May 6, 2025 — University Hill Commercial Area Management Commission Regular Meeting

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Captions from City of Boulder YouTube recording.

[0:00] Meeting via Zoom. So I my apologies to everyone on that. I also have a minor emergency happening at the house which may require me to suddenly go off camera? So I'm trying to get through the procedural items as quickly as possible here. So that if that does happen, I have the ability to hop off so. If I I believe that we have quorum. So therefore I'm going to call this meeting to order and ask the secretary to call roll. All right. We are recording. Welcome to the University Hill Commercial Area Management Commission meeting. It is May 6, 2025, and I will call Roll. Trent, Bushel Jones. Danica Powell is not here yet. Ben Rockwell. Here. Anderson, Andrew Schumanker. Here I will turn the meeting over to Chair Walkwell for procedural items. Thank you, Ellie, so our 1st procedural is a farewell to Andrew Shoemaker. Andrew has served this commission for oh, so many years. I really appreciate everything that you've brought to this commission and the energy that you've brought to the hill. Thank you so much for your service. You oversaw a lot of big change

[1:19] that is now in action on the hill. So thank you very much, Andrew. Do any other commissioners or staff have anything they would like to say towards Andrew at this time. Thank you for sure. Yeah, thank you very much. Yeah. It's out. Go ahead! It's been a pleasure. It's been a. It's been a great board, and it's we have seen a lot of change in the past 4 or 5 years, however long it's been, and I've never been more optimistic about the hill than now, and I think one of the things that you know we we always thought what happened. If we could get it done with that hotel was that we would create the market demand that would change the hill. But I don't think what we, what we no one foresaw was the fact that we would cause the rest of the city to focus on University hill which has been sorely lacking. And it's caused. It's it's just that's it's made a world of difference before the real market impact.

[2:25] So it's just it's so exciting, and I want to thank all members of staff who've just been great to work with, and and thanks for all your hard work on the hill, and all my fellow commissioners, and welcome. Well, we really appreciate you, not just for your service on this commission. You've been serving this community in a variety of ways for a really long time. And so it's really hard to see. Leave us. But I think we we're a bit over the the end of your term, I think, or is it supposed to end this year? All right? Well, big shoes to fill down, but as a token, and a not so small token of our appreciation. We would like to present to you a piece of art

[3:10] that you won't fully be able to display in a very appropriate place in your home or office, whatever you like, with some notes of gratitude on the back, you can hang it whichever way you'd like. it's great means a lot to me. special place in my heart. So thank you all so much. Absolutely. There are cookies. If you haven't already to celebrate Andrew's departure. And you do not have to stay with us. You're welcome to as a member of the community. Yeah, yeah. But we really appreciate you. Okay, good. Good. I'll stay for a few minutes and then. Well, thank you all. Thank you to staff for that gift for Andrew, and thank you, Andrew, for your service to the Hill Commission and to the city. That brings us to the next order of business which is welcoming a new member of the Commission. Dane Anderson. Chris, I believe that you have some documentation there to give him the oath of office.

[4:12] I do, Dane. We have an open office statement that I can recite and have you repeat, or, if you would like to read it yourself totally acceptable as well. We just want to make sure you're on camera and are heard, and then I, Dane Anderson, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution, United States of America in the State of Colorado, and the charter and ordinances of the City of Boulder, and faithfully perform the duties of the office of a member of the University Hill Commercial Area Management Commission, which I am here, of which I'm about to enter alright. Congratulations! You are sworn in. We do need you to sign this, and then that will be in our records. You do have a certificate here. It's very official from the city clerk's office, stating your appointment Site City Council with that, and if the chair would like to maybe provide a moment for folks to more formally introduce themselves to Dane, and share a little bit about themselves, and vice versa. Now might be a good time for that.

[5:21] Thank you, Chris. So my name is Ted Rockwell. I happen to be the chair of the University Hill Commercial Area District Commission. I work at Cu. I'm an assistant dean for marketing and communications there, and really have an affinity for supporting the city, but also, in particular, the hill I've worked on the hill for the better part of 20 years, and really want to see it be successful. So I will hand off to hey, Trent, I see you. How about you? Cool Trent bush. Older resident. Spend a lot of years on the hill. Started businesses up there over the years, have generations of families who have worked up there as well. So it's still, you know, it's really in my heart as well to see the hill turn from sort of the harder years it's had to something new and exciting and different. I also guess I'm on the

[6:13] board of directors of the Global chamber. And yes, something. Yeah. Danica, why don't you go next? Danica's on zoom as well as I am. So Danica. Hi, there! I'm Deanna Kapowell. I am a newer member of Ucamc. I also serve on the Boulder Chamber board of directors with Ted. I've served on many other boards with other people in the room. I was, I think, back on planning board with Andrew Shoemaker a long time ago, and so tend to be kind of a like to be on boards and help shape policy and work in the community. And I own a consulting firm. I also worked on the Moxie Hotel on the entitlements, so kind of helping bring that

[7:02] project to fruition in boulder up on the hill. Thank you, Danica. And then next tell if you could do an introduction. Well, Jones, I've been on this board for almost 2 years now. It's my 1st board ever serving I'm a business partner at this thing on the cliff. Alright! So, Dean. That gives you an opportunity to introduce yourself to the commission. I'm Dane Anderson. I lived here 25 years ago. I moved back 2 and a half years ago. I love Boulder. love the mountains, and I love the hill, and they're quite frequently but no, my 1st mission to be on, and I'm excited to work with everybody. Excellent. It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm sorry I couldn't be there today in person, but I look forward to our next meeting. I'm going to move on, then to Item C of the procedural items, the approval of the March 25 meeting minutes. Do I hear a motion to approve the meeting minutes as submitted.

[8:07] Thank you. Bill. I see that? And do I have a second. Thank you. All right. We have a motion to approve in a second any discussion great. I'm calling for a vote. All those in favor of approving the approve. The march 25. Meeting minutes. All right. That's unanimous, I believe. Going to move on to Item D approval of the April 25. Special meeting minutes. Do I hear a motion to approve the special meeting minutes as submitted? Alright, I saw that tell it. Tell. Just just been pushing down. Who's gonna second? That. Second. All right. There we go, Trent. Seconds it. Any discussion? All right. I'm going to call for a vote. All those in favor of approving the April 25. Special meeting minutes.

[9:01] That's a unanimous vote as well. That is passed all right. Now to the real meat of the matter. We need to elect a chair and vice chair for this commission going forward. So I'm going to just kind of say to everyone on this group. It has been a pleasure to be your chair the last 2 years. I would be happy to continue to do that. But I'm also going to say that if anyone is willing to take on the chairmanship or chairpersonship. Please make sure that we know that otherwise I'm happy to accept a nomination to continue as chair. We also need to have a nomination for a vice chair to help back me up or take my place in those kinds of situations. So do I hear any nominations for chair or vice chair. At this time. I would need to nominate Ted Rockwell as chair of this commission.

[10:00] Excellent any other nominations for chair. I'll do the same. Alright. Excellent. We we've established that, I think. If there's no. that's cool, we'll vote on that in a minute. I'm gonna pair these 2 together hopefully, we'll see how this goes. Any nominations for vice chair. All right. I'll do it if you need me to. I'm gonna nominate Danica Powell for. I'm just I shared with Ted. I'm the vice chair of the chamber, which means I'm going to be chair. That's funny. Next year, and so I'm a little overwhelmed by that. But I know we don't have. We need some. What is it? Word progression. I don't know. We need. What's the word, Ted?

