Environmental Board · Wednesday, November 13, 2024 · City Council Digest

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of October 9, 2024 n/a

packet pp.3–5

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 10-09-24 Environmental Board Minutes Page [1] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Environmental Board 6:30 PM Tibbetts Manor, 750 17th Ave. October 9, 2024 MINUTES NW, Issaquah

4. AGENDA ITEMS

Annual Board Report and Self Analysis

30 min · Stacy Vynne McKinstry, Sustainability Manager / Board Liaison David Reedy, Sustainability Coordinator · packet pp.7–16

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

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Staff report:

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

2025 Draft Environmental Board Workplan (D)

20 min · Stacy Vynne McKinstry, Sustainability Manager / Board Liaison · packet pp.17–20

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Staff report:

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

2025 ICAP Priority Programs and Projects (I)

30 min · Stacy Vynne McKinstry, Sustainability Manager David Reedy, Sustainability Coordinator · packet pp.21–35

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

Fossil Fuel Transition Assessment (Written n/a Report)

packet pp.37–38

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Staff report:

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

6. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS

2024 Environmental Board Workplan

packet pp.39–43

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Staff report:

APPROVED: 3/13/2024 REVISED: 11/6/2024

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0:00 ↗ thanks everybody for coming uh welcome

0:01 ↗ to the November 13th meeting of the ISA

0:04 ↗ environmental board I'm Don M I'll be

0:05 ↗ your chair tonight due to the hybrid

0:07 ↗ nature of the meeting we'll have some

0:09 ↗ members attending in person other is by

0:11 ↗ computer the phone for all me me

0:14 ↗ attending in remotely please state your

0:17 ↗ name each time before speaking um if

0:19 ↗ joining remotely please mute your

0:21 ↗ microphone when you're not speaking and

0:23 ↗ Commissioners in the room if you desire

0:24 ↗ to speak please flip your tag up as

0:26 ↗ we've been doing we will summarize

0:28 ↗ agreement around recommend to end each

0:31 ↗ topic as

0:32 ↗ necessary um first we're going to start

0:34 ↗ by taking a roll call ofers in attend

0:37 ↗ Stacy

0:38 ↗ Minister uh Tom Anderson here Nancy

0:42 ↗ Davidson here Jamie Finch here P

0:47 ↗ Kandi here Kiran pan here Mina June here

0:52 ↗ Don

0:53 ↗ McWilliams Dixie Barrett here Alex Lee

0:57 ↗ tigner here Ann newom here uh Keith

1:00 ↗ Gonzalez has an excused

1:03 ↗ absence and John

1:05 ↗ Smith we have

1:08 ↗ corn all right I see Connie up there and

1:11 ↗ if I heard that conversation correctly

1:13 ↗ Connie wants to comment after the board

1:15 ↗ report and self analysis possibly she

1:17 ↗ said she'll raise her hand if she has

1:19 ↗ questions and we'll uh look to the chair

1:22 ↗ whether to recognize okay Connie will be

1:24 ↗ watching for your hand to come if you

1:26 ↗ have questions on

1:28 ↗ that with that I think we can get going

1:31 ↗ um so the first is approval of minutes

1:34 ↗ is there anybody um that wants to see

1:36 ↗ any changes to the previous

1:40 ↗ minutes math

1:43 ↗ approved then mayor joining us tonight

1:46 ↗ thank you mayor thanks for taking the

1:48 ↗ time um did you want to start off with

1:51 ↗ your agenda Stacy or did you want to

1:53 ↗ give the mayor time yeah why don't we

1:55 ↗ start off with mayor Polly um I think we

1:58 ↗ have talked at our meeting about having

2:01 ↗ some engagement with Council uh I was

2:03 ↗ advised to start with mayor paully um so

2:06 ↗ the board could have a brief

2:07 ↗ conversation ask any questions you have

2:10 ↗ um receive any feedback or guidance from

2:12 ↗ the mayor um it looks like we'll have

2:15 ↗ some more time in December um in order

2:18 ↗ to ask questions and have a little bit

2:19 ↗ more preparation but if we have any uh

2:22 ↗ questions the board would like to ask

2:24 ↗ tonight since we have this opportunity

2:26 ↗ that would be great um M Paulie I'm not

2:28 ↗ sure if there's anything you wanted to

2:30 ↗ start off by saying to the environmental

2:32 ↗ board sure just a I mean it's been a bad

2:36 ↗ news good news to weeks um on the bad

2:39 ↗ news side at the federal level we're

2:42 ↗ probably not going to be able to expect

2:46 ↗ um great things in the next few years in

2:49 ↗ terms of support for the kinds of work

2:51 ↗ that the community and this board wants

2:53 ↗ to do uh good news sign two items um y

2:58 ↗ climate commitment Act

3:00 ↗ which is one of our big funders um made

3:03 ↗ it through but also sent a really strong

3:05 ↗ message that the there's huge support

3:08 ↗ for this probably more than what some

3:10 ↗ people realized in terms of um it's good

3:14 ↗ legislation it's going to get the good

3:16 ↗ outcomes and for a city like isqua where

3:18 ↗ we have a staff team that has worked so

3:20 ↗ hard to work with Department of Commerce

3:23 ↗ and every single granting opportunity

3:25 ↗ they could um this is really good news

3:27 ↗ for us and I guess the last bit of good

3:29 ↗ news is that we just um had a council

3:33 ↗ conversation last night and what is

3:35 ↗ probably one of our most difficult

3:38 ↗ budget experiences for this community

3:41 ↗ and the council that's sitting right now

3:43 ↗ since 2010 which is really the last time

3:46 ↗ that the city had to make some extremely

3:49 ↗ hard decisions about Staffing and

3:50 ↗ funding um big kudos to Stacy and David

3:55 ↗ for their suggestions on how their

3:58 ↗ particular group would move through this

4:00 ↗ but most of our city departments ended

4:02 ↗ up taking a 12% haircut except for

4:05 ↗ Public Safety um uh and um that was

4:09 ↗ super painful so we lost a lot of

4:12 ↗ positions and there were capable staff

4:15 ↗ in those positions in this budget um not

4:18 ↗ so with our sustainability group glad to

4:20 ↗ say that with some creative thinking um

4:23 ↗ we are staying relatively staff the same

4:27 ↗ and with climate commitment act staying

4:29 ↗ in place many of our opportunities for

4:31 ↗ funding are in place and so that's the

4:34 ↗ second little bit of good news um but

4:37 ↗ very interested in hearing about the

4:38 ↗ self assessment there are no questions

4:41 ↗ tonight I did add some time uh I think a

4:44 ↗ half an hour on the December 9th meeting

4:47 ↗ as well so whatever your preference

4:52 ↗ is question from

4:57 ↗ May I'll give you a thought to think

4:59 ↗ about mayor um as you think about it for

5:02 ↗ the next month maybe coup I've always

5:04 ↗ been curious what the council is

5:06 ↗ thinking for the board's agenda moving

5:09 ↗ forward into the next year and I think

5:11 ↗ we'd love to have your guys' input on

5:13 ↗ what's important to council as we put

5:15 ↗ together our work

5:16 ↗ plan yeah and I think that's a great

5:19 ↗ question I'll work with Stacy on kind of

5:21 ↗ looking at the budget and the work plan

5:23 ↗ that is grafted so far coming out of

5:25 ↗ that I mean we really don't know till

5:27 ↗ Council approves the final budget

5:28 ↗ whether or not there's a little bit more

5:30 ↗ horse trading or a little you know

5:32 ↗ request to shift things around or cut

5:34 ↗ from here or there but um I'll think

5:37 ↗ about it I'll work on some points with

5:39 ↗ Stacy I think we're very fortunate in

5:42 ↗ our community that we have a fairly

5:45 ↗ unified um counsel in terms of the work

5:47 ↗ that you are doing um they like trying

5:50 ↗ thing they like to Pilot they like to

5:53 ↗ experiment um they like to lead where

5:56 ↗ they can lead but also to pay attention

5:58 ↗ to what's going on in other larger

5:59 ↗ jurisdictions where we may be able to

6:01 ↗ steal something after somebody else has

6:03 ↗ going through the pilot so I think we're

6:06 ↗ in a pretty good situation politically

6:09 ↗ but it's nice that some of the boards

6:11 ↗ that have been set up in the last few

6:12 ↗ years have a way of reporting back out

6:15 ↗ to the council and I think one of the

6:17 ↗ things we need to work on is to help

6:18 ↗ some of our other boards and commissions

6:20 ↗ to be able to do the kind of reporting

6:21 ↗ back that you're doing but yes

6:23 ↗ definitely we'll think about it and come

6:26 ↗ back with um some thoughts and comments

6:29 ↗ thank thank you for

6:32 ↗ that ncy hi mayor um one of the

6:36 ↗ questions I have for you is uh the

6:38 ↗ relationship between the city and the

6:40 ↗ school district since they're such a big

6:42 ↗ player in terms of Transportation

6:45 ↗ parking and education of our kids

6:48 ↗ particularly in light of the failure of

6:50 ↗ the bond issue well apparent failure of

6:52 ↗ the bond issue it's pretty much

6:54 ↗ like so I guess the question I have for

6:57 ↗ you is what is the relationship between

7:00 ↗ the elected officials of the city and

7:02 ↗ the school district's elected officials

7:04 ↗ to move forward environmental and

7:06 ↗ climate change

7:08 ↗ initiatives you know ever since our new

7:11 ↗ superintendent came on um that's been a

7:13 ↗ good thing it's been a good change she

7:15 ↗ has spent the last two years pretty much

7:17 ↗ focused on the B and so as you can

7:19 ↗ imagine it not passing has really sent a

7:22 ↗ swirl back through her and her

7:24 ↗ Administration I'm sure the school board

7:26 ↗ as well we did get to have a me meeting

7:30 ↗ three or four months ago at the school

7:32 ↗ district one of the first in I think

7:34 ↗ four years to try and find some common

7:37 ↗ work that we can do a again I know that

7:40 ↗ there is um excitement within the

7:43 ↗ student body to see more connections and

7:47 ↗ more proactive work together um but not

7:50 ↗ a lot of traction yet in the

7:51 ↗ administration there is a another event

7:54 ↗ being planned for January or February um

7:57 ↗ and I'm not sure what the agenda might

7:59 ↗ be for that but there are huge gains

8:02 ↗ that can be made by getting the school

8:05 ↗ board and the

8:08 ↗ administration you know climate action

8:11 ↗ resiliency Energy Efficiency they have

8:13 ↗ some of the biggest infrastructure in

8:16 ↗ town some of the biggest buildings

8:18 ↗ they're also required to follow the

8:20 ↗ state law in terms of building

8:21 ↗ efficiency which wasn't part of the bond

8:23 ↗ um actually the part of the bond that I

8:25 ↗ probably supported the most was based on

8:28 ↗ the possibility that they were going to

8:29 ↗ be able to do some big work on um Energy

8:32 ↗ Efficiency within their buildings so

8:34 ↗ it's a work in progress I think the

8:36 ↗ council leadership of the last two to

8:38 ↗ three years has done a better job than

8:40 ↗ previously at trying to um get us more

8:44 ↗ aligned and to have some projects we can

8:46 ↗ work on together I seen one like uh in

8:49 ↗ the climate action area probably being a

8:51 ↗ great choice um but I'm not really sure

8:54 ↗ what the next agenda is maybe one of the

8:56 ↗ things Stacy can remind me is to do

8:59 ↗ something sort of report out about what

9:00 ↗ this next might meeting might be and

9:02 ↗ what the topics might be so for example

9:04 ↗ here's something I was disappointed of

9:06 ↗ when this SCH High School got rebuilt um

9:09 ↗ there was kind of like joking around

9:10 ↗ that oh my goodness here we are building

9:12 ↗ this building with you know the

9:15 ↗ environment in mind and they didn't put

9:16 ↗ in any water building stations um and I

9:20 ↗ thought oh that's that's just like

9:22 ↗ insane and so I had assumed that that

9:24 ↗ would be something they would remedy but

9:26 ↗ um a student project ended up finding

9:28 ↗ the fund to remedy it and I really feel

9:31 ↗ like that sort of highlights where the

9:33 ↗ district is right now and that yes

9:36 ↗ they're putting some uh thinking into

9:38 ↗ their um infrastructure planning but the

9:41 ↗ students still want to see more than

9:43 ↗ what the administration is providing so

9:45 ↗ I think there's big opportunities there

9:49 ↗ thanks Jan hi mayor um my question was

9:53 ↗ something that we actually covered at

9:55 ↗ our Retreat uh earlier this year and it

9:58 ↗ was really

10:00 ↗ curious on your thoughts around how we

10:02 ↗ as a board could help or um get involved

10:05 ↗ in the budget cycle that's something

10:06 ↗ that obviously the way money it's spent

10:08 ↗ in the city is really important and so

10:10 ↗ curious both on timing like when

10:12 ↗ feedback is most valuable in your

10:14 ↗ opinion and then if there's certain

10:16 ↗ types of feedback that that you think

10:18 ↗ would be helpful or or constructive as

10:20 ↗ part of the

10:21 ↗ process D that's a great question Jamie

10:24 ↗ typically in the past the boards of

10:25 ↗ commissions have not gotten involved in

10:27 ↗ the budgeting cycle and primarily for

10:29 ↗ the reason that my opinion only um you

10:33 ↗ have to really focus in a certain area

10:35 ↗ of work that the city does and so for

10:38 ↗ you to feed into the budget process your

10:41 ↗ Advocate that's actually fighting for um

10:44 ↗ maintaining environmental programs or

10:46 ↗ getting uh additional Staffing verses is

10:48 ↗ Stacy and so um we are not in a place

10:53 ↗ where we want to be seeing all of our

10:55 ↗ different boards and commissions coming

10:57 ↗ in and advocating for that particular

10:59 ↗ area so that it's you against the Arts

11:02 ↗ against planning who wants us to do some

11:04 ↗ more land do studies we really rely on

11:07 ↗ the boards and commissions for once the

11:09 ↗ council has approved a budget that you

11:12 ↗ are able then to work with Stacy to have

11:15 ↗ a work plan developed um that how your

11:19 ↗ work feeds into the council policy and

11:21 ↗ decision making for that year and

11:23 ↗ Reporting back on successes so we

11:26 ↗ haven't actually used boards Commissions

11:28 ↗ in the past to participate in the buting

11:31 ↗ process if you have thoughts or ideas of

11:34 ↗ how we can do that without making it you

11:36 ↗ know one um order commission

11:40 ↗ advocating for advocating for just the

11:43 ↗ environment the are just advocating for

11:45 ↗ the Arts and City commission if you can

11:48 ↗ figure out a way how we might be able to

11:50 ↗ do that I'm open to

11:52 ↗ suggestions thank

11:55 ↗ you answer your question J thank you and

12:01 ↗ hey Mary L poly thanks for coming

12:04 ↗ tonight

12:06 ↗ um so my question is do you know if

12:11 ↗ school um school districts or schools

12:14 ↗ can get funding from the

12:17 ↗ CCA I I'm not sure about the CCA but

12:21 ↗ Stacy's probably better able to answer

12:23 ↗ that question they're definitely able to

12:25 ↗ access any programs that we as a city

12:27 ↗ are offering to get those larger um

12:31 ↗ structures and Facilities um up to uh

12:35 ↗ improve improvements within the energy

12:37 ↗ code so Stacy there's there's no reason

12:39 ↗ that we stop them from applying from the

12:41 ↗ programs that you're talking about I'm

12:43 ↗ assuming no and there's been some grant

12:45 ↗ opportunities through the CCA that

12:46 ↗ school districts can apply for and they

12:48 ↗ were even successful with the Energy

12:51 ↗ Efficiency one I believe or tentatively

12:54 ↗ that's what I've heard I don't know if

12:55 ↗ that's been

12:59 ↗ if they actually got their baselines is

13:02 ↗ that how they fed their estimate into

13:04 ↗ that request that they had have they

13:06 ↗ done their their work their homework

13:08 ↗ yeah so all the bond request was based

13:11 ↗ on the work that McDonald Miller did on

13:13 ↗ all of theout

13:16 ↗ program that's great and I think um one

13:19 ↗ of the other big things in terms of

13:22 ↗ impacts from the school population is

13:26 ↗ like as we all see that huge string of

13:30 ↗ Vehicles dropping people off when we

13:31 ↗ have a a in place already and the impact

13:36 ↗ that has on greenhouse gas emissions

13:38 ↗ from Vehicles is huge and that's

13:40 ↗ something where I think we have some

13:41 ↗ students that are in but I'm not sure

13:43 ↗ typically in the past the school

13:45 ↗ district has wanted to you know reach

13:47 ↗ out to the parent community and and you

13:50 ↗ guys should really stop doing this

13:52 ↗ because this not community's best

13:54 ↗ interest and students best interest

13:56 ↗ climate res

13:59 ↗ so they they have a interesting

14:01 ↗ relationship with their demographic um

14:04 ↗ is maybe a little more late back than we

14:08 ↗ would hope you know when you build all

14:10 ↗ the parking stalls the student cars

14:12 ↗ would come so if we're going to pretend

14:15 ↗ that we're going to be living in a new

14:18 ↗ um urban area we have to start designing

14:23 ↗ well there's a lot of things about the

14:24 ↗ same schools that we should be changing

14:26 ↗ so and also one of the other big things

14:29 ↗ that I need their assistance with uh on

14:31 ↗ the long range planning side is that we

14:33 ↗ need to look at what school facilities

14:35 ↗ will be available in Central Central aqu

14:38 ↗ will be the most populated part of our

14:40 ↗ city in 20 to 25 years and we don't want

14:44 ↗ to see

14:45 ↗ everybody

14:47 ↗ thriving SCH the whole thing doesn't

14:49 ↗ work if that's where we're going to end

14:51 ↗ up with our future School design we have

14:53 ↗ asked over the last six years for an

14:56 ↗ opportunity to sit down and talk about

14:57 ↗ what um Central was schools or school

15:01 ↗ expansion would look like and again that

15:02 ↗ just hasn't gained much traction they'

