Environmental Board · Wednesday, January 10, 2024 · City Council Digest

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of December 13, 2023

packet pp.3–5

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 12-13-23 Environmental Board Minutes Page [1] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Environmental Board 6:30 PM Tibbetts Manor, 750 17th Ave. December 13, 2023 MINUTES NW, Issaquah

4. AGENDA ITEMS

Climate Vulnerability Assessment Communication Concepts (D) [30m]

Kathleen Hillery, CivicSpark Fellow · packet pp.7–25

Topics: Climate

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Staff report:

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

2022 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory (D) [75m]

David Reedy, Sustainability Coordinator · packet pp.27–64

Topics: Climate

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Staff report:

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

5. REPORTS

Proposed Content for Environmental Board Retreat (tentative)

6. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS

Environmental Board Draft 2024 Workplan

packet pp.65–67

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Staff report:

APPROVED: [Date] REVISED: 1/4/2024

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0:05 ↗ all right welcome to the January 10th

0:08 ↗ meeting of the esquad environmental

0:09 ↗ board I'm Jamie Finch and I'll be your

0:10 ↗ chair tonight uh due to the hybrid

0:13 ↗ nature of the meeting we will have

0:15 ↗ members attending in person and online

0:18 ↗ uh for those online please keep yourself

0:20 ↗ muted while you're not speaking um raise

0:23 ↗ your hand to indicate your desire to

0:24 ↗ speak we'll do our best to catch you and

0:27 ↗ then hop in if we're still missing you

0:30 ↗ um anyone in person as we always do

0:32 ↗ please put your name tags up on the side

0:34 ↗ when you would like to speak um I don't

0:37 ↗ think we'll have any topics that we need

0:39 ↗ to summarize agreement maybe we will

0:42 ↗ with one of the items uh tonight

0:44 ↗ summarizing agreement around topics um

0:47 ↗ and if so uh we'll summarize that then

0:50 ↗ have any

0:53 ↗ comments summarized I think with that we

0:56 ↗ can move into attendance St you want to

0:59 ↗ take a

1:01 ↗ uh Tom Anderson here Nancy Davidson here

1:05 ↗ Jamie Finch here Raj

1:07 ↗ gaki Joy

1:09 ↗ Lewis Ashwin

1:12 ↗ Kanan here Ashwin manah

1:16 ↗ heran Don McWilliams

1:19 ↗ here an newcom I know is planning to

1:23 ↗ join us virtually doesn't look like

1:25 ↗ she's here yet um Janet wall Dixie bear

1:30 ↗ Alex Lee tigner here we have

1:35 ↗ cor thank you Stacey

1:37 ↗ um uh we have any comments on the

1:40 ↗ minutes from our previous

1:44 ↗ meeting hearing none those are approved

1:46 ↗ as presented um next up I don't think we

1:50 ↗ have any public that are going to be

1:54 ↗ speaking degree I don't think we also

1:56 ↗ had any public comments no no written

1:58 ↗ public comments we do have one member of

2:00 ↗ the public online but has not indicated

2:02 ↗ an interest to speak

2:04 ↗ tonight all right well I think with that

2:06 ↗ then we can move into our agenda items

2:08 ↗ the first one being the climate

2:10 ↗ vulnerability assessment communication

2:14 ↗ Concepts

2:16 ↗ oh we want to do do we want to introduce

2:20 ↗ Nick let's do that real all right that

2:23 ↗ on my attenda sorry uh Nick do you mind

2:25 ↗ turn on your camera real quick we'll

2:27 ↗ just do a brief introduction

2:31 ↗ UMO horen just joined us on Monday um as

2:36 ↗ uh similar to Kathleen Nick is a Civic

2:39 ↗ spark fellow Kathleen will maybe do a

2:41 ↗ very quick reminder of Civic spark um

2:43 ↗ during her

2:45 ↗ presentation um Nick joined us from

2:47 ↗ California is going to be with us

2:48 ↗ through August um is working on a number

2:51 ↗ of climate projects uh some of we'll be

2:54 ↗ taking on some of the work uh that

2:56 ↗ Kathleen has done so far for the city

2:59 ↗ but then also working on a number of

3:01 ↗ additional projects like the climate

3:03 ↗ challenge helping with the

3:04 ↗ sustainability Fair um working on our

3:06 ↗ resilience projects and a number of

3:08 ↗ other ones so I'm sure the board will be

3:10 ↗ hearing from Nick later in the year

3:12 ↗ presenting on the projects um that

3:14 ↗ they've been working on Nick do you wan

3:16 ↗ to say anything to the members of the

3:18 ↗ board or you can also wait till you're

3:20 ↗ here in person

3:22 ↗ too yeah I think you covered it but um

3:24 ↗ I'm glad to be here uh listening thank

3:28 ↗ you

3:33 ↗ now we will move into the climate

3:34 ↗ vulnerability assessment

3:47 ↗ Concepts great thank you Stacy good

3:49 ↗ evening board members of the public my

3:51 ↗ name is Kathleen Hillary and I am the

3:52 ↗ Civic spark fellow working with the

3:54 ↗ office of sustainability as a brief

3:56 ↗ reminder that's a maror program that's

3:59 ↗ recently been folded underneath the

4:01 ↗ Washington climate Corp and the

4:02 ↗ fellowship offers various professional

4:05 ↗ development opportunities for fellows to

4:07 ↗ work with municipalities and departments

4:08 ↗ working on sustainability and

4:10 ↗ sustainability adjacent topics uh and

4:13 ↗ engage in other various trainings in the

4:15 ↗ field my purpose tonight is to provide

4:18 ↗ you all with preliminary Communications

4:20 ↗ material Concepts to inform our

4:22 ↗ community about the climate

4:23 ↗ vulnerability assessment its findings

4:26 ↗ and lean into various connections for

4:28 ↗ followon information resources and

4:30 ↗ actions that our neighbors can

4:35 ↗ take tonight we'll discuss a very high

4:38 ↗ level overview of what the CVA found and

4:40 ↗ Associated messages we'd like to make

4:42 ↗ clear to the community and the concepts

4:45 ↗ themselves

4:47 ↗ please first let's remember that the IAP

4:50 ↗ identified the need to conduct a climate

4:53 ↗ vulnerability assessment with IAP action

4:55 ↗ CR 2.1 uh to understand the specific

4:58 ↗ climate impacts which threaten isqua and

5:00 ↗ strategies for enhancing Community

5:02 ↗ adaptive capacity especially of

5:04 ↗ vulnerable groups and Municipal

5:09 ↗ infrastructure the CVA analyzed four

5:11 ↗ General sectors buil environment natural

5:14 ↗ systems and storm water water resources

5:17 ↗ and Sewer public health and well-being

5:19 ↗ and then the 10 sub sectors that you can

5:21 ↗ see on your

5:22 ↗ screen the graphic depicts climate

5:25 ↗ impacts to these Associated sectors the

5:28 ↗ broad sectors including Wildfire heat

5:30 ↗ and consequences of extreme

5:36 ↗ precipitation this graphic details the

5:38 ↗ relative vulnerabilities from high to

5:40 ↗ low of the sub sectors taking into

5:43 ↗ account both climate risk which factors

5:45 ↗ in sensitivity and exposure to climate

5:48 ↗ impacts as well as the Adaptive capacity

5:51 ↗ of the sectors themselves which include

5:54 ↗ the capability of systems biodiversity

5:58 ↗ and Institution

6:00 ↗ to moderate cope or adapt to climate

6:02 ↗ change next slide

6:07 ↗ please conducting this assessment

6:09 ↗ allowed staff to understand various

6:10 ↗ areas of improvement and the CBA did

6:12 ↗ circulate very much so among the

6:15 ↗ staff what we'd like to do is

6:18 ↗ communicate the assessment in its uh

6:21 ↗ full form but also in truncated forms by

6:26 ↗ communicating both the assessment itself

6:29 ↗ and how various elements of the IAP

6:31 ↗ address identified gaps from the

6:33 ↗ assessment plans for future work etc by

6:37 ↗ offering this transparency we can

6:39 ↗ facilitate Community inclusion and allow

6:42 ↗ individuals and family units to

6:43 ↗ determine what preparations they need to

6:46 ↗ build resilience for themselves and

6:48 ↗ among neighbors these targeted

6:50 ↗ Communications materials can't distill

6:53 ↗ 50 pages of information uh but we can

6:57 ↗ generate exposure to the various facets

6:59 ↗ that were held within that assessment

7:01 ↗ and also building Community

7:03 ↗ resilience slide

7:07 ↗ please we want to communicate the

7:09 ↗ findings accurately and widely without

7:12 ↗ being reductive but that's going to take

7:15 ↗ a lot of different Communications

7:17 ↗ material in many different ways so

7:20 ↗ tonight you're only getting three uh and

7:24 ↗ those are a municipal website page

7:26 ↗ update and inclusion of the CVA to

7:29 ↗ provide a central location for the most

7:31 ↗ accurate and upto-date

7:33 ↗ information they would also house a link

7:35 ↗ to the full report and various other

7:38 ↗ community uh Community Communications

7:40 ↗ materials and two-page memos reducing

7:43 ↗ the 50 pages into various sectors and it

7:47 ↗ would also be a place where community

7:49 ↗ members could find links to follow on

7:51 ↗ resources for preparing for extreme

7:54 ↗ weather we'd like to also do a school

7:58 ↗ flyer for poster similar tool to

8:01 ↗ facilitate youth inclusion and perhaps

8:03 ↗ even in incorporate some coverage of

8:06 ↗ multilingual family structures by

8:09 ↗ children who attend ISD schools bringing

8:12 ↗ these things home to family members who

8:14 ↗ may not have English as a first

8:16 ↗ language and a community notice fly or

8:20 ↗ similar signage tool which could Foster

8:22 ↗ neighborhood level awareness in order to

8:25 ↗ build resilience have a plan among

8:27 ↗ neighbors and have some constant signage

8:30 ↗ or similar stationary Landmark keeping

8:33 ↗ resilience front in

8:37 ↗ mind as stated a website in update to uh

8:43 ↗ isqu Municipal website itself Builds on

8:45 ↗ existing dashboards to present a central

8:47 ↗ database for

8:49 ↗ information this would have a link to

8:52 ↗ vulnerability assessment which you can

8:55 ↗ see in the bottom left corner this

8:58 ↗ mockup is is on the Emergency Management

9:00 ↗ page but it does not have to be housed

9:02 ↗ here specifically this is just a concept

9:07 ↗ it also have its own web

9:10 ↗ page housing it here or on its own web

9:13 ↗ page allows us to incorporate links to

9:18 ↗ additional resources as previously

9:25 ↗ stated we anticipate that key elements

9:29 ↗ of such an update would include the

9:31 ↗ report itself and the two-page memos as

9:34 ↗ well as resources to Human

9:38 ↗ Services weather trackers from Noah or

9:40 ↗ the National Weather Service and any

9:43 ↗ City plans that specifically address

9:45 ↗ gaps identified by the CVA as well as

9:48 ↗ whatever uh other materials are

9:50 ↗ determined by staff and

9:54 ↗ Boards there's also an example of an

9:58 ↗ arcgis store story map from the city of

10:00 ↗ Shoreline that uses interactive

10:02 ↗ storytelling to present information

10:04 ↗ Graphics photos definitions City

10:07 ↗ projects and Community opportunities to

10:09 ↗ learn more we can click on this link if

10:11 ↗ you would like to see that

10:15 ↗ example I see yeses from the

10:27 ↗ crowd thir brief give you idea I don't

10:30 ↗ know if folks are familiar with story

10:32 ↗ Maps but this is we may

10:35 ↗ need okay that it

10:40 ↗ is you may just be sharing the

10:58 ↗ power

10:59 ↗ [Music]

