Remarks by Nicole Speer
57 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“THAT. SO I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE. SO I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE. WAIT, CAN I GET THE MOTION WAIT, CAN I GET THE MOTION LANGUAGE? LANGUAGE? I THOUGHT I HAD IT IN FRONT OF I THOUGHT I HAD IT IN FRONT OF ME. ME. THERE ARE FOUR OF THEM. THERE ARE FOUR OF THEM. AND JUST ONE AT A TIME, RIGHT? AND JUST ONE AT A TIME, RIGHT? THAT'S THE WAY WE'RE GOING THAT'S THE WAY WE'RE GOING THROUGH IT. THROUGH IT. I MOTION TO INTRODUCE AN ORDER I MOTION TO INTRODUCE AN ORDER PUBLISHED BY TITLE ONLY, PUBLISHED BY TITLE ONLY, ORDINANCE 8777, ADOPTING A BUDGET ORDINANCE 8777, ADOPTING A BUDGET”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Just very briefly, I already said it, but thank you, staff. I know this is really hard. It is your people and your programs and your services to community that are impacted, and I just want to thank you. I know this is really hard work, and despite the fact All the sort of sadness and grief that you're holding for each other and for our whole community, you've still brought us a balanced budget, and you've done it in a way that minimizes the cuts, and I know that they will still hurt a lot of folks in our community, but I just want to thank you. This work is hard, and you've done it well.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Sure. Motion to, I move to introduce an order published by title only, 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 1, 2026
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“I make a motion to introduce an order published by title only, 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 1, 2026
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“I make a motion to introduce an order published by Title Only, 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 1, 2026
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“Thank you. I just wanted to share a couple of no's tonight too because it's rare for me to do that for consent agenda. So thank you for the time, Mayor. I appreciate being able to explain myself. Similar to Councilmember Shewhart on item D, I'll be voting no. I've shared before that given the size of the parcel involved, uncertainty at the federal level, and my desire to maximize flexibility for future generations, I don't believe accepting FAA grants is the right choice at this time. For item E, because the land use is so limited there due to the floodplain, I'm comfortable supporting that…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Speer? Yes, but also no on D and no on F. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Nicole? It looked like one of the owners had one more comment potentially to add, and so I guess my question is can we hear that? If so, I've loved your stories. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Sure, happy to. And so I move to adopt Ordinance 8766, designating the property at 844 to 850 12th Street Place, City of Boulder, Colorado, to be known as the Heilman Bedell Stepanek Property. as an individual landmark under the City of Boulder Historic Preservation Ordinance and setting forth related details.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Sure. I just wanted to thank the owners for coming and sharing some additional history with us tonight. I really appreciate having that. And thank you so much for bringing this forward. It's beautiful homes, beautiful property. And yeah, thank you. Thanks for bringing this to our community.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“And I know we're not having quite a back and forth, but Tara, I just wanted to make sure that when you say we, you're kind of talking about council, because staff has provided so much information on facilities, budget, how all of this works, why we've ended up here. Mark and I and some staff did a whole podcast about it. I just want to make sure it doesn't sound like staff is not doing this work, because they are. And I think we can help. TRANSLATE IT TO COMMUNITY THROUGH OUR GROUPS, BUT I REALLY HOPE THAT WE CAN NOT PERPETUATE THAT NARRATIVE THAT THIS INFORMATION DOESN'T EXIST BECAUSE IT…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Sure. I just have some comments and a sort of nod to where I'll be going tonight. And colleagues, I hope it's okay if I take a little bit of extra time because I can't sit up here with my church community anxious and concerned and be all that concise. I wanted to thank you all so much for coming. It's so good to see you here. Welcome. Lemony Snicket said, someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don't tell them they aren't. Sit with them and have a drink. I know many of you who spoke feel wronged tonight, and I'm not here to tell you that you shouldn't be feeling this way. I'm…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“I move to approve a purchase agreement between CAGED and MALR Boulder LLC for the disposal of CAGED owned real property located at 2121 Broadway and authorize the city manager acting as the general manager of CAGED to execute the purchase agreement and all associated documents.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Thanks. I'm going to take the bond measure for 400, please. So I've heard some concerns from community members who want the H-1 West Center to stay where it is. But my understanding is that that option is practically challenging due to life safety requirements and prohibitively expensive given that building consolidation is a key part of getting to a financially feasible facilities portfolio. Can you just speak a little bit more to why we're hoping to co-locate it with the North Boulder Rec Center?”