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From YouTube: City Council Sub-Committee of 6-22-22
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City of Chelsea
A
A
Okay,
I
just
want
to
note
for
the
record
that
we
also
have
in
attendance,
also
members
invited
as
the
city
manager.
We
have
the
housing
community
development
director
alex
train
sustainability
manager,
abraham
lopez,
hernandez
economic
development,
planner
carl
allen.
The
call
of
the
meeting
is
to
have
a
conference
today
being
held
on
wednesday
june
22nd.
A
A
The
ordinances,
as
proposed
as
a
change,
were
introduced
by
myself
back
on
may
9th,
and
it
was
sent
to
subcommittee
on
committees
for
this
meeting
and
will
behold
holding
a
public
hearing
on
this
ordinance
at
this
upcoming
monday's
meeting
city
council
prior
to
the
regular
scheduled
meeting.
So
as
noted
or
as
noticed
by
a
city
council
or
vice
president
council
brown,
we
do
not
have
a
quorum
but
we'll
still
hold
the
meeting.
A
D
Good
evening
counselors,
thank
you
for
calling
this
evening
subcommittee
on
the
proposed
building
energy
reporting
and
disclosure
ordinance
awesome.
My
name
is
alex,
I'm
the
director
of
housing
and
community
development,
I'm
in
this
capacity
I
also
oversee
the
north
suffolk
office
of
resilience
and
sustainability.
D
This
regional
office
formed
in
2021
manages
sustainability
and
climate
resilience
projects
for
chelsea
revere
in
winthrop
ibrahim.
Our
sustainability
manager
is
at
the
helm
of
that
office's
sustainability
practice.
It's
focused
on
reducing
energy
costs
for
residents,
promoting
clean
energy
sources,
improving
air
quality
and
reducing
our
reliance
on
on
fossil
fuel.
So
the
office
right
now
spearheading
a
variety
of
different
sustainability
endeavors.
D
This
does
have
anything
to
do
with
homeowners,
smaller
properties
like
one
to
four
unit
buildings
or
small
businesses,
so
this
only
pertains
to
large
warehouses,
extremely
large
commercial
buildings
and
large
high-density
apartment
buildings,
and
the
crux
of
this
policy
that
ibrahim
will
talk
through
tonight
is
really
to
collect
information
from
these
larger
properties
on
how
much
energy
they
consume.
We
can
then
see
by
the
energy
consumption
their
rate
of
pollution,
as
well
as
the
type
of
energy
that
they're
using.
This
allows
us
to
do
a
couple
of
things
relatively
effectively.
D
D
E
Hi,
my
name
is
ibrahim
lopez
hernandez.
I
am
the
sustainability
manager
with
the
north
suffolk
office
of
resilience
and
sustainability,
and
I
will
be
going
through
this
presentation
just
to
give
an
overview
of
what
the
ordinance
that
is
being
proposed
is
composed
of
so
as
alex
mentioned,
energy
benchmarking
policies
are
aimed
at
helping
building
owners
and
facility
managers
to
reduce
their
electricity
consumption
energy
use
in
order
to
save
money,
as
well
as
to
comply
and
reach
net
zero,
with
some
new
developments
that
have
happened
in
massachusetts
on
a
regulatory
basis.
E
This
would
be
a
worthwhile
effort
to
implement
is
that
the
state
approved
the
climate
roadmap
law
in
2021,
so
this
law
actually
requires
the
commonwealth
as
well
as
municipalities
within
them
to
reach
net
zero
by
2050
and
an
even
more
ambitious
goal
of
having
ghg
emissions
greenhouse
gas
emissions
by
2030..
So
we
have
those
mandates
as
statute.
E
So
this
is
a
quick
overview
of
some
of
the
policies
that
are
right
now
in
the
united
states,
almost
35
cities
since
april
2021
have
instituted
them
some
notable
small
cities
that
might
be
similar
to
chelsea
that
have
been
able
to
institute.
These
programs
include
edina,
minnesota,
st
louis
park,
missouri
south
portland
maine,
as
well
as
westchester
pennsylvania,
and
so
some
key
elements
for
understanding
how
these
types
of
policies
work
in
municipalities
is
categorized
into.
E
E
The
other
element
is
the
reporting
deadline
and
enforcement
mechanisms
to
comply
with
this
policy,
so
deadlines
can
be
assigned
by
property
types.
That
is
the
case
that
the
city
of
boston
instituted
in
2013,
where
the
largest
of
all
the
buildings
would
have
to
report
in
the
first
year
as
a
trial
basis
and
then
from
the
second
year
onward.