[11:01] Yeah. Continuity. Yeah. So I'll I will do that. But I I don't know. We'll we'll hopefully. I can make it work. Tell, or, Trent, I look to you just for a minute to do a little self-reflection, and just see whether or not this is something that you might want to be nominated for. Did we vocalize this? Or should we just reflect in silence. Can reply. In in my case with what's going on right now. In in my business and all kinds of things. It's kind of the same as when we have the discussion last year. I'm most likely going to be on the road a lot, and most likely going to be out of the country a lot, and I it's not something I feel like I can with good faith execute. If I were so called upon for me to go I feel like I'm too new to this to be in that position, and I am pretty busy as of the moment.

[12:04] Okay, well, I'm going to go ahead and and I will continue nominating Danica for vice chair. The thing I will say for the good of the order is that I do cycle off at 26. So we are going to need to really think seriously about what our succession planning is going to be in terms of having a chair. So later on this year we may want to kick that forward and have a real discussion about that at the moment I'm going to move forward in the interest of having 2 viable candidates, and I'm going to ask for a motion to approve the nominations of Ted Rockwell for chair, and Danica Powell as vice chair. Do. I have a motion. So moved. I see you, Trent, do I have a second on that. Second. And tell seconds excellent. Any discussion on these nominations before we move on to a vote.

[13:01] Okay? Seeing none. I'm going to call for a vote for the slate of Ted Rockwell as Chair Danica Powell as vice chair. All those in favor. All right, I believe I see a unanimous vote there to elect those individuals. Congratulations. Danica. Congratulations, Ted. Thank you for being our fearless leader. Another year I will hopefully pay close attention and and learn from you. Oh, it's great! I you'll you'll do great. You'll do better than I did in in that role, because I barely was in it myself. Well, thank you all for that. And then an update on the bi-monthly check-in assignments. wait assignments. What does this mean? Just who's doing what great. Exactly. So now that we have a new person on the Commission, and we go in alphabetical order, we just want to check in on yeah, the who and when? Okay.

[14:00] And Ellie is leading that Ellie, do you want to speak to what the recommendation is? Yeah, so we have Trent on here twice, and we had tell already attended. I didn't know, Dane, if you had a chance to look at that agenda and see if any of those seats work for you. It's a bi-monthly meeting that happens in between the commission meetings. Okay, okay, So we could do June 10th or October 14th or December 9.th Oh, for me! so, Ellie, but for the record, because that was really quiet. So it sounds like you're adding dates the June.

[15:04] I'm not sorry. I'm not sure. I think I said the wrong thing, and now I feel like I'm taking up too much of the Commission's time. We'll do some homework, then on Rotating Dane, and according to alphabetical order based on where we're at in the rotation. That sounds great, and so. I still saying that? So that's the thing is looking at the What I'm showing for June 10th was Trent Bush. Now that we have an Anderson in the rotation. And I was presuming that that meant that we would switch the June 10th to Dane. Anderson. Does that work for you. Yeah, that's fine. Thank you. That's a 1. Pm. Meeting. Okay. only for half an hour, and it can be virtual at the time. Alright, thank you.

[16:01] Thank you for that, Ellie. Thank you, Dane, for being flexible there and you know the purpose of those meetings is really just to touch in with city staff and with one another on off cycle months and just have a bit of let's make sure everyone knows what's going on. It's there's it's pretty low stakes. We're just trying to make sure there's a lot happening on the hill, and we want to make sure that everyone's on the same page about stuff. So thank you, Chris, thank you, Ellie, moving on. We are moving to item 3. Public participation. Are there any members of the public here today who would like to address the Commission. There's no one online. There is no one there. Okay, so, seeing none, we're going to move on to the consent agenda section of our agenda. I'm going to take each one of these individually consent agenda. So these topics will not be discussed unless there are questions posed by the Commission. Does anyone have any questions about the consent agenda for staff that they would like to bring up at this time.

[17:06] Okay. fund financials. Are there anything on the fund financials that the Commission would like to bring up with Staff at this time. Okay, seeing none. I'm moving on. Then to the Euge visitation report. are there any questions for staff around the placer data at this time. All right, seeing none. I am going to ask for a motion to approve items 4, 5, and 6 of our agenda today for approval as submitted. Similar. All right. Do I have a second? It's the same 2 Trentel, one and 2, all right. Here we go any discussion about those

[18:00] seeing none calling for a vote, all those in favor. Excellent. Thank you very much. All right. We're moving on. Then we have a distinguished visitor today here for the commission, chief Redfern. I'm going to turn it over to you. Awesome. Where- where should I stand? I could see you there. Camera should be able to pick you up wherever you go. Okay. thanks for having us having me here today. It's been a little while always good to come in and have a conversation. I don't have a ton in the way of a formal agenda just a few things. I'll hit on real quick departmental department wise just because it has a direct effect on what goes on on the street working. We are as fully staffed as we've been since 2,016. We are, in fact, likely to over hire by 2 because of some impending retirement, so we can make sure we're getting enough officers through training to cover the streets. So that's a really good thing. It's going to allow us to once they're all trained up reevaluate our deployments to see if there's areas like the hill like downtown or traffic section. Other places that we might need to supplement or add people back that we had to remove when staffing was really bad. So that's really exciting. We're fully staffed in our dispatch section in our record section as well, so really, really good. When I I was at a conference last week with a bunch of chiefs and most departments are nowhere close to fully staffed. So I'm excited about that.

[19:26] so that's really yeah. Big internal update there. Obviously, we're excited as everyone else is for sundance. And we're looking towards 27 to see what we need to do to make sure that we have the right infrastructure and technology and all those things. To make sure it's a safe event. So you're going to in the next year to see some changes from the way we operate a little bit, too, and probably push some people out of their comfort zone a little bit with some technology and cameras and things that we've historically not been fans of here in Boulder, but we got to do it to keep things safe. So hill wise. Well, to say citywide crime wise. We did not end the year on a high note in some categories

[20:03] we were down in all property crimes in 24, but we were up significantly in things like aggravated assault and simple assault the majority of those being in our in-house community. We are so far in, since it's May, we're down in every crime category except simple assault, which means there's no weapon, there's no serious injury. Well, most of those categories were down. Double digit, burglary, robbery, sex assault is trending up, but no patterns or anything of concern. So I'm happy with what we've what we've been accomplishing when it comes to crime. The direction has been very clear to our officers. Get out of your car, get on foot. We've just ordered 3 more e-bikes that you'll see on the hill in downtown. and we've taken a new stance along the creek path and other public spaces when it comes to camping. I hope you've seen the difference in the last couple of months down, especially on the creek path. Here we are not We're being very clear about the rules and the laws which we have not necessarily been in the past, or kind of just said, Hey, you know, we're going to clean up this area. But if you kind of go down there. Nobody's going to mess with you. And I think that led to a culture where people felt that it was permissible to violate the law. As long as we have camping ordinances and tent ordinance, and all those things on the other books. We are our direction or officers, and it's not just our homeless outreach team. It's

[21:22] the officers at 2 in the morning working patrol on a night that's quiet. They're getting out of their car at 2 in the morning and making contact with people, camping and reminding them they can't be there. And so it seems to work. It seems to be working. It's not going to solve the long term bigger issues that we all know about, which is a lack of mental health and drug treatment in the State continuously, even in this legislative session. Really bad legislation was being pushed out of out of Denver. That was contrary to public safety. And I'm not getting into a partisan. I'm getting into it as a chief of police that's responsible for public safety. So we're still struggling to to to have some support, to be able to do our jobs. Just another example of where we're struggling. We had a woman yesterday pull a knife on a group of second graders that were on a field trip to the tea house. She pulled out a large knife and said she was going to kill them, and their teacher. Our officers got there, arrested her. She received a Pr. Bond this afternoon is already bonded out of jail, despite the da's objections. So those are things we still struggle with, no matter how hard and how well trained our cops are.

