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WELCOME TO THE CITY COUNCIL, REGULAR B SESSION OF OCTOBER 2ND, 2019.
COUNCIL MEMBER VINNO HERE, COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN.
COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE PRESENT.
WELCOME EVERYONE TO OUR CITY COUNCIL B SESSION AGENDA TIME IS 2:16 PM WE HAVE ONE ITEM,
[1. 19-7176 Briefing on the status of SA Climate Ready, Climate Action and Adaptation Plan. [Roderick Sanchez, Assistant City Manager; Doug Melnick, Director, Office of Sustainability]]
UH, FOR BRIEFING TODAY.GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
B SESSION AGENDA BRIEFING TODAY, UH, WILL BE MADE BY THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY ON THE STATUS OF THE SA CLIMATE READY CLIMATE ACTION AND ADAPTATION PLAN.
UH, JUST IN TERMS OF A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT, UH, ON JUNE 22ND, 2017, COUNCIL PASSED A RESOLUTION SUPPORT OF THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT AND DIRECTED STAFF TO DEVELOP A PLAN THAT WOULD PROVIDE A FRAMEWORK TO BEGIN, UH, WORK, TO MEET THIS COMMITMENT.
UH, IN RESPONSE TO THE RESOLUTION, THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY BEGAN THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR PLAN.
UH, SA CLIMATE READY IS SAN ANTONIO'S CLIMATE ACTION AND ADAPTATION PLAN, UH, DESIGNED TO MEET THE PRESENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND PRIORITIZES CLEAN AIR, PUBLIC HEALTH, WATER QUALITY, CONSERVATION, GOOD JOBS, TRANSPORTATION CHOICES, CLEAN AND SECURE ENERGY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS.
UH, THE SA CLIMATE READY ACTION PLAN, UH, WAS DEVELOPED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH C P S ENERGY AND U T S A, ALONG WITH A C P S FUNDED CONSULTANT NAVIGANT.
UH, BEGINNING EARLIER THIS YEAR, IN FEBRUARY, UH, APPROXIMATELY 90 STAKEHOLDERS BEGAN SERVING ON A STEERING COMMITTEE AND FIVE TECHNICAL WORKING GROUPS TO HELP DEVELOP THE PLAN.
A DRAFT PLAN WAS RELEASED EARLIER THIS YEAR IN JANUARY, AND AFTER RECEIVING A, UH, THOUSANDS OF COMMENTS, AN UPDATED DRAFT, UH, WAS RE-RELEASED LAST MONTH.
UH, TO DATE, THE PLAN HAS BEEN ENDORSED BY C P S ENERGY SAWS, SARAH VIA THE WEST, UH, SAN ANTONIO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AND THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO PLANNING COMMISSION.
UH, RIGHT NOW, THE CURRENT PLAN AFTER TODAY'S BRIEFING AND ANY INPUT OR FEEDBACK WE RECEIVED FROM YOU TODAY WILL BE TO BRING THIS ITEM BACK TO COUNCIL FOR FORMAL ACTION ON OCTOBER 17TH.
SO, WITH THAT, I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO DOUG TO WALK US THROUGH THE PRESENTATION.
UH, GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE YOU THIS BRIEFING ON THE CLIMATE PLAN.
UH, I PROVIDED YOU A DOCUMENTS, UM, A A BOOKLET BOOKLET THAT HAS A, A FEW THINGS.
ONE, IT HAS A SUMMARY OF SOME OF THE PROPOSED, UM, EDITS, UH, THAT HAVE BEEN MADE.
AND THEN THERE'S A MORE DETAILED BREAKDOWN OF THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT THAT HAS OCCURRED THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS, BROKEN DOWN BY DISTRICT, AS WELL AS DETAILED, DETAILED, UM, RESPONSES FOR YOU TO, TO REVIEW.
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO, UM, POINT OUT THAT WE ALSO HAVE TODAY, UM, DANIELLE VI OV FROM, UH, NAVIGANT CONSULTING, WHO WAS OUR, OUR MAIN, UH, LEAD ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS PLAN, AS WELL AS, UH, CARLA DELA CHOPPA AND, UH, ANGELA RODRIGUEZ FROM C P SS ENERGY.
SO, AGAIN, WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? UM, BACK IN JUNE, 2017, COUNCIL PASSED THAT, THAT FIRST RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENTS.
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INTERNATIONAL TREATY THAT AT ITS CORE IS ABOUT DOING OUR PART TO REDUCE EMISSIONS THAT ARE CONTRIBUTING TO GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND PREPARING OUR COMMUNITY FOR THOSE IMPACTS.UM, AS, AS, AS HAS BEEN MENTIONED IN THE PAST, THERE'S A LOT IN THIS PLAN THAT WE'RE EITHER ALREADY DOING, UM, OR SHOULD BE DOING FOR LOTS OF OTHER REASONS, WHETHER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MOBILITY, UM, ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS, PUBLIC HEALTH, UH, GETTING BACK INTO ATTAINMENTS OF GROUND LEVEL OZONE STANDARDS.
UM, THERE'S OTHER REASONS TO DO THIS WORK OTHER THAN TRYING TO, UH, ADDRESS CLIMATE.
SO HERE'S JUST A, UM, A UPDATED SUMMARY OF, UH, ENGAGEMENT THAT HAS OCCURRED THROUGH, UM, THE 23RD OF THIS MONTH.
UH, 368 EVENTS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED.
THAT INCLUDES, UH, COMMUNITY EVENTS, UH, MEETINGS WITH NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS AND HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS, GOING TO DIFFERENT COMMUNITY EVENTS THROUGHOUT SAN ANTONIO, UH, REACHING JUST OVER, UH, 11,400 ATTENDEES.
AND WE'VE HAD, UH, JUST OVER 6,500 SURVEYS COMPLETED, UM, DURING THAT TIME PERIOD.
UH, IN TERMS OF EVALUATING THE DRAFT PLAN, UH, THAT WAS RELEASED BACK IN JANUARY, YOU CAN SEE THAT WE'VE RECEIVED 4,862 COMMENTS.
UM, UH, WE'VE ALSO COMPLETED, AS A PART OF THAT PROCESS, WE'VE RECEIVED ABOUT 3,100 SURVEYS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE, RELATED TO THE DRAFT PLAN.
AND, UH, BASED UPON THAT, YOU CAN SEE THE SURVEY RESPONSES, UM, THAT HAS REMAINS, UH, UNCHANGED SINCE THE LAST TIME I PRESENTED, UH, AT, AT A SESSION.
THERE WASN'T ENOUGH, UH, ADDITIONAL RESPONSES TO, TO AFFECT THAT PERCENTAGE BREAKDOWN.
UM, AGAIN, IT WASN'T A STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT, UM, SURVEY.
IT'S, IT JUST PROVIDES A, A GLIMPSE INTO WHAT, UM, UH, WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM THOSE WHO'VE RESPONDED TO THE PLAN, UM, SURVEY.
SO, AS ERIC HAD MENTIONED, UM, WE DID, UM, RECEIVE ENDORSEMENTS, UM, FROM THESE DIFFERENT AGENCIES.
OVERALL, VERY, UM, SUPPORTIVE AND LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH US GOING FORWARD.
UM, I'VE ALSO PRESENTED TO THE, THE SAN ANTONIO CHAMBER, UH, THE HISPANIC CHAMBER, UM, AS WELL AS OTHERS, UM, HAVEN'T HEARD ANY DIRECT FEEDBACK.
WHAT I HAVE HEARD TO DATE, THOUGH, IS, UM, THEY ARE COMFORTABLE WITH THE APPROACH, UH, THE FACT THAT IT DOES LAY OUT A VERY PRAGMATIC, UM, PROCESS GOING FORWARD.
BUT I THINK THE ONE THING WE HAVE HEARD IS EVERYONE DOES WANNA KEEP THEIR EYE ON COSTS AS WE GO FORWARD.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE PLAN DOES ADDRESS AND THAT WE'RE COMMITTED TO CONTINUE TO, TO WORK THROUGH AS WE MOVE FORWARD TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION.
SO AGAIN, WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS AND PREPARE FOR? UM, IT'S PRETTY, IT WAS A PRETTY, I THINK, I THINK I READ IT WAS THE HOTTEST, UM, UH, AUGUST ON RECORD, HOTTEST SOMEWHERE ON RECORD.
THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE'RE GOING TO, TO CONTINUE TO, TO EXPERIENCE GETTING HOTTER.
UM, WE'LL SEE MORE EXTREME WEATHER, UM, MORE EXTREME FLOODING.
AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, THERE'S ALL THESE OTHER ENTITIES THAT ARE LOOKING AT THIS THAT, THAT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO RECOGNIZE WHETHER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND THE MILITARY COMMUNITY LOCALLY.
UM, MOODY'S AND S M P REALLY STARTING TO, TO TAKE A LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, HOW LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND COMMUNITIES ARE PREPARING, UM, FOR CLIMATE CHANGE.
THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, AND EVEN UNESCO LOOKING AT OUR, OUR WORLD HERITAGE SITES.
SO, UH, THERE'S A LOT OF AWARENESS AROUND THIS TOPIC, AND I THINK SAN ANTONIO WITH THIS PLAN IS WELL POSITIONED TO TAKE THAT STEP, UH, AND, AND REALLY MOVE INTO A LEADERSHIP ROLE, UM, BOTH IN THE STATE AS WELL AS NATIONALLY.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHERE ARE OUR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS COMING FROM? UH, EVERY TIME THAT WE, UM, UH, TRAVEL AROUND OUR COMMUNITY, UH, IN A GAS POWERED VEHICLE, WE ARE RELEASING, UH, CARBON DIOXIDE AND OTHER, UH, GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS.
UH, WHEN WE TURN ON OUR LIGHTS, THE POWER THAT'S GOING TO OUR HOMES AND OUR BUSINESSES, UM, IS, IS BASICALLY PRODUCING, UH, GREENHOUSE GASES.
YOU CAN SEE HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, 85% COMES FROM, UH, THE, THE ENERGY BEING SUPPLIED TO OUR BUILDINGS, UH, AND OUR TRANSPORTATION SECTOR.
UH, BUT WE HAVE SEEN A 10% REDUCTION, UM, FROM, UH, 2014 TO 2016, WHICH IS PRIMARILY DRIVEN BY, UM, INCREASED, UH, UM, UH, RENEWABLES WITHIN THE C P S PORTFOLIO, AS WELL AS, UM, REDUCED ENERGY CONSUMPTION, UH, THROUGHOUT, UM, OUR COMMUNITY.
AND, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF WHAT THE PATHWAY IS AND, AND THIS, THIS PATHWAY, UM, TO 2050 IS BASED UPON THE, THE CURRENT BEST CLIMATE SCIENCE, UH, IN, IN ORDER TO, UM, UH, DO OUR PART TO TRY TO, UM, UH, MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE AND KEEP GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE TO, UH, ONE NO MORE THAN 1.5 DEGREES CELSIUS BY THE, BY THE END OF CENTURY,
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UH, IT, IT SHOWS THAT WE NEED TO BE NET CARBON NEUTRAL BY 2050.AGAIN, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE'RE NOT EMITTING ANY CARBON.
UM, WE'LL, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO REDUCE BY APPROXIMATELY 85%, BUT WE'LL NEED TO PHYSICALLY STORE, UH, THROUGH SOME SORT OF CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE PROCESS.
UM, SOME C O TWO, EITHER THROUGH PHYSICAL OR, UM, NATURAL MEANS, UH, THAT GREEN LINE IS OUR STRAIGHT LINE PATHWAY.
UM, WE'VE SEEN CITIES BE ABLE TO, TO FOLLOW THIS.
SOMETIMES YOU'RE ABOVE THE LINE, SOMETIMES YOU'RE BELOW THE LINE, BUT THE GOAL IS TO KEEP THAT TREND GOING DOWN AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
UH, THE RED LINE IS THE BUSINESS AS USUAL SCENARIO THAT TAKES INTO ACCOUNT, UM, OUR POPULATION GROWTH.
AND IF WE DON'T TAKE ANY OF THESE ACTIONS, UH, WE'LL SEE OUR EMISSIONS CONTINUE TO, TO INCREASE, AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO, UM, TRY TO AVOID.
SO THE PLAN, UH, IS BROKEN, UH, DOWN INTO TWO SECTIONS.
UH, THE GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION, UH, OR THE REDUCTION, UH, SECTION.
AND THEN THE CLIMATE ADAPTATION SECTION.
UH, THE MITIGATION SECTION IS HOW ARE WE GONNA REDUCE OUR, OUR EMISSIONS? AND YOU CAN SEE IT'S BROKEN DOWN INTO, INTO SIX C CATEGORIES.
UM, INCREASING CARBON FREE ENERGY, REDUCING, UH, ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN OUR BUILDING AND TRANSPORTATION SECTORS, UH, INCREASING THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY.
HOW DO WE, UH, REALLY STRIVE TO, UH, REDUCE HOW MUCH WE ARE JUST DISPOSING OF IN, IN LANDFILLS.
UM, AND, UH, PROMOTING BIODIVERSITY AND HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS, BECAUSE THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE THE, ARE ONE OF OUR, UM, UH, MOST COST EFFECTIVE OPPORTUNITIES TO, TO STORE, UM, CARBON.
UH, AND THEN PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE IDEA OF EDUCATION.
UM, WE NEED TO KEEP THIS CONVERSATION GOING, UM, WITH ALL SECTORS OF THE COMMUNITY, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND UNDERSTAND WHY THIS IS AN IMPERATIVE.
UM, WE ALSO COVER, UM, MUNICIPAL, UH, OPERATIONS AS WELL.
IT'S, IT'S REALLY LOOKING AT THOSE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS THAT WERE COMPLETED BY, UM, UH, U T SS A, UH, THAT, THAT, THAT TRY TO PREPARE FOR WHAT THOSE IMPACTS ARE.
AND AGAIN, THEY'RE NOT SOMETHING THAT'S, I THINK IN THE PAST, A WE ALWAYS LOOKED AT IT CLIMATE IMPACTS AS SOMETHING WAS A LONG WAY AWAY, BUT WE'RE SEEING THEM NOW.
UM, SO IT'S HOW DO WE PREPARE, HOW DO WE PREPARE OUR INFRASTRUCTURE? HOW DO WE REALLY LOOK AT WHAT THIS MEANS IN TERMS OF PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACTS FOR OUR, OUR RESIDENTS? UH, THE IDEA OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND PREPAREDNESS, UM, LOCAL FOOD SECURITY, UH, AND THEN AGAIN, EDUCATION, OUTREACH, UH, AND, AND EQUITY OR SIGNIFICANTLY IMPORTANT.
SO, UM, THIS IS JUST A VERY QUICK SNAPSHOT OF THE, SOME OF THE PROPOSED EDITS, UM, THAT, THAT WE, UH, HAVE INCLUDED.
UM, THEY'RE PRIMARILY DRIVEN FROM SOME FEEDBACK THAT WE, WE HAD HEARD FROM COUNSEL, UH, BACK IN JULY AT A SESSION AS WELL AS, UM, IS IT JULY IN AUGUST? UH, AND THEN, UH, IN, UH, COMMUNITY HEALTH AND EQUITY, UH, LAST MONTH.
UM, WE DID ADD, UH, A FEW LEAD AND PARTNER AGENCIES.
UM, THERE WERE SOME, UH, STRATEGIES WHERE THERE WERE SOME OTHER AREAS OF EXPERTISE THAT WERE NEEDED, AND, AND WE INCLUDED THOSE.
UH, THE TWO STRATEGIES THAT WE HAD, UM, UH, PROVIDED SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON IS MITIGATION STRATEGY NUMBER EIGHT, WHICH IS RELATED TO, UM, WATER CONSERVATION.
UH, WE, THE ORIGINAL STRATEGY BASICALLY, UM, STATED, CONTINUE TO, UH, YOU KNOW, IMPLEMENT THE SAWS WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN, UM, TO IMPROVE CONSERVATION, UM, THROUGHOUT, UM, SAN ANTONIO, SOME OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WE RECEIVED FROM THE SAWS BOARD WAS, IT'S MORE THAN JUST SAWS, UM, IMPLEMENTING THE, THE PLAN THAT, UM, IT'S GOING TO TAKE ALL SECTORS OF THE COMMUNITY TO, UM, REALLY WORK TOWARDS OUR WATER CONSERVATION GOALS.
SO WE, WE INCLUDED, UM, ADDITIONAL STAKEHOLDERS IN THAT, THAT STRATEGY.
AND THEN, UM, THERE WAS A STRATEGY, UH, IN THE PLAN RELATED TO, UM, ANTI-DISPLACEMENT MEASURES RELATED TO CLIMATE CHANGE.
AND, UM, WE PUT SOME, UH, LANGUAGE IN THERE, RECOGNIZING THE NEED TO ADDRESS.
UM, SOME OF OUR RESIDENTS DON'T NECESSARILY EVEN HAVE CLEAR TITLE TO THEIR HOMES BECAUSE OF JUST GENERATIONAL HANDING DOWN THESE, UM, UH, THESE HOMES.
AND IF THERE'S A MAJOR FLOOD EVENTS AND THEIR, THEIR HOME IS DESTROYED, IF THEY DON'T HAVE TITLE, THEY CAN'T, UH, REBUILD.
SO DEVELOPING SOME SORT OF, UM, EVALUATION PROCESS TO START FIGURING OUT HOW DO WE, WE START MITIGATING THAT, THAT, UM, POTENTIAL IMPACT.
AND THEN ALSO IN THAT SAME STRATEGY, UM, IDENTIFYING ENERGY BURDENED, UM, RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE CONNECTING THEM WITH ENERGY EFFICIENCY OPPORTUNITIES, AS WELL AS EVALUATING THEIR HOMES, UH, TO ENSURE THAT, UM, THEY'RE LIVING IN A BUILDING THAT HAS THE, UH, APPROPRIATE, UM, UH, LEVEL OF THERMAL HEALTH, UM, FOR THEM TO, TO THRIVE DURING, UM, UH, DURING, DURING CHANGE.
UH, IN TERMS ON THE, THE IMPLEMENTATION SIDE, UM, THE PLAN HAS CALLED FOR, UM,
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BEING UPDATED EVERY THREE TO FIVE YEARS.UH, BUT WE ADDED SOME ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE, UM, THAT WE HAD HEARD FROM, FROM SEVERAL, UH, INDIVIDUALS THAT IT'S BASICALLY, OR IF, IF, IF CITY COUNCIL DECIDES TO DIRECT STAFF TO UNDERTAKE IT MORE FREQUENTLY, WE CAN, I THINK, UM, WE'LL WANT TO KEEP A TRACK OF WHAT'S GOING ON WITH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND, AND CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES AND BE PREPARED TO RESPOND IF IT COMES, UM, SOONER THAN A THREE TO FIVE YEAR CYCLE.
UH, WE ALSO, UM, HAD HEARD SOME FEEDBACK FROM, UM, SOME, UH, EQUITY, UH, COMMITTEE MEMBERS, UH, THAT WERE DISCUSSED AT THE LAST COMMUNITY HEALTH AND EQUITY COMMITTEE.
AND ONE OF THE, THE POINTS WAS THE PLAN REALLY DOESN'T HIGHLIGHT HOW WE'RE GONNA DO ENGAGEMENTS.
UM, AND WHEN WE WENT BACK AND WE LOOKED AT IT, UM, REALIZED THAT'S WAS TRUE.
WE, WE TALK ABOUT HOW WE DID ENGAGEMENT, BUT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT HOW WE ARE GOING TO DO ENGAGEMENT.
SO WE HAD PROPOSED, UH, SOME LANGUAGE THAT BASICALLY POINTS OUT, UM, SOME OF OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES.
AND, AND THOSE ARE, UM, VERY QUICKLY, UM, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE COMMUNICATION CHANNELS FOR ALL RESIDENTS TO BE HEARD, UM, ENSURING THAT ALL OF OUR, UH, COMMUNICATION, OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT REACH ALL RESIDENTS, PARTICULARLY FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES.
THOSE ARE THE MOST, UM, POTENTIALLY IMPACTED BY, BY CLIMATE CHI CHANGE.
AND THOSE THAT HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN UNDERREPRESENTED, UM, PROMOTE MEANINGFUL COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN DECISIONS THAT AFFECT THEIR COMMUNITY AND, AND TRACKING DEMOGRAPHICS.
SO I THINK WHAT WE'VE STRIVED TO, TO DO DURING THE PLANNING PROCESS, BUT MEMORIALIZING IN THE PLAN THAT SAYS, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO COMMIT TO, TO GO FORWARD.
AND THEN, UM, FINALLY, UH, WE HAD IN THE ORIGINAL DRAFT, UH, PROPOSED A CLIMATE EQUITY, UH, ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
WE HAD HEARD SOME FEEDBACK FROM SOME COMMITTEE MEMBERS THAT THEY WERE CONCERNED THAT IT WAS SILOED, UM, AND SO THAT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR POTENTIALLY A SUBCOMMITTEE.
BUT THEN WE HEARD, UM, JUST RECENTLY THAT THEY WANTED A STANDALONE, UM, GROUP.
SO WE, WE RESTORED IT TO A, TO A FULL, UM, INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE.
WE THOUGHT THAT WAS ABSOLUTELY, UM, REASONABLE.
SO WE'VE CONTINUED TO DO SOME MORE RESEARCH, UM, AROUND ECONOMICS.
