Laserfiche WebLink
things on a sustainable plain. He thought Chair Ficek's idea of looking at the scope <br />was good and he thought the Finance Commission did a similar exercise. He <br />thought this is something that the PWETC should consider. He thought <br />sustainability had different meanings and for this Commission it is looking at <br />sustainable Public Works systems. He liked the idea of looking at the scope and <br />trying to incorporate that definition of what it is the Commission would like to do. <br />Member Misra thought there was a way to look at sustainability rather than the <br />PWETC is the Commission that does sustainability. She thought that is a way to <br />look at it that is really worthwhile to exam but she thought in real effectiveness it <br />needs to be spread across all departments so that planning and finance and all the <br />areas of the City that are affected by sustainability are involved. She thought in the <br />Commission scope they should think about how to connect that to other areas of <br />the City. <br />Member Hodder agreed and some of the Finance Commission thinking too was to <br />look at the community visioning and what the community was asking that <br />Commission to do. That all flowed into that discussion as well. He indicated there <br />was overlap there. <br />Member Joyce explained sustainability is embedded in a lot of the crosswalks <br />throughout all of the Commissions and everything done in the City. He asked if <br />there was a way to embed sustainability in the Commission's role and <br />responsibilities in the overarching title of environmental. <br />Mr. Freihammer thought if the Commission went with one of the definitions Chair <br />Ficek brought up, it could potentially cover that. <br />Chair Ficek explained there are City goals for sustainability. He asked if there are <br />official policies along with those that need to be referenced at all. Otherwise, a <br />generic statement within the scope of advising on sustainability and resiliency could <br />be crafted as a statement within the scope. <br />Mr. Culver agreed and thought generally speaking for the purposes of City Code, <br />the Commission would not want to necessarily reference any current land or <br />something like that because then that would age it. He noted even the <br />Comprehensive Plan in the resiliency chapter has some goals in there for carbon <br />reduction and such, which are very far reaching, but will very likely be out of date <br />by 2027-2028 when the City adopts the next new Comprehensive Plan. He thought <br />it would work by trying to keep it vague and identifying that the Commission has <br />goals in the Comprehensive Plan and or other Citywide plans such as the current <br />Energy Action Plan which will hopefully evolve into a Climate Action Plan at some <br />point. Maybe referencing that the City does have sustainability and resiliency goals <br />within the plans and that this Commission is tasked with implementing or <br />monitoring the implementation of that. <br />Page 6 of 8 <br />