So the time being 804, I'll call to order the environmental and subcommental and sustainability subcommittee of the city council present at this moment is me, Counselor Malik, as well as Counselor Feamy.

Um hopefully Counselor Ward will be joining us shortly.

Um starting off, we have minutes, but I personally couldn't access them off the background material.

So I have not had the chance to review them review them.

So I wouldn't feel comfortable voting on them.

And where are you, MK on?

Yeah, I mean, I can't read them either.

Um, so I'm gonna make a motion to table it to a next meeting.

I would second and support that.

Um take no action.

Um we can formally vote on that.

Do you want to um yes?

And I will vote yes.

Excellent.

Um, so moving on, we have public participation.

There are a handful of folks who are attendees.

If anybody wants to um make a comment in public participation, if you could raise your virtual hand.

Seeing no hands, um let us move on.

Um next up, I had put um Sean back on the agenda because the conversation last time was cut short because of the length of the whole agenda.

So I just wanted to give some opportunity to continue to dive into some of these energy costs and the prioritization that's been made um looking at specifically the energy and buildings.

So Sean, I think you should be able to present, hopefully, your the slides.

Yes, thank you.

Let me uh share the right screen.

And I think that should be up.

Uh-huh.

Awesome.

So I think um, I remember last time uh we did get through the whole presentation.

I kind of skipped through most of the second half of it.

So I'm happy to kind of take this however you'd like.

And I also appreciate the framing that there was too much on the agenda.

I think I just took too long.

So I appreciate that.

But um uh yeah, so maybe what I can do is I think we were really in depth on kind of the background of municipal energy consumption.

We went through these charts, and then I think where I started to fast forward was uh probably around here, like getting into the latter half of energy consumption, and then specifically talking about energy conservation measures.

Um maybe does this sound is this a good starting place?

Um perfect.

So uh with the background that we established on energy use last time.

I think you know, one of the things I really wanted to highlight is the significant amount of activity in different areas, uh, both across city facilities and school facilities that has been underway.

Um, you know, going back to even before Framingham became a green community in late 2013.

Uh and what what's shown on this slide is a lot of the work that we've done through an energy savings performance contract we did back in 2015-2016, uh, before my time here.

Um, but it was with Amoresco and included a whole scope, uh, a whole array of you know different building uh improvement measures from upgrading HVAC systems to comprehensive lighting projects, putting in pumps, motors, and drives.

There's also, you know, training that was a part of it for all the new equipment that was installed.

Um buildings had been looked at for weatherization, including uh so you know that involved insulating buildings, but also you know, looking at door frames, windows, where can we do air ceiling, that type of stuff.

So it's very comprehensive.

Um, and I think, you know, especially following this, what we've tried to do every year, um, looking at energy data is identify gaps where we see poorly performing buildings, or maybe things aren't kind of meeting expectations.

Where are we seeing poorly performing buildings or maybe things aren't kind of meeting expectations?

Um leads into how we identify our energy conservation measures as we move forward.

Um, and so this is an area that we're really appreciative to have the support of you know the state, uh, particularly the the green communities program.

Um we've been pretty active over the years in applying for grants um to advance both studies that will help us identify um, you know, areas to reduce energy consumption, but also then to you know implement projects.

And so I think one of the the questions that had uh come up initially was you know, what are the different ways we identify those measures?

Um a big one, which we partner with the utility on a lot is just simply getting energy assessments, uh, very similar to like a homeowner, you know, if you call Mass Save, we're doing these for our facilities.

It usually involves a walkthrough, going through the building, um, having you know, looking at the utility bill and identifying high-level uh opportunities that we can explore further to implement energy savings.

Um, another thing I want to highlight too is uh it's definitely a really important component as well as regular kind of regular maintenance.

So being in the capital projects and facilities uh management department, but also working on the school side with uh the buildings and grounds department, there's a lot of stuff that comes up just you know, on a day-to-day basis.

You might have a piece of equipment fail.

Um you might be looking at an energy management system and wondering why you're not getting the reading you expect.

Those types of things pop up, and sometimes they lead to energy efficiency measures on their own.

Um sometimes uh, you know, this this has happened where you have maintenance done to replace filters and a technician leaves um uh a large fan inside an HVAC unit that runs on certain like it'll it'll run based on calculations of how much air is needed.

And sometimes they'll put it in full speed mode to test something and they forget they do that.

And then you find out a couple weeks later when you're looking at energy consumption, you're saying, what happened here?