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B
Good
afternoon
I'm
gwen
whistler,
I'm
the
chair
of
the
planning
and
economic
development
committee
and
I'd
like
to
welcome
you
to
our
september
12th
meeting.
All
council,
members
and
staff
are
participating
virtually
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help
our
audience
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along
I'll
state.
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agenda
aloud
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our
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engagement
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accessible
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virtual
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hub
link
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B
So
I'll
now
go
through
and
introduce
all
of
the
committee
members
and
staff
who
are
participating
virtually
and
when
I
introduce
you,
if
you
just
give
us
a
quick
hello,
councilwoman
sandra
kilgore
good
afternoon,
councilwoman
sage,
turner,.
B
And
I
don't
see
that
brownie
is
on
here
yet,
but
our
buncombe
county
commission,
chair,
brony
newman,
will
join
us
and
then
I
also
see
rachel
wood.
Who
is
our
assistant
city
manager
good
afternoon
great?
So
for
the
minutes,
could
I
get
a
motion
to
approve
the
june
minutes
so
moved?
B
Thank
you
and
sage
seconded
great,
and
so
because
this
is
a
virtual
meeting
I'll.
Do
a
roll
call
vote,
councilwoman
kilcorn
here,
I'm
sorry,
I'm
asking
for
a
positive
vote
on
the
minutes.
B
Okay
and
councilwoman
turner,
I'm
here
and
I
and
I'm
here
and
hi
great,
so
the
minutes
have
been
approved
so
the
next
up
is.
This
is
not
subject
to
vote.
It's
really
for
information
purposes
and
a
program
near
and
dear
to,
I
think,
all
of
our
council
council
people's
hearts,
the
we're
going
to
hear
a
report
on
the
caleb
program,
and
so
I'm
going
to
turn
over
to
alex
michener.
To
present
this
item.
E
Okay,
thank
you
all
for
being
here
this
afternoon,
katie's
going
to
be
sharing
her
screen
with
me.
Let's
see
all
righty
here
we
go
all
right,
so
kayla
2022.
E
So
this
picture,
that's
on
the
screen
at
the
moment
is
our
group
from
this
past
summer
and
katie.
You
can
go
ahead
and
hit
the
next
slide,
so
just
to
give
everyone
a
decent
amount
of
background
information.
This
program
has
been
around
for
a
very
long
time.
E
It's
been
around
since
2007,
and
what
we
really
pride
ourselves
on
is
a
way.
This
program
allows
us
to
allow
students
to
kind
of
get
their
feet
wet
into
the
workforce
field
a
little
bit.
We
hope
that
they're
going
to
make
strong,
meaningful
connections,
but
various
community
members
and
their
internships
supervisors,
so
that,
ultimately,
you
know
once
they
decide
to
either
join
the
workforce.
E
You
know,
or
after
they
go
off
to
college
whatever.
They
know
that
asheville
is
a
place
that
they
can
come
home
to
eventually
that
their
roots
are
here
and
those
connections
that
they
made,
while
in
their
kayla
internships
you
know,
are
going
to
be
some
lifelong
connections.
At
the
end
of
the
day,
so
from
this
summer
we
had
a
total
of
38
students.
E
Let
me
tell
you
38,
teenagers,
all
at
one
time
is,
is
a
lot,
but
we
have
a
great
group
of
students
this
year.
I'm
really
really
proud
of
all
the
progress
that
they've
made.
The
foundation
of
kayla
is
equity,
so
we
really
try
to
make
sure
we're
looking
at
everything
with
an
equity
lens.
So
there's
a
little
there's
a
little
bit
of
everything
going
on
with
the
kayla
program.
E
So,
every
spring
I
go
through
a
whole
application
process,
so
pretty
much
during
the
late
fall
and
early
winter,
I'm
out
marketing
the
program
into
actual
city
schools
and
to
buncombe
county
high
schools
as
well,
and
then,
with
the
help
of
a
lot
of
counselors
in
the
area,
we
really
get
the
word
out
there
for
our
students,
the
students,
typically
application
applications
come
out
usually
around
valentine's
day,
and
they
have
a
little
bit
over
a
month
to
apply
for
the
program
and
we're
trying
to
keep
in
mind
that
this
is
hopefully
going
to
be
geared
towards
more
students
that
are
going
to
be
first
generation
college
students.
E
One
day
I
want
to
see,
we
want
a
plethora
of
students
from
a
variety
of
different
backgrounds,
but
you
don't
have
to
just
be
a
straight
a
student
to
be
in
this
program.
You
know
pretty
much.
We
just
want
to
help
you
get
that
extra
boost.
You
know
if
you've
got
a
couple,
c's
and
d's
or
whatever
like
we
want
to
see
that
you're
at
least
making
some
form
of
an
effort.
E
You
know
we're
going
to
try
to
help
you
out
and
give
you
a
chance,
so
I
just
want
to
note
that
so
our
students
go
through
a
panel
interview
process.
I
have
an
interview
committee
that
is
made
up
of
kayla
alum
local
business
owners
in
the
area,
some
of
our
other
city
staff,
that
they
would
end
up
interning
with
we
have
a
little
bit
of
everybody
on
our
interview
panel,
because
I
can't
pick
all
these
babies
by
myself.
That's
a
lot
of
pressure
and
they
need
to
see
that.
E
Ultimately,
I
don't
make
the
decisions
our
commute.
Our
committee
makes
the
decisions
when
it
comes
to
picking
those
students
katie.
We
can
go
to
the
next
slide.
Please
thank
you.
So
what
we
really
pride
ourselves
on
is
our
model
for
success,
so
we're
providing
summer
internships.
E
We
have
friday
cable
workshops
and
then
we
also
provide
school
year
engagement
as
well
so
focusing
in
on
the
school
year.
Engagement.
That's
the
process
that
we're
in
currently.
So
that
is
where
I
am
pretty
much
on
all
of
ours.
Kayla
seniors
they're
a
little
upset
with
me
right
now,
because
they've
got
some
major
homework,
but
I
put
together
a
plan
and
a
model
for
each
senior
to
abide
by
during
the
first
semester
of
their
senior
year.
E
That
plan
arranges
for
them
to
apply
to
college
via
early
action,
the
quicker
that
they
apply
to
college.
Basically,
there's
going
to
be
a
higher
chance
of
them
earning
merit,
scholarships
or
potentially
getting
a
full
ride.
That
proved
to
be
a
very
beneficial
thing
for
us
last
year.
So
that's
what
we're
sticking
to
this
year
katie!
We
can
go
to
the
next
slide
so
focusing
in
now
on
some
of
our
summer
internships.
E
So
our
students
work
a
total
of
20
hours
a
week.
16
of
those
hours
typically
monday
through
thursday
are
going
to
be
with
their
actual
internship
supervisor
at
their
internship
and
then
those
remaining
four
hours
are
on
fridays
with
me
for
kayla
learning
workshops.
So
during
these
workshops,
we
do
a
little
bit
of
everything
during
our
kayla
orientation.
E
Every
year
I
find
out
what
the
groups
are
really
into
and
try
to
provide
workshops
based
on
their
interests,
as
well
as
workshops
or
around
college
support,
and
then
we
also
do
some
kayla
learning
field
tricks
to
help
them.
Do
some
team
bonding
things
as
well
to
really
strengthen
that
bond,
because
at
the
end
of
the
day,
their
caleb
peers
are
who
they're
going
to
be
networking
with
later
on
on
the
road
and
then,
lastly,
upon
completion
of
the
program,
the
students
receive
a
two
thousand
dollar
scholarship
for
college
next
slide.
E
So
here
is
a
list
of
the
internship
sites
that
we
worked
with
this
year,
and
I
want
to
note
here
that
the
internship
sites
pretty
much
vary
every
year.
They
change
based
on
what
our
students
are
currently
currently
interested
in
so
after
we
go
through
the
whole
kayla
application
process
and
we
narrow
down,
who
we're
actually
going
to
work
with.
Usually
that's
about
mid
april.
E
First
week
of
april,
I
sit
down
and
conference
with
every
single
one
of
our
students
and
try
to
figure
out
what
their
interests
are,
what
their
hobbies
are
and
put
together
some
various
options
for
them
from
there.
So
if
I've
got
a
student,
that's
super
into
music
and
is
like
I
want
to
make
music
videos.
You
know
I
have
a
my
best
friend
from
college
and
roommate
is
the
owner
of
slay
the
mic.
You
know
so
that
was
probably
our
most
popular
internship.
E
This
summer
I
had
several
students
that
were
into
videography
and
they
got
to
go
behind
the
scenes.
Make
music
videos
go
to
video
shoots.
You
know,
get
to
see
a
side
of
the
music
industry
that
they
ordinarily
would
not
see.
E
Okay
next
slide,
so
here
just
some
pictures.
I
wanted
to
give
you
guys
just
a
quick
glance
of
the
different
things
our
students
were
doing
this
summer.
This
young
man
in
the
front
is
really
into
dancing.
He
was
leading
zumba,
you
know,
and
he
was
also
with
slay
the
mic
as
well.
I've
got
a
young
lady
up
here,
feeding
a
dog
she
wants
to
be
a
veterinarian.
One
day,
so
we
had
her
with
brother
wolf,
you
know
so
just
a
couple.
E
Various
pictures
in
your
bottom
left
hand
corner
in
front
of
this
brookshire
bus.
We
went
white
water
rafting
that
day
it
was
a
really
really
fun
field
trip
and
I
think
we
definitely
bonded
together
that
day
we're
out
at
banana
halo.
The
next
slide,
please,
okay,
so
focusing
in
on
the
workshops
and
the
field
trips.
So
these
are
the
various
workshops
and
field
trips
that
we
did
this
summer.
I
love
to
really
have
guest
speakers
come
in
and
meet
with
our
students.
E
I
feel
like
that
leaves
a
really
strong
impact
on
them,
so
they
get
to
you,
know
kind
of
have
that
light
bulb
moment
to
see
who
their
community
leaders
are.
