March 16, 2026 — Human Relations Commission Regular Meeting

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Manually captioned by City of Boulder staff. All caption segments attributed to uploader (Christian Phillips) — not individual speaker labels. [MM:SS] timestamps link to the YouTube recording.

[0:12] Zach. And… we are live, it is… Monday, March 16th? This is the… here we go. Meeting of the Human Relations Commission of the City of Boulder. I am going to share my screen. Cut. Okay, we have already done this, but I will just quick run through. So, tonight, I guess…

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[2:07] With that, I'll pass it over to Aaron. Okay, Here we are, 6.14 PM on March 16th, Human Relations Commission meeting. For Emily's final meeting related to this question. Very grateful. We will move into call orders. Looks like all five are here and present. Are there any adjustments that need made to the agenda? Okay, we'll move into, approving minutes. Can I hear a motion to approve the minutes? All in favor of approving the minutes? Aye. Payments are approved. Okay, moving into open comment, it looks like we have nobody here for open comment, that's correct? Yep. Okay. So, how's that?

[3:10] So, action items. There… we have nothing currently listed for action items, unless anybody has anything… Great. So, gonna be a discussion information items. So, we've got two things for discussion today. 2026 draft work plan spreadsheet review discussion, and then update and follow-up conversation to flat camera letter. The 2026 draft work plan spreadsheet, did that… Yes, great. That is brought to us by Jorge, thank you very much. And I'm gonna just pull it up on the screen here.

[4:02] this was the, like, document that probably showed up very tiny on your… in your packet, but I also shared the spreadsheet, so you guys have that, and were able to see. Can everybody see this? Want me to zoom in a little bit more? Sounds good. You want to ask a piece of all this? Yeah, so what I did was very simple. I took the document, clustered the actions into, you know, the… the main blocks of bridging vertical gaps, bridging horizontal gaps, and they just lay down the actions, try to put a due date and responsible on the right, so that we need to fill the blanks there when we want to achieve everything.

[5:11] I set, like, an owner, and then who supports that owner for that activity? And then just the status, so every meeting we can just follow up on where we're standing on. Each action. Very cool. This is very helpful. It's a nice party list. Can you pick the way you'd want to direct conversation about this? I suggest we just go action by action, just to make sure that the action is well reflected, and fill the blanks. Okay. I started using AI to translate the document into Excel sheet. Didn't work out. Nice. Just did it from scratch. You just gotta go manual, and this is… If you can just speak one at a time so our interpreters can capture what each of you all are saying. Just a reminder.

[6:08] So, I think in the last meeting, we kind of proposed ourselves for each of the posters. I might be wrong. I didn't get who was volunteering for what, so… Right. Yeah, there was some conversation Around, sort of, like, what… Folks gravitated towards, or what spoke to different folks. Passions, interests. We're just… likes or dislikes here, so, we can, if you want to, go through and assign folks like that, okay. And I can scribe as you guys go. Yeah, so maybe you're just going one by one. Yep. Being like, volunteer to join staff for presentations about the human rights ordinance and claims process. Could you please read a little bit more slowly? Because we can't see that. Absolutely. Just please read it.

[7:07] So, both activities, volunteer to join staff for presentations about the HRO and claims process. Assist in capturing questions and comments about barriers. I am happy to support that one. Great. Availability comes in, so you can put me in. And the owner is the one who drives it? Like, just kind of… Yeah, it's like, does anybody feel passionate about the human rights ordinance and, like, tending to that part, I guess, is a big question here. I think it's also okay if we have some of them where there's just a support and no clear owner yet, and we can probably, like, let some of these things come in. That's my guess, is maybe we don't need to force owners and supports, and if we see that as open, then maybe later on we're like, actually, I will volunteer for that one.

[8:12] I mean, I'm kind of… happy to help with top two. They seem similar to me. But I just am… Not sure, is that a commitment of 10 times, you know, a year, or is that more of a… because probably I can't do that frequency, but I'm happy to do it to the best of my ability. I don't necessarily see it as, like, a… you're committing to every single presentation, or, because some of them are going to be during the daytime, like, I'll go over to the nonprofit, and present to staff, some are weekends, some are evenings, so I think it's more of, like, as available and as your schedule, permit. joining along for those activities. And I'm happy to be the owner of that one and the second one, unless someone else wants it.

[9:08] Great. read that one, and maybe… Excuse me, there'll be other examples of this. Technically, I think Christian is the owner, because he's… Doing a setting up, right, the appointments, but, So Christine can be the owner, and the media line can be supporting. Great, that works. And maybe in that situation, the support is, you know, like, once Christian… and it's… it'll change throughout the year, but, like, it has a set of dates, right? So here's a plan. One or both of you would be supporting by reaching out and saying, who's… If it's one of you, or if it's someone else. Okay. Same with the second one, I guess.

[10:05] So this one is designate at least one HRC meeting per year for a community info session about the human rights ordinance. And invite community organizations and community members to join. So this would be using this meeting space, meeting time space, which is a, publicly noticed and publicly available, opportunity to get information out to the public about the ordinance, And, like, the claims process. Similar to what we did, weren't here, similar to what we did in July, I want to say, June or July. where I brought just my outreach presentation, presented it to the group, and asked for feedback. Similar,

[11:00] would have some type of information sharing, serving it. Would not necessarily have to be It's the whole meeting itself, but a portion of it to shareings. So it's, using one of our meetings, not a separate meeting, correct? Yes, so it would be using one of the 12. Okay. Was that something you own, yet again, and then we support? I… I think that's actually something that would come from the HRC, right? You could… you would… you would be deciding through the chair and vice chair what agenda you want for your meeting, and if you want to have one meeting per year. It would be up to you to kind of figure out when do we want to do that? What might we need from staff, and what are you committing to to help?

[12:00] get the word out beyond the public notice, right, that we're required to make. But if there are groups or populations that you really want to come and participate, and have it be a opportunity for direct engagement, then, you know, you'd talk about that, and decide when you wanted to do that. So, I think that would be more an HRC members, commission members, sorry, commissioner member tone. mission number. And you might want to think about that. You don't have to commit to everything tonight. So that's the case, in terms of, you know, engaging with the community so they… that we make them aware of these. Catos, probably you have more engagement than me at this point in time, too. It brings people aware.

[13:02] Of these meetings. I'm so embarrassed. We want to offer this one. I wonder if it might make more sense for us to kind of name what ones we want to own, rather than, like, going through. I feel like that way we can… I don't know, I just, like, had this sense that it might be more efficient over, like, just that one, and that one, and, like, letting the spreadsheet start to fill out, like, without necessarily even go linear, and then fill the gaps in? Yeah. Carlos, did you… before we move on, did you want to respond to what? Okay, go for it. You want to do it? Okay. I wasn't signing you up, I just wanted to give you space to respond, but if you want to sign up for it as owner, more than happy to put you down there. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Where to you next?

[14:04] Excellent events. Sorry, I'm just trying to make this a little bit… I'm having a hard time seeing which numbers. Like, is… A does learn about ongoing efforts? Okay. Yeah. Okay. I think I'm an 8. City to Boost Civic engagement and support. Learn about going efforts by City to Boost Civic engagement and support. This is community connectors and residents, Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan, etc. And to make sure that it's just sort of, like, a logistics piece, to make sure that it's captured by interpretation, we have to read out what it is, so that folks know what we're talking about.

