City of Boulder, CO Housing Advisory Board, 28 Apr 2021

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4-28-21 HAB Meeting

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, hey: can we let folks into the meeting.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, or should I wait, I think I'm gonna know what,. What do you think james? I left looks at a.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: woman, okay.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: right sledding folks into the meeting here when you join, please mute yourself just to avoid any background. Noise, initially.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: my much appreciated.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, alright, perfect, so we're going to start this meeting I'll call this meeting to order we're just going to run through roll call real quickly. So, let's see I don't see that danny is here,. I don't see that jack is here,, but I let's see I see michael there. You are juliet hello, terry.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: mason.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: and hab-charlotte pitts: am I missing anyone. I don't think I'm missing anyone.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: well,. Thank you for coming to the members who are here so glad you're here and thank you. Everyone else for joining us we'll get we'll get to the the listening session very quickly. Here. We're just going to run through the agenda real quickly, so.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: first, we have, the listening session will have a presentation.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: by some of our staff at the city, public participation,, where you will will be able to speak, engage with us, ask questions largely informal and then we'll move on to you know typical have.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: agenda items such as the approval of minutes from last meeting, that is from council matters from the board chair elections matters from staff,, including we're going to appoint a member of the board to the eviction, prevention and rental assistance, tenant advisory, board.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: are there any additional agenda items that members would like to bring forth at this time.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, no okay, perfect great! Well! In that case we can just swiveling to the listening session. I'm going to turn it over.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: initially, to.

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hab-charlotte pitts: staff,, but you know recall that this listening session is on the topic of housing, insecurity and we are hosting this listening session in order. To.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: understand, listen to you all share your know, your own personal experiences,, perhaps that you've experienced in the past year during the pandemic,. Perhaps you know the challenges you've faced, extend far.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: far beyond the pandemic and whatever those are, we want to hear about them again, largely informal. If you would like to speak for more than three minutes, you know I can grant that to you,. You know we. We just want to hear hear as many stories and.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: as possible,, so we can revisit the topic later after staff gives their initial presentation. So I'm just going to turn it over to.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: jay, slash kristin kesa.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: kristen.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, oh you're, not going to formally introduce dj.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: christian. cob-jay, sugnet: action.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, that's right so good evening: everybody I'm kristin heiser, I'm the deputy director of housing and human services with the city of.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: boulder I get to work with che and corey.

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Cob-Kristin, hyser: and hhs, and tonight I'm going to be joined by kesa kwando, who is our partner over at the county's housing human services and she's, going to be telling us about the great work they've done this past year.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: and standing up the housing helpline, but before we get there, I'm going to go ahead and give me a minute to figure out how to share my screen.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: hold on one second.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: likes yourselves. um Let me see, I don't want to do that. I need to first me to share.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: because people in a second., cob-kristin hyser: hold on sorry about this.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, so I'm going to ask, can somebody just let me know if you can see a powerpoint presentation that has my name in jesus name at the bottom of it.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, I see some thumbs up over there. Okay, I'm between different own computer screens alright,. So I am here with key. So we're going to be talking about the spectrum housing supports that are available across the region,, but primarily talking about what is available.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: to residents of the city of boulder,, so we will be talking about just the variety of resources that are available and demonstrating just our ongoing commitment to offer housing options and supports to meet the diverse housing needs of our community..

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Cob-Kristin hyser: all right,. Before we go there,, I want to go ahead and just review that housing and human services mission statement.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, so the city of lawyers,, housing and human services. We strive for all to thrive.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: all cooler community members deserve to thrive, housing and human services provides resources and community connections, so everyone can experience boulder as adjust, inclusive and equitable community.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: we commit to achieving this mission by building relationships with those we serve.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: fostering collaborative partnerships addressing systemic and I put ease investing in and implementing effective, sustainable and solution, based policies and programs.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: and creating and preserving a diversity of affordable housing, options, and the reason I wanted to share this as well,. We are housing in human services and we work.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: all across the spectrum, in terms of working with families, working with individuals who are experiencing homelessness. Working with older adults.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, all of those have the underpinning of arkadin into making sure housing as a priority in our community and to the extent that in 2020, housing and human services invested $46 million nearly half of our annual budget to achieve our city's housing. Goals.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, looking at it, more broadly,, I just want to revisit the boulder valley conference of plan which,, as you know, is defined by the community and in the latest comprehensive plan,, the community to find.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: that it aspires to be a complete community with a diverse and integrated population supporting that aspiration,. The plan values, a range of available housing opportunities, as it helps define and community.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: the plan, the comprehensive plan that actually is asserted by the community.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: asserts the social, economic and environmental well being of the community is enhanced when I'm individuals and families are retained.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: workforce housing is available and residents with changing or special housing needs are served and that vision and those assertions are really the underpinning of our work that we do every day at the city and across the region, with our partners.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: so tonight we're going to be reviewing the city of regional work to create and preserve diverse housing opportunities and the variety of services and programs committed to facilitate access to housing and keep keeping people house..

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Cob-Kristin hyser: I'm going to start with talking about the city's, affordable housing goals, so starting with bricks and mortar.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: and 2019 the city adopted or actually increased our affordable housing goal from 10% to 15%.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, and what I call asserts is that by 2035, 15% of all residential homes will be serve cured as permanently affordable and currently we're at a point. 4% of the goal.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: last year, alone, in the midst of the pandemic, the city's housing investment saw the addition of 270 70 277 personally affordable homes and into our inventory.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: these homes serve low, moderate and middle income. Households their diverse in their housing design in terms of single family are attached their rental, their ownership and,. As you see from this heat map,, they are intentionally dispersed throughout the city and oftentimes indistinguishable..

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Cob-Kristin hyser: from the market rate units that they are dispersed amongst and our investments in our work spans. The spectrum, from emergency, shelter to middle income, ownership.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, starting with the various housing opportunities,, I want to talk about our homeownership program. The city has long had a commitment to creating homeownership opportunities for low and moderate income households. Currently, we have.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, just short of 800 and 799 deed, restricted homes for that are permanently affordable in the city of boulder boulder at these homes are available.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: for purchase to households, earning between 80 and 120% of the area, median income and similar to what I mentioned last slide. It really ranges the home design is everything from detached single family to studio apartments.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: to help people with lower incomes maintain their housing. So it's not just about getting people into creating housing, preserving housing.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: or getting people into housing through homeownership opportunities, there's a real challenge for individuals of lower incomes to maintain their housing.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, whether it's due to just property taxes or just the expense of maintain your house of just those.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: annual repairs and maintenance costs that you have to deal with, and so the city of boulder partners with the city of milan milan,, who provides financial supports and I'm not going to go through all the details,. This kind of highlights that for you.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: provides financial support for low income eligible homeowners. You have to own your home to make repairs to their homes.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: supporting them to be able to maintain their home, so it's everything from general repair to accessibility,, so that might be building a ramp. There's a program, that's specific, to help owners of manufactured housing.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, as well as emergency repair, programs.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: and that program I will. I should give a caveat that this this year, we've had to really limit the focus on immediate health and safety applications for people that are applying just because of kobe restrictions,, but moving towards kind of expanding that scope. Later. This year.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: so also driven by the goal of people, maintaining their homes in response to the economic impacts of coded. The region has benefited from federal financial support. Some protections.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, whether its financial supports of stimulus checks and expanded unemployment insurance. These federal financial resources.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: successfully served as a major component of many people's financial lifelines over the last year,, supporting them to be able to remain house as they navigate the impacts of kobe 19..

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Cob-Kristin hyser: other relief measures came in the form of mortgage for barons and suspension of student loan payments,, allowing people to use those.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: any their limited dollars,, maybe to pay for their housing costs,. Our region benefited greatly through the carers act,, and now we are going to be benefiting from the american release plan act that will be having funds come both to the county and the city,. So this past year.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: in terms of the cares act, the city received about 1.5 million, came to well. The city received more than that,, but hhs specifically was able to receive 1.5 million and federal funds that we then.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: pass along to our community partners to support rental assistance, as well as income supports and the thought behind,. That is, if somebody is able to pay have.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: some income supports that helped them with food or medical costs or transportation costs than they are able to use the dollars that they, whether it's something that they've.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: earned through a paycheck or a stimulus check, be able to cover their housing costs while they are receiving supplemental dawdle dollars to help with those other household costs..

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, the city also is received an additional just over a million dollars in cd, big funds.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, through the carousels, so each year we were sue about 800,000, cpt g funds that we have,, which are federal dollars. This past year we received an additional million dollars specific to helping.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: our community respond to and recover from the pandemic, and then we are standing to receive the american rescue plan. Act.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, the city is anticipating to receive about $21 million and those how those funds will be used is currently being explored by an inner department. All team.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: at the city,. It is intended to be used not only just for not just for community supports.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: with that being a big large priority,, but also because of the destabilization of local governments, because of sales tax and other impacts that were experienced through the economic downturn, from the..