[22:24] not that we get it right all the time, but we are struggling still with other parts of the system right now. That it's a work in progress moving forward. So that's despite those things and some of those speed bumps, I think I'm really happy that we are where we are with prime. The hill. We're fully staffed on our Hill team as well. I saw the flurry of emails that a lot of I think some of you were in some of the emails, maybe recently, with the fireworks and other things. Or at least copied on them. I have a meeting. We have a meeting Thursday with myself, the sheriff, the head of open Space mountain parks, to figure out what we can do differently when it comes to Flagstaff when it comes to some of the areas up and above town that aren't technically our jurisdiction. But they're in the city. And so we're figuring out ways. To to get a game plan where? Because I don't like the response of like, well, I have a cop that's right here and see it going on. But it's not our jurisdiction, so we're not going to go up there and address it. We're trying to figure out ways we can. We can work

[23:22] with the sheriff. We're gonna have our lawyers in there to tell us what we can and cannot do. Or yeah, you actually can go up there and enforce this, or you can't do that. So that's something we're very we've heard the public's feedback especially in the fireworks and street racing. And quite frankly, we do have violent crime up there from time to time. So I know that's been a frustration with some of the other hill groups as well. So that's all good stuff that we're hopefully going to make some progress on and then, yeah, we're we're looking forward to summer. They we we. There's still obviously the fish fish weekend. We're gonna we've canceled all these off. We're gonna up staff that heavily. We're not 100 sure what impact that's gonna have other than we know. It will have an impact. And so cus got a couple of other concerts up. Their sleeves are not telling us what and when, but something in

[24:13] August, something in September. So we're waiting to see on that we asked them to tell us as early as possible, so we can make sure we have proper staffing. It's a it's a challenge. So that's really all I have. Update wise happy to answer any questions or shut up whatever you guys tell me, But as always. I will just encourage you all to let us know what you're seeing, what you're needing if we're doing things that are not working, if we're falling short on things. I want to hear about it. Our commitment is to work with you all, to ensure that boulder is safer, and that we're providing proper policing services. So that's that's my quick elevator speech questions, concerns, feedback. The only piece I have is something we discussed in the last meeting or so a few of the things have been resolved. You know we were targeted kind of the commercial district, of course, and speak to the business owners one of whom was very vocal, that they were being treated unfairly. We attended the hearing and realized that they were not being treated. Yeah, exactly so great.

[25:25] The other one, though, is, we've heard that there is some id checks, and those kinds of things in front of certain businesses pizza 3 14 was the. Those are the guys, the pizza pie guys came to us mixer, and they and they have concern that they don't even serve alcohol because the Id checks were going on in front of their business. It kept kids from. When I say kids, I taught this, they kept students and people that are up there from going into their business because they didn't want anything to do with the, you know. Even the the thought of something I wanted to bring up. Because if you threw, if you put that check in front of a place that I serve, then

[26:14] that seems like an easier place to do that's absolutely feedback. And just so everybody knows we'll continue to do. We are going to continue to do underage things we are going to continue to ensure that our liquor laws are being, are being followed. And it's it is, it is! It's done on the hill. It's done down here. It's done at the mom and pop gas stations. We've there's certain things that for me are nonstarters, and, you know, serving underage especially. And I'm not as worried. This is recording serving underage is problematic. There's a difference between high school kids going in to buy alcohol in a gas station versus a 20 year old. That's more, a little bit hopefully, more mature drinking up on the hill. They're still both illegal, technically, but we've we've had some pretty significant high profile crashes and other things fueled by alcohol. And and we're all for people having fun, and we're all for for businesses being able to operate. But there's obligations, and I'm going to continue to do that. I I do want to hear if people feel like it's not being done

[27:13] equally and fairly across the board, and most of the time when I've heard that we look into it, and it absolutely is so. It's no surprise that those things are going to continue. And we just, if people feel like they need help ensuring their compliance. We absolutely will do that. Our new liquor Enforcement officer is great, and she is fully plugged in there. No point of privilege, just want to check in. There was some question on occupancy. I know that there was maybe some work going on with the fire. Chief fire, Marshal. Yep, yeah, we are actively talking to fire. And actually, I think the Fire Chief is. I don't speak for him. But in our conversations he believes that occupancy should be a fire thing. And not a Pd thing, even though I mean most of us. Anybody can walk into this. It's overcrowded in most cities. That's some, you know, in my prior city. If we were in a bar it was problematic, especially ones where we'd have fights and all that we go and be like. This looks way overcrowded, and we would call somebody in the moment from the fire department to come out and do that occupancy check. And that's

[28:12] something that I think hopefully we can get to here. And with sundance coming we will likely be redoing a lot of the occupancy limits in Park City. When we were there they bring in engineers and actually do the occupancy limits, and they have a much different enforcement. I think we'll probably redo that because a lot of venues that aren't typically potentially right now serving alcohol, maybe serving alcohol. We've got to look at that, so there'll be a ton more conversation on occupancy. But I don't feel like that's our expertise. So we're working on that anything else. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Guys. Congratulations. And I'm sure we'll see you around tomorrow.

[29:08] Okay, I'm back just for a second. Here. I'm sorry I had to hop off there. I'm going to have to hop off again after I hand off to staff here for the next couple of agenda items. But thank you, Chief Redfern. Now we're going to head off to Staff Jake Hudson Humphrey for a hill boulder update, is he here? It could not attend this evening, but he sent me a note that I'm happy to share out. He says the hill boulder is continuing to support the business district, maintain our directories, promote new businesses and oversee district marketing, especially of the summer events on the hill, including roots, music, project and fish. and that was it. And just to add on to that the 1st roots music Project event is on June 19.th So on the 20 Event Street.

[30:01] Excellent. Thank you for that. Next item on the agenda is the flexible loading zone update from the esteemed Chris Haglin. Chris. Hello, thank you, Ted. Yes, Chris Haglund here, principal project manager for transportation and mobility here to talk about the exciting field of curbside management and flexible loading zones. So I do know we have some new new Commission member, so I'll give a little background on this before I kind of get into my update of our plan for the 3rd quarter. So back in way back in 2021, the city of Boulder received a Grant to look at changes in curbside management policies across the city. This was a project that was really the impetus for this project was because

[31:02] commerce has changed the way in which commerce is done in our city, around, transportation has changed. We think about the innovations around transportation network companies like Uber and lyft the incredible increase of deliveries from companies like Fedex, Amazon ups and and even Usps. There's just in general just a greater demand for the curb, and a lot of that demand is a very short term demand for the curb. So one of the things the city did in terms of this curbside management policy update was to look at. How can we provide increased curbside access for a multitude of different users who really need the the curve for a short time period, and so we updated our curbside management policies. Those were. That work was completed in kind of towards the end of 2023. We had to do some code update changes in 2024. And we're looking to implement some of our curbside management policies in 2025.

[32:20] One of the hallmarks of these changes is the use of flexible loading zones. Basically a flexible loading zone is a loading zone. That's a 24, 7 loading zone. It's open 24, 7, 3, 65, traditionally and historically, in the city of Boulder we have time restricted loading zones so that it may be a loading zone from 7 am. To 10 Am. But then it reverts back to vehicle, storage, or vehicle parking but because of this increased demand we're seeing for curbside access. We looked at, you know, changes we could make, and one of the changes that we identified in our best practices was the conversion of these time restricted traditional loading zones to being 24, 7 flexible loading zones that can be used by any user.

