##VIDEO ID:qchm8dQksk4## >>  WELCOME.  GREETINGS.  WELCOME TO THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE CLIMATE AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE FOR JANUARY 9, 2025.  I'M KATIE CASHMAN, CHAIR OFHIS COMMITTEE.  BEFORE WE BEGIN THE MEETING, I WANT TO OFFER A FRIENDLY REMINDER TO ALL MEMBERS, STAFF, AND THE PUBLIC THAT THESE MEETINGS ARE BROADCAST LIVE TO ENABLE GREATER PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.  THE BROADCASTS INCLUDE REAL TIME CAPTIONING AS A FURTHER METHOD TO INCREASE ACCESSIBILITY OF OUR PROCEEDINGS.  ALL SPEAKERS NEED TO BE MINDFUL OF THE RATE OF THEIR SPEEC SO THE CAPTIONERS CAN FULLY TRANSIBE ALL COMMENTS FOR THE BROADCAST.  THANK YOU.  AT THIS TIME, I'LL ASK THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL  VERIFY A QUORUM. >> VETAW. >> PRESENT. >> OSMAN IS ABSENT.  CHAVEZ. >> PRESENT. >> CHOWDHURY. >> PRESENT. >> VICE CHAIR KOSKI IS ABSENT.  CASHMAN. >> PRESENT. >> FOUR MEMBERS PRESENT. >> WE HAVE  QUORUM.  WE'LL START WITH THE CONSENT AGENDA.   HAVE ONE ITEM TO POSTPONE I'LL MOVE WITH THE CONSENT AGENDA. ONE IS A MET COUNCIL.  TWO IS PREVIOUS COUNCIL ACTION RELATING TO A LOCAL ROAD IMPROVEMENT GRANT UPDATE THE GRANT AMOUNT.  ITEM THREE IS AMENDING THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FOR THE SECOND STREET NORTH SANITARY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT AND SOUTH AVENUE PAVING PROJECT.  FOUR IS THE BASS SET CREEK WATER SHED MANAGEMENT COMMISSION.  ITEM FIVE IS APPROVING APPOINTMENTS TO THE SHINGLE CREEK WATER SHED MANAGEMENT COMMISSION.  SIX IS RECEIVING AN IMPLEMENTATION GRANT FROM THE MINNESO POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY FOR STORMWATER RESILIENCE.  SEVEN IS ACCEPTING A GRANT FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR EXPANDING THE STAGE ONE DIGITAL PILOT PROJECT.  ITEM EIGHT IS AUTHORIZING A COOPERATIVE CONSTRUCTION AGREEMENT WITH THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR LIGHTING AND SIDEWALK WORK ALONG DUNWOODY BOULEVARD UNDER THE 394 BRIDGE.  NINE IS AUTHORIZING AN AEEMENT WITH THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL AND BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY RELATING TO THE LOOSELINE REGIONAL TRAIL BRIDGE.  10 IS AUTHORIZING A FUND AGREEMENT WITH THE MET COUNCIL FOR PROFESSIONAL STAFF COSTS RELATED TO THE METRO GREEN LINE EXTENSION.  11 I AUTHORIZING AN AGREEMENT WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TO ACQUIRE A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION EASEMENT FOR THE OAK STREET PROTECTED BIKEWAY PROJECT.  12 IS A AUTHORIZING A MISSION FOR THE MINNESOTA POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY'S LOCAL CLIMATE ACTION IMPLEMENTATIO GRANT PROGRAM.  FOR THE 2025, AS YOU GO MINNEAPOLIS MODE SHIFT CAMPAIGN.  ITEM 13 IS CONFIRMING JIM VOLLL TO THE ANTI-DISPLACEMENT COMMUNITY PROSPERITY BOARD.  14 IS A GRANT APPLICATION TO THEPA ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE THRIVING COMMUNITIES GRANT MAKING PROGRAM.  TO DELOP RESILIENCE HUBS.  ITEM 15 IS AUTHORIZING THE GRANT APPLICATION TO THE USDA FOREST SERVICE WOOD INNOVATION PROGRAM FOR THE MINNEAPOLIS BIOCHAR PRODUCTION FACILITY.  ITEM 16 IS REFERRING TO STAFF THE GAS FNCHISE AGREEMENT ORDINANCE.  ITEM 17 IS REFERRING TO STAFF THE ELECTRIC FRANCHISE AGREEMENT ORDINANCE AND ITEM 18 IS POSTPONING THE CONCEPT LAYOUT AND EASEMENTSOR 38th STREET AND CHICAGO AVENUE, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS GEORGE FLOYD SQUARE TO THE MEETING OF JANUARY 23rd.  I'LL NOTE THAT ITEMS 16 AND 17 ARE BEING REFERRED TO STAFF.  THESE ARE THE ECTRIC AND GAS FRANCHISE AGREEMENTS.  AND THE GOAL IS TO HAVE THESE TENTATIVE UTILITY FRANCHI AGREEMENTS AND THE ACCOMPANYING CLEAN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP MOUS ON THE CITY WEBSITE NEXT WEEK.  WE TENTATIVELY EXPECT THE PUBLIC HEARING TO BEET AT THE JANUARY 23rd, C & I MEETINGHELDh MEETING.  THE CLERK'S OFFICE IS STILL REVIEWING THE DFT LANGUAGE AND PENDING COMPLETION OF THE REVIEW, THE DOCUMENTS WILL SOON BECOME AVAILABLE FOR THE PUBLIC TO SEE AHEAD OF THE COUNCIL ACTION.  AND IF COMMITTE MEMBERS HAVE QUESTIONS OR WANT TO PULL IT OUT, WE HAVE THE ATTORNEY HERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ON THAT, AS WELL.  OTHERWISE I'LL MOVE APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA INCLUDING THE POSTPONEMENT OF ITEM 18.  ANY DISCUSSION OR QUESTIONS?   COUNCILMEMBER CHOWDHURY. >> THANK YOU.  HERE IN THE 2025, HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE.  ESPECIALLY OUR PUBL PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.  I WANTED TO EXPRESS MORE PUBLICLY OUT TO THE COMMUNITY WITH THE FRANCHISE AGREEMENT COMING BEFORE US ON FEBRUARY 6th.  AND THE INFORMATION AROUND IT BECOMING PUBLIC.  FR  FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT TO ME, IF I'M YOUR COUNCIL MEMBER, WITH ANY QUESTIONS, CONCERNS, THOUGHTS.  HAPPY TO ANSWER WHAT I CAN ANSWER.  AND THEN ENCOURAGE YOU TO REACH OUT, IF YOU'RE NOT IN THE 12th WARD, TO OTHER MEMBERS.  WE KNOW IT'S A BIG DEAL TO TAKE UP A NEW FRANCHISE AGREEMENT.  IT HAPPENS EVERY 10 YEARS.  AND SO IT'S OPPORTUNITY. AND I,IKE MANY OF THE COLLEAGUES, I HAVE A HUGE COMMITMENT TO CLIMATECTION AND RESILIENCY AND THE STEPS WE CAN TAKE.  ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION THAT WILL BE TAKING EFFECT IN THIS JANUARY.  AND THEN, OF COURSE, WE CONTINUE TO SEE CLIMATE DISASTER TAKE PLACE THROUGHOUT OUROUNTRY.  REALLY THINKING ABOUT COMMUNITY MEMBERS OUT IN CALIFORNIA AND THE PALISADES.  SO I WANTED TO MAKE THAT NOTE.  AND JUST THAT'S WHAT THIS COMMITTEE IS ABOUT.  RIGHT.  WE NAMED IT THE CLIMATE AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE.  WHEN WE ORGANIZED OURSELF IN THE BEGINNING OF THE TERM, FOR A REASON.  SO PLEASE DO REACH OUT AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED ADVOCACY. >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER.  ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA? ALL RIGHT.  SO ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SAY "AYE." OPPOSED SAY "NAY." AYES HAVE IT.  THAT MOTIONARRIES.  THOSE ITEMS ARE APPROVED.  THANK YOU.  SO OUR FINAL ITEM TODAY IS RECEIVING AND FILING THE MINNEAPOLIS CLEAN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP 2023 ANNUAL REPORT.  WE HAVE A FEW PRESENTERS TODAY.  AND I'LL INVITE LUKE HOLLENCAMP TO KICK OFF THE PRESENTATION. >> GOOD MORNING, CHAIR.  THANK YOU FOR HAVING U HERE TODAY.  THANK YOU FOR HAVING US HERE.  MY NAME IS LUKE.  I'M SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM MANAGER IN THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.  AND I'M THE LEAD STAFF MEMBER FOR THE CITY ON THE MINNEAPOLIS CLEAN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP.  AND WE'RE HERE TODAY TO PRESENT THE ANNUAL REPORT THAT WE RECENTLY PRESENTED TO THE -- BOARD.  QUICK REMINDER WHAT IT IS.  IT WAS CREATED 10 YEARS A BY THE CITY.  AND ITS UTILITIES, SO WE CAN COOPERATIVELY PURSUE THE CLIMATE AND ENERGY GOALS OF THE CITY TOGETHER.  PRIMARILY THE PARTNERSHIP IS MADE UP OF A BOARD.  OF WHICH, OF COURSE, CHAIR CASHMAN IS A MEMBER OF.  AND THAT BOARD BRINGS TOGETHER OUR CITY AND UTILITY LEADERSHIP.  WE ALSO HAVE AN ENVIRONMENT -- ENERGY VISION ADVISORY COMMITTEE.  EXCUSE ME.  WHO ADVISES THE WORK OF THAT PARTNERSHIP.  THAT IS MADE UP OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS.  AND THERE'S A STAFF TEAM THAT DOES MUCH OF THE DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS OF THE PARTNERSHIP.  IN ADDITION TO MYSELF, I AM JOINED BY SOPHIA TROUTMAN XCEL ENERGY ASELL AS KATHRYN KNUDSON.  WHAT WE LIKE TO GO THROUGH WITH YOU TODAY ON THE AGENDA IS METRICS INCLUDED IN THE CLEAN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP, AS WELL AS UPDATES AND ACTUAL ACTIVITIES WE'VE UNDERTAKEN OVER THE LAST YEAR, AS PART OF THAT BODY.  THE METRICS IN THE CLEAN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP ARE POOLED DIRECTLY FRO THE CLIMATE ENERGY GOALS OF THE CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN.  THE CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN PASSED A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO NO  ACTUALLY A YEAR AND A HALF AGO NOW IN 2023.  WE SELECTED SEVEN METRICS FROM THAT PLAN.  THAT OUR ARE TANTAMOUNT TO MEETING OUR OVERALL GOALS.  AND FOCUSED ON THOSE AS METRICS.  THE FIRST METRIC IS OUR OVERALL CARBON EMISSIONS REDUCTION GOAL.  WE SEEK TO BE NET ZERO EMISSIONS AS AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY BY 2050.  WHAT WE'VE SEEN IN 2023, IS THAT WE'VE HAD A 34% REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS.  SINCE OUBASELINE YEAR OF 2006.  THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS.  FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE REPORT, WE'VE STATED THAT WE ARE NOT ON TRACK TO MEET THE GOAL.  AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE SLIDE HERE, IF YOU IMAGINE A TRENDLINE COMING OUT FROM OUR BASELINE YEAR THROUGH 2023, IN THE NOT SO DISTANT FUTURE, THE TREND LINE WILL ACTUALLY EXCEED THE EMISSIONS REDUCTION TARGETS WE HAVE SET FOR THE CITY AND THE CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN.  