{ "meetingId": "2026-09-08-clc-1", "title": "Portland City Council City Life Committee 09/08/26", "displayTitle": "City Life Committee", "date": "2026-09-08T14:00:00-07:00", "duration": 186, "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FU_UvxUH4A", "videoId": "0FU_UvxUH4A", "agendaUrl": "https://www.portland.gov/council/agenda/city-life-committee/2026/9/8", "agendaItems": [ { "number": 1, "title": "Public input on City Life Committee topics", "type": "Public hearing", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/public-hearing/placed-file/2026-317" }, { "number": 2, "title": "Portland Geek Week and Sneaky Squatch", "type": "Presentation", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/presentation/placed-file/2026-318" }, { "number": 3, "title": "Council action on climate in anticipation of 2030", "type": "Presentation", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/presentation/placed-file/2026-319" } ], "summary": "**The City Life Committee heard four climate presentations anchored on a $20 million Portland Clean Energy Fund grant for industrial decarbonization that launches in October, taking no votes but asking members to consider concrete proposals at a later meeting.** Councilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2) chaired; Councilor Angelita Morillo (District 3) and Councilor Candace Avalos (District 1) joined remotely, and Councilor Dan Ryan (District 2) and Vice Chair Eric Zimmerman (District 4) attended in person.\n\n## How far Portland is from its 2030 climate goal\n\nChief Sustainability Officer Vivian Satterfield told the committee Portland's 2023 emissions sit **26% below 1990 levels** while population has grown 38% and jobs 35% ([00:54:00](meeting:2026-09-08-clc-1@00:54:00)). To meet the city's goal of a 50% cut by 2030, she said, Portland needs roughly a **5.5% reduction every year** — about 320,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually — calling the next four years \"the steepest climb we will face in this entire effort.\" Diesel emissions are up 69% since 1990, driven by freight and delivery, and residential natural gas use is up 62% ([00:55:00](meeting:2026-09-08-clc-1@00:55:00)).\n\nSatterfield said transportation accounts for 40% of sector-based emissions and commercial buildings 24%, with electricity the single largest source and the regional grid at 33% renewable. She warned that delaying action to 2030 could add more than 15 million tons of greenhouse gases ([01:06:00](meeting:2026-09-08-clc-1@01:06:00)). The Sustainability and Climate Commission will hold eight monthly workgroup sessions starting in October to build the next climate action plan, which council is expected to adopt in **2028**.\n\n## The $20 million industrial decarbonization grant\n\nJules Bailey, executive director of the Portland Partnership for Clean Industry, led a panel of business, labor, community, government, and university representatives describing a public-private effort modeled on a Danish program. Sonrisa Cooper of the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability said the bureau won **$20 million** from a Portland Clean Energy Fund solicitation for a five-year Industrial Modernization Grant ([01:23:00](meeting:2026-09-08-clc-1@01:23:00)). Kate Merrill of Prosper Portland, which will administer it, said the first round launches in October with grants up to $300,000, a 25% match requirement, and workforce and green-building standards on construction over $300,000 ([01:26:00](meeting:2026-09-08-clc-1@01:26:00)). The grant is expected to leverage over $3.5 million in private investment.\n\nMary Pivetto, co-director of Neighbors for Clean Air, said her co-design team held more than 25 individual conversations and has worked together about 18 months without any money out the door yet, and that members remain optimistic ([01:35:23](meeting:2026-09-08-clc-1@01:35:23)). Corky Collier of the Columbia Corridor Association and Randall Friesen of the Columbia Pacific Building Trades Council, representing over 20,000 workers, described project pipelines and labor commitments.\n\nCouncilor Morillo, who co-chaired the former Climate Committee with Councilor Steve Novick, said the committee faces a strange balance: \"there are no jobs if Oregon burns down\" ([00:50:51](meeting:2026-09-08-clc-1@00:50:51)). She later noted how much Clean Energy Fund money flows to private businesses and asked for a full breakdown of those dollars, saying the chair noted Clean Energy Fund staff were not in the room ([02:49:05](meeting:2026-09-08-clc-1@02:49:05)).\n\n## Ryan presses staff on how the partnership actually meets\n\nCouncilor Ryan questioned staff at length over a slide listing \"current collaborators.\" Reading categories for community, government, business, utilities, and workforce, he asked how often each group meets. Cooper said the categories \"were mainly to organize the slide\" and were not defined subgroups ([02:53:37](meeting:2026-09-08-clc-1@02:53:37)). Ryan responded, \"I am confused officially because this slide got me excited because I finally saw what I've been asking for,\" and later, \"I'm just kind of in real time experiencing this where I got excited about what I thought I heard and now I'm hearing something different\" ([02:55:09](meeting:2026-09-08-clc-1@02:55:09)). The chair stepped in to split his question into \"3 strings.\"\n\nBailey said the partnership meets every other week with business, community, environmental, public-sector, and technical voices, with a meeting the next day. Ryan said tension is a good sign: \"that was a really hard meeting. There was so much tension. I'd be like, great. That's good news\" ([02:58:06](meeting:2026-09-08-clc-1@02:58:06)).\n\n## Win-win proposals and youth asks\n\nJason Lewis of the Climate Optimists offered scenarios council could pursue before the next plan: cutting Biketown rates, expanding car-free zones and accelerating the Green Loop, incentivizing EV charging at rental properties, and incentivizing greener new housing. He said about 80% of Portlanders want net zero by 2050 and asked council to recommit to the 2030 targets and establish metrics for selecting climate actions. Ryan told him, \"it was so refreshing to hear data-driven dialogue\" ([03:01:55](meeting:2026-09-08-clc-1@03:01:55)).\n\nHazel Chan and Enzo Carpio of the Multnomah Youth Commission, both District 2 juniors, pressed for expanding YouthPass free transit beyond current Portland Public Schools eligibility, described a planned youth TriMet survey, and cited a July Urban Forestry report finding tree canopy over 2.5 times denser west of the Willamette than east ([02:24:00](meeting:2026-09-08-clc-1@02:24:00)).\n\n## Public comment\n\nFour people spoke. Charles Joseph Howard, a District 4 Potluck in the Park volunteer, said Sunday meals grew from about 250 in early last year to nearly 600 on one recent afternoon, with 60-70% of people returning to the same spot weekly, and asked the city to deploy outreach there; Councilors Zimmerman and Ryan directed him to Multnomah County, and Ryan told him \"Stick to the topic, sir\" ([00:15:51](meeting:2026-09-08-clc-1@00:15:51)). Lynn Felton (District 1) cited an Oregon Walks study that Interstate Bridge tolling would cut daily trips from 130,000 to 80,000, pushing diversion traffic into East Portland ([00:20:35](meeting:2026-09-08-clc-1@00:20:35)). Charisse Bach of 350 PDX urged attention to the city auditor's February climate justice audit. A fourth speaker testified in support of climate goals.\n\nThe committee also received a presentation on Portland Geek Week, which organizer David Raycroft said runs 101 programs over 10 days, with Council President Jamie Dunphy (District 1) joining the kickoff ([00:33:37](meeting:2026-09-08-clc-1@00:33:37)).\n\n## What's next\n\nThe climate action planning process launched internally last month, with Sustainability and Climate Commission workgroup sessions beginning in October and plan adoption targeted for 2028 alongside climate budgeting. The Industrial Modernization Grant's first round opens in October, with larger rounds in early 2027. Councilor Avalos said her Climate and Health Standards policy will come to committee in a few weeks. The Youth Commission's TriMet survey goes to schools in the coming months. The committee reconvenes in two weeks.", "summaryText": "The City Life Committee heard four climate presentations anchored on a $20 million Portland Clean Energy Fund grant for industrial decarbonization that launches in October, taking no votes but asking members to consider concrete proposals at a later meeting. Councilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2) chaired; Councilor Angelita Morillo (District 3) and Councilor Candace Avalos (District 1) joined remotely, and Councilor Dan Ryan (District 2) and Vice Chair Eric Zimmerman (District 4) attended in person.\n\nChief Sustainability Officer Vivian Satterfield told the committee Portland's 2023 emissions sit 26% below 1990 levels while population has grown 38% and jobs 35% (00:54:00). To meet the city's goal of a 50% cut by 2030, she said, Portland needs roughly a 5.5% reduction every year — about 320,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually — calling the next four years \"the steepest climb we will face in this entire effort.\" Diesel emissions are up 69% since 1990, driven by freight and delivery, and residential natural gas use is up 62% (00:55:00).\n\nSatterfield said transportation accounts for 40% of sector-based emissions and commercial buildings 24%, with electricity the single largest source and the regional grid at 33% renewable. She warned that delaying action to 2030 could add more than 15 million tons of greenhouse gases (01:06:00). The Sustainability and Climate Commission will hold eight monthly workgroup sessions starting in October to build the next climate action plan, which council is expected to adopt in 2028.\n\nJules Bailey, executive director of the Portland Partnership for Clean Industry, led a panel of business, labor, community, government, and university representatives describing a public-private effort modeled on a Danish program. Sonrisa Cooper of the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability said the bureau won $20 million from a Portland Clean Energy Fund solicitation for a five-year Industrial Modernization Grant (01:23:00). Kate Merrill of Prosper Portland, which will administer it, said the first round launches in October with grants up to $300,000, a 25% match requirement, and workforce and green-building standards on construction over $300,000 (01:26:00). The grant is expected to leverage over $3.5 million in private investment.\n\nMary Pivetto, co-director of Neighbors for Clean Air, said her co-design team held more than 25 individual conversations and has worked together about 18 months without any money out the door yet, and that members remain optimistic (01:35:23). Corky Collier of the Columbia Corridor Association and Randall Friesen of the Columbia Pacific Building Trades Council, representing over 20,000 workers, described project pipelines and labor commitments.\n\nCouncilor Morillo, who co-chaired the former Climate Committee with Councilor Steve Novick, said the committee faces a strange balance: \"there are no jobs if Oregon burns down\" (00:50:51). She later noted how much Clean Energy Fund money flows to private businesses and asked for a full breakdown of those dollars, saying the chair noted Clean Energy Fund staff were not in the room (02:49:05).\n\nCouncilor Ryan questioned staff at length over a slide listing \"current collaborators.\" Reading categories for community, government, business, utilities, and workforce, he asked how often each group meets. Cooper said the categories \"were mainly to organize the slide\" and were not defined subgroups (02:53:37). Ryan responded, \"I am confused officially because this slide got me excited because I finally saw what I've been asking for,\" and later, \"I'm just kind of in real time experiencing this where I got excited about what I thought I heard and now I'm hearing something different\" (02:55:09). The chair stepped in to split his question into \"3 strings.\"\n\nBailey said the partnership meets every other week with business, community, environmental, public-sector, and technical voices, with a meeting the next day. Ryan said tension is a good sign: \"that was a really hard meeting. There was so much tension. I'd be like, great. That's good news\" (02:58:06).\n\nJason Lewis of the Climate Optimists offered scenarios council could pursue before the next plan: cutting Biketown rates, expanding car-free zones and accelerating the Green Loop, incentivizing EV charging at rental properties, and incentivizing greener new housing. He said about 80% of Portlanders want net zero by 2050 and asked council to recommit to the 2030 targets and establish metrics for selecting climate actions. Ryan told him, \"it was so refreshing to hear data-driven dialogue\" (03:01:55).\n\nHazel Chan and Enzo Carpio of the Multnomah Youth Commission, both District 2 juniors, pressed for expanding YouthPass free transit beyond current Portland Public Schools eligibility, described a planned youth TriMet survey, and cited a July Urban Forestry report finding tree canopy over 2.5 times denser west of the Willamette than east (02:24:00).\n\nFour people spoke. Charles Joseph Howard, a District 4 Potluck in the Park volunteer, said Sunday meals grew from about 250 in early last year to nearly 600 on one recent afternoon, with 60-70% of people returning to the same spot weekly, and asked the city to deploy outreach there; Councilors Zimmerman and Ryan directed him to Multnomah County, and Ryan told him \"Stick to the topic, sir\" (00:15:51). Lynn Felton (District 1) cited an Oregon Walks study that Interstate Bridge tolling would cut daily trips from 130,000 to 80,000, pushing diversion traffic into East Portland (00:20:35). Charisse Bach of 350 PDX urged attention to the city auditor's February climate justice audit. A fourth speaker testified in support of climate goals.\n\nThe committee also received a presentation on Portland Geek Week, which organizer David Raycroft said runs 101 programs over 10 days, with Council President Jamie Dunphy (District 1) joining the kickoff (00:33:37).\n\nThe climate action planning process launched internally last month, with Sustainability and Climate Commission workgroup sessions beginning in October and plan adoption targeted for 2028 alongside climate budgeting. The Industrial Modernization Grant's first round opens in October, with larger rounds in early 2027. Councilor Avalos said her Climate and Health Standards policy will come to committee in a few weeks. The Youth Commission's TriMet survey goes to schools in the coming months. The committee reconvenes in two weeks.", "summaryLede": "The City Life Committee heard four climate presentations anchored on a $20 million Portland Clean Energy Fund grant for industrial decarbonization that launches in October, taking no votes but asking members to consider concrete proposals at a later meeting. Councilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2) chaired; Councilor Angelita Morillo (District 3) and Councilor Candace Avalos (District 1) joined remotely, and Councilor Dan Ryan (District 2) and Vice Chair Eric Zimmerman (District 4) attended in person.", "sections": [ { "title": "Preliminary Business", "startTime": "00:08:34.407", "endTime": "00:11:44.902", "items": [ { "title": "Call to Order and Roll Call", "startTime": "00:08:34.407", "endTime": "00:11:44.902" } ] }, { "title": "Regular Agenda", "startTime": "00:11:44.902", "endTime": "03:05:57.532", "items": [ { "title": "Public input on City Life Committee topics", "startTime": "00:11:44.902", "endTime": "00:26:47.579", "agendaItemNumber": 1 }, { "title": "Portland Geek Week and Sneaky Squatch", "startTime": "00:26:47.579", "endTime": "00:37:38.960", "agendaItemNumber": 2 }, { "title": "Council action on climate in anticipation of 2030", "startTime": "00:37:38.960", "endTime": "03:05:57.532", "agendaItemNumber": 3 } ] } ], "cues": [ { "id": "cue-1", "start": 514.407, "end": 517.025, "text": "Okay, and then other than that, do you have everything you need?", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-2", "start": 517.09, "end": 517.268, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-3", "start": 517.478, "end": 518.722, "text": "And I'll be in the queue.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-4", "start": 519.174, "end": 520.273, "text": "Councilor Bryan, that's all.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-5", "start": 520.726, "end": 521.243, "text": "Perfect.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-6", "start": 521.356, "end": 522.229, "text": "Good afternoon.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-7", "start": 522.977, "end": 525.937, "text": "It is September 8th at 2:03 PM.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-8", "start": 526.131, "end": 533.16, "text": "I am calling to order today's meeting of the Civic City Life Committee.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-9", "start": 533.922, "end": 535.869, "text": "Thank you all for being here today.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-10", "start": 536.015, "end": 537.638, "text": "Wendy, could you please call the roll?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-11", "start": 542.508, "end": 554.257, "text": "Councilor While you're getting your microphone working, I will just apologize that we're starting a few minutes late.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-12", "start": 554.338, "end": 558.106, "text": "My computer screen was doing some sort of weird blitz thing.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-13", "start": 560.471, "end": 561.313, "text": "And calling the roll.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-14", "start": 561.621, "end": 563.565, "text": "Morillo?", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-15", "start": 564.116, "end": 564.311, "text": "Here.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-16", "start": 565.445, "end": 565.963, "text": "Zimmerman?", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-17", "start": 568.07, "end": 568.44, "text": "Present.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-18", "start": 569.052, "end": 569.438, "text": "Avalos?", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-19", "start": 569.744, "end": 571.129, "text": "Present virtually.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-20", "start": 572.047, "end": 572.336, "text": "Ryan?", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-21", "start": 572.674, "end": 572.803, "text": "Here.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-22", "start": 573.319, "end": 573.866, "text": "Pirtle-Guiney?", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-23", "start": 575.144, "end": 576.094, "text": "Yeah, thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-24", "start": 576.497, "end": 586.406, "text": "And colleagues, we have a new council operations staff person starting today, or starting last week, I guess, but we didn't have a meeting last week.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-25", "start": 586.486, "end": 588.507, "text": "Kevin, welcome and thank you for being here.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-26", "start": 589.089, "end": 591.514, "text": "Could you please start us off with our rules of decorum?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-27", "start": 592.144, "end": 592.484, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-28", "start": 593.437, "end": 595.041, "text": "Welcome to the meeting of the City Life Committee.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-29", "start": 595.383, "end": 602.236, "text": "To testify before this committee in person or virtually, you must sign up in advance on the committee agenda at www.portland.gov/council/agenda.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-30", "start": 606.414, "end": 606.623, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-31", "start": 606.847, "end": 611.649, "text": "Public testimony is available online at portland.gov/agenda/city-life-committee or by calling 311.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-32", "start": 612.083, "end": 614.974, "text": "Information on engaging with the committee can be found at this link.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-33", "start": 615.439, "end": 619.053, "text": "Registration for virtual testimony closes 1 hour prior to the meeting.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-34", "start": 619.615, "end": 622.731, "text": "In-person testifiers must sign up before the agenda item is heard.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-35", "start": 623.405, "end": 630.038, "text": "If public testimony will be taken on an item, individuals may testify for 3 minutes unless the chair states otherwise.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-36", "start": 630.616, "end": 633.041, "text": "Your microphone will be muted when your time is over.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-37", "start": 633.426, "end": 634.406, "text": "The chair preserves order.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-38", "start": 634.647, "end": 643.799, "text": "Disruptive conduct such as shouting, refusing to conclude your testimony when your time is up, or interrupting others' testimony or committee deliberations will not be allowed.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-39", "start": 644.345, "end": 646.737, "text": "If you cause a disruption, a warning will be given.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-40", "start": 647.075, "end": 649.74, "text": "Further disruption will result in ejection from the meeting.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-41", "start": 650.302, "end": 653.834, "text": "Anyone who fails to leave once ejected is subject to arrest for trespass.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-42", "start": 654.332, "end": 658.491, "text": "Additionally, the committee may take a short recess and reconvene virtually.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-43", "start": 658.813, "end": 661.171, "text": "Your testimony should address the matter being considered.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-44", "start": 661.704, "end": 664.627, "text": "When testifying, one, state your name for the record.