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Environmental Advisory Board · regular
02-04-26 Environmental Advisory Board Meeting
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- regular
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AI-read · unreviewed27 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personTomorrow is a really great example of one such issue, where we will be talking about House Bill 1001, which is the Home Act and land use issues.
We did add a new economic resilience item to the Climate Change and Community Resilience section
They wanted to add language in there, addressing food security policies.
new language addressing coal ash mitigation, which was recommended, by one of the council members
one policy area with the, you know, wildfire Resilience and wildfire hardening.
What's the city's lobbying budget? Because I'm new, I am not. privy to that at this moment, but I can find out.
Second was cost-benefit list of measures to become a fire-adapted community, and wildfire home hardening implementation hub.
The third was exploring the new authority to modify the tip credit.
given we were just coming out of, a pretty dramatic period with the, the public safety power shutoffs, and so power resiliency
and then, of course, the Boulder Valley Comp Plan. Which you all have seen a number of, presentations on.
the long-term financial strategy. This has been a multi-year process, and then, of course
we think that we should actually be prioritizing policy related to food systems.
Is it in a plan? Is it increased budget for security?
when that feeder goes down, it affects all of North Boulder, as an example.
And so we played a pretty important role during the PSPS.
I believe You had presented to the board once on the whole municipalization process, and and our partnership with Excel
what we do have is the partnership agreement and goals, laid out there that they have to hit those emissions milestones
Really interesting data that is going to be incredibly helpful as we talk about our nature-based solutions
the new regulations on the extended producer responsibility legislation that took effect this last month
The comp plan, I think we have that scheduled to come back next month?
This is being led out of our Nature-Based Solutions group.
Council Touchpoints are an update to our Building Performance Ordinance, and then the SmartRigs program.
lots of coordination with Sundance specifically, coordination with CU, a lot of entities who really want to help
So, we've been meeting with the Sundance Sustainability team. They have a committee.
I am not a big fan of offsets, however, that's what Sundance does right now.
I am not a big fan of offsets, however, that's what Sundance does right now.
how do we calculate that and create that baseline of emissions related to waste, to transportation of staff, equipment