I call the two thousand four hundred and fifty-third meeting of the Milwaukee City Council to order.

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Walk, bike, or roll around the city this Friday, July 24th, and next Friday, July 31st, to enjoy the sights and sounds.

I will confirm and I will let you know.

Okay.

Great.

So we are that morning at some point in time unveiling our new Pride flag.

So we had a pride flag that was on the Kronberg path and got pretty damaged over the last couple of years.

And so that's been removed.

And now we're putting it in a more visible location here next to the library.

So that it's in place, I understand.

Um, and we'll be have a dedication on Saturday morning as well.

Um join a special author talk with young adult novelist Aidan Thomas in celebration of Milwaukee Pride this Saturday from 3 to 4 15 p.m.

at the Letting Library.

Aidan is a New York Times bestselling author who has written multiple young adult bestsellers, including Cemetery Boys, Lost in the Neverwoods, and the Sunbearer Trials.

Join City Manager Emma Sager for her next city manager's open door session on Friday, August 14th.

This is a rescheduled session as Emma had to cancel her July session.

For more information about each of these events and others, please visit the city's homepage at Milwaukee, Oregon.gov or call 503 7867555.

There's one event before we don't meet again till August 4th, and there's one big event uh before August 4th, which is August 1st and the Little Float.

And so uh I definitely encourage people to go online.

I think it's Little Float.com.

Uh, but the Little Float was uh had its first year last year.

Um it's organized by the Downtown Alliance of Milwaukee with a lot of partners and sponsors.

I think there's gonna be more live music this year.

Um, so you can go down and get on a boat that takes you over to Elk Rock Island and you float back.

Uh you can also just come down and hang out for the uh music and and the scene.

Um uh, but it does require purchasing tickets if you want to do the floating part.

So go online and look up Little Float and uh come down.

It's really was fun last year, and I'm sure it'll be even bigger this year.

Uh Mayor, just want to let you know the unveiling is at 10 a.m.

It is at 10 a.m.

Okay.

So 10 a.m.

Saturday, unveiling of the pride flag.

And Scott, our recorder, Scott Stoffer wanted to uh give an update about election season.

Yes, thank you, Mayor Bailey.

It is uh 2026, which is an election year, and we have three positions on the Milwaukee City Council that will be featured on the ballot this November.

And our filing window for city positions starts next uh Monday, July 27th.

Uh so I just want to highlight that to anyone listening.

You can find all the information at MilwaukeeOregon.gov/slash elections.

The first step in running for city council is to meet with the city elections officer, and that's me to go over the paperwork and to certify that you're eligible to run, and then we go from there.

Uh, there are a few new rules in place this year, this election cycle.

Um, the first being that there is a different deadline for incumbents versus uh new candidates.

Incumbents have to have uh filed and submitted their paperwork and be certified by August 18th.

All new candidates have until August 25th.

Uh, and there'll be more up-to-date information posted on the city's website that MilwaukeeOregon.gov slash elections webpage.

You are now required to post SEL 101 forms.

That's the initial filing form that all candidates file.

Uh so if you want an up-to-date uh update on where uh uh candidate filings are, you can go to Milwaukee Oregon.gov slash elections.

And uh I already have a couple of appointments uh scheduled for Monday, so I know there's some eager candidates out there, and with three positions, I do expect a fairly busy uh candidate filing season.

So if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me, uh, email OCR at Milwaukee Oregon.gov or come by City Hall and find me or deputy recorder at Nicole Madigan.

But happy election season, everybody.

Thank you.

Uh and we have a haiku.

And I don't remember who wrote this one.

Um Scott?

No?

Okay.

Usually we put the name on there, which may mean that someone generated it with help.

Um, but it's kind of uh anyway, bright flags, gentle breeze, laughter weaving through the trees, a day chasing joy.

I think that was intended to accompany the pride.

We had a pride uh haiku when we did our pride um uh proclamation a few meetings back, but I think this one was also intended to um accompany the pride event.

So uh all right.

So special reports, Metro Future 50 Vision Committee.

I invite forward uh Metro Counselor Christine Lewis, Vision Committee member Gabby Blog, and Metro Stafford Jessica's the thank you for joining us.

Thank you for joining us.

And while they're getting set up, I will just say uh for the record that um Metro uh held its um council meeting today in uh Concord at the Concord Community Center in Oak Grove to announce a whole panoply of uh parks and green spaces grants, um, ranging from like $50,000 grants to three million dollar grants.

Um so a lot of of uh great stuff being done with Metro's um levy and bond funds.

Um, and we were very lucky recipients of uh of a few million dollars of that ourselves.

So thank you to Metro.

Um and thank you to our staff who did a lot of work to um convince the Metro teams that uh because Metro has a process where they have you know uh experts reviewing or a committee reviewing the applications.

So um thanks to our staff who put together the winning applications as well.

So with that, I'll turn it over to Councilor Lewis and team.

Wonderful.

Thank you, Mayor, and what an honor to be here.

My name is Christine Lewis.

I serve on Metro Council and represent Milwaukee as well as several other cities who did not get as much money as y'all did today.

Um the exact number that you were looking for, Mayor was five million nine hundred and fifty-three thousand three hundred and forty-eight dollars coming to the city of Milwaukee remarks.

And I want to start by thanking um you and um your staff for their leadership on parks and nature work, but also very much the folks who live in Milwaukee because many of those grants were from a community-generated um investment through a competitive grant process that we tried out for the second time, where it was participatory budgeting and folks actually came up with the projects.

We iterated them before a final vote of over 3,500 people who live in Milwaukee, unincorporated Clackamas, uh, Gladstone and Oregon City.

So y'all did a great job of voter turnout, I'll put it that way as well.

So cheers to that.

Um, and that's the kind of innovation that I think um Metro can be proud of.

And it's from um years of work um working directly with the residents of our communities, but also with our cities and our counties.

So I do not underestimate the amount of work that we have ahead of us, and that's one of the things that we're here to present on.

Um, Metro is long range in our vision, um, not just because of the orientation of our council, but because of our charter and how we are built.

So we're here today as part of our future vision process, which is imagining the future 50.

Um, we are required to think forward 50 years.

That's a long time outside of any funding cycle.

That's a long time out of even any land use decision.

We are working here today as part of an 18-month um process to uh look forward grounded in where we are today, but to be futurists, to be future thinkers, to be visionaries of how we want the region to work.

And as we think about the Greater Portland region, uh this plan should should fit everybody's needs.

It should not just be how Metro is an agency works.

We're hoping that we are uh in communication with our jurisdictions so that the plan can work for them as well.

Um, together, we want to envision uh the extraordinary, and we want to prepare um for all that is ahead, good and bad.

Um, the future vision is required um in our voter-approved charter.

So this is an exercise that the voters asked us to do.

And direct quote is that this is a long-term visionary outlook for at least a 50-year period, which is why we're saying 2077 is our goal year.

And it's not a regulatory document, but it is intended to guide policy in our program and our funding decisions at Metro and hopefully find alignment with other jurisdictions.

And with that, I think I pass it off to staff.

Or do I have one more?

No, that sounds great.

Okay.

Thanks, Councilor Lewis.

Um, for the record, my name is Jessica Zadeb.

I'm a principal regional planner at Metro, and I get the honor of being the project manager for this project.

Um we are updating this vision now for a number of reasons that Councilor Lewis alluded to.

Um, as she said, this is required in our charter, but it's not just we don't just view this as a requirement in that voter-approved charter.

We're really viewing it as an opportunity to create or recreate this shared sense of who we are as a region and an impetus to move forward together.

When we scoped this project with Metro Council last year, they gave really clear direction that they don't just want a vision, a document.

They really want this process to result in galvanized partners around the region who want to take steps toward that 50-year future.

And those are partners in government, those are partners in the business community, philanthropic, nonprofits, education, kind of all of the pieces and parts of who make up this region together.

We are also really hoping to spur those conversations that need to happen at a regional scale.

That's what Metro does.

This is a vision that will speak to systems level thinking and those kinds of things that cross borders, cross jurisdictional borders in this region.

And lastly, our existing vision is from 1995.

We are technically 15 years overdue for an update according to our charter.

We won't do that again.

But it's interesting to look back at that 1995 vision and see how dated some pieces of it feel and how evergreen others do.

So it's an update.

As I mentioned, the existing vision is from 1995.

Often when people in the region, especially those in government and those in planning, think of a vision that Metro has for the region, they think of the map, the 2040 growth concept, which was adopted around the same time as the future vision.

Our charter indicates that we need to link future vision and the framework plan together, saying the framework plan, which is where our policies live, it's where the growth concept lives, is supposed to describe its relationship to the future vision.

And so that did exist in the first iteration of the framework plan, and it really is the way in which the growth concept is the way in which we know that some of the future vision values and aspiration statements did actually get implemented in this region.

So I started to describe this a little bit.

People have uh asked about the impact of the future vision, and it really, to our knowledge, has been that connection to the growth concept.

It's that on the ground change that has happened throughout this region in development and preservation of green space.

And we intend that that's going to be the impact of this vision update as well.

Subsequent to the updated vision being adopted by Metro Council.

We'll develop an implementation plan.

I work in the planning department at Metro, and we know that we are going to be updating the growth concept as one of our actions.

Other departments at Metro will be taking other actions to ensure that they are in line with an updated vision.

But as I mentioned, really the hope is that this is something that other partners around the region are also bought into and can see connections between what they're already doing and what they want to do in the future, and this vision.

Some of it funded through Metro's COD funding, then obviously the opening of the orange line and much more recent, you know, redevelopment in downtown adaptive reuse of City Hall.

We also know that this doesn't just happen as a result of a pink blob on a map.

It happens as a result of real commitment by elected leaders, real commitment by staff to finding creative solutions to how to make that happen on the ground.

We really appreciated having staff from the city present last week at MTAC about all of the work and changes that have happened within the town center, um, showing other jurisdictions in the region what it looks like to implement that pink blob into real change on the ground.

So this work is guided by a future vision commission that Counselor Blog sits on, and Counselor Lewis is now also a liaison to this is required in Metro's charter as a special body that's appointed by Metro Council solely for the purpose of developing and recommending this vision.

We took applications at Guidance of Metro Council, had a little over a hundred applicants and resulted in a really interesting group of 23 humans who have a diverse lived experience, professional backgrounds, um, identities from around the region.

They don't represent every single last one of those characteristics, and they can't, but they bring those experiences to this conversation.

They're also ambassadors to those communities, helping us reach folks, bring those ideas and identities into the process.

Their job at the end of the day, though, is not just to bring in their own experience, it's really to listen to what it is we hear from community and help us interpret that through their professional and lived experience into a vision recommended to council.

This group meets monthly.

You are more than welcome to tune in.

It's the second Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m.

We have been moving these meetings around the region so that folks get a feel for the flavor of different parts of all three counties.

We're doing that in alternating months with meeting at the Metro Regional Center.

You can see on this slide that we had the opportunity to meet at Center Court and the MODIS Center in March, which was quite a unique experience to be in that space with very few people.

And in coming months, I know that we'll be meeting at the new East County Library and at Muslim Educational Trust and the Research Center for the Arts.

We met at Clackamas County's campus in Oregon City at a prior meeting and really just trying to show off different aspects of who we are as a region and different places.

Another super important body to this work is the Future Vision Youth Committee.

And this is certainly not the first time that Metro has convened a youth committee for a project, but this 50-year time horizon really compels us to think about this as a youth-driven project because they are the folks who are more likely to be around in that 50-year time horizon.

These young people ages 15 to 24 are going to be deeply involved in the creation of the vision.

I think the commission has really appreciated having them come speak a couple times already with that group, dovetailing their work.

They are guiding our work in engaging youth as well.

Our team is not comprised of young people on the project side.

And so we are taking their guidance as to how to most effectively reach to this group.

In particular with Future Fest, which I'll talk about a little bit later.

And we really want to make sure that we are creating our engagement process to foreground youth comments and get them very much into the public eye.

And actually, often what we are doing is having their events and commentary happen first on something and then feeding that to the future vision commission so that they have that as they're considering an item.

This is a picture of where we are in the project, where we've been, where we're going.

You can see we're about halfway through.

We did a big round of community engagement this spring that I'll talk about a little later to work on developing regional values.

We are in the middle of some tabling out of community events, which I'll talk about.

And then on this slide, looking at my notes for what I wanted to highlight.

Call out the vision summit, which is happening in October, and that will convene regional cross-sector leaders to start drafting really the core of the vision.

And those are aspirations that are going to be refined through a set of conversations that we're calling vision tables, and those will happen in a bunch of different settings throughout the region.

At the same time as we're hearing from community in all different forms, we also have our consultant team diving in and doing research on what we're calling drivers of change, the really big forces that are going to be shaping this region over the next 50 years.

We can't have them investigate every last thing, but we've gotten guidance from the commission from Metro Council about what's really important to this region and which just feels uh absolutely pressing to be looking into.

This is a part of our scope that is really important and is actually kind of harkens back to the 1995 process where they had a bunch of research papers developed as well.

That information will be fed back out to the public in a couple different ways.

We've been having expert panels, which we have recordings of on our website.

We'll have another one, and then we'll be having some like more digestible report out of that information that's not a 25-page memo.

A little bit about our community engagement approach.

These are the principles that we're really using to create how we communicate with the community, how we hear from community and ask them to develop this vision with us.

As I talked about earlier, really centered on relationship building, so that we're creating a group of folks who actually want to implement this together and see it happen.

It's got to be a community-driven vision as well.

This is not by Metro for Metro.

This is Metro running a process on behalf of the region and reflecting back what folks want to see.

We're reaching beyond traditional engagement in a couple ways.

I described a little bit of the youth approach.

Another way we're doing that is with arts and culture.

We've had a couple moments of that within the process so far, and we're super excited to be having a pot of grant money that is going to be going to artists specifically for work associated with this project.

That'll be happening later this year and into next.

And lastly, we know that we are not the first people to be visioning in this region.

We've taken the time to look at other communities, whether cities and counties, other organizations and institutions, visions, and long range plans around the region.

And that work is definitely feeding into what ends up in this vision.

I mentioned that spring engagement.

It really were worked on getting most of our engagement through an online survey that reached out to about 2200 residents in the region.

We presented at a lot of community organization events, did this multilingual engagement.

We had a couple other methods, a conversation kit and a postcard to dive in a little bit deeper.

And you know, this is an input to our process in developing those values.

These are just a couple images from that values engagement, highlighting two on the bottom there that speak to the arts piece of our engagement.

In the middle, you'll see we actually did an artist residency at Metro Regional Center in March, where we had a couple artists come together who'd never worked together before and develop a piece of work over about two and a half days, and then present that to Metro staff, other artists, invited guests, and Metro Council.

And I think it was really impactful for folks who were in the room to see how deeply emotion is really embedded in that artist interpretation of thinking about the future, and just reminded us that everybody comes to this work with a lot of background and a lot of emotion.

We also had an event capping off our engagement on Juneteenth, that was a poetry event hosted by the pupils poets.

On the theme of foregrounding youth voice, I wanted to share a slide that covers what we heard from the applicants to the youth committee in their in their applications to that group.

These are concerns that are really they've been continuing to talk about in their meetings, and I wanted to make sure to have them here on a slide so you all could see them.

These are things that you know maybe are not new to you all hearing from young people in Milwaukee.

But we want to make sure that we acknowledge that their concerns and interests might be different from the rest of the population, and so wanted to foreground those here too.

So when we looked at that engagement this spring, a couple of themes really came forward.

These are those big picture takeaways.

