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UM, DO WE HAVE THE, UM, DID THEY CALL IN ADVANCE OF ABSENCES? UM, WE HAVE THREE PEOPLE THAT, UH, CALLED OUT AND WE'RE STILL, AND THREE COMMISSIONERS.
UM, THAT'S COMMISSIONER CON, UM, COMMISSIONER BERGERON BERG, AND WHO'S OUR OTHER ONE? LAURA.
UM, AND THEN ALAN TOLKOFF SHOULD, UH, APPEAR ANY MOMENT.
COULD YOU AGREE ITEM NUMBER ONE? ITEM NUMBER ONE IS A RECOMMENDATION TO DISCUSS VARIOUS TOPICS PRESENTED BY CITY STAFF FOR THE 2024 CLIMATE RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE CITY COMMISSION RETREAT.
MOTION SECOND BY COMMISSIONER.
IS ANYBODY IN THE COMMISSION IN THE ITEM NUMBER ONE? PLEASE FOLLOW.
SO IF THERE'S ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER ONE, UH, WE'RE GONNA JUST GO AHEAD AND DO A HAND RAISE, AND THEN WE'LL JUST GO IN ORDER.
UM, AND THEN YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
UM, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND START WITH THIS PERSON.
I'LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN I'M READY TO START.
UH, MY NAME IS MARTINEZ, UH, WITH SUNRISE MOVEMENT.
AND, UH, WE'VE DONE KIND A SURVEY.
SO ONE OF THE, UH, BIGGEST INTEREST IN LONG BEACH IS, UH, ADDRESSING THAT, ESPECIALLY IN, UH, DISTRICT 79.
SO WE'RE JUST, UH, INTERESTED TO SEE WHAT PLANS WE HAVE, UH, TO WORK ON THAT FOR THIS YEAR.
UH, WE DO HAVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, BUT THEY'RE VERY SIMILAR TO THE CLIMATE CONSERVATION PART ALREADY.
UH, AND WE JUST THINK THAT MAYBE, UH, INCENTIVIZING THE JOB PROGRAM TO BE A BETTER PAYING, GET PEOPLE, MORE PEOPLE INTERESTED AND HELP WITH ADDRESSING EXTREME HEAT.
UH, OTHER THAN THAT, I'M JUST MAINLY HERE TO OBSERVE AND SEE, MAYBE PERSUADE THE COMMISSIONS A CERTAIN WAY FOR RECOMMENDATION TO BE ABLE TO SEE COUNSEL WITH THAT.
IS THERE ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? SEEING NONE.
THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEM NUMBER ONE.
SO OUR AGENDA TODAY, SO WELCOME EVERYONE.
UM, YOU, MOST OF YOU WERE HERE, UM, WELL A LITTLE LESS THAN A YEAR AGO, UH, FOR OUR LAST RETREAT AT, UM, THE VILLAGE IN KING LIBRARY.
SO, UH, WELCOME BACK TO OUR NEXT RETREAT AS PART OF OUR NEW SORT OF MEETING SCHEDULE AND FORMAT.
AND SO I'LL GO THROUGH, UM, SOME OF THOSE DETAILS ABOUT WHAT, WHAT'S ON THE AGENDA.
TODAY IS A 2023 YEAR REVIEW AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT WE'LL GO THROUGH AND, UM, UH, A DISCUSSION OF OUR, UH, WORK PLAN THAT, UH, THE DETAIL, SOME OF THE DETAILS OF WHICH WILL BE IN THIS PRESENTATION.
BUT WE'LL BE BRINGING IT BACK AT OUR NEXT MEETING, THE ACTUAL DOCUMENT THAT WE'LL GO TO CITY COUNCIL FOR YOUR APPROVAL.
UM, AND THEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT NEXT STEPS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS.
SO THE INTRO TO THE MEETING AND OR THE MEETING YEAR IN REVIEW IS, UH, WE'RE GONNA COVER OUR, OUR MEETING FREQUENCY, OUR PROCESS AND METHODOLOGY, OUR MEETING TOPICS AND RESOURCES AND LINKS.
SO, UM, STARTING LAST YEAR IN 2023, AFTER OUR RETREAT, THAT
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WAS IN MARCH, I BELIEVE.UM, WE, OUR VERY NEXT MONTH WAS THE EARTH MONTH CELEBRATION IN APRIL.
UH, AND THEN WE STARTED ON OUR, UM, SCHEDULE OF, UH, TOPICS THAT TIED INTO THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN, AS WE HAD DISCUSSED IN OUR RETREAT, THAT WE WERE GONNA ORGANIZE OUR MEETINGS, UM, AROUND THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN AND OUR TOPIC AREAS.
SO LAST JUNE, WE COVERED DROUGHT.
UH, LAST AUGUST WE COVERED EXTREME HEAT AND AIR QUALITY OCTOBER, UH, BUILDING AND ENERGY WASTE.
AND THEN LAST MONTH IN DECEMBER, TRANSPORTATION.
SO WE HAVEN'T, UH, HIT ALL OF OUR TOPICS YET.
NEXT MONTH, UH, WE'LL BE COVERING FLOODING AND SEA LEVEL RISE.
AND THEN I'M GONNA HAND IT TO ANDRE, UH, WHO'S GONNA JUST GIVE A QUICK RECAP OF EACH ONE OF THOSE TOPIC AREAS THAT, THAT WE COVERED, UH, LAST YEAR.
SO, AS LARRY SAID, UM, WE STARTED LAST MARCH.
SO WE STARTED DOING OUR SECOND APPROACH TO THESE, UH, PRESENTATIONS IN JUNE.
SO THE FIRST ONE WE DID WAS DROUGHT.
AND PRETTY MUCH WE BROKE IT DOWN INTO WHAT THE CITY ARE POSSIBLE FOR.
WE HAD, UM, CITY DEPARTMENTS COME AND TALK.
SO FOR DROUGHT, WE HAD OUR UTILITIES DEPARTMENT, WHICH IS WATER COME TALK ABOUT HOW THEIR MAIN GOALS ARE NOW TO HAVE MORE LOCAL WATER COMPARED TO IMPORTED WATER, AND TO USE MORE RECYCLED WATER.
WE HAD OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, UH, TEAM COME OUT AND TALK ABOUT MORE WATER, T LANDSCAPE ORDINANCES AND LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT.
OUR STORM WATER TEAM FROM OUR PUBLIC WORKS TALK ABOUT THEIR MUSK PROJECT, WHICH IS, UH,
AND WE HAD OUR SUSTAINABILITY TEAM TALK ABOUT THEIR GREEN BUSINESS AS BOND TO GARDEN PROGRAMS. SO HOW THESE REFLECT INTO OUR CAPITALS ARE TO KIND OF CONSERVE, BE EFFICIENT WITH OUR WATER, AND TO CAPTURE MORE AND REUSABLE WATER.
SO THEN WE'LL MOVE TO AUGUST WHERE WE TALKED ABOUT EXTREME HEAT.
SO 2 20 23 WAS THE HOTTEST YEAR ON RECORD, AND THE RECORDS GO BACK TO 1850.
UM, SO WE HAD THE DEPARTMENTS THAT CAME, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR STAND TEAM, TALKED ABOUT URBAN GREENING, SO PLANTING MORE TREES, HAVING MORE SHADE.
UM, OUR PARTS TEAM TALKED ABOUT THEIR RECREATION ELEMENT UPDATE, THEIR MORE IMPLEMENTATION OF THEIR PARTS.
STRATEGIC PLAN, UH, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTS SPOKE ABOUT NEW BUILDING STANDARDS, MAKING THINGS MORE EFFICIENT, SUCH AS COOL ROOF, COOL WALLS, AND OUR PORTS, UH, AND LONG BEACH AIRPORT SPOKE ABOUT THEIR PLANS AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING TO KIND OF LOWER EMISSIONS AND HELP EXTREME HEAT.
AND OUR CASH HOLES WHEN IT COMES TO EXTREME HEAT ARE, UH, MORE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, HAVING OUR RESIDENTS BE ABLE TO HAVE MORE, UH, BENEFITS AND KIND OF, UH, HAVE BE MORE COMFORTABLE DURING EXTREME HEAT EVENTS TO ABLE TO WITHSTAND.
SO THEN NEXT WE GO TO OCTOBER.
SO IN OCTOBER WE TALK ABOUT BUILDING AND ENERGY.
WE DO HAVE AN EXTERNAL PARTNER AS FAR AS SILICON, CALIFORNIA EDISON.
BUT WHAT THE, THE CITY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR IS OUR GREEN BUSINESS PROGRAM.
SO THEY GO TALK TO BUSINESSES AND SEE HOW IT CAN BE MORE EFFICIENT AND RUN THEIR CERTIFICATION.
OUR CA DEVELOPMENT TEAM, UH, HAS NEW BUILDING STANDARDS AND EFFICIENT STANDARDS, AND THEY WANT TO EXPEDITE SOLAR, UH, PERMITTING OUR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE BUREAU, UH, WHEN, AND TALKED ABOUT RECYCLING AND WASTE DIVERSION TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY.
UM, AND ALL THAT IS TO, UH, REFLECT ON OUR CARBON FREE, MORE RESILIENT ELECTRIC SYSTEM TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY IN OUR NEW BUILDINGS AND OLDER, UH, REDEVELOPMENTS AND ENSURE NEW BUILDINGS ARE LOW CARBON AND NET NEUTRAL.
AND LAST MONTH WE COVERED TRANSPORTATION, WHICH IS OUR BIGGEST EMITTING SECTOR.
UH, WE HAD OUR FLEET TEAM COME TALK ABOUT HOW, UH, THEY'RE THE SECOND IN NATION AS FAR AS GREEN FLEET.
UM, WE WANT, UH, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TO TALK ABOUT HAVING MORE RESIDENTIAL AND MIXED DEVELOPMENT USES WHERE PEOPLE CAN WORK, SHOP, AND, UH, LIVE IN THE SAME AREA.
SO THERE'S LESS DEPENDENCY ON PERSONAL VEHICLES.
UM, OUR PORT TALK ABOUT THEIR CLEAN, CLEAN AIR ACTION PLAN AND INCENTIVES THEY'RE PROVIDING FOR ANY PORT TERMINALS AND ANYONE USING, UM, THEIR AREAS.
AND OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS TALKED ABOUT HAVING MORE ACTIVE TRANSPORT AND SAFER METHODS OF, UH, FURTHER COMMUTE.
AND ALL THIS WILL HELP US REALIZE LESS PERSONAL DEPENDENCE ON, UH, MOTOR VEHICLES, UH, SHIFT TO LOW MISSION VEHICLES AND MORE, UH, TRANSIT ORIENTED INPUT.
AND THE NEXT SLIDE IS ALL THE RESOURCES WE SHARED WITH YOU.
SO JUST TO RECAP EVERYTHING, UH, IF YOU DON'T, WE DON OUR PLANS, ANY RESOURCES, UM, YOU CAN JUST CLICK ON SOME THINGS ON THESE, UH, ON THE SLIDE.
AND NEXT I'LL PASS IT OVER TO MEREDITH TO TALK ABOUT ALL THE WE DID IN 10 MONTHS THAT WE HAD.
SO WE GAVE YOU A LOT OF HOMEWORK, UH, LAST YEAR,
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UM, WITH THE, UH, COUNCIL ADOPTION OF SOME NEW FUNDING FOR THE CLIMATE OFFICE, UM, WE SPENT, UH, SOME OF OUR FIRST COUPLE MONTHS, UH, SORT OF BUILDING THE TEAM.UM, SO WE ESTABLISHED THE NEW OFFICE, UH, OF CLIMATE ACTION AND THE, AND SUSTAINABILITY, AND WE'RE ABLE TO PULL THE TWO TEAMS TOGETHER.
UM, THAT INCLUDED HIRING, UH, THREE OF THE, UH, NEW CLIMATE POSITIONS, UM, AS WELL AS, UH, SOME OF OUR EXISTING VACANCIES IN SUSTAINABILITY.
SO SIX STAFF AND SUSTAINABILITY.
SO, UM, THOSE, UH, ROUND OUT OUR TEAM, UH, PROVIDE A NICE COMPLIMENT FOR THE DIFFERENT RESPONSIBILITIES THAT WE, UH, UNDERTAKE.
UM, AND THEN ALSO, UH, ORGANIZING THE REST OF THE CITY DEPARTMENTS, THE 23 CITY DEPARTMENTS WE HAVE, UM, AND THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES RELATED TO THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN.
UM, SO PART OF THAT WAS ROLLING OUT A ESTABLISHING AND ROLLING OUT A GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE, UM, HOW THE, UH, CLIMATE TEAM AND THE SUSTAINABILITY TEAM WILL BE WORKING WITH CITY DEPARTMENTS.
UH, WHAT RESOURCES CITY DEPARTMENTS HAVE TO PUT FORTH IN TERMS OF, UH, CLIMATE CHAMPIONS AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE THEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WORK, UM, AND COORDINATION OF SOME OF THE WORK.
UH, AND WE BEGAN TO HOLD THOSE MEETINGS, UH, WITH THOSE TEAMS OF OUR CLIMATE CHAMPIONS.
SO WE HAD THREE MEETINGS WHERE, UH, WE GOT ORGANIZED, WE TALKED ABOUT TEAM VALUES.
UH, WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT, UM, HOW WE WERE GOING TO DO THE WORK TOGETHER AND WHAT MILESTONES WE NEEDED TO HIT OVER THE YEAR.
UM, AND THEN ALSO WHAT WAS UNDERWAY FROM THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS IN TERMS OF THE CAB ACTIONS AND THE PROGRESS THAT WAS HAPPENING, UH, TO DATE.
SO WE'RE ABLE TO GET THEM VERY ORGANIZED.
UH, WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT KIND OF THEIR ANNUAL CALENDAR, UH, HERE IN A MOMENT.
BUT YOU, YOU'LL KINDA GET TO SEE SOME OF THE FIRST, UH, PIECES OF THOSE THAT WE START WITH THIS YEAR.
AND THEN WE ALSO, UH, WORKED WITH YOU ALL, UM, TO GET ORGANIZED AROUND OUR CLIMATE ACTION PLAN.
SO, UH, WE ALIGNED THE COMMISSION PURPOSE, UH, AND, AND MEETING CONTENT TO REALLY SUPPORT, UH, EDUCATION AROUND THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN.
UH, WE ADOPTED A NEW COMMISSION NAME INCORPORATING SOME OF THE CLIMATE WORK, UH, IN ADDITION TO SOME OF THE CRITICAL SUSTAINABILITY WORK THAT'S HAPPENED OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS.
UH, WE WERE ABLE TO UPDATE OUR COMMISSION BYLAWS WITH APPROVAL BY CITY COUNCIL, UH, AND THEN ALSO COORDINATE OUR MEETING DATES AND STRUCTURE OUR MEETING CONTENT AROUND SOME OF THOSE SO THAT WE CAN GET THROUGH A, A FULL KIND OF YEAR OF EDUCATION AND THEN BE ABLE TO USE THIS RETREAT, UM, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE ONE MORE TOPIC, UH, KIND OF USE THIS RETREAT TO NOW THINK ABOUT.
SO WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? UH, SO THAT'S, WE'RE GONNA TALK TO YOU ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT LATER IN TODAY'S AGENDA.
AND THE NEXT, UM, WE WERE ABLE TO TARGET GRANT FUNDING.
THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE SAID WE SAID WE WOULD DO THIS YEAR.
AND SO, UH, THERE IS A NUMBER OF EXTERNAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE'VE HAD OUR EYES ON, UH, OVER THE LAST 10 MONTHS.
UM, AND WE'VE APPLIED FOR A NUMBER OF THOSE, UH, AS HAVE OTHER DEPARTMENTS, UH, IN THE CITY.
BUT OUR OFFICE SPECIFICALLY WAS AWARDED A MILLION DOLLARS FROM THE US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, UM, FOR OUR GROWING CLIMATE RESILIENT LONG BEACH.
AND THIS IS ALL ABOUT A COMMUNITY BASED APPROACH TO URBAN FORESTRY.
SO TREE PLANTING AND OUTREACH AND EDUCATION, UM, AROUND TREES.
UH, IN ADDITION TO SOME OF THE REGULAR PROGRAMMING THAT WE ALREADY HAVE.
UH, WE ALL, WE'LL ALSO BE AWARDED 432,000 FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY TO UPGRADE, UM, ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN OUR CITY.
AND, AND SOME OF THE, UH, BIG PRIORITIES THAT WE HAVE AND AN ONGOING PROJECT THAT WE HAVE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR, UM, IT'S LED PARK, UH, UH, LIGHTING UPGRADES.
UM, SO WE DID A NUMBER OF THOSE UPGRADES IN 2018 AND 2019.
UM, THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH FUNDING TO GO, UH, ACROSS ALL OF OUR PARKS AS WE DO HAVE SOME OUTSTANDING PARKS THAT WE NEED TO GET TO.
UH, BUT BECAUSE THAT PROJECT WAS VERY SHOVEL READY, UH, WE WERE ABLE TO UTILIZE THAT FOR THIS FUNDING SOURCE.
AND WHEN, WHOOPS, AND WHEN WE SAY WE WILL BE AWARDED IT, THIS IS A FORMULA GRANT, SO WE KNOW, UH, HOW MUCH WE'RE GOING TO GET, AND IT'S A, A GUARANTEED FUND, UH, BUT WE DO NEED TO PROVIDE THEM WITH OUR SCOPE OF WORK AND OUR COSTS AND ALL THAT STUFF.
SO WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH THAT WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.
UM, AND THEN ALSO, UH, WITH THE FEDERAL, UH, FUNDING, WHICH IS, UH, SOMETHING WE HAVEN'T SEEN IN A NUMBER OF YEARS, PARTICULARLY RELATED TO CLIMATE.
UH, WE ARE VERY, UH, FOCUSED ON ALL OF THE, UM, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE BILL FUNDS AND THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT FUNDS BECAUSE BOTH OF THOSE SOURCES HAVE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR A NUMBER OF PROGRAMS THROUGH NUMBER OF FEDERAL AND THEN STATE PASS THROUGH AGENCIES, UH, FOR FUNDING THAT'S RELATED TO CLIMATE.
UM, AND ONE OF THEM, UH, WAS A GRANT THAT WAS ORGANIZED AROUND A, UM, REGIONAL APPROACH.
UM, SOME OF, MANY OF THEM ARE, SOME OF THEM YOU CAN, UH, APPLY FOR AS AN INDIVIDUAL CITY.
