* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [Environmental Commission on February 11, 2026.] [00:00:02] ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. WE HAVE OUR QUORUM. OOPS. YEP. ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE A QUORUM. TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH, AND THE TIME IS NOW 5:40 PM I AM CHAIRWOMAN KATHERINE GEVA, AND I CALL THIS MEETING OF THE DALLAS ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION TO ORDER. WE WELCOME YOUR PARTICIPATION IN OUR MEETINGS. IN THE LANGUAGE OF YOUR PREFERENCE, YOU WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST TRANSLATION OR OTHER ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES TO PARTICIPATE, PLEASE CALL 4 6 9 7 2 4 6 5 3 8 AT LEAST TWO DAYS PRIOR TO THE MEETING. OUR NEXT REGULAR MEETING OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION WILL BE MARCH 11TH AT 5:30 PM ALRIGHT. LET'S CALL ROLE MEMBERS. JUST A REMINDER, IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE VIRTUALLY, YOU'LL NEED YOUR CAMERA ON FOR THE DURATION OF THE MEETING. AND WE ARE GOING TO START WITH DISTRICT ONE, JORDAN CLARK, DISTRICT TWO, MARK WOOTEN, DISTRICT THREE AND DISTRICT FOUR ARE VACANT. DISTRICT FIVE, TRACY WALLACE. DISTRICT SIX IS VACANT. DISTRICT SEVEN, IKA DURRELL. DISTRICT EIGHT IS RUNNING EIGHT. I'M DISTRICT NINE. DISTRICT 10. DISTRICT 11. WHITNEY LEY. RIGHT. DISTRICT 12, VERY LACKMAN. DISTRICT 13. REBECCA POSTON, DISTRICT 14 HOLIDAY AND DISTRICT 15. YEP. I SAW JULIE ON JUST A MINUTE AGO. WE'LL COME BACK TO HER. YEP. ALL RIGHT. LET'S GO TO OUR TECHNICAL PANEL, MS. BETTING. DR. BORO. ALL RIGHT, MS. STRAUSS? I AM HERE. GOTCHA. MS. TOIA PRESENT. MR. HOFFMAN? WE DON'T SEE YET. MR. MARQUIS ROSE AND DR. JACK PRESENT AND THEN OF OUR HEALTH COMMITTEE, DR. ALAVI PRESENT. I SEE. ALRIGHT. ALL RIGHT. LET'S GET INTO OUR PUBLIC COMMENTS THIS EVENING. WE HAVE ONE REGISTERED SPEAKER OR CITE OUR SPEAKER GUIDELINES. SP SPEAKERS MUST OBSERVE THE SAME RULES OF PROPRIETY DECORUM, GOOD CONDUCT APPLICABLE TO MEMBERS OF THIS COMMISSION. ANY SPEAKER MAKING PERSONAL IMP PERTINENT PROPANE OR SLANDEROUS REMARKS, OR WHO BECOMES BOISTEROUS WHILE ADDRESSING THE COMMISSION WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. EACH SPEAKER WILL BE GIVEN THREE MINUTES WHEN YOUR TIME HAS ENDED, PLEASE CONCLUDE YOUR COMMENTS. OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS JANET GOMAN. WELCOME BACK. IS THIS ON? YEAH. UM, SO, UH, I'M NOT HERE TO TALK ABOUT PES PESTICIDES SPRAYING SINCE, UH, DR. LACKMAN AND MS. ROBERSON ARE, UH, WORKING TO GET THAT THROUGH THE SUBCOMMITTEE. UM, BUT I'M HERE TODAY BECAUSE LAST TIME, UM, THIS ISSUE WAS BROUGHT UP AND I HAD BEEN FOLLOWING SOME RESEARCH ON SOME OF IT. SO I HAVE PUT FOR ALL OF YOU, SOME OF YOU MAY NOT HAVE GOTTEN IT, BUT THESE ARTICLES, AND I JUST WANTED TO SAY A FEW THINGS ABOUT THESE ARTICLES. UM, THE FIRST ONE IS THE BAD NEWS, AND THAT'S, UM, A PROPUBLICA, UM, ARTICLE ABOUT GLOBAL WATER SUPPLIES THREATENING THIS AQUIFER. UH, THE, OUR, OUR AQUIFERS ARE UNDER HUGE STRESS. UM, UH, I, I OWN SOME PROPERTY IN THE HILL COUNTRY. IT'S REALLY OBVIOUS DOWN THERE, AND I'VE OWNED IT FOR OVER 30 YEARS. THE, IT'S BEEN BUILT UP AND THEY'RE DRAINING THIS AQUIFER AT A RATE THAT NOW THEY'RE HAVING TO BOIL WATER. SO THAT'S VERY TROUBLING, BUT IT'S HAPPENING GLOBALLY. AND OBVIOUSLY, UH, WE WERE, LAST TIME Y'ALL WERE TALKING ABOUT IT IN, IN REGARDS TO DATA CENTERS AND HOW MUCH WATER THEY'RE DRINKING UP. SO, UM, SO THAT'S ONE ARTICLE. THE OTHER ONE IS, UH, A NOVEL APPROACH THAT I JUST THOUGHT I'D INTRODUCE TO ALL OF YOU. UM, 'CAUSE I READ THIS AND I GO, WOW, THIS IS [00:05:01] REALLY INTERESTING, SOMETHING POSITIVE. UM, SO NEW YORK CITY HAS SOME OF THE BEST WATER, UH, THAT IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE PURCHASED THIS PRISTINE LAKE IN, UH, UPSTATE NEW YORK AND WEREN'T ALLOWING ANY, UM, UH, UH, DEVELOPMENT ON THERE OR ANYTHING ELSE. AND, UM, IT WAS CHEAPER FOR THEM TO PURCHASE THIS LAND INSTEAD OF BUILDING FILTERING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FILTERING SYSTEMS. THAT'S WHAT THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT. SO, UM, I LOVED THE WAY THAT, THAT THE, THE, YOU KNOW, THE CITY APPROACHED HOW TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM, UM, IN A, A WAY THAT'S BETTER THAN JUST BUILDING A BIG, UH, FILTERING SYSTEM. THE OTHER THING I CAN BRING SOME MORE INFORMATION TO YOU NEXT TIME, UH, IS, UM, ON, UM, WETLANDS AND SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH WETLANDS. UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WOULD WORK, BUT IT DOES WORK. IT DOES HELP, UH, DOES WORK, UH, WITH CLEANING, UM, UH, WASTEWATER IN, UH, SUSTAINABLE WATER PRACTICES. SO, UM, MAYBE NEXT TIME I FIND SOME THINGS ABOUT THAT AND SHARE WITH YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I THANK OUR SPEAKER FOR THAT INFORMATION. UM, THIS PROGRAM IN NEW YORK CITY WAS STARTED BY A FRIEND OF MINE NAMED DAVE AYA. AND I WROTE ABOUT THIS IN MY BOOK FOR OF GOODNESS THAT THEY HAD A CHOICE TO MAKE, TO BUILD CONCRETE FILTRATION PLANTS, OR GO UP THE STATE AND BUY ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF LAND AND ALLOW FARMERS TO CONTINUE TO FARM, BUT JUST TO KEEP THE LAND OPEN AND BOOK CONSERVATION EASEMENTS, AND DID THIS IN SUCH A WAY IF THEY SAVED IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, SEVERAL BILLION DOLLARS. AND THIS IS GONNA BE A CONTINUING PRACTICE GLOBALLY BECAUSE IN ORDER, 'CAUSE IN ORDER FOR US TO SURVIVE ANYWAY IN THE FUTURE IN TERMS OF WATER USE, WE HAVE TO FIND WAYS TO KEEP MORE LAND OPEN AND MORE DO KEEP LAND OPEN FOR AGRICUL USES OR TO CONSERVATION USE. SO, THANK YOU. BRING, THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF WHAT'S GOING ON GLOBALLY TO PRESERVE WATER SUPPLIES AND ALSO A MEMBER, A KEY ISSUE FOR ALL OF US IN THE FUTURE, GONNA BE IZATION OF WATER. RECENTLY, A HEDGE FUND MANAGER TRIED TO BUY AN ACON EAST TEXAS AND DROVE 22 WELLS INTO IT AND SUCK IT UP TO DRY AND SELL IT TO OTHER PARTS OF TEXAS. WE WALK AND A VERY, UM, ASTUTE, UM, REMEMBER WOOD FRE AND CODY HARRIS, REPRESENTATIVE CODY HARRIS, STOPPED THAT, TURNED INTO IT AND DIDN'T ALLOW THAT ON SALE TO FRUIT. SO AS WE GO FORWARD, JUST REMEMBER THE PRIVATIZATION OF WATER, INFILTRATION OF WATER ONLY TO BE KEY ELEMENTS TO THE FUTURE OF WATER HERE IN ELWOOD. SO THANKS FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD, BUT THERE'S ENORMOUS INFORMATION RIGHT NOW ABOUT IT'S TO BUY A WATER SUPPLY. IN FACT, YEARS AGO, THE PEOPLE TRIED TO BUY THE WATER SYSTEM OF THE CITY OF FOR WORTH, AND THE CITY COUNCIL LOOKED UP AND SAID, WAIT A MINUTE, YOU WANNA DO WHAT? AND THEY TURN THEMSELVES OUT. AND WHAT THEY DID THAT, SO THIS IS A, A KEY ISSUE, WILL CONTINUE TO BE IZATION OF WATER, NUTRITION OF WATER, WHICH IS REAL KEY ISSUE THE FUTURE OF WATER HERE. AND THAT'S WHAT THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. QUIS. ALL RIGHT. JUST ONE ANNOUNCEMENT, THIS, UH, EVENING, PLEASE SAVE THE DATE FOR THE NORTH TEXAS CLIMATE ST ON APRIL 20TH AT BEN HILTON. AM TO. WE'RE GONNA GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT LATER ON IN THE, UM, BRIEFING MEMOS. UM, LET'S GO ON. WE HAVE A FULL AGENDA THIS EVENING TO THE APPROVAL OF THE JANUARY 12TH MINUTES, AND I WILL MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND. UM, I THINK WE HAD THE DATE WRONG ON THE APPROVAL OF MINUTES, IN THOSE MINUTES. UM, SO IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE JANUARY MEETING THAT WE REFERENCED THAT, UH, WE APPROVED, UM, I'M SORRY, DECEMBER. IN JANUARY, WE APPROVED DECEMBER'S MINUTES. AND SO I WOULD MOVE THAT WE AMEND THE MINUTES TO REFLECT THAT WE APPROVED THE MINUTES FROM OUR DECEMBER, 2025 MEETING. IS THERE A SECOND? RIGHT? IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED. ALL IN FAVOR OF AMENDING THOSE MINUTES, SAY AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? OPPOSED, AYE. ALL RIGHT. AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO VOTE AGAIN TO, UH, APPROVE THE MINUTES AS AMENDED. SO I MOVE TO APPROVE THOSE MINUTES AS AMENDED. IS THERE A SECOND? THAT'S IT. SINCE SECONDED. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? AYE. [00:10:01] ALL RIGHT. THOSE MINUTES ARE APPROVED AS AMENDED. LET'S GET RIGHT INTO OUR BRIEFING PRESENTATIONS THIS EVENING. AND OUR FIRST PRESENTATION IS A FIFA SUSTAINABILITY OVERVIEW, UH, AND I BELIEVE DIRECTOR, UH, GOT, IS GOING TO INTRODUCE OUR GUEST THIS EVENING. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. I'M ANGELA HOGE SCOTT, DIRECTOR FOR THE OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY. AND, UM, I AM HERE TO WELCOME OUR GUEST PRESENTER, BRETT WILKINSON, ON BEHALF OF CONVENTION AND EVENT SERVICES, WHO IS LEADING THE EFFORT FOR THE CITY, UM, IN REGARDS TO FIFA. UM, AFTER BRETT'S PRESENTATION, UH, ALONG, AND THEN FROM MY TEAM WILL BE PRESENTING ON, UM, O S'S, UH, CONTRIBUTION TO FIFA AT, AT THIS POINT IN THE STAGE OF THE GAME. UM, AND WE WILL ALSO HAVE MEAR, WHO IS THE SUSTAINABILITY CHAIR FOR FIFA, AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS ONCE WE'RE DONE. SO I WILL PUT TO BRETT, THANK YOU. HI, I'M GLAD TO BE HERE TONIGHT. I APOLOGIZE. MY HORSE IS A LITTLE SCRATCHY, SO I'M GONNA TRY TO GET THROUGH THIS AS BEST AS I CAN. UH, BUT I AM BRETT WILKINSON. UM, I'VE SPENT MY CAREER WITH THE CITY AND RETIRED BACK IN 2022. I KNOW I'VE MET DAVID BEFORE, BUT, UM, I WAS BROUGHT BACK LAST YEAR TO WORK ON THIS VERY EXCITING INITIATIVE ON BEHALF OF THE ORGANIZATION. AND JUST SO YOU ALL WILL KNOW, UM, THIS IS TRULY A REGIONAL EFFORT. UM, THERE IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT MAGNA WORKS FOR IS THE NORTH TEXAS FIFA WORLD CUP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE LED BY MONICA PAUL. SHE'S GOT A GREAT TEAM, BUT I AM LEADING THE EFFORT ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF DALLAS ORGANIZATION. AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, PRETTY MUCH EVERY EVERY DEPARTMENT IN THE CITY IS INVOLVED IN THIS AT SOME LEVEL. SO THAT'S KIND OF MY ROLE WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH MONICA AND OUR TEAM. I THINK THE IMAGE ON THIS SLIDE, UH, REALLY CAPTURES THE, IN, UH, THE MOMENT DALLAS STEPS, UH, ONTO THE GLOBAL STAGE. WE'RE NOT JUST HOSTING, I, I APOLOGIZE FOR INTERRUPTING YOU, STEPHANIE, WOULD YOU MIND SHARING WITH THE FOLKS ONLINE? OKAY, GO AHEAD. SO WE'RE NOT JUST HOSTING SOCCER MATCHES. WE'RE HELPING HOST THE WORLD, UM, FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, THIS WILL BE THEIR FIRST REAL IMPRESSION OF DALLAS AND HOW WE WELCOME VISITORS REALLY TELLS OUR STORY AND HOW WE SHOW UP AS A CITY TRULY MATTERS. SO LET'S GO INTO THE NEXT SLIDE. SO I'M SURE YOU ALL KNOW THE FIFA WORLD CUP IS THE LARGEST SPORTING EVENT ON THE PLANET. NOTHING ELSE COMPARES TO IT, NOT EVEN REMOTELY. DALLAS HAS HISTORY WITH THIS. WE DID HOST THE WORLD CUP BACK IN, UH, 1994. SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER, BUT THE SCALE OF THE 2026 WORLD CUP IS DRAMATICALLY LARGER. NINE MATCHES HERE, UH, INCLUDING A SEMI-FINAL THAT'S MORE THAN ANY OTHER CITY IN NORTH AMERICA. THERE ARE 16 HOST CITIES IN NORTH AMERICA, AND WE'VE GOT THE MOST GAMES. UM, AND THEN WE HAVE, UH, UH, MORE THAN A MONTH OF BAND FEST ACTIVITY. UH, THIS IS NOT A WEAKENED EVENT. IT'S A SUSTAINED GLOBAL MOMENT THAT LASTS WEEKS. UM, THE ECONOMIC AND VISIBILITY IMPACTS EXTEND WELL BEYOND THE MATCHES THEMSELVES. AND YOU CAN SEE HERE WE ARE EXPECTING A 1.5, $2.1 BILLION ECONOMIC IMPACT TO THE REGION. NEXT SLIDE. ALL RIGHT. SO 6 BILLION SOCCER FANS WORLDWIDE. THAT'S NEARLY HALF THE PLANET, OVER HALF THE PLANET WATCHING, UH, WE'RE EXPECTING CLOSE TO 4 MILLION VISITORS ACROSS THE REGION DURING THE, TO MORE THAN 5,000 INTERNATIONAL MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES WILL BE IN MARKET. AND I'M SURE YOU PROBABLY HEARD, BUT DALLAS, UH, WILL BE HOSTING THE INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST CENTER, UH, AT THE CAPE BAY TOUCHES CITY CONVENTION CENTER, UH, WHICH IS A BIG WIN FOR OUR CITY, UH, MAKING OUR CITY THE NERVE CENTER FOR GLOBAL WORLD CUP COVERAGE. EVERY MATCH, EVERY HIGHLIGHT, EVERY STORY SCENE WORLDWIDE, WORLDWIDE WILL FLOW THROUGH DALLAS FOR MORE THAN A MONTH. AND WE'RE REALLY, TRULY EXCITED ABOUT THAT. SO THIS IS A TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY TO SHOWCASE WHO WE ARE AS A . IF WE COULD JUST PAUSE HERE SO STEPHANIE CAN GET THIS PRESENTATION TO THE FOLKS. NO, THEY'RE NOT SEEING THIS. THE PRESENTATION ONLINE? YEAH. YEAH. MAYBE EXPAND THAT AND THEN SHARE. IS THAT A SHARE [00:15:02] SHARE FROM THERE? RIGHT? YEP. AND THEN CLICK THE PRESENTATION. THERE WE ARE. Y'ALL SEE IT ONLINE? YES. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SORRY TO INTERRUPT AGAIN. I WON'T INTERRUPT AGAIN. GO AHEAD. NO, IT'S FINE, IT'S FINE. ALRIGHT. REGIONAL WORKING GROUPS. SO THIS SLIDE LOOKS REALLY BUSY, UH, BECAUSE THE WORK BEHIND THE WORLD CUP IS COMPLEX AND THEY'RE CONNECTED. HOSTING EVENT, AN EVENT ON THIS SCALE REQUIRES COORDINATION ACROSS MANY DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS. YOU CAN SEE THOSE LISTS OF HERE, I'M NOT GONNA READ ALL OF THEM, BUT THESE WORKING GROUPS ARE ALREADY MEETING ACTIVELY AND PLANNING. WHAT'S IMPORTANT HERE IS THAT THE STRUCTURE IS IN PLACE AND IT IS FUNCTIONING. SO THIS TRULY IS AN ALL HANDS ON DECK EFFORT ACROSS DALLAS. AND MOVE THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO THIS IS A MAP OF SOME OF OUR, THE NEWS AROUND THE REGION. AND INDEED THE WORLD CUP FOOTPRINT SPANS THE ENTIRE NORTH TEXAS REGION, WHICH YOU CAN SEE HERE DALLAS IS UNIQUE AND WE'RE NOT ONLY HOSTING MATCHES, BUT ALSO MAJOR OPERATIONS AND ACTIVATIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST CENTER. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, YOU CAN SEE HERE WE'LL PUT BALL ON SCREENS AROUND THE WORLD EVERY DAY. ALL THE GAMES WILL BE PLAYED AT ATT STADIUM, WHICH DURING FIFA WORLD CUP WILL BE CALLED DALLAS STADIUM IN ARLINGTON. UM, BUT WE ALSO HAVE POTENTIAL. WE ALSO HAVE POTENTIAL BASE CAMPS, TRAINING SITES, FANFEST, OBVIOUSLY OUT AT FAIR PARK AND OTHER SUPPORTING VEN VENUES, ALL CONTRIBUTING TO THE EXPERIENCE. EACH LOCATION HERE REPRESENTS BOTH ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND GLOBAL EXPOSURE SLIDE. SO TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY, OBVIOUSLY THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST CRITICAL, UM, UH, SUCCESS FACTORS FOR AN EVENT THIS SIZE. AND YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THOSE PLANNING PILLARS LISTED HERE. WE'VE ALREADY BEGUN TESTING ELEMENTS OF THE SYSTEM IN REAL WORLD CONDITIONS. THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENTS IS TAKING THE LEAD ON OUR REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN. THAT'S DUE TO FIFA NEXT MONTH. WE'LL LEARN A LOT ABOUT MORE ABOUT THAT NEXT MONTH. AND OUR REGIONAL TRANSIT PARTNERS ARE COORDINATING ON SERVICE ACCESS AND OPERATIONS, SOME SCENARIO PLANNING AND TABLE EXERCISES, OR HELPING WITH FIND LOCAL RESPONSES. THE FULL SYSTEM PILOT THE SPRING, WILL SERVE AS ADDRESS REHEARSAL AT 1 26. NEXT SLIDE. SUSTAINABILITY. UH, AND I KNOW THAT ONG IS GONNA TALK, UH, GO INTO A DEEPER DIVE ON THIS, UH, DURING HIS, UH, PRESENTATION. UM, BUT IT'S NOT JUST A SIDE INITIATIVE. IT IS A CORE PART OF DALLAS'S WORLD CUP APPROACH. THESE EFFORTS ARE DESIGNED TO BE LOCAL, VISIBLE AND COMMUNITY FOCUSED FROM CLEANER AIR AND GREENER SPACES TO WASTE REDUCTION. AND WATER CONSERVATION AND YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND VOLUNTEERISM ARE CENTRAL TO THIS WORK AS WELL. THE GOAL HERE IS TO ENSURE THE BENEFITS ARE FELT WELL BEYOND THE TOURNAMENT. NEXT SLIDE. SO, LEGACY, VERY IMPORTANT FOR US AS WELL. IT'S ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OUTCOMES OF HOSTING THE WORLD CUP. AS YOU CAN SEE, SOME OF OUR LE LEGACY EFFORTS ARE LISTED HERE, AND WE ALL KNOW THE TOURNAMENT'S GONNA END, BUT THESE INVESTMENTS ARE INTENDED TO LAST. SAFE ACTIVE SPACES FOR YOUTH GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND NEIGHBORHOOD PRIDE ARE ALL PILLARS. UM, WE'VE GOT SOME INITIAL SOCCER MINI PITCHES, UM, AND THOSE LOCATIONS HAVE ALREADY BEEN IDENTIFIED FOR COMPLETION BY MAY 20, 26. AND ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS WILL BE BE DEVELOPED AFTER THE TOURNAMENT TO EXTEND PLAY. SO HERE'S THE CALENDAR SHOWS ALL THE WORK THAT'S ALREADY UNDERWAY, NOT SOMETHING THAT'S JUST STARTING NOW. I WANNA, I WON'T WALK YOU THROUGH ALL THESE, BUT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS, UH, AND MAJOR MILESTONES ARE HAPPENING NOW. EACH EVENT BUILDS MOMENTUM. EACH KEEPS RESIDENTS CONNECTED TO THE EFFORT. AND THIS APPROACH HELPS TO ENSURE TRANSPARENCY, VISIBILITY IN THE LONG-TERM IMPACT. THE WORLD CUP