2026-10-06 - Climate Advisory Board

00:02Welcome everyone, we're going to go ahead and get started. Tina is on her way so I will kick it off

00:09and hand it over to her when she arrives. So welcome to the October 6th, 2026 meeting of the

00:17San Diego Climate Advisory Board. I call this meeting to order at 1206. I'll do a quick roll

00:22call to confirm member attendance. When I call your name please say present.

00:37So Cindy Lynn here. Josh Dean here. Mahalis Lacarelli here. Madison Swain not present.

00:45Kelly Linden present. Whitney Pierce present. Ronald Diaz present. Dustin De Matteo not present.

00:53Kelly Mills present. Amy Lee here. Tanisha Jean Martin is online online and Christina Marquez here.

01:04We do have quorum in person. I don't think we're gonna, do you want to do a just call statement

01:14Tanisha or should we just wait for you to arrive? No I'm actually in the parking structure now so

01:20I'll be there in like three minutes. Okay all right excellent. Would somebody like to read

01:26the land acknowledgement? We acknowledge that the land in which the city of San Diego is built

01:33is the unceded territory of the Kumeyaay Nation. The Kumeyaay people have lived on and cared for

01:38this land for over 10,000 years and have demonstrated resilience and adaptability

01:44in the face of colonization, land loss, and environmental change. Today the urgency of

01:49climate action compels us to confront these environmental crises with the same dedication

01:54to stewardship that has sustained this land from millennia. In this acknowledgement we recognize

01:59the importance of immediate and bold action to protect the environment, honor the history of

02:03this land, and ensure a sustainable future for all. Thank you. All right we will move to item

02:12three I believe it is which is adoption or modification of the agenda. The agenda for

02:18today's meeting was distributed via email online and hard copies are available in the room. Would

02:23any members like to request modifications to the agenda? Okay if not do I hear a motion to adopt?

02:33I'll make a motion. Cindy made a motion. It's Josh seconded. All those in favor say aye.

02:39Aye. Any opposed? No. Abstain? No. Passes unanimously. We will move on to the next

02:48item which is approval of the minutes from our September meeting. The draft minutes were

02:56distributed via email and online. Are there any corrections to the minutes? Do I hear a motion to

03:05adopt? So that was Christina moved. Do I hear a second? Second. That was Kelly Mills. All those

03:14in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed say no. Any abstentions? That passes unanimously. Thank you.

03:22All right we will move on to item number five which would be announcements. Does staff have

03:30any announcements? We do. We have one kind of over two. Who's that? Oh now I'm blanking. This

03:37is not the cap action or the upcoming milestone. I will start with this. Okay thank you. We

03:43if you recall we talked about this in the past but the city is hosting a series of open street

03:48events in different neighborhoods throughout the city. We held one in the city area last fall.

03:52We have our next one coming up in the San Siedra neighborhood on October 18th. So just wanted to

03:58share for your awareness. If you're able to kind of share with your contacts that would be helpful

04:02in driving participation for the event and if the board's interested we could follow up with the

04:07follow-up email. Share the digital postcard and email stuff with it. Where's the next one again?

04:12Sorry. It's in San Siedra. Thank you. Yeah it'd be great if you could distribute it to the

04:17board members so we can share it. That's awesome. And is this an outreach event? What is the

04:23open streets event? So we take how long is this ride? Approximately two mile. Just shy. Just shy

04:29of a two mile route through the heart of San Siedra. It'll be close to cars for the duration

04:33of the event. We try to recruit vendors to be out there, stores. So it's just an opportunity for folks

04:38to walk, to bike, to skate, to roll. Kind of like no cars on the streets. Cool. And what was

04:44the date again? Sunday the 18th of October. It rolls off by then. It will. All right. Are there

04:56any board announcements? Can I say? Tanisha Jean would like to present a couple of items to the

05:02board. Can you share? I am. Hopefully I'm in the elevator. So I apologize. I sent Kelly a video

05:16being on the freeway. It was mad traffic. So I'm praying for the people that accident that happened

05:22on there. So yeah, two things are on there. There's one that there is a forum, a grant

05:30just for you. A forum that'll be in Belize and so it'll be in November. So I just wanted to share

05:36with you, especially what we're talking about climate action plan. Climate action with climate

05:41change and just think that it kind of fits with our board. And then also to share that on

05:47Halloween this year, we'll be doing a fall eco festival for teenagers. It'll be a scouting

05:54library and it's going to be really fun and exciting. Not only is it, we'll have the traditional

05:59eco workshop that we do for every 10 minutes you rotate around and they learn new things from,

06:04there's a lot of things I can go over, but I don't want to take up the time for it, but there's a

06:08bunch of things that they do every 10 minutes and they always enjoy having a candy. And this year

06:11we're adding in a haunted eco house trail. And so what that means is basically kind of showing

06:18the real deal of what's really scary in the world right now with us. And it'll be, so no zombies,

06:24no goblins, vampires or anything like that. When you walk into the trail, this is like the real,

06:28when you get into a DUI accident, what does that look like? When you're not paying attention to

06:33basically to de-escalate versus escalate situations, how can that come out to our neighborhoods? And

06:38then as well, like when there's no bees, what would that look like? So all of that to us. So

06:41anybody who's interested, we're looking for those that want to do table leadership as well as

06:46being on that trail. And it'll be a whole event starting from one all the way to 8 p.m. on

06:53Halloween, which is on the 31st, which is a Saturday, which is really cool. And again,

06:57this is for teenagers. Thank you. And I'll just add both of these flyers will be available on

07:03the CAB website under the announcements for this month's meeting. Thank you.

07:08Were there any other announcements? I did want to mention, you may recall that this board has

07:18sent a couple of letters requesting that the SB 707 remote teleconferencing for Quorum

07:26be considered by the Rules Committee that did go to Rules Committee in the last month and was

07:31passed. It was sent to full council I think earlier this week, and it might need a second

07:36reading, but it's on its way. They listed 20 boards that would be covered by this that would allow

07:42if the individual board approved it, that board would be allowed to have a remote person be

07:49counted towards Quorum. With other announcements, I will move to item number six. Thank you,

08:21which is non-agenda public comment, which is great. So let me give the quick intro and then

08:26we'll go to hands. If you wish to address the board on any matter not listed on today's agenda,

08:31please, if you're in person, complete and submit a speaker form. If you're attending remotely,

08:34you can raise your hand. And there's also a way you can dial in. And if you're dialed in and dial,

08:40you press star nine to effectively raise your hand. There's a two minute limit per commenter.

08:45Looks like we do have a non-agenda comment online. If you could let them speak.

08:51Doreen. Doreen, go ahead and unmute yourself. Doreen, you can unmute yourself and speak now.

09:05If you're having trouble, we can come back to you. Let's unmute at some point. Let us know. And

09:31we'll see what we can do. I see you dialing a second time. So maybe I'm going to give you

09:36just a few more moments in case that solves the problem. Darn it. Still can't hear anything.

09:49All right, Doreen, well, feel free to reach out to us in between meetings as well if there's

09:55something like the chair. Oh, is it working now? It sure is. Welcome.

10:03Okay. I couldn't hear, so I don't know. Have you guys got into the public comment?

10:12This is a non-agenda public comment period if you have a comment on something that is not

10:17on the agenda. Yes. Okay. I just wanted to make sure that I had not missed that. Thank you very

10:25much. Had to switch to my laptop. I want to announce that on Saturday, October 24th,

10:37from 10 to 12 o'clock, and Monday, November 9th, from 6 to 7 30 at the Valencia Park

10:49Malcolm X Library, the stormwater department is going to be discussing the Hamishaw Waterway

10:58Revitalization Project. And unfortunately, they once again excluded the community,

11:06refused to come to a monthly meeting. And they're holding this meeting in a completely

11:13different planning area of the Encanto planning area. They're not holding it in Hamishaw.

