Environmental Board · Wednesday, July 14, 2021 · City Council Digest

1. CALL TO ORDER

Board Membership

packet pp.3

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Staff report:

ENVIRONMENTAL BOARD Staff Liaison Megan Curtis-Murphy, Senior About Sustainability Coordinator Created in 2020, the objective of the Email Environmental Board is to protect, preserve and enhance the natural environment and take Regular Members action on climate change to reduce its impacts 2022 - Dani Madan* by advising the Mayor, City Council and City 2022 - Don McQuilliams departments on the City’s plans, policies, 2023 - Rishi Hazra* regulations and programs related to 2023 - Cameron Fisher environmental stewardship. 2023 - Lara Lebeiko 2024 - Nancy Davidson 2024 - Dan Hintz Membership 2024 - Anne Newcomb The Environmental Board is comprised of nine 2025 - Jamie Finch regular members, and up to three alternates. All members are appointed by the Mayor and subject to confirmation by the City Council. Alternate Members Terms expire April 30 of the year listed. For 2022 - Tom Anderson…

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of June 9, 2021

packet pp.5–6

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 06-09-21 Environmental Board Minutes Page [1] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Environmental Board 6:30 PM Virtual Meeting June 9, 2021 MINUTES

4. AGENDA ITEMS

Chair and Vice Chair Training Report Out, (I)

5 min · Nancy Davidson, Commission Chair Jamie Finch, Commission Vice Chair · packet pp.7–12

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Staff report:

GUIDE July 14, 2021 | 6:30pm – 8:15pm | Webex

Issaquah Climate Action Plan

Discussion · 90 min · Megan Curtis-Murphy, Senior Sustainability Coordinator Angela Pietschmann, Cascadia Consulting Addie Bash, Cascadia Consulting

Topics: Climate

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0:00 ↗ to the wednesday

0:03 ↗ july 14th environmental board meeting

0:06 ↗ um uh before we get started with the

0:08 ↗ meeting i

0:09 ↗ would like to talk a little bit about

0:11 ↗ some rules associated with this being a

0:14 ↗ virtual um meeting

0:16 ↗ and i'd like to provide a few guidelines

0:18 ↗ to the board members and people that are

0:20 ↗ participating

0:22 ↗ uh in the meeting we do have

0:24 ↗ participants

0:25 ↗ attending by computer and others who may

0:27 ↗ be

0:28 ↗ also attending by phone for all meeting

0:31 ↗ attendees please

0:32 ↗ speak clearly and pause frequently state

0:34 ↗ your name each time

0:36 ↗ before speaking mute your microphone

0:38 ↗ when not speaking

0:40 ↗ if you're having technical issues we

0:42 ↗ recommend that you try joining the

0:44 ↗ meeting using a different device such as

0:46 ↗ a smartphone or tablet

0:48 ↗ or you can use the call-in information

0:50 ↗ in the meeting invite to call into the

0:52 ↗ meeting

0:55 ↗ with that and then i'll have a little

0:57 ↗ bit more after this we'll start by

0:58 ↗ taking a roll call of those

1:00 ↗ um board members who are in attendance

1:03 ↗ please unmute and say here when

1:04 ↗ um megan calls your name

1:10 ↗ tom anderson here

1:14 ↗ surya bola pragata is not on the meeting

1:17 ↗ at this time

1:18 ↗ nancy davidson here

1:22 ↗ cameron fisher yeah

1:25 ↗ jamie finch rishi hazra

1:31 ↗ uh laura labico

1:33 ↗ [Music]

1:34 ↗ here danny madden

1:38 ↗ here don mcwilliams

1:41 ↗ yeah and newcomb

1:45 ↗ here janet wahl here

1:49 ↗ and dan hintz has an excused absence

1:51 ↗ this evening

1:57 ↗ great so i'd like to remind the board

2:00 ↗ members of a few things so if you're

2:02 ↗ interested in speaking or participating

2:04 ↗ or providing comments on any of the

2:06 ↗ materials tonight please um enter

2:09 ↗ something in the chat box to all

2:11 ↗ panelists

2:11 ↗ if you're going to check that and type

2:13 ↗ question or comment

2:15 ↗ and then i will acknowledge you so that

2:18 ↗ you can provide your comments

2:20 ↗ please do not put any substantive

2:22 ↗ comments in the chat

2:24 ↗ and i don't think anyone's on the phone

2:26 ↗ but if someone has to

2:27 ↗ drop off for some reason um we'll check

2:31 ↗ with you by phone you can press star 3

2:33 ↗ to raise your hand

2:34 ↗ and megan will see that and let us know

2:37 ↗ um for the public who may be

2:39 ↗ participating in the

2:40 ↗ public comment portion that comes up

2:42 ↗ shortly um

2:44 ↗ they're an important part of the public

2:46 ↗ process and we take them seriously

2:48 ↗ so if you um and we want to factor you

2:52 ↗ into the conversations and decisions we

2:54 ↗ make

2:55 ↗ if you're joining us welcome if there's

2:57 ↗ anyone in the meeting

2:59 ↗ when we get into public comments that

3:00 ↗ would like to

3:02 ↗ provide some feedback to us we'll tell

3:04 ↗ you how to do that when we get that

3:06 ↗ get that to that point so at this point

3:08 ↗ i'm looking to

3:09 ↗ um get approval of the minutes for the

3:11 ↗ meeting for june 9th

3:13 ↗ 2021. does anybody have any comments or

3:15 ↗ feedbacks on the

3:17 ↗ those meeting notes

3:20 ↗ seeing no comments or feedback in the

3:22 ↗ chat box

3:23 ↗ um the meeting minutes are approved

3:27 ↗ i just want to make sure that every is

3:30 ↗ everybody seeing all the comments in the

3:31 ↗ chat

3:32 ↗ could someone please type just something

3:33 ↗ test or something in the chat so that i

3:35 ↗ can see if i can see someone

3:39 ↗ thank you appreciate it got it now we're

3:42 ↗ into the public cloud

3:43 ↗ comment section of the um agenda

3:46 ↗ and if you would like to participate in

3:49 ↗ the public comment section

3:51 ↗ if you're on the phone please press star

3:53 ↗ three if you join by computer or

3:55 ↗ smartphone look for the hand icon

3:57 ↗ this varies by whatever device you're

3:59 ↗ using but it could be

4:01 ↗ to in your participant panel and select

4:03 ↗ the name and then choose raise your hand

4:05 ↗ it may also be under something called a

4:07 ↗ reactions menu or more menu

4:10 ↗ with that do we have anyone megan that's

4:12 ↗ identified that they want to participate

4:14 ↗ and provide on public comment

4:16 ↗ when you do um please unmute your

4:18 ↗ microphone state your name

4:20 ↗ address and relationship to the city

4:22 ↗ such as i'm a resident property owner or

4:24 ↗ business owner

4:25 ↗ please speak clearly and pause

4:27 ↗ frequently

4:28 ↗ limit your comments to five minutes and

4:30 ↗ please mute your microphone when done

4:33 ↗ thank you very much all right we have a

4:37 ↗ couple people

4:38 ↗ who will be making public comment this

4:40 ↗ evening the first is ann fletcher i'm

4:43 ↗ going to make you

4:44 ↗ a panelist now so you'll be able to turn

4:46 ↗ on your video and audio

4:54 ↗ can you hear me yes

4:58 ↗ okay great good evening

5:03 ↗ um i'm ann fletcher and i'm an issaquah

5:06 ↗ resident

5:07 ↗ and associated with the issaquah chapter

5:11 ↗ of

5:11 ↗ people for climate action i

5:15 ↗ first of all wanted to uh say that i

5:18 ↗ really appreciated the carefully

5:19 ↗ constructed materials that

5:21 ↗ were received for this meeting the three

5:24 ↗ sections that it was divided into and

5:26 ↗ the guiding questions that were prepared

5:29 ↗ by the administration and staff

5:33 ↗ i as a community member i was able to

5:36 ↗ understand i think most of it

5:38 ↗ and um and it it was uh very

5:41 ↗ uh supportive to me uh

5:44 ↗ i i did want to uh ask the

5:48 ↗ environmental board as you review these

5:50 ↗ materials to please keep in mind the

5:53 ↗ community

5:54 ↗ climate convening recommendations

5:57 ↗ and i'm just going to quote from that

5:59 ↗ because i think when you're working on a

6:01 ↗ plan it's really easy to get into the

6:03 ↗ weeds

6:04 ↗ which are really important but how do

6:06 ↗ you always go check back up on that

6:08 ↗ higher level

6:09 ↗ uh overarching and this is what um

6:13 ↗ the community climate convening in the

6:15 ↗ summary of the recommendation

6:18 ↗ said attendees discussed what they

6:20 ↗ believe are the most

6:21 ↗ important things to be doing to address

6:26 ↗ climate in issaquah

6:28 ↗ and they are collaboration

6:32 ↗ education and engagement

6:36 ↗ and taking bold steps

6:39 ↗ to reduce emissions could be a whole lot

6:43 ↗ of different things

6:44 ↗ but bold is the important word there

6:49 ↗ and uh these were themes that arose

6:54 ↗ and were in the throughout

6:57 ↗ they were patterns and there was a

6:59 ↗ desire to see the city demonstrate

7:02 ↗ leadership to reduce its own emissions

7:05 ↗ as well as community-wide emissions so i

7:08 ↗ think it's

7:09 ↗ important to keep keep that in mind as

7:11 ↗ you're looking at this

7:13 ↗ the other thing i want to bring up is a

7:15 ↗ little bit what again general outside

7:17 ↗ the box of what is in the group the in

7:20 ↗ the packet i believe that

7:23 ↗ in order to do the collaboration

7:25 ↗ education engagement and bold steps

7:28 ↗ that we need to have the resources to do

7:31 ↗ that

7:32 ↗ and one thing we need is staffing

7:34 ↗ resources

7:35 ↗ i'm not sure that our city has the

7:38 ↗ staffing resources

7:39 ↗ to have the capacity to do what is

7:42 ↗ really needed for

7:44 ↗ this very large and crucial undertaking

7:48 ↗ and my sense is that we may need more

7:51 ↗ staff resources to be able to pull this

7:53 ↗ off

7:57 ↗ the other thing that i would like to say

8:01 ↗ is that there are several areas that

8:04 ↗ we were asked to comment on and one was

8:06 ↗ goals targets and metrics

8:10 ↗ and the comment i have under there is

8:12 ↗ that i would

8:13 ↗ uh i didn't see and maybe i missed it

8:16 ↗ but i would add a target for

8:17 ↗ decreasing greenhouse gas emissions for

8:20 ↗ existing buildings

8:22 ↗ i didn't see a target for that um

8:26 ↗ uh the other thing i wanted to say on

8:29 ↗ that was under materials and consumption

8:32 ↗ it wasn't clear what the meaning of zero

8:35 ↗ waste materials with economic value

8:37 ↗ means and i was thinking that it might

8:39 ↗ be helpful to have a definition

8:41 ↗ of what that is

8:44 ↗ uh under the natural systems and water

8:47 ↗ resources

8:49 ↗ i'm wondering if we should have a higher

8:55 ↗ goal for tree canopy and i know we're

8:58 ↗ already

8:59 ↗ a leader in that um but one of the

9:02 ↗ reasons we're a leader is because we

9:04 ↗ have a lot of

9:05 ↗ trees on the edges of our town which

9:08 ↗ we're very lucky to have

9:10 ↗ which kind of offsets a lack of trees in

9:12 ↗ in the

9:13 ↗ residential and um commercial areas

9:17 ↗ uh it seems that if we had a better tree

9:20 ↗ code in our title 18

9:22 ↗ which i know we're working on in

9:24 ↗ parallel with this

9:26 ↗ we might even be able to do better on

9:28 ↗ our trees

9:29 ↗ and not depend on the forests that we

9:32 ↗ have around us to make us look better

9:37 ↗ under community resilience i think it's

9:40 ↗ important to unders

9:41 ↗ to define what equitable distribution

9:43 ↗ means

9:45 ↗ when you're talking about community

9:47 ↗ resilience and well-being

9:49 ↗ some can afford to medicate some can't

9:52 ↗ so

9:53 ↗ if you give everybody the same

9:54 ↗ opportunity that might

9:56 ↗ really not be fair and i'm thinking that

9:59 ↗ maybe

10:00 ↗ the uh the new equity commission that's

10:04 ↗ being

10:05 ↗ developed might be able to help with

10:07 ↗ that

10:09 ↗ um okay and then i wanted to say

10:12 ↗ something about the multi-criteria

10:14 ↗ analysis um i thought all of those were

10:17 ↗ good criteria

10:19 ↗ uh uh i think that

10:22 ↗ if it would be helpful

10:25 ↗ in getting this to function is how the

10:27 ↗ criteria work together are there some

10:30 ↗ criteria that are more important than

10:31 ↗ others

10:32 ↗ or perhaps necessary

10:35 ↗ and are there others that are good

10:38 ↗ and helpful uh supportive but

10:42 ↗ but maybe not absolutely necessary

10:45 ↗ it doesn't say that and i think that it

10:48 ↗ could

10:48 ↗ um be counterproductive in the process

10:51 ↗ it could

10:52 ↗ it could um it could be it could be

10:56 ↗ used in an arbitrary way or maybe not

10:58 ↗ able to be used

10:59 ↗ as well and then i would just like to

11:03 ↗ mention one other thing

11:04 ↗ focus area strategies and actions

11:11 ↗ the top priorities in my mind are the

11:15 ↗ two big areas that greenhouse gas

11:18 ↗ that are creating the most greenhouse

11:21 ↗ gas emissions

11:22 ↗ which is buildings and energy use and

11:24 ↗ transportation and land use

11:27 ↗ and those those we we have to do

11:30 ↗ something and those if we're going to

11:32 ↗ significantly reduce our greenhouse gas

11:34 ↗ emissions

11:35 ↗ uh the all the other ones are also

11:37 ↗ important

11:38 ↗ but they are more supportive and they

11:41 ↗ may be priorities in some other plan

11:44 ↗ but not the climate plan necessarily

11:47 ↗ uh for example the natural systems and

11:51 ↗ water resources

11:52 ↗ are are going to be hugely important in

11:55 ↗ the parks plan say

11:56 ↗ something like that and then finally i

12:00 ↗ have one other suggestion i think i've

12:02 ↗ used up about all my time

12:05 ↗ i would recommend adding community

12:07 ↗ education

12:08 ↗ engagement and collaboration as a

12:11 ↗ strategy

12:12 ↗ in each focus area

12:15 ↗ so it would be a strategy in buildings

12:18 ↗ in energy

12:19 ↗ it would be a strategy in transportation

12:22 ↗ it would be a strategy in materials

12:24 ↗ consumption

12:25 ↗ and so on and the reason being that a

12:28 ↗ lot of

12:28 ↗ the changes a lot of the things that

12:31 ↗ need to be changed in those

12:33 ↗ have to do with helping the community

12:36 ↗ come along

12:37 ↗ and uh i think it needs to be brought to

12:39 ↗ the strategy level as opposed to just

12:41 ↗ being

12:42 ↗ a type of action and we are on time

12:46 ↗ thank you i'm done

12:50 ↗ thank you anne

13:10 ↗ okay i am now having christy triple come

13:14 ↗ up

13:14 ↗ [Music]

