little bit of the capital improvements that we had. We'll finish with a short presentation today.

[34:05] ice cream is going black like this. But now the continuously onboard technical one technology technology. So what's that calculation here. Presentation very fine. This is where just takes a second for the screen to catch up, anyway. Cool. downtown garage way, finding here we are all together, and my screen is working apologies for the delay. So

[35:02] this will be very short and sweet. Just wanted to talk to you about some of the signage that is directing folks to find the downtown garages. These are our current way, finding signs that we have in place. As you can see, they've kind of been added to over the years. They're kind of in funky locations as well. Since these have gone up over the years, traffic patterns have changed. People are coming in through different routes. And so we're hoping to do kind of a minor overhaul of the existing way, finding signage so that people can really easily find the garages, and they can find information for where they can find the garages in very strategic locations based on where people are actually traveling. Because we do have some of that really awesome data from our transportation. So since we had this opportunity we thought we would check in with our commissioners here today and and see what your thoughts are about. The look of the signage specifically. So that's what we're looking for is

[36:12] kind of what the the future is going to be like, I said. It's it's a minor overhaul, so we'll we'll probably have an opportunity in the future to maybe do it again with a more comprehensive project. But this is just in the meantime we can make it better than it is today. So here are a couple of options that I've mocked up for you. We don't have to go with any of these options, as you can see. One of the options on the left, which has number one that's existing signage that is already on Broadway. That looks really nice and is in really good shape. But we've got other options, too, for you to consider. So this is just an opportunity for you to give me some feedback on just the design elements that you like, and these these can be customized and changed and just looking for that feedback. So I'll go to the last slide, which is my questions for the Dmc. Which is, you have any

[37:09] questions about what we're proposing to do, and then do you have any feedback on the sign? The sign documents? Yes, that's absolutely so. I don't. That last one, I think, is too simple. I don't know why I don't think. But besides, the actual design of it, are we getting these and reflective? Oh, signage like a feel like that helps things pop out from all the signs that are on the streets and the greenery and suburb, and things like that. anything that kind of catches the eye. I do feel like, wow! The light up signs of the the garage has been a good thing, especially when they're just pulling

[38:01] things that are happening around town. So I think anything that helps catch the eye. So if there are options to get these in the reflective reflective signage, or at least reflective orders, and things like that, that would be great. So as far as the look. I think the middle one saying, parking explicit, we'll just spell out better rotation for people that often I like the custom one. I like that. It says Pearl Street, one, because I think I lived in Santa Barbara, and we have a similar thing to Pell Street, where, like there's industrial part of it. And there's an actual, and it's you can do a lot of research. And it's hard to sort of figure out like. But where do I really want to be, and so I don't know. Maybe it makes people feel like they're in the right spot. I don't know if it's like too much to read, but I can see the work parking the ski, the circles, but

[39:01] and you already have it. That's a plus. And even if there's a combination of like Girl Street, ballpark and signage around the corner. That says, probably right. The one on the right looks like it could be for the church. It could be for anything. We don't write books for it doesn't know it's for I like, I like the one because it builds the branding and hooks and enforce while you're here. E, the second one same kind of thing isn't perfect or something that's not good. We'll just irritation. So do we have to pay more to get more signs than under Number One, or we just keeping the science we have. We're good the signs we'll keep the one if we? If you just do. If you decide that number one is sort of like the direction you want to go, we'll keep the ones that we have. There's only 2 on Broadway, and so then we'll have to produce more

[40:05] to fill in the gaps around the rest of the downtown. It's not a huge amount of signs. but the custom design will will be slightly more expensive. But you know it's still like it's not. It's pretty nominal to replace signs. It's not like a huge undertaking financially. Yeah, I mean, it'll probably it'll be less than $10,000. It might be. It'll probably be less than $1,000. But I can't. I don't have the quote. I kind of need the design to get the quote first, st but it's not going to make a huge budget impact. If there were minor variations I might make them bigger on it before we print a whole bunch of them just to make more on this, just like, like the pee in the circle. Burger. Yeah. yeah, I'm not a Commissioner, but I just want to point out the number one. If you continue to fill in the custom route. That is our old logo for downtown folder.

[41:04] So if I move back up, see that. How do we feel about the that top local part, because the the alternative is. you know, this just the bottom square? Yeah, with Pearl Street Mall parking on it. But I I think the branding is really nice. I mean, branding is nice, but it's also more information that people are supposed to read at 30 miles per hour. I think simpler works better in this case, as far as road signs go. Maybe a concentrated effort to say that it's important. Pearl Street, Mall, parking around the World Street Mall, which is what we're talking about. Yeah. Maybe if it's like downtown slash Girl Street that they're also.com.