[33:17] So back in 2022, towards the end of 22, and into 2023, we conducted a pilot in the city of Boulder, in both the downtown and in Uni Hill. In Uni Hill. Specifically, we had 3 pilot flexible loading zones these were located on the west side of 13th Street, between Pennsylvania and the Fox Theater, on the south side of College, between 12th and 13th Street and the south side of College, between 13th and 14th Street during that pilot period we saw hundreds of users

[34:00] using the flexible loading zones throughout the day. We saw a lot of private vehicles using flexible loading zones. you know. I think we can look back at Co. The Covid time period to see when that whole demand of short term access. You know you order a sandwich from someplace. You just need that quick little spot. Pull in, go in, run in, grab your sandwich, run out leave. And that's the type of access we're looking at. In fact, during our pilot program, which lasted a few months in the Uni Hill area in terms of the use of the flexible loading zone. About 73% were private vehicles that were taking advantage of this short term kind of parking situation. 23% of users were Uber or lyft or your transportation network companies. 3% delivery vehicles. So your more traditional delivery vehicles. But we did see that these flexible loading zones were used throughout the whole day. And so that really confirmed

[35:10] our idea. That demand has changed. There's a lot of short term access demand, and that it would, be a good policy shift to change some of these time restricted historical loading zones to the 24, 7 loading zone that, again, can be used by a variety of users. So what we're proposing in terms of implementation is looking at University hill in the 3rd quarter. So starting in July what we would like to do is work with this commission and with property owners and business owners on the hill to identify areas of the public right of way. And the curbside that we want to

[36:02] switch from. Maybe it's a traditional loading zone to this 24, 7 so that could be the 3 pilot areas that we looked at again on the west side of 13, th between Pennsylvania and the Fox and College between 12th and 13th and 13th and 14. Those could certainly be candidates. They were well used, had hundreds of users. So. Over the course of the pilot. But I think there's some other areas we may want to consider at the time we did. The pilot. You know, we didn't have the hotel and convention area, so I think what I'd like to do is gather together. You know, some representatives of the Commission of Property owners, business owners to really take a deep dive into the area and identify where we want to have changes in curbside use and utilize these flexible loading zones. So I'm thinking that would be

[37:02] process in the month of July. During that time we'd also be developing our engagement process with our delivery companies. With our transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft we, we need to coordinate with them as well one of the ideas is to use these loading zones as designated pickup, and drop off for companies like Uber and Lyft. So if you hail a ride in the unill area. It's just not gonna pick you up anywhere. You're gonna go to a designated spot. This is a trend that we're seeing in a lot of cities where they're trying to organize the pickup and drop off of folks using those transportation network companies and then also, you know, just work with Amazon ups Fedex to let them know of where what changes we may be proposing into the location of loading zones.

[38:00] We also looked at the average duration of zones during the pilot period. We feel that a 15 min time limit would be appropriate for these types of spaces many of our loading zones had 10 min limits. But you know, based on the data we collected, we feel that a 15 min limit is more appropriate. We'll, I think, but what we'll like to do is, you know, Staff will initiate the process in July. Gather the data, make proposals. We'll bring that to the stakeholders, property owners, businesses kind of in that July August period. By the end of August. We'd like to finalize where what curbside changes we're gonna make and the locations of flexible loading zones. So that in September we can launch the communication plan. Make sure everybody knows of the changes so that includes businesses property owners, the commercial users the transportation network companies and then we can install the new signage

[39:09] for those loading zones in late September. Kind of with a communication plan release to let make sure that people understand that these changes are going on one of the other things we're looking at is Enforcement strategies. We know that our parking Enforcement officers. It's very difficult for them to monitor loading zones, and someone may be staying longer than what is permitted. So we have been transportation. Mobility has been working with community vitality on identifying some technology that could be used to enforce. There's a company that produces thing called a safety stick, which is essentially like a Ballard, a thin Ballard that has cameras on it it can look at the use of flexible loading zones and

[40:00] no charge to the city. The way that they make their money is, they take a portion of any fines that would be related to someone overstaying their welcome in a flexible loading zone. You know, we're not sure if we want to do this, but we are. Gonna we're gonna look at piloting it and kind of just see what the data is that we would take. And and whether or not we want to move forward with using a technology solution for enforcement. But I certainly appreciate the time bringing this to this group, and would like your input, I think particular on this, the engagement process that we want to have with property owners the business community. You know the delivery companies that these businesses use to most effectively get feedback from from those folks on. You know, where we want to put flexible loading zones and other any other types of curbside uses or changes they want that they want to see. I think this is especially important in the hotel area since at the time we were doing all this curbside work.

[41:15] That hotel wasn't there. So I think that that's a whole new area that we'll want to do some a deep dive into. See what types of changes to public right away that we want to make. So that's kind of the overview that I had. I'm happy to take any questions or hear any feedback or suggestions for how to proceed with that engagement process. Thank you, Chris. Does anyone have any questions for Chris at this time. That's such so much a question. But, Chris, I would love to be a part of that as far as helping out decide where these parking, flexible parking spot would be. That would be great. I was gonna ask if the Commission wanted to kind of appoint a representative to our working group. So looks like we may have a volunteer.

[42:10] Thank you. Yeah, yeah, definitely, so yeah, yeah. Appreciate that. I have a question. You. You said that you would start. I may have missed this, the pilot in July, or you're starting to collect information. In July. So we've already conducted the pilot. I think what we'll start doing in July is that 1st staff will propose some locations that we think will be good candidates for permanent, flexible loading zones and then we'll bring that to you know, in a group of folks that we can put together in terms of business owners, properties, and, like a little community working group for them to assess Staff's proposal, make any recommendations on changes, and then we'd hope to kind of wrap that up by the end of August, and so that we'd have our locations identified.

[43:20] Okay, that's that's really helpful. Thank you. I. The thing that I'm realizing that many of us on the hill are realizing is that, as you mentioned, we have not just one, but actually 2 new hotels by August, and I wonder how much that may be changing what was discovered during the pilot and if there is any reflection that might need to be done there, as you're rolling this out later on this year, so just bringing that up. Oh, yeah, I I totally agree. I mean, you know it. It wasn't any part of the pilot. I think you know, we're gonna see changes in traffic patterns because of those developments. And so we'll want to take kind of a fresh look. So and and I think this is also going to be an iterative process, you know. We may not get it right the 1st time we may want to make adjustments.

[44:11] You know a lot of cities, especially with the Tncs. And where their designated pickup and drop off locations are. There's usually a lot of adjustments, and then I think you know, the whole sundance issue is gonna call for us to probably reevaluate some of those things. But hopefully, you know, doing it this summer. It will help us and prepare and get ready for sundance, which I think is gonna I mean, if you think about the multitudes of people. limousines and movie stars and and all the you know, uber and lyft pick up and drop offs. We're gonna have to have a really tight curbside management plan to avoid congestion in these areas. But to me, you know, we're kind of setting the stage here with some flexible loading zones. And hopefully within, we can, kinda you know.

[45:07] improve until we get to that sundance time period. Thank you for that. I just have 1 1 comment or question, I guess, when you were doing the study, you know that as it stands especially on the hill. It feels like those loading zones. They exist are pretty big, I know. I'm always kind of driving by and looking, and they're empty. Right? Did did you see? Ha! Not just the number of vehicles, but how much of the how much of it was taken up? Because it feels like it's pretty excessive to me. Only in that it just it just feels like there's always big stretches of 13th Street that are empty. Yeah. And so I just wanna make sure we're not. Moving something in 24 h that is sorely needed parking for people to go up there and actually spend some money on the helmets. Yeah, no. And and I think that's exactly the type of feedback you know. What we've been seeing in kind of the best practice literature is that, you know, if you're gonna have us a single like, quote flexible loading zone, they typically only make it about like

[46:14] alright, a parking space space and a half. just to allow kind of maneuverability for going in and leaving. They're typically also located at the either the beginning or the end of blocks and not in the middle. And so there could be some some changes in that. But yeah, I think we could definitely look at what is the the space requirements. We do have information from the pilot in terms of the mix of private vehicles versus trucks. I don't think we have kind of the length of truck, you know, type of data, but I think we can certainly make changes into the placement and the length of these zones, because we certainly know that parking is a critical component to economic vitality on the hill.