[15:00] I can tell them drink too much. Open Hipline. Health planning staff, and HRC table at community gatherings and events. Okay. And you can put me for support on that one. Oh, you press things. We have… cool opportunities coming up that I will share with you, Tina. The number… well, I've… I was also wondering if that's probably the same as number 2? Hmm. Or we can combine. I don't know if we were talking more or less about the same. The percent to community groups on HRC.

[16:03] And then have the HRC meetings once a year. Wouldn't we do the two examples? Number two? I think number two is we're saying one of these meetings, we're gonna present, and people can come to it. The other one is we're going out into the community, and we're saying, we're gonna set up a table to, like, talk to some people. Yeah. But we're gonna say the same kind of thing, you know, we're gonna just talk about HRC. Interesting. Kristen, probably, you do the presentation. Yeah, and the second one, I'm seeing a specific focus on the human rights ordinance, whereas the third one, I'm seeing a broader view of who we are as HRC to invite people into. Generally. Okay. 2 next. I don't think that.

[17:03] And then, we have this set goal to increase public comment by X number per meeting, by year ends. That's a very simple election, because we can set the goal now, and then… It's pretty much double. Probably we can own that one, and then just set that. Okay. Do you want to own that one, and I can support? Yeah, I mean, my proposal is that everybody owns it. Yeah, I see. Yeah, I think, Jorge, you were saying that it's like a group endeavor. We need to set a number… I see. …that we're gonna aim for, that we would like. And for that, we need the base, right? So where are we now? So we define the goal. Do we know where we are? On a good night, we have one or two people back on. Tonight, we didn't have anybody.

[18:07] So it's pretty… pretty bare minimum right now. I think if we… yeah, I guess I would put it back out to the group. Well, I mean, if we're gonna do number 2 and number… and the percent of the community, that should trigger people to… Participate more, right? So probably by the end of the year. do 5 and 10? That's a lot. That seems like a lot, given where we're starting. I think people don't know what the public comment is for in this particular space, and so I almost feel like Like, we need to do the baseline work first, then build kind of more knowledge around what HRC does, and all the things that are at the top of this list, before… we can always set a goal, and we make it or we don't, but to me, like, that one almost doesn't need to be put in writing, because

[19:14] all the things we're doing, ultimately, are to increase engagement. One way to measure engagement is by public comment. So… The way I was thinking is, we do the stop actions first, and the goal by the end of the year. So we set the goal after, and then we measure it December, January. Did all those actions until they cause an effect. See? The question is, you know, how ambitious we want to seize. One example from, I guess it was 2025, when the HRC chose to have its meeting be a training on human trafficking. And so it was held at a… it was publicly announced, flyers, outreach, press releases.

[20:11] And… Maybe… 30? Maybe 20 people came. What do you think, Emily? Carlos in there, and it was around there. Yes, something like 30. But that would be an example if the HRC wanted to do that again, you would set the agenda, create an outreach plan, and say. Our goal is that we want to have at least 20 people here. So I think it would be, like, for any meeting like this one tonight, you might not feel like you need a goal for how many people should be coming to this meeting. But there are other meetings where you really… the purpose is you want people to come in, where you could just say.

[21:01] for this meeting, we'd like to aim to have, you know, 20 people, or 50 people, or whatever. It's more like an adult. Yeah. Promotion. For the meeting, okay. Or maybe we do it not… like you're saying, per meeting by year-end, but just increased engagement with the HRC over the course of the year to… 30 people, 30 individuals, unique individuals, across the different programs that we do and our meetings, right? Like, across… if we were to do a specific program around a specific topic, and we also continue to have our monthly meetings. Where there might be a topic that… you know. Gets people more engaged. So over the course of the year, rather than her meeting, we have 5 to 10, but maybe by the end of the year, we've talked or engaged with 30 to 40 people, or so many groups.

[22:03] Like, that might be a better measure of how we're impacting the community than, like, a per-meeting Sleep out. That's kind of what you're saying, too. I like it better, by the way. So many people we touch. Right. Over the course. Over the course. Lucky better panel of… We can certainly… like, none of this is set in stone, so we can certainly… that's the point of this conversation. If we want to tweak any of these, we can certainly do that. And so, like, if there's a different way that we want to say. So instead of a number pair meeting, just that four. I would maybe to increase engagement… or do you, like… unique individuals. Across the year of… 40 people. I'm grabbing a number out of here because…

[23:08] I don't know, I love mixed feelings. Such a good place, because if humans… You got, what, 20 people? When you did the promotion? It was pretty well attended. Can I ask you a question? Was that… one of your monthly meetings that you did that, or was that a separate event? Okay. So we can do separate… We might have had it in place of our monthly meeting. Are you talking about the human trafficking? Yeah. We had it, I think, in place of our meeting that month. Is it possible. And they did the outreach, let's be real. I put some flyers up, but I think a lot of people heard about it through the left and the last case. So you had someone… an organization come in, have a fight scene and try for the game. They were. And present? Yeah. To attend, but…

[24:02] Yeah, I think… I think it's… over the course of the year, we just want to have… see increased engagement through number… number of people. And that could be, because this… we run into this at my job, like, what is an engagement? And so that could be… to just someone's tabling for HRC, that's an engagement, having a conversation with them. If someone attends a meeting, that's an engagement. If someone attends a workshop, that's an engagement. So we could work to better define engagement, but also make it broad. So that it captures all the different ways we touch the community. Our 12 YouTube viewers. I'm not sure. Shout out! We need to shout out our YouTube viewers! Shout out to all the YouTubers watching my rain now. We see you. See you for now. But I mean, that is…

[25:06] some, like, do you all… is it even possible to have a social media presence, period? I don't know. That's something we… we do, you know, to get the word out, I think. So you mentioned the lab, the older labs? The… well, there's the reporting lab that I mentioned earlier, that there's, like, that's a news organization, and then the last… See, those emails, It's great, because they just track everything happening. And they have, they have events that you can just send them your event information, and they'll post it online. I think that's, you know, a good way of promoting, you know, the meeting. Because I bet they reach a lot of people. Definitely good for abroad. Just broad audience, they don't.

[26:03] I do wonder how much our goal is just to increase public comment. at HRC, versus to increase public engagement in general, because I think, like, within the purview of HRC is how people are connecting with the city government, and the city government is a lot bigger than just the HRC. Yeah, because it's very specific, and… you know, there have been times when public comment doesn't seem actually relevant to the people who come, relevant to what we do, at least not from where I sit sometimes, so it feels like it needs to be, like, meaningful engagement. Like, I… if someone's showing up for public comment, but it's not about anything that we can do anything about. that's not as helpful for them, unless we can direct them. But I feel like if we could, say, increase meaningful engagement with HRC, And work. other parts of city government. I don't know how to track that. Yeah, it's hard to track, but it's, like, I think there are a lot of stats about how engaged people are, and that's, like, what a lot of the surveys are.

[27:10] I think there's ways that we can look at how we are directing our efforts. Went down the wrong way, so sorry. I have to mesh right now. Yeah. Yes, but I think the point I was making is that, like, I think this is… that our role as HRC is not purely about making sure that we, as a group, touch people, but making sure that the bridges are built so that more people are able to be involved with more parts of the government. And so it's like, you can't necessarily measure how directly we impacted that, but we can't measure how much that's changing, and we can use that to see if the problem overall is improving, how we can contribute to that.

