[GAVEL] >> GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. MY NAME IS WONS ROBIN WONSLEY, AND I AM THE CHAIR OF THE CLIMATE AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE. I'M GOING TO CALL ORDER OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING,
JULY 23, 2026. BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR MEETING, I WANT TO OFFER A FRIENDRY REMINDER THAT THESE MEETINGS ARE BROADCAST LIVE TO ENABLE GREATER PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. THESE BROADCASTS INCLUDE REALTIME CAPTIONING AS A FURTHER METHOD TO INCREASE THE ACCESSIBILITY OF OUR PROCEEDINGS
TO THE COMMUNITY. THEREFORE, ALL SPEAKERS NEED TO BE MINDFUL OF THE RATE OF THEIR SPEECH SO THAT OUR CAPTIONER CANS FULLY CAPTURE AND TRANSCRIBE ALL COMMENTS FOR THE BROADCAST. WE ASK ALL SPEAKERS TO MODERATE THE SPEED AND CLARITY OF THEIR COMMENTS, AND WITH THAT, I WILL ASK THE CLERK
TO CALL THE ROLL TO VERIFY THAT WE HAVE A QUORUM. >> COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW. >> PRESENT. . >> WARREN IS ABSENT. CHUGHTAI IS ABSENT. CHOWDHURY? >> PRESENT. .
>> PALMISANO IS ABSENT. VICE MAYOR STEVENSON. >> PRESENT. >> CHAIR WONSLEY? >> PRESENT. >> WE HAVE FOUR PRESENT. LET THE RECORD REFLECT WE DO HAVE A QUORUM. IT HAS ALREADY BEEN
NOTED THE REASON BEHIND COUNCIL MEMBER CHUGHTAI'S ABSENCE, AND I WAS ALSO ALERTED BEFE TODAY'S MEETING THAT COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO WILL BE LATE JOINING AS A RESULT OF HER ATTENDANCE AT A LEGAL SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE. THAT SAID, I'LL REMIND MY
COLLEAGUES WE'LL BE USING SPEAKER MANAGEMENT, SO BE SURE TO SIGN UP. IF YOU HAVE ANY TROUBLES, CONNECT WITH OUR CLERKS TO THE RIGHT. LET'S START OFF WITH OUR CONSENT AGENDA, WHICH I'LL READ FOR THE RECORD. THE FIRST IS APPROVING
COMMERCIAL BLOCK EVENT PERMIT EVENT FOR DINNER DU NORD ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2026. ITEM TWO IS A BLOCK EVENT PERMIT FOR BANANA BALL GAMES ON AUGUST 7-9, 2026. ITEMS THREE AND FOUR ARE SETTING
PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR SEPTEMBER 10 TO CONSIDER PROPOSED 2027 SERVICES AND CHARGES FOR THE DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT AND THE 428A SPECIAL SERVICE DISTRICTS. NUMBER FIVE IS AUTHORIZING SKYWAY EASEMENT
FROM MINNEAPOLIS PARK AND RECREATION BOARD FOR PORTION OF 2nd AVENUE NORTH. SIX IS AUTHORIZING SUBORDINATE FUNDING AGREEMENT FOR THE METRO GREEN LINE EXTENSION SOUTHWEST LIGHT RAIL. SEVEN IS AMENDING THE MINNEAPOLIS STREET LIGHTING
PLAN TO RECLASSIFY THE LISTED ROADWAY SEGMENTS AS PEDESTRIAN STREET LIGHT CORRIDORS. EIGHT IS SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR SEPTEMBER 24 TO REVIEW SANITARY SEWER SERVICE AVAILABILITY CHARGES AND TO AUTHORIZE COLLECTION OF UNPAID
BALANCES. NINE IS AUTHORIZING OVERPASS AGREEMENT CEDAR LAKE ROAD BRIDGE PROJECT. TEN IS AUTHORIZING COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH HENNEPIN COUNTY REGIONAL RAILROAD AUTHORITY FOR THE GRAND AVENUE SOUTH BRIDGE OVER THE MIDTOWN GREENWAY.
11 IS SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR OCTOBER 22, 2026 TO CONSIDER ASSESSMENT OF CHARGES FOR UNPAID WATER AND SEWER SERVICE LINE REPAIRS. 12 IS ACCEPTING THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL MUNICIPAL
INFILTRATION AND INFLOW GRANT FOR CURED-IN-PLACE PIPELINING, REPARIS OF EXISTING SEWERS, AND CROSS CONNECTION ELIMINATION AND RESOLUTIONS RELATED FOR THE GRANT AGREEMENT IN APPROPRIATION. 13 IS ACCEPTING THE LOW BID FOR THE 2026-2027
PUBLIC WORKS TREE REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL. 14 IS ACCEPTING THE LOW BID FOR THE INSTALLATION OF GREEN STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE WEST FULTON NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT PROJECT. 15 IS ACCEPTING THE LOW BID COLUMBIA HEIGHTS MEMBRANE PLANT ROOF
REPLACEMENT. 16 IS AUTHORIZING CONTRACT AMENDMENT WITH CM McCROSSAN CONSTRUCTION INC. FOR THE BRIDGE NINE IMPROVEMENTS. 17 IS APPROVING ONE APPOINT TONIGHT THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. AND WITH THAT, COLLEAGUES, IS THERE ANY
DISCUSSION OR ANY ITEMS THAT ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO PULL FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION? OKAY. NOT SEEING ANY. SO I WILL MOVE APPROVAL OF THE ENTIRE CONSENT
AGENDA. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. THOSE NOT IN FAVOR SAY NAY. THE AYES HAVE IT. ALSO LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT WE HAVE BEEN JOINED BY COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO. WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE RECORDED AS AN AYE ON THE CONSENT? AWESOME, CLERKS,
PLEASE MAKE A NOTE OF THAT. THAT MOTION CARRIES. OUR NEXT ITEM IS -- L ME MAKE SURE. RECEIVE AND FILE PRESENTATION PROVIDING AN OVERVIEW FOR THE CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION PLAN. THIS IS PRESENTATION THAT VICE
CHAIR STEVENSON AND I REQUESTED SEVERAL MONTHS AGO. AND I'LL NOW INVITE UP DEPUTY COMMISSIONER PATRICK HANLON AND DIRECTOR MEGAN HOI TO GET US STARTED. >> CHAIR WONSLEY, VICE CHAIR STEVENSON, AND COUNCIL MEMBER,
MY NAME IS PATRICK HANLON. I'M THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER IN THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. I AM JOINED BY MEGAN HOI. THIS WAS TWO PRESENTATIONS AND I APPRECIATE YOU ALLOWING US TO COME TOGETHER AND BRING BOTH OF THESE PRESENTATIONS HERE TODAY.
I'LL BE GOING OVER FUNDING IMPACTS, AND THEN DIRECTOR HOI WILL TALK ABOUT THE CLIMATE EQUITY OVERVIEW. WE THOUGHT -- WE DON'T USUALLY DO THIS, BUT WE THOUGHT WE WOULD START WITH THIS BECAUSE THE ONE THING THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS DONE VERY
EFFECTIVELY IS SUPPRESSING INFORMATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE. IT'S -- WE DON'T SEE A WHOLE LOT OF IT IN THE NEWS RIGHT NOW. IT'S NOT OUT IN A LOT OF NEWS STORIES LOCALLY OR GLOBALLY. THE HOTTEST THREE YEARS ON RECORD HAVE BEEN THE LAST THREE
YEARS. IT IS A GOOD POINT TO HIGHLIGHT 2023 WAS THE HOTTEST YEAR. 2024 WAS THE SECOND HOTTEST. 2025 THE THIRD HOTTEST AND 2026 IS ON TRACK TO BE IN THAT RANGE OF ONE OF THE HOTTEST YEARS ON RECORD. 350 PARTS PER MILLION IS THE
ATMOSPHERIC CO2 UPPER LEVEL PLANETARY CAPACITY THAT SCIENTISTS AGREE ON THE EARTH CAN CARRY. I REMEMBER WHEN I STARTED AT THE CITY, WE HAD JUST PASSED THAT THRESHOLD, AND IT WAS A BIG DEAL. WE ARE NOW AT 422.7 PARTS PER MILLION OF
ATMOSPHERIC CO2 AND CLIMBING. WHEN I COME BACK NEXT YEAR FOR A PRESENTATION, THAT NUMBER WILL BE HIGHER. WE AREN'T IMAGINING THINGS AS THESE WILDFIRES ARE INTENSIFYING THAT WE SAW LAST WEEK. LOW SNOW PACKS, LONG DROUGHTS AND RECORD HEAT ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THAT AND OTHER ISSUES GOING
ON AROUND THE GLOBE, AND EVEN NEAR MINNEAPOLIS, WE'VE ALREADY EXPERIENCED A TWO-DEGREE INCREASE FROM THE 90s. A 3.5 DEGREE RISE FROM THE 70s WHEN WE HAD OUR FIRST EARTH DAY. SO I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT PIECE.
AND THESE ARE THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS THAT WE HAVE. AND ON THAT, THAT BLACK LINE IS THE SCIENTIFICALLY RECOMMENDED GOAL THAT WE HAVE FOR THE CLIMATE EMISSIONS. AS YOU CAN SEE, WE ARE ON THE
VERGE OF A STEEP, IN NEED OF A STEEP DECLINE IN THE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION REDUCTIONS. FORTUNATELY, I JUST TALKED ABOUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE MONEY THAT THEY'RE PULLING BACK, THE INFORMATION THEY'RE PULLING BACK. FORTUNATELY, WE
GAVE OURSELVES A FIGHTING CHANCE OVER A NUMBER OF YEARS. IN 2017 AND BEFORE THAT, WE HAD FOUNDATIONAL INVESTMENTS THAT WERE MADE BY MOST LARGE CITIES AND SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE WORK. IN 2018 WE HAD THE FIRST
CLIMATE SPECIFIC PROGRAMMING PASSED THROUGH THE FRANCHISE AND WITH THE FUNDING OR SPENDING ON THAT. AND IN 2026, JUST LAST YEAR, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SPECIFIC WEATHERIZATION PASSED
BY THE COUNCIL. AND THEN FROM 1998 UNTIL TODAY WE HAVE HAD POLLUTION CONTROL FUNDING AND INCREASES IN THAT, AND THAT HAS GONE TOWARDS OUR FIGHT ON CLIMATE CHANGE HERE IN MINNEAPOLIS. SO THIS IS THE CLIMATE SPENDING FOR THE CLIMATE LEGACY
INITIATIVE YEAR TO DATE THAT I JUST MENTIONED. I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH THIS WHOLE CHART FOR THE SAKE OF TIME. I WILL POINT OUT ON THE FIRST PIECE OF THAT 123% OF BUDGET ALLOCATION MAY STAND OUT TO YOU, AND THAT IS BECAUSE WE HAVE A NUMBER OF PROJECTS ANYWHERE
BETWEEN 25 AND 30 PERCENT OF PROJECTS THAT DROP OUT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AND THAT IS FOR VARIOUS REASONS, WHETHER IT'S TARIFFS, LABOR ISSUES, ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT ISSUES WHERE PEOPLE AREN'T ABLE TO COMPLETE THEIR PROJECTS. SO WE INTENTIONALLY BUDGET ABOVE THE BASE BUDGET KNOWING WE'LL
HAVE A NUMBER OF PROJECTS THAT WILL BACK OUT BY THE END OF THE YEAR. THE OTHER ONE THAT MAY STAND OUT IS THE 0%. COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW THAT IS WITH HENNEPIN COUNTY CAP, AND WE HAVE GONE THROUGH THE R.F.P. PROCESS AND WE'LL BE STARTING THAT WORK IN JULY AND THAT IS
PROVIDING ENERGY ASSISTANCE TO FOLKS HERE IN THE CITY. SO I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THE FEW PIECES. THE TREE PROGRAM, A LOT OF PEOPLE ASKING FOR TREES AND THAT WE'LL HAVE TO STOP PLANTING BECAUSE WE'RE OUT OF BUDGET ON THAT ONE. I TALKED A TBT DIFFERENT FUNDING
THAT WE HAD. I JUST WANTED TO POINT THIS OUT THAT THIS IS A GRAPH OF OUR GREEN COST YEAR PROJECTS OVER THE YEARS AND JUST TO NOTE HOW THAT LINES UP WHEN WE HAVE HAD INVESTMENT. WE WENT FROM IN 2017, 2018, FROM 48 PROJECTS ACROSS THE CITY TO
NOW OVER 1,100. THIS YEAR WE ARE ON TRACK TO HAVE THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF GREEN COST YEAR PROJECTS THAT IS ENERGY EFFICIENCY, AIR SOURCE HEAT PUMPS, GROUND PUMPS, INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND FIGHT ON CLIMATE CHANGE. WHEN WE GET THE
INVESTMENTS, WE'RE ABLE TO SCALE THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING. WE BELIEVE WE HAVE BUILT A SCALE OF MACHINE AND CONTRACT STAFFING AND GOING FROM 48 PROJECTS TO THE 1,100 PROJECTS AND WE HAVE TO HAVE CONTRACT STAFFING, OUTREACH, LEVERAGE PARTNERSHIPS, DOING MARKETING AND AWARENESS AROUND THE CITY SO THAT PEOPLE ARE AWARE THESE FUNDS ARE OUT
THERE. AND THEN THAT LAST PIECE IS IMPORTANT IN OUR CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN AS WE CENTER EQUITY IS TO BE ABLE TO SCALE WITH EQUITY. AND THIS IS MAPS OF BOTH TOTAL SPEND OF THE CLIMATE FUNDING AND ALSO TOTAL PROJECTS, AND AS YOU
CAN SEE ON THE MAPS, THERES A LIGHT YELLOW. THAT IS NORTH SIDE GREEN ZONE AND SOUTH SIDE GREEN ZONES. THAT IS WHERE THE MONEY HAS BEEN GOING, AND I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER WARREN'S WARD IS THE REIGNING CHAMPION EACH YEAR IN GETTING FUNDS INTO HER WARD.
AND THAT'S DELIBERATE. WE DO INTENTIONAL SPENDING IN NORTH MINNEAPOLIS AND THE GREEN ZONES, AND THEN ALSO AREAS OF CONCENTRATED POVERTY. SO OUR DEFINITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE -- SORRY, I AM CLICKING OUT HERE. OUR DEFINITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IS NORTH SIDE GREEN ZONE, SOUTH SIDE
GREEN ZONE, AND ANYONE IN A LOW INCOME SITUATION, SO A LOW INCOME QUALIFIED SITUATION OR A NONPROFIT THAT SERVES LOW INCOME PEOPLE. AND THESE ARE THE PERCENTAGES OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SPENDING THAT HAS GONE OUT EACH YEAR. WE
SET A TARGET OF BASE OF 40%, AND WE EXCEED THAT NUMBER UP TO 60% OR ABOVE 60%. AND SOME OF THE DIFFERENCES IN DOLLAR AMOUNT THERE IS IS ALSO GRANT DOLLARS THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. ON THE LOWER RIGHT-HAND SIDE,
THE ACCUMULATE PROJECT SAVINGS ARE THE REAL NUMBERS AND THE ECONOMIC SAVINGS WE TAKE A PIECE OF HVAC EQUIPMENT THAT HAS GONE INTO A HOUSE. WE LOOK AT THE U.L. CERTIFIED SPECIFICATIONS AND THAT PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. AND THE NEW PIECE OF EQUIPMENT THAT GOES IN THERE AND LOOKING
AT THE ACTUAL ENERGY SAVINGS OF THE ACTUAL PIECE OF EQUIPMENT OVER THE LIFETIME OF EQUIPMENT. AND MULTIPLE THAT BY THE THOUSAND OF PROJECTS WE'RE DOING EACH YEAR, AND THESE ARE THE REAL DOLLAR PROJECTS PEOPLE ARE SAVING NOW AND WILL BE SAVING ACROSS MINNEAPOLIS.
