Nicole Speer’s 2022 priorities
Councilwoman Speer set 5 priorities for 2022 (notes for context). Not all items were included in council’s official workplan.
Move city council elections to even years
Put a measure on the 2022 ballot to move elections to even years beginning in 2024. (Voter approval is needed for this change. Turnout is much higher in even-year elections: 49% in 2021 versus 89% in 2020 and 82% in 2018.)
Living wage for city leaders
Ballot measure in 2022 or 2023 to pay council members and board and commission members, in order to attract more diverse candidates
Head tax
Pass an ordinanceA piece of municipal (city-level) legislation. that places a per employee fee on publicly traded businesses in Boulder; use funds to support a flexible pool of money to support specific resiliency priorities such as housing, childcare, transportation, etc. (Head taxes — taxes on employers and/or employees — are common; Denver has one. They have been proposed and studied in Boulder for years.)
Housing and homelessness
Use state and federal funds and work regionally on solutions and service expansion
Tenant protections
Occupancy reform, tenants rights and other protections for renters as well as nuisance issues like noise, trash, icy sidewalks “which are also issues that also impact renters”
See what Speer campaigned on here
View Speer’s 2021 financial disclosure here