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Cob-Kristin hyser: pandemic will be determining how to best use those dollars,, but we anticipate that the city or main and it's kind of into meeting community needs with a large portion of those dollars.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: one other thing that we've received is in addition to our regular home funds and other federal source. The arpa money.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: also awarded $4.3 million to our region for in home funds, so each year we receive about a million dollars,. Just as our part of our entitlement,. This year we received an additional 4.3 million.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: and that is very specific, to helping individuals who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness, so we're working with our regional partners to determine how to best use those dollars to respond to that.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: immediate need in our community, so we'll be working with the homeless solutions, boulder county, as well as just our internal partners, to figure out how to best deploy those dollars.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: and while the financial supports were key to keeping people house pairing this with federal and state supported eviction. Moratorium, has been a game changer. So I'm going to talk a bit about what that is. Look like for us.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, so we're not looking at eviction rates or eviction filings in boulder county over the last five years,. And while we do continue to see non code related evictions.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: that are being filed,, I mean those are usually because there's a public safety concern at least violation.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: non payment of rent pre co bed with the eviction moratorium. That is very specific to protect individuals who are.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: negative impacted by coded. We have seen a significant reduction and the filings due to the eviction words were, and that was put in place last year, and continues through june.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: so,. If you look at these rates, I'm going to talk to about 2020, the evictions filed in 2020 was 41% lower than the previous year,, so the eviction or editorial has been extremely impactful to keep people house during this very trying. Time.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: and on the wall,, this was happening I'll, be speaking next about the voter, approved eviction, prevention or rental assistance program that has kind of come as a result of some of this work order to help us continue in this space, so.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, I'm sure you're familiar with your initiative,. It was a very successful community volunteer, led initiative. Last year, that.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: brought to the voters about measure ordinance 8412. It was approved by the voters in november, and what is establishes is a rental licensing tax that will be used, and it will be.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: assessed against all rental units in the city of boulder.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: with a rental license, and it establishes a rental licensing tax that will be used to operate and fully funded program to provide housing supports,, including rental assistance, legal representation.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, as well as community mediation, and the thing that is just really just so impactful and exciting about this- is not just the.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: community mediation of legal supports and provides but, for the first time ever,. Our community has a.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: rental assistance source in perpetuity so until coven happened,, and we had all these federal called federal funds coming to us through cd, big in cv. Rf we've never had a steady source of rental assistance.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: each year,. We would give epa about 250,000 further keep families housed program which was very specific to families at risk of homelessness. But we didn't have a broad.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: source of rental assistance, and now because of this ordinance and because of this program that has been established,, we now have an ongoing source of 500.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: on upwards thousand dollars each year to help us in supporting individuals who are at risk of infection.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, so the dollars that are raised through the tags are going to the administrative costs of running the program. We have hired a coordinator,, so this I step back,. We, this was approved back in november as of january. One at the program was up and running,. We had a contract in place, with.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, like an essay all of a sudden,, I space,, but a local nonprofit that provides legal supports to individuals who are at risk of addiction,. We focus our community mediation team or refocus them to expand their abilities. To.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: serve this program. We've set up a rental assistance program and now we've hired a coordinator, and we are in the process of recruiting for leads coming.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: on as well, speaking later,, I think,, but just as a quick plug, we are recruiting it's a it's. A tenant committee will be made up of five members of the community,. You have to be a renter and you can own any.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: real property,, but that committee will help us make sure this program is up and running.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, in its most efficient and effective way and true to the intentions of the ordinance and members of that committee, will be paid.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: $1,000 a year or so that was for the ordinance, was passed that this particular committee will be receiving $1,000, stipend, so this.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, the eviction newer, has evolved in see eviction, prevention and rental assistance program and it's just been a real opportunity for us. To.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, I was describing it to somebody today that you know it really is evolving into the backbone of the work that the city is doing, to support people to maintain their housing, so we're able to create and preserve units or providing housing,. But this really helps people to be able to stay.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: successful renters in their housing, situations.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: and just to go a little bit deeper into the way it works is so say somebody is at risk and fiction,. They can call this number that you see on the screen. Threes are 34413414, you can call.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, if you will,, and we have some, I that answers that call or they can leave a message and you'll get a call. Back.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, it's it's. We are,. We have the ability to speak to people and provide bilingual services,. They can also fill something out online to kind of talk about their circumstances.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: and they will be contacted by the coordinator,, who will then help them navigate to really kind of provide navigation and.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: case management, like case management, to help an individual figure out where they should access resources that are most appropriate to them,. So if there are circumstances is rental, assistance is figuring. Out.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, should they tap into the housing helpline at kiesel will be talking about they tapped in the epa and the rental assistance they have is their circumstance dire and they need rental assistance.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: tomorrow,, they could might work from a small amount of money that we have held within the city that we can deploy as needed.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, or is there an opportunity for us to provide a mediator, or is it are? We are we in a situation where legal consultation.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: is needed, and then, at the same time,. So this is all pre eviction chords. Somebody has received a notice that they are potentially facing eviction. They make this call there's this case management that goes up front.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, if they show up to the courts,, we have a coordinator, or two.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: in person,, we have two attorneys available in to mediators that are on site at the courts,. They have been since the beginning of the year, and they work with the individual and will do on site legal.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, you know evaluation they'll provide mediation,. They can even provide rental assistance on the spot, to help resolve the situation in the moment.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, so one of the things that we're really excited to see is that, prior to the eviction prevention, rental assistance program, which you'll hear us start referring to as empress, is that typically, we have really low tenant turnout at court with most 50 most about 50%.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: would result in default. Fictions.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: stitcher to my camera, just go to this.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:: do you guys still see okay, I lost my viewing ok.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, but so getting of january, with the epa staff being available having our nonprofits.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: legal representation available,, as well as our law law, mediation services that partner with us,. We are 621 21% default evictions. This year, so.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, you know just having that that active, proactive on reaching out to people making sure that they understand what the processes, making sure that they know the rights.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: and what resources are available to them, we're already seeing significant success and how people are engaging with the system that can be very daunting and confusing and stressful.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: so, with the eviction prevention services, just one more thing, just wrap up. So here's what it basically looks like somebody calls in here is just our our data to date.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: is or finding is that there we have served since january, 164, individuals.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, what you see here is there's the bright, the kind of a spectrum of services they might receive. They might receive rental assistance, they might.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: be connected with a mediator,. They might receive legal representation,. They might receive all three it's,, whatever their circumstances require to help them resolve the situation.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: and with that I want to then transfer transition to just the amount of rentals systems that is flowing in our community.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: between all those forces that I talked about earlier coming through the code, recovered cvr, f, funds,. The next step will be the american recovery plan, act or cd, big funds.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, even fundraising that fo has done,. There is a lot of rental assistance and is being provided, and can be accessed through the city of boulder, either through our older adult services or family services,. And now the a plus program.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: boulder housing partners has been successfully keeping people house by accessing rental systems. To.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: support their tenants, whether it's through the state or through the city,, as well as the silicon 80s jewish family, services..

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Cob-Kristin hyser: left behind work, respond, central, damn assad epa and the housing helpline, which case we'll talk about in a second. But I wasn't able to pull some information about fo, which is just tremendous to see what they've done since coven began back in march, 2020.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: fo has deployed close to $3 million in rental assistance to members of the city of boulder community, as well as they do serve some communities in the mountains and then they've also.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: provided upwards of 170 8000 and utility assistance. What they've seen is that they're providing they're serving about 42 households per week and each of those households received on average about 12 1200 dollars.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: to help them with their housing needs as prepared as fish.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: operationally provided is 61% or lot next. 9% are seniors and 66% our families with children and, in addition to whatever is doing with their financial resources,. They also do provide housing supports and, since coven they've been able to house.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: 424 family members, that's 123. Families that are experiencing are at risk of homelessness.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: and a source of those funds,, which you know it's great. We have the federal dollars,. We have a state dollars,, we have city of boulder funds,, but if I was able to raise and private donations $2.4 million it's helping them do this. So fo has just been just a tremendous partner in community.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: support through a really challenging time and with that I'm going to turn it over to kesa and I'll. Just do a quick introduction to that is that last year, when we.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, when the pandemic too cold, and we were trying to very quickly figure out how to get resources to people most effectively and efficiently and meeting them, where they're at the boulder county, housing and human services. Quickly.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: rose to the occasion and establish the housing helpline.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: that has really been kind of the point of contact that we sent most people to because they are just so resourceful and serving our community,. So if you click on back, is here with us for the housing helpline to talk about the work that they're doing.

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Kisa quanbeck: thanks so much kristen. um It really has been quite an amazing year to get to work with you and work with other folks in the city of boulder and.

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Kisa quanbeck:- and I'm really happy to be here today to share a little bit about the housing helpline. So yes, as kristen mentioned, the housing helpline has been.

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Kisa quanbeck: in effect, now,, for we actually just celebrated its first birthday. That was very exciting.

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Kisa quanbeck: and we've been providing rent assistance, using a variety of funds now for about a year.

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Kisa quanbeck: for coven impacted individuals.

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Kisa quanbeck:, so this is,, I just wanted to give an overview of kind of how folks get connected and what happens with the housing helpline. We get just a lot of questions around to that.

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Kisa quanbeck:, so mainly folks have two there's two main ways that folks access the housing helpline, one is calling, and the other newest way is being able to email. The housing helpline.

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Kisa quanbeck:, so that information is there, and when folks call they leave a message and our housing helpline staff and returns that call and kind of reviews. Those colorful bubbles which we'll talk through.

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Kisa quanbeck: and we are potentially moving to live calls, but it's managing phone systems remotely is still a fun challenge,, so that one is still being worked through, but is physical.

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Kisa quanbeck:, the other way that folks can come in, is to email, the housing, helpline and housing helpline at boulder county.org, and then our staff will email back and send them a quick, woo, foo form which goes over these kind of same colorful, bubbles.

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Kisa quanbeck: folks can also, if they're meeting with an eligibility technician to apply for snap or medicaid or tennis and housing need,, as identified at that point.

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Kisa quanbeck:, our eligibility technicians also make direct referrals into our housing complying, and then we just have such an amazing partnership. With.

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Kisa quanbeck: the mediation program and karen armstrong and jay allen and diane evans, and they all refer directly into the housing helpline as well,. And we we try and prioritize those referrals, but especially for folks who are coming into a fiction court. Just knowing that.

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Kisa quanbeck: that assistance needs to get out. kisa quanbeck: sooner than later.

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kisa quanbeck: so,. Whichever way people make it into the housing helpline, our staff or the woohoo form kind of goes over their current housing situation,. What the need is,! We still do- have to verify that there's they've been financially impacted by a coven.

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Kisa quanbeck:, we do have the income limit of 80% am I,, which I think we've only seen. A couple households come through that are kind of close to that,, but typically folks have have been under. 50% am I.

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Kisa quanbeck: our staff talks about the documents that are required,. We are fortunate enough to be direct recipients of the us treasury, rent assistance funds and those do require a bit more documentation,. Then we.

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Kisa quanbeck: have previously collected,, so we just like to be really clear about what folks are going to need to get to us, and then our current application process is mainly through docusign.

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Kisa quanbeck: to either the participant can complete that docusign application on their mobile device or ipad or computer, and if there are any digital kind of divide, issues.

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Kisa quanbeck:, where that's not going to be a successful way for someone to complete an application or staff, can also do that with them over the phone. So there's we try and make as many ways in as we can.

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Kisa quanbeck:, but that's the general housing helpline overview.

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Kisa quanbeck: and perfect great typing.

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Kisa quanbeck: so., kisa quanbeck:- this is a graph of I was a little hard to read,, but mainly it's just the kind of volume, to look at. This is the inquiries that our.

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Kisa quanbeck: housing helpline has received over the last year just that kind of number. I think it's by week,, so you can see that her husband, certainly.

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Kisa quanbeck: an increase over the last year, and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere right now. Folks are definitely still in need of assistance. There's a lot more colors at the beginning of it because, at the very beginning of coven. We were really trying to stretch our funds as much as we could.

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Kisa quanbeck:, we were using our local human services safety net to assist. We were sending people to the area agency on aging and f and our center and.

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Kisa quanbeck: just trying to find the best places folks could go to spread our limited resources as as much as we could.

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Kisa quanbeck:, but moving into.

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kisa quanbeck: the last month, or so we have been able to refer even more people in for emergency assistance. Just again,. Thanks to the us treasury funds has really increased our ability, to.

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Kisa quanbeck: provide assistance and and really ultimately opened up eligibility criteria, in some ways,. So we've been very excited about that.

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Kisa quanbeck:, um so there have been. I think that that eight 3800 calls was as of last week, we just hit over 4000 this week. So that's really exciting. We get about 7578 calls a week.

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Kisa quanbeck: and about 36% are spanish speakers. So.

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Kisa quanbeck:, we feel like we are definitely hitting a lot of different parts of our community.

