WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.480 Okay, you guys ready to get started? Alright, thank you for joining us today. 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:15.520 It's like Friday October 28th. This is the Sustainability Framework Advisory 00:00:15.520 --> 00:00:20.560 Committee and we do just barely have a quorum so no one get up to go to the 00:00:20.560 --> 00:00:26.360 restroom please. We are in the City Council Work Session Room and on our 00:00:26.360 --> 00:00:31.400 agenda today, there's a couple of notes. We are going to be moving item D up 00:00:31.400 --> 00:00:39.780 under item A. So that's really the only change on the agenda that we'll have. So we will 00:00:39.780 --> 00:00:45.800 get started with A, consider approval of the September 23rd 2022 minutes. 00:00:45.800 --> 00:01:00.360 Does everybody have a chance to look up those? Any notes? All good? Second? I'll brand second on that for the minutes and all 00:01:00.360 --> 00:01:07.960 in favor? All right. Let's go ahead and move to item D. Receive a report and 00:01:07.960 --> 00:01:12.440 hold a discussion regarding an annual summary of recycling education and 00:01:12.440 --> 00:01:18.400 outreach for fiscal year 2021 through 2022. 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:33.800 Good afternoon everyone. My name is Julie Amador. I serve as one of two Waste 00:01:33.800 --> 00:01:38.440 Reductions Programs coordinators alongside with Kim Jennings, my partner in 00:01:38.440 --> 00:01:42.480 crime who takes care of DISD. So today we're going to be talking about the 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:50.480 annual summary for this fiscal year. So today's focus will be talking a little 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:54.560 bit about some of the education that I focus on which is multifamily and 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:58.920 residential specific recycling education. We also will be talking about our 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:04.360 shoot lathe and locking bar program that we piloted this past year. Kim will be 00:02:04.360 --> 00:02:08.520 also hitting on the Denton Sustainable Schools program specifically and end of year 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:15.640 outreach and highlights. So residential recycling education, some of you may know, so I do a 00:02:15.640 --> 00:02:21.160 lot of the social media for and marketing for solid waste and recycling. So these 00:02:21.160 --> 00:02:26.280 are a few examples of what we do but I want to talk a little bit about some of 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:31.880 the education that we do and have always kind of done. So as far as audits go we 00:02:31.880 --> 00:02:36.240 brought on two cart tagging interns. So we have people that are out in the field 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:40.080 opening up lids, looking at them and saying you know if this container is 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:43.080 good to collect, if this person needs a little bit more education at the cart 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:47.480 and we create all of that information as well. So we create the cart tag so that 00:02:47.480 --> 00:02:50.840 they're updated and current and that residents know what is and what isn't 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:55.400 accepted in our recycling program. Also as far as audits we have drivers that 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:58.560 are out in the field and they are our eyes and ears. So when they see a cart 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:03.040 and it's overflowing with styrofoam or yard waste or you know construction and 00:03:03.040 --> 00:03:08.520 demolition, they'll mark it a cart as do not collect. So that's another way that 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:14.960 we're able to educate residents at the curb. And this fiscal year we had 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:21.600 over 12,800 tags by just the cart tagging interns and the drivers. So for 00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:26.760 community events this past year of COVID put a lot of things on hold so we were 00:03:26.760 --> 00:03:31.280 able to do a lot more education by attending events like Red Bud which had 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:36.160 been previously postponed, Great American Cleanup, Twilight Tunes we even got to be 00:03:36.160 --> 00:03:42.240 at which was really cool. For some of the community events just on recycling we 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:49.080 were able to do outreach at 81 events and do outreach to over 5,000 residents 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:54.520 just on recycling education. For targeted messaging so we've always more or less 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:57.760 included information in the bill stuffers like the citizen connection or 00:03:57.760 --> 00:04:02.160 a resident update. The citizen connection actually goes out to over 73,000 00:04:02.160 --> 00:04:05.680 residents so we're able to include information about items that were seen 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:09.880 in the recycling stream like plastic film, bagging the recyclables and just kind of 00:04:09.880 --> 00:04:14.640 reminding residents what does go in their curbside cart. For HOA meetings 00:04:14.640 --> 00:04:18.680 and that's another way that I do outreach to residential customers but 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:23.400 I'll just kind of tag along and say you know this specific residential route is 00:04:23.400 --> 00:04:27.360 having higher contamination can you just remind your residents please don't put 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:31.520 these following items in your cart or if you'd like or if you'll allow me can I 00:04:31.520 --> 00:04:35.360 go ahead and attend your next HOA meeting that you guys are going to have. And those are some of the 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:40.760 things that we've you know been doing in the past. Something that is new under 00:04:40.760 --> 00:04:45.640 targeted messaging is next door so we took that on this past fiscal year and 00:04:45.640 --> 00:04:49.160 next door messaging so what I will receive from Solid Waste we get the 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:52.860 highest contaminated residential routes and we'll actually break them up in by 00:04:52.860 --> 00:04:57.480 neighborhood and next door and we'll post directly in there and say hey you 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:01.120 know if you live in Wheeler Ridge for example can you please stop placing 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:05.960 hangers in your recycling cart. So we do targeted messaging based on what we're 00:05:05.960 --> 00:05:08.880 seeing in the recycling stream not only do we get that information from Pratt 00:05:08.880 --> 00:05:12.160 which is our materials recovery facility but we're also getting that information 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:18.520 from car tagging interns, our drivers and then anything far in between. So that's 00:05:18.520 --> 00:05:23.000 another way that we do education. For mailers that's something that we 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:27.360 took on recently and just in the past six months we've been able to reach out 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:33.000 to over 10,000 homes. So this is a do not bag recyclables mailer that we have. 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:38.920 All of the graphics in that are from the recycling partnership so we even the 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:42.800 graphics that we use there's a reason behind it because they actually are more 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:47.040 recognizable to residents and we also have them in English and Spanish for 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:51.280 for mailers like that whenever we're reaching out to specific homes. Facebook 00:05:51.280 --> 00:05:54.960 ads as well so we're on different social media we're on Facebook Instagram 00:05:54.960 --> 00:05:58.960 Twitter and next door. Facebook specifically we actually have Facebook 00:05:58.960 --> 00:06:02.480 ads just remind me if you know if you don't follow our pages already 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:06.080 hopefully it's able to end up on your feed some one way or another and we do 00:06:06.080 --> 00:06:09.240 that through the Facebook ads and it's just reminding residents again same 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:15.640 message don't bag your recyclables no plastic film etc. So residential 00:06:15.640 --> 00:06:18.760 recycling education we talked a little bit about that with different community 00:06:18.760 --> 00:06:23.280 events going on will actually be this Saturday a day of the dead so that'll be 00:06:23.280 --> 00:06:27.440 exciting especially since it's been postponed for a bit but the first 00:06:27.440 --> 00:06:31.620 picture is at Redbud we got to piggyback at Twilight Toons which was a 00:06:31.620 --> 00:06:34.880 really great event I remember going to Twilight Toons when I was an undergrad 00:06:34.880 --> 00:06:39.100 every time so it was really nice to be able to be up there in front and then 00:06:39.100 --> 00:06:42.880 same thing I went to UNT and we were able to do education at the Mean Green 00:06:42.880 --> 00:06:48.400 Flame we also had a table at the Sustainability Fair as well so 00:06:48.400 --> 00:06:52.440 multifamily recycling education that's kind of my bread and butter and my 00:06:52.440 --> 00:06:59.440 multifamilies are kind of got a bad rap so we do our audits and basically what 00:06:59.440 --> 00:07:02.320 happens is we'll get the highest contaminated commercial customers and 00:07:02.320 --> 00:07:05.720 we'll break them down by property type so if it's a multifamily they go to me 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:09.200 if they're a commercial business or other they'll go to someone else in 00:07:09.200 --> 00:07:14.280 solid waste and then if they're DISD campus they go to chem genetics and when 00:07:14.280 --> 00:07:16.720 we're doing our audits we're going out to the container we're making sure that 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:20.680 the container is labeled properly that people are able to kind of see that this 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:23.640 is a recycling container it's not a trash container and then you know the items 00:07:23.640 --> 00:07:29.920 that are programmatic and go into our container there and so with the audits 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:33.280 we're also seeing if the containers are too contaminated so if there's a lot of 00:07:33.280 --> 00:07:37.240 illegal dumping that customer will be contacted we'll let them know hey this 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:39.960 container is not going to get collected as is would you like to enter the 00:07:39.960 --> 00:07:44.160 containers trash or would you like to have someone remove the contamination 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:47.880 sometimes it could be something like a bed frame that you can just remove other 00:07:47.880 --> 00:07:51.080 times the containers fill to the top with construction demolition debris and 00:07:51.080 --> 00:07:53.600 there's no way that you know our maintenance guy is going to be able to pull all that 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:57.920 all that out of there so audits is one way that we find out a little bit more 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:01.320 information about how we can specifically educate multifamily customers 00:08:01.320 --> 00:08:04.600 because that way we actually know what's going in the recycling stream not only 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:08.640 from our audits but from Pratt and then also our drivers as well so move-in 00:08:08.640 --> 00:08:14.080 packets is something that I do we provide you know we provide apartment 00:08:14.080 --> 00:08:17.160 complexes that are on the highest contaminated routes with information to 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:20.840 include in their movement packets along with that we'll ask them you know how are 00:08:20.840 --> 00:08:24.280 you contacting your residents are you doing newsletters text messages flyers 00:08:24.280 --> 00:08:28.640 and how can we kind of work off of that how can we include some recycling 00:08:28.640 --> 00:08:32.160 information that's one thing that we've done it also includes like that little 00:08:32.160 --> 00:08:36.480 reusable bag that has a handle on the bottom so they can empty it directly 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:39.360 into their containers they don't have to bag their recyclables or anything like 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:43.080 that and so that's how we're able to do some targeted education specifically to 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:47.560 multifamily not only that but we'll also be able to get information from what 00:08:47.560 --> 00:08:51.960 they're seeing at Pratt and be able to kind of target that to those specific 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:57.520 multifamilies that are on that route and so dumpster decals where we have decals 00:08:57.520 --> 00:09:00.880 on all of the dumpsters on the highest contaminated routes just reminding 00:09:00.880 --> 00:09:04.060 residents you know this is not a donation bin this is a recycling container it's 00:09:04.060 --> 00:09:07.520 not a trash container and it also shows them what items are accepted in our 00:09:07.520 --> 00:09:11.280 program as well and trash valley so there's some apartment complexes that 00:09:11.280 --> 00:09:14.560 their residents are not the ones who take it to the actual container trash 00:09:14.560 --> 00:09:18.400 valley takes care