You know, the top line is that people in our region, no surprise, enjoy natural beauty and community identity and want to see our region become safe, affordable, and welcoming by that 2077 date.

These are really fun the types of fundamental values that we're looking to identify.

People want to be sure as well that physical growth doesn't compromise community bonds, the natural environment, or a sustainable future.

And there's really a shared belief that resolving homelessness and housing instability is essential to realizing these other things.

These are not mind-blowing or mind-breaking findings, but I think it does just reinforce those foundational values that we want to be starting from for developing the vision.

So right now we're working on developing those draft values.

These are all of the inputs to the values.

We presented a set of draft ones at the commission meeting two weeks ago.

They gave us feedback.

We're doing an iteration, we're presenting a different different version to Metro Council this week.

So they are continuing to be developed, and we'll go through a bunch of iterations before they actually land and are used as the foundation of the vision.

I didn't bring them today because they are so in flux that it didn't necessarily feel like it made sense to have you all dive into them, but you are more than welcome to tune into Metro Council and listen to the discussion on Thursday this week.

Just briefly, this is how the values fit into the bigger picture.

We are building that foundation of shared regional values, which will translate into guiding principles or ways in which we make decisions.

The drivers of change research will consider that um as we develop aspirations based on those really sort of emotional and heart-based values and guiding principles and use the research to inform the aspirations.

Last two things I wanted to highlight.

Um we have an engagement schedule of where we are asking folks particular questions that doesn't align super well with being out at festivals.

We had a spring engagement, we're going to have one in the middle of winter, and not a lot happening outdoors at those times, but we still want to be taking advantage of community festivals and events this summer to remind people that we're doing this work and continue to have conversations with them about this 50-year thinking.

So here's the list of places we know we're going to be.

Um we are working on potentially coming to Milwaukee.

Um emailed some staff about that today.

So keep an eye out.

We might be here at the farmers market at some point.

Hopefully.

Yeah, I was gonna say I definitely recommend the farmers market as the place to do this kind of engagement.

You'll get Milwaukee, but also the broader region.

Uh, I just made that point to um to label and your team working on the RTF, actually.

Yes.

So um yeah.

And Jessica, I got your note today about not hearing back from them.

So we'll see what we can do to help on that.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Yeah, we would love to be here.

Um, and then last slide for me, um, these are the upcoming events that I just want to highlight.

So Future Fest, I mentioned, is our youth summit.

It is a day-long event, free, there's food.

If folks come, they can get community service hours.

We will give them a letter.

That question has been asked multiple times.

Yes, it's an attractant.

Um, we our staff have um been working with the youth committee.

The the youth committee is also being done um in partnership with Next Up and Blueprint Foundation to community-based organizations.

And so that group has been reaching out to youth councils all around the region.

So I know that we've reached out um to Milwaukee's.

I hear there's also an excellent group of students who win student of the month from you all.

And so if we could get connected to them too, that would be great.

Um, we're also reaching out to uh service organizations that work with young people, all different kinds of nonprofits.

But if you have other ideas about how to reach young folks in Milwaukee, we'd love to hear them.

Um they all hang out at Counselor's Fav and George store.

Not all, but a significant portion.

We have strengths.

We have flyers.

Excellent.

And I'll put you in touch with our teen librarian too, who um is definitely in the know with the youth.

That would be great.

Way more than I am by saying those words in the no with the youth.

Yeah, fair.

Yeah.

I I personally dropped off flyers for that first round of engagement at a couple places in the city, and um getting your advice on where those can go, should go, especially for reaching young people would be great.

Um, so that's coming up this summer.

Um, as I mentioned, precedes the Vision Summit, which is the adult summit.

Um, and we will be feeding the outcomes from that youth summit into the Vision Summit.

Um, and then on the note of um electeds from around the region, we'll be having a workshop with MPAC and JPAC members and alternates in late October, where um that group will be diving into revising those aspiration statements and the outcomes of that will get fed to the commission for their consideration and drafting of the vision.

Um so that's all I have.

And I really wanted to, you know, welcome comments from Counselor Blog about her experience so far on the commission and just sort of why she's excited about this and and what value she can bring.

Well, thank you.

Um I have to say it's it's been quite interesting.

Um, I think as city um officials, we don't necessarily think about um how our vision of the region, what our values are necessarily impact how we're going to be um shaping our government going forward for you know 50 years.

And I think sort of being able to step back a little bit from a needs-based um assessment and just to really look at our own, you know, regional values and how we want those values to inform our spending decisions going forward is a really interesting exercise and something that I feel really privileged to be able to be part of.

Um, you know, and instead of sort of down in the in the weeds as city officials that we tend to, you know, tend to be.

So and it's also been really great uh to interact with the youth um component of this as well.

Um it it has given me renewed hope.

And um these people are you know, young people are really impressive, um, and they have some really great things to say and are really excited about living here in this region and um and what you know our collective um voices could be um you know when they are adults or our age.

Um so yeah, I've really enjoyed it.

Don't know if anybody has any specific questions about the process or anything else.

Counselors, any questions for any of the folks here?

It's great to hear about the process.

I'd heard, you know, future vision was going on.

I probably saw some kind of social media post or something, but it's good to have a better understanding of it now and and what the timeline is and stuff.

Um looks like the council president might have a question.

You preempted me.

Uh I was looking online as you started speaking to try and find the 1995 uh plan.

Is that available online or is there is it in the new Metro Visioning for 2077?

Yes, it's linked on the background tab of our project webpage.

It is about 35 pages of typed content and it has a lovely woodcut on the cover.

Okay.

I found that one.

Are there the appendices to it?

Are those somewhere else or they are harder to dig up?

Um I am happy to send you links to the ones that exist if only to see that amazing map.

That's what I was really digging for.

Oh yes.

I can I can send you a link to the map.

Not at all necessary, but just a little academic curiosity.

Thanks.

Counselor Koshrabadi, are you with us?

Any questions?

Anyone else?

Okay, thank you.

Anyone else?

Well, um just one quick question.

Um, are there ways for youth to um be engaged but not in person?

Like, are there ways that that they can participate and provide input uh either electronically or you know through some other way?

So the future fest event on the 15th is designed to be solely in person.

Um we have not necessarily thought about a way to translate the activities of that day to an online format.

Um that's a good question.

Um later in this process in early next year, we will again have an online survey that would be broadly available to the community.

Um, and then I have not been working as directly with the youth committee as some of my colleagues.

Um, but the intent is that the young people on that group are also able to be ambassadors themselves.

And I know that like they individually have been posting on social media about um their involvement in Future Vision.

So I don't know if that's also an opportunity to like open up some dialogue through their personal um interactions with young people in the region.

And how many are representing Clackamas County?

Do you know?

I'm sorry, do not know the answer to that question, but I believe that the um locations that the folks are from are on the youth committee website or tab on our website.

I'll do some digging.

Yeah, I can get back to you on that number though.

I just don't know.

I'm sorry, I don't know it off the top of my head.

Okay.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Sure.

Uh council president.

One other question.

Yeah, you laid out just this really great engagement timeline that you all are doing.

I'm curious, what are the ways you've seen cities meaningfully engage in this and what forms of engagement from cities would be most helpful in this process?

I I'll always defer to a city counselor if we're talking about what a city can do.

Um, but I would say the work um is iterative.

We have definitely been briefing um the folks who are closest to Metro who serve on our committees.

Um it's been an MPAC and JPAC multiple times.

We've even done some updates for Solid Waste Committee, um, our committee on racial equity.

So we are working, I think this is us working to get out and say, what do you need from us?

Are you interested in doing more?

Obviously connecting us to places like your farmers market, but are there other ways that we need to be connected and hearing feedback?

And I also think the drivers of change research is really um could be really insightful.

Um there are some really great experts um trying to sort of peer into the future and see what um forces will be at play that we might not think about today.

Um and I think that could be very useful for cities as well.

So is some of that that's kind of in midstream now, but some of it's available on the website.

Okay, the charge of what they're they call them trailheads, um, but those trailheads are on the website so you can see what the charge is for them to do the research on, put the panels together, and then I assume we'll wrap all those up in kind of an excerpt report, even if all those pieces don't make the vision plan itself, those would be very applicable for y'all to use.

And I would say note that October 8th um date, October and October 28th, um, because both of those are gonna be great days for elected officials to engage.

Thank you.

Counselor Massey.

Yeah, I'm not sure who I want to direct the question to, so I'll just, you know, whoever wants to speak up.

And you know, I I think this is a great exercise, and I think you're doing a wonderful job and engagement and that kind of thing.

Um, but I kind of want to look even further out, you know, like what's next, because I see a lot of these uh vision statements, aspirational, you know, you know, plans, whatever you want to call them.

Uh, and and I think that they're you know, there's a lot of uh good brain power that goes into that, and you develop good documents, and then they go on the shelf.

And so, how do you I'm I'm really asking this, you know, you know, for you know, the edification of others who might be doing something similar.

How do you keep them alive?

How do you actually deliver on those aspirations?

You know, over a 50-year period.

That's that's a lot to ask.

Yeah, I mean, I would say one of the most powerful things that came of the last one is that um map.

And so the fact that you have a visualization, the fact that you have this commitment to city centers that has guided our investment strategy at Metro.

So it's not flipping through a 35-page document.

It's very easy to hang that map on the wall and remind ourselves that we're trying to knit together town centers and uh communities actually need funding for that.

So my hope would be that we do end up with a report that's words, but also a visual or an artistic representation that we can kind of put on the wall and help us guide future funding decisions.

That's great, but that's quite a challenge.

Sure.

You know, turning all that into a picture.

I look forward to it.

We also discussed um trying to have some um idea of metrics going forward so that maybe some of these um goals and aspirations had a measurable component.

Um, you know, we all love that sort of data-driven kind of um uh follow-up.

And so we're I'm hoping we will get some of that in there as well.

Thank you, council president.

Sorry, one last question and a little bit of a provocative one, but I'm putting together in a 50-year timeline, our rural reserves will have lapsed.

Are you reaching out to any cities that are on the periphery of Metro, like North Plains or Cambi that who knows, maybe in 50 years it could be a part of Metro?

You're right, that is a provocative question.

Uh they're not um in our outreach plan currently.

That said, I think um when we have been doing our broad outreach, particularly with the youth, we have swept through um getting voices from those communities, and we're not, as far as I know, we're not tossing them out.

Are we tossing them out?

No, not at all.

Um I we don't have a plan to reach out broadly to the residents of those communities.

We do have a plan to engage at a like government to government level with them, though, um, and to have that conversation to help make sure that we understand what is in their existing visions, long-range plans, so that we are we can see the you know similarities and differences between where we're going with this vision right now and what they have already envisioned for themselves.

Yeah, whether it's North Plains, Cambi, Sandy, Esticada, sort of um each of those communities that right now within a metro planning context have that green corridor, right?

Between the edge of our urbanized area and the start of their urbanized areas.

can see the you know similarities and differences between where we're going with this vision right now and what they have already envisioned for themselves yeah whether it's North Plains Canby Sandy Estacada sort of um each of those communities that right now um within a metro planning context have that green corridor right between the edge of our urbanized area and the start of their urbanized areas okay well thank you guys for coming in and uh I know it's been a long day for some of you so um I think we don't have any other questions so we'll let you go uh unless you have anything you want to say in closing yep thank you for coming for having us okay moving on to community comments council will now hear community comments on city business topics that are not on the agenda before we begin is there follow-up from the July 7th comments Mrs.

May I the only follow up is um uh Miss Teresa Breesa attended our last meeting and in that uh after her comments I said that I would follow up in writing which I did I can provide my written response to all of counsel that you can see it and my thanks to um Vera our planning manager for her support putting that together great all right um I do not have any yellow cards for anyone wishing to do community comments is there anybody online Mr Stauffer we do have a zoom audience but there are no hands raised okay so I'm gonna forego the rest of the script about community comments and go on to the consent agenda tonight's consent agenda includes minutes of the city council June 19th June sorry June 9th 2026 site visit June 16th 2026 work session and June 16th 2026 regular session a resolution acting as the local contract review board authorizing an increase in the contract for the design and project management services of the King Road improvement project with Kittleson and Associates Inc.

Does any council member wish to remove a consent agenda item seeing none I will entertain a motion I move to approve the consent agenda has arrived just okay as we moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda all those in favor say aye aye opposed say no none heard it passes unanimously all right next item oh he's already up there assistant city manager Joseph Relio uh and no Sierra on uh community survey results yeah solo well actually not solo but I'll get to that in a second thanks mayor uh good evening council I'm here to bring to you the community survey results um many of you under know that we uh started the the process for the community survey earlier this year I shared all the the results in some of the fine the final um document with you all back in April we intended to sh have the presentation to you in May but lightning struck and we canceled that meeting so we had to reschedule some things um so that that's why we're here tonight in July and who's with me tonight is uh Dr.

Tanisha Tate Woodson nice to see you uh who helped uh was the project manager for this as as well as um uh someone who knows quite a bit about statistically valid uh surveys so I'm going to pass it off to you Dr.

Woodson in a second but um just wanted to remind council that this the survey is essentially it's a longitudinal um we do it in a in a way where we ask the same questions for longitudinal purposes um to see how we do every over year after year.

This year we did add a few things and um re retool some questions to address a couple of your concerns um if you remember this was back kind of back late last winter uh we talked about adding some parks specific questions uh so we'll talk about those tonight obviously uh some utility assistance awareness questions as well as uh a few questions about solid waste services um and so you'll see those as well uh with that I'm gonna pass it over to um Dr.

Woodson to take us through the results and you can ask us any questions along the way before Dr.

Woodson starts um these weren't in you had sent this these to us back a couple months ago but they weren't in the packet will they be put in the packet yes thank you thank you

So I hope you don't mind us asking questions as you go, because I think there's so much info here that it'll be hard to track back.

Is that okay?

Um, I'm a little most of this doesn't surprise me, but the fifty-eight percent male surprises me.

Um I uh is that representative of the demographics of Milwaukee?

Or is that just it I mean, yeah.

Uh women on social media, but anyway.

Yeah.

Uh-oh.

Um, sorry, Dr.

Woodson, your sound has cut off here.

If you can stop just a moment, um, we've got to figure out uh why your sound quit coming through.

Uh oh, okay, you're back.

Or other characteristics.

Um, those are not called out because those were not fine statistically different in terms of the data in which we looked at.

So we also noticed with the findings that um about eight and ten residents were um had a approve of the quality of the city services that were offered.

So we wanted to know in general do you approve or disapprove of the quality of services provided by the city of Milwaukee?

And we looked at three in particular.

We wanted to see how city um seeks residence input, how the city spends the tax dollars and also the quality of city services.

And as you'll see here, overall, there's general um approval of which um things are operating as well.

And we noticed that even still those same trends kind of popped up as we saw in the last question, where as across all three questions, black residents as well as those younger adults between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine year olds, as well as those residents who live in the city for less than four years.

Um, those were amongst those that reported some of the lowest approval by significant margin compared to others that were in the sample as well.

We also noticed that that also exists amongst um households without children and those that were earning less than sixty thousand dollars annually were also amongst those that um consistently reported the lowest approval.

So overall, while there is general approval moving in the right direction, there are some subgroups of the population that experiences a lot differently, and those are the ones that are called out here.

We also noticed when it comes to asking individuals, you know, about their level of confidence that the city staff are delivering on their core values.

We notice that overall people are relatively feel confident that individuals or city departments are moving forward in those with those core values, such as around equity when it comes to collaboration, efficiency, as well as being accessible and accountable.