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Kisa quanbeck:, as far as spending so far this year, we've spent about half or we've spent two 1.3 million.

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Kisa quanbeck: in rent assistance, dollars., kisa, quanbeck:, just about.

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kisa quanbeck:, two or a third of that has been attributed to the us treasury dollars and and because we are able to provide a little bit more assistance with that.

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Kisa quanbeck: households, the 103 households, we've helped with the us treasury dollars.

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Kisa quanbeck:, it's been about 5000 ish dollars per household because we're able to help with most of the rears and then forward three months, up to three months,. So we can really.

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Kisa quanbeck: help people feel secure in their housing for a little bit longer and then not have to call back the housing hotline and go through the process all over again. So it's been.

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Kisa quanbeck: really exciting that we've been able to extend assistance, a little bit more, and hopefully keep some keep some more folks. House.

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Kisa quanbeck:, so I think that's all the data that I have on that.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, okay! Well, thanks keith, I would add some key. The county has just been a tremendous partner and she's mentioned the us treasury dollars.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, so the county did come. I think it's like a little over $10 million if the county receives specific to housing, supports that that the county be administering carry through the housing helpline. Does that sound correct, so an additional.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: the county, also has that source of funding to so yeah.

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Kisa quanbeck: yeah we're very fortunate to receive that money.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: yeah, so that's been great. The other thing I just wanted to hit the point on,, so you know we recognize that not everybody in our community is comfortable accessing.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: services of any kind, through the county or through the city or even effort, and so we've been very intentional as past year and that we have set up funding sources with the.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: workers left behind fund,, as well as central valley, amistad, so we're trying.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: to be very thoughtful about meeting people where they're at and where they're most comfortable. So we've been working with a variety of agencies out boulder as well.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: to to reach people where they're most comfortable going for help, the thing that has been really interesting, is.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, we we've tapped into people that have never had to go through this before it's kind of a new world for a lot of the people that we are seeing. Come through.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: our door doors and making these calls and it's and it's and it's a pretty traumatic and we're humbling. I don't even know what to call it for a lot of people and so there's a lot of. I don't want, there's a lot of compassion that the.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, are, I don't even know it's calm, our program coordinators and case managers and glitter answering the calls are having to offer to people as they're navigating.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: a very difficult time so that we've been spending a lot of time really supporting our team members to make sure that they are.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: prepared and able to be most effective in those really tough circumstances.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: so one more slide and then we'll open it up to questions so the other thing. So we've talked about that. We provide housing.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, we provide rental systems. We provide the resources to help people stay in housing, another source of housing, support that we provide. That is really important.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: is to our community relations and our community mediation resolution center. We are able to help people help protect people,. So if somebody.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: feels that their human rights are being violated,. We have a team that is there to help. Somebody navigate that to assess the situation to investigate the situation. If somebody feels that they are being.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: there are five fair housing. Rights are being violated or they're not being rented to for whatever, because they're in a protected class,, and so we actually have a team and hhs said,. That is.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: part of what they do is really help. People protect their their rights when it comes to housing options, and then we've talked about the community mediation team,, but it goes beyond just infection. Prevention.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: they before all this,. It was a little bit of fiction prevention. It's also just you know, kind of that. 10 tenant landlord conflict that might occur or neighbor to neighbor conflict that makes.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: can make a housing situation extremely stressful, to the point where somebody isn't comfortable or feeling safe in their home,, and so we have.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: community mediators on staff that will work provide be a neutral mediator to help people navigate those situations or, if it, if it comes to it,, to help them navigate. To.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: an elegant like exit strategy and try to figure out,. You know where that person might land next,, and so this is just another piece of the variety of supports that we provide.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: and similar supports like this are provided from the city of online as well,. So that is what we have to share tonight and happy to answer any questions.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: about what is currently available and also you know. We are really committed to evolving and improving our work and doing.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: what is most effective and helpful to our community, to ensure that they have safe and stable housing, and so just really invite the conversation tonight to help inform our word. Moving forward.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, and with that I will be quiet and some questions.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, thank you so much, both of you.

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hab-charlotte pitts: for the presentation,. I want to go up to the board and to the public.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, if anyone has questions,, please feel free to raise your hand, there's a raise your hand function if you.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, let me see if you.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: see under reactions on the bottom.

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hab-charlotte pitts: yeah. There you go.

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hab-charlotte pitts: cool michael yeah go ahead.

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Hab-Michael leccese:, okay, hi michael chasing new, the board two questions, one is just a clarification. You throw a lot of great numbers out there. I'm wondering.

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Hab-Michael leccese: of those, what are specific to kobe support, like you, mentioned the canyon receiving end million dollars last year, from.

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Hab-Michael leccese: federal sources and second question a little more general I mean: we've all evolved our di in july plans in the last year,. How has boulders housing policy evolving in relation to that very big issue? There's a couple of questions.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:: well, I'm actually gonna. I can take a pass of the first one, I'm going to ask jay who's. Our health, housing policy program can help me answer the second one,, but so when it comes to the dollars, that I mentioned, what I can speak to you right now is that we received.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, when it comes specific to the city of boulder housing and human services and what was made available to us to support the housing that comes in, to about 3.5 million that we had available to us. To do. The variety of things that we described.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, but that also doesn't take into account for the arpa funds that 21 million that's coming to the city that we have not defined the use of those dollars yet so there's more to come..

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Cob-Kristin hyser: and then,, so all of that has been in response to the pandemic prior to this,. The city's housing dollars was limited, to.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: our federal funds,, the cd big dollars and the home fault dollars,, which are about 2 million a year and then also our affordable housing fund and our chat. Dollars,, which comes in and it varies, between.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, nine to 15 million a year, and those were all very specifically used to create and preserve housing opportunities, and that's why the newer initiative that is now the eviction prevention, rental assistance is such a.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: profound game changer for us in the rental systems because, once the money from the kobe relief dollars and the pandemic response, dollars.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: is gone,. We now have this steady source in perpetuity of rental assistance moving forward. So that's kind of a convoluted answer. I could you know, write it all up and submit to you. So it's a little bit clearer,, but a lot of the dollars, that I threw it. She were very specific to the pandemic.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: and then,. Can you restate her second question about housing, policy, however,? We have all our housing policy.

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Hab-Michael leccese:, how has that evolved and respond to various di initiatives? Diversity, equity, inclusion in the last year.

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Hab-Michael leccese:, but it hasn't evolved.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:: what is what is d,? I am I.

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Hab-Michael leccese: diversity, equity inclusion, its efforts.

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Hab-Michael leccese:, you know,, create greater social, justice,, greater diversity., hab-michael leccese:. Of course, that's populations that have been overlooked previously or prejudiced. Against.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: right really appreciate that comment on that question, um so the city is very committed. To.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: our racial equity work across the board,, whether its internal or external.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, we have actually, I think, it'd be great to bring a presentation to you that one of our team members and jay has recently worked on looking at.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: folders history, developments and housing history and how that has defined our diversity or lack there of diversity and one of the things that.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: we can say is that the bar investment and affordable housing has contributed to the diversity of our community, as as, while, while limited so, we see that a lot of our work and our investments and.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, making sure that diverse populations can limit boulder has supported that. But we got a long ways to go and we recognize that and we are committed to that. Work.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, but I think it'd be really interesting for the had to hear this recent presentation,, because it's a really great conversation, starter.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: will not hurt, so it's very informing to the conversation, and I think it'd be really helpful to kind of help us as we're navigating how we adjust some of our policies but jay anything to add to that..

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Cob-Jay sugnet: yeah, I mean michael, it's a great question.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: and cob-jay sugnet: christians right, I think next month I'll be suggesting that have spend at least half the meeting. Talking about that issue, specifically within the context of the history that you're going to hear from clay fox so.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, I would say: let's: let's talk about it more than decide that all right.

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Ginger randall: maya.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: yeah yeah wasn't sure jay was done, but yeah ginger ginger, let's go ahead. Yeah. Thank you, michael for your question,. Go ahead. Ginger.

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Ginger randall:, alright guys, I'm too lazy to pull out my camera.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: you're, so good. go ahead.

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Ginger randall: well,, I guess, my question is partly been answered,, but I came up from colorado springs and.

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Ginger randall: and the difference in homelessness is, and I was in denver for a year too,, so I've seen kind of all parts. I was wondering how you as leaders in boulder, have you see boulders homeless population compared to denver, or even the country.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: thanks ginger great question.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: thanks charlotte.

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cob-kristin hyser:. That's a tough question to answer because I don't know if I'm the right person or can really assess.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: besides anecdotally and my own personal experience, so being in denver or being in other parts of the country,. I can tell you that our our city or just last night,, there was a very long discussion with city council at a study session about some of the work that we're doing to.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: just address some of the challenges.

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cob-kristin hyser: in our community in. cob-kristin hyser:, serving our individuals who are experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness and kind of just some of the..

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Cob-Kristin hyser: other other community needs in our communities so trying to find the balance there.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: on mark on may 25. There is going to be a presentation to city council,. It is going to be next tuesday,, but I think I just saw that got changed to me. 25Th.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: that current firm harbor, our director and vicki at nerd, who is our homelessness program coordinator, will be doing their annual update on our homelessness initiatives and work.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, and so I think that would be a really great conversation for you to tune in on when they go to city council,, because I think they would be better position to answer anything really specific to homelessness. So I can also say like while I presented it, that our work is it.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: works to address the spectrum of housing needs. Really. The information I was providing tonight is more specific to individuals who are housed.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: versus and maintaining housing versus are,, and it should those are really working to support individuals who are at risk of or are experiencing, homelessness.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: thanks kristen ginger here,. Let me see ginger did that answer your question, or do you have.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: any follow. Ups follow up,. I just want to.

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Ginger randall: know um no,. I think I will tune into that as well,, but so you're saying that program. What you've been presenting here, is.

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Ginger randall:, not really it's not geared for homelessness. It's not good for people who are homeless period. Like I couldn't go to neighbor bob well, he's met, he is our neighbor, but he's totally homeless,. I can go to him and say you know, call call this and you know they'll help you out. Okay.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: um. cob-kristin hyser: that there are other access points that I would say, would be more appropriate for somebody that is at risk of are experiencing homelessness and we could put.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: that information- I'm not- I don't have it readily available to you- know projected tonight.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, we kind of have a different.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: path that has different sorts of resources and and that's because we're trying to separate it.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: part of it has to do with the funding sources and what they're intended to do, and so.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, a lot of the funding that we talked about tonight, is very specific to keeping people housed rental assistance for people that are in housing and maintaining housing, a lot of the resources,. I go to support our individuals who are experiencing homelessness, or.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, you know transitional housing might be an option. It's a different source of funding than what we're speaking to tonight. So it's.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, it's it's very combo. You know it's all about housing and we all are committed to housing, being a very critical issue in our community. It's just it's a little bit of a different approach, but happy to talk to you or anybody else about how to best get.

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Ginger randall: well, no, no. cob-kristin hyser: years into the rights um.