UM, I, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, UM, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL ARE VERY CON, VERY CONCERNED ABOUT, UM, COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE, WE JUST REALLY WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE DOING THAT, THAT, UM, UH, ANALYSIS OF, OF CITIES ACROSS, UH, THE COUNTRY.
SO WE REVIEWED 31 CLIMATE PLANS FROM US CITIES, UM, OF THOSE PLANS, SIX, UM, ADDRESSED COSTS IN SOME CAPACITY, YOU CAN SEE OF THOSE.
UH, FIVE, UM, FLAGSTAFF, INDIANAPOLIS, IOWA CITY, NEW YORK CITY.
UM, BASICALLY, BASICALLY DID A LOW TO HIGH ASSESSMENT.
UH, THERE REALLY WASN'T ANY DETAIL IN, IN THE PLAN.
SAN JOSE, UM, USED SOMETHING CALLED A MARGINAL ABATEMENT CURVE, WHICH BASICALLY IS, IS, IS, IS SAYING THEY IFIED THE PER TON COST, UH, THE, THE PER TON COST FOR IMPLEMENTING THESE, THESE MEASURES.
UM, UH, BUT IT DIDN'T NECESSARILY PUT A, A FULL PRICE TAG ON THE PLAN, BUT IT WAS QUANTIFYING, UM, THAT, THAT COST IMPACT.
UM, IT SEEMED AS THOUGH, UM, MOST OF THE CITIES WERE REALLY FOCUSING ON IMPLEMENTATION, UH, FOR THE, THE, TO, TO LOOK AT ECONOMICS DURING THAT IMPLEMENTATION PHASE.
AND WE EVEN FOUND SOME CITIES, YOU KNOW, ALBEIT TO, OR, UM, FROM EUROPE, BASICALLY STATING THAT YOU NEED TO, YOU NEED TO BE CAUTIOUS WHEN YOU START TRYING TO PUT, UM, NUMBERS ON THESE PLANS JUST 'CAUSE THERE'S SO MANY UNKNOWNS, UM, TECHNOLOGY.
UM, THERE'S JUST UNCERTAINTIES.
UH, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE DON'T NEED TO, TO REALLY FIGURE OUT HOW WE GET AS MUCH DATA AS POSSIBLE.
UM, BUT I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE HOPING IS THAT THE PLAN, UM, AS IT STANDS, PROVIDES A CLEAR GUIDANCE HOW WE'RE GOING TO ASSESS THESE COSTS FOR SPECIFIC STRATEGIES.
AND I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW WE'RE GONNA TRY TO BUILD A BIGGER PICTURE, HOW WE START DOING SOME MORE OF THAT, UM, COST PER TON, UH, ECONOMIC IMPACT, UH, FOR DIFFERENT STRATEGIES AS WE BEGIN MOVING FORWARD.
THE OTHER THING I WOULD ALSO MENTION, UM, WE ALSO WANTED TO LOOK AT HOW PLANS ARE BEING IMPLEMENTED AND IF THEY'RE TRACKING THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT.
SO WE DID A, A SEARCH OF US CITIES AS WELL AS, UM, 20 INTERNATIONAL CITIES, AND FOUND FIVE THAT STARTED TO, TO DIG INTO THAT R O I, UM, LOS ANGELES, BERLIN, TORONTO, SAN JOSE, AND FORT COLLINS.
AGAIN, THEY WERE RELYING VERY MUCH ON THAT ABATEMENT CURVE, UM, THE COST PER TON.
UM, BUT I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE REALLY GOING TO LOOK THIS YEAR.
HOW DO WE START REALLY DIGGING INTO THAT, THAT POTENTIAL DATA AND THOSE COST IMPLICATIONS AS WE MOVE FORWARD? SO WHAT ARE WE PLANNING FOR F Y 2020 IN, IN TERMS OF, UH, IMPLEMENTATION? UM, THE PLAN DOES IDENTIFY, UH, NEAR TERM STRATEGIES.
UH, THOSE ARE STRATEGIES THAT'S, UM, ARE, UH, UH, POTENTIALLY SHOULD BE INITIATED
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BY 2021.THERE'S, THERE'S, UM, THIS SHOULD ACTUALLY BE, SO THERE'S 20 COMMUNITY STRATEGIES.
THERE'S 12, UM, SORRY, 12 COMMUNITY STRATEGIES AND EIGHT MUNICIPAL STRATEGIES.
AND THEN THERE'S 22 ADAPTATION STRATEGIES.
UM, WHEN I LOOKED AT THE MUNICIPAL, UM, STRATEGIES, WE'RE ALREADY INITIATING, WE'VE ALREADY INITIATED FIVE OF THOSE EIGHT.
AND THEN ON THE COMMUNITY SIDE, EIGHT OF THE 12 ARE UNDERWAY.
SO WE'RE ALREADY SHIFTED TOWARDS, UH, INITIATION, UM, IN TERMS OF THESE BUCKETS OF WHAT THE OFFICE SUSTAINABILITY IS GONNA BE FOCUSED ON THIS YEAR.
AGAIN, COMMUNICATIONS AND ENGAGEMENT IS, IM IMPERATIVE.
SO, UH, REALLY LOOKING AT HOW WE CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION ON THE PLAN IN GENERAL, AS WELL AS SPECIFIC STRATEGIES, UM, AT THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY LEVEL.
UM, REALLY TRYING TO RAMP UP MORE CONVERSATION WITH THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
AND WE'RE REALLY INTERESTED IN, UH, SEEING HOW DO WE PILOT A, A RECOGNITION PROGRAM.
UH, AND I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO IS SITTING DOWN WITH, WITH DAVID MCC AND HIS TEAM AND, AND LEARNING HOW, UM, REWORKS SA HAS EVOLVED.
AND I THINK THERE'S A GOOD SYNERGY THERE THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO, TO, UM, START IDENTIFYING WHO ARE THOSE, UM, CLIMATE READY BUSINESSES THAT WE CAN START TO HIGHLIGHT, UM, IN TERMS OF THE BUILDING SECTOR, LOOKING AT PROPERTY ASSESSED CLEAN ENERGY, UH, LOOKING AT EV AND SOLAR READINESS, UH, AS WELL AS, UM, ENERGY AND WATER BENCHMARKING AND DISCLOSURE PROGRAMS ON THE TRANSPORTATION SIDE.
UH, LOOKING AT ELECTRIFICATION, UM, THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY.
UM, PROMOTING ELECTRIFICATION AS A MEANS OF REDUCING, UH, GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS.
UM, ASSESSING AND DETERMINING WHERE WE NEED TO INSTALL ADDITIONAL PUBLIC CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, AND OUR ANTI-IDLING AT SCHOOLS INITIATIVE.
UM, THE MUNICIPAL LEADING BY EXAMPLE, UM, SECTION IS PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT PART.
'CAUSE I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS WE REALLY WANT TO, TO DO IS MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE DOING WHAT WE NEED TO BE DOING BEFORE WE START GOING OUT AND ASKING OTHERS TO DO SO.
SO WE WILL CONTINUE TO IMPLEMENT OUR ENERGY EFFICIENCY FUND PROJECTS.
UH, WE ARE DOING ASSESSMENTS OF RENEWABLE, UM, ENERGY GENERATION ON CITY FACILITIES, AS WELL AS THE POTENTIAL PURCHASING RENEWABLE ENERGY CERTIFICATES.
UH, WE ARE, UM, LOOK, LOOKING AT CONTINUING TO ELECTRIFY OUR CITY FLEET AND AS WELL AS WHAT INFRASTRUCTURES NEEDED TO SUPPORT THAT.
AND PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANT, UH, WE HAVE A MEETING WITH, UH, CITY DEPARTMENTS, UM, AND, AND REALLY SITTING DOWN WITH THEM TO DISCUSS, UM, HOW DOES THEIR WORK ALIGN WITH THE SUSTAINABILITY PLAN AND THE CLIMATE PLAN.
UM, THIS SLIDE IS JUST WHAT THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY IS DOING.
BUT FOR INSTANCE, T C I IS WORKING ON TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT.
UM, UH, THERE'S, UH, TREE PLANTINGS GOING ON AROUND THE CITY THAT IS AN ADAPTATION MEASURE.
SO WE ARE CONTINUING TO, UM, FIGURE OUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO BEST ALIGN AND LEVERAGE THE WORK THAT OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS ARE DOING, AS WELL AS OTHER AGENCIES.
UH, WE ALSO DID PRESENT THIS TO CITY DEPARTMENT HEADS NOT TOO LONG AGO.
UM, UH, AND I THINK ERIC, UM, WAS VERY SUPPORTIVE AND REALLY LETTING THE DEPARTMENT HEADS KNOW THAT THIS IS A, AN IMPORTANT PLAN, UH, AND, AND, AND ONCE ADOPTED, WE REALLY NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, ARE USING IT.
UM, AND, AND WE ARE, UH, ALL DRIVING IN THE SAME DIRECTION.
UM, ON THE MONITORING ASSESSMENT AND TRANSPARENCY SIDE, THE BIG THING THAT'S GONNA BE COMING UP IS, UM, ESTABLISHING THE GOVERNANCE.
UH, AND I'LL, I HAVE ANOTHER SLIDE THAT I'LL, I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT.
WHO ARE THOSE COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT ARE GOING TO HELP US, UM, AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH IMPLEMENTATION? UH, WE WANT TO, UM, UH, DEVELOP A, UM, UH, AN IMP IMPLEMENTATION TRACKING TOOL.
UH, THERE'S A LOT, AS I MENTIONED, A LOT OF THESE STRATEGIES ALREADY INITIATED.
THERE SHOULD BE A PLACE THAT, UM, YOU ALL AS WELL AS, UM, DIFFERENT, UM, STAKEHOLDERS CAN GO AND SEE WHAT STRATEGIES ARE IMPLEMENTED.
IT COULD BE SIMPLY AS SIMPLE AS A, A, UH, YELLOW, RED, GREEN MECHANISM WITH AN EXPLANATION OF, OF WHAT STRATEGIES ARE BEING IMPLEMENTED AND WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATUS.
WE ALSO WANT TO DEVELOP A, A GREENHOUSE GAS IMPACT AND COST BENEFIT, UM, UH, TOOL.
BASICALLY, HOW DO WE, UH, START LOOKING AT ALL THESE DIFFERENT STRATEGIES AND START AND, AND BEGINNING TO ASSIGN THAT COST BENEFIT, UM, UH, PARTICULARLY AROUND THAT, THAT, THAT G H G IMPACT, UM, FOR EACH STRATEGY.
AND THEN, UM, EVEN THOUGH IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE, UM, WE NEED TO START WORKING ON OUR 2018 GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY, UH, THE PLAN, UH, CALLS FOR IT.
SO WE'RE GONNA START WORKING ON THAT THIS, THIS COMING YEAR.
SO IN TERMS OF THE, THE DRAFT ADVISORY COMMITTEE, WE STARTED JUST TRYING TO PUT SOME, SOME THOUGHT ON, ON PAPER.
UH, I THINK OUR, OUR HOPE IS, UM, FOLLOWING POST PLAN, UM, ADOPTION, UH, WE WILL WORK WITH, UH, THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, THE MAYOR'S OFFICE FOR CITY COUNCIL, AS WELL AS FIGURE OUT WHAT IS THE BEST MECHANISM TO ENGAGE WITH STAKEHOLDERS TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, WE DEVELOP A, A ROBUST, UM, EQUITABLE PROCESS WHERE WE CAN GET THOSE PEOPLE THAT WE NEED AROUND THE TABLE.
UM, SO THIS IS JUST ALL VERY, JUST, JUST SUGGESTIONS AT THIS POINT, BUT LOOKING AT A, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY A, A 21, UH, MEMBER COUNCIL APPOINTED,
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UM, UH, COMMITTEE, UH, 15 AT LARGE.AND THEN, UH, THE REMAINING WOULD BE, UM, UH, DESIGNATED FOR PARTNER AGENCIES SUCH AS SAW C P S, UH, THE RIVER AUTHORITY, UM, UH, VIA AS WELL AS OTHERS.
UM, SOME OF THE EXPERTISE THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR WOULD BE, IF SOMEBODY HAS EXPERIENCE WITH ENERGY GENERATION AND, AND RENEWABLES, SOMEBODY WHO HAS EXPERIENCE WITH, UM, NOT JUST ELECTRIC VEHICLES, BUT INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE ENGINES OR ARCHITECTS, AS WELL AS NEIGHBORHOOD MEMBERS, MEMBERS OF THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
UM, WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE HAVE THAT CROSS REPRESENTATION AS WELL AS PEOPLE WHO CAN WORK TOGETHER, UH, IN A PRAGMATIC, UM, FASHION GOING FORWARD.
ON THE CLIMATE EQUITY SIDE, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY LOOKING AT, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, UPWARDS OF 15 COUNCIL APPOINTED MEMBERS, AGAIN, REALLY LOOKING AT WHO ARE THOSE STAKEHOLDERS WHO CAN, UM, UH, EITHER THEY THEMSELVES ARE LIVING IN THESE TARGET, UM, UH, NEIGHBORHOODS OR DEMOGRAPHICS, OR WORK WITH THESE, UM, THESE GROUPS.
UM, I'M ACTUALLY MEETING WITH THE OFFICE OF EQUITY TOMORROW TO JUST START DISCUSSING PROCESS.
UM, AND, AND WHAT WE, WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PROCESS IS, IS, AS I MENTIONED, A GOOD PROCESS.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE BIG THING IS WHAT IS THE CHARGE FOR THESE GROUPS? UM, SO YOU CAN SEE IT'S PROVIDING EXPERTISE AND INPUT, DELIVERING ANNUAL REPORTS, UH, TO COUNCIL.
UH, JUST THIS IS HOW THINGS ARE GOING.
SOME THINGS ARE WORKING WELL, OTHER THINGS ARE AREN'T.
HOW DO WE ADJUST IT WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH OTHER CITY BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS? WE REALLY WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THIS PLAN ISN'T JUST A, A SILO, BUT IT'S BEING CONSIDERED THROUGHOUT, UH, THE ORGANIZATION.
UM, ENGAGING WITH THE GENERAL PUBLIC AS WELL AS TAPPING INTO THEIR NETWORKS, UH, TO, TO CONTINUE EDUCATION, UM, PROVIDING.
AND THEN THE LAST TWO ARE REALLY, PARTICULARLY FOR THE EQUITY GROUP, ALTHOUGH I, I WOULD THINK BOTH GROUPS WOULD REALLY NEED TO FOCUS ON IT, BUT PROVIDING INPUT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE, OF THE PLAN FROM THAT EQUITY CENTERED LENS, AND THEN PILOTING THAT EQUITY SCREENING MECHANISM.
SO AS WE START TALKING ABOUT WHAT STRATEGY ARE WE IMPLEMENTING, ARE WE TAKING THAT STEP AND EVALUATING WHAT THOSE POTENTIAL IMPACTS CAN BE.
SO IN TERMS OF WHERE WE ARE, UM, AS, UH, ERIC HAD MENTIONED, UH, WE'LL BE COMING BACK ON OCTOBER 17TH, UM, FOR ANOTHER PRESENTATION AND HOPEFULLY LOOKING FOR A, A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION FOR APPROVAL.
AND WITH THAT, I'D BE HAPPY TO, TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DOUG, UH, FOR YOUR PRESENTATION, UH, AT LONG LAST, WE ARE HERE, UH, TWO WEEKS BEFORE RATIFICATION OF OUR CLIMATE ACTION ADAPTATION PLAN.
AND I WANNA THANK ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE STEERING COMMITTEES, UH, AS WELL AS OUR CITY STAFF, UH, AND MEMBERS OF THE OTHER STAKEHOLDER GROUPS THAT HAVE WEIGHED IN ON THE PLAN TO MAKE IT, UH, WHAT I THINK IS A STRONG PLAN FOR US TO BEGIN IMPLEMENTATION ON CLIMATE ACTION ADAPTATION ON THE RIGHT FOOT.
LET ME FIRST GO THOUGH TO SLIDE SIX, IF YOU WOULD.
I THINK OUR CHALLENGE, AND ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I THINK IT'S SO VERY CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO HAVE AS MANY PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THIS DISCUSSION AS POSSIBLE RIGHT NOW, IS THAT PIE CHART ON THE RIGHT WHERE IT SAYS UPWARDS OF ALMOST HALF OF OUR GREENHOUSE GAS CHALLENGE, AND ALMOST 40% OF IT COMES FROM BUILDING ENERGY AS WELL AS TRANSPORTATION.
UH, WHAT THAT TELLS ME IS THAT THE WORK THAT WE ARE DOING AND HAVE TO DO, UM, OVER THE NEXT YEAR AND A HALF, BUT ALSO INTO IMPLEMENTATION OF THOSE STRATEGIES, IS CHANGE THE WAY WE PRODUCE AND USE ENERGY IN THIS COMMUNITY, AS WELL AS HOW WE, UH, IMPLEMENT TRANSPORTATION REFORM.
UM, FOR ME, UH, I THINK THIS COUNCIL IS STARTING OFF IN A GOOD POSITION.
UH, WE HAVE SOME VERY GOOD IDEAS AND POLICIES MOVING FORWARD, AND EVEN PLANS PARTICULARLY RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION, BUT IT'S GONNA BE UP TO THIS COMMUNITY AND FUTURE COUNCILS TO IMPLEMENT SOME OF THOSE STRATEGIES.
UM, SO THAT'S WHY I JUST WANTED TO SPEAK FOR A MOMENT ON WHAT THIS PLAN IS AND WHAT IT ISN'T.
THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF, UH, CONVERSATION ABOUT, UM, COSTS AND, UM, MANDATES AND SO FORTH.
AND I WANNA BE VERY CLEAR THAT THIS, THIS PLAN DOESN'T INCLUDE ANY OF THOSE.
UM, IN FACT, THIS HAS NO ORDINANCES AND NO MANDATES IN THE PLAN, BECAUSE WHAT IS GONNA BE REQUIRED OF US STARTING OCTOBER 17TH IS IDENTIFY WHAT WE ACTUALLY WANNA DO TO PASS AND IMPLEMENT THE CHANGE IN CLIMATE, UM, ADAPTATION.
SO WHAT I WANTED TO JUST POINT OUT, AND ALSO THANK YOU FOR DOUG, IS GOING THROUGH THE PAINSTAKING PROCESS OF ASSEMBLING A, A, UM, PORTION
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OF THIS CAP THAT MAKES THAT VERY CLEAR THAT EVERY STEP THAT WE TAKE WILL BE DONE WITH FULL COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS WITH, UH, PUBLIC INPUT, UH, THROUGH OUR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROTOCOL, AS WELL AS ECONOMIC IMPACT, UH, ANALYSIS.UH, AND THAT GOES FOR, UH, CODE CHANGE TO, UH, THE THINGS THAT WE'LL DO TO, UH, IMPLEMENT CHANGE AT CPSS, UH, ENERGY PORTFOLIO.
UM, WE KNOW WHAT PROJECTIONS ARE TELLING US IN TERMS OF THE HEAT, UH, THE HEAT ISLAND EFFECT, UH, THE CHANGE IN WEATHER PATTERNS, THE REDUCTION OF RAINFALL, AND SO FORTH OVER TIME.
SO, UM, IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT THIS IS NOT JUST, UH, A MORAL IMPERATIVE, BUT IT'S ALSO AN ECONOMICALLY PRUDENT THING FOR US TO DO, TO CREATE A MORE SUS SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT COMMUNITY.
UM, I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR YOU, UH, OTHER THAN TO JUST, AGAIN, DOUG, THANK YOU FOR, UH, YOUR DILIGENT EFFORTS OVER THE LAST MANY, MANY MONTHS AND, UH, FOR BRINGING THIS TO COUNCIL IN A, IN A WAY THAT I THINK EVERYONE CAN FEEL LIKE THEY'VE BEEN AT THE TABLE AND HAS A STRONG PLAN MOVING FORWARD.
SO, UH, WITH THAT, WE'LL GO INTO COUNCIL MEMBER COMMON, STARTING WITH COUNCIL MEMBER CAVEO HDE.
FIRST, UH, THANK YOU, DOUG, FOR YOUR THOUGHTFUL WORK ON THIS IMPORTANT INITIATIVE.
YOU NOTED OVER 11,000 ATTENDEES OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, UM, WENT TO A PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT EVENT LATE AT, AT A LATER TIME.
CAN YOU SEND ME THE DETAILS OF THE NUMBER AND LOCATIONS OF THESE EVENTS IN DISTRICT SIX? YES.
OF THERE, AND I'LL SEND YOU THE ELECTRONIC VERSION, BUT IT'S ACTUALLY IN THAT BOOKLET THAT I, THAT I GAVE YOU, BUT I'LL, IT'LL IN THIS ONE, YES.
UM, AND THAT WILL SHOW THE ATTENDANCE NUMBERS AT THE DISTRICT SIX EVENTS AS WELL.
ACTUALLY, I'LL HAVE TO, IT DOESN'T, BUT WHAT I CAN DO IS FOR, I THINK FOR THIS, THIS, UM, DATA IN GENERAL FOR EVERYONE.
I CAN ADD THAT, THAT, THAT COLUMN FOR ALL OF YOU AND EMAIL IT ELECTRONICALLY.
ALSO, WERE THE 6,500 OR SO COMPLETED SURVEYS ALL CONDUCTED DIGITALLY? NO.
UM, I, I'M NOT SURE OF THE EXACT NUMBER.
WE, UM, PART OF THE EQUITY WORK THAT WE WERE DOING, MM-HMM.
