Shared ownership of our city’s future through trusted policy & resource allocation

• Community-led, community-driven 

  • Ensure community ownership throughout planning, implementation, and evaluations

  • Engage with all city appointed boards/commission engagements

  • Expand community connectors
    
    

• Community Safety Preparedness

  • Resist Jim Crow 3.0

  • Establish response plan to federal overreach to ensure rule of law (e.g., ICE enforcement), with impacted communities taking the lead

  • Ensure anti-discrimination training and support

  • "Protect our Neighbors" campaign

Meeting basic needs for all community members

• Housing for Working People and Families

  • Expand affordable housing programs 

  • Strengthen rental protections and support

  • Diversify housing stock within Service Area I increasing duplexes, triplexes
     

• Economic Transformation

  • Incentivize circular economy, expand waste diversion

  • Accelerate transition to green buildings & business practices

  • Socially responsible investing and oversight

  • Develop renewable enterprise and/or community cooperatives

  • Identify pathways to housing cooperatives / convert  commercial to housing properties

  • Strengthen worker protections, wages, and participation in policymaking

Showing care and accountability through honesty, regular reporting, and intentional policy decisions.

• Smart Goals, Meaningful Oversight

  • Citywide strategic plan co-developed by council, staff, boards/commissions, and community with annual milestones, metrics of success, and reporting frequency

  • Ensure city departmental plans include interdepartmental collaboration, prioritization, and budget projections

  • Valid and reliable research and evaluation across projects and departments
    
    

• Fiscal Responsibility

  • Strengthen fiscal notes on all policy decisions inclusive of budget vs. actuals

  • Ensure city investments are values-aligned and socially responsible investments (eg budget, investment portfolio)

  • Develop pathways for participatory budgeting and resource allocation
    
    

• City Council led Public Safety Oversight

  • City Council oversight of Boulder Police Oversight Plan (authority, reporting, appointments, procedures)

  • City Council-driven policy development on privacy and mass surveillance

  • Public Reporting & Transparency

  • Quarterly reporting on policing and public safety 

  • Quarterly reporting on human relations ordinance and cooperation with state

Focusing on climate health, local-global connectivity, and city operations management

• Restoring Kinship & Connection

  • Identify pathways for ‘land back’ in Area III following the lead of Indigenous and Tribal people

  • Green amendments prioritizing access to clean air, water, and soil

  • Rights of Nature where climate benefit is prioritized, preserved, and conserved
    
    

• Climate Mitigation & Adaptation

  • Wildfire mitigation revolving loan fund/ partnership with banks for property owners

  • Expand community resilience hubs in collaboration with county, inclusive of evacuation, recovery, and relocation

  • Accelerate public land co-management with Indigenous peoples and Tribes

  • Training on climate and sustainability for city council, boards, and commissions 

  • Address overconsumption challenges and reduce waste; create a consumption inventory

  • Enhance warning systems & neighborhood networks
    
    

• Fortify Food Systems

  • Mobile produce markets/carts (eg food trucks, paleteras, farm stands, and cut fruit vendors)

  • Accelerate food waste rescue and recovery policy (including prepared food and food scraps)

  • Permit production of non-ornamental, native, and edible plants on residential lots and city-managed properties

  •  Zoning for vacant or underdeveloped lots for small-scale agriculture production

  • Create model 'food enterprise zone' with incentives and zoning designations for urban food production

  • Enhance ordinances to allow for local food, beverage, and farm-related enterprises

  • Ensure emergency planning (policies, procedures, and infrastructure).

  • Increase procurement policies and practices for local, sustainable, and equitable food