Good afternoon everyone. My name isRobin Wsley and I am the chair of the climate and infrastructure committee.I'm going to call to order our regular scheduled meeting for today, Thursday,July 23rd, 2026. But before we begin our meeting, I do want to offer a friendlyreminder to all committee members, staff, and the public that thesemeetings are broadcast live to enable greater public participation. Thesebroadcasts include real-time captioning as a further method to increase theaccessibility of our proceedings to the community. Therefore, all speakers needto be mindful of the rate of their speech so that our captioners can fullycapture and transcribe all comments for the broadcast. We ask all speakers tomoderate the speed and clarity of their comments. And with that, I will ask theclerk to call the role to verify that we have a quorum. >> Council Vita>> present. Warren is absent. Chai is absent. Chry>> present. >> Palms is absent.Vice chair Whiting or excuse me, Vice Chair Stevenson present.Chair Wanssley >> present.>> We have four present. >> Let the record reflect that we do have aquorum. Um it has already been noted the reason before uh behind council memberChuck Tai's absence and I was [snorts] also alerted before today's meeting thatcouncil member Pomisana will be late joining as a result of her attendance ata legal uh settlement conference. Um, that said, I'll remind my colleaguesthat we'll be using speaker management today. So, please make sure to sign up.If you have any troubles, please uh connect with our clerks over there uh tothe right. But let's start off with our consent agenda, which I'll read for therecord. The first is approving a commercial block event permit for dinnerdue north on September 10th, 2026. Items two is approving block eventpermit for banana ball games on August 7th through August 9th, 2026.Items three and four are setting public hearings for September 10th to considerproposed 2027 services and charges for the downtown business improvementdistrict and the 42 428A special service districts.Number five is authorizing skyway easement from Minneapolis Park andRecreation Board for a portion of Second Avenue North. Six is authorizingsubordinate funding agreement for the Metro Green Line Extension Southwestlight rail. Seven is amending the Minneapolis Street Lighting Plan toreclassify the listed railway segments as pedestrian street light corridors.Eight is setting a public hearing for September 24th to review sanitary sewerservice availability charges and to authorize collection of unpaid balances.Nine is authorizing a overpass agreement Cedar Lake Row bridge project. 10 isauthorizing a cooperative agreement with Henipin County Regional RailroadAuthority for the Grant Avenue South Bridge over the Midtown Greenway. 11 issetting a public hearing for October 22nd to consider assessment of chargesfor unpaid water and sewer service line repairs. 12 is accepting theMetropolitan Council Municipal Infiltration and inflow grant for curedin place pipelining repairs of existing sewers and cross connection eliminationand resolutions related for the grant agreement and appropriation.13 is accepting the low bid for the 2026 through 2027 public works tree removaland disposal. 14 is accepting the low bid for the installation of green stormwater infrastructure for the West Fleton neighborhood improvement project. 15 isaccepting the low bid Columbia Heights membrane plant roof replacement. 16 isauthorizing contract amendment with CS McCrossen Construction Inc. for thebridge 9 improvements. and 17 is approving one appointment to the bicycleadvisory committee. Uh yeah, and with that colleagues, is there any discussionor any items that anyone would like to pull for further discussion? Okay, I'm not seeing any. So, I willmove approval of the entire consent agenda. All those in favor say I. I.Those not in favor say nay. The eyes have it. Um, also let the record reflectthat we have been joined by council member Pomisano. Would you like to berecorded as I on the consent? Awesome. Clerks, please make a note of that. Andthat motion carries. Um, our next item is make sure uh receive and filepresentation providing a overview for the climate equity action plan. Um thisis a presentation that uh Vice Sheriff Stevenson and I um requested severalmonths ago. Um and I'll now invite up Deputy Commissioner Patrick Hanland andDirector Megan Hoy to get us started. Chair Wsley, Council Member, Chair ViceChair Stevenson, and council members. My name is Patrick Hanlin. I'm the deputycommissioner in the health department. I'll be uh joined today by our directorof climate equity action uh Megan Hoy. in our presentation. We're going tosplit this was two pres presentations and I appreciate uh you allowing us tocome together and bring both of these presentations here today. I'll be goingover funding impacts and then director Hoy will be talking about the climateequity plan overview. Uh we thought we we don't usually dothis, but we thought we would start with this because the one thing that thefederal government has done very effectively is suppressing informationon climate change. Um it's you we don't see a whole lot of it in the news rightnow. It's not out in in a lot of news stories uh locally or globally. Um thelast hottest three years on record have been the last three years. And I thinkit's a good point to highlight. 2023 was the hottest year, 2024 was the secondhottest, 2025 the third hottest, and 2026 is on track to be in that in thatrange of one of the hottest years on record. Um 350 parts per million is theatmospheric CO2 upper level uh planetary capacity that scientists agree on thatthe earth can carry. And I remember when I started here at the city, we had justpassed that threshold. And it was a big deal that we had passed that. We are nowat 422.7 parts per million of atmospheric CO2 andclimbing. When I come back for a presentation next year, that number willbe higher. Um, we aren't imagining things as these wildfires are intens inintensifying that we saw last week. Uh, low snow packs, prolonged droughts, andrecord heat are contributing to that and other issues going on around the globe.And even here in Minneapolis, we've already experienced uh a twoderee uhincrease from the '9s, a 3.5 degree rise from the 70s um when we had our firstEarth Day. So, I just wanted to highlight that piece. Director Hoy willgo into this graph in more detail, but these are the different categories ofgreenhouse gas emissions that we have. And uh on that that black line is the uhscientific uh scientifically recommended goal that we have for our climate uhemissions. And as you can see, we are on the verge of a steep in need of a steepdecline in our greenhouse gas uh emission reductions. Fortunately, I just talked about thefederal government uh and the the money that they're pulling back, theinformation that they're pulling back. Fortunately, we gave ourselves afighting chance over a number of years. In uh 2017 and and before that, we hadfoundational investments that were made by most large cities into sustainabilityand climate work. In 2018, we had the first climate specific programmingpassed uh through the franchise fees. In 2024, we had the climate legacy uhinitiative, which I'll go through in a second of where we're at with thefunding on that or spending on that. And in 2026, just last year, we hadenvironmental justice specific funding for weatherization that was passed by uhby the council. And then from 1998 uh till today, we've had pollution controluh funding and have had increases in that and that has gone towards our fighton climate change here in Minneapolis. So this is the uh climate spending forthe climate legacy initiative uh year to date that I just mentioned. Uh I'm notgoing to go through this whole chart for the sake of time. I will point out onthe first piece that 123% of budget allocation may stand out to you and thatis because we have a number of projects any anywhere between 25 and 30% ofprojects that drop out uh throughout the year. And that's for various reasons,whether it's tariffs, it's uh labor issues, it's all sorts of differentissues where people aren't able to complete their projects. And so weintentionally budget above uh the base budget knowing that we'll have a numberof projects that will back out by the end of the year. Uh and then the otherone that may stand out is the 0% uh council member Vita uh that is withHenipin County CAP. Uh and we've gone through the RFP process and that justpassed. So, we'll be starting that work here in July and that's providing energyassistance uh to folks here in the city. So, I just want to highlight those fewpieces and then the tree program where we just have a lot of people that areasking for trees and that one actually is uh we'll have to stop planting nowbecause we're out of budget on that one. I talked about the different fundingthat we had. I just wanted to point this out. This is a graph of our green costshare projects uh over the years. And just to note how that lines up whenwe've had investment uh we went from in 2017 2018 from 48 projects across thecity to now over,00 this year we are on track to be to have the highest numberof [snorts] uh green cashier projects that's energy efficiency airsource heatpumps ground source heat pumps innovative technology in the fight onclimate change. Uh so when we get investments we are able to scale thework that we're doing. And we believe that we've built a machine that canscale through contract staffing. Imagine going from 48 projects to that 1100 uhprojects. We have to have contract staffing outreach leverage partnershipsdoing marketing and awareness around the city so that people are aware that thesefunds are out there. And then that last piece is uh important in our climateequity plan as we center equity is to be able to scale with equity.And uh these this is uh maps of both total spend uh of the climate fundingand then also total projects. And as you can see on those maps there's a lightyellow and that is the north side green zone and southside green zones. And thatis where the money has been going. Um, and I think Council Member Warren's wardis the is the reigning champion each year in in getting funds into her ward.Um, and so and that's deliberate. That's we do intentional spending in NorthMinneapolis and the green zones and then also areas of concentrated poverty. Soour definition of environmental justice, sorry I'm clicking out here. Our[snorts] definition of environmental justice is north side green zone,southside green zone, anyone in a lowinccome uh situation. So, alow-inccome qualified uh situation or a nonprofit that serves low-income people.Uh and then these are the uh percentages of environmental justice spending thatthat has gone out each year. We set a target of a base of 40% and we exceedthat number up into 60% or above 60%. And some of the uh differences in dollaramounts there is there's also grant grant dollars that have been uh broughtin in the last couple years. On the lower right hand side, the accumulativeproject savings, those are very real numbers, the economic uh savings. Wetake a piece of HVAC equipment that has gone into a house. look at the ULcertified uh specifications of that piece of equipment and then the newpiece of equipment that goes in there and looking at what the actual energysavings of that piece of equipment is over the lifetime of that equipment. Andthen you multiply that by the thousands of projects that we're doing each yearand these are the real dollar savings that people are will be saving aresaving now and will be saving across uh Minneapolis. And then the transportationnumbers. I know public works takes the same care in the number of the numbersthat they put forward with their EV charging and uh EV car share program. We really focus the the programs onaffordability, trying to move some of the hardest pieces to move first withthe funding. We've we've supported over 6,000 low-income households with ourclimate funding. on the lefth hand side is the 4D program uh where there's taxcredits involved as well and we can get into uh deep energy retrofits that savethem money but then also get at some of the pre-weatherization issues um such asknob and tube wiring, insulation, mold issues, construction issues that happenuh in some of our larger units and then also like in Marshall Terrace and someof our single family homes. And then this is sort of the gold standard, theWillard Hayes uh Willard Hay neighborhood project. that's a passivecertified house through urban homeworks and um that is also funded by CPAD andso that's offering people uh a large amount of energy efficiency savings andthen also uh comfort uh livability as well across all of these these sectorsthat we're uh investing in. This is the electric car share program. Again, Iwon't go through all of the details on this. We've put in 62 level twochargers, five fast chargers. This is these are all put in with an equityfocus. Um in 2025 there was 140,000 trips that were made through this prosupported through this program. This year we are actually think we'reoutpacing it. Public works thinks they're outpacing it uh due to the factthat ICE was here in January and February. We had a a pretty substantialsignificant slowdown in that program and is now picking up speed. So we