AND THE TRANSPORTATION NUMBERS, PUBLIC WORKS TAKES THE SAME CARE, AND THE NUMBERS THEY PUT FORWARD WITH THE E.V. CHARGING AND E.V. CAR SHARE PROGRAM. WE REALLY FOCUS THE PROGRAMS ON AFFORDABILITY AND TRYING TO MOVE
THE HARDEST PIECES TO MOVE FIRST WITH THE FUNDING. WE HAVE SUPPORTED OVER 6,000 LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLDS WITH OUR CLIMATE FUNDING. ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE IS THE 4D PROGRAM. WHERE THERE'S TAX CREDITS INVOLVED AS WELL. WE CAN GET INTO DEEP
ENERGY RETROFITS THAT SAVE THEM MONEY AND ALSO GET AT THE PREWEATHERIZATION ISSUES SUCH AS KNOB AND TE WIRING, MOLD, CONSTRUCTION ISSUES IN THE LARGER UNITS AND MARSHALL TERRACE AND THE SINGLE FAMILY
HOMES AND THIS IS SORT OF THE GOLD STANDARD T WILLARD HAYES NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT THAT IS A PASSIVE CERTIFIED HOUSE THROUGH URBAN HOME WORKS. AND THAT IS ALSO FUNDED BY CPED AND THAT IS OFFERING PEOPLE A LARGE AMOUNT OF ENERGY
EFFICIENCY SAVINGS AND ALSO COMFORTABLE LIVABILITY AS WELL ACROSS ALL THESE SECTORS THAT WE'RE INVESTING IN. AND THIS IS THE ELECTRIC CAR SHARE PROGRAM. AGAIN, I WON'T GO THROUGH ALL THE DETAILS IN THIS. WE PUT IN 62 LEVEL TWO
CHARGERS, FIVE FAST CHARGER T. THESE ARE ALL PUT IN WITH AN EQUITY FOCUS. IN 2025 THERE WAS 140,000 TRIPS MADE THROUGH THIS, SUPPORTED THROUGH THIS PROGRAM. THIS YEAR I THINK WE'RE OUTPACING IT. PUBLIC WORKS THINKS THEY'RE OUTPACING IT DUE
TO THE FACT THAT I.C.E. WAS HERE IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, WE HAD A SUBSTANTIAL, SIGNIFICANT SLOW DOWN IN THAT PROGRAM. IT IS NOW PICKING UP SPEED. WE THINK THIS IS PROBABLY GOING TO BE ONE OF THE HIGHEST YEARS FOR THAT PROGRAM. CLIMATE EQUITY FUNDING WITH THE GREEN CAREERS IN WORKFORCE,
THERE AS WE TALK ABOUT SCALING AND THE NEED TO SCALE ACROSS THE CITY AND DIRECTOR HOI WILL TALK ABOUT SOME OF THAT NEED THAT WE HAVE AND WHERE WE'RE AT AND WHERE WE NEED TO GO. BUT THERE AREN'T ENOUGH WORKERS TO DO THIS WORK. AND SO ONE OF THE FIRST PIECES THAT WE IN THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT HAVE LOOKED AT IS
EXPOSURE TO GREEN CAREERS, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES. EDUCATION OF GREEN CONCEPTS AND CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES, AND THEN CREDENTIALED TRAININGS. WE FUNNELED THOSE FOLKS INTO THE FOLKS THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WORKFORCE AS OUR COMMUNITY
PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TEAM AND GETTING DIRECT CONNECTIONS TO EMPLOYMENT. DIRECT CONNECTIONS TO APPRENTICESHIP AND PLACEMENT INTO EMPLOYMENT. AND SO CLIMATE CHANGE IN MINNEAPOLIS, LIKE I SAID, THIS IS A HIGH LEVEL
OVERVIEW. I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO OUR TREE PROGRAM, MARKETING, ZERO WASTE WORK THAT IS SUPPORTED BY THIS FUNDING. THOSE ARE COMING FORWARD IN DIFFERENT COUNCIL MEETINGS, SO I WON'T GO INTO DETAIL ON THOSE. I WILL SAY WE ARE DOING MORE ANNUALLY THAN WE WERE DOING IN
COMBINED PREVIOUS DECADES. IF YOU LOOK AT THE YEARS LEADING UP TO 2017, WE ARE GETTING MORE RESULTS ANNUALLY THAN WE WERE IN THE PREVIOUS YEARS. LIKE I SAID, WE HAVE BUILT THIS EACH YEAR TO SCALE. AND WE REALLY BELIEVE THAT WE'VE BUILT SOMETHING THAT IS A NATIONAL AND
GLOBAL MODEL WHEN WE GO AND TALK TO SOME OF OUR GLOBAL COUNTERPARTS, THE NATIONAL COUNTERPARTS. THE RE-INVESTMENT THAT MINNEAPOLIS IS MAKING BACK INTO ITS COMMUNITY IS REALLY LOOKED AT WITH ENVY AND WITH A LOT OF CITIES AND THE WAY TO BOOST PEOPLE'S SAVINGS AND NOT
ONLY ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE, BUT ALSO SAVING PEOPLE MONEY OUT IN THE COMMUNITY WITH AN EQUITY APPROACH. AND I THINK WHAT WE REALIZE NOW IS WE START TO -- AND WHAT THE NEXT STEPS OF SCALING LOOK LIKE IS THAT WE ARE IN NEED OF HAVING A CITY WIDE APPROACH, A COMPREHENSIVE
APPROACH IN ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE. AND THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE BROUGHT DIRECTOR MEGAN HOI ON BOARD TO DO HERE IN THE CITY. AND SHE CAN TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE WORK SHE'S DOING WITH THE CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN, AND ALSO FACILITATING CONVERSATIONS ACROSS THE ENTERPRISE.
AND THAT WE CAN WAIT FOR QUESTIONS AFTERWARDS IF THAT'S OKAY, CHAIR. THANK YOU. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR WONSLEY, VICE MAYOR STEVENSON.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE TODAY TO SPEAK WITH YOU. AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR HANLON WAS SPEAKING TO THE WORK WE DO IS VERY
INTERSECTIONAL WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS, ALL THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE CITY AND ACROSS ALL THE DEPARTMENTS IN THE CITY AS WELL. AND A LOT OF MY WORK AS WELL AS THE TEAM'S WORK IS WORKING ACROSS THE ENTERPRISE, ACROSS
THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS TO REALLY LEVERAGE OUR KNOWLEDGE AND OUR SKILLS AND PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES AS BEST WE CAN BECAUSE WE ARE BUILDING AN AIRPLANE WHILE WE'RE FLYING. AND WE ARE DOING THINGS THAT HUMANKIND HAS NOT DONE, PERIOD.
AND SO THIS IS BIG WORK. AND WITHIN THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, THE CLIMATE SUSTAINABILITY TEAM I OVERSEE, WE REALLY THINK ABOUT THE CLIMATE EQUITY WORK BEING A VITAL PILLAR TO THE LONG-TERM HEALTH OF THE CITY AND THE COMMUNITY WITHIN IT.
AND OUR EXPERTISE REALLY SITS IN BUILDINGS, MULTIFAMILY, RESIDENTIAL, INDUSTRIAL, AND CLEAN ENERGY SYSTEMS, AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES. AND THAT'S ABOUT BUILDING TRUSTS AND UNDERSTANDING WHERE COMMUNITY IS AT, AND WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH THEM. AND SO WITHIN THE TEAM, WE'RE
LOOKING AND WORKING ON PLANNING AN PROJECT MANAGEMENT, AND WE'RE BRINGING STATE AND LOCAL POLICY AND REGULATORY WORK. WE'RE ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY AS I WAS SPEAKING TO RESEARCH AND STUDIES TO UNDERSTAND BEST PATHS
FORWARD, AND FUNDING SUPPORT, IDENTIFYING THAT AND HELPING TO PILOT, FLAG PILOT OPPORTUNITIES. AND A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ABOUT HOW WE'RE DOING OUR WORK. GETTING INTO THE OVERVIEW OF THE CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN. THE PLAN
WAS APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL IN 2023. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WAS PUT, HELD TO BRING THIS PLAN TOGETHER. AND THE VISION IS TO ACHIEVE AN ENVIRONMENTALLY JUST, RESILIENT AND LOW CARBON AND EQUITABLE CITY.
THIS PLAN IS A 10-YEAR PLAN, RIGHT? THIS DOES NOT BRING US ALL THE WAY TO 2050, WHICH I'LL SAY MORE ABOUT IN A MOMENT. IT IS A 10-YEAR PLAN OF HOW TO MOVE THROUGH THE NEXT 10 YEARS TOWARDS THE BIG GOALS. IT HAS 10 DIFFERENT FOCUS AREAS. I WILL SPEAK MORE TO THAT LATER,
TOO. 240 PLUS ACTIONS AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CLIMATE MITIGATION AS WELL AS CLIMATE RESILIENCE. AND THE PLAN ACKNOWLEDGES FOR THE FIRST TIME COMPARED TO OUR PRIOR CLIMATE ACTION PLAN THAT THERE ARE VARIOUS HISTORICAL AND ONGOING DISPARITIES AND
INEQUITIES THAT ARE IMPACTING OUR COMMUNITY, AND THAT IS HIGHLY TIED TO THIS WORK. SO NOW ONTO THE GOALS HERE. I'M GOING TO HIT ON THE HEADLINE GOAL AND SOME CORE COMMITMENTS THAT THE PLAN HITS ON. CARBON NEUTRALITY, COMMUNITY
WIDE BY 2050, IS THAT BIG, BIG, BOLD GOAL. MEETING OUR JUSTICE 40 STANDARD THROUGH PRIORITIZED COMMITMENTS, OR INVESTMENTS, EXCUSE ME, AND LIVING WITHIN THE CARBON BUDGET ARE THE NEXT TWO. I'M GOING TO WALK THROUGH EACH OF THESE.
SO CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2050, WE JOINED MANY CITIES ACROSS THE GLOBE AND IN THIS COUNTRY THAT HAVE A SIMILAR GOAL OR MORE AGGRESSIVE GOALS, AND THIS ALIGNS WITH A COMMITMENT TO
KEEPING GLOBAL WARMING TO 1.5 DEGREES CELSIUS GLOBALLY, AND THAT IS WHAT YOU CAN SEE WITH THE BLACK LINE THAT IS A MODELLED LINE THAT SHOW WHAT IS WE'RE TRYING TO HIT AS A TRAJECTORY SCIENTIFICALLY SO THAT WE CAN KEEP THAT GLOBAL WARMING DOWN. AND LIKE ANY GOOD PROJECT
MANAGEMENT, AS I LIKE TO SAY, YOU DO HARD WORK EARLY BECAUSE YOU DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW HOW THAT LAST 5, 10 PERCENT IS GOING TO GO. BUT THIS IS ABOUT KEEPING PLANET TEMPERATURE DOWN. AND ACCORDING TO THAT, WE LOOK
AT OUR OWN GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS INVENTORY HERE IN MINNEAPOLIS. THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT RIGHT HERE. AND WE HAVE FIVE DIFFERENT AREAS OF EMISSIONS THAT WE TRACK IN THE INVENTORY. ELECTRICITY, FOSSIL GAS, TRANSPORTATION EMISSIONS, SOLID WASTE EMISSIONS AND WASTE WATER EMISSIONS.
YOU CAN SEE THOSE STACKED UP HERE IN EACH COLOR COMPARATIVE TO ONE ANOTHER. AND SO I KIND OF ASK YOU TO SEE THAT WHERE WE HAVE BEEN SEEING THE GREATEST REDUCTIONS IS IN THE BLUE AREA. THAT BLUE AREA HAS BEEN REDUCING. AND
ACTUALLY, IF YOU KIND OF SQUINT, IT'S REALLY THE ONLY AREA WHERE WE'VE BEEN MAKING REALLY SIGNIFICANT IN THE FORM OF A COMMUNITY WIDE EMISSIONS INVENTORY THAT STRIVES FORWARD. THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE NOT
DOING EXCELLENT WORK ON THE GROUND AND BUILDING TOOLS. SO AS WE DO THIS WORK, WE LOOK OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS AND SEE THE STEEPEST DECLINE ON THE CURVE AHEAD OF US IN SOME OF THE MOST REBUST WORK THAT IS NEEDED.
I WILL ALSO NOTE THAT WE TRACK THIS AND UPDATE THIS ANNUALLY, BUT WE LAG BY A YEAR BECAUSE OF DATA. AND SO I DO ANTICIPATE THAT WE WILL SEE IT FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT WE ARE NOT HITTING OUR TARGETS, NOT OUR GOAL, BUT OUR
TARGET ALONG THE BLACK LINE FOR THE FIRST TIME WHEN WE UPDATE THIS INVENTORY LATE THEY ARE SUMMER. SO THE TWO OTHER COMMITMENTS THAT I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT ARE THE JUSTICE 40. THIS IS A BIDEN ADMINISTRATION INITIATIVE THAT
NO LONGER EXISTS, BUT THE INTENTION WAS FOR FEDERAL FUNDED INITIATIVES TO PUT 40% OF THEIR BENEFIT INTO DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES, SO WE ARE BUILDING ON THAT IN THE PLAN. WE ARE INTERPRETING THAT AS 40%
OF FUNDS, GRANT FUNDS, GETTING INVESTED IN PRIORITY AREAS, INCLUDING OUR GREEN ZONES AND LOW INCOME AREAS. SO WE ARE CONTINUING TO -- WE ARE REALLY EXCEEDING THAT GOAL. THE SECOND COMMITMENT THAT WE HIGHLIGHT IS TO LIVE WITHIN OUR CARBON BUDGET. THIS IS REALLY ABOUT A
SPEED OF ACTION COMPONENT, AND WE ARE ON TRACK TO EXCEED THAT BUDGET BY 2030. YOU WILL SEE THAT SAME INVENTORY HERE AND THEN THE GRAY AREA, AND THAT WE WILL -- WE WOULD LIKE A BUDGET -- A BUDGET MEANS WE WOULD STAY
WITHIN THE SPACE UNDERNEATH THE BLACK LINE. BECAUSE WE'RE OVERSPENDING, WE WILL EXCEED THAT BY 2030. BEFORE I MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE, I'M GOING TO START TO WALK YOU THROUGH THE MAJOR GOALS OF EACH
OF THE 10 SECTIONS IN OUR PLAN. AND FOR DIGESTIBILITY, I AM GOING TO WRECK THEM INTO TWO SECTIONS EVEN THOUGH THAT IS NOT HIGHLIGHTED NECESSARILY WITHIN THE PLAN. BUT THE FIRST OF THAT BEING HIGHEST CARBON EMITTING OR CARBON EMISSION REDUCTION OPPORTUNITIES. AND THEN THE
SECOND BEING MORE LIKE RESILIENCE AND REGENERATIVE ACTIVITIES. SO WE'LL HAVE A BUILDINGS INDUSTRY, CITY OPERATIONS AND ENTERPRISE, ENERGY SYSTEMS, HEALTHY HOMES, TRANSPORTATION, AND COMPLETE
STREETS HERE. AGAIN, THERE'S A LOT OF DETAIL WITHIN THE PLAN UNDER EACH OF THESE, BUT I WANTED TO CALL OUT THOSE THAT HAVE GREEN CIRCLES UNDER CITY OPERATIONS AND ENERGY SYSTEM WHERE IS WE MADE SOME SIGNIFICANT STRIDES IN COMPLETING THE GOALS THAT ARE OUTLINED HERE, SUCH AS LAUNCHING
THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE AND ENSURING COMMUNITY ACCOUNTABILITY AROUND JUSTICE 40 WITH A CLIMATE LEGACY ROUNDTABLE THAT WE HAVE, AS WELL AS ENERGY SYSTEMS WHERE WE RENEW THE FRANCHISE FEE LAST SPRING FOR
ANOTHER 10 YEARS OR SO. BECAUSE OF TIME, I AN EM NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THESE, BUT I'M GOING TO HIGHLIGHT A FEW FOR YOU. SO BY 2030, REDUCE INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MULTI-FAMILY EMISSIONS BY 75%. THIS IS A
VERY IMPORTANT PART OF MAKING GOOD ON OUR GOAL, BUT A VERY AUDACIOUS GOAL FOR US TO REACH TOWARDS. I WILL COME BACK TO THAT IN A MOMENT AS WELL. WE NEED TO ACHIEVE NET ZERO FOR ALL CITY OPERATIONS BY 2040. WE'RE DOING
GOOD WORK ON GREENING OUR FLEET AND WORKING ON OUR PORTFOLIO OF BUILDINGS, BUT WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO PUSH FORWARD ON THIS, AND REALLY LEAD BY EXAMPLE. AND PUSH THOSE EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDIES OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY INTO THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY TO SHOW HOW THIS WORK CAN BE DONE.
