Remarks by Aaron Brockett
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“YOU CAN GIVE A QUICK RESPONSE IF YOU WANT.”
“I WOULD LIKE TO FOLLOW UP, I know staff certainly has worked very hard on the details of the finances and on the ballot measure. And one of the things Tara was raising was how we would work through the implementation and what the details would be in that and how that would be transparent to the community. So I wonder if you might speak to, should this bond measure pass, how we would work with the community on realizing the results of that.”
“All right, not seeing any other hands raised, perhaps a motion?”
“We have a motion and a second. Alicia, can we have a roll call, please?”
“Great. Thanks so much. Let's go to our call-up check-in, please.”
“Any questions or comments or desire to call this one up? Seeing none, we will not be calling that up, so let's move, well, actually, Let me next ask, I'm just going to go ahead and make a motion that we suspend the council rules or procedures for a six to allow for three public hearings this evening.”
“All right, got a motion, a second. All in favor, raise your hand, please. That's unanimous, 8-0, because we do have three public hearings on the agenda this evening. So if we can go to our first one, please.”
“Thanks so much, Garrett. Any questions for city staff? Seeing none, we will go ahead and I will go ahead and open the public hearing. We have one person signed up to speak, which is Laura Gonzalez. It says she's in person. Not seeing her present, I will go ahead and close the public hearing and come back to council for discussion or a motion. Tara.”
“Second. We have a motion to second. Any other comments on this? I'll just add to Tara's thank you for the fantastic work on this project and of the department. I just had the chance to bike along the new section of Folsom that was recently repaved. Very well done. Love the targeted improvements there. So y'all are doing great. With that being said, let's go ahead and have a roll call vote on this motion in front of us.”
“Fantastic. Well, let's roll right into the next public hearing. This carrot doesn't have to go anywhere.”
“Thanks so much. Again, Garrett, any questions for city staff? Taisha?”
“See, yeah, Matt. Hold on just a second, we have to open the public hearing. Um, there's one person signed up to speak. Laura Gonzalez. Is she present?”
“Okay. In that case, we'll close the public hearing and bring it back to council. Matt.”
“Thank you. I appreciate all the positive feedback. Yeah, absolutely. I just was talking to someone yesterday who said, when is 30th Street going to, when will the whole quarter be as good as the recently revised areas? And we're able to give them a schedule now. So appreciate all the great work. Seeing no other hands raised, roll call, please, Alicia.”
“Great. Well, thanks again, Garrett, to you and the team. All right. Let's go to our final public hearing now, please.”
“THANKS SO MUCH. I WILL GO AHEAD AND GET US STARTED HERE BY MOVING THAT WE RECESS AS THE BOULDER CITY COUNCIL AND CONVENE AS THE CITY OF BOULDER DOWNTOWN COMMERCIAL DISTRICT FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE CENTRAL AREA GENERAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CAGED BOARD OF DIRECTORS.”
“WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR RAISE YOUR HANDS. That's unanimous, 8-0. So I am now hereby recessing the Boulder City Council and then reconvening us as the City of Boulder Downtown Commercial District Board of Directors. Can we do a roll call of the district board, please?”
“Thanks so much. I will now, as the board of directors, turn it over to our city manager, Nuria, to take us to the next step.”
“Thanks so much for all that information, Mark. Really appreciate it. Questions from council? Tina.”
“And just to clarify, including the Cajet Mills, so there would be some additional revenue that would go into Cajet from the property tax? Yes, good question.”
“Right, not seeing any other hands raised, I will go ahead and open the public hearing. We've got 19 speakers, so each speaker will have two minutes to speak. I will be strict about those in the interest of fairness. We have a few people pooling, and as long as the two people they're pooling with are also present, then those people will get four minutes to speak. So our first speakers are Susan Williams, then Christina Braudaway-Bauman pooling, and then Robert Mathias. If you can bring your mic down, please.”
“Thanks for your testimony. OK, now we're going to go to Christina Broadway-Bauman, who is pooling with Phil. Oh, and folks, no noise, please. If you hear something you want to support, you can do jazz hands silently to show your support. But Christina is pooling with Phil Broadway-Bauman and Robert Goodbody, if we can just see that they're both here. Very good. Thanks so much. You have four minutes.”
“Thank you. All right. Now we're going to go to Robert Mathias, then Karen Kumbo, and Laura Gonzalez.”
“Thank you. Now we'll go to Karen Kumbo, Laura Gonzalez and Pamela Chalice.”
“Ma'am, if you can speak into the mic, please.”