Well, welcome to the uh March Sustainability and Resiliency Commission meeting.

Um, we're going to call the meeting to order and start with a roll call uh vote of the attendees, Seth Fairens.

Present.

Amy?

Here.

Amanda Holloway present.

Terry Kinsey here, Casey McQueen's here.

Edward Cohen is out of town since um Brian Morgan?

Leah Arroyo?

Here.

Stuart, Risier.

All right, great.

So do we have anyone on uh oh, we're gonna approve the February minutes.

The February amendments were included in the package that you received in advance of the meeting that were posted on the website for the general public.

Or were there any additions or corrections to the minutes?

Not see not seeing any.

I move to approve the minutes.

Move to approve.

I second vote.

Second, all in favor?

Anyone opposed to the minutes?

No, good.

Okay.

Do we have anyone online?

We have one person present.

So our open comment period is an opportunity for the public to provide comments to the commission regarding items not in the agenda.

The commission will not discuss or take action on them.

According to the advisory board, committee, and commission rules of procedure and operation, each speaker is limited to four minutes, and there's a 15 minute limit for open comments uh on the agenda.

Uh anyone like to make any comments?

No, right now, thank you.

Okay.

All right.

So our moving right along.

All right, next item on the agenda under old business is the natural gas franchise fee engagement, which we I think we've talked about for the last maybe three meetings for the meeting for a while.

So on topic.

It is yes.

Thank you.

So ready to go?

Right.

And if just wanted to mention, we just open those windows to cool it down in here.

So if it gets too loud, or if you want to close the windows, feel free.

Um, so we'll start with the presentation.

Um we'll be talking about the gas franchise fee both at this month's meeting and next month's meetings.

And so, really, because we're actually you all are the last engagement um official community engagement um event of the engagement period, we're leaving the online survey open through Friday at 5 p.m.

And then we as of Friday at 5 p.m., kind of the engagement period of this project is wrapped up after that.

So, what that means is for the next few weeks, there'll be kind of analyzing all the data from both the online survey, all the community events that we've presented to, feedback from you know the in-person events, virtual events, small group events, things like that, and drafting a recommendation report to city council.

Um, we are scheduled for the city council study session to talk about the results of the engagement period on Monday, April 13th.

Um, and so if you think about the timeline of XRC next month, our meeting is the meet before that.

So it'll be Wednesday the 8th, I believe.

Um, but the council packet isn't published until after that.

So it gets published that Thursday.

Um, and so while we won't be able to be able to share kind of the full recommendation report and the council items that because we don't want to, you know, discuss that with you all before we go to city council.

Next month is really when you all will have the chance to draft or to review and finalize your recommendation report.

So really the goal of today is just to provide feedback about the project as any other community group has done.

So I presented to Kiwanis, Groveries, um, the lunch with local leaders, the you know, the chamber of commerce, um, several different groups over the last few months.

And so this here today is just kind of one, the the statement stuff as one of those.

So we're I'm just looking for general feedback.

Um, I do have the board up here.

So this is what we've brought to all of our engagement events so far.

This um reflects kind of all of the questions that are also reflected in the online survey.