Good evening, everyone.

I'll call our meeting to murder here in the community of the whole group.

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Any questions on the agenda or adjustments?

We'll begin with our roundtable discussion.

7.1 environmental resiliency plan progress update and discussion.

Taking it over.

Well, good evening, everybody.

I'm just going to introduce Blue Strike, um, who is here visiting uh for the week doing um engagement, community engagement.

Um, we've done a steering committee meeting, we've done a public meeting, we had an environmental focus group today, and we gave them a tour around the lean this afternoon.

Um, so I'm happy to have them here to present the update.

Um, we have Anna, Uga and Coba and Rich Swatson, and they'll be giving you the update and discussion.

Thank you.

Is there a mic too?

I'm not sure.

Is there a mic?

No, I think up, I guess.

All right, I'll do my best.

Um, thanks for quick.

Thank you for the introduction, Don, and good evening, everybody.

Thank you so much for being here today.

Um, as someone mentioned, we're here visiting this time for community engagement for staff engagement, and we had a great city tour today.

Thank you so much for the project team.

Don, then Bert, Jennifer, and Ashley, if they're appreciated showing us around.

Um, we wanted to do a quick update on the environmental resiliency plan today and have a couple of questions for discussion.

So, quick introduction, my name is Anna Bankova.

I've been working with Dawn and the rest of the team for plus couple of funds on the environmental resiliency plan.

And I'm here with Rich Swanson.

Hello, thanks for meeting everyone.

So for today, uh today's agenda.

Um, we're gonna start with the plan that I believe we gave a quick update earlier in the project, but wanted to remind everybody where we're at today.

So remind everybody what environmental resiliency planning is, then do a quick overview of greenhouse gas emissions inventories, tell you what those inventories are, how they can be used in the future, then talk about the project framework, give a recap of community and staff engagement, um, mention vulnerability assessment, and then dive into some of the discussion questions that we have prepared.

So, first is um environmental resiliency planning and avoid what it is, and you know, it's essentially balance between environment economy and society.

No, you can come up here and speak if you want to slides here.

I'm prepared better for the issues.

Um but anyway, so like what is environmental resiliency planning.

So essentially, one of the considerations that we make in here is balancing environment economy and society and taking into account all of the other such as economic development, addressing various issues that you have for the city.

Um it's responsible resource management.

So we're thinking about that.

Our resources are not finite.

How do we manage resources in a responsible way while serving communities equally, which is the next bullet point, equity and inclusion?

How do we distribute the benefits equally across all members of the community?

Um, it's reduction of emissions and environmental impacts, which we're gonna talk a little bit more when we talk about greenhouse gas inventories, but with initiatives such as renewable energy, transportation, reduction of fossil fuels, energy efficiency programs, how can we reduce emissions and reduce environmental impacts as well?

And lastly, it's you know, it's more kind of like a vision goal here is meeting today's needs while stewarding resources for future generations, how can we preserve the city?

How can we make it better for future generations?

Um, so here's an overview of deliverables of the plan.

And this is a kind of like a high-level overview here.

But first bullet is emissions inventory with baseline data and forecasts.

So understanding what our biggest sources of emissions are, where they're coming from, how can we address those sources of emissions?

Um, next deliverable is a community-wide framework addressing local and regional challenges.

So the framework is essentially what we're going to be using to build strategies for this plan and understanding what are the sectors like we need to address in this project.

Vulnerability assessment, identifying major threats, and hazards.

It's essentially an assessment that will also guide our development of the strategies, understanding what are the biggest threats for your community, environmental, climate-related stress, non-climate related stress stressors, and how we can be mindful of those stressors while designing initiatives for this plan.

The perhaps the biggest part of this of the plan and deliverables will be pollution reduction and resilience strategies for all of the sectors that we're going to be talking about today.