WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.360 good morning everyone welcome to the committee on the environment my name is 00:00:08.360 --> 00:00:16.440 Keely Briggs and we do have a quorum today councilmember Meltzer is out there 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:22.000 has been a death in the family so we can send our condolences I do have a 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:27.520 question before we get started on our agenda it says my name is Kelly Briggs 00:00:27.520 --> 00:00:34.440 do we need to city attorney do we need to address that now or can that be made 00:00:34.440 --> 00:00:39.200 up in the minutes next time we can correct that the minutes next time okay 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:45.640 all right thank you so it is November 2nd and we are getting started at 901 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:52.880 and we will go ahead and start with our items for consideration item a consider 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:57.880 approval of October 5th 2020 minutes 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:04.600 councilmember Davis yes I'll move approval of the minutes okay and I will 00:01:04.600 --> 00:01:12.060 second all in favor say aye aye all right so we'll go on right down to item 00:01:12.060 --> 00:01:17.940 B receive a report and hold a discussion on the 2019 greenhouse gas contribution 00:01:17.940 --> 00:01:23.640 analysis yes good morning council members this is James Douglas 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:33.160 conservation programs coordinator and let me pull up this screen here and how 00:01:33.160 --> 00:01:39.440 does that look for everybody right we can see it awesome all right so like you 00:01:39.440 --> 00:01:44.920 said we'll be talking today about the 2019 greenhouse gas contribution analysis 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:50.360 results so this will be building on our October presentation the last 00:01:50.360 --> 00:01:55.440 presentation which was the results of the 2019 greenhouse gas inventory the 00:01:55.440 --> 00:02:01.600 contribution analysis tool was started in 2018 so just this previous year we 00:02:01.600 --> 00:02:08.200 did a few analyses for past inventories going back to 2011 and so this will be 00:02:08.200 --> 00:02:14.120 the second year that we're using that for sort of our more current inventories 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:18.080 this will be the first year that we've completed this analysis for the 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:23.240 municipal inventory if you remember from our previous presentation and we do two 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:27.320 analyses every year one for municipal operations and one for the Denton 00:02:27.320 --> 00:02:32.080 community as a whole and so this will be the first year that we have had the 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:36.680 resources and the data to complete the municipal analysis along with the 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:41.920 community analysis and just a brief background on what the contribution 00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:47.280 analysis is it's an assessment of the variability between two years which we 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:51.120 have greenhouse gas inventory data for and the way that I really like to 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:55.440 summarize this is it outlines what worked well what needs improving and 00:02:55.440 --> 00:03:02.680 what is outside of our operational control so as we said and we'll be 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:07.520 focusing today on the results of the 2019 analysis which will showcase the 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:12.520 difference between the 2018 results and the 2019 results and we're going to 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:19.840 summarize those and have a few highlights there just a quick 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:25.240 recap of that October presentation and you'll see here on the top chart the 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:30.360 results of the municipal greenhouse gas inventory analysis and the bottom chart 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:37.120 has the community side of things and what we'll be focusing on today if you 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:42.640 take a look briefly here at the last two inventories 2018 and 2019 if you take a 00:03:42.640 --> 00:03:47.920 look at the scale here it'll give you a good reference point for previous years 00:03:47.920 --> 00:03:51.760 as we move into the contribution analysis itself you'll see a change in 00:03:51.760 --> 00:03:55.680 the y-axis and so I just want to point out here what the the difference between 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:05.280 the two years that we're talking about and we will get into those results so 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:11.220 you may remember from last year the sort of style of these results as a waterfall 00:04:11.220 --> 00:04:18.320 diagram the red we have are the increases in greenhouse gas emissions 00:04:18.320 --> 00:04:24.120 from 2018 to 2019 and the blue shows decreases and obviously the two gray 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:29.880 bars are our totals for 2018 and 2019 and they are representative of the net 00:04:29.880 --> 00:04:35.120 change between those two what we have here is on the far left and right sides 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:39.360 will be the greatest changes and as we move closer to the