of it for them so it's also reaching out to trash valley and 00:09:18.400 --> 00:09:21.560 getting in contact with them reminding them you know bulky styrofoam wood 00:09:21.560 --> 00:09:25.400 clothing donations that's not accepted in our program it may be accepted at 00:09:25.400 --> 00:09:28.880 maybe other properties outside of the outside of the city however it's not 00:09:28.880 --> 00:09:32.120 accepted in our specific program so just reminding them what's accepted in our 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:36.040 program so that they're not putting that in there it's also reminding them 00:09:36.040 --> 00:09:39.860 specifically sometimes with the configuration of the apartment complexes 00:09:39.860 --> 00:09:43.280 some trash valleys will favor a particular container over another so 00:09:43.280 --> 00:09:48.160 it's reminding them please don't use the overflow it don't miss any overflow 00:09:48.160 --> 00:09:51.400 trash in your recycling container you know you want to make sure that material 00:09:51.400 --> 00:09:54.680 is clean and we don't want to we want to make sure that we don't have to collect 00:09:54.680 --> 00:10:00.200 that as trash so multifamily events that picture over there on the right was one 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:03.440 of the multifamily events that I did at an apartment complex that is actually 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:07.640 predominantly college students but we actually had some older folks that had 00:10:07.640 --> 00:10:14.560 been retired and were empty what is it empty nest or empty nesters and so that 00:10:14.560 --> 00:10:17.360 was a great opportunity for me to do some education at the cop for college 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:21.080 students but also other folks that are living in the apartment complex and may 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:23.800 not be familiar with our recycling program those folks were actually from 00:10:23.800 --> 00:10:26.840 Seattle so their recycling program is completely different than what we have 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:30.440 so it's just a good reminder and another way to educate the residents that are 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:34.040 living there and then the shoot lid unlocking bar program we'll talk a 00:10:34.040 --> 00:10:40.520 little bit about that so you may have seen some of the containers in Denton 00:10:40.520 --> 00:10:44.760 with this brand new shoot lid unlocking bar so these little slits act as a 00:10:44.760 --> 00:10:48.960 physical control so that a lot of that debris and material that's big and bulky 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:52.520 can't get in there a lot of trash you have to really try and make an effort to 00:10:52.520 --> 00:10:58.680 place that item in there if you want to but we did a solid waste and recycling 00:10:58.680 --> 00:11:02.960 did a multifamily pilot where we took the two highest contaminated commercial 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:07.960 routes and we put a shoot lid unlocking bar on all of the multifamilies on those 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:14.060 routes we tracked the progress of the contamination during that time and we 00:11:14.060 --> 00:11:18.000 were able to see whether or not this was a great physical control to put on these 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.080 containers that people were using them if they were able to be used properly so 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:25.160 I had to you know be in contact with the multifamily properties made sure they 00:11:25.160 --> 00:11:29.840 locked them down so this picture is an older picture of our shoot lids and 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:33.680 locking bars the other ones are a little bit different however on these sides of 00:11:33.680 --> 00:11:36.760 these you can actually place a lock on there which makes sure that the shoot 00:11:36.760 --> 00:11:42.000 lid stays in place and the locking bar stays on top also with Denton ISD so 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:46.480 Denton ISD some properties off of or some campuses off of 380 had a lot of 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:50.840 illegal dumping and along with that it made it difficult for the collection of 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:57.040 those containers as trash etc so with Denton ISD they were also outfitted with 00:11:57.040 --> 00:12:00.020 some shoot lids and locking bars and they were able to see great success 00:12:00.020 --> 00:12:06.440 through that as well we've seen such success with the shoot lid and locking 00:12:06.440 --> 00:12:11.360 bars that Pratt has offered to start sponsoring them for our commercial 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:15.480 businesses in the new year just really great not only that we've spoken at a 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:19.220 few conferences and other cities are wanting to do what we're doing with our 00:12:19.220 --> 00:12:22.720 shoot lids and locking bars they're asking for our powerpoints they're 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:26.120 asking for our vendors because they want to know how they can implement it 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:30.080 there's even a Murph that's down in Austin who reached out to us and wants 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:33.000 to know exactly what we're doing because they want to sponsor that for their 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:37.280 cities so we thought that was really cool just us little old Denton inspiring 00:12:37.280 --> 00:12:42.400 some people down in Austin so and a little bit more information about the 00:12:42.400 --> 00:12:47.680 multifamily pilot so we had those shoot lids and locking bars in place and we 00:12:47.680 --> 00:12:53.680 tracked them for two months so the starting contamination when all of those 00:12:53.680 --> 00:12:59.360 multifamilies were ran on their own route the contamination rate was 64% so 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:05.120 that means that 64% of the material was considered trash and diverted so through 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:11.080 this graph you can see that we can start at the bottom which is gross tons so 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:14.960 gross tons decreased during that time which means those physical controls 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:19.800 allowed for less material to be placed into the containers that is a good thing 00:13:19.800 --> 00:13:23.640 because that means that a lot of that material may not have been programmatic 00:13:23.640 --> 00:13:29.160 may not have been part of our program and therefore considered trash so this 00:13:29.160 --> 00:13:34.880 container right here you can kind of see the before that is a multifamily that's 00:13:34.880 --> 00:13:39.040 over by UNT it needs to get filled all the way to the top with donation items it 00:13:39.040 --> 00:13:44.200 would be filled with canned food with clothing with pots and pans I used to 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:47.320 find someone always digging in there looking for what they could add to their 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:52.440 collection so when that shoot lid and locking bar got placed you can see the 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:56.360 after picture where it's not even full all the way the container actually has 00:13:56.360 --> 00:14:03.040 more programmatic material it is not perfect but it is a lot better than how 00:14:03.040 --> 00:14:09.760 it was before so because of the physical controls we did have less tons in our 00:14:09.760 --> 00:14:14.320 recycling containers but you can see at the top that we increase the net time so 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:17.080 the if there was an increase in the material that was actually getting 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:20.600 recycled which is what we wanted and overall we were able to decrease 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:25.360 contamination so at the beginning of the pilot it was those multifamily families 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:30.000 were running at 64% at the end of the multifamily pilot they were running at 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:36.520 39% and before you leave I think this is a good spot for us to ask any questions 00:14:36.520 --> 00:14:41.720 about multifamily before the ISD questions come up do you have any about what we've 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:47.440 seen so far Brian go ahead I'm so proud of you guys this is an amazing really 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:50.680 holistic program I'm like I can just like see you getting so happy about all the 00:14:50.680 --> 00:14:55.320 data you guys have um which I'm sure speaks a lot to how much effort you put 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:59.000 into it I'm just curious with the multifamilies particularly looking at 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:02.240 the move in with that period for August do you think that those lock and bars 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:06.280 will have the same effect whenever people are attempting to put in a lot 00:15:06.280 --> 00:15:10.480 more non-typical material in bins or is that what is your projection for that 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:14.040 period so um the chute lids and locking bars have a place for you to place a 00:15:14.040 --> 00:15:19.120 lock on them we've noticed that if the lock is on the container it works so 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:23.200 before that you know these containers didn't have anything any kind of physical 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:27.760 control on them so we're really hoping is that if these multifamilies get a 00:15:27.760 --> 00:15:31.060 chute lid and locking bar in place they put a physical lock on there and they 00:15:31.060 --> 00:15:34.400 maintain it during move in and move out because that'll keep a lot of the debris 00:15:34.400 --> 00:15:38.120 out of it there are some multifamilies that you know they get their locks 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:42.440 stolen you know an employee removes a lock for whatever reason and you'll see 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:46.240 them get overflowing with with mattresses with construction demolition 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:50.080 the illegal dumping returns but when it's actually locked that's when it 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:55.200 works best so we've been able to see a lot of improvement in that from that 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:59.120 material not even entering the recycling stream if it's in place if it's locked 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:04.420 down it works if it's not then that's what makes it difficult 00:16:04.420 --> 00:16:15.080 I'm one comment I'm just curious yes there are a lot of multifamily units 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:24.000 coming do we have an estimation of data like how much each complex I guess 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:30.720 depending on such average adds to the landfill in tons and I'm just I mean are 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:34.800 we looking at that trying to make sure that we do a lot of diversion I mean 00:16:34.800 --> 00:16:39.760 there's hundreds and hundreds of units coming I think that our comprehensive 00:16:39.760 --> 00:16:44.280 solid waste management strategy is going to bring a lot of opportunities for us 00:16:44.280 --> 00:16:48.760 to divert more material especially from commercial businesses even possibly 00:16:48.760 --> 00:16:53.760 looking at a way to have some kind of ordinance where we require commercial 00:16:53.760 --> 00:16:57.440 businesses to divert I mean that may come from that is going to come from 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:02.080 the comprehensive solid waste management strategy so I'm sure that we were 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:04.920 already looking at that and that's something that we're anticipating because 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:09.360 because of the growth of them because yeah you're right all of the city all of 00:17:09.360 --> 00:17:13.920 the multifamilies that I'm going to you a lot of them are doing you know 700 500 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:17.520 plus units they're having four recycling containers on site they're having four 00:17:17.520 --> 00:17:21.760 trash containers on site so it's ensuring that if they're you know 00:17:21.760 --> 00:17:26.840 building a new multifamily that there they have proper location for for both 00:17:26.840 --> 00:17:33.440 for a recycling and a trash container thank you and Fran just one more thing on 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:37.640 your question about move-in move-out there's a usually a huge push to get 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:43.280 additional containers during move-in move-out so large cardboard things like 00:17:43.280 --> 00:17:56.480 that go into those and then if not then we can divert them to North Lakes we can send them to the landfill to recycle those cardboard parts cardboard items thank you so much 00:17:56.480 --> 00:18:06.200 hand it over to my partner so y'all ever see good afternoon community rivers y'all 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:10.200 ever see a movie stepbrothers yes okay yeah well this is like to Lisa and I 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:14.840 got bunk beds back at the office so we used to actually share an office but now 00:18:14.840 --> 00:18:20.800 we got our own so but as you can