City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 3 Nov 2017

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This week on Inside Boulder News: Boulder's Wild Idea, Election Season and the North Boulder Pool Upgrade

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This week on inside for the news, the city celebrates the 50th anniversary of the wild idea. Election season is almost at its end, make your voice be heard and the popular city pool hits it facelift find out.

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What upgrades were made welcome to inside boulder news your chance to share your stories, get involved and keep up to date on all things: Boulder I'm, Jocelyn, Daniel, November 7th will mark 50 years, since Boulder residents decided to pass the nation's first open space sales-tax this historic and innovative measure up to City create today's forty-five thousand acres of open space and mountain park system. Boulders open space has a long history, Sevilla.

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Voters legacy of open space conservation actually dates back to 1888 through.

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The years residents realized the need to preserve quality of life, which meant preserving the open space area. So.

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The since actually passed what they called the Blue Line in 1959 and that essentially stopped development above elevation of 5700 feet or about there and then in 63. The citizens got together to help protect enchanted Mesa, but.

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It wasn't until 1967 that residents came up with a wild idea.

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They actually proposed an open space tax and then worked with the city to help create a tax that had the nation's first open space sales tax. That was also paired of the transportation tax for.

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Every dollar spent in Boulder one cent would go to the open space tax. That cent was divided into 0.4 cents for S&P and point six cents for transportation, a step that turned out incredibly innovative with.

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That measure we've been able to acquire over forty five thousand acres of open space, protect incredible wildlife habitats. It's also allowed us to build 151 mile trail system. At the same time, it's the transportation side of that tax has allowed us to really make some improvements in the city of Boulder for transportation and mobility and.

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On November 7th, the city of Boulder will celebrate that legacy. The.

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Way Boulder is today, has really been shaped by the work that these incredible folks did to put this measure forward and.

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The community is invited to come out and celebrate at the Boulder Theatre we're.

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Gonna be having a community celebration on November at the Boulder Theatre from 5:30 to 10:00 p.m. the first hour is going to be a kids concert. But then, after that, we're gonna have some celebrations were gonna have a photo booth. We're gonna have a slideshow music from the decades, and so it's a real community celebration to really celebrate Boulder and the again. The incredible legacy that folks 50 years ago left us for.

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More information on the event please visit boulders wild idea. Org the North Boulder rec center pool has been closed since the facility's annual maintence closure in late August. Although the outdoor pool season is over, it's never too late to dip into the rec centers indoor pool which reopens this week. The pool at the North Boulder rec center is for those looking to train like a pro athlete or for those learning to swim. For the first time recently, the center's leisure pool area received a facelift, so.

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We have some new features here. We have some slides and some interactive features going on here, we're just. We realized that we needed to get an upgrade and have some fun new features to offer our community the.

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Last remodel of the pool was back in 2002 besides new interactive water features and they backed out water play area. The pool will also be more energy, efficient and Link lude improved sanitation on.

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The pump room side we have UV so UV is a secondary sanitation that kills microbe, biker ism, so anything that passes through our system is going to be killed. That way, we can lower our chlorine a little bit and have this secondary system, so we can focus on a little bit more healthy environment when you come to our pools, but.

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Got mooster mitigation and our walls. Now we have a foam spray into our walls, a new roof and new flooring. The.

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Rec center pool is up and running. You can check it out anytime during the rec centers operating hours, mark your calendars and come check it out for free. So.

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We're gonna have a free day to come visit the North Pole the recreation center and check out our new pool. It'll be really kid-friendly, November 18 so come bring. The kids come check out the rec center and most definitely come check out. The new cool features.

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With resumes at hand, job seekers in Boulder attended the first annual Boulder job, fair, an event organized by the Boulder chamber and the city. We.

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Really want to make sure that you can live and work in Boulder. At the same time, there are people who are low wage workers. There are single parents, there are lots of people looking for jobs and we knew bringing them together is part of our strategy. A.

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Strategy that turned out to be successful within the first five minutes of the event over a 150 job prospects had already walked through the doors so.

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This being the inaugural event, we really wanted to make sure that we're reaching the most residents we possibly could so we worked in both print and digital I. Think.

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That's very interesting. This the data we've seen is that that face to face is actually more useful than the anonymous online. An.

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Estimated 1,000 people went to the event people received resume, critiques, attended workshops and connected with more than 30 employers and attendants. Such.

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A range of employers we have employers, ranging from telecommunications to nonprofits, and everything in between there are jobs here for people 55 plus there are jobs here for people who are.

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18 years old, if you weren't able to attend the job fair this week, you can still check out employer job listings at the city of boulders website visit Boulder, Colorado gov forward slash job there. There are a number of local ballot measures that were presented to voters this election season, plus a total of 14 council candidates looking to fill up five open seat positions in the council. Ultimately, the decision will be left up to voters. This November 7th registered voters should have already received their ballot in the mail.

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The last date to return your mail and ballot or be in line at a voter service center is on November 7th by 7:00 p.m. and for those who have yet to register can still register up to the day of the election, but must vote in person for a full list of voting locations. Please visit the website seen on screen and for general municipal election information. Please visit Boulder Colorado gov forward, slash elections.

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We will update you on city election results on next week's edition of inside to pull the news or you can check out the county website after polls closed.

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Thank you so much for joining us on this edition of inside boulder news. If you have pictures, please tips or events you like to see featured we love to hear from you connect with us on Facebook. You can also sign up to receive video updates right in your inbox. Just go to Boulder channel eight calm and click on subscribe have a good week.