[47:02] And but we, you know, our goal is really to respond to the multitude of of demands on the curb by multiple, different multiple different users. And really, you know, try and hone in and get it good. So I think that is something we can certainly investigate as we make some of these changes. You know. Generally we'd be looking at signage as being, you know, the key thing, you know, loading zone with arrows like from here to here. But we might see that, you know. Striping may be necessary also to control. So the the use of those make sure that people are using them appropriately. I guess one just one other quick comment. I didn't realize that those loading zones were. I thought they were just commercial. Basically, I didn't know people could just go in use them, and I don't think it's very clear on signage. I think it just says loading. I know that you're talking about cameras and enforcement and all that. Couldn't it just be done as easily as you already get 15 min of the parking space right once per day per license plate once per day. Is that what it once per day per zone.

[48:19] or once per day? Just in all of so we already we already have a technology that works. That would be a pretty easy way to enforce it. You say you're there for 15 min? You're not. Then you're open for a ticket, but it just wouldn't automate the ticket. But I could see a lot of people not liking the automated ticket. The challenges was that well, 1st of all validating like, if you're a grubhub driver going through the Park Mobile set up to do that is a bit onerous, and they don't. They're not going to and then our Enforcement staff isn't 24, 7, so it might work. That approach might work during regular operating business hours. But there are times that these flex zones are going to be really important. Later at night.

[49:11] That we won't have enforcement set currently in our current enforcement structure. Yep. My questions. So I think what we'll do is, you know, we'll move forward. So likely, you know, you know. Chris, we can plan on being back to this commission, maybe in July but then. you know any assistance in kind of thinking about the best way of of engaging business and property owners to get their feedback. You know we're open to any suggestion that that will will help get the word out and make sure that we get. You know, people heard about their needs around this. So. Forgot to mention when we introduce ourselves. Like I represent, I'm the representative of the box, right? So I'm happy to talk to Cheryl and get her. So I'm happy to also be part of the discussion.

[50:09] and if Sam is going to be here, we have more to talk about with parking on the hill. Shortly. She'll be here shortly. She's waiting. She's coming in from another meeting. Got it. Thank you. There's Christina. I was in that meeting with her. Are you? Yes. Yes. And I'm still trying to ask was that we're solving all they were solving all the housing. Problems for the city of Boulder. Perfect. No community, vitality. Working and housing. Put it on your calendars. May 6, 2025. All housing problems solved. All right. Before I let him off the hook here. Any any other questions or discussion for Chris before we move on in our agenda. This is a really important thing in terms of effects on the hill. So I want to make sure people have an opportunity.

[51:06] Anyone else. Okay, thank you. Tell and thank you, Trent, for volunteering. Chris. Great information. Thank you for that. And looking forward to hearing as you do your work later this year. Alright! We'll see you soon. Take care. Thanks for that brings us to matters from Staff. Who's gonna lead this set set of discussion, Chris. Well, yeah, I will introduce the topics and then hand it over to the individual staff members. It's you know, we're in May. And of course, that means we're already looking at the 2026 budget and so Elliot is here to give you a preview of the work that he's leading in the department to prepare for our 2026 budget year. So, Elliot, you have some slides that give you enough time to pull it up. I hope so. We'll find out. Oh, look at that! We have a Powerpoint presentation, but that's not a presentation.

[52:04] Now it is cool. So yeah, thanks, Chris, for the introduction. So yeah, Ellie Levante, business services, senior manager for community vitality gonna go over some high level details about the 2026 budget development spoiler alert. Not a lot of changes for you did. Caveat capital so we have this big capital expense that we're doing this year. don't really have any big plan. Capital expenses going into the future. That doesn't mean we can't just means we don't right now, and that's fine, because the timeline doesn't really rush us to make any decisions right now. So you'll see some of the changes or excuse me. Some of the the timeline of the different changes that we'll have to enact during this year's budget cycle. That 1st deadline apologize may second is a lot of font underneath that dollar sign but basically that may second deadline is obviously passed.

[53:05] Really all it was. Is is there anything that just costs more, because things cost more. I'm not going to use the T word in this presentation. But those are some of the things we had to consider when looking at the budget, there weren't really any significant cost drivers in the 2026 budget development that we had for you. Camc, so really, not a whole lot there. The other thing we had to do is we had to put together a draft fund financial. So kind of our outlook, our fund outlook. For the next 6 years, and which includes some of those, increases. The next one is May 23, rd and that's really taking a look at? Where did we overspend? And where did we underspend? And should we move some money around to make sure we don't overspend and underspend fancy word is called realignment, and that will happen on May 23.rd So we'll be doing that, and I'll talk a little bit about the details and what we've kind of discovered in doing our analysis.

[54:06] And then the last day is June 27th which will be nice, because we will actually have enough time to come to you all in Nope every other month. Sorry, July, when we come back to you. Can't see. We will have a proposed budget for you all to to take a vote on. You can see those July Commission meetings is the next one. I guess if I've read my own slides. I know what we were doing. So we'll discuss those final submissions to City manager's office and the Executive Budget team. We will vote on those and ask for your recommendation to go to City manager's office with that budget, knowing that things could change like it did last year. So we will then, of course, be very transparent about any changes that did happen. Post the submission to city manager's office. some dates in terms of the processes. September 11th is the study session with council. So that's when they'll be discussing the entire organization's budget.

[55:08] And then the 1st reading of the citywide budgets happening October 9, th and then October 23rd is that second meeting, and that is actually, when city council forms, as the Board of directors for the additional general improvement districts, and they will actually approve and appropriate the funds in 2026, as well as the 2025 mill levy. I'm gonna keep going on. If you have any questions, feel free to raise your hand, but otherwise I'll just keep moving doing a little bit of a recap on commission priorities and challenges. Dane, this may look a little bit different to you than the presentation that we had for you when you were coming in the reason being is, these commission priorities are directly from the the priorities that have been discussed by commissioners. The priorities that were presented and are welcome to you. Campc. Were based a little bit more on what puma discovered during their research and during the General Improvement district analysis. So they very much realign. The words have changed a little bit, theirs are obviously more current. These priorities were finalized last

[56:18] February. May was, it May last May. It is may right now. March last March. Thank you. and then those challenges are kind of some of the things you can see there, so that existing needs and services. You know, the need for additional subsidies is something we're constantly discussing and trying to figure out. Hence the general Improvement district analysis. And how do we find a more long term? Financial outlook for the hill? Maybe not necessarily huge, but the hill in general. So we're constantly looking at those things. So where we are, not meaning to put a trash can as a slide, for where we are. It's just more of an investment we had on the hill. The all new trash cans. So that's something of significance. It's a nice thing that we could do and pilot up and on the hill, and we were very excited about it.

[57:14] looking a little bit of the analysis, though. Our financial performance from 2024 ended in a green area. Things were up which was great. Our total source of funds was a little bit higher, as you probably recall from last budget presentation. For the Commissioners who were here. Our largest income except the general fund transfer, is actually interest. That continued to be the case for 2024 was also our highest income source of, and our ending fund balance there in return, was also a little bit higher than what we anticipated for 2024. We also did see a decrease in our expenses from what we were anticipating. So I'll get into that a little bit more. So here's the sources and uses of funds. Again, there's a lot of information on this slide. We can certainly get into a little bit more, but you can kind of see the projected versus actual lines on both on the sources side. They came in either at or above what we anticipated for most things minus the parking revenue which we have re forecasted a little bit.

[58:23] Some of that has to do with some operational changes with us, transitioning to aims our new platform. So there's some things that we had to work out there and then the use of funds. Most, if not all came under what we projected, which is good. So again, we can see some realignments there. If you look at the economic vitality, we spent a lot more than we anticipated, but due to cost savings and the other programs, we were able to afford that and ended on a note where we actually could come in a little bit lower than projected overall.

