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City of Boulder News Briefs
Aug 1st
The City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Department’s fall registration begins online at 8:30 a.m., on Tuesday, Aug. 6. Boulder area residents should receive the new recreation guide in their mailboxes the week of Aug. 4. The guides are also available in city recreation centers and many local stores and restaurants. The fall recreation guide is currently available online at www.BoulderParks-Rec.org.
Parks and Recreation Department’s annual tulip bulb giveaway Aug. 8
The City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Department’s annual tulip bulb giveaway will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 8, on the 1300 block of the Pearl Street Mall (in front of the Boulder County Courthouse). There will be 320 bags of tulip bulbs available, and the bulbs are given away first come, first served.
Parks and Recreation staff changes the variety and color of the tulips planted on the Pearl Street Mall every year to provide a unique and impressive display each spring. Last fall, staff planted about 11,000 new tulip bulbs. After the bloom, staff removes the bulbs to make way for summer plantings, storing them until the annual tulip bulb giveaway each August. Pearl Street Mall tulips are imported directly from Holland from a wholesale provider. A small donation is requested for each bag.
Parks and Recreation has been giving away the tulip bulbs in this annual giveaway format on the Pearl Street Mall since 2006, and department staff estimate that around 56,000 tulip bulbs have been given away since then. For more information, call parks and recreation, at 303-413-7200.
South Boulder Recreation Center annual maintenance shutdown Aug. 10 through Aug. 18 with additional closures through Sept. 3
The South Boulder Recreation Center (SBRC), located at 1360 Gillaspie Drive, will be closed from Saturday, Aug. 10, through Sunday, Aug. 18, for the annual maintenance shutdown. The recreation center’s upstairs and the locker rooms will reopen on Monday, Aug. 19; however other maintenance items will require a longer shutdown.
One of the larger projects for this year’s annual maintenance shutdown is to re-plaster the lap pool, which takes longer than the normal shutdown. The lap pool will be closed through Sunday, Aug. 25, reopening on Monday, Aug. 26. In addition, the basketball gym, racquetball court, and downstairs studio will be closed through Monday, Sept. 2, and reopen on Tuesday, Sept. 3, due to upgrades to the ramp required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
The North Boulder Recreation Center, Boulder Reservoir, Spruce Pool and Scott Carpenter Pool are open regular hours during the SBRC shutdown. The East Boulder Community Center will be open extended hours on Sundays during the SBRC shutdown. For a full schedule, visit www.BoulderParks-Rec.org. For more information, call Whitney Oftedahl, parks and recreation, at 303-413-7214.
City of Boulder Seeks Applications for Human Services Fund Advisory Committee
The City of Boulder Department of Human Services seeks qualified candidates for the Human Services Fund Advisory Committee (HSFAC). The HSFAC annually reviews proposals to the Human Services Fund and makes recommendations to staff and the city manager about the allocation of funding to community agencies to promote community health and well-being.
HSFAC members serve two-year terms and may be appointed for an additional two-year term. Committee members are expected to actively engage in the annual proposal review and deliberation process, which requires approximately 30 hours for deliberations, plus additional time outside of meetings for proposal review. In 2013, the fund round process will take place from August through December.
Expertise in one or more of the following areas is preferred: human services research and analysis, finance, youth development, early childhood, health/mental health, senior services, or community planning. Applicants must reside in the City of Boulder and may not currently serve on any other city or Human Services Department funding or advisory committees, boards or commissions.
To apply for the HSFAC or for more information, visit https://bouldercolorado.gov/human-services-plan/human-services-fund-advisory-committee-hsfac to download the application. Applications should be submitted electronically and are due by Aug. 19, 2013, at 4:30 p.m.
For more information, please contact Wanda Pelegrina Caldas at PelegrinaW@bouldercolorado.gov or 303-441-4059.
Boulder Municipal Court closed all day Aug. 9
The Boulder Municipal Court will be closed all day on Friday, Aug. 9, for a staff meeting.
CU Football Single Game Tickets Go On Sale Tuesday, 9 a.m.
Jul 29th
BOULDER – Single game tickets to University of Colorado football games are on sale starting Tuesday, July 30 at 9 a.m.
Fans can purchase online at www.cubuffs.com/tickets, by phone at 303-492-8337, in person at the CU Athletic Ticket Office between gates 4 and 5 of Folsom Field, or at TicketsWest outlets.
The Buffs open the season on Sunday, Sept. 1 in Denver against Colorado State in the Rocky Mountain Showdown. The CSU game marks the debut of CU head coach Mike MacIntyre.
