WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.640 Hi, everyone. Welcome to the first Sustainability Framework Advisory Committee meeting. The first 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:18.400 item on our agenda today is to receive a nominations and elect a chair and a vice chair. Since 00:00:18.400 --> 00:00:24.680 this is our first meeting, I thought we could do some quick introductions so that everyone 00:00:24.680 --> 00:00:30.620 knows everyone on the screen. And if you'd like, I can just kind of go by the order that 00:00:30.620 --> 00:00:37.120 I see everyone here. Call folks out. Ed, do you want to go first? 00:00:37.120 --> 00:00:44.640 Yeah. Hi, everybody. My name is Ed Sof. I've lived in Denton about 34 years. I'm a retired 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:56.920 music teacher from UNT, and I've been an environmental activist for the past 23 years. 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:05.040 Adam? Yeah, hey, my name is Adam Brighill. I've lived 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:11.760 in Denton for 12 years now, and I'm a professor in the philosophy department at UNT. And I 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:18.080 was on the 2030 plan committee and done some other service for the city. And I'm really 00:01:18.080 --> 00:01:23.360 looking forward to this. Thanks. Keely? 00:01:23.360 --> 00:01:29.960 Hi, everyone. It's good to see you. My name is Keely Briggs, and I have lived in Denton 00:01:29.960 --> 00:01:41.020 for, I think, 26 years now. I served on city council for almost six years, and on the environmental 00:01:41.020 --> 00:01:46.640 committee about five years, and served with National League of Cities, Energy, Environment, 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:49.560 and Natural Resource Committee for about five years. 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:52.120 Thank you. Matthew? 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:59.360 Thanks. Hi, morning, everyone, or afternoon, everyone. It's really exciting to be here 00:01:59.360 --> 00:02:06.640 today. I'm an associate professor in geography at UNT. I've lived in Denton for 11 years. 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:15.160 I live in the Deena neighborhood. Do some research on energy, do some research on municipal 00:02:15.160 --> 00:02:19.880 policymaking. And this is the first committee that I'll serve on for the city. So I'm looking 00:02:19.880 --> 00:02:23.600 forward to it. Thank you. Brand? 00:02:23.600 --> 00:02:30.520 Hi, there. I'm Brand Richter. I'm also a student at UNT. I've lived in Denton for about 20 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:36.840 years now, for most of my life. Probably lived in every council district at this point, too. 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:41.440 Worked on, studied, and advocated for a lot of open space management and conservation 00:02:41.440 --> 00:02:49.200 issues with the city. So really looking forward to getting some action going on these issues. 00:02:49.200 --> 00:02:53.120 Mr. Bishop? My name is Frederick Bishop. I'm born and 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:57.800 raised here from Denton. Went to high school here. Retired from the Dallas Police Department 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:03.120 as a detective in violent crimes. Just looking forward to doing some work for the city. Just 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:07.720 getting back into things. Moved back probably about 10 years ago. So I was here on and off 00:03:07.720 --> 00:03:13.720 while my parents were still living here to come check on me. But I'm back full time now. 00:03:13.720 --> 00:03:19.860 Great. Thank you. And Jordan? Hello, I'm Jordan Vangel. I'm the sustainability 00:03:19.860 --> 00:03:24.080 manager for the U.S. and Canada for Tetra Pak, which has its U.S. headquarters right 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:28.600 here in Denton. I'm also the director of government affairs for the Carton Council, which is a 00:03:28.600 --> 00:03:33.560 carton trade industry organization made up of the four carton manufacturers in America. 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:39.080 I've lived in Denton for about four months. I think I got here right before the snow apocalypse, 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:45.760 which was exciting. And first city committee and background in material management and circular 00:03:45.760 --> 00:03:52.300 economy systems. So pleasure to be here. Great. And I'm Katherine Barnett. I'm the sustainability 00:03:52.300 --> 00:03:58.320 manager for the city of Denton. I've been with the city for 27 years and I've lived 00:03:58.320 --> 00:04:07.520 here for about 32, I guess. Long time, double UNT grad. So happy to see all the UNT folks 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:14.520 on here. And if you don't mind, I'd like to ask two of the team from the sustainability 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:19.080 department to go ahead and jump on and introduce themselves very quickly. JT? 00:04:19.080 --> 00:04:25.080 Yeah, sure. Hi, everyone. I'm James Douglas. I go by JT. I'm the conservation programs 00:04:25.080 --> 00:04:31.680 coordinator. And so I focus on mostly water, energy, air quality and greenhouse gas management 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:38.720 for the sustainability team. And Julissa. Hi, everyone. My name is Julissa Amador and 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:44.080 I'm the waste reductions programs coordinator. And I do multifamily recycling outreach as 00:04:44.080 --> 00:04:50.600 well as residential. So I'm really excited. And just to let you know, we do have one vacant 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:55.720 position that we hope to have filled in the next month. Interviews hopefully in the next 00:04:55.720 --> 00:05:03.240 week. So we're missing Sarah Luxton. But we're working to fill that position. So that would 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:11.280 be the fourth team member that you would see sometimes. So with that, if we are ready to 00:05:11.280 --> 00:05:27.040 jump into receiving nominations for the chair and the vice chair. I'd like to nominate Keely 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:35.440 for chair. Okay. And do you want a nomination for vice chair as well? I think we would do 00:05:35.440 --> 00:05:48.920 that after we select the chair. Thanks. Any other nominations for chair? I would second 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:56.920 Ed's nomination of Keely for chair. Thank you, Brand. And then I think we can all just vote 00:05:56.920 --> 00:06:10.520 by show of hands. Didn't ask Keely if she would accept that. But looks like it's unanimous. 00:06:10.520 --> 00:06:17.160 So Keely, thank you very much. And I will turn the meeting over to you now to take the 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:22.680 nominations for the vice chair. All right, let's see if I can remember how to do this. 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:33.840 It's been a while. So we will move on to nominations for vice chair. Does anyone have a nomination? 00:06:33.840 --> 00:06:43.720 Ed? I'd like to nominate Matt Fry. All right. Matt Fry has been nominated. Does anyone have 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:53.600 any other nominations? All right. A second. Do we have a second for Matt Fry to be vice 00:06:53.600 --> 00:07:01.080 chair? Adam? Yeah, I'll second. Okay. So all in favor? Everyone is okay with that? So are 00:07:01.080 --> 00:07:12.320 we still doing hands? Raise your hand. All right. Welcome, Matt. All right. So and again, 00:07:12.320 --> 00:07:16.320 I didn't ask you if that was okay. I just assumed that your first committee will just 00:07:16.320 --> 00:07:24.640 put you right in everything. All right. So we will move on to item B. That is Receive 00:07:24.640 --> 00:07:33.720 a Report, Hold a Discussion, and Adopt an Annual Meeting Schedule. So I will take that one. 