Ryan Schuchard won the fourth seat on the Boulder City Council by 46 votes, according to the results of an automatic recount following the 2023 city election. The recount changed the outcome by one vote.
Schuchard, 46, is a founder of More Mobility, an organization advising local governments on multimodal transportation and climate resilience. In 2021, he was appointed to the city’s Transportation Advisory Board, which advises the Boulder City Council on transportation issues. The recount was not expected to flip his narrow lead over Terri Brncic, 53, who works as a financial consultant and helped launch the Safe Zones 4 Kids 2023 ballot measure campaign.
This year marks the first recount in a Boulder City Council race perhaps in decades. In 2003, the swearing in of new councilmembers was delayed following a recount due to a ballot counting mistake, according to news reports.
The new members of the city council were sworn in ahead of their first meeting on Thursday, Dec. 7. The other newly elected councilmembers were Councilmember Tara Winer, who won reelection, Tina Marquis, a former president of the Boulder Valley School District Board of Education, and Taishya Adams, a former commissioner to Colorado Parks and Wildlife and inaugural member of the city’s Police Oversight Panel.