Longmont Sustainability Advisory Board – July 2024

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Longmont Sustainability Advisory Board – July 2024

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My

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personal agenda, we have our approval of minutes from our last meeting, because due to all

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the

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updates to go through changes

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all those

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forms the

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market is leading.

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And

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I have a few

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that I’ll just add to that, and

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so on to general business, we welcome our new members returning.

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Welcome.

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Yeah.

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So I got, we just take a few minutes since we have quite a few new members to go around and give folks an opportunity to introduce themselves and share anything that you’d like to share that goes for new members and all members as well. So we get to know each other a little bit more, I would say our summer months, somebody’s a little lighter on the agenda.

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Anyway, because he shuffled around so we can tie time today. So if there’s anyone I get started, I think I know everyone in some capacity, but at least the non blockchain the sustainability manager of the city. I’ve been here for about eight and a half years. And we are housed in the relatively newly created department of strategic integration, which is a department that was formed specifically to support the organization to integrate city wide Council priorities and goals. Most of the department does internal support through GIS and data analytics and great for analyses and that sort of stuff. But there’s a few folks like us and also both internal and external worlds.

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Around

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Francie Jaffe shaper, I’m an internal sustainability coordinator. I’ve been at the city for just over six years, and had a couple different positions within the Sustainability Office. And in my most recent position, which focuses on supporting staff in prices to their work the past just storage views.

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On the shelf, and the chair now it’s been like

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and overview. Yeah, the last six years I’ve been a environmental and social justice nonprofit.

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Doing grant making for them. So

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focus and then a sustainability

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consultant before

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this board and the great things they do.

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And where I’ve grown small, I’ve been a board member on this board for two years, and within outlets for about 10 years, but prior to that I was in North Carolina, where I was the founder of partnership for autonomous future which will target the County, North Carolina environmental group was very active with their students who had legislation fighting asphalt plants in neighborhoods. As it was noted, some wrote the proposal actually had the opportunity to meet one of the candidates for the river to tourism project that helps you preserve a river in Tennessee and North Carolina, and wanted to find a way to support the community here on an opportunity to Kevin Jones, Florida on

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a couple of years ago. It’s a great group of people. welcome new members excited to have.

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Daniel entered on the board for two minutes.

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My day job, University of Colorado Boulder in their research office to support researchers in bringing their technologies into practical applications to market and throughout the world. And, yes, I’m excited to be here. I was born and raised in Colorado moved along lot four years ago and really excited. So

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I’m Marian I have a long background in sustainability. I founded a sustainable business network in Arizona.

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I

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lead a Sustainable Cities conference at Prescott college where I was the marketing director for six years, and

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spent a lot of that time learning and writing about ecology. When I was younger, I worked on farms and such and my husband is a farmer, he’s left his transition his tech job to starting a farm within the food cooperative, and he just got the only grant in this region from USDA $100,000 to start a food health. So I have a big focus on life based approaches to sustainability.

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I’ve had meetings with recently with the Boulder County Commissioner of national stoltmann. On pesticide issues, there’s a big controversy going on there. The farmers are all up in arms about that want to reach farmers coalition,

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that my husband and I are very much focused on helping the city to green the codes so that transitions to life and nature based approaches like passive solar can happen in every neighborhood. Thanks, I don’t see Trump walls, eliminating pesticides, building a regional food plan and food sustainability plan. disturbing things coming out of the FDA about how they’re not going to be maintaining our supply chains where especially more we have to do that local aid,

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which is what part of why the food have happened. And eliminating pesticides and starting as much local growing up every scrap of land because we’re not calling a project haven’t yet started, but I will call greater bulk the greater boulder urban gardens project. So that’s

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uncocks

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I’ve been in the board for 10 minutes as well.

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I’m an architect. I have my own practice. I also teach as an adjunct University of Colorado Denver.

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Even though I’m an urban planner, I have an environmental studies doctorate

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focusing on regulations and adaptation,

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just published a book about adaptation. So all about localization assessment systems.

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I served as a commissioner

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for the historic preservation commission, and two years in planning and zoning as well.

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Robert Davidson, this is my second time on the sustainability advisory board. So thanks for having me back.

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I spent the last almost 20 years now working on building efficiency projects. So that’s an area of expertise and really passionate, particularly passionate about

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IRS use and efficiency taxes.

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I’m Ethan green, new here. Of course, I ran for mayor last year.

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And

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ride a bicycle everywhere ride the bus all the time.

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Did a master’s degree in pollution at university in Boulder years ago, started a small country club there was a single mission or

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a lot of work

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for almost three years

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from the foreigners in Mexico,

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farms in New Mexico

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gender agriculture

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direct action

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outlet for institutions.

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Introduction so

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I’m Becky, the Executive Director of Strategic integration, which is a department that is our sustainability practice as well as their

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strategic goals of the city including data analytics, use of GIS, professional and business up to the city and more efficient, collaborative, sustainable, hopefully.

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Particularly.

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Welcome and welcome back.

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My name is Heather. I went to city for six well over six years. I’m an executive assistant and strategic integration as well, our assistant city manager for the utilities and his leadership team as well as

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well lot of people in the department so and then I recorded secretary for this word and also a lot of great stuff.

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You’ll see a lot of communications for me

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If you have questions that are probably knows the answers more than I do, but always reach out to me.

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Wayne introduced himself and have a chance to talk a little bit later, Susan.

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Sure. Welcome to new folks. Welcome back. I’m Susan Bartlett. I’m the director of energy strategies and solutions, we’ve thought about power communications or your local municipal electric utility. And my team is hard to be responsible for customer engagement, and

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distributed energy resources and a lot of exciting things that are.

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So we have our media partner over Do you want to say

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America word for one on top of media and we record advisory boards, and we’ll have this up on YouTube.

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A couple days, thank you.

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So hopefully, as your will get to know, we’re very

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informal word make it some of the other words, you’ll see are tend to be more formal. I think we’re very vibrant and cordial bunch. So please feel free to

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chime in, make jokes, whatever you want to do and all that if you have any questions, we do follow Robert’s Rules of Order. I did send you all some kind of welcome materials to help orient you, as Robert says

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that Robert, right there, so you get to make up your rules.

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But please don’t be intimidated by that. If, if there’s ever questions around, you know, process or whatever, like other kind of jumped in earlier, and we’ll help make sure that we’re probably the same things

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as me.

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So as an orientation to our new folks, but also a couple of things. These are always good discussions, I think, for existing books,

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is that I thought might be helpful, in addition to the documents that I emailed you all, one of the things that is is relatively new ish, anyway, is the one line indicators page. And we’ve started to move away from having our very lengthy and substantive substantive plans, like our sustainability plan, and a vision roadmap and an action plan themselves as a PDF. Online, they’re hard to navigate. And as we’re moving towards requirements around aka compliance and things like that a lot of those didn’t follow those EPA compliance rules. And we’re trying to move those things into a space that also makes them more engaging and interactive and easy for people to access. And part of the purpose of llama indicators was also to start to show how a lot of the plants that we have in place, so the sustainability plan, climate actions and envision Audubon, the beneficial building electrification of Canada transportation roadmap, also don’t exist in isolation. So a lot of those things interact with one another. There’s goals that we have that are supported by actions across those plans. And we’re starting to try to show how those things are connected to one another. So what are the areas in which folks use would sometimes come to us and say, Why isn’t this piece of transportation and the sustainability plan? And we’d say, Oh, well, we are doing that it’s just that particular strategy or action or goal that is in envision Longmont, and it was kind of confusing for folks. And so what we’ve tried to do with this dashboard, is to not only be able to show each of these plans, so you can click on each one of them. So it brings in all of the content from what what are the PDFs, but it puts it into more interactive format. So it goes through each of the topic areas, you can click on each of these.

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It’ll show you all of the actions in there, you can have done them and go as deep as you want into any of those things.

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But also, if you go back to the homepage, you can click on any of these tabs, so to actions.

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And what we built out with these overarching themes, which we tried to make as high level as possible, but to capture a lot of these, so you could click on st transportation, and it’ll bring up all of the actions across all of those plans focus on transportation. And then similarly, you can go to indicators page, and it’ll show you all of our indicators. And you can click on these and see how well we’re doing. What are our targets and how long are we

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Due to meeting those targets, so

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we’ll make sure if you all don’t have this, that you have the link to this, but it’s a great platform, we’re pretty excited about it, we are adding the parks and open space plan in the coming months, we’ll be adding the water efficiency plan once that’s completed as well. And we this is a very dynamic platform that we’ll be adding and modifying, as we have the plans as we did our targets and goals and those sorts of things. But it’s a great place to see what we’re doing and how well are we doing and we think the goals and targets that we have laid out.

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So I want to point people for that. The other thing that it has is this Reports tab so you can see our previous annual report. And then our we have a report kind of library, if you want to see historical documents, information about the carbon disclosure project, which we report to.

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And then if you really want to go deep on the greenhouse gas side, there is this what’s called a scenario tool.

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And this goes really specifically into our greenhouse gas inventory, our projections based on both business as usual, and we implement all of the strategies that we have identified. And then there’s an opportunity where you can

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go into each of these areas.

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It will show you that area specifically. And then

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you can put in

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actual cells and you can

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turn on

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at the top. So you can do it in two different locations. At the very top, there’s a tab that says, oh, there we go. So you can also the likes versus expensive kind of approach. There’s two different ways, the options.

