City of Bloomington, Indiana Commission on Sustainability, 11 Aug 2020

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Okay, I'd like to call to order the tuesday september 8 2020 meeting of the.

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Bloomington commission of sustainability on sustainability, uh we'll start with a.

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um Anna abernathy.

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Here jared alexander here, corbin baird.

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Here, bronson bass.

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Theresa chakraborty here samantha kinder.

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Here, nolan hinden.

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I see he's there. Oh ethan horvath here.

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John mcgee, here andrew predmore.

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Dave rallo.

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National rat song.

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Pam weaver.

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Okay uh moving to um approval of the agenda, I hope everyone.

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Got the agenda that I sent out probably monday or sunday.

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Do I have a motion to approve the agenda.

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Move to approve seconded okay agenda is approved. um We.

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Do not have minutes from the last meeting so we'll go ahead and.

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Move past that uh are there is there anyone.

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From the public who wishes to speak yeah, I would like to take the opportunity if.

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Possible, um my name is my name: is joseph winia.

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I'm sorry I don't have video at the moment because of the limitations of my.

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Hardware, but I just wanted to quick, take a moment to introduce myself.

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I am new to the city of bloomington and the state of indiana.

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And I am going to be very actively involved.

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In the sustainability community, so I'm just.

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Excited to participate and to see how the commission is functioning.

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And to potentially become involved in the future.

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Great, thank you indeed thank you.

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Is there anyone else from the public who would like to speak.

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Move on to the next subject report from the chair.

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um First, I'd like to uh teresa: this is your first meeting. I don't know if you'd.

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Like to introduce yourself and maybe give uh some background information, anything you'd like to share with the rest of the.

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Commission yeah sure um hi, I'm trista, I'm so sorry.

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I don't know why camera isn't working but.

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I'm really excited to be here. um I understand that I.

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Originally joined the commission a couple months ago and for some reason I.

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Just haven't gotten the email for the meetings, so I figured because of covet and everything. um Maybe the meetings were.

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Sort of put on a pause, but um luckily.

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uh Joe reached out to me- and I was able to get back to him.

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And now I'm here, but I'm a student at iu, I'm entering my senior year and I'm just.

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Excited to be way more involved, um I did watch the past, maybe four to.

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Five um cap or the commission videos um on.

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Cats- and so I saw like the working groups and.

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Everything so it'd be great to be able to join and like.

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Be able to participate in full capacity. Finally,.

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So, thank you. Thank you uh and that kind of goes uh more into my.

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Report from chair, I kind of want to cover some some basics.

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First of all, is everyone receiving my emails cool.

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Because there yeah not only teresa but another um member.

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Reached out and said that they were also not getting the emails that I were sending to them.

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And then to go along with that. Does everyone.

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Also have access to the commission's google drive.

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Yeah, okay, I think this is nolan. I don't think I have.

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Access to that, okay, I can we can work to get you access.

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To that, no one thanks uh in.

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In that um in the google drive there is a roster of sorts of commissioners.

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um And so it would be great if people were to go.

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And find that roster and then maybe update the information with.

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The most recent, or maybe a preferred email address that you would like.

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Correspondence to be sent back and forth and also.

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I've added the three working group in there as columns so that you can kind.

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Of indicate which working groups that you're a member of that way, when the going forward, those working group.

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Correspondents can be more focused towards the members of those working groups, uh and that is generally all that I have.

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uh From from the chair, so if there aren't any.

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Questions or concerns about that we'll just go ahead and move on to.

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uh Lauren for the report from esd hi, everyone, lauren travis assistant.

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Director of sustainability, I'm gonna focus my report on three main.

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Areas tonight, just because those are all things that are happening.

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um That, I think, are relevant to the commission, so the first one.

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Is there's a appropriations package in front of council right now.

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It's being branded as recover forward. This is money that was not spent last.

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Fiscal year, and it goes in front of council to figure out.

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um If it's a request, that's above a certain dollar amount, then.

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As the legislative body and sort of fiscal agent and then council.

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Makes a recommendation about whether the funds should be reappropriated so.

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It's in a couple of different pieces, the part that's relevant, I think, to this.

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Commission is that there's some um energy efficiency funding. That's in.

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There that would provide grants and loans.

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To predominantly lower income folks to do efficiency improvements.