[42:02] it's it's hard when you when you know where everything is. It's hard to imagine not knowing. yeah, people that they're coming to the Mall. But they'll generally yeah. I do like the branding because it they saw it on an ad or something like that. It helps, you know. Again you're going to the right place. and then and so another. Just something I'll just throw out there for you to consider is like, if you see number 2, the hybrid on the bottom there's like a circle, and that is a city's logo. So we could put like a city of boulder logo into the science center as well if that's desirable. But or we could go with the downtown little. I mean, there's there's options here. Yeah, we're not. We're not competing a ton of other companies for parking. So I don't know that to say if it was a matter of like making people use our parking versus other options, that would be something. But like there really aren't too many outside of us, especially in the downtime area.

[43:12] I guess I just counted Cal that like if it says Pole Street, Mall Park that's fine here because that kind of gives you. Yeah, it's not for the business deals right there. That's great. I don't know. I just think about like Denver, bigger cities like there's aside from a few standalone garages, they they just say, parking on Saturday. We know that's a place to park, and I never which one to use. But since we're all kind of. we're modernizing our systems that we're using, and it's all done for Mobile. And so, anyway, as long as people know this place to park. I think anything that'll catch their eye and bring them into that should should help.

[44:04] I guess it is my life of brand makers that anything to make older people special versus just yeah. It adds, like, a, you know, it's kind of like doing like there's that sign outside on Walnut. Before you go into that neighborhood, it's got like a little neighborhood sign and said, Okay, it just needs to go. I don't know little more special than just barking. But you've heard people I've heard some feedback, some mock ups. But thank you for Drew, and that thanks, Sam. Yeah, let's see if I can make the transition, I don't know. Yeah, that's the other folks adding, Oh, hold on doing alright.

[45:11] So I'm really excited. I think last year about this time came down, and the presentation of the work that the team's been running in the downtown garages in the area. They were cranking this year, and all of it may not have been huge and flashy and glamorous, but there was a ton of work that was done on your behalf in the downtown area. So I just wanted to take you on a before and after tour of lots of stuff, so that we can kind of talk through what's going on. So, being able to move, you can do it. Alright. as we all know we are, we are here on behalf of Cajun. This is the founding ordinance, and I just highlighted that. It's all about parking, which is why the majority of our efforts and energy is spent on garages, because that is what we were here to do, and this is just a quick map to show you generally where the parking is. This is more for folks later. I know you all know these things.

[46:16] So you all know about the spruce lot. We did some tree trimming in the area. I'm sure you all heard this year we had, or a few years ago, there was a young child who was killed by a fallen tree branch in boulder, and so it's just as a mom, something that I think about, and as a person who has a parking lot with old trees to make sure that these are well cared for, so we took the time to make sure that they are well trained in rooms. We did a lot of work at the 1,100 spruce garage. So again, when I say that what we're doing is not big and flashy, it's because we're working on things like in the bottom right hand corner you can see that we had to fix the elevator so that metal in the picture on the left hand side that metal column is supporting the elevator shaft, and you don't want concrete crumbling under elevator shaft. So we went in. We had to pull out all the bailing concrete. Make sure that the rebar, and all the metal inside of that was super strong.

[47:20] Put some stuff on it to make sure that it lasts for a long time, reinstall concrete and shore. That up. Other stuff that we worked on was the stair deck, which I'll take you through next. We did a lot of the administrative work for the Cmgc. The construction management general contractor project that we're going to be doing, and the administrative burden is not insignificant. That's what I shall say. So the team has been cranking on that, doing an amazing job doing facility assessments so that we prioritize the work that's being done in in the garages so that we are using the dollars to their highest investments. We also made sure to install, as I've mentioned before, water is our enemy. So anytime water gets on concrete concrete's like a sponge and absorbs it, and then, when it freezes and melts, it just continues to crack. So we have to make sure to manage water all the time, so we made sure to put gutters on the solar panels again. Not exciting stuff, but super important.