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Francie worked very hard to get their hands on.

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So she knows.

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So you can also go into the actions and you can kind of toggle these on and off and see how they impact our ability to meet our nation’s targets. So

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we hope this panel or this platform has something for everyone how high level or how you’d like to go. So does anyone have any questions or anything?

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Feel free to spend some time to play around on it. We’re pretty excited about it. But it’s a great introduction to all of the sustainability.

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Things that we have going on.

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Yeah, it’s got eight years not long on Colorado doc that

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we can send out that.

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It’s also linked to traverse City’s website, it’s linked to this button a couple of different pages. You go to a new button or sustainability page where you can track progress here, snake for its official websites and you try to across websites. Hopefully it should be pretty easy to find the people on the website.

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Yeah, if you’re like navigating on our city website, like I was expecting here to link to here, but let me know.

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Never

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mentioned this before, it’s a remarkable all of these documents are more willing to really deal with. And for me, the very important thing is accessibility. And it is hard, even people who you’ve got your staff doing this all day long. And so I wonder how much how much the community itself is accessing this and whether or not there are ways that we could work to make this a tool that helps to share education. For the average person on the street. It’s truly, you know, reading any of these reading requires 107 pages or whatever. It’s truly remarkable show that our city has done. But my question is for the average person on the street, do they know all what we’re doing? That’s, that’s a great question. And I think that’s a continuous effort for us. So you know, Francie worked with our communications team earlier this year to do some rollout and try to get it out there as much as possible. Sharing it with folks like you all if you have other places that we can post it or share it. Whenever we do go to groups when we work with we do

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You experience you mentioned earlier, a lot of internal support. So one of the things that we do even when we do other divisions and workgroups is make sure that they know that this is available to. But I think that that will be an ongoing effort. For us as sustainability outreach and education, your general is, you know, a continuous effort for us.

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Just to add, I recently met with one of our staff members who does more of the outreach, and we talked about when possible, easy opportunities to just leave, like if it’s even if it’s like a program uptake, there’s either invigilated related with political, remember, and you’ll get updates here. So we’ve talked a little bit about how to integrate that, beyond just having a yearly, we’ll do around the annual report of larger push, if you like, don’t forget about all the indicators. And the video that will pop up on you as in progress. I have a student loan bubble up, I realized the scenario tool hadn’t been translated into Spanish yet. So I wanted to make sure that

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section was translated into Spanish before we finalize the video, but we’re going to translate that soon, which is commissionaire. Make your update. So I’m hoping the video will be up in the next couple of weeks, I realized that actually had gone forward. Is there any media outreach, you know, for instance,

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as a times call ever done any articles, right people know about these resources, I mean, obviously, they cover all the individual fit projects and things when they’re newsworthy. But again, I just think that there’s such a depth of information here and so much work that, you know, our city has put into this, that, you know, I want to see, our neighbors know about this, we did a press release. But I think it’s like, that’s not going to be a because we did one press release, like we know that there’s going to be ongoing engagement, as we get deeper, I think about as we finished the open space. It’s not

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open, it’s

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open. For some reason, I thought the jokes are comfortable.

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But I think that’s an opportunity, I think open things, trails, recreation, open space.

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You something

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different in there. So anyway, when that one gets added, I think there’s going to be continuous opportunities for us to, you know, do to kind of bring that back, bring it back to the surface and say, hey, now you can see this online. And it’s always going to reference back in, which is part of the intent of having this platform is to have one streamlined and consolidated place where people can actually see all those things. So we’re also going through the process right now updating our website as an entire organization. So that’s a big undertaking and will hopefully create some more opportunities.

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As

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I say, we I don’t have anything to do with that. We as the organization. So while also,

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as with many other things, the best form of communication is word of mouth. So as we just need to make the community members let people know,

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that is the fastest way to get the information out. We do a lot of communication throughout the city. And we try a lot of different avenues. But word of mouth is really always the best form of communication. And we’re trying to make sure our council members like they’ve seen this, and we’ve talked about it several times. But you know, as they get contacted by constituents and questions and things like that, they know that this is

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what is the frequency of data important stuff right before that something is happening annually or more regularly? We have so we’ll do an annual and get your report. Yeah. And some of the data and we try to update the data and try to

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make your data we have it but a lot of it is manual, and then we’ll come through. Yeah, just as it is all annual data, we want to like halfway through the year data update. But some of our data, like I’ve just replaced the Version data isn’t available until halfway through the year anyway. So that’s where you kind of get some of those data updates at the end of the year, some of the middle of the year. And then transportation data like fall. So the it’s always annual data just kind of happens throughout but the verbal updates that’s always consistent.

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And we’re seeing

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what’s going on

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the consistent time

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we’re getting on it. Yeah. What’s nice about the data is that if you’re just updating a number

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Are we I can do that at any point throughout the year, we don’t have to limit it to

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when we do the choice of your updates, because you have to translate the entire page for integrated updates, but it’s just the trend. Point three is 10%. You can add that at any point in the year, which is,

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yeah, and so for instance, mentioned a couple of times, but I’ll just highlight that it is also available in Spanish. And it is not just not this one.

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And it’s not just Google Translate, and it’s actually manually translated, it’s reviewed by folks to make sure that the transitions are.

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And if you happen to browse the Spanish version, right now, you’ll see that it is not currently matching English, because I actually, we are finishing requests for updates tomorrow, Sunday for translations. So we do have a couple of weeks where they’re not perfectly matching, but we want to make sure we have that accurate translation.

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So the other thing that I just wanted to go through with folks, for our our new folks that then this is muscles that I have some updates for sustained, folks. So every year at the beginning of the year, we’ll talk through, what do we have on the agenda for the year? What are city council priorities that we know are coming? And then what are priorities for this board. So as you all know, being focused in the sustainability field, sustainability is a very big umbrella. There’s lots of topics within that. There’s lots of different directions that we could go, there’s lots of different things connected to again, council priorities. We also have other boards that focus more specifically on certain topics, and we have our transportation for our water board.

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And so we every year kind of have a conversation in the beginning of the year to try to lay out what are the key topics and priorities for this or to focus on and then I do my best to kind of build out this work plan for the year, it doesn’t always exactly align, because things get

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bumped around. Sometimes we have priorities that come up that we want to bring to this board that we didn’t anticipate earlier in the year and whatnot.

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But just to give you a sense of kind of what falls into that we have sort of always our general business, which are kind of scanning items, climate resilience, energy, electrification and fences key, the key priority for councils, food systems, and land policies, natural environment, transportation, water.

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And then zero waste. So those are

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key topic areas. And then looking ahead

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to our August meeting. So we’ll have an update from Platte River Power Authority and their integrated resource plan. So they came to us earlier in the year to talk about that planning process.

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And then

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potentially some updates from landscaping COVID that we talked about a couple months ago, and then an update to the water efficiency plan.

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September I just wanted to flag for you all this is kind of a placeholder for updates. That depends on where some other things are at.

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Hannah from Walmart comm communications is likely to come talk to us about distributed energy resources and our plans. This is confirmed. So I did contact Michael Gulia to talk to Merryman a few months ago on passive design standards. And so he’s gonna come and talk to you all about that. He’s the architect who did the passive

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prospect survey just because I figured that he probably knew something about both.

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Yeah, so.

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And then a couple of other things, you’ll see that like September, this is not necessarily everything that’s going to be on the agenda. It’s just because I’ve had a couple things from other ones. So they kind of just get spread throughout the year. Code cohort recommendations. So we’ve been participating in the Northwest Regional code, building codes for over the last couple of years, looking specifically at things like energy efficiency, solar, EB and building electrification to try to develop some consistency across the region as far as code requirements. So as we’ve been working on that, there’s also been some code requirements that have come down from this state. And so as we are updating our building codes to align with the 23, four

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IECC. We are working with our consultant to do some cost analysis of those code requirements. And then our billing services folks are still waiting unless Susan.

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Clearly the 15th has passed and I don’t think we’ve heard I’ve heard so

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I’m Dr. Winter Brown, anxiously awaiting for codebooks to be available, they’re quite late. So this is also dependent on when we actually get those books that we do cover and ways. But when we do have them and we have all that information, we will make sure to come to you all to have a pretty in depth conversation around what we’re learning from that process. But those codes are an endo services when you take us out to city council

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discussion or their direction, as called regarding building codes.

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Couple of other things that we’ve talked about. So the conversation around regenerative agriculture, use of open space for ag and carbon sequestration and kind of how those things fit together. I’ve been in conversation with folks from our parks and natural resources and open space group. So they will be coming to us and potentially some other folks. I know, we’ve talked about some other regional folks that have expertise in this area. Yeah.

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August, October.

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We had Platte River, coming in August. And potentially I can move it for.

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Yeah, we also have the media report, I can bump it.

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Let’s see.

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And I’m meeting with our open space, folks, I think in the next couple of weeks to make a plan for that presentation.

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So it depends on what else is concerned for the August agenda. So like I said, these things aren’t beyond the audience, these things aren’t set in stone because things get bumped around.

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And then we have the transportation mobility plan update. So I got Bill has come to you all I think just Lisa, can you let us know when you’ve confirmed when the Agni seven exam is going to come in and give us an update on that?