15:04 ↗ really had to focus on this one new high

15:06 ↗ school and then complying with these

15:09 ↗ different regulations but there is a ton

15:12 ↗ of room for opportunity for improved

15:16 ↗ cooperation project sharing all kinds of

15:19 ↗ items they can be big Gaines for us good

15:25 ↗ news awesome thank you thank you man

15:29 ↗ thank you mayor um not seeing any other

15:32 ↗ questions tonight is all about Stacy and

15:35 ↗ David three different topics um the

15:38 ↗ annual board report self analysis the

15:40 ↗ 2025 draft environmental board work plan

15:44 ↗ and then the IAP priority programs and

15:46 ↗ projects the first two topics um just

15:49 ↗ looking for input tonight we'll be

15:51 ↗ approving those in December the last

15:53 ↗ topic is information

15:55 ↗ so great well thanks Mar PA for us and

15:59 ↗ um answering some initial questions

16:01 ↗ we'll have some more prepared for our

16:03 ↗ next meeting in December and look

16:04 ↗ forward to seeing you again there um

16:07 ↗ tonight we were going to walk through

16:10 ↗ the environmental board report um as Don

16:13 ↗ said this is the draft report um our

16:17 ↗ hope is to get feedback tonight so that

16:19 ↗ we can then vote to approve this in

16:21 ↗ December with the changes that are

16:23 ↗ offered this evening um I walked through

16:26 ↗ the outline last meeting I will just do

16:29 ↗ a quick run through um again and then

16:31 ↗ take feedback and then we'll transition

16:33 ↗ to David who did uh a very quick

16:36 ↗ analysis of the uh survey that folks

16:39 ↗ filled out um he did that just today um

16:43 ↗ so we'll provide that uh brief overview

16:46 ↗ of the self analysis and have a bit of

16:48 ↗ time for discussion prior to

16:49 ↗ incorporating those results into the

16:52 ↗ report um so as a reminder the annual

16:55 ↗ board report is required to be submitted

16:58 ↗ to count

16:59 ↗ each year by December 31st it's really a

17:02 ↗ summary of all of the work that we've

17:04 ↗ done uh as required under our Municipal

17:07 ↗ Code um the report is broken up into

17:11 ↗ those various requirements that's the

17:13 ↗ structure we've just used over the last

17:16 ↗ few years um with this uh version we

17:19 ↗ have added an additional section at the

17:22 ↗ end um that the board requests and I'll

17:24 ↗ speak to in a moment um so first we walk

17:27 ↗ through um um any input that we've been

17:30 ↗ providing on plans and codes uh this

17:34 ↗ board uh did provide feedback on a

17:37 ↗ number of City plans this year um and so

17:41 ↗ that is summarized and then also all of

17:43 ↗ those letters related to the plans will

17:46 ↗ be attached to the report um again then

17:50 ↗ it speaks of providing formal written

17:52 ↗ statements so summarized here and then

17:55 ↗ uh we will be attaching um those to the

17:58 ↗ the

18:00 ↗ report um there's another section on

18:02 ↗ reviewing research best practices that

18:05 ↗ one uh have had a little been unclear of

18:08 ↗ what to summarize in the past I think

18:10 ↗ there's a little bit more clarity this

18:12 ↗ year we've had some specific items

18:14 ↗ around urban

18:15 ↗ forestry um sustainable buildings and

18:18 ↗ infrastructure will be coming at the

18:20 ↗ next meeting um and then um just last

18:24 ↗ meeting we had a presentation on repair

18:26 ↗ and study so getting into a little bit

18:28 ↗ more research that may advise uh have

18:32 ↗ the board advis on some policy in the

18:35 ↗ future um the natural environment

18:37 ↗ checklist we've had uh just one

18:39 ↗ in-person meeting on that that topic at

18:42 ↗ our last discussion um we've had some

18:45 ↗ written updates through um this year and

18:49 ↗ we've identified uh improvements going

18:51 ↗ into

18:53 ↗ 2025 um quick summary of meetings really

18:56 ↗ dedicated to IAP topics even though we

18:59 ↗ try to provide written or verbal updates

19:01 ↗ on where we are with implementation uh

19:04 ↗ each meeting we have had a few meetings

19:06 ↗ that have been um dedicated to

19:08 ↗ presenting to you on certain

19:11 ↗ programs um the next section is on

19:15 ↗ recommendations again many of those are

19:17 ↗ summarized in the letters that the board

19:19 ↗ provided uh each year and then the or um

19:24 ↗ throughout the year and then the last

19:25 ↗ two items are providing this report and

19:28 ↗ carrying out other duties um which we

19:30 ↗ have not been

19:32 ↗ assigned the new sections the board

19:34 ↗ requested that we add in um was to

19:37 ↗ include our 2025 annual work plan in the

19:41 ↗ past we haven't developed that until

19:43 ↗ January February of the of the current

19:46 ↗ year um so this board report is planning

19:50 ↗ to uh introduce that draft preliminary

19:53 ↗ work plan and then the board also

19:56 ↗ requested a summary of G apps or

19:59 ↗ concerns be included um these are items

20:02 ↗ that we've identified throughout the

20:04 ↗ year that we think need some additional

20:06 ↗ or that you all think need additional

20:08 ↗ attention from the city including

20:10 ↗ Staffing um around the environment

20:13 ↗ engagement of the school

20:15 ↗ district um and climate um and then a

20:18 ↗ bit of information around um where we

20:21 ↗ might be going in terms of having

20:23 ↗ conversations around further climate

20:25 ↗ Investments so this section is new this

20:27 ↗ year

20:29 ↗ um and then the rest of the board report

20:32 ↗ will include a summary of all the

20:34 ↗ agendas topics so we had each meeting um

20:38 ↗ we will attach all of the letters or

20:40 ↗ recommendations that were written to

20:42 ↗ council or other boards and commissions

20:45 ↗ um the self

20:46 ↗ analysis

20:48 ↗ results and there's one other

20:54 ↗ item and then our proposed work plan

20:57 ↗ will also be included which we'll be

20:59 ↗ discussing later this evening so that's

21:02 ↗ a quick overview of the annual report we

21:04 ↗ are looking for uh any feedback that

21:06 ↗ folks have any gaps um revisions that

21:09 ↗ you'd like to see made if there's word

21:11 ↗ smithing revisions you can send those to

21:13 ↗ me after the meeting as well but happy

21:15 ↗ to discuss any of

21:19 ↗ it so I have a question before I provide

21:22 ↗ my feedback and that is when you present

21:24 ↗ this to council is it set with a cover

21:26 ↗ memo similar to what you provideed to to

21:28 ↗ us and then just attached

21:31 ↗ correct so the cover memo will generally

21:34 ↗ look like the memo you provided to us

21:37 ↗ correct yeah the cover memo um for

21:39 ↗ providing this type of report would be

21:41 ↗ very um just to introduce the memo

21:43 ↗ essentially because all the content is

21:45 ↗ or excuse me introduce the report

21:47 ↗ because all the content is included in

21:49 ↗ the report so my comment to you is on

21:51 ↗ the cover memo that companies since we

21:53 ↗ have two new sections that we've

21:55 ↗ identified that we think are important

21:57 ↗ for the council to see and they're

22:00 ↗ buried at the bottom of the overall

22:02 ↗ porch they may not get the attention of

22:06 ↗ the council that we would like with this

22:09 ↗ so I request that in your cover me to

22:11 ↗ the council that you identify that we

22:14 ↗ have two new sections so perhaps put

22:16 ↗ them in your cover memo so that they

22:18 ↗ actually see them um and I would suggest

22:21 ↗ doing that each time if there's

22:22 ↗ something the board wants from Council

22:24 ↗ or needs Direction and wants them to pay

22:26 ↗ attention to the rest of the stuff kind

22:28 ↗ of the same stuff over and over this is

22:30 ↗ what we've been doing you've seen us

22:32 ↗ give letters but we're asking for

22:34 ↗ something from councel and it would be

22:36 ↗ helpful if that was a little more

22:38 ↗ upfront from me that's just my feedback

22:40 ↗ thank you for

22:41 ↗ great

22:43 ↗ J um yeah I think some of what Nancy

22:46 ↗ said I think really resonates to me some

22:48 ↗ of it's just like how are we pulling it

22:50 ↗ the really important priorities what do

22:51 ↗ we want to get across in a message

22:53 ↗ because there's a lot of words here a

22:55 ↗ lot of it's like kind of our report card

22:57 ↗ looking back and so what are the things

22:59 ↗ that what are those key messages that we

23:00 ↗ want to make sure that Council hears if

23:03 ↗ they only read an executive summary so I

23:05 ↗ do think that that memo is really a

23:07 ↗ critical tool and some of the things

23:10 ↗ that I don't necessarily see captured or

23:13 ↗ they're kind of hidden just like

23:14 ↗ thinking through like if we're more

23:16 ↗ forward looking on what is important at

23:19 ↗ least that's my opinion on what's

23:21 ↗ important in 202 in environmentally

23:24 ↗ related topics I mean I think well for

23:27 ↗ one like youve talked a few times about

23:29 ↗ the like kind of lack of oversight

23:32 ↗ across natural environment topics like

23:34 ↗ it's sort of it's a bunch of different

23:35 ↗ staff members realistic that we're

23:37 ↗ probably not going to get a new staff

23:38 ↗ member with budget where it's at so what

23:40 ↗ are the alternatives to identifying how

23:43 ↗ we can track and understand across what

23:45 ↗ Dan's doing with Urban Forest management

23:47 ↗ all the other kind of more code based

23:49 ↗ things that we're working on for Title

23:52 ↗ 18 updates how are we measuring this how

23:54 ↗ can we as a board but also as a city

23:57 ↗ track our per performance against those

23:59 ↗ goals I think is just something that I

24:01 ↗ don't our national environment checklist

24:02 ↗ is just not doing that and I think

24:04 ↗ you've been trying to get it there just

24:06 ↗ is it's never gotten very close in my

24:08 ↗ opinion to where that could be so I

24:10 ↗ think that's one kind of theme that I'm

24:12 ↗ trying to understand and make sure that

24:13 ↗ we can track we're going to do an IAP

24:15 ↗ update making sure that that's more

24:17 ↗ measurable more track like I think how

24:20 ↗ we're tracking those really key areas of

24:22 ↗ what we're doing is something that I

24:23 ↗ would hope is a focus for for the next

24:26 ↗ year and then I think the final final

24:30 ↗ thought here was um we talk about like

24:33 ↗ Urban Force management plan is going to

24:35 ↗ be a big Focus for next year one of the

24:37 ↗ things that feedback that I had during

24:39 ↗ that meeting that I I'm curious on other

24:42 ↗ board members stops was it was and I

24:44 ↗ don't know exactly how that plan is

24:46 ↗ going to get implemented but if it's

24:47 ↗ anything like IAP where there's like a

24:50 ↗ staff liaison Dan or Stacy with IAP and

24:53 ↗ then a board that's the main board

24:55 ↗ that's involved with that I think at the

24:57 ↗ time that was going to be s which is

24:59 ↗ more about I think Dan's reporting

25:01 ↗ relationship than like who actually has

25:04 ↗ a lot of is has expertise and I think a

25:06 ↗ lot of focus on canopy so that's one

25:09 ↗ other thing that I think we may if other

25:10 ↗ board members agree that seems like a a

25:14 ↗ decision that I I would want to have

25:16 ↗ highlighted that it seems like the

25:18 ↗ environmental board is the appropriate

25:20 ↗ board to provide feedback and kind of

25:22 ↗ ongoing oversight it all also ties into

25:25 ↗ for looking at what is going to be great

25:27 ↗ to track overall progress in natural

25:29 ↗ environment Urban Forest management plan

25:32 ↗ is going to be one of the best tools

25:33 ↗ going forward on on where we might get

25:35 ↗ that so I'm curious from other board

25:37 ↗ members if if you agree with me there

25:40 ↗ because I think that it'd be great if

25:41 ↗ you do so kind of voice voice that so

25:43 ↗ that that can be something that we

25:45 ↗ include here I second James I

25:49 ↗ agree I agree but I think that for

25:52 ↗ management plan is important Parks too

25:55 ↗ so it's going to be kind of a pusher PLL

25:57 ↗ between this

25:58 ↗ and you see we have a joint

26:01 ↗ meeting proposed in uh what is it July

26:05 ↗ talk about that the Parks

26:08 ↗ Board are you requesting that the that

26:11 ↗ plan live with the environmental board

26:14 ↗ and not with the parks word or a mixture

26:16 ↗ well I I guess I it seems much more

26:19 ↗ logical that looking at the subject

26:21 ↗ matter in that there is some that

26:23 ↗ touches on what is is happening in Parks

26:26 ↗ um a lot of times what happens in Parks

26:28 ↗ is that actually at odds with canopy

26:29 ↗ cover like they're having to make

26:31 ↗ decisions it's kind of a conflict of

26:33 ↗ interest in some ways because it's like

26:35 ↗ they're the ones advocating for fields

26:36 ↗ and things that actually aren't great so

26:39 ↗ it just seems kind of like an odd

26:41 ↗ pairing for that to be the board the

26:43 ↗ board that would be and I don't know I

26:44 ↗ don't know what the city's plans are

26:46 ↗ this was something that Dan I think was

26:48 ↗ going to take away but um yeah anyways

26:51 ↗ that so yes I think the short answer is

26:54 ↗ yes I can highlight that in the memo Dan

26:58 ↗ had an initial conversation about um the

27:01 ↗ plan is written so he will once adopted

27:04 ↗ from Council he will have his direction

27:06 ↗ for implementing the plan and probably

27:08 ↗ doing joint reporting to both Park Board

27:12 ↗ and environmental board joint meetings

27:15 ↗ where possible where he'd report out on

27:17 ↗ progress and then of course if there's

27:20 ↗ programs or policy related to the plan

27:24 ↗ where feedback is needed would probably

27:25 ↗ be touching base with both um for so

27:28 ↗ that's at least the initial conversation

27:30 ↗ we've had and trying to do more joint

27:32 ↗ meetings where possible where there's

27:34 ↗ but that's for further discussion that

27:36 ↗ was very initial but to go on with that

27:39 ↗ topic I think that's been the challenge

27:42 ↗ of this board and not focusing on the

27:44 ↗ environment to the extent I mean Stacy's

27:46 ↗ really focus on

27:47 ↗ sustainability and climate change

27:50 ↗ appropriately so that's really what we

27:52 ↗ would but we really are an environmental

27:54 ↗ board looking at more than just climate

27:56 ↗ change and sustainability

27:58 ↗ and I agree with um Jamie that the urban

28:02 ↗ Force plan really should be here because

28:05 ↗ we're the environmental Flor it is an

28:07 ↗ environmental topic it's not a Parks

28:09 ↗ topic that's just my

28:11 ↗ opinion thank

28:14 ↗ you I have a question does sharing it

28:19 ↗ with the the parks for diminish it

28:23 ↗ somehow like um what is the um the

28:26 ↗ negative of sharing

28:28 ↗ that Forest plan with the board and the

28:32 ↗ parks or know think that's a question

28:35 ↗ for the parks department um you how do

28:37 ↗ they plan to implement it into their

28:39 ↗ park

28:40 ↗ system is it going to be integral to

28:43 ↗ their other Parks or their more

28:46 ↗ developed Parks or is it be a stone

28:49 ↗ program I've seen different bottles of

28:52 ↗ different cities on how they do I would

28:54 ↗ think if it enhances what they're doing

28:56 ↗ with Parks then

28:58 ↗ it would be um a bonus to have it have

29:02 ↗ them be really involved in it as

29:04 ↗ well and I think it be similar to kind

29:07 ↗ of how manage the IAP or other plans are

29:11 ↗ managed where when we are proposing to

29:15 ↗ implement a program within that plan

29:17 ↗ where we need feedback from certain

29:19 ↗ boards based on their expertise we we go

29:22 ↗ to other boards besides the

29:23 ↗ environmental board for feedback on the

29:25 ↗ IAP Equity board probably be doing more

29:28 ↗ with um uh Transportation Advisory Board

29:31 ↗ in the future Park board so um I I don't

29:35 ↗ see the urban Forest management plan

29:37 ↗ necessarily needing to be kind of owned

29:39 ↗ by one board but really depending on the