thinkthis is probably going to be one of the highest years for that program. uh climate equity funding uh with thegreen careers and workforce there uh as we talk about scaling and the need toscale across the city and director Hoy will talk about some of that need thatwe have and and where we're at and where we need to go. uh but there just aren'tenough workers to do this work. And so one of the first pieces that we in thehealth department have looked at is exposure to green careers, especiallythose in economically distressed communities, education of green conceptsand current technologies, and then credentialed trainings. And then wefunneled those folks into the folks that are responsible for workforce as ourcommunity planning and economic development team and getting directconnections to employment uh direct connections to apprenticeship and uhplacement into employment. And so climate change in Minneapolis,like I said, this is a highle overview. Uh I'm not going to go into our treeprogram, our biochar program, marketing, the zero waste work that's supported bythis uh this funding. Those are coming forward in different council meetings.So I won't go into detail on those. I will say that we are doing more annuallythan we were doing in combined previous decades. If you looked at all the yearsleading up to 2017, we are getting more results annually than we were in allthose previous years. And like I said, we have built this each year to scale.And uh we really believe that we've built something that is a national and aglobal model. when we go and talk to some of our um our global counterparts,our national counterparts, the reinvestment that Minneapolis is makingback into its community is uh really looked at with envy with a lot of citiesand the way to boost uh people's savings. So, not only addressing climatechange, but also saving people money out in the community with an equityapproach. And I think what we realize now as we start to uh what the nextsteps of scaling look like is that we are in need of having a citywideapproach, a comprehensive uh approach in addressing climate change. And that iswhat we have brought uh director Megan Hoy on board uh to do here in the city.And so she can talk a little bit about the work that she's doing with theclimate equity plan and then also facilitating conversations across theenterprise. and and then we can wait for questions afterwards if that's okaychair. Thank you. >> Good afternoon, Chair Wanley and ViceChair Stevenson. Thank you so much for the opportunity to be here today tospeak with you. as uh deputy director Hanlin um wasspeaking to the the work that we do is very intersectional is veryintersectional with our community partners um all different parts of ofthe city and across all the departments in the city as well. Um so a lot of uhmy work as well as the team's work is working across the enterprise across thedifferent departments um to to really leverage our knowledge and our skillsand our programs and our resources as best as we can because we are buildingan airplane while we're flying and we are doing things that humankind has notdone um period. Um, and so this this is big work and uh within within the healthdepartment, the the climate and sustainability team that I oversee,we really think about um the climate equity work as being a vital pillar tothe long-term health of the the city and and the community within it. And ourexpertise really sits in buildings uh whether that's commercial buildings,multif family, residential, industrial as well as energy systems, clean energy,um and resilient communities and that's about building trust, understandingwhere communities at and working collaboratively with them. So uh withinthe team, we're looking we're working on planning and project management. We'rebringing um state and local policy and regulatory work. We're engaging thecommunity as I was speaking to research um and studies to understand best pathpaths forward and uh funding support you know identifying that and helping topilot uh flag pilot opportunities. So just a little background about how we'redoing our work. Um getting into the overview of theclimate equity plan. Uh the the plan was approved by city council in 2023.um a significant amount of community engagement was put uh held to to bringthis plan together. Um and the vision is to achieve an environmentally just,resilient and lowcarbon and equitable city. Um this plan is a 10-year plan,right? So this does not bring us all the way to 2050, which I will say more aboutin a moment. Um but it is a a 10-year plan of of how we're going to movethrough the the next 10 years uh towards that the big goals. Um it has 10different focus areas. I'll speak more to that later too, but 240 plus actionsum we're talking about climate mitigation as well as climateresilience. The plan acknowledges for the first timeum compared to our prior climate action plan um that there are varioushistorical and ongoing disparities and inequities that are impacting ourcommunity and that that's highly tied to this work.So, on to the to the goals here. I'm going to hit on the headline goal andsome core commitments that the plan hits on. Uh carbon neutrality communitywideby 2050 is that big big bold goal. Um meeting our justice 40 standard throughprioritiz prioritized commitments or investments, excuse me, and livingwithin our carbon budget are the next two. I'm going to walk through each ofthese. So carbon neutrality by 2050. Um we joinmany cities across the globe and in this country that have a similar goal or moreuh aggressive goals and this aligns with um a commitment to keeping globalwarming to 1.5 degrees Celsius uh globally and that's what you can seewith this black line that is a modeled line that shows what we're trying to hitas a trajectory uh scientifically so that we can keep that global warmingdown. Um, and like any good project management, as I like to say, you dohard work early because you don't necessarily know how that last 5 10% isgoing to go. Um, but this is about keeping planet temperature down. Um, soaccording to that, then we look at our own greenhouse gas emissions inventoryhere in Minneapolis, and that's what you're looking at right here. And wehave five different areas of emissions that we track in that inventory.electricity, fossil gas, transportation emissions, solid waste emissions, andwastewater emissions. Um, you can see that those stacked up here in eachcolor, um, comparative to one another. Um, and so I kind of ask you to see thatwhere we've been seeing the greatest reductions is in the blue area. Thatblue area has been reducing. And actually, if you kind of squint, it'sreally the only area where we've been making really significant um in in theform of a communitywide emissions inventory um strides forward. Thatdoesn't mean that we're not doing excellent work on the ground andbuilding tools. Um so, as we do this work, we look over the next 10 years andwe see the steepest decline on that curve ahead of us. Um and some of thisthis most robust work that is needed I will also note thatwe track this uh and update this annually. Um but we lag by a yearbecause of data. And so I do anticipate that we will see for the first time thatwe are not hitting our uh targets, not our goal, but our target along thatblack line um for the first time when we update this inventory later this summer. we go. So, the two other commitmentsthat I wanted to highlight um are the Justice 40. Um this is a Bidenadministration initiative that no longer exists. Um but the intention was forfederal funded uh initiatives to put 40% of their uh benefit into disadvantagedcommunities. So, we are building on that in the plan. um we are interpreting thatas 40% of uh funds or grant funds are getting invested in priority areas umincluding our green zones and low-income areas. So we are continuing to we'rereally exceeding that goal. The second commitment um that we wehighlight is to live within our carbon budget. So this is really about a speedof action component. Um and we are on track to exceed that budget by 2030.You'll see that same inventory here and then the gray uh the gray area. Um andthat we will we would like a budget means we would stay within the spaceunderneath the black line, but because we're overspending, we will exceed thatby 2030. Before I move to the next slide, just toI'm going to start to walk you through the the major goals within each of the10 sections in our plan. Um, and kind of just for digestibility, I'm going tobreak them into two sections, even though that's not highlightednecessarily within the plan, but the first of that being um, highest carbonemitting or carbon emission reduction opportunities and then the second beingmore like resilient and regenerative activities. Um so we'll have uh buildings industryuh city operations and enterprise energy systems healthy homes transportation andcomplete streets here. Um, again, there's a lot of detail within the planunder each of these, but I wanted to call out um those that have greencircles under city operations and energy systems where we've made somesignificant strides in completing the goals that are outlined here, such aslaunching the climate legacy initiative um and ensuring community accountabilityaround justice 40 with a climate legacy roundt that we have um as well as energysystems where we renew the franchise fee last spring um for another 10 years orso umbecause of time I'm not going to go through all of these but I'm going tohighlight a few for you. So uh by 2030 reduce industrial commercial and multiffamily emissions by 75%. This is a very uh important part ofmaking uh good on our goal but a very audacious uh goal for us to reachtowards. [snorts] Uh I will come back to that in a momentas well. We need to achieve net zero for all city operations by 2040. We're doinggood work on um greening our fleet and working on our um portfolio of ofbuildings, but we need to continue to push forward on this and really lead byexample and push those examples and case studies out into the community into thebusiness community to show how this work can be done. Um that sharing will bevital to to helping the community continue the work as well.um energy systems by 2030 we need to reduce emissions from fossil gas by 35%communitywide. I will also return to this but this islargely the use of natural gas. If you can remember going back to thepre prior chart the gray bar and we will come to this in a moment again isnatural gas largely um which would be the heating of buildings and homes andindustrial uses. I'm also highlighting here theinsulation of all homes or housing units by 2040.Wow. Um we this is in the plan because thisis a very important step for us to um make our homes more resilient, make uhenergy bills more affordable um to help us use to use less energy and then alsoto prepare our homes for electrification where it is beneficial orcost-effective. Moving on to that second category orsecond bucket that I was referring to, resilience and regeneration. Um, I justkind of highlight two here, but increasing the quality and quantity ofgreen space in our community. And we continue to um think about how we'regoing to regenerate and adapt to climate change um and keeping cool spaces in ourour city um is very important. Um, also continuing to um preserve and growopportunities for urban agriculture so we can have more local food and lesstransport of food is very important as well.Uh, lastly here, recycling and composting are 80% of communitywidewaste by 2030. Um and just to say that this plan really highlights uh work kindof within uh local and um the our our purchasesdirect purchases of the city. But when you look globally at uh carbonemissions, it is the consumption of goods across this globe that is one ofthe most large uh largest contributors of carbon emissions. So this reallyspeaks to how we can reduce and reuse. Just a quick moment on moving of onmultiple fronts. Um we're making a lot of progress. I'm really proud of thework that we're doing with a lot of people in this room and within theclimate sustainability team and in the community. um as already stated by umDeputy Commissioner Hanlin um we have been exceeding our justice 40 goal umfor the last three years since we put that forward and tools that are workingat scale and prepared to scale. Um beyond that uh we are working on cleanthermal energy opportunities with our thermal potential study to understandthermal energy networks. Um and that is a term of art and we will be able tocome back to you and talk to you more about that later this year. Um, but thatis a about an 18-month study that we're about eight months into. We've also beenengaging businesses through a grant that we received 17 businesses specificallyon geothermal opportunities with some really exciting findings there.We are engaging residents and businesses more broadly to understand barriers andto communicate funding opportunities and pilot opportunities. we're facilitatingum uh facilitate services to serve those with the highest barriers. So on theresidential side, a lot of um la we're launching a navigator services contractum with community partner [clears throat] to help with those uhgreatest barriers and be able to kind of handhold them through that work and andtranslating more materials into