Agenda Memo

City of Boulder City Council Agenda Item Meeting Date: January 22, 2026 Agenda Title Consideration of a motion to approve 2026 City Council Committee Appointments.

Staff Contact • •

Heather Stauffer, Intergovernmental Affairs Officer, City Manager's Office Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde, City Manager, City Manager’s Office

Draft Motion Language Staff requests council consideration of this matter and action in the form of the following motion: Motion to approve 2026 City Council Committee Appointments.

Executive Summary At the January 8th, 2026, special meeting, council discussed its current participation on intergovernmental and internal committees and boards to make requested appointments and changes to assignments for 2026. Several appointments to vacancies and changes to existing assignments were recommended and supported. These updated appointments can be found in Attachment A.

Council Action Options Option

Outcome

Approve motion language as drafted

If the motion is approved, city council board, committee, and sister city liaison appointments for 2026 will be approved.

Define and adopt a modified motion

Council would need to define any modifications or amendments to the draft motion language. Given the relative simplicity of adopting amendments to this item, making modifications would likely not require staff to bring back an amended version.

Deny the motion or take no action

If this motion is denied, city council board, committee, and sister city liaison appointments for 2026 will not be approved, and committee meetings may be delayed due to inability to achieve quorum for committees where vacancies exist.

Refer back to staff

If council refers this item back to staff, council would need to define any desired changes, and staff would bring the item back to council for review on February 5th, 2026.

Alignment with City Plans and City Council History Sustainability, Equity and Resilience (SER) Framework and Citywide Strategic Plan Alignment SER Framework Goal Area Responsibly Governed Citywide Strategic Plan N/A Staff Notes N/A

Alignment with Additional City Plans N/A

City Council History The memo from the January 8th, 2026, special meeting related to this item can be accessed here: 2026 Council Committee Appointments Discussion (Matters from the City Manager Item 10A)

Analysis There are two groups that have more than two council members appointed, and in accordance with the Boulder Revised Code Charter Section 9, the justification for those groups are as follows:

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Intergovernmental Affairs Committee (appointments: Brockett, Benjamin, Marquis, & Speer) – The Intergovernmental Affairs Committee works with the Intergovernmental Affairs Officer, Heather Stauffer, and makes recommendations to the whole city council on what legislative positions the council should take. In order for the committee to be successful, it requires members with a diversity of political perspectives, policy focuses, and relationships. Having only two members is insufficient to provide this diversity, and therefore, the city council finds it necessary for the committee to have up to four members to provide the different perspectives critical to its success. Financial Strategy Committee (appointments: Schuchard, Speer, & Wallach) – The Financial Strategy Committee works with city staff to review the city’s annual budget, evaluates adjustments to base, as necessary, and recommends to council ballot and policy matters relating to the city’s finances. These tasks and the longer-term nature of financial strategy work benefit from a diversity of backgrounds, term lengths, knowledge, experience, and perspectives among the council members who serve on the committee. This degree of diversity can be challenging, if not impossible, to achieve with only two participating council members. Given how critical financial strategies are to the city’s current and future goals, city council finds it appropriate that more than two council members serve on the Financial Strategy Committee, because more than two members are needed to create a diverse and representative committee.

All other board and committee assignments maintain the standard number of council representatives.

Equity Analysis N/A

Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability Considerations N/A

Community Engagement N/A

Workplan Considerations Staff support for external and internal council board and committee assignments is part of the annual staff workplan.

Next Steps for City Council City staff will coordinate with council members who are serving on new boards and committees as necessary to brief them on upcoming meeting logistics.

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Attachments Attachment A - 2026 Council Committee Appointments