[59:01] So some key takeaways. Positive things, right? So investments and earnings, we 158% increase over what we were projected. So that's great. So it's nice to see that we still have a pretty good roi on our fund balance total expenses. Again, we're lower. And the ending fund balance was slightly higher. Kind of looking at some areas and reviews kind of what's helping guide us into the realignment. During that next phase is, we saw a huge increase in our economic vitality and district management spending, which is not a bad thing that's money going directly back to the district for things like roots, music, festival, and some of the other district vitality programs and projects that we offer up there. The again the parking revenue fell a little short. So we do have a little bit of consideration there. And our capital improvement program spending was just a little under from what we were anticipating, but that will shift into 2025, as the money is just rolling over from last year into this year.

[60:08] So where are we going? Looking at 25 and 26 you can see there's a little bit of a gap there from adopted versus projected. And we're looking at that and trying to figure out the the forecast of property. Taxes came in significantly lower. I don't know if you all received your property. Assessment values I did for mine and mine actually decreased this year, so great as a homeowner, property owner, bad as a fund manager of general Improvement districts. So it's the Yin and the Yang so some of the property owners might be happy to have a smaller tax bill. But what that means is less revenue for us to reinvest back into the hill. So some things to consider. You can kind of. See, here's a little bit of a graph in terms of our front fund balance projections. The reason we see such a significant drop in fund balance in 2025 is because of the the capital investment that we're going to be doing up there with the

[61:15] Streetscapes, thinking streetscapes and the Broadway Median project. So that was one of the big expenses that we have in 2025. We do anticipate that to happen. I know reading could probably provide an update. I think we've been working with transportation a little bit on the Broadway median specifics of that. So that's kind of one of the reasons why we see such a significant decrease in fund balance there in 25 the sources of funds. If you look at the the kind of the 25 adopted versus 2025 projected. Again, this is looking at what was approved back in October of last year. That's your adopted versus. We have some new insights into, for instance, investments and earnings on interest, which helps us understand what we should expect to see. So we can do some revisions on the revenue side, as well as on the expense side. That use of funds.

[62:14] So not a whole lot of changes from the revenue side. I I hesitant to change anything in the parking revenue based on what was adopted in 2025 kind of making some efforts to make sure that all gets to where it needs to be. But I did see some opportunities there for us to do some interest in investment projection changes for 2025. So more than what we anticipated in the adoption. However, in 26, because of our significant capital investment into the hill, we're going to be decreasing our fund balance, therefore decreasing our earning potential on what we have in the bank. So some financial insights there. Again, I already talked about the investment. Going up the total revenue sources kind of increasing slightly in 2025, basically driven by those. The interest earnings.

[63:08] And then modern, modest revenue growth growth, which is good. But it's just modest. Just given the headwinds of what has happened at the State legislative level for property taxes and also the reassessment. This is a reassessment year. So that will have an impact in in future years. Again, some expenditure challenges. We're going to be doing some realignments for that economic vitality, one, that big one and the capital improvement program. Although it is a substantial investment, it is an investment, nonetheless, back into the hill directly. So it is good to see and then the expenses being projected a little bit higher. That's slightly due to, because it's comparing what was approved versus what is now projected, which includes the encumbrance carryover, which is all the money that we were under contract and obligated to pay in 2024 that we didn't actually get out. The door

[64:03] is now in the 25 amount. So where we are going. increases because things cost more. That's really a long term outlook kind of doing a flat 3% Cpi, just an assumption on expenses. However, if we do continue to perform like we have. We shouldn't see those big. big 3% increases. But it is something we want to bake into the projections just to be cautious and make sure that we do have enough fund balance to at least provide the programs that we have stood up. One thing that did actually decrease. We saw an 11% decrease for the Euge fund. For cost allocations. So that's not the case in all the funds across the city. So just given the use of central services. So again, cost allocations, is us paying for things like human resources. City manager's office, city attorney's office, it all of the like central services that are provided to Euge

[65:07] for all those things we pay back to the general fund. So it's kind of interesting. The general fund transfers to Eugene, and then we transfer back to general fund. But the the amount we transfer back is substantially lower than the amount that the general fund transfers to University Hill again. That second phase moving money around to where we actually spend it. And then asking for more money is that last thing, and really we don't see any significant proposals yet, for you did. I think, as we start to have the conversation about the general improvement district, and if there is any expenses that make sense for you to help finance, we may be putting that into some of our proposals. We are fortunate enough that I believe we have enough in this year's appropriation to cover the second phase of our commercial areas. Blueprint Aka. General improvement districts. Analysis. So we may not have to do a proposal for 2026, either. So we've been trying to think into the future as best as we can, and get things set up for us to hit the ground running rather than to wait for next year's appropriation to be approved in October, and then spend it. So we thought a little bit about that this year

[66:26] which leads us to our big to do list so on the District Vitality Project side. It really is that commercial area blueprints. And it really is the general district and general improvement district analysis that that's our big to do list. Item, Regan, I know, is constantly working on district vitality investments. and then we also have the arts and culture staff who is doing a reinvestment. We have some leftover money from the 2017 Ccs appropriation that is actually dedicated to the hill. So it's about $70,000 that our arts and culture staff is looking to do. A public arts project up in the hill, which is great that is, separate from anything that Regan has already invested in with the district vitality funds, such as the Crosswalk Mural.

[67:16] and then again, going back to the 25 through 31 Cip. Basically, this year we've got the large investment for the streetscapes and the Broadway medium. But going future. We do not have anything programmed as of today. Cool questions, comments, anything from Staff? What was the 70 K. It was at? Sorry where that came from? 2,017. Yeah. So the the CC. Let me think about this. You've heard of Ccrs, so this was the before. Ccrs. There was Ccs correct.

[68:01] Yep, yep. So that's the the 1st extension of the very 1st Ccs. Was in 2,017, and that's where those funds. So it's actually not coming out of Egypt. It is coming from a dedicated sales tax. That was from 2,017, and that has to be stuck with. And it has to be spent on the hill. That's correct. Yeah. Because during the Ccs 2, a ballot, it was actually dedicated to the hill. So it was specific about language. So that so Ccs covered the event. Street, for instance? Yeah, yeah. Sure. So oh, so that was so. There's a big bucket of money for Hill investment. Most of that was spent. There's a little bit of money left over still needs to be spent on something on the hill. Yeah. And so. But there's there's no re. There's no rehashing the buckets. Right? So in Ccrs, yeah, there was a bucket set aside for the community to apply for things. Yeah to

[69:13] that. And so that's not that. That was not part of this bucket of like that. Right? So how does this bucket of money get stopped? It is a line item in the city's budget that, says Hill reinvestment. So that's where we're that's where we're at, considering that we need to spend it on the hill. Matt's been working with his team to to envision art, public art equipment, because it's been assigned to a public Matt, because it's been assigned to a public art project. The public art policy guides how that selection of an artist and contracting artist takes place. one note is that we do. We've been talking with public art team about integrating some community engagement with the Hill Streetscapes project and the so next meeting we'll be talking about some of that. But so there'll be some outreach to the community about how to spend that money wisely on a piece of public art, and exactly where, but ultimately to your point is that

[70:21] artists can apply to a call to propose ideas for projects. Once we have our arms around what the community would like to. Thanks Trev. Elliot, I have a very quick question. Well, maybe I don't know if it's a the question necessarily. If the primary source of income for the Hill is interest on our fund balance, and the fund balance continues to go down. How how much longer can that continue? Not long. The reason I say it's our primary source is because

[71:04] if it's the, it's the biggest dollar amount, and it's substantial enough that it's quite a bit over our parking revenue and property taxes, parking, revenue and property taxes combined is about $70,000. Interest income right now is like $150,000. So it's it's like 2 x. What is that? So? it. It will not continue if we decide to use the fund which I would suggest. We use the fund to do investments back on the hill rather than preserve it for in interest income. But that being said as we use the fund, it, it will certainly decrease the amount of interest that we earn on that fund balance. So it's a. It's a give and take relationship. I think you know, given the conversation with the general, improve the district analysis, I think there's a opportunity where we may get in the next

[72:03] year, or less insight into what we may be doing, going forward, whether that's a Dda. How that Dda looks! The boundaries of the Dda. etc, and if there is a formation of a Dda. And it includes the hill, then maybe it's a opportunity for the general improvement district to say, Let's do one last big hurrah! Kind of thing. So that's there's a lot of opportunities there. On what that looks like. Of course, there's still an asset that the district owns. So there's a lot of things that we can talk about in terms of increasing revenue. I know we've had discussions with the Commission. About, you know, parking changes for that district on lot, and how we could create more revenue and we're still having those conversations and doing that analysis. And I know it's been few months since we've talked about that, but it's not off the table. So it is on the judges today. Oh, great! That's what I mean. We are on it, and Sam is on the call, so she'll even get you more information.

