City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 18 Jan 2019

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This week on Inside Boulder News - Boulder's Economic Forecast, Boulder's Parks and Rec Open House, and Boulder Library's Assistive Technology

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This week on inside border news, state economists gathered to talk about voters. Economic forecasts find out what the future holds for boulders economy, market calendars for builders, Parks and Rec Department wide open house, and this new technology will help Boulder library patrons with visual impairments.

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Welcome to inside Boulder news your source for all things: Boulder I'm, Joslyn, Daniel, the reconstruction of the Boulder Creek and Arapaho underpass near 13th, is underway and is expected to complete in the early months of this year. Some improvements to the underpass include a widening of the path and improved lighting, as well as reduce high water closures of a multi-use path. We spoke to project engineer, Brian gall softs, to get an update on the project.

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The Arapaho underpass near 13th has been closed since August of last year and will remain closed through the duration of the project. Once complete, the overall safety of the underpass will be improved. There's.

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A lot of problems with there as far as seasonal flooding during the spring steep grades coming into the underpass on each end, blind corners is dark and a little too narrow, especially considering the volume of people through this section of the Boulder Creek path. This.

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Project will remedy a lot of those problems. Not only will the path be widened to be more ABA accessible, but new lighting will also be installed. Current.

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The underpass was substandard with it only being 10 foot wide between the walls. It just didn't fit the current standards. It also was not a DA accessible, not wheelchair, friendly, very difficult for for people to navigate through there and the darkness made. It feel. Unwelcoming majority.

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Of the fall was spent focused working on underground work. Now, with it being nearly done, staff say work for the underpass should be coming along quicker timing.

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To get things more operational and functional in this spring, we're still going to have some residual work, especially regarding the landscaping that'll be extending here and there throughout the summer, like a lot of the Creek work and stream Bank restoration work, we'll probably have to wait until the end of summer, when the water levels come down again for.

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More information on the Arapaho past project, please visit the website. Seen on your screen. The Boulder Public Library announced this week that it now offers assistive technology that will help visually impaired, patrons use. Library, computers at the main library check it out. A new desktop computer at boulders main library, is equipped with a Fusion professional screen, reader and magnification software to help library patrons with visual impairments, there's also a USB eight dot Braille keyboard that can be used with personal devices to help with screen navigation and messaging library.

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Staff encourages the community to spread the word about this new technology to help people who could use these services. More information can be found on Boulder, Library org. The.

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Library belongs to all of us and that we want to make sure that we're welcoming inclusive to all of the residents of Boulder, including including folks who have visual impairments. And that's what we wanted to make sure that we offered this technology.

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Bullers Parks and Recreation on Thursday January 31st for a department-wide, open house. The event will feature multiple projects and initiatives all in one location for the community to get informed projects include the harvick house, natural lands, as well as construction updates on the scott carpenter pool boulders parks and recreation department, has a number of different projects and initiatives. Currently in the works, you know how.

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Time-Consuming to me for our population or community come out and hit all these different opportunities to engage with us, so we thought, let's try, make it a little easier. Let's have one big open house, the open.

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House will provide community members with the opportunity to learn about projects boulders, Parks and Rec is working on and provide feedback on them as well. One of the key project staff is working on include the harvick Bergheim house, we're.

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Considering currently, the future options and ownership of this house we're entering now the third phase of engagement and so we've kind of narrowed down, and we have some kind of viable refined options, and we want to share that with the public and see what they feel about those other.

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Projects that the public will be able to go and see is the boulder reservoir staff are currently working on the long term site plan options in which the community will be able to provide feedback. We.

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Also have a couple projects that people that have already gone through the engagement process and we're starting construction on those this summer. So that's both the boulder reservoir visitor service center and scott carpenter pool right behind me here. The.

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Boulder Parks and Recreation open house will be held on Thursday January 31st from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at the municipal service center. More information on the open house can be found on Boulder Colorado gov forward-slash parks, rec over 400 people gathered Thursday night at boulders and busy sweets for the 12th annual economic forecast and event put together by the Builder Chamber and its partners. This.

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Is the economic forecast and it's our opportunity to bring the community together to hear about what the anticipated situation is for the our economy, but also the conditions that may impact it so that we collectively can learn from that information and think about the policies and programs that might help to make sure that our economy remains vital for the future. Dr.

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Richard Wilbur kind executive director for the business research division at cu-boulder was the keynote speaker of the night. His overall message for the night was that there will be continued growth in the economy, but at a slower pace overall.

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Picture is pretty positive in the sense that consumption is growing, investments growing government spender spending at least has been growing, so you have those sort of pieces pushing the economy forward and that continues to fuel growth in employment. When we look at the big picture in terms of employment, we.

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Expect to have just a wide assortment of civic and political leaders, as well as some of our business leadership here today. Hearing the same information so that when we work together to make sure that we sustain the strong economy that we love and appreciate in this boat in Boulder that we are thinking creatively about the policies and also the programs that will help support business. Success to.

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Learn more about builders, economic forecasts and to access the material presented at the event. Please visit Boulder Economic, Council org. Thank you so much for joining us on this week's edition of inside. For the news. If you have pictures new steps or eventually to see featured, we 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 8, comm and click on subscribe have a good week.