non-English uh languages.We're also working across the the enterprise again with multipledepartments just highlighting a few here but supporting property services withthe portfolio decarbonization planning work and again continuing that leadingby example work that's so important um regulatory services collaboration onrental property outreach um really reaching more properties where you areultimately reaching renters um and and making them aware of grant opportunitiesum and then working with CPAD public works property services on the thermalpotential study itself as well as other regulatory advocacy and legislativeadvocacy um that we won't get into now. So just going to highlight um four keymetrics and indicators um for you and and land on one final slide.So commercial, multif family and industrial emissions, the 75%is uh overwhelming. Uh and we do need uh you know incentivesand and policies and programs that can help achieve this if if we're seriousabout it. What this means is that we need to move all of the gray and all ofthe blue to be below the yellow line by 2030.and we have four years to do that according to our our goals. Umwe'll move on from there. Um this next chartgives you a sense of our natural gas consumption uh across the community. Andthis is complicated by a lot of factors which I'm not going to get into deeply.Um but weather is notable. um colder years we consume more gas. That's wherewe live in the country. We're a cold a cold climate um city and so weather aswell as um industrial processes or the use of like new um heating facilitieslike the combined heat and power plant that's at the University of Minnesota aswell as population changes and growth. These are all uh factors that changewhat this looks like at a communitywide scale. But the point is is that we'renot going down, we are going up or If you're squinting, maybe it's sort offlat at best. Um, this third metric is communitywidehome insulating. Um, home insulating is a very important part of weatherization.It is not all of weatherization, but this is a good um indicator of that. So,while we are seeing a 1,000 to 2,000 projects per year across the communitywith the green cost share program, um insulated homes insulated or housingunits insulated in the last 3 years have really been um 760 homes, which is 3% ofour goal of 29,000 homes insulated. Um and you can see on the right the typesof housing that have been insulated during that time. And there's um youknow, it's been more uptake on the single family side. So certainly workingon barriers to reach the other housing types is um work we're working on. The fourth and final metric or um is tolook at our mode shift conversion. So we are off track to shift three out of fivetrips which is our goal um to walking, biking and public transit um our goalfor 2030. So you can kind of see the goal on the right side and what this istrying to depict is that all the the colors the green, yellow and orangewould expand and take up the area below the blue dotted line. Um so we are offtrack for that but there's still good work being done here and this is a veryambitious goal. Um, and really our biggest opportunity here is when we areredesigning our streets and reconstructing them and to be able todesign for um, biking, transit, and walking. On my final slide, um,we could talk a lot more, but there's a lot here to to um, work on in ourclimate equity tracker that we launched last October. Um you can see a status byfocus area of the different uh actions and strategies that are in in progress.And not not only where are there there are um areas where we need to make thebiggest impact and and uh some extra aggressive moves to hit these goals. Umbut also areas where we're a bit more off track. So highlighting those here uhbuildings and industry, energy systems and healthy homes uh stand out a bit andother areas absolutely need attention as well but calling these out here um asvital areas of action and and [clears throat] progress um movingforward. So with that um thank you very much and stand for questions.>> Thank you so much uh for the presentation. I'll give a few secondsfor folks to jump in queue, but I will uh start us off with a few comments andquestions. So, um, as I mentioned earlier, um, right after we, um, tooksome time to recalibrate from the impacts of Operation Metro Surge, uh,Vice Chair Stevenson and myself, uh, met with all of the department heads that,uh, report to climate and infrastructure, including, um, ourhealth and sustainability u, uh, to make sure that this body, because we know wehave new, uh, council members joining us, uh, for everyone to get not only abaseline my understanding of the critical plans that shape our worktogether of meeting our robust climate goals. That includes our climate equityaction plan. Um and thus far too in this committee, we've received updates aboutour transportation action plan and some of those other um interrelated againplans that shape our work as a body. We wanted to make sure that we receivedthis presentation because for years uh we know residents all across the cityhas been working to hold uh leaders, city leaders accountable and makingmeasurable changes at the local local level and to utilize our full authorityum as it relates to advancing climate resiliency and environmental justice.And it's that commitment that um hundreds of our residents reallymobilized uh almost three years ago behind the climate equity plan. um tomake sure that we did have very strong goals um that we were aspiring to reachum and making sure that um there was you know democratic participation from ourresidents in supporting this body supporting the city and reaching thoseum so I will say because of that that shared and collaborative uh commitmentand work together uh again in 2023 council passed that climate uh equityaction plan and subsequently uh the climate legacy initiative that was orestablished to fund this robust work outlined in this plan was formed by themayor as well. And then in 2024, residents uh came back to city hall todemand more robust funding as expected um to make sure that we were pouring uhnecessary dollars into the climate legacy initiative fund. um especially inrecognizing a hostile federal administration to this work and sayingthat once again as at the local level, city leaders need to be doing everythingthat we can um to make sure that we're making serious headway on reaching ourgoals. Um, and as as part of those conversations and really heeding to thecalls to action from our our residents, um, at the end of last year, which wasalluded to in the presentation, council approved a increase in electric and gasfranchise fees to scale up programs to help workingclass families weatherwiseweatherize their their homes. As you highlighted, that's a critical componentof our climate equity work that we are significantly off track um, in inmeeting. And again, this presentation was meant to to be a level set of whereare we at um almost, you know, 3 years out from establishing that plan andgetting a sense of where we are on track and where we're completely missing themark. Um so I'm I'm very grateful that our staff came to present. Um I knowalso many in the community has been reaching out to council members to saywhat opportunities still exist for us to scale up that funding. Um and also againmany of you are well aware that we were meeting many of these goals that'soutlined in our climate equity plan and wanted to make sure that this body isn'tbeing laced um in our commitments to the goals outlined in that plan. Um and youwant to and you deserve to see bold action being employed at the m municipallevel. Um so far as was outlined in this presentation, we're making incrementalsmall change at best. Um so with that I did have a couple of questions ashighlighted in the presentation. Um I think the biggest piece has been aroundof course funding. Um especially as I highlighted we know the Trumpadministration as uh deputy director Hanland outlined um has essentiallyrolled back a lot of the programs that was tied to uh needed funding um at thefederal level that support this work. Um so it was in response to that that thisbody moved forward with a number of initiatives from establishing increasesto our franchise fees and electric fees agreements. Um we also uh updated ourPECAR uh registry to include additional pollutants. Um we established theclimate legacy initiative funding with a goal of $10 million um in its initialcreation with a goal to increase that. Um, so I at least wanted to start offwith getting a update on the financial status of the franchise fees thatcouncil passed at the end of 2025 and essentially what is the anticipated uhrevenue that we expect to collect from both electric and gas going into 2026. >> Luke,>> yes. Um I don't have the numbers at my fingertips right now about what weanticipate the franchise fee uh revenues like in the next year to be coming inat. Um however, I will say that it's tied to the rates that we all pay on ourenergy bills on our electric and natural gas bills and those rates are going up.And so generally um we've you know the rates were moved up the the fees weremoved up um starting in April um of this year and um then there's also been rateincreases um both with Centerpoint and Excel. So that as we see those revenuesare the increases last year that they will slowly increase over time umnaturally because of those rising um rates for the utilities themselves.>> Thank you. I I articulated this in an earlier conversation with deputycommissioner um Hanland in terms of from my understanding there were some umanticipated projections of revenue that we would collect at when we pass theincrease at the end end of the year. So I will name it's kind of unsatisfactoryto not have at least a estimate especially I think on your the slidethat you added around the climate legacy initiative funding it already shows thatwe're set to spend over $10 million for year to date of 2026. So if we'realready over 10 million, how much more are we looking at an estimate to collectfor the remainder of the year? >> So [clears throat] Chair Winsley, we canthere's a little bit of lag in in what director Hoy was mentioning in in whatwe actually see coming in. As soon as we have that information on this year andwhat's coming in and like you said projected, we can get that informationto you and we can and we can also get you the I hear you asking for uh theother franchise fee increases and what those amounts were. Did you not haveprojections at the end of last year of what what we passed like what that wouldhave yielded? >> Yeah, Chair Wley, yes, we had estimatesand so we can get you what those estimates are and then as soon as wehave information available, I'm trying not to look at our uh some of oursustainability staff in char uh in charge of uh monitoring that. But thereis a little bit of lag in terms of what the actual number is. So yes, we can getyou the projected number and then yes, we can get you the actual numbers oncewe have them. But you do not know that number right off the bat right now.>> In my head, it was it was approximately $4 million, but like I said, I wouldwe'd have to look at what the actual projections were going into this year ofwhen it was passed and then we started collecting. So I'd rather get you a moreaccurate estimate, but that that would be off of what was estimated last yeargoing into >> So just going back again in Decemberwhen we passed that what you named it was around 40 mill 4 million that weestimated and this was in assumption to be in addition to the 10 million that weappropriate every single year to the climate legacy initiative fund. Is thatcorrect? >> That's correct.>> Okay. Um that is yes I was I articulated that Iwanted those numbers ahead of today when we made this initial request so thateveryone in the public and this body could have the understanding of wherewe're at in accurate numbers of how much is being expended in our climate equityum expenditures. Um that said, uh I also wanted to note because there was lots ofuh confusion around this last year. So again, council and the mayor agreed to10 million appropriation every year for the climate legacy initiative fund. Didwe expend that full amount last year? >> Chair Wley, uh yes. Yes. And there's oneclarification that I wanted to make as well is the we also get you we will alsoget you the estimates for the franchise fee the previous year because there wasan underage uh there it um as uh director Hoy mentioned the variabilityin weather. We actually brought in less franchise fee. So I'll get you we'll getyou all of these numbers combined as a as kind of a full picture.>> Okay. Yeah. I was hoping we would have had that in a presentation as werequested um from you all several months ago. Um, but that said, can you answerthe you do you just clarification, you said we did spend all $10 million for2025. >> Yes, our our budget was fully expended.>> Okay. I just want to have a memo because I know at least in the community therewas a share that we had not reached um that full 10 million that we had spentunder that. So um you're saying today though that all 10 million was fullyappropriated. Yeah, I would have to look at our budget. The full budget wasexpended. Yes. And and like I said, there was an underage in in what wasbrought in. So that there was some complexity around that, but I can getyou a full picture that we can get to you.