Environmental Board · Wednesday, October 12, 2022 · City Council Digest

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of September 14, 2022

packet pp.3–5

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 09-14-22 Environmental Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Environmental Board 6:30 PM Tibbetts Manor, 750 17th Ave. September 14, 2022 MINUTES NW, Issaquah

4. AGENDA ITEMS

Issaquah Climate Action Plan Performance Dashboard (D)

Dale Markey-Crimp, Management Analyst · packet pp.7–8

Topics: Climate

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Staff report:

Office of Sustainability 130 E Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov

Annual Report Input

Discussion · Stacy Vynne McKinstry, Sustainability Manager · packet pp.9–14

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 31, 2021

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Staff report:

Office of Sustainability 130 E Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov

5. REPORTS

ICAP Report Stacy Vynne McKinstry, Sustainability Manager

packet pp.15–21

Topics: Climate

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 6, 2021

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Staff report:

Update the City Council on implementation of the Climate Action Plan. Staff last provided an implementation update to Council in April 2022.

Budget Update Stacy Vynne McKinstry, Sustainability Manager

packet pp.23–26

Topics: ClimateBudget

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Staff report:

2023-2024 Budget Update ENVIRONMENTAL BOARD – OCTOBER 12, 2022 STACY VYNNE MCKINSTRY, SUSTAINABILITY MANAGER Page 23 of 29 REPORTS b) ICAP Proposed Budget Summary*  Add Sustainability Coordinator.  Advance electrification and renewable energy development for municipal buildings.  Advance energy efficiency and electrification efforts for existing buildings.  Support green building for new construction.  Expand EV charging infrastructure with equitable access.  Implementation of vulnerability assessment communication tools. *does not reflect staff time for work on policies

6. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS

Updated Board Schedule

packet pp.27–29

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Staff report:

