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From YouTube: 2019 State of the County
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Each year, Boulder County pauses to acknowledge the incredible work our staff has achieved over the last year and introduce new goals for the upcoming year. This is our annual State of the County address.
A
A
Canyon
near
Netherland
at
the
Boulder
County
Fairgrounds
in
Longmont,
we've
installed
new
pavers
at
the
farmers
market,
made
electrical
upgrades
at
the
exhibit
building
and
replaced
the
roof
of
the
indoor
arena,
and
speaking
of
the
fairgrounds
2019
will
be
the
hundred
and
fiftieth
anniversary
year
of
the
bulgar
County
Fair
in
eastern
Boulder
County.
We
installed
three
center-pivot
sprinklers
on
our
farm
ground
to
bring
much
more
efficient
irrigation
to
167
acres
in
partnership
with
CSU
extension.
A
We
recently
held
our
third
soil
revolution
conference,
which
was
attended
by
more
than
200
participants
who
came
to
learn
about
why
and
how
to
implement
soil
health
practices,
resources
that
are
available
to
help
and
how
soil
health
improvement
is
a
solution
to
climate
change.
With
regard
to
flood
recovery,
2018
proved
to
be
a
year
of
substantial
accomplishment.
We
completed
three
major
flood
restoration
projects,
the
south
st.
A
Vrain
Creek
project,
where
we
realigned
and
restored
1.2
miles
using
a
natural
channel
design
feelin's
hawk
a
project
along
left-hand
Creek
which
protects
the
Lobo
Trail,
neighboring,
railroad
and
downstream
bridges
and
Longmont
neighborhoods
and
phase
one
of
the
st.
Vrain
Creek
reach
three
project
which
completed
breach,
repairs
and
reinforced
stream
banks
to
protect
infrastructure,
realigned
one
and
a
half
miles
of
the
main
channel
to
enhance
resiliency
of
the
stream
Quarter
to
future
flood
events
and
restored
32
acres
of
native
vegetation
to
benefit
wildlife.
A
This
year,
weather
conditions
allowed
us
to
conduct
a
45
acre
grassland
prescribed
burn
at
rabbit
Mountain,
as
well
as
burned.
Two
hundred
slash
piles
at
Walker
Ranch
due
to
early
snows.
Our
award-winning
youth
Corps
program
received
the
2018
governor's
summer.
Job
hunt
award
for
employing
so
many
young
people
this
year,
youth
corps
employed
a
hundred
and
sixty
teenagers
on
19
different
teams.
Lastly,
I'd
like
to
recognize
our
many
dedicated
volunteers
in
2018,
our
work
benefited
from
the
participation
of
almost
2700
volunteers,
who
contributed
more
than
29,000
hours.
A
In
fact,
this
year
we
celebrated
the
10th
anniversary
of
the
partnership
program.
This
program
involves
local
businesses
and
organizations
in
the
long
term,
stewardship
of
our
open
space
properties
through
annual
volunteer
projects.
Today
we
have
over
50
partner
groups
and
over
the
last
10
years,
these
partners
have
contributed
40,000
volunteer
hours,
a
value
of
almost
1
million
dollars.
Thank
you
to
our
dedicated
volunteers
and
staff,
who
continues
steward
the
more
than
105
thousand
acres
conserved
by
your
Boulder
County
parks
and
open
space
department.
B
Hi
Cindy
Braddock
Boulder
County
Assessor,
thanks
for
joining
me
here
on
the
second
floor
of
the
County
Courthouse.
As
you
can
see,
we're
under
construction
we're
getting
some
much-needed
updates
to
get
sustainable
lighting
more
efficient
wiring
and
some
security
updates.
We've
been
temporarily
housed
at
the
iris
campus
at
Broadway
and
iris.
Will
we
felt
welcomed
we've
had
lots
of
room
and
parking
what
a
luxury
to
have
parking.
B
We
hope
to
be
back
down
here
in
mid
January
of
2019
and
I
for
one
I'm
looking
forward
to
being
able
to
get
a
cup
of
coffee
without
writing
a
bus
to
a
coffee
shop.
The
assessor's
office
works,
like
all
the
other
county
offices
and
departments,
to
support
our
residents
and
creating
the
community
that
they
want
to
live
in
we're
on
the
revenue
side.
B
B
We
also
just
finished
our
certification
of
values
and
in
January,
January,
tempt
to
be
precise,
we'll
be
handing
the
tax
roll
to
Paul
Weiss
from
the
treasurer
and
in
that
tax
roll
we'll
be
establishing
the
value
of
the
county
at
slightly
over
seven
billion
dollars.
Only
eight
billion
dollars.
Of
that,
though,
is
used
to
calculate
tax
bills
from
and
2019
we're
looking
forward
to
a
very
busy
year.
B
It's
a
reappraisal
year
in
the
first
year
of
a
two-year
cycle
and
setting
values,
and
we
sent
out
property
notices
to
all
taxable
properties
which
are
over
120
of
them.
We
are
seeing
a
market
that's
beginning
to
soften
just
a
little
bit,
but
not
enough
to
say
that
we're
flat.
So
we
still
have
increases
in
value,
but
not
as
high
as
we
have
seen
in
other
years.
So
this
makes
for
a
very
busy
time
for
the
assessor's
office.