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Yeah, I mean, the kids should be just kind of as public committed to merge check. Yeah. And then the 27th update and our vision zero, which is focus on.

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And then probably

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just a very quick, final like letter of support or something like that with regards to the transit mobility plan. And then

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so

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and then, as existing folks know that new folks may not know, we always cancel our December meeting, because it is right before the holidays.

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I was just, if we had a cookie exchange.

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Maybe that’s it, we could revisit it closer. If you all want to keep it that’s fine. It’s just

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years and years of doing this or discovered that it’s

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or we could do something just celebratory.

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So and then another kind of standing piece is that we do have the Boulder County.

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I was called the sustainability tax for short. That is the environmental sustainability matching grant programs that usually open sometime in the fall. And we always require a letter of support from this board as we identify projects for that. So that will show up sometime in the fall this fall that needs to undergo that.

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So yeah, that just orient kind of do folks have what are some of the topics that have been on the agenda priority list for this year? And what you will see

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coming up, as I mentioned, please don’t hold me to any of this because there’s a lot of tentative to this.

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Second

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part find their

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chain structure. Are there opportunities where we engage directly with the community like town halls with the board or No, aside from the public hearings within meetings that are more general or are more casual and get community feedback? That’s a great question.

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Yeah, I think typically, we haven’t done that other than public invited to be heard and it’s always open. We have often asked you all to be volunteers at events that we do tabling and stuff at to help just provide a general like sustainability information and things like that.

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But mostly as an advisory board to city council, I think sometimes we do bring folks you know, Michael from the passive design stuff as an example. We often bring folks from the outside to do presentations or provide information or kind of stuff, but

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usually it’s you all providing feedback directly to staff or in some cases providing

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demos that are recommendations that are the same cancel.

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Speaking of that,

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any updates on who’s if we’re going to have a new board sponsor? No, you stay the same. So sorry, folks are are not familiar, Marsha Martin, is our council liaison. Is that what you’re referring to? Yeah, there’s, she should have a press release about whether or not she’s going to be

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oh,

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by the end of the year.

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So if she does step down, then then yes, you would just say that, since the issue is whether or not she can be here, I would rather have a board liaison to actually attend their meetings.

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So and I don’t know what how we would give our input on that. And to bring that concern to thank you.

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I think public outreach is very important. I was involved in Cittaslow and I’m from Turkey, I was a small

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number of jumpers.

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And the taxi driver knew all the rules to apply for.

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And that was very interesting. As well, one of the chunk of criteria is how people.

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Run you mentioned. Just remember how impressed I was detected.

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So maybe there’s another chunk of tasks to

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show?

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Yeah, I think that that’s, I think that that is a really critical piece we are.

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I will say that I think we’ve had a lot of turnover in our communications department, and are in the process of interviewing director for that right now. And I think

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having that in place will, will help our team does a lot of community engagement. We work a lot with Elaine and his team that does a lot of neighborhood based outreach associate to I think one of the other efforts that we have underway, is some of us from sustainability. And the city manager’s office and community resources is looking at

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even accessibility of participation and things like boards and commissions or other groups like we have an equitable and action team, we have our sustainability Coalition, which I know you participated in a long, long time ago, the very beginning.

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We have a bicycle Issues Committee, we have things like that, but we don’t have a great sense of how aware are people of those opportunities to participate? Participate? How accessible are they? What are the barriers in place. And so we’re working right now to put some surveys and things like that together to get a better understanding of that piece of it, which you know, is just one piece

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waned. And maybe I’ll put you on the spot when you come up to talk more broadly about the neighborhood group leaders Association, because I think that’s a pretty unique thing that one has as a condiment to speak directly to me.

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I think from a capacity and resources standpoint, and how we can best leverage

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that to get more information out

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I think we should be doing our strategic planning through the neglect. That’s what I felt that

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it was

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you process the population open in the fall. Now I just have those placeholders from one year to the next because that’s so I don’t forget because that’s a pretty new thing that we just introduced the last couple of years so I can make sure to build it into the agenda we need to talk about.

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Do we have a selection committee or go into it so I just need a

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reminder for myself. Typically, the sustainability Advisory Board does their recruitment in the spring though because our terms go from July Jews

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usually do the midterm

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recruitment

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Medicare

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I know that was kind of elected so feel free to reach out anytime as I said,

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up to

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I didn’t pull the

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agenda backup yet. So given that we had

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a are some transition of folks midterm we need to do an election election of a new vice chair. So Michelle is our chair

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Okay, so

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I moved to nominate married that isn’t the best job

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I’ll say

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just because I’ve been called longest

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Are you okay

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all right let’s do this and

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could you remind everybody what the responsibilities of the vice chair are? And what salary is

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yes, the salary is

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sanitizer allies

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perhaps a cookie exchange should you decide to organize one week yes mostly the Vice Chair serves as a role to step in in the off chance that the chair is not available to

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pretty pretty well keep

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referring back to testing the next thing I want to say remember the Robert’s Rules of Order is not a good choice.

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Anyone else that is

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certainly willing to do it

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I nominate Roberts

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to keep us on the Rules of Order

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Robert all those in favor

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any opposed

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All right, you guys to

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keep up the good attendance

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for people that Michelle will be stepping out for a little bit

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you may very well

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great

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now I

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don’t have any public events here today

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okay, so we have our

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request VS equals neighborhood solutions committee volunteers. We want to come on

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do you want to sit in my seat I’ve got a lot of stuff

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just

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did worse

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need to do that presentation

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next, okay

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well, hello everybody.

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So I it’s important from winter recommended resource coordinator. So,

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the pretext for this is that we have a committee and we need a representative from this group to serve and

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what I’m gonna do especially since a lot of you are new, it’s just a real brief presentation on more detail if you want me to. But just give you a little context about what we’re actually you know why we’re asking

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your

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context I

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don’t know.

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I tried to keep it very simple because I didn’t know exactly

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what I was trying to separate exactly we’re going to have so I am based in community resources

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which we did seem division we’re under the same departments

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Hello restructure recently used

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which which is actually nice. It should just be used to be in community services announcement changed last year, I guess. And kind of brought us into the same the

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Across the kind of the same sphere, as for sustainability, etc, is partially to make us more available to more of the organization, especially, because a lot of work we do is focused on community engagement, especially at the neighborhood level. And we also do a lot of work in conflict resolution, human relations, that space as well, in the social equity world as well.

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No one that doesn’t apply to me.

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Can you get us one minute on what is ngoi? Yes, that’s gonna be okay. So I’ll go a little bit more deeper than I was going to

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complete this, it was okay to ask questions about

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me not.

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So, so first of all, that kind of name or context.

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So, so the context, the neighborhood group in association

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is a network of neighborhood based community groups, we make that distinction, because there’s a lot of different types of community groups or too much detail. We specifically focus on geographically based neighborhoods, those neighborhood boundaries are defined by those neighborhoods, as opposed to every districts that the city has created. The means for data interfacial

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mapping projects that we’re working on right now. So right now we have about 14, as it neighborhoods, those neighborhoods registered with us. We consider them active groups when they registered with us. And they have attended at least two of our monthly meetings with an NGO of eight volts. So they can be registered with us and not have a 10 dose and the digits are inactive.

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We also have about another

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50 neighborhoods that have been registered at some point,

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the very happy item finally say boys that kind of searching for where did the injure lay stalkers.

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I’ve never been able to find that date. We don’t approximately, we finally found the document that officially said that started in 1986.

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Partially in response to some, some filings and different things that are happening in Walmart. Anyone who’s been around Walmart for a while knows that there was some some issues in the city around that time meetings in the 90s on important responses that we needed better communication with our neighborhoods. And so the GLA was set up at that time.

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And so really, one of our roles is to support those groups to build capacity by resources, funding, other support to strengthen those groups help make sure that they are representative of the name events, and primary goals is for them to help create a two to eight communication between the city and our residents. So we see the representatives. So they come together, we have a process for doing that those neighborhoods, electric executives that attended German meetings,

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serving as a voice of the neighborhood, as well. We have heavy concerns that we need to deal with him.

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And can help facilitate that conversation, hopefully floods voice that works to varying degrees. Right now what we’re doing a number of things to try to increase our ability to conserve them and build their fancy.

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Well, one less thing I know, from that perspective, two things one of the four primary areas that we often focus on, which is building a sense of community, improving quality of life, focusing on sustainability and resilience within their boundaries.

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So obviously, that same end result is another view then he has we have one partnerships with last year’s number of years now

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with sustainability.

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The the other distinction I wanted to make is that she might have been wondering about homeowners associations. So we made a distinction between a homeowner’s association and Legal Group.

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Many of our neighborhoods are in a neighborhood.

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And that’s fine. We make distinction because HOAs are like their nature exclusive to homeowners. We require that our neighborhood groups be inclusive, so we have renters etc. And we work with the neighbors to try to make sure they’re representative of everybody using whatever the demographics are that

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that 85% of the registered immigrants right now have a choice is our independence. Some of them have multiple HOAs that provide, we just write about we believe

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Center City figured

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out how many

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very difficult question to answer, partially because we genuinely love them to define their own. So we have I think 70 districts, I think they’ll be created. But you name your boundaries are often much smaller than that. They tend to follow that each way boundaries of subdivision boundaries, that kind of thing.