13:16 ↗ and christy you should be able to unmute

13:17 ↗ and turn on your video

13:20 ↗ good evening everyone christy tripple

13:24 ↗ thank you for the ability to talk

13:26 ↗ tonight

13:27 ↗ um it's always nerve-wracking online

13:30 ↗ because you don't know if you're the

13:31 ↗ next person to speak or not

13:33 ↗ so bear with me as i get started

13:36 ↗ um so christy triple rally properties at

13:39 ↗ one five nine five

13:40 ↗ northwest gilman boulevard here in esqua

13:42 ↗ i'm also an isqua resident

13:44 ↗ uh going on seven years or so now

13:48 ↗ so i have a few things actually a lot to

13:52 ↗ say

13:52 ↗ so if follow-up in written form is

13:55 ↗ necessary

13:56 ↗ please let me know um

13:59 ↗ so climate change and its impacts

14:01 ↗ resolutions

14:02 ↗ are big endeavor as our sustainability

14:05 ↗ measures and being mindful of our

14:08 ↗ our finite resources so i want to put

14:10 ↗ that in context

14:12 ↗ given the public comment that i'm making

14:14 ↗ next

14:15 ↗ because i really am looking at big

14:17 ↗ picture and then also

14:18 ↗ looking down in the weeds what it means

14:20 ↗ for our community in order to accomplish

14:22 ↗ the goals

14:23 ↗ that a climate action plan may bring

14:26 ↗ so i can also see at the same time the

14:29 ↗ realities

14:30 ↗ where with such a plan conflict with

14:33 ↗ other policies might happen such as the

14:35 ↗ central esqua plan

14:38 ↗ redevelopment coupled with the lack of

14:41 ↗ financial resources such as the metro

14:44 ↗ service

14:45 ↗ and no light rail to our community for

14:47 ↗ another

14:48 ↗ 20 years give or take that's going to

14:51 ↗ come into play and be a challenge

14:53 ↗ towards the implement implementation of

14:55 ↗ such a plan

14:56 ↗ so my hope is the resulting plan will

14:59 ↗ have a really strong

15:00 ↗ educational component and an incentive

15:03 ↗ component

15:04 ↗ big fan of anne's recommendation for

15:07 ↗ as a strategy ad education for every

15:10 ↗ line item

15:12 ↗ but it's also important as you think

15:14 ↗ about this plan not to destroy housing

15:16 ↗ affordability

15:17 ↗ and the ability to run a business in

15:19 ↗ this community

15:20 ↗ so recommendation is to educate

15:24 ↗ regulate and then mandate so

15:28 ↗ i think had we kind of started as a

15:30 ↗ community with the education component

15:32 ↗ back in 2007 when some of the climate

15:35 ↗ action goals were adopted around

15:37 ↗ greenhouse gas emissions

15:39 ↗ we'd be a lot closer to our goals as a

15:42 ↗ municipality

15:44 ↗ um so we're a little bit behind but the

15:46 ↗ opportunity exists especially now that

15:48 ↗ we have an

15:49 ↗ environmental board um

15:52 ↗ and then also you know as volunteers in

15:55 ↗ our community and people who work really

15:57 ↗ hard and care

15:58 ↗ it's easy to create policy especially

16:01 ↗ when something feels good

16:03 ↗ and is important but we've got to think

16:05 ↗ about the implementation of that policy

16:08 ↗ as an important consideration

16:10 ↗ if the plan is to be met with success

16:13 ↗ and to not have unintended consequences

16:16 ↗ i think everybody has to have skin in

16:18 ↗ the game or it doesn't work

16:19 ↗ and certainly may not be equitable

16:22 ↗ so on tonight's materials for discussion

16:26 ↗ i'd like to ask consideration of the

16:28 ↗ following

16:30 ↗ so under the criteria in the

16:33 ↗ multi-criteria

16:34 ↗ now analysis might i suggest two

16:37 ↗ additional considerations

16:39 ↗ potential unintended consequences and

16:41 ↗ then data utilization

16:43 ↗ for example with the tree canopy what

16:46 ↗ are the considerations of the potential

16:48 ↗ issue around fire rise we know that

16:52 ↗ there's climate warming and it's a very

16:54 ↗ real consideration we've seen it

16:57 ↗ we saw it um it's going to continue to

16:59 ↗ happen

17:00 ↗ and then also when you talk about

17:02 ↗ apartment composting requirements

17:05 ↗ those things come with road infant

17:08 ↗ stations and wildlife

17:09 ↗ attraction we are near the woods and so

17:12 ↗ we've got to think about how do we

17:14 ↗ manage that in this environment

17:16 ↗ and keep it safe and healthy for

17:17 ↗ everyone as

17:19 ↗ we start to offer more multi-family

17:21 ↗ housing opportunities

17:24 ↗ and then the question around what would

17:26 ↗ be most or least supported by isqua

17:28 ↗ residents and why

17:29 ↗ i'm wondering will there be an

17:31 ↗ educational component with a

17:32 ↗ with a comprehensive survey so

17:36 ↗ the average citizen while they might

17:38 ↗ care they may not know

17:40 ↗ and there's a lot of information out

17:42 ↗ there so how can we help them

17:44 ↗ give us good input as a community

17:47 ↗ and i think uh from

17:50 ↗ and and we need to have good engagement

17:53 ↗ um

17:54 ↗ from a bold perspective this does have

17:56 ↗ to be bigger

17:57 ↗ so the city has an awesome

17:59 ↗ communications department

18:01 ↗ between twitter videos outreach i think

18:03 ↗ there's some great opportunity for the

18:05 ↗ engagement of our community

18:08 ↗ and then let's see here

18:12 ↗ sorry about that on the affordable peace

18:15 ↗ is

18:15 ↗ the question really a cost-benefit

18:17 ↗ question if you spend this money do you

18:19 ↗ get it back over the life of an

18:21 ↗ improvement

18:22 ↗ what is the life of that improvement

18:24 ↗ because it's human nature

18:26 ↗ people want to make sure that the

18:28 ↗ investment they're making in their

18:29 ↗ household or their business

18:31 ↗ budget actually makes a difference

18:34 ↗ so that's important and then on impact

18:38 ↗ is it easily measurable how can strategy

18:42 ↗ shift towards a strong investment at all

18:44 ↗ levels

18:46 ↗ and then on the specific focus areas

18:49 ↗ on buildings and energy right i think

18:52 ↗ you all know

18:53 ↗ as citizens we lose electricity a lot

18:57 ↗ and it doesn't matter if it's summer

19:00 ↗ or winter it happens and it's going to

19:03 ↗ happen for years to come

19:04 ↗ until investments in our local

19:06 ↗ infrastructure

19:07 ↗ has been made utilities need some

19:10 ↗ support

19:11 ↗ we're not there yet um so many of our

19:14 ↗ buildings around town have generators

19:15 ↗ that are used

19:16 ↗ either diesel powered or national

19:18 ↗ natural gas

19:19 ↗ powered to include swedish hospital and

19:22 ↗ most of our other medical facilities

19:24 ↗ the same goes for our grocery stores

19:27 ↗ most food and grocery stores which i

19:29 ↗ think you already know and i'm probably

19:31 ↗ preaching to the choir

19:32 ↗ our food comes from 1500 miles away and

19:35 ↗ the average grocery store has about

19:37 ↗ three days supply

19:38 ↗ in an emergency we need to make sure

19:42 ↗ that we keep those grocery stores

19:44 ↗ and also our medical facilities going

19:46 ↗ and electricity may not be

19:49 ↗ the best method for those where we're at

19:52 ↗ today

19:53 ↗ so maybe in our goals they're

19:54 ↗ incremental in the plan

19:57 ↗ we also need to make sure that we have

19:59 ↗ redundancy and wind and solar

20:01 ↗ aren't robust enough to support our

20:03 ↗ community right now

20:05 ↗ and we also have to think when you talk

20:07 ↗ about the full

20:08 ↗ electrification of a building which i

20:10 ↗ understand and i think

20:12 ↗ we're moving in that direction it's

20:14 ↗ happening

20:15 ↗ we also need to think about from a

20:17 ↗ national security perspective we have to

20:20 ↗ have that robust alternative

20:22 ↗ infrastructure before we put

20:25 ↗ the millions of investment when we've

20:27 ↗ already

20:28 ↗ already got natural gas built otherwise

20:31 ↗ we're going to find ourselves with the

20:33 ↗ national security vulnerability

20:35 ↗ if something happened to our dams or we

20:38 ↗ were completely reliant

20:40 ↗ upon electricity so again think about a

20:43 ↗ phased

20:43 ↗ approach and the potential unintended

20:46 ↗ consequences

20:48 ↗ and then i think lastly that target

20:51 ↗ definitely needs to be supportable and

20:53 ↗ consistent with state

20:54 ↗ building code right because we

20:57 ↗ need to make sure that people understand

21:00 ↗ what they're doing

21:01 ↗ and how on transportation and land use

21:04 ↗ christy we are running up on time um

21:08 ↗ let's see thank you sorry um metro

21:11 ↗ we need more service to help us with

21:14 ↗ that

21:15 ↗ and then natural systems and water

21:17 ↗ resources

21:18 ↗ hope that there can be some incentives

21:20 ↗ for storm water management

21:22 ↗ because i think that will be helpful in

21:23 ↗ people being mindful

21:25 ↗ i think we need to incentivize rain

21:27 ↗ gardens even further at the residential

21:29 ↗ level

21:30 ↗ look at permaculture use and how to

21:32 ↗ design

21:33 ↗ in this new environment for residential

21:35 ↗ as well as commercial which is a little

21:37 ↗ bit

21:38 ↗ more than required right now to have the

21:41 ↗ native plants

21:42 ↗ and then lastly tree canopy i worry

21:45 ↗ about our water availability

21:47 ↗ and in the environment we have seen

21:51 ↗ how do we keep those trees healthy

21:52 ↗ especially in a commercial environment

21:54 ↗ and in neighborhoods for that matter it

21:56 ↗ takes a lot of water to keep the tree

21:58 ↗ healthy

21:59 ↗ so thank you i'm sorry i went a little

22:01 ↗ bit over

22:02 ↗ thank you

22:06 ↗ and we have one more person

22:12 ↗ and if anyone else wants to make comment

22:14 ↗ you are still welcome to

22:16 ↗ raise your hand and larry

22:19 ↗ i am moving you up you'll be able to

22:21 ↗ turn on your audio and video

22:33 ↗ i think we're on yes

22:36 ↗ okay um i'm larry franks i'm at 24001

22:41 ↗ southeast 103rd street i've been an

22:43 ↗ izakawa resident

22:45 ↗ for 49 years now and i've also

22:48 ↗ submitted my comments in writing but

22:50 ↗ what i wanted to share with the

22:52 ↗ the group was one of the items in

22:54 ↗ particular

22:55 ↗ in addition to emphasizing the

22:57 ↗ collaboration

22:58 ↗ education and engagement i believe

23:01 ↗ enforceable

23:02 ↗ regulation is required i bring up the

23:05 ↗ example of the selective stance that the

23:07 ↗ human population has taken with the

23:09 ↗ copic

23:10 ↗ vaccine in many u.s venues those who are

23:13 ↗ not inclined who were inclined to get

23:15 ↗ the vaccine

23:16 ↗ have done so but for various reasons

23:19 ↗ significant numbers of folks have

23:20 ↗ decided to not

23:22 ↗ be vaccinated the equivalent of herd

23:25 ↗ immunity to climate change stopping and

23:28 ↗ reversing

23:29 ↗ the currently observed impacts will be

23:32 ↗ impossible

23:33 ↗ if a significant fraction of the human

23:36 ↗ population be it individual

23:38 ↗ state or city declines to participate

23:43 ↗ it'll take intelligent timely and

23:44 ↗ enforceable legislation

23:47 ↗ to beat climate change one other comment

23:50 ↗ i am

23:50 ↗ proud of our city for its uh green

23:54 ↗ leanings in general and in particular

23:57 ↗ um putting the environmental board in

23:59 ↗ place i think this is a

24:00 ↗ very valuable process and i'm glad to

24:03 ↗ see

24:04 ↗ it i'm done

24:08 ↗ thank you and that's all i had we'll

24:11 ↗ give

24:12 ↗ people one more moment if they want to

24:14 ↗ raise their hand

24:16 ↗ it's in the lower right hand corner of

24:18 ↗ the participant

24:19 ↗ screen i believe um you could also chat

24:22 ↗ me if

24:24 ↗ you don't see it

24:27 ↗ and i am not seeing anyone else

24:31 ↗ so nancy we can move on

24:34 ↗ thank you everyone for all of your

24:35 ↗ comments we appreciate it as a board

24:38 ↗ the next agenda item is moving into our

24:40 ↗ actual agenda items

24:42 ↗ and the first one is chair and vice

24:44 ↗ chair

24:45 ↗ training report and just for a little

24:47 ↗ context uh the city did provide

24:50 ↗ chair and vice chair training to all

24:53 ↗ board members and commissions

24:55 ↗ because we just came most of them just

24:57 ↗ came into play at the end of may or

24:59 ↗ at the beginning of may excuse me and

25:01 ↗ there are some new chairs and vice

25:03 ↗ chairs and

25:04 ↗ that was conducted and jamie's going to

25:06 ↗ start the conversation about what we

25:08 ↗ learned

25:08 ↗ so jamie thanks nancy jamie for speaking

25:12 ↗ um yes it was a great uh great learning

25:15 ↗ experience for me and i think

25:17 ↗ uh nancy as well um going through the

25:20 ↗ training with

25:20 ↗ the all the other vice chairs and vice

25:22 ↗ chairs um

25:24 ↗ we had a couple items that we thought

25:26 ↗ the board could benefit from

25:28 ↗ from hearing just um some things that

25:30 ↗ either we weren't aware of

25:31 ↗ that uh we just thought could be

25:33 ↗ stressed again so

25:34 ↗ um there's a couple items i think nancy

25:36 ↗ might help me out with one of the last

25:37 ↗ ones

25:38 ↗ um but uh just wanted to share these out

25:41 ↗ um there was a lot of instruction given

25:43 ↗ around kind of norms and and how to

25:46 ↗ conduct meetings uh basically aligned

25:48 ↗ with with the principles of the city

25:50 ↗ with the principle of our boards

25:52 ↗ um one of those is related to public

25:54 ↗ comment obviously public comment is a

25:56 ↗ really important part

25:58 ↗ of our process something that we need to

25:59 ↗ take into consideration

26:01 ↗ but one of the things that was mentioned

26:03 ↗ was um

26:04 ↗ during the meetings themselves um

26:07 ↗ obviously you're going to hear public

26:08 ↗ comments

26:09 ↗ not to respond directly to those

26:11 ↗ comments and if someone was to bring up

26:13 ↗ something that you thought was really

26:15 ↗ relevant or a question that you had as

26:17 ↗ well

26:18 ↗ um feel free to do that as an individual

26:20 ↗ but

26:21 ↗ that that our goal was to take into

26:23 ↗ consideration those comments but not

26:24 ↗ respond directly during the meeting to

26:26 ↗ any of those comments

26:28 ↗ um the second one was uh something that

26:31 ↗ uh just as we get to more motions

26:34 ↗ will be helpful um in the past we've had

26:37 ↗ a couple of

26:37 ↗ some cases where amendments came up

26:39 ↗ where uh an initial motion was made

26:42 ↗ there was amendment made

26:43 ↗ and we got some clarification around the

26:46 ↗ right process to bring

26:47 ↗ through those amendments so uh the right

26:51 ↗ process so say

26:52 ↗ someone makes a motion and then uh you

26:55 ↗ feel like there's

26:56 ↗ there's reason to amend that motion um

26:59 ↗ that amendment would need to be approved

27:02 ↗ by

27:02 ↗ basically a vote of all of the the

27:04 ↗ commission all of the board

27:06 ↗ and so that that's something that it's a

27:09 ↗ part of the process and another thing

27:10 ↗ that i think

27:11 ↗ for me was really helpful and

27:12 ↗ understanding is um just because

27:15 ↗ maybe you either support or do not

27:16 ↗ support the motion itself

27:18 ↗ that doesn't mean you necessarily need

27:20 ↗ to vote that same way on

27:21 ↗ the amendment so if you would for

27:24 ↗ example disagree with the amendment

27:26 ↗ itself but you feel like

27:27 ↗ sorry the motion itself but you feel

27:29 ↗ like the amendment will improve

27:31 ↗ that motion you could still vote

27:34 ↗ in favor of it or vice versa so i think

27:37 ↗ that was really helpful for me to talk

27:39 ↗ to think about almost that amendment

27:41 ↗ in isolation from the broader is that

27:43 ↗ making it something

27:44 ↗ that you're in more in favor of setting

27:47 ↗ aside

27:48 ↗ your overall position on the motion

27:49 ↗ itself um

27:52 ↗ and that's something that if there's any

27:53 ↗ questions we can answer them as best we

27:55 ↗ can or we can

27:56 ↗ reach out to city staff um as i know

27:58 ↗ that can get a little bit

27:59 ↗ a little bit confusing sometimes and

28:01 ↗ then the last one was one that i think

28:03 ↗ nancy was going to expand on a little

28:05 ↗ bit but there was a lot of focus on

28:07 ↗ making sure that all board members are

28:09 ↗ really involved in the discussion

28:11 ↗ at every stage of the of the process and

28:13 ↗ i think

28:14 ↗ nancy if you want to hop in this was one

28:16 ↗ that you had some interest in trying

28:18 ↗ some more details on

28:20 ↗ so one of the things that i guess maybe

28:22 ↗ i haven't paid as much attention to that

28:24 ↗ i probably should have and that is that

28:26 ↗ um they're trying to get all the board

28:28 ↗ members input into most of these

28:30 ↗ questions now i know sometimes our

28:32 ↗ agendas have been very packed and that's

28:34 ↗ not possible

28:35 ↗ but um what you can expect from me in

28:38 ↗ the future

28:39 ↗ is or jamie if he's running the meeting

28:42 ↗ that's calling on you

28:43 ↗ to solicit if you have any input so

28:46 ↗ um you know it was clear they really

28:48 ↗ wanted to have it more inclusive

28:50 ↗ including alternates unless we're taking

28:52 ↗ a vote and so

28:54 ↗ that's one of the things that i just

28:55 ↗ wanted people to be aware that if you

28:57 ↗ find me

28:58 ↗ um if we haven't heard from you in the

29:00 ↗ meeting or on a subject i might look to

29:02 ↗ you and say

29:02 ↗ do you have anything you'd like to add

29:05 ↗ jamie whatever the case may be so anyway

29:09 ↗ do you guys have any questions for us

29:10 ↗ before we move on and you might want to

29:12 ↗ signify in the chat if you do before we

29:14 ↗ move on to the next agenda topic

29:19 ↗ okay seeing none that was just

29:20 ↗ information for all of you we're going

29:22 ↗ to move on to the next agenda topic

29:24 ↗ which is the

29:24 ↗ issaquah climate action plan and i'm

29:27 ↗ going to turn that over to megan

29:32 ↗ thank you this is megan curtis murphy

29:34 ↗ and i will ask

29:35 ↗ our consultants addie and angela to join

29:39 ↗ us on video here as well

29:41 ↗ they will be helping with tonight's

29:43 ↗ discussion so we're excited to

29:45 ↗ to have them join us um

29:48 ↗ and addie will have you pull up the

29:52 ↗ presentation

29:57 ↗ so she's doing that i can just go ahead

29:59 ↗ and get started uh

30:00 ↗ so again um megan curtis murphy and

30:03 ↗ i'm excited to talk about the climate

30:04 ↗ action plan this evening

30:06 ↗ with the board looks good

30:09 ↗ with the board we have this is something

30:11 ↗ we've been talking about

30:13 ↗ some already we have had some

30:15 ↗ presentations to talk about some of the

30:17 ↗ past

30:17 ↗ climate actions that we've done as a

30:19 ↗ city we've also talked about

30:22 ↗ some of our greenhouse gas emissions so

30:24 ↗ i hope that can

30:25 ↗ start to provide a foundation for

30:27 ↗ tonight's discussion and we'll get into

30:29 ↗ more details around

30:30 ↗ our missions and other aspects of the

30:33 ↗ plan this evening

30:35 ↗ so again i said i'm joined by the

30:36 ↗ consultants um

30:38 ↗ angela peachman and addie bash from

30:40 ↗ cascadia

30:41 ↗ consulting so we're excited to have them

30:44 ↗ here with us and

30:45 ↗ they've been working hard uh with city

30:47 ↗ staff to help bring this material

30:50 ↗ so one of the inputs that we have really

30:53 ↗ been working on in this climate action

30:55 ↗ plan

30:55 ↗ is making sure that we're hearing from

30:57 ↗ the community

30:59 ↗ so that's why we're starting this effort

31:02 ↗ tonight with the environmental board and

31:03 ↗ we'll have lots more engagement to come

31:06 ↗ but we also really started it a year ago

31:08 ↗ when we started hearing from the

31:09 ↗ community at the community convenient

31:11 ↗ climate

31:12 ↗ and got those recommendations to start

31:14 ↗ this plan uh so the first recommendation

31:16 ↗ that came out of that

31:18 ↗ convening was to start a climate action

31:20 ↗ plan so

31:21 ↗ we are excited to to get that work this

31:23 ↗ evening

31:25 ↗ and addie we can go the next slide

31:30 ↗ great um so the agenda for this evening

31:33 ↗ we're gonna be and we're running a

31:35 ↗ little bit late but we still have the

31:37 ↗ um we'll have the 90 minutes for the

31:39 ↗ discussion this evening

31:40 ↗ we'll go ahead and start with the

31:42 ↗ workshop goals and as well an update on

31:44 ↗ the plan

31:45 ↗ and then we'll break the meeting up into

31:47 ↗ three discussions

31:49 ↗ to talk about goals targets and metrics

31:51 ↗ then the action types and the

31:53 ↗ multi-criteria analysis

31:54 ↗ and last the strategy review and action

31:58 ↗ brainstorming uh

32:00 ↗ next slide please so the goals for this

32:03 ↗ evening

32:04 ↗ is to provide an update on where we are

32:07 ↗ in the cap process

32:09 ↗ to present the city staff feedback that

32:11 ↗ we've heard to date from the staff

32:13 ↗ workshops that we've

32:14 ↗ had to collect input on proposed focus

32:17 ↗ areas

32:18 ↗ goals targets and metrics and to review

32:21 ↗ and discuss the action types and how we

32:23 ↗ want to prioritize

32:25 ↗ prioritize those and last we're going to

32:28 ↗ review and

32:29 ↗ vet propose actions or sorry proposed

32:32 ↗ strategies and then we'll start to get

32:33 ↗ into action brainstorming as well

32:38 ↗ and next slide

32:41 ↗ so here is our map of our engagement

32:44 ↗ timeline

32:45 ↗ um so as you all know we started this in

32:48 ↗ may of this year um starting kind of the

32:50 ↗ internal work

32:51 ↗ and we started developing um

32:54 ↗ the the content for the plan based off

32:57 ↗ of those inputs i was talking about with

32:58 ↗ the climate convening

33:00 ↗ uh the other city plans that we have we

33:03 ↗ started bringing that together and first

33:05 ↗ went to city staff

33:06 ↗ we have a great core team of staff that

33:08 ↗ is working on this climate

33:10 ↗ plan across several different

33:11 ↗ departments so we have engagement

33:13 ↗ at every level of the city which is

33:15 ↗ really great

33:17 ↗ so then this summer mostly july and

33:19 ↗ august we're going to be going out to

33:20 ↗ the community

33:21 ↗ so starting with the environmental board

33:24 ↗ later this month we have the economic

33:25 ↗ vitality commission and the planning

33:27 ↗ policy commission

33:29 ↗ we'll also have another reconvening of

33:31 ↗ the community

33:32 ↗ on july 28th so bringing back people

33:35 ↗ that joined us a year ago and also

33:37 ↗ inviting others to come

33:38 ↗ and provide feedback on the plan we'll

33:41 ↗ also have a survey going out to the

33:42 ↗ community

33:43 ↗ and then a few focus groups around

33:46 ↗ around specific topics we want to

33:48 ↗ be hearing more about so for example

33:50 ↗ we'll have one for businesses and be

33:51 ↗ reaching out directly to make sure we

33:53 ↗ hear

33:54 ↗ all the voices that are going to be

33:56 ↗ coming into the plan

33:58 ↗ from there we'll make sure we get all

34:00 ↗ that input

34:01 ↗ and refine the plan that we have and

34:04 ↗ bring that back to that core team of

34:06 ↗ city staff that's working to start to

34:08 ↗ get us to the next steps

34:10 ↗ and then we'll bring the draft plan back

34:12 ↗ to the board in september

34:14 ↗ of um and so just a couple months away

34:17 ↗ so that will be the next time that you

34:18 ↗ will see this content

34:20 ↗ from there go to city council and then

34:22 ↗ have another convening so the community

34:24 ↗ can provide input on that draft plan

34:26 ↗ and then go to council for adoption in

34:28 ↗ december

34:30 ↗ and next slide please

34:35 ↗ all right thanks so in the first staff

34:38 ↗ workshop last month

34:39 ↗ we presented staff with our proposed

34:41 ↗ goals targets metrics and strategies

34:44 ↗ and staff provide feedback on these

34:46 ↗ topics as well as general information

34:48 ↗ about issaquah to inform the climate

34:50 ↗ action plan

34:52 ↗ so some of the things we heard is that

34:53 ↗ staff highlight the importance of iss

34:55 ↗ quas natural resources and outdoor

34:57 ↗ recreation to residents

34:59 ↗ as well as its unique topography and how

35:01 ↗ that's impacted

35:03 ↗ past city initiatives for example staff

35:06 ↗ noted that the topography has caused

35:08 ↗ complicated past

35:09 ↗ tree planting programs because of the

35:11 ↗ challenges in irrigating

35:13 ↗ trees on the slope staff also shed light

35:16 ↗ on some specific city priorities related

35:18 ↗ to the plan

35:19 ↗ for example staff highlighted that

35:21 ↗ although it's important to increase

35:23 ↗ adoption of electric vehicles over

35:25 ↗ combustion engines

35:26 ↗ the main focus for the city is on

35:29 ↗ reducing auto reliance by expanding

35:31 ↗ multimodal transportation options

35:34 ↗ so this includes public transit biking

35:36 ↗ walking

35:37 ↗ and promoting sustainable mix use

35:39 ↗ development

35:41 ↗ next slide

35:44 ↗ uh staff provide insight into past city

35:47 ↗ initiatives

35:48 ↗ which has worked what has worked well

35:50 ↗ and has not worked as well

35:52 ↗ which helps us develop as we get into

35:54 ↗ the specific actions of the plan

35:57 ↗ for example staff discuss that there has

35:59 ↗ been success with past

36:00 ↗ incentive programs to motivate behavior

36:02 ↗ change say around reducing food waste

36:05 ↗ but the residents and developers have

36:07 ↗ not been as motivated by offers for

36:09 ↗ streamlining permitting in exchange for

36:11 ↗ green building initiatives

36:14 ↗ staff also helped us refine our goals

36:16 ↗ and targets to align with other city

36:18 ↗ priorities and plans through the staff

36:19 ↗ workshop

36:21 ↗ and last staff also indicated that it's

36:23 ↗ important to have context regarding

36:25 ↗ actions focused on adaptation

36:28 ↗ so primarily the community resilience

36:30 ↗ and well-being actions

36:32 ↗ and that the plan needs to be more

36:34 ↗ explicit in showing the tie between

36:36 ↗ adaptation actions

36:37 ↗ and climate resiliency and this evening

36:40 ↗ we'll talk a little bit more about the

36:42 ↗ definitions around climate adaptation

36:44 ↗ and mitigation as well

36:45 ↗ to get into those details of the plan

36:48 ↗ and from here i'm going to pass it over

36:50 ↗ to our consultant team starting with

36:52 ↗ angela again

36:53 ↗ this is angela peachman with cascadia

36:55 ↗ consulting group i'm the project manager

36:57 ↗ for the climate action plan on the

36:59 ↗ consulting side

37:00 ↗ um i have four slides to go through with

37:03 ↗ just a little bit of background

37:04 ↗ hopefully folks had a chance to review

37:06 ↗ the prep materials in advance i'm going

37:08 ↗ to move through just the highlights to

37:10 ↗ try to get some of our time back um and

37:12 ↗ if you go to the next slide

37:15 ↗ um this is just a simple sorry this is

37:17 ↗ megan for one moment

37:18 ↗ um addie it looks like there's a box on

37:20 ↗ your screen on the top right

37:23 ↗ um we're just seeing a gray box so if

37:25 ↗ you're able to just move that

37:27 ↗ then we can see the full slide

37:28 ↗ presentation you might want to try

37:31 ↗ stopping sharing and restarting it

37:33 ↗ and see if that helps it just it's gone

37:36 ↗ great um so this slide is just a really

37:39 ↗ high level overview

37:40 ↗ of isoqua 2017 emissions profile

37:44 ↗ you can see electricity natural gas and

37:46 ↗ transportation

37:47 ↗ actions will have the highest impact on

37:48 ↗ reducing overall emissions which is not

37:50 ↗ a surprise

37:51 ↗ um when we look at the sector level

37:53 ↗ commercial and residential energy use

37:54 ↗ should be the primary focus area since

37:56 ↗ there's minimal emissions coming from

37:58 ↗ the industrial sector

38:00 ↗ um pretty if you go to the next slide we

38:03 ↗ used issaquah's

38:04 ↗ baseline emissions for 2017 and did some

38:07 ↗ preliminary

38:08 ↗ projections to estimate what those

38:10 ↗ emissions might look like into the

38:11 ↗ future

38:12 ↗ um and so we've scaled your original

38:15 ↗ data through 2050 assuming that

38:17 ↗ emissions will increase as the

38:19 ↗ population number of jobs and housing

38:21 ↗ units within the community continue to

38:22 ↗ grow

38:24 ↗ on the graph you'll see what we call

38:25 ↗ business as usual or vau line and that

38:28 ↗ represents the directions that your

38:29 ↗ emissions

38:30 ↗ are heading in a no action future so

38:32 ↗ this is if you take no additional

38:33 ↗ climate action

38:35 ↗ at the state or local level um but then

38:38 ↗ we've adjusted that projection to

38:40 ↗ account for three key policies

38:42 ↗ those policies are the clean energy

38:44 ↗ transformation act otherwise known as

38:46 ↗ sata

38:47 ↗ washington's energy related building

38:48 ↗ standards and the national highway

38:50 ↗ traffic

38:51 ↗ and safety administration's corporate

38:52 ↗ average fuel economy standards for cafe

38:55 ↗ standards the sata act

38:58 ↗ requires that all electric utilities

39:00 ↗ eliminate coal from their portfolios by

39:02 ↗ 2025 and become ghg neutral by 2030.