[73:07] So yeah, it's we. We are very cognizant of the fact that it is not a for everything, because we don't want to not invest on the hill for the idea of having money to make interest on, I would note that the largest revenue source is the general fund transfer which is tied to on street parking revenue, and we are not anticipating stopping to charge, for on street parking anytime in the near future. So there is special revenue rated in the district. But you know, in short, we are also being really cognizant of our actuals. You've noticed in the fund financials that are actuals for 2024, as Elliot explained. We're we're much under our projecteds, and we're continuing to be very thoughtful and prudent in our use of funds to to try to not eat into the fund balance as much as possible, to reserve those resources for a capital outlay in the future.

[74:06] correct. Really appreciate that answer. Thank you. And I'll just make a statement, then that you know the reinvestment on the hill. There is a point here where dollars invested on the hill should have some form of an roi associated with it, that just a general improvement may not be enough, that that strategic investments may be the thing that we're going to need to be looking at in the future, particularly if a Dda is not adopted. If we don't have some sort of lifeline in terms of having a larger tax base to draw from. I think we'll we'll probably be faced with that kind of notion of. We spend a dollar to make 2 or something, some sort of strategic plan for spending that fund balance. Absolutely. Yeah. Oh, go ahead! I'm sorry. Nope, that's you! Hit it right on the nose.

[75:01] Any other questions or comments for Elliot or anything on the subject. All right, Sina. Thank you very much, Elliot. I really appreciate your presentation every year. Thank you for putting all that together for us. Okay, Chris, who's up next. Great Regan is up next to talk more about improvement district analysis and update. We had a great meeting with city Council a couple of weeks ago. So just want to give you all an update on where that work stands. Not a huge presentation today. I don't imagine just a verbal update. Over to you, Regan, should I start with an overview. So the improvement district analysis, it's an analysis of our existing Gid. So Euget pages, central area, general improvement district downtown, and then the 2 overlapping districts in Boulder Junction, as well as some broader considerations for other areas like the civic area, for example. So we've been working with a consultant based out of Denver progressive urban management associates, or hear their name a lot, Huma

[76:13] And they have provided us with recommendations on how our districts should evolve to really meet some of the challenges that we are seeing today. So one of the key recommendations is exploring the creation of a downtown development Authority. And I'm happy to have to provide you with the Council Memo, and I'll send it over to you. That goes into more detail. But we did present to Council a couple weeks ago. It was essentially the same presentation that we shared with you all during the Joint Commission meeting. Was really well received and supported by Council, including the key recommendation of exploring the Dda. So I'll just take a moment to outline some next steps, and then, happy to answer any questions so immediate. Next step, we're receiving a final report from puma in the coming weeks, or actually by the end of June. Once Staff has a time, has some time to review and that will go into more detail around the recommendations. In the meantime we are working internally to map out a scope of work, including a timeline for the Dda analysis. So kind of phase. 2. That deeper analysis of whether Dba is really feasible or not.

[77:27] and working backwards from the goal of getting this on the November 2026 ballot. And so yeah, we'll be working over the coming weeks to finalize this quote for a consultant team to conduct the next phase of analysis, so that will include financial modeling, evaluating existing governance structures. So kind of what we're speaking to? Does Eugen remain in place? Does it evolve? Does it dissolve so kind of exploring what that looks like. Those are some unanswered questions right now and then supporting community engagement as well.

[78:03] So those are next steps on district analysis. And then just a reminder. We're also working on the scope for the development of the commercial areas blueprint. And that will be kind of a longer term vision, strategic vision for all commercial areas throughout Boulder. Not just our existing Gids, and that'll align with the Boulder Valley comp plan update as well. so we'll continue to keep you all posted happy to answer questions, or that's anything. Anyone have any questions for? Regan? No. alright. Well, thank you, Regan, for that. Appreciate that. Looking forward to it. This is such important work that that you're bringing up there, and hopefully there'll be more of the next meeting. And so, Chris, who is this Bromberg individual. Samantha Bromberg is joining us online. You'll recall from a what we've discussed a number of times as we're contemplating ways to to improve the

[79:08] Fund financials for Euget. One of the topics the Commission has brought up is, how do we leverage the 14th Street lot to generate revenue. And so Sam has been. She's our our subject matter, expert on all things parking and access management and transformation in the way that we manage our assets in pursuit of of things like optimizing the use of the space and generating additional revenue. So Sam's been hard at work and is prepared to share. Some of that work with you all so over to you, Sam. Thanks. Chris, yeah, I have a very brief update. We'll have more information a little bit later in the year. But Hi, everyone, Sam Bromberg, Senior project manager, community vitality. And specifically, I work on the access and parking team. I came to you all last year in July to talk about the 14th Street law on the hill, and to see how we might be able to kind of utilize that asset in the shorter term at least the best of our abilities. And so what we discussed last year was a recommendation to introduce some

[80:18] long-term permits. We previously had them in the Pleasant Street lot. Of course, we no longer have access to the pleasant street lot, and so and there's definitely a need for some longer term permits on the hill or in commuters and businesses. So we are planning to introduce a small number of those permits this summer. We are doing it specifically in the summer, because students will have left for the year. It gives us an opportunity to kind of establish the program before students come back in the fall and adjust to those policies. One thing that already did take effect was we did increase the cost per hour of that particular surface lot from $1 50 to $2 an hour. We did that specifically to make sure that we're increasing turnover in anticipation of having more Parkers with permits in that lot coming up.

[81:17] so that's what's been going on. We're just kicking off the project again now to introduce those permits, so you'll probably be hearing some of the communications that are going to be going out to folks about the small amount of permits that we are going to be able to put up for sale to just folks who are within the district. So more to come there and then, definitely, you'll you'll see a full evaluation of how that pilots going from me later on, but, like, I said, short and sweet, but happy to entertain questions at this time. What percentage of the lot will be allocated to those permits.

[82:03] I think, at the what we're contemplating right now is somewhere around 70%. So a fair amount of the lot, it'll be pretty significant. But there really is the need for those permits. There's, you know, in in chatting with folks. I think most businesses on the hill are like, yes, I would like a permit. There's only 50 spaces in the lot. And so, you know, in order for it to be meaningful for the folks that want permits. It needs to be like a good amount of spaces that we permit out in that lot. I'll also add that this was discussed last year. That long term permits are are better option in terms of like revenue generation than you know. Just day usage or or short term usage. So that's just something else to keep in mind with these permits. Did we decide? I know we talked about this before, and

[83:01] I ideated on it, but we never. But the answer, will those be 24 h permits, or will those just be sort of daytime business hours, so people can pay and park in the evening and visit the hill? And. you know, go to dinner, or whatever, or those. Yeah, I mean, so typically our permits are like the same hours as when paid. Parking is in effect, which I believe is 9 to 7. Though, typically, what we see with permits in in areas where it's a lot of businesses is that they're being utilized mostly between, you know, 9 and 5. And another thing to note is that with, you know. more hybrid schedules. Even if we sell 70% of the of the spaces as permits. We're not necessarily gonna only necessarily gonna see 70% of the spaces being utilized on any given day because people work different schedules so hopefully. That answers your question.