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It depends on how those, those boundaries are defined in the neighborhoods that aren’t currently registered.

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Ideally, I think we will be around 100.

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Realistically, you’ll get for example, subdivisions.

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You know, somebody said divisions and there’s

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many more than

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I think it was at that scale. And so we’ve been working with him to try to find larger boundaries more realistic what a neighborhood is, rather than, you know, a small townhome subdivision because

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that’s kind of what

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it is, it’s a part well, I really want to get to tonight is that so we, two of the primary grants that we have given up in recent years, made available to active neighborhoods, is the improvement program grants and sustainable eco solutions grants.

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The neighbor improvement program has been around for about three years,

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doing variations, the sustainable neighborhood solutions, granted SNS is numerous been around for about five years, four years, as COVID

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It was during COVID is critical.

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And it we’ve gotten to a point where that has matured a little bit, we’ve seen some areas where we think we could have improvements. So this year, we’ve been going through a restructuring to partially unify those but better take advantage of our resources, make it a little bit easier and clearer for the Neighborhood News to apply. Always was trying to kind of remove barriers make it easier, so that they’re spending their time and effort on actual projects. Is there a particular calendar or for it? Or is there a basket of money in the neighborhood decides they want to do something they come in and speak reserve an application period? How does that process work for having funds flow to the neighborhoods?

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I’m doing that’s what I’m doing.

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Let’s go back in

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with creating the neighborhood associations, is that an active source of Asian cities doing or is that something we expect the neighborhoods to come to the city to request? Sounds good question is a little bit of both. Okay. So I would say traditionally, we have waited for able to come to us. And it’s kind of been ready, we’ve had a process to specimen where they just give us an application. And there

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we go through a process where they need to kind of formulate your team reach out to the community etc. More recently, we’ve kind of been developing a program.

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We actually just launched kind of a pilot version of that this week, on Monday, where we will kind of take neighborhoods through a very specific process to build a capacity of a better public before they join the GLA, also for existing groups that kind of go through and build that process. Through that we’ve been a little bit more active about reaching out and targeting neighborhoods. We prioritize especially in the first few years, but looking at neighborhoods with demographics that don’t traditionally participate, especially neighborhoods, a hydrant, for example, right, most likely to extend when we go and we build the process of

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much more targeting moving.

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So it’s a lot more on the sustainable solutions. Programming. The grant within that is really kind of a unique partnership that we created.

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A number of years ago now I’m really focused on preparing our neighborhood groups as partners, really active in promoting sustainability, based partially on sustainability theory that was developed in Great Britain around the idea that you know, government has a certain role. Obviously, you guys are that to further sustainability. But that’s probably not enough to really reach the goals we want to get. We need the business nonprofit community, we need residents to all play a role in that. So this helps take us in our lives, neighborhood groups to add the residents within there to be partners.

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So as we initially set up

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Obviously the city through sustainability and community resources. As a partner dilemma, community validation has been a wonderful partner in the process as well, we’ve set up a Impact Fund that is where they can the funding lives for this project, and gives us the opportunity to pinpoint dollars from outside the city. So it’s not just relying on city resources moving forward. And then obviously, our community is local.

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So I’m going to speak a little complicated as to why I went to graphic again, this is the restructure, so anyone who might have had some grooming experience in the past, it will look a little bit different. It’s kind of it’s different, but it’s not that different. It’s kind of a mashing together what these grants were before.

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So we essentially have four grants.

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Okay, so what is currently out now under the stimulant was solutions a moniker on 10,000, a year that the city allocates to this one.

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The first one and what we call workshops and activities, and other people go too deep into this, I’m happy to answer questions if you want.

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The these are very short term one off kind of programs. We have one of the things like a workshop on rain barrels, what are they? How do you How would you implement them in your own second series is peaceville, you know, one, two hour kind of kind of program. So you see, you’ll see kind of three flooding categories here, the main one, the $1,000, that is what is available to an active neighborhood, who has also participated in our neighborhood Leadership Series, which is a series of trainings that we offer, part of partially focused on each wave board development,

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and partially focus on general kind of neighborhood leadership skills. For example, in August, we’ll be doing a lot of conservation series. So a series of books on water conservation in the neighborhood bubble, where we’ll we’ll talk about what does that mean? What are the kind of projects you can do, what resources grants etc, are available to you, and then they’ll coordinate with a tool that will do some, some gardens around him, the city has worked on that.

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So if you participate in that, which is kind of our expectation within the last couple of months, you know, from your neighborhood, you qualify for the base amount, if you hadn’t known anything this pristine last fall was that is that no NLS categories, this grant was $1,000. If you have it goes down to two pages you have

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only accessible to active neighborhoods as well.

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And then we also have the sustainability greens a recall posted bonus. So the expectation, you see on benefit category sustainability, you have to be furthering one of the sustainability topic areas to qualify.

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If that projects substance substantively for there’s more than one category, then you get the holistic bonus as well. To be clear with that we don’t need a lot of benefits that you can say are sustainable benefits, you can qualify under multiple categories, right? Because there’s a lot of conservation or maybe a natural environment, etc. That we don’t count, there’s got to be substantively different. We’re on the example I always use is here’s gonna be funded a turf removal or removal pollinator garden. And so that kind of while they could have put that on a number of different categories, but really, it’s the same benefit. So they all fight that way. It was they also included an educational program to teach local kids and neighbors about pollinators. And why is it important to do a pollinator garden? Why should they consider removing their grass and doing quality integral, that is a totally different benefit that they’ve created to that price. And that will qualify for that bonus. So there’s so many that exist there. We want to encourage those more holistic views of sustainability, but also acknowledge that that’s really rare. And we really have a kind of a high standard for whether a project would qualify for that those.

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So the second category of grant under the SNSs programs and resources. These are kind of more long term assets in the community, not really a one time thing. But you may or may be funding for kind of a setup costs, for example, it may be maybe want to set up a new sustainability club within the neighborhood. And so use this grant paid for some of the setup costs from the get go. It won’t point it over time. But he would fund that initial efforts. This where we’ve been using this most of the last couple of years, we’ve had a number of neighborhoods who have been creating water conservation master plans, landscape master plans for water conservation in the neighborhood.

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So that they is a big look at that as a kind of steps a coordinated effort of improvement over time because they can’t afford to do the whole neighborhood

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once. But then that can kind of create a structure of you know, this year, we’re going to do this project to make sure we’re going to do this projects. And so a lot of us are taking the interest and started using it that way you can see the base amount is 5000. For that, I should note that the approval on both of these is the SNS committee. So that’s what I’m going to go into some detail.

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And then the sustainability categories. So then we shift to the Neighborhood Improvement Program.

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In this change, we’re one of the grants that was traditionally under the SNS program has actually shifted to the end of the cake, that one of the primary reasons is for

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resource availability. So we can use resources a little bit more efficiently,

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because it’s conceived and it has $50,000 is accessible for life. And so I’ll explain more about that in your settings. So first of all,

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again, two grants available. The first one doesn’t apply to this committee. There’s a neighborhood enhancement projects, which are similar to the traditional Neighborhood Improvement Program grants that we’ve given, which are not being tied to sustainability. And then we’ve probably reached NET News, recent years, there are four separate categories of quality of life categories, that needs to fit into one of those sections A, B, C, and $6,000. Speed catches the primarily because we have a lot of projects that maybe could qualify as sustainability. But what we found is, that can also kind of watered down the sustainability value of every project to say, oh, yeah, we fit into this category, right. And we didn’t want to see that.

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And we have a lot of smaller projects that are really valuable, that maybe don’t really fit very well, in sustainability, we want to force that, even though they’re really good quality projects.

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of it. So we have a big Committee, which is made up of representatives within NGOs, who piece things. And then the final category is joined together those who call them sustainable improvement projects. So these are for a larger, usually come more tangible fiscal project improvements within the neighborhood, you can see that one of the benefits of doing this is we’ve been able to really increase the eligibility Now, up to $12,000 per project, or in the most important, this is really significant. You can see why you want to get that up on a regular basis amounts.

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I have found that if you just say your money’s available on people will apply for that most of the amount that’s available. So we got to discourage neighborhoods make sure that you really are building a project is deserving of that’s when it’s going to give that away to everybody this is really

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doing that. And this is more substantial substantial for the SS committee and the IP committee both review these grants, has improvement for both committees now. So that’s a little bit different.

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Instead of the sustainability category, and we’re both the IP grants, the input is also improved do a presentation to the July

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meeting.

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Separately, I’m wondering some other examples.

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So we’ve done a number of different level projects, poor gate quality, pollinator gardens, types of things.

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That is done water conservation projects is down in tears for obvious reasons, especially when the enjoys water possibly even involved in any community gardens. We have not done yet. I’ve had a couple of communities who would ask us about that.

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That’s a complicated one, Cindy has supported those in the past, we would potentially support it, but there’s a lot of details that we would expect before we will support

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it

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so we’re getting to something a little bit more tangible alone, I’m gonna have to get through this. So the categories that we accept, so the sustainability categories, right has to be tied to improving one of these, you’re very familiar with the tendinous sustainability,

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zoom up, we kind of divided them up for clarity. We’re like we’re talking to neighbors that maybe don’t have a lot of knowledge of sustainability, right. So it’s also kind of an educational piece that we’re doing. So we divide it up to kind of the people the people planet prosperity structure and make that look as your folks. The final one pretty straight. So hold on to the sustainability plan.