11:01 ↗ and here's the example of how a story

11:03 ↗ map can be used built this particular

11:06 ↗ one from arcj to create maps and

11:11 ↗ interactive links to additional fact

11:14 ↗ sheets and pictures from the

11:27 ↗ community

11:33 ↗ please this is again a mockup of a

11:37 ↗ school

11:38 ↗ flyer it is not

11:40 ↗ necessarily uh the

11:43 ↗ exact material but it's a graphic that

11:50 ↗ is designed

11:52 ↗ for middle schoolish aged children

11:56 ↗ slightly younger um what we'd like to do

12:01 ↗ with these pieces of school information

12:04 ↗ is to facilitate youth exposure to the

12:08 ↗ conversation while including them in the

12:13 ↗ conversation in a age appropriate way in

12:16 ↗ a place where there's already structure

12:18 ↗ for uh topics that can sometimes be

12:21 ↗ difficult to discuss and use

12:25 ↗ multilingual family structures whose

12:28 ↗ children attend schools to bring

12:31 ↗ information from the school through the

12:33 ↗ child to the

12:35 ↗ family

12:39 ↗ um one of the things that I've been

12:41 ↗ thinking about is uh using QR codes also

12:47 ↗ in order to have especially for older

12:49 ↗ students who have technology and who are

12:52 ↗ curious about learning more to have

12:54 ↗ something that is on a 24 by6 poster but

12:57 ↗ they can get access to further

13:00 ↗ information next slide

13:03 ↗ please and then Community

13:06 ↗ signage these are merely examples of

13:09 ↗ signs that exist um the entering and

13:14 ↗ leaving tsunami Hazard zones are uh on

13:18 ↗ Whidby Island in various places as well

13:21 ↗ as elsewhere in the United States on the

13:23 ↗ west coast Wildfire evacuation routes

13:25 ↗ and then I'm sure that folks are

13:27 ↗ familiar with the volcano evacuation

13:29 ↗ root signages around Mount

13:31 ↗ reineer

13:33 ↗ um these are merely

13:36 ↗ ideas and can also be

13:40 ↗ different more stationary uh boards or

13:45 ↗ signages for directions to resilience

13:48 ↗ hubs once we have physical locations for

13:51 ↗ those

13:52 ↗ areas and also shared with us some

13:55 ↗ education material relating to idle free

13:57 ↗ zones so that might be a sign option

14:01 ↗ within the community especially around

14:03 ↗ schools post offices other places where

14:05 ↗ idling is common like Pharmacy

14:07 ↗ drive-throughs or

14:09 ↗ Banks but this is where we have some

14:13 ↗ next steps and questions for you next

14:15 ↗ slide please we're going to be

14:17 ↗ presenting to the Human Services

14:19 ↗ Commission and sending a memo to the

14:21 ↗ equity board to gain their insight into

14:24 ↗ this topic as well we'll publish the CVA

14:27 ↗ report it is current with our

14:29 ↗ Communications team and then we'll

14:31 ↗ continue developing Communications

14:32 ↗ material based on all of that feedback

14:35 ↗ slide please what we have for some

14:38 ↗ discussion tonight is do you think these

14:41 ↗ materials presented in a good way to

14:45 ↗ educate the public and what kinds of

14:47 ↗ community signage are you interested in

14:49 ↗ in your neighborhoods are there other

14:51 ↗ materials or strategies that you'd like

14:53 ↗ to see employed in the community Andor

14:56 ↗ schools or elsewhere to facil itate

14:59 ↗ awareness about future climate impacts

15:02 ↗ and resources and how do you and your

15:04 ↗ neighbors currently get your information

15:07 ↗ or what changes would benefit how you

15:10 ↗ get your

15:15 ↗ information thank

15:21 ↗ you like

15:23 ↗ uh go ahead so I have a few

15:27 ↗ comments um so I I did look at the

15:30 ↗ website the shoreline city of Shoreline

15:32 ↗ website I think the arj storytelling map

15:36 ↗ you know is a great idea um I do think

15:39 ↗ the QR code is great too especially for

15:43 ↗ high schoolers um for capturing the

15:46 ↗ school audience or reaching more ISD you

15:50 ↗ know um community members um I think you

15:54 ↗ should reach out to the school but

15:55 ↗ basically you should reach out to most

15:57 ↗ of the ISD schools have green teams and

16:00 ↗ some of them are pretty active um uh

16:03 ↗ most of the Green Team high high school

16:05 ↗ green teams actually post updates you

16:07 ↗ know every week or every two weeks on

16:10 ↗ Instagram they hold events and they do

16:13 ↗ bunch of actually active events with

16:16 ↗ students as well as for the community uh

16:19 ↗ so you should reach out to them and you

16:21 ↗ know um these CVA materials especially

16:25 ↗ if you give them the QR codes that would

16:27 ↗ be great can actually reach a lot of

16:30 ↗ young people um as well as the other way

16:33 ↗ I have seen is in ISD newsletters I have

16:37 ↗ seen a lot of

16:38 ↗ information uh not necessarily just for

16:41 ↗ schools but you know impacting the

16:43 ↗ communities in ISD pass through um in

16:46 ↗ different forms uh so that also may be a

16:49 ↗ good way you know to reach out uh to um

16:53 ↗ basically publish the information

16:55 ↗ regarding your CVA um the other

16:58 ↗ questions I did look at the website and

17:00 ↗ one of the suggestions I had was uh you

17:04 ↗ can also add the shelters information or

17:07 ↗ you know the resilience areas as you

17:09 ↗ mentioned once available and once

17:11 ↗ confirmed um especially for the

17:14 ↗ communities which will be more affected

17:17 ↗ during you know extreme heat or climate

17:19 ↗ events I know King County sends notices

17:21 ↗ or text during extreme heat events so

17:24 ↗ something like that if you have

17:26 ↗ permanent structures available for um

17:29 ↗ you know public to access during any

17:31 ↗ extreme events they should be listed on

17:33 ↗ the website as well um that's all thank

17:38 ↗ you

17:41 ↗ and very well presented I love the fly I

17:45 ↗ love the story map idea I've always been

17:47 ↗ big fan of story map making

17:50 ↗ it up in front so you can see it um

17:54 ↗ comment on your community signage um the

17:56 ↗ idea of community signage is great I can

17:58 ↗ see Wildfire sign in isqua here possibly

18:01 ↗ a flooding sign some flooding down on

18:03 ↗ isqua from time to time and then also um

18:06 ↗ you have opportunities in this we in the

18:08 ↗ Parks especially like where you cross a

18:10 ↗ stream or whatnot some C of interpretive

18:12 ↗ signage to get into this a little more

18:14 ↗ detail for those that want

18:26 ↗ stop D go ahead

18:30 ↗ okay just reflecting on how I like to

18:33 ↗ get up to date and keep informed on on

18:36 ↗ City related things I very much enjoy

18:39 ↗ the ISA Insider email based

18:44 ↗ newsletter and the city does a very nice

18:47 ↗ job on that and uh related to that you

18:51 ↗ can sign up to be informed of get alerts

18:54 ↗ about various andry other things

18:57 ↗ relating to

18:59 ↗ Community uh events and emergencies Etc

19:03 ↗ these are powerful tools it it isn't the

19:07 ↗ answer for everyone but it is the answer

19:10 ↗ for many and uh so that coupling that

19:14 ↗ into the flow of information I mean

19:17 ↗ having a website U out there when

19:20 ↗ something is added to the city's website

19:22 ↗ I mean I don't go look at the city's

19:24 ↗ website very often looking well I wonder

19:26 ↗ what's new here you know that's not how

19:28 ↗ I get informed I get informed by this

19:30 ↗ channel of information coming at me and

19:33 ↗ then I I choose to investigate further

19:36 ↗ by following the links and I think

19:39 ↗ that's a very good model to uh follow

19:42 ↗ for dissemination of information and and

19:44 ↗ reaching people I think if you think

19:47 ↗ about those tentacles of of the email

19:50 ↗ flow and well then how do we build on

19:53 ↗ that to uh connect to people who aren't

19:56 ↗ all about the email thing the other

19:58 ↗ social social channels uh finding a way

20:02 ↗ to actively engage in those other

20:04 ↗ channels is uh key too particularly for

20:07 ↗ some

20:09 ↗ demographics and on the QR code I think

20:12 ↗ that's that's a great thing for certain

20:15 ↗ U demographic as well I mean it wasn't

20:18 ↗ that long ago when QR codes were

20:20 ↗ strictly a geeky thing but uh it is now

20:24 ↗ mainstream and Co has helped us get

20:27 ↗ there the of going into a restaurant for

20:29 ↗ example and scanning the QR code for the

20:32 ↗ menu I mean this is just everybody knows

20:34 ↗ how to do that a few years ago everybody

20:37 ↗ didn't know how to do that and so that

20:39 ↗ is mainstream now and that's a powerful

20:41 ↗ method uh to help people connect to the

20:45 ↗ the the core content which is somewhere

20:47 ↗ else for both in terms of uh the email

20:51 ↗ channels as well as um signage it's I

20:57 ↗ guess particularly powerful and the

20:59 ↗ signage both signage in terms of in the

21:02 ↗ public corridors along trails and

21:05 ↗ sidewalks Etc as well as in the school

21:09 ↗ and other public

21:11 ↗ settings uh that's all thank you thanks

21:14 ↗ Tom go to Alex and then

21:18 ↗ Nancy yeah thank you for this

21:20 ↗ presentation I really appreciate it and

21:22 ↗ I'm excited to see the final products

21:24 ↗ when they start coming out um I agree

21:26 ↗ with everyone that the story map is

21:28 ↗ really great and especially like

21:30 ↗ relative to the city's website it's a

21:33 ↗ lot more interactive and a lot more like

21:35 ↗ I pleasing um on it it's got those it's

21:39 ↗ got the fact sheets um and I really like

21:42 ↗ those because it it presents things much

21:44 ↗ more graphically and I think trying to

21:47 ↗ focus on as little text as possible with

21:51 ↗ eye-catching Graphics to try and

21:52 ↗ communicate as quickly as possible the

21:55 ↗ main points that you're trying to get

21:56 ↗ across and draw people in is going to be

21:58 ↗ really key with any of the tools that we

22:02 ↗ use

22:03 ↗ um I liked what praj was saying about

22:06 ↗ involving the students more than just

22:09 ↗ putting Flyers up at the schools um I

22:13 ↗ think that there are great green teams

22:15 ↗ that would take on projects to try and

22:17 ↗ help educate like take the information

22:19 ↗ and distill it to their classmates I

22:21 ↗ think that's a really

22:23 ↗ good way to help get that information

22:25 ↗ and have them take some ownership of it

22:26 ↗ and also have it communicated on a like

22:28 ↗ scale that the students would be more

22:30 ↗ interested in um so I'd love to see how

22:33 ↗ we could work more with the schools and

22:35 ↗ not just provide them with

22:38 ↗ materials

22:44 ↗ um I'd also love to have as a um partner

22:49 ↗ that does outreach around these things

22:51 ↗ I'd love to have pre-created materials

22:53 ↗ that I can share either through social

22:54 ↗ media on my website on at events through

22:58 ↗ like a fly one of these flyers that they

23:01 ↗ could scan um or even rocket cards or

23:03 ↗ something that we can give out about

23:05 ↗ being you know preparedness

23:07 ↗ opportunities um and how people can

23:09 ↗ learn more information so anything that

23:11 ↗ we can create that's like a media

23:13 ↗ toolkit um that can be shipped out to

23:15 ↗ Partners would be really helpful that's

23:16 ↗ really graphic oriented and

23:23 ↗ centered thank you Alex Nancy go ahead

23:27 ↗ so so I don't know if you by the way

23:29 ↗ great presentation before I get started

23:31 ↗ with my questions at one point um Thomas

23:34 ↗ Rush came here and talked to us about

23:35 ↗ how to communicate climate things since

23:37 ↗ last year I don't know if you had an

23:39 ↗ opportunity to talk with him at all

23:41 ↗ about your communication strategy but he

23:43 ↗ did receive a bunch of feedback from us

23:45 ↗ on how to communicate things related to

23:47 ↗ climate so I'm going to go over a few of

23:49 ↗ them one of which is that um I'm not

23:53 ↗ sure sending people to the ISA insiders

23:55 ↗ is the only way to do it because a lot a

23:57 ↗ lot of people aren't on that list and

24:00 ↗ not really knowing it so you have a

24:02 ↗ couple of tools that the city has to

24:04 ↗ send out regularly one is a utility bill

24:07 ↗ the second one is an annual water

24:09 ↗ quality report that city has to send out

24:11 ↗ the third one is partnering with waste

24:13 ↗ management garbage PSC is putting out a

24:16 ↗ regular Bill to most of us some get it

24:18 ↗ electronically but they can add to that

24:20 ↗ too if you work with them in Partnership

24:22 ↗ so my suggestion is for those of us that

24:25 ↗ aren't his technology Savvy that

24:27 ↗ wouldn't be my husband yes um I think it

24:30 ↗ would really benefit to use other means

24:33 ↗ than assuming that everybody's checking

24:35 ↗ emails and on the inside or we need to

24:37 ↗ get it the second piece that I would

24:40 ↗ suggest I'm changing topics is we need

24:42 ↗ to get to the chamber we need to get to

24:44 ↗ businesses as well as students and

24:46 ↗ homeowners so without them starting to

24:49 ↗ do more um we're going to be way behind

24:52 ↗ we need to get to the Costco and the big

24:54 ↗ Reis and stuff and get their

24:55 ↗ participation as well um the third thing

24:59 ↗ that I was going to say along this lines

25:02 ↗ remember it is that I just really I

25:05 ↗ really appreciate the storyboard but we

25:07 ↗ need to find a way to communicate it and

25:09 ↗ to me the words climate vulnerability

25:13 ↗ assessment means nothing but if you talk

25:15 ↗ about climate change you see that in the

25:17 ↗ news almost every day you've got to

25:19 ↗ start there if you want information

25:21 ↗ about climate change one piece of it is

25:24 ↗ the vulnerability assessment so we need

25:25 ↗ to get something that drags people to

25:28 ↗ whatever website we're using to

25:30 ↗ communicate this and I'm not sure those

25:34 ↗ three words climate vulnerability

25:36 ↗ assessment is enough to draw me to go

25:37 ↗ look and to search this storyboard but

25:40 ↗ if you talk to me about climate change

25:42 ↗ and what is your community doing about

25:44 ↗ it I'd go follow that one because i' be

25:46 ↗ interest in it so that's just my

25:48 ↗ feedback to you I think the name will be

25:51 ↗ hard to get people to click the link and

25:56 ↗ open

25:58 ↗ go ahead thank you you have any question

26:01 ↗ I had a quick follow sure um I I really

26:05 ↗ appreciate that feedback and I'm putting

26:09 ↗ on spot by asking this question but do

26:10 ↗ you have an idea of what words would get

26:12 ↗ you to pull the thread what is your city

26:15 ↗ doing about climate change or clim

26:18 ↗ climate change is a word that you've got

26:19 ↗ to be using there not vulnerability I

26:22 ↗ mean it is part of what we're doing and

26:24 ↗ it tells us how we're doing and where

26:26 ↗ we're the sub the problems but we really

26:29 ↗ need to get them because that's what

26:30 ↗ people are trying to say I'm buying heat

26:33 ↗ pumps I'm buying a green car what else

26:36 ↗ can I do and so we need to help them

26:39 ↗ with it and I think there's not just the

26:41 ↗ vulnerability assessment but there's all

26:42 ↗ of the other stuff we're trying to get

26:44 ↗ them to do we can get them hooked to

26:46 ↗ look at this we might be able to bring

26:48 ↗ about more change absolutely I wanted to

26:51 ↗ verify the words embedded within your

26:53 ↗ feedback are the things that would get

26:55 ↗ you to yeah go forward great thank you

26:58 ↗ so much I think largely we're talking

27:00 ↗ about threats to the community right how

27:01 ↗ do we mitigate them and so being able

27:05 ↗ to we're trying to talk about well why

27:08 ↗ are we talking about

27:10 ↗ this why are we trying to get people pay

27:12 ↗ attention and more importantly what's

27:14 ↗ the solution to it um uh one thing that

27:18 ↗ I have a note here as we mentioned how

27:20 ↗ can we get the Community Resources and I

27:22 ↗ think instead we should think about how

27:24 ↗ are we going to give them resources

27:25 ↗ right what do we find our Sol solutions

27:28 ↗ that are tangible that we with our

27:30 ↗ knowledge can then hand out right rather

27:32 ↗ than making the citizens say well I

27:34 ↗ don't know what to do instead say Hey

27:36 ↗ you know we think composting is a good

27:37 ↗ idea here's an event where we're giving

27:39 ↗ away composting EVS right as something

27:41 ↗ that is a qua done right how can we

27:43 ↗ actually get people resources rather

27:45 ↗ than trying to say where can we direct

27:46 ↗ you it's a slight shift of thinking but

27:48 ↗ it kind of puts the onus more on how we

27:51 ↗ trying to reach out within our community

27:53 ↗ um and actually enable them to be

27:56 ↗ following through and easy easier way um

27:59 ↗ I think in a similar way unfortunately

28:00 ↗ the factory model in education um uses

28:03 ↗ worksheets to teach kids and it's made

28:05 ↗ pretty OBS to them when a kid sees a

28:07 ↗ piece of paper they're not generally

28:08 ↗ even reading through that piece of paper

28:10 ↗ and so the idea that a flyer is going to

28:11 ↗ be able to filter down probably pretty

28:13 ↗ unlikely when you think about how many

28:15 ↗ pieces of paper in a kid sees every day

28:17 ↗ right now in an ISD school school

28:19 ↗ district um and so instead I um I parent

28:23 ↗ what other people have said but I would

28:24 ↗ rather see um an involvement with the

28:26 ↗ school district of maybe high schoolers

28:28 ↗ could be coming into a junior high

28:30 ↗ Elementary environment um kids feel

28:33 ↗ powerful when they are the teachers

28:35 ↗ right when they're learning something

28:36 ↗ that they can then teach back and it

28:38 ↗ really reinforces the model of

28:40 ↗ understanding critical thinking

28:41 ↗ component to this rather than just being

28:43 ↗ told it and so I do wish that the

28:45 ↗ education could flipped a little bit

28:47 ↗ we've seen it rather than doing a flyer

28:49 ↗ I think it's not going to get the intent

28:51 ↗ that we want but being able to teach a

28:53 ↗ child something that they can teach

28:54 ↗ somebody else you're going to have that

28:56 ↗ reverberation of them that having

28:57 ↗ conversations later on in their family

29:00 ↗ and knowing and saying oh I know this

29:02 ↗ information rather than I've just been

29:03 ↗ told this information um further um

29:06 ↗ we've done a lot of work on a code with

29:09 ↗ our signage if you are able to break

29:11 ↗ through and put tags on things I will be

29:13 ↗ the first to be so happy that you do

29:16 ↗ we've been advocating to the city to put

29:17 ↗ QR codes on our Parks boards on um

29:21 ↗ signage throughout the city and it's

29:23 ↗ something that for some reason has not

29:25 ↗ been able to alien um a large portion of

29:28 ↗ the Ison population has a smartphone and

29:30 ↗ the fact don't use QR codes um on any

29:33 ↗ signage that we use it's pretty

29:35 ↗ ridiculous we've even talked about

29:36 ↗ having safety issues of people trying to

29:38 ↗ get Public Notices pulling over to the

