Welcome everybody. Um, welcome to the
June 10th environmental board meeting.
Thank you for joining us tonight
everybody. Um, this is a hybrid meeting.
My name is Don Mcwills. I'll be the
chair tonight. This is a hybrid meeting.
So, we have some folks online, some
folks in the room. For the folks in the
room that have questions, comments,
please tip your sign up and call them in
the order I see. For those of you
online, raise your hands and I'll be
watching up there to to call you in the
order that I see as well.
>> Stacy, can you pause for
>> uh Tom Anderson
>> here?
>> Nancy Davidson
>> here.
>> Tommy Dvau
>> here.
>> Raja Pandi
>> here.
>> Uh Kieran Pan has an excused absence. Uh
Don Mc Williams.
>> Uh Rea Risha Chararma has an excused
absence. Shannon Rod
>> here. Alex Lee Tignar has an excused
absence. Susie Dearo
>> here.
>> Uh Keith Gmer Gonzalez
>> here
>> and Fred Krishnan I think is joining
later
and we have quum tonight.
>> Okay. Thank you.
Um next up approval of minutes. Is there
any comments from the previous minutes
of the last
hearing? None. We'll call them approved.
All right. Our two topics tonight. Oh,
first, public comments. Do we have any
public comments, Stacy?
>> Uh, I did not have anyone indicate they
wanted to provide public comment. We did
receive written public comment from Ann
Fletcher on the IAP. Um, is there anyone
in the room that wants to provide public
comment?
>> Nope. Okay. All right. two topics
tonight. Um, we have the student interns
here tonight that give us their uh
they're going to do presentations for us
of their recent recent projects they've
been working on. Then we're going to
take a short break and then Stacy's
going to walk us through the IAP that
went to council last night and they had
a couple small changes and she wants to
introduce those and if everything's
good, we might be able to approve it
tonight.
>> Okay, great. Um and I did forget to note
that um Shredar, Susie, and Shannon will
be sitting in as regular members tonight
for the voting agenda item.
>> Great. Um well, thank you so much. Uh we
have done this for the last couple of
years, but had an opportunity for the
students that we've been working with
over the last school year to present all
the amazing work that they've been
doing. Um so, first we're going to hear
from three of the Gibson High School
interns. Um they range from sophomore,
junior, and graduating senior. Um and
have been working on a huge variety of
projects that they'll be speaking about.
Um and then we'll hear from our team of
sustainability ambassadors that have
also been working on a number of
projects mostly related around
transportation and they'll be discussing
a bit about the work that they're
planning to do over this next school
year. Um we thought we would then take
about a 10-minute break. Uh that way if
you want to interact with any of the
students, ask any follow-up questions,
um you can do that. So we're going to
start with the Gibson High School
interns. I think Bridget is gonna get it
over first.
Um you can stand up here. It's a little
awkward for the camera, but best for the
the audience.
>> Yeah, stand up. You're welcome to sit
too if you're more comfortable.
>> Totally stand
everyone.
Oh thanks.
>> Hi, I'm Bridget Lesley. I was um one of
Stacy's interns this year. I've been
interning with her for the past two
years. Um
pretty my main project this year though
working on solar arch installations at
Pickering Barn and the senior center.
So, as some of you may know, there are
solar panels that are being installed um
at both Pickering Barn and the senior
center. So, to help our community gain a
little more of an insight into the solar
panels that are being installed, um they
wanted the city wanted to um put up a
couple of art installations to get more
community engagement and community
interaction and just to help our
community gain a little more education
into solar panels and solar energy. So
my I was also working with a now college
graduate Paige who was so amazing to
work with. Um we our first kind of main
goal was um doing a community outreach
uh event at the city visiqual library in
October where we showed a couple of
possible ideas for what we could be
putting up as the actual art
installations at these specific um
places here in Isiqua. And then we got
some community feedback from the from
people in our lovely Isabella community
of what they thought could be different
about the um installations, what they
liked about them, what they didn't like,
and what what else they wanted to see
from us as far as this project went. Um,
some of the most interesting feedback I
think that we got was like what what
more can we do to educate um the rest of
our community and also um if we can add
any more artistic elements into the
actual art pieces. Um so for the
Pickering Barn um art piece it we had a
couple of different iterations. Um, some
of them were more educational and had a
lot more signage of how solar um, energy
was actually going to be used or how um,
sorry, how um, energy is
being used in our daily lives and how we
could be reducing our energy and those
types of things. And then another
iteration was actually a sunflower um
that had mini solar panels on the leaves
and then also outlets for people to then
charge either like an ebike or a ecooter
or even like a cell phone. Um and they
did the community did lean more towards
the um the more artistic piece of that
and so that was pretty interesting to
see that they wanted something more
artistic from us. And then as far as the
senior center art piece, uh the we found
that the um community just wanted to
know what did the seniors think of this?
What do they want to see from this
project? And then from the feedback we
got from that, we had to then go and
talk to the actual seniors that were in
the senior center almost every day. What
do they what do they want to see in
their space? So we got to talk to them
and they were very lovely to talk to.
They had so many amazing ideas. Um they
were very um open to any and all ideas
that we had. So it was very difficult to
try and narrow down just one. But um the
three that we came up with were um to
have a professional um art artist try
and commission a mural for us um and
then possibly have panels different
panels of the of a a mural um around a
solar battery that would be in like the
backside of the senior center. Um, and
then another one was to have a more
community focused art piece where the
seniors would actually go out and paint
a specific either like shape or a fish
like at IB they have that big fish mural
on their fence. Um, and the third one
was a kind of combination of the two
where we would possibly partner with a
artist and then also community members
to try and create a vigor art piece uh
on the fencing of a solar battery. And
based on that, we kind of were leaning
more towards the community one just to
help engage more of our community to get
them more um interaction around this
kind of project. Uh
and then it kind of was at a standstill
for a little while just because there
were a couple of hiccups in the road. Uh
but um by the time that uh I had to go
and leave this internship, I created a
um write up of all the possible ideas of
um the art installations for the senior
center. So, what does the fencing look
like around the battery? What does the
different art pieces look like around
the battery fencing? Um, and how we
could engage the community with those
art pieces as well as the next steps for
the city to continue on with that um
senior center art piece project. Um, so
that was so amazing. But as far as the
Pippering Barn art installation project,
that has been uh more of me and Paige
collaborating together. Uh we got to
present an actual prototype of what uh a
possible mockup of a solar
flower, if you will, would look like in
the space. Uh kind of a smaller version.
Uh Stacy, did you bring
>> I did not.
>> Okay. to bring it, but I can bring up a
picture of it. So,
>> um, so Paige basically created a believe
it's plaster or paperier-mâché version
of what the uh flower could look like in
the space. And then she uh put on a
mockup of what a solar panel could look
like for the leaves and what it could
look like in the space. And then we got
to present it at the actual unveiling of
the solar panels at Pick Pickering Barn
and got community feedback and people
were very positive about that. So that
was very endearing to see. So it was all
so amazing and
yeah, we also got to present it at um
the sustainability fair. couple of
people came up to us um at the front
booth of the I guess the entrance booth
of where it was um and were asking about
what it was, how people how we came up
with it and I got to talk to a couple
people about that. So, it was a very
interesting and fun project. I got to
collaborate on with a couple of
different people.
>> Great. Okay. Do you want to introduce
Oliver?
>> Yes.
>> Oliver Jones who's in um the online
version of this meeting is my advisor or
has been my adviser for the past four
years um at Gibson High School um and
>> here supporting me and another student
Emma um in via online. So
>> hi everyone. I'm not sure you all can
hear me.
Yeah. So, I would just say thanks thanks
so much to uh to all the work Bridget's
done, of course, and then of course to
Stacy for supporting uh Bridget, but
also our u our entire program. So, thank
thanks for having me.
>> Okay, great. Nice job.
>> Yeah, very nice.
>> When's the artwork going to be
installed? Um, I am not 100% sure, but
that also has to do with some of the
funding to the actual project, but I
believe the city has been putting in
funding or has been planning in funding
in their next year's budget or for the
Pickering project. We're considering in
our budget for next year. We also want
to look for grant project for the um
battery project around the fencing that
is part of our grant. So, we'll that
will be going in once we have the
fencing and and all that, possibly the
fall, but yeah, we may be looking for
another student or volunteer that can
help run a community program to pull
that together.
>> Nice.
>> This is a very cool project and I think
this is amazing. Um, so I wanted to
check I was just curious and maybe this
is a question for Stacy. How much is the
cost associated with you know these
kinds of artistic solar panels if you
want to install in multiple places means
I'm guessing there will be some
difficulty with the
um you know the structure itself to
actually have effective solar panels
installed right
>> plus the cost associated with that do
you want I so we talked to a nonprofit
organization that works on solar art
projects and the type of model page and
Bridget were looking at the version you
saw was a small version. I think they
were envisioning five, six feet tall.
Um, and what they thought would with
that side, the amount of solar and then
a battery that could charge a ebike or
even light it up. Um, probably 20 to
30,000 depending how big we wanted the
battery. If it's just to light up the
piece of work or just do it during the
day, it may not be that much. But with
the metal fabrication um for that type
of structure, that was the estimate. So
we'll be looking for some grants, maybe
have a small city match for that type of
project.
>> You did a lot of research on that, too.
I don't have anything else to
>> add. Most most of the metal fabricators
that I did find in Washington or I guess
the Seattle area um their main focus was
in like fencing and building more
industrial
um metal works for like bigger
companies, not the more artistic side of
things. It was kind of difficult to find
stuff that would match our vision.
Oh, sorry a little sidrack there.
>> I'm just curious if staff has looked at
I know that some of the tech companies
are using some very small solar pieces
like SpaceX has a very interesting solar
system that they're using in their
satellites. have taken a tour of their
facility and have we ever looked at
partnering with some of these tech
companies that are using solar
technology and maybe having them help
fund some of these things and reaching
out to them?
>> We haven't yet. I think those are we're
be interested in grants but maybe it's a
technology partnership as well because
most yeah the metal fabricators they're
not they don't do the solar so we'd have
to work with someone else. It'd be
really kind of cool to get some of their
tech expertise on this stuff involved
because it's a different beast than the
panels that you're putting out there to
generate a lot of electricity and
they're putting those really small they
unfold in the sky techn. It's amazing
what they're doing with solar.
So
>> great. Yeah. Thank you.
>> Okay. Any other questions? very much. We
look forward to seeing you.
>> I'm going to college in Oregon, WAMIT
University. So, lot lots of cool fun
stuff ahead.
>> Good luck.
>> Right. Will, do you want to say
>> Yeah,
>> come on up.
>> All right.
Uh
slide situation.
>> Yes, I will pull it up. Just give me one
minute.
>> All right.
>> Do you want to say?
>> Yeah, that works.