You
know
put
a
face
with
a
name:
they
usually
see
signs
on
the
streets,
but
you
know
when
they
have
that
intimate
connection.
You
know
it
makes
a
difference
and
helps
give
them
a
drive
to
want
to
give
back
to
their
community
one
day.
E
So
we
started
off
at
the
end
of
our
kayla
orientation
going
on
a
trolley
tour,
so
they
could
get
a
gist
of
some
of
the
history.
You
know
around
asheville
and
it
can
give
them
a
decent
overview.
E
That
day,
let's
see
on
july
8th,
we
really
incorporated
a
whole
entrepreneurship
focus,
so
we
had
various
entrepreneurs
come
in
and
meet
with
the
students
so
part
of
the
homework
that
I
gave
out
this
summer.
Basically,
all
of
our
students
had
to
create
a
business
plan
and
that
they
had
to
pretend
that
they
were
an
entrepreneur.
E
They
did
not
like
me
because
they
had
some
serious
homework
this
summer,
but
it
was
beneficial
for
them
in
the
long
run.
So
once
we
divided
the
students
into
groups,
they
had
to
figure
out
or
decipher
among
their
group
who
had
the
best
business
plan
from
there.
They
had
to
basically
create
a
whole
plan
business
cards,
they
shot
commercials,
the
whole
nine
yards
and
they
presented
at
the
end
of
the
summer.
E
At
our
kayla
finale
on
basically
what
their
plan
was,
what
they'd
like
to
accomplish
and
if
it's
something
that
we
can
make
a
reality
one
day,
I
really
want
them
to
see
that
you
know
you
can
create
your
own
business
one
day,
if
that's
something
that
you'd
like
to
do
and
they
can
see
like
okay,
this
is
attainable.
It's
something
within
my
reach.
E
Okay,
so
continuing
on,
we
went
whitewater
rafting
on
july
22nd.
I
had
a
couple
more
guest
speakers
come
in
with
that
entrepreneurship
focus
to
kind
of
get
the
juices
flowing
a
little
bit.
When
it
came
to
those
entrepreneurship
projects,
we
went
on
a
college
tour
down
to
western
carolina
university
with
some
alma
mater
dump
cats.
Just
so
they
can
kind
of
see
like
okay
going
to
college
is
something
that
we
really
want
you
to
do.
We
want
them
to
get.
You
know
out
of
their
comfort
zone
a
little
bit.
E
E
So
here
are
just
some
pictures
for
y'all
to
see
a
little
bit
of
everything
that
we
had
going
on
this
summer,
so
white
water
rafting.
Typically
we
had
our
kayla
workshops
over
in
the
harris
center
upstairs
in
the
banquet
hall
is
where
we
lived
this
summer,
but
we
had
a
really
great
time
so
just
wanted
y'all
to
see
some
pictures
of
different
things.
We
were
doing
next
slide,
please
so
we
are
busy.
E
Our
students
are
very
passionate
about
these
types
of
projects,
so
I'm
like
okay,
give
me
after
they
tell
me
what
they're
into
I
try
to
set
some
things
up
for
them,
so
we
did
some
various
listening
sessions
with
our
data
services
department.
We,
our
students,
are
extremely
vocal
so
anytime
that
they
can
use
their
voice
for
something
I'm
going
to
try
and
give
them
that
platform
to
do
that.
The
opportunity
gap
was
a
huge
issue
with
our
students,
and
you
know
these
students
are
attending
asheville,
high
school
and
various
buncombe
county
schools.
E
They
see
the
issues
on
an
everyday
basis
and
they're
raising
their
voices
about
it.
You
know,
let's
see,
and
we've
kind
of
calmed
down
a
little
bit
on
our
community
service
opportunities,
because
we've
been
in
this
pandemic
for
like
two
and
a
half
years
and
bringing
38
students
to
like
mana
food
bank
is
not
attainable
right
now,
but
yeah.
These
are
some
of
the
social
justice
opportunities
we
have
this
year
next
slide,
please.
E
So
another
form
of
the
part
of
the
program
is
really
increasing
their
college
awareness.
So
I
do
various
workshops
and
different
things
from
during
the
summer
and
primarily
during
the
fall
as
well
to
help
show
our
students
what
they
need
to
do
to
go
to
college
one
day.
So
with
myself
and
our
cfnc
college
foundation
coordinator,
we
kind
of
put
on
different
things
during
the
summers
and
during
the
fall
just
to
help
the
students
out,
so
I'm
physically
out
in
the
schools
constantly
helping
a
lot
of
our
kids,
especially
at
asheville
high
school.
E
So
we're
currently
doing
that
right
now
and
we
do
some
things
in
the
fall
and
the
winter
as
well,
when
it
comes
to
really
showing
them
that
there
are
scholarships
available
for
them.
At
the
end
of
the
day,
I
think
a
lot
of
our
schools
are
bogged
down
like
it's
difficult.
When
you
are
a
college,
I
mean
a
high
school
counselor
and
you
have
like
90
something
students.
E
Typically,
I
think
the
reputation
is
that
our
students
attending
asheville
city
schools
have
more
opportunities
and
a
lot
of
times,
buncombe
county
does
have
these
opportunities.
They've
just
got
to
dig
for
them
a
little
bit.
So
I
put
go:
do
a
lot
of
digging
variously
on
their
school
scholarship
websites,
usually
it's
in
the
counseling
section
and
they
get
weekly
updates
of
me,
blowing
them
up
and
getting
on
their
nerves
about
various
scholarship
deadlines.
E
E
So
we
kind
of
had
a
little
bit
of
everybody.
I
was
very
proud
of
this
class.
We
honored
them
at
our
kayla
finale,
but
they've
all
pretty
much.
I
think
we
had
they've
all
pretty
much
gone
off
to
school
by
now
and
have
gotten
adjusted
into
dorm
life.
We
had
several
a
few
get
full
rides.
I
think
it
was
six
or
seven
in
total
and
even
if
they
did
not
receive
a
full
ride,
they
got
a
hefty
amount
of
scholarships
by
winning
a
lot
of
merit
scholarships.
E
So
it's
paying
off.
It's
really
really
paying
off.
We
go
to
the
next
slide,
so
we
are
always
very,
very
proud
of
our
kayla
students.
I
think
the
best
and
most
rewarding
part
of
this
job
is
going
to
their
various
awards
nights
and
seeing
them
you
know,
earn
their
certificates,
seeing
the
schools
that
they're
going
to
be
going
to
you
know
and
seeing
that
you
know
all
their
hard
work
has
paid
off
at
the
end
of
the
day.
E
Next
slide,
please
and
that's
our
asheville
high
avenue
banquet
a
lot
of
our
kayla
students
are
in
the
habit
program
at
ashford,
so
you
know
we
got
to
go
represent,
but
they
did
a
phenomenal
job,
I'm
really
proud
of
them,
and
I'm
happy
to
answer
any
questions.
I
know
I've
kind
of
said
a
whole
mouthful
and
here's
just
some
various
feedback
from
some
of
our
students.
B
Well,
thank
you
alex.
I
think
this
is
a
great
program.
Have
you
have
you
noticed
that
being
selected
for
the
for
the
kayla
program,
like
is
an
assist
in
their
college
application,
or
is
it
sort
of
neutral.
E
Yes,
it's
a
huge
assist
literally
before
this
meeting.
I
was
over
at
mayheck
dropping
off
one
of
my
students
and
we
have
other
students
that
are
out
in
the
county
schools
that
are
not
kayla
students
that
were
begging
me
to
be
like
hey.
Can
you
help
me
because
I
don't
have
this
kind
of
support
that
those
students
have
okay,
it's
definitely
paying
off.
B
F
And
that's
sort
of
what
my
concern
was.
I
I
love
this
program.
It's
it's!
It's
wonderful!
It's
something
that
I
definitely,
I
think
is
a
benefit,
but
this
is
what
my
one
of
my
questions
was.
What
is
the
percentage
of
the
students
that
apply
for
the
taylor
program
that
are
not
accepted?
I
just
wanted
to
get
an.
I
sort
of
an
idea.
E
Off
the
top
of
my
head,
let's
see
I'm
just
trying
to
think.
I
think
we
had
around
like
82
or
83
applicants
last
year
and
I
think
in
total
we
had
38
this
year,
but
the
thing
is,
we
have
to
keep
in
mind.
We
had,
I
think,
like
13
returning
last
year,
so
about
25
new
students
in
total.
F
Have
you
seen
that
there
is
a
big
difference
in
the
success
of
the
students
that
participate
in
kayla
as
opposed
to
some
of
them
that
you
know
do
not?
Do
you.
E
Yes,
so
I'm
actually
a
kayla
alum
myself,
okay-
and
I
was
in
the
program
now
2010
2011
around
in
there,
and
I
that
is
like
our
my
network
and
the
people
that
I
really
reached
out
to
are
my
kayla
pierce
that
I
was
in
school
with
you
know,
and
we're
kind
of
there's
a
lot
of
us
that
are
back
here
in
town
like
like.
I
was
saying
earlier
about
how
we
have
our
our
selection
committee.
F
And
the
thing
is
what
I
like
about
this
is:
I
was
just
it's
such
a
good
program.
I
was
wondering
the
possibility
of
expanding
it
into
you,
know
more
groups,
and
you
know,
of
course
you
couldn't
do
it
yourself,
so
they'd
have
to
hire
on.
You
know
different,
but
I
just
think
this
is
just
something.
That's
so
wonderful
and
I'd
like
to
be
for
any
student
that
wanted
to
participate.
F
I
would
love
for
them
to
have
a
chance
to
participate
the
program
like
this,
because
it
does
open
up
different
experiences.
I
like
the
way
you
sort
of
open
up,
like
I
said
life
life
skills
and
you
you
sort
of
let
them
experience
things
they
never
experienced
before.