11:20The project has four pots in Hamishaw and one pot in Skyline, Marie Weidman. But it is several

11:30million dollar project, and we need help to make sure what's best, what's done is best for the

11:37environment. Oh, there she is. We just lost you, Doreen. Are you still there to wrap up? Oh,

11:46yeah. Can you hear me now? Yeah, you're back. 30 more seconds. Okay. That what's done is best

11:55for the environment and not what's the cheapest to the city and convenient because they're talking

12:02about putting in more cement when it's been proven that natural native plants are the best

12:10method. And they're obviously going to get a lower attendance because they're not doing it

12:16in our community. They're doing it in a completely separate community of the choice view. So I just

12:24want to get support from members of this board to attend, please. Okay, thank you. You're welcome.

12:32Do we have any other non-agenda comment? Just an engine. Sorry, it's not an agenda,

12:38but I have a herniated disc, and so then he was hurting a little bit. So I'm just going to stand.

12:42That's okay. It wasn't that traffic a little longer than I needed to be. I appreciate you,

12:47Avery. Sorry if you wanted to keep going. You sure? Yeah, we don't have to yell at the project

12:51over here. Thank you. Okay. All right. Diego Environmental Film Festival, an information

13:04item. Board member Lynn will provide an overview of the upcoming film festival, which will be

13:08held in November. This is an informational item only. No action will be taken. Take it away.

13:15Awesome. Hi, everyone. And hi, everybody online. My name is Cindy Lynn, one of the

13:20board members of the Climate Advisory Board. In addition, I am also the president of the San

13:25Diego Environmental Film Festival. Standing Around the Film Festival is a 501c3 nonprofit

13:31organization, and our mission is to use art and storytelling to inspire action in our community.

13:39And so this is our fifth annual Environmental Film Festival, and our goal is to basically gather

13:46the community in a way that inspires us to do different things and to learn different stories

13:52about what people are doing in our community, but also communities outside the world. So this is a

13:59traditional film festival in that we show films from around the world. These films get submitted

14:05to us all year long from January until July, and it's films from across the world. And we have

14:14almost 35 judges who review every single film. And then basically they score based on eight

14:21criteria, one of which is about call to action. So that's very different than other film festival,

14:26which is focusing on storytelling, adoption, editing, etc. We also look at those two.

14:33So this year it will be here is Wellspring. And also this is Lenny, which is a leopard shark.

14:53The leopard sharks are native to coastal California. And we really wanted to represent

14:58who we are in terms of being in the wild, but also being active. And they're actually

15:04friendly sharks, so they're not very big. But the event takes place Friday, Saturday,

15:10Sunday, the weekend before Thanksgiving, November 20, 21st, 22nd. And opening night is Friday.

15:18Thank you. Opening night is Friday. We will have film screening and a panel discussion. Really,

15:25really thrilled. We finished the programming and Friday evening we have two films about bears.

15:32One is called Bear in the Hot Tub. And the other one is called Summer of the Bear.

15:36Thus, really, the first film is a film that's up in Los Angeles about coexistence with these

15:43bears who visit a family swimming pool. The second one is about caretaking bears that's

15:51basically invaded the villages in Italy. And we are going to actually just heard that the

15:57filmmaker from Italy is going to make it all the way over here. So that's Friday night.

16:04Saturday is all day film starting at noon. And then we'll host our first sustainable

16:10fashion show also to try to get the community excited and active on trying to work on something

16:17concrete. So it's two challenges. One is the original upcycle designs. And the second challenge

16:25is Style of the Future. We're partnering at Goodwill where shoppers can shop for up to

16:31$100 at Goodwill and then put together an outfit. We're also working with UCSD students who are

16:37designing outfits, any designer. So if you're nobody or yourself or interested in putting

16:43something together, go to our website or Instagram and you can find the call for entry. And then

16:49that leads into evening program. And then Sunday it will be our clothing ceremony up at La Paloma

16:56Theater. And we'll be sharing also really fantastic films. And we'll have a film discussion.

17:02One of the films that's really, really amazing is a film out of France called Oxygen about

17:09freedivers who actually swim to the bottom to see of course a collect trash and their experience.

17:15So Friday side is at Park and Market, a digital gym and also the first floor of the forum. Sunday

17:23is at La Paloma Theater. Can you go to the next slide? Okay, cool. So if you go on our socials,

17:32you'll find a call for entry. And then I think there's a last slide. Yeah, tickets are available.

17:39So please tell your community. I know Tanisha you're doing something eco, but this is a really

17:44great way for our community, everyone from elderly to young kids, students to come and

17:51join and everywhere in between to kind of take part in action and continue what we're trying

17:55to build with San Diego Climate Week so that we have something every month, not just a climate

17:59week in San Diego and earth month. So November, we're hoping to get people activated and sharing

18:05these wonderful stories and dialogue. Thank you. Great. Do we have any public comment online and

18:17none in the room? Any comments or questions from the board? I think the fusion is really cool to

18:24bring the leopard and the leopard shark back a letter. And I think it's really cool. And as far

18:29as with like some thinking about kind of more fusion into it. So the Halloween way we deal with

18:36that is sustainable Halloween costumes. Yeah. And so whether they make it themselves or they're

18:40going to thrift stores, nothing new is really what we're promoting into it. And so is that

18:45something where if they've made something to say, hey, to apply to show it 100%. Okay. Yeah. I mean,

18:51that's the point is that it's anyone and everyone. You don't have to be a professional. We've

18:57structured it. So especially the putting an outfit together or a costume together, right?

19:01There's really, you just have to submit a form and kind of talk about why you're doing it.

19:07What's the your value, your mission? It's very short. When's the deadline for the

19:11season? Is that people back? General by October 10th. Students by October. Oh, so sorry for

19:24style of the future, October 30th. So that's putting a style outfit together. If it's an

19:29original design, so a designer who like sews and cuts or put something together, that's the 10th

19:35and 17th. But honestly, just reach out to me. I'm sure we can send you pictures on Thursday.

19:40Yeah. And then we have some winners. Yeah. And then what we could do, I mean, we talk offline,

19:44but we could, because one of our goals is to collaborate and partner. So for example,

19:50the People Summit, they're having a fashion show to a sustainable fashion show. So I'm going to

19:55go and we're going to choose three designers come wash at the fashion, the sustainable fashion

20:00show for us. So we could do something. So let me just begin. Thank you.

20:06Any other stuff I've been in previous years, you guys do such a nice job. It's a lot of work,

20:14but it's a great community. Thank you. And this year, it's going to be at park and market. So it'll

20:18be really different. Yeah. Yeah. Right downtown, right on the trolley. Super easy. People can get

20:24there. La Paloma, that's in Sanitas. In Sanitas. Yeah. That older theater. And that one basically,

20:31we usually do a film panel, but I really feel like people want to be heard. So similarly,

20:36instead, we're going to facilitate a film discussion or showing three shorts. And then

20:41one. So I'll add it together maybe an hour, 15 minutes. So not even super long. Thank you.

20:49So this was in the online information. It was with our agenda online, if folks want to learn

20:54more about. And is there a website as well? Yes. Yeah. Just SDEFF.org. San Diego Environmental

21:01Film Festival. SDEFF.com. Ork. Ork. Ork. Thank you. All right. Let's move to our next item,

21:13which is item eight. Updates to the Climate Action Plan and Climate Resilience SD. This is an

21:19information item. City staff will provide an overview of forthcoming updates to the city's

21:24Climate Action Plan and Climate Resilience SD, which are the city's plans for reducing climate

21:29pollution and preparing for climate hazards. Presentation will cover the background purpose

21:33and timeline for the planning process. This item is information. Only no action will be taken by

21:38the board as part of this item. How much time do you need? About 10 minutes. All right. Plus Q&A. Great.