THAT SHARING WILL BE VITAL TO HELPING THE COMMUNITY CONTINUE THE WORK AS WELL. ENERGY SYSTEMS BY 2030, YOU NEED TO REDUCE EMISSIONS OF FOSSIL GAS BY 35% COMMUNITY WIDE. I WILL ALSO RETURN TO THIS, BUT THIS IS LARGELY THE USE OF
NATURAL GAS. IF YOU CAN REMEMBER GOING BACK TO THE PRIOR CHART, THE GRAY BAR, AND WE WILL COME TO THIS IN A MOMENT AGAIN, IS NATURAL GAS LARGELY, WHICH WOULD BE THE HEATING OF BUILDINGS AND HOMES AND INDUSTRIAL USES. AND ALSO HIGHLIGHTING HERE THE
INSULATION OF ALL HOMES OR HOUSING UNITS BY 2040. WOW! WE, THIS IS IN THE PLAN BECAUSE THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT STEP FOR US TO MAKE OUR HOMES MORE
RESILIENT, MAKE ENERGY BILLS MORE AFFORDABLE TO HELP US USE, TO USE LESS ENERGY, AND THEN ALSO TO PREPARE OUR HOMES FOR ELECTRIFYCATION WHERE IT IS BENEFICIAL OR COST EFFECTIVE. MOVING ON TO THE SECOND CATEGORY
OR SECOND BUCKET THAT I WAS REFERRING TO RESILIENCE AND REGENERATION. AND KIND OF HIGHLIGHT TWO HERE, BUT INCREASING THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF GREEN SPACE IN OUR COMMUNITY. AND WE CONTINUE TO THINK ABOUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO REGENERATE AND ADAPT TO CLIMATE
CHANGE AND KEEPING COOL SPACES IN OUR CITY IS VERY IMPORTANT. ALSO CONTINUING TO PRESERVE AND GROW OPPORTUNITIES FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE FOR MORE LOCAL FOOD AND LESS TRANSPORT OF FOOD AS
WELL. LASTLY HERE, RECYCLING AND COMPOSTING 80% OF COMMUNITY WIDE WASTE BY 12:30. AND JUST TO SAY THIS PLAN HIGHLIGHTS WORK KIND OF WITHIN
LOCAL AND OUR PURCHASES, DIRECT PURCHASE OF THE CITY. WHEN YOU LOOK GLOBALLY AT CARBON EMISSIONS, IT IS THE CONSUMPTION OF GOODS ACROSS THIS GLOBE THAT IS ONE OF THE MOST LARGEST CONTRIBUTETORS OF CARBON EMISSIONS, SO THIS REALLY SPEAKS
TO HOW WE CAN REDUCE AND REUSE. JUST A QUICK MOMENT ON MOVING ON MULTIPLE FRONTS, WE'RE MAKING A LOT OF PROGRESS. I'M REALLY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM AND WITHIN THE CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABILITY TEAM AND
WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. AS ALREADY STATED BY DEPUTY COMMISSIONER HANLON, WE HAVE BEEN EXCEEDING OUR JUSTICE 40 GOAL FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS SINCE WE PUT THAT FORWARD. AND TOOLS THAT ARE WORKING AT SCALE AND PREPARED TO SCALE. BEYOND
THAT, WE ARE WORKING ON ANY CLEAN, THERMAL ENERGY OPPORTUNITIES TO UNDERSTAND THERMAL ENERGY NETWORKS, AND THAT IS A TERM OF ART AND WE WILL BE ABLE TO COME BACK AND TALK MORE ABOUT THAT LATER THIS YEAR. THAT IS ABOUT AN 18-MONTH
STUDY THAT WE'RE ABOUT EIGHT MONTHS INTO. WE'RE ALSO BEEN ENGAGING BUSINESSES THROUGH A GRANT THAT WE RECEIVED. 17 BUSINESSES SPECIFICALLY ON GEOTHERMAL OPPORTUNITIES WITH SOME OF THE EXCITING FINDINGS THAT WE ARE FINDING THERE. WE ARE ENGAGING RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES MORE
BROADLY TO UNDERSTAND BARRIERS AND COMMUNICATE FUNDING AND PILOT OPPORTUNITY. WE ARE FACILITATING SERVICES TO SERVE THOSE WITH THE HIGHEST BARRIERS. SO ON THE RESIDENTIAL SIDE A LOT OF LAUNCHING A NAVIGATOR SERVICES CONTRACT WITH COMMUNITY
PARTNER TO HELP WITH THOSE GREATEST BARRIERS AND BE ABLE TO KIND OF HANDHOLD THEM THROUGH THAT WORK AND TRANSLATING MORE MATERIALS INTO NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGES. WE'RE ALSO WORKING ACROSS THE ENTERPRISE WITH MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS. JUST HIGH
LIGHTNING A FEW HERE, BUT SUPPORTING PROPERTY SERVICES AND WITH THE PORTFOLIO DECARBONIZATION PLANNING WORK AND AGAIN, CONTINUING THAT LEADING BY EXAMPLE WORK THAT'S SO IMPORTANT. REGULATORY SERVICES COLLABORATION ON RENTAL PROPERTY OUTREACH REALLY REACHES MORE
PROPERTIES WHERE YOU ARE ULTIMATELY REACHING RENTERS AND MAKING THEM AWARE OF GRANT OPPORTUNITIES. AND WORKING WITH CPED, PUBLIC WORKS AND PROPERTY SERVICES ON THE THERMAL POTENTIAL STUDY ITSELF, AS WELL AS OTHER REGULATORY ADVOCACY AND
LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY THAT WE WON'T GET INTO NOW. SO JUST GOING TO HIGHLIGHT FOUR KEY METRICS AND INDICATORS FOR YOU AND LAND ON ONE FINAL SLIDE. SO COMMERCIAL, MULTI-FAMILY,
INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS, THE 75% IS OVERWHELMING. WE DO NEED INCENTIVES AND POLICIES AND PROGRAMS THAT CAN HELP ACHIEVE THIS IF WE'RE SERIOUS ABOUT IT. WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT WE NEED TO MOVE
ALL OF THE GRAY AND ALL OF THE BLUE TO BE BELOW THE YELLOW LINE BY 2030. AND WE HAVE FOUR YEARS TO DO THAT ACCORDING TO OUR GOALS.
WE'LL MOVE ON FROM THERE. THIS NEXT CHART GIVES YOU A SENSE OF OUR NATURAL GAS CONSUMPTION ACROSS THE COMMUNITY. AND THIS IS COMPLICATED BY A LOT OF FACTORS, WHICH I'M NOT GOING TO GET INTO DEEPLY. BUT WEATHER IS
NOTABLE. COLDER YEARS WE CONSUME MORE GAS. THAT IS WHERE WE LIVE IN THE FREE, WHERE A COLD CLIMATE CITY AND SO WEATHER AS WELL AS INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES OR THE USE OF NEW HEATING FACILITIES LIKE THE COMBINED HEAT AND POWER PLANT THAT IS AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA AS WELL AS POPULATION CHANGES AND GROWTH. THESE ARE ALL FACTORS THAT CHANGE WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE AT A COMMUNITY WIDE SCALE, BUT THE POINT IS WE'RE NOT GOING DOWN. WE ARE GOING UP. OR IF YOU'RE SQUINTING, MAYBE IT'S SORT OF FLAT.
AT BEST. THIS THIRD METRIC IS COMMUNITY WIDE HOME INSULATING. HOME INSULATING IS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF WEATHERIZATION. IT IS NOT ALL OF WEATHERIZATION, BUT THIS IS A GOOD INDICATOR OF THAT, SO WHILE
WE ARE SEEING 1,000 TO 2,000 PROJECTS PER YEAR ACROSS THE COMMUNITY WITH A GREEN COST SHARE PROGRAM, HOMES INSULATED OR HOUSING UNITS INSULATED IN THE LAST THREE YEARS HAVE BEEN REALLY 760 HOMES, WHICH IS 3% OF OUR GOAL OF 29,000 HOMES
INSULATED. AND YOU CAN SEE ON THE RIGHT THE TYPES OF HOUSING THAT HAVE BEEN INSULATED DURING THAT TIME, AND THERE'S -- IT'S BEEN MORE UPTAKE ON THE SINGLE FAMILY SIDE. SO CERTAINLY WORKING ON BARRIERS TO REACH THE OTHER HOUSING TYPES OF WORK
WE'RE WORKING ON. THE FOURTH AND FINAL METRIC IS TO LOOK AT OUR MODE SHIFT CONVERSION. SO WE ARE OFF TRACK TO SHIFT THREE OUT OF FIVE TRIPS, WHICH
IS OUR GOAL, TO WALKING, BIKING AND PUBLIC TRANSIT T GOAL FOR 2030. YOU CAN KIND OF SEE THE GOAL ON THE RIGHT SIDE. AND WHAT THIS IS TRYING TO DEPICT IS ALL THE COLORS, THE GREEN, YELLOW, AND ORANGE WOULD EXPAND AND TAKE UP THE AREA BELOW THE BLUE DOTTED LINE.
SO WE ARE OFF TRACK FOR THAT, BUT THERE'S STILL GOOD WORK BEING DONE HERE AND THIS IS A VERY AMBITIOUS GOAL. AND REALLY OUR BIGGEST OPPORTUNITY HERE IS WHEN WE ARE REDESIGNING OUR STREETS AND RECONSTRUCTING THEM AND TO BE ABLE TO DESIGN FOR BIKING,
TRANSIT, AND WALKING. MY FINAL SLIDE WE CAN TALK A LOT MORE, BUT THERE'S A LOT HERE TO WORK ON IN OUR CLIMATE EQUITY TRACKER THAT WE LAUNCHED LAST OCTOBER. YOU CAN SEE A STATUS
BY FOCUS AREA OF THE DIFFERENT ACTIONS AND STRATEGIES THAT ARE IN PROGRESS, AND NOT ONLY WHERE THERE ARE AREAS WHERE WE NEED TO MAKE THE BIGGEST IMPACT AND SOME EXTRA AGGRESSIVE MOVES TO HIT
THESE GOALS, BUT ALSO AREAS WHERE WE'RE A BIT MORE OFF TRACK. HIGHLIGHTING THOSE HERE AND BUILDINGS AND INDUSTRY, ENERGY SYSTEMS, AND HEALTHY HOMES STAND OUT A BIT. AND OTHER AREAS ABSOLUTELY NEED ATTENTION AS WELL. BUT CALLING
THESE OUT HERE AS VITAL AREAS OF ACTION AND PROGRESS MOVING FORWARD. SO WITH THAT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND STAND FOR QUESTIONS. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION. I'LL GIVE A FEW SECONDS FOR FOLKS TO JUMP IN
QUEUE, BUT I WILL START US OFF WITH A FEW COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS. SO AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, RIGHT AFTER WE TOOK SOME TIME TO RECALIBRATE FROM THE IMPACTS OF OPERATION METRO SURGE, VICE CHAIR STEVENSON AND MYSELF MET
WITH ALL OF THE DEPARTMENT HEADS THAT REPORT TO CLIMATE AND INFRASTRUCTURE, INCLUDING OUR HEALTH AND SUSTAINABILITY TEAM, TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS BODY BECAUSE WE KNOW WE HAVE NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS JOINING US. FOR EVERYONE TO GET NOT ONLY A
BASELINE UNDERSTANDING OF THE CRITICAL PLANS THAT SHAPE OUR WORK TOGETHER AND MEETING OUR ROBUST CLIMATE GOALS THAT INCLUDES OUR CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION PLAN, AND THUS FAR, TOO, IN THIS COMMITTEE WE RECEIVE UPDATES ABOUT THE TRANSPORTATION
ACTION PLAN AND SOME OF THE OTHER INTERRELATED PLANS THAT SHAPE OUR WORK AS A BODY. WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE RECEIVED THIS PRESENTATION BECAUSE FOR YEARS WE KNOW RESIDENTS ALL ACROSS THE CITY HAS BEEN WORKING TO HOLD LEADERS, CITY LEADERS, ACCOUNTABLE AND MAKING
MEASURABLE CHANGES AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, AND TO UTILIZE OUR FULL AUTHORITY AS IT RELATES TO ADVANCING CLIMATE RESILIENCY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. AND IT IS THAT COMMITMENT THAT HUNDRED OF OUR RESIDENTS
MOBILIZED BEHIND THE CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE STRONG GOALS THAT WE WERE ASPIRING TO REACH. AND MAKING SURE THAT THERE WAS DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION FROM THE RESIDENTS IN SUPPORTING THIS BODY AND SUPPORTING THE CITY AND
REACHING THOSE. SO BECAUSE OF THAT SHARE AND COLLABORATIVE COMMITMENT TOGETHER AND IN 2023, COUNCIL PASSED THAT CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION PLAN AND THE CLIMATE INITIATIVE ESTABLISHED
TO FUND THIS ROBUST PLAN WAS FORMED BY THE MAYOR AS WELL. 2024, RESIDENTS CAME BACK TO CITY HALL TO DEMAND MORE ROBUST FUNDING AS EXPECTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE POURING NECESSARY DOLLARS INTO THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE FUND, ESPECIALLY IN
RECOGNIZING A HOSTILE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION TO THIS WORK. AND SAYING THAT ONCE AGAIN, AS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, CITY LEADERS NEED TO BE DOING EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MAKING SERIOUS HEADWAY ON REACHING OUR GOALS. AND AS PART OF THOSE
CONVERSATIONS AND REALLY HEEDING TO THE CALLS TO ACTION FROM OUR RESIDENTS AT THE END OF LAST YEAR, WHICHEVERS -- WHICH WAS ELUDED TO, COUNCIL APPROD AN INCREASE TO SCALE UP WORKING CLASS FAMILIES WEATHERIZE THEIR
HOMES AS YOU HIGHLIGHTED. THAT IS A CRITICAL COMPONENT OF OUR CLIMATE EQUITY WORK THAT WE ARE SIGNIFICANTLY OFF TRACK AND NEEDING. AND AGAIN, THIS PRESENTATION WAS MEANT TO BE A LEVEL SET OF WHERE
ARE WE AT ALMOST THREE YEARS OUT FROM ESTABLISHING THAT PLAN AND GETTING A SENSE OF WHERE WE ARE ON TRACK AND WHERE WE'RE COMPLETELY MISSING THE MARK. SO I'M VERY GRATEFUL THAT OUR STAFF CAME TO PRESENT. I KNOW ALSO MANY IN THE COMMUNITY HAS
BEEN REACHING OUT TO COUNCIL MEMBERS TO SAY WHAT OPPORTUNITIES STILL EXIST FOR US TO SCALE UP THAT FUNDING, AND ALSO, AGAIN, MANY OF YOU ARE WELL AWARE THAT WE WERE MEETING MANY OF THE GOALS AS OUTLINED IN OUR CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN AND WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS
BODY ISN'T BEEN LACKADAISICAL AND YOU WANT AND DESERVE TO SEE BOLD ACTION AT THE MUNICIPAL LEVEL. SO FAR AS WAS OUTLINED IN THIS PRESENTATION, INCREMENTAL SMALL CHANGE AT BEST. AND WITH THAT,
I DID HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS AS HIGHLIGHTED IN THE PRESENTATION. I THINK THE BIGGEST PIECE HAS BEEN AROUND, OF COURSE, FUNDING. ESPECIALLY AS I HIGHLIGHTED, WE KNOW THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR HANLON OUTLINED HAS ESSENTIALLY ROLLED BACK A
LOT OF THE PROGRAMS AND THAT WAS TIED TO NEEDED FUNDING. AT FEDERAL LEVEL THAT SUPPORT THIS WORK. SO IT WAS IN RESPONSE TO THAT, AND THIS BODY MOVE FORWARD WITH THE NUMBER OF INITIATIVES FROM ESTABLISHING INCREASES TO OUR FRANCHISE FEES AND ELECTRIC
FEES AGREEMENTS. WE ALSO UPDATED OUR PCAR REGISTRY TO INCLUDE ADDITIONAL POLLUTANTS. WE ESTABLISHED THE CLIMATE GACY INITIATIVE FUNDING WITH TH INITIAL CREATION OF THE GOAL TO INCREASE THAT.
SO I AT LEAST WANTED TO START OFF WITH GETTING AN UPDATE ON THE FINANCIAL STATUS OF THE FRANCHISE FEES THAT COUNCIL PASSED AT THE END OF 2025. AND ESSENTIALLY, WHAT IS THE ANTICIPATED REVENUE THAT WE EXPECT TO COLLECT FROM BOTH
ELECTRIC AND GAS GOING IO 2026. >> I DON'T HAVE THE NUMBERS AT MY FINGERTIPS RIGHT NOW, BUT WHAT WE ANTICIPATE THE FRANCHISE
FEE REVENUES IN THE NEXT YEAR COMING IN AT. HOWEVER, I WILL SAY IT IS TIED TO THE RATES THAT WE ALL PAY ON OUR ENERGY BILLS AND OUR ELECTRIC AND NATURAL GAS BILLS. THOSE RATES ARE GOING UP. AND SO GENERALLY WE'VE, THE FEES
WERE MOVED UP, STARTING IN APRIL OF THIS YEAR. AND THERE'S ALSO BEEN RATE INCREASES ON BOTH CENTER POINT AND EXCEL SO AS WE SEE THE REVENUES AND THE INCREASE IS THEY WILL SLOWLY APPRECIATE OVER TIME NATURALLY
BECAUSE OF THOSE RISING RATES FOR THE UTILITIES THEMSELVES. >> THANK YOU. I ARTICULATE THIS IN AN EARLIER CONVERSATION WITH DEPUTY COMMISSIONER HANLON IN TERMS OF FROM MYNDERSTANDING THERE WERE SOME ANTICIPATED
COLLECTIONS OF REVENUE WE WILL INCREASE AND I WIL NAME IT IS KIND OF UNSATISFACTORY TO NOT VE AN ESTIMATE, ESPECIALLY ON THE SLIDE THAT YOU ADDED AROUND THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE FUNDING. WE ARE SET TO SPEND OVER $10 MILLION FOR YEAR TO
DATE FOR 2026. IF YOU ARE OVER $10 MILLION, HOW MUCH MORE ARE WE LOOKING TO COLLECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE YEAR? >> CHAIR WONSLEY, THERE IS A LITTLE LAG IN WHAT DIRECTOR HOI WAS MENTIONING, AND AS SOON AS
WE HAVE WHAT IS PROJECTED, WE CAN GET THAT INFORMATION TO YOU. AND WE CAN ALSO GET YOU -- AND I HEAR YOU ASKING FOR THE OTHER FRANCHISE FEE INCREASES AND WHAT THOSE AMOUNTS WERE. >> DID YOU NOT HAVE PROJECTIONS AT THE END OF LAST YEAR OFHAT WE PASSED? LIKE WHAT THAT WOULD
HAVE YIELD? >> CHAIR WONSLEY, YES, WE HAD ESTIMATES. WE CAN GET YOU WHAT THE ESTIMATES ARE, AND AS SOON AS WE HAVE INFORMATION AVAILABLE -- TRYING NOT TO LOOK AT OUR, SOME OF OUR SUSTAABILITY STAFF IN CHARGE OF MONITORING THAT, BUT THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF LAG IN TERMS OF WHAT THE ACTUAL
NUMBER IS. YES, WE CAN GET YOU THE PROJECTED NUMBER. YES, WE CAN GET YOU THE ACTUAL NUMBERS ONCE WE HAVE THEM. >> BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW THAT NUMBER RIGHT OFF THE BAT -- >> A NOT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. IT WAS APPROXIMATELY $4 MILLION, BUT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT THE
ACTUAL PROJECTIONS WERE GOING INTO THE YEAR WHEN IT WAS PASSED AND WHEN WE STARTED COLLECTING. I WOULD RATHER GET YOU A MORE ACCURATE ESTIMATE, BUT THAT WOULD BE OFF OF WHAT WAS ESTIMATED LAST YEAR GOING INTO -- >> JUST GOING BACK IN DECEMBER WHEN WE PASSED THAT, WHAT YOU NAME IS AROUND $4 MILLION THAT WE ESTIMATED.