>> Okay. So when you're saying there was the the underolction of uh particularlyone of the franchise fees that might have contributed to a reduction and thenyou will provide clarification then if general uh funding was used to fill thatgap. uh chair on Wsley that yes this is allall of the franchise fees go into the general fund so this is all generalfunding but yes and we can get you a full picture>> right and I think also it would be good which I I wanted to see in thispresentation the breakdown of what goes into the climate legacy initiativefunding I think it's not always clear of what is the percentage of franchise feesto also there are uh separate of those like additional general operatingdollars that also goes into that climate legacy initiative fund can you actuallygive a breakdown of what those funding streams are.>> Yeah, Chair Wii, uh, generally, uh, one of the the issues that you helped authorwas in some of the pollution control, uh, annual registration changes thatwere made. So, uh, if you'd like a picture of that as well, we can get youa picture of that. Are you able to provide a a at least in percentages atthis current moment of what is currently compromising or or the composition of offunding streams that goes into the climate legacy initiative fund?>> Uh, chair Wsley. Yeah, we're we're Yes, I and if if I may, if we can you just inclimate funding so because when we use climate legacy initiative to us, that'sone specific fund. uh so we can give you a picture of what goes into climatefunding if that works and then including that PACR uh funding and kind of have alarger picture. >> So those are separate. So basically theclimate legacy initiative fund you're saying that's all franchise fees thenthat goes to support that one and then your general operating dollars that goesto maybe programs not related to that that's separate from that.>> Chair Chair Winsley yes that's correct. >> Okay. Um I will pause here and get backin Q. I see a number of colleagues in Q. Next is Vice Chair Stevenson.[clears throat] >> Thank you, Chair. Thank you for thepresentation. That was a really excellent presentation. Um, I'd love tocome and see one of the projects for the the um home rehabilitations, energyimprovements. I'd love to come see one of those. Um, how do you identify newprojects? Uh, Chair Wanley, Council MemberStevenson, we would love for you to come out and I'm sure there are plenty ofprojects in in your ward and and around the city, whatever type of projects fromenergy efficiency to some of the more cutting edge, as we refer to, some ofthe thermal energy uh projects that we're looking at. Um, we try to so we doa lot of outreach specifically with small businesses, with large businesses,uh, with uh, weatherization with residential uh, homeowners through existwe try to go through existing programs as much as possible. So, Center forEnergy and Environment is a common place where people in the city would go to getenergy efficiency work and then we dovetail our programs in with theirwork. We work with Frontier Energy uh who works with uh in people oflowinccome situations. In fact, we're working out at Heritage Park right nowwith those folks and getting services out to people. Um and so those areexisting programs. I would be remiss to not mention Cooperative Energy Futuresum in the I know that they're here in the room today, but try to go throughexisting programs uh so that it's streamlined. It's a streamlinedexperience for the customer, whether they're a residential uh business owneror even some of our larger industrial projects trying to get larger emissionreduction projects done here in the city.>> Okay. And you have a a very full pipeline. You see no issues in findingnew projects. >> Uh I mean I think that's uh ChairWanley, sorry, Council Member Stevenson. That is one of the I think questionsthat we had when this program started was what is the capacity? and it seemsto every year we have more demand than uh than we have funding available to dothe work. Um and so we're typically shutting the program down early whetherit's on the residential side or on the commercial side. So, uh yes, I can'tanswer that question perfectly, but from what we're seeing there's there seems tobe more demand than than funding. >> Okay. Um it's it's really great to seethe the the very real impact that the climate legacy initiative is having. Umit's clear that this program is working and working super well. Uh and you'retelling me the more money we put in the more is actually going to happen in thereal world, which is incredible. And that's not the way that every programis. And so thank you for for doing this. Thank you for running an excellentprogram. um this is having a real effect on our on our climate and our emissionsgoals and it seems to me like it's up to us up to us to make sure that the moneykeeps flowing because the work will keep happening so much as the money keepsflowing. Um to that end with the climate legacy initiativethose the dollars that go in there what can they be used for? So, the money that goes into the uhChair Wanley, sorry, uh Council Member Stevenson, uh the money that goes intothe climate funding uh from the franchise fee, that is technicallyconsidered a tax. Um and and those increases that were made by council anduh and passed by the mayor as well. Uh there was uh there was a commitment toput that those funds towards climate related activities. And so that is wesit down as a group uh we talk with CPAD and rec services and the differentdepartments and come up with priorities and programs. And so that is the um uhthat's the principle that we operate off of is that the the funding go into uhclimate related programming and then as much as possible trying to um go at thatbalance between equity trying to get some of the hardest people that are inthe most difficult situations uh getting funding to them and then also getting asmuch greenhouse gas reduction as we can get. And those are oftentimes not thesame projects. We we love when they are the same project but they oftenimes uhare not. And so it's trying to weigh those out. And the way that we weighthat out is that 40% environmental justice priority that we have. Uh and asI mentioned, we're up around 60% typically during the year, but that'show we try to prioritize between those two um principles of the work>> and where the funding goes. >> So this uh commitment for the money, thefranchise fee dollars to go into the climate legacy initiative and then forthat money to be used on climate related projects. this commitment, is it like apolitical commitment? Is it a legal commitment? What kind of commitment isthis? >> Uh, Chair Wansley, Council MemberStevenson, I would say it's not a legal commitment as I'm looking at theattorney here. Uh, in that it is a political uh commitment made by thecity. >> Okay. So, it could change at any time ifcity leadership changed it. >> Chair Wanley, Council Member Stevenson.Uh, that would be my assessment of it. Yes.>> Okay. That's that's good to know. I think there's been some confusion in thecommunity and in my office about how secure are these dollars in beingdesignated exclusively for climate projects. Um so it's good to hear thatthere is there is no exclusivity there. It's it's just money that comes in andwe've we've had a handshake about putting it in climate. We've done thatso far, but it's not like a legal commitment that cannot be broken. Sothat's that's good to understand. Um and we will be tracking that very closely.Um, I had another question. Oh, looking back at the presentation, uh, I'mlooking at a very exciting slide, the green cost share commercial andresidential slide. Um, I see that the Southside green zone is, um, not darkblue and dark green. Uh, dark blue and dark green being more money spent, moreprojects completed. What's happening there?>> Yeah, Chair Wansley, Council Member Stevenson, uh, that would be an accurateassessment. When this program started out, we uh it was the green businesscost share program and we had a number of projects along Lake Street and Iwould say that's where some of our best investments were. Now that we'veswitched to residential, council member Warren's office is taking the most ofthe funding within residential projects in the north side green zones. But Iwould say that's an AC accurate assessment. We don't use these toolsjust to uh in fact that was I had thought about that when I sat downbecause I had planned on mentioning it. Um is that as an area for improvement?Um, we need to do a better job of getting money into the Southside GreenZone. It's a smaller area, but we need to that that graph shows us we need todo a better job of outreach in that neighborhood.>> Okay. Um, I'm very happy to see that uh some neighborhoods in W 8 are are doingvery well in terms of the amount of money and the amount of projects. Uh,but just given the way things are, uh, the Southside Green Zone needs to begetting more than W 8 needs to be getting. Not to say that the centralneighborhood, which has done quite well, is not a priority place. It certainlyis. But um with all the knock-on effects of um of improving the livability ofhomes u I'm just reiterating what you already know about needing to investmore in South >> Chair Wanley and Vice Chair Stevenson. Ijust wanted to comment that some of the work that I was com uh referring toearlier about um working with outreach partners in the community such as Unidosand CMEJ uh that we are working with them to do more door knocking and holdmore events to kind of bolster where we're seeing kind of lack of activity>> um and lower uptake for that reason. Um so we are working on that and then someof the navigator services that we're talking about as well if there are morebarriers beyond just being made aware that we can help them actually reach youknow the resources and move through the program to completed projects. So we areactively working on that. >> Great. Thank you. I I knew you were Ijust was reiterating the shared commitment that we all have. Um and Ithink that's all my questions for now. Thank you.>> Thank you Vice Sheriff Stevenson. Next is Council Member Chowder.Hey, thank you so much for the presentation. I always look forward tothis presentation. Um, I think it's very informative and it kind of grounds us inour current reality and it's also good to hear from you. Um, Megan and nice tomeet you. Uh, would love to set up some time to just sit down and talk throughthis more deeply. Uh the first kind of question that I wanted to hear a littlebit more about is in regards to um our areas of action and progressparticularly falling off track around um reducing uh reliance on fossil gas forbuildings and buildings and industry. would love to just kind of hear from youlike what is the next fouryear fiveyear kind of strategy on the horizon toreally move quickly on this because it does seem like we're just not going tomeet the goals that we need to meet by 2030 and that's really unfortunate. >> Yeah. Um thank you for the questionWansley um Vice Chair Stevenson um Council Member Chowdery. Uh this is avery important part of of the puzzle. Um and one policy that we talk about in theclimate equity plan is a building performance standard. Um and this is a atype of program or or policy that um is is targeted at existing buildings andhelps to ratchet down carbon emissions um for existing buildings over time. sothat you work towards that carbon neutrality by 2050, but over time um andthat there are repercussions or fees if if you're not able to do that. Umat least a doz a dozen other cities across the country have this policy inplace. Four other states have this policy in place and the first one waspassed um I think in 2019. So, you know, we're still the each city is learningand how to improve from it, but we have others out there that we we're trackingand um and learning from and right how these policy pol policy can beimplemented the best. Um it's to be noted that this can be uh againimplemented at the state level or the local level and that there'sbenefit to it being implemented across a more regional or state level. um so thatthere's consistency for the building owners and operators for compliance aswell as um development implications are a little bit more um there's not kind oflike a seams issue. Um but it's a a major policy and it wouldhave other implications of incentingbusinesses and buildings to look at the cleanest energy available for them aswell. Um so that's that's a key piece. Um there's also kind of other stateactions or regulatory actions around um clean heat and moving natural gassystems to more of uh heating options and heating alternatives that are arenot just natural gas um but have a lower carbon footprint and so more of a stateuh policy opportunity that we're we're tracking and um interested in as well.>> Yeah. Thank you so much. What are what are like some of the top uses of fossilgas that we're seeing in our city? Obviously heating, but would love toknow what else. >> Yeah, I mean it is largely heating.