C
Either
I'm
Paul
Wiseman
I'm,
the
Boulder
County
Treasurer
theme
for
our
office
continues
to
be
working
well
with
others.
It
really
started
last
year
when
we
were
doing
the
prepay
Palooza
and
everybody
sort
of
jumped
in
and
continued
throughout.
One
of
the
things
I'm
most
proud
of
is
the
work
that
Cindy
Braddock,
the
assessor
and
I
do
together
reaching
out
to
seniors
letting
them
know
that
programs
are
available
to
help
them
with
their
property
taxes
and
other
things,
and
that's
what
we
try
to
do.
C
We
try
to
play
well
with
others,
but
we
try
to
use
the
folks
that
here,
within
the
county.
Use
is
probably
not
the
right
word,
but
work
with
the
folks
here
in
the
county,
whether
it's
in
security
on
the
front
desk,
the
assessor's
office
IT
not
to
work
together
to
really
do
the
best
for
boulder
county
and
the
best
in
public
service.
D
Hi
I'm
Emma
Hall
I'm,
the
Boulder,
County,
Coroner
and
I'm
here
to
talk
about
our
accomplishments
for
2018
it
was
a
really
busy
year.
One
of
the
biggest
things
that
we
focused
on
internally
was
really
professional
development
throughout
the
office
in
2017.
We
got
really
great
results
on
our
Employment
Survey,
and
so
we
wanted
to
further
that
work
and
really,
you
know,
continue
to
keep
our
team
happy
and
to
keep
them
developing
as
well,
so
that
was
really
one
of
our
biggest
accomplishments
in
2018
and
which
took
up
a
lot
of
time.
D
We
also
worked
with
getting
our
deputy
coroner
certifies
to
everybody.
That's
been
with
us
over
a
year
has
been
certified
and
it's
really
a
great
standard
to
set
for
the
office
and
really
just
for
the
state
as
well.
So
it
was
really
nice
to
be
able
to
do
that.
We
really
worked
on
our
Reserve
Program
and
we've
got
it
to
a
point
where
it's
really
running
consistently
and
you
know
pretty
stable
throughout
the
year,
and
so
that's
where
we
are
able
to
give
our
full-time
staff
a
little
bit
more
support.
D
So
one
of
the
most
exciting
projects
for
my
office
was
exhuming
a
couple
of
our
john
doe's.
We
had
two
john
doe's
from
1993.
One
had
been
Mary
buried
in
green
mountain
cemetery
and
one
in
Burlington
Cemetery
in
Longmont,
and
we
were
able
to
go
in
and
exhume
them
this
year.
One
of
the
things
that
we
did
was
we
had
clay
sculptures
done
by
a
forensic
artist,
and
so
we've
got
some.
D
You
know
some
I
guess
identifying
features
that
are
a
little
more
understandable
for
someone
looking
at
them
another
one
of
the
big
things
that
we
started
this
year
was
a
historical
committee,
and
so
that's
been
really
fun.
We
do
have
a
couple
volunteers.
They
go
through
our
old
Case
Files,
starting
back
in
the
1950s
and
then
they're
kind
of
working,
their
way
forward
and
it'll
tie
into
our
other
internal
Legacy
Project,
because
we're
starting,
you
know.
D
Have
Oliver
case
information,
digitized
and
readily
accessible,
but
in
the
mean
time
the
historical
cami
is
kind
of
helping
us
work
with
those
documents
that
you
know
once
we
have
the
case.
Significant
information
documented
is:
what
do
we
do
with
these
documents
and
artifacts
that
we're
finding
that
may
have
the
historical
significance
Oh?
What
can
we
do
with
that?
So
that
was
been
a
really
fun
project
that
we've
got
started
this
year.
D
So
looking
forward
to
2019
I
get
again
it'll
be
a
big
year,
which
you
know,
I
always
set
big
goals
for
myself
in
nineteen,
so
continuing
the
process
of
the
accreditation
I
think
this
will
be
really
our
main
kickoff
here.
It
usually
takes
about
two
years
to
go
through
an
entire
process
and
we're
trying
we're
hoping
to
get
that
done
sooner
than
two
years,
but
you
never
know
we're.
Gonna
do
our
best
and
then
also
we're
gonna
be
working
on
the
nasa
fatality
plan
for
boulder
county.
D
We
have
done
quite
a
bit
of
work
this
year
as
well,
but
continuing
that
into
2019
and
we've
really
gotten
more
boulder
county
partners
involved.
So
it'll
be
you
know,
much
bigger
plan
than
just
our
office.
I'm
really
looking
forward
to
2018.
It
will
be
my
third
year
or
my
third
term
in
office,
so
I've
still
got
a
lot
to
accomplish
in
the
next
four
years.
F
Hi,
it's
Joe
Pelle
County
Sheriff
and
we
are
celebrating
a
really
great
2018.
It's
been
a
good
year
for
us.
We
haven't
had
any
major
issues
like
big
fires
or
floods.
We
haven't
had
any
huge
criminal
cases,
as
we
did
a
couple
years
ago
with
a
triple
homicide.
Things
have
been
running
pretty
smoothly,
so
that's
been
wonderful.
This
past
election
was
really
good
to
us.
F
The
people
in
our
County
past
issue,
one
a
which
is
going
to
provide
some
long-term
solutions
for
the
jail
crowding
issues,
a
new
large
forty,
six
thousand
square
foot,
alternative
sentence
facility
up
on
the
jail
campus,
and
we
will
get
people
out
of
really
rundown
outdated
facilities
in
Boulder
in
Longmont.