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Single game tickets for Folsom Field contests start at just $30 a game. The home opener for Colorado is Saturday, Sept. 7 at 6 p.m. against the University of Central Arkansas, followed by a September 14 tilt with Fresno State which will kickoff at noon.
Preseason Pac-12 favorite Oregon will headline Family Weekend on Saturday, October 5. That’s followed by a Homecoming date with Arizona and coach Rich Rodriguez three weeks later on October 26.
In November the Buffs will host a pair of games. First the Cal Bears on Saturday the 16th, then the Folsom Field season finale on Saturday the 23rd with the Trojans of USC.
Tickets for all games are still available. Buffs fans can also purchase Three Game Flex Plans starting at $126, and season tickets starting at $175. For more information or to buy, visit www.cubuffs.com/tickets or call 303-492-8337.
Troy Andre
Assistant SID/Internet Managing Editor
University of Colorado
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City of Boulder launches new website
Jul 29th
The City of Boulder has launched a new website at bouldercolorado.gov. The site includes a new layout and design as well as several features aimed at making it easier for users to access government services and information. The last time the city launched a new site design was in 2006. View the City of Boulder Website Infographic to see a visual progression of the city’s website since 1999.
Key to the new site is its responsive design, which means the site is resizable for any screen, including any mobile device.
“It’s a new era in website design,” said City of Boulder Director of Information Technology Don Ingle. “We knew going into this effort that not only did our website need to have an updated look, it also needed to accommodate mobile web users. More and more people are accessing Internet content from mobile devices, leaving designs based on desktop screen widths a thing of the past.”
The city’s site also features more photos and videos throughout its pages. Navigational options featured on the new home page were selected based on hit and search data as well as topic timeliness.
Inside Boulder News – New City Website (Select the image below to watch the video)
New website services include:
- A new Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) tool called Inquire Boulder (www.inquireboulder.com) that serves as a customer service portal.
Users can go to Inquire Boulder to ask the city questions, look up FAQs and submit requests for services like pothole repair, graffiti response, park shelter rentals, park and trail maintenance, code enforcement, damaged city trees and much more. An Inquire Boulder app is also available for iPhone and Android mobile devices.
- Online access to public records for City Council and boards and commissions.
The city is launching a public portal to documents that are on file for council, boards and commissions from the last three years, where available. This can be accessed at bouldercolorado.gov/central-records, from the scrolling buttons on the city’s homepage, or from individual council, boards and commissions pages. By providing online access to these materials, users can search key words to find meeting documents, rather than having to know the date the meeting occurred. Additional documents will be added to the public portal in a phased approach.
- Open data resources in a central place.
The city previously provided open data files like GIS data and other land use resources, but they were scattered throughout the website, buried in multiple locations. By combining and featuring the city’s open data sets, Boulder joins the ranks of many other municipal governments providing open data services.
“Perhaps the most unique feature of the new website is something our users can’t see, and that’s our partnership with the City of Arvada,” said Ingle.
As part of the redesign effort, the city chose to switch to a new content management system, the database-driven application that houses webpage content and provides a user interface for the staff that posts the content to the site. Rather than purchasing a new system from an outside vendor, Boulder entered into a unique partnership with the City of Arvada to share and mutually enhance the customized content management system that Arvada had developed. As a result, the city acquired the system at no cost. As part of the partnership, both cities have agreed to share enhancements to the system as they develop new features that meet their needs.
“Partnering with Arvada was definitely an ‘outside of the box’ decision, but it made a lot of sense for several reasons,” said Ingle. “We were able to get a system that was developed specifically with local government needs in mind, from the perspective of the staff that use it to communicate with the public, rather than from a vendor. It also allows us to make specific enhancements to it in the future. The partnership will save both municipalities and taxpayers money while mutually supporting our online communication goals.”
The cities were jointly awarded second place in the 2012 Best of the Web (BOW) City Portal Category from the e.Republic’s Center for Digital Government for this collaborative approach to share and jointly pursue innovation for a specialized website content management system.
The city spent approximately $25,000 on the new site design by Vision Internet, a company that specializes in designing websites for local government entities. The Inquire Boulder CRM system provided by Government Outreach, which specializes in CRM systems for local governments, amounted to $19,000 for implementation and annual costs thereafter for system hosting and support.
During the redesign effort, the city also endeavored to clean up its content from the old site. As a result, the city eliminated approximately 8,000 pages of outdated and inaccurate or duplicate information and now hosts a trimmed up site of approximately 4,000 pages.
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