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 good morning everyone welcome to the committee on the environment my name is

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 has been a death in the family so we can send our condolences I do have a

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 do we need to city attorney do we need to address that now or can that be made

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 up in the minutes next time we can correct that the minutes next time okay

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 all right thank you so it is November 2nd and we are getting started at 901

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 and we will go ahead and start with our items for consideration item a consider

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 approval of October 5th 2020 minutes

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 councilmember Davis yes I'll move approval of the minutes okay and I will

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 second all in favor say aye aye all right so we'll go on right down to item

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 B receive a report and hold a discussion on the 2019 greenhouse gas contribution

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 analysis yes good morning council members this is James Douglas

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 conservation programs coordinator and let me pull up this screen here and how

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 does that look for everybody right we can see it awesome all right so like you

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 said we'll be talking today about the 2019 greenhouse gas contribution analysis

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 results so this will be building on our October presentation the last

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 presentation which was the results of the 2019 greenhouse gas inventory the

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 contribution analysis tool was started in 2018 so just this previous year we

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 did a few analyses for past inventories going back to 2011 and so this will be

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 the second year that we're using that for sort of our more current inventories

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 this will be the first year that we've completed this analysis for the

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 municipal inventory if you remember from our previous presentation and we do two

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 analyses every year one for municipal operations and one for the Denton

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 community as a whole and so this will be the first year that we have had the

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 resources and the data to complete the municipal analysis along with the

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 community analysis and just a brief background on what the contribution

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 analysis is it's an assessment of the variability between two years which we

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 have greenhouse gas inventory data for and the way that I really like to

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 summarize this is it outlines what worked well what needs improving and

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 what is outside of our operational control so as we said and we'll be

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 focusing today on the results of the 2019 analysis which will showcase the

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 difference between the 2018 results and the 2019 results and we're going to

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 summarize those and have a few highlights there just a quick

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 recap of that October presentation and you'll see here on the top chart the

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 results of the municipal greenhouse gas inventory analysis and the bottom chart

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 has the community side of things and what we'll be focusing on today if you

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 take a look briefly here at the last two inventories 2018 and 2019 if you take a

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 look at the scale here it'll give you a good reference point for previous years

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 as we move into the contribution analysis itself you'll see a change in

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 the y-axis and so I just want to point out here what the the difference between

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 the two years that we're talking about and we will get into those results so

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 you may remember from last year the sort of style of these results as a waterfall

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 diagram the red we have are the increases in greenhouse gas emissions

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 from 2018 to 2019 and the blue shows decreases and obviously the two gray

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 bars are our totals for 2018 and 2019 and they are representative of the net

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 change between those two what we have here is on the far left and right sides

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 will be the greatest changes and as we move closer to the middle you get

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 smaller and smaller changes on either one of those sides and so we'll take a

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 quick look at this and then I do have on the next slide sort of just the

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 highlights there but you can see on the left-hand side we have emissions from

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 the debt and energy center as well as landfill emissions and on the right side

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 I did want to point out that the analysis itself highlights transmission

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 and distribution losses the tool itself doesn't know that that's an electricity

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 driven number it's one that we input on our own and so just keep in mind that

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 those decreases from transmission and distribution are the same as the

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 decreases from the electricity fuel mix and that they are improved because of

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 that improved renewable energy in the portfolio and so I did just want to

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 point that out and here just lists a few highlights from that analysis and on the

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 increased side we also had an increase in vehicle miles traveled and number of

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 employees and so that is built into that and a slight increase in building energy

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 use intensity also could be a factor from an increase in the number of

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 employees there on the decrease side the biggest factor once again is that

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 increase in renewable energy and in the DME portfolio we had decreased waste

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 presentation but we see that here showcased in the analysis itself and and

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 comparing 2018 to 2019 so we're gonna switch over now to the community as a

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 whole the Denton community as a whole some of the larger increases were due

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 to an increase in vehicle miles traveled per person and we have a growth in