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:39.240 In your backup, there is a proposed meeting schedule. That meeting schedule was done based 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:46.800 on availability for the work session room for virtual meetings, which we, beginning 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:53.640 in June, June 14th, we will have to move to in-person meetings. So that gives us more 00:07:53.640 --> 00:08:02.520 flexibility about day and time. We have the option to even have those meetings at the 00:08:02.520 --> 00:08:10.360 sustainability offices. We have a large meeting room at 1001 May Hill. These will not be televised 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:17.440 meetings, so we could have them there and still be able to have people come in to make 00:08:17.440 --> 00:08:24.840 comment. We have room for that and then able to have some socially distanced setup in that 00:08:24.840 --> 00:08:30.640 room. So I just wanted to throw that out as an option. With summer camps going on, meeting 00:08:30.640 --> 00:08:37.360 space is a little bit tight. We lose a lot of the Civic Center time, so I wanted to throw 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:44.720 that one out. Let me pull up the schedule here that we have proposed. Let's see. Try 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:57.520 that one more time. Share screen. The address on May Hill? 1001 South May Hill. And it would 00:08:57.520 --> 00:09:08.680 be just one driveway towards McKinney from Spencer Road on the landfill side of the road. 00:09:08.680 --> 00:09:16.640 I go by landmark. I never get east and west right. So right now we're looking at June 00:09:16.640 --> 00:09:24.400 21st at 3 p.m. Now we could change that to an earlier time frame. That was just what 00:09:24.400 --> 00:09:39.760 was available for the room. I believe that was a Monday. That was a Monday at 3. We could 00:09:39.760 --> 00:09:47.440 even do it in the morning if there was a preference for that. But really any day other than Tuesday 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:56.600 or Wednesday are fairly wide open as far as our room. Does anybody have any suggestions 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:02.680 or preferences? Do you want to pull that down so we can have some discussion? Sure. There 00:10:02.680 --> 00:10:08.800 we go. Thank you. As far as myself, all of the dates listed except for the next one look 00:10:08.800 --> 00:10:15.720 okay will be at parent orientation in Austin. But I could do online if we were still doing 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:23.280 online. Everything else looked okay with me. Times I'm pretty flexible. So those who have 00:10:23.280 --> 00:10:29.920 9 to 5 jobs and I'm going to let you go ahead and say what time you prefer and what day 00:10:29.920 --> 00:10:36.760 you prefer except for what days are off limits? Tuesday and Wednesday are just a little bit 00:10:36.760 --> 00:10:45.560 harder. Okay. Does anybody have any other preference for day of the week besides Tuesday and Wednesday? 00:10:45.560 --> 00:10:55.840 Are Mondays good? No Mondays for me I frequently do Meals on Wheels on Monday mornings. And 00:10:55.840 --> 00:11:03.480 so that's why I've sort of opted for the afternoon. Okay. The afternoon as well. Afternoon works 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:10.960 well. On Mondays? For me the Mondays are fine until the semester begins. I have an afternoon 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:19.880 class from 3.30 to 5 on Mondays. So once the semester begins, so the September meeting 00:11:19.880 --> 00:11:27.440 on that list is problematic for me. So if we could do it at 1 p.m. during the semester 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:35.880 on Mondays I could handle that but 3 is too difficult. Is 1 p.m. okay for the people who 00:11:35.880 --> 00:11:41.960 prefer 3 p.m. or will that not work? So I feel like it might be better if we just pick 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:50.480 one time now and kind of stick with it instead of change. One o'clock is good with me. Monday 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:58.200 and one o'clock is also good. Same with Matt. Once semester starts I would also have a class 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:05.840 that extends until 3.30 on Mondays. So say for that September date all the rest of them 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:23.200 are good for me. So Brand your class goes until 3.30? Yes. Okay. So Monday at 1 wouldn't 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:30.880 work for you, Brand? Not if our meeting lasts consistently 2 hours. The class would go from 00:12:30.880 --> 00:12:46.940 2 to 3.30. I'm back. Sorry about that. I lost connection for a minute. So did we decide 00:12:46.940 --> 00:12:57.600 anything on time? Well it sounds like one won't work for everyone consistently. What 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:09.240 about Thursday? Thursday is at 3? Hold on. Let me check my schedule on that because that's 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:20.560 the day I teach. Oh okay. I just forget what time. You said 3 o'clock on Thursday? Or 1. 00:13:20.560 --> 00:13:35.840 I guess afternoons are best. We've decided for everyone. I teach until 3.20 on Tuesday-Thursday 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:46.640 this semester. Okay. So I'm going to go to our next day really fast just to see on Friday 00:13:46.640 --> 00:13:52.800 to see how everybody's schedule is on Friday and if there's anybody teaching or afternoons. 00:13:52.800 --> 00:14:08.000 And then we could go back to a different time. Friday's open for me. I apologize. I stopped 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:13.820 on the Thursday discussion and then everything dropped. I'll catch up. Adam teaches on Tuesday 00:14:13.820 --> 00:14:21.600 and Thursday and so we have moved to Friday just to see if everybody's Fridays are open. 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:29.520 Fridays get tricky for me because we'll all have faculty meetings on Friday afternoons 00:14:29.520 --> 00:14:36.800 and those are usually and usually the afternoons are really crazy with other types of meetings 00:14:36.800 --> 00:14:43.640 for me and they happen. So I mean if I booked this in that would be fine. If you had it 00:14:43.640 --> 00:14:51.720 as a standing date just consistently. Yeah. Like at 3 p.m. on Fridays I think I could 00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:57.600 manage that consistently. Anybody else would like to weigh in? I mean if not we could go 00:14:57.600 --> 00:15:05.680 back to Monday and work with Matthew on teaching your teaching schedule. I want to make sure 00:15:05.680 --> 00:15:10.800 this is really important. I want to make sure that everybody has the you know the the greatest 00:15:10.800 --> 00:15:14.720 chance to be here for the meeting so that we can all weigh in on the discussion and 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:19.500 topic and that's why I'm taking so long. I want to make sure that we we work with everyone's 00:15:19.500 --> 00:15:27.080 schedule. Well and I think if we are not in this building we might be able to do Wednesday 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:38.520 morning. I don't know how that would fall out for anyone. What time is the morning? 00:15:38.520 --> 00:15:45.960 We can be flexible with that. Okay. What about Adam said he finishes classes on Thursday 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:51.480 it sounded like most people had Thursday and it was he finishes at 3 20. What about 4 p.m. 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:57.840 on Thursday and then we would go until 6. I mean if that's not too late if it's a two 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:05.460 hour meeting. Well my Thursday full but I can try to adjust it because I know it's six 00:16:05.460 --> 00:16:09.960 I have to leave to get somewhere on time to be there by 630 and I don't want to have to 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:15.120 be put you know so I mean but I can see can I flex mine if it's Thursday if y'all want 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:26.360 to try Thursday. So I think we can go back to the Wednesday discussion or Friday. Wednesdays 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:32.800 or Fridays discussion on time for everyone. Ed, Brand do you have anything to weigh in 00:16:32.800 --> 00:16:40.480 on? Yeah any time after 3 30 would be great for me on Wednesdays and then Fridays are 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:46.800 completely open for me. Okay. Yeah anything other than Monday morning is is fine with 00:16:46.800 --> 00:16:56.920 me. Wednesday morning before 11 is fine with me I have a class at 11. Wednesday is fine 00:16:56.920 --> 00:17:02.440 with me. Yeah I can do Wednesday morning as well afternoon is would be tight because I 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:14.840 have evening classes. Adam? I'm free all day Wednesday Friday. Okay so Catherine Wednesday 00:17:14.840 --> 00:17:21.520 so we're at Wednesday morning or what I guess we want to take Friday off. Or Friday morning 00:17:21.520 --> 00:17:27.540 Friday morning works for me fine. Yeah okay. I thought didn't Brand have a class on Wednesday 00:17:27.540 --> 00:17:32.040 morning is that what it was? Yes sorry. Okay yeah so maybe Friday mornings are better. 00:17:32.040 --> 00:17:41.640 Friday mornings. Brand can you do Friday morning? I see Gordon is saying no he can't. I'm sorry 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:47.480 my schedule is Fridays are like lobbying and legislative calls basically until like 11 in 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:56.040 the morning for me from starting at like 7. Okay so anybody can you guys do Friday at 00:17:56.040 --> 00:18:08.800 1? Yes. After lunch Friday at 1? Okay. Like 1 to 2 1 to 3 hopefully no later than 3 we'll 00:18:08.800 --> 00:18:13.920 make it a little bit more efficient we'll have it all. Yep. Yes. That sounds good. Does 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:22.560 that sound good? Yeah. Friday 1 to 3. Okay. Okay. Does that work for you and staff Catherine? 