>> CORRECT, CORRECT. >> THIS WAS AN ASSUMPTION TO BE IN ADDITION TO THE $10 MILLION THAT WE APPROPRIATE EVERY SINGLE YEAR TO THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE FUND, IS THAT CORRECT?
>> THAT'S CORRECT. >> I ARTICULATED THAT I WANTED THOSE NUMBERS AHEAD OF TODAY WHEN WE MADE THIS INITIAL REQUEST SO THAT EVERYONE IN THE PUBLIC AND THIS BODY COULD HAVE THE UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE WE'RE AT IN ACCURATE NUMBERS OF HOW MUCH IS BEING EXPENDED IN OUR
CLIMATE EQUITY EXPENDITURES. THAT SAID, I ALSO WANTED TO NOTE BECAUSE THERE WAS LOTS OF CONFUSION AROUND THIS LAST YEAR, AND COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR AGREED TO $10 MILLION APPROPRIATION EVERY YEAR FOR THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE FUND.
DID WE EXPEND THA FULL AMOUNT LAST YEAR? >> CHAIR WONSLEY, YES. AND THERE IS ONE CLARIFICATION THAT I WANTED TO MAKE AS WELL IS THAT WE WILL ALSO GET THE ESTIMATE FROM THE FRANCHISE FEE THE PREVIOUS YEAR BECAUSE THERE WAS
AN UNDERAGE. AS DIRECTOR HOI MENTIONED, THE VARIABILITY IN WEATHER THAT WE BROUGHT IN LESS FRANCHISE FEE. WE WILL GET YOU ALL THESE NUMBERS COMBINED AS A FULL PICTURE. >> YEAH, I WAS HOPING WE WOULD HAVE HAD THAT IN THE PRESENTATION AS WE REQUESTED
FROM YOU ALL SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, BUT THAT SAID, JUST CLARIFICATION, YOU SAID WE DID SPEND ALL $10 MILLION FOR 2025. >> YES, OUR BUDGET WAS FULLY EXPENDED. >> OKAY. I JUST WANT TO HAVE -- BECAUSE I KNOW AT LEAST IN E
COMMUNITY THERE WAS SHARED THAT WE HAD NOT REACHED THAT FULL $10 MILLION WE HAD SPENT UNDER THAT. SO YOU ARE SAYING TODAY, THOUGH, THAT ALL $10 MILLION WAS FULLY APPROPRIATED? >> I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT THE BUDGET. THE FULL BUDGET WAS
EXPENDED, YES, AND THERE WAS AN UNDERAGE IN WHAT WAS BROUGHT IN AND THERE WAS COMPLEXITY AROUND THAT, BUT I CAN GET YOU A FULL PICTURE. >> WHEN YOU ARE SAYING THE UNDERCOLLECTION OF PARTICULARLY ONE OF THE FRANCHISE FEES THAT MIGHT HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO A
REDUCTION, AND YOU WILL PROVIDE CLARIFICATION IF GENERAL FUNDING WAS USED TO FILL THAT GAP. >> CHAIR WONSLEY, YES, THIS IS ALL OF THE FRANCHISE FEES GO INTO THE GENERAL FUND. THIS IS ALL GENERAL FUNDING, BUT YES, WE CAN GET YOU A FULL PICTURE. >> RIGHT.
>> I THINK ALSO BE GOOD WHICH I WANTED TO SEE IN THIS PRESENTATION THE BREAKDOWN OF WHAT GOES INTO THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE FUNDING. I THINK IT'S NOT ALWAYS CLEAR OF WHAT IS THE PERCENTAGE OF FRANCHISE FEES TO SEPARATE
GENERAL FUND DOLLARS AND CAN YOU GIVE A BREAKDOWN OF WHAT THOSE FUNDING STREAMS ARE? >> YEAH, CHAIR WONSLEY, GENERALLY ONE OF THE ISSUES IS IN THE POLLUTION CONTROL AND ANNUAL REGISTRATION CHANGES THAT WERE MADE. IS AND SO IF YOU
LIKE A PICTURE OF THAT AS WELL, WE CAN GET YOU A PICTURE OF THAT. >> ARE YOU ABLE TO PROVIDE AT LEAST IN PERNTAGES AT THIS CUENT MOMENT OF WHAT IS CURRENTLY COMPRISING OR THE COOSITION OF FUNDING STREAMS THAT GOES INTO THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE FUND?
>> CHAIR WONSLEY, YEAH, WE'RE -- YES. AND IF I MAY, IF WE CAN JUST IN CLIMATE FUNDING, SO WHEN WE USE CMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE TO US, THAT IS ONE SPECIFIC FUND. WE CAN GIVE YOU A PICTURE OF WHAT GOES INTO CLIMATE FUNDING IF THAT WORKS, AND
INCLUDING THAT PICAR FUNDING AND KIND OF THE LARGER PICTURE. >> SO THOSE ARE SEPARATE. BASICALLY THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE FUND, THAT IS ALL FRANCHISE FEES THAT GOES TO SUPPORT THAT ONE. >> CORRECT. >> THE GENERAL OPERATING DOLLARS, THAT GOES TO MAYBE PROGRAMS NOT RELATED TO THAT.
THAT'S SEPARATE FROM THAT. >> CHAIR WONSLEY, YES, THAT'S CORRECT. >> OKAY. I WILL PAUSE HERE AND GET BACK IN QUEUE. I SEE A NUMBER OF COLLEAGUES IN QUEUE. NEXT IS VICE CHAIR STEVENSON. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. THAT WAS
REALLY EXCELLENT PRESENTATION. I'D LOVE TO COME AND SEE ONE OF THE PROJECTS FOR THE HOME REHABILITATIONS AND ENERGY IMPROVEMENTS. I'D LOVE TO COME SEE ONE OF THOSE. HOW DO YOU IDENTIFY NEW PROJECTS? >> CHAIR WONSLEY, COUNCIL MEMBER STEVENSON, WE WOULD LOVE FOR YOU
TO COME OUT. I AM SURE THERE ARE PLENTY OF PROJECTS IN YOUR WARD AND IN AND AROUND THE CITY AND WHATEVER TYPES OF PROJECTS FROM ENERGY EFFICIENCY TO THE MORE CUTTING EDGE AS WE REFER TO THE THERMAL ENERGY PROJECTS WE ARE LOOKING AT. WE TRY TO -- SO WE DO AN AMOUNT
OF OUTREACH WITH SMALL BUSINESSES, LARGE BUSINESSES, AND GO THROUGH EXISTING PROGRAMS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. AND TO COMMON POINTS WHERE PEOPLE GO TO
GET ENERGY EFFICIENCY WOR AND DETAIL OUR PROGRAMS WITH FRONTIERENERGY, WITH PEOPLE WITH LOW INCOME SITUATIONS. IN FACT, WE'RE WORKING AT HERITAGE PARK WITH THOSE FOLKS AND GETTING SERVICES TO PEOPLE. AND ISTING PROGRAMS AND I WOULD BE
REMISS IF I DIDN'T MENTION COOPERATIVE ENERGY FUTURES THAT ARE HERE IN THE ROOM TODAY. BUT TRY TO GO THROUGH EXISTING PROGRAMS SO IT IS A STREAMLINED EXPERIENCE FOR THE CUSTOMER WHETHER THEY'RE RESIDENTIAL BUSINESS OWNER OR SOME OF THE LARGER INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS TRYING TO GET LARGER EMISSION
PROJECTS DONE HERE IN THE CITY. OKAY. AND YOU HAVE A VERY FULL PIPELINE. YOU SEE NO ISSUES IN FINDING NEW PROJECTS? >> I MEAN, CHAIR WONSLEY, SORRY, COUNCIL MEMBER STEVENSON, THAT IS WHEN OF THE QUESTIONS WE HAD WHEN THIS PROGRAM STARTED WAS, WHAT IS THE CAPATY? IT SEEMS
TO EVE YEAR WE HAVE MORE DEMAND THAN WE HAVE FUNDING AVAILABLE TO DO THE WORK. AND SO WE'RE TYPICALLY SHUTTING THE PROGRAM DOWN EARLY, WHETHER IT'S ON THE RESIDENTIAL SIDE OR ON THE COMMERCIAL SIDE. YES, I CAN'T ANSWER THAT QUESTION PERFECTLY, BUT FROM
WHAT WE'RE SEEING, THERE SEEMS TO BE MORE DEMAND THAN FUNDING. >> OKAY. IT'S REALLY GREAT TO SEE THE VERY REAL IMPACT THAT THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE IS HAVING. IT'S CLEAR THAT THIS PROGRAM IS WORKING, AND WORKING
SUPER WELL. AND YOU'RE TELLING ME THE MORE MONEY WE PUT IN, THE MORE IS ACTUALLY GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE REAL WORLD, WHICH IS INCREDIBLE. AND THAT'S NOT THE WAY THAT EVERY PROGRAM IS. AND SO THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS. THANK YOU FOR RUNNING AN EXCELLENT PROGRAM. THIS IS HAVING A REAL EFFECT ON OUR
CLIMATE AND OUR EMISSIONS GOALS. AND IT SEEMS TO ME LIKE IT'S UP TO US, UP TO US TO MAKE SURE THAT THE MONEY KEEPS FLOWING BECAUSE THE WORK WILL KEEP HAPPENING SO MUCH AS THE MONEY KEEPS FLOWING. TO THAT END, WITH THE CLIMATE
LEGACY INITIATIVE, THOSE, THE DOLLARS THAT GO IN THERE, WHAT CAN THEY BE USED FOR? >> SO THE MONEY THAT GOES INTO THE -- CHAIR WONSLEY, SORRY, COUNCIL MEMBER STEVENSON, THE MONEY THAT GOES INTO THE CLIMA
FUNDING FROM THE FRANCHISE FEE, THAT IS TECHNICALLY CONSIDERED A TAX, AND THOSE INCREASES THAT WERE MADE BY COUNCIL AND PASSED BY THE MAYOR AS WELL, THERE WAS
A COMMITMENT TO PUT THOSE FUNDS TOWARDS CLIMATE-RELATED ACTIVITIES. AND THAT IS, WE SIT DOWN WITH A GROUP AND TALK WITH CPED AND REC SERVICES AND DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS AND PRIITIES AND PROGRAMS. AND THAT IS THE PRINCIPLE THAT WE OPERATE OFF OF
IS THAT THE FUNDING GO INTO CLIMATE-RELATED PROGRAMMING, AND THEN AS MUCHS POSSIBLE, TRYING TO HAVE -- TRYING TO GO AT THAT BALANCE BETWEEN EQUITY, TRYING TO GET SOME OF THE HARDEST PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THE MOST DIFFICULT SITUATIONS, GETTING FUNDING TO THEM. AND ALSO
GETTING AS MUCH GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION AS WE CAN GET. THOSE ARE OFTEN TIMES NOT THE SAME PROJECTND 40% ENVIRONMEAL JUSTICE PRIORITY THAT WE HAVE.
AND AS I MENTIONED, WE'RE AROUND 60% TYPICALLY DURING THE THE YEAR, BUT THAT IS HOW WE TRY TO PRIORITIZE BETWEEN THE TWO PRINCIPLES AND WHERE FUNDING GOES. >> SO THIS COMMITMENT FOR THE MONEY, THE FRANCHISE FEE DOLLARS TO GO INTO THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE, AND FOR THAT MONEY
TO BE USED ON CLIMATE-RELATED PROJECTS, THIS COMMITMENT ISN'T LIKE -- IS IT LIKE A POLITICAL COMMITMENT, A LEGAL COMMITMENT? WHAT KIND OF COMMITMENT IS THIS? >> CHAIR WONSLEY, COUNCIL MEMBER STEVENSON, I WOULD SAY IT'S NOT A LEGAL COMMITMENT AS I AM LOOKING AT THE ATTORNEY HERE, IN
THAT IT IS A POLITICAL COMMITMENT MADE BY T CITY. >> OKAY. IT COULD CHANGE AT ANY TIME IF CITY LEADERSHIP CHANGED IT. >> CHAIR WONSLEY, COUNCIL MEMBER STEVENSON, THAT WOULD BE MY ASSESSMENT OF IT, YES. >> OKAY. THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW.
I THINK THERE'S BEEN SOME CONFUSION IN THE COMMUNITY AND IN MY OFFICE ABOUT HOW SECURE ARE THE DOLLARS IN BEING DESIGNATED EXCLUSIVELY FOR CLIMATE PROJECTS. IT IS GOOD TO HEAR THAT THERE IS NO EXCLUSIVITY THERE. IT IS MONEY THATMENT COS IN AND WE HAVE HAD
A HAND SHAKE ABOUT PUTTING IN IT CLIMATE. WE HAVE DONE THAT SO FAR, BUT IT IS NOT LIKE A LEGAL COMMITMENT THAT CANNOT BE BROKEN, SO THAT'S GOOD TO UNDERSTAND. AND WE WILL BE TRACKING THAT VERY CLOSELY. I HAD ANOTHER QUESTION. OH, LOOKING BACK AT THE
PRESENTATION, LOOKING AT VERY EXCITING SLIDE, THE GREEN COST SHARE COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL SLIDE. I SEE THAT THE SOUTHSIDE GREEN ZONE IS NOT DARK BLUE AND DARK GREEN. DARK BLUE AND DARK GREEN
BEING MORE MONEY SPENT, MORE PROJECTS COMPLETED. WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE? >> CHAIR WONSLEY, COUNCIL MEMBER STEVENSON, THAT WOULD BE AN ACCURATE ASSESSMENT. WHEN THIS PROGRAM STARTED OUT, IT WAS THE GREEN BUSINESS COST SHARE PROGM AND WE HAD A NUMBER OF PROJECTS ALONG LAKE STREET. THAT IS WHAT SOME OF THE BEST INVESTMENTS WERE. NOW
THAT WE HAVE SWITCHED TO RESIDENTIAL, COUNCIL MEMBER WARREN'S OFFICE IS TAKING MOST OF THE FUNDING IN RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS ON THE NORTH SIDE GREEN ZONES,UT I WOULD SAY THAT IS AN ACCURATE ASSESSMENT. WE DON'T USE THESE TOOLS JUST -- IN FACT, I HAD THOUGHT ABOUT THAT WHEN I SAT DOWN BECAUSE I PLANNED ON MENTIONING SIT THAT
IS AN AREA FOR IMPROVEMENT. WE NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB OF GETTING MONEY INTO THE SOUTH SIDE GREEN ZONE. IT IS A SMALLER AREA, BUT WE NEED THAT -- THAT GRAPH SHOWS US WE NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB OF OUTREACH IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. >> OKAY. I'M VERY HAPPY TO SEE THAT SOME NEIGHBORHOODS IN WARD
EIGHT ARE DOING VERY WELL IN TERMS OF THE AMOUNT OF MONEY AND THE AMOUNT OF PROJECTS, BUT JUST GIVEN THE WAY THINGS ARE, THE SOUTH SIDE GREEN ZONE NEEDS TO BE GETTING MORE THAN WARD 8 NEEDS TO BE GETTING. NOT TO SAY THAT THE CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD IS NOT A PRIORITY PLACE, IT
CERTAINLY IS, BUT WITH ALL THE KNOCK-ON EFFECTS OF IMPROVING THE LIVABILITY OF HOMES, I'M JUST REITERATING WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW ABOUT NEEDING TO INVEST MORE. >> CHAIR WONSLEY AND VICE MAYOR STEVENSON, I WANTED TO COMMENT THAT SOME OF THE WORK I WAS
REFERRING TO EARLIER ABOUT RKING WITH OUTREACH PARTNERS AND THE COMMUNITIES SUCH AS CMEJ, THAT WE ARE WORKING WITH THEM TO DO MORE DOOR KNOCKING AND HOLD MORE EVENTS TO KIND OF
BOLSTER WHERE WE'RE SEEING A LACK OF ACTIVITY AND LOWER UPTAKE FOR THAT REASON. SOME OF THE NAVIGATOR SERVICES WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AS WELL IF THERE ARE BARRIERS BEYOND BEING MADE AWARE THAT WE CAN HELP REACH THE RESOURCE AND MOVE THROUGH THE PROGRAM TO COMPLETED PROJECTS.
