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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