39:05 ↗ the building standards require adoption

39:07 ↗ of state energy codes and new buildings

39:09 ↗ from 2013 through 2031 that

39:12 ↗ incrementally move towards achieving

39:14 ↗ a 70 reduction in annual net energy

39:17 ↗ consumption

39:18 ↗ and finally the cafe standards regulate

39:20 ↗ high excuse me light and heavy duty

39:22 ↗ vehicle

39:22 ↗ economy standards or how many miles the

39:25 ↗ vehicle can travel per gallon of fuel

39:27 ↗ so we anticipate that together these

39:30 ↗ will have a pretty significant impact

39:32 ↗ in reducing overall emissions but still

39:34 ↗ leave issaquah with a gap that needs to

39:35 ↗ be filled through the cap so

39:37 ↗ that orange slice at the bottom is

39:39 ↗ really representative of what the

39:40 ↗ community

39:41 ↗ um what issaquah will need to do to

39:43 ↗ bring down its emissions

39:44 ↗ um so with this context in mind we've

39:47 ↗ also applied

39:48 ↗ oh yep we have a question do you want to

39:51 ↗ take those at the end or do you want to

39:53 ↗ take them along the way at the end the

39:56 ↗ slide would be great if that's okay

39:58 ↗ yeah that's great all right thanks yeah

40:02 ↗ so with this context in mind we've also

40:03 ↗ plotted the overarching emissions

40:05 ↗ reduction targets that are likely to be

40:07 ↗ adopted by k4c they've already been

40:09 ↗ adopted by the king county

40:11 ↗ growth management planning council on

40:12 ↗ 623 so those reductions are

40:15 ↗ 50 reduction in 2007 emissions by 2030

40:19 ↗ 75 reduction by 2040 and a 95

40:22 ↗ reduction by 2050 with an addition that

40:25 ↗ um

40:26 ↗ the community would need to achieve net

40:27 ↗ zero emissions uh by 2050

40:30 ↗ and so within this context net zero

40:32 ↗ refers to emitting the same amount of

40:34 ↗ gas into the atmosphere that you offset

40:36 ↗ through some other means

40:38 ↗ which could be achieved by reducing

40:39 ↗ emissions to zero

40:41 ↗ and or offsetting through carbon offset

40:43 ↗ credits or some combination thereof

40:45 ↗ and i can pause for the question

40:49 ↗ um you have a question jamie go ahead

40:51 ↗ please

40:53 ↗ thanks nancy jamie thanks for speaking

40:55 ↗ um hi angela

40:56 ↗ uh i was curious what level of growth in

40:59 ↗ terms of like residence or what however

41:01 ↗ the baseline driver for growth you were

41:03 ↗ factoring in on

41:04 ↗ on the business as usual yeah great

41:07 ↗ question so we look at population

41:09 ↗ projections

41:10 ↗ um those are obtained at the county

41:12 ↗ level through ofm

41:14 ↗ there's also some local projections that

41:16 ↗ we use i think

41:17 ↗ megan correct me if i'm wrong but i

41:18 ↗ think we also took into account the

41:20 ↗ city's internal planning projections

41:22 ↗ around jobs and household growth

41:24 ↗ um and so it's our best estimate using

41:26 ↗ those growth

41:27 ↗ scenarios and we assume a straight-line

41:30 ↗ trajectory into the future so

41:32 ↗ um it's not super sophisticated it's

41:34 ↗ just based on the trends that we're

41:36 ↗ currently seeing

41:37 ↗ um what it would look like if we

41:38 ↗ continued at that rate into the future

41:41 ↗ assuming that population

41:43 ↗ grows in line with those productions

41:44 ↗ population jobs and household units i

41:46 ↗ should say

41:47 ↗ thank you i have one more point uh

41:50 ↗ megan richie's now on the phone so um

41:53 ↗ if you you need to watch and see if he

41:56 ↗ raises his hand

41:57 ↗ please go ahead sorry about that thank

41:59 ↗ you oh no worries

42:00 ↗ and i think addie we can click to the

42:02 ↗ next slide to keep it moving

42:04 ↗ um so a little additional context on

42:06 ↗ some of the climate drivers that we'll

42:08 ↗ expect to see and i apologize if they

42:10 ↗ get through this kind of quickly

42:11 ↗ um but as we all know the pacific

42:13 ↗ northwest is already experiencing the

42:15 ↗ effects of climate change

42:16 ↗ these are expected to worsen into the

42:18 ↗ decades in the future if no action is

42:20 ↗ taken

42:20 ↗ um so the key things you're going to see

42:22 ↗ are rising temperatures changing

42:24 ↗ precipitation and reduced snowpack

42:27 ↗ i think the average air temperatures the

42:28 ↗ puget sound are projected to be up to

42:31 ↗ 5.5 degrees fahrenheit warmer by the

42:34 ↗ 2050s

42:35 ↗ um it's likely by the end of the century

42:37 ↗ the seattle area will experience

42:38 ↗ two full weeks per year above 90 degrees

42:41 ↗ and the combination of these warmer

42:42 ↗ temperatures with longer periods of

42:44 ↗ extreme heat

42:45 ↗ means that we'll be having more severe

42:47 ↗ heat waves and droughts

42:49 ↗ similar to the heatwave we experienced a

42:50 ↗ few weeks ago

42:52 ↗ along those lines we'll also see

42:54 ↗ changing precipitation

42:55 ↗ we're expected to experience rainier

42:57 ↗ winters drier spring and summers

42:59 ↗ or more rain when we need it i'm sorry

43:01 ↗ more rain we don't need it

43:02 ↗ less rain when we do need it um models

43:05 ↗ project that by the 2050s there'll be

43:07 ↗ about a 22

43:08 ↗ decline of average precipitation during

43:10 ↗ summer months

43:11 ↗ and a 2 to 11 increase in the winter

43:13 ↗ spring and fall

43:15 ↗ we can also expect this rainfall to be

43:16 ↗ more intense so

43:18 ↗ uh intensifying by 22 by the 2080s

43:21 ↗ increasing in frequency with an average

43:23 ↗ of seven 24-hour heavy rain events per

43:26 ↗ year

43:27 ↗ and finally on a related note we'll see

43:29 ↗ reduced snowpack so because we'll be

43:31 ↗ experiencing more precipitation in the

43:32 ↗ form of rain

43:33 ↗ rather than snowpack that also means

43:35 ↗ less snowmelt throughout the spring

43:38 ↗ we're expecting to see about 23 to 29

43:40 ↗ decrease of april first snowpack

43:43 ↗ and addie if we go to the next slide

43:44 ↗ what is all angela

43:46 ↗ yes angela there is a question uh on the

43:49 ↗ path

43:49 ↗ previous slide please okay

43:52 ↗ uh don do you want to ask your question

43:54 ↗ please no it was just a comment

43:56 ↗ i would caution you guys on using the

43:58 ↗ word lower snowpack that implies that

44:00 ↗ there's a constant decline in snowpack

44:02 ↗ it's more of a variable snowpack as a

44:06 ↗ attendee of snowpoint pass for the last

44:08 ↗ 30 years i've seen it go up and down up

44:11 ↗ and down up and down with last year

44:12 ↗ being one of the highest snowpacks we've

44:14 ↗ ever seen

44:16 ↗ thank you

44:21 ↗ all right we can go to the next one oh

44:23 ↗ yeah here we go

44:24 ↗ um so for what this might look like on

44:26 ↗ the ground uh

44:28 ↗ these shifts will result in a range of

44:30 ↗ impact so

44:31 ↗ when we think about health um the

44:33 ↗ increased heat will impact health with

44:34 ↗ higher

44:35 ↗ rates of illness hospitalizations and

44:37 ↗ death especially among vulnerable

44:38 ↗ populations

44:40 ↗ things like an increase in hospital

44:41 ↗ emissions premature deaths specifically

44:43 ↗ for children elderly people and outdoor

44:45 ↗ laborers

44:46 ↗ and our most recent heatwave which it

44:48 ↗ feels very acute

44:50 ↗ and recent in memory there have been at

44:52 ↗ least 78 deaths in washington state

44:54 ↗ attributed to these unconstitutional

44:56 ↗ extreme heat waves

44:58 ↗ and only about 44 of king county

45:00 ↗ households have air conditioning so

45:02 ↗ with a decreased ability to respond to

45:04 ↗ that increase in heat

45:06 ↗ um these are also expected to have

45:08 ↗ economic impacts so these extreme

45:10 ↗ weather

45:10 ↗ events are expected to disrupt trade

45:12 ↗ routes damaged homes and other

45:14 ↗ infrastructure

45:15 ↗ it can physically impact roadways so

45:17 ↗ concrete expanding

45:18 ↗ um king county is already experiencing

45:21 ↗ impacts like this

45:22 ↗ in june 2021 where we experienced

45:25 ↗ multiple consecutive days of 100 degree

45:27 ↗ temperatures i-5

45:28 ↗ buckled in multiple places causing lane

45:30 ↗ closures and delays um and in a 2011

45:33 ↗ climate vulnerability assessment

45:35 ↗ by the washington department of

45:36 ↗ transportation the portion of i-90 that

45:38 ↗ passes through issaquah

45:40 ↗ was assigned a moderate and high

45:42 ↗ vulnerability

45:43 ↗ primarily due to flooding landslides

45:45 ↗ mudslides and slope destabilization

45:48 ↗ so speaking of flooding the projected 22

45:50 ↗ percent increase in intensity of extreme

45:52 ↗ rainfall events heightens flood risk

45:54 ↗ especially flash floods which pose

45:56 ↗ health and safety risks to the community

45:58 ↗ um particularly in the winter and spring

46:00 ↗ months

46:01 ↗ and finally um the number of acres

46:03 ↗ burned of burn forest in washington from

46:06 ↗ wildfire is expected to double

46:07 ↗ by the end of the century which is

46:09 ↗ particularly important for

46:10 ↗ a community a lot of forested area in it

46:14 ↗ these fires will result these fires

46:17 ↗ result in about 46

46:18 ↗ decrease in forest carbon stocks which

46:20 ↗ means that about 1.2 billion metric tons

46:23 ↗ of carbon would not be sequestered and

46:25 ↗ stored

46:25 ↗ in forest ecosystems and i can pause

46:28 ↗ there if there's any questions

46:32 ↗ and if not i can keep it moving um and

46:35 ↗ pass the baton over to addie to lead us

46:37 ↗ into discussion number one

46:41 ↗ okay um hello i'm addie i'm an associate

46:45 ↗ with caspadia

46:46 ↗ um so we're gonna keep moving things

46:48 ↗ pretty quickly

46:50 ↗ tonight um so for this first discussion

46:53 ↗ our primary objective

46:54 ↗ is really to collect your feedback on

46:56 ↗ the proposed goals

46:58 ↗ targets and metrics for the cap

47:04 ↗ so first i'm going to start with an

47:07 ↗ overview of the various terminology that

47:09 ↗ we're going to be using today

47:11 ↗ so starting with the icap vision uh this

47:13 ↗ is the overarching icap vision that

47:16 ↗ outlines what we hope the cap will

47:18 ↗ accomplish

47:19 ↗ the desired future that we hope to see

47:20 ↗ for issaquah and its residents

47:22 ↗ we're not focusing on the vision today

47:25 ↗ uh but

47:26 ↗ this vision will be developed in part

47:28 ↗ through the feedback that we gathered

47:30 ↗ tonight and our other engagement

47:32 ↗ initiatives throughout the summer

47:35 ↗ um moving on to the overarching

47:36 ↗ greenhouse gas emissions reduction

47:38 ↗ target

47:39 ↗ this is the specific emissions reduction

47:42 ↗ that we aim to meet

47:43 ↗ through the collective actions in the

47:45 ↗ cap for example achieving carbon

47:47 ↗ neutrality by 2050 would be considered

47:49 ↗ an overarching target of the cap

47:54 ↗ for focus areas this quest cap will be

47:56 ↗ broken into five focus area

47:58 ↗ areas buildings and energy

47:59 ↗ transportation and land use materials

48:01 ↗ and consumption

48:02 ↗ natural systems and water resources and

48:05 ↗ community

48:06 ↗ resilience and well-being uh

48:09 ↗ goals are the vision for what we hope to

48:12 ↗ accomplish in each focus area

48:14 ↗ the desired progress that we hope to

48:16 ↗ make targets are the specific

48:19 ↗ measurable goals that we are working

48:20 ↗ toward in a given focus area

48:22 ↗ so really the quantifiable goals um

48:25 ↗ achieving these targets will help us

48:27 ↗ achieve the overall emissions reduction

48:29 ↗ target

48:30 ↗ we will track these targets through

48:33 ↗ metrics

48:34 ↗ which are the indicators to measure

48:36 ↗ progress in reaching

48:38 ↗ our established targets and goals

48:41 ↗ strategies speak to the how

48:44 ↗ what pathways we will take to reach our

48:46 ↗ goals and targets

48:48 ↗ and then actions are the specific

48:49 ↗ initiatives or steps that we will take

48:51 ↗ to enact a given strategy

48:57 ↗ uh we also wanted to focus a little bit

49:00 ↗ of time on the

49:02 ↗ mitigation and adaptation to really

49:04 ↗ clarify the terminology there

49:06 ↗ uh so the strategies and actions of the

49:08 ↗ caps will

49:09 ↗ will be in the cap will be a mix of both

49:12 ↗ mitigation

49:13 ↗ and adaptation mitigation actions

49:16 ↗ address the cause of climate change and

49:19 ↗ aim to prevent climate change through

49:20 ↗ reduction in greenhouse gas emissions

49:22 ↗ and by increasing carbon sinks which

49:25 ↗ store these gases

49:27 ↗ adaptation um addresses the impacts of

49:30 ↗ climate change and aims to

49:32 ↗ manage these impacts by protecting

49:34 ↗ vulnerable so

49:35 ↗ vulnerable social and biological systems

49:39 ↗ so the icap will focus indeed on

49:41 ↗ reducing emissions

49:43 ↗ but we're also really seeing in real

49:45 ↗ time the importance of adaptation as

49:47 ↗ well

49:48 ↗ again the recent heat wave is an acute

49:50 ↗ example of why

49:51 ↗ adaptation actions matter

49:58 ↗ so i'm going to start with the proposed

50:00 ↗ goals that we have drafted for each

50:02 ↗ focus area

50:03 ↗ these goals were informed um in part by

50:06 ↗ existing city plans as well as regional

50:08 ↗ climate action initiatives

50:10 ↗ um we've outlined here the goals as well

50:13 ↗ as the related plans

50:15 ↗ um and i hope that everyone got to have

50:17 ↗ a chance to review the discussion guide

50:18 ↗ and see these but i will go through all

50:20 ↗ the goals

50:21 ↗ pretty quickly here as well uh so for

50:24 ↗ buildings and energy we have reduced

50:25 ↗ greenhouse gas emissions from buildings

50:27 ↗ through energy efficiency

50:28 ↗ electrification and transition into

50:30 ↗ renewable energy sources

50:33 ↗ uh transportation land use reduce

50:35 ↗ greenhouse gas emissions

50:36 ↗ from transportation and improve

50:39 ↗ community mobility by building a

50:40 ↗ multimodal transportation system

50:42 ↗ with improved public transit and an

50:44 ↗ expanded active transportation network

50:47 ↗ and transitioning to electric vehicles

50:51 ↗ reduced community waste generation and

50:53 ↗ the greenhouse gas emissions associated

50:55 ↗ with the consumption and disposal of

50:57 ↗ goods and materials

50:59 ↗ protect and expand natural landscapes

51:01 ↗ and conserve

51:02 ↗ water resources to improve climate

51:05 ↗ resiliency

51:06 ↗ protect vital habitats ecosystems and

51:09 ↗ natural

51:10 ↗ resources improve local carbon

51:12 ↗ sequestration and expand community green

51:14 ↗ spaces

51:16 ↗ and finally ensure that issaquah is

51:18 ↗ prepared for climate emergencies

51:20 ↗ that the community can effectively adapt

51:22 ↗ to current and future climate impacts

51:24 ↗ and that these benefits are equitably

51:27 ↗ distributed

51:28 ↗ among issaquah residents

51:33 ↗ so moving on to the proposed targets for

51:35 ↗ each focus area

51:37 ↗ and again along with the metrics that we

51:39 ↗ will use to track progress

51:40 ↗ in meeting those targets so these again

51:43 ↗ were developed in part through existing

51:45 ↗ city plans as well as regional climate

51:47 ↗ action

51:49 ↗ uh so starting with buildings and energy

51:52 ↗ uh we have a target of

51:54 ↗ uh 25 decrease in energy use by 2030

51:59 ↗ from 2017 levels uh net zero greenhouse

52:03 ↗ gas emissions in new buildings by 2030

52:06 ↗ 100 renewable electricity by 2025

52:09 ↗ in municipal buildings um and i quickly

52:12 ↗ want to note that this

52:13 ↗ uh this target for a 25 decrease

52:17 ↗ in energy use applies to both new

52:20 ↗ and existing buildings moving on to

52:23 ↗ transportation

52:24 ↗ uh we have a 15 increase

52:27 ↗ in non-drive alone mode shares from 2017

52:31 ↗ levels by 2030

52:33 ↗ a 20 20 decrease in vehicle miles

52:36 ↗ traveled from 2017 levels by 2030

52:40 ↗ um for materials uh zero waste of

52:43 ↗ resources with economic value and

52:46 ↗ zero food waste by 2030 and this target

52:49 ↗ was

52:50 ↗ aligned with the 2020 king county

52:54 ↗ uh scap and the goal is to reduce

52:57 ↗ upstream emissions associated with the

52:59 ↗ production of goods and materials by

53:01 ↗ ensuring

53:02 ↗ that resources that are still usable

53:05 ↗ remain in circulation which will reduce

53:08 ↗ the

53:08 ↗ need to produce more um and then

53:12 ↗ create the corresponding upstream

53:14 ↗ emissions

53:16 ↗ um and then finally for natural systems

53:18 ↗ and water resources

53:19 ↗ uh we have a target of reaching a 51

53:22 ↗ tree

53:23 ↗ canopy coverage

53:29 ↗ so with that i know there was a lot to

53:31 ↗ take in uh but we'd like to

53:33 ↗ hear your feedback about the focus area

53:35 ↗ goals

53:36 ↗ targets and metrics please raise your

53:38 ↗ hand for the moderator to

53:40 ↗ mute you and we will be taking notes

53:43 ↗ um as we go

53:49 ↗ so with that i'll just read these

53:51 ↗ questions um do these goals and targets

53:53 ↗ adequately

53:54 ↗ adequately address your priorities or

53:57 ↗ ambitions for the cap

53:58 ↗ are there any additional goals or

54:00 ↗ targets you would recommend

54:02 ↗ including in the plan

54:05 ↗ okay the first person that has asked to

54:07 ↗ a question for this

54:08 ↗ is cameron or no jamie excuse me jamie

54:12 ↗ please go ahead

54:14 ↗ thank you nancy uh jamie finch speaking

54:16 ↗ um

54:17 ↗ i was curious and the one that's

54:19 ↗ probably the most relevant

54:20 ↗ is the 25 reduction of energy use in

54:23 ↗ buildings

54:24 ↗ i was curious how much of that is

54:26 ↗ estimated to be necessary

54:28 ↗ or is going to be driven by like i think

54:30 ↗ the ceta or the

54:32 ↗ the non-issaquah measures versus what we

54:35 ↗ feel are

54:36 ↗ at the portion of that that would be the

54:39 ↗ actual

54:39 ↗ driven by issaquah measures

54:45 ↗ andrew do you have do you want to jump

54:47 ↗ in on that yeah

54:48 ↗ yeah um if you could addie if you could

54:50 ↗ go back to the wedge slide um

54:52 ↗ it's probably easiest to just look at it

54:54 ↗ visually but you can kind of see the

54:56 ↗ general trajectory we're heading in

54:58 ↗ you're really only going to get benefit

54:59 ↗ from sata when it comes to

55:01 ↗ electrification

55:02 ↗ so that natural gas is not going to go

55:04 ↗ down because of sata

55:06 ↗ um granted pse and other utilities are

55:09 ↗ working to clean their natural grid or

55:11 ↗ the natural gas supply excuse me

55:14 ↗ i think they're somewhat reluctant to

55:15 ↗ have mass electrification given

55:18 ↗ how much of a strain that will put on

55:20 ↗ the grid but when you look at the impact

55:22 ↗ of sata it's by far

55:24 ↗ the largest slice of the pie so you're