It
will
also
fund
administrative
space
at
the
jail
employees
are
going
to
get
a
locker
room.
They're
gonna
get
a
place
to
have
lunch.
We're
gonna
have
meeting
space
a
lot
more
office
space.
We
badly
need
office
space,
our
medical
unit,
our
mental
health
unit.
F
All
those
units
are
in
needed
space
to
work
out
of,
and
they've
grown
a
lot
since
the
jail
was
built.
In
fact,
it
wasn't
even
anticipated
when
the
jail
was
built,
that
we
would
have
a
mental
health
staff
on-site
but
of
course,
they're
needed
and
that
that's
grown
that
needs
grown
and
then
we're
gonna
remodel
the
interior,
the
old
jail.
We're
gonna
build
a
bigger
courthouse
in
there
because
you
don't
have
room
now
for
the
number
of
people
that
make
first
appearance.
F
We
don't
even
have
room
for
the
number
of
family
members
and
community
members
that
want
to
come
watch
and
we
are
also
going
to
build
a
new
intake
center.
Currently,
the
booking
room
serves
as
both
intake
and
it's
where
everybody
exiting
the
jail
leaves
from,
and
it's
also
where
all
the
inmates
that
are
being
transported
to
court
at
the
Justice
Center
or
to
other
facilities,
it's
where
they're
staged.
F
So
it's
a
zoo
in
there
we're
gonna,
build
we're
gonna
separate
them,
so
we're
gonna
have
a
new
intake
center,
a
new
with
new
booking
facilities
and
a
lot
more
holding
cells
and
the
old
booking
room
is
going
to
become
our
transports
office
and
staging
area
for
transports
and
releases.
That's
all
gonna
take
probably
five
to
seven
years.
We
about
the
county,
commissioners
have
hired
an
architect,
and
so
the
planning
process
will
begin.
The
money
will
start
flowing
in
January
2020,
and
the
good
news
about
that
is.
F
F
So
we're
really
grateful
for
that
and
I'm
grateful
to
have
been
reelected
for
another
four-year
term
special
thanks
to
the
County
Commissioners
one
for
supporting
1a
and
2
for
helping
us
with
geo
solutions
in
around
staffing
relief,
which
has
been
wonderful
the
last
year
in
reducing
overtime
usage
and
the
stress
on
the
staff
out
of
the
jail.
And
finally,
our
employees
just
got
very
generous
pay
raises
and
they're
pretty
excited
about
that.
And
so
again,
thanks
to
the
commissioners
for
helping
with
that.
G
Hi
I'm
Jana
Peterson
administrative
services,
director
for
the
county,
and
after
we
talking
to
you
about
the
administrative
services
department,
we've
had
several
areas
of
emphasis
in
the
last
year.
The
most
important
one
that
we've
been
working
on
is
to
increase
the
transparency
and
consistency
of
financial
information.
G
It's
a
project
that
we
call
BC
Swift,
which
stands
for
system-wide
integrated
financial
tracking
BC
Swift
is
really
aimed
at
fundamentally
changing
how
we
demonstrate
the
value
of
county
government
to
our
community,
its
replacement
of
our
aging
financial
system,
but
more
than
that,
it's
also
changing
the
county's
general
ledger
connecting
that
financial
information
to
programmatic
data.
So
we
can
demonstrate
the
value
of
county
services
to
the
community
in
administrative
services.
We
also
run
the
Board
of
Equalization
process.
G
That's
the
process
by
which
property
owners
can
appeal
the
property
values
set
on
their
properties
by
the
assessor's
office,
and
it's
important
for
us
to
have
a
transparent
and
effective
process
as
property
values
in
boulder
county
are
going
up.
We
have
more
and
more
tax
payers
who
are
wanting
to
appeal
those
valuations
and
it's
our
job
to
make
sure
that
they
can
run
through
that
process
as
efficiently
and
effectively
and
in
a
customer
friendly
way
as
possible.
G
G
We
completed
phase
2
of
equipment
retrofits
at
the
folder
County
recycling
center.
This
is
allowing
us
to
accept
more
types
of
materials.
In
addition,
we're
looking
forward
to
increased
waste
diversion
in
the
future
thanks
to
the
voters
who
passed
the
sustainability
tax
in
2017,
we're
talking
about
some
options
for
enhancing
our
zero
waste
infrastructure,
so
that
we
could
be
able
to
process,
recycle
and
recycle
materials
from
construction
and
demolition
waste
sites,
and
also
options
for
compost,
processing,
I'm,
really
looking
forward
to
another
positive
year
in
2019.
G
We
also
will
be
working
with
the
Sheriff's
Office
and
the
Community
Services
Division,
on
expansion
of
the
alternate
sentencing
facility
idea,
and
that
concept
that
was
approved
by
taxpayers
in
the
November
ballot
issue
and
looking
at
jail
modernization
and
how
we
can
really
improve
our
35
year
old
jail
facility
and
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
to
all
of
the
staff
across
the
county
without
your
hard
work
and
dedication
that
magic
wouldn't
happen,
and
it's
really
important
to
appreciate
everything
that
you
do
every
day.
So
thank
you.
I.
