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[Environmental Commission on January 14, 2026.]
EVERYONE.TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14TH, AND THE TIME IS NOW 5:39 PM I'M CHAIRWOMAN AND I CALL THIS MEETING OF THE DALLAS ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION TO ORDER.
YOU WELCOME YOUR PARTICIPATION IN OUR MEETINGS, IN THE LANGUAGE OF YOUR PREFERENCE.
AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST TRANSLATION OR OTHER ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES, PLEASE CALL 4 6 9 7 2 4 6 5 3 8 2 DAYS PRIOR TO MEETING.
OUR NEXT REGULAR MEETING WILL BE FEBRUARY 11TH AND 5:30 PM ALRIGHT, JUST A COUPLE OF ANNOUNCEMENTS THIS EVENING.
UM, MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR FEBRUARY.
CORRECTION FRIDAY, JANUARY 16TH AT 8:38 AM UNTIL 12:00 PM FOR THE DRIVERS OF OPPORTUNITY SYMPOSIUM.
IT'S GONNA BE HELD AT THE BRISCOE CENTER AT
ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO OUR ROLL CALL MEMBERS.
JUST A REMINDER THAT IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE VIRTUALLY, YOU'LL NEED TO KEEP YOUR CAMERA ON FOR THE DURATION OF THE MEETING.
I'M GONNA START WITH DISTRICT ONE, JORDAN CLARK.
DISTRICT TWO DISTRICTS THREE AND FOUR ARE VACANT.
DISTRICT SEVEN, TAMIKA DURES DISTRICT DATES NOT PRESENT.
YOU WANNA GIVE IT A TRY? WE STILL CAN'T HEAR YOU.
UH, DISTRICT
I THINK YOU CAN TURN IT UP A LITTLE.
I DID HEAR YOU EARLIER SO I KNOW THAT YOUR MICROPHONE.
DISTRICT 14, HOLIDAY DISTRICT 15 WILL BE ABSENT THIS EVENING.
LET'S GET TO OUR PUBLIC COMMENTS THIS EVENING.
WE HAVE FIVE REGISTERED SPEAKERS.
OUR SIDE, OUR SPEAKER GUIDELINES.
SPEAKERS MUST OBSERVE THE SAME RULES OF PROPRIETY TO CORPSMAN, GOOD CONDUCT APPLICABLE TO MEMBERS OF THE SUBMISSION.
ANY SPEAKER MAKING PERSONAL AND PERTINENT PROPANE OR SLANDEROUS REMARKS, OR WHO BECOMES BOISTEROUS WHILE ADDRESSING THE MISSION WILL BE REMOVED FROM MEETING.
EACH SPEAKER WILL BE GIVEN THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK AND WHEN YOUR TIME IS ENDED.
OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS JANET GELMAN.
PLEASE STATE YOUR, UH, NAME AND THEN BEGIN YOUR COMMENTS, PLEASE.
YOU'LL JUST PUSH THE MICROPHONE BUTTON.
UM, I'M HAVE BEEN HERE FOR PAST COUPLE OF MEETINGS TO TALK ABOUT, UH, PESTICIDE USE BY THE CITY OF DALLAS.
UM, AND TODAY I DON'T HAVE MUCH TO SAY EXCEPT THAT I, UH, WANTED TO CONTINUE, UH, ALLOW, UH, DR.
LACKMAN, COMMISSIONER LACKMAN, UH, TO ASK ME, UH, WHO HAD SOME QUESTIONS IF HE WANTED TO, UM, ASK ME AND, AND AGREED.
JUST TO CLARIFY, THIS IS OUR PUBLIC SPEAKER TIME, SO WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR QUESTION.
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DID WANNA SAY ONE THING.UM, SO LAST TIME, UM, WHEN DR.
LACKMAN WAS TALKING, HE, HE SAID, UH, HE TALKED ABOUT HOW, UH, HE HAD DONE SOME OF THE, READ SOME OF THE RESEARCH I HAD GIVEN HIM ABOUT, UH, HOW MANY DEATHS OVER, UH, WE'VE HAD FROM WEST MAL VIRUS DISEASE OVER THE LAST, YOU KNOW, 15 YEARS.
AND IT'S USUALLY ONE OR TWO, UH, DEATHS, UM, IN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
UM, AND, AND USUALLY FROM COMPROMISED HEALTH INDIVIDUALS.
UH, WHAT I WANTED TO ADD TO THAT IS, UH, I, I'VE ALSO LOOKED UP, UH, THE, UH, SIMILAR STATISTICS FOR CITY OF AUSTIN THAT DOES NOT USE PESTICIDE SPRAY.
AND THEY, THEY HAVE A VERY SIMILAR, UH, DATA POINTS AS WE DO SO, SO I WANTED TO BRING THAT UP JUST, UH, JUST TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ANOTHER REASON WHY WE WANNA LOOK AT, UM, SOME OF THE PESS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, MS. STEPAN.
ALRIGHT, ALL OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS, UH, JAMES ORSON.
I RESIDE IN DUNCANVILLE, TEXAS.
I'VE BEEN INVOLVED AS A STAKEHOLDER AND THROUGH VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES WITH THE CCA SINCE ITS FORMATION.
AND I'M ACTUALLY HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE CCA FIVE YEAR PLAN AND, UM, I THINK I'M A LITTLE LATE 'CAUSE YOU'VE ALREADY HAD SEVERAL MEETINGS, BUT SINCE YOU FOUND THE AGENDA, I FIGURED I TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY.
SO I'VE BEEN, UH, WORKING WITH THE ALL VOLUNTEER NONPROFIT EDUCATION FOCUSED NORTH TEXAS RENEWABLE ENERGY GROUP.
UM, WE WORK WITH THE CCA PEOPLE ON GUIDELINES FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY HUB AND THE BILLING CENTERS.
AND I'M CURRENTLY WORKING WITH A STARTUP NONPROFIT, TRINITY RIVER COMMUNITY SOLAR SYSTEMS. AND WE ALSO DID SOME INPUTS AS A SUBCONTRACTOR ON THE DALLAS SOLAR FIGHTING STUDY.
AND I WENT ON SOME TOURS AS A POTENTIAL BIDDER ON THE DALLAS DEEP BLUE GROUP 12 LANDFILL AND BUCKMAN RECREATION CENTER SOLAR PROJECTS.
I THANK THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY AND FOR YOUR WORK OVER THE YEARS TO PROVIDE A FORUM FOR PUBLIC INPUT INTO THE CCAP AND OTHER ISSUES.
UM, SO I PROVIDED SOME WRITTEN MATERIALS FOR THE COMMISSIONERS AND HOPEFULLY I'LL GET THROUGH TO THE STAFF AND THAT'S MAINLY WHAT I WANTED TO DO.
SO, JUST BRIEFLY, UM, THERE'S A CCAP GOAL TOO, WHICH HAS A ENERGY GENERATION USE TARGET, AND I HAVE SOME SUGGEST SUGGESTIONS OVER THE NUMBERS, UM, WHAT THE UNIT SHOULD BE AND WHAT THE NUMBERS SHOULD BE.
SINCE THE UNDERLYING, UM, GOOGLE ROOFTOP OR GOOGLE PROJECT ROOFTOP, UH, THE DATA HAS ACTUALLY CHANGED.
AND SO I THINK WE, WE COULD UPDATE THOSE, UM, PARTLY TO BE MORE REALISTIC AND PARTLY TO, UH, LIKE I SAID, REFLECT THE CURRENT DATA.
UM, I THINK THEY'RE ACTUALLY TRYING TO CUT BACK ON THE ACTIONS, SO I'M GONNA SUGGEST ADDING SOME, WHICH MAY NOT GO REAL WELL.
BUT, UM, PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH, UH, ADDING THE SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC IN THE CITY IS THAT IT'S, UH, WAY BEHIND WHAT PROJECTIONS SHOULD BE.
SO ONE WAY TO HELP MAKE UP THAT GAP WOULD BE TO ADD AN ACTION TO LOOK AT PUTTING SOLAR PORT VOLTAIC OVER PARKING, SO BASICALLY PARKING CANOPIES.
UM, AND, UH, THE OTHER THING I PUT ON THERE WAS TO TRACK THE NUMBERS OF SOLAR OR PD INSTALLATIONS.
SO THE CITY PUBLISHES SOME PERMITTING REPORTS ON THEIR WEBSITE AND THERE'S BEEN SOME GAPS IN THAT DATA OVER THE, THE YEARS.
AND CURRENTLY THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH IT THAT I GUESS HAS TO DO WITH SOME OF THE UPDATES THEY MADE LAST YEAR TO THE PERMITTING SOFTWARE.
BUT IN ANY CASE, IF, IF THAT COULD BE UPDATED, MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT EASIER, IT WOULD MAKE IT POSSIBLE PART OF THE GOALS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE MEASURABLE.
SO THAT WOULD BE A WAY OF TRYING TO MEASURE THINGS.
I WENT AHEAD AND PASSED YOUR COMMENTS ONTO STAFF AND THEN THEY'VE BEEN, UH, SHARED WITH COMMISSIONERS AS WELL.
ALRIGHT, OUR NEXT COMMENTER IS AMARI LANIS.
MY NAME'S AMARI VEDO AND I'M THE NEW CENTER DIRECTOR OF TRINITY RIVER AUDUBON CENTER LOCATED, UH, IN DISTRICT EIGHT.
I'M SPEAKING TODAY IN STRONG SUPPORT OF THE BIRD FRIENDLY DESIGN RECOMMENDATION FOR THE KAY BAILEY HUTSON CONVENTION CENTER EXPANSION.
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I'M ACTUALLY NEW TO DALLAS JUST HERE TWO MONTHS, BUT I'VE BEEN A LONG TIME ENVIRONMENTALIST AND EDUCATOR AND ADVOCATE AND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZER FOCUSED ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE.MY WORK HAS ALWAYS, UM, CENTERED ON CONNECTING PEOPLE IN NATURE AND ALSO ON MAKING DECISIONS THAT BALANCE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY WITH DOING THE RIGHT THING.
I SAT ON AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE TRANSITION COMMITTEE FOR THE CITY'S MAYOR.
UM, SO I COMMEND YOUR WORK, UM, AS WELL.
AND, UM, I'VE REVIEWED THE PROPOSAL AND SO TO ME, THE BIRD FRIENDLY DESIGN RECOMMENDATION IMMEDIATELY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION.
SO I MENTIONED, UM, BEING IN CHICAGO AND WE ALSO ARE ACTUALLY IN THE LONG, THE SAME FLYWAY AS TEXAS.
UM, AND SO TO ME THIS, UM, FLYWAY, IT'S KIND OF LIKE THE MIGRATION HIGHWAY IN THE SKY FOR BIRDS, RIGHT? WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 2 BILLION BIRDS THAT PASS THROUGH TAXES EVERY YEAR.
UM, AND SO THIS IS, UH, CRITICAL WHEN WE ARE LOOKING AT THESE NUMBERS.
UM, WE'RE ALSO TALKING ABOUT NOT JUST THE BIRDS, BUT TO ME, UM, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE.
I OFTEN DID A LOT OF WORK THAT, UM, TALKS ABOUT MIGRATION FOR PEOPLE, MIGRATION FOR BIRDS, OUR CULTURAL CONNECTIONS, OUR SHARED LANDSCAPES, AND OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO STEWARD THE PLACES WE ALL RELY ON.
YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD THIS DATA, BUT I'M GONNA SAY IT AGAIN.
UH, HERE'S WHAT THE DATA TELLS US.
UH, DALLAS IS THE THIRD MOST DANGEROUS METRO AREA FOR BIRDS IN THE COUNTRY.
VOLUNTEER, UH, BIRD STRIKE SURVEYS IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS SHOW THAT THE CONVENTION CENTER ALONE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR APPROXIMATELY 30% OF RECORDED BIRD COMMISSION.
THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS.
AT CHICAGO'S MCCORMICK PLACE, ANOTHER MAJOR CONVENTION CENTER, RETROFITTING BIRD FRIENDLY GLASS, REDUCED BIRD COALITIONS BY MORE THAN NINE 90%.
MANY SITTINGS HAVE TAKEN ACTION ONLY AFTER BUILDINGS WERE CONSTRUCTED AND DAMAGE HAD ALREADY OCCURRED.
BUT DALLAS HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO BETTER TO ACT ON THE DATA NOW AND ENSURE THIS REVITALIZED DOWNTOWN LANDMARK NEVER BECOMES A HAZARD FOR BIRDS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
SO, I MEAN, THE SOLUTIONS ARE STRAIGHTFORWARD AND PROVEN, UH, BIRD FRIENDLY, PATTERNED GLASS, AND DARK SKY, UM, COMPLIANT LIGHTING.
THESE ARE STRATEGIES NOT ONLY TO SAVE BIRDS, THEY ALSO REDUCE ENERGY COSTS AND OUR LONG-TERM OPERATIONAL COSTS AS WELL.
UM, I ALSO PREVIOUSLY DIRECTED GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS, AND I CAN SAY CONFIDENTLY THAT THESE MEASURES TYPICALLY ACCOUNT FOR AROUND JUST 1% OF A PROJECT'S TOTAL BUDGET.
SO THIS IS SMART POLICY, IT'S PROVEN TECHNOLOGY, AND IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
SO I RESPECT, RESPECTFULLY URGE YOU TO ADVANCE THIS RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL AND I INVITE YOU ALL TO THE TRINITY RIVER AUDUBON CENTER TO LEARN, LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR WORK, UM, PROTECTING BIRDS AND THE PLACES THEY AND WE ALL DEPEND ON FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION.
WELCOME TO DALLAS AND CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW POSITION.
ALRIGHT, OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS NATHAN MAY.
I'M IN DISTRICT TWO AND I AM AN EDUCATOR AT THE TRINITY RIVER AUDUBON CENTER.
UH, SOMETHING I DO A LOT OF THE TIME FOR WORK IS TALK ABOUT HOW AWESOME AND IMPORTANT DALLAS IS FOR BIRDS.
I MEAN, WE HAVE BIRDS MAKING AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY FROM THE ARCTIC TO SPEND THE WINTER HERE IN TEXAS, IN DALLAS.
WE HAVE BIRDS MAKING A JOURNEY FROM SOUTH AMERICA TO SPEND THE SUMMERS HERE.
AND I'M SO GRATEFUL WHEN I GET TO SEE THESE BIRDS BECAUSE BIRDS TELL US THEY'RE AN INDICATOR, THEY'RE PART OF THE SAME FOOD, WEB AND ECOSYSTEM AS US HUMANS.
AND SO WE'RE BIRDS THRIVE, PEOPLE PROSPER.
THEY ALSO CONNECT US WITH THESE JOURNEYS.
THE WAY WE TREAT OUR BIRDS IN DALLAS.
AND WHAT HAPPENS TO THE BIRDS HERE IN DALLAS DOESN'T JUST AFFECT OUR ECOSYSTEM.
IT'S AFFECTING THOSE ECOSYSTEMS UP IN THE ARCTIC, DOWN TO SOUTH AMERICA AND ALL THESE PLACES THAT THE BIRDS ARE GOING TO AND COMING, COMING FROM LAST SPRING, THERE WAS A BIRD I REALLY WANTED TO SEE, I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF Y'ALL HAVE HEARD OF IT, A ROSE BREASTED GROW SPEAK.
I'D NEVER SEEN ONE BEAUTIFUL BIRD.
IT DOESN'T STAY IN DALLAS, BUT IT MIGRATES THROUGH.
AND, UH, I WAS TELLING SOMEONE ABOUT HOW I WANTED TO SEE IT.
GOOD NEWS WAS THE NEXT MORNING I DID SEE IT, BUT THE BAD NEWS WAS IT WAS DEAD.
IT HAD CRASHED INTO THE KAY BAILEY, BAILEY HUTCHERSON CONVENTION CENTER.
AND I PICKED IT UP DURING ONE OF THOSE SURVEYS THAT, UH, MAURICE WAS TALKING ABOUT, AND THAT'S A BUMMER.
BUT I THINK WE'RE SO LUCKY AND SO FORTUNATE WITH THE TIMING OF THINGS HERE IN DALLAS
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RIGHT NOW, I THINK WE LUCKED OUT BECAUSE JUST AFTER WE GOT ENOUGH DATA TO KNOW CONFIDENTLY THAT THE CONVENTION CENTER WAS THE BIGGEST KILLER OF BIRDS IN DOWNTOWN, WE GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO SET IT RIGHT TO REDO THINGS WITH THIS, UM, THIS NEW CONVENTION CENTER WITH BIRD FRIENDLY GLASS, WITH BIRD FRIENDLY LIGHTING, WHICH WOULD SAVE THOUSANDS OF BIRDS ON THEIR JOURNEYS AND HOPEFULLY SERVE AS A MODEL TO PROTECT AND SAVE MORE BIRDS GOING FORWARD.SO I JUST HUMBLY ASK THAT Y'ALL CAN RECOMMEND THESE CHANGES TO CITY COUNCIL AND, UH, HOPEFULLY DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR ALL THE WORK YOU DO FOR THE ENVIRONMENT HERE IN DALLAS.
ALL RIGHT, OUR LAST SPEAKER IS IAN SIEMENS.
MY NAME IS IAN SIEMENS AND I AM DALLAS CITY HALL ADVOCATE FOR ENVIRONMENT TEXAS.