F
This
is
what
actually
you
know,
sort
of
keep
their
their
interest
in
different
things
and
moving
forward,
because
it
takes
them
out
of
that
comfort
zone
and
gives
it
it
gives
them
opportunity
to
look
forward
to
things
as
opposed
to,
because
a
lot
of
them
have
not
been
exposed
to
a
lot
of
the
things
that
you've
exposed
them
to
and
exposure
is
what's
so
most
important.
F
E
And
it
makes
such
a
difference
like
councilwoman
kilgore.
There
were
a
group
of
my
students
that
had
never
been
on
the
block
before
this
summer
and
they,
let
me
know
how
they
got
to
go,
explore
the
block
and
they
got
to
meet
you.
You
know,
and
they
were
like
guess
who
we
met
this
summer.
You
know
so
that
really
means
a
lot
to
me.
Thank.
F
You
again,
yes,
it
was
really
nice,
seeing
in
fact
one
of
the
little
gentlemen
I
just
ran
into
in
that
ihop
he's
working.
I
can't
think
of
his
name
right
now,
but
he's
all
over
the
place
he's
still
a
guy
that
was
doing
the
the
the
dancing.
C
Hand
faced
yeah,
I'm
just
gonna
share.
You
know
it
sounds
like
a
wonderful
program
for
the
kids.
I've
been
able
to
interact
with
a
couple
of
them
one
of
the
wonderful
things
that
helps
us
so
much.
You
know
if
you've
ever
seen
our
affordable
housing
guide
that
was
made
and
organized
by
a
kayla
student,
and
it
was
like
an
enormous
effort
to
pull
together
and
we've
continued
to
renew
it
each
year
so
that
I
just
wanted
to
share
you
know
the
successes
are
on
both
sides
and
such
a
great
program.
B
Yeah
I
mean,
I
think,
and
I've
harped
on
this,
and
so
this
will
be
my
last
harping.
You
know,
I
think
one
of
the
one
of
the
ways
for
this
program
to
expand
is
if
our
business
community
would
actually
pay
the
students
and
pay
the
students
for
the
work
that's
being
done
during
their
internships,
so
that
the
city
and
the
county
weren't
a
hundred
percent
on
the
hook
for
the
cost
of
the
program.
B
So
you
know
these
these
organizations
that
are
benefiting
from
the
work
of
these
interns.
The
fact
that
they
aren't
paying
the
actual
salaries
of
these
students
makes
it
difficult
to
expand
it.
So
if
our
business
community
would
step
up,
I
would
be
pleased
to
see
that.
E
One
thing
I
will
say
on
to
that
a
lot
of
times
our
students
do
such
a
great
job
during
the
school
year.
They
end
up
getting
hired
later
on
by
the
businesses
literally
I'll,
be
over
at
blue
ridge
power
on
wednesday,
just
because
they
have
an
internship
opportunity
for
two
of
our
students
and
two
students
reached
out
to
me,
letting
me
know
they
were
looking
for
a
job.
B
Except
that
you
you've
paid
to
you've
paid,
the
city
has
paid
to
train
them
and
those
those
businesses
should
be
paying
them
themselves.
In
my
humble
opinion,
but
thanks
alex,
it
was
great.
I
mean
the
the
day
I
it
was
quite
an
emotional
day
when
I
went
and
talked
to
the
students,
because
it
was
the
roe
versus
wade.
B
Decision
had
just
been
had
just
been
decided,
and
this
you
could
just
tell
that
the
students
knew
about
it
and
understood
the
implications
of
it
etc
for
their
lives
and
their
friends
and
their
families,
and
it
was
it
was
really
well.
It
was
a
sad
day
for
at
least
me,
but
it
was
also
really
heartwarming
to
see
how
how
engaged
they
were
and
knowledgeable
they
were.
They
were
about
a
you
know,
fairly
significant
social
issue,
so
there
are
wonderful
students,
so
thanks
alex,
I
appreciate
it
all
right.
B
So
next
we're
going
to
move
on
to
the
disparity
study,
update,
and
so
I'm
gonna
again.
This
one
is
for
information
and
input,
but
no
vote,
so
I'm
gonna
turn
it
over
to
frank
mcgowan
good
afternoon.
H
I
thank
you
katie.
My
name
is
frank
mcgowan,
I'm
the
interim
assistant
director
in
community
and
economic
development,
assisting
nikki
for
the
next
six
months
and
I'm
the
project
manager
for
the
disparity
study.
I'm
going
to
give
you
a
quick
overview
of
this
project
where
we
are
right
now
and
what
members
of
council
can
expect
going
forward
next
slide,
please.
H
So
what
is
a
disparity
study?
Well,
I'm
sorry!
This
is
our.
This
is
our
presentation
overview
I'm
going
to
talk
about
what
it?
What
is
a
disparity
study,
I'm
going
to
give
you
some
background
on
art,
history.
Disparity
studies
share
the
anticipated
project
schedule
talk
a
little
bit
about
the
project
team
and,
of
course,
take
any
questions
next
slide.
H
So
what
is
a
disparity
study
it
determines
a
disparity
study
is
conducted
when
we
hire
a
outside
consulting
firm.
To
do
this.
For
us,
it
determines
whether
a
governmental
entity
is
awarding
public
contracts
in
a
manner
that
disproportionately
excludes,
or
limits
participation
by
minority
women
owned
or
disadvantaged
business
enterprises,
also
known
as
mwb
and
fundamentally
it's
comparing
the
utilization
of
mwbes
with
the
availability
of
mwbes
in
the
relevant
market
area,
and
that
is
the
relevant
market
area
is
typically
defined
as
part
of
a
disparity
study
and
just
for
your
knowledge.
H
H
H
In
1994
we
adopted
a
race,
neutral
minority
women,
business
policy
and
plan
and
city
staff
were
responsible
for
managing
and
updating
that
plan
in
98,
99,
2001,
2002,
2004
and
2006
for
administrative
and
legal
requirements
and
compliance.
H
H
H
If
you
wanted
to
look
at
the
results
of
that
disparity
study,
but
we
are
operating
under
its
guidance
now
and
that
study
did
recommend
race,
conscious
measures
to
identify
or
I'm
sorry
to
address,
identified
disparities
next
slide.
Please.
H
So
the
last
disparity
study
provided
strong
evidentiary
based
basis
needed
for
the
city
of
asheville
to
create
our
current
or
new,
and
current
business
include
inclusion
policy
which
prescribes
additional
methods
by
which
the
city
may
achieve
parity
in
contracting
a
pyramid.
H
The
city
of
asheville
adopted
that
policy
on
october
27,
2020,
2020
and
the
effective
date
was
january.
1St
2021..
This
is
bolded
for
a
reason.
Pursuant
to
law,
the
new
disparity
study
must
be
conducted
at
least
every
five
years
in
order
to
continue
any
race
and
gender
conscious
contracting
program,
and
the
sunset
provision
within
our
current
policy
is
november
1st
2023.
So
the
new
disparity
study
is
needed
to
evaluate
the
effectiveness
of
our
current
policy
and
provide
the
legal
justification
for
continuing
the
program.
H
If
that
is
warranted
next
slide,
please
our
anticipated
project
schedule
is
shown
here.
The
rfp
was
released
in
july
of
this
year.
We've
had
some
pre-proposal
meetings
and
the
submissions
were
due
on.
On
august,
the
19th
we
are
going
through
the
selection
process
right
now,
so
you'll
notice
that
date
of
september
9th
we're
almost
over
the
finish
line,
we're
very
close
with
selecting
our
vendors
and
or
selecting
our
vendor.
H
I
should
say
from
those
who
submitted
the
date
of
september
27
2022,
that
is
when
we
are
bringing
the
top
ranked
proposal
to
city
council
for
a
vote
for
authorization
of
entering
into
that
contract
and
then
we'll
start
the
project.
H
This
is
a
pretty
aggressive
timeline,
the
amount
of
data
that
the
vendor
is
expected
to
go
through.
It's
really
all
of
our
procurement
data
con.
They
do
a
sampling
of
contracts,
they
go
through
procurements.
They
look
at
documentation
related
to
bids
and
the
list
goes
on
and
on
so
it's
a
pretty
extensive,
deep
dive
into
our
management
systems
and
how
we
go
about
procurement
and
how
we
solicit
for
participation
from
mwbe
vendors.
H
But
as
I
said,
that
project
will
kick
off
in
early
october
the
completion
date
we
expect
to
be
august
of
next
next
year,
2023
with
policy
recommendations
due
in
september,
we
will
have
a
pretty
intensive
review
of
that
and
then
the
final
presentations
to
this
committee,
as
well
as
city
council,
will
be
in
october.
H
H
It
involves
support
from
really
all
the
departments
we
have
decentralized
contracting
within
the
city,
and
many
of
the
documents
related
to
bids
are
managed
by
the
departments
themselves.
So
we
really
have
involvement
by
every
department,
but
we
certainly
have
support
from
the
city
manager's
office.
H
But
we
also
lean
very
heavily
on
others
here
in
the
community
and
economic
development
department.
This,
the
business
inclusion,
office,
capital
projects,
equity
and
inclusion
is
very
much
involved.
Our
I.t
services
department
is
critical
to
making
this
work
office
of
data
and
performance
purchasing
is,
is
critical
as
well,
but
really
it's
all
hands
on
deck.
To
make
sure
this
this
gets
done
next
slide.
Please
do
you
have
any.
B
So
frank,
thank
you
for
this.
The
city
of
nashville
gets
a
lot
of
criticism
on
bringing
consultants
in.
Do
we
have
to
have
a
consultant?
Why
can't
we
do
this
in-house?
Is
it
required
that
an
external
organization
conduct
the
study.
H
So
I
was
wondering
if
legal
wasn't
was
on
this
call
and
I
don't
believe
they
are,
but
I'll
try
to
take
a
stab
at
this.
The
best
I
can
the
basis
for
establishing
a
race
and
gender
conscious
program.
H
Business
inclusion
program
is
really
based
on
case
law,
and
it
has
so
there's.