21:44Take it away. All right. Thank you very much. That was a good introduction. So yeah,

21:49both the Climate Action Plan and Climate Resilience SD are both of those plans are due

21:54for updates in the near future. So I want to today cover our approach to updating these plans

21:59and a little bit about the timeline and some background. So let's start off reviewing these

22:04existing plans. So for some years, we've managed these plans. We've had two separate plans that

22:10we've managed. So Climate Resilience SD goes back to 2021. And then the Climate Action Plan

22:15originally goes back to 2015. And then it was last updated in 2022. As a city, we do have some,

22:23there's some overlap between these plans. We do have some coordination between them. But

22:28during the last several years, these plans, they've largely operated as standalone separate

22:32efforts. Until last year, they came over to city planning. We started integrating some things a

22:38little bit. But before that time, there were different departments. We had separate processes

22:42for budgeting, for reporting, for implementation, for public engagement. And then I want to touch a

22:50little bit more on our Climate Action Plan on the next slide. Our existing plan, and I know

22:56this is familiar for many of you, it really frames climate change as a crisis. And it has

23:03very ambitious emissions reduction goals. And it sets those getting to zero emissions by 2035.

23:10So that's a full 10 years earlier than the state's goal, which is set for 2045. And in 2035,

23:17you know, at this point, that's less than 10 years from right now. Our Climate Action Plan

23:21also has annual progress reporting, which the city's done every year since 2016. And again,

23:27it calls for an updated plan in 2027. I want to point out too, that the existing Climate Action

23:33Plan, it's a pretty high level visionary document. And so in part for that reason,

23:38you may recall that the city prepared a separate implementation plan in 2023. We updated that in

23:442025. And that's where you can find more of the details about who's the main department,

23:49timings and information on implementation costs. And so as we move to the previous slide,

23:58no problems. As we look at our approach to updating these two plans, we really can't help

24:05but take note of how much has changed since the 2021-2022 timeframe. And so really, we're looking

24:12at changing our approach along with it. So number one, climate change is no longer a future concern.

24:19It's here now. San Diegans are already feeling it in their daily lives. So you could say

24:24stream heat, super El Nino flooding, sea level rise, wildfire threats, probably more. That's on

24:31everyone's mind, you think. We also know global emissions are continuing to rise. And that's only

24:37setting the stage for these climate impacts to become more severe in the future. And as we

24:42think about our climate actions, we also need to recognize that as a city, we face other really

24:49big challenges. So to name just a few, life here is really expensive. What's housing, gasoline,

24:56electricity, on and on. We have limited funding to build and maintain our infrastructure. We're

25:03also operating within, let's call it a very challenging national and federal environment.

25:10State priorities are also shifting, especially we see a lot of attention around housing,

25:15around affordability, but we also have evolving, as we always do, evolving legal and regulatory

25:20requirements. We need to make sure our plans and our strategies are keeping up with those as well.

25:25So really, in light of all that, we're recommending an approach where we work more efficiently,

25:32we better leverage the limited resources we have, and really focus on actions that deliver

25:39the greatest community benefits. They support cleaner, safer neighborhoods, improve daily life

25:44for people who live here, and reduce emissions. So what does that look like? We're proposing a

25:53single integrated plan. We will call that climate ready SD. Again, the focus there,

25:59let's focus our efforts on solutions people can feel in their everyday lives, having healthier,

26:06safer communities that are prepared for our changing climate conditions, that are supporting

26:11better quality of life for our communities, and still also lessening, reducing climate pollution

26:17that's driving our climate risks. To unpack that a little bit on the next two slides,

26:24we've identified what we're calling some core principles that we would use to guide the

26:29strategic direction of this combined plan. So number one, to be a visionary. What we mean by

26:36that is let's build on the city's leadership in climate and the real progress we've already made.

26:43So it means having goals that are ambitious, but just as importantly, they need to be grounded

26:47in reality, grounded in what the city can realistically deliver. Another way of thinking

26:54about realistic is achievable, the next one, and that's having clear measurable goals,

26:59making sure those are aligned with our authorities, our resources, our capacity as a city,

27:04and making sure we clearly recognize the global scale of these climate challenges we face.

27:10We also need to be clear about the city's specific role within what is a larger,

27:16broader effort. And I say that because climate strategies, they're inherently collaborative.

27:23So responding to climate change requires coordinated action across all levels of government,

27:28across the economy, across society, and we're looking at making those changes at an unprecedented

27:34scale and speed. So the work needed to be climate ready goes far beyond the scope of any single

27:39department and a single agency, the city government. But if we can align our strategies

27:46collaboratively, we can expand the impact that we can make. Going on on some climate principles,

27:53we also think it's important for our plan to be equitable. So show how climate strategies

27:58benefit San Diegans and respond to community needs and priorities. We also want to better

28:03show how some of the existing city tools that have been created in the last few years, such

28:07as the council policy on prioritizing infrastructure investments, the changes made to the development

28:14impact fee system, show how those can guide the equitable implementation of our climate strategies.

28:21A few more of these. I mentioned this a little bit, but we want to be more strategic. What we

28:29mean by that, let's focus on actions that deliver the greatest impact at the best cost. So we're

28:34making the most of our limited resources. Being strategic is not enough. It also needs to be

28:40actionable. And that's where we want to have clear information on what are the costs,

28:44who are the lead departments, what are the timelines, and other implementation details.

28:50So it's clear on how we take action and how we move forward. And also being sure to allow

28:55some flexibility so we do have room to adjust if and when conditions change. And then last but not

29:01least, we want the plan to be accountable. So continuing the city's longstanding commitment to

29:06transparent reporting on progress and making sure we provide a clear framework for measuring our

29:11success. So in summary, trying to articulate a plan that is ambitious, but also realistic.

29:20And when it comes down to it, just designed to deliver real benefits for our residents

29:24and for our communities. I do want to note a few benefits we see of combining our plans.

29:32Number one, bringing the topics of resilience and climate action together.

29:38It better reflects reality. It better reflects how things work. Reducing emissions, preparing

29:43for climate hazards. They're not really separate tasks. I think it's better to think of climate

29:49strategies. Really, they're just thinking about how and where the city grows and develops,

29:54how we invest in infrastructure, how we invest in our communities. That's really what it comes

29:59down to. And so having a single plan can help us find solutions that address those challenges

30:05at the same time. And also those economic and social challenges I mentioned like affordability

30:10and other things. Combining our plans also supports more meaningful public engagement.

30:16Most people don't really think of it in our experience. They don't think of climate action

30:21as something separate from climate resilience. People tend to care about what kind of strategies

30:26are you putting forward? What do those mean for me, for those I care about in my community?

30:32Is it helping my community be safe or healthier? And so forth. Another benefit of combining the

30:37plans is that's a single planning process. So it's easier for folks to engage in one process.

30:45A combined plan also makes progress easier to track. So having one reporting process instead

30:51of two, that's less staff time. It eliminates some duplication we have right now reporting

30:55on these efforts separately. It also helps with the reporting that we do to bring you

31:02the annual report, for example, that cuts across many individuals and many city departments.

31:06So really helps that efficiency really spreads pretty far. And then just as important too,

31:13bringing these efforts together is more transparent. We can provide all the city's

31:17climate information in a single place on the same timeline rather than multiple spots,

31:22different timelines, et cetera. And just a couple brief slides to wrap up. Here we have

31:30an overview of the timeline for the projects. After talking, this gets into the next slide

31:36that we can see here. After talking with you all today, we'll be providing this presentation

31:42to the Resiliency Advisory Board at their meeting later this month, and then planning

31:46to more formally kind of announce this combined plan effort at an environment committee meeting

31:51in November, October 12th. And then you can see, I won't go into all the details now, but

31:57go through a planning process starting later this year, and then have a draft plan kind of pull

32:03together and brought forward in the spring to summer timeline of 2028. And that's the last slide

32:10here. Just kind of recaps what I just said. I think what I didn't mention just now is that

32:15along with the environment committee meeting, we'll be following up to the project webpage,

32:20flyer, some other materials to start, you know, announcing and sharing information about this

32:25planning effort. So then those are the slides we have for you today. And then I can just add,

32:31real briefly, this is the first time we presented any of this information publicly. You guys are

32:37getting the sneak peek on this and then Resiliency Advisory Board. So we'd really love your feedback

32:42on this approach. How do you feel about it? Do you think there's anything we're missing?

