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CITY TO FOCUS ON FOUR GOALS THROUGH 2009

The Boulder City Council gathered with staff and interested citizens January 23and 24 to determine a narrow set of 2009 goals. At the end of the exercise four goals were selected and prioritized.

1) Move forward to make progress on the city’s Climate Action Plan (CAP). The CAP are a set of actions designed to lower the community green house gas emissions that are funded with a fee imposed on energy bills.  

Just in case your energy bills are not high enough!

2)   A Blue Ribbon Commission was appointed to conduct a comprehensive review of city revenue and expenditures and to recommend strategies.

Their primary proposals for stabilizing revenue based upon recommendations from their "Blue Ribbon Commission" is to increase taxes and fees.  I don't find this surprising since the Commission and planning departments earn their living from these tax dollars.

3) Implement ‘social sustainability’ measures. It is not clear how this is accomplished and some action’s cause and effect are a bit fuzzy.

What is "social sustainability"?  It sounds like a creative word for "social engineering".  I am happy for this because if government doesn't tell us how to live then we wouldn't know what to do.

And, 4) Address several planning issues including density/mixed-use development, compatible development in neighborhoods and building height. Council members began the process of defining programs and actions need to accomplish these four goals on Tuesday, January 27.

Finally they found something that city governments are supposed to do.  Not that the others are not important but they demonstrate where City Councils head is when it comes to priorities. 

What is amazing in Boulder is that everyone you talk to despises our City Council yet they vote them into office term after term.  We don't know how they make it to meetings because it would require them leaving their fantasy land bubble to go out into the real world.  What is most concerning is the hypocrisy amongst the bunch as they feel the irrepressible urge to tell us how to live yet when you examine their life style and home sizes it is evident they don't practice what they preach. 

Someone please tell me how Crystal Gray is about to become the mayor when just 18 months ago she was fired from Adams County Parks and Rec because the 9 News followed her and found she spent most of her day shopping and getting her hair dressed while collecting a pay check from Adams County?   Oh, I remember.  That is the way all government works.