[48:20] We put heat lamps at the entrances because we were getting these giant frozen tuddles at the entrances of our garages. So we're trying to battle that as well as landscaping, we wanted to take you on a quick tour of when we say the spruce garage deck replacement on the left hand side. You can kind of see that there's a tiny little bow, and maybe the railing is like kind of gleaming out a little bit. So we fixed it and spent a bunch of money to make it look like a picture on the right. which doesn't seem like a big deal until you start realizing that the reason it's Boeing is because the steel I-beam on the inside was deteriorating to a place that it was not supporting those length beams anymore. You had to remove 8 inches of that I-beam and re weld an I-beam on there, and then you can see in this picture all of that steel was corroded and deteriorated to a point that it was not

[49:15] ideal. This is one of our highest use garages, right? So we had to pull all that out. We had to install epoxy to make sure that the new steel that we're putting in is going to be protected from the elements moving forward had to reinstall the structural rebar. And then, once you look at all of those pictures, this suddenly seems like a much more important project. Again, we were doing little things to try to make it seem nice downtown. So those bare, barren areas we're installing the mulch. I don't know if you remember this work on the landscaping. There are those giant bushes as you were coming on spruce and taking a left onto 11th Street. Those bushes were a hazard. Nobody could see around them. You couldn't see cars exiting the garage. So our team came in, and they or they installed all of this landscaping to make sure that they're low profile. It looks nicer. It's just a cleaner and more inviting feel for our highest garage.

[50:22] but we still have challenges like work in progress. We're we've got a lot of corrosion like I mentioned and showed pictures of. We've had to block off that little walkway which is on the north side of the building because folks should not be walking there, don't duck. Whatever fencing we have don't walk there. We're also going through and doing in our process. We were looking at security assessments which talks about it turns out having light colored paint and lots of lights in garages, and makes people feel better. But also we need to make sure that the doors are working, the keys are working. And how do you manage access throughout the buildings? We're gonna we're working to install cell phone repeaters

[51:04] in certain garages. That is an extensive project, so if I've mentioned it on other garage that may or may not happen there, we're looking at the Saint Julian garage, since it's totally underground as well as this 1st garage, since it's our highest utilized access issues as well as we will be power washing. and we'll be power washing on the on the 31.st So it turns out all the dirt and nastiness and grime shouldn't be back. And so we've been working to power, wash our garages, and then when that happens, it gets stuck in the drains, and then you have to stop the drink. So it's just a process. We've got a few years of of work to catch up on. But we're also working on the Cmgc and making sure that we have asphalts of the building so that we can create the schematic design so that we can actually price and permit and get construction. So any questions on that

[52:02] 1,500 pearl, I don't know, if you guys know this, we were trying to make some updates on this as well. All of our facilities are in. They're getting older. you know, like this one. This is one of my favorite before and afters. I wish it was bigger for you guys, so you can really see it. But it was rusted and not not attractive, so we were able to replace all that we're starting to remove rust or rust throughout the building. We now have working Hvac in this building. That was a 3 year end endeavor it was that was rough. We also had to make sure that the boilers work. So again. This is not the exciting stuff, but super important. When it comes to maintaining the assets that we have gutters, we had to replace the fire panel here. Those are things you don't want going out and again assessments to make sure the facility stays, or we're addressing what that facility we had a fleet full of electric vehicles that didn't have access to charging, so Elliot helped to get

[53:04] charging for the fleet, which is very exciting. Here are pictures of them trying to lure them lifting, and we had 24 of these units on our roof that had to be installed, and the old ones hadn't been lifted, and of course it happened during a snowstorm. Why wouldn't we do that? So now we've got these beautiful. I know I'm dirty, but we've got these beautiful units, which is fantastic. You have to make sure that people don't trip over things. So we're making sure to highlight that. No, you guys saw this downstairs. Isn't it beautiful? Oh, my goodness! So she has been clearly putting arts. We're trying to pair the non exciting work with investments in the arts and making these buildings someplace, you actually want to go and make it easier to wait by throughout downtown, like, Oh, yeah, I need to be in the parking garage box. I know where I'm going. Right like it's

[54:01] it's exciting that we're starting to make these sorts of. This one was public art. So we've been partnering with the public art team, and they were able to go through a selection process and bring. It's really nice to have the arts team working with them together. It's been an interesting complex, so super excited about that. And we'll have more of this art in our in our front customer service area so that people get to enjoy it when they come in to visit a building. But it still has challenges. Those. Those are structural metal plates. So again, don't duck any barriers up there. So we're going to have to replace the stair decks on floors 4 through 6 in this building, because they've especially this main one, are falling apart, and our engineer says, do not walk there just gone. We've got some so they can't cut too far.