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ginger randall:. No, that totally explains it,, but so it sounds to me is more prevention. Prevention, keep people from being homeless period, right.

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Ginger randall:, correct, okay got it okay.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: thanks ginger and thanks kristen. um I I got noticed that david.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, if you're listening, you had a question,, do you still have a question that you wanted to ask.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, if so,, you can just raise your hand, or.

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David adamson: me.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: david adamson yes,. I am did.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, you did. You have a question.

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david adamson:. I have so many,, but I I'll talk a little bit later,, but I have one quick question for kristin. If I could please.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: yeah please.

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David adamson:, hey, I'm kristin,. Thank you for all your work and for everyone service so appreciate you all.

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David adamson:, could you talk a little bit about the middle income? Housing strategy,? How many middle income units,? We have added.

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David adamson:, you know,, there was a big priority, starting in 2017, so how many especially deed, restricted middle income, housing units, the number one priority in the boulder valley, comprehensive plan, how many have been added,? And since I know that it's very few.

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David adamson:, you know why is that.

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david adamson: and I'm also just interested in why you sold the cohousing co op unit over pollard. So I just love it. If you could talk about those two things.

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David adamson: thank you., cob-kristin hyser:, so I will.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, so we share the commitment to middle income housing, the quick answer as to why we haven't moved more quickly and achieving that that specific goal is really comes down to resourcing..

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Cob-Kristin, hyser: and when it comes to being able to create and preserve.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: lower and moderate income housing opportunities. There are so many subsidies and so many resources out there that it's really.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, it's just it's much easier to access funding in order to achieve those outcomes, so we're able to step into a.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: situation with a partner, where we can bring 1,000,002 million dollars to a deal and then they're able to leverage.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: eight 912 $15 million of need to create that affordable housing option through low income, housing, tax credits, private activity, bonds.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, so the way that the market is structured right now really goes to support those lower income, housing options,, so that middle income housing option it's it's a it's a really tough nut to crack.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: and we are committed to figuring that out,, and so I will say, the first step in the right direction is we are actually expanding our team right now we are hiring.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: an additional person to give us the capacity that we need and house to really dive very deeply into that, and so we're currently hiring to bring somebody on. So our homeownership team.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: can expand our work in that area and help us really because that's really where the middle income spaces for us is around ownership.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: the market takes care of middle income rental. We you know there, there is. There, isn't really a need for us to play a role in that.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, but when it comes to middle income ownership, there is a need,. There is an opportunity for government to partner and be in that conversation, and in that.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: opportunity,, and so it really is kind of building up our internal costumes and then to figure out kind of the financial. Resourcing of that on any day, it's it's challenging. Without those federal subsidies available to us and jay, you speak to the other,. The third part of the question.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: was the third part, david.

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David adamson:, just what what, though,? Why did we sell the pot at pollard? There was a in it,, I mean I kind of know the answer,, but that there was a part of the one of the units are at pollard, was reserved for cohousing and call and co op, and it would seem to be progressing wealth financially. But.

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David adamson:, maybe you could just say the city sold it because we ran out of money. Or.

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David adamson:, why why,? Why was that? So.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, I would say, there were lots of requests and demands and hopes for that site,. It was sort of everything but,, including the kitchen sink.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: and at some point we had to focus our efforts and our resources,, and that was on what we end up with has to do with what the market is willing to provide at the time.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, but in terms of the middle income, I would say stay tuned. I think there's some interesting stuff that that's going to we're going to discuss with have, and also with planning board.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: planning board, who wants to talk about middle income as part of their retreat and what are the tools that might be available to them.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, so I think that's an interesting conversation. We're also looking at bringing potentially a speaker internet, a national speaker to talk about middle income housing later this spring or summer, and we're trying to figure out how to involve, have them out as well mm hmm.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, I would just add, really quickly to middle income,, especially ownership is a priority of our county commissioners,, and so I think there is going to be even more a of a regional conversation as to how to meet that need..

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, so it goes beyond just the city of boulder. Where there's you know, limitations that we're all aware of of many looking at this more regionally so that that might be another venue to express that types of support is for the county to help us kind of solve for that mm. Hmm.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: david,, you have a follow up. Question.

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David adamson: yes,, I I do,, and I thank you so much for that. I wanted to follow up on the good work we did in the bowling alley comprehensive plan with jay and and others to to create that neighborhood infill pilot and.

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David adamson: we this is we with so I'm I'm the executive director of goose, creek, community land, trust and we've been working to create this three block. Cohousing community on north street.

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David adamson: and then have been active and doing similar kind of mostly appreciation restricted, mostly for sale,, mostly car share.,.

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David adamson: units,, you know at alpine balsam as well, and so are the pilot was, was you know? How can we put more people in the city without cars in a beautiful way, with, in the same scale that the existing housing is.

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David adamson:, so that there's no blocking of of mountain views and there's no added cars, and you know we feel just would be you know, a net win for everyone and that's the framework trying to.

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David adamson: suggest is that you know,, adding in housing for the people that desperately needed, along all the spectrums enriches everyone's, like you know, I'm impoverished by not having a more diverse community. My community, my kids, are impoverished,. You know we all I'm.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: david, is this a question, or do you want us to., hab-charlotte pitts:, so romans for this, the.

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David adamson: okay,, I was just taking that but.

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David adamson:, my question was: we we presented to counsel and we went through the midterm, update a way to do this kind of housing, without a subsidy and then had a full discussion with staff,. The planning board and council.-.

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David adamson: and they determined instead of selling since the beginning,. They determined that oh, this can't be done in the midterm update. This is too important.

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David adamson: anyway,, I'm just working for your advice,. Here we are trying to provide the housing,. The city needs without a subsidy.

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David adamson:- and you know, I've talked to you about it. I've talked with her about. I talked to many staff folks about it,, and you know the the feeling was well. We just don't have the resources for that. So I'm just wondering if we can work with arpa funds.

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David adamson: to do this pilot, and I want to ask everyone to look particularly at the strong suburbs podcast within the strong towns,, dr samuel hughes proposal for the uk.

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David adamson:, where they let every street every neighborhood, gets to determine how they are going to add the housing,. The city needs it's such an exciting idea that I think helps solve the problem we have in this town where we're people are against and people are for us,. So my question is.

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David adamson:, what do you advise us housing advocate to see that housing is good for everyone, through our city,. We need to work. Together, people who are concerned about housing have good reasons.

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David adamson:, you know they're worried about congestion, we're worried about pollution. They're worried about crime,, except people have good reasons,, but we still need housing. So.

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David adamson:, let's figure out how to how much housing, do we need, because right now, there's no middle income, housing,. We have a huge influx of providing luxury housing for out of town people.

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David adamson:, that's mostly what planning staff does, I mean, I mean a lot of my planning stuff does, is just permit more luxury townhomes. So what's your advice.

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David adamson: in the in the housing community that want to see housing is good for everyone, see. Everyone has a piece of the truth about this.

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David adamson:, you know folks, are worried, have good reasons for that. My neighbors, we, I understand people's concerns and our ideas that have that city would be better for all of us. If we go to a more compact, and you know much less car dominated city, so.,.

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David adamson:, what is your advice to us to.

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David adamson: to move forward on that pilot idea that, in the bowling alley, comprehensive plan.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: ahead kristen. We need the answers.

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David adamson: thank you,, sorry for the long way to do.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: it. cob-kristin hyser:. You know, I think we are all trying.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: we're all on the same team trying to figure this out and I,, and I wish there were quick answers and there were quick solutions for us to these,. These are super hard situations that we're trying to solve,, and I know that's not a satisfactory answer in any way. David but.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, I think it's just we just keep doing what we're doing and more of it and look for those opportunities, you mentioned. Are, I don't know those dollars we're still trying to get direction. From.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: the the us department of treasury how those dollars, can be used,, but you know looking for those opportunities, you're thinking creatively and that's.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: helpful to us as we're thinking about this,, but we just we've got to keep plugging away at it and as jay said, you know,, there is definitely an uptick in the conversation.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, it's the first time that I've heard our county commissioners talking about it and they're talking about it. A lot.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: about middle income about ownership,, and so I just I think there is a little bit of a change in the the the chatter,, and so I think we just got to keep kind of plugging away at it..

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David adamson:, I just just want to add just to complete. You know the way, we're doing it. It's just simply not working christian, you know it's not. I mean every piece of land in our town is becoming a luxury home,, so I.

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David adamson:, like okay, I'm just gonna 10 seconds, I'm done.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: 10 seconds I know.

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David adamson:, what let's just use open, spaces, our example. We didn't compromise an open space. We said: let's get this open space, we can do the same thing for middle income, housing,, but we have to say we're going to do that and we're not just going to sell luxury townhouse thank you.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: and david. I want you to speak more,, but I want you to speak when.

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david adamson:. When we open it, I'm sorry I didn't. I didn't format.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: you're, fine, you're, fine, you're, so fine,. I want to hear more about look we're just going through questions,, but so I don't want to hold individuals up more. I know there are people who want to speak.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I just have a really quick question for kristen, I'm sorry,. Everyone will move on in one second, but um you know kristen. You talked a lot about how there is.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: a lack of funding for the different programs right for middle income,. Housing,, for you know, you know, resources is an issue. Have you.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: has the department compiled a report showing the dearth of funds and what's needed, to support these different programs and presented that to council and said hey. We need.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: this much for this depart for this program: middle income, housing program: we need this much,, for you know, homelessness, strategies,, etc.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: is that a report like is there is there are? There are some numbers that you know you're, giving to counsel to work with.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: like. cob-kristin hyser: allocation yeah. No. I appreciate that. I think that's a and there's a lot of versions of that out there,. So I would say when it comes to.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, you know I one of the things I'll start by saying, with rental systems, right now,, which is a very important part of our spectrum of supports.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: work, we're kind of overflowing and rental assistance with all the federal funds that are coming to us,, but those are very specifically.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: very specific in our us, so we can't take those dollars and then go build a unit. That's that's not how they're designed,. So we have millions and millions of dollars coming at us,, which is great.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, but you know it's very specific as to who can use it and how it can be used. So we're we're really pretty well set for that.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, when it comes to those dollars into talking about as to what it needs to meet our community needs in terms of new housing, opportunities.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:- that has really that conversation has happened at the regional level,, so with the boulder county, regional housing partnership. We have actually applied the math to that and we know that we need an additional $40 million, a year.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, in order for us to meet our affordable housing goals across the region and a conversation that we started last year.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: we were looking at doing was the potential for a ballot measure,. There was attraction towards us going to the valid for a.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: sales, tax property tax increase and then the pandemic kids,. So we are kind of read, resurrecting that conversation as to what that would look. Like, but.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: there is, there is math out there that tells us how much we need in order to achieve these goals,. It is a bird's to $40 million a year. Regionally.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: okay,, thank you and danny. I see you have a question. Go ahead.