IS A JOURNEY, AND DALLAS IS WELL ALONG THE PATH. AND THAT COMPLETES MY PRESENTATION. I KNOW THAT WAS A VERY, VERY HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW. SORRY TO GO SO QUICKLY. UM, WE BRIEFED THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO THAT WAS ABOUT A THREE HOUR BRIEFING. SO IF YOU REALLY WANT TO DIVE MORE INTO DETAIL, YOU CAN GO WATCH THAT. BUT I KNOW Y'ALL HAVE, UH, A BUSY FOLKS AND HAVE BUSY AGENDA. SO WITH THAT, I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO OBAMA AND THEN WE CAN ANSWER QUESTION. [00:20:15] SO, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. UM, ONCE AGAIN, ONG HEMI, SENIOR CLIMATE COORDINATOR WITH OEQS. I WANTED TO TALK THROUGH, UH, THE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH THAT THE CITY OF DALLAS HAS AND PARTICULARLY, AND WHAT OUR CONTRIBUTIONS ARE AND HAVE AND WILL BE FOR THE UPCOMING WORLD CUP. NEXT SLIDE. SO JUST OUR SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH. SO JUST FOR CONTEXT, FOR BACKGROUND, UH, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE FEE FOR WORLD CUP WILL BE DECENTRALIZED. MEANING ALL 16 HOST CITIES WILL HAVE THEIR OWN UNIQUE APPROACH TO SOME OF THE OVERALL CRITERIA, UM, INCLUDING SUSTAINABILITY, UH, FOR THE HOST, UH, FOR HOSTING EVENTS. UM, ON SITE, UH, FIFA HAS EIGHT MAIN ENVIRONMENTAL TOPIC AREAS, WHICH ARE LISTED HERE IN THE GREEN COLUMN. UH, PROCUREMENT PRACTICES, CLIMATE ACTION, ENERGY, AIR QUALITY AND POLLUTION, LOW CARBON TRANSPORTATION, WASTE MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULAR ECONOMIES, UH, WATER MANAGEMENT, SUSTAINABLE BUILDING CERTIFICATIONS, BIODIVERSITY IN ANIMAL RIGHTS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. SO AS EARLY AS 2023 STAFF HAS REVIEWED THE SEVERAL STRATEGIC PLANS, INCLUDING THE CCAP CONNECT DALLAS, UH, THE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN TO IDENTIFY ACTIONS AND INITIATIVES THAT WERE ALREADY IN PLACE OR IN DEVELOPMENT, UH, AS WELL AS THE LIMITATIONS FOR, UH, THE NEAR FUTURE. WE WOULD ASSESS THESE ENVIRONMENTAL TOPICS FROM FIFA AS PRESENTED TO US AT THAT TIME. AND TEAMS WORK INTERNALLY TO DETERMINE THE MOST FEASIBLE ACTIONS THAT WE COULD LEVERAGE TO MEET THE LIST REQUIREMENTS FOR HOSTING ACROSS THESE, ACROSS THESE TOPICS. SO THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE CITY, OR THESE ARE THE CITY PLANNING DOCUMENTS OR STRATEGIC PLANS LISTED IN THE BLUE COLUMN, UH, THAT WERE EVALUATED TO LOOK THROUGH FOR ACTIONS OF EXISTING AND UPCOMING INITIATIVES AND CITY OPERATIONS THAT WOULD QUALIFY TO MEET SOME OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL TOPICS THAT PEOPLE REQUIRED. AND THEN THE ORANGE COLUMN IS THE HOST CRITERIA, UH, HOST INITIAL CRITERIA. SO WHAT WE DID IS WE LOOKED TO DETERMINE BASED ON THE TOPIC AREAS IN THE EXISTING, UH, STRATEGIC PLANS THAT THE CITY HAS, WE LOOKED AT CREATING THE HOST CRITERIA THAT WE WOULD FOLLOW AS A CITY. UM, SO THESE ARE THE FOUR MAIN, UH, CRITERIA THAT, UH, THAT WE DEVELOPED EARLY ON IN OUR PROCESS TO HELP US GUIDE US THROUGH THIS PROCESS OF POSTING THE SUSTAINABLE APPROACH FOR THE WORLD CUP IN DALLAS. SO THE FIRST ONE IS THE FEE FOR REQUIREMENTS. AGAIN, UH, FEE FOR SUBMITTED A LONG, LONG LAUNDRY LIST OF POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SUSTAINABLE RELATED TOPICS, INITIATIVES, AND PROGRAMS THAT THEY WOULD WANT THE HOST CITY TO ALIGN TO. SO WE MADE SURE TO INCORPORATE MANY, IF NOT ALL OF THEM AS POSSIBLE, UH, TO MEET OUR HOST OBLIGATIONS. SECOND CRITERIA IS OPERATIONAL RELEVANCE. IT MUST BE RECOGNIZED AS A KEY CITY OPERATION DEFINED BY POLICY. SO AGAIN, GOING BACK TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN, SOMETHING THAT IS IN PLACE THAT THE CITY OF DALLAS HAS CONTROL, UH, OVER THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO INCORPORATE AND INCLUDE. SO WE HAD DIRECT ACCESS TO THE METRICS, UM, AND THE APPROACH AND ACCESSIBILITY OF THE PROGRAM OVERALL. UH, THE THIRD CRITERIA IS STRATEGIC PLANNING ALIGNMENT. UM, IT NEEDED TO BE EITHER SUPPORTED OR INCLUDED IN STRATEGIC PLANS ALIGNED WITH THE FISCAL YEAR 25 26, WHICH WE ARE CURRENTLY IN. SO DOING THIS PROCESS EARLY ON, UH, YEARS IN THE PAST, GOING ON TWO YEARS IN THE PAST, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PROGRAMS THAT WE WOULD INCLUDE IN OUR ESSENTIALLY BID PROCESS, WHAT WE WOULD SUBMIT WOULD BE ACTIVE AND ACTIVATED DURING THIS FISCAL YEAR. AND THE LAST, UH, CRITERIA IS RESOURCE FEASIBILITY. WE ARE LOOKING AT WHAT IS ACHIEVABLE WITHIN SCOPE, UH, THAT WE WOULD HAVE NOT ONLY AS A DEPARTMENT, BUT AS A CITY. UH, MAINLY FOCUSED AROUND TIME, BUDGET, AND PERSONNEL CAPACITY TO MAINTAIN THESE PROGRAMS THAT ARE ALIGNED AT CITY OPERATIONS BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER. YOU BET. NEXT SLIDE. SO WE DID AN INTERNAL ASSESSMENT, UH, WITH THE COMMITTEE, WITH THE TEAM. AND THIS CONSISTED OF OEQS STAFF, AS WELL AS SEVERAL OTHER, UH, DEPARTMENT HEADS ACROSS THE CITY, WHICH INFLUENCED OR TOUCHED, UH, THROUGH THEIR OPERATIONS SOME OF THE FIFA ENVIRONMENTAL TOPICS. UH, THIS INITIAL ASSESSMENT WAS BASED OFF OF THE HOST CRITERIA, WHICH I JUST EARLY MENTIONED, UH, WITH, AND ALSO WITH ALL THE INFORMATION, UH, REQUESTED BY FIFA. THIS INTERNAL STAKEHOLDER GROUP REVIEWED THE, THESE REQUESTS AND DETERMINED WHICH DEPARTMENTS HAD OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, RELEVANT INFORMATION FOR EACH COMPONENT AS WELL. AS WE ANALYZED THE EXISTING INITIATIVES AT THIS STAGE OF THE PROCESS, WE WOULD GAIN CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT FIFA'S EXTERNAL CONTRIBUTIONS WOULD BE IN TERMS OF EXTERNAL FUNDING, CAPACITY, SUPPORT, AND GUIDANCE, PARTICULARLY FOR THE SUSTAINABLE, UH, SUSTAINABLE APPROACH, UH, FOR HOSTING. FINALLY, WE DETERMINED WHICH ACTIONS OF WHICH INITIAL ACTION WE WOULD INCLUDE IN OUR FINAL BID PROPOSAL TO FIFA. SO EARLY ON [00:25:01] IN THE PROCESS, AS LATE AS EARLY AS 2023, WE HAD TO SUBMIT WHAT SUSTAINABILITY WOULD LOOK LIKE FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS HOSTING THE WORLD CUP EVENTS. THIS WAS A REGIONAL, UH, SUBMISSION, BUT DALLAS IS THE HOST, UH, CITY FOR THE REGION. SO MANY, IF NOT ALL OF THE, UM, TOPICS THAT WERE COVERED WELL, HAD TO ALIGN WITH C-A-P-C-A-P WAS OUR GUIDING DOCUMENT OF OUR SUSTAINABLE APPROACH FOR FIFA, UH, WHICH WAS RECEIVED, UH, VERY, UH, VERY POSITIVELY. I I WOULD SAY, I THINK FROM A, FROM A CCAP STANDPOINT, UH, NO OTHER CITY SUBMITTED SUCH A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN THAT ALIGNED SO EASILY WITH THE WORLD'S CUP. UH, SO WE WERE HELD TO A HIGH STANDARD OF BEING THAT EXAMPLE FOR THE OTHER HOST COMM, UH, HOST CITIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. SO AFTER WE DID ALL OF THAT EVALUATION INTERNALLY WITH THE CITY DEPARTMENTS, WE BROKE DOWN OUR, UH, OUR APPROACH INTO THREE MAIN CATEGORIES. THE FIRST ONE IS ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS. THE THIRD ONE IS EVENTS, AND THE LAST ONE IS CITY PROGRAMS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO THE FIRST, UH, SO THE FIRST TOPIC AREA IS ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS. AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST ONES THAT WE, UH, SUBMITTED THAT WE WOULD MOVE FORWARD WITH IS OUR HEAT RESPONSE AND OUR, UH, OUR HEAT RESPONSE PLAN. UM, THIS IS INCLUDES EXISTING WORK AROUND, UM, THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND STUDY THAT WAS IN PROGRESS AT THAT POINT. AND OUR DELIVERABLE WILL BE THE SOON TO BE LAUNCHED, UH, HEAT INTERVENTION GUIDEBOOK, WHICH EVC WILL BE BRIEFED ON LATER, LATER IN THE SPRING. UH, BUT HEAT RESPONSE IS A NATIONAL, UH, NATIONAL CONCERN FOR FIFA, UH, UNDERSTANDING, UH, CLIMATE CHANGE, EXTREME HEAT OVER THE HOST PERIOD, WHICH IS THE SUMMER, UH, WITH ADDRESSING THE INTERNATIONAL GUESTS IN LIGHT OF THE EXTREME HEAT, IS A TOP PRIORITY FOR US TO ADDRESS IN TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT AND HAVING A RESPONSE TO. SO OUR HEAT INTERVENTION OR OUR HEAT PROCESS FOR THE CITY, UH, WAS ONE THAT IS HELD TO A HIGH STANDARD. AND IN FACT, UH, THE CITY OF DALLAS HEAT RESPONSE IS THE STANDARD FOR THE UPCOMING WORLD CUP, MEANING THAT WE MEET QUARTERLY OR EXCUSE, WE MEET MONTHLY NOW, UH, WITH THE INTERNATIONAL FIFA COMMITTEE, AS WELL AS THE, UH, MEDICAL RESPONSE TEAM TO DISCUSS HEAT, HEAT RESPONSE AND WHAT THAT WILL LOOK LIKE FOR US AND HOW THAT COULD BE DUPLICATED ACROSS ALL OF THE HOST CITIES. UH, WE WORK CLOSELY SAID WITH, UH, THE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER FOR NOT ONLY FIFA, BUT WITH THE CITY OF DALLAS, DR. UH, MARSHALL ISAAC TO DEVELOP A HEAT RESPONSE PLAN. UM, AND THEN AGAIN, THE HEAT INTERVENTION GUIDEBOOK, WHICH IS OUR FINAL DELIVERABLE, UH, TO BE COMPLETED, UH, IN THE SPRING, WILL BE, YOU'LL BE BRIEFED ON, UM, BEFORE IT LAUNCHES PUBLICLY. THE SECOND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATION IS AIR QUALITY. UH, FIFA DOES ACKNOWLEDGE AIR QUALITY IN URBAN AREAS HAS BEEN A CHALLENGE INTERNATIONALLY, LONGSTANDING ISSUE FOR, FOR THE ENTIRE TOURNAMENT. AND WE ARE ENSURING OUR NON-REGULATORY MONITORING SYSTEM, OUR DECAMP PROGRAM, WOULD BE THE BACKBONE OF OUR AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT OR AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT, UH, FOR ALL THE FAN ACTIVATIONS WITHIN DALLAS, WE DID HAVE DISCUSSIONS ON HOW THAT PROGRAM WOULD LOOK IF IT NEEDED TO CHANGE IN TERMS OF MOVING MONITORS TO DIFFERENT ACTIVATION SITES. UH, BUT BASED ON THE MAP THAT BRETT SHOWED EARLIER, UH, WE HAVE MONITORS WITHIN A ONE MILE RADIUS OF ALL THE MAJOR ACTIVATION SITES, UH, WITHIN DOWNTOWN DALLAS, AS WHERE AS FELT BEAR PARK, WHERE THE, UH, FAN FEST WILL BE. SO IN TERMS OF THE DCAP STATUS AT THIS POINT, WE ARE ON, WE ARE ON A PATH TO HAVE THE SYSTEM 100% OPERATIONAL BY THE END OF THE SPRING. SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE DOING, WE'VE UPGRADED OUR MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE OPEN AND AVAILABLE, UM, TO REPORT OUT PUBLICLY ONLINE, UM, BY THE SUMMER. NEXT SLIDE. SO IN TERMS OF EVENTS, UH, FIFA REALLY WANTED US TO HAVE AS MANY ACTIVATIONS AS POSSIBLE AROUND, UH, AROUND THE, UH, CUP WINDOW. WE DO HOST NINE GAMES OVER 39 DAYS, UH, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF ESSENTIALLY DOWNTIME, NON-GAME ACTIVATION TIMES HERE. AND WE ALSO, ALSO, ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS WAS FOR US TO OPENLY DISCUSS OUR SUSTAINABILITY ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACH FOR THE CITY ADDRESSING AIR, LAND, AND WATER. UH, OUR NORTEX IS CLIMATE SYMPOSIUM, UH, IS A LONGSTANDING EVENT THAT WE HOST ANNUALLY, AND THAT MET THE CRITERIA FOR US TO, UH, UTILIZE THIS EVENT AS A FLAGSHIP DISCUSSION DIALOGUE SYMPOSIUM FOR FIFA, UH, FOR THE FIFA REQUIREMENT, DISCUSSING SUSTAINABILITY WITHIN DALLAS. SO IT'S HAPPENING APRIL 20TH BEFORE THE EVENT. UH, BUT THERE IS A LOT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW WE TIE AND MARKET IT, UH, LETTING THAT INFORMATION GO FORWARD IN TERMS OF DISCUSSING FIFA, OUR SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH, AND OUR MAIN THEME OF CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND HOW IT IMPACTS THE COMMUNITY. OUR SECOND MAJOR EVENT IS A CLEAN AIR ACTION DAY, TRADITIONALLY, OR A CLEAN AIR ACTION DAY IS A REGIONAL CAMPAIGN WHERE WE, UH, RAISE AWARENESS AROUND AIR QUALITY, UH, THROUGHOUT THE REGION. TRADITIONALLY, THIS HAS BEEN A CAMPAIGN, A [00:30:01] MARKETING CAMPAIGN THAT WE HAVE DONE ONLINE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOME OF OUR CITY OF DALLAS CHANNELS. WE ARE LOOKING INTO HAVING A PROPER EVENT, UH, A COMMUNITY FOCUSED EVENT TO DISCUSS AIR QUALITY. THIS WILL BE BEFORE THE WORLD CUP. OUR FIRST MATCH IN DALLAS IS THE 11TH, OR I THINK THE 14TH. THE FIRST MATCH IS THE 11TH. OUR FIRST MATCH IN DALLAS IS THE 14TH. UH, THIS IS A WEEK BEFORE. SO WE'RE LOOKING TO SEE HOW DO WE TIE THIS, UH, INTO A LARGER COMMUNITY FOCUSED EVENT, NOT ONLY JUST OUR STANDARD PROGRAMMING, BUT AROUND THE WORLD CUP AS WELL, BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE INTERNATIONAL VISITORS ON SITE IN THE CITY BY THIS TIME. AND THEN THE LAST JUST ONGOING ONE IS SUPPORTING LOCAL EVENTS. SO THROUGH THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE, UH, THERE IS A CALL FOR, UH, ORGANIZATIONS TO HOST EVENTS. UH, THERE'S A, THERE IS A COMMUNITY ACTION OR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PLAYBOOK, EXCUSE ME, THAT OUTLINES OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES AND VENUES TO PARTICIPATE IN EVENTS AND WATCH PARTIES. SO OEQS AND THE CITY OF DALLAS, WE ARE AWARE OF THE ONES THAT ARE DALLAS FOCUSED RELATED AND DALLAS PROPER, UH, LOOKING WAYS THAT WE CAN SUPPORT THOSE IN TERMS OF THEIR LOCALIZED SUSTAINABLE APPROACH. NEXT SLIDE. AND THEN FOR OUR LAST CRITERIA, OR OUR LAST CATEGORY IS PROGRAMS. SO WE REALLY LOOK TO SEE JUST BASED ON, AGAIN, RESOURCES, TIME AND CAPACITY, WHAT EXISTING PROGRAMS ARE, ARE OUT THERE THAT WE CAN LEVERAGE TO TIE INTO THE CRITERIA. THIS IS A NEW EVENT, OR THIS IS A NEW PROGRAM, UH, THAT OEQS REACHED THIS AND LAUNCHED LAST YEAR. IT'S A GREEN BUSINESS CERTIFICATION PROGRAM. AND WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IS WE'RE ALLOWING, WE'RE ENGAGING WITH BUSINESSES TO SEE HOW THEY'RE SUSTAINABLE, THEY ARE, AND REWARDING THOSE THAT PRIORITIZE SUSTAINABILITY AS PART OF THEIR OPERATION. THIS CER CERTIFICATION PROGRAM GOES TO BUSINESSES LARGE AND SMALL. AND AS, AS OF TODAY, WE HAVE SIX CERTIFIED BUSINESSES, AND THEY RANGE FROM HOTELS TO LARGE CORPORATIONS. AND WE ARE ENGAGING WITH THE HOTEL AND RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION, DIFFERENT CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE, UM, AS WELL AS OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH VISIT DALLAS, DALLAS 30, UH, THE NORTH CENTRAL, NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS CHAMBER OF GOVERNMENTS, AS WELL AS THE HOTEL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ENTIRE STATE OF TEXAS. WE HAVE PLANS TO EXPAND OUR ENGAGEMENT TO INCLUDE MORE ORGANIZATIONS THAT, PARTICULARLY IN, UH, IN WEST AND SOUTH DALLAS, TO GET THEM MORE INVOLVED WITH SOME OF THE FIFA ACTIVATIONS THAT ARE HAPPENING, UH, WITHIN, WITHIN OUR CITY. I THINK RIGHT NOW OUR CALL TO ACTION FOR THE EBC IS TO ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO SPREAD THIS MESSAGE AS WELL. THIS IS ONE OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE STARTED IN LIEU OF FIFA, BUT WE'LL CONTINUE ON PAST THIS EVENT. SO THIS IS THE, WE'RE USING FIFA AS THE LAUNCH FOR IT. SO ANY SMALL OR OR LARGE BUSINESS THAT YOU ARE ASSOCIATED WITH AND IN YOUR COMMUNITY, UH, PLEASE, UH, ENGAGE WITH THEM TO SIGN UP, UH, BECAUSE THIS IS GONNA BE, THIS IS GETTING ON THE GROUND FLOOR, UH, FOR THEM TO ENGAGE AS WE CONTINUE TO GROW THIS PROGRAM FOR THE FUTURE. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. I THINK JUST OUR, OUR PATH FORWARD. SO, UH, IT'S BEEN A, A BUSY TWO YEARS AND WE ARE SIX MONTHS OUT, OR FOUR MONTHS OUT. EXCUSE ME. YEAH, TIME FLIES. UH OH. UH, BUT, BUT ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS IS, UH, WE'VE BEEN MEETING WITH, OR WE'VE BEEN SUBMITTING INFORMATION TO THE FIFA NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON A QUARTERLY BASIS. UH, THEY HAVE A, UH, REPORT CARD, A PROGRESS REPORT THAT WE SUBMIT INFORMATION TO. I WANNA SAY, GOING BACK TO THAT ORIGINAL SLIDE OF THE MAIN CRITERIA AREAS AS OEQS FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS, WE MAINLY FOCUS ON THE CLIMATE CHANGE, UH, THE CLIMATE ACTION, UH, AND ENERGY AND AIR QUALITY, UH, AIR QUALITY POLLUTION COMPONENTS. OTHER DEPARTMENTS, UH, SUBMIT INFORMATION ACROSS THOSE OTHER CRITERIA THROUGH THE REGIONAL, UH, THROUGH THE REGIONAL, UH, LEADERSHIP TEAM. WE DO MEET ON A REGULAR BASIS ACROSS THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS THAT TOUCH AND HANDLE SOME OF THOSE. BUT THAT IS SUPPLEMENTAL TO, UH, REPORTS FROM THOSE OTHER, UH, OTHER MAJOR REPORTS THERE. SO WE JUST SUBMITTED OUR, OUR, OUR Q1 REPORT ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO, AND THERE'LL BE A FINAL REPORT COMING UP AT, IN APRIL OF THE FINAL APPROACH TO, TO HOSTING. UM, ANOTHER THING IS LIKE, WE'RE FINALIZING OUR IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINES WITH STAKEHOLDERS AND VENDORS THAT SUPPORT ONGOING ACTIONS. SO CLIMATE SYMPOSIUM IS ONE OF THEM. I MENTIONED OUR HEAT INTERVENTION GUIDEBOOK. WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH EXTERNAL CONSULTANTS ON THAT, AS WELL AS OUR DECAMP PROGRAM, GETTING OUR AIR MONITORS, GETTING THE EQUIPMENT WE NEED, THE TRAINING WE NEED, UH, AND THE OPERATION LOGISTICS AROUND THAT. GETTING SUPPORTED. SO MAKING SURE THAT OUR TIMELINE FOR SOME OF OUR ONGOING OPERATIONS ALIGN WITH IT BEING, UH, 100% READY TO LAUNCH BY THE TIME OUR FIRST MATCH KICKS OFF. AND THEN ALSO, UH, OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT. SPRING IS A BUSY TIME OF YEAR, SPRING AND SUMMER IS A VERY BUSY TIME OF YEAR FOR OUR, OUR EVENTS. WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEVERAGE, UH, THE FIFA, UH, NETWORK AND THE FOR MARKETING ARM IN SOME OF OUR EVENTS TO SPREAD IT ACROSS, UH, A, UH, CAN'T [00:35:01] SAY DIVERSE, A A LARGE SWATH OF DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES ACROSS, ACROSS THE CITY. SO A LOT OF THE EVENTS THAT WE ARE HOSTING, UH, WE ARE ABLE TO, TO SHARE THAT THROUGH THE REGIONAL SITE, WHICH GOES OUT TO NOT ONLY OUR COMMUNITY, NOT ONLY, UH, THE NORTH TEXAS REGION, BUT INTERNATIONALLY AS WELL. AND THEN WE'RE ALSO DISCUSSIONS OF WHAT LEGACY WOULD LOOK LIKE, PARTICULARLY FOR SUSTAINABILITY. UH, THAT IS AN OPEN-ENDED QUESTION. THERE'S BEEN SEVERAL CONVERSATIONS ON WHAT THAT COULD LOOK LIKE, WHAT THAT SHOULD LOOK LIKE. UH, FIFA HAS GIVEN A VERY WIDE OPEN, UH, APPROACH TO WHAT LEGACY COULD LOOK LIKE. SO THERE'S ONGOING DISCUSSIONS OF WHAT WILL BE THAT FOOTPRINT, PARTICULARLY FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH. SO OPEN TO ANY AND ALL COMMENTS THERE AS WELL. I THINK THAT IS THE LAST SLIDE. SO WE'RE OPEN TO ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE ABOUT REGIONALLY, UH, LOGISTICALLY OR SUSTAINABILITY FOCUSED. THANK YOU SO MUCH. DR. LACKMAN HAS QUESTION. CAN I JUMP, JUMP IN? OH, YES. SORRY. QUICKLY, SORRY. RIGHT. BEFORE WE GET TO QUESTIONS, I JUST WANTED TO OFFER TO MAGNA IF SHE HAD ANY ADDITIONAL, UM, COMMENTS TO ADD, UM, AS SUSTAINABILITY TO SUSTAINABILITY, OR CAN YOU HEAR ME TO THE PRESENTATION? CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND MY APOLOGIES FOR NOT BEING THERE, UM, IN PERSON TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS OR SHARE ANY DETAILS. I'M REALLY GRATEFUL TO BRETT AND ANGELA FOR THEIR COLLABORATION. AND I HAVE THE HONOR OF WORKING WITH MOST OF YOU IN THE ROOM, UH, OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS. SO REALLY GRATEFUL FOR THAT AS WELL. UM, AS BRETT AND ONG SHARED, UH, THIS IS A REGIONAL EFFORT, NOT, UH, SOMETHING THAT I HAVE DONE OR ONG HAS DONE, OR BRETT HAS DONE, BUT A COLLECTIVE EFFORT OF THE GROUP AND, UH, UM, WORK TO BE DONE. IT'S IN PROGRESS. SO FIRST OF ALL, IT'S LIKE I REALLY WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR BEING PART OF THIS MOVEMENT. IF YOU HAVE AN INITIATIVE IN MIND THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO PURSUE, WE STILL HAVE TIME TO GIVE IT A THOUGHT AND TAKE IT FORWARD. BUT LIKE SAID, WE HAVE A COUPLE OF EVENTS LINED UP, UM, INCLUDING OUTREACH EVENTS, EDUCATION EVENTS AT THE FAIR PARK, BUT ALSO TREE PLANTING THAT WE ARE GOING TO DO WITH CITY OF DALLAS COMMUNITY CLEANUP CHALLENGE THAT WE HAVE ORGANIZED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS. AND, UM, WE ARE OPEN, UH, TO PARTICIPATION TO, UH, ANYTHING ELSE THAT YOU WANT TO PURSUE OR ANY IDEAS THAT YOU THINK WILL MAKE US, UH, BETTER IN OUR EFFORTS TOWARDS ADDRESSING SUSTAINABILITY. SO I'M REALLY GRATEFUL, UH, FOR THE COLLABORATION AND FOR THE PARTNERSHIP. THANKS, ANGELA. THANKS, MAGNA. GO, DR. BOT. OKAY. THAT'S IT. ALL RIGHT. LET'S GO TO BARON. UM, I HAVE, UM, A VERY NICE, UH, REPORT AND SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO HAVE GONNA BE A BIG DEAL FOR THE CITY. SO I APPRECIATE YOU BEING OUT IN FRONT OF IT AND THINKING ABOUT IT. UM, A COUPLE THINGS. FIRST OF ALL, UH, I, I, I GUESS IT'S NECESSARY TO DEFINE SOME OF WHAT WE'RE INVOLVED IN, LIKE AIR QUALITY AND, UH, SOME OF THE CLIMATE ISSUES. BUT, UM, I THINK THAT THERE'S SOME OTHER AREAS WHERE THE WORLD CUP WILL INCREASE OUR UTILIZATION, LIKE PLASTICS AS A BIG ISSUE. AND, UM, ALSO I THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY SOME OF AROUND HOUSING. THE LAST AREA THAT I WOULD MENTION IN TERMS OF A COMMENT IS, IS THAT THE CITY OF DALLAS, THE GO LOCAL, ARE NOT THE ONLY PLACES WHICH ARE INVOLVED IN THE PROMOTION OF THE WORLD CUP. I HAPPEN TO KNOW THAT, FOR INSTANCE, THAT HOME DEPOT IS A SPONSOR. I KNOW THAT 'CAUSE MY DAUGHTER WORKS, IS WORKING ON THOSE EFFORTS. AND I THINK THERE'S SOME OPPORTUNITIES THERE TO HELP THEM TO DO GOOD IN TERMS OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND HELP THEM ALSO DO WELL IN TERMS OF THEIR BOTTOM LINE THAT WE OUGHT TO EXPLORE. AND I THINK WE'VE LAID OUT SOME OF THOSE, LIKE THE ISSUES OF, UM, LIKE SOME OF THE ISSUES HAVING TO DO WITH, UH, UH, ENERGY, UH, AND THE CLIMATE, WHICH ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLACES LIKE HOME DEPOT. COMMISSIONER ROBERTSON, DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION? I JUST WANTED TO THANK PRESENTATION AND, UH, I DIDN'T REALIZE HOW EXCITING THIS WOULD BE. I JUST FIGURED, YOU KNOW, IT WAS SOMETHING MOST PEOPLE COULDN'T AFFORD TO GO TO, BUT WE CAN ALL KIND OF GET INVOLVED. SO IF AN ORGANIZATION OR ENTITY WANTED TO BE PART OF IT, UH, DO THEY GO TO THE WEBSITE TO SIGN UP OR, YES, AND I, WE DIDN'T, THIS WAS A VERY HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW. UM, BUT THE, THE, THE NORTH TEXAS PEOPLE WORLD CUP ORGANIZING [00:40:01] COMMITTEE HAS A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PLAYBOOK MM-HMM . THAT IS ON THEIR WEBSITE. OKAY. AND THERE ARE, THAT HAS LOTS OF WAYS FOR FOLKS TO GET INVOLVED ON A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT LEVELS. OKAY. WHETHER IT'S OPPORTUNITIES, UH, TO, UH, COMPETE FOR DIFFERENT SUPPLIER, UH, IF YOU WANNA REGISTER YOUR BUSINESS TO, TO POTENTIALLY BE HIRED TO DO SOME OF THESE THINGS THAT THEY NEED DONE IN TERMS OF, UM, ENTERTAINMENT VENUES, RESTAURANTS, UH, OFFER IDEAS FOR, UM, MANY PITCHES THROUGH THAT WEBSITE. UM, THEY'RE GONNA BE MEETING ENTERTAINMENT FOR FAN FESTS OUT OF THEIR, THERE'S LOTS OF WAYS FOR ORGANIZATIONS TO GET INVOLVED. BUT THAT CAN, THAT IS ALL IN THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PLAYBOOK. AND THAT WOULD BE FOUND AT WWW.DALLASFWCTWENTYSIX.COM. AND MAG, I GOT THAT WEBSITE WRONG. PLEASE CORRECT ME, . NO, THAT'S CORRECT. ALSO WANTED TO MENTION, I SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED THIS, THE FAN FEST IS, IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. SO THERE WON'T EVERYBODY CAN, BECAUSE WE, WE RECOGNIZE THAT NOT EVERYBODY'S GONNA BE ABLE TO AFFORD TO GO TO THE GAMES. RIGHT. AND IN FACT, MOST OF THE PEOPLE COMING HERE PROBABLY WON'T BE. SO FANFEST IS A, IS WE, WE, THAT'S, THAT'S GONNA BE AN AMAZING THING FOR DALLAS. WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA HAVE ONE OF THE MOST ACTIVE FANFEST IN, IN THE, IN ALL OF NORTH AMERICA. SO THAT'S ENOUGH TO EXPERIENCE THIS. AND I REALIZE FANFEST WAS A WAY TO, UH, KEEP EVERYBODY ENGAGED. ALL RIGHT. WE'RE GONNA GO TO COMMISSIONER RE AND THEN DR. ALAVI AND THEN COMMISSIONER HIDA. SO YOU HAD MENTIONED ABOUT, UH, ENGAGING, UH, Y'ALL HAD LOCATIONS FOR SOCCER FIELDS AND COMMUNITIES. COULD YOU, UH, TELL ME WHICH COMMUNITIES THEY ARE? THERE ARE, UM, TWO LOCATIONS IN THIS FIRST ROUND, WHICH WILL BE DONE IN MAY. UM, AND ONE OF THOSE IS GONNA BE IN THE PLEASANT GROVE AREA. AND THEN ONE OF THOSE IS GONNA BE IN LITTLE FURTHER EAST DALLAS. BUT THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY, UH, AND, AND FOR COMMUNITIES AND, AND, AND FOLKS THAT HAVE IDEAS ON WHERE GOOD LOCATION, OBVIOUSLY WE WANNA TRY TO PUT THESE IN UNDERSERVED AREAS. UM, SO IF YOU HAVE IDEAS FOR, FOR WHERE A GOOD LOCATION FOR THOSE WOULD BE, THAT WOULD BE DONE THROUGH THAT PLAYBOOK AS WELL. SO I WOULD HAVE TO GO ONLINE AND THROUGH THE PLAYBOOK ONLINE. YES, MA'AM. OKAY. ALL RIGHT, DR. AVI. SO, UM, I THINK THAT THIS IS, THIS WAS A GREAT PRESENTATION AND I'M, YOU'RE DEFINITELY DOING A LOT OF GREAT WORK FOR THE, UM, FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS AND FOR SUSTAINABILITY, BUT I, I, I DID HEAR THAT YOU WERE, YOU HAD THAT HEAT PLAYBOOK. I THINK THAT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE EDUCATION TO THE COMMUNITY AS WELL. UM, AND I THINK, UM, COMING UP WITH SOME SORT OF, KIND OF EASILY ACCESSIBLE, UM, COMMUNITY EDUCATION WOULD BE REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT DURING THIS, YOU KNOW, VERY HOT TIME YEAR, PEOPLE ARE GONNA BE VERY EXCITED. THERE'S GONNA BE KIDS WHO WANNA DO PLAY SOCCER, ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT THINGS. UM, AND I THINK IT'LL BE REALLY, UM, THE, AN IMPORTANT AND RESPONSIBLE THING TO DO A LOT OF EDUCATION ABOUT HEAT SAFETY, UM, AND START AND, UM, BE REALLY AGGRESSIVE, UM, ABOUT THAT, UM, AS WELL. UM, IN ADDITION TO THAT, I KNOW YOU HAVE A BIG TRANSPORTATION PLAN, BUT I HOPE THAT PART OF THAT TRANSPORTATION PLAN IS MAKING, UM, TRANSPORTATION TO AREAS THAT ARE NOT AS, UM, EASILY ACCESSIBLE. UM, UH, ALLOWING THEM TO BE ABLE TO GET TO FAIR PARK AND OTHER PLACES ON A REGULAR, UM, KIND OF MORE FREQUENTLY, UM, DURING THE, UM, DURING FIFA AS WELL. UM, ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU AND A GREAT JOB JUST TO RESPOND TO ABOUT, ABOUT HEAT. SO, SO YES, WE DO RECOGNIZE, WE DO RECOGNIZE THAT. AND I THINK TO ELABORATE MORE, THE HEAT RESPONSE GUIDEBOOK WAS A PLAN COMING OUT OF OUR, UH, URBAN HEAT ISLAND, UH, STUDY FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS. SO THE ORIGINAL PLAN WAS FOR IT TO BE COMMUNITY BASED. UH, WE ARE WORKING ON THAT ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR THE DALLAS COMMUNITY, WHICH WILL START RELATIVELY SOON. WE'VE JUST FINISHED GOING THROUGH ALL OF THE DATA, AND WE'RE GONNA BE ENGAGING WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS, UH, LIKE EBC, YOU ALL RECEIVE AN INVITATION SOON TO SIT ON HOW DO WE ENGAGE WITH EVERY COMMUNITY WITHIN THE CITY, BECAUSE HE AFFECTS, UH, ALL OF US, REGARDLESS OF WHERE YOU ARE WITHIN THE CITY. AND THEN LEVERAGING THAT OUTCOME TO THE OVERALL INTERNATIONAL, UH, FAN ENGAGEMENT, UH, STRATEGY THAT WE'LL HAVE FOR INTERNATIONAL GUESTS. BUT YES, IT IS FOCUSED FOR DALLAS RESIDENTS. THAT'S AWESOME TO HEAR. THAT'S, UM, GREAT. UM, AS A PEDIATRICIAN, SCHOOLS ARE GONNA BE A VERY IMPORTANT PLACE TO DO OUTREACH. ALL COMMISSIONER [00:45:01] HIDO AND THEN CHAIR WALLACE AND CHAIR. HI MOTO, ARE YOU ABLE TO UNMUTE? WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU. WE'LL COME BACK. UM, LET'S GO TO CHAIR WAL. THANK YOU. UM, THIS IS SO EXCITING. AND, UM, JUST THINKING ABOUT THE, MY, MY, UH, DISTRICT'S DEMOGRAPHICS AND, UM, I CAN IMAGINE ALL THE SOCCER PLAYERS IN THAT DISTRICT ARE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THESE EVENTS. UM, I'D LIKE TO, UH, FIND OUT IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO DO JUST EVEN LIKE TWO CHANGES TO WHAT'S AVAILABLE WHEN IT COMES TO, UM, WHAT'S OFFERED, UH, AS FAR AS, UM, AT CONCESSION STANCE, COULD WE, IS IT POSSIBLE TO JUST OFFER NOTHING BUT BAMBOO UTENSILS AND SOMETHING LIKE INSTEAD OF PLASTIC CUPS, UH, THE COMPANY BALL WHO MAKES, UM, THE MASON JARS, UM, YOU KNOW, STORE FOR STORAGE, THEY MAKE AN ALUMINUM SOLO CUP. AND THOSE ARE TWO THINGS THAT WE USE IN MY NONPROFIT AT EVERY SINGLE TRAINING. THEY'RE VERY ACCESSIBLE. UM, I JUST WOULD LOVE TO SEE, UM, US PULL OFF SOMETHING LIKE THAT, JUST TWO MINOR CHANGES IN WHAT'S AVAILABLE IN CONCESSIONS. UM, LIKE COMMISSIONER DERE, I REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THE COMMUNITY PLAYBOOK, UH, BECAUSE I IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT OF THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN IN DISTRICT FIVE. AND, UM, AND THEN JUST TO PUT ON, UH, ONG YOU MENTIONED SOME, YOU KNOW, LASTING THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN IN COMMUNITIES. AND I JUST RECENTLY TALKED TO, UM, UM, MY CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, UM, STAFFER ABOUT DOING A, UH, PAVILION IN THEIR DISTRICT FOR BASKETBALL, UM, THAT IS SOLAR POWERED LIGHTING. UM, SO IT'S JUST ANY, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S ALWAYS ACCESSIBLE. IT'S ALWAYS LIGHTED FOR SAFETY AND EASE AND, UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW POSSIBLE THAT IS, UM, YOU KNOW, TO MAKE SURE ONE IS INSTALLED IN EACH, UM, PARTICULARLY OF THE DISTRICTS WITH LOW INCOME RESIDENTS. SO THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE MY THOUGHTS. AND, UM, THANKS AGAIN FOR THE PRESENTATION. ALL RIGHT. UM, STEPHANIE, CAN YOU UNMUTE THE PHONE NUMBER THAT STARTS NINE ONE SEVEN? THAT'S CHAIR HERS. I'M NOT ABLE TO UNMUTE IT. OKAY. UM, MEANWHILE, COULD I JUST GET SOME FEEDBACK ON THOSE TWO CHANGES IF THOSE ARE POSSIBLE FOR CONCESSIONS? YES, I'LL DEFINITELY, SO MS. WALLACE, UH, WE HAVE C3, UH, WHO'S HIRED A CONTRACTOR TO DEVELOP FAN FESTIVAL. IT'S A, A COMPANY THAT'S WORKING WITH US VERY CLOSELY, UH, ON FAN FESTIVAL. UM, AND THEY'RE WORKING ON A SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY. WE ARE, UH, WE ARE WORKING ON PRODUCING THE USE OF PLASTIC FOOD DONATION, FOOD RECOVERY, AND I WILL DEFINITELY PASS ON YOUR RECOMMENDATION FOR THE BATTERY UTENSILS TO THEM AS WELL. IF YOU CAN SEND ME SOMETHING, I'LL PASS IT ON TO THEM. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. LET'S SEE IF CHAIR HERMO PASS TEXT. CAN YOU HEAR ME? GREAT. THERE YOU GO. YEAH. OH, WONDERFUL. OKAY. UM, THANKS FOR THE FABULOUS PRESENTATION. IT WAS SO GREAT TO SEE THE AMAZING PLANS THAT THE CITY HAS IN PLACE. AND MAGNA I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR INVITATION FOR MORE IDEAS. SO I'M, I'M TAKING YOU UP ON THAT OFFER. UM, ABSOLUTELY. HAVE WE THOUGHT ABOUT, YOU MENTIONED, YOU MENTIONED, UH, DART IN THE PRESENTATION ONG AND HAVE WE THOUGHT ABOUT, AND I, I LOVE THE IDEA OF HOW THE WORK THAT WE DO DURING THE WORLD CUP AND WITH FIFA WILL SET THINGS IN MOTION THAT WILL BE LACKING CHANGE WITH WITHIN THE CITY. AND I WONDER, UM, WHAT WE'VE THOUGHT ABOUT IN TERMS OF, UM, THE DART AND THE AIRPORT CONNECTION AND WHETHER OR NOT WITHOUT BUILDING SIGNIFICANTLY MORE INFRASTRUCTURE, THERE'S A WAY TO [00:50:01] SCHEDULE THE TRAIN WHERE YOU COULD HAVE A DIRECT FROM DOWNTOWN TO THE AIRPORT AND NOT STOP ANYWHERE ELSE ONCE AN HOUR OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. UM, THAT WOULD REALLY BEAT UP THE TIME IT WOULD TAKE FOR PEOPLE TO TAKE DART TO THE AIRPORT AND TAKE A LOT OF CARS OFF THE ROAD AND MAKE IT EASY FOR PEOPLE TO GET DOWNTOWN. UH, SO YES, FOR IN TERMS OF TRANSPORTATION, UH, THE TRANSPORTATION MOBILITY PLAN, I THINK THERE WAS A LOT OF OPTIONS THAT, THAT WERE DISCUSSED. I THINK, UH, MAYBE, UH, POTENTIALLY THAT ONE WAS, UH, MENTIONED. I, I'M NOT SURE I CAN GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT, BUT YES, TRANSPORTATION, MOVING PEOPLE TO AND FROM, UH, YOU MENTIONED DOWNTOWN IN THE AIRPORT, BUT ALSO, UH, ACTIVATION SITE TO ACTIVATION SITE DOWNTOWN TO FAN FEST, FAN FEST TO THE HOTEL AREAS, AND ALSO TO ARLINGTON WHERE THE GAMES WILL BE PLAYED, HAVE ALL BEEN, UH, THOUGHT THROUGH, UH, QUITE DEEPLY TO PROVIDE DIFFERENT OPTIONS. UH, BUT IN TERMS OF YOUR DIRECT, UH, EXPRESS CONNECTION, I WOULD SAY FROM THE AIRPORT DOWNTOWN, I'LL LOOK INTO OUR PLAN AND I CAN RESPOND BACK TO YOU. THAT WOULD BE FABULOUS BECAUSE I, I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT COULD HAVE MEANINGFUL AND LASTING CHANGE BEYOND THIS VERY SPECIAL EVENT THAT REALLY IMPACTS THE WAY THAT CITIZENS MOVE AROUND OUR CITY. THANK YOU. CHIEF HERMO. IS THAT IT? OKAY. ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO . SO AGAIN, VERY EXCITING, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. UM, SO MY QUESTION, THOUGH, THE DALLAS BUSINESS, UH, THE GREEN CREDIT HELPS GREEN BUBBLE. SO, UM, YOU SAID THAT YOU WANTED US TO BE ABLE TO SPREAD THE WORD AND, AND KIND OF GET THAT OUT. AND ARE THERE INCENTIVES THAT WE CAN USE TO APPROACH THESE BUSINESSES WITH THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE GETTING, AGAIN, I CAN ANSWER THAT ONG. YES. UH, SO THE IDEA BEHIND THE, UH, LAUNCH OF THE GREEN BUSINESS CERTIFICATION PROGRAM WAS TO GIVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO THESE BUSINESSES TO BE HIGHLIGHTED BY THE FIFA WORLD CUP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE. SO THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE SIGNED UP AND CERTIFIED, WE WILL BE POSTING ABOUT THEM ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNEL, UM, ON THE WEBSITE IN THE NEWSLETTER. AND VERY SOON THERE IS GOING TO BE A FIFA APP. SO THEY WILL BE POSTED AND HIGHLIGHTED ON THE FIFA APP AS WELL, SAYING THESE ARE THE GREEN BUSINESSES IN DALLAS. SO THEY GET A FREE PROMOTION AND ADVERTISING FROM US, UH, AS PART OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE AND THE FIFA SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS. ABSOLUTELY. SO, AND I WILL ADD FOR, UM, FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS, UM, FOR AN ON ONGOING BASIS, THE THOSE LOCATED IN THE CITY OF DALLAS, WE'RE WORKING ON, UH, PLAQUES THAT THE BUSINESSES COULD HANG IN INSIDE OF THEIR BUSINESS FOR DISPLAY. PERFECT. THANK YOU. UH, AND THEN I, MEGAN, HOW ARE YOU DOING? SORRY, , IT'S FREEZING. BUT I WAS WONDERING, UH, THERE WAS TALK ON THE WATER SITUATION AND WHAT WE WERE GONNA DO AS FAR AS HAVING WATER OUT FOR PEOPLE DURING THIS TIME. WAS THAT SOMETHING THAT WAS RESOLVED? UM, SO, SO THE TAR REGIONAL WATER DISTRICT HAS A CAMPAIGN CALLED WATER IS AWESOME CAMPAIGN, AND WE HAVE COLLABORATED WITH THEM SO THAT THEY CAN INCLUDE THE MESSAGE ABOUT WATER CONSERVATION. I THINK THEY RELEASE THEIR MARKETING CAMPAIGN EARLY SPRING. UH, AND WHEN THAT COMES OUT, THE MESSAGE OF WATER CONSERVATION WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE WATER IS AWESOME CAMPAIGN BY THE REGIONAL WATER DISTRICT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OF COURSE. ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO TO, UM, MS. STRAUSS AND THEN COMMISSIONER DAY, AND THEN MS I'LL KEEP MY COMMENT BRIEF. JUST, UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS PRESENTATION. YOU ALL HAVE DONE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK AND I'M JUST REALLY, REALLY EXCITED ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED. I JUST WANTED TO OFFER THIS AS A RESOURCE. I SAW FOOD WASTE WAS A PRIORITY. UM, CITY OF DALLAS, DALLAS COUNTY, AND NOW 450 OTHER ORGANIZATIONS ARE A PART OF A DALLAS, DALLAS COUNTY FOOD PLAN COLLABORATIVE TO CREATE A, A FOOD ROADMAP FOR NOT ONLY DALLAS AND DALLAS COUNTY, BUT EVENTUALLY NORTH TEXAS. SO IF THAT MAY BE A RESOURCE WITH THAT GROUP TO ACTIVATE, UH, TO FIND RESOURCES FOR FOOD WASTE, SOME OF WHICH ARE ALREADY VENDORS OF THE CITY OF DALLAS AND SOME ARE NOT. SO I'M JUST WANTING TO OFFER THAT AS A RESOURCE. THIS CONVENING'S ALREADY HAPPENED SO THEY CAN BE TAPPED EASILY. SO ABSOLUTELY, MS. ROSS. YES, PLEASE SHARE THAT WITH US. AND, UM, WE ARE ALSO HOSTING A GREEN AMBASSADOR CERTIFICATE PROGRAM, A TWO DAY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM JUST TO EDUCATE THE CITIZENS ABOUT THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABILITY AND [00:55:01] WHAT, UH, THE WORLD CUP IN A SPORTING EVENT THIS SIZE DOES TO THE COMMUNITY AND HOW YOU CAN MITIGATE SOME OF THE NEGATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT. AND MS. CHARLES IS ONE OF OUR SPEAKERS. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND AVAILABILITY. THANK YOU. YES, HAPPY TO SUPPORT, REALLY EXCITED ABOUT WHAT Y'ALL ARE DOING. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, COMMISSIONER DAY. THANKS. SO I JUST WANNA ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THE AIR QUALITY MONITORING. SO, UH, YOU KNOW, YOUR, UH, PRESENTATION SAID THAT YOU'LL BE COLLECTING AT THE SITES AS YOU KNOW, THESE EVENTS HAPPEN, BUT THEN AT THAT POINT, THAT'S BACKWARDS LOOKING INFORMATION WHEN YOU GET THE ALL ANALYZED. SO HOW DO YOU USE THAT INFORMATION? DOES THAT, UH, THEN PLAY INTO LIKE, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE LEGACY SUSTAINABILITY LEGACY, UM, AND THEN MOST OF THE ACTIVATION, WELL, THE MAJOR SITE OF COURSE IS IN ARLINGTON. SO IF THAT IS THE CONNECTION, IS THERE ANY BENEFIT TO DALLAS FROM THAT? SO, YEAH, SO FROM THE AIR QUALITY STANDPOINT, TO ANSWER YOUR SECOND QUESTION FIRST, FOR OUR PROGRAM, WE'RE ONLY LOOKING INTO ACTIVATION SITES WITHIN DALLAS PROPER. SO THAT'LL BE IN DOWNTOWN. AND IN THAT, IN THAT FAIR PARK, UH, I THINK IT'S GONNA BE THE LARGEST ONES. WE HAVE TWO MONITORS WITHIN A 1.2 MILE RADIUS OF THAT LOCATION. RIGHT NOW WE'RE DISCUSSING OF WHAT OTHER SUPPLEMENTAL EQUIPMENT WILL BE NEEDED TO SUPPORT, UH, THE MONITORING ASPECT OF IT. UH, SO TO ANSWER YOUR FIRST QUESTION, YES, IT IS. WE, WE ARE SOLELY, OUR SOLE FOCUS IS TO MONITOR THE AIR QUALITY DURING THE EVENT AND WE ARE LEVERAGING OUR EXISTING, UH, SYSTEM TO DO SO. MM-HMM . I THINK THE LEGACY COMPONENT OF OUR PROGRAM PARTICULARLY COULD TIE INTO LARGE EVENTS, LARGE MEGA EVENTS THAT WE HAVE HOSTED AND WE'LL HOST IN THE FUTURE, WHAT THAT COULD POTENTIALLY LOOK LIKE. HOW DO WE MODIFY OUR SYSTEM TO COLLECT THAT DATA? AND BASED OFF OF THESE MEGA EVENTS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE CONSISTENTLY HAVING, WHAT APPROACH WOULD WE NEED THE DATA THAT WE COLLECT, WHAT APPROACH WOULD WE WOULD USE TO CHANGE THE PROGRAM ESSENTIALLY? SO I, I CAN SAY IT IS STILL A DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM AT, AT THE MOMENT. UH, BUT IN TERMS OF OUR RESPONSE, WE ARE WORKING ON A MORE ACTIVE READY RESPONSE. UH, SO IF YOU'RE ONLINE AND YOU'RE ACTIVE ON THE SITE, YOU WOULD GET AN ALERT IF THERE IS A SPIKE IN ANY POLLUTANT IN YOUR GIVEN AREA. IF YOU'RE SEARCHING ON THAT MONITOR. WE DON'T HAVE A WAY TO CONNECT DIRECTLY TO RESIDENTS AS YOU GET EMERGENCY ALERTS FOR A NUMEROUS AMOUNT OF THINGS VIA CALL OR EMAIL. WE'RE NOT AT THAT LEVEL YET, BUT WE ARE STILL INTO WHAT THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE. BUT RIGHT NOW IT'S STILL JUST MONITORING. AND THEN IN THE MOMENT WE CAN SEND OUT INFORMATION ABOUT, UH, HEALTH IMPACTS, HEALTH ALERTS AND BEHAVIOR CHANGES, STAY INDOORS, THINGS LIKE THAT. MR. MARCOS, THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR FIRST. HELLO TO THANKS FOR BEING WITH US TO SEE YOU. THANK YOU. I'M SITTING HERE WONDERING AMAZ, BECAUSE IT WASN'T THAT LONG AGO DALLAS LET YOU KNOW THIS, THAT A MAJOR EVENT LIKE THIS, IT HAD HUGE ECONOMIC IMPACT. THE WORD ENVIRONMENT NEVER WOULD'VE COME UP. THERE'VE BEEN NO DISCUSSION OF SUSTAINABILITY, EQUALITY KIND OF UTENSILS, WHAT YOU USE FOR, WHILE NEVER WOULD'VE ENTERED A CONVERSATION. SO ALL BE GLAD TO THAT WE COME TO A POINT WHERE THESE THINGS ARE EVEN DISCUSSED. WE MADE EVENT LIKE THIS WOULD GREW UP, WILL CONTINUE TO BE, AND NOW I'VE ALSO SEEN AFTER EVENTS LIKE CONVENTION COMES TO TOWN OR, OR A COUPLE MIGHT BE THERE SO MUCH ENERGY TO LEAVES, BUT IT'S OVER THAT WE LOSE BIT. WE DON'T WANNA DO THAT. WE WANT THAT TO BE A SPRINGBOARD TO FURTHER SUSTAINABILITY DISCUSSIONS AND TO LEARN FROM IT AND APPLY THOSE LESSONS. SO WE NEED TO SEE THIS AS A LEARNING OPPORTUNITY, OPPORTUNITY TO SPRINGBOARD, , SPRINGBOARD OUR PLANS IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE WE CAN GAIN ENORMOUS RECOGNITION GLOBAL AS WELL GLOBALLY AND NATIONALLY THAT WHAT WE DO ON THIS EVENT. BUT I WANT EVERYBODY TO KEEP IN MIND THAT JUST THE FACT THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFORTS ALONG WITH A BIG EVENT THAT MAKES ENORMOUS MASSIVE BUSINESS IS A HUGE STEP FORWARD FOR US. WE WANNA THANK EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM. WE WORKING FORWARD THIS TODAY 'CAUSE WE'VE REACHED THE POINT NOW THAT I'M NOT SURE I HAVE ONE I'VE SEEN IN MY LIFE THAT , BUT THIS IS REMARKABLE AND CONGRATULATIONS AND LET'S MOVE FORWARD AND LET'S NOT LOSE MOMENTUM UNTIL, LET'S KEEP THAT GOING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TALKING VOTE. THANKS DAVID. UH, COMMISSIONER WOOTEN. THANK YOU. UH, SO WE'VE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT PUBLIC TRANSIT, SPECIFICALLY ABOUT FAIR PARK AND THE AIRPORT. I'M SUPER CURIOUS ABOUT THE LAST MILE, SORT OF AROUND THE STADIUM IN ARLINGTON, UH, WHICH IS NOT WELL KNOWN FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT. UH, WHEN WILL WE SEE MORE DETAILS ON THAT SPECIFICALLY? END OF MARCH? END OF MARCH [01:00:01] WHEN THE MOBILITY PLAN IS REALLY TRIAL WAS A SPECIAL CONSIDERATION IN THE MOBILITY PLAN. SO YES, IT WOULD BE, IT IS INCLUDED IN THERE. AWESOME. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ABSOLUTELY. MR. CLARK, THANK Y'ALL FOR TAKING THE TIME TONIGHT. I REALLY APPRECIATE IT. UM, MIKE, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS WE'RE, UM, CENTERING AROUND, GETTING A LITTLE BIT MORE SPECIFICITY ON JUST KIND OF PULLING BACK UP. THE LEGACY PAGE HAS A LOT OF THINGS THAT I, UH, REALLY AGREE WITH. IMPROVED AIR QUALITY, REDUCED URBAN HEAT, UM, AND I KIND OF, THE THINGS THAT I HEARD WERE MORE LIKE A GUIDEBOOK ON URBAN HEAT AND AIR QUALITY MONITORS, AND I LIKE THAT, LIKE WE'RE BRINGING UP THESE ISSUES, BUT I KIND OF WAS EXPECTING A LITTLE MORE SPECIFICITY IN TERMS OF LIKE IDENTIFYING THE AIR QUALITY CHALLENGES POSED BY HOSTING EVENT LIKE THIS AND LIKE THE ACTIONS, THE PROACTIVE ACTIONS TAKEN TO MITIGATE THOSE. ALSO, I'M A LITTLE BIT CURIOUS ABOUT, UM, HOW WE'RE PLANNING TO MEASURE OUR IMPACT WHEN IT COMES TO IMPROVED AIR QUALITY, REDUCED URBAN HEAT. AND THEN I'M ALSO INTERESTED ABOUT THE SPEC SPECIFICS ABOUT THE, UH, MENTION OF PERMANENT GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE. UM, I DIDN'T HEAR MORE SPECIFICS ON THAT, BUT I'M CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT THAT'S REFERRING TO, BUT THANK YOU. SO YEAH, SO, SO TO START OFF WITH HEAT, UH, THAT IS A BIG ONE. UH, IN OUR HEAT INTERVENTION GUIDEBOOK, IT TAKES DATA FROM THE, THE, UH, URBAN HEAT ISLAND STUDY OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS. AND WE'RE CREATING THAT, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY-BASED PLAN OF WHAT, UH, ADAPTATION WOULD LOOK LIKE, THE WORLD'S CUP. I THINK THE, THE PLAN MOVING FORWARD IS THE WORLD CUP IS GONNA BE A BENCHMARK BECAUSE AS RESIDENTS WE KNOW IT'S GONNA BE HOT, WE STAY INSIDE UNTIL 6:00 PM THERE'S GONNA BE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ACROSS THE METROPLEX OUT. SO WE'LL GET GOOD INFORMATION BASED ON DIFFERENT FEEDBACK LOOPS, UH, THAT WE'RE STILL WORKING ON. UH, ABOUT THE, THE HEAT INDEX, THE HEAT RESPONSE, AND THEN ALSO THEN ALSO WORKING WITH, UH, DALLAS FIRE AND RESCUE AND THE HOSPITALS ABOUT, UH, HEAT RELATED ILLNESSES THAT WILL BE EXPERIENCED. SO, UH, IT'S, IT'S GONNA BE, UH, ESSENTIALLY THE EXPERIMENT WILL BE THE WORLD'S CUP, UH, BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF VISITORS THAT WE'LL HAVE. ALSO WITH AIR QUALITY AS WELL. AGAIN, THERE'S GONNA BE SO MANY PEOPLE OUTSIDE, WE WILL GET INFORMATION ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF OUR SYSTEM, UM, HOW THAT DATA IS BEING COMMUNICATED WITH, WITH THE PUBLIC, HOW OFTEN IT'S BEING USED, AND THEN FEEDBACK AGAIN, UH, OF JUST HOW THAT SYSTEM COULD BE EITHER UTILIZED OR IMPROVED BASED ON THE DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHICS OF PEOPLE THAT WILL BE USING IT. SO THE WORLD'S CUP THAT THIS SUMMER IS GONNA BE A REAL MUCH JUST A TEST BED OF OUR SYSTEMS, UH, WHAT WORKS, WHAT DOESN'T, AND HOW WE CAN AND HOW WE CAN IMPROVE IN TERMS OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE. UH, PARTICULARLY THAT IS MOSTLY FOCUSED ON TREES AND TREE CANOPY. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW DO WE, WHERE THE TREES CAN BE WOULD BE TO IMPACT HEAT OVERALL. AND I THINK PART OF THE LEGACY COMPONENT IS, UH, THERE ARE TREES THAT ARE BEING DONATED THAT ARE GONNA BE SPREAD ACROSS THE METROPLEX. WE'RE USING SOME OF OUR EXISTING INFORMATION OF SOME OF OUR MOST STREAM, UH, STREAM HEAT AREAS MM-HMM . UH, TO BE PRIORITIZED TO GETTING SOME OF THOSE FINDINGS DOWN THE LINE. SORRY. YEAH. DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD? UH, NO, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT WE HAVE BEEN, UH, PLANNING, UH, TREE PLANTING ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. SO WE DID, UM, A HUNDRED TREE PLANTINGS IN, UM, FOR HARBOR DAY BY CITY OF RICHARDSON. WE HAVE SOME TREE PLANTING SCHEDULE WITH CITY OF ARLINGTON FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH. AND WE HAVE TREE PLANTING SCHEDULED WITH THE CITY OF DALLAS FOR APRIL 11TH AT THE CHURCHILL PARK. SO, UM, I KNOW IT'S A SMALL DROP IN THE OCEAN, BUT IT IS AN EFFORT TOWARDS, UH, PROVIDING GREEN SPACE AND REDUCING THE NEGATIVE IMPACT, UH, UM, OF A SPORTING EVENT THIS SIZE. ALRIGHT. UH, I DON'T SEE ANYBODY ELSE'S HAND RAISED, SO I'VE GOT A COUPLE COMMENTS OF QUESTIONS. THANK YOU MAGNA, FOR JOINING US VIRTUALLY AND MAKING IT WORK TO BE HERE TO, UH, TALK US THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION. BRETT, WELCOME BACK TO THE CITY, UM, IN THIS ROLE. UH, THIS IS REALLY EXCITING. OBVIOUSLY WE'RE REALLY, UH, EXCITED TO HEAR ABOUT THE VARIOUS, UH, SUSTAINABLE ASPECTS. UM, WE'RE INVITING A LOT OF PEOPLE TO A VERY HOT STATE IN THE MIDDLE OF ONE OF THE HOTTEST TIMES OF BEER. UM, I THINK WHAT, UH, YOU KNOW, WE COULD POTENTIALLY EXPLORE OUR COOLING STATIONS THAT DOUBLE AS ENGAGEMENT STATIONS, [01:05:01] WHERE WE'RE NOT GIVING AWAY BOTTLES OF WATER, BUT WE'RE OFFERING REFILLS OF, UH, WATER BOTTLES AND THOSE SORTS OF THINGS, FANS, UM, OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO COOL OFF AND ALSO EDUCATE THEMSELVES ABOUT WHAT IS OZONE SEASON? WHY IS DALLAS IN NON-ATTAINMENT TOWARDS AIR QUALITY? WHAT ARE WE DOING PROACTIVELY? WHAT CAN YOU DO PROACTIVELY, UM, TO HELP US ADDRESS OUR AIR QUALITY ISSUES WITHIN THE CITY? AND ALSO TIE THAT INTO URBAN HEAT ISLAND AND, UM, PREVENTING HEAT RELATED ILLNESSES. UM, AND THEN WE WOULD, I'M GONNA SPEAK FOR EVERYONE. WE'D LOVE TO SEE A CALENDAR OF THOSE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EVENTS AS SOON AS YOU HAVE THEM, SO THAT WE CAN, UM, HAVE AMPLE OPPORTUNITY TO TRY TO GET COVERAGE AND, AND, UH, MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE COMMISSIONERS AVAILABLE FOR EACH OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES. MM-HMM . WE ALSO HAVE LITERATURE FROM THE MISSION AND ABOUT THE THAT WE WOULD LOVE TO SHARE WITH FOLKS AND ENGAGE WITH FOLKS ABOUT. UM, I THINK THE MOST EXCITING PART OF THIS IS THAT OUR, UH, DECAMP ONLINE AIR QUALITY MONITORS ARE GOING TO BE BACK UP AND WORKING BY THE SUMMER. THAT'S REALLY EXCITING. I'D LOVE TO TAKE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THOSE MONITORS IN THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE WEREN'T PREVIOUSLY ABLE TO OFFER ENGAGEMENT TO THE RESIDENTS THERE, BECAUSE THESE ARE STAYING LONG AFTER, UH, FIFA ENDS. THEY SHOULD KNOW, HEY, THESE ARE THE MONITORS. THIS IS WHAT THEY'RE MEASURING. THIS IS WHY WE HAVE THEM IN YOUR COMMUNITY, AND HERE'S HOW YOU ACCESS THE DATA AND WHAT IT MEANS, ET CETERA. UM, AND, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO, UH, HELP SUPPORT THOSE ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND FIND LOCATIONS FOR MEETINGS ABOUT THE MONITORS AND OFFER AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. UM, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE MATERIALS, UM, THE COLLATERALS FOR THE GREEN BUSINESS CERTIFICATION PROGRAM. UM, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU WANT US TO SHARE OUT, THEN LOAD US UP AND GIVE US ALL OF THOSE, UH, MATERIALS THAT WE CAN SHARE, UM, FOR THAT TO CONTINUE TO HAVE LIKE A LEGACY BEYOND FIFA. I'D LOVE TO SEE ANOTHER LIKE TYPE OF INCENTIVE THAT MAYBE WE, THE CITY OF DALLAS COULD HELP MARKET THEM IN SOME WAY. I THINK IT'S PHENOMENAL. I THINK PEOPLE ARE GONNA GET REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET MENTIONED BY FIFA AND . SO THAT'S COOL. UM, AND AS MANY FOLKS AS WE CAN GET INTO THAT PROGRAM BEFORE THEN THE BETTER. UM, BECAUSE THEN THEY CAN START THINKING ABOUT THAT. WE'D LOVE TO SEE COPY OF THE SUSTAINABLE PROCUREMENT PLAN. WHERE ON THE STREET IS THAT THE CITY OF DALLAS DOESN'T HAVE ONE . AND SO WE'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND HOW A MASSIVE EVENT THAT COMES IN AND, UH, IS ABLE TO, UM, CONSIDER ALL THE VARIOUS ASPECTS OF PLANNING A MASSIVE REGIONAL EVENT LIKE THIS, HANDLES THOSE. UM, WE, YOU KNOW, WANT EXAMPLES OF WHAT WORKS IN THE CITY OF DALLAS. UM, AND WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO FORM THAT TASK FORCE THAT THE COUNCIL MANDATED THAT WE, WE FORM AND GET A SUSTAINABLE, UH, PROCUREMENT PLAN ADOPTED HERE WITH THE CITY OF DALLAS. UM, AND THEN I THINK, UM, AS FAR AS THE HEAT, UH, INTERVENTION GUIDEBOOK, I WOULD LOVE TO NOT ONLY, WE WOULD LOVE TO NOT ONLY SEE THAT, THAT MAYBE THERE'S SOME LIKE BITE-SIZE, UH, CARDS OR BITE-SIZE PIECES OF INFORMATION FROM THAT, THAT WE CAN THEN TAKE AND SHARE OUT, EITHER VIA SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS OR VIA COMMUNITY MEETINGS OR SMALL, UH, YOU KNOW, ACHIEVABLE TASKS FOR RESIDENTS THAT ARE SORT OF THE LOW HANGING FRUIT THAT WE CAN PROMPT PEOPLE ABOUT AS FAR AS THAT CA INTERVENTION GUIDEBOOK GOES. UM, OTHERWISE WE'RE VERY EXCITED, UH, ABOUT FIFA AND ABOUT THE CITY BEING ABLE TO COLLABORATE. OUR SYMPATHIES ARE WITH THE CITY OF ARLINGTON. THEY CAN'T CATCH A BREAK WITH THAT DALLAS NONSENSE. SO, UH, WE DO FEEL FOR THEM. BUT, UM, WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT FIFA AND WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT Y'ALL PUT INTO THIS, AND WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY GRATEFUL. OKAY. YES, RENEE, AND THEN I JUST WANT, I WANNA, ANDREW, THEN WE HAVE TO LET OUR GUESTS GO. OKAY. OKAY. I DON'T WANNA BELABOR THIS, BUT HAVE YOU ALL, I JUST WANTED TO REMIND YOU TO TALK WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT IF YOU SAID THAT ALREADY, BECAUSE COVID ISS NOT