2022 Environmental Board Schedule (tentative) All meetings are at 6:30 unless noted otherwise. (updated 10/5/22)

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0:03 ↗ all right all right

0:06 ↗ thank you to Stacy for all the uh I.T

0:09 ↗ starting out with it challenges

0:12 ↗ um welcome to the October 12th meeting

0:14 ↗ of the environmental environmental board

0:16 ↗ I'm Jamie Finch and I'll be your chair

0:18 ↗ tonight

0:19 ↗ um due to the hybrid nature of this

0:21 ↗ meeting we will have some members

0:22 ↗ attending in person and others by phone

0:25 ↗ or computer

0:27 ↗ um for all meeting attendees that are

0:29 ↗ attending remotely please take your name

0:31 ↗ each time before speaking mute your

0:34 ↗ microphone when not speaking

0:36 ↗ um I believe will we be able to see

0:38 ↗ Matangi

0:40 ↗ uh she is raising her hand or what's the

0:43 ↗ best way to make sure that we stay up

0:46 ↗ yes maybe it's just that right you can

0:49 ↗ um either send the host a chat you

0:52 ↗ should be able to do that on their phone

0:53 ↗ oh and there we go we'll see you on

0:56 ↗ video yeah just raise your real hand at

0:59 ↗ home we'll make sure to keep eye on you

1:01 ↗ great

1:02 ↗ um and then for all of our

1:05 ↗ um board members that are in person as

1:07 ↗ we've been doing please indicate desire

1:09 ↗ to speak by tilting your potato on its

1:12 ↗ side

1:14 ↗ um as we have been doing for the last

1:15 ↗ couple of meetings we'll be summarizing

1:18 ↗ um agreement or at least the discussion

1:20 ↗ that was had

1:24 ↗ those topics and uh please if anyone has

1:26 ↗ any additional comments from those that

1:28 ↗ tend to summarize uh Facebook right away

1:31 ↗ in

1:32 ↗ uh I think from here kind of states that

1:35 ↗ you could take us through attendance

1:37 ↗ thank you

1:38 ↗ um Tom Anderson here

1:44 ↗ here uh Nancy Davidson here

1:48 ↗ Jamie Finch here

1:50 ↗ Aaron Fisher here

1:52 ↗ uh Rishi hasroth as an excuse absence

1:55 ↗ here

1:57 ↗ Laura labanco

2:01 ↗ uh Ashwin manoharam here Don McWilliams

2:04 ↗ here and you come here and Janet here

2:10 ↗ thank you Stacy um next on the agenda we

2:14 ↗ have approval of the minutes

2:16 ↗ um

2:17 ↗ I just wanted to mention I I do think

2:20 ↗ um I was hoping to have Billy take a

2:22 ↗ look at the comments related to Title 18

2:27 ↗ um just to see if there's any items that

2:28 ↗ were missed I just recall there being

2:29 ↗ some other discussion items that we

2:32 ↗ summarized or included in our summary so

2:35 ↗ that was my one comment that we made

2:38 ↗ revisit that and

2:40 ↗ come back

2:41 ↗ the next meeting

2:43 ↗ those but I don't is there anyone else

2:46 ↗ that had any other comments on the

2:47 ↗ minutes

2:51 ↗ oh we will move on from that item and uh

2:55 ↗ and review the next next meeting once

2:58 ↗ we've got a chance to review that

3:00 ↗ I think from from here we go to public

3:03 ↗ comments

3:05 ↗ um I don't know if

3:07 ↗ anyone has indicated a desire to provide

3:10 ↗ comment

3:12 ↗ no we did not receive any written

3:14 ↗ comments we do have Ann Fletcher on she

3:17 ↗ said she's not planning to make any

3:18 ↗ comments tonight and do go ahead and

3:21 ↗ send me a chat if you

3:24 ↗ would like to change and make public

3:26 ↗ comments

3:28 ↗ no other members of the publican

3:31 ↗ well

3:32 ↗ then I will move on to our main agenda

3:36 ↗ items the first one being the so-called

3:39 ↗ climate action plan uh performance

3:41 ↗ dashboard

3:43 ↗ excellent

3:45 ↗ uh good evening everyone I am going to

3:47 ↗ share my screen a couple of times

3:49 ↗ throughout the presentation tonight uh

3:51 ↗ first just a couple of quick slides that

3:54 ↗ I want to acknowledge we're not in the

3:56 ↗ packet for this evening I felt like they

3:58 ↗ could be a good addition they are just

4:01 ↗ the content that you've already read in

4:03 ↗ the memo but I just want to provide that

4:05 ↗ and I will fear that afterwards to be

4:07 ↗ added to

4:09 ↗ um added back to the packet

4:13 ↗ um

4:14 ↗ you think hail murky crimp management

4:17 ↗ analyst uh one of the two management

4:19 ↗ analysts here at the city it's really

4:20 ↗ wonderful to be back with you all again

4:23 ↗ on the other side of the summer

4:26 ↗ um the purpose of my time here tonight

4:27 ↗ is to provide an update on the icap

4:30 ↗ implementation uh dashboard that we've

4:33 ↗ been working on since we all met back in

4:36 ↗ June and then to seek additional

4:38 ↗ feedback ahead of the dashboard launch

4:39 ↗ later this month

4:42 ↗ I'm looking for tonight from the board

4:45 ↗ is how does this new version of the

4:47 ↗ dashboard fit with the feedback from

4:49 ↗ June around the structure design and

4:52 ↗ content of the dashboard

4:55 ↗ for a little bit of background as was

4:57 ↗ mentioned in the memo there were four

4:59 ↗ main pieces of feedback from the June

5:01 ↗ meeting

5:02 ↗ the first one was that the board was

5:05 ↗ eager to see a dashboard that started

5:08 ↗ with high level content but provided

5:10 ↗ layers of data and in in and information

5:13 ↗ that individuals could drill down into

5:16 ↗ given their personal level of interest

5:18 ↗ you wanted a tool that was that could

5:21 ↗ give people an at a glance idea of how

5:23 ↗ we were doing with our implementation

5:25 ↗ and against our our climate action goals

5:27 ↗ but also provided uh some more

5:29 ↗ information for folks that might want to

5:31 ↗ go a little bit deeper

5:35 ↗ um a dashboard that provided connections

5:37 ↗ to resources related to the plan's

5:39 ↗ implementation

5:41 ↗ thirdly a way of knowing how we're doing

5:45 ↗ at any given moment towards our climate

5:48 ↗ action goals and implementation goals

5:51 ↗ and then generally just some feedback

5:53 ↗ um there was a lot of positive feedback

5:55 ↗ on General color scheme alignment in the

5:58 ↗ mock-up mock dashboard images we walked

6:02 ↗ through back in June and just some more

6:04 ↗ encouragement to really double down on

6:06 ↗ that to make sure that the visuals in

6:09 ↗ the dashboard the dashboard itself felt

6:11 ↗ related to and aligned to the icap

6:14 ↗ document itself

6:16 ↗ coming back to you back in mind

6:19 ↗ um

6:20 ↗ feedback as a team

6:22 ↗ um and apply that to some of the

6:24 ↗ mock-ups that we shared back in June and

6:27 ↗ I'd like to take the next little bit of

6:28 ↗ time just to walk through how the mock

6:31 ↗ deck or the beta version of the

6:33 ↗ dashboard that was sent um in a link

6:35 ↗ ahead of this meeting addresses those

6:37 ↗ four main areas of feedback and after

6:40 ↗ that I'll pause

6:41 ↗ um and the thought will be to engage in

6:43 ↗ conversation suggestions and additional

6:46 ↗ questions

6:47 ↗ is there anything though before I jump

6:49 ↗ into that would be uh helpful for

6:53 ↗ or that anyone wants to bring up before

6:55 ↗ that

7:01 ↗ Dale just that your slides are in the

7:04 ↗ editing mode I don't know if you want to

7:05 ↗ go

7:08 ↗ I'm not going to be in those anymore so

7:10 ↗ hopefully that uh that will be okay

7:13 ↗ um could everyone see the climate action

7:15 ↗ dashboard now

7:17 ↗ okay tax on it so for the first piece of

7:22 ↗ feedback which was to start at a high

7:25 ↗ level and then be able to drill down

7:27 ↗ further into key areas of interest you

7:30 ↗ can see on this landing page for the

7:32 ↗ dashboard we have sort of a high level

7:34 ↗ overview just generally of the climate

7:37 ↗ action dashboard a key for understanding

7:41 ↗ um where we are in progress to

7:42 ↗ implementation or meeting goals and then

7:45 ↗ our six key goal areas with below some

7:50 ↗ high-level overview of implementations

7:52 ↗ so where are we in implementation by

7:54 ↗ goal area

7:55 ↗ overall for the plan where are we in

7:58 ↗ implementation specifically within the

8:00 ↗ items we've designated as 2022 items and

8:04 ↗ then overall what is our planned um when

8:08 ↗ we look at the entire plan what are we

8:09 ↗ planning to implement

8:11 ↗ um all elements of the plan and so

8:13 ↗ looking back at this being able to say

8:15 ↗ hey in 2021 we implemented this much of

8:18 ↗ the plan in 2022 we're implementing this

8:21 ↗ much of the plan in 23 and 24 this much

8:24 ↗ of the plan and in 25 26 this much of

8:28 ↗ the plan and this aligns to our budget

8:30 ↗ years

8:31 ↗ um not to uh specific years of our

8:34 ↗ budget and we're coming up as a city and

8:36 ↗ passing our first biennial budget

8:38 ↗ standards this 23 is a very big chunk uh

8:41 ↗ that's representative of two years

8:44 ↗ um two two budget years there

8:47 ↗ this starts off at a high level and also

8:50 ↗ allows you to say you really want are

8:52 ↗ more interested in these overarching

8:54 ↗ climate actions

8:55 ↗ by hovering over this you're able to

8:57 ↗ click in

8:58 ↗ and it will take you to a page that is

9:00 ↗ specific to The overarching Climate

9:03 ↗ actions that's the other plan so

9:05 ↗ starting with a high level and providing

9:07 ↗ layers of data and information so

9:10 ↗ specifically being able to look down at

9:12 ↗ the goal area itself

9:14 ↗ and then also even from here as it says

9:16 ↗ click on the goals above right for more

9:18 ↗ information

9:19 ↗ um I noticed this this link was broken

9:21 ↗ but what you should be able to do is

9:24 ↗ click on the goal itself and it will

9:26 ↗ take you to a page that specifically

9:28 ↗ talks about that visualization

9:31 ↗ um so specifically that overarching goal

9:33 ↗ area

9:35 ↗ was to provide connections and resources

9:38 ↗ related to the plan's implementation

9:41 ↗ and as you can see on every page as you

9:43 ↗ go down here there's some information it

9:45 ↗ says below you can explore different

9:47 ↗ implementation actions benchmarks

9:49 ↗ near-term goals you can click on an item

9:52 ↗ um and then it will bring you to a

9:54 ↗ related

9:55 ↗ related resource outside of the

9:58 ↗ dashboard I think a great one here um

10:01 ↗ for us to click on I'll go back in a

10:02 ↗ moment

10:04 ↗ um would be to look at our community

10:06 ↗ climate action challenge which we're all

10:08 ↗ familiar with we know this is something

10:10 ↗ that's happening in the community

10:11 ↗ there's the ability to click on this and

10:14 ↗ have it take you to

10:16 ↗ um actually have you take you to the

10:17 ↗ page and I'm

10:20 ↗ I'll take you to the page

10:23 ↗ and you'll be able to learn more about

10:25 ↗ the climate at the community climate

10:27 ↗ challenge

10:29 ↗ firstly if it's something that doesn't

10:31 ↗ exist outside of the dashboard maybe we

10:33 ↗ don't have a resource like that to tell

10:36 ↗ us more about it you can go ahead and

10:38 ↗ you can hover over an item and it will

10:41 ↗ tell you more about how we know we're on

10:43 ↗ track or if we're not on track why we

10:45 ↗ might not be on track towards that goal

10:47 ↗ so again providing connections and

10:49 ↗ resources related to the plans

10:51 ↗ implementation and providing a way of

10:54 ↗ knowing how we're doing in the current

10:56 ↗ moment

10:57 ↗ in addition I've already I've already

10:59 ↗ pointed out this feature but each of the

11:01 ↗ actions as a um progress uh sort of and

11:06 ↗ it aligns to up here whether it's on

11:09 ↗ track so we are meeting or exceeding our

11:11 ↗ current year targets and benchmarks

11:12 ↗ whether it's in progress uh we're not

11:16 ↗ currently meeting our 2022 targets for

11:18 ↗ Benchmark off track this could be

11:21 ↗ something that is just really not

11:22 ↗ performing as expected and then yet to

11:25 ↗ be determined and you'll notice we have

11:26 ↗ a number of things in here where we've

11:28 ↗ maybe not quite determined what our

11:29 ↗ near-term Target or Benchmark might be

11:32 ↗ um but each of these has a has a little

11:36 ↗ message here to tell us where we are and

11:38 ↗ then I

11:39 ↗ um icon that coordinates with that

11:41 ↗ status

11:42 ↗ and certainly not least is just making

11:45 ↗ sure that the dashboard itself aligns

11:47 ↗ visually to the plan and so we've made

11:50 ↗ some intentional choices to pull images

11:53 ↗ that exist in the icap document itself

11:55 ↗ and have those show up in this dashboard

11:59 ↗ and then also as I'm sure you've noticed

12:01 ↗ um making sure that the color schemes

12:04 ↗ and the icons will go back to this main

12:07 ↗ page these icons would show up on every

12:09 ↗ single page of the dashboard that those

12:12 ↗ are pulled directly from the plan

12:14 ↗ um ensuring that there's alignment

12:16 ↗ visually between the plan and our and

12:19 ↗ our implementation dashboard here

12:22 ↗ um there are a number of things that we

12:24 ↗ could go into I really want to have this

12:26 ↗ be driven by this group of people here

12:29 ↗ um and so I'll pause on my presentation

12:31 ↗ but I'll leave I'll leave this um I'll

12:34 ↗ leave this page up so that we can

12:36 ↗ maneuver around it together as you have

12:38 ↗ questions thoughts or comments

12:40 ↗ um and I'll pause there for questions

12:42 ↗ thoughts and comments

12:45 ↗ thank you Dale

12:47 ↗ um looks like we have a question from

12:49 ↗ Dom

12:50 ↗ uh yes thank you Tom Anderson here

12:54 ↗ um so I have a comment on colors uh the

12:57 ↗ first of all uh so I happen to be a

12:59 ↗ person who has red green color blindness

13:02 ↗ a common thing amongst the males

13:05 ↗ particularly and it doesn't mean I can't

13:08 ↗ see red and green but I just don't see

13:10 ↗ it as well as some and the contrast is

13:12 ↗ harder to discern so the bar chart if

13:15 ↗ you scroll down a little bit to the bar

13:17 ↗ chart

13:18 ↗ for example uh so I I can if I put my