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Hab, danny teodoru:, oh yeah, am I on. hab danny teodoru:? Can you hear me. hab, danny teodoru: okay,, so chris I just, just to clarify what you're saying to you know just for a lot of the concert. I just heard,. I mean a lot of the money. That's come: in, is.

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Hab, danny teodoru:, not very discretionary in terms of what the city can do with it right, and then the other part, is it's also very finite. In terms of you know, it's in response, to.

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Hab, danny teodoru: the pandemic, and it's not something that's going to become a source of revenues moving forward. So those are the things that you're wrestling with with that right.

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Hab, danny teodoru: and, and the other thing I do I just you know I'm from my first year on on have you know we spent a lot of time talking about all the efforts that we're going into trying to address.

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Hab, danny teodoru:, a middle income,, housing and financial challenges,. You know that that you know entailed those efforts that are tailored those efforts. But.

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Hab danny teodoru:, then the pandemic hit,, but you know,. I think that there are certainly a lot of different approaches that the city's been taking all that stuff. So I just want to make that point clear, because I heard a lot of things and.

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Hab, danny teodoru:, you know nothing's easy and certainly it always comes down to money and budget but.

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Hab, danny teodoru:, I think, from my perspective, I've, seen the city really try to take that on as well as take on all these other aspects,. You know we. We just had comments regarding what funds are available for concerns with homelessness right, and then we have middle income, housing,. Then we have.

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Hab, danny teodoru:, a you, know, rental assistance and eviction relief and all these things.

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Hab, danny teodoru:, you know, are pretty demanding, and so I,. I think the city's done a good job of trying to address these. You can always do better and we're trying to,, but I just want to make that point.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: thank you, thanks danny if,. Are there any additional questions before we.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: move to open common.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: okay.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: okay, great sorry, okay, great, seeing none I'd love to to move on to open comment and let let folks speak, you know,, remember: that.!.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, you know what you're going to share will will definitely impact,. You know where the board places emphasis with regards to research and.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, you know,, inform recommendations that we may make to counsel, so we're very excited to hear what you have to say, and you know,. There are questions from the board after folks speak,. You know I'd love for folks to come, come with questions so I'm.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, you know I'm happy to call on people, based on who entered the waiting room first, but I figured I just the easiest. If, if, if you know how to raise your hand, does everyone know how to raise I'm nervous that people don't know how to raise their hand? That's my concern.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I see a thumbs up I'm.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: jay,: how do you suggest, I do this in a.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: well, ask people to raise their hands and then.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, I would say, ask anyone else who would like to speak.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: just yet, if you can. hab-charlotte pitts:, if you want to try to raise your hand, that'd be great. If not I'm. I know that you're you're all here to speak, so there's rebecca um,. Let me just messaged her real quick. um She she was in need of closed caption.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: I just messaged rebecca, so let me see I'm going to ask her to unmute.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member): oh. hab-charlotte, pitts: there,. She is hang on rebecca once was,. Just like hang on one one. Second jay: do you want to go through rules before I open it up? I'm sorry! I totally menton mess that up. um I'm just going to I'm going to mute. You quickly, jake and.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: smiley face.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: thanks everyone for your patience, guy j.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: so I'll go over this very quickly,. I think everybody is fairly familiar with the city's rules,, but we do have some rules, just because in this virtual environment, trying to strike a balance between meaningful and transparent engagement,, as well as online security, so.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, there are a couple of rules about you know: try not to be disrupt full and interfering with the meeting.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: id we've all been very respectful. So far. I don't think that's gonna be a problem,. We will limit time for speaking three minutes,, but I am just going to keep it very informal..

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Cob-Jay sugnet: and then, once you reach three minutes, I might just raise my hand just to let folks know that you running a little bit long.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: and then we do ask you that you register by your real name and any sort of pseudonym and then.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: also, do not turn on your video, please just audio so only city officials, employees and invited speakers and be able to share video.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: and charlotte's going to enforce all these rules and the chat function. Typically, we only allow that for technical, questions.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, but if you are more comfortable, asking questions via chat and it sounds like charlotte you're already doing that,, please feel free and then same thing with screen sharing, so that's limited as well to just staff. So that's it. Those are the roles.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: great thanks, jay.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: going to stop sharing your screen.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: yeah, I don't do that, so there it is okay, great.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: okay, there we go, I'm going to ask rebecca to unmute herself again and then,. If folks want to speak,. Please just raise your hand,, so I can keep track of you know, the list of speakers.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, you can also just messaged me if you'd like to speak, and I can call on you directly- that's fine too, so jamie. You want to pull up the timer rebecca. I have unmuted you.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: in future meetings, we are going to work on getting closed captions just to make sure the meeting is accessible to everyone.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: che.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: okay.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):, okay, um. please., rebecca herr (efaa, participatory advisory, commttee member):, oh wait., rebecca herr (efaa, participatory advisory, commttee member):, oh okay. um I um I just got a last minute invitation to be here, so I'm not really quite fair..

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member): how this goes, I was told that we were the type of course housing and security and also lived experience with affordable housing. So I'm not sure.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member): about that about what topic I'm supposed to be responding to, but um but I will just plug ahead anyway,. My name is rebecca her. I have lived in boulder.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member): for 40 years since 1973 I moved here from growing up in denver. I moved here to go to university of colorado and I've lived here, ever since I'm of those 48 years about three years I lived here.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):, not as a renter, so for about 45 years. I have been a renter in boulder and that's because I never got to a place where I had enough money. To.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):, buy into the housing market, um so I lived and worked in boulder. I was made,, I have a daughter, we've got divorced and I've lived here. My whole life. I worked in book publishing.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member): on my income, went up as I continued to work,, but it never went up as as quickly as my housing costs went up um I.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):, and I just kept thinking that you know the older you get the more money you earn and that I would be able to maybe buy a house later, never happened. um I also didn't foresee that my industry would collapse in the late 90s.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):, where the book publishing jobs just went away in the course of about five years. So that experience that I had.

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Rebecca herr (efaa, participatory advisory commttee member): in publishing are now required that I move somewhere else. If I wanted to make the big bucks in that field,, so I decided to live in boulder instead, of.

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Rebecca herr (efaa, participatory advisory, commttee member): living somewhere else, and making a good living and being financially.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member): sustainable,, so I stayed here. I changed jobs,. The new field that got into disability services was not lucrative at all.

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Rebecca herr (efaa, participatory advisory, commttee member): um and in 2005 I applied for social security disability. I'm deaf. I got my first hearing aids at age 21. My hearing is progressively.

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Rebecca herr (efaa, participatory advisory, commttee, member):, be kind, and so now I'm at the level that's called death,. I cannot understand human speech without visual information.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):, so that means I cannot talk on it well,. I can talk on the telephone,, but I killer here on the telephone, so.

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Rebecca herr (efaa, participatory advisory, commttee member): life changes, a whole lot. When you can't talk on the telephone.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):, the telephone and, by the way,. Thank you very much for putting in the housing helper and putting an email address,, along with the telephone.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member): number- that is just wonderful, I'm very happy to see that you did that. Okay, so um.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):, I ended up boy, and I didn't plan it. I came to boulder middle class and I ended up for my income. Now is under 16,000 a year I receive subsidized housing, section eight housing thrice about for.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):, and that is the only reason that I am allowed to stay in boulder. I love this town like nobody's business.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):. I want to grow old and die here,. I never want to live anywhere else,, but for the last 20 years people told me that I have to move away from boulder because I can't afford to live here anymore and I'm stubborn and I'm not leaving..

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):, um but I've had to accept more and more of my income going towards housing and the older. I got then, when I finally have subsidized housing for the first time in my life and border, I'm paying one third of my income for it.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):- I didn't realize it at the time,, but now I can look back on my life and see the cumulative effect of living in in housing,. That is not affordable.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):, every year,, you lose ground in your case. Don't realize it because you keep thinking it'll get better.

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Rebecca herr (efaa, participatory advisory, commttee, member): you'll get a raise and my rent would increase almost every year, and if it increased by $100 or more,, I would have to move. I've lived in 24 places and 48 years living in boulder.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):, because I had to move so often, when the rent went up and I always thought I would get ahead and I never did.

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Rebecca herr (efaa, participatory advisory, commttee, member): and now being offered and being poor, is completely humiliating. My passion didn't prevent this. My hard work didn't prevent this, and I feel when I go to housing.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member): meetings on affordable housing for projects like the are playing ball,, something I see, people there who are homeowners.

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Rebecca herr (efaa, participatory advisory, commttee member):, don't find some level don't believe. I should be living in boulder anymore,, and I feel that that shame and I feel that stigma, because I found to accumulate money.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):, and it was housing that cause this to happen,. I don't think young people and middle aged people realize the erosion of earning power that happens in this town.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):, my daughter, moved away from boulder. She cannot afford to move back here,. That means she can take care of me as I grow older.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):, my fans can afford to live here. I miss the diversity in boulder that we used to have when people could afford the housing here.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member): as a senior I live in a basement apartment that is an insulated. It's really cold in the winter,, when the wind blows my curtains move inside my apartment, I have.

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Rebecca herr (efaa, participatory advisory, commttee, member): windows, and only one of them is energy efficient and the other three leaky I cannot get my apartment weather is by the.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member): weatherization program because it's already been weatherized at some point in the past,. So my heating bills are outrageous when the winner.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member): um,. I would like to move out of this basement apartment,. I would like to live above ground my vouchers for 1200.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory commttee member): a month, and it's almost impossible to find a one bedroom apartment for that and bother. So I'm stuck here waiting for the next slide, I'm and suffering through cold winters.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member): on the location is perfect in central boulder. I would love to find affordable housing in central border. I would love to live in alpine balsam.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member): project,, but it looks like that's moving on from the idea of affordable senior housing,, I went to every meeting. I click to request. That.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):. I also wish that my voucher would allow me to have roommates,. I would like to live with other people. It's isolating growing old alone.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):. I would love to be able to have the golden girls model of older people, sharing housing together,. I would love to live with other older people, helping each other out.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):, I'm 65. I can help out other people that are older than me later on I'll, be older, and I'm appreciate having a 65 year old, living with me.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):. I would love to be able to share housing,, but I'm not allowed to do that,. It would be cheaper. I could get better quality of housing,. I could probably not live in the basement.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):, um but that's not an option,. I know it's a federal issue with the vouchers, but gosh that would solve a lot of problems in this town. If we could divvy up some of these larger houses among low income, seniors.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):. So um I guess that's probably about enough for now.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member):- I have exceeded the time I'm pretty sure.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: you're good. rebecca herr (efaa, participatory advisory, commttee member):. Thank you for the opportunity to speak,. I do appreciate it.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I'm not yeah rebecca. We I'm going to message her and let her know that we have closed captioning now everyone at the bottom of your screen. If you see that.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: corey. rebecca herr (efaa, participatory advisory, commttee member):, hey, look at that okay. hab-charlotte pitts:. You see, that yeah great great., rebecca herr (efaa, participatory advisory commttee member):, want to make sure. hab-charlotte pitts: that we figured out.

