GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE, AND WELCOME TO THE FEBRUARY 2ND, 2026 PARKS, TRAILS AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING. [Parks, Trails & Environment Committee on February 2, 2026.] [00:00:06] I'M CALLING THIS MEETING TO ORDER AT 9:05. AND WE'LL GO TO OUR FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS, WHICH IS TO APPROVE OUR JANUARY 6TH MINUTES. DO I HAVE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. ALL RIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON TO OUR FIRST AND ACTUALLY OUR ONLY BRIEFING TODAY. IT IS THE 2023 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS INVENTORY PRESENTED BY DIRECTOR ANGELA HODGES GOTT AND ANGELA AND YOUR TEAM, IF YOU GUYS WOULD INTRODUCE YOURSELVES AND WE WILL GET STARTED WHEN YOU'RE READY. GOOD MORNING AND THANK YOU, CHAIR STEWART. I'M ANGELA HODGES GOTT, DIRECTOR FOR THE OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, AND I WILL START TO MY LEFT. ALL RIGHT. GOOD MORNING, CHAIR STEWART. MY NAME IS FREDY ORTIZ, I'M WITH THE OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL COORDINATOR THREE. GOOD MORNING, OPPONG HEMENG, OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY SENIOR CLIMATE COORDINATOR. GOOD MORNING, ALEX SILVA ICF. OKAY. WELL WE ARE EXCITED TO HEAR THIS BRIEFING. THANK YOU. HAD A CHANCE TO WE'VE ALL PROBABLY HAD A CHANCE TO LOOK AT IT. IT'S GOT SOME GOOD SOME GOOD NEWS AND SOME CHALLENGES. EXACTLY, EXACTLY. SO I AM HAPPY TO BE HERE THIS MORNING TO PRESENT AN OVERVIEW OF THE 2023 GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY REPORT. NEXT SLIDE. TODAY I WILL START WITH WHY DALLAS CONDUCTS GREENHOUSE GAS OR GHG INVENTORIES AND SUMMARIZE THE PROTOCOLS USED TO CONDUCT THE COMMUNITY WIDE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS INVENTORIES. NEXT, I WILL REVIEW WITH YOU THE PRIMARY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COMMUNITY WIDE SECTION OF THE REPORT AND THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS SECTION OF THE REPORT. THEN I WILL SUMMARIZE THE RESULTS OF BOTH INVENTORIES AND SHOW HOW DALLAS COMPARES TO OTHER CITIES. FINALLY, AS THEY'VE JUST INTRODUCED THEMSELVES, I HAVE OPPONG HEMENG AND FREDDIE ORTIZ FROM MY TEAM WITH ME TODAY. AND AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE PRESENTATION, WE WILL BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE ABOUT THE REPORT. WE ALSO HAVE ALEX DASILVA, A REPRESENTATIVE FROM ICF WHO WAS A CONSULTANT ON THIS PROJECT WITH US TODAY. AND HE WILL ALSO BE ABLE TO HELP ANSWER QUESTIONS. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK SOME OF OUR DIRECTORS AND LEADERS FROM OUR SISTER CITY DEPARTMENTS FOR ATTENDING TODAY AS WELL. NEXT SLIDE. SO WHY DO ORGANIZATIONS CONDUCT GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORIES? ONE REASON IS TO QUANTIFY GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ACROSS AN ORGANIZATION, IN ORDER TO SET A BENCHMARK NUMBER FOR THE PURPOSE OF CREATING STRATEGIES AND POLICIES FOR EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS. ANOTHER REASON IS TO HAVE A PERIODIC INVENTORY TO TRACK PROGRESS TOWARDS CLIMATE GOALS. THE PURPOSE OF THE CITY OF DALLAS 2023 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS INVENTORY IS TO HAVE AN ACCURATE DATA SET TO USE IN MEASURING PROGRESS TOWARD OUR COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE ACTION PLAN, OR CECAP TARGETS OF A 43% REDUCTION OF COMMUNITY WIDE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM 2015 BASELINE LEVELS BY 2030, AND NET ZERO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY 2050. DATA FROM THE REPORT WILL ALSO AID IN DETERMINING WHICH CECAP ACTIONS AND MILESTONES NEED TO BE UPDATED TO MEET THESE OBJECTIVES. NEXT SLIDE. COMPLETING A COMMUNITY WIDE INVENTORY CAN TAKE CLOSE TO TWO YEARS. THE TEAM MUST START WITH A COMPLETE DATA SET FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR BEFORE IT STARTS ITS DATA ANALYSIS AND REPORTING. THAT IS WHY YOU SEE A DELAY BETWEEN A CALENDAR YEAR GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY AND THE PUBLICATION DATE. THE TEAM WORKED TO COLLECT DATA FROM FEDERAL AND STATE DATABASES AND FROM DIFFERENT UTILITIES. THEY TALKED TO THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS TO COLLECT TRANSPORTATION DATA, AND OUR SISTER DEPARTMENTS HERE AT THE CITY PROVIDED CRUCIAL CITY OPERATIONAL DATA NEEDED FOR THE INVENTORY. DATA INTEGRITY, INTEGRITY, IS FUNDAMENTAL TO GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORIES. MANY QUALITY ASSURANCE AND QUALITY CONTROL PROCESSES WERE APPLIED TO ENSURE THE INVENTORY IS ACCURATE, RELIABLE AND ALIGNED WITH BEST PRACTICES. AS WAS DONE FOR THE 2015 AND 2019 EMISSIONS INVENTORIES. [00:05:03] OEQS USED A TOOL FROM ICLEI LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FOR SUSTAINABILITY CALLED CLEARPATH, TO AID IN CALCULATING EMISSIONS DATA AND REPORTING. NEXT SLIDE. OKAY. AND THE CITY HAVE BEEN CONDUCTING EMISSIONS INVENTORIES FOR TWO DECADES. THE FIRST FEW COMMUNITY WIDE GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORIES WERE USED TO VERIFY THAT THE CITY WAS MEETING EMISSIONS REDUCTION GOALS SET BY PREVIOUS MAYORS. NOW WE CONDUCT THEM TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE ON TARGET TO MEET CECAP GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION GOALS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. AS YOU KNOW, CECAP IS ORGANIZED AROUND EIGHT GOALS WITH WITH 97 ACTIONS AIMED AT ACHIEVING THOSE GOALS. 45 OF THESE ACTIONS ARE AIMED AT REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. THE INVENTORY IS THE THIRD COMPREHENSIVE INVENTORY OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. THESE COMPREHENSIVE INVENTORIES ARE TOOLS TO ALLOW US TO DETERMINE THE CITY'S PROGRESS TOWARD MEETING ITS CECAP GOALS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SINCE CECAP INCLUDES BOTH COMMUNITY AND CITY GOVERNMENT ACTIONS TO HELP ACHIEVE NET ZERO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY 2050, THIS REPORT HAS TWO MAJOR COMPONENTS: AN ACCOUNTING OF EMISSIONS ACROSS OUR ENTIRE CITY, CALLED A COMMUNITY WIDE INVENTORY AND ACCOUNTING, AND AN ACCOUNTING OF EMISSIONS FROM MUNICIPAL OPERATIONS REFERRED TO AS THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS OR LGO INVENTORY. THE COMMUNITY WIDE INVENTORY CAPTURES EMISSIONS FROM ALL ACTIVITIES OCCURRING WITHIN THE GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARY OF THE CITY OF DALLAS, WHILE THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT INVENTORY. LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS INVENTORY IS AN ACCOUNTING OF EMISSIONS FROM CITY OWNED FACILITIES AND OPERATIONS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. FOR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS REPORTING TO BE CREDIBLE AND COMPARABLE, EMISSIONS CALCULATIONS NEED TO BE DONE USING STANDARDIZED, INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED PROTOCOLS. OEQS USED THE CURRENT ICLEI GLOBAL PROTOCOL FOR COMMUNITY SCALE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION INVENTORIES TO CALCULATE THE COMMUNITY WIDE EMISSIONS DATA. TO CALCULATE THE EMISSIONS DATA FROM LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS, OEQS USED THE CURRENT ICLEI LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROTOCOL. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. CARBON DIOXIDE OR CO2 GAS IS THE MOST ABUNDANT GREENHOUSE GAS ON THE PLANET. BUT WE KNOW OTHER GASES LIKE METHANE AND AIR CONDITIONING REFRIGERANTS CAN BE MORE EFFECTIVE AT TRAPPING HEAT IN THE ATMOSPHERE. THEREFORE, EACH GREENHOUSE GAS HAS A GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL, OR GWP VALUE, WHICH REPRESENTS HOW MUCH MORE POTENT IT IS AT TRAPPING HEAT COMPARED TO CARBON DIOXIDE. FOR EXAMPLE, METHANE, OR CH4, HAS A GWP OF 28. THIS MEANS ONE MOLECULE OF METHANE IS APPROXIMATELY 28 TIMES MORE POTENT OF A GREENHOUSE GAS THAN ONE MOLECULE OF CARBON DIOXIDE. TO SIMPLIFY THE ACCOUNTING OF THESE VARIED GREENHOUSE GASES, THE GWP VALUE IS USED TO CONVERT THE AMOUNT OF ONE GREENHOUSE GAS TO THE EQUIVALENT OF THE AMOUNT OF CARBON DIOXIDE GAS. THAT IS WHY IN THIS REPORT YOU WILL SEE EMISSIONS TOTALS AS METRIC TONNES OF CARBON DIOXIDE EQUIVALENT OR MT CO2E. AS AN EXAMPLE, USING METHANE'S GWP VALUE, ONE METRIC TONNE OF METHANE EQUALS ROUGHLY 28 METRIC TONNES OF CARBON DIOXIDE AND WOULD BE WRITTEN DOWN AS 28 MT CO2E. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE, THIS GREENHOUSE GAS REPORT AIMS TO ENSURE DIRECT COMPARABILITY WITH THE 2015 AND 2019 INVENTORIES. HOWEVER, DUE TO UPDATED METHODOLOGIES AND DATA AVAILABILITY, THIS INVENTORY INCLUDES A WIDER SCOPE OF EMISSIONS AT A GREATER LEVEL OF PRECISION COMPARED TO PREVIOUS YEARS. TO MAINTAIN COMPARABILITY WITH THE 2023 INVENTORY, SEVERAL EMISSIONS ESTIMATES FOR 2015 AND 2019 WERE RECALCULATED TO APPLY THE BEST AVAILABLE DATA AND METHODOLOGIES. THESE ADJUSTMENTS WERE MADE TO IMPROVE ACCURACY AND COMPARABILITY OVER TIME. ANY CHANGES MADE TO PREVIOUS INVENTORY ESTIMATES ARE NOTED IN THE REPORT. [00:10:06] NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. AND NOW I WILL GO OVER THE RESULTS FROM THE COMMUNITY WIDE INVENTORY. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. A COMMUNITY WIDE EMISSIONS INVENTORY LOOKS AT EMISSIONS FROM A LIST OF CATEGORIES, ALSO CALLED SECTORS, DETERMINED BY THE PROTOCOL OR THE GUIDELINE USED. FOR THE COMMUNITY WIDE INVENTORY THE SECTORS WE LOOKED AT WERE STATIONARY, ENERGY, TRANSPORTATION, WASTE AND WASTEWATER, INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND PRODUCT USE AND AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND OTHER LAND USES. IN 2023, COMMUNITY WIDE EMISSIONS WERE APPROXIMATELY 18.6 MILLION METRIC TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE EQUIVALENT, WITH STATIONARY ENERGY AND TRANSPORTATION CONTINUING TO BE THE SECTORS THAT ARE THE LARGEST SOURCES OF DALLAS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. WHEN COMPARING 2023 COMMUNITY WIDE EMISSIONS TOTALS TO PREVIOUS INVENTORIES, THERE WAS AN 11% REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS COMPARED TO THE 2015 BASELINE AND A 1% INCREASE FROM THE 2019 INVENTORY. THIS INCREASE IS LARGELY ATTRIBUTABLE TO A RECENT CHANGE IN THE AVIATION EMISSIONS ACCOUNTING STANDARD THAT NOW CONSIDERS EMISSIONS FROM FULL FLIGHTS, RATHER THAN ONLY TAKEOFF AND LANDING. FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES, JUST TO SHOW THE IMPACT OF THE NEW AVIATION EMISSIONS ACCOUNTING THAT IT HAS ON THE 2023 COMMUNITY WIDE INVENTORY, IF WE EXCLUDE AVIATION EMISSIONS FROM THE 2023, 2019 AND 2015 INVENTORIES FOR THE SAKE OF COMPARISON, 2023 TOTAL COMMUNITY WIDE EMISSIONS WOULD DECREASE 6% FROM 2019 AND 17% FROM 2015. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. NOW I WILL COVER THE EMISSIONS FROM THE DIFFERENT SECTORS OR CATEGORIES OF THE COMMUNITY WIDE INVENTORY. STARTING WITH THE STATIONARY ENERGY SECTOR, THIS SECTOR COVERS EMISSIONS FROM NATURAL GAS USED TO HEAT OUR HOMES AND BUILDINGS, EMISSIONS FROM GENERATING THE ELECTRICITY THAT WE USE, EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICITY, AND FUGITIVE EMISSIONS RELEASED DURING THE DELIVERY OF NATURAL GAS 2023 STATIONARY ENERGY SECTOR EMISSIONS HAVE DECREASED 15% SINCE 2019 AND 31% SINCE 2015. THE GRAPH ON THE SLIDE SHOWS STATIONARY ENERGY EMISSIONS ALLOCATED TO EACH END USE SECTOR, WITH THE DOTTED ORANGE LINE REPRESENTING THE TOTAL EMISSIONS FOR THE STATIONARY ENERGY SECTOR. THESE REDUCTIONS ARE MAINLY THE RESULT OF AN OF AN INCREASE IN RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. NEXT IS THE TRANSPORTATION SECTOR. EMISSIONS IN THIS SECTOR INCLUDE EMISSIONS FROM ON ROAD VEHICLES SUCH AS CARS, TRUCKS AND BUSSES, PASSENGER AND FREIGHT TRAINS AND AVIATION. TRANSPORTATION SECTOR EMISSIONS FOR 2023 WERE 8.5 MILLION METRIC TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE EQUIVALENT, WHICH EQUATES TO AN INCREASE OF 22% FROM 2019 EMISSIONS. PART OF THIS INCREASE IS DUE TO THE INCREASED NUMBER OF CARS AND TRUCKS ON THE ROAD, MIRRORING OBSERVED NATIONAL TRENDS, AND SOME OF THE INCREASE IS A RESULT OF THE UPDATED METHODOLOGY FOR CALCULATING EMISSIONS FROM AIR TRAVEL TO INCLUDE FULL FLIGHT EMISSION EMISSIONS, RATHER THAN EMISSIONS FROM LANDING AND TAKEOFF AS WE WERE JUST DISCUSSING, I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE THAT WITHIN THE AVIATION SUBSECTOR, THE INVENTORY INCLUDES TRANSPORTATION EMISSIONS FROM DALLAS LOVE FIELD, DALLAS EXECUTIVE AIRPORT AND DALLAS HELIPORT VERTIPORT. DALLAS FORT WORTH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IS SOME DISTANCE OUTSIDE OF THE CITY'S BOUNDARY AND IS EXCLUDED FROM THIS INVENTORY. ADDITIONALLY, THE GRAPH ON THE SLIDE DOES NOT SHOW 2015 RAIL AND AVIATION DATA SEPARATED OUT DUE TO INCOMPLETE DATA AVAILABILITY AT THE TIME OF THE 2015 INVENTORY. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. EMISSIONS CALCULATIONS FOR THE WASTE SECTOR INCLUDE EMISSIONS FROM THE DECOMPOSITION OF SOLID WASTE, THE FLARING OF LANDFILL GAS AND THE PROCESSES USED TO PRODUCE DRINKING WATER AND THE TREATMENT OF WASTEWATER. [00:15:09] THE 2023 INVENTORY SHOWED A 28% DECREASE IN EMISSIONS COMPARED TO THE 2019 INVENTORY, AND A 21% DECREASE FROM THE 2015 INVENTORY. THE 28% DECREASE IN EMISSIONS WAS ATTRIBUTABLE TO A 28% REDUCTION IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF LANDFILLED WASTE SINCE 2019, WHICH EQUATES TO 543,131 TONS OF WASTE. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. THE NEXT EMISSION SECTOR IS COMPOSED OF TWO CATEGORIES, PRODUCT USE AND INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES. INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND PRODUCT USE EMISSIONS INCLUDE NON-ENERGY USES OF FOSSIL FUELS, CHEMICALS AND OTHER SUBSTANCES. PRODUCT USE EMISSIONS COME FROM SOURCES SUCH AS THE USE OF SOLVENTS, THE PROPELLANTS IN AEROSOL CANS USED THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY, AND REFRIGERANT EMISSIONS FROM LEAKING AIR CONDITIONER SYSTEMS IN HOMES, BUSINESSES, AND AUTOMOBILES. INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES, INDUSTRIAL PROCESS EMISSIONS INCLUDE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH NON-ENERGY, FOSSIL FUELS, AND CHEMICALS USED AT INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES. FOR THIS CATEGORY, OEQS RELIED ON DATA FROM EPA'S GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING PROGRAM, WHICH WHICH COLLECTS GREENHOUSE GAS DATA FROM LARGE EMITTING FACILITIES FACILITIES THAT EMIT OVER 25,000 METRIC TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE EQUIVALENT PER YEAR ARE REQUIRED TO REPORT THEIR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS DATA. THE PUBLIC CAN SEE THE REPORTED GREENHOUSE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS DATA USING THE FACILITY LEVEL INFORMATION ON GREENHOUSE GASES TOOL, OR FLIGHT BECAUSE WE LOVE AN ACRONYM. FLOGHT IS AN INTERACTIVE WEBSITE WITH MAPPING FEATURES TO IDENTIFY LARGE EMITTING FACILITIES BY LOCATION, NAME, INDUSTRY TYPE, AND OTHER CRITERIA. FOR 2023, THERE WERE ONLY THREE FACILITIES WITHIN THE GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARY OF THE CITY THAT WERE REQUIRED TO REPORT THEIR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS NORTH CAMPUS, UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AND WESTROCK PAPER MILL. FOR 2023 TOTAL EMISSIONS FROM THIS SECTOR INCREASED 17% FROM 2019 AND 5% FROM 2015, MIRRORING NATIONAL TRENDS, THE INCREASED EMISSIONS ARE ATTRIBUTABLE ATTRIBUTABLE TO PRODUCTS USED IN COOLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL, AND TRANSPORTATION SOURCES THAT HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO AN OVERALL INCREASE IN REFRIGERANT RELATED EMISSIONS. THESE INCREASES ARE ALSO REFLECTIVE OF INCREASED COOLING DEGREE DAYS, OR HOW HOT THE MEAN TEMPERATURE IS, IN ORDER TO QUANTIFY THE ENERGY DEMAND FOR COOLING. TO PUT IT SUCCINCTLY, A HIGHER DEMAND FOR COOLING AND REFRIGERATION LEADS TO MORE REFRIGERANT RELATED EMISSIONS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. THE AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND OTHER LAND USE SECTOR ENCOMPASSES EMISSIONS FROM LIVESTOCK MANURE MANAGEMENT, FERTILIZER APPLICATION AND AGRICULTURAL SOIL MANAGEMENT, AS WELL AS CARBON SEQUESTRATION FROM TERRESTRIAL SINKS. WHILE THE CITY DOES NOT HAVE SIGNIFICANT EMISSIONS IN THIS SECTOR, BIOLOGIC CARBON SEQUESTRATION BY URBAN TREES WAS ESTIMATED AND REPORTED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES. THE CITY'S URBAN FOREST CANOPY WAS ESTIMATED TO SEQUESTER 87,072 METRIC TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE EQUIVALENT, WHICH IS AN INCREASE OF 11% FROM 2015 TOTAL OF 78,093 METRIC TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE EQUIVALENT SEQUESTERED. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. AND NOW I WILL SHARE THE RESULTS OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS INVENTORY. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS INVENTORY TRACKS EMISSIONS FROM OPERATIONS AND ACTIVITIES UNDER CITY OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL, INCLUDING ENERGY USED IN MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS, FUEL CONSUMPTION BY OUR VEHICLE FLEET, OPERATION OF THE WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES, SOLID WASTE SERVICES AND OTHER GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED FUNCTIONS. IN 2023, THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS EMISSIONS WERE APPROXIMATELY 4% OF THE TOTAL COMMUNITY WIDE EMISSIONS. [00:20:08] ACCORDING TO THE 2023 INVENTORY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS EMISSIONS WERE 17% LOWER FROM 2019 EMISSIONS AND 29% LOWER FROM 2015 EMISSIONS. WHILE THE BULK OF THESE REDUCTIONS CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO TO THE STATIONARY ENERGY SECTOR THAT I COVERED EARLIER, REDUCTION IN LANDFILLED WASTE AND IN FUEL USAGE BY THE CITY FLEET WERE ALSO SIGNIFICANT. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. LIKE THE COMMUNITY WIDE INVENTORY, DIFFERENT SECTORS COMPRISE THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS. THE BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES SECTOR COVERS EMISSIONS FROM POWERING AND HEATING CITY OF DALLAS BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES LIKE OUR OUR LIBRARIES, REC CENTERS, FIRE STATIONS, CITY HALL AND THE AND THE CONVENTION CENTER. 2023 EMISSIONS FROM THIS SECTOR TOTALED 75,570 METRIC TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE EQUIVALENT, WHICH IS A 19% DECREASE FROM 2019 AND A 45% DECREASE FROM 2015 EMISSIONS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. IN 2023, WATER AND WASTEWATER FACILITIES PRODUCED 132,154 METRIC TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE EQUIVALENT. NEARLY ALL OF THESE EMISSIONS, 99.9%, RESULTED FROM ENERGY CONSUMPTION. EXCUSE ME. ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION. EMISSIONS IN THIS CATEGORY HAVE DECREASED 30% SINCE 2019 AND 46% SINCE 2015. I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE THAT THE SOUTHSIDE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT HAS A BIOGAS DIGESTER THAT CAPTURES THE BIOGAS THAT IT PRODUCES, AND THE FACILITY USES THAT BIOGAS TO FUEL ON SITE POWER GENERATION, WHICH PRODUCES MINIMAL EMISSIONS AND CONTRIBUTES TO REDUCED ENERGY CONSUMPTION. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. FOR THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS, SOLID WASTE FACILITIES SECTOR, EMISSIONS WERE CALCULATED FROM THE FROM THE COLLECTION, TRANSPORTATION AND LANDFILLING OF WASTE AT MCCOMMAS BLUFF LANDFILL AND FROM LANDFILL GAS FLARING AT BOTH MCCOMMAS BLUFF AND DEEP WOOD LANDFILL. MCCOMMAS BLUFF LANDFILL RECEIVED 1.4 MILLION TONNES OF WASTE IN 2023, WHICH REPRESENTS 99.4% OF THE EMISSIONS FOR THIS SECTOR. THE REMAINING 0.6% OF EMISSIONS ARE ATTRIBUTED TO LANDFILL GAS FLARING AT BOTH FACILITIES. OVERALL EMISSIONS DECREASED 11% SINCE 2019 AND 21% FROM 2015. THE PRIMARY DRIVER FOR THIS REDUCTION WAS FROM LESS WASTE GOING INTO MCCOMMAS BLUFF COMPARED TO PRIOR INVENTORY YEARS. NEXT SLIDE. IN 2023, AIRPORT FACILITIES, WHICH IS SEPARATE FROM THE AIRPORT TRAVEL THAT WE WERE DISCUSSING EARLIER. AIRPORT FACILITIES GENERATED A TOTAL OF 16,805 METRIC TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE EQUIVALENT. COMPARED TO 2019. EMISSIONS DECLINED MORE THAN 17%. THIS WAS DUE TO A NET REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS FROM ENERGY CONSUMPTION, ALTHOUGH THERE WAS A 21% REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS FROM ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION. THERE WAS A SMALL INCREASE IN NATURAL GAS USE FOR THE SAME PERIOD. UNFORTUNATELY, WE DO NOT HAVE A 2015 VALUE TO COMPARE TO 2023, BECAUSE THE 2015 INVENTORY DID NOT DELINEATE A SECTOR FOR AIRPORT FACILITIES. 2015 LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS AIRPORT FACILITIES EMISSIONS WERE ACCOUNTED FOR IN OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS SECTIONS IN THE 2015 REPORT. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. NEXT IS THE STREET LIGHTS AND TRAFFIC SIGNAL SECTOR. EMISSIONS FROM ELECTRICITY USED TO POWER STREET LIGHTS AND TRAFFIC SIGNALS PRODUCED 24,867 METRIC TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE EQUIVALENT IN 2023. BOTH ELECTRICITY, ELECTRICITY USAGE AND THE EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH ELECTRICITY USAGE IN THIS CATEGORY HAVE STEADILY DECLINED SINCE 2015, DOWN 57% FROM 2015 AND 24% FROM 2019. NEXT SLIDE. NOW WE HAVE FLEET AND [00:25:09] EQUIPMENT. IN THIS SECTOR WE LOOKED AT THE EMISSIONS FROM ALMOST 6000 VEHICLES AND PIECES OF EQUIPMENT THE CITY OWNS AND RUNS. IN 2023 EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS RESULTING FROM REDUCTIONS IN TOTAL ON ROAD FUEL CONSUMPTION EQUATED TO A 16% EMISSIONS DECREASE FROM 2019 AND A 19% EMISSIONS DECREASE FROM 2015. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. FOR THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS INVENTORY, WE ALSO LOOKED AT SCOPE THREE EMISSIONS. SCOPE THREE EMISSION SOURCES ARE INDIRECT EMISSIONS INFLUENCED BY CITY OPERATIONS BUT LOCATED OUTSIDE OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS FOOTPRINT. THIS INCLUDES ELECTRICITY EMISSIONS FROM ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION LOSSES, PIPELINE LOSSES FROM PURCHASED NATURAL GAS AND EMISSIONS FROM EMPLOYEE COMMUTES AND BUSINESS TRAVEL. EMPLOYEE COMMUTING PRODUCED 19,359 METRIC TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE EQUIVALENT. THIS ESTIMATE WAS DERIVED FROM CITY EMPLOYEES WHO TRACKED THEIR COMMUTES IN THE TRY PARKING IT APPLICATION. TRY PARKING IT AS PART OF THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS AIR NORTH TEXAS AIR QUALITY OUTREACH PROGRAM. OEQS LEADS THE EFFORT TO ENCOURAGE ALL CITY EMPLOYEES TO PARTICIPATE IN TRACKING THEIR COMMUTES IN TRY PARKING IT. AS MORE EMPLOYEES PARTICIPATE, TRY PARKING IT DATA WILL PROVIDE A MORE COMPLETE SNAPSHOT OF COMMUTER EMISSIONS FOR FUTURE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS INVENTORIES. THIS WAS ALSO THE FIRST YEAR THAT BUSINESS TRAVEL EMISSIONS WERE INCLUDED IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS INVENTORY, IMPROVING THE CITY'S OVERALL EMISSIONS ACCOUNTING. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. ONTO THE SUMMARY. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. AS WE COME TO THE END OF THIS THIS PRESENTATION, I WANT TO RECAP THE RESULTS OF THE 2023 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS INVENTORY REPORT. IN 2023, COMMUNITY COMMUNITY WIDE EMISSIONS WERE APPROXIMATELY 18.6 MILLION METRIC TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE EQUIVALENT. THAT IS A 1% INCREASE IN 2019 TOTALS AND 11% DECREASE FROM 2015 TOTALS. THE MAIN TAKEAWAYS HERE ARE THAT WE SAW THE STRONGEST DECREASE IN EMISSIONS FROM THE STATIONARY ENERGY SECTOR, BUT WE SAW A SLIGHT RISE IN EMISSIONS FROM THE TRANSPORTATION SECTOR. AGAIN, THIS WAS DUE TO A RECENT PRIMARILY DUE TO A RECENT CHANGE IN THE AVIATION SECTOR EMISSIONS ACCOUNTING, WHICH LED TO THE 2023 COMMUNITY WIDE EMISSIONS TOTAL BEING HIGHER THAN THE 2019 TOTAL. AND AGAIN, IF WE EXCLUDE AVIATION EMISSIONS FROM THE TOTALS FOR 2023, 2019 AND 2015, JUST FOR THE SAKE OF COMPARISON, 2023 TOTAL COMMUNITY WIDE EMISSIONS WOULD DECREASE 6% FROM 2019 AND 17% FROM 2015. JUST LOOKING AT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS EMISSIONS, THE TOTAL EMISSIONS WERE 804,033 METRIC TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE EQUIVALENT IN 2023. THIS IS A 17% REDUCTION FROM 2019 AND A 29% REDUCTION FROM 2015. LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS EMISSIONS REPRESENT 4% OF THE COMMUNITY WIDE TOTAL EMISSIONS. 