H
Have
the
honor
of
serving
as
the
district
attorney
for
the
20th
Judicial
District,
which
includes
Boulder
County
and
as
district
attorney
I
oversee
an
office
of
ninety
outstanding
women
and
men
who
are
committed
to
fighting
on
behalf
of
Boulder
County
to
make
sure
that
we
have
a
safe
community
and
also
an
improved
criminal
justice
system.
So
our
goal
every
day
is
to
do
justice
and
do
the
right
thing.
In
our
cases,
our
case
is
range
from
criminal,
trespass
and
theft,
all
the
way
up
to
sex
assault
and
homicide.
H
We
also
have
a
robust
restorative
justice
and
diversion
program
to
help
people
get
back
on
the
right
track,
because,
although
we
see
more
than
our
fair
share
of
horrific
cases,
including
murder
cases,
the
vast
majority
of
people
who
come
into
the
criminal
justice
system
need
help
getting
to
a
better
place.
So
we
put
a
lot
of
resources
with
help
from
the
county
into
doing
exactly
that.
It's
been
a
particularly
challenging
year
for
the
office,
because
here
in
Boulder,
but
also
throughout
the
entire
state
of
Colorado,
there's
been
a
fairly
drastic
increase
in
crime.
H
So
we've
had
a
24
percent
increase
in
felony
filings
over
the
last
five
years.
We
have
one
thousand
more
felonies
this
year
than
we
did
in
2013,
300
of
which
are
violent
felonies.
So,
if
you
think
about
the
impact
on
the
victims,
their
families
and
the
community
members,
we
have
300
more
violent,
felonies
being
committed
in
Boulder.
We
put
a
lot
of
effort
and
resources
into
making
sure
the
right
thing
happens.
With
those
cases,
we've
also
have
seen
an
increase
in
misdemeanor
cases,
juvenile
cases,
restorative
justice
and
finally
traffic
cases
as
well.
H
We're
also
really
committed
to
focusing
on
priority
cases.
So
for
me,
as
District
Attorney,
some
of
the
priority
cases
include
violent
cases
such
as
domestic
violence,
sex
assaults
and
homicides
also
crimes
against
our
most
vulnerable,
so
crimes
against
children,
crimes
against
our
elderly
population
and
individuals
with
disabilities.
So
we
focus
on
those
cases,
but
we
have
some
exciting
new
initiatives
that
are
underway
since
the
spring
I'd
love
to
tell
you
about
those,
so
in
2019
we'll
continue
to
work
on
our
hate
crimes
initiative.
H
So
it's
a
unique
and
important
effort
and
it
turned
away
and
it's
going
to
continue
in
2019.
So
this
and
some
other
programs
that
we've
started
that
part
of
what
we're
so
excited
about
the
2019,
but
I
just
want
to
stress
that
I
have
the
tremendous,
honor
and
privilege
of
working
with
outstanding
people
in
this
office
and
that
predates
me
become
a
district
attorney.
I
don't
deserve
credit
for
it
or
for
the
work
they
do,
but
they
are
incredible
and
they
do
it
every
day.
On
behalf
of
the
people
of
Boulder
County.
I
This
year
has
been
an
incredibly
productive
year
of
a
poor
transportation
department,
but
before
I
dive
into
all
the
projects
which
most
people
are
thinking
of
when
they
think
of
us
there's
a
lot
of
behind
the
scenes.
Work
that
really
needs
to
be
acknowledged.
Our
floodplain
team
has
done
an
incredible
job
this
year
with
mapping
over
200
miles
of
creeks
after
the
flood.
It's
been
a
huge
task,
with
lots
of
public
medians
for
people
to
look
at
draft
maps.
I
Our
GIS
group
has
been
doing
a
great
job,
also
not
only
helping
with
the
map
updates,
but
updating
all
our
data.
We
have
our
entire
right-of-way
in
GIS
now,
which
we've
never
had
before,
which
has
been
a
huge
help
and
big
large
progress.
Our
administrative
group
has
been
doing
a
phenomenal
job
with
hunters
of
contracts,
thousands
of
invoices
plus
working
on
the
Swift
project
and
keeping
everything
functioning.
We
really
couldn't
do
it
without
them.
I
Our
multimodal
group
has
led
the
charge
regionally
to
develop
the
regional
past
program
that
keeps
the
Eco
pass
going
and
then
we've
been
working
with
the
state
highway,
7
partners
and
state
highway,
119
diagonal
to
make
advancements
on
bus,
rapid
transit
and
those
critical
community
corridors
successful
getting
over
8
million
dollars
from
the
DIMM
provisional
Council
of
Governments
for
the
diagonal
and
4
million
dollars
to
work
on
design
for
the
state
highway
7
corridor.
The
permanent
flood
recovery
is
the
wrapping
up.
I
We've
completed,
James
Canyon
Drive
and
James
Creek,
the
bridge
over
the
South
San
Fran
Creek
west
of
Lyons.
That
washed
away
in
2013
is
complete
and
beautiful.
The
bridge
on
Logan
mill
is
complete,
which
is
really
a
beautiful
improvement
for
that
whole
part
of
the
canyon.
The
upper
4
Mile
Canyon
Drive
between
Salina
and
sunset
and
4
Mile
Creek
is
wrapping
up
and
will
be
much
more
resilient
and
sustainable
for
the
next
flag.