TODAY I'M HERE TO REPRESENT A BROAD COALITION OF INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO URGE YOU TO RECOMMEND BIRD FRIENDLY GLASS AND LIGHTING ON THE KAY BAILEY HUTCHINSON CONVENTION CENTER EXPANSION TO PREVENT BIRD DEATHS.
OUR CORE WORKING GROUP ON THIS EFFORT IS AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY, AUDUBON, TEXAS ENVIRONMENT, TEXAS AND TEXAS CONSERVATION ALLIANCE.
BUT ORGANIZATIONS THAT INCLUDE US AND HAVE L LENT THEIR SUPPORT INCLUDE AUDUBON DALLAS, THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE, FRIENDS OF NORTH HAVEN TRAIL, THE GREEN HILL SCHOOL, THE JOHN BUNKER SANDS WETLAND CENTER, LATINO OUTDOORS, THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION, THE NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS, SIERRA CLUB DALLAS, THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN TEXAS, TRAVIS AUDUBON AND WILD BIRDS UNLIMITED DALLAS.
INDIVIDUALS WHO SUPPORT US INCLUDE DALLAS PHILANTHROPISTS, DD RHODE, WHO WROTE AN OP-ED IN THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS, DAVID MARQUIS GARRETT BOONE, AND AMBASSADOR KAY BAILEY HUTCHINSON, HERSELF, WHO WROTE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR IN THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS IN FAVOR OF BIRD FRIENDLY GLASS ON THE CONVENTION CENTER THAT BEARS HER NAME.
THIS IS IN ADDITION TO NEARLY A THOUSAND PETITION SIGNATURES AND ACTIONS THAT TEXANS HAVE TAKEN TO URGE CITY COUNCIL TO ACT.
AS THE RECOMMENDATION STATES BIRDS ARE IN TROUBLE.
BIRD COLLISIONS WITH BUILDINGS ARE THE SECOND LARGEST PAW, HUMAN RELATED PAWS OF BIRD DEATHS.
AND SINCE DFW IS RANKED AS ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS AREAS IN THE COUNTRY FOR BIRDS LOCATED ON ONE OF THE PRIMARY MIGRATORY PATHWAYS, WE HAVE A DUTY TO DO SOMETHING.
THE EXPANSION AND RENOVATION OF THE CAPABILITY HUTCHINSON CONVENTION CENTER GIVES US A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY TO FIX THE BUILDING THAT KILLS THE MOST BIRDS IN DALLAS.
PREVENTING THESE DEATHS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST COST EFFECTIVE CONSERVATION MEASURES THAT WE COULD TAKE AS A CITY.
A ONE-TIME COST THAT WILL BE A VERY SMALL FRACTION OF THE BUILDING'S TOTAL BUDGET, BUT WILL SAVE MANY THOUSANDS OF BIRDS OVER THE DECADES TO COME.
THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS TO NOT ONLY BE A NATIONAL LEADER IN URBAN CONSERVATION, BUT ALSO TO MEET OUR COMMITMENTS UNDER THE CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE ACTION PLAN.
WE AT ENVIRONMENT TEXAS AS WELL AS THE MANY ORGANIZATION, ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS THAT I PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED URGE YOU TO VOTE YES ON THIS RECOMMENDATION.
ALRIGHT, THAT CONCLUDES OUR SPEAKERS FOR TODAY.
WE ARE GONNA MOVE ON TO THE APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM OUR DECEMBER 10TH, 2025 AGENDA MEETING.
IS THERE MOTION I MOTION IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND.
SO MOVED AND SECOND AT ALL IN FAVOR.
ALL RIGHT, LET'S GET RIGHT INTO OUR BRIEFING PRESENTATION.
ITEM A IS THE 2023 GREENHOUSE GAS, UH, EMISSIONS INVENTORY DIRECTOR SCOTT IS HERE TO PRESENT THAT ITEM FOR US.
AND STEPHANIE, IF YOU'LL JUST NOTE, I NEGLECTED TO CALL DR.
JACK WHO'S BEEN HERE THE ENTIRE TIME.
UH, SO IF YOU'LL MARK THE PRESENT AND THEN COMMISSIONER WOOTEN IS ALSO PRESENT.
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HELLO EVERYONE.I AM ANGELA HODGES, SCOTT, DIRECTOR FOR THE OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY.
UM, AND WITH ME TONIGHT IS ALFREDO.
YOU MIGHT KNOW HIM AS FREDDY OR HE IS, UM, AND
SO WE ARE HAPPY TO BE HERE THIS EVENING TO PRESENT AN OVERVIEW OF THE 2023 GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY REPORT.
AND I WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THE REPORT ITSELF WILL BE PUBLISHED ON OUR WEBSITE ON FEBRUARY 2ND WHEN OEQS MAKES THIS PRESENTATION TO PARKS TRAILS IN ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE.
SO THE REPORT CAPTURES THE RESULTS OF THE COMMUNITY-WIDE GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2023, AS WELL AS THE EMISSIONS INVENTORY FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2023.
OH, WE GO AHEAD AND GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, STEPHANIE.
UM, AND SO TONIGHT WE'RE GONNA START WITH WHY DALLAS CONDUCTS A GREENHOUSE GAS OR GHG INVENTORY AND SUMMARIZE THE PROTOCOLS USED TO CONDUCT THE COMMUNITY-WIDE AND THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS INVENTORIES.
THEN WE WILL REVIEW WITH YOU THE PRIMARY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COMMUNITY-WIDE SECTION OF THE REPORT, THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS SECTION OF THE REPORT, AND WE'LL SUMMARIZE THE RESULTS OF BOTH INVENTORIES AND SHOW YOU HOW DALLAS COMPARES TO OTHER CITIES.
FINALLY, AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE PRESENTATION, WE WILL BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE.
WE ALSO HAVE REPRESENTATIVES FROM ICFA CONSULTANT ON THE PROJECT WHO ARE WITH US VIRTUALLY, WHO WILL BE ABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AS WELL.
SO WITH THAT, I WILL TURN IT OVER TO FREDDY.
SO, SO WHY DO ORGANIZATIONS CONDUCT GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORIES? WELL, IT COULD BE TO QUANTIFY GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ACROSS AN ORGANIZATION TO SET A BENCHMARK NUMBER FOR THE PURPOSE OF CREATING STRATEGIES AND POLICIES, UH, FOR EMISSION REDUCTIONS, OR IT COULD BE A PERIODIC INVENTORY TO TRACK PROGRESS TOWARDS CLIMATE GOALS.
THE PURPOSE OF THE CITY OF DALLAS 2023 COMMUNITY-WIDE GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY IS TO CHECK THE PROGRESS OF OUR CAP TARGETS OF A 43% REDUCTION IN COMMUNITY-WIDE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM 2015 LEVELS BY 2030 AND NET ZERO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY 2050.
DATA FROM THE REPORT WILL ALSO AID IN DETERMINING WHAT ACTIONS NEED TO BE UPDATED IN THE CA TO MEET THESE MILESTONES.
COMPLETING A COMMUNITY WIDE INVENTORY MAY TAKE CLOSE TO TWO YEARS.
UH, THIS IS WHY YOU MAY SEE A DELAY OF A CALENDAR YEAR GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY BEING PUBLISHED A YEAR OR TWO LATER.
UH, THE WHOLE TEAM WORKED TO COLLECT DATA FROM FEDERAL AND STATE DATABASES AND FROM UTILITIES.
WE ALSO TALKED TO THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS OR N ENTITY COG TO COLLECT TRANSPORTATION DATA.
AND OUR SISTER DEPARTMENTS WE'RE GREAT AT PROVIDING CITY OPERATIONAL DATA THAT WE NEEDED.
DATA INTEGRITY IS FUNDAMENTAL TO GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORIES.
UH, MANY QUALITY ASSURANCE AND QUALITY CONTROL PROCESSES WERE APPLIED TO ENSURE THE INVENTORY IS ACCURATE, RELIABLE, AND ALIGNED WITH BEST PRACTICES.
AS WAS DONE IN THE 2015 AND 2019 EMISSION INVENTORIES, WE USED A TOOL FROM ILI LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FOR SUSTAINABILITY CALLED CLEAR PATH TO AID IN CALCULATING EMISSIONS DATA AND REPORTING.
OEQS AND THE CITY HAVE BEEN CONDUCTING EMISSIONS INVENTORIES FOR TWO DECADES.
THE FIRST FEW COMMUNITY WIDE GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORIES WERE USED TO VERIFY MEETING EMISSIONS REDUCTION GOALS SET BY PREVIOUS MAYORS.
NOW WE CONDUCT THEM TO MAKE SURE WE ARE ON TARGET TO MEET CCAP GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION GOALS.
SO, CALCULATING AND REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, THE KEY COMPONENT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IN AND CLIMATE ACTION PLAN OF THE 97 LISTED ACTIONS IN CCAP 45 ACTIONS ARE LINKED TO ADDRESSING GREENHOUSE GAS, BOTH THROUGH CALCULATING AND REDUCTION MEASURES WITHIN THE CCAP OVERALL PLAN.
THE REDUCTION GOALS ARE FOR 43% REDUCTION FROM A 2015 BASELINE BY 2030, AND TO ACHIEVE A HUNDRED PERCENT REDUCTION BY 2050 RESULTS FROM EACH GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY IS USED TO EVALUATE THE CITY'S OVERALL PROGRESS TOWARD OUR CLIMATE ACTION
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GOALS, AND USED TO IDENTIFY KEY INITIATIVES AND PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES BY SECTOR AND BY CITY DEPARTMENT.SINCE THE CCAP 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 ONE THAT LOOKS AT EMISSIONS FROM MUNICIPAL OPERATIONS REFERRED TO AS LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS OR LGO.
THE COMMUNITY-WIDE INVENTORY CAPTURES EMISSIONS FROM ALL ACTIVITIES OCCURRING WITHIN THE CITY OF DALLAS BOUNDARY, WHILE THE LGO INVENTORY IS AN ACCOUNTING OF EMISSIONS FROM CITY OWNED FACILITIES AND OPERATIONS.
FOR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS REPORTING TO BE CREDIBLE AND COMPARABLE EMISSIONS CALCULATIONS NEED TO BE DONE USING STANDARDIZED INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED PROTOCOLS.
WE USE THE CURRENT IIC E GLOBAL PROTOCOL FOR COMMUNITY SCALE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION INVENTORIES TO CALCULATE COMMUNITY-WIDE EMISSIONS DATA.
TO CALCULATE THE EMISSIONS DATA FROM GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS, WE USE THE CURRENT LY LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROTOCOL.
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 IN TRAPPING HEAT IN THE ATMOSPHERE.
THEREFORE, EACH GREENHOUSE GAS HAS A GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL OR GWP VALUE, WHICH REPRESENTS HOW MUCH MORE POTENT IN TRAPPING HEAT IT IS COMPARED TO TO CO2 GAS.
FOR EXAMPLE, METHANE OR CH FOUR HAS A GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL OF 28, WHICH MEANS ONE MOLECULE OF CH FOUR IS A 28 TIMES MORE POTENT GREENHOUSE GAS THAN ONE MOLECULE OF CO2.
TO SIMPLIFY THE ACCOUNTING OF THESE VERY GREENHOUSE GASES, THE GWP VALUE IS USED TO CONVERT THE AMOUNT OF ONE GREENHOUSE GAS TO THE EQUIVALENT AMOUNT OF CARBON DIOXIDE GAS.
THAT IS WHY IN THE REPORT YOU WILL SEE EMISSIONS TOTALS AS METRIC TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE EQUIVALENT OR MT CO2 E AS AN EXAMPLE, USING METHANE'S GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL VALUE.
ONE METRIC TON OF METHANE EQUALS ROUGHLY 28 METRIC TONS OF CO2, WHICH WOULD BE WRITTEN DOWN AS 28 MT CO2 E.
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 EMISSION SOURCES 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 CAL 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 REPORTS.
NOW I'LL GO OVER THE RESULTS OF THE COMMUNITY WIDE INVENTORY AND NEXT SLIDE.
A COMMUNITY WIDE EMISSIONS INVENTORY LOOKS AT EMISSIONS FROM A LIST OF CATEGORIES, ALSO CALLED SECTORS DETERMINED BY THE PROTOCOL OR GUIDELINES USED FOR THE COMMUNITY WIDE INVENTORY.
THE SECTORS WE LOOKED AT WERE STATIONARY, ENERGY, TRANSPORTATION, THE WASTE AND WASTEWATER SECTOR, THE INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND PRODUCT USE SECTOR, AND THE AGRICULTURAL, SORRY, AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, AND OTHER LAND USE CATEGORIES.
IN 2023, COMMUNITY-WIDE EMISSIONS WERE APPROXIMATELY 18.6 MILLION METRIC TONS OF CO2 E 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 EMISSION 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 ATTRIBUTED TO A RECENT CHANGE IN THE AVIATION EMISSIONS ACCOUNTING STANDARD THAT NOW CONSIDERS EMISSIONS FROM FULL FLIGHTS RATHER THAN ONLY TAKEOFFS AND MANDATES FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES.
IF WE HAD UTILIZED THE OLD AVIATION EMISSION STANDARD FOR THE 2023 CALCULATIONS, TOTAL COMMUNITY-WIDE EMISSIONS DECREASED 6% FROM 2019 AND 70% FROM 2015.
NOW I'LL GO OVER THE EMISSIONS FROM THE DIFFERENT SECTORS OR CATEGORIES OF THE COMMUNITY-WIDE INVENTORY.
STARTING WITH THE STATIONARY ENERGY SECTOR.
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THIS SECTOR COVERS EMISSIONS FROM NATURAL GAS USED TO HEAT OUR HOMES AND BUILDINGS EMISSIONS FROM GENERATING ELECTRICITY THAT WE USE.THE EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ENER OF ELECTRICITY AND FUGITIVE EMISSIONS RELEASED DURING THE DELIVERY OF NATURAL GAS 2023 STATIONARY ENERGY SECTOR EMISSIONS HAVE DECREASED 15% SINCE 2019 AND DECREASED BY 31% BY 2015.
UH, THE GRAPH ON THE SLIDE SHOWS STATIONARY ENERGY EMISSIONS ALLOCATED TO EACH NU SECTOR WITH THE DOTTED ORANGE LINE REPRESENTING TOTAL EMISSIONS FOR THE STATIONARY ENERGY SECTOR.
NEXT IS A TRANSPORTATION SECTOR.
EMISSIONS IN THIS SECTOR INCLUDE EMISSIONS FROM CARS, TRUCKS, BUSES, TRAINS, AND AVIATION.
TRANSPORTATION SECTOR EMISSIONS FOR 2023 WAS 8.5 METRIC TONS OF CO2 E OR AN INCREASE OF 22% FROM 2019 EMISSIONS.
PART OF THE INCREASES DUE TO INCREASED TRAVEL OF CARS AND TRUCKS ON THE ROAD.
UH, MIRRORING OBSERVED NATIONAL TRENDS AND SOME OF THE INCREASE IS A RESULT OF THE UPDATED METHODOLOGY FOR CALCULATING EMISSIONS FROM AIR TRAVEL THAT FACTORS IN FULL FLIGHT EMISSIONS AS OPPOSED TO THE PREVIOUS METHOD THAT ONLY ACCOUNTED FOR AMENDMENT AND TAKEOFFS.
I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE NOTE THAT WITHIN THE AVIATION SUB SECTOR, THE INVENTORY INCLUDES TRANSPORTATION EMISSIONS FROM DALLAS LEFT FIELD DALLAS EXECUTIVE, AND THE HELIPORTS DALLAS-FORT WORTH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IS SOME DISTANCE OUTSIDE THE CITY BOUNDARY AND IS EXCLUDED FROM THIS INVENTORY.
ALSO, THE GRAPH ON THE SLIDE DOES NOT SHOW 2015 RAIL AND AVIATION DATA SEPARATED OUT, UH, DUE TO INCOMPLETE DATA AVAILABLE AT THE TIME OF THE 2015 INVENTORY.
THE WASTE CATEGORY INCLUDES EMISSIONS FROM THE DECOMPOSITION OF SOLID WASTE, LANDFILL GAS, FIRE, FLARING, AND EMISSIONS FROM THE PROCESS TO PRODUCE DRINKING WATER AND THE TREATMENT OF WASTEWATER.
2023 EMISSIONS SHOWED A 28% DECREASE FROM 2019 NUMBERS AND A 21% DECREASE FROM 2015.
THE NEXT EMISSION SECTOR IS COMPOSED TWO CATEGORIES, PRODUCT USE AND INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES.
PRODUCT USE EMISSIONS COME FROM SUCH SOURCES AS CHEMICALS USED IN ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING.
THE USE OF SOLVENTS, THE PROPELLANT FROM AEROSOL CAN USAGE THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY AND REFRIGERANT EMISSIONS FROM LEAKING AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS AND HOMES, BUSINESSES AND AUTOMOBILES.
EMISSIONS INCLUDE ALL EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH MANUFACTURING AND ITEM.
THE METHODOLOGY USED TO CALCULATE EMISSIONS FOR THIS CATEGORY WAS TO USE EMISSIONS DATA FROM THE FACILITIES IN DALLAS THAT ARE FEDERALLY MANDATED TO REPORT THEIR EMISSIONS INTO EPAS FACILITY FACILITY LEVEL INFORMATION ON GREENHOUSE GAS'S TOOL DATABASE OR EPA FLIGHT FOR 2023.
