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From YouTube: The Weekly Report - March 10, 2022
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The Weekly Report provides news and insight about Kansas City, Mo. programs and services provided by City departments.
It's a great time to check out the expanded walkway paths at the Briarcliff Greenway Trail. Find out what the City is doing to become carbon neutral by 2040 with the newly activated Climate Protection and Resiliency Plan. Learn how KC Water is combatting water main breaks with the water main replacement program.
A
Hi
everyone
and
welcome
to
the
weekly
report,
I'm
heidi
markle
with
kansas
city
parks
and
recreation,
and
here
are
the
top
three
things
you
need
to
know
this
week
spring
is
almost
here
and
it's
a
great
time
to
check
out
one
of
our
newly
expanded
trails.
A
new
half-mile
segment
recently
opened
on
briarcliff
greenway
trail,
bringing
the
total
trail
length
to
1.43
miles.
The
additional
section
incorporates
boardwalks
to
preserve
the
natural
habitat
and
beauty
of
this
linear
northland
park.
Kansas
city
just
completed
a
draft
of
the
climate
protection
and
resiliency
plan.
A
A
B
Hi,
I'm
stephen
van
ryan,
environmental
manager,
kansas
city
parks
and
rec,
and
I'm
here
at
the
new
big
part
of
the
briarcliff
trail.
It
is
a
a
beautiful
section
of
trail
altered
slightly
with
some
boardwalks
in
it
to
protect
a
really
intact
native
plant
community.
There's
a
lot
of
spring
ephemerals
in
here,
there's
bluebells,
which
are
gorgeous
in
the
spring
and
a
lot
of
beautiful
trees.
C
When
most
people
think
about
sustainability,
they
immediately
think
about
the
environment,
but
the
reality
is
sustainability
is
like
a
three-legged
stool.
One
leg
is
environmental
protection.
The
next
is
social
equity
and
the
third
is
economic
prosperity.
All
must
be
in
balance
for
the
stool
to
stand
when
we've
met
all
three
of
those
goals.
That's
when
we've
reached
sustainability,
a
system
that
can
be
perpetuated
for
generations
to
come.
C
Kansas
city
began
the
process
in
2021
of
updating
our
climate
plan
to
be
a
climate
protection
and
resiliency
plan
with
a
goal
of
a
carbon
neutral,
equity-focused
kansas
city
by
2040..
What
that
means
is
we're
going
to
be
looking
at
various
areas
throughout
kansas
city,
including
our
energy
supply
homes
and
buildings,
how
we
move
around
the
city,
how
our
natural
systems
work,
our
food
systems
and
our
waste
systems
to
find
ways
that
we
can
reduce
carbon,
reduce
environmental
pollution
and
increase
social
equity,
while
still
maintaining
economic
prosperity
for
kansas
city.
C
When
the
draft
plan
goes
out
for
review,
we
are
using
the
same
casey
playbook
site
that
kansas
city
is
using
to
update
its
comprehensive
plan
for
our
climate
planning
efforts.
We
will
have
the
draft
plan
available
on
the
casey
playbook
site,
and
people
can
leave
their
comments
there.
Once
we've
received
community
input
on
the
climate
protection
and
resiliency
plan,
we'll
take
it
to
council
for
adoption,
it's
going
to
be
a
living
document,
and
it's
going
to
be
available
at
the
website
for
the
office
of
environmental
quality.
C
Kansas
city
is
going
to
have
to
make
some
big
moves
to
reach
our
lofty
goal
of
climate
neutrality
by
2040..
However,
it
begins
with
all
of
us
just
making
little
steps
using
less
gasoline,
walking
and
biking
more
insulating
our
homes
to
be
more
energy
efficient,
getting
that
of
those
rooftop
solar
panels
that
you
might
have
always
wanted.
It's
the
little
steps
that
are
going
to
help
us
get
there
as
a
community.
D
New
water
mains
mean
fewer
water,
main
breaks,
and
that's
what
kc
water's
water
main
replacement
program
is
all
about.
