After much soul-searching, during which I successfully determined that I am in fact NOT a rattan patio furniture ensemble,
I have concluded that I shall indeed attempt a third run at the office of Boulder city council.

My platform in brief:

1)  I want the city to address issues of poverty and homelessness in Boulder.  The solutions may be temporary,
and certainly they may be controversial; however, based on the risks and problems associated with homelessness
that affect everyone in Boulder, I want to raise the level of priority a very big notch.

Although I may sound like a bleeding-heart, some of the solutions
I have in mind are hard-headed and practical.

For instance I support a "wet" detox facility as a utilitarian way of temporarily sheltering an individual who is drunk and
presents a potential harm to themselves or others.
That is a "get tough" approach; however, at the same time, I think we have to greatly increase options
for everyday people who simply have no funds and do need shelter.

2)  I want to balance the city budget without further taxes.  I want job reallocation for all city departments;
but specifically, I want to change the structure and culture of waste that many have found prevalent.  The city does not
need multiple high-salaried attorneys working on keeping a burger joint from serving beer after midnight, or other cases
that put the entire city government in the role of an over-zealous nanny.  I'm for cutting our city attorney's office down to the bare
bones and having paralegals (at obviously lower cost) pick up the drudge work (of monitoring marijuana license applications, as a for instance.)
The excess funds derived from those applications should be turned over to the People's Clinic, or some other non-profit resource,
not used to increase the mass and weight of our legal staff.  Likewise, planning department work should be shared among interns and first-level
workers, with reductions in expensive senior-level staff.  Yes; our current council is scared-to-death of this type of restructuring,
but when they turn to tax initiatives over the more basic assumption of responsibility, a change is desperately needed.

3)  I want to get dog poop off the sidewalks.  Period.  If your neighbor doesn't pick up after their dog, you should be able
to dial a number and get a real response from someone capable of issuing that neighbor a ticket that day.  Furthermore,
I want a scale of increasing fines for repeat offenders to pay for the program.  I'm tired of seeing dog poop in more
locations than a 'Ken Wilson for Council' yard sign.  Both are equally repugnant.

4) While I do not particularly support Xcel as an energy provider, I don't support a ham-fisted attempt to municipalize
the city's energy infrastructure with a bond issue that will cause everyone who has paid for that infrastructure -- across decades--
to effectively pay for it all over again.

5) I may be slightly hampered with my campaign; I received an injury to my cervical vertebrae in February while shopping at Whole Foods,
and am on restricted activity.  (In spite of being a loyal customer since the day of their opening, Whole Foods is so far paying precisely
none of the cost of my physical recovery; which reminds me of one more platform item, the need for an effective "office of consumer affairs"
in Boulder, to handle complaints of common negligence by retail establishments in Boulder, or other issues involving consumer spending
and consumer affairs.  I would ask that the cost of this office be subtracted from the budget of our city attorney.)