City of Boulder OSMP Bidding Process - Revision history

Ahoussney: /* Lost Properties */

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‎Lost Properties

Ahoussney: /* Update, April 2020= */

2020-04-22T18:26:05Z

‎Update, April 2020=

Ahoussney at 18:25, 22 April 2020

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Ahoussney at 01:29, 22 April 2020

2020-04-22T01:29:46Z

Ahoussney: /* Lost Properties */

2020-04-22T01:26:31Z

‎Lost Properties

Ahoussney: /* Lost Properties */

2020-04-22T01:25:58Z

‎Lost Properties

Ahoussney at 21:01, 21 April 2020

2020-04-21T21:01:19Z

Ahoussney at 20:43, 21 April 2020

2020-04-21T20:43:44Z

Ahoussney at 20:43, 21 April 2020

2020-04-21T20:43:20Z

Ahoussney at 20:42, 21 April 2020

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← Older revision		Revision as of 20:44, 12 June 2024
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	#Baseine/75th		#Baseine/75th
	#Stengel-King		#Stengel-King
		+	#Jackson-McKinster 2019
		+	#Swartz 2018
		+	#Aweida 2018
		+	#Autrey '22
		+	#Aweida, Swartz, IBM 2024
		+	#Andrus '24
		+	#Awieda Williamson

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 Public comment by email will be entered into the public record for the OSMP Board Meeting Wednesday April 22, 2020.
-==Update, April 2020===
+==Update, April 2020==
 We lost another property - this one was perfect for us and we were a "best fit" scenario. We have lodged a 36 page appeal with the OSMP.
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 Take a look at an excerpt from our appeal (redacted to remove names of specific farms besides our own): [[63 concrete questions about the scoring]]
 The City of Boulder, along with Boulder County, owns the majority of agricultural land in our area and they lease this land out to farmers who manage it.
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 That evidence is contained below:
 ==What We Found 2018==

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 Public comment by email will be entered into the public record for the OSMP Board Meeting Wednesday April 22, 2020.
-* [https://bouldercolorado.gov/osmp/ag-leasing Here is the Boulder Ag Leasing Website] with all the 2020 bid information including the following important documents
+==Update, April 2020===
 The City of Boulder, along with Boulder County, owns the majority of agricultural land in our area and they lease this land out to farmers who manage it.

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 [[File:May_Conventional.jpg|thumb|200px| The difference between regenerative and conventional management is very obvious by simply looking down. These two photos were take the first week of May, 2018 across the property line from each other. The difference is due to the much higher carbon content of the soil. This results in both greater productivity and greater carbon capture.]]
 '''Urgent:''' ''Tell the OSMP Trustees how you feel about this issue''
-−
-Public comment by email will be entered into the public record for the OSMP Board Meeting Wednesday April 22, 2020.
 Here is the email address to enter your comment into the public record: '''[mailto:OSBT-Web@bouldercolorado.gov OSBT-Web@bouldercolorado.gov]'''
 The City of Boulder, along with Boulder County, owns the majority of agricultural land in our area and they lease this land out to farmers who manage it.

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 Here's a possibly incomplete list of properties we have lost bids for (in no particular order):
-#Hodgson-King (Twice - 2015 and 2018)
+#Hodgson-King 2015
 #Hunter-Kolb
 #Kolb Brothers

← Older revision		Revision as of 01:25, 22 April 2020
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	==Lost Properties==		==Lost Properties==

−	Here's ~~the total~~ list of properties we have lost bids for:	+	Here's a possibly incomplete list of properties we have lost bids for (in no particular order):
		+
		+	#Hodgson-King (Twice - 2015 and 2018)
		+	#Hunter-Kolb
		+	#Kolb Brothers
		+	#Aweida
		+	#Schwartz
		+	#Spicer
		+	#Watt
		+	#Webb
		+	#Methvin
		+	#Cohagen
		+	#Lewis
		+	#Baseine/75th
		+	#Stengel-King

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 Public comment by email will be entered into the public record for the OSMP Board Meeting Wednesday April 22, 2020.
-Here is the email address to enter your comment into the public record: [mailto:OSBT-Web@bouldercolorado.gov]
+Here is the email address to enter your comment into the public record: [mailto:OSBT-Web@bouldercolorado.gov OSBT-Web@bouldercolorado.gov]
 The City of Boulder, along with Boulder County, owns the majority of agricultural land in our area and they lease this land out to farmers who manage it.

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 '''Urgent:''' ''Tell the OSMP Trustees how you feel about this issue''
-public comment by email will be entered into the public record for the OSMP Board Meeting Wednesday April 22, 2020.
+Public comment by email will be entered into the public record for the OSMP Board Meeting Wednesday April 22, 2020.
-Here is the email address: OSBT-Web@bouldercolorado.gov.
+Here is the email address: '''OSBT-Web@bouldercolorado.gov''' [mailto:OSBT-Web@bouldercolorado.gov '''OSBT-Web@bouldercolorado.gov'''
 The City of Boulder, along with Boulder County, owns the majority of agricultural land in our area and they lease this land out to farmers who manage it.
-Over the past several years our farm, [[Jacob Springs Farm]], has submitted bid proposals for a total of 20 [[City of Boulder OSMP Bidding Process#Lost_Properties|properties we've lost]], all within one mile of our farm. Land prices are so high and the city owns so much of the agricultural land that it’s very difficult to expand without leasing land. Time and time again our well-researched and extensive proposals have been turned down in favor of other, less sustainable and less desirable farms.
+Over the past several years our farm, [[Jacob Springs Farm]], has submitted bid proposals for a total of 20 [[City of Boulder OSMP Bidding Process#Lost_Properties|properties we've lost]], all within one mile of our farm. Land prices are so high and the city owns so much of the agricultural land that it’s very difficult to expand without leasing land. Time and time again our well]-researched and extensive proposals have been turned down in favor of other, less sustainable and less desirable farms.
 For years we have attempted to find out what we could do to make our proposals more attractive and to understand how the decisions were being made. City staff have told us that our bids themselves were fine, and then proceeded to give us a variety of reasons why we were not awarded the bid - reasons that did not make much sense ranging from questionable to illegally discriminatory (City staff stated that they “gave it to them because they come from an “old farm family” - whereas [[André Houssney|Andre]], an immigrant, came to Boulder as a child - isn't this discrimination based on ancestry?) Even though winning bids are supposed to be public record, for years our requests have been ignored. In 2018, confused and puzzled at being denied once again we escalated the process until we had some answers. Some changes were made to the process including and appeals process, increased transparency on the decision making criteria and easy access to all bid materials on [https://bouldercolorado.gov/osmp/ag-leasing their website.]