[28:10] system, hold on. Okay. That feels like an all of us kind of thing, which is where we started, right? With Jorge saying it, we all of it. Okay, so you're okay, go on. So what I suggest is not to put an X number, but just mention that we want to increase substantial engagement. And then this year, we get an ice line. And then next year, we know… Where do you need to start from. So is the… Is the goal, then? Just measure… our engagement? Or is it… our research? We want to increase? Yeah. Substantially. But also start measuring, right? Okay, it's going to be a little subjective, you know? But we will know when we see that, you know, we're touching more people, and…

[29:08] How many people are gonna attend our meetings? We will start seeing that. If nobody shows them, you know, we know where it is. Maybe capturing engagement over the course of the year with the goal of setting a baseline so we can continue to increase year over year, something like that as we're needed. There's the domino? the engagement with the HRC. Because I've heard a couple different things, so engagement with this commission specifically. And I think for that to happen, we need to make sure that the meeting and the percent of the community groups happen in Q2. Because we wait for Q3, it's going to be too late.

[30:09] So… Capture engagement with HRC over the course of the year to establish a baseline. Yeah. And then that is gonna be… That is gonna be an everybody. Essos. Goodbye. Do we agree if we put Q2 for number 2 and number… what is it, 5? This one, and this one? The number two, they designate at least. At least two.

[31:02] So that to happen in Q2? I think it is. And then you put the target date at Q2? 3 year, and then 7.13 Ministry. But at some point between April to… what was that? April to June? End of June? Yeah, I believe. That's not a table, yeah? And really, same for number 5. No, no, I'm not following the numbers on the left. Yep. One more. One more. Present to community groups on HRC. There's been, meetings at, CU Boulder. CU Boulder.

[32:00] Singular meat, like, you know, the… was we've talked or not. We haven't engaged with CU. CU difficult dialogues. We've had some engagement with CU. We had one small training with them, And we discussed co-hosting and promoting. I think we did, like, some light promotion, but we haven't engaged substantially with CEO. I wonder if we could have your Irene back. engaging with you. Yeah, I do think there's high potential. I think difficult dialogue is part of it, but I think there's a wider wider view of just engagement with CU. I don't quite know what the clear section item is for this yet. I'm not actually sure if those ones… those feel a little dated and not actually, like, where we're orienting right now. But I do think, in general, orienting towards deepening our relationship with CU and finding effective

[33:00] I don't use for collaborations, whether that is… difficult dialogues or something else. Because if we do the present to community groups on HRC action, we do it at CU? Potentially, it depends where at CU. Like, we have a relationship with the Center for Humanities and Arts who has difficult dialogue, and so there's an opportunity to deepen in that. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm happy to co-sponsor that one. All right, with you, and we can discuss and figure out what the right avenue is. I have a good connection with domains. Yeah, I think… See… I think, like, this is probably a wider dialogue, besides just the work plan, but I do think we should… we can engage in dialogue around figuring out what that… what the right bridges are to build a CEO, and maybe we can just simplify.

[34:05] those two work plan items down into one, which is around growing our relationship with SEA, which is… So… Christian, maybe you can… take those two and take them down into one, and just say, like, decent relationship with CEO. Can I ask a clarifying question about that? What would be the overall goal, outside of difficult dialogues, to… have a closer relationship. I think the reach. I think we're using older reach. broader audience. I think part of it is that what I'm seeing is that we're looking at bridging horizontal gaps, and so to me, that includes students and people in the university, and I think there are often, sometimes, big gaps between university people and non-university people, and so I'm really interested in if we can… help with that is one thing. I, I think that,

[35:10] My only, kind of, comment or caution on that is that it would be… there are other… departments and other people within a city who are very, very focused on engaging with CU and the student population around specific, you know. Specific areas. Sometimes it's around, Community diversity, you know, cultural celebrations. Other times, it's harassed issues with, you know, students and landlords that need to be mediated. We have a program within our department that focuses on that, where conflict arises. So, I'm not saying…

[36:03] the HRSC shouldn't think about that, but I think the details matter a little bit as to whether or not it would really be in your scope or a priority. Yeah. Kind of just generally infiltrating a relationship could be a significant effort. Without a… without a purpose. Absolutely. And to me, what I see is now, like. thing of exploring the relationship is less about having that direct, like, we're trying to live in that relationship, and more that I think. we have work to do in exploring what we as a commission can do. And so I don't see that me as Jorge would be going and taking action on that, other than being an exploration of what makes sense, so that we can bring it to the Commission to discuss. So is it a… instead of approach CU, would it be more of explore opportunities CU offers that would intersect with the work we do at HFC? It could be.

[37:07] Looking to… it would be… Basically, the subcommittee is looking at opportunities to… that align with the, like, HRC mission, where CU and the HRC can… would be involved, I guess, or… I'm wording that really poorly, but I'm trying to… I'm also trying to, like, follow up. I'm not too attached to it, maybe not a strong inclination worry. Yeah. I mean, I mean, it also doesn't need to be on the work plan right now, and it can be you and I, like, sort of talking and discussing, and then, like, seeing if there's something we want to bring back to the work plan. So for… now… Maybe just keep these on here, don't define them, like, just keep it as is, and we'll move on? I think so. Okay, and we can adjust accordingly in the future.

[38:13] Sean necesario el futuro. Anything… swears. The volunteer to attend community gatherings hosted by other agencies. I feel like I can own or support that one. So I'm… I can support that as well. Cool. Yep. I feel like this one… Okay. Could also be just, like, part of everybody's work. Like, this is just going out into the community and… Aaron, as an example, like, you have… Your gathering of, like, tech professionals. you can bring information back to the Commission about that, just as, like, a really easy example, or, kind of, like, what we do at Commissioner Upload is just sharing about, this is the past month, this is what I did, this is what I saw, I heard, this is what I know is going on. But I understood it specifically for other agencies. What do we mean by other agencies?

[39:23] So that could be… there's a meeting, as an example, a… group of mobile homeowners that meet every other month, and they discuss, like, topics or issues that are, relevant to their lives as mobile homeowners, or issues of importance to them. This… that could be… going to attend one of those meetings, and just… So how can we get more visibility of… those…

[40:07] events. That becomes more orderly attend and organize our presence. I mean, in terms of… the… I think we would need to know, like, where you want to… where you would want to, like, look, or what you would be interested in attending, and then doing some research, we can get information in terms of, like, city boards and commissions. There's the calendar, some meetings that Is online that… Another one could look up. But it would require a little bit of digging, for sure. They do. So how do we do the digging? Yep. Hey, hi. Yes, I'm working on that.

[41:04] I mean, there may be instances where I am… well, there are, like, instances where Christian and I can arrange to the HRC if it's helpful for us to do so. When nonprofit organizations are having an information session, or a community panel, or a community presentation, oftentimes those are publicly advertised in the local media as well, where one of you's involved in an organization. And so it's kind of, you know, I think something that tends to come naturally, kind of looking at the news, like, we want to get out there, let's start looking at community events, and identifying, you know, those opportunities. But we can also plague, if you want us to do so, what organizations we know of are having events.

