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255 home. As she is charging on 110 volt in her home garage and does work for a fully 256 electric car if not commuting a lot. She indicated she has a 150-mile range and on 257 a level 2 charger it would take her 7.5 hours to charge from zero to 150. It is still 258 several hours so there is no way she could do that everyday and no one could. This 259 is not something that will cause someone to buy an EV if they are going to have to 260 take their car to be charged for several hours every day. It is good for atraveler. On 261 a fast charger though, if it is the superfast, a person could get that much in twenty 262 minutes but really if they are not, and was already brought up, this is an equity issue 263 for apartment dwellers and condo dwellers, if they cannot get that charging at home, 264 she wondered how much public charging would encourage residents to own EV's. 265 Not just traveling through, not because the charge is getting low and on a long 266 errand but actually owning and EV without having a charging facility at home. She 267 thought from a point of view and never disagreeing with having public charging, 268 but in terms of actually moving the needle on people transitioning from fossil fuels 269 to electric, making that shift requires that ability to charge conveniently, which to 270 her, still remains at home. She wondered what public charging would do to move 271 the needle and would the City need to have ordinances for multi -family dwellings 272 or something like that to ensure that people in apartments, low-income housing, 273 have charging facilities in which they would actually make that transition. 274 275 Chair Wozniak thought that should be continued discussion at another time because 276 he thought they needed to move on in the agenda. He did believe these questions 277 are important and should be discussed when the City is further along in EV 278 progress. 279 280 Mr. Culver explained he was curious about what Dominium may have installed or 281 maybe even made EV ready with their new apartment buildings. He indicated he 282 will do some research on this and bring back to the Commission. 283 284 7. Microplastics 285 Mr. Culver introduced Ms. Mary Kosuth, RA Student at the University of 286 Minnesota School of Public Health, gave a presentation on Microplastics. 287 288 Chair Wozniak thought everyone could relate to plastic products in the world. He 289 indicated the Commission has discussed a plastic bag ban before and he thought at 290 some point they may want to relook at that as well as taking some action on 291 recyclability of take-out containers. 292 293 Member Spencer explained the reason why he wanted Ms. Kosuth to give her 294 presentation was because he knew they cannot fix all of the plastic that is there but 295 one of the things, since talking about sustainability and the Commission being 296 tasked with that, it is going forward, considering how plastic effects the 297 environment. That was the point he wanted to drive home. They cannot make 298 plastic disappear but they can start figuring out better ways to do things with 299 different materials. 300 Page 7 of 9