Remarks by Nicole Speer
57 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“Thank you. While you're here, Joe, I am just... going to take a little bit of a selfish question. I hope that's OK, colleagues. But as you know, I live right over there. I've been hearing the noise, seeing everything being cut down and all that too. And I think for me, what I'm thinking about is what we're heading toward when the work is done. And I just wanted to ask, the flood mitigation that we've just finished, which was also a partnership with Mile High Flood District up at Alpine Balsam, I had a chance to walk around there the other day and it is amazing and beautiful and has such a…”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“Thanks. I just want to make sure that as we are talking about the budget process, when we say things like it's broken or it is getting worse, I think it can sound like we're criticizing the hard work that staff has done to get us here. And what I've observed in my five years on council, that the process has become a lot more transparent. The process has become far more equitable than it was to begin with. actually outcomes aligned at this point and we are far more connected to our citywide and departmental policies and we're far more inclusive of people from across the community. That does…”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“I can do them. I make a motion to adopt ordinance 8777, adopting a budget for the city of Boulder, Colorado for fiscal year 2027 and setting forth related details.”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“Sure. I make a motion to adopt ordinance 8778 establishing the city of Boulder property tax mill levies for 2026 providing that said levy be certified to the Boulder County Assessor and setting forth related details.”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“I make a motion to adopt ordinance 8779, appropriating money to defray expenses and liabilities of the City of Boulder, Colorado for the 2027 fiscal year of the City of Boulder and setting forth related details.”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“I make a motion to adopt Ordinance 8780, amending Title II, Government Organization, Title III, Revenue and Taxation, Title IV, Licenses and Permits, Title V, General Offenses, Title VI, Health, Safety, and Sanitation, Title VII, Vehicles, Pedestrians, and Parking, and Title VIII, Parks, Open Spaces, Streets, and Public Ways. BRC 1981, changing certain fees and taxes and setting forth related details.”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“Thank you. I just had a couple of questions about this. One is that I know you said this, and I just want to make sure I understand correctly. If we went with the other option, right, for the existing building, we wouldn't have to, or a future city council wouldn't have to bond the full amount, right? It could, with the bond, if the bond measure passes, then the bond could eventually only be for $250 or $300 million or something like that, and it would be up to the future city council to sort of make that decision, right?”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“Okay, great. Thank you. And then it may be too early to be asking these questions, but what's the process for thinking about some of the tradeoffs that we would have to, or a future council would have to be considering with this? So what does the decision-making process look like given that, you know, if the bond measure doesn't pass in particular? Because I've checked multiple times and we don't have bags of money under the dais, unfortunately.”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“And then kind of a follow-up to that, are we talking general fund money? Are we talking other capital budget? Where would that money come from?”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“No, thank you. I appreciate that. And we have checked the dice thoroughly. So I think you can hold off on looking there. And then when, last question. When it does sort of come back within the decision-making process, would we be comparing the lifespan costs for the different options in thinking about, I know the existing building, if we were to use that one, right, the energy costs potentially would be longer over time. Certainly there's the cost of construction, but also construction to our needs versus retrofitting a building. I mean, just thinking, is that the kind of information that…”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“I was just wondering the the process by which this came to us I've heard just a couple of rumblings from some corners of community like look, we told you the city didn't really need more money because this was apparently hiding under the dais too. So I wonder if you could just speak to why now, why this kind of came up.”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“Yeah, I just had a question, and this may be for Joe. He probably already sat down again. We've had some delays at CU South due to litigation from community members, which have thrown the schedule off a little bit. Do we have an estimate of how much these delays have cost the city?”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Because, I mean, I live right next door to it, too. And, you know, it is about to be closed, right? So am I understanding correctly that part of the community's reaction is extending potentially the length of time that this area would be closed?”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“I just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge our staff. They show up every day and serve this community with professionalism and respect even what they're when they're confronted with toxicity I think I can speak for all of us up here when I say that we Greatly appreciate their work and value the dignity and the safety of the people who keep our city running I'm really sorry that you're experiencing the negative impacts of some of this broader and growing anti-worker attitude in our city But I'm really glad you're here.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“It's a similar thing. I guess I'm just wondering, do we have any kind of programmatic way or process of determining whose special proposed project would get more funding? Like I see some of the spruce pool advocates out in the audience. I know they would like their pool funded. I know not many people use the Child Watch program at East Boulder Community Center, but I expect those who do can't be here tonight and probably aren't excited about it going away. I mean, like, on and on, right? So I guess my... Do we have anything to help ground a decision to reallocate funding from one program to…”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Well, and sorry, I didn't mean to imply that staff would do this for us. I was just wondering if we have any counsel. That's all. That's fine.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Thank you so much for the presentation and all the work. I know it isn't easy to propose this budget because you and the services you provide to community are directly impacted. Could you speak a little bit to how our departments have evolved over the past five years to incorporate equity into every financial decision, including when we have to make cuts like this? How do we do this at a citywide scale?”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Thank you. And I just have one other question. We discussed early on in some of the financial strategy work merging some of our specific funds to a public realm tax where we could have more flexibility from year to year in what we're funding because we'd have slightly less dedicated revenue than what we have now that can only be used on specific things. Can you explain how undedicating some of these funds might lead to different budget outcomes in future years?”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Yeah, I just had a question for staff. I was just trying to remember on the fund our future engagement, was that looking, when we did that exercise with people, was that across all of our funds or were we really just looking at sort of our undedicated funds with fund our future? Does that make sense?”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Yeah, it's just a question around, you know, so often when we're doing these infrastructure type projects or construction projects, there are contracts, there are things we've already signed, you know, work underway. Is there any of that that would be involved in the Ranger Cottage or anything else that's being proposed here? Because I expect these projects are a little more than just in our heads.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Yeah. If we have to say options, I would just be interested in moving forward as we are. I think that the right time to have this is after our October 22nd meeting and in any future ATBs. With these two particular proposals that are out there, I just want to remind us that one thing community has repeatedly told us this past year and a half or so is that they do not want us to use open space funds for anything other than open space. Whether we agree with it or not, The idea that we would raid the open space budget as times got tight has been a longstanding major fear of our community. My…”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Just a clarifying question. We're not, it's not a do we agree to changes that we don't know about yet. It's sort of we'll have a discussion, and if anything emerges from that, we would talk about it then. Is that right? Correct.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“I was just wondering if I could make a motion.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“I WAS JUST WONDERING IF YOU COULD REMIND ME, SORRY, IT'S BEEN A YEAR AND I DON'T REMEMBER FROM LAST YEAR. THERE WERE SOME REASONS FOR WHY WE CHOSE TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE CARE PROGRAM BASED ON OUR OUTCOME BASED BUDGET. I WAS JUST WONDERING IF YOU COULD SPEAK TO THAT.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“I just want to make sure I'm crystal clear on this because I know it's been an area of interest for our community too. So you're saying that we are moving toward a model where we will have some behavioral health responders who will be going out in certain circumstances without police. That's correct. Thank you.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026