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Rebecca herr (efaa participatory advisory, commttee member): thank you.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: yeah thanks corey, so great so great well,. Thank thank you.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: and if anyone has crept, you know any board. Members of questions now great, if you know, can always always ask questions later, as well.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, let's see if there any other folks who would like to speak. If we're able to raise your hands,, that would be so great,. I can also just calling you,, but I don't want to spook you.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, by calling on you um.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, let's see I saw let's see.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: charlotte yeah. hab-masyn moyer:. Can I make a suggestion,, maybe because I know, sometimes when I'm on meetings on my phone, I can't raise my hand that feature is not.

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Hab-Masyn moyer: available or I don't know how to access it. So maybe I'm calling a person's name and I'm meeting them for a second and just saying,. Would you like to speak or not, and then.

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Hab-Masyn moyer:. That way we don't you know we can just check in with people instead, of.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: a live, chat missing somebody because they can't reason. I like that yeah, that's good. I'm someone who came into the waiting room shortly at you know near the beginning was nicole. So I'm going to unmute you nicole, and see if you'd like to.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: speak.

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Nicole deltierra: I'm just listening and learning. nicole deltierra: thank you., hab-charlotte pitts: okay, of course, okay,, no worries. Let's see, let's see gail gail, I'm going to unmute. You see if you would like to speak.

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Gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council, representative: sure,. I don't have a lot to say. I'm gil smith, I like rebecca, am a member of the participant advisory council. Epa.

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Gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council representative: just been advisory. Council is people who use a services,. I use their food bank in particular.

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Gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council, representative: and so,. Then we do monthly meetings with the upper management in africa with the ceo of africa and we give them our points of view,. So I was asked to join this meeting.

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Gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council representative: and I guess give you guys my point of view. I don't think, there's going to take three minutes. I lived in boulder for.

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Gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council representative: 10 years as of next month. I love it. I've lived both coasts in the us and in between I've lived san francisco I've lived nolan's. I grew up right outside washington, dc.

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Gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council representative: and there's no place I'd rather live in the united states in boulder.

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Gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council representative: and I can't afford to live here because I am living in poverty,. So I live in poverty, housing, where,. If you don't make any money, you don't pay any rent, and I love that. I don't love, where I live,, like my housing, in particular,, but I do love being able to live in boulder.

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Gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council representative:, um I guess I,. I have a question for the housing advisory board,, which is a.

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Gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council representative: di question,, which is our and do all of you.

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Gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council representative: to all of you identify as caucasian. I did a whole bunch of research before this and I found out that boaters 79.8% white 7.38% hispanic.

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Gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council representative: and that's a big deal, a lot of fs people, as you saw from the slides at the beginning, um people who use of I am caucasian for the record.

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Gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council representative:, but I know that a lot of fs participants are hispanic, so it would be like nice, I think, for them to know that one that the housing advisory board has a hispanic member.

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Gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council representative: and gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council representative:. I think I'll just also express my real surprise that I knew about that. We were working for affordable housing,. I had no idea that.

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Gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council representative: what was considered affordable housing in boulder included everything from homeless, shelters to middle income, housing so identify with david in that way,. I was really surprised. That.

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Gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council representative: poverty like homeless shelters are included, like they just lump that in so you can have, like all the money going to homeless, shelters and then, like 2% of that, could be for affordable, housing.

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Gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council representative:, so I found that very surprising,. I do hope that raises and I'm interested to know where that number came from. Where did that goal of 15% can come from so those are my two questions,, so the have one is anyone not identify as caucasian.

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Gail smith, efaa's participant advisory council representative: and to where does the 15% number can't come from? Those are my questions, thank you.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: thanks gail um.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I guess I'll open it up to the board um I.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I am very caucasian.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: yep. hab-charlotte, pitts: um.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, what other board members, you can just unmute yourself.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: thanks.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: jeremy, the answer the second question.

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cob-jay sugnet:. Are you still on the first one.

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hab-charlotte pitts: yeah, yeah jay, that's fine.,.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: good.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: there, the the 15% goal, started.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: by city council,, the original goal- was.

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cob-jay sugnet:, was 10% back in 2000 and it was interesting to talk to one of the council members, and it was just kind of a finger in the air,. It seemed like a good number.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: to strive for there wasn't a whole lot of science behind it,, but it made sense that they recognize that.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, you know a lot of people that were providing important services in the community that were important part of the community weren't able to live in boulder and weren't able to participate.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: as full members of the community,, and so there was a desire that we wanted to impact that so they came up with the 10% goal and then about three years. Ago.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, we were getting close, we're 8.4%, so we're getting close to that 10%,, and so we raised it to 15 and the discussion was we wanted something aspirational. You know something that.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: that was hopeful,. Yet we also wanted something that was bit realistic, that we knew that we could accomplish at some point in the future and we landed a 15 and maybe we'll revisit that again in another three or five years.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: better than the history. hab-charlotte pitts: thanks jay, and I definitely you know, he'd the comments about diversity represented on these boards and I'm hoping that something that you know.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, when future appointments are made, that's you know placed you know. There's emphasis placed on that you know, there should be greater diversity and positions of power.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, so I I keep those comments,, but I think this is mostly white board. So.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: um.

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hab-charlotte pitts: yeah,. Are there any questions for gail or comments.

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Cool. hab-charlotte pitts: well,, you see,. I want to see other other people.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: want to speak I'm.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: I'm I'm gonna, unmute, pierce and and see they'd like to speak, see if I can do this.

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Pierce delahunt (they): thank you., pierce delahunt (they): yes,, I'm here.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: hi welcome thanks for coming.

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Pierce delahunt (they):. Thank you for having me a boulder resident and voter here.

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Pierce delahunt (they): yeah. I just want to voice my complete and under unconditional support for universal housing.

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Pierce delahunt (they): and a an abolition, to the camping ban in favor of bedrooms are for people.

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Pierce delahunt (they): just making housing as accessible as possible and having absolutely no restrictions on it,, including people being able to camp where they were, they are able to safely and and physically without any restrictions on that and the idea that I work with boulder safe. I distribute.

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Pierce delahunt, (they):, food and supplies to on has people and the idea that the day, one of the days that we had to, we were scheduled to distribute such food and supplies.

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Pierce delahunt (they):, the encampment was cleared.

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Pierce delahunt (they): to make room for a. pierce, delahunt (they): vigil for on house people who passed that year, that that really pissed me off, and not to mention all the unhealthy people, so,. In addition to the ethnic and racial diversity.

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Pierce delahunt (they):. I also want to voice that I want to see an in house person on this board,. I want to see representation that stretches across class, as well as race, and I want,. I want to end it in that way, so that we can get everyone shelter,, which is one of the.

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Pierce delahunt (they): basic human rights,, as declared by the united nations, and the idea that boulders not doing everything it can to provide that. I considered to be a violation of human rights.

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Pierce delahunt (they): and the idea that the bedrooms for people did in fact pass was voted in by the public,, but then was blocked by the council. That.

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Pierce delahunt (they): that very much pissed me off. I'm really tired of the love, light and private property mentality that boulder has and I,. I just want it to be known that I am one person, at least, who is in full support of unconditional the free shelter for all, with a ban on camping bands and all of that.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, you still have more time,. If you want to keep speaking, you don't have to.

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Pierce delahunt (they):, I mean I'm always take a soapbox that's.

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Pierce delahunt (they):, just yeah for communism, abolish the police, define the police.

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Pierce delahunt (they): stop all.

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pierce delahunt (they): of this nonsense. Of.

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Pierce delahunt (they): right wing bullshit is what I have to say.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: appreciate you coming and I'm just letting some folks in here.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: um.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, okay, awesome! I'm sorry why I was just letting some folks and are there any questions for for peers from other members of the board.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I will say that.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: because there are going to be some vacant seats on hab.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: after this meeting actually jay. Do you know if council is going to do, like a mid year, appointment of.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: have a member or two.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: it's possible, but it's likely won't happen for several months. If there are multiple vacancies,, then they would, they might do a special appointment,, but it's also possible. They may just wait till next spring okay.

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Okay. hab-charlotte pitts:, um okay, thanks.

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hab-charlotte, pitts:, um.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, I would just add, I mean the city has identified increasing diversity on our boards and commissions, as as a priority.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: yeah and we are discussing and trying to figure out ways the challenges, not necessarily selecting the challenges,, the people who applies,. So we don't just don't get a lot of diversity in the.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: application for console to choose from.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:: that's the challenge: mm hmm.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: yeah yeah. I know that um.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: it's been, this has been a discussion of you. Know, compensation has been it's been, you know, circling circulating with regards to city council,, and I know that if individuals had more incentive, to.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, you know volunteer their time. That would definitely increase diversity,. You know.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, you know what this means for hours, a month, plus there's. You know additional research that can be. You know, investment that can be put in,. Not everyone has that time,. So I definitely recognize that that's a limitation sounds good. Yeah, mate, mason.,.

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Hab-Masyn moyer: yeah jay. I hear you and I absolutely agree with what you're saying to charlotte however, the last three four years. I've sat through all of the board interviews, as well as read their.

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Hab-Masyn moyer: applications,, and I can tell you that we had quite a few individuals of color that applied that were also students that were literally.

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Hab-Masyn moyer: I'm not chosen and to me when I see that I'm challenged by these boards, when I'm seeing perfectly good candidates who are either connected to see you or for some for some other reason.

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Hab-Masyn moyer:, which is only held within council, are not being chosen. That's that's a that's a bit of a pill to swallow, one of the reasons why I'm on this board was because of the mandate of having a renter and as a renter, we had a position to fill which.

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Hab-Masyn moyer: mandated and force the hand of individuals who were looking at people,, but I know even on the year that I applied, I was the only renter,, and so they have nobody else to choose. From.

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Hab-Masyn moyer: and, thankfully, the years that followed, there were qualified candidates and qualified candidates of color,, but I would say that there was a political um motivation for other things, so yeah. Hopefully, we've got a lot of work to do in those areas for sure yeah.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:: um let's see, I see some new folks join the meeting. So let's see um see,. Let me just go through here, I'm not sure if I asked beverly if beverly wanted to speak,. So let me just.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: unmute beverly.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: not sure.,.

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Beverly:, I'm just here to also learn and just listen.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: of course, of course, thanks.

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beverly: for coming., hab-charlotte pitts: and, let's see chelsea, I'm going to ask me see if you want it to speak, I'm going to turn your video off because you know that's just you're. So fine, it's just a thing: we don't have public the public channel, video.

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Chelsea castellano: and hab-charlotte pitts: you want to see.

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Chelsea castellano: sure I'd be happy to um hi. I'm chelsea cast solano,. I am a co. Lead of bedrooms are for people.

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Chelsea castellano: and we are running a ballot initiative to make it legal for more than three unrelated people to live. Together.

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Chelsea castellano: um and we have about a month left to collect signatures to earn our spot on the ballot and- and we have just under 500 signatures to go. So it's really exciting. We've been getting a lot of support.