THE FACILITIES WERE TEXAS INSTRUMENTS NORTH CAMPUS DUE TO SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AND WEST ROCK PAPER MILL 2023.
EMISSIONS FROM THIS SECTOR INCREASED BY 17% FROM 2019 EMISSIONS, BUT ONLY INCREASED 5% FROM 2015 EMISSIONS.
THE AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, AND OTHER LAND USE SECTOR ENCOMPASSES EMISSIONS FROM LIVESTOCK, MANURE MANAGEMENT, FERTILIZER APPLICATIONS, AND AGRICULTURAL SOIL MANAGEMENT, AS WELL AS CARBON SEQUESTRATION FROM TERRESTRIAL SAINTS.
WHILE A CITY DOES NOT HAVE A SIGNIFICANT EMISSION, HAVE SIGNIFICANT EMISSIONS IN THE SECTOR, BIOLOGIC CARBON SEQUESTRATION, UH, BY URBAN TREES WAS ESTIMATED AND REPORTED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES.
THE CITY'S URBAN FOREST CANOPY WAS ESTIMATED TO SEQUESTER AC 87,072 METRIC TONS OF CO2 E, AN INCREASE OF 11% FROM 2015 TOTAL OF 78,093 METRIC TONS OF CO2 E SEQUESTERED.
NOW WE'LL GO OVER THE RESULTS OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS INVENTORY.
THE LGO INVENTORY TRACKS EMISSIONS FROM OPERATIONS AND ACTIVITIES UNDER THE CITY OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL, INCLUDING ENERGY USED IN MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS, FUEL CONSUMPTION BY OUR VEHICLE FLEET OPERATIONS OF OUR WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES, UH, FROM OUR SOLID WASTE SERVICES AND OTHER GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED FUNCTIONS.
IN 2023, THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMISSIONS WERE APPROXIMATELY EIGHT 804,033 METRIC TONS OF CO2 E, WHICH EQUALS 4% OF THE COMMUNITY-WIDE EMISSIONS.
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LGO EMISSIONS TOTAL IS A 17% REDUCTION FROM 2019 AND A 29% REDUCTION FROM 2015.LIKE THE COMMUNITY WIDE INVENTORY, THE LGO INVENTORY IS COMPRISED OF DIFFERENT SECTORS OR CATEGORIES.
THE BUILDINGS OF FACILITIES CATEGORY COVERS EMISSIONS FROM POWERING AND HEATING CITY OF DALLAS BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES LIKE OUR LIBRARIES, REC CENTERS, FIRE STATIONS, CITY HALL, AND THE CONVENTION CENTER.
2023 EMISSIONS FROM THIS SECTOR TOTAL 75,570 METRIC TONS OF CO2, WHICH IS A 19% DECREASE FROM 2019 EMISSIONS AND A 45% DECREASE FROM 2015 EMISSIONS.
AND 2023, WATER AND WASTEWATER FACILITIES PRODUCED 132,154 METRIC TONS OF CO2 E.
NEARLY ALL EMISSIONS 99.9% RESULTED FROM ELECTRICITY USE.
EMISSIONS IN THIS CATEGORY HAVE DECREASED BY 30% SINCE 2019, AND 46% SINCE 2015.
SLIDE FOR THE SOLID WASTE FACILITY SECTOR 477,202.
METRIC TONS OF CO2 E WERE GENERATED FROM MCCOMAS BLUFF AND THE DEEP WOODS LANDFILL.
99.4% OF EMISSIONS IN THIS SECTOR ARE TIED TO THE 1.4 MILLION WET TONS OF WASTE GOING INTO THE MCCOMAS BLUFF LANDFILL.
AND 2023 WITH THE REMAINDER OF THE EMISSIONS BEING FROM 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 MACOMBS COMPARED TO PRIOR PREVIOUS INVENTORY YEARS.
NEXT, UM, IN 2023, AIRPORT FACILITIES GENERATED A TOTAL OF 16,805 METRIC TONS OF CO2 E, UH, COMPARED TO 2019 EMISSIONS.
UH, THAT'S A 70%, UH, DECLINE.
THIS WAS DUE TO A 21% REDUCTION IN ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION AND HAVING A CLEANER ELECTRICITY GRID.
ALTHOUGH NATURAL GAS DID RISE SLIGHTLY, UH, DURING THE SITE PERIOD, WE DON'T HAVE A 2015 VALUE TO COMPARE 2023 TOTAL DUE TO THE 2015 INVENTORY NOT HAVING A SPECIFIC AIRPORT FACILITY SECTION.
UH, THEN SO 20 FIFTEENS LGO AIRPORT EMISSIONS OR ACTUALLY ACCOUNTED IN OTHER LGO SECTIONS IN THE 2015 REPORTS.
NEXT IS THE STREETLIGHTS AND TRAFFIC SIGNAL SECTOR EMISSIONS FROM ELECTRICITY USED TO POWER STREETLIGHTS AND TRAFFIC SIGNALS PRODUCED 24,867 METRIC TONS OF CO2 E UH, EMISSIONS IN THIS CATEGORY HAS SLIGHTLY DECLINED DOWN, UH, 15% FROM 2015 AND 24% FROM 2019.
NEXT IS THE FLEET AND EQUIPMENT SECTOR.
IN THIS SECTOR, WE LOOKED AT THE EMISSIONS FROM ALMOST 6,000 VEHICLES AND PIECES OF EQUIPMENT THAT THE CITY OWNS AND RUNS IN 2023.
OUR VEHICLE AND EQUIPMENT FLEET PRODUCED 47,418 METRIC TONS OF CO2 E, UH, WHICH IS A 24% DECREASE FROM 2019 AND A 57% DECREASE FROM 2015 FOR THE LGO 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 OPERATIONAL FOOTPRINT.
THIS INCLUDES EMISSIONS FROM ELECTRICITY, TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION LOSSES, PIPELINE LOSSES FROM PURCHASE NATURAL GAS, AS WELL AS EMISSIONS FROM EMPLOYEE COMMUTES AND BUSINESS TRAVEL EMPLOYEE COMMUTING PRODUCED 19,359 METRIC TONS OF CO2 E.
THIS ESTIMATE WAS DERIVED FROM CITY EMPLOYEES WHO TRACK THEIR COMMUTES IN THE TRI PARKING IT APPLICATION TRI PARKING.
IT IS PART OF NCT COGS, AIR NORTH TEXAS AIR QUALITY OUTREACH PROGRAM.
UH, OEQS LEADS THE EFFORT TO ENCOURAGE ALL CITY EMPLOYEES TO PARTICIPATE IN TRACKING THEIR COMMUTES AND TRI PARKING.
AS MORE EMPLOYEES PARTICIPATE, TRY PARKING IT DATA, WE'LL PROVIDE A MORE COMPLETE SNAPSHOT OF COMPUTER COMMUTER EMISSIONS FOR FUTURE LGO INVENTORIES.
UH, THIS WAS ALSO THE FIRST YEAR THAT BUSINESS TRAVEL EMISSIONS WERE INCLUDED IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT INVENTORY IMPROVING THE CITY'S OVERALL EMISSIONS ACCOUNT.
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SO AS WE COME TO THE END OF THIS PRESENTATION, I'LL RECAP THE RESULTS OF THAT 2023 GREENHOUSE GAS AND EMISSIONS INVENTORY REPORTS.SO IN 2023, COMMUNITY-WIDE EMISSIONS WERE APPROXIMATELY 18.6 MILLION METRIC TONS OF CO2 E.
THAT IS A 1% INCREASE FROM 2019 TOTALS, AND 11% DECREASE FROM 2015 EMISSIONS.
THE MAIN TAKEAWAYS FROM THE COMMUNITY WIDE INVENTORY IS WE SAW THE, THE STRONGEST DECREASE IN EMISSIONS FROM THE STATIONARY AREA, THE STATION STATIONARY ENERGY SECTOR, BUT WE ALSO SAW A SLIGHT RISE IN EMISSIONS FROM THE TRANSPORTATION SECTOR.
THIS WAS A, UH, THIS WAS 'CAUSE OF A RECENT CHANGE IN AVIATION SECTOR EMISSIONS ACCOUNTING, WHICH LED TO THE 2023 COMMUNITY-WIDE EMISSIONS TOTAL BEING HIGHER THAN THE 2019 TOTAL.
AGAIN, IF WE HAD CALCULATED 2323 EMISSIONS USING THE OLD METHODOLOGY, WE WOULD SEE A 6% DECREASE FROM 2019 AND A 17% DECREASE FROM 2015 EMISSIONS.
SO LOOKING AT THE, UH, LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS EMISSIONS, THE TOTAL EMISSIONS AGAIN WERE 804,033 METRIC TONS OF CO2 EA, WHICH IS A 17% REDUCTION FROM 2019, AND A 29% REDUCTION FROM 2015 LEVELS.
UM, ALSO, LDO EMISSIONS REPRESENT 4% OF THE COMMUNITY-WIDE EMISSIONS.
2023 SHOWED A LARGE DECREASE IN EMISSIONS RESULTING FROM ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION, BUT WE ALSO SAW NOTABLE EMISSIONS DECREASE FROM THE WASTE AND FLEET CATEGOR.
SO THE REPORT ALSO SHOWS HOW DALLAS COMPARES TO OTHER CITIES THAT REPORT EMISSIONS AS PART OF THE C 40 CITIES NETWORK, AND WE FOUND THAT DALLAS'S EMISSIONS ARE COMPARABLE IN MAGNITUDE TO OTHER LARGE NORTH AMERICAN CITIES AND REFLECT A SIMILAR SECTOR BREAKDOWN WITH STATIONARY ENERGY AND TRANSPORTATION AT THE MAIN GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS CONTRIBUTORS.
ALTHOUGH NEXT SLIDE, WHEN YOU COMPARE DALLAS WITH OTHER CITIES OF SIMILAR POPULATION AREA AND GDP, OUR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS NUMBERS ARE HIGHER.
SO TO CONCLUDE THE PRESENTATION, JUST, UH, DISCUSSING THE NEXT STEPS, UH, WE WILL BE PRESENTING, UH, TO PTE AT THE BEGINNING OF FEBRUARY.
UM, AND THEN PRIOR OR AFTER THAT PRESENTATION, THE COMPLETE REPORT WILL BE PUBLISHED ONLINE FOR, UH, FOR REVIEW.
UM, THIS INFORMATION WILL, WILL, IS ALREADY FUELING INTO OUR OUR FIVE YEAR PRIORITY, UH, IMPLEMENTATION PLAN THAT WE'VE DISCUSSED BEFORE FOR US TO, UH, LOOK AT THE NEXT CRITICAL STEPS OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS TO ADDRESS OUR MAIN GOALS OF THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN FOCUSED ON 2030.
UH, THIS DATE WILL ALSO SUPPORT OUR ENGAGEMENT AND FACILITATION OF OUR ANNUAL WORK PLAN WITH THE OTHER 16 DEPARTMENTS THAT HAVE DIRECT ACTION RESPONSIBILITIES TO CCAP AND WORKING WITH THEM TO DISCUSS HOW THEY CAN IMPROVE THEIR PROGRAMS TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS WITHIN THEIR OPERATIONS.
AND THEN FINALLY, WE'RE ALREADY LOOKING INTO THE COMMUNITY-WIDE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATION INVENTORIES, UH, FOR THE NEXT PHASE, FOR THE NEXT SERIES, LOOKING TO ESTABLISH A LONG-TERM VISION AND FREQUENCY OF WHAT THAT WILL NEED TO LOOK LIKE FOR US.
UH, OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS.
UH, WE'RE GONNA BE DISCUSSING WHAT THAT PROCESS OF THE NEXT STEPS WILL BE, UH, THROUGHOUT THE, UH, THROUGHOUT THIS YEAR.
I THINK WITH THAT, THAT CONCLUDES, UH, THE PRESENT.
IT CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATION.
WE'RE HAPPY TO, UH, FACILITATE ANY QUESTIONS.
AND JUST A REMINDER, WE DO HAVE THE CONSULTANTS FROM ICF ONLINE, UH, FOR ANY TECHNICAL SUPPORT QUESTIONS THAT MAY COME UP.
THAT LOOKS LIKE WE'VE GOT, UM, DR.
FIRST, I JUST WANTED TO GIVE A GIANT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND THANK YOU.
I NOTICED IN THE MONUMENTAL EFFORT, AND IT IS THE BACKBONE OF OUR TRACKING PROGRESS.
AND ANYWAY, SO THANK YOU SO MUCH BOTH FOR THE EFFORT.
AND THEN ALSO JUST MR. ORTIZ, THANK YOU FOR YOUR CLEAR COMMUNICATION.
THIS IS COMPLEX MATERIAL AND I PARTICULARLY THOUGHT THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE ACCOUNTING WAS REALLY WELL ARTICULATED.
AND I THINK THAT WILL BE GREAT, NOT ONLY FOR STAFF, BUT FOR COUNSEL, BUT FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
UM, SECOND, I HAD A COUPLE OF SUGGESTIONS IN THE POWERPOINT, KNOWING THAT THIS WILL BE USED CONTINUALLY AND MOVING ON TO PTE.
UM, REALLY BRIEFLY, UM, JUST IN THE LINE OF CLARITY AND COMMUNICATING MAJOR TRENDS, BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH MATERIAL TO TWO SUGGESTIONS ON SLIDE 12.
I THINK THAT WAS THE ONE WITH THE BAR GRAPHS, OR THERE WERE MANY BAR GRAPHS.
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UM, OKAY.THERE, IF YOU COULD EMBED IN THE BIG BLOCKS, THE ACTUAL NUMBERS FOR EACH SECTOR, I THINK THAT WOULD HELP.
UM, ON ALSO ON THE FINAL TRENDS, I THINK IT WAS 28 WHERE YOU, OR MAYBE IT WAS 23, THE END WHERE YOU'RE LIKE, IN SUMMARY, YOU, YOU REALLY DO THIS ALREADY.
SO THIS MAY JUST BE MY COMMUNICATION STYLE, BUT I THOUGHT IT COULD GO A LONG WAY TO SAY, HERE'S WHERE WE'RE GOING THE RIGHT DIRECTION, HERE'S WHERE WE'RE GOING THE WRONG DIRECTION.
AND THEN ALSO A QUESTION, A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
IN THE COMMUNITY WIDE INVENTORY, THE PLUS 1% FROM 2019, IS IT CORRECT THAT THAT IS JUST BECAUSE OF THE CHANGE IN PROTOCOL FOR TRANSPORTATION? THAT'S CORRECT.
SO, UH, JUST TO, TO FURTHER EXPLAIN.
SO BEFORE IT WAS JUST AGAIN, THE, FROM A B AVIATION SIDE, RIGHT? LAND LANDING, THE TAKE OFF EMISSIONS.
NOW, FOR EXAMPLE, IF THE PLANE GOES FROM DOWN SOUTHFIELD TO PHOENIX MM-HMM
THEN THE ADMISSIONS FOR THAT WHOLE TRAVEL, RIGHT? WHOLE DISTANCE IS SPLIT BETWEEN US
ALRIGHT, COMMISSIONER JAY, GO AHEAD.
YES, UH, THANKS FOR THE, UH, OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, SHARE MY COMMENTS ON THIS.
I THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL ENCOURAGED THAT THE TRENDS ARE GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
UM, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, THINKING ABOUT THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN, UM, YOU KNOW, BEING ABLE TO LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES WHERE THERE'S THE BIGGEST, YOU KNOW, UH, OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE IMPACT, UH, I THINK IT'S KIND OF GREAT TIMING THAT MR. ORENSTEIN IS HERE TONIGHT TO TALK TO US ABOUT SOME OF THE POTENTIAL WAYS TO LOOK AT THE SOLAR OPPORTUNITIES IN CA.
UM, IN PARTICULAR, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WE'VE GOT
UM, BUT, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT LIKE SOMETHING LIKE SOLAR PV OVER PARKING WOULD, YOU KNOW, REALLY BE A LIKE SORT OF A GAME CHANGER, UM, IN WHAT I'VE BEEN ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, SEE THIS COMPLAINTS SIMPLY THIS.
SO JUST WANNA ENCOURAGE STAFF TO, YOU KNOW, CONSIDER THESE PLANS, LOOK AT THE RESEARCH, AND I'M SURE REACH OUT TO MR. EINSTEIN TO, YOU KNOW, PUSH THESE THINGS ALONG.
UM, YES, I FIRST OF ALL WANNA THANK YOU FOR NOT ONLY, UH, THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT WENT INTO THIS, BUT THE CLARITY IN WHICH YOU PRESENTED IT.
UH, IT, THE CLARITY REALLY CAME ACROSS AS PROMPTING IT PROMPTS QUESTIONS ON OUR PART.
THAT MEANS YOU DID A DOGGONE GOOD JOB, WHICH YOU DID
UM, MY, MY CONCERNS ARE MORE, LESS WHAT YOU'RE PRESENTING THAN THE NEXT PHASE, WHICH IS WHAT'S THE PLAN GOING FORWARD? SO A COUPLE COMMENTS.
