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170 Mr. Culver suggested adding that to a meeting where the Commission would meet 171 first and go through the meeting and then adjourn to tour the facilities. 172 173 6. Discussion of Commission Scope, Duties, Function and Name 174 Chair Ficek indicated the Commission has touched on the topic of a name change 175 several times and the City Council gave the approval to talk about this and think 176 about it in the broader scope. 177 178 Mr. Culver reviewed the Commission's scope that is in City Code. He noted if this 179 were to be changed there would need to be a public hearing and other actions taken 180 to change it. 181 182 Chair Ficek indicated from that, the first thing he wanted to bring forward was the 183 sustainability and how that could be worked in, whether the name were changed or 184 not, it seems like that should be said somewhere in the scope. He explained he was 185 looking at some other cities' scopes and read from a few different cities' scopes. 186 187 Chair Ficek explained another part to this is infrastructure itself or transportation 188 infrastructure if the Commission wanted to characterize it. He thought that could 189 also be in the description. He thought there were a lot of things that could be put 190 in the description of the Commission. As this was originally brought up, it involved 191 the name and leaning towards sustainability and infrastructure and it has broadened 192 out to what the Commission's purpose is and they are related. He thought it was 193 trying to make it more relatable to the public than what it is now and sustainability 194 and infrastructure did those two things for him and he thought those items could be 195 included in changes to the scope and the Commission could then define those words 196 as well. He noted infrastructure would not be related to parks because that has its 197 own Commission and would be a part of the description. 198 199 Member Misra asked staff if they have come across any other department within 200 the City or Commissions that have discussed sustainability. 201 202 Mr. Culver explained Planning would be the one that would have the greatest 203 amount of crossover on that topic. He noted the City's Community Development 204 Director would like to come and give the Commission an update on what the 205 Planning Commission has been talking about as far as Ordinance changes and 206 incentives towards sustainability. He indicated that would happen either in August 207 or September. The Planning Commission is actively talking about some of these 208 items right now. Because of limitations in Statute, as far as Building Code, the City 209 cannot require more stringent or more expensive building code provisions than 210 what the State adopts in its State Building Code. The City cannot require 211 sustainability efforts in building that is not already in the State Building Code. The 212 City can incentivize it, particularly and where the City has been successful or think 213 it has been successful with that is commercial properties that are looking for 214 assistance from the City on something. There are some other things the City is Page 5 of 8