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-45", "start": 664.885, "end": 667.774, "text": "If you are a lobbyist, identify the organization you represent.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-46", "start": 668.161, "end": 672.521, "text": "And 2, virtual testifiers should unmute themselves when the clerk calls your name.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-47", "start": 672.843, "end": 673.148, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-48", "start": 674.838, "end": 675.771, "text": "Thank you very much, Kevin.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-49", "start": 676.66, "end": 681.081, "text": "Colleagues, today we will have 3— we have 3 things on our agenda.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-50", "start": 681.146, "end": 684.855, "text": "We will take public input on City Life Committee-related topics.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-51", "start": 685.383, "end": 692.901, "text": "We will hear from the folks bringing us Portland Geek Week and the Sneaky Squatch Search.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-52", "start": 693.64, "end": 699.809, "text": "And then we will spend the bulk of our meeting talking about climate and our city's climate policy.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-53", "start": 700.339, "end": 704.741, "text": "I'll speak more to that last agenda item when we get there, but we have a packed agenda.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-54", "start": 704.902, "end": 709.335, "text": "So for now, I'd like to lead us right into our first agenda item.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-55", "start": 709.4, "end": 712.227, "text": "Wendy, could you please call our public input agenda item?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-56", "start": 713.735, "end": 713.983, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-57", "start": 714.049, "end": 720.916, "text": "Yes, item number 1, document number 2026-317, public input on City Life Committee topics.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-58", "start": 721.319, "end": 722.756, "text": "We have 4 people signed up.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-59", "start": 723.16, "end": 727.816, "text": "Um, the first 2 I'll call up, Ghalib El and Joseph Howard.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-60", "start": 727.93, "end": 729.083, "text": "Please come on up.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-61", "start": 730.53, "end": 730.887, "text": "Welcome.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-62", "start": 730.952, "end": 731.96, "text": "Thank you both for being here.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-63", "start": 737.362, "end": 747.837, "text": "Just a reminder, you'll hear a 2 timers staying, one indicating you have 30 seconds left and then a second one indicating your time is up.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-64", "start": 747.982, "end": 750.523, "text": "Please state your name for the record and get started.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-65", "start": 753.53, "end": 754.765, "text": "My name is Charles Joseph Howard.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-66", "start": 757.77, "end": 758.518, "text": "Go right ahead and begin.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-67", "start": 760.93, "end": 761.575, "text": "I defer to you.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-68", "start": 762.43, "end": 762.673, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-69", "start": 764.109, "end": 767.789, "text": "Good afternoon, Chair Pirtle-Guiney and members of the committee.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-70", "start": 768.577, "end": 770.004, "text": "My name is Charles Joseph Howard.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-71", "start": 770.199, "end": 778.034, "text": "I'm a District 4 constituent and a public sector strategy consultant and an active volunteer with Potluck in the Park here in the Pearl.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-72", "start": 779.856, "end": 788.971, "text": "I want to bring to you an observation from the pavement and a low-cost, high-impact opportunity to make the city's existing resources work smarter.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-73", "start": 790.2, "end": 795.439, "text": "When I began volunteering in February of last year, we served roughly 250 meals a Sunday.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-74", "start": 796.709, "end": 801.196, "text": "Last month, we did not have a single week below 400.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-75", "start": 802.113, "end": 807.3, "text": "Recently, we broke our post-COVID record, serving just shy of 600 meals in one afternoon.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-76", "start": 809.22, "end": 821.134, "text": "Roughly 60 to 70% of the people we serve return to the same exact few hundred square feet on the North Park blocks at the same time every Sunday.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-77", "start": 822.647, "end": 824.883, "text": "From an operations perspective, that is remarkable.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-78", "start": 826.68, "end": 834.44, "text": "The city has a population with significant needs voluntarily assembling in a predictable, predictable location every single week.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-79", "start": 835.828, "end": 839.432, "text": "Many struggle with addiction, mental health challenges, or both.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-80", "start": 841.064, "end": 846.776, "text": "First responder dispatches during service are not uncommon, sometimes with— for violence and sometimes for overdoses.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-81", "start": 848.203, "end": 856.391, "text": "Yet in 18 months on the pavement, I personally have not seen a single city outreach presence taking advantage of that window.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-82", "start": 857.782, "end": 866.971, "text": "I know Portland has the resources, but as you all know, the problem is that having a resource and successfully connecting it are 2 very different things.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-83", "start": 868.783, "end": 870.109, "text": "The problem is the connection gap.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-84", "start": 871.87, "end": 874.558, "text": "Someone trapped in addiction may not know to call 311.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-85", "start": 875.675, "end": 880.599, "text": "They might not have a phone, internet access, or the mental stability to navigate the system.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-86", "start": 882.529, "end": 884.707, "text": "But every Sunday, they know where we are.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-87", "start": 886.422, "end": 894.256, "text": "Potluck has already solved one of outreach's hardest problems: where and when to find people and how to establish trust.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-88", "start": 895.686, "end": 897.734, "text": "I'm not asking you to create yet another program.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-89", "start": 898.412, "end": 907.586, "text": "I'm asking the city to strategically deploy existing outreach, behavioral health, and benefits navigation resources directly into this existing Sunday touchpoint.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-90", "start": 909.24, "end": 911.336, "text": "Meet the people where they already are.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-91", "start": 912.876, "end": 913.908, "text": "Measure those results.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-92", "start": 915.68, "end": 924.502, "text": "Determine whether earlier intervention can turn someone's next interaction into a path toward recovery rather than an ambulance or a police car.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-93", "start": 926.299, "end": 927.653, "text": "That's compassionate policy.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-94", "start": 927.72, "end": 927.852, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-95", "start": 928.722, "end": 929.874, "text": "It's also smarter government.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-96", "start": 931.722, "end": 935.339, "text": "My professional background is in public sector strategy and implementation.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-97", "start": 936.01, "end": 940.186, "text": "I would gladly help your teams think through how an integration like this could work.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-98", "start": 941.691, "end": 948.616, "text": "Our first responders deserve it, but I think most importantly, the Portlanders trapped in these cycles deserve it.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-99", "start": 949.857, "end": 951.645, "text": "Let's show them there's a way out of the valley.", "speaker": "Charles Joseph Howard" }, { "id": "cue-100", "start": 951.71, "end": 953.16, "text": "Stick to the topic, sir.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-101", "start": 953.256, "end": 963.548, "text": "I'll leave my information with the clerk and If I could also encourage you to make this testimony at Multnomah County as well, since— oh, I'm sorry, Councilor, I'm so sorry.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-102", "start": 963.693, "end": 964.752, "text": "I agree with Councilor Zimmerman.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-103", "start": 964.817, "end": 965.716, "text": "That's why my hand was up.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-104", "start": 966.181, "end": 967.449, "text": "And thank you for your service.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-105", "start": 967.947, "end": 968.621, "text": "Thank you so much.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-106", "start": 968.686, "end": 970.516, "text": "Everything you said was really easy to follow.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-107", "start": 970.612, "end": 980.1, "text": "But I think a lot of people don't realize that the county has the majority of the staff that do that type of work, as they have the Office of Homelessness at the county.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-108", "start": 980.95, "end": 982.187, "text": "Their meetings are Tuesday, Thursday.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-109", "start": 982.973, "end": 983.743, "text": "Thursday mornings.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-110", "start": 984.417, "end": 993.146, "text": "Yeah, they have the— when it comes to outreach workers, mental health workers, that, that really falls within their wheelhouse, to Councilor Ryan's points.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-111", "start": 993.243, "end": 996.725, "text": "And your testimony was great, and I would encourage you to share it with them as well.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-112", "start": 997.656, "end": 1005.326, "text": "And if you're in District 4, you're represented by Commissioner Moyer like I am, and I'll definitely share your testimony with them as well.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-113", "start": 1005.518, "end": 1012.659, "text": "And for the, I think, 3 that we have at the city, because we hired them because the County wasn't making it out to spots, we'll certainly share that.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-114", "start": 1012.74, "end": 1015.291, "text": "Yeah, we do have those workers at the city.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-115", "start": 1015.468, "end": 1016.8, "text": "We can make sure to pass that on.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-116", "start": 1018.036, "end": 1022.835, "text": "And I think the advice to make sure that the city and the county are both hearing from you on this is important.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-117", "start": 1023.493, "end": 1024.488, "text": "Thank you so much for being here.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-118", "start": 1024.696, "end": 1028.243, "text": "And really, your point about meeting people where they are is so important.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-119", "start": 1028.307, "end": 1035.963, "text": "I always make this comment to the county about the MAX trains and along the TriMet service lines as well.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-120", "start": 1036.349, "end": 1038.288, "text": "And I never see one outreach worker there.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-121", "start": 1038.676, "end": 1039.42, "text": "So thank you.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-122", "start": 1040.519, "end": 1040.939, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-123", "start": 1041.101, "end": 1041.586, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-124", "start": 1044.883, "end": 1046.408, "text": "Mr. L, go right ahead.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-125", "start": 1047.508, "end": 1048.215, "text": "Oh, I'm sorry.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-126", "start": 1051.776, "end": 1056.325, "text": "Wow, I'm sorry, that, that was, that was inspiring what he just said and did here.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-127", "start": 1056.534, "end": 1058.615, "text": "Um, greetings, beloved committee members.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-128", "start": 1059.52, "end": 1061.104, "text": "Um, I am Khalid bin El-Mutab El.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-129", "start": 1061.735, "end": 1063.239, "text": "My domicile is in District 4.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-130", "start": 1064.242, "end": 1065.746, "text": "And let me get right to it.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-131", "start": 1066.991, "end": 1078.354, "text": "In the book Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, one character, I believe it was either Francisco de Anconia or John Galt, said that wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-132", "start": 1079.713, "end": 1087.869, "text": "If I think, therefore I am, then according to that logic, I overthink, therefore I am wealthy.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-133", "start": 1089.527, "end": 1093.494, "text": "Not sure if you suffer the same affliction, but I find myself thinking at times even when I don't want to.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-134", "start": 1094.878, "end": 1096.68, "text": "I'm always thinking about something.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-135", "start": 1097.613, "end": 1103.357, "text": "I actually signed up for testimony just to say hello and spread my love unconditionally and freely to you guys.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-136", "start": 1104.513, "end": 1112.055, "text": "Then I got to thinking— darned affliction— thought about a thought that I had the other day when I was thinking about a wonderful world.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-137", "start": 1113.816, "end": 1121.655, "text": "So in thinking about what to talk about here, I thought, might as well check the agenda to see if I had any thoughts on an agenda item.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-138", "start": 1122.9, "end": 1140.718, "text": "Imagine my surprise when I saw a presentation for Target Zero, a presentation for a wonderful world, an ambitious, well-imagined plan being implemented to be realized by 2050 with a 50% goal to be achieved by 2030.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-139", "start": 1141.579, "end": 1143.788, "text": "Some ambitions deserve support.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-140", "start": 1145.52, "end": 1146.926, "text": "That's what Target Zero is.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-141", "start": 1147.402, "end": 1150.792, "text": "There should be no expense spared in achieving that target.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-142", "start": 1152.084, "end": 1161.563, "text": "It saves lives, ecosystems, and most importantly, it puts us back in a harmonious dance with nature, a dance that's more necessary for us than it is nature.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-143", "start": 1163.287, "end": 1175.288, "text": "As a civilian born of the land upon which my ancestors achieved a harmonious balance, I understand the benefit of tying our infrastructure and economic footprint To our carbon footprint.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-144", "start": 1176.318, "end": 1176.962, "text": "The benefit?", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-145", "start": 1178.637, "end": 1179.217, "text": "Abundance.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-146", "start": 1180.65, "end": 1188.728, "text": "Think a power grid free to the city, cheap to the resident, with the surplus being sold to other municipalities.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-147", "start": 1190.69, "end": 1199.176, "text": "I have submitted a document to the council for the clerk's committee's— I mean, I have submitted a document to the council clerk for the committee's review.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-148", "start": 1199.241, "end": 1199.369, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-149", "start": 1200.741, "end": 1205.399, "text": "This I would like to see in front of the council in whole or in parts if possible.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-150", "start": 1205.87, "end": 1211.624, "text": "However, as long as it's progressive, something towards this target.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-151", "start": 1212.657, "end": 1217.682, "text": "Be whatever comes, just know this much: I truly do love you all unconditionally.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-152", "start": 1218.86, "end": 1219.232, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-153", "start": 1221.389, "end": 1221.697, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-154", "start": 1221.876, "end": 1224.162, "text": "Thank you for being here, and we'll take a look at what you submitted.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-155", "start": 1224.243, "end": 1224.632, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-156", "start": 1227.205, "end": 1228.868, "text": "Lynn Felton is joining us online.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-157", "start": 1228.934, "end": 1231.853, "text": "Lynn, go ahead and unmute and begin your comments.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-158", "start": 1235.974, "end": 1240.119, "text": "Committee Chair, Councilors, Lynn Felton, D1 constituent.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-159", "start": 1241.79, "end": 1249.998, "text": "As you are thinking of equitable distributions of climate burdens and benefits, I would like you to think of East Portland.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-160", "start": 1251.18, "end": 1259.241, "text": "Specifically, I would like you to be curious about the Interstate Bridge remodel project with tolling and its impact on East Portland.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-161", "start": 1260.76, "end": 1267.717, "text": "According to Oregon Walks, a third-party study showed that presently 130,000 trips daily go across Interstate Bridge.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-162", "start": 1268.505, "end": 1271.167, "text": "With tolling, that'll go down to 80,000.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-163", "start": 1271.761, "end": 1272.733, "text": "Some of those will disappear.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-164", "start": 1273.96, "end": 1276.717, "text": "But tens of thousands of those will become diversion traffic.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-165", "start": 1277.533, "end": 1278.546, "text": "Into East Portland.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-166", "start": 1279.784, "end": 1293.451, "text": "We already know that East Portland has multiple public health issues with the highest number of high-crash corridors in the city and the highest temperatures during a heat dome with minimal climate resiliency built into the area.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-167", "start": 1295.296, "end": 1301.322, "text": "Into that mix will be dumped tens of thousands of new daily commuter trips.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-168", "start": 1302.608, "end": 1304.006, "text": "You may say this is a state issue.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-169", "start": 1304.07, "end": 1304.199, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-170", "start": 1304.422, "end": 1306.041, "text": "A regional issue, which is true.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-171", "start": 1307.469, "end": 1311.975, "text": "But you have ways to influence that discussion and to protect East Portland.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-172", "start": 1312.825, "end": 1320.987, "text": "As you know, Portland's Office of Government Relations can advocate for funded diversion traffic mitigation plans for Iberia in the upcoming session.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-173", "start": 1322.046, "end": 1330.048, "text": "As you, you can persuade the mayor at JPAC that there needs to be more robust measures than a study.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-174", "start": 1330.144, "end": 1330.449, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-175", "start": 1331.58, "end": 1335.838, "text": "And to advocate for funded diversion traffic mitigation.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-176", "start": 1337.084, "end": 1338.509, "text": "I-5 is closing for repairs.