13:22 ↗ thinking cap on I can discern the

13:25 ↗ difference and and uh but it's uh it's

13:28 ↗ it's not easy for me to kind of look at

13:31 ↗ that and see well let's see which of the

13:33 ↗ good ones and which are the bad ones and

13:36 ↗ uh what are they all the legend at the

13:38 ↗ bottom is too small with respect to the

13:41 ↗ graphics above to really make the

13:44 ↗ connection without

13:45 ↗ the working hard at it so

13:49 ↗ um I I suggest a higher contrast color

13:52 ↗ scheme a better Legend on that chart and

13:56 ↗ also I kind of challenge I think I think

13:58 ↗ the bar chart the bar uh graphic is the

14:02 ↗ wrong uh thing to represent these

14:04 ↗ because it kind of looks like they want

14:07 ↗ the left oh we're doing great there

14:08 ↗ because it's nice and Tall the ones the

14:10 ↗ right or not but that's not what it's

14:12 ↗ about just that happens to that that

14:14 ↗ happens to have a lot of actions to

14:16 ↗ worry on work on so I I think Dave

14:19 ↗ graphic that normalizes them so that

14:22 ↗ they all uh are tally up to 100 well

14:26 ↗ like a part pie chart

14:28 ↗ or a gauge where uh the hundred percent

14:31 ↗ Mark is uh all the all the identified

14:35 ↗ actions

14:36 ↗ um worked on and then you can kind of

14:39 ↗ see and scan across and compare the pies

14:42 ↗ and see which one has more progress

14:46 ↗ versus the other this one it'd be it's

14:50 ↗ kind of hard to figure out well let's

14:52 ↗ see where's what which ones of these are

14:55 ↗ we having problems with and which ones

14:57 ↗ are you can do it but yeah put your

15:00 ↗ thinking cap on to uh to discern that

15:03 ↗ information

15:04 ↗ uh so those are my governance thank you

15:07 ↗ excellent thank you Tom that's really

15:09 ↗ helpful and I think accessibility is

15:11 ↗ definitely something that I want to make

15:12 ↗ sure is incorporated so I appreciate

15:14 ↗ that um I appreciate that input

15:18 ↗ and Tom and go ahead yeah I just wanted

15:21 ↗ to

15:22 ↗ um second one Tom said so I'm not

15:25 ↗ colorblind but after Tom brought that up

15:28 ↗ I realized yeah I really had to put some

15:31 ↗ effort into figuring out which was which

15:33 ↗ as well

15:39 ↗ and crazy

15:43 ↗ all right

15:44 ↗ go ahead um

15:46 ↗ thanks Dale uh Dan Hintz I I just be

15:48 ↗ curious what you think and maybe some of

15:50 ↗ the other members of the environmental

15:52 ↗ board here about the the kind of four

15:55 ↗ categories of on track in progress off

15:57 ↗ track to be determined I guess on track

16:00 ↗ makes a lot of sense to me to be

16:02 ↗ determined I think does to

16:04 ↗ um I guess I'm having a little hard time

16:06 ↗ distinguishing between you know in

16:07 ↗ progress with the kind of tag of

16:09 ↗ benchmarks not being that and off track

16:12 ↗ not performing as if expected I'd be

16:13 ↗ curious to hear a little bit more about

16:14 ↗ the Nuance between those two or if it

16:17 ↗ seems like one too many maybe it would

16:18 ↗ be fine with just kind of three tracking

16:20 ↗ items there

16:22 ↗ yeah I'm happy to share my impression

16:26 ↗ um but again I I'm not sure I have a as

16:29 ↗ a creator of this I don't have a super

16:31 ↗ strong opinion I think that's up to this

16:33 ↗ group to have

16:35 ↗ um the two items the the two items that

16:37 ↗ are red and thus hard for Tom to see

16:40 ↗ um that are off track are over are are

16:44 ↗ overarching goals so it is it is if you

16:48 ↗ go to say

16:49 ↗ um

16:50 ↗ say we look at buildings and energy

16:52 ↗ specifically I'll just click through

16:54 ↗ here a couple of slides

16:56 ↗ um it's not actually one of these

16:58 ↗ actions down here it's this up here it's

17:02 ↗ not that is that is not performing as

17:04 ↗ expected and so the reason why that's

17:07 ↗ its own category is that we actually

17:09 ↗ don't have a very clear

17:11 ↗ 2022 Target so we have a forget in the

17:15 ↗ plan that says reduce you know 25 energy

17:18 ↗ use reduction by 2030 but the plan

17:21 ↗ doesn't actually spell out what that

17:22 ↗ Target should be for 2022. and so saying

17:26 ↗ that it's in progress isn't quite right

17:29 ↗ and saying that it's on track is

17:31 ↗ certainly not right and saying that it's

17:33 ↗ to be determined isn't quite right

17:35 ↗ either because we do have a Target

17:38 ↗ that's pretty clear and 2030 is a closer

17:42 ↗ Target than some of our others like the

17:44 ↗ 2050 you know we might be actually able

17:46 ↗ to develop an interim Target but 2030 is

17:49 ↗ close enough that I'm not sure that

17:51 ↗ we're going to develop an interim Target

17:52 ↗ so just and we know that we're not on

17:55 ↗ the right in the right direction the

17:57 ↗ other one that's the case for is in

17:59 ↗ um materials and consumption which again

18:02 ↗ is the exact same situation this high

18:05 ↗ level overarching goal we're headed in

18:07 ↗ the wrong direction

18:09 ↗ um and we are off track but we are on we

18:12 ↗ are sort of it's again it doesn't fall

18:14 ↗ into that in progress or yet to be

18:15 ↗ determined category is quite as easily

18:18 ↗ so I I would take feedback on narrowing

18:22 ↗ those categories and just saying hey

18:23 ↗ we're going to call that um off track

18:25 ↗ we're going to call anything that's not

18:26 ↗ on track off track and widening that

18:29 ↗ bucket

18:30 ↗ um but I would defer to this group

18:32 ↗ um to make that decision

18:35 ↗ that's very helpful I don't have a super

18:36 ↗ strong opinion I just felt that was one

18:38 ↗ of my kind of initial kind of questions

18:40 ↗ I think also I guess my last comment to

18:43 ↗ that too is you know if you can kind of

18:45 ↗ hover over the status for specific goals

18:47 ↗ for each kind of overarching section of

18:50 ↗ this

18:51 ↗ um you know maybe that can be the spot

18:52 ↗ where you could have a little more

18:53 ↗ Nuance there that you're kind of

18:54 ↗ explaining interpretation so it seems

18:57 ↗ like an opportunity to

18:58 ↗ clarify a little bit between the

19:00 ↗ differences

19:03 ↗ and that was actually some feedback I

19:05 ↗ got from another uh

19:10 ↗ of having those statuses below but the

19:13 ↗ the ones at the top don't have one so

19:14 ↗ that will definitely add that um and

19:16 ↗ then be able to have the same call out

19:18 ↗ bubbles that'll provide some more

19:20 ↗ context there

19:23 ↗ thank you Dan basically did you have

19:25 ↗ something to add yeah I wanted to add

19:28 ↗ um and definitely looking for feedback

19:30 ↗ on this but the different categories of

19:32 ↗ where things are I think we want to

19:35 ↗ um the in progress was meant to be this

19:37 ↗ has started it's underway

19:39 ↗ um might be a little shorter the targets

19:41 ↗ we sent say like the climate action

19:43 ↗ um challenge we set a 250 at 250 Target

19:47 ↗ for them this year we're not probably

19:49 ↗ going to make that so we wanted to have

19:51 ↗ a category for that

19:53 ↗ um but then I also was interested in

19:55 ↗ having a category for something that we

19:57 ↗ plan to do that this year we tried and

20:01 ↗ it didn't happen either because of

20:03 ↗ political reasons financial reasons

20:05 ↗ whatever it might be

20:08 ↗ um but we we have a major barrier with

20:11 ↗ getting something through so

20:13 ↗ um

20:14 ↗ just wanted to I feel like those are we

20:17 ↗ want to distinguish between the two

20:18 ↗ where we're falling a little bit short

20:19 ↗ but we could probably put some more

20:21 ↗ effort behind it versus we have a major

20:22 ↗ issue here so

20:25 ↗ um yeah any other thoughts folks have

20:27 ↗ for organizing those but just want to

20:29 ↗ make sure that the context s are where

20:30 ↗ we're trying to distinguish

20:33 ↗ thanks Stacy maybe I'll just hop in I do

20:36 ↗ have some thoughts on that I similarly

20:37 ↗ think there needs to be

20:39 ↗ maybe revisiting of those categories

20:42 ↗ um

20:43 ↗ the one

20:44 ↗ like I feel like the off track like

20:47 ↗ we're not meeting our goals versus

20:48 ↗ having started this and we were saying

20:50 ↗ we're going to start this might be one

20:54 ↗ distinction that would help it it

20:55 ↗ actually might require a separate

20:57 ↗ category that actually ties into some

20:59 ↗ other feedback I have on this graphic I

21:02 ↗ similarly think

21:03 ↗ that actually having future stuff in

21:05 ↗ here is likely what's wrong making this

21:07 ↗ really difficult to look at and be able

21:09 ↗ to understand and quickly

21:12 ↗ um I actually thinking back to like CIP

21:14 ↗ having this is like it's a like a simple

21:17 ↗ table might be more effective at saying

21:19 ↗ these are the number of actions that we

21:21 ↗ have that are in these different

21:22 ↗ categories these are for this year and

21:25 ↗ then these are the future year projects

21:27 ↗ I just think that having future year in

21:29 ↗ that visualization because I think that

21:31 ↗ that it is in there makes it hard to

21:34 ↗ understand at a glance at least with

21:35 ↗ that sort of visualization so that would

21:38 ↗ be one area of feedback that I would

21:40 ↗ have

21:41 ↗ um I actually think also within the

21:44 ↗ details of these categories

21:46 ↗ I I wonder if a table format

21:49 ↗ might be easier to be able to scroll

21:51 ↗ down and be able to really quickly see

21:53 ↗ like right now my eyes have to go to a

21:55 ↗ bunch of different places to see what

21:57 ↗ we're on track with and what we are in

21:58 ↗ but rather than looking down a call I'm

22:01 ↗ seeing this is what we're on track

22:06 ↗ um so I do wonder if that area might

22:08 ↗ some organization change and maybe

22:10 ↗ simplification

22:13 ↗ um it might not allow for the images

22:15 ↗ um but I do think this it makes it a

22:18 ↗ little harder to take in as it is

22:20 ↗ currently

22:22 ↗ um I did have one other question so

22:26 ↗ as we think so I take an example of the

22:29 ↗ climate action challenge

22:30 ↗ would we anticipate having the specifics

22:33 ↗ around

22:35 ↗ like we had a goal of X and this is what

22:38 ↗ we're currently performing to this is

22:39 ↗ when it was updated I'm curious I'm just

22:40 ↗ curious on like how we how we're

22:42 ↗ thinking about updating like the the

22:45 ↗ Cadence as well as what we plan on

22:47 ↗ communicating to someone when they they

22:49 ↗ might land on it I could give an action

22:51 ↗ so I might I don't know if that's Dale

22:52 ↗ or Stacy that would be able to help with

22:55 ↗ kind of what what our plan is there

22:58 ↗ yeah it can start and then hand over to

23:00 ↗ Dale I think we decided most of these

23:03 ↗ can be updated quarterly there may not

23:05 ↗ some of these are longer term and there

23:06 ↗ may an update but it's actually the way

23:09 ↗ we set it up Dale set it up it's very

23:11 ↗ easy to go through and do updates

23:14 ↗ um so that's our plan right now it's

23:15 ↗ quarterly

23:17 ↗ um and then we are collecting a specific

23:19 ↗ data

23:21 ↗ um I don't know how we dig into that but

23:24 ↗ around for instance the time in action

23:26 ↗ challenge you'll be able to see how many

23:28 ↗ have signed up what our Target was and

23:30 ↗ then eventually we'll we'll link that

23:32 ↗ back then to the greenhouse gas and

23:34 ↗ Mission reductions based on so I'm

23:36 ↗ trying to get in all that little detail

23:39 ↗ and that'll feed into our overall okay

23:42 ↗ Target

23:43 ↗ that's all when do you think just clear

23:45 ↗ communication around like

23:47 ↗ for example like when you're talking

23:49 ↗ about what is off track like someone's

23:51 ↗ going to want to look at and understand

23:52 ↗ what that is and so I'm letting them

23:54 ↗ know the specifics of

23:57 ↗ like the timing of when we're saying

23:58 ↗ we're off track and this is why we're

24:01 ↗ saying oh we're off track

24:04 ↗ um I think my last comment is at the

24:07 ↗ very bottom of the first page it shows

24:09 ↗ that kind of 100 graph with all of the

24:13 ↗ different like plan year or actions per

24:16 ↗ year

24:17 ↗ my guess is that some of those span

24:19 ↗ multiple years so I do wonder if that

24:22 ↗ graphic might end up being a little

24:23 ↗ confusing and that it only has our

24:25 ↗ launch here like if I'm

24:28 ↗ wanting to look at and see what is

24:29 ↗ currently ongoing there might be I mean

24:31 ↗ we might still be doing climate action

24:33 ↗ plan in 2023

24:35 ↗ that would be a 2022 year in this and I

24:39 ↗ don't know that we're going to be able

24:39 ↗ to like drill down into the 2022 actions

24:42 ↗ here

24:44 ↗ um but I do think it would be helpful to

24:45 ↗ understand

24:46 ↗ like some of these will be Moment In

24:49 ↗ Time actions that are taken some will be

24:51 ↗ ongoing programs or actions that are

24:54 ↗ that are spanning a longer period of

24:56 ↗ time so I do think that I don't know

24:58 ↗ what it is if it's if it's again or if

25:00 ↗ it's something that just shows we can

25:02 ↗ get to a point that we can see that not

25:05 ↗ only the start date but duration and

25:08 ↗ kind of understand what is ongoing and

25:11 ↗ again that's someone could participate

25:12 ↗ in at a given time or just might want to

25:16 ↗ be aware that this city is working on so

25:19 ↗ oh yeah that was

25:21 ↗ a great super helpful Jamie some of

25:24 ↗ those things I think are very doable

25:26 ↗ um a couple of those we might have to it

25:28 ↗ might not be a visual that's uh coming

25:30 ↗ out of data it might be something we we

25:33 ↗ draw or create and then drop in just as

25:36 ↗ a static image

25:38 ↗ um but I I agree with that with a lot of

25:42 ↗ what you what you just offered thank you

25:49 ↗ [Music]