middle you get 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:44.440 smaller and smaller changes on either one of those sides and so we'll take a 00:04:44.440 --> 00:04:47.520 quick look at this and then I do have on the next slide sort of just the 00:04:47.520 --> 00:04:52.680 highlights there but you can see on the left-hand side we have emissions from 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:56.580 the debt and energy center as well as landfill emissions and on the right side 00:04:56.580 --> 00:05:02.360 I did want to point out that the analysis itself highlights transmission 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:09.040 and distribution losses the tool itself doesn't know that that's an electricity 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:14.040 driven number it's one that we input on our own and so just keep in mind that 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:18.840 those decreases from transmission and distribution are the same as the 00:05:18.840 --> 00:05:23.600 decreases from the electricity fuel mix and that they are improved because of 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:28.080 that improved renewable energy in the portfolio and so I did just want to 00:05:28.080 --> 00:05:36.000 point that out and here just lists a few highlights from that analysis and on the 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:41.040 increased side we also had an increase in vehicle miles traveled and number of 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:46.860 employees and so that is built into that and a slight increase in building energy 00:05:46.860 --> 00:05:50.560 use intensity also could be a factor from an increase in the number of 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:54.960 employees there on the decrease side the biggest factor once again is that 00:05:54.960 --> 00:06:01.120 increase in renewable energy and in the DME portfolio we had decreased waste 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:06.080 generation per employee which we talked a little bit about during October's 00:06:06.080 --> 00:06:11.480 presentation but we see that here showcased in the analysis itself and and 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:16.880 then we have an increase in vehicle efficiency from the employee commute and 00:06:16.880 --> 00:06:21.680 we also had some some favorable weather conditions in a slightly cooler summer 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:30.120 comparing 2018 to 2019 so we're gonna switch over now to the community as a 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:36.520 whole the Denton community as a whole some of the larger increases were due 00:06:36.520 --> 00:06:43.240 to an increase in vehicle miles traveled per person and we have a growth in 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:47.320 population which I'll talk about here in more detail in a second but that's a 00:06:47.320 --> 00:06:51.640 really important factor to consider when you're talking about the variability 00:06:51.640 --> 00:07:00.360 between any two years we have increased waste generation per person as well and 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:03.360 then on the decrease side some highlights once again you you'll see that 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:08.600 transmission and distribution loss and change also an electricity driven factor 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:14.560 we have decreased on-road emissions per vehicle and the same increase in vehicle 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:18.360 efficiency that we saw from the employee commuter vehicles is going to have a 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:23.080 larger impact on the community as a whole obviously a lot more passenger 00:07:23.080 --> 00:07:27.680 vehicles there when we're talking about the entire Denton community and a very 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:31.840 large impact from the change in the electricity fuel mix the increase in 00:07:31.840 --> 00:07:38.800 renewable energy there is the the largest factor there on the decrease side 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:43.960 and so once again we'll just kind of highlight those in in words make it a 00:07:43.960 --> 00:07:51.240 little bit easier to see than it is on that x-axis we also in the increase side 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:55.560 I did want to point out that it was a little bit of a cooler year 2019 was 00:07:55.560 --> 00:08:01.080 overall and so that colder winter we put in the increase category because 00:08:01.080 --> 00:08:05.440 the need for increased heating is going to have a little bit more on the 00:08:05.440 --> 00:08:09.360 emission side but the cooler summer obviously we don't need to use the AC 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:19.520 as much and so we'll have a little bit less on the on the AC cooling side like 00:08:19.520 --> 00:08:22.920 I said I wanted to dive a little bit into the population growth obviously 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:26.680 population growth is going to touch a lot of different sectors and so built 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:32.440 into that change that that red bar in population growth is all of these 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:36.800 different factors and so an increase in population is going to impact your waste 00:08:36.800 --> 00:08:41.160 generation your vehicle miles traveled your residential fuel use and your 00:08:41.160 --> 00:08:44.680 residential electricity use and this is just diving into a little bit more 00:08:44.680 --> 00:08:50.840 detail into what what all goes