see like recycling education is so important 00:18:20.800 --> 00:18:24.360 because there's so many different types of people that live here in Denton and 00:18:24.360 --> 00:18:29.120 so many different ways that we need to communicate this important message in the 00:18:29.120 --> 00:18:35.280 DFW area there's not a single city that has the exact same recycling program with 00:18:35.280 --> 00:18:42.640 how you bag it what they take anywhere in DFW so recycling can oftentimes be a 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:47.000 mystery or let you listen mention people are moving from Seattle out of state or 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:51.600 even from a different city and they come into it's into our system and we have to 00:18:51.600 --> 00:18:54.720 make sure that they understand what they can and can't recycle even if they think 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:58.080 they're the best at it because there's always going to be the one thing that 00:18:58.080 --> 00:19:04.200 they don't know that has changed or that we can or cannot accept so I am what my 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:08.160 name is Kim Jennings and I am the second waste reductions programs coordinator 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:12.640 and I mirror to Lisa in her recycling education and outreach efforts but I 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:18.680 focus on the DISD school campuses and the Denton sustainable schools program so 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:24.520 I focus mostly with most of the kids which I love kids because they're great 00:19:24.520 --> 00:19:32.200 and in my opinion they are the gateway to change any type of organizational 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:35.920 change that you want to see you have to start with the kids and I know I say this 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:40.000 at every single meeting but like our future is bright these kids are excited 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:44.400 about the environment they're excited about recycling and they're excited 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:48.520 about what they can do to make a difference and I couldn't be happier 00:19:48.520 --> 00:19:53.440 about having an opportunity to work with them in this capacity today I want to 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:59.360 speak a little bit about the background of the recycling education in Denton for 00:19:59.360 --> 00:20:03.540 the schools audits and contamination some of the outreach resources and 00:20:03.540 --> 00:20:07.920 collaboration that we have and some singly challenges that we have with the 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:16.960 dense label schools program so fun fun and more fun some background on the 00:20:16.960 --> 00:20:22.000 dense single schools program so we as you all know we had coded my position 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:26.320 was actually vacant for for about two years the program wasn't doing much with 00:20:26.320 --> 00:20:31.040 everything shut down weren't able to get to the schools like we wanted and the 00:20:31.040 --> 00:20:37.920 first week yes the first week that I was here solid waste ran a route with 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:43.440 nothing but the IC campuses on it it's a commercial their commercial accounts so 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:46.880 they're usually mixed in with others so they just did one they collected nine 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:53.960 tons for some campuses and a 90% contamination rate so it really just goes 00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:57.600 to show you that if you leave something untouched you don't educate you don't 00:20:57.600 --> 00:21:02.520 reach out you don't check you're gonna report you so there was a lot of illegal 00:21:02.520 --> 00:21:07.720 dumping there was sort of a free-for-all during during coded but since we've had 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:11.240 restrictions lifted and were able to actually get back into the schools and 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:15.560 make those connections we've seen great success in trying to get that 00:21:15.560 --> 00:21:20.120 contamination along with some physical controls so the dense single schools 00:21:20.120 --> 00:21:24.440 program it follows it focuses on recycling we have like if you want to 00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:27.840 say like solar system why we've got recycling at the heart of it because 00:21:27.840 --> 00:21:31.120 it's what those kids can actually do and they have it at home they have it at 00:21:31.120 --> 00:21:36.120 school and it's one of the best ways that we can reach out to them for them 00:21:36.120 --> 00:21:40.480 to make a difference in their own community but it mirrors so the same 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:44.320 worse so we cover you know transportation electricity environmental 00:21:44.320 --> 00:21:48.040 issues everything but we kind of try to circle and tie it back around to to 00:21:48.040 --> 00:21:52.280 recycling so I know I said this but we meet these kids where they are we're not 00:21:52.280 --> 00:21:56.040 just going into the schools we're also going into like rec centers after school 00:21:56.040 --> 00:22:01.360 programs going to going to churches this is at MLK Center so we do recycling 00:22:01.360 --> 00:22:06.640 relays the kids love love love the the big trucks and they like they like 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:11.000 touching things like they see a big pile of trash every time every time we can be 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:15.240 a prep big pile of anything because we're like when can I jump in this like 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:20.160 they want an experience so if we can take recycling and bring it down to their 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:24.200 level bring it where they're at based on their age what excites them what 00:22:24.200 --> 00:22:28.560 interests them make it valuable for them to take home they're going to they're 00:22:28.560 --> 00:22:30.360 going to be happy they're going to remember something and then they're 00:22:30.360 --> 00:22:33.600 going to teach their friends and their parents and then that message is going 00:22:33.600 --> 00:22:37.880 to go from the ground up and go as high as we need it so that we can have that 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:45.720 change also we go out to to their campuses kids love trucks love love love 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:49.800 this was a one of the touch of trucks events so we go where the fun is we go 00:22:49.800 --> 00:22:54.120 where the kids are we go where we're invited and they always so like during 00:22:54.120 --> 00:22:57.440 COVID and I know you'll probably hear this story but I'll tell you this one my 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:01.400 favorite ones I always like to be like the favorite of anything so y'all think 00:23:01.400 --> 00:23:07.320 like I'm a favorite but so during COVID like the kids are at home right and the 00:23:07.320 --> 00:23:11.120 excitement that they have is like the trash truck or the mailman trash truck 00:23:11.120 --> 00:23:16.000 is awesome it's loud he's always there there's like movement there's clanging 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:19.560 and so they would get excited every time they would see this and so a kid do not 00:23:19.560 --> 00:23:23.000 the kids are excited about a trash truck they will go to the trash truck for the 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:29.000 fire truck they think it's amazing so I see that there's value and not only 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:33.360 bringing the recycling education but the tools that we use so when we go to some 00:23:33.360 --> 00:23:37.640 of these career days our drivers are there and they're there you know talk 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:40.560 they're speaking with the students they're showing them that we have 00:23:40.560 --> 00:23:44.720 technology that we use they have an iPad for a smart routing system so these 00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:48.240 kids are seeing that hey like these you know these workers aren't just like 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:51.280 dealing with trash they have to know technology they have to know how to drive 00:23:51.280 --> 00:23:54.560 look at all these buttons like this is this is high-tech this is more than just 00:23:54.560 --> 00:24:01.440 you know recycling or taking out the trash of the curb so Julissa mentioned 00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:06.320 on this we had a 90% contamination rate so this is LeBron this is just one 00:24:06.320 --> 00:24:11.120 example of what we would see you know it's a school depending on the 00:24:11.120 --> 00:24:15.720 placement of where the container is where the school is actually located this 00:24:15.720 --> 00:24:21.320 one had always a lot of construction material and it wasn't like the school 00:24:21.320 --> 00:24:24.540 was under construction areas around it were under construction so you would see 00:24:24.540 --> 00:24:29.040 a lot of stuff from community illegal dumping and then with the success of the 00:24:29.040 --> 00:24:34.960 multi-family pilot we decided let's try we did not shoot far we did lock all of 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:38.120 the all of the containers up we just picked some of the select ones that were 00:24:38.120 --> 00:24:42.960 in the ETJ and then a few that were on the interior that that were really 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:47.040 contaminated on a consistent basis this is the same unless we put that lid and a 00:24:47.040 --> 00:24:50.400 locking bar in there because you can't fit a pallet you can't fit and can't 00:24:50.400 --> 00:24:58.000 fit wood in there you can't put proper materials in there so outreach resources 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:02.960 and collaboration so we talked about we talked about Pratt so these two pictures 00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:08.520 we work we work with practice set up recycling tours so it could be home 00:25:08.520 --> 00:25:14.000 school groups it could be UNT TWU it could be any outside organization 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:18.280 anyone that wants to do a tour and come and see where your materials that are 00:25:18.280 --> 00:25:22.680 from your home what actually happens to them like right in front of your very 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:28.200 eyes we encourage you to set the tour with us and you can come view Pratt and 00:25:28.200 --> 00:25:32.880 they're a great partner this is just an example we can do this as y'all want to 00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:36.120 but I always do with the little kids we do like recycle dance parties so we 00:25:36.120 --> 00:25:40.800 bring us some music we get some lights going they dance around we try to have 00:25:40.800 --> 00:25:45.000 them take recycling from different perspectives so like we'll first 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:49.520 introduce you know like read a book just like read a book sit down read a book 00:25:49.520 --> 00:25:52.240 with them and they kind of like pull some information like why is this 00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:56.760 important why is this important to you and then show them you know take them to 00:25:56.760 --> 00:25:59.880 the viewing area where they can actually see the sorting equipment moving they 00:25:59.880 --> 00:26:05.240 can actually smell it it's very it's very loud and there's lots of things going on 00:26:05.240 --> 00:26:10.040 the sounds so you can hit this from so many different angles depending on which 00:26:10.040 --> 00:26:14.360 group you have you can hit it from you know the recycling perspective you can 00:26:14.360 --> 00:26:17.480 talk about commodities you can talk about jobs talk about safety talk about 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:21.740 community you talk about partnerships you can talk about so many things to 00:26:21.740 --> 00:26:26.120 connect it back to recycling and what they can do so a lot of times like 00:26:26.120 --> 00:26:30.280 you'll have kids well I'm not really that interested you know I don't really 00:26:30.280 --> 00:26:34.320 want to do like you know a green job but I'll tell you what I want to be a 00:26:34.320 --> 00:26:39.600 businessman I want to be a lawyer tell you you know what great amazing you know 00:26:39.600 --> 00:26:44.040 why because organizations need people that have marketing skills that have 00:26:44.040 --> 00:26:48.360 business skills that have an awareness of a lot there's so many ways that you 00:26:48.360 --> 00:26:53.840 can tie their life back to recycling back to making a difference by just 00:26:53.840 --> 00:26:58.440 showing them in real life what jobs are out there what opportunities are there 00:26:58.440 --> 00:27:03.640 so this was you know talking about meeting students and people where they 00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:08.480 are this is this is guys guys to high school students their environmental 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:15.760 science and statistics statistics class and we went out and you know we talked 00:27:15.760 --> 00:27:18.520 about recycling for about a good hour and a half and then we actually went out 00:27:18.520 --> 00:27:22.000 and looked at their bins they want to know what's in there they're highly 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:26.720 interested and so it's just a good way if you don't know what you have how can 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:30.920 you ever improve if you just assume that you're doing it right while