I
Our
non
flood
project
new
intersections
on
95th
Street
at
Pellman,
Isabel
Road
in
the
surface
unit,
was
a
large
section
of
95th
is
complete
and
repaving
and
widening
of
Brainard
Lake
grow
it
up
to
Brainerd
Lake
Recreation
Area
has
been
a
huge
success
and
a
beautiful
job.
There,
then,
our
road
maintenance
group
has
been
doing
another.
Great
year's
worth
of
work
installed
over
700
feet
of
culvert
created
over
a
thousand
miles
of
gravel
road
applied,
3,000
tons
of
asphalt,
72
tons
of
that
has
been
been
deposited
by
hand.
I
We've
repaired
over
700
signs
swept
over
7800
miles
of
road,
applied,
300,000,
gallons
of
dust
controlled
for
the
summer
gravel
roads
and
driven
over
64,000
miles
from
in
terms
of
to
plow
snow.
A
fleet
mechanics
have
been
doing
it,
another
great
job,
keeping
us
rolling,
even
though
our
fleet
is
getting
older,
so
they're
there.
When
we
need
them,
you
don't
care
much
about
them,
but
they're
there,
keeping
us
operating
so
I
just
want
to
finally
acknowledge
all
the
work
that
this
group
has
been
doing
over
the
years.
I
J
J
I
wish
Molly
our
new
clerk,
the
very
best
and
I
know
with
your
support,
both
here
at
the
county
level
and
at
the
clerk
and
recorders
office.
She
can't
help
but
be
successful
with
the
amazing
team
that
she's
joining
looking
back
on
our
last
year
was
another
busy
here.
It
seems
to
be
a
trend
I'm
sure.
Most
of
you
feel
that
in
your
departments,
I
start
with
Motor
v
Motor
V.
J
We
had
a
major
transition,
we
updated
our
30
year
old
system
and
those
of
you
who
have
upgraded
and
implemented
a
new
statewide
system,
no
just
the
pain
and
joy
of
that
entails.
You
know
they
had
to
work
very
hard
to
learn
the
new
system
while
at
the
same
time
continuing
to
serve
the
public
on
the
old
system
and
that
took
many
months
of
training
and
transitioning.
We
went
live
in
August
and
now
we're
in
that
next
phase
of
understanding
exactly
what
this
new
program
does
and
how
to
continue
to
improve
it
in
recording.
J
We
continue
to
upgrade
and
digitize
our
records.
We
need
to
upgrade
our
indexes,
so
people
can
look
at
our
historic
books
online
and
see
what
they're
looking
for
that's
been
a
long
multi-year
project,
and
we
are
just
about
wrapping
that
up,
hopefully,
by
the
end
of
2019,
we'll
be
done
with
that
project
and
in
elections.
Yet
another
busy
year
with
three
elections.
J
We
did
a
special
election
in
Longmont,
a
primary
election
and
then
our
very
busy
midterm
election
in
November,
the
primary
election
added,
a
new
wrinkle
as
we
had
unaffiliated
voter,
is
allowed
to
vote
for
the
first
time
without
having
to
switch
parties.
While
it
sounds
very
simple
on
the
surface,
it
took
quite
a
bit
of
effort
to
educate
them
about
the
new
process,
and
many
of
them
would
receive
two
ballots
for
both
parties
and
then
to
ensure
that
they
only
returned
one.
J
So
our
communication
team
did
a
great
job
and
they
were
very
successful
in
helping
our
community
vote
successfully.
In
that
election
for
a
record
turnout
in
a
primary
then
in
the
November
election
we
once
again
had
incredible
participation
from
our
community.
We
also
had
more
and
more
of
our
County
staff
and
other
departments
continue
to
support
us,
be
that
in
the
role
of
IT
support
at
our
voter
service
in
polling
centers,
and
also
serving
as
ambassadors,
to
ensure
that
those
voters
voting
at
the
end,
understood
the
process
and
we're
able
to
participate.
J
So
we
thank
you
for
that
and
really
appreciate
you
helping
us
be
successful
in
that
way,
just
like
to
say
how
grateful
I
am
for
our
partnership
over
all
these
years
and
I'm
sure
that
Molly
will
benefit
from
all
of
your
efforts
as
well.
It's
been
a
pleasure
serving
as
your
County
Clerk
and
recorder.
It's
been
one
of
the
most
incredible
jobs.
K
All
right,
I'm
Dale
case
director
of
the
Boulder
County
Land
Use
Department
2018,
was
full
of
accomplishments
in
land
use,
which
has
planning
zoning
and
building
permit
jurisdiction
over
the
unincorporated
areas
of
Boulder
County
Oh
Hale
in
June,
several
major
hail
storms
swept
through
the
county.
The
damage
to
vehicles
and
structures
was
extensive.
Our
Building
Safety
and
Inspection
services
team
is
greatly
impacted
by
this
event.
Last
year
we
issued
a
little
over
350
permits
for
new
new
roofs.
This
year
we
have
an
increase
of
over
three
hundred
and
seventy
percent.
K
We
have
issued
over
1775
permits
and
are
expecting
the
issue
another
200
by
the
end
of
the
year.
This
great
work
has
been
on
top
of
the
regular
daily
permitting
activities
we
expect
to
process
more
than
2,700
building
permit
applications
with
building
inspectors
covering
the
720
square
miles
of
the
county
to
make
sure
those
permits
are
done
in
a
safe
manner
and
protecting
the
health
and
safety
of
our
citizens.