2023 SHOWED A LARGE DECREASE IN EMISSIONS RESULTING FROM ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION. HOWEVER, THERE WAS THERE WERE ALSO NOTABLE EMISSIONS DECREASES FROM THE WASTE AND FLEET CATEGORIES. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. THIS REPORT ALSO LOOKS AT HOW DALLAS COMPARES TO OTHER CITIES THAT REPORT EMISSIONS AS PART OF THE C40 CITIES NETWORK. DATA COMPARISON INDICATES THAT DALLAS EMISSIONS ARE ARE COMPARABLE IN MAGNITUDE TO OTHER LARGE NORTH AMERICAN CITIES AND REFLECT A SIMILAR SECTOR BREAKDOWN WITH STATIONARY ENERGY AND TRANSPORTATION AS THE MAIN GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS CONTRIBUTORS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO WHEN YOU COMPARE DALLAS WITH OTHER CITIES OF A SIMILAR [00:30:02] POPULATION, NEXT SLIDE. A SIMILAR GEOGRAPHIC AREA. NEXT SLIDE. IN A SIMILAR GDP OUR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS NUMBERS ARE HIGHER. NEXT SLIDE. NEXT STEPS OEQS HAS RETAINED A CONSULTANT TO USE THE THREE COMPREHENSIVE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS INVENTORIES AND OTHER AVAILABLE AND APPLICABLE DATA SETS TO ASSESS THE CITY'S PROGRESS TOWARDS ITS CECAP GOALS AND ALSO TO DEVELOP A FIVE YEAR PRIORITY CLIMATE ACTION PLAN TO IDENTIFY AND ADDRESS GAPS WHERE THE CITY IS FALLING BEHIND. OEQS WILL CONTINUE TO ASSIST CITY DEPARTMENTS IN IDENTIFYING AREAS AND PROGRAMS OF INVESTMENT THAT WILL RESULT IN THE GREATEST REDUCTION OF EMISSIONS. FINALLY, THE NEXT GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS INVENTORY IS SLATED FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2026. SO OUR PROCESS WILL BEGIN AGAIN IN JUST A FEW SHORT MONTHS. NEXT SLIDE. AND WITH THAT WE ARE HAPPY TO TAKE YOUR QUESTIONS. THANK YOU, DIRECTOR GOTT. THAT'S A GREAT PRESENTATION. AND WE WILL START WITH QUESTIONS. CHAIR RIDLEY. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. WITH REFERENCE TO SLIDE SIX, OUR GOALS FOR 2030 AND 2050. IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE ON TRACK TO MEET MANY OF THE 2030 INDIVIDUAL TRACKED GOALS, BUT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT 2050. HOW IN THE WORLD DO WE GET TO 100% REDUCTION IF WE'RE STILL RELIANT UPON MILLIONS OF MOTOR VEHICLES? DO YOU ANTICIPATE THAT WE'LL ALL THAT THEY WILL ALL HAVE TO CONVERT TO ELECTRIC POWER IN ORDER TO MEET THIS OBJECTIVE? AND WHAT ABOUT AIRCRAFT? HOW DO WE CONVERT THOSE TO PREVENT GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS? THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE NET ZERO THAT ALSO INCLUDES CARBON CARBON SEQUESTRATION. SO WHILE WE DO NEED TO CONTINUE TO BE AGGRESSIVE IN IN HOW WE TACKLE EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS, AND THERE WILL BE, WITHOUT A DOUBT TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS BETWEEN NOW AND 2050, IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT FOR US TO INVEST IN OUR GREEN SPACES AND OUR TREES, AND POTENTIALLY EXPLORING OTHER OPTIONS FOR CARBON SEQUESTRATION. OKAY I UNDERSTAND THAT RESPONSE. HAVE YOU FACTORED INTO YOUR PLANS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INCREASING CARBON SEQUESTRATION THROUGH PLANTING OF TREES, FOR EXAMPLE? THAT ISN'T CURRENTLY PART OF OUR PLAN. AS PART OF THE NEXT STEPS WE ARE AT THE MOMENT IN DEVELOPMENT OF A FIVE YEAR PRIORITY CLIMATE ACTION PLAN TO ADDRESS ISSUES JUST LIKE THIS, TO IDENTIFY WHERE ALL THOSE GAPS ARE, WHAT ARE GOING TO BE OUR APPROACHES TO NARROWING THOSE GAPS AND CONSIDERING ALL AVAILABLE OPTIONS AS PART OF THAT. WELL, I THINK THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT ONE IN THAT IT IS AN ANSWER TO GREENHOUSE GAS EMITTING SOURCES THAT WE REALIZE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO COMPLETELY ERADICATE AT LOW COST AND LOW TECHNOLOGY. ARE YOU LOOKING AT OTHER HIGHER TECHNOLOGY MEANS OF SEQUESTERING CARBON? SO CARBON SEQUESTRATION IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE SPECIFICALLY LOOKED AT AS OF YET. MY KNOWLEDGE OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION IS VERY TOP LEVEL. I WILL LOOK TO OUR CONSULTANTS TO SEE IF THEY CAN PROVIDE SOME MORE SPECIFIC DETAILS. SURE. YEAH, THERE ARE PLENTY OF DIFFERENT OPTIONS THAT ARE AVAILABLE. IS YOUR MIC ON? OH, YEAH. CAN YOU HEAR ME? ALL RIGHT. YEAH. YES. OKAY. YEAH. I MEAN, THERE ARE PLENTY OF DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIONS. A LOT OF THEM ARE IN EARLY STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT. I WOULDN'T SAY ANY ARE AT THIS STAGE THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO BE RAPIDLY MOBILIZED FOR THE LARGE SEQUESTRATION. LARGELY, YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT FROM YOUR NATURAL AND WORKING LANDS AND FROM THESE, YOU KNOW, PLANTING OF TREES, THINGS LIKE THAT. THERE IS OPTIONS FOR DIRECT AIR CAPTURE. THERE'S THESE LARGE INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES, THERE'S OPTIONS FOR SEQUESTRATION. BUT I WOULD TEMPER EXPECTATIONS ON THAT. I THINK THERE ARE THERE'S A LOT OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT STILL TO GO TO IMPLEMENT THESE TYPES OF [00:35:09] TECHNOLOGIES AND FACTORING IN THE COST OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES, DEVELOPING THAT AND DEPLOYING IT, I THINK IS SOMETHING THAT WILL BE IMPORTANT FOR PLANNING FOR THIS KIND OF NEXT SET OF GOALS TO GET TO A NET ZERO BY 2050. OKAY. AND IF I COULD JUST ADD ONE MORE THING. YOU KNOW, IT WAS TRANSPORTATION AND THE ENERGY SECTOR THAT ARE THE, THE PRIMARY COMPONENTS OF OF THE EMISSIONS. THEY'RE THE HIGHEST CONTRIBUTORS. AND SO WE HAVE IN THE NUMBERS ALREADY SEEN A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE FROM THE GREENING OF THE GRID ESSENTIALLY. AND SO THE MORE THAT WE CONTINUE TO DEVELOP GREEN OPTIONS, BOTH WITHIN THE CITY AND WITHIN THE STATE OF TEXAS TO CONTRIBUTE TO OUR ENERGY PRODUCTION, THAT WILL ALSO HELP TO FURTHER REDUCE EMISSIONS. GREEN TECHNOLOGIES, SOLAR BATTERY STORAGE ALL OF THOSE TECHNOLOGIES ARE ALSO IMPROVING EVERY YEAR. WELL, I WAS VERY INTERESTED IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS INVENTORY BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE EXERCISE THE MOST DIRECT CONTROL OVER. AND I WAS PLEASED TO SEE THAT WE'VE REDUCED FLEET EMISSIONS SIGNIFICANTLY. DO YOU ATTRIBUTE THAT TO OUR REDUCTION IN FLEET MILES OR IN PART TO OUR ADOPTION OF EV VEHICLES? I WOULD SAY EV VEHICLES, LOWER EMISSIONS VEHICLES OVERALL. YES, THAT WOULD BE THE PRIMARY. GOOD. I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT THAT'S HAVING A MEASURABLE IMPACT BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING THAT I'VE LONG ADVOCATED FOR. ALSO ON SLIDE 21, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT WATER AND WASTEWATER FACILITIES PRIMARILY EMITTING AS A RESULT OF ELECTRICITY USE, I UNDERSTOOD THAT THE CITY HAD RENEWABLE ELECTRICAL PROVIDERS. IF THAT'S THE CASE, WHY ARE WE SEEING A LARGE PORTION OF THIS METRIC COMING FROM ELECTRICITY USAGE. SO THE SO THE CITY DOES HAVE A IN IN ITS CONTRACT A PREFERENCE FOR RENEWABLE SOURCES. BUT WITH THE WAY THAT THE GRID IS ORGANIZED IT THAT HELPS FURTHER INVESTMENT IN GREEN SOURCES AND INCLUDING THEM IN THE GRID. BUT WHEN YOUR ELECTRICITY IS COMING INTO A SPECIFIC FACILITY, YOU CAN'T SAY THAT IT IS 100% DEPENDENT ON RENEWABLE SOURCES. AND SO THERE ARE STILL EMISSIONS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THAT. I WILL ALSO. DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO ADD, FREDDIE? YES. AS PART OF THE ACCOUNTING PROCESS FOR DOING THE GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE GRID. RIGHT. JUST LIKE ANGELA SAID, WE CAN'T DECIDE WHICH ELECTRON COMES TO OUR TO OUR FACILITY. SO WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE THE GENERATION MIX OF OUR GRID AND USE THAT AS OUR ACCOUNTING. WELL UNFORTUNATELY WE CAN'T. SORRY. SO WHAT'S THE POINT OF CONTRACTING TO RECEIVE RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES? I MEAN, HOW DOES THAT FACTOR INTO YOUR METRICS HERE? IT SOUNDS LIKE IT DOESN'T. SO I WOULD SAY IT FACTORS IN BECAUSE IT DOES ENCOURAGE INVESTMENT IN IN GREEN AND GREEN SOURCES FOR THE GRID TO SHOW THAT THERE IS DEMAND FOR IT. AND AND THAT INCREASES OPTIONS DOWN THE LINE THAT THOSE TECHNOLOGIES WILL CONTINUE TO BE