you know 00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:36.600 while out doing these audits a lot of times I run into DISD like cafeteria 00:27:36.600 --> 00:27:40.080 or janitorial stuff and a lot of times they're just like taking a box out or 00:27:40.080 --> 00:27:43.960 taking a load out and I'm like I always like you know applaud them like hey great 00:27:43.960 --> 00:27:47.840 job that good job on the box like how's your day going if there's a lock bar and 00:27:47.840 --> 00:27:51.000 chute lid I have some pain we think about these lids a lot of times they're like 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:55.360 well it's kind of a pain because you know it's locked but we don't have all 00:27:55.360 --> 00:27:58.360 this extra stuff in there and it's not completely overflowing so I can actually 00:27:58.360 --> 00:28:03.280 use it so it's just a really good time to organically meet with members of the 00:28:03.280 --> 00:28:06.760 community and just sort of just try them up see how their day is going it makes a 00:28:06.760 --> 00:28:10.680 difference when they know that there's someone out there that cares and that's 00:28:10.680 --> 00:28:15.680 watching and that's applauding when they're doing it right too. So we have 00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:19.920 recycling audits and sustainability challenges with the sustainable schools 00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:24.520 program so the schools so continuously like we're always out doing audits 00:28:24.520 --> 00:28:27.880 whether it's the drivers flagging their containers that are on their campus or 00:28:27.880 --> 00:28:30.920 whether it's when I'm actually physically going to their campus and 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:34.640 performing the audits myself the schools are actually doing their own audits and 00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:40.200 we have a recycling audit challenge it's a form that they fill out I go to the 00:28:40.200 --> 00:28:44.560 school I train the students that are there that are performing the audit I 00:28:44.560 --> 00:28:48.600 work with this with the teachers the staff show them how to do the audit we 00:28:48.600 --> 00:28:51.560 have a whole thing that we go through and then the kids go out and they do one 00:28:51.560 --> 00:28:55.840 and we're quantifying the amount of audits as one of the challenges that 00:28:55.840 --> 00:29:00.200 they can earn environmental awards for we also have sustainability challenges 00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:03.960 which is the same an example of sustainability challenges would be 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:08.440 anything like here they are planting a garden so just things that they can do 00:29:08.440 --> 00:29:12.280 that tie back to the environment but we have one specifically targeted just for 00:29:12.280 --> 00:29:17.080 recycling because it was so important that we get that message across that they 00:29:17.080 --> 00:29:20.560 understand what they can and can't do and it's fun because like these students 00:29:20.560 --> 00:29:23.360 they're doing it regularly they're like okay like every Friday we're going to do 00:29:23.360 --> 00:29:27.320 our audits and so they're going to go you know they're going to go look and see 00:29:27.320 --> 00:29:32.640 what are what's under the end have some education and outreach highlights I 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:36.920 Jalisha touched on this we were invited to speak at Texwana the Lone Star 00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:40.400 chapter of the Solid Waste Association of North America and then a few weeks ago 00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:44.400 we went to the state of Texas Alliance for Recycling we were asked to present 00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:49.200 in their education track there and that was really interesting because you have 00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:52.300 a lot of local governments that go there and I love hearing about what other 00:29:52.300 --> 00:29:55.320 local governments are doing and like Jalisha said like every single time 00:29:55.320 --> 00:29:58.280 afterwards they pull us aside they're like hey what about this and this if you 00:29:58.280 --> 00:30:02.120 tried this or you know give us your presentation we want to implement some 00:30:02.120 --> 00:30:06.000 of these things so it's really cool to to like kind of see what everyone else 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:09.920 is doing and then take some of their ideas and just share all of that 00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:16.400 speaking of sharing we were also awarded the exceptional recycling partnership 00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:20.840 award and that was with Pratt Industries I can't we can't speak enough about how 00:30:20.840 --> 00:30:24.600 closely we work with Pratt with solid waste and recycling department with 00:30:24.600 --> 00:30:27.960 sustainability department we are in their education room so we coordinate with 00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:31.920 them hey can we borrow your room they want to do upgrades to the room they are 00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:37.200 very helpful in working with us with that we have meetings with them to 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:40.120 determine like what types of items are we seeing we're seeing sharps we're 00:30:40.120 --> 00:30:43.480 seeing diapers so that we can kind of target which neighborhoods or which 00:30:43.480 --> 00:30:47.560 areas that Julie's going to do for her mailers so they're instrumental and 00:30:47.560 --> 00:30:54.400 having us providing us more detailed information of how we can track and who 00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:58.840 we can reach out to and communicate which message it's just sending out the 00:30:58.840 --> 00:31:04.200 same message to like random people is completely ineffective you really have 00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:08.440 to segment your population and speak to them on what is important to them and 00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:11.840 what's valuable and how they're specifically contributing so that you 00:31:11.840 --> 00:31:16.800 can create that change that you want and we also received outstanding public 00:31:16.800 --> 00:31:23.280 outreach honorable mention next year we're going to take it down but again 00:31:23.280 --> 00:31:28.960 they plan was highly deserving of your work and Zach allegedly is smiling and that 00:31:28.960 --> 00:31:36.400 picture is his happiness yes our partner with Pratt so it's you know it's just 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:41.560 there it's a great partnership that we have and we're always always talking 00:31:41.560 --> 00:31:46.680 with each other here are just for those of you who really like numbers some 00:31:46.680 --> 00:31:49.960 outreach metrics numbers and for you get really excited when you see that 00:31:49.960 --> 00:31:56.960 324,906 in Denton's only what 151,000 that doesn't mean we've met every single 00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:04.200 person more than once so just as an example our targeted next door our 00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:10.000 targeted mailers and our bill stuffers those could be the same person so if you 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:14.960 have an account you're gonna get you're gonna get targeted if you are on one of 00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:19.600 the highest contaminated routes for that month you're gonna get targeted there 00:32:19.600 --> 00:32:24.840 so you may receive you may receive a message three or four or five or six 00:32:24.840 --> 00:32:29.120 times whereas another person may only receive one and they may be seeing might 00:32:29.120 --> 00:32:34.160 be receiving you know different types of messages which is which is intentional 00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:38.280 but we really try to do a lot of different ways to reach out whether it's 00:32:38.280 --> 00:32:43.960 through the audits with our residential cart tagging which is incredible because 00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:49.280 that's just with two interns that they're able to make it interesting so 00:32:49.280 --> 00:32:52.520 like kind of like tying it all together so Jalisa and I could be a bit like 00:32:52.520 --> 00:32:55.560 national night out right so we have our recycling table and we're talking with 00:32:55.560 --> 00:32:58.680 people we have activities for the kids to do so the parents come and they have 00:32:58.680 --> 00:33:01.160 to stay and talk to them because they can't leave because the kids are like 00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:07.880 you know and this lady comes by and she's like oh I know you like oh hi and 00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:12.640 she's like you target you tap my part I'm like okay so then we have this 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:17.840 organic conversation about why her cart was tag and what was in it and she was 00:33:17.840 --> 00:33:22.280 a little upset because she kept getting tagged and I was like what we put in there and so we 00:33:22.280 --> 00:33:25.560 had this whole conversation and then her she brought her friends over just like 00:33:25.560 --> 00:33:29.600 these people have tagged my cart so then we got to reach all of them and tie it 00:33:29.600 --> 00:33:33.960 all together took a picture with her so now like she thinks it's up she thinks 00:33:33.960 --> 00:33:38.520 it's okay it is okay but just meeting people and having that one-on-one 00:33:38.520 --> 00:33:43.040 explanation when you see them that it's not just a sticker it's not just someone 00:33:43.040 --> 00:34:12.400 slapping your hand that there's a reason like they're fine with it so I was being able to go out in the community and see some of these spaces over and over or have them at you know ask questions that just you know randomly calling a number like a real life person is super super helpful so with the Denton ISD for this 2021-22 fiscal year I did 1,165 audits on the DIC campuses commercial did 546 00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:17.600 multifamily had almost 400 our community engagement we tried to work with the 00:34:17.600 --> 00:34:21.760 community whether it's through social media or doing live events you see the 00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:25.120 numbers there and then again our targeted messaging that we try we're 00:34:25.120 --> 00:34:29.640 always looking for new opportunities and new outlets and new partnerships so that 00:34:29.640 --> 00:34:35.080 we can expand our reach and meet people in different ways however you know we 00:34:35.080 --> 00:34:41.680 can best do it but yeah we've been busy and we look forward to you know going 00:34:41.680 --> 00:34:46.120 out to more events and increasing our reach and being creative and how we 00:34:46.120 --> 00:34:51.840 target and how we message and moving forward as more and more restrictions 00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:58.800 and I'll see each other now are lifted and just working with them with the 00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:08.160 recycling I will take any questions that you have for me questions about all the 00:35:08.160 --> 00:35:16.120 DSD schools involved in this or just select few so all of the DSD campuses 00:35:16.120 --> 00:35:21.600 have have recycling on on the campus they are not required to be a part of 00:35:21.600 --> 00:35:26.600 the dense in the schools program we hope that they all will it's a it's a it's a 00:35:26.600 --> 00:35:30.520 program that they have the opportunity to be a part of that it is not not a 00:35:30.520 --> 00:35:35.080 requirement how many are in the program so currently right now we have seven 00:35:35.080 --> 00:35:41.240 that are registered yes and how many schools are there right now I believe 00:35:41.240 --> 00:35:49.320 there are 43 campuses yes do you think I think we talked a little bit about this 00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:56.600 last meeting of going before the school district's trustees and presenting this 00:35:56.600 --> 00:36:00.800 to them to see if get a wider expanse in it within the district yes I know if 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:06.480 that's plausible yes I agree and you know when I've been speaking with you 00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:09.720 know some some of the campuses because like they'll have interest and I'm okay 00:36:09.720 --> 00:36:13.560 so you know what you know what's preventing you from doing it like well 00:36:13.560 --> 00:36:16.480 our staff is stretched to them we don't have enough time we don't want to be 00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:21.360 it cannot commit to it at this time and so we're trying to make it to where it's 00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:26.680 it is easy and it isn't a huge time commitment but those are just some of 00:36:26.680 --> 00:36:29.880 the some of the concerns a lot of the schools in the past that didn't have 00:36:29.880 --> 00:36:34.360 green teams no longer have green teams a lot of their extracurricular stuff like 00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:41.520 that has has unfortunately been more restrictive just since coded but we're 00:36:41.520 --> 00:36:46.840 hoping that plus when the program was dormant for a while we hope that we're 00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:51.240 going to continue to grow and get interest with it we just this is an 00:36:51.240 --> 00:36:56.200 interesting one so again get an ISD virtual academy we're working with them 00:36:56.200 --> 00:37:01.400 so that will be fun to try to because everything they do is virtual to do a 00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:06.920 spin on it