WE ARE ACTIVELY WORKING ON THAT. AWE >> GREAT, THANK YOU. I KNEW YOU WERE, AND I WAS REITERATING THE SHARED COMMITMENT WE HAVE. THAT IS ALL THE THE QUESTIONS I HAVE FOR NOW. >> THANK YOU, VICE MAYOR STEVENSON. NEXT IS COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE
PRESENTATION. I ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD TO THIS PRESENTATION. I THINK IT'S VERY INFORMATIVE AND KIND OF GROUNDS US IN OUR CURRENT REALITY. IT IS GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU, AGAIN, AND NICE TO MEET YOU AND LOVE TO SET UP SOME TIME TO JUST SIT DOWN AND TALK THROUGH THIS MORE DEEPLY.
THE FIRST KIND OF QUESTION THAT I WANTED TO HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT IS IN REGARD TO OUR AREAS OF ACTION AND PROGRESS, PARTICULARLY FALLING OFF TRACK
AROUND REDUCING RELIANCE ON FOSSIL GAS FOR BUILDINGS AND INDUSTRY. WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU, LIKE, WHAT IS THE NEXT FOUR YEAR, FIVE YEAR KIND OF STRATEGY ON THE HORIZON TO REALLY MOVE QUICKLY ON THIS? BECAUSE IT DOES SEEM LIKE WE'RE
JUST NOT GOING TO MEET THE GOALS THAT WE NEED TO MEET BY 2030, AND THAT'S REALLY UNFORTUNATE. >> YEAH, TNK YOU FOR THE QUESTION, CHAIR WONSLEY, VICE MAYOR STEVENSON, AND COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY.
THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THE PUZZLE. AND ONE POLICY THAT WE TALK ABOUT IN THE CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN IS A BUILDING PERFORMANCE STANDARD, AND THIS IS A TYPE OF PROGRAM OR POLICY
THAT IS TARGETED AT EXISTING BUILDINGS AND HELPS TO RATCHET DOWN CARBON EMISSIONS FOR EXISTING BUILDINGS OVER TIME SO THAT YOU WORK TOWARDS CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2050, BUT OVER
TIME. AND THAT THERE ARE REPERCUSSIONS OR FEES IF YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO DO THAT. AT LEAST A DOZEN OTHER CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAVE THIS POLICY IN PLACE. AND THE FIRST IS PASSED
IN 2019. EACH CITY IS LEARNING HOW TO IMPROVE FROM IT, BUT WE HAVE OTHERS OUT THERE THAT WE ARE TRACKING. AND LEARNING HOW THE POLICY CAN BE IMPLEMENTED THE BEST. IT IS TO BE NOTED
THAT THIS CAN BE IMPLEMENTED AT THE STATE OR LOCAL LEVEL, AND THERE'S BENEFIT TO IT BEING IMPLEMENTED ACROSS A MORE REGIONAL OR STATE LEVEL SO THAT THERE'S CONSISTENCY FOR THE BUILDING OWNERS AND OPERATORS, FOR COMPLIANCE, AS WELL AS
DEVELOPMENT IMPLICATIONS ARE A LITTLE BUILT MORE, NOT KIND OF LIKE A SEAMS ISSUE. BUT IT'S A MAJOR POLICY AND IT WOULD HAVE OTHER IMPLICATIONS OF INCENTIVIZING BUSINESSES AND
BUILDINGS TO LOOK AT THE CLEANEST ENERGY AVAILABLE FOR THEM AS WELL. SO THAT'S A KEY PIECE. THERE'S ALSO KIND OFTHER STATE ACTIONS OR REGULATORY ACTIONS AROUND CLEAN HEAT AND MOVING NATURAL GAS SYSTEMS TO MORE HEATING
OPTIS AND HEATING ALTERNATIVES THAT ARE NOT JUST NATURAL GAS, THAT HAVE A LOWER CARBON FOOTPRINT. AND SO MORE OF A STATE POLICY OPPOUNITY THAT WE'RE TRACKING AND INTERESTED IN AS WELL. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. WHAT ARE, LIKE, SOME OF THE TOP USES OF
FOSSIL GAS THAT WE'RE SEEING IN OUR CITY? OBVIOUSLY HEATING. BUT WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHAT ELSE? >> IT IS LARGELY HEATING. AND THAT IS THE TIME AT WHICH OUR HOMES AND BUILDINGS WERE BUILT,
NATURAL IS PRIMARY USE AND IT IS ALSO A USE AND NOT THE ONLY FUEL, BUT IT IS A MAJOR FUEL AND ENERGY SYSTEMS.
AND ALSO USED AND EACH ONE IS ITS OWN UNIQUE PROCESS AND HAD A LOT OF PIECES TO THAT PUZZLE ALSO OF HOW TO FIGURE OUT IF THEY WERE TO MOVE OFF THAT FUEL. THOSE ARE THE MAJOR USES.
>> GREAT. AND THEN SO WOULD YOU SAY ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES IN REDUCING THE RELIANCE ON FOSSIL GAS IS LARGELY POLICY WE HAVE AT THE STE LEVEL?
>> YES, I THINK AT THE STATE LEVEL, POLICIES SUCH AS CODES AND ENERGY POLICIES, AND THEN OTHER WAYS THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS CAN INFLUENCE AROUND DEVELOPMENT FROM A CARBON
PERSPECTIVE. THERE'S OPPORTUNITY THERE, BUT OTHERWISE, YES. >> YEAH. WE'RE SO -- SO WE'RE VERY PREEMPTED IN REGULATING BUILDING CODE. >> YES. >> AND THAT'S A BIG CHALLENGE. >> YES, BUILDING CODE, AND THE
AUTHORITY SITS WITH THE STATE. >> THAT 'S GREAT. YEAH, I REALLY THINK I'VE WATCHED OUR LEGISLATIVE PROCESS OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS HERE AT THE CITY CLOSELY, AND OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A BIT OF THE MATH OF THE LEGISLATURE.
BUT I THINK THERE'S JUST A L OF OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A REALLY, LIKE,, LIKE, STRONG AND COMPREHENSIVE CLIMATE, LIKE, JUST AGENDA THAT WE'RE SPEING TO.
AND WE'RE WORKING WITH PARTNERS AND COMMUNITY ON. AND IF WE DON'T DO THAT IN THE NEXT LEGISLATIVE SESSNS, I FEEL LIKEE'LL HAVE SOME BIG MISSES. AND I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE CITY
OF MINNEAPOLIS TO HAVE A LEADERSHIP ROLE IN THAT CONVERSATION AND SEE WHAT WE CAN GET DONE TO MOVE THESE PIECES FORWARD, BECAUSE I THINK WITHOUT IT WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO SIT IN THE OFF-TRACK SPOT, AND WE'RE DOING SO MUCH REALLY GOOD WORK TO ACHIEVE OUR GOALS AND
OUR CLIMATE LEGACY INIATIVE AS SHOWN BY THE DEMAND AND THE PROGRAMS THAT SUSTAINABILITY IS WORKING ON. AND JUSTO HAVE A BARRIER THAT IS NOT OUR OWN BARRIER IS KIND OF JT -- I IMAGINE IT'S FRUSTRATING FOR YOUR TEAM AS
WELL. A COUPLE OTHER QUESTIONS I HAD IS JUST KIND OF A LITTLE MORE FOCUSED IN SOME OF THE PROGRAMS. SO GREEN CAREERS, I LOVEHAT PROGRAM. I THINK IT'SA
COMMUNITY MEMBERS, WORKING CLASS COMMUNITY MEMBERS, A REALLY VALUABLE OPPORTUNITY FOR EDUCATION IN THE TRADES. KIND OF CURIOUS TO KNOW IF THERE'S ANY PARTNERSHIPS WITH MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, ADULT EDUCATION, AND IF THERE'S
BEEN ANYTHING EXPLORED THERE. >> CHAIR WONSLEY, VICE MAYOR STEVENSON, THE GREEN CAREERS TEAM ABSOLUTELY HAS BEEN EXPLORING COLLABORATION WITH PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND I BELIEVE THEY ARE WORKING ON THAT IN
TRYING TO ENGAGE YOUTH IN THE UPPER AGES OF HIGH SCHOOL. AND I BELIEVE INTO EARLY POST-HIGH SCHOOL AGE, TOO, FOR JUST THAT REASON. TO MAKE GREEN
CARES ATTRACTIVE TO THEM THAT TE TO PREVIOUSLY, AENED THAT MIGHT BE PUTTING THEM INTO, YOU KNOW, POINTING THEM TOWARDS APPRENTICESHIPS AND OTHER PROGRAMS THAT ALREADY EXIST, BUT JUST THEM GETTING EXPOSURE AND TRAINING TO SOMETHING THAT'S PART OF THE GREEN ECONOMY,
SOMETHING THAT IS A GROWING NEED IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND OUR FUTURE GREEN ECONOMY. THAT THAT IS THE WORK THAT THEY'VE BEEN LARGELY FOES KUED ON MOST RECENTLY -- FOCUSED ON MOST RECENTLY. >> TOTALLY APPRECIATE THE YOUTH ASPECT OF CAREER PATHWAYS, BUT
I'LL JUST SHARE WITH YOU WHAT I'M SPEAKING TO IS ADULT EDUCATION. SO IN MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, WE HAVE A REALLY GREAT PROGRAM FOR ADULTS THROUGHOUT OUR CITY TO GET SOMETHING EQUIVALENTO A G.E.D.
AND A LOT OF GREAT PROGRAMMING AROUND LITERACY AND RIGHT NOW THE MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR ADULT EDUCATION RECENTLY HAD A MEETING WITH THEM IS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO PARTNER WITH OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO JUST, LIKE,
HAVE OPPORTUNITIES WHERE THOSE LEARNERS ARE GETTING INTO DIFFERENT CLASSROOMS, AND THEN HAVING AN OPPORTUNITY AND JOB LIKE THIS. IT'S A REALLY UNIQUE KIND OF PART OF THE EDUCATION PORTFOLIO THERE BECAUSE THEY DON'T GET ADDITIONAL FUNDING DUE
TO ENROLLMENT, SO IT'S A LOT OF GRANT RELIANCE AND IT SEEMS LIKE THIS WOULD BE AN INTERESTING FIT. A LOT OF THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT PARTICIPATE IN ADULT EDUCATION, THEY ARE FOLKS WITH
FAMILIES AND KIDS. AND SO GETTING THEM AN OPPORTUNITY INTO A CAREER PATHWAY IS GOING TO LEAD TO AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEIR KIDS TO HAVE THAT TYPE OF STABILY. SO INTERESTED IN SEEING IF THERE'S, LIKE, WAY TO PARTNER WITH MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND GREEN CAREER PATHWAYS TO
REACH THOSE IN ADULT EDUCATION. >> CHAIR WONSLEY, COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY, WE HAVE CONNECTIONS WITH MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS DOWN STARTING WITH THE GUYS AND GEMS PROGRAM WITH THE STEM PROGRAMS ALL THE WAY THROUGH, AND I SHOULDN'T JUST SAY WE, BUT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, COMMUNITY PLANNING AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT, THE CPED FOLKS, AS WELL, AND SO IF YOU HAVE A CONTACT -- >> ABSOLUTELY. >> IF YOU WANT TO FORWARD THEM ON AND MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS CONNECTED. THEY ARE CONNECTED THROUGH TRADES, THROUGH SOME OF THE ACCREDITED TRAINING IN NORTH MINNEAPOLIS AND SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS. AND SO THERE'S A NUMBER OF CONNECTIONS WE HAVE WITH THE SCHOOL. IF YOU WANT TO
FORWARD YOUR CONNECTION, WE CAN BRING IT ALL TOGETHER. >> I'LL WRITE YOU ABOUT IT AND SPEAK TO YOU MORE ABOUT IT OFFLINE. AND THERE IS AN INTERESTING PARTNERSHIP THAT CAN HAPPEN. AND THEN I JUST HAVE TWO MORE THINGS AND I'M GOOD AND PASS IT OFF TO MY COLLEAGUES.
THE SECOND ONE DRILLING INTO PROGRAMMING IS ABOUT THE E.V. CHARGING PROGRAM. I HAVE A LOT OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS REACHING OUT IN THE NAKOMIS EAST AREA OF THE WARD T GROW IN THE AREA. AND THERE IS A LARGER DEMAND OF
FOLKS THAT WANT TO USE IT. HOW DO WE BUILD A PLAN TOWARD THAT? >> CIR WONSLEY AND VICE CHAIR STEVENSON, THE PROGRAM IS A
GREAT ROURCE IN THE COMMUNITY. THERE ISIND OF TWO PARTS TO IT. THERE'S THE E.V. CAR SHARE, WHICH IS OPERATED BY OUR CAR AND COLLABORATION WITH BOTH CITIES, AND THEN THERE'S THE E.V. SPOT NETWORK, WHICH IS THE CHARGING NETWORK, WHICH IS PUBLICLY AVLABLE. ON THE PUBLICLY
AVAILABLE CHARGING NETWORK, THAT IS JUST AVAILABLE AND THERE. IT'S THERE FOR USE, KIND OF ARRIVE AND CHARGE AS NEEDED AND PAY FOR THAT. AND THEN ADDITIONAY ON THE E.V. CAR SHARE SIDE, I KNOW THAT
PUBLIC WORKS, WHO IS THE DEPARTMENT THAT IS MANAGING THAT FROM THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS SIDE, THAT THEY HAVE SOME RESOURCES ON SOME OF THEIR WEBPAGES TO POINT PEOPLE AND MAKE PEOPLE AWARE OF THAT PROGRAM. THE CITY OF ST. PAUL
DOES AS WELL. AND OUR CAR HAS THEIR WEBSITE ON THIS. I THINK'VE HEARD SOME OF THIS BEFORE, AND INTERESTED TO HELP RAISE AWARENESS AROUND THIS PROGRAM. I THINK IT'S -- IT'S SERVING A
REAL NEED THAT WE DOEED TO FILL THAT LAST MILE. SMALLER TRIPS. FILLS A NUMBER OF NEEDS. AND SO I THINK WORKING WITH NEIGORHOOD ORGANIZATIONS AND
WITH OUR CAR, AND THE PUBLIC WORKS TO TALK ABOUT THAT OPPORTUNITY AND PUTTING FORWARD WEBI
WEBINARS MORE BROADLY F EQUITY PROGRAMS AND TO FACILITATE THIS AND THIS IS A PRIME CANDIDATE. >> GREAT. THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASCIATION THERE IS REALLY WILLING TO WORK WITH THE SPOT NETWORK IN THE AREA. IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THERE'S BEEN A GROWTH OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT ARE
TRANSITIONING INTO ELECTRIC VEHICLES. AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT JUST HAS COME UP. WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PLAS TO CHARGE. THAT'S WONDERFUL. ME MY LAST QUESTION IS RELATED TO THE CITY BUDGETING PROCESS, AND WE'RE NOT
GOING TO BEAT AROUND THE BUSH. I WANTED TO ASK A VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD QUESTION ABOUT THE ADDITIONAL $4 MILLION THAT WE ALLOCATED LAST YEAR. IS IT GOING TO BE USED INSTEAD
TO BALANCE THE MAYOR'S BUDGET? HAS THERE BEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THAT? >> CHAIR WONSLEY, COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY, NO, WE HAVE NOT HAD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT USING THE $4 MILLION TO FILL BUDGET HOLES.
THERE HAS BEEN OBVIOUSLY CONVERSATIONS AROUND HOW TOUGH THE BUDGET IS AND POSSIBLE IMPACTS, BUT NOT SPECIFICALLY THAT FUND. I WILL LEAVE THAT THERE. >> GREAT. I WILL SHARE PUBLICLY THAT I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THAT. I WANT THAT $4 MILLION TO BE
DEDICATED TOWARDS THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE. THAT WAS THE INTENTION, AND IT IS ALSO SOMETHING THAT COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE RAISED UP TO ME BECAUSE OF A SHARED ON A SOCIAL MEDIA POST THAT THERE WAS A MEETING WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE COMBEEN
CLIMATE ADVOCATES AND SHARED THAT THAT $4 MILLION MAY BE USED AND I THINK THAT IS A BIG MISTAKE. I THINK WE SHOULD USE
THIS $4 MILLION TO THEROGRAM WE DEDATED TO ESPECIALLY AT A MOMENT IN TIME WHERE WE AREN'T GOING TO SEE A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SUPPORT US IN OUR EFFORTS. IT FEELS LIKE THIS IS A PRESSURE ALLOCATION THAT WE NEED -- THIS IS A PCIOUS ALLOCATION THAT WEEED TO
SAFEGUARD. I AM ALWAYS WILLING TO LEARN MO CONVERSATIONS CHANGE AND ALSO IF THIS INFORMATION ISN'T ACCURATE AND WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOUR OFFICE OR THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS
BROUGHT UP TO ME BY SEVERAL CONSTITUENTS AND FELT LIKE I HAD TO BRING IT UP IN THIS MEETING. THANKS FOR LISTENING. >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY. NEXT IS COUNCIL MEMBER WARREN.