55:26 ↗ getting the most bang for your buck

55:27 ↗ there

55:28 ↗ because essentially after 2030

55:31 ↗ you're no longer going to experience

55:33 ↗ emissions from your electricity

55:35 ↗ and that's assuming that the utility is

55:37 ↗ implemented in

55:38 ↗ alignment with the regulation at the

55:40 ↗ state level so apologies i don't have

55:42 ↗ the exact number off my

55:43 ↗ top of my head but you can see the blue

55:45 ↗ wedge is hugely

55:46 ↗ impactful um and that's just assuming

55:49 ↗ that the current ratio of electricity

55:51 ↗ and natural gas stays the same

55:53 ↗ um so addy if you go to the tire slide

55:55 ↗ um

55:56 ↗ there is in our pie chart you can see

55:58 ↗ that natural gas is about 17

56:00 ↗ of total emissions so we would not

56:02 ↗ expect to see that decrease through sata

56:03 ↗ but your 44

56:05 ↗ from electricity would go down does that

56:08 ↗ answer your

56:08 ↗ question yeah that's great thank you

56:12 ↗ and we have a question from don don

56:14 ↗ please go ahead

56:21 ↗ um now i think that was

56:24 ↗ i think i missed queued there nancy okay

56:27 ↗ that's right

56:29 ↗ uh i'm going to go with questions still

56:31 ↗ still before i go to comments cameron

56:32 ↗ you have a question

56:34 ↗ thank you nancy uh cameron fischer here

56:37 ↗ uh going back to jamie's point about the

56:40 ↗ uh the population and your modeling

56:42 ↗ there um

56:45 ↗ i think we saw a bit of it with covert

56:47 ↗ when people moved out of the cities into

56:50 ↗ different locations they've been a bit

56:51 ↗ of a migration pattern going on

56:53 ↗ working from home um and i'm assuming

56:57 ↗ with increasing temperatures we're going

56:59 ↗ to see a change in population

57:01 ↗ migration to different areas out of the

57:04 ↗ hot spots to

57:04 ↗ potentially cooler spots likely moving

57:08 ↗ north from

57:09 ↗ southwest to the northwest are you

57:12 ↗ modeling different population growth and

57:14 ↗ how they all

57:15 ↗ track with the targets and the goals at

57:18 ↗ different

57:19 ↗ different population fluctuations yeah

57:22 ↗ that's a great point um

57:23 ↗ our baeu model is very simplistic it's

57:26 ↗ just a rough way of kind of seeing where

57:28 ↗ we're heading into the future

57:29 ↗ but to your point i mean all of those

57:31 ↗ things can potentially

57:33 ↗ impact your population numbers your

57:34 ↗ housing numbers your job numbers

57:36 ↗ i don't know that local jurisdictions

57:38 ↗ have gotten that far in their planning

57:40 ↗ to reflect the anomaly

57:41 ↗ of the past year and what that means in

57:43 ↗ the long term

57:45 ↗ i think the benefit of what we've

57:47 ↗ created here

57:48 ↗ is that issaquah can continue to update

57:50 ↗ this as better

57:51 ↗ data is available so as those numbers

57:54 ↗ change into the future year to year when

57:55 ↗ we have real population counts and then

57:57 ↗ when those

57:58 ↗ trajectories change you can keep that as

58:00 ↗ a living document and continue to update

58:02 ↗ it if there's more reliable data sources

58:05 ↗ and that goes for all of the data points

58:07 ↗ in there so not only

58:08 ↗ population jobs things like that also

58:11 ↗ the impacts of these legislation

58:13 ↗ um your year to year um your

58:16 ↗ year-to-year inventory numbers could

58:18 ↗ replace the projected numbers we have

58:19 ↗ here so

58:20 ↗ it'll get more accurate over time if you

58:23 ↗ choose to

58:23 ↗ maintain that wedge into the future but

58:25 ↗ what we've presented today is a per

58:27 ↗ um fairly rough way of just kind of

58:29 ↗ giving you the idea of where we're

58:30 ↗ heading

58:31 ↗ right thank you now laura has a question

58:35 ↗ laura

58:36 ↗ go ahead all right

58:39 ↗ um i just have a i guess i have more of

58:41 ↗ a comment

58:42 ↗ um a few comments but i'd welcome

58:44 ↗ thoughts on that just if

58:46 ↗ anything needs unpacked um first thank

58:49 ↗ you for doing all this work and it's a

58:50 ↗ lot of heavy lifting ahead for you guys

58:52 ↗ so

58:52 ↗ i'm excited you're doing it um i think

58:56 ↗ my concern is that this still feels

58:58 ↗ rather reactive rather than proactive

59:00 ↗ um and i think it would be important if

59:02 ↗ we can reframe

59:05 ↗ climate change like what we're what is

59:07 ↗ the problem we're trying to solve

59:08 ↗ and that climate is not just greenhouse

59:11 ↗ gas and it's especially not just carbon

59:13 ↗ um and i think it's important to

59:15 ↗ recognize the larger climate system as a

59:17 ↗ problem that we have to solve

59:19 ↗ in that to your point you're saying

59:21 ↗ there's precipitation issues there's

59:22 ↗ going to be wildfire issues there's

59:24 ↗ temperature issues and

59:25 ↗ we're reframing it towards reactive from

59:28 ↗ reactive towards proactive there's

59:29 ↗ different

59:30 ↗ solutions we can look at for example

59:32 ↗ that

59:33 ↗ increasing um vegetation

59:36 ↗ can decrease temperature by 10 degrees

59:39 ↗ at least

59:40 ↗ so when we're when we look at i think

59:42 ↗ issaquah this has been

59:43 ↗ the hill i will die on is that isoqua is

59:45 ↗ uniquely placed and that we have the

59:47 ↗ opportunity

59:48 ↗ to impact ecosystems and provide habitat

59:51 ↗ and resilient habitat in ways that a lot

59:53 ↗ of other places in the country cannot

59:56 ↗ and so i think it's important that we

59:57 ↗ talk about not just what can we do to

1:00:00 ↗ reduce things but also what can we do to

1:00:02 ↗ improve

1:00:02 ↗ and contribute more positive climate

1:00:04 ↗ impact so how can we

1:00:07 ↗ for example reduce methane emissions

1:00:10 ↗ from

1:00:11 ↗ green organic substance that's going

1:00:13 ↗ directly to waste how can we

1:00:15 ↗ reduce temperature we can reduce

1:00:17 ↗ temperature through more vegetation how

1:00:18 ↗ can we improve water quality

1:00:20 ↗ how can we provide more habitat those

1:00:22 ↗ are all things that we can drastically

1:00:25 ↗ impact

1:00:25 ↗ while we're waiting for more resilient

1:00:28 ↗ carbon solutions to come along

1:00:31 ↗ so i would love to see more specific

1:00:33 ↗ framing around

1:00:35 ↗ the problem being climate and

1:00:37 ↗ contributions and opportunities we have

1:00:39 ↗ to improve the climate

1:00:41 ↗ and not just reactively feel guilty

1:00:44 ↗ about

1:00:44 ↗ how we're relying on cars because that's

1:00:46 ↗ just going to be a longer battle

1:00:48 ↗ when there are some short-term things we

1:00:49 ↗ could do that said so for example the

1:00:52 ↗ building

1:00:53 ↗ and energy we could say we can talk

1:00:55 ↗ about improving building efficiency

1:00:57 ↗ and not just reducing emissions but how

1:00:59 ↗ do you improve

1:01:00 ↗ efficiency um how do you look at

1:01:03 ↗ materials the land use it seems like

1:01:05 ↗ there isn't any discussion in the

1:01:06 ↗ transportation and land use about land

1:01:08 ↗ use

1:01:09 ↗ so i would love to see something about

1:01:10 ↗ housing housing contributes so much to

1:01:13 ↗ expansion and deforestation so we have

1:01:16 ↗ to look at equality

1:01:17 ↗ and equity as a part of that how can we

1:01:19 ↗ contribute to local farming

1:01:21 ↗ so that we're again to the point earlier

1:01:23 ↗ we're reducing our larger footprint

1:01:25 ↗ from bringing in more food out of out of

1:01:28 ↗ the city

1:01:29 ↗ um how can we decrease a need for

1:01:31 ↗ mobility so there is less

1:01:33 ↗ need to drive because we have more

1:01:35 ↗ things here

1:01:36 ↗ um those are just some examples but i

1:01:38 ↗ would really like to see us frame around

1:01:40 ↗ climate

1:01:40 ↗ um and do as much as we can to

1:01:42 ↗ contribute in ways a lot of people can't

1:01:44 ↗ that's it thank you for that feedback

1:01:56 ↗ did we have any other comments

1:02:00 ↗ oh sorry i was muted um the next person

1:02:03 ↗ that we have up is ann and go ahead

1:02:07 ↗ hi thank you so much to everybody who

1:02:11 ↗ is working on this it's such such an

1:02:13 ↗ important

1:02:14 ↗ plan to have and i'm excited for the

1:02:17 ↗ climate convenience coming up so we get

1:02:19 ↗ to really hash things out a bit more

1:02:22 ↗ um a couple of things so i wasn't sure

1:02:25 ↗ if it was reflected in the chart or not

1:02:27 ↗ and then i heard possibly angela comment

1:02:30 ↗ on

1:02:31 ↗ sita and um how by 2030

1:02:35 ↗ we would be all renewable energy and

1:02:37 ↗ unfortunately um by 2030

1:02:39 ↗ we're going to be um 20

1:02:43 ↗ will um can be offsets

1:02:46 ↗ so most likely will be 80

1:02:49 ↗ renewables and then between 2030 and

1:02:54 ↗ 2045

1:02:55 ↗ we'll be weaning ourselves off that last

1:02:59 ↗ 20

1:02:59 ↗ of natural gas

1:03:03 ↗ knowing pse that's probably how it'll go

1:03:06 ↗ and we'll continue to need to

1:03:08 ↗ keep the pressure on to pse and utc

1:03:11 ↗ to make sure that all happens and um

1:03:16 ↗ did you guys did you guys have is that

1:03:19 ↗ um in the chart

1:03:20 ↗ i couldn't tell with the chart

1:03:23 ↗ yeah that was reflected um we so we net

1:03:27 ↗ the emissions so um because the graph is

1:03:30 ↗ just a simple

1:03:32 ↗ you know representation it's netting the

1:03:34 ↗ fact that they

1:03:35 ↗ can meet that target via offsets but

1:03:38 ↗ effectively

1:03:39 ↗ it would be greenhouse gas neutral so

1:03:41 ↗ that's how it's represented in our graph

1:03:43 ↗ but you're totally right that they can

1:03:44 ↗ meet

1:03:45 ↗ um that last residual portion through

1:03:47 ↗ natural gas or

1:03:49 ↗ um it doesn't have to be fully renewable

1:03:51 ↗ by 2030 i believe the next one is

1:03:53 ↗ 20 40. it has to be fully 20 45 20 20 45

1:03:56 ↗ thank you

1:03:57 ↗ yeah it has to be fully um renewable

1:04:00 ↗ but you're right they do have a period

1:04:02 ↗ where they can continue to use natural

1:04:03 ↗ gas they just have to offset it so our

1:04:05 ↗ model just represents that that's net

1:04:07 ↗ zero ghd but you're right there's more

1:04:09 ↗ nuance there than what we're showing in

1:04:10 ↗ there okay

1:04:11 ↗ so you're counting the offsets as

1:04:14 ↗ totally renewable then when we talk

1:04:17 ↗ about yes because you're

1:04:19 ↗ assuming you know if you were to align

1:04:20 ↗ with um king county

1:04:22 ↗ they uh have adopted 95 reductions

1:04:26 ↗ but greenhouse gas neutral by 2050 and

1:04:29 ↗ greenhouse gas neutral

1:04:30 ↗ um or car net zero is how it's framed

1:04:33 ↗ um indicates that you can use offsets to

1:04:36 ↗ meet that remaining five percent

1:04:38 ↗ so that's how we've kind of treated it

1:04:39 ↗ across the board is if there's offsets

1:04:41 ↗ and i believe that's the only place

1:04:42 ↗ where we're counting offsets as

1:04:44 ↗ reducing it and again it's just for a

1:04:46 ↗ simplistic model

1:04:47 ↗ um it's hard to represent all of that

1:04:49 ↗ nuance there yeah

1:04:51 ↗ cool and um let's see

1:04:54 ↗ so on page 14 or maybe 15

1:04:58 ↗ under natural systems related plans

1:05:01 ↗ i was just wondering if um the green

1:05:04 ↗ issaquah restoration

1:05:07 ↗ like remo invasive removal um and

1:05:09 ↗ improving forest health

1:05:11 ↗ resilience um anyway i was wondering if

1:05:14 ↗ the

1:05:15 ↗ green issaquah should go under the

1:05:18 ↗ related plans

1:05:20 ↗ because maybe that's a plan where we're

1:05:23 ↗ um

1:05:24 ↗ restoring the health and i was wondering

1:05:26 ↗ if forest health

1:05:27 ↗ should and resilience should be in there

1:05:31 ↗ and also on page 15 i was wondering

1:05:35 ↗ what the current tree canopy is

1:05:38 ↗ now so what the percentage is

1:05:42 ↗ of increase

1:05:45 ↗ this is what percentage are we going for

1:05:48 ↗ yeah

1:05:49 ↗ i know we had it but i can't remember

1:05:50 ↗ what it was

1:05:53 ↗ yes um this is megan so our current uh

1:05:56 ↗ tree canopy is 51 percent um the green

1:06:01 ↗ the green is aqua um

1:06:04 ↗ is something that i think will be

1:06:05 ↗ including the action level that's

1:06:07 ↗ something that um that's already

1:06:09 ↗ happening in the city but it's something

1:06:11 ↗ we want to keep expanding so that's our

1:06:13 ↗ volunteer program where we have

1:06:15 ↗ um stewardship groups going out and

1:06:17 ↗ working on

1:06:19 ↗ um private land or sorry public land um

1:06:22 ↗ i think something that we talked about

1:06:23 ↗ the convening was maybe

1:06:25 ↗ expanding that action to maybe try to do

1:06:27 ↗ something on private land in the future

1:06:30 ↗ or doing some training on that so i

1:06:32 ↗ could see that falling into

1:06:34 ↗ that natural system section but also to

1:06:37 ↗ your point that there are some

1:06:38 ↗ resiliency measures with that as well so

1:06:40 ↗ it can be considered there

1:06:43 ↗ yeah i think forest resilience actions

1:06:47 ↗ it'd be great if that was in there and

1:06:48 ↗ then i was also wondering

1:06:50 ↗ so ever since the dome i've been seeing

1:06:54 ↗ forest fire as our biggest threat

1:06:57 ↗ um the trees turned so brown and never

1:07:00 ↗ thought about having forest fire here

1:07:03 ↗ and our house burning down until just

1:07:04 ↗ recently and

1:07:06 ↗ um now it is a real threat

1:07:10 ↗ so i'm just wondering should

1:07:14 ↗ that have its own little category or

1:07:18 ↗ do you want to keep it in with the

1:07:20 ↗ community resilience

1:07:22 ↗ and well-being

1:07:25 ↗ just a thought

1:07:31 ↗ because we got a lot of trees around

1:07:33 ↗ here

1:07:35 ↗ great we'll provide that to the

1:07:37 ↗ consultants do you have any other

1:07:38 ↗ comments and

1:07:39 ↗ thank you okay next uh we have tom tom

1:07:43 ↗ go ahead

1:07:46 ↗ uh yes thank you uh tom anderson uh

1:07:48 ↗ speaking

1:07:49 ↗ um so i'm concerned about the law of

1:07:52 ↗ unintended consequences every time you

1:07:54 ↗ change something

1:07:55 ↗ well hopefully you've you've made a

1:07:56 ↗ change that affects what you intended to

1:07:59 ↗ affect but you also probably caused

1:08:02 ↗ something that you

1:08:03 ↗ didn't intend and sometimes those things

1:08:05 ↗ ripple around and cause

1:08:08 ↗ costs in ways that you hadn't thought of

1:08:11 ↗ we heard some in our public comment

1:08:14 ↗ period about the potential

1:08:16 ↗ cost to multi-family housing for example

1:08:19 ↗ and i'm just wondering uh if we have

1:08:22 ↗ some method in our modeling here that we

1:08:26 ↗ are

1:08:26 ↗ evaluating the potential costs of each

1:08:30 ↗ change known and unknown and

1:08:34 ↗ or just in terms of the the probability

1:08:36 ↗ of this change having a

1:08:40 ↗ cost impact that that will drive cost of

1:08:43 ↗ housing or cost of

1:08:44 ↗ food goods and services tax base etc

1:08:49 ↗ is this all part of the analysis

1:08:52 ↗ such that we might we might choose

1:08:55 ↗ one mitigation versus another

1:09:00 ↗ not only on its efficacy but

1:09:03 ↗ potential unintended costs

1:09:07 ↗ that's something that could be or is

1:09:09 ↗ part of the analysis

1:09:11 ↗ yeah that's a good question we don't

1:09:13 ↗ have um we're not

1:09:14 ↗ scoped to do a robust or comprehensive

1:09:17 ↗ cost benefit analysis which sounds like

1:09:19 ↗ something that you're describing i think

1:09:22 ↗ what we do have um is as part of

1:09:25 ↗ evaluating the actions we're going to

1:09:26 ↗ look at the multi-criteria analysis

1:09:28 ↗ which

1:09:28 ↗ speaks to some of the things you're

1:09:30 ↗ talking about so things like

1:09:32 ↗ equity specifically where we address a

1:09:33 ↗ lot of those unintended consequences but

1:09:35 ↗ then we do have a criteria around cost

1:09:38 ↗ and that cost um is both for the

1:09:40 ↗ community and

1:09:41 ↗ for issaquah local government as well

1:09:44 ↗ um we also as part of our climate action

1:09:47 ↗ plan will include

1:09:48 ↗ an implementation plan which is

1:09:49 ↗ essentially the roadmap for how

1:09:52 ↗ to take these conceptual strategies and

1:09:54 ↗ actions and implement them

1:09:55 ↗ um at that point is typically where we

1:09:58 ↗ do

1:09:59 ↗ more of the thinking through of what

1:10:01 ↗ would this look like

1:10:02 ↗ when we implement it what things do we

1:10:04 ↗ need to expressly consider

1:10:06 ↗ um so while not all of that will be

1:10:09 ↗ fully

1:10:09 ↗ built out in the cap we give you a good

1:10:11 ↗ starting point of the questions that

1:10:13 ↗ you're describing of

1:10:14 ↗ um you know thinking through these

1:10:16 ↗ scenarios in more detail

1:10:18 ↗ and understanding what some of those

1:10:19 ↗ unintended consequences might be

1:10:21 ↗ it's really just a way to document some

1:10:24 ↗ of those ideas so that when

1:10:25 ↗ um city staff and others are on the

1:10:27 ↗ ground implementing them

1:10:29 ↗ they have a resource and they know the

1:10:31 ↗ things they should be watching out for

1:10:33 ↗ so we would absolutely welcome your

1:10:35 ↗ input as these

1:10:37 ↗ strategies and actions are continuing to

1:10:39 ↗ develop we welcome everyone's input

1:10:41 ↗ because there are

1:10:42 ↗ unintended consequences that we may not

1:10:44 ↗ be thinking of so the more of that we

1:10:46 ↗ can do now

1:10:47 ↗ the more set up for success as the cloud

1:10:49 ↗ will be when it comes to actually

1:10:51 ↗ implementing the roadmap

1:10:54 ↗ great next we have uh megan go ahead you

1:10:58 ↗ had a question

1:11:01 ↗ uh this is for rishi i'm gonna um

1:11:05 ↗ try to unmute you now and you can unmute

1:11:07 ↗ yourself rishi

1:11:11 ↗ you're unmuted yes

1:11:14 ↗ okay um i had a few comments about

1:11:17 ↗ things that could be added to this

1:11:18 ↗ um chart i was thinking first under

1:11:20 ↗ transportation and land use there should

1:11:22 ↗ be

1:11:22 ↗ a separate section um in my opinion that

1:11:26 ↗ concerns students and how they how they

1:11:29 ↗ arrive at school

1:11:30 ↗ so perhaps limited uh decreasing the

1:11:32 ↗ number of students expected to be

1:11:33 ↗ driving to school

1:11:35 ↗ and perhaps increasing the number of

1:11:36 ↗ students busing instead

1:11:38 ↗ and then also i think that um the

1:11:41 ↗ 10-year checkpoints

1:11:42 ↗ so 2030 is a bit out there i think maybe

1:11:46 ↗ a seven-year

1:11:46 ↗ or five-year checkpoint or like a

1:11:48 ↗ short-term goal would be beneficial

1:11:50 ↗ otherwise the targets will just continue

1:11:52 ↗ to remain targets as that we've seen

1:11:54 ↗ with the k4c goals

1:11:56 ↗ um even as we approach the year of 2030.

