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One correction: The next council meeting is Feb. 1, not 8. Must have been some wishful thinking creeping in 🙂
Where your tax dollars will go in 2022-2023: Bike lanes, day shelter, new housing and ADU rules
City struggles with 16% staff turnover
Nonprofits lay out 'Vision Zero' for homelessness
Plus: Marshall Fire updates, King Soopers strike ends
- https://mailchi.mp/3eb5f55a55c2/boulder-2022-bike-lanes-day-shelter-new-housing
Where your tax dollars will go in 2022-2023: Bike lanes, day shelter, new housing and ADU rules
City struggles with 16% staff turnover
Nonprofits lay out 'Vision Zero' for homelessness
Plus: Marshall Fire updates, King Soopers strike ends
- https://mailchi.mp/3eb5f55a55c2/boulder-2022-bike-lanes-day-shelter-new-housing
A late story, and the last effort of my 15-hour day.
More than 16% of the city's employees left or lost their jobs last year.
https://boulderbeat.news/2022/01/22/boulders-great-resignation/
As @billmckibben points out, writing on a new study showing that we're threatening *our own survival* by producing so many new chemicals (& by breaching other planetary boundaries), only the Guardian reported on this study.
Think about that for a moment.
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/worse-living-through-chemistry
OK, I've got a (hopefully) readable and easy-to-follow list of council's workplan items for the next 2 years.
Obviously this doesn't capture *everything* they'll be working on, but it's as good as it gets.
https://boulderbeat.news/city-council/boulder-council-priorities/