>> Um and that is um h the the time at which our our homes and buildings werebuilt. Natural gas is a primary use. It is also a use in not the only fuel, butit is a major fuel in the district energy systems that feed uh many of thedowntown buildings. It's also then used in industrial processes. Um and andthose can be challenging because um each one is its own uh unique process and hasa lot of you know pieces to that to that puzzle also of how to figure out if theywere to move off of that fuel. But those are the major the [clears throat] majoruses. >> Great. And then so would you say one ofthe biggest challenges in reducing the reliance on fossil gas is largely policywe have at the state level? Yes, I think um it's state levelpolicies um such as uh codes and energy policies um and then other ways thatlocal governments can influence around um development from a carbonperspective. Um there's opportunity there, but otherwise Yes.>> Yeah. We're so we're very preempted in regulating building code.>> Yes. And that's a big challenge. >> Yep. Building code is um the authoritysits with the state. >> Yep. That's great. Yeah. I really thinklike I've watched our legislative process over the last few years here atthe city closely and obviously there's a bit of like the math at the legislaturebut I think there's just a lot of opportunity to be able to have a reallylike stronguh and comprehensive climate like just agenda that we're speaking toand working with our partners and community on. Um I feel like if we don'tdo that in the next couple legislative sessions, we're going to have some bigmisses. And I'd love to see the city of Minneapolis kind of have a leadershiprole in that conversation and just see what we can get done to start movingsome of these pieces forward because I think without it, we're just going tocontinue to sit in that offtrack spot. And I mean, we're doing so much reallygood work uh to achieve our goals and our climate legacy initiative as shownby um the demand in the programs that um sustainability is working on. And sojust to have a barrier that is not our own barrier, that's kind of just I Iimagine it's frustrating for your team as well. Um a couple other questionsthat I had. it's just kind of a little uh more focused in some of the programs.So, Green Careers, I love that program. Ithink it's a great opportunity to give um community members uh working-classcommunity members a really valuable opportunity for education in the trades.Um kind of curious to know if there's any partnerships with Minneapolis publicschools adult education and if there's been anything explored there. Um, Chair Wanssley and um, Vice ChairStevenson, there the green careers team absolutely has been exploringcollaboration um, with public schools and I believe that they are working onthat um, and trying to engage youth um, in the upper ages of high school and Ibelieve into early post high school age too. um for for just that reason. Umtrying to make them aware of careers that could be attractive to them thatthey might not have had exposure to previously. Um, and that that might beputting them into, you know, pointing them towards like apprenticeships andother programs that already exist, but just them getting exposure and trainingto um something that's part of the the green economy, something that's a agrowing um need in our community um and our our future green economy. Umthat that is the work that they've been largely focused on most recently. Mhm.And I totally appreciate the the youth aspect of career pathways, but I'll justshare with you what I'm speaking to is adult education. So, in Minneapolispublic schools, we have a really great program for adults throughout our cityum to get something equivalent to a GED. Um and a lot of great programming aroundliteracy. And right now, the Minneapolis Public Schools for Adult Educationrecently had a meeting with them, is looking for ways to partner um withother local governments to just like have opportunities where those learnersare getting into different classrooms and then having an opportunity and joblike this. Um it's a really unique uh kind of part of the educationportfolio there because they don't get additional funding due to enrollment. Soit's a lot of it's a lot of grant reliance and it just seems like thiswould be an interesting fit. Um a lot of the uh uh community members thatparticipate in adult education, they are um folks with families and kids. And sogetting them an opportunity into a career pathway is going to lead to anopportunity for their kids to have that type of stability. So interested inseeing if there's like a way to partner with Minneapolis public schools andgreen career pathways to reach those in adult education.Chair [clears throat] Wanssley, Council Member Chowry. Um, we we haveconnections with the Minneapolis public schools down starting with the Guys andGems program with their STEM programs uh all the way through and I should justsay we the the health department uh community planning and economicdevelopment the CPED folks uh as well. And so if you have a contact uh>> absolutely >> if you want to forward them on and thenwe can make sure everyone's connected. They're they are connected throughtrades through uh they do some of the accredited training on in NorthMinneapolis and South Minneapolis as Sabathan. Uh so there's a number ofconnections we have with the school, but if you want to forward your connection,we can bring that all together. >> I'll I'll write you about it, maybespeak to you about it a little bit more offline. I think there's a reallyinteresting partnership that could happen there. Um and then I just havetwo more things and I'm good. I'll pass it off to my colleagues. The second oryeah, the second one drilling into programming is about the EV uh chargingprogram. I have a lot of community members reaching out in the NakcomomasEast area of my ward that want to see um EV charging grow in the area and there'sa larger demand of folks that want to use it. How do we how do we build a plantowards that? >> Chair Winsley and Vice Chair Stevenson.Um the the the program um is uh a great resource in the community. Um there'skind of two parts to it. There's the EV car share um which is operated by ourcar in collaboration with both cities and then there's the um EV spot networkwhich is the charging network which is publicly available. So on the publiclyavailable charging network that's just available and and there for use um kindof arrive and charge as needed um and pay for that. Um and then additionallyon the the EV car share side um I know that um public works who you know is theuh department that's managing that from the city of Minneapolis side um thatthey have some resources on on some of their web pages to point people uh makepeople aware of that program. St. the city of St. Paul does as well. And thenour car uh has their their website on this. I think I've I've heard some ofthis before and um interested to help raise awareness around this program. Ithink it's a you know it it's serving a real needthat we we do need to fill that last mile. Um smaller trips you know it fillsa number of needs. So, I think I think working with neighborhoodorganizations and with um with our car and and um public the public works orthe the two city um teams to get make sure that the word is is gotten outmore. Um that's one opportunity and we've even talked about um startinglater this year putting forward some webinars more broadly for climate equityprograms that are happening whether it's city facilitated or otherwise. but um tohelp elevate this and this I think is like a prime candidate.>> Yeah. Great. I mean the neighborhood association the area is really willingto work to grow the spot network in the area. It just seems like there's justbeen a growth of community members that are transitioning into electric vehiclesand that's something that just has come up. They're like we don't have enoughplaces to charge. So that's wonderful. Um, my last question is related to thecity budgeting process and it's just gonna we're just not going to beataround the bush. I just wanted to ask a very straightforward question about theadditional 4 million that we allocated last year. Um, is it going to be usedinstead to balance the mayor's budget? Has there been conversations about that?>> Chair Wley, council member Sheldri. Uh, no, we have not had uh conversationsabout using the $4 million to um to to fill budget holes. Um, there has beenobviously conversations around how tough the budget is and and possible impactsuh but not specifically that fund. Um, and yeah, I'll leave that there.>> Okay, great. And I will just ch share like publicly um that I am concernedabout that. I want that $4 million to be dedicated towards the climate legacyinitiative. That was its intention. And it's also something that communitymembers have raised up to me because it was shared um on a social media postthat there was a meeting with the mayor's office between uh climateadvocates and it was shared that that 4 million may be used to balance thebudget. And I'm just stating my position to you and the public that I thinkthat's that's a big mistake. I think we should use this $4 million to to theprogramming that we dedicated to, especially in a moment in time where wearen't going to see a federal government that's going to support us in ourefforts. It feels like this is a precious allocation um that we we needto safeguard. Um, I am always willing to learn more aboutthis piece of it if conversations change and also if this information isn'taccurate. Would love to uh would love to hear from your office or the mayor'soffice. Uh, but it was something that was just brought up to me by severalconstituents and so felt like I had to bring it up in this meeting. So, thanksfor thanks for listening. >> Thank you, Council Member Chowder. Nextis Council Member Warren. >> Thank you um Chair Winsley um and thankyou so much for the presentation and um the work that you're aiding with withrespect to Heritage Park. I appreciate that. Um my question is about the umslide number 19 with respect to the um healthy homes program and the desire toum have the energy systems change at 35% reductionum by what did this say? 20 uh by 2030.Is that the No, that's the the reduction. But then to have by 2033the homes being transitioned all to electric and then I'm saying at at whosecost is that at? like what is the how is that happeningwith um the financial component to that if we're transitioning over intoum the electric component because I would like to see that happen. I justknow that here it is and and this is what I hear from so many of theconstituents in my role in my ward because climate impacts culture and theywant to change over but you are being subjected by working with landlords whoare not interested in making those type of investments for a healthier way ofliving for the residents who are renters. in these situations. So theinvestments are not adequately being made. So at whose cost and then what isthe what where's the financial respon where does that financial responsibilitylive? >> Chair Wley and I'll leave this open todirector Hoy after to cover some of the the larger picture. Um, Council MemberWarren, uh, the with all of our programs, especially aroundweatherization and and we draw a hard line with folks in low incomesituations, is that people need to save money at the end of the day. Uh, so ifwe're talking about switching to electrification,um, that the the investments that we put in and at the end of the day that theirutility bills are less, that the the folks that are in those buildings arepaying less. That may not be the case with all, you know, if people make adecision to to move to electrification in some buildings, but especially inwhat you're describing, uh, people in rental situations is that's our hardline as we it has to save money at the end of the day.