UH, BUT THE EPAS CLIMATE POLLUTION REDUCTION GRANT, UM, IS ONE OF THOSE THAT IS A REGIONAL APPROACH.
AND SO WE, IN, IN ADDITION TO A NUMBER OF CITIES AND REGIONAL ENTITIES LIKE SCAG AND A QMD, UM, HAVE A COALITION, UH, THAT NOW TOGETHER WE CAN MOVE FORWARD ON REGIONAL PROJECTS, UH, FOR THESE FUNDS.
SO, UM, THE GROUP WAS AWARDED A PLANNING GRANT TO COME UP WITH A REGIONAL CLIMATE ACTION PLAN.
UM, GOOD NEWS IS WE'RE AHEAD OF THE GAME.
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JUST SAID, HERE'S LONG BEACH'S CLIMATE ACTION PLAN, UM, AND HERE'S WHAT WE THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU SHOULD FOCUS ON IN THE REGION.AND THEN THE OTHER STAKEHOLDERS HAVE INPUT AS WELL.
UM, AND THAT SHOULD BE DONE, UH, AS OF MARCH 1ST.
AND THE FIRST ROUND OF IMPLEMENTATION FUNDS THAT THIS GROUP IS ELIGIBLE FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, CITY INCLUDED, UM, WILL BE DUE, UH, GRANTS WILL BE DUE, I BELIEVE IT'S APRIL 21ST.
UM, AND SO THERE'S A, A, A NUMBER OF THOSE THAT WILL BE GIVEN OUT, UH, OVER AN AMOUNT OF TIME.
IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO PARTICIPATE IN THESE REGIONAL APPROACHES BECAUSE IF WE DON'T, UH, PARTICIPATE, WE ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR ANY IMPLEMENTATION FUNDS.
UM, BUT WE DO THEN HAVE TO ADVOCATE VERY STRONGLY WITH AMONGST THE DIFFERENT PRIORITIES OF THE GROUP AND THE STAKEHOLDERS, UM, OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE FIND IMPORTANT IN OUR CAP AND HOW THEY DO HAVE A REGIONAL IMPACT AND APPROACH.
SO, UH, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON.
SO THERE'S A NUMBER OF OTHER GRANTS, UM, THAT WE DIDN'T INCLUDE ON HERE BECAUSE WE WANTED TO REALLY FOCUS ON THE ONES THAT OUR, UH, OFFICE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR.
UM, AND WE WERE HAPPY TO SHARE, UH, THOSE WITH YOU BECAUSE OUR CITY IS DOING A CITYWIDE GRANTS, UH, ANNUAL REPORT, WHICH SHOULD COME OUT AT THE END OF THIS MONTH, UH, IN A COUPLE WEEKS.
UM, AND YOU'LL GET TO SEE ALL OF THE OTHER ONES, AND WE'LL HA BE HAPPY TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU WHEN IT COMES OUT.
BUT YOU'LL SEE ON THINGS ON THERE LIKE LB MUST AND SHOEMAKER BRIDGE AND, UH, PORT HYDROGEN HUB, AND A HANDFUL OF OTHER THINGS THAT ARE ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH THE CAP.
IT'S JUST, UH, A DIFFERENT DEPARTMENT IS THE LEAD ON MANY OF THOSE GRANT APPLICATIONS IN THOSE PROJECTS.
MARY, DO YOU HAVE A SENSE OF WHICH ITEMS IN THE CAP YOU'RE GONNA GO AFTER FOR THE EPA FUNDING? IS THERE FOR REGIONAL APPLICATIONS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION FUNDS AS WELL? UM, IT'S ALL OF THE, THE CRITERIA FOR THAT PARTICULAR GRANT IS THE ONES THAT HAVE THE BIGGEST EMISSION REDUCTIONS.
UM, SO FOR US IT HAS TO DO WITH TRANSPORTATION AND, AND THINGS FOR THE PORT.
AND OUR PORT PARTNERS ARE A PART OF THAT AS WELL.
UM, ALSO EV CHARGING, UH, THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND THEN CONCEIVABLY, UM, ANY OF THE, UH, SORT OF BUILDING UPGRADES OR RETROFITS OR THINGS LIKE THAT, IF WE CAN DO THEM IN A REGIONAL SCALE.
THE PROBLEM WITH SOME OF THOSE IS THAT NOT ALL OF THEM ARE SHOVEL READY ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
AND SO THAT'S BEEN PART OF SOME OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS.
THEN ANDRE, IS THERE ANYTHING, I KNOW YOU SAID A PART OF THAT GROUP.
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT HAS BEEN DISCUSSED HIGH LEVEL IN THOSE CATEGORIES? UH, NO.
I THINK THERE'S LIKE MORE LIKE DOING GOODS MOVEMENT, UH, WAY.
SO THIS MOVEMENT IS INCLUDING PORT OF LONG BEACH, PORT OF LA.
SO IT'S ALL LIKE, IT'S A BIG REGIONAL KIND OF CONCEPT.
UM, I THINK THEY'RE TRYING TO GO FOR THE $500 MILLION, I BELIEVE.
UM, THERE'S A DIFFERENT DISCUSSION HAPPENING WITH DIFFERENT PARTNERS THERE, AND I THINK THOSE AN ENERGY EFFICIENCY AS WELL.
THERE'S ANOTHER, SO THERE'S THREE DIFFERENT GROUPS AND THREE DIFFERENT DISCUSSIONS THAT HAVE BEEN GOING ON.
WHEN YOU SAY WASTE, IS THAT A NEW ORGANIC FACILITY? THAT'S DEFINITELY A REGIONAL WORK.
I'M NOT, I HAVEN'T BEEN A PART OF THE WASTE CONVERSATION WITH
THAT ONE BEEN PART OF THE TRANSPORTATION ONES.
IT, THAT'S PART OF THAT, THAT WHOLE WASTE DISCUSSION.
UM, IN ADDITION TO ALL OF THE, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST FOR SURFING AND LONG BEACH LOCALLY, BUT THE, UM, DIFFERENT TRANSPORTATION, UM, EMISSIONS THAT COME FROM HAULING WASTE TO AND FROM DIFFERENT PLACES.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, ALTERNATIVE DAILY COVER AND YOU KNOW, WHERE THAT STUFF GOES AND HOW IT GETS USED AND SOME OF THOSE SORTS OF THINGS.
SO, UH, IN ADDITION TO SEEKING, UH, SORT OF THAT FUNDING, WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE POSITIONING LONG BEACH PROJECTS, UM, EFFECTIVELY WITH OUR STATE AND FEDERAL LEGISLATORS.
AND SO PART OF THAT FOR THE CITY, THE, THE KIND OF, UM, UH, METHOD OF BY WHICH WE DO THAT IS OUR CITY DOES A STATE LEGISLATIVE AGENDA AND A FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE AGENDA EVERY YEAR, WHICH IS ADOPTED BY COUNCIL.
AND THAT PROVIDES STAFF, UM, KIND OF THE FRAMEWORK FOR WHAT WE SHOULD BE, UH, PITCHING, UH, SUPPORTING OR NOT SUPPORTING BASED ON COUNCIL PRIORITIES.
AND SO, UH, THOSE DOCUMENTS, UH, LAST YEAR WE STARTED TO INCORPORATE CLIMATE IN A MAJOR WAY.
AND THEY'RE IN THE PROCESS OF UPDATING THOSE FOR THIS YEAR, UM, LIKELY TO GO IN FEBRUARY TO OUR CITY COUNCIL.
AND THERE IS AN ENTIRE SECTION, UM, OF CLIMATE IN THERE AND REFERENCES TO THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN, UH, IN ADDITION TO, UH, CROSS REFERENCES TO OTHER PARTS OF THE STATE LED AGENDA THAT HAS TO DO WITH CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABILITY.
UH, WHAT WE DO WITH THAT IS, UH, OUR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS STAFF AND OUR, OUR CITY HIRED LOBBYISTS THEN GO AND HAVE THOSE DISCUSSIONS WITH OUR STATE AND FEDERAL LEGISLATORS ACCORDING TO WHAT COUNCIL HAS APPROVED STRATEGICALLY IN THAT DOCUMENT.
UM, SO WE PITCH DIFFERENT PROJECTS, YOU KNOW, THE THINGS THAT, THAT YOU'RE LIKELY TO, UM, SEE AS A PART OF THAT IF THINGS THAT WOULD ALSO THEN BE PITCHED IN SOME OF THESE OTHER GRANT FORUMS. SO WE HAVE SHOEMAKER BRIDGE, WE HAVE LV MUSK, WE HAVE THE HYDROGEN HUB, WE HAVE PURE WIND, WE HAVE THE GOODS MOVEMENT AND, AND IMPROVEMENTS TO PORT THE PORTS AND TRUCKING, UH, AND, UM, BUILDING AND ZONING CODES AND EFFICIENCIES THERE.
SO ALL OF THE THINGS THAT ARE IN CER THEN SEAMLESSLY INCORPORATED
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INTO THERE.SO AS WE ARE MAKING THOSE, UH, REQUESTS AND, AND WE ARE, UM, TRYING TO GET, UH, THE DECISION MAKERS AT THE HIGHER LEVEL TO SUPPORT CAP, UH, ON THE LOCAL LEVEL.
UM, AND THEN FINALLY, UH, PART OF THIS IS GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT INTO OUR OWN ORGANIZATION AND ADDITION TO THE COMMUNITY.
UM, AND SO WE, AND WE DO THAT IN OUR ORGAN OWN ORGANIZATION THROUGH RIGHT NOW, THE CLIMATE CHAMPIONS, BUT WE WANT TO MAKE THIS A LITTLE BIT BROADER AND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, UM, SPEAKING WITH ONE VOICE TO THE PUBLIC, UM, AROUND, UH, THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN AND WHAT EVERYONE CAN DO INDIVIDUALLY TO SUPPORT IT.
UM, SO WE HAVE ENGAGED A CONSULTANT, A LOCAL CONSULTANT CALLED COMMUNE, UH, FOR A CAP AWARENESS CAMPAIGN.
UM, SO WE WILL DEBUT THIS CAMPAIGN AT A FUTURE COMMISSION MEETING, UM, BUT WE ANTICIPATE THE KICKOFF TO BE IN 2024, AND WE'RE TRYING TO IDENTIFY IF IT MAKES SENSE TO ALIGN THAT WITH A LOT OF THE EARTH MONTH EARTH DAY MESSAGING THAT WE ROLL OUT IN APRIL.
UM, AND SO THIS IS ALL ABOUT, UM, HAVING PEOPLE UNDERSTAND IN A MORE SIMPLE, SORT OF EVERYDAY WAY, THE REALLY COMPLEX THINGS THAT IN SCIENCE AND, AND OTHER DATA THAT'S INCLUDED IN THE CAP, UM, THAT BECOMES A LITTLE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF WONKY FROM TIME TO TIME.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE THIS REALLY, REALLY APPROACHABLE.
SO HAPPY TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU, UH, IN OUR FUTURE MEETING AS WE DEBUT THOSE CONCEPTS.
AND THEN FROM THERE, I'M GONNA HAND IT BACK OVER TO LARRY, AND WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT OUR, UM, PUBLIC PROGRAMS, UH, FOR SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID, UH, OUT IN THE FIELD THIS YEAR, RIGHT? SO MOVING TO OUR PROGRAMS, OPEN SERVICES ACCOMPLISHMENTS, UM, YOU KNOW, FROM OUR WORK PLAN LAST YEAR, UH, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS THE ITEM TO CONTINUE OUR LONG STANDING AND NEW, UH, PUBLIC PROGRAMS, UH, TO CONTINUE AND EXPAND 'EM.
SO STARTING WITH THE MULCH DELIVERY PROGRAM, UH, IN 2023, WE MADE, UM, 464.5 MULCH DELIVERIES.
UM, THAT EQUATES TO THE EASY MATH HERE.
EACH DELIVERY IS ABOUT, UH, TWO CUBIC YARDS.
SO, UH, ALMOST A THOUSAND CUBIC YARDS OF MULCH FOR RESIDENTS ACROSS THE CITY.
SO THIS PROGRAM IS A COMBINED EFFORT BETWEEN OUR OWN IN-HOUSE FIELD STAFF, SOME OF THE ONES THAT WERE HIRED LAST YEAR, AND GOT TO LEARN ABOUT THE WORLD OF MULCH DELIVERY, BUT THEN ALSO THE CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH.
UH, AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS PROGRAM FOR MORE THAN 10 YEARS.
IT'S, YOU KNOW, PROVEN TO BE A VERY POPULAR AND ENDURING PROGRAM.
OUR, UH, WAIT LIST IS FIVE MONTHS.
UM, AND SO, YOU KNOW, AND WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THIS IN 'CAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ACCOMPLISHMENTS, UH, RIGHT NOW FOR LAST YEAR.
UH, WE'RE ALSO GONNA PREVIEW, UH, SOME GROWTH POTENTIAL IN THIS AREA, UH, FOR THIS COMING YEAR.
UM, WE'RE ALSO, I'M GONNA COVER SOME ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION SPECIAL EVENTS ITEMS IN A COUPLE OF SLIDES.
SO IN THE NEXT ONE, UH, CONTINUING EXPANDING RESTORATION FIELD WORK.
SO THIS INCLUDES TREE PLANTING, NATIVE PLANTING, AND BASIC SPECIES REMOVAL.
SO OUR STAFF OPERATED TREE PLANTING PROGRAM PLANTED 201 TREES IN 2023.
SO WE HAD, UH, A LULL AT THE BEGINNING OF LAST YEAR WHILE WE WERE HIRING UP.
AND WE FINISHED STRONG, UH, AT THE END OF LAST YEAR WITH, UM, A LOT OF TREE PLANTING WITH, WITH OUR NEW STAFF AND CREWS.
SO LAST YEAR WE SECURED A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR TREE PLANTING.
UM, I ACTUALLY UPDATED THE SLIDE TO SAY TWO PLUS MILLION DOLLARS, AND WE, WE HAVE A SLIDE COMING UP THAT KIND OF DETAILS, UH, THAT BREAKDOWN.
BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, SO, WE'RE SIGNIFICANTLY EXPANDING AND LEVERAGING NEW PARTNERSHIPS AND FUNDING SOURCES TO MEET THE ONGOING TREE PLANTING GOALS, YOU KNOW, STRAIGHT FROM THE CAP, UM, WHICH ARE, YOU KNOW, IMPORTANT COMPONENTS OF ADDRESSING EXTREME HEAT.
UM, AND THEN IN TERMS OF INVASIVE SPECIES REMOVAL AT WILL SPRINGS, WE WORKED ACROSS MORE THAN 16 ACRES TO REMOVE PERSISTENT INVASIVE SPECIES, OUR, UH, FRENEMY PLANTS, UH, OF MUSTARD, STAR THISTLE AND TUMBLE LEAF AND OTHERS.
UM, AND THEN A EXCITING ONE, UH, THAT WE JUST REALIZED IN THE LAST, UH, MONTH AND A HALF, UH, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION CALLED
AND THEN, UM, EXPANDING OUR ENGAGEMENT PARTNERSHIPS WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS.
SO THROUGH MEDIA, WE INCREASED POSTS, SHARES, UH, BY 152%.
SO, YOU KNOW, SOCIAL MEDIA POST, UH, REACH BY 21%, LARGELY DUE TO COLLABORATIONS WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS IN OUR ORGANIZATIONS.
SO, YOU KNOW, ONE OF OUR NEW STAFF PEOPLE WAS ABLE TO REALLY UP OUR
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GAME IN, IN SOCIAL MEDIA AND, YOU KNOW, BUILD THESE PARTNERSHIPS.WE HIGHLIGHTED 21 COMMUNITY EVENTS ON OUR EARTH MONTH CALENDAR AND MEDIA PAGES.
AND THEN IN TERMS OF WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS, PARTNERED WITH 26 LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS THAT SUPPORTED MAJOR EVENTS SUCH AS RANCHO WALKS CITY NATURE CHALLENGE, AND MONARCH DAY OF ACTION, COLLABORATED WITH PARTNERS TO HOST WORKSHOPS ON TOPICS SUCH AS WATER CONSERVATION, MUSHROOM CULTIVATION, AND NATIVE PLANT IDENTIFICATION.
AND THEN HERE'S JUST A, YOU KNOW, A, A CHRONIC CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, I THINK YES, OF, UH, MANY OF THESE EVENTS OVER THE COURSE OF LAST YEAR FROM LAST JANUARY'S MLK DAY OF SERVICE INTO THE SPRINGTIME EVENTS OF MONARCH DAY OF ACTION AND CITY NATURE CHALLENGE, INCLUDING, UH, AN ECO FAIR AT, UH, THE CIVIC SANTA PLAZA.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, LATER ON IN THE YEAR, RANCHOS WALK, CLEAN AIR DAY, GREENPORT FEST, UM, AND THEN AT WILLOW SPRINGS PARK, BUT ALSO AT LIBRARIES AROUND THE CITY, UM, THE MONTHLY RESTORATION FRIDAY EVENTS AND 30 EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS, EITHER AT WILLOW SPRINGS OR AT SITES OUTSIDE OF WILLOW SPRINGS.
MOVING ON TO OUR UPCOMING WORK PLAN.
SO, UH, WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHERE WE WANNA GO FROM HERE.
UM, WE HAVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AND SOME DISCUSSION POINTS FOR YOU ALL TODAY.
UH, AND THEN WE'LL BE ABLE TO OPEN IT UP FOR A DISCUSSION.
UM, BUT YOU'RE GOING TO START TO SEE A, A PATTERN HERE WITH VERY SIMILAR TYPES OF HEADINGS WHERE LAST YEAR WE TALKED ABOUT CITY LEADERSHIP AND FUNDING.
THIS YEAR WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THE CITY LEADERSHIP AND FUNDING, AND SO ON AND SO FORTH FOR PROGRAMS AND SERVICES, PERFORMANCE AND MONITORING.
MONITORING, AND THE CAP ACTION.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO, TO STICK WITH SOME PARALLEL STRUCTURE FROM YEAR TO YEAR.
SO, UH, YOU ALL AND THE PUBLIC CAN FOLLOW ALONG FOR, UH, TRANSPARENCY.