like that so you know just trying to be creative and you know show 00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:10.000 that there's there's value in the program we hope they participate but it 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:15.080 is an often program thank you question you know just congratulations you guys 00:37:15.080 --> 00:37:18.440 y'all make me so excited like even just hearing you talk it's just a lot of 00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:22.040 energy and congratulations on the awards and the really really amazing 00:37:22.040 --> 00:37:31.520 programs I have a question in our couple of shirts so on the green teams I know 00:37:31.520 --> 00:37:36.240 at one point a while ago like the principals used to kind of give 00:37:36.240 --> 00:37:42.840 incentives to the teachers like you know you can have gene passes or you know and 00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:47.800 I know at one point we used to give awards like for competitions like 00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:52.400 monetary awards to teachers for their classrooms and I don't know if that 00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:56.120 helped I know we don't do that anymore I don't know if that was something that 00:37:56.120 --> 00:38:04.400 helped maybe we could think about with our fun and then on when you said read a 00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:08.840 book and with your energy and excitement it popped into my head out you may 00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:13.920 already do this but partnership with the library yes do you do recycling days 00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:20.240 like the yes yes ma'am we have November I have to look my calendar but in November yes we have a 00:38:20.240 --> 00:38:24.360 recycling program over at South Branch and then we have some in the spring 00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:27.960 lined up for South Branch and North Branch and recycling thing yeah we're 00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:32.160 gonna bring in that parachutes yeah that'll be so much fun they're gonna love 00:38:32.160 --> 00:38:38.000 it yes ma'am and Zach is great at Pratt and just a comment like I'm sure the 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:41.960 better the more successful we are the more successful they are so it's a 00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:47.960 really great partnership it there was a it was interesting so at STAR like even 00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:51.800 when they feed you their speakers going so you cannot leave like you are you 00:38:51.800 --> 00:38:58.360 are learning about recycling all the time and Pratt had a presentation we did not 00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:03.880 share our presentations ahead of time and it was Denton Denton Denton Denton 00:39:03.880 --> 00:39:08.640 throughout the presentation talking about like what Denton does and it was 00:39:08.640 --> 00:39:12.360 really incredible to hear that because I didn't even know he was going to say 00:39:12.360 --> 00:39:16.560 that in our presentations we heard each other on a lot of aspects so y'all 00:39:16.560 --> 00:39:19.800 should have been proud I was proud I wanted to like we were fist bumping each 00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:24.800 other like it was cool to be a bit well I love your energy about recycling and 00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:31.560 it's infectious and I want to congratulate you on on that and I have 00:39:31.560 --> 00:39:38.520 a just one last question budget like on the mailers and is that part of the 00:39:38.520 --> 00:39:44.280 the sustainability budget or is that your own separate so we have a transfer 00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:49.120 from solid waste that covers their recycling public outreach so they have 00:39:49.120 --> 00:39:54.320 their own substantial money yeah we're going to be trying some new 00:39:54.320 --> 00:40:00.880 marketing advertising we will have a new movie theater app coming out here on 00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:10.800 holidays we're trying billboard to see what we can reach that way so we're 00:40:10.800 --> 00:40:14.680 going to try some different things at different time frames and see how that 00:40:14.680 --> 00:40:19.840 reach may look and then Kim has one piece that wasn't confirmed whatever this 00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:23.760 presentation was put together but I don't know she wants to do a soft 00:40:23.760 --> 00:40:35.720 announcement about the new exciting okay so so so so we are working on doing a 00:40:35.720 --> 00:40:44.400 formalized promotional push out of this but you want to know go to go to our 00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:48.720 website where waste wizard is when you go to where the waste wizard I think 00:40:48.720 --> 00:40:54.520 that recycle calm you can go and has like game play the game and there is a 00:40:54.520 --> 00:41:01.160 ready set recycle game that is like Denton specific as Denton theme all the 00:41:01.160 --> 00:41:05.600 way through and so you can sort items and you'll tell you like it needs to go 00:41:05.600 --> 00:41:10.160 to home chemical collection the landfill doesn't need to be recycled it's a 00:41:10.160 --> 00:41:15.520 trash as a yard waste and so it's different levels and then once you 00:41:15.520 --> 00:41:18.600 complete all the levels well actually once you complete one level you get 00:41:18.600 --> 00:41:26.520 to build a park and so that's fun like yes and I play it and it's fun and our 00:41:26.520 --> 00:41:29.880 customer service over it's always recycling they've been like kind of 00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:34.080 pushing it it just it just launched and they said that they really like it 00:41:34.080 --> 00:41:37.040 we're getting a lot of good feedback on it but it's great for kids my nephew so 00:41:37.040 --> 00:41:41.760 he played it he sort of like where you like 193 items he just kept playing like 00:41:41.760 --> 00:41:45.960 he wouldn't end the game because he was like I want to see how many things I can 00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:51.800 put in this park okay you go for it so it's cool because it has this denting 00:41:51.800 --> 00:42:01.880 and so you'll see well that's great for the waste reductions and that is a 00:42:01.880 --> 00:42:10.520 certificate at the end that's fantastic thank you everybody yeah yeah first let 00:42:10.520 --> 00:42:16.280 me just congratulate you know for the job that you were doing numbers numbers 00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:22.720 guys great in terms of training right direction if it goes to one of the 00:42:22.720 --> 00:42:30.280 challenges I agree with you the next generation is needs to be our major 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:44.280 focus from the area of challenges it's impossible well let me say this every 00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:47.680 second grade teacher lives in my house with me my daughter and so I have 00:42:47.680 --> 00:42:52.160 approached her from give me the reality of what's happening in the schools as 00:42:52.160 --> 00:43:00.880 it relates to this and we really don't have time to focus so my question would 00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:07.400 be can we look at possibly connecting this to steam curriculum science 00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:13.040 technology engineering math perspective can we if we can get it into curriculum 00:43:13.040 --> 00:43:17.240 because that's what she's telling this is where our focus has to be what the 00:43:17.240 --> 00:43:22.460 district is saying the kids need to learn is there a possibility or any 00:43:22.460 --> 00:43:27.800 conversations can we get to the curriculum managers for the district and 00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:32.680 see how we might tie this in from a steam perspective that's what's driving 00:43:32.680 --> 00:43:37.840 education so we've been in contact I'm not sure if y'all are familiar with 00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:43.120 the organizing called eco rise they work with a lot of municipalities they have a 00:43:43.120 --> 00:43:47.480 full-blown curriculum that covers many aspects of sustainability but they also 00:43:47.480 --> 00:43:53.960 have a recycling specific it is teak's specific it has all the things that you 00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:57.920 need for it and we're working with them to see if this is a partnership that we 00:43:57.920 --> 00:44:02.000 can possibly look into moving forward when we provide curriculum that crosses 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:05.840 your eyes without your teeth and is able to be used in the school so it's not 00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:09.800 something additional it becomes something that's useful and portrays the 00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:15.280 correct messaging so we are looking at from the curriculum base if that's how 00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:19.720 we can attack it because we haven't tried I'm not sure if we tried that I 00:44:19.720 --> 00:44:23.800 have not tried that yet so I'm like I don't I like trying new things we can 00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:26.760 see if this is going to be something that will work but we are working we're 00:44:26.760 --> 00:44:30.520 looking we're researching that as a possibility and they do what's 00:44:30.520 --> 00:44:35.800 encouraging is they do work with other municipalities similar to our size 00:44:35.800 --> 00:44:39.720 like San Antonio and Austin with that curriculum so I think it's something we might 00:44:39.720 --> 00:44:44.760 could could be a potential bonus for us and they've been successful with that 00:44:44.760 --> 00:44:52.760 curriculum in Texas it's been approved in Texas so it should be an easier sell to get it into the classrooms. 00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:58.280 I would like to see that number of seven of forty three participating and it's 00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:03.080 almost going to be we've got it incorporated into the required learning in 00:45:03.080 --> 00:45:10.600 order to get you teachers to buy in. Thank you very much. Thank you all right we 00:45:10.600 --> 00:45:18.120 will move on to item B back up to our order here receive a report hold a 00:45:18.120 --> 00:45:23.960 discussion and provide staff direction regarding the fiscal year 2022 2023 00:45:23.960 --> 00:45:27.960 sustainability framework fund work plan. 00:45:33.080 --> 00:45:35.960 Let's see. 00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:54.760 So Kaplan Burnett Sustainability Manager and today just wanted to bring back what 00:45:54.760 --> 00:45:58.360 we've talked about the last few meetings for the sustainability framework plan 00:45:58.360 --> 00:46:08.120 work plan for 2022-23 we incorporated that into a new framework fund work plan 00:46:08.120 --> 00:46:14.200 document that is part of your backup to review and then we will be considering a 00:46:14.200 --> 00:46:21.560 recommendation to City Council of this work plan. As we discussed in our 00:46:21.560 --> 00:46:29.000 previous meetings we wanted to identify priorities they're broken up by focus 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:35.240 area in the work plan we have multiple projects in each focus area so that if 00:46:35.240 --> 00:46:41.400 we have something that may not unfold as expected we can reallocate funds to 00:46:41.400 --> 00:46:46.360 another project that's under that same focus area so there are funded and 00:46:46.360 --> 00:46:54.360 unfunded items in each of the focus areas in that work plan. The funding 00:46:54.360 --> 00:46:58.760 amounts identified in our planner estimates and the projects are preferred 00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:03.240 options that we will implement according to the camera guidelines and that the 00:47:03.240 --> 00:47:07.800 funds may be adjusted among priorities as opportunities arise is probably the 00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:12.360 key piece that we will have flexibility within that work plan. 00:47:16.840 --> 00:47:21.320 And I do have a document here I don't have it pulled up on the screen but if 00:47:21.320 --> 00:47:24.840 there were any questions about the document. 00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:29.000 I didn't have any. Did y'all have any questions about the document? We kind of 00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:34.600 pretty much discussed it. There's no changes from our last 00:47:34.600 --> 00:47:39.960 discussion. No we just put it into the the document that could go to council 00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:43.080 for review and approval. And added the flexibility. Added the 00:47:43.080 --> 00:47:54.280 flexibility. Sounds good. So do we need to vote on that or? This one is an action item. 00:47:54.280 --> 00:47:59.960 This one is an action item to recommend to city council recommend the work plan 00:47:59.960 --> 00:48:05.720 to city council. We'll go ahead and do that just in case just because it's fun. 00:48:05.720 --> 00:48:28.040 Do I have a motion to recommend? I so move. All right so we will move on to item C. 00:48:28.040 --> 00:48:33.160 Receive a report, hold a discussion, and give staff feedback on the expanded 2019 00:48:33.160 --> 00:48:36.840 inventory of community and government operations 00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:41.640 greenhouse gas emissions report. That's JT. 00:48:41.640 --> 00:48:45.560 All right good afternoon committee members. James Douglas, goodbye JT, 00:48:45.560 --> 00:48:49.320 conservation programs coordinator. So here today to present 00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:52.760 the updated 2019 inventory of greenhouse gas emissions. 