From the Daily Camera (Boulder):  Boulder met its obligations under the Colorado Open Records Act with the release Monday evening of a financial spreadsheet of utility data, but the city should have made that information public sooner, Boulder District Judge Judith LaBuda ruled Tuesday.

The judge, however, refused to force Boulder to release additional information about the proposed municipal utility that city resident Patrick Murphy had sought under the state’s open-records act.

Murphy, funded by an anonymous benefactor, had sued the city to obtain “a detailed 20-year cash-flow analysis” referenced by Heather Bailey, executive director of energy strategy and electric utility development, in a September letter. Boulder denied an earlier request from Murphy under the open-records act.

After Murphy filed the lawsuit seeking the analysis, Boulder officials released a previously undisclosed financial spreadsheet late Monday.

The 20-year cash-flow summary showed steep increases in the projected cost per kilowatt-hour over the first three years of utility operations as the city assumed debt payments on the utility system.

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