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We do because of the neighborhood focus, add a couple of categories to those four to be specific on

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On community cohesion, what is kind of what justifies a lot of our projects in this program in general, then you can see we actually add a education, health and public safety. Because we find a lot of that’s important at the neighborhood level. And we wanted to, to acknowledge that and allow them to do those kinds of projects. And then finally, in the prosperity category, we have intelligent force, and we added self sufficiency, which is really more than neighborhood self sufficiency. You know, we want them to get to where they can deal with issues, for example, things arise. And they really have the capacity ability to know how to how to resolve those things. And hopefully, that reduces some of the burden on the city, as well.

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And then you’ll see

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the AIP report in that report.

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But some of those grants might also fade into sustainability conferences.

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What about disaster preparedness, especially with natural disasters? That neighborhood communities are almost exclusively relied on?

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In the moment? So I’m just wondering if that if that’s going to consider the as an option?

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Absolutely not as a separate category? Yeah. I think you could fit into multiple categories here. Right. But we have had some conversations with our Emergency Management Office, and others about what what could that look like an entry level? How can we support kind of neighborhood planning, for this kind of thing, it’s kind of a new thing to consider neighborhoods as an asset in that, especially in kind of the pre planning process. But I think we’re increasingly understanding that value we have simply having a neighborhood group is a huge value, we’ve seen that with was tweezers and builds, etc. But yeah, having a little bit more coordinated effort beforehand. So that that might be

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the engine going today, but we have a project library that we’re developing, because it is like, Okay, whenever wants to do something, but what do I do here? So we’re developing a project library and heavy kind of examples, resources, that kind of thing. And that’s one of the kind of projects we talked about, and believing that you haven’t done.

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Some kind of turnkey projects that already have like a budget built out. And some, you know, some people can

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take some of the work often neighborhoods themselves some of their

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design.

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And is that something where the the association with or did

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certain things, but the association has a whole support of neighborhoods if they wanted to go out and find other funding to

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apply to nonprofit or is the program to start for their project, if this grant income through for them, but they can pursue other financing options. So we staff what kind of support them in an effort that can be challenging, because most of our younger groups are not 501 C three, so not kind of enemies. And it can be difficult to get grants from that perspective, as they traditionally did. That’s not really where funders have seen value. But we would support a neighborhood that kind of found the grant that they wanted to do that with. And we have on some occasions been able to support members that way, not within the emergency management.

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Waters.

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Water conservation grant tokens neighborhoods as well.

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Yeah, that’s a good question. One of the water has their quarterly doing three years old, I guess, grant for HOAs. And we have had a number of people in this kind of work

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in total, but I think maybe three, at least two or three who’ve received that grant and

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some of them have used that in combination with arguments as well.

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And we have a call these two or three neighborhoods, we’re also talking with resource central about the grant that they kind of put out for this summer, as well as the water conservation standards. It’s an interesting

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one of the values of cutting the loss of Community Foundation as they have more flexibility in terms of how they can provide funding to pursue so

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like they worked really hard to to reduce those barriers for those

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we think there’s a lot of opportunity in that space to get quite gotten out. We’re kind of still being saturated. We’re still gonna lie.

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We want to do so much.

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This is awesome.

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Project I would say sort of several years

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Okay, so getting to know

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Sorry, I’m going, Oh, okay. So getting kind of that scheduled, it’s a little bit boring to the community and vacations here.

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So depends on the grant schedule. And again, this is brand new.

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So we,

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yeah, we still have our neighbors getting used to it. Frankly, early in the year, we did not open it up for applications. The first time we did was the March April application period, we didn’t see one application there, which, because we haven’t had spring structure in place, we haven’t actually been able to review yet. So it’s outstanding. So what my goal is, is to hopefully, get the community together as soon as possible,

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even as early as next week, if that’s a possibility, which will be a little bit off of schedule. But that is waiting, and are some some time sensitive elements to that project. I’m hoping we can really do that really quickly. But so you see what we just

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we accept applications at any time throughout the year. But there’s basically five times a year when we actually review them.

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So you can see kind of abide by monthly basis. So if you take for example, in January, February funding cycle, so the application is due to us on the first Thursday of that first one. So the first Thursday of January, we have a one four, we kind of go back and forth and ask for revisions, etc, if necessary. Any changes are due on the first Thursday of the primary one was based February. Once those are reviewed, then

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we buy the second Thursday, I’m sorry, this is a little company, that’s fine.

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By the second Thursday, we send it to committee members was SNS or game

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for give them at least a few days, hopefully up to a week, but at least four or five days to review those two,

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basic evaluation on and then we meet up originally, we had scheduled that on the Wednesday before the third Thursday, before we realized that, that is the day. And so the representative from this board probably won’t be able to attend. So we totally move that to Tuesday. Whereas that might be a version that somebody didn’t have to do two nights in a row so we can discuss that.

1:12:26
But that’s kind of explanation right now. Because of the rest of the scheduling for that. Essentially after the SS committee makes the decision on that Tuesday, the Thursday is God meeting. So if it’s again, I can project work presentations report. That’s where the community does presentation. And then the week after that is where the NIT committee does that or

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if it gets through all that, then we award the

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cause you can see we have to have more funding periods left, the July, August, we did receive her application for that. So we will want to proceed with his schedule. At least for now. We will get that get out to everybody by August 8,

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which still looks like a pretty solid ground, but there’ll be many changes we need to make before that takes.

1:13:20
And then I our hope would be to have that formal meeting on the 13th of August

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for the for this vastness.

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And then it’ll be one one final round in September, October with the SS committee meeting on October 15. We do we don’t do a November December.

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Question because we don’t immigrants are not really focused on doing projects. And

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yes, maybe cookies, I guess.

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But do we have other grounds for cookies. So it’s a thing.

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Other sustainable cookies.

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They can be vegan.

1:14:05
So we do take that off? That’s awesome. Because our staff have been times you have at your

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work that we need to deal with

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that agent.

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So I tried to make that fairly simple as that really clear. Calendar, I didn’t include a lot some of the other things and they didn’t want to because complicated very quickly.

1:14:26
It’s fine, but I’m actually pretty interested in doing this. But I’m only going to be on this committee for one more year. So you have to have somebody reapplying here. So that is up to you. We asked and I’ll talk about your expectations here in a minute. We haven’t really set how that is we kind of allow each group to define how they select their representative. So if you as a group are okay with that, I’m fine with that. But really my big interest is that we just always have a representative that

1:15:00
So does that representatives attend the group NGLS meetings, any or any or some of them? Maybe not. But you’re welcome to, it’s not necessary to do it. It’s just to participate in that selection process.

1:15:18
That’s the main priority historically that grant applications and participated in selection. And ng live meetings have been monthly or quarterly, monthly, third Thursday of every month, and it’s a part of the whole public event as well. But technically, they’re open to the public, we don’t advertise them to the public. Partially, because when we have more different representatives than we can actually handle in the space. And we do sometimes talk about topics that have some sensitive elements to them, and be difficult with this gentleman over there. But typically open to him. But we certainly be happy if any of you want to come up, certainly.

1:15:59
So really quickly, that structure that board, we have five voting members, and two of those members are enjoying the neighborhood representatives, one from an HOA neighborhood and one implementing independent neighborhood. So we kind of get those varying interests and voices on there. We have a representative from the business community

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focused in sustainability space.

1:16:24
Then, hopefully, from the stimuli advisory board, as well, and then also a

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representative from the youth community. Frankly, that’s been quite a challenge to get some of the committee to

1:16:39
do that. Yeah. So that is largely been vacant, unfortunately. So right now, those are the two seats that are vacant at the moment. Obviously, your costume for the gym has been serving for the sustainment Advisory Board, really great contribution, and we’re really grateful for it.

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And then there’s also going to non voting members. We’ve been a sustainability manager. So Lisa, and the neighbor versus coordinator suffering now, we’re really they’re going to be kind of a content experts aid in the conversation and discussion, and some questions, that kind of thing. And then we also serve, if there is a kind of tie in voting, we also serve as a tiebreaker

1:17:28
serve what How can you say us community? How, what is the definition of that?

1:17:34
You kept it pretty broad.

1:17:37
We have had, so we’ve had conversations with savory Valley School District,

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we actually had

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a couple representatives identified, but we were never able to make that work. We’ve looked at in the use center, for example, would be somebody like we want somebody who is a member of the youth committee, so that necessarily someone who works with the committee was someone who can kind of bring that voice into it, and hopefully kind of encourage that leadership in sustainability, kind of looking about it, you know, kind of starting to become more of a young sustainability leader to get to the to the broader community.

1:18:16
Well, if you have ideas,

1:18:21
Wait, is there a general age.

1:18:25
So we’ve typically looked at at least 18. Because

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this is a fairly professional process that will hopefully be professional.

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And into somebody who’s kind of comfortable being able to get out we do all our meetings or virtual,

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kind of comfortable with those processes can both contribute a boon for us. But we kind of looked I think we’re kind of in the 18 like Paice later high school to college level. And we’re trying to kind of space states.

