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216 the interest in avoiding the depletion of natural resources, maintaining the City's 217 current rates of use. Sustainability is built right into the City's website with a 218 sustainability newsletter so it ties it all together for him. Infrastructure to him is 219 roads, sewers, drainage, utilities and is a base word for all of them and captures all 220 of those things. He explained he did look around for examples in other cities as to 221 what they are calling it. There are examples, particularly for a Sustainability 222 Commission is used a lot. Another question would be if the Commission were to 223 be split in two this would be an easy way to do that. For Transportation or 224 Infrastructure Commission, the other cities generally put transportation in front of 225 it. He wondered if the name were to change to Sustainability and Transportation 226 Infrastructure Commission would that still capture what the Commission scope is 227 and does that provide any clarification or match in with other things going on and 228 clarify things for people about what this Commission does. He thought it does and 229 is why he is suggesting this change. 230 231 Member Collins thought it sounds good. To him environment is more or less ways 232 the City is trying to protect what is happening on the public roads and infrastructure. 233 If the Commission wants to have it be sustainability he would be ok with it. He 234 thought if adding sustainability to the Commission name it might change the scope 235 but he thought it would be a move in the right direction. 236 237 Member Misra wondered if there were areas of infrastructure that were outside the 238 purview of this. 239 240 Mr. Culver explained his only concern is that they did not need to get into the nifty 241 gritty and semantics of it because it is what it is and the description and charge of 242 the Commission within the City Code could be a little more prescriptive than the 243 title as far as what the Commission scope is. He indicated the City does have park 244 infrastructure that is not under the purview of this Commission. The City does have, 245 to a smaller degree, some facility infrastructure that is not necessarily under the 246 purview of this Commission. The Public Works title puts that focus on it and public 247 works is very broad by nature but it does help put a little definition or some 248 boundary or some scope for the Commission right away. He thought the Council 249 may have some ideas on this as well. 250 251 Member Hodder thought it was important that the Commission name reflects the 252 scope of what it does. 253 254 Member Misra thought there is the idea that under sustainability or even 255 environment there are areas of overlap with other Commissions. She was thinking 256 of Parks and Recreation Commission in particular. She wondered before the 257 Commission pursues any formal change it would be worth looking at those 258 questions. She thought this may be a bigger discussion besides the name but is 259 worth pursuing. 260 Page 6 of 7