ONE IS, GIVEN THAT WE HAD THIS 1% INCREASE IN SOME DECENT REASONS FOR, OKAY, NOW WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO TO REVERSE THAT TREND? UM, A SECOND ONE THAT I'M TREAT, I'M INTRIGUED BY PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AS A WAY OF REPEATING OUTCOME.
AND I'M PARTICULARLY CONCERNED IN LOOKING AT A NUMBER OF OUR ENVIRONMENTALLY UNFRIENDLY POLICIES WITH OUR MEDICAL FACILITIES, WHICH SHOULD, LOOKING AT HOW THESE THINGS AFFECT HEALTH BE THE MOST EFFECTIVE, AND GREENHOUSE GASES, SEEING UT SOUTHWESTERN ON THE LIST, UH, DOESN'T MEAN THAT METHODIST OR BAYLOR OR OTHER FACILITIES ARE NOT ON THERE.
IT MEAN IT JUST MEANS THEY WEREN'T REQUIRED TO REPORT.
AND THOSE PLACES SHOULD BE IN THE FOREFRONT OF PUSHING THE SOLUTIONS.
SO AS YOU LOOK AT THIS, UH, I THINK THAT PUTTING A, A BIG BULLSEYE ON THE CHEST OF THE CEO OF UT SOUTHWESTERN IS A GREAT IDEA.
UM, AND, UM, UH, SO, SO THAT KIND OF, UH, UH, CONCLUDES MY COMMENTS.
AND AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR BREAK CLEAR REPORT.
LET'S GO ONLINE TO CHAIR WALLACE.
UM, MY ONE THING I'D LIKE JUST SEE, I GUESS REITERATED NEAR THE END IS COMPARED TO OUR 2030 AND OUR 2050 GOALS, THE CCAP, WHERE DO WE STAND? ARE WE HALFWAY THERE? ARE WE, YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE TO SEE A PERCENTAGE OF WHERE WE STAND.
UM, AND IS THAT SOMETHING RIGHT NOW THAT OEQS KNOWS THAT WAS REALLY PART OF, UH, THAT WILL, THAT WASN'T PART OF
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THE SCOPE.UM, BUT I THINK LOOKING AT, AT THE CCA, LOOKING AT THE OTHER, UH, WAS IT THE GOVERNMENT, THE GRIP OR THE LOOKING AT THE OTHER, THE OPERATIONS, YEAH, THE FIVE YEAR IMPLEMENTATION, UM, THAT WILL HELP US, BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT WE ARE KIND OF ON TARGET TO AT LEAST MEET THE 2030, UH, GOAL.
YEAH, JUST AS FREDDY SAID THAT, THAT REALLY IS, UM, THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF THE FIVE YEAR PLAN THAT WE WILL BE WORKING ON THIS YEAR TO REALLY GO IN AND, AND EVALUATE WHERE WE ARE IN TERMS OF CAP, UM, WHERE WE STAND, WHAT ARE SOME STRATEGIES WE CAN DO TO CLOSE THE GAP WHEN, FOR THOSE GAPS THAT WE HAVE IDENTIFIED.
WAS THAT ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS, CHAIR WALLACE? YES.
I'VE GOT A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
SO, UH, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND THOSE EMISSIONS THAT ARE INCLUDED, I WANT TO JUST REITERATE, THOSE ARE SELF-REPORTED EMISSIONS BY INDUSTRY, RIGHT? UH, I BELIEVE SO, BUT I WANNA PASS THAT OVER TO OUR, OUR, OUR TECHNICAL, UH, FRIENDS, SOPHIE AND, AND ALEX.
THEY HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF, OF THE REPORTING, UH, PROTOCOL FOR FLIGHT.
AND I'M REFERRING TO THE EMISSIONS THAT ARE REPORTED ON SLIDE 16, INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND PRODUCTS.
CAN EVERYONE HEAR ME? MM-HMM
YEAH, SO THEY ARE TECHNICALLY SELF-REPORTED EMISSIONS, BUT THEY ARE FOR A, A GOVERNMENT MANDATED REPORTING SCHEME THROUGH THE GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING PROGRAM.
THE ONE THING THAT WE NEED TO KEEP IN MIND WITH IT IS THAT THERE IS A LIMIT TO WHEN REPORTERS NEED TO, ARE, ARE MANDATED TO REPORT.
SO IF A FACILITY HAS LESS THAN 25,000 METRIC TON CO2 E EMISSIONS OVER A YEAR, THEY ARE NOT REQUIRED TO MAN, THEY'RE NOT REQUIRED TO REPORT TO THAT KIND OF FLIGHT PORTAL.
UH, SO BASICALLY THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SEEING.
ONLY A COUPLE OF THESE FACILITIES THAT HAVEN'T REACHED THE LEVEL OF EMISSIONS THAT THEY NEED TO, UH, REPORT TO THE EPA.
BUT THOSE EMISSIONS THAT DO REPORT ARE VERIFIED BY EPA.
SO EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE SELF-REPORTED, THEY ARE CONSIDERED RELIABLE.
AND HAVE WE CONSIDERED HOW POLICY CHANGES TO GRAIN COST GASES EMISSIONS REPORTING IN THE FUTURE IS GOING TO BE FACTORED INTO WHETHER OR NOT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO INCLUDE THESE AGAIN? YEAH, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS A, A BIT OF AN OPEN QUESTION RIGHT NOW, UH, TO SEE WHERE, WHERE THE FINAL RULING ON THE GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING PROGRAM WILL END UP AND WHAT CHANGES ARE IMPLEMENTED.
SO WE ARE, WE'RE STILL SEEING THAT WE MIGHT HAVE, UH, DATA FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS, BUT FOR DEFINITELY DURING THE NEXT CYCLE OF UPDATING THE GREENHOUSE GAS, UH, INVENTORY FOR DALLAS, THAT WOULD BE A CONSIDERATION TO MAKE.
AND WHERE, WHERE ARE ALTERNATIVE SOURCES FOR POTENTIALLY FINDING THIS INFORMATION AS WELL.
YEAH, I THINK THAT THAT'S, THAT WAS GONNA BE MY NEXT QUESTION IS WHERE DO WE BELIEVE THAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY OBTAIN THIS INFORMATION, IF NOT SELF-REPORTED EMISSIONS? WOULD SOMETHING LIKE PERMITTED EMISSIONS OR POTENTIAL TO EMIT EMISSIONS FROM THOSE INDUSTRIAL SOURCES BE COUNTED? YEAH, THANK, WE HAVE A LOT OF INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES IN DALLAS, AND THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING.
YEAH, I THINK DEFINITELY, UH, PERMITTING STRUCTURES WOULD BE A GOOD WAY TO GO ABOUT IT.
UH, UNFORTUNATELY THEY MAY NOT HAVE DIRECT EMISSIONS DATA, UH, BUT ACTIVITY DATA THAT WE CAN USE, AND THERE ARE, UH, METHODOLOGIES THAT WE CAN IN IMPLEMENT THAT CAN TAKES THE ACTIVITY DATA THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO THROUGH PERMITTING AND CONVERTS THAT TO EMISSIONS DATA.
UH, IT MAY NOT BE QUITE AS ACCURATE AS KIND OF DIRECT REPORTING.
UH, AND THAT'S ANOTHER POTENTIAL AVENUE IS TO REACH OUT TO DIFFERENT FACILITIES, GET THAT EMISSIONS DATA, LOOK AT SUSTAINABILITY REPORTS FROM COMPANIES, SEE WHAT WE CAN FIND IN TERMS OF WHAT THEY'VE REPORTED, AND THEN FIND, UM, ALTERNATIVE METHODOLOGIES FROM, YOU KNOW, NOT DIRECT EMISSIONS REPORTING, BUT ACTIVITY DATA REPORTING TO GET EMISSIONS DATA FOR THE INDUSTRIAL SECTOR.
AND JUST CANDIDLY, I DON'T KNOW THAT I'VE PUT MUCH WEIGHT IN SELF-REPORTED EMISSIONS JUST TO BEGIN WITH.
SO, UM, WE CAN, WE CAN DISCUSS THAT, UH, I GUESS AS, AS THE REPORT COMES OUT AND WE GET A MORE IN-DEPTH LOOK AT WHAT THOSE ADMISSIONS INCLUDED, UM, I WAS A LITTLE BIT CONFUSED BY THE LAST QUESTION THAT TRACY ASKED, OR CHAIR WALLACE ASKED ABOUT, UH, HOW THIS INFORMATION, UH, TELLS US WHERE WE ARE OR AREN'T
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WITH OUR 2030 CCAP GOAL OF A 43% EMISSION OR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS REDUCTION.IS THAT NOT WHAT THE GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY IS INTENDED TO? UM, DID THEY NO, IT'S JUST MORE OF AN, OF AN ACCOUNTING.
UM, THERE ARE, I MEAN, IT IS, SO THAT'S WHAT THE PURPOSE FOR THIS ONE WAS.
AND IT IS FOR, AND WE DID, THERE IS INDICATION THAT IT IS GONNA BE THE 11TH, THE 2030, BUT IT WAS JUST OUTTA SCOPE OF WHAT WE, UH, CONTRACTED WITH.
YEAH, AND IT WOULD BE LIKE, SO WE WOULD HAVE TO, FOR THAT, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE WITH OTHER, THE OTHER PLAN, THE FIVE YEAR PLAN, MAYBE INCORPORATING, UH, THAT PROCESS TO THAT.
AND, AND I CAN ADD, UH, I CAN CLARIFY ON, ON THAT QUESTION.
SO THE SCOPE OF THIS PLAN WAS JUST TO DO THE REPORTING, THE ANNUAL REPORTING FOR THE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN OUR, UH, FIVE, FIVE-YEAR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE TARGETED OR THE PROJECTED, UH, PROGRESS TOWARDS THE 20, 30 AND 2050 GOALS.
UH, THE METHODOLOGY CHANGES FROM 2015 TILL NOW, UH, WAS A MAJOR IMPACT ON HOW THAT INFORMATION WAS CALCULATED.
SO WE NEEDED MORE DEDICATED TIME TO DO THAT CALCULATION, WHICH WE'LL DO, UH, WHICH WE ARE DOING, UM, IN THIS PLAN.
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE FIRST STEPS.
SO WE SHOULDN'T INFER THAT WE ARE 20, WHAT, WHAT IS IT? UM, LEMME GO BACK TO THE SIDE 11 NET, I GUESS 10% TOWARDS OUR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS REDUCTION GOAL.
IF WE'RE 11% FROM 2015 AND UP 1% FROM 2019, WERE LIKE 10% TOWARDS REDUCING THE INITIAL GR 2015 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS GOAL.
IS THAT NOT ACCURATE? THE METHODOLOGY CHANGES IS SOMETHING THAT WE WOULDN'T WANNA SHARE AT THAT AT THAT MOMENT.
SO JUST THE NET CHANGES FROM THIS INVENTORY FROM LAST, FROM THE LAST ONE IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN, UH, SPEAK ON WITH, UH, HIGH LEVEL CLARITY.
BUT FROM THE 2015 BASELINE, THAT'S WHERE THE 2030 GOAL IS SET.
UH, WE DON'T HAVE A QUANTIFIABLE NUMBER THAT WE ARE COMFORTABLE SHARING WITHOUT DOING, UH, THE CALIBRATION PROCESS.
UM, AND SO WHEN WILL WE, I MEAN, I GUESS YOU'RE, YOU'RE SAYING IN FIVE YEARS, IN FIVE YEARS FOR NOW IS 2031.
SO IN 2031, WE'LL LEARN IF WE'VE MET OUR 2030 GOAL, HELP ME UNDERSTAND HOW THE FIVE YEAR PROCESS PLAYS IN.
SO BY THE, THIS FISCAL YEAR, THAT IS OUR PLAN IS TO CREATE THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
SO BY THE END OF THIS PROCESS, WHICH WILL TAKE THE FISCAL YEAR, WE WILL HAVE THE CLEAR PROJECTIONS FOR 2030 AND FOR 2020.
SO BY THE END OF THIS FISCAL YEAR 2026, WE WILL KNOW WHERE WE ARE OR AREN'T TOWARDS OUR 2030 GOAL? THAT IS CORRECT.
THAT'S THE MAIN FOCUS OF THIS GOAL.
AND, AND SO THEN I GUESS, WHAT WAS THIS EXERCISE? WHAT, WHAT DOES THIS EXERCISE BENEFIT US? IF IT'S NOT TELLING US HOW CLOSE OR FAR WE ARE FROM THE 23RD GOAL, IT'S TO GET THE DATA TO HAVE THAT.
FOR WHAT YOU'LL, FOR FIGURING OUT WHAT YOU'LL ACTUALLY EXTRAPOLATE IS THE WHERE WE ARE AT THE END OF FISCAL YEAR.
I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT HOW MUCH THIS EXERCISE COSTS.
DO WE KNOW, I, I DO NOT KNOW OFFHAND WHAT THE, COULD WE FIND OUT MM-HMM
YEAH, I CAN GIVE YOU, YEAH, EXACTLY.
UM, WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE REPORT.
I IMAGINE THAT WE'LL HAVE PLENTY OF QUESTIONS AFTER WE ACTUALLY HAVE SOMETIMES REVIEW THE REPORT AND DIGEST IT.
UM, I'M REALLY EXCITED THAT Y'ALL WERE ABLE TO BRING THIS PRESENTATION TO US AS EARLY AS YOU DID.
WE, WE'VE BEEN REALLY EXCITED TO HEAR ABOUT THIS DATA AND UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS AND WHERE WE ARE AND AREN'T.
UM, IT'S GREAT TO KNOW THAT AT THE END OF THE YEAR WE'LL HAVE SOME MORE CLARITY AROUND THAT.
UM, AND I JUST WANNA REITERATE WHAT STAFF, WHAT, WHAT FOLKS HAVE SAID ABOUT STAFFS WORK.
WE KNOW THAT THAT WAS A BIG LIFT.
WE KNOW THAT Y'ALL HAVE BEEN WORKING ON IT FOR QUITE SOME TIME.
AND GO AHEAD, PAUL, BEHIND ME INCLUDED, UM, TO LEAD THIS EFFORT AND GET IT STARTED.
AND SO WE JUST WANNA REALLY APPRECIATE THAT EFFORT.
UM, AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING IT IN A REALLY, UH, UNDERSTANDABLE AND CONCISE WAY.
I WOULD LIKE TO ASK IF WE COULD HAVE A FOLLOW UP ITEM ON NEXT MONTH'S AGENDA, ONCE WE HAVE A CHANCE TO DIGEST THE REPORT TO SEE IF ANYBODY HAS ANY QUESTIONS THAT THEY AREN'T GONNA BE ABLE TO AN ASK RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T, WE HAVEN'T SEEN THAT REPORT.
SO IF WE COULD JUST HAVE A FOLLOW UP ITEM THAT INCLUDES THE REPORT AS AN ATTACHMENT, AND WE'LL HAVE MAYBE MAYBE 10
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MINUTES ALLOCATED ON THAT AGENDA ITEM FOR QUESTIONS.SORRY, I JUST HAVE A QUICK QUESTION.
SO I SEE, UM, WHERE IS THE ROLE OF MODELING, UM, FOR SOME OF THESE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO USE? UM, KIND OF BASED ON STANDARD PERMITTING, UM, DATA AND HOW, UM, ROBUST IS, IS IS MODELING GOING TO BE TO REFLECT GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FOR THESE INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES THAT ARE NOT, UM, MANDATED TO REPORT? AND THAT'S A QUESTION THAT WE CAN ASK FOR NEXT TIME.
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO ASK, WE DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER IT RIGHT NOW, BUT I, I FEEL LIKE ESPECIALLY IN OUR NEXT, AND DR.
JACK PROBABLY KNOWS A LOT MORE ABOUT THIS TOO, BUT IN OUR NEXT, UM, REVIEW OF THIS, I, I, I FEEL LIKE MODELING IS, IS GONNA BE USED ROBUSTLY TO BE HONEST.
SO, UM, SO I GET IT IN MY OWN WORDS.
SO WERE, YOU'RE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, QUESTION ABOUT OTHER SOURCES, WHAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, INDUSTRIAL SOURCES FOR INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS, OR IS IT, UM, HOW COULD WE POTENTIALLY USE THAT DATA TO, TO MODEL? SO I'M LOOKING AT, UM, I'M NOT LOOKING AT HOW CAN WE USE THAT DATA TO MODEL.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE MORE CHALLENGING IF WE USE JUST THREE INSTITUTIONS DATA TO DO MODELING.
UM, BUT I AM LOOKING AT THE MODELING THAT'S ALREADY BEEN DONE, UM, BY, I DON'T KNOW, TCEQ AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS, UM, ABOUT, YOU KNOW, KIND OF STANDARD PERMITTING DATA AND THEN THE USE OF THAT LOOKING AT THE NUMBER OF INDUSTRIAL, UM, FACILITIES THAT WE HAVE.
LIKE IS THAT ANYTHING THAT'S EVEN POSSIBLE? UM, AND IF THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, KIND OF ATTAINABLE FOR US TO DO IN THE FUTURE, BECAUSE I DO THINK WE'RE, WE'RE SIGNIFICANTLY UNDERESTIMATING INDUSTRIAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, AS I THINK, UM, WAS ALLUDED TO PREVIOUSLY.
THINK I UNDER YES, I UNDERSTAND THE, THE QUESTION I I WAS JUST WONDERING IF MAYBE SOPHIE OR ALEX COULD MAYBE, YEAH, I CAN TAKE THAT.