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Chelsea castellano: and getting out into the community and I'm just seeing how people from different age group classes races just support the type of change that we're trying to make. I'm at and..

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Chelsea castellano:, I really just thankful for all the work that you all, are doing here on have. I know this is a thankless job, but it's really important, and so just here, to.

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Chelsea castellano:, listen in and yeah there's any questions happy to answer. But.

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Chelsea castellano: just wanted to be here,, so thank you.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, it's great to see so much energy around.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: this housing issue in boulder., chelsea castellano:, so it's really., hab-charlotte pitts:, really good how,. How is the online petitioning system working.

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Chelsea castellano:, is it m.

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Chelsea castellano: o e it. So no the online petitions to some um it's working well for us now and that well is sort of a relative word.

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Chelsea castellano: luckily,. We have some great skill sets on our team, people, who are very good at coding, and developing software we've essentially had to develop.

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Chelsea castellano: a lot of software and coding around the city system in order to get it to work for people.

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Chelsea castellano:, um so what we've developed as of now makes it makes it work better,, but it is it,. There are barriers for people to be able to participate in the democratic process as of right now,. It would have been.

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Chelsea castellano:, it would have been a lot more of a the choice that the city council made to not allow both in person and digital signatures happening simultaneously. Essentially, was.

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Chelsea castellano:, it made it harder for people to participate so think of your your grandmother, who can just barely figure out how to text you.

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Chelsea castellano: and,- and you know this system requires a pretty serious, not serious,, but a level of digital literacy, that.

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Chelsea castellano: really should not be required for participating in the democratic process,, so we are missing out on people, but we,. You know luckily,. We have enough supporters who are willing to go through the steps and who are able to go through the steps.

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Chelsea castellano:, so yeah yeah, thanks.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:: are there any questions for chelsea.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, I just I'm sorry somebody from is displaying their email. I don't know that's chair.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: quo: that's jay.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: thanks kristen yeah that was jay. Sorry, I couldn't read it I'm.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: great I'm., hab-charlotte pitts:. Thank you again, chelsea for coming.

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hab-charlotte pitts: and I want to share a few.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: messages that we got digitally from individuals who are unable to join the meeting,. But I want to see you david wanted to speak, because I know he had some. You know quite quite a bit to say when he was asking questions. So.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: david, I'm gonna, unmute you and see. If you want to continue or.

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David adamson:- oh thank you so much.

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david adamson: for mason knows I always want to continue, but I'm going to.

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David adamson: try to do this in a different way and I hope.

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david adamson:. You have spent this last year, reflecting a little bit on. You know. I've been so sad about our beautiful town, which its.

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David adamson: diversity is the heart of our town,. I was born here and it's the heart of our.

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David adamson: economy and the beauty of the town- and I mostly bike around,- and I see so many lovely people all the time and.

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David adamson:, there was a time when people who really insisted on living in the boulder could buy in boulder could buy a house.

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David adamson:, but now it's impossible,, you know if you I sent you all the the graph has shown before, but there's a complete collapse of middle.

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David adamson: middle income for sale, housing,, I mean there there's just a few condos at any one time,, and this is exactly what boulder housing partners predicted back in 2014. I really hope everyone will read the 2014 strategic report, and you know they just said. What's going to happen, and it has.

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David adamson: and david adamson:, you know the solution is really pretty easy and that's the good news to share there isn't easy solution. We showed how to do it with open space,. You know we we make craziness for ourselves, and because we have these beautiful goals and things that we say,, but we have.

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David adamson:, a market in land and markets, allocate scarce goods and resources to the highest bidder. That's what they do and like a marine and 111 say you know, markets, make a good servant, a bad master and a worst religion.

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David adamson:, so with open space, we didn't say: let's let the let's let the deer and the mountain lions and the and the future generations and.

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David adamson:, you know, lets them. Let's let them buy the land know we we got together and said,. This is an important part of the commons and important legacy for us all and.

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David adamson: so,, the same is true about housing. So much our main suggestion is to take most.

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David adamson:, you know a good part of the housing units out of the speculative market will never make any progress. I'm I love kristen hi there. I love the staff of the city of boulder.

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David adamson:, but we can't keep doing more of what we're doing,, because what we're doing is simply not working. It's a broken housing system and we only get luxury housing, as.

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David adamson: a result, so I've made some suggestions about how to move forward number one. I really hope we can just put on the city dashboard, what's really happening happening with affordable housing in general,, not just for less than 60 60%, so actually say. What's happening.

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David adamson:, and that would that would be great because then we have a real narrative of the collapse of the ability to have a diverse population,. You know not just racially.

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David adamson:, by class, unless you have diverse, affordable housing, you won't have any racial diversity. So.

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David adamson:, we say you're gay people by raising class in this town, it's getting worse and worse and worse,. So at least say how it really is. So that was number one and I.

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David adamson:, I share some other things in that in that powerpoint, but I really hope that you will come up with that recommendation. Put on the dashboard.

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David adamson:, what's really going on with affordable housing, adding some more rental units, that's a beautiful thing! That's awesome.!.

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David adamson:, but meanwhile 85% of the housing is ever more super unaffordable,. What kind of town is that I mean that's.

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David adamson: okay,, so I'm just hoping,, I know my times out, but um the other two main things. I just hope you all can recommend. I'm my ask.

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David adamson: to you all,, is that you, we have a new planning director. Let's look at the cost of not acting there's a great thing and urban planning and scenario plan, or you look at well what, if we keep doing, what we're doing? What will happen.

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David adamson: and then I'm hoping you'll look at this idea and I'd love board input,, allowing us to meet our middle meet our housing needs in the town everywhere,, and with this pilot idea, there's no lack of. We don't need more money, we showed we don't need more funds.

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David adamson:, we don't need more funds, and if we allow the zoning flexibility,, so we can't use the arguments oh,. We just don't have the money. We showed it alpine balsam.

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David adamson: that the high end, you have high end housing, it subsidizes the low end and modest sized middle income. Units,, especially car shared pay for themselves,. You can make a profit on that, for you, know.

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David adamson:, that that mixed income model and then most of it, has to be not market rate.

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David adamson: market,, we need, we don't need any more market rate housing market rate housing ensures will always have affordable housing. Problems.

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David adamson:, so community land trust or the city own, the land,. The appreciation is moderated. You share it with homeowners and so.

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David adamson:, most of the housing, certainly 99%, of all the housing we build now should be appreciation, moderated let's put a limit on luxury and it's nothing wrong with wealthy people luxury. It's all good, but we've met our goal for that.

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David adamson: done check it off, unless we have enough luxury housing. Thank you so, instead of being so concerned about growth.

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David adamson:: let's have a different kind of growth, non car dependent housing units that um you know.

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David adamson:, you know, let's all go to a phobia info bond in germany, beautiful the show how to do it. Let's all go there,. We can go on a boat,. We can have a lot of drinks, or whatever along the way, we'll go to hope on in germany..

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David adamson: and just see that you can have a be everyone loves that place and we can do the same thing in boulder. Everyone will love it, so some lastly, just to finish,. Thank you for the flexibility,, the side, the housing, that we need.

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David adamson:, let's decide how everyone can contribute to it,. Everyone will benefit, let's get everyone involved,, but on that goal,, just like we did with open space, we didn't. We didn't save a little bit of open space. We saved a third of the county and we can do the same thing. The housing.

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David adamson:, without a big subsidy,, even if we have a zoning flexibility, so I'd love, some input on that are some questions.

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David adamson: and my goal is to build a movement for that that's,. The only way we're going to get change tomorrow at 1233 oversight cafe we're starting that process, we're building our first co op first for sale, co, op at 715 or street.

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David adamson: so we're talking about how we're doing that and then how can we expand that idea of modest sized car free housing for everyone, and how do we build a coalition to move in that direction and beautiful thing we did with open space with housing, thank you.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: love, it., hab-charlotte, pitts: love it. We got, you don't worry. We love it.

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Thank you., hab-charlotte pitts:. Thank you. So much.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I love. I love the the breadth of what we've heard this evening,, but I.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I just wanted to share a few emails that the board received, I'm sure you've all read the emails,, but they were there actually. Just to that, we received from individuals couldn't attend and one was from an elderly individual who was really hoping to.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: get more, you know, see more housing built in boulder for elderly individuals specifically was mentioned, duplexes and multi. You know multi family.,.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: housing, that's something they wanted to see. You know good well designed housing for the aging population boulder um and then another email that we received.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: had to do with the quality of construction in in the apartments and housing here,, and I believe it was specifically with regards to affordable housing.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: and you know issues of you know, sound transmission,. You know just.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: challenges around quality construction and that's something I experienced here,. I live in a boulder housing partners are complex and they're actually going to do renovations on it in the coming years and sound.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: insulation is definitely an issue. It's very drafty in here,, so I um you know, that's something that you know.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I'm hoping that there's more funding for the upkeep of these spaces,. You know the wear and tear on them,, you know does affect the livability, and I know christian you did mention that you know upkeep of the spaces is, is a priority,, so that's good.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: charlotte, if I could just add we, we saw that email come through and we actually forwarded it toward community mediation, team.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: okay, has been in contact with that individual before and as reaching out to them, to see how we might be able to help them navigate that specific situation. So.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: great. hab-charlotte pitts:. Thank you very, very helpful. That's awesome.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, um I don't see any additional individuals and why have been called on, and so are there any questions and I'll open up to the board,? Is there any questions or just comments from from the board.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I know it may take some time to just meditate on you know. We heard and.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, you know, part of the processing of the information, will come to fruition in, like some sort of report that we put together so we'll talk,. We can talk about that later in the meeting but.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, if there are there any additional questions or even comments from the public,, something that came up after you spoke,, maybe you want to share something else, happy to open it up again, if there's something something else can raise your hand, or.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: okay.

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hab-charlotte, pitts: well,. In that case, thank you, everyone for coming. I know, and then number of individuals have already left, thank you,. You know for speaking,. Thank you to kristen.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: for for coming, and you know, sharing a presentation with us.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I believe that we all thoroughly enjoyed it and, and will you know,? This is what we do,. This is what we do best, and this will translate into a lot of really meaningful work,. So thank you for coming.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: on us a quick thanks to kesa kwan back from the county, because without them we wouldn't be able to get the resources out that were able to with our housing helpline. So just really appreciate them. Being.

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Cob-Kristin hyser: that entry point for us so just appreciate kesa.

