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City of Palm Springs Sustainability Commission meeting, held June 28th, 2022

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Okay,, mr. chair,, we are ready to begin the meeting when you are okay,. Let's call the meeting to order tracy.

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Would you like to do the roll call? yes, chair, barrett vice chair.

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Evans, president,, commissioner baker,, your commissioner clark, here,, commissioner friedman here, commissioner torrance,, and for the record commissioner federman, is absent. This evening.

C

Thank you.. Do we have any questions concerning the agenda other than its length?.

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During 9, we'll assume the agenda has been accepted.

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We have moved the public comments up because the chairs report for things that follow it.

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So we're going to start with public comments. Each member is about 3 min and that's it..

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Are there any public that would like to speak.

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Go ahead and organize, I guess it's mr.

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Apollo. speak to your palace. hi!. My name is vicky pelosi.

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From palm springs, I'm a I'm a alumni of the sustainability commissioner on backwards,, and I'm here today to join with commissioner jack torrance, and our palm springs.

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Non-Monarized transportation advocacy group members to discuss our preparations for transportation in the 20 first century.

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As a commission.- you are the ones dedicated to guiding our city to be the greatest it can be by reducing our carbon footprint. As a citizen group.-.

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Our our committee has a similar mission.. Our goal is to make the recommendations that can provide a safe and connected means to get around and most significantly access downtown. to accomplish the goal.

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We must first improve our cycling and walking infrastructure, and provide safe routes, so that every one chooses walking and cycling over their cards.

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So how do we get there?? How do we reduce carbon emissions getting to and from downtown?.

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And then,, while there,, we must create a network of protected multi-model links along with sidewalks that encourage people to use their bikes,, their neighborhood electric vehicles and their feet to move around.

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Safely protected lanes., those were the physical barriers separating cars, provide a safe, safer passage from neighborhoods to the downtown core, and to cv.

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Link, once downtown, indian, canada and palm canyon should provide a unique design to move people bikes, and any of these, along with pedestrian promenade.

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So visitors can shop and dine, car parking will still be provided free, along with shuttles to move.

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People move those visitors to the merchant and restaurant areas from the parking areas.

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In this way, the noise and pollution of cars is kept away from those enjoying the downtown experience.

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Now a word about cycling safety. Last year my husband, and I decided to go car free and get around town using our ebikes and strikes a move we still embrace but doing that in a city. That's 100.

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Percent designed to move cars provides a less than safe and enjoyable experience.

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Many communities worldwide, are taking your fresh look at street designs to striking for striking a balance between cars and non motorized transportation in case after case after installing protected pike lanes, their efforts.

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Have successfully allowed more people to get around safely on bikes., but unfortunately, on today's streets. Paint on the road does not provide safety barriers to separating cars from bikes.

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Does this imagine that we build a city where cars, bicycles, any vs and pedestrians are treated as equals to cars with equal access? A closing note.

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My own observation, when downtown is busy.

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watch out, too. lanes of traffic are taken up and heavily delayed by people waiting for that elusive parking, spot, or circling to find one.

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When convenient parking is so close., commissioner torrens will be hitting on some of these points in his presentation.

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Later on,- and I thank you for your time, and I have a good evening.

D

Thank you. are there other public comments?? I would like to speak.

B

Okay, okay, now,, but yes, hello.. My name is dorian whitney, and I have been resident for 16 years.

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And I just don't think that there is enough being done by this commission about the climate emergency.

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We are currently facing this year is the hottest year so far, ever.

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And the summer, just where we started. it used to be only a few days that it was 110.

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Now, that's like all the time which is crazy, so I'd be with a citizen who just spoke about public transit.

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This is really the thing, that's keeping us from thriving,, and if someone cannot get on board with that,, then we can't get anywhere.. So are we hard.

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What are we doing to convince someone to do better?? You know what I mean?, because already told them that the problem, the problem is the bus driver, shortage.

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But that's because they're not getting paid enough and whoever's decision, you know, to not to choose their salary is just not making good decisions.. So we need to push those people to hire more bus drivers okay, and improve.

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Service immensely., we really just need like an ambitious yeah.

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So. I just wish you know we could do more. If the other thing that's holding us back is the engineering department because of the way they build their streets.

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What the man just said right now. about street design, is another thing, that's really holding us back, and we should even convince them to bring the scooters.

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You know they banned the electric scooters,, which were super climate friendly.

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And now we need the more than ever. You know we're stranded in the middle of the desert.

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That's what it is upon springs is like, and we cannot participate in society unless we have a tar,, and that is shameful.

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So like, I said. bus driver shortage.. We need to pay them more.

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Pay them a lot more like $30 per hour, because there what's going to keep the city moving,, and so we that's what we need to try to do. and look at all. The oil skills that are happening all around the world is because we're.

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Depending. we're depending on cars, and that's also why the invasion of ukraine just happened,, because we paid that you paid for them.

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So we need more trees everywhere, as well. and right now.

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The main issue is also the scooters,, because we need alternative modes of transportation.

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Please, and thank you., thank you for your comments.. We appreciate those.

B

Are there other comments.

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Seeing none, we will., we will continue with the meeting.. The next thing is the staff comments, deputy manager, deputy city, manager.

B

Fact., do you have comments?? Certainly I do have a couple of things., but mr.

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Chair., did you want to make your chair report prior to staff comments?.

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Thank thank you for catching that. oh,. Let's, since we went ahead and started to have comments.

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Let's do staff comments, and then under the chair report, okay, more than happy, too.. So, first of all, we have offered the position of director to a candidate.

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They have accepted.. I unfortunately can't announce that tonight.

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We'll probably announce that within the next day or 2 I'll forward the press, release and information to all of the numbers, as the sustainability commission once that announcement has been made secondly,. I know there have been questions.

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And concerns about our commissioners who turn out and will.. We have a quorum for our july meeting.

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City council has extended the terms of those who wish to serve, who would otherwise be limited by term limits,, and I believe commissioner fudderman will be joining us for the july meeting.

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To assist us in having a quorum for that meeting, and I believe, mr.

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Friedman,, you will also be with us.

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You're, muted. Sorry! Sorry about that yes,. If you're willing to have me in assuming the council, waved the 7 year, requirement.

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Yes, in the special circumstance they have. so with those 2 commissioners returning,, I believe former chair clark is- is unavailable for that meeting, and we thank you. All.

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Obviously, for the years that you've put in on the sustainability commission and hope that you don't mind extending for another month.

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We look to have a full appointment by september's meeting.

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I expect that at that time the city council will make appointments to the boards and commissions, and have those ready to go.

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And so that's the expectation, as you may have heard, discussed at our joint meeting last week.

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City council is looking at reducing the size of some boards and commissions,, while we have enjoyed having as many people participate as possible.

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In some instances it's been difficult in order to fill out some of our boards and commissions, as well as sometimes for certain commissions.. It's been a little bit easier when you have a smaller group in.

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Order to enact business., I expect that sustainability will probably come down to about 5 to 7. members.

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City council hasn't determined that yet we do expect to see those reductions in our other boards and commissions,, and that will take place as commissioners who are term limited in their terms of service. We're not looking to kick anyone.

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Off any of our orders and commission.- so just wanted to state that.

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So with that, that concludes my comments and I'll turn it over to miss sheldon,. If she has any comments on her staff.

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Thank you, deputy city manager, fag. I don't have anything additional to add other than what's already in the this evening's packet.

B

Thank you. actually,. It works out that we reversed.

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it works out. Fine since I'm. starting off on the chairs report, with the challenges to boards and commissions meeting,, which the meeting was attended by my by krishna baker,, a commissioner clerk commissioner.

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Freeman enter manager, sheldon and myself. we.

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We attended the special session. It started off with an appreciation dinner,, which was a good chance to sort of relax outside of this, and and see what other people look like,, since we sometimes don't see them other than on zoom.

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And then, after that we had a 2 h session with city council,, a special study session.

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The main benefit of that was that we spent quite a bit of time.

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Each commission describing what the commissions do and what they saw.

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Their challenges. to be in the future., it was interesting to see the number of commissions. That said, they wanted to work with sustainability.