1:11:58 ↗ so i think this earlier points can make

1:11:59 ↗ sure we're on track to reach these

1:12:02 ↗ um and then i had another two points one

1:12:04 ↗ of them was

1:12:05 ↗ i think we should add a point regarding

1:12:07 ↗ the number of buildings that

1:12:08 ↗ are under leed standards in issaquah

1:12:12 ↗ and also that i think there should be a

1:12:14 ↗ point regarding the number of local

1:12:16 ↗ companies that are actively working to

1:12:18 ↗ reverse climate change because i think

1:12:19 ↗ at some point

1:12:21 ↗ our city should start incentivizing you

1:12:23 ↗ know development

1:12:25 ↗ in those in that field particularly

1:12:28 ↗ and that's it thank you

1:12:33 ↗ great and i guess

1:12:36 ↗ i think i'm up next and i just wanted to

1:12:38 ↗ tell all the board before i make my

1:12:40 ↗ comment and that is that

1:12:42 ↗ i am calling on people that we haven't

1:12:43 ↗ heard form before i go back around to

1:12:45 ↗ get you a second time so

1:12:47 ↗ if you feel like i'm ignoring you i'm

1:12:48 ↗ not i've got a list here that i'm

1:12:50 ↗ running

1:12:51 ↗ and i'm trying to watch the clock as

1:12:52 ↗ well so um just uh

1:12:54 ↗ just to give you all a heads up but my

1:12:57 ↗ comment on the focus areas and targets

1:12:59 ↗ is similar to what we just heard from

1:13:00 ↗ rishi and that

1:13:01 ↗ is i'm concerned about a deadline of

1:13:03 ↗ 2030 and us hitting up

1:13:05 ↗ at 2029 and saying oh gosh we didn't get

1:13:08 ↗ anywhere near this

1:13:09 ↗ and i think instead of a focus area of

1:13:12 ↗ these

1:13:12 ↗ um very discreet items that you can

1:13:16 ↗ address we need a focus area of how are

1:13:18 ↗ we doing to meet our target

1:13:20 ↗ we need to actually be measuring that

1:13:23 ↗ across

1:13:23 ↗ all of these areas and really make that

1:13:25 ↗ a focus

1:13:27 ↗ so that we can adjust in a more

1:13:29 ↗ real-time basis

1:13:30 ↗ to changes that need to happen um you

1:13:33 ↗ know

1:13:34 ↗ we can measure each piece but if we

1:13:36 ↗ don't do this every year

1:13:38 ↗ or every other year we're never going to

1:13:40 ↗ hit anything in 2030 and it's really

1:13:42 ↗ easy to put things off that are hard

1:13:44 ↗ and this is hard and so that's just my

1:13:46 ↗ feedback i don't know what the targets

1:13:48 ↗ would be

1:13:49 ↗ and i think that's really what

1:13:50 ↗ consultants are paid to do but i really

1:13:52 ↗ think we need to have some way of

1:13:54 ↗ measuring

1:13:55 ↗ all what are these four elements and

1:13:57 ↗ seeing how we're doing on that

1:13:59 ↗ so that's my feedback and let's see who

1:14:02 ↗ haven't we heard from that i can call on

1:14:03 ↗ now

1:14:05 ↗ uh don i don't think you've given

1:14:07 ↗ feedback on this but i could be wrong

1:14:10 ↗ no i'm just listening uh thank you nancy

1:14:12 ↗ so a couple

1:14:13 ↗ comments slash questions um so

1:14:16 ↗ my this really needs to be issaquah

1:14:19 ↗ focused

1:14:20 ↗ um you know when i look at issaquah

1:14:22 ↗ there's a lot of pass-through traffic

1:14:24 ↗ that comes through the region

1:14:25 ↗ you're not going to have a lot of

1:14:26 ↗ control after that so i'd like to see

1:14:28 ↗ the targets and goals be more focused on

1:14:31 ↗ what the city can do

1:14:33 ↗ um to improve climate change within the

1:14:36 ↗ city and have measured targets and

1:14:38 ↗ measured metrics that speak to that

1:14:41 ↗ for instance your transportation and

1:14:43 ↗ land use

1:14:45 ↗ it says you're going to reduce

1:14:46 ↗ greenhouse gas emissions from

1:14:48 ↗ transportation

1:14:49 ↗ um you know that's pretty ambitious

1:14:51 ↗ let's try to narrow that down a little

1:14:53 ↗ bit get rid of the i-90 get rid of your

1:14:55 ↗ pass-through traffic and see what you

1:14:56 ↗ can do there

1:14:58 ↗ the other question i have you uh use a

1:15:01 ↗ term called climate emergencies

1:15:03 ↗ can you help me better understand what

1:15:06 ↗ you mean by being prepared for climate

1:15:08 ↗ emergencies

1:15:13 ↗ do you mean like what a what how we

1:15:15 ↗ would define climate emergencies

1:15:16 ↗ yeah what is a climate emergency it

1:15:18 ↗ could be i mean i think

1:15:21 ↗ we would count the recent heat wave as a

1:15:23 ↗ as a climate emergency

1:15:25 ↗ yeah flooding events earthquakes

1:15:28 ↗ landslides like any of those really

1:15:30 ↗ serious

1:15:30 ↗ like wildfire like any of the things

1:15:32 ↗ that become

1:15:34 ↗ um a threat to public health and safety

1:15:36 ↗ when

1:15:37 ↗ as you as you get farther along in the

1:15:40 ↗ plan i would encourage you to

1:15:42 ↗ list those out and how you're going to

1:15:45 ↗ address those so

1:15:47 ↗ for instance the recent heat wave maybe

1:15:49 ↗ increasing tree canopy in certain areas

1:15:51 ↗ of town providing

1:15:52 ↗ cooling centers those kind of things

1:15:53 ↗ could address that

1:15:55 ↗ so just be a little more specific but i

1:15:56 ↗ know we're really early on in this so

1:16:00 ↗ that's great feedback thank you for your

1:16:02 ↗ work so far i appreciate it

1:16:05 ↗ okay next danny go ahead danny

1:16:10 ↗ um so my first thing is

1:16:13 ↗ uh kind of going on the education piece

1:16:15 ↗ i found that in a lot of the goals

1:16:17 ↗ there's like

1:16:18 ↗ um some subtext concerning like

1:16:20 ↗ education community outreach and things

1:16:22 ↗ like that especially in the strategies

1:16:24 ↗ um and i would suggest maybe making that

1:16:26 ↗ more explicit especially like in the

1:16:28 ↗ goals but

1:16:28 ↗ especially in the strategies because i

1:16:30 ↗ think that's

1:16:31 ↗ um going to be like a huge piece of this

1:16:33 ↗ moving forward

1:16:35 ↗ um so like uh just kind of making that

1:16:38 ↗ more explicit um

1:16:40 ↗ and also maybe adding a target

1:16:43 ↗ concerning like

1:16:44 ↗ community um community

1:16:47 ↗ or uh yeah community resilience and

1:16:49 ↗ well-being

1:16:50 ↗ um i noticed that there was like no

1:16:52 ↗ target for that and i'm sure

1:16:54 ↗ that i just yeah i think that would be a

1:16:55 ↗ good place to maybe add a target and

1:16:57 ↗ make it

1:16:58 ↗ um explicit how we are going to measure

1:17:01 ↗ um success with that goal so

1:17:07 ↗ thank you

1:17:10 ↗ so um i know other people have comments

1:17:13 ↗ i know we're going over on this

1:17:14 ↗ particular item on the agenda

1:17:16 ↗ and i'm going to ask those of you that

1:17:19 ↗ have comments to make it short so that

1:17:20 ↗ we can move on

1:17:22 ↗ if anyone who has not made a comment on

1:17:25 ↗ it would like to

1:17:26 ↗ weigh in please let me know or add to

1:17:28 ↗ the chats but

1:17:30 ↗ i'm going to move as quickly through the

1:17:32 ↗ remainder of this so

1:17:34 ↗ the first one that had a comment and i'm

1:17:36 ↗ asking for shortness here guys

1:17:38 ↗ uh jamie go ahead thanks nancy jamie

1:17:42 ↗ speaking um i do think one of the things

1:17:45 ↗ that's really difficult to evaluate

1:17:46 ↗ these goals and targets

1:17:48 ↗ is i'm not clear on how it holds up like

1:17:50 ↗ do we think this is enough to hit

1:17:52 ↗ our 20 30 50 reduction i think that's

1:17:55 ↗ like

1:17:55 ↗ my biggest question coming out of this

1:17:57 ↗ is i think any of these targets need to

1:17:59 ↗ really clearly roll up to okay

1:18:01 ↗ this is going to be enough to get us

1:18:02 ↗ there the other point that i wanted to

1:18:05 ↗ make and similar to what don was saying

1:18:06 ↗ i think we need to be really explicit

1:18:08 ↗ about

1:18:09 ↗ what is being done that we're driving

1:18:12 ↗ through this climate action plan versus

1:18:14 ↗ what is

1:18:15 ↗ in inbound from outside jurisdiction so

1:18:18 ↗ i think the business for the building

1:18:20 ↗ efficiency reductions is probably the

1:18:22 ↗ best example of like

1:18:23 ↗ we need to be clear about how much we

1:18:24 ↗ want to drive through actions from the

1:18:26 ↗ city or

1:18:27 ↗ results of this climate action plan

1:18:29 ↗ separate from what's happening

1:18:31 ↗ through the other standards that are

1:18:32 ↗ happening outside so we can really

1:18:34 ↗ have a metric of how is histoqua doing i

1:18:36 ↗ think the last thing is

1:18:38 ↗ i really do agree with rishi and nancy

1:18:40 ↗ that time period

1:18:42 ↗ 2030 is too far out and we need to be

1:18:44 ↗ reducing the time period

1:18:46 ↗ of when we're measuring these metrics

1:18:48 ↗ and making as many of these is clearly

1:18:50 ↗ measurable

1:18:50 ↗ measurable and and have clear signs of

1:18:53 ↗ success

1:18:54 ↗ point around how do we measure awareness

1:18:56 ↗ and putting as many of these things that

1:18:58 ↗ we think are really important for

1:19:00 ↗ this into measurable quantifiable

1:19:01 ↗ results thank you

1:19:05 ↗ um laura

1:19:08 ↗ um similar comment but slightly

1:19:10 ↗ different twist that i think that

1:19:12 ↗ um there is a lot of opportunities so

1:19:14 ↗ for metrics to highlight more stuff

1:19:16 ↗ about the benefits that we can be

1:19:17 ↗ providing like we're gonna you would

1:19:18 ↗ reduce asthma rates you can

1:19:20 ↗ provide more jobs you can provide more

1:19:22 ↗ house security

1:19:23 ↗ more home stability less wildfire risk

1:19:25 ↗ those are all metrics that are

1:19:28 ↗ in some ways quantifiable and their

1:19:29 ↗ advantages and not just

1:19:31 ↗ risk mitigation thank you

1:19:35 ↗ next uh person up is ann and go ahead

1:19:39 ↗ just wondering is or will isabelle be

1:19:42 ↗ using

1:19:42 ↗ the king county or people people for

1:19:44 ↗ climate action tool kit

1:19:46 ↗ in this plan at all to help out

1:19:50 ↗ this is megan um yes so as we're getting

1:19:53 ↗ into the action level

1:19:54 ↗ um we we've referenced those thus far

1:19:57 ↗ the king county and um and other

1:19:59 ↗ toolkits

1:20:00 ↗ uh but as we get to the action level

1:20:01 ↗ we'll be digging into all of those more

1:20:04 ↗ oh thanks with that i'm going to

1:20:08 ↗ um kind of end this session of the

1:20:11 ↗ conversation about the plan and move on

1:20:14 ↗ to the next section

1:20:16 ↗ and go ahead megan i'll let you

1:20:17 ↗ introduce or move to whoever you need to

1:20:19 ↗ thank you addie and angela

1:20:23 ↗ thanks megan um this is angela and i

1:20:26 ↗ think i'm looking at megan and addie for

1:20:28 ↗ confirmation but i am gonna

1:20:30 ↗ basically gloss over this section so we

1:20:32 ↗ can get into discussion three because i

1:20:33 ↗ think that's a little bit more important

1:20:35 ↗ um but we can kind of use this to frame

1:20:37 ↗ that conversation so

1:20:39 ↗ um addie if you don't mind sharing your

1:20:41 ↗ screen whenever it's ready

1:20:43 ↗ um i'll just kind of tee up what we're

1:20:46 ↗ looking at

1:20:47 ↗ and then offer these questions to

1:20:48 ↗ consider that i think are both relevant

1:20:50 ↗ for the purposes of

1:20:52 ↗ this mini discussion that i'm going to

1:20:53 ↗ truncate and then think about those as

1:20:55 ↗ we go into discussion three because i

1:20:57 ↗ think that's really where the heart of

1:20:58 ↗ it is

1:20:59 ↗ so um this is we'll treat this almost as

1:21:01 ↗ background information so that we can

1:21:03 ↗ hold to our time

1:21:10 ↗ thanks daddy um so

1:21:14 ↗ i'm sorry could you make it just

1:21:15 ↗ slightly bigger to focus on the thank

1:21:17 ↗ you

1:21:18 ↗ um this little box here is basically

1:21:21 ↗ just showing

1:21:22 ↗ the types of actions that are available

1:21:25 ↗ for us to think about

1:21:27 ↗ um we're not saying one is better than

1:21:29 ↗ the other but we wanted to emphasize

1:21:31 ↗ that

1:21:31 ↗ you know um the more mandates policies

1:21:34 ↗ regulations and things that you have in

1:21:36 ↗ your cap

1:21:36 ↗ the more likely you are to achieve

1:21:38 ↗ carbon neutrality on a shorter timeline

1:21:40 ↗ versus if you lean heavily on outreach

1:21:42 ↗ education incentives

1:21:44 ↗ you're more likely to achieve it on a

1:21:45 ↗ longer timeline so we're not saying you

1:21:47 ↗ only have one or the other

1:21:49 ↗ it should be a broad mix but just to

1:21:51 ↗ think about how you might make these

1:21:52 ↗ types of actions in your mind

1:21:55 ↗ we often like to pair them together so i

1:21:57 ↗ think it's been said a few times on this

1:21:58 ↗ call but

1:21:59 ↗ you wouldn't want to just mandate

1:22:01 ↗ something and expect it to be fully

1:22:03 ↗ compliant on day one you'd want to have

1:22:05 ↗ some outreach and education in advance

1:22:06 ↗ of that

1:22:07 ↗ during after et cetera to try to really

1:22:10 ↗ help the community get there

1:22:12 ↗ um so things to think about as we go

1:22:14 ↗ into this are what types of actions fit

1:22:17 ↗ is unique needs and why

1:22:19 ↗ um this will be really dependent on the

1:22:21 ↗ sector it'll be dependent on your

1:22:22 ↗ community all those things

1:22:24 ↗ um and then what types of actions will

1:22:26 ↗ be most or least supported by your

1:22:27 ↗ residents

1:22:28 ↗ what pushback do you anticipate are

1:22:30 ↗ there ways to get ahead of that

1:22:32 ↗ um and try to you know think through

1:22:34 ↗ some of these things in advance so

1:22:36 ↗ along a very rough spectrum we would

1:22:38 ↗ think about you know

1:22:39 ↗ outreach education incentives as really

1:22:41 ↗ your carrots and then we get into more

1:22:43 ↗ of the sticks with disincentives

1:22:45 ↗ um then thinking about planning or study

1:22:47 ↗ so there's something you want to do in

1:22:48 ↗ the future but you haven't already done

1:22:50 ↗ yet so an example would be conducting a

1:22:52 ↗ transportation study or something like

1:22:53 ↗ that

1:22:54 ↗ um that's what would fall into that

1:22:55 ↗ category capital investments and

1:22:57 ↗ infrastructure

1:22:58 ↗ again that would be like expanding the

1:23:00 ↗ infrastructure for avs throughout the

1:23:02 ↗ city or something like that

1:23:03 ↗ um and then like policies and

1:23:05 ↗ regulations you're all familiar with

1:23:07 ↗ what that means

1:23:08 ↗ um so i'll just kind of leave it there i

1:23:10 ↗ think we'll just think about these

1:23:11 ↗ questions as we go into discussion three

1:23:12 ↗ rather than spending a lot of time

1:23:14 ↗ discussing them right now

1:23:15 ↗ um and addie if you would mind scrolling

1:23:17 ↗ to the mca criteria i'll just kind of

1:23:19 ↗ open this up

1:23:20 ↗ um so we've talked about this already a

1:23:23 ↗ little bit

1:23:24 ↗ these are some initial criteria we've

1:23:25 ↗ been thinking about when we

1:23:27 ↗ get to the point where we're actually

1:23:28 ↗ evaluating the actions that should be

1:23:30 ↗ included

1:23:31 ↗ in the cap and so i'll just kind of

1:23:33 ↗ present them here

1:23:34 ↗ um gut reactions of what is most

1:23:37 ↗ important might be the most useful at

1:23:39 ↗ this point and in the interest of time

1:23:41 ↗ so just to tee them up cost how

1:23:43 ↗ affordable is the action to issaquah

1:23:45 ↗ being the city residents businesses

1:23:48 ↗ equity do the benefits reduce historical

1:23:51 ↗ or current

1:23:52 ↗ barriers amongst underserved communities

1:23:54 ↗ co-benefits

1:23:56 ↗ does the action address multiple goals

1:23:57 ↗ and priorities so that's what we were

1:23:59 ↗ talking about a minute ago

1:24:00 ↗ improvements to public health things

1:24:03 ↗ that are outside of just the direct

1:24:04 ↗ goals of the cap

1:24:06 ↗ impact how much will the action actually

1:24:07 ↗ move the needle in reducing emissions or

1:24:09 ↗ building resiliency

1:24:10 ↗ and then feasibility will the community

1:24:12 ↗ support the action

1:24:13 ↗ are the regulatory political or

1:24:15 ↗ technical constraints that would impact

1:24:17 ↗ the feasibility of implementation

1:24:19 ↗ and so um maybe we can just do a very

1:24:22 ↗ quick like

1:24:23 ↗ round robin style gut reaction of things

1:24:26 ↗ that you think are

1:24:27 ↗ higher priority versus lower priority

1:24:29 ↗ and we will

1:24:30 ↗ use this as a rough way to kind of

1:24:32 ↗ evaluate the actions

1:24:34 ↗ it gives it a bit of a waiting that we

1:24:36 ↗ can use to help inform

1:24:39 ↗ how we rank these actions into the

1:24:41 ↗ future so

1:24:42 ↗ one caveat this is an iterative process

1:24:44 ↗ what we say today

1:24:45 ↗ is not locked in um so this is really

1:24:47 ↗ just a way for us to kind of gauge

1:24:50 ↗ what your priorities are and keep that

1:24:52 ↗ in mind as we continue to ideate and

1:24:54 ↗ generate

1:24:55 ↗ actions to consider but this won't be

