5-7-25 Environmental Advisory Board Meeting

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• School enrollment and city-school coordination0:09:03at this moment

  There is a meeting that's taking place right now between City Council and the Boulder Valley School district.

• Zero waste, recycling and plastics0:10:00at this moment

  we have been working on 0 waste since 1994 here in Boulder

• Zero waste, recycling and plastics0:12:16at this moment

  how do we start shifting our economy away from a linear model which you're probably very familiar with, even with the recycling that happens

• Sundance Film Festival0:34:03at this moment

  we have this opening now with sundance. And we're deeply involved with the organizers around.

• Sundance Film Festival0:35:01at this moment

  There's a lot of key focus areas that my office is working with sundance on.

• Climate action and emissions1:00:00at this moment

  climate and the impacts of a changing climate are not in the future thing.

• Climate action and emissions1:11:15at this moment

  But we do an annual greenhouse gas inventory. That explains our methodology of how we calculate where we get the data

• Climate action and emissions1:12:12at this moment

  This includes all of our emissions, and I think it's a great success story.

• Energy conservation code1:17:21at this moment

  a big focus to start with last year was our energy code and really creating electric only energy code with carve outs

• Manufactured housing and mobile home parks1:23:18at this moment

  dedicated community solar for low income. It's for Ponderosa Mobile Home Park.

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan1:32:14at this moment

  our landscaping code that's going through the process right now, our Boulder Valley Comp plan.

• Urban trees and the forestry corps1:34:11at this moment

  reflective asphalt services. A lot of it is around tree canopy

• Energy conservation code1:35:12at this moment

  But our billing codes and our energy codes are those are the things that the city is good at.

• Power outages, reliability and Xcel rates1:40:06at this moment

  whether it's undergrounding, whether it's free closers, whether it's Psps which is public safety power shutoffs

• Indigenous peoples, tribal relations and Indigenous arts1:42:00at this moment

  I think a lot of our work as a city, an extraordinary amount of work with our indigenous tribes in the region.

• Healthy and resilient buildings1:43:10at this moment

  These are kind of our objectives or out outcomes that we are seeking the clean and resilient electricity supply. High performing healthy buildings.

• Heat, cooling and nature-based climate solutions1:48:04at this moment

  I talked a bit about our nature based solutions work already cool boulder is our keystone program.

• Energy conservation code1:51:01at this moment

  Originally, when we passed the deconstruction plan and ordinance and then during the building code update, excuse me, the energy code update.

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan1:55:00at this moment

  We participate in a lot of other policy items that are going to council. For example, the Comp plan.

• Water supply and drought1:55:00at this moment

  policies related to water as an example, were included in a lot of that discussion in terms of the drought plan.

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures1:56:09at this moment

  There is a citizen's petition that's being circulated right now that has to gather signatures by May 28th to get on the ballot.

• Xcel Energy partnership agreement1:57:11at this moment

  And so the community group is gathering signatures to put an item to exercise or opt out of our franchise agreement.

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures1:58:05at this moment

  So the way that works is you are certainly welcome to support or oppose any ballot measure.

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan2:03:14at this moment

  We have our healthy buildings roadmap. That is our item the Comp plan analysis update on August 14.

• Healthy and resilient buildings2:03:14at this moment

  We have our healthy buildings roadmap. That is our item the Comp plan analysis update on August 14.

• Manufactured housing and mobile home parks2:03:14at this moment

  And then the manufactured home strategy. Are those that we're involved in.

• Water supply and drought2:03:14at this moment

  Obviously, the water supply information. July 31st is a study session that comes right after our waterwise, landscaping, wildfire hardening update.

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