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We'll have to see where that goes in the future. There was not, however, and the study session on the boards and commission's any discussion of the 10 challenges that they had presented to us. So we actually don't.

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Have a statement on that. so this that I next was going to talk about the status of commissioner appointments..

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Luckily, definition or management. deputy city manager, flags statement made that clear as to what was happening. There.

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One particular concern about our number of commissioners was the subcommittee on waste reduction, which has, which, which,. If we had the, if, if the, if the terms had actually ended,, then it would have.

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Been a subcommittee of me and we need to improve that to make it work a little better.

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And so so that's something that we'll be talking, about, or or addressing in the next month or so,, seeing how that works out with with the commissioner friedman's continuation on on the list of.

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Things to report the city clerk has been asking to do a public record policy presentation, that's something that we're just gonna hold off. Until we see if we can get a new commissioner and do it, then that would be the.

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Best timing for also as an outstanding thing, as the residential energy, efficiently rebate, efficiency, remate scholarship program,. I believe, from discussions with the with tracy. There are some.

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Issues on the budget related to that, and so that's something that is just on. hold.

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Next, coming up is the smoking or not., so smoking ordinance is, is ready to go.

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Basically is the short version for those who may not be familiar.

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The smoking ornets was originally passed by the sustainability committee last november.

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We then sufficiently received some suggestion: revision, some extensive suggested revisions by the public health center and the american long association.

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We incorporated those changes into that previously past draft, and then that changed ornament was reviewed by commissioners, baker and clark, and now also by myself..

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We all feel that there is no need with the changes that were made by the american lung association.

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Do take it back to the commission, and so we're going to move that on forward to move that on forward to the debate, city, manager.,.

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After this meeting,, so that's the status of the smoking audience.

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There was also during the past. in june, there was the palm spring safety element, update.

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This is separate from the some no safety element update vulnerability,, assessment,, report, presentation.

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This is suffer from that.. It was a matrix of some suggested changes.

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To it. it was given to us by associate planner new.

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On june the fifteenth, and he needed a response.

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by june 20 s,. So we formed a very small ad hoc subcommittee of myself, and.

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I thought I put it down there,, but I'm not. It was myself.

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david, friedman, and roy clark, and we did that review without a lot of changes.

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And that's going forward. The last thing on my shares. report is that we do get regular requests for presentations from bird and from get around,, both of which are alternative. Transportation means, and we also have an.

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Outstanding request from ev energy group, which is a which is about providing a charge sites for evs.

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I'm just noting that that we get those, and I have decided that we're, you know,. We will use those presentations when we have room on the agenda for more presentation which we don't currently have so.

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That's the that's the standard of various things. I will note that we have.

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I. I was going to note that we have some commissioners leading.. We still have one commissioner leaving,, and we have 2 commissioners whose terms end,, and we will be addressing that again at the end of this meeting.

B

So I believe that's it from my chairs report okay, and then we have a presentation now coming up on the safety element.

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Update by place works.

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I'd like to introduce eli, crispy and tammy seal with place, works.

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They are going to provide a presentation on the report, and I have that presentation ready to share.

C

If the 2 of you are ready.

F

Good evening, commission members., thank you very much for having us.

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My name is eli kristy, with place works.. I will be giving a presentation on the climate change, vulnerability, assessment.

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Next, slide, please.

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So tonight we're going to go over the vulnerability, assessment.

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Give an overview of it, and the method that was used to put it together..

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We will share some of the high-level results with you and discuss implications for the general plan, update and specifically safety element,, and then talk about the next steps of the vulnerability assessment.

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Next slide, please., so this is under the overall general plan project,, which, on the place, works, side, is being led by a wendy noak and count the number,, and then I myself, and part of a dedicated team that is working on the.

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Safety element I'm joined by tammy seal here tonight, and we are also assisted by jeff on potsman.

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Next slide, please., so to begin with, the overview of the vulnerability assessment and the method that was used to prepare it.

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Next slide,, please, the vulnerability assessment is required under a recent change to state law.

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What's called senate bill * *, and it requires that all safety elements now include a vulnerability assessment, which you've meant to be analysis of how climate change may affect the people and other aspects of.

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A community., so we have to look at how people and how various community assets.

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That's the same buildings infrastructure everything else in the community.

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But the people, how they may be affected by changing climate conditions, and, in particular,, how changing climate conditions affect natural hazards.

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We need to look at the programs and policies that are in place, that help to protect people against these hazards or help them in covering from them.

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And then all of this is meant to inform an update to the safety element, so that the safety element can better protect.

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People again sees painting, hazard conditions under some recent guidance that was adopted by the state a couple of years. Ago.

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The vulnerability assessment has to follow a or shift,, follow a set method, and have to be consistent with the latest and greatest science around climate change.

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Next slide, please., but we'll be using a few different terms tonight that are kind of specific to the world.

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The vulnerability assessment., so I just wanted to make sure we are all on the same page regarding these terms.

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We're going to speak about the impact and adaptive capacity of climate change and of people and community assets in palm springs.

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When you speak of impacts, we're referring to the negative effects of climate change or of hazards that are associated with it.

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When we speak about adaptive capacity,, we are referring to the ability of people and other community assets to prepare for, to respond to or to recover from the impacts of climate change.

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So impact is sort of the severity the the climate change creates upon.

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People or assets and adaptive capacity. is their ability to resist and recover from those impacts.

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We've already mentioned the term vulnerability that refers to the level of harm that people are assets, may experience related to climate change or the other environmental or social impacts.

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Great generally., the greater the vulnerability,, the greater the the risk of harm,, the greater the danger.

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And then we are also going to speak about resilience tonight and facilitate the opposite.

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It is the ability of people assets, a community to plan for disruptions, to recover from them and to adapt and grow in a change. Situation.

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So we are going the overall lame of the safety element. Effort he's in large part, 2 approve resilience and possible.

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Next slide, please.: this is the the method that we are using to prepare the vulnerability assessment, consistent with the recommendations that are made by the state.

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We begin by identifying what natural hazards exist in palm springs right, now,, how climate change is to affect them. using the latest available scientific projections,. We look at who, and what in the community may be affected by climate change.

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And how severe those impacts are likely to be.? We look at what policies,, programs, and other efforts are currently in place to help protect people and assets against changing climate conditions.

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And based on all this,, we are able to determine the overall level of vulnerability of people and assets in palm springs..

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The greater the vulnerability,, the greater the risk that lets us prioritize.

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Which populations and assets are mostly need of assistance through the cpl.

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And update., certainly, we wanna make sure that the entire community is as protected as we can,, but we do wanna make sure that those who meet additional assistance, additional resources,, those who are more vulnerable, are treated accordingly and are.

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Prioritized as appropriate. next slide, please,, we look at all of the populations and assets that are applicable in palm springs.

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We look at every climate change related hazard that may affect them, and we scored for each population and asset for each relevant hazard.

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We score them on their impact and on their adaptive, capacity.

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The the severity of the effects of climate change and their ability to resist this are those are scored on a scale of low,, medium or high,, and then based on those 2, independent scores.

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We then put them together and determine overall vulnerability., so a population or asset that has a high impact, which is likely to be severely affected, and a low adaptive capacity, a low ability to resist those impacts.

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Those are scored available for a 5. that is to say,. They are severely vulnerable.

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For that relevant hazard. on the other hand,, if a population or asset has a low impact score and a high degree of adaptive capacity,, we scored a vulnerabilities score of one minimal.

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Vulnerability. and then there are intermediate scores of low medium, and high.

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So. v. 5 is the most vulnerable populations and assets in palm springs,. V.

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One are the the least vulnerable population to assets in the community.

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Next slide, please.: these are the hazards that we are evaluating in the the vulnerability assessment.

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We're looking at air quality, drought, extreme heat flooding, human health hazards, which is vector born diseases from pests such as mosquitoes.. I ticks my some rats and the like.

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Landslides, severe storms, and wildfires, including wildfires, that may occur broadly in the region that don't directly threaten palm springs, but which may affect air pollution in the community.

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And I do want to point out that when you're talking about extreme heat., you know we're not referring to a number of heat in palm springs..

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We know that is certainly part of life in the community., but when we refer to extreme heat, we are referring to days where the temperature gets above the all, but 2% of average spring and summer, day.