29:40 ↗ side of the road to understand what's

29:42 ↗ going on here and instead a quick snap

29:44 ↗ QR code would avoid that doesn't happen

29:47 ↗ if you can figure out why you can break

29:48 ↗ through that would be great but it's a

29:51 ↗ it's a way that it should be

29:52 ↗ communicated in every form right when

29:54 ↗ you see a tsunami s or a flooding threat

29:57 ↗ or any anything there should be a QR

29:58 ↗ code that can link you then to resources

30:00 ↗ and further information to better

30:02 ↗ understand what's going on and I think

30:03 ↗ that part of this is um a perceived

30:05 ↗ reality right we're trying to speak to a

30:07 ↗ portion of the population that may not

30:09 ↗ be in alignment or um have um the

30:12 ↗ knowledge based to say yes I agree with

30:15 ↗ all these things right so there is a

30:16 ↗ component of needing to educate and to

30:18 ↗ say this is actively happening and this

30:20 ↗ is how we know it's happening to help

30:22 ↗ kind of bring people around to have a

30:23 ↗ better understanding of it um maybe

30:26 ↗ that's bringing presenters and doing Ted

30:28 ↗ style talks right at community centers

30:30 ↗ or things like that I think there's an

30:31 ↗ education component where we can

30:33 ↗ communicate this information in a way

30:35 ↗ that feels um more collaborative with

30:38 ↗ the community um and again we've talked

30:40 ↗ a lot about things like kiosks um and

30:43 ↗ the use of neighborhoods as um focal

30:46 ↗ points for being able to reach

30:48 ↗ microcosms within the city and so there

30:50 ↗ should be there's places like for

30:52 ↗ instance the highlands right where it

30:53 ↗ would be easier to be able to post a tag

30:55 ↗ to post a flyer in Community kiosks um

30:59 ↗ and so examining where in our code do we

31:01 ↗ allow this and being able to kind of

31:03 ↗ push the administration to say we've

31:05 ↗ allowed for this signage code so let's

31:07 ↗ actually enact it because we want to use

31:09 ↗ this tool and being able to kind of use

31:11 ↗ the resources that we know we've built

31:12 ↗ in but don't

31:14 ↗ necessarily exist but can't

31:19 ↗ sense oh I'm sorry one more thing I

31:21 ↗ didn't see any mention of Partnerships

31:23 ↗ um and I wanted to pair with someone

31:24 ↗ else said um don't follow me tribe

31:26 ↗ businesses Builder

31:27 ↗ um to help with Outreach right to better

31:29 ↗ understand even um Builders can be a

31:33 ↗ huge resource right now saying like why

31:34 ↗ does why does Green Space exist in this

31:36 ↗ building right being able to say why is

31:38 ↗ it that we have um an infrastructure

31:40 ↗ plan that we do because it contributes

31:42 ↗ to clean water clean air right different

31:44 ↗ things that we' um enacted into our code

31:47 ↗ we can better communicate why they exist

31:49 ↗ in the built environment to the people

31:54 ↗ use and go

31:56 ↗ ahead

32:00 ↗ oh can't hear you

32:08 ↗ muted sorry I have two things to unmute

32:10 ↗ and so I have to remember that um great

32:14 ↗ conversation great presentation just a

32:17 ↗ short little thing to um and my idea

32:21 ↗ might be too long but loved what Nancy

32:22 ↗ said about how to communicate and um who

32:26 ↗ to communicate with I was just thinking

32:29 ↗ maybe this would be a good way to draw

32:31 ↗ people in what is our city doing to keep

32:33 ↗ us safe from the effects of climate

32:37 ↗ change but that might be too long so I

32:40 ↗ just wanted to toss that out there in

32:41 ↗ case you like

32:49 ↗ it oh um I I had a

32:53 ↗ question from staff J what what does

32:57 ↗ success look like from this like what

32:59 ↗ what is the key message or messages that

33:01 ↗ we think people need to come out of this

33:03 ↗ communication about the climate

33:05 ↗ vulnerability assessment what do we want

33:06 ↗ them understand or know or

33:15 ↗ react I think that what success looks

33:19 ↗ like

33:21 ↗ is parness as a sliver of resilience

33:27 ↗ within the community

33:29 ↗ and 100% coverage of all of the

33:33 ↗ neighbors including those who come from

33:36 ↗ vulnerable

33:37 ↗ populations including our UNH house

33:41 ↗ neighbors

33:43 ↗ immigrants Etc

33:47 ↗ and to track that is extremely hard to

33:51 ↗ have any kind of uh measurable trackable

33:54 ↗ followup would be extremely hard

34:00 ↗ but in so much as maybe we don't know we

34:04 ↗ get a 100% coverage the attempt of 100%

34:08 ↗ coverage is what success looks like

34:12 ↗ for I understand what the

34:14 ↗ vulnerabilities are to my community and

34:16 ↗ I am prepared to meet each of those

34:21 ↗ vulnerabilities yeah I think you said

34:23 ↗ that well I was just going to say I

34:26 ↗ think we want the community all of the

34:28 ↗ community especially those most at risk

34:30 ↗ to understand the impacts I think a lot

34:32 ↗ of our community doesn't even think

34:34 ↗ about wildfire and that is a true risk

34:37 ↗ now um and to know to have access to the

34:41 ↗ resources and know um what they can do

34:44 ↗ to be prepared and where they can go to

34:46 ↗ be um and I think that's a and I think

34:49 ↗ with the communication materials what

34:51 ↗ Kathleen's been really careful about and

34:52 ↗ what we will be going forward is not not

34:55 ↗ to create fear but but to just build

34:58 ↗ that awareness and provide the resources

35:00 ↗ that folks know um what to do and what

35:02 ↗ action they can take and do it in a way

35:04 ↗ that's not um igniting fear but instead

35:08 ↗ just a

35:10 ↗ self-sufficiency just put out a Citywide

35:13 ↗ survey anually we do every two years um

35:17 ↗ do a community survey that might be a

35:20 ↗ way to get a metric yeah some of the

35:23 ↗ questions that mention add those to the

35:26 ↗ survey

35:29 ↗ yeah yeah that's great we do have a

35:32 ↗ couple of sustainability questions that

35:33 ↗ are in that survey I think with now the

35:36 ↗ completion of the vulnerability

35:38 ↗ assessment would be a good time to add

35:39 ↗ that in and that'll go out next

35:42 ↗ year yeah it's a

35:44 ↗ great that's 2025 2025 I believe I think

35:48 ↗ they did in 2023 came

35:51 ↗ out um I haven't finished um so I um the

35:57 ↗ reason I asked that question is because

35:58 ↗ I think that like climate vulnerability

36:00 ↗ assessment how you communicate to the

36:01 ↗ public could take different forms like

36:05 ↗ it's one the city is doing something to

36:07 ↗ to understand these impacts there's the

36:10 ↗ people that this is going most directly

36:11 ↗ impact this is how we're going to help

36:13 ↗ you in this case so I think we need to

36:14 ↗ think about the different levels of

36:16 ↗ communication we're going to have with

36:17 ↗ this like there's some communities that

36:19 ↗ are going to see direct impacts that

36:21 ↗ we've identified in this report we

36:23 ↗ should be thinking about how do we

36:25 ↗ communicate those risks and the

36:27 ↗ solutions to them and that seems like

36:29 ↗ the base level like we have to do that

36:32 ↗ that's like the number one priority

36:34 ↗ coming out of this is the most at risk

36:36 ↗ groups how are they aware of the risks

36:38 ↗ that they're going to be facing and the

36:39 ↗ resources that they have I think more

36:41 ↗ generally in what our resources maybe

36:44 ↗ feel more focused on right now is

36:46 ↗ general education which while it's

36:48 ↗ important that I think I'm not sure it's

36:52 ↗ the right first step or the right

36:54 ↗ priority for based on what you're saying

36:56 ↗ that all of the most at risk people I

36:58 ↗ mean everyone we want everyone to aware

37:00 ↗ but especially the most at risk people I

37:01 ↗ don't see that in the current plan of

37:04 ↗ like this is how we're going to Target

37:06 ↗ the unhoused or whoever else we like go

37:08 ↗ through the climate vulnerability

37:09 ↗ assessment who is most at risk based on

37:11 ↗ the risk we've seen how are we

37:12 ↗ communicating to them that would be the

37:14 ↗ first thing that I would do um and then

37:17 ↗ I think climate vulnerability I agree

37:19 ↗ with with nany that that word and just

37:22 ↗ that General framing isn't going to work

37:24 ↗ for people and even I'm not even sure

37:26 ↗ climate change is like I'm not that's

37:29 ↗ not going to resonate with everyone so I

37:30 ↗ think how we communicate this and I

37:33 ↗ don't have the answer but is going to be

37:34 ↗ really delicate I think we the one thing

37:37 ↗ I know is that climate vulnerability

37:38 ↗ assessment is probably not the right

37:40 ↗ term um but how you communicate the

37:43 ↗ risks that they're going to be facing

37:45 ↗ because I think a lot of people are just

37:46 ↗ me like what's the punchline what do I

37:48 ↗ need to know how's this going to impact

37:49 ↗ me and what are the resources that I

37:51 ↗ have um so I think someone being able to

37:54 ↗ get that information and then if they

37:56 ↗ want to dive deeper on like what the

37:57 ↗ wise and what climate change impacts

38:00 ↗ they're going to see and why those

38:01 ↗ impacts are occurring um that that's at

38:04 ↗ least how I would think about it is like

38:06 ↗ the Baseline how do you communicate the

38:08 ↗ facts the the impacts to them and then

38:11 ↗ give people options to educate but um it

38:14 ↗ just seems like if if there's too much

38:17 ↗ packaging about climate change around

38:18 ↗ this that you might miss some of your

38:20 ↗ audience that really need to hear about

38:22 ↗ this so um I think that just general

38:24 ↗ messaging and how you're getting getting

38:26 ↗ in touch with the people most at risk

38:28 ↗ are the two areas that that seem like

38:30 ↗ maybe more attention could be paid um to

38:35 ↗ so but yeah overall I think some of the

38:37 ↗ other things are nice but I'm not sure

38:39 ↗ we've address them the biggest potential

38:42 ↗ population risk populations or at least

38:44 ↗ identify with those are so we know that

38:46 ↗ we're targeting

38:47 ↗ them

38:49 ↗ ex

38:51 ↗ um this is like a really interesting

38:53 ↗ thing to be thinking about so um I think

38:56 ↗ think it's probably important to really

38:57 ↗ think about the old you guys kind of

38:59 ↗ talked about that but like in the flyer

39:01 ↗ for example it actually as I was reading

39:03 ↗ I like I actually you know I I don't

39:06 ↗ know that it's actually a bad thing to

39:09 ↗ be honest if the if the assessment says

39:12 ↗ we're in danger then I don't know if we

39:14 ↗ should sure code it I think we do that a

39:16 ↗ lot in um sustainability stuff like you

39:19 ↗ know so people don't really realize the

39:21 ↗ threat is actually much closer than um

39:24 ↗ you know they like to think well it's

39:25 ↗ not going to happen in my life Lifetime

39:27 ↗ well that's probably not the way it is

39:29 ↗ so

39:32 ↗ um for whatever that's worth I know

39:34 ↗ we're talking about children but um you

39:37 ↗ know they're the ones that are have to

39:38 ↗ deal with this the most so I think maybe

39:40 ↗ it's important to be a little bit real

39:41 ↗ with what the results say um and then um

39:44 ↗ the Flyers to the flyer point it it

39:46 ↗ feels a little like you know here we're

39:48 ↗ telling them to protect climate change

39:50 ↗ and then we're printing things so if we

39:51 ↗ can avoid that I think that maybe makes

39:53 ↗ sense right to to show that like we are

39:56 ↗ just here's what we believe in and you

39:58 ↗ know here's some solutions although I do

40:00 ↗ understand the purposes to help Reach

40:02 ↗ people who maybe don't have access to

40:03 ↗ phones and things like that um and then

40:06 ↗ uh just a thought was you know um when

40:09 ↗ was it in the 80s neighborhood watch

40:10 ↗ groups were really popular at one point

40:13 ↗ um why not I know it would be a very big

40:16 ↗ um undertaking but why not start

40:19 ↗ creating the idea that if we if we know

40:21 ↗ where these challenged areas are going

40:23 ↗ to be you know there's a lot of data

40:26 ↗ available and there's probably apps that

40:27 ↗ would do the same thing of creating kind

40:29 ↗ of um like almost like a neighborhood

40:31 ↗ tree so that people start like realizing

40:34 ↗ like because some people will be more in

40:36 ↗ every Community there's always somebody

40:37 ↗ who's really into it and some that

40:38 ↗ aren't and they can help kind of bridge

40:40 ↗ the gap that I just don't think like a

40:42 ↗ website does for the people we're trying

40:44 ↗ to reach which is the best way to reach

40:46 ↗ them is say hey neighbor did you know

40:48 ↗ that we are at risk for

40:50 ↗ Wildfire and here's what we're going to

40:52 ↗ do here's the plan and we just want you

40:53 ↗ to know what the plan is like that's a

40:55 ↗ like a simp it's a big project but

40:57 ↗ Simple

40:58 ↗ Solution in some ways so and then I

41:01 ↗ think social media is a great strategy

41:03 ↗ it's what everybody's using um and it's

41:06 ↗ a it can be a really easy strategy you

41:07 ↗ can literally make all of your posts you

41:09 ↗ can make 365 posts and just keep

41:11 ↗ regurgitating them all the time schedule

41:13 ↗ them and they just keep posting um so at

41:16 ↗ least it's out

41:21 ↗ there see joy we do need to wrap this

41:24 ↗ topic so if there's anything quick

41:27 ↗ umly can't do longer quick quickly I'll

41:30 ↗ um tear out what Dixie is saying is that

41:32 ↗ um the best way you're going to reach

41:33 ↗ vulnerable populations and I did not get

41:35 ↗ that at all from the presentation that

41:37 ↗ that was a priority Target um the best

41:39 ↗ way to do that is through Word of Mouth

41:41 ↗ um and you asked how do community talk

41:44 ↗ and a way to do that is basically have

41:46 ↗ put park benches in places that we know

41:48 ↗ people are piing bus stops being able to

41:51 ↗ uh create spaces people are talking um

41:54 ↗ and then being a all those park benches

41:57 ↗ right that are queuing oh hey here's

41:59 ↗ information about how many plastic

42:00 ↗ bottles we used to make this bench right

42:02 ↗ there's a lot of different ways that we

42:03 ↗ can create spaces to enable more

42:06 ↗ interaction and human interaction we

42:07 ↗ used to actually have people who would

42:10 ↗ who work for the city of Isa who would

42:11 ↗ be in every single neighborhood would

42:12 ↗ create these networks like the watch and

42:14 ↗ the administration chose to do away with

42:17 ↗ them and we called for them many times

42:19 ↗ to come back and the best way to do it

42:20 ↗ again is on a neighborhood level within

42:22 ↗ Isa and to be able to advocate for how

42:25 ↗ do we rebuild that infrastructure that

42:27 ↗ we actually already used to have so that

42:29 ↗ people are having direct dialogue with

42:31 ↗ their neighbors about hey when there is

42:33 ↗ flooding here's the best way that we

42:34 ↗ know to help this person who has maybe

42:36 ↗ mobility issues and this person who has

42:38 ↗ these other challenges is the people who

42:40 ↗ are living next door to them and so

42:41 ↗ that's really your goals you need to how

42:43 ↗ are these people actually coming

42:44 ↗ together

42:47 ↗ facilitating

42:50 ↗ um out all right I think that's all of

42:52 ↗ our comments um any final thoughts for

42:55 ↗ us in

42:59 ↗ Stacy no I think we'll take the feedback

43:02 ↗ um probably sit down with our

43:03 ↗ Communications team emergency manager

43:05 ↗ and then as Kathleen mentioned we are

43:07 ↗ going to be talking with the Human

43:08 ↗ Services Commission in a couple of weeks

43:10 ↗ and so we'll really focus that

43:11 ↗ conversation on reaching how do we most

43:13 ↗ reach best reach those

43:16 ↗ populations great well with that we will

43:18 ↗ move on to our next agenda topic the

43:20 ↗ 2022 greenhouse gas emissions in Detroit

43:23 ↗ Jamie um real quick sorry to interrupt

43:25 ↗ we did have two additional members of

43:27 ↗ the public

43:29 ↗ join okay if we check in rather they're

43:32 ↗ okay hi an fetcher and Dave nice to see

43:34 ↗ you just wanted to check in and see if

43:36 ↗ you all were hoping to make public

43:38 ↗ comment tonight or if you're just

43:44 ↗ listening if you are able to

43:49 ↗ unmute if you're having any trouble uh

43:52 ↗ unmuting please go ahead and send me a

43:54 ↗ chat if you would like to make public

43:56 ↗ comment or you can send me an

44:04 ↗ email well it's nice to be back um I was

44:08 ↗ gone for a few months but uh from the

44:10 ↗ board but I'm thr to be back and I'll be

44:13 ↗ joining y'all uh moving forward um so

44:16 ↗ tonight uh I get to to join y'all to

44:19 ↗ talk about the

44:20 ↗ 20122 greenhouse gas inventory

44:23 ↗ report um throughout the presentation uh

44:28 ↗ I would say feel free to ask questions

44:31 ↗ as we go um there's a lot of details a

44:34 ↗ lot of numbers and a lot of um uh really

44:37 ↗ specific items that we can dig into so

44:40 ↗ um recognizing we're going to cover a

44:43 ↗ lot uh feel free to ask questions as we

44:45 ↗ go and um just flag my attention if I uh

44:50 ↗ is any

44:52 ↗ questions so uh the goal of the

44:55 ↗ presentation today is to share the

44:57 ↗ results of our 2022 CommunityWide and

45:00 ↗ government operations greenhouse gas

45:03 ↗ inventory um as well as to seek uh

45:06 ↗ recommendations from the environmental

45:08 ↗ board on how staff uh should best bring

45:12 ↗ this material to uh city council um we

45:15 ↗ are scheduled to go before City Council

45:17 ↗ in early February to present this

45:19 ↗ information um and we would love some

45:22 ↗ feedback and um recommendations on uh

45:25 ↗ Focus

45:26 ↗ and um ways to to best present this

45:31 ↗ information so as a quick background on

45:35 ↗ greenhouse gas inventories uh they're

45:37 ↗ generally used to calculate quantify and

45:40 ↗ assess uh Community Associated and

45:42 ↗ government Associated greenhouse gas

45:44 ↗ emissions uh and their sources they've

45:47 ↗ been around for a long time um however

45:50 ↗ the methodology continues to change and

45:52 ↗ evolve over over time as we learn more

45:55 ↗ about our emissions as we learn more

45:58 ↗ about how to track different sources of

46:01 ↗ emissions and how to um uh apply

46:04 ↗ emissions to different uh communities so

46:08 ↗ they've been around for a little while

46:10 ↗ we have completed uh We've we completed

46:13 ↗ our 2022 greenhouse gas inventory to

46:16 ↗ determine our current sources of

46:18 ↗ greenhouse gas emissions um as a point

46:20 ↗ in time understanding of where our

46:22 ↗ emissions are really coming

46:24 ↗ from uh as well as review some Trends

46:27 ↗ around where uh how we're doing compared

46:31 ↗ to previous years um around some of our

46:34 ↗ emissions to help identify policies

46:37 ↗ programs um uh and actions that we can

46:42 ↗ take to uh address our greenhouse gas

46:46 ↗ emissions