25:50 ↗ belabor the icons too much but anyway I

25:54 ↗ would uh dad was saying kind of

25:56 ↗ resonated with me I feel like um when I

26:00 ↗ scanned the the activities there and saw

26:04 ↗ the on track check mark re-check Mark

26:06 ↗ okay I know what that means the off

26:09 ↗ track black with a dash okay I know what

26:11 ↗ that means when I saw the little uh the

26:14 ↗ little square with some checks or

26:16 ↗ whatever I don't know I'm not sure what

26:17 ↗ did that I I well I had to engage my

26:20 ↗ brain and go look somewhere and kind of

26:22 ↗ figure out what does that mean

26:24 ↗ and uh it would be nice to have find a

26:27 ↗ graphic which

26:29 ↗ can kind of

26:31 ↗ evoke the thing we want to say without

26:34 ↗ having to go look somewhere else I know

26:36 ↗ on some debt kind of dashboards I've

26:38 ↗ seen people use a green circle for on

26:42 ↗ track uh a green a half green circle you

26:46 ↗ know one side green the other not green

26:48 ↗ to show something's in progress and then

26:51 ↗ an empty circle or black circle for off

26:53 ↗ track I don't know that's just an idea

26:55 ↗ of a way to show to illustrate that in

26:59 ↗ between state or yeah we're making

27:01 ↗ progress but we're not quite where we

27:03 ↗ want to be and it

27:05 ↗ is a sort of graphic that you don't have

27:08 ↗ to go look up to get what it's talking

27:11 ↗ about

27:12 ↗ uh so that's just a suggestion uh thank

27:15 ↗ you

27:17 ↗ great thank you

27:19 ↗ Tom Nancy go ahead

27:21 ↗ hi I'm Nancy Davidson and I would like

27:24 ↗ to build on what Tom just said I think

27:27 ↗ your description of those icons

27:30 ↗ are not clear and I'll say that in

27:33 ↗ progress means that the targets or

27:35 ↗ benchmarks are not being met but you're

27:38 ↗ in progress so maybe they'll be by the

27:40 ↗ end of the year so it says to me that

27:43 ↗ doesn't is it sounds like we're not

27:45 ↗ going to even meet it by the end of the

27:46 ↗ year that we have something that has

27:48 ↗ either causes disruption to that

27:51 ↗ activity and it's not going to happen or

27:55 ↗ we're only getting 20 of the people we

27:58 ↗ expected to participate it doesn't

28:01 ↗ so it's not very clear what in progress

28:04 ↗ in progress can be we're at 50 of the

28:06 ↗ year and the rest of the 50 of the year

28:08 ↗ we think we're going to hit it because

28:10 ↗ if we keep the same

28:12 ↗ in progress and we're getting there it's

28:14 ↗ a different definition than what we've

28:16 ↗ got here and so what we're not showing

28:18 ↗ really is when we have a benchmark or

28:21 ↗ something that is really we're not going

28:23 ↗ to need it we know we're not going to

28:25 ↗ mean it we can see it right now we need

28:27 ↗ to do something different this one does

28:29 ↗ not say that to me this one says we're

28:32 ↗ in progress and we might get there

28:34 ↗ that's just my how I read it and that to

28:38 ↗ be determined is

28:41 ↗ um I think really troubles them

28:43 ↗ and that means it might be better to say

28:46 ↗ not started

28:48 ↗ um you know it it's more in progress

28:50 ↗ because you are really starting to work

28:52 ↗ on it or it's a future year

28:55 ↗ um to be determined

28:57 ↗ says that you know it's just not clear

29:01 ↗ on what you're doing with each of those

29:03 ↗ two activities the other two I clearly

29:06 ↗ understand what you're trying to

29:07 ↗ communicate with those but those two I

29:09 ↗ think are real red flags to people that

29:12 ↗ are trying to understand that and the

29:14 ↗ icons don't help them at all so I think

29:16 ↗ you need to figure out what you're

29:18 ↗ trying to communicate about those and

29:20 ↗ these icons and the words do not do that

29:24 ↗ for those two for me

29:26 ↗ thanks Nancy

29:29 ↗ right I just had two other quick

29:32 ↗ comments one I don't know if it's just a

29:34 ↗ part of this being a demo but I haven't

29:37 ↗ been able to figure out how to go

29:40 ↗ back up is that the is that just the

29:44 ↗ bottom

29:46 ↗ thing is it the bottom thing or okay

29:49 ↗ yeah yeah

29:51 ↗ and so let's just figure out exactly how

29:54 ↗ to do this if we want to pin back or

29:56 ↗ home icons in the corner which we can

29:59 ↗ um if we want to use the City of

30:01 ↗ Issaquah logo as a home uh touch Point

30:06 ↗ um these icons will always take you to

30:08 ↗ the main page of that category no matter

30:11 ↗ where you are uh but I agree I think the

30:14 ↗ deciding how to move within

30:17 ↗ um is is a

30:19 ↗ the jury's out a little bit um and we

30:21 ↗ can very easily similar to the city's

30:23 ↗ homeless Outreach dashboard or similar

30:26 ↗ to

30:27 ↗ um our strategic plan dashboard include

30:30 ↗ foam and back buttons in the top corner

30:33 ↗ to make a clearer

30:35 ↗ um depending on what these groups would

30:37 ↗ be most helpful

30:39 ↗ I guess my because the problem with the

30:41 ↗ back button on the bottom part is if

30:42 ↗ you're on other if you're on any like

30:45 ↗ Biz other than the second one you go

30:48 ↗ back to instead of going home which is

30:50 ↗ what I would expect if I've just come

30:52 ↗ from home

30:53 ↗ one of the previous whatever might have

30:56 ↗ common none and so I've been going

30:58 ↗ pressing the back button going back to

31:01 ↗ the memo Doc and going back in the new

31:03 ↗ thing is there's something there that

31:05 ↗ could be helpful

31:06 ↗ um the other was just a question so

31:09 ↗ uh it was on building and energy

31:13 ↗ um category there's the city-wide energy

31:16 ↗ used by type with graphs yeah that one

31:20 ↗ um is that going to be the same view for

31:23 ↗ all like I'm just curious how that space

31:25 ↗ is going to be used for all the

31:27 ↗ different

31:27 ↗ categories

31:32 ↗ um

31:34 ↗ goals is that because this one doesn't

31:37 ↗ seem specific to the maybe it is but

31:41 ↗ is is that specific to just the

31:43 ↗ buildings and energy

31:46 ↗ I wasn't clear if that yes so this is um

31:51 ↗ this is just the goal for this is just

31:54 ↗ the overarching goal for buildings and

31:55 ↗ energy so it's just communicating

31:58 ↗ consider city-wide energy use and our

32:01 ↗ goal is to reduce that by 25

32:03 ↗ this is just for this one

32:06 ↗ okay

32:08 ↗ um so I guess the only comment on that

32:10 ↗ is I don't see anywhere in here that we

32:13 ↗ have the overall like these all put

32:16 ↗ together like we have a five category

32:18 ↗ but I don't see the overall issaquah's

32:21 ↗ targets overarching Mega it's been

32:22 ↗ actually saying as I'm saying it's

32:24 ↗ probably not overarching section

32:26 ↗ um is that where you would expect to

32:28 ↗ find that

32:30 ↗ um in that overarching climate actions

32:32 ↗ and that would be the in that place on

32:35 ↗ that category for greenhouse gas

32:37 ↗ dimensions

32:41 ↗ yeah yeah so similar to this but like

32:44 ↗ not just for the building buildings and

32:46 ↗ energy category

32:50 ↗ we'll go here

32:52 ↗ um and that will sit sit at the top of

32:54 ↗ this similar like the way the plan is

32:56 ↗ set up the overarching goal within each

32:58 ↗ category section will sit at the top of

33:02 ↗ the dashboard so this is where

33:04 ↗ greenhouse gas we've originally

33:06 ↗ announced gas emissions it will visual

33:07 ↗ for that will sit here and then you'll

33:09 ↗ be able to click on that and that'll

33:11 ↗ bring up a larger view of that visual

33:14 ↗ with any sort of additional

33:16 ↗ um data we have related specifically to

33:19 ↗ our greenhouse gas emissions reduction

33:21 ↗ goals

33:22 ↗ okay yeah the only and I know we have

33:25 ↗ limited space on that first summary

33:28 ↗ like sheet but I do right now that

33:32 ↗ overall goal that someone would if they

33:34 ↗ just want to come and understand what

33:36 ↗ are like what are we doing with the

33:37 ↗ climate action plan where are we trying

33:39 ↗ to go in general you don't see that and

33:42 ↗ so the until you click in and then we

33:46 ↗ wanted that to sit on the home page it

33:47 ↗ absolutely could I think we're we're

33:50 ↗ sort of waiting on that data a little

33:51 ↗ bit from King County to have that um but

33:54 ↗ we can absolutely have that sit front

33:55 ↗ and center

33:57 ↗ yeah I just wonder that and maybe it's

33:59 ↗ not the first thing you see that just

34:01 ↗ seems like really critical information

34:02 ↗ if someone was to land here that

34:05 ↗ um

34:06 ↗ might make sense there might be other

34:08 ↗ things that we could put

34:09 ↗ um rather than that but just just a

34:11 ↗ thought as

34:13 ↗ uh that does seem like some really

34:14 ↗ critical information for someone so to

34:17 ↗ be able to understand and land

34:18 ↗ yeah

34:21 ↗ that's everything I had Dan um go ahead

34:23 ↗ yeah thanks Katie

34:24 ↗ um Dell real quick question for I guess

34:26 ↗ kind of some of the slides Jamie is just

34:28 ↗ talking about uh with some of the

34:29 ↗ reduction or increase in percentages

34:31 ↗ goals is the Baseline year 2022 or does

34:35 ↗ it go back or I guess I'm just you know

34:38 ↗ just curious on that

34:39 ↗ like 25 reduction from

34:44 ↗ oh yeah it depends on the sorry it

34:46 ↗ depends on the target yeah those are

34:48 ↗ listed in

34:51 ↗ that detail

34:53 ↗ at least in the back end of this so we

34:55 ↗ can make sure that's that's weird okay

34:56 ↗ yeah that's what I'm saying it could be

34:58 ↗ a cool graphic like I'm on the buildings

34:59 ↗ and energy one where it's you know 25

35:01 ↗ reduction by 2030 and I'm thinking it's

35:03 ↗ like well is that starting in 2019 when

35:05 ↗ it's higher so it's easier to reach that

35:07 ↗ Target but just something what kind of

35:09 ↗ shows where that uh starts from and even

35:11 ↗ maybe what that goal looks like on one

35:13 ↗ of these bar graphs you know a 25

35:15 ↗ reduction from that first reporting year

35:18 ↗ um so yeah we're just kind of curious

35:19 ↗ about that and I think that'd be neat to

35:21 ↗ have kind of clarified on these slides

35:22 ↗ that are relative to obviously the first

35:24 ↗ reporting and I guess a real small

35:25 ↗ comment still on the buildings and

35:27 ↗ energy one

35:28 ↗ um you know whether lighting needs to be

35:30 ↗ included or not just so small and such a

35:32 ↗ small percentage of these overall uh

35:34 ↗ greenhouse gas producers so I you know

35:37 ↗ wonder if that might just be make more

35:39 ↗ sense keeping commercial residential

35:40 ↗ industrial it almost just looks like a

35:42 ↗ very thin line you can hardly tell I

35:44 ↗ don't even know if it has the ability to

35:46 ↗ hover over it I guess it does

35:48 ↗ bathroom

35:50 ↗ yeah and if if you also I mean if you

35:53 ↗ all felt that it was more illustrative

35:56 ↗ just to give the overalls for because we

35:59 ↗ just did the total even for the main

36:01 ↗ page and then you click into it and head

36:03 ↗ into

36:05 ↗ um and head into more detail where

36:07 ↗ you're able to see more of that tiny

36:09 ↗ little lighting line I think that is

36:11 ↗ something that also that we could

36:12 ↗ consider and do pretty easily as well

36:16 ↗ um

36:16 ↗ I think this is a really really good

36:18 ↗ point I think about specifically about

36:21 ↗ having some of those Target lines or

36:23 ↗ trend lines

36:25 ↗ um and also being clearer about goal

36:29 ↗ from when I think some of the some of

36:30 ↗ the tricky things are that we have sort

36:33 ↗ of at least from my reading of the plan

36:36 ↗ um we don't have necessarily data I

36:38 ↗ actually don't have the data on some of

36:40 ↗ the original you know reduction from a

36:43 ↗ certain a certain Year's number

36:45 ↗ um and so until we have that data it's a

36:47 ↗ little hard to sort of then draw a trend

36:48 ↗ line in here but we can we can

36:50 ↗ definitely work to get that and then

36:52 ↗ make sure that that goal line is in here

36:54 ↗ as well

36:55 ↗ cool thank you

36:58 ↗ thanks Daniel that's sucking that motion

37:00 ↗ that would be super helpful

37:02 ↗ um

37:03 ↗ oh sorry oh that's right and go ahead

37:06 ↗ thank you uh Hey way to go on this Dale

37:10 ↗ and your team

37:12 ↗ really cool

37:14 ↗ um and I want to say as far as going

37:17 ↗ backwards and forwards I did notice that

37:19 ↗ the numbers at the bottom like the page

37:21 ↗ numbers the one on the left so there's

37:25 ↗ say page two and then there's 13. I did

37:29 ↗ notice if you click on the two the

37:32 ↗ smaller number the page number then it

37:35 ↗ there's a list that comes up that you

37:37 ↗ can navigate around did you notice that

37:39 ↗ I didn't okay so maybe that's not as

37:43 ↗ noticeable

37:45 ↗ um so maybe arrows might be better but

37:48 ↗ whatever you guys think

37:50 ↗ um and then also

37:54 ↗ it's not working on my phone right now

37:55 ↗ but I'm guessing that that might come in

37:58 ↗ time

37:59 ↗ yeah

38:00 ↗ yeah cool yeah we're that's one of our

38:03 ↗ biggest challenges right now I would say

38:05 ↗ with power bi um but honestly with all

38:08 ↗ sort of dashboarding software like this

38:10 ↗ is that's that's definitely been a

38:11 ↗ limitation and so I do think you know

38:14 ↗ one of my next steps thinking about the

38:17 ↗ sort of some of the simplification stuff

38:18 ↗ will be to

38:21 ↗ also think about making sure that the

38:23 ↗ shape of the dashboard is such that it

38:25 ↗ it opens nicely in your Safari or Google

38:28 ↗ browser on your phone

38:31 ↗ um and and one of the pieces as I as I

38:33 ↗ copy it in the in the memo is that it's

38:37 ↗ definitely not sitting in the the right

38:38 ↗ frame size currently so we're working a

38:41 ↗ bit on that um as well which is why you

38:43 ↗ got a kind of funny shaped uh front page

38:46 ↗ there as we're trying to figure out how

38:47 ↗ to to make it fit so I really appreciate

38:49 ↗ you noticing that and and yeah I think

38:51 ↗ there's a lot that if if you're if

38:54 ↗ you're a little patient and willing to

38:55 ↗ click around you'll find some of those

38:56 ↗ fun things about how to maneuver

38:59 ↗ I might the jury is out for me on on how

39:02 ↗ much to try to point people to

39:05 ↗ um in such a limited way and then how

39:08 ↗ much should just kind of let let people

39:10 ↗ clip around and sort of figure it out so

39:12 ↗ if you I think everyone around around

39:15 ↗ the room might have a different opinion

39:17 ↗ of that but um it's definitely something

39:18 ↗ I've been wrestling with so I appreciate

39:20 ↗ you pointing that out

39:22 ↗ um but yes it's the maneuverability

39:24 ↗ there are a lot of different ways to

39:25 ↗ move around so

39:28 ↗ yes thank you way to go on this

39:35 ↗ I wanted to comment on your natural

39:38 ↗ systems and Water Resources page and

39:42 ↗ um granted that tree canopy is not

39:45 ↗ measured it's what every three or five

39:46 ↗ years so this page is never going to

39:48 ↗ change for three to five

39:50 ↗ but

39:52 ↗ um your water resources you can talk

39:53 ↗ about water use in the city and there's

39:56 ↗ an annual report provided to the state

39:58 ↗ of Washington by the water utility and

40:01 ↗ you can pull that data pretty easily out

40:03 ↗ to see how people are doing in terms of

40:05 ↗ conservation and water use and so you

40:08 ↗ might want to talk to your water utility

40:10 ↗ and I think that's something you can put

40:12 ↗ in an annual update because they should

40:14 ↗ be doing that and it's required by the

40:16 ↗ state to do that so I think it's an easy

40:18 ↗ piece of data for you to put in that

40:20 ↗ will show more on this page than every

40:23 ↗ three you know two percent change in

40:25 ↗ three canopy though that's a lot it's

40:27 ↗ hard to see that that's a lot but I

40:30 ↗ think water conservation if you can say

40:32 ↗ per capita usage of water in the city

40:35 ↗ has gone down from 300 gallons per day

40:38 ↗ per person to

40:42 ↗ 288 you know just watch that Trend

40:45 ↗ happen and then how much water is the

40:47 ↗ city totally using not just per person

40:50 ↗ use but as a city how much are we using

40:53 ↗ no I know we're growing I think that

40:55 ↗ kind of data also helps people think

40:57 ↗ about water conservation because it

40:59 ↗ describes it on here but it doesn't show

41:05 ↗ yeah great Point

41:07 ↗ um I would say that yeah that Stacy

41:10 ↗ that's something for us to both talk

41:11 ↗ about it's not a currently a measure

41:13 ↗ we've gotten the plan and so right now

41:15 ↗ all this does is uh show

41:19 ↗ data on gold through the plan

41:22 ↗ um so I think that that's a good

41:24 ↗ thing to think about adding to this for

41:25 ↗ sure

41:29 ↗ okay thank you

41:32 ↗ um so I love that the climate action

41:35 ↗ challenge is is in there and I was just

41:39 ↗ thinking the more we can point to it to

41:43 ↗ um say hey

41:45 ↗ this is how you can help us not only

41:48 ↗ meet our goals

41:50 ↗ but also help us track our goals

41:55 ↗ the better

41:57 ↗ so if there's

41:59 ↗ if there's other places

42:01 ↗ um

42:02 ↗ like maybe on each page say

42:05 ↗ directs people to The Climate action

42:07 ↗ challenge

42:10 ↗ if that's not too big of a hassle

42:12 ↗ if there's space

42:16 ↗ one of the things that I'm thinking this

42:18 ↗ is me spitballing here is that I I feel

42:20 ↗ like the home page the very the landing

42:22 ↗ page should really be much more of a

42:25 ↗ feature of what's going on in the

42:26 ↗ current year

42:28 ↗ um whether that be the current actions

42:29 ↗ underway and how you can participate

42:32 ↗ um

42:33 ↗ and I'm wondering if that could be

42:35 ↗ utilized more as a sort of education and

42:38 ↗ engagement portion

42:40 ↗ um

42:42 ↗ to do things but just like what you sort

42:43 ↗ of mentioned to sort of highlight

42:44 ↗ opportunities to engage

42:47 ↗ I love it yeah the more we can get

42:49 ↗ people to engage the better

42:57 ↗ more questions just on that bottom graph

43:00 ↗ is this actually this is correct that

43:03 ↗ after next year we only have a handful

43:07 ↗ of actions that will be everything will

43:09 ↗ be either implemented this year or next

43:12 ↗ year and then there's a couple that land

43:13 ↗ in 2025

43:15 ↗ yeah so Dale and I look through what's

43:18 ↗ slated it to be covered this year

43:20 ↗ posting that 23-24 budget is about 9

43:23 ↗ over 90 of the actions should be

43:25 ↗ initiated at the end of 20 24.

43:29 ↗ um but as was pointed out earlier I

43:31 ↗ think 40 45 actions are actually ongoing

43:35 ↗ so we'll still be continuing forward

43:39 ↗ um quite a few actions future years plus

43:42 ↗ adding in some of those

43:44 ↗ and this is not necessarily a dashboard

43:48 ↗ question but a more general question

43:51 ↗ um just looking at we have goals going

43:52 ↗ out 2030 2050

43:54 ↗ et cetera

43:57 ↗ I think we had asked and I'm not sure

43:59 ↗ where it landed like the update

44:00 ↗ frequency for climate action plan and

44:02 ↗ when the person I believe we'll have to

44:04 ↗ take additional action that's at some

44:06 ↗ point so curious one what that plan

44:10 ↗ looks like in general and then to how

44:13 ↗ could that or should that be shared

44:15 ↗ because if I was a like just a Community

44:17 ↗ member I would look at this oh we're

44:18 ↗ gonna be done next year great we're

44:20 ↗ going to be there we're going to get all

44:21 ↗ our goals like so I just wonder if

44:23 ↗ there's some context around what this

44:25 ↗ what the current plan means and like

44:28 ↗ what time frame is for that

44:30 ↗ um because I'm actually curious

44:31 ↗ I want to know the answer to like what

44:34 ↗ we think that that will like

44:36 ↗ so curious on like the yeah the what is

44:39 ↗ the the plan for the update process and

44:43 ↗ how that might be communicated yeah I

44:45 ↗ don't know if we communicate that very

44:48 ↗ well here so we could talk about that

44:51 ↗ um I was just having this conversation

44:52 ↗ with Ann Fletcher earlier this week but

44:56 ↗ um it was intended As A Five-Year Plan I

44:58 ↗ had originally been planning to have

45:00 ↗ kind of a community check-in in 2024

45:04 ↗ um doing that ahead of the budget

45:06 ↗ proposals would be very valuable so

45:09 ↗ probably spring 2024.

