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215 looking at doing. The Shoreland Ordinance is something the Planning Commission 216 has worked on and recommended to the City Council for approval. 217 218 Member Hodder indicated when he was on the Finance Commission, in the sense 219 of, for example, the Capital Improvement Plan, they looked at things that kept 220 things on a sustainable plain. He thought Chair Ficek's idea of looking at the scope 221 was good and he thought the Finance Commission did a similar exercise. He 222 thought this is something that the PWETC should consider. He thought 223 sustainability had different meanings and for this Commission it is looking at 224 sustainable Public Works systems. He liked the idea of looking at the scope and 225 trying to incorporate that definition of what it is the Commission would like to do. 226 227 Member Misra thought there was a way to look at sustainability rather than the 228 PWETC is the Commission that does sustainability. She thought that is a way to 229 look at it that is really worthwhile to exam but she thought in real effectiveness it 230 needs to be spread across all departments so that planning and finance and all the 231 areas of the City that are affected by sustainability are involved. She thought in the 232 Commission scope they should think about how to connect that to other areas of 233 the City. 234 235 Member Hodder agreed and some of the Finance Commission thinking too was to 236 look at the community visioning and what the community was asking that 237 Commission to do. That all flowed into that discussion as well. He indicated there 238 was overlap there. 239 240 Member Joyce explained sustainability is embedded in a lot of the crosswalks 241 throughout all of the Commissions and everything done in the City. He asked if 242 there was a way to embed sustainability in the Commission's role and 243 responsibilities in the overarching title of environmental. 244 245 Mr. Freihammer thought if the Commission went with one of the definitions Chair 246 Ficek brought up, it could potentially cover that. 247 248 Chair Ficek explained there are City goals for sustainability. He asked if there are 249 official policies along with those that need to be referenced at all. Otherwise, a 250 generic statement within the scope of advising on sustainability and resiliency could 251 be crafted as a statement within the scope. 252 253 Mr. Culver agreed and thought generally speaking for the purposes of City Code, 254 the Commission would not want to necessarily reference any current land or 255 something like that because then that would age it. He noted even the 256 Comprehensive Plan in the resiliency chapter has some goals in there for carbon 257 reduction and such, which are very far reaching, but will very likely be out of date 258 by 2027-2028 when the City adopts the next new Comprehensive Plan. He thought 259 it would work by trying to keep it vague and identifying that the Commission has 260 goals in the Comprehensive Plan and or other Citywide plans such as the current Page 6 of 8