46:48 ↗ so just kind of highlighting some

46:52 ↗ items knowing that we've done greenhouse

46:54 ↗ gas inventories for for a while um and

46:57 ↗ these have been done uh across the

47:00 ↗ International Community there are a few

47:02 ↗ things that we knew going into this

47:04 ↗ right we knew that some of the largest

47:06 ↗ sources of greenhouse gas emissions come

47:08 ↗ from our built environment and they come

47:10 ↗ from transportation and you'll see uh

47:13 ↗ through the results that that is what

47:15 ↗ our emissions inventory has shown so our

47:18 ↗ our inventory from 2022 provides us a

47:21 ↗ lot of specific information that we can

47:23 ↗ run with um but luckily in a lot of ways

47:26 ↗ we're not starting from um zero here and

47:30 ↗ we already have some programs in place

47:32 ↗ and we're already kind of thinking about

47:33 ↗ how we can best address uh emissions

47:35 ↗ from some of these

47:37 ↗ sources I also have a picture there's

47:39 ↗ emissions associated with our Solid

47:40 ↗ Waste Disposal there's emissions

47:42 ↗ associated with refrigerant use and um

47:46 ↗ losses of emissions from um transporting

47:49 ↗ energy from place to place so there's a

47:51 ↗ a whole um complex set of how we uh

47:55 ↗ think about those emissions we can go

47:58 ↗ into any more detail on uh the specifics

48:01 ↗ of how emissions inventories are done um

48:04 ↗ as uh as

48:08 ↗ necessary so the 2022 greenhouse gas

48:11 ↗ inventory process uh we partnered with

48:14 ↗ uh we joined the uh we did this in

48:18 ↗ partnership with the Eide climate

48:19 ↗ partnership cities of Belleview Redmond

48:21 ↗ Kirkland and Mercer Island uh we wanted

48:24 ↗ to do a regional ventory uh efforts to

48:27 ↗ make sure that each of our City's

48:29 ↗ inventories were aligned in their

48:30 ↗ methodology to make sure that um we

48:33 ↗ could uh work through this process

48:36 ↗ together and then also uh ideally to um

48:40 ↗ find efficiencies in scale working

48:42 ↗ together we could uh improve uh the

48:45 ↗ process and hopefully reduce cost to

48:46 ↗ doing these inventories for us at the

48:48 ↗ city we contracted with Cascadia

48:51 ↗ Consulting between July and December

48:53 ↗ 2023 to do this inventory

48:56 ↗ um and Cascadia Consulting uh has done a

48:59 ↗ lot of inventories including uh the 2020

49:03 ↗ 2019 uh Regional inventory for King

49:07 ↗ County the inventories were completed in

49:10 ↗ compliance with iiy best practices for

49:13 ↗ CommunityWide and government operations

49:15 ↗ inventories and iiy local governments

49:17 ↗ for sustainability is um a a great

49:21 ↗ organization that has some uh tools uh

49:25 ↗ that can help you um do the the

49:27 ↗ emissions calculations um and generally

49:30 ↗ is is well respected as a good standard

49:32 ↗ for these missions

49:35 ↗ inventories the results of the 2022

49:38 ↗ greenhouse gas inventory represent both

49:40 ↗ the fifth CommunityWide greenhouse gas

49:42 ↗ inventory that the city has done as well

49:44 ↗ as the first uh ever government

49:46 ↗ operations

49:47 ↗ inventory and it directly Associates

49:50 ↗ with icap action uh 2.1 I wrote

49:54 ↗ completed on this although this is you

49:57 ↗ know an ongoing process this is we're

49:59 ↗ going to be doing more greenhouse gas

50:00 ↗ inventories as we move forward to

50:02 ↗ continue to track where we're at uh and

50:04 ↗ the impacts of our

50:09 ↗ actions so diving into the results uh

50:13 ↗ this is a pie chart of our uh

50:15 ↗ CommunityWide greenhouse gas

50:18 ↗ emissions um and what we can really see

50:22 ↗ here in the orange yellow uh is the

50:28 ↗ that's the the biggest source of our

50:29 ↗ emissions and that is our uh built

50:32 ↗ environment then the purple is our

50:35 ↗ transportation

50:37 ↗ emissions and these emissions are

50:40 ↗ roughly in line with uh the the percent

50:44 ↗ of our emissions that come from the

50:45 ↗ built environment and from

50:47 ↗ Transportation um as our largest sources

50:49 ↗ really is in line with uh previous

50:51 ↗ inventories 2019 and 17 yeah just a

50:54 ↗ quick question so this is isqua specific

50:56 ↗ or is it all the partnership specific so

50:59 ↗ this is isqua specific

51:01 ↗ yes yeah so each City worked together to

51:05 ↗ develop the inventories but each City

51:06 ↗ got their own

51:07 ↗ inventory so um one of the benefits of

51:11 ↗ that is that we can compare ourselves to

51:14 ↗ our uh uh our neighboring cities and so

51:18 ↗ we have the equivalent of 10.5 metric

51:21 ↗ tons of carbon uh CO2 equivalent

51:24 ↗ emissions per capita uh and that is

51:27 ↗ roughly in line with other cities it's a

51:29 ↗ little bit higher than a few cities and

51:31 ↗ a little bit lower than others um but

51:33 ↗ they're all it's all roughly in that

51:35 ↗ that

51:36 ↗ area and again our largest uh emission

51:39 ↗ sources are from the built environment

51:40 ↗ and

51:41 ↗ transportation um with uh still a

51:44 ↗ significant amount from refrigerants and

51:46 ↗ landfill and the refrigerants number has

51:48 ↗ been increasing a little bit I would

51:50 ↗ note and um that uh might be from better

51:55 ↗ tracking tools and better um ability to

51:59 ↗ measure that so there's a little bit of

52:03 ↗ um we still need to be diving into that

52:05 ↗ a little bit more but again this does

52:08 ↗ highlight that our our uh focus is

52:10 ↗ really on that electricity that natural

52:12 ↗ gas and um Vehicles as well um so

52:16 ↗ there's a few questions here so the

52:18 ↗ program which was used by cdia

52:20 ↗ Consulting uh equally right so that is

52:23 ↗ that a standard industry practice

52:26 ↗ nationally or is it more local yeah so

52:29 ↗ iiy is an organization that has this

52:31 ↗ tool called clear path and clear path is

52:35 ↗ a national and I think even

52:36 ↗ internationally used tool right I think

52:38 ↗ CDP has produced it okay um C I'm not

52:42 ↗ familiar with CDP but it is um it's a

52:45 ↗ generally accepted tool internationally

52:48 ↗ to do a lot of these greenhouse gas

52:50 ↗ inventories and so for this particular

52:52 ↗ analysis right I'm guessing you just

52:54 ↗ provided the them the raw data or

52:56 ↗ whatever numbers you had and then they

53:00 ↗ played with it essentially right and

53:02 ↗ then they gave you this analysis so is

53:05 ↗ there a margin of error or you know um

53:08 ↗ like how accurate is the data I mean

53:10 ↗ this looks great the goals are pretty

53:14 ↗ you know impressive you know trying to

53:16 ↗ cut down 50% and this is good and I'm

53:18 ↗ pretty sure we are making an effort but

53:21 ↗ I when I look at this chart I always

53:23 ↗ wonder you know what is really the

53:25 ↗ margin of or accuracy of the data yeah

53:28 ↗ so I would say uh so the way Cascadia

53:31 ↗ was able to do this um we actually only

53:33 ↗ really provided uh the municipal

53:36 ↗ operations the government operations

53:38 ↗ data the CommunityWide data Cascadia

53:41 ↗ Consulting used a number of different uh

53:44 ↗ tools and methods uh that are done that

53:47 ↗ are created at National Regional local

53:51 ↗ levels so for

53:52 ↗ instance um for electricity data they

53:55 ↗ were able to go to psse and get

53:58 ↗ information on the emission sources or

54:02 ↗ the the carbon intensity of the

54:04 ↗ electricity of um Puget Sound Energy's

54:07 ↗ electric mix they were able to get an

54:10 ↗ understanding of how much natural gas is

54:11 ↗ actually going to the different

54:13 ↗ communities when you get to things like

54:15 ↗ on-road Vehicles public transit those

54:18 ↗ are more um there are a number of

54:21 ↗ different models that can help uh a city

54:24 ↗ or region understands uh what the

54:28 ↗ emissions are so for our vehicles

54:30 ↗ on-road vehicles uh Cascade used the

54:33 ↗ Puget Sound Regional Council uh model

54:37 ↗ which is built off of a number of

54:39 ↗ different models and and inputs that go

54:41 ↗ into that that kind of spits out a a

54:44 ↗ vehicle miles travels amount for our

54:47 ↗ city so some of the data is a little bit

54:51 ↗ more specific than others and some of

54:53 ↗ the data there's a number of these

54:54 ↗ different

54:55 ↗ um models that have been put together

54:58 ↗ and embeded and tried and uh in many

55:01 ↗ iterations to kind of figure out what's

55:03 ↗ the best way to to measure some of this

55:07 ↗ and that's kind of one of the items that

55:09 ↗ I alluded to with methodology changing

55:11 ↗ right so you know the psrc pugan

55:14 ↗ Regional Council VMT model is the best

55:17 ↗ model we currently have but that model

55:19 ↗ could be improved as time goes on as we

55:21 ↗ figure out how to better track um

55:24 ↗ vehicle emission right um so those

55:27 ↗ methods will continue to change as we

55:30 ↗ figure that out does that help answer

55:32 ↗ the question

55:34 ↗ thanks we do have question

55:39 ↗ wonderful hey thanks great work David

55:43 ↗ and um so I also am wondering how they

55:48 ↗ got the vehicle miles traveled uh data

55:53 ↗ and it's just for people living in isqua

55:56 ↗ correct not people who drive through I

55:58 ↗ believe it actually does include folks

56:00 ↗ who come through on I90 and and come

56:03 ↗ through the city so those are emissions

56:05 ↗ within the city of isqua I see okay and

56:08 ↗ I I will confirm that but I I believe

56:11 ↗ that's the case so maybe they're

56:13 ↗ counting Vehicles over a certain period

56:16 ↗ of time then as they go

56:19 ↗ through that include the emissions

56:21 ↗ associated with the vehicle miles travel

56:24 ↗ that come through the city of Miss or

56:26 ↗ that that occur within the city of Miss

56:28 ↗ I think Ann's asking is there a direct

56:30 ↗ measurement or is it all based on the

56:31 ↗ model oh I apologize yes so it's all

56:35 ↗ based on for for the CommunityWide it is

56:37 ↗ all based on the model as we get to you

56:39 ↗ know our own government operations

56:41 ↗ inventory you'll see we have specific

56:43 ↗ numbers there but um these this is all

56:46 ↗ based on the

56:48 ↗ model cool uh and so I know this is not

56:53 ↗ the full report um

56:55 ↗ and it would be kind of fun to see the

56:57 ↗ full report is that something that you

56:59 ↗ guys are allowed to share out or is it

57:02 ↗ confidential it is not confidential um

57:06 ↗ attached to the board packet I believe

57:12 ↗ um was the report that we've developed

57:14 ↗ so far um so we can continue to to build

57:17 ↗ on that um as we would like um but that

57:22 ↗ report does include um the data that we

57:24 ↗ have

57:25 ↗ okay cool I must have missed that

57:28 ↗ link awesome thank you so much sure that

57:31 ↗ you have it at the end of this

57:34 ↗ meeting cool and I have one more thing

57:36 ↗ to say but I can wait until we get to

57:37 ↗ that part if that works better

57:42 ↗ sure you

57:44 ↗ think like because we're not basing

57:46 ↗ anything on Direct measurement I'm

57:48 ↗ guessing not only for VMT but also for

57:50 ↗ the like the like the I even know the

57:53 ↗ carbon intensity of those miles traveled

57:56 ↗ is that also based on a

57:58 ↗ Model I believe that also goes into the

58:01 ↗ model um there's

58:06 ↗ model my understanding is that the

58:09 ↗ output from the model helps understand

58:11 ↗ vehicle miles traveled and then the in

58:15 ↗ the entry into clear path they use

58:18 ↗ um percent understandings of different

58:22 ↗ types of vehicles that are on the road

58:24 ↗ in carbon in densities of is that miles

58:27 ↗ is that General like types of vehicles

58:30 ↗ or how how are they for isqua versus

58:32 ↗ Kirkland is there any differentiate are

58:34 ↗ they just using the same assumptions

58:36 ↗ within the the communities I believe

58:38 ↗ it's regional here for ISO there is a

58:41 ↗ specific model that's more specific for

58:44 ↗ Kirkland bellw and Rond so for those

58:48 ↗ three cities cascad was able to use a

58:50 ↗ much more specific model ours is more

58:52 ↗ Regional yeah I guess I guess my con

58:54 ↗ concern here is that BMT anything that's

58:58 ↗ based on a Model our our actual Behavior

59:00 ↗ change won't necessarily be captured by

59:03 ↗ that model because like we're not

59:05 ↗ directly measuring difference in vehicle

59:08 ↗ miles travel is my understanding of the

59:10 ↗ methodology here so if we like if isquad

59:13 ↗ does something different than Kirkland

59:15 ↗ that does something different than

59:16 ↗ Redmond we're all just kind of getting

59:17 ↗ averag into the same model so it's very

59:20 ↗ difficult to discern like what actual

59:22 ↗ changes are occurring because you're

59:23 ↗ only

59:25 ↗ a basis in a model and no direct

59:27 ↗ measurement means that you can't

59:29 ↗ actually tell whether there's been a

59:31 ↗ change um so that that's my that's one

59:33 ↗ of my concerns I think the other

59:35 ↗ similarly on the types of vehicles like

59:37 ↗ a great example being like if we can

59:40 ↗ successfully Drive adoption of EVS is

59:42 ↗ that going to be factored into future

59:44 ↗ updates because it doesn't seem like our

59:46 ↗ actual Isa specific vehicle mix has been

59:49 ↗ directly measured and applied into the

59:51 ↗ model so I'm just worried that like some

59:52 ↗ of the biggest inputs for the model or

59:55 ↗ for the for our pie chart here aren't

59:59 ↗ actually being directly measured and

1:00:00 ↗ like are going to be difficult to

1:00:02 ↗ actually show whether we're making

1:00:04 ↗ progress against because they're all

1:00:06 ↗ model based so I think that's maybe

1:00:10 ↗ separate from the results here but that

1:00:12 ↗ that that's one concern based on how

1:00:14 ↗ this is being described um and I don't

1:00:16 ↗ know if on the electric electricity

1:00:19 ↗ natural gas are we

1:00:20 ↗ using actual usage for within the city I

1:00:26 ↗ believe PSC did provide actual usage for

1:00:29 ↗ U Broken Out by cities okay so it seems

1:00:31 ↗ like that onroad Vehicles is the main

1:00:34 ↗ section that

1:00:35 ↗ has kind of an indirect measurement so

1:00:39 ↗ yeah just something to keep in mind I do

1:00:40 ↗ think that that feels like it's going to

1:00:42 ↗ be difficult to measure change or like

1:00:45 ↗ how isqua might perform

1:00:48 ↗ um so yeah I think that's a great point

1:00:51 ↗ and um that is something that we can I

1:00:55 ↗ can get more detail on that

1:00:57 ↗ specific petown Regional Council model

1:01:00 ↗ to provide if that's helpful and then

1:01:02 ↗ also just thinking about you know moving

1:01:05 ↗ forward as we address this um my hope

1:01:08 ↗ would be we develop better models and

1:01:11 ↗ systems for being able to better uh

1:01:15 ↗ actually uh understand what's happening

1:01:18 ↗ more locally this is fairly Regional so

1:01:21 ↗ or or this is fairly localized to the

1:01:24 ↗ region so it does reflect pretty well

1:01:27 ↗ what's actually going on here in isqua

1:01:29 ↗ since yes we're doing things a little

1:01:31 ↗ different than our neighboring cities

1:01:33 ↗ but you know EV adoption in ISO is not

1:01:35 ↗ going to be dramatically different than

1:01:37 ↗ than our neighboring cities for instance

1:01:39 ↗ so um I would say I have okay confidence

1:01:43 ↗ in in that model for for where we're at

1:01:46 ↗ at least in the

1:01:47 ↗ methodology build on what Jamie's saying

1:01:51 ↗ so the only thing we really have control

1:01:53 ↗ over that we can show that we're making

1:01:55 ↗ a difference is our electricity and

1:01:57 ↗ natur natural gas because we're rolled

1:02:00 ↗ in on the vehicle piece with other

1:02:02 ↗ communities and it's not actually

1:02:04 ↗ measuring trucks driving through here

1:02:07 ↗ and other things and so really the only

1:02:10 ↗ Greenhouse emissions that we can

1:02:12 ↗ potentially show in the community that

1:02:14 ↗ we are improving

1:02:16 ↗ on is our built environment use not

1:02:21 ↗ necessarily the vehicles because we're

1:02:22 ↗ averaged we're in with everyone else and

1:02:25 ↗ I guess my comment is that really needs

1:02:27 ↗ to show up in the presentation as a

1:02:29 ↗ specific item or a specific slide

1:02:32 ↗ because I suspect that if we measure

1:02:35 ↗ this in five years our on our vehicle

1:02:38 ↗ use won't change much because we're in

1:02:40 ↗ an average with other communities so we

1:02:43 ↗ really should be tracking what we're

1:02:45 ↗ doing on the electricity

1:02:48 ↗ natured just a suggestion to add another

1:02:51 ↗ slide to at least clarify that so people

1:02:53 ↗ see that yeah I can I can look to to do

1:02:57 ↗ that and I would clarify that the

1:03:00 ↗ vehicle model is specific to is or the

1:03:04 ↗ the model is a regional model the

1:03:06 ↗ numbers here are specific for isqua

1:03:09 ↗ based on geography and where the what

1:03:12 ↗ the vehicle miles are within our

1:03:14 ↗ geography how many are EVs and how many

1:03:17 ↗ of them are gas power you know I don't

1:03:20 ↗ think you're seeing

1:03:22 ↗ that you made it to first traffic yes

1:03:26 ↗ you get all these

1:03:28 ↗ questions I would encourage you to

1:03:31 ↗ understand the

1:03:32 ↗ model in detail and be prepared to

1:03:35 ↗ explain it up front you might even want

1:03:37 ↗ to have a slide right off the Geto

1:03:39 ↗ here's the model here's how it works

1:03:40 ↗ here's how here's the region that it

1:03:42 ↗ looks at here's how they analyze things

1:03:45 ↗ um you put this in house get the same

1:03:48 ↗ question here they're going to tear this

1:03:50 ↗ down until they understand the model

1:03:52 ↗ behind this um and then like the the

1:03:55 ↗ vehicles for instance I me I'm really

1:03:57 ↗ curious how much of that 37% is I90

1:04:01 ↗ versus vehicles that are running around

1:04:03 ↗ in town what can we change what is effed

1:04:07 ↗ out there and then on even on the

1:04:08 ↗ electricity and natural gas I'm not

1:04:10 ↗ convinced that that is specific for

1:04:12 ↗ isqua I think that's an average from PSC

1:04:16 ↗ on average kilowatts

1:04:18 ↗ used times the number of homes times the

1:04:21 ↗ number I don't

1:04:23 ↗ know

1:04:24 ↗ I I really want to better understand

1:04:28 ↗ sure David just one more comment also

1:04:31 ↗ the refrigerant data also here might be

1:04:34 ↗ kind of generic because I'm guessing

1:04:37 ↗ they might have just calculated you know

1:04:39 ↗ the input and output based on the

1:04:43 ↗ refrigeration model assuming you know in

1:04:46 ↗ each household or something um my that's

1:04:50 ↗ just my guess based on the ghg

1:04:52 ↗ accounting which I have done previously

1:04:55 ↗ unless you have specific data for the

1:04:58 ↗ refrigerator for each household you know

1:05:01 ↗ beginning versus the end period um you

1:05:04 ↗ can use the type of the refrigerator you

1:05:06 ↗ have and you basically spit out based on

1:05:09 ↗ the model what the numbers are so they

