Ryan Schuchard

February 12, 2026 City of Boulder City Council Special Meeting YouTube video by City of Boulder

...both to protect people from unintended harms that can come from automated systems and to move firmly ahead to take more dangerous driving off the table.

Source: Presentation by Judge Jeffrey Cahn on 2/12/26 at www.youtube.com/live/KQYv_uB...

...a scourge on our communities.

Last year alone, these cameras caught more than 16,000 drivers going 10+ mph over the limit through intersections.

This tech is doing real work to improve public safety and make streets more accessible.

We have to keep strengthening and tuning how we use it,...

On my very first meeting as a city councilor in Dec 2023, we approved intersection traffic cameras for speeding.

I don’t like fines. I’m skeptical of “smart” transportation tech. I worry about surveillance.

But dangerous driving is one of the top killers in the US, and inhospitable streets are…

Just learned that 11-24% of people who had their bikes stolen stop riding!!! Strong rationale for cities to provide/require secure bike parking as part of their mode shift efforts.

www.ecf.com/media/resour... ddd.uab.cat/pub/trerecpr...

Thanks for posing:

* Brighton councilmember Lloyd Worth
* RTD board member Karen Benker
* Erie council member Emily Baer
* Lafayette council member Ann Marie Jensen
* Thornton city councilmember Chris Russell
* City & County of Broomfield council member Laurie Anderson Laurie Anderson

It’s taking a village—with a deep bench of staff and electeds across 3 counties.

I enjoyed working with Audrey DeBarros to host the winter 2026 quarterly meeting in Boulder.

The CO 7 Coalition will deliver a people-first transportation corridor with regional Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), a regional bikeway, pedestrian improvements, safety improvements, and first/last-mile connections for ~30 miles from Brighton to downtown #Boulder.

Ryan Schuchard, Boulder City Councilmember

...reference docs—with highlights in the newsletter.

The first edition for 2026 with a look into the year ahead is here in my first post.

And here's the website with everything: www.ryanwithboulder.com

...new improvements.

Now, the newsletter emphasizes coming together to take practical action, while keeping the view broad so readers don’t need prior knowledge.

I’m also posting more statements and explainers with my personal POVs on the website homepage, supported by not-so-easy-to-find...

...events, like a journal of meeting happenings and an overall progress summary, onto a website where it can be continuously updated.

Another was to create the option to subscribe to get the newsletter as soon as it comes out, but you don't have to sign up.

Heading into 2026, I've made some...

That’s what I had in mind when I started a newsletter to speak from the view of #Boulder City Council two years ago. The ideas was to help non-insiders care about, and navigate, the issues our community is working through.

I’ve made adjustments. One was moving content that’s about changing...

Ryan’s Review, a Boulder City Council Update An update from Ryan Schuchard on Boulder City Council

Following local government is hard.

The meetings and processes are just as wonky as at higher levels of government.

But local agencies have fewer resources to communicate and serious local policy rarely makes the news.

www.ryanwithboulder.com/campaigns/vi...

Nearly 25% of teachers in the Boulder Valley School District will stay home today to join the call to end the reign of terror from ICE.

Our kids will join them.

Thank you BVSD and teachers for standing up.

And to the families participating who have the means to do so.

#ICEOUT

Power Outages Cost More Than We Account For. Better Data Could Help. - RMI Extreme weather power outages cause hidden economic losses. Better data can guide smarter resilience investments for utilities and communities.

Power outages cost more than we tend to think.

Businesses close, transportation systems and supply chains stall, refrigerated goods and medicines spoil, and residents’ health, safety, and wellbeing suffer.

Important new findings from @rockymtninst.bsky.social.

rmi.org/power-outage...

2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people

…most who haven’t much been reported on, I guess mostly because they have not-white sounding names.

(Here’s a list: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...).

It was to stand in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis.

We know it could just as well be us.

Hold on my dear ones, here comes the dawn.

That’s what hundreds of people came together in Boulder today to sing in an interfaith prayer walk.

It was a vigil for Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

It was a vigil for the dozens of others who have died in dealings with ICE,…

Protect the National Center for Atmospheric Research Urge your members of Congress to oppose the Trump administration's plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR.) Act now to protect weather and climate research and help stop...

1. Urge your congressional representatives to stand up to end this self-harming recklessness: secure.ucs.org/a/2025-prote...

2. Submit comments by March 13: www.nsf.gov/funding/info...

What Americans Lose if Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

A most basic safeguard of American life is the ability to forecast our climate and weather.

Yet there is a serious movement to eliminate the nation’s top center to do just that.

What you can do:…

blog.ucs.org/carlos-marti...

And shoutout to @runonclimate.bsky.social and @climatecabinet.org who are who profiled and leading the charge.

…policymakers, electeds, and practitioners can work together to harness local governments’ power and make new leaps at scale.

Many thanks to colleagues at @scientistsorg.bsky.social and @iclei.org for their super collaboration and insight on this work.

To scale up climate solutions, local governments need to accelerate system changes - Federation of American Scientists Cities saying climate change matters is typical. The number of US cities with adopted climate action plans is in the hundreds. That’s what we need, since cities drive the bulk of greenhouse gas emissi...

Lights may be flickering in the U.S. climate movement.

But one area is shining brightly: Local governments.

Their growing momentum with climate action—plus their rich potential to make life better and society more climate-resilient together.

Here I share how advocates,… fas.org/publication/...

Thank you, Ryan! ❤️

We made a lot of progress to link their recommendations to council’s agenda this time around and it shows in the results.

And I’m looking forward to strengthening those ties even more in the future.

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So, 2026: You may have won the first week, but we are coming for you.

And finally, a very special thanks to our appointed members of boards and commissions who have contributed a big number of great ideas, some that made their way into the lists above, and some that my council colleague and staff and I are in the process of trying to advance.

…and resilience more broadly.

A big bow to our city’s leadership team, my council colleagues, and the retreat team for making all this happen.

And to the many community members who have worked over the year(s) to invest their time, expertise, and energy to form our ongoing improvements.

15. A long-term financial strategy.

There are so many important things happening—including a ton of planning momentum towards building a more walkable, bikeable, transit-oriented community that is making structural changes towards greater affordability, electrification, wildfire resilience,…

12. Disaster planning: “Tabletop exercise” coming to council.

13. Police and public safety: Two updates throughout the year are scheduled to hear from the police about public safety.

More still, council with staff is still deep in the work of:

14. Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP).

…security (including surveillance issues): City manager is initiating a task force that will make recommendations about principles and values, coming to council for consideration in 2026.

11. Form-based code revisions: Scoping process happening, will come to council under matters.

…an evaluation of different demographics and gap assessment vis a vis DRCOG’s efforts that will come to council in 2026.

9. Vacancy tax: Will be on list of measures for council to consider coming from the long term financial strategy committee in spring 2026.

10. Emerging technologies and data…