Tim Plass

Website: plassforcouncil.org

Age: 48

Family: I live with my black Lab Molly

How long have you lived in Boulder: 26 years

Professional background: Retired attorney

Political/community experience: Planning Board, Landmarks Board

Education: B.A, Harvard College; J.D., University of Denver

Name a person you admire and explain why: Mayor Susan Osborne. She has done a great job of getting City Council members, who often come at issues from different perspectives, to work constructively together, be courteous and professional and get things accomplished.

Tell us something unusual about yourself that few people know: One of my ancestors, John Witherspoon, signed the Declaration of Independence.


First, we need to have reasonable rates and excellent reliability.

Tim Plass
Second, we need to meet the city's goals for a cleaner supply of electricity that moves us away from coal-fired plants to more renewable power generation and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Third, we should strive for local control and the flexibility to adapt to new technologies.

To reach these goals we should continue to explore the creation of a municipal utility and also be willing to sit down and continue talking with Xcel about what they can offer us.


As a city, we have been fiscally conservative and I fully support that approach. To best provide a high level of services to the city and live within our means, we should continue with priority-based budgeting and focus on providing core services.

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We must continue to improve efficiencies within the city government and look to cost recovery for fee based programs. I also support ballot issue 2A, which without raising taxes, will allow the city to issue $49 million of capital improvement bonds to address safety issues and deficiencies in our city's infrastructure.


We need to make sure that Boulder is a place where businesses want to be and can flourish. Keeping the city's economic vitality program well-funded is part of the answer, as is providing shopping opportunities in Boulder so that we keep our sales tax dollars in the city. We must advocate for continued funding of the federal labs and CU.

Increasing tourism is important, too, and we need to continue funding the Boulder Convention and Visitor Bureau to promote our community. We also need to find ways to keep our homegrown businesses in Boulder as they expand rather than having them relocate down US36. Affordable housing is an important part of keeping Boulder a thriving and vibrant community, too.

I support our inclusionary housing ordinance, as well as exploring options for broader means of funding the affordable housing program.