[55:05] Don't go there facade replacement. We want to make these buildings look nice, and the lead time is very so. We need to start this work now to make sure that these buildings look nice when sunbance does. But we recognize that we do manage a number of city blocks. And therefore we have an impact on again, cell phone repeaters, Cmgc. Were any questions on 15 min for all I don't know what. So this box. So our team is working really hard and having our. We finally have a really solid capital improvements team and a fully staffed maintenance team. It was not the case when I 1st got here to have these teams working together and pulling in the same direction, you can actually feel movement in what's being done. So it's been. It's been exhilarating to be a part of it, even if it's not always the super

[56:06] or at Rtv. This is, we were working really hard to make sure that things were power washed and painted, and we were doing upgrades to the Rtd. Bike shelter, which I'll show you in a minute, adding gutters. So this this one on the right shows that we have to move. I know it's boring, but you have to move the water, not onto the parking deck, because we paid lots of money for that traffic coat right? We don't want to put solvents onto which gutter it's a solvent onto a traffic coat. You want to move it down off of the building entirely. So we have to install gutters the length of that building which isn't exist before it's just cool up there. So we got we were able to work with Rtd. To get new cameras installed in that bike shelter and make sure that we are providing the safer experience because we know that access is not just feel comfortable downtown on their bikes as well.

[57:05] I didn't have a before picture, but the after of painted walls in here was delightful for anybody who tried to do that. We're also going to be taking on the landscaping. So our maintenance team in September is going to take on the landscaping on the south side of that building or on the south of both sides, and try to make that look as nice as this garage as well as restripe these companies, because those strikes like the parking stalls, and we're at any questions or concerns about our team. Alright. Is there a split between us and our Gd. Through the West. No, the we own the air rights, and we own the parking garage. They own the internal, like the actual bus station. We. we transportation and mobility and the county are responsible for the parking the pipe storage area.

[58:05] so that's a unique space. Technically they are. The county is responsible for the badging in and out system. You're responsible for the cleaning maintenance. so that's something that we're kind of an onion. We're peeling. figuring out how to pass people in that space. The shared spaces are always the best. But yeah, we own the air right? So definitely. Saint Julian garage E stripped off the traffic coat because we did a ton of work on the concrete last year and invested a ton of money on it or in it, and then you have to make sure to protect it with traffic coats and non-permeable. So we did a lot of that, and it looked so nice. It looks so nice. You can see that they were actually scrubbing off the old traffic coat and then installing a new one. We did a lot of stairwell enhancements and safety assessments.

[59:04] We selected our architects. But this is just like before and after photos. Water on concrete. That's on. That's on steel. Not a great combination. So we had to go in in that middle picture. You can see that we had to install bracing all the way down the center of the stairs. Because if we were going to remove the stairs, it's very loud and that disrupts a 4 Star hotels. Experience guest experience. So we have to navigate if we have to thread that needle of trying to do this work. But it's not going to impact the business. So we were able to install that make it secure. Our engineer has approved it painted so that it looked like the before and after. It looked terrifying before. You know it looks much better, but this is a constant can't just do it once, and then think it's gone. So this is just an example of the scribbean and the pretty new traffic code that we have. That's what a cell phone repeater will look like at some point when we do get it installed. But we are trying to align our work with the Saint Julian is looking to expand. So whenever they do start doing the construction we are trying to keep that on top of that. So

[60:17] Any questions about St. Julian. So far, what construction has yet to be done for we will always have concrete in this garage that needs to be replaced. It will just be every single year. Every 2 years we will have to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars when cars come in off the street, especially in the winter times when they're bringing in fluoride and all sorts of nasty stuff on the bottom of the car, and then that gets is that just is delivered delivery system to our concrete, and then it soaks into the concrete and the freezing and thawing like I was mentioning. A lot of the chemicals degrades the concrete quickly, and we can't stop the damage that's already been done, and just Patch, with constant money between it, and prevent new damage from being done by maintaining these traffic coats. But we will be playing catch up throughout.

[61:13] I'm glad you asked Randolph Garage for doing a lot of traffic codes. We've been doing a ton of concrete work in there over the past few years. Restriting. There will be painting coming up soon to just make it feel a little less creepy. And but we've also been taking on some extra stuff that's been out and about, so I don't know if you notice we've been replacing 250 bike racks throughout downtown, which is not easy. When our team 1st started it was 12 wax per per bolt in order to get those things to sell, so there are 3 bolts or 6 bolts per for a rack. So the guys are. So they figured out a way to make it easier. But we've also again been working with art in order to get or with the arts team to get art underneath the bike racks that people recognize where they've been where they've been parking, we were able to work with 13 different departments and the community organizations to install no overnight parking signs throughout the Pacific area lots, so that

[62:25] we are currently handing out flyers to people who may be staying in those lots or not using the lots as they are intended. Let them know that the rules have changed, and then Pd. Plans to start enforcing these signs in the coming month or so. So we'll see if that has any impact. Yeah, similar to the signage that's up in all of the Osmp and Parks parking lots, so that these larger uses that are intended to visit these spaces for today.

