Remarks by Aaron Brockett
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“Thank you. Now let's go to Lara Gonzalez, then Pamela Chalice, and Libby Black. Is Lara present? Not seeing her, let's go to Pamela Chalice then.”
“Oh, is Pamela present? Okay, go to Pamela online, please.”
“Thank you. Now we'll go to Libby Black and then Jean Nelson and Kittredge Marcy.”
“Your time is up, but thank you for your testimony. Now let's go to Jean Nelson, Kittredge Marcy, and Sarah Schulte.”
“Your time is up, but thank you for your testimony. Okay, we're going to go to Kittredge Marcy now, then Sarah Schulte and Peter Mortimer.”
“Thank you. Now let's go to Sarah Schulte, Peter Mortimer, and Melody Fuller.”
“Thank you. Now let's go to Peter Mortimer, Melody Fuller, and Ryan Diggins.”
“Thank you. Now we'll go to Melody Fuller, Ryan Diggins and Neil Cease.”
“Thank you. Now let's go to Ryan Diggins, Niall Cease, and Troy Blessing.”
“Thank you. All right, now let's go to Niall Cease, then Troy Blessing, then Christian Holden.”
“Thank you. All right, now let's go to Troy at Blessing Online, then Christian Holden and Sheikh Karam.”
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“Thank you. All right. That brings us to the end of the public hearing. Thanks so much to everybody who came out and spoke to us tonight. We really appreciate hearing from you. So I'm now going to come back to council to see if anybody has a follow-up question for city staff or wants to get the discussion started on the proposal in front of us. Yep.”
“Thank you for those powerful words, Nicole. Tara? Tara?”
“Thanks, Tayshia. Anybody else want to go?”
“Thanks, Rob. Ryan, do you want to go or should I? I'll go ahead. Well, thanks so much to everybody for coming out. Really appreciate hearing from you. And what I want to say is that the strength of the community that you have in your congregation has really shown through very strongly. I've certainly spent time at the church over the years for one function or another, and I've seen firsthand the role that it plays in the Boulder community. So I'm really touched by how you've come together on this and really appreciate your engagement. I am supportive of this proposal. I think that that hotel…”
“Yeah, Nicole was very eloquent. All right, perhaps someone would like to make a motion.”
“Second. All right, we've got a motion and a second. Can we have a roll call please, Alicia, for the board?”
“Very good. All right. Well, thanks again, folks, for coming out. And there will be more steps to come. And city staff, thanks for all of your work on this project. Really appreciate it. I'm going to go ahead and adjourn the downtown commercial district board meeting and reconvene as the Boulder City Council. And then I'm going to go ahead and bring our meeting to a close since we have no further agenda items. All right. All right, I'll gavel us closed here at 8.21 p.m.”
“Well, good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Thursday, August 6th, 2026 regular meeting of the Boulder City Council. I'm going to go ahead and call us to order. Can we have a roll call, please, Alicia?”
“Thanks so much. All right. Well, our first item is open comments. So, Alicia, if you can go over our public participation guidelines, please.”
“Thanks so much, Alicia. All right, we've got 11 people signed up to speak. Each person will get two minutes, and I will be strict about that limit in the interest of fairness. Our first three speakers are Lynn Siegel virtually, and then the rest of the speakers are in person, starting with Lara Gonzalez and Paula Palmer.”
“Thank you for your testimony. All right. Our next three speakers are Laura Gonzalez, Paula Palmer, and Evan Ravitz. Is Laura present?”
“Okay, our next three speakers are Paula Palmer, Evan Ravitz, and Rob Smoke.”