UH, AND THEN ALSO, UH, KIND OF USING THESE CATEGORIES AS WAYS TO THINK ABOUT, UH, WHERE THERE IS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT AND, UH, PROGRESS OR EXPANSION, DEPENDING ON THE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. UH, SO FIRST AND FOREMOST, UH, WANTED TO WALK YOU THROUGH, UH, SOME OF OUR ANNUAL CALENDAR, UH, ACTIVITIES THAT WE DO, BECAUSE WE, UH, USE, UH, A NUMBER OF THINGS, UH, TO TRACK, UH, OR TO, UM, TO TARGET WHEN WE DO THINGS.
UH, WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE CLIMATE CHAMPIONS AND MOBILIZATION TEAM AND, AND WHAT THEY DO AND HOW THEY'RE HELPING US, UH, PERFORMANCE AND MONITORING AND CAP ACTIONS.
SO FIRST AND FOREMOST, UM, LET'S GO TO THE ANNUAL CALENDAR.
UM, SO WE THINK ABOUT, UM, OUR WORK IN THE CONTEXT OF THE BUDGET PROCESS, UH, BECAUSE THE BUDGET DOCUMENT AND THE BUDGET PROCESS FOR OUR CITY, UH, IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR.
UM, AND IT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT POLICY DOCUMENT THAT OUR CITY WORKS ON.
UM, AND SO WE, WE THINK ABOUT IT THAT WAY BECAUSE, UH, WHERE WE HAVE PRIORITIES AND GOALS, WE NEED FUNDING AND SUPPORT.
AND SO WE WANT TO ALIGN OUR WORK AND OUR REQUESTS WITH THE BUDGET PROCESS, AND HOPEFULLY, UH, THAT IS FRUITFUL SO THAT WHEN CITY COUNCIL ADOPTS THEIR PRIORITIES EACH YEAR, UM, THERE IS FUNDING FOR ACTIONS AND GOALS RELATED TO THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN.
UM, SO YOU CAN SEE HERE, UH, SO WE START WITH OCTOBER, SO YOU'LL SEE SEPTEMBER ON, ON EITHER END, JUST BECAUSE IT'S A, A CYCLICAL CYCLE.
UM, SO IN OCTOBER, UH, FOR YOU ALL, WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT WHERE WE'VE BEEN THE PREVIOUS YEAR, AND WHERE WE'RE GOING, UH, THAT'S, SORRY, NOT FOR YOU.
FOR, FOR INTERNALLY, WE THINK ABOUT THESE THINGS, AND THEN WE, PART OF THAT FEEDS INTO WHAT WE DO HERE TODAY.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE A CITYWIDE YEAREND REPORT FOR CLIMATE SUSTAINABILITY FOR THE CAP THAT, THAT WE HAVE, UH, INDICATED.
WE WILL PREPARE, WE, AND, AND PART OF THAT IS PRESENTING HERE TO YOU ALL, UM, AS WE WORK THROUGH WITH OUR CLIMATE, UH, CHAMPIONS AND STAFF.
UH, AND, AND PART OF THE BUDGET PROCESS LEADS INTO, UH, JANUARY WHERE WE START TO THINK ABOUT WHAT BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS WE WANT TO CONSIDER.
BECAUSE BUDGET KICKOFF INTERNALLY HAPPENS IN FEBRUARY THIS YEAR, IT'S GONNA BE FEBRUARY 22ND.
WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE FOR US IS, UM, THE BUDGET OFFICE PREPARES A, A VERY LENGTHY MEMO OF ALL OF THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE YEAR.
IT'S BASED ON THE PRESENTATION THAT THEY GIVE TO COUNCIL ON THE OUTLOOK OF THE BUDGET FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR, AND THE TWO FISCAL YEARS AFTER THAT.
IT USUALLY HAS THINGS IN INCLUDED IN THERE, WHETHER IT'S GOING TO BE, UM, A DEFICIT YEAR OR A SURPLUS YEAR.
IF IT'S A DEFICIT YEAR, THERE'S USUALLY A CUT SCENARIO, AND SOMETIMES IT'S PERCENTAGE CUTS ACROSS THE BOARD.
SOMETIMES IT'S, IT'S A DIFFERENT FORMULA.
BUT ALL OF THAT GETS BILLED INTO, UM, THOSE INSTRUCTIONS AND THOSE GO TO CITY, UH, MANAGERS AND STAFF.
UH, AND THEN FROM THERE DEPARTMENTS PREPARE THEIR BUDGETS, UH, BASED ON THOSE INSTRUCTIONS.
UM, FROM THERE, I HAVE A QUESTION.
UM, AT WHAT POINT IS THE COLLEAGUE COMMENT CONSIDERED? THERE'S, YEAH, AND THERE'S TWO, THERE.
THERE'S MANY TIMES DURING REGULAR COUNCIL MEETINGS, BUT THERE'S TWO KEY TIMES, UH, WHEN THE CITY GOES OUT TO THE PUBLIC.
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TIME, SO IT'S USUALLY MID-JANUARY, UH, TO THE END OF JANUARY.UH, THERE ARE SEARS, USUALLY FOUR OR FIVE OF THEM OF COMMUNITY BUDGET MEETINGS.
UM, AND THESE ARE STRUCTURED AROUND THE CITY'S 2030 STRATEGIC PLAN, AND IT'S AN OPEN-ENDED, UH, DISCUSSION WITH STAFF.
SO THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF EDUCATION ABOUT THE BUDGET AND THE TIMELINE AND EVERYTHING.
UM, BUT THEN THERE ARE BOARDS AROUND THE ROOM, KIND OF OPEN HOUSE STYLE, UM, AND THE COMMUNITY IS ASKED, WELL, WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE YOUR MOST IMPORTANT PRIORITIES? AND THEY, THEY'RE ORGANIZED BY THE 2030 STRATEGIC PLAN.
SO YOU, THERE'S STICKY DOTS AND THERE'S, UM, STICKY, UM, YOU KNOW, POST-IT NOTES AND THINGS THAT YOU CAN WRITE ALL OVER THAT.
AND ALL OF THAT GETS PACKAGED AND PRESENTED TO COUNCIL AND ALSO PRESENTED TO STAFF, TO COUNCIL TO
SO ALL OF THAT HAPPENS, RIGHT, RIGHT ABOUT NOW.
SO, FOR INSTANCE, UM, THERE'S BEEN TWO OF THOSE COMMUNITY BUDGET MEETINGS SO FAR.
THE FIRST ONE WAS LAST WEEK AT THE MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART, AND THE SECOND ONE WAS AT, UM, HOWTON, UH, COMMUNITY CENTER.
AND THEN TONIGHT THERE IS ONE AT CABRILLO HIGH SCHOOL.
AND THEN NEXT WEEK THERE'S ONE AT REC PARK, AND THEN THERE'S A VIRTUAL ONE.
UH, SO IF ANYONE WANTS TO JOIN EITHER OF THOSE, WE'RE HAPPY TO SHARE THAT IN OUR REPORT OUT TO YOU TODAY.
WE'LL GET YOU ALL OF THOSE, UM, UH, COMMUNITY, UH, ENGAGEMENT SESSIONS.
AND THOSE ARE MEANT TO BE OPEN-ENDED.
SO YOU CAN PROVIDE WHATEVER FEEDBACK YOU WOULD LIKE AMONGST THE, I THINK THERE'S EIGHT CATEGORIES IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
THE SECOND PORTION OF THAT COMES LATER ON THIS CALENDAR, AND IT BECOMES, UH, THE CITY MANAGER HAS TO PRESENT THE BUDGET IN, UH, JUNE FOR THE MAYOR TO PRESENT THE BUDGET IN JULY.
AND THEN THE BUDGET OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE AND CITY COUNCIL DELIBERATE OVER A NUMBER OF MEETINGS.
AND THE CHARTER REQUIRES THAT THE CITY HAVE A BALANCED BUDGET AS OF SEPTEMBER 15TH EVERY YEAR.
UM, SO DURING AUGUST, THERE'S ANOTHER ROUND OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SESSIONS, USUALLY FOUR OR FIVE, FOUR IN PERSON, ONE VIRTUAL.
AND AT THAT POINT, THE PURPOSE OF THOSE IS EDUCATION AND FEEDBACK.
SO IT'S MORE ABOUT WHAT'S IN THE BUDGET, WHAT YOU, AND HOW WHAT THE COMMUNITY SAID, IT MADE ITS WAY INTO THE BUDGET, UM, AND THEN ANY OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS MOVING FORWARD.
AND SO THE FEEDBACK IS SORT OF TWOFOLD.
UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE BUDGET THAT IS PROPOSED, AND IS THERE ANYTHING MISSING FROM YOUR OPINION? AND SO WE TAKE THAT AGAIN, AND WE REPACKAGE IT AND WE GIVE IT TO COUNCIL AS THEY'RE DELIBERATING, UH, FOR THE BUDGET BEFORE SEPTEMBER 15TH.
I ASK BECAUSE THEY WENT TO, UM, BEFORE, NO, HOW UHHUH AND EVEN THOUGH THE CITY COULD, UM, THIS, I MEAN THE, THE, THE, THE TO THE END, EVERYBODY REALLY IS PUSH AND EVERYONE REALLY HAPPY.
BUT I WANNA KNOW, UM, WHAT THAT MEANS.
YOU SAY THAT THEY'RE GONNA PROCEED TO THE, TO THE PEOPLE, THE RIGHT, AND THEY CAN USE THAT TO INFORM THEIR, THEIR POLICY CHOICES DURING THE BUDGET DELIBERATIONS, BOTH FROM THE BUDGET OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE AND THE FULL CITY COUNCIL.
OKAY? SO THAT THERE, WHAT YOU DON'T SEE ON HERE IS SOME OF THOSE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS, BUT THEY HAPPEN IN THOSE TIMEFRAMES SIMILAR TO, UH, SOME OF THE OTHER ACTIONS THAT YOU SEE ON SCREEN HERE.
UM, SO INTERNALLY, IN, IN, ONCE WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION AND IT GETS ALL PACKAGED AND, AND WE GET THE INFORMATION FROM THE BUDGET STAFF, AND WE'RE ASKED, UH, FOR OUR BUDGET INSTRUCTIONS, WE HAVE TO THEN PRESENT OUR BUDGET TO THE CITY MANAGER, UH, IN MARCH.
HE MAKES FINAL DECISIONS BY MAY.
THE, UH, A PROPOSED BOOK IS PRODUCED IN JUNE, GIVEN TO THE MAYOR IN JULY, AND THEN THE PUBLIC IN AUGUST WITH ALL OF THE SECOND PART OF THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
SO WE WANT TO BE REALLY CLEAR THAT WE'RE ALIGNED WITH THAT SO WE CAN POSITION OURSELVES AND THE THINGS IN THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN AS BEST WE CAN.
AND THEN ULTIMATELY, IT'S A POLICY DECISION FOR COUNCIL, AND SOMETHING THAT THE COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, CAN, THROUGH THE PROCESS, CAN INFLUENCE THAT PROCESS AS APPROPRIATE.
UM, SO THAT'S WHAT WE THINK ABOUT WHEN WE THINK ABOUT OUR INTERNAL WORK.
UM, THAT'S WHAT WE THINK ABOUT AS, AS WE POSITION OURSELVES FOR, UH, RETREATS LIKE TODAY.
UM, BECAUSE WE'RE AHEAD OF SOME OF THOSE INSTRUCTIONS, WE WANT TO HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE FROM YOU ABOUT THINGS THAT MAY INFLUENCE OUR WORK INTERNALLY AS WELL.
UM, YOU ALSO SEE ON HERE JUST SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING IN THE MEANTIME, YOU SEE THE EARTH MONTH, AND YOU ALSO SEE OUR LEDGE AGENDA KIND OF, AND WHERE THAT FALLS AMONGST SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE DO.
SO WE HAVE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY OVERALL TO CELEBRATE ALL OF THE GREAT STUFF THAT OUR STAFF AND STAFF ACROSS THE CITY DOES AS IT RELATES TO CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABILITY.
UM, AND THEN ULTIMATELY, UH, MAKE SURE TO GET ANYTHING THAT WE HAVE LEARNED THROUGH THE PROCESS INTO OUR STATE AND FEDERAL AGENDA IN AUGUST.
UM, AND SO WITH THAT, IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, THIS IS HOW WE HAVE NOW ALIGNED OUR CLIMATE CHAMPIONS.
WE HAVE ONE TO TWO PEOPLE FROM EVERY ONE OF OUR DEPARTMENTS WHO PARTICIPATE ON THIS.
AND THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE, UH, AND ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR DEPARTMENT'S, UH, COORDINATION AND PROGRESS ON CAP ACTIONS.
UM, AND EVERY DEPARTMENT IS DIFFERENT.
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HAVE JUST A FEW ACTIONS, OR THEY'RE SUPPORTING, SOME DEPARTMENTS HAVE MULTIPLE ACTIONS, AND THEY'RE THE LEAD.UM, SO I THINK I CAN THINK OF LIKE PUBLIC WORKS AND OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WHO HAVE A LOT OF ACTIONS IN THE CAB, WHEREAS SAY OUR, UM, DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS MAY NOT HAVE QUITE AS MANY, BUT THEY HAVE A FEW AND THEY'RE SUPPORTING ON A FEW OTHERS.
UM, AND SO WE ALIGN VERY SIMILARLY.
SO IN JANUARY, WE ASK THIS GROUP, UM, LEMME BACK UP, PARDON ME.
OUR, UH, YOU'LL SEE THAT IN TURQUOISE HERE.
OUR CLIMATE MOBILIZATION IS A SEPARATE GROUP.
IT'S ALL THE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS AT THE STAFF LEVEL.
AND SO THIS IS, YOU KNOW, TENS OF, OF, UH, STAFF AT, IN, IN MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS, AND THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DAY TO DAY.
SO THEY ARE THE ONES WHO ARE PLANNING AND, AND CONSTRUCTING BIKE LANES.
THEY ARE THE ONES WHO ARE, UM, IDENTIFYING, UH, AND REVIEWING, UM, ENTITLEMENTS AND DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS FOR CONFORMANCE WITH CAP OR WITH ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN TITLE 24, FOR INSTANCE.
SO WE ASK THEM IN JANUARY, WHAT ARE IDEAS FROM THE CAP THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE IMPLEMENTED THIS YEAR? THEY ROLL THOSE UP TO THEIR CL TO OUR CLIMATE CHAMPIONS IN FEBRUARY.
WE MEET AND WE SAY, OKAY, THIS ALL SEEMS, YOU KNOW, LOOKS GOOD OR, OR WHATNOT, OR HERE'S HOW WE WANT TO PRIORITIZE THESE THINGS.
WHAT DO WE ACTUALLY THINK WE CAN GET DONE IN A YEAR? UM, WHAT ARE OUR BIGGEST OPPORTUNITIES FOR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION REDUCTIONS? AND THEN THOSE ARE THINGS THAT OUR OFFICE PUTS INTO THE BUDGET PROCESS, UH, IN ADDITION TO THE DEPARTMENTS AS WELL.
UM, SO AGAIN, WE'VE ALIGNED OUR WORK TO BE REALLY STRATEGIC.
SO YOU'LL SEE HERE, UM, WE GET THOSE, UM, DECISIONS IN, IN MAY, AND THEN WE BEGIN, UH, ASSU, YOU KNOW, ASSUMING, UH, SOME LEVEL OF PREPARATION FOR CITY COUNCIL ADOPTION OF THE BUDGET, UM, AND THE LEGISLATIVE AND GRANT PLANNING IN AUGUST FOR THE STATE LEG AGENDA.
AND THEN CONCEIVABLY, WE HEAR, AND AS OF SEPTEMBER 15TH, WHAT COUNCIL ADOPTS AND ALL OF THE THINGS, AND WE GET READY FOR THOSE PROJECTS IN OCTOBER OF THE FOLLOWING YEAR.
AND THAT CYCLE REPEATS ITSELF YEAR IN AND YEAR OUT.
SO WE CAN ALIGN WITH OUR MOST IMPORTANT POLICY DOCUMENT, WHICH IS OUR BUDGET.
UH, SO WITH THAT, UM, WE WILL CONTINUE TO, TO UTILIZE THAT PROCESS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR STAFF AND CITY STAFF, BUT WE ALSO HAVE SOME OF THESE OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE COORDINATING ACROSS THE CITY AND ALSO WORKING ON DIRECTLY.
UM, SO WE WILL CONTINUE TO TARGET GRANT FUNDING AND WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DEPARTMENTS TO TARGET GRANT FUNDING.
UM, SO THERE'S A LOT OF THE, UM, UPCOMING INFLATION REDUCTION ACT, UH, PROGRAMS AND, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMS THAT, UH, ARE FUNDED THROUGH THOSE ACTS, BUT HAVE YET TO RESULT IN ANY SORT OF GRANT PROGRAM OR GRANT GUIDELINES THAT ARE, THAT ARE PUT OUT IN THE WORLD YET.
UM, SO THOSE, SOME OF THOSE, UH, FUNDING MEASURE, UM, UH, FUNDING PROGRAMS ARE 10 YEAR FUNDING PROGRAMS. SO A LOT OF THOSE THINGS WILL ROLL OUT OVER THE NEXT NUMBER OF YEARS.
SO SOME OF THE FUNDING WE CAN'T EVEN APPLY FOR YET BECAUSE THE PROGRAM DOESN'T EXIST, BUT WE GENERALLY KNOW HOW MUCH IS IT IS AND WHAT AGENCY IT'S GOING TO, AND THE AGENCIES PUT OUT TIMELINES WHEN THEY'RE GONNA ROLL OUT THESE THINGS.
SO WE'RE CONSTANTLY LOOKING AT THOSE.
UM, SO, UH, VERY, UH, EAGER TO LOOK AT, UH, SOME ADDITIONAL EPA FUNDS, SO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FUNDS, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY FUNDS, UM, AND WE DO HAVE, UH, AN OPPORTUNITY AT THE STATE LEVEL THAT WE'RE AWARE OF, UH, AT THE PRESENT MOMENT, UM, THROUGH THE CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS AGENCY, WHICH IS OUT OF THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE, UM, FOR SOME POTENTIAL PROJECT FOR, UM, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR TYPE ENGAGEMENT, AND, UH, COMMUNITY PROJECTS IN THE CITY'S MOST VULNERABLE POPULATION.
SO THE, FOR US, THAT'S WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH LONG BEACH.
SO WE'RE WORKING WITH A NUMBER OF PARTNERS, UH, OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT, CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABILITY OFFICE, UM, AND SOME OTHERS TO THINK ABOUT, LIKE HOW MIGHT WE FASHION AN ELIGIBLE AND COMPETITIVE APPLICATION FOR THAT.