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So in downpal downtown palm springs.: these are days where the temperature exceeds about 115 degrees.

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So the point where we go beyond, merely hot to,. You know dangerously high temperatures.

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Next slide, please.: these are the as the categories of assets that we're.

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We we are looking at in the vulnerability assessment.

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As we mentioned,, the assets are pretty much everything in the community, but the people. we are looking at infrastructure, buildings,, economic drivers,, key ecosystems and natural resources and community services.

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And you can see just some examples of that here on the slide, we're trying to cast a pretty broad net with this vulnerability, assessment, looking not only at the the physical and the tangible elements of the community,, but also looking.

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At things like the key sectors of the local economy., the services that a lot of the infrastructure and buildings in palm springs, provide.

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Next slide, please. and then there are the populations that we are looking at.

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We recognize that certainly everybody in palm springs, and really everybody, globally, is likely to be affected by climate change to one degree or another.

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But in the vulnerability assessment we are focusing on the populations that are likely to be disproportionate,, affected.

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There are lots of reasons why someone may experience the effects of climate change more severely than others.

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It may include financial threats and limited resources, mobility challenges underlying health, conditions.

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A person's job or living conditions may make them more at risk.

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They need you more socially isolated,, for whatever reason. persons who are senior citizens, children, unhoused.

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Lgbtq ia plus persons., there are a number of underlying factors in various populations that make these individuals more susceptible to. Some are all of the effects of climate change.

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So we do wanna make sure.. We are assessing that in our vulnerability analysis. Next slide, please.

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So there are some high-level findings.. This is the the 30,000 foot overview.

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There is more detailed information available in the written vulnerability, assessment.

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But at the looking at the top of it we can see that certainly there are a number of populations that are highly vulnerable to climate change.

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This includes households and poverty, immigrants and refugees,, particularly undocumented from outdoor workers.

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And senior citizens,, and especially senior citizens.

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citizens who are living alone are often the most at risk.

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Looking at the buildings and infrastructure in palm springs,, overall houses in the community,, particularly houses that are in hazard. prone areas, are among the most at risk.

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Also, single access roads, that's to say rows that only have one way in and out.

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Not only are people living on these roads vulnerable, because they have only 1 point of access that may be disrupted by a hazard.

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But the roads themselves are often less maintained.

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They may be key access points,, but because of their single access, nature.

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They are in some ways more important, and may therefore be based on increased risk because of their vulnerability.

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The economic drivers that are most at risk include state and regional parks and outdoor recreation, activities.

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Looking at the natural resources in and around palm springs the unit for woodlands,, which are a big part of the local ecosystem.

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They are highly at risk,, although they are by no means the only ecosystem right now for resource that is susceptible.

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And then there are a number of key services that are at risk to many natural hazards,, but particularly to flooding such flash floods and severe weather events. That includes public transit,, energy delivery, particularly electricity and.

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The ability to provide clean,, safe water and waste water services.

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Next slide, please., we have previously speak spoken about the vulnerability assessment to the to the sustainability commission, commissioner.

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Members have made a number of recommendations and comments which we have now taken and and revised or written report.

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In response to these., this includes making sure that the information about ev charging stations is up to date,, using the most recently available data on just vulnerable populations from the census.

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And then we have additive information about water conservation measures that are meant to inform the general plan and have made mention of potential strategies that will improve community resilience, but may also help to reduce greenhouse gas.

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Emissions, so tying vulnerability, assessment, and a safety element to climate action, planning and greenhouse gas reductions.

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Next slide, please., so we'll close by speaking about implications for the general panel update and in particular for the safety elements.

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So the vulnerability assessment informs the general plan in a few ways.

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first,. It identifies the hazards of concern, and which ones are likely to be the most severely impactful for problems, brings and identifies which parts of the community are at risk of these hazards. It evaluates.

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Vulnerability, and identifies the people and assets who are most at risk,, and by doing so, we hope to set a foundation for developing adaptation and resilience strategies in the safety element.

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Again, increasing resilience, community wide for everybody and for everything in palm springs,, but with particular attention to the people and assets who may be most at risk.

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So the vulnerability assessment is a foundation.. It is a technical analysis and based on its findings.

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We will develop policies in the safety element that are meant to be responsive to the key vulnerabilities in the community.

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Next slide, please., so the next steps are to take the vulnerability assessment. Results.

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Take the findings, and these will be incorporated into the goals, policies and implementation actions up the general plan, specifically into the safety element.

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But where there is opportunity to integrate resilience, and at a case in the climate change in other parts of the general plan,, we and our colleagues and the city staff will certainly be looking to do that as well. So that concludes.

F

The presentation. thank you for your time, and we would be happy to answer any questions.

B

Thank you for the detail. There. it made it a lot more sense to me than it did just by looking at it.

B

Do any commissioners have? any questions for place. works.? We only have a few minutes,, but we do have a few minutes dude.. What's the timing of integrating?.

G

Because I, I guess the question is,: what are the next tips?, what the timing of the next steps for having like drafts and safety? Element., that's sort of one question, and then deputy city manager flag, is still around. I'm not sure, as I wasn't sure whether.

G

In the limited general plan update whether that also includes the circulation element cause,, I know not. All of elements are being updated.

G

But there's there is some links. Obviously the housing element is done,, depending on what hcd.

G

Does about it., but I was just sort of wondering how this could potentially work in in partial response to the comments. A public comment, this evening.

G

Because they are all are linked.. You know, in in terms of vulnerability, climate,, medication,, adaptation,, circulation,, getting cars off the road,, etc.

G

So I just sort of wondering to see how that fits in the big picture of sort of timing for getting all of this done. So in terms of our limited update to the general plan.

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It does include the safety element,, the land use, element,, the circulation, element, housing, element.

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So for the draft housing element as you've, indicated, has already been sent to hcd.

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The state to review that and we're close to finalizing that with the state's comments,, the 3 remaining elements will go forward for review by the planning, commission, and then to city. Council.-.

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This fall., those will be public hearings, will take testimony on the elements.

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And then, obviously,. If we receive comments on the elements,, we may be making minor revisions to them, based on public comment,, with the intent that we will adopt them at the end of this year.

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By the end of this year,, if it could go also back.

G

Certainly in terms of the safety element,, which is where clearly, climate change and mitigation has to be under sb 379,, but also once again,, you know,, we, we have been involved in transportation. So certainly I think the.

G

Circulation element, I think, we'll leave land use clearly to the planning commission.-.

G

But if there's a way of sending back and getting,, even if it's informal, you know an ad hoc committee,, just as we commented on this to get the input, I think particularly our friends in the planning.

G

Commission., I think they've always welcomed input and this is,, I think, a point that was made last week at the at the general board. And commission.-.

G

So if we could see these in time to comment on them., perhaps at the time, they'll be at the same time. As planning commission.- so we we have a chance to do that, because they all are linked.

G

You know and that's why I'm pleased to hear that the circulation element is in the limited plan update because there are things that are clearly linked in climate change and adaptation..

G

In our circulation elements., so I want to make sure that we can look at those and put our sustainability thumb on those scales.. Certainly we'd be happy to forward those to sustainability commission to review.

A

Thank you any other questions.. I see 9 well,. Thank you very much for this.

B

It looks like it's a an extensive guide that will be helping us along the way and provide more provide more work.

B

Also sure it. it's important for us. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, next, on business is something not not unrelated at all, is under new business.

B

The environmental. yeah,, then I can't say this one: the environmentally preferable purchasing policy, the referred to frequently as the epp.

B

And it's easier than saying the entire work, the and the the appp.

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Was submitted to council back in., I think it was march, and then was referred back to the commission for review in april, and ad hoc.

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Committee was created to review it. that ad hoc committee originally consisted of commissioners.

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Clark, evans, friedman, and myself,, though, to conform to the brown act,. When commissioner o'connor dropped out of sustainability.

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We had to drop one of the commissioners on the ad hoc committee, and commissioner friedman dropped out at that time.

B

So the document you have in your agenda is a long document,, which is the suggested changes to that policy..

B

I'm trying to figure out how to how to look at the policy.

B

At the same time. hold on., would you like me to share? Can you put it up?.

