sustainability and Community resilience really reflecting a broad swath of sustainability climate mitigation climate adaptation and the natural environment the definition um we sort of expanded upon um it's a community that values sustainability the natural environment and actions that lead to a more climate resilient community.

one of the things that I'm that strikes me and I I talked to Mike a little bit about it this morning as um there's a lot of professional language in here and and you know because because of the line of work that you're in you know there's there's this sort of um acceptance that that people in your line of work are there to protect the natural environment and so there are words like enhance and also manage but one of the words that is no longer in there is protect and um we value which also implies protect but I think I just feel you know I've been feeling kind kind of burned by Kurt Fram um cutting down our uh Woodland preservation area and so I think that I still feel like I I feel a little naked without the word protect.

when I look at our brand as a city we're all about the natural environment and taking the words natural environment out of the Strategic priority is something that that I'm struggling with just because you know I mean what what did our what before we did our refresh with our logo what was the model the kind of the city model we do it better naturally or something I mean something like that I mean we quality is our nature our quality is our nature there we go I can't remember I mean but he but quality yeah quality is our nature but I mean we refer to the natural environment in that and I think you know I would as my memory is so good isn't it sorry about that sorry I didn't go back and look can you tell um but I just I hate to give words natural environment away and uh uh because that's been so much a part of our identity.

I'm all in favor of of talking about about prevailing wages and worker safety and all those things but the right now um from what I know about wage theft is often it's often subcontractors will misclassify employees as independent contractors um and a lot of times workers are not aware they may not be be aware that they're being stolen from and if they are aware that they're being stolen from a lot of times intimidation is used to keep them from speaking up and they are not aware that there are places they can go to to seek help um and so I'd like us to consider some some sort of policy where uh contractors and subcontractors are are required to have notices up that in inform employees of their rights and where to go who to contact if they feel like their rights are not being upheld.

I feel really conflicted about this conversation because I really you know I believe in people getting paid fairly I believe in um you know obviously we do not want people mistreated um I all of these things really make a lot of sense to me in a vacuum I have you know concerns about them in the sense of you know one of the things we hear a lot and that's gotten a lot of traction in the media and the legislature is that um cities are too prescriptive and restricted restrictive when it comes to what they expect of developers and that is inhibiting the abil ability to and I don't necessarily you know buy this whole argument but that it's inhibiting the ability for us to develop affordable housing.

Your authority to do zoning and land use approval is is embedded in chapter 462 of the statute that gives you the ability to put in place land use provisions it doesn't provide any authority to do General Public Welfare or you know to say this developer I don't like you met all our our code requirements you've met all of our code requirements but we don't like you for whatever reason you're a bad person and you don't pay your workers or you don't pay your federal taxes or you do something else that you don't like there's no Authority in 462 or in our zoning code for us to do that.

I've been doing this now for a couple of years and Mike and his in this chair did it before when he was here and Perry before that and over the years there's been some voice mild concerns about either the form or the process or I've heard things such as like I've never given a performance review in my life I I don't even know where to start I feel uncomfortable doing this.

My biggest concern and watching you know my husband who's a director at a company that did a big overhaul on how they're doing reviews to try to get consistency and that's always been my problem with reviews you got seven people in totally different walks of life and no you know we're just like okay we're going to fill this out from our lens and so I I don't think I mean I think the form is pretty good I think having five numbers is too many I you know and I think trying to get a saw on the same page I also think resetting the form because once you do it and then you're like oh God if I give worse score than last year I don't really think this person did worse but you know it kind of gives us a fresh start to say okay we'll try to have a streamline objective on how we're reviewing this.

the in scale is not realistic in my view and that that concerns me totally agree and then the other thing I would say is in terms of feedback let's um not everyone's used the form not everyone's done the job let's let's ask the same question you know a couple you know a couple month or after the first of the year we've gone through the whole process and we've all experienced it then let's evaluate what we've just done rather than then I don't like this I don't like that but I've never used it.

I've gotten comments or questions from folks who have neighbors with with dead and dying trees but not trees that would fall on our radar so something that might be jeopardizing a neighbor's fence or shed but not something that would would rise to the level of the city getting involved in marking or ask you know requiring removal and with Emerald ashor you know I had one guy who called a couple times and I you know we didn't really have anything to say well in the last several weeks I've heard from two other people and so I'm wondering if that's something that's coming up.

Unless a tree is um likely to fall over a public Trail onto a public road or um onto city property the city does not typically get involved. We would a tree that presents a hazard to city property or to the traveling public we would deem a nuisance and then we would go out and market and we could if the owner doesn't remove it we could remove it and assess the property back if the tree is considered a hazard but it's not affecting any public interest it's just affecting another property owner we consider that to be a private property issue.

people complain and about chemical use on their lawns now I know we can't regulate the state regulates pesticides on their lawns and also the signage like I know that that but she wanted to and and and I think that I just wanted to bring it up just because I can see the new development that's going on with those massive massive Lawns and how much chemicals are going to be required to keep up those Lawns.