The Los Alamos County Environmental Sustainability Board convened on February 19, 2026, at 5:30 PM in the Council Chambers and via Zoom. The meeting focused on finalizing and approving the Fleet Conversion and Community-Wide Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Plan, appointing liaison assignments, and receiving updates on sustainability initiatives. The board unanimously voted to support the plans as presented and forward them to the County Council.
I'm calling the meeting to order. Roll call shows Member Chandler, Member Growe, Member Hampton, Member Blair, and Member Barnes in attendance. Members uh Leckle and Blair are absent. Public comment for items not in the agenda. Is there anybody online? Chair, there is no one online. All right, there's no public comment. Is everybody okay with the way the agenda looks? Or do you have any suggested modifications? All right, the agenda is approved unanimously. Approval of the minutes. Minutes are approved unanimously. So give me one second. They are not finding the Zoom link, so just make sure that they have it. If not, we can just go to liaison assignments and yeah, that would be great. All right, well, we're waiting for the consultants drive. We can do a um liaison assignments. So we try and liaison with currently with five other boards, uh, planning and zoning, parks and recreation, transportation, public utilities, and um it's not a county board, but the Los Alamos Sustainability Alliance. I think Sue wants to be uh member Barnes wants to be sustainability alliance, right? Yes, Chair. I already uh attend those meetings, so that makes sense. Um I uh and Shannon Blair and I have worked out uh co-liaisoning schedule for Board of Public Utilities for this year. So I would say that we're both willing to continue in that position. Um if someone has a burning desire to take on liaison positions, um we could negotiate that. It's also possible, maybe even likely that our new members don't necessarily know what liaison positions entail. Maybe you could outline that for them so that they'd understand what they're getting into. Good idea. Um so our liaisons attend the other board's meetings and report back to us what happens and uh bring work back to us if there's if there's something they want us to do for them. Um it's pretty fun. I'm uh I'm actually on two of the other boards, transportation and planning and zoning, so I could do liaisons there. Um so BPU BPU, where we don't have a liaison or someone who's attending that meeting right now. That's probably the biggest lift. I think they meet twice a month. Yeah, uh Shannon and I are our liaisoning to them together. I thought sustainability lines, I'm sorry. I do I do both, but Shannon and I are also our are liaison to BPU, and we've worked out a schedule where we're doing um alternate months basically. The other thing I'd like to point out is that um all of the county, I believe all of these board meetings are recorded, and so if you can't actually attend one of them, um for some reason you can uh you can watch the recording. You can also watch they're also live streamed, so you could participate um as uh as a participant as a liaison um uh remotely if you can't make it to the meeting. Those are all options. Thank you. So the only one we're desperate for is parks and recreation. And they meet once a month on the second Thursday. I can help you on parks and rec. Excellent. And should we make nominations? I'm also curious not to take that away from Joe or anyone else that's interested, but sometimes it's helpful. Like if our counselor is a liaison to another board, they could provide updates as well. I'm not sure what other board you're liaison liaising to. Oh, Health Council. Okay.