UM, AND THIS ALSO THEN KIND OF FEEDS INTO THAT, UH, COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PIECE.
SO, UH, WE'RE WORKING ON THAT CURRENTLY.
UM, WE TALKED ABOUT STAFF COMMUNICATIONS AND THAT PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN, SO WE'LL BE DEBUTING THAT WITH YOU ROLLING THAT OUT IN 2024.
UM, AND THEN ALSO THE, UM, GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY REPORT DASHBOARD AND OUR ANNUAL REPORT ARE ALL THINGS WE'RE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW, UH, THAT WE'LL BE ANTICIPATED TO ROLL OUT IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
SO, UH, OUR GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY REPORT, UH, WE, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH ILEY, UH, WHO PROVIDES, UH, SORT OF THE, THE MATRICES AND THE METRICS AND HOW, AND THE CALCULATIONS ON HOW TO DO THIS.
UM, THERE'S A, DO YOU REMEMBER THE NAME OF A CLEAR PATH? CLEAR PATH, THANK YOU.
UH, THAT IS, UH, KIND OF UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED METHODOLOGY.
AND SO WE HAVE OPTED TO DO THAT, AND THAT WILL BE OUR, OUR, UM, REPORTING STRUCTURE YEAR OVER YEAR.
UM, AND THEN THAT WILL RESULT IN A DASHBOARD
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THAT OUR TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION DEPARTMENT IS HELPING US TO PROVIDE.AND SO THAT WILL SHOW, UM, AS WE DO OUR CAP EVERY TWO YEARS, UM, THE PROGRESS THAT WE'RE MAKING IN THE DIFFERENT EMISSIONS CATEGORIES, UM, AND THEN ALSO THE ANNUAL REPORT, WHICH WILL INCLUDE A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT HERE TODAY.
AND THEN ALSO PROGRESS ON THE DIFFERENT GOALS, UH, ASSOCIATED WITH CAP, UH, THAT THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS ARE CURRENTLY COLLECTING.
UH, SO WE'VE ASKED OUR CLIMATE CHAMPIONS AND OUR MOBILIZATION TEAM TO LOOK AT ALL OF THE GOALS AND ACTIONS AND TELL US WHERE YOU HAVE MADE PROGRESS ON THEM.
AND THAT WILL BE SOMETHING THAT WE'LL BRING TO YOU ALL.
UM, AND THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BE MADE PUBLIC.
UM, THOSE REPORTS AND THE ANNUAL REPORT ARE CALENDAR YEAR, UH, AND SO WE NEED A FEW MONTHS AFTER THE CALENDAR YEAR TO PREPARE THEM.
UH, WE'RE ALSO TRYING TO THINK ABOUT STR COMMUN STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS, AND IF WE CAN ALIGN THEM WITH APRIL AND EARTH MONTH AND ALL THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN.
UM, SO WE CAN KIND OF PACK ALL OF THAT TOGETHER BECAUSE IT PROVIDES A, A KIND OF BETTER BANG FOR YOUR BUCK IN TERMS OF PEOPLE BEING ABLE TO PAY ATTENTION AND ABSORB AND SEEING HOW EVERYTHING SORT OF CONNECTS TOGETHER.
SO THAT'S OUR PLAN, UH, FOR SOME OF THOSE.
BUT THOSE ARE, UH, THE REPORT IS DONE, THE DASHBOARDS IN PROGRESS, AND THE ANNUAL REPORT IS IN PROGRESS.
SO, UH, WORKING THROUGH THOSE.
UM, SO I'M GONNA HAND IT OVER TO ANDRE.
HE'S GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ACTUAL INVENTORY ITSELF AND SOME OF THE OTHER WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN, UH, PLANNED THIS YEAR.
SO TAKE A, TAKING A DEEPER DIVE INTO WHAT MEREDITH TALKED ABOUT AS FAR AS PERFORMANCE.
SO WE HAD OUR 2015 INVENTORY DONE BY A DIFFERENT CONSULTANT.
UH, METHODOLOGY IS THE SAME FOR 2021, BUT NOW TO KEEP A CONSISTENT BASELINE, UM, TO FIGURE IT OUT WHERE YOU CAN USE INCREASED CLEARPATH PROGRAM.
SO WE COLLECTED INFORMATION FROM ALL THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS, UM, FOR THE 2021 YEAR.
UM, SO WHAT WE'VE SEEN PRELIMINARILY IS THAT TRANSPORTATION IS, UM, OUR HIGHEST SECTOR.
UM, AND AS FAR AS, UM, UM, WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO IS WE'RE GONNA USE THE SPACE LINE TO KIND OF SEE WHAT CAP FUNDATIONS ARE GONNA HAVE THE LARGEST EFFECTS FOR OUR GHG REDUCTIONS.
UM, AND WE'LL DO ONE EVERY TWO YEARS TO SEE WHAT KIND OF PRODUCTS WE'RE MAKING AND KIND OF REANALYZE, UM, IF WE NEED TO CHANGE TACTICS, USE DIFFERENT IMPLEMENTATION ACTIONS, AND, UM, HOW WE'RE FAIRING TO GET TO OUR GOALS OF THE 2030 AND NET ZERO BY 2045.
UM, SO THE GHE REPORT, UM, THERE'LL BE LIKE A 40 PAGE REPORT THAT'S GONNA BE COMING OUT.
UH, SO WE'LL RELEASE THAT IN APRIL.
AND, UH, THE DASHBOARD WILL ALSO BE RELEASED IN NEAR APRIL TO SHOW, UM, JUST OUR INVENTORY AT FIRST.
AND LATER ON WE'LL GO INTO DEEPER, UH, CONVERSATIONS.
SO WITH THAT, SO, UH, WITH OUR CLIMATE CHAMPIONS, WE'VE BEEN WORKING KIND OF, UH, BASED OFF EXCEL AT FIRST KIND OF GATHERING, UH, THE MAIN INFORMATION WE GET PRIORITIES THERE IS TIMELINES.
SO NOW THAT YOU INCORPORATE THAT INTO A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT'S GOING ON, WE'RE USING MICROSOFT LISTS AND WHICH, UH, WE ARE DOING ALL THE SELF IMPLEMENT IMPLEMENTATION ACTION ITEMS. WE'RE ASSIGNING EACH, UH, SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT TO EACH ACTION ITEM FROM EACH DEPARTMENT.
THEY'LL GO IN, THEY'LL TALK ABOUT THEIR PROGRESS, UM, WHAT THEY NEED, THEIR TIMELINE.
UM, AND THIS WAY, UH, IT JUST KEEPS A BETTER TRACK OF EVERYTHING THAT'S GOING ON AS LIKE A IN TIME.
UH, SO IT'S A NICE PICTURE OF LIKE, GAME TIME, WHAT'S GOING ON.
AND THEN WITH THAT, UH, WE ARE BE WORKING WITH OUR TID, UM, DEPARTMENT.
SO THEY WILL BE USING THE LISTS.
UH, FIRST THEY'LL BE, THEY'RE GRADING THE 2015, UH, 2021 INVENTORY DASHBOARD, WHICH WILL SHOW OUR GREENHOUSE GAS I MENTIONED FROM THE, UH,
UM, AND THEN AFTER THAT, WE'LL BE USING THE MICROSOFT LIST TO SHOW, UM, OUR PROGRESS TOWARDS CAPITAL OPTIMIZATION FOR EACH SECTOR AND, UM, HOW, HOW, UH, HOW MUCH WE'VE DONE AND HOW MUCH FOOD WE'RE DOING.
AND THAT IS, WE'RE HOPING TO RELEASE BY 2025.
SO AFTER THAT, UM, THIS YEAR WE'VE ASKED ALL OUR DEPARTMENTS TO GO IN AND TELL US WHAT KIND OF, UH, ACCOMPLISHMENTS THEY HAVE, UH, TOWARDS CAPITAL IMPLEMENTATION.
UM, AND WITH THAT, WE'LL BE WORKING ON COMPLETING OUR ANNUAL REPORT AND SHOWING BY THE DIFFERENT SECTORS WHAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED AND, UH, WHERE WE PLAN ON GOING.
AND THIS WILL BE RELEASED WITH INNU ASCENT WITH
SO NOW WE'LL PASS OVER TO LARRY TO KIND OF TALK ABOUT WHAT, UH, ASSETS WE HAVE OF YOU AND WHAT WE THINK CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
SO OUR SUSTAINABILITY FIELD AND OFFICE TEAM IS GONNA BE DIRECTLY WORKING ON THIS CAP ACTION ITEM OF ENHANCING THE URBAN FOREST.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, AS THE ACTION READS, IT'S UNDER EXTREME HEAT NUMBER THREE, ENHANCE AND EXPAND URBAN FOREST COVER AND VEGETATION.
SO AS WE SAID BEFORE, 2024, WE'LL SEE A NOTABLE INCREASE IN OUR OFFICE'S EFFORTS TO MEET THESE GOALS.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, THE UNPRECEDENTED FUNDING, HERE'S THE DETAILS.
YOU KNOW, MULTIPLE OUTSIDE FUNDING SOURCES ARE GONNA BE PROVIDING INCREASED CAPACITY.
SO THE BIG ONE IS THE US FOREST SERVICE, $1 MILLION, UH, GRANT, UM, THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM RIGHT NOW TO UPDATE OUR PROJECT NARRATIVE SO THAT THEY CAN RELEASE THE FUNDS TO US.
BUT WE'RE, UH, SETTING A GOAL OF 1200 TREES TO BE PLANTED IN, UH, LONG BEACH DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES, UH, WHICH
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ARE RANKED IN THE 75TH PERCENTILE AND ABOVE.SO THAT'S 55 CENSUS TRACTS IN LONG BEACH AND NORTH CENTRAL WEST.
IT'S ABOUT HALF OF THE OVERALL CENSUS TRACKS IN LONG BEACH THAT WILL BE ELIGIBLE AND CORRELATE REALLY HIGHLY TO THE HIGHEST HEAT AREAS.
AND THE, YOU KNOW, PREDICT PREDICTED INCREASED HEAT, YOU KNOW, EFFECTS.
UM, WE'LL BE PLANTING THESE TREES OVER TWO AND A HALF YEARS, UH, BEGINNING AS SOON AS WE GET THAT, UM, AGREEMENT GOING WITH THE FOREST SERVICE.
SO THEN AFTER THAT MILLION, WE'VE GOT AN ADDITIONAL 500,000 FROM THIS, UH, MONSANTO SETTLEMENT THAT THE CITY RECEIVED.
AND IN THIS CASE, SINCE IT'S NOT A GRANT, AND SINCE SO MANY OF OUR OTHER GRANTS ARE RESTRICTED IN VARIOUS WAYS BY WHERE WE CAN PLANT, UM, WE'RE RESERVING THE MONSANTO, UH, FUNDS TO, UH, BE ABLE TO TREE PLANT ANYWHERE IN THE LONG, IN LONG BEACH.
SO IN INCLUDING THE NON D AREAS, UM, 'CAUSE WE HAVE SO MUCH RESOURCES NOW, UH, DIRECTED, UH, SPECIFICALLY TO DAK AREAS, AND THEN TWO SMALLER AMOUNTS, UM, UH, METRO, UH, IS, UM, PASSING ON $85,000 SPECIFICALLY TO PLANT, UH, 200 PLUS TREES IN THE HAMILTON NEIGHBORHOOD IN 2024, UH, AS A MITIGATION MEASURE FOR THE 91 FREEWAY EXPANSION PROJECT.
AND THEN THIS LAST ONE, $83,000 FROM THE PORT OF LONG BEACH.
THIS IS ACTUALLY WHAT'S LEFT OVER FROM THE ORIGINAL I DID LONG BEACH PROGRAM, A PORT GRANT TO PLANT 6,000 TREES.
THAT WAS DONE THROUGH, UM, OUR NEW ROAD SERVICES BUREAU.
THEY, UM, THIS IS HOW MUCH THEY HAVE LEFT.
SO, UH, THERE'S 500 TREES STILL TO BE PLANTED OUT OF THOSE 6,000.
AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THAT WAS, UH, PASSED OVER TO US.
SO, UM, WITH THAT ONE, WE HAVE TO WORK WITHIN THE PORT'S PRIORITY ZONE, WHICH IS ROUGHLY A MILE FROM, UH, THE 17 FREEWAY CORRIDOR.
SO IF YOU HEARD ME EARLIER, SAY THAT THERE'S 2 MILLION PLUS, AND IF YOU'RE DOING THE MATH HERE, THERE'S ACTUALLY ANOTHER 500,000, UH, IN, IN, IN PLAY IN THE CITY THAT'S BEING HANDLED OUTSIDE OF OUR OFFICE, BUT IT'S 500,000 SPECIFICALLY FOR PARKS, UM, TO PLANT PARK TREES TO HELP REPLACE A LOT OF THE TREE LOSS, UH, THAT'S HAPPENED IN PARKS OVER THE YEARS.
SO THIS PROVIDES SOME MORE DETAIL ON THIS BECAUSE THIS IS, YOU KNOW, A, A, A BIG THING FOR MANY THAT MANY OF OUR STAFF ARE INVOLVED IN.
SO WE'RE, UM, YOU KNOW, MEETING THIS, UH, CHALLENGE OF, OF EXPENDING ALL OF THESE FUNDS AND PLANTING ALL OF THESE TREES THROUGH A THREE-PRONG STRATEGY.
NUMBER ONE, TO CONTINUE OUR CURRENT TREE PLANTING PROGRAM, WHERE RESIDENTS ARE ABLE TO DIRECTLY REQUEST TREES FOR THEIR PARKWAYS.
AND, UH, WE'RE PLANTING FOR, OR OUR INTENT IS TO PLANT 40 TO 50 TREES PER MONTH.
WE'VE HIT THAT GOAL SO FAR IN JANUARY, SO WE'RE ON TRACK FOR THAT.
UM, WE'VE ACTUALLY PLANTED MORE THAN 70, ALTHOUGH IT INCLUDES, UM, A COMMUNITY EVENT THAT'S MENTIONED DOWN BELOW.
WE INTEND TO, UM, TAP ON THE CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH FOR ADDITIONAL SUPPORT, UH, FOR SOME OF THESE BIG, BIG FUNDED GRANTS, IN PARTICULAR, THE FOREST SERVICE GRANT, UM, TO DO TARGETED OUTREACH AND PLANTING AND, AND PRIORITY NEIGHBORHOODS.
SO WE'RE, WE'LL BE STARTING THAT PROCESS NEXT MONTH IN FEBRUARY, WHERE WE'RE THINKING THAT, UH, WE'RE GONNA SET A GOAL OF CONSERVATION CORPS PLANTING 30 TREES A WEEK, SO UP TO 120 TREES A MONTH JUST BY CONSERVATION CORPS.
UM, AND THEN MONTHLY COMMUNITY TREE PLANTING.
SO, UH, PART OF OUR OUTREACH EFFORTS HAVE BEEN TO REACH DIRECTLY OUT TO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND SEE WHO'S INTERESTED IN PARTNERING WITH US ON COMMUNITY PLANTINGS, WHICH, UH, YOU KNOW, WOULD GENERALLY INVOLVE VOLUNTEERS COMING OUT TO ASSIST IN PLANTING TREES.
UH, WE DID OUR FIRST ONE THIS MONTH, UH, FOR NMM, LK DAY 15 TREES IN THE ALONG 48TH STREET, UM, IN THE EIGHTH DISTRICT.
AND THEN IN FEBRUARY, WE'RE PLANNING ON, UH, 30 TREES ON EAST SAN ANTONIO DRIVE IN MARCH.
UH, THIS IS THE BIXBY KNOWLES NEIGHBORHOOD, 37 TREES ON OLIVE AVENUE IN APRIL.
UM, LOCUST AND PINE AVENUES, ABOUT 20 TREES.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE STILL FORMULATING OUR, THE REST OF OUR CALENDAR, BUT IN MAY, WE'RE TALKING TO WILMORE, UH, WILMORE CITY HERITAGE, UH, ASSOCIATION, THAT NEIGHBORHOOD WHO I THINK WE WENT TO THEIR, UH, MEETING LAST WEEK, UM, TO CHECK IN WITH THEM.
AND THEY ARE REALLY EXCITED AND ARE, THEIR GOAL IS TO IDENTIFY 150 TREE SPOTS.
SO WE'LL NEED MULTIPLE COMMUNITY PLANTINGS TO, UM, TO COVER THAT.
SO, UM, OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUPPORT AND INVOLVEMENT.
SO PLANTING ALL OF THESE TREES, WE CAN'T DO IT ALONE JUST WITH OUR STAFF AND EVEN JUST WITH THE CONSERVATION CORPS.
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UM, SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN REALLY INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING US EXPAND THIS CAPACITY.OUR CLIMATE FELLOWS, UH, WE HAVE FIVE AND MAYBE SOON, UH, A SIX CLIMATE FELLOW THAT HAVE A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT TASKS, BUT SUPPORTING THE TREE PLANTING PROGRAM AND ATTENDING PUBLIC OUTREACH OF EVENTS IS ONE OF THEM.
SO WE'RE AMPLIFYING OUR OUTREACH EFFORTS TO RAISE AWARENESS OF TREE PLANTING PROGRAMS, UH, BY GOING TO VARIOUS COMMUNITY EVENTS, UH, MAKING CONNECTIONS WITH COMMUNITY GROUPS AND NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, ESPECIALLY IN AREAS WITH, UH, OUR DESIGNATED FUNDING IN THAT WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH LONG BEACH.
SOLICITING INPUT FROM RESIDENTS ABOUT AREAS OF GREATEST NEED AND SUPPORT AND ORGANIZING GRASSROOTS COLLABORATIONS LIKE, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD WATER AND STEWARDS.
SO THAT'S A BIG ONE THAT'S NOT JUST ABOUT PLANTING TREES, BUT IT'S ABOUT CARING FOR THEM AND SHARING THAT, UM, CHALLENGE, UH, WITH, WITH NEIGHBORHOODS AND, AND GETTING PEOPLE DIRECTLY INVOLVED.
UM, AND SO SOME OF OUR OUTREACH BESIDES ATTENDING, UH, COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS IS, UH, ATTENDING FIRST FRIDAY EVENTS, FOURTH FRIDAY EVENTS, FARMER'S MARKETS.
UM, AND SO WE'VE, WE'VE NEVER HAD SUCH CONSTANT STEADY OUTREACH.