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-177", "start": 1339.186, "end": 1342.222, "text": "Is there any study, traffic counts on the impacts to East Portland?", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-178", "start": 1343.443, "end": 1346.207, "text": "Where is the curiosity and care?", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-179", "start": 1347.782, "end": 1348.972, "text": "We are part of a whole.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-180", "start": 1349.957, "end": 1352.639, "text": "You know, here's the perspective from East Portland.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-181", "start": 1353.608, "end": 1360.507, "text": "Portland's big initiatives, Moda Center surrounding development, Waterfront Reimagined, grants received for an emission-free delivery zone in downtown.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-182", "start": 1362.757, "end": 1384.234, "text": "East Portland, gateway boarded up, the Columbia River at our doorstep but barely accessible, natural green infrastructure like the Columbia Slough inaccessible, a tsunami of traffic heading our way and nary a plan, a study out there, let alone funded.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-183", "start": 1386.784, "end": 1403.37, "text": "Now is the time for all councilors to be curious about what you can do to prevent that tsunami of traffic from creating once again climate burdens that once again fall disproportionately to East Portland.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-184", "start": 1404.272, "end": 1404.53, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-185", "start": 1406.786, "end": 1408.768, "text": "Thank you very much for being here with us today.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-186", "start": 1410.85, "end": 1411.993, "text": "Charisse is joining us online.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-187", "start": 1412.173, "end": 1413.234, "text": "Charisse, go ahead and unmute.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-188", "start": 1415.76, "end": 1417.15, "text": "Good afternoon, councilors.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-189", "start": 1417.597, "end": 1427.323, "text": "This is I'm Charisse Bach, she/her, and the Climate Policy Director at 350 PDX, an organization working toward climate justice in Portland.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-190", "start": 1428.222, "end": 1439.022, "text": "And wanted to also speak to the climate action plan today, co-sign on that last comment of paying attention to the I-5 bridge replacement and also District 1 in all of this.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-191", "start": 1440, "end": 1448.233, "text": "And wanted to particularly draw your attention to remembering the climate justice audit that was done by the city auditor earlier this year.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-192", "start": 1449.194, "end": 1471.322, "text": "And also just to note that in the news just this last week, the United Nations Environment Program came out with a new report showing that globally we're going to overshoot the 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming that scientists say we need to stay below in order to not feel the worst effects of climate change.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-193", "start": 1471.676, "end": 1476.213, "text": "And so they're saying we need to as quickly as possible move away from fossil fuels.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-194", "start": 1476.302, "end": 1476.445, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-195", "start": 1477.086, "end": 1482.713, "text": "In order to stay below 2 degrees and then get back down to below 1.5 degrees as soon as possible.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-196", "start": 1483.338, "end": 1494.239, "text": "So although the United States is struggling to take climate action right now, cities are where much of the pollution is, so we can still do our part and make a significant positive impact.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-197", "start": 1494.976, "end": 1505.446, "text": "And the rest of the world is really moving towards zero emissions energy and transportation, and so the more Portland can participate in that, the less were left behind in the global economy.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-198", "start": 1506.697, "end": 1515.713, "text": "So I appreciate and endorse the work that the Office of Sustainability is doing to develop a new climate action plan with the Sustainability and Climate Commission.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-199", "start": 1516.612, "end": 1522.756, "text": "And as I said, wanting to draw your attention to the climate justice audit that the auditor did in February of this year.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-200", "start": 1523.446, "end": 1537.41, "text": "That audit identified that in addition to continuing to work on climate change mitigation, We also need to work on our adaptation strategies to ensure the safety of those who are feeling climate change first and worst.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-201", "start": 1538.855, "end": 1543.093, "text": "Additionally, it identified the problem of not enough authority for the Sustainability Office.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-202", "start": 1543.912, "end": 1555.215, "text": "Though the office is right under the mayor and city administrator, the Chief Sustainability Officer has no direct link to oversight of bureaus and service areas tasked with working on climate and sustainability-related projects.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-203", "start": 1556.257, "end": 1560.088, "text": "And a third finding of that audit was that the Sustainability Office lacks funding.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-204", "start": 1560.456, "end": 1567.941, "text": "So although it's great to develop another climate action plan, it just sits on a shelf unless the City Council directs funds for implementation.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-205", "start": 1568.245, "end": 1573.47, "text": "Next year, the city will also begin working on a new PCF climate investment plan.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-206", "start": 1574.368, "end": 1584.689, "text": "And so I encourage everyone to consider how to strategically use the PCF funds that are allocated to projects within the city budget to help move the climate action plan forward if they're focused on equity.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-207", "start": 1585.203, "end": 1588.715, "text": "And affordability, but PCEF can't be the answer for everything.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-208", "start": 1589.053, "end": 1600.498, "text": "So integrating climate and sustainability awareness into every project the city does and into the whole budgeting process needs to occur in order to make it useful to do another climate action plan.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-209", "start": 1600.919, "end": 1601.711, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-210", "start": 1602.552, "end": 1603.926, "text": "Thank you very much for joining us today.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-211", "start": 1605.446, "end": 1606.95, "text": "That concludes public input.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-212", "start": 1607.58, "end": 1617.992, "text": "Okay, colleagues, we are going to move to our next agenda item, which is a little bit of a shift away from the last 2 pieces of testimony on climate before we head back there.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-213", "start": 1619.76, "end": 1621.662, "text": "Wendy, could you please call agenda item 2?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-214", "start": 1622.133, "end": 1629.25, "text": "Yes, item number 2, document number 2026-318, Portland Geek Week and Sneaky Sasquatch.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-215", "start": 1630.399, "end": 1631.434, "text": "Thank you, colleagues.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-216", "start": 1631.483, "end": 1632.454, "text": "Sneaky Squatch.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-217", "start": 1632.519, "end": 1633.942, "text": "Sneaky Squatch.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-218", "start": 1635.35, "end": 1646.381, "text": "We are going to hear from a couple of leaders in our community who are bringing us Geek Week, as well as our own council president.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-219", "start": 1647.119, "end": 1662.889, "text": "Geek Week is the latest— it starts this coming week, I believe— opportunity to bring Portlanders together and get us out into the community and really lean into some of the things that make this a fantastic space.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-220", "start": 1663.466, "end": 1677.374, "text": "And if you did not get an opportunity to notice our new Sasquatch friend in the atrium on your way in, I encourage everybody to head downstairs after this meeting to, to see that addition to City Hall.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-221", "start": 1678.005, "end": 1680.317, "text": "But with that, I am going to turn it over to our guests.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-222", "start": 1680.446, "end": 1681.82, "text": "Thank you so much for being here today.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-223", "start": 1683.847, "end": 1691.851, "text": "Hello, thank you for, uh, allowing me to speak with you, um, councilors, Council President.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-224", "start": 1692.06, "end": 1693.32, "text": "Thank you for being here.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-225", "start": 1694.245, "end": 1708.668, "text": "Um, I'm David Raycroft, uh, constituent of District 3, um, and, uh, advocate for, uh, our streets and neighborhoods and the quirky life that is, uh, Portland.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-226", "start": 1709.581, "end": 1711.905, "text": "Um, so what is Geek Week PDX?", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-227", "start": 1712.225, "end": 1720.045, "text": "It is a citywide festival celebrating the quirky, the nerdy, and the creative in Portland.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-228", "start": 1721.199, "end": 1725.509, "text": "Um, it's the only event of its kind in the world.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-229", "start": 1726.122, "end": 1756.184, "text": "So there are lots of comic conventions, there are lots of festivals, there are lots of events that gather people together, but nowhere else in the world is there a city that so uniquely demonstrates on a daily basis The creative vitality that is geek culture.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-230", "start": 1757.413, "end": 1767.829, "text": "I think a great example of that is when we decided as a city to protest ICE, we did not throw rocks, we inflated frogs.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-231", "start": 1768.751, "end": 1773.966, "text": "That is the nerdy heart of our community.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-232", "start": 1776.34, "end": 1779.761, "text": "So Geek Week PDX is only about 3 years old.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-233", "start": 1779.973, "end": 1781.391, "text": "It's not about 3 years old.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-234", "start": 1781.44, "end": 1784.09, "text": "It is in fact, this is our 3rd year Thank you.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-235", "start": 1784.139, "end": 1786.174, "text": "This is the 4th year of putting it on in a row.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-236", "start": 1787.386, "end": 1798.125, "text": "We've gone from an idea that a couple of nerds had running around the city to 101 nights of programming in a 10-day period of time.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-237", "start": 1798.788, "end": 1804.018, "text": "That involves over 200 small businesses, community groups, and organizations.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-238", "start": 1806.965, "end": 1808.211, "text": "Why does that matter?", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-239", "start": 1809.667, "end": 1812.091, "text": "Takes place in every district.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-240", "start": 1812.798, "end": 1822.656, "text": "There are events happening in District 1, District 2, downtown, Central East Side, and everywhere in between.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-241", "start": 1823.716, "end": 1827.409, "text": "A great example of that is the Sneaky Sasquatch Art Hunt.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-242", "start": 1828.308, "end": 1834.522, "text": "It's sort of like the, the, uh, Like a Crow's in that it is a citywide art hunt.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-243", "start": 1835.053, "end": 1836.904, "text": "But it's completely grassroots.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-244", "start": 1837.774, "end": 1845.197, "text": "It is an idea that was put out into the ether, and over 25 artists have created unique works of art.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-245", "start": 1845.6, "end": 1845.858, "text": "We—.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-246", "start": 1846.148, "end": 1857.042, "text": "You can start downstairs with the 8-foot statue made from recycled garbage bags, um, and has been turned into a wonderful work of art.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-247", "start": 1857.59, "end": 1861.087, "text": "There are 9 pieces within walking distance of the front door.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-248", "start": 1861.818, "end": 1866.806, "text": "I encourage everybody to take a look and see what you can find.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-249", "start": 1867.82, "end": 1879.961, "text": "It's a way to inspire not only the artistic community to get involved, but to inspire people to explore maybe beyond their front door and go somewhere they haven't been yet.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-250", "start": 1882.12, "end": 1886.286, "text": "Last but not least, I wanna touch on the impact of nerd culture.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-251", "start": 1887.877, "end": 1892.484, "text": "Because there is no such thing as geek culture or nerd culture.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-252", "start": 1892.613, "end": 1893.801, "text": "It is just culture.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-253", "start": 1894.86, "end": 1906.436, "text": "It is food nerds, it is sneaker nerds, it is craft nerds, it is geeks of all walks of life.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-254", "start": 1906.532, "end": 1912.906, "text": "As a matter of fact, in the city of Portland, there are more than 300,000 of us.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-255", "start": 1913.162, "end": 1918.364, "text": "If you take us all together, we're probably the, the largest constituency.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-256", "start": 1919.825, "end": 1927.195, "text": "Last year during Geek Week, if you take all of the events, we had 20,000 people participating.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-257", "start": 1928.416, "end": 1942.016, "text": "That's a stadium full of people, but instead of in one place at one time, they are in— they are 40 groups of 40 people in 200 small businesses, 10 nights in a row.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-258", "start": 1942.176, "end": 1942.208, "text": "Wow.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-259", "start": 1943.785, "end": 1945.99, "text": "That is economic impact.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-260", "start": 1946.217, "end": 1950.937, "text": "That is a way to drive ongoing and sustainable business.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-261", "start": 1956.178, "end": 1970.778, "text": "So to finish out, it's really—I really wanted to highlight not only the events of Geek Week, which you can find at geekweekpdx.com—not only to inspire you to go out and explore the.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-262", "start": 1970.972, "end": 1977.295, "text": "The amazing artwork that people have volunteered and donated and created.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-263", "start": 1978.9, "end": 1982.992, "text": "But really to understand that there are a lot of us.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-264", "start": 1984.335, "end": 1997.595, "text": "There are more trivia nights in one week played in bars in the city of Portland than there are sports broadcasts in an entire year.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-265", "start": 1998.53, "end": 2011.66, "text": "So tells you a little bit about what inspires the people of Portland, and I wanted to share a little bit about what the hidden masses that you may not be aware of.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-266", "start": 2012.821, "end": 2013.192, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-267", "start": 2015.303, "end": 2016.141, "text": "Thank you so much.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-268", "start": 2016.592, "end": 2017.398, "text": "Council President.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-269", "start": 2017.559, "end": 2017.914, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-270", "start": 2018.059, "end": 2018.751, "text": "Thank you, colleagues.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-271", "start": 2019.267, "end": 2020.524, "text": "For the record, my name is Jamie Dunphy.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-272", "start": 2020.62, "end": 2024.165, "text": "I serve as the president of the Portland City Council and a District 1 city councilor.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-273", "start": 2025.025, "end": 2029.925, "text": "I have done no scientific research to back this claim up, but Portland is the nerdiest city in America.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-274", "start": 2032.342, "end": 2044.614, "text": "And, you know, I believe I hold the title of the nerdiest city councilor in Portland history, from the Batman poster in my office to the Darth Vader belt buckle I'm wearing every day, or the Ninja Turtle tattoo that you cannot see.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-275", "start": 2046.308, "end": 2052.334, "text": "I also, you know, I love living in Portland because it is a place that allows you to have your geek flag fly.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-276", "start": 2053.193, "end": 2056.539, "text": "I am a I'm a prop maker in my private time.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-277", "start": 2057.007, "end": 2062.125, "text": "I make a lot of recreations of Star Wars masks and things from Marvel movies.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-278", "start": 2063.595, "end": 2068.352, "text": "And I also get to be one of the nerds who walks around the convention center at Comic-Con every year.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-279", "start": 2068.4, "end": 2071.458, "text": "So you won't see me this year because I'll have a mask on.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-280", "start": 2072.139, "end": 2084.046, "text": "But, and lastly, my team hoped that I would come to this meeting dressed as Sasquatch in order to advertise this squatch but unfortunately, I don't have a Sasquatch costume quite yet.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-281", "start": 2084.816, "end": 2091.698, "text": "I'm really thankful to be part of this year's kickoff, and thank you, Councilor Pirtle-Guiney, for bringing this to the City Life Committee and for continuing to champion this.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-282", "start": 2092.275, "end": 2093.222, "text": "I think it's really important.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-283", "start": 2093.799, "end": 2101.852, "text": "Anything that gets people out of their houses and out into the community and around each other and building the sense of community that Portland is known for is really important.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-284", "start": 2102.173, "end": 2115.354, "text": "So whether it's the crow scavenger hunt that's associated with the Leicas celebration of the new movie, Wildwood, or now the Sasquatch Hunt for Geek Week, there's gonna be a lot of really good reasons for people to get out and go explore the city.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-285", "start": 2115.691, "end": 2119.843, "text": "Try and find these statues and find something new that you've never seen in the city that you have.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-286", "start": 2120.019, "end": 2124.411, "text": "I will spend the next month out there looking around, and I hope that everybody at home will come and join us.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-287", "start": 2125.085, "end": 2137.636, "text": "I really wanna thank PDX Monsters for creating the Sasquatch Hunt, and I really wanna thank David right here for the 3rd week— or 3rd year of Geek Week PDX, for all the hard coordination that it is to wrangle all these nerds.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-288", "start": 2137.748, "end": 2142.689, "text": "So thank you for all your work, and I hope I hope everybody will get out of their house and enjoy themselves.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-289", "start": 2143.508, "end": 2143.604, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-290", "start": 2143.652, "end": 2144.101, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-291", "start": 2144.246, "end": 2146.765, "text": "And David, do we have any of the artists with us up here?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-292", "start": 2147.118, "end": 2148.867, "text": "I'm not sure if anybody made it upstairs.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-293", "start": 2149.622, "end": 2150.344, "text": "They did not.