[63:02] Yeah. So the the only one that is different from the 11 to 5 is the Penfield tape lot, because the last thing we want to do is have somebody accidentally tow a person's vehicle there at city meeting. It's not a great book. So we adjusted for that time. But hopefully, we don't have any issues. We've also been installing outdoor dining which those guys are having to hand. Fill those things. It was 3 tons of rock that goes into those. So they're saints preparing lighting. This is probably the thing that I'm most excited about. We were able to get the Wells Fargo block. all of the trees installed, and that took 4 different entities to make that happen. So we had to. Yeah, it's great. I'm really excited about that one. They're the trash cans that we talked about. So those are installed throughout the hill. The hill clock always gets used and abused, but we were able to fix all of that stuff. We resurfaced the 14th Street lot up on the hill. And for the garage investment cadence we're planning to do because of the

[64:13] spruce is our highest utilized garage. So we want to make the investments in there as soon as possible, but we also recognize the Saint Julian has a very particular time period with their expansion project that it would move us to partner and do our work at the same time. So we're planning to do both of those in 2026 in 27 it would be 1,500 pearl in Rtd. And then Randall but all of this we all know that the city has a certain budget sets right now. So all of this is dependent of budget ongoing budget. So just some extra information about where we're at who the partners are on these different Cmtcs. But we're going to continue to work on the capital improvements preparing for big Cmgcs and then evaluate the facility location, making sure that our our assets are meeting the community's opportunity.

[65:11] That is the plan. For now, right questions or concerns you guys had a big impact on. I know it was a long presentation. But that was a lot of work that you all yeah, that everybody's interested. So interesting. Thank you. Alright. Got one more in. You try to keep brief. actually, probably have to try. It is pretty great. So we'll jump right in. so kind of coming back looking at the budget information and where we are, where we're going such that the second touch point we've had. We just submitted everything to the executive budget team with the city council. We're sorry within the city, and we're kind of waiting now to what they say.

[66:09] So kind of what we're doing today is kind of going over that timeline some high level information. This isn't really by fund yet. So it's not really specific to agents fund, as you all are concerned with Dmc. Your roles there, but more about all of community vitality and all of our programs. We'll get into some of the priorities that we're looking to focus on, and then also a little bit about what's changed in our budget this year. So the executive budget team you guys probably recall from last year. No, this your 1st 1st budget season. So let me. So the Executive Budget team is comprised of city management office as well as Hr. And communications, and then a couple of floating directors, and then, in addition to our central finance staff.

[67:02] So what they do is they look at all the proposals across the entire organization kind of see how they align with the city priorities, the strategic work plan instead of goals and help kind of make decisions, especially as we're in a area of the budget reduction process. How they best help prioritize enhancements that then all gets finalized. Push back to departments as a recommended budget that we put forward to City Council to get that presentation late August, early September, and then you all would be asked for support. That we will then communicate to city council what your sense is on the proposed budget for Cajun and Council will then make move to pass that in September, and then officiate in October. So what's changed a little bit? Our operating budget is looking to have a little bit of

[68:05] a decrease mainly in part from the parking Enforcement team. So they are moving from community vitality over to planning and development services. So that is a entire program that Cb will be losing in addition to the budget parking enforcement operations will stay the same. But just reporting to a new Department is is really what it is. It's a combining of all code enforcement type, limited commission officers. So code compliance, code enforcement, parking, enforcement and limited commission officers for open space, not parks as well as parks rep are all kind of meeting brought together under one area. So that's kind of where that's happening from. So that's 1 of the main reasons why we had such a big change in our operating budget question. You're I thought you were talking to Gc. By the way, this is general Fund level.

[69:03] But is this the budget, then, for seating here that we're looking at? Correct? This is all community vitality budget. Okay, so that 24.9 million dollars is every program across all community vitality. Same thing with operating that 12.8 is all operating dollars for Cv, and then the capital is just specific to yep. So a pretty decent decrease with that move to from parking enforcement. And then, really, where the number shines, is that really large increase. From 25 to 26 with our capital improvement plan. As you heard from Christine, we're really getting after our garages, really tackling a lot of these large projects. We're very well staffed. Now, we're very well resourced to actually start doing this work. So we're putting our money where our mouth is, so to speak, and you can see that in our budget. But you're also going to start seeing that, and not just we expect to spend. But what we actually spend.