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B

Okay, and as I had noted on the previous page, the changes in this policy don't occur until section 3,, which is further down.

B

Just one stop there from a moment, which is the reason all of that is crossed out, is simply that we made this a shorter document,, because we wanted to show you only the portions where we were making any changes. So that's it.

B

Just the previous sections that are no longer there: okay, let's go ahead to the next section.

B

Skip down the section 3.

B

Okay. and here we started adding items related to to what we thought were important,, including issues of just on a whole variety of items, around purchasing longevity buying local items.

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Continue it.. It contains much of what we've already specified at other points by the way around.

B

Straws and etc. food where so go ahead. That's just send tactical.

B

This is a thanks to david.. This is a providing to commissioner freeman.

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This is, providing a language to make sure that the use of electricity when energy is falls within the our use of our our uses of having renewable and or non-solar energy. In.

B

General, and and if either of any of the others on this committee want to intercede, while I'm talking, feel free to do so.

B

Okay,, then india is renovations to city buildings again, to fit with the requirements of various energy codes and plans.

B

Let's go down to j. yeah, encouraging the city to use more electrical vehicles, ev's in various ways.

B

And also leaving the option open for hydrogen, let's continue further down.

B

Okay, here's here. is an interesting section to add and wouldn't want to thank you,, commissioner evans for much of his work on that.

B

I'm not talking about the the eu above, but on the apparel and other fabric, goods.

B

We decided that was important, to., add a section about how how fabrics, fabrics went in uniforms,, but also fabrics.

B

When, if if by and recognized tets, and things like that,, how all of those are are appropriate fabrics, that for for an environmentally appropriate policy,? So that's what that is. Let's.

B

Continue, that's just a link, so don't worry about that. One.

B

This was a question.. These are questions about the printing and using recycle paper and and trying to encourage recycle paper whenever possible,, even allowing a minor increase in expenditure for buying, recycle.

B

Paper. okay. and then we get down on this page and and another spot about the record keeping.

B

And the policy had had some details about record keeping that we thought actually were a little bit of too much of an increase in workload for our department.

B

So we tune those back just a little bit, that's what c, is, and then coming on down.. I believe we run into that again.

B

Continue now yes,, that's what's on big there. Let's continue.

B

And then this is what it's gonna be evaluated on and we we can change the record keeping,, but also in to make sure that we increase the use of evs. For for the hecular. I believe that's all of.

B

Our changes continue on down. yeah,. It was so that's all the changes that we made.

B

I have to ask for your approval. if there are any questions about the changes., if you had a chance to look at them.

B

Let's have let's address those now, do I have any questions about their changes.

B

Okay,, we need to move to a adopt this and we need to do that.

B

Yeah, we should do that formally. so, tracy,. Can you do a rule?.

B

Call vote on this.. Do we need a motion? and second, oh, thank you, thank you.

G

I knew I was missing something.. I I oh, sorry.

H

Do we have to approve it tonight, cause, I I I scanned it.

H

I didn't realize that we were approving dv. I mean I'm not saying that I have any objections,, but I didn't read it from the perspective of saying that you know I saw that there were edits to it. I know we've been.

H

Talking about the purchasing agreement for a while, so if there's a way to push it to another, or I can do it verbally, or how do we wanna proceed?.

H

If we don't cause- as I I just didn't, get a chance to read it in detail.

H

To look at all the various edits that you made okay, well, thank you. thank you.. Thank you for that.

B

I'm not sure of the urgency oops you can move to those phone to a future date.

I

Certain hold on we, mr. chair, is perhaps defer this into until our july meeting.

A

That way. commissioners may have additional time to review the proposed changes, and we could vote on it formally during the july meeting.. I have no show with that.

B

I didn't recall what urgency we were receiving from council here,. There isn't on the part of staff.

A

Although we would like to get it done as quickly as possible., I think there's no issue with deferring this to our july meeting.

B

Thanks. everyone. okay, thank you.

B

And then that brings us up to 2 ordinances proposed by.

B

Commissioner freeman we were going to treat these.

B

As for as a one readings only because of the likelihood, that he wasn't going to be a commissioner in july.

B

But now that he's being a commissioner in july, I think it's up to david is to whether he feels that we have to get these out of here quickly,. I guess my preference is to if that's possible,, but I you.

G

Know my fifth,. You know, commissioner torrents once once more time we can postpone both of these, and I.

G

I certainly want to present them in detail this evening, and and answer any questions.

G

If we're, certain of a quorum, particularly with the 6 commissioners, as long as we get for warm,, 4 or 4 4 folks available in july.

G

That would be. that would be fine.. Obviously it would be my preference to get these approvals.

G

But since I am currently serving for another month, and assuming that there is a guarantee forum, because 3 weeks doesn't make a difference.

G

But 2 months does I can say that that I have reviewed these and and and and feel fairly comfortable with going ahead and voting on them. Tonight.

B

But if others feel that we need to take another week, that's fine, and then another until july.

B

So david, let's go ahead and start one at a time,. Although there's a lot of sort of shared history in both of them.

G

So the first is the existing home energy efficiency ordinance.

G

It is exceedingly complicated, but that is because of it's.

G

It's part of what's called the california energy code. I've been working on this for 2 years., so some of you have been around. The commission have seen previous versions of various memos that I've written on them on on their.

G

Cost effectiveness. it's based on a model ordinance developed by the statewide codes and standards program under the auspices of the cpu c.

G

And ordinances that are already adopted by several other cities and it's intended to complement and fill in a gap of the 2022 energy code, which will enter into effectiveness coming january. By requiring.

G

Homeowners doing remodels to carry out cost,, effective energy, efficiency.

G

Upgrades. and once again, because it's an amendment to the energy code.

G

It is drafted in energy code ish and there's really nothing that I can do about it,, because the code is 600 pages.

G

I am not making this up, and you have to stick with sort of the those formula of when you're doing an amendment, because it has to be approved by the california. Energy commission.-.

G

So the format is exceedingly sort of constrained.

G

This is not how I would probably write an ordinance and not way.

G

I've written the next ordinance of all percent because it's part of the energy code, which is embedded in our title.

G

8 of the of municipal code, and adopted by will be adopted by city. Council.-.

G

It will require review by the building department,. So probably the next step, and, you know,, subject to what director fag would do.

G

Maybe we can start the process of getting some initial input from the from the from the building department.

G

While we're waiting for the the 3 weeks into the next into the next into the next meeting.

G

If if we decide to defer that., the other sort of issue is that we need, of course, stakeholder outreach before we present it to council in the fall,, and then there is a call, what's called a cost effect of this explorer.

G

Which has various data that I don't have in this version,, but it previously circulate the commission that evaluates each of the measures.

G

How much it costs upfront,? How much you will save long term,, because it said, cost effectiveness is required under state law, and then placeworks can assist in evaluating the ghg emissions.

G

Reductions, because in particular areas of like the water heating package,, where you will be insulating your water heaters, don't have to change anything out on that bill on that specific requirement, and only cost about $200 or so.

G

To do that will help drive our th reductions,, because nearly everybody in palm springs has gas power and water heaters.

G

There are very few, all electric homes here in town, so that's that's. It.

G

I mean I'd be happy to answer any questions if commissioners are comfortable voting on it.

G

I'll make a motion to that effect.. Otherwise we can defer the formal vote till the next, until the july meeting, and I can work out with director fag what input we can get from staff in the meantime, but certainly right, now.

G

I'm I'm available for any questions. Folks would have I said.

G

This has been vetted by the folks in the the statewide codes and sanders program to meet energy commission general requirements.

B

I can say that I had no real problems. with that. I had some questions.

B

But they were all just syntactical and david assured me that they're stuck in the code, and can't be fixed.

B

So so so I'm okay, with us going ahead and and having a vote on this issue, I'd. Second, that I'm I'm fine.

I

I've reviewed it. It's I'm happy to vote now on it.

I

Okay, okay, then,. Let me make a motion to approve the about up existing home energy efficiency, ordinance. and and if I could add to that, that motion and and and second, it is and recommend it's adoption by city. Council.-.

G

Because we're not the ones we we, I think our role is we're we're recommenders.

