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Boulder holds public hearing on municipal infractions ordinance; council declines to act on first reading
Summary
City Administrator Brian Bullock read Ordinance 2025-02 in full during a public hearing intended to give the city authority to enforce municipal code; councilors asked procedural and substantive questions but did not take a first-reading vote because the agenda did not list that action.
Mayor Russell Giulio opened a public hearing at 6:41 p.m. on Ordinance 2025-02, which City Administrator Brian Bullock read in its entirety. Bullock explained the ordinance's purpose as giving the city authority to enforce all city code provisions.
Councilors asked questions about how enforcement timeframes would be handled. Patricia Lewis asked whether the ordinance set a period for correcting infractions; Mike Taylor replied that timeframes would be spelled out in each individual ordinance. Drew Dawson noted a procedural constraint: approving a first reading would require a vote explicitly on the agenda, which was not included, so the council could not act on a first reading during the hearing.
No vote on the ordinance's first reading was taken at the March 17 meeting; the public hearing provided the council and public an opportunity to ask questions and hear the ordinance read aloud. The council did not schedule a follow-up or set a date for consideration of a first reading during the meeting.
The hearing record will be part of the municipal record should the council choose to bring the ordinance back for formal action at a later meeting.