into that factor and so we can kind of you know 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:56.000 imagine that this is all built built into that slight increase there this is 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:00.480 important when we go to take a look at the efficiency of our programs we want 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:06.040 to make sure that we are taking a look at metrics such as kilowatt hours per 00:09:06.040 --> 00:09:10.960 household because that gives us a really good sense of for example energy 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:15.280 efficiency education if the education is going out and we're seeing in it an 00:09:15.280 --> 00:09:18.480 improvement there we want to make sure that we take out the variability of 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:23.440 something like population growth to effectively judge whether or not those 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:28.720 programs are working and this is a really good tool to showcase that so 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:37.720 that wraps up the presentation and I will take any questions I have to take 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:42.440 this down give me one second you can take this thing down so we can see yes 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:47.840 thank you thank you thank you for the presentation Councilmember Davis do you 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:54.760 have any questions or comments no just to express appreciation for using that 00:09:54.760 --> 00:09:59.440 tool and especially applying it to the municipal analysis it's a it's nice to 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:04.520 be able to see a little more granularity and know where we can target efforts you 00:10:04.520 --> 00:10:09.400 know we know some things that we want to keep up and things that are beneficial 00:10:09.400 --> 00:10:13.840 but it's nice to be able to see where we can put efforts and resources and get 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:22.280 good benefits so thank you yeah I agree I would like to ask though is this 00:10:22.280 --> 00:10:27.360 something that we will look at or the implementation committee as we look to 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:32.320 the sustainability plan to try to tie these two together if you could speak to 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:37.800 that a little bit for those watching yeah absolutely the besides just 00:10:37.800 --> 00:10:42.000 tracking greenhouse gases you know for doing it it's also a very wide-reaching 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:46.900 metric in terms of all of the different sectors that it touches and so having 00:10:46.900 --> 00:10:51.960 this tool in combination with the greenhouse gas inventory every year is 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:55.200 going to be a really important cycle that we're going to run through as we go 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:59.960 through this decision-making process not only to help us set those strategies but 00:10:59.960 --> 00:11:05.200 to continually make sure that we're on track to meet whatever those goals are 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:12.860 okay thank you and is there anyone that can answer the question when we do our 00:11:12.860 --> 00:11:18.120 waste analysis that's coming up or the the contract the consultant comes in 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:24.520 will they be looking at the the emissions from the landfill in their 00:11:24.520 --> 00:11:31.400 study going forward to kind of look at that to see what we need to do and 00:11:31.400 --> 00:11:37.400 whatnot or is that something separate miss Briggs this is Brian burner 00:11:37.400 --> 00:11:43.240 director of solid waste for the city of Denton that is a separate activity that 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:49.560 we are currently doing as you may remember we as part of the whole 00:11:49.560 --> 00:11:55.220 landfill gas to energy process project we did a significant analysis on how 00:11:55.220 --> 00:12:01.320 much landfill gas the the landfill is currently producing and we're actually 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:06.640 working on an RFP to go out and turn that it you know see how we can turn that 00:12:06.640 --> 00:12:12.520 into pipeline grade gas there will be a marriage between that project and our 00:12:12.520 --> 00:12:17.680 solid waste management strategy as we evaluate the amount of trust balls you 00:12:17.680 --> 00:12:21.200 know the material that can rot that is currently being put into the landfill 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:25.080 projecting that out so we will be able to look at that but I think it all comes 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:30.120 back to really that the slide that talked about the increase in the amount 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:33.240 of solid waste that residents are generating and this is not just a 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:39.180 Denton centric variable that has been identified this is this is happening 00:12:39.180 --> 00:12:43.920 nationwide in most cities across the nation you're actually seeing residents 00:12:43.920 --> 00:12:48.080 producing more waste so part of the strategy will be not only to identify 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:52.280 what kind of what we're throwing away but then also how to encourage and and 00:12:52.280 --> 00:12:58.240 ensure that from a front-end standpoint we are reducing the amount that we are 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:03.520 