Running for Boulder City Council · 2026
Lynn Segal
Segal is a retired ultrasonographer running for Boulder council.
Money (city clerk; Thursday before election report, filed Oct. 29, 2026; retrieved Oct. 30, 2026): raised $430 · spent $293.25 · matching funds received $0.
About this candidate
Segal is a retired ultrasonographer running for Boulder council. She advocates municipal ownership of utilities and seeks to reduce the university’s influence on development.
- Occupation: Retired ultrasonographer
Bio sources: boulderreportinglab.org
Source availability is narrower than for questionnaire respondents; silence is not a policy position.
In their own words
Short passages from questionnaires, interviews and the campaign website, by topic. If a topic is missing, we have no quote on it. That says nothing about their view.
Downtown
Let the developer pay.
Source: Downtown Boulder Partnership · questionnaire · 2026-09-21 · 2026 Mayoral and City Council Candidate Questions — Lynn Segal
Public safety
The answer corresponds to the last question's answer.
Source: Downtown Boulder Partnership · questionnaire · 2026-09-21 · 2026 Mayoral and City Council Candidate Questions — Lynn Segal
What reporters wrote
These are the reporter's words about the candidate, not the candidate's own.
Lynn Segal is running for Boulder City Council on a platform of reducing CU’s impact on city development and bringing utilities under municipal ownership.
Boulder Reporting Lab · 2026-08-28 · Profile source: Lynn Segal
Lynn Segal, a longtime resident and activist, advocated for municipalization and mitigating CU’s impact on overall development.
Yellow Scene · 2026-09-05 · Profile source: Lisa Ann Jacobs
Endorsements
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What the labels on each endorsement mean
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- The organization or person announced it themselves (their site, their press release, or a news story reprinting that release).
- “X campaign lists Y”
- Only the candidate's (or ballot campaign's) own website says so. We didn't find the endorser saying it. It may be true, but it is the campaign's claim.
- City filing
- A committee's registration with the city clerk names the candidate or measure it supports.
- News listing
- A news outlet lists the endorsement, but we did not find the endorser's own statement.
Titles (e.g. “U.S. Representative”) are as printed on the cited page and describe the person, not an endorsement by their office. A blank title means the source did not give one.
No endorsements on file. That is not opposition.
At the forums, in their own words
Short passages from 2026 candidate forums, by topic, with the question and a link to that moment in the recording. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. If a topic is missing, we have no quote on it. Compare answers to the same question.
Housing
Boulder Chamber forum · August 26, 2026
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?
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)
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
What specific policies, development strategies, funding approaches, or partnerships would you pursue to increase or preserve housing affordable to families at approximately 30 to 40 percent AMI? (submitted by co-sponsor EFAA)
There need to be impact fees more inclusionary housing it's 25 percent it should be at least 50 percent.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 43:44 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
Ballot issue 2J, the residential vacancy excise tax, would be a tax of approximately $4,000 on residential property vacant for more than half the year. Do you support this tax and will it generate enough income to pay for administering this complex program? (30 seconds)
No yes/no label: Supports a vacancy tax in principle but says it should be much higher; not labelled.
We should have a vacancy tax, but it should be much, much higher.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 1:26:56 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
Tell us about one city issue on which you changed your position after considering new evidence or another perspective. What changed your mind?
The wealth disparity in Boulder has eviscerated the middle class, and that's why we are closing our schools.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 1:33:50 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
Budget, debt and the 2K bond
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
Opening statement (one minute)
$40 million for Alpine Balsam, now $366 million. Not OK.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 20:38 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
Boulder voters are being asked to authorize $400 million in new debt through additional property taxes for recreation, public safety and other city facilities as part of ballot issue 2K. Do you support this measure? Why or why not?
No on 2K (the $400 million bond), in their words below.
Opposed for all the reasons brought forward.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 55:19 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
Transportation
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
What are your feelings about the bus-only lanes and the core arterial network (CAN)? Should Boulder continue prioritizing protected bike lanes?
No yes/no label: Opposed 'the way it's going'; conditional, not labelled.
I'm opposed to the can the way it's going because we're developing this place so fast.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 1:06:22 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
Growth and development
Boulder Chamber forum · August 26, 2026
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?
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)
Arts and culture forum · September 15, 2026
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?
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)
Arts and culture forum · September 15, 2026
Final one-minute statement
Every development that goes on here just increases the wealth disparity
Speaker identified from speaking order; the moderator did not name them.
Transcript note: Fifth of drawn names.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 18:49 · (Pt 3/5) 2026 City Council Candidates Forum on Arts and Culture (Boulder County Arts Alliance, YouTube)
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
Opening statement (one minute)
And I'm against CU South. I'm for municipalization.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 19:58 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
If elected, name your top three priorities, and do you believe the city is currently moving in the right direction on those priorities?
The four bungalows next to the library are going to be demolished for senior affordable housing. This is not okay.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 31:57 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
What are your feelings about the bus-only lanes and the core arterial network (CAN)? Should Boulder continue prioritizing protected bike lanes?
Growth is the problem. Area three, not developable, should not be used.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 1:06:41 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
Empower Our Future council climate forum · October 13, 2026
Climate hushing: political leaders now seem reluctant to connect negative everyday experiences to climate change and its driver, carbon pollution. How do you plan to be vocal and lead on climate?
