Same question, every candidate · Boulder Chamber forum
If elected, name your top three priorities. And do you believe the city is moving in the right direction or wrong direction on those top priorities?
Asked at the Boulder Chamber City Council and Mayoral Candidate Forum, August 26, 2026.
Each page shows one forum question and every candidate we quote on it, in ballot order. There are no scores. We mark yes or no only when the candidate said it outright. A blank means they didn't, so read the quote. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording.
| Candidate | In their words |
|---|---|
| Lisa Ann Jacobs | Fiscal sustainability and core services, economic vitality, transportation and street safety. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 7:42 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) they're getting too low fines where people are not doing jail time for serious crimes. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 8:23 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) |
| Taishya Adams | I would also put climate justice and climate resilience at the top of my list. We have had the warmest and the driest of the seasons that we've ever had before. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 9:22 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) And lastly, public safety for all. ICE is here. We have increased discrimination issues across our community and it's time to make sure that the council is leading on public oversight. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 9:37 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) |
| Aaron Brockett | my top three priorities will be increasing the availability and affordability of housing, increasing our wildfire preparation and resilience, and also streamlining our regulations and permitting to make it easier to work with the city of Boulder. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 10:00 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) |
| Fred Smith | there's a thing called TABR and we need to go over TABR on this because we could do a petition drive in one week that would pay for itself. Transcript note: 'TABR' = TABOR (Whisper spelling). Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 10:45 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) |
| Aquiles La Grave | We need an independent city auditor that reports directly to council and is looking at the performance of our programs Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 12:15 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) Fire is an existential threat to Boulder. We must address it. We must address it immediately. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 12:51 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) |
| Lee Gilbert | I have one single priority and that is to oppose transportation projects that make things worse. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 15:49 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) the changes they made on baseline are absolutely terrible. They ignored accident data and they made it more dangerous for bicycles than it was before. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 16:06 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) |
| Sam Fuqua | Housing is my top priority. My family benefited from that in the 1990s and I'm going to work hard to make sure families today and tomorrow have those same opportunities. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 13:28 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) |
| Ryan Schuchard | One, to lower the cost of living for everyone. Number two, to adapt our community to a world that it wasn't built for. Three, to make our local government more predictable and effective. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 14:49 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) We're getting infill housing combined with transportation strategies that allow people to structurally get around more efficiently. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 15:07 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) |
| Jamillah Richmond | I am a single parent that lives in affordable housing. And so my first priority would be housing. Housing that is accessible to the lowest wages of us and our middle income earners. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 16:42 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) |
| Benita Duran | Wildfire mitigation needs to happen. It needs to be more aggressive here in Boulder. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 18:19 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) |
| Tara Winer | we need to reduce red tape so people and businesses can get stuff done. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 19:11 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) we need sales tax revenue to pay for all the stuff that we love so much. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 19:38 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) |
| Rachel Rose Isaacson | We need to modernize our land use code to create little income housing ownership through inflow redevelopment streamline permitting Transcript note: Likely 'middle income housing ownership through infill redevelopment' (Whisper). Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 20:06 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) I support a independent performance audit to evaluate outcomes, strengthen long term planning and rebuild public trust. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 20:17 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) |
| Scott Rendleman | We are headed in the right direction with the community wildfire protection plan. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 21:29 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) my third priority is to increase affordable housing through increasing the supply. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 21:49 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) |
| Jill Grano | in Boulder, a full time minimum wage job pays about 40% of AMI. And only 0.7% of our housing stock is available to that income category. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 22:27 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) So, no, I can't say we're on the right track, but I believe we can get there and I'm running to be part of that change. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 23:05 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) |
| Ryan Jamieson | We have a Kafkaesque sort of process to be able to get approvals for building housing, for opening businesses Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 23:32 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) we can't do anything about climate change if our city is on fire. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 24:01 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) |
| Lynn Segal | They're going up to seven stories and it's absolutely unsustainable for us to have this much development. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 24:55 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) It doesn't matter how much housing you put here. Everyone's going to come and it's going to be higher. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 25:20 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) |
| Tina Marquis | Trying to find more middle income housing, making sure that our climate is resilient, working hard on safety, including safety from wildfire Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 25:53 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube) |
If a candidate isn't listed, we didn't quote them on this question. They may have been absent or not called on.