>> Okay, cool.
>> Sorry for online folks having not the
best uh visual, but um it's okay.
>> I swear I don't hate you.
>> You want to start introducing yourself?
Well, just take me one minute and I'll
bring it down.
>> Um, hello everyone. I'm a high school
junior. My name is Will Keryotti. Um,
I've had an internship also with
sustainability but with David instead of
Stacy this year. Um, my lovely adviser
is in the back. She's supporting me. Her
name is Mia.
Okay.
Um,
this internship was strongly focused on
data, especially at the start, but it
did kind of branch out in different
directions. It's been a really cool
thing and it's actually got me
considering sustainability as a career
path. So, it's been really fun. Um,
one of the first things I worked on this
year was um in reference to the clean
buildings incentive program. Basically,
it was if a building is a certain size,
they have to meet a certain standard of
cleanliness with their energy and with
how they manage things. Um, and I was
going through kind of a list of
buildings of that size and going, "What
kind of building is this?" Um, and
seeing how we could help them meet that
standard and incentivize them to so that
they're not just like, "Well, I'd rather
take a fine.
Um
so that was one of my first projects. Um
my next project was reviewing municipal
sustainability standards. Basically we
were looking at standards that we could
set for the city itself um for going
forward into a new climate action plan
and seeing what kind of standards other
cities had set for themselves. Um, I
looked at cities like both nearby
Belleview Seattle um Redmond Reon
like the nearby area to see what their
plans regarding climate were. But I also
looked at cities that were doing
particularly well all over the US to see
what kind of standards they had set for
the city. Um, and three standards that
we found were really common and
potentially doable for Isiqua were
electrifying the city's light fe light
light fleet of vehicles, reducing some
percentage of buildings using natural
gas, and an overall emissions reduction.
Um
the next project that I did was
um a city sustainability story map. So
if you aren't familiar with the term
story map, it's related to ArcGIS or
global information systems. It's
basically
um a way to make a bit of a website out
of a bunch of data. Um, and I looked at
a bunch of different city sustainability
programs and what they were doing in the
data we had collected from them to see
if they were actually working. Um, this
is actually an ongoing project and I've
only gotten to put a strong focus on a
couple of city programs, but I hope to
get through at least the list of all of
them I have right now by the end of next
year, if not more. Um,
if you would like next slide, please.
Um, one program I looked at was our tree
giveaway program. Um, I basically
charted out where every tree that we had
planted from that tree giveway program
was in reference to, um, originally the
canopy um, because we were trying to
meet a specific canopy goal. Um, but I
actually moved to charting it in
relation to the tree equity score, which
is a way of taking that in relation to
canopy heat
demographic that lives in that area to
make it
to make it more um equal and more useful
um for us to see where trees are getting
planted. Something that was noticed is
you can probably tell on the map, the
darker green um is where a higher tree
equity score is. Um more trees are there
or people are less affected by lack of
trees. Um
and so a lot of trees are ending up
focused in those areas that are already
doing very very well. So that is
something that can be addressed and we
can look at that and see how can we make
it easier for people in other areas to
access programs like the tree giveaway.
Um the next program I've been looking at
this year um was the clean air program.
I've been looking at a couple of
different metrics to try to measure
um
how we can see if it's working well
enough because
the issue is all of Isiqua is affected.
Sorry. First of all, the the clean air
giveaway program was um a program made
in reference to wildfire smoke. It is a
giveaway of a fan with a filter um that
helps filter out smoke from air. Um
and
I'm trying to find a metric by which to
measure if it's successful enough. Um, I
might have to go back and alter what
data I'm looking at, bring in more data,
or I might have to find some kind of
survey that can help be minute enough
that I can use it referentially to this,
but I'm still figuring that out. So,
that's going to be a bit of a next year
project, too. Um
and then another project I have had with
the city um was actually not a project
that started with the city. It is my
capstone. So for those of you who don't
know, we go to a project based learning
school. And for your last two years, you
do a really big long project called your
capstone. Junior year, the year I'm in
now, is all about research. Senior year
is all about action. Um, and I when I
was here realized that sustainability
fair would be a really good venue to
collect information on my project
because my project is how can I get
people my age more access to or more
into outdoor recreation. Um, and I was
like, well, I can find out
what people like to do there. Um, and I
can use that as a jumping off point to
figure out what kinds of things I could
do there. Um, and from that I collected
a bunch of data from a bunch of people,
whether it was talking to me, whether it
was putting a little stamp on a board I
had or filling out a survey. Um, I had a
couple different avenues of people to
reach me. Um,
and I determined that something that's
really helpful is like social and
community events. Um, so I've actually
planned kind of loosely already two
things for next year, which is one a
smaller crash course at my school um,
regarding like intro to hiking and
outdoor stewardship and like making it
more accessible to teenagers to get
outside. Um, and I can also use that as
a venue for feedback for what I will be
doing later in the spring of my senior
year. Um, probably a community event.
And I've reached out to urban forestry
to help me plan that and it looks really
great so far.
Um I don't Do I have more slides? I
don't. Lovely.
>> Any questions from there?
branch.
>> Uh so I have a question on your um the
story map you had for the tree giveaway
program right?
>> Yeah.
>> So you said the dark green areas is
where especially we have enough tree
canopy and the giveaway trees are still
ending up there, right? So my question
was how do you know the where the
giveaway trees are going? Means because
uh did they actually track who took it
or the address the trees were going to?
>> Um yeah. So when someone does the tree
giveaway program, they're like, "Hey,
here's where I'm blending it." Um, and
then we take that data and we go from
there.
>> Okay. So the tree giveaway program, I
mean, at the sustainability fair or that
is different, is it? That is very small
portion of it.
>> That one
>> because I got a tree from there and they
didn't ask for my address or anything.
So I was just curious to know how they
track it. Okay. Yeah.
Thank you.
Tom.
>> Uh, yes. I was just curious whether you
looked into the air quality monitors
known as the purple air system as one
input to your health monitoring
um part of the program.
>> Um, I don't think so.
>> It might be something you can look into.
So what it is is um citizens and and
institutions can buy a little monitor
and I have one at my house and it's on
the web and purple air is an app that is
used to check on these so you can get a
measure of of like particulate matter in
in the air from smoke or whatever
throughout a region using using the
power of that app. Now, you you won't
get a real lot of resolution. Isqua,
there's there's at least a half a dozen
of them or so in the city of Isiqua, but
there's not a hundred. Uh so, it might
be something to at least be part of the
story, but probably not the full story
that you want to capture. So, worth
looking into anyway.
>> Thank you.
>> Yeah, you bet. Shannon,
>> I was just curious uh how many people
you got to speak with at the
sustainability fair. I wasn't there. So
I was wondering how like I don't know
the turnout.
>> Did you feel like you got
>> ballpark of maybe 20? I don't know. I
had I got to speak to a lot of people
and that was actually the main way I got
feedback.
>> Sure.
>> Um but I had like maybe 10 people give
me like I had paper pamphlets that you
could write down. I had a couple of
people respond to an online survey. Um
and then I had a lot of people just like
want to put a little stamp down. Yeah.
>> Um, so
that's about the numbers. I'm trying to
remember exactly. It's kind of a small
group and it definit Well, not
definitely. It there's some likelihood
that it skews outdoorsy. Um, just
because it's people who are out and
about. Um, I might be less likely to be
tapping the like antisocial teenager
market. Um,
>> but I think it was still kind of useful
to hear what people liked there.
>> Feedback's good.
>> Um, and I think it was definitely enough
for me to go off of and say community
events are really useful for people and
like social events, things that are fun
and with other people um, feel more
approachable.
>> Great.
Great
job.
>> Great. Thank you. Next up,
>> next up is Emma.
>> And we had some tech issues with Emma's
presentation. So, there's some missing
images but
>> okay.
>> Oh, we'll get through it.
>> I'm sorry.
at the city sustainability department.
My project this year has been working on
is climate action plan update. I've been
working on tracking and summarizing
public comment in the comment tracker um
which helps keep the public comments and
changes for the IAP organizing
the comment tracker. Um, at the
beginning of the year, um, I attended
the climate event at the library to get
some community input, um,
some possible new actions and ideas for
the plan update. After this, I
summarized the data I received from the
event and put it in the comment tracker.
Um the majority of my work in the
commerce sector was revolving around
summizing public comments from community
community members and such as the
transportation board and different like
companies and that and comments. Um one
of the bigger challenges with this task
was making sure kept all of the main
points of each comment well making sure
it wasn't too long and could be easily
understood.
Um, the comment tracker also included
six categories that I had to organize
the comments into. The categories were
overarching changes, buildings and
energy, transportation and land use,
materials and consumption, natural
systems and water resources and
communities and wellbeing. So basically
like they usually send me like an email
with like a big letter from someone or
like that and then I would summarize it
and put it in whichever category I
thought it fit best into. Um,
another project I've been was worked on
was making um a survey for students in
Isqua school district to give their
input on the IAP update since um we
thought that a lot of high school
students don't always feel they have too
many opportunities to share their fun
like this. So, we first did some
research on how to make an effective
survey and ways to keep people engaged
um and not like drop off the survey
halfway through. We did decide to keep
the survey mostly multiple choice for
this reason. Once we had developed the
survey, we sent it out to as many
students as we could though. There was
like
class where we had mostly Gibson next
students because that's where we go to
school. Um which though we did get some
people from school high school. Um
though it was mostly Gibson neck, we
still got a lot of responses and the
data was valuable. You can't really you
can't see it because it's like not let
you but um after we sent out the survey
we took the data and created a write up
to show city staff our findings. Um
yeah,
and then a smaller thing that I did was
working on researching implementation
plans for from other cities so that
Stacy and David could use my research
when creating escort implementation
plan. Um I researched about how the
other cities formatted their plans and
what sort of metrics they used. Um and
then we had a meeting kind of talked
about what we wanted to use for class
and what wasn't as important. Um the
main two cities that I was reaching were
from researching from was Belleview and
Redmond. Um and then the final project
that I've been working the past few
weeks was updating like the web page for
the IAP. Um so I just I looked at the
old one and
um updated to reflect the 26 updates and
switch it to a 10 year plan. Um, and so
Stacy and I thought that
initial work that I done
and then
um I've done we've done a few different
things besides those. Um, we helped the
sustainability fair and we updated like
the passport.
Um, we toured the ecology recycling
center which was very interesting. And
then I hope Bridget like monitored some
of the geocaches that she put in last
year as part of her internship here. Um
and then some of my main takeaways um
from this internship I learned about
what it would be like having a job in
this department improving my
professional communication expanding my
knowledge on sustainability and better
understanding of how much effort and
like time it takes to implement major
policies and plans like I have. Yeah.
>> Yeah. Um, what were some of your
findings from the student survey?