[42:16] donde queremos esco. But in general, I'm very interested in better systems for that one, and also the calendar cultural event, and I'd be interested in doing any brainstorming or collaboration with anybody around those systems. the compact living for us, you know? So, Aaron, do you want me to put you here as owner for that one? Sure. Soldills. Absolutely. Yeah, that's really fun.

[43:12] There's some repetition here, because the category has changed on the far left sentences, yeah. There are some very… So you might not. Una lootra. Like, this one, for example, Hope Planet stuff. Hrc table at community gatherings and events. That's what we're… that's what we're getting at, okay. Yeah. So I'll get rid of this. Well… Sorry, before you do that. Most of those are repeat. I think the first three are… maneras. These three, so…

[44:14] See previous suggestions, and then the volunteer, which we just discussed. Si, eso de las jugerecias y lo voluntarios que a cabanos de hablar. Okay, so are we okay with me getting rid of these? Three that I have highlighted. Is there a way to… If we want to not eliminate the third portion, you know, the third category, is there a way to combine that with maybe the ones above, where we just, you know, slash, you know, because that serves both of those categories of places we want to put our energy. So, where we have a volunteer to attend community.

[45:02] gatherings as bridging horizontal gaps, it's also as part of supporting marginalized and underrepresented communities, could we just slash put in the same so it doesn't get lost if we delete that, I guess, is what I… Pretty much just bringing the information And column B, supporting marginalized, underrepresented, copying. Yeah, I'm just saying, like, since it falls under both of those headings, let's just not eliminate the third heading, let's just add it into the second one, because it serves both those schools. I'm just making sure I'm following you, because doing this kind of… Work, like, as we're going, gives me anxiety, so I'm just making sure that I'm doing what I'm… what I'm being… what is being requested, and not deleting something that is not to come back again, or something. I would actually make a suggestion that maybe after the meeting, so you're not trying to do it in real time.

[46:08] The spreadsheet could just be changed so that you just have the activities. And at the end, you just have outcome 1, outcome 2, Outcome 3. So you don't have to copy and repeat. You know, each of them. Just kind of flip the ordering. That's great. The activities, these are the focus areas it relates to. We don't want Christian, more stressed. I accidentally deleted the entire spreadsheet. That might be a good time.

[47:32] Anybody else want to name or claim anything from here? Yeah, totally fine to leave some open and see what wants to happen. I'm also… I am happy to support volunteer to attend community gatherings, if we can figure out what those are. I'm happy to help. There's also a goal of improving our systems to support that. Most definitely take ownership of some of the systems, please.

[48:12] I forget, with this one, am I putting everybody, or am I putting individuals? Everybody. Okay. And I'm happy to support everybody. Okay. So if I go to a gathering and I meet people, I need to direct them to… what the HRC does. Are you directing to the website, or how do you guys do that? Yes, website is one place to direct them to. See, you can just tell them about my personal experience with it? Yeah, but website is a good place to direct people to. That he leaves.

[49:01] I don't know if we're gonna do all this engagement and gatherings and talk to people, maybe we can create some small flyers with a QR, say, you know… do the QR. And not on the website, but just create a nice presentation of… HRC? I love that idea, because the website is not very descriptive. No, shame on the website, but it… wouldn't give that much more information. It could be a flyer the size of a presentation, but just a QR there. You talk to people and say, you want more? So you all would create a different landing page kind of thing for those… I think that's a great idea. We can include, you know, frequent questions. That would be something that would be on the city website. Kind of creating their own.

[50:05] site, but if you have input or just the presentation, or information. Oh, I thought that… Or it could be, like… if you want to have something that's just, like, small, like a QR code, it can take you through a flyer that just has information, brief information around the HRC commission, who is on the commission, or something like that, just so people can get information. And maybe it can be in a different… Something that you all come up with, rather than what we have online that comes from pretty much, like, the ordinance that created the commission says. That is so clear. I'd be curious, you've done presentations, outreach presentations.

[51:00] I would imagine that there's a lot of information there that's not on that one little page on the website. Is it possible for us to see that, and then it's possible that maybe from there we could create something that's a little more user-friendly than the language that is on the website? Because I don't think directing people to the website is going to increase engagement, to be honest, the way it is right now. Yeah, or even… Why would I come to the HRC? What issues do you cover? I know we list them, but it's not real-life examples, so maybe, like, your presentation might even help me and Jorge know better, so then we could come up with something that feels a little more accessible to more people. fantastic communications staff, and Christian will be happy to work with you on what… get input on what you would want to see on an additional website. Actually, that's not a problem. How big of a deal would it be to just add to the current web page? None of it's a problem, so we just… I mean, Christian can definitely take this recommendation back to our

[52:18] communications staff person is just… I'm thinking, you know, she'll say, like, here's what's not doable, and here's a timeline. To work on the existing webpage. Because that's what people are gonna… Yes, it would be cool to make an additional one, and this is what people are just… if they get curious in Google, are just gonna be popping anyway. I don't think that it matters, to be honest. I just think that whether it's the… something more added to the additional web page, or a separate… I think it's better to be on the current site, but something that

[53:00] feels more accessible to folks when they go to it, to really get a much better sense of what HRC deals with, and why anyone would come to public comment on HRC. I mean, I'd be happy to work on that kind of… language. I'm certainly not the person who puts it on the website. That's not what I do. But I'd be happy with that. One thing is the website, or… And the other one is the flyers that connect to that in an easy way. For me, it's just a QR app, and we can use in a small flyer. If I go to a school gathering, the kids, you know, I'll talk to people about it, or say, hey, you know, what information do you have? Makes it easy. The QR code's easy to make that links to the webpages. As easy as… I've done that. Even though I've done that, and I'm sure Aaron…

[54:03] Our tech guy, so… I don't know if you want to add that to our list, but I think I'm gonna be one of those. Here we go. Another way I'll be lurking from the outside. Just set my Google Alert for HRC for the website. Periodically checking on the website. Where would that go? I think under the Combria Mos listo. Community to community, or… no, community to government. Number one, I got Comrilla. Capture engagement. Okay. So this one would be refined.

[55:01] the websites… It'll be… Where is… And broke. Information. Information, yes, there we go. Okay. Yeah. And then, Mindy, am I putting you as an under… For that one. Sure. With Jorge's support. With Jorge's support. There we go. Duh. And then we want also, like, a flyer or something along those lines, okay? Do you have materials when you go to these events? Anything that you, like, hand out to people? It's gonna depend on the event, for sure. There are plenty materials. It will depend on, sort of, who the audience is.

[56:01] Because the other thing you could do is, if you already have existing materials that you were going to use, you just get a QR code on a sticker, and you stick it onto your already existing materials. I'm just thinking of cost cutting. There is a whole… I'm looking at the box of landlord-tenant handbooks right behind you, where we did just that, because the housing law changed so rapidly for a few years there that we could not keep it updated. So you just smack a new QR code on the handbook? Yeah, like, I would say probably about 85% of the information in there was still Relevant? And still accurate? There was some significant change around tenant law, specifically. Where we wanted to update, but also not sprint off another… A few readings of handbooks, because…

[57:00] There were more changes that were gonna happen. Okay. Thinking like a city employee. Yeah. I've worked in the legislature. Oh, yeah! I know how to do the most information on that. And do for owner support now. Which one? On the QR? For the… promotional materials. Minchi's all over the cure. I'm happy to… I mean, I don't… I'm not creating promotional materials, but I am happy to help with getting a QR code and your eyes on content. Yes. Bath. Okay. Great. Okay.