Oil
and
gas
remains
to
be
a
big
issue
for
the
county.
K
We
continue
to
focus
on
ensuring
Boulder,
County's
planning
and
healthy
values
are
protected
as
we
address
the
issues
surrounding
potential
oil
and
gas
development
in
the
county.
Landy
Steph
led
a
tremendous
effort
among
numerous
County
departments
in
crafting
the
strongest
oil
and
gas
development
regulations
in
the
state
planning
administration
staff
and
our
communication
specialists
have
continued
to
increase
the
ability
for
the
public
to
participate
in
government
by
web-streaming
hearings
for
Planning,
Commission
and
Board
of
Adjustment.
K
Revamping
and
updating
the
website
to
provide
timely
and
accurate
information
and
increasing
our
outreach
efforts
in
additional
communication
channels,
such
as
next
door,
as
almost
everything
we
do
relies
on
records
data
and
maps,
there's
a
significant
amount
of
technical
work
and
expertise
that
goes
into
creating
these
from
taps
and
reports.
We
are
extremely
fortunate
to
have
an
amazing
staff
and
great
tools
to
conduct
our
business
again.
K
This
past
October,
we
celebrated
National
Community
Planning
Month,
with
a
free
planning,
highlights
bike
tour
Boulder
County
in
the
city
of
lung,
up
buying
staff,
collaborated
to
host
guided
bike
tours
of
Northeast
Boulder,
County
and
long
mountain
to
showcase
planning.
2018
was
the
fifth
year
of
the
Wildfire
partners
program
that
helps
Boulder
County
homeowners
prepare
for
wildfires.
This
collaborative
partnership
continues
to
strengthen
as
more
than
1,800
homeowners
in
the
program
are
receiving
invaluable
technical
assistance
and
financial
support
to
help
build
more
resilient
mountain
communities
through
wildfire
mitigation.
K
We've
also
completed
several
land-use
code,
update
projects,
completing
an
update
to
our
regulations
around
solar
installations
and
helping
ensure
the
county
is
taking
reasonable
steps
in
measures
that
help
combat
climate
change.
The
county
also
expects
to
complete
updates
to
our
land
use
regulations,
as
they
pertain
to
agricultural
uses
through
outreach
to
the
farming
community.
The
county
was
able
to
identify
several
areas
where
the
regulatory
framework
needed
improvement
and
clarification.
I
can't
thank
enough
land,
you
staff
and
our
colleagues
across
the
county.
L
N
E
M
P
E
N
L
So,
first
of
all,
thanks
everybody
in
the
department
and
in
the
community
and
the
county
for
the
incredible
effort
that
you
put
forward
in
2018
to
make
the
year
so
successful
and
mostly
to
care
about
people
that
were
here
to
serve
and
to
make
their
lives
better
every
day
and
in
2019
there
are
a
few
core
things
that
we
are
really
going
to
be
focusing
on.
The
first
is
really
expanding
the
impact
of
the
regional
housing
strategy.
It
is
a
critical
component
of
Boulder
County's
future.
L
We
aim
to
triple
the
amount
of
affordable
housing
in
the
county
by
2035
number
two.
We
are
really
moving
into
a
phase
of
intense
effort
to
invest
in
early
childhood.
We
want
to
stop
child
abuse
and
neglect
maltreatment,
and
we
want
to
promote
early
childhood
development,
with
a
focus
on
child
care,
quality
development
and
really
primary
prevention
in
health
and
social
services
for
all
families,
as
they're
forming
in
Boulder
County.
That's
going
to
be
a
top
effort
and
I
think.
L
The
third
is
that
we've
come
to
recognize
that
our
interdisciplinary
partnerships
and
on
the
interoperability
of
our
systems,
the
essential
use
of
data
and
the
resources
that
we
have
is
what
reduces
family
vulnerability
and
reduces
the
institutionalization
of
people,
regardless
of
whether
that's
into
the
correctional
system
or
the
homeless
system
or
the
elder
care
systems.
And
so
our
focus
is
really
going
to
be
on
those
three
things
for
2019
and
we
look
forward
to
a
highly
productive
year
and
wish
everybody
a
wonderful
2019.
R
At
the
community
services
department,
we
really
have
worked
hard
to
realize
our
mission,
which
is
to
work
in
partnership
with
communities
to
enhance
the
quality
of
life
of
the
diverse
populations
that
we
serve
here
in
Boulder
County.
Our
programs
include
the
Area
Agency
on
Aging
community
action
programs,
community
justice
services,
Boulder
County,
headstart,
our
strategic
initiatives,
division
and
workforce
Boulder
County.
We
have
a
shared
focus
with
housing
and
Human
Services
and
public
health
to
really
recognize
the
impact
that
the
social
determinants
of
health
have
on
our
community's
well-being.
R
Those
are
things
like:
income
access
to
education,
equity,
health,
food
that
really
impact
people's
lives.
We
approach
systems
transformation
collectively
as
well.
We
use
standard
assessments
to
determine
individual
needs
and
then
matching
programs
to
really
meet
the
needs
of
the
person
that
we're
serving
so
in
the
Area
Agency.