>> So, a lot of people are inquiring about solar. they want to utilize and theywant to access solar, but the cost for solar and solar installation on a lot ofthe homes, especially within North Minneapolis, is far more expensive thanwhat individuals have the ability to be able to budget, right? because thereare, you know, certain removal or alterations to tree canopies to ensurethat you're getting effective lighting and all of the other components that gointo, you know, improving the utilization of electricity. What typesof programs and subsidies are coming out of this in order to help make this areality for a lot of people? Chair Wanley, Council Member Warren, umthere's been some great I'm going to try not to think about the InflationReduction Act and all the dollars that were clawed back at the federal levelthat could have really supported and the tax credits. Um but there are uh stillsome low-inccome solar programs and it's the same for that is that when we'regoing in working with someone, working with a family, uh that we want to makesure that they're saving money at the end of the day and then also trying toprovide the partners uh financial partners so that um they have thecapital. That's one of the That's why we center equity in our climate equity planis because if we just go for greenhouse gas reduction, the people that can thathave the capital that can save the money are the ones that are going to benefit.Uh and so making sure that we're really focused with that equity lens and whenwe go in that people are saving money in the case of solar making money uh at theend of the day. So, a majority of the people that I've been talking to withrespect to, okay, yep, we want to go with the electric version, but when Ihold up my electric bill in price comparison to my gas bill, the gas billseems to be a lot more affordable than what my electric bill is. And as we lookat the key metrics on slide 22, if we are improving the utilization ofelectricity, shouldn't that cost index be going down for a majority of theresidents in the city of Minneapolis? >> Chair Winsley, Council Member Warren, umI would say that not all electric is is the same. Uh you can have baseboard heatthat is extremely expensive uh as an electric source. There's other electricsources that are very expensive. I think some of the technology changes thatwe've seen in airsource heat pumps um you start getting into district-widesystems around uh geothermal um there is a potential for that price to go down.Uh, council member Chowry talked about what are some of the barriers with uh,natural or fossil gas. Uh, and that is one of the barriers is that it is cheapuh, to to heat a home. And so that is what we are up against. And and againwhen we go into each one of those homes, we want to make sure especially someonein a low-inccome situation that they're saving money at the end of the day. Andthat those possibil that is possible uh when you're going from a veryinefficient home uh to a more efficient home>> with in with programs like um energy assistance and things like that. Theydenote more funding towards supporting a gas bill than they do with supportingelectric. The electric bill then becomes optional if your home is not primarilyheated by electricity. So they'll support funding around gas and not somuch around electric. They only put like 30%. You can denote for 30% of that tobe utilized towards electricity when it should be more towards the electriccomponent, right? To pay into that if we're looking at transitioning peopletowards utilizing more electricity than they are using gas if we're trying toweed out that gas program. So, how are we, you know, I'm just thinking abouthow we're supporting the lower to moderate income families in thesesituations? >> Do you want to respond, Chair?>> Yes, please. >> Chair Winsley, Council Member Warren.Um, you're talking about barriers that Yeah, that is those are the things thatwe wrestle with in these programs and and what you're calling out is uhthere's validity to it. Um, and so we wrestle with that as well. And like Isaid, it's it's good to have that principle of that bottom line thatpeople are saving money uh at the end of the day uh through these programs,>> right? And I know that um that when individuals utilize energy assistanceprograms, whether it's through um you know, CAP or whatever the situation maybe, that that utilizing those programs and and renters being eligible for thoseprograms do promote a discount for homeowners to be able to make certainupgrades to their properties because they have residents who are in theirproperties that have that, but there's no forcible action or you know promotionof saying, "Hey, you have residents who are eligible for these programs. Here'ssomething else you could take advantage of that will help to upgrade the healthyliving of your homes. Are we doing something to promote that to individualswho have investment properties like really pushing the envelope on that?"Uh, Chair Wanley, Council Member Warren, uh, Director Hoy was talking about thatthe relationships with our regulatory services, uh, and being able to getoutreach, that's been a really helpful partnership for us to get those directmessages out to people that may not live here, but invest in homes here andprograms like our LER program. When you combine our money with the LER program,it's a 90% match for these investments. So, it's hard to say no to that thattype of investment. That's going to save your tenant money and save you a lot ofheadache on I'm kind of advertising here as we're as we're talking and save folksuh money as well. Save the property owner a lot of headaches withmaintenance. >> Right. Right. Right. Thank you so much.I appreciate you both. >> Next. And before I uh move on to thenext council member, I do want to have uh Council Member Warren's attendance beuh recorded and once we're done with this presentation um can get her vote onthe consent agenda. But uh I will uh move to Council Member Pomisano.>> Thank you. Thank you for this presentation and thank you for yourcontinued focus on equity um in spending and in projects. That means that my ownward, my own part of the city is actually not a focus here. And I'm okaywith that. I fully support your environmental justice goals. And I don'tmean to make that sound like um the 13th W doesn't re receive any services. Wedo. Um, in relation to our fossil fuel goals, earlier you mentioned EVcharging, um, and I do support our public car sharing and charging beplaced in these higher need areas, but I am, um, working on and wondering aboutprivate charging platforms. As council member Chowdery mentioned, there are allsorts of situations throughout the entire city where residents have problemum finding access to charge vehicles. Uh for example, they don't have a garagewhere they can plug in or the cost of adding an extra um the extra electricalum into a garage space is prohibitive. I've found that to be the case. I'mfinding that um a lot of people I know, a lot of neighbors and residents tend todrive to the suburbs even though there are a couple charging stations incommercial spaces installed by business owners right in Southwest. Um but theytend to have feel they need to drive out to find charging infrastructure or theyjust don't buy an electric vehicle because they can't charge it. Um, so I'mcurious uh what we're doing to support private options in areas that don't havenearby access to a public EV network. I I did inquire with public works. Theybasically said they could do it, but there's a lot of considerations that gointo zoning and changes, and I continue to explore that with them. Um, my pointin raising this is that I think there are people who are willing to do more uhtoward our climate change goals if they had the support to do that. And from thecity's perspective, we could all benefit from that. Um, right now, as you'vesaid, Minneapolis uses the city-driven option, right? All chargers on thepublic rightway are also colllocated with the EV car share program. Um itunfortunately that doesn't encompass the 13th ward. I don't know how much of W 12it encompasses either. Um but those two models aren't exclusive and they canwork in combination but we don't yet have a regulatory framework for aprivate interest option. Um so all this to say um I I wonder if councilmember Chowry would like to join me in working on this together some more. I'dlike the opportunity to pilot a residential program catered specificallyto areas outside that EV network. Um, because they're in the boulevard, wehave to think about things like snow removal and ADA accessibility andresponsibility of maintenance and how who we contact if one isn't working. Um,I think that might take a little while, but I I have been in conversation withpublic works about it, and I guess I'm wondering where that fits in your modeland these >> kinds of [clears throat] um prioritiesas it pertains to the electric >> car. Uh, Chair Wanley, council memberPalmisano, I heard someone whisper, Dale Howe over here. Um there there are anumber he's a he's a a property owner that's invested in a lot of electricvehicle stations at his own properties making sure that people have access toelectric vehicles. So we have a number and we have a number of other projectswhere we've invested with private partners uh for them to do a cost to doa green costier on their private uh property. Um so that's where we've comein. It's not I wouldn't say it's widespread but there's a number ofprojects around. So, I think we'd be interested in that conversation and Iwould be remiss if I didn't allow uh the former chief operations officer of ZeffEnergy to to weigh in on anything that she has to add to that. But we'd lovethe conversation. >> That's me if you were wondering. Um,Chair Wansley and uh Council Member Palmo, I I think it's an excellentquestion. Um, you know, Excel Energy has programs um in place even though they'vechanged and um I think have some more limitations tothem for supporting private development of charging infrastructure out in thecommunity. Um, and there's a difference between level two charging and fastcharging. Um, if we're talking about charging that would allow people to gokind of fill up the pump, the electric pump relatively quickly, but they areresidents, um, that's kind of one thing versus if they're businesses or businessfleets and things like that. So, they they should be looked at separately. UmI think the green kh share program and and being able to invest in it throughthat through you know funding opportunities is is apath that many other cities um even other utilities use um across thecountry. So it might be that um and there are businesses that you know thatare interested to support that and to do that. Um I think beyond that there umthere's other considerations you know like if if the city is to own versus notown or if it's going to be outside parties. Um recently there's beendiscussion at the public utilities commission around if there could be arate that if it's publicly owned infrastructure level two. um could ithave a lower rate more like a residential rate because it'ssupplementing those that live in multif family housing and then they're going touse this as their residential charging option. So there's many considerationsand it's quite complex. Um I think that there's you know more that could bediscussed there. >> Thank you. And I think that by thenature of your kind of off the top of head comments that you kind of point outhow complex it is. [laughter] So thank you.Thank you. I'm back in Q. Um just a couple follow-up questions related to umI'm actually looking at what's this slide? Slide 24. So umit shows that our progress related to the strategic goal of air but alsotransportation there. They're somewhat moving on track. One project that I willknow I have seen little engagement from um health and sustainability on isaround rethinking 94. So I wanted to get a sense too of what you all's engagementhas been with the various um agencies that's been a part of that processespecially as air and also multimodal use um in terms of how to incorporatethat into a a design for the new highway has been a a really heavy conversationthat the Minneapolis delegation a lot of uh government partners have weighed inon. So I want to get more clarity about you all's participation in that.Yeah, Cher Winsley. Um, we obviously have in the health department have a lotof experience uh talking about air quality and and those sorts of issues.So, we'd love to be part of conversations. I wouldn't say we've beenin deep conversations with uh a lot of those folks. So, we'd be open to beingpart of those conversations moving forward. Okay. Um, next question is, isZero Oasis listed on here as well? I was actually excited to see and uh this willbe presented on at our next well in a few CNI meetings around the the workplan for this committee but zero waste was a top priority share by uh councilmembers um and I I want to get a little bit more clarity um as it's listed asone of the areas funded by the climate legacy initiative but can you share howthe resources and information provided is different from the health departmentwell provided by the health department is different from what the county doesfor the public and they do that for free. So if you could share a little bitof that difference. >> Uh Chair Wanley, so the zero wastefunding that goes in that is in here is for public works and doing the work uhthat the city is doing around zero waste and I believe there's consulting andeducation dollars involved with that. Um and so they would be uh better able tospeak to that. But that's that funding is not to the health department. It'sthrough public works and having a a comprehensive approach to zero waste.>> Okay. Okay. It's redirected to public works. Okay. And so will I'm I'massuming then if [laughter] if that is the the lead department, butthinking of who is the target audience then for that program or it sounds likeit's basically relegated to public works as the lead. So there is not actually aprogram being run through health and sustainability or sustainability health.Okay. >> Sher Winsley. Yes, we're in theconversations but yeah it's public works that's leading.>> Okay. Um, and before I move on to the last, I will note because we had someoutstanding questions around the fiscal elements and I think everyone has ashared interest in getting um, that information back. I do want a motion tohold this um, item over instead of receiving and filing to August 20th. I'mdoing August 20th because I know our agenda on August 6 is pretty full. Um,so I wanted to move that forward um, as a motion and see if all are in favor. uhsay I I those not in favor oppose say nay. All right, great. Um last we havecouncil member Vita. >> Thank you chair Wanley and uh thank youfor the presentation. I just had a few questions. The first one was about yousaid that this is the last year for the tree program or like what's the status?