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This week on Inside Boulder News: Hundreds of affordable housing units have been renovated and are ready for residents. An innovative program is using trees to pull people out of homelessness. And Election Day is looming. We’ll show you how to get your ballot turned in on time.

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This week on inside Boulder news, hundreds of affordable housing units have been renovated and are ready for residents and innovative programs using trees to pull people out of homelessness and Election Day is looming will show you how to get your valid turned in on time.

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Welcome to inside Boulder news your chance to share your stories, get involved and keep up to date on all things: Boulder, I'm, Kristin, Skov era, well, finding affordable housing here in Boulder is getting harder every year and some of the affordable units needs some serious TLC. Now a new renovation project has improved nearly 300 public housing units, turning outdated housing into beautiful homes, new.

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Improvements and the beautiful colors and the landscaping- and it's just people are very happy. This.

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Client neighborhood off thirtieth Street blends into the boulder background. You.

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Wouldn't know you watched by this I watched by this property and I actually walked by it, because it is just such a beautiful property. There's nothing that notes that it's public housing, Kristin.

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Heiser is with the city of boulders division of housing. She says these units at the diagonal court apartment complex are thirty of nearly two hundred and eighty newly renovated, affordable housing options for low-income residents. Part of the city's plan to have ten percent of all housing in Boulder, the affordable.

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Housing is becoming hard to come by, and so the opportunity to preserve 279 units of affordable housing in Boulder is remarkable. Remarkable.

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In a city where the average home costs more than 1 million dollars and the average rent for a one bedroom is no less than fourteen hundred dollars a month. Buller.

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Housing partners did a wonderful job and bringing this project in on time on budget across the city on six properties. Working with the residents hand in hand the entire time, and it's.

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Not just about housing, this newly-built community center provides space for education and training programs with Wi-Fi and computers, books and quiet rooms.

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Kids lining around at all the windows with you know, fingers pressed and noses pressed and is so excited to come in and really enjoy the new space and explore the news face. Laura.

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Sheinbaum is a senior project manager with Boulder housing partners, the housing authority for the city of Boulder, lorises funding for this project included low-income housing credits, private bonds and project based section 8 contracts. The renovation project was a 38 million dollar investment, but one she says will help families for years to come. Recapitalize.

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It revitalized it made it viable for the next four years for.

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More information about project renovate visit, boulder housing, org, slash project renovate now for an update on an innovative program. That's looking to solve two issues in our community: the emerald, ash, borer and homelessness.

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They may sound like two very unrelated issues, but the city of boulders, Park and Recreation Department has found a way to combine art with social change. It's called tree debris to opportunity for tree off. I spoke to Margo josephs with the Parks and Recreation Department who's been involved with this project. From the very beginning, the.

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Parks and Recreation Department applied for a grant with the night cities challenge for an idea that we had. That was essentially going to try to solve two community challenges, one of which being emerald ash borer, which is affecting our urban trees and going to result in thousands of trees coming down ash trees coming down and, secondly, homelessness, which is obviously a challenge that we have in our community. The program.

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Uses reclaimed wood trees, loss to the emerald ash borer beetle. We.

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Are going to be taking them and getting them milled, and then transferring that word to the maker space in the boulder library and we're hiring the bridge house ready to work crew to actually teach them how to become basic woodworkers. The makerspace.

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Is an all-ages workshop that offers trainings and classes in this case tree all participants learn how to build furniture, crafts and other products that can be then purchased by the community, helping the make the transition out of homelessness most.

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Immediately, we have the public workshops that are going to be coming up and they'll. We all going through out on the end of this year and into 2017. Then we'll also obviously have some products that are going to be available for purchase at different places, but.

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It doesn't stop there after the apprenticeship is over the program. Participants will offer public workshops, so they can teach their newly learned skills to others for more information on how you can take a public class, get involved or volunteer visit tree org and stay tuned to boulder eight TV in the upcoming weeks, as we interview program participants and hear their stories of struggle and how this program is providing hope.