On
Aging,
we've
created
new
partnerships
in
our
healthcare
system,
so
we're
continuing
our
evidence-based
wellness
programs,
diabetes,
prevention,
false
prevention,
and
we
recently
received
the
Centers
for
Disease
Control
and
Prevention's
full
recognition
for
our
diabetes
prevention
program.
R
It
means
we
can
now
enroll
in
Medicare
to
provide
the
diabetes
prevention
program,
while
billing
Medicare
for
our
community
action
programs.
We
continue
to
engage
folks
in
the
community
to
really
understand
the
stress
of
what
it
means
to
live
in
poverty.
We
do
this
through
the
circle's
campaign,
where
we
match
volunteers
who
are
middle
or
upper
income
with
people
working
their
way
out
of
poverty,
and
we
hold
poverty
simulation
presentations.
A
one
participant
recently
called
the
program
one
hour
of
a
full-time
reality
was
quite
an
eye-opener.
R
At
Community,
Justice
Services
we've
continued
to
implement
jail
to
community
evidence-based
programming
that
really
supports
Public
Safety
and
successful
reentry
across
the
criminal
justice
system.
We've
implemented
a
new
cognitive,
behavioral
intervention
curriculum.
That
means,
wherever
a
person
is
in
the
system,
they're
receiving
the
same
information
to
change
behaviors
to
help
prevent
recidivism
and
Head
Start.
We've
continued
to
implement
our
expanded
hours
program
due
to
a
successful
partnership
with
Housing
and
Human
Services
child
care
assistance
program
and
Boulder
Valley,
School,
District's
and
child
care
preschool
program.
R
So
that's
provided
additional
funding
to
expand
the
day's,
add
teachers
and
really
support
our
kids
and
families
across
the
whole
program.
At
Workforce,
Boulder
County
we've
expanded
key
service
strategies
to
address
current
employment
needs
of
our
community.
These
have
included
additional
work
based
learning
sites
in
East,
County,
increasing
the
number
of
interns
and
on-the-job
learners
growing
our
GED
Learning
Lab.
Our
tenants
has
doubled
in
the
last
year
and
finally,
our
homeless
solutions
for
Boulder
County
program.
Our
coordinated
entry
system
has
run
successfully
for
one
year.
First
year,
outcomes
have
really
exceeded
our
expectations.
R
Three
hundred
and
eighty
three
homeless
people
exiting
the
shelter
system,
and
that
means
188
have
gotten
their
own
housing.
We're
really
excited
to
enter
2019
with
ensuring
that
the
great
work
of
2018
continues
and
is
sustainable,
and
we
will
continue
to
be
looking
for
new
resources
to
really
support
the
most
vulnerable
in
our
community.
With
these
programs.
S
Here
at
public
health,
we
focus
on
making
sure
that
everyone
has
an
opportunity
for
a
healthy
life.
This
year
we
continue
to
help
families
grow,
be
healthy
and
strong.
We're
developing
a
system
called
universal
home
visitation
to
help
parents
and
their
newborns,
who
may
be
struggling
with
their
mental
health
or
development.
This
system
will
help
them
get
the
support
they
need
early,
so
they
can
grow
up
to
be
healthy
and
productive.
S
Children
who
we're
breastfed
are
less
likely
to
be
overweight
or
suffer
from
diabetes
or
heart
disease
later
in
life,
we've
also
been
taking
steps
to
get
families
and
mental
health
supports
that
they
need
in
2017,
Boulder
County
residents
told
us
how
important
mental
health
was
for
their
overall
health.
In
response,
we
launched
the
community
mental
health
initiative
and
2018
through
our
healthy
futures
coalition.
We
helped
adolescents,
teens
and
their
parents
in
2018
as
well.
We
funded
programs
and
provided
education
to
prevent
suicide
and
bullying
and
substance
abuse.
S
We
also
helped
parents
support
their
kids
when
they're
struggling
and
we
continue
to
normalize
mental
health
through
our
let's
talk
campaign,
the
campaign
aims
to
reduce
stigma,
which
often
keeps
people
from
getting
help
when
they
most
need
it.
We
also
took
actions
to
protect
our
natural
resources
in
Boulder
County.
We
focused
on
reaching
out
to
women
and
minority-owned
small
businesses
to
help
them
save
energy
and
water
and
reduce
their
waste.
These
actions
help
the
environment
and
save
businesses,
money
which
helps
our
local
economy.
S
We
monitored
state
and
national
environmental
policy
to
keep
our
air
and
water
safe
and
clean,
and
in
2019,
of
course,
we'll
continue.
This
renewed
work
we'll
be
working
to
change
things
that
make
it
hard
for
people
to
be
healthy.
This
means
creating
systems,
policies
and
programs
that
help
make
sure
everyone,
no
matter
where
they
come
from,
how
much
money
they
earn
the
color
of
their
skin,
the
language
that
they
speak
have
an
equal
chance
for
a
healthy
life
and
Boulder
County.
T
So
our
office
is
involved
in
just
about
everything
that
happens
around
the
county,
so
we
like
to
provide
advice
early,
try
to
guide
the
decisions
that
everybody
makes
to
be
as
helpful
as
we
can
be.
We
like
to
try
to
sort
out
issues
and
we
like
to
set
up
our
legal
positions
so
that
we
can
defend
everybody
as
best
we
can,
if
there
ever
is
an
issue
that
has
to
be
sorted
out
in
the
courts
or
otherwise.