And so amongst those, again, we see pretty much high remarks when it comes to the overall level of satisfaction.

But again, some of those same groups that we saw in the previous slides expressed a lower satisfaction with City services, also expressed a low confidence in the way that the city uh operates across those five core values as well.

And again, those were some that represent as Black residents, individuals that were between the ages of 18 and 29, some that were born and raised in the city, as well as those households that were earning less than 60%, also were significantly less likely than their counterparts to feel um confident in the way that a city operates across those core values.

Well, we also noticed that when it came to satisfaction with city services, there was some variation in terms of um based off of how long people lived in the city.

So one of the questions that we ask is um we read we provided them with a list of services, and after each service, we wanted to know how satisfied were they with those services.

So some of them, which are here provided on the slide, which are the library programs, um, the stormwater and utility providing programs, such as, and also programs such as hosting and supporting community events.

We also ask about police services and supporting local businesses as well as sharing info and engaging with the communities.

And again, we see pretty high remarks across the board, whereas um the majority of individuals feel very satisfied or even somewhat satisfied with the level of uh services that are provided.

Um, but we also noticed that the not so satisfied rates were um pretty prevalent amongst those that were non-white, um as well as those that were between those ages of 18 to 29, and even some residents that were born and raised in the city as well.

So we wanted to focus on five main uh recommendations that kind of came from the work that we looked at.

And I'm gonna take you through a section of each of those five recommendations.

The first is which is um there's opportunities based off of the findings from this study for the city to do a little bit more with closing the feedback loop when it comes to providing more input and follow-through with the residents.

There's opportunities to really simplify and diversify communications and communications channels and modality of reaching different residents.

Um there's opportunities to meet residents where they are and where they naturally convene and in places that they naturally gather, as well as opportunities to really identify and hone in on the housing issue and making that an equity priority as well, as opportunities to invest in the safety of the city and their residents overall.

So I want to focus on the first recommendation, which was around closing the loop.

And this came from really thinking about how do individuals currently participate in um city government currently.

And younger residents are engaging, but more so digital digitally.

So that's like through the website and through media.

And so this really shows like the way in which which people are engaging and um in the city really kind of divides based off of like who they are and and the age of that group as well.

We also notice that residents are more likely to participate when they see that their input actually leads to outcomes, and when they feel welcome in the process as well.

So we notice overall that 20% uh recognize that they will feel more inclined to engage in the process when they feel like there's some transparency in how decisions are being made, as well as when there are uh a follow-through processes actually happening.

So really showing residents that their inputs actually lead to real change.

And this was a message that was really consistent across all demographic groups.

Um where we noticed that you know, 20% really represent equally those that are represents those different um subsections of the population.

We also noticed that individuals appreciate um having more clear communication and agenda, so using really plain language, um, providing advanced agendas and also really having accessible topics uh was really strong across every age group that there was.

And also the importance of having flexible scheduling.

So in terms of evening opportunities, uh weekend opportunities, maybe even shorter meetings as well, um, because individuals identify it as some structural uh or the timing of which meetings happen sometimes interfere with individuals' ability to really participate.

So really honing in on that stat around 20% who really said that they, you know, would participate more if they saw that the evidence or the input that they provide really led to real outcomes.

And so some of the illustrative quotes that came from the survey were, you know, I've gone to meetings before.

I shared what I thought, but nothing happened, you know.

So why would I go back?

Um others have said, you know, more regular progress updates will help maintain interest.

And another person mentioned that knowing that my comments are reviewed and responded to will increase my chances of participation.

So again, these were um individuals of various ages and income levels and even racial backgrounds, really cited this as really the most important um aspect for them.

So I want to also focus on, you know, the different ways in which people connect um with uh in terms of communication.

And so we wanted to test out what are the different modes in which individuals are or sources that they are generally um utilizing to get their news about the city of Milwaukee.

So we tested out different options, uh, such as your local network TV news or even your local news websites as well as blogs or newspapers, as well as the city um website as well.

And we see some of the top contenders were the local news and TV um station, as well as the city website.

And some of the ones that were uh less utilized were around the email news blast that goes out, or even some of the city um newsletters that goes out, but that was only about 20% of the population had identified that as um being some of their sources.

Can you talk?

I'm sorry.

Um, could you talk a little bit about uh specifically the pilot, the one um uh sort of how that has changed?

Uh is this something we've tracked in past surveys?

Because I will tell you the city uh tried to eliminate the pilot or tried to go just uh electronic on the pilot about eight years ago, and there was huge outcry.

So I am yeah, yeah.

I'm interested to know uh yeah, how how dramatic that has changed over yeah the years since COVID, I guess.

Yeah, and I don't have that number right here in front of me now, but I could look that up for you and provide that as well as to see if there was any subgroup analyses.

So, for instance, if there were certain demographic that was using it more so than in other um demographics.

So I can follow up with you regarding the and I'll share Mayor.

We we we were surprised too, because I didn't pass the past community service I've been here for.

It's the pilot's been a higher um response.

So that we'll be interdig into that.

But I didn't know that there was a time when they tried to kill.

And always just told me it was impossible.

Yeah, no, there was a time where it was, you know, it was a budgetary thing, and they decided to just do an electronic one and try and do it that way.

And that lasted about six or eight months, and yeah.

Yeah.

And I will say that the age divide on this was very dramatic.

So we saw that young adults, of course, are on the social media, but they're also on the city website.

And we saw that older adults rely on neighbors, neighborhood meetings, and the TV to get their news.

We also noticed that higher income households were at the newsletters, and we noticed that lower income households were on social media.

So overall, one channel is not, you know, um get all populations that, but the variety of all of it working together is really is really important.

Thank you.

Yeah.

And so we also, and this kind of echoes um the sentiment that I was saying before is that no channel really reaches the majority of all residents.

Um really a multi-channel approach to communication is really, really important.

Um we ask also, you know, what is the way you most prefer to get your news about the city of Milwaukee?

So whereas the other question asks, you choose all of them, all of the different methods that you use.

Just this question asked in particular for them to be very selective and to identify the one.

And so we saw that what rise to the top when they have to do this is that local news and um local network TV news rose to the top as well as the city's website.

And again, email, news blasts, as well as the city newsletter were some of those lower ranking um options that were across that.

And we also know that TV skews a little bit more towards uh black and Hispanic residents, and the newsletter was more so towards the higher income households.

And we also noticed that social media was an option that really skewed towards the younger as well as the lower income households.

So, really just thinking about the type of populations that want to be reached and the best ways to reach them as well.

I thought this was interesting because the local TV news and the local newspapers don't really cover Milwaukee unless it's a police incident of some sort.

I mean, we don't get uh I mean we occasionally get a coverage for our events uh for the being in the new year and other events, but um it's not like they're covering uh day-to-day Milwaukee stuff.

So interesting.

Yeah.

And so we also um ask them about you know, choice of language, and you know, people also recognize that language is also a potential civic barrier as well.

So as we noticed with our um survey that 9% of the survey answered the survey in Spanish.

Um, and so which represents that there is um a need for having um hybrid or bilingual meeting formats, um, as well as opportunities to see link to see uh different documents to be translated in Spanish as well.

Um, and across the survey, we noticed that Spanish speaking um respondents specifically requested bilingual facilitation at city events, um, materials that are translated into Spanish, online and hybrid meeting options, as well as the more welcoming and culturally responsive atmosphere as well.

And one illustrative quote that came through that is there in gray is that you know, meetings um should offer virtual participation options or recordings to really encourage broader participation and making those options um bilingual is really important.

Um then when it turns to uh the communication channels and making sure that it's reaching the appropriate um individuals that could really take advantage of those services.

We wanted to see, you know, are individuals aware that the city offer utility billing assistance to lower income households.

And we noticed that 77% of those um respondents indicated that yes, they are aware, and that 23% said that no, they were not aware.

But the good part about this finding is that those that are said that they are not aware are usually not the ones that are utilizing the services.

So the large majority of those that said that they were not aware were higher income households, um, and individuals that would not necessarily take advantage of that service.

Whereas those that were a part of those lower income households um were significantly more aware um that that exists.

So one of the third recommendations that came from this findings were also to meet residents where they are.

And so what we noticed is that the least satisfied groups are also least likely to attend the city meetings, but this is not because they just don't care.

It's more so because they see that they are facing some structural barriers that um does not allow them to show up and be able to attend.

So we noticed that 27% of residents who identify as black, they cited that scheduling was a barrier for them.

And this was significantly more than the overall population, whereas the overall sample was about 15% saw this as an issue, closer to double of that, 27% of Black residents saw that this was an issue.

We also noticed that amongst those that were least satisfied, they also release engaged because they wanted to see more interactive formats for being able to engage.

And also 7% of those respondents who identify as Hispanic, they wanted to see more virtual as well as hybrid options to create spaces in which they were able to fully participate and be a part of those convenings.

And again, one of the things that came forth is that residents wanted to be able to understand and feel that they could really trust the city government, as well as seeing that there is an inclusive and very welcoming environment for them.

And one of the things that came up is around, you know, really naming that there's some fundamental distrust of government that sometimes becomes a barrier to engagement.

And that they wanted to make sure that this is a little bit different from just transparency alone.

They really wanted to understand and see that the city really has some intentions to take in their input and to become accountable to their input.

So one illustrious quote that came forth was you know, I'll need to believe the city leadership is actually listening and not just going through the motions in the process.

Again, one other thing that came forward is around creating inclusive and welcoming environments.

Um, respondents really wanted to see the translation of services, having more culturally responsive facilitation, um, and also a less formal atmosphere as well.

Um, so a more welcoming and less formal atmosphere uh that feels inclusive will increase my participation.

Was it was the quote that came forth as well.

And those these are you know small in numbers, this was an important theme that we saw reflected in enough.

And so we wanted to make sure that we bring forth those as sometimes easier fixes that could be done help increase um trust, transparency, as well as creating more welcoming environment.

We also noticed that non-white residents and also lower income households uh place significantly higher importance on equitable and multicultural event planning.

So we see here um when we asked the question, you know, as the city plans for future events, there are numbers of goals that they could prioritize.

Please tell us whether you think that each one is extremely important, very important, somewhat important or not too important.

So we see here that overall 92% felt that it was important for them to um have events that were uh help community groups to put on events.

We also saw that they wanted to see more multicultural events as well as more events in different parts of the city as well.

So this really kind of connects um to the theme of you know, meeting residents where they are and providing opportunities that really help them be able to identify with the events and really want to show up for those as well.

We also ask about their importance of the letting library services in terms of providing weekend hours of operations.

And so we noticed that three and four residents indicated that weekend hours are important to them.

Um, so staying open on weekends in the daytime was really something that three-fourths of the population found to be really important.

And we also noticed that when we did some subgroup analyses that lower income households earning less than 80K are significantly more likely to rate the weekend daytime library hours as extremely or very important compared to households that was earning 150K and more, which really suggests that these hours, you know, served as a critical access point for residents with less scheduling flexibility.

Um, and we also noticed that some priorities, uh library priorities really vary by age.

And so we wanted to hear more about the different services in terms of the availability of ebooks and e audiobooks as well as programming for adults and access to technology, as well as being open after 5 p.m.

on weekends.

And we know in terms of the level of importance, around 82% of the respondents indicated that availability of e-books and e-audio books was something that was really important to the overall overall group.

But we also noticed that there was some trends that kind of took place throughout, whereas younger residents placed significantly greater importance on the weekend and evening hours, while older residents prioritize technology access, off-site library services such as the hold lockers and book mobile locations as well.

And we also notice that adult programming is significantly more important to lower income households than to higher income households, um, as well as higher income households were also less likely to value electronic materials, which really suggests that they all already have their own private access to those things.

Can I ask you you have a question here about uh the importance of open after 5 p.m.

on weekends, but was there a corollary question about the interest in evening hours on weekdays?

We did not um let's see.

I think that's the conversation I've had with the library director.

I don't believe we did, but yeah, let's double check.

Yeah, I could double check that, but that might be something to add to the next iteration of this.

Um, but no, I don't think we asked for it during the weekday.

Okay, thank you.

So we also ask around about um, you know, while the city and Milwaukee owns this parks, they are maintained and operated by North Clackamas Parks and Recreation District.

And we wanted people to tell us whether you are satisfied or dissatisfied with each of the following aspects.

So when it comes to maintenance of parks and park amenities, or even the number of activities at local parks, the quality of activities at local parks.

We wanted to see how satisfied with they are with that.

And in general, um, the community is pretty satisfied.

We saw the lowest percentage of satisfaction was around 78%.

Um, whereas the highest was around 88%, expressing that they were satisfied with the number of parks there are in Milwaukee.

Um, but we also noticed that access to and satisfaction with these amenities is um shaped, you know, significantly by race and age and income as well as length of time in Milwaukee, whereas we noticed that black residents reported dispatch satisfaction rates that were two to three times higher than white residents across all four of these metrics.

And we also noticed that non-white residents are significantly less satisfied than white residents on each of those items as well.

Um and one of the caveats for the survey is that we're not able to dig into the weeds of each one of these things to figure out you know what is driving those those levels of dissatisfaction, but we were noticing that um even still amongst residents that were between the ages of 18 and um 29, as well as those that were born and raised within a city, uh consistently rank among ranked among the most um dissatisfied groups, um, and their levels of dissatisfaction really range from anywhere from 47 to 75 percent across each of those metrics.

So some of the younger populations, as well as those that were born and raised, uh expressed some fairly um dissatisfied.

So you see that's driving those levels of dissatisfaction is partly um in due to those um.

Um excuse me a second, counselor Stavan Jordan, I think has a question for you.

Yep, thank you, Mayor.

Um, so I have a couple questions about the um survey as it pertains to younger residents.

Do you have an idea?

What's the sample size for the population between 18 and 29?

With an hour sample?

Correct.

Yes, let me.

So if I go back to the earliest slide, the 18 to 29 group was uh about 16 percent of the sample.

And the the total sample, I'm sorry, was what?

500.

500.

Okay.

So um I mentioned this last year when we went through the results and possibly the year before, but um, we don't have a way of asking these same questions to youth under the age of 18.

And yet we consistently ask them to be involved in things like we just heard from Metro about the future of the region and they're involving young people in that conversation, but we don't measure their satisfaction with the city that they live in.

And I I think that we're starting to draw conclusions about um things that we should be investing in and looking at um a slice of a fairly small sample size already um to extrapolate you know the satisfaction with services, but we're saying younger residents and we're really not including anyone under the age of 18.

So I I would love for us finally to have a conversation about what it means to get the input of residents under 18 in either a supplement to this, we can use some of the same questions, whatever that ends up looking like.

Um I think I think it's just time.

We're asking youth to be involved in committees and other other um things that shape the city, but we're not including them in this wealth of information that then drives our decisions.

Yeah, that's a good point.

And maybe even um as you guys consider ways to engage, do you think about different ways in which they may want to express themselves?

Um, we do a lot of youth work and sometimes surveys isn't that the way in which they want to kind of show up and express themselves.

But we, you know, we recognize that we want the larger numbers to be able to express that.

Um, and sometimes with um trying to survey youth, it comes to the research ethics and having to get like um different approvals to be able to do studies that will allow you to ethically show up and be able to um do that sampling.

Um way that I've seen different people do it, which is not always the best option, is um to use adults with children under the age of 18 as a proxy to get that information.

But that's you know, these are all imperfect ways of doing it, but there's some ways in which if you don't want to kind of trend a line of having to engage um people who are under 18 in a survey sample.

Counselor, can I ask?

Are you are you would I think the point is incredibly well taken?

