City budget · 2026
2026 · City budget. This issue in: 2026 2025 2023
People on the 2026 ballot who answered this cycle’s question. Answers from earlier years stay on those years' pages.
Open space budget priorities question (wording partly garbled in transcript)
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City of Boulder Colorado Candidate-Forum - 090226 (greenlight studios, YouTube)
Tina Marquis
PLAN / Open Boulder / Better Boulder forum · September 2, 2026
we need to look at what the different demands are and go through a prioritization process.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 54:46 · City of Boulder Colorado Candidate-Forum - 090226 (greenlight studios, YouTube)
18 on this ballot are not in the source for this question. Silence is not a no.
What would you do as a council member to make Boulder's budget, debt commitments, use of dedicated taxes, and major capital priorities more transparent and understandable to the public?
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Ryan Schuchard
Arts and culture forum · September 15, 2026
we've got to strengthen our balance sheet. We need more predictable and flexible sources of funding.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 3:53 · (Pt 2/5) 2026 City Council Candidates Forum on Arts and Culture (Boulder County Arts Alliance, YouTube)
Rachel Rose Isaacson
Arts and culture forum · September 15, 2026
We need to have clear public dashboards that clearly illustrate exactly where money's going, why.
Speaker identified from speaking order; the moderator did not name them.
Transcript note: First of drawn names ('... Rose Isaacson, Lynn Segal, and Ryan Schuchard').
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 1:37 · (Pt 2/5) 2026 City Council Candidates Forum on Arts and Culture (Boulder County Arts Alliance, YouTube)
Lynn Segal
Arts and culture forum · September 15, 2026
The planning board is going to approve a density increase at Naropa University in about a half an hour.
Speaker identified from speaking order; the moderator did not name them.
Transcript note: Second of drawn names.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 2:41 · (Pt 2/5) 2026 City Council Candidates Forum on Arts and Culture (Boulder County Arts Alliance, YouTube)
16 on this ballot are not in the source for this question. Silence is not a no.