45:12 ↗ um I think what we'll see is while we

45:14 ↗ may have been able to initiate a lot of

45:16 ↗ actions

45:17 ↗ uh it

45:19 ↗ those actions may not be moving the

45:21 ↗ needle on our overall targets so using

45:24 ↗ that conversation to both prioritize

45:27 ↗ what should go forward in a budget for

45:29 ↗ 25.26 but also seeing if we want to

45:31 ↗ shift course we have 80 plus actions in

45:34 ↗ this plan maybe we're going to

45:36 ↗ prioritize down to a smaller number

45:38 ↗ start thinking about what that Plan

45:40 ↗ update might look like and how it might

45:42 ↗ be structured so that's my thoughts

45:44 ↗ right now is a kind of community

45:46 ↗ check-in early 2024 so that we can be

45:49 ↗ really strategic going forward with the

45:51 ↗ budget in the next couple years

45:53 ↗ implementation

45:54 ↗ but also we can have more of that

45:57 ↗ conversation in early January or

45:59 ↗ December when we're going to talk about

46:07 ↗ that any other

46:09 ↗ comments or questions from the board

46:15 ↗ I just say I would just like to say

46:16 ↗ thank you and way to go it's beautiful

46:20 ↗ yeah thank you Dale thank you

46:22 ↗ yeah thank you all

46:25 ↗ yeah was there any other questions or

46:27 ↗ feedback that you were hoping for from

46:29 ↗ us no this has all been very helpful um

46:33 ↗ I think my next steps are incorporate

46:35 ↗ some of this feedback

46:37 ↗ um but a big old page of notes right now

46:41 ↗ um and so

46:42 ↗ you know we'll we'll follow up

46:45 ↗ um in communication I'll follow up also

46:46 ↗ with Stacy with just sort of hear the

46:49 ↗ high levels of what I heard and hear are

46:51 ↗ the changes that are going to happen as

46:52 ↗ a result of that

46:54 ↗ um I think one of the big things you'll

46:55 ↗ probably notice the next time you see

46:57 ↗ this thing uh is that the the landing

47:01 ↗ page is going to be pretty dramatically

47:02 ↗ different

47:03 ↗ um I think the visuals on it with the

47:04 ↗ exception of the gauge

47:06 ↗ um are going away and are going to be

47:08 ↗ rethought a bit

47:09 ↗ um and so that's something to just be on

47:11 ↗ the lookout for um it'll it'll look a

47:13 ↗ little different the next time you see

47:15 ↗ it but I really appreciate the the

47:17 ↗ feedback is always from this group

47:20 ↗ um and it's been great to be uh back

47:22 ↗ here uh virtually with you tonight

47:28 ↗ thank you though I I am not going to

47:30 ↗ attempt to summarize everything we

47:32 ↗ talked about and I think we'll just have

47:34 ↗ to follow up with the what Stacy and

47:37 ↗ Dale uh come up with i i my memory

47:40 ↗ doesn't expand to the number of pieces

47:42 ↗ of feedback so I think I'm gonna give

47:45 ↗ myself a pass on that one but uh thank

47:48 ↗ you Dale and we'll look forward to

47:50 ↗ Stacy do you have anything yeah just

47:52 ↗ question around timeline so

47:54 ↗ um I think we were hoping to launch this

47:56 ↗ before the end of the year as you know

47:58 ↗ our meetings are pretty packed full do

48:01 ↗ you all want this to come back to you we

48:03 ↗ could do it at maybe our special meeting

48:05 ↗ in December or you want to provide any

48:08 ↗ additional feedback over email how would

48:11 ↗ the board like to continue the

48:13 ↗ conversation and kind of

48:14 ↗ somewhat sign off or at least give the

48:17 ↗ thumbs up that this is ready to go to

48:18 ↗ the public

48:20 ↗ I'd like to say I'd like to see it

48:22 ↗ launched and if there's more tweaks that

48:25 ↗ want to be made along the way then

48:27 ↗ I'm sure she could do that be able to do

48:29 ↗ that right

48:33 ↗ any other comments don't go ahead I

48:35 ↗ think we should get another chance to

48:36 ↗ look at it on email before it goes live

48:38 ↗ I'm

48:39 ↗ sorry I'm the commenting Gail I've been

48:42 ↗ panning through it on an iPad here on

48:45 ↗ Safari and it's just not cooperating for

48:47 ↗ me so

48:49 ↗ no worries yeah I this link

48:52 ↗ um will always be live for you all so as

48:55 ↗ I'll make updates in the coming weeks

48:58 ↗ um planning to spend a lot of time in

49:00 ↗ there on Friday in particular of this

49:02 ↗ week

49:03 ↗ um but we can absolutely let you all

49:04 ↗ know when we've got this uh sort of next

49:07 ↗ round of feedback implemented and you

49:10 ↗ all can take a look at it again

49:13 ↗ that sounds great yeah we'll send that

49:15 ↗ out over email and if anyone wants us to

49:18 ↗ come back and walk through it with the

49:20 ↗ board before the end of the year we can

49:21 ↗ do that

49:23 ↗ um but yeah that's the other thing too I

49:25 ↗ think we can also make additional

49:26 ↗ between

49:26 ↗ weeks to it after it goes

49:29 ↗ yes we can always make tweaks that's

49:31 ↗ that's the like one of my big feelings

49:35 ↗ um as a bureaucrat is that we gotta

49:37 ↗ break down this idea that once something

49:39 ↗ is out there in the world it can't be

49:41 ↗ changed

49:42 ↗ um so please please know that you can

49:45 ↗ always reach out to me and email me

49:46 ↗ about things that you think could be

49:48 ↗ improved about any of these

49:49 ↗ communication tools and we'll

49:51 ↗ incorporate that feedback and make it

49:53 ↗ make it work better

49:59 ↗ well thank you everyone I think with

50:01 ↗ that we will be moving on to our next

50:04 ↗ item on the agenda uh which is the

50:08 ↗ annual report input

50:10 ↗ um that everybody will be

50:13 ↗ and laid on

50:20 ↗ thank you

50:21 ↗ um

50:25 ↗ all right I know it's October but

50:28 ↗ um with our November meetings being very

50:30 ↗ fall and then we had some adjustments to

50:33 ↗ this meeting that we'll talk in a little

50:34 ↗ bit

50:35 ↗ um we thought it'd be useful to use the

50:37 ↗ time tonight to not off one of these

50:40 ↗ items that would have been crammed into

50:42 ↗ a November meeting so what I wanted to

50:45 ↗ talk through tonight was kind of an

50:48 ↗ outline or draft annual report

50:52 ↗ um and get some initial feedback on it

50:54 ↗ particularly around the survey so the

50:57 ↗ draft report was included in

51:00 ↗ um

51:01 ↗ in your packet as a reminder it's due to

51:03 ↗ council at the end of the year

51:06 ↗ um we're I'm going to walk through the

51:08 ↗ sections of the report real quick just

51:11 ↗ take any general input on any of those

51:14 ↗ sections in the additions feedback and

51:17 ↗ then specifically did want to talk about

51:19 ↗ the self announced this I definitely

51:22 ↗ welcome additional feedback on the

51:24 ↗ report over email

51:27 ↗ s or so before we bring it back to you

51:29 ↗ all on December

51:32 ↗ um so the structure that we followed for

51:35 ↗ the report is the same as last year

51:37 ↗ Council really liked the format and the

51:40 ↗ report that was submitted last year so

51:41 ↗ we kept it the same and essentially it

51:43 ↗ just follows the different sections of

51:45 ↗ the IMC and then I went through and did

51:47 ↗ some updates so the first section is

51:50 ↗ about how the board was involved in

51:53 ↗ providing feedback on plans regulations

51:55 ↗ and codes so going back through our

51:59 ↗ agendas over the last 10 months provided

52:02 ↗ a brief summary of the different

52:04 ↗ planning

52:05 ↗ plans

52:07 ↗ the next section is on written

52:09 ↗ statements or reports so I spoke a bit

52:12 ↗ about the letters that we provided

52:15 ↗ through formal letters and also that a

52:18 ↗ process that we're going to follow to

52:19 ↗ ensure that there's a feedback loop

52:22 ↗ going forward

52:24 ↗ the next section section three is around

52:27 ↗ research and best practices I haven't

52:29 ↗ edited this yet so looking for looking

52:31 ↗ for any additional feedback that folks

52:36 ↗ section four is around the natural

52:39 ↗ environment checklist which we talked

52:40 ↗ about at our last meeting so summarize

52:43 ↗ the discussions there

52:46 ↗ and then the board did request our last

52:48 ↗ name that we include a summary of the

52:52 ↗ checklist in new format that we're going

52:54 ↗ to propose to use going forward I mean

52:57 ↗ that that's included within this report

52:59 ↗ so I'll be working with our CPD team to

53:02 ↗ develop that and provide to you with the

53:04 ↗ updated direct report in December

53:09 ↗ Section 5 summarizes the comments that

53:11 ↗ we've had on the icap

53:15 ↗ s in section six is somewhat repetitive

53:18 ↗ of section two it is also summarizing

53:21 ↗ recommendations

53:23 ↗ meant to be less formal than the letters

53:25 ↗ but I just will begin to the letters and

53:27 ↗ then also

53:32 ↗ and then seven and eight are about

53:34 ↗ submitting the report

53:36 ↗ um

53:37 ↗ doing a self-analysis and then carrying

53:39 ↗ out other duties as

53:43 ↗ so if folks have had a chance to look at

53:45 ↗ this have items they want to make sure

53:48 ↗ are included things they want to remove

53:51 ↗ would welcome that feedback first and

53:53 ↗ then we can talk

54:04 ↗ Stacey are there any particular any

54:07 ↗ particular areas that you think are

54:09 ↗ and other than the self-analysis that

54:11 ↗ you think

54:12 ↗ is a particular like fork in the road

54:15 ↗ that we should talk about or no the only

54:18 ↗ one I wasn't sure what to include there

54:20 ↗ was the review research and best

54:22 ↗ practices to advise on environmental

54:24 ↗ policies and code it looks like last

54:26 ↗ year I know

54:27 ↗ um the EV charging ordinance was a major

54:30 ↗ topic but there was a lot of research

54:32 ↗ and different codes reviewed

54:34 ↗ um

54:35 ↗ so I could keep it they do from last

54:38 ↗ year we did talk about the title 18

54:39 ↗ review so I can mention some of the

54:42 ↗ other plans that were viewed but I

54:43 ↗ didn't have anything that really jumped

54:45 ↗ to mind specifically for that section

54:47 ↗ but

54:48 ↗ if others have things that they want to

54:51 ↗ make sure are captured here

54:54 ↗ a question for you on the title of your

54:56 ↗ sorry number four there that's a rather

54:59 ↗ lengthy title to number four because it

55:01 ↗ would have to be that or can you it's

55:04 ↗ true yeah it's directly pulled from the

55:07 ↗ IMC

55:09 ↗ so I could try and I could shorten it

55:12 ↗ just thinking this for like a council

55:15 ↗ member reading this and I'm looking at

55:16 ↗ that going no I'm good

55:22 ↗ yeah we could probably take out the

55:23 ↗ second sentence

55:25 ↗ that has more of the details around it

55:27 ↗ but

55:38 ↗ I can give folks time to review it and

55:41 ↗ if there are any additions things you

55:43 ↗ want taken out

55:45 ↗ I forgot to include definitely like

55:47 ↗ those

55:49 ↗ um and then the other item I did want to

55:52 ↗ talk about is the self-analysis we are

55:54 ↗ supposed to do that each year and I

55:56 ↗ believe Gene sent out a survey to all

56:00 ↗ last year

56:01 ↗ um so I put three options forward in our

56:03 ↗ memo

56:04 ↗ one was to do a survey like that um like

56:07 ↗ we did last year

56:09 ↗ um

56:09 ↗ and I think that's a way to do it

56:11 ↗ Anonymous you can do it on your own time

56:13 ↗ it doesn't really allow for any

56:15 ↗ interaction or discussion or reflection

56:17 ↗ on the comments

56:19 ↗ at the time they're made the other

56:21 ↗ option would be discussion at one of our

56:23 ↗ meetings

56:25 ↗ it's not Anonymous but it would allow us

56:27 ↗ to kind of engage in a conversation

56:28 ↗ together as noted we don't have a lot of

56:31 ↗ extra time in our upcoming meetings but

56:34 ↗ we could definitely make that happen

56:36 ↗ um and then the third option

56:39 ↗ um was to have Billy and myself maybe

56:41 ↗ reach out to each of you one-on-one have

56:43 ↗ a conversation kind of do a survey over

56:46 ↗ the phone if you

56:48 ↗ if you get a little bit more active

56:49 ↗ would be happy to do that

56:51 ↗ or I'm welcome to other ideas on how

56:54 ↗ folks want to do this

56:57 ↗ looking for some people

57:05 ↗ the last thing maybe it would be good if

57:08 ↗ we had I like the idea of doing it in

57:10 ↗ person so we could all discuss it but

57:12 ↗ also we could allow people to like

57:15 ↗ um an honest anonymously

57:17 ↗ um write some feedback like maybe on a

57:19 ↗ piece of paper or something like that

57:20 ↗ just so they have that option

57:23 ↗ video

57:25 ↗ Cameron go ahead yeah I was just going

57:28 ↗ to say the same thing I like one and two

57:31 ↗ basically creating a uh an anonymous uh

57:35 ↗ discussion and then maybe the top

57:37 ↗ three or five whatever it is

57:58 ↗ I agree with what you guys said

58:03 ↗ thank you

58:05 ↗ does that mean your suggestion as well

58:07 ↗ as when or that variation

58:09 ↗ oh yeah

58:15 ↗ good all right so maybe I'll plan to

58:19 ↗ send out a survey in

58:22 ↗ November we could present the results of

58:24 ↗ the in the report in December and then

58:27 ↗ schedule a conversation January would

58:29 ↗ that work for folks to skip in our

58:31 ↗ limited time or we can see if we can

58:34 ↗ squeeze it into our January meeting as

58:35 ↗ well

58:37 ↗ okay

58:43 ↗ okay basically if you want to send this

58:45 ↗ you can send this to us to be a word I

58:47 ↗ would be happy to send it back to you

58:50 ↗ with

58:50 ↗ a video turned on

58:56 ↗ okay great okay

59:03 ↗ I think so is there anything else on and

59:05 ↗ no report input

59:07 ↗ no I'll send that document out um and

59:11 ↗ we're going to look for any additional

59:12 ↗ input via email and then also plan to

59:15 ↗ look for that amount of that survey to

59:17 ↗ come out to you all in early November

59:20 ↗ um and then we'll plan to finalize the

59:22 ↗ report with the survey results in

59:24 ↗ December and we'll schedule a discussion

59:26 ↗ on the survey results either in December

59:28 ↗ or January

59:31 ↗ okay well I think with that we moved to

59:35 ↗ our next section our reports and I think

59:37 ↗ Stacy you may have

59:39 ↗ first report the icap report that I

59:42 ↗ believe is for Council for example

59:45 ↗ yeah great

59:48 ↗ um so in your packet

59:51 ↗ um was the ipap report that I

59:53 ↗ transmitted to council for their October

59:55 ↗ 3rd meeting

59:57 ↗ um

59:58 ↗ we'll likely continue to do reports to

1:00:00 ↗ council about two times a year just to

1:00:03 ↗ keep them updated on the various actions

1:00:06 ↗ and implementation status

1:00:08 ↗ um hopefully nothing in there was a

1:00:10 ↗ surprise to you all I've tried to

1:00:12 ↗ provide those updates to you monthly but

1:00:15 ↗ there were a few things that have

1:00:16 ↗ evolved over the last

1:00:18 ↗ few weeks that I didn't just want to

1:00:20 ↗ highlight for you all and then can take

1:00:22 ↗ questions on the report

1:00:25 ↗ um so our clean buildings program

1:00:27 ↗ um we are this is working with existing

1:00:30 ↗ buildings on Energy Efficiency we are in

1:00:33 ↗ full swing uh we're working on

1:00:35 ↗ developing a detailed marketing plan

1:00:37 ↗ which will involve a lot of one-on-one

1:00:39 ↗ Outreach the buildings through building

1:00:42 ↗ owners through utility mailings phone

1:00:44 ↗ calls emails

1:00:46 ↗ meeting in-person meetings we're also

1:00:49 ↗ working to set up a series of

1:00:50 ↗ presentations with groups that represent

1:00:53 ↗ building owners

1:00:55 ↗ years

1:00:56 ↗ we're also meeting with a couple

1:00:58 ↗ different building owners to see if

1:01:00 ↗ they'll step up as an investor for the

1:01:02 ↗ program and help us

1:01:03 ↗ ERS we met with the school district

1:01:06 ↗ yesterday

1:01:07 ↗ and we're going to begin benchmarking

1:01:09 ↗ their buildings over the next month or

1:01:12 ↗ so um

1:01:14 ↗ on the way which is really exciting

1:01:17 ↗ for our climate vulnerability assessment

1:01:19 ↗ we're initiating a few smaller focus

1:01:22 ↗ group

1:01:23 ↗ meetings over the coming weeks these are

1:01:27 ↗ with Community groups where we've

1:01:30 ↗ identified them as potentially at higher

1:01:32 ↗ risk for climate impacts and really

1:01:33 ↗ hearing from them about concerns how

1:01:35 ↗ they're preparing what their needs are

1:01:37 ↗ from the city next week we have a

1:01:40 ↗ workshop at the senior center

1:01:42 ↗ small numbers for registration yet so if

1:01:45 ↗ you know anyone

1:01:46 ↗ that's attending that please spread the

1:01:48 ↗ word that's on Monday

1:01:50 ↗ um and then we are also playing

1:01:54 ↗ which is the density right at High Point

1:01:56 ↗ uh going out with our Behavioral Health

1:01:59 ↗ Specialists next Wednesday to meet

1:02:05 ↗ a quick update on our heat pump campaign