SO THAT'S WHY WE DEEMHIS TO NOT BE ON TARGET CURRENTLY.  TO GO INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL OF THAT, THERE ARE BASICALLY FIVE SECTORS THAT MAKE UP OUR EMISSIONS INVENTORY.  WE'LL SPEND MOST OF OUR TIME TALKING ABOUT ELECTRICITY AND NATURAL GAS, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS FOSSIL GAS.  WE MEASURE EMISSIONS FROM ON-ROAD TRANSCRIPTIO TRANSPORTATION AND WASTE WATER AND SOLID WASTE.  IN ADDITION TO THE SPECIFIC YEARLY TARGETS I SHOWED, WE CREATED A TRAJECTORY. A PATHWAY TO GET TO NET ZERO BY 2050.  TS PATHWAY CAME OUT OF A METHODOLOGY CREATED BY C40 CITIES, WHICH HELPS CITIES ASSIGN TO THEMSELVES WHAT WOULD BE A DECARBONZATION TARGET BASED UPON THEIR HISTORICAL EMISSIONS, AS WELL AS HOW AFFLUENT THEY AS A COMMUNITITY CURRENTLY ARE.  THAT'S A APPROXIMALY HOW WELL THEY ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THESE DECARDONZATION INVESTMENTS.  AGAIN, LOOKING AT TREND LIN  AND IF WE LOOK AT THE LAST FIVE YEARS, AS SHOWN HERE, YOU CAN EXTEND THAT TREND LINE, WHICH IS SHOWN BY THE TOP OF THE HATED AREA, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT IN ABOUT 2026,  OR SO, WE MAY EXCEED OUR DECARBONZATION PATHWAY.  AND THAT AREA UNDER THE HATCHED TRAJECTORY WOULD EQUAL THE ENTIRETY OF OUR CARBON BUDGET, BASICAY ALL OF THE CARBON WE COULD EMIT BETWEEN NOW AND 2050. BY THE YEAR OF 2034.  SO IT SHOWS THAT NOT ONLY IN THE YEARS TO COME DO WE HAVE TO ACCELERATE OUR CLIMATE ACTION, SO THAT WE STAY UNDERNEATH OUR TRAJECTORY.  BUT WE HAVE TO CREATE ADDITIONAL SPE FOR US TO GET ALL THE WAY TO 2050 WITHOUTS EXCEEDING OUR OVERALL EMISSIONS.  THIS IS JUST A DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING AT THAT DATA IN TERMS OF WHAT OUR CURRENT EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS ARE.  COMPARED TO THE EMISSION REDUCTIONS WE'VE SET FOR INDIVIDUAL FUELS AND INDIVIDUAL SECTORS.  SO, FOR INSTANCE, FOR ELECTRICITY, WE WANT TO BE CARBON NEUTRAL.  IN FACT, WE WANT TO BE 100% RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY BY 2030.  IN 2023, WE HAD A 63% REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS.  AND OUR NEXT MILESTONE WOULD BE IN 2025, WE WA TO SEE IT BE A 75% REDUCTION.  ALSO, MOST, I THINK, RELEVANT TO THE DISCUSSION HERE TODAY IS THE FOSSIL GAS.  WE HAVE A CREATED A LONGER PATHWAY FOR DECARBONIZING ON FOSSIL GAS.  WE NEED TO SIZABLE REDUCTIONS.  PARTICULARLY WHEN YOU LOOK AT 2035.  WE NEED TO SEE 8 REDUCTION.  SO THE NEXT DECADE OR SO, WE'LL NEEDO SEE RAPID DECARBONZATION TO MEET OUR GOALS.  UNFORTUNATEIB, WE HAVE IN 2023, A 1% REDUCTION IN GAS, WHICH UNDERSCORES THE IMPORTANCE OF US PROVIDING A LOT OF EFFORT AND RESOURCES AND, I THINK CONVERSATION TO HOW WE CAN DECARBONIZE THE SECTOR OFUR EMISSIONS THAT COMES FROM GAS.  LOOKING BACK HISTORICALLY, WHEN THE CLEAN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP WAS FIRST CREATED, WE ACTUALLY, ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO, ELECTRICITY WAS A LARGER COMPONENT OF OUR EMISSIONS THAN NATURAL GAS WAS.  AND IF YOU GO BACK EVEN FURTHER TO THE BASELINE YEAR OF OUR CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN, EMISSIONS FROM ELECTRICITY WERE ABOUT TWO-THIRDS HIGHER THAN EMIIONS FROM GAS.  BUT DUE TO THE RAPID DECAONZATION OF THE ELECTRICITY, PARTICULARLY IN XCEL ENERGY'S NETWORK,HOSE EMISSIONS HAVE RAPIDLY GONE DOWN IN THE LAST FEW DECADES.  WE SES REMAINED RELATIVELY TA STABLE.  IF WE TAKE THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND PROJECT IT INTO THE FUTURE, WE CAN LOOK AT A FEW S SIMPLIFIED SCENARIOS FOR WHAT WE MAY SEE IN YEARS TO COME.  FIRST LKING AT ELECTRICITY, WE'LL SEE THE DECARBONZATION CONTINUE FOR THE ELECTRICITY.  ONE SCENARIO IS THE CITY IS 100% RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY GOAL BY 2030.  IT WOULD LEAD TO THE MOST RAPID DECARBONZATION.  OUTSIDE OF THAT XCEL ENERGY HAS MADE COMMITMENTS TO RAPIDLY DECARBONIZE AND THERE'S STATE LEGISLATION CREATING CARBON-FREE ELECTRICITY FOR ALL OF THE STATES, UTILITIES BY 20.  THEN WE FLIP TO LOOKING ON THE GAS SIDE.  AND, AGAIN, IF YOU TAKE A TREND LINE OUT TO E FUTURE, YOU CAN SEE IT CONTINUING TO INCREASE.  AS OF RIGHT NOW, THERE'S NO APPROVED SCENARIOSHAT -- LET'S SAY PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION APPROVED SCENARIOS THATOULD SHOW QUANTIFIED DECARBONZATION AND THE FOSSIL GAS SECTOR.  ALL THOUGH IT'S WORTH NOTING THAT RECENTLY CENTER POINT HAD ADOPTED AND APPROVED BY THE PUBLIC UTILITIESES COMMISSION THE NATURAL GAS INNOVATION ACT.  I THI YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT LATER ON.  IT STARTS TO CREATE MORE PROCESSES AND MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO DECARBONIZE THIS SECTOR.  WE TWO TO THE NEXT METRIC.  THIS IS FOR OUR MUNICIPAL OPERATION  THE CITY'S ENTERPRISE.  WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE NET ZO EMISSIONS BY 2040.  WE'VE HAD A 64% REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS SCE THE 2008 BASELINE.  VERY RAPID REDUCTION.  AND MUCH MORE RAPID THAN COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE.  ALMOST TWICE AS RAPID AS A COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE.  WE AIM IN THE NEXT 15 YEARS TO LAND THAT AT A COMPLETELY CARBON NEUTRAL EMISSIONS FOR THIS SECTOR.  AND DUE TO THE TRAJECTORY, THE RAPID DECARBONZATION OF THE SECTOR, WITH WE'RE LABELING, AT THIS TIME, THIS METRIC TO BE ON TRACK.  HERE  A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION THAT MAY BE HARD TO SEE BUT ILLUSTRATES HOW  HAVE GOT TON THAT LEVEL OF DECARBONZATION ENTERPRISE.  IT'S SHOWN IN BLUE HERE AS EMISSIONS FROM ELECTRICITY.  THOSE HAVE DECREASED QUITE DRAMATICALLY OVER THE LAST DECADE AND A HALF.  A LOT OF THAT IS ENERGY CONSERVATION, LED RETROFITS, AS WELL AS THE PROCURING MORE AND MORE OF OUR ELECTRICITY ALMOST ENTIRETY OF OUR ELECTRICITY FROM RENEWABLE RESOURCES.  SO THAT IS REALLY WHAT HAS DRIVEN THAT TO BE, AT THIS POINT, NEAR ZERO.  SHOWN HERE IN GREEN THAT IS OUR NATURAL GAS EMISSIONS.  AND THAT'S, OBVIOUSLY, A SECTOR WE NEED TO SPEND MORE TIME FOCUSING ON.  INTERNALLY AS A CITY, AS WELL.  YOU CAN SEE IT REMAINED RELATIVELY CONSTANT OVER THE LAST 15 YEARS.  I THINK WE NEED TO DEVOTE MORE RESOURCES TO TACKLING THAT PARTICULAR FUEL.  THE NEXT METRIC IS METRIC THREE.  THIS IS WHERE WE'RE ATTEMPTING TO GANNETT ZERO EMISSIONS IN THE RESIDENTIAL SECTOR.  THE COMMUNITY RESIDENTIAL SECTOR BY 2050.  IN THIS SECTOR WE'VE HAD A 32% REDUCTION.  SILAR TO MY PREVIOUS STATEMENTS.  WE ALSO VIEW THIS AS NOT ON TCK.  WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE TRAJECTORY, WE'LL SOON EXCEED THOSE TARGETS THAT ARE A FEW YEARS OUT IN THE FUTURE.  ZOOMING IN ON THE COMPONENTS OF THAT RESIDENTIAL EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS.  THAT SECTOR HAD A 51% REDUCTION IN ELECTRICITY EMISSIONS IN THE LAST DECADE AND A HALF. ND ABOUT A 17% REDUCTION IN FOSSIL GAS EMISSIONS.  AND THAT'S NOTE WORTHY.  AS YOU'LL SEE IN THE COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIA SECTOR, WE HAVE NOT SEEN A REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS FROM GAS.  BUT, OF COURSE, AS YOU SEE, WE HAVE A LOT MORE WORK TO DO IN THIS SECTOR, AS WELL.  PARTICULARLY, AND THIS IS A MAJOR FOCUS OF THE WORK HERE IN THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND AT THIS COMMITTEE, IN WEATHERIZING HOMES ACROSS THE CITY.  PIVOTING THEN TO THE COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL SECTOR, WE'VE HAD EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS OF 42% SINCE 2006.   WE DEEM IT NOT ON TRACK TO MEET THE FURE GOALS.  AND LOOKING WITHIN THE ACTUAL FUEL COMPONENTS, WE SEE THERE'S A 66% REDUCTION IN ELECTRICITY.  SOON THEY WANT IT TO BE 75%.  SO WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO THE NEXT GOAL.  HOWEVER, NOTE WORTHY IS THERE IS A 13% IREASE IN GAS USE IN THE SECTOR.  THIS HAS BEEN A TOPICHAT WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT.  THE CLEAN ENERGY BOARD MEETINGS AS WELL AS SOME OF OUR MEETINGS.  AND STAFF TIME TALKING WITH CENTER POINT AND CITY STAFF ON WHY ARE EMISSIONS GOING UP IN THE COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL SECTOR.  IT IS A VERY EXTENSIVE AND DETAILED CONVERSATION TO HAVE.  I KNOW WE HAD IT AT THE LAST 0 BOARD MEETING.  BUT IN REAL BRIEF, THERE ARE A FEW THINGS AT PLAY HERE.  ONE THERE'S SE ANNUAL VARIATIONS IN WEATHER THAT CAUSE CHANGES.  THAT PROBABLY HAS A MUTED IMPACT IN THE SECTOR.  IT DOES HAVE SOME IMPACT.  ALSO, WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF BUILDING.  THERE ARE NEWER BUT MORE BUILDINGS IN THE LAST 15 YEARS.  SO THAT INCREASES JUST OVERALL USE OF GA  BECAUSE NEW BUILDINGS THAT ARE GOING UP, THE COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL SECTOR, ARE BY AND LARGE, AND PROBABLY ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY STILL BEING HEATED TIMATELY FROM NATURAL GAS HEATING.  BUT ONE THINGS WE PARTICULARLY EXPLORED WAS THAT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA RECENTLY, ABOUT SEVEN YEARS AGO, WHEN I MEAN BY RECENT, BROUGHT ONLINE A COMBINED HEAT AND POWERPLANT.  THIS IS A POWERPLANT THAT THEY NOW BURN GAS AND GET TWO THINGS OUT OF IT.  