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Weatherization appliance replacement, etc and then also.

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Some funding- and this is also on the council website, if you're interested or.

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Bloomington.Ion.Gov slash recover forward.

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um There's a couple of videos that mayor hamilton has made and.

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Council has considered the legislative um legislation and we'll.

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Also consider it next wednesday, but also in addition to the energy efficiency.

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Improvements there's some funding for bus, stop improvements, so improving.

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Some accessibility on some spots that don't have sidewalk.

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Between the bus stop and and the sidewalk like.

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Curb ramps etc. So, if you're disabled, it's easier for you to access transit.

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And then a third area is um our local food.

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Coordinator rachel who's on a grant made a recommendation.

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About creating a it's called, a farm stop, but.

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Essentially, it would be a storefront for farmers to be able to.

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Sell food all week, not just the farmers market and it would be.

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Farmer run so that all three of those aspects are in there.

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If you want to learn more about it as well, in order to.

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Provide you know public comment at one of these meetings, then.

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I will be streaming live on facebook um tomorrow, at.

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1 pm, along with mayor hamilton and some other department heads to speak to the.

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Proposal that will be recorded. I know it's in the middle of the day, so for those of you that are working, it's not convenient.

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um But that's just something that maybe the policy group would want to check out.

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um And you could either speak yourself as a commissioner.

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Or write a letter of support or feedback about any of the aspects of.

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The proposal from the perspective of the commission and then the second main area I wanted to speak to it's.

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August so the city's in the middle of sort of.

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Budgeting for 2021 and the budget hearings.

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Will be next week so for our department, economic, sustainable development. I think.

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We're on the third night but there's four nights of hearing. So if there's a particular area that you want to see how the budget.

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Will be allocated this year, it's a little bit um perhaps different than in prior years, because of you know, concern.

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A little a little bit of concern about you know.

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An economic downturn and how that will affect.

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Revenues long term, but I think that there's a lot of exciting proposals in.

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There as well for new programs or initiatives.

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Or increasing funding in certain areas um and then third, I would say just.

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I am prevent presenting in front of city council on september, 2nd.

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About the vulnerability assessment for climate, we.

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Sort of did a preview of that last month and I will be giving a similar.

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Presentation to the environmental commission, but if that's of interest you that's on september, 2nd as well.

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So that's mainly what's happening. We are trying to plan for the next 18.

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Months at this point and there's a lot of new.

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Initiatives coming forward- and I think especially if you're.

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On that policy subcommittee, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to.

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Me, but we're in an obviously very unique.

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Environment everyone's still working virtually but still trying to make sure.

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That we have enough public involvement and these proposals to have.

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You know sufficient feedback. Does anyone have any questions about any.

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I'll put the website as well in the chat um in case. You want to go check out that.

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Recover forward page as well, it's a little bit difficult, I think, to.

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Find out about, what's going on when we aren't having in-person meetings.

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Thank you, lauren.

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uh Next agenda item is working group updates, so uh starting with the.

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Waste reduction working group- uh the update I have is that anna was.

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Graciously volunteered to be the chair of that.

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Working group so moving forward most correspondents from that working group.

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Will be coming from anna, that's right, and I would just add if.

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That's all right, joe, that I will be getting in touch with the committee to.

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Try to convene a meeting within the next couple of weeks, so.

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If anyone would like to be added to that committee, please let.

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Me know or joe and I can be sure to add you.

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On our email list.

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Thank you is there anyone that can speak to the sustainable business.

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I don't see nasa. I think that she had indicated last time that that was.

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Something that she was at least participating in was.

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There anyone else from that group um I think bronson might have been.

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Participating in that as well, I just don't think we have any attendance tonight that can speak to that working group.

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um And has there and any updates from the.

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Policies working group.

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All right, um so that kind of brings us down.

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Pretty much to the last bullet, which would be any new business.

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Or so I guess at this point I'll open up support to the rest of the commissioners.

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If they have anything, they'd like to discuss with the rest of the committee.

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Okay well short and sweet meeting. Everyone.

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um Our next meeting will be held, or the next meeting.

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As a whole will be on tuesday september, 8th.

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From 6 to seven thirty, probably virtual again.

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um So uh can I get a motion to adjourn.

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I move to adjourn second okay. Thank you. Everybody.

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