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261 Energy Action Plan which will hopefully evolve into a Climate Action Plan at some 262 point. Maybe referencing that the City does have sustainability and resiliency goals 263 within the plans and that this Commission is tasked with implementing or 264 monitoring the implementation of that. 265 266 Chair Ficek indicated he would almost change, if he goes back to what the 267 Commission has now, "serve in an advisory capacity to City Council, City 268 Manager, Director of Public Works", it is almost like after that statement, instead 269 of "on public works, environmental and transportation matters", that is where the 270 Commission could come in with something different that talks about sustainability, 271 resiliency, maintenance of transportation infrastructure and grabbing those terms 272 all in there and whether the Commission needs to define them further from there he 273 did not know but that seemed like an easy place to start and change that. He 274 explained going down the list, the second one read is "to maintain an interest and 275 understanding of the functions and operations of Public Works", he agreed with 276 that but he wondered if that needed to be stated in there or did it need to be changed. 277 It could be opened up to get to some of the other points and working with other 278 Commissions. 279 280 Mr. Culver did not think there was anything that would restrict them from adding a 281 letter to this. He indicated if B was left as is and modify C a little bit but put 282 something in between B and C, a new C statement that talks a little more about 283 sustainability. Something along the lines of education and monitoring progress on 284 City goals towards sustainability. That might a whole other paragraph that 285 addresses sustainability on its own. 286 287 Chair Ficek indicated putting aside a name change he asked if there was general 288 agreement that this would be a good step. Maybe modify a couple and add a new 289 one towards that sustainability. 290 ' 291 Member Misra explained she liked that idea and would like to see a little bit more 292 flushing out of what is meant by sustainability because it is a definition that is quite 293 variable. She thought in its broadest scope if the Commission were to make 294 recommendations to other areas of the City that they have not taken part in how 295 would that be received. She thought to be effective that is what it would take. 296 297 Mr. Culver did not think there is anything the prohibits the Commission from going 298 outside their lane because even if they look at the HRIEC, that Commission talks 299 about engagement and part of that is how should other departments and 300 Commissions and that engage on issues. He indicated the Finance Commission 301 also struggles on what its role is because they review all of the department's budgets 302 and he thought there will be some crossover as sustainability efforts are discussed. 303 He thought part of that is if the Commission is making a recommendation to 304 Community Development and/or the Planning Commission on such things. 305 Page 7 of 8