00:18:22.560 --> 00:18:28.920 We will make it work. I'm seeing thumbs up across the room. All right and location would 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:35.280 that be at the sustainability building? I think just for ease of scheduling let's just 00:18:35.280 --> 00:18:40.320 plan on it there. There okay all right and just one last thing because I heard you say 00:18:40.320 --> 00:18:46.320 that these will not be recorded in the future and I think this is on right now right? Yes. 00:18:46.320 --> 00:18:53.320 On TV. So for those watching the minutes will be available for anyone that wants to know 00:18:53.320 --> 00:18:58.320 what we're talking about correct? Correct. They can go online and find those? Yes. Even 00:18:58.320 --> 00:19:05.040 if they can't watch us. Okay. Correct. Thank you. So I will send out a revised schedule 00:19:05.040 --> 00:19:11.520 and updated appointments to everyone. Okay thank you thank you guys for going in that 00:19:11.520 --> 00:19:18.680 discussion a little bit longer. We will go ahead and move on to item C. Receive a report. 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:24.320 Hold a discussion on the history and background of sustainability in the city of Denton. Review 00:19:24.320 --> 00:19:29.680 the charge of the sustainability framework advisory committee and review sustainability 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:36.840 staff ongoing projects and identify priority areas for implementation. Is that you Catherine 00:19:36.840 --> 00:19:44.520 or? That is going to be a team effort. I will kick it off and let me share my screen. We 00:19:44.520 --> 00:19:49.320 were thinking rather than wait till the end maybe as we go through chapters or history 00:19:49.320 --> 00:19:55.480 if anyone has a question we can pull it down and answer those kind of as we go through. 00:19:55.480 --> 00:20:10.800 It's a lot to cover. Just for program sake so if you want you can raise your little hand 00:20:10.800 --> 00:20:16.160 on the screen and I will see that you have a question and then we can that's how we can 00:20:16.160 --> 00:20:30.360 do that. All right. I hope y'all can see that now. Okay great. So we're just going to start 00:20:30.360 --> 00:20:36.920 off just as described with our background our goals and then a priority discussion. 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:43.640 So just a brief history timeline. Review the 2020 framework. Current projects where we 00:20:43.640 --> 00:20:48.760 are today and then moving the framework forward which is what we're all here to do. So what's 00:20:48.760 --> 00:20:56.940 on the horizon and then talk about committee goals and committee priorities. So the first 00:20:56.940 --> 00:21:03.600 council committee on the environment started in 2004. Our first sustainability plan began 00:21:03.600 --> 00:21:11.640 being developed in 2011 adopted in February of 2012. We started our greenhouse gas management 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:20.520 in 2011 and established a 2006 baseline year for all of our greenhouse gas inventory work. 00:21:20.520 --> 00:21:29.440 The sustainability plan update began in 2018-2019 and was a five-year update running a little 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:37.120 bit behind. It was adopted in 2020 and included the establishment of this committee to advise 00:21:37.120 --> 00:21:44.600 on the implementation of the framework. So some of the projects that we have ongoing 00:21:44.600 --> 00:21:49.600 now we have our greenhouse gas management. We have our internal sustainability where 00:21:49.600 --> 00:21:57.920 we are tracking our energy consumption, our purchasing, the recycling education, tracking 00:21:57.920 --> 00:22:04.080 all of our efforts there. Our air quality regional partnerships and the improvements 00:22:04.080 --> 00:22:11.920 over the last 20 years, partnerships with COG on that. Recycling and contamination is 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:17.960 a big focus for Jaleesa. So she's working on the residential and multifamily outreach 00:22:17.960 --> 00:22:23.560 and education and then we also have the school recycling program which we're still redefining 00:22:23.560 --> 00:22:31.440 what that looks like after COVID. Community resilience. We had the NLC resilience cities 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:40.920 grant. NLC came in and facilitated a workshop for us back in November of '19. And we have 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:48.240 the groundwork to start on community and municipal resilience based on that. And then of course 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:56.720 community engagement. We're able to start ramping that back up again now. The 2020 framework 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:05.520 has 8 focus areas. There are 33 goals and 52 strategies within the document. It expands 00:23:05.520 --> 00:23:10.400 the scope of sustainability for the city of Jinton. And then we'll just kind of look through 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:20.280 some of the focus area highlights. And I'm going to let JT jump in here. And if you have 00:23:20.280 --> 00:23:23.760 any questions please raise your hand and we can stop and talk about them as we go through 00:23:23.760 --> 00:23:31.000 the focus areas. Yeah, absolutely. And so I'm excited to talk about the first three focus 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:36.840 areas here with everybody. So for the water chapter, just some of the highlights that 00:23:36.840 --> 00:23:41.800 were pulled out of the sustainability framework. Obviously there are a couple more than this 00:23:41.800 --> 00:23:47.040 in the document itself. But basically to protect and restore Denton's water bodies and maintain 00:23:47.040 --> 00:23:53.720 a high drinking water quality. And also reduce per capita water consumption. That will be 00:23:53.720 --> 00:23:57.480 done through water conservation efforts. Some examples of that. We actually have a couple 00:23:57.480 --> 00:24:04.120 of upcoming classes for sprinkler spruce up as summer gets started and everybody starts 00:24:04.120 --> 00:24:10.360 turning on their irrigation systems again. Oftentimes there will be leaks that were occurring 00:24:10.360 --> 00:24:15.640 over the winter timeframe. And so we have a class for that. And also for DIY rain barrel 00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:20.600 construction which will be really great. And then also keeping in line with all of our 00:24:20.600 --> 00:24:25.920 TCEQ municipal storm water permit requirements. Just maintaining that high level of water 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:45.920 quality again. We can go on to the next one there. Thanks. For our air quality and greenhouse 00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:51.080 gas management chapter, some of the goals there are to improve our non-attainment air 00:24:51.080 --> 00:24:57.260 quality status. And we're going to continue to work with our regional partners to finalize 00:24:57.260 --> 00:25:04.220 some work with that. Especially with the next year coming up. Reduce air pollution and greenhouse 00:25:04.220 --> 00:25:10.240 gas emissions. And also assess community hazards and vulnerabilities related to a changing 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:16.540 climate. And set greenhouse gas reduction targets. That target setting is something 00:25:16.540 --> 00:25:22.540 that we are right in the middle of right now. And so we'll actually have an extended discussion 00:25:22.540 --> 00:25:27.480 about just the greenhouse gas management program in general at the next meeting. And so that's 00:25:27.480 --> 00:25:37.240 already something that's sort of on the future agenda there. We have a question, Adam. Sure. 00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:44.160 Oh, thank you. When you do this greenhouse gas management, can you just tell us what 00:25:44.160 --> 00:25:49.640 is being accounted for? Like what sources? Definitely. So I can kind of give you a brief 00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:54.640 highlight. So we basically have three steps to that process. We have the greenhouse gas 00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:58.320 inventory, which is basically what you're describing, where we take an inventory of 00:25:58.320 --> 00:26:05.080 municipal operations, but also the community as a whole. And so there's a formal set of 00:26:05.080 --> 00:26:10.820 protocols with that that include scope one, two, and three emissions. And so scope one 00:26:10.820 --> 00:26:18.640 are sort of your direct emissions related to energy production or transportation or 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:24.420 things like that. Things that are directly emitted. Scope two is things like energy consumption 00:26:24.420 --> 00:26:28.620 is really the main one that falls into scope three, or scope two. And then scope three 00:26:28.620 --> 00:26:34.440 are your indirect emissions. And so those are things that are sort of outside the geographic 00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:38.120 boundary but have influence here. Something, an activity that we do here that may have 00:26:38.120 --> 00:26:42.560 influence elsewhere. And so, like I said, that's really high level, but we can definitely 00:26:42.560 --> 00:26:47.180 do a deeper dive at the next meeting with all of that. 00:26:47.180 --> 00:26:58.720 Thank you. Absolutely. 