1:19:00
So 20, itself responsibilities. So I’m trying to cover this a little bit. But one of the to review.

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Applications prior to the meetings is, we’ll give you at least a few days and hope to give you at least a week on those.

1:19:14
And that’s kind of at your, at your paces. Do that on your own time, we do have kind of a valuation document that will ask you to kind of evaluate it on certain criteria. And I’ll show you those here. In a second. Those aren’t kind of final, we’re not scored basis, I go, here’s the one that got the page score. It was a kind of a guide for us to help you read those and then come together and have a discussion and make a decision as a committee about where to go in that.

1:19:42
So we’ll have in that meeting, that we’re choosing basically, we’ll have a discussion about those grants come to a consensus. And then for the for the SNS grants. That’s the final award decision for the sustainable improvement projects within the NIV

1:20:00
Um, that decision then gets forwarded to the IEP committee, and they must also approve it. So it has so many words to say, for example, that this does not really need the sustainability criteria, this is appropriate project to fund, then that wouldn’t go to the.

1:20:22
And then so the award decisions that are available to committee, there’s three different options, first, would be recently approved and press the Astros. Frankly, if I think if I’ve done my job working with the neighborhood, most events should need it. Right.

1:20:37
But I also can’t force them to do anything. And sometimes they they, or they don’t, or the I was wrong, right interpretation that you have, and you disagree with me. Second would be to improve with a modified award or conditions. Dennis a few times we felt a deep rant that was the requested or the project really was too much that it wasn’t justified, or two was we’ve had a few more times recently, is that where maybe the committee felt that they needed a little bit more information that there’s some criteria that wanted to ensure it was being met, maybe a qualification of someone who’s gonna be hired to do this or something. So it was a world approved as a magnet under the condition that this is met. Or a few times they said, Okay, we’ll prove it. But we want you to follow up on this piece with them. If that’s meant to be approved, it can be done.

1:21:31
By apply, the third option would be to simply denied funding. In either two or three. The expectation is that the committee will provide guidance on why it wasn’t approved or why it was changed. And especially in the case it was denied. Because our goal is not to the funding goal is to give out money as much money as we can to provide guidance on what could be changed about this application that would have been approved by the standard. Our hope is that it’s enough information to the neighborhood if they so choose, could implement those changes, reapply and then get that project.

1:22:15
So real quick, also to one of those criteria that we asked with me to actually look at with these grants, is the same basic criteria of minor changes as the AIP committee also uses. First one is to look at what the overall allocation is this a good project was put together well as a budget makes sense, well, justified, good quality project.

1:22:39
Second, is that that benefits, from the assessment standpoint is the sustainability benefits, specifically with the other EIP grants is just the kind of quality life benefit is a general public benefit. So that does it for either one of those 14 sustainability categories in some way. That’s efficient way

1:23:02
to mean participation, we expect this to be a collective process. So how has the broader community involved or shown support for the project? Well, we don’t want is that there’s a community leader, I mean, we need to address it, because this is my project, I’m going to do it and just go forward to decimal, or just as everyone’s looking at this, right, we’re going to do this, we don’t want to play it right, we want to know that the community has been involved in they’ve set up a committee, those are our best projects where there’s a lot of different interaction, there’s clear support for this, we require a contribution.

1:23:37
This is really a funding contribution. We don’t require in terms of financial dollars, though, they can contribute financially, they can contribute to a lot of volunteer planning hours to sweat equity, equity, and working on the project

1:23:53
through donations, that kind of thing. So there’s a number of ways to kind of meet that we have for the first time in play kind of a minimum percentage that we expect. And obviously, that’s very much a minute, but we would expect to see that

1:24:09
especially with the way that we value volunteer hours.

1:24:13
Obviously.

1:24:15
Next is longevity. You want to see this fan before, you know we used to call it sustainability, which is very confusing.

1:24:25
So we changed our journey, really because the point of this right is that this is gonna be a long lesson project is not going to be broken or not working in two years is included in this plan that’s going to last and and make good use of tax dollars and need. This is really establishing that if we don’t if we don’t fund this, it’s gonna get it’s gonna get done anyway. You know, the HOA has some flooding and they’re just going to do it in dollars. That’s not really what we want to fund. We know it’s HOAs like, well, we won’t do it, but it’s going to take us three years to raise the funds to do this

1:25:00
Okay, that’s probably still in need, right? Is that sooner than later?

1:25:06
So it’s really early justifying that this one is going to help them get this project done. Otherwise. And finally, these are not the same evaluation criteria, but they’re kind of considerations that we even include of priorities are created projects. One point brings me more fundamental level replicability, I should return that apparently, you’ll those projects that once it’s done, we’ve encapsulated the project library, and then other communities can easily kind of do this as well, right? make this as easy as possible for us. And then that holistic sustainability goals, obviously.

1:25:46
So

1:25:49
yeah, but it’s also like time commitment. So obviously, we, throughout the year, we had those five application periods. Our Look, our review sessions had less than maybe an hour usually depends on how many advance review, by spreading it out, we expect fewer grants per time, so shorter. So so probably half an hour ago, an hour I would expect on that Tuesday, in the season on Tuesday, and then maybe an hour or so a little bit more to do the actual route. Obviously, there’s three grants, I think a little bit longer to do your individual review.

1:26:28
So all told,

1:26:31
maybe 10 to 15 hours per year. expectation.

1:26:38
Okay, so that’s a lot. That’s

1:26:43
That’s great. Content, usually, to our presentation, I usually have like 30 slides, I thought I’ll probably cut it down somewhere.

1:26:52
So I’m thinking about an organization that I work with called Community Connections Project. And that was you know about them. They’re in.

1:27:02
I’m not sure what the neighborhood is.

1:27:05
Anyway, it’s just north of the neighborhood I live in. And one of the focuses that the director Karen says she wants to start, like an urban food forest project where folks are sort of gardening together and, you know, sharing the produce, and something like that would be a tool library.

1:27:27
And there’s a facility there where they could be like, Captain, check out the session. Is that the kind of project that you would be? Okay. Yeah, I think, obviously, details. But, yeah, I think that could conceivably be a good project. Okay, let’s see the registered name.

1:27:49
But if they’re not, and

1:27:53
she would go through that. She probably doesn’t even know about this. I’ve mentioned ng later before that.

1:28:00
I get up against

1:28:04
McAfee got some training to get registered from that group. Yeah. So there’s a little bit of a time there. Yeah. And part of that is to also make sure that there’s a real commitment. We did we changed or made in active neighborhoods. So just registered few years ago, because we didn’t see there were certain neighborhoods and we just register, never show up at a major meeting didn’t really think that they were doing kind of a collective, you know, setting up meetings, and they’ll snap things. They’re really just applying over funding. So we changed that

1:28:35
criteria.

1:28:38
Just a simple logistics question. You said to resolve virtual what time of day? I think so we can adjust that. But they have been at five o’clock

1:28:48
last year. We haven’t done any this year, obviously, because we’re doing a change. But that is one of the things. We have the committee’s look like.

1:29:02
If there’s anyone rather than other than me who wants to do this, raise your hand now.

1:29:11
I’m certainly interested in that. Just curious helps you come up with the

1:29:17
team members to from Nga one from this warm welcome business coming to us.

1:29:28
Yeah, this is my early conversations or experience in general. I think also partially going back to that kind of model that I mentioned of you bringing those different sectors together.

1:29:42
We really looked at, you know, like how we get that business community, nonprofit community that they need the neighborhoods, how we kind of get them. So they’re all part of this decision. And all unfortunately, the long term idea is that that’s a way to help raise funds, right by including the business community in it.

1:30:00
I think it’s a waste of time to help those difficulties in more informed about each other, you know, hope is that we you know, by having a business committee member that we learned a little bit about, you know, you know, businesses and that kind of thing, keep you informed this process, maybe have more projects and a little bit.

1:30:17
The neighborhood representatives, I think that’s really

1:30:22
not that you should do it, because I’m going to talk to my neighborhood.

1:30:26
And I’ll be involved in

1:30:30
a project vote on

1:30:37
yourself,

1:30:39
do have a conflict of interest.

1:30:43
Y’all get into kind of motorbike project when I leave.

1:30:52
We actually have seen too many members who their neighborhoods apply to questions. They’re the ones that are most informed. And

1:31:00
one of our difficulties that we didn’t launch during COVID. So we’re trying to educate people about a new grant program that was a little bit complicated. They can help sustainability projects that they may not know, something, remember went into a lot of people in the 60s, was this a general, right? Y’all know, like, Steve, this is great. We want to do sustainability stuff. You’re like, Okay, well, you went to like, I have no clue what that really means. Like, what is the you know, what is a neighborhood sustainability project? Even I think, you know, people who are very much committed in the green, it’s not always the easiest answer, which is really why we started focusing on Project Library, like, you may be really committed to sustainability, it’s still not really don’t how to put a neighborhood project together. So like, for example, I’m just going to some currently watching stuff, this should be embarrassed by that. But CCP, if they had a staff member that wanted to coordinate, could there be a little bit of money for them to coordinate the neighborhood? Or is it only going to be like for stuff? Is it just bricks and mortar or supplies? So to coordinate what it’s like coordinate that urban coordinate the different thoughts? You know, I mean, the gardening and to getting the neighbors together, be together those two things. So there definitely could be money for for planning. The key there, I should have said this before is that it does have to be a miracle. Right? Yeah. So they kind of apply as

1:32:29
well, no, but they could be the site where the stuff could live. Because I think a lot of these problems that will happen is that there’s no there’s the neighborhoods don’t have a community. You know, there’s no like community shed, there’s no space, there

1:32:43
is a huge issue. We do a lot of projects and parks, and that kind of thing. Right? And it was

1:32:49
like a local partner who could sort of provide space. Yeah, yeah, potentially, one of our application questions is who wants a property? And are they you know, are they improving it and agreeing that this has to be publicly accessible for the person?