I LIKE SOME, LIKE, YOU KNOW, OTHER METHODOLOGIES OR OTHER EXAMPLES THAT YEAH, I THINK FINDING THOSE METHODOLOGIES IS DEFINITELY GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT WE'D HAVE TO, UH, EXAMINE WHEN WE'RE COMING UP TO THE NEXT INVENTORY.
WE WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE THAT FEDERAL DATA, UH, PROVIDED TO US, LIKE ACCESSIBLE, UH, FOR THIS INVENTORY CYCLE.
I WILL SAY THAT THE, WHAT'S REPORTED IN THE INDUSTRIAL PROCESS EMISSIONS IS NOT THE TOTAL EMISSIONS FROM THE INDUSTRIAL SECTOR.
WE ALSO HAVE KIND OF OUR STATIONARY ENERGY BUILDINGS THAT'S SPLIT UP BY KIND OF RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL.
SO SOME OF THOSE INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS ARE INCLUDED AS PART OF THE BUILDINGS EMISSIONS.
SO THAT WOULD BE KIND OF THE WRAPPING UP OF THE ENTIRE PROCESSES FROM INDUSTRIAL.
SO IT'S REALLY JUST LOOKING AT THOSE FACILITIES, LIKE WHAT ARE THEIR, LIKE DIRECT EMISSIONS, NOT FROM STATIONARY ENERGY USE, NOT FROM, UH, YOU KNOW, ELECTRICITY THAT THEY, UH, ARE CONSUMING.
IT'S LIKE AN ACTUAL, LIKE IF LIKE, YOU KNOW, FOR LIKE TEXAS INSTRUMENTS AS THEY'RE WORKING ON, UH, YOU KNOW, ELECTRONICS, THOSE LIKE SPECIFIC PROCESS EMISSIONS ARE WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE IPPU, THE INDUSTRIAL PROCESS AND PRODUCT USE CATEGORY.
BUT THERE IS OTHER SOURCES OF INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS THAT ARE INCLUDED THROUGHOUT THE INVENTORY.
AND I, I THINK IT SHOULD BE CLEAR ONCE YOU HAVE THE REPORT IN FRONT OF YOU, UH, WHERE THOSE OTHER ADDITIONAL SOURCES, SO WE'RE NOT, UM, UNDER COUNTING THE EMISSIONS.
UM, BUT GOING FORWARD, UH, IF WE DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO THE G-H-G-R-P DATA, UH, IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING WHERE WE'LL HAVE TO LOOK AT KIND OF STANDARD PROTOCOLS, UH, FOR OTHER EMISSIONS ACCOUNTING SOURCES FOR INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES.
AND IT MIGHT HAVE TO BE, UH, YOU KNOW, OUTREACH TO THESE, SOME OF THESE COMPANIES AND GETTING DIRECT DATA, UH, OR FINDING WAYS TO MODEL THAT.
IT WON'T BE AT THE SAME LEVEL OF, UH, SPEC UN UNLESS WE'RE GETTING DIRECT DATA.
IT WON'T BE THE LEVEL OF SAME SPECIFICITY.
SO THAT WILL BE A CONSIDERATION THAT WE'LL PUT IN.
AND THAT WILL MAKE BE VERY CLEAR IN THE REPORTING, UH, AS A DATA GAP, AS A LIMITATION THAT WE HAVE.
BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT THERE ARE, THERE ARE WAYS OF DOING IT THAT WE JUST NEED TO KIND OF SEE WHAT SOURCES OF DATA ARE THEY, UH, IMPLEMENTING.
LIKE WHAT PERMITS ARE THEY FILLING OUT, WHAT PERMITS ARE THEY REQUIRED TO COMPLETE, WHAT DATA CAN WE PULL FROM THAT, AND THEN HOW CAN WE CONVERT THAT ACTIVITY DATA INTO EMISSIONS DATA.
UH, SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF WORK, BUT THANK YOU.
ALEX, FOR, FOR FORMENTING THAT, AND, AND AGAIN, I JUST WANNA MENTION THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ONLY LOOKING AT THE GREENHOUSE GASES
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THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.SO THERE ARE, WE NOT NECESSARILY CAN COUNT OTHER SOURCES OF, YOU KNOW, POLLUTION, AIR POLLUTION, BUT IT'S JUST THOSE SPECIFIC, UH, GREENHOUSE GASES.
AND AGAIN, LIKE ALEX SAID, IT'S, IT'S THE, UH, EMISSIONS FROM ACTUALLY MAKING THE ACTUAL PRODUCT.
SO IT COULD BE UM, YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, NATURAL GAS USED TO CREATE HOT WATER THAT IF USED TO MAKE THE, MAKE THE PRODUCT MM-HMM
SO IT'S STUFF LIKE THAT OR SOLVENTS USED SPECIFICALLY FOR MAKING THAT PRODUCT EMISSIONS.
I THINK THAT'S GONNA BE A TRICKY PROBLEM TO SOLVE.
I DON'T THINK THAT WE'RE GONNA GET INDUSTRY TO BE'S SUPER TRANSPARENT WITH US.
IF THEY'RE NOT DISCLOSING IT OR NOT REQUIRED TO DISCLOSE IT TO EPA, THEY'RE CERTAINLY NOT GONNA DISCLOSE IT TO US.
UM, SO WE'LL THAT IS A, THAT'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO GET OUR ARMS AROUND PRETTY QUICKLY.
UH, WHEN IS THE NEXT INVENTORY WHAT, JUST LOOKING FOR, SO, UM, THE SOONEST WE'RE THINKING ABOUT MAYBE SHORTENING UP THE, THE TIME SPAN TO MAKE, BE ABLE TO GET DATA QUICKER, MAKE MORE ADJUSTMENTS.
SO AT THE EARLIEST IT MIGHT BE THE THREE YEARS FROM NOW CALENDAR YEAR OR IF WE DECIDE TO KEEP SAME FOUR YEAR INTERVAL, UH, IT'LL BE 27.
SO THE EARLIEST MIGHT BE 26, 20 26 DATA IN 2029 MOST LIKELY.
JUST BECAUSE IT JUST TAKES SO LONG TO GET THE DATA.
AND WAITING FOR THE DATA TO BE AVAILABLE.
UM, I JUST WANNA SAY THANK Y'ALL FOR TAKING THE TIME TO COME, UM, MAKE THIS PRESENTATION TO US AND ALL THE WORK THAT WENT INTO IT.
I THINK IT'S A REALLY CRITICAL STEP TO UNDERSTANDING WHERE WE ARE SO WE CAN ADDRESS IT.
NO QUESTIONS FOR YOU GUYS ON DATA AND CHARTS AND REPORTING.
UM, JUST A COUPLE GENERAL COMMENTS.
UM, 'CAUSE THERE WAS MENTION OF LIKE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN GOING FORWARD AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT GOES INTO ALL OF THAT, BUT I JUST WANTED TO SAY, LIKE, YOU KNOW, WORD OF GENERAL ENCOURAGEMENT.
UM, IT'S THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MORE THAN JUST THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM, BUT TO KIND OF TAKE THAT, UM, THE BULK OF THE EMISSIONS COMING FROM TRANSPORTATION AND REALLY COMING FROM AUTOMOBILE TRA TRAVEL, UM, SERIOUSLY.
UM, AND, AND ALSO LIKE TYING IT TO THE CITY'S VISION ZERO GOALS, I THINK WILL BE REALLY CRITICAL.
UM, BECAUSE JUST AS LIKE, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR CITY, THE WAY THE, THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IS LAID OUT REALLY DISINCENTIVIZES, UM, GETTING AROUND ON, UH, ON FOOT BY BIKE, UM, CERTAINLY BY, BY TRANSIT AND IN INCENTIVIZES CAR TRAVEL.
I DROVE HERE TONIGHT, NOT BECAUSE I WANTED TO, BUT BECAUSE IT'S THE SAFEST, YOU KNOW, WAY TO GET HERE.
I WOULD'VE PREFERRED IT TO BRING MY BIKE.
UM, AND THAT'S, I'M LUCKY TO HAVE THE OPTION.
BUT YEAH, I, YOU KNOW, SEEING THAT NUMBER, NOT GOING DOWN FROM THE, THE, UM, TRANSPORTATION STANDPOINT AND TYING IT TO THE, YOU KNOW, THE CAR TRAVEL, UM, TRAVEL.
I'D LOVE TO SEE LIKE DALLAS AS A CITY REALLY MAKE A, A PUSH TO TAKE THE, UH, YOU KNOW, THE CAR CLIMATE IMPACT SERIOUSLY AND TIE IT TO THE, YOU KNOW, THE HUMAN, THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF.
SO THANK Y'ALL FOR YOUR TIME VERY MUCH.
THANK YOU COMMISSIONER CLARK FOR THOSE COMMENTS.
OUR NEXT, UH, ITEM IS A BRIEFING MEMO THAT GOES RIGHT TO THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSPORTATION ISSUE IS THE NORTH TEXAS ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT SITE SELECTIONS.
WE HAVE A MEMO, UH, THAT I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ, SOME REALLY GREAT THINGS TO SHARE.
IF YOU JUST WANNA SUMMARIZE FOR BRIEFLY, THAT'D BE GREAT.
UM, SO OEQS UH, APPLIED FOR THIS GRANT FROM THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT AT THE END OF OCTOBER ON BEHALF OF SOME OF OUR SISTER, UM, DEPARTMENTS.
AND, UH, WE WERE NOTIFIED AT THE BEGINNING OF DECEMBER THAT SOME OF OUR CHARGING STATION LOCATIONS HAD BEEN SELECTED FOR THIS GRANT.
UM, SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
THERE WAS A VERY LARGE, UM, AND I HONESTLY, I FORGOT HOW MANY, HOW MANY, UM, LOCATIONS ARE ON THEIR RANKED CHART.
UM, THIS IS JUST FOR DALLAS, BUT THERE HAVE MANY OTHER CITIES THAT ALSO HAVE WITH LOCATIONS THAT WERE SELECTED.
SO, UM, THEY'LL BE MOVING THROUGH THAT IN ORDER OF RANKING.
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ON BY THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE LAST WEEK, AND THE NEXT STEP IS FOR THE COGS BOARD TO VOTE TO APPROVE, UM, THE, THE RANK SELECTIONS AS WELL.ONCE THAT IS DONE, WE WILL ENTER INTO DISCUSSIONS WITH THE COG TWO, ENTER INTO AN, UM, INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT, UM, FOR THESE LOCATIONS AND WORK ON EXECUTING THE PLAN TO IMPLEMENT.
ANYBODY HAVE QUESTIONS ON THIS ONE? WHERE ARE THE LOCATIONS, STATIONS THEY CHOSE? SO THEY ARE HAMPTON, ILLINOIS, BRANCH LIBRARY, PLEASANT GROVE BRANCH LIBRARY, JUANITA CRAFT RECREATION CENTER, THURGOOD THURGOOD MARSHALL RECREATION CENTER, JANIE C TURNER RECREATION CENTER, UM, JC Z ZARAGOZA RECREATION CENTER, LAKEWOOD LIBRARY, BRENNER, FRANKFORD BRANCH LIBRARY, BECKLEY STAYNER RECREATION CENTER, AND THE PRESTON ROYAL BRANCH LIBRARY.
I I HEAR A LOT OF SOUTH IN THEM, UH, LOCATIONS, SO I'M
ALRIGHT, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM? THAT'S GREAT WORK.
LET'S GO ON TO BRIEFING MEMO B MEMO AS REQUESTED.
WE RECEIVED, UH, FOLLOW UP RESPONSES TO OUR 2025 CCAP ANNUAL REPORT PRESENTATION TO THE EVC THAT WAS PRESENTED, NOT LAST MONTH, BUT THE MONTH BEFORE.
STAFF WAS REALLY, UH, THOROUGH AND, UH, WENT THROUGH AND TOOK THE TIME TO, UM, RESPOND TO EACH OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WE HAD POSED.
ARE THERE ANY FOLLOW UPS OR WERE THERE ANY ITEMS THAT WERE MISSED THAT YOU KNEW YOU HAD A QUESTION ON THE LIST AND I DIDN'T MAKE IT TO THE LIST OF RESPONSES? LET ME OPEN UP THE WEB.
OH, UH, CHAIR WALLACE, GO AHEAD.
THE ONE THAT I DON'T SEE IS, UM, ON THE CODE HAVING, UH, THE REQUIREMENT FOR NEW BUILDS TO BE SOLAR READY.
AND SO I DON'T SEE THAT ANSWERED.
AND I DID EMAIL, UM, THE DIRECTOR TODAY WITH THAT INFORMATION.
UM, SO THE, THE THING THAT'S CONCERNING IS THAT IF NEW CONSTRUCTION WE HAVE, WE ARE SET TO SEE RISING ENERGY, UH, ELECTRICITY COSTS FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT FIVE YEARS IN TEXAS, ABOUT 5% PER YEAR.
AND IF NEW BUILDINGS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO BE SOLAR READY, WE'RE REALLY SHOOTING OURSELVES IN THE FOOT.
IT MAKES IT MUCH MORE ANY EFFICIENT AND ADS COST TO PROJECTS FOR OWNERS, WHETHER IT'S RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL TO GO BACK.
SO WHEN WE HAVE NEW BUILDING PROJECTS THAT ARE GOING ON, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE SOLAR READY.
AND LAST MONTH, UH, STAFF THOUGHT THAT IT WAS, UH, A REQUIREMENT THAT APPARENTLY ON ON FURTHER INSPECTION, IT'S, IT'S NOT IN THE CODE, IT'S NOT IN THE PERMITTING, UH, REQUIREMENTS.
SO, UM, I JUST WANTED TO RAISE THAT CONCERN AGAIN.
SO JUST TO CLARIFY, IS THAT, SO IS THAT A QUESTION ON HOW TO HAVE IT ADDED TO THE CODE, OR CAN YOU CLARIFY WHAT THE QUESTION IS THAT SO WE CAN FOLLOW UP? WE WERE, WE WERE, YEAH, IN THE, IN THE CCA PRESENTATION, UH, WE WERE TOLD THAT THAT WAS ONE OF THE, UM, THINGS THAT HAD BEEN ACCOMPLISHED THAT, UM, CURRENT BUILDING CODE REQUIRED NEW BUILDS TO BE SOLAR READY.
I'M STILL NOT, SO WHAT, WHAT IS THE QUESTION THAT YOU WOULD LIKE US TO FOLLOW UP ON? THE, THE QUESTION I ASKED WAS FOR, YOU KNOW, CAN WE GET OUR HANDS ON THAT, THAT ACTUALLY SHOWS THAT THAT'S A REQUIREMENT? AND IF IT'S NOT A REQUIREMENT, WHICH IS WHAT I'M SUSPECTING, THEN WE NEED TO GET SOMETHING IN THERE.
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UH, OUR, OUR CODES ARE NEGOTIATED BY WITH, UH, A COG TRACY, AND THAT IS NOT, THAT IS NOT A, I'M, I'M JUST, IT'S NOT A REQUIREMENT.BUT IT'S, IT'S NOT A REQUIREMENT THAT'S CONCERNING TO ME BECAUSE, UM, THE WAY IT WAS PRESENTED TO US BY STAFF IS THAT IT IS A REQUIREMENT.
SO, UM, IT'S ALSO MY UNDERSTANDING THAT, UM, APPARENTLY THAT, UH, WHAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD, SO IT'S, THIS IS THIRD HAND INFORMATION, IS THAT THE DALLAS BUILDERS ASSOCIATION IS PUSHING BACK AND IN MY OPINION, THE DALLAS BUILDERS ASSOCIATION DOESN'T GET TO, UH, MESS WITH THE, THE AIR QUALITY IN DALLAS.
SO, UM, YEAH, THAT'S, IT WAS SAID TO US, UH, BY A PARTICULAR STAFF MEMBER THAT, UH, THE REQUIREMENT FOR NEW BUILDINGS TO BE SELLER READY WAS INCLUDED.
AND THEN MY QUESTION ABOUT IT WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS FOLLOW UP MEMO.
SO I APOLOGIZE FOR THE OVERSIGHT AND WE WILL, UM, WE WILL LOOK INTO IT AND GET BACK TO YOU.
WERE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FOLLOW-UP MEMO? I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS REALLY COMPREHENSIVE.
I APPRECIATE THE TIME THAT Y'ALL TOOK TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS.
UM, THE ONLY THING THAT I WILL NOTE IS THAT I HAD ASKED ABOUT THE ENGAGEMENT ON THOSE, UH, COMMUNITY MONITORS.
AND I KNOW I PARTICIPATED IN AT LEAST A COUPLE OF, LIKE, DEPLOYMENT AND, AND COMMISSIONER DARROW, YOU WERE THERE TOO.
WE DE WE, WE HAD SEVERAL EVENTS LIKE COMMUNITY EVENTS WHERE WE DEPLOYED THOSE MONITORS.
TWO IN WEST DALLAS AND TWO IN JOCK, I WANNA SAY.
SO THERE WERE, THERE WAS A, THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF LIKE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN, IN THE DEPLOYMENT OF SOME OF THOSE MONITORS.
SO MAYBE WE CAN CHAT AND SEE IF WE CAN RECALL WHICH ONES.
