Remarks by Tina Marquis
40 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Hey, yes, thank you for coming, and I appreciate all the feedback. And I just wanted to add one comment also about Spruce Pool is just the having excellent outside pools might also help people not build private pools, which has its own energy drain on the city and is not a great use of space. That's just another thing I've been thinking about as we think about our system of pools, but that's not exactly a budget thing. So I really appreciate the idea of moving to a two year budget. I think that would help with what we're feeling is, you know, this is a lot of great work. It's definitely…”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“I move to adopt Resolution 5 concerning the Knollwood Metropolitan District adopting a budget for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2027 and sending forth related details. Second.”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“Sure, I move to adopt Resolution 6, establishing the 2026 Knollwood Metropolitan District property tax bill levy for payment of expenditures in part of the district during the fiscal year 2027, beginning January 1st, 2027, and setting forth related details. Second.”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“Okay, I move to adopt Resolution 7, appropriating money to defray the expenses and liabilities of the Nolwood Metropolitan District for the 2027 fiscal year beginning January 1st, 2027 and setting forth related details. Second.”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you for doing all this work, and this sounds like a great option. So it is really great, as Mayor Brockett said. Quick question. When we think about selling the existing public safety building, would we want to pre-rezone it in order to help with market pricing? Is that something that we as a city generally do?”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
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“First, thank you for all the information and for responding to the hotlines. One of the questions I have is we didn't budget in any positive impact from revenues from the Sundance Film Festival. But I am, and I have two questions about that. One is did we budget in anticipated costs to support the festival? And then second, at what time in the process in the following year would we talk about how to allocate any revenues from Sundance that we haven't budgeted?”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“And so we haven't budgeted any overtime yet for public safety. We just have the base.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Okay. And then my other question is really specific. Many of us just went and toured a public safety room at the public safety building and learned a little bit about our drones. Are the drones that can do the thermal detection, are those fully paid by the police department or is that a shared expense with the wildfire department? I wasn't sure who, because they're also used for the wildfire piece along with non-wildfire safety.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Okay, so they're done. Okay, great. Thank you.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“So I can, I was going to colloquy too, because it might be, if I can add my question, can we also, go through the process of the October 22 meeting, and then give direction through the ATB process in December rather than going to May, so that we could still get the money allocated by the end of this year, but do it through the ATB process without allocating it now.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Yes. One part of this process is the long-term financial strategy that we'll be looking later in the year. And I'm curious, we've talked a lot about, you know, trying to get revenue, but will we also be looking at scenarios where revenue doesn't come through and we start looking at other structural changes to the budget?”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Yeah, I don't know how the hold process works. But do we need to identify a source for the hold? And if so, Councilmember Kaplan, could you tell me where you are holding your money from?”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“So in the third case scenario, and obviously everyone is hearing this conversation and understands the urgency around the wildfire mitigation piece. Would staff begin to start thinking, from your perspective, what would be the best places to look? Because I don't really want to pick projects on the fly tonight. And I don't think that would be a great form of governance. But could we get some ideas around the end of October? You'll be understanding what the numbers are and what we could move forward with. And I'm not even sure it's out of open space. So I don't know. General funding is…”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Can I call a plea on that? With the significant change in council, though, couldn't they overturn almost anything at that point?”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“I mean, I wouldn't worry personally about that because if there's a, I mean, there are six people up for election at this point. So they can undo anything we do.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Yeah, just following up, I don't know, my mic is so loud. It's driving me crazy. So another option would be to, when we're looking at where we can realign funding, it might make sense through the CAC process to find more time, because I don't want us to be throwing out projects and finding out that, oh, it was grant funding, or oh, it's halfway done. If there's any way that we can build some time so that we can make sure we're wisely doing that funding reallocation from other projects, whether it's outside of open space, that would be great if that is where we end up after October 22nd.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Can I amend ROBS? Just from any CIP budget? Not necessarily open space.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“I'm just keeping it as open as possible. I can't direct staff's CIP budget right now. I have no idea.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Tina. So thank you for all the work in the budget. And this budget, you know, one of the trends we're seeing is that our total revenues sources did grow by $20 million, but our expenses grew faster. And that's a common theme that we're seeing that we, I believe we just need to take a longer term structural look at how this is going to work over time. um, without any major new sources of revenue. I do hope we did get those new sources of revenue and I hope we see them in coming years, but we also need to be, um, I'm concerned that we're making very small cuts every year that are not as long. I…”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you. Just you mentioned that you've been in coordination with BVSD or talking. Could you just speak just sort of at a high level what you've talked about and especially if you can address sort of future land use of school sites and what that looks like. I was here for the closures in 2003 and the readaptation of the Mapleton School and of course the Washington Elementary School, but just curious what that looks like.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Yeah, when you showed the pie chart that showed the office and commercial, use in that pie chart, are there any outstanding users that any types that are using a lot of energy or?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“I would. So can I comment on the bond and then ask for clarification on a different item?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Okay. So, you know, I've also been going back and forth on the bond and I do feel that we need to start moving forward. And so I think we can ask voters for it and we'll see what happens. I think it's not likely to pass based on the polling. However, it would be great if it did because we would be able to update our rec centers and Create a public safety building and I fully support as I think I've said too many times now some type of oversight committee for facilities The one piece I was actually really concerned about is what is it? What does it look like when on your ballot you have? Five…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Yeah, I had a couple questions and thanks for the presentation. The first was I didn't receive feedback in my inbox from Visit Boulder. Are they supportive of the project? And, you know, sometimes we get presentations from the hotel community looking at what the demand is in the community and whether we met it. So I was just seeing if that analysis is out there.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Okay. And then... We also have the Trinity parking lot, which is also pretty close to the church. I know that that's more longer-term parking, but it seems like it's not fully utilized. Is that another option that we could help facilitate?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026