>> THANK YOU, CHAIR WONSLEY. AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION AND THE WORK THAT YOU'RE AIDING WITH RESPECT TO HERITAGE PARK, I APPRECIATE THAT. MY QUESTION IS ABOUT THE
SLIDE NUMBER 19 WITH RESPECT TO THE HEALTHY HOMES PROGRAM, AND THE DESIRE TO HAVE THE ENERGY SYSTEMS CHANGE AT 35% REDUCTION
BY, WHAT DID THIS SAY? BY 2030. IS THAT THE NOTE. AND TO HAVE BY 2033 THE HOMES BEING TRANSITIONED ALL TO ELECTRIC,
AND I AM SAYING AT WHOSE COST IS THAT? HOW IS THAT HAPPENING WITH THE FINANCIAL COMPONENT TO THAT IF WE'RE TRANSITIONING OVER INTO THE ELECTRIC COMPONENT
BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT HAPPEN. I JUST KNOW THAT HERE IT IS. AND THIS IS WHAT I HEAR FROM SO MANY OF THE CONSTITUENTS IN MY ROLE AND MY WARD BECAUSE
CLIMATE IMPACTS CULTURE. THEY WANT TO CHANGEOVER, BUT YOU ARE BEING SUBJECTED BY WORKING WITH LANDLORDS WHO ARE NOT INTERESTED IN MAKING THOSE TYPE OF INVESTMENTS FOR A HEALTHIER WAY OF LIVING FOR RESIDENTS WHO ARE
RENTERS IN THESE SITUATIONS. SO THE INVESTMENTS ARE NOT ADEQUATELY BEING MADE, SO AT WHOSE COST AND WHAT IS THE -- WHERE IS THE FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY WHERE SHALL WHERE DOES THAT FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY LIVE? >> CHAIR WONSLEY, AND I WILL
LEAVE THIS OPEN TO DIRECTOR HOI TO COVER THE LARGER PICTURE. COUNCIL MEMBER WARREN, WITH ALL THE OGRAMS, ESPECIALLY AROUND WEATHERIZATION AND WE DRAW A HARD LINE WITH FOLKS IN LOW INCOME SITUATIONS IS PEOPLE NEED TO SAVE MONEY AT THE END OF THE
DAY. IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SWITCHING TO ELECTRIFYCATION, THAT THE INVESTMENTS WE PUT IN AND FOLKS THAT ARE IN THE BUILDINGS ARE PAYING LESS. THAT MAY NOT BE THE CASE IF PEOPLE
MAKE A DECISION TO MOVE THERE IN SOME BUILDINGS, BUT ESPECIALLY WITH THAT AREA AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE INQUIRING ABOUT SOLAR. THEY WANT TO UTILIZE AND
ACCESS SOLAR. BUT THE COST FOR SOLAR AND SOLAR INSTALLATION AND IN NORTH MINNEAPOLIS IS FAR MORE EXPENSIVE THAN WHAT INDIVIDUALS HAVE AND THE ABILITY TO BE ABLE TO BUDGET. THERE ARE CERTAIN
REMOVAL OR ALTERATIONS TO TREE CANOPIES TO INSURE EFFECTIVE LIGHTING AND ALL THE OTHER COMPONENTS THAT GO INTO IMPROVING THE UTILITY I WILLIZATION AND ELECTRICITY AND WHAT TYPES OF PROGRAMS AND SUBSIDIES ARE COMING OUT OF THIS
IN ORDER TO MAKE THIS A REALITY FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE. >> CHAIR WONSLEY, COUNCIL MEMBER WARREN, THERE'S BEEN SOME GREAT -- I AM GOING TO TRY NOT TO THINK ABOUT THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT AND THE DOLLARS THAT WERE CALLED BACK AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL THAT COULD HAVE SUPPORTED IN THE TAX CREDITS, BUT THERE ARE STILL LOW INCOME
SOLAR PROGRAMS, AND IT IS THE SAME FOR THAT. AND IF WE'RE GOING IN WORKING WITH SOMEONE WITH FAMILY THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY AR SAVING MONEY AT THE END OF THE DAY. AND ALSO TRYING TO PROVIDE THE PARTNERS, FINANCIAL PARTNERS SO THAT THEY HAVE THE CAPITAL.
THAT IS WHY WE CENTER EQUITY IN OUR CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN. AND IF WE GO FOR GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION AND THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE THE CAPITAL THAT CAN SAVE THE MONEY ARE THE ONES THAT WILL BENEFIT. AND MAKING SURE WE ARE FOCUSSED WITH THE EQUITY LENS
ANSWER IN THE CASE OF MAKING MONEY AT THE END OF THE DAY. A MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE I HAVE BEEN TALKING TO WITH RESPECT THAT, YEP, WE WANT TO GO WITH THE ELECTRIC VERSION, BUT WHEN I HOLD UP MY ELECTRIC BILL
AND PRICE COMPARISON TO MY GAS BILL, THE GAS BILL SEEMS TO BE A LOT MORE AFFORDABLE THAN WHAT MY ELECTRIC BILL IS. AS WE LOOK AT THE KEY METRICS ON SLIDE 22, IF WE ARE IMPROVING THE UTIZATION
OF ELECTRICITY,HOULDN'T THAT COST INDEX BE GOING DOWN FOR A MAJORITY OF THE RESIDENTS IN THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS? >> CHAIR WONSLEY, COUNCIL MEMBER WARREN, NOT ALL ELECTRIC IS THE SAME. YOU CAN HAVE BASEBOARD
HEAT THAT IS EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE AS HEAT SOURCE. AND SOME OF E TECHNOLOGY CNGES IN AIR SOURCE HEAT PUMPS, WITH DISTRICT WIDE SYSTEMS A AROUND GEOTHERMAL AND THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR THATRICE TO GO DOWN. COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY TALKED AUT
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE BARRIERS WITH NURAL OR FOSSIL S. THAT IS ONE OF THE BARRIERS IS THAT IT IS CHEAP. TO HEAT A HOME. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE UP AGAINST. WHEN WE GO INTO EACH ONE OF THE HOMES, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE AT THE LOW INCOME
SITUATION THEY ARE SAVING MONEY. THAT IS POSSIBLE GOING FROM AN INEFFICIENT HOME TO A MORE EFFICIENT HOME. >> WITH PROGRAMS LIKE ENERGY ASSISTANCE AND THINGS LIKE THAT, THEY DENOTE MORE FUNDING TOWARDS
SUORTING A GAS BILL THAN THEY DO WITH SUPPORTING ELECTRIC. THE ELECTRIC BILL BECOMES OPTIONAL IF YOUR HOME IS NOT PRIMARILY HEED BY ELECTRICITY, SO THEY'LL SUPPORT FUNDING AROUND GAS AND NOT SO MUCH AROUND ELECTRIC. THEY ONLY PUT
30%. YOU CAN DENOTE FOR 30% OF THAT TO BE UTILIZED TOWARDS ELECTRICITY WHEN IT SHOULD BE MORE TOWARDS THE ELECTRIC COMPONENT, RIGHT, TO PAY INTO THAT TO TRANSITION PEOPLE
TOWARDS UTILIZING MORE ELECTRICITY THAN THEY ARE USING GAS IF WE'RE TRYING TO WEED OUT THAT GAS PROGRAM. SO WITH HOW TO SUPPORT THE LOW TO MODERATE INCOME FAMILIES IN THESE SITUATIONS.
>> DO YOU WANT A RESPONSE? >> YES, PLEASE. >> CHAIR WONSLEY, COUNCIL MEMBER WARREN, YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT BARRIERS AND THOSE ARE THE THINGS WE WRESTLE WITH IN THESE PROGRAMS AND WHAT YOU ARE CALLING OUT IS VALIDITY TO IT
AND THAT IS THE PRINCIPAL WE USE TO SAVE MONEY. >> WHEN INDIVIDUALSTILIZE THE
PROGRAMS AND RENTERS BEING ELIGIBLE TO PROMOTE A WITH NO FORCIBLE ACTION OR PROMOTION OF
SAYING, HEY, YOU HAVE RESIDENTS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THESE PROGRAMS. HERE ISOMETHING ELSE YOU CAN TAKE ADVANTAGEF TO UPGRADE THE HEALTHY LIVING OF YOUR HOMES. WITH REDOING TO PROVOTE THAT TO INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE INVESTMENT PROPERTYS? LIKE
REALLY PUSHING THE ENVELOPE ON THAT? >> AND DIRECTOR HOI SAID THE RETIONSHIPS WITH REGULATORY SERVICES AND OUTREACH IS A HELPFUL PARTNERSHIP WITH THE
LEAR PROGRAM SAND A 90% MATCH THAT WILL SAVE YOUR TENANT MONEY AND HEADACHE ON -- AND I AM KIND OF ADVERTISING HERE AND WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER WITH A LOT OF HEADACHES. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. I
APPRECIATE YOUR BOTH. >> NEXT AND BEFORE THE NEXT COUNCIL MEMBER QUESTIONS, I WANT COUNCIL MEMBER WARREN'S ATTENDANCE RECORDED, AND ONCE WE ARE DONE WITH THE PRESENTATION CAN GET HER VOTE ON THE CONSENT
AGENDA. BUT I WILL MOVE TO COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO. >> THANK YOU FOR THIS PRESENTATION AND THE FOC ON EQUITY IN SPENDING AND PROJECTS. THAT MEANS MY OWN WARD AND PART
OF THE CITY IS NOT A FOCUS HERE, AND I'M OKAY WITH THAT. I FULLY SUPPORT YOUR ENVIRONMEAL JUSTICE GOALS AND I DON'T MEAN
TO SOUND LIKE WE DON'T RECEIVE ANY SUPPORT. WE DO. AND I DO
SUPPORT THE WITH ALL SORTS OF SITUATIONS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CITY WHERE RESIDENTS HAVE PROBLEMS FINDING ACCESS TO CHARGE VEHICLES. FOR EXAMPLE, THEY DON'T HAVE A GARAGE WHERE THEY CAN PLUG IN OR THE COST OF
ADDING AN EXTRA ELECTRICAL INTO A GARAGE SPACE IS PROHIBITIVE, I'VE FOUND THAT TO BE THE CASE. AND I AM FINDING THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE I KNOW, A LOT OF NEIGHBORS AND RESIDENTS TEND TO
DRIVE TO THE SUBURBS AND SPECIAL SPACES IN SOUTHWEST THAT FEEL THEY NEED TO GO OUT AND WHAT WE
ARE DOING TO SUPPORT AREAS THAT DON'T HAVE PUBLIC ACCESS. I DID INQUIRE WITH PUBLIC WORKS AND THEY CAN DO IT, BUT THERE IS A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS THAT GO INTO ZONING AND CHANGE AND I CONTINUE TO EXPLORE THAT WITH
THEM. MY POINT IN RAISING THIS IS THAT I THINK THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING TO DO MORE TOWARDS OUR CLIMATE CHANGE GOALS IF THEY HAD THE SUPPORTO DO THAT. AND FROM THE CITY'S PERSPECTIVE, WE COULD ALL BENEFIT FROM THAT. RIGHT NOW AS
YOU'VE SAID, MINNEAPOLIS USES THE CITY-DRIVEN OPTION, RIGHT? ALL CHARGES ON THE PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY ARE ALSO CO-LOCATED WITH THE E.V. CAR SHARE PROGRAM. UNFORTUNATELY, THAT DOESN'T
ENCOMPASS THE 13th WARD. I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH OF WARD 12 IT ENCOMPASSES EITHER, BUT THOSE TWO MODELS AREN'T EXCLUSIVE AND CAN WORK IN COMBINATION, BUT WE SDROENT A REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR A PRIVATE INTEREST OPTION,
SO ALL THIS TO SAY I WONDER IF COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDRY WOULD LIKE TO JOIN ME INORKING ON THIS TOGETHER SOME MORE. I'D LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PILOT A RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM CATERED SPECIFICALLY TO AREAS OUTSIDE THAT E.V. NETWORKECAUSE THEY'RE IN THE BOULEVARD, WE
HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THINGS LIKE SNOW REMOVAL AND A.D.A. ACCESSIBILITY, AND RESPONSIBILITY OF MAINTENANCE AND WHO WE CONTACT IF ONE ISN'T WORKING. I THINK THAT MIGHT TAKE A LITTLE WHILE, BUT I HAVE BN IN
CONVERSATION WITH PUBLIC WORKS ABOUT IT, AND I GUESS I'M WONDERING WHERE THAT FITS IN YOUR MODEL AND THESE KIND OF PRIORITIES AS IT RELATES TO THE ELECTRIC CAR. >> AND I HEARD SOMEONE WHISPER
OVER HERE, AND DALE HOWEY IS A PROPERTY OWNER THAT HAS INVESTED IN A LOT OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE STATIONS AT HIS OWN PROPERTIES MAKING SE PEOPLE HAVE ACCESS, AND SO WE HAVE A NBER AND A NUMBER OF OTHER PROJECTS WHERE WE HAVE INVESTED WITH PRIVATE PARTNERS TOO A GREEN COST
SHARE ON THE PRIVATE PROPERTY. THAT IS WHERE WE HAVE COME IN. I WOULDN'T SAY IT IS WIDESPREAD. THERE IS A NUMBER OF PROJECTS AROUND. I THINK WE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THAT NVERSATION, AND I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T ALLOW THE FORMER CHIEF OPERATIONS TO WEIGH IN ON
ANYTHING SHE HAS TO ADD TO THAT, BUT WE LOVE THE CONVERSATION. >> THAT'S ME IF YOU WERE WONDERING. CHAIR WONSLEY AND COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO, IT IS AN EXCELLENT QUESTION. EXCEL
ENERGY HAS PROGRAMS IN PLACE EVEN TUGH THEY HAVE CHANGED AND HAVE MORE LIMITATIONS TO THEM FOR SUPPORTING PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT AND A DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN LEVEL 2 CHARGING AND FAST CHARGING. IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT CHARGING THAT WOULD ALLOW PEOPLE TO FILL UP THE ELECTRIC PUMP AND THEY ARE RESIDENTS, THAT IS ONE THING SO IF THEY SHOULD BE LOOKED AT
SEPARATELY. AND I THINK THE GREEN COST SHARE PROGRAM AND BEING ABLE TO INVEST IN IT THERE U THAT, THROUGH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES IS A PATH THAT MANY OTHER CITIES AND OTHER
UTILITIES USE ACROSS THE COUNTRY, SO IT MANY INTHAT. AND THERE ARE BUSINESSES THAT ARE INTERESTED TO SUPPORT THAT TO DO THAT. I THINK BEYOND THAT THERE IS OTHER CONVERSATIONS IF THE
CITY IS TO OWN VERSUS NOT OWN OR BE OUTSIDE PAR TIS. RECENTLY THERE IS DISCUSSION ABOUT IF THERE COULD BE A RATE IF IT'S PUBLICLY OWNEDNFRASTRUCTURE, LEVEL TWO,OULD ACTIVITY A LOWERATE MORE LIKE A
RESIDENTIAL RATE BECAUSEIT'S SUPPLEMENTING THOSE THAT LIVE IN MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING AND THEY'RE GOING TO USE THIS AS THEIR RESIDENTIAL CHARGING OPTION. THERE IS MANY CONVERSATIONS AND IT IS QUITE COMPLEX. I THINK THERE'S, YOU KNOW, MORE THAT COULD BE DISCUSSED THERE. >> THANK YOU. I THINK THAT BY THE NATURE OF YOUR KIND OF OFF
THE TOP OF HEAD COMMENTS THAT POINTS OUT HOW COMPLEX IT IS. SO THANK YOU. AWE THA YOU. I'M BACK IN QUEUE WITH JUST A COUPLE OF FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS RELAD TO ACTUALLY LOOKING AT
WHAT IS THIS SLIDE? SLIDE 24. AND IT SHOWED THAT OUR PROGRESS RELATED TO THE STRATEGIC AREA AND ARE SMAU MOVING ON TRACK. ONE PROJECT THAT I WILL KNOW I HAVE SEEN AND LITTLE ENGAGEMENT
FROM WITH SUSTAINABILITY AND ENGAGEMENT HAS BEEN WITH THE VARIOUS AGENCIES THAT'S BEEN AND
WITH THE AND WITH THE REALLY HEAVY AND THE OBLIGATION AND A LOT OF GOVERNMENT PARTNERS HAVE WEIGHED IN ON. AND SO I WANT TO GET MO CLARITY ABOUT YOU ALL'S PARTICIPATION IN THAT. >> CHAIR WONSLEY, IN THE HEALTH
DEPARTMENT, WE HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE TALKING ABOUT AIR QUALITY AND THOSE SORTS OF ISSUES. I WOULDN'T SAY WE HAVE BEEN IN DEEP CONVERSATIONS WITH A LOT OF THOSE FOLK. WE WOULD BE OPEN TO BEING PART OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS MOVING FORWARD.