G

So it would be the say: sustainability commission approves the draft existing home, energy, efficiency ordinance, and recommends its adoption by city. Council.-.

G

So chair., if you'll, accept that friendly amendment to your motion, and then I'd be honored to second. It.

B

Is there any discussion? alright, tracy,, would you go ahead?.

B

Would you bring it up?, do a roll call? vote on this?.

C

Yes, vice chair, evans. yes, vote to to move it forward as a recommendation to council, commissioner baker.

J

Yes, commissioner clark. yes., commissioner torrents.

H

Yes, commissioner friedman and chair barrett.

C

Yes, unanimous, okay, next to her.

G

And then,, which is written in a little bit more of a narrative, fashion, and deputy city manager, fagg will recommend, will recognize this ordinance, because it's largely based on a request that was made by the.

G

Planning commission.- there were several very, very large indoor grow cannabis facilities that were presented to the planning commission for required conditional use of permits under the various the zoning code provisions and in connection.

G

With that, the planning commission was concerned about the very, very large energy and water use by these facilities.

G

So, under the requirement it was not possible.. There were sort of requests to work on ordinance, so that these would be embedded in the code and not have to be done as one offs each time. So for one of the.

G

Facilities called kings garden.. My recollection deputy marjorie fagg,, is that it was actually denied by the planning. Commission, went up to the city. Council, was approved by city council, but with the added conditions of.

G

Approval as actually this ordinance requires, for everyone generally, is that they have to use 100% carbon free energy.

G

So council is,, I believe,, actually provided,. I think, both in this case,, the planning commission, requested.

G

You know the work be done on this did get referred..

G

I think both planning and and and the city council preferred to sustainability,- and I think this essentially is is written to you know,, to match the the direction that we've received from from both bodies. The advantage of this.

G

One is that it's very easy here, in palm springs,, thanks to my other habits, desert community energy, to get 100% carbon free energy.

G

It really is literally as simple as if you opted out your automatically.

G

All under state law, all new electric customers. So if you build a new facility, or you,, you know, move into an existing facility.

G

It's a new account, you're automatically enrolled in desert community energy.

G

You can opt out to edison or off-down.

G

This essentially says that for the cannabis growth facilities., if they're new ones, as well as our large commercial accounts.

G

Either it's new., they have to stay on either edison or a parallel as a deserts are entitled to do.

G

But it's it's rather easy to comply. It's just a question. Of, you know,, calling and and getting 100% clean energy.

G

And I'm working on getting those electrons in into palm springs.

G

There. the other factor for specifically the cannabis industry.

G

It there is a water component,, because that was also a request from the planning commission concerned about the amount of water.

G

So I worked with once again the consultants from the state codes and standards program,, and they have recommended a for dehumanification.

G

Recycled water, there is equipment, that's available. That essentially says it, collects the condensate, purifies it, and sends it back into the system.

G

So in many respects, it's, sort of a very small version of what we have already with the city in dwa,, where much of the water is is,. You know, gone through the system purified and then put into into.

G

Into recycle water., so it's really a sort of a closed circuit to reduce water.

G

Use there, and the other requirements specifically for cannabis users is to require cost effective, energy, efficient, bulbs.

G

Now, it may be, and we discuss with stakeholders.. We very well find out that they're already doing it, so that is best practice.

G

Both of them are best practice,, but that's a discussion with the cannabis industry.

G

Stakeholders,, so that process needs to needs to occur.

G

We had talked, and with a new director, we can,, we can discuss, moving forward with a cannabis, sustainable cannabis, form.

G

Perhaps the early fall before this goes to council and get to get their input there.

G

And with sources, some input from the from manufacturers of that equipment to present the the best practices, and the rest is quite simple in terms of the electricity.

G

Use., obviously we want to let folks know that, so that's my my presentation is that for this one, it's written in a more sort of narrative fashion, that's not quite as difficult to comprehend as.

G

The previous one, but I wouldn't you know again, happy to once again answer any questions, and then the commissioners are comfortable, make a motion to get a move. This evening, and also a deputy city manager of like I, have because.

G

This originated the planning commission,, and there is one small section, and with a sort of cleanup of the solar zoning ordinance.

G

This one does provide, but that's a discussion. with you when the the planning staff planning director, this one would would would go back to planning before going to to city council,, and I think they I believe they really want to see. It.

G

It's their house was this originated in in their side of the house,. If you will, of the board of commissions,, so it does sort of contemplate the going back to planning before city council.

G

So I'm happy to answer any questions and, and and you know if the other commissioners are comfortable.

G

I would make in this case I'd make a motion for approval., and the emotion would be the one similar to the one that tier barrett just made is to recommend adoption.

G

Poo recommend approval of the of the ordinance, of the renewable energy ordinance, recommend approval.

G

By city council and presented to to the planning commission for their concurrence and and additional recommendations.

G

So that would be my my motion for this one I'll second, that happy to answer any further questions, or if not, we can move for once again, I'll, just state that I have read the proposal and feel comfortable.

B

B

Tracy., could we have a roll call on this? yes,, chair barrett, vice chair?.

C

Evans. yes, commissioner clark. yes,, commissioner torrents.

H

Yes, commissioner friedman and chair barrett.

C

Yes, thank you,. You know. thank you to all of the commissioners and staff.

G

This is a lot of work, and I'll I'll talk at the end about sort of next steps. In my you, know.

G

Transition role., so thank you very much, to all the commissioners and staff for moving these 2 forward.

B

Okay. and now, under new business,, we have a fun task. july,, the july meeting.

B

We needed to change the date.. I think we needed to change the date,, because we were going to be only 4 people., but now that we're still 6, do we still need to change the date?.

B

I'm asking that of miss sheldon, chair barrett.

C

We know that vice chair. evans is unable to attend.

C

July nineteenth., I did confirm with commissioner fudderman earlier today that july nineteenth does work for her schedule,, so it would be different on everyone else's availability on the the.

C

Predetermined date of july nineteenth, whether that means to be changed still in my calendar,, so I'm available hold on I'm checking my calendar.

B

My week, before., that is the what I would like love for that it that commissioner evans vice chair evans be available., but it sounds like the the date works for all the all the rest.

B

Randy I'm available at different dates. I just haven't you know.

I

Yeah.: apologies that the last 2 weeks of july are difficult for me.

I

if it still works for everybody on the original date of july nineteenth.

I

By all means., please don't accommodate myself. but yeah,. I I I'm not available on the original date.

I

Okay, but I would be available for example,, although the the previous week, the week of the eleventh.

G

So I I don't have any issues of moving it forward. I can't, on the twelfth.

B

I can meet on the fourteenth. Let's just do a quick poll.

B

if we met on the fourteenth. That's council.-.

G

I believe that's a council meeting, if that that's a council meeting.

B

Okay,, I guess we stick with the nineteenth.

B

Any comment. no,, I'm I'm fine, so on the nineteenth miss charlotte,, could you send a? I don't know that we need to say anything about that in advance, or not,, but I know I need to be.

B

Reminded. I'll, I'll send myself a note, I'm, happy to send out a reminder to the entire commission.-.

C

Okay. alright. now then, we're ready now for subcommittee reports.

B

They the savings, are committing on waste reduction.

B

I had decided that that a way to shorten the report on that to some extent would be that I would do a quick summary of it, and then ask michelle and to supplement what I'm my thoughts about. It.

B

If you look at the report from scar, scar is what we call it.

B

The the main issues that came up to me were workload actually for sustainable to be staff and contractors.

B

One of the problems was the franchise agreement, but that's hopefully,, I think that's out of the way.

B

I think it is did refinish on the fan, franchise, agreement.

B

Did council vote. we are taking the franchise, agree, agreement, and rates back to council this thursday.

C

The thirtieth we then have a public hearing scheduled for september first,, which is for the prop to 18 notification that will go out.

C

It is also anticipated at the september first date. that city council will accept the the changes to the franchise agreement at that time.

B

Okay, okay,, but in terms of extra workload, the franchise agreement, sounds like it's sort of manageable. At this point.

B

Yeah. okay, alright., so one of the so., so one of the things about scar was the.

B

Sb: 1383 and the food wear ordinance that there's this training on that this happening.