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-294", "start": 2150.488, "end": 2153.12, "text": "They had to scurry to their day jobs.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-295", "start": 2153.794, "end": 2162.925, "text": "Pass along our gratitude for all of the amazing creations that they have given to our city to enjoy over the next week and a half.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-296", "start": 2163.005, "end": 2166.359, "text": "Colleagues, are there any questions for David before we move on?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-297", "start": 2167.034, "end": 2167.644, "text": "Councilor Ryan.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-298", "start": 2168.64, "end": 2171.581, "text": "David, I just want to acknowledge your steadfast persistence on this.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-299", "start": 2172.079, "end": 2178.65, "text": "I remember you coming to my office in late 2023, and, uh, here you are, and it, it's working.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-300", "start": 2179.244, "end": 2181.654, "text": "And I'm not going to dispute the findings, that's for sure.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-301", "start": 2182.136, "end": 2183.759, "text": "But, um, I can actually validate that.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-302", "start": 2183.888, "end": 2184.932, "text": "You are validating the city.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-303", "start": 2185.334, "end": 2190.523, "text": "So thank you for, um, loving the city and getting people activated and having joy again.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-304", "start": 2190.989, "end": 2191.664, "text": "I really appreciate it.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-305", "start": 2192.034, "end": 2192.837, "text": "I'm really proud of you.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-306", "start": 2193.16, "end": 2194.033, "text": "It's great work.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-307", "start": 2195.084, "end": 2205.261, "text": "For folks who are interested in learning about the 101 programs that are happening over 10 days, what is the best place to find a comprehensive list of all of the Geek Week activities?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-308", "start": 2205.783, "end": 2215.419, "text": "Yeah, so the best place is geekweekpdx.com, and we have them categorized by day.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-309", "start": 2216.226, "end": 2224.732, "text": "So every day you can see what's going on that night, oh well, night and day, and also by interest.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-310", "start": 2224.94, "end": 2230.566, "text": "So cosplay, Dungeons and Dragons, food and wine, whatever you're into.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-311", "start": 2230.999, "end": 2232.522, "text": "Fantastic.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-312", "start": 2232.618, "end": 2233.355, "text": "Thank you so much.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-313", "start": 2233.419, "end": 2251.547, "text": "And thank you for bringing together all of the various nerddoms that we know exist in our city into one place so that folks can, can realize what a broad range of interests there are and how much the folks who pursue those interests really have in common when it comes to caring about the culture of our city.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-314", "start": 2253.476, "end": 2253.757, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-315", "start": 2253.972, "end": 2254.536, "text": "Thank you both.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-316", "start": 2258.96, "end": 2264.446, "text": "We are going to move on to our 3rd agenda item, and Wendy, can you please call that agenda item for us?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-317", "start": 2266.3, "end": 2266.479, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-318", "start": 2266.561, "end": 2274.912, "text": "Yes, item number 3, document number 2026-319, Council Action on Climate in Anticipation of 2030.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-319", "start": 2276.209, "end": 2276.695, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-320", "start": 2276.76, "end": 2279.68, "text": "And colleagues, we have We have 4 presentations before us.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-321", "start": 2280.001, "end": 2284.607, "text": "I am going to give us a little bit of an overview because this is something that I actually think is quite important.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-322", "start": 2285.137, "end": 2295.263, "text": "Then we will hear from our Vice Chair and from Councilor Morillo, who chaired the committee that previously, or co-chaired the committee that previously took on this work.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-323", "start": 2296.242, "end": 2302.983, "text": "Today is a really important conversation and one that we haven't gotten to dive into yet in this committee.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-324", "start": 2303.769, "end": 2315.765, "text": "Among the many important topic areas that we cover here, Perhaps none is more pressing in terms of its broader impact than the topic of climate.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-325", "start": 2316.983, "end": 2326.024, "text": "Anthropogenic climate change remains the greatest threat to people, to a healthy, habitable planet, to the future of humanity.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-326", "start": 2326.938, "end": 2344.321, "text": "And despite this, governments across the globe, including our own, the United States nationally, Have rolled back their climate progress, have rolled back their implementing policies, and have begun to put us further out of reach from our climate goals.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-327", "start": 2345.157, "end": 2360.868, "text": "We'll hear more about the city's climate goals from our first presenter, but as a reminder, the City of Portland's stated goal is to achieve a 50% reduction from our 1990 emission levels by 2030 and get to net zero by 2050.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-328", "start": 2360.981, "end": 2361.109, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-329", "start": 2362.494, "end": 2364.666, "text": "2030 Is 4 years from now.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-330", "start": 2367.33, "end": 2372.412, "text": "Let's be clear, though this sounds big, these are not actually bold goals.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-331", "start": 2372.912, "end": 2383.495, "text": "They are the bare minimum that international experts have said we need to accomplish in order to achieve our obligations to our planet and to our neighbors.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-332", "start": 2384.873, "end": 2387.244, "text": "And yet we know it will take bold actions to get there.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-333", "start": 2388.178, "end": 2404.604, "text": "We are merely one city, and our impact alone won't turn the tide, but we should not fool ourselves into thinking that means that our contributions are unimportant, because we can reduce emissions, and the power of our example is significant.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-334", "start": 2406.001, "end": 2412.456, "text": "This, I hope, is all the more clear as we see the dangerous impacts of climate inaction on the news every day.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-335", "start": 2414.136, "end": 2429.394, "text": "It is worth noting that just this weekend, the most recent incident of devastating flash floods in Nepal, intensified by climate change, claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-336", "start": 2431.251, "end": 2432.202, "text": "The impacts are real.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-337", "start": 2434.086, "end": 2436.229, "text": "Colleagues, today is not the start of this conversation.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-338", "start": 2437.507, "end": 2445.031, "text": "This council undertook important work on climate and sustainability last year, Through a committee led by Councilors Murillo and Novick.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-339", "start": 2446.617, "end": 2449.708, "text": "And we were a leader on this topic years before that.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-340", "start": 2450.805, "end": 2458.526, "text": "But it is, I hope, a moment for our city to renew our focus as we hear just how far we are from our goals.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-341", "start": 2459.823, "end": 2461.334, "text": "We have some big decisions ahead of us.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-342", "start": 2461.832, "end": 2465.816, "text": "We will adopt a new climate action plan in 2028.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-343", "start": 2467.214, "end": 2477.761, "text": "And that same year, we will adopt a new 5-year climate investment plan to direct PCF dollars Towards critical achievement, critical undertakings.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-344", "start": 2478.836, "end": 2492.68, "text": "Our first presentation today will be from our Chief Sustainability Officer, Vivian Satterfield, who will overview Portland's climate goals, our progress or lack of progress, and outline some of the key decision points ahead.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-345", "start": 2493.835, "end": 2508.222, "text": "We also have a significant amount of work to do, though, in the private sector, work we cannot legislate quite as directly, but which we can incentivize, especially in our transportation and industry sectors.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-346", "start": 2509.556, "end": 2516.819, "text": "Industry today will be a focus as well because we already have important, critically important work underway in this sector.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-347", "start": 2517.751, "end": 2525.689, "text": "Done right, done the Portland way, industry can provide high-quality, high-wage union jobs to people in our community.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-348", "start": 2526.384, "end": 2532.274, "text": "Better enabling those who choose to live in Portland to actually be able to afford to do so.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-349", "start": 2533.887, "end": 2558.522, "text": "Industry provides vital goods and services to Portlanders, contributes to the tax base that funds our essential public services and programs, and at the same time, it can minimize their burden on our environmental challenges, the chief of which is the unprecedented and colossal threat of global climate change, but only if we are intentional about ensuring industry here does so.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-350", "start": 2560.212, "end": 2576.875, "text": "Inaction is not acceptable, and therefore our second presentation today will be from the many stakeholders who are a part of the Clean Industry Partnership, facilitated by their executive director, Jules Bailey, who will share more with us about the work that is underway there.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-351", "start": 2577.544, "end": 2578.753, "text": "And the opportunity for more.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-352", "start": 2580.027, "end": 2584.928, "text": "Third, we'll turn to a presentation by a fantastic group, the Climate Optimists.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-353", "start": 2585.73, "end": 2596.024, "text": "This is a group that was working with our former committee last year, and which we have been waiting for a long time to hear from on City Council.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-354", "start": 2596.827, "end": 2607.52, "text": "There's a tendency in climate discussions to frame choices as trade-offs between jobs and emission reductions, between growth and sustainability, And that framing we know is outdated and short-sighted.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-355", "start": 2608.355, "end": 2625.214, "text": "What we will hear today from the climate optimists points toward a different path, one where climate action drives economic opportunity, where innovation lowers costs, where doing things in an environmental way is also doing things in a smart economic way.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-356", "start": 2626.418, "end": 2633.45, "text": "I've asked the climate optimists, represented by their executive director Jason Lewis, to share some of their win-win climate ideas with us.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-357", "start": 2634.349, "end": 2641.798, "text": "The ideas could save the city money, improve livability, or achieve city goals alongside major climate action.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-358", "start": 2643.034, "end": 2648.38, "text": "And then finally, we'll turn to a presentation by the Multnomah County Youth Commission Climate and Sustainability Committee.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-359", "start": 2649.552, "end": 2658.398, "text": "I'll take a moment here to brag on my own office's Youth Commission liaison, Hazel Chan, who brought this issue forward to me.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-360", "start": 2659.233, "end": 2666.427, "text": "She will join her colleague Enzo Carpio to share with us some of the work that they are hoping to take on.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-361", "start": 2667.358, "end": 2673.427, "text": "We know that too many young Portlanders feel like we are not moving fast enough on climate.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-362", "start": 2674.342, "end": 2685.47, "text": "I have heard directly from young Portlanders who tell me that they think that with all of the immediate crises facing our city, we've lost sight of the biggest before us, our work on climate.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-363", "start": 2686.53, "end": 2698.319, "text": "That frustration is warranted, and our responsibility is not just to acknowledge your concerns, but to meet them with action— credible, measurable progress that demonstrates we are not stepping back, but stepping in.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-364", "start": 2699.138, "end": 2714.927, "text": "And to that end, I've asked Hazel and Enzo to present what their committee is working on and what they hope to see as a way for us to better have a finger on the pulse of what we need to be doing to meet the calls of young people in our community to take bold action.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-365", "start": 2716.684, "end": 2725.216, "text": "I want to note that while some of the things we hear about may involve PCF dollars or be solvable with PCF dollars, today is not a conversation about PCF broadly.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-366", "start": 2726.186, "end": 2731.488, "text": "It is a conversation about how we address our own climate goals and the needs of our community.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-367", "start": 2732.16, "end": 2736.859, "text": "PCF is but one tool to get there, one that we will certainly talk more about over the coming year.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-368", "start": 2736.924, "end": 2737.153, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-369", "start": 2737.682, "end": 2744.179, "text": "As we lead toward building our next climate action plan, but I hope we don't get high-centered on PCEF in our conversations today.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-370", "start": 2745.639, "end": 2761.505, "text": "So colleagues, let's make today about focus, about not losing sight of the progress that we must make on climate, about finding the path forward that does not pit climate against good jobs, economic growth, or social justice, because they are all critical.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-371", "start": 2762.612, "end": 2770.2, "text": "Portland desperately needs That hard to define, hard to find, hard to grasp Green New Deal.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-372", "start": 2770.97, "end": 2774.274, "text": "But we have to craft it carefully, deliberately, and together.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-373", "start": 2774.98, "end": 2786.017, "text": "I hope that by the end of the day today, we will have some new ideas for how we can do that, that we may be able to move forward on jointly as a committee as we complete our work over the next few months.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-374", "start": 2787.076, "end": 2790.509, "text": "With that, I am going to turn it over to my vice chair, Councilor Zimmerman.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-375", "start": 2792.06, "end": 2792.241, "text": "Councilor?", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-376", "start": 2792.339, "end": 2794.579, "text": "Thank you, Chair, and thanks for just framing it up that way.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-377", "start": 2794.629, "end": 2795.864, "text": "I think those are great opening remarks.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-378", "start": 2797.482, "end": 2811.333, "text": "I know that Multnomah County just took their— up their climate justice update, and I was thinking about that, and I think there's some room for us to be aligned from a City of Portland perspective, and I think that's probably the right approach.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-379", "start": 2811.673, "end": 2817.701, "text": "Way too many times in this community we see the 2 largest governments not, and this is one where I think we can get it right.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-380", "start": 2819.063, "end": 2824.888, "text": "I kind of think of it in terms of what's the win-win climate solution and the future of Portland.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-381", "start": 2825.065, "end": 2838.768, "text": "And for me, I just want to frame that up in terms of, you know, we have an opportunity for creating family-wage jobs as we think through the funds that we use, how we use them on climate-related projects.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-382", "start": 2838.864, "end": 2851.612, "text": "I think that that is the, the first step of getting serious to this was getting ideas out there, and some of those have been Going great, and the next phase is to make sure that they're growing great for everybody who's involved with them.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-383", "start": 2851.805, "end": 2879.587, "text": "And so, um, I think that this can be achieved through ensuring that the city projects that are, you know, utilizing compliance and standards similar to what we did with the electrical vehicle, um, that gives us an opportunity to kind of take the high road, be a responsible contracting organization Make sure that we're legally defensible and enforceable, because I think when we do that— and we're just coming off of Labor Day, right?", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-384", "start": 2879.635, "end": 2890.061, "text": "When we do that, it means that Portland dollars stay with Portland workers, stay with families who are in Portland who can see a future here, who are contributing to the greater good and climate impacts.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-385", "start": 2890.109, "end": 2892.583, "text": "And I just think that that's an important thing to keep centered here.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-386", "start": 2892.632, "end": 2896.005, "text": "At least that's where my eyes will be while I'm centering this conversation.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-387", "start": 2896.053, "end": 2897.403, "text": "So thanks for framing it up.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-388", "start": 2897.483, "end": 2899.122, "text": "Thanks for putting this all together.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-389", "start": 2899.17, "end": 2899.266, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-390", "start": 2899.315, "end": 2899.459, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-391", "start": 2901.159, "end": 2901.836, "text": "Thank you, Vice Chair.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-392", "start": 2901.901, "end": 2906.932, "text": "And before we jump into our first presentation, Councilor Murillo, you helped to lead a lot of this work last year.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-393", "start": 2907.5, "end": 2912.324, "text": "If you can just share a little bit with us about what we're picking up from, that would be fantastic.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-394", "start": 2914.353, "end": 2915.243, "text": "Yeah, thanks so much.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-395", "start": 2915.486, "end": 2917.185, "text": "And sorry I can't be there today.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-396", "start": 2917.411, "end": 2921.036, "text": "I blame Novick for whatever cold he spread around the District 3 office.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-397", "start": 2922.205, "end": 2923.594, "text": "But thanks everyone for being there.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-398", "start": 2923.723, "end": 2929.439, "text": "I was the co-chair of the Climate Committee along with Councilor Novick before that committee was dissolved and sort of reconvened into this.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-399", "start": 2930.634, "end": 2934.664, "text": "And we covered a lot of different topics that were very important.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-400", "start": 2936.31, "end": 2938.278, "text": "We talked about the CEI Hub.