►
From YouTube: Inside Boulder News - August 23, 2013
Description
This week on Inside Boulder News: Voters to consider two municipalization ballot measures; CU students get more sustainable digs; real-time parking information makes its debut; and Historic Boulder works to save the Hannah Barker house.
A
A
Welcome
to
inside
Boulder
news,
I'm
Mike
Banuelos.
When
City
voters
go
to
the
polls
on
November
fifth,
they
will
be
asked
to
consider
two
competing
measures
related
to
the
possible
creation
of
a
local
electric
utility.
Earlier
this
week,
City
Council
approved
a
measure
that
would
set
a
debt
limit
of
214
million
dollars
for
the
acquisition
of
assets
owned
by
Xcel
Energy
and
for
any
lump
sum
payment
of
stranded
costs.
The
measure
also
includes
provisions
related
to
the
possibility
that
the
city
would
serve
some
customers
and
unincorporated
Boulder
County.
A
These
provisions
provide
for
representation
on
a
utility
advisory
board,
as
well
as
a
guarantee
of
rates
that
are
equal
to
those
that
city
customers
pay
and
the
possibility
of
utility
choice
by
neighborhood.
The
second
measure
is
on
the
ballot
as
a
result
of
a
citizen
petition
effort.
This
measure
does
not
set
a
debt
limit
now,
but
would
require
future
voter
approval
before
any
debt
could
be
issued
for
a
local
electric
utility.
If
passed,
the
measure
would
also
require
Boulder
to
allow
potential
out
of
City
customers
to
vote
on
the
debt.
A
The
measure
does
not
provide
a
mechanism
for
accomplishing
this.
The
measure
also
says
that
elections
of
these
types
could
only
occur
every
other
year,
more
information
about
the
ballot
items,
potential
outcomes,
given
that
the
two
options
conflict
with
each
other
and
the
city's
analysis
is
available
on
the
boulder
energy
future
website.
A
As
CU
welcomes
the
new
freshman
class
to
campus
this
year,
some
of
them
will
be
lucky
enough
to
live
in
residence
halls
that
are
either
new
or
renovated
kitchen
central
is
a
brand-new
facility
and
renovations
to
the
nearby
Kittredge
West
have
been
completed
as
well.
Both
buildings
include
green
features
to
improve
water
and
energy
efficiency
and
reduce
the
university's
carbon
footprint,
and
one
will
be
home
to
students
in
a
new
academic
program.
Both.
B
Of
these,
these
buildings
have
a
lot
of
sustainability
features
in
them.
For
example,
you
open
up
the
windows
phone
call,
you
need
to
stop,
so
you
won't
have
air-conditioning
or
heat
that
would
anyone
waste
any
energy
that
way
the
building's
actually
are
saving
us
energy.
By
about
thirty
to
thirty-five
percent,
more
than
the
baseline
energy
lines
for
any
average
building,
that's
a
humongous
saving
in
terms
of
energy.
A
Officials
say
applications
were
up
this
year.
The
university
is
expecting
between
50
750
800
freshman.
The
students
come
from
across
Colorado
all
50
states
and
49
international
countries
live
seven-day-a-week
parking
information
in
downtown
Boulder
parking
garages
is
one
step
closer
to
coming.
Online.
New
digital
signs
were
installed
outside
each
garage
earlier
this
summer.
The
next
piece
of
the
system
to
roll
out
will
be
a
computer
network
that
will
drive
real
time
parking
information
24-7.
A
C
Idea
behind
all
these
is
that
we
would
be
able
to
count
cars
in
and
out
all
day
in
the
bottom.
Half
of
what
you
see
will
have
a
running
number
count
on
it,
so
the
people
can
sit
back
and
say:
okay,
this
garage
has
got
25
spaces
or
this
garage
has
200
spaces
so
that
people
know
that
there's
an
opening
to
come
in
and
come
out
and
as
they
get
full,
they
will
go
to
full
and
it'll
switch
over
and
start
to
say
parking
at
this
garage.
Full.
C
Please
go
to
the
data
that
I
have
right
now
is
limited
to
monday
through
friday,
because
it's
based
upon
an
older
system
that
only
counts
the
gate
arm
going
up
or
the
gate
arm
coming
down.
This
is
now
going
to
be
a
loop
system
that
will
count
every
vehicle
that
comes
through
and
across
because
their
garages
are
free
on
Saturday
and
Sunday,
and
we
normally
just
lift
the
gate.
So
I
have
no
way
of
counting
the
garages.
C
A
Live
parking
information
system
will
be
fully
operational
later
this
year
inside
Boulder
news
is
tracking
the
progress
of
the
project
and
will
report
on
the
completion
of
the
system
when
it
is
active.
Preserving
our
communities,
heritage
is
an
important
Boulder
value
and
a
local
organization
is
taking
on
the
cause
with
excitement.
Historic
Boulder
recently
launched
an
effort
to
stabilize
and
rehabilitate
the
Hannah
Barker
house
at
eight
and
arapahoe
much
progress
has
been
made
already
and
a
greater
vision
is
in
the
works.
Much.
D
Of
the
work
that
we've
done
so
far
has
been
really
important
to
the
building,
but
not
so
much
visible
to
the
community.
The
grant
that
we
applied
for
will
really
finish
most
of
the
exterior,
including
restoring
there
are
five
historic
chimneys
we're
going
to
restore
those
chimneys
put
back
on
this
wonderful
cupola.
That
was
on
the
house
when
it
was
first
built,
so
it'll
look
very
much
like
it
did
in
the
early
1900s
and
with
this
finishing
the
front
porch
this
year
and
then
the
exterior
renovation
next
year,
people
will
really
notice
the
difference.
D
E
House
embodies
so
much
of
the
early
history
of
Boulder,
and
particularly
the
life
and
times
of
a
really
remarkable
woman.
Sometimes
we
say
that
she
should
be
the
patron
saint
for
political,
strong,
ambitious
women
in
Boulder,
because
she
was
unusual
for
her
time,
and
this
is
where
she
lived
most
of
her
life,
both
Ruth
and
I
are
city
planners
and,
as
planners,
we
both
really
appreciate
the
importance
of
retaining
aspects
of
the
past
to
deepen
what
the
community
can
say
about
itself.