THEY GET ELECTRICITY FOR THEIR CAMPUS OPERATIONS AND HEATING FOR THE BUILDINGS.  PREVIOUSLY, THEY JUST BURNED GAS TO CREATE HEAT FOR THE BUILDINGS.  THEY DIDN'T PRODUCE ELECTRICITY.  FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS, THEY WANTED TO PRODUCE THEIR OWN ELECTRICITY IN-HOUSE FOR SOME STABILITY AND RESEARCH APPLICATIONS.  SO THEY UNDERTOOK THIS VERY,ERY LARGE PROJECT.  BUT THE ULTIMATE IMPACT OF THAT IS THAT PROJECT HAS TAKEN AWAY EMISSIONS FROM THE ELECTRICITY SIDE.  BECAUSE NOW THEY ARE NOT -- THEY'RE BASICALLY GETTING ELECTRICITY FOR FREE FROM THIS COMBINED HEATING AND POWERPLANT.  THEY HA ADDED EMISSIONS TO THE GAS SIDE.  NOW THEY'RE BURNING MORE GAS FOR THIS OVERALL PROCESS.  EVEN THOUGH THAT PROCESS IS EFFICIENT.  THEY'RE BURNING MORE GAS.  SO THAT HAS A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT HERE ANYWHERE 8 TO 10% AND JULYULE -- ANNUALLY.  IT'S A MAJOR INCREASE.  IT'S SETHING WE'LL CONTINUE TO DISCUSS.  METRIC FIVE IS EXAMININGUR GOAL TO BE 100% RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY BY 2030.  AGAIN FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY.  WE ARE AT ABOUT 4 40 PERCENTAGE IN 2023. WE SEE THIS AS NOT ON TRACK.  YOU CAN SEE WE'RE OFF A TRAJECTORY THAT WOULD INDICATE WE WOULD BE ON TRACK.  THERE HAVE BEEN KIND OF FITS AND STARTS IN THE INCREASE IN RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY.  PARTICULARLY COMING FROMXCEL'S GRID OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.  WE DID SEE THAT PLATEAU.  I KNOW A LOT COME FROM THE TIMELINE OF, FOR INSNCE, CHOLE COAL PLANTS BEING RETIRED.  IT TENDS TO BE LARGE PROJECTS THAT HAPPEN THAT MAKE A CHANG HERE.  I DO WANT TO NOTE THAT WE'RE KEEPINGF RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY.  WE HAVE THE COMMUNITY WIDE GOAL FOR 2030.  BUT WHAT ACTUALLY DRIVES THE EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS TO GET US TO CARBON NEUTRALITY IS WHEN ELECTRICITY IS CARN FREE.  SO ALL THOUGH OUR RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY -- OUR ELECTRICITY IS ABOUT 40%.  IT IS ABOUT 64% CARBON FREE.  SO WE WOULD LIKELY HIT CARBON FREE BEFORE HITTING 100% RENEWABLE.  AND THAT WILL HELP US THEN MEET OUR ELECTRICITY DECARBONZATION GOALS.  AND THAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO NUMBERS IS BY AND LARGE AND ALMOST ENTIRELY NUCLEAR ENERGY.  THAT, ON ANY GIVEN YEAR, IS ABOUT 20 TO 25% OF XCEL ENERGY'S GENERATION MIX.  OUR NEXT METRIC IS EXAMINING RENEWABLE ELECTCITY FOR MUNICIPAL OPERATIONS.  WE ARE AT 97% IN 2023.  THIS IS VERY HARD TO GET AN EXACTLY 100%.  IS AN ACCOUNTING CHALLENGE, AS WE BRING ON NEW BUILDINGS AND DEMOLISH OLD BUILDINGS AND ENTER NEW LEASES AND EXIT OLD LEASES.  BEING AT 97% IS A SUBSTANTIALLY BEING AT 100% RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY.  AND WE HAVE LARGELY ACCOMPLISHED THIS BY RECENT LARGE PURCHASES IN XCEL'S GREEN TARIFF PROGRAM.  IT'S SUBSCRIBING TO A PARTICULAR BASKET OF ASSETS, WIND AND SOLAR, TO CREATE THE ELECTRICITY RESOURCES TO THE CITY.  AND YOU CAN SEE A BIG JUMP BETWEEN 2017 AND 2019.  THAT'S WN SOME OF THE BIG CONTRACTS CAME ONLINE BETWEEN US AND XCEL ENERGY.  AND THEN OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, WE HAVE BEEN FINE TUNING THAT AND ADDING IN MORE AND MORE BUILDINGS TO GET TO THE NEAR 1 IS00% THERE.  I SHOULD MENTION WE ARE, WHEN TECHNICALLY FEASIBLE AND ECONOMICALLY VIABLE, PUTTING SOLAR ON AS MANY OF OUR FACILITIES AT THE CITY AS POSSIBLE, TOO.  AND THEN, FINALLY, THE LAST METRIC IS LOOKING AT TRYING TO GET TO 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY.  BUT BY GETTING 40% FROM LOCAL RESOURCES OR PEOPLE'S OPTING INTO THESE RESOURCES ON THEIR BILLS.  THAT WOULD BE OPTING INTO PROGRAMS LIKE WIND SOURCE AND RENEWABLE CONNECT THAT MANY OF US AS RESIDENTS SUBSCRIBE TO.  WE'RE AT JUST 8% IN TERMS OF 40 PERCENT OF GOALS.  WE HAVE A LOT OF ROOM TO MAKE UP.  WHAT IS NOTABLE BETWEEN 2017 AND 2019, 2020, THERE WAS SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE.  THAT'S WHEN A LOT OF COMMUNITIES CAME ONLI.  SINCE THAT TIME, WE'VE SEEN A LOT FEWER COMMUNITIES COME ONLINE. M 2020 IS FOR, STILL, I'D SAY A MODEST AMOUNT OF NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS TOENEWABLE CONNECT.  AND A MODEST AMOUNT OF NEW HOME SOLAR INSTALLATIONS OR BUSINESS SOLAR INSTALLATIONS WITHIN THE CITY.  WE'LL ROUND OUT THE SUMMARYF THE ANNUAL REPORT BY TALKING ABOUT THE SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES THAT WE'RE UNDERTAKING TO TRY TO ACCOMPLISH THOSE GOALS THAT WERE OUTLINED IN THE METRICS.  THE ARE COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES THAT WE GENERALLY COMMIT TO AS PART OF MULTIYEAR WORK PLANS OF THE PARTNERSHIP.  WE HAD A 2022, 2023 WORK PLAN.  WE ACTUALLY THOUGHT WE SAW A LOT OF SUCCESS THERE.  AND WE ADDED ADDITIONAL YEAR TO THAT WORK PLAN.  THAT WAS ALSO IN RECOGNITION THAT IN 2024 WE WERE BRINGING ON NEW LEADERSHIP.  FROM I THINK ALL PARTIES, BUT PARTICULARLY FROM THE CITY, ON THE CLEAN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP BOARD.  WE WANTED THEM TO HAVE A STAKE.  AND ALSO RECOGNITION 2024 FEATURED A LOT OF SCALING UP AND ROLLING OUT OF THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE.  ANALL THOUGH THAT'S NOT WORK PLAN, WE HAVE RELIED ON SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES AND SUBSTANTIAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE UTILITIES IN ROLLING OUT THE PROGRAMS.  THERE'S THREE THEMES THAT ARE DEFID WITHIN THE PARTNERSHIP ACTIVITIES.  THESE ARE THE BUCKETS WE WORK IN.  WE WILL EACH BE TAKING ONE OF THESE BUCKETS TO GIVE SOME ANALYSIS OF WHAT WE WORKED ON.  BUT IN SHORT, THEME ONE IS THE CARBONZATION OF HOMES YA ENERGY EFFICIENCY.  THEME TWO IS ACCELERATING IN BOUNDARY SOLAR.  IN CITY SOLAR.  TOWARDS MEETING THE CITY'S GOAL.  30% DISTRIBUTED SOLAR WITHIN THE CITY.  AND THE THIRD THEME IS THEN IMPACTFUL REDUCTIS IN GAS USAGE, PARTICULARLY IN THE COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL SECTOR.  THEME ONE WAS LEAD BY US HERE AT THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS.  AND IN SHORT, IT CONTAINED TWO SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES.  ONE, TO HOME ELECTRIFICATION GUIDE AND ANOTHER TO CONTCT OUT WITH THE CONSULTANT TO COME UP WITH A PROGRAMMATIC CONCEPT AND ROAD MAP AND SCOPING FOR HOW WE WOULD DO COMPREHENSIVE HOME ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND ELECTRIFICATION WORK ACROSS THE THOUSANDS OF HOMES IN THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS.  ON THAT FIRST ACTIVI OF THE HOME ELECTRIFICATION GUIDE, WE LAUNCHED A WEBSITE IN EARLY 2023.  THIS WEBSITE IS MEANT FOR PARTICULARLY HOMEOWNERS THAT MAYBE LOOKING TO ELECTRIFY THEIR HOMES BUT NEED MORE ADDITNAL RESOURCES TO ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISH THAT.  IT'S ALSO NOTE WORT WE ACTUALLY SET OUT ON THE PROCESS OF CREATING THE WEBSITE BEFORE THE FEDERAL ADMINISTTION WAS TAKING MUCH ACTION.  SO WE BEGAN THIS PROCESS EVEN BEFORE THE INATION REDUCTION ACT CAME INTO EFFECT.  AND I SHOULD NOTE, ALSO, WE'RE PARTICULARLY HPY THAT WE HAVE RESOURCES LIKE THIS NOW RECOGNIZING THERUMP ADMINISTRATION COMING IN AND THAT WE MAYBE HAVE TO PROVIDE A LOT OF RESOURCES AGAIN IN WAYS WE DIDN'T HAVE TO THE LAST FEW YEARS.  THIS ACTUALLY BECAME A COLLABORATION BETWEEN US AT THE CITY, AS WELL AS EDEN PRAIRIEWHE ELECTRIFICATION SPACE FOR HOMES.  AND OUR CONTRACTOR FOR THE WORK WAS CEE.  AND XCEL ENERGY AND CENTER POINT ALSO PROVIDED A LOT OF GREAT CONTENT AND RESOURCES FOR THE WEB PAGE.  WE'RE TRYING TO USE THE WEB PAGE AS A VEHICLE FOR PEOPLE TO ENTER INTO AND THEN IT SENDS THEM TO THE APPROPRIATE RESOURCES LIKE FINANCIAL INCENTIVES AND REBATES AND UTILITIES OR OTHER HELP GUIDES.  WE'RE CREATING OUR OWN CONTENT, TOO.  WE'RE PARTICULARLY FOCUSED ON ELECTRIFICATION AND THAT IS AN AREA THAT WE HAVEVEN MORE CONTENT THAN THE UTILITIES, AT THIS POINT.  THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THE BANNER OF THE WEB PAGE LOOKS LIKE.  IT'S ELECTRIFY EVERYTHING MINNESOTA.OR  SOME OF THE RESULTS WE'VE SEEN IN ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF, HAVE DATA F, IS ABOUT 8300 WEBSITE VISITS.  WEEND OUT QUARTERLY NEWS LETTERS TO PEOPLE WHO UNIS SCRIBE.  THERE HAVE BEEN CONVERSATIONS HAD WITH ABOUT 190 RESIDENTS.  AND SEVEN DIFFERENT COMMUNITY-BASED EVENTS.  THINK THINGS LIKE OPEN STREETS.  SO WE HAVE FACE-TO-FACE CONRSATIONS WITH THE INDIVIDUALS AND WE FEEL LIKE A LOT OF CENTER FOR ENERGY ENVIRONMENT AND SOME OTHER YEARLONG FELLOWS TO DO THAT WORK FOR US.  WE'VE ALSO PROVIDED ONE-ON-ONE HOME ELECTRIFICATION SUPPORT FOR 17 HOUSEHOLDS.  SIMILAR TO A ENERGY SQUAD VISIT.  YOU CAN CALL UP AN ENERGY ADVIS ADVISOR TO TALK THROUGH THE RESULTS.  THE CITY MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR A HOMEOWNER TO CALL C AND TALK THROUGH ELECTRIFICATION STRATEGIES.  THAT WOULD NOT OTHWISE BE COVERED UNDER HOME ENERGY SQUAD.  WE HAVE ADDED THAT ADDITIONAL SERVE.  THIS IS GEARED TOWARD FIRST ADOPTERS.  IT'S NOT WE SPREAD, AT THIS POINT.  WE NEEDS FIRST ADOPTERS TO DO GET THE BALL ROLLING.  AS I MENTIONED, WE PARTNERED WITH SOME OF THE SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES.  