29:43 ↗ programs and plans that are being

29:44 ↗ implemented Dan will be touching base

29:46 ↗ with those different boards and probably

29:49 ↗ looking um mostly to the park board

29:52 ↗ environmental boards if that falls

29:54 ↗ within the expertise but um I'll have I

29:57 ↗ can have for their conversations with

29:59 ↗ him and the parks team and kind of see

30:01 ↗ uh where they are but I don't

30:03 ↗ necessarily think that a plan needs to

30:05 ↗ be assigned one board as kind of a a

30:09 ↗ owner really lives across all of the

30:11 ↗ city boards and

30:13 ↗ commissions me um yeah when I was

30:16 ↗ working with Dan I know that um we did

30:19 ↗ some or I did some work like looking at

30:21 ↗ the urban Force management plan and I

30:23 ↗ think that for the most part it was kind

30:25 ↗ of being Untouched by or like focus on

30:28 ↗ and like push out of the way and I think

30:29 ↗ a lot of the language also is spec more

30:32 ↗ specific to the park board but I wonder

30:34 ↗ if there's like revisions in the like

30:36 ↗ smaller actions that we can take towards

30:38 ↗ the goals that are outlined in there cuz

30:41 ↗ I think that um a lot of it is also like

30:43 ↗ longterm and I don't know when the last

30:45 ↗ time it was updated was but I think it

30:47 ↗ was before Co and so a lot of that is

30:50 ↗ like unaligned with goals that the

30:53 ↗ sustainability plan

30:56 ↗ has okay thank you

31:00 ↗ other comments on our annual

31:05 ↗ report all right you guys want to go

31:07 ↗ into that self announcement great yeah

31:09 ↗ and what I can do I'll definitely

31:10 ↗ emphasize the items that were brought up

31:12 ↗ this evening in the memo and I can

31:14 ↗ provide the board with that draft memo

31:16 ↗ as well so you have a chance to provide

31:17 ↗ that

31:24 ↗ Fe all

31:26 ↗ right um so as was

31:31 ↗ mentioned

31:33 ↗ um I threw these slides together a

31:37 ↗ couple hours ago we wanted to wait until

31:39 ↗ the last minute so that as many folks as

31:41 ↗ possible could uh provide their uh self

31:44 ↗ analysis self assessment uh to us to to

31:48 ↗ pull into this so um apologies for not

31:51 ↗ getting these out ahead of time

31:54 ↗ um there we go um but we will uh send

31:58 ↗ these out um yeah so um self analysis uh

32:05 ↗ at a quick glance um we do have we had

32:09 ↗ 10 out of 12 board members complete the

32:12 ↗ an assessment this year um that is up

32:14 ↗ from eight uh last year so that's that's

32:17 ↗ exciting and that's uh some great uh

32:21 ↗ participation um overall the

32:23 ↗ environmental board members felt uh good

32:25 ↗ about their contribution um to the city

32:29 ↗ um felt uh positively about uh the depth

32:33 ↗ and level that they were that the board

32:34 ↗ has been able to uh dig into and dive

32:37 ↗ into uh plans reports things like that

32:41 ↗ um the environmental board has felt

32:43 ↗ positively about staff support and about

32:45 ↗ um the breath and types of topics that

32:48 ↗ are coming to the

32:49 ↗ board um there are definitely some s

32:52 ↗ suggestions for improvements including

32:54 ↗ on the meeting process and then some of

32:57 ↗ the feedback loops so um some of what we

32:59 ↗ had talked about earlier but making sure

33:01 ↗ that there is uh continued conversation

33:03 ↗ between Administration uh Council Etc

33:06 ↗ and the board so I'll dig into those a

33:08 ↗ little bit uh in a minute

33:12 ↗ so just to start off with some

33:14 ↗ highlights um these are some of the most

33:17 ↗ positive pieces of the self assessment

33:19 ↗ things that came out there um there

33:23 ↗ there's a spelling error so sorry about

33:26 ↗ that but um the board was was uh

33:28 ↗ appreciative of the opportunity for

33:29 ↗ thoughtful and thorough feedback of a

33:31 ↗ lot of topics so um there was definitely

33:33 ↗ some appreciation for being able to dive

33:35 ↗ in uh in depth into uh different topics

33:40 ↗ um there was uh some perspectives around

33:45 ↗ um wanting to be able to touch on many

33:47 ↗ different types of projects and so um

33:50 ↗ sometimes kind of different projects

33:51 ↗ coming back to the board multiple times

33:53 ↗ did um uh could have felt um like a lot

33:58 ↗ for some folks but um for the most part

34:01 ↗ folks felt very appreciative of of

34:03 ↗ diving into the topics Additionally the

34:06 ↗ topics brought to the environmental

34:07 ↗ board were all relevant and valuable and

34:10 ↗ you'll see kind of one of the the switch

34:12 ↗ opposite sides of that on the next slide

34:15 ↗ but um staff and presenters have

34:17 ↗ supported the environmental board well

34:18 ↗ over the last year and came to the

34:20 ↗ environmental board prepared with their

34:23 ↗ presentations um environmental board

34:25 ↗ members um have felt that this is gener

34:27 ↗ really a positive experience joining the

34:29 ↗ board providing feedback to the city

34:31 ↗ getting more involved into what the city

34:34 ↗ uh has done and is doing uh related to

34:37 ↗ All Things

34:39 ↗ environment and then the final one that

34:41 ↗ I wanted to highlight for now is that uh

34:42 ↗ support for new environmental board

34:44 ↗ members has improved this year um

34:48 ↗ however uh there we want to continue to

34:51 ↗ uh expand support for new members

34:53 ↗ there's definitely some things that

34:54 ↗ we've we've talked about and so that was

34:56 ↗ something that was not as a as a

34:58 ↗ positive and something that um we want

35:01 ↗ to board members noted that we wanted to

35:03 ↗ continue uh pushing forward um uh next

35:08 ↗ year so a couple opportunities for

35:11 ↗ improvement um this is not uh this is

35:14 ↗ not everything this is just some of some

35:15 ↗ summaries here but um the one of the

35:18 ↗ ones that was talked about most was

35:20 ↗ improving those feed lab feedback loops

35:22 ↗ between um environmental board

35:24 ↗ recommendations what was implemented and

35:27 ↗ how those Rec recomendations were taken

35:28 ↗ by uh the administration and by Council

35:31 ↗ so making sure that um staff and Council

35:35 ↗ can report back to the environmental

35:37 ↗ board on how we're receiving uh comments

35:40 ↗ and recommendations on programs and

35:43 ↗ policies and making sure that that is uh

35:45 ↗ a strong feedback loop there um there

35:48 ↗ are a lot of topics to cover um the

35:51 ↗ environmental board noted that they were

35:53 ↗ all uh valuable and relevant topics but

35:56 ↗ that there are a lot of them and that at

35:58 ↗ times uh it has been difficult that

36:01 ↗ we've had some long meetings lots to

36:03 ↗ review things like that and so um there

36:06 ↗ was um an interest in in thinking about

36:09 ↗ prioritizing the topics that are coming

36:10 ↗ to the board to make sure that um uh the

36:14 ↗ board is focusing in on those those

36:16 ↗ topics uh that are most important for uh

36:19 ↗ for the city and and most important for

36:20 ↗ this this board to look

36:23 ↗ at um there was interest uh there was a

36:27 ↗ lot of uh environmental board engagement

36:29 ↗ on plans documents this year um as was

36:32 ↗ noted before uh but there was also some

36:35 ↗ interest uh in the self analysis on um

36:39 ↗ providing feedback and getting more

36:40 ↗ involved in uh some more initiatives and

36:44 ↗ project level work that staff are doing

36:46 ↗ as well so um that's kind of jumping in

36:49 ↗ from kind of that higher level looking

36:51 ↗ down at at um you know city-wide plans

36:54 ↗ long range plans things like that and

36:57 ↗ jump into giving a little bit more

36:58 ↗ feedback into specific uh specific

37:01 ↗ projects and

37:03 ↗ initiatives um there was interest from

37:07 ↗ multiple board members on exploring

37:09 ↗ opportunities for more Community

37:11 ↗ involvement and engagement both in what

37:13 ↗ staff are doing so making sure that uh

37:16 ↗ the work that we're doing with the

37:17 ↗ climate action plan is getting out

37:19 ↗ climate action plan and other

37:20 ↗ environmental initiatives are getting

37:22 ↗ out to the community um as well as

37:25 ↗ thinking about ways to involve the

37:26 ↗ community in the work of the

37:28 ↗ environmental board itself right so

37:31 ↗ that's definitely something that we'll

37:33 ↗ we'll get to dig into there and then

37:35 ↗ there were uh a number of different

37:37 ↗ specific process recommendations so uh

37:40 ↗ some of those were um related to things

37:43 ↗ like uh reports or um summaries that

37:47 ↗ could be provided to the environmental

37:48 ↗ board on um what we've been discussing

37:51 ↗ what we uh had previously discussed on

37:53 ↗ different topics things like that um one

37:55 ↗ of my favorites was um a request for

37:58 ↗ some more informal uh Gatherings and

38:03 ↗ um you know environmental board bonding

38:06 ↗ and kind of support and field trips

38:08 ↗ things like that type of stuff as well

38:11 ↗ um so there were also some of those

38:12 ↗ specific recommendations on how we could

38:14 ↗ improve

38:15 ↗ there and then the final piece uh from

38:19 ↗ the uh self assessment for right now um

38:22 ↗ these were the items uh in order that

38:25 ↗ were of highest interest to the board um

38:28 ↗ based on the the rankings from the uh

38:30 ↗ self assessment so the urban Forest

38:32 ↗ management plan was uh the um the item

38:37 ↗ that was identified by the most

38:38 ↗ environmental board members of being as

38:41 ↗ being of interest to the board followed

38:43 ↗ by Transportation Planning iapf action

38:46 ↗ updates decarbonization efforts both for

38:48 ↗ the city and the community so that's

38:50 ↗ thinking about um what we're doing at

38:52 ↗ our city operations as well as our

38:54 ↗ programs and uh policies to support uh

38:57 ↗ CommunityWide

38:58 ↗ decarbonization and then Wildlife

39:00 ↗ corridors and then um the final one here

39:03 ↗ was the uh IAP update process which is

39:06 ↗ planned for 2025 and

39:09 ↗ 2026 um although these are the the top

39:13 ↗ six um all of the priorities that were

39:16 ↗ on that self assessment did get votes so

39:18 ↗ so folks across the environmental board

39:20 ↗ do have a wide range of interests and

39:22 ↗ are are interested in in all of the

39:24 ↗ topics from waste management for to uh

39:27 ↗ um to these uh identified here and then

39:30 ↗ there were also some other great uh

39:32 ↗ ideas provided by board members as well

39:35 ↗ written in ideas so thinking about um uh

39:39 ↗ some of the Public Works plans and so

39:42 ↗ storm water sewer plans things like that

39:45 ↗ um as well as looking at the the

39:47 ↗ interface between wildlife and waste um

39:50 ↗ management so there are a number of

39:52 ↗ other good ideas that were uh provided

39:54 ↗ for uh staff to consider bringing in the

39:58 ↗ future so with that that was my my quick

40:02 ↗ and rough um pull together of

40:05 ↗ information from this self assessment um

40:08 ↗ but we'll be diving more into it uh in

40:11 ↗ the next couple weeks and kind of uh

40:13 ↗ putting that information more together

40:16 ↗ so that's what I have there any

40:19 ↗ questions or thoughts on the self

40:21 ↗ assessment folks can either provide more

40:23 ↗ uh any thoughts on what they've seen or

40:26 ↗ um add to anything that I uh

40:31 ↗ summarized we going to see a more

40:33 ↗ detailed version

40:36 ↗ of yes it will be in the report it'll be

40:39 ↗ included as part of the report so

40:41 ↗ that'll be in the diser

40:43 ↗ packet but yeah I think now we were just

40:45 ↗ looking for any Reflections on that we

40:48 ↗ can definitely have some more discussion

40:50 ↗ in December does this reflect how you

40:53 ↗ all filled out the survey any um

40:56 ↗ questions or

41:00 ↗ be yeah I be back at the than going out

41:04 ↗ the other day the question I was going

41:06 ↗ to ask the board was both new members

41:09 ↗ and youth members if there's anything in

41:11 ↗ particular that I mean obviously your

41:13 ↗ feedback is sprinkled in here but if

41:15 ↗ there's anything that uh it sounds like

41:19 ↗ things were an improvement from previous

41:21 ↗ years if there's any ideas or doesn't

41:23 ↗ have to be just first year members but

41:25 ↗ anyone on that topic I think that was

41:27 ↗ something that definitely came out of

41:29 ↗ the retreat that's a big topic so

41:32 ↗ there's any thoughts from the board

41:33 ↗ members on improvements are things that

41:36 ↗ that worked really well that we should

41:38 ↗ consider focusing

41:39 ↗ on just

41:48 ↗ he I don't have any comment

41:57 ↗ other comment on that um I'm going to

41:59 ↗ pause there for just a second because

42:02 ↗ thank you Connie Connie wanted to have a

42:04 ↗ chance for public comments

42:11 ↗ here Connie you're muted on RN you

42:13 ↗ should be able to unmute there you go go

42:15 ↗ ahead okay I just was making sure that

42:18 ↗ that was for me so um the Connie Marsh I

42:22 ↗ live on squat so you all are my favorite

42:26 ↗ board because you are thoughtful you do

42:29 ↗ your work and you actually question and

42:33 ↗ you make the city far better and so I

42:37 ↗ appreciate you all and I'm here to tell

42:39 ↗ you I don't say that very often so there

42:42 ↗ you

42:44 ↗ go on the the the issues that I see with

42:50 ↗ the board being

42:52 ↗ successful are that that information

42:56 ↗ that is

42:57 ↗ provided to the

42:59 ↗ board

43:01 ↗ is not necessarily the most perant or

43:06 ↗ the the heaviest hitting pieces of the

43:09 ↗ world that I I personally think should

43:12 ↗ be provided um when I look at our

43:15 ↗ long-term Transportation program and I

43:17 ↗ see that that is not being brought to

43:20 ↗ the board even though it is being

43:22 ↗ threaded through a comprehensive plan I

43:24 ↗ think these are the conversations for

43:27 ↗ our longterm future that that need to be

43:30 ↗ provided to the board in advance and

43:33 ↗ these are policy level changes on what

43:37 ↗ we want our city to be in 20 years and

43:41 ↗ they gave you the language but you never

43:44 ↗ got to have a conversation about how it

43:48 ↗ all works together and how

43:49 ↗ Transportation can transform to make the

43:53 ↗ city different and so then when I look

43:56 ↗ at the budget and I see that Metroflex

43:58 ↗ was initially removed from the budget

44:01 ↗ one of our one of our um our new Transit

44:06 ↗ things and instead we're funding a whole

44:11 ↗ bunch of new vehicles you go wait a

44:13 ↗ second okay let's have a conversation

44:16 ↗ about what the balance of this looks

44:18 ↗ like and how it can work in reality and

44:21 ↗ I don't know how to get that style of

44:25 ↗ conversation to the Environ board

44:27 ↗ because that is actually How the City

44:29 ↗ Works they funnel bits of

44:33 ↗ information to who you and um and Stacy

44:38 ↗ cannot see everything and I often see

44:42 ↗ things go through that have not gotten

44:43 ↗ to the environmental board that should

44:45 ↗ have been to the environmental board and

44:48 ↗ I'm not sure how they end up at Council

44:50 ↗ committee uh before they end up or if

44:54 ↗ they they never end up in the

44:55 ↗ environment board so the process for

44:59 ↗ prioritizing what you all look at is not

45:03 ↗ transparent to you and so a discussion

45:06 ↗ about how you prioritize and who gets to

45:10 ↗ choose what you see I is one of the

45:13 ↗ things that I think is lacking here so

45:17 ↗ um yeah I think I think maybe four or

45:20 ↗ five those things have happened in the

45:22 ↗ last two months and it makes me crazy

45:25 ↗ because you all would have something to

45:26 ↗ say about it that would be very

45:29 ↗ important so anyway you all are

45:32 ↗ wonderful um I appreciate everything you

45:35 ↗ do and uh I'm hoping for a better year

45:39 ↗ next year even thank

45:47 ↗ you with that close that one move on to

45:50 ↗ the next topic so the 2025 draft