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 population which I'll talk about here in more detail in a second but that's a

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 between any two years we have increased waste generation per person as well and

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 transmission and distribution loss and change also an electricity driven factor

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 efficiency that we saw from the employee commuter vehicles is going to have a

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 larger impact on the community as a whole obviously a lot more passenger

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 vehicles there when we're talking about the entire Denton community and a very

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 large impact from the change in the electricity fuel mix the increase in

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 the need for increased heating is going to have a little bit more on the

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 emission side but the cooler summer obviously we don't need to use the AC

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 population growth is going to touch a lot of different sectors and so built

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 different factors and so an increase in population is going to impact your waste

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 generation your vehicle miles traveled your residential fuel use and your

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 residential electricity use and this is just diving into a little bit more

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 detail into what what all goes into that factor and so we can kind of you know

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 imagine that this is all built built into that slight increase there this is

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 important when we go to take a look at the efficiency of our programs we want

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 to make sure that we are taking a look at metrics such as kilowatt hours per

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 efficiency education if the education is going out and we're seeing in it an

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 something like population growth to effectively judge whether or not those

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 programs are working and this is a really good tool to showcase that so

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 that wraps up the presentation and I will take any questions I have to take

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 this down give me one second you can take this thing down so we can see yes

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 thank you thank you thank you for the presentation Councilmember Davis do you

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 have any questions or comments no just to express appreciation for using that

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 tool and especially applying it to the municipal analysis it's a it's nice to

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 be able to see a little more granularity and know where we can target efforts you

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 know we know some things that we want to keep up and things that are beneficial

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 but it's nice to be able to see where we can put efforts and resources and get

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 good benefits so thank you yeah I agree I would like to ask though is this

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 that a little bit for those watching yeah absolutely the besides just

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 tracking greenhouse gases you know for doing it it's also a very wide-reaching

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 metric in terms of all of the different sectors that it touches and so having

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 this tool in combination with the greenhouse gas inventory every year is

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 going to be a really important cycle that we're going to run through as we go

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 through this decision-making process not only to help us set those strategies but

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 to continually make sure that we're on track to meet whatever those goals are

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 okay thank you and is there anyone that can answer the question when we do our

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 waste analysis that's coming up or the the contract the consultant comes in

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 will they be looking at the the emissions from the landfill in their

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 study going forward to kind of look at that to see what we need to do and

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 whatnot or is that something separate miss Briggs this is Brian burner

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 director of solid waste for the city of Denton that is a separate activity that

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 we are currently doing as you may remember we as part of the whole

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 landfill gas to energy process project we did a significant analysis on how

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 much landfill gas the the landfill is currently producing and we're actually

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 working on an RFP to go out and turn that it you know see how we can turn that

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 into pipeline grade gas there will be a marriage between that project and our

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 solid waste management strategy as we evaluate the amount of trust balls you

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 know the material that can rot that is currently being put into the landfill

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 projecting that out so we will be able to look at that but I think it all comes

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 back to really that the slide that talked about the increase in the amount

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 of solid waste that residents are generating and this is not just a

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 Denton centric variable that has been identified this is this is happening

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 nationwide in most cities across the nation you're actually seeing residents

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 producing more waste so part of the strategy will be not only to identify

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 what kind of what we're throwing away but then also how to encourage and and

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 ensure that from a front-end standpoint we are reducing the amount that we are

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 acquiring so at the back end we can really find alternate ways to manage

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 that that minimal material and then decrease the amount that's actually

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 going to the landfill perfect thank you so much for for letting us know all that

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 it is connected and I like the word you use their marriage because it's gonna be

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 a marriage for sure okay the only last comment I have is that seeing the

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 increase in the emissions from generation it is nice to have those

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 renewable contracts that we have there to to pull those down and balance that

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 out it's good to see that it's working in the way that we thought it would and

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 if go ahead councilmember Davis thanks sorry I just thought of something I was

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 losses and if you wouldn't mind maybe a staff report or an email whatever is