1:05:11 ↗ might not be accurate as well um to an's

1:05:15 ↗ comment I did look at the report which

1:05:17 ↗ was attach with the email and I was

1:05:20 ↗ curious to see actually the raw data and

1:05:22 ↗ again if if you are able to share it

1:05:24 ↗ with us I was just curious how the model

1:05:26 ↗ was handling the raw data um and I

1:05:29 ↗ didn't see any raw data means I did see

1:05:31 ↗ some tables and charts but again you

1:05:34 ↗ know this is what I was also interested

1:05:36 ↗ so if you can share it um and if you

1:05:39 ↗ don't have time if you can just share it

1:05:40 ↗ in email if it's possible I just would

1:05:43 ↗ like to look at it as well yeah as as we

1:05:46 ↗ have time at the end I'm happy I have a

1:05:47 ↗ number of different data and not just

1:05:50 ↗ today I'm just asking if whenever if you

1:05:52 ↗ are okay to share it L

1:05:56 ↗ sure on the note of what Don was saying

1:05:59 ↗ I do think one thing to think about is

1:06:02 ↗ is this the right first slide like to

1:06:07 ↗ the the SEC the next slide or maybe it's

1:06:11 ↗ two slides from now like I think the

1:06:13 ↗ punchline of like where our missions

1:06:15 ↗ going might be the right first slide and

1:06:17 ↗ then I do like one of the things that I

1:06:20 ↗ struggle with all of the slides put

1:06:22 ↗ together is like and sent you a few

1:06:24 ↗ notes on this it's just like how are we

1:06:26 ↗ doing and where are the where are we

1:06:29 ↗ seeing changes and I think what Don

1:06:31 ↗ mentioned around how is that in the

1:06:34 ↗ addressable portion of emissions versus

1:06:36 ↗ the not addressable part is really what

1:06:38 ↗ I like it in my mind the progression is

1:06:41 ↗ what is overall what are overall

1:06:43 ↗ missions doing what are the categories

1:06:45 ↗ there within those categories what's

1:06:47 ↗ addressable then what is the trend in

1:06:49 ↗ the addressable emissions within those

1:06:52 ↗ categories is I I think what based on

1:06:56 ↗ some of your responses which were very

1:06:57 ↗ helpful it seems like our actually like

1:07:01 ↗ isqua impacted direct like emissions are

1:07:06 ↗ are not not where the decreas is coming

1:07:08 ↗ from most of the decrease is coming from

1:07:10 ↗ changes in PS the carbon intensity of

1:07:13 ↗ the electricity makes so that would be

1:07:17 ↗ super like that to me is really really

1:07:20 ↗ important to understand that like all of

1:07:23 ↗ the decreases we're seeing or a very

1:07:24 ↗ large portion of the decrease we're

1:07:26 ↗ seeing is related to psse changes we're

1:07:29 ↗ still and of course this is like

1:07:32 ↗ basically we didn't have a IAP for most

1:07:34 ↗ of like leadup to this so wouldn't

1:07:36 ↗ expect it necessarily but I think that's

1:07:38 ↗ a good like that's a baseline that

1:07:40 ↗ people need to understand like that's

1:07:42 ↗ the punchline that I think people need

1:07:43 ↗ to understand it's really hard to get

1:07:45 ↗ out of the current presentation so those

1:07:48 ↗ are some ideas on how you might

1:07:50 ↗ structure this differently and I I know

1:07:52 ↗ the addressable part is probably not

1:07:55 ↗ might not have been a part of how cascad

1:07:57 ↗ approached as I do think it's an

1:07:58 ↗ important consideration as think about

1:08:01 ↗ the like the update of IAP as well like

1:08:04 ↗ we ultimately need to be able to like

1:08:06 ↗ the most important thing we can do is

1:08:07 ↗ measure the things that we can actually

1:08:08 ↗ impact like obviously we want to know

1:08:10 ↗ the overall story but like how are we

1:08:12 ↗ doing on the things that we can actually

1:08:13 ↗ impact it there's some way it might be

1:08:16 ↗ already in what they've done to pull

1:08:19 ↗ that out and and kind of give some light

1:08:21 ↗ to that that would be super super

1:08:23 ↗ helpful because I think right now it's

1:08:25 ↗ good that the missions went down but

1:08:27 ↗ it's like challenging to understand why

1:08:30 ↗ and the how are we doing question um

1:08:33 ↗ like as it relates to what what we're

1:08:34 ↗ trying to do here which is reduce within

1:08:37 ↗ isqua's controllable things what

1:08:45 ↗ can yeah I think there's a lot we can do

1:08:48 ↗ to dig more into the um methodology and

1:08:51 ↗ models and share that information I just

1:08:54 ↗ do want the board to think about that

1:08:56 ↗ the greenhouse gas inventories they are

1:08:59 ↗ not in exact science they're based on

1:09:01 ↗ what is available at the time we were

1:09:03 ↗ getting data up till we're still waiting

1:09:05 ↗ on a little bit of data it takes a long

1:09:07 ↗ time for some of that data to be

1:09:09 ↗ generated um and as David um presents in

1:09:13 ↗ the materials and we'll talk about more

1:09:15 ↗ they're also based on the best of

1:09:16 ↗ methodology at the time those

1:09:18 ↗ methodologies continue to

1:09:20 ↗ improve um and so it's really meant to

1:09:23 ↗ be kind of a snapshot in time of where

1:09:26 ↗ are we uh with all those assumptions and

1:09:28 ↗ the best available information at the

1:09:30 ↗ time and so really looking at those

1:09:32 ↗ Trends coming away with that punchline

1:09:35 ↗ how have we changed since the the last

1:09:37 ↗ few years um and does that direct us to

1:09:41 ↗ maybe take some different action but

1:09:43 ↗ just thinking of that as kind of that

1:09:44 ↗ snapshot in time definitely not an exact

1:09:47 ↗ science so just encourage you all to

1:09:49 ↗ think of it in that way um I just did

1:09:52 ↗ want to mention too we talk someone

1:09:54 ↗ today that um does inventories using a

1:09:56 ↗ different um using different models for

1:09:59 ↗ some of these factors and while there

1:10:01 ↗ were some slight

1:10:02 ↗ differences the most part in alignment

1:10:05 ↗ with the findings of this inventory so

1:10:07 ↗ that was a good kind of gut check that

1:10:09 ↗ this is at least on the right

1:10:11 ↗ track so I do also think it is valuable

1:10:15 ↗ to point out that this is this is really

1:10:18 ↗ looking at what is our emissions

1:10:20 ↗ CommunityWide and um I believe in

1:10:23 ↗ comment that an had uh emailed in right

1:10:27 ↗ addressing these emissions is that

1:10:29 ↗ Patchwork of State efforts clean energy

1:10:32 ↗ transformation act and climate

1:10:34 ↗ commitment act which um there's some

1:10:37 ↗ threats to this year um it's that

1:10:39 ↗ Federal action and it's that local

1:10:41 ↗ action right so this is mainly just

1:10:43 ↗ looking at where are we at here in the

1:10:45 ↗ community and this is also recognizing

1:10:47 ↗ that to address all of these emissions

1:10:50 ↗ there's a lot that the city can do and

1:10:52 ↗ there's a lot that the city can't do to

1:10:54 ↗ address some of these emissions and it

1:10:55 ↗ is going to be that that big effort

1:10:59 ↗ right two two other quick thoughts

1:11:02 ↗ um one since a lot of this is based on

1:11:05 ↗ which I totally understand there's

1:11:06 ↗ limits on what can be done and like

1:11:08 ↗ there's gonna have to be some Reliance

1:11:09 ↗ on the model one great thing about a

1:11:12 ↗ model is you know when you change inputs

1:11:13 ↗ in a model what those outputs are and so

1:11:15 ↗ something that I would be really

1:11:17 ↗ interested in

1:11:18 ↗ Cascadia like creating or basically an

1:11:21 ↗ output of this being is like if you

1:11:24 ↗ change mix of vehicles by this like

1:11:26 ↗ basically what are the things that would

1:11:27 ↗ really move the needle like that seems

1:11:29 ↗ like an output that could come from

1:11:31 ↗ their model uh from these different

1:11:33 ↗ areas like are there ways that we can

1:11:35 ↗ understand if x resident switch to this

1:11:39 ↗ like this much impact would result like

1:11:42 ↗ those types of things would be really

1:11:43 ↗ helpful to like qu like these big huge

1:11:46 ↗ numbers like what what can actually

1:11:48 ↗ change like what are the things that

1:11:49 ↗ will actually move the needle um that

1:11:52 ↗ would be that be super super helpful to

1:11:56 ↗ kind of I don't think necessar for for

1:11:59 ↗ the the commun for the uh for the

1:12:01 ↗ council but for the community would

1:12:02 ↗ really help to start like drive home how

1:12:05 ↗ how can they actually make meaningful

1:12:07 ↗ impacts um on this and then what was it

1:12:12 ↗ thing maybe it'll come back to me

1:12:16 ↗ um maybe I'll we got a lot of slides

1:12:19 ↗ cover so don't worry please respond to

1:12:22 ↗ that first suggestion um I don't think

1:12:24 ↗ that's going to be part of the work

1:12:26 ↗ they're doing with this but we are in

1:12:28 ↗ discussions with Consultants about as a

1:12:31 ↗ next phase doing uh somewhat of an

1:12:33 ↗ economic analysis is what is the local

1:12:36 ↗ investment and on what actions needed to

1:12:39 ↗ move the needle given the state and

1:12:41 ↗ federal policies that are in place so I

1:12:43 ↗ think get somewhat at your question so

1:12:45 ↗ we're hoping to do that this spring in

1:12:47 ↗ time for all the city um budget updates

1:12:50 ↗ and requests so I'll let you know if

1:12:52 ↗ that moves forward and a great

1:12:53 ↗ discussion oh I don't know if this was

1:12:55 ↗ it but this was maybe a different thing

1:12:57 ↗ one thing that isn't in the presentation

1:12:58 ↗ currently that would be helpful

1:13:00 ↗ is 2017 2019 2022 all in relation to our

1:13:05 ↗ icap goals and that graph that we have

1:13:07 ↗ in IAP just to see like it's it's still

1:13:11 ↗ early but like where are we within that

1:13:14 ↗ context

1:13:15 ↗ sh but if you're talking about that you

1:13:17 ↗ should also talk about growth in the

1:13:19 ↗ community like how much growth has

1:13:21 ↗ happened between 2017 2019 and 2022 you

1:13:25 ↗ know both business and

1:13:28 ↗ um not and it's not just in the city but

1:13:31 ↗ it's also in the region because we know

1:13:33 ↗ many of the facilities people in South

1:13:36 ↗ King

1:13:38 ↗ County dve through yes that's missing

1:13:42 ↗ from this presentation overall is

1:13:45 ↗ popular it hasn't been

1:13:47 ↗ stagnant yes and I think um that gets

1:13:51 ↗ to a challenge had and this is very good

1:13:54 ↗ feedback and thinking about out of all

1:13:56 ↗ of the data that I could present what is

1:13:58 ↗ the the good pieces to bring out right

1:14:01 ↗ so for instance in moving ahead right so

1:14:04 ↗ this is our inventory uh 2017 through

1:14:08 ↗ 2022 um looking at some of those Trends

1:14:11 ↗ the reason I'm showing 2017 2019 and

1:14:13 ↗ 2022 is because these are the three

1:14:15 ↗ inventory years that use the same

1:14:18 ↗ methodology one of the things that uh

1:14:21 ↗ you could notice from this is it does go

1:14:23 ↗ down it's a uh

1:14:26 ↗ 177% well that's the next side but it's

1:14:28 ↗ a 17% per capita reduction greenhouse

1:14:32 ↗ gas emissions and a 10% overall

1:14:34 ↗ reduction and one of the when you look

1:14:37 ↗ at the the specific data that comes out

1:14:39 ↗ of a lot of this um the thms of natural

1:14:43 ↗ gas use the kilowatt hours for

1:14:46 ↗ electricity actually stays fairly

1:14:49 ↗ similar between those three years and

1:14:52 ↗ the per capita amount does decrease a

1:14:54 ↗ little bit right so even though uh the

1:14:57 ↗ emissions then aren't going down by

1:15:00 ↗ Leaps and Bounds the per capita

1:15:02 ↗ emissions is improving a little bit

1:15:04 ↗ better than overall emissions however

1:15:06 ↗ the biggest reduction in greenhouse gas

1:15:09 ↗ emissions over this uh five year time do

1:15:13 ↗ come from reductions in the carbon int

1:15:15 ↗ or improvements in the carbon intensity

1:15:18 ↗ of the psse electric so when you see

1:15:21 ↗ where these improvements coming from

1:15:24 ↗ it's reductions in emissions from

1:15:25 ↗ commercial electricity use residential

1:15:28 ↗ electricity use and Industrial Electric

1:15:30 ↗ use is that from better technology that

1:15:33 ↗ you're done I believe it's from changing

1:15:36 ↗ out their fuel

1:15:39 ↗ sources so David another thing is isn't

1:15:42 ↗ Co should be one of the things which

1:15:44 ↗ should reduce the G uh you know

1:15:47 ↗ emissions in this means this graph has

1:15:50 ↗ to be moved because of the co right

1:15:53 ↗ means or have you considered or is there

1:15:56 ↗ a consideration of covid data you know

1:15:59 ↗ because of the how much the J emissions

1:16:02 ↗ were reduced or anything I'm guessing

1:16:04 ↗ it's not considered this it just the

1:16:06 ↗ bulk data used to produce this graph is

1:16:08 ↗ that right so this data shows the data

1:16:11 ↗ from the greenhouse gas inventory years

1:16:12 ↗ we conducted and so 2019 and 2022 kind

1:16:15 ↗ of are are the ones that bookmark around

1:16:18 ↗ Co um I think one way that Co does show

1:16:21 ↗ up in this graph is there is a raw

1:16:23 ↗ reduction in vehicle miles travel based

1:16:25 ↗ on the models for the city of isqua in

1:16:29 ↗ 2022 my understanding and in talking

1:16:32 ↗ with folks who've been doing these

1:16:34 ↗ inventories uh

1:16:35 ↗ nationally that is expected to actually

1:16:38 ↗ that reduction might be leftover impacts

1:16:41 ↗ from covid-19 and while there are still

1:16:43 ↗ folks working from home um and that has

1:16:47 ↗ changed it wouldn't be surprising when

1:16:49 ↗ we do the next greenhouse gas inventory

1:16:52 ↗ to actually see an Inc increase in BM

1:16:54 ↗ again as people continue to thrive out

1:16:58 ↗ in the world right um so I think that's

1:17:02 ↗ a good example of where we can make an

1:17:05 ↗ assumption within the data that that the

1:17:07 ↗ reduction in BMT is probably prob Co

1:17:11 ↗ still and just to let you know you know

1:17:14 ↗ mean I think you guys are doing awesome

1:17:16 ↗ this is a great you know effort and just

1:17:20 ↗ to add you know even though you're

1:17:21 ↗ getting some so many question or what we

1:17:23 ↗ are asking I know how complicated the G

1:17:26 ↗ accounting gets as Stacy put it it's not

1:17:30 ↗ just that it's not science you are

1:17:31 ↗ trying to do a quantitative assessment

1:17:34 ↗ by using some qualitative data in a lot

1:17:37 ↗ of circumstances where there are

1:17:39 ↗ assumption so you know do the best you

1:17:42 ↗ can and try to get to the quantitative

1:17:44 ↗ site and that's when you know I'm saying

1:17:46 ↗ the margin of error or your assumptions

1:17:50 ↗ that language needs to be put somewhere

1:17:51 ↗ or it needs to be clear clear on your

1:17:54 ↗ graphs or the reports you might be able

1:17:56 ↗ to get a better language on that from

1:18:00 ↗ Cascadia Consulting themselves when they

1:18:02 ↗ are using the which would be worth

1:18:04 ↗ putting somewhere in the report because

1:18:06 ↗ this is a huge undertaking and I can say

1:18:09 ↗ that from personal experience I've done

1:18:11 ↗ it for on smaller scale and based on the

1:18:14 ↗ model use you use or the type of tool

1:18:17 ↗ you use you can get different results or

1:18:19 ↗ based on the data or the assumptions

1:18:21 ↗ slight change can make a difference so

1:18:24 ↗ you know there is a lot of margin of

1:18:25 ↗ error if there is a slight change so you

1:18:28 ↗ need to have that specified somewhere in

1:18:30 ↗ the report that's just yeah no I

1:18:33 ↗ appreciate that and I can reach out to

1:18:34 ↗ Cascada to see if they have a specific

1:18:36 ↗ margin of eror that's you getting so

1:18:38 ↗ many questions as well because you know

1:18:41 ↗ it's it's not an exact science or it's

1:18:43 ↗ not just quantitative data no and and we

1:18:46 ↗ anticipated lots of questions there is

1:18:48 ↗ this is very

1:18:49 ↗ complex topic and we know it's a a high

1:18:53 ↗ interest so thank you definitely was

1:18:54 ↗ expecting many questions here just quick

1:18:57 ↗ note on

1:18:59 ↗ that they focuses really well on like

1:19:02 ↗ what would the feedback be for for you

1:19:04 ↗ for the for next steps I do

1:19:07 ↗ think the statement of facts of like

1:19:09 ↗ what is the content like before the

1:19:12 ↗ slides of like what the graphs are doing

1:19:14 ↗ this like not only the model but also

1:19:16 ↗ some of the context you're providing to

1:19:17 ↗ us now around like the impacts of covid

1:19:21 ↗ the electrical G changes

1:19:23 ↗ all of that as a like as context going

1:19:26 ↗ into when someone sees numbers because

1:19:28 ↗ as soon as people see numbers their eyes

1:19:30 ↗ go they they go brains go red everything

1:19:33 ↗ so I think the more you can do to set

1:19:34 ↗ the stage of like what is the context

1:19:36 ↗ here before you show even any specific

1:19:39 ↗ numbers what is the context population

1:19:42 ↗ of a squad went up by X this was this is

1:19:45 ↗ an impact the the impact of of covid on

1:19:48 ↗ on driving is this amount of like not

1:19:52 ↗ you don't have to quantify but like this

1:19:53 ↗ is an impact what are those things that

1:19:55 ↗ like someone coming into this C needs as

1:19:59 ↗ context would be maybe the first slide

1:20:01 ↗ like one of the earlier slides before

1:20:03 ↗ any specific

1:20:06 ↗ numbers

1:20:09 ↗ recommendation Dixie goad I I I have a

1:20:12 ↗ clarifying question and maybe it's in

1:20:14 ↗ here I'm looking at it again to see if I

1:20:15 ↗ missed it but um you're presenting

1:20:19 ↗ data um but what is the what are what

1:20:23 ↗ are we trying to get the council to do

1:20:27 ↗ with this data and I think maybe that is

1:20:30 ↗ also a good place like if I'm presenting

1:20:32 ↗ new information to people that I haven't

1:20:35 ↗ given information to i' like to start

1:20:37 ↗ with what am I hoping that they because

1:20:40 ↗ I think we have we have an agenda

1:20:41 ↗ obviously um so we want them to go with

1:20:45 ↗ our

1:20:46 ↗ agenda um you know and so what does that

1:20:49 ↗ look like in presenting the data so that

1:20:50 ↗ they're led to go wow this is important

1:20:52 ↗ and we need to do I you know I guess and

1:20:55 ↗ maybe it's in here like I said I I may

1:20:57 ↗ have missed it but um like what is the

1:21:00 ↗ goal of the presentation to the council

1:21:04 ↗ yeah that's a that's a great question

1:21:06 ↗ and I I would probably say the goal for

1:21:08 ↗ the presentation to council is really to

1:21:11 ↗ one give them a just raw what is the

1:21:14 ↗ update on our CommunityWide and then our

1:21:17 ↗ government operations greenhouse gas

1:21:18 ↗ inventory right as we're thinking about

1:21:21 ↗ implementing our cap our functional plan

1:21:24 ↗ there um that's kind of data that

1:21:26 ↗ Council needs to see I think the other

1:21:29 ↗ piece of this and this comes out a

1:21:32 ↗ little bit later on in the presentation

1:21:33 ↗ is where do we then focus our efforts at

1:21:37 ↗ the city right and I think one of the

1:21:39 ↗ pieces that this uh inventory results

1:21:44 ↗ really highlights is that the focus to

1:21:48 ↗ to reach our IAP targets and our IAP

1:21:51 ↗ goals we really need to continue