GONE, AND WE HAVE ALL THESE DIFFERENT PEOPLE COMING IN AND TO SEE WHAT THINGS WE NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR. YEAH. ME, THE, THE MEDICAL PIECE OF THIS IS A, IS A BIG PIECE OF OUR EFFORTS, EFFORTS AS WELL. IN FACT, UM, OUR CITY OF DALLAS MEDICAL DIRECTOR, DR. MARSHALL ISAACS IS, UH, KIND OF LEADING THIS EFFORT, UH, ON OUR BEHALF. AND HE, IN FACT, PART OF THE NATIONAL SORT OF TEAM THAT'S LOOKING AND TALKING ABOUT ALL THOSE THINGS. SO A REAL, UH, CLICK. WELL, HI, MAGNA, THAT'S ANDREW. UM, SO WELL, UM, I WANTED TO MAKE A SUGGESTION SLASH QUESTION, WHICH IS GIVEN THE ALIGNMENT OF FIRST EVENT THAT YOU POSTED AT THE VARIOUS, UM, CONFERENCES, ET CETERA, UH, IT ALIGNING WITH RX, UM, IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY PLANNED TO, I WOULD RECOMMEND HAVING A BOOTH THERE SPECIFICALLY TO TALK ABOUT HOW, [01:10:01] TO YOUR POINT, DALLAS IS THE MODEL THAT IS KIND OF SETTING THE STAGE FOR NORTH AMERICA AND ALL THESE PIECES THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE. AND I THINK THAT'S A GREAT PLATFORM, UM, TO SHOWCASE WHAT THE CITY OF DALLAS IS DOING. YOU KNOW, TEXAS ISN'T KNOWN FOR BEING ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY WITH THE STATE OF LANDMAN, UM, BUT IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST SHOWCASING WHAT WE CAN DO. AND I LOVE YOUR POINT THAT THIS IS SETTING THE BAR FOR ALL FUTURE EVENTS WITH THE OLYMPICS AROUND THE CORNER IN LA AND OTHER, UH, THAT HOPEFULLY DALLAS WILL HAVE IN YOUR FUTURE TOO. SO DO YOU PLAN, IF NOT, YES. YES. THAT'S VERY TIMELY. I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT. WE ARE THE NORTH, UH, TEXAS FIFA WORLD ORGANIZING COMMITTEE IS PARTNERING WITH EARTHX, AND APRIL 21ST IS THE CONFERENCE FOR FIFA SUSTAINABILITY. THE ENTIRE DAY IS, UH, DEDICATED, UH, TO CONVERSATIONS AND PANELS ABOUT ADDRESSING SUSTAINABILITY IN SPORTS. AND, UM, IT'S FOLLOWED BY THE CLIMATE CHANGE SYMPOSIUM THAT THE CITY OF DALLAS IS HOSTING. SO APRIL 21ST, WE ARE PARTNERING WITH EARTHX FOR WHOLE DAY CONFERENCE. THANK YOU. CHAIR STEPPED OUT. ONE SECOND. ALL RIGHT. THANKS AGAIN, YOU GUYS FOR THAT PRESENTATION. UM, WE ARE GOING TO MOVE INTO BRIEFING AND ACTION ITEM A, UM, THAT IS A, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF DATA CENTERS DISCUSSION AND VOTE ON FURTHER DISCUSSING DATA CENTERS AND DEVELOPING POLICY RECOMMENDATION IN A SPECIAL CALLED STRATEGIC PLANNING MEETING. ARE YOU, ARE YOU NEEDING A MOTION TO, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A PRESENTATION. STEPHANIE'S PULLING IT UP. OKAY. MM-HMM . STEPHANIE, AM I ABLE TO SHARE MY, MY SCREEN INSTEAD? NOT FROM MINE. OKAY. IT LOOKS LIKE THE FONT'S GONNA BE A LITTLE FUNNY, SO WE'LL JUST ROLL WITH THAT. UM, ALRIGHT. FIRST WE'RE GONNA HAVE, OH, IF YOU'LL FIRST NOTE THAT OBVIOUSLY COMMISSIONER ROBERSON AND, UH, HI MOTO ARE BOTH PRESENT NOW. PERFECT. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT. UH, SO I'M JUST GONNA WALK US THROUGH A BRIEF PRESENTATION AND THEN SORT OF JUST OPEN IT UP FOR DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS TOPIC. UM, AND THEN WE WILL ACTUALLY TAKE A VOTE AFTER THIS. UM, SO LET'S JUST GET RIGHT INTO IT. GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. SO I'VE BEEN DOING EXTENSIVE RESEARCH ON DATA CENTERS AND, UH, TEXAS IS SECOND TO THE STATE OF VIRGINIA PRESENTLY, UH, LEADING THE NATION IN THE NUMBER OF DATA CENTERS. THERE ARE A COUPLE OF SOURCES THAT WE GET THESE, UH, FIGURES FROM. ONE IS DATA CENTER MAP.COM, AND THE OTHER IS VTAL VTAL REPORTS. THERE ARE 575 DATA CENTERS IN TEXAS WITH 114 PRESENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION. NORTH TEXAS IS LEADING THE STATE WITH 243 OF THOSE, UH, AND 43 ADDITIONAL UNDER CONSTRUCTION. UH, BLOOM ENERGY PUT OUT A REPORT, UH, IN JANUARY OF 2026. THAT SAID, WITHIN THREE YEARS, TEXAS IS GOING TO BE THE NATION'S LEADING DATA CENTER INSIDE. I JUST WANNA GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE ON VAX STILL. SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT YOUR OPERATIONAL UNDER CONSTRUCTION PLANNED AND WHICH ARE LAND BANKED, AND THEN THE TYPE OF DATA CENTER THAT IT IS, WHETHER IT'S A HYPERSCALE, UM, OR A MINING FACILITY OR OTHER. UM, AND THEN YOU CAN ZOOM IN AND SEE WHERE THOSE FACILITIES ARE SPECIFICALLY LOCATED. WE HAVE, UH, SOME NEIGHBORS IN THE RURAL PARTS OF, UH, NORTH TEXAS, UM, THAT ARE, ARE REALLY GETTING INUNDATED WITH THESE FACILITIES. UM, BUT THERE ARE ALREADY A LOT OF DATA CENTERS HERE IN DALLAS. UM, BUT THEY'RE NOT THE LARGER HYPERSCALE FACILITIES THAT [01:15:01] ARE COMING INTO, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, SOUTHERN DALLAS COUNTY OR, UH, FURTHER WEST IN LIKE THE SIDE. WANTED TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT A PENDING DATA CENTER HERE IN DALLAS LOOKS LIKE. IT SAYS EQUINIX IS GOING TO EXPAND ITS TEXAS FOOTPRINT, UH, WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MASSIVE $863 MILLION DATA CENTER CAMPUS AT THE FORMER TAYLOR PUBLISHING SITE IN WEST DALLAS. AND IT CONSISTS OF, YOU KNOW, 372,000 SQUARE FEET. UM, IT'S GOING TO BOLSTER THE REGION'S CAPACITY FOR HIGH DENSITY AI AND CLOUD WORKLOADS. CONSTRUCTION WILL BEGIN IN FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR AND END IN 2028. SO IF YOU LOOK AT BACKSTORY, YOU CAN CLICK ON THE FACILITY, YOU CAN SEE HOW BIG IT IS, YOU CAN SEE WHAT, WHAT'S PLANNED. THEY'RE OFTEN BEING DEVELOPED IN PHASES, SO YOU MAY SEE PHASE ONE, PHASE TWO, ET CETERA. UM, BUT THIS IS A REALLY GREAT, UH, TOOL FOR US TO UNDERSTAND WHERE ARE THESE FACILITIES BEING PROPOSED, BECAUSE OFTENTIMES THEY'LL PUT OUT A PRESS RELEASE AND SHARE, HEY, WE'VE GOT THIS IN THE WORKS. THIS IS WHAT WE'RE, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING. AND SO THIS WEBSITE IS CAPTURING THAT. UM, SO IT IS A GREAT RESOURCE FOR US. AND NEXT SLIDE. SO I WANNA TALK FIRST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW DATA CENTERS ARE REGULATED HERE IN THE STATE OF TEXAS. WE KNOW THAT THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, UH, HAS DELEGATED AUTHORITY FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY TO REGULATE AIR, WATER, AND WASTE. UM, DATA CENTERS ARE REGULATED THROUGH AIR QUALITY PERMITS FOR THEIR EMISSION SOURCES. UM, OFTENTIMES THEY WILL EITHER USE BACKUP GENERATORS OR THEY WILL CO-LOCATE WITH A GAS PLANT, AND THAT A GAS PLANT WILL PROVIDE, UH, THE ENERGY NEEDED TO POWER THAT DATA CENTER. UM, THEY ALSO NEED STORMWATER PERMITS DURING CONSTRUCTION, WASTEWATER PERMITS FOR DISCHARGE OF POOLING WATER, UM, AND THEN PERMITS FOR PETROLEUM STORAGE TANK PRODUCTS OR HAZARDOUS WASTES THAT FEED BATTERIES ON SITE AND THOSE SORTS OF THINGS. THAT'S ALL REGULATED BY THE TCEQ. HOWEVER, WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT TCEQ IS THAT THE SUNSET ADVISORY COMMISSION IN ITS MOST RECENT REVIEW OF THE AGENCY LABELED IT A RELUCTANT REGULATOR, AND IT HAS AN EXTENSIVE ENFORCEMENT CASE BACK LOAD, UH, BACKLOG. THEY HAVE 1400 BACKLOGGED CASES, AND THIS PAST YEAR THEY ONLY CLEARED 39 OF THEM. SO AT THAT RATE, IT'S GONNA TAKE THEM 36 YEARS TO GET CAUGHT UP ON THEIR, THEIR CASES. THEY ISSUE ANOTHER A THOUSAND ENFORCEMENT CASES, UM, EVERY SINGLE YEAR, UM, MORE THAN A THOUSAND. UM, AND SO WE HAVE SOME CONCERNS WITH THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITIES ABILITY TO EFFECTIVELY REGULATE THIS BOOMING INDUSTRY AT THE RATE THAT IT IS GROWING. AND SECONDARY TO THAT, WE HAVE FOUND THAT THESE, UH, THE GAS PLANTS THAT ARE BEING BUILT TO SUPPORT THESE FACILITIES ARE OBTAINING LOWER LEVEL AIR QUALITY PERMITS, CALLED PERMITS BY RULE OR STANDARD PERMITS THAT DO NOT HAVE A PUBLIC PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENT. THEY ARE NOT A LARGER SITE SPECIFIC PERMIT OR AN INDIVIDUAL PERMIT ON THE STATE LEVEL. BUT THEN ONCE THE FACILITY IS BUILT AND THE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION OPPORTUNITIES TO OPPOSE IT AT THAT LEVEL, UM, HAVE ENDED, THEY ARE GOING ON TO OBTAIN FEDERAL TITLE V PERMITS, WHICH ARE FOR GREATER THAN 100 TONS PER YEAR OF A CERTAIN POLLUTANT IN CERTAIN AREAS WITH NON-ATTAINMENT. IT'S LESS THAN THAT. BUT I DO JUST WANT TO CALL OUT THAT THESE PERMITS HAVE BEEN, UH, ISSUED IN SEVERAL INSTANCES AND SEVERAL PERMITS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW. UM, THERE'S A CLOUD BURST FACILITY THAT'S GOING IN IN THE BEXAR COUNTY AREA, AND WE WERE ABLE TO DO A PUBLIC INFORMATION REQUEST TO THE TCEQ FOR THOSE EMISSIONS FROM THAT PROPOSED GAS PLANT. UM, AND THEY ARE MASSIVE, THEY'RE MASSIVE FACILITIES. IF YOU TOOK TAKE A LOOK, UM, AT ONE OF THE LARGEST GAS PLANTS THAT'S BEING PROPOSED IN THE ENTIRE STATE OF TEXAS AND THE LARGEST DATA CENTER, WHICH IS CALLED PROJECT MATADOR IN AMARILLO, UM, THE EMISSIONS ARE ASTOUNDING FOR THAT FACILITY. UM, AND SO IT'S A REALLY BIG CONCERN WHEN YOU HAVE A LARGE, UH, DATA CENTER THAT IS PRODUCING A LARGE AMOUNT OF EMISSIONS TO BE LOCATED IN AN AREA THAT WOULD BE INCOMPATIBLE. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO KEEP AN EYE ON. UH, NEXT SLIDE. ANOTHER ISSUE WITH THESE FACILITIES THAT I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE, UH, TALK ABOUT AND IS VERY REAL IS WATER CONSUMPTION CONCERNS. UH, SO THE TEXANS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD, UM, FORECAST FUTURE WATER USAGE AND DEMAND PROJECTIONS FOR THE REGION BY, UH, SENDING OUT SURVEYS. [01:20:01] AND THEY SAID IN AN ARTICLE IN, I BELIEVE IT WAS TEXAS TRIBUNE, THAT THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO, UH, TEXAS SCORECARD, EXCUSE ME, THEY WERE, TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD WAS NOT ABLE TO QUANTIFY PROJECTIVE WATER USES BECAUSE THE DATA CENTERS LARGELY IGNORED THOSE STATUTORILY REQUIRED SURVEYS. UM, AND A NEW POLICY BRIEF BY THE HOUSTON ADVANCE RESEARCH CENTER, OR HEART WARNS THAT THE WATER NEEDED FOR POLLING THE DATA, UH, CENTER FACILITIES CAN BE IN THE MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER A DAY. A MID-SIZE CENTER, THEY ESTIMATE USES 300,000 GALLONS OF WATER A DAY, ROUGHLY THE USE OF ABOUT A THOUSAND HOMES. UM, THERE ARE COMMUNITIES IN TEXAS RIGHT NOW THAT ARE IN THE HIGHEST STAGE OF DROUGHT THAT THE STATE HAS LEVEL STAGE FOUR DROUGHT. EVERY, UH, COMMUNITY ESSENTIALLY FROM AUSTIN DOWN TO THE SOUTHERN BORDER IS IN STAGE FOUR 70% OF THE STATE OF TEXAS RIGHT NOW IS AT LEAST IN A STAGE ONE EFFECT. UM, AND SO WE KNOW FROM THE 2011 DROUGHT, UH, THAT IT IS VERY REAL AND VERY LIKELY THAT PARTS OF OUR STATE CAN RUN OUT OF WATER. THAT DATA, UH, THAT, UH, WATER RIGHTS, UH, USAGE, UM, BECOMES CONTESTED, AND THAT THERE'S SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH WATER FOR FOLKS TO FEED THEIR LIVESTOCK, WATER, THEIR, UH, AGRICULTURE, FOR US TO HAVE FOOD AND FOR THESE INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES TO COEXIST IN THE SAME AQUIFERS, IT'S, IT'S BECOMING A CHALLENGE. NEXT SLIDE. THE NEXT ISSUE IS THE ENERGY DEMAND AND THE GRID ISSUES. THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM REPORTED IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ACCOMMODATE THE GROWTH IN AI DATA CENTERS AND MAINTAIN GRID STABILITY WITH PRICES INCREASING WITHOUT PRICES INCREASING. ALL CUSTOMERS AND DEREGULATED ELECTRICITY MARKETS LIKE TEXAS. A LOT OF FOLKS ARE ALREADY SEEING, UH, THE COST OF ENERGY GO UP. IF YOU READ THE REPORT THAT TERI HAS PRODUCED AND THAT DR. JACK CIRCULATED TO US FROM OUR LAST MEETING, YOU CAN SEE THAT ENERGY AFFORDABILITY IS A GROWING ISSUE AND CONCERN FOR A LOT OF FAMILIES HERE IN THE STATE. UM, IN 2025, DATA CENTERS IN TEXAS HAD A MAXIMUM POWER DEMAND OF ABOUT EIGHT GIGAWATTS COMPARED TO THE STATE, THE STATE GRID, THE STATE GRID'S PEAK ENERGY DEMAND OF 94, UH, GIGAWATTS. UM, AND THAT IS ACCORDING TO ERCOT, WHICH MANAGES OUR GRID, ONE GIGAWATT WILL ENERGIZE 700,000 HOMES. NEXT SLIDE. SO THIS IS FROM ERCOT.COM. THIS IS THE DATA CENTERS IN TEXAS, AND HOW ERCOT FORECASTS THEN IN 2024, UH, THERE WAS A PROJECTED LOW DEMAND FROM DATA CENTERS OF ABOUT 29,600 MEGAWATTS. THEY'VE INCREASED THAT LOW DEMAND PROJECTION TO 77, ALMOST 78,000 MEGAWATTS. THAT'S JUST A FEW YEARS. UM, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THESE FACILITIES ARE, YOU KNOW, A MAJOR AREA OF GROWTH AND DEMAND ON THE GRID. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. YOU KNOW, UNFORTUNATELY, DATA CENTER GROWTH HAS OUTPACED PUBLIC POLICY, AND OUR NEXT LEGISLATIVE SESSION DOES NOT START UNTIL 2027. UM, THERE ARE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE CURRENTLY, UM, HAVING TO REACTIVELY TRY TO REGULATE THESE FACILITIES BECAUSE THEY ARE COMING INTO THOSE COMMUNITIES AT SUCH A PACE. UM, SO SAN ANTONIO IS CURRENTLY CONSIDERED CONSIDERING A, A COUNCIL CONSIDERATION REQUEST. UM, THEY'VE ESTABLISHED A COMMITTEE TO BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT WOULD TAKE FOR THEM TO ESSENTIALLY GET THEIR ARMS AROUND THIS ISSUE IN A REGULATORY WAY. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WATCH THE NEWS, BUT LAST NIGHT, UH, AFTER A NINE HOUR COMMISSIONER'S MEETING, HOOD COUNTY VOTED ON A MORATORIUM TO ESTABLISH GUIDELINES AND REGULATIONS FOR DATA CENTERS. UH, BUT FAILED TO DO THAT BECAUSE IN THE 11TH HOUR OF THAT MEETING, A UH, REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE, UH, POSTED ON TWITTER A LETTER THAT HE HAD DRAFTED TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, ESSENTIALLY, AND, YOU KNOW, OUTLINES, UH, THAT COUNTIES DO NOT HAVE LEGAL AUTHORITY TO, UH, IMPOSE MORATORIUMS ON ANY INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY. AND THE COUNTY WAS PROPOSING, UH, AT FIRST A ONE YEAR MORATORIUM AND THEN A SIX MONTH MORATORIUM IN ORDER TO ALIGN THEIR DEVELOPMENT, UM, GUIDELINES. AND, UH, UH, THEY, UM, DECIDED TO VOTE AGAINST THAT, [01:25:01] RIGHT? THEY DECIDED TO VOTE AGAINST THAT BECAUSE THEY DID NOT WANT TO BE IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW. AND THEIR ATTORNEY ADVISED THEM, YOU KNOW, THIS IS NOT THE COUNTY'S ROLE, AND THE COMMISSIONERS WERE CONCERNED. AND THEY SAID, WELL, WHOSE ROLE IS IT? AND THEY SAID, WELL, UM, HOME RULE MUNICIPALITIES AND DALLAS HAPPENS TO BE SUCH A HOME RULE, MUNICIPALITY, NEW ORLEANS JUST ADOPTED A ONE YEAR MORONE ON DATA CENTERS. NEXT SLIDE. SO, I'D LIKE TO OPEN IT UP FOR A DISCUSSION ON, UH, A DESIGNING OF A DATA CENTER POLICY. UM, AND IT WOULD BE A RECOMMENDATION FOR OUR CITY, UH, AND THE CITY COUNCIL'S, UH, PARKS, TRAILS AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE. UM, WITHIN A STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION FOR THE COMMISSION, WE WOULD HAVE MORE TIME TO DISCUSS THE ISSUES AND POTENTIALLY DRAFT A POLICY THAT WE FELT WOULD BE COMPREHENSIVE, UM, AND, UM, ADDRESS THE ISSUES THAT WE FEEL ARE, UH, RELEVANT AND PERTINENT TO RESIDENTS HERE IN DALLAS. UH, WE DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO QUANTIFY WATER CONSUMPTION OF EXISTING DATA CENTERS, UH, WITH DALLAS WATER UTILITIES. THAT'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US THAT I THINK WE SHOULD ABSOLUTELY EXPLORE. UM, I THINK WE SHOULD ALSO CONSIDER OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN LAND USE DECISIONS. I HAD A BRIEF DISCUSSION WITH THE, UH, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF OUR PLANNING ZONING DEPARTMENT, UM, WHO ADVISES THAT DATA CENTERS ARE PRESENTLY REGULATED UNDER A, UH, COMMUNICATIONS UTILITY. UM, AND SO THE COLOCATION OF A GAS PLANT WOULD, UH, ESSENTIALLY PUT THEM INTO A HEAVY INDUSTRIAL CATEGORY. GAS IS ALSO REGULATED AS A UTILITY, BUT A GAS PLANT, UM, OF ANY, YOU KNOW, MAJOR SIZE, UH, WOULD BE AN INCOMPATIBLE LAND USE WITH CERTAIN ADJACENCIES, UH, SENSITIVE RECEPTORS, SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, HOMES, UH, DAYCARES AND THOSE SORTS OF THINGS. UM, SO SOMETHING FOR US TO LOOK AT. UM, AND THEN WE'VE BEEN BRIEFED ON THIS BEFORE, BUT DALLAS IS DOING A ZONING REFORM, AND THEY ARE CURRENTLY, THEY, THEY'VE HIRED A CONSULTANT. THEY'RE CURRENTLY, UH, DOING A REVIEW, UH, AN UPDATE OF THE DEVELOPMENT CODE AND DATA CENTERS IS NOT ON THEIR RADAR. AND SO I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO SUGGEST THE INCLUSION OF DATA CENTERS INTO THAT CONVERSATION AS THE CITY LOOKS AT REFORMING THE, UH, DEVELOPMENT CODE THROUGH THE DALLAS COUNTY REFORM PROJECT. UM, SO NOW I'D JUST LIKE TO OPEN IT UP FOR DISCUSSION. I WANNA HEAR Y'ALL'S CONCERNS. UM, AND STEPHANIE, IF YOU'LL MINIMIZE THIS SCREEN SO I CAN SEE THE FOLKS ONLINE IF ANYBODY WANTS TO GOT SOME HANDS UP ALREADY. UM, SO WE'LL GO ONLINE FIRST AND THEN WE'LL COME TO YOU. MR. . DR. JACK, GO AHEAD. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION CHAIR GIDA. UM, I JUST WANTED TO SAY I AGREE THAT THIS ISSUE IS COMING AND COMING FAST FOR TEXANS AND NORTH TEXANS. UM, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT LOCAL COMMUNITIES EDUCATE THEMSELVES ABOUT THE ISSUE. SO I SUPPORT YOUR RECOMMENDATION FOR A SEPARATE DISCUSSION AMONG THE COMMISSION. UM, AND THEN THERE ARE JUST A POINT, THERE ARE BEST PRACTICES. THERE ARE COMMUNITIES WORKING ON NEGOTIATING DIRECTLY, UM, CREATING POLICY AND NEGOTI LEARNING HOW TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE COMPANIES THAT ARE COMING IN. AND IT DOES MATTER THE SCALE, UM, AND THE TYPES OF IMPACTS, AND I'M MORE FAMILIAR WITH THE ENERGY IMPACTS THAN THE WATER IMPACTS, BUT JUST TO SAY AN EXAMPLE IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT GOOGLE, THEY HAVE A 24 7 COMMITMENT TO BY 2030 TO OPERATE WITH CARBON FREE. SO THERE IS THE, THERE IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENCOURAGE PRACTICES LIKE BRINGING YOUR OWN RENEWABLE ENERGY, NOT JUST BRINGING YOUR OWN ENERGY AND TO CURTAIL YOUR LOAD, UM, TO ENCOURAGE LOCAL GRID FLEXIBILITY IN TIMES OF HIGH DEMAND AND INVESTING IN STORAGE, UH, DISPERSE STORAGE, AND THEN ALSO INVESTING IN COMMUNITY PRIORITIES. SO THERE'S A LOT OF ROOM TO EMPOWER LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN THAT NEGOTIATION. THANK YOU. OH, GREAT POINTS. CHAIR WALLACE, GO AHEAD. THANK YOU. UM, THE REASON I WAS LATE TODAY WAS THAT I WAS DOING A PRESENTATION ABOUT THE STATE OF SOLAR IN TEXAS TO, UM, THE TEXAS POSITIONS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. AND, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE POINTS THAT I MADE FOR THAT GROUP, AND THAT I'D LIKE THE COMMISSION TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THESE OTHER FORMS OF, UM, ELECTRICAL GENERATION, LIKE A GAS PLANT, THEY TAKE WAY LONGER TO COME ONLINE THAN SOLAR PLUS STORAGE. AND SO THAT IS A RECOMMENDATION WE COULD MAKE. THERE IS TO, TO ECHO WHAT, UM, [01:30:01] DR. JACK SAID THERE, THERE IS CORPORATE SUPPORT FOR IF NOT HAVING RENEWABLE ENERGY ON THEIR OWN PROPERTY TO BE PURCHASING RENEWABLE ENERGY THROUGH PPAS. UM, BUT THAT'S, UH, ALL OF THE ADDED CAPACITY IN GENERAL TO THE ERCOT GRID LAST YEAR. IT WASN'T ADDED BY, UH, NATURAL GAS PLANTS OR NUCLEAR, IT WAS ADDED BY SOLAR PLUS STORAGE BECAUSE IT COMES ONLINE FAST FROM PERMITTING TO COMPLETION OF CONSTRUCTION. AND NA A NATURAL GAS PLANT, IT'S GONNA TAKE FIVE YEARS OR MORE. AND, UM, SO THAT'S THE, WE DON'T HAVE THAT KIND OF TIME. AND, AND THE RENEWABLES CREATE RESILIENCE AND STABILITY FOR THE GRID. UM, ALSO LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT, UM, ONE OF THESE GOING INTO THE OLD TAYLOR PUBLISHING BUILDING, EXCUSE ME, , UM, PACE AT THE PACE PROGRAM IS AN IDEAL PROGRAM FOR THAT. UM, WHICH WILL AGAIN, REDUCE, UH, FOR, UH, PROPERTY ACCESS. CLEAN ENERGY IS GONNA INCREASE THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF THAT BUILDING. IT'S SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR THOSE LARGE CONSUMERS. AND THAT COULD, UH, GREATLY REDUCE THE IMPACT ON THE GRID FOR A FACILITY LIKE THAT TO GO THROUGH THE PACE PROGRAM. SO, UM, ANYHOW, THAT'S, UM, THAT'S SOMETHING I THINK THAT OUGHT TO BE CONSIDERED. SO, AND AGAIN, LIKE PACE WILL EVEN, IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT ELECTRICITY, IT'S ABOUT WATER. IT'S ABOUT ALL FORMS OF ENERGY. UM, SO I, IF I HAD ANYTHING ELSE, I CAN'T REMEMBER IT, BUT I'M, I'M SO GLAD, UH, THAT YOU ARE SO FORWARD THINKING ON THIS. AND, UM, THE, THE, AT THE TEXAS ENERGY SUMMIT IN NOVEMBER, THE EL ELECTRICITY RATES, AND THIS IS PROBABLY IN THE CHAPTER PAPER, UM, BUT ELECTRICITY RATES ARE SET TO INCREASE 5% PER YEAR FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. SO IN FIVE YEARS, A 25% INCREASE IN THE COST OF ELECTRICITY. AND, YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF THING WITH THE ADVENT OF ALL THESE DATA CENTERS AND CRYPTO MINERS, THE HYPERSCALERS, UM, YOU KNOW, SHOULD GIVE ALL OF US PAUSE. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. THANK YOU, MR. MARKUS. AND THEN CHAIR HER. MOTO MADAM SHOW. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS ISSUE UP. UH, ENERGY COMPONENT IS CERTAINLY CRITICAL OF THIS, BUT FOR ME IT'S ABOUT WATER. WE DON'T HAVE A WATER. FOR MANY YEARS, THOSE OF US WORKING IN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES HAVE BEEN RETICENT TO TOUCH THE THIRD GRADER, WHICH IS THAT WE JUST CANNOT DO THIS. WE CANNOT SUSTAIN THIS KIND OF ECONOMIC GROWTH. WE KNEW THAT FOR US AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS THAT WOULD GO TO HIRE THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND CALL BE SEEN AS COMPLETELY RADICAL AND OFF THE GRID MIGHT, YOU KNOW, LIVE IN CIVILIZED SOCIETY. BUT THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS, RIGHT NOW, IF WE WERE CONTINUE ON THIS F AND HIT ANOTHER DROUGHT LIKE 2011, THE GROUND RECORD, I HOPE WE CAN SUSTAIN IT. WE DON'T HAVE THE WATER. AND RIGHT NOW, IF WE'RE GONNA TRY TO CONTINUE THE RESERVOIRS, THERE ARE NO GOOD PLACES LEFT IN TEXAS LEFT THERE. SO THE WATER ISSUES COULD HAVE BLOWN UP. AND YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN TALK CREATING A SUPER INDUCTION CORRIDOR PLANTS BUILT FROM RICHARDSON ALL THE WAY TO , WELL BUILT MOST CHIP MAKING CHIPS AT CLOUD WATER. EVERYTHING WE'RE LOOKING AT NOW IN TERMS OF A MAJOR GROWTH ON A SHORT TERM BASIS REQUIRES WATER, A LOT OF WORK. AND IF WE LOOK AT A CONTINUED POPULATION GROWTH EFFECT, AND NOW THE DATA CENTER, UM, GROWTH INTENTION, THIS ISSUE, THE LEADER TO THE POINT WHERE, YOU KNOW, AQUIFERS GO DRY, WILL GET TOUGH, THAT THESE PEOPLE CONTINUE TO TRY TO PRIVATIZE ONE, THIS WILL BECOME AN ISSUE THAT WILL CAUSE PEOPLE ACTUALLY WONDER, AM I GONNA HAVE ONE TOMORROW? SO AS A RESULT, THIS ISSUE IS, I THINK WE HAVE TO TAKE A STAND. IN FACT, I'VE BEEN TALKING TO FOLKS ABOUT ACTUALLY A CONFERENCE CALLED THE THIRD RAIL CONFERENCE. THERE THINGS WE JUST NEVER WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOU, THE THIRD RAIL OF DEATH FOR US STUFF. IF WE DON'T DO IT NOW, WE'RE DOING A DISSERVICE TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON LIVING IN CITY TEXAS. THAT'S WHERE WE ARE. IT THE DROUGHT, 2011 COMES BACK, WE GET [01:35:01] BACK TO THAT ONCE. THERE'S A LAKE HERE IN NORTH TEXAS, NOBODY WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS. THERE'S A LAKE HERE, NORTH TEXAS INTAKE AND THE OUTFLOW WHERE WE WANNA MAKE SOME PLENTY WATER COMING IN. AND WHEN WE CERTAIN THAT GO OUT, THEY WERE REVERSED. SO LAKE HERE IN NORTH TEXAS THAT SUPPLIES THIS NORTHERN SUBURB, AND THEY KNEW THEY RAN ON ONE SERIOUS BUSINESS. SO I JUST WANT TO TAKE A HARD LOOK AT WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO IS CO-SPONSORING OR THAT PARTICULAR, UM, SEMINAR, WORKSHOP THAT I BELIEVE WE NEED TO SPONSOR AND JUST SAY NOTHING, WANT ANTI-GROWTH. WE SAW HIM THE AUSTIN YEARS AGO, WENT TO THE NO GROWTH BONDS AND BACKSIDE ON THEM, CAUSED MORE PEOPLE TO MOVE THE SUBURBS WITHOUT A TRAIN SYSTEM INDIVIDUAL AND TRANSPORTATION. AND, AND THEY HAVE HORRIBLE TRANSIT FROM IN. WE STILL DO. SO THIS HAS TO BE PART OF AN OVERALL PLANNING PROCESS, HAVE TO GO THROUGH FOR THE REGION. WE ARE GONNA GROW A FEW OTHER WAYS WE CAN SUSTAIN WATERS SUPPLY. AND SO WE WANT THANK YOU. BRINGING US UP. IT'S A CRITICAL ISSUE. AND AS MUCH AS I KNOW PEOPLE WALK THESE CANADA CENTERS CLOSE BY FOLKS TO THE CITY OF THOUSAND WATER ISSUE, WE DON'T HAVE THE WATER TO SUSTAIN THIS FOR FUTURE PERIOD. AND SO THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR FOR BEING US. SOMETHING HAS TO DISCUSSION. MUST BE RESPONSIBLE SYSTEMS, RESPONSIBLE COMMISSION. WE HAVE TO FACE THIS ISSUE NOW. THANK YOU. AND I'LL ADD JUST VERY BRIEFLY, IT'S NOT JUST A WATER QUANTITY ISSUE, BUT ALSO WATER QUALITY ISSUE. BECAUSE WHEN THESE FACILITIES BLOW DOWN OR DISCHARGE WASTEWATER, IT OFTEN CONTAINS, UH, COOLANTS. UM, AND THOSE COOLANTS CAN CONTAIN FOREVER CHEMICALS, PFAS. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE DISCHARGING, UM, THOSE TYPES OF CHEMICALS, BUT THEY'RE CONCENTRATED BECAUSE IN A, YOU KNOW, CLOSED LOOP SYSTEM, THE WATER WILL EVAPORATE DOWN, UM, AND THEN IT GETS DISCHARGED. AND, UM, IN SEPTEMBER, UH, THIS ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCED THAT EPAS GOING TO PRIORITIZE THE REVIEW OF THOSE CHEMICALS USED IN DATA CENTER PROJECTS, UM, IN ORDER TO ESSENTIALLY HELP EXPEDITE, UM, THEIR APPROVAL. AND SO WE LOOK AT THOSE OPPORTUNITIES, UM, FOR RULE CHANGES OR THINGS THAT WOULD LESSEN PROTECTIONS, UH, FOR THOSE TYPES OF CHEMICALS, UH, DISCHARGED INTO WATER, UM, HERE IN THE CITY OR ACROSS THE STATE, UM, AS WE ALSO LOOK AT THE WATER ISSUE. ALL RIGHT. WE'RE GONNA GO TO, IF YOU COULD UNMUTE AGAIN, STEPHANIE, UH, CHAIR HERE ON MO. THANK YOU. THANK YOU CHAIR GARRA FOR BRINGING THIS IMPORTANT TOPIC, UM, TO US. I THINK IT'S SO CRITICALLY URGENT, AND I LOVE THE IDEA OF A SPECIAL SESSION TO DIG DEEPER INTO THIS. I WOULD SUGGEST WE THINK ABOUT A WAY OF HOW TO INCLUDE THE RIGHT KINDS OF SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS IN THE CONVERSATION AS WELL, SO THAT WE CAN BROADEN, UM, THE VOICES THAT WE HAVE IN THE ROOM BEYOND, UH, THE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMISSION AND OUR TECHNICAL EXPERTS, PERHAPS LEARNING FROM OTHER MUNICIPALITIES OR OTHER AGENCIES AS WELL. YES, COMPLETELY AGREE. HOPING TO BE ABLE TO ADD THOSE FOLKS IN VIA VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION TO KEEP OUR COSTS AT A MINIMUM, BUT STILL, UM, GET SOME ADDITIONAL FOLKS AND IDEAS IN THE ROOM. DR. LOCKMAN, UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR INCREDIBLY INSIGHTFUL AND COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF A CRISIS OR PRESENT CRISIS THAT WE'RE FACING. UM, YOU KNOW, AND I THINK YOU HIGHLIGHTED THE, UM, VERY, VERY WELL. THE, THE WATER AND THE ENERGY, UH, ISSUES AND THEY'RE BOTH, UM, ISSUES OF CONSUMPTION AND, UH, ISSUES OF PRODUCT THAT VERY NICELY. UM, I WOULD ADD, I THINK THAT THE EFFECT OF YOU, YOU TOUCHED ON IT, BUT THE EFFECT OF THE PARTICULATE MATTER THAT'S PRODUCED AND ITS EFFECT ON HEALTH, WE KNOW PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY BEEN AFFECTED IN THIS AREA, IS VERY KEY. UH, I THINK OTHER SPEAKERS HAVE VERY ADEQUATELY, UM, ILLUMINATED AND BROUGHT TO LIGHT THE CONSUMER COSTS THAT'S IN PLACE. THIS, [01:40:01] UH, I KNOW THAT FOR MY SOLAR, WHAT I'VE PUT SOLAR ON MY ROUTE, UM, I WAS LOOKING AT A 20% DEFICIT. UH, WHEN I DID THE DECIDED TO DO IT, I WAS LOOKING AT A 20% DEFICIT OF THE PRODUCTION COST VERSUS WHAT IT WAS GOING TO COST ME. BY THE TIME I FINISHED MY PRODUCTION ONE YEAR, THERE WAS NO DIFFERENCE. AND NOW WE HAVE ANOTHER 25% MEANING ON OUR COST. THAT CONSUMER IS VERY MUCH AFFECTED BY THIS, UH, IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT WAYS. AND ONE OF THE MAJOR ONE AND ONE OF THE ONES IS IN ALREADY STRESSED ENVIRONMENTAL SITUATION EFFECT ON THE INDIVIDUAL'S POCKET. UM, I THINK THAT THE APPROACH THAT YOU HAVE PROPOSED AND BROUGHT UP, UH, IS I I WOULD CALL IT AN EXCELLENT BEGINNING. UM, I THINK WE HAVE TO LOOK, UM, I THINK WE HAVE TO LOOK IN LOOKING AT THIS, THE OP I AGREE WITH THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND ALSO, UM, THE, UM, I THINK THAT BEYOND THAT, IN TERMS OF LOOKING, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE FACT THAT IT'S A VERY, IN SPITE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OPINION, IT IS A VERY WELL ESTABLISHED PRINCIPLE THAT IF YOU ARE A PRIVATE BUSINESS AND YOU DO EITHER PUBLIC HARM OR HARMED INDIVIDUALS, THAT YOU ARE LEGALLY AND FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE. AND, UM, I, I THINK THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE OUGHT TO LOOK AT IN THIS IS, UM, NOT ONLY THE FIRST OF ALL, THE WORKAROUNDS LEGALLY SUCH ARE, UM, BUT ALSO WE NEED TO BE LOOKING AT THOSE THINGS AT CIVIL LIABILITY. UM, AS AN EXAMPLE, WE ARE FACING PEOPLE RIGHT NOW IN DALLAS WHO HAVE, UM, THE DAMAGE, LIKE WE HAVE 3.5 OVER THE YEARS IN TERMS OF STATUS. IN MY MIND, THE COMPANIES THAT PRODUCED THAT, KNOWING THEY DID IT, ARE CIVILLY LIABLE FOR LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY. WE STAMPED OUT, LED IN THIS COUNTRY, NOT LED IN EFFORTS THAT I WAS ENGAGED IN TO EVEN IN PUBLIC HEALTH, BUT THROUGH PUBLIC RELIABILITY. ATTORNEY IN CHICAGO WHO BROUGHT LAWSUITS ON BEHALF OF THREE CHILDREN WHO WERE DAMAGED BY SLUMLORDS WHEN HE WON MULTIMILLION DOLLAR JUDGEMENTS. EVERY SLUMLORD IN THE COUNTRY WAS SAYING, DO MY PRODUCT FIRST, DO MY APARTMENTS FIRST. I IF WE HAVE TO, THERE'S THE PATH. THERE'S A PATH, RIGHT. THANK YOU DR. . ALRIGHT, COMMISSIONER BILL. HI. UM, I HAVE TWO POINTS. UM, ONE, UH, THE BACKLOG OF THE TCQ IS MY JOKE. UM, BEING AN OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY, A PBR IS, UH, I MEAN, IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT THUNDER KNOWS THAT, BUT IT IS A VERY LOWER LEVEL, UH, AIR PERMIT THAT YOU CAN JUST GET BY GIVING CALCULATIONS AND SUBMITTING SOME PAPERWORK. UH, SO I WOULD BE VERY INTERESTED IN YOUR EXAMPLE OF GOING FROM A TO TITLE V. UH, BUT THAT IS A SIGNIFICANT JOB, SO I'M ASSUMING THAT WOULD JUST MENTION JUNE OR SOMETHING. UM, BUT SO 0.2 IS WATER AND AIR AND ALL THESE ISSUES ARE A REGIONAL CONCERN. I MEAN, I'M JUST, I'M ENVISIONING A COMPANY, IF THE CITY OF DALLAS DID PUT SOMETHING IN SUCCESSFULLY, THEY WOULD JUST OR SOMETHING. AND I'M WONDERING HOW WE CAN WAGE THE REGION SO THAT WE CAN ALL BAND TOGETHER AND NOT HELP THESE CUT THINGS JUST OFF CITY TO CITY. DEFINITELY AGREE TO THAT. YEAH. UM, NUMEROUS EXAMPLES OF THE PDR. YEAH. UM, YEAH. AND SO, UH, AND THE STANDARD PERMIT, THE PDR FOR GENERATORS, UH, A STANDARD PERMIT FOR, UH, GAS GENER GAS GENERATING YOUR GENERATORS. SO I KNOW YOU NO REVIEW. YEAH, NO REVIEW BY THE TCQ REQUIRED WHATSOEVER. YOU PAY YOUR $450 FEE, YOU PRINT OUT THE PAPER THAT SAYS A CLAIM LIST MM-HMM . AND THAT'S WHAT THE OIL GAS OPERATES, WHICH THEY'RE FAMILIAR WITH. SO YES, PUT IT, SO TITLE V, THE ACTUALLY REQUIREMENTS DEPARTMENTS, THERE'S NO PUBLIC PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENT FOR A PBR STANDARD PERMIT OUTSIDE A CONCRETE BATCH MONTH STANDARD PERMIT. RIGHT. AND SO WHEN IT'S GOING TO TITLE V IS WHEN THE, UH, THOSE, UH, PERMITS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ARE PRE-CONSTRUCTION PERMITS. THEY'RE REQUIRED BEFORE YOU TURN DIRT. UM, AND SO THE FACT THAT PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNTIL THE FACILITY IS BUILT AND THEY'RE READY TO AUTHORIZE OPERATIONAL [01:45:01] AND THEY NEED A FEDERAL OPERATING PERMIT, IS WHAT, UM, COMMISSIONERS IS REFERRING TO. YEAH. MR. MARCOS, THE COMMISSIONER POINT, UM, THERE HAS BEEN CONVERSATION OVER PERIOD YEARS ABOUT DOING MORE THINGS REASONABLY. UH, FOR EXAMPLE, BACK IN, AFTER 2011, THE DROUGHT, SOME OF THE MAJOR WATER UTILITIES IN THE AREA BEGAN TO TALK TO EACH OTHER, NOT REALLY COMING FORWARD WITH IDEAS FOR HOW WE GET MORE PEOPLE TO USE NATIVE PLANTS AND TO DICTATE PEOPLE EXACTLY WHAT THEY CAN AND CAN'T PLAY FROM THE YARD. BUT WELL, MAYBE THEY'RE CLEAR THAT WE NEED TO GO TO MORE NATIVE PLANTS. BUT THING ABOUT A DROUGHT IS ONCE IT GOES, WHY PEOPLE INTO ? WE DON'T CONSERVE. AS A RESULT, WE WANT TO MOVE TOWARD THAT AND FIND SOME WAY TO IMPLEMENT THOSE INDIVIDUAL AND WHATEVER SAID, BEGUN, BE ABLE TEXAS ARE PRETTY INDEPENDENT PEOPLE AND DON'T TELL THEM WHAT TO DO IN MY YARD. HOWEVER, WE'LL HAVE TO GO BACK, EXCUSE ME, BACK TO THAT AND BEGIN TO GET PEOPLE ONCE AGAIN TO LOOK AT THESE ISSUES ISSUES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU BOTH DR. . SO THANK YOU FOR THE EDUCATION ON THIS SUBJECT CHAIR GA UM, I DO, THIS IS A VERY NAIVE QUESTION, BUT WHAT ARE THE FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FOR CITIES TO HAVE THESE FACILITIES, LIKE WITHIN THEIR CITIES OR WITHIN THEIR COUNTIES AND WITHIN THEIR MUNICIPALITIES? AND WHAT ARE SOME WAYS, AND, AND AND I THINK WHEN WE HAVE A, A BIGGER DISCUSSION THAT PROBABLY NEEDS TO BE DISCUSSED SOMEWHAT BECAUSE I MEAN IT'S, WE'RE GONNA, THEY'RE GONNA FOLLOW THE MONEY. UNFORTUNATELY. THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION. UM, A LOT OF THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE ARE COMMUNICATING WITH ACROSS THE STATE OF TEXAS ARE SAYING THAT THE UM, DATA CENTER THAT CAME IN AND GAVE THE BIG SEXY PITCH ALSO RECEIVED SIGNIFICANT, UH, TAX INCENTIVES TO LOCATE. UM, AND SO IT'S CONCERNING BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT DATA CENTERS ARE NOT LABOR INTENSIVE FACILITIES. YOU'RE NOT GOING IN A TON OF WORKERS OTHER THAN TO CONSTRUCT THE FACILITY PERHAPS, UM, AFTER THAT, YOU KNOW, IT, IT SEEMS MINIMAL. UM, BUT I THINK THAT'S AN INTERESTING QUESTION AND I THINK THAT WE SHOULD FURTHER EXPLORE THE WAYS THAT CITIES CAN, UM, EFFECTIVELY REJECT ISSUING THESE TAX INCENTIVES, TAX BREAKS, THESE ARE TAX PAYER DOLLARS. UM, YOU KNOW, THESE FACILITIES STAND TO MAKE MILLIONS, BILLIONS. MOST OF THEM ARE ALREADY, YOU KNOW, INTERNATIONAL MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATIONS. THEY DON'T NEED OUR TAX MONEY. THEY DON'T. UM, AND SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN TO OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, UM, AS TO WHY WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY DESERVE, DESERVE ANY SORT OF INCENTIVES OR TAX BREAKS OR THINGS LIKE THAT. UM, BUT IT'S DISCUSSIONS. UM, I THINK IT'S, IT'S ABSOLUTELY WORTH GIVING IT, GIVING IT SOME TIME AT THE STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION IF THAT'S HOW WE GO. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP. ALRIGHT, UM, CHAIR ROBERSON AND DR. LACKMAN. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT UP. I, THE LAST TWO, I'M PART OF THE SIERRA CLUB. OUR LAST TWO SPEAKERS WERE ON, NOT ON. YOU'RE GOOD. YOU'RE OKAY. APOLOGIES. OUR LAST TWO SPEAKERS WERE ON, UM, DESAL, DESALINATION AND, UH, DATA MINING, HOW MUCH WATER'S USED. AND, UH, I WAS ACTUALLY GONNA ADD IT TO OUR PUBLIC HEALTH MEETING, BUT IT'S TOO BIG FOR ONE, FOR ONE, FOR ONE COMMITTEE. IT NEEDS TO BE ALL OF US. 'CAUSE WE CAN TIE SOME OF THAT IN WITH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE STILL TRYING TO GET THEM TO DO WHAT THEY SHOULD FOR THE BATCH POINTS. THESE THINGS TAKE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WATER, LIKE MS. MARK SAID THAT WE, WE DO NOT HAVE. AND THEN THE WATER BILLS ARE CITED TO GO UP AS MUCH AS $120 A MONTH FOR EACH FAMILY THAT'S IN THAT AREA. AND RIGHT NOW THEY'RE TRYING TO SET UP WHAT, YOU KNOW, DINOSAUR VALLEY ALONG THERE. SO YEAH, THANKS FOR BRINGING THAT UP. I APOLOGIZE I HAVEN'T GONE TO, UM, OKAY. GO, UH, ANDREW. YEAH, YEAH, SIEGEL, GO AHEAD. SO I WANTED TO THANK, UH, BECAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE I WAS HEADING AS WELL, IS THAT THERE'S A BIG DISPARITY IF YOU OPEN A CHIP PLANT AND LEAVES A LOT OF WATER AND A LOT OF POWER. THEY ALSO EMPLOY A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO [01:50:01] MAKE VERY GOOD SALARIES AND THEN THEY CONTRIBUTE TO LOCAL AUTONOMY AND THEY BUY PIZZA AND THEY GET THEIR CARS FIXED AND THEY ARE CONTRIBUTED TO THE ECONOMY. A MILLION SQUARE FOOT DATA CENTER MIGHT HAVE A DOZEN PEOPLE WORKING THAN THAT. UM, MY GUESS IS THAT THE BIG, AND I DON'T KNOW THIS, MY GUESS IS THE BIG CONTRIBUTION TO THE CITY IS THAT THE CITY HAS UNUSED LAND THAT IS NOW PAYING TAXES, UM, PROPERTY CUTS. THAT'S REALLY THE ONLY BIG POSITIVE IMPACT. SO IF YOU'RE GIVING THEM A WHOLE BUNCH OF TAX CREDITS, WELL YOU'VE JUST GIVEN UP THE POSITIVE IMPACT. UM, WHEN THEY OPENED THE COSTCO UP AT 6 35 AND 75, EVERYBODY WAS UPSET ABOUT THE TAX CREDITS THEY GOT. WELL, THEY EMPLOY A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WERE VERY WELL PAID. COSTCO HAD ONE OF THE BEST PAYMENT PLAN, UH, UH, PACKAGES FROM AROUND AND, YOU KNOW, THE CITY MADE MONEY BACK VERY QUICKLY. A DATA CENTER, NOT SO MUCH. UM, I'D ALSO BE INTERESTED IN STARTING THE IMPACT OF THE BENEFIT OF A TRADITIONAL DATA CENTER VERSUS A CRYPTO MINING CENTER. CRYPTO MINING CENTER MINING BENEFITS. THE PERSON WHO'S MINING WITH CRYPTO, UM, WHICH IS USUALLY A BILLIONAIRE INVESTORS WHO COULD AFFORD TO DO THAT. MM-HMM . A DATA CENTER, MEAN POWERING AI HELPS HOSPITALS BECAUSE THEY'RE USING IT. THEY HELP LAWYERS, THEY HELP DATA, ET CETERA. SO THERE IS A DIFFERENCE THERE. UM, AND THE LAST THING, WHICH I WANTED, I THOUGHT WAS VERY INTERESTING PLAY ABOUT THE 2011, UH, DROUGHT, WHICH I REMEMBER VERY WELL. UM, ONE OF THE FUNNIEST THINGS I SAW A SIGN ON THE HIGHWAY, I'LL NEVER FORGET IT SAID ARSON BAN IN EFFECT. I WAS LIKE, ISN'T ARSON ALWAYS BANNED? BUT YOU KNOW, THAT WAS KIND OF A STRANGE SIGN YOU SEE ON THE SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY. UM, BUT WHAT ARE THESE SORT OF BACKUP, IF WE DO HAVE A DROUGHT, I DON'T WANT THEM PULLING THE WATER OUT SO THAT THE PEOPLE CAN'T GET SOMETHING TO DRINK OR SAY, NOW ARE THEY JUST GONNA SHUT DOWN? PROBABLY NOT. BUT THERE NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING IN THERE IN THEIR PLANS, IN THIS PERMITTING PROCESS THAT SAYS, OKAY, YOU KNOW, JUST LIKE YOU'RE BUILDING IN TEXAS, UH, YOU KNOW, A NEW FOOTBALL STADIUM, THERE'S AN EARTHQUAKE PLAN EVEN IN TEXAS. UM, SO YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE PLANS IN PLACE, BUT WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO IN THE CASE OF THE DROUGHT? UH, ANOTHER THING WE'LL GET WOULD BE THE CITY OF TORONTO, WHICH WAS A HUGE SITE FOR DATA CENTERS FOR CRYPTO MINING BECAUSE THEIR, UH, POWER IS SO CHEAP BECAUSE IT'S ALL HYDROELECTRIC. THE PROBLEM IS THE DATA CENTER POINTS SO MUCH OUT OF A GRID THAT THE PRICES FOR EVERYBODY ELSE WHO LIVED THERE WHO LOVED THE LOW POWER, SAW THEIR PRICES SPIKE THROUGH THE ROOF. SO THE CITY OF TORONTO PUT A MORATORIUM, NO MORE CRYPTO MINING. THAT MIGHT BE AN INTERESTING ONE TO BUILD IT INTO THIS SPACE. WELL, BECAUSE THEY GOT A LOT MORE WATER THAN WE DO OUT THERE. SO WE HAVE A COMMUNITY IN PUT COUNTY, UM, THAT IS RIGHT NEXT TO A BITCOIN MINING, UM, FACILITY, AND THEY COMPLAIN ABOUT VIBRATION AND NOISE DAY AND NIGHT. UM, WATER QUANTITY IS CERTAINLY AN ISSUE OUT THERE. THERE'S ACTUALLY A VERY GOOD DOCUMENTARY, UM, THAT I'LL TRY TO FIND AND SHARE WITH FOLKS. UM, THAT'S NEXT TO A DIFFERENT, UH, OWNED, UH, DATA CENTER IN THAT AREA. BUT IT'S, IT, IT IS A WATER QUALITY AND WATER QUANTITY ISSUE. NOW, DR. LACKMAN. YEAH, UM, I WENT OUT AND DID JUST A LITTLE BIT OF MY OWN RESEARCH VERY QUICKLY AND, UM, UH, I WANT, BEFORE SAYING THIS, I WANNA SAY THAT, UM, MY, A LOT OF MY CAREER IN HEALTHCARE AND MY WORK AT PARKLAND WAS BASED ON THE ABILITY TO HAVE BETTER DATA AND FIGURE OUT WHO WAS AT RISK FOR ASTHMA OR WHO IS AT RISK FOR PRETERM BIRTH. AND SOME OF THAT IS DEPENDENT ON HAVING VERY GOOD SOURCES OF DATA THAT WE MIGHT NOT HAVE OTHERWISE. HAVING SAID THAT, UH, I DID A QUICK LOOK FOR T DALLAS DATA CENTERS WITH HEALTHCARE AND I CAME UP WITH QTS 260 SQUARE FOOT FACILITY IN FORT WORTH THAT SUPPORTS HEALTHCARE SERVICE CORPORATION. THAT'S BLUE CROSS FOR EVERYBODY WHO DOESN'T KNOW SPECIALIZING IN LARGE CARE DATA CENTERS. THERE'S ONE AT PEGASUS SPARK, UM, UH, THERE'S ONE AT, UH, UT HEALTH IN HOUSTON, BUT IT HAS DALLAS REACH. WHAT I'M SAYING IS, IS IT'S A CENTRALIZED PRINCIPLE THAT I PLEDGED TO WHEN I GOT MY MEDICAL DEGREE AND TOOK THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH THAT ABOVE ALL DO NO HARM. IF THE DATA THAT I'M GETTING TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES FOR SOME PEOPLE IS HURTING OTHER PEOPLE, THAT'S NOT CONSONANT. SO I WONDER HOW A COMPANY LIKE HEALTH SERVICE, HEALTH CARE SERVICES CORPORATION CAN JUSTIFIABLY HAVE A DATA CENTER WITHOUT HAVING ADEQUATE WATER CON, UH, CONTROLS ON THE PM 2.5, THE THINGS YOU HIGHLIGHT. AND, UM, UH, AS WE GET INTO THIS, [01:55:01] AS I GET DATA, I WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO STAND UP IN THE, UM, UH, NA UH, IN THE, UH, TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH PLANS AND TRACK HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATION TO THE WALL FOR HARM, HARM HARMING PEOPLE. THAT SHOULD NOT BE OUR ROLE. I'VE BEEN IN HEALTH INSURANCE, WAS IN HEALTH INSURANCE FOR 30 YEARS. THAT'S NOT OUR ROLE. OUR ROLE IS NOT TO TAKE, TO RETURN PROFITS TO OUR INVESTORS. OUR ROLE IS TO IMPROVE THE OUTCOME OF PEOPLE AND PRODUCING DATA THAT HARMS PEOPLE AS HARM PEOPLE IS HARMFUL. THANK YOU, DR. KIN. ALRIGHT, MS. UM, YEAH, THANK YOU. MAD CHAIR. THIS IS VERY TIMELY AND YOU KNOW, JUST THINKING AHEAD THE CURVE ON THIS, BUT EVERYONE HERE HAS ALREADY ARTICULATED VERY WELL WHAT I WAS THINKING AS FAR AS THE CRYPTO, UH, COMPARISON ON THAT AND USING THAT FOR DEFINITELY SOME POLICY, UM, AVENUES TO GO DOWN. AND THEN ALSO BEING AWARE THAT THIS HAS TO BE A DISASTER. WE, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, WHAT DO WE DO? IS CONSIDERED AFTER THAT, JUST LIKE WITH CRYPTO BEING DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO THE SNOWMAGEDDON, UH, 2020. SO, UM, AND THEN THE HUMAN COST OF COURSE, WHICH IS ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT HAPPEN WITH THIS, WHAT IS STUFF IN FASHION, BUT IT'S HUMAN COST STUFF. SO, UM, AGAIN, THANK YOU. RIGHT. ANYBODY THAT HASN'T UH, SPOKEN YET WOULD STILL LIKE TO COMMENT. ALRIGHT, I'LL JUST WRAP THIS UP BY SAYING, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE CAN DO. WE ARE SO IMPASSIONED, UH, YOU KNOW, IN OUR PERSONAL LIVES TO REMOVE THE LITTLE AI TOOLS THAT THEY ADD WITHOUT ASKING THEM PERMISSION. JUST TURN THOSE OFF AND THINGS LIKE THAT. UM, BUT WE ARE ALSO FORTUNATE THAT WE ARE TASKED WITH THIS ROLE TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICIES TO THE CITY COUNCIL. UM, AND I THINK THAT, UM, THERE ARE A LOT OF COMMUNITIES WHO ARE SCRAMBLING RIGHT NOW TO REACTIVELY TRY TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE. UM, AND WE ARE IN, YOU KNOW, A BIT OF A MORE FORTUNATE SITUATION, LESS, YOU KNOW, LARGE SWATH OF LAND AVAILABLE, UM, FOR THAT PARTICULAR USE THAT WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE PROACTIVE. UM, AND ALTHOUGH THERE ARE A LOT OF DATA CENTERS HERE IN NORTH TEXAS, UM, I THINK IT'D BE WORTHWHILE TO, UM, TAILOR A POLICY TO THE CITY OF DALLAS AND, UM, YOU KNOW, BE THE LEADER AND BE A MODEL FOR OTHER COMMUNITIES, UM, THAT ARE LOOKING TO BE ABLE TO, UH, GET THEIR ARMS AROUND THIS ISSUE WHO ARE HOME RURAL CITIES WHO HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO THAT ABSENT STATE LEGISLATION, UM, TO, TO REGULATE THIS ISSUE, UH, FOR FOLKS. UM, AND SO WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A VOTE ON FURTHER DISCUSSION OF DATA CENTERS AND DEVELOPING POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS IN A SPECIAL CALL, STRATEGIC PLANNING MEETINGS OR MOTION. I MOVE. IS IT SECONDED? IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED. WE WILL VOTE. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? ALL PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. ALRIGHT, LET'S GO RIGHT INTO OUR BRIEFING MEMOS. HOPE, HOPING NOT TO SPEND A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME HERE. LET'S TRY TO WRAP UP OUR CONVERSATION BY LIKE EIGHT, A LITTLE BIT AFTER EIGHT IF WE CAN SO THAT OUR STAFF CAN GET HOME BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN HERE SINCE MAYBE BEFORE EIGHT THIS MORNING. UM, SO LET'S JUST BE COGNIZANT OF THAT. ALL RIGHT. OUR FIRST BRIEFING MEMO IS THE STATUS OF THE CITY OF DALLAS REGULATORY AIR MONITORING NETWORK. AND I ASKED AND DIRECTOR GOT GRACIOUSLY AGREED TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE. UM, THE, ONE OF OUR CITY'S SORT OF CORE MONITORS, UH, IS AND HAS BEEN OFFLINE FOR SOME TIME. AND SO WANTED TO GET AN UPDATE ON WHAT THE STATUS OF THAT WAS. ANOTHER MONITOR IS PROPOSED TO BE MOVED. UM, AND SO I WANNA JUST GET THE STATUS OF THAT. THOSE ARE DATA, UH, POINTS THAT WE RELY ON FOR NATIONAL AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS. AND JUST TO CLARIFY, THESE ARE OUR REGULATORY TCEQ MONITORS, NOT OUR CITY NON-REGULATORY MONITORS. SO IF YOU JUST WANNA GIVE US JUST A REAL QUICK OVERVIEW AND WELCOME, UM, MR. WHITE, GOOD TO SEE YOU. THANK YOU. YES. SO, UM, MOST OF THE INFORMATION THAT, UM, Y'ALL ARE GONNA BE INTERESTED IN IS IN THE TABLE PROVIDED IN THE MEMO. UM, AND SHERIFF GIRA IS CORRECT. UH, THERE IS ONE SITE THAT IS CURRENTLY OUT OF OPERATION THAT IS THE HINTON SITE. UM, [02:00:01] OEQS IS, UH, CONTINUING TO LOOK FOR A NEW LOCATION FOR THIS, UH, MONITORING SITE. IT WAS PREVIOUSLY LOCATED ON PRIVATE PROPERTY THAT WAS UNDER LEASE AND HAD BEEN, UM, FOR SOME TIME, IT WAS, UM, COMMISSIONED IN 1999. SO IT HAD BEEN THERE A WHILE AND, UH, THE PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD AND SO THE SITE IS NO LONGER THERE. UM, OEQS THOUGHT WE HAD A VIABLE SITE, UM, FOR, UH, A COUPLE OF LEGAL REASONS THAT SITE, UH, FELL OUT OF THE RUNNING. UM, AND SO WE ARE CONTINUING TO LOOK. IT IS DIFFICULT BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT THE AREA HAS CHANGED OVER THE PAST 25 PLUS YEARS, UM, AND ALL OF THE SITING REQUIREMENTS FOR A SITE OF THAT SIZE. UM, SO, UM, THE, THAT'S ABOUT ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT HINTON RIGHT NOW FOR EARHART. I WILL SAY, UM, THAT AS OF TODAY, UM, THERE IS A LOCATION THAT WE BELIEVE WE FOUND THAT IT WILL BE ON DISD PROPERTY AND THAT SHOULD BE GOING TO A VOTE, UM, FOR THEIR BOARD SOON. UM, AND SO HOPEFULLY WILL BE APPROVED, THEN EVERYTHING WILL MOVE FORWARD FOR RELOCATION OF THAT SITE. OKAY. IF YOU SHARE THAT DATE WITH US, WE WILL SUPPORT THAT EFFORT, UM, OF DISC BOARD. SO JUST LET US KNOW WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO REACH OUT TO THEM. UM, ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS MEMO? NO. OH, COMMISSIONER, I DID SEE, UH, ALFRED AND JY, UH, CHECKING ON THE MONITOR, SO HE ASSURED ME IS UP ONE, SO I JUST WANT SAY HE DID DO HIS JOB. OKAY. ? YES, FREDDY IS GREAT. ALL RIGHT. HE'S, HE'S GREAT. UM, OKAY. OH, UH, DR. LOCKMAN, GO AHEAD, PLEASE. UM, QUICKLY, , UM, I THINK THAT, UM, FROM WHAT, WHEN WE REVIEWED SOME DATA THAT WAS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE, THERE IS SOME WORK TO DO WITH MAKING IT MORE USER FRIENDLY. AND, UH, BUT, UH, I THINK THAT'S ACHIEVABLE AND I THINK YOU DID A VERY GOOD START BY HAVING DATA AND ON THE OPERATIONAL CENTERS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC. AND THEN, UM, THE OTHER THING IS, UM, I, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME BETTER CUL, YOU KNOW, WE TALKED ABOUT DATA AVAILABILITY AND DALLAS REALLY HAS VERY EXCELLENT DATA ALL AVAILABILITY THROUGH THE HOSP, UH, THROUGH THE HOSPITAL COUNCIL, PARKLAND CENTER FOR CLINICAL INNOVATION. SOME OF THE WORK THAT WE DID AT PARKLAND, WE BROUGHT TOGETHER WHAT WE HAD AVAILABLE WAS WHAT, WHICH IS NOT NEARLY AS SOPHISTICATED AS PM 3.5 IS WHAT YOU HAVE, UH, WITH SOME OF OUR HEALTH DATA AND WE'RE ABLE TO SHOW THAT HAD AN EFFECT ON OUTCOMES. I THINK THAT WOULD BE A POWERFUL REASON FOR THAT ACTION. ALL RIGHT. AND JUST NOT TO CONFLATE THESE WITH THE NON-REGULATORY DECAMP MONITORS. UM, THESE ARE THE TCQ REGULATORY MONITORS. YOU CAN FIND 'EM ON THE TC Q'S WEBSITE. AND, UM, WE GET, UH, SEVEN ANNUAL REPORT FROM TCQ OR A FIVE YEAR, IT'S AN ANNUAL UPDATE ON IT'S ANNUAL. YEAH, I BELIEVE IT'S AN ANNUAL UPDATE. YEAH. OKAY. UM, ON THE, THE AIR QUALITY, THE STATUS OF THE AIR QUALITY MONITORING NETWORK. SO WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO THAT ONE, UM, LATER THIS YEAR. THANK QC. CAN I, CAN I ASK A QUICK QUESTION? I'M SO SORRY. YEAH, GO AHEAD. SO I WHAT, OKAY, THIS IS A SILLY QUESTION. ARE YOU CONTRACTED WITH TCEQ TO MONITOR TO, TO MAINTAIN THESE SITES? AND IS IT GONNA STAY IN, UM, THE HINTON AREA? 'CAUSE I THINK STAYING IN THE AREA IS REALLY IMPORTANT, THE ONE THAT'S DOWN. SO YES, UM, IT IS A CONTRACT WITH TCEQ. UM, IT IS OUR GOAL TO TRY TO STAY IN THAT AREA. AS I I WAS SAYING, IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO, UM, IDENTIFY A LOCATION. UM, WE STARTED OUT WITH, WHAT WAS IT, A MILE RADIUS. UM, AT THIS POINT WE'RE LOOKING AT A THREE MILE RADIUS. UM, AND AGAIN, DUE TO ALL THE SITING REQUIREMENTS, UM, IT IS, IT IS DIFFICULT TO IDENTIFY A SITE LIKE THAT. WE, WE THOUGHT WE HAD ANOTHER ONE THE OTHER DAY THAT, UH, BUT IT WAS, UH, WHEN THEY RAN THE TRANSPORTATION DATA, THE INTERSECTION HAD TOO MANY CARS AND IT WAS NOT LARGE ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE THE DISTANCE THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED. SO IT'S JUST, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, WITHOUT GETTING INTO THE MINUTIAE, IT'S, THERE ARE A LOT OF DETAILS THAT GO INTO LOCATING THESE SITES. SO YES, IT IS ALWAYS THE GOAL TO STAY AS CLOSE TO THE ORIGINAL LOCATION AS POSSIBLE. UM, I, RIGHT NOW, I DON'T KNOW, UM, WHERE WE'RE GONNA END UP TO BE HONEST, IF IT'S GONNA BE POSSIBLE. AND THEN TCH SAVES YOU RIGHT FOR THIS, LIKE [02:05:01] THE CITY IS CORRECT? YES. OKAY. JUST MAKING SURE. , . MM-HMM . ALRIGHT. OKAY. I THINK THAT'S ALL THE QUESTIONS ON THAT ONE. IF YOU WANNA GO RIGHT INTO BRIEFING MEMO B, WHICH IS THE 2026 NORTH TEXAS CLIMATE SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT. SURE. THIS WILL BE REALLY BRIEF. UH, Y'ALL HAVE ALREADY HEARD, UM, SOME ABOUT THE CLIMATE CLIMATE SYMPOSIUM AS WELL. UM, THE CITY OF DALLAS THROUGH OAQS WILL BE SPONSORING, UM, THE EARTHX CONFERENCE OF CON CONGRESS OF CONFERENCES, UM, THIS YEAR AND THE NORTH TEXAS CLIMATE SYMPOSIUM WILL BE ON MONDAY, APRIL 20TH. AS PART OF, UH, AS PART OF THAT SPONSORSHIP, WE WILL BE HEARING, UM, THERE IS CURRENTLY A FORM AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE FOR FOLKS WHO WANT TO PROPOSE IDEAS FOR PANELS FOR, OR AN AGENDA FOR A PRESENTATION. UM, SO IF ENCOURAGE ANYBODY THAT HAS IDEAS OR KNOW SOMEONE OR THAT WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A PRESENTATION TO, UM, USE THAT, THAT LINK. AND, UM, AND WE WILL REVIEW THAT INFORMATION. UM, I BELIEVE IT IS THE END OF MARCH AS THE GOAL TO REVIEW ALL OF THE FORMS RECEIVED AND TO START MAKING SOME DECISIONS ABOUT WHAT THE AGENDA WILL LOOK LIKE. SO, AND AS PART OF THE AMENDMENT, WE ALSO INCLUDED SOME OF THE FLYERS FOR THE EVENT AS WELL. GREAT. CAN I ASK ONE QUICK QUESTION? MM-HMM . WE'RE GONNA GO TO COMMISSIONER DAY AND THEN MR. AND THEN YES. DR. . YEP. GO. UM, SO IT WASN'T A, IT WASN'T PART OF THE MEMO, WAS IT A MEANT BE A SEPARATE IT WAS A, AN ATTACHMENT? WAS THAT NOT INCLUDED? I DON'T. OKAY. WE CAN, IF NOT, WE'LL CIRCULATE IT. YEAH, FOR SURE. WE SHOULD DO THAT. OKAY. MR. MARCOS, DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO ADD? THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. ON THE 22ND OF THAT WEEK, IT WAS TWO DAYS LATER, I'M ORGANIZING A CONFERENCE FOR DATES AND IT'S ON A VARIETY OF ISSUES. SO WE NEED TO GET TOGETHER, JUST COORDINATE, BUT EVERYBODY GO GET INVITATION TO COME FIFTH STATE TWICE THAT WEEK ON MONDAY AND ON WEDNESDAY ALSO, UM, WHAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT BE ALL RIGHT. AND THEN DR. UH, WE HAVE ANY INPUT ON WHAT THE AGENDA LOOKS LIKE OR WE JUST HAVE TO SUBMIT OUR OWN IDEAS, LIKE, LIKE THE WHOLE THEME. OH, THE THEME IS, UM, RESILIENCY. THE THEME HAS BEEN DECIDED. UM, THE, I IT WAS NOT BUILT INTO THE PLAN TO BRING IT BACK TO EBC AFTER, UM, THE, THE SUBMISSIONS AND, UH, WERE CONSIDERED. UM, SO I WOULD, I WOULD SAY THE BEST OPPORTUNITY FOR PROVIDING INPUT WOULD BE TO SUBMIT A, A, A SUBMIT ON THE FORM, UM, TO PROVIDE INPUT. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS? NO ONE'S GOING. THEY DON'T HAVE FREE PARKING. YEAH. , . THERE WAS SOME CONFUSION ABOUT THE PARKING LAST YEAR FRIENDS, AND SOME FOLKS PAID LIKE 45 BUCKS TO PARK OVER THERE AND THEY THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE GONNA GET THEIR PARKING VALIDATED AND IT NEVER, I, I HAVE HEARD OF THESE ISSUES. I'VE BEEN ASSURED THAT ALL ALL PARKING RELATED ISSUES HAVE BEEN RESOLVED AND, AND IT WILL NOT BE AN ISSUE THIS YEAR. GREAT. OKAY. THANKS FOR BRINGING THAT UP, COMMISSIONER GIRO . YEAH. HARD TO GET FOLKS TO AGREE TO COME AND HANG OUT WITH US IF THEY HAVE TO PAY $45. THAT'S QUITE A BIT. OKAY, LET'S GO RIGHT ON IN TO BRIEFING MEMO C. IF YOU Y'ALL RECALL LAST MONTH, WE GOT THE BRIEFING ON THE GREENHOUSE GAS, UM, REPORT, BUT NOT THE REPORT. THIS IS SIMPLY THE ATTACHMENT OF THAT REPORT AND JOY, IT IS GREAT. UH, THEY DID SOME GREAT WORK, GREAT GRAPHICS, REALLY DIGESTIBLE INFORMATION, UH, STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU TAKE A LOOK AT IT. UM, AND THEN FIGURE OUT SOME WAYS IN YOUR DISTRICT THAT YOU CAN PROMOTE THE COMMUNITY, UH, EMISSIONS PIECE OF IT, BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE WE ARE BEHIND, RIGHT? THE CITY'S GOT THEIR ACTS TOGETHER COLLECTIVELY. AND SO NOW WE NEED THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE TO BUY IN AND START, UM, YOU KNOW, SORT OF HELPING, UH, WITH EVERYTHING THAT THEY CAN DO SO THAT WE'RE ALL WORKING TOGETHER TO ADVANCE THAT GOAL. ALRIGHT, LET'S GO ON. ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? YOU SHOULD GET THE REPORT. IT'S IN THE ATTACHMENT. OKAY. ALRIGHT, LET'S GO RIGHT ON INTO THANK YOU. THANK YOU JASON. LET'S GO RIGHT ON INTO DISCUSSION ITEMS. UH, WE'RE GONNA GO INTO OUR MONTHLY DISTRICT UPDATES FROM COMMISSIONERS AND WE ARE GONNA START OVER IN DISTRICT ONE. [02:10:02] NOTHING TO REPORT THIS MONTH. DISTRICT TWO, NOTHING TO REPORT. DISTRICT THREE IS VACANT. DISTRICT FOUR IS VACANT, DISTRICT FIVE. THANKS. UM, I GOT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLEANUP AT CRAWFORD PARK IN DISTRICT FIVE, UH, LAST SATURDAY. AND UM, THEN I WANTED TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW ABOUT A WEBINAR THAT I ATTENDED YESTERDAY MORNING, SPONSORED BY A I A AND SUPPORTED BY PRESERVATION DALLAS, UM, ABOUT CITY HALL. AND THERE IS EXCELLENT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS. I BROUGHT UP THE QUESTION OF IF WE DEMOLISH CITY HALL, IT'S HUGE ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER JUST DEALING WITH THE WASTE OF DEMOLITION ALONG WITH MANY OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS. SO I JUST ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO, UM, IT'S CALLED, UM, IT'S BY A I A, IT'S, UM, SAVE DALLAS CITY HALL IS THE WEBSITE. THEY HAVE MULTIPLE WHITE PAPERS THERE, UM, THAT HELP US UNDERSTAND THE FACTS INVOLVED THE AMOUNT OF TAXPAYER MONEY THAT IS GOING TO BE, UH, SPENT IF WE SIMPLY DEMOLISH IT'S AT LEAST A 10TH CHEAPER TO UPDATE THE BUILDING. UM, AND INSTEAD OF DEMOLISHING IT AND IT'S, UM, IT, I JUST, I, I, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WASTE, ABOUT OUR LANDFILLS, IT IS, EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IS EXACTLY AGAINST THE CITY'S OWN POLICY, WHICH IS CCAP. SO, UM, ANYWAY, I JUST, UM, HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT EVERYBODY GET FAMILIAR, UH, WITH THE FACTS THAT ARE IN THE WHITE PAPERS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT CHAIR, BOSS. ALRIGHT, DISTRICT SIX IS VACANT. DISTRICT SEVEN. I HAVE NO OF THOSE ANY DISTRICT EIGHT. I HAVE, I REALLY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING, BUT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON, UH, GETTING READY FOR EARTH TODAY. AND THEN YOU GUYS KNOW FOR A WHILE I WAS NOT WELL , UH, BUT I WILL TELL YOU LAST TIME I WAS HERE, I TALKED TO YOU ABOUT A CEMENT THRESHOLD. THEY WERE TRYING TO PUT IN BERG RALLY. THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. THEY HAD DECIDED THAT BECAUSE OF THE ZONING, I THINK THEY REALLY COULD SEE MORE APPROVAL , SO THEY HAD CHOSEN ANOTHER LOCATION. THAT'S GREAT NEWS. UM, I AM, UH, DISTRICT NINE. UM, I MET WITH A COMMUNITY ADVOCATE IN OAK CLIFF, UH, MR. JOSEPH BECKHAM. UM, HE IS, UH, LEADING THE COOMBS CREEK CONSERVANCY AND WE HAD A CHAT ABOUT THAT, UH, CREEK AND THE PRESERVATION OF THAT CREEK. UM, AND AN UPCOMING, UH, ZONING ITEM THAT I THINK PASSED CPC LAST WEEK THAT WILL BE HEADED TO THE CITY COUNCIL ABOUT A DEVELOPMENT, UH, THAT WILL BE NEARBY AND POTENTIALLY VERY IMPACTFUL TO, UM, THAT CREEK THAT THE COMMUNITY HAS WORKED REALLY HARD TO PRESERVE AND HAS, UH, YOU KNOW, SOME CONSERVATION PLANS FOR. SO, UM, MORE ON THAT, HOPEFULLY, UH, SOON. ALRIGHT. DISTRICT, I DIDN'T IN MY DISTRICT, BUT I'M A FIELD DOCTOR OF BLACKMAN'S THUNDER FOR A MOMENT BECAUSE I ATTENDED A, UH, A SHALOM, UH, TEMPLE SHALOM ANNUAL EVENT LAST, UH, WEEK OR SO AGO WHERE THEY WERE HONORING A FRIEND OF MINE, PAT BARKER, THE HEAD OF J JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES AND DR. LAKIN'S EFFORTS AT THE GARDEN GOT HUGE SHOUTOUTS FROM EVERYBODY ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF, UH, THE TOTAL VOLUME OF FOOD THEY'RE PRODUCING, DONATING BACK. IT WAS VERY EXCITING TO BE THERE. VERY EXCITING. GO. HEY, THAT'S MY ROLE. SO, YEAH, I DIDN'T DO MY A HUNDRED POUNDS OF OAK FOR THIS MONTH. YOU GUYS. . ALL RIGHT. DISTRICT 11. NOTHING AT THIS TIME. DISTRICT. OH, YES. SOMETHING AT THIS TIME. YEAH. SO, UH, OUR NEW COMMISSIONER, WHITNEY LEY LEY JUMPED RIGHT INTO THE CONVERSATION. Y'ALL MIGHT NOT HAVE NOTICED THIS EVENING, UH, BUT I WANTED TO GIVE WHITNEY SOME TIME TO INTRODUCE HERSELF AND FOR US TO WELCOME TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION. OKAY. HI, . HELLO. UH, YES, I AM THE DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE. UM, PROFESSIONALLY I HELP THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY, UH, DOING AIR QUALITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL WORK. UM, MAINLY FOCUSING ON, UH, REPORTING EFFICIENCIES AND DATA STRATEGY AND TRYING TO WRAP EVERYBODY'S HEAD AROUND THE MYRIAD OF, OF [02:15:01] REPORTING REQUIRE REQUIREMENTS THAT IS INVOLVED WITH INDUSTRY. UM, AND SO, UH, AT MY VERY BEGINNING OF MY CAREER, UM, I WAS AT THE NORTH CENTRAL , AND SO THIS APPOINTMENT IS KIND OF BRINGING BACK FULL CIRCLE, UM, AND WAS EXCITED TO BE TO THE BOOK I THINK I WORKED WITH, AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE I, YEAH, YOU LOOK REALLY FAMILIAR, . I KNEW IT. OKAY, SURE. GREAT, GREAT TO CATCH UP THOUGHT, KNOW YOU. YEAH. UH, YOU WORKED ON THE HARVARD, UH, CARS AND SOMETHING I, SO SPECIFICALLY, AND THIS, WELL, IT WAS LIKE 15 YEARS AGO. UM, SPECIFICALLY I WORKED ON THE CLEAN SCHOOL BUS PROGRAM, THE HEAVY DUTY VEHICLE AND EQUIPMENT REDUCTION PROGRAM, OR THE TURP PROGRAM, AND IMPLEMENTING TURP IN THE DALLAS DIVISION. WE JUST WENT TO AUSTIN WITH THEM LAST YEAR. OH, COOL. OKAY. SO I THINK I, IT WAS, IT WAS A, IT WAS A BIT. LIFE HAS HAPPENED SINCE I'VE BEEN AT BOB , SO, UH, YEAH, VERY NICE TO MEET YOU. UM, LET'S WELCOME WHITNEY TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY, UM, AND REACH OUT AND, UH, PLEASE, UH, INTRODUCE YOURSELVES AND, UH, LET'S FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN, UH, PLUG HER INTO EXISTING ISSUES AND, UM, LET HER KNOW WHAT Y'ALL ARE WORKING ON OF THE AREAS. THAT WOULD BE, I THINK, A GREAT START. OH, LET'S GET HER TO SWITCH 12. SO, UH, MY, MY ACTIVITIES THIS MONTH HAVE BEEN CENTERED, UH, NOT BIG EVENTS, BUT MORE LOCALLY. I DID ATTEND THE DALLAS , UM, RETREAT, AND WE HAVE AN UPCOMING RETREATMENT POLICY ON THE 15TH AT THIS MONTH. AND HOUSING, AND HOUSING AFFORDABILITY AND SAFETY IS ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT WE WILL BE LOOKING AT. UM, I'VE CONTINUED, UM, MY WORK WITH, UH, THE TEMPLE SHALOM, DOUG, WE HIT 50 11 AND, UH, TO THE, THE, THE NUMBER THAT, UH, UH, , UH, VOTED WAS PRODUCED 11,000 POUNDS. AND, UH, WE PROBABLY PRODUCE MORE THIS YEAR. AND, UM, MY PARTICULAR ROLE IN THAT WAS WEEKS ON SUNDAY. AND, UM, UH, AND, UH, UH, I'LL HAVE WATER TO REPORT NEXT MONTH BECAUSE I'M WORKING ON SOME OF MY ACTIVITIES, , BUT HOPE TO HAVE MORE, MORE THAN THAT'LL. I DID GO TO EARTH BAY BECAUSE THAT'S THE WEEKEND MY GRANDDAUGHTER'S BEING BAT MITZVAH IN IN CALIFORNIA. WELL, WE'LL MISS YOU, BUT WE'LL RECORD TO YOUR UPDATES. ALL RIGHT. UM, LET'S GO TO DISTRICT 13, NO UPDATES. DISTRICT 14, NO UPDATE DISTRICT 15. IF YOU'LL PLEASE UNMUTE PERMISSION. , YOU JUST LEAVE IT, UNMUTE IT. YEAH, NOT YET. HOLD ON. I DON'T BELIEVE SO. NO. JULIE, DO YOU WANNA HANG UP AND CALL ME? SO YOU CAN JUST SPEAK THROUGH MY SPEAKERPHONE? LET'S DO, HI, GO AHEAD. I'M SO SORRY ABOUT THAT EVERYONE. UM, IT TAKES MULTIPLE STEPS TO UNMUTE FROM THE PHONE. UH, YESTERDAY I WAS IN HOUSTON AND WE WERE PRIVILEGED TO HOST AN EVENT AT, WITH THE CENTER FOR HOUSTON'S FUTURE ON BEHALF OF THE BUILDING BRAINS COALITION TO TALK ABOUT BRAIN HEALTH, HEART HEALTH, AND PLANETARY HEALTH AS THE KEY TO MAKING HOUSTON A PROTOTYPE FOR VITAL CITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES [02:20:01] WAS, UM, SUPER IMPRESSIVE CROWD FROM THE MEDICAL DISTRICT TO THE DOWNTOWN CORE, UM, NGO PUBLIC AGENCIES, UM, CITY PARKS, UM, BUSINESS LEADERS, ALL OF THE COMMUNITY THERE. UM, ALIGNING AND BUILDING, UM, OUR MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES ABOUT BRAIN HEALTH, HEART HEALTH, FINANCIAL HEALTH, AND PLANETARY HEALTH. UH, SO I WILL SHARE WHEN THOSE NOTES ARE POSTED, UH, WITH THE COMMISSION AND THIS TEAM. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALL RIGHT, I'M GONNA HANG UP NOW. JULIE, I DON'T WANNA BE RUDE. . ALL RIGHT. UH, ANYBODY FROM THE TECHNICAL PANEL WANNA GIVE US ANY SORT OF UPDATES AND PASS ANYTHING ALONG? I KNOW YOU'VE GOT A BIG EVENT COMING UP. MR. MARQUIS, GO AHEAD. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. FIRST OF ALL, ON SUNDAY THIS WEEK, MY OP-ED ABOUT CITY HALL ISSUE WILL RUN THE PAPER. SO I'M LEANING IN AND PROBABLY WILL BE ON LINE TOMORROW THAN SUNDAY. SO THIS BOARD NUMBER TWO, TWO DAYS FROM THAT TURN, 75. AND BY NOW, YOU SHOULD RECEIVE INVITATION TO THE BIG EVENT NEXT WEEK, ON TUESDAY. HOPE YOU'LL BE THERE. YOU , DIMITRI, YOUR GREAT MUSICIANS AND ERIC WILL BE INTERVIEWING ME AND THAT I'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT. AND I REALIZE JUST EARLIER TODAY, AGAIN, WORKING ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, WORK ON, YOU KNOW, ONE ISSUES, ST. LIFES ISSUES IN HIGH SCHOOL, IN NOR COLLEGE. AND MY SENIOR YEAR IN COLLEGE IN 72, I BEGAN TO WORK ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES SINCE I'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR 54 YEARS. SO, UM, IT'S GOOD LOOK BACK ON THAT AND LOOK AT THINGS THAT, UH, TO INDICATE TO US HOW FAR WE'VE COME, HOW MUCH WE HAVE LEFT TO DO, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE COME A LONG WAY. AND THAT'S A GOOD EVENING. SO THANKS. LET ALL Y'ALL HERE AND GLAD ALL THIS JOURNEY TOGETHER AND WELCOME BY NOVEMBER. UM, AND, UH, ONWARD. THANK YOU. HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY. HOPE EVERYBODY CAN MAKE IT OUT TO THE CELEBRATION, UM, ON, UH, TUESDAY THE 17TH. SO LET KNOW IF YOU DIDN'T GET THAT INVITE. I SENT IT OUT THIS WEEKEND, EARLIER THIS WEEK. UM, ALRIGHT, UH, ANYBODY ELSE FROM THE TECHNICAL PANEL? HAVE ANYTHING TO SHARE? MS. MIN, GO AHEAD. SURE. WE ARE, UM, ZERO WASTE IS DOING A PROJECT WITH MO CAFE DURING THEIR ART FESTIVAL, UM, APRIL 8TH, THAT WEEKEND. AND WE WILL HAVE A LITTLE LITTER AUDIT DONE AND WE WILL BE DOING ALL THINGS THAT SORT OF, UM, COMPLIMENT ZERO WASTE. WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE MONEY, THE BALANCE GREEN PROGRAM, , AND ALWAYS SINCE WE'RE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY TALKING AND SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT THAT, UM, TO . SO VERY MUCH LOOKING FORWARD TO, TO DOING THAT FOR THEM. FANTASTIC. OKAY. ANYBODY ELSE? GOING? ONES GOING TO CHAIR. GETTA, GO AHEAD. OKAY, GOOD. I WASN'T SURE IF THE MUTE WAS NOT WORKING. UM, OKAY. I HAVE TWO, UH, FOR GOAL SIX. UM, MANAGING INVASIVE SPECIES IN OUR URBAN ECOSYSTEMS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT PART OF MAINTAINING BIODIVERSITY. AND I LIVE NEAR WHITE ROCK LAKE. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ALL HAVE SEEN IN THE NEWS THAT THE CITY OF DALLAS IS DEPLOYING 274 GOATS TO HELP MANAGE INVASIVE SPECIES. AND IT'S REALLY FUN FROM A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE. JUST LISTENING TO THE CITY, THE URBAN, UH, CONSERVATION STAFF HAS BEEN ED USING THE OPPORTUNITY TO EDUCATE COMMUNITY MEMBERS ON CONSERVATION EVERY THURSDAY. THEY HAVE TALKS THERE ON JUST A VARIETY OF TOPICS AT WHITE ROCK LAKE, SO I ENCOURAGE YOU TO LOOK AT THAT, BUT JUST TO KNOW IT IS REDUCING TOXINS AND IMPROVING THE SOIL AND IT'S JUST FUN. SO I WANTED TO SHARE THAT UPDATE. AND THEN RELATED TO, IF I CAN, CAN I DO A GOAL TWO UPDATE? JUST YES, ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. REALLY QUICKLY, I KNOW IT'S LATE. UM, I NOTICED THAT IN OUR CCAP GOAL TWO, UH, ACTION, UM, I THINK I WROTE IT DOWN. HANG ON. E TWO FOCUSES ON THE CITY PILOTING RESILIENCE HUBS, ESPECIALLY IN NEIGHBORHOODS SERVING VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES AND PAIRING OUT WITH SOLAR AND STORAGE. AND MY DAY JOB, I WORK WITH TERI AND WE, I'M GONNA CIRCULATE AN INVITATION FOR THE COMMISSIONERS. I'LL DO THAT THROUGH STEPHANIE AND THROUGH THE CHAIR. UM, BUT IN A FEW WEEKS WE ARE HAVING AN OPENING IN ARLINGTON WHERE YOU CAN ACTUALLY GET UP CLOSE TO REALLY LARGE SOLAR AND BATTERY STORAGE SYSTEMS. THESE ARE LOCATED AT TWO APARTMENT COMPLEXES PROVIDING 24 HOUR BACKUP POWER TO SERVE THE RESIDENTS. AND A REALLY COOL PIECE IS THEY'RE CONNECTED TO WE'RE PILOTING VIRTUAL POWER PLANT TECHNOLOGY. SO IT'S A REALLY EXCITING OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT BOTH CLEAN AND RELIABLE RENEWABLE ENERGY FOR THE RESIDENTS, BUT ALSO PROVIDING SOME GRID SERVICES. SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT AND I THOUGHT SOME OF YOU MIGHT WANNA COME OUT. THANKS. SOUNDS LIKE A FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY. I WILL FORWARD THAT OUT AS SOON [02:25:01] AS YOU SEND IT OVER. OKAY. UH, LET'S GO ON UPCOMING MEETINGS. THE PARKS, TRAILS, AND ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL COMMITTEE WILL MEET IN MONDAY, MARCH 2ND AT 9:00 AM OUR NEXT REGULAR MEETING OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION WILL BE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17TH AT FIVE. NO, NO, THAT'S NOT RIGHT AT ALL, IS IT? NOPE, IT'S THE 11TH. FRIENDS, LET'S IGNORE YOUR AGENDA. IT'S THE 11TH. JUST MAKING SURE Y'ALL ARE STILL AWAKE. ALL RIGHT. UH, OUR NEXT MEETING OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11TH AT 5:30 PM WE'VE CONSIDERED ALL BUSINESS. NOTHING ELSE TO CONSIDER THIS EVENING, SO I'LL TAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN. IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED. YOU CAN'T MOVE AND SECONDED. ANDREW, IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT, YOU'LL HAVE A GREAT NIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE DISCUSSION THIS EVENING. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.