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 easiest if you just put that down again because I'm not sure I'm going to be

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 able to correctly repeat it and remember because it I remember what you said

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 about the tool didn't have it built in that we needed to add some values

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 ourselves but I'm not sure I understood completely what you said so if maybe we

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 could just get that in writing someplace so I don't misquote you somewhere I could

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 be helpful for you thank you all right awesome thank you James I appreciate that

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 so we will move on to our next item item C receiver report and hold the

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 discussion regarding the FY 20 annual report for the city of Denton

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 sustainability recycling and learn to conserve events

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 was on mute so we are here today to talk about the events that were hosted during

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 the 2020 fiscal year for the sustainability division so in total we

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 were able to host 96 events now most of these events took place before the

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 pandemic in March we stopped hosting events about March 13th and then went

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 into virtual engagement only so we'd like to talk about just the objective to

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 increase sustainability awareness and the personal responsibility of hosting

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 these events and doing that type of engagement we want to provide the

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 Committee on the environment data regarding these public events as well as

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 discuss how we plan to move forward in this current fiscal year so in total we

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 hosted 93 events 32 of those events were community events 20 were volunteer events

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 30 were outreach events and 11 were tours so of those community events mostly

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 consisting of workshops and education we hosted a lot of events focused on local

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 food which is more of the gardening style workshops we are also able to

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 increase the number of locations this year to 12 different locations across

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 the city of Denton and then we also a lot of those workshops were focused on

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 how to support pollinators so the class average actually increased so we had a

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 little over 28 people per class with a total of 105 attendees this does not

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 include major events which pushed the total up to a little over a thousand for

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 events here's some of the classes that we were able to host last year prior to

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 the pandemic and then one or two of these were also hosted virtually we also

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 with during the pandemic there was a lot of wonderful virtual engagement classes

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 where they were talking about native plants some of my favorite were from

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 Water University and rather than we try to promote a lot of those through our

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 Facebook and through our social media which has a pretty substantial following

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 and so we hope that people were able to still get that education that they like

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 and enjoy through a lot of those experts that typically we would bring in

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 ourselves to teach these classes but they were hosting free classes online so

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 we we opted to promote a lot of those experts as far as volunteer events go we

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 were still able to host several volunteer events we did host a few in

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 April because we had we still had a lot of plants to plant prior to the pandemic

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 we had applied for a grant to get more milkweed and they ended up sending us

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 three over 300 milkweed plants and so when we got those at the beginning of

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 April we still need to get those in the ground so we are able to do a couple of

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 socially distanced planting events and get those in the ground in time for them

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 to thrive last April so we still planted I think it was close to about a thousand

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 different native plants at Clear Creek this past fiscal year and so those

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 volunteers were incredibly helpful a lot of those were in the form of Master

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 Naturalist which as you can see they donated 2300 over 2300 hours of their

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 time and this is just at Clear Creek alone which altogether the volunteers

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 that's about see $92,000 of value that they were able to contribute to our

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 department so as far as outreach events we were still able to host several but

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 these of course stopped after once the pandemic hit we were no longer doing

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 tabling or one-on-one events with individuals we're hoping that at some

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 point next year those can resume but we will also we're just waiting for things

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 to get for it to be safer for us and the public we also hosted 11 tours there was

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 241 people on these tours that attended and were able to get some education on

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 solid waste and recycling those who have also been put on hold indefinitely and

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 then as far as social media goes this is where a lot of our focus was placed

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 during this time period and like I said we were promoting a lot of great webinars

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 that were going on and we were able to increase our followers so that total

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 following count below that does include next door which is about 34,000 people

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 followers and we were able to increase that over this past fiscal year by 10%

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 so overall we've had a pretty positive response with social media and we've

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 been able to connect with new people and still relay some information other forms

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 of data that we thought were relevant last year we're still at our last fiscal

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 hold so prior to the pandemic we were able to do 19 energy 9 water we handed

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 out almost a thousand different seed packets and then 600 different native