INVESTED IN AND DEVELOPED. WELL, HOW DO YOU EQUATE THE ELECTRICITY USAGE FOR WATER AND WASTEWATER FACILITIES INTO THE 132,000 MT CO2E IF WE'RE USING ELECTRICITY FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES. IN OTHER WORDS, WHY DO YOU SAY THAT'S GENERATING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IF WE'RE BUYING EXCLUSIVELY RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY? OH, SO ACTUALLY WE ARE USING WE'RE BUYING. IT'S KIND OF A MAYBE A MISNOMER. WE'RE ACTUALLY BUYING RENEWABLE ENERGY CREDITS FOR OUR ELECTRICITY INSTEAD OF. HOW DOES THAT WORK? SO HOW THAT WORKS IS THAT JUST LIKE EVERYBODY CAN DO AT THEIR HOME WHEN THEY'RE PICKING ELECTRICITY, IF THEY USE 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY WE'RE ACTUALLY USING CREDITS. WE'RE ACTUALLY PURCHASING CREDITS ON ELECTRICITY, WE BUY THAT WE USE TO OFFSET THE GENERATION MIX. AND MAYBE ALEX CAN PROBABLY HAS A BETTER EXPLANATION. [00:40:05] YEAH, I'D LIKE TO HAVE THE MORE EXPLANATION OF THAT. YEAH, OF COURSE I CAN GET INTO IT A LITTLE BIT MORE. ESSENTIALLY, WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WHEN YOU HAVE A RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECT, ONE OF THE SOURCES OF REVENUE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE HAVING IS SELLING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THE RENEWABLE ENERGY CREDIT. SO WHEN THE CITY KIND OF PURCHASES RENEWABLE ENERGY CREDITS, THEY WILL GET CREDITED FOR SUPPORTING THE RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECT. EVEN IF THE ACTUAL ELECTRICITY IS NOT DIRECTLY COMING, IT'S NOT LIKE DIRECTLY TIED INTO A SOLAR FARM OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. THE REASON THAT WE CAN'T SHOW THAT IN THE INVENTORY IS BECAUSE THE BENEFIT OF THE RENEWABLE ENERGY CREDIT IS THE GREENING OF THE GRID. SO WE CAN'T DOUBLE ACCOUNT FOR THE GRID BECOMING MORE SUSTAINABLE BECAUSE THERE'S MORE RENEWABLE ONLINE AND THE PURCHASE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY CREDITS. SO WE NEED TO ACCOUNT FOR WHAT DOES THE GRID LOOK AT THIS CURRENT TIME AND WE CAN INFORMATIONALLY SAY THAT WE ARE PURCHASING RENEWABLE ENERGY CREDITS. HOWEVER, IF WE ALSO SAID THAT IT WAS ACCOUNTING FOR ZERO EMISSIONS FOR THE USE OF ELECTRICITY AT THESE WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES, THAT WOULD BE DOUBLE ACCOUNTING. SO THE ACTUAL EMISSIONS ACCOUNTING WOULD BE OFF TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ACCURATELY ACCOUNTING FOR WHAT ELECTRICITY IS BEING USED VERSUS HOW WE'RE SUPPORTING RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS FROM BEING DEVELOPED AND INCREASING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE GRID IN GENERAL. WELL, I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE SEEN AT LEAST A FOOTNOTE EXPLAINING THAT BECAUSE WE SPEND A LOT OF MONEY ON ELECTRICITY IN THIS CITY AND I SUSPECT WE PAY A PREMIUM FOR A RENEWABLE, WHAT I THOUGHT WAS A RENEWABLE SOURCE OF THAT ELECTRICITY, AND IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE SOME RECOGNITION OF THE VALUE OF THAT ADDITIONAL EXPENDITURE IN TERMS OF REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. SURE. I APOLOGIZE IT WASN'T IN THE PRESENTATION. IT IS NOTED IN THE REPORT. OKAY. THANK YOU. CHAIR. COUNCIL MEMBER BLAIR. THANK YOU CHAIR. NOW THAT CHAIR RIDLEY WOKE UP MY MIND ON PAGE THREE, I, IN MY DISTRICT, I HAVE ALL OF. WELL, I HAVE A GREAT PORTION OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLE EMISSIONS BECAUSE THEY ALL TRAVEL DOWN I-20 AND I-20 GOES THROUGH MY WHOLE ENTIRE DISTRICT, AS WELL AS ALL THE OTHER HIGHWAYS THAT TAKE THAT TRANSPORT PRODUCTS. SO HOW ARE YOUR HOW IS THIS HOW DO YOU PROPOSE THAT WE WE BECOME IMPACTFUL WITH THAT INDUSTRY WHEN THAT INDUSTRY REALLY COMES THROUGH OUR WHOLE OUR CITY AND AND THEY'RE THE BIG ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROVIDERS OF EMISSIONS WITHIN DALLAS? RIGHT. SO I MEAN THAT THAT IS A HUGE CHALLENGE. BECAUSE THERE ISN'T A LOT THAT THE CITY CAN DO TO DIRECTLY CURTAIL EMISSIONS FROM THOSE TYPES OF VEHICLES. IT'S IT IS MORE CONTINUING TO PUSH THROUGH POLICY INITIATIVES IN THE LEGISLATIVE WORK THAT THE THAT THE CITY DOES TO ENCOURAGE IMPLEMENTATION OF LOWER EMISSION STANDARDS FOR COMMERCIAL VEHICLES. AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THE CARBON SEQUESTRATION SINKS, BUT ALSO CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR BUFFERS WHERE WE CAN ALONG MAJOR HIGHWAYS LIKE THAT. SO WHETHER IT'S TREES, TREE CANOPY ALONG ALONG THOSE HIGHWAYS OR GREEN SPACE CREATING A BUFFER IN BETWEEN THE HIGHWAY EMISSIONS AND THE RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES LOCATED ALONG. WELL, THE ONLY THING I'VE SEEN AS A BUFFER IS THESE GREAT BIG BRICK WALLS. AND BECAUSE WE ARE HISTORICALLY ALWAYS IN A STATE OF DROUGHT, I'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO SEE THE TYPE OF BUFFERING THAT YOU ARE SUGGESTING. SO ARE YOU SUGGESTING THAT THERE'S POLICY CHANGES THAT NEED TO GO TO TXDOT? IN ORDER TO PROVIDE THESE BUFFERS AND THESE, THESE POSSIBILITIES TO REDUCE THE EMISSIONS? I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING TO LOOK AT. I THINK THAT TXDOT IN GENERAL HAS GOTTEN BETTER ABOUT USING NATIVE PLANTS. AND OBVIOUSLY IT'S GOING TO BE NATIVE PLANTS OR ADAPTIVE PLANTS THAT ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO HANDLE THAT KIND OF IMPACT, LIKE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WITH THE DROUGHTS. WELL, OKAY. [00:45:03] SO THEN LET ME CHANGE TO OUR CANOPY, THE SOUTHERN SECTOR AND IN SPECIFIC AREAS WHEN YOU LOOK ON PAGE 17. 17 SHOWS WHERE WE HAVE OUR OUR CANOPY, OUR NATURAL CANOPY. AS WE ARE DOING DEVELOPMENT, I SEE THAT WE DO MORE CLEARCUTTING, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT WE NEED NEW TYPES OF DEVELOPMENT. AND IN THE AREAS THAT ARE MOSTLY GREEN, WE HAVE TREES THAT ARE, SOME OF THESE TREES ARE 100 YEARS OLD, HUNDREDS OF YEARS OLD. THE PLANT, THE POLICIES THAT I KNOW IN IN, THAT WE SEE COME THROUGH IS TREES OF VERY LITTLE VALUE WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO PROTECTION OF EMISSIONS. WHAT, ARE YOU SUGGESTING THAT WE CHANGE THE POLICY IN THE WAY WE DO DEVELOPMENT, THAT WE HAVE MORE MATURE TREES THAT ARE PLANTED AND THE LESS AND LESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR CLEAR, CLEAR CUTTING? SAY THAT FIVE TIMES IF YOU WANT [LAUGHS]. I THINK THAT'S ENTIRELY POSSIBLE. I KNOW THAT THERE ARE CONVERSATIONS GOING ON RIGHT NOW IN TERMS OF POTENTIAL CHANGES TO OUR YOU KNOW, POLICIES REGARDING DEVELOPMENT AND UPDATING THOSE POLICIES. AND SO YES, IT IS, IT IS SOMETHING THAT HAS COME UP, BUT I WOULD SAY IT'S STILL VERY EARLY STAGES, BUT THAT'S DEFINITELY AN OPTION. SO RIGHT NOW THEY'RE DOING A FULL REVIEW OF THEIR, OF OUR ORDINANCE. WOULD NOT IT BE ADVANTAGEOUS AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME TO INSERT THAT TYPE OF CONVERSATION WHILE WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY AT THE GROUND FLOOR, AS OPPOSED TO TRYING TO GET A POLICY CHANGE ONCE IT'S GONE INTO EFFECT? I YES, I AGREE, AND DIRECTOR LIU AND I HAVE HAD SOME INITIAL CONVERSATIONS IN THAT RESPECT AND EXPECT TO CONTINUE TO HAVE MORE BETWEEN MY STAFF AND OUR STAFF. CHAIR, IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A A BRIEFING WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT? BECAUSE WE ARE DOING A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT IN AREAS THAT HAVE NATIVE TREES AND NATURAL TREES THAT HAVE NEVER BEEN TOUCHED TO COME BEFORE US AND TALK ABOUT HOW TO PROTECT THAT. ABSOLUTELY. AND I CAN ASSURE YOU OR GIVE YOU AN INSIGHT INTO HOW THESE CONVERSATIONS ARE DEVELOPING. WE HAD A TEAMS MEETING. COUNCIL MEMBER CADENA AND I HAD A TEAMS MEETING JUST THE OTHER DAY WITH PLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN, AS WELL AS OEQS AND PARK AND REC, AND THE CONVERSATIONS WERE, HOW DO WE PROTECT OUR TREES OR PLANT THESE TREE BUFFERS THAT WILL PROTECT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND ALSO OBVIOUSLY HELP US WITH OUR EMISSION SEQUESTRATION? SO IT'S A THOSE CONVERSATIONS HAVE STARTED, AND I THINK WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE THEM TO CONTINUE AND PERHAPS ADD ON MORE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WITH RESPECT TO AIR