>> OKAY. NEXT QUESTION IS WHAT IS LISTED HERE AND I WILL BE EXCITED TO SEE AND PRESENTED ON AT THE NEXT -- IN A FEW C&I MEETINGS AROUND THE WORK PLAN FOR THIS COMMITTEE, BUT ZERO WASTE WAS A TOP PRIORITY SHARE BY COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND I WANT
TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE CLARITY AS IS LISTED IN ONE OF THE AREAS FUNDED BE THE CLIMATE LEGACY INITIATIVE. THE YOU SHARE HOW THE RESOURCES AND INFORMATION PROVIDEDDIFFERENT FROM THE HEAL THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT THE COUNTY
DOES FOR THE PUBLIC AND THEY DO THAT FOR FREE. IF YOU COULD SHARE A LITTLE BIT OF THAT DIFFERENCE. >> AND THE IS CONSULTING AND
EDUCATION DOLLARS INVOLVED WITH THAT AND WOULD BE BETTER AN I BELIEVE TO SPEAK TO THAT AND THAT IS THROUGH PUBLIC WKS AND HAVING A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO ZERO WASTE. >> IT IS REDREKTED TO -- IT IS
REDIRECTED TO PUBLIC WORKS GOONED TO WHO IS THE TARGET AUDIENCE FOR THAT PROGRAM? OR REGULATED TO A PROGRAM NOT BEING RUN THROUGH HEALTH AND SUSTAINAY AND HEALTH.
>> WE ARE IN THE CONVERSATIONS, BUT IT IS PUBLIC WORKS THAT LEADING. >> BEFORE I MOVE ON TO THE LAST, I WILL NOTE BECAUSE WE HAVE OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS AROUND THE FISCAL ELEMENTS AND I THINK EVERYONE HAS A SHARED INTEREST IN GETTING THAT INFORMATION BACK. I DO WANT TO MOTION TO HOLD THIS
ITEM OVER TO AUGUST 20. I AM DOING AUGUST 20 BECAUSE I KNOW OUR AGENDA ON AUGUST 6 IS PRETTY FULL. SO I WANTED TO MOVE THAT FORWARD AS A MOTION AND SEE IF ALL ARE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. THOSE
NOT IN FAVOR, OPPOSED, SAY NAY. ALL RIGHT, GREAT. AND LAST WE HAVE COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR WONSLEY. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. I JUST HAD A FEW QUESTIONS. THE FIRST IS THAT THIS IS THE LAST YEAR FOR THE TREE PROGRAM?
>> OR WHAT IS THE STATUS? YOUR MIC IS NOT ON. >> THERE WE GO >> CHAIR WONSLEY, COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW, NO, FOR THIS YEARE'VE RUN -- THEY HAVE PLANT SOD MANY TREES THEY ARE OUT OF BUDGET FOR THE YEAR. AND SO -- >> FOR THIS YEAR. >> CORRECT.
>> OKAY, OKAY. THANK YOU. WHOA, I DON'T WANT THOSE CALLS TONIGHT. THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THAT. SO WE WILL HAVE A PROGRAM FOR NEXT YEAR. IT'S JUST THIS YEAR. ALL RIGHT. AND THEN I NOTICE THE WORK FORCE
AND CPED AND ONE IN SUSTAINABILITY. AND I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS A STAFF MEMO OR IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN SPEAK TO TODAY, BUT I AM TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY INTERSECT AND IF THIS IS A
DUPLICATE SERVICE AND HOW THEY INTERSECT AND WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES. AND JUST KIND OF AN OVERVIEW OF BOTH OF THE WORKFORCE PROGRAMS. >> THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT DOES A GREEN CARES PROGRAM AND IT IS REALLY FOCUSED AND I MENTION THE
GUYS AND GEMS PROGRAM THROUGH THE MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THAT IS YOUNGER AGE CHILDREN AND IT'S FOCUSED ON GETTING EXPOSURE TO THE DIFFERENT CAREERS AND DOING EDUCATION AROUND THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY AND THE LATEST
IN ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND BUILDINGS AND WE GET INTO SOME ACCREDITED TRAININGS BUT NOT WITH THE PROMISE OF GOING INTO A CAREER. AND IT MIGHT BE A CERTIFIED SOLAR TRAINING. THEY SPEND TIME IN THE CLASSROOM WITH
A CERTIFICATION THAT SAYS THEY DID THE COURSE. AT THAT POINT IT WOULD BE DIRECTING FOLKS INTO CPED, WHO IT IS THEIR ROLE TO FOCUS ON WORKFORCE. WE TALKED ABOUT G.E.D. PROGRAMS AND GETTING PEOPLE INTO TRADES AND REALLY DIRECTING PEOPLE INTO TRADE PROGRAMMING WHERE THEY CAN GO
AND BE DIRECTED TO A JOB AND LAND IN A JOB AND SO THAT IS THE ROLE OF CPED. AND WE WORK IN TANDEM AND IN HANDING PEOPLE O TO THEIR PROGRAMS AND OF COURSE, THEY HAVE FEEDER PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE CITY WITH DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS THAT THEY DO WORKFORCE.
>> SUSTAINABILITY IS MORE PREPARATION AND CPED IS LIKE WORKFORCE. AND GETTING FOLKS JOBS. AND CONTINUED TRAINING. >> CORRECT.
>> WHAT ABOUT RENEWABLE ENERGY PARTNERSHIP? ARE WE STILL IN PARTNER WITH THEM? HAVE WE FIG CURED OUT WAYS IN WHICH TO COLLABORATE? AND EARLIER THIS YEAR MY OFFICE CONNECTED DIRECTOR SAYERS IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY
PARTNERSHIP. AND SO I NEED TO CHECK BACK IN TO SEE IF THEY FIGURED OUT WAYS TO COLLABORATE AND WONDERING HOW SUSTAINABILITY IS DOING WITH THE NORTH SIDE RENEWABLE ENERGY PARTNERSHIP.
>> I CAN FOLLOW UP EXACTLY WITH WHAT IS GOING ON LATELY, BUT WE DO WORK OUT OF THAT SPACE AND THERE ARE TRADES PARTNERS IN THAT SPA AND THE ELECTRICAL TRADES PARTNERS. A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND PARTNERS AS YOU WELL KNOW. SO I CAN FOLLOW UP WITH EXACTLY WHERE WE'RE AT
DOING THE PARTNERSHIP WITH AND WE HAVE PARTNERS AND MANAGEMENT HAD A MEETING AND KIND OF IN COORDINATE WITH OUR RESILIENCE
HUB STAFF PERSON. SO WE'RE AWARE OF THAT. AND ARE WORKING WITH HOW TO COLLABORATE IN GENERAL WITH THE RESILIENCE HUB LOCATIONS AND WHERE THEY FIT IN TO FIGURE OUT EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT SERVICES AND WITH THAT INTO THE PICTURE. SO WE ARE WORKING ON THAT. >> THAT IS AWESOME. THANK YOU. I WANT TO TAP INTO THEM, TOO, FOR THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO
TRAIN AND PREPARE FOLKS FOR JOBS WITH THE TRADES OR WHENEVER FOLKS LAND AND THAT IS A GREAT RESOURCE IN NORTH MINNEAPOLIS AND TALKING ABOUT THE FUTURE OF GREEN JOBS, SUSTAINABILITY, ALL
THE THINGS. SO WITH WHATEVER PARTNERSHIPS AND FANS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THAT IS WHAT WE WANT TO ACCESS. THEY ARE THERE AND PEOPLE HAVE THE ABILITY TO TAKE PUBLIC TRANSIT, RIDE THE BIKE, AND DO WHATEVER THEY NEED TO GET TO THAT LOCATION. WHATEVER WAYS TO PARTNER WITH
THEM FOR JOBS AND ADEQUATE RAINING AND EVEN IF IT IS THE EDUCATION PATHWAY IS SUPER IMPORTANT FOR NORTH SIDERS TO NOTE. AND TO KNOW THAT THE CITY IS A PART OF THAT. I KNOW THEY DO A GREAT JOB AT ADVERTISING
FOR THEMSELVES AND TO RECRUIT AND MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ADDING JOBS AND ENCOURAGING YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY AND PA
THAT IS RIGHTER INSHIP WOULD BE GREAT AS FAR AS WE CAN GO WITH THE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NORTH SIDE ORGANIZATION AND WITH THE
WORK ON MAKING SURE CAP HC GOT THE FUNDING. THAT IS 250 FAMILIES WHO ARE IN NEED OF ENERGY ASSISTANCE, WHO HAVE A HARD TIME PAYING THEIR BILLS AND SO I REALLY DO APPRECIATE HOW
QUICKLY YOU GOT THAT PROGRAM UP AND RUNNING AND A LIST OF 250 FAMILIES WHO NEEDED THAT SERVICE WHEN WE STARTED. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. MAYOR. I REALLY DO APPRECIATE THE WORK YOU AND YOUR
ENTIRE DEPARTMENT DID SO FAST. WE WERE IN A CRISIS WITH FAMILIES IN NEED OF ENERGY, EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE AND ALL THE ASSISTANCES AND THE FAMILIES ARE
GETTING THE HELP FROM THIS, SO THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. >> ALL RIGHT. SEEING NO ONE ELSE IN QUEUE, WE HAVE APPROVED THIS MOTION TO FORWARD THIS TO THE AUGUST 20C&I MEETING. SO THANK YOU, ALL. I LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING A MORE COMPREHENSIVE
FOLLOW-UP ABOUT THE FISCAL ACCOUNTING FOR THE CLIMATE NEG SI -- LEGACY FUNDING AS REQUESTED. THANK YOU ALL FOR TODAY'S PRESENTATION. BEFORE WE MOVE TO THE NEXT DISCUSSION ITEM, NUMBER 19, I DO WANT TO SEE IF COUNCIL MEMBER WARREN, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO
HAVE YOUR VOTE BE RECORDED AS AYE ON THE CONSENT AGENDA. >> IT IS AN AYE. THANK YOU. >> ALL RIGHT. CLERKS, NOTING THAT, WITHOUT ANY OBJECTION. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. MOVING ON TO THE NEXT RECEIVE AND FINAL, ITEM 19, WHICH IS THE
2025 PROGRESS FOR YOUR CITY YOUR STREETS. I WILL INVITE TRANSPORTATION PLANNER, TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING TO GET US STARTED. >> HI, CHAIR WONSLEY AND COUNCIL
MEMBERS. I AM GUSTAV AND I WILL BE GIVING THE YOUR CITY, YOUR STREETS 2025 PROGRESS REPORT PRESENTATION. THIS PRESENTATION PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF PROJECTS COMPLETED IN MINNEAPOLIS IN 2025, AND A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF
HOW ARE WE MEETING THE GOALS LAID OUT IN THE 20-YEAR STREETS FUNDING PLAN. THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARK AND STREET INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED BY THE MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL AND
MAYOR. THE ORDINANCE PROVIDED THE GROUND WORK BY PROVIDING ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO HELP COMPLETE IMPORTANT STREET PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. WORK UNDER THE PLAN BEGAN IN 2017. THE 20-YEAR STREETS FUNDING PLAN PROVIDES A FRAMEWORK OF HOW THE CITY
PRIORITIZES STREET WORK IN MINNEAPOLIS. THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS ADOPTED THE RACIAL EQUITY FRAMEWORK IN MARCH 2023. THE RACIAL EQUITY TRANSPORTATION OUTLINED TRANSPORTATION EQUITY PRIORITY
SCORES AND TIERS TO HELP PRIORITIZE TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENTS AND EVALUATE PROGRESS AND STREET WORK. THESE EQUITY PRIORITY AREAS LOOK AT THE DEMOGRAPHIC MAKEUP AND INCOME OF MINNEAPOLIS NEIGHBORHOODS AS WELL AS TRANSPORTATION-RELATED METRICS
SUCH AS VEHICLE AVAILABILITY, COMMUTE TIME AND TEMPERATURE. SO SINCE 2017, THE 20-YEAR STREETS FUNDING PLAN, THE CITY HAS BUILT OR PARTICIPATED IN A TOTAL OF 308 MILES OF STREET
WORK. THIS IS ABOUT HOW MANY MILED IT WOULD TAKE TO DRIVE ACROSS TO THE CANADIAN BORDER THROUGH INTERNATIONAL FALLS. 89 MILES OF THAT WORK WERE COMPLETED IN EQUITY PRIORITY AREAS. WHILE 21% OF THE STREETS ARE IN EQUITY PRIORITY AREAS, 29% OF THE WORK HAS ACTUALLY
BEEN COMPLETED IN THE AREA. IN THOSE AREAS. AND IN TERM OF OUR MULTIMODAL IMPROVEMENTS, WE HAVE COMPLETED 50 MILES OF NEW OR PROTECTED BIKE FACILITIES WITH
7,700 A.D.A. RAMP UPGRADES, 70 MILES OF PEDESTRIAN REL P HAS BEEN IMPROVED AND OVER 2,000 CURB EXTENSIONS. THERE WE GO. SINCE THE ADOPTION OF THE 20-YEAR STRAET STREETS FUNDING PLAN A LOT HAS CHANGED
WITHIN OUR PLANS AND THE POLICIES. THE CITY HAS ADOPTED PLANS SUCH AS THE TRANSPORTATION ACTION PLAN, THE STREET DESIGN GUIDE, A GREEN STORMWATER, THE
A.D.A. TRAN SIS PLAN AND THE PARKWAYS ORDINANCE JUST TO NAME A FEW. AS A RESULT, THE CITY HAS INVESTMENT GOALS WITH ZERO FATAL CRASHES, MODE SHIFT AND
INCREASING GREEN STORM WATER INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY. AT THE SAME TIME WE HAVE SEEN A RISE IN COST WHETHER COST MATERIALS OR COST PARTICIPATION ON COOPERATIVE PROJECTS THAT HAS RESULTED IN A DECLINE OF THE NUMBER OF MILES
OF RESURFACING WORK WE ARE ABLE TO COMPLETE EACH YEAR AND LAST YEAR IT WAS UNDER 10 MILES OF RESURFACING IN THE CITY. PAVEMENT CONDITION IS A CLOSELY TRACKED METRIC NEGOTIATED WITH THE 20 YEAR STREETS FUNDING
PLAN. THE 20-YEAR STREETS FUNDING PLAN BROUGHT AN ADDITIONAL STREET FUNDING THAT HAS HELPED CURB THE DECLINE AND QUALITY. AT THE SAME TIME, PAVEMENT CONDITIONS HAVE STILL MANAGED TO DECLINE OVER TIME DUE
IN PART TO THE INCREASING AREAS. THE PAVEMENT INDEX IN 2025 WAS AN ESTIMATED AVERAGE OF 57. SO BEFORE GOING INTO ALL THE
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2025 COMPLETED PROJECTS, WE WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT PUBLIC WORKS HAS DONE A LOT OF WORK OVER THE LAST NINE YEARS. AND EVEN THOUGH QUALITY HAS DECLINED FURTHER AND THE
INVESTMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE WITH THE DECISIONS BASED OFF CLIMATE SUSTAINABILITY, EQUITY, MODE SHIFT AND SAFETY AS WELL. SO IN
2025 STREET ACCOMPLISHMENTS, THERE ARE 93 INTERSECTIONS THAT WERE UPGRADED. 39 SIGNALS WERE UPGRADED. AND JUST UNDER 29 MILES OF STREET WORK. 25 MILES WERE MADE IN EQUITY AREAS AND
5.6 MILES WERE SAFETY CONVERSIONS WHICH INVOLVES A FOUR TO THREE LANE CONVERSION OR NARROWING OF A STREET TO IMPROVE SAFETY. IN 2025 THE CITY
COMPLETED T SECOND HALF OF THE HENNEPIN AVENUE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT. PRIOR TO STREET RECONSTRUCTION, THE ROAD WAS OVER 65 YEARS OLD, WHICH IS PAST THE USEFUL LIFE. THE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT PROVIDE
IMPORTANT SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS, GREEN STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE, A TWO-WAY SIDEWALK, BIKE WAY, BUS LAEB AND NEW SIGNALS AND
DETAILED DESIGN AND CONRUCTION WORK. PHASE ONE OF THE FIRST AVENUE SOUTH RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT WAS AO COMPLETED LAST YEAR. THE PROJECT WAS A RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT THAT
INCLUDES A SIDEWALK LEVEL BIKEWAY, NEW SUK AND NEW PAVEMENT FOR VEHICLE. FIRST AVENUE SOUTH WAS ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY RATED PROJECTS IN OUR 20-YEAR STREETS FUNDING PLAN. HOUSE BY OUR TRANSPORTATION MAY
NOT MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR STAFF, WHICH IS A HUGE UNDERTAKING AND ACCOMPLISHMENT. AS PART OF THE CONCRETE REHAB PROGRAM, THE CITY COMPLETED WORK
IN THE KEOOD AREA. THIS IS WITH REPAING CONCRETE PANELS AND PERFORMING AIAMOND GRADE FIN WISH A.D.A. UPGRADES. THE REMAINING SEGMENTS WILL BE
COMPLETED THIS YEAR. THE CITY COMPLETED WORK AT SAINT ANTHONY PARKWAY FROM HAYES STREET TO CENTRAL AVE AND A RED CHIP SEAL WILL BE COMPLETED THIS YEAR OR NEXT YEAR AS PART OF THAT
CAPITAL MAINTENANCE WORK AND TO PROVIDE THAT LOOK AND FEEL THROUGHOUT PARKWAYS OF THE CITY. AS PART OF THE ALLEY PROGRAM, PUBLIC WORKS RECONSTRUCTED THE ALLEY BETWEEN PARK AVENUE AND COLUMBUS AVENUE BETWEEN 45th AND
46th STREET WITH THE PAVEMENT NEEDS. THE NEXT FEW PROJECTS ARE COOPERATIVE PROJECTS. WHILE THESE PROJECTS ARE NOT LED BY THE CITY, THE CITY HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE WITH THE CONCEPT LAYOUT APPROVAL AND COSTS TO
PARTICIPATE ON THE PROJECTS. THE PROJECT ON THE SLIDE IS HENNEPIN COUNTY LED, LOWRY AVENUE NORTHEAST RECONSTRUCTION, SPECIFICALLY FROM CENTRAL TO JOHNSON STREET. THIS PROJECT REDUCES THE OVERALL WIDTH OF THE
STREET, ADDED PEDESTRIAN IMMEDIATE YANS AND ADDED A NEW SHARED USE PATH ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE STREET. THE PROJECT ADDS IMPORTANT SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS IN NORTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS.