45:54 ↗ environmental board work plan

45:58 ↗ great so um over the last few months we

46:00 ↗ have been working just internally with

46:03 ↗ staff to identify topics to come to the

46:05 ↗ board in 2025 we have not yet

46:08 ↗ Incorporated the input from the self

46:12 ↗ analysis um but glad to see that many of

46:14 ↗ the topics you all uh saw as a priority

46:17 ↗ or ranked as a priority um are reflected

46:19 ↗ in the work plan there's definitely um a

46:21 ↗ few gaps that we'll talk about um and

46:25 ↗ then also we can have a conversation

46:27 ↗ around

46:28 ↗ the um more informal engagements and

46:31 ↗ field trips is that something we were

46:32 ↗ also looking to propose for next

46:35 ↗ year so I was just going to pull up our

46:38 ↗ draft work plan um capture any

46:41 ↗ additional comments um again we will be

46:43 ↗ taking the results from the self

46:44 ↗ analysis and uh working with lead staff

46:48 ↗ on those topics to build into this work

46:50 ↗ plan um but did want to get some initial

46:53 ↗ feedback tonight um and then in December

46:56 ↗ we'll be look for kind of a thumbs up

46:58 ↗ vote on this it is a flexible work plan

47:01 ↗ we adjust it almost every month

47:03 ↗ depending on if there's changes in

47:05 ↗ timing for things going to council or

47:09 ↗ sometimes urgent topics arise um uh so

47:14 ↗ uh just keep that in mind that there are

47:16 ↗ adjustments made throughout the

47:18 ↗ year um would it be helpful do folks

47:20 ↗ want me to kind of walk through at least

47:23 ↗ what's sketched out

47:24 ↗ here have you all had a chance to look

47:27 ↗ at it and just want to jump into

47:29 ↗ feedback I can give kind of a general

47:33 ↗ summary of our thought for the year

47:37 ↗ thankful oh P go

47:41 ↗ ahead uh hi CC and so this is a generic

47:45 ↗ question not necessarily specific to the

47:48 ↗ work plan um I know we talked about it

47:51 ↗ that you know you will be updating some

47:54 ↗ of the reports which keep coming back

47:56 ↗ back to the board like IAP um and you

47:59 ↗ know there will be some kind of summary

48:01 ↗ or what's done so far so that you know

48:04 ↗ then next time it comes in front of the

48:06 ↗ board um you know whichever members want

48:09 ↗ to choose they have the opportunity

48:11 ↗ whoever wants to choose they have the

48:13 ↗ opportunity to look at you know kind of

48:15 ↗ refresh themselves before they look at

48:17 ↗ the report again um I thought you had

48:21 ↗ sent an email but I don't quite remember

48:23 ↗ it so just I wanted to check what was

48:26 ↗ the status on that and if it's possible

48:28 ↗ to look at that once in a while

48:30 ↗ especially before you know the IAP

48:32 ↗ update or some of these things keep

48:34 ↗ coming back on yeah I think Pro let me

48:37 ↗ know if this is not what you're

48:39 ↗ referring to but we did um in

48:42 ↗ preparation for the board retreat last

48:44 ↗ January and then um cleaned up a

48:47 ↗ document that provides a summary of kind

48:50 ↗ of major codes policy plans and then a

48:54 ↗ summary of Where the board has engaged

48:56 ↗ on those topics over the years we are

48:59 ↗ working to try and keep that updated so

49:02 ↗ we can send out that resource guide

49:04 ↗ again um for example it will um uh

49:08 ↗ summarize the meetings where the board

49:10 ↗ touched Title 18 or the comprehensive

49:13 ↗ plans that you can refer back to those

49:15 ↗ meetings if you need um a bit of the

49:18 ↗ background but then we'll also provide a

49:20 ↗ brief written summary on what the board

49:22 ↗ has discussed and engaged on is that was

49:25 ↗ that the topic

49:27 ↗ the document correct that's what I was

49:29 ↗ talking about but the only thing is I

49:31 ↗ don't know how often you update it I'm

49:34 ↗ not necessarily adding more work or

49:36 ↗ wanting to you to update it every time

49:38 ↗ but especially for the reports like IAP

49:40 ↗ and you know Capital Improvement plan

49:42 ↗ these things keep coming back um so you

49:46 ↗ know it's good to know especially for

49:48 ↗ the members who have not been with the

49:49 ↗ board for a long time um you know I I

49:53 ↗ just would like to look at it before I

49:56 ↗ see what going on now on the on the

49:59 ↗ report on the plan yeah thanks we do try

50:02 ↗ to keep that updated regularly based on

50:04 ↗ the topics that have been brought to the

50:06 ↗ board um we can resend that out so folks

50:10 ↗ can um favor that links and refer back

50:14 ↗ to it um and then within the memos for

50:17 ↗ our topics we usually include

50:20 ↗ information on resources or passp

50:22 ↗ discussions we're trying to uh improve

50:27 ↗ that and basically it would be

50:29 ↗ information pulled from that resource

50:31 ↗ guide so you all don't have to remember

50:33 ↗ to look back at that resource guide um

50:35 ↗ so that's something we're continuing to

50:37 ↗ work on so at least within the memo you

50:39 ↗ receive for the board packet you'll have

50:41 ↗ that summary of when the board has

50:43 ↗ touched that topic before um and can and

50:47 ↗ have a brief summary of Where the board

50:49 ↗ landed on the

50:50 ↗ topic yeah that's that would be great

50:53 ↗ thank you great and then just

50:55 ↗ specifically to the IAP updates um I

50:58 ↗ will'll just note we're preparing a

51:00 ↗ detailed update for Council right now

51:02 ↗ that will go to them in early December

51:05 ↗ we will make sure you all see that uh

51:07 ↗ prior to going to council um so that one

51:09 ↗ we have an update on all of the actions

51:11 ↗ that were um uh working on in I have

51:16 ↗ thank

51:17 ↗ you Andy I have a request for addition

51:21 ↗ to the January meeting yes and that is

51:24 ↗ given what mayor Paulie said about um um

51:27 ↗ the budget implications it would be

51:29 ↗ really helpful if we heard what happened

51:32 ↗ with the budget not only in your

51:35 ↗ department or your sustainability but

51:39 ↗ clearly there's things that will happen

51:40 ↗ in parks and um Community Development

51:44 ↗ since we saw a lot of you comp plan

51:46 ↗ things like that going through to kind

51:48 ↗ of get a feel for because the budget

51:50 ↗ sets the priorities for each of the

51:52 ↗ Departments it sets what your work plan

51:55 ↗ is and since it's not approved the

51:57 ↗ council clearly is weighing in on that

51:59 ↗ at this time it would be helpful if we

52:01 ↗ knew what the council's priorities were

52:02 ↗ since that's goinging to that signals

52:05 ↗ coming through great absolutely

52:10 ↗ great um this is just adding on to what

52:12 ↗ rash said as a suggestion on how to get

52:15 ↗ us to remember to go back and that

52:17 ↗ document is you send out those great

52:18 ↗ emails like a few days before and you

52:20 ↗ could include the link in there so

52:23 ↗ that go and check it time but if it's in

52:26 ↗ there I'll remember to go check so that

52:28 ↗ would be

52:30 ↗ helpful

52:32 ↗ Tom uh yeah so just want to reflect on

52:35 ↗ the priorities that you saw from the

52:39 ↗ survey that okay Transportation was like

52:42 ↗ number two that's cool that's one of the

52:45 ↗ topics which is near and dear to my

52:47 ↗ heart the multimodal transportation

52:50 ↗ corridors these are key things to get in

52:53 ↗ our pipeline here to improve liability

52:56 ↗ and an environmental footprint it is the

52:59 ↗ CL coming forward all right so I see

53:02 ↗ there is one month here we have the

53:04 ↗ Mobility plan implementation update in

53:08 ↗ September um so let's say we increase uh

53:13 ↗ review of Transportation related stuff

53:16 ↗ what are we going to throw out you know

53:18 ↗ so how how will that juggling act be

53:22 ↗ performed

53:24 ↗ um are we going to vote on it

53:27 ↗ or how do you envision that tradeoff to

53:31 ↗ be made that's a great question that's

53:33 ↗ something I typically consult with the

53:35 ↗ chair Vice chair as we have new topics

53:37 ↗ come on or something urgent I'll I reach

53:40 ↗ out to them or we might sit down and

53:42 ↗ kind of prioritize where we're

53:44 ↗ overloaded on

53:46 ↗ meetings it's I mean it's a difficult

53:49 ↗ thing because these are all good topics

53:52 ↗ but they're limited resources right and

53:55 ↗ one of the things we did talk about last

53:57 ↗ when we had our um Retreat if memory

54:01 ↗ serves was well all right the whole

54:03 ↗ board reviews every topic we could

54:06 ↗ fragment into subcommittees that focused

54:10 ↗ on specific areas in order to parallel

54:14 ↗ our work that that is something that

54:17 ↗ could be done it would be more overhead

54:20 ↗ um certainly on on your end to run that

54:23 ↗ show that way but uh that would be

54:27 ↗ something we could do if we wanted to

54:30 ↗ keep the bread but yet focus and some uh

54:35 ↗ yeah specific prioritized areas lower in

54:39 ↗ depth

54:41 ↗ yeah um that's all yeah one area or one

54:46 ↗ approach we've had to when we've um had

54:48 ↗ so many topics coming forward is looking

54:51 ↗ at where we can move to written updates

54:53 ↗ especially if it's just an informational

54:55 ↗ update and so you've probably been

54:57 ↗ noticing a lot of written updates in the

55:00 ↗ board packet where we would want to

55:02 ↗ prioritize for

55:04 ↗ conversation um plans that need input

55:07 ↗ any proposed policies those types of

55:09 ↗ things that have um that we really need

55:11 ↗ the boards for both feedback versus

55:14 ↗ something where we just wanted to update

55:15 ↗ the B board so that's where we're trying

55:18 ↗ to kind of balance out um our meeting

55:21 ↗ agendas as well me check with Kish and

55:24 ↗ see if it's legal for us to put together

55:27 ↗ subgroups to dig into topics in more

55:30 ↗ detail I'm thinking visibility is

55:34 ↗ it under the the the way the board

55:37 ↗ operates we allow yeah I believe we had

55:39 ↗ that conversation after the retreat we

55:41 ↗ can do that of course if there's a quum

55:44 ↗ it's a public meeting so it is more work

55:46 ↗ on us to make sure agendas are developed

55:48 ↗ and published and we're holding a public

55:50 ↗ meeting um but we can break into

55:53 ↗ subcommittees as needed um that could be

55:56 ↗ something we talk about for next year

55:58 ↗ with the IAP update or CIP that's coming

56:02 ↗ things like that some of these bigger

56:03 ↗ topics where maybe folks want to

56:06 ↗ consider a subcommittee that can dig in

56:08 ↗ a little bit deeper so but yeah I can um

56:11 ↗ work with Tia just to kind of lay out

56:13 ↗ what the process and rules are sub

56:17 ↗ committees

56:18 ↗ Jam um one topic uh just looking at that

56:23 ↗ priority list and while I think it was

56:27 ↗ three or four um and I think just

56:29 ↗ generally the topic of wildlife I think

56:31 ↗ that was maybe there weren't a lot of

56:32 ↗ wildlife topics so that be like that's

56:34 ↗ maybe a proxy for wildlife um and just

56:38 ↗ looking through our work plan we don't

56:39 ↗ really have it would sort of in like uh

56:43 ↗ raran report is probably like indirect I

56:45 ↗ just I think that like one of the best

56:48 ↗ parts about the natural environment are

56:49 ↗ the animals that live in it and we so

56:52 ↗ frequently lose that in our

56:54 ↗ conversations um it's so I think I

56:57 ↗ personally don't really understand what

56:58 ↗ are the big barrier like wild left

57:00 ↗ quarter barrier what what should we be

57:02 ↗ thinking about there and the thing that

57:03 ↗ you keep caring for me about that I

57:05 ↗ really think we need to address is um

57:08 ↗ the impact of not like we talk a lot

57:11 ↗ about waste diversion at the landfill

57:13 ↗ but what about before the landfill and

57:16 ↗ like I live in Oldtown and in the last

57:19 ↗ two weeks it's over half the days I walk

57:21 ↗ my dog every morning half the days there

57:23 ↗ are over half the days over turn trash

57:26 ↗ can overturned um compost bins and the

57:30 ↗ last time this happened this bear is on

57:31 ↗ its way to the same outcome that the

57:34 ↗ mama bear and three Cubs from a couple

57:36 ↗ years ago that ended up they got moved

57:38 ↗ and then they ended up having to get

57:39 ↗ euthanized and I don't think people know

57:41 ↗ this but there's also like even if they

57:43 ↗ did there's not really any consequence

57:45 ↗ for doing that and so like that's

57:47 ↗ another topic that I'm passionate about

57:49 ↗ I've mentioned multiple times here like

57:51 ↗ I know we have um the waste management

57:54 ↗ uh Cera the title of the person but like

57:58 ↗ that to me is like something that we

57:59 ↗ need to be talking about and this board

58:01 ↗ should be talking about and that the

58:03 ↗ city and it sounds like there are

58:04 ↗ conversations but um that's just how we

58:08 ↗ impact Wildlife is something that I

58:09 ↗ don't think we spent enough time on in

58:11 ↗ general I think there's a couple

58:13 ↗ different topics that are timely for us

58:15 ↗ to to SP

58:17 ↗ time so there's not a wild court or plan

58:21 ↗ or something that we can specifically

58:23 ↗ comment on but it rolls into a bunch of

58:25 ↗ other plans uh course management plan

58:28 ↗ the right Paran how kind s the code

58:32 ↗ so I would ask let's think about that a

58:34 ↗ little bit where we can influence

58:36 ↗ that yeah we've had a pending topic for

58:39 ↗ two years on Wildlife corridors um

58:42 ↗ because we had talked with Doug was at

58:43 ↗ our last meeting um about doing a study

58:47 ↗ that keeps being delayed because of

58:49 ↗ budget um issues in the planning

58:51 ↗ department but it's still something

58:53 ↗ that's on their radar so definitely keep

58:55 ↗ these ones and some of the other topics

58:57 ↗ around kind of go coexisting

59:00 ↗ and and

59:05 ↗ yeah studies on existing while that

59:07 ↗ corridors that are known yeah there a

59:10 ↗ few so great we'll make sure that makes

59:13 ↗ it in this year Alex this is just like a

59:16 ↗ process comment can you send when you

59:18 ↗ send this back out Jo can you have that

59:20 ↗ traction SP see what was added if

59:24 ↗ anything gets removed because we're

59:30 ↗ busy um I think I have more thoughts on

59:33 ↗ this that we'll prob talk about later in

59:35 ↗ the meeting but um to me like when I

59:37 ↗ hear what Jamie is saying I think this

59:39 ↗ all really a lot of this boils down to

59:42 ↗ community engagement which we really

59:44 ↗ only have I think once um and uh because

59:48 ↗ so much of I think what we're trying to

59:50 ↗ do it's it feels sometimes like we're

59:51 ↗ you know 12 of us trying to save the

59:54 ↗ world and um you know before I was even

59:57 ↗ asked if I was interested in any of I

59:59 ↗ didn't even know you guys existed and I

1:00:01 ↗ I'm you know I'm a business owner in

1:00:03 ↗ isqua and I've been 16 years now right

1:00:07 ↗ so I I just am wondering if we we're

1:00:10 ↗ sometimes making our lives Harder by not

1:00:14 ↗ um you know thinking

1:00:16 ↗ about what the community can help us do

1:00:20 ↗ because we are one voice but if the

1:00:23 ↗ community is behind us and they know who

1:00:24 ↗ we are and what we're trying to do you

1:00:26 ↗ know is that going to help our cause and

1:00:29 ↗ then and I think my comments will be

1:00:30 ↗ probably what we're talking about later

1:00:32 ↗ in some ways maybe we can connect with

1:00:34 ↗ Community just a

1:00:38 ↗ thought the only comment I would have to

1:00:41 ↗ add it's you um yeah I just think the

1:00:45 ↗ the plan needs needs some space and some

1:00:48 ↗ open space and open time for developing

1:00:50 ↗ new ideas it's it's ch

1:00:54 ↗ P fo pull

1:00:56 ↗ there's you know Jamie's brought up

1:00:58 ↗ something that that is not plan I've got

1:01:02 ↗ some ideas things that be talk about we

1:01:04 ↗ had some free space at every meeting or

1:01:06 ↗ every other meeting to to brainstorm on

1:01:10 ↗ new things

1:01:11 ↗ City

1:01:13 ↗ [Music]