>> Um, well, it was mostly I mean there was
like we basically asked questions on all
the different categories and like what
people's thought about different things.
Um, a lot of things that we found,
especially because it was mostly from
our school, was that they didn't have
like enough like storage for like bikes
and stuff. So, yeah, as a like part of
my benefit school, I've been working on
like putting one a bike rack at our
school to help with that.
>> Building a bike rack. He's working on
building a bike rack.
>> Cool.
>> Yeah. Thank you. Um so you you got all
the comments that you talked about
across different categories or six
categories.
How were those comments generally across
which category did you get the most and
were they suggestions or were they what
kind of comments did you get?
>> Um I mean like there was there was a lot
from like most of different categories
and a lot of people had like multiple
comments within their like thing that
they sent. So like across different
categories so I just kind of separate
it. Um, I mean a lot of them were just
like suggestions on what like on like
current actions that were in there and
what they thought could be changed about
them or in support or sometimes they
would be like kind of suggestions for
new actions as well.
>> Good to know. Thank you.
>> Very cool.
>> Thank you, Emma.
>> Um, we are going to transition now to
sustainability ambassadors. So this
wonderful group is gonna come up. Um let
me
have not presented from Canva before. So
let me see if that will work. You guys
want to change? That would be good. Let
me know.
>> Yeah. Thank you.
>> There's a couple and I don't want to
have to make you Not a lot. Sorry.
All right. So, we are the sustainability
masters. As Tracy lovely, thank you for
having us here. Um, introduced us
earlier.
We are going to be talking about a brief
overview of what we've done in the past
year and maybe even a dipping a little
bit back and then a little bit forward
too with what we want to do in the
future. So, just start off the bat and
get into the carbon commute count.
Similar to
>> your names first.
>> Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. So, uh, yeah,
I'm Cersei Allan. I'm a junior in high
school is high school.
>> I'm Tanner Mills. I'm a sophomore high
school.
>> Oh, hi everybody. Nice to see all of you
here. My name is Belle. I'm a junior at
ESCO High School.
>> Hi guys. It's nice to meet you. I'm
Tahina Donna and I'm also a junior at
Esco High School.
>> Thank you. Sorry to interrupt. No
worries. My bad.
Okay. Um, well, thank you for that.
Sorry. Okay. So, the carpet is something
is a kind of our first objective of this
year, similar to what uh Will has done
at Gibson. Um, it we've been tracking at
in the King County area, but also since
we are all from Islqu
has done. Um, here's a brief overview.
We mapped out all the city uh cities and
then also mostly schools. We were able
to track transportation um
car uh carbon emission data. Sorry. So
um here you'll be able to see a little
bit but we'll zoom in closer on what we
did. So we actually were able to get
13,400 responses from King County alone
which is a very great feat for us. So
you We are hoping to have this data as a
secure and um trustworthy data point for
a baseline in the future for future
projects. Um
so good to get sorry it was good to get
a very baseline sort of overview and we
got a pretty good like said reach. We
didn't get to all of the schools we were
hoping to. As you can see, there are
some that are missing data. But that
again would be um something that we look
forward to uh next year just so we can
have a baseline for all schools and so
we can um sort of implement our new like
wider projects and have um data points
to begin from for all those.
Okay. So for Isqua spirits again, we
were able to get like zooming in on
Isco, we're able to see three schools
with 1,653
responses and we were able to calculate
out that it's 2.2 pounds of CO2 per day
just in transportation alone. So that
was a pretty big finding and we'll
definitely be fueling some of our like
uh biking and bus pushes that we're
going to be doing. Um, so I'm sure all
of you on here are pretty well
acquainted with how much one ton of CO2
is due to your like environmental
prowess and like understanding like and
I don't even mean that sarcastically.
I'm sure like I've seen a I've saw you
guys bike in. I was like, "Oh, these
guys these guys are on it." So yeah,
this is one C ton of CO2, but Isqua
alone, Isqua School alone per year does
454 tons of CO2 in transportation. So
this is I think that it's good to have
numbers like this for us so we can you
know tell people about it and educate
and also understand where we can remedy
certain areas.
>> It's pretty eye opening because that is
quite a large sum. So anything we can do
kind of chip away at that block would be
monumental and especially if we can
continue that over time. Um, since we
are juniors and most of our squad team
is juniors, we um, look forward to the
future of Lake Tanner implementing more
people into sustainability ambassadors
just to keep this program going and to
keep because our our main goal is for to
have these um, incentives that we'll be
going over after this as well just so
that they're long lasting and so that
it's um, it's a continuity and not just
something that we're doing now and then
kind of fizzles out later.
>> Yeah. And the two such is the liberty
there. That is roughly about how much
454 tons weighs. So that it's like quite
a lot.
>> Just quick is this cars or cars and
buses or buses?
>> Yes. So we actually did a split of like
what we understood like of the carbon
emissions for transport and it was uh
considering buses as well but it was a
very small sliver. Bella you said for
people transporting was like five. Yeah.
So, it was mostly individual vehicles
because, um, when like on the survey
that we got this from, it was what
transport you use to get to school. And
so, um, I think I don't know the exact
percentage, but over 80% it was
individual, uh, vehicles, which is quite
a lot. Um, and I'll go into that in
Thank you.
>> All right. Yeah. And the carbon commute
count is it's important because of its
relation to ISCO policies. The ISCO
climate action plan as was mentioned
earlier and as OE7 which is also
spearheaded by some sustainability
ambassadors in the past. Matthew Fischer
was uh it is pretty congruent and um we
want to really uphold that effort that
has been made before us. So just saying
how it fits into not just sustainability
ambassadors but the policies already
implemented too. Yeah, there's our
lovely Yeah, and there's a Gibson
sustainability ambassador Zoe if you
guys know.
See it.
Yeah. And so just the goal of collecting
this data is to um have a baseline for
each school and um for the fall and um
like throughout the school year is just
to have a really good baseline from the
beginning and sort of adapt our
expectations for for each school and um
just sort of the attainability of some
of our goals like individually because
if we're going to have a very broad it
just it just doesn't really work within
the individual school like for Gates
since you guys are very project based
like it's different than Isqual High
School because we have
over 2400 students who all have
individual cars and who don't most
people don't live close to the school
and so um just having that base point is
very very important um to like I was
saying earlier to continue these
programs
>> okay and then carpool
>> all right so um based off what I just
said we do have around 2500 students at
school high school um three quarters of
those students do drive their own
vehicles to school which is data that
we've collected from the carbon commute
center. And so the IHS carpool story or
the carpool priority is um is the
incentive for people to carpool to
school. And so our first and um so how
this works is each year students who
have licenses apply for a parking pass
at the school. Um and it's more of ease
for transportation for each student.
Like everyone has sports after school.
It's really nice to be able to park in
the main law. It's also kind of a social
thing. So, it's more of a social
incentive for that as well. I know that
I want a main lot spot because I do
sports and I do not want to have to walk
to get my car at the end of the day. Um,
so people who two or more licensed
drivers will be riding together to
attend the high school. Um, they apply
for a parking pass together and then
each day they will come together to
school and then leave which excuse me
which alleviates um saying five cars
going just in just one. Um and then so
they would get first priority for passes
and then it would be individual seniors,
individ individual juniors and then
individual sophomores who are lowest
priority and um it's only if spaces
remain and there are spaces free parking
spaces around the school um that they
can park at. Um the only limitation for
parkpool passes is that they um you do
have to pay for the main lot and so that
is a consideration as well. Um but if
it's again it's an incentive for
multiple groups of multiple groups of
people to go together because you can
split the cost of that
>> and uh like Bella said it is something
that is already established and so the
one of uh future goals could be that we
encourage this and I know that a lot of
other schools in the King County area
are looking to do more carpool based
passes and I think how's done it is a
really good system that it's almost yeah
like this in integrated into our culture
of how we get to school. And so, yeah,
we're we're really trying to make a
model for other schools to do that as
well.
>> Um, and then along the lines of
transportation, uh, we're moving to
Transit Bingo, which is a new, um, a new
thing that we've begun this year, which
is quite a lot of work has been put into
this. And so, Transit Mingo is basically
a fun way to encourage the use of public
transit to and from school and just in
everyday life. Um, I know that most of
you know the light rail opened this
year. So, that's also been a very big
push for us as well. That's been very
good for numbers and I've had a lot of
myself included, me and my friends have
ridden it multiple times. It is safe and
it's um very um accessible to people
especially in this area since it's
coming over to the east side. Um, and so
way that we implemented transingo into
our school was for clubs and school and
individual groups to um complete
challenges to earn bingos, which is what
each square is. And then the school with
the most bingo wins at the end of the
year. And there is a cash, I'm not sure
if it's cash, but there's a uh money
prize. And so that's also an incentive
for people to um complete bingos. And
then um specifically for us for
sustainability ambassadors, we do things
called impact projects. And to be a
sustainability ambassador, you're
expected to do three in your time. Um
and Cersei and we have excuse me, we
have created a transit bingo impact
project with Cersei is completed. And so
she'll go through that right now.
>> Yeah. So this is just an example of one
of the entries. It's my own entry. Um,
and I actually did a video to help uh
spread like I made a video to kind of
broadcast how easy it is. And it was a
uh I think I actually did all of these
in one trip. So, it was a cool
experiment to kind of see how people are
receptive to like the kind of game
approach to sustainability. And that was
it was wellreceived. The video was very
wellreceived amongst my peers. Uh but I
think that in the future if we were to
do this again, if we were to do this
again, we would definitely make sure to
have the prize money that Bella has uh
that Bella mentioned, make sure that the
prize is very well understood amongst
all of the classrooms. That's something
that was definitely a constraint for
some of the teachers. They didn't fully
understand and that's something that
we're going to continue on with next
year. Yeah. And just on that note, it's
um going forward since it was a new new
implementation this year, obviously
there's going to be some hiccups.
Obviously, there's not going to be a
great, you know, it's not going to stick
as much as we want it to. And so, the
result that we did get was really great
for the first year. And hopefully, we'll
be able to um push that out to the
school in a more um straightforward way
and so that um the stu the teachers can
then show that to students. And so it's
not just coming from um students who
don't have a big super big voice in the
community. And so um this could be your
school next is sort of the idea that
we're going for and we're sort of trying
to push the that the money prize. Um and
with 49 bingo and 800 pounds of carbon
um emissions avoided this year the
winner was
>> Yeah.
>> Wita High School.
>> Yes.
>> Um and they I'm not entirely sure. Um I
think we've we've talked to the to the
sustainability officers there and they
shared with us some of their um uh some
of their pathways of sharing the transit
bingo and it was just through through
classes through clubs. I know that the
eco club at Wanita is very strong and so
that's how they pushed it through as
well. And so um I'm part of the equal
club at Isco High School. And so I tried
to push it through that as well for
that, but we are quite small and so I
think it was about three or four of us
who actually completed a bingo this
year, which is a little bit unfortunate,
but hopefully we'll be able to grow that
again next year through those avenues.
