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New Parks advisory members briefed on powers, limits and meeting rules
Summary
Members of the Boulder Parks and Recreation Advisory Board received an onboarding briefing covering the charter and code authorities that define their advisory role, meeting procedures, communications rules and limits on performing administrative functions.
At an onboarding session, the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board was instructed that its powers and limits flow from the city charter and the Boulder Revised Code and that board duties are advisory, not administrative.
The briefing matters because new board members will be deeply involved in budget and capital recommendations; the staff said understanding legal limits and meeting rules reduces inadvertent violations of open-records or open-meetings laws.
Allie, director of Boulder Parks and Recreation, told the board “the charter actually expressly prohibits you from doing the work of parks and…
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