We need to stop the massive growth that does not make housing more affordable.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 27:33 · Empower Hour 2026-10-13 Boulder City Council Candidates on Energy and Climate (Empower Our Future, YouTube)
Climate and wildfire
Empower Our Future council climate forum · October 13, 2026
Council opening introduction, climate and energy forum (one minute)
I want us to do micro grids transactive energy and batteries, and balancing the grid through that system.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 9:30 · Empower Hour 2026-10-13 Boulder City Council Candidates on Energy and Climate (Empower Our Future, YouTube)
Empower Our Future council climate forum · October 13, 2026
Xcel says it will deliver 100% clean electricity by 2050, not Boulder's 2030 goal, and has presented no concrete plan under the 2020 franchise agreement. What remedies would you propose for Xcel's failures to deliver, at the city level, at the PUC, or at the state level? And would you be open to inviting cities that have gone to market for their electricity to come to Boulder to educate us about life after Xcel?
We need to exit Excel yesterday.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 46:49 · Empower Hour 2026-10-13 Boulder City Council Candidates on Energy and Climate (Empower Our Future, YouTube)
Empower Our Future council climate forum · October 13, 2026
Xcel is preparing a decade-long remediation of nearly 2 million tons of coal ash at the Valmont power station. Should Boulder use its franchise and partnership agreements with Xcel to require strong, independent air quality monitoring throughout the cleanup? And if so, how specifically would you do this?
Yeah, it needs to be cleaned up to the highest possible standards.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 1:09:10 · Empower Hour 2026-10-13 Boulder City Council Candidates on Energy and Climate (Empower Our Future, YouTube)
Other topics
Boulder Chamber forum · August 26, 2026
Tell us one city issue on which you changed your position after considering new evidence or another perspective.
I don't want Iran to have nuclear capability. And I don't want Israel to have nuclear capability because we can't afford war anymore.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 56:58 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube)
Boulder Chamber forum · August 26, 2026
What role do you see public and private partnerships playing in some of our greatest areas of need?
Public-private partnerships have always kind of disturbed me because it seems to usually be that the private part is making off like a thief.
Transcript note: Moderator's cue ('Lynn, and then Tina') is garbled in the transcript; speaker confirmed by a listener to the recording, 2026-09-29.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 1:02:14 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube)
Boulder Chamber forum · August 26, 2026
If elected, what specific actions would you take to support downtown businesses, encourage investment, and make economic vitality a priority?
I think the DBA wouldn't be necessary if we stopped the war in Iran
Speaker identified from speaking order; the moderator did not name them.
Transcript note: Moderator called 'Scott, Lynn, Taishya' (garbled) then 'Wendy'; second respondent.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 1:39:36 · 2026 | Boulder City Council Candidate Forum (Boulder Chamber, YouTube)
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
What specific policies, development strategies, funding approaches, or partnerships would you pursue to increase or preserve housing affordable to families at approximately 30 to 40 percent AMI? (submitted by co-sponsor EFAA)
I do not support the downtown development authority
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 44:08 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
Do you agree or disagree that our city council is adequately representative of the social, political and economic interests of Boulder? Would you support a study session on proportional representation?
I don't think people are being represented.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 1:17:37 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
No earlier questionnaire answers on file.
Money
- $430Raised
- $293.25Spent
- $0Matching funds received
- $136.75Cash on hand
2026 · Segal for Boulder · Thursday before election report, filed Oct. 29, 2026; retrieved Oct. 30, 2026.
7 contribution lines, 5 expenditures. City clerk, not TRACER. Clerk statements · Everyone.
Who gave: all 7 contribution lines
| Name | Type | Date | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephanie Chen | Monetary | 2026-10-13 | $100 |
| Brad Segal | Monetary | 2026-10-10 | $100 |
| Randall Weiner | Monetary | 2026-10-16 | $100 |
| Landon Hiliard IV | Monetary | 2026-10-17 | $75 |
| Lucy Carlson-Krakoff | Monetary | 2026-10-16 | $30 |
| Micha Kurz | Monetary | 2026-10-16 | $20 |
| Boaz Nash | Monetary | 2026-10-16 | $5 |
Spent on: all 5 expenditure lines
| Payee | Purpose | Date | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crazy Cheap Political Signs | Yard Signs | 2026-10-08 | $156.23 |
| Michaels Store #5115 | Screen Printing Kit | 2026-10-22 | $68.78 |
| Michaels Store #5115 | T-shirts | 2026-10-21 | $34.34 |
| Michaels Store #5115 | T-shirt material | 2026-10-07 | $22 |
| FEDEX OFFICE | Print Flyers | 2026-10-18 | $11.90 |
Campaigns
| Year | Office | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Boulder City Council | on the ballot |
Forum attendance
- 2026-10-13 Empower Hour: Climate and Energy Forum with Boulder City Council Candidates — attended · recording
- 2026-09-26 League of Women Voters of Boulder County City Council and Mayoral Candidate Forums — attended · recording
- 2026-09-15 2026 City Council Candidates Forum on Arts and Culture — attended · recording
- 2026-08-26 Boulder Chamber City Council and Mayoral Candidate Forum — attended · recording