QUALITY, THIS WAS REALLY MORE QUALITY OF LIFE. AND SPECIFICALLY IN DISTRICT SIX WHERE THERE'S SOME INDUSTRIAL USES, SOME PARK USES, AND WE'VE HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS AROUND HOW DO WE MAKE ALL OF THAT WORK. AND NEEDING TREES IS, IS ONE OF THE SOLUTIONS. SO YES. I KNOW THAT I HAVE ADVOCATED IN MY PAST LIFE TO HAVE, BECAUSE I DO HAVE THE INDUSTRIAL PARKING AND I DO HAVE THE THE THOSE THAT SIT IN IDLE, THOSE THOSE BIG TRUCKS THAT THOSE 18 WHEELERS THAT SIT IN IDLE. AND I DO SEE THE PROLIFERATION OF THOSE TYPE OF VEHICLES IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS. SO I DO LIKE THE FACT THAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT IT. I JUST THINK THAT INSTEAD OF THINKING WE NEED TO DO. YES. AND I THINK, WELL, I KNOW WHAT WAS DISCUSSED IN THIS TEAMS MEETING IS THAT THERE WILL BE A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW ZONING CODE. AND SO AS THEY ARE LOOKING AT THESE, THESE NEW CODE, THE NEW CODE, THEY WILL FACTOR IN THESE ISSUES. AND I, I'M JUST TALKING VERY HIGH LEVEL BECAUSE I'M NOT INVOLVED IN THOSE DISCUSSIONS. THAT'S REALLY, I THINK BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENTS FOR A BIT. AND LET'S SEE WHAT THEY WORK ON POLICY WISE. BUT I THINK WE CAN EMPHASIZE FROM THIS COMMITTEE AND THIS MEETING TODAY THAT WE WANT THOSE CONVERSATIONS TO CONTINUE. WE WANT THAT. AND WITH NOT JUST WITH RESPECT TO INDUSTRIAL USES, BUT ALSO WITH RESPECT TO OUR HIGHWAY EMISSIONS AND HOW WE CAN CAN WORK [00:50:01] ON THAT AS WELL. WELL, WHEN YOU HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS, I HAVE TREES THAT ARE 100 YEARS OLD, AND I'VE SEEN DEVELOPERS JUST COME IN AND JUST SNATCH THEM OUT. BUT WHEN YOU HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS, CAN YOU IMPRESS UPON THEM THAT IN OUR LIFETIME, WHO'S THE YOUNGEST PERSON HERE? EVEN IN THEIR LIFETIME, WE WILL NEVER SEE THE REPLACEMENT OF THOSE TREES. SO THE ABILITY TO PROTECT THEM FOR THEIR VALUE IS GREATLY IMPORTANT. THEN THE NEXT, THE LAST THING I WANT TO TO TALK ABOUT OR ASK ABOUT IS MCCOMAS BLUFF. IT TOO IS IN MY DISTRICT. SO IS WASTEWATER. IT TOO IS IN MY DISTRICT. WHEN MCCOMAS BLUFF IS, WELL, IT'S GOING TO BE YEARS IN 15, IN 2050, 2075. WHAT WILL WE LOOK LIKE? DO WE KNOW DO WE KNOW HOW MCCOMAS BLUFF IS GOING TO IMPACT THAT AREA? IS THAT AREA JUST GOING TO BE A WASTELAND? THAT IS NOT A QUESTION THAT I KNOW THE ANSWER TO. I WOULD NEED THE DIRECTOR CLIFF GILLESPIE, TO WEIGH IN ON THAT. I HAVE NOT EXPLORED THE, THE LONG RANGE. THERE HE IS. THE LONG RANGE PLANS FOR THE LANDFILL. COUNCIL MEMBER, CLIFF GILLESPIE, DIRECTOR OF SANITATION. SO THE CURRENT PROJECTIONS FOR THE LIFE OF MCCOMAS ARE ANOTHER 30 YEARS. AT THE POINT THAT MCCOMAS DOES CLOSE, IT WILL ENTER INTO A PERIOD OF POST-CLOSURE CARE FOR AS LONG AS THE SITE IS GENERATING LANDFILL GAS. SO AT THE POINT THE LANDFILL CLOSES, A FINAL, A FINAL COVER EARTHEN COVER LAYERS OF SOIL WILL BE PLACED ON TOP. THAT WILL LIKELY BE YOU KNOW, GRASS OR, YOU KNOW, SOME OTHER TYPE OF VEGETATIVE COVER PLACED ON TOP. WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THAT PERIOD? I COULDN'T SAY, BUT I HAVE SEEN OTHER EXAMPLES OF THOSE LOCATIONS TURNING INTO PARKS OR OTHER OTHER TYPES OF PUBLIC USES. WELL, I KNOW THAT I HAVE ANOTHER CAPPED LANDFILL IN MY DISTRICT, AND I KNOW YOU CAN'T PUT ANY TREES ON IT. YOU CAN'T PUT ANY BUSHES ON IT. YOU CAN PUT JUST LOW. YOU CAN JUST PUT SMALL ROOTED TYPE OF VEGETATION. AND I KNOW BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THE GAS WILL SHIFT AND SO WILL THE, I DO MY HOMEWORK. AND SO WE CARE FOR DEEPWOOD LANDFILL WHICH IS STILL IN POST-CLOSURE CARE. IT'S BEEN 20 YEARS, APPROXIMATELY. YOU KNOW, THE THERE WILL BE LIGHT AT THE END OF THAT TUNNEL AT WHICH POINT YOU KNOW, OTHER TYPES OF VEGETATION COULD BE PLACED ON THAT ON THAT SITE. I HAVE ONE THAT'S IN THE IN, [INAUDIBLE] 175. IT'S A LANDFILL. IT'S A WELL, IT TOO IS IN IT'S IT'S STILL EMITTING SOME GAS. THE STRAWS ARE STILL THERE. SO I DO UNDERSTAND, BUT I WOULD LIKE FOR US TO CONSIDER HOW WE HOW WE CARE FOR THIS. ESPECIALLY SINCE I HAVE ONE THAT'S CAPPED IN, IN, IN THE NEAR FUTURE, IT'S GOING TO POSSIBLY BE ABLE TO BE USED AS A PARK. BUT A PARK WITH NO TREES. SO I WOULD LIKE FOR US TO, TO CONSIDER THAT AS WELL, AS WELL AS THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT THAT WE, IT'S BEAUTIFUL WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT, BUT IT HAS NO TREES THAT AGAIN WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO CARE FOR IT. SO IT HAS NO TREES. AND WE ALSO MAKE SURE THAT THE EMISSIONS OF, OF ODOR ARE AT A MINIMUM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. IF I COULD BRIEFLY ADD, COUNCIL MEMBER RIDLEY, THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION ABOUT THE RENEWABLE ENERGY CREDITS IS ON PAGE 42 OF THE REPORT. THANK YOU. CHAIR WEST. THANK YOU CHAIR. APPRECIATE THE BRIEFING TODAY. JUST GET MY NOTES OUT HERE. OKAY. DIRECTOR, YOU MENTIONED AND I THINK SLIDE 14 ALSO REFERENCED THAT THE HIGHEST PRODUCER PRODUCER OF GREENHOUSE GAS IS IS THE TRANSPORTATION SECTOR. RIGHT. CORRECT. [00:55:02] TRANSPORTATION AND ELECTRICITY ARE THE TWO TOP. WHICH IS CLASSIFIED. THE ELECTRICITY IS CLASSIFIED AS STATIONARY ENERGY. RIGHT. BUT IT LOOKS LIKE IF YOU COMPARE SLIDE 13 AND 14, THE STATIONARY ENERGY, THE HOME USE BUSINESS USE WHAT HAVE YOU IS ACTUALLY WE'RE MAKING STRIDES THERE IN REDUCING THE COMMUNITY IS MAKING STRIDES IN REDUCING OVERALL USAGE VERSUS THE TRANSPORTATION SECTOR SEEMS TO BE THE BIGGEST GROWTH OF GREENHOUSE GASES. WOULD THAT BE ACCURATE? YES. THAT'S ACCURATE. OKAY. WHAT IS YOUR DEPARTMENT'S ROLE WHEN IN THE ALONGSIDE THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AND THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, WHEN THEY ARE REVISING THEIR PROCEDURES FOR HOW WE BUILD ROADS AND THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND HOW WE PROCESS DEVELOPMENT? SO AS WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE CITY IN THE FUTURE, YOU KNOW, THE ONE THING WE CAN CONTROL AT THE CITY IS APPROVING PERMITS AND TELLING PEOPLE HOW TO BUILD ROADS AND SIDEWALKS. WHAT'S YOUR DEPARTMENT'S ROLE IN ADVISING THEM? SO OEQS PRIMARY ROLE IS THROUGH OUR LEAVE PROGRAM, WHERE WE HAVE ONGOING CONVERSATIONS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF ALL DEPARTMENTS THAT PARTICIPATE IN CECAP. AND AND WE EXPLORE ISSUES LIKE THIS AS PART OF THAT GROUP. I WOULD SAY IN IN LONG TERM, SUCH AS NOW WHEN WHEN THERE ARE REVISIONS BEING DISCUSSED AND THINGS OF THAT SORT. AT, AT THE DIRECTOR LEVEL AND AND OTHER LEADERSHIP LEVELS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENTS, THERE ARE ALSO CONVERSATIONS MORE SPECIFICALLY AROUND THOSE CRITERIA, BUT ON AN ONGOING BASIS WE HAVE CONVERSATIONS ROUTINELY WITH ALL OF THE DEPARTMENTS THAT PARTICIPATE IN CECAP AND TALKING ABOUT AREAS OF POTENTIAL INVESTMENT FOR EMISSIONS REDUCTION. WHAT TYPES OF MILESTONES THAT THE DEPARTMENTS THINK THAT THEY CAN IMPLEMENT AND ARE IMPORTANT TO IMPLEMENT AND THINGS OF THAT SORT. WAS YOUR DEPARTMENT INVOLVED IN ANY OF THE RENOVATION OR THE RENOVATE THE THE REDO OF THE STREET PAVEMENT DESIGN MANUAL. HAVE YOU LOOKED AT THAT? I WOULD HAVE TO ASK. IN THE THREE MONTHS THAT I HAVE BEEN HERE [LAUGHS] I DO NOT KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION. SO I CAN FILL IN ON THAT. SO YES, WE WE HAVE BEEN A PART OF THOSE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE DONE IN RECENT HISTORY IS SOME OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND DATA BASED RESEARCH THAT'S NEEDED TO INFLUENCE AND RECOMMEND FOR SOME OF THESE PLANS. SO FROM A DESIGN DEVELOPMENT FROM STREET COVER, WE HAVE WORKED WITH SMART SERVICES COALITION OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS TO DO SOME DATA COLLECTING, DATA GATHERING TO PROVIDE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS SIMILAR TO THAT IN TERMS OF POLICY WITH HEAT AS WELL, SO THAT OUR HEAT MITIGATION PLAN AND HEAT MITIGATION STUDY THE TREE CANOPY THAT'S BEEN COVERED ABOUT CARBON SEQUESTRATION, ALL OF THESE TIE INTO ACTIONS LAID OUT INTO CECAP, AND WE MEET FREQUENTLY WITH DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS THAT HAVE SOME OF THESE MAJOR PLANS AND MAJOR INVESTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY TO PROVIDE THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WE HAVE DONE. OKAY. I JUST WANT TO GET A LITTLE MORE GRANULAR ON THIS. SO, LIKE LOOKING AT ANY GIVEN PAGE OF THE STREET DESIGN MANUAL, YOU KNOW, LIKE THAT TALKS ABOUT HOW WIDE ROADS ARE GOING TO BE AND HOW WIDE SIDEWALKS ARE GOING TO BE, WHERE HOW MUCH GRASS IS NEEDED TO PUT TREES IN TO PROVIDE THE TREE COVER TO MITIGATE THE HEAT ISLAND EFFECT. ARE YOU ADVISING TRANSPORTATION, PUBLIC WORKS? AND ARE YOU ADVOCATING FOR MAKING THOSE MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY VERSUS CAR CENTRIC? YES. SO IN THE CONVERSATIONS, THOSE ARE ALL I WOULD SAY BEEN DONE IN THE LAST FEW YEARS. SO VERY CONTEMPORARY INFORMATION. BUT WITH THE CONVERSATIONS THAT THE DIRECTOR WAS MENTIONING, THOSE ARE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN TERMS OF PLANNING FOR THE NEXT, FOR THE NEXT STEP OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS. HOW ARE THOSE HAPPENING? ARE THEY MEETINGS WITH THE DIRECTORS, OR IS IT LIKE INTERNALLY IN YOUR DEPARTMENT? HOW ARE THESE HOW ARE THESE MEETINGS COMING ABOUT? LIKE I HAVEN'T SEEN IT. I HAVEN'T SEEN LIKE AN ADVOCACY PAPER AND I'M NOT THIS ISN'T A GOTCHA QUESTION. I'M JUST CURIOUS. LIKE I HAVEN'T SEEN LIKE AN ADVOCACY PAPER FROM FROM YOUR DEPARTMENT SAYING WE SHOULD BE RELOOKING AT HOW WE BUILD OUR ROADS AND OUR INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE CITY. BUT YET IT'S A HUGE PART OF OUR BUDGET. [01:00:04] IS THAT SOMETHING WE CAN SEE THAT'S FORTHCOMING FROM YOUR DEPARTMENT? YOU KNOW, USING CECAP AS YOUR GUIDE? YES. THOSE CONVERSATIONS HAPPEN AT ALL LEVELS, WITH CECAP AS THE MAIN FOUNDATION FOR THOSE CONVERSATIONS. WE MEET WITH THE 16 DEPARTMENTS ON A QUARTERLY BASIS FOR THE FOR THE LARGER UPDATES. BUT WHEN PROJECTS LIKE THIS AND INFORMATION LIKE THIS COMES UP THOSE BRIEFINGS INTERNALLY HAPPEN FREQUENTLY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE AT THE RIGHT STAGE OF THOSE PLANS TO TO INFLUENCE SOME OF THOSE DIRECTIONS BASED ON THE INFORMATION WE HAVE. AND WHEN YOU REFERENCE BRIEFINGS, WHO'S IN THAT ROOM HEARING WHAT YOUR POSITION IS ON OUR INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE FUTURE? WHEN I REFERENCE BRIEFINGS, MEETINGS WITH THESE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS, SO AT THE DIRECTOR LEVEL AND ALSO WITH STAFF AT HAND TO PROVIDE THIS INFORMATION OF THIS NEW THE NEW RESEARCH FINDINGS WITH THEM TO THEN DISCUSS HOW CAN WE INCORPORATE SOME OF THIS INFORMATION INTO ONGOING IN UPCOMING PLANS. OKAY. I MEAN, JUST SEEING THIS AS I BROUGHT UP THIS FOR A REASON THAT, YOU KNOW, SLIDE 14 CLEARLY INDICATES THAT THE THE BIGGEST PROBLEM, I GUESS, SO TO SPEAK, FOR THE FUTURE IS GOING TO BE TRANSPORTATION. AND THE MORE CARS THAT WE HAVE ON THE ROAD AND IT'S SOMETHING WE HAVE LITTLE IMPACT ON. I YOU KNOW, AND SO I DON'T I KNOW WE CAN'T STOP CARS FROM COMING. WE WANT MORE PEOPLE TO COME TO DALLAS, CERTAINLY. BUT WHAT WE CAN DO IS MAKE OUR OUR ROADS ONE SAFER, AND WE CAN ALSO MAKE THEM MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY BY JUST REDUCING THE WIDTH AND SCOPE. I'M SO SORRY. AND THEN I NOTICED ON SLIDE 30 THAT MONTREAL ACTUALLY HAS A BIGGER POPULATION THAN WE DO, BUT THEIR GREENHOUSE EFFECTS IS MUCH LOWER. DO YOU KNOW WHAT MONTREAL IS DOING DIFFERENTLY THAN WE ARE? I DO NOT HAVE SPECIFIC INFORMATION ON MONTREAL. I DON'T KNOW, ALEX. DO YOU KNOW ANY? DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE POLICIES IN MONTREAL? NOT ANYTHING SPECIFICALLY THAT I CAN BRING IT UP RIGHT NOW, BUT I CAN LOOK INTO IT. THANK YOU. SURE. I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE HELPFUL, PERHAPS TO COME BACK WITH PUBLIC WORKS AND, AND THIS IS NOT IMMEDIATE, BUT DO A BRIEFING WHERE WE LOOK AT THESE EMISSIONS FROM TRANSPORTATION SECTOR AND ASK OUR TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT TO KIND OF LOOK AT THAT AND GIVE US A BRIEFING OR AN UPDATE ON WHAT THEY'RE DOING TO HELP WITH THOSE EMISSIONS. AND THEN PERHAPS WE COULD FORMULATE A PLAN FOR SOME MORE AGGRESSIVE INITIATIVES, BECAUSE I, IT IS THE TRANSPORTATION EMISSIONS I THINK WILL BE ONE OF THE HARDEST TO IMPACT UNLESS WE ALL START DRIVING ELECTRIC ELECTRIC VEHICLES. SO I THINK THERE MIGHT BE SOME THINGS WE COULD DO AS A CITY THAT WOULD HELP WITH THAT. CHAIR RIDLEY, I THINK YOU HAVE A COMMENT. YES. I'D LIKE TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT AND ADD SOME ADDITIONAL COMPONENTS TO A PLAN TO ADDRESS TRANSPORTATION OR OTHER SOURCES OF EMISSIONS, AND THAT'S TREES. IT'S ALL WELL AND GOOD TO SAY. YEAH, WE COULD PLANT MORE TREES AND THAT WOULD SEQUESTER MORE CARBON. BUT I'D LIKE TO BE MORE CONCRETE ABOUT OUR PLAN TO DO THAT. FOR EXAMPLE, I THINK FACILITIES MANAGEMENT OUGHT TO BE INCLUDED IN THAT GROUP OF AGENCIES THAT TALK ABOUT THIS. WE HAVE 500 PLUS CITY OWNED PIECES OF LAND. WHAT'S THE PLAN TO PLANT TREES ON THOSE? SO THERE ARE A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT PROGRAMS THAT ADDRESS TREE PLANTING. SO THE BRANCH OUT DALLAS IS FOCUSED ON PROVIDING TREES TO RESIDENTS TO PLANT, BUT THERE IS ALSO BRANCHING OUT WHICH IS PART OF PARKS, THE PARKS DEPARTMENT THAT FOCUSES ON PLANTING TREES ON CITY OWNED PROPERTY. IN MY UNDERSTANDING, IS THE WAY THAT THAT PROGRAM WORKS IS THAT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS ARE NOMINATED, AND THERE IS, IS A PROCESS TO TO DECIDE WHICH OF THOSE LOCATIONS TREES WILL BE PLANTED AT. WELL, I THINK WE NEED TO BE MORE AGGRESSIVE ABOUT THAT AND HAVE FACILITIES LOOK AT ALL OF THEIR PIECES OF PROPERTY THAT COULD USE ADDITIONAL TREE CANOPY. AND I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT BUTTRESSED WITH SOME DATA FROM YOUR DEPARTMENT THAT SAYS THE AVERAGE TREE SEQUESTERS THIS MUCH CARBON. WE NEED TO PLANT THIS MANY TREES ACROSS THE CITY TO SEQUESTER THE INCREASING IMPACT OF TRANSPORTATION EMISSIONS, SO THAT WE HAVE A STRONG STATISTICAL BASIS FOR ADVOCATING FOR ADDITIONAL TREE CANOPY. [01:05:07] IN ADDITION, I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT DATA USED WITH OUR TREE MITIGATION PROGRAM THAT AFFECTS DEVELOPMENT OF PROPERTY, WHERE THEY TEAR DOWN THE 100 YEAR OLD TREES AND REPLACE THEM WITH WITH A SPINDLY SAPLING. AND PERHAPS WE INTRODUCED THE CRITERIA THAT THEY HAVE TO REPLACE THE REMOVED TREES, NOT JUST WITH THE SIMILAR NUMBER OF TREES BUT SIMILAR SEQUESTRATION CAPACITY CANOPY. SO IT MIGHT TAKE TEN NEW TREES TO REPLACE THAT OLD ONE. IN TERMS OF SEQUESTRATION, WE OUGHT TO CONSIDER ADDING THAT TO OUR DEVELOPMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR TREE MITIGATION. I THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT POINT. SO THE TAKEAWAY IS LET'S FIND AND LET'S PUT TOGETHER A PLAN TO PLANT MORE TREES. YES. IN IN VARIOUS SECTORS OF OUR OF THE CITY. I MEAN IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS, FROM VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS PERSPECTIVES. RIGHT. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT IT FROM A PLANNING AND ZONING PERSPECTIVE. WE'RE LOOKING AT IT FROM A TRANSPORTATION, FROM A PARKS AND REC, AND REALLY JUST FROM AN I THINK, YOU KNOW, TO RIDLEY'S POINT, WE WE DO, I THINK HAVE JUST SOME VACANT PROPERTIES AND WE CAN JUST COVER THOSE WITH TREES. I HAD THE CHANCE TO GO TO IRELAND THIS SUMMER AND THEY JUST PLANT. I THINK THEY CALL THEM OCEANS OR SOMETHING OF FORESTS. I MEAN, YOU'LL JUST BE DRIVING ALONG AND. AND IT'S JUST NOTHING BUT TREES, AND THEY'VE PLANTED THEM VERY CLOSE TOGETHER. AND IT'S NOT MEANT TO DO ANYTHING OTHER THAN CAPTURE CARBON DIOXIDE. THAT'S WHAT THE POINT OF THAT IS. IT'S BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK AT, BUT THAT'S NOT WHY THEY PLANTED IT. SO I DON'T KNOW THAT WE CAN DO OCEANS OF THEM BECAUSE WE'RE WE'RE A LITTLE MORE BROKEN UP WITH A LOT OF CONCRETE IN BETWEEN. BUT I DO THINK WE CAN TAKE THAT IDEA AND PUT IT ON A SMALLER SCALE AND JUST TAKE SOME OF THESE LOTS. I HEAR YOU, I SEE YOU, CHAIR BLACKMON. I HAVE TO JUST PREACH MY SERMON JUST A LITTLE BIT LONGER. I'M A TREE PERSON. SO I THINK YOU GUYS ARE GETTING THE MESSAGE ON TREES. WE UNDERSTAND THE TECHNOLOGY FOR REDUCING EMISSIONS IN THE VEHICLES WILL BE SLOW IN COMING, BUT THE TREES ARE OR SOMETHING WE CAN DO TO CAPTURE THAT CARBON SO WELL. AND ON THAT POINT SOME OF OUR POLICIES MAY BE IN THE