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Cob-Kristin hyser:, thank you all happy to revisit in the future and just have a great evening and just reach out. If you need anything. Thank you so much.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, thank you, have a good night., cob-kristin hyser:, thanks girl, to., hab-charlotte, pitts: and and and individuals can feel free to stay for the public can stay or or leave whatever you'd like we're. Just going to proceed with our meeting.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: just getting to the agenda.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: okay. hab-charlotte, pitts:, okay, great.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: okay,, so I we can move to the approval of the minutes from our last meeting and those were attached to the agenda,. Are there any.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:: are there any changes at this point,? I believe it was sent out and you could have all offered suggestions or changes,, no okay. Well, I'm going to afford a motion to approve the minutes. From.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: march 31.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: and danny second doing it great. Thank you all in favor proving the minutes from march 31.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: right passes, unanimously.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: and then. hab-charlotte pitts: perfect. We can move forward to matters from board.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: and first will be the chair, elections.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: jay. I might turn it over to you to you to remind us how this process works.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: it's been on here, is.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I have someone to nominate but is,. I just want to make sure that we're doing this right.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: there isn't really a right way or wrong way,. I mean,. I would just suggest that you open it up that there's enough to be formal, nomination, just say it,, who is interested.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: okay.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: kind of how we've done it in the past.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, okay, well I'm.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: are: is there anyone interested,? I know I have someone who's interested but.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I know michaels interested sorry, michael cats, out of the bag, um but is there anyone else, who's interested in chair, or vice chair.?.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: well then,, I'm just going to nominate michael to be the chair. After this meeting um it's been a pleasure.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: michael, is incredibly experience. You know, has worked at the intersection of housing and land. Use has time to be. The chair has time to invest. In.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: the much needed work behind being chair. um You know when I first took on chair. I originally thought that I was going to be able to invest so much more time and.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, you know, I regret that I haven't been able to invest as much time,, and so I want this role to be given to someone who can invest more time, and you know give it a little more tlc.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: so, michael, you know if you're interested, I I'd love for you to just speak on that and I think you'd be brilliant. So.

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Hab-Michael leccese:, I humbly submit that I am interested that we put a lot of passion into it and I have had a lot of experience with housing issues know if you've read my application, so I don't want to belabor that but.

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Hab-Michael leccese: definitely, the organization I work for housing, affordable, housing, mixed income, housing, housing initiatives to the homeless,, all the above middle income, workforce.

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Hab-Michael leccese: have been big issues,, so I feel like I've got pretty good grounding and at least what works or what can work to. Obviously, a big challenge.

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Hab-Michael leccese: and I would look forward to serving in that role.

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I guess that's the end of my campaign, speech,. Thank you for the nomination.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: course I'm.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: still need a vice chair.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:: do we vote on each one individually or no.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: reason to do it together,. I don't think he.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: okay, and.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, I would suggest it may be great if somebody who has not been a chair, or vice chair.,.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, if they would be willing to step up.

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Hab-Masyn moyer:, I just want to say that I second michael for chair.

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Hab-Danny teodoru: third, michael.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: is anyone volunteering to be vice chair.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: daddy.

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Hab-Danny teodoru: was that so that only if.

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Hab-Danny teodoru: michael, like if you get assassinated or something that after.

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Hab-Danny teodoru: yeah, I'm here to be vice chair.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, unless you're always off the grid and like can't be communicated with.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: wow okay.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: okay, only extra responsibility danny is that you fill in for michael when he's not there okay,, but there's also the chairs meeting,, which happens two weeks before each meeting. Where you you basically finalize the agenda, so it's usually like 30 minutes.

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Hab-Danny teodoru: no problem at all okay.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I love it. I love the energy so good! um Well I love this. Then let's vote on it and then I'll. I will put forward emotion to nominate michael as chair and danny, as vice chair.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: second,, second in great all in favor.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: passes unanimously. Congratulations so exciting! Oh my gosh pass the baton.

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Hab-Masyn moyer: you're not doing anything. I feel really excited about that.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: right, anticlimactic and. hab-michael leccese:, it's fine! It's a shotgun marriage, anybody.

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Hab-Danny teodoru: exactly right.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I love this for you,. I love this for both of you. This is so good. I'm yay.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: so great. Well, I'm michael I'm just going to finish off. This meeting is doing doing my thing and then you can take the reins of you know next meeting okay,, not this meeting, fine, it's okay.

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Hab-Michael leccese: sure cool., hab-charlotte, pitts: or not. I actually don't really care. I don't know, I don't know,. I said that you wanted to take over.

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hab-masyn moyer: with the during the meeting beforehand and everything else,, but this is years to complete.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, though yeah.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, okay, well I'm.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I'm. The next item is committee and project liaison reports,. Is there any anything.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: to report.

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hab-charlotte pitts: tonight.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: no. hab-masyn moyer:. I think the only active community we've got going on right now is the one on tiny houses and was jack out and I'm not sure if human terry had met or if there's anything new.

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Hab-Masyn moyer:, but definitely part of the meeting when we send out the week before, asking people to update us about where they're at on their committees or if they have anything to report that would have been put on the agenda.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, so next time. there will be a riveting report.

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hab-charlotte pitts:, um no problem,. We can move on to matters from staff. Um.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: and yeah I'm going to turn it over to shea.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: and hab-charlotte pitts: to talk about this.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, we need another volunteer,, so this is not to be on the committee, but you're just going to be helping to select the members of this new committee, just to be clear about that,. So I don't anticipate it being more than one. Maybe two meetings at the most.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, so it's just reviewing applications and then getting together with staff, as well as I believe, there's going to be someone from the newer group also helping to select.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, so any questions about what that involves. There's a bit of a description. There's a link in the agenda.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: and I'd say I'm danny's off the hook,, since he volunteered to be vice chair, as well as michael.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: a simple question: either five: there are five spots for the board or for the committee that chooses the individuals on the board.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: the new committee, the tenant advisory committee, as a five person committee.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: to select, I think, is like is four or five.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: back at once.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I know mason, don't you want to do this.

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Hab-Juliette boone: what jay winner, the winner, the meetings.

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Hab-Juliette boone: they have election meetings. cob-jay sugnet:. We will. We will set them up at your convenience.

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Hab-Juliette boone:, and how long do you anticipate each meeting running, I mean I've never been through a process like that, before,, so I have no idea.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, um I would say maximum of four hour commitment.

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Hab-Juliette boone: per meeting or in total okay,. I would volunteer to do that. Thank you. Julia yeah, that's kind of in my wheelhouse and some I have an exit. I remember recruiter.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: well, and that's going to be.

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cob-jay sugnet:, the future 10 advisory committee. Members will get $1,000 stipend, every year,, so.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, I think this it's not going to be that difficult to recruit.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: any anything else.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, thank you very much to it,. So one other thing I'm and I mentioned this earlier,, so we have upcoming agendas that we need to think about.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, so if you have ideas for agenda items,, please let michael myself know now. I haven't talked to michael about this,, but my suggestion for the next meeting is that we devote half of it to talking about a brief history of racing class and housing in boulder..

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Cob-Jay sugnet: and they're a very,, very powerful presentation, that's done by clay phone in our community relations group talking about the history and I think you guys will really appreciate it.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, that's one thing I would suggest.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, but right now I don't have much further remainder of the agenda so keep that in mind.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, I think that you should.

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hab-charlotte pitts: talk about the listening session like putting together that report.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: that right up, you know after the listening session,, I think it was in 2019 the tiny homes one,. There was a report that was put together and that was so so helpful, so great so eventually.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, it was duty.

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cob-jay sugnet: a lot of that. So someone is going to have to volunteer.

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hab-charlotte pitts: well,. You can do that, next time,. If you want um yeah.

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Hab-Danny teodoru:, I think that's a great agenda item, a really look forward to that and I think it's very.

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Hab-Danny teodoru: possible, given you know some of the discussion that we have here today, and some of the questions that were.

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Hab-Danny teodoru: posed from the public and.

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Hab-Danny teodoru: so yeah I mean I'm very supportive of that. I think that'd be great and a lot as much time as we need for that as well.

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Hab-Michael leccese: right related to that topic that jay mentioned the history of housing,. I assume that's going to deal with housing. Equality.

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Hab-Michael leccese: in boulder largely there's some really good.

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Hab-Michael leccese: summaries of that short film short podcast. We actually use for discussion group we did last month with you ally, I'd, be happy to forward you links to that,. I mean.

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Hab-Michael leccese:: this is stuff that takes you, know, 30 minutes to get through it and gives you a lot of information, a thick book like color of law.

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Happy to send it out.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: I'm great.

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hab-charlotte pitts: great,. Are there any other things that needed to come up any other.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: topics.

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cob-jay sugnet:. This point else. You want to hear from stuff.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: mason put a thumbs up.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, you read about them: housed.

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cob-jay, sugnet:, study session, the update next tuesday.

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Cob-Jay sugnet: the memo is out on that as well.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, as we heard about last night council, the discussion about encampments.

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Hab-Masyn moyer: yes, and for anybody who did our city council meeting last night,, even though city council was hit with what one council member said.

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Hab-Masyn moyer: a plethora of a whirlwind of emails.

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Hab-Masyn moyer: city council voted to increase.

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Hab-Masyn moyer: the police department's budget by six officers and three more vehicles to enforce sweeps in boulder at the tune of $1.5 million, which that money could have been invested in social programs as well,. So it's something to consider when we have the meeting coming up.

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Hab-Masyn moyer: and the hardships that.

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hab-masyn moyer:, our on house are facing, as well as the fact that we have.

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Hab-Masyn moyer:, it's clear the direction that council is headed in, which is not investing in our public infrastructure and services.

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Hab-Masyn moyer: needed to actually help service unhappiest, but to criminalize them and continue to cause harm. So.

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Hab-Masyn moyer:, it's. I think it's something important for all of us to be aware. Of,, especially since we are the housing advisory board and as we go into future just discussions, I don't think it's next week. I think they pushed it out to may 26 grade or yeah.

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Cob-Jay sugnet:, I just saw that.

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Hab-Masyn moyer: yeah so.

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Hab-Masyn moyer: just something for all of us to consider as a community, as we criminalize the poor in the house.

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Hab-Masyn moyer:. What if any position we'd like to take.

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Hab-Masyn moyer: as individuals,, not necessarily as the housing advisory board.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:: well, it's been fun.

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hab-charlotte pitts:. I'm sure that you will all.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: take the reins of this board and ride off into the sunset and do good things I'll be watching from the east coast.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: don't make me come back here. Oh.

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Hab-Michael leccese: my best to carry on your legacy. Charlotte.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: you'll do brilliantly. hab-masyn moyer:. Thank you for your service charlotte.

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Hab-Danny teodoru: yeah, shall I just was really nice work with you to having never got to have a meeting but uh.

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Hab-Danny teodoru: did a great job and appreciate it, and good luck. With.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts:, thank you. Know.

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Hab, terry palmos:, that's beautiful,! Thank you very much,. You did great.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: thanks: it's been fun.

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hab-charlotte, pitts: meeting you all.

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hab-juliette boone: and charlotte good luck., hab-charlotte pitts: thanks all right, well,. I will close out this meeting can motion to adjourn.

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Hab-Masyn moyer: second. hab-charlotte pitts: great all in favor of churning the meeting.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: all right, good night everyone.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: bye.

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Hab-Charlotte pitts: bye.

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