32:47So that we can kind of refine this as we get into kind of more formally launching this in the

32:52November timeframe. And then also just add that, you know, as you kind of saw from the schedule,

32:57there'll be a lot of work occurring over 2027 and into 2028. We, well, we don't have a calendar

33:04at this point of like the exact months that we will be coming forward to, because that'll kind

33:07of depend on how the work product develops. We do anticipate regular touch points with this board

33:13to present what we have so far to get your input, again, like guidance on where we're going.

33:18And so we'll work closely with the chair and vice chair on that, keep you guys updated.

33:23But it'll be really important given, you know, the expertise that this board has and the public

33:29participation to be able to have flexibility in terms of docketing and getting a decent amount

33:35of time on each agenda to really be able to go through the information to get your feedback

33:40and incorporate that as we move through the process. So look forward to working with you

33:43guys on that. Great, great. Were you going to say anything, Randy? Looks well or not?

33:48I think Billy said it pretty well, but wanted to come to you early and kind of moving forward in

33:53this new way and getting that initial feedback from you all so we can ensure that we're well

33:59coordinated going forward. And I think this is the benefit of having this advisory group we didn't

34:04have for the last major climate action plan update 2022. I think we created an ad hoc board,

34:09which a couple of you, maybe Christina, Cindy, Kelly, maybe are on there too, participated on,

34:16that I think was helpful. But it's really nice that we have this established board as well as

34:20there was an advisory board in place as we look at the next major kind of round of updates. So

34:26we have a kind of built-in expertise and advisory role. Thank you. Let's take comments from the

34:34public first and then we could go to board comments and questions. Doreen, would you like

34:39to speak on this topic? Yes, please. I think that it's a good idea to combine both of them,

34:49but one key note is in all of these slides, when you use the word community needs,

34:56there's a huge failure between the planning department, the stormwater department,

35:03park and rec. They are not using the inclusive public engagement guide, which was created,

35:10and it's not being used. They're not advertising. There was a resiliency meeting,

35:16hub meeting at Mountain View rec center. It was myself and someone from Point Loma were the only

35:22community people there at the first meeting. Not even the board knew about the meeting.

35:28So it doesn't matter what plan you have. If you're not truly engaged in the community,

35:34we are being left out. There was a lot of feedback given on what are you doing for floods

35:40that help seniors and disables that can't lift sandbags. The storm drain is overflowing into

35:50these people's yards flooding their homes. The city's not doing anything. 10 sandbags,

35:56they really need 120 minimum just to get one foot high on these 60 to 80 foot locked.

36:02Let's talk about real action. It's all been said at meetings, at flood meetings, resiliency

36:09meetings, climate meetings, but I don't see any mention ever in reports of what district four

36:17community truly needs to prevent future floods instead of hearing apologies. So I'd really like

36:24you, whatever you can do to try to get these groups to actually use inclusive community

36:29engagement guide would be much appreciated and having one combined. So it's not going to all

36:39these different websites and it can hold them accountability. Thank you for your time.

36:44Right. Thank you, Doreen. Do we have any board member comments? Tanisha?

36:49Thank you, Ms. Doreen. I love seeing you in the community and desperately avoiding things

36:53that are on my mind as well. I think one thing the question asks is how do you define

36:59resiliency right now then kind of putting this together? How would that look? What's the

37:04definition of that? We've actually got our chief resilience officer on the line too,

37:11so she can elaborate on that. But resilience more just in terms of responding to the various

37:19impacts of climate change, extreme heat, wildfire, sea level rise, and flooding,

37:25and taking the vulnerability assessments that we did in support of Climate Resilience SD, updating

37:35those where we need to and looking at the strategies, what works, what we've implemented,

37:39what additional strategies we can implement, how that aligns with climate action. Julia,

37:47did you have any more that you would like to add or elaborate on as our?

37:52Yeah, no, I think you're doing a great job. Hi, everyone. I'm Julia Chaseman, Chief Resilience

37:55Officer. I sit in the City Planning Department underneath Kelly and lead Climate Resilience

38:00SD. We're really excited to be bringing this update to you all. I think for resilience,

38:05Kelly did a great job. We're really focused. We have many different climate change driven

38:09hazards here in San Diego. So wildfire, heat, flood, sea level rise, which can be both coastal

38:14flooding and coastal erosion, as well as drought. And so we really want to make sure that we're

38:18thinking about all of those different hazards, both from the standpoint of how do we make sure

38:23that the city is able to maintain our critical city services? So things like provision of water

38:29and wastewater, and how do we make sure that our communities are prepared for, able to respond to,

38:35and able to recover from these climate change driven hazards? And I think one of the things

38:40that we're really thinking about with Climate Ready SD is how are we taking that more holistic

38:48view at how we're approaching climate and thinking about not just being able to recover

38:54from climate events, but really being able to have communities that can thrive in a change in

38:59climate because climate change is going to continue to be more variable as we look out into

39:04the future in terms of what those hazard events look like. They'll be more intense. They'll be

39:08more frequent. And so we really need to build communities that are able to not just withstand

39:14those hazards, but again, like bounce back to thrive in those changing climate conditions.

39:20And if I could add, the way I've heard it described is like the Climate Action Plan,

39:24the Climate Advisory Board is about reducing the amount of climate change that's going to happen,

39:29right? Reduce your greenhouse gases, make it so less change happens. And so you're trying to

39:34prevent the problem. Whereas resiliency is more about, it's happening, what are we going to do?

39:38Right? So they go hand in hand, right? You want to make it less worse, but it's already happening.

39:43So you want to actually do both. Right. And so I think that's what I'm hearing. Did I understand

39:47that right? And not help that version of it. So the reason I'm asking, and I say the macro,

39:53like for the whole city, but I know a lot of times that we're having conversations about

39:57what's happening in communities of concern, especially district four, like in particular,

40:00we have like the flooding, right? So now looking at the community, what is resilient to me?

40:05That's the overall understanding for the whole, what the plan would have been. But now if you're

40:10talking and saying, you know what, the most important ones we need to think about is the

40:13communities I needed the most. Okay. So what does that look like for those communities then? And so

40:17I don't know if you have a definition for that already. And if not, I think a big part of

40:21understanding is resiliency, what it really truly means as far as what the health communities

40:26hearing it now is it means surviving. It means that you've gone through something and now you

40:31want to make sure that you survive it and that hopefully can thrive. Right. But at some point,

40:36it gets the feeling, why do we have to keep them to the point of putting gold stars on surviving

40:40and not on the part of preventing it so we don't have to feel like I have to survive.

40:43And I think that's the part where I appreciate the beginning part of it was like, so while you're

40:48doing one side to make sure the other is making sure that we're preventing things so that way you

40:52don't have to keep saying, Oh, we'll just keep doing resiliency things and not putting enough

40:56into because of capacity. I think the part of the capacity part is because a lot of the times

41:01it's engagement, but not actual partnership. I heard collaboration, but not partnerships

41:06with the communities that are in there that actually doing the CPOs are in the community.

41:10I know we have, um, I appreciate something. I don't want to throw out the names of them

41:12because, but they do a lot in a lot of different communities, which is great.

41:15But then there's the ones that are actually in the community that want to work with,

41:19but it's like, they don't, they're not big enough. They're not, you know,

41:22recognizing that I guess that's some type of standard. And so it's again, coming in to

41:26fix a problem, but resiliency to me means that you give the power to be able to not only survive

41:32it, but then to make sure that they themselves can try to prevent the next one. So it's not

41:35always on you anymore. To me, that's resilient. So it's not just the surviving, right? But it's

41:39the part of what we're telling you, well, how are you, how are you going to prevent what's

41:42happening next is that you made the community possible to be able to prevent it for themselves.