1:21:52 ↗ continue to focus um and maybe

1:21:54 ↗ prioritize Focus within uh reducing

1:21:57 ↗ emissions from our built environment and

1:21:59 ↗ then from Transportation our two largest

1:22:01 ↗ sources of greenhouse gas emissions if

1:22:03 ↗ we want any hope of reaching those

1:22:05 ↗ targets right um and so I think that's a

1:22:09 ↗ good method of thinking about what is it

1:22:11 ↗ going to really take for us to to get

1:22:14 ↗ these emissions reductions and then

1:22:15 ↗ where where are we going to have to

1:22:17 ↗ focus at the

1:22:21 ↗ city

1:22:23 ↗ just one quick question and and did you

1:22:25 ↗ I saw you were had your hand raised did

1:22:27 ↗ you have something to say

1:22:30 ↗ or up now but

1:22:33 ↗ I I think can you hear

1:22:35 ↗ me okay I think um David and Dixie

1:22:40 ↗ addressed what I was going to say which

1:22:43 ↗ is basically

1:22:45 ↗ um we want the city council to continue

1:22:49 ↗ to support our climate change efforts um

1:22:54 ↗ and so

1:22:56 ↗ possibly we need to amp up our um

1:23:00 ↗ communication on the solutions and how

1:23:03 ↗ we will need you know these are these

1:23:04 ↗ are what we can do to um get to a better

1:23:08 ↗ report next time because we clearly need

1:23:10 ↗ to continue to do better um

1:23:16 ↗ and we're going to need support from

1:23:18 ↗ city council and maybe it would be

1:23:20 ↗ helpful for them

1:23:23 ↗ if we can before the report be before um

1:23:26 ↗ February to

1:23:28 ↗ enumerate

1:23:30 ↗ um where we might need some

1:23:37 ↗ funds just one quick point that might be

1:23:39 ↗ interesting might be able to capture in

1:23:41 ↗ the vehicle

1:23:42 ↗ emissions curious how much there's a

1:23:44 ↗ slight reduction there between 17 and 22

1:23:47 ↗ I'm curious how much of that is the sale

1:23:49 ↗ of

1:23:50 ↗ EVS um in 17 EVS w't quite as prevalent

1:23:54 ↗ as they are now I think you might be

1:23:55 ↗ able to dig that information up in re

1:23:58 ↗ wide percentage of EVS being sold kind

1:24:00 ↗ of like that yeah I can definitely look

1:24:04 ↗ that number up I don't think that

1:24:06 ↗ um that is probably good news St yeah

1:24:10 ↗ that yeah that would be um something

1:24:12 ↗ that could be helpful to to be able to

1:24:15 ↗ frame the

1:24:20 ↗ conversation any other questions on

1:24:23 ↗ CommunityWide Trends the next switch is

1:24:26 ↗ going to be on government operations

1:24:28 ↗ inventory I do have yes one thing that I

1:24:32 ↗ would love to hear included in this is

1:24:38 ↗ how this data will be tied back to the

1:24:42 ↗ IAP update that one thing that one

1:24:45 ↗ frustration I've had with IAP overall um

1:24:48 ↗ since Inception is the lack of specific

1:24:51 ↗ numbers other than our overall targets

1:24:54 ↗ but a lot of the goals don't get into

1:24:55 ↗ the specifics of what our goal is for

1:24:57 ↗ savings and so I I think one of the

1:25:00 ↗ things that if I was Council I'd love to

1:25:01 ↗ hear is okay we know these are the

1:25:03 ↗ numbers what we're now going to do is

1:25:06 ↗ translate them into like apply these

1:25:08 ↗ into our update IAP to understand okay

1:25:12 ↗ we now know where we need to get these

1:25:14 ↗ things we think are going to do this

1:25:15 ↗ amount I've seen other climate action

1:25:17 ↗ plans that are much more specific on

1:25:19 ↗ expected emission reductions and so I

1:25:21 ↗ just think that this is a good

1:25:23 ↗ opportunity along because we're also

1:25:25 ↗ doing that update this year to begin

1:25:27 ↗ that conversation I don't know exactly

1:25:29 ↗ what that looks like but I think if I

1:25:31 ↗ was cancel I would appreciate it if we

1:25:33 ↗ went another step of talking about okay

1:25:36 ↗ what how are we going to then now use

1:25:37 ↗ this data to inform what we're doing

1:25:41 ↗ with so I think on that point and and 10

1:25:46 ↗ 15 slides down the line I mentioned the

1:25:48 ↗ IAP update and and midpoint check-in

1:25:50 ↗ process so just as a clarification this

1:25:52 ↗ year is the the midpoint checkin on the

1:25:54 ↗ IAP and the actual midpoint or the

1:25:57 ↗ actual IAP update won't happen until

1:25:59 ↗ 2025 2026 here so one interesting note

1:26:04 ↗ on that is if we were able to do another

1:26:08 ↗ greenhouse gas inventory in 2024 which

1:26:10 ↗ is the the hope would have even more

1:26:12 ↗ data to then bring into that actual

1:26:14 ↗ update process in 20125 and

1:26:17 ↗ 2026 um so that is good news hopefully

1:26:21 ↗ um the other piece is for some of these

1:26:26 ↗ inventories there's the the idea of the

1:26:28 ↗ wedge analysis right thinking about what

1:26:30 ↗ are the different actions that are going

1:26:31 ↗ to take to

1:26:33 ↗ reduce uh emissions and and kind of over

1:26:36 ↗ that that time span between now and 2025

1:26:40 ↗ 2050 for instance how do we want

1:26:42 ↗ emissions to look like to to get to

1:26:44 ↗ those targets um and generally it was

1:26:48 ↗ decided among the East Side cities that

1:26:50 ↗ participated in this um effort to not do

1:26:53 ↗ the wedge for this update um and

1:26:57 ↗ probably do that in future updates but

1:27:00 ↗ the general idea was that which is I

1:27:02 ↗ think roughly what we're what your point

1:27:04 ↗ was getting at um I think generally the

1:27:07 ↗ idea was that uh we have a wedge

1:27:10 ↗ analysis from 2019 as part of the

1:27:12 ↗ regional greenhouse gas emissions um

1:27:15 ↗ inventory conducted by PSR Rea um and

1:27:19 ↗ that that doing that update ated wedge

1:27:22 ↗ analysis was going to be a costly

1:27:25 ↗ addition to this and wouldn't

1:27:27 ↗ necessarily tell us a whole lot new but

1:27:29 ↗ that if we were to save at doing that

1:27:31 ↗ for later this would help us get that

1:27:34 ↗ snapshot in time to continue to be able

1:27:36 ↗ to focus and say hey look the built

1:27:38 ↗ environment and transportation are still

1:27:40 ↗ our biggest sources of emissions and

1:27:42 ↗ Emissions reduction is really driven by

1:27:45 ↗ the utility and here's what we can do to

1:27:48 ↗ to fit into this Patchwork of of efforts

1:27:50 ↗ to to meet our goals

1:27:53 ↗ does that help a little bit Yeah I think

1:27:58 ↗ no I think it does my point was a bit

1:28:00 ↗ broader just in as we think about how

1:28:03 ↗ numbers come to life in the icap

1:28:06 ↗ planning in

1:28:07 ↗ general I think looking back that was

1:28:11 ↗ and this was feedback that myself and

1:28:13 ↗ others had when we originally passed IAP

1:28:15 ↗ was that there wasn't enough spec like

1:28:17 ↗ specific there were there weren't enough

1:28:19 ↗ specific goals and I think the right

1:28:20 ↗ time that start having that convers

1:28:22 ↗ ation whether we're not going to make

1:28:24 ↗ that level of update at this midpoint

1:28:26 ↗ update and it's only in 2025 I still

1:28:28 ↗ think that's a conversation we should

1:28:29 ↗ start having um so that it was a broader

1:28:32 ↗ point I think sure I think the wedge

1:28:34 ↗ analysis is a great tool as part of that

1:28:36 ↗ so I think think it's more of General

1:28:39 ↗ conversation I think it would be helpful

1:28:41 ↗ to start having absolutely I think

1:28:43 ↗ that's a great

1:28:49 ↗ point oh an yeah I'll try to be quick so

1:28:53 ↗ um what do you think

1:28:56 ↗ about saving money and

1:28:59 ↗ time uh and having our next analysis be

1:29:05 ↗ on in

1:29:07 ↗ 2026 because in

1:29:09 ↗ 2026 we will have coal out of our mix

1:29:13 ↗ and so our our electrical greenhouse gas

1:29:16 ↗ emissions will potentially come way

1:29:20 ↗ down um

1:29:22 ↗ and in between now and then I think we

1:29:24 ↗ know what we need to work on it seems

1:29:26 ↗ clear and that could that open up some

1:29:30 ↗ more time and energy and money to work

1:29:34 ↗ on the real solutions that we know we

1:29:36 ↗ need to work

1:29:37 ↗ on yeah I think that's a great Point

1:29:40 ↗ thinking about just that Cadence of

1:29:41 ↗ these greenhouse gas emissions

1:29:43 ↗ inventories I think the the model the

1:29:46 ↗ East Side City partnership was moving

1:29:49 ↗ towards is is looking at doing those

1:29:52 ↗ every two years roughly um Belleview

1:29:54 ↗ does them every single year because

1:29:56 ↗ that's a request by their city council

1:29:59 ↗ um we kind of felt like that wasn't

1:30:03 ↗ necessary you know the the um emissions

1:30:07 ↗ changes on a year-to-year basis aren't

1:30:10 ↗ uh necessarily that large and they don't

1:30:13 ↗ often change direction of where we're

1:30:15 ↗ what efforts we want to do um so I think

1:30:18 ↗ you know whether we do it in 2024 2026

1:30:22 ↗ that's um something that we can

1:30:24 ↗ absolutely consider is kind of what is

1:30:26 ↗ that what is the correct Cadence for us

1:30:28 ↗ to be doing these these inventories

1:30:30 ↗ luckily in partnering with the East Side

1:30:33 ↗ cities and this was kind of our first

1:30:35 ↗ year doing this in part the greenhouse

1:30:37 ↗ gas inventory in partnership with them

1:30:39 ↗ hopefully the burden is becomes less the

1:30:43 ↗ the effort actually becomes less to do

1:30:45 ↗ this on a year a year basis since we

1:30:47 ↗ have kind of this ongoing partnership

1:30:49 ↗ and contract with cascad to be doing it

1:30:51 ↗ so so in theory we should be able to do

1:30:54 ↗ these

1:30:55 ↗ um with less less effort and investment

1:30:59 ↗ City cool do you know what the cost

1:31:03 ↗ is just got yeah it

1:31:05 ↗ was yeah our portion was about 14,000

1:31:09 ↗ and that was for both of the inventories

1:31:11 ↗ as well as um they did update the

1:31:16 ↗ 20 inventory with the new methodology

1:31:19 ↗ that was applied in the most recent one

1:31:22 ↗ cool so the next one the price may go

1:31:24 ↗ down but still like 10 or 14,000 like we

1:31:28 ↗ think about that like oh um where else

1:31:32 ↗ could that be spent that could actually

1:31:34 ↗ help us reduce our

1:31:37 ↗ emissions just a thought yeah no it's

1:31:40 ↗ great suggestion I think most of the

1:31:43 ↗ Cities would prefer to do these less

1:31:44 ↗ frequently I think we're trying to

1:31:47 ↗ figure out what the right timeline is

1:31:49 ↗ for us yeah and that's $144,000 and plus

1:31:52 ↗ all the time that you guys spend on

1:31:56 ↗ it I think the risk there is if if the

1:31:59 ↗ update of IAP is in 2025 and anything

1:32:01 ↗ out of the inventory is important to how

1:32:03 ↗ we set goals how we understand where we

1:32:06 ↗ need to get that 14,000 actually sounds

1:32:09 ↗ quite small and it's how we're

1:32:11 ↗ allocating hundreds of thousands or

1:32:13 ↗ millions of dollars to invest in a plan

1:32:15 ↗ so I I would just caution us that we

1:32:18 ↗ make sure that that's the right like

1:32:21 ↗ that 14 is actually much lower than I

1:32:23 ↗ was expecting here and that especially

1:32:25 ↗ if we're talking about a plan that's

1:32:26 ↗ going to last like a longer term plan I

1:32:29 ↗ would be concerned if this was maybe we

1:32:32 ↗ said hey this missions analysis isn't

1:32:34 ↗ important for that uh that would be one

1:32:36 ↗ thing but if this is going to be an

1:32:37 ↗ important resource for that that would

1:32:39 ↗ be a concern I think well just remember

1:32:42 ↗ 2026 is only two years away correct yeah

1:32:46 ↗ the the Cadence and the

1:32:48 ↗ timing reports now is also right ahead

1:32:51 ↗ of our budget cycle so that's did

1:32:54 ↗ mention that and this will feed into our

1:32:56 ↗ conversation with Council about the IAP

1:32:58 ↗ midpoint checkin we have the results now

1:33:01 ↗ for Budget justification so we would

1:33:04 ↗ also have that um next version of the

1:33:07 ↗ inventory ahead of the go 27 27 28

1:33:12 ↗ budget

1:33:13 ↗ so I twoyear cycle keeps your Trend

1:33:17 ↗ going and if you're do at 2024

1:33:20 ↗ evaluation you're not

1:33:23 ↗ yes or late 2025 2026 yeah great

1:33:29 ↗ consideration

1:33:32 ↗ and jumping into Municipal

1:33:35 ↗ operations um so this is our very first

1:33:39 ↗ government operations greenhouse gas

1:33:41 ↗ inventory this is much based much more

1:33:44 ↗ based on um specific data we have right

1:33:48 ↗ so we were able to get from Puget Sound

1:33:50 ↗ Energy

1:33:52 ↗ how much electricity we used for our

1:33:55 ↗ government operations in 2022 we were

1:33:59 ↗ able to run a report with our fleet team

1:34:02 ↗ and figure out how much um gasoline did

1:34:06 ↗ we use uh for all of our vehicles right

1:34:10 ↗ we were able to input specifically our

1:34:12 ↗ specific electric vehicle mix for 20122

1:34:16 ↗ which was just one Nan Leaf so that

1:34:18 ↗ didn't have a huge

1:34:20 ↗ impact

1:34:22 ↗ we have that reflected in here

1:34:26 ↗ um overall the the government operations

1:34:29 ↗ inventory uh represents rough roughly 1%

1:34:32 ↗ of our CommunityWide emissions um the

1:34:36 ↗ emissions per full-time employee is uh

1:34:40 ↗ roughly on even again on par again with

1:34:43 ↗ our regional partner cities um we're

1:34:46 ↗ again right in the middle between um

1:34:48 ↗ bellw Kirkland redent and Mercer Island

1:34:52 ↗ um there are a number of different

1:34:54 ↗ things to note about this inventory so

1:34:57 ↗ for one uh the electricity that's

1:35:00 ↗ reported here electricity consumption

1:35:02 ↗ here is not fully representative of all

1:35:05 ↗ the electricity consumed uh at the city

1:35:09 ↗ because 79% of that Municipal

1:35:12 ↗ electricity is on the green direct

1:35:14 ↗ program which is a direct match for

1:35:16 ↗ match electric kilowatt of electricity

1:35:18 ↗ use here at the city with renewable

1:35:22 ↗ sources uh in western Washington there's

1:35:26 ↗ a Wind Facility and a solar facility

1:35:28 ↗ that's specifically relate to that and

1:35:30 ↗ through long conversations with uh

1:35:32 ↗ Cascadia Consulting and fugit Sound

1:35:35 ↗ Energy the decision was that this green

1:35:38 ↗ direct program was uh a a good match for

1:35:42 ↗ uh a good match of electricity use here

1:35:45 ↗ with the uh renewable energy development

1:35:48 ↗ in uh that we subscribe

1:35:50 ↗ to so this is actually the first

1:35:53 ↗ government operations inventory that

1:35:55 ↗ Cascadia has uh

1:35:57 ↗ reflected uh government electricity in

1:36:00 ↗ this way so that's important to note and

1:36:04 ↗ we are in conversations with Puget Sound

1:36:06 ↗ Energy about how we can um address the

1:36:09 ↗ rest of our uh electricity with uh

1:36:13 ↗ similar freefor

1:36:19 ↗ programs buying

1:36:22 ↗ electricity

1:36:24 ↗ PSC while investing into their green

1:36:28 ↗ generation system yeah so there's a

1:36:30 ↗ specific program called Green direct

1:36:32 ↗ which is what 79% of our Municipal

1:36:35 ↗ electricity is on um and essentially we

1:36:37 ↗ pay a premium on some of our electricity

1:36:41 ↗ the reason it's not 100% is because we

1:36:43 ↗ have changed our service levels over the

1:36:46 ↗ years and that's kind

1:36:48 ↗ of put some of our accounts out Etc but

1:36:53 ↗ when we purchase into it they developed

1:36:56 ↗ um a solar fa facility in lond and then

1:36:59 ↗ a Wind Facility

1:37:01 ↗ inum Chuck Washington um and basically

1:37:05 ↗ they opened this program up to mainly

1:37:08 ↗ Municipal customers and public customers

1:37:12 ↗ um and we could buy essentially a

1:37:14 ↗ certain number of of shares and connect

1:37:17 ↗ a certain number of our accounts with

1:37:19 ↗ the expected electri electricity

1:37:21 ↗ generation of those renewable

1:37:24 ↗ facilities so those the electric gen

1:37:29 ↗ we're essentially saying that the

1:37:30 ↗ electricity consumed here at the city

1:37:33 ↗ through on the accounts that are on the

1:37:35 ↗ green direct program that electricity is

1:37:38 ↗ coming from those um renewable systems

1:37:42 ↗ even though it's not you know one for

1:37:44 ↗ one electrons but it is uh that

1:37:46 ↗ electricity is only getting accounted

1:37:49 ↗ for our city accounts and not being

1:37:52 ↗ included in psc's you know greenhouse

1:37:55 ↗ gas inventory or you know on on their um

1:37:58 ↗ general grid uh how plant clean their

1:38:02 ↗ grid is

1:38:04 ↗ ETC does that help get a certification

1:38:07 ↗ for those credits so a document that

1:38:14 ↗ double I consider because I think that's

1:38:16 ↗ different than the residential like

1:38:18 ↗ green power and choice like I assumed it

1:38:21 ↗ was that this is actually better than

1:38:23 ↗ what I yes you might just mention that

1:38:25 ↗ because I think that's a better than

1:38:28 ↗ most people won't know that does is yeah

1:38:30 ↗ so this is one I think just like little

1:38:32 ↗ details here right the green direct

1:38:34 ↗ program is better than the green power

1:38:36 ↗ program the green direct program is

1:38:38 ↗ fully subscribed so if we were to

1:38:39 ↗ transition additional electric accounts

1:38:42 ↗ onto green purchasing programs it would

1:38:45 ↗ be the general uh commercial green power

1:38:48 ↗ program which is not as good in that

1:38:50 ↗ it's not as local renewable energy uh

1:38:54 ↗ Generation Um and the green director

1:38:57 ↗ program is fully subscribed and they're

1:38:59 ↗ not planning on currently expanding it

1:39:01 ↗ so we can't put more accounts on it

1:39:03 ↗ unfortunately however we're exploring

1:39:06 ↗ what other options look

1:39:08 ↗ like so I'm kind of changing subjects so

1:39:11 ↗ we done with that last one just before I

1:39:14 ↗ move on to different thought proc sure

1:39:16 ↗ I'm looking at your final bullet on this

1:39:18 ↗ page yeah and I know the city did some

1:39:21 ↗ construction projects they hired outside

1:39:23 ↗ contractors for such as a water pipeline

1:39:25 ↗ up on the hillside up here and stuff

1:39:27 ↗ like that are those included in this or

1:39:29 ↗ they excluded

1:39:31 ↗ from because that City

1:39:34 ↗ money that's a good question I believe

1:39:37 ↗ they're excluded from this you might

1:39:39 ↗ want to know that in your discussion

1:39:40 ↗ that Cy capital projects are not

1:39:42 ↗ included in this

1:39:50 ↗ inventory

1:39:51 ↗ yeah so this is specifically vehicle

1:39:54 ↗ miles traveled in emissions associated

1:39:56 ↗ with city

1:39:58 ↗ owns I just think that should be clear

1:40:00 ↗ because our operations does include

1:40:02 ↗ projects that we're paying

1:40:06 ↗ for good

1:40:10 ↗ clarification I think one of the other

1:40:11 ↗ things I want to point out here is that

1:40:14 ↗ you know natural gas is a little over a

1:40:17 ↗ quarter of our government operations in

1:40:22 ↗ most of that comes from three buildings

1:40:24 ↗ right the pool the Public Works complex

1:40:27 ↗ and then the community center right and

1:40:30 ↗ so one of the other topics that we

1:40:31 ↗ brought before the board before was our

1:40:33 ↗ Municipal Building Greenhouse no

1:40:36 ↗ Municipal Building decarbonization

1:40:38 ↗ assessment excuse me um and so there are

1:40:41 ↗ going to be different programs that are