B

And we're having to figure out the details with bur tech, about composting on that and then on and then there's a major issue about reporting and working with the school district. On that that's been fairly messy.

B

With vertex. but,, I think tracy has a comment.

B

Some comments on that, and I see a hand up from from commissioner torrens. we'll get to that in a minute.

C

I'm sorry were you asking for an update on vertex.

B

Yes, right from the meeting palm springs, disposal.

C

Services advised that fiber based compostables,, so an example would be a clam shell that would be accepted. Vibr tech.

C

At their 2 facilities in coachella valley. when it comes to bioplastics, such as compostable for spoons in the knives, the facility is not set up to process.

C

Those., so those type of compostable bio plastics will be routed to landfill.

B

So that's still a, I guess: do we consider that outstanding.

B

Or is that just given that we can't get around it that is, that those are the? That is what the facility can accept.

C

So there aren't. any changes to that at this time. Thank you. My question has more to do with our outreach with the community composting group.-.

H

So if we want to move from burtech and the scour.

H

But I know that there were elements of that outreach with that group, and finding a site within the community.

H

And one of the things that was brought up last meeting,- or maybe it was a meeting before where they were citing a location on the airport property, and something that it came to mind with myself,. As I was at the airport and thinking about.

H

My previous life of a consultant working for sustainability, consultancy that we're helping airports achieve sustainability strategy that perhaps there might be a way for us to think about composting. The food.

H

Waste that is generated at the airport as part of the project, and therefore the fda doesn't net, or the the federal 80 eighta doesn't have to think about this. In terms of like this is us.

H

Trying to take a city project and create a program., so I know it complicates things.

H

It just is something that to me, like faa, also needs an airport to operate. Sustainably.

H

They sell food, they have food waste, etc, and so if there was a way for us to think about it in that kind of city, partnership.

H

So it's more, how do we think about yes, and as opposed to an no., this is needs to be designated specifically for aviation.

H

Specifically related uses., I would assume that that comes under the standards existing for restaurants to compost,, which is an established standard.

B

But I'm not absolutely sure I believe michelle and may have a better comment on that.

C

To address the inquiry as to whether or not we can use the site at civic and alleho for composting, the faa did reject that request.

C

The reasoning was, they said, only aeronautical activities.

C

Could occur on airport designated properties, even though it's owned by the city.

C

We can certainly go back and put in.. I I would think that maybe a a report, or something more formal.

C

We could. it could be put together for a second request to the faa.

C

And then to answer this second question, as to whether or not there's organics collection at the food facilities of the airport,, I can confirm that.

C

Yes, they do., they have an account established., it does get used.

C

It does get weekly pickups., so organics collection is occurring at the airport.

H

So, airports, more city, program,, faa, saying,- this needs to be aviation related activities.

H

What those are kind of up to their own discretion? I don't mean to muddy the waters.

H

I was just trying to think of a obviously aviation and sustainability.

H

Clearly, the sustainability attributes are really about.

H

Reducing the impacts related to the fuel. used to fuel the planes,, but I mean, anyway,. I just thought I would bring it up.

H

Thanks for giving me the insights, again., tracy and kind of dot in those eyes.

B

No, thank you,. Thank you for bringing that up. It's a I. I had a similar question some months back about the. Why couldn't the air museum be a spot for recycling.

B

But it couldn't for the same reason so anyway.

B

Continuing on the sky report., I think the one thing that was outstanding to me was the issue of the schools, and I believe you had.

B

I believe there was an answer for that. oh, oh,, the problem is,. Is it because the palm springs unified school districts office is in palm springs, even though many of their campuses are not., they cover.

B

Other cities that we were going to have to do. the or the sustainability would have to do all of those cities.

B

I think there was an answer for that. michelle.. The answer is, cal, recycle has directed the city of home springs as the responsible party for outreach and education to.

C

The schools located within palm springs unified school district. I don't have an update on that, because I have not had an opportunity to begin working on that. Yet.

B

Hopefully. there will be an update, that's less labor and tensor anything else from scour that we need to.

B

Add to the meeting michelle, I don't have any additional updates other than what's in the report. Ad hoc subcommittee for strategic clang and general plan update. I don't.

B

Have anything I haven't heard anything that has a report on that? Am I correct on?.

J

There's no update beyond what was stated at the main meeting.

B

Okay, thank you. all right., solar and green building.

G

Thank you. thank you., several things., first of all,, a somewhere.. The budget agreed by the governor and legislature, was posted sunday evening and provides 1.2 billion dollars for the california a rearrangement program to help address.

G

Unpaid residential utility, balances incurred during the covid pandemic and the relief period extends to december 31, 2,022, and this is a applicable whether.

G

You're in a dce customer or on se service, so eligible customers will be able to get some of their reward just covered. The budget also approves a total of 19.3 billion dollars. General fund.

G

For the climate energy package over the next few years, with details to be determined in future legislation and and a task,, I think, for the new director and the team- that's built out- is to really work on identifying.

G

Budget opportunities things that we saw that were, for example, in the environmentally preferred purchasing policy about evs.

G

And some of these things there is a substantial as a interim director, for sheldon knows there is a substantial amount of state funds, such as cali vip,, and there are additional funds that are being provided in the.

G

Budget,, so would strongly encourage staff to keep a close eye on the state budget.

G

To see what what what opportunities are there., and perhaps the city might even consider,, you know, hiring a actually hiring consultant who monitor those things, and can help the city on identifying grants of working on grant applications. The.

G

Money is certainly going to be available,, at least in the the current. The new budget year starts on friday.

G

And then another element that I've been following closely is final comments on the latest round on the cpu sees 9.3, 3.0, solar, proceeding.

G

Or do this coming friday and new proposed decisions is expected, later.

G

The summer with final commission adoption leg lightly before the end of the year, and the parties are discussing various ways to maintain growth in the states distributed solar energy production while reducing the generation credits. The solar.

G

Customers receive., so if you're a legacy solar customer, such as I am, one than one o and then 2.0.

G

There is at least theoretically you're going to continue on the grandfathering for 20 years,. Although there was initial proposal to reduce that to 15.

G

Probably not like to be adopted,, but new solar customers.

G

once the new decision is adopted, won't have a quite a favorable return on the investment to take longer to get pay. Back.

G

So I'm continuing to monitor that proceeding. So those are the sort of highlights of green building solar conditioned all the work I'll report on dc.

G

Briefly, thanks to david., commissioner fighterman is not here,, but we will say that on the world environment day, she is forwarded to to us.

B

The results of the contest for art for celebrational role, environment, day.

B

And it's very interesting., and so we're hope, we're looking forward to her being able to present in july on that, so that we can. We can it.

B

It., it's a fascinating thing about changing attitudes about the environment,. So that's coming up bicycle groups.

B

Commissioner, torrents awesome. hi! so to update from what I provided in the notes, and the commissioner report that we had.. I think the the key elements that I want to draw attention to are the fact that we are very.

H

Motivated and trying to bring about the increased mobility options that can be presented for calm springs, residents, and as our community member, vic.

H

Lapo had presented from a community perspective,, but also a very active member of this important group..

H

He outlined some of the the key perspectives of what we're trying to accomplish.

H

I wanna draw your attention more to cause. A lot of you can see sort of the update of the meeting, and to just in the interest of time.

H

We have sort of key 4 areas where we want to focus one, and I'm gonna start with the last one. In my actions of the office of sustainability.

H

One. we want to administer a survey to the community because we can't necessarily address mobility choices and mode mobility options without understanding why community members themselves are choosing the mobility choices that they're.

H

Choosing, we can infer, we can bring our own personal bias.

H

We can do all of these things.. It was great to have another community member, dorian,, sharing their input about where their perspectives, lie.

H

But at the end of the day, like what we need to do is administer this survey.

H

So we've created a draft. It has gone through several iterations.

H

We've had other commissioners weigh in on that it has been provided in the notes. Themselves.

H

I'm not going to ask you all to vote on it today,, but what I would like you all to do is to review it.

H

Share your feedback, take it, and let us know. does it ask appropriate questions?.

H

Is there any contentious language? does it feel like it's misleading?.

H

Do you feel like it's helping us kind of hone in on the personal perspective that we need to have in order to then inform an outreach strategy?.