41:48I just wanted to make sure to mention, um, and just holding onto that as far as feedback,

41:51because to combine the two, especially with saying resiliency, depending on the frame

41:58and that you're looking through, it's going to mean different things. It's always respect

42:01with what comes from the city. I mean, and the kind of level, like it's huge, I understand that,

42:05but then when I keep hearing a lot was resiliency really needs to be into the communities that

42:10needed the most. I needed the most, I need the most, but then I'll look at to see what

42:13it was going. Okay. So how many times did you go in the community and actually work with them? If

42:16there was almost any of the most I see that you did a bins there, you engaged there. And again,

42:21I've been to those ones too. And I have said things to community board too, when they had

42:24an event, I was like, there was like seven people here. This is not a check bark moxie anymore.

42:30Like at some point where I want to know what a standard is staying now for that inclusive

42:34game. And I was on that. What's the standard of saying that you actually say that you can check

42:37the box. I need at least 50 people. 10 isn't going to work anymore. Like, Oh, it's the same 10. I

42:42came in the same 12, three, like, so will the impact is what I appreciate the TNT from Davis

42:49district. She says, how many homes did you actually impact? And so when there's an event

42:55for me, resiliency means that you actually impact them because they actually came out,

42:58how are you telling them? There's one thing, right? But again, by working with community,

43:02we'll bring them. It just has to be partnership and not just engagement anymore. And I think

43:07that'll make a really big difference. And especially with the money and the thing that's

43:10going to go forward. Um, so it's really efficient because you're, you're getting to the core of it,

43:15not just the surface level. Thanks. Thank you. All good points. Did you want to say anything?

43:21Yeah, we completely agree with that. Um, we will be utilizing, um, as the speaker mentioned,

43:26our inclusive public engagement guide, looking at community-based organizations that we can

43:31partner with who are already doing the work in the community. So we can leverage those, um,

43:35relationships and, um, be able to, um, spread information and then receive, um, input as well

43:42from folks because, you know, we have our data points on climate and climate impacts, but we

43:47also want to hear from the communities of like, what are you actually experiencing? What do you

43:51need? What would help you and have that, um, shape our, our update as well. And, um, we will

43:57throughout the process be kind of documenting, um, the engagement that's done, the feedback we're

44:02hearing, um, have a, um, an engagement summary report that kind of details all of that in terms

44:10of what were those community touch points. Um, what did we hear? How did we incorporate it into

44:15the plan? Um, and how we're moving forward. I think one of the things that this board can do is,

44:21is be a partner in that in terms of understanding your plans and encouraging, you know, certain

44:25things that we're hearing from the community. So I look forward to us being able to work with you

44:29as you develop those plans. Yeah, that's a good question. Yes, go ahead. I think my, my glaring

44:34question is kind of related, but, um, do you foresee a fundamental change in the 2035 goal

44:42of net zero just to be blunt and, um, and do, because I appreciated your definition of

44:49resiliency versus the, the CAHPS kind of preventative goals. Do you imagine that there

44:56will be a sacrifice to things like building decarbonization or, you know, some of those kind

45:01of bigger initiatives that the cap put in place that were like the longer trajectory goals for

45:06preventative measures as a result of combining these two together? I think we don't have any,

45:16um, preconceived ideas of that goal or, or what may change. I think we're still in the very,

45:24we are still in the early stages of bringing consultants on board, um, pulling more data

45:29together, again, sort of taking a step back and looking at what is the current, um, regulatory

45:35economic environment that we're operating in? Where can we move the needle? Where can we

45:39leverage relationships and partner with people to move the needle? And then what will that look

45:43like in terms of our, um, climate goals moving forward? So no preconceptions. It's just, yeah.

45:51A brief add-on to that is that it's in the existing climate action plan. It's in other

45:54climate action plans as well. It's not always forward. Sometimes it's a little bit subtext,

46:00but the assumptions and projections, they do include assumptions for federal activity,

46:04force-being activity, for what's happened with San Diego. So that's one specific thing that

46:09Kelly's alluding to, is when we do the analysis, we do need to look at what is everybody doing?

46:13And that's why we try to make a point about the city's role and the role of everybody else. And

46:17really, it is global, but like for the purposes of this, really looking at what's happening with

46:23country and within our state. How does that help us meet the goals that we want to do?

46:28I can just add really briefly, too. You mentioned the question about building decarb or other kind

46:32of specific strategies or actions. I don't think we're looking at taking anything off the table.

46:37That's really just about how we prioritize. Is there a framework that we can build that's a little

46:41bit more specific about benefits to communities or most affordable permissions reduced? Various

46:48ways that we can put together a prioritization framework, make sure that everyone's focused on

46:52the right things, but not taking anything off the table or removing things that we're already

46:56committed to. So the six strategies, you don't imagine one's just going to go away. It'll just

47:01be a little bit of a reorganization. That's my main concern and just hope is that as you're

47:09embarking on just the restructuring of it, that you do keep those six strategies clear enough

47:15that we can still track progress from our past cap into the future. If it becomes this complete

47:21blending, I think we're going to just lose momentum and cause frustration across the board

47:26as far as what's just dropping off and what's being hidden under other subcategories. Can I

47:34have one just to if it's helpful for you? I think one example to think about would be

47:40whereas the current climate action plan where it focuses on energy and buildings and focuses

47:45building decarbonization. I think we would still obviously have to see how that comes together,

47:49but I think one example would be focusing on buildings and what that means for a climate

47:56ready future. So aspects of that do involve electrification or decarbonization, but we're

48:01also talking about having buildings that are prepared for different climate hazards, prepared

48:05for heat, talking about shade. So it's really more like that if that helps you. Like wrapping

48:10and resiliency into the future. One thing or another, we're really hearing these things

48:14together because we're already doing that. We already have different strategies that are related

48:19to existing buildings through new construction. So it's really more about bringing those together

48:23and talking about if we want to should climate ready and we want to think about how do we do

48:28our part for reducing emissions? How do we make sure our buildings are in a place where they can

48:34protect people and keep people safe? How are we also thinking about affordability concerns and

48:38other quality of life concerns? It's really about bringing that all together on the same plane

48:42with each other and not about pushing this down so that we can talk more about this.

48:47So I think grid interactive is kind of resilient. I think you're to take and produce when you need

48:53grid interactive buildings. Sure, I think that could definitely be one of the strategies.

48:59So I want to ask a couple questions. I'm intrigued by this so thank you for bringing it forward. I'd

49:06like the creativity. I like kind of thinking big about these things and what might make sense

49:11because I think some of the current things we've done have kind of run their course and need a

49:14refresh to kind of rejuvenate them. So I think this is an interesting idea. I agree that focusing

49:20on what the city can do is really important because there are some things that are beyond

49:23your control and we recognize that here and you know but really prioritizing those things to

49:29really make sure they happen, plan that doesn't happen. So I think that'll be an important piece

49:41that perhaps you know we can help keep an eye on and remind you of as we go. The one question I

49:47have is my understanding of one of the reasons why cities and jurisdictions have climate action

49:53plans is that if it's CEQA qualified and meets certain regulatory requirements that allows

50:00development to be streamlined to have a streamlined CEQA process. And so they rely on the plan to

50:07enable development to go quicker. Do you expect this combined plan to be CEQA qualified and maybe

50:15at a subsequent meeting I'd like to better understand like what are the fundamental elements

50:19that that requires. Does that require a net zero goal or not? Does that require this or that you

50:24know or some of these things just historical patterns. I'd like to kind of be able to unpeel

50:28that and understand what are the key elements that are required for that and what are things

50:33that the city has added on to that. So just at a big picture level do you expect this to be a

50:37CEQA qualified plan? We do and the elements of a qualified plan for the reduction of greenhouse

50:46gases as it's called they're laid out in the CEQA's guidelines for implementation. So we could

50:52certainly unpack those for you at a future time. But you know if it includes a net zero goal?

50:59It does not. So you don't have to have a net zero goal. There are general requirements related to

51:04identifying your existing level of emissions, how your emissions would change in the future

51:09due to growth, setting a target for reducing those emissions, identifying actions that would

51:17ending and updating the plan. Okay thank you. So we'll take a few more comments just we'll

51:36have we're going to have two years to work on this so let's just go the initial feedback.