1:01:16 ↗ great um the only thing I would add is

1:01:18 ↗ that when you're bringing some of these

1:01:20 ↗ like I see C up there quite a bit um

1:01:22 ↗ bring them early enough that we can

1:01:25 ↗ influence the decision making so I'm not

1:01:28 ↗ at the 11th Hour when the documents

1:01:30 ↗ going to B print

1:01:33 ↗ yeah that's

1:01:35 ↗ great great um I can just highlight a

1:01:38 ↗ couple of things some of these will be

1:01:40 ↗ talking yeah just the transportation

1:01:42 ↗ plan since that's one of our high

1:01:43 ↗ priorities if it's not coming till

1:01:46 ↗ November is that what you said or

1:01:47 ↗ whenever it was it's probably pretty

1:01:50 ↗ well cooked by the time it gets to

1:01:53 ↗ us sorry no yeah September NC it's

1:01:58 ↗ listed as an update

1:02:01 ↗ so would that mean that we don't have

1:02:03 ↗ any influence on it I don't know that's

1:02:05 ↗ that would be an update on

1:02:06 ↗ implementation that's underway so um oh

1:02:10 ↗ it's already crafted and it's just an

1:02:12 ↗ update on how the yeah I'll need to talk

1:02:15 ↗ with staff about is there if there's an

1:02:17 ↗ actual update on David if you put you on

1:02:20 ↗ the spot well they have to have a sent

1:02:22 ↗ to the state by June okay they brought

1:02:24 ↗ it to us last year so to get funding

1:02:27 ↗ funds the T the T you're talking about

1:02:29 ↗ the tip not the mity agenda yes um yeah

1:02:34 ↗ I was thinking about the Mobility plan

1:02:37 ↗ um great I will reach out to John it

1:02:41 ↗ will be included as part of the CIP um

1:02:45 ↗ but I can see if there's another um

1:02:47 ↗ aspect of that he can bring to us

1:02:52 ↗ SE um I was just going to highlight a

1:02:54 ↗ couple things that are outside of David

1:02:58 ↗ and my's work plan that we'll be talking

1:02:59 ↗ about a minute um that will likely be

1:03:02 ↗ big topics I don't have any timelines

1:03:04 ↗ yet so some of these are guesses but the

1:03:07 ↗ CIP um a year and a half ago was really

1:03:10 ↗ the first time the boards and

1:03:12 ↗ commissions were involved in that so I'm

1:03:14 ↗ anticipating there'll be additional

1:03:16 ↗ engagement we have draft environmental

1:03:19 ↗ and climate criteria that were

1:03:21 ↗ incorporated into the CIP last year I

1:03:25 ↗ hope and expect and we'll Advocate that

1:03:27 ↗ we have an opportunity to improve upon

1:03:28 ↗ those they're really just a a starter

1:03:32 ↗ criteria um so that may be a focus of

1:03:34 ↗ this

1:03:35 ↗ spring um want to have an opportunity

1:03:38 ↗ for you all to hear from the students

1:03:40 ↗ again I thought those were really um

1:03:42 ↗ fantastic presentations last June and we

1:03:44 ↗ have a number of additional student

1:03:46 ↗ projects underway um so we'll be um

1:03:49 ↗ inviting them back to

1:03:51 ↗ present um Urban Forest management plan

1:03:54 ↗ um we anticipate coming for at least two

1:03:57 ↗ touch

1:03:59 ↗ points um and

1:04:01 ↗ then there's other big items we you'll

1:04:05 ↗ be hearing about David and I in just a

1:04:06 ↗ minute um the one thing we did want to

1:04:09 ↗ get some feedback on is as was shown in

1:04:12 ↗ the self analysis which was great is

1:04:15 ↗ we'd like to have some more informal

1:04:17 ↗ Gatherings either outside of our

1:04:18 ↗ meetings or in um place of our meetings

1:04:21 ↗ um we have some students working on a

1:04:23 ↗ geocaching project that could be a a fun

1:04:26 ↗ tour to get us all out in geocache

1:04:30 ↗ um uh but really looking for other ideas

1:04:33 ↗ I know several of you are for stewards

1:04:36 ↗ um John's got monthly litter pickup but

1:04:39 ↗ just really looking for opportunities um

1:04:42 ↗ if you all want to lead um a field trip

1:04:45 ↗ with the board or have an idea let us

1:04:48 ↗ know and we can see if it either would

1:04:50 ↗ be a good um evening uh option to

1:04:53 ↗ replace our meeting or we can put it out

1:04:55 ↗ was an optional um addition special you

1:04:58 ↗ find to help John pick up garbage very

1:05:01 ↗ fun

1:05:04 ↗ yeah welcome that yeah great you could

1:05:08 ↗ put that on as kind of an April first

1:05:10 ↗ month one too in that same vein so I'm

1:05:13 ↗ involved with the Seattle Urban

1:05:15 ↗ carnivore project and there are

1:05:17 ↗ hammerland Tiger Mountain that my team

1:05:20 ↗ uh manages I I don't know if that would

1:05:22 ↗ be within the scope of what the board

1:05:25 ↗ would be interested in but anyway we can

1:05:27 ↗ take a field trip to visit the

1:05:29 ↗ cameras that'd be fun yep y the

1:05:33 ↗ management approves that I don't know

1:05:35 ↗ Seattle Urban carnivore project run by

1:05:37 ↗ the M Park Zoo might have opinions that

1:05:41 ↗ I don't

1:05:42 ↗ think yeah I used to run the ones on

1:05:44 ↗ Cougar

1:05:47 ↗ not

1:05:49 ↗ J yeah there was just um one thing I

1:05:52 ↗ wanted to mention hearkening back to

1:05:55 ↗ like one of the initial conversations we

1:05:57 ↗ had about um the urban Forest management

1:05:59 ↗ plan and like ownership I think it's

1:06:01 ↗ less about ownership but it's one one

1:06:03 ↗ thing that kind of stood out in this

1:06:04 ↗ conversation is the difference and the

1:06:06 ↗ amount of updates we get on the IAP for

1:06:09 ↗ example versus what's going on with

1:06:11 ↗ transportation and obviously it's not

1:06:13 ↗ Apple that apples but I think that like

1:06:16 ↗ one of the things I'm most interested is

1:06:17 ↗ not like who has own but like is Dan

1:06:20 ↗ going to be sending the same level of

1:06:21 ↗ updates that you do on IAP to us or is

1:06:24 ↗ it because it's own like those are the

1:06:26 ↗ type like I think just how do we make

1:06:27 ↗ sure that we can stay engaged and it's

1:06:29 ↗ not like going outside of like

1:06:31 ↗ Transportation right now feels like it's

1:06:33 ↗ like fighting Upstream to get any

1:06:36 ↗ engagement on it how do we make sure

1:06:38 ↗ that's not how they're reforced and I

1:06:40 ↗ don't think it will because that's not P

1:06:41 ↗ that's I think we're more closely

1:06:42 ↗ aligned in transportation probably with

1:06:45 ↗ with what happens there but that I think

1:06:46 ↗ this is a good example of like we've

1:06:49 ↗ been talking about it for years and it's

1:06:50 ↗ still hard on transportation and how do

1:06:52 ↗ we just make sure that's not the case on

1:06:54 ↗ Force management that it's not like by

1:06:56 ↗ default it's not coming to us kind of

1:06:58 ↗ thing so just I don't I don't need any

1:07:01 ↗ respond I just think it's this is a good

1:07:03 ↗ example that brought this to mind one

1:07:07 ↗ one just quick thought on that is that

1:07:08 ↗ there is the transportation Advisory

1:07:11 ↗ board so like for the transportation

1:07:12 ↗ plan there's a specific board where that

1:07:15 ↗ that owns the plan very much like IAP

1:07:17 ↗ and this plan and this board um whereas

1:07:20 ↗ to the conversation earlier there's less

1:07:23 ↗ of a a direct for

1:07:27 ↗ ownerships

1:07:29 ↗ right they were like the equivalent of

1:07:31 ↗ tab for transportation would have been

1:07:33 ↗ parks for urb for management so that's

1:07:35 ↗ that's my point is that yeah I think

1:07:38 ↗ that's what I'm saying yeah

1:07:41 ↗ great Jonathan I was just thinking about

1:07:45 ↗ tours I took the tour I thought that

1:07:48 ↗ pretty good

1:07:50 ↗ um but other tours that we could

1:07:53 ↗ potentially do is something about

1:07:56 ↗ City's utilities or specifically water

1:07:59 ↗ quality where we get a water how's it

1:08:02 ↗ tested where is it where is it

1:08:05 ↗ sourced that

1:08:08 ↗ would

1:08:11 ↗ great I just happened to find um be

1:08:14 ↗ looking for this for a different project

1:08:17 ↗ um and the city has a whole report on

1:08:21 ↗ that which I can forward to the

1:08:23 ↗ Environmental Group if you guys are

1:08:24 ↗ interested

1:08:27 ↗ talks all about City's water have you

1:08:29 ↗ guys seen that yeah it goes out to every

1:08:33 ↗ resident September say published yeah so

1:08:37 ↗ each resident should receive

1:08:39 ↗ that y requ that's the same one that

1:08:42 ↗ you're the requirement of all water

1:08:44 ↗ purveyor is send out mannually and has

1:08:46 ↗ to describe where your water comes from

1:08:48 ↗ what's in your water the sampling

1:08:50 ↗ efforts see undertakes on of their

1:08:52 ↗ Partners to test your water and then

1:08:55 ↗ most you should be able to find on the

1:08:57 ↗ city website to type

1:09:00 ↗ inle is that the same one and or was

1:09:02 ↗ there different I think so

1:09:05 ↗ yeah do you know if there's a similar

1:09:07 ↗ thing for say air quality there's not

1:09:11 ↗ like that's something that would fit

1:09:12 ↗ pretty well

1:09:15 ↗ with uh the CCA has a whole bunch of the

1:09:18 ↗ air quality monitor projects going on

1:09:21 ↗ that are funded so maybe we can look to

1:09:24 ↗ see H one near us iing forward there's a

1:09:27 ↗ map um from cinton prosperous that has

1:09:31 ↗ all the projects and where they are and

1:09:32 ↗ their updates so has forward with that

1:09:35 ↗ and would that be helpful because I

1:09:37 ↗ don't know if the city of is can do one

1:09:39 ↗ s yeah I was wondering if the pet on

1:09:42 ↗ clean air um Authority if they publish

1:09:45 ↗ something I haven't I can check but

1:09:48 ↗ there's going to be a ton more mod

1:09:49 ↗ monitoring stations around because of

1:09:52 ↗ the CCA great I'm going to one last

1:09:56 ↗ comment for Alex then we're going to end

1:09:57 ↗ it on that because we're bu next time I

1:10:01 ↗ don't think I added this as a topic on

1:10:02 ↗ the support self assessment but add

1:10:05 ↗ storm water Improvement on there topic

1:10:08 ↗ storm water Improvement yeah storm water

1:10:10 ↗ management especially in like relative

1:10:13 ↗ to 6 PDD and other

1:10:15 ↗ toxics I talk for

1:10:20 ↗ hours be a guest

1:10:24 ↗ presenter quite a great idea there um

1:10:28 ↗ yeah the other thing I was thinking to

1:10:30 ↗ dict to your point the sustainability

1:10:32 ↗ Fair maybe the board would be up for

1:10:34 ↗ having a table I know a lot of you will

1:10:36 ↗ probably have your own tables there but

1:10:38 ↗ just thinking about ways to get out in

1:10:39 ↗ the community or Farmers Market except

1:10:42 ↗ that sh what we're doing

1:10:44 ↗ so great um well David and I will

1:10:48 ↗ incorporate the feedback from the self

1:10:51 ↗ analysis and all of the input tonight um

1:10:54 ↗ and then present you all with uh updated

1:10:58 ↗ draft work plan in December um for your

1:11:01 ↗ we'll be looking for a thumbs

1:11:06 ↗ up thanks Stacy um so next you got the

1:11:09 ↗ IAP R programs and

1:11:13 ↗ projects and this is just informational

1:11:16 ↗ for us yeah I think we will be

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1:11:20 ↗ um looking for um input um so we want to