The
smaller
buildings
that
would
be
having
to
report
would
have
to
report.
A
Abraham
before
you
go
on
the
first
one
property
types,
can
you
do
you
talk
more
specifically
again
against
the
gross
area,
whether
it
be
residential?
Is
it
per
units?
What
do
we,
what
size
residential
building
are
we
looking
at?
I
know
we
talked
about
it
alex,
but
it
was
offline
and
I
just
want
to
make
sure
I
understand:
what's
the
threshold
for
our
residential
building
to
be
included
in
this.
E
I'll
just
jump
to
showing
it
so
in
terms
of
the
thresholds
of
how
the
policy
works
is
through
gross
floor
area
for
all
building
types
and
there's
an
additional
requirement
of
dwelling
units
that
is
instituted.
So
the
minimum
square
footage
for
a
building
to
qualify
to
having
to
report
under
the
ordinance
is
20
000
square
feet.
So
any
building
that
has
a
gross
floor
area
of
20,
000
square
feet
or
more
excluding
parking
would
have
to
report.
E
E
Yep,
so
those
are
the
two
primary
requirements.
The
policy
also
requires
municipal
buildings,
which
are
already
being
benchmarked,
as
well
as
the
chelsea
housing
authority,
irrespective
of
their
square
footage
or
dwelling
amounts
would
have
to
report,
and
so
these
are
the
breakdowns
between
large,
medium
and
small,
residential
and
non-residential
properties.
That
would
have
to
report
under
the
ordinance
just
going
to
go
back
real,
quick.
E
In
terms
of
benchmarking
platforms,
this
is
another
key
element
in
order
to
facilitate
receiving
information
for
the
city.
Most
municipalities
use
energy,
star
portfolio
manager.
It's
a
software
developed
by
the
environmental
protection
agency
at
the
federal
level.
It's
level
it's
free
to
use,
so
it's
been
widely
adopted
for
this
and
then
the
last
piece
is
data
disclosure
and
performance
requirements.
E
And
so
two
main
things
to
consider
when
administering
this
type
of
policy
at
the
municipal
level
is
data
quality.
So,
in
order
to
have
this
program
run
effectively
includes
identifying
those
properties
getting
their
gross
floor
area
through
the
assessors
database,
access
to
energy
and
water
usage
data
which
we'll
be
talking
about
in
the
next
slide
data
quality
procedure.
E
E
And
then
the
last
point,
which
is
very
important
in
all
of
these
scenarios
with
these
other
cities,
is
technical
assistance.
So
a
staff
member
can
sit
down
or
meet
with
a
owner
or
facility
manager
if
they
don't
know
how
to
set
up
an
account
if
they
don't
know
how
to
get
their
energy
data
and
we
can
walk
them
through
every
step
in
order
to
comply,
and
so
these
would
be
the
steps
that
alex
had
mentioned
at
the
beginning.
That
would
look
like
for
non-municipal
buildings.
E
So,
within
the
eight
steps
we
start
with
the
city
identifying
the
building
owners,
they
notify
the
building
owners
that
they're
required
to
report.
Building
owners
then
acknowledge
the
receipt,
and
then
they
select
their
information
or
request
their
information
from
the
utilities.
In
this
case,
eversource
and
national
grid
eversource
and
national
grid
have
programs
already
to
facilitate
this.
So
building
owners
create
an
account
with
them,
and
then
they
receive
their
their
information
through
a
spreadsheet
that
they
can
upload
into
that
software.
Energy,
star
portfolio
manager.
E
And
one
of
the
reasons
why
this
is
being
proposed
is
because
of
these
two
graphs,
so
in
chelsea,
seven
percent
of
the
buildings
in
chelsea
represents
almost
half
of
the
gross
floor
area.
So
with
the
thresholds
that
are
being
proposed
in
this
ordinance,
the
city
would
be
able
to
understand
by
how
much
energy
is
being
consumed
for
almost
half
of
the
gross
floor
area
throughout
the
entire
city.
By
just
requiring
seven
percent
of
the
buildings
in
the
city.
E
And
so
this
is
a
preliminary
map
of
the
buildings
that
would
have
to
report
the
purple
red
and
orange
buildings
in
the
city
are
the
non-residential
properties.
The
lighter
shade
of
blue
and
green
are
residential
properties
that
would
have
to
report
and,
as
you
can
see,
the
whole
majority
of
triple
deckers
single
family
homes.
Two
fam
two
family
homes
are
exempt
from
having
to
report
with
this
ordinance
and
those
are
all
the
slides.