Certainly
a
legal
element,
and
in
fact
part
of
our
rfp
process
asked
very
specifically
do
who,
on
your
team
is
a
licensed,
is
a
is
a
north
carolina
licensed
attorney,
because
the
case
law
is
is
very
specific
and
you
have
to
address.
H
Specific
questions
related
to
the
case
law
in
your
assessment.
In
addition,
the
way
the
study
is
is
conducted
was
also
outlined,
very
specifically
within
that
case
law,
and
I've
got
this
in
my
notes
somewhere.
It's
the
1989
u.s
supreme
court
decision
in
the
case
of
the
city
of
richmond
versus
j.a
crossing.
H
So
you
have
to
demonstrate
a
compelling
interest,
and,
quite
frankly,
it
is
beyond
the
capability
of
city
staff
to
provide
that
guidance.
B
That
works
for
me,
councilwoman
kilgore.
You
had
your
hand
raised.
F
Hi
greg,
thank
you
so
much
for
this
information
and
the
question
I
have
is
I
I
really
like
you
said
the
program
it
was
implemented
in
1993
and
I'm
just
wondering
have
you
seen
what
kind
of
positive
impact
has
this
program?
Actually
you
know
that
you've
seen
because
I
went
to
look
at
the
report
and
it
was
like
505
pages.
So
I
just
sort
of
said
I'll.
Ask
you
about
it,
but
anyway
yeah
I'm
trying
to
see
from
1993
to
present.
I
F
H
So
I'm
going
to
try
to,
I
may
lean
on
nikki
for
a
little
bit
of
assistance
here.
Full
disclosure
I've
been
in
this
role
for
four
weeks
and
a
day.
H
So
this
is
a
new
project
to
me.
But
what?
But
I
have
been
involved
on
the
procurement
side
and
I
was
involved
in
the
drafting
of
the
of
the
business
inclusion
policy
that
went
to
council
and
what
I
would
say
is
this.
H
After
we
adopted
the
policy,
the
city
of
asheville
has
been
active
in
developing
tools
and
resources
to
make
sure
that
we
are
doing
outreach
to
minority
and
women-owned
businesses,
and
if
I,
if
I
can,
I've
got
something
up
on
my
screen
that
I'd
like
to
share,
because
I
think
it
speaks
a
bit
to.
I
And
I'll
add
two
while
frank
pulls
that
up.
I
think
part
of
it,
too,
is
this
disparity
study.
If
we
get
in
in
the
process
of
updating
them
on
this
cycle,
then
we'll
be
able
to
benchmark
where
we
have
been
and
how
policy
implementation
is
helping
to
improve
our
position.
So
I
do
think
that
this
disparity
study
will
tell
us
a
lot
compared
to
where
we
were
in
2018.
H
And
excuse
me
what
I'm
sharing
here
are
the
aspirational
goals
that
we
have
for
construction,
repair,
general
services,
professional
service
contracts
and
our
purchases.
H
So
when
we
think
about
how
we
procure
we
do
direct
procurement
here
at
the
city
of
asheville,
but
we
also
are
working
through
when
it
comes
to
construction,
especially
with
I'm
sorry
when
it
comes
to
contracting,
especially
with
construction,
we're
typically
working
with
a
prime
vendor
and
they're
getting
subcontractors.
H
So
when
we
look
at
this
chart
it
breaks
down.
This
is
women-owned
businesses,
black
owned
black
american
businesses,
asian
american
businesses
native
american
hispanic,
and
it
shows
you
what
percentage
goal
we
are
attempting
to
see
on
each
project.
So
with
construction,
there
was
no
disparity
identified
with
white
white
women
owned
businesses,
but
there
was
with
black
american-owned
businesses,
asian-american
native
american,
none
with
hispanic-owned
businesses.
H
So
when
we
put
a
doc
when
we
put
a
project
out
to
bid
for
construction,
these
goals
are
plugged
in
and
there's
an
expectation
that
our
our
prime
vendors
understand
what
we
are
looking
for
in
terms
of
minority
business
participation,
and
they
are
partners
in
doing
that
outreach
for
us.
So
I
think
to
answer
your
question,
that
is
a
positive
that
we
are
enlisting
our
prime
vendors
as
partners
in
doing
in
doing
that
outreach.
H
In
addition,
we
have
staff
that
are
involved
in
projects
and
they
are
doing
outreach
as
well,
and
we
are
developing
internal
tools
to
support
both
internal
stakeholders.
Our
employees
and
external
stakeholders
are
vendors
as
they
do
that
outreach.
So
I
think
that
is
a
positive,
positive
difference
in
terms
of
hard
numbers
of
utilization.
I
don't
have
that
in
hand
right
now,.
B
Anyone
else
have
any
questions
well.
I
hope
that
the
disparity
study
shows
that
we
have
made
some
progress
and
I
mean
my
my
sense
is
we
have,
but
obviously
not
until
the
hard
numbers
come
up
what
we
know.
But
good
luck-
and
I
know
it's
a
I
know
it
is
a
lot
of
work
and
there's
a
lot
of
data
that
gets
crunched
and
analyzed
and
all
that.
So
good
luck
with
that,
and
congratulations
on
your
new
role.
B
I'm
not
sure
I
knew
that.
So!
Congratulations,
frank!
Thank
you
great
okay.
So
the
next
on
our
agenda
is
the
solar
feasibility
partnership
and
this
this
is
an
action
item
that
we'll
be
asking
our
committee
members
to
vote
on
whether
you
want
to
send
this
recommendation
to
council
or
not,
and
we
have
brownie
newman.
Who
apparently
has
somebody
at
his
front
door
or
side
door
or
whatever.
So,
oh
here.
G
B
Now
he's
back
our
chair
of
the
buncombe
county
commission,
brownie
newman,
welcome,
brownie
and
I'll
turn
it
over
to
you-
and
this
is
your
you're
speaking
to
our
planning
and
economic
development
committee.
Brownie.
J
Yeah,
thanks
quinn,
hey
thanks!
Everybody
thanks
for
the
invitation
to
be
here,
yeah,
I'm
I'm
out
in
black
mountain
on
this
house
that
I'm
working
on
and
the
mini
split
guy
just
showed
up
to
see
what
we
need
to
do
to
get
that
thing
running
again.
So.
J
Kind
of
I
might
be
multitasking
just
a
little
bit
during
this
presentation.
We
have
a
great
need
for
housing
in
our
community.
I'm
trying
to
get
this
one
like
back
online.
So
anyway,
I
apologize.
I
apologize
that
that's
happening
at
the
same
time,
but
thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
to
be
with
you
all
this
afternoon
and
I've
got.
J
I've
got
a
few
slides
that
I'd
like
to
show
and-
and
I
can
just
kind
of
walk
through
that,
but
in
the
in
the
county's
energy
and
environment
subcommittee,
which
we
set
up.
That's
a
new
committee
for
the
county
which
we
set
up
about
nine
months
ago.
We've
been
you
know,
both
the
city
and
the
county.
Both
have
these
very
ambitious
renewable
energy
goals
right
to
transition
from
fossil
fuels,
to
renewable
energy.
J
We
have
both
our
local
government
goals
and
then
we
have
our
broader
community
goals
and
both
are
very
ambitious
and
I
know
we're
all
you
know.
Both
organizations
are
are
working
hard
to
identify
different
opportunities
to
take
us
towards
these
goals.
So
I
think
I
think
it
might
be
helpful
to
just
go
ahead
and
just
kind
of
walk
through
the
slot.
This
slide
presentation-
and
this
is
also
you
know,
kind
of
largely
informational,
but
we
do
have
some
ideas
about
kind
of.
J
This
is
an
idea
that
the
city
is
interested
in
and
open
to
some
some
suggestions
for
sort
of
how
we
could
explore
these
ideas
in
more
detail,
so
I'll,
just
kind
of
walk
through
the
slides
and,
if
folks
have
any
questions
as
I'm
doing
that
feel
free
to
feel
free
to
ask
all
right
so
so,
challenges
and
opportunities
for
achieving
these
ambitious
renewable
goals
in
asheville
and
buncombe
county.
So
this
is
a
picture
of
a
solar.
J
This
is
the
first
solar
farm
that
was
built
in
western
north
carolina
back
in
2009,
so
just
a
little
over
10
years
ago,
12
years
ago,
and
this
is
on
a
retired
landfill
just
outside
the
little
town
of
canton
north
carolina.
So
so
anyway,
so
you
know,
we've
got
things
going
on
in
this
part
of
the
state.
This
was
kind
of
the
first
of
those
types
of
projects
next
slide.
J
Please-
and
this
is
the
county's
retired
landfill
in
woodfin
and,
as
folks
probably
are
aware,
we're
working
with
duke
energy
to
have
a
solar
farm
installed
on
that
property
if
you
haven't
driven
by
there
recently,
if
you
drive
by
there,
you'll
actually
see
like
it's
not
operational
yet,
but
a
lot
of
it
is
installed,
so
you
can
actually
kind
of
see
the
solar
farm
from
the
road.
So
we're
excited
about
that
project,
and
this
will
be
you
know,
one
of
the
larger
solar
farms.
G
J
The
mountain
region
of
the
state,
so
we're
excited
to
see
that
project
going
ahead
next
slide
and,
of
course
the
city
is
working
on
lots
of
great
projects
as
well
like
the
like
the
solar
project
down
at
the
transit
station
next
slide,
and
you
know
beyond
the
county's
own
facilities,
we're
also
looking
for
ways
to
you
know,
since
the
county
has
to
pay
the
utility
bills.
You
know
we
invest
our
county
funds
into
the
city,
schools
and
county
schools
and
av
tech
in
part
to
help
them
pay
their
energy
bills.
J
We
also
are
really
interested
in
what
we
can
do
to
support
renewable
energy
on
their
facilities,
because
since
we're
already
paying
the
bills
anyway,
let's
you
know,
let's
invest
in
renewable
energy
systems,
to
drive
down
those
conventional
energy
costs,
while
also
helping
to
move
towards
our
our
clean
energy
goals.