UM, IN PREPARATION FOR THE VOTE AND NEXT, OR I GUESS THE 17TH, WILL YOU SHARE WITH US THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN? YOU NOTED? UM, WELL, IN OTHER WORDS, WE EXPLAINED THE FIRST STEPS OF IMPLEMENTATION OR, OR THE PRIORITIES.
YOU NOTED THE, IN THE INVENTORY, WHICH I THINK I WANT TO EXPRESS MY SUPPORT FOR THE INVENTORY.
I UNDERSTAND THERE WAS A BASELINE DONE IN 2016.
AND WERE, YOU MENTIONED, WE'RE UP NOW FOR 2018, RIGHT? YES, MA'AM.
IS THAT THE FIRST KIND OF IMPLEMENTATION THAT WE'RE, WE'RE, SO, WELL, I WOULD SAY THAT, I MEAN, I THINK THE, THE, THE PLAN HAS SO MANY DIFFERENT PIECES THAT ARE ALREADY UNDERWAY.
SO, FOR INSTANCE, WHEN I, UM, CITED THE NUMBER OF NEAR TERM STRATEGIES THAT ARE ALREADY UNDERWAY, UM, RESIDENTIAL WASTE DIVERSION, ORGANICS DIVERSION IS, IS UNDERWAY.
UM, THE WORK AROUND ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT, DEMAND MANAGEMENT IS PART OF THE PLAN THAT'S UNDERWAY.
UM, SO I, BUT I CAN PULL TOGETHER, I THINK, A LITTLE MORE DETAIL AS FAR AS WHAT THAT, THAT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN COULD LOOK LIKE BEFORE NEXT, UH, BEFORE THE 17TH.
I'D ALSO LIKE TO REQUEST A SEPARATE BRIEFING ABOUT THE, UM, IMPLEMENTATION TRACKING TOOL.
I THINK THAT'S REALLY INTERESTING.
I'D LIKE TO LEARN MORE, AND I'D LOVE TO PICK YOUR BRAIN 'CAUSE IT'S TO BE DEVELOPED, BUT, OH, OKAY.
COUNCIL MEMBER KEO DALE, COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN.
UM, THANKS DOUG FOR YOUR WORK.
UH, QUICK QUESTIONS ON THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH.
I THINK YOU MENTIONED IT IN THE DRAFTED ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UM, PORTION.
AND WHEN TALKING ABOUT, UH, I THINK IT'S SLIDE NUMBER, SLIDE NUMBER NINE, THE IMPLEMENTATION.
OH, SO THE LANGUAGE IS THIS LANGUAGE THAT YOU HAD BACK YES, MAAM.
SO WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SPECTRUM OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, AND, UM, YOU MENTIONED THAT PARTICULARLY YOU ARE GOING TO BE REACHING OUT AND WORKING WITH THOSE ON THE FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES, CORRECT? YES, MA'AM.
I JUST WANTED TO REITERATE THAT I THINK THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE CONTINUE TO STICK WITH THAT BECAUSE THESE ARE, UH, THE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE DEALING WITH IT EVERY SINGLE DAY AND CAN HAVE, UM, VERY GOOD IMPACT, INSIGHT INTO THE,
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UM, THE LIVED REALITY WITH WHAT WE HAVE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, AS WELL AS WHAT'S HAPPENING SPECIFICALLY IN, UM, IN AND AROUND OUR RIVER.AND THEN IN AND AROUND, UM, IN AND AROUND THESE REFINERIES THAT WE HAVE TOO.
UM, ALSO WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE, UM, I GUESS THE NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE NATURAL ASSETS THAT WE HAVE IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
SO PARTICULARLY, UM, THE, I'M JUST GONNA, THE EDWARDS, UH, RECHARGE ZONE IN THE EDWARDS AQUIFER.
I KNOW WHEN WE GO TO ZONING, UH, ROD AND, AND, AND, UH, DOUG, WHEN WE GO TO ZONING, AND IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT'S A ZONING CHANGE THAT IS OVER THE EDWARDS AQUIFER, THE RECHARGE ZONE SAWS ALWAYS COMES AND, AND LOOKS AND GIVES US A REPORT, UM, TO SAY IF IT'S GONNA HAVE AN IMPACT, A NEGATIVE IMPACT, OR, YOU KNOW, A NEUTRAL IMPACT.
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME WE REVIEWED THAT AND WHO DO WE REVIEW IT? DOES THE STATE GIVE US THAT MANDATE? AND ARE THERE OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO PUT MAYBE, UM, TO HAVE MORE CONVERSATION IN, IN THAT, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT DEVELOPMENT OVER THE RECHARGE ZONE? YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION THAT THAT'S BEEN IN OUR ORDINANCE FOR, FOR QUITE SOME TIME.
I, YOU KNOW, WE, WE UPDATE THE U D C EVERY COUPLE YEARS, EVERY FIVE YEARS NOW.
UH, WE REALLY HAVEN'T TOUCHED IT, UH, IN, IN A LONG TIME.
UH, AND YES, I DO BELIEVE THAT ULTIMATE AUTHORITY FOR THAT DOES COME, COME FROM THE STATE MM-HMM.
UH, WE CERTAINLY COULD, COULD LOOK AT THAT.
UH, SO I, I'M ONLY THINKING ABOUT IT IN THE CONVERSATION OF OUR, UH, CLIMATE ACTION ADAPTATION, BUT WE KNOW IT'S ABOUT OUR RESOURCES AND OUR ASSETS HERE TOO, THAT, UM, JUST AS WE LOOK AT ALL OF OUR, OUR NATURAL RESOURCE ASSETS IN THE COMMUNITY, UM, EITHER HOW DOES THAT PLAY A PART IN HERE, THIS CONVERSATION? HOW IS THAT PLAYING A PART IN THIS WHOLE THING? HOW DOES IT PLAY A PART IN OUR SUSTAINABILITY PLAN? UM, THAT'S WHAT I'D LIKE TO KNOW.
SO THE PLAN ACTUALLY DOES IDENTIFY, UM, THE CONCEPT OF, LEMME SEE IF I CAN FIND IT, UM, VERY QUICKLY, ECOLOGICAL PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTS MM-HMM.
UH, AND SO I THINK THE GOAL IS, UM, AS WE MOVE FORWARD TO IMPLEMENTATION, UM, HOW DO WE DEVELOP, SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU HAD MENTIONED WITH THE EDWARDS AQUIFER, UM, WHAT ARE THOSE, THOSE LEVERAGE POINTS FOR REVIEW? UM, AND, UM, WHAT ARE THE, UM, WHAT ARE THE DECISIONS THAT NEED TO BE MADE IN A CERTAIN WAY TO SUPPORT THE CLIMATE PLAN? SO, FOR INSTANCE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE TALK ABOUT URBAN HEAT ISLAND AS, AS AN EXAMPLE.
UM, WHEN WE START TALKING ABOUT HOW WE GROW, WE START GETTING INTO CONVERSATIONS AROUND, AND, YOU KNOW, AND, AND WE'VE BEEN HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS FOR A LONG TIME.
YOU KNOW, WE'VE DONE A LOT ON TREES.
WE'VE, WE'VE, UM, WE'RE DOING WORK ON L L I D, BUT I THINK IT'S USING, UM, THIS PLAN AS ANOTHER LENS MM-HMM.
UH, SO I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'LL WANNA WORK WITH CITY DEPARTMENTS AS WELL AS PARTNER AGENCIES, IS HOW DO WE SYNC ALL OF OUR PROCESSES TO MAKE SURE THAT MY OFFICE IS, AS WELL AS THIS PLAN IS PART OF THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS.
AND SO AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH OUR U D C AND OUR REVISIONS TO OUR U D C, THIS WILL ALSO BE USED IN OUR CONVERSATION OR OUR LENS, IF YOU WILL, UH, AS WE'RE LOOKING FOR LOOKING AT THE U D C.
AND, AND, AND THE NEXT PART BECOMES IMPLEMENTATION.
SO VERY MUCH THIS WILL BE ONE OF THE, THE MANY LENSES THAT WE LOOK THROUGH AS WE BRING THOSE AMENDMENTS FORWARD.
AND SO, UM, DON'T YOU HAVE GROUPS THAT ARE ALREADY MEETING, UH, TECHNICAL GROUPS THAT ARE ALREADY MEETING ABOUT U D C? THERE ARE, AND WE DON'T HAVE A A, A PLAN YET.
SO WHEN WE GO BACK, WE'LL BE HAVING, UH, WHENEVER THIS GETS ADOPTED OR, UH, VOTED ON, WE'LL HAVE THIS AS PART OF IMPLEMENTATION.
OR DO THEY ALREADY KNOW THAT THERE ARE ELEMENTS OF THIS THAT MAY BE MOVING FORWARD? WELL, THERE, THERE, THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE'RE ALREADY DOING.
BUT, BUT AFTER THIS IS ADOPTED, REMEMBER IT, IT STILL HAS ALL OF THOSE GROUPS ARE MEETING, BUT THEN AFTER THAT, THEY'RE GONNA GO THROUGH THE PLANNING COMMISSION TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
SO THERE'S ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO MAKE FINE TUNED AMENDMENTS.
THEN IT GOES TO THE COMMISSION PROCESS, THEN IT'LL GO THROUGH A COUNCIL COMMITTEE.
SO THERE'S PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO LOOK AT THE PLAN AND, AND PUT IN THE U D C, WHAT MAKES SENSE MM-HMM.
AND THEN, UM, LASTLY, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE DRAFT ADVISORY COMMITTEES AND THE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY AND THE CLIMATE EQUITY, UH, COMMITTEE, THE ADVISORY COMMITTEES, HOW DO YOU INTEND TO SEE THEM WORKING TOGETHER AND NOT SILOED ON THEIR OWN? SO THE SIMPLEST THING THAT POPPED
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TO MY MIND WAS HAVING SOME CROSS REPRESENTATION.SO SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS A, UM, YOU KNOW, EACH GROUP HAS A, A CHAIR OR, UM, UH, TWO DESIGNEES.
THAT WOULD BE ASKED TO DO DOUBLE DUTY.
UM, AND, AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE BOTH, ALL FOUR SERVING, UM, CROSS PURPOSES.
I THINK, UM, OTHER THINGS THAT HAVE WORKED WELL IS, IS DOING JOINTS, RETREATS, JOINT PLANNING SESSIONS.
UH, I THINK THE KEY TO IT IS, IS, UM, ONE, MAKING SURE IT'S THE RIGHT PEOPLE AROUND EACH TABLE.
UH, AND I THINK BEING CLEAR ON WHAT THE CHARGE IS, UM, WHAT THE EXPECTATIONS ARE, BUT CREATING THAT VERY CLEAR PROCESS TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T THINK IT SHOULD BE THE EQUITY COMMITTEE HAVING TO CHASE DOWN THE OTHER COMMITTEE.
I THINK WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO COME UP WITH A PROCESS WHERE, UM, THEY BOTH SUPPORT EACH OTHER IN THEIR WORK.
SO IF I COULD JUST ADD, THEN, UM, TO, TO REITERATE YOUR POINT WOULD BE YES, FOR THESE TWO TO WORK, UM, COLLABORATIVELY AND FOR THAT CLARITY, UH, TOO, BECAUSE WE CAN'T HAVE ONE TRYING TO DO SOMETHING ELSE OR UNDO WHAT THE OTHER COMMITTEE IS DOING.
AND WE'RE ALL TRYING TO WORK TOGETHER FOR A WIN-WIN FOR ALL OF SAN ANTONIO SO'S.
AND I THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT POINT.
IT'S NOT, EQUITY WORK ISN'T JUST ABOUT THE EQUITY COMMITTEE.
IT, IT, IT, THE OTHER GROUP NEEDS TO HAVE, AND THERE JUST HAS TO BE AN UNDERSTANDING FROM ALL SIDES AND ALL PERSPECTIVES.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE CAN DO HERE WHEN WE HAVE THIS CROSS REPRESENTATION.
COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN.
YOU REALLY DID GO BACK AND PUT HARD WORK, UM, ALONG WITH THE COMMITTEE INTO LISTENING TO THE CONCERNS WE HAD, UM, AS THIS WAS BEING BROUGHT UP.
AND I THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING THAT.
UM, THE QUESTION THAT I HAD AS FAR AS THE ENDORSEMENTS OF SOME OF THE COMPANIES, I KNOW THAT I WAS STILL WONDERING AS FAR AS WITH SABRE AND THE SAN ANTONIO APARTMENT ASSOCIATION IN WASA.
HA HAVE WE RECEIVED ANY COMMUNICATION BACK, UM, AS WHERE THEY STAND? SO THE BOARD OF REAL REALTORS I HAVE MET WITH OVER THIS PROCESS.
UM, THE REAL ESTATE COMMUNITY, UM, THE SAN ANTONIO BUSINESS COALITION, UM, I, WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING FORMALLY IN WRITING.
I, I THINK I COULD SAY ANECDOTALLY, I'M NOT SURE IF THEY'LL COME OUT PROACTIVELY SUPPORTING IT, BUT I, I THINK THEY'RE COMFORT AND I CAN FOLLOW UP WITH THEM, UM, AGAIN, PRIOR TO THE 17TH, UH, TO GET A, A FIRMER UNDERSTANDING OF, OF WHERE THEY ARE.
BUT I THINK, UM, UH, THE GROUPS ARE, ARE COMFORTABLE WITH THE APPROACH THAT'S BEEN, THAT'S BEEN LAID OUT.
BUT I CAN CONFIRM THAT BEFORE, UH, BEFORE WE COME BACK.
AND THEN ON THE GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY, I WAS LOOKING, UM, AS THE TOP TWO, WHICH ARE TRANSPORTATION AND BUILDING ENERGY, AND THEY'RE RELATING BACK TO THE SURVEY, UM, LOOKING AT THE BARRIERS.
UM, IT'S TRANSPORTATION AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
SO, UM, WHEN IT CO CORRELATES TO THOSE TWO, UM, AS FAR AS WITH VIA, ARE THEY GIVING YOU A STANCE ON HOW THEY'RE LOOKING TO TRULY, UM, BE ACTIVE IN THIS ROLE OF MAKING THAT TRANSPORTATION, UM, SITUATION A LOT BETTER ON THE CLIMATE PLAN? YES.
WE, UH, THE PRESENTATION THAT, THAT I MADE TO, UM, VIA BOARD LAST WEEK, I BELIEVE THEY WERE VERY, VERY SUPPORTIVE.
THEY, THEY CLEARLY SEE THE ALIGNMENT, UM, BETWEEN, UH, THEIR ORGANIZATION'S MISSION AND, AND THIS PLAN.
SO, UM, I'M CONFIDENT THAT, UM, THEY'LL CONTINUE TO COLLABORATE WITH US AND, AND, AND WORK ON THIS.
I, I THINK, UM, WE HAVE A DIFFERENT METRIC WITH THIS.
UM, WHEN YOU, THE, THE ONE THING ABOUT VIA THOUGH IS WHEN YOU START BREAKING DOWN THE, UM, THE TRANSPORTATION EMISSIONS, THEY'RE ACTUALLY A VERY SMALL, UM, PORTION.
BUT I THINK IT, IT'S MORE TOWARDS THE MOBILITY ISSUE AS FAR AS PEOPLE BEING ABLE TO GET WHERE THEY NEED TO GO AND WHERE PEOPLE ARE LIVING, WHETHER OR, OR WORKING.
SO I THINK THEY'RE KEY TO THIS BEING SUCCESSFUL.
AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION I HAD IS, AS FAR AS THE MARKETING, UM, WHEN WE'RE DOING THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPLES, UM, TO THOSE THAT ARE, ARE WITHIN THAT DIGITAL DIVIDE THAT CANNOT GET ON THE WEBSITES OR DON'T HAVE THE SOCIAL MEDIA, UM, IS THERE ALREADY A MARKETING PLAN IN PLACE FOR WHEN THE COMMITTEES ARE ACTUALLY LOOKING TO BE FORMED TO GET THAT INFORMATION OUT? THAT WE'RE CONTINUOUSLY LOOKING FOR THOSE THAT WANT TO BE ENGAGED ON THE, THE CIVILIAN SIDE OF THE SPECTRUM TO TO KNOW EXACTLY WHEN WE'RE HOSTING 'EM.
UM, AND IF YOU CAN GIVE ME A BREAKDOWN ON WHAT THAT MARKETING LOOKS LIKE.
YEAH, AND I, WE, WE DO HAVE SOME, UM, MARKETING
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STRATEGIES.I CAN BE, I'D BE HAPPY TO, TO SHARE WITH YOU AS FAR AS WHAT WE DID DURING THE PLAN.
I THINK AS WE MOVE TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION, WE'LL PROBABLY WANT TO ADJUST IT.
UM, UH, BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE, THE GOAL OF, OF ENGAGEMENT IS, IS AS, AS YOU ALL KNOW, IT'S MORE THAN JUST A SURVEY ON, ON A WEBSITE.
UH, IT'S, AND SO I THINK THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE REALLY GOING TO, TO LOOK FORWARD TO IS WORKING WITH EACH ONE OF YOU ON HELPING US GET THE WORD OUT IN YOUR DISTRICTS AND, AND HELPING POINT US IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, BECAUSE YOU, YOU, YOU ALL KNOW THE, THE, THE, THE CITY BETTER THAN THAN WE DO AND KNOW THE DISTRICTS BETTER THAN WE DO.
COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREWS SULLIVAN, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.
THANKS, UH, DOUG, FOR THE PRESENTATION, LEMME JUST START WITH A COUPLE OF CLARIFYING QUESTIONS.
SO IT IS, UM, THE ELECTRIC ELECTRICITY AS WELL AS THE NATURAL GAS, UM, THAT'S BEING PROVIDED FOR THE MOST PART.
AND, AND THEN WHAT, AND SO THEN WHAT ARE POINT EMISSIONS? POINT EMISSIONS WOULD BE, UM, LARGE SCALE EMISSIONS FROM SITES THAT, UM, WE ACTUALLY CAN, CAN PINPOINT.
SO A LARGE INDUSTRIAL, UM, OPERATION.
SO IS THAT INDUSTRIAL PROCESS, THE INDU THAT'S HERE, UH, AT 8%, I'M SORRY, I'M LOOKING AT, UM, SO THE INDUS INDUSTRIAL PROCESS EMISSIONS ARE, UM, EMISSIONS LOCATED.
SO FOR INSTANCE, AT A, UM, A CEMENT FACILITY, THEY ARE USING, UM, ELECTRIC AND NATURAL GAS FROM C P S, BUT THEY'RE ALSO AS A PART OF THEIR PROCESS OF, UM, MAKING CEMENT RELEASE OTHER EMISSIONS.
SO IT'S THOSE OTHER EMISSIONS THAT ARE BEING, UM, PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY OTHER THAN ELECTRIC AND NATURAL GAS.
BUT BUILDING FACILITIES HAS NOT C P S FACILITIES.
IT'S LIKE THIS BUILDING THAT WE'RE IN.
IT'S, IT'S BASICALLY ANYTHING WITH A METER THAT'S PULLING, UM, UH, UH, ELECTRIC OR NATURAL GAS.
I JUST WANTED A LITTLE BIT OF CLEAR CLARITY ON THAT, UM, TO SORT OF HELP FRAME THE REST OF MY DISCUSSIONS.
UM, WHICH I GUESS IS AS I, YOU KNOW, WE TAKE THESE THINGS INTO CONSIDERATION.
THIS IS JUST A REGULAR LIVING GETTING SOMEWHERE.
I, I GUESS IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT WE ACT, WE DO HAVE CONTROL OVER THESE TWO THINGS IN MANY WAYS, BECAUSE IT IS HOW WE GET TO WORK, AND THEN THE PHYSICAL PLACES WHERE WE, WHERE WE RESIDE, WHETHER IN OUR HOMES OR IN OFFICE BUILDINGS.
UM, SO I GUESS LEADS ME TO THE NEXT QUESTION.
UM, DO WE NOT INCENTIVIZE BUILDING VERY ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS? I THOUGHT WE DID.
WELL, I, I THINK ONE THING I WOULD, I WOULD SAY IS, UM, SAN ANTONIO WAS THE, THE FIRST, UM, CITY IN TEXAS WERE EVEN NATIONALLY, THE ADOPT THE 2018 I E C C, THE FIRST, UM, CITY IN TEXAS TO ADOPT THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AND CONSERVATION CODE.
AND SO IT'S, IT'S THE MOST ADVANCED, YOU KNOW, CURRENTS, UM, UM, ENERGY CODE FOR BUILDINGS.
SO WE'RE BUILDING EFFICIENT, UM, UH, BUILDINGS.
UM, THERE'S INCENTIVES THROUGH C P S, UM, UH, TO, TO, TO IMPROVE OVERALL ENERGY EFFICIENCY FOR THOSE, FOR THOSE BUILDINGS.
UM, THERE'S ALSO, UM, UH, INCENTIVES FOR, FOR RENEWABLES.
SO I THINK THE NEXT THING THAT WE, THAT WE AND WE HAVE BEEN DOING IS WE'VE BEEN STARTING DISCUSSIONS WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS TO SEE, OKAY, AS WE START LOOKING AT NEW PROJECTS THAT COMING IN, UH, ARE COMING INTO SAN ANTONIO, ARE THERE OTHER THINGS THAT WE WANT TO, TO TRY TO HELP LEVERAGE THOSE, UM, IN TERMS OF THE, THE, WHAT THE BUILDING AT THE END OF THE DAY LOOKS LIKE.
