Minnetonka — Transcript

Wednesday, July 23, 2025Analysis complete

4 Topics in This Document

Business Engagement for Greenhouse Gas Reduction

Residential Solar Adoption Initiatives

Community Sustainability Initiatives and Program Updates

Federal Climate Policy Landscape

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One thing that I love about my role is I get to work with a lot of other departments... So it's great to be able to collaborate with other departments across the city um, to work with an important part of Minnetonka.

Kirsten Joerger [0:14:00]2025 Business Outreach: Climate Action Plan and Adaptation Outreach

So, clearly the response is varying between the tenant and the owner. Um, we also can recognize that owners seemed to take more actions than tenants.

Ally Herland [0:25:50]2025 Business Outreach: Climate Action Plan and Adaptation Outreach

I participated in the program um previously the one-stop efficiency shop and it was an excellent outreach opportunity and appropriately named because it I believe that we saw several dozen businesses and talked with the owners or the tenants sometimes um in one day's time and it was partnering the commissioner with an engineer for Saturday Center for Energy and Efficiency.

Commissioner Patine [0:41:50]2025 Business Outreach: Climate Action Plan and Adaptation Outreach

They're the ones that don't have any in-house expertise. The large companies that employed me, for example, you know, where they had an environmental health and safety manager director, they have in-house expertise. And I think most of those folks have been assigned uh sustainability actions.

Chair Gallib [0:50:00]2025 Business Outreach: Climate Action Plan and Adaptation Outreach

If you go onto the website you'll find the uh this type of information. So they're saying that the bids in general save just over $5,000 per installation.

Ally Herland [0:55:10]2025 Residential Solar Outreach

And there is a limit of up to 120% of one's annual electric use. That's reviewed over the past 3 years, I believe.

Commissioner Meyer [1:02:25]2025 Residential Solar Outreach

Well, thank you for picking up the baton and running with it. I think it's important that all citizens have access to this.

Commissioner Henry [1:05:40]2025 Residential Solar Outreach

Everything that I have learned about solar since being on the commission, I have learned from our fellow commissioners... I think that's fantastic. Also when we're in community and doing our ambassador work it comes up as well.

Commissioner Ingram [1:14:50]2025 Residential Solar Outreach