00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:04.320 And so with energy, we still have the goal of 100% renewable energy target for DME. And 00:27:04.320 --> 00:27:11.280 so reaching and maintaining that. We have energy efficiency in new and existing buildings, 00:27:11.280 --> 00:27:15.440 and energy efficiency in government facilities as well, which is something that in 2020, 00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:21.720 we really took a deep dive and kind of updated that data set to make sure that all of our 00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:27.480 reporting was in order there. Require exceptional building standards for new construction. And 00:27:27.480 --> 00:27:32.340 so some of these strategies here, I'm sure you'll notice in the sustainability framework 00:27:32.340 --> 00:27:36.840 that all of these have sort of overlapping improvements. So when we're talking about 00:27:36.840 --> 00:27:40.480 expanding energy efficiency programming, that's going to have improvements to air quality 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:45.320 or greenhouse gas reduction, things like that. And so you'll probably find strategies that 00:27:45.320 --> 00:27:50.720 kind of meet many of the different focus areas that are in there. And I think we have another 00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:56.160 hand raised there. If you want to pull down the slides. 00:27:56.160 --> 00:28:04.680 Adam, your hand is still up. Did you have another question? Sorry, when I run class, 00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:08.240 the teacher puts it down. So I'll put my own hand down. 00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:15.080 Oh, okay. Not a problem. And so Katherine, I think I will turn it back to you for the 00:28:15.080 --> 00:28:19.600 next one if memory serves. 00:28:19.600 --> 00:28:27.960 Okay, so on the land use and open space, of course, we're working to preserve open space 00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:33.160 and natural areas, sustainability and parks have really started partnering together more 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:40.600 over the past few years, trying to work to minimize water use. The wildflower planning 00:28:40.600 --> 00:28:47.560 program is one example of that partnership, where they're leaving areas more natural, 00:28:47.560 --> 00:28:58.080 reducing mowing, reducing water use, increasing habitat. Really working across city departments 00:28:58.080 --> 00:29:03.320 to try and achieve some of these goals. And then working with planning, encouraging redevelopment 00:29:03.320 --> 00:29:11.840 of infill areas. The urban forest master plan was adopted in 2020, I believe the end of 00:29:11.840 --> 00:29:16.480 2020. And then some of the strategies would be infill incentives and implementing the 00:29:16.480 --> 00:29:24.160 urban forest master plan. And of course, promoting mixed use and compact development. 00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:31.040 The next one is transportation. Obviously, expanding infrastructure for nonvehicle modes 00:29:31.040 --> 00:29:38.400 of transportation is always a key. Increasing public transportation ridership, and you know, 00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:43.840 we're closely watching what's going on with DCTA and how that might play out. Reducing 00:29:43.840 --> 00:29:49.640 the environmental impacts from impervious parking surfaces, and then increasing the 00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:54.760 amount of on nonroad trail systems. So that's another partnership where we work closely 00:29:54.760 --> 00:30:02.240 with parks and trying to look at those connections and where we can benefit and have longer trail 00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:07.400 systems that are connected. Some of the strategies are promoting pedestrian opportunities and 00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:16.920 of course, implementing the mobility plan. So education, communication and community 00:30:16.920 --> 00:30:25.640 involvement. Julissa and I are going to tag team a little bit on this one, I think. Sustainability 00:30:25.640 --> 00:30:30.040 has worked really hard over the years to expand our education and make sure that we're trying 00:30:30.040 --> 00:30:37.780 to meet as many members of the community and and create programs that don't have barriers 00:30:37.780 --> 00:30:45.720 to participation. We want to encourage folks to understand the basic principles of sustainability. 00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:50.280 And that that's going to include many areas of the sustainability framework. We try to 00:30:50.280 --> 00:30:56.060 work across all of the focus areas and then increase sustainable education awareness and 00:30:56.060 --> 00:31:05.000 personal responsibility. We're always looking for, you know, ad hoc committees to help us 00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:10.480 implement new programs, the green business program update and implementation, which JT 00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:16.840 is working on. And then equity and empowerment is one of the newer strategies in the framework. 00:31:16.840 --> 00:31:22.520 Julissa, I don't know if you want to talk just on the materials management slide maybe 00:31:22.520 --> 00:31:28.880 about what you're doing. Okay. So some of our goals for material resource management 00:31:28.880 --> 00:31:34.300 include reducing waste generation and diverting waste from the landfill through increased recycling 00:31:34.300 --> 00:31:38.720 and reuse options through our home chemical collection and yard waste programs. That's 00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:43.640 a great way that residents can divert more waste from the landfill. Also by leveraging 00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:48.080 city purchasing power to procure goods and services that cause less harm to humans and 00:31:48.080 --> 00:31:52.680 the environment. Some of those strategies include environmentally preferred purchasing 00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:58.840 program and our comprehensive solid waste management strategy as well. Yes. I think 00:31:58.840 --> 00:32:21.360 the episode has a question. I lost my place here. Okay. I'm just curious 00:32:21.360 --> 00:32:28.440 as under the goals there with reduced waste generation and waste diversion through increased 00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:37.480 recycling and reuse options. Um, can one assume that, that composting will be considered in 00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:47.680 this situation as well? Yes, it will be. Okay. And both residential and city Y and, and municipally 00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:59.640 too, I would hope. Yes. Okay. Thanks. Thank you, Ed. And I would be remiss if I didn't 00:32:59.640 --> 00:33:07.880 share that if you have the yard waste collection, you can use that program for any post-consumer, 00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:15.880 no, pre-consumer, sorry, pre-consumer vegetative waste. So any of your apple peels cores, vegetables, 00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:21.480 any type of material can go in with your yard waste. And is that, is that put into a, is 00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:45.840 that composted at the landfill? It goes into the dino dirt program. Okay. Thank you. Resiliency 00:33:45.840 --> 00:33:53.080 and public health is the last chapter focus area. And that was revised from local food, 00:33:53.080 --> 00:34:01.240 which does roll up underneath this heading. So we do want to ensure that no one geographic 00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:07.360 area or socioeconomic group in the city is unfairly impacted by environmental hazards. 00:34:07.360 --> 00:34:12.600 And we want to incorporate resiliency into all of our planning efforts. Some of our strategies 00:34:12.600 --> 00:34:19.580 are the city and monarch city program. We also have, um, joined the national wildlife 00:34:19.580 --> 00:34:27.720 federation registration program for community and for, um, people's yards. Um, they can 00:34:27.720 --> 00:34:38.920 register their yards. Yes. So what are the B city? The programs you said they were programs? 00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:47.160 Yes. So B city and monarch city, um, they're nationwide efforts to promote pollinator awareness. 00:34:47.160 --> 00:34:54.820 Um, we at the city are increasing our plantings to support monarch butterflies and to create 00:34:54.820 --> 00:35:02.280 habitat for bees. Um, whether it's planting milkweed or planting nectar producing, um, 00:35:02.280 --> 00:35:08.480 plants, native plants so that we are offering great way stations within the community as 00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:17.560 our pollinators come through or, um, just, you know, in people's backyards, you can create 00:35:17.560 --> 00:35:23.720 a habitat. So we're doing it on the personal level and at the community level. And can 00:35:23.720 --> 00:35:31.240 I add with those programs, um, an increase of our no mo policy has happened. So we have 00:35:31.240 --> 00:35:38.360 reduced our municipal mowing as we increase these programs to allow for the, um, the plants 00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:48.040 to grow. Yep. We identified 241 acres that we could reduce mowing and leave natural. 