So
next
slide.
J
So
you
know,
north
carolina
is
actually
one
of
the
largest
solar
states
in
the
country
and
we
see
more
solar
being
built
in
north
carolina
than
than
you
know.
J
Most
other
states
around
the
country,
but
a
lot
of,
but
most
of
the
solar
being
built
in
north
carolina
is
built
in
the
form
of
these
ground-mounted
solar
farm
projects
like
like
you
see
in
the
picture
here,
and
most
of
these
projects
are
being
built
in
the
eastern
part
of
the
state,
where
there's
an
abundance
of
relatively
inexpensive
and
flat
land,
which
is
ideal
for
building
these
kinds
of
ground-mounted
solar
farm
projects.
J
Next
slide,
and-
and
this
slide
shows
that
for
north
carolina,
the
different
types
of
solar
that
are
being
installed
and
the
light
blue
is
like
utility
scale,
solar
farms.
The
dark
blue
is
like
residential,
solar,
yellow
is
on
businesses.
J
So,
as
you
can
see
on
these
slides,
it's
just
overwhelmingly
like
these
solar
farms
are
really
how
most
of
this
renewable
energy
is
getting
getting
built
in
our
state
acros
across
the
state.
If
you
just
looked
at,
if
you
just
looked
at
the
asheville
area,
probably
it
would
be
a
bit
more
on
like
the
residential
commercial
side
than
the
solar
farms.
Because
of
the
topography
issues
we
were
talking
about
early
earlier
next
slide.
J
And
this
this
slide
basically
kind
of
reiterates
the
same
or
similar
point
at
the
national
level.
So
here
the
the
light
blue
again
is
utility
scale,
solar
farms,
yellow
commercial,
the
dark
blue
at
the
bottom
residential.
So
across
the
country
most
of
the
new
solar,
that's
being
deployed
in
our
country,
takes
the
form
of
these
large.
You
know
these
these
solar
farm
projects
and
two
of
the
main
reasons.
That's
why
so
much
of
the
solar
energy
is
being
built.
That
way
is
because
you
know
one
solar
farm.
You
know
all
these
projects.
J
Every
project
is
challenging.
Every
project
has
issues
to
work
through,
but
when
you
get
a
solar
farm
built,
you
know
it
may
generate
as
much
power
as
500
homes
or
that
are
solar
on
a
thousand
homes.
So
a
single
project,
you
know,
is
the
equivalent
amount
of
energy
of
hundreds
or
even
thousands,
of
the
smaller
residential
projects,
and
the
other
reason
that
the
solar
farms
are
being
so
so
successful
is
that
it's
it's
the
industry's
been
very
successful
in
driving
down
the
cost
of
building
these
projects.
J
So
as
as
noted
in
the
slide,
the
average
cost
to
install
a
solar
farm
is
less
than
a
dollar
a
watt,
whereas
the
typical
residential
project
costs
about
two
dollars
and
sixty-five
cents
a
watt.
So
it's
it's
more
than
it
is
less
than
half
the
cost
to
put
solar
in
a
solar
farm
compared
to
the
typical
residential
project,
because
you
just
have
this
tremendous
economy
of
scales
right
in
building
those
kinds
of
projects
compared
to
a
residential
project.
So
next
slide
please.
J
These
are
just
a
couple
of
pictures
like
so
one
picture
from
you
know:
asheville
and
buncombe
county
another
picture
of
robeson
county
down
in
eastern
north
carolina.
You
know
we
love
these
mountains
and
we
love
our
beautiful
city
of
asheville,
but
just
kind
of
looking
at
these
aerial
photographs
from
these
two
counties.
Kind
of
like
emphasizes
the
point
for
why
eastern
north
carolina
has
been
so
successful
in
building
a
lot
of
solar
farms.
J
But
when
you
look
at
that
landscape
in
asheville,
you
kind
of
just
realize,
like
wow,
you
know
we
don't
have
that
many
places
to
do
these
kinds
of
projects
in
the
mountains,
because
we're
well
at
least
in
asheville
and
buncombe
county,
because
we're
a
pretty
urbanized
county
and
we're
a
mountain
county
right.
So
these
large
tracks
of
of
flat
land,
especially
that
are
affordable,
are
not
common
here.
J
So
next
slide
and-
and
some
people
ask
well,
can
we
just
you
know
why
don't
we
just
ramp
up
doing
solar
on
people's
homes
right
like
on
residential
situations?
A
lot
of
people
you
know
would
like
to
have
solar
on
their
homes,
and
certainly
rooftop
solar
is
going
to
be
a
huge,
is
going
to
play
a
very
important
role
in
this
transition
to
renewable
energy.
J
You
know
in
this
part
of
the
country
like
what
happens
is
big
deciduous
trees
grow,
like
that's
kind
of
what
you
know
we're
in
the
appalachian
mountains
like
we're
in
a
hardwood
forest
natural
ecosystem.
So
so
a
lot
of
the
homes
have
a
lot
of
shading
from
the
mature
trees
in
the
neighborhoods,
and
so
they
would
that's
that's
that
might
be
incompatible
with
doing
solar
on
a
lot
of
these
properties.
J
J
You
know
we
ran
this,
the
city
and
the
county
partnered
with
the
blue
horizons
project.
To
do
the
solarize
campaign.
To
kind
of
you
know,
get
people
excited
about
doing
rooftop
solar.
They
did
the
most
successful
solarize
campaign
in
the
country
last
year,
which
is
which
is
really
cool
and
a
testimony
to
the
enthusiasm
in
our
community
for
for
doing
solar.
J
That
project
resulted
in
solar
on
about
180
homes,
about
1.45mb
of
solar
installed
and
they're
planning,
to
do
a
campaign
like
this
every
couple
of
years,
but
just
for
context.
So
at
that
rate
over
the
next
15
years
doing
solarized
campaigns
we
might
get
like
maybe
10
megawatts
of
rooftop
solar
out
of
that
type
of
effort.
The
duke
energy
power
plant
is
544
megawatts.
So
just
again,
it's
important
that
just
kind
of
keep
in
mind.
J
You
know
we
need
some
other
strategies
too
next
slide,
please
another
strategy,
we're
going
to
have
in
north
carolina
and
other
areas
is
offshore
wind
and
that
this
is
a
huge
opportunity.
Some
people,
some
experts,
who've,
looked
at
this
believe
we
might
be
able
to
get.
You
know
one
third
to
one
half
of
north
carolina's
energy
in
the
future
powered
by
offshore
wind.
J
We
have
tremendous
resources
there,
so
that
could
be
a
big
part
of
the
solution
in
north
carolina
and
you
know-
and
that's
that's
that's
an
exciting
opportunity
for
us.
That
will
also
play
an
important
role
so
next
slide
but
of
course,
we're
far
from
the
coast
and
we're
also
far
from
eastern
north
carolina.
So
to
you
know,
if
we're,
if
we
were
going
to
utilize,
you
know
solar
energy
and
renewable
energy
built
elsewhere.
J
It
would
require
the
construction
of
additional
transmission
to
import
that
power
into
buncombe
county,
and
you
know
the
reality
is
that
as
we
look
to
transition
to
renewable
energy,
our
country
is
going
to
need
a
lot
of
additional
transmission
capacity
right
like
we're
going
to
need
to
modernize
our
grid
and
our
grid
is
going
to
need
to
have
more
capacity
so,
and
we
should
support
that
as
part
of
the
you
know,
the
necessary
infrastructure
to
transition
to
renewable
energy.
J
But
we
all
know
these
kinds
of
projects
can
be
very
damaging
in
the
particularly
in
a
mountain
environment,
and
so
we
want
to
minimize
the
amount
of
new
transition
transmission
infrastructure
that
needs
to
be
built.
We
shouldn't
rely
purely
on
a
strategy
of
let
other
parts
of
the
state
build
renewable
energy
and
just
send
it
and
just
send
it
here
that
would
that
would
not
be
an
ideal
alternative
for
for
meeting
our
goals.
J
So
next
next
slide,
so
you
know
there's
a
lot
of
places
around
the
world
that
want
to
go
fast
on
renewable
energy,
but
which
are
also
big
metro
urban
areas
and
which
don't
have
a
lot
of
land.
You
know
singapore,
one
of
the
you
know
fastest
growing
metropolitan
areas.
In
southeast
asia,
a
population
over
5
million
people
has
almost
no
vacant
property
right
like
it's
a
completely
landlocked
area.
J
It's
total
land
here
is
actually
less
than
buncombe
county
the
size
of
buncombe
county.
So
next
slide.
So
one
of
the
one
of
the
really
innovative
ideas.
That's
emerged
in
the
industry
in
recent
years
for
what
to
do
in
some
of
these
areas,
where
you
don't
have
a
lot
of
land
is
to
look
at
reservoirs
and
other
water
bodies
as
potential
sites
for
locating
solar
projects
right,
and
so
the
basic
idea
is
to
simply
use
the
surface
of
the
of
the
water
body
in
the
same
manner
that
you
would
use.
J
You
know
a
ground
mounted
location,
but
rather
than
mounting
the
solar
on
the
traditional
kind
of
metal
racking
system,
you
develop
a
system,
that's
buoyant
that
they
can
float
on
basically
like
a
kind
of
pontoon
type
racking
system.
The
arrays
can
be
placed
on
those
floating
systems
and
you
have
a
floating
solar
project
rather
than
a
ground
mounted
solar
project.
So
next
slide
this
one.
That
picture
is
from
singapore
next
slide.
J
This
is
just
another
photograph
from
one
of
the
drinking
water
reservoirs
located
outside
singapore,
and
you
can
see
this
is
like
a.
This
is
a
huge.
This
is
a
huge
project,
so
this
is
like
a
real
renewable
energy
power
plant.
Right
like
this
is
generating
a
ton
of
a
ton
of
power.