51:42Thank you for that. Can I, can you go back to a few slides?

51:53Well maybe one more. Oh no forward side. Maybe yes. So first of all I agree with both you know

52:06Horv Hirsch and also Lyndon about like it's important to think about like prevention and

52:12the resiliency and the climate and you're right that we can't just do it separately so I really

52:17appreciate that. I think what maybe you've already heard was it's a bit of concern about the planning

52:23so like when I look at this I maybe feel the same way that our online speaker during that

52:31which is I don't understand what are the actions and of course all of that is in the details so I

52:36get that right and not even saying that you guys haven't done that but I think part of it is just

52:40communicating which is like what we heard is we don't know what the actual actions are even

52:47though the city staff is working so hard and I've been there like you're trying to put together

52:52those documents and so I think one thing as we move forward it's really important is people know

52:58there's a climate action plan we're going to hear some people tomorrow is they want to know like

53:02well what happened what was achieved in a climate action plan and what was the gap but like very

53:08simply and I wonder if we could do even a one pager like in the in the beginning of your report

53:14just like if you haven't heard or if you've heard about a climate action plan it's actually

53:18been in place x number of years right since 2020 2022 etc here's what we accomplished here's what

53:25we didn't get to do this is actually why we're now doing a climate you know action and resilient

53:30plan to try to hit our 2035 target we all know that what's really hard um so I think something

53:36like that would be really helpful because even I think for someone like me who's been like

53:39Randy said part of this process I asked that question like what did we actually do like we've

53:45been part of it and it's really hard to feel like I don't know I know a lot has been done

53:51that's the crazy part but I can't even say one specific thing except for maybe like we put in

53:57some EV chargers we did some of those we did some of that and I think just having those numbers at

54:02the ready right up front for people to really see that's the part where if we're going to

54:09talk about partnerships with our community collaboration with our community our community

54:13is not going to collaborate and partner with us they feel like we're on a different page with them

54:17I mean that's just we can work as hard as we want this is someone who've been literally almost

54:22throwing tomatoes why I've given the public workshop right like we work so hard putting

54:27together standard I'm like this is the best standard we're going to clean your water and

54:31everyone hates it like that's the thing where I just want to make sure we don't do that so

54:36I think that's one comment and my second comment is on the resiliency thing and we and it's really

54:42interesting to hear from Doreen about the sandbags is it's very visceral and you see it is if we're

54:47going to have activities or actions in place in addition to the planning and the prioritization

54:54and the structures because we have to do that that's the role of government but I think also

54:59we have to share somehow like what are those tangible things that we're actually doing I mean

55:06if it's sandbags then say like okay for every house that we're putting out 10 sandbags but

55:10together that equates to x number something like that I think I don't know if it's just

55:16sandbags going to help you mentioned shade shade is going to be huge I keep pointing to people

55:20every single day for the last six weeks I've looked at our daily average it's between 15

55:25to 24 degrees above daily average temperature which I know you don't know but then it's like

55:30my thought is when I'm in the shade it's so much cooler so can we pull that out forward

55:34because that's something people understand even decarbonization is a word people are like I don't

55:40know with them but they understand sandbags they understand shade they understand the things that

55:44you're talking about so just want it to be a success in terms of messaging not right and

55:50because that's a big part of it so thank you for the two years yes and also we have two years to

55:57make continue to make progress with the current happening 100 so I think that's the other thing

56:01we'll be keeping an eye on this this part it's gonna be a quick question I have like nothing

56:04pauses or stops on those action plans that already or action items that are in place between now and

56:09then that just continues all the way up till then yes correct can I say something Christina I'll go

56:14quick um so equitable when we when I think of equitable I think about like actually reaching

56:21out to the folks that are in like the flood zones that occurred where some of the folks are still

56:26displaced we're still doing electrical work voluntarily for some of those folks out there

56:32but so like door knocking even flyers phone calls SDG and E will call when there's going to be

56:39something happening in your area so I'm thinking you know mailers door knocking calls to those

56:46folks to make it as equitable as possible to let them know about things and I do love that you

56:52guys are combining both of these this is great it's easier for everybody to understand and then

57:00and then you know I think that collaboratively we need to make sure that you know we implement

57:08the parts that the project labor agreements are in there and I you know when you mentioned CEQA

57:13you know I always get concerned when they're we're trying to streamline CEQA because then

57:18you know a project's gonna pop up here oh it was able to bypass CEQA the the community members

57:24that live 10 feet away don't know anything about it because it it was already approved

57:29per CEQA or whatever so you know we need to make sure that we're doing this right for folks

57:36whatever it may be um you know when it comes to projects um and then um you know the project

57:44labor agreement going back to that um since the city has that um making sure that it requires

57:50local hire in in these projects that'll be happening you know for renewable energy like that

57:58okay and then I'll show okay any other comments today all right well thank you so much for giving

58:06us a preview of this and I'm sure we'll be having lots more dialogue on it all right um we do have

58:13a few more items I thought it was worth giving some extra time to this because this is really

58:17key for the work that we do but let's go ahead and hit a few more items item nine is an update

58:24on the annual report we're on the final strokes of wrapping that up so that we as well can present

58:29at the November meeting uh at the advisory at the environment committee um I don't think the

58:35chair had a chance to add her section I'm adding after I wanted to add for um tomorrow okay so

58:42stay tuned uh I mean I think it'll be consistent with the messaging we've had here so um we'll

58:47bring that back uh in November if needed to I don't know that we actually have to formally

58:52approve it but not sure the mechanics of that I did make one small change to it just to track

58:58changes that have been occurring it had a readout on sp 707 as I mentioned that's now made progress

59:04so I just noted that in the report um we could also perhaps remove JD and show one more vacancy

59:08so you know just we're just doing a few tweaks like that but the the heart of it's the same

59:13so um do we have any comments uh from the public on our annual report preparation or any from the

59:23board I don't think we need to vote on anything today oh I'm sorry Doreen yes please yes um I am

59:34primarily focusing on the last sentence that says of this item that says next steps for the

59:42upcoming year and if possible in your discussion of the next steps if you can find a way to also

59:53connect like the emerging these two plans but where can you

1:00:00You will be able to bring in maybe someone who's a reptilian expert on native plants to plant near these stormwater channels.

1:00:13When you know their roots can hold back the soil versus ice plant near Cadman that wasn't removed because the stormwater people I guess think it's helpful to have ice plant.

1:00:30But if you don't know, and also, the mention of CEQA, there were major waivers to CEQA and the Hammershire Water Wave Revitization, and it's always our native plant are given to other districts, we are not getting any mitigation that is staying in our district.

1:00:53And the mitigation in particular I'm talking about is planting the reptilian plants that the UC professor was talking about that can help stop the Hammershire drainage channel from overflowing.

1:01:07And also, if you can consider an ADA expert at one of your meetings for this upcoming year, because I don't know how many of you can actually carry a 50 pound sandbag. And if you can, could you do it 60, 90, 120 times, walking 70 feet to your backyard.

1:01:28I mean, how many times could you carry a 30 pound bag. And so it would be nice if you truly want the community, how do people in wheelchairs using wheelchairs carry sandbags, how do people using walkers carry sandbags.

1:01:44And if you can take a realistic view and maybe bring an ADA accessibility person that can actually teach what is needed for climate action plan for resiliency that's going to include our young disabled, our elderly disabled.

1:02:06And because the city's completely ignoring them. So I don't know if there's anything your board can actually do, but I would appreciate you looking into that. Thank you.

1:02:19Thank you, Doreen. Alright, I think we were wrapping up the annual report discussion.

1:02:27Let's move ahead to item 10, Sandio Climate Week board members slack the rally is going to lead a discussion on the event that's to be held tomorrow at the Climate Week Air Summit, is there much you want to say today.

1:02:40No, I don't think I have a lot to talk about but just mentioned that we're very excited for the event tomorrow. And as a reminder, so this is a part of the larger air summit, and we are kind of at the fourth or the wrong word.