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-401", "start": 2938.746, "end": 2946.201, "text": "We talked about sort of the myth of renewable fuels as an option that's going to save us in this new economy and in this new world.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-402", "start": 2946.894, "end": 2949.744, "text": "And we talked about the electrification of city buildings.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-403", "start": 2949.792, "end": 2951.741, "text": "Those were just a few of the items that we covered.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-404", "start": 2951.806, "end": 2959.184, "text": "But I think that a central focus of what we discussed really was I think what Councilor Pirtle-Guiney said is correct, right?", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-405", "start": 2959.568, "end": 2962.149, "text": "We are in an urgent moment.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-406", "start": 2962.213, "end": 2977.666, "text": "We are seeing thousands of people die at a time, and those are predominantly happening in the Global South and other areas that are going to be impacted first due to the United States exporting a lot of the harm that we do to the environment to other countries and benefiting from that.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-407", "start": 2978.018, "end": 2982.763, "text": "So we have a responsibility to take action, no matter how small or big, at the local level.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-408", "start": 2983.212, "end": 2984.976, "text": "In order to address that.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-409", "start": 2985.522, "end": 2997.054, "text": "And in large part, my focus as a committee chair was not just to talk about the good feel things that we could do at the climate committee or at the local level, but to also address the greenwashing that happens.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-410", "start": 2998.048, "end": 3011.473, "text": "There are a lot of fuel companies in Portland that are going to tell us that we have magical options for renewable fuels that are just as combustible and flammable as other fuel storage types, and that still exists along the Willamette River.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-411", "start": 3011.842, "end": 3019.67, "text": "We have discussions here at council right now about the Zenith oil train, the franchise transfer of Zenith to a new company.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-412", "start": 3020.327, "end": 3031.395, "text": "And we have to do our due diligence when it's politically inconvenient because, as was stated before, it's my generation and younger that is going to bear the brunt of these climate impacts.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-413", "start": 3031.892, "end": 3033.047, "text": "I just turned 30 this year.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-414", "start": 3033.496, "end": 3039.575, "text": "The vast majority of my friends are not having kids and are not starting families because they don't know what type of world we're going to leave them with.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-415", "start": 3040.153, "end": 3051.731, "text": "And so I would urge my colleagues to say that we're actually not going to be moving at a moderate, slow, deliberate pace on these things because we don't have time to move at a moderate, slow, deliberate pace.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-416", "start": 3052.18, "end": 3054.714, "text": "We have to take aggressive action where and when we can.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-417", "start": 3055.228, "end": 3057.248, "text": "And that was the goal of the Climate Committee before.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-418", "start": 3057.874, "end": 3062.428, "text": "This committee is in a strange spot because we have to balance the needs of industry and climate.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-419", "start": 3062.829, "end": 3065.363, "text": "It doesn't have a focus specifically on climate anymore.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-420", "start": 3065.813, "end": 3074.623, "text": "But I hope that we will take that very seriously and weigh it differently because there are no jobs if Oregon burns down.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-421", "start": 3074.849, "end": 3075.972, "text": "So I will leave it at that.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-422", "start": 3078.36, "end": 3079.097, "text": "Thank you, Councilor.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-423", "start": 3080.48, "end": 3090.665, "text": "Colleagues, I am going to turn it over to Vivian Satterfield, our city's Chief Sustainability Officer, to lead off our work here today talking about Portland's Climate Action Plan.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-424", "start": 3091.12, "end": 3091.692, "text": "Thank you, Vivian.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-425", "start": 3091.966, "end": 3095.079, "text": "Great, thank you, Chair Pirtle-Guiney, Vice Chair Zimmerman, members of the committee.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-426", "start": 3095.497, "end": 3097.054, "text": "For the record, I'm Vivian Satterfield.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-427", "start": 3097.182, "end": 3101.852, "text": "I'm your Chief Sustainability Officer and a very proud climate and sustainability nerd.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-428", "start": 3102.719, "end": 3107.598, "text": "I appreciate the invitation to join you today and for the opportunity to begin today's discussion on climate policy.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-429", "start": 3107.983, "end": 3124.213, "text": "My presentation is going to pull on a few of the threads that Chair Pirtle-Guiney helped offer today and give a little bit more detail in that, and I think it'll go nicely also with the One moment, please.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-430", "start": 3129.902, "end": 3138.294, "text": "As Vice Chair Zimmerman observed, Portland and Multnomah County have been tracking local carbon emissions for more than 30 years using an annual sector-based emissions inventory.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-431", "start": 3139.21, "end": 3146.088, "text": "It's helpful to remember that City Council declared a climate emergency in 2020 and directed city bureaus to restore a safe climate for all Portlanders.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-432", "start": 3146.596, "end": 3149.561, "text": "Which requires that we meet 2 carbon reduction targets.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-433", "start": 3150.218, "end": 3156.998, "text": "By 2030, we must slash Portland's climate-warming carbon emissions 50% or more compared to 1990 levels.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-434", "start": 3157.752, "end": 3165.253, "text": "That's an ambitious but necessary goalpost for us to achieve net zero by 2050, as called for in the Paris Agreement and our own policy documents.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-435", "start": 3166.471, "end": 3169.436, "text": "By 2050, we must reduce carbon emissions to net zero.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-436", "start": 3170.414, "end": 3183.374, "text": "These goals are grounded in climate science and shared by the United Nations and the numerous networks and agreements that the City of Portland is signatory to, which informs our approach to addressing one of the most pressing but solvable challenges of current generations.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-437", "start": 3184.673, "end": 3192.423, "text": "Over the years, Council has adopted a range of ongoing programs and policy initiatives grouped by the sectors by which carbon comes from.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-438", "start": 3193.177, "end": 3196.851, "text": "That's electricity, buildings, transportation, and industry.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-439", "start": 3197.525, "end": 3208.024, "text": "And you'll hear more from the second panel about our strategy for the industrial sector to reduce emissions, pollution, and waste and follow inclusive practices that benefit workers and fence line communities.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-440", "start": 3210.23, "end": 3217.541, "text": "So just to ground us in the data here, as previously mentioned, Portland and Multnomah County have been tracking local carbon emissions since 1990.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-441", "start": 3218.215, "end": 3228.144, "text": "We have a long history of climate action collaboration with Multnomah County, but there are also specific datasets used for the emissions inventory that are only available at the county level.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-442", "start": 3229.505, "end": 3240.531, "text": "The numbers I'm sharing today are from 2023, and that's because our emissions inventories run about 2 years behind because of how long it takes fuel sales data to move through federal reporting.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-443", "start": 3241.38, "end": 3246.335, "text": "We are just ahead of this fall's release of the 2024 data, which we'll be reporting and sharing out this fall.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-444", "start": 3248.152, "end": 3250.766, "text": "We hit peak emissions in 2000.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-445", "start": 3251.626, "end": 3254.614, "text": "As of 2023, Portland's emissions are 26% higher than they were in 2000.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-446", "start": 3254.711, "end": 3254.955, "text": "That's a lot.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-447", "start": 3255.633, "end": 3257.043, "text": "Below 1990 levels.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-448", "start": 3257.396, "end": 3263.856, "text": "And that's a real departure from the United States as a country, which is still only about 2% below 1990.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-449", "start": 3265.01, "end": 3273.858, "text": "That 26% below 1990 figure is only 1% above our lowest point ever during the 2020 first year of the pandemic.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-450", "start": 3274.403, "end": 3277.369, "text": "So we've essentially erased the post-pandemic rebound.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-451", "start": 3278.555, "end": 3286.709, "text": "Notably, in the period when emissions have declined to 26%, The population has increased 38% and job growth is at 35%.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-452", "start": 3288.106, "end": 3290.918, "text": "But 26% is not where we need to be.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-453", "start": 3291.32, "end": 3301.088, "text": "To hit 2030, we need roughly a 5.5% reduction every year from here, about 320,000 metric tons of CO2 annually.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-454", "start": 3302.149, "end": 3308.447, "text": "From 2030 to 2050, that pace eases slightly to about 230,000 tons a year.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-455", "start": 3309.158, "end": 3313.19, "text": "So the next 4 years are the steepest climb we will face in this entire effort.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-456", "start": 3313.994, "end": 3320.771, "text": "What we decide now in this budget cycle and the next determines whether we make that climb or fall further behind it.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-457", "start": 3322.7, "end": 3329.475, "text": "Unsurprisingly, the top sources of our emissions come from electricity, gasoline, what's referred to as natural gas, and diesel.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-458", "start": 3330.655, "end": 3334.736, "text": "Gasoline emissions are down, but diesel is up an alarming 69%.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-459", "start": 3335.292, "end": 3340.233, "text": "Since 1990, and that's driven most entirely by freight and delivery demand.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-460", "start": 3341.58, "end": 3344.72, "text": "Natural gas emissions are up as well, 18% overall.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-461", "start": 3345.058, "end": 3349.228, "text": "The residential sector alone is up 62% since 1990.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-462", "start": 3350.066, "end": 3358.372, "text": "It's the one major fuel source moving in the wrong direction because there's no market pressure shifting consumers away from it the way there is with gas prices.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-463", "start": 3360.418, "end": 3370.49, "text": "On electricity, the emissions inventory runs on the regional grid mix, A few notes here.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-464", "start": 3370.49, "end": 3378.81, "text": "State law requires utilities to hit 80% by 2030 and to eliminate 100% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-465", "start": 3378.81, "end": 3389.59, "text": "And it's worth stating here, the city's own goal via the 100% renewable resolution has committed us to achieving 100% renewable electricity by 2035.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-466", "start": 3389.59, "end": 3389.99, "text": "Second, the since city's own goal via the 100% renewable resolution has committed us to achieving 100% renewable electricity by electricity 2035.", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-467", "start": 3390.693, "end": 3400.435, "text": "Is our— currently our number one emissions source, we can't reach our adopted goals without the utilities also hitting their mandated 80% reduction in emissions by 2030.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-468", "start": 3401.733, "end": 3412.613, "text": "Due to the cost of procuring or developing new renewable resources, we don't really expect the utilities to significantly increase that 33% renewable rate until the state deadline.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-469", "start": 3414.087, "end": 3419.327, "text": "Achieving the 2050 net-zero target requires extensive action across all sectors.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-470", "start": 3421.9, "end": 3434.691, "text": "By sector, transportation and commercial buildings are our 2 biggest sources, 40% and 24% of emissions respectively, followed by residential buildings at 18% and industrial emissions at 12%.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-471", "start": 3434.739, "end": 3441.559, "text": "So something to sit with is that nearly 2/3 of what we need to cut comes from how people get around and how buildings use energy.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-472", "start": 3443.105, "end": 3445.158, "text": "There are also the sectors where we've seen some real progress.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-473", "start": 3445.691, "end": 3449.215, "text": "For example, since 1990, industrial emissions are down 58%.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-474", "start": 3449.813, "end": 3451.155, "text": "Residential is down 27%.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-475", "start": 3452.723, "end": 3465.741, "text": "Transportation is down only 13% and is an area where our ongoing efforts to work with regional, state, and federal partners is needed to massively decarbonize and transform how we get the places we need to go.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-476", "start": 3466.63, "end": 3471.546, "text": "You'll hear in one of the subsequent panels today about how important mass transit is to that goal.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-477", "start": 3472.014, "end": 3478.611, "text": "And so I want to give some appreciation and acknowledgement and thank the council for expanding that access to city employees just this week.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-478", "start": 3482.784, "end": 3491.866, "text": "The Climate Emergency Work Plan was our prior climate action plan with 47 actions across decarbonization and resilience, many of which we're still executing today.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-479", "start": 3492.982, "end": 3504.646, "text": "In 2020, the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability hired a consultant to build a decarbonization pathways model to help understand what it would take to achieve the targets adopted through the Climate Emergency Declaration.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-480", "start": 3505.962, "end": 3514.854, "text": "The purpose of the tool is to help policymakers and the public visualize the scale and combinations of specific climate strategies needed to meet net zero.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-481", "start": 3515.817, "end": 3524.869, "text": "Called Pathways, this tool can model different reduction scenarios and was recently aligned and updated with updated inventories and newly adopted state policies.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-482", "start": 3525.207, "end": 3527.842, "text": "You can click on this link and play around with a lot of those assumptions.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-483", "start": 3527.97, "end": 3537.9, "text": "It's a very powerful and really cool tool that you can offer various inputs into and see some of the challenges of what it's taking all of us to try to reach net zero.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-484", "start": 3539.041, "end": 3543.025, "text": "The top line, however, is that net zero is still possible by 2050.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-485", "start": 3544.102, "end": 3550.882, "text": "The change in the baseline trajectory alone since the previous version of this pathway tool shows what can be achieved with focused action.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-486", "start": 3551.413, "end": 3559.29, "text": "Improved building energy codes and state-level grid decarbonization policy, which have shifted the baseline dramatically towards net zero.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-487", "start": 3560.1, "end": 3565.133, "text": "It'll take continual effort to ensure those goals are met, but the near-term impacts are significant.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-488", "start": 3567.798, "end": 3570.963, "text": "Okay, I'm going to widen the lens here for a moment.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-489", "start": 3571.593, "end": 3576.066, "text": "Everything so far has counted emissions produced inside Multnomah County's boundary.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-490", "start": 3577.167, "end": 3586.002, "text": "Consumption-based emissions count something entirely different: the full life cycle impact of what Multnomah County residents and governments buy and use.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-491", "start": 3586.324, "end": 3592.171, "text": "That's materials, food, goods, services, wherever in the world that production happens.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-492", "start": 3592.685, "end": 3595.303, "text": "That's increasingly important in our globalized economy.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-493", "start": 3596.299, "end": 3601.086, "text": "Here you can see Multnomah County consumption-based emissions compared to our local emissions.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-494", "start": 3602.242, "end": 3623.607, "text": "In 2015, Portland was the first this Venn diagram is useful because it shows the comparison in scale between Portland's 2 types of emissions inventories while simultaneously telling the story of the impact of our consumption globally.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-495", "start": 3625.097, "end": 3631.955, "text": "Total emissions are 20 million, but sector-based emissions are only 7.1 million compared to consumption-based emissions at 18.8 million.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-496", "start": 3632.003, "end": 3632.195, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-497", "start": 3632.917, "end": 3640.121, "text": "This shows that 65% of our emissions resulting from our consumption are not produced within our boundaries.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-498", "start": 3641.5, "end": 3651.463, "text": "When looking at these emissions through a lifecycle lens, it's clear that our traditional methods of climate planning that focus solely on use and disposal phase emissions are just far too limited.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-499", "start": 3652.265, "end": 3658.249, "text": "However, it's difficult to reduce production phase emissions when most production occurs outside our city boundaries.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-500", "start": 3659.003, "end": 3663.78, "text": "This challenge is heightened by continued outsourcing of manufacturing and supply chains to other countries.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-501", "start": 3664.934, "end": 3675.098, "text": "And this requires us to use both supply and demand-side interventions, influencing production supply chains where we can and addressing the demand for those products when we can't.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-502", "start": 3676.14, "end": 3679.49, "text": "However, the City of Portland can use its own purchasing power to shift demand.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-503", "start": 3679.763, "end": 3684.139, "text": "A great example of this is Portland's own low-carbon concrete procurement policy.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-504", "start": 3684.736, "end": 3696.6, "text": "Which requires suppliers of concrete for city infrastructure projects to disclose carbon emissions and supply lower carbon concrete, changing the local demand for low carbon concrete with our own purchasing power.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-505", "start": 3699.576, "end": 3702.94, "text": "So let's look at our consumption and sector trends together.