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Planning Board hears staff on land acknowledgement; board to consider how and when to use it as rules of procedure are updated
Summary
Assistant City Manager Pam Davis briefed the Planning Board on the city's living land acknowledgment and tribal consultation work; the board discussed whether to include a land‑acknowledgment option in its rules of procedure and asked staff to propose guidance rather than adopt a one‑size‑fits‑all requirement.
Assistant City Manager Pam Davis gave the Planning Board a background briefing on the City of Boulder's land‑acknowledgment language and the city's tribal‑consultation work during the Jan. 7 meeting.
Davis, the executive sponsor for the city's tribal‑nation relationship work, told the board that the city's land acknowledgment is "a living document" developed through multiple rounds of revisions with tribal representatives beginning in 2021. She said the statement is intended as a tool to prompt education, reflection and action rather than a rote preamble. As she read an abridged form for the board she said: "The city of Boulder acknowledges the city is on the ancestral homelands…
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