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• The Water Efficiency Rebate Program applications have been updated to reflect the equity rebate up to $600water bill credit for toilet replacement for residents meeting the equity criteria. • Similarly, the private sewer grant still has funds available f or those meeting the equity criteria. Environmental & Sustainability Updates: • Interns Ness Carda (sustainability) and Chloe Johnson (environmental) are onboarded and working on projects! • Green To Go ordinance implementation continues: staff was invited to discuss our Green To Go work at the Falcon Heights environmental commission meeting on Monday, July 14. Approximately 45% of businesses visited to date are either in compliance or actively making changes to be compliant. • Staff is planning a packaging and resource fair for businesses affected by Green To Go on Monday, July28. Vendors attending include BizRecycling, Waste Management, M PCA, and other packaging and resource vendors. The City of Saint Paulwill also be attending and advertisingto their businesses to discuss their Green To Go ordinance work. • Staff hosted an educational bee and pollinator eventwith the Minnesota Bee Squad on Wednesday, July 16. • Roseville is partneringwith Xcel Energy, CEE, and Partners in Energy to host an Energy Breakfast at the upcoming Roseville Business Council meeting on Wednesday, July23. This eventwill provide small businesses with examples and information for how to complete energy efficiency projects to reduce their utility bills. • Staff is currently gathering information from residents interested in participating in a climate justice advisory group to provide insight into the upcoming climate equity action planning process. The interest form link is here: https://forms.gle/VsCim8fKBFru7Z5w7 • Duringthe cart rollout process, we ran out of 96 gallon carts for distribution. Another order of these larger carts was ordered and have been delivered to the City. Currently, Roseville staff are slowly rolling out these carts as time allows. These carts are being delivered to residents that requested them and will also be rolled out to all of our parks and municipal buildings thatwere skipped in our original rollout. • Waste Management (WM) officially started their recycling collection in Roseville on July 1. Staff are workingwith WM to address several issues that include walkup/valet service not being completed, sporadic and missed collections at multi -unit buildings, residential curbside misses, call center not providing accurate information, etc. Staff are hopeful these issues will be resolved in the next couple of weeks. PWET Communications Memo Page 3 Page 5 of 27