[84:04] So they're not numbered. So. No. no, it's gonna be a 1st come 1st serve, which is the same way that we sell permits, and pretty much any other lot or garage in the city. So there! There is no guarantee that you'll have a space. But, you know, increasing the cost hourly to pay hopefully, that's gonna generate the turnover so that we're not going to see an issue with no parking available for those permit holders. Also, normally like in business operations. Those permit holders are gonna be getting there earlier in the day than, say, someone who's coming in for for lunch or dinner. What? What would a permit cost? Or do you have thoughts about that? Yeah, we had talked about the permits costing around $200 a quarter to start. That was kind of like right within the realm of you know what market rates are looking like in the area. Maybe a little bit lower. So that's what we were planning to start with.

[85:14] Maybe I I missed this. 70% will be for permit. Holders are those reserved spaces? Are they? Is that something that comes with signage or something like that? Or how does that work? Is that what you're saying is on demand? It's not reserved. Yeah. So what I was mentioning earlier is that we would not like reserve spaces in the sense that we're not going to like paint, paint the spaces or anything it is 1st come first.st Serve so there. When we sell permits in any of our garages or lots. We tell Parkers. You're not guaranteed a space that's that's just on the nature of things, because we have to share between, you know, people who are just coming in for lunch for the day, and and then those folks who have permits and are working longer term.

[86:02] Thank you. I missed that. Thank you. Yeah. No worries. Any other questions for Sam. Okay, thank you, Sam, for all of that information. You're welcome. Thanks. Everyone for your time tonight. Alright, last and least. The chair of the downtown Management Commission Don Poe has suggested that he would like for there to be a a joint commission summit, an opportunity for all the commissions to get together to discuss some longer range priorities. I let him know that I would certainly add that to the agenda for the other commissions to discuss and consider whether that's something that interested them and their priorities, if and so that's what this agenda item is about. Just to suggest that if there is

[87:07] consensus among our commissions, that they would like an opportunity to get together. Staff will take that consensus and likely recommend that we use the fall meeting where we typically target commission retreat conversation to do, maybe a joint commissions summit, but certainly only if that's something that all commissions feel like time is appropriate, and there's things that you all want to get out of such an opportunity. What is the definition of the summit? It's a great, it's whatever you want it to be. I have. Is it so? I guess, to add on to that question, is it we do? We have an annual retreat. That is up to the Commission to determine. Yeah, we we do have a time

[88:03] my placeholder. Sorry it's getting late in the evening a placeholder in the the November meeting, I think in the business rhythm is for a more formal retreat. If that's something that the commissions and individual commissions feel like they need at the time. If priorities that have been stated seem to be shifting, that's an opportunity for us to help organize a retreat in advance of a new council coming in and considering their priorities in the year ahead. And go ahead and jump in here and say a couple of things. One. I am in favor of us having a retreat as a commission. I am also, in addition, in favor of us, having a summit with the other commissions. I think that there is a lot going on for the hill, as I've said already in this meeting once, but also I think that coordination with other commissions, I think, is going to be essential.

[89:08] Going forward, particularly in light of the potential of a Dda, but also in the wake of them potentially not being a Dda. So my my proposal and I know that all of our time is limited, but I would say that this year in particular might be a very good one for us to have both of those things occur? So I'm saying that for the good of the order and for conversation, so that others on the Commission can state their preference and also maybe react to this proposal that I put on the table. I think you're wrong. I'm sorry I agree with that completely, especially this year. Feels like. Yeah, I think it makes sense. I thought the joint meeting of all the commissions was was helpful to even get to know some other people. I think you know, we didn't have a ton of time to do that. It was more about a staff presentations, I think, which were very helpful. And so I I think, having more time to work together as commissions, especially given the reasons Ted stated.

[90:12] makes sense, I'm wondering. I mean, time is always a factor. So if we can make them not all day retreats, or, you know, be very succinct with our planning. It probably makes sense to do ours first, st and then so that we can set an agenda or or goals, for when we want to meet with downtown, I think November, is it also a difficult time of year just in general? So I don't know how we can stage those effectively for people's schedules. Yeah, so I'll just kind of hop in again. I'm sorry to interrupt if someone was trying to speak there. But I will say, Chris and Staff. I will kind of look to you, because if it seems like and there's still others to speak, it seems like we're in favor of having the commissions come together for a summit for a tete a tete, as they say.

[91:04] But what you're also hearing from Danica, which I agree with is that I think it makes sense for us to have our retreat prior to that happening that logistically, may be a challenge for staff. And so I want to make sure that you all are sort of weighing in on what's realistic, to make sure that we can maybe hit those goals. Great appreciate the feedback. We will try to figure out a way to put the puzzle pieces together. And that's why we wanted to call the question. So stay tuned. I think there also is an opportunity, maybe given where we plan to be with the commercial areas blueprint. There is probably a very appropriate space for a summit type conversation that is, that is applicable to all districts. That, you know, we would be able to have someone help facilitate a conversation and and guide outcomes with that level of the work.

[92:10] Alright, that concludes matters from staff. Thank you so much, Chris. I really appreciate it. lots of work happening in the last 6 weeks. I really appreciate all of your support for the Hill and and the other commissions, and the question of whether or not we were going to be doing a Dda. So matters from Commissioners is next. This is the Ucamc bimonthly recap check in recap. It's a recap of a recap. You too. And as it seems to be the thing now, what the heck did we even talk about? I did this last meeting as well. I think that it was the Dda was pretty much top of mind for us, and that upcoming multi commission thing. I think also we discussed security on the hill.

[93:01] and some recent developments in terms of chicken on the hill closing after their there's unsuccessful review by the Liquor Board. They have since decided not to continue to operate. As far as I can tell they are they are closed. Other than that. I do not recall other major agenda items that came up. So someone, please correct me. If there was something else that was important there, I'll try to do better the next time around of keeping some notes not caught in this situation of winging it. It's not comfortable for me. Anything else around the Ucfc. By me by meeting, recap check in recap alright. That's. Recapped it. Well, thank you, Ted. Thank you, Danica. Alright. As a reminder. We have upcoming meetings. The bi-monthly check-in meeting will be coming up on Tuesday, June 10, th and it will be Ted Rockwell and Dane Anderson. In that meeting, Dane, you'll be receiving a meeting. Invite with a link. I believe it's a teams meeting.

[94:16] That we have from. I believe Ellie ends up sending that out at the end of the day. So just be on the lookout for that. It's a relatively informal discussion of essentially these agenda items and other things that maybe you or I may have on our mind. and it gives Staff an ability to also to give us an update in transit between meetings meeting every other month we were finding might not produce the same amount of momentum. So. Got it. Just keep that in mind. There's no pressure. You know, and fully expecting you to kind of show up and listen. But if you have questions by all means, and if you have concerns, we should definitely address those as well. So going from there. The next Commission meeting will be Tuesday, July 8.th

[95:04] In the wreckage of the fish concerts, we will come back together and discuss how the hill performed for 3 nights worth of fish and multiple late night activities at the Fox and elsewhere. Are there any other things for the good of the order that any commissioners would like to bring up for this meeting. Alright, seeing. Welcome to Dane hopefully. Thank you for joining our board. Yeah. Thank you all right. Well, seeing none. Welcome, Dane, and this meeting is adjourned. Thank you all, Staff, for your work today, and leading up to this meeting. Yes, thank you. Next time.