1:11:25 ↗ walk through what David N said as

1:11:28 ↗ priorities for next year a lot of these

1:11:31 ↗ are very reflective in the budget if

1:11:33 ↗ folks have had an opportunity to look at

1:11:35 ↗ um the mayor's prall's budget um we of

1:11:39 ↗ course are still waiting for Budget

1:11:41 ↗ approval and so some of these may be

1:11:43 ↗ revised if there are significant changes

1:11:45 ↗ to the budget um tonight uh want to um

1:11:49 ↗ just see if there's feedback questions

1:11:51 ↗ from the board and then of course if

1:11:53 ↗ there are areas of interest or gaps that

1:11:56 ↗ you see um to let us know um we would

1:11:59 ↗ most likely need to go out and look for

1:12:01 ↗ funding for those particular areas um

1:12:04 ↗ but uh are we'll do so if they're of

1:12:08 ↗ interest to the board and um something

1:12:10 ↗ that you're really seeing as a gap or

1:12:11 ↗ things that we aren't thinking of or are

1:12:13 ↗ planning to pursue next

1:12:19 ↗ year all right so um as mentioned kind

1:12:22 ↗ of the feedback we're looking for

1:12:23 ↗ tonight is the does do our priorities

1:12:27 ↗ align with the board's expectations for

1:12:29 ↗ where we're planning to focus on IAP

1:12:30 ↗ implementation

1:12:32 ↗ 2025 are there um any other areas that

1:12:35 ↗ you would want us to

1:12:37 ↗ prioritize um and then also looking for

1:12:39 ↗ opportunities where we um might be able

1:12:41 ↗ to further engage the

1:12:44 ↗ community um so we'll be David and I'll

1:12:46 ↗ both be speaking through uh a set of the

1:12:50 ↗ priorities um mostly to focus around

1:12:53 ↗ decarbonization fac ities and Fleet

1:12:57 ↗ resilience waste um and our greenhouse

1:13:00 ↗ gas inventory we'll also have a IAP

1:13:04 ↗ update that will'll be starting over

1:13:06 ↗ this next year and we're looking at

1:13:07 ↗ policies and of course pursuing grant

1:13:09 ↗ funding that's just a quick highlight of

1:13:12 ↗ what we'll be digging

1:13:14 ↗ into um so one of our major areas of

1:13:17 ↗ focus um as it is our largest source of

1:13:20 ↗ greenhouse gas emissions is on

1:13:23 ↗ residential and commercial building

1:13:24 ↗ decar

1:13:25 ↗ carbonization we have several programs

1:13:27 ↗ already that are focused on incentives

1:13:30 ↗ for

1:13:31 ↗ decarbonizing um residents um as well as

1:13:34 ↗ Energy Efficiency and commercial

1:13:36 ↗ buildings um we are also uh most of

1:13:38 ↗ those programs all this number of

1:13:42 ↗ Education

1:13:43 ↗ opportunities um the Key Programs were

1:13:46 ↗ focused on our continuation of energy

1:13:48 ↗ smart East Side um right now focused on

1:13:50 ↗ heat pumps although we're looking at

1:13:52 ↗ expanding that program into other

1:13:55 ↗ incentives um our clean buildings

1:13:57 ↗ program which is mostly focused on the

1:13:59 ↗ larger buildings commercial um nonprofit

1:14:03 ↗ multifamily um we also have a program

1:14:06 ↗ that will continue through April of 2025

1:14:10 ↗ um encouraging businesses and residents

1:14:12 ↗ to um purchase or enroll in green

1:14:15 ↗ power um we will be piling piloting a

1:14:19 ↗ new electrification incentive in isqua

1:14:22 ↗ looking at the results of that and then

1:14:24 ↗ considering a residential or excuse me a

1:14:27 ↗ regional

1:14:28 ↗ expansion and then we're also looking at

1:14:31 ↗ potentially a pilot for a

1:14:34 ↗ weatherization program and then also

1:14:37 ↗ another solar program if folks were here

1:14:40 ↗ in 2018 We R ran a solariz program um

1:14:43 ↗ and we are pursuing a contract with the

1:14:46 ↗ organization to do another program this

1:14:49 ↗ spring you taking a feedback as you go

1:14:51 ↗ on sure yeah feel free to jump in any

1:14:53 ↗ chance you might include your list and

1:14:56 ↗ Outreach to the chamber to try and get

1:14:57 ↗ some of the commercial and some of the

1:14:59 ↗ buildings and some those folks involved

1:15:02 ↗ in we would love that we have tried

1:15:05 ↗ doing a few webinars and presentations

1:15:08 ↗ and having chamber share information on

1:15:11 ↗ our clean buildings program if folks

1:15:13 ↗ have contacts at the chamber or an inn

1:15:16 ↗ or other ideas

1:15:19 ↗ um would the director we have it's been

1:15:23 ↗ about a year and a half since we first

1:15:25 ↗ launch the program so probably overdue

1:15:27 ↗ for another um Outreach but we we work

1:15:31 ↗ mostly through our Economic Development

1:15:33 ↗ um team because they're the primary

1:15:35 ↗ contact but yeah worth another

1:15:43 ↗ for oh yes I almost forgot what

1:15:46 ↗ I um so I heard that possibly some of

1:15:51 ↗ your ca grants didn't get approved and

1:15:55 ↗ wondering what those projects were that

1:15:56 ↗ didn't get approved and you're planing

1:16:00 ↗ be apply yeah um we are putting together

1:16:03 ↗ a summary of all the grants that have

1:16:05 ↗ been approved um are pending and that

1:16:09 ↗ have not been approved for our IAP

1:16:11 ↗ update to council we have a couple of

1:16:14 ↗ solar grants that were not approved um

1:16:18 ↗ but we have submitted those to psse for

1:16:20 ↗ their solar program so we're still

1:16:22 ↗ waiting on those um we have a couple

1:16:25 ↗ pending say which ones those are um

1:16:27 ↗ which grants they are or which for

1:16:30 ↗ senior center and Pickering B we

1:16:33 ↗ submitted twice um and now we're waiting

1:16:36 ↗ for

1:16:37 ↗ psse there's huge demand I think in

1:16:40 ↗ limited funding but we we have um

1:16:43 ↗ through the solar plus storage Grant

1:16:45 ↗ David manage we have all the plans drawn

1:16:48 ↗ up for those so we're ready to go to

1:16:50 ↗ contract once we receive the funding um

1:16:53 ↗ we can talk about this later but we do

1:16:54 ↗ have some funding in our city budget

1:16:56 ↗ that would go towards solar projects too

1:16:59 ↗ and then we're waiting on a couple yeah

1:17:01 ↗ so for the most part the grants that we

1:17:03 ↗ haven't gotten um have been more focused

1:17:05 ↗ on um City operations

1:17:08 ↗ decarbonization um most of the

1:17:10 ↗ residential commercial building

1:17:12 ↗ decarbonization grants um have been

1:17:14 ↗ successful overall um and the reason the

1:17:17 ↗ city hasn't been as successful on our

1:17:19 ↗ own facilities it's just there's uh a

1:17:23 ↗ mix of different things we don't have

1:17:24 ↗ huge buildings and a lot of those grants

1:17:26 ↗ are going to the bigger buildings um we

1:17:29 ↗ are not a community identified as um uh

1:17:33 ↗ being overburdened by environmental

1:17:35 ↗ justice considerations from the the

1:17:36 ↗ state map so there are kind of a couple

1:17:39 ↗ different reasons where I still think we

1:17:41 ↗ put in very good applications um but we

1:17:45 ↗ do yes absolutely so we do try and

1:17:47 ↗ highlight things like the freeway and

1:17:50 ↗ and pull out pieces of those maps to to

1:17:52 ↗ help make our case but for the most part

1:17:54 ↗ our grand have been uh very successful

1:17:57 ↗ on the residential side and more

1:17:59 ↗ middling success on the um City

1:18:02 ↗ operations side but we're still

1:18:03 ↗ continuing to

1:18:07 ↗ try Alice um just a thought on the

1:18:10 ↗ community outreach and real Poli

1:18:12 ↗ programs if you have business owners or

1:18:14 ↗ residents who participated and may be

1:18:16 ↗ interested in posting open house or

1:18:18 ↗ coffee CL type of situation eating the

1:18:21 ↗ STA and like somehow incentivizing

1:18:23 ↗ people to program business stay in place

1:18:27 ↗ that's a great idea we were just talking

1:18:29 ↗ about for our new um electrification

1:18:32 ↗ pilot to do some open houses we hadn't

1:18:34 ↗ talked about having them posted at other

1:18:37 ↗ locations so

1:18:41 ↗ great

1:18:43 ↗ Jamie

1:18:45 ↗ um question on the pilot is the pilot a

1:18:48 ↗ contractor facing incentive by chance or

1:18:50 ↗ is

1:18:50 ↗ it we just wrapped up Community

1:18:53 ↗ engagement to get feedback on that so

1:18:55 ↗ we're evaluating either a rebate SL

1:18:58 ↗ reimbursement option where the city cuts

1:19:00 ↗ a

1:19:01 ↗ check after the homeowner has paid for

1:19:04 ↗ the equipment we're looking at a

1:19:05 ↗ contractor option we're even exploring

1:19:08 ↗ like a Lowe's rebate Home Depot rebate

1:19:11 ↗ um so we're looking at all those options

1:19:13 ↗ taking feedback we just got from a

1:19:15 ↗ survey and focus groups that advise

1:19:19 ↗ on this couple AG or we can get a

1:19:23 ↗ broader group of contractors and not

1:19:26 ↗ rely on people that want to decarbonize

1:19:29 ↗ but that are thinking about and already

1:19:31 ↗ need to replace a system in their home

1:19:34 ↗ those will be the people that you can

1:19:35 ↗ shift with much less money than having

1:19:37 ↗ to pay for the whole system or pay for a

1:19:40 ↗ huge portion of the system so like I

1:19:42 ↗ hope that we can find a way through

1:19:44 ↗ either what the city's doing or uh

1:19:47 ↗ Energy Smart East Side to uh get

1:19:49 ↗ expanded group beyond the Mitsubishi

1:19:52 ↗ contractors the other piece related that

1:19:55 ↗ um I assume I I'm guessing once here all

1:19:58 ↗ the he money becomes available that will

1:20:00 ↗ be a big Focus yes because that is

1:20:03 ↗ obviously a huge Shunk of money I don't

1:20:05 ↗ know how many of our citizens are going

1:20:08 ↗ how many or how many people here will be

1:20:09 ↗ eligible for it but um I don't know if

1:20:12 ↗ that how that factors into the plan or

1:20:14 ↗ how what your your team is thinking

1:20:16 ↗ about for how that'll be communicated

1:20:18 ↗ yeah a lot of our um programs right now

1:20:20 ↗ Were Meant to kind of fill the need

1:20:23 ↗ until those federal dollars come um I

1:20:25 ↗ can't remember off the top of my head

1:20:27 ↗ the income qualifications for those but

1:20:29 ↗ I believe they're going to be lower than

1:20:31 ↗ what we've been able to offer at the

1:20:33 ↗ state level and may um rely on some

1:20:36 ↗ federal poverty rates so um there may

1:20:39 ↗ still need be a need for us to continue

1:20:41 ↗ our incentives for the slightly higher

1:20:44 ↗ income brackets or up to um moderate

1:20:46 ↗ income in in this County so um but yes

1:20:49 ↗ we're expecting to hear more from

1:20:52 ↗ Commerce on that Federal funding program

1:20:56 ↗ um over the next few months because I

1:20:58 ↗ believe they're planing to roll it out

1:20:59 ↗ somewh quarter quarter three quarter

1:21:01 ↗ four next year well so we're kind of

1:21:04 ↗ late I think it's taking a while yeah so

1:21:06 ↗ if folks aren't aware these are um

1:21:09 ↗ federal dollars that states could apply

1:21:10 ↗ for for basically electrification

1:21:13 ↗ incentive program so to help fund um

1:21:17 ↗ lowincome um low income households with

1:21:20 ↗ heat pumps and other um electric

1:21:22 ↗ appliances and Equipment the state

1:21:24 ↗ through the climate commitment act has

1:21:26 ↗ also had what they call here funding um

1:21:28 ↗ that we have some of that to run

1:21:30 ↗ programs right now but we'll have

1:21:32 ↗ federal dollars coming in in the future

1:21:35 ↗ and there's programs run I think about

1:21:37 ↗ 20 states have programs up and running

1:21:40 ↗ all over the

1:21:43 ↗ countries great and you have another

1:21:45 ↗ question or you

1:21:49 ↗ sorry great so yeah this is a a really

1:21:52 ↗ big focus of our staff um Wiley our

1:21:56 ↗ amacore fellow you all haven't had a

1:21:58 ↗ chance to meet yet um she teaches dance

1:22:01 ↗ on Wednesday nights um she is going to

1:22:03 ↗ be focusing in on a lot of these

1:22:05 ↗ programs um as well over her time

1:22:09 ↗ city um and then waste this is a large

1:22:13 ↗ part of the IAP it is not something

1:22:15 ↗ David and I manag so I just wanted to

1:22:18 ↗ mention it here um you will be hearing

1:22:20 ↗ from our Solid Waste analyst in December

1:22:23 ↗ uh Sam Harvin she'll be presenting her

1:22:26 ↗ work plan for 2025 to you all um she is

1:22:29 ↗ planning on a number of food waste

1:22:32 ↗ prevention initiatives probably looking

1:22:34 ↗ at updating some City policies around

1:22:36 ↗ food waste and um construction and

1:22:39 ↗ demolition waste um and then also

1:22:42 ↗ looking at expanding our reuse and

1:22:44 ↗ repair um programming uh primarily

1:22:47 ↗ around education workshops and events so

1:22:51 ↗ very quick here uh she'll have a lot

1:22:52 ↗ more to to share with you all just

1:22:55 ↗ this might be a quick P for me to just

1:22:56 ↗ throw in my two cents about Community

1:22:58 ↗ engagement um and I know we don't

1:23:02 ↗ necessarily manage this but I think this

1:23:03 ↗ is an interesting place for us to think

1:23:04 ↗ about entering the conversation with

1:23:06 ↗ community members um because uh I I

1:23:10 ↗ think a lot of the things that we talk

1:23:11 ↗ about they um probably care about but

1:23:14 ↗ maybe not as deeply as most of us would

1:23:17 ↗ um but almost everybody has thoughts

1:23:19 ↗ about waste because it affects them

1:23:21 ↗ every single day um and I I think

1:23:23 ↗ there's a couple of thoughts that we

1:23:25 ↗ might want to consider I I don't

1:23:27 ↗ necessarily know how we would um do this

1:23:30 ↗ but like we have the sustainability Fair

1:23:33 ↗ um I think uh I've there's lots of

1:23:36 ↗ cities that do um that host uh like

1:23:39 ↗ recycling events uh hard to recycle

1:23:42 ↗ events we tried to actually to do one

1:23:43 ↗ last year not with the city but like it

1:23:46 ↗ was me and like it was very Grassroots I

1:23:48 ↗ think we had like five people show up

1:23:49 ↗ but um but like there's a lot of stuff

1:23:52 ↗ that's hard to recycle but there's a lot

1:23:53 ↗ of companies that can do that so I think

1:23:55 ↗ if we um manage like work with

1:23:58 ↗ businesses that are already trying to do

1:23:59 ↗ it we can make it easy and then the

1:24:01 ↗ other thing that um we've actually done

1:24:03 ↗ is we've um had some success working

1:24:06 ↗ with the green teams at the elementary

1:24:07 ↗ school so this would be an interesting

1:24:08 ↗ way to enter maybe talk about connecting

1:24:11 ↗ with the school board um and uh in doing

1:24:14 ↗ some um textile drives and uh I think

1:24:18 ↗ what was missing and what would have

1:24:19 ↗ been really cool and a kind of cool way

1:24:21 ↗ for us to enter the conversation is um

1:24:24 ↗ there's so many great topics to talk to

1:24:26 ↗ kidss about in education around waste

1:24:29 ↗ like how much it takes to make a pair of

1:24:30 ↗ clothing like what happens when we use

1:24:31 ↗ it again so I think it could have been a

1:24:33 ↗ really fun way to kick things off and

1:24:36 ↗ you know do a presentation perhaps for

1:24:38 ↗ this the kids they one of the schools

1:24:40 ↗ that did a really like had an amazing

1:24:42 ↗ Drive um they had a little competition

1:24:46 ↗ like who could uh collect the most

1:24:47 ↗ amount of pounds of clothes and so I

1:24:50 ↗ think there's just like I think if we're

1:24:51 ↗ creative it wouldn't take a lot of work

1:24:54 ↗ because again we can partner with like

1:24:55 ↗ businesses like mine and I'm sure

1:24:56 ↗ there's lots of other businesses that

1:24:58 ↗ would be interested we have four um you

1:25:00 ↗ know reuse stores in um isqua alone and

1:25:05 ↗ then you've got you know ridwell and

1:25:06 ↗ there's plenty of other people doing

1:25:08 ↗ this kind of stuff we just have to kind

1:25:09 ↗ of be that I think if we can be the glue

1:25:11 ↗ and then put our name on the top and

1:25:13 ↗ then have a table that says hey while

1:25:14 ↗ you're here did you know that this is

1:25:16 ↗ what we do and we'd love your support

1:25:17 ↗ and come to a meeting and you know maybe

1:25:20 ↗ I think for our long-term Health that's

1:25:21 ↗ something we actually need probably put

1:25:22 ↗ a little more thought into is you know

1:25:24 ↗ we can't do this for the next 50 years

1:25:27 ↗ Le what

1:25:29 ↗ people just a thought

1:25:33 ↗ great but are they big and are they

1:25:36 ↗ hosted by

1:25:38 ↗ us yeah we started and you may not see

1:25:42 ↗ the information as not a resident

1:25:44 ↗ although it should go out to businesses

1:25:46 ↗ so that's a good thing we'll talk to Sam

1:25:48 ↗ about um yeah the city last year started

1:25:51 ↗ partnering with city of samamish to save

1:25:53 ↗ on resources because we were doing the

1:25:55 ↗ exact same events and the the East Side

1:25:57 ↗ Catholic um facility is just a great one

1:26:01 ↗ to work with so um we try to do them

1:26:04 ↗ twice a year so Sam can talk a little

1:26:05 ↗ bit about those in December but finding

1:26:08 ↗ better connections to businesses would

1:26:09 ↗ be great and I might reach out to you

1:26:12 ↗ well not hosted by the city but making

1:26:15 ↗ sure that like we are a host of it

1:26:18 ↗ somehow I don't know maybe maybe it

1:26:21 ↗ doesn't matter but it seems like like I