[58:08] It looks like we're getting close to everything here. Good progress. Yeah. Do you just wanna… do you feel good just, like, kind of leaving what's open and, like, letting it clarify as we go? We will need to refine the timing. Yeah. I ask a question, what… what process makes sense to you all to kind of work with this document? Like, is this a part of your, like, every meeting where you look at it and you revise it and go back to it? Because I think… That's one thing we struggled with in the past, is just we had a work plan somewhere, somehow, but we didn't really work with it, so… We all have done all this work. The remaining just revisit where we are. Okay. Checking along with my thumbs.

[59:03] Tom, my only doubts, how do we connect? In the meantime. So between meetings and meetings, you know, we need to do a lot of stuff, so how do we coordinate that. Kind of just, like, have to do, like, one-on-ones for specific ones, things. So, like, you and I can meet and discuss a number of things between this meeting and next meetings. That's where we're limited to, like. Find a wave. working with the law as this, you know, this annoying sunshine law thing that prevents us from communicating much asynchronously. Because we said we could share that file, right? So it was approvals. This is shared in a way that's updatable between meetings, because as soon as we're all editing that between meetings, we're breaking a lot. Yes, so this can be shared in a read-only format. And then it can be updated either at a meeting, or if you do, like, a support item, and we can each make updates and come back and say, hey, I've made updates, and then we just, like, merge all in real quick. Okay, but not a live book. Yeah.

[60:09] I'm gonna meet with city attorneys again soon and try and figure out a way, because I think basic miscommunication is essential for, like. Collaborative and effectively, but it's what we got right now. It's hard, and, and, like, it's only a month, so realistically, we… I wouldn't say, like, I felt like it's been a huge restriction, especially with only having 2 point people per item. It's not ideal, but… No, it's okay. Agility. Well… I think part of it for me is because I dislike spreadsheets, mostly, and doing… editing them live is, like, the most, like, horrendous thing to my nervous system, and so being able to do stuff like this asynchronously is just, like, it helps me feel so much more relaxed and at ease, and, like, then we can come together and make the decisions we need to make.

[61:06] But I think we're working with what we've got, and it's great, and I think you and I can find some time and, like. riff and bring back what we need to to the group, and anybody else can take time and look at this afterwards, and, like, come back and be like, okay, I want that to do that, that, and that, and then we can just, like, merge it all in together next month. Yeah, will you all? Because I think… I think a couple years ago, when we made our work plan, it was like a Google Sheet, so it was an editable document, but not necessarily something we were, like, going in between meetings to edit, but we all did have access, I think, right? Yeah, so I don't know if that's possible to do with this spreadsheet to make it editable for you all. Just so… then you could input updates on some of your action items and stuff like that between students, too. I would just suggest making use, like, wise use of meeting time.

[62:04] And see how it goes. I just suspect there's not going to be so much happening between meetings that you'll need to edit this document. There'll be other materials, right, maybe that be in… You'll prepare, as usual, for any meeting coming up, but… It may not be a problem. And I guess that each owner will send probably an update to you before each meeting, right? So we get the updated spreadsheet when the meeting comes. Pretty much what I can do is, if I'm pulled to update, if there are updates to be made. I'm happy to do that. I'm happy to, if you have a… want to make a copy, I think, Aaron, you might have been getting at this, like, have your own copy, and just, like, keep track of your work items. Yeah, and you, like, pass that over, I'm happy to also just copy those over into one, so we have one for the group, and are just tracking it that way.

[63:18] The main concern was… If there was unintentional, like. someone's emailing, like, a subcommittee's emailing a third commissioner, something like that. There's, like, an unintentional communication among more than two commissioners. It's pretty low stakes. It is still a breach of the law, so we don't want to… we want to avoid that. Yeah, so we want to, just be a little conservative around this. This part, in particular. Yeah. So, maybe when we have support.

[64:00] To people, that's not gonna fly. So you have the owner, for example, the first one. It's me and Lindy. So having three people working in one action is gonna be complicated. So I don't count as… I'm your staff VA. I am your staff VA, so… Are you looking for problems? And I'm gonna save this for you. You're gonna be the third. All your work! I saw the autosave was not on. So yes, in those, it's okay if the three of us are in communication, because it's just two commissioners, one staff need is on. That's all good. Which is great. from the Peanut Gallery, because it's March, there's one… I wonder, Christian, if it would be a good idea to mention… I'm assuming you're going to mention that, huh?

[65:09] I'm assuming VPN, or no. Yes, I think there's the… I was going to when there's a flyer, and we have information ready to go, like, public with it, but I can give you… I was just thinking, I mean, if… it would be pretty easy, I think, for Christian and I to just brainstorm. Community events that we're aware either happen annually or that happen to be coming up. Yeah, as in April through June. If you wanted to take a minute now and… kind of make note, again, kind of using the time that you're all together, and can do things in real time. Yes, of course, yeah. We could rattle probably some things off pretty quickly. For tabling. Yeah. Or either tabling or… sewing, right? To an event and engaging with people, whatever category it falls in. I mean, if you… If that's possible. Right.

[66:12] Yes. Even if you don't have times, you can only do so when you don't So June, I'll just start, because we don't have the specific dates for anything yet, but there are two, events happening in June that are… that the city recognizes and makes funds available for community cultural celebrations. One is Juneteenth. And the other is Immigrant Heritage Month. So, we don't have dates. For specific events that are happening yet, but it's worth kind of keeping on your radar.

[67:03] Typically, local organizations also have a bolder pride. Pride events in June. And sometimes there's a very large community celebration, other times there are presentations, other forms of gatherings. So that's, again, those aren't… that's not a… kind of a city-acknowledged milestone, but there typically are a lot of events that take place, and in previous years. HRC members have talked about, just having a presence there as well. And by that, it usually means just somebody who says, I'm gonna go. And… be there. Yeah, go ahead, do you want to share with… Yes. Yeah, el nino, es… He's moved by the, mimoka?

[68:04] But it's supported by the city. So it's… we don't have… I don't have a baby… A day of the child. No day, yeah. Not yet. No day. It will be a day, but it's a, it's a, it's a nice event. No, it is here in the park. Oh, okay, okay, cool. Can you hear me? In case it rains, it's in Bimoka. Like, 2 years ago? Yeah, it was in Bimoka, because it was raining. So those are, what, 3, 4? 4 events that typically take place in June. Great. Is the Dia del Nino in June, or… April. Oh, sorry, yes, okay.

[69:02] In April, also, is gonna be the Housing Resource Fair. will be… Sunday, April 19th. From 2 to 5. at the… North Boulder Rec Center? Yep. And we will… That's one that I have a table for already. the would-be… Tabling, providing information, providing materials to folks. Dia del Nino is Saturday, April 25, from 11 to 2. Yeah,

[70:02] Rich Clark. Here in front of you? So the, central Park, okay. Harrison Ballpark. we have a table there, typically, or not necessarily? No, and, you know, for some of these, if… There are commissioners who want to And we'll make time for tabling, then we would have to figure out what those arrangements are, if there's money involved. If there's another city department that already is planning to have a… table, there are lots of options, but I think… You could… you know, Mindy and Rory, for example, talk As a subcommittee, right, between time, and figure out what might be wanted.