TO LAUNCH THE WEBSITE, BUT WE ALSO LAUNCHED A HEAT PUMP WATER HEATER INSTALLER NETWORK.  TO PROVIDERAINING TO HVAC CONTRACTORS WHO MAYBE WEREN'T AS EXPERIENCED IN INSTALLING HEAT PUMP WATER HEATERS.  MORE EXPERIENCED IN INSTALLING GAS.  WE HELP PROVIDE TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION.  WE'RE HOPING TO SEND BUSINESS TO THEM.  THEY'RE SEEN AS A TRUSTED CONTRACTOR WHO HAS SOME LEVEL OF EDUCATION IN THE SPACE.  HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THE TRAININGS THAT CEE PUT ON.  JUST ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALFGO.  THERE WAS A REPORT THATAS BEEN, I THINK, SOMEWHAT WIDELY TALKED ABOUT PARTICULARLY WITHIN THE CLIMATE CIRCLESERE.  IT WAS A REPORT THAT WE CONTRACTED WITH THE CEE TO CREATE.  AND INVOLVED BOTH CITY STAFF AS WELL AS COMMUNITY GROUPS.  AND COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS.  AMONGST THOSE STAKEHOLDERS, IN ADDITION TO ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS, WE ALSO HAD THE UTILITIES PROVIDING SOME OTHER EXPERTISE TO THE PROCESS. AND WE HAD NUMBER OF WORKSHOPS.  WE ENDED UP MODELING DIFFERENT SCENARIOS FOR HOME ELECTRIFICATION TO PROVIDE ULTIMATELY IN THE REPORT RESOURCES TO INDIVIDUALS THAT MAY WANT TO ELECTRIFY, AS WELL AS TO PROVIDE OVERALL VIEW OF THE MAGNITUDE OF THE OPPORTUNITY ACROSS THE CITY FOR ELECTRIFICATION.  SO THE REPORTO YEARS AGO NOW.  AND THERE WAS A FOLLOW UP WEBINAR THAT WAS WELL ATTENDED.  SOME OF THE THINGS THE REPORT DID, IT DID AN ANALYSIS OF THE CITY'S BUIING STOCK.  BY BUILDING STOCK, I MEAN ONE TO FOUR RESIDENTIAL UNIT HOMES.  SO, FOR INSTANCE, WE HAD FINDINGS LIKE -- NOT SURPRISINGLY, THE MAJORITY OF HOMES ARE HEATED WITH GAS HEATING.  SOME ARE MORE SURPRISING, THOUGH, WAS HOW PREVALENT ELECTRICALOOKING WAS.  WE THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD BE IN THE MAJORITY OF HOMES HAD GAS COOKING.  WE FOUND THE RESULTS THAT IS ACTUALLY MAJORITY HAD ELECTRICITY COOKING.  ITELPED GET AT BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE ENTIRETY OF HOMES OUT THE IN THE CITY.  IT ALSO THEN LOOKED AT OTHER ELEMENTS OF HOME CHARACTERISTICS, SUCH AS WEATHERIZATION.  SO THIS IS IN THE REPORT WE WERE ABLE TO ASRTAIN THAT 46% OF THE HOMES HAD INADEQUATE WALL INSTALLATION.  ICH IS A STRIKING NUMBER, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT.  EVERY OTHER HOME IN THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH WALL INSTALLION TO MEET CURRENT STANDARDS.  EVEN FURTHER, 56% OF HOMES IN THE CITY DON'T HAVE ADEQUATE ATTIC INSTALLATION.  THAT'S EVEN SOMETIMES EASIER THING TO ACCOMPLISH.  IT'S SOMETIMES MORE ASSESSABLE TO GET TO THE ATTIC THAN THE WALLS.  IT ILLUSTRATED THE MAGNITUDOF THE WORK WE NEED TO DO AND THE MAGNITUDE OF THE OPPORTUNITY, AS WELL.  WE EXAMINED DUAL FUEL SPACE HEATING.  IT'S A WAY TO HEAT THE HOME WITH THE EXISTG ARE CENTRAL AC SYSTEM.  FOR THREE MONTHS OF THE YEAR, SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, IF YOU ARE IN HEATING MODE WITH YOU CAN HEAT WITH THE HEAT PUMP.  IN THE COLDEST DAYS OF THE YEAR, IN THE WINTER, YOU CAN STILL RELY ON THE GAS FURNA TO PROVIDE HEATING DURING THAT TIME.  THIS IS NOT A VERY PREVALENT TECHNOLOGY.  THAT'S OUT THERE IN THE MARKETPLACE.  BUT THERE IS A LOT OF POTENTIAL FOR IT.  AND IT WAS ONE OF E KEY FINDINGS THAT ALLOWED US TO THEN START TO FINE TUNE SOME OF OUR OFFERINGS.  PARTICULARLY SOME OF OUR OFFERINGS IN THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE.  WE ALSO THEN FOU, AGAIN ON THE SAME TOPIC, AS WEATHERIZATION, THAT IF WE WERE TO JUST ELECTRIFY HOMES WITHOUT WEATHERIZING THE 508% OF HOMES THAT ARE INADEQUATE, THERE WOULD LIKELY BE AN INCREASE IN UTILITY COST FOR MOST HOMEOWNERS.  WHEN YOU INCLUDE WEATHERIZATION IN THE WORK, AND YOU ELECTRIFY, ON AVERAGE, THERE SHOULD BE NO INCREASE IN UTILITY COST.  IT'LL VARY HOME BY HOME.  BUT ELECTRIFICATION IS PIVOTAL TO MAKING -- WEATHERIZATION IS PIVOTAL TO MAKING ELECTRIFICATION COSTS EFFICIENT.  AND, FINALLY, GOING BACK TO THESE DUAL FUEL HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS, AND SOME OF OUR FINDINGS ILLUMINATED THAT THE GOOD CAN BE PERFECT IS ACTUALLY VERY, VERY GOOD.  SO WE FOUND THAT IN ALL ELECTRIC RETROFIT OF A HOME CAN LEAD TO SUBSTANTIAL NEARLY 100% ELIMINATION OF EMISSIONS FOR THE HOME.  BUT A DUAL-FUEL SYSTEM SET UP PROPERLY AND TUNED PROPERLY AND CONTROLLED PROPERLY, CAN LEAD TO A VERY SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS, AS WELL.  UPWDS OF ALMOST 90%.  SO THAT JUST AN EXAMPLE OF HOW, AS MUCH AS WE WOULD, IN MANY CASES, LIKE TO SEE FULL HOME ELECTRIFICATION.  WE HAVE MANY GOOD OPTIONS THAT GET US MOST OF THE WAY THERE.  AND THEN ALL OF THIS WORK LEAD INTO AND HELPED BUILD THE MOMENTUM FOR THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE.  SO AS YOU'RE ARE, OF COURSE, THAT LAUNCHED OVER A YEAR AGO NOW.  WITH AUT $10 MILLION OF ANNUAL FUNDING.  AND BASED ON THE RESEARCH THAT I JUST WENT OVER, THAT HELPED INFORM THAT WE NEED A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF THAT INVESTMENT TO GO TOWARD WEATHERIZATION.  AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN MINNEAPOLIS.  AND I WON'T GO INTO THE DETAILS THERE.  THERE ARE SO MANY GREAT DETAILS.  I KNOW PATRICK HANLON HAS MULTIPLE SOMETIME TIMES PRESENTED ON THE COMMITTEE TO THIS.  HE LAST PRESENTED ON NOVEMBER 21st.  THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT DETAILS IN THE PRESENTATION.  WITH THAT, I'LL HA IT OFF TO SOPHIA TO TALK ABOUT PHASE TWO. >> HELLO EVERYBODY.  I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT THEME TWO, WHICH IS EQUITABLY ACCELERATE IN-BOUNDARY SOLAR OF THE CITY'S GOAL O 30% OF DISTRIBUTED SOLAR.  THE THEME TO COLLABORATE UTILITIES, THE CITY, TO REMOVE BARRIERS AND TRY TO FIND SOME INNOVATIVE WAYS TO INCREASE THAT ADOPTION.  WE HAD THREE ACTIVITIES THAT WE WERE PLANNING ON.  LOOKING AT MUNICIPAL OPERATIONS.  AND SOME INNOVATIVE WAYS WE CAN INCREASE THAT ADOPTION IN THE MUNICIPAL SECTOR.  THE RESILIENT MINNEAPOLIS PROJECT, WHICH IS METHING THAT GOT FILED TOGETHER WITH THE UTILITIES, THE CITY, AND THE THREE MAIN NONPROFITS THAT WERE TO BE PARTICIPATING IN THIS.  AND, BASICALLY, THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO DEMONSTRATE TECHNICAL AND MARKET POTENTIAL OF THE M MICROGRIDS TO INCREASE RESILIENCY.  THIS WAS AFTER UNREST AND PANDEMIC SUES THAT WE DISCOVERED THAT THERE WAS SOME VULNERABILITIES IN COMMUNITIES THAT WE COULD HELP WITH THIS.  SO THAT WAS FILED, AT THAT POINT, WE WERE LOING TO EXPLORE MORE OF THAT THERE WAS AN IN BOUNDARY SOL TASK FORCE BETWEEN THE CITY, XCEL ENERGY, AND THE EVAC MEMBERS, WHICH IS THE ADDS VISE I ARE BOARD TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, OTHER WAYS THAT WE COULD HELP WITH THAT IN-BOUNDARY SOLAR.   I I THINKS MAMANY -- I MENTIONED REMOVING BARRIERS.  WE LOOKED ROOFTOP SOLAR WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS AND/OR COMMUNITY SOLAR GARDEN SUBSCRIPTIONS.  AND WHAT WE FOUND IS THERE WERE SOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR ON SITE SOLAR IN MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS BUT A LOT LOT OF BARRIERS.  THE BULK OF WHAT ENDED UP BEING IMPLEMENTED, AS LUKE MENTIONED, SUBSCRIPTIONS.  YOU KNOW, SO YOU CAN SEE THERE, REALLY, SUPPORTING THE SUBSCRIPTION SYSTEM AND TAKING ADVANTA OF THAT DECARBONZATION OF THE GRID TO SUPPORT THE DECARBONZATION OF MUNICIPAL OPERATIONS.  THE NEXT ONE THAT I TALKED ABOUT WAS THIS RESILIENT MINNEAPOLIS THAT WAS FILED TOGETHER WITH THE CITY.  AND THE NONPROFITS.  AND THAT WAS FILED AND THEN THERE WAS SOME STALLING BECAUSE THERE WAS SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED COST, IN PART, BECAUSE OF SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES AND INFLAON, ET. CETERA.  XCEL ENERGY WAS ABLE TO GET SOME GRID RESILIENCY AND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT MONEY THAT WE WERE ABLE TO APPLY TO SECURE MATCHING FEDERAL FUNDS TO REINSTATE THIS.  YOU'LL SEE THERE'S SOME PHOTOGRAPHS -- WHOOPS -- OF THE MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER, WHICH IS ONE OF THE RECIPIENTS.  AND OF THE FUNDING.  AND WILL BE RECEIVING SOME OF THE MICROGRID INSTALLATIONS, RENEWABLE ENERGY PARTNERS IS ALSO GOING TO BUILD, OWN, AND OPERATE IN NORTH MINNEAPOLIS A MICROGR WITH THE MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.  AND THERE'S ALSO ONE OF THEEWER THINGS IS THAT THIS FUNDING WITH THE REVISED FUNDING, IT'S GOING TO HELP SOME ADDITIONAL ACTITIES THAT WERE NOT ORIGINALLY BUDGETED IN THE ORIGINAL FING.  AND THOSE INCLUDE SOME COMMUNITY BENEFITS, CLEAN ENERGY CAREERS TRAINING, I BELIEVE, AT BOTH RENEWABLE ENERGY PARTNERSHIP INSTALLATIONS.  AS WELL AS SOME TECH ASSISTANCE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH UNIVERSITY OF SAINT THOMAS CENTER FOR MICROGRID RESEARCH.  IN TERMS OF THE IN-BOUNDARY TASK FORCE.  THERE ARE THREE MEETINGS THAT TOOK PLACE EARLY ON.  LOOKING AT HOW COULD WE ACCELERATE THE ADOPTION OF IN-BOUNDARYOLAR WITHIN MINNEAPOLIS.  AND WE, WE AS THE COLLECTIVE, WE EXPLORED BARRIERS TO ADOPTION.  SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CITY THAT MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT HARDER FOR ADOPTING IN-BOUNDA SOLAR.  SHARED PROGRAMS THAT WERE AVAILABLE.  ANDEARNED MORE ABOUT SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT PEOPLE WERE FACING IN TRYG TO CONNECT TO THE SYSTEM.  AND THERE WERE SOME SOLUTIONS EXPLORED TO TRY TO ACCELERATE THAT SOLAR DEVELOPMENT.  AT THIS POINT, THE LATEST THAT WE HAVE DISCUSSED WAS TRYING TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROMOTE SOME OF THE EXISTING PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE FOR SOLAR.  INTERCONNECTION PROGRAMS, AS WELL AS OUR SUBSCRIPTION PROGRAMS.  SOME OF THE PROGRESS THAT HAS BEEN MADE, AS WELL AS SOME IMPROVEMENTS.  I MENTIONED THE INTERCONNECTION.  I KNOW TH THERE WERE, BACK THEN, SOME ISSUES WITH DELAYS WITH INTERCONNECTION.  THAT WAS SOMETHING WE HEARD FROMCOMMUNITE PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS TO HELP BETTER EXPLAIN AND PROVIDE BETTER INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROCESS FO BOTH CONTRACTORS AND INDIVIDUALS LOOKING TO INTERCONNECT.  AS AN EXAMPLE, THERE'S A MAP WHERE PEOPLE CAN GO LOOK AT THEIR ADDRESS AND FIGURE OUT WHAT THE CAPACITY IS IN T THEIR AREA.  AND THEN UMM, UMM I'VE LISD SOME OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WERE ORIGINALLY INCLUDED.  WHEN THOSE MEETINGS TOOK PLACE.  RENEWABLE CONNECT FLEX, WHICH HAS BEEN TALKED ABOUT, ONE OF THE NEWER PROGRAMS THAT HAS BEEN ADDED IS THE BATTERY STORAGE INCENTIVE PROGRAM.  WHICH PROVIDES SOME UPFRONT INCENTIVES FOR RESIDENTIAL AND BUSINESS CUSTOMERS WHO ARE EITHER ALREADY HAVE SOLAR OR CONSIDERING GETTING SOLAR.  AND THEN THEY COULD GET T BATTERY STORAGE.   OTHER THINGS THAT ARE AVAILABLE ARE THE IRA TAX CREDIT.  COMMUNY SOLAR HAS HAD SOME REFORMS TRYING TO MAKE THE SYSTEM MORE EITABLE.  AND THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM HAS GOTTEN SOME ADDITIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS AND INTERCONNECTION IMPROVEMENTS.  AND I'LL PASS IT ON TO KAT. >> THANK YOU.  SO THE THEME THREE, IF THERE WAS A THEME, IT WAS THREE, THREE, THREE.  YOU'LL HEAR IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.  THIS IS THE IMPACTFUL REDUCTION OF THE COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL NATURAL GAS USE.  IT'S A THREE-PRONGED APPROACH.  BASICALL SHORTER TERM, ENERGY EFFICIENCY, DECARBONZATION, AND LONGER TERM.  THROUGH THE INNOVATION ACT.  YOU'LL PROBABLY HEAR ME TALK ABOUT IT.  SO THE FIRST ONE THE NEW NORMAL CAMPAIGN ALSO HAS THREE PARTSO IT.  THIS WAS TRULY A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT.  I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK CITYSTAF, AND CENTER POINT MEMBERS.  WE HAVE BEEN MEETING BIWEEKLY FOR TWO YEARS, I BELIEVE.  THIS HAS SHOWN A TRUE COMMITMENT.  WE HAVE ITERATED, WE HAVE DEVELOPED, ITERATED, WE HAVE GONE TO THE BOARD, WE HAV TAKEN FEEDBACK.  I'VE REALLY, REALLY, REALLY BELIEVE THIS SHOWS THE BEST OF WHAT WHEN PEOPLE PUT THEIR HEADS TOGETHER, YOU CAN GET SOMETHING BETTER TN IF PEOPLE ARE SILOED.  HUGE THANKS.  WE DID ISE KNEW THAT THE PANDEMIC REALLY IMPACTED A LOT OF RESIDENTS AND COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES.  I DON'T USE BUSINESS IN QUOTES.  IT IMPACTED A LOT OF THEM.  IT'S A NEW NOAL THAT EMERGED FROM THAT.  WE STARTED THIS WE WERE IN THE DEPTHS OF THE PANDEMIC.  IT CONTINUED TO SHOW.  IT HELPS FOCUS ON INCREASING ENERGY EFFICIEN AND PROVIDING NEEDED SUPPORT.  ESPECIALLY AS SUPPLY CHAINS ARE STILL A LITTLE SRUPTED AND THINGS CONTINUE TO CHANGE.  WE HAVE BUILT ON THE CITY'S PREEXISTING BENCHMARKING PROGRAM.  SO PROPERTIES BENCHMARK D THE CITY WENT AHEAD AND SAID ANY BENCHMARK PROPERTIES IN THE LOWEST CORP. TELL.  THOSE THAT NEED THE MOST HELP, WE'LL COVER THE COPAY FOR ENERGY AUDITS.  ON THE GAS AND ELECTRICITY SIDE.  AND HUGE THANKS TO FRANKLIN ENERGY AND FRONTIER ENERGY WHO ARE THE VENDORS WHO PROVIDED THAT.  THEY FAR EXCEEDED THE GOALS.  THEY WERE AMAZING!  SO THE FIRST STEP WAS THAT.  SECOND STEP, CENTER POINT CREATED A BUILDING CONTROLS TUNE UP, ESSENTIALLY.  IF A PROPERTY HAD A FEW SEPARATE THINGS AND COULD BENEFIT, WE CREATED ALMOST A LIGHT WHAT Y CALL A RECOMMISSIONING.  TAKING A LOOK AND DIGGING INTO THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND SING WHAT CAN BE CHANGED.  AND THEN THE THIRD STEP, TRIPLE REBATES.  EVEN MORE MONEY.  IF AN ORGANIZATION, SAY A FAITH COMMUNITY, DOESN'T HAVE A BUILDING ITEMZATION SYSTEM OR RUDIMENTARY, THEY GO STRAIGHT TO THE REVAMP AND WORK WITH TRYING TO INCREASE.  ESPECIALLY THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT NEED TO WORK WITH COUNCILS.  SO WE HAVE FOUND THAT IT'S BEEN HELPFUL.  AND I SAY REALLY FOUND, BECAUSE THE PATHWAY AND, BASICALLY, AS OF DECEMBER 31st, THEY HAD TO START THE PATHWAY WITH ONE EXCEPTION.  AND THAT IS THE MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS.  WE'REEALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS!  EARLY ON, MPS SHOWED A LOT OF INTEREST AND HUGE THANKS TO THE CITY.  WHO SAID, OKAY, CAN SET ASIDE FUNDING OVER THE COURSE OF THREE YEARS.  BECAUSE MORE THAN 60 BUILDINGS.  THERE'S NO WAY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT,HERE'S NO WAY THE VENDORS COULD DO ALL OF THOSE ENERGY AUDITS IN THAT RST YEAR.  SO INSTEAD, WE'RE TAKING THE APPROACH 2 2020 AND 20, APPROXIMATELY.  WE HAVE ALREADY,N YEAR TWO, WE HAVE ALREADY ADJUSTED HOW WE'RE DOING THINGS.  WE'RE STREAM  STREAMLINING.  THE VENDORS WHO DOES THE BUILDING CONTROLS TUNEUP ARE WORKING ON ALL OF IT.  GAS AND ELECTRIC AT THE SAME TIME THAT THEY'RE WORKING ON THE SECOND BUILDING AUTOMATION STEP.  I THINK EARLY ON, THE FACILITIES MANAGER WITH MPS, WHEN WE WERE MEETING, PUT IT BEST WHEN HE SAID THAT EVERY NICKEL HE SAVES IS A KNICK THAT NICKEL THAT GOES DIRECTLY INTO THE CLASSROOM.  WE'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT CONSCIOUSLY IN TERMS OF BOTH DOLLARS, BUT ALSO STAFF TIME, AS WELL.  SO WE HAVE DONE 43 BUILNGS.  WE WILL DO ANOTHER ROUND NEXT YEAR.  THERE'S A GIANT, WHAT THEY CALL OPPORTUNITY REGISTER, THAT IS BEING CREATED.  IT' A REALLY TURNED INTO A HOLISTIC APPROACH TONERGY SAVINGS.  SO WE WILL SEE THE SAVINGS COME IN FROM THIS IN GREENHOUSE REDUCTIONS OVER THE COURSE OF YEARS.  WHICH IS WONDERFUL!  AND I'M INTERESTED, I THINK THIS SCHOOL DIRICT SAID THEY HAVE ABOUT A 10-YEAR PLAN FOR FACILITIES.  THEY HAVE TOLD US THIS HAS HELPED SPEED UP THEIR PLAN.  DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH YET.  I THINK WE WILL CONTINUE TO REPORT ON THIS.  A LEARN MORE AS IT GOES ALONG.  SO WE HAVE LEARNED A LOT!  LESSONS LEARNED.  I WILL NOT BORE YOU WITH ALLF THEM.  I THINK THIS, WHEN I STARTED TO OK, THIS WAS FOUR SLIDES AND I DECIDED THAT WOULD BE DICULOUS.  SO WHAT WE FOUND IS THAT CUSTOMERS IN THAT LOWEST, THOSE WITH THE LOWEST ENERGY SCORES, NEEDED A LOT OF HELP.  ISN'T JUST ENERGY THEY'RE HAVINE TRYING TO FIGUREUT HOW TO PRIORITIZE.  THEY MAY BE GOING THROUGH FINANCIAL ISSUES.  AND ONE THING THAT WE FOUND IS WITH ONE CUSTOMER WHO HAS COMPLETED THE PATHWAY, IT TOOK 14 TOUCH POINTS FOR THEM TO EVEN BEGIN THAT FIRST AUDIT.  SO WE'LL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH ALL OF THEM.  AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE BENCHMARKING TEAM MEETING ON A REGULAR BASIS.  THE BUILDING CONTROL TUNEUPS ARE HIGHLY SPECIFIC.  I THINK THE TERM UNICORN IS A LITTLE OVERUSED BUT THEY SEEM TO BE UNICORNS.  AND IFE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE THIS, THAT IS A BIT OF A CHALLENGE.  SO WE'RE LOOKI AT HOW THAT CAN BE SIM FIED AND ADJUSTED TO MAKE IT ITERATEBLE.  SHOCKINGLY, CUSTOMERS ARE MOTIVATED BY A LIMITED TIME OFFER.  NOT A HUGE SURPRISE.  BUT THE END OF LAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR, CUSTOMERS WERE SUDDENLY JUMPING ON GETTING THE ENERGY AUDIT.  SO A FEW OF THEM ENTERED THAT FUNNEL RIGHT AT THE END.  WHEN WE FIRST STARTED THIS, I DID THE WHOLE BUSINESSES IN QUOTES.  WE WE PICTURING OFFICE BUILDINGS.  LIKE WHEN WE WOULD MEET, WE WOULDFTEN TALK ABOUT THAT.  BUT WHAT WE FOUND IS THAT THIS CUT ACROSS ALL SECTORS, THERE WERE INTERESTS FROM FAITH COMMUNITIES, HIGHER EDUCATION, SCHOOLS OUTSIDE OF MPS, HOSPITALITY, MUSEUMS.  I THINK EVERY SINGLE SECTOR HAD AT LEAST ONE PROPERTY INTERESTED.  THAT TOLD US A LOT.  IT TD US MAYBE IT WASN'T JUST THE PANDEMIC THAT WAS IMPACTING.  AND MAYBE THERE WAS MORE INTEREST, EVEN IN LEARNING ABOUT ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND SIMPLIFYING.  AND THEN SETTING THEMSELVES UP FOR DECARBONIZING.  AS THINGS MOVE ALONG.  OH.  AND THEN THEY TOLD US TO STREAMLINE THE PROCESS.  AND WE LISTED!  WE ARE TESTING SOME THINGS WITH MPS AND A COUPLE 77 OTHER CUSTOMERS.  AND I THINK -- I'M GOING TO GUESS THAT CUSTOME WOULD ALWAYS ASK US STREAMLINE THE PROCESS.  WE CAN PROBABLY ALWAYS IMPROVE ON THAT. SO ... ONE THING TO NOTE IS THAT THERE WERE SOME PROPERTIES THAT WEREN'T ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PART OF IT.  THOSE OFFICE BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN ON THE DISTRICT DOWNTOWN ARE NOT CENTER POINT CUSTOMERS.  ALL RIGHT.  SO THE RESULTS.  THEY'RE ALREADY OUTDATED.  I KNOW, CHAIRCASHMANU SAW BEFORE.  THEY'RE AS OF NOVEER.  