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home. As she is charging on 110 volt in her home garage and does work for a fully <br />electric car if not commuting a lot. She indicated she has a 150-mile range and on <br />a level 2 charger it would take her 7.5 hours to charge from zero to 150. It is still <br />several hours so there is no way she could do that everyday and no one could. This <br />is not something that will cause someone to buy an EV if they are going to have to <br />take their car to be charged for several hours every day. It is good for atraveler. On <br />a fast charger though, if it is the superfast, a person could get that much in twenty <br />minutes but really if they are not, and was already brought up, this is an equity issue <br />for apartment dwellers and condo dwellers, if they cannot get that charging at home, <br />she wondered how much public charging would encourage residents to own EV's. <br />Not just traveling through, not because the charge is getting low and on a long <br />errand but actually owning and EV without having a charging facility at home. She <br />thought from a point of view and never disagreeing with having public charging, <br />but in terms of actually moving the needle on people transitioning from fossil fuels <br />to electric, making that shift requires that ability to charge conveniently, which to <br />her, still remains at home. She wondered what public charging would do to move <br />the needle and would the City need to have ordinances for multi -family dwellings <br />or something like that to ensure that people in apartments, low-income housing, <br />have charging facilities in which they would actually make that transition. <br />Chair Wozniak thought that should be continued discussion at another time because <br />he thought they needed to move on in the agenda. He did believe these questions <br />are important and should be discussed when the City is further along in EV <br />progress. <br />Mr. Culver explained he was curious about what Dominium may have installed or <br />maybe even made EV ready with their new apartment buildings. He indicated he <br />will do some research on this and bring back to the Commission. <br />Microplastics <br />Mr. Culver introduced Ms. Mary Kosuth, RA Student at the University of <br />Minnesota School of Public Health, gave a presentation on Microplastics. <br />Chair Wozniak thought everyone could relate to plastic products in the world. He <br />indicated the Commission has discussed a plastic bag ban before and he thought at <br />some point they may want to relook at that as well as taking some action on <br />recyclability of take-out containers. <br />Member Spencer explained the reason why he wanted Ms. Kosuth to give her <br />presentation was because he knew they cannot fix all of the plastic that is there but <br />one of the things, since talking about sustainability and the Commission being <br />tasked with that, it is going forward, considering how plastic effects the <br />environment. That was the point he wanted to drive home. They cannot make <br />plastic disappear but they can start figuring out better ways to do things with <br />different materials. <br />Page 7 of 9 <br />