[71:04] do, and then staff will support them. Sometimes you don't need a table, just a banner. It'll do. But the housing fair, we already… Yeah. That is sales. When is that one? Sunday, April 19th. From 2PM to 5 p.m. It's so bull-wracking. I just doesn't sit down. Any more in this section? Okay, shall we wrap up this discussion? Okay, cool. We can wrap this discussion item and move on to the next one. Cool. Next on the agenda is discussing Slop. So what we had there was just me giving a little update on where things have gone since our letter, and then talking about where we want to go from here.

[72:13] potentially litter, or whatever, it just feels right. So, I'll start with an update, which is… The message was received well, and multiple kinds of people reached out. I had the city manager and the police chief reach out, and then got time with the Boulder Police Chief. Christian helped make that happen, and had a really productive meeting with the Boulder Police Chief, just getting to hear their perspective on to their perspective on ALPRs, how they're using them, to understand more of the conversation they've already been having with Flock, and how they've been, like, working on… negotiating the agreements, and so it's just really helpful to understand their perspective. the Boulder Police Chief, also expressed an interest in really helping to support community understanding, and said that he'd even be willing to find time to come and talk with us if we, like, felt like it would be helpful for him to come here and for us to be able to ask questions.

[73:14] So, that's… that's an option. I had a really productive meeting with, Nuria, City Manager, as well, just to kind of understand where things are at in the discussion. And then there were a lot of people, one of eight who went and spoke at City Council during open comment about this, and it led to some rather productive conversations where Four different city council people expressed some, like, connection to this issue and a desire to Figure out how we're doing surveillance technology better, and so it sounds like, our message was very well received and was a much wider group of people sharing this message as well, and now the City Council is, or the City is receiving requests for proposal, or put out a request for proposal for other ALPR vendors to

[74:09] make a pitch to have that contract instead of Flock. I think Flock is also one of the ones who's allowed to put forward their proposal, so that's happening right now. the city managers putting together a task force that's going to be looking at this broader issue of how we get technology and how we get surveillance technology. That seems like it's a much longer process. The first meeting of that won't even be until April. But I may actually… the city manager invited me to, like, interview to potentially be a part of that task force. So, that is happening. I think the conversation is moving in a good way. One of the comments that I heard from, actually, multiple city council people was, like, they were kind of, like, asking city staff what their role is, and it's, like, very clear, like, what city council can do is express policy. Like, city council can't actually be like, no, don't sign the flock agreement. They, like, kind of can, but it's really beyond their jurisdiction. But what they can do is set policy about how city council, about how a city

[75:16] get surveillance technology or any policy about that, and so it seems like that's the biggest avenue, and I've heard multiple city council people express that they would be interested in, like, supporting or leading that kind of policy. And so. The updated letter. I sent a previous letter, but I updated that after the news from the city, was about kind of suggesting things that I've kind of put together in my own looking and talking with the community about these, like, governance principles, and just, like, some things that I kind of put in here that it felt like reflected the things we've been discussing about what we're caring about on this. So, I guess I'll just, like, leave it there. We can pull up the letter, but I also just want to, like.

[76:02] kind of receive impact, how… how that's… how that's landing with everybody, and any questions or anything? Thanks for doing all that work to testify, and then… or give public comment, and then also meet with folks between. Absolutely. Do they mostly agree? Larry. I would say… there was no strong disagreement, and there was a good bit of full agreement, yeah. Like, I think, you know, the city manager and police chief both had a few places where they're like. you cited some things in the letter that were not quite accurate, but also most of the stuff was accurate, and they were already looking at that, and they've been exploring this themselves as well. So city manager and police chief both recognized that there was a lot of value in what we said, and especially after our conversation, like, the police chief was like, oh. mentioned that he was seeing a few things that he hadn't seen before, so I think that was very positive. And yeah, there were multiple people on City Council who were

[77:06] in strong agreements, and it seems like there's enough energy to do this, so that was where I was thinking, like, one interesting thing we might do is, like, make a statement from our side of, like, what we think some of those governance principles might be, just to support them with the perspective we've been cultivating here. Is the reason that on-prem searches count? I… no, I think… My perspective is that, like… they think that's a beautiful ideal of on-prem versus cloud, and it's like, cloud is a lot easier and simpler and usually cheaper, and so I think… Like, Nuria is, of course, managing that, like, needing to make the right budget choices while also doing this. So, yeah. So was the letter that Christian shared earlier, you said it's not the same letter? One shared today. Oh, that's… oh, there was one that was, like, appended to the end of the agenda. Oh, okay. That's the outdated one, but the one he shared today is this one.

[78:08] You did it. It's much shorter. It's large. I'm just curious if there's anything you can share from your conversation, particularly with Naria or the police chief, about, like, any benefits of flock we maybe are missing, like… Yeah, I mean, I think, in general, they are finding that… crime rates go down when they have ALPR technologies, that they solve more Amber Alerts, that there's, like, less car thieves and other things, car thefts and other things, like, that there are benefits of ALPR technology. And so, one of the things I included in the letter was, like, a recognition that there's public safety values, and, like. And so… there's… there's a lot of people in community who would… who would advocate for getting rid of all the surveillance technology and all the ALPR, and while I think there's a real case, personally, I don't… I don't want to try to make that fight, and I think… I think there's something spoken about leaning into the recognition that the public safety value is important, and how we use these

[79:16] It's also important. It's also important. Okay. Yeah, so they… which is kind of what they say on the website, too. They… they do cite, I think, like, 40% reduction in… I think maybe it's just vehicle theft? I don't know if they point to any other crimes. Yeah. So you said vehicle theft, did they point to any other types of crime that had been reduced? I don't recall. Okay. Yeah. But you said… I think it was, like, stealing, like, carburetors or something. Oh, yeah. Yeah, something like that. Paralytic converter. Yeah, I think that one. So I think, I think that one goes down, and then they've solved Amber Alerts and stuff. They've, like, found that it's helpful for public safety, and so… I mean, I trust, trust them, I'd like to trust that our…

[80:06] Police chief, and, like, police have, like, our best interests at heart, and it's like, yes, sometimes it's, like. who they're making agreements with, these contracts, like, we don't always have all the right information, and I think now the right information is coming in, and so they're looking at that, and so I think supporting them with more good information and more good perspective, so that not just for the city manager to include the task force, and if I'm a member of that, then I'll definitely represent these perspectives as well. but also for our city council, because what our city council can do is pass policy about how we form these relationships with any surveillance company or any private-public partnership. So, yeah, I think I'm definitely interested in the larger issue of all the public-private-public partnerships, but I think starting with this one, like, Savannah's technology is a really important place. Totally. Thank you. Bless you. Who's a great leader.