And we can absolutely, as we fold as we prepare for our next biannual survey, think of um ways to proactively address that question.

Can I ask her, are you um kind of making a motion or asking your colleagues to consider providing direction to us to do some additional engagement for the under 18 population now?

Because if so, that's great.

I'd love to see if there's consensus direction there, and we can come back with a proposal for how we would do that and and how we would fit that in with work plans.

Do you all feel okay weighing in on that question?

I'm okay to weigh in on it.

I did want a little bit more clarity on what Dr.

Woodson said about, I mean, she seemed to be indicating there's a parental permission kind of aspect.

Does that kick in at 18 or does that kick in at 15 or 16?

Is there an age?

Under the age of 18.

You really do have to have parental permission.

Um, from a research ethics standpoint, yes.

Um that's usually suggested.

Um and then but if you have your mechanisms of like for instance, if you have youth advisory council or if you have youth groups that you could already get connected to and you have some trusted relationships there, you could probably provide a survey to those sources.

So if you like community-based organizations that are youth um that heavily involved with youth, maybe that's a way, but in general, um it is highly suggested to get parental consent um to do this in a research with research and ethics.

So I I think that there are research standards that apply to um, you know, if you're planning to publish the results of of a study, if you're um asking um sensitive questions, if you're asking questions about um, you know, personal activities, like I'm thinking about some of the surveys that are um distributed through like Oregon Healthy Teens, things along those lines need it needs to be sent out to families.

But asking whether the city you should invest more in parks, I think that's probably an okay question to ask without like parental involvement.

And I wonder if the the kind of nuance here is like the way they do the random sampling and the way they find the people to contact is through voter roles and various things like that.

So I don't I think we could absolutely construct a way to survey youth in Milwaukee that complies with all kind of ethical things um and we would just need some time to come back to you with the proposal for how we're gonna do that if that's the direction you give us tonight.

Okay.

Yeah I think the methodology could vary um I don't know that that would skew the results very much at all.

I think you would try and you know cast as wide a net as possible and work with as many youth serving organizations and community groups as possible.

But if the questions are the same, then I think that the methodology could vary slightly um and you would still have a valid um sample to pull from so I guess the question for my colleagues is are you in favor of a request to city staff to um develop um a proposal around gathering similar information from youth under the age of 18 now versus at the next survey yeah yes thoughts on that counselors uh council president I think and correct me if I'm wrong here but what you're describing to me which I think is a good direction to go is it does not have to be a statistically significant academically perfect survey like this is more about meaningfully engaging youth members of our community as widely as possible.

Right.

And I think that that is a really worthwhile venture I think I would be happy to support something like that and giving that direction I think that one thing we can think about here is how can we use our council engagement budgets to be able to help fund something like this and I think if folks are worried that staff capacity is going to be a constraint here what are ways that we can plug in counselors to be able to help move this forward um because I think this is really exciting engagement work.

And if you tell us marching orders of the best way we could go about this or we have time to collectively think about that on this dais I think we could do something really exciting that I think would be helpful feedback for us going forward.

Thank you.

And I just want to add to that it depends on if you want kind of that raw numbers alone type of information or if you also want to get that deeper descriptive level of you know in terms of what exactly do they want and kind of like their vision could also be a different approach that you take if you're engaging them already um if you wanted to do not just a survey but something more qualitatively as well could be some options that you could pursue.

So um there's a wide lens of different modalities that you could use there's no like perfect method um especially if you're not concerned or about a statistically uh representative sample of the community sure we could do something that's supplementary to this study uh like a few focus groups with representative samples of youth that would want to weigh in on these questions and provide their feedback qualitatively I mean right now we're working with a baseline of nothing so um it would be great to build something in uh counselor customati I just wanted to express my support um for counselor standard's uh idea I think it's very thoughtful and and uh important for us to know that information so thank you yes counselor counselor massey yes I I'm in support of uh you know um gaining some insight into this uh uh younger demographic um but did I hear um something about doing it now versus rather than the next uh survey you you are is the proposal to to do something now my proposal yes that's correct because this is something that I brought up the last time we did this survey um and I expressed concern about uh missing out on a huge population of our of our city residents and when you think about it people are 16 years old getting driver's license z licenses um they should be weighing in on public transit they should be weighing in on climate change they should be weighing in on the quality of the roads and the safety of being able to bike through the city um they have that independence they're getting with their license comes a note from the Secretary of State's office saying you know motor voter you're registered you know you'll get your ballot at 18.

So there's there's a level of engagement and um autonomy that they're getting now but they're not seeing that from us asking their input about the city they live in.

Okay, understood.

I would just uh also offer that that um doing any kind of survey or uh focus group or anything like that is maybe a little bit more complicated than a lot of people think.

And so I I would I would want to make sure that we have some expertise involved in doing that because uh these uh these surveys uh they they can look simple to the outside, but for them to be statistically valid, there's really a lot of uh thought that goes behind it.

So uh I would just caution us that let's not uh let's not do something on the back of an envelope.

I'm happy to lend my expertise um and also happy to provide examples of what that has consisted over the last 20 years.

Thank you.

Yeah, I mean, I think uh I think it's a great idea.

Um I don't I mean, I think we've we're sort of giving a giving up on the idea that it's necessarily going to be statistically valid.

Um, but we also know that even doing it in the next survey is going to be problematic because of the uh, you know, the ethical questions about parental, you know, permissions and stuff.

So I mean, we need to find whatever the right mechanism is, and I don't see a reason to wait.

Yeah, for the next survey on that.

This is really helpful.

What we'll do is we'll we'll circle up and we'll come back with a proposal for a near-term youth engagement addendum or supplement to uh this year's community survey.

We'll also make a note that for when we start planning for the next biannual community survey, we bake that in, whether that is as part of the statistically valid scope or again an addendum because of the um the methodological needs to ensure that we're doing everything in a compliant way.

So thank you.

Yeah, really.

Thank you, Counselor.

Thank you.

Sure.

Okay.

Sorry, um, Dr.

Woodson, we'll let you get back to your presentation.

Yes.

Um, and I do want to honor the time.

So I'm gonna move fairly quickly through these last two recommendations.

Um, recommendation four of which was address the housing as an equity priority.

And so um we noticed that about 13% um cited housing as their top concern.

Um, but and we noticed that there was some differences uh amongst um some subgroup analyses.

And so we saw that 27% of black respondents had indicated that this was a priority for them, as well as about 19% of renters compared to about 9% of homeowners, as well as 18% of individuals that were between ages of 18 to 25, which was nearly three times the rate of someone that was uh 65 and older, representing this as a very important um topical area.

Some of the illustrative quotes that came out is that rents keep going up.

And I keep hearing about new developments, but nothing is built for people like me.

When does that change?

Another quote that stood out is that affordable housing is very limited in Milwaukee, which can be the reason that people become homeless as well.

So those were two quotes that stood out, and that's in that area of this um survey.

We also noticed that nearly all younger residents and individuals that were born and raised um residents say that Milwaukee has become less affordable than the overall region.

Um and we noticed about in the sample, we see about 49% says that it is less affordable than the rest of the region, whereas only 6% says that it is more affordable than the rest of the reasons.

So residents are feeling to squeeze um and really are reflecting that throughout this item in the survey.

We also noticed that in the fifth and final recommendation that investments and safety um and holistically thinking about safety was something really important that came through in the survey.

Um when it comes to safety, they uh mentioned that um public safety and crime is really important.

So about 17% had noticed that um this was a really important issue that was top of mind for them.

So public safety is the most important thing for me, including preventing crime and improving neighborhood safety.

This issue should be addressed immediately as it involved resident safety.

We also noticed that when it comes to the infrastructure and road safety, that this was also important.

So making traffic smoother and less congested should be also a priority.

And we also noticed that when it comes to housing and affordability and those infrastructural pieces that that was important because the non-availability of stable or reasonably price high listing is one of the important issues that needs to be addressed.

We also noticed that about 10% said that, you know, thinking about environment and sustainability is also important.

So the most important issue is increasing greenery and tree coverage across mobile PD, which would improve air quality, reduce heat, and make neighborhoods healthier and more enjoyable for residents as well.

I asked about this.

So when I saw this slide, my first question was were you giving people a multiple choice list to pick from, or did people were you act asking an open-ended question where people said this is my top concern, and you fit it into a category that you had a list of categories?

Yeah, this was an open-ended question for folks to um complete in their own words.

Okay.

And so we use those open-ended responses to bubble those up as you're you were saying into larger topical areas and categories.

Okay.

And then it sounds to me like if you sorted this on people under 30, that it would maybe come out differently.

The housing and affordability would come out as the top.

As the top choices, yes.

Okay.

Okay.

Thank you.

And so also just like when they're thinking about safety, they're thinking about everything from lighting, sidewalks, as well as response rates.

So overall public safety, more than just policing, but the overall infrastructure is really important.

Um we also noticed that when we dig a little bit deeper in that 17% that said public safety and crime was really important.

Um the most frequently cited concern that really exists across all demographic characteristics.

They noticed that uh safety means you know, good lighting, working sidewalks, and knowing help will come when you call.

Crime and slow emergency response are the biggest concerns, and I think the city should address those first.

We noticed that um this really stood out amongst um black residents, whereas we saw that 22% of those respondents identify this as an issue.

And we also noticed that homeowners, about 19% identified this as an issue as well, where they're describing crime prevention, law enforcement, emergency response, all of those issues combined really impact their perception of the uh city and neighborhood safety.

Um, in terms of you know, roads and infrastructure, we saw that about 14% of residents named this as their top priority.

And this really stands out again amongst those that identify as black as well as those that identify as young adults between the ages of 18 and 29.

Some of those uh things that really came forth was that they talked about the road conditions and pop codes as daily frustrations, traffic congestion and speeding as safety concerns, and also the connection between tax increases and the expectation of visible improvements was also something that they wanted to see.

Um one of the quotes that came forth was I want to see better road repairs and more free frequent transportation services, especially since taxes keep going up.

Yeah, they don't understand our tax system, but uh, because our taxes haven't been going up.

But um, can you tell me that this um I know this we've asked these kind of questions in years past?

Has there been any significant change?

I was a little surprised by how much this was called out as an issue because the city really has done a lot of paving over the last three summers.

Um and uh is this a lower number than it was a couple surveys back?

Yeah, this is a good question.

I'm gonna see how it was worded in the previous uh survey as well, and then I could be able to um follow up with that in addition to that pilot newsletter question to see if there was um significant differences between the last survey.

Okay, thank you.

I appreciate that.

Yeah, and so some of the last bit is here is around, sorry, um, core safety and infrastructure services, they were overall um very important to Milwaukee residents, where no one said any of these were um not important at all.

Um core safety and infrastructure services, they were overall um very important to Milwaukee residents, where no one said any of these were um not important at all.

Um it was just some variation in terms of whether they thought it was extremely or very important.

So we listed off each of the services and asked people to let us know how important they were.

Um, so of course, police services, maintaining streets, addressing issues of public safety, providing utilities and creating safe spaces to walk and to bike.

All of those were very were important services for them.

Um just ones that stands out as you know, extremely important were those were in terms of um police services.

So nobody listed these as not important.

And then when it comes to um overall, when we ask how satisfied are you with the city services in terms of pedestrian and bike safety, um residents who are already the most dissatisfied overall with the city feel it most when it comes to when they think about streets and safeties and getting around.

So again, those were those that um identify as uh um black uh residents, as well as some individuals um that were born and raised in a city, those were areas that they consistently felt like they were um not overall satisfied with some of the services that was there.

And then lastly, just general key takeaways that we see from this survey is that overall there is very strong satisfaction with the overall city services and so, but we see that to make some changes that there are some significant equity gaps in terms of who is experiencing what.

Um, and so as we saw that, you know, while 85% of residents are satisfied with the quality of life, we notice that that approval really differs for those that are black residents as well as those that are younger adults and sometimes even those that are our renters as well.

Again, infrastructure is one of the key top priorities with public safety and streets as well as water and sewer services and walking and bike safety are some of those important areas that um they want to see addressed.

We mentioned this before around the library services, they are highly valued.

Um, but wanting to see additional technology access and keeping the e-books and those e-audio books as well as some weekend hours could be something that they could really um utilize uh and be really important.

And we also noticed that you know, communication and participation patterns, you know, that really um changes based off of age and also in terms of racial and language um preferences.

So really thinking about the channels that reach individuals the most um and who are those demographic um um characteristics as well as making sure that there's some opportunities for individuals could to connect who are non-English speaking um residents as well.

Um, and we also noticed um, I think this was uh probably to your earlier point about any trends that we noticed since the 2022 survey.

And this was around the Milwaukee pilot newsletter that um is dropped sharply as like a news source for individuals.

So I think it was a little bit higher in the previous survey.

And I could go back and check those exact numbers, but it dropped um it seems like sharply in this iteration as a new source, while the digital channels kind of grew more um substantially in this findings of the report.

So those are all of our findings.

So just thank you so much for uh taking the time and looking through this and engaging conversations.

I know this was quite a bit to get through in our time together.

Thank you.

Dr.

Woodson, uh any questions folks have?

Oh, I'm sorry, Counselor Massey's in the waiting.

Uh Dr.

Woodson, thank you for the presentation.

Uh in my experience in these uh in these surveys, um, you know, there's two ways you can go.

You can go to a very standardized survey that's easily comparable, you know, to internally uh within your own organization over time.

Uh and that also lends itself to comparison to other uh peer organizations like other cities.

And so uh do you feel like we have a a standardized or a more specialized survey here?

Um when I compare this survey to the previous iteration, there were some similarities in terms of the questions and the wording of the questions, but also there were some priority shifts that were happening within the city.

And so we wanted to create space for some newer questions and some newer ways of knowing information.

So this was um, although there were some questions that are kind of universal when it comes to overall satisfaction of living in the city or quality of life, those are some standards that questions that we see across a lot of um city surveys that we're doing, but there was a lot of questions where we wanted to really know things specifically for your um community as well as some priorities that the city was looking at as well.

And then the other thing that we had to contend with is making sure that the survey was not too long to produce burden onto the respondent because we wanted to make sure we got some good responses and that respondents didn't experience survey fatigue.

So there was more questions that we had that we had to really make some cuts to, and some of those were possibly questions that were asked in previous years, but when we thought about the priority areas, those were um top of mind in terms of priority areas.

So do you feel like uh we can use these effectively to compare internally from year to year within the city?

There are some metrics, yes, that you'll be able to use to compare from year to year.

Yes.

And so my last question is do you think that uh we have enough uh standardized questions to actually do benchmarking with other similar cities that you survey?

Absolutely.

Okay, that would be a good idea.

There's quite a few questions that were asked over the past iterations of the surveys that are asked in other surveys that could definitely be used as benchmarks.

Thank you.

Um other questions.

Uh yeah, I I could go on.

I mean, I I'm I like to dig into this kind of stuff, but I we have other things on our agenda.

So uh I won't do that.

I will resist that urge.

But um uh interesting stuff here.

Uh would like to yeah, see how some of these things compare year after year.

Um and some of them that we ask, I mean, I appreciate staff asking the questions about uh the bulky waste day and the uh the uh food composting because we needed to know those.

They're not necessarily questions we now need to ask again.

Um it was important to to kind of know those for our solid waste rate discussions, but they're not probably things we have to keep tracking.

Um Mayor Beatty.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

Oh, counselor coast robot.

Yeah, thank you, Mayor.

Uh I don't have a question.

I just wanted to uh thank you, Doctor, for the work and the time and and energy that was put into this.

Um it's really important information.