00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:56.520 Some of you may know that we previously had a 2019 inventory. 00:48:56.520 --> 00:49:00.920 So we took advantage of an opportunity and a regional push 00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:04.920 for collaboration. And we've spent the last year expanding our data, 00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:09.160 refining our methods to create the more comprehensive document that you see here 00:49:09.160 --> 00:49:13.640 today. So we are going to get started with that. 00:49:13.640 --> 00:49:17.800 So a quick preview before we get started. 00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:22.600 So we're going to talk a little bit about why do a greenhouse gas inventory 00:49:22.600 --> 00:49:25.960 in the first place in our background. We'll talk about how 00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:30.280 does it fit into the larger picture of greenhouse gas management. 00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:33.400 We'll look at the regional effort a little bit more closely and I'll go into 00:49:33.400 --> 00:49:36.680 the details of the benefits and the final products of what that'll 00:49:36.680 --> 00:49:40.360 look like. From there we'll talk about the 00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:43.480 document itself. We'll go through the overview, the 00:49:43.480 --> 00:49:47.480 methodology, and of course the results. From there we'll talk about some next 00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:53.400 steps and what the inventory process is going to look like looking forward. 00:49:53.400 --> 00:49:58.200 So as I said before we dive into the report itself a little bit of why 00:49:58.200 --> 00:50:02.600 do an inventory in the first place. So Earth's climate is regulated by 00:50:02.600 --> 00:50:05.880 naturally occurring greenhouse gas emissions that trap heat or more 00:50:05.880 --> 00:50:09.480 accurately energy in Earth's atmosphere and that process is 00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:12.520 known as the greenhouse effect, hence the name. 00:50:12.520 --> 00:50:16.280 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC in their sixth 00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:19.160 assessment stated that human activities have caused an increase 00:50:19.160 --> 00:50:22.840 in atmospheric carbon and with that increase of course there's an increase 00:50:22.840 --> 00:50:27.320 in that heat trapping potential as well. This along with all of the subsequent 00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:30.920 impacts are what we collectively refer to as climate change. 00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:35.400 With that in mind local governments have started to take steps to address this 00:50:35.400 --> 00:50:39.160 and it's not just for the direct impacts of that but it's also for the 00:50:39.160 --> 00:50:42.520 co-benefits things like air quality and public health 00:50:42.520 --> 00:50:48.280 and that of course includes Denton. So on April 19th 2022 the Denton City Council 00:50:48.280 --> 00:50:52.760 with the recommendation of this body passed an ordinance 00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:56.120 outlining the importance of climate action setting that science-based target 00:50:56.120 --> 00:50:58.840 that we talked about and then also authorizing 00:50:58.840 --> 00:51:03.480 the creation of the climate action plan. When we talk about climate action I 00:51:03.480 --> 00:51:05.720 always like to highlight sort of the two sides of that 00:51:05.720 --> 00:51:09.720 mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation being 00:51:09.720 --> 00:51:13.160 reducing carbon emissions to slow the progression of climate change. 00:51:13.160 --> 00:51:17.720 Adaptation being making communities more resilient to changes that are already 00:51:17.720 --> 00:51:20.600 occurring and ones that are going to occur in the near future. 00:51:20.600 --> 00:51:24.600 Our conversation today is going to be purely in the mitigation category 00:51:24.600 --> 00:51:28.840 with the climate action plan coming about in the next year. 00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:32.520 They will be covering both mitigation adaptation and also equity 00:51:32.520 --> 00:51:36.360 within both of those but just kind of setting the stage for today that we'll be 00:51:36.360 --> 00:51:40.280 talking just in that mitigation category. 00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:44.840 All right so with that in mind I kind of want to talk about what is a 00:51:44.840 --> 00:51:48.200 greenhouse gas inventory at its most basic level. 00:51:48.200 --> 00:51:54.440 So most basic it's a snapshot a one-year time period. Basically the 00:51:54.440 --> 00:51:57.880 community's carbon footprint in that time period. 00:51:57.880 --> 00:52:02.680 What's important about the inventory itself is when you get multiple 00:52:02.680 --> 00:52:05.880 multiple years multiple snapshots you start to see a trend 00:52:05.880 --> 00:52:10.200 and that trend is really what we care about. So 00:52:10.200 --> 00:52:14.360 the trend itself can help us track what's going on from year to year and 00:52:14.360 --> 00:52:18.360 help us better make decisions in the future. 00:52:18.360 --> 00:52:22.600 So as you can imagine to develop a trend like that you need multiple 00:52:22.600 --> 00:52:28.760 inventories. That's why the graphic here that you see on the screen is a cycle. 00:52:28.760 --> 00:52:33.800 This is the ICLE local governments for sustainability five climate milestones. 00:52:33.800 --> 00:52:37.720 ICLE has been our partner in developing our greenhouse gas management program to 00:52:37.720 --> 00:52:41.960 what it is today for pretty much the last 10 years. 00:52:41.960 --> 00:52:46.120 And like I said as you can see this is a cycle with milestone one being the 00:52:46.120 --> 00:52:49.720 inventory itself. Milestone two establish a target which of 00:52:49.720 --> 00:52:53.160 course we have done and milestone three which is to develop the 00:52:53.160 --> 00:52:56.680 climate action plan which is where we are at currently. 00:52:56.680 --> 00:53:00.040 The reason that it's a cycle is because it's a constant feedback. You want to 00:53:00.040 --> 00:53:02.280 know you want to be able to check back in with 00:53:02.280 --> 00:53:04.920 an inventory to see how your progress is going. 00:53:04.920 --> 00:53:09.160 Is your climate action plan still relevant? What action items are working? 00:53:09.160 --> 00:53:12.360 Which ones are not or which ones may need more resources? 00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:16.280 And then you continue the cycle again make those changes 00:53:16.280 --> 00:53:20.920 as needed. Just a quick reminder of what our science-based target is. 00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:27.400 So that is 46.3 percent by 2030 and net zero by 2050. 00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:33.080 As promised I wanted to talk a little bit more about the regional effort here. 00:53:33.080 --> 00:53:37.160 So this effort was really born out of a partnership between the North Central 00:53:37.160 --> 00:53:41.400 Texas Council of Governments and CTCOG and the Rives Coalition which is 00:53:41.400 --> 00:53:44.120 the regional integration of sustainability efforts 00:53:44.120 --> 00:53:47.800 of which Catherine is the chair this year. 00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:52.200 And so for the COG this initiative was really born out of their air quality and 00:53:52.200 --> 00:53:55.880 transportation division because of the very large overlap 00:53:55.880 --> 00:53:59.960 between air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions in terms of sources. 00:53:59.960 --> 00:54:04.840 So for that group it was really something that they wanted to pursue. 00:54:04.840 --> 00:54:08.520 As you can see the participating cities are there on the right hand side. 00:54:08.520 --> 00:54:12.360 Now prior to this initiative only three cities in North Texas have completed a 00:54:12.360 --> 00:54:15.640 greenhouse gas inventory in the past and that was Dallas, 00:54:15.640 --> 00:54:20.760 Denham, and Plano. So with this it really brought more cities into the fold to 00:54:20.760 --> 00:54:25.160 create an inventory for the year 2019. So we were all sort of on that level 00:54:25.160 --> 00:54:28.120 playing field. In addition to that the COG is creating 00:54:28.120 --> 00:54:31.960 a 2019 inventory for the 16 county region as a whole 00:54:31.960 --> 00:54:35.320 whether that be within those participating cities or not it's that 00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:39.800 it's that entire geographic region. So some of the benefits from that are the 00:54:39.800 --> 00:54:42.600 regional collaboration and training. We all got to go through that training 00:54:42.600 --> 00:54:47.560 together. Everybody got on the same page. A lot of data sharing and methodology 00:54:47.560 --> 00:54:52.520 review which was really helpful at the regional level. Can't speak 00:54:52.520 --> 00:54:54.760 enough about the partnership there in terms of 00:54:54.760 --> 00:54:58.440 putting some data sets together that we wouldn't have been able to have access 00:54:58.440 --> 00:55:01.800 to otherwise. Things like really in-depth transportation 00:55:01.800 --> 00:55:04.520 models through their transportation group have 00:55:04.520 --> 00:55:08.440 been really helpful in putting together our inventory. So 00:55:08.440 --> 00:55:12.040 this process is still ongoing. I would expect the regional one to be 00:55:12.040 --> 00:55:15.720 completed in the winter and we will follow up of course with 00:55:15.720 --> 00:55:23.000 a staff report when that does occur. So getting into the document itself and 00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:27.000 the document is attached in the backup so as I go through this I may reference 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:32.360 it at some points. So we talked about this as a part of the 00:55:32.360 --> 00:55:35.880 whole climate action process as a snapshot a check-in of 00:55:35.880 --> 00:55:41.960 everything that's going on. We through this expanded scope with 00:55:41.960 --> 00:55:46.840 the CAWG have 18 new data points that have been incorporated into the 00:55:46.840 --> 00:55:50.600 inventory that we historically did not include. 00:55:50.600 --> 00:55:53.800 And this also allows us to compare not just 00:55:53.800 --> 00:55:59.240 to the CAWG inventory but to the other cities in the region as well. 00:55:59.240 --> 00:56:02.200 A really good example of one of the improvements as I mentioned is the 00:56:02.200 --> 00:56:06.840 transportation modeling. So that used to be sort of loosely based 00:56:06.840 --> 00:56:10.520 on Denton County as a whole. We were really able to geographically 00:56:10.520 --> 00:56:13.720 scale that down to the city of Denton maintaining our 00:56:13.720 --> 00:56:17.160 geographic boundary and more accurately modeling how many 00:56:17.160 --> 00:56:20.600 vehicle miles traveled were within that city boundary. So that's just kind of one 00:56:20.600 --> 00:56:25.560 example there. So there are several methodologies as a 00:56:25.560 --> 00:56:29.560 whole that are out there for calculating the carbon footprint 00:56:29.560 --> 00:56:32.520 for your community. The one that we have always historically 00:56:32.520 --> 00:56:36.440 used and continue to use is the ICLEI U.S. Community Protocols for Accounting 00:56:36.440 --> 00:56:42.280 and Reporting Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Now this protocol to have a technically 00:56:42.280 --> 00:56:46.680 complete inventory you only need five basic data points and those are 00:56:46.680 --> 00:56:50.600 outlined in the document. We of course go we have historically gone 00:56:50.600 --> 00:56:53.560 above and beyond that and even more so now with the 00:56:53.560 --> 00:56:57.160 with the 18 new data points that we have. All of these are 00:56:57.160 --> 00:57:00.680 outlined in the methodology in terms of how to calculate them 00:57:00.680 --> 00:57:04.520 but to have a technically complete one it's just the five basic ones there. 00:57:04.520 --> 00:57:08.120 Another one that you may be familiar with is the Global Protocol for 00:57:08.120 --> 00:57:13.640 Community Scale Greenhouse Gas Emissions. It's abbreviated GPC. 00:57:13.640 --> 00:57:17.160 ICLEI also had a hand in the creation of these protocols 00:57:17.160 --> 00:57:20.520 but these are for larger cities and then this is global as well so it's not 00:57:20.520 --> 00:57:26.200 United States specific. We have always completed a community 00:57:26.200 --> 00:57:30.280 version of the inventory and also one for municipal operations 00:57:30.280 --> 00:57:34.120 just to highlight things that we have a little bit more operational control over. 00:57:34.120 --> 00:57:37.720 This graphic here I like because it shows that the municipal 00:57:37.720 --> 00:57:42.280 emissions are also included within that community 00:57:42.280 --> 00:57:45.640 within that community footprint. It's just that when we do the municipal 00:57:45.640 --> 00:57:48.760 inventory we want to take a little bit of a different lens on that and to give 00:57:48.760 --> 00:57:52.200 you an example of that. When we talk about the electricity 00:57:52.200 --> 00:57:55.880 consumption at city buildings when we look at that as a community as a whole 00:57:55.880 --> 00:57:59.640 those are going to be listed under the commercial accounts and so 00:57:59.640 --> 00:58:02.760 it's going to be listed as commercial energy. Now 00:58:02.760 --> 00:58:05.640 from our operational standpoint we might want to take a little bit closer look at 00:58:05.640 --> 00:58:08.600 that so when we divide it up in the municipal inventory 00:58:08.600 --> 00:58:12.920 we divide those up into buildings and facilities but we also divide it up 00:58:12.920 --> 00:58:17.160 into whatever department that might be taking place in. 00:58:17.160 --> 00:58:20.360 Whatever department has that building might be slightly different 00:58:20.360 --> 00:58:23.160 hours slightly different operations and so those are the types of things that 00:58:23.160 --> 00:58:26.920 we'd like to learn by calling it out in just a slightly 00:58:26.920 --> 00:58:29.560 different lens. 00:58:29.560 --> 00:58:34.200 So a little bit more on the methodology side of things 00:58:34.200 --> 00:58:38.120 we take a look at both sources and activities and this is a really kind of 00:58:38.120 --> 00:58:40.680 important part of the methodology as a whole. 