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