F
E
C
E
E
Yeah,
so
part
of
the
one
of
the
goals
of
this
program
is
to
understand
how
much
they're
consuming
and
then
having
a
list
of
resources
to
be
able
to
share
with
them.
If
we
find
that
their
consumption
at
a
square
footage
level
is
abnormally
high
for
the
state
median
or
mean
for
the
average
of
the
state
or
the
greater
boston
area,
which
that
is,
information
is
also
available.
F
D
Area
and
a
disproportionate
amount
of
the
energy
that's
consumed
in
air
pollution,
that's
caused,
and
so
this
gives
us
sort
of
a
list
to
prioritize.
So
we
can
say:
okay,
these
are
the
top
consumers
and
polluters.
We
need
to
assiduously
reach
out,
engage
with
them
and
encourage
energy
efficiency.
Upgrades
show
different
financing
options
to
them
and
work
closely
with
all
of
the
property
owners
to
adopt
cleaner,
cleaner
systems.
D
Right
now,
we
don't
really
have
a
good
grasp
like
we
know,
anecdotally,
where
the
industrial
buildings
are
as
well
as
you
know,
which
ones
are
causing
some
degree
of
air
pollution,
but
we
aren't
able
to
do
it
with
this
level
of
precision
and
given
the
limited
resources
available
for
energy
efficiency,
we
want
to
make
sure
we're
using
those
resources
wisely.
So
this
would
allow
us
to
to
do
that
more
strategically.
D
C
D
D
In
addition
to
that,
you
know:
we've
collaborated
with
community-based
organizations,
as
well
as
the
metropolitan
area
planning
council
to
understand
how
this
could
be
a
best
practice.
There
are
communities
evening,
legend
that
have
implemented
this
type
of
policy
before
since
they've
been
doing
it
for
a
little
over
a
year.
Now
we
have
a
lot
to
learn
from
them,
so
we
can
apply
that
to
the
proposal
in
chelsea
to
make
sure
this
works
as
as
well
as
possible.
But
we
see
this
right
now,
as
you
know
a
proposal.
D
C
In
my
opinion,
I
speak
my
opinion
only.
It
seems
like
that.
You
already
got
the
ball
rolling
you're,
just
bringing
us
up
to
speed
of
what
you're
doing
and
what
you're
going
to
continue
to
do,
because
you
already
have
numbers
you
already
have
locations
and
you
want
to
build
on
that.
That's,
in
my
opinion,.
D
We
do
have
a
lot
of
data
right
now.
The
one
thing
we
don't
have,
which
is
you
know
this
regulatory
policy,
and
so
we
understand
where
the
largest
buildings
are,
but
we
have
no
insight
into
energy
consumption
or
pollution
levels
right
now,
and
so
this
proposed
policy,
if
passed
by
council,
would
give
us
that
insight.
So.
C
G
Alex,
if
I
could
just
ask,
I
think
this
is
critical.
All
this
is
is
a
reporting
requirement.
If
you
pass
this
all
you're
saying
to
these
large
property
owners
that
make
up
just
seven
percent
of
our
city
is
that
they
have
to
report
this
information
to
us
this,
for
almost
all
of
them.
This
information
is
readily
available.
They
have
it.
They've
already
got
files
on
this.
G
A
H
I
have
a
few
questions
for
one
down
here.
You
want
to
disclose
the
water
in
all
buildings.
You
already
know
how
much
water
they
use,
because
the
city
sends
out
a
bill,
so
here
it
says,
disclose
on
annual
emergency
and
water
use
and
all
buildings.
According
with
this
section,
the
city
already
knows
how
much
water
you're
using.
H
H
G
H
G
H
Okay,
so
that's
one
thing
but
here's
the
problem-
I
I
have
a
problem
here.
What
about
the
condos
they're?
All
individual
units
see
here
it
says,
association
or
humanities
owners
responsible
for
overall
management
of
the
case
of
a
condominium,
so
each
owner
has
to
report
on
the
condominiums
themselves
only.
D
Right,
but
so
on,
larger
condo
buildings,
water
sewer
is
almost
in
all
cases
paid
for
and
managed
by
the
condo
association.
These
larger
buildings
similarly
have
management
companies.
We
met
with
a
number
of
them
when
we
were
engaging
folks
on
this
and
they
have
either
managing
electricity
for
the
units
or
they
have
the
ability
to
work
with
the
existing
owners,
collect
that
information
and
then
submit
it
to
the
city.
