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re_ Tennis in Boulder 17_RedactedFrom:Rhodes, Alison To:Thornton, Jonathan Cc:Woulf, Mark; Huntley, Sarah Subject:re: Tennis in Boulder Date:Wednesday, May 15, 2024 4:58:51 PM Attachments:image001.png Jonathan, Per the below thread, I've drafted the below update for City Council. I welcome your input and thoughts on it by noon tomorrow, when I'd like to send to City Council in advance of their meeting. RMTC_Council Info 051524.docx Thank you! From: Woulf, Mark <WoulfM@bouldercolorado.gov> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 3:37 PM To: Rhodes, Alison <RhodesA@bouldercolorado.gov>; Huntley, Sarah <Huntleys@bouldercolorado.gov>; Rivera-Vandermyde, Nuria <Rivera- VandermydeN@bouldercolorado.gov> Subject: RE: Tennis in Boulder Hi all, @Rhodes, Alison I agree with you that we should simply prepare a message that clarifies what we have done, what is under our control, and what we are planning to do. I believe some of your previous messages directly to these folks capture these sentiments. It would be great to be able to have something ready to share with council so they have to be able to reference prior to public comment tomorrow. Let me know if you need any help! Mark From: Rhodes, Alison <RhodesA@bouldercolorado.gov> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 3:02 PM To: Huntley, Sarah <Huntleys@bouldercolorado.gov>; Rivera-Vandermyde, Nuria <Rivera- VandermydeN@bouldercolorado.gov>; Woulf, Mark <WoulfM@bouldercolorado.gov> Subject: Re: Tennis in Boulder I can ask. I am concerned that anything we write that doesn't include giving them land or a partnership is going to feel like further lip service - I'm not sure there's a win for us here. Instead we may just be best trying to correct the record to clarify what we have done and what we plan to do. From: Huntley, Sarah <Huntleys@bouldercolorado.gov> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 2:01 PM To: Rhodes, Alison <RhodesA@bouldercolorado.gov>; Rivera-Vandermyde, Nuria <Rivera- VandermydeN@bouldercolorado.gov>; Woulf, Mark <WoulfM@bouldercolorado.gov> Subject: RE: Tennis in Boulder I agree we could benefit from a consistent and thoughtful response. Ali, could Jonathan work on something? I will note, however, that none of these emails are coming in through the council correspondence form. They appear to be going to council members’ individual email addresses, so we will need to develop a way to capture them and distribute the response …. From: Rhodes, Alison <RhodesA@bouldercolorado.gov> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 1:59 PM To: Rivera-Vandermyde, Nuria <rivera-vandermyden@bouldercolorado.gov>; Huntley, Sarah <Huntleys@bouldercolorado.gov>; Woulf, Mark <WoulfM@bouldercolorado.gov> Subject: Re: Tennis in Boulder Oh good - thank you for sharing. Goodness, this is disheartening. I don't share their perspective on the chain of events, however, I very much appreciate their concern about the change in their access to tennis this winter. This email campaign is very specific to RMTC's pending loss. I had heard from someone connected to this project that they were going to "rile folks up" in hopes to be able to stay at CU South. CU allowing them to operate there has given them hope that they could stay. From: Rivera-Vandermyde, Nuria <rivera-vandermyden@bouldercolorado.gov> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 1:40 PM To: Rhodes, Alison <RhodesA@bouldercolorado.gov>; Huntley, Sarah <Huntleys@bouldercolorado.gov>; Woulf, Mark <WoulfM@bouldercolorado.gov> Subject: FW: Tennis in Boulder And to my earlier email… Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde City Manager (pronouns: she/her/ella) What's This? O: 303-441-3090 riveravandermyden@bouldercolorado.gov City Manager’s Office 1777 Broadway | Boulder, CO 80302 BoulderColorado.gov From: Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2024 9:02 PM To: Brockett, Aaron <BrockettA@bouldercolorado.gov>; Adams, Taishya <adamst@bouldercolorado.gov>; Benjamin, Matthew <benjaminm@bouldercolorado.gov>; Folkerts, Lauren <folkertsl@bouldercolorado.gov>; Marquis, Tina <marquist@bouldercolorado.gov>; Schuchard, Ryan <schuchardr@bouldercolorado.gov>; Speer, Nicole <speern@bouldercolorado.gov>; Wallach, Mark <wallachm@bouldercolorado.gov>; Winer, Tara <winert@bouldercolorado.gov>; courts@bouldertennis.org; Rivera-Vandermyde, Nuria <rivera- vandermyden@bouldercolorado.gov> Subject: Fwd: Tennis in Boulder External Sender Notice This email was sent by an external sender. Dear Mayor, City Council and City Manager, I am a member of the tennis community. I am writing to plead for help and for you to listen to what’s really going on. Boulder prides itself on equity and access, but now we're becoming a country club town where only the privileged can participate. For years, Parks and Rec has said it is on top of the collapse of the supply of tennis courts. More than two dozen are going away. This will be the first winter in decades with no publicly-accessible winter tennis. Seniors and families are left out in the cold. Wheelchair tennis has no home. The tennis community in Boulder, filled with families, children, parents and hardworking taxpayers, is being disenfranchised. We have begged, pleaded and warned Parks and Rec. We've gotten lip service. Our efforts to reach Parks and Rec go back many years. More than 18 months ago, on Nov. 11, 2022, Parks and Rec Director Ali Rhodes told the city council that she was in talks with local partners to work on a solution. She said: “I have had multiple meetings in the last six months, probably, with folks at RMTC, with folks at Coburn Development, who are the developers at the Millennium, with folks at the Boulder Tennis Association and the newly formed BOCO Pickleball Club. We have told all of them we are interested in this conversation, that we would love to determine if and how we should partner on a racquet facility in Boulder.” That was 18 months ago. No action has taken place. AND that very month, the city got its wish to annex the tennis courts at CU South, eliminating another 12 courts at the end of this year. Added to the loss of 15 courts at RMTC, we are losing 27 courts in the span of a year. The answer of Parks and Rec? It says it will add a net of three new courts at East Boulder Rec Center in the next few years, with NO winter courts. There is talk of plans at Valmont Park more than 5 years from now. Talks, exploration, words, inaction. When community members ask for action, they get crocodile tears and condescension that we don't understand the process, or how long it takes. This is so unfair, even mean, given that Parks and Rec has known for years this was coming. It has already been a long time! Now, the crisis moment is here. There will be no publicly-available tennis next winter. CU Women have no home. Wheelchair tennis has no home. Seniors and families will not have the recreation for many, many years because Parks and Rec and the City of Boulder decided not to act and continues to study and delay. Are we to be the home where only the country club members participate in recreation? We ask this: demand action from Parks and Rec. Do not accept empty promises as we have now realized that’s what we’re being given. We no longer will accept these promises. You have our full attention. It’s time to stop stringing us along. Sincerely, Sent from my iPhone