00:58:40.680 --> 00:58:47.000 So we don't just look at the emissions that are emitted within 00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:51.080 the geographic scope of DIN. We also look at the activities and so 00:58:51.080 --> 00:58:55.480 this is any activity that results in the production of greenhouse gas 00:58:55.480 --> 00:58:59.560 emissions whether those emissions are within the geographic boundary or not. 00:58:59.560 --> 00:59:02.280 The activity takes place within the city of Denton 00:59:02.280 --> 00:59:06.120 and so that's a really important distinction that we really include both. 00:59:06.120 --> 00:59:10.600 To kind of better outline that there are three different emission scopes. 00:59:10.600 --> 00:59:13.960 Scope one the activity and the emission takes place 00:59:13.960 --> 00:59:17.960 within Denton that's something like a vehicle tailpipe. 00:59:17.960 --> 00:59:21.400 The emissions are created and produced right there in Denton. 00:59:21.400 --> 00:59:25.240 Scope two this is going to be preliminary or primarily 00:59:25.240 --> 00:59:29.080 electricity emissions from electricity consumption. 00:59:29.080 --> 00:59:32.360 So the electricity may be consumed in Denton but the 00:59:32.360 --> 00:59:35.720 the emissions used to produce that electricity may or may not 00:59:35.720 --> 00:59:39.400 occur in Denton so that's really that scope two and then scope three is even 00:59:39.400 --> 00:59:43.320 one step further removed from that process. 00:59:43.320 --> 00:59:46.200 Influenced by things that happen within the city of Denton but 00:59:46.200 --> 00:59:50.360 again emissions are very likely elsewhere. 00:59:50.360 --> 00:59:56.600 So these are the data categories at a very high level for both community and 00:59:56.600 --> 00:59:59.400 government operations and so you can kind of see the breakdown 00:59:59.400 --> 01:00:03.800 there what's important to both. With the government operations category 01:00:03.800 --> 01:00:07.480 you'll see some things that that make sense for what we might 01:00:07.480 --> 01:00:11.080 might care about might be looking at buildings and facilities street lights 01:00:11.080 --> 01:00:14.600 things of that nature and then on the community side you'll 01:00:14.600 --> 01:00:19.000 see all of the typical ones that we would want to look at there. 01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:23.160 Before we get into results just a couple of notes here so 01:00:23.160 --> 01:00:26.840 you'll see all of our values there and the 01:00:26.840 --> 01:00:33.400 unit used there is metric tons of co2e so what is that so we take a look at 01:00:33.400 --> 01:00:36.760 three different greenhouse gases when we do our inventory we look at 01:00:36.760 --> 01:00:41.320 carbon dioxide we look at methane and we look at nitrous oxide now all of 01:00:41.320 --> 01:00:44.920 these have different potency when it comes to climate 01:00:44.920 --> 01:00:47.320 change different global warming potentials 01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:50.680 and so essentially what we want to do is we want to normalize all of those to one 01:00:50.680 --> 01:00:54.680 value and that value is co2 so this is the co2 01:00:54.680 --> 01:00:58.760 equivalence which is the little e so if some methane is produced we want to 01:00:58.760 --> 01:01:02.120 we want to know what is the equivalent of that methane in co2 so that we can 01:01:02.120 --> 01:01:05.400 compare apples to apples so that's the value that you'll see 01:01:05.400 --> 01:01:09.080 throughout the report. Yes I just have a quick the dashboard for 01:01:09.080 --> 01:01:14.600 the say the deck emissions is in regular tons yes and is there 01:01:14.600 --> 01:01:18.440 at any point can can the deck emissions be 01:01:18.440 --> 01:01:22.840 converted to metric tons or so that there's a an evenness across 01:01:22.840 --> 01:01:26.200 the board? We have to do a lot of conversions 01:01:26.200 --> 01:01:30.680 for basically every piece of data that we get 01:01:30.680 --> 01:01:34.600 and so when we get it we're able to convert it for ourselves and this is the 01:01:34.600 --> 01:01:37.560 one that we'll continue to use we're not going to have a whole lot of 01:01:37.560 --> 01:01:40.840 control over how we receive that data. Okay thanks. 01:01:40.840 --> 01:01:45.800 Of course so with that in mind you know we can kind of 01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:47.880 take a look at the results here at a high level 01:01:47.880 --> 01:01:51.400 we see that transportation and mobile sources make up the largest 01:01:51.400 --> 01:01:55.080 block of our community emissions at just over 50 percent 01:01:55.080 --> 01:01:59.640 following that up is going to be our energy components now energy is both 01:01:59.640 --> 01:02:03.480 electricity and natural gas consumption those are both lumped into energy so 01:02:03.480 --> 01:02:06.120 it's you know it's good to remember which 01:02:06.120 --> 01:02:08.760 one we're talking about electricity and energy are not 01:02:08.760 --> 01:02:13.640 interchangeable words for this document so those are second 01:02:13.640 --> 01:02:16.840 following that up we have the landfill as well as 01:02:16.840 --> 01:02:20.440 upstream activities and process and fugitive emissions 01:02:20.440 --> 01:02:24.600 with the solid waste side i do want to mention that the main component of 01:02:24.600 --> 01:02:27.720 this of course is going to be the methane generation 01:02:27.720 --> 01:02:31.480 that occurs at the landfill now this is a scope one commission 01:02:31.480 --> 01:02:35.560 and so what we're required to report is the generation of methane 01:02:35.560 --> 01:02:39.400 what happens to that methane after that is not included in this report 01:02:39.400 --> 01:02:43.720 so this is just the methane generation so the city of denton landfill 01:02:43.720 --> 01:02:47.000 us being a full service city is going to 01:02:47.000 --> 01:02:50.840 you know take that methane and we don't want that going directly to the 01:02:50.840 --> 01:02:53.800 atmosphere because methane is more potent and so they're going to make sure 01:02:53.800 --> 01:02:57.160 that it is either utilized in a really effective 01:02:57.160 --> 01:03:01.000 way or taken down to components that are less harmful than methane and so 01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:04.840 just kind of want to point out that that value there is strictly that generation 01:03:04.840 --> 01:03:09.160 that occurs so those are the community inventory results 01:03:09.160 --> 01:03:13.000 i will point you to the document itself tables 01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:16.920 three four and five have a little bit more of a breakdown of what goes into 01:03:16.920 --> 01:03:20.120 each one of those categories and so i'm happy to answer any questions that you 01:03:20.120 --> 01:03:25.160 might have on those specifics i'll quickly go over the government 01:03:25.160 --> 01:03:30.760 operations so as i said the lens that we're looking 01:03:30.760 --> 01:03:33.400 through here is going to be a little bit different and i can kind of give a 01:03:33.400 --> 01:03:38.040 quick example of that so when we're looking at 01:03:38.040 --> 01:03:42.360 for example the solid waste component here for our municipality 01:03:42.360 --> 01:03:45.080 so we own and operate the landfill so we're going to count those methane 01:03:45.080 --> 01:03:47.960 emissions just the same as we did in the community inventory 01:03:47.960 --> 01:03:51.320 but we're also going to take a look at things like our municipal operations so 01:03:51.320 --> 01:03:53.880 the solid waste that we generate at our 01:03:53.880 --> 01:03:57.480 facilities what does that look like over time and so that's something that we 01:03:57.480 --> 01:04:01.160 also want to keep track of so that we're you know leading by example 01:04:01.160 --> 01:04:05.000 making sure that our practices are headed in the right direction for 01:04:05.000 --> 01:04:09.240 mitigating greenhouse gas emissions as well you'll see the two major components 01:04:09.240 --> 01:04:12.920 here are the electrical power production and solid waste 01:04:12.920 --> 01:04:17.880 denton is a full service city so our our pie chart here if you will is going to 01:04:17.880 --> 01:04:20.280 look a little bit different than a lot of communities so 01:04:20.280 --> 01:04:24.200 we provide solid waste services we provide electricity water wastewater 01:04:24.200 --> 01:04:28.840 services all to our residents and so because those are all within the 01:04:28.840 --> 01:04:33.160 scope of municipal operations for us all of the emissions associated with 01:04:33.160 --> 01:04:35.240 that we are going to take a look at in our 01:04:35.240 --> 01:04:38.600 municipal component other cities are going to look at those they're just 01:04:38.600 --> 01:04:42.200 going to be completely within their community portion 01:04:42.200 --> 01:04:44.840 of their inventory and of course ours are too 01:04:44.840 --> 01:04:47.960 it's just something that we have a little bit more operational control over 01:04:47.960 --> 01:04:51.240 so we're going to take a look at that here 01:04:51.240 --> 01:04:57.080 all right so i will just kind of talk about some next steps here 01:04:57.080 --> 01:05:01.400 so this is of course a draft document so we will take your feedback as well as 01:05:01.400 --> 01:05:06.040 the feedback of some of our departments and basically just finalize the document 01:05:06.040 --> 01:05:08.680 for you and we'll come back with that final document 01:05:08.680 --> 01:05:16.200 very likely next month just to get a final check on that 01:05:16.200 --> 01:05:20.120 you'll notice in the document itself that there are a couple of data points 01:05:20.120 --> 01:05:23.080 mainly in the off-road transportation category 01:05:23.080 --> 01:05:27.720 that we are still waiting on final qa qc from 01:05:27.720 --> 01:05:31.640 from the cog when those data points are added we will notify you 01:05:31.640 --> 01:05:35.080 when they're added to the document as well 01:05:35.080 --> 01:05:38.760 and we wanted to include a space for them so you can see exactly where there's 01:05:38.760 --> 01:05:42.440 those components are going to be added to 01:05:42.440 --> 01:05:46.200 we don't anticipate that any of the three of those will significantly 01:05:46.200 --> 01:05:50.280 impact of course they will add to the total but not in a significant way 01:05:50.280 --> 01:05:55.720 that's going to shift that high chart or anything like that in any way 01:05:55.720 --> 01:05:59.240 we will update you on the regional findings of course 01:05:59.240 --> 01:06:04.120 with the cog when that comes out we will take this 01:06:04.120 --> 01:06:07.400 back and we are going to update our internal methodology to make sure that 01:06:07.400 --> 01:06:11.320 every future inventory is produced along these same lines 01:06:11.320 --> 01:06:15.560 and make sure that that is just streamlined and standardized 01:06:15.560 --> 01:06:19.720 for every every single one that comes after this 01:06:19.720 --> 01:06:23.640 these results will be compared and incorporated through our climate action 01:06:23.640 --> 01:06:27.560 process so you can also expect a an inventory 01:06:27.560 --> 01:06:30.920 for the same year for 2019 to be produced through the climate 01:06:30.920 --> 01:06:33.640 action planning process i will say that that one is going to be a 01:06:33.640 --> 01:06:36.840 little bit more geographic in nature and so it's going to be really 01:06:36.840 --> 01:06:40.280 interesting to compare the results that we have here that are more activity 01:06:40.280 --> 01:06:43.080 based to some of the geographic results and it's 01:06:43.080 --> 01:06:47.320 it's only going to add to what we already have here so that's something to 01:06:47.320 --> 01:06:52.520 look forward to there and then the the plan that we have currently 01:06:52.520 --> 01:06:56.360 is to produce a greenhouse gas inventory every two years 01:06:56.360 --> 01:06:59.720 in the off years what we'll do is we'll produce an analysis 01:06:59.720 --> 01:07:04.120 called the contribution analysis which will essentially do a deep dive 01:07:04.120 --> 01:07:08.440 comparing the results of two previous inventories so in this case you have a 01:07:08.440 --> 01:07:10.920 small sample of that in the document itself 01:07:10.920 --> 01:07:15.800 where we compare 2018 to 2019 in those off years we'll basically do 01:07:15.800 --> 01:07:19.400 exactly that and we'll see not just what changed but what are the 01:07:19.400 --> 01:07:21.880 triggers between those things what's causing 01:07:21.880 --> 01:07:25.560 that change and so that's really going to be our deep dive for us those two 01:07:25.560 --> 01:07:27.480 paired together are going to be really helpful 01:07:27.480 --> 01:07:30.360 in the decision making process and so that's something that we would really 01:07:30.360 --> 01:07:33.320 like to incorporate and we'll make sure that those are kind of 01:07:33.320 --> 01:07:37.240 offsetting each other in two different years 01:07:37.240 --> 01:07:41.400 i know that was a lot all at once um but i would be very happy to take any 01:07:41.400 --> 01:07:45.000 questions that you might have like brian i did have two but um one 01:07:45.000 --> 01:07:48.200 was how frequently the inventories would be 01:07:48.200 --> 01:07:51.720 released so i just wonder every two years what was like the 01:07:51.720 --> 01:07:55.720 the impetus for that sample term like for a two year period 01:07:55.720 --> 01:08:02.600 um so basically it's enough time for things to change um is one and also it 01:08:02.600 --> 01:08:06.840 gives us time to go back and so we're not in the constant cycle 01:08:06.840 --> 01:08:10.760 of producing an inventory we