AND THEN THAT WAY WE'RE BUILDING OFF OF THAT WHEN WE GO BACK INTO THE OUTREACH AND SAY, HEY, Y'ALL, REMEMBER WE WERE OUT THERE ON THESE DATES? THIS IS WHAT THIS MONITOR IS DOING, THIS IS WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW SINCE THEN, SO HAPPY TO PROVIDE THOSE, UH, YEAH, THOSE MEETINGS, I THINK, UM, ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES.
SO THAT WAS IT FOR THE REST OF US.
UH, UH, I DID DO A ENGAGEMENT WITH FREDDY, UH, THIS, UH, AT EARTH DAY 2025.
WE DID PRESENT, WE DID PRESENT THE DASHBOARD, WENT OVER ALL THE DATA.
SO MY DISTRICT DO HAVE A UP TO DATE ABOUT THE AIR QUALITY MONITORS IN THE DISTRICT.
OKAY, THEN LET US MOVE ON, UH, TO OUR VOTING ITEMS THIS EVENING.
THANK YOU ALL, UM, FOR THOSE PRESENTATIONS AND MEMOS WE APPRECIATE.
OUR FIRST
I AGREE WITH, UH, COMMISSIONER WALLACE.
I THINK THAT IT'S, IT'S CRITICAL THAT WE DO THIS, ACTUALLY WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THIS PAST YEAR WITH THE ELIMINATION OF A LOT OF THE TAX INCENTIVES THAT ARE GOING AWAY.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAD A PROGRAM CALLED THE NET ZERO READY PROGRAM THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY IN CONJUNCTION WITH ENERGY STAR, WHERE THERE WAS FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FOR BUILDERS TO GO AHEAD AND DO NET ZERO READY.
AND I KNOW THAT THE BUILDER'S ASSOCIATION IS FIGHTING COST AT EVERY TURN, BUT THAT'S NOT THE PRINCIPLE COST OF WHAT A HOUSE IS.
UM, AND THE THING IS, UM, I KNOW A LOT OF THESE CODE, CODE, UH, ACCEPTANCE FOR INSTANCE, IN THE CODE IN THE, IN, IN THE NATIONAL CODE, IF YOU'RE IN A TORNADO REGION, EVERY HOME SHOULD HAVE A, A, UH, A, UM, UM, A, A STORM ROOM THAT THAT'S IN THE CODE.
BUT THAT'S BEEN NEGOTIATED OUT BY THE CITY OF DALLAS ALONG WITH COG.
UH, SO THAT THAT'S NOT A REQUIREMENT FOR HAVE ONE TO HAVE A TORNADO ROOM IN YOUR HOUSE, EVEN THOUGH WE ARE IN A TORNADO REGION.
SO A LOT OF THESE ISSUES HAVE TO DO WITH THE COG NEGOTIATIONS.
AND YES, THERE IS PRESSURE FROM THE BUILDERS ASSOCIATION WITH REGARD TO NET, UH, UH, NET ZERO PREP.
I DON'T AGREE WITH THAT POSITION.
I'M NOT IN CONTROL OF THAT POSITION, BUT I DON'T AGREE WITH IT.
BUT, UH, 'CAUSE IT'S NOMINAL COST THREE TO $400 TO RUN A CONDUIT TO THE ROOF AND MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS A EASY WAY, A EASY PATHWAY TO RUN, UH, THE LINES THAT CORRECT TO INSTALL SOLAR IN THE FUTURE.
SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE CAN DO.
I THINK WE CAN, I THINK IT'S AN EDUCATIONAL, UH, UM,
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ISSUE AND I THINK WE NEED TO, UH, GET, GET THE WORD OUT ABOUT IT.IT'S NOT A BIG NUMBER AND I THINK THAT ESPECIALLY WITH RISING COSTS COMING, THEY ARE COMING OUR INCH, OUR, OUR ELECTRICAL COSTS ARE GONNA RISE DRAMATICALLY BECAUSE, UM, THAT'S, WE HAVE A FREE MARKET, UM, ELECTRICAL GRID.
THANK YOU FOR RAISING THAT, TRACY.
UH, COMMISSIONER DAY, GO AHEAD.
SO I JUST WANNA FOLLOW UP ON, UM, ONE OF THE ITEMS IN THE MEMO ABOUT THE PROCUREMENT, THE SUSTAINABLE PROCUREMENT PLAN.
AND IT SEEMS A LITTLE BIT UNCLEAR IF THERE ARE NEXT STEPS.
UM, AND THE, UH, THING THAT I'VE FOUND IN THE MEANTIME WAS THAT WE DO ACTUALLY HAVE A, UH, POLICY ADOPTED BY COUNCIL IN MAY, 2021 THAT SAYS, THIS WORKING GROUP WILL CONTINUE TO, YOU KNOW, PROVIDE UPDATES AND, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, REPORTING.
AND IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THAT'S ACTUALLY REALLY HAPPENING.
AND I'M JUST WONDERING IF, UM, I THINK OUR BRIEF, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR QUESTION HAD BEEN CAN WE GET A REPORT OR AN UPDATE AND THEN, UM, YOU KNOW, AT A UPCOMING MEETING.
AND THE REASON I'M THINKING ABOUT THIS IS, YOU KNOW, WITH THE CONVENTION CENTER AND THE BOND PROGRAM AND ALL THOSE THINGS THAT REALLY SEEMS LIKE SUSTAINABLE IS A VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC AND IT KIND OF SOUNDS LIKE THIS WORKING GROUP IS NOT REALLY AT IT.
THE WORKING GROUP IS NOT WORKING.
UM, SO WE HAD DISCUSSION AMONGST OURSELVES AND, AND LOOKED INTO IT.
AND YET 2021 WAS WHAT WE CAME UP WITH TOO.
AND THE DISCUSSION WAS THE, UM, DIRECTOR THAT WAS LEADING THE CHARGE IN PROCUREMENT LEFT AND THE WORKING GROUP DISSOLVED AT SOME POINT.
UM, I DON'T HAVE DATES FOR THAT.
UM, SO IT'S SOMETHING I THINK THAT IS WORTH PURSUING, BUT REALLY I THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO RE JUST RESTART IT AND, UM, AND COME UP WITH A, A NEW PLAN AND, UM, AND WORKING THROUGH.
BUT NO, I AGREE THAT IT'S A WORTHY, IT'S A WORTHY CAUSE.
THANKS FOR ALL THOSE COMMENTS, Y'ALL.
I'M SORRY TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT.
WE, UH, THE BRIEFING MEMO THAT WE SENT OVER A YEAR AGO REGARDING, UH, SUSTAINABLE PROCUREMENT REFERENCE TO ALL OF THAT.
AND, UM, I WILL SEND THAT TO YOU.
'CAUSE WE, WE DIDN'T HAVE A COPY ALL OF THIS THAT ARE, THAT ARE HERE NOW TO NOT HAVE A COPY.
TO GET RIGHT INTO OUR VOTING ITEMS, VOTING ITEM A IS A VOTE TO APPROVE THE NAME CHANGE TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SUBCOMMITTEE.
UM, I AM GOING TO MOVE THAT WE CHANGED THE NAME OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SUBCOMMITTEE TO THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT SUBCOMMITTEE.
AND IF I CAN HAVE A SECOND WE CAN DISCUSS IT FURTHER.
SO AS WE ALL KNOW, UH, SINCE JANUARY OF LAST YEAR, UH, THERE WAS AN EXECUTIVE ORDER FROM THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION THAT, UH, EFFECTIVELY INSTRUCTED GRANT RECIPIENTS THAT THEY COULD NO LONGER UTILIZE FUNDING THAT HAD BEEN ALLOCATED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, ALL OF THESE THINGS.
UM, AND THAT THE RECIPIENTS OF FEDERAL GRANT FUNDS, LIKE OUR CITY, WOULD BE AT RISK OF LOSING THOSE FUNDS IF THEY DID NOT ACQUIESCE TO THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER.
UM, VERY RECENTLY, THEY VOTED TO, UH, RESCIND THE RACIAL EQUITY PLAN THAT FOLKS WORKED REALLY HARD ON, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE REFERENCES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM OUR COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE ACTION PLAN.
AND WE, AS A COMMISSION WORKED, UH, IN A, AN ANNUAL WORKING, UH, WORKING GROUP WORK, WORK RETREAT TO ESTABLISH PRIORITIES FOR OUR COMMISSION.
AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE WAS ONE OF THEM.
UH, I CHECKED WITH STAFF AFTER THOSE THINGS PASSED THROUGH THE CITY COUNCIL, AND WE HAVE LEARNED THAT WE NEED TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THIS C OUR COMMITTEES ARE NOT PRESENTLY MEETING AS IT'S ABOUT TIME FOR US
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TO HAVE ANOTHER STRATEGY SESSION TO DETERMINE WHAT THE PRIORITIES OF OUR, UH, COMMISSION WILL BE FOR THIS UPCOMING YEAR.SO THAT'S A DISCUSSION THAT WE'LL HAVE.
BUT UNTIL THEN, UH, WE, WE NEED TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THIS COMMITTEE.
AND IF IT STARTS TO MEET AGAIN, REFOCUS IT ON THE THINGS THAT WE CAN FOCUS IT ON, WHICH IS COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT AND SERVING COMMUNITIES AND WHAT THOSE NEEDS ARE IN THE VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND CHALLENGES THAT THEY FACE.
UM, THERE ARE A LOT OF WORDS THAT WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO SAY ANYMORE.
UM, AND THEY, THEY RANGE FROM CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CRISIS, CLIMATE RESILIENCE, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, UM, SO MANY, UM, RIGHT.
UM, INDIGENOUS, INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY, INCLUSIVITY, ALL THESE THINGS.
UM, AND IF YOU RECALL, UH, DR.
JONE WHITE CAME TO THE CITY AND, AND SPOKE TO US, UH, I I WANNA SAY IT WAS IN THE FALL.
IT WAS BEFORE THE ADMINISTRATION TOOK OVER.
AND SHE SAID SOMETHING THAT I, I REPEAT ALL THE TIME.
AND THAT IS, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE WAS NOT STARTED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND IT WILL NOT BE ENDED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
RIGHT? ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE BELONGS TO PEOPLE.
IT ALWAYS WILL BELONG TO THE PEOPLE.
AND I THINK THAT WE CAN STILL SERVE THE PURPOSE AND THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH A COMMITTEE THAT WORKS TOWARDS RESOLVING THOSE LONGSTANDING ISSUES.
UM, AND SO I AM HAPPY TO ENTERTAIN OTHER IDEAS, OTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR NAME CHANGES.
I WANTED TO GIVE US A PLACE TO START THIS EVENING.
UH, IF ANYBODY ELSE HAS A, A NAME CHANGE THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST OR PROPOSE, I AM HAPPY TO HEAR IT AND HAVE THE COMMISSION CONSIDER IT.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, ANYBODY ELSE THAT WANTS TO, TO SPEAK ON THIS, JUST RAISE YOUR HAND.
I SEE CHAIR WALLACE, YOU HAVE YOUR HAND RAISED.
IS IT FOR THIS ITEM OR THE PAST ITEM? DR.
AO LOBBY? THIS ITEM OR THE PAST ITEM? THIS ITEM.
SO, UM, UH, I, I KNOW OTHER ANO, OTHER PEOPLE WHO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS HAVE MORE INSIGHT, BUT MY BIG QUESTION IS, ARE WE CHANGING, UM, THE, THE UNDERLYING MISSION OF THE, UM, OF, OF THIS PARTICULAR GROUP? AND WHAT IS THE, WHERE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMMUNITY, RIGHT? AND SO WHAT IS THIS GOING TO LOOK LIKE TO THE COMMUNITY IF WE CHANGE THE NAME OF IT? AND, UM, DO WE NEED TO ASK THE COMMUNITY WHAT THIS IS GONNA LOOK LIKE FOR THEM? UM, IF WE CHANGE THE NAME OR IF WE MAKE, UH, BECAUSE THEN THE NEXT QUESTION IS, WHAT OTHER CHANGES ARE WE GONNA HAVE TO MAKE KIND OF, YOU KNOW, BASED ON, YOU KNOW, THESE EXECUTIVE, WHATEVER THE ORDERS ARE, THE LAWS OR WHATEVER, IT'S, UM, BUT BASED ON THIS, UM, ADMINISTRATION, UM, WHAT ARE SOME OTHER CHANGES THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO ACQUIESCE TO AND HOW ARE THEY GONNA AFFECT US? AND SO I, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE'RE SUPER THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THIS, UM, SO THAT WE TRULY REFLECT WHAT THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY ARE, AND WE LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW THAT THESE ARE STILL OUR PRIORITIES.
AND, UM, AND OUR PRIORITIES ARE TO REFLECT THE COMMUNITY TO GIVE THAT INFORMATION TO THE CITY, UM, UH, UH, IN A REALLY ROBUST MANNER.
I DON'T HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS ON NAME CHANGES.
UM, I JUST THINK THE HEART AND THE SOUL OF WHAT THIS IS NEEDS TO MAINTAIN ITS INTEGRITY.
UM, AND IN, IN WHAT WE REFLECT IN THE, TO THAT OUR, UM, UH, OUR, UH, WHAT WHAT WE REFLECT TO THE CITIZENS OF THE, OF THE CITY IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
AND I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE WITH YOU.
UM, I BELIEVE THAT THE CITY IS, HAS DONE A LOT OF ENGAGEMENT AROUND, YOU KNOW, CHANGING THESE VARIOUS NAMES AND REMOVING REFERENCES OF THESE NAUGHTY WORDS, UH, FROM OUR PLANS.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO DO ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ONCE THE COMMISSION HAS A STRATEGIC, ANOTHER FOLLOW UP STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION AND WE CAN REALIGN WITH WHAT IT IS THAT WE WANT TO ACCOMPLISH TO RESOLVE WHAT WE'RE HEARING THESE ISSUES ARE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY TO DO ADDITIONAL ENGAGEMENT AND TO LET FOLKS KNOW THAT YES, WE STILL INTEND TO SERVE AS THE CONDUIT BETWEEN CITY HALL AND THE COMMUNITY TO REPRESENT COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS BACK TO
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THE CITY TO SHARE WHAT THE CITY IS WORKING ON OUT TO THE COMMUNITY, AND TO ENSURE TRANSPARENCY IN ALL OF THE THINGS THAT THE CITY IS DOING.UM, AS FAR AS SHARING INFORMATION ABOUT THE NAME CHANGE, WE HAVE NOT DONE SO YET.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, UM, THE C THE COMMITTEE ITSELF IS NOT MEETING AND HAS NOT MET SINCE I BELIEVE CHAIR VIA REAL LEFT.
UM, AND SO ALL OF OUR COMMITTEES ARE SORT OF AT A PAUSE.
UM, BUT I, I STRONGLY DO NOT WISH TO DISBAND THIS COMMITTEE OR TO REMOVE IT AS A STRATEGIC PRIORITY FOR US, BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT THE WORK THAT IT WAS DOING TOWARDS FOOD ACCESS, UM, AND OTHER THINGS THAT HAD IDENTIFIED AS, UH, TASKS AND STRATEGIES FOR THIS YEAR ARE STILL REALLY IMPORTANT AND RELEVANT.
SO RATHER THAN DISBAND THE COMMITTEE, UM, I THINK THIS IS A WAY FOR US TO PICK UP THAT BATON ONCE WE ARE READY TO BEGIN MEETING AS COMMITTEES AGAIN.
AND UNTIL WE CAN HAVE A STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION TO REDEFINE WHAT THOSE COMMITTEES ARE GOING TO LOOK LIKE, MR. QUIS, ALISON LICENSE SUGGEST THAT WE RENAMED SOME COMMITTEES.
FOR EXAMPLE, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SUBCOMMITTEE CAN BE CALLED THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD SUBCOMMITTEE.
THE, UH, C PESTICIDE USAGE SUBCOMMITTEE CAN BE CALLED THE RACIAL CARSON SUBCOMMITTEE.
RACHEL CAUTION WAS BEING WOMAN THAT WROTE THE, UH, GROUNDBREAKING BOOK, STARTED THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT.
UM, SO I JUST THINK WE SHOULD BE CREATIVE IN THE WAY WE MANAGING COMMITTEES, UH, AND, UH, AND ENJOY THE NAMING OF THE COMMITTEES, UH, IN, IN THIS REGARD.
BUT FIND THE CREATIVE USES FOR OUR LANGUAGE THAT, UH, WE'LL ALL UNDERSTAND AND KNOW AND, UH, SO TO SUGGEST WE MIGHT BE CREATIVE WITH THIS.
AND, AND THOSE ARE THE SUGGESTIONS THAT I WAS, BUT I LIKE THOSE IDEAS.
IN A SIMILAR VEIN, I WAS GOING TO, UH, THINKING ABOUT WHAT I THINK THIS COMMITTEE HAS DONE.
AND THE NAME AND I CAME UP WITH COMMUNITY DISPARITY OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT IS DEVELOPING OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMMUNITIES.
AND SO THAT SEEMS TO BE THE APPROPRIATE WAY.
BUT AFTER ALL, DOESN'T THIS ADMINISTRATION SAY THAT IT'S ABOUT DEVELOPMENT? THERE'S YOUR OPPORTUNITY, COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE.
IS THAT YOUR SUGGESTION? ALRIGHT, I'VE GOT IT.
