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This week on Inside Boulder News: What's Up Boulder, Scam Protection, and Radio Infrastructure Project

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This week on inside folder news, don't miss your chance to learn all about the city's projects at these community events. Scams are on the rise. Boulder Police Department give us tips on how to stay safe, and this proposed infrastructure will help improve the safety of boulders first responders.

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Welcome to inside Boulder news your source for all things: Boulder I'm, Jocelyn, Daniel, the city of Boulder, is inviting community members to join the city for the what's up. Boulder open house is city wide event, where attendees can learn about major city projects and enjoy free food like music and activities for kids, so make sure to mark your calendars for Thursday April 4th back for its third year. What's a boulder will offer community members the opportunity to learn about the city's projects and services in an enjoyable atmosphere? We try.

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To have a cross-section or City projects we're definitely going to have representation by the planning department, so you can learn about Alpine balsam, we're also having representation from utilities from affordable housing and the housing department. More generally, we're also going to have some Human Services representation and learn more about city's engagement efforts and ways you can get involved in a variety of issues. The.

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Citywide open house is a family friendly event. It will feature a children's music DJ face, painting and free picnic lunches for the first 600 people who attend we're changing the.

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Entertainment format a little bit so, rather than having the entertainment, be separate from the event it's going to be intertwined, so we'll have sets of music playing and then broken up by opportunities to talk to city staff. Again, the kids activities will be in the same space as the adult activities, which will make it be more of a family-friendly event.

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What's a boulder will also feature an opportunity to talk to elected officials prior to the event it's going to.

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Start an hour before the event at 4:00 and end at 6:00, so people can come and talk to their elected officials and then go downstairs and have some free food and fun and learn more about city project. The.

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Event will be held at the Boulder Jewish Community Center on Thursday April, 4th from 5 to 7:30 p.m. with chats with council, going on from 4 to 6 for more information on this year's. What's a boulder open house, please visit Boulder Colorado gov forward-slash. What's up Boulder on Tuesday April, 2nd the city of Boulder will present location options for a fourth and final radio tower to complete critical upgrades to the city's radio infrastructure system. The serves first responders once complete. This new system will provide much needed updates to the city's current system.

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Clear communication is key during any emergency situation.

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We have a single report of a male party with a weapon attacking a female party they're supposed to be on this channel, but.

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What happens when it's taken away.

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What you just heard is a real life recording from the boulder Police Department during a hostage situation that occurred last fall. Luckily, the incident ended without any casualties, but city planners and first responders in the city of Boulder, want to improve the city's radio infrastructure systems to prevent a tragedy from happening. Radio.

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Communication is a lifeline if they get in trouble and they call for help that radio system is a way that they're going to somebody's going to come in and save those who are trying to save the citizens, and it doesn't work once.

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Complete the city's radio infrastructure improvement project, which is in part funded by the voter, approved 2017 community culture and safety tax, will include four new radio towers to support Public Safety functions. We.

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Have three towers right now that are being established or have been established. This fourth tower is essential in essentially creating a redundant ring around the city to provide the correct communication and, most specifically in building coverage to first responders on Tuesday.

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April 2nd the city will meet with County Commissioners and present a site analysis on the proposed fourth tower location, including the city's preferred location near rapaho, Road. All.

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The other sites that are being proposed would incur some additional cost to the city and, by extension, to the taxpayers to procure those site, whereas the site we're actually looking at here and proposing, he is already a silhouette city-owned site. A fourth.

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Tower first responders hope is built sooner rather than later. Every.

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4Th tower is going to complete the system and it's going to give us a system that we can rely upon. It's going to give us in building coverage. It's going to allow the incident commanders to talk to the first responders, actually doing the work and to keep everything moving and make it safer for our first responders. The radio.

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Infrastructure hearing will begin at 2 p.m. on Tuesday April, 2nd at the Boulder County Courthouse. More information can be found by visiting the website. Seen on your screen, scams are on the rise into an 18. The Federal Trade Commission's report on fraud recorded 2.7 million reports, with telephone calls being the most common method of contact officer. Mitch Trujillo with the Bullard Police Department tells us what are some of the frauds. Boulder has seen scams.

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That we have are generally people that are contacted by in authorities so like the boulder Police Department saying that they are or loved one Oh money in order to pay for a warrant that that's out for their arrest or to pay bond for some a loved one. That's supposedly in jail. The.

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Boulder PD has been posting fliers like this one around grocery stores running community members of current scams. Targeting victims, a method Sergio says, has helped decrease the number of scams in the city. We keep.

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Track of it, we keep all the information. Then we try to see if there is through crime analysis see if there is information that can be cross-referenced from one to the next and we look to see if there's going to be any investigative tips to see, if there's a way that we can determine, who the sender or who the scammer is majority.

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Of fraud cases come from imposter scams in the form of wired money. The boulder police department would like to remind community members that no law enforcement agency will ever do this should.

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Always go to the source and find out if there's actually information, that's out there and more often than not you're going to find that that that the information is just not true. If.

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You get a suspicious phone call requesting to wire money. Officials say to simply hang up the phone and report it to authorities once the money is sent. There is little to no chance of recovering that money. It could also.

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Also report it to the FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, who also keeps track of the this information for.

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More tips on how you can protect yourself from scams and frauds. Please visit the website. Seen on your screen. After the 2018 adoption of the cities, Boulder Public Library master plan, it was estimated that the library's funding will fall short by at least 3.2 million dollars every year. Now the city and the boulder Pollak library are exploring funding options and have launched a 28 question survey to ask community members about their preferences. The survey is currently available online through April 5th.

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The survey's goal is to learn more about public opinion and support for potential library funding options. There are currently four potential funding options under consideration to do nothing, reallocate city resources, create a citywide, dedicated tax or to hold an election to form. An independent Library District information collected will help determine the city's potential next steps. We.

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Want the community to participate, so we know where how we want to move forward in the future which funding option would work best for them on and what they would be most comfortable with surveys.

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Are available in English and Spanish and responses will remain anonymous to learn more about the city's funding information and free link to the survey. Please visit the Poulter library org, the North Boulder library is turning five. The community is invited to come out and celebrate five years of service to the noble community. Local band life values will be playing with family-friendly activities for the family to enjoy such as face painting and stories. The event will be held on Saturday March 30th from 10 to 11:30 a.m.

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in the plaza in front of amante and balco at 4580 Broadway. Thank you so much for joining us on this week's edition of inside Boulder news. If you have pictures news tips or eventually 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 a calm and click on subscribe have a good week.