>> Yes. Okay. Um Yeah. And then also a
small thing, there is like a Spanish bus
pingo which I thought is a very like
just personally I do like I I've taken
Spanish classes in the past and I
thought this was a really interesting
and very on point uh addition that a
curriculum could add and uh definitely
will be investing more in this in the
future. again, Spanish teachers weren't
fully they didn't fully understand the
games um actual how it was done and how
the ASB was able to distribute money. I
think that was something that uh Spanish
teachers didn't really understand. So
that was something that's something
we're going to work on next year again
like that was previously mentioned.
We're going to talk with Wanita and how
they pursue that. But yeah, this is
another thing that I think me personally
are pretty excited about. And then just
to specify SP when we say Spanish brush
bingo bus bingo, excuse me, we mean that
the Spanish classes push out a Spanish
version of the bingo board. And so that
the students are then um required to
complete a bingo like for the class. It
wasn't necessarily in the curriculum
this year to actually complete that.
Like what we would try to do in the
future is so all the teachers implement
this into their curriculum and you get
you get points in the class for it. So
it's more of an required thing rather
than just you know, oh here's this
board. I don't know what it means.
Great. Move on.
>> Yeah. So, yeah.
>> Yeah. And a lot of Spanish teachers
recepted to received it very well. They
really liked it. But again, like they
did communication.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay. And then Yeah. Here's a photo from
the two line opening. That's something
we were able to be at the ribbon cutting
of and uh again, we're going to have a
workshop surrounding the two line and
since it's pretty fresh in the
community.
Yeah. Okay.
So we had May bike to school months
and we went through and during this
month we took photos of multiple photos
multiple times of of four schools. So we
have PCMS, CMS, IHS and IMS. We weren't
able to put all the photos on here cuz
not enough room. But for PCMS and CMS,
we don't have as many bikes or scooters
due to the rain in the photos. But we
have decent participation from PCMS in
terms of scooters and bikes overall. And
CMS, there is a small amount of bikes in
scooter participation due to the fact
that it's so hilly and people don't
really want to bike all the time there.
>> IHS on the other hand, we always have uh
electric bikes, electric scooters, bikes
in general. People are always biking
there and our bike racks are almost
always full. And IMS is about the same.
Today, that day was a little small, but
usually it's pretty full there, but they
sad sad part is they only have about one
bike rack, so they can't have a ton of
storage there. So, we might push to see
if we can get more bike racks there in
the future so more people can
incentivize
>> to bike. So 7.9% of students from IMS
and IHS use micromobility um according
to the carbon commute count and then
29.2% of students use ebikes and
scooters out of the students who bike to
school.
>> And this is an important baseline for
some of the movements that we're doing
like the bike to school that is
occurring now and then will occur later
in October. Uh we also are using the
information of our geography and like
understanding why people might not bike
to for how we can fuel events in the
future like making it more of like a
sporty type event for if it's a more
taxing hill or if it's a more flat area
talk about as a more leisure activity.
So understanding social aspects from the
data here.
So our goal is like like Cersei just
covered is to establish a bike rack
baseline for all schools and the month
uh bike to school month was a very good
way to do that since it was very
incentivized or not incentivized but it
was very widespread you should bike to
school. Um and we also want to encourage
more ebike participation plus bike
participation in general and promote the
October bike to school day.
So our DA sustainability toolkit was
built by some ambassadors not just at is
a quality department but overall and its
goal was to get a widespread uh baseline
and detailed way to promote
sustainability within DECA because DECA
is such a large organization that
pushing it out could reduce carbon
emissions and sustainability overall.
>> Yeah.
And then this is our ASB sustainability
plan, which is ASB is another huge big
part of Isiqua High School culture,
which is basically the leadership point
of it. So we're the ones that plan the
school dances, the spirit weeks,
basically anything that happens around
Isiqua High School is pretty much done
by ASB. So whenever you see on the
slides encourage this, advertise this,
most of that is done through ASB and the
sustainability initiatives that we've
done in ASB. And so you can see here how
we created a sustainable purchasing
guide this year. And then also through
that that would also change the event
planning that we would do for events
like homecoming, prom, and then also to
which I don't know if you guys know what
that is, but also like spring fling and
things like that. Um, and basically is
the whole point of it was this year
during the summer we found around 4,000
plastic forks in the back closet and
people will still planning on buying
more forks for homecoming that year. We
don't need more than 4,000 forks for
homecoming. So, the point is to reuse
what we have and not to buy more things
just for the sake of a new theme and
just aesthetic purposes. And so that's
what we did with ASB this year.
And yeah, like Tahina said, since ASB is
such a large governing body, not only in
Isqua, for every high school, um we
really want to heavily focus on the
expectations of the sustainability
initiatives in ASB just so they have an
understanding of of how to successfully
um plan and uh go through events without
creating as much waste as we have in the
past. And another thing would be like
football games like um just the the
trash and waste that's left by the
masses of people just so we have a
better way to kind of control that and
just um keep our school clean because
that's the the baseline ways we can um
go through with ASB sustainability tool.
>> And in the future we're planning on
having a lot more initiatives around
sporting events like cleaning up stuff
from because the football games get kind
of messy. So cleaning up after yourself
and then hopefully gaining like a raffle
ticket or something to get a prize has
been something that we've talked about.
And this year we also did an Earthweek
spirit week. And so through that we did
a lot of these initiatives where you
sign up for an orchid card. You get a
piece of candy. You turn off the lights
in your classroom. You get a chance to
win a prize. You fill up water bottles.
You get a chance to fill to fill up a
prize. you bring your reusable water
bottle, you get free stickers. So, just
those initiatives is really what gets
kids to care about this stuff because
while we care about the sustainability
aspect, these are tired teenagers and
they don't really know a whole lot. So,
we got to find some way to make them
participate. And on the note of ASB, we
actually were able to do a town hall in
which ASB was invited along with a
sustainable design and technology class.
and we got the uh city of Isiqua the
board to come and it was uh most notably
a Q&A type of session where we were able
to talk with others. Um David Rey and uh
Stacy were also there. So it was it was
just a great collaboration time and
ability to uh talk with others. Bella
and Tanner, I know that you guys
>> Yeah. So me and Cersei are actually in
that sustainability class and I was so
moved and so um just infatuated with the
meeting and and all the information
shared that I actually ended up chasing
Peter down after the meeting to ask him
how I could get involved and I would not
be standing in front of all of you today
um as a sustainability ambassador if we
have not had this town hall. So,
personally, I very very am um hoping
that we can continue this as a tradition
at Isqua High School and hopefully
spread it to um more cities and more
districts as well, just so we can get
the involvement that we're hoping to
continue with. Um and like I said
earlier, with graduating seniors,
there's always an influx and um a push
out of students. And so, we just want to
keep a a very baseline um strong team.
And so if we were to be able to have
this town hall next year and the year
after that, that would allow us to do
so.
>> Yeah. Same thing with Bella. This town
hall. Uh when I was there, I was also I
heard what Peter and Cersei and Tahina
and Cam were all talking about. And then
the Q&A and seeing what the city's
really doing and wants to do and I
realized that that's something I want to
be a part of. And I ended up talking to
my friends after it. And a lot of them
also have the same like they want to do
this, they just don't have the time
commitment. So, I feel like if we go to
more town halls and we have more like if
we really are open with uh school and
with the kids what they want to do, um I
feel like a lot more people would join
because this was really limited to a
certain amount of people and it was only
really ASB and then some sustainability
classes. So, I think if this is like a
assembly or some sort of larger event
that was more advertised with posters, I
feel like we could get a lot more
participation and then our people for
sustainability ambassadors.
>> Yes, we're very lucky to have fella in
there.
Okay. Did you do it?
>> No. Yes. Okay. So, yeah. Again, like
they said, we're trying to do as many
town halls as possible in the future and
we're very happy with our work.
>> And then really quick, um, as I
mentioned earlier, the entire precipice
of the ASB toolkit is to be adaptable,
right? because we want as many schools
as possible to take in these initiatives
and sort of make it work for that school
just so there's they're doing something
instead of oh well you know we can't do
this one thing and just kind of throw in
the plan away. We want to reach as many
people and as many groups as as possible
and it's um it's more inviting if if
it's not such a rigid structure. And so
having that adaptability and having sort
of these fun events to like pick and
choose what you want to do and fit into
the school day is a really just
important way to spread our influence.
And we've already started doing that. So
over last summer we me and a couple
other sustainability ambassadors created
the toolkit that you guys saw. And then
that's kind of just like a template for
what you can do. And then essentially
what would happen is we would present it
to all the other sustainability masters
and they would take it to their
respective schools and format it for
their own ASVs. And we've already
started that process which is really
exciting.
>> Yes.
>> And also um adding on to what Tina says
not just ASV but we can also we're also
thinking of like diversifying and how
can we bring sustainability to any type
of club. Me and Tanner are in robotics
and so that'll be a very interesting
angle. Um I think we have dinner every
night when it gets really busy. So how
do we add sustainability there? How do
we recycle more parts? Um yeah, so this
is just start.
Yeah. And then to end off the circulator
route. Um originally it was called route
200 and or the freebie. And so this has
been something that is has gone away in
the past, but the increase of Highlands
residents and just movement around
there. Even though there is the metrlex,
we're looking at how can we maybe
possibly bring it back and you know
pitching to the city looking at how we
can really um get we want we first our
first step actually was to get a
assessment of what the students actually
think like what do students want? would
they actually want this back? And we got
resounding um responses in the amount of
time. I think it was pretty it was a
pretty short window. We got 16 869
responses and there was a good amount
from the highlands. And so that's really
good news to hear considering um it is
aimed for the Highlands residents. Uh
and even though there were
yeah even though there's like route 554
on the measure of flex there's still a
high need for it and so this is
something that we're very excited about
and is yeah and so with that we it was
such a short window of time when this uh
survey and this route was presented to
us um and we it was spread over I think
three or four different individual
groups. I spread it to the Eagle Club.
Uh you guys spread it to robotics. I
spread it to two of my individual
classes. And so for um the amount of
time that we were given it was pretty
good uh turnout. However um we are
looking to still push um to get to
collect data from this just so we have a
like a very strong baseline to then
present this to um it's called
transportation and if they decide to
actually uh bring it back or not. Um and
then again this would go with the bus
bingo transit. It would encourage that.
would encourage um again the carb
commute count and we could hopefully
increase the number of um public
transport users and decrease um just
individual vehicle use as well.
>> Yes. And if you guys want the QR code is
there if you guys are curious about
possibly reviving just speculating
interest but you will have an impact. So
if you guys want um and I think that
that's our last slide. Thank you guys.
