{"id":1778,"date":"2010-06-04T09:30:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T15:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2010-06-04T09:30:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T15:30:28","slug":"new-era-news-smartregs-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=1778","title":{"rendered":"New Era News | SmartRegs Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/neweranews.org\/blog\/smartregs-part-2-city-gives-thumbs-up-for-second-reading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/insulation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a little thinking break, the Boulder City Council re-engaged the  issue of SmartRegs at Tuesday&#8217;s council meeting, voting unanimously in  favor of moving it forward to a second reading.<\/p>\n<p>When SmartRegs first <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\/*278*\/\">broke into the  council&#8217;s agenda two weeks ago<\/a>, council members spoke about it with  optimism about its carbon offsetting potential and confidence that it  would pass in some form or another.\u00a0 But after hearing over two hours of public comment, with strong facts  and anecdotes coming  from both sides, the council voted to delay their decision and moved  onto the next agenda item without so much as a closing remark.<\/p>\n<p>It was somewhat unsettling for the over-capacity crowd to sit through so  much stirring testimony only to be rewarded with no response from the  council. What seemed so certain to council members at the beginning was  capped off without any summarizing thoughts or indication of how this  week&#8217;s decision would turn out.\u00a0 <em>Read more in the <a href=\"http:\/\/neweranews.org\/blog\/smartregs-part-2-city-gives-thumbs-up-for-second-reading\" target=\"_blank\">New Era News<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a little thinking break, the Boulder City Council re-engaged the issue of SmartRegs at Tuesday&#8217;s council meeting, voting unanimously in favor of moving it forward to a second reading. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[11,96,95],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-city-council","tag-rental","tag-smart-regs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}