Uh it's sobering uh humbling as well, uh, considering how much we've invested in and how much good that we've we know we've we've put in to the city.

We know we still have a lot of work to do.

Um and you know, there's a lot of items on there that fall on us as individual council members to do those items to do those things.

So I appreciate you uh highlighting this and really uh giving us a good temperature gauge of what we're doing and where we're headed and where we need to do better.

Yeah, I I agree with those comments.

And um, I will say, I mean, some things were not a surprise, and some things were a surprise.

Um, so uh it was it was really informative.

Um if no other questions for Dr.

Woodson, um Joseph, anything else to close out or just wanted to say thank you to Dr.

Woodson again.

It's been great working with you.

Um I also I did wasn't sure if part of the presentation we missed Q question eight.

You have it in the final, but did we cover?

Because I think it's actually really important.

It's one of the main questions that counselors wanted us to ask about investing more in parks.

Um it's one of the ones that actually splits pretty evenly.

Um and I don't know if you if do we take do we already hit it?

I'm sorry if we bring it up again.

I just didn't see it, or I might have been looking reading something else.

But that's it.

If it was in a um presentation, but I think we started our other discussion and it probably got this.

I'm gonna well, and we definitely talked about the satisfaction level with parks, but I don't know if we talked about the investment.

Yeah.

This was the question about would you be willing to pay more and property tax traditional parks and recreational services?

So that's just that's just one I thought would be it's very uh alive and well in our thinking right now.

Yes, that's a good point to raise up.

And it was almost uh almost an even split, whereas 59% saying they will be willing, but about 41% um said that they would not be willing.

And I think that was one of the questions where we saw the most distance in terms of how community was billing or even a split between that.

And we noticed that low um willingness to pay uh did not necessarily mean that they do not value it, but that groups that were least willing to pay are some to say in groups that are that has the greatest financial strain um and also the greatest level of dissatisfaction.

We're amongst those groups that were not willing to pay more.

Yeah, I was interested by the um I mean they you know, obviously people who are economically um in distress are not you know do not want to pay more for things.

But I was a little surprised by the born and raised residents, both on the satisfaction and the and this one because I think you know they uh have been here, they know how many they as opposed to somebody who just moved here in the last 10 years, they know how many more parks there were there are now than there were 20 years ago or whatever.

So it was interesting to me that there was um a lower satisfaction uh rate with that group.

Um anyway.

I just want to add my thanks to Dr.

Woodson and to Joseph on the staff side for project managing this.

It's a big it's a big lift, but it's super important for us data nerds who uh want to make data driven decisions.

It's also a good opportunity for me to share that we are going to be looking for a time for a joint meeting of council and the equity steering committee this fall so that we can continue to advance our um metrics work, which is very related to some of the um the the data points that we track longitudinally, and I I really appreciate your comments, Counselor Massey about benchmarking other cities because it's important to compare against ourselves and how we're doing, but also compare um against our our peers.

So but I I I'm glad you brought up the joint meeting with the ESC because that's what I was thinking when uh when Dr.

Woodson was just early in her presentation.

I thought, oh, there's a lot of stuff here we need to have a discussion with the ESC about.

We'll make sure that this is shared with the ESC.

Yeah, all right.

Well, thank you, Dr.

Woodson.

Thank you all.

It's been a pleasure.

I hope you continue to lean on his report.

I know it's very rich, but I hope you continue to use it as you make those um data decisions moving forward.

And if we could be of any use to you, we're always here to help.

So thank you so much.

Uh-huh.

Thank you.

Bye-bye.

Bye.

All right.

Next thing on our agenda is a climate update from our climate and natural resources manager, Katie Guevara.

And she has in the wings a climate action committee update as well.

Um, does anybody I saw I guess does anybody need a break before we?

Okay.

Okay.

No way.

I wore my diapers.

Katie's just glad she's up at 8:30 this time.

That was so bad.

The night is so young.

Well, good evening, council, mayor, council president.

Um, what a treat to be here tonight to talk about um our climate update.

Um so tonight we'll give an overview of our climate action efforts um and get uh council direction on future priorities.

And then we have the honor to hear from our um chair and vice chair of our newly formed climate action committee um to share some updates on what we've been up to for the first six months of the committee and um what are our priorities going forward.

Um and so we'll um get started though with some actions um and highlights from our climate action work.

So to to start off with some fun um some fun updates.

Uh in our transportation electrification world, um, we have an exciting new project at Milwaukee Marketplace where eight new level two EV charging ports are being installed.

Um we worked with PGE in their business and multifamily make ready program.

Um, and uh the city was doing outreach and um uh talking to different property owners on where we could um take advantage of this really great program.

And new seasons helped us get in touch with the then new property owners of Milwaukee Marketplace.

And they were incredibly receptive.

And so this program PGE provides incentives for the design study and a significant part of the transformer update.

And any of the infrastructure related work.

And then we we did a collaborative funding effort so that this could really be realized, knowing that these um are really critical part of town for public chargers.

We're surrounded by multifamily housing, and it's such a hub of commercial activity where folks stay and park for a while.

And so then the city helped contribute for some of those infrastructure updates.

And then Milwaukee Marketplace paid for and will continue to maintain the actual EV chargers themselves.

And so we've been working on this program for about a year and a half now.

Um, and we're finally at the home stretch.

Um at the beginning of July, we had our final inspection of the Transformer upgrade.

And then in August, um, the Milwaukee Marketplace will be installing their EV chargers.

Um those are have been ordered and are on their way.

Um and then in September they'll be open to the public.

Um and so we're in conversation on um how to celebrate uh and um potentially do a ribbon cutting, and those details will um will be uh shared with you all soon.

Katie, I have two quick questions, and I'm very excited about this.

As I took my first Club Pilates Milwaukee class, I was like, I could be charging right now.

Um where are they gonna be in the Milwaukee marketplace?

Well, that's a really good question.

Um so they will be right in front of the the Starbucks and new seasons, um kind of right as you enter the the Milwaukee marketplace parking lot.

Well, I thought I saw them working there month a few months ago, but then it all disappeared, and I was like, well, is that where they are?

Or that's great.

And then um, will it will it be paid charging?

And do they know kind of what provider or like is it one of the charge point or something like that?

It will be um paid parking or paid charging, and um we do know which um uh EV charger uh it will be, but I don't know it off the top of my head.

So I will follow up with you all um tomorrow.

Um and um I'm happy to provide the the rate that Milwaukee Marketplace um is also charging at.

It's within PGE's program sets a threshold for for the the charging prices within the first 10 years.

Um I can also share where Milwaukee Marketplace landed on that.

Um so then our second fun update on transportation electrification is that we have been participating in the Interstate Renewable Energy Council's Charging Smart program.

And um we for this participation, we will be receiving a bronze designation um next month.

And this this program really helped um walk through an audit of our EV planning, permitting, and operations and helped us identify areas where we could for improvements, um areas for um streamlined processes and where we could strengthen our communications.

Um of the um reasons we we qualified for the um designation is um recognizing the really strong coordination we have with PGE on um electric um or EV and transportation electrification efforts.

Um and then we've also been working to strengthen our education materials um based off of the recommendations.

So we have a new um EV uh portion of the climate and sustainability website that um will be uh hopefully up and open to the public um as early as next week.

Um and so that walks through not only the benefits and areas to learn more and um kind of ongoing tracker tracking of incentives, it also um walks through the um full process on uh how to all the permitting process to get an EV charger set up.

Um and so we've been working with our uh community development department on um spelling that all out so that it creates more transparency and ease um for folks who have questions.

That's exciting.

Um before you, if that's the end of transportation, I just wanted to ask.

We were part of a multi-city federal uh allocation at the end of the Biden administration that got tied up in the new administration.

Um I just wondered if Twaleton was kind of the manager of that.

I saw the mayor of Twalton a few months ago, and he said it's in litigation.

Do we know any but no?

It's just I don't have any more updates.

It's the tank up um grant opportunity, and we we receive updates from the city of Twiliton when they have it, and the last I heard was that it was in litigation and that they would reach out when they knew more.

More, okay.

Okay, well, I appreciate that.

Thank you.

Absolutely.

Um, so our next update is in building decarbonization.

Um, and our our kind of North Star here is around one of our climate action plan goals, um, which is to have net zero carbon emissions from building fuels by 2035.

Um, and so in service of doing that, um uh we have been working on um outreach and efforts um in a couple different uh buckets.

First with Milwaukee businesses.

Um so we have been supporting um the Oregon Department of Energy's building performance standards program, um, which was created by HB 30 um 3409 um that requires um tier one buildings to comply with an energy use intensity target.

And so for um tier one uh for some tier one buildings, um compliance with those targets can start as early as 2030.

Um and so um Odo as well as the Energy Trust of Oregon have been um uh trying to promote some grants and incentive programs to help businesses um with the different compliance efforts they'll need to do.

So we have been um we've worked to identify the around 65 tier one businesses we have in Milwaukee and have been sending out educational information and those grant and incentive programs.

Um we've also been um working directly with around 15 businesses um that were identified from um community development department that are um actively undergoing or considering energy efficiency upgrades and uh have encouraged them to attend some community engagement workshops, which we'll talk about in just a minute, um, as well as um uh some staff one-on-ones with them to understand um what are the opportunities, what are the challenges, what are some of the lessons learned so that we can um better support businesses um commercial and industrial as they upgrade their facilities.

So those 15 aren't necessarily out of the 65 tier one, or they are that they are not.

Okay, and do we know what any of our 65 tier ones are doing, or what kind of roadmap they have, or are they even paying attention?

My experience has been there's a lot, there's a long road to education still ahead of us with those 65.

Um engagement from those emails has been pretty low, and then in one-on-one conversations, there is still uh a surprise that this is happening, and that's that's anecdotal.

Um, but there are some that are tracking it and already are are working on these energy efficiency um uh efforts for their own internal goals.

Um a mixed bag, but I would say that there is still a lot of education that's needed.

Thank you, council president.

Um, even if you're the first one telling these folks, and that can be challenging and demoralizing at the same time.

Uh, I really appreciate you leading and just educating people around this and trying to get compliance with this because this is a really exciting standard.

Do you have a sense of how many of the 65 are in compliance right now, or would it likely be that none of them are in compliance right now, and we're they're gonna have to work with them over the next few years.

Um, so I don't have a sense of where folks are at in compliance.

Um there will be different categories based off of um use category of facility, and then there will be different energy use intensity targets for those different categories.

Um I don't have a breakdown, but I um presume I could get it from Odo to understand um the the breakdown of that 65 in those different use categories.

Um and then I'm not sure how I would uh find kind of where we're at in energy use before the first benchmark or before the first um compliance deadline.

Um, but I can do some follow-up with with Odo to see what information is publicly available.

Did that answer your question?

I think it did.

I think that there's a lot of unknown, and I'm just really impressed that we're as a city being so proactive and helping the state enforce this.

Um I think it's really good.

It's good customer service, and I'm glad that you're doing it.

And did you say 2030 is the first deadline for this?

Okay.

For commercial buildings that are um uh 35,000 square feet or larger compliment.

And then there's the actually 2028 is the first compliance.

I'm so sorry.

Um that's for 200,000 square feet, 90,000 square feet um compliance is June 1, 2029, and then 35,000 square feet um is 2030.

Okay.

More on building decarb.

So um for our own city facilities, um, we've been improving our energy efficiency through our participation in Energy Trust of Oregon's strategic energy management program.

Um, and this has been something that we have participated in for the past um couple years now.

And um recently we uh received an accolade um uh that Milwaukee made it to the top four out of 95 organizations participating in this program for our electrical savings and top eight out of that same 95 um batch for our natural gas savings.

And so this um not only helps us save thousands of dollars um uh on um through efficiency upgrades, but it also helps us qualify for uh an additional thousands of dollars of um incentives we then qualify for.

Um so it's uh a real kudos to our um facilities uh division and public works for their their um really detailed work to be able to get these types of energy savings across our facilities.

Um this work also helps us meet our tier two benchmarking requirements.

So our city facilities all fall within that tier two.

So while we don't have to meet specific energy use intensity targets, um, sorry, through Odo's BPS program, we will have to um be reporting out where we're um where we're at and this strategic energy management program, we're already accustomed to reporting out in the same format, the same numbers, and so we'll be able to easily transition in compliance with that um program.

Thanks.

So then to support our Milwaukee low-income residents, um, we have been supporting outreach for the free in-home energy efficiency upgrades program with community energy project.

Um and um if y'all remember this, this is a uh project that or a program that um CEP braids um multiple different funding streams, and then um the city helps uh pay for the free um home energy score assessment.

Um, and then through that assessment, it outlines um critical energy efficiency and weatherization um uh investments that um are needed around the home, and then CEP with those additional dollars can actually make those those investments.

Um they can do up to $18,000 per home and have funding for 20 projects in Milwaukee.

So we've had this program for about two a year and a half.

Um and uh unfortunately we had we don't have any projects in Milwaukee that have taken it up.

We had two in the last um about four months, recently completed and unincorporated Clackness County who really great resident or really great um folks who thought they were Milwaukee residents and uh were excited to see this program and had really great benefits.

Um folks uh that got replaced non-functional electric water heaters, um, did some critical weatherization, moisture management, um, replaced non-functioning forced um uh electric air furnace.

Um so really incredible things, um, upgrades into the home that CEP was able to do, and they have been able to prioritize hiring an um a full-time staff member to support this program in Glackamas County.

Um, and um that's will be a CEP that will be able to really help um promote that storytelling and that trust building and word of mouth trust building for this program.

Um they did uh um an audit um of multiple of their programs, including this one to look at how they can um have greater uh use and that was some of the findings.

So with these two great um efforts being successfully done, I think we have a really great opportunity to um show that these are real folks, this is a real program, it will be 100% free and continue to help that um that program take off.

Counselor?

Uh council coaster body has that, Andrews.

Oh, and you you don't see it on there.

Oh, did you also have or you're just oh sorry, okay, counselor coaster body.

So we're we're nine nine years away.

Um with the compliance being scheduled as it is.

Are we on track to reach that goal?

And is there anything that we can or should be doing to help make sure that these businesses are in compliance or are adhering to the compliance schedule?

That is a fantastic question.

The first part of your question, um, I think, or this maybe the second part first of is there stuff we could do to help with compliance.

So um compliance is run by Odo, um, and we um can continue helping supporting that um outreach and education piece.

Um, I do think we'll we will learn a little bit more in 2028 um and um can continue revising our strategies um based on that.

To your question of is there more we can do?

That is a perfect segue to my next slide.

Um so maybe we can circle back to that one.

Um can I before you go on, can I on the community energy project?

So um I guess I'm wondering, I know you've done a lot to try, and I remember at one point you were doing door hangers and stuff.

Um, so you have done a lot to try to identify um households.

Um I just wonder if there's any other, you know, well, through our uh energy assistance program.

I assume that you've reached out to those people.

Um are there any other avenues for help, uh churches or something for helping identify people who might be churches and places of worship.

We could definitely look into a lot more.

We've we've done a little bit um, we've I think maybe at least skimmed the surface there.

We did work with um the guidance counselors at uh Milwaukee High School um to identify and send the information um to to any student they knew with was without heat during the winter.

We did door hangers.

Um we've sent it as uh um insert into our um low-income utility billing assistance um two different times.

Um have done uh engagement through the library.

Um I would say is our our primary methods.

Yeah, okay.

I assume that Glenn and Krista, Trista know about this.

And I don't think people there.

I don't think Trista yet, but Glenn, yes.

Um but that's a good reminder that we have a new a new person over there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, great.

