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1. Boulder Public Library District sheds more light on budget (dailycamera.com) — Boulder Public Library District is planning major budget cuts that will eliminate community resource navigators, high school equivalency prep, and the BLDG 61 woodshop at the North Boulder branch while shrinking teen, Carnegie, and makerspace services. Leaders say redirecting about $2.8 million is necessary to fix failing HVAC systems and other aging infrastructure, but it likely means layoffs in the newly unionized workforce and fewer services for Boulder families and teens.
2. Hydrologic Failure — How Every Season Conspired to Produce Boulder's Driest Water Year on Record (bouldercast.com) — Boulder has just tied its driest water year on record, with only 10.65 inches of precipitation and a snow season that largely failed, leaving soils and landscapes parched. Reservoirs and upstream storage are cushioning supplies for now, but experts warn that several similarly hot, dry years in a row could quickly strain Boulder's water system and deepen local drought impacts.
3. Boulder's $76 million flood mitigation project will close CU South for up to 5 years to prevent floods (denver7.com) — Boulder is launching a $76.5 million flood mitigation project at CU South that will close the 308-acre site for three to five years while new dams, spillways, and tunnels are built to protect about 2,300 residents from major flooding. The work follows the 2013 floods and has sparked debate, with some neighbors supporting protection while others fear permanent loss of cherished open space and are pursuing a legal challenge over funding.
4. Soon your non-emergency call to Boulder Police will be answered by AI (dailycamera.com) — Boulder residents will soon reach an AI assistant, not a human, when calling the police non-emergency line about issues like abandoned cars, noise, or fireworks. Launching at the end of October, the ANET system will triage lower-priority calls in English and Spanish so human dispatchers can focus on urgent emergencies, though anyone can still request a live dispatcher or lodge feedback about the new technology.
5. AGC Biologics plants in Boulder, Longmont sold to auction house (bizwest.com) — AGC Biologics has sold its pharmaceutical manufacturing plants in Boulder and Longmont for a combined $16 million, following last year's layoffs of nearly 300 Colorado workers. The facilities were bought by Green Start Colorado LLC, tied to auction specialist Capital Recovery Group, leaving their long‑term industrial use and potential local employment impact still uncertain for Boulder residents.
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