1:26:22 ↗ said I didn't know you guys even existed

1:26:24 ↗ yeah so like whatever we can put our

1:26:26 ↗ name on it's going to be good

1:26:29 ↗ like like you think thank you and then

1:26:33 ↗ social

1:26:34 ↗ media just briefly on this if you

1:26:37 ↗ haven't already Bo to S can you make

1:26:39 ↗ sure she's ready to talk about the topic

1:26:41 ↗ that jie brought up yes yes she

1:26:47 ↗ yes Jonathan have next along the same

1:26:51 ↗ lines of what Dixie was talking about

1:26:53 ↗ something that City can do is promote

1:26:57 ↗ reduction of solid waste

1:26:58 ↗ non-biodegradable packagings

1:27:01 ↗ specifically Plastics um a lot of the

1:27:03 ↗ businesses in town um produce a lot of

1:27:07 ↗ plastic waste and the city uh could um

1:27:12 ↗ have some outreach program to businesses

1:27:14 ↗ and people about um reducing the use of

1:27:20 ↗ plastics it's it's um Plastics are not

1:27:25 ↗ sustainable and for sustainability we

1:27:28 ↗ need to figure out a way to reduce the

1:27:31 ↗ use of plastics

1:27:33 ↗ and you know I don't see anything about

1:27:36 ↗ Solid Waste as part of our

1:27:38 ↗ sustainability um it seems to be pretty

1:27:42 ↗ pretty easy thing we could do as a city

1:27:44 ↗ to approach our businesses our

1:27:47 ↗ restaurants um our grocery stores gas

1:27:50 ↗ stations everyone that sells products

1:27:53 ↗ maybe we don't

1:27:54 ↗ legislate change what we

1:27:57 ↗ we speak to each each restaurant owner

1:28:02 ↗ and ask them to inventory their use of

1:28:07 ↗ plastics I I don't even want to go get

1:28:10 ↗ take out anymore half of our

1:28:13 ↗ restaurants it's sad to see how

1:28:17 ↗ our plastic bags are coming back into

1:28:20 ↗ common use in our our stes so I'd like

1:28:24 ↗ to see the city somehow add that to

1:28:27 ↗ their agenda for

1:28:30 ↗ sustain I would say PCC is a good role

1:28:32 ↗ model a fantastic role in fact I went to

1:28:37 ↗ get a depard milk the other day at um

1:28:42 ↗ PC and I was there for other things by

1:28:46 ↗ every single one of the mil carts had

1:28:48 ↗ plastic

1:28:50 ↗ threepiece opening

1:28:52 ↗ B and um

1:28:54 ↗ I I drove I left there drove the

1:28:59 ↗ PCC paron that did not include the

1:29:02 ↗ plastic the plastic

1:29:06 ↗ c

1:29:09 ↗ p thank you good now

1:29:15 ↗ BR uh thanks joh uh so yeah I agree with

1:29:19 ↗ what you know people have been saying I

1:29:21 ↗ think um Dixie and John both have great

1:29:24 ↗ ideas and uh I just wanted to add to

1:29:27 ↗ that a little bit especially for schools

1:29:30 ↗ you know yeah the green teams are great

1:29:32 ↗ I know of multiple robotics teams who

1:29:34 ↗ did their you know community outreach

1:29:37 ↗ events where they actually had uh hard

1:29:40 ↗ to recycle stuff being collected like

1:29:43 ↗ you know your laptops or your electronic

1:29:45 ↗ waste and then they you know collected

1:29:47 ↗ all of that from different households or

1:29:50 ↗ ran a you know Rec recycling event in a

1:29:54 ↗ School collected all of it and then you

1:29:56 ↗ know uh disposed it off properly so we

1:29:59 ↗ can do something like that and you know

1:30:01 ↗ if you um like at the time of

1:30:04 ↗ sustainability Fair before the

1:30:06 ↗ sustainability fair you know I know it's

1:30:08 ↗ usually advertised in the ISA schools

1:30:11 ↗ bulletin um but also you can you know

1:30:14 ↗ just two months before the

1:30:16 ↗ sustainability fair you can advertise if

1:30:19 ↗ any schools are interested in helping

1:30:21 ↗ running in events for sustainability fa

1:30:24 ↗ or if you have any specific jobs Stacy

1:30:26 ↗ you can think of um I think some of the

1:30:29 ↗ schools green teams as well as these

1:30:31 ↗ robotics teams and stuff would be

1:30:33 ↗ interested in picking it up for

1:30:35 ↗ community outreach um and regarding the

1:30:38 ↗ Plastics which John was talking about um

1:30:41 ↗ even ridwell does some you know uh

1:30:44 ↗ school events like they will if if you

1:30:47 ↗ reach out to them they can do you know a

1:30:50 ↗ free recycling event of certain things

1:30:52 ↗ for your school like I've seen the

1:30:55 ↗ advertisement um so these can be

1:30:57 ↗ arranged to you know if there is

1:30:59 ↗ interest and if if City or anything we

1:31:03 ↗ can do it as set individual resources as

1:31:07 ↗ well that's it thank you

1:31:10 ↗ right yeah great suggestions I will send

1:31:13 ↗ those on to Sam and make sure she can

1:31:15 ↗ touch on the ones um that are in her

1:31:17 ↗ work plan next year and then we can talk

1:31:19 ↗ more about maybe what isn't in the work

1:31:21 ↗ plan and how we might see that through

1:31:23 ↗ yeah that would

1:31:25 ↗ be great I think I'm hitting it to David

1:31:28 ↗ now great so um next priority is uh City

1:31:33 ↗ facilities and Fleet decarbonization so

1:31:36 ↗ um one of the things that we've heard

1:31:38 ↗ from the development of the IAP from

1:31:40 ↗ this board from Council uh is that uh we

1:31:44 ↗ as a city should be a leader or should

1:31:46 ↗ be lead by example when we can uh

1:31:49 ↗ relating to decarbonization and

1:31:51 ↗ addressing our greenhouse gas emissions

1:31:53 ↗ so um this is one of our big priorities

1:31:56 ↗ this year um buildings and

1:31:57 ↗ transportation continue to be the

1:31:59 ↗ largest source of greenhouse gas

1:32:00 ↗ emissions from City operations um and so

1:32:03 ↗ that's that's really where we're we're

1:32:05 ↗ digging into uh thinking about

1:32:07 ↗ addressing our greenhouse gas

1:32:09 ↗ emissions um within this area I'm kind

1:32:12 ↗ of uh splitting it out into these two

1:32:15 ↗ two different um tracks the first is uh

1:32:18 ↗ continuing to do our planning work um

1:32:20 ↗ and building a transmission line of new

1:32:23 ↗ new projects right so that's thinking

1:32:25 ↗ about the design work thinking about the

1:32:29 ↗ uh uh plans and um analyses around what

1:32:34 ↗ different projects are going to have

1:32:36 ↗ different impacts on our greenhouse gas

1:32:38 ↗ emissions that we can prioritize for um

1:32:41 ↗ CIP for our Capital Improvement plan for

1:32:43 ↗ our budgets things like that the other

1:32:46 ↗ side is uh actually trying to move

1:32:49 ↗ forward with projects so many of these

1:32:51 ↗ projects take a very long time to to get

1:32:53 ↗ in the ground

1:32:54 ↗ um but we're excited that we have uh we

1:32:57 ↗ have designs for some projects we have

1:32:59 ↗ funding for some projects um and we're

1:33:02 ↗ really hoping and planning to uh get

1:33:04 ↗ some of those projects completed in the

1:33:07 ↗ next um next year so some of those

1:33:10 ↗ include things like EV charging stations

1:33:12 ↗ at three different facilities including

1:33:14 ↗ this one um for our Fleet transition um

1:33:18 ↗ things like uh doing

1:33:20 ↗ some uh HVAC replacement and trying to

1:33:23 ↗ reduce the of natural gas at some of our

1:33:25 ↗ facilities informed by our fuel

1:33:27 ↗ transition assessment which uh there was

1:33:29 ↗ a a written report in today's packet

1:33:32 ↗ about some of that planning work um and

1:33:35 ↗ then also uh doing um doing our work to

1:33:38 ↗ try and identify and move forward some

1:33:40 ↗ of those renewable energy projects um at

1:33:43 ↗ uh City facilities and so um I mentioned

1:33:46 ↗ before we have been unsuccessful at some

1:33:47 ↗ of our grants but we do have some

1:33:49 ↗ funding um set aside to support some of

1:33:52 ↗ those projects um and we're also trying

1:33:54 ↗ to continue to build that that um

1:33:57 ↗ pipeline of that transmission line of

1:33:59 ↗ different renewable energy projects

1:34:01 ↗ solar micro grids and uh some other

1:34:04 ↗ exciting uh ideas as well so that uh

1:34:06 ↗ when opportunities do arise we uh we

1:34:09 ↗ seiz them as best we can

1:34:11 ↗ so that's a a brief summary of our

1:34:14 ↗ facilities and Fleet

1:34:15 ↗ decarbonization efforts any any

1:34:19 ↗ questions

1:34:21 ↗ there a good comment the report so I'll

1:34:25 ↗ just say it in this one since it seems

1:34:26 ↗ to fit um it seemed like the report

1:34:30 ↗ there was a lot of things that said like

1:34:32 ↗ it's there's a lot of expensive things

1:34:34 ↗ you w be there's a huge cost to set up

1:34:36 ↗ these transitions has the city in the

1:34:39 ↗ mean time considered doing like offsets

1:34:41 ↗ and urban credits and things like that

1:34:43 ↗ to offset the cost of the

1:34:46 ↗ current the current carbon sorry I'm

1:34:49 ↗ failing words right now

1:34:52 ↗ yeah time while we try and figure out

1:34:54 ↗ where we're going to get funding for $5

1:34:57 ↗ million yeah and uh that $5 million is

1:35:01 ↗ low I will admit also that does not uh

1:35:04 ↗ that was just equipment that didn't

1:35:06 ↗ include electrical upgrades which are

1:35:07 ↗ needed so just as a a warning um I've

1:35:10 ↗ been digging into some of that analysis

1:35:12 ↗ over the last couple days um we do

1:35:17 ↗ offset our electric use uh emissions so

1:35:20 ↗ you'll see that in the next that that

1:35:23 ↗ was already incor in the previous

1:35:24 ↗ greenhouse gas inventory and that'll be

1:35:26 ↗ seen in the next one where we um

1:35:28 ↗ purchase into a green power program

1:35:32 ↗ Direct uh green direct from psse so that

1:35:36 ↗ essentially connects our electric use

1:35:38 ↗ with renewable energy use at psse um so

1:35:42 ↗ we do offset our electric use that that

1:35:44 ↗ way um we have not yet fully dived into

1:35:49 ↗ thinking about offsetting our emissions

1:35:52 ↗ from natural gas use in our

1:35:54 ↗ facilities um I think they we've looked

1:35:57 ↗ into it on a much smaller scale for some

1:36:00 ↗ city operations efforts or for some city

1:36:03 ↗ travel um efforts um but I think we've

1:36:07 ↗ had trouble identifying kind of the the

1:36:10 ↗ right offset opportunity that we thought

1:36:12 ↗ was um appropriate and was an accurate

1:36:18 ↗ um kind of one for one or um connection

1:36:22 ↗ to our our emissions that we're doing

1:36:26 ↗ so

1:36:31 ↗ yeah okay so the next uh item is

1:36:35 ↗ community resilience so this uh area of

1:36:38 ↗ priority recognizes that the the impacts

1:36:40 ↗ of climate change are already here um

1:36:42 ↗ that are being felt by our community um

1:36:45 ↗ and so we are trying to um uh continue

1:36:49 ↗ to build our community's capacity to

1:36:52 ↗ withstand those impacts

1:36:54 ↗ so work in this area uh looks like um

1:36:58 ↗ identifying and pursuing opportunities

1:37:00 ↗ to improve resilience uh climate

1:37:02 ↗ resilience at City facilities so this is

1:37:04 ↗ uh an overlap with the previous slide

1:37:07 ↗ but again thinking about things like

1:37:08 ↗ micr grids and um backup generators and

1:37:12 ↗ and those pieces of equipment so that uh

1:37:14 ↗ if the power goes out or if there is a

1:37:16 ↗ climate emergency that we can continue

1:37:18 ↗ uh City operations and also provide

1:37:21 ↗ additional services to residents um and

1:37:24 ↗ community members uh who might need

1:37:27 ↗ them micro or explain mic sure pleas yes

1:37:31 ↗ thank you for that so uh the micro grids

1:37:34 ↗ that we're we're looking at here are

1:37:35 ↗ thinking about um Power Systems Electric

1:37:39 ↗ Power Systems for facilities that can

1:37:42 ↗ operate even when the power goes out the

1:37:44 ↗ psse power goes out in a region so what

1:37:48 ↗ that will generally look like would be

1:37:50 ↗ um solar or some sort of renewable

1:37:52 ↗ energy gener a connected to um a battery

1:37:57 ↗ system on two facilities so that's the

1:38:00 ↗ general idea of what we're looking at

1:38:02 ↗ here um micro grids are are not cheap

1:38:06 ↗ but we are again pursuing grant

1:38:07 ↗ opportunities that we can here and also

1:38:09 ↗ identifying areas where um we could

1:38:12 ↗ further those uh in the city as

1:38:15 ↗ well um additionally i' mentioned that

1:38:18 ↗ we're going to continue to coordinate uh

1:38:20 ↗ with our emergency management team uh to

1:38:23 ↗ continue resilience Hub project

1:38:25 ↗ implementation so um this is something

1:38:27 ↗ that I've mentioned a couple times at

1:38:29 ↗ the board we haven't brought to the

1:38:30 ↗ board in uh in too much depth uh yet but

1:38:33 ↗ um this continues to build these buildup

1:38:36 ↗ uh sites across the city that can um

1:38:39 ↗ support community members before during

1:38:41 ↗ and after climate

1:38:43 ↗ emergencies um and that's co-managed

1:38:45 ↗ between the sustainability team and

1:38:46 ↗ Emergency Management and then the final

1:38:49 ↗ piece here is continuing to develop

1:38:51 ↗ resources and tools uh to provide

1:38:53 ↗ provide to community members to engage

1:38:55 ↗ community members um so that folks feel

1:38:57 ↗ supported and um more prepared for uh

1:39:01 ↗ the impacts of climate change um and so

1:39:03 ↗ that's things like story Maps um

1:39:06 ↗ information on on clim expected climate

1:39:08 ↗ impacts things like that as

1:39:13 ↗ well yes sorry

1:39:18 ↗ questions quick one um just as we think

1:39:22 ↗ about Community result

1:39:24 ↗ climate change there two main impacts I

1:39:26 ↗ think of that are relevant on like their

1:39:29 ↗ aack systems are it getting hotter in

1:39:31 ↗ summers and they being more Wildfire

1:39:33 ↗ smoke and that as an opportunity I don't

1:39:36 ↗ I haven't seen a lot of like

1:39:38 ↗ communication around reminding people

1:39:39 ↗ that e pumps also do cool but um that

1:39:43 ↗ might be something you're already doing

1:39:44 ↗ but something to think about heading

1:39:45 ↗ into summer season or campaigns think

1:39:49 ↗ that gets inated to see air

1:39:51 ↗ filtration one not having windows open

1:39:53 ↗ is the way the approach that yeah and

1:39:57 ↗ that also goes into even thinking about

1:39:59 ↗ um building climate resilience for our

1:40:01 ↗ own facilities right we have some

1:40:03 ↗ facilities where uh you know I'm

1:40:05 ↗ thinking about our Fleet shop where

1:40:06 ↗ people are working uh you know and it

1:40:09 ↗ can gets very hot in there there's not a

1:40:11 ↗ there's not as good air filtration and

1:40:13 ↗ and air circulation and things so we're

1:40:15 ↗ looking at ways that we can even um

1:40:17 ↗ within our own City facilities try and

1:40:19 ↗ support the resilience using um heat

1:40:22 ↗ pump options and things like that

1:40:26 ↗ so okay um two others on this slot uh

1:40:31 ↗ slide so um we're going to be uh working

1:40:34 ↗ on our 2024 greenhouse gas inventory

1:40:37 ↗ next year so the year is almost up um

1:40:40 ↗ and so we're going to be initiating data

1:40:42 ↗ collection coordination with our

1:40:44 ↗ Consultants on this um and updating

1:40:46 ↗ greenhouse gas inventory inventory

1:40:48 ↗ communication and materials so um we're

1:40:51 ↗ going to do uh

1:40:53 ↗ do this in as timely a manner as we as

1:40:56 ↗ we can unfortunately some of the

1:40:57 ↗ CommunityWide data especially um is not

1:41:01 ↗ generally available until later in 2025

1:41:04 ↗ or later in the year after the year

1:41:06 ↗ you're trying to assess um so we'll be

1:41:09 ↗ gathering what data we can and then also

1:41:11 ↗ uh similar to our 2022 inventory um

1:41:14 ↗ we're hoping to uh present roughly one

1:41:18 ↗ year little over a year after uh the end

1:41:21 ↗ of 2024 so that would look like winter

1:41:25 ↗ 2026 um the idea with this is that we it

1:41:28 ↗ will get to inform uh the next priority

1:41:31 ↗ which is informing the the IAP 2026

1:41:35 ↗ update so a crucial piece of that update

1:41:38 ↗ process is thinking about where are our

1:41:40 ↗ greenhouse gas uh emissions at that

1:41:43 ↗ point so um we want to make sure that as

1:41:46 ↗ we go into that update process uh again

1:41:48 ↗ we're trying to get as um early data as

1:41:51 ↗ we can to inform that that update um we

1:41:54 ↗ are kicking off that update um next year

1:41:58 ↗ so we're going to be looking at

1:41:59 ↗ Community engagement in the spring um

1:42:02 ↗ and then we're expecting environmental

1:42:03 ↗ board engagement in the summer and fall

1:42:05 ↗ of next year um and our hope is to uh

1:42:08 ↗ get the IAP updated and approved by uh

1:42:12 ↗ June of 2026 so that it can really

1:42:14 ↗ inform uh budgeting decisions at that

1:42:17 ↗ point so both of these kind of work

1:42:20 ↗ hopefully as as flawlessly or as

1:42:22 ↗ seamless as possible into each other um

1:42:25 ↗ as the greenhouse gas inventory will

1:42:27 ↗ inform that IAP update

1:42:30 ↗ process 2026 is like January February

1:42:33 ↗ 2026

1:42:35 ↗ December like yes yeah yes sorry that is

1:42:40 ↗ it's a good

1:42:42 ↗ point winter 2526

1:42:48 ↗ yes um just on the timing of this update

1:42:51 ↗ I saw on the agenda

1:42:53 ↗ on the work plan that we're be getting

1:42:55 ↗ some of this information in January is

1:42:57 ↗ that correct for the IAP update yeah our