[70:06] So not to harken too much on the emphasis of budget. But budget is just that the projection is what we think. So always keep that in mind whenever you're hearing anything about any government budget is what they expect to spend. So what we actually spend hopefully will match very closely to that, because that means we've achieved everything we said. We're getting trying to achieve so the key service areas that we'll really work here is asset management. Looking at Tdm investments. So transportation management, you'll see that in Boulder Junction. continuing public art. So you saw with other garages, but also throughout the community, especially with the 1% for public art, and then looking at the streetscapes and some vitality brokens. So is that reduction slightly just the

[71:00] loss of that one department? Or is that also reduction due to budget issues? So the of that 1.3 1.2 ish is just the move of an enforcement. So the bulk of the reduction is just a move. It's not. It's a reduction for us. It's not a reduction to the general fund. It's just a move from one department to another. So the general funds not really saving that 1.2 million dollars. It's just moving from department to it. It shows up in our budget as preemption. And you have this many 30. That's working right now, is that what you ask? Yes, that's a great question. Yeah. So from what we call our fund balance. So basically, our cash balance if you will. Okay, Cajun. And this 3.4 is not just Cajun's increase in capital. It's a big portion of it. There's also an increase in. There's also an increase in

[72:04] University Hill, although that's programmed out in future years as well as our Ccrs portions for the 1% public art. So it's multiple funding sources. A big bulk of it's Cajun. But yes, we. We are programming money to the tune of staying positive in our cash balance, not going negative. So we don't anticipate any bonding needs right now, or any negative balances on the fund. Great questions. So, looking at the 26 through 31 capital improvement plan. the Cmgc is a bulk of our investment. So over those course of 5 years, 6 years it's about 25 million dollars that we're going to invest in our garages. Bulk of it is at Spruce, and here at Pearl. We're also doing some investments at St. Julian and Rtd. And kind of

[73:04] Tbd. Sorry for all the acronyms on Randolph, and how we invest there so thinking long term. That's our oldest asset that's showing its age and trying to understand our best use of those fund dollars for Randolph is something we really want to conceptualize before we start programming dollars there. Does this proposed sale of the spruce open lot happen? And how does that impact budgets that like say themselves, yeah, that's a great question. The proposed sale is still in talks. We're still, I think, finalizing our second letter of intent. Of course, if we do sell that out, if and when we do sell that up, that increases our availability of cash which I know Christine and team, and say like great. So we can do. Instead of just this, we do just this and that which some of the and that is a good and reinvestment in these assets. So

[74:09] one of the ways to prevent water intrusion into concrete is to prevent water coming into concrete. So think about all the exposed staircases that we have in our buildings as one example. If those were closed in, we'd have less water coming into those staircases preventing a faster degradation of the concrete. So I would say that. Yes, there's this screw slot that has potential of increasing available cash. But that doesn't mean that we would just return right to Cmtc. And that's where we would do the investment. Part of that sale has some stipulations that may result us having to come to the table with some money as well. So it's not a this, for that kind of conversation is obviously more nuanced to it. If that sells, does it stay in home? It does go to general fund. Nope. It does stay in Cajun, so it is a Cajun owned asset. So the money would then go right back into Cajun for programming. Whether it's for Cmtc. Whether it's for something like

[75:11] the mobility hubs, which is something we're going to be investing into as well. This year we were awarded a grant by Dr. Pod to study what mobility hubs would mean for these garages. So is it just parking that we can afford. Obviously we have more than that in these garages now, with the office spaces as well as the tenant spaces. But is there opportunities for the Tnc. With thinking about flexible loading zones? Is there ways that we could program places for uber and lyft to drop off in our garages, to make it more even more convenient for customers? Is there a way for us to have multi mobility hubs for biking infrastructure for scooter infrastructure for any kind of thinking to transportation management options using these garages. So this year, we're studying that to figure out what the best use of those dollars to be so the next few years we're trying to program some money to be able to make that a realization. So rather than just study and say, Great, here's a plan. Let it sit on the table and collect us. We're going to be able to have some money to actually initiate those improvements. So that's what the mobility hub investment over the next 3 years will look like

[76:24] Pearl Street Mall improvements. So this was actually the 25 through 30. Cip was on there as well. So just keeping that alive, looking at 3 million dollars next year. It's a combination of Cajun doing an investment of 2 million and the community resiliency and safety tax investing a million dollars into the Pearl Street Mall as well. And then this year we have some money set aside to do some assessments and figure out what that largest investment is I need to do, and how best to get ready for the 50th anniversary.