end it you know we're right on to the next one 01:08:10.760 --> 01:08:14.600 let's collect data there's also a lag that occurs between 01:08:14.600 --> 01:08:19.000 so for example the most recent inventory that we will 01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:23.160 probably be able to reduce even just starting in february of next 01:08:23.160 --> 01:08:26.920 year will be 2021 so there's almost an entire 12 month lag 01:08:26.920 --> 01:08:30.920 on data availability when we're in that lag period we can go 01:08:30.920 --> 01:08:34.600 back and do a deeper dive through the contribution analysis and see 01:08:34.600 --> 01:08:38.120 you know with the most recent inventory that we produced 01:08:38.120 --> 01:08:41.320 what's really causing those different things and get into the 01:08:41.320 --> 01:08:44.760 kind of minor details of the data so kind of the second part of that even 01:08:44.760 --> 01:08:48.120 within so this is table four in the backup um 01:08:48.120 --> 01:08:51.240 looking at the 2018 to 2019 comparison when you see 01:08:51.240 --> 01:08:55.240 a year-over-year shift i'm just taking as an example like 01:08:55.240 --> 01:09:00.120 dme and co-serve had reductions in this year-to-year comparison 01:09:00.120 --> 01:09:03.560 but encore for whatever reason showed up a pretty significant 01:09:03.560 --> 01:09:07.160 increase in their reported emissions so when you're looking at that 01:09:07.160 --> 01:09:10.520 time frame what's like the story with the case like this 01:09:10.520 --> 01:09:13.880 and how might future climate action plan address something 01:09:13.880 --> 01:09:17.240 or even within the same sector we're seeing the splits yeah so that's a great 01:09:17.240 --> 01:09:19.560 question so this is really where the contribution 01:09:19.560 --> 01:09:25.400 analysis kind of comes in handy so with dme we know that they increase 01:09:25.400 --> 01:09:29.080 their renewable energy percentage between 2018 and 2019 and so we can 01:09:29.080 --> 01:09:33.560 account for that decrease with that the emission factor how much 01:09:33.560 --> 01:09:37.000 emissions per megawatt hour generated went down 01:09:37.000 --> 01:09:42.440 we know that with different things there are other influences so it can be 01:09:42.440 --> 01:09:45.960 the number of customers going up and down it could be the 01:09:45.960 --> 01:09:49.320 efficiency of those buildings it can be a lot of different things and 01:09:49.320 --> 01:09:52.280 so what the contribution analysis does is it 01:09:52.280 --> 01:09:55.880 adds additional data so it says you know how many customers 01:09:55.880 --> 01:09:59.880 were there what was the usage per customer and we can sort of find those 01:09:59.880 --> 01:10:03.080 intricacies in there and that better helps us in the climate 01:10:03.080 --> 01:10:06.920 action planning process to say you know here's what's working well we 01:10:06.920 --> 01:10:10.760 made we implemented this program we saw a 01:10:10.760 --> 01:10:14.840 change in that specific area it just gives us a little bit more detail 01:10:14.840 --> 01:10:19.960 so just one follow-up then since we are using 2019 as our 01:10:19.960 --> 01:10:24.120 information source for the this current climate action plans how might 01:10:24.120 --> 01:10:28.520 and again keeping in mind that covid was a period that's difficult to quantify 01:10:28.520 --> 01:10:32.760 knowing that even a year-to-year change like that can be so significant and here 01:10:32.760 --> 01:10:36.760 we are three years later i'm just wondering as far as like 01:10:36.760 --> 01:10:40.920 source quality like are there going to be a little bit of flexibility or some 01:10:40.920 --> 01:10:43.480 play in there and our current plan that we're developing 01:10:43.480 --> 01:10:46.200 that accounts for for these year-to-year shifts plus 01:10:46.200 --> 01:10:48.760 the covid i'm just curious how you think that plays out 01:10:48.760 --> 01:10:52.200 yeah so you're talking about in sort of the future years of how we 01:10:52.200 --> 01:10:55.560 how we incorporate that as we move forward definitely 01:10:55.560 --> 01:10:59.080 and i think it's going to be really helpful having a year or two 01:10:59.080 --> 01:11:02.600 you know what i mean out where we're going to see some trends so 01:11:02.600 --> 01:11:06.680 the cog has already done some transportation analyses on the year 2020 01:11:06.680 --> 01:11:10.040 now if we keep on our process we'll do 2021 next but there 01:11:10.040 --> 01:11:13.080 of course still going to be some impacts there but 01:11:13.080 --> 01:11:16.920 i'm confident that we're already getting information about how some of those 01:11:16.920 --> 01:11:19.800 things how covid impacted some of those areas 01:11:19.800 --> 01:11:23.240 that we'll be able to assign some attribution to that and kind of see that 01:11:23.240 --> 01:11:26.040 moving forward 01:11:30.760 --> 01:11:35.240 i really don't know if my question is is for this 01:11:35.240 --> 01:11:43.080 i i have concerns it's a big question mark what's going to happen with the 01:11:43.080 --> 01:11:47.240 deck in in terms of their of their 01:11:47.240 --> 01:11:52.040 emissions because when you you look at the reports over the 01:11:52.040 --> 01:11:55.240 since 2018 01:11:58.760 --> 01:12:04.040 it's it's not it's pretty discouraging 01:12:04.040 --> 01:12:08.200 when you're looking over the past since 2018 they 01:12:08.200 --> 01:12:15.320 released almost 800,000 tons of co2 equivalents and i i 01:12:15.320 --> 01:12:18.520 that's like the gorilla in the room with this 01:12:18.520 --> 01:12:23.160 and i i don't i'm not giving any direction here i'm just expressing 01:12:23.160 --> 01:12:28.120 however we can figure out a way to work with dma to 01:12:28.120 --> 01:12:30.520 somehow 01:12:30.520 --> 01:12:36.920 i'll just say that that will be uh you know 01:12:36.920 --> 01:12:41.240 all all encompassing will be touched on in the climate action plan 01:12:41.240 --> 01:12:47.560 yeah so those emissions that have it will be accounted for on this 01:12:47.560 --> 01:12:55.640 in within that utility group right yes okay i think that's 01:12:55.640 --> 01:13:00.760 one okay um so i'm just curious because we also 01:13:00.760 --> 01:13:05.720 shifted our public transportation operations over the last year 01:13:05.720 --> 01:13:08.840 with our partnership with dcta i'm just curious how 01:13:08.840 --> 01:13:12.360 that operation factors in is that under a community 01:13:12.360 --> 01:13:16.440 emission or does that hit our city operations yes so that will just be 01:13:16.440 --> 01:13:22.520 community emissions now it's that's a complicated question so our 01:13:22.520 --> 01:13:26.360 transportation model accounts for these things so it 01:13:26.360 --> 01:13:30.200 accounts for what types of vehicles on them are on the 01:13:30.200 --> 01:13:34.680 road are they buses are they vans what are they and it's debt specific now 01:13:34.680 --> 01:13:39.240 what we can do is we can incorporate supplemental information to that 01:13:39.240 --> 01:13:42.840 so we can say and this would be more for the contribution analysis piece 01:13:42.840 --> 01:13:46.600 so if we see changes in that and we can ask the question of why 01:13:46.600 --> 01:13:50.280 why did we see that change that's where that supplemental information starts to 01:13:50.280 --> 01:13:53.320 really help us out and starts to take shape and so 01:13:53.320 --> 01:13:56.760 the more specific that we can get get with that information 01:13:56.760 --> 01:14:01.240 so if we get say you know mileage information 01:14:01.240 --> 01:14:04.520 from the transportation authority that helps us out that helps us 01:14:04.520 --> 01:14:08.520 you know account for some of those changes it's it's really a contribution 01:14:08.520 --> 01:14:12.360 analysis piece okay and just as a comment in that future 01:14:12.360 --> 01:14:15.880 contribution analysis i would really like to see highlighted if we 01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:20.440 understand where the the shift and that sort of operational 01:14:20.440 --> 01:14:23.560 standpoint comes from i would really like to dig in 01:14:23.560 --> 01:14:26.760 the comparison from our previous transportation model that we're currently 01:14:26.760 --> 01:14:30.120 using it just because it's under like our guiding principles as a 01:14:30.120 --> 01:14:33.720 framework committee to push for those more sustainable 01:14:33.720 --> 01:14:38.440 practices i think having the data that might support our recommendation 01:14:38.440 --> 01:14:46.280 for one model would be really helpful i have 01:14:46.280 --> 01:14:50.760 just one comment and thought and just a question 01:14:50.760 --> 01:14:55.320 so on my comment is that i'm really glad it's kind of going regional 01:14:55.320 --> 01:14:59.560 that way i mean in the past we have a habit of kind of shifting blame 01:14:59.560 --> 01:15:04.040 but with it regional and everything being there in the data we can say 01:15:04.040 --> 01:15:07.400 you know hey this is what's happening this is 01:15:07.400 --> 01:15:10.360 actually who's fault and this is how we can 01:15:10.360 --> 01:15:14.920 we can prevent it or make it better so i think that's great that we're all 01:15:14.920 --> 01:15:20.040 participating next i'm curious like on the 01:15:20.040 --> 01:15:26.920 solid waste part i know that we accept trash from 01:15:26.920 --> 01:15:33.880 other cities how does that account in in our inventory of course so 01:15:33.880 --> 01:15:40.920 um again a little bit complicated um so as the owner and operator of the 01:15:40.920 --> 01:15:44.520 city of denton landfill we have to account for 01:15:44.520 --> 01:15:47.720 the methane generation that takes place at our facility 01:15:47.720 --> 01:15:51.880 regardless of where that solid waste comes from we have another component 01:15:51.880 --> 01:15:55.160 that we have in the inventory that is for information only 01:15:55.160 --> 01:15:59.640 again for the contribution analysis so if we see a decrease 01:15:59.640 --> 01:16:03.560 and then we also see a corresponding decrease in the 01:16:03.560 --> 01:16:07.400 waste that is generated only by our community we can attribute that and we 01:16:07.400 --> 01:16:09.640 can say you know this is part of the reason why it 01:16:09.640 --> 01:16:14.040 went down so we are keeping track of sort of that 01:16:14.040 --> 01:16:18.360 ratio of inside generate waste generated inside our facility 01:16:18.360 --> 01:16:22.040 or inside our bounds and outside our bounds and so that kind of gets 01:16:22.040 --> 01:16:27.160 incorporated into that so for example if a community did not have a landfill 01:16:27.160 --> 01:16:30.360 and they were generating solid waste and sending it out 01:16:30.360 --> 01:16:34.120 to another facility they would need to do a different type of calculation for 01:16:34.120 --> 01:16:39.080 that so they would need to do how much methane could that solid waste 01:16:39.080 --> 01:16:42.600 ever produce now that we've sent it out what's sort of the lifetime 01:16:42.600 --> 01:16:47.000 emissions of those that waste that we've sent out to another community 01:16:47.000 --> 01:16:50.680 and so in that way it does get slightly double counted but 01:16:50.680 --> 01:16:55.800 keeping our sort of sphere of the inventory itself that's how we do 01:16:55.800 --> 01:16:59.800 so there is like just a section of information where we keep that division 01:16:59.800 --> 01:17:03.080 of outside versus inside so that we can account for it 01:17:03.080 --> 01:17:07.880 right so under the protocols themselves we have a very specific 01:17:07.880 --> 01:17:11.560 sort of number that we have to report but we're curious what impacts that 01:17:11.560 --> 01:17:16.200 number and so we want to keep track of those other things as well 01:17:16.200 --> 01:17:22.680 all right thank you so much appreciate it 01:17:23.400 --> 01:17:33.080 all the work so we will move on to our matrix i think right we covered them all 01:17:33.080 --> 01:17:38.120 staff reports and matrix do you want to go over anything kathryn 01:17:38.120 --> 01:17:42.440 just if you have any questions about the matrix or 01:17:42.440 --> 01:17:48.680 okay anybody have any questions about the matrix 01:17:48.680 --> 01:17:52.760 okay those are things that we discussed in the past to put on the agenda 01:17:52.760 --> 01:17:56.760 so then we will move on to concluding information 01:17:56.760 --> 01:18:00.440 and we can does anybody have anything to add to the 01:18:00.440 --> 01:18:04.200 to the matrix or future discussions 01:18:04.200 --> 01:18:16.280 i i have one that's something um we discussed briefly in one of our 01:18:16.280 --> 01:18:22.680 last presentations the tree canopy and um i was copied on on an email 01:18:22.680 --> 01:18:28.040 about the the percentages and how they kind of go up and down and up and down 01:18:28.040 --> 01:18:31.880 and if we could just have a presentation on clarification 01:18:31.880 --> 01:18:39.160 um an update on our canopy goals on our tree canopy goals 01:18:39.160 --> 01:18:43.240 and i know that hayward has done a staff report that'll go out this friday 01:18:43.240 --> 01:18:49.560 oh okay i think it's this friday um today today is friday okay so the 01:18:49.560 --> 01:18:54.040 measurements and then the progress and explain that so i guess we'll look at 01:18:54.040 --> 01:18:58.680 the report i mean the friday report and then we may forward that to you 01:18:58.680 --> 01:19:02.200 as a committee after it comes out to make sure that it's at the top of your 01:19:02.200 --> 01:19:04.680 email and then if you have any questions about 01:19:04.680 --> 01:19:08.200 that then we can have the presentation on this question 01:19:08.200 --> 01:19:12.840 okay that sounds great it clarifies the data source years and what how it was 01:19:12.840 --> 01:19:15.720 calculated and the differences between each of 01:19:15.720 --> 01:19:20.120 the employees okay sounds good i'll wait then it seems a 01:19:20.120 --> 01:19:25.560 good dream i bet all right well i believe that is all 01:19:25.560 --> 01:19:29.800 for today um thank you everyone for your time 01:19:29.800 --> 01:19:34.760 and have a great weekend and we will adjourn at 2 20 01:19:34.760 --> 01:19:39.320 thank you