SO I, I, I WOULD HOPE THAT THAT WOULD, CONVERSATION WOULD EVOLVE.
SO, YOU KNOW, CURRENTLY WE GIVE AN ABATEMENT TO COMPANIES THAT COME IN, UM, THAT PROVIDE X NUMBER OF JOBS.
UM, YOU KNOW, COULD WE INSTEAD GIVE INCENTIVES TO COMPANIES THAT PROVIDE THIS KIND OF BUILDING, UM, EFFICIENCIES, WHICH I, YOU KNOW, IT LOOKS LIKE WE DO SOME OF IT, BUT IT'S NOT A, A REAL, UM, ENCOURAGING, UH, DIVI, UH, METRIC THAT WE USE.
WELL, WHAT I THINK WHAT THIS PLAN CAN DO IS ONCE ADOPTED, I THINK THEN WE COULD START LOOKING AT IT AS HOW DO WE REVISIT THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE, THE INCENTIVES, THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE, AND SEE IF THERE'S WAYS OF LEVERAGING THOSE DIFFERENTLY TO, UM, TO MOVE THIS PLAN FORWARD, WHETHER IT'S MORE EFFICIENCY IN, IN BUILDINGS OR, OR, OR, OR, UM, TRANSPORTATION.
BUT I THINK IT CAN BE A TOOL TO HELP US GET THERE.
SO, BECAUSE IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING, AND AT LEAST THIS IS MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, EVEN WHEN WE WERE BUILDING MY BUILDING, WHICH WAS ABOUT 15,000
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SQUARE FEET, THAT IT WAS MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE, UH, TO ADD THOSE, UM, COMPONENTS LIKE SOLAR OR A WATER CAPTURE FEATURE.UM, AND YOU DIDN'T REALLY GET, IT WAS MORE EXPENSIVE TO BUILD AND YOU DIDN'T REALLY GET ANY BENEFIT.
UH, AND SO OTHER THAN, YOU KNOW, THE FEEL GOOD OF HAVING AN ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDING, BUT AT THAT TIME, YOU KNOW, IT WAS NOT, UH, THE DIFFERENCE WAS SIGNIFICANT.
UH, ESPECIALLY EVEN OVER TIME.
UM, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A BUILDING IN OUR CASE THAT WE'D EXPECT TO HAVE AT LEAST A HUNDRED YEAR LIFETIME, BUT EVEN THE UPFRONT COST WAS TOO MUCH TO HAVE THAT BENEFIT OVER TIME COST TO US FOR EFFICIENCIES.
BUT EVEN THERE WAS LIKE VERY MINOR INCENTIVES FOR, IN FACT, I WANNA SAY THERE WERE NO INCENTIVES.
SO, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW THAT EVOLVES, UH, OVER TIME AND TO SEE IF WE CAN'T MAKE THAT A, A MORE IMPORTANT METRIC MM-HMM.
I HAVE ANOTHER THOUGHT, UM, THAT IS COMING TO MIND.
I GUESS I, I WAS VERY SURPRISED TO SEE ALMOST NO PRIVATE SECTOR ENDORSEMENTS FROM TO THE PLAN.
AND, UM, COUNCILWOMAN, UH, ANDREW SULLIVAN SORT OF TOUCHED ON THIS, BUT THERE'S GOTTA BE BUSINESSES THAT ARE, UH, ENCOURAGED BY THE PLAN.
NOTHING FROM THOSE WANTING TO ENDORSE THE PLAN.
WE'RE, AND WE'RE, WE'RE REACHING OUT NOW CIRCLING BACK, SOLAR INDUSTRY, UH, ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROVIDERS.
UM, WE, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A PRESENTATION, UM, TO COMMUNITY HEALTH AND EQUITY ON, UM, FROM, FROM, UH, CREDIT HUMAN SHOWING THAT, UM, UH, GREEN BUILDINGS, UH, DO WORK.
SO, UM, HOPEFULLY BEFORE THE 20 17TH, I'LL BE ABLE TO BRING BACK SOME, UM, SOME FIRM, UM, HOPEFULLY GOOD COMMITMENTS FROM SOME OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
I, I WOULD, I WOULD THINK SO, BECAUSE WHILE WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE GONNA BE RESISTANT TO IT BECAUSE IT'S REQUIRES PERHAPS ADDITIONAL OVERSIGHT, THERE ARE OTHERS THAT ARE GONNA BENEFIT FROM THAT, THAT WOULD REALLY WANNA ENDORSE THE PLAN.
SO I HOPE THAT WE GET THAT, UH, SOMEHOW IN, IN, IN THE PRESENTATION.
UM, AND THE OTHER THING, UH, THAT WAS, UH, COMING TO MIND IS, YOU KNOW, I, I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS LOCAL.
UM, THAT'S THE SAN ANTONIO'S PLAN.
UM, BUT I ALSO SIT ON THE M P O AND THE METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION, AND WE WERE GIVEN A PRESENTATION THE OTHER DAY, UH, ABOUT THE 1604 EXPANSION THAT'S GONNA GO TO 10 LANES.
UM, AND IT WAS, IT WAS PRESENTED TO US IN THE PRESENTATION BY TXDOT THAT THIS PLAN WOULD REDUCE OR WOULD NOT FURTHER DE ERODE THE AIR QUALITY BECAUSE CARS WOULD BE, UM, MOVING, THEY'D BE MOVING INSTEAD OF IDLING, RIGHT.
UM, WHAT INCENTIVE IS THERE TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE GONNA COME TO OUR CITY TO COMPLY WITH SOME OF THESE, THESE STANDARDS IF, UM, WE ARE, IF WE KNOW THAT A HUGE PERCENTAGE OF THE GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY IS RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION? SO THAT, I, I ALSO, LIKE, I HAD MY DOUBTS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THAT WAS TRUE, BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH IT REDUCES IDLING, WE'RE ADDING FOUR TIMES AS MANY CARS.
SO, AND AT SOME POINT, RIGHT? ISN'T IT GOING TO, UM, NOT, THE BALANCE WON'T, UM, I THINK FEEL EVEN OUT? WELL, I, I THINK, UM, WHEN WE START LOOKING AT TRANSPORTATION POLICY, UM, AND THE DECISIONS THAT ARE BEING MADE, UM, BY TXDOT AS WELL AS NATIONALLY, I, I THINK WE NEED DISCUSSIONS AT THAT STATE AND NATIONAL LEVEL ABOUT HOW WE ARE INVESTING IN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE.
AND IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE SHOULD BE, WE SHOULD BE DOING IN TERMS OF THAT, THAT NUMBER, THAT 38 FOR 38% FOR TRANSPORTATION, THE MAJORITY OF THOSE ARE SINGLE OEE VEHICLES.
SO I THINK THAT'S WHY THE WORK OF, OF VIA THE, YOU KNOW, THE M P O OF OF T C I WORKING ON TRANSPORTATION, DEMAND MANAGEMENT, START BUILDING, UM, INCENTIVES, START MAKING IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO TAKE DIFFERENT MODES, UH, IS SO, IS SO IMPORTANT.
BUT IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S A MAJOR CHALLENGE.
UM, WE WE'RE BUILT AROUND THE AUTOMOBILE AND, UH, AND, AND I MEAN, I RECOGNIZE IT'S A DIFFERENT ENTITY.
UH, THEY DON'T HAVE TO COMPLY WITH OUR STANDARDS BECAUSE IT'S, UM, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PASSING THROUGH TO THE STATE, OR MAYBE THAT'S JUST STATE FUNDS PASSING THROUGH.
UM, BUT I DO HOPE THAT THERE IS SOME SORT OF WAY THAT WE CAN TRY TO EMPHASIZE TO OTHER ENTITIES AROUND THE
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WORLD, UH, AROUND THE COUNTRY AT LEAST, THAT WE ARE A CITY THAT WANTS TO PRIORITIZE CLEAN AIR.UH, AND THAT PERHAPS THAT'S NOT THE KIND OF DEVELOPMENT THAT WE WANNA CONTINUE TO INCENTIVIZE.
UM, SO, UH, THAT'S A, UM, JUST ANOTHER SIDE AND ALSO LIKE, CAN WE, UM, GET THAT INFORMATION? SO I, I, YOU HAVE PRESENTED TO US OVER THE YEARS ABOUT CONGESTION AND WHAT THE IMPACT TO AIR QUALITY VERSUS FLEE ROWING TRAFFIC, BUT IF WE ADD TWICE THE CAPACITY, I MEAN, AT WHAT POINT IS THAT, UM, NO LONGER RELEVANT? OKAY.
SO, UH, I CAN, WE, I CAN, UM, VISIT WITH, UM, WITH T C I AND THEN SEE IF WE CAN, UM, FIND SOME INFORMATION REGARDING SOME OF THE, THE AIR QUALITY, UM, IMPLICATIONS OF THAT PROPOSED PROJECT.
AND I GUESS THAT THE LAST, UM, LET ME SEE QUESTION I HAVE HERE, UM, I MENTIONED TO YOU IN OUR BRIEFING, UM, AND, AND COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL HAD ASKED ME, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE AS LIKE ONE OF THE FIRST ORDERS OF BUSINESS WITH THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN? AND I MENTIONED THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A GENUINE WALKABLE, UM, ENERGY EFFICIENT PROTOTYPE KIND OF MODEL.
LIKE WHAT IN THE, IN THE IDEAL ENVIRONMENT, WHAT THINGS WOULD YOU NEED TO HAVE A A, A SUSTAINABLE CITY? AND I, I VOLUNTEERED DISTRICT FIVE, ESPECIALLY AROUND SOME OF OUR PUBLIC HOUSING UNITS TO BE A MODEL OF THAT.
AND, AND I SAY THAT, UM, BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE A PRETTY GOOD FRAMEWORK FOR, UM, BEING A MODEL.
UH, SO WE ALREADY HAVE MULTIPLE HOUSING, UH, COMPACT, DENSELY PACKED DENSELY UH, FACILITIES WITH OUR PUBLIC HOUSING UNITS.
WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE TO REDO THOSE PUBLIC HOUSING UNITS.
THEY'RE AF, THEY'RE AT THE END OF THEIR NATURAL LIFE.
UH, MANY OF THEM ARE 80 YEARS OLD AND THEY HAVE TO BE REDEVELOPED IN SOME FORM OR ANOTHER.
WE KNOW THAT, UH, IN THOSE AREAS, WE ARE, UH, WE HAVE, UH, WITHIN A SQUARE MILE A SCHOOL, A CHURCH, I KNOW THAT COUNCILWOMAN VERAN IN HER DISTRICT IS, IS PILOTING SOME, UH, HEALTHY CORNER STORES INITIATIVE.
UM, AND WE HAVE SOME NEW BUILDINGS, UH, AND THAT WE HAVE TO DO THE NEW HOUSING.
AND THEN WE HAVE SOME SCHOOLS THAT ALSO HAVE TO GET REDONE BECAUSE, UH, THEY'RE ALSO JUST NO LONGER, UH, THEY'VE JUST REACHED THE END OF THEIR NATURAL LIFE.
UH, AND SO I'M WORKING ON A COUPLE OF THOSE MODELS.
UM, BUT I WONDER HOW, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE PILOTED IT IN DISTRICT FIVE, HOW WOULD YOU SEE THAT THERE WAS SUCCESSFUL METRICS? IS IT JUST AIR QUALITY? IS IT JUST BUILDINGS? UM, WE KNOW THAT IN MY COMMUNITY, OVER 25% OF PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN PUBLIC HOUSING DON'T HAVE CARS.
UH, AND SO THEY'RE AUTOMATICALLY BY NA NATURE USING ALTERNATIVE MODES.
AND, UM, WE KNOW THAT WE ARE GREATLY IMPACTED BY CLIMATE.
SO JUST GIVEN ALL THOSE NATURALLY OCCURRING RESOURCES, HOW MIGHT WE SEE SUCCESS IN SOMETHING LIKE THAT? THERE, THERE ARE PLANNING PROCESSES AND MODELS, UM, UH, THAT HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED NATIONALLY, INTERNATIONALLY, THAT, THAT ARE FOCUSED ON THAT SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CONCEPT.
UH, GENERALLY THEY, THEY START, UM, FROM THE BOTTOM UP, UH, BASICALLY LOCAL RESIDENTS, LOCAL BUSINESSES, UM, IF THERE'S A LOCAL DEVELOPMENT GOING ON, UM, UH, BRINGING THOSE INDIVIDUAL INDIVIDUALS TOGETHER TO HELP CREATE WHAT THAT VISION IS.
UM, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF METRICS, UM, YOU NAMED, YOU NAMED SOME OF THEM, UH, IT'S IMPROVING.
UM, YOU KNOW, WALKABILITY, BIKEABILITY, THERE'S METRICS THAT CAN BE, UM, UH, FIGURED AROUND THAT.
THE AMOUNT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY BEING GENERATED OR CONSUMED IN THAT LOCATION.
UM, YOU KNOW, WATER CONSERVATION MEASURES.
I THINK ALL THESE THINGS COULD BE METRICS.
UM, I THINK THE KEY IS COMING UP WITH WHAT THAT BOUNDARY IS AND GETTING THAT BUY-IN FROM THE COMMUNITY.
UM, IT, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT IT'S BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN, IN, IN MANY PLACES WHERE IT'S NOT, THE CITY'S GENERALLY NOT THE LEAD SAYING WE WANNA MAKE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABLE.
IT'S COMING FROM THAT COMMUNITY.
AND THEN THE CITY CAN HELP FACILITATE AND BRING OTHER STAKEHOLDERS TO THE TABLE.
SO I'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE PULL, UM, BRIDGETTE WHITE IN AND, AND ANY OTHER, AND OTHERS, AND, AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE ALREADY GOING ON AND SEE IF THERE'S WAYS OF, OF, OF, UM, UH, SUPPORTING.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU HEARD IT FROM ME FIRST.
DISTRICT FIVE CAN BE THE MODEL FOR, UH, SUSTAINABLE CITIES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT RESULT, PREFERABLY IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
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'CAUSE I'M TERM LIMITED, SO WE GOTTA MOVE QUICKLY.THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.
UH, DOUG, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK ON THIS.
UM, AND I'LL, YOU KNOW, I'LL START OFF KIND OF, I WANNA TALK ABOUT, UH, YOUR GREEN GAS INVENTORY AND BUILDING ENERGY AS WELL.
UM, NUMBER ONE, I THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING AND EMPHASIZING THERMAL HEALTH LANGUAGE.
UM, YOU KNOW, THAT THIS IS CRITICAL, UH, AS WE SEE IT KIND OF MORE COMPREHENSIVELY.
UM, BOTTOM LINE IS, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE ARE THINGS WE'RE ALREADY DOING AND, AND WE SHOULD EMPHASIZE THAT.
SO I THINK AS PART OF, UH, A HOPEFUL PLAN OF ACTION IS TO, TO REFORTIFY, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE THINGS WE ARE DOING, LIKE THE, UH, UNDER ONE ROOF PROGRAM AND TAKING ADVANTAGE OF HIGH REFLECTANCE ROOFS, OF COURSE NEXT YEAR IS OUR U D C UPDATES IN WHICH WE HOPE TO, UH, UPDATE THE WAY WE DO, UH, RESIDENTIAL ROOFS.
NOW, COMMERCIAL ROOFS GENERALLY, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY'RE FOUND TO ALREADY BE HIGH REFLECTANCE BECAUSE OF THE PROFESSIONALS THEY, THEY, THEY TYPICALLY HIRE.
IT'S, IT'S IN THE RESIDENTIAL THAT I THINK WE NEED TO, UH, FOCUS A LOT OF ATTENTION, UM, FOR MANY REASONS.
RIGHT? AND OF COURSE, AS WE MENTIONED, THERMAL HEALTH AND OVERALL AIR QUALITY, UH, THAT IS, THAT IS, UH, SORT OF AFFECTED BY, BY AN UNHEALTHY STRUCTURE OR UNHEALTHY ROOF.
UM, AND THEN YOU AND I TALKED ABOUT, OF COURSE, IN THE SAME VEIN, SMART SURFACES AND, YOU KNOW, UH, REFLECTIVITY AND WHAT THAT MEANS TO THE HEAT ISLAND IMPACT.
SO, UH, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I JUST HOPE THAT WE CAN CONTINUE THAT CONVERSATION.
I MEAN, THERE ARE WAYS OUR STRATEGIES, UM, THAT, THAT DEPLOY, UH, YOU KNOW, SYSTEMS THAT, THAT HAVE BEEN PROVEN FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS THAT WORK, THAT DON'T HAVE ANY MOVING PARTS.
UM, AND I, AND, AND REALLY SHOULDN'T EVEN AFFECT THE, THE OVERALL COST OF, OF CONSTRUCTION.
I MEAN, THIS IS, IT'S JUST A SMARTER APPROACH, RIGHT? I MEAN, IT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOUR DARK JACKET AND A, AND A WHITE T-SHIRT.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, HOW WE COULD TAKE, YOU KNOW, THESE IDEAS AND THE THINGS THAT WE'RE ALREADY DOING AND SORT OF EXPANDING THEM AND HOW CAN WE, HOW CAN WE BE MORE COLLABORATIVE ACROSS DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS? SO YOU AS A, AS A DEPARTMENT, UH, WILL NOW HAVE THIS PLAN, AND THE HOPE IS THAT THIS PLAN DOESN'T SIT ON A SHELF MM-HMM.
BUT RATHER STARTS TO LOOK FOR, FOR, FOR THINGS OUT THERE THAT CAN IMPLEMENT A LOT OF THESE STRATEGIES.
CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT SURE ABOUT THAT? WELL, I THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, AS, AS I HAD MENTIONED, THE EASIEST THING, UM, TO DO AND THAT WE'VE STARTED TO DO IS JUST SITTING DOWN WITH DEPARTMENTS AND, UH, FINDING OUT WHAT THEY'RE WORKING ON AND WHAT THEIR PRIORITIES ARE.
UH, AND I THINK WHAT WE SEE IS THEY ARE ALREADY WORKING ON VARIOUS ELEMENTS OF THIS PLAN.
UH, I THINK THE NEXT STEP IS TO START TRYING TO QUANTIFY WHAT THOSE, UM, WHAT THOSE IMPACTS ARE RELATED TO THIS PLANT.
SO IF WE ARE, UH, UNDER UNDERTAKING, UM, VARIOUS TREE PLANTINGS, IF WE ARE, UH, IMPROVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN VARIOUS BUILDINGS, WE CAN START CALCULATING THAT IN TERMS OF, WELL, WHAT IS THE, THE C O TWO EQUIVALENT BENEFIT? UM, I THINK A LOT OF THIS IS GOING TO BE ABOUT, UH, JUST GETTING, UM, OUR ORGANIZATION AS WELL AS OTHER, UM, INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS USED TO THE LANGUAGE AND THE METRICS THAT WE NEED TO USE.
UM, YOU KNOW, AS, AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IN THE PAST, WE'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF THIS FOR, FOR YEARS, JUST YOU, BUT WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT IT THROUGH THAT LENS OF CLIMATE.
SO I THINK THAT THAT REALLY THE FIRST STEP IS REALLY JUST ACCLIMATING EVERYBODY TO THIS IS WHY WE'RE DOING IT.
BUT I THINK THERE'S ALSO, THERE'S, THERE'S, I THINK YOU CAN SPEAK TO IT IN TERMS OF THE LAYERED BENEFITS.
'CAUSE THERE'S ALSO ECONOMIC BENEFIT WHEN IT COMES TO, UH, SAVING ENERGY, RIGHT? CORRECT.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, FOR INSTANCE, IF WE JUST LOOK AT OUR, OUR, OUR OWN, UM, YOU KNOW, ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAM FOR OUR OWN CITY FACILITIES, UM, YOU KNOW, TAKING CARE OF DEFERRED MAINTENANCE, IMPROVING, UM, HVAC EQUIPMENT, JUST CHANGING OUT LIGHT BULBS HAS SHOWED A POSITIVE RETURN.
UH, SO I THINK, UH, AND I, AND I THINK OUR DEPARTMENTS ARE WELL AWARE OF THAT.
I, I THINK DEPARTMENTS COME TO OUR OFFICE BEFORE THEY UNDERTAKE A PROJECT, YOU KNOW, WANTING TO KNOW HOW, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN THEY, THEY DO IT THE RIGHT WAY.
I THINK THAT THE KEY IS EXPANDING THAT EVEN BEYOND THE CITY ORGANIZATION AND MAKING THAT THE NORM WITH ALL OF OUR, OUR INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE.
BUT I THINK WHAT I WAS GETTING AT DOUG, WAS THAT, THAT IF, ESPECIALLY IF WE'RE LOOKING AT INDIVIDUAL HOMEOWNERS AS AN EXAMPLE, BEING ENERGY EFFICIENT MEANS THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE SAVING ON, ON ENERGY
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COSTS, RIGHT? AND WE CAN QUANTIFY SOME OF THIS MM-HMM.BUT AGAIN, I WANT TO, I THINK WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS COMMUNICATE HOW, HOW ENERGY EFFICIENCY IS, IS, IS A REAL BENEFIT.
IT'S, IT'S NOT JUST A, A SHINY OBJECT.
IT'S, THIS IS REALLY ABOUT ALL OF US BEING IMPACTED.
WELL, I THINK AT THE END OF THE DAY, I, I THINK FOR, FOR IMPLEMENTING THIS PLAN IN GENERAL, IT NEEDS TO BE, UM, COMMUNICATED IN A WAY WHERE PEOPLE ARE GONNA UNDERSTAND AND SEE THE BENEFIT.