1:03:02We're at the beginning of it at 530 530 to 630. And we got a little bit of a sneak peek on people have signed up. So just to give you folks some background on how the signups work people who are interested in signing up for the larger air summit.

1:03:23And in the in that process. And there was like a checkbox, do you want to participate in the listening session for the Climate Advisory Board.

1:03:35And so I think it's likely that we have a fairly inflated number of people who have signed up, but of the like 170 people who signed up for the total event, like, 120 said yes to our listening session.

1:03:52So, it's nice to know that people at least theoretically like what we're putting out there.

1:04:00And the client week folks said to expect about half of that 60 is still kind of a lot of people. So, as Kelly was saying somewhat realistically, maybe less than 60.

1:04:15But who knows, maybe more than 60 so we're looking to be flexible, but very excited that there's a sense of engagement from the community ahead of the event itself.

1:04:29So, if I'm remembering right from our last discussion. We have volunteers for actively working, but we can have other members of the Climate Advisory Board, join, and it won't be a members of the public members of the public.

1:04:47Yeah, so please do come in if you're haven't already signed up to be a volunteer. Can I show the location. Yes, can I able to share.

1:05:01We have the Oregon Pavilion.

1:05:06Sorry, this is just in an email.

1:05:08So the Oregon pavilions at the bottom, and there's all those chairs that folks may be familiar with across the road in this corner where this triangle is is where we will be for this listening session.

1:05:18All those numbers are tables for lots of different community members.

1:05:22There's events on stage as well. That'll be occurring. I believe Tanisha is involved in moderating some of those. So it'll be a fun night tomorrow night. Our stuff starts at 530 the official the rest of the event starts at 630.

1:05:36So we'd love to see folks show up for that.

1:05:40Just as a quick reminder, these are members of the Climate Advisory Board that are doing a listening session to gather input.

1:05:49They're not deliberating on any of that input. It's not an official board meeting, it is less than a quorum number of members that are there. So we're being very careful to adhere to the advice that staff gave us about the Brown Act and making sure we're doing this carefully.

1:06:03We will bring back feedback will probably not next month but the month after we'll be able to hear some of the feedback just because of scheduling. But, yeah, this is members of people who happen to be members of the Climate Advisory Board putting this on.

1:06:24We're talking about every clean air summit. The larger air summit, the larger air summit. Yeah, it was interested in just knowing just what that'll be so there's a clean air for all the policy transit environmental justice.

1:06:41So we'll be moderating it and we'll help speaker from a board chair from the Coalition for Clean Air, our researcher from San Francisco University, San Diego Unified School District board member and as well as 25 Environmental Health Coalition.

1:06:55So we'll be closer to Mark's and then people will have like a listening, it's like, there's a somebody's going to be playing something that kind of springs together on the ground.

1:07:03So, it'll be a really nice beginning with this and then finalizing the night so if you can make it.

1:07:10There will be snacks.

1:07:13Yeah, but it also probably be hot so dress appropriately.

1:07:16Bring water.

1:07:17Yeah.

1:07:18All right. Any other comments or questions on the event tomorrow.

1:07:21Yeah, I was hoping the mayor will be able to speak in the discussion tomorrow evening, he's not able to.

1:07:29But I'll be there all night planning to join your, your listening session. There's anything in particular you'd like me to bring or be prepared for just let me know.

1:07:39But plan to be there.

1:07:41Great. Thank you, Andy. Right. Let's move on to the next item. Thank you so much, Mahayla and the volunteers for pulling this together. It was all done on volunteer time so it's appreciated.

1:07:54The next item 11 we can keep this somewhat brief. You may recall when we developed our work plan earlier this year, we established it for an 18 month period of time to align it with the fiscal year.

1:08:07It's, and so since we just finished our annual report, we just wanted to have a brief discussion, you might actually going to the very last page because there's a table that summarizes everything and sort of putting it in the middle.

1:08:20You know, these are the six objectives that we established for ourselves as always were a bit ambitious with this group. It's awesome. I love it.

1:08:30These are sort of the boundaries of the most we could do, right? This isn't a job description or a statement of work in a contract, right? This is the pick list of things that we have that we could work on in this upcoming year.

1:08:43We are allowed to interpret it and modify it as we see fit, but I think these are sort of the major items that we had identified where we wanted to take a leadership role versus be more of a liaison or more opportunistic based on different items coming up.

1:08:58Obviously, the update to the to the cap and the merging with the climate resiliency work is probably going to be a key topic that probably fits under number six pretty easily. So I think it's, you know, we wrote it well enough and broadly enough that we can still consider it part of the broader work plan that we did.

1:09:16But I did want to just spend a few moments for folks to reflect on that list and whether they had any comments on particularly for the next six months what the areas are they see that that this board would make sense to prioritize in its work.

1:09:32We can take public comment first and then we will go to the board. So is there any public comment regarding our work plan? We did hear some comments earlier, which was awesome.

1:09:43That probably apply to this as well. Are there any other comments? All right, thank you from the board. Any comments on this in terms of what folks see as what's going to make the most sense, you know, or things they want to highlight in these areas where they have some energy and ambition to focus on, you know, beyond with our baseline that we've established.

1:10:10I mean, I think I've just been personally tracking number two and the last we talked about this, I believe. I'm trying to remember what the timeline was, but obviously the CAP update was underway and that funding that went into that was going to fund the decarbonization roadmap.

1:10:30So any updates in the next quarter would be really helpful on just the timing of when we would expect to see any progress or if that scope of work has been awarded to an outside contractor to perform the roadmap analysis.

1:10:44I'd love an update on that piece of it. Do you still plan to develop that decar roadmap? Yeah, we do plan to integrate that into the update of the plan.

1:10:54Okay, so it's more around timelines, perhaps, that we'll be interested to hear when we'll see a draft of that subsection of the plan. Yeah, I think we can move that on as part of the overall project schedule.

1:11:06Okay, any other comments? You may recall, we do have a few upcoming presentations from staff. We'll hit it in a future agenda item in a minute, but a couple of them hit on some of the key topics here as well.

1:11:31Just wanted to reflect, since we're not going through a full update, comments are always welcome to the chair in terms of areas of interest to bring up and break to this motion.

1:11:44Okay, let's move on to the next item. That was really just a discussion item. The next item is proposed dates for next year, just to get it on people's calendars.

1:11:56I'll go ahead and speak to that. This is an information item. We don't have to decide today. You can take them home and give us feedback on it.

1:12:05We had settled on the first Tuesday of the month from 12 to 130. This is our baseline that we've had, but you may recall that we've had to shift it a couple of times to avoid conflicts with the first week of the month of various reasons.

1:12:21So I typed out what the first Monday, excuse me, the first Tuesday of the month would be, and about four of them would probably make sense to shift to the second Tuesday, at which point I'm like, well, maybe we should just do second Tuesday.

1:12:35And then we don't have to have remember whether it's first or second. And so the second round of dates would be if we were to switch it to second Tuesday across the year, people may have other obligations.

1:12:48So that'll be important for us to understand. Sometimes there's other standing things that people have wanted to put that out there for folks to consider.

1:12:59Why don't we are there any public comments on proposal and then we can take board comments.

1:13:06Okay. Are there any board comments on this like anybody that's just like second Tuesday would be horrible. Or if you need time, that's fine too.

1:13:14I just planned out my next year around the current schedule. I do have recurring lunch, lunch meetings that I was trying to intentionally plan around this schedule and if we shift it, that'll be a complete redo of all of that, which impacts a lot of people, but...

1:13:30Okay, so that's important to know. So we may go back to plan A, which, you know, we'd have to just look at those couple of cases.

1:13:37Any other thoughts on this?

1:13:39I don't have a strong opinion about it because I think yours is better, but I should think second Tuesday is easier, but you're already quiet.

1:13:49I can change it. It's just...

1:13:52It would be some work.

1:13:53It'll be work.

1:13:54It'll be a lot of work.