J
All
right
next
slide
and
hey
if
you
need
anything
for
me,
just
just.
Let
me
know
I'm
on
this
gym
called
if
you
need
anything
for
me.
Just
just
give
me
a
shout
okay
next
slide.
Oh,
this
is
a
picture
from
from
like
a
pond
small
lake
in
california.
This
is
this
is
generating
a
little
bit
less.
J
This
is
about
this
is
about
the
same
size
as
the
as
the
solar
farm
on
the
county
landfill
a
little
bit
under
five
megawatts,
so
a
similar
type
of
similar
size
project
compared
to
what
we're
doing
at
the
landfill
next
slide-
and
this
is
a
another
area
where
floating
solar
is
really
growing.
Fast
and
kind
of
blowing
up
is
in
europe.
You
know
another
area
where
you
have
very
high
population
density
land
is
very
valuable
and
so
they're
also
looking
to
their
reservoir
systems
as
locations
to
generate
renewable
energy.
J
G
J
Natural
lakes
in
this
part
of
the
world,
all
of
our
lakes
were
built
by
people
either
to
serve
as
hydropower
for
hydropower
production
or
as
cooling
reservoirs
for
nuclear
power
plants
or
for
coal-fired
power
plants.
Those
are
the
main
reasons
that
they
were
built
in
the
first
place
or
as
a
drinking
water
reservoir.
J
So
when
you
put
floating
solar
on
a
drinking
water
reservoir,
the
the
one
of
the
main
ways
that
we
lose
water
from
reservoirs
is
through
evaporation
right,
and
so,
when
you
place
a
floating
solar
array
on
the
surface
of
the
reservoir,
it
cools.
The
water
reflects
the
sunlight
and
actually
can
significantly
reduce
water
loss
through
evaporation.
So
it
effectively
increases
the
community's
supply
of
clean
drinking
water,
and
we
are,
you
know,
we're
fortunate
to
have
an
abundance
of
clean
drinking
water
here,
but
going
into
the
future.
We
know
that
clean
drinking
water
will
be.
J
You
know
one
of
our
most
precious
resources
so,
and
this
is
a
way
to
actually
increase
that
increase,
that
capacity
all
right
next
slide.
Please,
and
it's
just
a
photograph
kind
of
closer
up
for
what
some
of
these
systems
look
like.
You
can
kind
of
see
the
floating
pontoon
type.
You
know
devices
that
they're
mounted
on
and
there's
different
designs
for
this
stuff.
This
is
just
sort
of
one
example
next
slide
and
this
this
slide
sort
of
just
shows
kind
of
an
example
of
how
the
systems
are
designed.
J
They
are
typically,
you
know,
tethered
to
the
edges
or
bottom
of
the
water
body
so
that
they,
the
floating
solar
arrays,
can
kind
of
move
around
a
little
bit.
There's
a
little
bit
of
flexibility
in
the
system,
because
water
levels
go
up
and
down
and
things
like
that,
but
but
they
are
tethered
and
anchored
such
they're,
not
just
like
completely
floating.
You
know
anywhere
that
the
wind
is
blowing
any
direction.
J
The
wind
is
blowing,
so
there's
some
movement
possible
that
they
are
kind
of
stationed
in
a
particular
area
that
they're
planned
for
within
the
water
body,
and
then
that
array
that
solar
array
is
linked
into
the
electrical
grid.
So
all
the
power
flows
onto
the
electrical
grid,
just
kind
of
like
a
typical
solar
farm.
It's
just
it's
just
located
on
on
the
water
body.
J
Instead,
all
right
next
slide-
and
this
slide
basically
describes
the
growth
of
the
floating
solar
technology
in
terms
of
its
deployment
over
the
last
five
or
six
years,
and
so
you
know
started
you
know
in
its
infancy,
2016
2017,
but
then
has
grown
quite
rapidly
since
then,
and
this
is
described,
these
top
line
numbers
are
in
megawatts.
So
this
is,
you
know
as
an
overall
percentage
of
the
solar
industry,
which
of
course,
also
has
grown
tremendously
over
the
same
time,
it's
still
a
very
modest.
J
You
know
a
very
small
percentage,
but
the
growth
trajectory
is
is
is
really
significant
and
you
know
as
a
relatively
new
technology.
It's
you
know
it's
encouraging
that
this.
Could
you
know
it
could
potentially
play
a
significant
role.
J
You
know
and
when
you
sort
of
just
look
at
the
like
one
statistic
that
was
shown
is
that
if
we
put
floating
solar,
it's
like
hypothetically,
I
don't
think
we're
going
to
do
this
but
like
if
we
put
floating
solar
on
like
10
of
the
man-made
water
bodies
in
the
united
states,
we
could
power
over
half
of
our
country
from
just
that
amount
of
space.
So
there's
you
know:
we've
humans
have
built
a
lot
of
reservoirs,
you
know,
and
so
there's
a
lot
of
our
a
lot
of
real
estate.
J
That's
been
set
has
been,
you
know,
set
into
that
purpose.
So
it's
as
we
think
about
the
future
and
needing
a
lot
of
solar
and
thinking
about.
Where
is
it
going
to
go?
You
know
it
could
be.
It
could
play
an
important
role
so
next
slide.
J
So
now,
let's
bring
it
bring
it
back
to
asheville
and
buncombe
county.
So
we
have
a
couple
of
reservoirs.
You
know
several
reservoirs
in
buncombe
county
that
could
be.
You
know
that
could
be
looked
at
as
potential
sites
to
do
some
kind
of
floating
solar
projects.
So,
of
course
one
of
them
is
lake
julian
in
south
asheville
lake
julian
was
built
back
in
the.
J
I
think
they
started
in
the
late
40s
finished
in
the
50s,
so
this
was
a
water
body
that
was
specifically
constructed
to
be
a
cooling
pond
for
the
coal
fire
power
plant
operated
by
at
that
time,
progress
energy
now
duke
energy,
so
this
was
one
that
was
built
to
basically
service
a
power
plant
right.
That
was
its
reason
for
for
being
built
in
the
first
place,
and
of
course,
now
the
coal
plant's
been
closed.
J
There's
a
gas
plant
there,
one
of
the
good
things
about
this
site-
is
that
there's
tremendous
amount
of
infrastructure
here,
because
it's
already
be
co-located
next
to
an
existing
energy
generation
plant.
So
lots
of
you
know
you
could
tying
it
into
the
grid
would
be.
You
know
very
easy
part
of
lake
julian.
Of
course,
lake
julian
is
a
popular
location
for
doing
outdoor.
You
know
water-based
recreation,
I've
gotten
kind
of
into
sailing-
I'm
not
very
good
at
it,
but
I
love
going
down
there
and
like
sailing
or
when
the
wind's
not
blowing.
J
I
just
kind
of
you
know,
don't
move
very
much,
but
it's
still
super
fun,
and
so
so
you
know
we
would
not
want
to
like
cover
all
of
lake
julian
in
a
floating
solar
project,
because
it
would
it
would
be,
you
know
we
would
lose
outdoor
recreation
opportunities,
but
part
of
lake
julian
is
has
a
burn
going
through
it
and
is
not
used
for
outdoor
recreation
or
water
recreation.
J
So
so
placing
exploding
solar
in
that
area
would
not
be
in
tension
with
the
water
recreation
activities
that
happened
at
lake
julian,
hey
hang
on,
hang
on
just
one.
Second,
I
apologize.
J
Awesome
all
right
so
so
so
lake
julian
was
built
by
duke
energy,
again
progress,
energy
back
in
the
day
or
actually
carolina
power
and
life,
or
if
we
go
further
back
so
they
have
some,
you
know
they.
Don't
they
don't.
You
know
technically
own
the
lake,
but
they
do
have
some
jurisdiction
over
as
the
organization
that
constructed
the
reservoir.
J
In
the
first
place,
we've
had
conversations
with
duke
energy
and
they've
said
you
know
they
would
certainly
be
open
to
the
idea
of
a
feasibility
study
being
carried
out
for
doing
a
floating
solar
project
at
lake
julian,
and
they
don't
necessarily
you
know,
know
that
they
would
be
interested
in
building
it
themselves
or
owning
and
operating
it,
but
they
would
be.
You
know
a
lot
of
us
like
going
forward.
J
You
know
the
state
has
established
really
great
renewable
energy
goals
too,
and
through
the
legislation
that
they've
enacted,
they
basically
stipulated
that
about
half
of
the
future
renewable
energy
in
the
state
will
be
owned
and
operated
by
duke
energy,
and
the
other
half
will
be
owned
and
operated
by
the
other
various
renewable
energy
companies
that
also
are
in
that
business.
J
J
This
would
be
a
12
megawatt
solar
project
so
about
two
and
a
half
times
larger
than
the
a
solar
project
going
on
the
retired
landfill
just
for
sort
of
ballpark.
You
know
kind
of
sense
of
the
scale
of
that
project,
so
you
know
so
this
would
be
like
12
megawatts,
like,
I
don't
think,
there's
I
think,
there's
a
project
in
catawba
county,
that's
bigger
than
that,
but
there's
no
project
at
that
size
like
west
of
hickory
in
north
carolina.
Currently
so
it
would
be.
J
You
know
it
would
be
a
significant
project
for
our
part
of
the
state
down
in
eastern
north
carolina.
You
know
there
are
projects.
You
know
five
to
ten
times
this
size
that
are
built
where
you
just
have.
You
know
500
acres
of
flat
land
in
one
place,
and
you
can
do
these
like
very
large
scale
projects,
but
for
the
west
this
would
be
a
very
significant
project
next
slide
and
then,
of
course,
you
know
the
potential
you
know
really
significant
opportunity
could
be
at
the
north
fork
reservoir.
It's
a
very
large
reservoir.
J
J
So
there's
not
any
kind
of
potential
con
resource
conflicts
around
recreation
versus
utilization
for
solar,
so
this
is
a
hypothetical
layout
for
a
50
megawatt
solar
pv
system
at
the
north
fork
reservoir.