acquiring so at the back end we can really find alternate ways to manage 00:13:03.520 --> 00:13:07.520 that that minimal material and then decrease the amount that's actually 00:13:07.520 --> 00:13:13.880 going to the landfill perfect thank you so much for for letting us know all that 00:13:13.880 --> 00:13:19.280 it is connected and I like the word you use their marriage because it's gonna be 00:13:19.280 --> 00:13:26.780 a marriage for sure okay the only last comment I have is that seeing the 00:13:26.780 --> 00:13:32.040 increase in the emissions from generation it is nice to have those 00:13:32.040 --> 00:13:36.080 renewable contracts that we have there to to pull those down and balance that 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:41.680 out it's good to see that it's working in the way that we thought it would and 00:13:41.680 --> 00:13:47.160 if go ahead councilmember Davis thanks sorry I just thought of something I was 00:13:47.160 --> 00:13:53.080 in my mind trying to remember what you said about transmission and distribution 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:58.840 losses and if you wouldn't mind maybe a staff report or an email whatever is 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:01.920 easiest if you just put that down again because I'm not sure I'm going to be 00:14:01.920 --> 00:14:07.200 able to correctly repeat it and remember because it I remember what you said 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:10.720 about the tool didn't have it built in that we needed to add some values 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:14.600 ourselves but I'm not sure I understood completely what you said so if maybe we 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:18.440 could just get that in writing someplace so I don't misquote you somewhere I could 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:24.200 be helpful for you thank you all right awesome thank you James I appreciate that 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:30.000 so we will move on to our next item item C receiver report and hold the 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:34.520 discussion regarding the FY 20 annual report for the city of Denton 00:14:34.520 --> 00:14:40.360 sustainability recycling and learn to conserve events 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:47.640 you 00:15:14.760 --> 00:15:16.820 you 00:15:16.820 --> 00:15:29.560 I'm not hearing anything if you're speaking Sarah yeah sorry about that I 00:15:29.560 --> 00:15:36.720 was on mute so we are here today to talk about the events that were hosted during 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:42.040 the 2020 fiscal year for the sustainability division so in total we 00:15:42.040 --> 00:15:48.000 were able to host 96 events now most of these events took place before the 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:54.200 pandemic in March we stopped hosting events about March 13th and then went 00:15:54.200 --> 00:16:06.040 into virtual engagement only so we'd like to talk about just the objective to 00:16:06.040 --> 00:16:11.640 increase sustainability awareness and the personal responsibility of hosting 00:16:11.640 --> 00:16:15.160 these events and doing that type of engagement we want to provide the 00:16:15.160 --> 00:16:19.560 Committee on the environment data regarding these public events as well as 00:16:19.560 --> 00:16:26.800 discuss how we plan to move forward in this current fiscal year so in total we 00:16:26.800 --> 00:16:32.160 hosted 93 events 32 of those events were community events 20 were volunteer events 00:16:32.160 --> 00:16:38.720 30 were outreach events and 11 were tours so of those community events mostly 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:45.680 consisting of workshops and education we hosted a lot of events focused on local 00:16:45.680 --> 00:16:51.000 food which is more of the gardening style workshops we are also able to 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:54.920 increase the number of locations this year to 12 different locations across 00:16:54.920 --> 00:17:00.000 the city of Denton and then we also a lot of those workshops were focused on 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:08.080 how to support pollinators so the class average actually increased so we had a 00:17:08.080 --> 00:17:13.880 little over 28 people per class with a total of 105 attendees this does not 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:18.200 include major events which pushed the total up to a little over a thousand for 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:22.320 events here's some of the classes that we were able to host last year prior to 00:17:22.320 --> 00:17:27.680 the pandemic and then one or two of these were also hosted virtually we also 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:33.680 with during the pandemic there was a lot of wonderful virtual engagement classes 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:38.240 where they were talking about native plants some of my favorite were from 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:43.840 Water University and rather than we try to promote a lot of those through our 00:17:43.840 --> 00:17:47.440 Facebook and through our social media which has a pretty substantial following 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:52.480 and so we hope that people were able to still get that education that they like 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:56.560 and enjoy through a lot of those experts that typically we would bring in 00:17:56.560 --> 00:18:01.400 ourselves to teach these classes but they were hosting free classes online so 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:08.800 