1:13:55We're not going to decide right now. Maybe you can noodle on it and see if it's worth the effort or not.

1:13:59Like, does anybody have a strong feeling? I mean, I agree that maybe a slight preference for second Tuesday, but I think what's more important is all of you are present and engaged and that we are able to bring in, you know, folks to fill the vacancies.

1:14:13First Tuesday is always... Oh, sorry. Go ahead.

1:14:17First Tuesday is already on my calendar, so I have nothing scheduled for any of those days other than climate advisory board.

1:14:23So...

1:14:24Second Tuesday I have... I would miss two meetings.

1:14:26Of the year?

1:14:28Okay.

1:14:29Wow, you're quick.

1:14:30Okay.

1:14:32All right, so this was posted...

1:14:36Let me just say, right this second, the building is taking reservations for next year.

1:14:41So right now, both of those sets of dates are available. I'm not saying that you decide right now.

1:14:46Yeah, that's the other part. The room has to be available. The staff has to be available.

1:14:50We did preview this with staff, so they wouldn't be taken off guard.

1:14:53But yes, we do have to grab the room and make sure that we can actually get it.

1:14:58Well, actually, okay, I'll ask the question. Do we have enough information to say we should go with Plan A and so...

1:15:03And book those rooms, room for those dates, which is the top one, which is mostly the first Tuesday, but just working around holidays.

1:15:13And did you still want to skip Election Day?

1:15:16Is that also a commitment that you have?

1:15:19Yes, I do, I do.

1:15:20Okay, so four of them would still be the second Tuesday?

1:15:24Good with Plan A.

1:15:30Okay, so it sounds like Plan A is a winner. We're going to stick with that.

1:15:34We don't have to vote on that. The chair gets to decide when they are, so she's good with it.

1:15:39I think we've taken sufficient input, so we'll go with that. Get on people's calendars, and our calendar helper will...

1:15:46Yeah, I'll get that out.

1:15:47It's a good trade-off instead of working on changing all your other meetings, right?

1:15:51That's true.

1:15:54Okay, we're down the last few minutes, but let's hit a couple quick things.

1:15:58Item 13 is reports on related boards from folks who monitor the associated boards. Does anybody have anything they'd like to report from one of the other boards?

1:16:07There was UBC board. They had a meeting from the vegetable water resource of San Diego City.

1:16:17Water and waste water one-on-one, where they essentially just talked about where the water came from, and they are working on their 2026 and will report also on their draft, and that's all they had.

1:16:30Perfect. Yeah, they're going to be reporting out the same meeting we are.

1:16:33Yeah, thank you.

1:16:34The four have been... Yeah, the four survived three board. They actually joined their last meeting, but I think what's more important is that they finally filled one of their seats from District 6, so they have a new district seat board member that filled the seat, so that's good.

1:16:52And actually, we don't have our mobility reps here, so no readout on that one.

1:17:00Thanks for staying on top of those. Alright, we will next move to item 14, which is city activities, supporting climate action plan implementations.

1:17:10This is a report city staff does each month. No action will be taken. This is for us to take into account as we plan our meetings. Any updates staff wants to highlight on this?

1:17:20Yeah, we've got a couple. So the bicycle master plan update, as we have been saying, is coming out this month. I don't have an exact date, but just watch the website. You'll see it when it's released.

1:17:32They're going to follow up with a presentation to the Active Transportation Infrastructure Committee, but that is not set in stone yet, so we'll bring more information to that one we know.

1:17:41The only new thing on this list that you haven't seen before is the Dan's and Natural Amendment to the Mission Bay Park Master Plan. That one City Planning is hoping to bring to Council for approval later this fall.

1:17:54Again, it's not yet on calendar, so if you go to that website, you can see what the amendment is about. And again, we'll give you updates when we know more about when it is actually scheduled to go to Council, but everything else on this list hasn't changed.

1:18:09Thank you. And you may recall, we're going to be leveraging the analysis that the Mobility Board does on the bicycle plan, and perhaps bringing a summary into this. I don't think we were expecting to get a pre-so on that.

1:18:26Okay. Any other comments on this item? Oh, I did that right. Okay, last item is proposed agenda items for future meetings. If I could grab the screen real quick, we have a spreadsheet that has some notes on it that I can bring up.

1:18:47There we go. So for November, I've been talking to some folks at the Epic Center at USD to come in and do a presentation on an analysis they did for ideas for cities in the region, to new ideas that aren't currently in their cap, that they're emerging ideas that they might want to consider as they're updating their action plans, so that we have penciled in for next month.

1:19:20Tanisha, you were thinking maybe you might have a presentation next month around District 4 air quality, health and equity. So we'll figure out if that happens next month, the backup plan we had was to have some information about benchmarking.

1:19:36That's one of the things we did. That's also when we nominate and we can vote in the same meeting for cab officers for next year. So that will be coming up. So be thinking about what you might like to do.

1:20:10We've also got a few other city staff things that we've penciled in a readout of the heart program, which was a low in an equity based home decarbonization grant that they got in the programs wrapping up mentioned as well.

1:20:24And the other ones we were interested to hear a readout and also looks like staff is ready to give us a presentation around climate equity and spending that city is doing to prioritize communities of concern.

1:20:36So we're looking to slot that in as well. Were there other topics that folks wanted to bring up? I think we've got enough for the next month or two, but if there's a priority, we can always rearrange a little bit.

1:20:48Is there anything else? I know you had a few things you had brought up Cindy, but maybe we'll get through some of these first. Oh, yeah.

1:20:56But if anybody that hasn't had a chance to bring forward a topic wants to suggest one, we can start to queue it up and slot it in.

1:21:03We may have additional presentations from staff on this new work that they're doing that we can look into as well.

1:21:10But is there anything else that folks want to bring up that they're interested in bringing to the board? Any comments from the public on our upcoming discussion agenda items beyond what we've heard about already?

1:21:26We've heard some good ones already. I have an idea, but I'll I need to talk to some people and I'll come back next time. All right. Excellent.

1:21:35We'll take it. So yeah, keep your thinking cap on. Think about what's relevant to this group, how we can connect to the community, the work that's happening here at the city.

1:21:45All right. So we can leave it at that. Kelly, one question on here. Did you have a list of our empty or open spots on here in terms of meetings?

1:21:57No, I mean, I just I just saw that you have a vacant note there. Where what are the current vacancies that we have? We have three mayoral slots are vacant and one district slot on the official website.

1:22:14Okay, great. I'm meeting with a colleague this week.

1:22:17Yeah, so the three mayoral slots can be anywhere in the city or even on an exception basis, even outside of the city. If they have a strong presence in the city.

1:22:26And then D5-1 is vacant as well. D5.

1:22:30Yeah, it might not hurt to let Randy know if somebody you know is interested to kind of put your vote of confidence in. That'd be great to help us fill those.

1:22:41Yes, so there's three with with JD moving on. There's three mayoral spots. I think it's three. Yeah, I think it's three.

1:22:49Yeah, it's a little confusing on the Office of Boards and Commissions website for D5. It just says it still has Alexa's name on there.

1:22:57It just says expired and I asked about removing that and they told me they can't for some reason. They can't throw it as vacant, which is, I consider it vacant.

1:23:06I'm not sure what the subtlety is. I think it didn't fill out a form or something. I think she just didn't renew.

1:23:13So it's confusing on the website, but the fact that there's three mayoral should open that up to anybody anyway.

1:23:19I do think it's two mayoral points.

1:23:21Is it two am I off by one?

1:23:22Because it's 15 seats, there's currently 12.

1:23:24Okay, so two, sorry, I lost track of the count. So two mayoral and one district.

1:23:34Thank you. Yeah, sorry, that was just off to the side, but primary purpose of this spreadsheet.

1:23:41But yeah, just so what we're doing is we're keeping track of all the people on the board and kind of asking everyone to be thinking about what they can bring forward to the folks that haven't had a chance yet to do oppression.

1:23:55- Thank you everyone, we are adjourned at 1.30 exactly.

1:23:59- Thank you.