J
J
J
Okay,
so
for
the
lake
julian
site,
12
megawatts
would
generate
a
little
over
18
million
kilowatt
hours
a
year,
that's
the
equivalent
to
powering
1
800
homes
purely
off
purely
from
solar
right,
like
the
amount
of
energy
typical
home
uses
about
10
000
kilowatt
hours
a
year
which
is
kind
of
convenient
because
it
makes
the
math
around
doing
this
kind
of
easier.
So
that's
the
equivalent
of
like
the
amount
of
power
used
by
1800
homes
north
fork,
the
north
fork
site.
J
J
You
know
the
town
of
black
mountain
kind
of
out
in
that
part
of
the
county
has
about
5
000
households,
so
it
would
produce
more
than
enough
power
equivalent
to
like
the
whole
black
mountain.
You
know
community
and,
of
course,
in
asheville,
there's
about
40,
000
households,
there's
more
people
than
that,
because
there's
like
2.8
people
per
household,
I
believe,
is
the
average.
G
G
J
You
know
the
the
surrounding
homeowners
and
businesses
right,
because
the
solar
project
is
tied
into
the
electrical
grid.
J
The
utility
then
takes
that
power
and
resells
it
to
all
of
their
all
the
homeowners
and
business
customers.
You
know
in
that
area
or
in
that
region
and
but
those
electrical
rates
that
we
all
pay
as
consumers
as
homeowners
or
business
owners.
Those
rates
are
all
set
by
the
utility
commission
so
whether
we're
getting
that
power
from
a
gas
plant
or
a
coal
plant
or
a
nuclear
plant
or
from
a
solar
farm
or
a
combination
of
those
things,
doesn't
change
the
rates.
J
Although
I
mean
one
thing,
I
will
say
that
solar
has
gotten
so
cheap
in
north
carolina.
That
I
mean
most
of
the
analysis
points
to
the
idea
that
of
that
overall
mix
of
power
that
duke
has
solar
is
helping
to
bring
down
the
overall
cost
of
solar.
So
in
general
I'd
say:
solar
is
helping
to
mitigate
the
growth
of
rate
increases
from
duke
energy,
but
any
particular
project
won't
have
an
effect
one
way
or
the
other
on
the
other
businesses
or
customers
or
homeowners
in
the
area.
C
J
Not
at
either
these
locations-
I
I
think
you
know
you
really
have
to
be
located
so
close
that
you
can
like
directly
connect
into
the
building
that
you
want
to
connect
into.
So
I
envision
these
as
definitely
being
particularly
the
reservoir
right,
because
it's
just
out
in
the
middle
of
kind
of
nowhere
right,
so
you
would
just
tie
it
into
the
electrical
grid
and
looking
at
lake
julian
they're,
actually
there's
some.
J
You
know
that's
kind
of
a
like
a
manufacturing
area
down
there,
and
so
theoretically,
if
you
build
some
floating
solar
down
there,
you
might
be
able
to
tie
it
into
some
of
the
local
like
industry,
that's
down
there
and
let
them
use
the
power
like
sell
the
power
to
them.
But
I
don't
think
it's
near
any.
Like
city
or
county,
you
know
kind
of
public
facilities,
and-
and
the
other
thing
I
would
say
is
that
these
are
not
projects
where
I
envision,
like
either
of
these
projects
would
be
very
capital.
J
Intensive
projects
right,
like
the
lake
julian
project,
would
be
like
a
really
simple
rule
of
thumb
would
be
for
these
floating
solar
projects.
Is
that
they're
going
to
cost
like
a
dollar
a
watt,
or
perhaps
a
little
bit
more
than
that
so
12
megawatt
project
at
lake
julian?
That's
like
a
12
million
dollar
project.
The
north
reservoir
50
megawatts
that's
a
50
million
dollar
project
for
more.
J
But
I
would
envision
that
if
we
decided
to
you
know
explore
these
opportunities
do
feasibility.
The
feasibility
comes
back
positive,
that
we
would
solicit
proposals
from
the
renewable
energy
community
to
actually
come
in
and
build
a
project,
provide
the
capital
to
build
the
project
and
to
own
and
operate
it.
So
it
wouldn't
utilize
any
like
local
taxpayer
money
to
actually
construct
the
projects.
We
would
simply
be
doing
some
of
this
initial
feasibility
and
due
diligence
to
determine
like
yeah.
Could
it
work
here
or
not?
J
Yeah
and
maybe-
and
maybe
you
know
and
duke
energy
could
also
be
part
of
that
duke
energy
as
they
thought,
if
they
think
more
about
it.
Maybe
they
come
back
and
say:
well,
you
know.
Actually
these
could
be
great
assets
for
us
to
have
in
our
portfolio,
so
they
could
also
put
in
a
proposal
if
they,
if
they
wanted
to.
C
So
far
around
the
world,
we're
doing
this
just
unlike
bodies
of
water
that
are
contained
just
lakes
ponds.
No,
and
this
there's
some
ocean
stuff,
but
that's
mostly
wind
right,
we're
just
dealing
with
fresh
water.
J
Yeah
the
offshore
wind
is
like
is
it's
like
a
pretty
mature
technology
in
some
ways,
especially
like
in
europe
like
it's,
it's
it's
starting
in
the
united
states,
like
with
the
vibe
in
the
bible.
Administration
is
real,
you
know,
is
being
real
aggressive
on
supporting
wind
development,
but
frankly,
that's
kind
of
newer
here.
We're
gonna
see
a
ton
of
it
over
the
next
five
to
ten
years.
Five
to
ten
fifteen
years
in
europe,
it's
a
very
mature
technology.
J
It's
actually
the
main
source
of
renewable
energy
for
europe,
and
so
offshore
wind
is,
is
great.
Once
you
go
once
you
go
off
the
you
know,
once
you
go
off
the
coast
like
the
wind
is
like
pretty
constant
and
strong.
So
it's
just
a
very
powerful
resource.
People
have
this
idea
of
floating
solar
in
the
ocean
and
there's,
but
it's
you,
know,
you're
dealing
with
a
lot
more
aggressive.
Like
you
know,
water
movements,
obviously
right
with
waves,
and
things
like
that.
J
So
it's
a
bit
more
theoretical,
like
most
of
what's
being
done
now
is
on
lakes
reservoirs,
or
I
think,
like
this
thing
in
singapore
may
actually
be
part
of
the
ocean,
but
it's
kind
of
like
a
protected
bay
area,
but
it
may
be
salt
water.
I
can't
I
can't
say
for
sure.
C
F
Yes,
so
I
was
when
I
was
listening
to
you
know
the
presentation,
like
you
said,
so
it
wouldn't
be
a
direct.
We
wouldn't
necessarily
benefited
for
from
it
here
in
asheville
directly,
so
it
would
probably
be
some
type
of
indirect
benefit,
and
so,
when
you
were
talking
about
basically
having
someone
like
duke
or
people
ever,
you
know
doing
a
press
sport
proposal
to
sort
of
see
how
it
benefits
us.
F
So
what
you're
saying
is
basically,
if
whoever
we
negotiate
with
to
come
in,
to
actually
do
this,
there
will
be
some
benefit
to
the
people
locally
financially,
like
you
said,
so,
I'm
just
trying
to
figure
out
because
before
you
were
saying
something
about
this,
not
really
a
benefit.
It's
not
going
to
cost
us
taxpayers
any
money,
but
yet
and
still
if
someone
comes
in
and
actually
do
the
project
for
us,
you
said
we
will
go
with
the
most
lucrative
partner,
so
I'm
trying
to
figure
out.
J
Directly
indirectly
sure
sure
good
question
the
yeah,
so
in
terms
of
benefits,
you
know
at
this
point
I
don't
think
there's
an
obvious
benefit
to
like
city
or
county
government
or
or
even
like.
You
know,
our
constituents
in
terms
of
homeowners
or
businesses
in
terms
of
how
the
project
would
change
their
own
utility
rates.
J
What
it
would
help
us
do
is
potentially
bring
online
the
largest
renewable
energy
projects
that
have
ever
been
built
in
asheville
and
buncombe
county
in
order
to
allow
us
to
take
large
steps
towards
meeting
our
city
and
county
adopted
renewable
energy
commitments.
So
really
that's
the
public
benefit
of
it
is,
is
deploying
a
lot
of
renewable
energy
towards
meeting
those
adopted
goals
from
the
city
and
county.
E
J
Yeah
good
question:
next
next
slide,
I'm
almost
done
so.
I
think
this
may
be
the
last
slide,
so
so
the
basic
idea
that
we
wanted
to
talk
about
today
and
the
I
think
the
county
staff
have
been
talking
to
this,
our
sustainability
staff.
I've
been
talking
with
you
all
sustainability
staff
about
about
these
ideas.
So
this
is
very
much.
J
You
know
a
concept
at
this
point,
but
I
think
we've
been
persuaded
at
the
county's
energy
committee
that
it's
worth
exploring
and
it's
worth
doing
some
due
diligence
on
this
to
see
if
this
could
be
feasible
in
our
community
and
the
feasibility
will
include
you
know,
environment
kind
of
you
know,
environmental,
environmental
analysis,
financial
analysis.
J
You
know
all
these
projects
have
to
connect
into
the
electrical
grid,
like
the
lake
julian
site
is
probably
perfect
in
that
regard.
There's
a
lot
of
opportunities.
There's
you
know
tons
of
the
the
grid's
very
robust
in
that
area,
but
like
julian
sites,
much
further
away,
it's
like
four
miles
north
of
like
nc
70,
where
you
have
transmission
lines
and
substations
and
stuff
like
that.
J
So
one
of
the
challenges
with
lake
julian
is
that
is
that
you'd
have
to
build
some
additional.
You
probably
have
to
build
some
additional
infrastructure
to
connect
to
the
solar
array,
and
so,
like
you
know
that
that
would
all
have
to
be
looked
at
in
terms
of
like
it
could
be
a
great
project,
but
what's
the
cost
of
that?