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-506", "start": 3704.331, "end": 3709.401, "text": "Consumption-based emissions are increasing year over year as local emissions have declined.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-507", "start": 3709.944, "end": 3714.6, "text": "We are solving one problem while a second larger one grows underneath it.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-508", "start": 3718.91, "end": 3721.028, "text": "Our net-zero pathway is a modeled scenario.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-509", "start": 3721.286, "end": 3740.893, "text": "It includes building electrification accelerating starting now, electric vehicle adoption climbing with all new passenger vehicles sold in the state of Oregon being mandated to be electric by 2035, heavy-duty vehicle electrification beginning in 2027, Renewable fuels replacing all fossil fuels that's left.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-510", "start": 3741.842, "end": 3742.116, "text": "Pardon me.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-511", "start": 3742.905, "end": 3746.527, "text": "This all requires sustained state and local policy starting now.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-512", "start": 3748.27, "end": 3753.049, "text": "Rapid action starting now is essential to longer-term success and minimizing cumulative emissions.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-513", "start": 3754.41, "end": 3767.73, "text": "Delaying action now means steeper cuts are required later to achieve Portland's necessary climate goals, which on the one hand will potentially increase the costs and disruptiveness of necessary climate actions, and on the other hand, will lower the chances of meeting the 2050 goal.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-514", "start": 3769.54, "end": 3783.625, "text": "The difference in cumulative emissions if the city takes action now versus waiting until 2030 could result in more than 15 million tons of additional GHG emissions, more than 25% higher than cumulative emissions under the rapid action net-zero scenario.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-515", "start": 3787.07, "end": 3789.53, "text": "And so that brings me to the work required of us to meet that challenge.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-516", "start": 3789.938, "end": 3792.838, "text": "I want to highlight findings from the city auditor's recent climate justice audit.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-517", "start": 3793.923, "end": 3802.165, "text": "The audit found that while Portland has committed to climate justice, significant gaps remain in implementing effective strategies to follow through on our climate commitments.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-518", "start": 3802.982, "end": 3805.467, "text": "The audit had 5 recommendations in response.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-519", "start": 3806.029, "end": 3813.596, "text": "One, the city needs clear central authority to guide and coordinate climate policy across bureaus for consistent climate action and prioritization.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-520", "start": 3814.366, "end": 3817.445, "text": "My role was elevated in our new form of government to help address this.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-521", "start": 3818.599, "end": 3821.389, "text": "2, We need to consider climate cost considerations.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-522", "start": 3822.24, "end": 3838.654, "text": "City Administrator Lee responded that we need to coordinate climate budgeting in our next climate action plan, which also required, required by C40, one of the global networks that we're associated with, alongside the Portland Clean Energy Fund's next climate investment plan and the City Budget Office.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-523", "start": 3839.313, "end": 3841.786, "text": "Our next climate action plan does plan to address this.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-524", "start": 3843.023, "end": 3846.283, "text": "3, We need to integrate climate adaptation and mitigation.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-525", "start": 3847.038, "end": 3850.25, "text": "And I want to spend a moment here because this is where I think we've actually been incomplete.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-526", "start": 3850.331, "end": 3850.475, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-527", "start": 3850.973, "end": 3855.098, "text": "Everything I've shown you so far is just mitigation, reducing the emissions that we produce.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-528", "start": 3856.029, "end": 3863.783, "text": "But even if Portland hit net zero tomorrow, we would still face the heat, fire, and flooding risk already locked in by a century of global emissions.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-529", "start": 3864.714, "end": 3869.321, "text": "Our next climate plan must reduce emissions and prepare Portlanders for the impacts already coming.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-530", "start": 3870.476, "end": 3873.478, "text": "Resilience is not a nice-to-have alongside mitigation.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-531", "start": 3874.345, "end": 3878.117, "text": "It's the other half of the same obligation, and our next plan treats it that way.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-532", "start": 3879.9, "end": 3883.768, "text": "4, We need to develop a prioritization framework for the next climate action plan.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-533", "start": 3884.525, "end": 3891.392, "text": "As part of the development for the next climate action plan, we are working with staff subject matter experts and the city's performance lab to accomplish this.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-534", "start": 3893.063, "end": 3899.809, "text": "And 5, community is a critical partner, especially our frontline communities, in all aspects of climate work.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-535", "start": 3900.506, "end": 3923.132, "text": "We're currently working on a citywide climate engagement strategy, which will include engagement for the next the Sustainability and Climate Commission has already taken up the charge to identify near-term climate actions that the city can take while we're developing the next climate action plan.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-536", "start": 3924.06, "end": 3930.337, "text": "You'll hear from the co-chairs of the Policy and Implementation Committee in describing the touchpoints council can anticipate in the CAP development.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-537", "start": 3930.386, "end": 3930.918, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-538", "start": 3931.841, "end": 3936.561, "text": "And you can expect to hear from the Policy Implementation Committee when their first recommendation is ready.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-539", "start": 3938.29, "end": 3941.517, "text": "I want to address 3 areas where we can take near-term action.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-540", "start": 3942.663, "end": 3948.471, "text": "On resilience, the climate change risk assessment identifies heat as one of our most urgent threats.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-541", "start": 3949.277, "end": 3956.061, "text": "We expect roughly 60 days each year with a heat index above 80 degrees Fahrenheit.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-542", "start": 3956.876, "end": 3958.834, "text": "That's 3 weeks more than in the past.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-543", "start": 3958.899, "end": 3964.066, "text": "We're also looking at increases of 9 to 11 days of extreme fire danger.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-544", "start": 3965.479, "end": 3972.91, "text": "Earlier this year, as part of another panel in front of this committee, I emphasized the opportunity to align our energy and resilience strategies.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-545", "start": 3973.825, "end": 3979.811, "text": "That could look like adopting carbon performance and cooling standards for buildings to become more resilient to hotter days.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-546", "start": 3981.191, "end": 3998.564, "text": "Advancing resilient hubs citywide, adopting a smart surfaces approach, which means investing in trees, solar, reflective and permeable surfaces, cool roofs that can reduce urban heat, save energy, and lower long-term costs.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-547", "start": 3999.351, "end": 4007.748, "text": "Another idea is the municipal energy strategy, because Oregon is at a critical juncture in the energy transition because of landmark statewide legislation over the last several years.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-548", "start": 4008.49, "end": 4013.859, "text": "These developments require a fresh look and a reframing of energy policy and practices at the local level.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-549", "start": 4014.247, "end": 4019.247, "text": "At the same time, PSEF is helping to reshape the local landscape for clean energy investments.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-550", "start": 4021.13, "end": 4038.714, "text": "The City of Portland has several key roles in this transition as a leader in lowering carbon emissions from our own operations, as an energy consumer and ratepayer, as an advocate at statewide legislative and regulatory tables, And as an investor in clean energy projects and energy justice communities.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-551", "start": 4039.854, "end": 4054.851, "text": "A first step in this strategy is to invest in a centralized energy management information system for city facilities to track energy usage, identify energy-saving opportunities, and lay the foundation for a connected network of city facilities.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-552", "start": 4056.007, "end": 4065.866, "text": "Long-term, integrate sophisticated energy management controls to operate city facilities as resilience hubs and as a connected microgrid and virtual power plant.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-553", "start": 4068.77, "end": 4070.866, "text": "And as I mentioned earlier, climate budgeting.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-554", "start": 4071.95, "end": 4079.887, "text": "Climate budgeting is an iterative process which embeds climate targets and considerations into decision-making on policies, actions, and budgets.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-555", "start": 4080.792, "end": 4099.351, "text": "Findings from cities that have already successfully implemented climate budgeting, such as Oslo and New York City, Show that climate budgeting is most effective when treated not as an environmental add-on, but as a reform of public financial management, translating climate goals into actionable fiscal strategies.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-556", "start": 4101.018, "end": 4104.999, "text": "Staff are working on a proposal on climate budgeting pilot for the next fiscal year.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-557", "start": 4108.99, "end": 4114.549, "text": "So while the Sustainability and Climate Commission is working on near-term actions, they're also developing the next climate action plan.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-558", "start": 4115.032, "end": 4116.703, "text": "With an immense amount of support from staff.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-559", "start": 4117.828, "end": 4127.373, "text": "I'm leading executive leadership input, and this includes the mayor, the city administrator, all DCAs, bureau directors, and ultimately I'll be bringing the climate action plan to the council for adoption.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-560", "start": 4128.674, "end": 4134.828, "text": "The project lead, Elaine Viska-Livingstone, is working with staff teams and the Sustainability and Climate Commission under my direction.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-561", "start": 4135.905, "end": 4142.22, "text": "I want to say a word about PSEF here because while I do know that council understands that program separately, But it's worth connecting the dots here.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-562", "start": 4143.377, "end": 4147.363, "text": "PCEP's climate investments are directly capacitating and accelerating this work.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-563", "start": 4148.44, "end": 4160.864, "text": "The next climate action plan and PCEP's next climate investment plan must be coordinated to deliver on our climate and community commitments, and this includes coordination across priorities, implementation, and climate budgeting.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-564", "start": 4162.49, "end": 4170.139, "text": "The Sustainability and Climate Commission, beginning in October, will host 8 workgroup sessions each month For a year to develop the next climate action plan.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-565", "start": 4171.07, "end": 4178.525, "text": "The commission is public-facing, and they'll be offering the role of vetting and is ultimately the steering committee for the CAP process.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-566", "start": 4179.142, "end": 4181.318, "text": "They will also lead community engagement.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-567", "start": 4184.173, "end": 4188.58, "text": "These are the 8 focus areas which are tied to our sources of emissions and community needs.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-568", "start": 4188.983, "end": 4190.543, "text": "I'm not going to spend more time on this slide.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-569", "start": 4190.591, "end": 4194.437, "text": "It's a lot of words, but it's just to serve as a resource for you.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-570", "start": 4195.777, "end": 4201.989, "text": "I would now like to invite the co-chairs of the Sustainability and Climate Commission to discuss City Council touchpoints.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-571", "start": 4203.579, "end": 4205.125, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-572", "start": 4205.754, "end": 4206.06, "text": "Welcome.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-573", "start": 4206.172, "end": 4211.327, "text": "Thank you both for being here, and if you want to go ahead and introduce yourselves and jump right in, we'd appreciate hearing from you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-574", "start": 4212.14, "end": 4212.495, "text": "Sure.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-575", "start": 4212.721, "end": 4214.159, "text": "Thank you, CSO Vivian.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-576", "start": 4214.417, "end": 4216.663, "text": "Uh, for the record, my name is Vivek Shandas.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-577", "start": 4216.841, "end": 4220.056, "text": "I co-chair the, uh, Policy and Implementation Committee.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-578", "start": 4220.314, "end": 4221.429, "text": "I use he/him pronouns.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-579", "start": 4222.086, "end": 4226.012, "text": "And, um, I'm here, I'm here to talk a little bit about the CAP.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-580", "start": 4226.653, "end": 4235.098, "text": "Uh, the commission spent its summer working on the CAP work plan and deliberating district-specific recommendations and considerations.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-581", "start": 4235.563, "end": 4247.773, "text": "We're already reached out— we've already reached out to council, uh, to offer our time and discuss work plan, the district considerations, and we're trying to understand the priorities for the next CAP.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-582", "start": 4248.527, "end": 4256.374, "text": "I really— we all really appreciate your generous generosity with the time and meeting with us for these discussions.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-583", "start": 4256.872, "end": 4262.295, "text": "Later this month, the commission will hear from staff about climate change risk assessment so we can provide our input.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-584", "start": 4262.729, "end": 4269.533, "text": "This report will be finalized this fall, and we highly recommend that committee invite CSO Vivian to brief you on this.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-585", "start": 4270.271, "end": 4273.978, "text": "I'll pass it over to Co-Chair Charity to close us out.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-586", "start": 4274.202, "end": 4275.245, "text": "Thank you, Co-Chair Vivek.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-587", "start": 4275.647, "end": 4278.667, "text": "For the record, my name is Co-Chair Charity Fain.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-588", "start": 4278.876, "end": 4286.443, "text": "I use she/her pronouns, and I am also the co-chair of the Policy and Implementation Committee of the Sustainability and Climate Commission.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-589", "start": 4287.471, "end": 4292.917, "text": "In the spring, the commission will begin community engagement on the next climate action plan.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-590", "start": 4293.64, "end": 4302.395, "text": "You will hear from us, and we hope we can activate your pathways to engage your constituents, and we will invite you to key engagement events.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-591", "start": 4303.213, "end": 4308.539, "text": "Later in 2027, the commission will host a, a CAP discussion draft for public comment.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-592", "start": 4309.309, "end": 4312.774, "text": "This is outside of the council public comment period.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-593", "start": 4313.801, "end": 4321.87, "text": "We hope to again capture your input at this point so that it can be integrated into the draft that we will submit to you for adoption.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-594", "start": 4323.266, "end": 4328.993, "text": "At any time, we welcome sessions with you to co-create this plan.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-595", "start": 4329.988, "end": 4335.029, "text": "In 2028, council will hopefully adopt the plan along with the climate budgeting.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-596", "start": 4335.864, "end": 4345.882, "text": "We hope all engagement leading up to that time will incorporate your and your constituents', constituents' concepts and desires in a plan that will be implementable.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-597", "start": 4347.086, "end": 4351.147, "text": "The commission and CSO Vivian will hand you a prioritized plan.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-598", "start": 4351.918, "end": 4355.851, "text": "We'll do the work, and we need you to fund it.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-599", "start": 4356.684, "end": 4360.782, "text": "By virtue of the decisions you make, you will make this plan real.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-600", "start": 4363.88, "end": 4364.654, "text": "And that concludes our presentation.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-601", "start": 4366.62, "end": 4367.381, "text": "Thank you, colleagues.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-602", "start": 4367.445, "end": 4371.121, "text": "We're running a little bit behind, but I want to make sure we have a few minutes for questions.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-603", "start": 4371.785, "end": 4377.591, "text": "Does anybody have questions for Vivian or for our, uh, for our co-chairs?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-604", "start": 4384.055, "end": 4414.017, "text": "Okay, I will just ask a quick question, which is, it sounds like we'll be hearing more on the process for council engagement and the timeline there, but are there specific things we should be preparing for now as councilors to make sure that we are ready to engage with you all and to have conversations about the plan as you appreciate the question, Chair Pirtle-Guiney.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-605", "start": 4415.726, "end": 4427.259, "text": "We believe that through your— this unique form of government in which you have the connections with and representation by district, that the touchpoints would really be any sort of engagement that you already are having in district.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-606", "start": 4427.87, "end": 4451.829, "text": "And we encourage open lines of communication to let us know how we can be invited to help table or to help be in attendance In order to hear those climate discussions if they do come up in those district-specific engagements, and also the direct outreach that the Sustainability and Climate Commissioners have already been doing to district offices to meet one-on-one to help create those feedback loops.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-607", "start": 4452.31, "end": 4452.455, "text": "Great.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-608", "start": 4452.519, "end": 4457.33, "text": "So it sounds like as well as the work with us, there's an opportunity to partner on some of the outreach in our districts.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-609", "start": 4457.41, "end": 4457.939, "text": "Absolutely.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-610", "start": 4458.228, "end": 4464.272, "text": "It's probably important for us to take you up on pretty quickly here before you get too much further down the work that you're doing.