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Emergency in Minnesota. It appears as though this is an effort to do a city by city, <br />State wide resolution declaring a climate change in Minnesota that they want cities <br />to take action on the last week in January. There is an issue of climate change, it is <br />happening and it is real and humans have a lot to do with it and there are things <br />they need to do to try and slow that down or turn it back. The resolution part is <br />requesting the City take action. He reviewed what the resolution detailed. He <br />explained he sent Mr. Culver an email about this and noted the timeline and <br />addressed each of the resolutions. He asked if the Commission was interested in <br />discussion this at this point to look at these. <br />The Commission discussed the email to see if they wanted to make any <br />recommendation to the City Council on the resolution. <br />Mr. Culver explained the Commission could take the intent of the resolution and <br />come up with its own whereas' and build off of what is in the current draft of the <br />resolution, if that would be more comfortable for the Commission to do. That is <br />probably a more reasonable path than trying to work through the resolution at this <br />meeting. The Commission could also say that the Commission strongly <br />recommends that the Council consider a resolution declaring a climate emergency. <br />That also carries some weight without getting into specifics of a particular <br />resolution. <br />Chair Wozniak thought that was a great suggestion. He asked if the Commission <br />supported the City taking efforts to address climate change. <br />The Commission indicated there was support. <br />Chair Wozniak thought the Commission could recommend to the City Council that <br />the Commission supports efforts to address and mitigate climate change and will <br />take this specific item up as a part of the January PWETC meeting. <br />Chair Wozniak made a recommendation that the Commission recommend to the <br />City Council that the Commission would support any efforts to address and mitigate <br />climate change on behalf of the City as a part of a greater effort and will be happy <br />to review this proposal as apart of the January PWETC meeting. He noted Member <br />Cicha brought up about citations for some of the facts and figures sighted in the <br />resolution and to make them a part of the resolution. <br />Member Misra agreed with the gist of it. She indicated when she was looking at the <br />"Therefore be it resolved" section, a lot of what is listed in there the City is already <br />doing and it might be worth, as background for the Council, letting them know that <br />the Commission will take it up at the January meeting and that this group has <br />already put forward a number of actions under that section and that the Commission <br />could look at some new items. <br />Page 2 of 7 <br />