Thank you so much.
>> First, thank you. Um, so good
presentation, lots of great initiatives,
great job. Um, so a couple of things
here. So, first one I wanted to check
was, um, you talked about transit bingo,
right? And the success of or how many
people actually contributed and stuff.
So um that is specifically for school
buses right that runs it bingo or is it
>> No, it's for public public buses.
>> So then I had a suggestion on that. Have
you reached out to King County
>> library system? The libraries have
events where you can hold a booth and
actually keep your flyers for transit.
Oh really?
>> That would be a great idea. I mean
county library system host lots of these
kinds of events and they would be happy
to do it because it's it's meant for the
community. So that would be a good way
to do that. And also you might have
already reached out to different um
green teams or eco clubs in different
schools.
>> Yes, absolutely. We um we try to get to
middle schools as well just since this
is not a high school based um group and
we got in contact with Isqu Middle
School but not Cougar Mountain. that
that will be our next sort of reach for
that.
>> And couple of other uh places you can
also reach out to will be youth boards,
city youth boards as well as um lots of
most elementary schools in the area have
STEM fairs where they will have all
these kinds of booths available and you
know uh they will have sustainability or
earth events things like that. So those
would be good ways to have a booth and
talk about it um to increase the
visibility primarily. But I think the
library would be a great area to move
to.
>> Thank you. I appreciate that.
>> Um and the other question I had was um
the data for um the carbon commute,
right? The tons data. So you said you
did surveys. So my question was
especially since you had the data
specific to Isaakqua high school I was
just curious to see did you do the
survey so if you have 2500 students did
you get 2500 or close to 2500 responses
or how confident are you about the
carbon commute data
>> I would say that it was pretty decent
and considering like I think that
obviously all data can be manipulated
but as someone who took the survey
myself and also guided my friends
through you know the survey themselves.
I was able to see how
there was a section where you could see
how far away from the school do you live
and then also um like what kind of like
auto like automotive do you take do you
take a car etc do you car poolool and so
that was important in how we do
calculations so we actually had a way to
calculate distance and then equate it to
how many um how much carbon have you
actually emitted and so that's how So,
we were able to get numbers like that.
We would take the distance that was
traveled that the student would input
and then um put it into our um
calculations. So, I think I'm pretty
confident. And then just to answer your
question specifically, out of 2500
students, about uh I think it was 1,653
actually filled out the survey
completely. So, um, obviously not not
enough, like not the entire school, not
100% of the school, which is what we
would officially like, but also it's
just very hard to push out, uh,
something electronically throughout the
school day, just again with with
teachers and not wanting phones and
stuff like that because that was our
main avenue of of pushing that out. We
also did put it on Canvas and so every
student at a school, high school has
access to Canvas, which is our learning
portal. And so, um, unfortunately, you
know, we can't make a student fill it
out, right? So, um, hopefully next year
we'll have a a better baseline for that
and we'll actually increase our numbers.
But, but yeah, that was that's what we
got from this year.
>> And the reason I was bringing that up is
since you're keeping the percent
reduction goal over the years, right?
You want to know that how much how much
how many responses you got the first
year versus how many responses you are
getting the third year. So for example
if if third year you're getting 2500
responses and your you know ton of data
like the carbon commute number looks
higher you want to include that so that
you know exactly you know so that you
will have a better estimate of how much
reduction is happening. Yeah, thank you.
>> Great job. Thank you. Thank you.
>> Thank you, PJ. Nancy,
>> by the way, great job, guys. I'm very
impressed.
>> Thank you.
>> Um, I have a suggestion. You're talking
about reducing your waste like at
homecoming and at football games.
>> Have you ever gone down to climate
pledge and asked for a tour of how
they're doing it? because they are
totally sustainable and you need to go
down and talk to the experts that have
found a way to reduce the amount that
they're of garbage and stuff like that.
What they what are they doing and how
could they partner with you to do
something better at high schools? And I
think it would be an a I think they
would embrace you. I think it would be a
great opportunity for all of you to meet
some of the leaders in the community
that are trying to change things. And I
highly encourage you and if you need any
help, I know a few people so I might be
able to not. But anyway, I just think
it's a great place to
ways to reduce how much garbage goes in,
especially at big events like
homecoming, football games, all that
stuff. So, I don't know. Have you looked
at climate pledge at all?
>> I actually not true. Not true. I really
appreciate you saying that because um me
and Peter have been working on something
for a little while. This is sort of an
individual project that I've been going
on. Um, but I don't know if obviously I
see you're wearing a Kraken sweatshirt,
so I I know you're into the sports and
everything
pledge a lot.
>> Oh, yeah. Big fan. So, I um but I have
been looking into the Green Sports
Alliance, which is a national
organization that um that does exactly
what you're speaking about. And actually
um both T-Mobile Stadium um I don't
think Lumenfield is quite up there yet
and Climate Pledge are the um first zero
carbon. Yes. And so I've been
researching that quite a bit and uh me
and Peter's goal is to create a student
group that um is an affiliation with
them and that uh brings in all of those
all of just the waste and just kind of
there's many different levels of what
they do and obviously they're on a
professional level so they have funding
which is a big um right
>> a big issue for for high school level um
just to bring to sort of bring that to
down to high school level and um there
is there they are in affiliation with
colleges. And so we actually were
thinking of applying to the organization
as a college base, like a college group,
excuse me. And they have memberships.
They have um they have a few different
avenues to get into um with all of the
the mentors and the um people in higher
positions um with that information. So I
I do appreciate you saying that,
bringing that up because that is
something that personally I have been
working on behind the scenes. So
>> cool. Thank you.
>> Very cool.
>> Thank you, Susie. Yeah. Um I'm curious
um since uh a lot of the initiatives
that you were driving um focused on kind
of bottoms up individual student actions
um you did also talk about a policy that
you drove um for the school district.
I'm curious how you think about um kind
of topdown initiatives as opposed to
kind of grassroots um like how do you
think about engaging
um you know your school procurement
uh or
uh other district policies that could
have um kind of a top down impact. Um
I'm curious how your English
>> when you say top down just to clarify do
you mean like from teachers level and
it's kind of that the higher level of
students is that what you mean?
>> Yeah.
>> Uh sort of a like leadership or
governance perspective right because um
you know you were talking about like
buying forks
>> um but what about like the forks in your
cafeteria things like that like how are
you thinking about uh influencing some
of those decisions? um that could you
know kind of have that that trickle down
influence um and change
more practices than on an individual
level.
>> Yeah. So the forks in our cafeteria is
actually already compostable. So all of
the material that we use in the school
cafeteria is 100% compostable and we
actually have like
>> how to recycle and how to compost and
what's trash and what's not. We made
sure to cover that in our spirit week
and also we put a few social media posts
and things like that just so students
would know how to do waste. So I will
say that from my knowledge our like
leadership and like our management is
very green minded and they do a lot. I
think the point of our ASB and DECA
initiatives was trying to get more kids
to care about it as well because that's
kind of what brought upon the bottom up
approach like you said because it's like
four like five of us at Isaka High
School isn't going to be enough to like
change the minds of 2,500 kids. So, it's
kind of that like little baby steps that
like you get used to the idea of
sustainability and then eventually
hopefully in a few years to come it'll
be a natural thing that comes on like of
course we pick up after ourselves and of
course we use compostable things and we
bring reusable water bottles and things
like that. So, I think the point is
getting used to the idea of
sustainability. And then um specific
specifically today was something that I
witnessed um along the lines with like
the the compostable utensils and stuff
that we used. Um someone came into our
into lunch today and went over the
loudspeaker and announced that Isqua had
won some some sort of compostable award
or some sort of um award related to the
waste that we have or like the most you
know green school for waste or something
like that. I'm not entirely sure what
the announcement was, but we did receive
some sort of of recognition for that.
Um, at the um at the city level, there
it was a city person who came in and I
got to speak with her after for a
minute. Um, but she was on her way out
and it was it was about to be classed.
So I didn't exactly get specifics but um
just from to relate back to your your
trickle down approach we we have been
doing things like that and I I do think
that um through the ASB toolkit it that
will be another avenue for that just
since it is this like higher level and
it is other than like sending out
surveys and doing things at the baseline
it's just sort of we're like sandwiching
right now if that makes sense and so
it's hard to reach the people in the
middle who don't you know have phones
and they can't fill out the survey or
there's just there's so many um
variables that go into things like that.
And so, um, we're just trying to like
move our way in from both sides, I
guess, if that makes sense to me.
>> Thank you.
>> Uh, I actually know that the city basic,
they were monitoring our trash and
recycle and composting like abilities,
and I think that that's where that award
came from. Yeah. So if anyone was like
dying to know but I think also in terms
of trickle down a big thing that we're
doing is education and honing in on how
teachers can be more conscious of the
environment and I think that that will
could have a really big impact at our
school and then maybe even in the school
board even further. uh just talking
about ed um environmental
like factors so much uh in terms of
recent I think with our digital
conferences that are coming up we're
offering even like stipens to teachers
and licensed professionals that are
really renowned at our school like I
know some of the math board like math
legs of the school or some of the
English legs of the school some of the
science legs that can be they're able to
go to some of our conferences that we're
holding and running and um through
whatever types of motivations they're
able to come out with it with a lot of
experience in environmental work and how
it can be integrated into their jobs and
I think that that is something that
could have a major effect even
subconsciously
um in when they're teaching like how oh
this unit of calculus maybe I oh I know
this could be related to environment
environmental um like pushes uh because
of this conference that I did even if
it's just subconsciously for them or
even if just and it's they shut out in a
lesson one day. I think that that's
pretty monumental and um just little
steps like that and that we're looking
on making bigger in the future. So,
thank you.
>> Great.
>> Thank you guys.
>> Thanks.
>> Thank you guys. Great work.
>> Thank you.
>> Those were such good presentations. We
didn't want to cut anyone off. So, we
are running a little bit behind, but why
don't we take a couple minute break in
case you want to catch any of the
students on their way out and then we
will talk about
>> almost gives me hope.
>> It's starting. It's looking better,
doesn't it?
>> The next generation
Thank you so much. I love that. Love to
see
I'm stand by
2016.
Oh, that's an old I think right now
the amount of waste
And then you like do a video about it.
>> You did. Yeah.
>> I know. It's kind of too
Are you
sure my friends
got to get
that? But
>> we can tear our work down.
>> Yeah. But I'm not a
sustainability. So,
which is why the last
question
as a freshman already knowing
So, I want to get rid
>> still. We have a survey like
>> we try to continue initiatives through
them. It's summer, so people are
traveling, so it's not as like
productive as
the solar things that are running these
things,
but they are Yeah.
>> So, all it took is a turtle for my son.
>> Yeah.
>> You know, and he's working on the
satellite. So,
>> anyway. Okay.