00:35:48.040 --> 00:35:53.420 So instead of having, um, more than two dozen mowing cycles a year, they may be mowed twice 00:35:53.420 --> 00:36:00.840 a year now. And the savings from that can help fund the plantings for those sites. Thank 00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:06.080 you. Good question. Are the, the mowing savings being accounted for as the greenhouse gas 00:36:06.080 --> 00:36:23.400 reduction? They'll be captured in the greenhouse gas reduction as well. So some of our current 00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:29.080 projects, um, the greenhouse gas management, Catherine, I'm sorry, I think Brandon, do 00:36:29.080 --> 00:36:38.400 you have a question? Yeah, sorry. Shortly. Um, question. Uh, I saw that this was under 00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:43.480 the resiliency and public health section. So far as strategies and implementations goes, 00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:47.920 when we talk about these down the road, especially for like the B city, monarch city, and potentially 00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:51.840 other programs like bird city, or you said the wildlife federation program, will that 00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:58.440 still be considered under the resiliency and public health section of this plan or would 00:36:58.440 --> 00:37:06.280 it fit under, let's say like the, the land management section of the sustainability framework? 00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:11.880 So that's the beauty and the difficulty of the sustainability framework is so many programs 00:37:11.880 --> 00:37:19.440 can fit under multiple focus areas. Um, one of the initiatives that we are working on 00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:26.640 right now is as we are putting it together, agenda items, we're listing how it relates 00:37:26.640 --> 00:37:31.680 to the sustainability framework. So I would say that, you know, if you're talking about 00:37:31.680 --> 00:37:36.800 wildflower planning, that's under land use and that is under, um, resiliency and public 00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:42.960 health. So just because it resides in the resiliency and public health, doesn't mean 00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:49.320 that it's not land use as well. Okay, thank you. I was just curious how much crossover 00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:54.560 we could have in discussions down the road with this. Oh, yes. It's all intermingled. 00:37:54.560 --> 00:38:11.360 Okay. So, um, as JT said, we're working on the greenhouse mitigation target setting and 00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:16.480 we'll bring that back to you at the next meeting. Um, the comprehensive solid waste management 00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:23.280 strategy is well underway. Um, we have a follow up meeting tonight to wrap up our series of 00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:30.840 public meetings, um, the climate hazards and vulnerability assessment, uh, air quality. 00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:35.800 We participate with the air quality public health task force, air more Texas, and then 00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:41.680 the rise coalition, which is the regional integration of sustainability efforts. Um, 00:38:41.680 --> 00:38:49.400 it's a regional group that's housed at cog now. Um, so we are all very involved throughout 00:38:49.400 --> 00:39:00.800 the region and trying air quality initiatives. So Catherine, we have a question from, uh, 00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:08.440 ed. Yes. Yeah, I'm sure. Uh, I had a question about the climate hazards and vulnerability 00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:13.840 assessment is, would that be done in house or would that be done through a consultancy? 00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:21.880 I'll let JT answer that. Yeah, I think where we're at with that is mostly, um, wrapping 00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:26.200 up with a lot of the data gathering stage, um, which was pretty extensive, um, in terms 00:39:26.200 --> 00:39:32.120 of forecasting and things like that. Um, and I think we're at the point where, um, you 00:39:32.120 --> 00:39:36.640 know, presenting some of that materials and then having that discussion, um, is, is basically 00:39:36.640 --> 00:39:42.280 right where we're at with that. Okay. The reason I ask is, as I'm sure, you know, uh, 00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:52.600 back in 2014, Austin, um, had a climate change projections for their city, which was done 00:39:52.600 --> 00:39:59.120 by a Catherine Hayhoe. And I didn't know if, when I look back and I see, recall that the 00:39:59.120 --> 00:40:05.240 dent and renewable plan was done in conjunction with, uh, enterprise or I think it was called 00:40:05.240 --> 00:40:13.560 enterprise risk. Yeah. I didn't know that if something is, would carry more weight, 00:40:13.560 --> 00:40:19.320 not to say that staff doesn't carry weight, but an outside assessment, such as what was 00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:25.840 done at Austin might give us a little more, uh, heavy artillery when we go before council 00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:33.760 with requests for certain issues that will help mitigate climate change. If we, uh, basically 00:40:33.760 --> 00:40:38.040 that's what I'm asking. And I think that that's something that we can definitely add to the 00:40:38.040 --> 00:40:42.840 discussion list. Um, I know some of those data sets have become more easily accessible 00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:49.280 and more readily available, um, since 2014. Um, but in terms of, um, in terms of accessing 00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:54.720 and pulling that data together, we can definitely have that, um, that discussion and, and add 00:40:54.720 --> 00:40:59.320 it to the list. Great. Thank you. Yeah. And I, we're have, we're going to have a discussion 00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:04.800 later about the matrix and how we get items onto the agenda for this committee and a study 00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:26.000 like that may be something that this committee wants to hear more about. Okay. Great. 00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:31.840 So now onto the committee purpose, um, to discuss and monitor the implementation of 00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:37.080 the sustainability framework and priorities and projects discussions. Um, and then we 00:41:37.080 --> 00:41:41.120 went ahead and listed, um, one of the topics for the next meeting, which would be the greenhouse 00:41:41.120 --> 00:41:51.960 gas management overview. And then that goes into questions. So if we want to talk about 00:41:51.960 --> 00:41:57.920 the implementation, um, and priorities and projects discussion now, we can jump into 00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:06.320 that. I have a question, Catherine, and I see Adam does too. So Adam, I'll go ahead 00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:14.400 and let you, um, ask your question. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Uh, thank you for the presentation. 00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:18.960 I think it makes obvious sense to start with the goals and the strategies for those goals. 00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:24.440 Um, but if our mission is to discuss and advise on implementation, it would be super helpful 00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:30.480 if we had information on trends with respect to those goals, like how are we doing when 00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:34.060 it comes to all of these things? And maybe this is going to be part of our discussions 00:42:34.060 --> 00:42:39.960 as we move forward, but I'm looking forward to all of this stuff and trying to help the 00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:46.160 city think about how to do better. Um, but I don't, I mean, I, I think I'll, to do that, 00:42:46.160 --> 00:42:51.600 we'll need to know where are we strong and where are we weak, you know, and how do we 00:42:51.600 --> 00:42:55.960 prioritize, where's the lowest hanging fruit and in that. So, I mean, it's probably, this 00:42:55.960 --> 00:43:00.920 is a procedural question about how we're going to move forward. Like how do we get the, the 00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:06.160 info we need so that we can feel like we can make smart, um, you know, advice about how 00:43:06.160 --> 00:43:11.320 we're doing implementing this stuff, you know, does that make any sense? And your gap analysis 00:43:11.320 --> 00:43:15.560 basically, there's something to analyze what, what is and what's in place and what the standards 00:43:15.560 --> 00:43:21.160 are and where's the gaps. Okay. That's a nice term for it. Yeah. I guess that's, that's 00:43:21.160 --> 00:43:27.660 what we're working corporate world. Yeah. And that kind of leads into my question too. 00:43:27.660 --> 00:43:35.080 So we do have, I think it's a 33 goals and 52 strategies. Uh, that's, that's a lot. Um, 00:43:35.080 --> 00:43:40.520 and do we, I'm assuming, and what I would hope for this group is that we come up with 00:43:40.520 --> 00:43:46.960 specific numbers for those goals so that it sets a better target. Like Adam mentioned, 00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:52.200 you know, where, where are we, where have we been? What kind of success have we had 00:43:52.200 --> 00:43:58.360 without anything defined really, it's going to be hard to come up with that gap analysis. 