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Home My WebLink AboutYSC November 15, 2023 packetYakima Sustaiability Committee Agenda November 15, 2023 City Hall — Council Chambers 4:30 p.m. — This meeting is in -person, live -streamed at aki a a. ov, and telecast live on Y-PAC, Spectrum Cable Channel 194. Public comments may be made in person or by phone. You may call in and participate by dialing 1-253-2 - 8782 or 1-971-247-1195, entering meeting ID 9973856375 #, participant ID #, and meeting password 873060#. 1. Call to Order 2. Roll Call 3. Approval of Minutes From September 20th 4. Approval of Minutes From October 18th 5. Public Comment There will be 35 minutes allotted for public comment with two and a half (2 112) minutes per speaker to allow audience participation as many opportunities as possible. Written communication and e-mail messages are strongly encouraged. 6. Anaerobic Digester Grant Update — Trace Bradburn 7. Other Business a. One -Year Climate Change Plan b. 2024 Work Plan for Council c. December Meeting Vote 8. Adjournment NextMeeting: TBD Yakima Sustainability Committee Minutes for September 20, 2023 1. Call to order by Chair Jeff Scott at 4:31 p.m. 2. Roll Call: members present Jeff Scott, Ajit Gill, Jeremy Leavitt, Marcelino Osorio (via Zoom), Dan Schapiro City staff- Rosylen Oglesby, Sy Ruiz 3. Jeremy moved to approve the Minutes from August 16. Aj it seconded. Motion passed. 4. Public Comment: Coleen Anderson shared the news that the American Climate Corps has been launched as a Federal program. She also shared the opportunity for committee members to tour the urban forest in Toppenish. 5. Dr. Sara Cate, chair for the Yakima chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby, gave a presentation on Climate Change and Health. She noted that several impacts related to heat and air quality are already being felt. As of April 2023, Yakima ranks 20th nationwide for the highest level of short term air pollution. Dr. Cate provided resources for enhancing community resiliency such as Rewiring America https:/.Iwww.rewiriRggMc��/ira- calculator) and ecoAmerica 1-ittps-./i.'ecoamerica..orv-/I.et,-,-talk-clii,nate./ 6. The committee began reviewing the draft Climate Action Plan in detail. Suggestions were made up through the section on Environmental Justice. Changes are being tracked in Google Docs. Marcelino has access to a list of city controlled power meters. He will be able to target savings opportunities and suggest stacked incentives. Jeremy mentioned the C40 Cities site as resource. hhUsL:/,,"www.c40.or Ti Rosylen indicated that inter -views are being conducted for a new Civic Spark fellow, and that Trace Bradburn will be the city staff contact starting in October. Roslyen also shared that the Department of Commerce is now asking the city to return the feasibility study grant for the anaerobic digester. 7. Meeting adjourned at 6:01 p.m. until the next meeting scheduled on October 18, 2023, at 4:30 p.m. Yakima Sustainability Committee Minutes for October 18, 2023 1. Call to order by Chair Jeff Scott at 4:33 p.m. 2. Roll Call: members present Jeff Scott, Ray Paolella, (via Zoom), Jeremy Leavitt, Dan Schapiro City staff Trace Bradburn, Rosylen Oglesby 3. Approval of the Minutes from September 20 was tabled. 4. Public Comment: Coleen Anderson shared contact information for Debra Byrd who will help arrange a tour of the Toppenish tiny forest. Jose Garcia expressed concern about getting questions answered from the city. (Not sure if this needs to be included.) 5. The committee competed the first pass on reviewing the draft Climate Action Plan. The plan now includes five ,sectors. The committee plans to revisit and possibly expand some sections of the draft. Rosylen indicated that the committee will need to give a report to the Yakima City Council by the end of the year. The committee will discuss whether or not to hold a December meeting at the November meeting. Trace will update the committee on the anaerobic digester at the November meeting. 6. Meeting adjourned at 5:18 p.m. until the next meeting scheduled on November 15, 2023, at 4:30 p.m. STATE OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE1011plum Street SE°P0Box 42525*Olympia, Washington 98504_2525+300~725-4000 September 27,2023 Mr. Trace Bradburn,SoUdVVastekAanager City nfYakima 129 W. I"Street Yakima, %VA989O1 Re: Next steps for the city's Clean Green Resources & Electrification grant contract; award number 22- 92201-002. Bradburn- Thank you for working with us to negotiate the contract and scope for the City of Yakima's Clean Green Resources and Electrification Project. The contingent award was not to exceed $1,000,000. Per the city's original application, the project intended to "complete a robust feasibility study and evaluate anaerobic digestion to recover bioBas,generate electricity, and capture nutrients from organic waste streams while reducing air emissions by pilot testing emerging technologies for cleaning and electrifying its waste hauling fleet." we understand that due to escalating project costs and trying to establish partnerships, your project's scope needed to be revised since the initial conditional award was given on February 28, 2022. We appreciate the work you have put in to try to make this a viable project despite those challenges while keeping within the confines of your awarded application and the intent of the Clean Energy Fund4' Research Development & Demonstration (RDQ^D)0rant program. Unfortunately, the latest proposal to truncate the scope of work to a feasibility study for an anaerobic digester coupled with a non -operational demonstration digester strays too far from the intent of the RD&Dprogram and the original application and vvecannot accept this scope change. |fyou have any additional proposals not previously mentioned, please let us know. If you do not, then you otherwise have the option ofdeclining the award and re -applying in the next round of RO&D, vvh\oh is expected to open in early October. Please send us a response to confirm the City ufYakimm'sdecision. Thank you again for your work on the project. We look forward to seeing future proposals. Larry Mattson Renewable Energy Grants section supervisor Energy Programs inCommunities Attachment: Original award letter