H

How do we go about deciding on education?? How do we decide to go about informing about safety?.

H

If safety isn't a permanent concern of community members about why they're choosing a mobility, choice.

H

So those are some examples, so survey one we'd love to get this launched by the summer, so that it could start informing some of our strategies for this particular subcommittee. We also see that, as it's been brought up through.

H

Our climate action work through our ghet report, etc., that one of the biggest levers that we have in the community is addressing our impacts related to using vehicles and mobility. Choices.

H

In general., so we see this committee in part and parcel to a strategy to the greater sort of sustainability commission in general.. And so we would love to bring in a component of where we're offering. How do.

H

We connect our group to the broader strategies, so I've offered,, as you can see in some of the summary that we need to be thinking about it.,.

H

A less about bikes, but more about choices,, which is why the survey itself is also not just about..

H

Why do you choose to bike?, but what choices do you make about getting around in our community?.

H

The other part is,, how do we create an well,? I I mentioned the educational program for safety,, which obviously will come out of the survey as well.

H

We want to touch upon these things., but then last pieces around creating class one safety on some of the bike lanes that we have,, because we know that we need a road safety diet.

H

And this is all that we know is that this,, the supplemental survey,, will add to our components.

H

But those of us that do actively use the biplanes that exist.

H

We know that there are many corridors that are disconnected,, not super, safe,, etc.

H

So we really have I'll island 4 key priorities. For this particular group.-.

H

Think about them from the perspective of one.. We want to inform our track from the perspective of what is our community thinking about its choices that it's making about mobility?.

H

2., how can we use that to reinforce a strategy around safety? 3?.

H

How can we think about that from improving the the road safety diet?.

H

And for how can we connect it to our overall climate action strategy that this commission is going to recommend and get the city council to support when it's addressing the emissions that are related to the transportation sector of.

H

H

Any questions., I I think that you've presented a very open perspective here to where to go with this, and to addressing the broader issues.

B

And I would encourage other commissioners to also take a look at the survey,, but also to look at some of the documents that are in the package..

B

With the survey that talk about the overall perspective of this.

B

I know I have questions,, but it's hard for me not to have questions and part of it comes from having been a social science.

B

Researcher., so I always say, how how does this questioner work?, but on other issues,? So that's just where my thoughts stand on this other commissioners touch.

G

I mean., I think it's a good idea to get the the the survey done, I mean one of the issues that we see in south palm springs is.

G

Sort of once again responding to the the public comment not directly responding, we're just noting that when you're a mile and a half away from the the nearest bus.

G

Stop, or even you know, 2 and a half miles, or so when you're all the way down and and andreas hills, public transportation just isn't an option down. Here.

G

Now., fortunately, we have very good bike lanes, so I'm not sure we have an excuse. and so, and the south pomp canyon drive by lane.

G

Would go quickly our loop,, and so that would be that that would be good., but there, really isn't. Unless we have, you know a sort of mini shuttle service to some of the older areas,. You know the the areas that are, you know,, not as closely linked to the bike lanes as.

G

You me and the sunline., then I think the you know we're gonna have didn't have cars., but I think the survey would be. We would be very good right and I'm glad you're bringing that a.

H

Commissioner, free moon,, because one of the things that we know is that you know we also have a history of we've, had more connected mobility options in the community.

H

They've not they've been taken away or they don't exist. Today.

H

So how can we provide a more comprehensive program?.

H

That one is activating existing public transit.. What are other supplemental programs?.

H

Dorian,, the member of the community that spoke earlier, talked about other micro mobility.

H

These have been things that have also been on the table. There have been reasons why we have, as a community, decided to not encourage those,, or I don't even know if I want to go as far as saying that we banned them.

H

But they were disinvited from participating, and so I think there what we want to evaluate,. Even when we look at other areas,, you know, as an active member of a viking community.

H

I've been another community member communities,, where I see more active signage around using golf, cards,, etc.

H

And I think that we need to consider who is our population.

H

What are their choices?? Why do they make these choices?.

H

And how do we help them make these choices? Differently?.

H

Sorry., because this is really where we're at, and I think that we can all speak from our points of view.

H

But we really need to be speaking from the community's points of view to help them help us achieve our objectives.

H

But I think that one thing that you mentioned is that yeah certain corridors aren't accessible through public transit.

H

So then, what are they gonna do? and if they need to just run an errand,? What are they gonna, choose, etc.?.

H

So, and I'm glad you bought up golf cards, because I believe they are fully authorized under the.

G

So I have the beautiful, basically living on a golf course with a you know,, a lot of my neighbors golf courts.

G

But that's my sort of plan b is I'm going to transition out of my car and use my golf card to go to rouse, and I have the bike lanes for it.

G

So yeah, that would be a good sort of promoting what what actually is available,, because there's 0 signage to let people know, and particularly excuse me wearing my c bag, had a cb. link, the groundbreaking of.

G

The of the extension was so no construction is happening literally as we speak,, so that would be something to clearly encourage people to use their golf cards.

G

They're fully authorizes from certainly that I recall under cv. link.

G

So we might want to sort of have a little bit of a campaign and I'd be happy to work with staff and work with the folks who do the communications with with cv.

G

Link to make sure they'll let people know that they can ride their golf guard onto cv.

G

Link,, but also just to do their errands here and phone springs on the bike. Lanes.

G

Fantastic., thank you for bringing up. golf cards, because it is something that I've been thinking. About.

B

Randy. yeah,, I quick comment., just thanks for all the work, this one's close to my heart.

I

My primary mode of transportation is a bicycle.

I

So very vested in in this type of stuff.

I

But my question is,: what kind of discussion has there been in admin? Administering the survey?.

I

How would we get it out?? I think that there have been discussions.

H

One idea is to work in concert with the city as well as h, away, and community networks, so I'm very active in the community that I live in in the neighborhood. association of taco, it's river estates, so.

H

Making sure that we connect to all the various communities., so we want to make sure that we are biasing our survey.

H

So that's another point of view so, as you are all reviewing this,, if you have ideas not just about the content, but ways in which we can access community members, that's a great add to and build off of what we're. Looking.

H

For as a group brandy., so, commissioner evans,, so please bring that kind of input as well,, because the last thing we would want to do is have a well articulated survey and have it only go to a certain part of the community.

H

So I think that we have different ideas, but- and those are some of mine, as well as some of the other active members of the committee or subcommittee.

H

But if you have something else to add, that'd be great to know,. If I could just jump in here, office of sustainability staff would administer the survey based on the outreach community groups and access to email.

A

List,, etc. we would also work with the office of communications, and getting that survey out to members of the public.

B

Hey? stepping in from what I also was similarly concerned about the making sure that this got to all the variety types of view of users, and and and that was a concern.

B

You have just stated, commissioner, torrens you've just stated a whole variety of questions, which I would love to see going to the commissioner so that they could think about those questions.

B

While they're looking at the questionnaire, that's sort of an impossible task at the last minute.

B

But am I am, I making sense there? so you'd like me to supplement the report to suggest other things that they should be thinking about when they were viewed.

B

Is that that is something we can do right, yes,, I'm I'm looking at.

B

I'm looking at the people to make sure I'm not violating some portion of some rule.

B

Oh, I mean be appropriate for this item. Alright: yeah, yeah,. You had asked like 5.

B

You enlisted 4 questions at 1 point there, which I thought those were excellent questions. and then the question that the commissioner evans had asked about,. How do we ensure that various groups get it?.

B

And and this and your thoughts about the assistance that could be provided in that. By commission.-.

H

So., what I will say is cause I was on a riff, and not necessarily knowing exactly what I was saying,. I will review the recording.

H

I will then summarize that in it, an email share that with the group, or however,, whatever the protocol is of how we update our notes and meetings, and minutes and and compelling our commission fellow commissioners to respond. But I will.

H

Do whatever I need to do to kind of supplement what I shared already in our commissioner.

B

Report to me and and and enter manager, shell then, and I will figure that out. was just gonna. Add commissioner, torrens staff will be working on the begin working on meeting minutes, tomorrow.

C

So we are happy to start with the with your report, and do a summary of the items you just listed.