WAY OF PLANTING TREES IN WHERE WE HAVE WE OWN IT. I MEAN, WE'RE TRYING TO DO IT NOW WITH FOREST HILLS. IT'S PUBLIC WORKS, WE CAN'T PLAN IN THE MEDIAN BECAUSE OF MOWING, BECAUSE IT'S NOT TECHNICALLY A PARK. SOMEBODY HAS TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MOWING. IF IT'S IF IT'S TRANSPORTATION, IF IT'S IN PARKS DEPARTMENT AND CONSIDERED A PARK, SWISS AVENUE, THEN THE CITY TAKES UP, TAKES UP THE MOWING. SO I'M JUST SAYING WE MAY HAVE SOME OBSTACLES IN THE WAY THAT PREVENTS US FROM DOING A, A BETTER JOB AT PLANTING TREES, THAT WE COULD WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS, OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, AND FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN ADD MORE TREES TO OUR CANOPY. I MEAN, WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO DO THIS FOR, I THINK, SIX YEARS. SO THAT'S JUST MY THOUGHTS ON THAT BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO FIND THE ROADBLOCK. YES. AND I'VE RUN ACROSS THAT ROADBLOCK. AND I THINK THE TEXAS TREES FOUNDATION IS HAVING TROUBLE PLANTING TREES IN MEDIANS BECAUSE OF THAT. AND THEY'RE GIVING US THESE TREES AND MAINTAINING THEM FOR LIKE 2 OR 3 YEARS. BUT THEY'RE. MOWING IS THE IS IT ACTUALLY ADDS TO YOUR ABILITY TO WALK ON THE SIDEWALK EVEN IN JULY HEAT. WHEN YOU'VE GOT A TREE LINE UP, IT JUST FEELS BETTER. THERE'S ONE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, AND BELIEVE ME, EVERYBODY'S OVER THERE WALKING THEIR DOG BECAUSE OF THE TREE LINE. SO YOU GET MR. WEST, YOU GET PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR CAR WALKING EVEN IN JULY AND AUGUST, WHEN YOU ARE VERY STRATEGIC IN PLANTING TREES ALONG PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS. THANK YOU. YES. AND IT'S NOT THE SUBJECT OF THE PRESENTATION HERE, BUT THERE'S HUGE OVERLAP BETWEEN THESE ISSUES WITH TREES AND OUR HEAT ISLAND STUDY. SO YES, I AGREE. CHAIR WEST. THANKS. I HAVE A JUST A FOLLOW UP BECAUSE I HAD AN ALARM SITUATION GOING OFF THAT NEEDED TO BE ADDRESSED. SO I TALKED ABOUT THE TRANSPORTATION. THE OTHER PIECE I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT IS THE PLANNING SIDE OF THE HOUSE. AND YOU KNOW, THE CITY IS, CONTROLS THE ZONING IN THE CITY AS WELL AS THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS. SO THE YOU KNOW, THAT ASPECT IS THAT REALLY OUR BIGGEST WAY TO CONTROL HOW THE COMMUNITY IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENT IS, IS CAPTURED. I'VE SEEN, YOU KNOW, I'VE READ EVIDENCE. I ASSUME YOU HAVE THAT INFILL HOUSING. SO THE MISSING MIDDLE HOUSING CAN IN A LITTLE BIT MORE DENSITY CAN HELP REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF VEHICLE [01:10:04] TRIPS AND MAKE THE CAR TRIPS SHORTER. HAVE YOU SEEN EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THAT? YES. I MEAN, ANY AREAS WHEN YOU MAKE THEM MORE DENSE AND MORE WALKABLE, THAT'S THAT'S GOING TO, TO IMPACT IT. I THINK ANYBODY THAT LIVES IN ANY OF OUR MIXED USE AREAS, PART THAT ARE PART OF DALLAS, LIKE MOCKINGBIRD STATION OR, YOU KNOW, I COULD LIST SEVERAL OF THEM. DEFINITELY USE DART MORE, DEFINITELY WALK MORE, AND, AND IT REALLY CONTRIBUTES TO A REDUCTION IN, IN CAR TRIPS. GREAT. SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, WILL YOUR DEPARTMENT BE PARTICIPATING IN ZONING REFORM, WHICH IS COMING OUR WAY AND IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, AND IF SO, IN WHAT CAPACITY? SO AGAIN DIRECTOR LIU AND I HAVE HAD SOME INITIAL CONVERSATIONS REGARDING THIS. I WILL ADD IT TO THE LIST OF OF THINGS THAT SHE AND I WILL BE DISCUSSING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE IN ADDITION TO THE MEETINGS, LIKE I WAS BRINGING UP THAT WE ARE COVERING SOME OF THESE AREAS. OKAY, GREAT. WELL, I'LL JUST ASK IT. NEXT TIME I SEE YOU UP HERE. I'LL PROBABLY ASK YOU THAT AGAIN. THANK YOU. NOT A PROBLEM. THANKS. CHAIR JOHNSON, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY. SORRY, I DIDN'T WANT TO. ALL RIGHT. CHAIR RIDLEY. YEAH. BUILDING ON CHAIRMAN WEST'S COMMENTS WITH REGARD TO LAND USE, I'D LIKE TO ADD TO YOUR LIST TO DISCUSS WITH DIRECTOR LIU INCENTIVIZING MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT. MIXED USE ZONING, BECAUSE THAT'S A SURE WAY OF REDUCING THE NUMBER OF TRIPS. IF PEOPLE CAN JUST WALK DOWNSTAIRS TO THEIR DRY CLEANERS OR THEIR GROCERY STORE FROM WHERE THEY LIVE, OR THEY CAN WALK TO WORK BECAUSE IT'S IN THE SAME AREA AS WHERE THEY'RE LIVING. SO I THINK THAT ALSO HAS GREAT POTENTIAL FOR REDUCING THE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM TRANSPORTATION WHICH WE'RE SEEING INEVITABLY GO UP BECAUSE WE HAVE SUCH A SPREAD OUT CITY WITH DIFFERENT LAND USES IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE CITY. IF WE COMBINE THOSE LAND USES, WE'RE GOING TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF TRIPS. YES I AGREE. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR INPUT? THIS HAS BEEN GREAT INFORMATION. IT HAS CERTAINLY PROMPTED A LOT OF CONVERSATION AND THOUGHTFUL YOU KNOW, LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE OF OF HOW THIS YOU ALL CAN WORK WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND WE CAN HAVE A MORE COHESIVE APPROACH TO REDUCING OUR EMISSIONS. I AM REALLY EXCITED THAT THERE HAVE BEEN THERE'S BEEN SOME PROGRESS. WHEN YOU'RE A PERSON WHO GREW UP IN THE 70S IT SEEMED DOOM AND GLOOM. YOU KNOW, WE WE MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN THE CLEAN AIR AND CLEAN WATER ACT PASSED, BUT IT WAS A SENSE THAT WE WERE HEADED TO A VERY DARK FUTURE. AND SO IT'S ALWAYS A MIXED BAG AND THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE CHALLENGES. BUT I AM GLAD TO SEE THAT THERE'S SOME THINGS WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO GET OUR HANDS AROUND TO SOME DEGREE AND TO MAKE SOME PROGRESS. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON THIS, AND WE'LL PROBABLY THERE WILL BE FUTURE BRIEFINGS, I THINK, THAT COME OUT OF THIS PARTICULAR ONE. ABSOLUTELY. IF NO OTHER QUESTIONS, AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE BRIEFING MEMO. SO THE BRIEFING MEMO IS AN UPDATE ON THE CALL FOR PROJECTS FOR THE NORTH TEXAS ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE. ANYONE, QUESTIONS? YES. THANK YOU. CHAIR. WITH RESPECT TO THIS, I'M VERY PLEASED TO SEE THAT THE CITY HAS FOLLOWED THROUGH ON THIS. I MET WITH DONZELL GIBSON SEVERAL MONTHS AGO WHEN I FIRST LEARNED ABOUT THIS COG GRANT PROGRAM FOR EV CHARGING, AND ENCOURAGED HIM AND THE CITY TO PURSUE THIS OPPORTUNITY. AND I'M CURIOUS NOW ABOUT WHAT TIME FRAMES YOU MAY BE AWARE OF FOR ACTUAL INSTALLATION OF THESE CHARGERS. SO THE INITIAL MEETINGS WITH THE SELECTED ENTITIES WITH THE COG ARE THIS WEEK. AND SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE SPECIFIC INFORMATION OF WHAT THAT TIME FRAME IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE AFTER THOSE MEETINGS. MY UNDERSTANDING FROM THEM IN JUST BRIEF DISCUSSIONS IS, IS THAT THEY ARE ALREADY IN MOVING WITH PURPOSE TO GET THESE IMPLEMENTED AND, AND TO GET THE, THE SITES BUILT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. SO THE FIRST STEP IN THAT IS GOING TO BE EXECUTING THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE COG AND ONCE WE HAVE THESE INITIAL MEETINGS THIS WEEK WITH THE COG AND ALSO WITH LIBRARY AND PARK, WHO ARE THE TWO DEPARTMENTS THAT WILL BE RECEIVING THE CHARGING STATIONS WILL HAVE A BETTER IDEA OF [01:15:05] APPROACHES FOR THOSE. DO YOU SEE THIS HAPPENING THIS CALENDAR YEAR? LET ME ASK, DO YOU HAVE ANY INPUT ON TIMELINE? YES, IT IS POSSIBLE FOR FOR SOME OF THE LISTED PROJECTS TO START BY THE END OF THIS CALENDAR YEAR. OKAY. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THE MEMO? NO. OKAY. SO I SUGGEST YOU LOOK AT THE FORECAST. AND I DO WANT TO NOTE FOR THE COMMITTEE THAT WE WILL HAVE A SPECIAL CALLED PARKS, TRAILS AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING BEFORE FEBRUARY 25TH SO THAT WE CAN BE BRIEFED ON THE COMMUNITY PARK AT THAT'S BEING BUILT AT FAIR PARK. AND I THOUGHT WE MIGHT HAVE A DATE FOR THAT, BUT I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO LOOK AT THE CALENDAR AGAIN. SO Y'ALL JUST HANG TIGHT FOR THAT. AND IF THERE'S NO OTHER BUSINESS, WE WILL ADJOURN AT 10:21. THANK YOU. * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.