J
You
know
you
know
to
kind
of
look
at.
Is
this
really
potentially
going
to
be
successful
in
this
area?
If
that
comes
back
positive,
then
again,
you
know
the
the
the
city,
especially
on
the
north
fork
reservoir,
where
y'all
are,
of
course
the
property
owner.
So
you
would,
you
know
you
would
have
you
know,
absolutely
be
y'all's
decision,
whether
to
support
moving
forward
at
that
location.
J
You
know,
if
we
decide
it
looks
positive,
then
we
could
think
about
a
process
for
doing
a
request
for
proposals
or
other
kind
of
solicitation
to
bring
in
an
experienced
development
partner.
So
at
this
point
the
question
is:
should
we
pursue
an
initial
feasibility
study
if
the
city's
interested
your
contribution
would
be
simply
allowing
your
property
to
be
part
of
that
analysis
at
the
northport
site,
the
county
would
be
willing
to
pay
for
the
costs
for
doing
the
feasibility
study,
and-
let
me
just
say
also
in
the
context
of
this.
J
This
idea
has
been
endorsed
by
our
energy
and
environment
subcommittee.
It
has
not
been
reviewed
by
the
whole
county
commission
at
this
time,
so
I
don't
want
to
overstate
where
we
are
at
in
our
process,
but
the
committee
is
very
supportive
of
it
and
I
think
our
county
sustainability
office
is
also
really
supportive
of
the
idea
of
undertaking
feasibility
study
at
this
time.
So
that's
kind
of
that's
kind
of
the.
J
B
C
Ronnie,
if
this
is
something
that
helps
you
know,
duke
meet
its
energy
goals
too.
Are
they
funding
any
studies
like
this
or
is
it
I
mean?
I
love
that
you're
not
asking
the
city
to
take
on
funding,
so
that's
great,
but
it's
just
curious
that
duke
wouldn't
fund
some
of
their
own
initiatives
that
helped
them
meet
their
own
goals.
And
secondly,
I'm
wondering
so
you
know,
like
you
said,
the
north
fork
is
city-owned
property,
and
during
this
studying,
would
you
be
looking
at
potentially
creating
revenue?
Like
I
don't
know,
we
have
grounds
leases.
C
I
don't
know,
there's
probably
a
waters
lease
I
don't
know,
but
is
that
something
that
you're
considering
that
or
yeah.
J
So
so
you
know,
one
thing
I'll
say
is
like
in
in
regards
to
like
projects
like
this,
I
mean
in
a
way
you
know,
I'd
be
really
excited
to
see
projects
like
this
move
forward
on
either
location
or
locations
like
this
kind
of
regardless
of
who
ends
up.
I
mean
obviously,
whoever
owns
and
operates
it
like.
We
need
to
make
sure
it's
a
responsible
party
and
experience
company.
J
We
have
the
technology
to
avert
this
crisis.
It's
just
a
matter
of.
Can
we
deploy
it
at
the
scale
we
need
to
and
on
the
time
frame
necessary
to
avoid?
You
know
to
avoid
the
worst
of
what
will
happen
if
we,
if
we
don't
do
that
so
kind
of
in
some
ways
who
gets
credit
for
it
like
if
duke
ends
up
owning
and
operating
it,
they
could
certainly,
you
know
they
could
certainly
count
it
towards
their
renewable
goals.
If
another
company
ends
up
building
it,
then
you
know
it's
not
automatic.
J
That
duke
would
be
able
to
count
it
towards
their
goals.
If
another
company
does
it-
and
there
is
also
you
know
well
again
in
a
way
it's
like
who
gets
credit,
you
know
our
future
generations
will
not
care
like
who
took
credit
for
it
at
the
time
right,
but
we
do
have
our
city
and
county
renewable
energy
goals
right
which
we
want
to
meet
for
our
own
governmental
goals.
J
So
those
are
the
kinds
of
things
that,
as
we
go
through
the
feasibility
study,
we
can
look
at
because
I'm
sure
like
if
the
city
and
county
work
together
and
do
some
of
the
brain
damage
and
contribute
some
of
our
property
towards
this.
We
would
love
to
be
able
to
keep.
We
would
love
to
for
us
to
be
able
to
keep
to
count
these
projects
towards
our
own
renewable
energy
goals
right.
So
that's
one
thing
that
can
be
looked
at
through
this
feasibility
process
is
like:
how
can
we
do
that?
J
J
G
J
Maybe
maybe
charging
lease
revenues
isn't
realistic.
We
just
don't
know
yet
because
it's
so
early
in
the
process,
but
those
are
all
possibilities
of
things
that
you
know
we
could.
We
would
want
to
explore
through
the
feasibility
process,
but
that
would
that
could
be
one
by
going
back
to
council
council
member
kilgore's
question
that
could
be
a
financial
benefit
to
the
city.
Is
the
potential
to
charge
lease
revenues
for
use
of
your
property.
B
Staff's
perspective,
how
much,
how
much
time
and
resources
will
city
staff
need
to
spend
to
support
this
feasibility
process?
I'm
assuming
that
the
city
has
answered
that
question
there.
C
B
Wait,
I'm
not
asking
that
because
that's
all
going
to
be
answered
in
connection
with
the
feasibility
study,
so
you
know,
I
don't
think
we
should.
I
guess
I
I
back
brownie
up
in
the
sense
of
you
know
all
those
questions
will
be
asked
and
answered
and,
let's
not
you
know,
assume
it
either
works
or
doesn't
work.
My
question
is
relative
to
how
much
resources
city
staff
are
going
to
have
to
spend
in
order
to
support
just
the
feasibility
study.
B
Not
you
know
what
happens
afterward
or
anything
like
that,
but
and
how
does
that
fit
into
the
work?
You
know
the
the
estimate
of
the
kind
of
work
that
the
either
the
water
department
or
the
sustainability
department,
or
I
don't
even
know
who
else
would
be
involved
with
it?
How
does
how
does
it
fit
into
your
work
plans?
And
you
know,
is
it
a
lot
of
time
and
energy,
and
I
see
that
bridgette
herring
has
joined
the
call,
so
maybe
bridgette
has
thought
about
this.
D
And
councilwoman
whistler
bridgette
is
joining
the
call.
She
had
a
conflict
earlier.
So
hopefully
she
heard
that
question
she
may
have
literally
just
joined
the
call
okay,
we
also
have
leslie
carrero
on
the
line
who's.
The
assistant
director
of
the
water
department
right.
D
A
A
Great,
so
I
think
that
we
we
do
have
the
capacity.
The
anticipation
is
that
county
staff
will
be
taking
the
lead
on.
A
Organizing
the
feasibility
and
executing
the
procurement,
if
there's
any
required,
and
so
in
terms
of
us
conducting
it
it's
a
lighter
lift
for
us
instead
of
us
going
it
alone.
If
that
makes
any
sense.
B
And
and
how
about
the
water
department's,
you
know
sort
of
take
on
how
much
time
and
resources
it
would
take
to
again
just
support
the
feasibility
study.
G
All
right,
I
I
think
we'd
be
fine.
We
can
connect,
whoever
is
doing
the
study
with
the
appropriate
people
of
the
state
and
the
conservation,
trust
and
things
like
that.
B
Thank
you,
leslie
appreciate
it.
So
are
there
any
other
questions,
otherwise
I'll
bring
it
to?
So
I
think
what
brownie's
asking
us
is
to
vote
whether
or
not
we
would
recommend
to
city
council
to
authorize
the
city
manager
to
enter
into
an
interlocal
agreement
with
buncombe
county
to
study
the
feasibility
of
installing
solar
on
the
north
fork,
reservoir
and
lake
julian.
C
G
B
Okay,
great
and
because
we're
virtual
we,
I
will
do
a
roll
call
vote.
So
I'm
looking
for
I
or
nay
on
on
that
motion
and
councilwoman
kilgore
aye
councilwoman.
B
And
still
here,
okay,
all
right
sandra!
Are
you
still
here
it's
sort
of
an
inside
joke
brownie-
and
I
am
here
and
also
I
so
we
will
go
ahead
and
ask
that
that
council
consider
this
and
brownie.
It
was
a
very
thorough
presentation,
really
appreciate
that.
I'm
not
are
you
planning
on
giving
this
presentation
at
council.
J
Yeah,
maybe
maybe
an
abbreviated
version
of
it.
You
know
yeah.
J
J
Hey.
Thank
you.
I'm
sorry,
I'm
sorry
for
the
the
stuff
going
on
around
me.
The
mini
splits
on
it's.
This
is
the
room,
is
cooling
down,
so
there's
been
the
technology
success
here
this
afternoon,
but
thanks
for
bearing
with
me
as
that,
what's
going
on
simultaneously.
J
Yeah
yeah,
you
know,
and
I'll
just
say
you
know,
I
mean
I've
worked
on
different
projects,
not
a
floating
solar
project
before,
but
you
know
there's
any
number
of
reasons
why
this
may
not
work
out,
but
I
think
it's
well
worth
us.
You
know
taking
a
look
at
it
and
seeing
what's
possible,
and
so
I
really
appreciate
you
all,
bringing
an
open-minded,
an
open
mind
to
it
and
look
forward
to
you
know
talking
with
y'all
further
about
it
as
it
moves
along
super.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
G
B
Bye,
okay,
we
did
not
receive
any
written
comments
beforehand.
Well,
we
didn't
either
we
didn't
get
voicemail
or
any
email
comments
beforehand
and
I'll
ask
katie
if
there
is
anyone
on
the
line,
I'm
opening
public
comment
now.
So
I
wonder
if
there's
anyone
on
the
line
who'd
like
to
make
make
a
comment
within
three
minutes:
nope,
nobody
is
on
the
line.
Okay,
thank
you.
Well
with
that,
I
will
I'll
go
ahead
and
adjourn
this
meeting.
Thank
you
very
much.
Thank
you.
Everyone.
Thank
you.