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This week on Inside Boulder News: DMV Closures, Fire-Rescue Master Plan and Growing Up Boulder

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This week on inside folder, news, DMV statewide are closing temporarily in August, for some major updates find out what you can do during these closures. The city's Fire Rescue Department is looking towards the future, but they need your help and this community foundation gives voice to boulders youngest residents.

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Welcome to inside boulder news, your source for all things: Boulder I'm, Donovan, Daniel, a fair amount of improvement and construction is happening around our city, most of which is part of the city's capital improvement program. A voter approved tax that plans for public improvements. They range from water utility to public safety. This week, city staff and members of the city's Planning Board participated in a bus tour around Boulder checking out some of these projects. Each year the capital improvement program, funds 130 to 150 projects.

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The CIP focuses on taking care of what the city already owns, with an emphasis to its core service areas. More than 80 percent of the city's 2019 capital funds go to the maintenance and enhancement of these existing assets. Cip.

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Is one of the most important plans that we have in the city it's guided by the community sustainability framework, as well as the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan that plays a really vital role in implementing a lot of the projects that are identified in Department master plans. Each.

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Year, city staff put together a CIP tour of projects currently in progress for planning board members and city council to see CIP.

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Projects aren't always the most flashy things that we do in the community, but they really are vital to the overall quality of life and safety, and that's something that we think is really important for our decision-makers to see this.

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Week, staff members of the city's planning board and council made a trip to the boulder reservoir water treatment plant to take a look at the newly implemented solar array. This.

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Is a really important project for us, because that City facility has a second highest use of energy out of any of our city facilities in the inventory and so having something out there. That can help offset that energy use was really important to have after.

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The water treatment plant staff headed over to the South Shore of the boulder reservoir to take a look at the visitor center. The visitors service center is anticipated to be complete in 2019, as well as the current site management plan. The.

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Visitors center is going to be a really awesome project and we have a really great other projects going on along the south shore, including adding some amenities for the community to use heading.

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Back into town, the tour made a stop at Wonderland Creek to check out the newly completed drainage ways, improvements the.

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Two spots that we looked at along Wunderland Creek were heavily stricken with the flood in 2013, so these are really vital. Projects for the safety and the overall quality of life for people in the area, as well as the city, is all for.

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More information on the city's capital improvement program. Please visit the website. Seen on your screen, the city's fire rescue department strives to make Boulder a safer place to live work and play. Currently, the department is in the process of updating its master plan for the next 10 years, but it needs the community's help to move forward. Boulder fire rescue is much more than just putting out fires. We're.

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Really, looking to see is, can we offer additional services to, for instance, reduce high volume, low acuity calls in the community the.

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Department is currently in an 18-month process to update the fire rescue master plan, a plan that is updated every five years, which.

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Guides our strategic direction over that five year period to tell us a little bit about how we should deploy our resources effectively meet the community's expectations as well as set us up for the next five year period. Some.

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Of the items on the master plan include physical infrastructure fire stations as well as meeting the growing demands of the community fire.

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Rescue services have expanded over the last ten to twenty years to include what we call All Hazards responses, particularly EMS, and emergency medical services are one of the areas that we're going to be looking at in detail and gauging community expectation of how we should provide those services. The.

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City is currently in its second phase of the master plans, three phase process. Throughout the summer, the fire rescue department will start a public engagement process to get the community's input on the plan later.

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On and fall we're going to be switching over to internal customer engagement, that includes other city departments, as well as their own firefighters, who are going to be a vital part of giving us feedback and then, towards the end of the year. We're going to be switching towards acceptance by the council.

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For more information on the fire, rescues master plan and to fill out the department's public engagement survey, please visit be heard. Boulder org, big changes are coming to Colorado's DMVs statewide County motor vehicle offices are updating to a new computer system to replace its 30-year old system. This is part of the state's DMV strategic plan initiative to improve customer service and meet the governor's goal of reducing wait times and state driver's license offices. This update, however, will require a 3d closure of offices in Colorado, including Boulder County, on average about 2,000 people.

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Each day visit Boulder County's, three DMV locations, whether it's waiting to register your car or receive your license plates wait times can take a while. That's why the state hopes to shorten these waiting times with the implementation of this new system with.

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Having a 30-plus year old system, it does have a lot of limitations, so the benefit is it's going to open up just a lot more options for our public. So after the initial implementation, they're going to be able to do a lot more services online without having to come into the office once.

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The new system is implemented. Residents will be able to complete a number of new transactions online that previously required an in-person visit, such as submitting paperwork and insurance documents online. We also.

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Anticipate that the transaction times will be much quicker once we do get that new system in place, I think, overall, the public is going to be very happy with the level of service that we can provide to them. Beginning.

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August 1st, all the DMV locations across the state will remain closed until Friday August 3rd Valery Bauer motor vehicle coordinator with Boulder County suggests people avoid coming in during the duration of July. Unless it's critical, we.

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Always have a lot of people here, especially in the summer I would say that the best way to really go about this would be to make an appointment or to use one of our online options. If you have to renew your vehicle for.

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People who do go into the DMV every new kiosk is available Monday through Friday, which will also be available during the DMV's three-day closure. I would.

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Highly recommend that our public members plan ahead for the month of August so with us being closed, August 1st through 3rd. When we reopen with that new system on August 6th, we do anticipate that we're going to be pretty busy and I would recommend that you plan ahead and make those appointments. If.

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You would like to make an appointment. Please visit Boulder County org forward slash motor vehicle to reading your plates. You can go to Colorado to guff for / renew plates. The envy offices will be closed, starting August 1st through the 3rd and will reopen on August 6th Boulder civic area park. Recent renovation took the whole community's input to get turned into the beautiful asset it is today and that even included ideas by builders youngest residents. He.

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Like started off by writing ideas about it and drawing things and like then just made them come alive, pretty much. You can really make a difference like in your community at a young age and feels like you accomplished something.

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Zoe's input and the rest of the youths idea of the Civic area project was made possible by the growing up Boulder foundation, a collaboration between the city of Boulder, Boulder, Valley, School District, the University of Colorado in a number of nonprofits and small businesses, and it's almost 10 years of existence. This foundation has worked on over 80 projects with children and youth throughout the city of Boulder. We're.

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Based on this idea of child friendly city initiatives and child friendly cities actually exists throughout the world, they're based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is a treaty that says people under the age of 18 have special protected human rights. This.

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Innovative and forward-thinking of involving children and city projects and policies landed growing up Boulder, a presentation on TEDx mile hike late last year, and just recently, the organization took the public on a tour of how kids ideas have affected the Civic area design in Boulder. My.

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Talk was about how children have influenced the design of the city of Boulder, but also the larger idea of why children's input actually makes cities a better place. Getting involved.

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So early is good because then you'll have like that much more experience with like, like your city and like leadership,.

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We're actually working with them listening to the young people, they have a lot to teach us a city. That's friendly to children is a city, that's friendly to all and I think. We've had a lot of good outcomes thanks to the work of our young people, to.

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Learn more about growing up Boulder! Please visit the growing your folder org. Thank you so much for joining us on this week's edition of inside folder news. If you have pictures these tips for events like this, you featured we'd love to hear from you connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. You can also sign up to receive video updates. Writing here in box. Just go to Boulder channel a calm and click on subscribe have a good week.