THE UPDATED RESULTS, WHICH WILL ULTIMATELY BE VERIFIED IN THE STATUS REPORT, WE HAVE PAID OUT I '24, WE PAID -- OR BY THE END OF '24 MORE THAN $450,000 REBATES.  I THINK ANALYSIS HAVE BEEN DONE ON MORE THAN 160 PROPERTIES.  WE KNOW THERE WERE A LOT OF ELECTRIC SAVINGS BEING DON DONE.  WE HAVEN'T CAPTURED THOSE.  WE CAN SHARE THAT.  WE KNOW AS THE PROPERTIES WERE IMPLEMENTING THESE BUILDING CONTROL TUNEUPS, THEY WERE TUNING UP THE GAS SIDE AND THE ELECTRIC SIDE.  AND THAT WAS SOMETHING WE HEARD THAT WAS IMPORTANT FOR CITY STAFF.  AND THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS IMPORTANT FROM OUR XCEL ENERGY PARTNER.  WE MADE SURE THAT WAS SOMETHING INCLUDED WHEN WE ARE SETTING UP THE CONTRACT WITH THE VENDOR.  WE DID SOME ON THE SPO FREE INSTALLATIONS OF THINGS LIKE SHOWER HEADS.  WHICH DOESN'T SEEM LIKE MUCH, BUT IF YOU WERE A GIANT HOTEL AND REPLACING ALL OF THE SHOWER HEADS AND YOU GET THEM FOR FREE AND THEY'RE ENERGY EFFICIENCY, BOY!  THOSE CUSTOMERS REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR THEM.  SO WE'LL CONTINUE TO SHOW RESULTS OVER THE NEXT, CERTAINLY OVER THE NEXT YEAR WE HAD TWO OTHER PRONGS.  THE SECOND ONE WAS THE HOLISTIC APPROACH.  I HAVE TO READ IT OFF.  IT'SONGER.  THE HOLISTIC APPROACH WITH THE LARGE MINNEAPOLIS C & I CUSTOMER ON AN INTENSIVE MULTIYEAR EFFORT IN ENGY MANAGEMENT AND WORKING WITH THEM TO HELP IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVING THEIR BUSINESS PRACTICES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CORPORATE ESG GOALS.  SO THE CUSTOMER THAT WE ENDED UP WORKING WITH WAS ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL.  THEY'RE UNDERGOING THE CAMPUS REVITALIZATION PROJECT.  LUK REFERENCED THE COMBINED HEAT AND POWERPLANT THAT THE UNIVERSITY HAD PUT IN A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO.  ONE OF THE ITEMS -- THIS SORT OF PRETTY RENDERING, THE BUILDING DOWN, 2024, THIS SUMMER ABBOTT PUT IN A NEW, THEY CALL IT THE CENTRAL UTILITY PLA.  IT STARTED FUNCTIONING.  AND THAT IS PROVIDING HEATING AND COOLING AND POWER AND WATER FOR THEIR ENTIRE CAMPUS.  REPLACING SOME 950s-ERA EQUIPMENT.  IT'S PORED BY NATURAL GAS.  IT PROVIDES ELECTRICITY.  AND USES SOME OF THE WASTE HEAT TO OFFSET THEIR HEATING LOAD.  THEY HAV TALKED ABOUT THIS.  THEY HAVE A GREAT PRESENTATION, ACTUALLY, I JUST FOUND ON THEIR WEBSITE.  I HADN'T SEEN WHEN I WAS LOOKING BACK A A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO.  WHEN I WAS UPDATING OUR PRESENTATION FOR THE PARTNERSHIP BOARD.  THERE WERE NICE PRESENTATIONS ON THEIR SITE TALKING ABOUT HOW THE SEE THIS WHOLE PROJECT GOING.  AND SOME OF THE ENERGY IMPROVEMENTS.  ONE OF THE THINGS THEY HAVE REFERENCED MULTIPLE PLACES IS THAT THIS STEAM CREATED BY THIS WILL CREATE A SMALL DISTRICT SYSTEM.  IT'LL HEAT THE BUILDINGS NOT ONLY FOR THE ABBOTT CAMPUS, BUT ALSO FOR CHILDREN'S, MINNESOTA MINNEAPOLIS, AND THEN SOME OF THE OTHER NEIGHBORS.  SO THEY ARE ESPECIALLY PROUD OF THAT.  AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVEN'T REAL TALKED TOO MUCH ABOUT THEM WITH.  BUT SINCE THEY SEEM TO REALLY FEEL PROUD ABOUT IT, I WANT TO FIVE THEM A SHOUT OUT ABOUT THINKIN HOLISTICALLY ON THAT.  AND THEN THERE WOULD BE MORE.  THEY'RE DOING THAT LEAD CERTIFIED TOWER, AS WELL.  AMONG OTHER THINGS.  SO WE'LL HAVE MORE IN THE FUTURE!  AND THE THIRD PRONG IS REALLY LOOKING AHEAD.  HENNEPIN COUNTY ENERGY CENTER, WHICH IS JUST BY U.S. BANK STADIUM, IS LOOKING AT TE CARBO CARBON -- DECARBONIZING THEIR DISTRICT SYSTEM.  THEY PUT FORTH A REPORT.  WE WORKED WITH THEM ON IT.  WE HELPED TO PROVIDE FUNDING.  LOOKING AT DEVELOPING, CONSIDERING, EVALUATING OPPORTUNITIES TO DECARBONIZE THAT SYSTEM.  ONE THING THAT MAKES THAT SYSTEM A LITTLE TRICKY?  AS THEY HAVE SAID, IS THAT OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE FOR THEM IS THE REDUNDANCY TO PROTECT THEIRRAUMA I HOSPITAL.  WHICH IS SERVED BY THE SYSTEM.  AND SO THEIR SITUATION IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN, SAY, SOME OTHER SYSTEMS.  SO THEY'RE EXTRA COGNIZANT OF THAT.  WE HAD MULTIPLE MEETINGS.  HENNEPIN COUNTY, THE CITY, AND CENTER POINT, AND THEN SOMETIMES THEIR VENDOR WOULD JOIN US QUARTERLY THROUGH THE PROCESS.  THIS REPORT, I THINK, CAME OUT OF THE END OF 23, BEGINNING OF 2024, AND CENTER POINT HELPED FUND THIS.  WE ARE CONTINUING TO MEET WITH THEM.  THEY ARE LOOKING AT OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR THE NATURAL GAS INNOVATION ACT.  AND SOME VARIOUS DECARBONZATION OPPORTUNITIES.  SO WOULD BE MORE.  THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF WHAT THEY'RE TOUNGE.  TH -- DOING.  THEY'VE BEEN THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THIS.  SO I THINK THAT ENDS THAT.  I THINK WE'LL STAND FOR QUESTIONS. >> YEAH.  THANK YOU.  THA YOU, COMMITTEE MEMBERS.  HAPPY TO STAND FOR QUESTIONS.  AFTER ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, WE WOULD LIKE TO TURN IT OVER TO PATTY O'KEEFE TO PROVIDE HER IMPRESSIONS ON THE ANNUAL REPORT, AS WELL. >> WELL THANK YOU SO MH FOR THE PRESENTATION.  AND I WANT TO CONGRATULATE AL ON HIS RETIREMENT AND, ALSO YOU KNOW, WELCOME KAT INTO HER NEW ROL  ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR AL AND YOUR PARNT PARTICIPATION  THE CLEAN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP. LEFTPLLS AND YOUR WORK FOR MULTIPLE DECADES.  WELCOME, KAT. I HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CLEAN ENERGY PARTNERIP WEBSITE CONVERSATION THAT WE'VE BEEN HAVING.  SO COULD YOU PROVIDE AN UPDATE FOR THE COMMITTEE ON WHEN WE COULD EXPECT THE CLEAN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP MATERIALS TO BE INTEGRATED INTO LIMS, WHICH I THINK IS HOW WE'RE GOING TO BE MOVING FORWARD.  >>  WE HEARD THAT LIMS MAY NOT BE THE BEST TOOL. >> I SEE. >> THAT BEING SAID, I THINK NOW WE'RE PAST THE PRESENTATION, I KNOW I THINK NUMBER ONE IN OUR LIST IS GET THE WEBSITE UP AND RUNNING.  WE DO HAVE A VERY REASONABLE THIRD PARTY VENDOR THAT, I BELIEVE, LOOKS REALLY PROMISING.  SO BUT DISCUSSING AMONGST EACH OTHER HER ON THE STAGE, I THINK THAT'S OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY.  NOW THAT THE PRESENTATION IS OVER.  AND I THINK THE BEST OPPORTUNITY, AT THIS POINT, LIKELY THE THIRD PARTY VENDOR. >> THANK YOU.  AND JUST FOR THE PUBLIC TO KNOW, THE 2023 REPORT YOU'RE PRESENTING ON NOW IS ON LIMS FOR THEIR REVIEW.  A THE PREVIOUS REPORTS FROM THE LAST FEW YEARS CAN BE MADE AVAILABLE UP REQUEST. >> YES.  AND, CHAIR, THE CLERK'S OFFICE, IF WE'RE ABL TO ADD ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS STILL TO THE SELECT FILE, WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO ADD THOSE PREVIOUS REPORTS. >> OKAY.  LET'S DO THAT. >> YES. >> YEAH.  THANK YOU, ♪MADAM CHAIR.  GOOD TO HEAR THE UPDATE ON THIRD-PARTY VENDOR TO GET JUST SOME TRANSPARENCY AND A WEBSITE FOR THE PUBLIC TO GO TO.  PRESENTLY IT LOOKS LIKE JUST THROUGH MY SCOURING OF LIMS WE HAVE ANNUAL REPORTS FROM 2019 AND THEN A GAP AND THEN 2023.  SO IF THE -- IF WE COULD BE EXCEED I  EXPEDIENT ABOUT THE OTHER ANNUAL FILES.  ESPECIALLY BEFORE WE GET INTO THE CONVERSATIONS.  IT WOULD BE -- AROUND THE FRANCHISE AGREEMENT.  SO BEFORE THE END OF THIS WEEK, JUST HAVING THOSE UP WOULD BE USEFUL.  BECAUSE I WAS TRYING TO JUST GO LOOK BAC AND KIND OF COMPARE AND CONTRAST BETWEEN ANNUAL REPORTS. >>  THANK YOU.  AND THEN I HAD ANOTHER QUESTION, WHICH WAS ABOUT THE BARRIERS PUTTING SOLAR ON MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS YOU ENCOUNTERED.  WHAT WERE SOME OF THE BARRIERS? >>  AND, AH, THANK YOU, CHAIR.  I'LL HAVE TO GO A LITTLE BIT OFF OF MEMORY AND OUR CITY ENERGY MANAGER IS NOT HERE TODAY. >> THAT'S FINE. >> SO I WON'T BE ABLE TO SPEAK TOO MUCH ABOUT IT.  BUT, IN GENERAL, WHAT I'M AWARE OF, WE TRIED A NOVEL TACTIC, WE TRIED TO PUT OUT AN RFP TO PUT A LARGE AMOUNT OF SOLAR OVER A LARGE NUMBER OF BUILDINGS.  AND THEN WE AWARDED THAT CONTRACT BASED ON A FIXED PRICE PER KILOWATT.  AFTER THAT CONTRACT WAS AWARDED, IT WAS A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO NOW, I BELIEVE THREE YEARS AGO NOW.  WHEN THE CONTRACTOR THAT WE SELECTED WENT INTO OUR FACILITIES, THEY FOUND THAT THERE WERE A LOT OF DEFICIENCIES THAT WOULD NOT ALLOW THOSE TO BE GOOD SITES FOR SOLAR OR EXPENSIVE TO PUT ON.  FOR INSTANCE, THE STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS THE ROOF WOULD NOT HANDLE THE A ADDITIONAL LOAD OF SOLAR PANELS.  SO OUR LIST OF PROJECTS, POTENTIAL PROJECTS, BECAME A LOT SMALLER.  HE AND BECBECAUSE IT WAS SMALLER, THE CONTRACTOR WASN'T ABLE TO MEET TO SCALE THE EXPECTED COST.  IT WOULD HAVE REQUIRED TO GO THROUGH THE WITH THE PROJECTS AND A LOT OF ADDITIONAL INVESTMENT FROMHE CITY JUST TO, FOR INSTANCE, BEEF UP THE STRUCTURES.  SO WHAT WE PIVOTED AWAY FROM THAT APPROACH.  AND NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT SITE-BY-SITE APPROACHES.  AND I KNOW CHRIS IS PARTICULARLY INTERESTED AND HAS BEEN WORKING WITH HIS CNTER PARTS AT XCEL ENERGY ON THE WATER PLANT SITE.  THERE'S A LOT OF LAND THERE AND UNDERUTILIZED LAND FROM A SOLAR PERSPECTIVE.  BY FOCUSING O INDIVIDUAL SITES, AS OPPOSED TO KIND OF SWINGING FOR A HOME RUN.  