00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:06.760 And also I would like to ask, does this body or will this body recommend new strategies 00:44:06.760 --> 00:44:15.320 and policies to council to, um, achieve or implement the goals that we're learning about? 00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:21.400 I would say, yes, this is an advisory body to council. So you can make recommendations 00:44:21.400 --> 00:44:33.320 to council. Okay. Just confirming. Yes. Thank you. And one way we could walk through where 00:44:33.320 --> 00:44:43.520 we are is maybe go by focus area and try to work through one or two focus areas each meeting, 00:44:43.520 --> 00:44:49.040 maybe pick two that have some good synergies and talk about what we're doing currently, 00:44:49.040 --> 00:44:56.280 um, what's on the horizon, what's been done, where we are, where we could go. Um, that 00:44:56.280 --> 00:45:08.940 might be one way that we, we start attacking this large project. Thumbs up from Adam. Does 00:45:08.940 --> 00:45:14.380 anyone else have any questions or comments about the implementation, about what you want 00:45:14.380 --> 00:45:28.480 to see from this committee? Yeah. Well, I'm just very, very glad to know that, that recommendations 00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:34.320 that we come up with will be put before council. Um, because I see that as the only way that 00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:40.800 progress row will be made because council obviously makes the final decisions. So personally 00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:47.640 I would like to, to sort of going, tagging on with what Adam said, I would really like 00:45:47.640 --> 00:45:58.280 to know which areas are our least, uh, successful at this point. Um, that where, where we can, 00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:07.000 can really focus on what needs to make the plan better. And so I would with ask Catherine 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:13.720 that, I mean, she and JT obviously know the plans better than anyone. And for them to 00:46:13.720 --> 00:46:22.160 assess what they feel we could be most useful in helping strengthen and, and getting the 00:46:22.160 --> 00:46:28.200 data necessary to do that as well, just in order to have some sort of structure for our 00:46:28.200 --> 00:46:33.880 meetings. Like Catherine said, having a definite, definite, uh, agenda for what we were going 00:46:33.880 --> 00:46:44.600 to talk about and obviously having backup for it as well. That make any sense? Basically 00:46:44.600 --> 00:46:50.000 I'm most concerned where we're, where we need, where we can do the most improvement at this 00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:57.200 point because things are, everything's speeding up around us and, uh, growth everything. It's 00:46:57.200 --> 00:47:02.120 just crazy. It's all coming down on us at once. So the more we can strengthen our weaknesses, 00:47:02.120 --> 00:47:09.120 I think, uh, better shape we might be in. So I have an idea. Oh, I just saw a hand, 00:47:09.120 --> 00:47:15.280 but it went away. Oh, there's Adam. Sorry, Keely. Yeah, I just want a second on Ed. That's 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:19.640 another thing I was thinking too is, and this is like, like Catherine said, it's so complex. 00:47:19.640 --> 00:47:25.600 There's so many things that are interacting. Another thing for us to grapple with is like 00:47:25.600 --> 00:47:31.000 Ed mentioned, the development trends and projections as we look at this, cause I think all of this 00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:36.240 is happening within a context of massive and rapid growth in our city. So if there's a 00:47:36.240 --> 00:47:43.200 way to, to wrap our heads around that systematically, I think that would also help us say, well, 00:47:43.200 --> 00:47:46.920 these are the real vulnerabilities or these are the real opportunities, or this is like 00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:51.160 really urgent because this is, I'm just thinking about open space, for example. I don't really 00:47:51.160 --> 00:47:54.640 know, but boy, that sure seems like that's disappearing quickly. If I just look around 00:47:54.640 --> 00:47:59.040 my neighborhood. So, you know, some of that info, I don't know how that fits into this 00:47:59.040 --> 00:48:04.720 picture either, but that's just something we're going to have to wrestle with too. 00:48:04.720 --> 00:48:08.880 I was going to suggest that we go through the frameworks that we just went through and 00:48:08.880 --> 00:48:16.080 maybe prioritize them individually for ourselves and then kind of go from there in discussion, 00:48:16.080 --> 00:48:22.920 like which ones we want to tackle. You know, we want to go over first, just one for our 00:48:22.920 --> 00:48:28.120 own sake and then two, so other members of the group can know what we feel and as individually 00:48:28.120 --> 00:48:33.460 is important as well. Matt. 00:48:33.460 --> 00:48:40.400 You know, so something that I think would be really helpful too is maybe just a bit 00:48:40.400 --> 00:48:47.040 of background on some of the projected development in the city. So I went to a neighborhood meeting 00:48:47.040 --> 00:48:52.080 way before COVID and there was a random speaker and it surprised me to learn about a lot of 00:48:52.080 --> 00:48:57.560 the new developments going on on the Western part of the city. And it was like eye-opening 00:48:57.560 --> 00:49:03.000 because of the plan that was laid out. Now I don't need every little detail, but I think 00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:08.240 it would be useful to have kind of a clear idea of where we're going so that we could 00:49:08.240 --> 00:49:14.080 contextualize what we're talking about here as well too. So there's things that are already 00:49:14.080 --> 00:49:22.240 agreed upon in terms of large-scale developments that are going to be in place that, you know, 00:49:22.240 --> 00:49:26.900 there's not much we can recommend towards those things. In my mind, it's pretty much 00:49:26.900 --> 00:49:32.120 a done deal. So I would like to know, like, I think just getting a trajectory of kind 00:49:32.120 --> 00:49:38.500 of where the city is going and what the, what things are expected in terms of development, 00:49:38.500 --> 00:49:42.120 at least in the near term would be helpful to me to kind of wrap my head around some 00:49:42.120 --> 00:49:46.620 of this stuff too. And we could bring planning in to give us 00:49:46.620 --> 00:49:50.860 an update on that. Yeah, that's what I was thinking, Catherine. 00:49:50.860 --> 00:49:55.560 Planning's going to be really helpful there and the growth and the amount of people. If 00:49:55.560 --> 00:50:00.280 we have an idea of, you know, how many people are coming into our city, it's going to help, 00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:06.520 you know, with the policies, especially, you know, when we're talking about trash and recycling. 00:50:06.520 --> 00:50:11.640 So Brand has a question. Go ahead. Yeah, off of what you just mentioned earlier 00:50:11.640 --> 00:50:16.840 on prioritizing some of these focus areas, I think it might be helpful too to consider 00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:23.200 not just our own, maybe how we would personally rank these areas, but also considering the 00:50:23.200 --> 00:50:30.400 primary interest survey, it's in the sustainability framework plan that is in our backup and where 00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:35.040 the respondents to that survey ranked their primary interest in these topics. So for instance, 00:50:35.040 --> 00:50:40.480 conservation of resources and access to natural spaces, much of what we've just been discussing 00:50:40.480 --> 00:50:46.120 in terms of development, overwhelmingly make up more than 50% of that interest. And then 00:50:46.120 --> 00:50:51.520 of course, health and safety comes shortly after that. So maybe if, as you suggested, 00:50:51.520 --> 00:50:57.040 we rank our personal focus areas, it might be helpful to just keep in context of what 00:50:57.040 --> 00:51:01.920 a lot of residents have also vocalized they want to prioritize. 00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:07.280 Good comment. Yes, I agree. Ed? 00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:18.400 One more thing, just to throw an idea out. There is a website called climateemergencydeclaration.org, 00:51:18.400 --> 00:51:28.680 which lists all the municipalities in the states that have issued a climate declaration 00:51:28.680 --> 00:51:37.760 of climate emergency. And this seems to be something that is done as a way to, first 00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:47.440 of all, have an anchor for what we're going to do. And I know that this came before council 00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:53.760 a couple of years ago and was voted down. But I think it should be reconsidered because 00:51:53.760 --> 00:52:00.380 I think it's very important that the city make that sort of statement and use that as 00:52:00.380 --> 00:52:09.280 a foundational document for whatever is done to address that emergency through a sustainability 00:52:09.280 --> 00:52:14.940 plan, et cetera. So I would just throw that out that at some point I would like to discuss 00:52:14.940 --> 00:52:22.600 that, have a discussion about approaching council about, again, trying to have a declaration 00:52:22.600 --> 00:52:30.640 of climate emergency. And if you want to see a good example of one, Austin has a very precise 00:52:30.640 --> 00:52:37.560 document regarding this, which is very good. Thank you. 00:52:37.560 --> 00:52:45.600 >> All right. Does anyone else have any questions or comments? Yeah, Jordan? 