T
T
We've
also
seen
a
huge
increase
in
the
number
of
contracts
and
contract
amendments
that
we
process,
which
is
not
always
the
most
exciting
work,
but
it's
vital
to
making
sure
that
everybody
can
do
the
work.
They
do
we're
almost
at
four
thousand
for
a
year
and
that's
a
substantial
increase
over
last
year.
We
also
see
more
open
records.
Request
seems
like
it
gets
higher
every
year,
well,
I'm
sure
hit
400
by
the
end
of
the
year
last
year
was
just
over
300.
T
So
that's
a
substantial
increase
and
we're
very
happy
that
we
had
the
new
Cora
Colorado
open
records
software
that
allowed
us
to
process
those
things
more
efficiently,
because
without
it,
I
think
we
would
have
been
in
even
more
trouble
on
the
human
services
side.
We're
seeing
significant
increases
as
well,
where
we
have
a
caring
about
two
hundred
dependency
and
neglect
cases,
which
is
a
lot
higher
than
usual
and
we've
seen
just
in
this
past
year.
A
increase
of
about
forty
five
percent
in
the
number
of
appeals
of
those
we.
U
T
T
Right
now,
we
have
29
civil
cases
that
we're
working
on,
which
is
far
more
than
we've
ever
had,
there's
a
couple
reasons
for
that:
more
cases
out
of
the
jail,
more
cases
that
are
contract
related,
but
also
we
have
five
cases
that
are
new
this
year
that
are
related
to
oil
and
gas.
So
we
have
three
that
were
suing
local
oil
and
gas
operators,
and
we
have
a
couple
other
issues
as
well
that
are
working
their
way
through
the
courts.
What's
a
little
bit
different
about
these
ones.
T
Is
that
most
of
the
times
we're
in
in
lawsuits?
We
are
the
defendant.
We
are
trying
to
defend
a
position
or
support
staff
for
actions
that
they've
taken.
These
are
instances
where
we
are
suing
these
operators
because
we
feel
like
they
don't
have
the
the
right
to
drill
in
the
way
that
they
say
or
that
they
are
affecting
our
environment
in
an
adverse
way
different
for
us,
but
very
exciting.
We
also
expect
that
there
will
be
a
lot
of
activity
related
to
oil
and
gas
at
the
state
level.
V
Here
to
talk
to
you
about
some
important
things
that
are
being
done
in
the
commissioner's
office
this
year.
First
of
all,
the
commissioners
are
very
excited
about
Colorado
Communities
for
climate
action.
This
is
an
organization
that
Boulder
County
started
with
the
city
of
Boulder
to
work
on
climate
change
policy
across
the
state.
This
year
we
have
22
members
from
across
the
state.
Who've
joined
us
in
this
work.
It's
great.
V
The
other
thing
that
the
commissioners
worked
really
hard
on
this
year
is
strategic
priorities
and,
as
you
know,
we
now
have
strategic
priorities
which
are
going
to
help
guide
the
work
that
Boulder
County
does
in
the
next
five
years.
These
priorities
are
not
meant
to
replace
the
good
work
that
gets
done
every
single
day,
but
to
help
give
us
some
focus
and
guidance,
and
this
is
a
practice-
that's
used
around
the
country
for
organizations
to
help
guide
the
work
that
they
do.
V
So
our
strategic
priorities
for
the
next
five
years
include
affordable
living
climate
action,
equity
and
justice,
land
and
water
stewardship.
An
organizational
and
financial
stewardship,
along
with
the
strategic
priorities
administers,
have
also
decided
that
there's
some
implementation
principles
that
we
should
use
in
doing
this
work.
These
implementation
principles
include
date,
data-driven
decision-making,
focus
on
prevention,
equity,
both
internally
and
externally,
to
our
organization,
stake
in
the
ground,
leadership
and,
finally,
using
best
practice
tools
to
support
our
priorities.
U
Heard
over
the
course
of
this
video
presentation,
but
all
the
great
programs
and
initiatives
that
we
work
on
here
at
Boulder
County
our
job
in
the
budget
office,
is
take
all
those
programs
and
put
it
together
into
a
financial
package
for
our
board
to
adopt
a
budget.
We're
pleased
to
announce
that
for
2019
we
again
have
another
sustainable,
transparent
and
balanced
budget.
That
balanced
budget
is
at
432
million
for
2019.
U
In
addition
to
funding
ongoing
operations
in
programs,
the
budget
includes
six
million
dollars
to
fund
improvements
at
our
Jail
and
also
to
start
design.
Work
for
a
new
alternative
sentencing
facility,
as
approved
by
our
voters
in
the
November
2018
election.
Also
of
a
note
is
that
the
budget
contains
a
sixth
full
year
of
budgeting
for
our
2013
flood
recovery
in
2019.
V
Of
course,
today
we're
swearing
in
six
elected
officials
in
Boulder
County,
including
two
new
elected
officials,
Commissioner
Matt
Jones
and
clerk
and
reporter
Molly
Fitzpatrick
welcome
to
the
team,
and,
unfortunately,
we
are
also
saying
goodbye
to
Commissioner
Cindy
Domenico
who's,
leaving
Boulder
County.
After
almost
35
years
of
public
service,
we're
gonna
miss
you
terribly
Cindy
and
we'll
try
and
soldier
on
without
you
in
2019.