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Boulder staff urge prioritizing $20M in near‑term repairs as $400M long‑term facilities gap remains
Summary
Staff briefed council on a facilities investment strategy that ranks 15 priority buildings, recommends funding minimum infrastructure needs (~$20M over 5–6 years) and outlined rough $500M modernization costs (about $400M unfunded) with scenarios for three recreation centers to be refined before May ballot planning.
City staff told the Boulder City Council on April 9 that the city's building portfolio faces significant deferred maintenance and long‑term modernization needs and asked for council guidance on prioritizing repairs and future capital scenarios.
"Across those 15 priority buildings, the cost to cover the next 5 to 6 years to address the kinds of minimum repairs...the low end is about $20,000,000," Deputy Director Michelle Crane said, describing the near‑term funding staff say is required to keep buildings operating. Crane and other staff contrasted that figure with staff's rough order estimate for major modernization across the same set of priority buildings: "This is roughly in the order of $500,000,000, of which…
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