SO, UM, WHEN WE START LOOKING AT THESE, THESE STRATEGIES, WHETHER YOU'RE A BUSINESS OR A RESIDENT OR INSTITUTION, UM, IT'S NOT SIMPLY ABOUT ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE, BUT IT'S GONNA HELP YOUR, YOUR BOTTOM LINE, UH, IT'S GONNA IMPROVE YOUR, YOUR HEALTH, YOUR, YOUR WELLBEING, OR SAVE YOU MONEY, RIGHT? SO IF, IF YOU LOOK AT, I THINK I WOULD, I JUST NOTICED THIS, BUT ON, ON PAGE 11 OR SLIDE 11, UM, UNDER THE CATEGORY OF BUILDINGS, YOU KNOW, I THINK I WOULD, I WOULD TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT REALLY TALKING, EXPRESSING MORE ABOUT, YOU KNOW, RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS AS WELL, SPECIFICALLY IN TERMS OF CONSERVATION.
UM, YOU KNOW, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, THAT THERE IS, UM, CLEAR BALANCE.
UH, OBVIOUSLY WE, WE, WE DO WANT TO CREATE, UH, OR, UM, PROVIDE FOR, UM, ENERGY PRODUCTION AND, UH, SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, SOLAR, SO FORTH.
BUT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD ALSO BE LOOKING AT ENERGY CONSERVATION AS WELL.
SO THIS WAS JUST, SO I THINK, UM, THE BIG INITIATIVE THAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW IS C P S ENERGY IS CURRENTLY EVALUATING THE STEP PROGRAM, UM, AND DETERMINING WHAT'S SORT OF THAT NEXT PHASE IS, IS GOING TO BE.
AND SO, UM, THEY'VE BEEN TALKING TO VARIOUS STAKEHOLDERS, WE'VE BEEN MEETING WITH THEM.
SO I THINK THAT, UM, PROGRAM, UM, WITH THE PROPER COMMUNICATION AND OUTREACH, UM, WILL HOPEFULLY PROVIDE THOSE ENERGY EFFICIENCY, UM, UH, REBATES, INCENTIVES, UM, TO HELP THE RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY CONTINUE TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF THEIR BUILDINGS.
AND I WAS GONNA ADD, UH, AS WE UPDATE THE BUILDING CODES, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE I R C COMING UP, WE HAVE THE INTERNATIONAL ENERGY CONSERVATION CODE COMING UP.
UH, THAT WOULD ALSO BE AN APPROPRIATE PLACE TO HAVE THOSE DISCUSSIONS AND, UH, IF, IF NOT TO DO MANDATES AT THE TIME, BUT FIGURE OUT AN APPROACH, AS YOU WERE SAYING, TO EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY ON, ON, ON THE BENEFITS AND, AND MAYBE SOME INCENTIVES TO GET THEM TO DO SOME OF THESE THINGS AS WELL.
I MEAN, I THINK SOMETIMES WE, WE WE'RE USED TO SEEING THINGS DONE A CERTAIN WAY.
WE THINK THAT THAT'S THE ONLY WAY.
AND, UH, IN FACT, WHEN WE WERE CREATING THE UNDER ONE ROOF PROGRAM, I RECALL, UH, THERE WAS A STATEMENT MADE THAT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WOULD NOT LIKE WHITE ROOFS THAT AESTHETICALLY IT WOULD BE A CHALLENGE TO GET THEM TO CONVINCE THEM TO, TO LIKE THESE ROOFS.
BUT I, I'M, I'LL CHALLENGE THE, THE AESTHETICS ON THAT, BUT I ALSO CHALLENGED THE SORT OF THE, THE COMPLETENESS OF THAT INFORMATION, RIGHT? THE, THE FACT IS THAT EVERYONE THAT HAS RECEIVED, UH, ONE OF THESE ROOFS IS, IS VERY, VERY HAPPY, UH, WITH, WITH THE ROOF, BUT THEY'RE ALSO HAPPY WITH THE OVERALL SORT OF ASPECT, UH, WITH ENERGY CONSERVATION THAT THAT ROOF PROVIDES BY BEING HIGHLY REFLECTED.
UH, IT PROVIDES NEARLY $2,000 IN, IN A YEAR IN, IN, IN, UH, UTILITY SAVINGS.
UM, SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I'M GETTING AT.
AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, WE'RE EMPHASIZING, YOU KNOW, THESE STRATEGIES THAT DO WORK THAT ARE ALREADY, YOU KNOW, IN PLACE.
I MEAN, I THINK WE'VE, WE'VE DONE 560 ROOFS TO DATE, MAYBE MORE.
UM, BUT I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT UP C P S, RIGHT? AND SO, ESPECIALLY THE STEP PROGRAM, 'CAUSE I HAVE BEEN ASKING THEM FOR YEARS TO REALLY LOOK AT THE UNDER ONE ROOF PROGRAM AS, AS A SOLAR PROGRAM TOO, RIGHT? IT'S, IT'S NOT NECESSARILY CREATING ENERGY FROM, UH, OR SOLAR POWER, BUT IT IS IN THE SAME RESPECT, YOU KNOW, DECREASING THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY CONSUMPTION BECAUSE IT'S NOT USING IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
SO, I, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I, I WOULD ASK YOU, I THINK WE NEED TO MAKE A PUSH, UH, FOR, FOR C P S TO CONSIDER THIS AN ENERGY PROGRAM AS WELL.
UH, BUT AGAIN, UH, REALLY AT, AT THE HEART OF ALL THIS IS, IS UNDERSTANDING THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TO USE SOME OF THE LANGUAGE WE WE'RE HEARING AND SOME OF THE CONSTERNATION, UH, IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THIS PLAN IS, YOU KNOW, HAVING AN UNDERSTANDING OR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF AN ACCELERATED PATH TO ADDRESS THE COAL PLAN, RIGHT? I MEAN, IT WAS JUST ASKED RIGHT NOW, WHAT, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? WELL, THESE BUILDINGS ARE THE POWER THAT, THAT THESE BUILDINGS ARE, ARE DRAWING FROM, IS THE POINT SOURCE, UH, THAT THAT IS, THAT IS ESSENTIALLY POWERING ALL THESE
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BUILDINGS, IS IS CREATING ALL THESE EMISSIONS.IS THAT CORRECT? UH, BASICALLY FROM THE, UM, GENERATION UNITS.
AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO HAVE A ROBUST DISCUSSION.
I, I, NUMBER ONE, I, I ALSO THANK YOU FOR, UH, ADDING LANGUAGE IN THERE.
UH, YOU KNOW, TO, TO TALK ABOUT, UH, ADDRESSING, YOU KNOW, COAL OR ENERGY FROM, FROM COAL, BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE DO NEED TO, TO TACKLE.
I, I, I GOT A, A RECENT EMAIL TALKING ABOUT HOW, UM, HOW EXPENSIVE OR HOW COAL PLANTS ARE MORE COSTLY THAN BUILDING NEW RENEWABLES, THE STUDY SHOWS.
UH, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, UM, HOW IT'S ALL SORT OF INTERCONNECTED.
AND BOTTOM LINE IS IF WE ARE TRYING TO REDUCE, UH, THE, THE CONSUMPTION AND CREATE THE CASE FOR, FOR, UH, MOVING AWAY FROM THAT, I, I THINK THAT'S MY BIGGER POINT ABOUT CREATING THIS, THIS LEVEL OF CONSERVATION WITHIN OUR OWN RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS.
BECAUSE I, I, I THINK WE'RE, YOU KNOW, YOU DID THAT TO, TO CITY HALL, FOR EXAMPLE.
UH, YOU, YOU'VE GOT PROFESSIONALS IN THERE TO, TO GO IN THERE AND, AND CLASSIFY.
WE GOT MOST COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS ARE, ARE LOOKING AT, UH, YOU KNOW, LEAD GOLD OR LEAD PLATINUM PROGRAMS THAT SORT OF LAYER, UH, CREATE A, A STEP APPROACH TOWARDS, UH, ENERGY EFFICIENCY.
BUT WHEN IT COMES TO HOMES, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, UH, UH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MORE VULNERABLE, UH, POPULATIONS, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY'RE STRUGGLING JUST TO MAINTAIN, YOU KNOW, THE MM-HMM.
AND I THINK THAT IS, IS GONNA BE CRITICAL FOR US TO, TO SAY, LOOK, WE REALLY MEAN IT.
UM, WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO CREATE AN ACCELERATED PATH TO, TO, UH, TO SHUT DOWN, YOU KNOW, THESE, THESE, UH, ENERGY SOURCES THAT ARE TRULY CREATING A SERIOUS ISSUE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
SO I, YOU KNOW, I WOULD ASK THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE EMPHASIZE THAT WE, WE TALK ABOUT HOW, HOW THAT BECOMES PART OF OUR, WE, UM, OUR EDUCATION IN THE COMMUNITY SO THAT THEY CAN UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE MAKING SOME OF THE CHOICES WE'RE MAKING.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE IS THE URBAN LIGHTING PLAN, AND, AND MAKING SURE THAT THE LIGHTS THAT WE'RE PUTTING IN THE L E D LIGHTS ARE THE APPROPRIATE LIGHTS FOR ONE, BUT, BUT TWO, WHY WE, WHY WE'RE CHOOSING L E D LIGHTS AND HOW THEY CAN BE UTILIZED TO, TO HELP, AGAIN, CONSERVE ENERGY IN THE FIRST PLACE.
RIGHT? SO, SO IN, SO IN TERMS OF COMMUNICATIONS, UM, AS WE START DEVELOPING OUR COMMUNICATION STRATEGY FOR THE COMING YEAR, I THINK DEFINITELY BEING ABLE TO BUILD IN AND REAFFIRM ENERGY EFFICIENCY, UH, AS PART OF THE CONVERSATION.
AND THEN ON THE ENERGY GENERATION SIDE, THAT WILL BE A POINT OF CONVERSATION, UM, RIGHT OUT THE GATE AS WE GO FORWARD, AS FAR AS, UM, WHAT DOES THE, NOT JUST THE FUTURE GENERATION GOAL IS, BUT HOW DO WE START DEVELOPING STEPS TO GET THERE? YEAH.
AND I THINK, I THINK EVERYBODY WOULD SAY THAT WE DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY TIME IN THE WAY, SO WE, WE GOTTA GET, UH, YOU KNOW, MY SUGGESTION IS, IS TO, UH, HIGHLIGHT THE PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE ALREADY DOING TO, TO, YOU KNOW, SORT OF RE REEMPHASIZE THE NEED FOR THOSE PROGRAMS AND BUILD ON THAT.
AND OF COURSE, UH, YOU KNOW, CREATE, UH, SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM PLANS THAT, THAT ARE GONNA BE EXECUTABLE SO THAT THIS PLAN DOESN'T SIT ON A SHELF.
UM, AGAIN, I JUST WANT TO REEMPHASIZE, YOU KNOW, THE COMMUNITY, UH, HAS SPOKEN, AT LEAST TO MY OFFICE, I KNOW TO OTHERS, UH, ABOUT THE CONCERN ABOUT THE, THE POWER PLANT AND POWER GENERATION AND, AND, AND SPECIFICALLY ABOUT COAL.
SO I DO WANT TO HAVE A BROADER DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT AND HOW WE CREATE A PATH THAT, THAT IS, UM, YOU KNOW, ACCELERATING THAT, THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, CLOSURE OF, OF, OF COAL PRODUCTION OR COAL PRO ENERGY, NO COAL PRODUCED ENERGY.
THANK YOU, DOUG, FOR THE PRESENTATION, AND THANK YOU.
I KNOW YOU ANSWERED A LOT OF MY QUESTIONS ALREADY.
I HAVE, UM, YOU GAVE ME THIS NICE, UH, AND WE, YOU GAVE ALL OF US THIS NICE PACKAGE ON Q ONE, ON YOUR SURVEY, IT ASKS, WHAT DOES THE GOOD LIFE MEAN TO YOU? MM-HMM.
CAN YOU MAYBE SUMMARIZE, UH, WHAT FOLKS AT THE GOOD LIFE MEANT TO THEM SUMMARIZE? UM, I THINK, AND THIS IS JUST OFF THE TOP OF MY, TOP OF MY HEAD FAMILY WAS, WAS, UM, UP THERE, UM, I THINK, UM,
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THE IDEA OF, UM, JUST ENJOYING LIFE.THAT'S A, IT'S, IT'S A GOOD POINT.
I COULD SHARE THAT INFORMATION FOR YOU ALL AS WELL.
'CAUSE IT WAS VERY IN INFORMATIVE, ACTUALLY.
BECAUSE THEN ON QUESTION EIGHT, YOU GUYS HAVE, WOULD YOU SUPPORT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCIL PROTECTING THE GOOD LIFE BY COMMITTING TO REDUCE CITY GOVERNMENTS AND THE COMMUNITIES EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES, A PRIMARY CONTRIBUTOR TO THE DAMAGE BEING COST TO OUR CLIMATE AND PREPARING FOR THE CURRENT AND PROJECTED IMPACTS.
AND SO I WAS CONCERNED, AND THAT'S WHY I HAD ASKED FOR THE SURVEY INSTRUMENT.
I KNOW YOU, YOU GUYS BROUGHT IT TO ME, UM, YESTERDAY OR THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY, SO I APPRECIATE IT.
UM, BUT I WAS CONCERNED THAT SOME OF THE QUESTIONS IN THE ORIGINAL SURVEY WERE LEADING MM-HMM.
UH, AND SO, AND WHEN WE, YOU PHRASE QUESTIONS, UH, SOME OF THE QUESTIONS MIGHT BE LOADED, AND SO THEREFORE, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT THINK THAT THEY'RE ALREADY BIASED FROM THE BEGINNING.
AND SO, JUST IN GENERAL, I WANTED TO, UM, I WANTED TO MAKE THAT STATEMENT TODAY, BECAUSE I THINK THAT THE CITY NEEDS TO LOOK AT A BETTER WAY OF MAKING SURE THAT OUR SURVEY INSTRUMENTS ARE NOT ALREADY BIASED IN, IN ONE WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, AND IN WHATEVER SHAPE OR FORM.
AND I DID MENTION THIS TO DOUG, AND, UM, YOU, YOU ALL KNOW, I, I TEACH, UH, AND SO MY STUDENTS HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN THEY DEVELOP THEIR SURVEY QUESTIONS.
SO WHOEVER THE CONTRACTOR IS THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE RESEARCH PRINCIPLES THAT WILL NOT ALLOW ANY RESEARCHER BIAS TO, UM, TO POSSIBLY, UH, NEGATE THE EFFECTS OR THAT, THAT WE, YOU KNOW, THAT WE SEE IN THE SURVEY.
BECAUSE IT, IT COULD BE DAMAGING.
SO I JUST WANTED TO ASK THAT, UM, BECAUSE ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THEN IN PARTICULAR SAID, DO YOU THINK A DAMAGED CLIMATE COULD IMPACT YOU OR YOUR CHILDREN'S GOOD LIFE? AND SO I DON'T THINK THAT THERE WOULD BE ANYONE THAT WOULD SAY NO TO THAT QUESTION.
AND SO, AGAIN, SO I'M JUST TRYING TO, UM, TAKE THIS BACK FROM, FROM THE RESEARCHER PERSPECTIVE AND JUST MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE NOT BIASED IN ANY OF OUR SURVEYS.
I'M NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT CLIMATE ACTION AND ADAPTATION PLAN.
I'M JUST TALKING ABOUT IN GENERAL.
SO I THINK NOW I'M GONNA ASK TO SEE EVERY SURVEY INSTRUMENT, JEFF COYLE, F Y I, UM, TO SEE THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY, WE DON'T HAVE ANY, UM, INFERRED BIAS ALREADY WHEN WE ARE DRAWING OUR, OUR RESEARCH QUESTIONS.
UM, THE ONE THING IF I COULD CHAT, SO THIS WAS, AND, UM, I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH YOU, UH, 100%.
THIS WAS AN OLDER, A MUCH OLDER SURVEY.
I THINK AS WE WENT THROUGH PLAN, IT WAS ACTUALLY WAS SORT OF PRE-PLANNED AS WE WENT INTO PLAN IMPLEMENTATION.
I THINK THE SURVEYS GOT TIGHTER.
BUT I, I ABSOLUTELY APPRECIATE THE COMMENT.
UM, THE NEXT QUESTION THAT I HAVE, SO THE PLAN FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT PROGRAM, UM, DID YOU, AND YOU, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU JUST SHARED THIS WITH ME BECAUSE I ASKED FOR IT AT CLIMATE AND EQUITY.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SHARED THIS WITH MY COLLEAGUES.
I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T SHARE IT, BUT I THINK THAT, AND YOU'RE WELCOME TO PUT, PUT THIS UP ON THE SCREEN IF YOU'D LIKE, BECAUSE I REALLY WANT MY CO COUNCIL COLLEAGUES TO SEE THIS.
UM, AND I KNOW MINE HAS SCRIBBLING AND JOTTING DOWN ALL OVER IT, BUT, SO I, I WANTED THEM TO SEE THIS BECAUSE WHEN I ASKED YOU AT THE EQUITY HEALTH THANK YOU, COMMUNITY HEALTH AND EQUITY COMMITTEE, WAS TO SEE HOW IT IMPACTS SPECIFICALLY THE DIFFERENT STRATEGIES.
AND SO I ASKED FOR KIND OF THIS, UM, UH, THIS BREAKDOWN IN, IN, AND AGAIN, I'M SO SORRY TO MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES, AND MAYBE SOMEBODY CAN MAKE A QUICK COPY AFTER THIS.
UH, BUT I REALLY WANTED TO SEE WHAT STRATEGIES, WHAT THE STRATEGIES, HOW, HOW IT WAS GONNA AFFECT.
SO THAT TOP PORTION BASICALLY SHOWS OUR COMMUNITY STRATEGY.
THE BOTTOM IS OUR CITY, HOW IT AFFECTS OUR CITY RESOURCES.
BUT I JUST WANTED TO SHOW THIS BECAUSE THE LARGEST CONSTRAINT DOES HAPPEN TO BE THAT I, AND THAT'S THE I FOR INVESTMENT.
SO 24 OF THESE STRATEGIES, 24 OF THE 28 STRATEGIES WILL REQUIRE INVESTMENT.
AND SO I WANTED TO CAPTURE THIS IN A TABLE.
I ALREADY SAID YOU WOULD GET AN A IN MY CLASS ON THIS PART.
UM, BUT, UH, BUT THEN THE OTHER ONE, IT'S SIX OUT OF THE 13TH STRATEGIES FOR THE CITY ALSO REQUIRES SOME INVESTMENT.
SO I KNOW THAT WHILE THE PLAN DOESN'T ADDRESS COSTS, WE HAVE TO BE REALISTIC AND WE HAVE TO PREPARE FOR COSTS THAT WILL, WILL RESULT.
UM, SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE, UM, TO, TO COVER THESE COSTS.
AND THAT WE ARE VERY FORTHRIGHT WITH THE COMMUNITY, AND WE TELL THEM THAT, YES, WE'RE GONNA DO THIS, BUT IF 24 OF THOSE 28 ARE GOING TO REQUIRE SOME INVESTMENT MM-HMM.
AND IF I COULD JUST POINT OUT SO THAT, AND SO THAT'S INFORMATION THAT'S STRAIGHT FROM THE PLAN.
UM, IT'S JUST IN A, A TABULAR FORMAT.
AND I, AND I THINK TO, TO, UM, BUILD ON YOUR COMMENT, WE DON'T WANNA SHY AWAY FROM COSTS.
I MEAN, I THINK, I THINK WE WANNA MAKE IT VERY CLEAR THAT THERE'S COST IMPLICATIONS.
IT WAS JUST AT THIS POINT IN TIME TO BE ABLE TO QUANTIFY ALL THOSE.
WE JUST, BUT WE, IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS HEAD ON WITH, WITH ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND STAKEHOLDERS, AND NOT TRY TO MAKE BELIEVE IT'S,
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IT'S NOT GONNA HAVE SOME SORT OF INVESTMENT REQUIRED.AND SO THAT'S ONE OF THE, THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT I WOULD HAVE, UM, ON THE, UH, ON, AND, AND SO, AND THIS MIGHT BE AN EARLIER, UH, SURVEY THAT I'M LOOKING AT.
UM, BUT SOME OF THE OPTIONS WEREN'T THOROUGH ENOUGH.
SO AGAIN, AND IT COULD BE ONE OF THESE LEADING, UM, QUESTIONS ISSUES.
BUT ON QUESTION NINE, UH, IN THE PACKAGE, UM, HAS SOME VERY SPECIFIC ANSWER CHOICES.
QUESTION 11 DID A MUCH BETTER JOB OF CRE OF, YOU KNOW, BRINGING A MORE, MORE THOROUGH OPTION.
SO IF WE'RE GOING FORWARD, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, ARE VERY AWARE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING.
UM, 52% OF THE FOLKS IN THE SURVEY GAVE A NEGATIVE RESPONSE TO PAY TO PAYING MORE TO SUPPORT CLEANER ENERGY.
SO I THINK THAT THE KEY, WHAT THAT'S TELLING US THERE, WHAT THE DATA IS TELLING US THERE IS THAT WE NEED TO FOCUS ON INCENTIVES, UM, THAT WILL NOT CREATE GREATER DISPARITIES.