H

Thanks. tracy. okay,, I think, can can we declare this?.

B

The end of this presentation. okay, thank you., all right.

B

Other subcommittee reports., commissioner baker.

B

Is there anything to report from? wellness? at this point, oh, we're all well,, nothing more of the report.

B

Okay, good. and I will be forwarding the smoking later. This evening.

B

And dc e water conservation before dc.

G

I can run. okay,, go ahead. okay, water conservation.. So it's not raining. Anymore.

G

We are now in the third year of the current route.

G

So at its june, the seventh meeting,, the dwa board, declared a level to alert under its water.

G

Shortage consistency plan is required, undergoing new systems.

G

executive order on the drive emergency and dwas level.

G

2 includes 6 provisions, outdoor water, uses, prohibited during daylight hours for spray irrigation,, except for leak checks, or with an agency, food, conservation,, alternative plan, restaurants and other eating.

G

Establishments shall not provide drinking water to patrons, except upon request.

G

The agency will activate actively, discourage overseating agency, will expand. public information.

G

Campaign will increase wastewater patrols and reduce hybrid and data and flushing. and there's a detailed faq on the dwa. website.

G

And certainly from the city perspective,, which is, I believe,, the largest single customer of dwa.

G

Given parks, just combination of coordinating, which I'm sure is already happening with some issues like the the medians going brown.

G

Hopefully, we'll be able to move forward with the with the airport demonstration garden in the fall, and then just coordinating with ew on on communication,, because we we all need to conserve.

G

Our conserve our water., there are ways to do that, so we'll see.

G

We may,, if you see further restrictions, but for the moment.. Those are the restrictions in place, and and and a lot of the the ordinance that I've drafted is also both ordinances. Have water.

G

Conservation features,. So that's a another reason. I have those ordinances? questions for david on that.

B

Nope: yeah., so that's it. for for dwa, I can say going into dc: right?.

G

Okay,, forgive me. just change pages on my notes. Here.

G

So the dc. board meets tomorrow afternoon, key items on the agenda: approval of the fy 2223 budget and 2 new global energy procurement, projects.

G

We've been working on and we're working to include to procure obscure additional renewable energy projects for the board. Approval.

G

Later, the summer dw c, which which agency dce continues working on to address summer readiness, planning and messaging the customers.

G

So we're working on a summer outreach strategy similar to last year's program to encourage customers to reduce energy use for during the peak operating hours of 4 to 9 pm..

G

We have a ways to say energy flyer in english and spanish tracy, I'll, send that to you for posting on the website previously been done, that and sort of links to on the web page to.

G

And a wave, save money and energy efficiency and customers can visit the site to learn about energy saving. Programs, offer it in cost saving tips to help them survive the heat and lower their electric bills, and there's also.

G

Links to the flex alert, which is sees rotating out page outage,, page public safety, power shut, offs and other websites are also on the websites by the summer. Readiness outreach, so tracy.

G

I'll, send you all those materials for posting once again., it's just assisting where the city can assist on outreach..

G

We are continuing to work on.. I identifying sites for possible solar and battery storage for distributed energy facilities and dipcinity manager. Bag has been a lot of those emails. Several of the possible.

G

Sites are on property, city, owns releases and so I'll be meeting the city staff on july, seventh, and prec.

G

I'll send you that, if invitation I'm already confirmed,, I believe, with community economic development.

G

Director barada., but it'll be wonderful to have you involved in that discussion.

G

and because that's part of our efforts at yesterday's meeting, the cbag executive committee approved the core agreements for the launch of the inland regional energy network or iron. We're.

G

Working on the rfps work consultants and we hope to have those programs launched at the by the end of the year.

G

And then we're holding a follow up presentation on july 20, seventh, on the solar, app permitting platform and the internet commission funding that is now available to cover some of the cost to implement solar, app and I'll forward that to.

G

Invitation to staff and link to the energy commission.- websites, so you'll accept, expect another email to me on that. As soon as I finalize the invitation next day.

G

Or so so, a lot going on in dc., and we continue to focus on a lot of these working in close partnership with the city.

G

On all of these gh. and energy reduction. goals. and making sure we have renewable energy for everyone.

G

No,, that's my dc. report. okay, questions. Thank you all right?.

B

Even if commissioner friedman can confuse dc.

B

And d of a then I can account for why,. I have got the agenda on locks up yet again.

B

Luckily, michelle, and reminded me that I forgot to do the approval of the meeting minutes from the main meeting.

B

So we need to go back to that.. So do I hear any discussion about the main meeting minutes?.

B

Any concerns about that remote check set the made meeting minutes as presented in the agenda.

B

Is, hey?: is there any second?? Thank you, a second. okay,. Do we do?.

B

We vote on meeting minutes, or do we do them unanimous?.

D

We do is there, and if there's no opposition we'll consider them unanimously, approved.

B

Okay, finally, commissioner, comments does go ahead david. I thought this was going to be my last meeting,, so I thought I was going to thank you.

G

I'm not going yet, but relate to sooner rather than later,. I will be ending my term on this. Sustainability. commission.- so I'm.

G

Meeting on july, eleventh with chair, barrett,, tracy and and the deputy city manager, the bag to discuss my future work with the office of stany building commission and my cback capacity.

G

So, whether I'm serving on the commission directly as a commissioner, this is my my main focus, and I look forward to continuing to work in the interim capacity for on. The commission.-.

G

For, however long that's going to be another month or so, and then after that, okay, other commissioners, I just again express my regrets for not being able to attend the july meeting.

I

And I wanna I want to thank the service of commissioner clark and and friedman for their service, and and yes,. I hope that that both stay engaged.

B

Okay, krishna baker: no for trailments.

B

Okay, commissioner torres.

F

I think he's okay, no comment, commissioner. Clark.

J

I just like to thank all the commissioners that I've served with over the past 6 years,, starting with those. On the current commission.-.

J

But there have been many others that I've worked with starting in july of 2016.

J

We accomplished a lot over those years., the leaf blower band,, the food wear ordinance, or the our major things that we worked on had recycling as don pointed out at the dinner last week. From the start of that.

J

Project., we've actually deployed 2 tons of hustled batteries from landfill, and that's something that the commission should be proud. Of.

J

So I just like to thank everybody again and I'll be paying attention to what the commission does going. Forward.

B

Okay,, I would like to thank very much commissioners, clark and freeman and commissioner.

B

Okay, fireman,, even though she's not here on the work that they have done for sustainability, to make sure that everything is addressed, that we are, we, we create a culture and the area and help phone in a culture with city.

B

Council about making sure the environment is a concern and that we're going to have an environment where we can continue to live.

B

I realize there's been a phenomenal amount of work by commissioner clark on just running this thing for the past 6 years,, and I'm really going to miss the day. When commissioner friedman is.

B

Not in the meeting to help correct me on whatever parliamentary mistakes I make cause, I'm not always good. On those.

B

So., all of that is very good,. I believe. enter a manager. Show, then has something to share with us.

C

Thank you so much. I just wanted to share. The city. Council has provided recognition. This first one is to commissioner clark.

C

Thanking him for his many years of service., so I will be either mailing this to you or meeting up with you in person,, and we also have one for.

C

Commissioner friedman,, so I will see you on your golf cart, and provide you again. It has all of the signatures of all all of our council members and mayor.

G

You might wanna fix the type of before you send it, and then maybe you know we'll figure out what date I'm actually leaving the commission,, and you can update it.

G

Then. oh, same thing: there! oh,, confused, I'm not I'm,, not understanding.. It says,. If you look at it, is on behalf of the city of palm springs.,.

G

This certificate of recognition is presented to roy clark., the text, my apologies. I'll, have the city manager's office, update that. okay,, and is there one for commissioner, commissioner fireman. there is? There is I'll share that as well, we'll we'll resolve that issue.

C

Tomorrow., thank you for pointing there. okay,. Well sorry, we can't in this with a toast, with a glass of wine or soda, or whatever else.

B

But but that's where that's where we are at the moment.

B

So, thank you very much, I'm sure we'll be seeing most of you, and I think we're at the end, the adjourn.. The agenda says that our next meeting is to be determined.

B

But it is now set as as a july 19, so I believe that's it.