>> Thank you very much. Nice to meet you.
Good luck.
Good luck.
>> Great job, y'all.
Excited about next year and everything
else.
And then I talked to a guy.
>> So I was just there one day.
Yeah.
>> How are they doing?
And I think there's people that are just
sold the whole thing.
>> That's right. I mean
this could not recreate
working on it for a while. Have
>> you ever
contact
it's
hadn't gone.
>> I think my first my first was a concert.
>> Oh, it's normal.
>> I have not yet been to a crack before.
>> I know. She could do public comment.
>> Do you really
stop at 8:30?
>> I know about this because
just ask how you guys
at the sustainability.
>> Well, I've met you at the um at her
party that she had
the group.
>> Yes, but I don't think
>> yes.
>> No, I didn't make that connection thing.
>> She No, she
very exciting.
>> Did you go the heat. We didn't
>> talking
mid May to mid June has been
>> Let's go ahead and start again, folks.
>> It's um dark purple.
>> Great. Um okay, next. That was really
fun. I feel like that's always the best
uh meeting of the year is hearing all
the time. Can they come back next year?
Get an update on the project.
>> That was so positive.
>> Yes,
>> we are trying to do this every every
June. So, sustainability ambassadors
will be back in
there. Some of them.
>> Yeah. Great. And they referenced the ISD
sustainability policy that I think
Matthew and Zoe presented on last year.
So, um, all right. We're going to
transition to just as exciting of a
topic, the climate plan. uh potentially
our last conversation about the plan
update. Um but before we do that, I had
neglected to introduce Katie, who is our
summer intern. She's been with us for
actually almost a month now. Will be
with us through August. Do you want to
do a quick intro and talk about what
you're working on?
>> Yeah, sure. So, um I'm a graduate
student. I'm getting my MPA right now
focusing on environmental governance,
environmental politics. Um, my
background is in nonprofit and I wanted
to know what the government side of
things look like and Stacy and David
have brought me on and been really
awesome so far and going to get to do a
lot of cool things this summer. Um,
recently I've been helping with ebike
rebes, clean air, a little bit with the
IAP. Um, going to be helping with a
whole host of different projects over
the summer. got to work a little bit
with these awesome interns over the last
few weeks um before they were off. So
really excited to get some more exposure
to local sustainability governance and
learn from y'all while I'm here.
>> Welcome.
>> Cool. Welcome.
>> How long are you around for?
>> Till the end of August. So it's about 14
weeks total. Okay.
>> All right. Thank you.
>> Um Ann, did you want to Where'd she go?
>> Right here.
>> Oh, there you are.
>> Save time. I know you're behind
schedule.
>> Yeah, feel free if you want to provide
some comment ahead of the ed
conversation.
>> Okay, great. I know all the rules. You
don't have to go through the rules.
>> Okay. I'm Anne Fletcher. I'm a resident
uh and a member of People for Climate
Action and uh I was blown away. I wow
the students. Um I'm a former teacher,
retired teacher. So that was really
heartening. Uh and uh so many uh
connections and um and co- benefits. Um
uh a number of you a few years ago,
actually four years ago, I think um PCA
was blessed with two uh Isco High School
students in PCA that were there for two
years. They were amazing. Uh and uh um
they they were in DECA sustainability
and they talked about that and they won
for their food waste project. they won
the state um the whatever they won first
place at state and third place at
national or something. Anyway, I've kept
in touch with them and it it is
uplifting and we do need that in this
line of work, don't we?
So, um I did want to mention that I was
at the city council meeting um and uh
Stacy and David did a stellar job. Um
and uh I could tell from the city
council, maybe you were able to watch
the meeting um on on a video or
something, but um they were really
positive towards the excellence of the
work that you all did and that all
everybody did um and uh the um uh and
just uh the input that was uh solicited
and and incorporated and discussed. It
was really a process.
I would like to congratulate you all on
that and celebrate uh what a great job
another upper. Um so um the other thing
I would I I noticed is that the council
is aware of some of the barriers um that
we face in the climate action plan to
get better results. Um, and one way to
overcome certain barriers is working
with our legislature, um, and other
major regional players on specific
sustainability targets that we can't
accomplish all on our own. Um, June
18th, there's a breakfast meeting at
7:45 a.m. I did ask them after the
meeting because they were trying to
decide what their priorities were going
to be, and it's at Tibbitz Manor, and
the um, state legislators will be there
and the city council. It's public. I
mean, it's not for us to speak or
participate, but to observe. And so, I
just wanted to let everybody know about
that. I I plan on going, although I
don't really like getting up that early,
but but I I'm going to go. Um, but
reflecting back on the meeting, um, the
one area actually both the big climate
emitters, I I um keep thinking, is there
anything else we can do? Is there
anything I know you guys have too, what
else can we do? Um, keep looking for
opportunities. Um the urgency is there
and um how can we strengthen things even
more? Um our actions in buildings and
energy um had to be put a little bit
more general but they hold a lot of
flexibility. Um we need to rap rapidly
establish programs and policies or
ordinances whatever it is we need
because it just takes a long time to
make changes especially in the building
and energy um sector. So, um, uh, uh, I
think though that we do have a there
were a couple of things in our
sustainability work plans we could
prioritize that were really promising
actions. I just wanted to point out a
couple of them. Um, one is um the one
about exploring the feasibility and
implementation pathways to require
upgrade on housing energy systems at the
time of replacement. Um I that was
something that the environmental board
um sent something to um the council
committee and then uh and then they sent
something back. It was kind of a a
different way of looking at it, but I
think it has possibility and I think
there um is um some interest in the
council that that might be doable. So uh
from what I've talked to at least with
some of them. So I think that that's
something that we should um really keep
keep on on our radar. And then the other
thing is um uh to uh increase our
outreach reach to commercial buildings.
I noticed one of the students was
working on that, you know, their
assessments and and upgrades. Um uh
especially those below the state size.
Um I I haven't seen it but I maybe there
is but it would be great to see or keep
data on you know exactly you know how
many buildings uh participate and and
what the size is and and and and do we
have the capacity to reach out to some
of the smaller uh buildings as well. Um
and that whole area is a little bit
fuzzy but right now but I just think it
has a lot of potential. So those two
things. Um and then the one thing I want
to mention on transportation is you saw
maybe you haven't seen but there's just
a lot going on about light rail because
everybody's so excited about it. But
that's like a couple of decades and we
need something in the meanwhile and that
is inside the city. And I heard it again
from the students the circulator bus the
old 200. I've lived here for years and
I'll be used to take that, but um it it
would be great to have something like
that. And and I live in Oldtown, so I
would love to um be able to get to the
other side of I90. I can't get to the
other side of I90 from where I live. Um
it you can get partway, but you can't
get all the way. And and I can walk it,
but some people can't. Uh and uh it
would it would be very helpful. So, um,
uh, my understanding is that the city
council would have to provide budget
because it's not in the budget for that.
Um, however, it does seem, even though
it's a tight, uh, economic times, it
seems like something that might be worth
um, uh, the public, the community will
push for it. I know that. I know I can
get people to, you know, to come out to
support that. Um, and then thank you for
the call for action that was in the
plan. I know that came from the
environmental board and I just think
that that is great. Um it really fits
well with what PCA is focusing on this
year too which is um to develop that uh
a robust community education and
engagement. Uh and we would like to make
it like a movement.
So, we really look forward to working
with this um with the city on this and
um with a um uh partnering with a lot of
cities so that we can um send this
message out all over um the east side in
King County. Thank you.
>> Thank you.
>> All right. Um so this evening we were
going to talk about some of the changes
that we've made since last meeting with
the board and preventing presenting um
the draft content. We'll talk about the
feedback that we heard from council on
Monday evening. Um we have about five
changes that we want to pull up and
track changes just so you can look at
those based on the council feedback we
heard um and then talk about next steps
with the plan. We are the um feedback we
had from council was pretty minor. We're
proposing some minor changes. So this
evening we are looking to the board for
a formal approval if you feel ready.
Um that would be a recommendation to
council to move forward their process to
adopt
>> just a quick process. So all of the
other boards that have had input are
done with their input at this point in
time.
>> Okay.
>> Yep. And we had a verbal approval from
this board on April 22nd with
recommendation for three additional
sections which I'll touch on.
>> Thanks.
>> Yeah. Um, great. So, the major changes
since you all have seen this on April
22nd, obviously we have done a lot of
formatting. Um, I think you saw a pretty
raw version of it and then David and I
prepared the three sections that were
requested as an just mentioned call to
action, a section on what is this plan,
what is it not, and then we also
developed a section that talked about
what we aren't able to do with this plan
or some of the limitations or barriers
that we face. Um, this plan was shared
with council uh for the discussion on
Monday. David and I did a deep dive into
the targets as well as highlighted about
six actions that were policy leaning to
make sure that they were comfortable
with those actions moving forward. Um
feedback we received uh ahead of the
meeting and at the meeting. Um there
were questions about 10-year plan. Uh
why a 10-year plan? How are we going to
ensure that there's checkpoints
throughout the 10-year plan? I know some
of the similar questions we've heard
from some of the board members. Um, so
we shared kind of the justification from
an administrative side. We also have
kind of a general sense of the work that
needs to be done and then shared all
those different checkpoints we
anticipate throughout the process and
that the plan can always be brought back
for update. Um, so council was
comfortable with the 10-year plan. There
were questions around um how we uh
reached the revised tree canopy target.
So, we shared a bit of the the numerous
discussions we've had with you all and
park board and with Dan and how that was
reached. There are questions around
um more emphasis on heat pumps in terms
of considering as a target or additional
measures. Um and then feedback during
the presentation and discussion
primarily focused on digging into a few
of the policies that are being proposed.
Um and so you'll see in the track
changes we'll go through in a minute
that we've tried to emphasize a few
areas just based on that feedback. But
overall, a lot of that discussion that
was had on Monday are discussions we
plan to have once we bring a policy to
council in the future. Um right now
what's proposed in the climate plan is
conceptual around the policy and we'd be
doing a lot more review and research um
prior to bringing one. Um other things
you want to highlight from Monday
presentation? Anything else? Um, no,
just the update on the
community well-being target.
>> Oh, yes. Um, and we'll share that in
just a moment. Um, there was, uh,
through email exchange with deputy
council president Jen. Um, ahead of the
meeting, she had some concerns about one
of our targets for community resilience
and well-being that talks about 100% of
community members feeling like they are
prepared for an emergency. and her point
being just there's always going to be
people that don't feel like they're
prepared. So, let's consider lowering
that target. So, we have a proposal to
share with you all tonight.
Um, and then some of the other specific
feedback we can discuss as we go through
the plan, but that most of the
discussion really was digging into some
future policies that we'll be bringing
to them.