SO, UM, 52% ALSO SAID THAT THEIR DECISION TO PURCHASE, FOR INSTANCE, ELECTRIC VEHICLES RATHER THAN, UM, A GAS VEHICLE, IS COST.
SO THAT TELLS US THAT COST REALLY IS AT THE HEART OF EVERYTHING, UM, THAT, THAT WE ARE DOING.
AND SO IT DOES MATTER, THE FOLKS IN MY DISTRICT, IT'S EASIER FOR THEM TO AFFORD A $1 CHEESEBURGER FROM MCDONALD'S THAN IT IS SOMETIMES TO AFFORD GRAPES AT H E B OR AT WALMART OR WHEREVER THEY PURCHASE THEIR PRODUCE.
SO I DO THINK THAT THAT'S IMPORTANT AGAIN.
SO LET'S, LET'S MAKE SURE WE DO THAT.
UM, I ALSO DIDN'T GET THE SPANISH VERSION OF THE 12 QUESTION SURVEY.
DID YOU ALL DO THAT ONE IN SPANISH? SO I THINK, UM, SOME OF THE RESPONSES, UM, ON SURVEYS IN SPANISH WERE, UM, LIMITED.
AND SO I THINK WE JUST ENTERED THEM INTO THE DATA AND THE, ON THE ENGLISH SIDE.
BUT SO YOU DID DO THEM? CORRECT.
UM, UH, AGAIN, THE COST CONCERNS.
THERE WAS 349, UM, COMMENTS, AND THAT WAS JUST UNDER THE 402 GENERAL SUPPORT COMMENTS.
I DID NOTICE THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, WITHIN THOSE COMMENTS FROM FEBRUARY, 2017 TO SEPTEMBER, 2018, UM, THERE WAS ONLY ABOUT FIVE FOLKS THAT HAD TAKEN THAT SURVEY IN D FOUR.
AND THEN YOU GUYS DID A GREAT JOB OF REVVING IT UP AFTER THAT.
SO I WANNA SAY THAT I APPRECIATE YOU ALL TAKING A CON, UH, A CONCENTRATED EFFORT TO IMPROVE THE PARTICIPATION IN D FOUR.
I DID NOTICE, AND COUNCILWOMAN VIAGRA ALSO NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF, UH, PARTICIPATION FROM 7 8 2 12 7 8 2 0 9.
SO MONTE VISTA, UH, THE OH NINE ERS.
SO WE, WE KNOW THAT THEY'RE GONNA RESPOND VERY WELL.
THERE WAS AN ANOMALY, I THINK IN 7 8 2 0 7.
AND THEN I, I TALKED TO COUNCIL MEMBER AND I SAID, IT'S PART OF THE UNIVERSITIES THAT WE'RE TAKING THIS.
UM, SO SOMETHING TO CONSIDER AS WELL FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE.
UM, QUESTION WHO'S GONNA SELECT THE 21? SO IT SAYS 21 COUNCIL APPOINTED MEMBERS ARE GONNA BE A PART OF THIS COMMITTEE.
AND SO THERE'S SIX ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS, AND I, I, I SPOKE TO YOU ABOUT THIS, THAT WE NEEDED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE PURPOSEFUL AND DIVERSE.
UM, MY, MY ORIGINAL PETITION WAS, CAN WE INCLUDE ONE CHAMBER AS AN ORGANIZATION THAT'S REPRESENTATIVE OF REPRESENTATIVE OF THE 21? SO THAT WOULD GIVE ABOUT ONE THIRD, UM, OF BASICALLY THE COMMITTEE TO BE MADE UP OF ORGANIZATIONS.
I ALSO, I DIDN'T SEE THE SIERRA CLUB IN HERE.
AND SO TO ME, THAT'S A CONCERN BECAUSE WE DIDN'T LIST THEM BY NAME.
I MEAN, WE BE ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS.
I, I THINK THIS IS GONNA REQUIRE A LOT OF CONVERSATION WITH, WITH, WITH ALL OF YOU, WITH, WITH ERIC, WITH, WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.
I THINK YOU ALL GET THE, THE FINAL SAY AS FAR AS GREAT.
AND SO, AND THAT MIGHT REQUIRE ALSO, BECAUSE SOME OF THESE PEOPLE MIGHT BE ALREADY INVOLVED IN THE SIERRA CLUB OR IN THE CHAMBER.
AND SO, UM, I, I'D REALLY LIKE TO SEE, AGAIN, THAT DIVERSE COMPOSITION.
UM, ANOTHER, UH, DIVERSITY ELEMENT THAT WE SHOULD PROBABLY LOOK LIKE IS, UM, EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND.
UH, SO EVERY DEMOGRAPHIC, UM, ITEM THAT WE HAVE, I THINK WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT.
UM, THERE WAS ALSO 23 MEETINGS IN DISTRICT FOUR BETWEEN JUNE AND, UH, JUNE, 2018 AND AUGUST OF 2019.
AND I MENTIONED THIS TO YOU THAT I WAS JUST CONCERNED THAT THERE WAS NO, UM, NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS OR HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATION MEETINGS THAT WERE ATTENDED.
SO, UM, SO, SO, AND IT'S NOT IN MY LIST IF THEY DID ATTEND THEM OR, SO MAYBE IT WASN'T FOR DISTRICT FOUR.
AND SO, UH, AND I'M TALKING ABOUT SPECIFIC TO DISTRICT FOUR.
I KNOW THAT THERE'S SOME OTHERS THAT, THAT DID HAVE SOME NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, BUT JUST, UM, I'LL, AND I, I MENTIONED THIS EARLIER, I'D BE WILLING TO WORK WITH YOU ON YES.
PUTTING YOU IN CONTACT WITH SOME OF THOSE KEY NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, KEY NEIGHBORHOOD NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS.
UM, SO CREATE, GOING FORWARD, I THINK BUILDING, UH, SMART GOALS, SPECIFIC, MEASURABLE, ATTAINABLE, REALISTIC TIME MA UH, TIME-BASED GOALS IS IMPORTANT.
UH, I'D LOVE TO SEE A TIMELINE AND, AND SOME OBJECTIVES SO THAT WE COULD START IMPLEMENTING SOME, I THINK YOU ALREADY STARTED DOING IT WITH SOME OF THE LOW HANGING FRUIT OR WHAT THE CITY IS DOING, UM, ALREADY.
SO I THINK THAT, THAT WE'RE ON A GREAT START.
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SURVEYS OR SO THAT D FOUR, UM, PARTICIPATED IN, UM, I ONLY RECEIVED ONE EMAIL, I'M SORRY, IT WAS TWO EMAILS FROM, UH, DISTRICT FOUR CONSTITUENTS, BUT I RECEIVED MORE THAN 50 EMAILS, UH, IN SUPPORT OF THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN.THEY WERE MOSTLY FROM OUT OF TOWN.
THEY WERE A OUT OF HOUSTON AUSTIN.
AND SO I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS INTERESTING THAT THEY WERE TAKING, UH, AN INTEREST.
AND I WENT, AND THEY WERE ALL FORMS. SO IT WAS LITERALLY COPIED AND PASTED, AND IT WAS JUST, YOU KNOW, THEY SWITCHED THE NAME AND THE ZIP CODE OR, OR THE ADDRESS OR WHATEVER.
BUT I DID KNOW THAT THERE WAS TWO FROM MY ZIP CODE THAT, UM, WERE IN SUPPORT.
SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I OPENED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE EMAILS, AND I CHECKED WHAT ZIP CODE THEY WERE COMING FROM.
UM, I ALSO THINK, AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS, BUT THE OPPORTUNITY FOR, UH, FOOD SECURITY OPPORTUNITIES MM-HMM.
AND THAT MIGHT BE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF ONE OF THE COMMITTEES.
UH, BUT I, I DO THINK THAT THAT'S IMPORTANT SPECIFICALLY IN MY AREA.
THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING, UM, IMPORTANT.
UM, AND THEN I HAVE A QUESTION.
WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO SHARE THE DEMOGRAPHIC BREAKDOWN SPECIFICALLY FOR THE FOLKS IN DISTRICT FOUR THAT RESPONDED TO THE SURVEY? I'M SURE YOU COULD PULL UP SOME SORT OF A PIVOT TABLE IF, IF YOU HAVE AN EXCEL SHEET, I CAN JUST DO IT MYSELF.
WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO PULL THAT TOGETHER.
UM, AND THEN I'D LIKE TO, UH, ALSO LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT OF, UM, UH, FESTIVALS IN THE FALL, CHURCH FESTIVALS AND ALL SORTS OF FALL HARVEST FESTIVALS THAT HAPPEN.
AND SO, UM, JUST, YOU KNOW, FOR THE NEXT TIME THAT WE'RE TRYING TO GET SOME INPUT, I THINK THAT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL.
WE HAVE A LOT OF THOSE IN OUR AREAS.
UM, AND THEN I DIDN'T NOTICE, I, I HADN'T NOTICED THAT THE SIERRA CLUB HASN'T ENDORSED THE PLAN.
DID I MISS THAT IN THE ENDORSEMENTS? WE HAVEN'T RECEIVED ANYTHING YET.
I THINK WE RECEIVED A COMMENT LETTER FROM THEM A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, UM, JUST WITH SOME OTHER, UM, RECOM JUST RECOMMENDATIONS THAT THEY WOULD STILL LIKE TO SEE, UM, THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA.
I MEAN, I COULD SEE THAT THEY, THEY DO WANT TO SEE THE PLAN PASS, BUT I CAN CIRCLE BACK WITH THEM AS WELL.
YEAH, I'D LOVE TO SEE THAT LETTER, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK I, I, I'VE SEEN IT YET.
AND I KNOW THAT THEY HOSTED, OR THEY WILL BE HOSTING AN EVENT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE, UM, THE PLAN.
AND I'D LOVE TO, I, I WANTED TO ATTEND, BUT I HAVE A MEETING E EITHER, IT HAPPENED ALREADY AND THERE WAS A CONFLICT IN MY SCHEDULE, SO I COULDN'T ATTEND.
I'D ALSO LIKE TO SEE THE ANNUAL REPORTS THAT WE'RE PROJECTING.
'CAUSE WE, WE HAD MENTIONED THAT WE WANTED TO HAVE ANNUAL REPORTS AND JUST KIND OF, UM, REPORTING OUT LIKE WHAT OUR PROGRESS IS, ET CETERA.
I, I DON'T KNOW THAT, UH, THERE SHOULD PROBABLY SOME BE SOME ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE REGULARLY UPDATE ALSO, UM, AFTER WE PRESENT OUR ANNUAL REPORT AT COUNCIL MM-HMM.
UM, BUT JUST THAT, THOSE ARE ALL MY QUESTIONS AND, AND MY FEEDBACK.
AND SO, I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT MOST OF THEM, BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I, I CIRCLED BACK NOW THAT I HAD A CHANCE TO GO THROUGH THE FULL SURVEY INSTRUMENT.
AND I'LL FALL BACK WITH YOU RIGHT AWAY.
COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREWS, OR EXCUSE ME, COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA, COUNCIL MEMBER BELAY.
I, I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THE HARD WORK.
AND, UH, I KNOW THAT
BUT, UH, I THINK THAT, UM, I, I THINK YOU'RE A CHAMP.
AND, AND I, I'VE SEEN YOU WORK REALLY HARD ON THIS.
UM, SO I, I DON'T BELIEVE, AND I'VE NEVER BELIEVED THAT IT'S A BAD THING FOR A, A CITY TO ASPIRE, UH, TO BE THE KIND OF CITY THAT JUST DOESN'T MAKE THINGS WORSE, RIGHT? UM, AND, UH, I, YOU KNOW, THE CLIMATE EXPERT CONSENSUS AROUND THE PLANET IS THAT CITIES MAKE THINGS WORSE.
UH, AND THAT WE'VE BEEN MAKING THINGS WORSE FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.
ADDITIONALLY, THE CLIMATE CONSENSUS IS THAT IF WE WANTED TO, WE COULD MAKE THINGS BETTER.
AND, UH, I MEAN, THAT'S THE SIMPLEST, UH, WAY I CAN PUT IT.
UM, SO I, I DON'T QUARREL WITH THE SCIENCE.
UM, NOW I DO KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO DO QUARREL WITH THE SCIENCE, RIGHT? AND, UM, THAT'S OKAY.
AND THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THAT, YOU KNOW, ALL THE EXPERTS ARE WRONG.
UM, AND THESE ARE FOLKS WHO THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY KNOW BETTER THAN PEOPLE WHO'VE DEDICATED THEIR ENTIRE LIVES TO LOOKING AT THESE ISSUES.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE PARENTS, FOR EXAMPLE, WHO HAVE SINCERELY HELD BELIEFS, AND THEY QUARREL WITH THEIR DOCTORS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT GIVING YOUR KID A MEASLES VACCINE IS A GOOD IDEA.
UM, OR, UM, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OF BIG PHARMA OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, OR THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO EVANGELIZE AND IT'S A GROWING NUMBER.
PEOPLE WHO EVANGELIZE THIS FLAT EARTH THEORY THAT IS CATCHING ON, OR PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, DINOSAUR BONES ARE A HOAX
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PERPETRATED BY BIG PALEO, I GUESS, UH, IF THERE IS SUCH A THING.AND SO, UM, AND SO WHEN, YOU KNOW, WHEN I THINK ABOUT IT, THAT THERE'S FOLKS OUT THERE WHO REALLY, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO SCIENTIFIC TRAINING WHATSOEVER, WHO ARE QUARRELING WITH PEER REVIEWED, YOU KNOW, SCIENTISTS WHO'VE DEC, YOU KNOW, WHO'VE DECORATED THEIR, I MEAN, DEDICATED THEIR ENTIRE LIVES.
AND THESE ARE SCIENTISTS ARMS WITH THERMOMETERS AND GEOLOGICAL DATA, RIGHT? AND ME METEOROLOGY, UH, STUDIES AND, UH, MATH, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT SOMEHOW THAT THAT CAN BE DISMISSED AWAY AS JUST A PRODUCT OF A GEORGE SOROS CABAL.
AND, YOU KNOW, WITH HIS SHADOWY CRONIES LIKE THE WEATHER CHANNEL.
IT'S, IT, IT REALLY IS AMAZING TO ME.
AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, AND, AND I'LL REMIND FOLKS, RIGHT? I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S THIS, UH, SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE DO VERY WELL IN THE UNITED STATES, WHICH IS JUST REJECT EXPERTISE OUTRIGHT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE SOMEBODY IS AN EXPERT.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, EXPERTS MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO HAVE LIFESAVING DRUGS THAT HAVE NEVER EXISTED BEFORE, EXTENDING THE LIFE OF HUMAN BEINGS BEYOND ANYTHING WE EVER IMAGINED.
UM, YOU KNOW, EXPERTS TOOK US TO THE MOON AND TO MARS, AND EXPERTS ARE MAKING THE EAGLE FORD SHALE, YOU KNOW, UM, AT THE, YOU KNOW, THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MIRACLE, UH, HAPPEN.
AND, YOU KNOW, EXPERTS HAVE INVENTED THE INTERNET, WHICH IRONICALLY IS THE PLACE WHERE ALL OF THE NON-EXPERT ANTI-SCIENCE, THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES LIVE.
BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, AND MAYOR, THE EXPERTS MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR THAT REALLY SAD BASEBALL TEAM, THE RED SOX, UH, TO WIN ONCE AND FOR ALL.
RIGHT? UH, AND SO
UM, AND SO I, I'VE ALSO GONE BACK AND READ A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER CLIMATE ADAPTATION PLANS, BUT NOT CLIMATE ADAPTATION PLANS ADOPTED BY CITIES, BUT CLIMATE ADAPTATION PLANS ADOPTED BY, UM, COMPANIES THAT WE ALL KNOW.
SO, I KNOW I DID THIS THE LAST TIME, BUT I, I JUST, I THINK IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE KEEP THIS IN MIND.
SO I'M GONNA GIVE YOU A LIST, RIGHT? UM, AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF MY COLLEAGUES, AND THAT LIST IS AS FOLLOWS.
THIS IS JUST A SMALL SAMPLING.
TOYOTA FORD MOTOR COMPANY, AMERICAN AIRLINES, FUJITSU NISSAN, PROCTOR GAMBLE, FEDEX, UNITED AIRLINES, BRITISH PETROLEUM, MICROSOFT, CONOCO PHILLIPS, AMAZON, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY, AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER COMPANIES THAT KNOW MORE ABOUT BUSINESS THAN ANYBODY IN THIS ROOM.
ANYBODY, RIGHT? AND, UM, ANYBODY, I MEAN, I, I DON'T KNOW WHO KNOWS MORE ABOUT BUSINESS THAN THESE COMPANIES DO, AND I'M ABOUT TO HAND Y'ALL, UM, A PRESS RELEASE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, UM, TALKING TO YOU ABOUT 27 OTHER BLUE CHIP COMPANIES FROM AROUND THE PLANET THAT REPRESENT ABOUT A TRILLION DOLLARS PLUS OF INVESTMENT, RIGHT? AND TENS OF THOUSANDS OF EMPLOYEES, UM, ALL OVER THE NATURE, ALL OVER THE WORLD, WHO HAVE COMMITTED TO DOING WHAT WE'RE DOING TODAY, WHICH IS SIMPLY ASPIRING TO BE BETTER, OR AT THE VERY LEAST, ASPIRING TO NOT BE WORSE, RIGHT? SO, UM, I, I WILL TELL YOU THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU DO LOOK AT THESE, UH, CLIMATE ADAPTATION PLANS, THESE COMPANIES MAKE A VERY GOOD POINT, AND THAT IS, THIS AIN'T BAD FOR BUSINESS.
AND, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE PROVED IT OUT.
IT DOESN'T, UM, YOU KNOW, IMPEDE INVESTMENT.
IT DOESN'T KILL JOBS, IT'S DOESN'T, UH, YOU KNOW, KEEP PEOPLE FROM EX, YOU KNOW, ADDING FACTORIES.
I MEAN, JUST ASK TOYOTA, RIGHT? I MEAN, THEY'VE GOT ONE OF THE MOST AGGRESSIVE CLIMATE ADAPTATION PLANS, AND WE JUST WENT AROUND TOWN HIGH FIVING THEM AND THANKING THEM FOR CONTINUING TO GROW.
UM, HOWEVER, WHAT I DO NEED YOU TO DO IS TO REASSURE ME, AND MAYBE IT'S ERIC, THAT NEEDS TO REASSURE ME THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD FOR THIS TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UM, THAT WE ARE GONNA INCLUDE THE PEOPLE WHO BUILD BUILDINGS MM-HMM.
UM, AND IF WE'RE DOING THIS WITHOUT THEM, THEN, THEN SHAME ON US.
SO, WHAT IT, CAN YOU TALK TO ME ABOUT THIS TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND WHAT IS IT WE'RE EXPECTING TO GET OUT OF THEM? SO, I, I THINK, AND THAT'S PART OF THE DISCUSSION, I THINK IT'S, IT'S THOSE EXPERTS.
IT, IT'S A COMBINATION OF NOT JUST COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES.
WE WANT COMMUNITY VOICES ON THE COMMITTEE.
WE WANT THOSE DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES.
BUT WHEN WE START TALKING ABOUT HOW DO WE ACTUALLY START IMPLEMENTING SOME OF THESE STRATEGIES, WE WANT THAT TECHNICAL EXPERTISE.
SO YES, WE, WE DO WANT GREEN BUILDING PROFESSIONALS.
UM, WE DO WANT, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF SMART PEOPLE AT SOUTHWEST RESEARCH, UM, WHO COULD HELP US MAKE DECISIONS IN TERMS OF, WELL, WHAT TECHNOLOGY'S APPROPRIATE AT THIS POINT IN TIME, AND THAT'S COST EFFECTIVE.
UM, I THINK WE WANT THOSE SAVVY BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS AND, AND, AND INDUSTRY EXPERTS.
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THINK THAT THE GOAL IS HAVING THAT RIGHT BRAIN POWER AND THAT PASSION MM-HMM.AND THERE'S A LOT OF STRATEGIES.
UH, WE CAN'T DO THEM ALL AT ONCE.
UM, I THINK WE DO NEED TO BE ABLE TO PRIORITIZE, UM, I THINK ONCE WE HAVE A BETTER, UH, YOU KNOW, HANDLE ON SORT OF THAT COST BENEFIT, WHERE DO WE WANT TO START? BUT THOSE ARE THE EXPERTS THAT, UM, CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE AVOID ANY PITFALLS THAT WE MAY NOT KNOW ARE COMING BASED UPON THEIR EXPERIENCE.
SO FOR ME, WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT IS THAT, UM, THE OPINIONS OF THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY NOT BE DISCOUNTED.
UM, WHEN THEY TELL YOU THAT'S THE WRONG WAY TO GO, DOUG, LET'S, YOU KNOW, LET US HELP YOU SORT OF DO IT, RIGHT? BECAUSE WE ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE ARE EXPERTS IN HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO BUY A PIECE OF LUMBER AND SHEET ROCK, RIGHT? AND HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO WIRE UP A BUILDING.
AND, UM, SO I'M, THE ONE THING I'M GONNA BE WATCHING THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE PROCESS IS TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU KEEP THAT PROMISE TO ME MM-HMM.
SO, WITH THAT, MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND MAKE THIS, UH, THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, UM, MEMO, PART OF THE RECORD, UH, AND PART OF THE MINUTES, AND I'LL HAND THAT TO THE CLERK AND I'LL PASS THE MIC.