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 plants were planted at Clear Creek now we did do also several hundred spider

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 wart plants and so that those weren't factored into there as well so that's

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 why I boosted those numbers and then we also did we're able to do field trips

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 last fall at Clear Creek but they were canceled in the spring and they have

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 also been put on hold this fall and I believe the master naturalists are

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 working hard to try and do some virtual field trips so that they can still get

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 that education to those different grade levels with that so we're hoping to

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 increase community partnerships improve tracking especially with social media

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 and virtual engagement just because that is still something that is very safe and

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 is proving to be a really great way to connect with the community during this

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 time period with that I will see if you guys have any questions thank you for

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 that presentation and thank you to the volunteers that is fantastic to see

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 councilmember Davis do you have any questions or comments on that

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 presentation no questions thank you but you know that this is a weird time for

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 everybody but I know a lot of people took the opportunity to get their hands

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 dirty and get out in the yard and do a lot of gardening projects a lot of home

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 projects and you know some of those were right in the wheelhouse that you're

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 talking about so I really appreciate you providing the service to our citizens

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 that you did with connecting with the experts I know I googled about 13

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 different things during the pandemic of how to do things I didn't know how to do

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 so what a great resource and then to still be able to get that kind of

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 volunteer turnout even in the midst of the pandemic that's that's pretty great

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 good work sir I have a question I know that when we received an update before

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 there was an issue with some people signing up and then not showing up I'm

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 sure with that going online it's probably not an issue as much but when

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 we weren't meeting online was that still an issue or did that seem to kind of

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 work itself out so with my workshops a lot of times we would increase the size

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 so that even if people signed up and they didn't show up we would still we

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 weren't turning people away so those people that were reserving a space

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 weren't taking the place of someone who was gonna show up the registration

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 because they're free classes you always have people that are gonna sign up and

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 then don't attend but we tried to really mitigate that by making sure that we

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 were allowing enough people to sign up we I believe we only had one or two

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 instances where those classes actually filled up but even then I would start a

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 wait list and I don't think that we ever turned anyone away during last fiscal

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 year the fiscal year before I had to turn two people away during a workshop

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 because it was so busy that we actually were meeting the fire code in the room

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 that we were in wow that's that's that's great I think just because people are so

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 interested in in your classes I appreciate that the last question I have

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 is you mentioned virtual tours for the school at Clear Creek is there a way

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 that we could do the solid waste tour virtually so that they can show that to

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 the students I know that when I went on those tours with the kids they were

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 really fascinating it may already exist I'm not sure you know but if we could do

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 that just so the students can see and continue to learn about our operations

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 it would be helpful definitely I will start working on that and coordinating

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 with solid waste to see what we can put together I know with Pratt that there is

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 some limitations on what we can record or show however I'm sure that there's

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 some way we can provide some virtual education about recycling to those

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 students awesome thank you so much I appreciate it thank you y'all have a

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 great day you too all right so we are moving right along to item D management

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 reports and future action items good morning committee members the we have no

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 management reports in this particular packet and three items on the matrix the

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 first one is the solid waste item that is pending the solid waste management

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 strategy the second is a revisitation of the idea of the notification for the

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 mosquito spraying and what we're planning on doing with that is we've got a number

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 of changes that need to happen with the mosquito surveillance and response plan

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 that's going to come back in the early spring to to be considered and so we

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 have for example the the newer generation insecticide that we used we

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 want to be sure that's added into the plan there's a few odds and ends so that

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 should be coming up in the early spring and then looks like the update on the

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 green business program is slotted right now for January to come back in front of

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 the committee on the environment so that's all I have all right and we will

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 move to concluding items councilmember Davis and for me today no okay well I

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 don't have any specific items I just want to say thank you to everyone here

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 the committee on the environment all the staff for your care for our community

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 and all the work you've done for the presentations and and everything it has

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 meant a lot so I just wanted to put that out there I appreciate it and we'll with

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 that we will adjourn our meeting at 928 thank you everyone