1:33:09
I know that I’m

1:33:12
really passionate about it. I mean, I think

1:33:16
I’ll do it.

1:33:20
Our new vice chair, but

1:33:23
remember, I think you’d be vice chair. So if you really want to make me do this.

1:33:29
I said, Okay.

1:33:33
Well, you have some money. So that’s moved in.

1:33:40
All those in favor of Mary having our representatives okay.

1:33:47
Anyway,

1:33:49
I was just curious. Do we revisit like when your turn? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So similar to we had Jim kind of give up for new folks. We did have Jim that was our representative give a little shield last year about his

1:34:03
experience, but we wanted to wait to help the new members come on, to determine.

1:34:09
But honestly, I don’t even see how this is going to get going unless the representative of Tennessee NGO units. I think they have a staff of regularly just so that there’s like there’s an opportunity to sort of talk to people and get to know them and just be that next round, but then I’ve been wanting to attend the to do in meetings anyway. So I think that wouldn’t be microchip just

1:34:33
Oh, thanks for you. Thanks, waiting.

1:34:37
I’ll let you be connected. very unwise of that because some of you are contacted.

1:34:44
Thank you all. I will ask, do you think you could do a review next week? Yes.

1:34:55
I really

1:34:57
like this more and more about grants for some reason.

1:35:00
It

1:35:02
used to be the past.

1:35:06
All right, well,

1:35:09
moving on to pro projects launched during COVID. We are also seeking volunteers for. We also have the same opportunities. My sales leadership program, which we also do in partnership with Wayne is beautiful from community neighborhood resources team, as a program that I’m extremely committed to the little while to get off the ground. As you can imagine,

1:35:35
sending volunteers into other people’s homes to do sustainability assessments was a little difficult to sell during that for quite a long period of time. But we really got through the SAS program pretty well established, we have a new sustainability coordinator. I guess not new that new anymore. Wow. Two years? Not at all. I was like I hear but yeah.

1:36:01
So exactly, it comes to these meetings sometimes. But he said, our sustainability coordinator focused on residential programs. So you that’s one of his, like, main focus areas. And he wanted me to put a call out to all that we’re looking for volunteers for that program in particular. So we’re looking for bilingual English speaking volunteers standards, he was seeking volunteers. Folks are passionate about the environment sustainability community to be a volunteer soul sustainability ambassador. So you’re receiving in depth training on sustainable lifestyle, best practices, community resources, and environmental rebate programs. And then you go out in Paris to conduct sustainability assessments for a lot of residents. So going into people’s homes, doing those assessments, talking to folks, sometimes that involves helping lead point people in the direction of resources and whatnot.

1:36:55
And now, let’s start in September, so folks are asked to commit at least a year of service. That is around eight hours a month. So it definitely is more of a commitment than what Wayne was talking about. But the schedules are pretty, pretty flexible. So if folks are interested, I provided Zach’s contact information in the memo that went with that description. So

1:37:19
Do y’all have any questions about step number two? What kind of expertise? Do you have students whose interest passion? It is mostly passion? Yeah. So we’ll do with a nice template because swing helps run those training programs. But I mean, we’ll train you on everything that you need to know, I think it’s more about the passion and the desire just for community members. And there’s definitely some

1:37:42
any cultural sensitivity and competency you kind of components of that. But wait, do you want to jump in and add to anything that is not like in depth? technical stuff? Yeah. Yeah, no, it’s mostly kind of basic stuff? Well, it varies. But we also try to learn with the volunteers, we try to combine them. So they complement well. And we look at what the household is interested in. So for example, one of our volunteers is an AJAX specialist. So that the household was kind of interested in those those factors, we make sure that he goes on visit. Yeah, the training room kind of include that we actually have a matrix of sustainability behaviors is kind of split up by each of the sustainability topic areas. And also why are they kind of like a beginner, this person doesn’t know anything, they’re just interested or maybe they’re just mission saving money ready to kind of come intermediate to advanced those come first adopters, we go to that have solar, and we’ve had people who have set up like, really crazy engineering, like tracking everything in their own, so that we kind of adapt to those. But yeah, if you weren’t really comfortable, initially, we’re not going to send you to that, that complicated household. But in the training, we’re really looking at doing a little bit more a hybrid style, the your chance, not at your own pace, absorb that kind of training on the actual issues. And then in person trainings will be more about kind of the cohort and getting to know each other again, some of those those responses, how to actually go into a home and it works considering

1:39:18
although we would expect you to go in and start firms on energy resources,

1:39:22
people’s washing machines.

1:39:27
But it is definitely one of those situations too, that we tried to make sure that folks are prepared with different resources, as you talked about, she made us covered, you know, the folks that really

1:39:36
benefit from knowing how to apply for SNAP or maybe folks who don’t but the bus system is free or you know, those sorts of things. So it’s like, you know, people will start to talk to you about things and be prepared to

1:39:49
receive assistance.

1:39:52
Robert

1:39:54
you don’t have to have a

1:39:59
visa

1:40:00
Yeah, yeah, if y’all are interested or know folks that are interested, Ralph, I go back to your comment earlier about, you know, education and engaging people. This is a really great program. It’s one that I think, you know, is definitely a word of mouth, like once neighbors have good experiences, and certainly can talk to their neighbors about stuff. So we’re really trying to build up that

1:40:24
energy efficiency, there’s other programs, when you want to jump, what was it? What was the question? I just want to it’s like, mainly, I know, my neighbor didn’t like the Home Energy Efficiency.

1:40:37
Anything else within the energy audit? Yeah. Yeah, our goal, we rarely achieved this, but is to, to touch on at all, each of the 10 sustainability topic areas in some way through the visit, all the time, we just run out of time for that. So certainly, within energy, we try to connect them with what do those resources with

1:40:59
efficiency works, etc. We do some in home upgrades, you know, we install light bulbs to some of those basic things. We use those more as a conversation starters, as well. We try to we try to touch on all those. It doesn’t have been like water energy kind of heavy. But it’s kind of dense in the household and what resonates with them. Hopefully, whatever we can.

1:41:26
We are looking for folks that you can tell me if we’re looking for not only with folks that right now that the big focus is really we’re starting to get more interest from the Spanish speaking community and want to make sure that we have more volunteers that can be available. Year mo from women’s team is bilingual. And so he’s been supporting a lot of those that we’re trying to expand that capacity.

1:41:49
Yeah, I would say that I think those are priority. We’re really trying to adapt the program right now so that we can better be kind of Spanish speaking households. But if you’re interested, we would love to know and hear from you. So please, if you’re not bilingual, let us know.

1:42:08
Turkish doesn’t go

1:42:10
just to some point in

1:42:14
the way of what 68 I think different countries represented in long one.

1:42:21
Yeah, I think it was probably our next.

1:42:27
Okay, so

1:42:30
a couple of events that I just wanted to highlight for you all that are coming up. So tomorrow,

1:42:36
we have both our plastic pollution solutions of acting, Facebook’s you know, it’s plastic free July. So folks from our team, in partnership with some community partners, and the library are hosting that event.

1:42:52
You’re at the Civic Center at six o’clock. And then also, if you want to come early, there’s also the transportation mobility plan is open house that starting at 5:30am, especially around 530 to seven at the library, and then six to 730, over here at the Civic Center. So an evening of sustainability, if y’all want to come out for that we would love to see you. And then that our next sustainability coalition meeting is on August 8. So that is this type of team to 645. And those meetings are virtual. So if you haven’t been to one of them before, while it’s a great opportunity to, we usually do some general sustainability updates, we try to highlight a partner that’s doing work in sustainability. And then it’s just a good networking opportunity for folks who are across the community that are engaging in sustainability.

1:43:48
So it’s an opportunity as well. And then one I didn’t have on here but that I wanted to share with you is Jack solar garden, who I think probably every one of you might be familiar with. Is there anyone that’s not familiar with Jack solar gardens. It’s an agreeable to the project.

1:44:05
Because technically as a will not address them not in the city. When is that? Correct?

1:44:11
So they are having an event on July 27, called harvesting home which is incredible that how many students energy future from nine to one 9am to 1pm. It’s $5 per person. Just

1:44:27
check that out. There’ll be folks, current communications, I believe there

1:44:32
it goes really funny.