COUNCIL MEMBER PALAZ, COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE.
THANK YOU, MAYOR DOUG, I REALLY COMMEND YOU AND THE TEAM OF PEOPLE IN YOUR STAFF WHO'VE WORKED ON THIS.
AND I KNOW YOU'VE HAD, YOU KNOW, JUST MANY, MANY, MANY MEETINGS AND OPPORTUNITIES TO TALK TO PEOPLE TO A CERTAIN EXTENT.
EVEN THOUGH WE'VE HAD INPUT FROM SIX, 7,000 PEOPLE, IT'S STILL CREATES PAUSE TO ME BECAUSE WE'VE GOT A MILLION AND A HALF PEOPLE IN THIS CITY.
AND ALTHOUGH WHEN IT COMES TO, UH, TRYING TO DO SURVEYS, SOMETIMES THEY SAY, WELL, IF YOU GET A THOUSAND PEOPLE WHO GO AHEAD AND ANSWER IT, YOU'RE GETTING A REFLECTION.
UM, BUT THESE PEOPLE PRETTY MUCH SELF, UH, APPOINTED THEMSELVES TO ANSWER THIS.
IT WASN'T A RANDOM SURVEY FROM AROUND THE WHOLE CITY, JUST THAT WE CALLED PEOPLE.
SO, UH, IT IS PEOPLE WHO PRETTY MUCH HAD AN INTEREST IN SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT THIS AND WHETHER IT WAS PRO OR CON.
SO I'M STILL CAUTIOUS ABOUT WHAT THIS MEANS TO EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE CITY AS WE MOVE FORWARD ON THIS.
AND I WANTED TO MAKE SURE, UH, JUST CLARIFY IN MY OWN MIND, WHAT ARE THE MANDATES THAT WE HAVE IN THIS PLAN SO FAR? WELL, AT THE END OF THE DAY, THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS PLAN ONCE ADOPTED, THAT JUST GOES INTO EFFECT.
OKAY? SO THERE'S, THERE'S NO MANDATE FOR ANY INDIVIDUAL TO DO ANYTHING RIGHT NOW.
NO MANDATE FOR C P S TO DO ANYTHING.
THERE'S NOTHING IN THE PLAN, OKAY? NO MANDATE FOR SAWS, NO MANDATE FOR THE CITY.
SO HOW ARE WE GONNA IMPLEMENT THIS? AGAIN, I THINK THE KEY IS, UM, DEVELOPING A PROCESS, UM, FOR, UH, TRANSPARENCY AND DISCLOSURE.
I MEAN, THIS IS BASICALLY, UH, AS I, AS I MENTIONED, WE HAVE TO ALREADY START OUR 2018 INVENTORY.
UH, SO WE'LL VERY CLEARLY BE ABLE TO PUBLICLY SAY, HERE'S OUR EMISSIONS, UH, TRANSPORTATION'S GOING THIS WAY, SOMETHING BUILDING'S GOING THAT WAY.
UM, WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT STRATEGIES ARE ALREADY BEING IMPLEMENTED.
WE CAN GAUGE WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE WORKING BASED UPON THAT METRIC.
AND, UM, IF IT'S NOT, HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW DO WE RE READJUST MM-HMM.
NOW, HOW MANY TOTAL STRATEGIES ARE LISTED IN THIS PLAN? AGAIN? SO THERE ARE, OH, THERE WAS SOMETHING 40 SOMETHING I RECALL FROM THE ORIGINAL PLAN.
THERE'S ABOUT HOW MANY IT'S PROBLEM.
IT'S, IT'S, OVERALL, THERE'S GOTTA BE MORE THAN 65, 70 STRATEGIES IN THIS PLAN, AT LEAST.
AND EACH OF THOSE STRATEGIES ACTUALLY HAS AN ACTION ITEM ADDRESSED TO IT THAT KIND OF SAYS, THIS IS HOW WE BEGIN TO IMPLEMENT THAT STRATEGY.
RIGHT? IT PROVIDES, UM, THERE'S ONE OVERARCHING STRATEGY MM-HMM.
DOESN'T MEAN WE NEED TO DO ALL OF THEM, RIGHT? BUT IT STARTS LAYING OUT SOME CHOICES.
AND, AND IS THAT WHAT WE'LL EVALUATE TO DETERMINE WHAT ARE OUR PRIORITIES? WHAT GOES FIRST? WHAT GOES SECOND? YES, SIR.
UH, WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IN THE FIRST THREE OR FOUR OR FIVE YEARS? YES.
ARE WE PREDICTING WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN 10 OR 20 YEARS? WELL, AS WE, AS WE DISCUSSED, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS WE WANT TO WORK ON IS HERE'S WHAT A THREE TO FIVE YEAR POTENTIAL PLAN LOOKS LIKE.
UM, I, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, THAT, UM, WE JUST WANNA BE COGNIZANT OF IS HOW OFTEN WE'LL BE UPDATING THIS PLAN MM-HMM.
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CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT I THINK WE, WE WANT TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT HORIZON IS, THAT WE COULD AT LEAST HAVE A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT POTENTIAL IS POTENTIAL.RIGHT? AND SO THEN, THIS IS A THREE YEAR, A FIVE YEAR, A 10 YEAR, A 20 YEAR PLAN.
IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA ALL BE IMPLEMENTED IN 90 DAYS.
IS IT? IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO JUST IMPLEMENT EVERYTHING.
AND SO, SO THE COST THAT MAY FALL ON US AS A CITY, US AS A COMMUNITY, UH, PEOPLE'S, INDIVIDUAL ECONOMIES, ALL OF THAT IS GOING TO HAVE TO BE RESEARCHED, DISCUSSED, AND UNDERSTOOD BEFORE WE EVER IMPLEMENT ANY OF THESE THINGS.
IF, IF, IF WE IDENTIFY PARTICULAR STRATEGY, UM, THAT MAY REQUIRE AN INCENTIVE, FOR EXAMPLE, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO BRING TO THE COMMUNITY AND THE COUNCIL, HERE'S WHAT IT IS, THIS IS WHAT THE COST IMPLICATIONS ARE, THIS IS, UM, WHERE THE FUNDING WOULD POTENTIALLY COME FROM.
BUT THEN WE ALSO WANNA QUANTIFY THESE ARE THE BENEFITS.
UM, AND IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE COSTS.
WHAT ARE WE GETTING IN RETURN? THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD PLAN TO ME.
UM, AS YOU KNOW, I'VE HAD CONCERNS FROM THIS, FROM THE VERY BEGINNING WHEN WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT THIS.
IN FACT, THE VERY FIRST WEEK WHEN WE VOTED ON THE, UH, PARIS CLIMATE ACCORD, YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WAS GONNA BRING.
AND, UM, I, I, I LISTENED TO ROD'S COMMENTS A WHILE AGO WHERE THIS IS A PLAN.
IT'S A PLAN, AND THIS IS THE LAUNCH TO IMPLEMENT ALL THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THIS PLAN.
JUST AS COUNCILMAN COURAGE WAS SAYING, YOU'RE SAYING, YES, WE'RE GONNA TAKE IT TO THE COMMUNITY.
WE'RE GONNA GET THIS COSTED OUT AND WHAT HAVE YOU.
BUT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THINGS HAVE BEEN DONE THAT WAY, BUT WE HAVEN'T HAD, I WOULD SAY, COMMUNITY VOTES ON VERY, VERY BIG PROGRAMS IN THE PAST.
THE VISTA RIDGE WATER PIPELINE, WE, THAT'S A $3 BILLION PROJECT OVER 30 YEARS, 3 BILLION.
DID WE TAKE THAT TO THE VOTERS TO DECIDE WHETHER WE SHOULD DO THAT OR NOT? UM, I DON'T BELIEVE SO.
IT WAS VOTED ON BY COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY BY, BY THE WAY.
SO I'M CONCERNED ABOUT IMPLEMENTING THIS PLAN IN ALL THE DIFFERENT PARTS THAT YES, THIS IS A REPRESENTATIVE FORM OF GOVERNMENT HERE WHERE THE COUNCIL VOTES, BUT, AND IT GOES TO WHAT COUNCILMAN COURAGE WAS SAYING, HOW WE POLL OUR COMMUNITY, HOW WE GET THAT INFORMATION OUT.
AND, AND I WAS SO GLAD TO HEAR DR.
GARCIA ALSO TALK ABOUT HOW THESE, HOW THESE SURVEYS ARE PREPARED AND HOW THEY'RE ASKED AND WHAT THEY'RE ASKING, AND ARE THEY LEADING.
AND I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, I I JUST GOT THIS THING, I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT IN DETAIL, BUT I WAS JUST GOING THROUGH THOSE QUESTIONS AND THE, THE VALUES AND THE WEIGHTS OF EACH ONE OF THE QUESTIONS ON THE FIVE STAR DOWN TO ONE STAR NEGATIVE RESPONSE, THAT KIND OF THING ON EACH ONE OF THESE CHARTS.
AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT STOOD OUT TO ME THE MOST? TAKE A GUESS, DOUG, WHAT STOOD OUT TO ME THE MOST, THE COST.
AND ONLY ONE, ONE QUESTION ABOUT THE COST, IF PEOPLE WOULD BE WILLING TO PAY MORE FOR ALL OF THIS PLAN.
AND THE MAJORITY IS NO, THAT THAT'S REALLY THE ONLY TRUE COST.
THERE WAS A COUPLE OF OTHER SURVEY THINGS THAT TALKED ABOUT IN A ROUNDABOUT WAY, COST, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE HAD THAT QUESTION AFTER EACH ONE OF THOSE PARTS.
WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO PAY MORE FOR THIS? AND YOU COULD ACTUALLY QUANTIFY IT? WOULD YOU BE ABLE, WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO PAY A HUNDRED DOLLARS A YEAR MORE FOR THIS 200, 500, A THOUSAND? AND AGAIN, THAT GOES BACK TO MY UNDERLYING PROBLEM WITH THIS WHOLE PLAN IS THERE'S NO COST ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
THERE'S NO SCOPE, THERE'S NO IDEA OF OUR NEIGHBORS IN THIS CITY AS TO WHAT WE'RE REALLY TALKING ABOUT.
WHAT, YOU KNOW, IMPLEMENTING THIS PLAN EVEN BY PARTS, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE WE REALLY TALKING ABOUT HERE? YEAH.
I WOULD LOVE TO KEEP THIS ENVIRONMENT SAFE FOR MY CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, TO KEEP 'EM OUT OF A DANGEROUS SITUATION.
YOU KNOW, AGAIN, THAT, THAT WAS A VERY LEADING, LEADING QUESTION.
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OF THESE QUESTIONS ARE EXACTLY LIKE THAT, IN MY OPINION.WHERE WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO DO THIS OR DO THAT? I, I, I CAN ALMOST BET YOU GUARANTEE YOU THAT IF YOU HAD SOME KIND OF A COST EQUATION BEHIND THAT, THE MAJORITY WOULD STILL SAY NO.
AND THAT'S WHAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT HERE.
WELL, IF I COULD, SORRY, UH, IF I COULD JUST, UM, INTERRUPT.
NO, LET ME, LET ME, I'M SORRY.
LET ME KEEP MY THOUGHT GOING HERE.
UH, WITH THIS PLAN, UH, AND THIS IS, THIS IS GREAT.
I APPRECIATE THIS DATA HERE, BUT WHEN ARE WE ACTUALLY GONNA GET A REVISED PLAN WITH THE RED LINE MARKUPS ON WHAT YOU'RE CHANGING IN THE PLAN? SO THE, UM, CURRENT DRAFT WE, WE COULD SEND TO YOU RIGHT AFTER THIS MEETING.
IT, IT, IT'S AVAILABLE, UM, ONLINE AS WELL AS THE ONLY EDITS WERE WHAT WERE, UM, IN THE, IN THE, IN THAT FIRST SHEET OF THAT DOCUMENT THAT I HAND OUT.
YEAH, WE WILL, WE'LL START TAKING A LOOK AT THAT.
UH, UM, ALONG WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, COST, YOU MADE A, YOU MADE A STATEMENT WHILE AGO, LIKE CHANGING THE U D C AND ADOPTING THE ENERGY, UM, INTERNATIONAL ENERGY, WHAT DID YOU CALL? INTER INTERNATIONAL ENERGY CONSERVATION CODE.
UH, ADOPTING THAT INTO OUR U D C, UH, THERE'S COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT ALSO.
AND THE SAVINGS THAT YOU WERE MENTIONING IS NOT THE SAVINGS OF THE UPFRONT COSTS.
FOR EXAMPLE, PRE-WIRING OR PRE PIPING A HOUSE FOR SOLAR ENERGY THAT'S GONNA TAKE UPFRONT COSTS.
DOES THAT ADD TO THE AFFORDABILITY OF A HOUSE? NO, IT MIGHT IN FUTURE YEARS WITH REDUCED ENERGY COSTS.
BUT YOU DON'T GET THAT WHEN YOU GO TO THE BANK TRYING TO GET A LOAN FOR THAT HOUSE IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR THAT UPFRONT COST FOR THOSE UPGRADES AND ENERGY SAVINGS.
SO I'M CONCERNED ABOUT JUST MM-HMM.
UM, I, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT NOT GETTING ANY DATA FROM BUSINESSES OR ORGANIZATIONS NOT GETTING COMMENTS.
AND YEAH, WE KIND OF PUT THESE THINGS OUT THERE AND EXPECT PEOPLE TO RESPOND TO THAT, BUT WE KNOW WHO THESE ORGANIZATIONS ARE.
WE KNOW WHO THESE BUSINESSES ARE.
YOU KNOW, I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE PROACTIVE IN GOING TO THEM TO GET THEIR FRANK FEEDBACK ON THIS, ON WHAT THEY REALLY EXPECT AND WHAT THEIR COMMENTS WERE.
YOU KNOW, JUST SAYING, WELL, WE HAVEN'T HEARD FROM 'EM, SO THEY MUST BE ACCEPTING IT.
I, I DON'T, I DON'T AGREE WITH THAT.
UH, I'VE GOTTEN COMMENTS FROM BUSINESSES AND ORGANIZATIONS SAYING, NO, WE DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PLAN.
EVEN WITH THE, UH, I'LL, I'LL SAY IT, THE WATERED DOWN VERSION OF TAKING THE TEETH OUT OF THIS THING, THEY STILL DON'T AGREE WITH IT BECAUSE THEY SEE POTENTIAL INCREASES TO THEIR COST OF DOING BUSINESS HERE IN THIS CITY.
AND I, I THINK THAT'S GONNA HAVE AN IMPACT ON OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ATTRACTING ADDITIONAL BUSINESSES HERE IN TOWN.
AND I, I, UH, HEARD COUNCILMAN PAL SAYING THAT, UH, WELL, HE GAVE US THIS SAYING ABOUT COMPANIES COMMITTED TO, UH, LET'S SEE, UH, WHATEVER THE NUMBERS ARE ON EITHER APPLYING THAT MONEY TO REDUCE, YOU KNOW, THE GREENHOUSE GASES, THAT KIND OF THING.
I GUARANTEE YOU THAT THOSE COMPANIES ARE NOT JUST TAKING IT OUTTA THEIR POCKETS WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THE COST IS, KNOWING WHAT THEIR PROFIT IS GONNA BE, WHAT THEIR LOSSES ARE GONNA BE, AND IF THEY CAN AFFORD THESE THINGS, AND NINE TIMES OUTTA 10, THEIR PRODUCTS ARE GONNA GO UP IN PRICE TO COVER THESE.
BUT THEY'RE NOT JUST DOING THIS OUT OF THE, THE WILLINGNESS OUT OF THEIR, OF THEIR HEART.
THEY SEE BENEFITS IN THERE, BUT I, THEY'RE NOT DOING THIS BLINDFOLD LIKE WE ARE NOT KNOWING WHAT THE FUTURE COSTS ON THESE THINGS ARE.
UM, AGAIN, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT NOT GETTING THE PRIVATE BUSINESSES AND, AND ORGANIZATIONS ENDORSEMENT ON THIS, YOU KNOW, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, SUPPORT GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.
AND, YOU KNOW, IT, IT, IT WOULD BE TOUGH FOR ONE GOVERNMENT AGENCY TO SAY,
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NO, WE DON'T AGREE WITH THE CITY AND HAVE 'EM HAVE 'EM AT ODDS GOING, GOING DOWN THAT PATH.SO I'M REALLY, UM, REALLY, UH, CONCERNED ABOUT THAT.
AND, AND YOUR COMMENT ABOUT BUSINESSES, OF COURSE, SOLAR BUSINESSES ARE GONNA LOVE THIS 'CAUSE IT MEANS MORE BUSINESS FOR THEM.
SO THEY'RE GONNA ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT THIS PLAN AND ANY KIND OF ENERGY SECTOR BUSINESS, ABSOLUTELY.
SO, UM, DOUG, YOU KNOW, I APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING, WHETHER YOU WANT TO DO IT OR NOT.
YOU'VE, YOU'VE JUMPED INTO IT AND, AND YOU'VE DONE A GOOD JOB.
BUT I STILL HAVE, UM, BIG CONCERNS ON THIS, THAT OUT OF THIS PLAN, WHICH ROD SAID A WHILE AGO, THIS IS A PLAN WE'RE GONNA IMPLEMENT AND HOW THAT IMPLEMENTATION GOES.
I'M CONCERNED ABOUT ORDINANCES AND THINGS THAT ARE GONNA BE ADOPTED BY THIS COUNCIL THAT'S GONNA ADD STRESS TO OUR ECONOMY, STRESS TO OUR SMALL BUSINESSES, STRESS TO LARGE BUSINESSES, STRESS TO OUR MOST ECONOMICALLY SEGREGATED CITY.
AND I KNOW WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT, OKAY, THE EQUALITY OF THIS THING AND, AND THE EQUITY SPREAD ACROSS THE CITY.
I, I JUST, I THINK IT'S GONNA PUT A LOT MORE BURDEN ON FOLKS THAT DON'T NECESSARILY, WELL, THEY AGREE WITH ALL THE THINGS IN THIS PLAN, BUT THEY DON'T AGREE WITH PAYING MORE FOR IT.
UH, ONE OF YOUR QUESTIONS IN THERE WAS, UH, WELL, UH, WHO SHOULD, UH, SHOULDN'T BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS AND, AND COMPANIES, UM, PAY MORE IF THEY'RE, IF THEY'RE CONTRIBUTING MORE? WELL, I WOULD SAY THEY ALREADY ARE.
I MEAN, BUSINESSES PAY MORE IN PROPERTY TAXES, BUSINESS PAY MORE IN SALES TAXES, UH, THEY ARE PAYING MORE.
SO AGAIN, THAT'S ONE OF THOSE QUESTIONS THAT I GOT A LITTLE BIT OF HEARTBURN WITH.
UM, OBVIOUSLY EVERYBODY'S GONNA SAY, YES, THEY SHOULD PAY MORE.
I SAY, THEY'RE ALREADY PAYING A LOT, AND IF WE MAKE 'EM PAY MORE, WHERE ARE THEY GONNA PASS THE COST TO? IT'S TO THE CONSUMER, AND THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE GIVING REBATES BECAUSE OF THEIR INCOME LEVEL OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
EVERYBODY'S GONNA PAY THE SAME FOR THAT SERVICE.
SO, DARN IT, I STILL GOT A BIG PROBLEM WITH THIS THING, DOUG, AND, UM, LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THE ACTUAL REVISION AND SEE WHAT'S IN THERE.
AND I'M, I'M, I'M STILL, UH, CONCERNED FOR THE INDIVIDUAL HERE IN SAN ANTONIO ALONG WITH BUSINESSES HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, AND HOW IT COULD IMPACT OUR GROWTH AND SUSTAINABILITY OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.
SO WITH THAT, THAT'S ALL THE COMMENTS I HAVE, SIR.
COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY, COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL COUNCIL.
THANK YOU, DOUG AND TEAM FOR YOUR PRESENTATION, AND ALSO TO ALL OF THE COUNCIL COLLEAGUES FOR THEIR VERY THOUGHTFUL, UH, AND DEEP DIVE INTO THIS, UH, DOCUMENT AND INTO TODAY'S DISCUSSION.
I THINK AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY BEEN, UM, UH, SUPPORTED BY AL ALMOST ALL THE MEMBERS ON, ON THIS COUNCIL, BUT I THINK IT, IT ENDS UP BEING A VERY STRONG PRODUCT.
UH, SO I THINK IT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD ALL BE PROUD OF, YOU KNOW, GOD WILLING, EVERYTHING GOES THROUGH.
ON OCTOBER 17TH, UH, I WANNA TELL YOU A COUPLE OF THINGS I'M VERY HAPPY TO SEE IN THE DRAFT THAT WE'RE REVIEWING TODAY.
NUMBER ONE, THERE ARE 45 ADAPTATION STRATEGIES.
THIS PLAN IS NOT JUST ABOUT REDUCING EMISSIONS, BUT IT'S ABOUT, UM, TAKING CARE OF OUR RESIDENTS WHO ARE EXPERIENCING THE HIGHER TEMPERATURES.
THESE UNPREDICTABLE UTILITY RATES AND HIGHER LEVELS COST FOR FLOOD INSURANCE, ESPECIALLY, UH, IN MY DISTRICT.
SO THIS IS MORE THAN HALF OF THE PLAN.
IT'S OUR, AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT'S OUR DUTY TO PROTECT OUR RESIDENTS, TO PROTECT THEIR PROPERTY, AND THIS IS WHAT THE PLAN IS INTENDED TO DO.
