I'd like to call to order the city council study session of March 25th, 2025.

Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Councilmember Bushnell.

Present.

Deputy Mayor Daniels.

Absent, Councilmember Diaz.

I heard it here.

Yes, she's she's online.

Councilmember Hines.

Absent.

Councilmember Rumba here.

Councilmember Sidalgay.

Here.

Councilmember Scott.

Absent.

Councilmember Walker.

Absent.

Mayor Woodards.

Here.

Mayor and Council members of study session materials sent to you at 1105.

All right.

Our first agenda item today is an update from the Center for Strategic Priorities.

And I'd like to begin by calling on interim deputy city manager Sonia Howland to begin the presentation.

Thank you, Mayor.

Council members.

I'm Sonia Hallum, Interim Deputy City Manager with the Center for Strategic Priorities.

All right.

There we go.

Thank you.

With me today are Jacques Cologne, Director of the Office of Equity and Human Rights, and the Chief Strategy Officer, as well as Kristen Lynette, who is the Environmental Planning and Sustainability Officer.

We are very excited to be here today.

So we are going to be presenting our first ever center update, talking about the work that we are doing with the Center for Strategic Priorities.

Next slide, please.

So by just by way of a little bit of background on the center.

The center includes four different offices the Office of Equity and Human Rights, the Office of Environmental Planning and Sustainability, the Office of Strategy, and the Government Relations Office.

Now, while these offices may seem like they have very different areas of work, and they do, there are some consistencies that run through our office that make the fit together work very well.

So the first is that all of the work involves strategic priority areas that you all have decided are priorities for the city and the organization.

Also, the work that we are doing is all designed to support the council, the city, and our departments to prioritize and move these important priorities for the city further faster.

I also want to call out that one of the things that we have found as we've come together as a center is that equity is an incredibly important part to all of these bodies of work and that are important components that underlie all of the initiatives and work.

And I think you're going to see that as we discuss the work that we've been doing thus far.

So we launched our office November 4th of 2024, and the first phase of the work that we have been doing is the formation of our office.

Learning about each other, the work that we're bringing in, and really developing a team and an organizational culture for our office that created the foundation that allowed us to move forward into our next phase, which was really focusing on looking at the work that we are doing and developing our plans and priorities.

We'll be actually working on developing the plans for the implementation of this work.

Today, um, first I want to acknowledge that in the back you will see in the back of our office.

Uh we have a large contingent of our office here in support and to hear the presentation.

It's again very exciting for us to be here today to present the work that our office has and the all of the individuals in our office have done to get to this point today.

So what we're going to be doing is sharing the climate action plan, the CAP, with the updated actions and our new organizational structure, the community safety action strategy with the updated plan and organizational format, the uh OEHR, the Office of Equity and Human Rights Framework, and uh give a status update for that work.

And what you will hopefully see through all of the plans and the things that we talk about are first clarity.

One of the things we are really trying to provide in the plans and the initiatives that we are presenting is to identify those things that we can focus on in the near term that are that are actionable and achievable for you to be able to prioritize and elevate and enhance over this the short-term period of time.

The second thing that we are hoping that you will see that we have been prioritizing is alignment.

Alignment across the different strategies and initiatives in the office, but also across the various plans and initiatives in the in the city and organization as a whole.

There are so many things that we are working on as a city that as we can pull these together, it will help provide information for you all as policymakers to look across these different plans and find the alignment and helpfully hopefully help you as you're thinking about the policy priorities and things like budgeting, which you're going to hear about next.

And lastly, one of the priorities that we have talked about within our office is that we are here to support the council, the departments, and our city organization to further the priorities that you all have told us are the things that you want to focus on most in the next coming years.

So with that, next slide, please.

I'll turn it over to uh Jacques, or excuse me, to Christy Lannant to walk us through the Climate Action Plan.

Yeah, afternoon, Mayor and Council members.

Um happy to be here, Christy Lynott.

Um I'm gonna be talking about our climate action plan update and really what we what we mean by update to this plan.

Uh next slide, please.

All right, so our our um 2030 climate action plan was adopted by the city council in late 2021, and at that time we had only identified short-term actions.