SO, UH, A A, A BIG SHOUT OUT TO OUR, JUST OUR INTERNAL TEAM THAT ARE, UH, OUR CLIMATE FELLOWS AS WELL, THAT HAVE REALLY, UM, HELPED US TO GET A GREATER REACH.
BEFORE WE MOVE ON, COULD YOU TALK JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT, I, I, I DIDN'T GET THE ENTIRE PHRASE, SOMETHING ABOUT COMMUNITY STEWARD, I GUESS, THEIR CARE TAKING THESE TREES.
COULD YOU TALK A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THAT PLACE? SURE.
UM, I THINK DOESN'T MATTER IF IT, RIGHT.
SO, YOU KNOW, HERE WE, WE, WE HAVEN'T ESTABLISHED A FORMAL PROGRAM WITH A FORMAL NAME HERE WE'RE KIND OF REFERRING TO THE CONCEPT OF NEIGHBORHOOD WATERING STEWARDS, RIGHT? BUT, UM, IT'S MORE THAN JUST WATERING, IT'S JUST KEEPING AN EYE ON THE TREES, UM, TO MAKE SURE THERE ARE LOGICALS ARE IN PLACE THAT THEY'RE NOT LEANING OVER.
YOU KNOW, JUST, YOU KNOW, TREES OFTEN, UM, ARE SUCH A, A BACKGROUND THING FOR MOST PEOPLE.
YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE AREN'T FAMILIAR WITH, YOU KNOW, TYPES OF TREES AND, AND THEY'RE JUST, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE OUT THERE, BUT PEOPLE DON'T CONNECT WITH THEM DIRECTLY, RIGHT? SO WE'RE TRYING TO CHANGE THAT PERCEPTION AND RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THE, UH, THE VITAL IMPORTANCE OF TREES AND THAT WE NEED TO PROTECT AND GROW.
BECAUSE THE TREND RIGHT NOW IS THAT WE'RE, UH, AS MANY TREES AS WE'RE PLANTING, WE'RE TENDING TO LOSE MORE TREES, RIGHT? SO OUR URBAN FOREST IS ACTUALLY SHRINKING.
SO, YOU KNOW, PART OF THIS BIG EFFORT IS TO REVERSE THAT TREND.
AND SO AGAIN, UM, WE NEED TO COME UP WITH, UH, UH, A PROGRAM WHERE PEOPLE CAN ENROLL, CAN GET A BASIC LEVEL OF TRAINING, YOU KNOW, DEVELOP A HANDBOOK AND, YOU KNOW, IDEALLY ORGANIZE IT BY NEIGHBORHOOD AND NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BUT OFTENTIMES THROUGH NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, WHETHER THAT'S A FORMAL ASSOCIATION OR, OR SOME OTHER GROUPING OF, OF PEOPLE, UM, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS CAN GET INVOLVED IN AS WELL THAT AREN'T NECESSARILY TIED TO A NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND SO, UM, IT'S AN ONGOING DISCUSSION AND WE'RE CARVING OUT TIME IN THIS MEETING SO THAT WE CAN GET YOUR IDEAS AS WELL.
SO I, YOU CAN ASK ME MORE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS.
CAN I ASK A QUESTION? WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE APP THAT WE SUPPOSED TO BE, RIGHT? SO, YES, THANK YOU.
UH, UH, CHAIR, UH, GUY, UM, LAST YEAR WE, OR MAYBE EVEN BEFORE THAT, UM,
AND SO WE CALL IT THE TREE MAP AND, UM, AND IT, IT SHOWS THE ENTIRE STREET TREE INVENTORY ON A MAP, UM, SO THAT PEOPLE CAN ACCESS INFORMATION ABOUT THE TREES IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD SO THEY CAN FAMILIARIZE THEMSELVES WITH THE SPECIES OF TREES ON THEIR BLOCK.
AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN THIS APP GETS FULLY FUNCTIONAL, CREATE NOTES, YOU KNOW, ABOUT THE TREES AND, UM, ALERT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE PEOPLE THAT NEED TO BE ALERTED IF THERE'S TREE ISSUES.
AND SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE SOME, UH, YOU KNOW, ADDITIONAL BUDGET SET ASIDE TO FINISH OUT THAT APP, UH, YOU KNOW, PULL IT INTO THE CITY AND WORK WITH OUR, UH, TID TO, UM, GET IT ON A CITI SERVER AND, AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN A PAUSE, BUT IT'S STILL ONE OF THE MAIN, YOU KNOW, DRIVING, UH, UH, FORCES BEHIND HOW WE'RE THINKING WE'RE GONNA MAKE THIS SUCCESSFUL BY BEING ABLE TO SHARE INFORMATION IN LEDGE.
I, I, I BELIEVE THAT, UM, ONE OF THE PROBLEM IS THAT SHARING INFORMATION FROM THE CITY, BUT I THINK THERE
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IS A GOOD APPLICATION JUST TO GIVE IT TO THE PUBLIC SO THEY CAN ORGANIZE EVENTS AND THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, OVERSEE THE TREES THAT THEY ALREADY THERE.I, I UNDERSTAND THAT A LOT ON THE INFORMATION NOW BE ACCURATE.
AND IT'S A LOT OF, A LOT OF, I MEAN, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT S OF TREES, THAT'S GONNA BE REALLY HARD TO PUT IT THERE, BUT HAVING A LIGHT AND HAVING EYES ON THE STREET THAT THEY CAN ACTUALLY LET US KNOW IF THE TREE IS THERE IS NOT, IT MIGHT HELP AND IT MIGHT, I MEAN, WE WAIT FOR EVERYTHING TO BE DONE.
I THINK THAT, I THINK THAT THE COMMUNITY CAN ACTUALLY USE THE TOOL FOR, TO ORGANIZE AND TO START WORKING ON IT, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THEY CAME TALK ABOUT IT.
SO, AND AS I TOLD YOU, REALLY, THE PEOPLE IS MORE AWARE OF WHAT, WHAT IS GOING ON, AND THEY'RE MORE OPEN TO, TO MAKE IT PARTICIPATE, RIGHT? SO, YOU KNOW, THERE'S 92,000 STREET TREATS AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE TO GET IT DOWN TO ITS FINEST LEVEL.
IT WOULD BE GREAT IF THERE WAS JUST ONE PERSON ON EACH BLOCK THAT COULD, YOU KNOW, TAKE A CERTAIN LEVEL OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR JUST THE TREES ON THEIR BLOCK, YOU KNOW, 20 TO 30 TREES, UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY MAY WALK BY ON A REGULAR BASIS, YOU KNOW, WALKING THEIR DOG OR WALKING THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO GET IT DOWN TO MANAGEABLE PIECES, BUT, YOU KNOW, TO, TO ASSIGN 30 TO 40 TREES OUT OF 92.
YOU KNOW, THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE.
SO THIS IS GONNA BE A LONG, UH, NEEDING TO BE A SUSTAINED EFFORT.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, WHILE ANYBODY CAN BE INVOLVED, WE'RE SPECIFICALLY WANTING TO ENGAGE YOUTH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN SOME YOUTH STRATEGIC PLANNING NEXT MONTH, UM, TO, YOU KNOW, PITCH AND PROPOSE, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE IDEAS AS, AS WAYS TO, TO, UH, YOUTH INVOLVED AND, YOU KNOW, THROUGH OUR OWN PROGRAMS, THROUGH THE YOUTH CLIMATE CORE.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE DOING JUST THAT.
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE GOING OUT TO PLANT TREES, BUT THEY'RE ALSO LEARNING THE SPECIES.
OUR CREW LEADS, YOU KNOW, COMMENT ON THE OTHER TREES THAT ARE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND THERE'S THIS WHOLE EDUCATION PROCESS AS WE'RE, UH, DOING OUR WORK NOW.
UM, I BELIEVE THAT I MENTIONED IT BEFORE, UH, ABOUT THE, UH, THE WAY THAT WE ADDRESSING PEOPLE WHEN WE COME OVER AND ASK THEM IF THEY WANTED TREAT A LOT, SAY NO, BUT AS I MENTIONED IT TO YOU, WE COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT SAYS, WE UNDERSTAND THAT THESE AREAS HAVE BIG IMPACT ON CLIMATE, OR THE CLIMATE IS GONNA HAVE BIG IMPACT, NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON THE, ON THE HEALTH.
AND WE AS A CITY, WE CARE ABOUT, ABOUT YOUR HEALTH.
WE CARE ABOUT EVERYTHING, AND WE DON'T PLAN THIS BECAUSE IF WE START ASKING EVERYBODY, UH, IF THEY WANT IS JUST NOT GONNA WORK.
BUT IF WE GO AND PLANT THEM, I UNDERSTAND THAT IT DOESN'T MATTER, TAKE CARE OF THAT.
BUT IF WE, I MEAN, IT'S A LOT OF MONEY THERE.
IT'S A LOT OF MONEY THAT MAYBE WE CAN AT LEAST MAINTENANCE.
BUT I THINK THAT, THAT SAYS, I'M HERE, WE CAN DO THIS TOGETHER.
IT MIGHT, UM, I DON'T KNOW, PEOPLE TO SAY, YEAH, WE, LET'S PUT THE RIGHT TAKING RESPONSIBILITY AND I HAVE, HAVE NOT.
SO WE'RE REALLY GONNA BE TRYING TO FINE TUNE THAT MESSAGE TO BE AS, UH, PERSUASIVE AS WE CAN WHILE LEAVING PEOPLE THE LEAST OUT.
YOU KNOW, UH, BECAUSE YOU'RE RIGHT.
IT, YOU KNOW, IT, IT, ONE OF THE DISCUSSIONS IS, UM, DO WE GET PEOPLE TO SIGN SOMETHING THAT SAYS, UM, THEY'RE GIVING US PERMISSION, OR DO WE GET PEOPLE TO SIGN SOMETHING THAT, UH, WHERE THEY'RE OPTING OUT, RIGHT? AND, AND WHICH, WHICH WILL BE THE, THE, THE MORE SUCCESSFUL APPROACH OF GETTING MORE TREES OUT THERE? YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE, THE THINGS IS PEOPLE HAVE LOTS OF REASONS FOR NOT WANTING TREES, BUT SOMETIMES IT'S, THEY DON'T WANNA WATER THEM, RIGHT? SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE, UM, OR DON'T WANNA BE RESPONSIBLE FOR WATERING THEM.
AND SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE BUILDING UP THIS, YOU KNOW, WATERING THING.
BUT, UM, GETTING TO A POINT WHERE WE'RE COMFORTABLE DIS DISCUSSING THINGS WITH RESIDENTS AND NEIGHBORS, UM, SO THAT WE'RE NOT TAKING ON ALL THE RESPONSIBILITY OF WATER WHEN PEOPLE ARE WILLING AND ARE EXCITED ABOUT HAVING A TREE.
SO IT, IT, IT REQUIRES A CONVERSATION, UM, WITH FOLKS.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, OUR TREE PLANTING CREWS EXPERIENCE THIS ALL THE TIME IN TERMS OF GOING OUT TO PLANT A TREE.
SOMETIMES THE RESIDENT COMES OUT, BUT SOMETIMES THE NEIGHBORS COME OUT AND THEY'RE, HOW DO WE GET A TREE? AND SO, YOU KNOW,
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IT'S, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO TAP INTO THAT WHENEVER THAT INTEREST IS OFFERED.BUT THAT THERE, AND I MEAN, I THINK THAT THAT POINT, THE, THE EDUCATION IS SO IMPORTANT.
A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND.
THEY DON'T KNOW THAT THIS AREA IS GONNA BE AFFECTED BY, RIGHT.
SO IF THEY DON'T KNOW, THEY SAY KNOW, THEY KNOW, MAYBE THEY'RE GONNA START SEEING, RIGHT.
I, I THINK THERE'LL BE TIME MORE TO, TO, FOR OPEN DISCUSSION.
HOW ARE WE DOING ON TIME? WELL, WE'LL HAVE SOME TIME, BUT LET ME GET THROUGH THIS NEXT ONE.
AND I THINK, UH, THE DISCUSSION IS NEXT.
SO ANOTHER VERY SPECIFIC, UH, CAP ACTION ITEM.
THIS IS, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, DROUGHT NUMBER FIVE, INCORPORATING INCREASE RAINFALL CAPTURE AND OTHER ACTIONS TO MAXIMIZE LOCAL WATER SUPPLIES AND OFFSET IMPORTED WATER.
THAT'S A REALLY WORDY WAVE SAYING THE THING THAT YOU'VE BEEN HEARING FROM ME FOR YEARS ABOUT, UH, YOU KNOW, TAPPING INTO OUR LOCAL, VERY OBSCURE GEOGRAPHIC, UH, BOUNDARIES IN THE CITY KNOWN AS, UM, NEIGHBORHOOD WATERSHEDS, RIGHT? AND SO, UM, ONE OF THOSE NEIGHBORHOOD WATERSHEDS EXISTS AT WILLOW SPRINGS.
SO WE'VE ACTUALLY GOT A MILLION DOLLARS TO BEGIN DESIGN WORK ON THE WILL SPRINGS WETLAND EXPANSION PROJECT THAT, UH, WE WENT THROUGH QUITE A PROCESS TO, YOU KNOW, TO COMPETITIVELY GET THAT THROUGH THE, UM, THE COUNTY, UH, MEASURE A THE CLEAN SAFE WATER ACT.
AND THAT IF YOU SEE THE, THE RAPID IS THE, UM, THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE WATER LOOKING AREA, UH, IN THE HEART OF, UH, WILLOW SPRINGS, THAT WILL GREATLY EXPAND OUR ABILITY TO HOLD WATER ON THE SITE AND NOT RELEASE IT TO THE LA RIVER.
AND IN A PLACE LIKE WILLOW SPRINGS, THAT WATER THAT YOU HOLD ON THE SITE HAS THIS AMAZING HABITAT VALUE, AND IT GROWS PLANTS THAT, YOU KNOW, UM, RIPARIAN PLANTS, YOU KNOW, STREAMSIDE PLANTS AND WETLAND PLANTS THAT YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SUPPORT OR WATER IF YOU WERE PAYING FOR WATER TO DO.
UM, AND THEN ANOTHER LONG AWAITED THING THAT WE ALSO GOT FUNDING FOR IS TO, UH, AND, BUT THIS IS GONNA BE A LONG COLLABORATIVE PROCESS AS WELL, UM, BECAUSE IT'S SOMEWHAT UNPRECEDENTED ALSO.
UM, BUT WE'RE GONNA BE BEGINNING THE PROGRAM DESIGN FOR OUR DIRECT INSTALL RAIN GARDENS, WHICH IS CAPTURING, UH, ROOF RUNOFF FROM YOUR HOUSE IN YOUR FRONT YARD BEFORE IT GETS TO THE STREET AND INTO THE STORM DRAINS AND, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY CAUSES DOWNSTREAM FLOODING AND TAIL.
SO IT'S A, IT'S A VARIATION OF TURF REMOVAL, BUT WITH A HIGH COMPONENT OF, UM, OF, YOU KNOW, RAINWATER RETENTION.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER ENTITIES THAT WE NEED TO ENGAGE, UM, BEFORE WE CAN, UH, HAVE A SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM.
SO FROM OUR OWN PUBLIC WORKS STORMWATER DEPARTMENT, UH, OR DIVISION TO OUR LONG BEACH UTILITIES TO, AGAIN, THE CONSERVATION COURT OF LONG BEACH, UM, BUT THEN OTHER, UH, ENTITIES OUT THERE LIKE SURF RIDER FOUNDATION, WHICH HAS THIS, UM, OCEAN FRIENDLY GARDENS TEMPLATE THAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN UTILIZING.
AND THEN THIS RELATIVELY NEW, UM, REGIONAL ORGANIZATION CALLED ACCELERATE RESILIENCE LA OR ARLA, THAT IS BASICALLY PROMOTING THIS VERY SAME THING AND LOBBYING AT A HIGH LEVEL, AND WILL BE VERY, HOPEFULLY HAPPY TO PARTNER WITH US BECAUSE THEY'RE LOOKING FOR A CITY TO DO A PILOT LIKE THIS.
AND THEN FINALLY, UH, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER ONE THAT'S OUT THERE IS THE COUNCIL FOR WATERSHED HELP.
SO WE'VE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH ALL OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS TO VARYING DEGREES, BUT WE REALLY NEED TO KICK THAT OFF ON TOP OF ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING.
SO WITH THAT, SO WE HAVE, UH, THE REST OF THE TIME, REALLY TODAY, UH, TO OPEN THIS UP FOR DISCUSSION FOR THE COMMISSION, UM, TO THINK ABOUT WHAT OTHER THINGS, UM, THAT YOU, YOU BELIEVE YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEE US TAKE A LOOK AT IN THE UPCOMING YEAR.
AND IT COULD BE IN THE SENSE OF, HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THIS? AND WE CAN SAY, OH, YES, WE'RE WORKING ON IT, OR, OH, YES, WE'RE NOT.
OR, UM, IT MIGHT BE SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, UH, THAT IS NOT, IS, IS IN THE CAP, BUT IN OUR MINDS IT WAS A FEW YEARS OUT, BUT WE MIGHT WANT TO KIND OF MOVE IT UP AND TAKE A LOOK AT IT.
UM, WE WILL THEN SYNTHESIZE ALL OF YOUR FEEDBACK AND BRING THAT BACK NEXT MEETING, UH, IN THE FORM OF THE WORK PLAN ITSELF.
SO THIS IS NOT YOUR LAST, UH, OPPORTUNITY FOR, UM, FEEDBACK OR DISCUSSION, BUT SORT OF, IT GIVES US A, A SENSE OF DIRECTION AS TO HOW WE MIGHT WANNA FASHION, UM, THAT, THAT WORK PLAN FOR THE YEAR.
UH, AND THEN ULTIMATELY WHEN WE FINALIZE THAT NEXT MEETING, THAT'LL GO TO CITY COUNCIL, UH, FOR FINAL APPROVAL.
AND THEN THOSE WILL BE THE THINGS, UH, THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO.
UH, WE ARE VERY FOCUSED, UH, IN ADDITION TO THE THINGS THAT, THAT LARRY MENTIONED IN SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, YOU KNOW, FROM CITY STAFF ABOUT, UH, WHAT THEY ARE WORKING ON AND WHAT THEY NEED TO PROGRESS.
SO YOU WILL SEE SOME OF THOSE AS WELL, BECAUSE WE'RE AT THE SAME KIND OF TIME WITH OUR CLIMATE CHAMPIONS AND GENERATING SOME OF THOSE IDEAS AS WELL.
SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO BRING THOSE, UH, BACK TO YOU AS A PART OF THAT PROCESS.
UM, AND WE'RE, WE'RE THINKING THROUGH A VARIETY OF LEVELS, RIGHT? SO IT'S THINGS LIKE, UM,
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WHAT ARE OUR BIGGEST OPPORTUNITY FOR EMISSION REDUCTIONS? UM, ARE THERE LOW HANGING FRUIT? UH, IS THERE SOME POLICY CHOICES WE CAN MAKE THAT ARE LISTED IN THE CAP THAT IF WE DO THEM NOW, UH, IT IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO BRING, CARRY THEM FORWARD AND DO THEM NOW, BECAUSE IF WE WAIT THREE OR FIVE YEARS, THE IMPACTS OF THOSE THINGS ARE 5, 10, 15 YEARS DOWN THE LINE, RIGHT? SO, UM, THIS IS SORT OF OUR OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR FROM YOU OF THINGS THAT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN AND, AND ALSO WAYS THAT YOU CAN HELP US, UH, YOU KNOW, AS STAFF IN THIS ROLE.SO WE'LL OPEN IT UP FOR DISCUSSION.
WE DO HAVE, UM, LIKE TWO SLIDES AFTER THIS AT THE END OF THE MEETING JUST FOR NEXT STEPS AND OUR NEXT MEETING INFORMATION.
UM, BUT THAT'S THE BALANCE OF OUR SLIDES FOR YOU ALL TODAY.
I, I WOULD LIKE, I MEAN, I REALLY LOVE THE WAY THAT YOU ARE CHANGING ALL THE, THE PRESENTATION AND EVERYTHING.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IS WHAT NOW THEY, LAST YEAR, THE, THE DEPARTMENT, THEY SHOW US WHAT THEY WANT TO DO.
WHAT ARE THE PLANS, RIGHT? WELL, I WOULD LIKE IT TO THIS YEAR HOW THEY PLAN IS SUPPORTED BY POLICY.
BECAUSE SOMETHING THAT I NOTICED IS, UH, APPLY TO THE COURT FOR GREEN, YOU KNOW, PER AND PLANTERS, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
AND THE COURSE, YES, WE CAN GIVE YOU, WE HALF A MILLION AND THEY SUGGEST BRING THE PLANT.
EVERYTHING WENT TO THE CITY, AND THE CITY DENIED IT BECAUSE THERE IS NO POLICY, BECAUSE THEY DON'T, THEY CANNOT APPROVE, UM, WHAT'S THE NAME? UM, UM, THE PAPERS, UM, PERMITABLE PAYMENTS, EH, BECAUSE
THERE IS A LOT OF MONEY ORGANIZATION THAT ARE BRINGING THESE IDEAS.
AND SO THAT IS REALLY, I MEAN, IT'S NOT EVEN OPEN THE CONVERSATION.
IT'S NOT EVEN, OKAY, LET'S COME OVER.
LET'S SEE, WHAT DO YOU WANT, WHAT WE CAN DO.
I KNOW THAT THEY HAVE DONE IT.
OBAMA HAS WHO THEY HAVE A PARKING THAT, THAT THEY ALREADY HAVE THAT KIND OF, UM, THING THAT THEY STILL, THEY DON'T HAVE THE POLICY TO SUPPORT US.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT THEY, NOW, THE, THE, WHAT THEY SAY THAT THEY HAVE THE PLAN, HOW THEY SUPPORT, BECAUSE YOU WANNA OFFER A FUNDING NOW, COME OVER HERE.
OH YEAH, WE HAVE SUPPORT POLICY, IT'S GONNA TAKE US.
SO THAT'S WHAT I IS TO SEE HOW WE CAN ADDRESS.
I, I APPLIED FOR PV HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS TO DO CURB CUT, RIGHT? CURB CUT.
AND STILL NOW, I MEAN, WHAT HAPPENED LIKE FIVE YEARS, NOTHING, YEARS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
AND I STILL TODAY WHEN I ASKED HOW WE WORK ARE NOT, SO THOSE LITTLE THINGS I THINK IS VERY IMPORTANT IN, IN MY OPINION, FOR US TO SEE THAT, THAT THE CITY HAS BEEN REALLY STRONG AND THEY CAN NOW TALK, BUT THEY HAVE A, THEY CAN PROVE THAT WE HAVE, BECAUSE WE HAVE ALL THESE NEW, YOU KNOW, LEGISLATION THAT CAN SUPPORT THIS KIND OF CHANGES.
AND, AND SO, UH, AS WE'RE, UH, KIND OF SYNTHESIZING ALL OF THIS, UM, WE CAN DO A COUPLE THINGS IN THAT, IN THE POLICY REALM.
ONE IS, WHAT POLICIES ARE WE ANTICIPATING BRINGING FORWARD? BUT THERE MIGHT BE IN OUR WORK PLAN, UM, KIND OF BASED ON YOUR FEEDBACK, UM, WHAT POLICIES MAY, MAY NOT BE PART OF ANYONE'S PLAN THAT YOU ALL MAY WANT TO RECOMMEND TO COUNSEL.
THAT ESSENTIALLY WOULD BE, UH, FOR INSTANCE, LET'S USE YOUR PERMEABLE PAYMENT EXAMPLE.
IT, UH, SHOULD THE COMMISSION WANT TO GO IN THIS DIRECTION? UM, A RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL TO HAVE CITY COUNCIL DIRECT THE CITY MANAGER TO ESTABLISH SAID POLICY, SAY FOR PERMEABLE PAYMENT, RIGHT? SO THERE'S, THERE'S THINGS WE CAN BRING UP FROM THE STAFF LEVEL TO SAY, HEY, WE'RE DOING THIS AND WE'LL INCORPORATE THE COMMISSION ALONG THE WAY.
THERE MIGHT NOT BE PLANS FOR CERTAIN THINGS.
AND THEN YOU MAY OPT TO TAKE THAT ACTION TO FORWARD THAT TO CITY COUNCIL WITH YOUR RECOMMENDATION.
AND SO THERE'S MULTIPLE WAYS THAT THOSE THINGS CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED.
ARE THERE THOUGHTS ON, DO YOU HAVE SPECIFIC POLICY? AND I JUST, BEFORE WE STRIP AWAY, YOU HAVE A PARTICULAR POLICY JUST ALLOW, WE HAVE PERMEABLE PAYMENT ON THE LIST.
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THOUGH, SO IT'S EASIER TO SAY NOW.AND THE IS, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
10 YEARS AGO I WAS DOING THE RESEARCH AND WE ARE SO BEHIND IN WATER AND CONSERV, OH, UH, I WAS JUST GONNA MAYBE SUGGEST FOR, FOR THE COMMENT, UM, I'M NOT SURE HOW AWARE OR INVOLVED WITH THIS WORKS MIGHT BE IN ALL THE WORK HAPPENING AROUND HERE.
BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE WHEN, YOU KNOW, WHEN COMMUNITY MEMBERS OR FOLKS GO FOR PERMIT, UH, PUBLIC WORKS, YOU KNOW, SAYS, NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT.
AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT MIGHT ALSO BE HELPFUL IS, HEY, IF YOU SAW SOMETHING THAT'S RELATED TO WHAT WE'RE IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, THEN BRING IT UP IN THE, THAT'S HOW WE MIGHT MOVE THAT.
BECAUSE THERE MIGHT BE A LOT OF STUFF THAT THE COMMUNITY IS ASKING FOR, BUT BECAUSE OF THE WORK SAYS NO, THEN I THINK IT ENDS THERE.
SO, SO I THINK HOW DO WE BETTER GO BACK TO YOU ALL? YEAH.
AND I THINK THERE'S TWO COMPONENTS HERE IN THIS PARTICULAR INSTANCE, UM, OF, OF, YOU KNOW, HILDA, WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IMPLEMENTING THE PERMEABLE PAYMENT PROJECTS, OR LIKE MICHELLE OBAMA FOR EXAMPLE, ARE DIFFERENT THAN THE PEOPLE WHO ARE REVIEWING APPLICATIONS AT THE PUBLIC COUNTER, RIGHT? AND THERE REALLY SHOULD NOT BE, WE SHOULD BE SPEAKING WITH ONE VOICE, RIGHT? WE SHOULD BE, UM, SAYING YES TO THE THINGS WE GENERALLY SAY YES TO, BECAUSE IT IS SUSTAINABLE PRACTICE.
AND SO IT'S THAT KIND OF CONNECTING THE DIFFERENT STAFF PIECES TOGETHER, UH, WHICH IS PART OF WHY OUR OFFICE EXISTS, RIGHT? SO TO, TO ALI'S POINT, UM, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT POLICY, BUT ALSO THEN HOW DO WE TRAIN STAFF AT MULTIPLE LEVELS TO KNOW ABOUT THAT, RIGHT? YEAH.
AND PERMEABLE PAYMENT IS NOT THE ONLY EXAMPLE, BUT THAT'S A GOOD ONE.
SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IT TODAY.
SO IF WE'RE GONNA TALK TO THE CITY ABOUT PERSONAL PAYMENT, WE SHOULD TALK TO 'EM ALSO ABOUT OPPORTUNITIES FOR INFILTRATION.
SOMETIMES WHEN THERE'S NEW PLANTINGS.
AND THE CITY'S DOING A GREAT JOB AT MAKING OUR CITIES MORE WALKABLE BY CREATING MORE, YOU KNOW, SPACES, UM, WIDER CURVES, MORE PLANTINGS, AND ALL OF THAT IS, IS FANTASTIC.
SO, UH, THERE'S ALSO, UH, DIFFERENT TREATMENTS THAT ARE MORE REFLECTIVE, SO THAT ARE COOL COOLER PAVEMENTS AS WELL.
UM, LOVE TO SEE A, A COMPREHENSIVE DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW THE CITY'S INCORPORATING SOME OF THAT.
SOME THEY'RE FARTHER AHEAD THAN OTHERS.
I THINK THAT AT THIS POINT, TO SUPPORT EVERYTHING THAT YOU WANNA DO, AND YEAH.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE, WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN TERMS OF PERMEABLE, UH, PAVEMENT OR JUST PERMEABLE AREAS, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S REFERRED TO AS GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE, BUT ALSO LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT.
SO 10 YEARS AGO THROUGH OUR WORK IN THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY, THERE WAS A LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE.
IT AFFECTS PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT OR DEVELOPMENT ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, RIGHT? SO WHAT YOU RAN UP AGAINST WAS WANTING TO DO A VERY SIMILAR THING, BUT IN THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY.
AND SO, AND, AND I THINK AS WE DISCUSSED WHEN YOU TOLD ME ABOUT THAT OR WHAT THE CONCERN IS, IS, UM, PERMEABLE PAVEMENT, UM, ISN'T DURABLE NECESSARILY, RIGHT? DURABLE OR BEING ABLE TO HANDLE A LOT OF TRAFFIC.
SO IT IS USED IN, UM, YOU KNOW, PARKING LOTS AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT, YOU KNOW, NOT IN MAJOR STREETS, BUT AN ALLEY IS THAT IN BETWEEN AREA, RIGHT? AND SO, UM, BUT I WAS REMEMBERING, AND, AND WE TALKED ABOUT THIS AS WELL, IS THE CITY ITSELF BUILT A, UM, ALLEY WITH PERMEABLE PAPERS
BUT WHAT MAY HAVE, UH, BEEN DIFFERENT THEN IS THEY ALSO CLOSED THAT ALLEY OFF THE TRAFFIC.
SO, WHICH I THINK MAY WAS YOUR INTENTION IN THIS PROJECT AS WELL.
MAYBE DIDN'T TRANSLATE TO THE PERSON AT THE COUNTER.
SO, YOU KNOW, THE PERSON THAT YOU THAT SAID NO WAS SOMEONE WHO'S INTERPRETING THE CURRENT CODE, AND THAT'S, THAT'S THEIR JOB EXACTLY.
BUT, YOU KNOW, DID, DID YOU HAVE YOUR HAND UP? NO, NO, NO.
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IT'S, IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE AWFUL LOT OF OUR RESOURCES ARE GONNA BE PUT INTO TREATMENT.UM, I HAVE SOME THOUGHTS ON HOW MAYBE A COMMUNITY HELP IF, IF YOU DON'T MIND.
UM, ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, UM, PUBLIC WORKS RAN INTO A, THE PUNS INTENDED BUZZ OFF OPPOSITION TO, UH, STREET TREE REMOVALS.
I MEAN, PEOPLE ALMOST LITERALLY CHAINED THEMSELVES ON THEIR BLOCK, UNFORTUNATELY WAS IN NOT SCALE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND I DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THAT DEPARTMENT THAT AT THE TIME, THIS VERY GREAT IDEA, HE BROUGHT THE OPPONENTS IN, HE FORMED A STREET TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, AND WE FOUND, SORRY, WE FOUND IT.
I KNOW, THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING.
MY SUGGESTION IS IF THAT DEPARTMENT CAN DO IT, I'M PRETTY SURE MANAGER'S DEPARTMENT COULD DO THAT TOO.
IT, WE, WE HAVE A COMMISSION HERE, BUT YOU COULD ALSO HAVE A COMMITTEE SAY 11 PEOPLE.
IT COULD BE THAT SOME OF US MIGHT WANNA JOIN THAT, BUT IT ALSO COULD BE A TREMENDOUS, SOMEBODY ON EACH INDIVIDUAL BLOCK AND SAY THEIR COUNCIL DISTRICT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
UM, THE, TO, TO GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL ANALOGY, THE STREET TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, THE, THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, PRETTY MUCH PERCEPTION WAS, OH, THE TREE IS BREAKING OUR CURB OR ARE MESSING UP OUR SIDEWALK, GET RID THE TREE.
IT WAS CONCRETE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN TREES.
SINCE THE THIS, UH, THIS COMMITTEE WAS FORMED WORKING TOGETHER WITH JUST CITIZEN VOLUNTEERS, THEY'VE IDENTIFIED 13 DIFFERENT WAYS THEY CAN FIX THE SIDEWALK AND KEEP THE TREE PERMEABLE.
UH, THEY'VE ALSO SPENT ATON A LOT OF TIME AGAIN, ALL VOLUNTEERS FINDING A WHOLE LIST OF REASONS WHY YES, MR. AND MR. PROPERTY, YOU DO WANT THAT STREET TREE.
NOT ONLY WILL YOUR AIR CONDITIONING WILL GO DOWN, YOUR CRIME WILL GO DOWN.
IF YOU'RE IN, UH, AN AREA WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF RETAIL, WE ACTUALLY GET HIGHER RETAIL SALES.
TURNS OUT THAT EVERY 67 CENTS THE CITY SPENDS ON A TREE COMES BACK AT RATE OF DOLLAR 0.3, REALLY HARD TO CONVINCE A CITY TO UNDERSTAND.
WAIT MINUTE, YOU'RE SAYING WE MAKE MONEY DOING THIS.
UM, SO I'M SUGGESTING THAT MAYBE ALL MIGHT WANT TO LOOK INTO A COMMITTEE LIKE THAT.
I THINK IT'S TERRIFIC WE'RE LOOKING AT, AT GETTING YOUTH INVOLVED.
BUT AS YOU WHITE HIS HAIR IN THE ROOM, I WOULD ALSO URGE YOU TO LOOK AT RETIREES.
THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO MAY NOT HAVE THE ENERGY OF A YOUNG PERSON, BUT THEY DO HAVE TIME AND EXPERIENCE AND OFTEN KNOWLEDGE.
AND THEY'RE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO STAY INVOLVED, TO STAY VITAL, TO STAY YOUNG.
AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT MIGHT BE, UH, MAYBE A, A TWO-PRONGED APPROACH.
OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE, OF THE AGE SPECTRUM.
AND I'M SORRY I CAN'T REMEMBER IT, BUT THERE IS AN OUTREACH ACTIVITY THROUGH, I BELIEVE IT'S THROUGH, UM, LONG BEACH STATE WHERE THEY OFFER CLASSES FOR SENIOR CITIZENS.
THESE PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY PAYING TO LEARN HOW TO DO STUFF.
THEY'D PROBABLY BE VERY EAGER TO, I THINK IT'S CALLED SUNRISE, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
UM, THEY'D PROBABLY BE A GREAT SOURCE OF POTENTIAL VOLUNTEERS.
AND THE LAST THING I WANTED TO SAY ON THAT, IT USED TO BE, AND MAYBE IT STILL EXISTS, A POLICE DEPARTMENT HAD POLICE AMBASSADORS.
AGAIN, ALL RETIREES, THESE COOL RED BLAZERS, THEY PROBABLY TOOK SOME KIND OF CLASS, BUT IT WAS TERRIFIC.
I'M GETTING OUT EACH AND, AND PUTTING A MORE FRIENDLY FACE ON THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO, TO RESIDENTS.
I THINK THIS COULD BE A PARTICULAR VALUE CONSIDERING, I FORGET WHAT THE THREE INITIALS WERE, BUT IT WAS BASICALLY IMPOVERISHED RAILROADS.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE A REAL HARD TIME GETTING PEOPLE TO VOLUNTEER TO TAKE CARE OF THE STREETS.
BUT IF THEY CAN GET, I, THEY CAN UNDERSTAND IT'S ACTUALLY IN THEIR SELF-INTEREST TO, UM, TO HAVE THEM, BECAUSE THEY ONLY NEED TO WATER A NEW TREAT ABOUT ONCE A MONTH.
YOU GOTTA DO IT FOR A LONG, YOU KNOW, MAYBE A COUPLE OF HOURS AT A TIME.
REALLY STUFF THAT'S NOT A LOT TO ASK IF PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO DO THAT.
SO I'LL THROW OUT ALL THOSE THINGS TO YOU.
MARK WRIGHT IS THE NAME OF THE GUY AT, UH, PUBLIC WORKS, WHO'S YOU
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PROBABLY KNOW, UH, TO DO WITH STREET TREES.WELL, IF IT'S ALLOWED, I REMEMBER PROPOSAL WE HAVE MEETING OF US IS A PROPOSAL.
WE CAN HAVE A MEETING BETWEEN MEETING, RIGHT? BUT I NEED TO HAVE SOME RECOMMENDATION OR AS PEOPLE, AS A PERSON, I DUNNO.
BUT MAYBE WE CAN HELP YOU BECAUSE AS I SAY, THE APP IS AWESOME, BUT IF YOU NEVER GO THIS COMPLETE, IT GONNA, IT'S GONNA BE, I MEAN, MANY YEARS.