>> Your your mic is not on. >> Here we go. Uh, Chair Wanley, CouncilMember Vita. Uh, no, for this year, uh, we're we've run to the they've plantedso many trees, they're out of budget for the year. Uh, and so we anticipate forthis year. Yeah, correct. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. I was like, whoa, Idon't want those calls tonight. Thank you for clarifying that. So, we willhave a program for next year. It's just this year. All right. And then, um, I'I've noticed that we have these two workforce programs, right? kind of CPEDand then we have one in sustainability. I don't know if this is a staff memo orif it's something you can speak to today, but I'm trying to understand likewhere they intersect and if it is some sort of a duplicate service or like whatis actually happening between the two programs, how they intersect, and likewhat are the differences? It just, you know, just kind of like an overview ofboth of the different workforce programs.>> Sure. Chair Wanley, uh, Council Member of Utah. So, the health department does,uh, a green careers program, and it's really focused on, I mentioned the Guysand Gems program through the, uh, Minneapolis public schools, uh, which isyounger age children. Uh, it's focused on getting exposure to these differentcareers. Um, and doing, u, education around the latest technology, the latestin energy efficiency in buildings. Um, and then having I we get into someaccredited trainings, but it's not with the promise of going on to a career. Andso it's it might be doing a certified solar training like they're going tospend the time in a classroom that they get a certification that says they didthe course. Um, but then that's at the point where uh it would be directingfolks into to CPED who it's their role to focus on workforce. So, we talkedabout GED programs and getting people into trades and really directing peopleinto uh trade programming uh where they can go and and be directed to a job andland in a job. And so, that is the role of CPED. Uh and [clears throat] we workin in tandem in in handing people off to their programs and of course they haveuh feeder programs throughout the city with different organizations that theydo work force. So sustainability is more preparation and then CPAD is likeworkforce and getting folks jobs and uh continued training.>> Chair Vita, council member or sorry chair Wanley, council member Vita.Correct. >> Okay. Thank you. And then what whatabout um renewable energy partnership? Are we still in partner with them? Havewe figured out uh ways in which we can collaborate? So earlier this year, myoffice connected director SERS in emergency management with the renewableenergy partnership and I I need to check back in to see if they've um figured outsome ways to collaborate, but just wondering how sustainability is doingwith with uh the north side renewable industry partnership. Um, uh, ChairWanley, Council Member Vita, I can follow up with exact what's what's beengoing on lately, but we do, uh, work out of that space at 1200 Plymouth. Um, andthere's, uh, trades partners that are in that space, the electrical, uh, tradespartners and a number of a number of different, uh, community organizationsand partners as you, as you well know. U, but I can follow up with, uh, exactlywhere we're at in doing the partnership with uh, renewable energy partners.>> Okay. I think she will >> council member uh chair Winsley andcouncil member Vita the conversations with renewable energy partners. Um wehave I we know that um emergency management had a meeting um and kind ofin coordination with our resilience hub uh staff person. So, we're aware of thatand um we have been working with emergency management on how tocollaborate in general with our resilience hub locations and kind of uhwhere they fit in because we've been figuring out like emergency managementservices at those hubs more broadly, how that fits into the to the picture. So,that's kind of an ongoing conversation just to to add that.>> That that's awesome. Thank you. Um, I also want to just make sure we tap intothem too for this workforce development because they certainly have the abilityto train and to um prepare folks for jobs with the trades or wherever uhfolks land and that's youth, adults, whomever. I think it's just a greatresource to have in North Minneapolis, especially when we're talking about thefuture of green jobs, sustainability, uh, all the things. So, whateverpartnerships we can generate, you know, I'm just a fan of a fan of if it's inthe neighborhood, like that's what we want to access. They're there. Peoplehave the ability to take public transit, ride the bike, do whatever they need toget to that location. And so whatever ways we can partner with them to makesure people have jobs, have adequate training, have access to these careers,even if it's just the education pathway, I think it's just super important forNorthsiders to know and to know that the city is a part of that. I know they do agreat job at advertising for themselves and recruiting students, but it'ssomething that um I'd be proud to say the city is partnering in and makingsure that we're um not only adding jobs to our workforce at the city, butencouraging young people in our community to seek these jobs and to seekthis training. So that partnership would be great. Uh as as far as we can go witha partnership with the north side organization, not just this one, but anyof the organizations on the north side would be great. And then my last thingis I just wanted to thank you all for the work you did on um making sure thatCAPHC got the funding. That is going to be 250 families who are um in need ofenergy assistance, who have a hard time paying their bills. And so I really doappreciate how quickly you got that uh program up and running and I'm I know wehad a list of more than 250 families who needed the service when we started. So Ireally do appreciate Thank you. So thank you so much, Mr. Mayor. I really doappreciate the the work that you and the entire department did so fast to get Imean we were in a crisis with uh with families in need of energy emergencyassistance all of the assistances and you all quickly got this um up andrunning and our families are certainly getting the help from this. So thank youso very much. >> All right, seeing no one else. Thankyou. Uh we've already approved the motion to forward this presentation tothe August 20th uh CNI meeting. So thank you all. I look forward to getting amore comprehensive followup about the fiscal accounting for the climate legacyinitiative funding um as was requested um by then. And yeah, thank you all fortoday's presentation. Uh before we move to the next uh discussion item number19, um I do want to see if council member Warren if you would like to haveyour vote be recorded as I on the consent agenda.>> It is an I. Thank you. >> All right. Uh clerks noting that withoutany objections. Thank you. All right. Moving on to our next receiving fileitem uh number 19 which is the 2025 progress report for your city yourstreets. I will now invite Gustav Stewart, transportation planner,transportation planning and programming to get us started.>> Hi, Chair Winsley. Council members, my name is Gustav Stewart and I am atransportation planner with the city of Minneapolis public works. Today I willbe giving the your city your streets 2025 progress report presentation.This presentation provides an overview of all the pre-jects completed inMinneapolis in 2025 and a brief overview of how are we meeting the goals laid outin the 20-year streets funding plan. The neighborhood park and streetinfrastructure plan ordinance was adopted by the Minneapolis city counciland mayor in April 2016. The ordinance provided the groundwork for the 20-yearstreets funding plan by providing additional funding to help completeimportant street projects throughout the city. Work under the plan began in 2017.The 20-year streets funding plan provides a framework of how the cityprioritizes street work in Minneapolis. The city of Minneapolis adopted theracial equity framework in March 2023. The racial equity framework fortransportation outline transportation equity priority scores and tiers to helpprioritize transportation investments and evaluate progress in street work.These equity priority areas look at the demographic makeup and income ofMinneapolis's neighborhoods as well as transportation related metrics such asvehicle availability, commute time, and temperature.So since 2017, the 20-year streets funding plan, the city has built orparticipated in a total of 308 miles of street work. This is about how manymiles it would take to drive all the way across to the can Canadian borderthrough International Falls. 89 miles of that work were completed in equitypriority areas. So while 21% of the streets are in equity priority areas,29% of the work has actually been completed in the area those areas.In terms of our multimodal improvements, we've completed 50 miles of new orupgraded protected bike facilities. There's been over 7,700ADA ramp upgrades, 70 mi of pedestrian realm has been improved, and over 2,000curb extensions. Oh, there we go.Since the adoption of the 20-year streets funding plan, a lot has changedwithin our plans and overarching policies. The city has adopted planssuch as the transportation action plan, the street design guide, a green stormwater ordinance, the racial equity framework for transportation, the visionzero action plan, the ADA transition plan, and the parkways ordinance, justto name a few. As a result, the city has invested in street improvements alignedwith goals which include but are not limited to zero fatal crashes, mode shipmode shift and increasing green storm water infrastructure in the streetrightway. At the same time, we have also seen a rise in costs, whether it's costin materials or our cost participation on cooperative projects that hasresulted in a decline in the number of miles of resurfacing work we're able tocomplete each year. So, while we typically um resurfaced about 25 to 30miles of work, last year it was under 10 miles of resurfacing in the city.Pavement condition is a closely tracked metric associated with the 20-yearstreets funding plan. The 20-year streets funding plan brought inadditional funding that has helped curb the decline in behavement quality. Atthe same time, pavement conditions have still managed to decline over time, inpart due to those increasing costs I mentioned earlier. In 2017, the city'saverage estimated pavement condition index was at around 72.this year in 2025 it was at an estimated average of 57. So before going into all the highlightsof 20 25 completed projects we want to highlight that the public works has donea lot of work over the last nine years. Even though pavement quality hasdeclined and may decline further, our investments have been made with an eyeto a balanced transportation system. Keeping keeping in mind that maintainingthe current system while also providing safe, reliable access for everyone. Ourgoals look different than they did in 2017. So we make the decisions based offof climate, sustainability, equity, mode shift, and safety as well.So looking in 2025 street accomplishments,there's been 93 intersections that were upgraded. 