I BELIEVE WE FEEL THAT WE WOULD MAKE ADDITIONAL PROGRESS. AND AS WE BRING MORE SOLAR ONLINE ON OUR CITY FACILITIES, OUR CONTRACTS , IN THE FUTURE, WITH XCEL ENERGY FOR RENEWABLE CONNECT DO, AT SOME POINT EXPIRE.  OUR HOPE TO BRING ON MORE SOLAR.  AT THE SAME TIME, BE ABLE TO TAMPER OFF THE CONTRACTS.  THERE ARE MANY BUILDINGS IN THE CITY THAT WOULD NOT BE GOOD SITES FOR SOLAR. >> UH-HUH.  OKAY.  THANKS FOR THAT INFORMATION.  AND THEN I KNOW I THINK SOPHIA, YOU WERE SAYING THAT WE DID SUBSCRIPTIONS INSTEAD OF SOLAR.  WOULD THOSE BE FOR IN-BOUNDARY SOLAR OR SUBSIPTIONS TO SOLAR THAT IS COMING FROM OUTSIDE OF THE CITY? >>  YEAH.  SOLAR OUTSIDE OF THE CITY. >> OKAY. >>  I THINK IT HAS TO BE ADJACENT. >> OKAY.  THANKS.  THOSE ARE THE QUESTIONS I HAVE FOR NOW.  AND, OF COURSE,HIS PRESENTATION IS REALLY HELPFUL.  AS WE'RE QUEUING UP CONVEATIONS ABOUT THE FRANCHISE AGREEMENTS IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS.  IS I'M SURE MORE THINGS WILL COME UP IN THE NEXT FEW CYCLES AS WE G INTO THE DETAILS.  ANY OTHER QUESTIONS BEFORE WE MOVE ON?  COUNCILMEMBER? >>  YEAH, THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.  YOU TOUCHED ON A LITTLE BIT OF THE DIFFERENCE, I THINK 64% OR 43% ON RENEWABLE ENERGY THE DECARBONIZED ENERGY.  YOU TOUCHED A LITTLE BIT ON NLEAR.  COULD YOU SPEAK A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DETAIL TO THE THAT POINT THAT YOU MADE.  THAT ACCOUNTED FOR THE DIFFERENCE. >> YES.  ABSOLUTELY.  LET ME FIND THE SLIDE.  THERE WE GO.  SO THE OFFICIAL GOAL WE HAVE AT THE CITY IS TO BE 100% RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY BY 2030.  FOR COMMUNITY WIDE.  SO THIS METRIC, METRIC FIVE, WAS SPECIFICALLY TRACKING THAT.  RENEWABLE ARE EL ELECTRICITY AS A PERCENTAGE.  BUT THERE WILL BE -- THERE WILL COME A TIME WHEN WE ARE MAYBE 75% RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY.  WHERE WE MIGHT ALSO TN HAVE KNOW MISSIONS FROM ELECTRICITY.  AND THAT'S BECAUSE AN ADDITIONAL 25% OF ELECTRICITY ON THE GRID IS SUPPLIED BY XCEL ENERGY IS COMING FROM THE TWO NUCLEAR PRAY PLANTS.  P  PRAIRIE ISLAND AND MONTICEO PLANT.  I THINK ONE RECEIVED AN OPERATION EXTENSION THROUGH 2050.  WE'LL ZERO EMISSIONS FROM THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR PRIOR TO US ACTLLY HAVING 100% RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY. >> GOT IT.  THANK YOU.  THAT'S A HELPFUL CLARIFICATION.  UMM, JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO COUNCILMEMBER CASHMAN AND COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT FOR SITTING ON THE CLEAN ENERGY PANERSHIP.  AND ALL OF YOUR WORK ON IT.  AS NOT A MEMBER OF THE CLEAN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP, THIS ANNUAL REPORT JUST MATTERS A LOT TO ME.  JUST TO SEE HOW WE'RE DOING ON THE GOALS THAT WE'VE SET FORWARD.  I THINKTHEYS GOALS.  I THINK I'LL SAY A QUIET PART OUTLOUD.  WE WANT TO SEE MORE GREEN.  LIKE ON TRACK IN THE FUTURE.  AND THAT SHOULD BE ONE OF OUR GOALS IS MOVING INTO THE NEXT YEAR.  UMM, ONE THING THAT I NOTICED, AH, IS -- THERE SEEMS TO BE A BARRIER IN SIGNIFICANTLY MAKING THE REDUCTIONS AROUND FOSSIL AND GAS.  JUST, IN GENERAL.  AND THEN, ALSO, WE'RE DOING A GOOD JOB IN OUR MUNICIPAL OPERATIONS.  IT LOOKS LI LIKE FOSSIL AND GAS ARE PRETTY CONSISTENT FROM THE START.  I'M WONDERING FOR YOU CAN SAK TO SOME OF THE BARRIERS WE NEED TO OVERCOME TO SEE SOME OF THE REDUCTIONS, BOTH FOR US AS A CITY.  AND GENERALLY TO GET ON TRACK ON THE GOALS THAT WE HAVE,  AS A PARTNERSHIP. >> YES.  CHAIR, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO SPEAK TO MAYBE THE CITY-WIDE GAS.  AND ASK KAT TO SPEAK MORE OF THE BROADER PERSPECTIVE.  FOR THE CITY-WIDE EMISSIO -- AND I'LL BRING IT BACK UP HERE.  AS YOU STATED IN GREEN HERE.  GAS EMISSIONS REMAIN RELATIVELY CONSTANT OVER THE YEARS.  AND SPEAKING WITH OUR ENERGY MANAGER, CHRIS, THIS IS A TOPIC THAT HE'S EXCITED TO BEGIN FOCUSING ON.  THERE'S A PERIOD OF TIME, I'D SAY FROM THE LATE 2010S TO EARLY020s, WHERE THE MAJORITY OF THE ENERGY MANAGER'S TIME, IN ADDITION TO BEING, YOU KNOW, KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON AND KEEPING POWER RUNNING AND PAYING THE BILLS, WAS FOCUSED ON GETTING SOLAR ON AS MY CITY SITES AS POSSIBLE.  GIVEN LIMITED ROURCES, IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO SPEND THE TIME FOCUSING ON GAS REDUCTIONS NOW THAT WE HAVE REALLY ACHIEVED OUR CITY-WIDE -- OUR CITY ENTERPRISE RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY GOAL, AND ARE TAKING MORE OF A PROJECT-BY-PROJECT APPROACH TO ADDING SOLAR, HE'S EXCITED HE'S ABLE TO DEVOTE MORE TIME TO REDUCING EMISSIONS FROM THE CITY.  OUR ENTERPRISE AND OUR OPERATIONS.  ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WILL COME DOWN TO, IT'LL REQUIRE UP-FRONT INVESTMENTS IN, I THINK, BOTH WEATHERIZATION OF OUR FACILITIES BUT NEW TYPES OF EQUIPMENT.  TO THAT WILL BE ONE OF THE PRIRY BARRIERS THAT WILL NEED TO BE OVERCOME.  IS MAKING THAT INVESTMENT IN THE COMING YEARS.  AND, KAT, I'LL ASK YOU TO SPEAK TO ... >> YES.  I THINK CONTINUED PARTNERSHIP, WHICH IS ONE REASON I REALLY APPRECIATEHE CLEAN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP.  BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE CENTER POINT, BUT, ALSO, THEN CENTER POINT AND THE CUSTOMERS WILL MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE.  I BELIEVE WHEN PATRICK HANLON PRESENT ORDER THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE.  CENTER POINT HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THAT LARGE CUSTOMER I MINNEAPOLIS FOR, I THINK, 11 YEARS.  TRYING TO HELP THEM MAKE SOME OF THESE CHANGES.  AND IT REALLY WAS THAT CITY FUNDING THAT CAME THROUGH FROM THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE THAT PUSHES THAT OVER THE EDGE.  THOSE CONTINUED ITEMS, AND THINGS LIKE THE 160 CUSTOMERS ARE SEEING WITHIN THOSE ENERGY DITS THEY HAVE WITH THE GAS AND THE ELECTRIC SIDE.  THAT TEES THEM UP FOR THINGS LIKE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF GREEN COST SHARE DOLLARS WHEN THOSE CALLS COME OUT.  AND THEY CAN GO AHEAD AND SAY "OH, HEY, WE WANT TO IMPLEMENT THIS NOW." IN ADDITION, THEY'RE ALREADY POISED WELL TO START TAKING ADVANGE OF SOME DECARBONZATION THINGS.  THERE'S A LOT OF INTERESTING AND CHALLENGING THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO BE PILOTED IN THE INNOVATION PLAN.  LIKE WEA WEATHERIZING COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES, WHICH IS DIFFERENT THAN WEATHERIZING HOMES.  ANYWAY.  THERE ARE A NUMBER OF THINGS.  I WON'T GO INTO THEM.  THEY INCLUDE EVERYTHING FROM NETWORK GEOTHERMAL.  LARGE SCALE THINGS.  TO SMALLER.  AND SO WE'RE MAKING CONCERTED EFFORT.  AND, REALLY, FOCUSING ALL CUSTOMERS ARE IMPORTANT.  AND A LOT OF THEM HAVE BEEN USING ENERGY MORE EFFICIENCY -- EFFICIENTLY.  WE'LL MAKE SURE WE FOCUS ON THOSE HARDER ONES TO CUT DOWN THE ENERGY.  THOSE LARGER USERS SO -- YEAH.  WE LOOK FORWARD TO THIS.  THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION. >> THANK YOU.  COULD WE GO TO TH ONE SLIDE THAT LOOKS AT OUR -- THE EXHAUSTED CARBON BUDGET THAT WE HE.  YEAH.  I THINK I'LL CLOSE WITH THIS.  I THINK THIS IS -- THIS WASNE OF THE MORE JARRING SLIDES THAT I SAW TODAY.  UMM, THAT WE'RE JUST IN A TRAJECTORY OF EXHAUSTING OUR CARBON BUDGET BY 2034.  IT'S NOT TO BE NEGATIVE.  BUT JUST TO HIGHLIGHT THE URGENCY OF THIS MOMENT.  RIGHT.  I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT SOME OF THE GOALS YOU'VE PRESTED TODAY FOR THE NEXT YEAR THAT REDUCTION WE SAW FOR 2023 AND THEN THE FOLLOWING YEAR.  I'D LOVE TO SEE SOME OF THOSE ACCOMPLISHED.  AND I KNOW OUR RESIDENTS WOULD, TOO.  I'M INTERESTED IN SEEING WITH THE WORK THAT IS BEING IMPLEMENTED THROUGH THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE AND THE IMPACTS WE'LL SEE IN NEXT YEAR'S REPORT AND THE FOLLOWING.  BUT I THINK THI, THE SLIDE THAT TIES IT ALL TOGETHER.  AND WHY THE PARTNERSHIP EXISTS.  AND WHY THIS ANNUAL REPORT AND THE GOALS ITSELF MATTER.  WHEN I LOOK AT THE RERT, UMM, I SEE THAT WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS.  BUT WHEN YOU JUST START OFF ON THE SLIDE OF,IKE, ARE WE ON TRACK?  AND YOU SEE WE'RE ONLY ON TRACK FOR A COUPLE OUT OF MANY.  THAT'S OUR ACCOUNTABILITY METRIC.  AND IT JUST REALLY SHOWS, AGAIN, LIKE, THERE IS A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE.  AND THE URGENCY NEEDS TO BE THERE.  UMM, AND JUST TO COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND TO OUR CHAIR.  I KNOW WE HAVE A LOT OF THINGSITHIN OUR WORK PLAN, BUT THIS NEXT YEAR WOULD BE INTERESTED TO SEE HOW, AS A BODY, WE CAN BE FURTHER INVESTED AND JUST EVEN UNDERSTANDING HOW DO WE SHOW UP IN LEADERSHIP TO MEET THESE GOA THAT WE'RE SETTING OUT THROUGH THE PARTNERSHIP AND BE SUPPORTIVE OF YOU.  AND COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT.  AND YOUR ROLE AND CAPACITY IN LEADERSHIP ON THE CLN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP. >>  THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER.  I'LL JUST ADD TO THE GAS PART THAT YOU WEREALKING ABOUT.  IS THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S ONLY SO FAR EFFICIENCY C TAKE US.  AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE NEED A NEW PRODUCT.  