1:02:07 ↗ we've had over 400 people attend the

1:02:10 ↗ five workshops that have been held since

1:02:13 ↗ July and those are representatives from

1:02:15 ↗ across the five cities that are

1:02:17 ↗ participating participating in the

1:02:19 ↗ program we have just scheduled another

1:02:22 ↗ series of workshops to happen between

1:02:24 ↗ now and year

1:02:26 ↗ about 28 to 25 of the participants have

1:02:29 ↗ been from Issaquah

1:02:31 ↗ um

1:02:32 ↗ the program is going facing some good

1:02:38 ↗ challenges I'd say with the inflation

1:02:39 ↗ production act there's a lot of great

1:02:42 ↗ benefits coming out of that act and we

1:02:44 ↗ want to encourage the residents to take

1:02:46 ↗ advantage of the rebates incentives

1:02:48 ↗ under the IRA

1:02:50 ↗ it may end up causing some challenges

1:02:52 ↗ for our installers and having a lot of

1:02:56 ↗ demand in early in the new year so we're

1:02:58 ↗ working closely with them to prepare

1:03:01 ↗ them for that

1:03:03 ↗ um but also really wanted to educate our

1:03:05 ↗ community around the IRA benefits so as

1:03:09 ↗ we learn more about inflation reduction

1:03:11 ↗ Act

1:03:14 ↗ and affirmation along to the community

1:03:19 ↗ um for our affordable Housing

1:03:21 ↗ Partnership for the heat comp program we

1:03:24 ↗ are still waiting on the King County

1:03:26 ↗ Housing Authority to evaluate the isafar

1:03:29 ↗ Imagine housing complex King County

1:03:32 ↗ Housing Authority will go in and do a

1:03:34 ↗ poll weatherization

1:03:36 ↗ um

1:03:37 ↗ update to the building along with ePub

1:03:40 ↗ installations

1:03:42 ↗ um using all of the funding that they

1:03:44 ↗ can and then essentially the city will

1:03:45 ↗ cover any difference so that process is

1:03:49 ↗ also taking a little bit longer but the

1:03:51 ↗ benefit of it is going to be much

1:03:53 ↗ greater than originally anticipated

1:03:55 ↗ because we'll be providing that whole

1:03:57 ↗ weatherization update and not just keep

1:04:00 ↗ up

1:04:04 ↗ we have also received State funding for

1:04:08 ↗ a market rate rebate as well as

1:04:11 ↗ additional low income probably focused

1:04:14 ↗ on the single family installs we're

1:04:17 ↗ working on a lot of the administrative

1:04:18 ↗ components for that project but plan to

1:04:21 ↗ launch it in January

1:04:26 ↗ Stacy could you explain

1:04:28 ↗ the market rate market rate would be a

1:04:32 ↗ rebate that would be open to

1:04:34 ↗ non-income

1:04:37 ↗ right now a lot of the city spending to

1:04:41 ↗ help pay for installations is in the

1:04:43 ↗ supporting low income some of this grant

1:04:46 ↗ will support up to the moderate income

1:04:49 ↗ as well and then the market rate will be

1:04:53 ↗ to provide those that aren't

1:04:55 ↗ okay so there may end up being a cap

1:04:57 ↗ that aligns with the rebates under the

1:05:00 ↗ inflation and reduction at a salary

1:05:02 ↗ income cap but it would allow most of

1:05:06 ↗ the residents to qualify for those

1:05:08 ↗ rebates so our goal is to stack the

1:05:11 ↗ rebate so with inflation reduction act

1:05:13 ↗ with our gemsco

1:05:15 ↗ um

1:05:16 ↗ rebate with City rebates through the

1:05:19 ↗ grants and

1:05:21 ↗ really that they can for them

1:05:23 ↗ right

1:05:26 ↗ um and then we are working with um as it

1:05:29 ↗ was reported in the report we're working

1:05:31 ↗ with PSE and their Community solar

1:05:33 ↗ program

1:05:35 ↗ um for our potential installation of the

1:05:36 ↗ community center we had a great meeting

1:05:38 ↗ with them last week and we're moving

1:05:41 ↗ into a site visit for our solar array on

1:05:45 ↗ the community center they'll then go

1:05:47 ↗ through and install our bid process site

1:05:49 ↗ design permitting legal review Council

1:05:53 ↗ approval assuming we don't put any

1:05:55 ↗ roadblocks for any of those phases we do

1:06:00 ↗ anticipate in Solutions can you do solar

1:06:02 ↗ installation happening

1:06:05 ↗ um just following a roof replacement on

1:06:07 ↗ the community center next year if you're

1:06:10 ↗ not familiar with the community solar

1:06:12 ↗ program it's a psc's program that allows

1:06:14 ↗ residents to subscribe directly into

1:06:17 ↗ purchasing solar power

1:06:19 ↗ so it's especially very beneficial for

1:06:22 ↗ folks of women both site family that

1:06:24 ↗ might not be able to make those

1:06:27 ↗ decisions about putting solar on their

1:06:28 ↗ own home so we're excited to potentially

1:06:32 ↗ be part of that program

1:06:34 ↗ so those are just a few updates that I

1:06:37 ↗ wanted to provide since that report was

1:06:38 ↗ sent to council but I want to see if

1:06:40 ↗ there are any questions about any items

1:06:43 ↗ in our report and go ahead this is

1:06:45 ↗ really cool uh the community solar

1:06:48 ↗ program and do you know what size it is

1:06:52 ↗ they're looking at the whole room which

1:06:55 ↗ I think there's 23

1:06:58 ↗ 000 square feet I think is what they're

1:07:00 ↗ estimating

1:07:01 ↗ um in terms of

1:07:03 ↗ how many people would be able to

1:07:04 ↗ subscribe to it I don't know those

1:07:06 ↗ numbers but we might know more after

1:07:07 ↗ this

1:07:09 ↗ great

1:07:11 ↗ go ahead I did I tried to do one of

1:07:13 ↗ these at a community center in another

1:07:15 ↗ city just make sure you have structural

1:07:17 ↗ strength down the wind loads we had we

1:07:20 ↗ had grants and it didn't work

1:07:22 ↗ okay

1:07:23 ↗ so make sure somebody's looking at the

1:07:25 ↗ roofing position

1:07:27 ↗ s it's very sad when you don't do that

1:07:29 ↗ stuff okay great yeah we will make sure

1:07:32 ↗ to mention that when they're out in two

1:07:33 ↗ weeks

1:07:34 ↗ is it a metal group I don't know I'm not

1:07:37 ↗ sure

1:07:43 ↗ all right oh Tom sorry

1:07:46 ↗ so I wasn't hear what you were going to

1:07:49 ↗ do at Kent City Florida

1:07:51 ↗ yeah we're um so heard that climate

1:07:54 ↗ vulnerability assessment we were

1:07:57 ↗ um we've broken it up into a couple

1:08:00 ↗ of words Outreach opportunities with the

1:08:03 ↗ community so we've held public workshops

1:08:05 ↗ are held a public workshop and then we

1:08:08 ↗ were also planning to do smaller

1:08:10 ↗ workshops or focus group meetings with

1:08:14 ↗ um a few uh

1:08:17 ↗ with various residents of the community

1:08:21 ↗ for climate impacts so

1:08:24 ↗ we identified Senior Center uh homeless

1:08:27 ↗ community

1:08:29 ↗ an English-speaking community

1:08:32 ↗ who's the ones off the top of my head so

1:08:36 ↗ um we met with the city's Behavioral

1:08:38 ↗ Health team and they recommended that we

1:08:41 ↗ try and reach out to ten City or we may

1:08:44 ↗ do something else with the meal

1:08:46 ↗ the meal so our goal is to talk to

1:08:48 ↗ Residents have informal conversations

1:08:51 ↗ hear how different climate events impact

1:08:55 ↗ them what they do to stay safe

1:08:59 ↗ and then also what they need from the

1:09:02 ↗ city

1:09:02 ↗ in order to support them during future

1:09:06 ↗ impact

1:09:10 ↗ so you'll make sure they know about the

1:09:12 ↗ cooling centers

1:09:13 ↗ yes

1:09:16 ↗ are there warming centers as well as

1:09:18 ↗ clothing centers I don't know if we do I

1:09:20 ↗ think the library has done something

1:09:22 ↗ they've gotten on my camera I can't

1:09:24 ↗ remember who the gentleman that joined a

1:09:26 ↗ few meetings ago I remember mentioning

1:09:28 ↗ that yeah

1:09:32 ↗ I can't remember if they're Community

1:09:34 ↗ Center I know there's some Partnerships

1:09:36 ↗ with the school district too

1:09:38 ↗ warming or Cooling

1:09:42 ↗ one question for you Stacy do we

1:09:44 ↗ consider Wildfire smoke a climate that

1:09:48 ↗ like impact we are talking about it yeah

1:09:54 ↗ yeah so you could give them n95s

1:10:01 ↗ yeah

1:10:02 ↗ we're gonna bring something to

1:10:05 ↗ work well

1:10:09 ↗ right I mean oh sorry oh no

1:10:15 ↗ I think that everyone then unless I'm I

1:10:18 ↗ need to keep my eyes

1:10:21 ↗ um well I think with that

1:10:27 ↗ I'm not doing budget updates oh sorry

1:10:29 ↗ budget update that's an important item

1:10:31 ↗ we should talk about that

1:10:33 ↗ okay where I put that

1:10:43 ↗ all right I did just put a couple slides

1:10:45 ↗ to focus on some visuals for this and

1:10:47 ↗ then we got some updates since the

1:10:49 ↗ packet went out as well

1:10:51 ↗ um so I I did send out an email update

1:10:53 ↗ with some information on the budget

1:10:55 ↗ process but uh we'll be aware it is in

1:10:57 ↗ full

1:10:58 ↗ swing

1:11:00 ↗ um and we do have a two-year budget this

1:11:02 ↗ time

1:11:04 ↗ um the icap budget

1:11:07 ↗ that was submitted for 23-24 is really

1:11:09 ↗ intended to reflect our needs for short

1:11:12 ↗ and medium-term actions as well as get

1:11:15 ↗ the ball

1:11:16 ↗ for some of those longer term actions

1:11:18 ↗ action to get started now

1:11:21 ↗ um as we mentioned with the presentation

1:11:22 ↗ with Dale by the end of 2024 we do

1:11:25 ↗ anticipate initiating approximately 90

1:11:29 ↗ of the icap actions that is just

1:11:32 ↗ initiating them that is not

1:11:35 ↗ indicative of where we will be in terms

1:11:37 ↗ of meeting our targets but we will be

1:11:39 ↗ tracking that very closely see

1:11:42 ↗ um

1:11:43 ↗ so highlights of some of the items

1:11:45 ↗ included in the budget sustainability

1:11:48 ↗ coordinator and my vision for that

1:11:51 ↗ position is that they would

1:11:53 ↗ be Municipal operations so working on

1:11:55 ↗ our buildings our Fleet those types of

1:11:58 ↗ items we also have funding requests in

1:12:03 ↗ for

1:12:05 ↗ Energy Efficiency in buildings and

1:12:08 ↗ advancing electrification

1:12:10 ↗ Green Building

1:12:12 ↗ and then expanding EB charging

1:12:15 ↗ infrastructure and then implementing

1:12:17 ↗ some of the work that we're starting

1:12:19 ↗ this year with the vulnerability

1:12:20 ↗ assessment this is very high level

1:12:22 ↗ snapshot a lot of additional items that

1:12:25 ↗ are in that budget and shown in the

1:12:27 ↗ budget packet

1:12:29 ↗ stated

1:12:30 ↗ um Anne had a question yeah go ahead

1:12:33 ↗ so I was watching city council meeting

1:12:36 ↗ and then wake up like a big presentation

1:12:39 ↗ all good stuff

1:12:41 ↗ um so

1:12:44 ↗ it seems like there are questions about

1:12:48 ↗ retrofitting the city buildings and and

1:12:51 ↗ how expensive that was going to be and

1:12:53 ↗ you'd only be able to do one building or

1:12:55 ↗ you know like how would you be able to

1:12:57 ↗ do with the funds that you had and it

1:13:01 ↗ made me think about

1:13:04 ↗ how we've been

1:13:06 ↗ you know how we over the years have been

1:13:10 ↗ um

1:13:12 ↗ making our house more energy efficiently

1:13:15 ↗ airtight and and there's definitely some

1:13:19 ↗ low heating fruit that it seems like

1:13:21 ↗ what you do to all of them just to make

1:13:22 ↗ sure that you know all the coughing is

1:13:24 ↗ done that

1:13:25 ↗ yeah

1:13:26 ↗ there's no air coming in under the doors

1:13:29 ↗ you know just feeling all the cracks

1:13:32 ↗ I don't know if that's an issue with the

1:13:34 ↗ the municipal buildings or not but that

1:13:36 ↗ would I know windows are expensive and

1:13:38 ↗ insulation is expensive

1:13:41 ↗ and keep up you know switching out if

1:13:43 ↗ something's not broken is expensive but

1:13:45 ↗ that if that is an issue of any

1:13:48 ↗ buildings maybe that could be just done

1:13:50 ↗ all of them yeah absolutely yeah

1:13:53 ↗ um

1:13:54 ↗ I can maybe I'll just give books a

1:13:57 ↗ little background on what happens Monday

1:13:59 ↗ but yeah absolutely address that so

1:14:02 ↗ um there was a meeting this week with

1:14:04 ↗ city council where we talked about the

1:14:06 ↗ sustainability fund um if folks are

1:14:08 ↗ familiar with the sustainability fund it

1:14:11 ↗ comes from the admin fee or our waste

1:14:14 ↗ hauler contract

1:14:16 ↗ um so the city has a fee that's charged

1:14:19 ↗ to Recology it's passed down to the

1:14:22 ↗ residents in most cases and it has been

1:14:25 ↗ going into a fund that's been used for a

1:14:28 ↗ variety of sustainability initiatives

1:14:30 ↗ it's helping to support our low income

1:14:33 ↗ income program as well as

1:14:37 ↗ um so Council had asked staff to have a

1:14:40 ↗ conversation about whether we should

1:14:42 ↗ consider

1:14:44 ↗ increase on the percentage of that fee

1:14:47 ↗ from what was currently proposed on the

1:14:50 ↗ 23-24 budget

1:14:52 ↗ um that was the conversation that we had

1:14:54 ↗ on Monday

1:14:56 ↗ um

1:14:57 ↗ the fee that would be raising the fee

1:15:00 ↗ from six percent to nine percent it

1:15:02 ↗ would generate about three hundred

1:15:03 ↗ thousand dollars a year it is about a

1:15:08 ↗ two dollar increase per resident on

1:15:11 ↗ their bill which doesn't sound like a

1:15:15 ↗ lot but there are going to be some

1:15:17 ↗ substantial increases on the Recology

1:15:19 ↗ bills next year because of additional

1:15:22 ↗ fees that are coming in from the county

1:15:24 ↗ because it's a new contract and we were

1:15:26 ↗ on had a really good deal with them for

1:15:28 ↗ the last 10 years

1:15:30 ↗ so the

1:15:32 ↗ fees that will be passed down to

1:15:34 ↗ residents are going to be more

1:15:39 ↗ um some folks are already going to see a

1:15:41 ↗ huge increase

1:15:42 ↗ summer and there was a lot of inserting

1:15:44 ↗ from staff

1:15:47 ↗ about

1:15:51 ↗ um but we did have a discussion about

1:15:53 ↗ what we could use those funds for if we

1:15:56 ↗ did have some additional funding coming

1:15:59 ↗ in there was a lot of interest

1:16:02 ↗ particularly from Council number 10

1:16:04 ↗ around putting some of those funds

1:16:06 ↗ towards Municipal retrofits and I think

1:16:09 ↗ we actually could even if 300 000 or a

1:16:12 ↗ portion of that we could do something

1:16:14 ↗ with our buildings

1:16:16 ↗ um I think the administration is

1:16:17 ↗ interested in waiting until our Fleet

1:16:21 ↗ study is completed um and we're also

1:16:24 ↗ going through a facility assessment and

1:16:27 ↗ a big organization study and coming out

1:16:30 ↗ of those studies with the

1:16:33 ↗ proposal for our Capital Improvement

1:16:35 ↗ plan or a one-time pass to council is

1:16:38 ↗ also another option so so no final

1:16:41 ↗ decision was made on this um

1:16:44 ↗ uh but I think most of the counselors

1:16:47 ↗ kind of moving away from having the nine

1:16:50 ↗ percent increase just because of that

1:16:51 ↗ impacted as it is it is something that

1:16:53 ↗ could be changed annually so it might be

1:16:55 ↗ something that we consider putting in

1:16:57 ↗ place to

1:16:59 ↗ 2024 in order to build up

1:17:04 ↗ um

1:17:09 ↗ yeah I mean

1:17:11 ↗ those heat sensing guns like if you

1:17:14 ↗ don't want to spend the money to do the

1:17:16 ↗ reverse

1:17:17 ↗ suction airflow so you can see where the

1:17:21 ↗ leaks are

1:17:22 ↗ which is really cool because we don't

1:17:23 ↗ always know those heat guns you know

1:17:26 ↗ really well to make it that team cold so

1:17:28 ↗ you can see what it really designed with

1:17:30 ↗ that that would be very

1:17:32 ↗ cost effective if you keep using it over

1:17:35 ↗ and over yeah absolutely McDonald Miller

1:17:37 ↗ will be coming out to do a full

1:17:40 ↗ assessment as part of this request form

1:17:42 ↗ Council for the community center to kind

1:17:44 ↗ of give us overall if we wanted to

1:17:46 ↗ complete really decarbonize even for

1:17:49 ↗ solar and producing your solar program

1:17:51 ↗ didn't work out what might the cost be

1:17:52 ↗ and then we can

1:17:54 ↗ maybe that we have

1:18:01 ↗ a fancy code

1:18:03 ↗ so I know we have TV stations in the

1:18:07 ↗ community some many of which don't work

1:18:11 ↗ so who owns these and it's going to

1:18:13 ↗ maintain notice yeah so the city owns

1:18:16 ↗ three we have been working since early

1:18:20 ↗ spring on getting those replaced and

1:18:22 ↗ some new ones in so we are under

1:18:25 ↗ contract now with chargepoint and Puget

1:18:27 ↗ Sound solar to both replace and then put

1:18:30 ↗ in some new ones we are currently

1:18:32 ↗ putting out for bid the actual Street

1:18:35 ↗ work to do that

1:18:37 ↗ um so we are hoping by the end of the

1:18:39 ↗ year those will be in our

1:18:41 ↗ in the New Year it's just taking some

1:18:43 ↗ time to get all those contracts in place

1:18:45 ↗ who owns those who thinks so the city

1:18:47 ↗ owns them right now

1:18:49 ↗ um they will move and the city's been

1:18:52 ↗ providing those at no charge