I've been talking with uh there's a resident here in Milwaukee, Ben Russo, who uh works with a different organization than Community Energy Project, but they do that same work in other communities.

And so I've been talking with him about you know, they're starting to work in Sandy and Wilsonville now and stuff.

So yeah, anyway, okay, thank you.

Yeah.

Um so uh then we've also been working on citywide engagement, um, focusing on residents and businesses.

And um, this was in response to um uh feedback we got from council in July of 2025.

Um thinking through um really getting feedback on how we reach that um uh climate action plan uh building decarbonization goal.

And when we when we're thinking about like how do we center community priorities and reaching that goal, um, what do we really mean by building decarbonization?

I think um we really centered in this engagement that when we're talking about this, we're talking about making sure that our buildings where we work and where we live are healthy and safe, that we're breathing clean air, that the temperature is a comfortable and safe temperature to be in, um, that they're affordable, that we can pay our utility bills for these facilities, and that they're climate resilient, that they're um prepared for the the climate extremes that we're we're already facing, like a very hot and smoky day or um ice storms and severe storms in the winter.

Um and so really focusing on on those impacts of um what it what it means once we achieve that climate action plan goal.

Um and so through that, um really understanding what what are the community's priorities and how we how we get there.

And so we have worked with um uh starting from January um of this year, we've worked with uh coalition of communities of color and Green Energy Institute to host three community workshops where we had um 68 participants.

Um and then we uh hosted a citywide survey where we had about 130 responses.

Um we uh I'll move to the next slide.

Um on kind of where we go from here and next steps.

So where we kind of started was um July 2025.

Um we had the staff presentation on um the regulatory landscape on building decarbonization and some policy opportunities or options and council's direction was to start the climate action committee, um, do some community engagement and then come back in the fall of 2026 um with those findings and recommendations.

Um so we have um uh uh done um community engagement.

Our next steps with that is in September, the um CCC will share those um uh recommendations and policy analysis with staff in the Climate Action Committee.

Um, and then the Climate Action Committee will um and staff will analyze those findings and develop um uh recommendations um for council.

Um and so wanna want to pause here before going forward in the presentation to um um seek council direction on timing um and when council would like to um um hear back from staff in the CAC on those recommendations, and then also if there are considerations, impacts or parameters um you would like to see prioritized in those recommendations.

Well, I guess in terms of timing, I mean, I I feel like you need to tell us how much time it will take from the time you get the report to when the you know how much time the CAC needs to digest and come up with recommendations.

Um it's hard for me to dictate timing.

Um I mean, obviously the sooner the better.

Uh as counselor Koshrabadi just pointed out, um, the sooner the better.

But um and we're happy, I know I I see some other comments.

We're we're happy to set that timeline.

We're happy to um kind of come back with when we think is doable and put that in the forecaster, and if there are um other considerations on timing or timeline, um we want to be receptive to council's direction.

Council president.

Yeah, I think um timing could have been back in 2022.

I'm excited that we are getting to work on this.

And as soon as you all have something to bring forward to us, I'm excited for us to be able to act on that.

I think that uh to your second point, there's great examples across the state of what other cities are doing around building decarbonization.

Um I think looking at those models um gives us a really nice platform to build from.

Um, and I'd be curious to see what we can get back.

Um, and hopefully that makes it so if we're building off someone else's success, we can maybe get something back sooner here in Milwaukee.

But I'm really glad about the community engagement that you all have done here.

I think that it helps to have a big ground school community movement to back up these policies.

And I'm very excited to see move forward.

Okay, I believe Councilor Kosh Rabadi has his hand up.

Uh thank you for this as well.

Um yeah, and this is kind of I would hope that this would be a priority.

Uh you know, would be you know, as embarrassed sooner than later.

Um, because I think we're already on a tight tight timeline with our goal.

Um it sounds like once again, the state's creating its own way of getting there.

Uh, and I don't think we're gonna hit that goal if we go by their way.

So um, you know, I would I would like this to be a a priority um for the committee just because of how I mean we're we're we're I mean it's nine years.

Um that's not a lot of time.

Um thank you.

I guess um so yeah, it doesn't sound like um I don't think any of us feel like we're in a in a in a place to dictate the timeline um but sooner soon as possible.

Um I do think one of the pieces that I would like to have a better understanding of when you do come back is uh the council president alluded to what other cities are doing.

Um I know about Ashland and Bend and their efforts to uh discourage new gas installations.

Uh I don't know a lot about anything other cities are doing.

So um if there are other things, uh it'd be good to learn about those.

Um with the gas piece, how far does that get us?

If we do it, how far does that get us and what else do we need to be doing?

You know, I don't think that's uh that's gonna be all we need to do, I guess.

Council president.

Yeah, uh I was just gonna build off what Council Kosaravati was saying um and kind of what you just alluded to there.

I don't think I would love for the committee to be really clear-eyed about what um what we need to do to be able to make our meet our climate goals and feel unconstrained other than just help us meet those goals that we've set.

I don't think that this is what Councillor Coast Rabati was implying, but the I don't think we should constrain ourselves just the state's goal around the different tiers of buildings.

I think we should be willing to look at other building types um across all construction um and just existing buildings within the city uh other thoughts on Katie's second question about considerations, impacts parameters, priorities to Emma, it looks like.

I mean I'm waiting to see if your own geese fly, but if not, I'll I'll prompt you with a question.

Okay, go ahead.

You have an affordability goal.

Yeah.

Do you want affordability to be a parameter through which we look at this question?

Oh let me rephrase that.

How would you like us to consider your affordability goal as we look into this question?

Well, so what I have been told, I think including by somebody in this room, uh, is that I mean, the data from sort of the um Rocky Mountain Institute and these different places is uh an all-electric home is slightly more expensive to build.

Not by, I mean, I think that number, that delta is going down all the time.

It's slightly more uh uh expensive to build.

It's infinitely less expensive to operate over the first 10 to 20 years.

Um so how do you look at affordability?

Is it the price for a new home or is it the operations of that home over the lifetime?

That's why I'm asking you.

Um I I don't, I mean, I I think it will just be it would be helpful for us to know as we obviously climate, we have climate goals through our climate action plan.

Um, and we have institutionalized and operationalized our climate value into our work plans into our division into this work, but you also have current council goals, and so we are always trying to make sure that we are also being being true to to through those frames as well.

And so I think it'd be helpful to know if kind of if if operational affordability over time is sort of a an important parameter or any parameters that would really help staff kind of frame the recommendations we might bring back to you.

Uh is Councillor Kosrabadi wanting to chime in on this, no.

Yes, Mayor.

Okay.

Appreciate it.

Yep.

Um I would say yes.

Uh I would say we would have to apply the quote unquote affordability lens.

Um, but the the thing is too, you have to we also have first of all, the the questions you pose are interesting.

I think this this is gonna warrant a bigger discussion that we won't have tonight.

But in thinking about this, I also think that who are the ones that are gonna do the increase costs on the new tenant or homeowner, right?

We've been talking about it for well, at least you know, few years now with these market rate developers.

That's really who's gonna pass the block.

Right.

That's really who's gonna end up increasing the cost.

So again, not to get into that whole thing, but I think this warns a bigger discussion.

Um, because that gets into well, who's developing in our community and why.

So I I would like to look at it through that, but again, it's it's gonna be a longer discussion than I don't know if we can answer those questions tonight.

Yeah, no, I agree.

I mean, we can't wade into the weeds on that.

But um, I will note that I do believe Hillside is being built all electric.

So you know, you can meet uh, you know, they have pretty uh tight financing, you know, restrictions and they're doing it all electric.

So council president.

Yeah, I was gonna say, I think a lot of people miss the mark with climate investments and look at that upfront investment and don't consider the ongoing uh savings that you get.

So I think being really clear-eyed about the lifetime of the project.

I think also looking at the cost of the externalities that come from this.

I think that's what Ben and Ashland have tried to do in their fees.

Um, and if we're thinking about affordability, what is the economy-wide savings that we're seeing um from any proposal that's brought forward.

All right.

I don't know that we helped you much, Katie, but I'm not sure you're gonna get much more than that.

Um I think that was great.

Um I think just um continue.

I think there was some really good pieces um that we'll make sure we include in our analysis and kind of how we thought about each of those different affordability pieces as we bring that back.

Yeah.

So yeah.

Yeah, I I I guess I I guess it's tough to really give direction without having a deeper conversation.

But yeah, I guess look at what's already been done, see how they uh applied affordability to it, because I I would hope that they took that into consideration.

Um then, you know, see if there's other ways that that we can tie that in.

I'll I'll do some research on my end too, but um it's it's hard to give direction without having a deeper discussion on the intersection of the two.

So um sorry, it couldn't be more detailed.

Thank you, counselor.

Okay, all right.

Um so uh next we're talking about our climate resilience and emergency preparedness.

Um and this is uh a relatively um new body of work in our climate natural resources team bringing on our emergency management and resilience coordinator um about uh a year ago, nine months ago.

Um, and we have um been able to get started and continue some really, really great work.

Um so last July um Milwaukee became the uh sponsor of our um CERT team, um community emergency community emergency response team.

And now they're over 60 members strong.

Um and uh we have done um some really amazing work with them, and they're uh a true um powerhouse of community education and awareness raising around climate resilience and preparedness.

They do so much outreach um across the city.

Um, one of the areas we're working on with them most actively is um really how to center equity within CERT and within their work.

And so we're we're looking at um expanding that awareness raising and preparedness, not just for um the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake, but for the the emergencies we experience um every summer, every year.

Um uh and um looking at um a lot more of the yeah, the hazards that we're now experiencing with the effects of climate change.

Um we have also integrated um demographic tracking for their membership um to understand um kind of who CERT is um and who they're um who they represent.

Um we've integrated targeted outreach benchmarks, um ensuring that that education is um uh um being um delivered to um our our vulnerable communities and populations across Milwaukee.

Um and we've also integrated um uh these pieces into our quarterly reporting efforts with them.

We um have activated our cooling center a few times this summer so far, um, and getting ready for uh this activation, we made a couple updates.

Um we integrated wildfire smoke threat protocols into our um cooling center activation.

Um and so what happens um when they're overlapping, um, like today, the the AQI was still under 151.

And so um that was a part of our decision making um as we we activated the um the cooling center and kind of what location and what services that we provide during that.

Um we've also integrated operational support from CERT to help staff the the cooling center um if and when we don't have all the staffing capacity for um just with Milwaukee um staff members.

I will say this year we have had really great staff engagement.

The spots go fast and it's a testament to how much our staff cares and the resource that it provides the community.

We are also working with Counselor Savanjour.

I don't have to slide in that fast.

I just that it made me think about the stabilization center.

And if you have had any conversations with the county or the service provider there about either leveraging some of the space that they have in extreme emergency or if they see an increase in uh occupants during uh heat emergencies.

So you may not have the answer right now, but just because we've put a lot of time and effort into building that in partnership with the county.

Um I'm curious to see how that might be able to be used as an asset.

That's a good point.

It's a great question.

I I'm in all the the coordination calls, and I don't think we've brought that up, but uh there's one next week, so I can bring that up then.

Um also in um our conversations around the cooling center, um, we've been working with the Clackamas County Support of Housing Services Measure Funds that help support this work to uh support facility resilience improvements, which are looking at um uh becoming more smoke resilient as well as um some additional potential um studies on battery storage capacity uh at the library to help continue making that uh a resilient facility.

Nice.

That's great.

Yeah.

We have been busy on our emergency preparedness work.

Uh we have been working, we participated in Clackamas County's Mount Hood Great Escape exercise, which was um a county wide wildfire preparedness exercise and had some really great lessons learned from um uh how do we coordinate, where do we get information and how do we uh request um resources and services if and when the time comes.

Um we worked on updating our um water emergency response plan and completing a risk and resilience assessment on our water infrastructure.

Um and we've also been integrating climate adaptions into our stormwater system plan to ensure that our infrastructure is uh properly accounting for um the future climate conditions that exist.

Um more slide on climate resilience.

Um we have two new um uh efforts happening right now as well.

Um one that we're gonna be launching next month.

Um we're working on a project called mapping resilience.

Um where we are gonna be hosting a survey that um is really identifying the invisible infrastructure in Milwaukee of trusted places, people, and relationships.

Um it's it's designed to know where um to support the community's well-being and help it be met during, before and after emergencies.

Uming that uh when when an emergency strikes, we go to who we trust.

We go to those trusted places, those relationships, and we want to amplify that that strength and resilience that already exists and build off of that with our current planning.

And so we've designed a survey, engage Milwaukee can do so much that where people can drop pins um on where they have and go for these spaces.

Um there's two different uh types to engage ways to engage with the survey.

Um, and we're really excited to build out what that um kind of resilience network um already looks like and exists within Milwaukee.

Um what the CERT, I feel like the CERT has done some of that in the years past.

So they kind of given you input for that.

Yeah.

So we currently have uh a GIS intern that is helping us with this work, who is on the CERT um leadership team, Tom Spencer.

And um he is um helping us uh not only create this, but then we'll also help us you pull the data in and create this um emergency management GIS map where um the goal is to be able to visualize um uh all of the different components around emergency management to help with um planning, but also that community awareness and education.

So the map will have demographic data.

It will also have our natural hazard mitigation plan data on critical assets and hazard routes.

And then we've integrated CERTs, routes of responsibilities and beacon box sites and the routes of responsibility.

I think this is what you're referring to, Mayor, is based off of their survey or their their outreach work to see where they should walk and how do they get to their beacon box sites within 72 hours of an emergency in order to touch those really critical places and also trusted places.

And then we'll also be integrating that data from the mapping resilience to be able to see how those all stack and kind of inform future planning efforts from there.

I know I'm over time, so I've got two more slides.

I'll move them quick.

We got urban forestry.

We have been very busy with our urban forest management plan update.

We've started that update in January 2026.

And we've been working on community engagement.

We've been doing listening sessions, roundtables, and a community survey that just wrapped up a week and a half ago.

We've all been also developing a prioritization framework that really helps us that will provide a transparent and data-driven method for how we're prioritizing the updated strategies in the future or in the updated urban forest management plan, but also then future urban forestry investments so that we can really show that transparent uh decision making.

Um we've we're also updating our tree canopy map uh to reflect some updated data.

Um our tree board has been working hard on analyzing tree canopy data from LIDAR, also from our tree permit data and researching planting strategies to meet 40% canopy goal and Durham role.

Our new urban forester starts on August 4th.

And he's truly fantastic, and I'm so excited to introduce you all to him.

Um, and I'm so excited that he starts in a week and a half.

I bet.

So final slide.

Um we have um back in December 2024, so a while ago, um, in one of our uh climate updates, council's direction was to continue putting greater emphasis on supporting community climate action efforts and also engagement and education.

Um so we have continued to really prioritize that in our work.

Um to date, we have started our climate action committee.

Um we're supporting the establishment of our Milwaukee 350 chapter.

We've done engagement around updating our urban forest management plan and um healthy, clean and resilience buildings efforts.

Um we've been doing engagement around Odo's um BPS program.

We've also um hosted uh a number of events and tabled at many more.

Um we've gotten to be a project advisor for two of Rao Middle School's Mesa program projects.

Um their most recent one was around urban forestry.

And um still coming up in on August 14th, uh, your very own uh climate natural resources division is partnering with ERCO on a natural climate uh careers panel that will be hosted in our library.

So we're continuing to find ways to uh engage, educate, and work with the community with our efforts.

What's the date of that um panel?

August 14th, um, 230 to 3.30 at the Letting Library Community Room.

I don't know when you sleep.