1:43:01 ↗ we are have not even started the

1:43:03 ↗ conversations yet with our consultant on

1:43:05 ↗ the engagement process but our hope is

1:43:08 ↗ to bring to the board in January at

1:43:10 ↗ least a preliminary kind of schedule

1:43:13 ↗ especially around the community

1:43:14 ↗ engagement piece which will happen

1:43:16 ↗ primarily in the spring um and we still

1:43:20 ↗ need to get our heads together exactly

1:43:22 ↗ what does the IAP update look like um

1:43:26 ↗ just early thinking this is not a

1:43:28 ↗ complete overhaul probably a bit more of

1:43:31 ↗ a clean cleanup refinement improving

1:43:34 ↗ metrics connecting actions to um the

1:43:37 ↗ targets that's at least initially what

1:43:40 ↗ um we're thinking but we want to have

1:43:42 ↗ more of that conversation with the

1:43:45 ↗ board talk about that janary

1:43:54 ↗ um so it seems like there's a lot of

1:43:56 ↗ great ideas around Community involvement

1:43:59 ↗ and I just wanted to run a couple more

1:44:00 ↗ ideas by you so I went to the city uh

1:44:06 ↗ volunteer portion of the website um

1:44:08 ↗ where people go to find out ways to

1:44:10 ↗ volunteer and um was thinking that under

1:44:13 ↗ the city programs potentially we could

1:44:16 ↗ have um the climate action uh category

1:44:21 ↗ and maybe we could even get a volunteer

1:44:23 ↗ to help um organize the

1:44:26 ↗ volunteers as I know that organizing

1:44:28 ↗ volunteers can take a lot of time um or

1:44:32 ↗ we could just um send them in different

1:44:34 ↗ directions of um ways that we already

1:44:36 ↗ know that they could be volunteering to

1:44:38 ↗ help inment um or spread the news about

1:44:44 ↗ the climate action

1:44:46 ↗ plan and then another idea and this is

1:44:49 ↗ another place where maybe we could use

1:44:51 ↗ some of those volunteers um do do we

1:44:53 ↗ have a educational boo about ways to get

1:44:58 ↗ involved with the IAP at the farmers

1:45:02 ↗ market no we have brought programming to

1:45:05 ↗ the farmers market a couple times but

1:45:07 ↗ that relies on David myself for our

1:45:10 ↗ Civics spk fellow being available um and

1:45:13 ↗ we do have a list serve of volunteers

1:45:15 ↗ that we reach out to to help with those

1:45:17 ↗ kind of events I know you've helped at

1:45:20 ↗ some of them um but yeah we haven't done

1:45:24 ↗ um kind of just a general booth on ways

1:45:27 ↗ to get engaged um I know our volunteer

1:45:30 ↗ web page I think is primarily focused on

1:45:32 ↗ Parks programs right now it's been a

1:45:36 ↗ while since I looked at it but that's

1:45:37 ↗ something we could make sure to details

1:45:40 ↗ yeah yeah because we do I keep just a a

1:45:44 ↗ list of folks that have expressed

1:45:46 ↗ interest so um but to make it easier for

1:45:49 ↗ folks to reach out to us um because we

1:45:52 ↗ do need a lot help the events and

1:45:54 ↗ sustainability fair so you can think a

1:45:56 ↗ little bit more about

1:45:59 ↗ that just some thoughts that maybe we

1:46:02 ↗ could get volunteered would you guys

1:46:05 ↗ have to be like I know like me

1:46:08 ↗ personally I always think oh we could do

1:46:10 ↗ the farmers market I could help out with

1:46:12 ↗ that but then when it gets down to it

1:46:13 ↗ you know on the weekend in summer I

1:46:16 ↗ usually don't I've got other things go

1:46:18 ↗ on right so but maybe there would be a

1:46:21 ↗ volunteer who coordinate that all

1:46:23 ↗ volunteering right so maybe there would

1:46:25 ↗ be a volunteer that would want to do

1:46:27 ↗ that there's people amazing people out

1:46:29 ↗ there yeah that's a great suggestion

1:46:32 ↗ yeah maybe they just get all the

1:46:34 ↗ materials from you guys and and maybe

1:46:38 ↗ getting them like take turns this we're

1:46:41 ↗ pretty well versed here in environmental

1:46:43 ↗ board maybe just do like you didn't

1:46:47 ↗ watch of

1:46:49 ↗ PR great thank you and gaj

1:46:58 ↗ you hear me sorry okay um so Stacy I

1:47:02 ↗ just wanted to add uh especially for

1:47:04 ↗ sustainability fair if you are looking

1:47:07 ↗ for volunteers you know ahead of time um

1:47:10 ↗ if you reach out to me I can help you

1:47:12 ↗ find student volunteers or teens as well

1:47:16 ↗ um especially middle school high

1:47:18 ↗ schoolers based on the timing would be

1:47:20 ↗ happy to help out and get volun

1:47:24 ↗ great thank you yes we will be starting

1:47:26 ↗ recruitment in January Wiley is going to

1:47:28 ↗ be leading that so we will definitely

1:47:30 ↗ reach out to you and all board members

1:47:33 ↗ sure great do you have the day party set

1:47:36 ↗ we do April 26th we're at the end of the

1:47:39 ↗ month this year it's a

1:47:42 ↗ Saturday sat day it is the 22nd is our

1:47:46 ↗ day so we're the Saturday after we were

1:47:49 ↗ we've tried to avoid that in the past

1:47:51 ↗ because downtown is a qu Association the

1:47:54 ↗ Hatcher so many Community Partners the

1:47:57 ↗ zoo do events that day um but that

1:48:01 ↗ happened to be the day that was

1:48:02 ↗ available at Pickering Barn um so we

1:48:05 ↗ kind of jumped on it but hope to partner

1:48:07 ↗ with all those other um events that are

1:48:10 ↗ happening yeah say you

1:48:12 ↗ should get that word out to them to ask

1:48:15 ↗ them to send them to the sustainable

1:48:17 ↗ yeah yep I did send an early alert to

1:48:20 ↗ them just to let them know um so we'll

1:48:23 ↗ try and

1:48:24 ↗ coordinate you'll be hearing lots more

1:48:27 ↗ about

1:48:29 ↗ this all right we've gone we are very

1:48:33 ↗ short on time so I think we just have a

1:48:35 ↗ couple more things to highlight um so a

1:48:38 ↗ few items we just wanted to note these

1:48:40 ↗ are you will not see these reflected in

1:48:43 ↗ the budget because these are primarily

1:48:45 ↗ staff time but other areas David and I

1:48:47 ↗ are prioritizing is looking at um

1:48:51 ↗ policies that could be used to fulfill a

1:48:54 ↗ need where programs um may not be able

1:48:57 ↗ to help us make progress towards our

1:49:00 ↗ targets um so we will be kind of

1:49:03 ↗ evaluating which policies we want to

1:49:04 ↗ pursue this year um as I believe I

1:49:07 ↗ mentioned earlier Sam's also looking at

1:49:09 ↗ policies to pursue for waste and I think

1:49:12 ↗ we'll probably share some initial ideas

1:49:14 ↗ with you all in

1:49:15 ↗ December um and then of course um always

1:49:18 ↗ high priority is pursuing that grant

1:49:19 ↗ funding I think a lot of the grants were

1:49:22 ↗ most likely going to be looking at are

1:49:25 ↗ um first our own building improvements

1:49:28 ↗ um so can we get those solar grants

1:49:30 ↗ Energy Efficiency um Appliance

1:49:32 ↗ Replacements that'll be a big priority

1:49:34 ↗ but we'll pursue um grants to support

1:49:37 ↗ our community efforts as well as those

1:49:38 ↗ are

1:49:42 ↗ available um and then a few items kind

1:49:45 ↗ of on the flip side that you will see

1:49:48 ↗ reflected in the budget that went to

1:49:50 ↗ council but are not um projects that

1:49:53 ↗ David and I necessarily lead is um we

1:49:56 ↗ did put in some Transportation Planning

1:49:59 ↗ Grant matching funds this year our uh

1:50:02 ↗ planning department applied for a grant

1:50:05 ↗ um around active Transportation if

1:50:07 ↗ they're successful some of those funds

1:50:09 ↗ will come out of our budget um if that

1:50:13 ↗ Grant is not successful we plan to work

1:50:15 ↗ closely with our transportation team

1:50:17 ↗ both the planners and Engineers to

1:50:19 ↗ identify other ways those funds could go

1:50:21 ↗ towards transport ation projects um and

1:50:24 ↗ then we're also working closely with Dan

1:50:27 ↗ on um a tree giveaway program one of the

1:50:30 ↗ recommendations that came out of the

1:50:31 ↗ Evan school um research and presentation

1:50:35 ↗ that you all saw in June um that

1:50:37 ↗ probably won't be launched until fall

1:50:43 ↗ 2025 so that is a quick snapshot of the

1:50:47 ↗ work um David and I are plan to

1:50:49 ↗ prioritize next year in terms of IAP

1:50:53 ↗ implementation wanted to see uh we heard

1:50:55 ↗ lots of great feedback ideas um

1:50:57 ↗ throughout the presentation is there any

1:51:00 ↗ other items that jump to your mind in

1:51:02 ↗ terms of gaps or things you really

1:51:03 ↗ expected to see us working on next year

1:51:06 ↗ that weren't reflected in that

1:51:11 ↗ presentation super quick um one of the

1:51:14 ↗ things as part of IAP update that would

1:51:16 ↗ be really interesting to talk about are

1:51:18 ↗ the criteria that you're thinking about

1:51:20 ↗ for evaluating

1:51:21 ↗ actions so we love to I think that great

1:51:25 ↗ topic that maybe was already in

1:51:34 ↗ account

1:51:44 ↗ else I guess I was kind of looking

1:51:46 ↗ something up um so through the CL

1:51:49 ↗ commitment act there's already a bunch

1:51:51 ↗ of um on one of their

1:51:54 ↗ websites there's a bunch of ways that

1:51:57 ↗ people can get rebates things are just

1:52:02 ↗ already all set up so what what do you

1:52:04 ↗ think about sharing that with our

1:52:06 ↗ community yeah let me take a look at

1:52:09 ↗ that because I know the he funding isn't

1:52:11 ↗ yet available the federal here funding

1:52:13 ↗ but oh look we've been trying to share

1:52:15 ↗ incentives um for instance the car

1:52:18 ↗ rebates this summer The PSC incentives

1:52:21 ↗ that were available

1:52:23 ↗ um f income level and then the switches

1:52:26 ↗ on is being used to promote it's a

1:52:30 ↗ multi-count initiative being proposed uh

1:52:33 ↗ being used to promote a lot of the

1:52:34 ↗ incentives the utility bill credit and

1:52:37 ↗ yeah the utility bill credit I was

1:52:38 ↗ referring to but yeah if there's other

1:52:40 ↗ resources you come by that we haven't

1:52:43 ↗ tracked down please feel free to send

1:52:45 ↗ those to us and we'll see if they're

1:52:47 ↗ already in part of the promotion or

1:52:48 ↗ other ways we can promote great thanks

1:52:52 ↗ thank you you know um yeah I don't know

1:52:54 ↗ if you if there was youth comment or

1:52:56 ↗ youth

1:52:57 ↗ um yeah com on the sustainability policy

1:53:02 ↗ suain ambassadors yeah I was actually

1:53:05 ↗ going to ask can we can you just give us

1:53:07 ↗ your updates be a writing and email so

1:53:10 ↗ we can have chance for yes I have maybe

1:53:13 ↗ two or three things maybe to mention

1:53:15 ↗ verbally but I'll provide I have a long

1:53:16 ↗ list of council updates either that just

1:53:19 ↗ happened or are coming I will provide

1:53:21 ↗ those in email tonight

1:53:24 ↗ um yeah so the sustainability and uh

1:53:26 ↗ policy that was proposed and that I

1:53:28 ↗ mentioned last time um has there first

1:53:31 ↗ they were on the school board agenda to

1:53:33 ↗ present their official draft of OE 17

1:53:36 ↗ and um they reformed everything to fit

1:53:38 ↗ the school district style but

1:53:39 ↗ essentially the purpose of it would be

1:53:41 ↗ to have a standalone sustainability OE

1:53:44 ↗ um for the district and so they're

1:53:46 ↗ currently waiting to hear back regarding

1:53:48 ↗ their first official read and to pass an

1:53:50 ↗ OE need two official reads so they're

1:53:52 ↗ I'm sure of the timeline but are waiting

1:53:54 ↗ and hoping to get that approved sometime

1:53:57 ↗ in the new year that fantastic yeah go

1:54:06 ↗ on anything B Ken

1:54:11 ↗ sorry real quick updates um so December

1:54:15 ↗ uh we will hear from Sam Solid Waste

1:54:17 ↗ updates uh believe we're still planning

1:54:21 ↗ to do a sustainability Sustainable

1:54:23 ↗ Building and infrastructure policy

1:54:25 ↗ update that's an internal policy we're

1:54:27 ↗ working on so here from our consultants

1:54:29 ↗ and then we'll be looking at the report

1:54:31 ↗ and work plan for approval um we had the

1:54:34 ↗ surprise visit from the mayor today um

1:54:36 ↗ she has planned to come back in December

1:54:38 ↗ so if there are other questions that you

1:54:40 ↗ all have I can send um please send those

1:54:43 ↗ to me I'll share those with her in

1:54:45 ↗ advance and then we had one question

1:54:48 ↗ about our December meeting we had talked

1:54:50 ↗ about possibly doing a little bit more

1:54:52 ↗ of a social gathering at 6 600 to 6:30

1:54:55 ↗ maybe a potluck if folks would be

1:54:57 ↗ interested in that um and then moving

1:54:59 ↗ into our regular meeting hopefully

1:55:01 ↗ wrapping up around 8 um that might be

1:55:04 ↗ optimistic but we just to get a show of

1:55:06 ↗ hands if folks would be available and

1:55:09 ↗ interested to come early I believe it's

1:55:12 ↗ the

1:55:13 ↗ 11 is the

1:55:15 ↗ 11th um to come 600 to 6:30 I know Dixie

1:55:19 ↗ that might be hard with I never know

1:55:21 ↗ story yeah we can save you a plate of

1:55:23 ↗ food um and if folks can come if you'd

1:55:26 ↗ want to do a little pop

1:55:29 ↗ look show a hands interest

1:55:33 ↗ okay enough

1:55:35 ↗ interest tentative okay we'll plan on

1:55:38 ↗ that we'll send out more information

1:55:39 ↗ ahead of time

1:55:42 ↗ um there's a lot happening with Council

1:55:45 ↗ including budget um just I know there

1:55:48 ↗ was some interest around budget so just

1:55:50 ↗ to share really quickly um uh the first

1:55:53 ↗ uh when staff provided and the mayor

1:55:56 ↗ provided the budget to council

1:55:57 ↗ sustainability really was highlighted a

1:55:59 ↗ number of times as a

1:56:01 ↗ priority um so far fortunately we've had

1:56:04 ↗ little impact on our department we did

1:56:07 ↗ um do a 12% reduction of the waste

1:56:09 ↗ Haller administrative fee that was a CL

1:56:12 ↗ about 120 thou 120,000 a year that we

1:56:16 ↗ requested um from our ask um but as you

1:56:21 ↗ heard from the May other just

1:56:23 ↗ departments had pretty hard hits had

1:56:25 ↗ staff cuts um so we really feel

1:56:27 ↗ fortunate we're also very fortunate to

1:56:29 ↗ have a lot of access to Grant funds that

1:56:31 ↗ can help with our staffing um and our

1:56:33 ↗ program so right now we're feeling we're

1:56:36 ↗ in a good position for the next two

1:56:38 ↗ years there's still a number of

1:56:40 ↗ deliberations and hard discussions

1:56:42 ↗ Council needs to have um but I'll send

1:56:44 ↗ you all some updates on that schedule if

1:56:46 ↗ interested they are looking to approve

1:56:48 ↗ the budget by early

1:56:50 ↗ December um the last thing I did just

1:56:52 ↗ want to mention um verbally is uh we

1:56:57 ↗ while CCA survived initiative

1:57:00 ↗ 20166 um did pass so there are some

1:57:04 ↗ evaluations looking at what impact that

1:57:06 ↗ will have on incentive programs for

1:57:09 ↗ electrification um we've had some

1:57:11 ↗ initial legal analysis um we're also

1:57:13 ↗ looking to the guidance of the state um

1:57:16 ↗ given that so much grant funding is out

1:57:19 ↗ for

1:57:20 ↗ electrification programs um at this time

1:57:22 ↗ we've not been told to pause any of

1:57:24 ↗ those incentive programs um but we'll be

1:57:27 ↗ working with legal team if if that does

1:57:30 ↗ happen and keep you all

1:57:32 ↗ informed um you've probably heard that

1:57:36 ↗ there's a lawsuit against that we were

1:57:38 ↗ just on a call yesterday wondering if it

1:57:40 ↗ had been filed if something had been

1:57:41 ↗ filed we I think so and I you sent that

1:57:44 ↗ if you like okay yeah and the reason

1:57:46 ↗ 2066 has some language around cities

1:57:49 ↗ utilities and counties um prohibiting

1:57:52 ↗ there's another term in there or

1:57:54 ↗ discouraging um uh basically folks not

1:57:57 ↗ using natural gas so there's a question

1:58:00 ↗ around doing Center programs discourage

1:58:02 ↗ folks from transitioning from natural

1:58:04 ↗ gas so many more conversations to have

1:58:07 ↗ um but at this time we're continuing

1:58:09 ↗ with our programs as is until until we

1:58:12 ↗ are told

1:58:15 ↗ otherwise all right thank you very much

1:58:17 ↗ and with that I'll call lead your

1:58:18 ↗ journey

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Council / Members (11)

Don McQuilliams

Alix Lee-Tigner

Nancy Davidson

Mina (Alexandra) Jun

Prajakta Ghatpande

Dixie Bair

Tom Anderson

Jamie Finch

Kiran Pan

Anne Newcomb

Jonathan Smith

Staff (3)

Stacy Vynne McKinstry, Sustainability Manager

David Reedy, Sustainability Coordinator

Mary Lou Pauly, Mayor

Excused

Keith Gonzalez

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Additionally, MARSH recommended that the Environmental Board gets the opportunity to address projects and topic areas they ranked highly in their self-analysis, especially those related to the natural environment.
Board Members DAVIDSON, FINCH and NEWCOMB requested additional detail in the cover memo to include new sections of the report added in
Board Members deliberated on the anticipated Environmental Board involvement in the Urban Forest Management Plan and requested additional staff consideration regarding the involvement of the Parks and Environmental…