THE OTHER THING I'M VERY HAPPY TO SEE IN THIS PLAN IS THE EQUITY PORTION OF IT.
UH, ONE OF THE BIGGEST CONCERNS, UH, THAT THAT MANY PEOPLE HAVE SHARED ABOUT TAKING CLIMATE ACTION IS THAT IT WILL AFFECT, NOT JUST THAT IT WILL MAKE THINGS MORE EXPENSIVE FOR PEOPLE WHO CANNOT
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AFFORD IT.AND THE TRUTH IS, UH, THAT'S, THAT'S INCORPORATED AS, UH, AS, UM, AS AN EVALUATION METHOD IN HERE.
AND JUST BY THE FACT THAT WE'RE TRYING TO BRING DOWN THE TEMPERATURES THROUGH, UH, URBAN HEAT ISLAND MITIGATION AND, UH, SAVE PEOPLE THAT WILL SAVE PEOPLE ENERGY AND SAVE PEOPLE MONEY, THAT IS SOMETHING TANGIBLE THAT WE CAN DO HERE LOCALLY.
BY MAKING OUR BUILDINGS MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT, WE WILL SAVE PEOPLE MONEY IN THE LONG RUN BY INSTALLING WHITE ROOFS.
WE WILL SAVE PEOPLE, UH, UTILITY MONEY.
UH, WITHOUT THAT, THE TEMPERATURES ARE GOING TO CONTINUE BEING HOTTER AND PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE TO PAY HIGHER AND HIGHER RATES.
UM, UH, I DO WANT TO ADDRESS, UH, SOME CONCERNS THAT WE HEARD TODAY ON THE DAES AND THAT I THINK WE WILL HEAR, UH, GOING FORWARD.
IT'S THE INVESTMENT THAT'S REQUIRED IN THIS, IT IS TRUE SAVING THE PLANET AND THE CLIMATE IS NOT FREE.
UM, NEITHER IS BUILDING PARKS AND WE VALUE THAT.
WE VALUE SENDING OUR KIDS OUTSIDE, UH, LETTING THEM PLAY.
UH, NEITHER IS HAVING A ZOO, RIGHT? YET.
UH, WE THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT.
UH, WE VISIT THOSE PLACES, NEITHER ARE, NEITHER IS PLANTING NEW TREES.
BUT ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE VALUED BY OUR COMMUNITY, AND, UH, IT IS OUR JOB, I BELIEVE, UH, TO DO OUR BEST TO ENSURE THAT DOWN THE LINE, OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE THAT.
UM, SO THAT'S WHY I'M, I'M PROUD TO TAKE, UH, TO, TO SUPPORT THIS, THIS DOCUMENT.
UM, THERE IS ONE THING WHERE THAT DOUG MENTIONED AND I WANNA HIGHLIGHT, UM, IS THAT RIGHT NOW, UH, STAFF IS EXPLORING, UH, THE PROPERTY ASSESS CLEAN ENERGY PROGRAM.
AND WHEN IT COMES TO INVESTMENTS, WHAT THAT MEANS IS IF THIS PROGRAM GOES FORWARD, IT IS A FINANCING TOOL FOR MAKING A BUILDING MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT, OR MAYBE EVEN, UH, SOLAR READY, LIKE, UH, THE COUNCILMAN WAS TALKING ABOUT, OR FOR PUTTING PANELS, SOLAR PANELS ON THE ROOF.
UM, AND YOU PAY THAT LOAN OFF WITH YOUR ELECTRICITY SAVINGS SO THAT THERE IS A NET ZERO COST TO, UH, THE BUILDER OF THAT BUILDING.
UM, SO I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT, UH, HOPEFULLY MAKING THAT AVAILABLE.
UH, YOU'LL TELL US THE TIMELINE FOR THAT, HOPEFULLY, UM, BE GREAT BY THE START OF NEXT YEAR WOULD BE APPROPRIATE, BUT WE'LL, WE'LL BE, WE'LL BE, WE'RE STILL DOING SOME, UM, VETTING, WE'RE TALKING TO DIFFERENT CITIES THAT HAVE IT.
AND, UM, WE'LL BE BRINGING SOMETHING BACK TO COUNCIL SHORTLY.
SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT EVERY MAJOR CITY IN TEXAS ALREADY HAS THIS PROGRAM.
UM, FOR THE MOST PART AS WELL.
UM, SO ALL THAT SAID, THIS IS REALLY THE EASY PART GETTING TO, TO THIS POINT.
AND YOU, UH, ON THE DAAS HAVE POINTED OUT SOME OF THE MORE DIFFICULT THINGS THAT ARE TO COME.
UM, SO I'M VERY GLAD, UH, DOUG, THAT YOU DID FLESH OUT THE IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS.
I THINK THAT ANSWERED A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS, UH, THAT MANY IN OUR COMMUNITY HAD.
I'M GLAD TO SEE THE INTERNAL TEAMS, UH, THEY WILL BE FOCUSED ON IMPLEMENTING WHAT IS RIGHT NOW, 13 MUNICIPAL STRATEGIES, UM, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THOSE COMMITTEES.
I'M GLAD WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT WHAT THAT MEMBERSHIP MIGHT LOOK LIKE, UH, SO THAT WE CAN START THINKING ABOUT WHO WE WOULD, UH, ASK TO APPLY OR TO NOMINATE, HOWEVER THAT PROCESS GOES, SO THAT WE CAN HIT THE GROUND RUNNING, UM, AFTER WE, AFTER WE ADOPT THIS, UH, WHEN DO YOU ANTICIPATE THAT COMMITTEE MEETING FOR THE FIRST TIME? SO, UM, ROD AND I WERE TALKING ABOUT, I THINK TAKING THE FALL TO REALLY SORT OF VET, UM, AND DEVELOP WHAT THE PROCESS IS, AND HOPEFULLY AT THE START OF THE, THE YEAR, SORT OF HITTING THE GROUND RUNNING WITH, WITH THOSE COMMITTEES.
UM, ONE THING THAT, UH, WILL BE HAPPENING NEXT YEAR, AND HOPEFULLY YOUR INTERNAL TEAM CAN, CAN WORK ON THIS, IS THE CELEBRATION OF THE 25TH ANNUAL EARTH DAY.
UH, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT OUR PARKS DEPARTMENT WILL BE HOSTING IT, UH, AND I AM GOING TO CHALLENGE US TO MAKE THAT OUR FIRST ZERO WASTE EVENT.
UH, NOW THAT ZERO WASTE IS ONE OF OUR MITIGATION STRATEGIES, UM, INTERNALLY OUR MUNICIPAL STRATEGY.
SO, UM, HOPEFULLY YOU'LL HAVE SOME TIME TO THINK ABOUT HOW, HOW TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
AND THEN, UH, LASTLY, UM, THERE ARE SOME THINGS IN THE PLAN THAT I THINK ARE INHERENT, BUT WE HAVEN'T MADE THEM EXPLICIT.
SO, FOR INSTANCE, I THINK THAT, UH, IF WE SUPPORT THIS PLAN, WE ARE SUPPORTING THE CREATION OF GREEN JOBS.
UM, IF, IF EVERYTHING HAPPENS IN THERE, UH, THE ECONOMIC INCENTIVES THAT THE COUNCILWOMAN TALKED ABOUT, THAT IF THIS IS OUR POLICY THAT INHERENTLY OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICIES SHOULD FOLD THAT IN.
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HOWEVER, IT'S NOT EXPLICIT IN THE PLAN.SO I WOULD LIKE TO PROPOSE TO MY COLLEAGUES, UM, IF YOU WOULD, UH, BE OPEN TO MAKING THOSE THINGS EXPLICIT IN THE PLAN.
THERE'S SPECIFICALLY THREE THAT I WOULD, THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UM, USING THE CITY'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT, UH, THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EN AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY.
THE SECOND ONE HAS TO DO WITH GREEN JOBS.
THIS MORNING SOME OF US ATTENDED THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ALAMO PROMISE PROGRAM, AND THE IDEA OF COURSE IS, IS FREE COLLEGE TUITION TO GIVE OUR OUR COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES.
UM, WHAT WE DON'T HAVE RIGHT NOW IN THE CITY IS A GREEN JOBS PROGRAM.
AND I WOULD, UH, LIKE FOR US TO CONSIDER FOLDING THAT IN AS A, UH, AS A STRATEGY TO EVALUATE IN THE FUTURE.
I KNOW WE CAN ADD STRATEGIES LATER WHEN WE UPDATE THIS PLAN FIVE YEARS DOWN THE LINE, BUT I DON'T WANNA MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY TO START THINKING ABOUT CREATION OF GREEN JOBS.
AND I'M GONNA BE HONEST, I DID NOT COME UP WITH THESE IDEAS.
UM, I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO LISTEN TO A PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE.
THERE WAS STEVE HENNIGAN FROM CREDIT HUMAN, UM, WHO USED TO BE ON THE C P S BOARD.
THERE WAS CHRIS STER FROM C P S, AND THERE WAS MAYOR PHIL HARBERGER THERE.
AND I WAS LIKE, HOW DID THEY GET MAYOR PHIL HARBERGER TO BE ON THIS PANEL AND CHRIS ER, AND THESE OTHER GUYS? AND IT WAS CITIZENS' CLIMATE LOBBY.
UH, SO I WENT, AND I'M GLAD I DID.
AND, UH, MAYOR HARDBERGER TALKED ABOUT MISSION VERDE, UH, WHICH WAS ADOPTED BY THIS COUNCIL, UH, MANY YEARS AGO.
UH, SO I WENT BACK AND I LOOKED AT IT AND I SAW THAT THERE WERE SOME STRATEGIES THERE THAT WEREN'T IN OUR PLAN, AND THESE WERE MORE, THAT MORE STRATEGIES RELATED TO, UH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND JOBS CREATION.
AND, UH, I I JUST THINK WE MIGHT BE MISSING AN OPPORTUNITY IF WE DON'T FOLD THAT IN.
UM, THEY, AGAIN, THESE ARE POLICIES THAT WERE ADOPTED BY A COUNCIL.
UNFORTUNATELY, THAT PLAN DID STAY ON A SHELF.
THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN WITH OUR PLAN.
UM, SO I WOULD, UM, I WOULD ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO CONSIDER INTRODUCING THREE OF THOSE STRATEGIES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH GREEN JOBS CREATION, UH, INCORPORATION INTO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES.
AND THEN THERE WAS ALSO ONE ABOUT CREATING A CLEAN AND GREEN TECH VENTURE CAPITAL FUND.
AGAIN, ALL OF THESE THINGS MAY HAPPEN WITHOUT PUTTING THEM EXPLICITLY IN THE PLAN, BUT I THINK SAYING THEM AND STATING THEM WILL HELP OUR COMMITMENT TO, TO MAKING THEM HAPPEN.
UM, SO IN, IN EITHER CASE, I'M VERY PLEASED WITH THE DOCUMENT YOU'VE BROUGHT BEFORE US, AND, UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DOUG.
COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, COUNCIL MEMBER IGRA.
COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL FOR, FOR BRINGING THOSE UP.
I THINK MY QUESTION THEN IS TO PUT THEM EXPLICIT.
I NEED TO KNOW ONE, I I WOULDN'T PUT THEM EXPLICITLY RIGHT NOW, IF YOU'RE WE'RE PLANNING ON BRINGING THIS FORWARD ON THE 17TH OF OCTOBER, THEN I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT EXPLICIT MEANS.
A DEFINITION OF EXPLICIT MEANS BEFORE.
IF THE INTENT IS TO PUT IT IN THIS PLAN EXPLICITLY, THEN I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BRING IT FORWARD ON OCTOBER 17TH.
I'D LIKE TO HAVE MORE VETTING THAN JUST, THAN JUST WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW.
UM, AND THEN, BECAUSE IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES AND PUTTING EXPLICITLY, I THINK I WANT TO KNOW, SO, UH, WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE HERE, UM, IN THIS DOCUMENT MOVING FORWARD.
IF IT'S IN, IN IMPLIED OR INHERENT IN HERE, UM, I CAN MOVE.
I MEAN, WE CAN HAVE THE CONVERSATION, BUT WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT IT EXPLICITLY, WHAT OTHER, UM, IMPACTS OR COULD THAT HAVE ON AIR? SO THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS.
MAY, MAY, I, UM, NO, EXCELLENT QUESTION.
WHAT I WOULD, UH, LOOK AT IS, UM, I DON'T THINK WE NEED MORE.
IF WE LOOK AT THE STRATEGIES RIGHT NOW, AS THEY'RE LISTED, THERE ARE BASICALLY ONE SENTENCE STRATEGIES.
EACH OF THOSE REQUIRES A, UH, A FULL, THE FULL VETTING PROCESS IS WHAT WE COMMITTED TO DO FOLLOWING THE ADOPTION, UH, OF THE PLAN.
SO, UM, IN TERMS OF THE FULL VETTING, THAT'S WHAT I WOULD ANTICIPATE.
THE REASON, UM, I REALIZE WE ARE, UH, CLOSER TO THE ADOPTION OF THE PROCESS THAN AT THE BEGINNING.
UH, WHAT GAVE ME THE CONFIDENCE TO BRING THIS UP WITH YOU GUYS IS THAT THIS WAS ADOPTED BY A COUNCIL ALREADY, UH, IN THE PAST.
[02:05:01]
IT'S BEEN UN, UNLESS THAT DOCUMENT IS UNDONE IN SOME WAY, IT IS, IT'S ALREADY CITY POLICY.COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN.
UM, AND THUS YOU HAVE A PREVIEW OF WHAT'S TO COME.
UM, I APPRECIATE ALL THE INPUT AND THE COMMENTS FROM MY COLLEAGUES, THE QUESTIONS.
AND AGAIN, ONCE, ONCE AGAIN, YOUR, YOUR WORK, DOUG, ON BEHALF OF YOUR STAFF.
I, I, I DID WANT TO CLOSE JUST BY REMINDING EVERYONE WHO'S WATCHING THIS UNFOLD THAT, UM, THIS IS A FRAMEWORK, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE.
DID YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL COMMENTS? WELL, YES, MAYOR, THE ONLY THING I WAS GONNA SAY OR ASK IS WHEN WE PASS THIS, THIS PLAN, SHOULD WE PASS THIS PLAN? DOES THAT MEAN THAT WE'RE ONLY GOING TO WORK WITH WHAT'S IN THE PLAN? OR ARE THERE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE PLAN TO HAVE ADDITIONAL, UH, STRATEGIES OR ACTIONS THAT WILL COME UP OUT OF IT? WELL, I THINK WE WILL BE, UM, BRIEFING COUNSEL ON A REGULAR BASIS AS FAR AS STATUS.
UH, I THINK WE'RE ALSO GONNA BE LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES THAT COME UP AND WE'LL WANT TO BRING THEM TO COUNCIL.
BUT I THINK, UM, THE INTENT IS THIS IS A LIVING DOCUMENT AND, UH, I DON'T THINK WE'RE NECESSARILY LOCKED INTO ANYTHING THAT'S IN HERE.
SO THEN THE COUNCILWOMAN SUGGESTIONS ARE SOMETHING THAT CAN BE ROLLED INTO THERE AS WE MOVE FORWARD PRETTY EASILY.
I THINK AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S, IT'S COUNCIL'S RIGHT DOCUMENT.
THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO BE SURE.
AND, AND THAT WAS SORT OF WHERE I WAS GOING.
UM, THE WORK ON IMPLEMENTING THE CLIMATE ACTION ADAPTATION PLAN IS, WILL BE ONGOING.
UM, AND IT'S NOT ALL INCLUSIVE.
IN FACT, PART OF THE STRATEGY THAT WAS OUTLINED, THE CHANGE, ONE OF THE CHANGES THAT WAS MADE WAS MAKING EXPLICIT THAT IT IS THE COUNCIL'S PREROGATIVE TO BRING THIS PLAN BACK UP FOR REVIEW AND REVISION, UH, EVEN BEFORE THE FIVE-YEAR SUGGESTED IMPLEMENTATION STAGE.
UH, AND WE FULLY INTEND TO DO THAT.
UM, SO WITH REGARD TO THE STRATEGIES WITH, UH, MISSION VERDE, UM, OR ANY OTHER BENEFICIAL, UM, PROGRAM THAT WE MIGHT CONSIDER, THAT'S ALL PART OF OUR PREROGATIVE.
AND WE, WE, WE CAN DO THIS, BUT THIS PROVIDES A, A HEALTHY FRAMEWORK FOR US TO MOVE FORWARD TO DO EXACTLY WHAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, WHICH IS TO MAKE SAN ANTONIO A MORE RESILIENT COMMUNITY.
UM, AND SO, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, UM, LIFE WILL GO ON AFTER OCTOBER 17TH, AND WE DO VERY MUCH RUN THE RISK OF THIS BECOMING JUST ANOTHER PLAN THAT SITS ON THE SHELF FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
IT'S GONNA BE UP TO US TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN.
AND I THINK YOU'VE HEARD FROM AROUND THE DIOCESE A REAL COMMITMENT TO ENSURE THAT PART OF WHAT WILL ENABLE THAT TO HAPPEN IS THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THIS, ON ALL SIDES OF THE EQUATION, MAKE SURE THEY GO OUT AND VOTE.
UM, BECAUSE IN SUBSEQUENT MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS YEARS FROM NOW, YOU'RE GONNA BE VOTING ON PEOPLE AND DEPENDING ON THEM TO IMPLEMENT THE COMMITMENTS, UH, THAT WE MAKE TODAY OR OCTOBER 17TH IN THE CAP.
AND VERY QUICKLY, UH, FOLKS' PRIORITIES MAY CHANGE, BUT IF PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN MAKING CHANGE HAPPEN WITH REGARD TO THE COMMUNITY AND CLIMATE, THEN THEY NEED TO VOTE THAT WAY.
AND SO I'M GLAD FOR THE ROBUST DISCUSSION, UH, I HOPE IT CONTINUES AND, AND BELIEVE ME, IT'S GONNA GET A LOT HARDER.
UM, I APPRECIATE MY COLLEAGUES BRINGING UP ACCELERATED PATH.
WE KNOW THIS IS A HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
IT'S GOT A LOT OF COMPLEXITIES THAT OTHER COMMUNITIES DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH BECAUSE WE, IN FACT, IN SAN ANTONIO PRODUCE OUR OWN ENERGY AND WE PRODUCE ENERGY FOR THE REST OF THE STATE.
SO THE DECISIONS THAT WE MAKE ARE NOT ABOUT TODAY OR EVEN FIVE YEARS FROM NOW, BUT HAVE ALSO ABOUT THE ECONOMICS OF THINGS 15 AND 30 AND EVEN MUCH BEYOND THAT.
I THINK IT WOULD BE A FAILURE ON PART OF PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY INTERESTED IN LOWERING EMISSIONS AND MAKING ACTION ON CLIMATE POSSIBLE IF WE DON'T ACCELERATE THE PATH.
UM, IT'S NOT SOMETHING WE CAN SCRIPT OUT TODAY PERHAPS.
UM, AND WE NEED A LOT MORE HELP FROM C P SS ON NUMBERS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN, BUT WE'RE GONNA BE PUSHING REALLY HARD TO MAKE SURE THAT WE SHUT DOWN SPRUCE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
UH, BECAUSE THE ECONOMICS NEED TO WORK IN ORDER FOR OUR EMISSIONS TO BE REDUCED.
AND WE KNOW THAT WE CAN HAVE THAT HAPPEN IF WE HAVE PEOPLE UP HERE AND THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY ARE COMMITTED FROM TO THAT, FROM A POLICY PERSPECTIVE, THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE DECIDING ON TODAY THOUGH.
AND THAT'S WHY WE HAVE GREAT SUPPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE THOSE CHALLENGES, WE KNOW THOSE DEBATES ARE YET TO COME, BUT TODAY WE ARE COMMITTED AS A COMMUNITY FROM ALL OUR DIVERSE
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PERSPECTIVES THAT WE'RE GONNA GET TO THE GOAL LINE TOGETHER.SO I'M VERY HAPPY, UH, WITH THE, UM, COMMENTS, THE DEBATE.
IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A PREVIEW.
UM, AND I ASK EVERYONE IN THIS COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GATHERED AROUND THE DIOCESE, TO BUCKLE IN BECAUSE IT'S GONNA GET A LOT HARDER, A LOT MORE REAL, BUT A LOT MORE IMPORTANT.
UH, YOUR STAFF, ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE STAKEHOLDERS, UH, I CAN'T WAIT FOR OCTOBER 17TH WHERE WE CAN ACTUALLY ADOPT AND RATIFY THIS PLAN.
[Executive Session]
WITH THAT, WE'RE GONNA MOVE NOW TO AN EXECUTIVE SESSION.THE TIME IS 4:25 PM ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2ND, 2019.
THE CITY COUNCIL, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, WILL NOW MEET AN EXECUTIVE SESSION TO CONSULT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.071 CONSULTATION WITH ATTORNEY AND TO DELIBERATE TO DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING ITEMS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATIONS PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.087 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, THE PURCHASE EXCHANGE LEASE FOR VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0 7 2 REAL PROPERTIES LEGAL ISSUES RELATED TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.071.
CONSULTATION WITH ATTORNEY SETTLEMENT OFFER IN LITIGATION STYLED CARLOS MENDOZA VERSUS THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.071.
CONSULTATION WITH ATTORNEY SETTLEMENT OFFER IN LITIGATION STYLED NATALIE SIMS VERSUS THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.071.