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This next story has to do with the changing urban landscape and how people connect to places to out-of-state artists are taking a closer look at this Boulder traffic island. It's the latest in a series called experiments of public art.

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The artist known as the art guys have partnered, with the city of boulders office of arts and culture, to create a conceptual installation called the urban preserve a folder temporary.

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Public art or I.

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Caught up with the art, guys Michael, Galbraith and Jack machine via Skype earlier this week looked.

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Around Boulder a bit and decided that this would be an interesting concept to apply to their notion of experimental public art. It's.

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A designated place in the city, that's meant to be enjoyed by anyone. Okay,.

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So, basically they're creating an art project about an intersection that you may see every day, it's located on the southeast corner of foothills, parkway and baseline road, but now they want you to look at it with a heightened sense of awareness, recognizing that the urban landscape is a fragile ecosystem and it's always changing. You can visit the site and interact with the art guys using digital platforms like urban preserve, Boulder, calm and the project's Facebook page. This.

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Pedestrian Island is a really fascinating approach to what public art is and challenges our notion, because it's not a delivered, sculpture, it's not and experience, but instead it's more of a concept. That's.

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Mandy the city's public art coordinator, so the.

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Other guys have decided to designate the space as an urban preserve. However, the majority of their project lives beyond this physical sight. It is a very virtual experience. It has not only a website but a facebook page and throughout the entire website. It encourages you to either visit the site physically or virtually and submit your photos. This.

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Project is part of boulders community cultural plan growing and encouraging boulders art scene for more information visit, boulder arts org every year. The city manager recommends an annual budget. It's based on the current economic climate, projected revenues and expenses and community priorities. While that budget has now been approved, the 2017 budget is 321 million dollars across all funds and represents a 2.1 decrease in spending compared to 2016 balancing a budget. This size is no easy task. This year, the city, let us try our hand at balancing the books using a new application, called balancing act.

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It's an interactive tool that allows community members to look at city spending, send in feedback and make suggestions. The new budget will be posted online on january, first 2017 for more information visit the city's website at Boulder, Colorado gov / budget. It's hard to believe, but by this time next week the election will be over. So this is your final reminder to get out and vote I stopped by the Boulder County Elections Office to catch up with Hillary, Hall, Boulder, County's, clerk and recorder. She says it's not just about the presidential candidates. We.

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Really encourage everyone to participate and vote. It really does make a difference and a lot of times. You know there's so much attention at the top of the ticket, but all the way throughout it and including you know, the issues that your Boulder City Council has put on impact you- and this is your chance to have a safe drive.

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Up locations are now open and there are 24 hour boxes spread throughout the city. Voters, service centers are now open weekdays from eight a.m. to six p.m. and saturday from a.m. to 1pm. Those centers will be open at 7am on Election Day and stay open until 7pm election night. Historically.

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We get about thirty percent of our ballots back on Election Day and of those thirty percent over sixty percent have traditionally comes after five o'clock and we're really trying to encourage people to vote early, as we will have a record turnout. We now have over 200,000 people register to vote in boulder county and that's the highest number we've ever had. If.

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You're not sure, if you're actually registered to vote, you can check your voter registration status online at boulder county votes org or you can text the word colorado or simply co2 to vote. That's 28, 683 Colorado does not have a registration deadline, so you can register up to and on Election Day.

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If you do decide to vote in person, don't forget to bring a valid ID, but no matter what you do just be sure to get your ballot turned in on time, tuesday, november eighth for frequently asked questions and service center locations, you can visit boulder county votes dot. Org we at boulder 8tv are proud to announce we're partnering with france, 24 english to provide up-to-the-minute nationwide election result coverage right here on boulder, eight TV with live coverage starting at two p.m. and continuing throughout election night.

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Thank you so much for watching this week's edition of inside bolder news. If you have pictures news tips or events you'd like to see featured we'd love to hear from you connect with us on Facebook and Twitter, you can also sign up to receive video updates right in your Inbox. Just go to boulder channel eight calm and click on subscribe.