1:24:56 ↗ the first i mean it won't be the last

1:24:58 ↗ time that

1:24:59 ↗ you have an opportunity to weigh it this

1:25:00 ↗ thing so maybe with that

1:25:02 ↗ um we can just open it up for maybe five

1:25:05 ↗ minutes or so

1:25:06 ↗ of quick reactions

1:25:09 ↗ anybody have any comments

1:25:17 ↗ jamie go ahead please thanks nancy

1:25:20 ↗ jamie finch speaking i think the biggest

1:25:23 ↗ thing that jumped out to me is

1:25:24 ↗ is we have costs and we have impact we

1:25:26 ↗ don't have anything that marries those

1:25:28 ↗ two of like what is the

1:25:29 ↗ what is a an action that's the most

1:25:31 ↗ efficient at driving

1:25:33 ↗ productions in greenhouse gas and the

1:25:34 ↗ missions we have limited resources i

1:25:35 ↗ think that's

1:25:36 ↗ super important to factor in some metric

1:25:39 ↗ tons per

1:25:40 ↗ or dollars per metric tons or whatever

1:25:41 ↗ the right metric is

1:25:43 ↗ um i think the other thing that we need

1:25:45 ↗ to be really clear about

1:25:46 ↗ especially the impact is the time

1:25:48 ↗ horizon we're thinking about because

1:25:50 ↗ i want to make sure that we're not just

1:25:51 ↗ prioritizing things that have impact

1:25:54 ↗ in the short run but we need to be

1:25:55 ↗ driving goals or

1:25:57 ↗ reductions over the next 30 years and so

1:25:59 ↗ i think being really specific about the

1:26:01 ↗ time horizon

1:26:02 ↗ and and kind of short-term benefits and

1:26:04 ↗ long-term benefits as part of that

1:26:06 ↗ impact

1:26:07 ↗ i think those in my mind the impact in

1:26:09 ↗ the end is above all what's most

1:26:11 ↗ important

1:26:12 ↗ because i think that's what we're trying

1:26:13 ↗ to do we're trying to rebase greenhouse

1:26:15 ↗ gas emissions so

1:26:16 ↗ that part is pretty simple but i do

1:26:17 ↗ think there's some massaging around

1:26:20 ↗ some of the details okay i'm gonna

1:26:22 ↗ preemptively put that on the higher end

1:26:24 ↗ but again

1:26:25 ↗ these aren't set in stone so we can keep

1:26:27 ↗ talking about it but i'll shift that one

1:26:28 ↗ for now over to higher

1:26:29 ↗ priority um

1:26:32 ↗ danny do you have some feedback please

1:26:35 ↗ um

1:26:36 ↗ yeah my gut reaction on like which

1:26:38 ↗ criteria i personally think is the most

1:26:39 ↗ important is uh definitely feasibility

1:26:41 ↗ like i think it

1:26:42 ↗ kind of uh coincides almost with the

1:26:46 ↗ timeline um because i agree that like we

1:26:49 ↗ do need to be taking action as quickly

1:26:51 ↗ as possible and

1:26:52 ↗ um kind of just ensuring that everything

1:26:55 ↗ we do is

1:26:56 ↗ you know like well thought out we think

1:26:57 ↗ about the implementation and like it is

1:26:59 ↗ feasible um and it's something that we

1:27:01 ↗ can do like quickly and timely so

1:27:04 ↗ um that's one thing that i would really

1:27:06 ↗ emphasize is the feasibility

1:27:09 ↗ thank you

1:27:12 ↗ any other comments don go ahead please

1:27:17 ↗ so you have cost on the very low low

1:27:19 ↗ side there is that

1:27:21 ↗ in order here did you just throw them up

1:27:22 ↗ there just threw them up there for

1:27:24 ↗ yeah discussion you tell us i think your

1:27:27 ↗ cost should be

1:27:28 ↗ much closer to the high side i mean it's

1:27:30 ↗ always going to be a factor with your

1:27:32 ↗ citizens your business owners

1:27:34 ↗ um you can't avoid it

1:27:41 ↗ uh tom you have a comment

1:27:46 ↗ oh yes thank you tom anderson speaking i

1:27:48 ↗ guess i just wanted to throw out the

1:27:50 ↗ the idea of another name for feasibility

1:27:54 ↗ low-hanging fruit we've all heard that

1:27:56 ↗ phrase there are some things which are

1:27:58 ↗ maybe quite feasible to do yet have a

1:28:00 ↗ big

1:28:01 ↗ impact towards our desired uh goal and

1:28:03 ↗ to think in terms of

1:28:05 ↗ of those kind of things as the first

1:28:06 ↗ things we can

1:28:08 ↗ focus on the might be a helpful part of

1:28:11 ↗ the strategy

1:28:12 ↗ that's all thank you thank you

1:28:16 ↗ cameron go ahead please cameron fisher

1:28:18 ↗ here

1:28:19 ↗ um i fully agree with uh

1:28:22 ↗ both don and jamie i think the impact

1:28:25 ↗ and cost

1:28:26 ↗ are on the high higher side uh a

1:28:28 ↗ question i suppose is

1:28:30 ↗ um how would you see uh the equity side

1:28:34 ↗ um if kind of

1:28:37 ↗ using the the metaphor of high tide

1:28:39 ↗ raises all ships

1:28:41 ↗ how does the equity disparity come into

1:28:44 ↗ play on this for me

1:28:45 ↗ yeah that's a really good question it's

1:28:47 ↗ both on the mitigation side and the

1:28:49 ↗ adaptation side so when we think about

1:28:50 ↗ mitigation strategies a lot of these

1:28:52 ↗ things we're going to be asking

1:28:54 ↗ homeowners and residents to help get

1:28:56 ↗ there

1:28:57 ↗ um so for for example folks that uh

1:29:00 ↗ have lower incomes will have a more

1:29:02 ↗ challenging time

1:29:04 ↗ with retrofitting their homes to be more

1:29:06 ↗ energy efficient or

1:29:07 ↗ if they wanted to add solar things like

1:29:09 ↗ that if they want to add a rain garden

1:29:10 ↗ those things can be cost prohibitive so

1:29:12 ↗ that's more thinking through

1:29:14 ↗ how can we offer rebates incentives are

1:29:16 ↗ there ways that we can support these are

1:29:17 ↗ there programs we can do through the

1:29:19 ↗ city to make those

1:29:20 ↗ changes easier um the other thing to

1:29:22 ↗ think about

1:29:23 ↗ is from the adaptation side we all have

1:29:25 ↗ heard the term like frontline

1:29:26 ↗ communities

1:29:27 ↗ um so people who are going to experience

1:29:30 ↗ the most severe impacts of climate

1:29:31 ↗ change that's not

1:29:32 ↗ distributed equally amongst the city so

1:29:35 ↗ thinking about

1:29:36 ↗ who will be most impacted by these

1:29:37 ↗ things um common example

1:29:40 ↗ is thinking about your unsheltered

1:29:41 ↗ population and so those are people who

1:29:43 ↗ are going to be feeling any impacts of

1:29:45 ↗ heat flooding wildfire in a much more

1:29:48 ↗ extreme way than

1:29:50 ↗ folks who are living in homes so those

1:29:52 ↗ are kind of the duality of thinking

1:29:54 ↗ about

1:29:54 ↗ who is the most vulnerable and who has

1:29:56 ↗ the least

1:29:57 ↗ capacity to adapt and the least capacity

1:30:00 ↗ to

1:30:00 ↗ um prepare to mitigate

1:30:04 ↗ thank you and i'm going to call on

1:30:07 ↗ myself

1:30:08 ↗ next time nancy davidson and my comment

1:30:11 ↗ is on the code benefits and i'm not

1:30:12 ↗ trying to change things

1:30:13 ↗ but i'm hoping that when we talk about

1:30:15 ↗ co-benefits we're not just talking about

1:30:18 ↗ within the climate change arena but all

1:30:20 ↗ other city priorities and plans such as

1:30:23 ↗ perhaps there's a benefit to the storm

1:30:24 ↗ water to the river system or to the fish

1:30:27 ↗ habitat

1:30:28 ↗ so as we're talking about this it is a

1:30:30 ↗ broader context than just

1:30:32 ↗ climate action because i think that

1:30:34 ↗ there's benefits elsewhere you might get

1:30:36 ↗ funding elsewhere

1:30:37 ↗ and that's what we need to be looking

1:30:38 ↗ for along the way too that's exactly

1:30:41 ↗ right

1:30:41 ↗ yeah so anything like public health

1:30:43 ↗ brain jobs anything that has a nexus

1:30:45 ↗ where

1:30:46 ↗ you're kind of getting a dual purpose

1:30:48 ↗ action that's not only

1:30:49 ↗ either reducing the emissions increasing

1:30:51 ↗ adaptation but also

1:30:53 ↗ having some other benefit or directly

1:30:55 ↗ related to one of the city's existing

1:30:56 ↗ plans

1:30:57 ↗ all of that would fall under the bucket

1:30:58 ↗ of co-benefits so that's the line of

1:31:00 ↗ thinking we want to bring

1:31:02 ↗ um so the co-benefits loves great

1:31:05 ↗ anybody else that i haven't called on

1:31:06 ↗ yet have a quick comment

1:31:09 ↗ okay don you get the last word that

1:31:11 ↗ typed in there um one i don't see on

1:31:13 ↗ here

1:31:13 ↗ is regional opportunities um you're not

1:31:16 ↗ going this alone there's a lot of other

1:31:18 ↗ cities around the area doing this so

1:31:20 ↗ utilize any regional opportunities that

1:31:22 ↗ come around

1:31:23 ↗ okay okay we're concluding this section

1:31:27 ↗ of the

1:31:28 ↗ conversation and i'm going to turn it

1:31:29 ↗ back to the consultants or wherever we

1:31:31 ↗ go next

1:31:32 ↗ go ahead great addy do you want to take

1:31:34 ↗ us home we'll use the next 30 minutes as

1:31:36 ↗ productively as possible i

1:31:38 ↗ one caveat is we might not get through

1:31:40 ↗ everything today and that's okay

1:31:42 ↗ there'll be more opportunities to weigh

1:31:44 ↗ in and you can obviously um

1:31:46 ↗ share an email to megan with any other

1:31:48 ↗ comments that we didn't get through

1:31:49 ↗ today but

1:31:50 ↗ um just to let you know there will be

1:31:52 ↗ other opportunities to weigh in

1:31:55 ↗ um i want to confirm we do still have 30

1:31:57 ↗ minutes left

1:32:01 ↗ is that right megan yes okay perfect

1:32:04 ↗ um so yeah for this next

1:32:08 ↗ discussion we're going to uh review the

1:32:10 ↗ focus area strategies that we

1:32:12 ↗ have drafted so far and then begin to

1:32:15 ↗ brainstorm

1:32:16 ↗ actions to consider to support these

1:32:19 ↗ strategies

1:32:20 ↗ um so here we have the board divided by

1:32:23 ↗ focus area um

1:32:25 ↗ we're trying to focus on one focus area

1:32:28 ↗ at a time

1:32:29 ↗ about 30 minutes uh so let's try to

1:32:32 ↗ spend about six minutes per

1:32:34 ↗ focus area um so keep in mind that these

1:32:37 ↗ strategies were developed

1:32:38 ↗ based on existing city plans local and

1:32:41 ↗ state emissions reduction

1:32:42 ↗ targets and requirements initiatives

1:32:45 ↗ from your neighboring communities

1:32:46 ↗ as well as just general best practices

1:32:48 ↗ and climate action planning

1:32:50 ↗ so our goal is to get your feedback on

1:32:52 ↗ these strategies and then also your

1:32:54 ↗ ideas for

1:32:55 ↗ actions um so as we go keep these

1:32:58 ↗ questions in mind

1:33:00 ↗ what are issaquah's main priorities do

1:33:02 ↗ these strategies align with these

1:33:04 ↗ priorities

1:33:05 ↗ and what actions do you recommend

1:33:07 ↗ including in the plan to help issaquah

1:33:09 ↗ succeed in these strategies and meet the

1:33:12 ↗ caps goals

1:33:13 ↗ and targets i also want to start with

1:33:16 ↗ buildings and energy

1:33:18 ↗ um i'm going to read strategies strategy

1:33:21 ↗ number one

1:33:22 ↗ uh advance building decarbonization by

1:33:25 ↗ shifting from natural gas to electricity

1:33:28 ↗ in

1:33:28 ↗ all new and existing buildings strategy

1:33:31 ↗ two

1:33:31 ↗ support building decarbonization and

1:33:33 ↗ ensure issac law is on track to meet

1:33:36 ↗ state goals and requirements by adopting

1:33:38 ↗ or expanding

1:33:39 ↗ green building standards and city energy

1:33:42 ↗ policies

1:33:43 ↗ reduce overall building energy use and

1:33:46 ↗ improve energy resilience

1:33:47 ↗ by advancing residential commercial and

1:33:50 ↗ municipal

1:33:51 ↗ energy efficiency retrofits and

1:33:54 ↗ transition away from fossil fuels to

1:33:56 ↗ clean renewable energy sources by

1:33:58 ↗ expanding local

1:33:59 ↗ and local renewable energy generation

1:34:02 ↗ consumption

1:34:03 ↗ and storage um

1:34:06 ↗ and we have sort of example actions

1:34:09 ↗ within

1:34:10 ↗ each focus area to just kind of help

1:34:12 ↗ guide the brainstorming

1:34:14 ↗ but again any uh feedback on these

1:34:16 ↗ strategies

1:34:17 ↗ as well as action ideas

1:34:24 ↗ does anybody have any comments

1:34:37 ↗ i guess we're all okay oh i guess we do

1:34:39 ↗ have one and go ahead

1:34:52 ↗ can you guys hear me sorry sorry i i was

1:34:54 ↗ on mute accidentally

1:34:56 ↗ right no problem so number four um

1:35:00 ↗ i'm just wondering if this is something

1:35:02 ↗ that we need to focus on considering

1:35:05 ↗ aside from um with support

1:35:08 ↗ so psc and

1:35:12 ↗ our state and sita will be

1:35:16 ↗ um focusing on this um

1:35:20 ↗ although storage consumption and storage

1:35:24 ↗ makes sense but um

1:35:27 ↗ especially like battery storage for uh

1:35:31 ↗ the generators rather than generators

1:35:33 ↗ and stuff like that to become more

1:35:35 ↗ resilient

1:35:36 ↗ um paired with uh

1:35:40 ↗ solar energy but i'm just wondering i

1:35:43 ↗ got i'm glad that's number four so is

1:35:45 ↗ this in priority

1:35:46 ↗ order number one through number four

1:35:50 ↗ uh no okay oh yeah

1:35:54 ↗ so while it's super important i'm just

1:35:57 ↗ wondering if it's something that we put

1:35:59 ↗ need to put a lot of effort

1:36:00 ↗ into considering that um

1:36:03 ↗ sita is helping us out with that

1:36:07 ↗ just a thought um

1:36:14 ↗ eventually i love the number three

1:36:18 ↗ and um

1:36:23 ↗ and that we might need to do do you

1:36:25 ↗ think that

1:36:26 ↗ for that we'll need to do it through um

1:36:30 ↗ education and um

1:36:34 ↗ and hooking people up with uh the

1:36:37 ↗ retrofit people

1:36:39 ↗ so yeah those are the types let's see

1:36:41 ↗ those are the type of action ideas that

1:36:42 ↗ we're looking for

1:36:44 ↗ okay yeah it seems like we're gonna need

1:36:46 ↗ education on that one

1:36:48 ↗ and um connections

1:36:54 ↗ state goals yes so

1:36:57 ↗ definitely we need to be in line with

1:36:59 ↗ the state goals and i think

1:37:00 ↗ we're gonna need to go even farther

1:37:04 ↗ um

1:37:10 ↗ and i think for number one it's going to

1:37:12 ↗ need to be continued education

1:37:15 ↗ so those are my thoughts hopefully i

1:37:17 ↗ didn't take too much time

1:37:27 ↗ yes tom go ahead you're next sorry

1:37:32 ↗ oh yes tom anderson speaking um

1:37:35 ↗ regarding number one

1:37:36 ↗ on retrofitting existing buildings

1:37:39 ↗ away from natural gas to other

1:37:42 ↗ mechanisms like heat pump or

1:37:43 ↗ the sort of thing it i'm reminded of the

1:37:46 ↗ city sponsored plan

1:37:48 ↗ for solar conversion i i forget what it

1:37:50 ↗ was called but it was

1:37:51 ↗ it was quite a good plan involving you

1:37:54 ↗ know common

1:37:55 ↗ meet and hear a presentation and here's

1:37:57 ↗ some contractors that know how to do

1:37:59 ↗ this

1:38:00 ↗ and uh know how noble process and all

1:38:03 ↗ that

1:38:04 ↗ uh we need something like that for uh

1:38:06 ↗ the conversion to

1:38:08 ↗ uh heat pumps and the sort of thing i

1:38:10 ↗ mean i'm in this this camp myself where

1:38:12 ↗ i did that process with the consultants

1:38:15 ↗ on on the solar end

1:38:16 ↗ uh here's a trade-off between tree

1:38:19 ↗ canopies

1:38:20 ↗ and solar they advise me not to go solar

1:38:23 ↗ because i have too many

1:38:24 ↗ stinking trees well i like my trees so

1:38:27 ↗ anyway i

1:38:28 ↗ didn't act on that but i have an aging

1:38:30 ↗ gas furnace which will have to be

1:38:32 ↗ replaced sometime in the next

1:38:33 ↗ few years probably less than five years

1:38:36 ↗ and uh well i'd like to go to heat pump

1:38:40 ↗ a program uh like the solar program

1:38:42 ↗ sponsored by the city that helps

1:38:44 ↗ educate and connect people with the

1:38:47 ↗ appropriate contractors that know how to

1:38:48 ↗ do that sort of thing would be

1:38:50 ↗ helpful both from an educational uh

1:38:52 ↗ perspective

1:38:53 ↗ and just making things happen

1:38:56 ↗ efficiently

1:38:58 ↗ well that's all thank you thank you tom

1:39:02 ↗ uh jamie please go ahead thank you

1:39:05 ↗ speaking um two suggestions on actions

1:39:09 ↗ one i think as megan alluded to at the

1:39:12 ↗ beginning incentives are powerful

1:39:14 ↗ ways to get people to act so incentives

1:39:17 ↗ across

1:39:17 ↗ all of probably all of these would be

1:39:19 ↗ there's definitely different ways and

1:39:21 ↗ i think that's where we get into what

1:39:23 ↗ are the most efficient uses and and i

1:39:24 ↗ don't know the answer to that you guys

1:39:26 ↗ probably know that better than i do the

1:39:28 ↗ last one or

1:39:29 ↗ the next action i think it cuts across a

1:39:31 ↗ lot of these but um

1:39:33 ↗ i do think the education outreach and

1:39:35 ↗ awareness going beyond just the people

1:39:37 ↗ that are already

1:39:38 ↗ on isquad insider that are already like

1:39:41 ↗ looking at the website like really

1:39:43 ↗ aggressive outreach

1:39:45 ↗ for all of these programs because

1:39:47 ↗ ultimately if we do

1:39:48 ↗ we could do incentives and the best

1:39:50 ↗ actions but but if no one's aware of

1:39:51 ↗ them and not taking advantage of them

1:39:53 ↗ they're not they're going to have

1:39:54 ↗ limited uh impact so i really think like

