City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 2 Dec 2016

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This week on Inside Boulder News: Robots take over the public library, kicking off a week-long celebration of science and technology. Boulder PD is starting a community engagement panel. And Santa’s little helpers are the city’s newest officers.

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This week on inside Boulder news robots, take over the public library kicking off a week-long celebration of Science and Technology Boulder pd's starting a community engagement panel and Santa's little helpers are the city's newest officers.

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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 and Kristin Skov ii-era from the smallest startups to the Google campus folders tech scene. Has it all, and tech enthusiasts are getting younger and younger I stopped by the boulder Public Library, where young, robotic engineers are putting the final touches on their creations.

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Scientists, bibley, jr., ten-year-old diba cord likes building box. It's just that. It's complicated and I like complicated together with her mom's diba, is prepping her robot for this year's computer science education week, a citywide celebration of technology and innovation.

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It's giving kids an opportunity to have hands-on learning and experience with computer programming and design and robots, and some of the aspects of CAD, modeling and 3d printing Kathy.

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Lane is the program's events and outreach coordinator for the boulder public library. There.

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They're deciding if the scaffolding is going to be made out of straws or pipe cleaners, and they have to consider weight and balance with the with the motors on board with the robots she.

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Says the event started in 2014 as a collaboration between the boulder public library, local tech companies and area schools. It's a chance to get kids excited about careers in stem science, technology, engineering and mathematics. What.

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Are you thinking with the eyes out like this I.

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Think we're training kids for jobs that don't exist yet and they're being exposed to technologies and ways of thinking, problem-solving, design, thinking that will stand them in good stead for any career regardless. If it's technology-based.

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All week long kids can take classes on coding and website design, HTML and, of course, robots. They're.

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Constructing the hardware and the platforms and the structure for the batteries and then also adding personality to.

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Sign up for this year's event, running December third, through the 10th visit, CS, ed Co, and to get your child involved in technology workshops, year-round visit, bolter library, org for more information. If you see these tiny police officers hanging around Boulder they're, just helping out for the holidays, Boulder PD swore in Santa's helpers this week, unlike buddy, the elf Boulder, pd's, Ralphie and pearl, are fighting crime when they're not wrapping presents the elves have been posting helpful tweets on social media.

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This is them properly fitting a car seat, and this is them working out before their shift. I think those are marshmallow. Freeways I tried to keep up with them as they gathered evidence and assisted dispatch. You can keep up with them on Twitter and Facebook throughout the month of December. Boulder police need your help as well.

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They're looking for 12 community members to serve on a special advisory board, they're calling it the community dialogue and engagement panel I spoke to boulders Police Chief Greg testa, who says these residents will help Boulder PD better understand the community. They serve. This.

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Will allow us to continue to build relationships with the community and discuss and dialogue community policing strategies. The.

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Panelists will be a diverse group that chief told me he's looking for people from the business community, the faith in criminal justice communities, as well as the Boulder Valley School District cu-boulder local leaders, and advocates we're.

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Going to meet every other month, the first thursday of every other month and hopefully build or develop an agenda and continue talking through whatever issues come up. If.

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You would like to apply visit, Boulder Colorado, gov, /, police, /, community dialogue and engagement panel for more information. Every year the population of Boulder grows a little bit more just under one percent and over time that puts a strain on our existing infrastructure. That's why there's fees and taxes on new developments to help meet the new demands from new residents and new workers, they're called development impact fees and excise taxes.

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The City Council just adopted some new rates for these fees and taxes, and they did go up just a little bit for residential development when you apply it to kind of a prototypical residential development project, it increases by about a dollar and five cents per square foot for non residential development. It's about a 97 cent per square foot, increasing that.

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Senior Planner Christmas check. He says these fees help the city meet the new demand by incrementally expanding our infrastructure and facilities like the scott Carpenter pool that.

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Means making sure that we have adequate multi-use paths in the community or enough books and collection materials at the library to serve all the new residents in the community. And what.

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About the new workers that fill jobs in new commercial development, they need housing and a portion of them need affordable, housing. Chris says: there's an additional fee called a commercial linkage fee that city council just approved to help meet the needs of these new workers, and so.

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This fee goes to help support, building that additional, affordable housing. So the increase that the City Council voted on was about a twenty-five percent increase to our existing fees and that's what we'll be bringing forward for final adoption in January and februari of next year to.

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Learn more about these changes that become effective on July, first 2017 visit the city's website and search impact fees all year round, cyclists, joggers and folks, just looking for some fresh air travel, the boulder creek path, it's heavily trafficked. So now the city is looking for ways to make this area more user-friendly for everyone. What.

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We're proposing is adding a pedestrian path that would run along the existing multi-use path, as well as some other improvements like pedestrian lighting, interpretive signage and doing some long needed maintenance on the jogging path that runs along Boulder Creek from from ninth Street, actually to Evan G fine park bridge. That's.

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Melanie Sloan a city planner. She says the project will cost 1.9 million dollars fund set aside from a specific tax. This.

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Is a project that was identified in the 2014 voter-approved community culture and safety ballot text initiative and it's a safety improvement to the boulder creek path, we're focusing primarily between seventeenth Street and 13th Street. That's the stretch that runs behind boulder high school and then also from 63 to the fng fine park bridge you're.

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Invited to an open house on Monday December, twelfth from 5 to 6 30 p.m. at the boulder Municipal Building to learn about project design, alternatives and give feedback for more information visit, Boulder Colorado, gov, / planning, /, boulder creek path improvements. Thank you so much for watching this week's edition of inside Boulder 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.

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