we we opted to promote a lot of those experts as far as volunteer events go we 00:18:08.800 --> 00:18:13.880 were still able to host several volunteer events we did host a few in 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:19.320 April because we had we still had a lot of plants to plant prior to the pandemic 00:18:19.320 --> 00:18:24.480 we had applied for a grant to get more milkweed and they ended up sending us 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:28.880 three over 300 milkweed plants and so when we got those at the beginning of 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:32.880 April we still need to get those in the ground so we are able to do a couple of 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:37.840 socially distanced planting events and get those in the ground in time for them 00:18:37.840 --> 00:18:44.680 to thrive last April so we still planted I think it was close to about a thousand 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:49.520 different native plants at Clear Creek this past fiscal year and so those 00:18:49.520 --> 00:18:54.560 volunteers were incredibly helpful a lot of those were in the form of Master 00:18:54.560 --> 00:19:03.520 Naturalist which as you can see they donated 2300 over 2300 hours of their 00:19:03.520 --> 00:19:10.200 time and this is just at Clear Creek alone which altogether the volunteers 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:17.200 that's about see $92,000 of value that they were able to contribute to our 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:23.640 department so as far as outreach events we were still able to host several but 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:30.120 these of course stopped after once the pandemic hit we were no longer doing 00:19:30.120 --> 00:19:34.800 tabling or one-on-one events with individuals we're hoping that at some 00:19:34.800 --> 00:19:40.280 point next year those can resume but we will also we're just waiting for things 00:19:40.280 --> 00:19:48.280 to get for it to be safer for us and the public we also hosted 11 tours there was 00:19:48.280 --> 00:19:54.440 241 people on these tours that attended and were able to get some education on 00:19:54.440 --> 00:20:00.400 solid waste and recycling those who have also been put on hold indefinitely and 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:05.160 then as far as social media goes this is where a lot of our focus was placed 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:10.360 during this time period and like I said we were promoting a lot of great webinars 00:20:10.360 --> 00:20:15.520 that were going on and we were able to increase our followers so that total 00:20:15.520 --> 00:20:21.320 following count below that does include next door which is about 34,000 people 00:20:21.320 --> 00:20:26.780 however our other social media accounts we had about 11,719 00:20:26.780 --> 00:20:32.680 followers and we were able to increase that over this past fiscal year by 10% 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:37.840 so overall we've had a pretty positive response with social media and we've 00:20:37.840 --> 00:20:44.160 been able to connect with new people and still relay some information other forms 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:48.120 of data that we thought were relevant last year we're still at our last fiscal 00:20:48.120 --> 00:20:53.720 year we'll still able to do 330 energy rebates and the audits have been put on 00:20:53.720 --> 00:21:00.560 hold so prior to the pandemic we were able to do 19 energy 9 water we handed 00:21:00.560 --> 00:21:06.560 out almost a thousand different seed packets and then 600 different native 00:21:06.560 --> 00:21:12.480 plants were planted at Clear Creek now we did do also several hundred spider 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:16.700 wart plants and so that those weren't factored into there as well so that's 00:21:16.700 --> 00:21:22.520 why I boosted those numbers and then we also did we're able to do field trips 00:21:22.520 --> 00:21:27.120 last fall at Clear Creek but they were canceled in the spring and they have 00:21:27.120 --> 00:21:31.120 also been put on hold this fall and I believe the master naturalists are 00:21:31.120 --> 00:21:37.240 working hard to try and do some virtual field trips so that they can still get 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:43.760 that education to those different grade levels with that so we're hoping to 00:21:43.760 --> 00:21:48.960 increase community partnerships improve tracking especially with social media 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:52.880 and virtual engagement just because that is still something that is very safe and 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:56.400 is proving to be a really great way to connect with the community during this 00:21:56.400 --> 00:22:08.800 time period with that I will see if you guys have any questions thank you for 00:22:08.800 --> 00:22:13.280 that presentation and thank you to the volunteers that is fantastic to see 00:22:13.280 --> 00:22:16.680 councilmember Davis do you have any questions or comments on that 00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:22.440 presentation no questions thank you but you know that this is a weird time for 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:26.920 everybody but I know a lot of people took the opportunity to get their hands 00:22:26.920 --> 00:22:31.200 dirty and get out in the yard and do a lot of gardening projects a lot of home 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:35.940 projects and you know some of those were right in the wheelhouse that you're 00:22:35.940 --> 00:22:40.280 talking about so I really appreciate