1:39:56 ↗ outreach beyond just our

1:39:58 ↗ standard channels that that's it like

1:40:00 ↗ someone that has already opted in

1:40:02 ↗ to hear from the city i think we need to

1:40:04 ↗ go beyond that

1:40:08 ↗ all right thank you jamie um i'm gonna

1:40:10 ↗ go next um

1:40:11 ↗ since i haven't made comments on this

1:40:13 ↗ i'm um coming off of what tom

1:40:16 ↗ just indicated and that is kind of um

1:40:18 ↗ identifying preferred providers within

1:40:20 ↗ the city would probably be helpful

1:40:22 ↗ and that would be most of us don't know

1:40:24 ↗ who would be good to help us

1:40:26 ↗ retrofit our building or our home or

1:40:27 ↗ something like that and to help us to

1:40:30 ↗ achieve the targets that we're having

1:40:32 ↗ and you go hire a contractor that comes

1:40:34 ↗ in the mail it's not necessarily

1:40:36 ↗ the best one and having the city help

1:40:38 ↗ provide

1:40:39 ↗ um people that actually can do this

1:40:42 ↗ efficiently and effectively and help

1:40:44 ↗ meet the city's overall goals

1:40:46 ↗ for my home or my condo would be very

1:40:49 ↗ helpful

1:40:50 ↗ and then also they can provide the

1:40:52 ↗ feedback then to the city on who's done

1:40:54 ↗ it

1:40:54 ↗ and what they have achieved so i think

1:40:57 ↗ that

1:40:57 ↗ measurability coming as you're going

1:40:59 ↗ into buildings

1:41:01 ↗ through preferred providers that are

1:41:02 ↗ doing certain things for the city as the

1:41:04 ↗ city

1:41:05 ↗ identifies them as a preferred

1:41:07 ↗ contractor in the city or whatever

1:41:09 ↗ term it's used i think will really help

1:41:11 ↗ us measure this

1:41:13 ↗ and also make people as we educate them

1:41:15 ↗ feel more comfortable

1:41:17 ↗ that they're actually doing something to

1:41:18 ↗ improve climate and i think that's a

1:41:20 ↗ very

1:41:20 ↗ easy thing well relatively easy thing

1:41:23 ↗ for the city to take on

1:41:26 ↗ any bed any other comments um

1:41:32 ↗ oh i guess okay um can't

1:41:36 ↗ let's see and you had something else to

1:41:38 ↗ add

1:41:40 ↗ oh yeah i just wanted to change number

1:41:42 ↗ one and two to

1:41:43 ↗ um changing the codes

1:41:47 ↗ and i think that isoqua is already

1:41:50 ↗ wanting to do that

1:41:52 ↗ to change our codes for um gas and then

1:41:55 ↗ change our

1:41:56 ↗ our building codes so that they're way

1:41:59 ↗ greener

1:42:00 ↗ thank you great

1:42:03 ↗ with that we're concluding that one go

1:42:05 ↗ ahead and move on to the next one for us

1:42:07 ↗ okay great uh so moving on to

1:42:11 ↗ transportation and land use

1:42:12 ↗ we have reduce overall automobile use by

1:42:16 ↗ advancing

1:42:16 ↗ shared active and public transportation

1:42:19 ↗ modes

1:42:20 ↗ reduce automobile emissions by

1:42:22 ↗ transitioning to electric vehicles

1:42:25 ↗ and decrease auto reliance through

1:42:27 ↗ sustainable land

1:42:28 ↗ use planning that encourages dense mixed

1:42:32 ↗ use development in central areas and

1:42:34 ↗ nearby trans

1:42:36 ↗ nearby alternative transportation

1:42:40 ↗ networks

1:42:47 ↗ do we have any feedback on that for them

1:42:52 ↗ uh cameron you have questions go ahead

1:42:54 ↗ yeah cameron fisher here

1:42:56 ↗ um just kind of thinking about what don

1:42:58 ↗ was saying in the previous presentations

1:43:00 ↗ about making it is a choir specific

1:43:03 ↗ um can you kind of uh walk through a

1:43:06 ↗ little bit of

1:43:07 ↗ the conceptual uh the vision there of

1:43:10 ↗ the the transportation

1:43:12 ↗ um and the the public transportation uh

1:43:15 ↗ that and how

1:43:16 ↗ how it advanced from i suppose the

1:43:19 ↗ the essentially the bus system we have

1:43:22 ↗ right now

1:43:22 ↗ you know are you thinking more like a

1:43:24 ↗ light rail system internally and

1:43:26 ↗ within is acquire or expanded

1:43:30 ↗ you know bus operation what's the

1:43:33 ↗ thoughts behind this

1:43:35 ↗ i mean it could be smaller too of you

1:43:37 ↗ know adding more

1:43:38 ↗ transit stops within the existing

1:43:41 ↗ network

1:43:43 ↗ this is megan i'll chime in on that too

1:43:45 ↗ we did just do

1:43:46 ↗ a mobility master plan um so we're

1:43:49 ↗ taking a lot of what's in that and

1:43:51 ↗ considering it from a climate

1:43:53 ↗ perspective as well so there's a lot of

1:43:55 ↗ focus on the multimodal transportation

1:43:57 ↗ system

1:43:58 ↗ so you know making sure there's from

1:44:00 ↗ smaller projects like making sure

1:44:02 ↗ there's crosswalks where there should be

1:44:04 ↗ um you know making sure there's safe

1:44:05 ↗ routes to get to school

1:44:08 ↗ adding bike lanes that sort of thing to

1:44:10 ↗ kind of larger

1:44:11 ↗ projects as well but really looking to

1:44:14 ↗ move away from single occupancy

1:44:16 ↗ drivers as far as light rail um

1:44:20 ↗ you know if the sea could have it we'd

1:44:21 ↗ have it tomorrow um but

1:44:23 ↗ you know we're definitely sitting at the

1:44:24 ↗ table in those conversations to try to

1:44:26 ↗ make sure we get there

1:44:27 ↗ and the planning for that happens now so

1:44:30 ↗ as we're looking at kind of the land use

1:44:32 ↗ planning

1:44:33 ↗ the updates to title 18 that we're doing

1:44:36 ↗ the central issaquah plan that's adopted

1:44:38 ↗ really focusing

1:44:39 ↗ development in that valley floor so when

1:44:42 ↗ we do get that service

1:44:44 ↗ you know we will have the people already

1:44:45 ↗ there and we also have

1:44:47 ↗ more bus service there so kind of

1:44:49 ↗ focusing that around

1:44:51 ↗ where people are so it focused more in

1:44:54 ↗ strategy three than the other two

1:44:56 ↗ from the sounds of it for land use

1:45:00 ↗ planning

1:45:03 ↗ and i think we're we're we're looking

1:45:04 ↗ for feedback on all of them

1:45:06 ↗ potentially actions within all of them

1:45:10 ↗ okay thank you i'll pass it on

1:45:15 ↗ um next we have up tom

1:45:20 ↗ ah yes thank you tom anderson speaking

1:45:23 ↗ uh this

1:45:24 ↗ this fits within uh strategy number one

1:45:26 ↗ there i guess

1:45:30 ↗ alternate methods of transportation

1:45:32 ↗ bikes and e-bikes uh the city

1:45:35 ↗ has been uh you know pretty good about

1:45:37 ↗ moving in the direction of providing

1:45:39 ↗ uh bike lanes and stuff like that but

1:45:41 ↗ they've they've missed some

1:45:42 ↗ opportunities and not put in lanes where

1:45:44 ↗ i think they should have and

1:45:46 ↗ stuff uh electric bikes i think are are

1:45:48 ↗ a game changer and they're making it

1:45:50 ↗ possible for people to

1:45:52 ↗ use a bicycle to commute where whereas

1:45:55 ↗ it wasn't

1:45:56 ↗ practical before because it was just a

1:45:58 ↗ little bit too far or didn't they

1:46:00 ↗ couldn't come to work sweaty and stuff

1:46:03 ↗ like that

1:46:04 ↗ uh we need to do better to work towards

1:46:08 ↗ bike lanes both for pedal bikes and

1:46:11 ↗ electric bikes it needs to be a

1:46:15 ↗ higher priority for the city opinion

1:46:20 ↗ thank you that's all thank you tom uh

1:46:22 ↗ jamie go ahead

1:46:25 ↗ thanks nancy jamie finch speaking um

1:46:28 ↗ i think the actions that i would suggest

1:46:30 ↗ in this is kind of broad but

1:46:31 ↗ um is really around how do we make this

1:46:34 ↗ as as

1:46:35 ↗ accessible and easy for people as

1:46:37 ↗ possible and so i think this is

1:46:39 ↗ one where equity can really come in

1:46:41 ↗ whether it's

1:46:42 ↗ with tom's e-bikes or other things how

1:46:44 ↗ do we make the resources to help people

1:46:47 ↗ get onto other means of transportation

1:46:49 ↗ and like how do we

1:46:50 ↗ get someone that's never biked around

1:46:52 ↗ his blog doesn't know the amazing

1:46:53 ↗ infrastructure

1:46:54 ↗ that's already there how do we make it

1:46:56 ↗ easy for them to

1:46:57 ↗ kind of tip the toe in the water so i

1:46:59 ↗ think there's there's this is a great

1:47:01 ↗ place for equity to come in but i also

1:47:02 ↗ think that

1:47:03 ↗ um again going to be broken record

1:47:05 ↗ awareness education

1:47:07 ↗ and really making this as just

1:47:09 ↗ approachable whether it's public

1:47:10 ↗ transportation or

1:47:11 ↗ biking how do we make it approachable

1:47:13 ↗ for someone that's never done it before

1:47:15 ↗ to

1:47:15 ↗ try to drive new behavior

1:47:20 ↗ great thanks jamie and my comments next

1:47:23 ↗ um

1:47:24 ↗ i like the idea of the shared

1:47:26 ↗ transportation and here's my

1:47:28 ↗ suggestion there's things that we aren't

1:47:29 ↗ doing in the united states that are

1:47:31 ↗ being done in europe that i think we

1:47:32 ↗ should be looking at as something to

1:47:34 ↗ share

1:47:34 ↗ transportation and the example i'd give

1:47:36 ↗ to you is if i need a quarter milk

1:47:38 ↗ should i be driving if my neighbor's

1:47:40 ↗ going to buy a whole load of groceries

1:47:42 ↗ um in europe what they're doing is their

1:47:44 ↗ neighbors are picking up their quarter

1:47:45 ↗ milk for them and bringing it home for

1:47:47 ↗ them you know they share

1:47:48 ↗ that kind of thing instead of me hopping

1:47:50 ↗ in my car and driving

1:47:52 ↗ or whatever so i think we need to be

1:47:54 ↗ looking at other

1:47:55 ↗ areas and how they are sharing

1:47:57 ↗ transportation because we're very much

1:47:59 ↗ focused on ourselves

1:48:01 ↗ and if we really want to do this we need

1:48:02 ↗ to fit um

1:48:04 ↗ focus more on the community our

1:48:05 ↗ neighbors and who else can help us

1:48:07 ↗ it's kind of an odd concept but works

1:48:11 ↗ um dawn go ahead that's an

1:48:14 ↗ interesting concept nancy i like it um i

1:48:17 ↗ echo that

1:48:18 ↗ comment my comment was around the ease

1:48:20 ↗ of movement in issaquah you're never

1:48:22 ↗ going to get rid of all the vehicles

1:48:24 ↗ from the streets and everybody knows

1:48:25 ↗ that

1:48:26 ↗ most of the traffic down there is

1:48:29 ↗ short traffic from one side of town to

1:48:31 ↗ the other you need to go over to home

1:48:32 ↗ depot pick something up

1:48:34 ↗ so is there a way to better use the

1:48:36 ↗ existing roadway system

1:48:38 ↗ or modify it slightly to move traffic

1:48:40 ↗ around faster

1:48:41 ↗ so we're not sitting at stop plates all

1:48:43 ↗ the time it might already be in the

1:48:44 ↗ mobility plan

1:48:50 ↗ with that i'm seeing nobody else coming

1:48:52 ↗ in with comments so we're going to move

1:48:53 ↗ on to the next one folks

1:48:57 ↗ okay um so from materials and

1:48:59 ↗ consumption

1:49:00 ↗ uh increase waste diversion from

1:49:03 ↗ landfills by improving community waste

1:49:05 ↗ collection and disposal systems

1:49:08 ↗ reduce upstream greenhouse gas emissions

1:49:10 ↗ from goods and materials by promoting

1:49:12 ↗ sustainably produced products and

1:49:14 ↗ materials

1:49:15 ↗ and reducing overall consumption

1:49:23 ↗ do we have any feedback for them

1:49:31 ↗ um let's see jamie you had one go ahead

1:49:36 ↗ thanks nancy jamie french speaking uh

1:49:39 ↗ awareness i'm gonna say that again but i

1:49:41 ↗ think the the other more tactical one

1:49:44 ↗ is i do think some form of like

1:49:46 ↗ scorecarding making people aware of

1:49:48 ↗ if they're but obviously can't do this

1:49:50 ↗ for every single person making

1:49:52 ↗ either businesses and this is done to a

1:49:53 ↗ certain extent or individual households

1:49:56 ↗ aware of

1:49:57 ↗ what they are doing correct and what

1:49:59 ↗ they're not doing correct and

1:50:01 ↗ helping people uh behave in more

1:50:04 ↗ sustainable

1:50:05 ↗ sustainable ways that might just be due

1:50:07 ↗ to lack of understanding or lack of

1:50:09 ↗ awareness

1:50:12 ↗ hey danny go ahead um my comments echo

1:50:16 ↗ almost

1:50:16 ↗ exactly uh jamie's i think with this one

1:50:19 ↗ especially like the education piece

1:50:21 ↗ like across the board for all of these

1:50:23 ↗ the education piece but

1:50:24 ↗ um especially this one i think you know

1:50:27 ↗ it also goes into the feasibility where

1:50:29 ↗ um it's a lot easier to educate people

1:50:31 ↗ on these things compared to like

1:50:33 ↗ incentives and uh policy changes so yeah

1:50:38 ↗ okay tom go ahead

1:50:43 ↗ thank you tom anderson speaking um i

1:50:46 ↗ guess this fits in strategy number two

1:50:48 ↗ reducing upstream

1:50:50 ↗ um eliminating waste by

1:50:53 ↗ not allowing uh the waste to be

1:50:55 ↗ generated

1:50:56 ↗ and i guess we've had some discussion

1:50:58 ↗ about this before one of my pet peeves

1:51:00 ↗ is the use of styrofoam and packaging of

1:51:02 ↗ things

1:51:04 ↗ like i can go to best buy and buy

1:51:06 ↗ whatever my new tv or whatever and it's

1:51:08 ↗ protected with a bunch of styrofoam even

1:51:10 ↗ though we have other methods of

1:51:11 ↗ protecting such things

1:51:13 ↗ with paper-based products that are just

1:51:15 ↗ as good and

1:51:16 ↗ and are recyclable here i got these big

1:51:18 ↗ styrofoam blocks what do i do

1:51:20 ↗ with them where do i take them well i

1:51:22 ↗ think we should

1:51:23 ↗ require them to take them back right at

1:51:26 ↗ best buy or something like that

1:51:28 ↗ this would be fairly uh simple pressure

1:51:34 ↗ laws what's what's the remember the code

1:51:36 ↗ is the code is

1:51:37 ↗ in issaquah just as we do for a

1:51:40 ↗ styrofoam beverage containers we can do

1:51:42 ↗ the same thing for

1:51:43 ↗ a packaging of styrofoam okay i'm

1:51:46 ↗ carrying on about styrofoam

1:51:48 ↗ but that's just an example of this class

1:51:49 ↗ of things where we can

1:51:51 ↗ provide a feedback loop to uh uh

1:51:54 ↗ commercial enterprises that sell this

1:51:57 ↗ stuff who then provide feedback to the

1:51:59 ↗ manufacturers they stop doing that

1:52:01 ↗ because it causes me a big problem

1:52:03 ↗ causes me costs so

1:52:07 ↗ give them that feedback loop okay thank

1:52:10 ↗ you

1:52:12 ↗ thank you tom next we have ann and go

1:52:14 ↗ ahead

1:52:16 ↗ yeah i agree with tom make it easy

1:52:19 ↗ to um either know where to recycle

1:52:23 ↗ things like styrofoam um that can't be

1:52:26 ↗ recycled

1:52:28 ↗ in with our normal um recyclables

1:52:32 ↗ and i love tom's idea of having um the

1:52:35 ↗ stores take it back

1:52:36 ↗ um and then also

1:52:39 ↗ i just wanted to say that i think pcc

1:52:43 ↗ does a really good job um with their

1:52:45 ↗ waist they even had a digester for a

1:52:47 ↗ while

1:52:48 ↗ and i i keep wishing they would bring it

1:52:50 ↗ back

1:52:52 ↗ and then they digested

1:52:55 ↗ all of the um so in the bathroom there's

1:52:58 ↗ uh they all the towels

1:53:02 ↗ are composted and um all of their

1:53:07 ↗ food food containers and

1:53:10 ↗ utensils are compostable um

1:53:15 ↗ so i think that would be they would be a

1:53:16 ↗ good model for

1:53:18 ↗ some other stores in town thank you

1:53:21 ↗ great done go ahead

1:53:24 ↗ follow him on aunt's comment i think

1:53:26 ↗ taco time does a similar thing all their

1:53:28 ↗ older plates and everything

1:53:31 ↗ is biodegradable my comment was more to

1:53:34 ↗ megan

1:53:35 ↗ does the city negotiate a waste

1:53:37 ↗ management contract with the vendor

1:53:39 ↗ and if so is there is there a way to

1:53:42 ↗ negotiate

1:53:43 ↗ more aggressive curbside recycling for

1:53:45 ↗ those things that are more difficult

1:53:47 ↗ to get into your recycling container so

1:53:50 ↗ the bigger larger things that people

1:53:51 ↗ tend to store in their garage or don't

1:53:53 ↗ take recycling

1:53:56 ↗ yes this is megan um very timely

1:53:58 ↗ question so we are starting discussions

1:54:01 ↗ about the contract renewal

1:54:02 ↗ process um so our the contract the

1:54:05 ↗ current solid waste contract that we

1:54:07 ↗ have with recology is up

1:54:09 ↗ in june of 2023

1:54:12 ↗ i want to say so we are starting that

1:54:14 ↗ those conversations down we'll be

1:54:16 ↗ bringing that to the board

1:54:18 ↗ um i expect probably later this year to

1:54:20 ↗ talk about what some of those priorities

1:54:22 ↗ could be

1:54:22 ↗ so that's definitely something that we

1:54:24 ↗ could talk more about

1:54:25 ↗ emphasizing that in the contract and and

1:54:28 ↗ trying to have places

1:54:29 ↗ um have them collect more items and

1:54:32 ↗ there's also the recology store in town

1:54:34 ↗ where people can bring things now so

1:54:35 ↗ that's something that we

1:54:37 ↗ um factored into the into the contract

1:54:40 ↗ however is closed right now but

1:54:42 ↗ hopefully reopening in september

1:54:44 ↗ thank you and i'm up next and i would um

1:54:50 ↗ like to encourage the by nothing groups

