City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 12 Apr 2019

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This week on Inside Boulder News: Fresh Start Program, Rec Center Training, and Subcommunity Planning

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This week on inside folder news this one, the event will give those in Boulder the chance to wipe away active warrants. Rec center staff receive safety training to keep patrons safe and applications are now open for those interested in achieving the city's goals.

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Welcome to inside boulder news your source for all things: Boulder I'm, Donovan Daniel for one day and one day only the City and County of Boulder are offering a fresh start to those with active warrants. It's called the Fresh Start warrant forgiveness program. We head over to the Boulder County Justice Center, to learn what it's all about. There are currently nine hundred active warrants in the County of Boulder 1500 in the city itself, and for one day only those with active warrants have the chance to wipe them away. The Fresh Start program.

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Is for lack of a better phrase, a warrant forgiveness program? It's a program, that's designed to allow individuals who have eligible warrants to come in and see a judge, see a District Attorney see a member of the defense bar or the immigration Bar if they choose or need to and then either give their case moving or resolve their case completely. But.

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Not everyone with an active warrant is eligible. This program is for those who have committed low-level crimes. We.

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Were looking at traffic cases, we're also looking at misdemeanor crimes that do not fall under the Victims Rights Act by.

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Helping low level offenders get back on the right track, as opposed to being out in the community with outstanding warrants. We allow them to go on to lead productive lives here in Boulder, christopher.

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Reynolds assistant attorney for the city of Boulder says the Fresh Start program will reduce the impact on individuals and make better use of city and county resources taking.

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Care of cases out of custody is just a better thing, especially for very minor offenses, like all of the offenses in the city's code. It's just better to take care of those out of custody than out at the jail. The.

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First start event will be held on Saturday April 13th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Boulder County Justice Center. No appointments are necessary for eligibility information. Please visit the website seen on screen.

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The city recently kicked off its upcoming ad planning project in East Boulder sub-community plans helped the city implement major goals of the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan by helping the boulder community communicate their expectations for the future. Earlier this month, the city opened up applications for those interested in participating in the East Boulder sub community plan working group in 2018 Council directed staff to reestablish a subcommittee planning program. It was kicked off earlier this month, a.

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Sub Community Plan is really a tool for the boulder community that will communicate expectations about the future of different areas of the city over time. What's.

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Up community planning, the city is better able to implement some of its bigger picture goals that come from the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan. Some of those goals include housing and chemicals in order.

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To implement all of these great ideas, we need to take a more fine-grained look at how some of these concepts might impact different neighborhoods, sub Community Planning allows us to look at different areas of the city, really focus in on the neighborhoods in those areas and see what opportunities and challenges might be. The.

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City identified East Boulder as the first of ten sub communities that will be part of the program, but first the city would like to collaborate with community members to establish a project working group that.

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Is going to be a group that works really closely with our city planning staff and any consultants that we bring onto the project to help us take a look at different areas of opportunity to better understand the neighborhood's in the area and to help us sort of inform some of the recommendations that are going to be coming out of that plan. Applications.

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For the East Boulder working group are now open through Friday April 19th community members are encouraged to apply for two available community connector roles and earn a stipend for their participation. It's a great.

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Opportunity, I think for people to make decisions about what they want to see in their neighborhoods for the next 25 years and how they're interested in sort of evolving as a community. How they're interested in achieving some of these citywide goals to.

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Apply for the working group and learn more about East Boulder and the planning process visit the website seen on screen on Monday April 15th, the city will be holding an irrigation, ditch open house. Irrigation ditches are man-made channels that deliver water from natural sources to homes, farms, businesses and industries. Many properties around Boulder are located near irrigation ditches during the open house. Local ditch representatives will be available to answer frequently asked questions such as the ownership of ditches the flow and the reason why ditch companies remove trees.

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The open house will be held on Monday April 15th from 4 to 6 p.m. at the city's municipal Services Center. To learn more about the city's irrigation ditches. Please visit the website seen on your screen.

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An emergency situation can present itself at any given moment, especially at a place where there's lots of physical activity. This week in partnership with the boulder Police Department rec center staff received an annual recreation facility safety training at the East Boulder Community Center, hundreds of people walk in and out of the city's recreation center facilities on a daily basis, and today staffer training for the unexpected. We identified.

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That we'd like to give our employees some more tools as far as safety precautions and you know, emergency evacuation procedures, so we teamed up with the boulder 2 Police Department, we came up with a collaborative effort to you know, give our staff the encouragement and the tools to be able to handle those risky situations in.

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This collaborative training, the boulder Parks and Rec Department and Boulder PD went over emergency communications, training, a scenario-based, cardiac emergency and they suspicious person scenario acted out by an undercover cop.

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Once we introduce the concept of maybe a predator in the building and just seeing the looks on their faces, like I, did see that and okay now I know what to say and I know how to respond. You know I, think that they are walking away tonight, feeling a little bit more prepared than they did walking in the.

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Parks and recreation department holds in-depth trainings like this one every year to keep both patrons and staff safe. Whenever.

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You have a facility like this, and we see a lot of people come through our doors. It's important that we provide these resources to our staff to not only protect them, but our customers. So you know it's our job to make sure we're practicing in safety opportunities, and you know get our people in here practicing some Samaria emergency.

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Situations happen, staff say that these instances require training and are crucial to keep community members safe. We.

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Want to plan, for you know the anything that can possibly happen. Working with fire, rescue and AMR and now have the opportunity to work with PD is just gonna, make it sound much stronger. Thank.

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You so much for joining us on this week's edition of inside boulder news. If you have pictures news, tips or event, 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 8, comm and click on subscribe have a good week.