SO WE CAN START WHATEVER WE CAN.
I THOUGHT I WANTED TO THING ABOUT THE REASON THE COMMITTEE COULD BE USEFUL.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANY PUBLIC NOTICES, THEY'RE NOT MAKING ANY FINDING DECISIONS, IS ADVISORY, CONSEQUENTLY, ALL GO AWAY.
IN OTHER WORDS, WHO'S, WHO GETS TO CALL PEOPLE? IF, IF WE'RE TAKING, UH, PEANUT GALLERY COMMENT JUST TO SUPPLEMENT ALAN'S, UH, POINT, UM, AND I, IT WAS EMBEDDED IN YOUR SLIDES, BUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, WHICH ARE, YOU KNOW, VARYING LEVEL OF ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
SO I LIVE IN BLUFF HEIGHTS AND I GO TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, BUT IT'S FAIRLY DORMANT.
UM, AND SO I HAVE A LOT BLUFF PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AS WELL, WHICH IS MUCH MORE ACTIVE.
AND WE TAKE OUR GRANDDAUGHTERS TO THE PARK THERE, SO I DON'T FEEL GUILTY.
BUT, UH, SO LAST WEEK THEY HAD A DYNAMIC DUO OF ERIC LOPEZ AND CHRISTOPHER KOTZ COME OUT AND TALK ABOUT A BUNCH OF THINGS, UH, WHICH IS GREAT.
UM, BUT THE POINT IS THOSE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS ARE PROBABLY A GREAT RECRUITING GROUND FOR THESE, UH, TREE AMBASSADORS.
BUT THAT'S A GREAT RECRUITING HOOK REALLY FOR MORE BROADLY, UH, CLIMATE AMBASSADORS THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
AND, YOU KNOW, YOU NORMALLY HEAR ME TALK ABOUT ELECTRIFICATION AND THERE ARE SOME, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK PROGRAMS ABOUT THAT, BUT I THINK THAT'S A LITTLE MORE DISTANT AND, YOU KNOW, WORD OF MOUTH.
BUT I THINK THIS IS A GREAT WAY TO GET CLIMATE AWARENESS THROUGH THE EARTH THERAPY.
CAN YOU STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD? OH, I'M SO SORRY.
UH, PETE MARSH COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO.
AND, UM, ONE OTHER THING, PALM TREES.
UH, THERE WAS A, A GREAT LITTLE KERFUFFLE AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO ABOUT, UH, WHAT TREES SHOULD BE PLANTED WHEN, UH, WHEN A, UH, DEVELOPER WAS ALLOWED TO BUILD SOMETHING.
AND THIS CITY, LIKE MOST OTHER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CITIES, HAS A PREFERENCE FOR PALM TREES.
AND I DON'T, I DIDN'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHERE, SO I JUST GOOGLED AND GOOGLE SAYS, NO, THEY'RE NOT REALLY VERY, UH, UH, DROUGHT TOLERANT, AND THEY CERTAINLY DON'T PROVIDE A LOT OF SHADE.
SO MAYBE, UH, YET THIS CITY'S DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR DEVELOPERS DO SAY, UH, THERE'S EITHER A PREFERENCE OR A MANDATE FOR PALM TREES.
AND I DON'T KNOW THE DETAILS, BUT MAYBE THIS COMMITTEE COMMISSION COULD RECOMMEND, UH, AN UPDATE TO THE CITY'S TREE PREFERENCES.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT THAT'S A POLICY, THAT TOP POLICY, THAT THAT'S POLICY AND THAT MAYBE CAN APPLY.
THEY CAN PUT THE, BUT NOT, NOT NORMAL.
SO THERE, THERE WAS A RECENT CASE ON ANAHEIM WHERE THE DEVELOPER, UH, PUT PALM TREES ON THE STREET.
AND, YOU KNOW, I, I THINK IT, THERE WAS A LITTLE MISCOMMUNICATION BETWEEN PLANNING WHO KNEW BETTER AND PUBLIC WORKS, WHO WAS JUST, YOU KNOW, GOING, GOING WITH IT AND, UM, PLANNING PUT THEIR FOOT DOWN AND THEY ACTUALLY TOOK THE PALM TREES OUT AND REPLACED 'EM WITH CANOPY TREES.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, WITH, EVEN WITHOUT A POLICY, THIS WAS A CASE WHERE CITY STAFF WAS ABLE TO TURN SOMETHING AROUND, BUT CERTAINLY A POLICY WOULD HELP FOR THAT NOT TO EVEN HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE.
ARE YOU SAYING THEY ACTUALLY PHYSICALLY REMOVE THE FUNCTION? YEAH, WE GOTTA DO BETTER.
WHAT ABOUT GAS EMISSION HAVE ANY POLICY LOWER, LOWER THE, SO
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FROM AN ADMISSION STANDPOINT, THE P LIKE THE POLICY, WELL, THE POLICY IS THE CAP, RIGHT? THE CAP SAYS WE HAVE TO DO THE REDUCTIONS OVER THE NEXT RECOMMENDATION, RIGHT? THAT POLICY WELL IN, IN TERMS OF COUNCIL ADOPTING IT, THAT IS, THAT IS OUR TARGET AND EVERYTHING.EVERYTHING IN THERE FROM THE ACTIONS ARE WHAT WE ARE ASKED TO WORK ON OVER THE NEXT, YOU KNOW, SEVEN TO 10 YEARS AND SEVEN YEARS IN PARTICULAR AS WE'RE REDUCING TO THE 1990 LEVELS.
UM, SO THAT, THAT, UH, FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES IS THE POLICY, UH, FOR THOSE PARTICULAR LEVELS OF METRICS.
AND THAT'S WHAT OUR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION REPORT WILL GIVE US EVERY TWO YEARS IN TERMS OF HOW WE'RE DOING ACCORDING TO THAT METRIC.
HOW THEN IT GETS INCORPORATED INTO THE, THE WAY THAT THE CITY OPERATES OR, UM, INTO, UH, WHAT THE CITY THEN WILL REGULATE AGAINST, UH, PRIVATE PROPERTY, PRIVATE VEHICLES, ANY OF THOSE SORTS OF THINGS IS WHERE SOME OF THOSE ADDITIONAL POLICIES COME FROM THAT SUPPORT THE CAP AND SUPPORT THAT NUMBER AND TO SCIENTIFICALLY KIND OF PROVE THE TREES ARE DOING SOMETHING.
OUR INVENTORY DOES HAVE A TREE CANOPY COVER STUDY WHERE IT SUBTRACTS, UM, THE AMOUNT OF TREES WE HAVE AND HOW MUCH CO2 IS DECREASED FROM OUR LOCAL EMISSIONS DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF TREES WE HAVE.
NOW, MY QUESTION ABOUT THAT, WHEN YOU SAY
SO I UNDERSTAND WHY YOU SAY THAT MAYBE YEARS WE DON'T HAVE MORE THAN NOW.
I'VE, AND THE RESEARCH DOING THE, UM, WE FIND OUT THAT THE THREE, THE CITY WAS SCANNING 1500 TREES PER YEAR.
SO THAT ONE WAS REALLY, I MEAN, SANTA MONICA WAS SOUP FOR LESS THREE SCANNING A YEAR.
SO IT IS REALLY, I DON'T KNOW HOW WE CAN, WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT, HOW WE CAN SAY THIS, THAT THEY ARE, I, I DON'T UNDERSTAND.
I KNOW THAT THIS IN IMPACT, BUT FOR SOME REASON, I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE DOING A GOOD JOB HAVING THE CITY SIX SIX OR SETTING UP DEPARTMENTS COMING TOGETHER, TALKING ABOUT TREES AND TALKING ABOUT RESILIENCE AND ALL THOSE THINGS IS AWESOME, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IT STILLS YOU WORKING ON SILOS.
AND IT'S A LOT OF, BECAUSE YOU GOING NEED TO GET, UNDERSTAND EVERYBODY, WHAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT PART, THIS PART.
AND IT'S NOT CAP, IT'S NOT THE MONEY THAT, IT'S THE HELP OF PEOPLE AND SURVIVING AT THIS POINT.
AND, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THE CAP HAS A LOT OF RECOMMENDATION AND IT IS POLICY, BUT WHEN IT CAME TO SOMETHING HAPPENED, THEY CANNOT TELL YOU THAT THEY ARE PREPARATION THAT
AND I KNOW THAT CAP, UM, EVEN, EVEN
SO IT'S, IT IS WHAT I, I HAVE CONFUSION.
OKAY,
LET US TAKE THAT BACK AND WE CAN KIND OF WORK OUT HOW WE MIGHT WANNA APPROACH THAT WITH THE, WITH THE WOMEN.
UM, I THINK COMMISSIONER DYLAN HAD A COMMENT OVER HERE.
UM, YEAH, BACK TO THE, THE WATERING STEWARDS AND THE AMBASSADOR TYPE PROGRAM, I THINK THAT'S A FANTASTIC IDEA.
AND I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO EITHER HAVE THE COMMISSIONERS GET THE PRESENTATION ON THAT WHEN IT'S DEVELOPED OR INVITE US TO THE TRAININGS AS THEY'RE GOING OUT IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND THEN I WOULD ALSO SUGGEST THAT IF THERE'S, IF THE STEWARD IDENTIFIES SOMETHING THAT THEIR POINT OF CONTACT IS YOUR OFFICE AS OPPOSED TO PUBLIC WORKS, UM, IF THERE IS A, A FEEDBACK LOOP IN THAT PROCESS.
YEAH, I MEAN, I, I, UH, JUST TO THE COMMENT ABOUT KIND OF WHERE THINGS LIVE,
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UM, PART OF OUR ROLE IN OUR OFFICE IS TO PILOT A LOT OF THINGS AND THEN EVENTUALLY IT MIGHT LIVE SOMEWHERE ELSE.SO WE CONVENE OR CONVENE NEAR A LOT OF PARTNERS ON A LOT OF DIFFERENT PLANES.
UM, BUT LIKE IT'S VERY LIKELY THAT THAT WILL BE IN OUR OFFICE TO BEGIN WITH AND IT MIGHT END UP LIVING SOMEWHERE ELSE.
SO, UM, ONE OF THE, THE, UM, RECENT EXAMPLES IS, UM, IN THIS CURRENT BUDGET IS OUR GREEN BUSINESS PROGRAM.
UM, SO WE'VE BEEN MANAGING THAT AND, AND STARTED THAT AND PILOTED THAT FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.
UM, BUT NOW WE SORT OF FIGURED OUT IT PROBABLY MAKES SENSE TO BEST ALIGN IT WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WHO HAS A WHOLE HOST OF OTHER SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAMS. AND IT'S ONE OF ONE OF MANY THINGS THEY CAN PITCH AS OPPOSED TO US COMING ON TOP OF WHAT THEY ALREADY DO.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, JASMINE AND, AND OUR FOLKS IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ARE THINKING ABOUT, OKAY, HOW DO WE MAKE THAT A REALLY NICE HANDOFF TO THEM AND HAVE THEM SORT OF PICK UP, UH, WHERE THEY LEFT OFF, UM, WHEN THEY HIRE THEIR STAFF MEMBERS.
SO THAT, THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, AS AN EXAMPLE OF LIKE WHERE WE STARTED, WE KEPT IT FOR A WHILE, AND THEN WE'RE NOW AT A PLACE WHERE WE CAN TRANSITION IT TO BE SOMEBODY ELSE'S, A PART OF SOMEONE ELSE'S CORE SERVICE, UM, WHERE, UH, WHERE IT BELONGS IN THE SENSE THAT THEY ARE ALREADY TOUCHING THOSE CUSTOMERS ALL THE TIME FOR A NUMBER OF PROGRAMS. SO CHAIR, YOU'RE, YOU'RE, YOU CAN CALL ON YOUR, YOUR COMMISSIONERS HERE AND WE, AND WE CAN THEN GO TO THE PUBLIC
IT'S HARD TO SEE WITHOUT THE DIET, RIGHT? BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE THE, PROBABLY THE CORNER SO YOU CAN, THE WHOLE ROOM.
I GOT, I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT TWO PILOT PROGRAMS. I'M SORRY I'M GOING ON A LOT ABOUT TREES, BUT, UM, AND I HAD ANOTHER IDEA WHICH JUST EVAPORATED, BUT IT'LL COME BACK.
UH, AS REGARDS TO PILOT PROGRAMS. UM, I WONDER IF, OH, UM, ARE THE TREES WE'RE PLANTED, ARE THEY ON PRIVATE PROPERTY PARKS, PUBLIC RIGHT OF AWAYS ALL OF THE ABOVE.
WHAT SO PRIMARILY PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY.
SO PARKWAY, PARKWAY, TREES, STREET TREES IS WHAT WE CALL 'EM.
SO, YOU KNOW, IN THE PARKWAY IT'S TECHNICALLY, UH, YOU KNOW, CITY PROPERTY, BUT THE ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNER TYPICALLY TAKES CARE OF THE MAINTENANCE OF THE, AT LEAST THE GRASS, BUT THEY'RE SPECIFICALLY, WELL, THE RULES, NOT THAT PEOPLE NECESSARILY KNOW THE RULES, THAT THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO ANYTHING WITH THE TREE.
THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO WATER IT AND KEEP IT ALIVE, BUT THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TRIM IT OR, YOU KNOW, THEY NEED TO GET A PERMIT FROM, FROM PUBLIC WORKS TO, TO DO ANYTHING TO THE TREE.
UM, COULD IT BE ON PRIVATE PROPERTY? IT, IT COULD, WE'VE NEVER GONE THERE.
BUT IN CITY OF LA THAT'S, UH, ONE OF THE WAYS THAT THEY DO IT THROUGH THEIR, UM, DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER, THEY WILL DELIVER UP TO LIKE FOUR TREES TO YOU TO PLANT IN YOUR YARD.
AND THE WAY THAT THEY DO THAT IS THEIR LITTLE TREES.
UM, I'M, I'M THINKING THAT PERHAPS AS A PILOT PROGRAM.
UH, SO I, ESPECIALLY IN AREAS WHERE YOU REALLY WANT TO PLANT TREES, A MATURE TREE, UM, THE, THE BAT OF THAT HOME I'M ABOUT TO IMPART IS PROBABLY 10, 15 YEARS OLD.
IT USED TO BE THAT IT MATURE TREE IN YOUR FRONT YARD OR ON YOUR PARKWAY ADDED $20,000 TO YOUR PROPERTY MONEY.
IT'S PROBABLY A LOT HIGHER NOW, BUT 20 GRAND, 20 GRAND.
IT MIGHT THEREFORE BEHOOVE, UH, PROPERTY OWNERS AND THE LANDLORDS TO ARRANGE FOR YOU FOLKS TO DO THAT.
AND THEY MIGHT EVEN INCENTIVIZE THEIR TENANTS TO, UH, TAKE CARE OF, OF THE TREE SO THAT THE TREE SURVIVES TO MATURITY.
WE HAVE OF AWFUL LOT OF LAND THAT ISN'T PUBLIC LAND AND SOMEBODY, SO WE'RE GETTING INVOLVED, YOU KNOW, PICK A BLOCK OR A NEIGHBORHOOD OR HOWEVER YOUR PILOT PROGRAM WOULD NEED TO WORK, WHERE YOU, YOU'RE BRINGING IN THE SELF-INTEREST OF PROPERTY OWNERS WHERE THEY REALIZE I'M GOING TO MAKE MONEY OFF THIS.
AND SO THAT CREATES A GREAT INCENTIVE ON THEIR PART TO HELP, EVEN IF IT MEANS THEY DON'T LIVE THERE ANYMORE, BUT THEY HAVE A TENANT FOR THOSE.
WELL TELL YOU WHAT, AFTER TWO YEARS, IF THE TREE IS GREAT, WE'LL GIVE YOU 20 BUCKS A MONTH BACK ON YOUR RENT 500.
UM, THAT, THAT MIGHT, THAT MIGHT HELP.
SO THAT, THAT IS ONE PILOT PROGRAM I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT WANT CONSIDER DOING.
THE OTHER ONE IS, AGAIN, ON TREES.
LONG BEACH IS AN OLD CITY BY A LOT OF STANDARDS.
WE WERE FOUNDED OVER A HUNDRED YEARS AGO NOW ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE LEARNED IS, YOU KNOW, TREES DIED AND, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THE TREES THAT WE PLANTED IN 1932 REALLY WEREN'T SUITABLE FOR WHERE THEY WERE PLANTED.
'CAUSE THESE THINGS KEEP GROWING AND THEY'RE HUGE AND THEY DO A LOT OF DAMAGE.
THE CONSEQUENCE OF THAT, WE HAVE IDENTIFIED A WHOLE BUNCH OF SPECIES THAT ARE OKAY FOR, UH, FOR STREET TREES AND SOME THAT WE DEFINITELY DON'T WANT, EVEN
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IF THEY'RE FREE.BUT I'M THINKING IS, AND IF WE LOOK AT OLDER NEIGHBORHOODS, WHICH TEND TO BE THE NEIGHBORHOODS I SUSPECT THAT ARE IN THE, I'M CALLING RANGE 'CAUSE THEY DON'T REMEMBER THE THREE INITIALS YOU MENTIONED.
I, I THOUGHT I REMEMBERED IT BUT DIDN'T WANNA EMBARRASS MYSELF SO I DID IT ANYWAY.
UM, THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS PROBABLY HAVE A LOT OF TREES THAT ARE GETTING NEAR THE END OF THEIR LIVES.
IT MIGHT THEREFORE, CONSIDERING WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY, WHY DON'T WE LOOK AT THOSE TO SAY, GEEZ, THESE ARE DEAD FIVE, 10 YEARS.
WHY DON'T WE NOW START WORKING WITH THIS NEIGHBORHOOD TO REMOVE SOME OF THESE, SOME OF 'EM THEY ALREADY THESE AND LET'S REPLACE SOME WITH TWO REPLACE.
AND, UH, CONCERNING THE SMALL LITTLE POTS, THAT ACTUALLY IS, IF YOU CAN GET SOMEONE WHO WILL TEND TO THE TREE, IT'S MUCH MORE LIKELY TO SURVIVE.
IT'S MUCH CHEAPER TO BUY A LIVER PLANT AND IN JUST A YEAR IT IS IN BETTER SHAPE THAN A LARGER, MORE EXPENSIVE TREE THAT PEOPLE DON'T TEND TO TAKE CARE OF AS WELL.
IS UH, JUST THE, CAN YOU SAY YOUR NAME? OH YEAH, IT'S IS MARTINEZ AGAIN.