E
And
the
way
that
the
city
of
boston
does
it
for
condo
units
large
or
until
that
threshold
is
that
they
have
the
release
form
that
the
property
management
company
or
the
condo
association
has
the
owners
to
sign.
And
then
the
condo
association
or
the
property
management
company
can
then
create
the
account
for
eversource
or
national
grid.
To
then
get
that
information
for
the
whole
building.
E
H
D
D
H
D
H
D
H
Apartment
unit
it
doesn't
meet
the
requirements
of
big
giant
buildings.
You
got
to
incorporate
them
all
for
them
to
have
what
you're
saying
right.
So,
let's
say
this
guy
doesn't
want
to
comply.
He
says:
well,
I
don't
know
how
much
water
I'm
using.
Why
should
I
give
you
permission
to
come
and
check
all
this
you're
going
to
find
them.
D
H
H
D
H
That
that
I
can,
I
can
understand
you,
wanted
to
know
how
much
gas
goes
in
your
house,
how
much
electricity,
but
I
can't
figure
out
why
you
want
to
put
water
when
you
already
know
what
the
water
is,
that
I
can't
that's
the
thing
that
I
can't
and
I
don't
understand
what
the
condos
individual
homeowners
and
tenants
on
this
paper.
It
says
tenants
have
to
report
and
when
the
tenant
leaves
it
does,
it
says
it
here.
I
read
it
here
or
a
tenant
has
to
tell
you.
A
G
G
G
G
G
Condo
owner
is
not
a
tenant
they're
an
owner,
and
what
we're
saying
to
you
is
the
intent
of
this,
which
I
think
is
clear,
but
if
you
want
it
clearer,
we
can
do
that.
Is
that
no
condo
owner
no
individual
condo
owner
is
ever
going
to
be
held
liable.
What
does
how
the
system
works
is
a
large
condo
building
with
20
or
more
units
would
be
subject
to
this
they'd
be
subject
to
the
reporting
requirement.
We
would
work
with
the
condo
association.
G
Yes,
I
suppose
an
individual
condo
owner
could
be
adamant,
they're,
not
providing
any
information.
That's
the
responsibility
of
the
condo
management
company
to
address
the
city
would
only
deal
with
the
condo
management
company,
but
if
the
condo
management
company
failed
to
report,
we
would
go
after
the
condo
management
company.
The
individual
owner
would
never
hear
from.
H
G
H
G
A
A
F
D
That's
a
good
question,
so
the
main
benefit
from
our
municipalities
perspective
is
that
this
allows
us
to
see
who
the
largest
energy,
consumers
and
largest
polluters
are
and
work
with
those
buildings
and
property
owners
to
reduce
pollution
and
reduce
energy
consumption.
So
we
can
do
that
through
a
number
of
ways,
so
we
can
work
with
them
to
provide
energy
efficiency
measures
like
new
electric
heating
systems,
low
flow
fixtures
and
the
like.
We
can
also
work
with
them
to
provide
financing
options
from
state
and
federal
sources
to
assist
them
in
affording
those
energy
efficiency
upgrades.
D
H
D
F
D
That's
a
good
question,
so
this
would
apply
to
many
of
the
businesses
down
on
the
williams,
spruce
street
area.
So,
as
you
can
see
here
in
purple,
red
and
orange,
those
are
the
covered
businesses
down
on
williams
street.
So
we're
talking
the
larger
warehouses
and
you
know
manufacturing
and
distribution
facilities.
We've
met
with
many
of
these
property
owners
so
far,
and
this
is
already
information
that
they
collect
regularly
and
so
reporting
it
once
a
year
to
the
city
seems
to
be
a
light,
lift
for
most
of
them.
C
D
Yeah,
that's
a
good
question
so
for
new
new
projects,
new
development,
you
know
they
would
have
to
comply
with
this
policy
right
now,
though,
this
policy
does
not
require
that
new
construction
implement
any
type
of
energy
efficiency
measures
on
site.
So
we
do
have
the
stretch
building
code
in
chelsea,
it's
one
of
the
the
strongest.
You
know,
building
codes
to
promote
energy
efficiency
that
we
follow.
There
may
also
be
in
the
next
couple
of
years
and
even
stronger
building
code.
D
C
D
H
D
That's
that's
a
fair
question,
so,
from
our
point
of
view,
this
type
of
policy
would
not
deter
businesses
from
coming
in
the
city
for
two
main
reasons.
The
first
is
that
businesses,
whether
they're,
medium-sized
warehouses
or
other
larger
businesses,
already
do
this
on
a
day-to-day
basis
as
part
of
their
operations.