Remarks by Rob Kaplan
28 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Yeah, I'll make a comment on it. I agree in calling this up. I have concerns about Broadway is an evacuation route, and the Boulder Valley comp plan, I specifically wanted language in Section 89 regarding this. It is a corridor, but it doesn't have that much capacity on it. And as we build out, I'm just afraid that that's gonna get overtaxed. I'm concerned about the mass and scaling, the approach and the pedestrian experience. I think the neighborhood center should be at neighborhood scale. And also, I just, the composition of the units to help out the goals of attracting families, the number…”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“Thanks. Thank you to staff for presenting this. And I'm just going to echo a lot of things that were said, but I just think it's important to be on the record that I'm very supportive of the two-year budget. John and Carol from OSMP, thank you for that. I think it's really important for us to also have some input from boards and commissions to help us make these decisions. And I think that combined with the two-year budget, getting things in front of us, watching how things play out will really help us make some good decisions.”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“Thanks. Did you want to say anything? Um, no, I just, I appreciate the thoughtfulness as well on the saving of the Naropa building and the,”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“Thank you for the presentation. And it's always nice to hear saving $90 million, especially in this environment. You mentioned that $3 to $6 million annually to carry that without the 2K passing, the $400 million. But if the current building was potentially rezoned and sold, would that offset that three to six million annually?”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“Thank you. And thank you for the analysis and all staff members that have done work on this. Speaking to folks from OSMP, I mean, you guys are really great. doing a great job out there. And I was lucky enough to have a two-hour tour with Brian Aniker, Paul Ostroy, and they just really highlighted some of the things that you're doing. That said, I mean, this is the most existential threat that we face is wildfire coming through Boulder. And you look at Maui, and they've got a $4 billion lawsuit against them for uh... evacuation and planning and i just want to get way ahead of that uh... i know…”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Yeah, I can. Thank you. Sorry. Through some of the capital improvement projects, can we hold off on some of those capital improvement projects for OSMP?”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“It does. I'm trying to, like... I'm trying to bridge this gap of what we actually need for 2030 and what we need today.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“This is a little tricky for me because... What Matt is proposing is probably the safest thing for our city, a hold for three weeks. That being said, at a minimum, I would love to hold that 600K that we spoke to before. I'm not sure procedurally how this works. If it's another, I mean, I would like to, I'd like to vote on Matt's if that's possible, and then mine isn't.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Yeah, my counter would be to hold $600,000 for identified mitigation and crews and equipment.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“We have a Chautauqua Rangers station that's $900,000 right there. So I would defer to staff to where that would be held from. I don't want to dictate that hold.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“I did. I'll try to be quick. Whether it's 2.5 million or 600,000, Will the result be the same for an ATB2 versus a realignment versus, well, I guess that I'm going to use the word realignment instead of holding.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Got it. So realignment would be 27 and not affect 26.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“I don't want to direct staff. I want them to tell us. I mean, OSMP knows where the money is coming from. is available.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean, based on conversations I've had, but they're the experts.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“I mean, this is the problem. I hear you need to say where the money is coming from in one breath. And then in the other breath, you can't tell staff what to do. So I'm confused. All right.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“All right. The general direction would be the CIP or reserves.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“CIP or, oh, you said reserves. Said that.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“I guess I have another continuing conversation question, and it's regarding what Alicia Curtin brought up. I'm seeing these homes in this area bought up by developers, and they're not turning into single family homes. They're putting as many bedrooms as they possibly can. It's already being marketed to an investor. for CU students, the one on 10th Street. And just looking at it holistically from the Boulder Valley comp plan to House Bill 101, the transportation-oriented communities down to our ordinance 8666, how are we moving forward from the top down with the Boulder Valley comp plan…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Sure. I mean, it is a beautiful representation of the early century. And Valerie, you said it has a peaceful and melancholy air. I think that has a lot to do with the owners, too. So thank you for bringing this forth.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Just one quick question. Do you have the number of electors that are within the DDA boundaries? Residential, property owners, leases?”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“I watched some of these guys start as firefighters and now they're speaking on behalf of the entire union, I love it. I'd like to make a motion to adopt ordinance 8761, 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 amending the Boulder Home Rule Charter to add a new section 73, collective bargaining for firefighters, creating a charter guaranteed right for full-time fire department employees to bargain collectively, specifying the form of the ballot and other election procedures and…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“Sure. Brian said something and I wrote it down and I forgot, but it was basically, it's communication. It's collaboration. And I'm just really happy that everybody was able to sit down, our city manager, staff, and local 900, and nip this thing in the bud before it even had to go for a signature. So I'm really stoked for everybody. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“Thanks, Aaron. Thank you, Nuria, for talking about having transparency moving forward. I hear the community's distrust loud and clear and lack of transparency. I do want to point out that we didn't get here over the last decade. This started in the 70s. We didn't have a replacement fund for our facilities. 2021, we had our first facilities our comprehensive facilities plan. And then we've been adding to those replacements since we got hit with COVID. We had a flood. Those pulled out some of our, our funds from the, our reserves from the general fund. This wasn't a linear change. situation but…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026