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-611", "start": 4464.528, "end": 4464.736, "text": "Correct.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-612", "start": 4464.784, "end": 4471.802, "text": "It's also the benefit of having a 20-person commission is that these are all incredible ambassadors for this work of developing the climate action plan.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-613", "start": 4472.667, "end": 4472.972, "text": "Great.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-614", "start": 4473.421, "end": 4474.286, "text": "Thank you so much.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-615", "start": 4474.542, "end": 4484.604, "text": "And I'll just note, because I look like I'm alone up here, Councilors Murillo and Avalos are online and watching and listening and with us in this meeting as well.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-616", "start": 4484.732, "end": 4486.575, "text": "So we do still have a committee quorum.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-617", "start": 4487.456, "end": 4488.978, "text": "Thank you all for the presentation.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-618", "start": 4489.042, "end": 4526.516, "text": "I know we're all looking forward to learning more Our next presentation is on industrial decarbonization, and I'd like to call up Jules Bailey, who is leading the Clean Industry Partnership, Sonrisa Cooper with the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, Kate Merrill with Prosper Portland, Mary Pivetto with Neighbors for Clean Air, Corky Collier with the Columbia Corridor Association, Randall Friesen with the Columbia Pacific Building Trades, and Beth Gilden from Portland State University.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-619", "start": 4527.093, "end": 4533.152, "text": "And Jules, I'm not sure if we can fit everybody up at once, but we can squeeze chairs, or if you want to do it in 2 panels, that is fine as well.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-620", "start": 4533.521, "end": 4535.124, "text": "I think we'll hit you in waves, Madam Chair.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-621", "start": 4535.204, "end": 4538.057, "text": "I think we'll start with this 4 and then bring up the closers.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-622", "start": 4538.554, "end": 4538.971, "text": "Sounds good.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-623", "start": 4539.275, "end": 4539.612, "text": "All right.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-624", "start": 4540.477, "end": 4542.593, "text": "Well, thank you for the opportunity, Madam Chair.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-625", "start": 4542.802, "end": 4550.617, "text": "For the record, I'm Jules Bailey, and I guess after the initial presentation here, I'm struck with the question, how do you know when it's Geek Week in Portland?", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-626", "start": 4550.987, "end": 4552.223, "text": "I grew up in Southeast Portland.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-627", "start": 4552.303, "end": 4553.235, "text": "It seems like it's every day.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-628", "start": 4553.299, "end": 4554.921, "text": "I think every week is Geek Week in Portland.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-629", "start": 4555.033, "end": 4560.492, "text": "It's just that for one week we bring all of the events into one space so it's easier to find new things to go to.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-630", "start": 4560.862, "end": 4561.231, "text": "I love it.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-631", "start": 4562.387, "end": 4580.719, "text": "I think the through line here actually with this presentation, and I'm making my colleagues nervous here by going off script, but is I'm reminded of the quote from Anthony Bourdain when he said that Portland is a city of obsession, and it's a place where you can find what you're passionate about and dig in.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-632", "start": 4581.152, "end": 4588.09, "text": "And it's something that I've been passionate about for a long time, is the intersection of how we solve our climate crisis and grow jobs.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-633", "start": 4588.138, "end": 4592.818, "text": "And I know that that speaks for a lot of people here, and how we make it good for the community as well.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-634", "start": 4593.426, "end": 4608.195, "text": "And we think back to just as recently as 2021, The business community and community groups and climate activists and the city were at odds about how we move forward, specifically on the issue of industrial decarbonization.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-635", "start": 4608.308, "end": 4616.327, "text": "As you heard from Vivian Satterfield's presentation, industry in Portland is one of the tricky areas to decarbonize.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-636", "start": 4616.423, "end": 4630.635, "text": "You have a lot of heavy industry, you have a lot of industries that are very important to job creation, to our economic future, and that also And so how do you get in and do that?", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-637", "start": 4631.421, "end": 4643.117, "text": "And we took a page from an international model in Denmark that has led the way in doing a public-private partnership around industrial decarbonization.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-638", "start": 4643.775, "end": 4655.712, "text": "And taking that here and making it our own and making it uniquely Portland is something that we've been able to do because of the collaboration that's happened across a number of different sectors.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-639", "start": 4656.226, "end": 4664.202, "text": "The Portland Metro Chamber has been a partner in this and has asked me, as well as the partners, to be the initial executive director to help get this effort off the ground.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-640", "start": 4664.25, "end": 4668.391, "text": "And we're calling this effort the Portland Partnership for Clean Industry.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-641", "start": 4669.225, "end": 4674.393, "text": "There's a lot of moving pieces to this, and we're only at the beginning of the collaboration, but it is remarkable.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-642", "start": 4674.682, "end": 4680.845, "text": "And it's the kind of collaboration that PCEF— and I know we're not here to talk only about PCEF— but PCEF has catalyzed.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-643", "start": 4680.893, "end": 4681.069, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-644", "start": 4681.743, "end": 4682.672, "text": "This collaboration.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-645", "start": 4683.666, "end": 4688.604, "text": "And that's because it takes everyone together to grow industry while reducing carbon and other pollution.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-646", "start": 4689.213, "end": 4693.911, "text": "The public sector, the private sector, community groups, business groups, researchers, and labor.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-647", "start": 4694.632, "end": 4697.55, "text": "And really, that's the Portland Clean Energy Fund at its best.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-648", "start": 4698.335, "end": 4712.717, "text": "The Portland Metro Chamber's Charitable Institute has taken the baton to provide fiscal stability to the partnership at this initial startup phase, and with a stated commitment from the chamber to the goal of meeting the carbon reduction targets in the City of Portland Climate Action Plan.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-649", "start": 4713.792, "end": 4717.338, "text": "So we could present to the committee for hours on this topic.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-650", "start": 4717.804, "end": 4721.928, "text": "We're all a bit obsessed with it, but we'll only get a chance to scratch the surface today.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-651", "start": 4722.634, "end": 4731.99, "text": "And we're really glad you could take up this topic of clean industry, and we'd love to come back to talk to you many times to update you on our progress and let you know what's going on.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-652", "start": 4732.504, "end": 4739.564, "text": "But for this particular session, you're going to hear from each of the partners that's working together to get dollars deployed quickly Thank you.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-653", "start": 4740.126, "end": 4746.348, "text": "So I'd like to turn it over to Sunrisa Cooper with the Bureau of Planning Sustainability.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-654", "start": 4746.621, "end": 4762.914, "text": "She's going to talk about the industrial sector and how BPS and PCEF have seeded this partnership, and then you'll hear from a number of the other partners, both public and private, who are collaborating together to make sure that we're getting dollars and resources where they need to be for a good carbon and economic future.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-655", "start": 4763.844, "end": 4764.181, "text": "Sunrisa?", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-656", "start": 4764.487, "end": 4764.761, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-657", "start": 4765.713, "end": 4767.778, "text": "Good afternoon, Chair and members of the committee.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-658", "start": 4767.972, "end": 4768.843, "text": "Thanks for having us.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-659", "start": 4769.262, "end": 4771.246, "text": "For the record, my name is Sonrisa Cooper.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-660", "start": 4771.424, "end": 4776.842, "text": "I use she/her pronouns, and I'm a member of the climate policy team at the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-661", "start": 4777.583, "end": 4784.318, "text": "And today I'm going to give a brief overview of the Clean Industry Initiative and the PSEF Industrial Modernization Grant.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-662", "start": 4787.83, "end": 4800.92, "text": "The Clean Industry Initiative is a collaborative effort to reduce industrial carbon emissions air pollution, and waste while supporting equitable economic development and a just transition for communities and industrial workers.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-663", "start": 4802.06, "end": 4818.797, "text": "This work started as a pretty small partnership led by BPS, Prosper Portland, and Portland State University, but over time it's grown to encompass a much larger tent of people and organizations that are all committed to a future vision of our industrial sector.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-664", "start": 4822.531, "end": 4830.959, "text": "As you saw in Vivian's presentation, industry comprises about 12% of our sector-based, local sector-based greenhouse gas emissions.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-665", "start": 4831.857, "end": 4834.965, "text": "And as Jewel said, this— these types of emissions are hard to abate.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-666", "start": 4835.83, "end": 4856.07, "text": "Industrial carbon emissions require very expensive solutions that may be new to the market, or they're very complex customized systems that are The city began working in earnest on industrial emissions in 2020.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-667", "start": 4856.07, "end": 4858.59, "text": "We have gotten a lot done in the last 6 years.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-668", "start": 4859.25, "end": 4873.43, "text": "In 2022, we conducted a landscape analysis of our industrial sector, and that study told us what types of manufacturing we have here in Portland, how much carbon those, those types of manufacturing produce, and what opportunities there are to reduce emissions.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-669", "start": 4873.43, "end": 4873.47, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-670", "start": 4873.573, "end": 4875.795, "text": "And priority areas that we should be focused on.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-671", "start": 4877.035, "end": 4891.671, "text": "That study also looked at international best practices for clean industry, and what we found is that around the world, the most successful projects took a collaborative governance approach with partners from multiple sectors all working towards a shared goal.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-672", "start": 4893.893, "end": 4906.187, "text": "In 2023, we received $300,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy to strengthen our relationships with industrial businesses, to identify potential projects and prepare them for coming investment.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-673", "start": 4906.829, "end": 4916.647, "text": "And that led us to 2024, when the BPS climate team submitted a competitive proposal to the PSF Collaborating for Climate Action funding solicitation.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-674", "start": 4917.866, "end": 4924.845, "text": "That funding was intended for government entities partnered with community coalitions to enact transformative climate projects.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-675", "start": 4925.981, "end": 4938.749, "text": "We received $20 million from that funding solicitation to launch a first-of-its-kind program that invests in industrial decarbonization and community and economic benefits over a 5-year period.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-676", "start": 4940.286, "end": 4945.55, "text": "And we're very excited to announce that next month we will be officially launching that grant.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-677", "start": 4945.599, "end": 4947.708, "text": "It's called the Industrial Modernization Grant.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-678", "start": 4951.998, "end": 4955.821, "text": "Now, I know that industry means a lot of different things to Portlanders.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-679", "start": 4956.753, "end": 4963.581, "text": "As we've heard, as we've heard from you on the dais, as well as lots of the speakers here, the industrial sector is really important here.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-680", "start": 4963.646, "end": 4965.59, "text": "It is a major employer.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-681", "start": 4966.136, "end": 4969.96, "text": "It's a driver of our local economy, and it has been that way for over a century.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-682", "start": 4970.313, "end": 4972.45, "text": "Portland is a manufacturing town.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-683", "start": 4973.687, "end": 4977.013, "text": "At the same time, heavy industry has also been a source of harm.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-684", "start": 4977.383, "end": 4980.498, "text": "And environmental injustice to many communities living in Portland.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-685", "start": 4981.095, "end": 4989.218, "text": "So any investments that we make into this sector must contribute to the well-being of both our economy and, and our community.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-686", "start": 4990.949, "end": 4998.016, "text": "Every partner that you see on this slide brings a different perspective, relationship, and expertise when it comes to industry.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-687", "start": 4999.03, "end": 5004.162, "text": "What we all share though is a vision of a resilient industrial economy that serves all Portlanders.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-688", "start": 5005.479, "end": 5025.726, "text": "BPS Climate Team is the official grantee from PSEF, but this program is jointly led by a coalition of local government, economic development, environmental justice, higher education, workforce development, and technical experts who all bring a nuanced understanding of industry in Portland.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-689", "start": 5029.242, "end": 5036.376, "text": "And every, every organization on that last slide is connected to numerous other collaborators that are also aligned with this work.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-690", "start": 5037.017, "end": 5043.606, "text": "The support from community-based organizations and business stakeholders has been especially valuable in shaping the program.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-691", "start": 5044.616, "end": 5054.058, "text": "What you see on this slide here is a very non-exhaustive list of some other groups that have— that are not directly funded by the program but who have been involved in its development.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-692", "start": 5054.732, "end": 5062.55, "text": "We are constantly engaging with new partners as the program comes to life, and you will see this list change as the work continues to grow.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-693", "start": 5063.802, "end": 5069.261, "text": "This is PSAP's first-ever investment into industry, and we do not take that lightly whatsoever.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-694", "start": 5070.128, "end": 5081.189, "text": "As stewards of the funding, we understand that we have a responsibility to uphold the principles of PSAP through these dollars, and we can do that while also supporting economic development and transformative climate action.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-695", "start": 5082.161, "end": 5084.67, "text": "Now I'll turn it over to Kate Merrill of Prosper Portland.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-696", "start": 5086.31, "end": 5088.09, "text": "Good afternoon, Chair and council members.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-697", "start": 5088.187, "end": 5095.291, "text": "My name is Kate Merrill, and I am the Metals and Machinery Industry Liaison for Prosper Portland's Business Advancement Team.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-698", "start": 5096.294, "end": 5101.534, "text": "Our team is part of the Economic Development Department under the direction of Andrew Fitzpatrick.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-699", "start": 5101.874, "end": 5111.183, "text": "We work alongside the Office of Small Business and the Inclusive Business Resource Network to ensure that Portland— Portlanders have access to quality jobs.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-700", "start": 5112.675, "end": 5120.994, "text": "Prosper Portland's business advancement team focuses on supporting growing businesses that sell goods and services outside of the region.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-701", "start": 5121.508, "end": 5133.842, "text": "Our assistance enables businesses to expand and invest in Portland, creating more living wage jobs, growing an inclusive economy, and maintaining and increasing the city's tax base.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-702", "start": 5134.918, "end": 5143.999, "text": "The manufacturers we support include some of Portland's renowned Food brands, knife producers, and shipmakers that are growing their businesses in Portland.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-703", "start": 5144.528, "end": 5156.746, "text": "Manufacturing creates access to quality jobs and career pathways for Portlanders, including job seekers without a traditional 4-year college degree.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-704", "start": 5157.933, "end": 5175.117, "text": "This $20 million grant from PSEF supports these manufacturers and industrial facilities in modernizing their facilities and processes While benefiting the community directly, reducing pollutants and reducing the carbon emissions that are leading to climate change.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-705", "start": 5175.486, "end": 5180.977, "text": "The grant will also leverage over $3.5 million in private, private investment.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-706", "start": 5182.15, "end": 5188.958, "text": "The Industrial Modernization Grant, which will be administered by Prosper Portland, will be granted in several rounds.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-707", "start": 5189.311, "end": 5203.228, "text": "This grant comes on the heels of the Building Energy Efficiency Grant, which is primarily targeted to small commercial businesses, and this has been administered successfully by Prosper Portland for PSEF over the last year.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-708", "start": 5204.159, "end": 5215.072, "text": "This first grant round will launch in October, and it will be for energy-saving and process improvement projects up to $300,000 per grant.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-709", "start": 5215.874, "end": 5221.042, "text": "There will be additional rounds of larger grants available beginning in early 2027.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-710", "start": 5221.796, "end": 5241.209, "text": "Uh, there is a 25% match requirement on all funding for businesses, and we will also have workforce and green building policies in place that Prosper Portland implements for all construction over $300,000 to ensure fair and equal workforce engagement and sustainable building standards.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-711", "start": 5242.124, "end": 5257.185, "text": "The program design has been informed by the partners at this table and a cohort of nonprofit environmental and community groups convened by Neighbors for Clean Air, which Mary Pivitto will be presenting on in just a bit.