Um, and then what they discussed for
next steps. So, I'll just share that
briefly before we go through those
changes was they do want the council's
um planning, development, and
environment committee who has we have
met with them a couple times already. Um
they would like another touch point with
them um July, early July to see the
changes we're proposing and then um the
full plan would go to council for
adoption on the 20th of July.
Do we um do we get signups from
different groups like important groups
at least the PTC and um you know the the
transportation and the kind of groups?
>> No, they've all provided feedback. Um
what we'll talk about in a moment is the
um council really looks to you all. you
are kind of the owners of this plan. And
so we um can do this very simple
recommendation memo where it just said
basically the board is recommending
council move forward with adoption.
So
>> yeah, broadly I mean I was in there
through the formation of the plan of the
entire plan but broadly speaking it
feels like the integration across the
divisions across the groups especially
in one of the slides there are 15 um on
page 15 there are 13 different plans
that are highlighted it feels like the
integration isn't that tight and if they
don't literally sign off where is the
accountability right it's not on us the
plan is not ours it's actually it should
be an integrated plan that pulls
together all these plans and holds
everybody accountable to something.
>> Yeah. And they um
the all of the those boards and
commissions have weighed in on the
relevant aspects for their expertise. So
we have vetted uh we've had multiple
meetings with transportation advisory
board for example to talk about any of
the targets and actions related to their
work planning policy we've met with on
all the land use and policy recommended.
So they have and all of that input
they've provided whether or not we take
their input we are sharing that with
council for council to then make the
decision on whether or not to include.
>> So yeah it's a good that's a good
question. We don't usually get sign off
from all boards and commissions before
moving a plan forward. It's usually the
one that has kind of the greatest kind
of ownership or oversight. But yes, this
is very much a plan that um that's why
we've had 18 or so meetings with all
those boards and commission because we
do need everyone to touch this plan. But
yeah, it's a good question. We can see
if that's something council wants us to
to do.
>> We have had several meetings with joint
meetings with the other commissions to
talk about it back and forth in the same
room. So, we've come to agreement with
them.
>> Yeah, sounds good. Thank you. Yeah,
appreciate it.
I I was going to jump in just to a few
changes. Um we have I think five we
wanted to walk through and none of them
besides the change to the target for
community resilience none are
substantial and pretty minor changes. So
please bear with me. I thought this
would be given the short turnaround we
thought this would be the easiest way um
to do this.
All right. So the first one is um I will
scroll in
uh
deputy council president Jen and a few
other council members were very
interested in looking at how isqua can
really be a leader in bringing more
clean energy infrastructure and energy
storage and really being a partner with
our utility. Um and so you'll see a
couple other changes we're proposing
that get at that. the first place. Um
this is which section is this? It's kind
of an overview section. Um this is not
getting into action and targets yet, but
we talk about uh the challenges we face
with our grid. Um and so what we what
Dave and I have done is just add some
additional emphasis on we will partner
with our utility um to build out
infrastructure. This might be working
with them with projects. This may be
looking at ways we might make our
permitting process easier or um looking
at the state or federal level for
efficacy. So, it was just fine-tuning a
little language in this section um just
to call out uh those specific needs as
um requested by council.
>> Questions concern that up a little bit.
>> Yes. Sorry. Well, the one you're showing
us, Stacy, that's not the same one
that's in our packet, is it?
>> No. So, these were changes as of Monday
that we just worked on. So, it's just
adding a little bit different language
here. It it was already discussed
through working with PSA to enhance
capacity. That language you see is
struck out. Um we are just um adding
even more emphasis on that and listing
out potential ways we could work with
PSSE through projects permitting or
advocacy.
>> Yep.
>> Do you want thumbs up like we've used?
>> I think that'd be great. Yeah. Any
concerns with this language?
>> Okay. Thumbs on screen. Thank you.
>> Any concerns?
>> All right.
All right. I am going to 222. Then we're
going to get buildings and energy. This
is um
the first actually this one uh we would
like some input. So this page is
providing a summary of our targets and
metrics and this is for buildings and
energy. Uh deputy council president Jen
had asked about could we have a new
target for heat pumps. Um, I think Dave
and I would recommend
not uh away from a target. Uh, that
feels very specific where our targets
are usually around kind of overall
consumption, energy, um, greenhouse gas
emissions. So, what we are recommending
is possibly a new measure. Our current
measure we have are heat pumps and other
equipment that's installed through city
projects and programs. So, this we can
track through the types of maps that
Will was presenting where we have people
applying for our programs. They're maybe
offered an incentive for some free
equipment. Um, the city is investing in
those programs. However, what we could
also include is a separate measure that
looks at heat pumps installed
communitywide that maybe aren't coming
through one of our specific programs.
So, but they may be influenced our
outreach and education. Um, but we want
to know overall what's that transition
look like across the city. Um, Energy
Smart East Side already measures this
and we do it through um there's a little
bit of a judgment call through data that
comes in through the permitting process.
Um, but we do have this data um
citywide. And so this would capture not
only programs that the city's investing
money in providing rebates, incentives,
but also just where that transition is
happening naturally.
>> So are you saying that if you're putting
a heat pump in, you need to get a permit
through the city's permitting
department? Is that what I just
understood?
>> Yes. The one challenge is there is not a
checkbox for heat pump on that permit.
And so there is um written notes by
inspectors that goes in and our team has
to interpret that a little bit if they
don't specifically call out heat pump.
>> Can you get the permitting department to
make that quick change?
>> It is very challenging because it's a
regional platform and there has to be
approval regionally.
>> Yeah. Changes to purchasing takes.
>> Seems like a good question.
>> Next discussions. Yes, it's it is more
complicated than it seems like it should
be.
>> Come on, Nancy.
>> I know. I used to work for government.
>> We have great staff very well trained in
interpreting it. Um so we are tracking
this data monthly.
>> But wait, I was surprised um you even
need permission for heat pumps. But I
thought by looking at the repairs
number, how many how many folks applied
for rebates uh that is a good indicator
of how many replacements happened,
right?
>> Yes. Yes, I think we also want to though
capture those that aren't coming through
one of our programs because we can only
reach a certain amount of folks. So, but
maybe they maybe our outreach and
education is reaching them too. But, um
that's
>> just a quick So, when a new building
goes in like a new townhouse or
something and they use heat pumps
instead of other types, are you tracking
that too?
>> That is a good question. The data we're
getting is the replacement. I'll have to
check if it's new build as well.
>> Wouldn't we want to track new build?
Because they used to put in furnaces,
you know, the other kinds of furnaces
and so wouldn't we want to be tracking
because most of them from what I'm
looking in the outside you see heat
pumps.
>> Yes, most of them with the building
code. I think it'd be difficult not to.
But yeah, let me double check because
it's through a um electrical permit
that's why it's being triggered. But let
me check if that's the new build.
Probably should track that as well
because it will help us.
>> Yeah.
Susie.
>> Yeah. My question is going to be about
the data quality. Um, it sounds pretty
manual and like there are gaps. Um, I'm
curious how confident you feel in your
ability to actually, you know, stand
behind the data that you'd be reporting
if this gets added.
>> Yeah. I think our program, they're
looking at this across six cities right
now. I think they feel pretty confident.
there's certain words that they can pull
out and they've talked with lots of
building inspectors and learned how to
interpret some of that language. Um, but
that's absolutely something I can follow
up with them, but I think they feel
pretty confident in their data. They're
able to report. So, but yeah, great
question.
>> Assuming you can get all our questions
answered, I think
>> yeah, well, we can and I think Dave and
I can talk with uh Deputy Council
President Jen, too, if this would help
satisfy. I think we're reluctant to add
a new very specific target, but we can
see if she'd be comfortable with just a
measure as well.
>> Is there is there a public interface to
that data so that we could like, you
know, okay, Abby, I'd like to check to
see whether your data is correct.
>> Is there a way to do that?
>> We would not release it per address. I
think you could ask and I could see if
it's in our database. Um, right now we
don't present we we share that
information on our dashboard. Um,
but we don't have public access to the
system where that's stored in monthly,
but you could definitely ask if it's
captured. We want to be careful about
not releasing individual data.
>> Yeah, it's troublesome. King County
property records. I think they have some
sort of indication of heat source um in
there, but that's hit and miss. Um
it it wouldn't improve the data quality
is probably more likely to be wrong than
right anyway. Okay.
>> Okay. Yeah, good question.
>> Are we okay with them pursuing this or
do you want this?
>> And this is tracking new construction as
well.
>> I think it is although I just want to
make sure we're not losing that piece.
>> Okay,
>> great. Yep. I added new builds and then
this is one we would vet with um the
council committee on the 7th of July
too.
>> Okay.
Um next one is that target. Oh, I'll
just mention this in case folks see this
in the changes. Uh there was just a
clarification wanted on percent of EBS
registered in the city of Isiqua. was a
measure proposed by the environmental
board. We just modified the language to
ensure it was clear what was intended
here.
Um but the change proposed is under the
community resilience and well-being
target. Um this board had developed the
85% satisfaction rating by the community
for emer for the city emergency
response. And then we also wanted
something around individuals feeling
prepared. So, we had proposed 100%. Um,
based on Deputy Council President Jen's
concern of those that just will never
say that they're prepared. Um, David, I
thought just keeping that uh moving that
adjusting that number to um the same
percent as the communitywide
um
>> at 85%.
>> And just one addition here is that um
for that specific target, we don't have
a baseline.
>> Correct. That is
>> so this is uh
we're we're making a best judgment in
this market for now.
>> This would be a new question asked in
the survey.
>> Yeah.
>> Any concerns adjusting that from 100 to
85?
>> No. No concern.
>> Thumbs up.
>> Say thumbs.
>> All right.
>> Okay.
>> Okay.
>> Uh Tommy, do you have a question?
>> Yeah. Thank you. Um so I I don't want to
like jump around through the IAP but I
was curious um you know in the
implementation
uh strategies or like implementation
action sections specifically under like
um I don't know water and natural
systems section some of the like the
metrics for um some of the resilience
community resilience
uh actions some of the metrics were
described as like improving
resilience
and I'm curious if that means you know
if the measure of resilience for those
actions is this survey.
>> Um
>> yeah I can I can speak to that a little
bit. So, um,
what you're speaking to are some of our
actions mostly in,
uh, the natural systems and the
community well-being section. Um, where
our measurements
are going to be less focused on kind of
the quantitative measures um, that we
were looking at above, right? Like
numbers of heat pumps, bike lanes,
things like that. Um, and so some of
those would be measured through these
metrics or or would be associated with
these metrics when we're thinking about
specifically how it's related to our
community and individuals feeling
prepared for uh climate emergencies in
the city. Um especially in natural
systems though there are going to be a
couple actions
um that are associated more with the
this kind of plan level goal of building
climate resilience through our natural
system ecosystem level resilience as
well. um which is more of a qualitative
kind of descriptive based um assessment
of whether or not we in in some cases
kind of whether or not we are um
uh kind of a achieving the resilience
that we want to see. Um again some of
that is a little bit some of the some of
the targets are uh more easily measured
quantitatively like through tree canopy
or uh water conservation things like
that. But um uh it's speaking that
they're speaking to that there will be
some kind of descriptive
um evaluation about whether or not we're
we're reaching the the goals of those
actions or not.