1:40:42 ↗ specifically looking at how can we take

1:40:45 ↗ that natural gas use out of our

1:40:48 ↗ facilities right and we're currently

1:40:50 ↗ moving forward with a number of

1:40:51 ↗ different projects that hopefully are

1:40:53 ↗ going to going to help reduce this

1:40:56 ↗ number um our largest emissions within

1:41:00 ↗ Transportation are our Fleet do come

1:41:03 ↗ from law enforcement vehicles and then

1:41:05 ↗ the utility and construction maintenance

1:41:06 ↗ vehicles are our kind of second tier

1:41:09 ↗ there and then the other one I want to

1:41:11 ↗ point out is this challenge of employee

1:41:13 ↗ commute which is a whole quarter of our

1:41:16 ↗ government operations emissions right

1:41:18 ↗ and that is uh

1:41:21 ↗ that is going to be a hard n to crack as

1:41:23 ↗ we think about uh the different ways

1:41:25 ↗ that we can uh reduce those emissions we

1:41:28 ↗ do have the commute trip ruction program

1:41:30 ↗ we've got uh

1:41:31 ↗ teleworking we have public transit Etc

1:41:35 ↗ but um when we think about where our

1:41:38 ↗ Municipal programs can best address our

1:41:41 ↗ emissions it's most likely going to be

1:41:42 ↗ again in that built environment and

1:41:44 ↗ transportation space so electricity

1:41:46 ↗ natural gas and then the onroad fleet

1:41:48 ↗ and we have a number of different uh

1:41:50 ↗ projects in

1:41:51 ↗ specific to

1:41:52 ↗ that um on page 52 when we talk about

1:41:55 ↗ the trip reduction I do think there

1:41:57 ↗ should be a mention of remote work Flex

1:41:59 ↗ schedules um it's my understanding

1:42:02 ↗ from over the years that each department

1:42:05 ↗ operated differently and have their own

1:42:07 ↗ culture of how they address and what

1:42:09 ↗ really needs to happen is a shift in the

1:42:11 ↗ administration to promote the things

1:42:13 ↗ that we know will actually bring these

1:42:14 ↗ numers down right now there is not a

1:42:16 ↗ blanket approval for remote work a lot

1:42:20 ↗ of employees right it's depending on

1:42:21 ↗ which department you're in it's

1:42:23 ↗ depending upon um how our city

1:42:25 ↗ administrator has decided that he thinks

1:42:27 ↗ it should be rather than having a

1:42:29 ↗ blanket statement of saying this is

1:42:31 ↗ something we support this is community

1:42:33 ↗ and we support for our workers right

1:42:35 ↗ being able to have flexible hours of

1:42:36 ↗ when they're coming in and out also

1:42:39 ↗ helps with how much pollution they're

1:42:40 ↗ having rather than idle in right there's

1:42:42 ↗ a lot of different things that we can do

1:42:44 ↗ um and there's a culture shift that I

1:42:46 ↗ think needs to be addressed and it kind

1:42:47 ↗ of goes back to the things have been

1:42:49 ↗ talking about as to

1:42:51 ↗ what's the what are we trying to

1:42:53 ↗ advocate for with these numbers it's

1:42:55 ↗ something that I had coming up time and

1:42:56 ↗ time again was well where do we want to

1:42:58 ↗ go and where do we expect this needle to

1:43:00 ↗ fall and part of that isn't just um it

1:43:03 ↗ it's part of it too is a culture that we

1:43:05 ↗ need to be say we need to be doing this

1:43:07 ↗ differently and we can do this

1:43:08 ↗ differently um and I didn't really get

1:43:11 ↗ that from this presentation of where we

1:43:13 ↗ go what are we hoping to do and this is

1:43:16 ↗ a tangible example of something where we

1:43:17 ↗ can say we need to have remote work and

1:43:20 ↗ flexible work options for

1:43:25 ↗ all yeah I appreciate

1:43:28 ↗ that I think one positive is that we did

1:43:32 ↗ get preliminary numbers back in December

1:43:36 ↗ and some of these employee commute um

1:43:39 ↗ percent numbers were shared with the

1:43:42 ↗ city administrator and helped inform the

1:43:44 ↗ continuation of the policy to allow um

1:43:48 ↗ remote work for four out of the five

1:43:49 ↗ days of the week

1:43:51 ↗ so in in that way it has had some

1:43:54 ↗ tangible impacts already which is really

1:43:58 ↗ wonderful so that's just to be clear

1:44:01 ↗ that that 25% is obviously not everyone

1:44:04 ↗ sticks to the

1:44:06 ↗ policy but so that Stacy might have more

1:44:10 ↗ information on the policy specific but

1:44:12 ↗ there are definitely departments

1:44:14 ↗ especially ones where folks have to come

1:44:16 ↗ in to the office to do their job so

1:44:18 ↗ there's definitely the variety of

1:44:21 ↗ yeah if you work at the permit desk

1:44:26 ↗ hard are but there are places to

1:44:31 ↗ absolutely departments having more

1:44:33 ↗ harmonious culture right and right now

1:44:35 ↗ it's very peace yeah we have a um free

1:44:39 ↗ charging policy for staff right now a

1:44:41 ↗ pilot program too but I think one thing

1:44:44 ↗ to consider is we can address our

1:44:48 ↗ buildings we can address our Fleet this

1:44:50 ↗ is employee commute may become 90% of

1:44:54 ↗ our um emissions over time I mean we'll

1:44:57 ↗ see the number shrink but that

1:44:58 ↗ percentage of it because we have a we

1:45:01 ↗ have less control on which vehicles

1:45:04 ↗ employees are purchasing or where

1:45:07 ↗ they're hired from um where they're

1:45:09 ↗ traveling from we'll definitely be

1:45:11 ↗ promoting you know the public transit

1:45:13 ↗ and all those things but just know it's

1:45:15 ↗ just a percentage of our total emissions

1:45:17 ↗ and we hope to shrink our buildings and

1:45:19 ↗ fleets iFly so something's going to have

1:45:22 ↗ to grow in the pie well I mean we can

1:45:25 ↗ use lobbying efforts to advocate for

1:45:27 ↗ civil servants getting specific

1:45:29 ↗ subsidies right I mean there's there's

1:45:31 ↗ different things that we can do to help

1:45:32 ↗ promote portions of our population

1:45:34 ↗ having better access to buying and elect

1:45:37 ↗ absolutely yeah there's other things we

1:45:39 ↗ could do to within our tools right

1:45:43 ↗ absolutely yeah we we want to see our

1:45:45 ↗ government operations um reduced just

1:45:48 ↗ noting that we're going to see some

1:45:49 ↗ shifts in this p as we do you know if we

1:45:52 ↗ eliminate essentially that 21% of

1:45:54 ↗ electricity because we're able to buy

1:45:56 ↗ green power that number will shrink

1:45:58 ↗ somewhere else on the pie is going to

1:46:00 ↗ have to grow as a percentage of our

1:46:05 ↗ emissions question your electricity

1:46:07 ↗ natural gas that includes all City

1:46:09 ↗ facilities yes then where is your

1:46:12 ↗ equipment where's your Offroad Fleet

1:46:15 ↗ off-road Fleet um it's

1:46:19 ↗ that under 1% there there's a other

1:46:23 ↗ sources no it actually says off-road

1:46:26 ↗ Fleet underneath on onroad fleet missor

1:46:29 ↗ yeah it's a very small CLI

1:46:38 ↗ um so uh potentially this would be a a

1:46:43 ↗ slide to bring farther up as we

1:46:45 ↗ potentially as we talked to council but

1:46:47 ↗ this is specifically noting different

1:46:50 ↗ prr programs incentives policies um both

1:46:54 ↗ that we at the city are are pursuing as

1:46:56 ↗ well as or or you know actively working

1:46:59 ↗ on um as well at the state level that

1:47:01 ↗ will help us get to specific sources of

1:47:04 ↗ emissions right so Energy Smart east

1:47:06 ↗ side is a CommunityWide emissions that

1:47:08 ↗ will help reduce the natural gas uh

1:47:12 ↗ consumption in our community while

1:47:15 ↗ increasing um electricity consumption

1:47:17 ↗ the clean buildings Pro incentive

1:47:19 ↗ program again similarly will help both

1:47:21 ↗ reduce electric consumption through

1:47:23 ↗ Energy Efficiency as well as reducing

1:47:25 ↗ natural gas through the decarbonization

1:47:27 ↗ and electrification of um mainly large

1:47:31 ↗ but but other um commercial facilities

1:47:35 ↗ then there are a number of different um

1:47:38 ↗ state state efforts right so the

1:47:41 ↗ Washington building standards which are

1:47:42 ↗ going to help um address emissions from

1:47:45 ↗ new buildings there's the clean energy

1:47:46 ↗ transformation act which will help

1:47:49 ↗ address emissions from from our

1:47:50 ↗ electricity sector as that going to go

1:47:53 ↗ down one that we didn't have on here is

1:47:55 ↗ um Title 18 and thinking about how we

1:47:58 ↗ build a uh addressed our land use

1:48:01 ↗ patterns to build a more walkable

1:48:02 ↗ bikable isqua that will hopefully help

1:48:06 ↗ uh reduce our transportation emissions

1:48:08 ↗ and again down the line down the down

1:48:10 ↗ the line thinking about when light rail

1:48:12 ↗ gets to the city hopefully that'll have

1:48:14 ↗ an impact again on uh some emissions

1:48:18 ↗ thinking about our government sources

1:48:19 ↗ green direct is specifically focused at

1:48:21 ↗ that um government electricity um uh

1:48:25 ↗ greenhouse gas emissions the municipal

1:48:27 ↗ building decarbonization efforts which

1:48:29 ↗ includes both the feasibility analysis

1:48:31 ↗ the energy Audits and specific projects

1:48:33 ↗ that's going to help reduce that fossil

1:48:35 ↗ fuel uh natural gas portion of the

1:48:38 ↗ government operations thinking about our

1:48:40 ↗ own efforts um within the city to

1:48:42 ↗ transition our Fleet of vehicles to

1:48:45 ↗ electric vehicles and build out the

1:48:47 ↗ infrastructure to support that and then

1:48:49 ↗ again the commute trip Reduction Program

1:48:52 ↗ which was mentioned before and I know is

1:48:54 ↗ um going to get more attention I believe

1:48:56 ↗ this year as well so this is to just

1:48:59 ↗ highlight a few of the different

1:49:01 ↗ projects and efforts that are all uh

1:49:04 ↗ focused on different pieces of uh of our

1:49:07 ↗ those graphs and different pieces of our

1:49:09 ↗ mission sources

1:49:12 ↗ and you have a question thanks David uh

1:49:15 ↗ yes I think this is what I was

1:49:18 ↗ addressing earlier um

1:49:20 ↗ what do you think about adding some

1:49:24 ↗ more

1:49:26 ↗ solutions that um we're going to need

1:49:30 ↗ financial

1:49:31 ↗ support approved by the city council for

1:49:35 ↗ in this in this

1:49:38 ↗ area yeah I think that's that's a great

1:49:41 ↗ recommendation and something that we can

1:49:43 ↗ we can definitely include um I think

1:49:46 ↗ when it comes to specific numbers that

1:49:48 ↗ we can make we can make assumptions on

1:49:52 ↗ uh on um really financially what's it

1:49:56 ↗ going to going to take to decarbonize

1:49:59 ↗ for instance our own municipal buildings

1:50:00 ↗ or electrifier Fleet and that's a lot of

1:50:02 ↗ what we're going to be learning this

1:50:04 ↗ spring through a number of different

1:50:05 ↗ analyses right um and then we can also

1:50:08 ↗ talk about how uh to address those

1:50:12 ↗ emissions CommunityWide when we think

1:50:13 ↗ about where the city can fit into that

1:50:16 ↗ um we can we can mention the the need

1:50:18 ↗ for continued investment and engagement

1:50:21 ↗ in a number of the different programs

1:50:23 ↗ that already exist but also think about

1:50:25 ↗ um where else the city can kind of plug

1:50:27 ↗ into to the patchwork of efforts to to

1:50:30 ↗ help bring those numbers down so I think

1:50:33 ↗ that's a great

1:50:34 ↗ suggestion great

1:50:42 ↗ thanks so I know we're we're getting

1:50:44 ↗ close to the end of the the meeting so

1:50:47 ↗ uh I think kind of someone not some

1:50:50 ↗ overall analysis one of the the um

1:50:53 ↗ takeaways is that we are making

1:50:55 ↗ significant progress towards some of our

1:50:57 ↗ IAP goals um and we're not making a lot

1:51:01 ↗ of progress in other icap goals right

1:51:04 ↗ and so there is going to be uh you know

1:51:08 ↗ we have to continue to invest in our

1:51:11 ↗ efforts around building emissions and

1:51:14 ↗ transportation emissions um Etc to

1:51:16 ↗ really to really help us get to those uh

1:51:20 ↗ get to those goals let

1:51:24 ↗ see I have to disagree with okay I don't

1:51:28 ↗ think we are making significant progress

1:51:31 ↗ I think 177% production is just DP a

1:51:36 ↗ dribble and so I really question your

1:51:39 ↗ first

1:51:41 ↗ bullet the first bullet there are some

1:51:45 ↗ specific goals we are getting closer to

1:51:48 ↗ so for instance one of the Targets in

1:51:49 ↗ the I cap is to transition 100% of our

1:51:53 ↗ Municipal electricity to renewable

1:51:54 ↗ sources so we are getting closer to that

1:51:57 ↗ through the PSC programs and then

1:52:00 ↗ another one that is we're making

1:52:03 ↗ progress to that I would say you know

1:52:06 ↗ we have we are not achieving yet um but

1:52:10 ↗ for instance is the um energy use

1:52:13 ↗ reduction in existing buildings right so

1:52:15 ↗ there are specific Targets in the IAP

1:52:17 ↗ around percent reductions there that

1:52:19 ↗ we're getting that we're making more

1:52:21 ↗ significant progress to we still have a

1:52:23 ↗ lot to go there but luckily the data is

1:52:26 ↗ showing that we have made progress

1:52:29 ↗ towards that whereas some other targets

1:52:31 ↗ where we're far yes so I guess my

1:52:35 ↗ comment to you as though we are trying

1:52:37 ↗ to get more funding and more ability to

1:52:40 ↗ do this and by saying we're making

1:52:41 ↗ significant progress they increase our

1:52:43 ↗ efforts to get more um and you say we're

1:52:48 ↗ working to get there but we aren't there

1:52:50 ↗ yet if we have got solar power now

1:52:53 ↗ running the pool Community Center and I

1:52:56 ↗ mean yeah we've done some stuff because

1:53:00 ↗ those are things we can control but we

1:53:02 ↗ don't have any of that we may be trying

1:53:04 ↗ to get there so I really question your

1:53:07 ↗ first bullet and if that's the message

1:53:09 ↗ you want to send to city council I

1:53:11 ↗ disagree with you and that's just my

1:53:14 ↗ opinion but I don't know how the rest of

1:53:16 ↗ the board feels I think we have a long

1:53:18 ↗ ways to go and I think need to continue

1:53:20 ↗ to make efforts to try and reduce our

1:53:24 ↗ Greenhouse you know admissions

1:53:26 ↗ demonstrate leadership to businesses in

1:53:29 ↗ this community that we are doing things

1:53:31 ↗ to be climate friendly so that people

1:53:33 ↗ like Costco and REI follow our lead and

1:53:38 ↗ that's my challenge to you is let's not

1:53:41 ↗ send the message we're making big

1:53:43 ↗ progress we are working towards a goal

1:53:46 ↗ but we've got a lot of work to do ab so

1:53:48 ↗ maybe it's a reframing things so that uh

1:53:52 ↗ we're May we're doing things but we've

1:53:54 ↗ got a lot to do right to meet our goals

1:53:58 ↗ yeah I I agree with I mean I

1:54:00 ↗ think I also don't think that this is an

1:54:02 ↗ IAP update so I do wonder if that first

1:54:06 ↗ bullet should be specific to emissions

1:54:07 ↗ targets and like our performance against

1:54:10 ↗ emissions Targets in the IAP which I I

1:54:12 ↗ don't know how we perform to we should

1:54:14 ↗ we should probably have we should have

1:54:16 ↗ the numbers of like what was our Target

1:54:18 ↗ for 2022 how are we performing relative

1:54:20 ↗ to

1:54:21 ↗ 2022 but I I do agree with with Nancy

1:54:24 ↗ that I think the first bullet doesn't

1:54:27 ↗ accurately like I think what we could

1:54:30 ↗ say is we've seen reductions but a lot

1:54:32 ↗ of it has come as a result of actions

1:54:34 ↗ outside of isqua like I that's the

1:54:36 ↗ message I get from hearing this is we're

1:54:39 ↗ benefiting from psse but we haven't

1:54:41 ↗ actually there's not been significant

1:54:43 ↗ change within the community which I

1:54:44 ↗ think is what what we're trying to get

1:54:47 ↗ done with the IAP is we're not just

1:54:49 ↗ going to sit and

1:54:50 ↗ sit wait for um for ESC to change their

1:54:54 ↗ their mix like so I I I do think that

1:54:57 ↗ the messaging here

1:55:00 ↗ is just in a different Focus than I

1:55:03 ↗ would have taken yeah I do think uh that

1:55:07 ↗ there's that talking about that talking

1:55:09 ↗ about how we're performing as overall

1:55:10 ↗ emissions targets and the addressable

1:55:13 ↗ portion of that and like what is

1:55:15 ↗ actually happening within the community

1:55:16 ↗ is how I would that bullet and if you're

1:55:19 ↗ talking Council we've got a long ways to

1:55:21 ↗ go and if we can get that message and we

1:55:23 ↗ need their support their financial

1:55:25 ↗ support their Network support because

1:55:27 ↗ they get connected businesses and you

1:55:30 ↗ know Community leaders and tribal

1:55:32 ↗ leaders and state leaders and we need

1:55:34 ↗ their help and so we want them not to

1:55:36 ↗ back off on the pedal we want them to

1:55:38 ↗ push it harder

1:55:41 ↗ okay I think the mention of the light

1:55:43 ↗ rail is a good example of that putting

1:55:45 ↗ our hopes on something in what 2046 is

1:55:48 ↗ it seems some something that it's like I

1:55:51 ↗ I I mean it seems kind of crazy for us

1:55:54 ↗ to be like we're gonna get there by the

1:55:56 ↗ time it's too late right and so the idea

1:55:58 ↗ is to say instead well how do we use

1:56:01 ↗ that power when we know where the last

1:56:02 ↗ stop what is it that we want right

1:56:05 ↗ recently were rejected for funding from

1:56:06 ↗ Olympia to even examine what it would be

1:56:08 ↗ to put a lid right and so it's like well

1:56:10 ↗ that didn't work so what else are we

1:56:12 ↗ going to do to say if this is the case

1:56:16 ↗ what do we want right I haven't seen big

1:56:18 ↗ discussions happen happen in that they

1:56:21 ↗ that transform us from saying what big

1:56:22 ↗ moves do we want to make we have a goal

1:56:24 ↗ we know where we want to go so what are

1:56:26 ↗ we going to do about it I think it's

1:56:27 ↗ being much more passive and this may be

1:56:28 ↗ an opportunity to talk about what is it

1:56:31 ↗ that we want and how do we then continue

1:56:33 ↗ to push that

1:56:35 ↗ forward I also don't see anything right

1:56:37 ↗ now um I know that it's a tangential

1:56:40 ↗ thing but right now we're not talking

1:56:41 ↗ about any inventory of um and chemicals

1:56:44 ↗ that are being used by the city and we

1:56:45 ↗ know there's a direct causality from

1:56:47 ↗ those with carbon emissions um on the on

1:56:50 ↗ the natural environment and so while it

1:56:52 ↗ may not be a part of the metrics right

1:56:54 ↗ now I do think it's an important thing

1:56:55 ↗ for us to be tracking and to be saying

1:56:58 ↗ how are we actually using where are we

1:57:00 ↗ using I love those little signs that I

1:57:02 ↗ find all over the parks right where

1:57:04 ↗ children are playing saying this has

1:57:06 ↗ been recently treated if you have any if

1:57:08 ↗ you have any concerns you could go and

1:57:10 ↗ call this right it's so it's most

1:57:11 ↗ ridiculous thing I've ever seen and uh

1:57:14 ↗ again children playing all around these

1:57:16 ↗ you know these little signs I would love

1:57:18 ↗ for us to be thinking about

1:57:20 ↗ when we have um our greenhouse gas

1:57:21 ↗ emissions that it's not just what's