[77:02] because we remember when we talked about like the plan that you know, talking here about stuff that is the the plan that we had for what downtown was gonna be, oh. 3 million doesn't sound enough to do everything that plan. So this would like kind of cherry, pick a couple of things about that plan? Or is this more like upkeep and maintenance, more than upkeep and maintenance? More getting prepared, that when we do have a big 50th event that people come to the Pearl Street Mall and be like, oh, wow! It still looks great now. Oh, it's completely changed. And we've done a 16th Street Mall renovation. We've done more of a let's make sure. Pearl Street still looks good and has its character and culture, but doesn't look age rag right kind of like. Let's make it look nice is more with this. Money is going to be used. Thinking about the hill and its remaining assets. So the University Hill does still have a surface slot up there. So we've done some studies and some analysis through our Uli tap Grant. And they suggested some things. So now we're thinking about, how do we program the remaining fund balance? That huge does have to

[78:18] look at redeveloping that 14th Street lot. That's a couple of years into the future. In the meantime, we're talking about how we can increase revenue there. So one of the things that we're going to be starting up on University Hill is a long term parking. Permit option right now. It's solely transient parking. So we're looking at doing long term parking to increase some additional revenue with that one asset it was launched yesterday. So literally happening as we speak. some public art projects so funding from Ccrs dedicated to public art projects. This is in addition to the 1% for cip, that is a little bit different than the Ccrs stuff. So this is a little additive to that.

[79:02] And then I know how you were talking about the digital signs and how awesome they are to have downtown. We want to be able to extend that to Boulder Junction as well, and the parking garage that we have out there. So looking to do an investment for that nature out there. There is a quasi update other than that. It's still happening. That's about as best as I could get. I don't know. And I do know that. Yeah. Well, in that that being said, I don't know if you've been paying attention to the we're not calling it. They're calling it yeah, the the diagonal flyer. I think that's what they're marketing it as there was just a recent survey put out for residents to kind of talk about what

[80:01] route they would be taking. So they're looking at, actually adding an additional route which would serve more of the western side of Long line. And that route specifically would. It's Hub would be Boulder Junction rather than downtown. I don't know if that's gonna be for sure. So that bus that would come down over and capture most of the West Side residents would actually come to Boulder via Boulder Junction, and then also go to see you and then go back via Boulder Junction, whereas the one that's on the east side of town going down Main Street would come to downtown. So if that were to happen you're looking at even more people coming through Boulder Junction, even more of a reason for them to stand up more services at Boulder Junction itself. So because in the big picture, you know, we're dealing with transportation down now as part of our mission, and how to get people from older Junction downtown so that they could work and shop and rolls, heat and all that stuff. Right now, I really only think of like a hop. The hop, yeah. So the hop does still continually run bulk Junction downtown.

[81:11] and that's the kind of the biggest bus right now that we have the transit system. What does parking revenue look like in mind. Forget your lunch. It's there. It's not anywhere near like cage it is. It's 1 garage and it's it's all sumped, shared, unbundled, managed parking. So what that means is the garage, doesn't we? Don't have dedicated parking spots for Boulder Junction, general Improvement district for the hotel or for Rtd, it's all these spaces are shared, and they're they're not bundled. So everyone kind of shares the revenue that comes in through that we do have some long term permits that we sell there, and we do have some transit parking revenue that we receive as well. We are going to be converting that garage to an office every month, so properties, property manager account.

[82:07] Yep, so that'll be nice for customers, at least. Kind of a seamless if they want to park here versus what the junction, there's not a lot that they have to do other than pull in, and their account will automatically handle the charges. see the decent people, thoughts about connecting over junction and downtown, and all of that bus station starts bringing in more people versus the downtown station. Do you have any downtown partnership? Have any thoughts? I would say that we're definitely pro bringing people downtown. However, they select to be brought by bus bike carrier pigeon hang glider really always works for us. So yeah, I mean, we we just. We don't really have the bandwidth to scale transportation

[83:00] initiatives. But of course we would be supportive. So the Huck does like, if I remember it, does it clockwise and counterclockwise. So you don't have to go from Holder Junction to like. See? You go from older Junction down, down. Pretty much. Yeah. I will say another big initiative that we're working on this year and are getting ready to produce an Rp. If not, is the commercial areas blueprint posted? Yes, everything happens. I'm so behind. So yesterday we posted a Rp request for proposals for our commercial area blueprints which is looking at like, how do we connect all of these commercial areas downtown? Boulder Junction, University Hill? 55, th like, how do we get all these areas connected? Make sure that there's a good process going forward. That is the process or anything awesome. So some notable items for you all as well as other commissioners, missionaries. Even though we're talking about budget reductions this year, we're not changing any of our essential services. So we really want to make sure that we have all of those essential services, such as managing the garages and investing in these garages.

