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2010-2011 City Council Goals
REVISED JANUARY 2011
Boulder’s Energy Future – Note: Highlighted Section is new
The city’s top priority for 2011 is to develop a vision and framework to guide planning
and decision making about Boulder’s energy future, and to analyze and make decisions
about potential options for achieving the community’s vision. The project’s overarching
goal is:
To ensure that Boulder residents, businesses and institutions have access to
energy that is increasingly clean, reliable and competitively priced.
In charting Boulder’s energy future, the following objectives will be used to evaluate
success:
Boulder’s energy future will:
� Ensure a stable, safe and reliable energy supply
� Ensure competitive rates, balancing short-term and long-term interests
� Significantly reduce carbon emissions and pollutants
� Provide energy customers with a greater say about their energy supply
� Promote local economic vitality
� Promote social and environmental justice
Specific actions to be accomplished in 2011 are:
1) Develop a November 2011 Ballot Measure through a series of community
engagement opportunities, intensive research efforts and council discussions to
establish the city’s options or preferred option for its energy future; and
2) Conduct Analysis to Inform Development of a 2012 Action Plan which would be
implement council and voter direction as established in the November 2011 vote.
ADDITIONAL COUNCIL PRIORITIES
Affordable Housing
� Receive the Affordable Housing Task Force recommendations on program goals
and strategies in August. Based on council decisions regarding these
recommendations, develop an implementation plan for the updated Affordable
Housing Strategy.
� Conduct a study session in 4Q, 2011 to review approaches to addressing the
maintenance and preservation of mobile home parks as affordable housing options
and staff recommendations on a comprehensive approach to addressing mobile
home park issues