Because in addition to all this, you are also involved in parks discussions.

So I uh yeah, I feel like you have an awful lot on your plate.

Good job, Katie.

Nice nice segue.

And so it uh the last slide I have is looking forward, knowing that um there is a lot and it continues.

The climate natural resource division um continues to support the parks and um green space goal.

Um can you looking for council direction on where you would um like to see staff continue investing in efforts, and then also if there's any areas that um you would want us to pace um just to align with council uh priorities and capacity.

I might put a little finer point on it.

I I Katie's amazing, and Katie has taken on so much.

And I I do think everything's a priority always, but I think it would be really helpful to hear from you all of the many amazing plates that Katie continues to keep spinning.

Um I'm not gonna ask you tonight what to de-prioritize or take off the list, but I would like to to kind of hear your articulation of priorities within this remit.

I think that just would help us make sure that um that really really big portfolio is at is appropriately prioritized.

Uh council president, you want to go first?

Sure.

Uh if I were to throw in my two cents, some of the things that I think are most valuable for to do.

Uh first is take the CAC and really support them in that work wherever they decide to go.

Um, I think that community-led vision will be really important.

I think I'm worried about our tree canopy goals, and I think we're falling behind that.

I think figuring out what a pathway forward looks like is going to be really important.

Um, and then I would say I know there's a lot of uh transportation work that we've had baked into our TSP and will continue to do, but if there's alignment there, um when you overlap with Peter and Jen and all the other folks, um, that might be something to think about.

You've got a lot of really important work.

Um, so I appreciate all that you're doing.

Um I would say, I mean, I definitely agree with the points about the supporting the CAC and supporting the tree work.

I and I do really want to uh acknowledge you guys, your team has been very present at public events on the public outreach part, and I think it's been great at Milwaukee Fest and other places.

I do feel like there are other people in the community who might step up to do some of that.

It could be some tree board members.

There's Chris Orlando who uh has decided to that he's gonna be the Lorax and come out and he had his own one man tree booth at the at Milwaukee Fest.

Um, you know, I feel like that the that for some of that there's uh there's others in the community that would do it, and it doesn't always have to be the staff.

Um, so that may be a place to give some relief.

Um yeah, uh yeah, that's the one thing that occurs to me.

Um, counselor Massey.

Yeah, I I just want to say I'm really happy to see the um Climate Action Committee here tonight.

And you know, it's just kind of puzzling to me.

We've had climate action as this goal that goes back, I don't know how many years, and we didn't have a committee until just recently.

I you know, I was going like, how did that happen?

So I'm glad that we've got some some uh horsepower there and everything like that.

I like to see that.

Um I will I will tell you that um um on the I I just think if you put if you're trying to put priorities on things, uh you can't I don't think that you can put anything higher than personal safety.

So emergency preparedness is at the top of my priority list.

Um and you know, I I think that um uh I I think the the priorities that I think are heard tonight about in that area is wildfires.

And so you know, I think there can be a um you know, a feeling sometimes that if you live in an urbanized area, then you're not you're not susceptible to a wildfire, which is not true because the fires in Los Angeles were in completely urban areas, you know.

And um, so uh that's not something that just is you know is uh a threat out there in uh unincorporated Calakamas County.

It can be here because we saw it in in the fires in Southern California last year.

So uh that's where I I would I say the priorities uh uh are for personal safety.

Yeah.

Counselor Coserbody?

Yeah.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

Uh and and thank you, Councilor Massey actually for pointing that out.

Um I do think that's you know that is an important piece um kind of uh had some lineups to say, and then uh that brought you brought up a very good point, valid point about the wildfire and preparedness for that because we got close to having to evacuate certain certain areas.

So um thank you for that.

Um originally I was gonna say I think the priorities lie really within our climate action plan because we we we have a pretty well laid out climate action.

Well, um it's it's going under updates, right?

Like we're updating that.

Is that correct?

In the future, yes, actively, no.

Okay.

So with the plan that we have now, um and that's the thing, because we we have certain timelines that we're supposed to be hitting.

Um certain goals that we're supposed to hit by a certain time.

So I I would think whatever is next up on the you know, next upcoming goal that we're supposed to hit is where our attention would or our priorities would want to be placed, because we're still planning to be you know carbon neutral by a certain time.

Yeah.

Um I don't know how well we're on track right now with a lot of those goals that are coming up because again, as council president Anderson brought up the tree code.

You know, we've we've gone pretty much quite a bit back and forth on that.

You know, again, with the state now stepping in once again.

Um could could potentially make our tree code obsolete.

Um I I would think the priority would need to lie within where that climate action plan is telling us to go.

And if it had if I had in front of me, I'd be able to say say more about it.

But I really think that's our roadmap.

That's that's what that's at least for the climate side of it.

Um that's why it was put together.

So whatever whatever's next up that we're supposed to be hitting on that plan is where I think our priority needs to be.

And then from there goes to what what's next on the docket based on that plan, because that's how we ultimately get our climate goal.

That's that's how we ultimately get to what the whole reason we you know pretty much institutionalized uh climate in the first place.

And I don't mean that I hate to use that word, but we basically modified it within the city.

So um I would think that's where our priority would lie in in doing what we need to do to accomplish what's in that plan.

Counselor.

Hey Katie.

Um I think you do amazing work, and you have some wonderful partners that are hand in hand with you on this, and um it makes me really proud to live in the city that we do.

Um I think that something that comes to mind for me um more recently is that we have an um an increasing number of really vulnerable residents that are calling Milwaukee home.

Um so the portion of your presentation around um resilience hubs and what resilience looks like from a human perspective and and like an intersectional environmental perspective.

Um that really it really found a a place for my heart in my heart.

Um I think that uh we have such a great start with the letting library, but we're already seeing how that resource is maxed out pretty quickly, and that's in heat emergency or a warming emergency.

But if we were to put a natural disaster on top of that, I think that I think it would be stressed beyond its capacity.

Um so it does make me think about our resilient buildings and how those serve as a um a resource across the community.

Um it also makes me think about you know, um we I don't know that that level of resilience planning is um is something that the climate action plan has really focused us on.

Um I think it's something that assumes like that we've assumed that it's there, and I don't think we can assume that it's there.

I don't think we can assume that there's a level of resilience and and connectivity across all layers of our community that in the face of an emergency or doesn't even have to be an immediate emergency, it can just be the gradual one that we're experiencing.

Um I think those are areas that we need to strengthen.

Um I really appreciate that you are seeing that and you're leading that work um and looking for opportunities to retrofit what we already have.

So I just I want to appreciate that.

Um and I think that my colleagues have already made some really excellent points that probably make no answer to this question, and you you leave just more tired and with as many priorities, maybe more than when you came in the in the building today.

It's okay, Katie.

So I'm really gonna get it and I got you.

We're we're we're chatting.

Taking those.

Oh okay.

These are wonderful ideas.

Thank you so very much.

Um and uh it's it's an honor to do this job at the city.

So thank you guys for the opportunity.

And I'm still here for the next thing.

So we can bring up the members of the or the officers.

While our friends come up, I just I I have to be the Debbie Danner that says if you want to go past 10, you have to pass a motion to or make a motion to extend the meeting.

All right.

No one's making a motion.

I mean I'll do it right now.

You can do it.

Well, we still have other things after these guys too.

So yeah, we will definitely need a motion.

But thanks you guys for coming.

Um we do.

They are getting pulled up right now.

All right.

Well, um, we were um like we were just talking about, we were able to start our climate action committee in January.

And typically our boards and committees do our annual update to council um around March.

And we were we were in our fledgling forum then.

And so wanted to take this six month opportunity to um share with you all what we've been up to and where we're hoping to go.

Um, and I truly honored that our um chair and vice chair um Greer and Brad are serving on this committee and such active participants and here tonight to really um walk you all through this all.

Um are you okay if I drive here or do you want to okay?

Perfect.

And hi everyone.

Uh you do counselors.

Oh can you hear me?

Thanks.

Uh thanks for having us.

Um for those of you who haven't met, I'm Grier Ryan, uh, chair of the Climate Action Committee.

Uh, just first want to say thank you for starting this committee.

I know maybe it would have been better a handful of years ago, but uh now is better than later, right?

Um and just all of the praise that you all gave for Katie, I feel like uh times a million from us because we would not I don't know what we'd be talking about at this point if not for Katie's leadership and steering um of our conversations.

Um but yeah, as Katie said, we've been meeting about monthly since January, um, so six or seven months at this point.

Um I'm gonna go through kind of what we've done and um some of our main goals for the year and then pass it off to Brad.

But as a as a brand new committee, we really wanted to set a good foundation.

Um so a lot of time has gone towards kind of the basics, adopting some bylaws, electing officers, and agreeing as a group on how we want to work together collaboratively.

Um one of the first things that became clear to me sitting around the table with the other members was just the level of like talent and thoughtfulness and then pretty amazing experience in the room.

Um so I don't know if any are listening in right now, but just thanks to the fellow committee members who are all volunteers, by the way, for stepping up.

Um we've also been really intentional about staying action-oriented uh because of the urgency of this topic, because of our experiences.

Um we're a deliberative body and we take that seriously, but we're equally committed, I would say, to just actually moving things forward.

And um, we think of ourselves as you know part of the community.

We are just Milwaukeeans anyway.

Uh and so the conversations with community members is really critical to getting our recommendations right.

Um next slide, please.

So our first goal, and the one that council's directed us uh to do for this first year is develop some building decarbonization policy options.

Um we love that direction.

I'll just I'll just say because uh we're all really excited about it as a focus.

Um several of us on the committee bring professional experience to in this space.

Um, and we think that's a great opportunity to like put that experience to work for Milwaukee.

Um we also know the importance of uh uh making improvements where people you know live and learn and work uh for their quality of life as well as for the climate.

It's a win-win.

Um as far as what we've done so far, we've um had presentations and learned about statewide policies um that might interact with anything we'd recommend locally.

We've gone through a staff memo outlining um some suggested policy directions.

Uh we're now creating a task force um, or we've created one to dig into building specific suggestions um from staff along with other ideas the committee wants to explore outside of meeting spaces since we do only meet once a month and we know we need more time to really dig in and research and understand.

Um we're really looking forward to hearing those uh results and findings from the community outreach and engagement efforts from Green Energy Institute and Coalition of Communities of Color.

Uh we think those will help us shape our recommendations to ensure that folks who um really need support the most are the ones that are prioritized in this work.

Um and then I'll just speak for myself and say I really appreciate the conversation we've heard tonight from council.

Um I think as was acknowledged, this will continue to be a big discussion moving forward, but um we are hoping to bring actionable policy recommendations to you all this fall.

It is definitely a priority for us.

Um we want to keep moving this work forward to help deliver those clean air, those tangible clean air health and affordability benefits to all Milwaukeeans.

Um that's our primary goal.

Our secondary goal, or second goal, I should say, is develop um developing our approach to community resilience.

So Katie highlighted that as a priority for staff.

Um we've also said we think it's pretty clear priority for for us as a group.

We're already seeing um heat and wildfire smoke, you know, this year, but it's an annual threat at this point.

Um we're kind of still in the learning phase of that.

The last meeting was really focused on that, and the next one will be too getting up to speed in what the city's done.

Um, and we're eager to dig in further.

Actually, next meeting will not be a lied about that, but it was an unintentional lie.

Um moving on.

We're gonna we recognize the trees are uh great natural infrastructure for heat relief for clean air.

There's such big intersection there with climate issues, but we don't want to duplicate work that's already underway.

So we've designated a couple of um climate action committee members to be liaisons to the tree board to try to stay coordinated on that work.

Um then finally, uh, because there's so many um so many of these goals, safer, cleaner buildings, broader climate resilience efforts do require real investment, and we know that staff is just running around doing as much as possible to make um this climate action plan a reality.

Um we've taken it upon ourselves to do a side task force to explore if there are any additional funding streams that we could try to um bring forward as potential options for the city to take some of this work on that's expensive.

Um yeah, that's not something that we necessarily have uh answers on yet, but we'll we'll be in touch if we do.

Um, I feel like I've breezed through this a bit, but um, we talked a lot about how the through line for committee work is outreach and education.

So I'm gonna pass it off to Brad, who's a vice chair to talk about that.

Yeah, happy to this was uh uh this is our third goal, is just to make sure uh on the climate issue um to have that conversation with our neighbors to uh have the kind of two-way street and be that connective tissue.

And also uh kind of use what we know and help people kind of see themselves in the solutions um hear kind of how they approach climate action, uh what they want to see.

And um the conversations so far have been really great.

Um this is a photo of a few of us at the Earth Day, um, where we had about uh probably a dozen conversations um that ranged from like everything from transportation to water protection um to buildings.

So that was really uh it was eye-opening uh and great.

And then at least three of the committee members went to um at least one of the community listening sessions sessions on building decarbonization.

I went to all three.

Uh it was really incredible.

We'll get, of course, the official analysis and results from uh CCC.

But um just anecdotally, I thought the community was really um engaged and pretty knowledgeable about their homes and buildings.

Um also kind of uh communicated really well that they know it's gonna be challenging to get where we need to get, but it was also a really an old room uh a necessity to get to a healthier, cleaner uh homes and buildings for all the reasons that people were making the connection to safety and health and uh more affordability.

So that was really great.

Uh and just a credit to our community too.

They talked about community resilience.

They talked about making sure everyone gets to make the transition to cleaner buildings together.

Um I just thought that was uh um a credit to Milwaukeeans uh to not just be thinking about themselves, but uh the whole community.

Uh so that was great.

And then we have plans to do a lot more.

Uh we want to keep talking to folks, uh, really make this stuff accessible.

We're working on sort of our elevator pitch and um how to make it real as far as like clean energy and affordability, uh transportation and health, all those connections that climate has.

Uh so we'll be at the um sustainability fair uh as well as uh searching for other opportunities to get out there.

And uh I think at this point we'll be happy to take questions.

Well, as I said earlier, I think it was before you guys were here, but I said it to Metro.

Uh the farmers market is the place to reach people.

So if you want to do more tabling, I would definitely try and get on a farmers market uh Sunday sometime.

I mean the city has its days that it's there.

Um so we could have some, you know, we could definitely have some of the same stuff you guys were using for that at the city booth.

Um, but it might be nice to have you guys there to talk about some of that.

Um it's great.

It's great.

You guys have done a lot in six months.

So um yeah, yeah.

Um council president.

Might need someone to turn off their mic.

Oh the all of them are off.

Uh-oh.

Uh you had a slide about trying to find other funding and partnership opportunities.

I'd be curious what we're looking at there.

I know Eugene is considering their own version of like PCF in Portland.

That has given a lot of money towards clean energy initiatives.

Are we talking about a funding measure like that?

Or are we talking about grants that we can try and pull down or other things that we could be looking at?

That's really interesting to me.

Great question.

Um, right now the scope is pretty broad.

I think we're looking at what other cities are doing to try to get some money in, but also, you know, thinking about private partnerships, even, you know, somebody brought up like if we're talking, you know, uh this wasn't this was an example of a creative private partnership, but trying to figure out the the Nike bike situation, if that could be something that Milwaukee could benefit from.

That's not a specific thing for us, but as an example of that kind of model.

Um, and then grants and other, you know, types of funding.

So it's very right now it's a wide net of us trying to lean on our uh research skills, networks, experience, and we don't have we haven't had enough time to, you know, uh get anybody a list of like potential opportunities yet, but we've also been learning about what the city's already exploring or looking into because we don't want to spend a lot of time on something that staff's already dug into.

Um does that answer your question?

I think it does.