[81:10] Any discussion? Here's the audience perspective? No, I've got failed orders, and I agree with all of them. The student has, like, communication with other cities, or the exchange communications. Hello. I don't know, something happened with the car, like, here. Oh, yes. Yeah, there's… and, I mean, Flock, at a base level, will just, like, share that information with any of the Colorado agencies, but also federal agencies, and there's a fairly permissive, sharing policy, and then Boulder has negotiated that such that the sharing policy is more restrictive, especially for federal agencies. And…

[82:01] it's even a little more restrictive around some Colorado agencies, because they found that they were sharing information with Loveland, and then Loveland was sharing it with ICE. And so they've been locking that down, and they have negotiated and, like, got better terms with Flock, and it's still, I think, for many a community, not an ideal situation, even if it's just a better agreement with Flock, because there's a lot of concerns about, even with the rate agreement, where that data can be leaked. So, yeah, depending on… and that's what… there's, like, a number of ALCRs that are going down. Operate in different ways. generally, I advocate for, like, on-prem, but I think this, like, points towards, like, just, like, data sovereignty, which means if it's the cloud, like, proper encryption, and there are a number of vendors that will offer that. So do we need to just vote to approve this letter? Yeah, do… do… I mean, the first, just before we take a vote, do people feel

[83:03] Do people feel like we want to send this letter as to commissions? Sounds like… Okay. Are there any, like, comments on the letter? Any adjustments? Seems like… Okay. Yeah, I'm just reading it now. Christian's scrolling, but everything looks really good so far. Thank you. No, I think you're right, Karen, that fighting the… no ALPR, like, this is not a fight you or we played, but putting effective guardrails, or advocating for them to put effective guardrails into city policy as we move forward with this and others is a great way to do this. Good job, students. Thank you. Yeah. Do we want to take it to a vote? Okay. All in favor of sending this letter to, City Council and the City Manager?

[84:09] Alright, I have it. We should all send a letter. I guess I will do that the same way as last time. Cool, sign with 7 letter tonight or tomorrow, then. Thanks, everybody. And then, one more thing on this, do people feel like we would be interested in, like, having the police chief here, and, like, just to, like, ask… ask questions, both about surveillance technology and community, yeah? Yeah. Then I can… work on, like, coordinating. Yes, and I feel like that would be something really good to… to publicize. That's what I was gonna say, like, it would be great to get engagement around that, like, have your questions in. What… what is the date that they're gonna make a decision? I know you said that there's… they're probably going to go with Flock until they finish the RFP process, is that right? And then they have an out?

[85:00] If they choose a different vendor. Yes, so it's not clear to me quite what the timeline looks like. I'm just wondering if we would want the police chief here once they've made a decision. As to what Pinsons is going with. Potentially, but it's like… It depends. Who knows how long that'll be. I know. Well, if it's April 27th, yeah, but… Yeah, like… do we feel like we prefer the police chief sooner? Like, should I see if he's available next month? Okay, cool, and I'll work on coordinating that, and I can work with you. I know you have a relationship with Alistair as well, so… Great. Okay. Any further discussion on this topic? curious, like, not right now, but curious if the topic of not just surveillance technology, but just, like, the right values in, like, the public-private partnerships with disabilities formed. Is that a topic that's of interest to people? It's, like, of interest to me, but I'm not sure if that's just a me thing.

[86:06] This is holding this way in society. Can you give another example? So the city works with, a company, I forget their name, who does the, like, towing. The city has a vendor who does towing, and I've also heard from community members that they have very predatory practices that have a particular harm on, like, our house community. And so these are, like, public-private partnerships that the city is forming. We often have relationships with vendors who may not actually be offloading the values that we hold as a community. So I think, like, this flopping may be part of a larger thing that it might be interesting for us to just, like, start taking a look at. I mean, if you're… I feel like if you're hearing that from… it's certainly with the towing company, I don't, you know… Great. I definitely support that. Cool. Maybe I'll just plant that as the seed, and it may form into a workplace item, and I'll… I'll just keep talking to people in community about it, and if other people, like, hear anything, then maybe just, like, have that as a thing that we can bring forward and see if there's some other stuff we want to advocate for around that.

[87:23] Can I chimed in just on that, just for clarity. the city, when we talk about partners, that could mean anything from… we have a partnership with Growing Up Boulder for engagement with kids. We have partnerships with the organization, you know, partnerships means lots of things. I think what you're talking about is very specific to, like, service agreements, contracts, so I just wanted to be able to clear with language, because if you were to be…

[88:03] suggesting that the HRC wants to kind of look at partnerships, that's a lot, and I would say that a lot of that is not at all in the scope of the HRC. So, I think specificity will help, and if you have questions, please just really utilize staff to help even do some initial, you know. kind of investigations to see what could be within or outside of your scope. It may be that there's another board or commission working with that, a particular department that's already, you know, kind of I say that just because part of our role is just to help make sure there is clarity within the scope, whatever the issue or topic is. We want you all to be successful, strategic, so if we can help with that, we're happy to do so. Yeah. I mean, if there's, like, anything you're able to help with that, and, like, maybe, like.

[89:03] So you are able to, like, do any investigation, man, come and, like, let us know. On what? Around that topic of, like, vendors, contracts, contracts, or service agreements, and what's next to go, or should we, like… I think that's a little broad. It's definitely broad. Let me slow down just a little bit further. Slow down, and don't over… don't interrupt. Cool. Yeah. Just like, it seems like it's an interest, so we'll see where that comes up in our own inquiry, and then maybe we'll bring something up at future meetings. Maybe we'll get a public comment about it. I like that. Yeah. Maybe if I bump into the person who told me the thing, they can be like, please tell me something about it. Yeah, there we go. There's probably more than a couple ways they can, yeah, file a formal complaint in the city. Yeah. Any further things on the flock discussion topic?

[90:12] Nope. Being none, we will move to close the, discussion items part of the meeting, and let's see, what else do we got? What the guy on? There we go. We are at Staff Updates. Staff Update. Okay. So, tracking just a couple Topics that are… have been of interest to this commission. The draft plan of the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan is now available for review. It's online. There are some upcoming events to provide feedback on the draft.

[91:10] Both of these are going to be hybrids. You can come in person or, attend online. One of which is this Thursday, March 19th, from 2PM to 4pm. And then Wednesday, April 1st, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m, and that would be, providing feedback on the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan. And I will, as always, include this in your meeting follow-up. Additionally, we've been made aware that, Police Chief Redfern has, not only made himself available to this commission, but he also does… Town hall.

[92:00] meetings with community quarterly. So in 2026, there are 3 remaining sessions. The most, or the soonest is going to be April 28th from 5.30 to 6.30 p.m. over at Boulder Chamber. And then the second two, so the Human Relations Fund was… Elizabeth, correct me if I'm wrong, but this used to be a function of the HRC doing review of, Community events, or community organizations that we're applying for financial support of. events… Such as Martin Luther King Jr. Day, June 14th, Immigrant Heritage Month, and Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations. This… review got taken off of the plate of the HRC, and is now, handled through… Primarily staff? A staff team. However, a member of the HRC has typically provided input on these, or had, and then we…

[93:16] sort of fell off. And so the staff team is looking for, a commissioner, who would volunteer to support review of these applications. So by review, what do we mean? Can you talk to that a little bit? Yeah, you can speak to that. The way we made this transition, was a couple of you remember, don't you, Maribos? when the Human Relations Commission would have to… people would have to come to an HRC meeting, submit a grant application, come to a meeting and talk about it. The Commission would decide how to execute phases.