you providing the service to our citizens 00:22:40.280 --> 00:22:44.400 that you did with connecting with the experts I know I googled about 13 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:48.240 different things during the pandemic of how to do things I didn't know how to do 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:52.360 so what a great resource and then to still be able to get that kind of 00:22:52.360 --> 00:22:57.280 volunteer turnout even in the midst of the pandemic that's that's pretty great 00:22:57.280 --> 00:23:03.680 good work sir I have a question I know that when we received an update before 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:09.000 there was an issue with some people signing up and then not showing up I'm 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:15.440 sure with that going online it's probably not an issue as much but when 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:19.880 we weren't meeting online was that still an issue or did that seem to kind of 00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:27.080 work itself out so with my workshops a lot of times we would increase the size 00:23:27.080 --> 00:23:31.280 so that even if people signed up and they didn't show up we would still we 00:23:31.280 --> 00:23:35.800 weren't turning people away so those people that were reserving a space 00:23:35.800 --> 00:23:40.520 weren't taking the place of someone who was gonna show up the registration 00:23:40.520 --> 00:23:45.320 because they're free classes you always have people that are gonna sign up and 00:23:45.320 --> 00:23:50.960 then don't attend but we tried to really mitigate that by making sure that we 00:23:50.960 --> 00:23:56.360 were allowing enough people to sign up we I believe we only had one or two 00:23:56.360 --> 00:24:01.600 instances where those classes actually filled up but even then I would start a 00:24:01.600 --> 00:24:07.320 wait list and I don't think that we ever turned anyone away during last fiscal 00:24:07.320 --> 00:24:11.040 year the fiscal year before I had to turn two people away during a workshop 00:24:11.040 --> 00:24:16.320 because it was so busy that we actually were meeting the fire code in the room 00:24:16.320 --> 00:24:22.800 that we were in wow that's that's that's great I think just because people are so 00:24:22.800 --> 00:24:27.520 interested in in your classes I appreciate that the last question I have 00:24:27.520 --> 00:24:32.920 is you mentioned virtual tours for the school at Clear Creek is there a way 00:24:32.920 --> 00:24:37.960 that we could do the solid waste tour virtually so that they can show that to 00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:42.320 the students I know that when I went on those tours with the kids they were 00:24:42.320 --> 00:24:48.240 really fascinating it may already exist I'm not sure you know but if we could do 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:54.160 that just so the students can see and continue to learn about our operations 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:58.960 it would be helpful definitely I will start working on that and coordinating 00:24:58.960 --> 00:25:03.920 with solid waste to see what we can put together I know with Pratt that there is 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:09.160 some limitations on what we can record or show however I'm sure that there's 00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:13.160 some way we can provide some virtual education about recycling to those 00:25:13.160 --> 00:25:17.320 students awesome thank you so much I appreciate it thank you y'all have a 00:25:17.320 --> 00:25:25.400 great day you too all right so we are moving right along to item D management 00:25:25.400 --> 00:25:36.080 reports and future action items good morning committee members the we have no 00:25:36.080 --> 00:25:44.120 management reports in this particular packet and three items on the matrix the 00:25:44.120 --> 00:25:48.640 first one is the solid waste item that is pending the solid waste management 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:57.760 strategy the second is a revisitation of the idea of the notification for the 00:25:57.760 --> 00:26:02.880 mosquito spraying and what we're planning on doing with that is we've got a number 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:07.280 of changes that need to happen with the mosquito surveillance and response plan 00:26:07.280 --> 00:26:13.800 that's going to come back in the early spring to to be considered and so we 00:26:13.800 --> 00:26:19.160 have for example the the newer generation insecticide that we used we 00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:23.080 want to be sure that's added into the plan there's a few odds and ends so that 00:26:23.080 --> 00:26:27.640 should be coming up in the early spring and then looks like the update on the 00:26:27.640 --> 00:26:33.280 green business program is slotted right now for January to come back in front of 00:26:33.280 --> 00:26:40.480 the committee on the environment so that's all I have all right and we will 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:48.240 move to concluding items councilmember Davis and for me today no okay well I 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:53.080 don't have any specific items I just want to say thank you to everyone here 00:26:53.080 --> 00:26:57.760 the committee on the environment all the staff for your care for our community 00:26:57.760 --> 00:27:01.640 and all the work you've done for the presentations and and everything it has 00:27:01.640 --> 00:27:09.960 meant a lot so I just wanted to put that out there I appreciate it and we'll with 00:27:09.960 --> 00:27:18.000 that we will adjourn our meeting at 928 thank you everyone