JACK? JUST BRIEFLY CHAIR, UM, YOU KNOW, JUST A COMMENT, WHICH IS, UH, TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE PAIN THAT I FEEL LIKE ON BEHALF OF MANY ABOUT CENSORSHIP, ABOUT FOR COMMUNITY PRIORITIES, WORDS DO MATTER, AND I LIKE THE POWER IN TAKING BACK THE CREATIVE NAMING.
ALADI IS REALLY IMPORTANT AS WE ALL MOVE FORWARD, WHICH IS WHAT IS THE DISTINCTION ON BEHALF OF THE CITY WORDS AND MISSION GETTING REALLY CLEAR ACROSS THE BOARD? AND YOU STARTED THIS, UH, ITEM, AGENDA ITEM LISTING A, A, A LOT OF WORKS THAT YOU SAID WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO SAY.
AND I, I JUST WANTED TO ASK FOR CLEARLY ARE, HAVE WE BEEN GIVEN DIRECTIONS? THE CITY SAID HERE'S OUR LIST THAT WE HAVE TO REMOVE, OR IS THAT FROM ADMINISTRATION? THESE ARE WORDS THAT THE ADMINISTRATION HAS INSTRUCTED FEDERAL GRANT RECIPIENTS TO REMOVE FROM GRANT LANGUAGE.
SO IT'S A REAL LIST THAT'S OUT THERE TO ALL.
UM, AND, AND THE CITY IS STILL NEGOTIATING THAT LIST OR HAS, THERE'S NO NEGOTIATION THE CITY OR, OR NOT NEGOTIATING, BUT INTERNALLY DETERMINING WHETHER HOW TO YES.
HOW FAR THE WORDS WILL WE HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY AT ALL? LAST MONTH THERE WAS AN AGENDA ITEM WHEREBY THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, AGREED ESSENTIALLY TO MOVE FORWARD WITH, UM, RES SENDING THE RACIAL EQUITY PLAN AND REVISION OF THE URBAN AGRICULTURE PLAN, THE CCAP, THE OTHER PLANS THAT INCLUDE THIS LANGUAGE THAT COULD BE SEEN AS A VIOLATION, THAT WOULD HAVE FEDERAL GRANT FUNDING WITHDRAWN FROM THE CITY, OR PUT US AT RISK TO LOSE THAT, UM, LARGE AMOUNT OF FEDERAL GRANT FUNDING THAT WE RECEIVE.
UM, AND SO THE CITY HAS WORKED, AND I BELIEVE THAT THE TASK FORCE THAT IS BEING LED BY ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER
SO THIS, UH, DRIVERS OF OPPORTUNITY
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SYMPOSIUM IS PART OF THAT INITIATIVE.UM, THAT'S GONNA BE THE ONE, THE EVENTS LATER, UH, I GUESS WEEK IS IT THIS WEEK.
UM, SO YES, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, THAT THAT'S A REAL, SO MORE THINGS TO COME YES.
THAT'S FRIDAY OF THIS WEEK IN TWO DAYS.
TO FOLLOW UP WITH, UH, UH, MR. MARCUS' SUGGESTION, MAYBE WE NEED A CREATIVE SEMANTICS TOPIC COMMITTEE TO CREATE A NAMING COMMITTEE.
I, I JUST THINK THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE.
HE WAS A BLESSING SIGN AND THE RICHARD NIXON ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEE AND YEAH, THE CLEAN AIR ACT.
I MEAN, HAVE THE RICHARD NIXON SUBCOMMITTEE.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, LET'S, LET'S, LET'S GO FOR IT.
ALL IDEAS FOR OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION.
UM, DEFINITELY TAKE UNDER CONSIDERATION.
THIS ITEM TONIGHT IS ABOUT CHANGING THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SUBCOMMITTEE.
SO WE NEED TO, UH, WE'VE, WE'VE HAD AN IDEA BY DR.
LAMAN WHO SERVED ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SUBCOMMITTEE FOR THE ENTIRETY OF ITS EXISTENCE, UM, AND WORKED ON A NUMBER OF THOSE, UH, ITEMS. UH, DR.
LACKMAN HAS PROPOSED COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT COM COMMITTEE SUBCOMMITTEE.
UM, I'M NOT OPPOSED TO CHANGING IT.
UM, IT, AND I'LL, I'LL AMEND MY, UH, UH, INITIAL MOTION, UM, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE INTERESTED IN US DOING, IF YOU PREFER THAT TO THE, THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT COMMITTEE.
I, I LIKE COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES.
EMPOWERMENT IS ALSO EMPOWERMENT.
I JUST THINK IT'S MORE THAT EMPOWERMENT IS MORE LIKELY TO TURN UP ON SOMEBODY'S LIST, WHEREAS OPPORTUNITY, THEY CAN'T ARGUE ABOUT OPPORTUNITY.
THEN I AMEND MY MOTION, UH, TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SUBCOMMITTEE TO THE COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE.
UH, IS IT, IS THERE A SECOND? I, ALRIGHT, IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED.
ANY OPPOSED? ALL MOTION PASSES.
ITEM B IS A VOTE TO REFER THE DISCUSSION OF THE CITYWIDE PESTICIDE USAGE TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH COMMITTEE CHAIR.
ROBERSON IS UNDER THE WEATHER AND NOT WITH US TONIGHT, BUT I KNOW THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE COMMITTEE IS LOOKING FORWARD TO CONSIDERING WE'VE DISCUSSED IT A NUMBER OF TIMES.
UH, AND IS THERE A MOTION, I MOTION IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND.
ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS ITEM? ALRIGHT, LET'S VOTE.
SORRY, I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO RAISE MY HAND.
UM, YEAH, WE JUST NEED MORE FOLKS THOUGH.
A CITYWIDE PESTICIDE USAGE, UH, DISCUSSION HAS BEEN REFERRED TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH COMMITTEE.
ALRIGHT, ITEM C IS A VOTE ON A RECOMMENDATION THAT THE K BAILEY HUTCHINSON CONVENTION CENTER DALLAS EXPANSION INCLUDE BIRD FRIENDLY GLASS AND LIGHTING TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF BIRD BUILDING COLLISION RELATED MORTALITY.
IS THERE A MOTION? I MOTION? IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND.
ANY DISCUSSION? I JUST WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, THE WORK OF IAN SIEMENS.
UH, IAN UH, ASSISTED IN WRITING A MEMO THAT YOU ALL RECEIVED, UM, AND PROVIDED A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF LEGWORK AND BACKGROUND AND CONTINUES TO, UH, BE AN ADVOCATE ON THIS ISSUE.
THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO SHOWED UP THIS EVENING ON THIS TOPIC.
NATHAN, HUMANA, UM, AND OTHERS.
UH, THANKS FOR COORDINATING THOSE COMMENTS.
I KNOW THAT WE HAD CHLOE ONLINE EARLIER, UH, FROM AUDUBON.
UM, THEY COORDINATED SEVERAL COMMENTS IN FAVOR THAT YOU ALL RECEIVED AS ATTACHMENTS.
THERE WERE SEVEN ORGANIZATIONS IN TOTAL, UM, WHO SUPPORT THIS.
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ASK MR. HOFFMAN IF HE WILL BRIEFLY, UH, DISCUSS THE COMMENTS THAT OUR DISTRICT 15 COMMISSIONER, WHO IS AN ARCHITECT, UH, AT HKS AND, AND DOES THIS SUSTAINABLE DESIGN, UH, FOR A LIVING.COULD YOU EXPRESS WHAT COMMISSIONER HI MOTO, UH, BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION AS FAR AS THIS RECOMMENDATION AND WHAT IT INCLUDES? UH, UH, SHE WAS WANTING TO CONSIDER GLASS COVERAGE BECAUSE GLASS, THE REFLECTIVITY OF GLASS, THIS REALLY BIG PIECE OF THE, THE FACT THAT WE'RE LOSING SO MANY BIRDS.
AND, UH, THE OTHER FLIP SIDE OF THAT, I WOULD ARGUE THAT THAT MUCH GLASS IS REALLY NOT SUSTAINABLE ENERGY EFFICIENT OR ENERGY EFFICIENT.
UH, THE BEST PERFORMANCE GLASS THAT YOU CAN GET IS AN R 10 RATING, UH, WHICH IS, UH, HALF WHAT, UH, EVEN A MEDIUM, A POOR A, I WOULD SAY A LOW END WALL QUALITY WALL ASSEMBLY WOULD BE.
SO YOU CAN GET DOUBLE, DOUBLE THE PERFORMANCE FROM A WALL ASSEMBLY THAT DOESN'T HAVE A GLASS.
SO IF WE REDUCE SOME OF THE GLASS TEMPERA THROUGH SOME CREATIVE DESIGN, NOT SAYING TO GET RID OF GLASS, JUST CREATIVE DESIGN, THAT IS A FACTOR.
AND CONSIDERING WHETHER, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, MINIMUM TO CUT BACK, MAYBE CUT BACK TO THE GLASS TO 40%, THAT IS REALLY A, STILL A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF GLASS.
AND IT ALSO WOULD REDUCE, UM, BIRD DEATHS AND ALSO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF OUR BUILDINGS BECAUSE IT'S GONNA GREATLY IMPROVE THE THERMAL EFFICIENCY OF THE BUILDING BY REDUCING THAT GLASS.
'CAUSE THE GLASS IS NOT GONNA GET TO THE KIND OF PERFORMANCE WITH IT.
EVEN A MODICUM HALFWAY DE, YOU KNOW, I WOULDN'T EVEN CALL IT A DECENT WALL ASSEMBLY, JUST, YOU KNOW, A TWO BY FOUR WALL WITH BATS INSULATION WILL PERFORM BETTER THAN GLASS.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ARTICULATING THOSE CONCERNS.
UM, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE INCLUDE THAT ASPECT OF IT AND INCLUDE JULIE'S EXPERTISE IN THAT RECOMMENDATION TO PTE.
UM, SO I THINK THAT IT SHOULD BE REVISED TO INCLUDE THAT ASPECT, UM, OF IT.
AND SO, UM, I'M NOT SURE IF I NEED TO, UH, I THINK THAT WE'LL JUST INCLUDE THAT IN THE MEMORANDUM TO
UH, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON THIS ITEM? ANY OTHER COMMENTS? I WAS JUST GONNA SPEAK TO NATHAN AND, UH, HOW YOU DOING? THANK YOU.
I REALLY ENJOYED WHEN YOU SPOKE, YOU GAVE VERY GOOD ENERGY FROM IT.
LIKE, I WANTED TO GO BIRD WATCHING WHEN YOU FINISHED.
SO,
SO I WILL BE CONTACTING YOU NATHAN FOR EARTH DATE.
IT HAS BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED.
THIS RECOMMENDATION, UH, PASSES, RIGHT? LET'S MOVE ON TO OUR DISCUSSION ITEMS. WE'RE GONNA GO RIGHT INTO MONTHLY UPDATES FROM OUR COMMISSIONERS AND WE ARE GONNA START RIGHT OVER HERE.
DISTRICT TWO, NOTHING TO REPORT.
I HAVE NOTHING TO REPORT DISTRICT SEVEN.
SO, UH, I ATTENDED, UH, I GOT RECOGNIZED AS A RESOLUTION WITH DALLAS COUNTY.
SO I HAVE BEEN VOLUNTEERING WITH THE, UH, DALLAS COUNTY PARK AND OPEN SPACES.
AND SO I, UH, WE DID A CLEANUP AT THE JOI PRESERVE, UH, PRESERVATION NATURE PARK BY JOI.
AND SO THE COUNTY RECOGNIZED US ON THIS PAST MONDAY FOR ALL OUR VOLUNTEER WORK.
WE REMOVED TONS OF TIRES FROM DOWN THERE IN THAT AREA.
SO IF YOU EVER GET A CHANCE, GO TOUR.
THE NATURE PRESERVES AROUND JPE IN DALLAS.
'CAUSE WE HAVE DID A LOT OF CLEANING UP FOR THE, UH, RESIDENTS OF DALLAS TO ENJOY THEM.
AND THE OTHER, UH, DAY JPE IS, UH, HAVING AN AUTHORIZED ZONING PD FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
BUT WE CAN HAVE A AREA PLAN, BUT WE CAN COME BACK THE ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE IN OUR COMMUNITY TO MATCH THE FORWARD DALLAS PLAN WHERE IT INDICATES HOW OUR COMMUNITY SHOULD
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LOOK WITH ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE.SO OUR ITEM NUMBER IS TO, ON TOMORROW AT THE CITY PLAN COMMISSION IS ITEM 26.
I TOOK A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF TIME OFF FROM DECEMBER.
TOMORROW I'M GOING TO MEET WITH SOME FOLKS FROM DALLAS COUNTY, UH, TO, UH, THAT MR. MARQUIS CONNECTED US WITH, UH, TO TALK ABOUT CONCRETE BATCH PLANTS IN THE FLOOD WING.
SO, UM, WE'LL REPORT BACK ON THAT DISCUSSION.
DISTRICT 10, NOTHING TO REPORT.
ANYTHING TO REPORT? OH, WHO'S 11? NOBODY.
UH, SO, UM, OVER THE LAST MONTH, UM, I HAVE BEEN, UH, ATTENDING TO MY PHYSICAL HEALTH, UH, AND, UH, UH, GOT CLEARANCE FROM MY CARDIOLOGIST LAST WEEK.
UH, AT ANY RATE, UM, A COUPLE OF THINGS.
HOWEVER, I CONTINUED, UH, THE OFFERING WORKING COUPLE SHALOM GARDEN, UH, TWO WEEKS AGO.
UH, UH, I PLANT PERSONALLY PLANTED OVER A HUNDRED ONIONS
UM, AND, UM, UH, THAT WORK REALLY CONTINUES LAST YEAR, THE TEMPLE SHALOM GARDEN, WHICH IS IN, UH, DISTRICT 11, ACTUALLY.
UM, THEY, UM, UH, GREW 11,000 POUNDS OF 30.
SO I'M VERY PROUD OF THAT ACTIVITY.
AND, UH, THEY ARE ALSO A BUTTERFLY BAR.
UH, NOW, UM, OTHER, UM, UH, UH, I SUBMITTED PROPOSALS, UH, TO THE TEXAS PEDIATRIC SOCIETY.
THEIR ANNUAL MEETING IN THE FALL.
THEY WERE DUE IN JANUARY, THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE TO CONTINUE.
AND TWO OF THE TOPICS THAT I SUBMITTED TO WERE DIRECTLY BASED ON WORK THAT WE'VE DONE HERE AT THE COMMISSION.
AND, UM, I ALSO SUBMITTED AS POSSIBLE CO-PRESENTERS, UH, SOME MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION, UH, FOR THAT MEETING IN AUSTIN.
UH, ROUND ROCK, ACTUALLY IN SEPTEMBER.
ONE WAS ON A PARTICULATE MATTER OF 2.5, WHICH WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK ON ITS HEALTH EFFECTS AND ON THE EFFECTS OF CHILDREN.
AND THE OTHER WAS ON THE WORK THAT DALLAS HAS DONE AROUND URBAN AGRICULTURE AND, UM, GETTING PEDIATRICIANS TO BE ACTIVE AND PROMOTE THAT BOTH HERE AND IN OTHER PLACES.
SO THOSE WERE THE, UH, DEEP PROPOSALS THAT, UM, I SUBMITTED.
I ALSO SU UH, ACCEPTED A, A CONTINUING APPOINTMENT, UH, FOR THE COMING YEAR IN THE, UH, COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS AIR QUALITY EXPLOIT.
AND IN THE, UH, UH, UH, FIFA SUSTAINABILITY TASK FORCE THAT I RECEIVED A, UH, INVITATION FOR LAST WEEK.
I JUST HOPE I GET TO MEET MY, UH, UH, HERO, MY SOCCER HERO, UH, HARRY KANE IN THE PROCESS IF HE PLAYS FOR, BUT I THINK HE WILL.
I WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW THAT I DID NOT HAVE HEART SURGERY AND I DID NOT PLAN A HUNDRED ONIONS.
I, I THINK THAT BARRY CONTINUES TO EXEMPLIFY, UH, THAT, YOU KNOW, VOLUNTEERING IN THE COMMUNITY AND TYING IT TO OUR GOALS IN, UH, THE CCAP AND THE COMMISSION IS REALLY STRAIGHTFORWARD AND HE DOES A GREAT JOB.
AND A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT HE DOES, HE, UH, ENSURES THAT HE, UH, MENTIONS THE COMMISSION AND OUR WORK AND THAT PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THE CCAP IS.
AND THAT'S A REALLY TREMENDOUS THING.
UM, AND SO JUST THANKS FOR YOUR CONTINUED ADVOCACY AND I REALLY DO HOPE THAT YOU TAKE JUST A LITTLE TIME TO RECOVER AND, AND, AND REST, AND THAT YOU'LL, YOU'LL BE WELL AND, AND WE CAN KEEP PLANTING LOTS OF THINGS.
IS THAT YOU COMMISSIONER PISTON FROZEN.
COMMISSIONER DAY, WHO IS DISTRICT 14 AND NOT 11 RIGHT.
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NO REPORT FOR DISTRICT 15.WHO IS NOT HERE TONIGHT? COMMISSIONER POSTON, ARE YOU ABLE TO UNMUTE? I AM UNMUTED.
