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170 interested. The food container issue is a good one to pick up on. A third one she has 171 thought about is maybe inviting someone from the University who could talk about 172 urban forestry and she thought the City has an issue with urban forestry because the 173 City lost everything with the Dutch Elm Disease and now it is the Emerald Ash 174 Borer. It might be nice to think a little further about how the City can constructively 175 plan ahead for things like this. Something that has been constantly thought about is 176 issues around noise. She noticed that yard equipment is getting louder. If the City 177 can start examining these issues and emission standards for the smaller equipment. 178 Along with that, the City is also seeing an increase in the backyard fire pits which 179 have an issue sometimes with particulates which does have health effects and it 180 might be good to take a look at what the current ordinances are around that and 181 whether they need to be updated or re-examined given the popularity of some of 182 those things. 183 184 Chair Ficek indicated he would still like to get back to City wide speed limits. He 185 thought transit could be included as well. 186 187 Mr. Culver indicated there is not a lot of action on transit right now besides the 188 BRT on Rice Street, there has not been a lot to update. 189 190 Chair Ficek indicated his question on transit is just the response to the pandemic. 191 Ridership dropped off and he did not know if it has recovered so how has that 192 changed the vision and how does that impact routes or its continued impact on the 193 City and how have plans changed. 194 195 Member Misra thought the Commission could just ask the City Council what they 196 would want the Commission to work on in the coming year. 197 198 Member Hodder indicated with the pandemic has the City looked at how the 199 progress with the solar campus has been going as far as is the City getting the energy 200 savings anticipated. 201 202 Mr. Culver indicated staff can give an update on that. He noted during the pandemic 203 the City was producing a lot of energy but was not using a lot. 204 205 Member Collins added he would like to discuss cleaning up the ponds and dredging 206 and following up with the clean water with looking at different kinds of solutions 207 that clean up the algae. 208 209 Chair Ficek would like to discuss proposing a Commission name change. He was 210 thinking of something like Infrastructure and Sustainability or Sustainability and 211 Infrastructure Commission. Some of things to look at right now would be the scope 212 as a Commission, there are four items. He reviewed the scope items with the 213 Commission. He wondered if sustainability and infrastructure would still hit the 214 scope items or would the scope of the Commission need to be rewritten. He thought 215 as he was thinking of sustainability, that hits the environmental portion of it and is Page 5 of 7