Opinion: Thoughts on the election results and next steps for Boulder
It appears that Boulder’s ballot measure 2K to borrow $400 million failed. So, it’s likely that the city cannot bail itself out of the irresponsible behavior of the various councils in ignoring the need to do major deferred building work on our facilities, such as our recreation centers, etc., and just spending whatever extra revenues came in on non-critical items. Dealing with this immense backlog will require the council to take significant actions. The way I see it, these will involve multiple steps. One is cutting back on the staff added over the last 10 or so years; this will free up revenue to pay for the necessary work. As I pointed out some months ago, the various councils added some hundreds of new staff positions, which increased spending by many tens of millions of dollars. So, this council could immediately begin an evaluation of what positions are not necessary and close them to allow the savings to take place. A second step is to put together a task force of informe...