CAN YOU HEAR ME? THERE'S NO MUTE.
I HAVE A VERY SHORT, NOT AS EXCITING
UM, JUST WANNA LET EVERYBODY KNOW.
WORKING WITH, UM, MY COUNCIL MEMBER, GAY WILLIS AND HER STAFF, THEY HAVE COMMENT, THEY SAY THIS YEAR TO PURSUE THIS ELECTRIC HEADING ZOO PROJECT, YOU MAY RECALL MY MENTIONING LAST YEAR.
UM, FOLKS CAN HAVE HANDS-ON DEMONSTRATIONS OF ELECTRIC ALTERNATIVES TO COMMON DIESEL OR GAS POWERED PRODUCTS LIKE LEAF BLOWERS OR ELECTRIC VEHICLES.
UM, WE ARE WORKING ON LOCATION AND THE DATE BUSINESSES WHO HAVE
SO IT'S, IT'S BEING WORKED ON.
IF I MENTION IT TONIGHT, IN CASE THERE ARE ANY OTHER DISTRICTS THAT WANT TO PARTICIPATE, IT WILL BE LOCATED AT DISTRICT 13.
AND ALSO, I DON'T KNOW IF OEQS IS STILL THERE, BUT I'LL BE REACHING OUT TO THEM TO, UH, TO TELL THEM ABOUT THE PROGRAM AND SEE IF WE CAN GET SOME HELP LIKE WITH GETTING AN ELECTRIC MUNICIPAL VEHICLE AT THE EVENT.
ANYWAY, IF ANYONE HAS, UM, WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE OR HAS ANY RECOMMENDATIONS, I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU.
AND OF COURSE WHEN WE HAVE IT, IT'LL BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE CCA AND, UH, YOU KNOW, EDUCATION ABOUT OUR COMMISSION.
SO THAT IS, UH, THAT'S MY UPDATE.
COMMISSIONER POSTON AND OQS IS STILL HERE AND WE'LL CONNECT TO YOU.
AND, ALRIGHT, ANY OTHER TECHNICAL ADVISORS HAVE ANY INFORMATION THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SHARE? DR.
UM, I HAVE TWO UPDATES JUST ON BEHALF OF GOAL SIX AND ECOSYSTEMS FOR THE WELLBEING OF COMMUNITIES.
I WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND, THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF HIGHLAND HILLS AND ALL THE COMMUNITY PARTNERS THAT THEY WERE NAMED THE BEST NEW PARK BY D MAGAZINE FOR 2025.
AND SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THAT, THAT I THINK IS WORTH NOTING IS THAT THAT PARK BESIDES BEING, YOU KNOW, 10 ACRES OF BEAUTIFUL PARKLAND, THAT WAS REALLY, THAT, THAT THE KIND OF THAT PARK TRUST REPUBLIC LAND DOES A BEAUTIFUL JOB ENGAGING THE, THE COMMUNITY IN THE DESIGN AND THE PRIORITIES ARE INCORPORATED IN THE, IN THE GREEN SPACE.
BUT ALSO THERE WAS RESTORATION WITH COMMUNITY AND WITH THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF OLD REMNANT PRAIRIE, IT WAS TUCKED INTO THE DESIGN.
AND THEN ALSO GREEN STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS FUNCTIONING TO CLEAN AND COLLECT AND MINIMIZE STORMWATER RUNOFF.
AND SO I LOVE SUCH A HOLISTIC INTEGRATED PARK THAT'S FEATURED IS THE BEST NEW PARK FOR DALLAS.
UM, AND THEN ALSO, CAN I GIVE A LIKE GOALS TO UPDATE? OKAY.
MY DAY JOB AND I'LL SEND THIS TO YOU TO SHARE WITH COMMISSIONERS.
UM, I WORK FOR THE TEXAS ENERGY POVERTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
IT'S A NONPROFIT THAT ADVANCES AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE, CLEAN ENERGY.
AND I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE RELEASE A REPORT IN DECEMBER HIGHLIGHTING THE AFFORDABILITY CHALLENGES OF ELECTRICITY PRICES FOR RESIDENTS IN THE ERCOT SECTOR, INCLUDING IN ENCORE.
UM, LOOKING FROM 2021 THROUGH 2025, RETAIL RESIDENTIAL ELECTRIC RATES HAVE INCREASED BY 30%.
AND THE FORECAST SHOWS THAT THE 20 20, 25 AND 2030 IT'S FORECAST INCREASED ANOTHER 30%, WHICH IS 59% INCREASE IN RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICITY RATES.
AND THAT'S GONNA REALLY INCREASE ENERGY BURDENS FOR OUR MEMBERS.
SO I JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT ON YOUR RADAR AND I'LL SHARE THAT REPORT.
WE CAN SHARE IT OUT TO THE COMMISSION.
UM, IF YOU'LL SEND IT OVER TO STEPHANIE, THAT BE SO GREAT.
I'M SURE A LOT OF US WOULD LIKE TO READ THAT REPORT.
ALRIGHT, ANYBODY ELSE? MR. MARKS? THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.
I MET TODAY WITH THE PRESIDENT OF EARTHX AND ON APRIL 22ND WE'LL BE DOING NOT JUST A SERIES OF PANEL DISCUSSIONS, BUT VERY FOCUSED, UH, WORKSHOPS REGARDING THE FUTURE OF, UH, EVERYTHING ENVIRONMENTAL AND NORTH TEXAS.
SO PLEASE PUT THAT DOWN ON THE COUNTER.
I'LL BE REACHING OUT TO EVERYBODY ON THE COMMISSION TO INCLUDE EACH OF YOU, UH, IN THESE DISCUSSIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, UH, FULLY REPRESENTED AND, UH, HAVE, UH, ALL THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE HERE TONIGHT, WHETHER HERE THROUGH ZOOM AND OR, OR IN PERSON TO GET YOU INVOLVED.
SO BE, BE AWARE THAT I'LL BE CALLING YOU AND ASKING YOU TO COME PARTICIPATE.
BUT NUMBER ONE, NUMBER TWO, PLEASE PUT WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7TH, TUESDAY, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH ON YOUR CALENDAR.
THE
AND THEN THIS TIME WE WILL HAVE THE GREAT DENISE LEE AND, UH, THE WONDERFUL
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IKA BAY DOING MUSIC.ERIC DEL HALL OF FAME, BOY OF THE TEXAS RING TO BE INTERVIEWING ME.
SO WE WILL BE INVITED MY 75TH BIRTHDAY PARTY AND SHOW AT THE KESSLER ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH.
ALL RIGHT, MS. DEBBIE, I JUST WANNA PUT THIS ON EVERYONE'S RADAR THAT WE NEED TO START PAYING ATTENTION TO ALL THE DATA CENTERS POPPING UP AROUND THE METROPLEX AND IN OUR NEIGHBORING COUNTIES LIKE RABBITS.
FRANKLY, THERE'S ALREADY OVER 190 IN NORTH TEXAS OVER 380, EITHER PROPOSED DURING IN CONSTRUCTION IN THE STATE.
AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW, THERE ARE A HUGE DRAIN ON WATER RESOURCES.
AND AS A MATTER OF FACT, TOMORROW, UM, THERE IS A WEBINAR ABOUT THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF DATA CENTERS WITH TWO BOSTON RESEARCHERS.
IF ANYBODY WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND THAT, EMAIL ME AND I'LL SEND YOU THE LINK.
BUT, UH, ALONG WITH, UH, MANY OF THE DATA CENTERS, THERE ARE NATURAL GAS PLANTS POPPING UP WITH IT, WHICH WILL AFFECT OUR AIRSHED.
UM, I'VE BEEN IN HOOD COUNTY RECENTLY WHERE THERE'S AT LEAST FOUR DATA CENTERS PROPOSED IN THAT COUNTY.
UM, BUT IN THE DFW AREA, ALL OF YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT DATA CENTERS AROUND FORT WORTH AND DALLAS.
AND WE NEED TO START PAYING ATTENTION TO THE DRAIN ON OUR RESOURCES.
SO I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO START PAYING ATTENTION TO THAT.
THANKS FOR BRINGING THAT TOPIC TO OUR ATTENTION.
RITA, THAT'S A REALLY, GO AHEAD.
I DID ONE MORE QUICK NOTE, I'M KIDDING ON EARLIER, BUT WHAT RITA JUST SAID IS REALLY CRITICAL.
THE DRAIN ON THE WATER SOURCES IS REAL AND PROFOUND.
AND FROM THE ECONOMIC POINT OF VIEW, PEOPLE REALLY WANT THESE TO COME TO TEXAS AND NORTH TEXAS.
THERE'S TALKABILITY OF SEMICONDUCTOR CORRIDOR FROM RICHARDSON ALL THE WAY OKLAHOMA BORDER.
AND WHAT THIS GONNA DO TO OUR WATER SOURCES, IT'S HUGE.
WELL, THIS IS A PRIMARY ISSUE FOR ALL OF US.
WE ALL NEED TO BE DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT USING WATER DATA SUIT AND GOING TO AFFECT US DEEPLY.
SO WE NEED TO BE VERY AWARE OF, UM, THE ISSUE OF PRIVATIZATION OF WATER.
LATE LAST YEAR, UM, ITS FUND MANAGER TRIED TO BUY, UH, THE WATER RIGHTS TO AN AQUIFER IN EAST TEXAS.
HE WAS GOING TO DRILL 22 WELLS INTO IT AND TAKE ALL THE WATER OUT THAT PART OF EAST TEXAS AND SHIP IT AND SELL IT TO OTHER PLACES IN TEXAS.
LUCKILY, CODY HARRIS, REPUBLICAN LEGISLATOR FROM EAST TEXAS SAW WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND STOPPED IT IN THE LEGISLATURE.
SO IT HAT OFF TO KELLY GARRIS, WHO'S A GREAT REPRESENTATIVE OF HIS PEOPLE IN EAST TEXAS, AND IN FACT WON A MAJOR WATER AWARD, TEXAS WATER FOUNDATION THIS YEAR.
FIRST WORK IN CREATING A BIPARTISAN, UM, COALITION IN THE LEGISLATURE DEAL WATER ISSUES.
BUT THIS IS A REALLY CRITICAL ISSUE FOR US AND EVERYBODY KNOW THINGS NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS.
UM, 'CAUSE THESE DATA CENTERS ARE POPPING UP THE DATA CENTER EVERYWHERE, A HUGE ISSUE FOR THE FUTURE OF TEXAS.
SO THANK YOU FOR THAT MEETING.
WELL, AND I I'M JUST GONNA ADD TO WHAT DAVID SAID.
THAT PARTICULAR HEDGE FUND MANAGER WOULD BE PULLING AS MUCH AS 15 BILLION GALLONS WITH A B OF WATER.
ONE OF THE DATA CENTERS, UH, THAT I'M WORKING, UH, WITH LOCALS ON IS 1 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER ALONE.
SO MULTIPLY, THAT'S THREE TO FIVE AND OUR AQUIFERS NOT SUSTAIN THAT KIND OF WITHDRAWAL, NOT, AND THEN THERE'S WATER DISCHARGE THAT GOES WITH THAT.
THE ONE IN AMARILLO IS 6,000 ACRES.
THE ONE I'M DEALING WITH IS 2,900 ACRES.
SO JUST IMAGINE 53 WALMART SIDE BY SIDE.
THAT'S HOW BIG SOME OF THESE INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES ARE.
UH, IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT DATA CENTERS AND THE PERMITTING PROCESS THROUGH THE TCQ, THE DATA CENTERS NEED TO,
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TO GO THROUGH PUBLIC INPUT OPPORTUNITIES.THOSE ARE ALL THINGS THAT, UH, RITA AND OTHERS, UH, INCLUDING MYSELF HAVE RECENTLY BEEN WORKING ON.
IT'S A DISCUSSION THAT WE CAN CERTAINLY BRING TO THE COMMISSION.
I WOULD LOVE FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS TO ADOPT, UH, A DATA CENTRAL POLICY, UM, THAT SPECIFICALLY TALKS ABOUT ZONING AND THE CON CONSUMPTION OF WATER RESOURCES, UM, AND AIR EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE VERY LARGE GAS ENGINES, UM, THAT, UH, POWER THOSE FACILITIES THAT ARE OFTEN BUILT SPECIFICALLY TO POWER THOSE FACILITIES IN THE AIR EMISSIONS THAT COME ALONG WITH THEM.
SO IT'S A TOPIC THAT DESERVES OUR TIME AND ATTENTION.
SO THANKS RITA, UH, FOR BRINGING IT UP THIS EVENING.
CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT WE WILL REVISIT PERHAPS IN OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION, UH, PERHAPS AS AN AGENDA ITEM IN THE FUTURE.
ALRIGHT, ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD THIS EVENING BEFORE WE CONCLUDE? I WOULD LIKE TO GO AHEAD, MR. HAM WITH THESE CENTERS.
AND I KNOW THAT THIS IS NOT GONNA HAPPEN AT THE STATE LEVEL, BUT WITH YOUR, TO PIGGYBACK YOUR SUGGESTION WITH REGARD TO HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE INCORPORATE STANDARDS FOR THESE? I MEAN, I THINK THERE'S NO REASON WHY ANY OF THESE FACILITIES SHOULD NOT HAVE EXTREMELY HIGH, UM, THERMAL MASS WALLS AS WELL AS GEO, UM, UH, GEO GEOTECH OR GEOPHYSICAL, UM, ENERGY, UH, AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS WHERE WE'RE DOING GROUND SOURCE HEATING AND COOLING.
THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S DONE ON LARGE SCHOOL INSTALLATIONS RIGHT NOW.
AND IT'S A THING THAT THAT CAN BE DONE.
IT DOES INCREASE THE COST OF THE BUILDING, BUT IT'S A LONG-TERM ENERGY REDUCTION ON THESE BUILDINGS AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION.
SO I THINK IT'S REALLY CRITICAL, UH, THAT WE ARE NOT BUILDING RIGHT NOW IN GENERAL ACROSS THE BOARD WITH REGARD, ESPECIALLY FOR THESE LARGE DATA CENTERS.
THEY NEED TO BE INCREDIBLY INSULATED WALL SYSTEMS AND USING UM, UH, UM, OR EARTH OR GROUND SOURCE HEATING AND COOLING.
AND IT'S ALL SOMETHING THAT'S READILY AVAILABLE.
SO, UH, THAT REDUCES HUGE WATER CONSUMPTION AS JUST BY BUILDING A TIGHTER BUILDING AND A BETTER BUILDING AND COOLING IT EFFICIENTLY USING GROUND SOURCE AIR CONDITIONING.
THAT THAT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT IS A NO BRAINER.
UH UH, UNFORTUNATELY WE DON'T HAVE A REALLY WEALTH OF THOUGHT WE'RE GOING ON RIGHT NOW AT THE STATE LEVEL.
I'M HOPEFUL TO SEE THAT THAT IS THE CASE.
BUT THERE'S NO REASON THESE BUILDINGS, EVERY DISD, EVERY ISD IN THE STATE IS BUILDING HIGH SCHOOLS, ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WITH INSULATED CONCRETE FORMS WITH R 50 WALLS USING A GROUND SOURCE HEATING AND COOLING.
THERE'S A HIGH SCHOOL IN GAINESVILLE, TEXAS THAT RIGHT NOW HAS PROBABLY 120 WELLS THAT WHERE THEY'RE COOLING THE ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL WITH IT.
SO THERE'S, THIS IS NOT TECHNOLOGY THAT'S FOREIGN.
SO ANYWAY, THAT'S MY ALL GOOD THINGS TO KNOW.
ONE OF MY NEIGHBORS PUT SOLAR ON HER HOUSE RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM ME.
IS IT ANY UH, WAY THAT THE CITY KEEP TRACK OF THE RESIDENTS WHO'S PUTTING SOLAR ON THEY HOUSE? I THINK YOU NEED A PERMIT.
SO I THINK THAT THEY DO, THAT'S HOW THEY KEEP TRACK OF AND DOES THE DIRECTING THEM CHECK THAT PERMIT TO TIE INTO OUR GOLD FOR SOLAR.
LIKE WILL WE USE THAT DATA FROM PEOPLE PUTTING SOLAR ON THEIR HOUSE IN THE CITY OF DALLAS AND USE SOME OF THAT DATA FOR OUR SOLAR GOLD, UH, THAT WE ARE TRYING TO UH, MEET.
JUST COMMISSIONER, I NOTICED THAT WAS ONE OF THE SUGGESTIONS FROM MR. ORENSTEIN ON THE LIST THAT WAS SUBMITTED.
SO MAYBE WE COULD PUT ON THE AGENDA NEXT TIME WE, OR WE'RE GONNA HAVE TIME, MORE TIME TO REVIEW IT.
BUT THAT WAS ONE OF THE SUGGESTIONS, SO YEAH.
AND WE COULD FOLLOW UP WITH STAFF ABOUT THAT.
I'M TRYING TO GET THE, UH, THE GOAL MET, RIGHT? YES.
UPCOMING MEETINGS, PARKS, TRAIL AND ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL COMMITTEE WILL ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY THE SECOND AT 9:00 AM OUR NEXT MEETING OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION WILL BE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH.
AND I WILL TAKE MOTION TO ADJOURN.
I IT NO
IS THERE A SECOND? IT'S BEEN SECOND.
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ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.ANY OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT, WE ARE ADJOURNED.