HENNEPIN COUNTY LED ON A RESURFACING AND RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT R UNIVERSITY AND 4th STREET. LAST YEAR UVERSITY AVENUE FROM I-35 TO OAK STREET INCLUDED UPGRADES AND NEW PAVEMENT AND SIDEWALK
IMPROVEMENTS, IMPROVING CONNECTIVITY ALONG THE STREET BUT ALSO ACROSS IT AS WELL BETWEEN DINKYTOWN AND UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. MN-DOT LED ON A RESURFACING PROJECT FOR TRUNK HIGHWAY 121 IN MINNEAPOLIS WHERE
MN-DOTEDUCED THE TRUNK HIGHWAY FROM TWO LANES TO ONE LANE. THIS RESTRIPING IMPROVES SAFETY ALONG AND ACROSS THE CORRIDOR AND THIS IS THE EIGHTH STREET INTERSECTION WITH GEOMETRY AND
SIGNAL UPGRADES MAKING IT A SAFER PLACE TO CROSS. THERE ARE SEVERAL STRTS THAT WERE IMPROVED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE MET COUNCIL'S GREEN LINE EXTENSION PROJECT. THE PICTURE
ON THE LEFT IS THE KETTLE WAY RECONSTRUCTED TO IMPROVE TRAIL CROSSINGS AND ALSO A FLASHING BEACON A THIS SLIDE HIGHLIGHTS
THE E-RAPID BUS LINE PROJECT WHICH WAS COMPLETED LAST YEAR. THE E-LINE BROUGHT FASTER SPEEDS AND MORE RELIABLE TRANSIT SERVICE MOSTLY ALIGNED WITH THE PREVIOUS ROUTE 6. IT ALSO BROUGHT ALONG HIGHER RIDERSHIP.
IT BETTER CONNECTS THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA AND LINDEN HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD AND EDINA. THE PROJECT INCLUDES HIGH QUALITY NEIGHBORHOOD SCALE STATIONS WITH REALTIME ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE INFORMATION AND NEAR LEVEL BOARDING. THE NEXT
TWO SLIDES WILL COVER TWO COUNTY LED CONVERSIONS OVER THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO THE LEFT TURN LANE AND THE FOUR TO THREE
LANE CONVERSION AND THESE FOUR TO THREE LANE CONVERSIONS INCLUDE PEDESTRIAN, BIKE AND VEHICLE SAFETY I WILL REDUCING CONFLICT -- BY REDUCING CONFLICT.
THE NEXT SEVERAL LIEDZ WILL -- SEVERAL SLIDES WILL HIGHLIGHT PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS. ACROSS THE CITY IN 2025 THERE ARE 6.1 MILES OF IMPROVED PEDESTRIAN
REALM. THERE WERE 271 CURB EXTENSIONS THAT WERE BUILT. TWO SIDEWALK GAPS WERE CLOSED. 4.6 OF PEDESTRIAN LIGHTING WERE INSTALLED AND 1,000 A.D.A. RAMPS
WERE UPGRADED. AND THE RICHFIELD ROAD SIDEWALK GAP PROJECT FILLED THE GAP BETWEEN THE WILLIAM BARRY PARKWAY AUSTRALIA WITH THE STATION AND
THIS IS LED BY PUBLIC WORKS WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SHARED USE PATH TO FILL THIS GAP. THE FILL LIMBS SAFETY INCLUDED IMPROVEMENTS ALONG 24th STREET ANDED A A FEW INTERSECTIONS WITHIN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. WITH 24th STREET UP FOR RESURFACING,
PUBLIC WORKS BROUGHT IN ADDITIONAL FEDERAL AND LOCAL FUNDING TO CONSTRUCT LARGE CURB EXTENSIONS, TO NARROW THE CROSSING DISTANCE AND SLOW VEHICLE SPEEDS ON THE HIGH INJURY STREET. THE LORING PARK
SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDED SIGNAL UPGRADES AT SEVERAL INTERSECTIONS WITH A FOCUS ON ADDITIONAL SAFETY AND WITH E A.P.S. PUSH BUTTONS AS WELL. THE E-LINE INTERSECTIONS SAFETY
IMPROVEMEN PROJECT WAS A CITY-LED PROJECT, WCH INCLUDED UPGRADES AT VINCENT AVE AND RIDGEFIELD ROAD AND 36th STREET. AND AT RICHFIELD ROAD AND 36th STREET, T INTERSECTION WAS
RECONFIGURED TO ADD A DIAGONAL CROSSWALK TO IMPROVE TRAIL CONNECTIVITY IN THE AREA. THROUGH THE CITY'S VISION ZERO CAPITAL PROGRAM, FLEXIBLE BOLLARDS WERE INSTALLED. THESE
COST EFFECTIVE, QUICK BUILD SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS ALLOW TO IMPROVE SAFETY QUICKLY WHILE SLOWING VEHICLES. AND THE ONES
ON THE SLIDE ARE ALONG BRYANT AVENUE NORTH BETWEEN 4th AND 5th AVE. THEY'RE SHOWN AS DURING FIELD TESTING BEFORE STRIPING WAS COMPLETED. LOOKING AT 2025
ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN TERMS OF BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE, THERE WAS 7.1 MILES OF NEWLY CONSTRUCTED OR UPGRADED BIKE FACILITIES. FIVE OF THOSE MILES WERE PROTECTED BIKE FACILITIES AND THREE WERE IN EQUITY
PRIORITY AREAS. SO THE HENNEPIN-DUNWOODY BIKEWAY PROJECT ADDED IMPORTANT SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS TO RECONFIGURE THE INTERSECTION WITH SIGNALS, A NEW
PEDESTRIAN MEDIAN AND THE SIDEWALK INCLUDED THE CURB EXTENSION ANDREENWAY BOULEVARD AND WITH THE LARGE RAIN GARDEN, WHICH IS PART OF THE GREEN STORM
WATER CONSTRUCTION. AND THE OAKSTREET FROM WASHINGTON AVENUE TO UNIVERSITY AVENUE WAS COMPLETED LAST YEAR. THIS PROJECT FILLED THE LAST REMAINING GAP ALONG OAK STREET, WHICH CONNECTS THE EAST RIVER PARKWAY TRAIL TO THE DINKYTOWN GREENWAY. THE PROJECT INCLUDED
THE ADDITION OF A PROTECTED BIKEWAY AS WELL AS A LARGE CURB EXTENSION AS WELL AS THE NUMBER OF LANES, WHICH WILL HAVE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON VEHICLE SAFETY. THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. THANKS,
EVERYBODY, FOR LISTENING AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. STEWART. I SEE WE HAVE VICE CHAIR STEVENSON IN QUEUE. >> YEAH, THANK YOU. I MOSTLY JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. IT WAS GREAT.
AND ALL PUBLIC WORKS FOR THESE IMPROVEMENTS. THEY ARE MASSIVE. THEY ARE SO GOOD. IN PARTICULAR I THINK A LOT OF THE DESIGNS FOR THE NEW CONSTRUCTIONS HAVE BEEN EXCELLENT. FIRST STREET IS SO MUCH BETTER. IT'S SO NICE ON FIRST STREET
NOW. I THINK HENNEPIN AVE IS GREAT. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF HATE, BUT IT'S ACTUALLY FANTASTIC. I REALLY APPRECIATE THOSE RICHFIELD AND TAKING OUT
THAT SWOOP LANE OR WHATEVER THAT IS CALLED IS MASSIVE. I HAVE DRIVEN, WALKED, BIKED THROUGH MANY OF THE PROJECTS THAT -- AND BUSSED THROUGH MANY OF THE PROJECTS THAT WERE RAISED. THEY WERE ALL SUCH MASSIVE I WANT PROOUCHLTS. SO I JUST CAN'T SAY THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR THESE
THINGS -- MASSIVE IMPROVEMENTS. THAT WAS PRETTY MUCH IT. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU, VICE CHAIR STEVENSON. I WILL NOTE FOR THE CLERK SOMETHI WEIRD IS HAPPENING IN SPEAKER MANAGEMENT. COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO GOT IN QUEUE AND IT HAS HER CHECKED IN
FOR HER FIRST, BUT THAT IS WEIRD. >> RIGHT WHEN SHE INCLUDED HERSELF, I CLICKED NEXT TO IT AND IMMEDIATELY GOT RID OF IT WHEN I WAS GETTING READY TO HAVE THE FIRST ONE, S I JUST RE-ADDED YOU IN >> NEXT IS COUNCIL MEMBER
PALMISANO. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. STEWART, FOR THIS PRESENTATION. I THOUGHT THE REPORT SAID WE HAD BUILT AROUND 8,000 A.D.A. RAMPS AND IN YOUR SLIDE IT SAYS A LITTLE OVER 1,000. REGARDLESS,
HOW MANY MORE DO WE STILL NEED TO DO? >> CHAIR, COUNCIL MEMBER, I THINK I WOULD HAVE T GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT. >> DO YOU FEEL LIKE WE'VE
REACHED THE HALFWAY POINT, A QUARTER? >> CHAIR, COUNCIL MEMBER, WE WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT THE A.D.A. TRANSITION PLANS WHI OUTLINES HOW MANY A.D.A. RAMPS WE HAVE COMPLETED SO FAR AND WHAT IS THE PLAN TO GETS THERE AND THA WOULD HAVE TO HAVE THE EXACT NUMBER IN THERE. BUT THAT ISN
OUR WEBSITE, SO WE DO HAVE A NUMBER OUT THERE. >> ALL RIGHT. IF YOU CAN HELP POINT ME TO THAT ON THE BSITE, THAT WOULD BE AWESOME. >> IT IS FRUSTRATING TO SEE THAT DESPITE OUR INVESTMENT, THE OVERALL PAVEMENT INDEX CONTINUES TO FALL. OTHER THAN INCREASED
FUNDING, ARE THERE OTHER WAYS THAT WE'RESING TO PREVENT THIS DOWNWARD TREND?
>> FUNDING IS A BIG PIECE WITH RESURFACING, CONCRETE REHAB AND RECONSTRUCTION WORK IN TERMS OF IMPROVING AND HELPING CURB THE DECLINE. IN PAVEMENT CONDITION, AND ALSO SEAL COAT, WHICH IS FUNDED THROUGH THE GENERAL FUND.
I THINK WHAT WE HAVE DONE AT THE CITY AS PUBLIC WORKS HAS TRIED TO PAIR INVESTMENTS TOGETHER AND WE ARE ALSO INCLUDING PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS, SO PAIRING
INVESTMENTS TOGETHER HAS BEEN PART OF THE STRATEG TO MAKING OUR DOLLARS GO FURTHER. >> YEAH, THAT SOUNDS GOOD. SO DOES A NEW DIFFERENT KIND OF LEVEL BETWEEN RESURFACING AND RECONSTRUCTION THAT I KNOW HAS BEEN EMPLOYED IN PLANNED PROJECT
WORK IN MY AREA. I HAVE HAD SOME WORK DONE IN THE SIDEWALK GAP PROGRAM PRIMARILY DUE TO THE E-LINE CONSTRUCTION. I'M GRATEFUL FOR THAT. THERE IS A NEW PORTION OF SIDEWALK BUT
WHERE DOES FUNDING STAND FOR OTHE SIDEWALK GAPS? >> CHAIR, COUNCIL MEMBER, SIDEWALK GAP FUNDING IS PART OF THE SIX-YEAR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT
PROGRAM SO THERE IS CURRENTLY CONVERSATIONS IN TERMS OF LOOKING AT THE OVERALL GAP POLI AND WITH ASSESSMENTS. I BELIEVE THAT IS IN THE WORKS,
BUT I WOULD NEED TO CONFIRM THAT. >> THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. I AM LOOKING TO MAKE SURE -- OKAY. THERE IS NO ONE ELSE IN QUEUE. AND BEFORE I RECEIVE AND FILE, I WILL NOTE THAT WE'VE BEEN IN CONVERSATION WITH PUBLIC WORKS LEADERSHIP
ABOUT GETTING REGULAR UPDATES AND SPECIFICALLY SPECIFIC TIMING FOR AN UPDATE IN Q1 OR Q2 NEXT YEAR AROUND STATUS RAPPORT ON THE D.A. RAMP IMPROVEMENTS AND
THAT SIDEWALKS AND STREETS ARE ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL OUR RESIDENTS. REGARDLESS OF THEIR LEADERSHIP AND THIS IS A
PRESENTATIONE WOULD LIKE TO SE COME FORWARD EARLY NEXT YEAR AND CONTINUED REPORTS ON THIS BODY OF WORK WHICH RELATES TO THE VISION ZERO PLAN AND FOR THE
AUGUST 6 CLIMATE AND INFRASTRUCTURE MEETING. AND JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, A QUICK QUESTION, TOO, I KNOW THIS WAS, OR YOUR STREETS -- WHAT IS THE FULL TAG LINE HERE? YOUR STREETS, OUR STREETS. EVERYBODY'S STREETS. YES. THE
PLAN, IT WAS RELATED TO 20-YEAR OVERALL PLAN, I BELIEVE. SO I'M TRYING TO RECALL AS I WAS LOOKING THROUGH THE HISTO OF LIMS, WHEN DID IT ORIGINALLY PASS OR ADOPTED? WAS IT IN 2017, AND ESSENTIALLY WHEN WOULD
WE BE UP OR DUE FOR HAVING TO RECONSIDER THIS ONE AS WELL? >> CHAIR WONSLEY, SO THE 20-YEAR STREETS FUNDING PLAN, SO THE ORDINANCE THAT FUNDS THE 20-YEAR STREETS FUING PLAN WAS ADOPTED IN 2016, AND THAT PRODED
ADDITIONAL FUNDING. STARTING IN 2017, AROUND THEN THE 20-YEAR STREETS FUNDING PLAN AS ITSELF WAS ADOPTED IN 2017. AND SO THAT GIVES US 20 YEARS OF
ADDITIONAL STREET FUNDING PLAN TO COMPLETE THE STREET WORKS PLAN WE HIGHLIGHTED TODAY. >> ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE SOME TIME. AWESOME. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS PRESENTATION. I WAED TO NOTE AS COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO, DID YOU WANT A QUESTION NOTED FOR STAFF MEMO? >> I WOULD INERMS OF HOW MANY
WE STI NEED TO UPGRADE. I DID FIND THE ANSWER WHICH IS 8,000 RAS SINCE LIKE 2017, AND 1,000 RAMPS JUST LAST YEAR IS WHAT IS THE WORK THAT WAS DONE. WHAT I'M STILL CURIOUS ABOUT IS HOW
MA MORE WE STILL NEED TO ADDRESS THAT WOULD BE USEFUL, AND THEN ANY UPDATES ON OUR SIDEWALK GAP FUNDING PROGRAM WOULD BE CERTAINLY APPRECIATED. SO THANK YOU. >> DID OUR CLERKS CAPTURE THAT?
AWESOME. AND IF YOU NEED FURTHER CLARIFICATION, EMAIL ME AND COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO TO GET THOSE NOTED ON RECORD. ALL RIGHT. I WILL ASK THE CLERK TO RECEIVE AND FILE THIS PRESENTATION. AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. STEWART, FOR GIVERING THIS PRESENTATION. AND
THAT SAID, WE HAVE CONCLUDED ALL BUSINESS ON TODAY'S AGENDA. SO I WILL DECLARE THIS MEETING ADJOURNED. ALL RIGHT. [GAVEL]