There
are
2
800
miles
of
water
mains
under
kansas
city,
and
some
of
those
are
100
to
150
years
old.
The
replacement
program
began
in
2014,
with
just
replacing
small
mains
two
to
four
inches
wide.
Now
we're
replacing
large
remains
within
the
distribution
system.
Melanie
jollit
is
casey
waters
head
of
water
distribution,
typically.
E
The
rules
of
thumb
for
distribution
system
is
these
are
this
is
the
part
of
the
infrastructure
that
actually
delivers
water
to
our
customers,
and
so
they
typically
range
in
size
from
six
inch
to
16
inches
and
so
by
focusing
on
the
distribution
system,
we're
able
to
address
historic
issues
with
the
distribution
system
where
the
mains
have
been
breaking
and
so
aging
infrastructure
that
has
these
high
breaks.
We're
able
to
address
that.
E
So
these
risk
criteria
include
things
such
as
number
of
breaks,
so
we
are
looking
at
brake
history,
looking
at
material
of
pipe
looking
at
the
age
of
the
pipe
looking
at
the
size
of
the
pipe
looking
at
the
customer
demand
from
each
pipe.
So
we're
looking
at
a
variety
of
criteria
and
we're
calculating
a
risk
once.
D
F
Hey
my
name
is
thaddeus
odenweller,
I'm
the
site
manager
here
at
go
ape
in
kansas
city,
it's
a
treetop
adventure
park
and
you
have
different
obstacles
up
in
the
air
in
the
inn
with
a
zipline.
This
is
a
course
designed
for
anybody
and
everybody
to
come
out
and
have
fun
up
in
the
trees.
We
have
different
obstacles,
including
a
tarzan
swing
and
ending
everything
with
zip
lines.
F
Opening
soon
we're
going
to
have
nights
at
height,
which
is
going
to
be
our
treetop
journey
course.
At
night,
it's
going
to
be
lit
up
with
all
different
sorts
of
lights,
so
you'll
be
able
to
see
everything.
It's
going
to
be
a
whole
different
experience
to
find
out
more
information
and
make
reservations,
go
check
out
our
website
at
goat.com.
G
H
Municipal
auditorium
is
one
of
the
most
historic
venues
in
all
of
college
basketball.
You
know
more
men's
final
fours
have
been
conducted
here
at
municipal
auditorium
than
any
other
place
in
the
country,
and
then
you've
had
a
lot
of
naia
championships
over
the
years
and
various
conference
championships.
I
actually
had
a
chance
to
participate
in
the
naia
national
tournament
here
back
in
1987.,
I
mean
it's
a
beautiful
building.
You
know
you
walk
in.
You
see
the
marble.
You
see
some
of
the
really
the
history,
some
of
the
retro
look.
H
H
They've
been
the
site
of
some
ncaa
regionals
as
well,
and
you
know
just
a
various
naia
division
ii
championships.
The
mia
also
competes
here
so
a
lot
of
women's
basketball
competing
at
municipal
auditorium
and
it's
a
it's
a
great
venue.
You
know
about
ten
thousand
seat
capacity.
It's
a
great
venue
to
watch
basketball.
You
know,
kansas
city
is
the
center
of
college
basketball,
universe
right.
It's
always
hosted
huge
events.
You
know
when
you
look
back
to
all
the
final
fours
at
municipal
auditoriums
and
the
early
years
of
ncaa
men's
competition.
H
And
then
the
1998
women's
final
four
was
competed
here
in
kansas
city
and
then
so
many
different
conference
championships
at
the
sprint
center
t-mobile
center
downtown
our
municipal
auditorium.
Just
so
many
great
championships
competed
in
in
college
basketball
in
kansas
city.
I've
been
involved
with
a
lot
of
championships
here
in
kansas
city.
I
actually
had
the
opportunity
to
play
the
last
game
of
my
career
in
kansas
city.
I
played
for
kearney
state
college
now
the
university
of
nebraska
kearney.