00:52:45.600 --> 00:52:51.360 >> I just want to say one thing. In sustainability and all that we're working on, I really think 00:52:51.360 --> 00:52:56.960 it needs to be very -- a prominent focus that this is an apolitical discussion and really 00:52:56.960 --> 00:53:03.360 -- when we get into things of talking -- and I come from California, from Santa Cruz, very 00:53:03.360 --> 00:53:08.480 left-leaning cities and such and so on, but it can really throw people off, I think, when 00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:15.920 you start naming Austin or climate emergencies. And so I would just -- I would say that I 00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:20.660 think we'll have more of an appetite for suggestions or policy measures if we keep this in line 00:53:20.660 --> 00:53:27.560 with it's a responsible thing to do, being stewards of land, air, water, resources as 00:53:27.560 --> 00:53:34.320 a city versus what has now become very politicized. And again, I'm not trying to -- your comments 00:53:34.320 --> 00:53:40.760 are spot on. I believe commitments and signing onto accords is very important. But I would 00:53:40.760 --> 00:53:46.920 just caution where this focus goes on some of those topics. That's all. 00:53:46.920 --> 00:53:51.160 >> And I will just jump in here and say that this sounds like a good conversation for an 00:53:51.160 --> 00:53:58.120 item on the matrix where we could have full conversation about it in the future where 00:53:58.120 --> 00:54:05.960 everyone can weigh in. So if -- does anyone else have any discussion -- oh, I'm sorry, 00:54:05.960 --> 00:54:10.360 Mr. Bishop? >> You're fine. I'm trying to make sure -- and 00:54:10.360 --> 00:54:16.280 I guess this is for Katherine -- what's pending now that's been submitted to the city? And 00:54:16.280 --> 00:54:21.540 I think this is the same thing. Matthew's asking what's on hold right now that they're 00:54:21.540 --> 00:54:26.000 working on or that we need to go to first instead of starting something brand new, one 00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:31.360 of these 33 items, what's being held in the, I guess, holding box now for the city to look 00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:39.980 at or go from there? >> I would say that the target setting for 00:54:39.980 --> 00:54:48.380 our emissions reductions is something that's been pending. And air quality action plan 00:54:48.380 --> 00:54:57.160 is another item that's pending. Most of them would revolve around air quality right now 00:54:57.160 --> 00:55:07.560 because it is very important locally, regionally, statewide, nationally. So it would rise to 00:55:07.560 --> 00:55:12.240 the top. >> Katherine, has council set a carbon reduction 00:55:12.240 --> 00:55:15.360 percentage? Has that something? >> Not yet. 00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:21.640 >> No? Okay. >> I think that they were looking for feedback 00:55:21.640 --> 00:55:23.960 from this committee. >> Okay. 00:55:23.960 --> 00:55:27.760 >> So that was why we had that on the next agenda. 00:55:27.760 --> 00:55:34.680 >> Awesome. Thank you. All right. Well, if anybody else doesn't have any questions, we'll 00:55:34.680 --> 00:55:42.960 move on to the next item. This is really great discussion. Thank you, everyone. So we will 00:55:42.960 --> 00:55:49.360 move on to item D, receive a report, hold the discussion, and adopt the project matrix 00:55:49.360 --> 00:56:07.760 format for the future, which we have learned is going to be very important. 00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:11.960 >> So if any of you follow along on our Friday reports or any of our committees, you've probably 00:56:11.960 --> 00:56:20.600 seen a similar matrix. What our plan for right now is is that we will complete this matrix 00:56:20.600 --> 00:56:28.880 for every meeting. We will add the requester, the members that supported it, the item, the 00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:34.400 department that will lead it, and then we'll have an estimate of staff time, and then we'll 00:56:34.400 --> 00:56:40.160 report back to you the current status of the project, and then we'll be probably starting 00:56:40.160 --> 00:56:46.000 off with this going to council in the Friday report so that they see pretty quickly after 00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:52.980 our meetings what was discussed and what was included with the matrix, and then we'll go 00:56:52.980 --> 00:56:57.360 from there to determine if it's going to go back to council, you know, as an informal 00:56:57.360 --> 00:57:02.760 staff report or a work session, or, you know, are we going to flesh it out a little bit 00:57:02.760 --> 00:57:11.320 more before we want to go take that to council? But this is just a sample of the matrix and 00:57:11.320 --> 00:57:16.320 what that will look like, and so now is the time to start throwing things out to put on 00:57:16.320 --> 00:57:21.040 the matrix. >> I have a clarification question, and I 00:57:21.040 --> 00:57:26.280 may have misunderstood you. I just want to make sure. So at what point does it go to 00:57:26.280 --> 00:57:32.000 council before the item is even heard here, or are you saying that we hear the item, do 00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:38.720 all the discussion, everything we need to do, but then that item goes to council? I'm 00:57:38.720 --> 00:57:46.400 just trying to get a better idea of the process that you're talking about here. 00:57:46.400 --> 00:57:51.440 >> And I think that could depend on the type of item. I mean, if the recommendation on 00:57:51.440 --> 00:57:57.560 the matrix is to hire a consultant to do a project, then that might need to go a little 00:57:57.560 --> 00:58:04.360 more quickly to council to see if we could have the funding to hire the consultant. 00:58:04.360 --> 00:58:10.400 >> Okay. So you're saying it doesn't have to go to council just for us to hear the presentation? 00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:16.200 We can hear the presentation by it being on the matrix, but if there's a recommendation, 00:58:16.200 --> 00:58:20.400 then at that point, right? I just want to make sure that we're not going to have to 00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:24.920 -- we're waiting on council before we can have a discussion. 00:58:24.920 --> 00:58:30.760 And I think most items we can probably come back with a discussion. 00:58:30.760 --> 00:58:40.160 >> Okay. All right. Thank you. Anybody else have any comments or questions about the process? 00:58:40.160 --> 00:58:45.960 This is how you get an item on the agenda. >> Okay. So could you just give us an example? 00:58:45.960 --> 00:58:49.440 The next meeting is already scheduled for the greenhouse gas management. So could you 00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:54.680 just give us a scenario where this works in this matrix? Maybe it will help me kind of 00:58:54.680 --> 00:59:04.520 understand better. >> So it might say that oh, map fry requested 00:59:04.520 --> 00:59:12.160 an update on the greenhouse gas inventory. And brand and Mr. Bishop also wanted to see 00:59:12.160 --> 00:59:18.960 that. And so staff is going to bring that back. And then to work along with that, say 00:59:18.960 --> 00:59:23.920 maybe you wanted an update of regional air quality initiatives. And everybody on the 00:59:23.920 --> 00:59:29.960 committee supported hearing about that. So we're going to bring that back. 00:59:29.960 --> 00:59:39.480 And then we might have one that is -- oh, gosh. We want to know about how the valet 00:59:39.480 --> 00:59:43.920 trash program is working on the square and on fry street. And that might not fit on the 00:59:43.920 --> 00:59:51.200 next agenda. But we all know that that was a request and it will come in the future. 00:59:51.200 --> 00:59:55.020 We're having planning come and talk about future development. 00:59:55.020 --> 00:59:59.320 >> And Catherine, do those requests, if they come up during a discussion, during a presentation, 00:59:59.320 --> 01:00:07.680 do they need to be reiterated during concluding items? Or is it how -- at what point does 01:00:07.680 --> 01:00:13.200 somebody -- or would they -- they would e-mail staff if they had something or the chair? 01:00:13.200 --> 01:00:20.760 Is that another way? I'm asking so that the members know if they have an idea or a question, 01:00:20.760 --> 01:00:24.480 what ways can they get their item on this matrix? 01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:30.600 >> I think we will try to capture them during discussion. If in concluding items, if somebody 01:00:30.600 --> 01:00:35.320 wants to reiterate and make sure that we got it, that would be great, too. And then whenever 01:00:35.320 --> 01:00:39.320 -- of course, when you see the minutes, if you say, oh, my gosh, I'll totally miss that, 01:00:39.320 --> 01:00:44.080 you can e-mail us. >> Okay. All right. Is everybody okay with 01:00:44.080 --> 01:00:54.720 that? Do you have any questions about the process? No? Okay. All right. Well, it looks 01:00:54.720 --> 01:01:04.200 like it's settled, then. We will move on to our last item, which is concluding items. 