It's similar to the building D carb.

I think it's nice that you have no parameters and you get to go forth and find some interesting things.

You've got a lot of talented people on your board, and so being able to do a lot of like work that can result in some really cool policy and ideas that all of us up here hadn't been considering, I think it's pretty exciting.

Yeah, I think when you guys were selected and the rest of the committee, I mean, I remember doing interviews with Katie, and we were like, oh, wow, we got some really good people and uh, you know, really um hope for like being a force multiplier for staff.

So it's great that you guys are diving in like that.

Um, I did want to mention um on the resilience hub thing that the um the Spring Creek uh early learning center at the corner of Monroe and 224, they've actually got people up on their roof this week working, and I think that is the instant they got a PGE grant for resilience hub there.

So I think that's probably what's going on there this summer is doing that work.

And so that's somebody you might want to tap into and talk to.

Um yeah.

Um counselor Koshrabadi, have you got your hand up?

Nope.

Okay.

Any other questions or comments for the CAC members?

Well, thanks so much for all the stuff you're doing, and we'll look forward to seeing you in the fall.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you all.

All right.

Now we have budget check-in with Emma and Scott.

And uh anybody ready to make a motion or we're I feel like we can do it no extension.

Okay, well, let's see.

Okay.

And uh I think the city manager may have more to add, but my uh words for counsel on your semi-annual budget check in is just what I said in an email to you guys uh a couple weeks ago about where you stand at it's the dawn of a new fiscal year and biennium.

Uh so officially nothing has been posted to any of your accounts in terms of your personal budgets, uh your budget lines for your council education and training.

Uh just a word of caution that you know it's the start of a new two-year fiscal year, and um you may be sitting in the seats now, and it's conceivable that somebody else might be sitting in the seat at some other time in the future.

So uh caution and be strategic as best you can, is all I have to do.

Don't spend all the men.

Uh you use it as you will.

But that's that's the only message I had tonight.

And that's an opportunity for council asked questions.

But Scott, it's good Scott's the absolute perfect diplomatic speech, and then I'll say the slightly more sobering speech, which is that I um forwarded you all an email that I sent today to city management um effectively asking for a freeze on non-essential spending for the time being.

Um we uh have uh we we knew when we adopted our budget back in May, and we were very transparent and honest that we have a challenging financial forecast and picture.

Um but we were confident that the expenses we were forecasting and the time in the biennium was going to allow for um adequate planning for new revenues and and we would we we would build that strategy.

I still that is still all the work to be done.

There are things that have occurred between May and now uh that are enumerated in my email to you that uh made me feel it was prudent to implement that uh spending freeze, it's it's not really a freeze, but it's a a hold on non-essential expenditure.

So I wanted to provide that as context a, just so you know how I'm administering the city, but B, um I think it's prudent guidance potentially to follow um for your own council budgets as well.

So I'm happy to answer any questions, but I wanted to be transparent about that messaging that went to all staff today, or all managers today.

Okay, thank you.

Um I did want to ask, um, since we're talking about council budgets, because I was thinking at the end of the at the end of the last fiscal year, I had a little bit left, and uh I was like, oh, I would have thrown some more at the um at the Wichita Center project.

And I would just so that prompts me to ask Councilor Costrobati, do we know what happened with the money that was given to the Wichita Center?

Uh I know they did provide us an invoice.

Um, but I I can get I can find out I can check in the bought a new freezer, they bought an whatever it was, yeah.

Well, I know what they were because we initially talked about the freezer.

Um, but I know that they were they also had some other needs, so there was it was kind of like a conglomerate.

Uh-huh.

Okay.

Well, I I don't know exactly.

I know that they did they did give us an invoice though.

Um, so I I I can check in and find out exactly what it'd be nice.

It'd be nice to know, but any other question, any questions for anybody on the budget?

Okay.

All right.

Well, Lama Falls locks funding.

So this was a conversation that started at the budget hearings.

Um, you had the ask, I believe it was for $10,000 on an annual basis to support that.

And um our notes from those hearings were that we weren't you weren't prepared to make a decision to put that in as an expenditure line item um at the time prior to budget adoption, but we were gonna revisit it.

So here we are revisiting it in light of my sober message.

But um and and we will follow your direction if you would like more time or more analysis, um, but financial analysis to inform that decision, we're happy to provide it.

But I guess I thought we said we wanted to fund it.

We just um I I thought there was a general support for the idea of funding it.

No.

I thought that I would disagree with that.

I thought there was consensus, but we were gonna we didn't have time to amend the budget.

We were gonna amend it in a budget adjustment, was what I had understood.

But I think in light of the message that you've just given this to me is a non-exponential expenditure.

And I think as a like sign of austerity, we can write to the Valent Falls locks authority and tell them that we're holding off for now.

Um, but I think that that might be an appropriate step.

Okay.

Um I mean, I I don't, yeah.

I don't, I'm I don't feel strongly either way.

Um I do think there's a financial there is an economic development benefit to Milwaukee of having those locks open.

Um so I do think uh it wasn't an unreasonable ask of them to try and involve the cities along the river.

Uh counselor Costrobati.

Yeah, I don't I don't know about necessarily backing out.

I know it's had that information, but I do see the benefit in something like that.

Um I would think that we would want to probably discuss that now and figure it out.

How much was the original ask?

10,000.

And I mean, I do think they would love to have it be a year over year continuing contribution until the locks are open.

So for the for the next five or six years.

But they're not necessarily asking for that commitment.

They're just asking for 10,000 for this budget here.

Did we did because I know we talked about this before was this did we already budget for this?

Or no this is not like how how does this impact our budget overall these were funds counselor closer body this was lobbying expenditure that we had um and that we identified that we could spend our lobbying dollars on this in lieu of a lobbyist on lobbying or because if we're not going to spend it on lobbying then we might as well commit it to this I think that was the plan when I was about it in budget committee I think only remember that actually now that you say that I I do remember that conversation.

I had forgotten that and that $1000 was included in the budget that was adopted so that is still there.

Well then it doesn't it doesn't impact the necessary spending as of as of when city manager Sager sent that out correct if you direct us to reassign that money from lobbying to this I you could still argue though that both might you get to make the call that um what what we're talking about well what the message I have sent to staff is even if you it's in your budget we are holding on non-essential expenditures for the time being so it's a just a uh it's your budget you get the decision by consensus on how to spend it.

Was there a deadline other than yesterday from the locks they just like it whenever we can get it yeah I think they timed their ask around our budget cycle you know they were hoping that it would come with the new budget but yeah they will happily take the money at whatever point um we we felt we could do it I'm sure um we could bring this back for revisiting in three to four months yeah I counselor massey I I agree with counselor um anderson on this I this is uh this would be great to do but uh in light of uh the uh non-essential nature of this expenditure I would not uh support this at this time we can always revisit anything you know at any time if things get better but um you know in in light of uh this uh non-essential you know concern um you know I think we need to we need to you know join in that effort and and conserve the the funds that are available you know because we don't know what's what we're what we're gonna have to do over the next few months okay uh is everyone okay with that do we have a consensus to not give that money uh I would like to it sound like to give that money it sounds like there's some view of not giving it for now but maybe revisiting in a few months revisiting at the end of the year uh big straw poll sure getting that little sure um I just I don't know if did did Councillor Savinger did that maybe I missed she's thinking she's I haven't weighed in yet but her mic is on the mic is on um I'm just trying to decide if I can do a lot and you will need to make a motion in a few minutes if you want to extend the all right I um should I should make a motion first uh I move to extend the meeting by 10 minutes seconded to extend it's been moved and seconded to extend the meeting by 10 minutes all in favor say aye.

Aye aye opposed say no all right or extend it till 10 10.

And now I will speak for nine minutes about this oh man I love you guys.

Um okay so I think I I'm I'm uh torn on this I think that we are in extenuating circumstances it makes a lot of sense to be very fiscally responsible um Emma that is never an easy email to send and um I see how hard that was and I know how hard it is for every single director that got that email today.

Having been on the receiving end of some of those emails it is it's never never fair.

And this is one of those things that I do feel really strongly about investing where um historical damage has been done to um to populations, native populations and indigenous populations, especially along the river that we benefit from.

Um so I would like to propose that um that we allocate half of the lobbying funding to this um to this effort, and um that we revisit the conversation in four months to see if we are at a point um then where we might be able to allocate the remainder of the funding fund only 10,000.

So this was the whole lobbying fund.

It was okay.

Uh council president.

I think um I think back to the spring where I was talking about this.

I was talking to counselor Lewis about her involvement in the Willamette Falls locks.

And um, I know when budget season came up, me and the mayor were both trying to find a spot for these dollars.

Um so I don't take likely the idea that we're pulling back from giving these dollars, but I do think it's really important that we as a council be by example.

And I think that our city manager has told all of our department heads to pause non-essential spending.

And as hard as this is, as much as I want to spend these dollars, I think backing her up tonight and us modeling the behavior that we want to see from department heads like the best signal we can send to the city in this time.

Um, and I I struggle to say that because in part I think it is I would love to be a regional partner and support this project more.

I think there are ways we can continue to support it without these dollars.

Um, but I think that we are going to go into really hard budget times, and I think that this is kind of a a small moment and signal about how seriously we're taking this.

All right, do we have uh did you actually make a motion or were you just offering a suggestion?

I made a proposal.

It's not a motion at this point.

Um, because I do I want to hear um thoughts of my colleagues, and I think I have heard those.

So um I uh I hear what you say.

Um and I am going to turn it into a motion now.

So I move to allocate five thousand dollars from the lobbying fund to the Willamette Falls Locks uh authority for this project, and um and then revisit this conversation in four months in terms of the second.

Yeah, okay.

You seconded Counselor Costerbody?

Okay, all right.

It's been moved and seconded to uh dedicate five thousand dollars from the lobbying move, five thousand dollars from the la lobbying allocation to uh provide to the Willamette Fox Locks Authority and also to come back and revisit a potential second half uh of that fund uh in in the winter in the late in later the toward the end of the year.

Um all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed say no.

No.

No.

Okay.

We have a three-two vote.

Uh I think um we have a decision thing.

Uh and um I mean, I do I I do take the point of how hard uh that message was to send today.

Um yeah.

We've also been asked for this for a couple of years now, and I feel like it is an important um regional partnership.

So completely understand.

And thank you for the conversation.

I I feel deeply respected and supported.

Thank you very much.

And this is great.

We'll we'll move forward with um our our finance team on making that adjustment.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right.

Other council reports, you have five minutes.

Um over at the parking lot at Jackson in Maine, behind a certain building that you all know.

Um on the 7th and the 8th of August, uh, there will be an event called Mil Rocky.

It's our very own music festival.

Uh last year we had six bands play, five or six bands play, and a couple hundred people show up this year.

Uh, we are going to close the parking lot.

13 bands will play across two days with a bunch of vendors and um, you know, hilarity and hopefully no hijinks will ensue.

Uh there's also on first sorry, the first night of Milwaukee is also first Friday.

It is first Friday.

Yes.

Yeah.

So it's gonna, it's gonna be big, and then we'll all be recovering from that on Saturday when we do it again.

So fun.

Um also want to mention that um there are businesses as part of the business of Milwaukee.

So these are women-owned and led um businesses across the city that are putting a de-stash sale together on August 15th.

And so that is a an uh sale where we're gonna bring out all of the things that we have in stash, extras, overstock, uh lots and lots of craft material.

So um mark that on your calendars and bring a wagon.

Um so we've got that going on, and then um lastly, um another uh event that I wanted to mention is September 5th.

This one is in the works, but it's Y2K at Milwaukee Bay, and um it's in conjunction with uh four regional car groups, and there will be lots of fine cars to look at, and then you can pick up your um you know kids on the block uh buttons and hammer pants.

Wow.

And that's also the parking lot behind that would be in the parking lot at Jackson and Maine behind the building, and also the metro lot.

We're we're working on closing both of those for that.

It would be from uh two to eight p.m.

And what was the date?

Um the 5th of September.

Okay.

Yeah.

Um and if any of you on if you're looking for something that's nearer on your on your calendar, um, or your dance card is is uh open on uh Saturday.

This is Saturday, the Milwaukee Pride um celebration is happening, and the after party is over at our place.

So starting at six, there will be um drag performers who are choosing teams, dodgeball style, um, from the audience, and they will then compete um in karaoke battles between the two teams.

So I'm looking at all of you and hoping that you can sing.

Um so those those will be multiple genres, multiple songs, and there will be a battle.

And um the the organizers from Milwaukee Pride are helping to put that together.

It'll be fun.

Nice.

That's all I had.

I've got a quick one.

Okay.

The parb met uh last week, and it was primarily um the Emma show.

Uh because uh so many things come up in the uh the June 24th meeting uh with NCPRD that was kind of news to the PARB, you know, about the utilities and all that other kind of stuff.

So uh Emma took uh uh a deep dive into into the whole background of uh uh of this relationship with NCPRD and the issues uh revolve around uh Milwaukee Bay Park and uh and uh sort of peel the onion on that uh so that they had a level of understanding that uh you know you us here on the dice has and uh I will tell you that uh um it was an unusual response from the par because most of them got angry.

Yeah.

Um and so I think they they they felt the full full force of uh of of the dilemma here and that kind of thing, but they're so thanks, Emma, for taking that time to to educate uh the park.

Uh oh, I'll just follow up on that to say that uh there was a reporter from the Oregonian at the uh Metro meeting today uh asking questions about the the uh the stalemate between uh us and the county on uh so maybe we'll see some Oregonian coverage of that.

I also on the topic of a car show.

I also on the topic of a car show, I don't know the date, and I will try and get that so that we can include it in the announcements in August, but I'm pretty sure at some point in August there is a car show for the Milwaukee Community Center Foundation out at North Glackamas Park.

That's a fundraiser for them, and I'll try to get more details on that.

Oh, I forgot.

Oh, we need five more minutes.

I my watch you have three minutes.

Oh okay.

Did you want to talk about these letters, Mayor Betty?

Sure, sure.

Um this is a letter that you guys got this afternoon uh about the bigger trucks.

I brought a letter before.

I moved that we extend the meeting by five minutes.

Okay.

It's been moved to extend the meeting by five minutes.

Do I have a second?

Second.

It's been moved and seconded to extend the meeting by five minutes.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Okay, we're extended for five more minutes.

Um this is a letter.

This coalition against bigger trucks.

I gather they've reached out to multiple ones of us because they sent this to three of us.

Uh but I uh I was fine with the letter as they wrote it.

Um there is apparently new activity afoot in Congress uh in the latest transportation bill in the house.

Um, and so they wanted our help um reaching out to our two senators and repynum.

Uh so there's this letter in the packet.

Anybody have any concerns or objections?

I'm good to sign on.

No concerns.

Councilor Kosrabadi, you're okay with it.

Yes, Mayor.

Okay.

Great.

Thank you.

We might not have needed the five minutes, but uh okay.

Since you extended, can I just ask who will be present at Pride?

And would anyone be willing to be at the unveiling?

Um great.

Mayor.

Thank you.

And anyone else is welcome, but I just needed, I needed one.

So I unfortunately will be out of town.

I'll be at the beach.

It's been planned since February, but Joseph will be there, staff will be there.

Excited to see you.

Awesome.

Awesome.

Looking forward to it.

Looking forward to it.

All right.

With that, I would entertain a motion to adjourn.

Oh, we still have six minutes.

I'll move to adjourn.

Can I just move to shorten the meeting by four minutes?

No, I second.

I second.

It's been moved and seconds to adjourn.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

We are adjourned.

I thought counselor.