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“Thank you. And I'm not sure who this next question is for, possibly Nori or somebody else. So we received an email from the president of the Boulder Police Officers Association in support of the recreation and safety bond. But the bond also impacts other departments like Parks and Recreation, Fire Rescue. Have we heard of groups like Local 900 and Play Foundation are also supportive? And are there any others that have suggested that they might be supportive of this measure?”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“It's just related to that too. With regard to kind of the start point, right, when does the incremental, the growth start accumulating? Is that like from as soon as voters say yes? Is it after everything's in place? How does that work?”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“I wanted to just make a motion for us to consider. I would like to make motion to adopt Ordinance 8758, submitting to the electors of the City of Boulder at the regular municipal coordinated election to be held on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026, the question of authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds for the purpose of financing community recreation, safety infrastructure, and other capital projects, specifying the form of the ballot and other election procedures, and setting forth related details.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“Yes. I continue to believe that this is something, I don't know if the community is going to support it, but we've got a lot of people and groups in community that are ready to get behind this measure, including our Police Officers Association, including the Play Foundation. I believe our Parks and Rec board was supportive. I see at least one member back there. So we really do have a lot of people here who are advocating for this measure. The polling we did, it wasn't spectacular, and at the same time, we didn't know that all these groups were going to come forward and support it. As Oh,…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“Allie, I just, well, Michelle, whoever can answer this. So as I understand, just thinking about the design, right, we're dealing with just some different things than when it was first built in the 1970s. Like, for example, we didn't have gender-affirming restrooms at that point, right? We didn't have such an aging population so that, for example, a caregiver might need to go into an area with somebody. And as I understand it, thinking about just the site design, there may need to be some reconfiguration in order to accommodate some of these 2020s, 2030s kinds of requirements, right? So if we…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“Yes, Nicole Yeah, I'm still no I I continue to think that a fee is a better approach here for myriad reasons that I've already stated many times over. Don't need to reiterate them tonight, but I do appreciate what folks are trying to do here. I do think community will pass it. But yeah, I feel like I still need to advocate for that one more time, even though I'm going to lose.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“Another thing that we're doing that is in alignment with our long-term financial strategy work, so thank you, staff, for all your work on putting this together and giving us another way to try to get our budget to a better place.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“Yeah, I did. Sorry, I didn't get a chance to ask it earlier. This was just around the timing. I remember reading in the packet that the DDA wouldn't generate a lot of revenue initially, and noticeable benefits are likely to be years in the future. So just wondering, for all the amazing downtown businesses that have turned up for us tonight, reasonably, how long is it going to take them to start seeing impacts?”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“So when, you know, one of the things in the slides that was showing us sort of the, what we could expect, right, with and without a DDA. So to get to that with DDA level and a time, do you have a timeline there? I see Mark coming up.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
- Play at 4:39:37
“Thank you. My comments are going to be a little bit similar to Ryan's, but I just want to start with the fact that Plan Boulder and Boulder Progressives agree on something is truly unprecedented, as is the volume of emails that we've received this past week. I've never seen in my five years on council anything like the level of opposition that we've been seeing to the DDA. And that does give me pause to move this forward without more support for the broader community. And that is not because I don't care about every single one of you in this room. Right now, many people in our broader…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm not convinced that moving it forward to that. I liked where Tina was going with what she was saying. I'm not sure that moving it forward to the ballot and then asking for feedback to kind of guide it is a signal that we actually want feedback. And I guess part of it is I understand the urgency for the business community. There is urgency for so many in our community right at this moment. But why are we trying to push it to this particular year? I don't understand what sort of the hang-up is, right, other than the urgency that everybody is feeling, whether you're a business or a…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026