01:01:04.200 --> 01:01:13.200 Does anyone have any concluding items? Ed? >> Can we put things on the matrix now? 01:01:13.200 --> 01:01:21.520 Yes. >> Okay. I have -- I would like to investigate 01:01:21.520 --> 01:01:34.960 -- I would like to see somehow a climate change projection done for Denton, either by an outside 01:01:34.960 --> 01:01:43.360 consultant or in-house. I made some remarks about that earlier. And I would also like 01:01:43.360 --> 01:02:06.000 to see a projection of development within the next 10, 20 years. 01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:21.560 >> I think she froze up or something. >> I think she did. Adam, go ahead. 01:02:21.560 --> 01:02:27.080 >> Catherine, you mentioned it. I'm glad Mack asked for examples. I'm really concerned about 01:02:27.080 --> 01:02:31.880 air quality, and I know that's a priority for a lot of folks. If you could -- and it 01:02:31.880 --> 01:02:36.920 sounds like this fits the next meeting. If there's a way you could bring us up to speed 01:02:36.920 --> 01:02:42.880 on who's doing what, where we've been, where we think we're going, projections and trends, 01:02:42.880 --> 01:02:47.600 and so that we can think about what are smart things that we can do to make that better. 01:02:47.600 --> 01:02:49.800 >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. Thank you. 01:02:49.800 --> 01:02:56.520 >> Brian? >> Yeah, just a future item for the matrix. 01:02:56.520 --> 01:03:02.240 Really interested under focus topic for energy, community solar, and where the city's efforts 01:03:02.240 --> 01:03:08.240 on residential solar projects stand, and how those are funded, and some possible considerations 01:03:08.240 --> 01:03:17.040 we could take to improve that. >> Matt? 01:03:17.040 --> 01:03:21.280 >> Could I add to the next meeting, too, on what Adam just said, could we get some background 01:03:21.280 --> 01:03:28.160 on some of the monitoring on the air quality, so just the sources of the data that the city 01:03:28.160 --> 01:03:37.260 is relying on regionally, and it's just included in that discussion. I'd like to. 01:03:37.260 --> 01:03:43.560 >> Is there an environmental director? >> Good question. 01:03:43.560 --> 01:03:51.800 >> Has that position not been filled? >> It has not. 01:03:51.800 --> 01:04:02.220 >> Okay. All right. Anyone else have any? >> I don't know if this is public information, 01:04:02.220 --> 01:04:07.040 but Catherine, is there a search on now for that position? 01:04:07.040 --> 01:04:12.600 >> Yes. >> Great. Okay. Thanks. 01:04:12.600 --> 01:04:18.800 >> I would like to have an update on education and the classes. I know that there was a question 01:04:18.800 --> 01:04:27.240 mark out by that, and education is really important in our city and the classes, so 01:04:27.240 --> 01:04:35.040 at some point, and we talked about in that same line, equity, how we make sure the education 01:04:35.040 --> 01:04:45.080 gets out across the city and how we make sure it reaches everyone, and everyone has a fair 01:04:45.080 --> 01:04:50.680 shot at that education. >> Absolutely. 01:04:50.680 --> 01:04:58.880 >> Okay. Brand, do you have another question? >> Just a procedural question. When we're 01:04:58.880 --> 01:05:05.200 requesting items to go on the project matrix, is that to be directly set off to the next 01:05:05.200 --> 01:05:09.720 meeting, say for just the one that I just mentioned about the community solar projects? 01:05:09.720 --> 01:05:14.520 I don't know timeline on it necessarily. I think it would just go well synergistically 01:05:14.520 --> 01:05:20.180 to talk about it whenever we bring up the energy focus area. So if I were to put something 01:05:20.180 --> 01:05:24.640 on the project matrix, does that necessarily mean that it's going to be on the next meeting? 01:05:24.640 --> 01:05:30.200 >> No. Generally, it doesn't. So it depends on the time of research involved and when 01:05:30.200 --> 01:05:39.080 staff can get to it. But generally, it's not too far out because we don't want our agenda 01:05:39.080 --> 01:05:47.720 really full. So when staff sets the agenda, it's within reasonable items list. So it might 01:05:47.720 --> 01:05:53.140 go in order or if it fits into the framework that we're talking about, that item might 01:05:53.140 --> 01:06:00.280 be put in there as a discussion item. Catherine, you can add to it if that's how I understand 01:06:00.280 --> 01:06:05.560 it to be. But you can go ahead and add more if you'd like. 01:06:05.560 --> 01:06:12.440 >> That is how it works usually. We're looking at the agenda and trying not to be here all 01:06:12.440 --> 01:06:19.880 evening or for four hours. But if we feel like we can plug in like a small presentation 01:06:19.880 --> 01:06:26.160 from DME about solar that goes along with that, then we could do that. But it may be 01:06:26.160 --> 01:06:30.520 that it has to come back, just depending on folks' schedules, too. It may be that has 01:06:30.520 --> 01:06:37.520 to be pushed out to two meetings away. >> And, Brand, every meeting, we'll look 01:06:37.520 --> 01:06:42.280 at the matrix and go through and see what items have come and what items have not. And 01:06:42.280 --> 01:06:47.600 so we can ask about that, you know, where is that? When are we going to hear it? And, 01:06:47.600 --> 01:06:52.640 you know, update ourselves on it, on where it is in the process. 01:06:52.640 --> 01:06:57.960 >> And we usually try to assign a date that that will come back if it's not the next meeting. 01:06:57.960 --> 01:07:02.880 >> Thank you, guys, for that explainer. >> Matt? 01:07:02.880 --> 01:07:08.400 >> Just to clarify, so for the next meeting, we've got the topics set. We've already suggested 01:07:08.400 --> 01:07:14.120 a couple things to focus on. In the timeline of things, this is about a month away when 01:07:14.120 --> 01:07:20.880 we'll meet again. When will we get an agenda? Will we get some background material to read? 01:07:20.880 --> 01:07:27.360 Or, like, is there a time scale between now and then in terms of items coming our way? 01:07:27.360 --> 01:07:31.920 Or is it just we show up at the meeting in the day before, you know, like this meeting, 01:07:31.920 --> 01:07:38.040 we got the agenda and stuff? >> It will be -- so that will be a Monday 01:07:38.040 --> 01:07:47.120 meeting, I believe, so you'll get it on the Friday before. So, yeah, we had some challenges 01:07:47.120 --> 01:07:51.640 with the first meeting, but we'll try to get that to you about three days ahead in the 01:07:51.640 --> 01:07:57.000 future. >> So the suggestion would be then to look 01:07:57.000 --> 01:08:04.560 at the framework document on that topic on -- in my mind, as I'm trying to prepare my 01:08:04.560 --> 01:08:10.440 mind for this, because there's a lot of things in that, you know, it's time consuming to 01:08:10.440 --> 01:08:16.280 go through the whole thing, but I think focusing on certain topics is the best way to go. So 01:08:16.280 --> 01:08:20.600 focusing on the document and then being prepared for that Friday before to have some more direction 01:08:20.600 --> 01:08:25.280 on what specifically we're going to talk about. >> Yes, and since we're going to be talking 01:08:25.280 --> 01:08:32.500 about greenhouse gas, probably go ahead and -- our greenhouse gas inventories are online, 01:08:32.500 --> 01:08:38.380 so if you want to look on the City of Denton website, you can see -- I believe there's 01:08:38.380 --> 01:08:49.560 at least three years of history online right now. So J.T. is waving at me. I may have misstated 01:08:49.560 --> 01:08:52.500 something. >> No, you didn't. I was just going to also 01:08:52.500 --> 01:08:57.240 recommend that there are a couple of COE meetings posted as public record as well that will 01:08:57.240 --> 01:09:02.240 have some of the background, of course, that we'll cover at the next meeting, but if you're 01:09:02.240 --> 01:09:07.880 incredibly interested in a primer, that would be a good place to start. 01:09:07.880 --> 01:09:12.260 >> Ed? >> Just a clarification. The next meeting 01:09:12.260 --> 01:09:21.880 is going to be on the Friday of May 27th, correct? When the meeting is moved to Friday? 01:09:21.880 --> 01:09:24.960 From 1 to 3? >> It will be in June. The next meeting will 01:09:24.960 --> 01:09:32.600 be in June, right? >> But it won't be a Monday, it will be the 01:09:32.600 --> 01:09:37.880 Friday. >> Sorry. It's in my notes. It's not concrete 01:09:37.880 --> 01:09:42.680 in my head yet. >> All right. Thanks. 01:09:42.680 --> 01:09:49.460 >> I'll clean that up. >> All right, everybody. Well, I think we 01:09:49.460 --> 01:09:55.900 should draw this. If everybody is okay and good to go, no more questions or any more 01:09:55.900 --> 01:09:59.200 questions? I don't want to limit conversation if there is one. 01:09:59.200 --> 01:10:05.880 >> I'll just say if anything comes up in the interim, feel free to email me. 01:10:05.880 --> 01:10:12.140 >> Yes. Yeah, do that. And thank you, everyone. It was a great first meeting. I'm really excited 01:10:12.140 --> 01:10:18.640 about what we can do and learn and recommend. I think we can make really great progress 01:10:18.640 --> 01:10:24.480 here in our city as a committee. So thank you for your time today and thank you, staff. 01:10:24.480 --> 01:10:29.440 And we will adjourn at 312. Thank you. >> Thank you all so much. 01:10:29.440 --> 01:10:30.440 >> Thank you, everybody. Nice meeting you.