>> Does that help answer the question a
little?
>> Yeah. And you know, um I do apologize
for not sort of voicing this opinion
when we last looked at this this as a
measure of preparedness and I don't know
if maybe um I think it's is it the
community emergency response team or you
know it may be some you know there's
there's other uh measures that are
associated with like disaster response
or emergency response but you know in in
you know as far as um the climate action
plan I wish that there were another
measure or another um sort of metric for
like you know um community resilience a
aside from a survey about how someone
feels about um how prepared they are
that is more objective and I know that
there's sort of like disaster risk
resilience scorecards out there that
have a city scale um sort of checklist
um that you know does give you sort of a
quantitative measurement of of um
disaster resilience. And I don't know if
maybe that you know that emergency
preparedness or emergency response um
you know u organization
um has has some of that built in but um
but yeah I just I I felt it then and I I
just feel compelled to say it now that
you know like a a survey on how someone
feels prepared they are does not is not
the most accurate measurement of how
prepared they actually are.
Um so Don can I add something to it?
>> So to Tommy's question David I thought
we had when we looked at the metrics you
know uh I thought there was not just
this but there was also about how many
community education or emergency
preparedness events the number of events
you did as well as the number of
residents who attended it or something
like that. So there was a quantitative
aspect to you know what we could do in
in terms of resilience and I thought
that was included
>> part of our cap.
>> Yeah. So under our one of our uh
overarching measures is tracking how
many uh public engagement
uh I think it's how many people we
engage uh through plan of climate
programming and that would be uh
something that we would in in collecting
that number we'd be looking at you know
across our program solid waste emergency
management um and those programs that
are specifically connected to climate uh
uh topics such with climate resilience
>> right so it just not mentioned in this
particular section but it is included as
a part of my gap right
>> yes means question
>> there is quantitative measurements
included where possible for climate
resilience
>> and we had discussed with our emergency
manager Jared should we include like
number of C members number of cert
trainings and we just we weren't sure it
really capt captured um how the
community was doing and the city no
longer has kind of the the
neighborhoodbased program. Um so we
couldn't necessarily look how many
neighborhoods were signed up for those
programs. So um we felt like this is a
survey that goes out every two years. Um
it is statistically significant. Um and
it really felt like the best
quantitative measure, but we can or
target. Um but we can absolutely look at
additional metric if folks feel like we
need something else to to measure.
>> My understanding from Jared when he was
here that some of that information he's
going to be collecting for his needs for
his emergency management program. He
just didn't have a very good avenue to
collect that right now. He was working
on
What's on how do you want us to look at
something else? We could also move
forward without something right now, but
that's we could consider adding a
measure in the future. Um
>> when's the next time we see this?
>> Uh well, I imagine in the future like a
couple years from now or next year or
another year. Um, tonight was planned as
kind of our last touch point on this.
Um,
>> so just to add Stacy, I do think we did
because we did discuss this quite a bit
because this is a little bit difficult
to measure quantitatively. So there was
I remember being a part of discussion
where we discussed different ways we
could measure and I'm pretty sure we do
have some quantitative measures. Maybe
we may just need to refer that language
here or you know modify the language.
It's I think it's all about that. I
personally don't think there is any
majors need to be quantitative measures
need to be included in addition I mean
>> chief.
Yeah, I just also want to concur with
that and and I I don't know if this is
kind of in in line with what Jared's
trying to track down data wise, but
yeah, I think I might have mentioned
before along uh in this discussion is um
I think there's like FEMA flood risk
kind of maps and like I think DNR is
developing a new fire risk map
statewide. Um these could be maybe
sources of data to draw from for this
kind of thing. Um, but yeah, I I agree
it'd be good to have a little bit more
comprehensive uh information around
this.
Well, maybe that's something um this
isn't exactly getting to your point,
Tommy, but um with our reporting out on
community member engagement, we could
try and break out some of that
information just to look at how what
types of programming community members
are engaged in. And then we could um
work with Jared over the next year or
two, see what kind of other uh
quantitative reporting we might be able
to do or um if there's any kind of
scorecard for the city. Would that be
satisfactory? Okay.
Okay.
Okay. Add a note so we can capture that
and we can raise that with council as
well. Um on July 7th they have any
suggestions.
Okay. We have just two others. Um please
forgive me.
Scroll down.
Um
this as we've mentioned before there was
interest in really uh emphasizing the
need for our
uh our electric grid capacity and so not
changing the intent but you and I um
just taking that information in or
proposing just a couple of other areas
where we could emphasize that language.
Um, one is in this 2.3 where we had
advoc advocacy and then 3.1 which is
around projects and just adding in again
that grid infrastructure, energy storage
u making sure that that's called out
more um in addition to the the renewable
energy projects.
Any concerns about that? Okay,
>> no questions.
>> Okay, great. And then the last one
um
again same uh same theme here uh that
interest in clean energy and storage. Uh
we wanted to just call out that
specifically in the land use action that
talks about um looking at city codes and
how to maybe streamline some of these
projects a little bit more easier. Um
and so we just called that out to see if
that will help um satisfy coun council's
interest where we would look at
opportunities to um more streamline that
permitting process.
>> Yeah. Yes.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah.
>> Question. Um
I was looking at this one earlier today.
Um we can sidebar this one later. I
don't want to derail this review. Um to
me it seems to be important to me it
seems to be really important that um the
transportation in infrastructure
projects and our ICAP targets are really
closely aligned right um particularly
there's got to be some I I would think
other cities have done this um there's
got to be some integration tighter
integration in other words if tip were
to um approve some projects or go
through some selection there's got to be
tie into IAP targets. Hey, how does this
impact greenhouse gas reduction? I'm
sure this would have been considered
before, but I didn't see that in um in
in the u in the plan. I was curious how
that worked out.
>> Yeah, that's a great point. Um and I
think we can talk about this a bit more.
So, one of the projects um that David
worked on a lot last year with the board
was our updating our sustainable
building and infrastructure policy. Um,
so you're not seeing it in here because
that is done. I think we have some
language around implementation and staff
training, but we are piloting on a
couple projects now where we would be uh
looking towards criteria for sustainable
um infrastructure certification. Uh we
likely won't get those projects
certified, but we're at least applying
the criteria and seeing how they do. Um
and then that is something that our hope
would be based on those pilot projects
we could apply going forward. Um but it
would consider the environmental impacts
of those projects the um the greenhouse
gap emissions associated with those
projects etc. So that is one way we're
looking at kind of bringing that lens to
the projects and make sure that project
managers working on whether it's
transportation or other infrastructure
projects are considering those
sustainable
um impacts. Is that a little bit? Yeah,
happy to talk about that.
>> Um, thank you.
>> There's also our capital improvement
plan process where we did add a new
environmental climate criteria a couple
years ago. This board really influenced
that needs to be revisited and uh
revamped uh which we'll go through that
process next year and probably bring
that to you all.
>> It'll come early this year that this
time though.
>> Yeah.
>> Just thought I'd point that out.
>> Yes.
Um those were the specific changes. Any
of the um additional changes you may
have seen that I scrolled through were
very very minor, but we will make sure
that you all have this copy as it goes
out to um the council committee. Um
recognizing we're over time, but we did
want to see if there were any other
changes um that you all wanted to make
sure uh were proposed this evening
before we bring this back to the council
committee in July.
I just want to commend the staff on
their efforts on this. As someone who
helped participate in the original
climate action plan, I think Tom is I
don't know who else was here when we
passed. Tom was on on the board. Anybody
else?
>> That's a big improvement. Were you part
of it, too? I can't remember who was all
here.
>> Were you part of it? No. I just think
it's a big improvement and I think you
guys have done a heroic effort and I
want to congratulate you on your efforts
and hopefully we will see success and
budget to implement. There you go.
>> Thank you.
>> Thank you.
>> Um, one question for the board before we
adjourn real quick. Um, are we okay
having Stacy just voice her opinion that
we recommend adoption or do we want a
formal letter to council like we've done
in the past for other things?
>> I think we need a formal letter. This is
a big deal.
>> You do want to learn. Okay.
>> I think it's a big enough deal that we
should
>> Stacy.
Sorry.
>> That's okay. Uh yeah, we have a very
recommendation report that went out in
the packet, but I am happy to write a
letter. Um so we can um typically what
we've done for new members of the board
is I'll drop the letter, Don and Alex
will review it, we'll send it out to the
board. Um we'll give folks we have well
yeah we have a little bit of time I
think before July 7th we'd want your
feedback on it. Um so we'll give you a
few days for feedback. Um you'll want to
reply directly to me because we can't
start an email conversation amongst the
board. So if you have feedback please
send it directly to me. Um I will work
on revisions um and send it to Don and
Alex for approval. How we've done it. So
if there are substantial revisions,
we'll send out a new version for
approval. So do a bit of an email
approval.
>> Yeah.
>> Great. So we'll plan to draft that in
the next week or so. Um and get that out
and we'll need it finalized
the week around the by the 30th I think
is when we would need it for that
committee meeting
to look at that. Okay.
>> Yeah. And just thank you. We have been
talking about the IAP for 14 plus
months. I think I haven't counted up all
the meetings yet. So really really
appreciate all the input. You all have
had great influence on this and I think
we're really happy with it. Council is
really happy with it. The departments
are very happy with it. So
>> great work.
>> Great work.
Um given that we're over time, can you
just send out the work plan?
>> Um work plan is in uh the packet. Okay.
Um and then just our last two things,
next week we launch the ebike rebate uh
goes live. We'll be having a try and
apply event the following week that
Katie has been working on. We can send
out a flyer for that. Um we are also
doing our clean air giveaway uh which is
our van and filter. We'll have an event
at the Circle for pickup. Um for folks
that have applied and been approved,
they'll pick it up next um Wednesday and
then Saturday there's an event at the
senior center um for pickups. Um so we
can send out more information about both
of those. And then last thing I was
going to mention is July we are going to
do a field trip with Dan. Um Dan's going
to take us to Tradition Plateau um talk
about forest management and wildfire
there. So
>> is that on our July meeting day? That
would be on our July meeting date. So,
we'll just move that to a field trip. Of
course, folks same time
>> can't attend. Yeah, we'll make it um a
little bit more optional if folks want a
break or you can come and walk around in
the woods with Dan, which is very fun to
do. So,
>> Okay.
>> All right. Thank you. With that meeting,
>> thank you.
>> Question is things go forward.