1:44:36
And then the last thing that I wanted to mention was a follow up from that Westminster group that pulled together the Regional

1:44:47
Sustainability or environmental

1:44:50
words from across the region. So several months ago for those of you that are new, we had folks from the lessman Environmental Affairs

1:44:59
Advisory Board

1:45:00
can’t remember exactly what their title is reached out to say they were interested in connecting with other similar awards from across the region just to get a sense of what are the priorities that different groups are working on? And are there opportunities to potentially do some collaboration. So both Ralph and Mary from this group attended to just kind of give some overviews of of what the priorities from this board are

1:45:25
recognizing that this board very much serves as a council advisory board and is directed by the priorities of city council. So we have some constraints within that. But they sent a follow up email recently where they put together a survey that they’re asking folks to fill out

1:45:46
not as a board member, but as just an individual from the community that is interested in and engaged in sustainability and environmental work. So that was the email that I was referring to us month that I was a little bit confused at. So I will send that on to you all. I think the deadline for completion of that survey is in the next week or so. So I’ll make sure you all get that. And then as far as I understand her, Ralph and Mary, correct me if you have a different understanding is that group is going to otherwise meet quarterly, although I haven’t heard anything about that. They have not been communicating with me at all. They certainly one member the groups have been accidental emails that indicated to me that there was a meeting happening that night. Yeah, that’s a little confusing to me as well. So I will just keep you apprised if I hear anything from them. Otherwise, I will at least single the survey. I haven’t looked at it. So I don’t know what the questions are. So I think I will reach out to them real time. Next the person just tomorrow and sending a message over to see what the heck is going on. We’re not getting any communication, and then I’ll share that through Heather.

1:46:58
Thanks, Robert. Appreciate.

1:47:07
It.

1:47:11
Yeah, do we have any

1:47:14
boards?

1:47:17
Okay.

1:47:19
We got this orientation packet. And it’s quite outdated, the first 20 pages to get that updated?

1:47:32
We can follow up with them. I don’t know. Yeah. Do you have more specific so like, what I have honestly looked at that for a while. And flow charts of job positions is not a flow together. Contact information. So no offense choose Twitter.

1:47:51
says Brian Baggesen there

1:48:01
have a more updated one available? Just

1:48:05
okay. Yeah. And if not, we can at least let the office know. I did. Make sure at least what I was sending to you was the most updated version that I have with me. I have not looked at it.

1:48:19
Yet Yeah.

1:48:21
Making the public feel welcome is an important part of the democratic process. The Sport embraces diverse perspectives and Republic. He said we want to create an inclusive space where everyone feels welcome to share their opinion. But the board’s process for public comment and feels restricted and exclusive to members of the public to see that reback correctly.

1:48:44
Because I’d like to say Council, which was open access to public comment is requires advanced registration for public comment for virtual meetings. Does not many people have an access for public observation and obedience, which can be construed as the means act violation.

1:49:03
Accordingly, I would like the motion for this board to which is the same rules that seek counsel, open access. And at least events per speaker provides to the city with a little bit of access to non residents who may be subject experts or conservatives

1:49:21
or user of city services.

1:49:27
I can put that on the agenda for future viewing

1:49:30
to revisit the members of the board and are much better. I know we have some concerns because of the work that virtual meetings and why it’s the way that it is set up to that Yeah, we don’t have sufficient

1:49:47
licensing for all of our political parties, all of our meetings and advisory boards to be streamed live streams meetings, and they chose to do the ones that typically have

1:50:00
more public comment and engagement, do use that livestream account for that purpose.

1:50:09
So I think that creates a virtuous cycle where if they’re not livestream, then there’s not going to be purchased.

1:50:20
I have not found that this board has not had sufficient access to people who want to be included in the meetings. So we do put out the agenda

1:50:32
several days in advance, with requests that people contact me, if they’re interested in participating, I have not found that to be an issue of people who want to be included in the meeting, or have not been able to gain access to that for not a lot of time, so that I’ve heard from a lot of people that the process is cumbersome. And they want to be able to just show up virtually, without having to register at that exact moment that unfortunately, the way our account works, we are not able to do that at this time. So one of the things that could happen is is word could decide to do all of their board meetings in person, which would open it up to the public to be able to, to come to every meeting. So I would like to move that we would consider that as well, because I don’t I mean, I live four blocks from here. And

1:51:26
so I’m listening to our session going upstairs, here.

1:51:30
So we would like to move that we put that on the agenda just to discuss now that we have a

1:51:41
question about interest.

1:51:45
I travel a lot for business not been able to attend the virtual meetings from wherever I was. So as long as there’s a quorum, what is the role? I wouldn’t want to have this impact? I think there’s a lot of value to meeting in person, really.

1:52:00
But how would it work? For instance, could I still attend virtually if it’s an in person meeting, that is something that the board would have to vote on to put into their bylaws. Currently, we don’t have space for that in our bylaws, but it is something that you all could do. I can tell you from the Water Board, because I’m recording secretary for that board as well. They meet in person each month, but they have made it accessible. If if there’s extenuating circumstance for a board member that needs to attend remotely, that the board members are allowed to

1:52:33
attend remotely, but everybody else will need to be in person because it’s much easier to logistically take care of all of that kind of stuff.

1:52:44
Public comment? Correct. Okay. Well, so I made a motion. So when was the second

1:52:55
vote or anything? We did just reevaluate our in person vote stuff at the beginning.

1:53:04
And helpful for the new members to be brought up again, as well.

1:53:10
To revise your motion, as hybrid? Sure.

1:53:15
Am I understanding correctly when you say so we did move to a hybrid model that does create the opportunity where the public can join virtually no need to be influenced them to come about. And it’s much easier logistically to run it if the board member if a board member needs to be remote. For example, if Ralph were traveling or Robert, were traveling, I know he does at times, or you’re sick or something and you’re not being able to attend in person that you would let me know, we could set it up for you to join virtually, but it’s much easier to only have public access one way or the other not. So this would be essentially the same system as City Council. Yes, I believe that which where people are on vacation or sick, and they don’t want to be in person. But a public has to show up for that person. Yes. So there is a precedent. And what’s the what’s the hurdle to the public joining the meetings virtually like the livestream.

1:54:11
We don’t have the license for our account to be able to do the live streaming. So it’s budgetary. And so that might be an advisory council to request the budget to support that. Because what I’m what I’m thinking, is it just thinking that the big picture of accessibility, and we actually just that this was city of Boulder was was that the virtual option for the public was the most appealing and accessible for members of the public, especially for meetings that are happening so closely with work hour. So that’s what I’m wondering is if there’s if there’s a longer art here where we might be requesting the budget to make sure we have the license for folks during virtually I know that can also help facilities wise too. So if there’s a particularly

1:54:58
hot topic that might be a trend to use

1:55:00
Daniel. So if we revise a second time and say, and let’s add this to the discussion as well, the I. That’s what I’m wondering because I think the hybrid, so it’s your job to restate

1:55:12
your separate motion, I don’t think that the conversation is just to

1:55:18
discuss the accessibility to it. So I don’t think that it needs to be part of the motion that was already on the board, as far as

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you know. So it’s hoped that Nintendo could go.

1:55:32
I mean, it could just be part of the discussion, it doesn’t need to be a separate motion, in my opinion. It’s a motion to discuss the next meeting the board. And so the motion on the table is to discuss the public accessibility piece of it, that could be part of that conversation and doesn’t need to be a separate topic that

1:55:54
we should review the option.

1:55:57
You think

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you have it that should be on the agenda, on the agenda that we have a group discussion towards changing our couple of titles?

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Our or procedures or standard operating procedures

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towards greater public accessibility?

1:56:21
And including a hybrid? Well, we don’t even have to say, which part of the conversation?

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Second,

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all those in favor?

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Any opposed?

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Any further discussion?

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Do you want to share anything?

1:56:51
Oh, my thoughts are just Yeah, we talked about it before, I think we we created this in person to try to drive more opportunities for the public to participate in

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been as successful as we go.

1:57:04
I mean, I’m certainly my vote. No, it’s not because I don’t want public participation. It’s just I think,

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I think we’ve tried a lot of avenues. I’m not sure we’re gonna find the right answer, but I’m here for a vigorous discussion since the rest of your boards.

1:57:25
And counsel

1:57:32
whether quick question, how far back to the minutes 30 of our time is for this board back, go back to

1:57:41
the history, history of the minutes of this board are available through the Federal Records portal. So you can access those through there. We did change the name for this board, change their name in 2009. Teen I think to the sustainability advisory board, and prior to that was a board of environmental affairs. So you’ll find them in those two categories on the

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portal for our records.

1:58:15
Actually, in regards to records to so as an advisory board, we are not subject to court open meetings law, correct. We are subject

1:58:28
to things in question. I actually don’t think we should be because we are only in an advisory capacity. I looked at the regulations. But what the city attorney’s office? We all right. Go ahead, sir. Sure. That’s correct.

1:58:42
And then of course, all of our documentation is also court protected. Right? Correct. So anything sent to our personal emails, that’s also that’s also records we need to preserve, it is formulated.

1:58:57
Sometimes, one of the recommendations that city council has made is suggestion for board members to create a separate email address for board correspondence that only that email stuff would be subject to the core law instead of you know, having to sit through really personal stuff as well.

1:59:17
And just a reminder for for new folks, in case you didn’t have a chance to look regarding Korra that that is very much. So if you all don’t have our app or our correspondents you want to share with the entire board that needs to come through Heather or I send two focuses

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more than two board members. It’s against.

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Switch for

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that

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motion to adjourn Yes.

1:59:54
Yep. Motion to it. I’m making a motion that we adjourn.

2:00:08
All right everyone

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