39 signals were upgradedand just under 29 miles of general street work. 5.1 of those miles weremade in equity priority areas and 5.6 six miles were safety conversions whicheither involves a four to three lane cur conversion or a narrowing of a street toimprove safety. In 2025, the city completed the secondhalf of the Henipin Avenue reconstruction project from 26th Streetto Douglas Avenue. Prior to the street reconstruction, the road was over 65years old, which is past its useful life. The reconstruction projectprovided important safety improvements, new and improved sidewalk space, greenstorm water infrastructure, a two-way sidewalk level bikeway, bus lanes, andnew signals. The project was an accumulation of years of communityengagement, detailed design, and construction work, and is now a saferand more comfortable place for all modes of travel.Phase one of the First Avenue South reconstruction project was alsocompleted last year. The project was a reconstru reconstruction project thatincludes a sidewalk level bikeway, green storm water infrastructure, newsidewalk, and new pavement for vehicles. First Avenue South was one of the mosthighly rated projects in our 20-year streets funding plan. Um, notably thisproject was constructed in-house by our transportation maintenance and repairstaff, which is a huge un undertaking and accomplishment. As part of the concrete rehab program,the city completed work in the Kenwood area. The concrete rehab work involvesum repairing uh concrete panels and performing a diamond grind finish withADA upgrades. The remaining segments of this work will be completed this year.Public works also maintains MPB parkways in Minneapolis.The city completed work at St. Anthony Parkway from Hay Street to Central Alast year to extend the life of the street. A red chip seal will becompleted either this year or next year um as part of that capital maintenancework and to provide that look and feel that parkways have throughout the city.As part of the city's alley program, public works reconstructed the alleybetween Park Avenue and Columbus Avenue between 45th Street and 46th Street. Thealley program is focused on improving pavement needs as well as addressingdrainage issues. So the next few projects that I'llhighlight are cooperative projects. While these projects are not led by thecity, the city has an important role to facilitating the concept layout approvaland often cost participate on these projects. The project on the slide is aHenipin Countyled um Lowry Avenue Northeast reconstruction um specificallyfrom Central to Johnson Street. This project reduced the overall width of thestreet, added pedestrian medians, and it added a new shared use path on the northside of the street. The project adds important safety improvements innorththeast Minneapolis. Henipin County also led on a resurfacingand reconstruction project for University and Fourth Street. Last year,University Avenue from I35 to Oak Street um included upgrades. The projectincluded both sidewalk and in street bike facilities, new pavement andsidewalk improvements, improving connectivity along the street, but alsoacross it as well between Dinky Town and University of Minnesota.Mindot led on a resurfacing project for trunk highway 121 in Minneapolis whereMandot reduced the trunk highway from two lanes to one lane. This restripingimproves saf safety along and across the corridor and pictured on the slide isthe fifth the 8th street intersection which had geometry and signal upgradesum making it a safer place to cross. There are several streets that wereimproved in conjunction with the Met Council's Green Line extension project.The picture on the left shows the Cedar Lake Parkway and Kennallorth Trailresection which was reconstructed to include improved trail crossings andalso included a flashing beacon to make it safer to cross. This project, this slide highlights theEline bus rapid transit project which was completed and opened last year. TheEline brought faster speeds and more reliable transit service mostly alignedwith the previous route six. It also brought along higher writership. TheEline route better connects um the University of Minnesota, downtown,Uptown, the Lynen Hills neighborhood to and Dina.The project includes high quality neighborhood scale stations withreal-time arrival and departure information and near-level boarding.So, the next two slides will cover two countyled four to three laneconversions. Um the picture the pictures on the slide highlight Lowry AvenueNorth Bridge which had over the Mississippi River which is convertedfrom four lanes to two lanes um with a left turn lane.And this slide highlights the East Henipin Avenue um four to three laneconversion. Um these four to three lane conversions improve pedestrian, bicycleand vehicle safety by reducing conflict. So the next several high slides willhighlight pedestrian focused improvements. Um the number on thenumbers on the screen highlight both um the projects I talked before and theones to come. So, across the city in 2015 or 2025,um there were 6.1 miles of improved pedestrian realm. There were 271 curbextensions that were built. Two sidewalk gaps were closed. 4.6 of of pedestrianlighting were installed and over a,08 ramps were upgraded. And then lastly, 16pedestrian medians were built. The Richfield Road sidewalk gap projectfilled a gap between the William Barry Parkway Trail with the Eline Bus RapidsTransit Project um station epidea. This project was led by public works andincluded the construction of a shared use path to fill this gap.The Phillips traffic safety project included improvements along 24th Streetand at a few intersections within the neighborhood. With 24th Street up forresurfacing, public works brought in additional federal and local funding conto construct large curb extensions to to narrow the crossing distance and slowvehicle speeds on this high injury street. The Lauren Park intersection safetyimprovements included signal upgrades at eight different intersections. Withthese signal upgrades, there was a focus on adding additional safety andaccessibility improvements through curb extensions and APS push buttons as well.The Eline intersection safety improvements project was a city-ledproject which included upgrades at 44th Street at Cyers and at Vincent A as wellas Richfield Road and 36th Street. At Richfield Road and 36th Street, theintersection was reconfigured to add a diagonal crosswalk to improveconnectivity, trail connectivity in the areathrough the city's vision zero capital program. Flexible delineators orballards were installed along 38th Street. These cost-effective quick buildsafety improvements allow the city to improve safety quickly while slowingvehicles. The Vision Zero Capital Program alsofunded speed cushions um as a pilot within the city. The ones on the slideare um along Bryant Avenue North between Fourth A and Fifth A. um they're shownas during field testing before striping was completed. Looking at 2025 accomplishments in termsof um improving kind of our bicycle infrastructure, there were 7.1 miles ofnewly constructed or upgraded bike facilities. Five of those miles wereprotected bike facilities and three were in equity priority areas.So, the Henipin Dunwy bikeway project um added important safety improvements asit reconfigured the intersection with signals, a new pedestrian median,sidewalk, and bike facilities. The project upgraded the previously existingBallard bikeway along these two streets by including additional green boulevardspace and curb extension as well as a a large um rain garden which is part ofour green storm water infrastructure just to the left of the picture.And then last but not least, the Oak Street Southeast Bikeway from WashingtonAvenue to University Avenue was completed last year. This project filledthe last remaining gap along Oak Street, which connects the East River ParkwayTrail to the Dinky Town Greenway. The project included the addition of aprotected bikeway, as well as a large curb extension, which reduced thecrossing crossing distance for pedestrians as well as the number oflanes, which will have a positive impact on vehicle safety.So, that concludes my presentation. Thanks for everybody for listening andhappy to answer any questions. Thank you so much, uh, Mr. Stewart. Uh, I see wehave, uh, Vice Chair Stevenson in Q. >> Yeah, thank you. I mostly just wanted tosay thank you for the presentation. It was great. And to all public works forthese improvements. They are they are massive. They are so good. Um, inparticular, I think a lot of the the designs for the new constructions havebeen excellent. First Street is so much better. It's so nice on First Streetnow. I think Henipanav is great. There's been a lot of hate on Henipinav, butit's actually fantastic. Um, and I really appreciate those. Um, Richfieldand 36, taking out that that swoop lane or whatever those are called and and andimproving that intersection has been massive. I've driven, walked, bikedthrough many of the projects that that uh and busted through many of theprojects that were raised and they're all just such massive improvements. So,I just I just can't say thank you enough for these things. They're incredible. Umthat's pretty much it. Thank you. >> Thank you, Vice Chair Stevenson. I alsoknow for the clerk something weird is happening with speaker management.Council member Pomisano got a queue and it has her checked in for her first andthat's that's weird. Yeah. But uh Yes. >> When uh right when uh she includedherself, I clicked right next to it and immediately got rid of it. When I wasgetting ready to uh get have the first one, so I just readded you in.>> Okay. Awesome. All right. Next is Vice Sorry, Council Member Pomano.>> Thank you. Um thank you, Mr. Stewart, for this presentation. Um, the report Ithought the report had said we had built around 8,000 ADA ramps. In your slidehere, it says a little over a thousand. Um,regardless, how many more do we still need to do?>> Um, chair, council member, um, I think I would have to get back to you on that.Um, unless, um, >> do you feel like we're we've reached thehalfway point at this point? a quarter of the way there just in yourestimation. I'm not looking for a specific figure.>> Chair, council member, I I would have we would have to go back and look at ourADA transition plan which outlines um how many ADA ramps we've completed sofar and um what is the plan to get us there. Um and that would have the exactnumber in there. Um but that is on our website. Um so we do have a number outthere. >> All right. If I can if you can helppoint me to that on the website, that would be awesome. Um,>> it is frustrating to see that despite our investment, the overall pavementcondition index continues to fall. Um, other than increased funding, are thereother ways that we're using to prevent this downward trend?Chair, council member, I I think you're right um with saying that funding is abig piece in terms of um with resurfacing concrete rehab andreconstruction work in terms of improving and um helping curb thedecline in pavement condition. Um also seal coat which is funded through ourgeneral fund. Um but I think what we've done um at the city and public works istried to pair investments together um as much as possible. So when we um aredoing um a resurfacing, we're also including pedestrian improvements umwhich can help fund our ADA curb ramps as well. So pairing investments togetherhas been part of our strategy to making our dollars go further.>> Yeah, that sounds good. So does um a new different kind of level betweenresurfacing and reconstruction that I know has been employed in some plannedproject work in my area. Um I've had some work done in the sidewalk gapprogram in my ward primarily due to the eline um construction. I'm I'm verygrateful for that. Uh there's a new portion of sidewalk on the east side ofbedca. Um, but where does funding stand forother sidewalk gaps? I have a few other spaces in my ward that I've not yet beensuccessful at getting addressed. >> Chair, council member, um, sidewalk gapfunding is part of our cap six-year capital improvement program. Um, I knowthere's currently conversations um, in terms of looking at the overall sidewalkgap policy in terms of how we go about assessments. Um, I believe that's in theworks, but I would need to confirm that. Um,>> okay. Thank you. >> Thanks.>> Um, thank you. I'm looking to make sure there okay there is no one else in queueand um before I receive and file I will note that we've been in conversations uhwith public works leadership about getting um regular updates and partspecifically getting some um specific timing for update in Q1 or Q2 next yeararound uh status report on our ADA uh ramp improvements because I know that'sbeen uh a matter raised by a number of our council members because we recognizethis is a significant priority. We want to make sure our sidewalks, our streetsare accessible um for all of our residents uh regardless of theirmobility needs. So, I do want to note that this was flagged for public worksleadership in terms of a presentation that we would like to see come forwardearly next year. Um and also we will be getting you know continued reports onthis um this body of work as well which also relates to our vision zero planwhich I believe will be coming before this body for uh further considerationat our August 6 uh climate infrastructure uh meeting. Um and justfor clarification a quick question too. I know this was or are your streetsthat's the full tagline here? Your streets.>> Our streets. >> Our streets. Yes, everybody streets umplan. It was related to a 20-year overall plan, I believe. Um so I I I'mtrying to recall as I was looking through the history of limbs, when didit originally uh passed or was adopted? Was it in 2017? So essentially, whenwould we be up or due for uh having to reconsider this one as well?>> Chair Wanley. Um so the 20-year streets funding plan. Um so the ordinance thatfunds the 20-year streets funding plan was adopted in 2016 and that providedadditional funding um starting in 2017 and then um the 20ear streets fundingplan as itself um was adopted in 2017. Um, so that gives us 20 years um ofadditional funding um to help complete um the street public works projects thatum we kind of highlighted today. >> Okay. So, we got some time. Okay.Awesome. Uh well, thank you again for this presentation. Um I wanted to noteif council member Thomas, did you want a question noted for staff memo?>> Um I would in terms of how many we still need to upgrade. I did find the answer,which is 8,000 ramps since like 2017 and a thousand ramps just last year is whatis the work that was done. What I'm still curious about is how many more westill need to add to address. Um that would be useful and then um any updateson our sidewalk gap funding program would be certainly appreciated. So,thank you. >> Did our clerks capture that?Awesome. Um, and if you need further clarification, please feel free to emailme and council member Pomisano to get those noted on record. All right. Um, Iwill ask the clerk to receive and file this presentation. Again, thank you somuch, uh, Mr. Stewart for giving this presentation. And that said, we haveconcluded all business on today's agenda. So, I will declare this meetingajourn. All right.