1:57:23 ↗ coming out of our exhaust pipes right

1:57:25 ↗ there's a whole ecosystem that can be

1:57:27 ↗ impact as well and I'd like to see a

1:57:29 ↗ more targeting of that

1:57:31 ↗ okay I think Nancy made a good point

1:57:35 ↗ about talking to council here so you

1:57:37 ↗ want to lead Council down the path of

1:57:40 ↗ meaning to be a leader in the region and

1:57:42 ↗ show a good example of taking care of

1:57:45 ↗ our own house first where we can make

1:57:47 ↗ change even though it's only one % of

1:57:50 ↗ the total emissions of it's a at least

1:57:53 ↗ for showing an example and can make a

1:57:56 ↗ change there so that significant word

1:57:58 ↗ yeah that that jumps out um by my

1:58:01 ↗ council member and I see that hey look

1:58:03 ↗ at that great um that's not

1:58:06 ↗ reality just I think you heard it

1:58:09 ↗ throughout your presentation needs to be

1:58:11 ↗ kind of reformatted in a way where you

1:58:13 ↗ lay lay out some

1:58:17 ↗ ground steps up front

1:58:20 ↗ how the models set how the regional

1:58:22 ↗ efforts work before you get into the

1:58:25 ↗ Weeds on the the numbers and Graphics

1:58:28 ↗ sure where do we go

1:58:30 ↗ from Dixie I think we once Dixie goes I

1:58:35 ↗ think probably need to wrap on the

1:58:36 ↗ section we are coming up on time so I

1:58:39 ↗ think we're good on the slides so yes I

1:58:42 ↗ think um and maybe we'll talk about this

1:58:44 ↗ when we get into our goals and our

1:58:46 ↗ retreat but uh in my opinion

1:58:49 ↗ and I I said it before I think we need

1:58:51 ↗ to be the squeaky wheel and I own a

1:58:53 ↗ business in isqua and I can tell you

1:58:55 ↗ from my perspective there is no talk

1:58:57 ↗ about green anywhere in our world it

1:59:00 ↗ does not come through to up um and uh

1:59:03 ↗ and I am in a green business right so

1:59:06 ↗ there's no incentives like I I get

1:59:08 ↗ frustrated with this all day long

1:59:09 ↗ there's no incentives and I have a green

1:59:11 ↗ business why am why is this supp upon

1:59:13 ↗ not supporting me so what that tells me

1:59:15 ↗ is the coun we are not a priority

1:59:17 ↗ perhaps and I know they have a lot to do

1:59:19 ↗ government's complicated but um I think

1:59:22 ↗ this could be a great start in us saying

1:59:24 ↗ listen we're not going to take it

1:59:26 ↗ anymore and we want to see change and

1:59:28 ↗ this and you know we're here because we

1:59:29 ↗ want to see change and so let's yeah

1:59:32 ↗ let's like let's be a squeaky wheel

1:59:36 ↗ that's can I just add one thing to what

1:59:39 ↗ Dixie said and I had mentioned this

1:59:41 ↗ before you know bringing up to what she

1:59:43 ↗ said green businesses you know city of

1:59:46 ↗ isqua should uh Start program programs

1:59:49 ↗ where they give incentives for running

1:59:51 ↗ green businesses you know there should

1:59:53 ↗ be a carbon tax versus you know an

1:59:55 ↗ incentive green incentive you should

1:59:58 ↗ means there should be this discussion

2:00:00 ↗ brought up to city council or somewhere

2:00:03 ↗ the city needs to do that to actually

2:00:05 ↗ get it to the community and encourage

2:00:07 ↗ you know businesses to step up just a

2:00:10 ↗ note for everyone's piece of information

2:00:12 ↗ I actually get taxed extra because I

2:00:14 ↗ have a consignment store seriously I I

2:00:17 ↗ have to pay an extra BN tax it's not

2:00:19 ↗ it um I have an additional 1.5% I have

2:00:22 ↗ to pay on because it's a

2:00:25 ↗ service I still think I should have to

2:00:26 ↗ pay sales tax my customer should have we

2:00:29 ↗ PID sales tax on it why are they paying

2:00:30 ↗ that the whole another

2:00:33 ↗ day carbon tax is not new the state

2:00:36 ↗ state of Washington has been doing that

2:00:38 ↗ for big Industries and big companies for

2:00:40 ↗ a while now so you know that is

2:00:42 ↗ something and I know it's not in your

2:00:46 ↗ area but that is something I think City

2:00:49 ↗ Cil should be vok this is a great segue

2:00:52 ↗ I think for our next thing which Dave do

2:00:55 ↗ you have everything you need because I

2:00:57 ↗ think I think this has been very helpful

2:00:59 ↗ I will say there is a lot here so if you

2:01:02 ↗ have specific questions I have a number

2:01:05 ↗ of slides pulled up on other graphs so

2:01:07 ↗ if you want anything additional come

2:01:09 ↗ grab me right now or afterwards and I'm

2:01:12 ↗ happy to chat more and more and more

2:01:14 ↗ about this with y'all so thank you

2:01:17 ↗ for nice work a difficult topic you

2:01:21 ↗ navigate

2:01:24 ↗ there all right I think that wraps up

2:01:26 ↗ our our standard agenda items the next

2:01:30 ↗ item we have is proposed content for

2:01:31 ↗ environmental board and Retreat um this

2:01:35 ↗ Don and I think uh we're starting to

2:01:38 ↗ hear some of like this was great we

2:01:39 ↗ stared to hear some of the things from

2:01:41 ↗ from board members that we haven't heard

2:01:42 ↗ before I think that is the goal for this

2:01:45 ↗ this Retreat we have coming up um we're

2:01:48 ↗ going to be pulling together some

2:01:49 ↗ resources to hopefully get the juices

2:01:51 ↗ flowing in advance of the meeting but uh

2:01:54 ↗ I think the biggest thing that would

2:01:55 ↗ implore everyone in advance to be

2:01:57 ↗ thinking about um not just what do we

2:02:00 ↗ want to do this year but what are the

2:02:01 ↗ goals for isapa in the longer term what

2:02:03 ↗ what should the goals of the

2:02:05 ↗ environmental board be that are

2:02:07 ↗ consistent five years from now 10 years

2:02:09 ↗ from now um and that we make sure that

2:02:11 ↗ we are uh are staying on top of

2:02:13 ↗ regardless of what else might be going

2:02:15 ↗ on within the city that we're always

2:02:16 ↗ staying on top of so um I our goal is to

2:02:19 ↗ provide some more context some more

2:02:22 ↗ inspiration uh for materials in advance

2:02:25 ↗ of that meeting but that's something

2:02:27 ↗ that I hope everyone comes into that

2:02:29 ↗ meeting feeling like uh you've given

2:02:31 ↗ that some thought that you you you've

2:02:33 ↗ thought about what you're passionate

2:02:34 ↗ about you've thought about how uh the

2:02:37 ↗ things that you'd like to see happen in

2:02:38 ↗ the city uh and what the board could be

2:02:40 ↗ doing to to help those things because I

2:02:43 ↗ think that's overall what our a lot of

2:02:46 ↗ the feedback out of the survey was was

2:02:47 ↗ we just didn't feel like the identity

2:02:49 ↗ like we didn't have an identity as a

2:02:51 ↗ board as much as we felt like we should

2:02:53 ↗ so I think this is our opportunity to

2:02:55 ↗ have a conversation about what is our

2:02:56 ↗ identity what are our longer term goals

2:02:59 ↗ um and how how do we go about doing that

2:03:02 ↗ so there's more detail to com on I don't

2:03:04 ↗ know if you have any to add to that um

2:03:07 ↗ just format we talked about having you

2:03:09 ↗ know multiple tables maybe three to four

2:03:11 ↗ people per table if we get some council

2:03:13 ↗ members there have a council member or

2:03:15 ↗ so at each table um I'll throw out an

2:03:18 ↗ idea

2:03:19 ↗ if we can p them on the council

2:03:21 ↗ membership table maybe we can quiz them

2:03:23 ↗ up front you know have them bring the

2:03:25 ↗ top three goals for the environmental

2:03:27 ↗ board over the next five 10 years and

2:03:30 ↗ then you could bounce back your goals to

2:03:32 ↗ council member discussion on that see

2:03:35 ↗ where we land against where they land

2:03:38 ↗ and yeah to Echo what jie said don't

2:03:40 ↗ think about it as a 24 work plan meeting

2:03:44 ↗ um we want to think about it more as a

2:03:46 ↗ long

2:03:47 ↗ term driving force environmental course

2:03:52 ↗ and I I we we may have some other

2:03:53 ↗ attendance I don't think that that's

2:03:55 ↗ going to be a major component so I do

2:03:57 ↗ think the majority of who you'll be

2:03:58 ↗ talking to there will be board members

2:04:01 ↗ and it's it's about getting your

2:04:03 ↗ perspective I think if some others join

2:04:06 ↗ from counselor that that will be yeah

2:04:09 ↗ they might be able to provide and they

2:04:11 ↗ will be able to provide some valuable

2:04:12 ↗ context but at the end of the day it's

2:04:13 ↗ about us and you all bringing your

2:04:16 ↗ perspective so don't feel like if if

2:04:18 ↗ someone shows up that is on Council we

2:04:21 ↗ don't know if that's going to happen um

2:04:23 ↗ so I wouldn't rely on that and even if

2:04:25 ↗ they do I think this is still about your

2:04:27 ↗ perspectives like to a certain extent

2:04:29 ↗ they don't matter this is our meeting so

2:04:31 ↗ let's make sure that we don't we don't

2:04:34 ↗ get turned off by what anyone else might

2:04:36 ↗ say like it is I think the end of the

2:04:37 ↗ day about us bringing our perspectives

2:04:39 ↗ and coming to the table I think also

2:04:41 ↗ getting to know each other with better I

2:04:43 ↗ think that'll be a fun opportunity as as

2:04:44 ↗ a result of this too we do have a social

2:04:46 ↗ component like we're going to spend some

2:04:48 ↗ time before before we launch into all

2:04:50 ↗ the the things that Don mentioned about

2:04:53 ↗ uh just to get to know each other better

2:04:54 ↗ I think that was feedback that came out

2:04:56 ↗ of the survey as well that uh will help

2:04:58 ↗ us help us be a stronger unit get to

2:05:01 ↗ know each

2:05:02 ↗ other public and private do they get

2:05:04 ↗ participate it'll be a public meeting um

2:05:08 ↗ I think one component we might talk

2:05:10 ↗ about at that meeting is um Community

2:05:12 ↗ engagement um if there is time that

2:05:15 ↗ could be one of the agenda items but it

2:05:16 ↗ will be a public meeting so we have

2:05:19 ↗ round tables that we're sitting at five

2:05:20 ↗ or six will the public sit with us at at

2:05:22 ↗ each table um we're going to we're

2:05:24 ↗ having a planning meeting with Andrea SN

2:05:26 ↗ our Deputy City administrator soon um so

2:05:30 ↗ we can talk about that

2:05:31 ↗ opportunity yeah that that was not the

2:05:34 ↗ intent right now but we can at this

2:05:36 ↗ point but we can discuss that as

2:05:40 ↗ option

2:05:42 ↗ yeah suggestions and well I see you out

2:05:46 ↗ hry so um I do think one the other

2:05:49 ↗ things that please feel free if you have

2:05:52 ↗ there's things that you think should

2:05:54 ↗ happen during this meeting that you

2:05:55 ↗ really want as priorities either format

2:05:57 ↗ or otherwise please make sure to send

2:06:00 ↗ that to Stacy you can include Don and I

2:06:03 ↗ you'd like but Stacy and David to make

2:06:06 ↗ sure that that that's getting

2:06:07 ↗ Incorporated um because yeah again we do

2:06:10 ↗ want to make this have like we have a

2:06:13 ↗ starting point for what we hope would be

2:06:15 ↗ a valuable process and format for

2:06:17 ↗ everyone but we want to make sure that

2:06:18 ↗ you guys are also uh providing input on

2:06:21 ↗ on how to best come together during that

2:06:24 ↗ meeting so that's part of the reason we

2:06:25 ↗ wanted to give you a little bit of

2:06:26 ↗ context on what it was going to look

2:06:28 ↗ like so that you would have the ability

2:06:30 ↗ to react and and send along any other

2:06:33 ↗ requests or or

2:06:35 ↗ suggestions so and go

2:06:39 ↗ ahead will there be snacks or shall we

2:06:42 ↗ make it a

2:06:44 ↗ potluck I

2:06:47 ↗ requested turned down but I think we'll

2:06:50 ↗ we'll figure out a way just to at least

2:06:51 ↗ get some some drinks and cookies there

2:06:54 ↗ so but we'll send more information um

2:06:57 ↗ folks are welcome to bring their dinner

2:06:59 ↗ or shared snacks too we had shared

2:07:03 ↗ snacks at our December meeting for those

2:07:05 ↗ of you that missed it yeah I mean we

2:07:07 ↗ could easily make it a potluck right it

2:07:09 ↗ is during dinner time from 5:30 to

2:07:14 ↗ 8:30 we'll be sending out a lot more

2:07:16 ↗ information next week

2:07:21 ↗ cool I think with that that is our one

2:07:24 ↗ report um and one other uh other

2:07:28 ↗ businessman announcement nice two

2:07:30 ↗ minutes of quick updates I'll try and

2:07:31 ↗ keep it to two minutes um really quick

2:07:33 ↗ updates on Council January 2nd they did

2:07:36 ↗ approve the um Municipal Building

2:07:38 ↗ decarbonization resolution with an

2:07:41 ↗ amendment to include a work plan that

2:07:44 ↗ would be delivered at the end of the

2:07:46 ↗ project and presented to back to count

2:07:48 ↗ Council and the um environmental board

2:07:51 ↗ to kind of provide Direction on what are

2:07:53 ↗ the next steps coming out of the

2:07:55 ↗ analysis um David's working to finalize

2:07:57 ↗ the scope of work um and we anticipate

2:08:01 ↗ we'll be bringing that report to you all

2:08:04 ↗ um this summer um and demonstrating

2:08:07 ↗ alignment with any proposed budget

2:08:09 ↗ requests um next week going before

2:08:11 ↗ council is approval of a um just under

2:08:15 ↗ $100,000 solar plus storage Grant from

2:08:17 ↗ Commerce this is for our resilience Hub

2:08:20 ↗ project that we've mentioned several

2:08:22 ↗ times have not talked to you about in

2:08:24 ↗ detail but we will um be doing so in the

2:08:27 ↗ future um also a solid waste assistance

2:08:30 ↗ grant that's going to continue our work

2:08:33 ↗ with schools on restarting their

2:08:35 ↗ Recycling and composting program as well

2:08:38 ↗ as bringing um some waste reduction

2:08:40 ↗ efforts to City sponsored and Community

2:08:42 ↗ sponsored

2:08:44 ↗ events um February 5th then going before

2:08:47 ↗ council is the envir enal board report

2:08:49 ↗ and um the greenhouse gas inventory um

2:08:52 ↗ I'll make another note about that

2:08:54 ↗ meeting in just a moment um couple other

2:08:57 ↗ quick items I wanted to mention I was

2:08:59 ↗ going to have David talk about the Evans

2:09:01 ↗ school project I'll just mention it

2:09:02 ↗ really quick um some of you may be

2:09:04 ↗ familiar with the University of

2:09:05 ↗ Washington Evans school um it they have

2:09:09 ↗ graduate students that um perform as

2:09:12 ↗ consultants for um public entities for

2:09:15 ↗ the most part we were lucky enough to

2:09:17 ↗ get one of those cohorts this year and

2:09:20 ↗ they're going to be working with us on a

2:09:21 ↗ carbon sequestration project identifying

2:09:25 ↗ um programs that we could initiate on

2:09:28 ↗ private and public lands to support

2:09:30 ↗ carbon sequestration that scope is still

2:09:33 ↗ being refined um but we anticipate

2:09:36 ↗ having them come and talk to the board

2:09:37 ↗ at the end of that project in the June

2:09:39 ↗ time

2:09:40 ↗ period um within your pocket was our

2:09:45 ↗ working draft work plan that will be in

2:09:48 ↗ informed by our discussions at The

2:09:50 ↗ Retreat while we'll be talking kind of

2:09:52 ↗ longer term as Jamie was mentioning we

2:09:54 ↗ will use those conversations to inform

2:09:56 ↗ our short-term work plan um but just

2:09:58 ↗ wanted to continue to provide that to

2:10:01 ↗ you so you have a heads up on what staff

2:10:04 ↗ anticipate meeting to bring to the board

2:10:06 ↗ um but again we'll be reworking that

2:10:08 ↗ based on um outcomes of the

2:10:11 ↗ retreat um real quick uh just to

2:10:15 ↗ highlight some of the upcoming meetings

2:10:16 ↗ and I did this in the recent email um we

2:10:20 ↗ have the January 25th Retreat January

2:10:23 ↗ 31st we have another special meeting to

2:10:25 ↗ review the full um environmental

2:10:28 ↗ stewardship and climate resilience

2:10:30 ↗ element um we will be sending out that

2:10:33 ↗ full element around the 19th to allow

2:10:36 ↗ time for folks to review Send us track

2:10:39 ↗ changes send written comments ahead of

2:10:42 ↗ the January 31st meeting for those of

2:10:44 ↗ you that were around last year um we're

2:10:47 ↗ anticipating running that meeting

2:10:48 ↗ meeting somewhat like we did Title 18 I

2:10:51 ↗ know it was a very painful for 4-Hour

2:10:53 ↗ meeting but it was very productive and

2:10:56 ↗ it was very valuable having those

2:10:57 ↗ comments ahead of time so we could work

2:10:59 ↗ through them all at a board so

2:11:01 ↗ anticipate that later this month um I

2:11:04 ↗ know we're asking a lot of you in

2:11:07 ↗ January um and then February 5th we do

2:11:09 ↗ meet with Council um to present the

2:11:12 ↗ board report and greenhouse gas

2:11:15 ↗ inventory um you do not all need to be

2:11:17 ↗ there is optional Jamie and Don are

2:11:20 ↗ planning to be there um you are all

2:11:22 ↗ invited um as we share the results of

2:11:26 ↗ that report and hopefully some of the

2:11:27 ↗ results of our Retreat as well I can

2:11:30 ↗ send out another reminder about that um

2:11:33 ↗ and then the last meeting I'll just

2:11:34 ↗ highlight is our regular scheduled

2:11:36 ↗ meeting for February is February 14th I

2:11:39 ↗ am in conversations with the Parks Board

2:11:42 ↗ about possibly having a joint meeting at

2:11:45 ↗ the end of February to discuss the urban

2:11:48 ↗ forestry management plan if that gets

2:11:51 ↗ scheduled I would like to cancel the

2:11:53 ↗ February 14th meeting because we do not

2:11:56 ↗ need more special meetings on our

2:11:58 ↗ calendar but we may see a shift in the

2:12:00 ↗ timing of that or sorry of that

2:12:04 ↗ meeting that was a lot any question I

2:12:06 ↗ can send um I'll send another summary

2:12:08 ↗ out of those upcoming meetings um in the

2:12:11 ↗ future but any questions

2:12:14 ↗ on for

2:12:17 ↗ now

2:12:20 ↗ okay it's a busy January thank you we

2:12:23 ↗ have a lot but hope to lighten your load

2:12:25 ↗ later in

2:12:30 ↗ there thank

2:12:37 ↗ you

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Council / Members (12)

Jamie Finch

Don McQuilliams

Nancy Davidson

Anne Newcomb

Prajakta Ghatpande

Tom Anderson

Alix Lee-Tigner

Ashwin Kannan

Janet Wall

Joy Lewis

Dixie Bair

Ashwin Manoharan* (Unexcused absence)

Staff (4)

Stacy Vynne McKinstry, Sustainability Manager

David Reedy, Sustainability Coordinator

Kathleen Hillery, CivicSpark Fellow

Nick Horn, CivicSpark Fellow

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Board Member GHATPANDE, LEE-TIGNER, and LEWIS recommended that staff engage with student groups and the Issaquah School District to co-develop communication tools that are directed towards a student audience.
Board Members LEWIS, DAVIDSON, and BAIR recommended developing tools and support initiatives for additional groups including the business community.
Board Member FINCH and BAIR recommended that staff set goals for communication tools and then adjust those tools based on established goals and audiences.
Board members expressed some concern with model inputs, requested additional information on the models, and the ability to see the raw data.
Board Member DAVIDSON recommended highlighting to City Council that city capital projects conducted by contractors are not included in municipal emissions.