What's Coming Up at Boulder City Council
Highlights of upcoming Boulder City Council decisions and discussion topics to help you stay informed and engage on the issues you care about most. Updated weekly.
Detailed agendas are posted when packets come out; this page also includes a tentative schedule of key items over the next 2–3 months. View agendas and outcomes from past 2026 meetings here.
How to use this page
- Look through the list below.
- Use the links to access materials for this week and earlier meetings; new items are added when packets are released.
- Decide whether you want to email the Council, speak at Open Comment or a Public Hearing, or watch the meeting on Channel 8.
- Remember that all dates are subject to change.
JUNE 25, 2026 (SPECIAL MEETING)
The overview and summaries below highlight key agenda items and how to engage with them. The full agenda is available here.
Jump to the summaries of selected items in each section:
Consent Agenda
Minimum Wage Ordinance Changes (First Reading)
What Council is deciding:
Whether to let restaurants pay tipped workers less than the current minimum wage law allows, by raising the amount of wages that can be replaced with tips.
Why it matters:
Workers are telling the city they don’t want their guaranteed wages cut back and they don’t trust that tips will always make up the difference. Making more of a worker’s pay depend on tips makes it easier for mistakes or abuse to slip through.
Transfer of 1055 Alpine Ave. to Boulder Housing Partners
What Council is deciding:
Whether to transfer the parcel of land at 1055 Alpine Ave. to Boulder Housing Partners (BHP).
Why it matters:
The state won’t consider funding the project unless BHP controls the land, so without this transfer BHP cannot build the first 55 permanently affordable homes for older adults and people with disabilities at Alpine-Balsam.
Public Hearings
If you want to share your views on a Public Hearing item:
Sign up to speak at the Public Hearing or email the Council before the meeting. At the Public Hearing, Councilmembers can propose and vote on changes if they feel a perspective has been left out or if new information comes up.
BVCP Adoption (continued public hearing)
Here’s the clean, plainspoken continuation for the BVCP continued public hearing — matching the tone, structure, and style of your earlier newsletter entry, but updated for this stage of the process (no public testimony, Planning Board amendments now in play, and Council moving into deliberation).
BVCP Adoption (continued public hearing and deliberation)
What Council is deciding:
Whether to approve the major update to the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP), including the Planning Board’s required conditions of approval and recommended amendments.
Why it matters:
The BVCP is the 20‑year roadmap that guides land use, housing, transportation, open space, and long‑range policy decisions for the Boulder Valley. It influences where homes can go, what kinds of homes get built, where jobs and services are located, how people get around, and how we protect open space and natural systems.
Much of what we live with today, from our neighborhoods to our open space system to our transportation network, reflects choices made in past BVCPs. This update will guide how people experience Boulder in the 2040s and 2050s and will influence the community for generations.
Matters
Potential Ballot Items Poll and Fund Our Future Engagement Results
What Council is deciding:
Whether to direct staff to prepare any ballot measures for the 2026 ballot that can help address the city’s long‑term financial challenges, and whether to place a vacancy tax on the ballot.
Why it matters:
The city has a growing gap between what it costs to maintain core services and aging facilities and the revenue that comes in. A bond would let Boulder replace or renovate buildings whose maintenance costs are overwhelming the city's budget (e.g., recreation centers, fire stations, and the public safety building).