1:54:52 ↗ that are out there

1:54:53 ↗ and maybe educate people about those so

1:54:55 ↗ that you are

1:54:56 ↗ trading with your neighbors um you know

1:54:59 ↗ there's a way

1:55:00 ↗ to share what you don't want with

1:55:02 ↗ somebody who may choose to want it like

1:55:04 ↗ a sofa

1:55:05 ↗ a table whatever it is it reduces that

1:55:07 ↗ from going to a landfill

1:55:09 ↗ there are so many of them out there if

1:55:10 ↗ you're trying to use them but i think

1:55:12 ↗ educating people that there are ways to

1:55:15 ↗ get rid of

1:55:16 ↗ unwanted items short of taking them to a

1:55:18 ↗ landfill

1:55:19 ↗ is something that's needed and i think

1:55:22 ↗ that would be a great benefit to our

1:55:24 ↗ residents

1:55:27 ↗ any other comments okay we're going

1:55:30 ↗ gonna move on

1:55:33 ↗ this is megan um addie might i suggest

1:55:35 ↗ you just do the last two together and we

1:55:37 ↗ can just take comments on both together

1:55:39 ↗ yeah sounds good um so we have uh

1:55:44 ↗ natural scissors and water resources um

1:55:48 ↗ capitalize on the many environmental and

1:55:49 ↗ community benefits of trees including

1:55:51 ↗ carbon capture

1:55:52 ↗ and shade by maintaining and retaining

1:55:55 ↗ tree canopy cover and preserving tree

1:55:57 ↗ health

1:55:58 ↗ enhance the resilience of issaquah's

1:55:59 ↗ natural systems by preserving valuable

1:56:02 ↗ ecosystems and expanding climate

1:56:04 ↗ resilient

1:56:05 ↗ natural landscapes conserve valuable

1:56:08 ↗ water resources by promoting water

1:56:10 ↗ efficiency and reuse

1:56:11 ↗ and improving stormwater management and

1:56:14 ↗ for community resilience

1:56:16 ↗ improve community resilience by

1:56:17 ↗ increasing the community's understanding

1:56:19 ↗ of climate change and the capacity to

1:56:21 ↗ address

1:56:22 ↗ climate impacts for paris aqua for

1:56:24 ↗ unavoidable climate impacts through

1:56:26 ↗ climate change adaptation programs and

1:56:28 ↗ infrastructure upgrades

1:56:34 ↗ any comments from the board

1:56:43 ↗ okay jamie go ahead please thanks nancy

1:56:47 ↗ jamie

1:56:47 ↗ speaking um on the natural systems and

1:56:49 ↗ water resources i do think

1:56:52 ↗ i know this isn't standard but i do

1:56:53 ↗ think we really should take a hard look

1:56:55 ↗ at

1:56:56 ↗ quantifying the sequestration of carbon

1:56:58 ↗ provided by tree canopy and how we can

1:57:00 ↗ factor that into

1:57:02 ↗ uh both on the positive side increasing

1:57:04 ↗ that cover but also

1:57:06 ↗ looking at that as a okay if there's

1:57:07 ↗ development that's taking weight trees

1:57:09 ↗ however that's

1:57:10 ↗ that's something that is coming out of

1:57:11 ↗ our carbon budget that maybe we wouldn't

1:57:14 ↗ factor in otherwise so i think that's a

1:57:15 ↗ really important

1:57:16 ↗ consideration on that and um and then on

1:57:19 ↗ the community resilience and well-being

1:57:21 ↗ i mean i think this is again where and i

1:57:23 ↗ think spoke to a little bit earlier

1:57:25 ↗ where

1:57:26 ↗ um how do we make sure that citizens

1:57:28 ↗ that

1:57:29 ↗ that are going to be most impacted the

1:57:30 ↗ people that can't afford to go buy a

1:57:32 ↗ air conditioning unit that um might be

1:57:35 ↗ in

1:57:35 ↗ in in structures that don't handle

1:57:38 ↗ either

1:57:39 ↗ rain or whatever it might be this is i

1:57:41 ↗ think the biggest opportunity for how we

1:57:42 ↗ ensure that there's

1:57:44 ↗ um that the impacts are not felt

1:57:47 ↗ more uh strongly in certain communities

1:57:53 ↗ thank you jamie uh don go ahead please

1:57:56 ↗ i'll give you one quick comment so with

1:57:58 ↗ water resources i see the biggest threat

1:58:00 ↗ to issaquah's flooding

1:58:02 ↗ so i would encourage you to increase the

1:58:04 ↗ flood plains as

1:58:06 ↗ properties become available so if you

1:58:08 ↗ have a farm upstream or somewhere that's

1:58:10 ↗ uh going up for sale look to buy it

1:58:13 ↗ look to leverage the the money of this

1:58:15 ↗ to qualify those properties and take

1:58:16 ↗ them back for floodplains

1:58:18 ↗ and then on community resilience this

1:58:20 ↗ goes back to my earlier comment

1:58:22 ↗ about defining um climate emergencies

1:58:26 ↗ um i think it would be good for issaquah

1:58:28 ↗ if you haven't already

1:58:30 ↗ to look into building an emergency

1:58:32 ↗ response plan so defining these

1:58:34 ↗ emergencies

1:58:36 ↗ and having a response plan around each

1:58:38 ↗ one and what that looks like

1:58:41 ↗ great thank you and go ahead

1:58:48 ↗ uh yeah back to the forest fire thing i

1:58:50 ↗ think it would be great to

1:58:51 ↗ um get a plan and

1:58:54 ↗ and really educate also part of the plan

1:58:58 ↗ could be to educate uh homeowners

1:59:02 ↗ on how to protect their homes from

1:59:05 ↗ forest fires and to create resilient

1:59:09 ↗ forests

1:59:10 ↗ um as far as uh water goes i think it

1:59:14 ↗ would be really great

1:59:15 ↗ to if we

1:59:18 ↗ looked into and promoted um the use of

1:59:21 ↗ gray water

1:59:22 ↗ to water plants of course you'd have to

1:59:24 ↗ use really good soap like dr bronner's

1:59:26 ↗ or something

1:59:28 ↗ but um that would be a good way to

1:59:31 ↗ uh mitigate the floods and water

1:59:35 ↗ more without draining groundwater

1:59:39 ↗ uh and um

1:59:43 ↗ and then also i know the city has given

1:59:45 ↗ out uh rain barrels

1:59:47 ↗ um i'm just curious

1:59:50 ↗ uh if the city has um big cisterns

1:59:54 ↗ that they could put up

1:59:57 ↗ to collect the water during rainy season

1:59:59 ↗ and then water everything

2:00:02 ↗ during um during the dry season with

2:00:06 ↗ that with those cisterns

2:00:10 ↗ and oh yes

2:00:12 ↗ so can we encourage

2:00:16 ↗ businesses to purchase um issaquah

2:00:19 ↗ forest as carbon offsets um

2:00:22 ↗ i think issaquah might already have a

2:00:24 ↗ program that does

2:00:26 ↗ that but um it's just something to throw

2:00:29 ↗ out there

2:00:29 ↗ then we could increase our trees

2:00:33 ↗ and forests and pharma sequestration and

2:00:37 ↗ wouldn't have to pay for it so those can

2:00:39 ↗ be expensive

2:00:40 ↗ thanks are there any other comments on

2:00:44 ↗ these two sections

2:00:48 ↗ seeing none i guess that's

2:00:52 ↗ where do we go from here megan

2:00:58 ↗ this is megan so we're going to pull up

2:01:01 ↗ the the final couple slides and i'll

2:01:03 ↗ just do

2:01:03 ↗ a little bit of closing that was really

2:01:06 ↗ great conversation i think we we got

2:01:08 ↗ through a lot i'll

2:01:09 ↗ i'll actually ask addie and angela if

2:01:11 ↗ they have anything before i go to the

2:01:12 ↗ closing there

2:01:14 ↗ now just thank everyone for your time

2:01:15 ↗ and just a reminder that we'll continue

2:01:17 ↗ we'll talk to you again this won't be

2:01:18 ↗ the last time that you have a chance to

2:01:20 ↗ win

2:01:21 ↗ all right all right um so

2:01:24 ↗ for next steps um so the same slide from

2:01:27 ↗ earlier

2:01:29 ↗ where we are going out to the public

2:01:31 ↗ starting now have a lot going on

2:01:33 ↗ july and august for that as we talked

2:01:36 ↗ about this is not the last chance that

2:01:37 ↗ you'll have

2:01:38 ↗ to comment on the plan i think we got a

2:01:40 ↗ lot of great input and

2:01:42 ↗ we're expecting to get a lot more from

2:01:43 ↗ the community so we're going to take

2:01:45 ↗ time to incorporate all of that

2:01:48 ↗ the board is already aware that we have

2:01:50 ↗ the community convenient climate meeting

2:01:52 ↗ on

2:01:53 ↗ july 28th and you're all encouraged to

2:01:55 ↗ attend that as another opportunity to

2:01:57 ↗ provide

2:01:57 ↗ input um and then the survey as well

2:02:00 ↗ will be going out

2:02:01 ↗ to the full community so you're welcome

2:02:03 ↗ to provide input in that way

2:02:04 ↗ but you'll be seeing the plan again next

2:02:07 ↗ in

2:02:08 ↗ september that draft plan the next slide

2:02:13 ↗ um so again what we did today is got a

2:02:16 ↗ lot of great feedback on all of these so

2:02:18 ↗ we're going to continue to engage

2:02:20 ↗ stakeholders and and gather that

2:02:22 ↗ feedback

2:02:23 ↗ and we'll be able to track it throughout

2:02:26 ↗ the process so you can hear about

2:02:28 ↗ what the what happened at the community

2:02:30 ↗ convening what other boards and

2:02:32 ↗ commissions and focus groups said so

2:02:33 ↗ we'll be able to

2:02:35 ↗ bring all of that together and then

2:02:38 ↗ bring that back to

2:02:39 ↗ the draft plan that will be reviewed

2:02:42 ↗ first by

2:02:42 ↗ staff to to make sure we're aligning

2:02:44 ↗ everything internally with departments

2:02:46 ↗ and particularly with that

2:02:48 ↗ implementation plan

2:02:49 ↗ that angela was talking about earlier

2:02:52 ↗ and then bringing that back out to the

2:02:53 ↗ community

2:02:55 ↗ so again thank you all for your time

2:02:57 ↗ this evening on this it was really great

2:02:59 ↗ to get

2:03:00 ↗ everyone's input so thank you for that

2:03:02 ↗ megan we had a question from ann

2:03:04 ↗ and go ahead please

2:03:08 ↗ thank you i'm just curious will you be

2:03:10 ↗ using um

2:03:11 ↗ repetition of ideas

2:03:14 ↗ as part of your metrics

2:03:17 ↗ repetition of ideas if you could

2:03:19 ↗ elaborate oh so when you're going around

2:03:22 ↗ to the public

2:03:23 ↗ um including including us

2:03:27 ↗ if you hear the same thing said multiple

2:03:30 ↗ times

2:03:31 ↗ will that um

2:03:34 ↗ be uh considered more important i think

2:03:37 ↗ that's definitely something we'll take

2:03:39 ↗ into consideration i mean just tonight i

2:03:41 ↗ heard a lot of

2:03:42 ↗ focus on education reaching groups that

2:03:46 ↗ um may not always come to the table so

2:03:49 ↗ yeah if we keep hearing those things

2:03:50 ↗ which i expect we will then

2:03:52 ↗ we'll definitely find ways to

2:03:53 ↗ incorporate those into the plan

2:03:56 ↗ great thanks great

2:04:02 ↗ all right i think that's it for the

2:04:03 ↗ slides

2:04:05 ↗ all right thank you very much everyone

2:04:07 ↗ for a great presentation and

2:04:08 ↗ conversation around this i think that

2:04:10 ↗ the consultants presented this in a very

2:04:12 ↗ effective way we very much appreciate

2:04:14 ↗ that

2:04:15 ↗ and look forward to future conversations

2:04:18 ↗ about the

2:04:18 ↗ climate plan either as community members

2:04:20 ↗ in other arenas or when it comes back to

2:04:23 ↗ the environmental board

2:04:24 ↗ september so thank you all um

2:04:27 ↗ i'm moving on to the next agenda item

2:04:29 ↗ thank you if you guys want to leave we

2:04:30 ↗ understand

2:04:32 ↗ uh reports megan what do you have for

2:04:34 ↗ reports today

2:04:36 ↗ yes so i have um a few quick items

2:04:40 ↗ um so first of all our our next meeting

2:04:43 ↗ is

2:04:44 ↗ next week so thank you all in advance

2:04:47 ↗ for that

2:04:47 ↗ two meetings in july so that will be our

2:04:50 ↗ first touch on the title 18 update

2:04:53 ↗ something we've been talking about a lot

2:04:55 ↗ that is going to become a combined

2:04:57 ↗ meeting with the planning policy

2:04:59 ↗ commission

2:05:00 ↗ so it will be both boards all together

2:05:03 ↗ having presentation and be able to start

2:05:05 ↗ asking questions and learning more about

2:05:07 ↗ what we're going to be doing for title

2:05:09 ↗ 18

2:05:10 ↗ so as always you'll get the the packet

2:05:12 ↗ beforehand

2:05:14 ↗ and and then that meeting is on thursday

2:05:17 ↗ july 22nd

2:05:18 ↗ at 6 30 so you should all have the

2:05:20 ↗ invites for that

2:05:21 ↗ if you have any questions about it feel

2:05:23 ↗ free to reach out to me beforehand

2:05:26 ↗ my next report out is just on that

2:05:29 ↗ climate convening again

2:05:30 ↗ this is more for the the community we're

2:05:33 ↗ starting to reach out to people and

2:05:35 ↗ getting rsvps for that we'll be sending

2:05:38 ↗ it out in

2:05:38 ↗ the city's insider newsletter on

2:05:42 ↗ uh this friday so feel free to share the

2:05:45 ↗ word we're really encouraging as many

2:05:46 ↗ people as possible to come to that

2:05:49 ↗ so that will be another evening meeting

2:05:51 ↗ on july wednesday july 28th

2:05:53 ↗ at 6 30 so we're really looking forward

2:05:56 ↗ to hearing from community then

2:05:58 ↗ and as i mentioned there's there's more

2:06:01 ↗ than one way to participate so you'll be

2:06:03 ↗ able to attend that

2:06:04 ↗ uh if you don't get out everything you

2:06:06 ↗ want to say at that meeting we'll be

2:06:07 ↗ having a follow-up survey

2:06:09 ↗ after so if you're not able to attend

2:06:11 ↗ don't worry about that

2:06:13 ↗ and then also we will be coming back to

2:06:15 ↗ the community

2:06:17 ↗ later in the year in october with the

2:06:18 ↗ draft plan so

2:06:20 ↗ again this is really an opportunity that

2:06:22 ↗ we want to hear

2:06:23 ↗ from from all the stakeholders in order

2:06:25 ↗ to make this the best plan

2:06:28 ↗ possible and

2:06:31 ↗ my last report out um is i've received a

2:06:35 ↗ couple questions just about

2:06:37 ↗ meeting format so for the last well i

2:06:40 ↗ was going to say a year and a half but

2:06:41 ↗ we've only been meeting since

2:06:43 ↗ since january but for the last year and

2:06:45 ↗ a half you know

2:06:46 ↗ boards and commissions city council

2:06:48 ↗ meetings have all been

2:06:50 ↗ virtual and we are hoping to be moving

2:06:53 ↗ away from that

2:06:54 ↗ sometime this fall so hopefully maybe

2:06:57 ↗ looking at a hybrid approach

2:06:59 ↗ having you know in-person possibilities

2:07:01 ↗ as well as

2:07:02 ↗ virtual so just wanted to let folks know

2:07:05 ↗ about that

2:07:06 ↗ there'll be a discussion going to city

2:07:08 ↗ council i believe next monday

2:07:10 ↗ about that so city council have an

2:07:12 ↗ opportunity to provide direction

2:07:15 ↗ it's possible they might start with

2:07:17 ↗ those and then move to the boards and

2:07:18 ↗ commissions

2:07:20 ↗ there's still conversation happening

2:07:21 ↗ about that but i know

2:07:23 ↗ people have questions about that so i

2:07:26 ↗ will definitely keep you informed when i

2:07:27 ↗ know of any dates where we might be able

2:07:29 ↗ to

2:07:30 ↗ start actually seeing each other's faces

2:07:32 ↗ in person

2:07:34 ↗ that will be a great time when we're

2:07:36 ↗ able to do that again

2:07:37 ↗ so with that uh that con concludes my

2:07:40 ↗ report outs

2:07:42 ↗ or if there's any questions from anyone

2:07:44 ↗ on any of those

2:07:46 ↗ well i i think we should ask the other

2:07:47 ↗ one which is we know that you're going

2:07:49 ↗ to be leaving us at the end of

2:07:50 ↗ august um any update on your replacement

2:07:54 ↗ at least so the board all knows since

2:07:56 ↗ you've been our liaison to the city

2:07:58 ↗ yes uh great question yeah so i am gonna

2:08:01 ↗ be

2:08:01 ↗ relocating um to be closer to some

2:08:04 ↗ family

2:08:05 ↗ on the east coast um so i will be with

2:08:08 ↗ the city through the end of

2:08:09 ↗ august we have we're currently working

2:08:12 ↗ on

2:08:13 ↗ recruiting for my replacement right now

2:08:16 ↗ so the city

2:08:17 ↗ has a job announcement out for a

2:08:19 ↗ sustainability manager

2:08:21 ↗ who will serve as the liaison for the

2:08:24 ↗ board be working on the climate action

2:08:26 ↗ plan

2:08:26 ↗ working on title 18 updates everything

2:08:29 ↗ that i've been doing as well

2:08:31 ↗ that closes later this week and we have

2:08:34 ↗ are going to be doing interviews in end

2:08:36 ↗ of july early august

2:08:39 ↗ so we're hoping to get someone on board

2:08:40 ↗ and have some crossover

2:08:42 ↗ but either way we'll make sure we have

2:08:44 ↗ strong transition with that

2:08:46 ↗ um so i will definitely keep the board

2:08:48 ↗ updated on

2:08:49 ↗ on that status and we'll look forward to

2:08:52 ↗ introducing uh the new person down the

2:08:54 ↗ line

2:08:56 ↗ great thank you

2:08:59 ↗ okay with that that concludes i guess

2:09:01 ↗ the reports unless there's any questions

2:09:03 ↗ from the board

2:09:05 ↗ okay seeing none um our next meeting is

2:09:08 ↗ next thursday and i assume the ppc chair

2:09:10 ↗ is chairing that

2:09:12 ↗ correct i believe so oh thank you

2:09:16 ↗ anyways and with that

2:09:18 ↗ is there any uh other comments or

2:09:20 ↗ questions from the board members

2:09:23 ↗ with that i'm going to close uh the

2:09:25 ↗ meeting thank you all for your

2:09:26 ↗ participation tonight

2:09:27 ↗ appreciate it good night

2:09:32 ↗ you

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