1:18:55 ↗ um so we will be upgrading the existing

1:18:57 ↗ ones okay

1:19:00 ↗ um actually two at the community Center

1:19:02 ↗ is one of the first

1:19:05 ↗ we'll likely be moving to a service with

1:19:08 ↗ chargepoint where they would go on and

1:19:10 ↗ maintain them but they'd work with the

1:19:12 ↗ city set the feed

1:19:14 ↗ um so it's not a huge burning on our

1:19:15 ↗ public border staff who have been having

1:19:17 ↗ to manage the exists

1:19:19 ↗ so that is what's proposed right now we

1:19:22 ↗ um are also talking about doing some

1:19:24 ↗ kind of

1:19:25 ↗ kind of crowdsourcing or Community

1:19:27 ↗ engagement event ideas

1:19:30 ↗ of chargers and where they should go

1:19:33 ↗ right now we're looking at um Community

1:19:36 ↗ Center replacing the Highlands

1:19:38 ↗ one for our police

1:19:41 ↗ um possibly Pickering barn and although

1:19:43 ↗ we've also talked about one here but

1:19:46 ↗ here yeah

1:19:49 ↗ and as you pursue things like

1:19:54 ↗ um

1:19:54 ↗ solar panels on buildings to municipal

1:19:57 ↗ buildings who will open the maintain

1:19:59 ↗ those yeah so so can we just see I know

1:20:01 ↗ maintenance is a big hobby yeah so

1:20:03 ↗ that's why yeah that's why we're trying

1:20:06 ↗ to build the easy way with the EB

1:20:07 ↗ Chargers

1:20:08 ↗ um so the community solar program PSE

1:20:11 ↗ would own and maintain those if that

1:20:13 ↗ doesn't move forward

1:20:15 ↗ um if they are put on a municipal

1:20:17 ↗ building that would be the city's

1:20:19 ↗ responsibility would have to

1:20:23 ↗ build so ultimately would they end up in

1:20:25 ↗ the public works department to call the

1:20:27 ↗ people up to maintain or are they going

1:20:29 ↗ to be your responsible

1:20:31 ↗ I'm asking the question yeah I think

1:20:33 ↗ it's easy to build it's very hard to say

1:20:37 ↗ I own this I'm responsible for it and

1:20:39 ↗ thus I need to make sure it's taken care

1:20:41 ↗ of and that's why I'm asking the

1:20:43 ↗ questions who owns these yeah well for

1:20:46 ↗ that and we haven't identified any sites

1:20:48 ↗ so but that would be I would see through

1:20:51 ↗ facilities and that's why I'm working

1:20:53 ↗ very closely with facilities they have

1:20:55 ↗ to be fully on board and have the train

1:20:58 ↗ staff and budget to maintain them so

1:21:00 ↗ it's a great question it's not one that

1:21:03 ↗ would happen in my style or public works

1:21:05 ↗ but I'm really trying to work across the

1:21:07 ↗ city there's physical support great

1:21:10 ↗ question

1:21:11 ↗ that's it

1:21:13 ↗ um I I had a question comment

1:21:16 ↗ um

1:21:17 ↗ well I guess that's my question is a

1:21:19 ↗ comment um on the previous slide around

1:21:22 ↗ the edition of a sustainability

1:21:24 ↗ coordinator and some of your description

1:21:25 ↗ around what that sustainability

1:21:27 ↗ coordinator might do

1:21:30 ↗ um one of the things obviously it would

1:21:33 ↗ be great for the city to take on

1:21:35 ↗ projects kind of in addition to what is

1:21:37 ↗ like just necessary for a building to to

1:21:41 ↗ retrofit or enhance a building one of

1:21:44 ↗ the things that I am really curious

1:21:46 ↗ about is is ongoing purchasing so the

1:21:48 ↗ things that are going to be purchased

1:21:49 ↗ anyways what is the and I think this is

1:21:53 ↗ something that we'll probably talk about

1:21:54 ↗ next year

1:21:55 ↗ but who is going to be the person that

1:21:58 ↗ helps coordinate or purchasing new

1:22:00 ↗ vehicles we're purchasing new lawn up or

1:22:03 ↗ a landscaping equipment like how is that

1:22:06 ↗ all of those items that there's already

1:22:08 ↗ dollars associated with the dollars are

1:22:10 ↗ going to get spent

1:22:12 ↗ how are we making sure that the dollars

1:22:13 ↗ are being spent in a way that

1:22:16 ↗ um

1:22:18 ↗ obviously they have to meet the need of

1:22:20 ↗ what the city needs with that particular

1:22:22 ↗ thing but

1:22:25 ↗ um that is just something that

1:22:27 ↗ I I would be concerned if we were

1:22:30 ↗ relying on each individual Department to

1:22:32 ↗ figure out what that means

1:22:34 ↗ um so I do wonder where and maybe if

1:22:36 ↗ that should be a part of that role as

1:22:38 ↗ well as your world because I've just

1:22:40 ↗ been concerned I think that's a really

1:22:41 ↗ important thing it doesn't require

1:22:43 ↗ additional spending necessarily

1:22:45 ↗ um and I I do think that as we think

1:22:48 ↗ about not only this role but also just

1:22:51 ↗ like our work plan that's something that

1:22:53 ↗ I really am interested in

1:22:56 ↗ understanding more how the city is

1:22:58 ↗ thinking about the purchasing and how

1:23:01 ↗ there's an environmental lens or a

1:23:03 ↗ climate lens applied to purchasing

1:23:05 ↗ decision

1:23:07 ↗ absolutely yeah and that was one of many

1:23:10 ↗ things I meant by if you do look at the

1:23:13 ↗ proposed budget you won't see those

1:23:15 ↗ specific policies filled out because

1:23:17 ↗ they're covered by the staff time so

1:23:19 ↗ they're within the staff request I guess

1:23:21 ↗ um purchasing is we do have an igap a

1:23:24 ↗ sustainable purchasing policy I have

1:23:27 ↗ that on the work plan for next year and

1:23:28 ↗ a couple placeholders for this board so

1:23:31 ↗ keep pushing us to make sure if we get

1:23:34 ↗ there I think that's going to be a hard

1:23:36 ↗ and complicated one

1:23:39 ↗ um so we're going to need a lot of

1:23:40 ↗ support and input from this board but

1:23:42 ↗ yeah great

1:23:44 ↗ space and go ahead

1:23:46 ↗ so just a question am I hearing the

1:23:49 ↗ heater on over here

1:23:51 ↗ uh it might be the fans from the

1:23:54 ↗ background

1:23:55 ↗ like an air purifier oh there might be

1:23:57 ↗ an air purifier I think the Fan's in the

1:23:59 ↗ bathroom so I was just thinking that's

1:24:01 ↗ one way to save a lot of energy is just

1:24:02 ↗ not have the heater and the air

1:24:04 ↗ conditioning put it on

1:24:06 ↗ me

1:24:09 ↗ that's good as a fan

1:24:16 ↗ let's see any other items that you

1:24:19 ↗ wanted to cover on

1:24:20 ↗ this topic yeah just for Budget wanted

1:24:23 ↗ to update folks on the schedule so there

1:24:25 ↗ has been a change there was meant to be

1:24:27 ↗ another Committee of the whole Council

1:24:30 ↗ Committee of the whole deliberation I

1:24:32 ↗ believe it was um on October 25th they

1:24:36 ↗ have Administration has canceled that

1:24:38 ↗ meeting it looks really tiny up here

1:24:40 ↗ sorry

1:24:41 ↗ um it's been canceled and budget items

1:24:44 ↗ are moved to October 17th which is their

1:24:47 ↗ regular council meeting I also wanted to

1:24:50 ↗ flag October 17th because council is

1:24:52 ↗ also supposed to talk about their

1:24:54 ↗ legislative priorities so that might be

1:24:56 ↗ an interesting meeting

1:25:01 ↗ so next Monday I believe

1:25:04 ↗ um and then they are as of now intending

1:25:07 ↗ for um

1:25:09 ↗ public hearing and potential budget

1:25:12 ↗ adoption November 7th I'll keep folks

1:25:14 ↗ updated

1:25:21 ↗ yeah

1:25:22 ↗ any questions on the schedule

1:25:26 ↗ or any other Insight from Monday sounds

1:25:28 ↗ like you listened in last Monday

1:25:33 ↗ that I can think of I think it's great

1:25:35 ↗ that you're going to get a

1:25:37 ↗ sustainability coordinator that is

1:25:39 ↗ really huge all these things are really

1:25:42 ↗ confusion I feel really happy about it

1:25:45 ↗ you feel good about yeah yeah I feel

1:25:48 ↗ very lucky to have a budget to work with

1:25:50 ↗ I know a lot of my

1:25:54 ↗ I guess just one question on a topic

1:25:56 ↗ were these the requests or this is what

1:25:58 ↗ is being

1:25:59 ↗ proposal or being

1:26:01 ↗ proposed for adoption like what is on

1:26:04 ↗ the icat proposed budget I mean these

1:26:06 ↗ businesses proposed but just curious

1:26:08 ↗ like what does that mean is that like

1:26:10 ↗ what you're requesting or what you

1:26:11 ↗ actually are that's what I've requested

1:26:13 ↗ yeah yes yeah and a lot more detail in

1:26:16 ↗ the budget um

1:26:21 ↗ would it help if we um

1:26:23 ↗ wrote letters to the council and

1:26:25 ↗ supported this

1:26:28 ↗ um it definitely doesn't hurt

1:26:30 ↗ um I don't think there are any we

1:26:32 ↗ haven't heard any concerns about

1:26:34 ↗ ability requests because we do have that

1:26:37 ↗ budget and actually the city's in a

1:26:39 ↗ really good position overall so

1:26:42 ↗ um there haven't been any concerns

1:26:44 ↗ raised about that and submitted some

1:26:47 ↗ really great comments and spoke on

1:26:48 ↗ Monday

1:26:51 ↗ absolutely you are welcome to do that

1:26:54 ↗ whatever but at this time

1:27:03 ↗ all right well I think with that we can

1:27:06 ↗ move on to other business and

1:27:08 ↗ announcements if anyone have any

1:27:13 ↗ and go ahead I do and I would like to

1:27:18 ↗ move and prepare a memo recommending the

1:27:21 ↗ Issaquah environmental authorities

1:27:22 ↗ virtually November through April and in

1:27:25 ↗ person may through October

1:27:33 ↗ um let me just check Billy I'm a mute

1:27:36 ↗ you I just wanna I know we are recording

1:27:39 ↗ but to see if you were able to hear that

1:27:41 ↗ it was sent on email it was sent over

1:27:44 ↗ you know okay yes I did see it down in

1:27:45 ↗ the mail

1:27:46 ↗ great and Nancy seconded

1:27:51 ↗ great and I'm a little rusty on my

1:27:53 ↗ router Scrolls so we'll see how this uh

1:27:55 ↗ see how this goes um I believe now

1:27:59 ↗ um we have time for discussion of of the

1:28:03 ↗ motion that now that it's been a

1:28:05 ↗ seconded so

1:28:07 ↗ um if you have any comments or

1:28:09 ↗ comments and questions on on the motions

1:28:12 ↗ please go ahead and indicate that back

1:28:15 ↗ and

1:28:16 ↗ both sorry

1:28:20 ↗ um I can show me the unmute on YouTube

1:28:25 ↗ yeah she has she kind of get it she

1:28:28 ↗ wants to speak yeah please uh send me a

1:28:30 ↗ message or if you're able to raise your

1:28:32 ↗ hand or wave us down if you'd like to

1:28:35 ↗ speak at all not on any of you

1:28:38 ↗ Cameron you go ahead yes

1:28:40 ↗ um I just I think it's a great idea what

1:28:43 ↗ the idea of virtual land in person

1:28:46 ↗ awesome

1:28:52 ↗ and I would hope that in the memo that

1:28:54 ↗ we prepare for the mayor that we

1:28:56 ↗ indicate that we are an environmental

1:28:58 ↗ board and we are trying to do this for

1:29:00 ↗ environmental purposes to try and reduce

1:29:03 ↗ the in the time we're spending commuting

1:29:06 ↗ um

1:29:07 ↗ and the energy use of buildings you know

1:29:10 ↗ yeah just doing the right thing

1:29:14 ↗ it's also good for health

1:29:16 ↗ helps

1:29:17 ↗ I would suggest a man to get to allow

1:29:20 ↗ for some variation

1:29:22 ↗ uh if the board

1:29:24 ↗ sees the need how to vary that schedule

1:29:28 ↗ but it would be allowed

1:29:31 ↗ to work that but

1:29:33 ↗ I think there should be room for some

1:29:36 ↗ variability but I think Tom would you

1:29:39 ↗ like to propose uh Amendment to the

1:29:42 ↗ motion

1:29:43 ↗ I think that's probably what would need

1:29:45 ↗ to happen in the states

1:29:48 ↗ uh yes I recommend amending the abortion

1:29:57 ↗ [Music]

1:30:06 ↗ partial so I read the motion to say uh

1:30:11 ↗ to add the clause

1:30:26 ↗ or otherwise as voted by a majority of

1:30:31 ↗ the environmental board

1:30:36 ↗ that does that put too much power in the

1:30:40 ↗ hands of the board

1:30:42 ↗ I don't know

1:30:45 ↗ that's my that's fine

1:30:50 ↗ we

1:30:51 ↗ if possible

1:30:53 ↗ might be helpful this is just harder I

1:30:56 ↗ care about than it is so the specifics I

1:30:58 ↗ just want to restate what your

1:31:01 ↗ but just the portion that was your

1:31:03 ↗ Amendment

1:31:05 ↗ at the did you get it Stacy uh well I

1:31:10 ↗ had I think Billy's taken enough but

1:31:12 ↗ some variation if the

1:31:14 ↗ by a majority of the board

1:31:17 ↗ listening to come in person

1:31:22 ↗ um so I I stated it as kind of a calm

1:31:25 ↗ after the statement but I may be history

1:31:28 ↗ just remembering how and

1:31:39 ↗ I did that

1:31:42 ↗ I can call it try and pull it up on this

1:31:44 ↗ yeah so and in person may through

1:31:47 ↗ October period And I would just change

1:31:50 ↗ the period to a comma

1:31:52 ↗ or has voted by

1:31:55 ↗ a majority of the members of the

1:31:58 ↗ environmental Court

1:32:02 ↗ hear this Toyota second

1:32:05 ↗ Tom's idea

1:32:07 ↗ all right now time to discuss just

1:32:09 ↗ specifically the amendment

1:32:12 ↗ if there's any comment

1:32:14 ↗ s

1:32:15 ↗ and I think we should add clause in

1:32:17 ↗ there

1:32:18 ↗ Stacy's benefit but if she needs us in

1:32:21 ↗ person

1:32:23 ↗ she could call us in person I'm thinking

1:32:26 ↗ special meetings

1:32:27 ↗ yeah you might you might want us to be

1:32:30 ↗ in person for certain special meetings

1:32:31 ↗ so this would be another amendment

1:32:36 ↗ or as requested by oriented

1:32:40 ↗ sustainability manager

1:32:42 ↗ sure yeah

1:32:45 ↗ I can't agree with Stacy's right so

1:32:47 ↗ that's your second amendment yeah

1:32:53 ↗ the

1:32:56 ↗ Almighty and Powerful

1:32:59 ↗ the Second Amendment okay

1:33:02 ↗ [Laughter]

1:33:05 ↗ what's that because they may well

1:33:10 ↗ I probably shouldn't be providing it but

1:33:12 ↗ I think it's a chair and vice chair all

1:33:14 ↗ of it that it's their decision or they

1:33:17 ↗ call to come in person versus the staff

1:33:19 ↗ liaison no sorry I don't know if I can

1:33:22 ↗ understand but it's just the idea

1:33:29 ↗ what would you prefer

1:33:31 ↗ in your uh

1:33:34 ↗ I mean it would simplify things if it

1:33:36 ↗ comes from the chair and play Pandora

1:33:38 ↗ Vice chair just as we're meeting

1:33:40 ↗ protocol

1:33:42 ↗ if you have to come in person or not and

1:33:46 ↗ I assume that would look something along

1:33:48 ↗ the lines of hey we need to come in

1:33:50 ↗ person because of blah blah blah let us

1:33:52 ↗ know if you have any concerns or issues

1:33:54 ↗ around this

1:33:55 ↗ we could have a chance to discuss that

1:33:57 ↗ via email before the meeting

1:34:01 ↗ so is that the modifications here

1:34:14 ↗ well we didn't actually have a second I

1:34:16 ↗ don't know I guess I guess yeah

1:34:19 ↗ so we do this would be an amendment um

1:34:24 ↗ so would you did you you want to make an

1:34:26 ↗ amendment

1:34:28 ↗ do you want to withdraw your Amendment

1:34:29 ↗ and make a new one

1:34:31 ↗ no I want Stacy to have that power in

1:34:33 ↗ there if she needs us to meet in person

1:34:38 ↗ I mean well here we could do this if I

1:34:42 ↗ change my my Amendment so it would read

1:34:44 ↗ or as requested by sustaining the

1:34:46 ↗ ability manager and or the chair yeah

1:34:49 ↗ perfect

1:34:50 ↗ I'll second that

1:34:59 ↗ all right so that second amendment is

1:35:01 ↗ basically a replaced by

1:35:04 ↗ oh no that

1:35:06 ↗ never mind it's an addition okay

1:35:09 ↗ um any comments on Don's Amendment

1:35:17 ↗ all right well then I believe we'll pick

1:35:19 ↗ a vote on the uh on the amendment

1:35:23 ↗ Stacy would you be able to help us with

1:35:25 ↗ something that

1:35:29 ↗ oh

1:35:32 ↗ yes

1:35:35 ↗ so we are voting just on the amendment

1:35:39 ↗ the bottom line

1:35:43 ↗ um

1:35:55 ↗ so please indicate in favor or opposed

1:35:59 ↗ for a while Tommy Anderson all right

1:36:04 ↗ I will unmute you

1:36:07 ↗ oh he's not letting me okay we have a

1:36:09 ↗ thumbs up sorry

1:36:11 ↗ um Nancy Davidson hi

1:36:13 ↗ Jamie Finch hi Cameron Fisher

1:36:16 ↗ appreciate is absent uh Dan hins

1:36:20 ↗ aye Laura's absent Ashwin hi Dominic

1:36:24 ↗ Williams hi and I am Janet hi

1:36:30 ↗ so we have full support for the

1:36:33 ↗ amendment

1:36:35 ↗ now are we voting on

1:36:37 ↗ so I believe now we didn't ever finish

1:36:39 ↗ comment

1:36:41 ↗ that's a portion of the event so if we

1:36:43 ↗ had any comments on

1:36:45 ↗ the board is voted by a majority of the

1:36:47 ↗ board

1:36:48 ↗ um

1:36:49 ↗ take any comments or questions prior to

1:36:52 ↗ that requirements of voting

1:36:56 ↗ and if not we can go to a vote so Stacy

1:36:59 ↗ could help us

1:37:01 ↗ so we're voting on the First Amendment

1:37:03 ↗ now

1:37:04 ↗ um

1:37:05 ↗ that we would add in or as voted up by a

1:37:07 ↗ majority of the board did I capture that

1:37:10 ↗ yeah okay

1:37:12 ↗ um so please indicate in favor or

1:37:15 ↗ opposed uh Tom all right

1:37:20 ↗ thumbs up uh Nancy hi Jamie hi Cameron

1:37:26 ↗ Dan

1:37:31 ↗ hi Don hi Anne hi and Jana hi

1:37:41 ↗ foreign

1:37:47 ↗ [Music]