[84:14] so that those investments then return into actual revenue that we continue to maintain these and then provide more services. We want to make sure we're doing all of that on a regular basis. We recognize that during these budget reductions, how we best put that foot forward. So really addressing the deferred maintenance that we've had, but still supporting the public spaces still supporting the public events, and really thinking about safety in our districts as well. So what's next? So next week Ebt will be meeting with departments, Us. Included, to discuss some of our proposals and any changes that we've had. Again, biggest biggest proposals here are our capital plan. And what changes.

[85:03] August 29th is the City Council Review. Those September meetings for all of our Commissioners will be when we're asking for commission recommendations whether there's support there to that. We can translate over to city Council. Final budget adoption will be October 23, rd and of course we'll always support missions. So is there any issue, getting all that money for the capital stuff, because that's already part of our well, it's already part of our budget. But our budget can change. Is there any issue with us getting that? There is always an issue, potentially with council, saying No. as the Board of directors for all the commissions. They really tend to lean on you all for support. So I would continue to ask for that support or input, I should say more so than support So

[86:00] I don't want to count my chickens before they hatch, but I also am very optimistic when it comes to that. So I think that's kind of the approach we've always had is cautiously optimistic. and you know, I think the Commissioners, or sorry the Board of Directors City Council recognize these assets is also very important to the health and the overall well-being of not just the fund, but to everything that happens downtown. Being able to bring people downtown directly relates to creating sales tax which directly impacts the general fund. So there's a very strong connection between how these assets help bolster the rest of the city. Not just the general district. any other questions or feedback. Okay? So yeah, I think that is everything we have from ladders, from staff.

[87:04] Well, we are. It is rock rolling here. Any matters from commissioners that you would like to address? I'm curious about the 50th anniversary. How do we get involved in that. How does that look like? Yeah. So we're looking ahead. The relationship that we have to compete with the city. The city is going to be doing investments to improve the infrastructure and the functionality with that 3 million dollars. Actually, our 501 simultaneous Ci is going to be doing programming. So we're looking to do a couple of different things. We're also working right now to logo that we'll be able to license to various businesses and marketing. So liberty puzzles, wants to do a commemorative puzzle if somebody wants to do a commemorative

[88:03] jelly or honey or t-shirt, whatever license that out. So that's in process right now. The main event. August 7, th 2027. So we are a fair phase out, even in the event planning world. So that's kind of where we're going to be focusing most of our attention. And we have our board of directors for Wci. And then some volunteers from the including they'll be really doing a lot of the boarding and efforts for the programming work. Another thing that we're thinking about doing, although we're trying to figure out the funding is to do an update to Sylvia's book. Positively, Pearl Street, which is an amazing book that came out, and the 30th anniversary of the Pearl Street Mall. So we're talking to her about the possibility of doing an updated version as a new chapter for everything that's happened since then, including all of the developments on the West End and some of the the future ideas that come from the Vision Plan and also the Pacific Area budget.

[89:08] But it's all very. It's like not even dough yet. It's just no ingredients. not even ready to be put in the holes. Yet the vision plan doesn't have any questions to get it done right? Correct? And it's probably not happening under this current copy copy situation. is there thoughts and plans, or hopes, or desires or ideas to get any of it, you know. So the vision plan was completed actually, before I got here, and it's a really wonderful guidepost, and it's kind of a north star for us to look at when we're trying to think about future plans for what we would like to see. But, as you rightfully say, if there are no, there's no fundraising targets, there's no identified funding or capital improvement budget attached to it. So

[90:03] it's really more of a conceptual and a guide, for like, if somebody with a project that they want to get downtown, I often refer that to that, so that they can see how it fits in with that overall kind of like the comp plans that they don't have correct. but with less funding on the call. Plan sounds good. There you go. Well, our next meeting is September 9th includes one year and 11 months of the 50th anniversary cash, you know. Oh, future! Do I hear? A second second? Then. thank you. Guys, thank you. Guys.