WE NEED TO BE OFF GAS ENTIRELY.  AND SO IN ORDER TO HEAT BUILDINGS WITHOUT GAS, THAT MEANS WE NEED TO DEVELOPCLS WHY I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT THE AG GEOTHERMAL PILOTS AND MAKING SURE THAT THE CITY IS ABLE TO APPLY WHEN THAT PILOT WINDOW IS OPEN.  AND BE THE LEADER IN THE CITY IN DEVELOPING CLEAN HEAT IN OUR CITY.  UMM, SO I WOULD LOVE TO SEE US GET OFF GAS ENTIRELY!   MY LIFETIME.  AND, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO.  THAT'S KIND OF THE PART HERE.  IS THAT GAS IS NEVER GOING TO BE A CLEAN ENERGY SOURCE.  SO WITH THAT, I JUST REALLY THANK YOU FOR COMING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE TODAY AND SHARING SO MUCH GREAT INFORMATION WITH EVERYONE WHO WILL BE ON THE TOPIC OF THE FRANCHISE AGREEMENTS IN THE COMING CYCLES.  AND I GUESS WE CAN WELCOME UP PATTY O'KEEFE FROM THE ENERGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE.  >>  HEY, EVERYBODY.  UMM, AH, HELLO, COUNCILMEERS.  I AM GOING TO TRY TO KEEP THIS PRETTY SHORT.  UMM, SO, YEAH.  MY NAME IS PATTY O'KEEFE.  I'M I'M A CO-CHAIR WITH THE ENERGY VISION ADVISORY COMMITTEE.  I'M A MINNEAPOLIS RESIDENT.  TODAY I WANT TOROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF EVAC WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE PARTNERSHIP.  LIST SOME OF OUR KIND OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND WAY WE HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THIS CONVERSATION.  AND JUST SOME KIND OF HIGH-LEVEL REACTIONS AND FEEDBACK  THAT WE HAD ON THE ANNUAL REPORT.  SO THE CLEAN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP WAS ESTABLISHED AS KIND OF AN INVATIVE SOLUTION TO HELP MINNEAPOLIS ACHIEVE ITS AMBITIOUS CLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY GOALS.  I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE HOW IT STARTED.  IT WAS PROPOSED AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO MUNICIPALIZATION AS WAY TO KIND OF FOSTER COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE UTILITY PARTNERS.  AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE PARTNERSHIP IS LD OUT IN SEVERAL KEY DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING THE BYLAWS, WHICH DEFINE THE INTENT AND STRUCTURE OF THE PARTNERSHIP, AND THEN THE MOU, THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING, WHICH FORMALIZES THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE UTILITIES.  AND THIS IS JUST A PICTURE OF THE CAMPAIGN AND MUNICIPALIZATION MINNEAPOLIS ENERGY OPTIONS CAMPAIGN.  SO THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE CLEAN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP IS TO SUPPORT THE CITY OFINNEAPOLIS IN ACHIEVING THE CLEAN ENERGY AND CLIMATE GOALS.  GOVE  GOVERNANCE IS DEFINEED B MOU.  EXHIBIT A OF THE MOU FURTHER SPECIFIES THESE INITIATIVES.  AND ADDITIONALLY, THFRANCHISE AGREEMENTS PROVIDE THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE UTILITY OPERATIONS WITHIN THE CITY.  SO EVAC IS THE ENEY VISION ADVISORY COMMITTEE.  WE PLAY A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THIS PARTNERSHIP.  AS AN ADVISORY BODY WE ENSURE THAT THE COMMUNITY VOICE IS HEARD AND THAT THE PARTNERSHIPS ACTIVITIES ALIGN WITH THE MINNEAPOLIS' CLIMATE OBJECTIVES.  SO OUR WORK IS GUIDED BY THE MOU DIRECTED WORK PLAN, AND WE ENGAGE IN BOTH KIND OF LIKE INTERNAL COLLABORATION AND DISCUSSION AND THEN, ALSO, EXTERNAL COMMUNITY OUTREACH TO ENSURE THAT THERE IS BROABASED INPUT AND SUPPORT.  SO SOME OF THE KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF EVAC.  I'M PROBABLY MISSING SOME FROM WHEN I HAVEN'T BEEN ON EVAC THE ENTI TIME.  SO THE ONES I HAD IS JUST THAT WE PROVIDE COMMUNITY INPUT AND SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE ON WORK PLANS, NUAL REPORTS, PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVES, AND CITY AND UTILITY PROJECTS.  SO WE'VE JUST, LIKE, PROVIDED A LOT OF FEEDBACK ON MOST OF, LIKE, EVERYTHING.  MOST OF THE PARTNERSHIP ACTIVITIES.  UMM, WE ADVOCATED FOR THE INCREASED FRANCHISE FEES.  THE BACK FOR THE -- THE FIRST FRANCHISE FEE INCREASE.  THAT KIND OF IDEA AND PUSH, REALLY, CAME FROM EVAC.  TO FUND ME OF OUR EFFICIENCY AND CLEAN ENERGY PROGRAMS.  WE WERE SUPPORTIVE OF THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE AND PROVIDE THE INPUT ON THE PROPOSAL.  AND WE LAUNCHED A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PILOT TO ENHANCE ENERGY SAVINGS IN LOW-INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS.  AND THEN WE ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS WORK FORCE DEVELOPMENT STUDY THAT THE CITY DID.  ON CLEAN ENERGY JOBS.  SO SOME OF THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES.  I WOULD SAY FOR THE ANNUAL REPORT FEEDBACK, IT'S A LOT OF WHAT WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THAT THE PARTNERSHIP IS CURRENT I WILL NOT ON TRACK TO MEET MOST OF ITS GOALS.  AND WE HAVEN'T BEEN O TRACK.  IT'S NOT LIKE WE WERE ON TRACK AND THEN E NOT ON TRACK.  WE HAVEN'T BEEN ON TRACK.  AND WITH THE UMP ADMINISTRATION COMING IN, WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO SEE MORE EFFORT FROM CITIES, FROM ILITIES, AND SO THAT MEANS THAT WE NEED SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN REALIGNMENT AND HOW WE'RE EXECUTING OUR STRATEGIES AND MEASURING OUR PROGRESS.  SOMETHING BIG NEEDS TO CHANGE.  WE NEED TO GET ON TRACK.  I FEELS OBVIOUS BUT ... EVAC HAS SUBSTANTIAL CONCERNS ABOUT FOSSIL GAS EMISSIONS IN THE CITY, WHICH ARE UNDERMING OUR BROADER CLIMATE GOALS.  AND OBJECTIVES.  AND WE THINK THAT THESE NEED TO BE ADDRESSED WITH URGENCY.  WE KNOW THAT SOME WORK IS HAPPENING ON THIS.  CAN ACKNOWLEDGE THE NATURAL GAS INNOVATION ACT IS A PART OF THIS.  BUT THERE NEEDS TO BE BE MORE.  THERE A, YOU KNOW, CONSISTENTLY SERVICE LINE REPLACEMENTS AND MAINTENANCE THAT ARE PUTTING, LIKE, NEW INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE GROUND THAT HAS LIFESPANS, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY, PROBABLY LIKE 40 OR 50 YEARS SOMETHING LIKE THAT.  AND SO WE ND TO BE DOING THE PLANNING NOW TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO NOT CONTINUE TO LOCKS RELYING ON FOSSIL GAS INTO THE FUTURE.  AND WE, IN ADDITION TO THIS, HAVE SOME CONCERNS AROUND CENTER POINT'S LACKING KIND OF A GOAL THAT ALIGNS WITH THE EMISSION REDUCTION TARGETS.  AND THAT SLIDE THAT YOU POINTED OUT.  THATLSO FEELS LIKE THE MOST IMPORTANT SLIDE TO ME.  AND I THINK MANY PEOPLE ON EVAC.  AND SO THAT THE FACT THAT, LIKE,  I MEAN, WE NEED TO HAVE GOALS FOR ALL THE PARTNERS THAT ARE ALIGNED AND THAT ARE ALIGNED WITH THE CITY'S GOALS.  BECAUSE THAT THE POINT OF THE PARTNERSHIP.  IS TO SUPPORT THE CITY IN REDUCING EMISSIONS.  SO -- AND THEN WE HAVE CONCES WE'RE NOT ON TRACK TO MEET OUR IN-BOUND SOLAR GOAL.  TH'S GOING TO REQUIRE, ALSO, A LOT OF EFFORT.  AND WE WANT TO SEE MORE INITIATIVE AND COMMITMENT THERE FROM XCEL ENERGY.  M AND THEN JUST, I THINK, THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE RENEGOTIATION OF THE FRANCHISE AGREEMENTS AND THE MOU.  AND I THINK EVAC WANTS THE COUNCIL TO KNOW THAT, LIKE, W HAVE A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO LEVERAGEHESE AGREEMENTS AS TOOLS FOR KIND OF REALIGNING OUR STRATEGIES AND GETTING ON THE SAME PAGE.  SO WE ARE HOPING THAT THERE WILL BE, LIKE YOU KNOW, THAT WE'RE ADVOCATING FOR UPDATED TARGETS ANDNCREASED ACCOUNTABILITY FROM ALL THE PARTNERS.  AND I DO WANT TO S THAT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NAME THAT THERE HAS BEEN PROGRESS.  BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S ST THE BEGINNING.  WE HAVE A LOT MORE WORK TO DO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DECARBONIZE QUICKLY AND DECARBONIZE EQUITABLY.  WE NEED TO SHIFT AWAY FROMOSSIL GAS.  COMMITMENTS TO 100% CARBON-FREE ENERGY ARE A BIG POSITIVE STEP.  BUT THEY'RE NOTNOUGH ON THEIR OWN.  WE NEED SUSTAINED COMMITMENT TO EB EQUITABLE IMPLEMENTATION, ADDRESSING ENERGY BURDEN, AND ENSURING LOW-INCOMEND BIPOC COMMUNITIES RECEIVE THE RELIEF THEY NEED AND DESERVE.  WE CAN SET THE BIG GOALS BUT HOW IT'S IMPLEMENTED MATTERS.  AND WE ARE JUST AT THE BEGINNING OF KIND OFUR DECARBONZATION, LIKE, JOURNEY AS A CITY.  SO THERE'S JUST -- THERE'S NEVER BEEN MORE OF A NEED FOR, LIKE, COLLABORATION AND A PARTNERSHIP LIKE THIS.  SO WE JUST WANTED TO REAFFIRM THAT.  SO, YEAH.  THIS SUMMARY IS JUST THAT IS EVERYTHING I'VE ALREADY SAID.  SO I DON'T THINK I HAVE ANYTHING ELSE.  THANKS FOR YOUR TIME TODAY.  AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS RELATED TO EVAC, IF YOU HAVE THEM. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, PATTY, FOR COMING BEFORE THE COMMITTEEND FOR CHAIRING EVAC.  I'LL NOTE FOR THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS, THERE WILL BE OPENINGS ON EVAC IN THE NE ROUND OF APPOINTED BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS RECRUITMENT CYCLE IN THE SPRING. SO WE'RE ALL WORKING TO FIND GOOD CANDIDATES TO FILL, I THINK, UP TO SIX POSITIONS.  SO THANKS FOR THAT!  AND'M NOT SEEING ANYMORE QUESTIONS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE TODAY.  SO WITH THAT,R BUSINESS TODAY.  AND THE MEETING IS ADJOURNED.  THANK YOU.