[94:00] And then they'd come back to report on it. It was a lot of work. Yeah. We never finish at 8. We finish sometimes at, you know, 9.30. Yeah. Whoa. That's a lot. Yeah. And so, several years ago, we went through this whole process where staff, you know, talked with HRC members. That function was not mentioned anywhere in the statute, or it just had Developed as a thing to do, which was good. But it was taking up almost all of the HRC's time. And so, with that change to a more staff. driven process, or managed process, came the suggestion that there would be one HRC member a part of that

[95:06] application review team. So that's how that came about. And for a while, somebody on the HRC was able to do it, and then they weren't able to do it. So, as Christian said, that invitation is open again, if there's one of you who's interested. We get applications in through a grant management system, so online applications, and staff review those, and anything that is eligible for funding that could be considered would then be shared with members of the committee, staff members, and also potentially an HRC member, who would then review it, score it. based on, yes, I think this is a fit, it should get some funds, how much? And it's a pretty… it's a pretty quick process, and it repeats just a couple of times per year. But it's the review not about invasions, it's like giving comments on…

[96:11] Correct. Your review… somebody's asking for funding, and this committee makes recommendations as to whether or not the city should fund us. And then staff on our teams are… Get contracts with that, and get the money sent out. So, it would just be if somebody's interested. One thing that's good is that it's direct contact with events that are happening in the community. We always value… we have several different funding programs that we support in our department. They all have an advisory. committee, the larger funding programs, it's all community members. This one, again, the total amount of funds annually is $20,000, so it's not…

[97:03] a lot, comparatively, but, it's also very significant for groups that receive funds. I can support. Oh, great. Yep. Nice. Forecast. We sound so excited for it. Bring it on. You can look forward to 3 to 5 hours per funding cycle, typically in the form of a one-hour meeting. Okay, so I'll put you… thank you very much, I will put you in touch with the staff. last but not least, Fund Our Future community engagement events, will be… Upcoming, there is a whole, slew of them. There will be opportunities to provide input on city budget decision making, potential tax ballot measures, and more.

[98:03] Right now, there's self-guided activities available. Anybody can go online and, engage with this. There's also going to be virtual sessions that take place beginning on March 31st, and again, I'll share this information with you. That's what I had, Elizabeth. Is there anything else that is not up here you'd like to… A couple of things, and sorry I did not get this in the slides, at the last city council meeting, which was on, which… Last Thursday. Some staff from our housing… our Housing Human Services Department, our housing staff. provided an update on affordable housing to City Council. It was a very good presentation, and I say that

[99:04] I'm a little biased, because they did a good job, but City Council members really appreciated it. It was very concise and really easy to understand, and so if that's something that's of interest to you, or you just want to are engaging with people who have expressed concerns to you about, or who are wondering what the city's affordable housing strategy is, I thought this would be a really good way to… get a good kind of short presentation and discussions. So that information is always available on, cities. links from the city website, or the city… the YouTube… you can be a YouTube viewer. So that's one thing. I'm just thinking of things that we've talked about, some in the past. The, Elevate Boulder Guaranteed Income Program exhibit is at the library through March 30th. We did have an event last Thursday, so there's not going to be another

[100:08] community event, but the exhibit is, is up until 6.30. And I'll check. I think that's… Oh, one other thing to mention, Some of you who are on the, have been on HRC for a while will remember that. At the end of 2024, we had our first annual board and commission. event for members of all of the boards, commissions, and committees that our department supports. And we asked you at that time to let us know what you thought about what our department's still annual report should look like. So the first annual report, was out in March 2025, and we're getting ready to issue another one, hopefully by the end of this month. Although some of our data staff positions haven't been filled, so… but we're hoping to… to get that out, so please look for that. We'll share it with the…

[101:19] Through the newsletter, and then we are hoping to have a support commission committee event later on in the year. Nice to see more time to figure that out. I just wanted to mention the annual report. It will be an online, what's called a story map, so very interactive with maps, photos, videos, just to talk about what we've done and accomplished in 2025, so I would love for you to… look at it once you, can, and feel free to share it with anyone you think might be interested. This is at the City Council and where they presented that, and it was a really impressive presentation.

[102:04] Cool. With that, we will move to Commissioner Artis. Does anybody have a note that you would like to share? I'll just, yeah, just share my gratitude once again to you all in serving these last few years, and then just meeting you two, Bergie and Mindy. it's a great gift to be able to be in conversation with our communities in this way, and to try and listen and respond. And I always love another excuse to go to a community event, so I was a little miss… Serving in this capacity, and again, I'm eager to see what you all accomplish, and what Alejandra will bring to the group. Thank you. Good luck with the coaching. Here's where I plug my business. Yeah, and I… maybe I'll be at some of the same community engagement events with my Powerhead Colorado jobs. I can table next to each other. Yes.

[103:21] Any other updates? Yeah, no plans to… Either I was in the… a boulder… Damage? The Parliament? Dis management. Boulder than, no. Disaster. Disaster management, yes. It was last, Wednesday. And, they talk about that. All, more people be informed about the disasters that we have in our cities. So they talk about the, that they have in…

[104:00] M, and that is Rich Will. If you don't have it, you can get it in your phone. Like, The wind that happened, like, last Saturday. So… I… I don't know if you can… I'm going to send you the information, if you don't have… I can… if you send me, I can send out to the commissioners, whatever you'd like. Did they say anything, Carlos? Because I know what I've heard before is, like, sign up for our alerts, but this is a whole app, not an alert. They don't recommend… well, they say that they don't recommend to sign for an alert, because they're going to be calling you, or send you a lot of,

[105:05] Emails and messages. Is it this one? Bridgewell. Oh, it's not Everbridge? No. Bridgewell. Oh, okay. Okay, thank you for that, because that's not what I've heard, so… Yeah, that's the one. Okay. And then when you download, you can go… you can add BOCO info and BOCO Alert. Okay. Okay. BOCO Alert. Thank you. Gracias. I'll share an update. I think I'll share a little bit about, like, some of the work that I do that some of you might not know, but I'm part of a co-working space, and we run it as a cooperative.

[106:05] And so I'm just, like, very interested in just being connected with anything around, like, worker-owned cooperatives. I've been really engaging in that, so if other people are interested in that, I'm doing a lot of that in my work. And we're also taking a cooperative approach to learning about technology and building technology, and we're looking at a lot at technology for community and technology for civic and civic engagement. So if there's, like, anything in that that's of interest to people, I just wanted to kind of, like, plug that. And also, if you know people who are in that space and you want to connect them with me, I'm happy to say connections. We just, just formed as, like, the LCA, Unlimited Cooperative Association, just last month. What's it called? It's called the region, right now. We're exploring larger, like, brand of the technology cooperative right now. Okay. Cool. Any further updates?

[107:12] Okay, we'll move to follow-up items, closings, anything follow-up items? So I will… I have a little bit of homework to do on the work plan, but I will share out with each of you, This is part of my usual meeting follow-up, just have a copy of that, read-only copy of that, that you all can… Do with what you wish. I just believe. There's anything else that's necessary? Just regular follow-up. Yeah, just regular follow-up. Am I missing anything? I… and we're gonna see if Lucy Brentford can come to the next… Yep. We'll be sending our letter.

[108:02] Cool, okay, okay. Well… Thank you, everybody. Thank you, Emily. You wanna make… we need a motion to… Oh, yes, I need a motion to adjourn this meeting. Our meeting is adjourned. I only wish it was 9.30, Carlos. You all used to.