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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 8, 2019 Page 22 Public Comment Ms. Priscilla Morton, 2593 Western Avenue Ms. Morton stated she is interested in reducing the city's carbon footprint as a priority. She was not clear by looking at this Priority Plan whether the "City" means City property or"city"meaning everything within in the city limits. Mayor Roe thought that was considered at the previous Council discussion and recalled it to be the City Government carbon footprint because that is what the City has the most direct control over. Ms. Morton indicated that does not move the City towards the 2040 Comp Plan which is the entire city. Mayor Roe thought there were some additional items with this Plan that did talk more broadly about that and what the Council had talked about with the PWETC as well. He did not think there was anything in the Plan about the carbon foot- print within the city limits, only for the City property. He recalled very early dis- cussions regarding zoning and other policies, but did not know if the City was at a point where it was prepared to add something to the plan for the entire city. Ms. Morton would like to see a broader range goal of making a plan to get to the 2040 or 2050 goal but would take a lot of effort. Ms. Morton hoped the goal of the City would be instructed to be or encourage to be something that would lead the city to the 2050 goal of eighty percent below 2015. She thought the city as a whole has only reduced its Xcel emissions, not to- tal emissions because there are other emissions that would be measured by one percent per year for the last three years. To get to 2030 goal, which the IPC says should be forty-five percent means the city would have to more than triple its ef- forts plus add the transportation component to make the kind of progress that is being told by a science is required for the city to get to a reasonable outcome, avoiding terrible outcomes. She thought it was a big goal. For a city on its own, it is a much more doable challenge because the City does not have to try to influ- ence other people and private property. She asked that the City goal would be a stretch goal, be resources for the rest of the City, and for the rest of the area, the suburban areas around the cities as to what works and what does not work. She encouraged the Council to do that. She also asked that the measurements put in place are something more visible than B3, which is on the Comp Plan. She noted B3 does not have public access to data, and only gives three stars. She requested the City make the data public and able to track it from now until 2030 to make sure the City is on track to meet the goals that are set.