UH, JUST TO PIGGYBACK ON THE, IN CENTRALIZING PROPERTY MOTORS, IS THERE A WAY OR MAYBE, UH, THE LITTLE RATE FOR THE WATER SO THAT UNDER WATER BILL SO THAT, UM, I WOULD BE LIKE, OH YEAH, WE DO THIS JUST AND THAT WAY A LOWER WATER BILL, LIKE I CAN SPEND MORE WATER ON DIFFERENT TREES.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S POSSIBLE.
AND ONE THING THAT WE WERE, THAN HAVE CUT ON THE COOKER, SO THE WATER RIGHT CAN HAVE, THAT CAN BE OBVIOUSLY RIGHT AND THE, AND THE FRONT YARD RAIN GARDEN, UH, IDEA AS WELL.
UM, YOU KNOW, PROGRAM HAS YET TO BE DESIGNED, BUT THERE'S THE OPPORTUNITY, BECAUSE THIS IS A CASE WHERE WE'RE NOT WORKING IN THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, WE'RE ACTUALLY WORKING WITH A PROPERTY OWNER TO DO SOMETHING IN THEIR FRONT YARD.
AND AS FAR AS TREES GO, WE DID DO THAT FOR A TIME WITH A FRUIT TREE PLANTING PROGRAM WHERE WE WOULD PLANT FRUIT TREES IN THE FRONT YARD.
UM, WE HAVE PRESIDENT AND WORKING PEOPLE'S YARDS FROM 10, 12 YEARS AGO WHEN WE DID A GRAY WATER PROJECT IN PEOPLE'S BACKYARDS.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE ALL THESE DIFFERENT OPTIONS OF GRAY WATER, UH, RAINWATER, YOU KNOW, GETTING WATER NOT JUST TO, UM, THE FRONT YARD, BUT GETTING IT TO THE PARKWAY FROM THE ROOF RUNOFF.
UM, AND PARTICULARLY IN A PARKWAY WHERE THERE ARE NO TREES, BECAUSE THE KEY TO THAT APPROACH OF A PARKWAY BIOSWALE IS THAT THE, THE LEVEL OF THE SOIL IN THE PARKWAY NEEDS TO BE LOWER SO IT CAN ACTUALLY HOLD STUFF BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES IT, IT'S A LITTLE BIT RAISED, UM, AND IF THERE'S NOT TREES THERE WITH ROOTS, IT GIVES THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT LOWERING, MAYBE PUT A, A PERFORATED PIPE UNDERNEATH THE SIDEWALK TO GET IT OUT THERE AND SORT OF PRE WATER THROUGH RAINFALL, YOU KNOW, GET LOTS OF MOISTURE IN THE SOIL.
UM, LOTS OF PEOPLE HAVE BROUGHT UP THE IDEA OF, OF LOWERING WATER RATES, BUT THE COST OF WATER FOR A TREE IS ACTUALLY PRETTY NEGLIGIBLE.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE'VE, WELL, WE FOUND THIS ELSEWHERE TO, TO WATER A NEW TREE.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE EVERY COUPLE OF WEEKS FOR A YEAR IS LESS THAN $10 BECAUSE WATER IS SO RELATIVELY CHEAP AND YOU'RE NOT NEEDING TO GIVE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT 10 GALLONS, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE EVERY COUPLE OF WEEKS.
UM, THAT DOESN'T ACTUALLY COST THAT MUCH.
SO IF A WATER STEWARD WAS USING ALL OF THEIR OWN WATER TO WATER ALL KINDS OF TREES, YOU KNOW, THAT COULD ADD UP.
BUT IF THE WATER STEWARD IS GOING THROUGH A NEIGHBORHOOD AND SAYING, KNOCKING ON A DOOR AND SAYING, HEY, CAN I WATER YOUR TREE AND USE YOUR WATER? YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S NOT GONNA COST THAT HOMEOWNER ANYTHING OR, YOU KNOW, RELATIVE VERY SMALL.
RIGHT? UM, ONE OF THE PLACES WHERE IT MIGHT ADD UP IS WE REALIZE THAT THE BEST TREE PLANTING OPPORTUNITY IS HOUSES ON CORNERS.
BECAUSE A TYPICAL HOUSE HAS, COULD FIT TWO TREES IN THE FRONT, BUT IF YOU'RE ON A CORNER, YOU HAVE A SIDE YARD OR YOU KNOW, A SIDE PARKWAY THAT CAN FIT THREE OR FOUR TREES.
AND, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF I'VE EXACTLY TOLD THE TREE CREW THIS.
MAYBE I HAVE THE IDEA OF SPECIFICALLY DOING OUTREACH TO ALL FOUR CORNER HOUSES AND YOU COULD CONCEIVABLY GET, CAN I DO THAT MATH 20
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TREES BY TALKING TO FOUR HOUSES? UM, YOU KNOW, SO WE, WE HAVE LOTS OF IDEAS.UH, WE JUST NEED TO GET THOSE CONVERSATIONS GOING IN, IN THE COMMUNITY AND DO THINGS LIKE THE TREAT COMMITTEE AND JUST IS, KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT NONSTOP, IS ANY WAY THAT, UM, THE DEPARTMENT WATER HAS INCLUDED PATHWAYS, RIGHT? AND THEY ARE SUGGESTING FOR NATIVES, RIGHT? MAYBE THEY CAN
YEAH, THAT'S ANOTHER POSSIBILITY.
AND WE DO DO, YOU KNOW, HAVE A, A, A GREAT BUILDING RELATIONSHIP WITH FOLKS IN, IN, YOU KNOW, THE UTILITY DEPARTMENT'S WATER CONSERVATION GROUP, UM, AND, AND HAVE BEEN, UM, SUPPORTING EACH OTHER'S PROGRAMS. SO THAT IS A DEFINITELY CONVERSATION WE CAN HAVE ABOUT THEIR PARKWAY PROGRAM.
DO YOUR GRANTS DISTRICT I, SORRY, I DIDN'T SEE IT.
I HEARD THAT THE QUESTION EARLIER WAS TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL IDEAS THAT MAYBE ARE ALREADY IN CAP, BUT THAT YOU MIGHT WANNA ACCELERATE.
AND GOING BACK TO THE DISCUSSION OF WASTE.
SO WE KNOW SURF IS QUIZZED AND THAT WAS PART OF THE CAP ACTUALLY.
I KNOW PEOPLE HAVE STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT OUR WASTE ENERGY FACILITY, BUT IT WAS A WAY OF REDUCING OUR CLIMATE EMISSIONS.
AND NOW THAT, UH, OPPORTUNITY HAS GONE, WE'RE WORKING ON A, YOU KNOW, A DIFFERENT FACILITY THAT WILL BE FOCUSED ON ORGANIC WASTE, BUT I'D REALLY LOVE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION AT ONE OF OUR FUTURE MEETINGS TO TALK ABOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT WASTE TIES INTO SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE AND WHAT OUR MISSION CAN BE TO ADVANCE THOSE.
UM, I'M JUST WATCHING PEOPLE WRITE, SO I DIDN'T KNOW.
TURNING INCOME TO THE GRANTS THAT WE'VE BEEN AWARDED FOR PLANTING TREES, WOULD THEY ALLOW A SET ASIDE OF SOME MONEY TO BE PAID AS A REWARD FOR A MATURE FREE, SAY 2, 3, 4, 5 YEARS DOWN THE LINE? MY THOUGHT IS WHAT, WHAT HILDA WAS TALKING ABOUT WITH THE, UH, LONG YARD GARDEN PROGRAM, WATER'S BEEN QUITE SUCCESSFUL, AS WE ALL KNOW.
IN FACT, ACT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GONNA TO RAISE OUR WATER RATES BECAUSE WE'RE NOT SELLING ENOUGH WATER.
UM, BUT TO THE EXTENT, I MEAN, THE, THE REASON, PARTLY THE REASON IT WORKS IS IT'S PRETTY MUCH PAID FOR OR HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED IN RETURN FOR PERFORMANCE.
I WONDER IF SOME OF THE GRANT MONEY THAT WE NOW CONTROL COULD BE UTILIZED TO DO SOMETHING SIMILAR.
AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S JUST TO CREATE AN INCENTIVE TO MAKE SURE THOSE PEOPLE ACTUALLY DO TAKE CARE OF THESE TINY SATELLITES UNTIL THEY'RE ABLE TO SUSTAIN THEMSELVES.
COULD WE DO, AND AGAIN, SO OUR CURRENT GRANT FUNDS DON'T, NONE OF THEM STIPULATE THAT IN PARTICULAR.
SO PROB PROBABLY NOT ELIGIBLE THROUGH THAT.
BUT WHAT, WHAT THEY DO DO MORE, MORE OFTEN NOW IS ALLOW FOR ONGOING MAINTENANCE, RIGHT? AND SO, UM, AS OPPOSED TO JUST PLANTING THE TREE.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ORGANIZING OUR OWN, YOU KNOW, WATER AND CREWS AND, AND THAT AND THAT SORT OF THING.
AND WHICH, YOU KNOW, AS WE PLANT MORE TREES, IT WON'T BE SUSTAINABLE FOR US TO WATER THEM ALL.
SO THERE NEEDS TO BE A HANDOFF AT SOME POINT, RIGHT.
BUT, UM, YEAH, I, I I THINK THAT THAT CAN BE EXPLORED MOVING FORWARD.
WE HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT LOTS OF DIFFERENT INCENTIVE IDEAS, NOT EXACTLY THE THING THAT YOU SAID, BUT SIMPLY AN INCENTIVE TO AGREE TO ALLOW A TREE, YOU KNOW, TO BE PLANTED, RIGHT? YEAH.
CHAIR, JUST A QUICK TIME CHECK.
WE'RE COMING UP UPON SIX O'CLOCK AND SO WE DON'T HAVE TO END RIGHT AT SIX IF THERE'S ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION.
UM, BUT IF THERE ISN'T FROM, UH, THE COMMISSION, WE CAN CAPTURE ANY LAST COMMENTS AND THEN THE PUBLIC AND THEN WE CAN MOVE ON WITH THE LAST COUPLE THINGS.
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LIKE PARTNERSHIP, YOU'RE, YOU'RE ENGAGED IN YOUTH, BUT LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, MY DAUGHTER'S SEVEN YEARS OLD.UM, AND I KNOW IN SCHOOL THEY'RE ACTIVELY TRYING TO HAVE THE KIDS EXPOSED TO LIKE, WHAT IS CLIMATE CHANGE? YOU KNOW, UH, WE ACTUALLY HAD TO GO FIND A GRANT TO GO HAVE SOMEONE COME AND TALK ABOUT.
UM, SO WITH THAT, OBVIOUSLY AS A PARENT, I GO, YOU SAID 2030, YOU KNOW, ARE INTERESTED.
WE'RE, UH, PETE MARSH DISTRICT TWO.
UM, THERE ARE TWO ORGANIZATIONS I KNOW OF AND CONNECTED WITH THAT, UH, YOU DON'T NEED GRANTS FOR FREE SPEAKERS ABOUT CLIMATE, UH, US FREE BUILDING COUNCIL, LOS ANGELES CHAPTER, AND I'M ON THEIR SCHOOL SPEAKERS PROGRAM.
WE HAVE 20 OR 30 VOLUNTEERS ACTIVE IN THAT FOR SCHOOL ALL OVER LA COUNTY IN THE REGION.
AND IN MY CITIZEN CLIMATE LOBBY CHAPTER, A COMMENT INVOLVED GREEN OR BRINGING THAT PROGRAM INTO OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
SO SCHOOLS HAVE THE PROGRAM, BUT SCHOOL MAY NOT HAVE, THEY'VE KIND OF TRYING TO GET TO AS MANY SCHOOLS AS THEY, BUT NONPROFIT, GREAT ORGANIZATION.
THEY DO A LOT OF EDUCATION LIKE FOOD WASTE ACTIVITIES.
IF YOU DON'T SCHOOL, TRY TO GET THEM TO COME INTO THE PROGRAM.
AND FOR THE CITY SIDE, I DUNNO IF THE CITY HAS ANY SUPPORT TO OFFER NONPROFITS LIKE THAT, UM, TO BRING IN THAT PROGRAM TO OUR SCHOOLS.
THIS POINT, WE, I BELIEVE THEY, YOU STILL HAVE SOME OF YOUR PRESENTATIONS? YEAH, WE JUST HAVE, UH, JUST THE TWO FINAL SLIDES IN.
SO WE'LL CALL BECAUSE IT'S ALL ONE ITEM.
SO, SO, WE'LL, WE'LL JUST, UH, GIVE YOU A, A MEETING REMINDER, UM, FOR THE NEXT TIME AND JUST PREVIEW SOME OF OUR, UM, EARTH MONTH ACTIVITIES.
SO I'LL HAND IT TO ANDRE AND WE'LL BE OUT HERE SHORTLY.
SO, UH, OUR NEXT ONE'S GONNA BE ON, UH, SEA LEVEL HORIZON FLOODING IN FEBRUARY, WE'LL MEETING SOON.
AND THEN WE HAVE OUR FIRST MONTH CELEBRATION, AND THEN WE WILL BE KIND OF, UM, KIND OF MOVING ON TO THE DIFFERENT SECTORS AND KIND OF, WE SHOULD BE, WE'VE COVERED ALL 'EM, SO, SO WHEN WE REVISIT THE, THE TOPICS THE NEXT TIME AROUND, UH, WE CAN DO A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT THINGS AND WE'RE STILL KIND OF FIGURING OUT WHAT, HOW TO BEST STRUCTURE THE AGENDA, UH, WHEN WE RESTART WITH DROUGHT.
UH, BUT CERTAINLY WE'RE GONNA WANNA TALK ABOUT, UM, PROGRESS FROM THE LAST TIME.
UH, WE ALL HAD TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT.
AND THEN IF WE HAVE VERY SPECIFIC TOPICS THAT WE WANNA DELVE INTO, UH, SOME OF WHICH YOU ALL PROVIDED TODAY.
UH, SO, YOU KNOW, UH, VICE CHAIR, SKY, IF YOU WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT SURF AND WASTE AND WHATEVER, WE'LL BRING THAT DURING THAT PARTICULAR TOPIC.
SO, UM, WHAT WE WANT ALL OF YOU TO BE AND, AND THE PUBLIC TO THE DEGREE THAT THEY PARTICIPATE IS WELL-ROUNDED IN THESE AREAS.
SO WE'VE GIVEN YOU SORT OF THE BASELINE WHAT CAP SAYS, WHAT THE DEPARTMENTS ARE DOING AND EVERYTHING, AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE, UM, CONTINUE TO REINVIGORATE THOSE TOPICS, UH, YEAR IN AND YEAR IN, YEAR OUT AS WE DO THAT.
SO, UH, NEXT TIME AROUND ON THESE TOPICS, WE WILL REVISIT, WELL KIND OF PROGRESS AND WHERE WE'VE BEEN, UH, BUT IT'LL LOOK A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN SORT OF THE OVERARCHING HISTORY AND STORY ARC THAT WE PRESENTED IN THE FIRST YEAR.
UH, AND AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE WHEN WE HAVE NEW COMMISSIONERS AND KIND OF A CRITICAL MASS OF NEW COMMISSIONERS, WE MIGHT RE-UP SOME OF THOSE TOPICS JUST SO WE HAVE THE SAME SORT OF BASE LEVEL UNDERSTANDING.
UH, BUT FOR NOW WE'LL DO A LITTLE BIT, UH, DIFFERENT THIS TIME AROUND.
WE HAVE OUR EARTH MONTH CALENDAR, WHICH WILL HOPEFULLY GO OUT SOON.
AND THE CITY NEW CHALLENGE, WHICH IS GOING TO BE ON APRIL 20TH OF MARCH 29TH SPARK.
AND SO FOR THE, UM, EARTH MONTH CALENDAR, UH, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT LAURA PUTS TOGETHER, SO THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT.
UM, AND WE DO ASK FOR AS MANY COMMUNITY GROUPS, UM, TO SUBMIT TO US THE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT, THAT ARE HAPPENING.
WE TRY AND BE THE, UM, KIND OF COLLECTOR OF ALL THOSE THINGS.
YOU CAN SEE, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS DOING, WHAT THE COLLEGE IS DOING, WHAT WE AND OUR DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS ARE DOING, WHAT SOME OF OUR LOCAL NONPROFITS ARE DOING.
AND SO THAT EARTH MONTH CALENDAR IS THEN PUBLISHED ON OUR WEBSITE, UM, EVERY YEAR, UH, PRIOR TO THE MONTH OF APRIL.
UM, AND THAT GIVES US A CHANCE TO CELEBRATE KIND OF EARTH MONTH EVERY DAY OR EARTH DAY EVERY DAY FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL.
UH, IN ADDITION TO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT OUR CITY'S GONNA BE RELEASING, AS I MENTIONED FOR OUR, UM, EMISSIONS REPORT, OUR DASHBOARD, AND OUR ANNUAL REPORT.
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THAT EVERY YEAR.THAT'S KIND OF OUR, OUR BIG MONTH.
UH, AND A LOT OF THE DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES THAT STAFF DOES AT WILL SPRINGS PARK, UH, ALSO, UH, IS FEATURED THAT MONTH AS WELL.
SO THEY DO A GREAT JOB AT THOSE.
SO IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO CITY NATURE CHALLENGE, MARK YOUR CALENDARS.
UM, IT'S GONNA BE A GREAT DAY.
SO WITH THAT, THAT CONCLUDES STAFF'S PRESENTATION.
I HAVE ONE FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
UM, THESE CUPS, WHICH, UH, SAY THAT THEY'RE INFINITELY RECYCLABLE, MORE IMPORTANTLY, THEY'RE REUSABLE.
SO PLEASE DO RETURN THEM TO THE SINK AREA SO THAT WE CAN REUSE THEM, UH, THE NEXT TIME.
SO, UH, CLERK WILL HAND IT OVER, BACK OVER TO YOU.
UH, SO WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND MOVE ON TO THE VOTE.
AND THEN BEFORE WE ADJOURN, WE DO NEED TO TAKE NON-AG AGENDA.
UM, SO IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON NON-AD AGENDA, PUBLIC COMMENT, UM, YOU CAN RAISE YOUR HAND NOW AND THEN WE'LL GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED.
SEEING NONE THAT CONCLUDES NON AGENDA, PUBLIC COMMENT.
CHAIR, YOU FREE TO ADJOURN IF YOU'D LIKE TO MEETING ADJOURNED.