1:38:09 ↗ the one question I have is based on

1:38:12 ↗ daylight is May

1:38:17 ↗ I guess it kind of is right

1:38:20 ↗ daylight savings

1:38:23 ↗ yeah

1:38:24 ↗ I want to throw things off but I was

1:38:27 ↗ going to suggest starting meeting in

1:38:28 ↗ April but okay

1:38:30 ↗ I don't know if I care enough to make it

1:38:32 ↗ Amendment

1:38:33 ↗ quite honestly I could vote on it next

1:38:37 ↗ time

1:38:38 ↗ you're going on the way to close in

1:38:39 ↗ April

1:38:41 ↗ yeah

1:38:43 ↗ it would have to be another amendment

1:38:44 ↗ guys

1:38:46 ↗ the fact that we can vote out and decide

1:38:49 ↗ in the future I think is good enough

1:38:51 ↗ yeah I think as a matter of process

1:38:54 ↗ maybe that's the last thing we'll

1:38:55 ↗ discuss City okay what should we do next

1:38:58 ↗ Monday to decide

1:39:01 ↗ if we want to deviate from the

1:39:03 ↗ prescribed uh schedule there but we have

1:39:07 ↗ a

1:39:08 ↗ question that a vote on it there it is I

1:39:12 ↗ think the challenge with that is the

1:39:13 ↗ public we need to know if we're in

1:39:15 ↗ person or if we're not oh and so we have

1:39:19 ↗ not had citizens participate at the

1:39:22 ↗ meetings in person but that is an option

1:39:25 ↗ so they need to know what we're doing

1:39:30 ↗ so the reason I chose those months

1:39:33 ↗ because it divides it six months

1:39:35 ↗ placement in half

1:39:37 ↗ um but it originally thought of doing

1:39:40 ↗ November through March and April

1:39:49 ↗ October

1:39:50 ↗ I don't think anyone

1:39:53 ↗ anyone so I think we're

1:39:55 ↗ unless there's any other comments or

1:39:58 ↗ questions

1:40:01 ↗ um

1:40:02 ↗ we can probably proceed with a vote on

1:40:04 ↗ the motion

1:40:07 ↗ the station if you want to help us with

1:40:08 ↗ that okay

1:40:10 ↗ there is no further discussion we are

1:40:12 ↗ voting on the full motion inclusive of

1:40:16 ↗ the amendments

1:40:18 ↗ um so I please indicate in favor or

1:40:21 ↗ opposed Tommy

1:40:25 ↗ give a thumbs up uh Nancy

1:40:28 ↗ aye Jamie hi Cameron

1:40:31 ↗ aye machines are out of Dan hi Ashwin

1:40:35 ↗ Don hi

1:40:37 ↗ hi

1:40:43 ↗ so I will prepare a memo uh

1:40:47 ↗ for our clerks and the mayor

1:40:49 ↗ recommending with this recommendation

1:40:53 ↗ um do folks want to review it in advance

1:40:58 ↗ or maybe to have the chair and vice

1:41:00 ↗ chair or the whole board let's talk

1:41:02 ↗ about it on our Tuesday meeting so yeah

1:41:04 ↗ I'd be happy to be in on that

1:41:07 ↗ there's certain things that I didn't

1:41:08 ↗ need to be included in it that the

1:41:10 ↗ council may ask like if the chair calls

1:41:12 ↗ a in-person meeting once that processor

1:41:17 ↗ to build things

1:41:25 ↗ all right any other I think we have that

1:41:28 ↗ item covered any other business

1:41:31 ↗ you have something I have one more item

1:41:34 ↗ um but I also wanted to invite folks

1:41:36 ↗ that were at the company release maybe

1:41:38 ↗ talk about

1:41:42 ↗ them before we adjourn

1:41:54 ↗ um hopefully most people are familiar

1:41:55 ↗ with our Lake Sammamish Kokanee if they

1:41:57 ↗ uh very close

1:41:59 ↗ non-anatromous uh species are related

1:42:02 ↗ species to sockeye salmon

1:42:04 ↗ um obviously a culturally huge

1:42:07 ↗ um part of the snoqualm Indian tribes uh

1:42:10 ↗ ancestral lands and you know was

1:42:12 ↗ year-round food source for uh this will

1:42:16 ↗ call me Indian tribe you know um with a

1:42:19 ↗ lot of our salmon runs being seasonal so

1:42:21 ↗ uh this is the first year since 2019

1:42:23 ↗ they hosted an in-person release of

1:42:26 ↗ coconut fry into Lake Sammamish it was a

1:42:28 ↗ really neat ceremony our city visit Club

1:42:30 ↗ council member hunt was there and was

1:42:32 ↗ talking about some of the lighting

1:42:33 ↗ Shoreline lighting initiatives which I

1:42:34 ↗ know we've talked about someone's board

1:42:37 ↗ um talking about some of the fish

1:42:38 ↗ passage work uh going on with some of

1:42:40 ↗ the partners city of Sammamish City

1:42:42 ↗ Redmond city of Bellevue obviously King

1:42:44 ↗ County being very involved leading the

1:42:46 ↗ Kokanee working group so yeah really

1:42:49 ↗ neat stories it was um really

1:42:52 ↗ inspirational to see some of the tribal

1:42:54 ↗ members talking about the importance of

1:42:56 ↗ these fish in the ceremony before

1:42:57 ↗ literally taking a cooler out and about

1:42:59 ↗ to the middle of the lake and releasing

1:43:01 ↗ them uh right at sunset too which was

1:43:02 ↗ cool

1:43:04 ↗ um and I think neat stories about

1:43:06 ↗ um some of the successes here the

1:43:07 ↗ populations for these were the you know

1:43:09 ↗ tens and tens of thousands historically

1:43:11 ↗ uh in the last five years I mean it's

1:43:13 ↗ been as low as 19 counted in Lake

1:43:15 ↗ Sammamish so in 2020 one last winter

1:43:19 ↗ their count was close to 2000 again

1:43:21 ↗ which is you know they're cyclical you

1:43:22 ↗ don't want to read too much into high

1:43:23 ↗ numbers low numbers but really good uh

1:43:27 ↗ really good response especially since

1:43:28 ↗ some of the Hatchery practices have

1:43:30 ↗ changed they started doing more remote

1:43:31 ↗ uh incubators in streams so kind of like

1:43:33 ↗ mini hatcheries in actual streams for

1:43:36 ↗ Kokanee I think it's important to

1:43:38 ↗ remember that the no kind of spawning

1:43:40 ↗ streams for coconut you're primarily it

1:43:42 ↗ is a quad 2 so Lewis Creek to bits Creek

1:43:45 ↗ laughing Jacobs Creek so really really

1:43:48 ↗ important opportunities for fish passage

1:43:50 ↗ which I know I think some of those

1:43:51 ↗ projects are part of the storm water

1:43:52 ↗ Master planning

1:43:54 ↗ um you know both of the city level the

1:43:56 ↗ county level and obviously the state

1:43:57 ↗ level really exciting to see

1:43:59 ↗ uh Peter who the judge she'll never get

1:44:01 ↗ his last name right but was here last

1:44:02 ↗ week talking about you know actual uh

1:44:04 ↗ Federal infrastructure money going to

1:44:05 ↗ fish passions for I think the first time

1:44:07 ↗ ever so um really really cool movement

1:44:10 ↗ there and good success story seeing

1:44:11 ↗ these numbers kind of bounce back with

1:44:12 ↗ some of these strategies I think zachies

1:44:14 ↗ Creek if you want to read about cities

1:44:16 ↗ and Amish is such an amazing story it

1:44:17 ↗ essentially replacing the Culvert under

1:44:20 ↗ East Lake Sammamish Road and actually

1:44:21 ↗ seeing Kokanee spawning Upstream of that

1:44:24 ↗ road which has been a barrier for many

1:44:26 ↗ many decades so I think there's some

1:44:28 ↗ inspiration there in a

1:44:29 ↗ [Music]

1:44:31 ↗ um you know species that has been on the

1:44:33 ↗ brink of Extinction here in the last

1:44:34 ↗ little bit

1:44:36 ↗ yeah so really cool

1:44:39 ↗ yeah

1:44:42 ↗ sorry in 30 seconds

1:44:44 ↗ um just wanted to make sure folks who

1:44:46 ↗ are aware of an item that'll be coming

1:44:48 ↗ to the

1:44:50 ↗ um one of the council committees as well

1:44:52 ↗ as hopefully Council before the end of

1:44:53 ↗ the year is that we have been working

1:44:56 ↗ with four other East Side cities that

1:44:58 ↗ we've partnered with on the energy smart

1:45:01 ↗ program on developing an interlocal

1:45:03 ↗ agreement

1:45:04 ↗ it would be a opportunity to solidify

1:45:08 ↗ our partnership to collaborate across

1:45:11 ↗ multiple electrification and

1:45:13 ↗ decarbonization Energy Smart programs

1:45:15 ↗ it's intended to be in our local

1:45:18 ↗ agreement that will sit below the King

1:45:21 ↗ County cities climate collaborative that

1:45:23 ↗ people are see

1:45:24 ↗ in our local agreement that it would

1:45:27 ↗ allow us to formalize our partnership so

1:45:29 ↗ that we can work on grants together

1:45:31 ↗ share funds administer contracts on

1:45:34 ↗ behalf of other cities we were also

1:45:35 ↗ talking about having a shared staff

1:45:37 ↗ person that would help administer the

1:45:39 ↗ program we would open it up to other

1:45:43 ↗ cities such as Sammamish if in the

1:45:46 ↗ future they're ready to partner

1:45:49 ↗ um so we are going to present the

1:45:50 ↗ concept of this in our local agreement

1:45:52 ↗ to Planning Development Environmental

1:45:54 ↗ committee

1:45:55 ↗ believe that's November 1st when

1:46:00 ↗ the Ila ready to approve her Council in

1:46:03 ↗ December or beginning of the year so

1:46:06 ↗ I'll send updates to you all I want to

1:46:08 ↗ make sure that you're aware before that

1:46:09 ↗ does go to the council committee and I

1:46:12 ↗ think it's a really great opportunity

1:46:13 ↗ for us to formalize the partnership and

1:46:16 ↗ allow for a lot more efficiencies so we

1:46:18 ↗ can share research resources and

1:46:21 ↗ administer

1:46:23 ↗ um

1:46:25 ↗ any questions on that

1:46:28 ↗ oh

1:46:31 ↗ so let me give an example of something

1:46:34 ↗ that really collaborate yeah so one

1:46:37 ↗ um great well right now the city's

1:46:40 ↗ within the um

1:46:43 ↗ k4c Ila we are already

1:46:47 ↗ administering some contracts on behalf

1:46:50 ↗ of the other cities so Bellevue holds

1:46:53 ↗ our contract with spark Northwest our

1:46:55 ↗ non-profit partner

1:46:57 ↗ instead of each of the five cities

1:46:59 ↗ having a contract with smart Northwest

1:47:01 ↗ and then we're also talking about having

1:47:04 ↗ this shared staff person that would

1:47:05 ↗ likely sit at Bellevue just because they

1:47:07 ↗ have more capacity for the

1:47:09 ↗ administrative piece that individual

1:47:12 ↗ would work on the energy smart program

1:47:14 ↗ on behalf of all five cities so it's

1:47:17 ↗ more the we're already doing a lot of

1:47:19 ↗ that work this is more formalize it and

1:47:22 ↗ show our real commitment to continue

1:47:24 ↗ working

1:47:25 ↗ yeah thanks and then other cities

1:47:27 ↗ indicate course that you can join you as

1:47:29 ↗ well as they see fit yeah we're trying

1:47:31 ↗ to frame it as well East Side a smaller

1:47:34 ↗ T we don't want it to become another p4c

1:47:36 ↗ has its role this is real specific for

1:47:40 ↗ that shared resources so

1:47:43 ↗ there would probably be some limit to it

1:47:45 ↗ that were intending it as kind of the

1:47:46 ↗ east side so um subgroup of the k-14 and

1:47:51 ↗ what cities uh right now it's Kirkland

1:47:53 ↗ Redmond Mercer Island Bellevue Issaquah

1:47:56 ↗ or doing the energies that keep on

1:47:58 ↗ campaign

1:48:03 ↗ thanks

1:48:06 ↗ all right any other business any other

1:48:08 ↗ announcements

1:48:10 ↗ well I think the fact that you're a

1:48:12 ↗ journey thank you everyone thank you

1:48:14 ↗ thank you

1:48:16 ↗ very much

1:48:22 ↗ thank you

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Council / Members (11)

Jamie Finch

Don McQuilliams

Nancy Davidson

Cameron Fisher

Lara Lebeiko (Unexcused Absence)

Dan Hintz

Anne Newcomb

Ashwin Manoharan

Mathangi Ramanathan

Janet Wall

Tom Anderson

Staff (2)

Stacy Vynne McKinstry, Sustainability Manager

Billy Almanza, Sustainability Intern

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Rishi Hazra*

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a) Anne Newcomb moved that the Board prepare a memo recommending that the Environmental Board meet virtually from November through April and in person from May through October.
Nancy Davidson and Cameron Fischer seconded the motion.
Tom Anderson moved to amend the motion, for the Issaquah Environmental Board to meet virtually November through April and in person May through October, or as voted by a majority of the members of the Environmental…