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-712", "start": 5258.646, "end": 5269.371, "text": "We have also solicited feedback from industry and community, and we look forward to working with all those partners as we develop guidelines for the second round of funding next year.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-713", "start": 5270.238, "end": 5288.693, "text": "The Industrial Modernization Grant reflects the values and goals of the city's economic development plan, Advance Portland, and PCEF's objectives of decarbonization, inclusive growth and innovation, equitable wealth creation, and high-quality green jobs.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-714", "start": 5289.288, "end": 5294.166, "text": "We look forward to sharing our progress with you, and I'll kick it back to Jules.", "speaker": "Kate Merrill" }, { "id": "cue-715", "start": 5294.897, "end": 5298.258, "text": "All right, go one more slide.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-716", "start": 5298.562, "end": 5301.019, "text": "This is actually really cool.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-717", "start": 5301.292, "end": 5304.311, "text": "And just to editorialize for a second, Portland's a maker town.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-718", "start": 5304.648, "end": 5314.139, "text": "And just through this effort, we've gotten to see a lot of really amazing businesses that are doing very cool things that are putting Portland on the map in a lot of targeted industries.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-719", "start": 5314.621, "end": 5323.597, "text": "The trick now is how do we map dollars into those businesses to make sure that they're able to be competitive by having efficient processes and lowering carbon emissions at the same time?", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-720", "start": 5324.48, "end": 5330.484, "text": "You can see this slide that's up there now, and it talks a little bit about the constellation that's around this Portland Partnership for Clean Industry.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-721", "start": 5330.596, "end": 5337.989, "text": "And just to make it clear, we have a large amount of the PCF dollars that are going through Prosper for the decarbonization grants.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-722", "start": 5338.053, "end": 5344.179, "text": "We have a little bit of dollars that are catalyzing this stand-up effort through the Portland Partnership for Clean Industry.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-723", "start": 5344.228, "end": 5366.534, "text": "And the goal here is to take those dollars and turn them into more through philanthropic partnerships, through leveraged business investments, through other things, so that we can take seed money Stand up an organization that's independent and be able to deliver those dollars directly into projects in collaboration with businesses to make them more competitive, to help them grow, and to provide a model to the world that we can be proud of.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-724", "start": 5366.892, "end": 5368.062, "text": "You can go to the next slide.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-725", "start": 5369.74, "end": 5374.239, "text": "So what we do is we have last-mile capital projects that are investable.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-726", "start": 5375.316, "end": 5376.489, "text": "What does last-mile capital mean?", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-727", "start": 5377.148, "end": 5382.466, "text": "The good news is there's a lot of different layers of financing that are available for some of these businesses.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-728", "start": 5382.514, "end": 5384.371, "text": "They might have private loans that might make it work.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-729", "start": 5384.42, "end": 5387.141, "text": "They might have Energy Trust of Oregon incentives.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-730", "start": 5387.189, "end": 5391.294, "text": "There are other grants and programs that Katniss and Risa talked about.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-731", "start": 5391.935, "end": 5402.021, "text": "Where the PPCI can come in is with a flexible, a final dollar that says, hey, we're going to take this project to a place that it works for your business right now.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-732", "start": 5402.743, "end": 5405.26, "text": "And I can give you a specific example.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-733", "start": 5406.126, "end": 5408.147, "text": "We're talking to one particular business right now.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-734", "start": 5408.227, "end": 5412.989, "text": "I won't name it, but it's an industrial business that's looking at doing some fuel conversions.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-735", "start": 5413.358, "end": 5422.64, "text": "From propane to electrical for some of its equipment and forklifts and using solar to power that electrical.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-736", "start": 5423.122, "end": 5424.455, "text": "That's a great thing for that business.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-737", "start": 5425.21, "end": 5427.49, "text": "It's going to make that business more efficient and more competitive.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-738", "start": 5427.57, "end": 5428.871, "text": "It's also great for climate.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-739", "start": 5429.24, "end": 5429.851, "text": "It's expensive.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-740", "start": 5430.268, "end": 5443.133, "text": "And so layering on all of those different incentives and then coming in with those last-mile dollars can take that kind of project from something that hypothetically might be, say, a 15 or 16-year payback Thank you.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-741", "start": 5446.765, "end": 5466.589, "text": "That's the kind of thing that we can document, that we can verify, that we can show the emissions reduction, and then we can take that to philanthropy, we can take it to investors, we can take it to private groups and say, hey, if you want to put your dollars here, we can deploy those in a way that are going to make meaningful differences on the margins for bringing down carbon for businesses in this sector that's hard to decarbonize.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-742", "start": 5468.113, "end": 5483.823, "text": "So the end goal here is an independent partnership where the public and the private sectors channel this sort of highly leveraged capital from philanthropy, business, and government into industrial projects that traditional financing might not otherwise be able to make complete.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-743", "start": 5483.919, "end": 5489.911, "text": "And it's that last-mile dollar that makes good projects pencil that's, that's really special and attractive to mission-driven funders.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-744", "start": 5491.068, "end": 5496.735, "text": "So with the initial PCF investment, we'll have a few small pilots Over the course of the next couple of years.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-745", "start": 5497.554, "end": 5505.928, "text": "We'll be partnering really closely with Prosper Portland and their $20 million and promoting that, finding— helping find businesses that can take advantage of that.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-746", "start": 5506.313, "end": 5516.068, "text": "But we have a discrete set of dollars, and then we'll send projects to Prosper Portland while retaining the ability to pursue nimble, discrete opportunities of our own.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-747", "start": 5516.597, "end": 5519.533, "text": "So these roles are complementary and they're not duplicative.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-748", "start": 5519.629, "end": 5549.841, "text": "We're doing— So the, the other opportunity here is to make sure that we are having a high-quality labor investment in these projects and that we are operating them transparently, that we can do market-verified success, we can attract more private and philanthropic capital, and we can work with our research partners to ensure that we're getting the best and most robust and Stickiest, to use a phrase, results over time.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-749", "start": 5550.359, "end": 5551.299, "text": "You can go to the next slide.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-750", "start": 5554.95, "end": 5559.37, "text": "So essentially, we have 3 years on this grant and to prove the model and attract new investments.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-751", "start": 5559.532, "end": 5562.904, "text": "So we're starting with the build, the implement, and then the grow.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-752", "start": 5563.388, "end": 5568.599, "text": "So the first year is about building the infrastructure, establishing the board, the stakeholder advisory group.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-753", "start": 5568.679, "end": 5570.254, "text": "We have a lot of different actors.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-754", "start": 5570.302, "end": 5575.527, "text": "You saw some of them on the slide there, but there's a lot of people with a lot of deep expertise in this in Portland.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-755", "start": 5576.132, "end": 5587.331, "text": "We have a great group of 30-plus individuals representing public, private, nonprofit, and others that are informing this work and making sure that we have both technical capacity and are connected to the community.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-756", "start": 5588.79, "end": 5593.716, "text": "We're going to partner tightly with Prosper Portland, bring in technical assistance, and identify the investments.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-757", "start": 5594.181, "end": 5596.619, "text": "Then year 2 is implementation.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-758", "start": 5596.924, "end": 5598.464, "text": "So we identify the projects in year 1.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-759", "start": 5598.577, "end": 5603.119, "text": "Year 2, we start to then say, okay, we can move these projects into funding and implementation.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-760", "start": 5603.552, "end": 5611.312, "text": "And then year 3 is really about measurement, reporting, telling the story, and growing the pool with new investment, and then starting the cycle all over again.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-761", "start": 5612.421, "end": 5616.068, "text": "So the city can help us in, in 3 practical ways.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-762", "start": 5617.224, "end": 5628.02, "text": "First, you've heard it on many things before, but I'll say it again: coordinating permitting, infrastructure, utility, just making sure that all the bureaus are aligned on problem solving.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-763", "start": 5628.229, "end": 5631.792, "text": "We've seen the ability of the city to move very quickly on some of these things.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-764", "start": 5631.841, "end": 5639.383, "text": "And so getting some of these things done and being in partnership with these businesses just makes everything a lot easier and gets, gets folks to yes a lot faster.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-765", "start": 5640.667, "end": 5643.443, "text": "We just don't want them to stall between institutions.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-766", "start": 5644.277, "end": 5651.627, "text": "Second, aligning city funding and project pathways so that businesses can reach the correct program without navigating the system alone.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-767", "start": 5651.964, "end": 5655.799, "text": "And BPS and Prosper are doing remarkable work on that.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-768", "start": 5656.008, "end": 5659.813, "text": "And making sure that they're working directly hand in glove with a lot of these businesses.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-769", "start": 5659.909, "end": 5661.948, "text": "It's very high touch and it's very effective.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-770", "start": 5663.056, "end": 5675.033, "text": "And then third, insist on transparent outcomes and independent evaluation, not only conventional economic development measures, but carbon pollution, public benefit, equity, community impact, and cost.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-771", "start": 5675.097, "end": 5679.769, "text": "And that's one of the ways that we're partnering very directly with our research partners who you'll hear from.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-772", "start": 5681.037, "end": 5689.161, "text": "So we want to reinforce I think there's the operating commitments here that as we're growing this sector of the economy, that we're also using the highest quality labor that's available.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-773", "start": 5689.611, "end": 5694.011, "text": "And the reality is we want the job run— the job done right the first time, every time.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-774", "start": 5695.006, "end": 5701.332, "text": "It doesn't help anybody if these investments don't produce the kinds of savings that they're supposed to produce.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-775", "start": 5701.429, "end": 5713.808, "text": "And so that's why we have a commitment to working with really high-quality labor to measure and report and then to use these credible results To really market Portland as a place where industrial businesses can grow while reducing pollution and emissions.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-776", "start": 5714.932, "end": 5717.437, "text": "So I want to transition to some of those partners that I talked about.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-777", "start": 5717.485, "end": 5722.237, "text": "Now we're going to first hear from Mary Pivoteau, and then we'll bring up the next panel and you'll hear from those as well.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-778", "start": 5722.847, "end": 5722.976, "text": "Mary.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-779", "start": 5723.987, "end": 5724.469, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-780", "start": 5725.657, "end": 5726.203, "text": "Good afternoon.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-781", "start": 5726.299, "end": 5730.185, "text": "My name is Mary Pivoteau, co-director of Neighbors for Clean Air.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-782", "start": 5731.116, "end": 5732.545, "text": "Thank you, Chair Pirtle-Guiney.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-783", "start": 5733.123, "end": 5734.616, "text": "Thank you, Good afternoon, everyone.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-784", "start": 5734.665, "end": 5734.922, "text": "Good afternoon.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-785", "start": 5734.97, "end": 5738.488, "text": "Good afternoon, other councilors here in the room and those who are with us virtually.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-786", "start": 5739.403, "end": 5748.287, "text": "I really am honored and appreciate the opportunity to speak today about the community work that's involved with the industrial modernization grants.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-787", "start": 5749.026, "end": 5760.463, "text": "I want to say that it was a great honor to be selected as a partner in this, and it was a terrifying responsibility to represent community in this work.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-788", "start": 5762.298, "end": 5771.484, "text": "PSF adds another layer of scrutiny and accountability to community, and it's a huge opportunity.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-789", "start": 5772.163, "end": 5776.867, "text": "So I, I just want to speak a little bit to how community has been involved and engaged.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-790", "start": 5776.948, "end": 5789.88, "text": "And I will say that because of the experience that I've had doing advocacy work for over 15 years in this area, I knew that You know, you don't represent community as one person.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-791", "start": 5790.137, "end": 5809.984, "text": "And we started our work almost from the get-go to do over 25 individual conversations with community organizations and other leaders, many of whom have been very involved with establishing PSF, helping, you know, create that, as well as doing ongoing very important work.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-792", "start": 5810.61, "end": 5814.368, "text": "From that, we narrowed it down to folks who were very interested in this.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-793", "start": 5814.48, "end": 5814.641, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-794", "start": 5814.85, "end": 5826.559, "text": "There have been many community members who have been involved over the years with the clean industry convening that had been happening through the— over the last 5 or 6 years.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-795", "start": 5827.698, "end": 5841.076, "text": "And we narrowed it down to a collection of individual organizations that we designate as our co-design team, meaning very much that this is not a committee of folks showing up reviewing information.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-796", "start": 5841.189, "end": 5842.247, "text": "This was very much—.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-797", "start": 5842.247, "end": 5842.295, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-798", "start": 5842.456, "end": 5842.747, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-799", "start": 5842.795, "end": 5854.934, "text": "Intended to be a collaborative working group that we're going to come up with the community benefits that we would, a list and criteria that we would be passing on to the other partners in the organization.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-800", "start": 5855.625, "end": 5863.608, "text": "So you'll see in this group collection of individual organizations that's represented a lot of different expertise.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-801", "start": 5865.51, "end": 5871.502, "text": "And I wanna say we were not afraid to bring in the skeptics and critics.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-802", "start": 5871.647, "end": 5876.855, "text": "In fact, I feel very strongly that those voices should be at the table and should really be helping inform us.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-803", "start": 5877.176, "end": 5882.255, "text": "Better to inform us as we're creating than to just complain or criticize later.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-804", "start": 5882.687, "end": 5900.184, "text": "So we have really important voices and people that are involved in this that have very strong reputations in climate work, also in community work, workforce development work, particularly in BIPOC populations and communities.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-805", "start": 5900.664, "end": 5912.167, "text": "So that was the intentionality around the The final decision around who the co-design team was, was the different expertise that would all be at the table informing and sharing their thoughts with us.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-806", "start": 5913.628, "end": 5914.093, "text": "Next slide.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-807", "start": 5915.313, "end": 5922.551, "text": "So I wanna say though that we also asked for one thing of people other than general interest.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-808", "start": 5922.952, "end": 5931.506, "text": "We asked, and I really appreciated your talk about the optimism group, We asked for the same thing.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-809", "start": 5932.18, "end": 5944.265, "text": "And so we started out, as we embarked on our meetings, we started out with actually getting everybody to agree to one statement of purpose in terms of what the group was committed to doing.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-810", "start": 5944.538, "end": 5959.156, "text": "And that was that fundamentally they were optimistic and confident that we could be successful, that we can reduce carbon emissions, we can support our local industry and economy, And we can all do that with meaningful community benefits.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-811", "start": 5959.658, "end": 5965.354, "text": "And I thought that that optimism and sense of purpose was critical to our success.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-812", "start": 5966.679, "end": 5969.569, "text": "And so it was a very important beginning point for us.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-813", "start": 5969.618, "end": 5975.371, "text": "So then we went through the process of everybody bringing their interests and expertise.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-814", "start": 5975.484, "end": 5981.399, "text": "We learned a lot from Prosper, from other partners to understand really the granting process, what that takes.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-815", "start": 5983.051, "end": 5997.772, "text": "And so, but we also wanted to figure out where can we distinguish this from other grants that are already out there that are trying to do sustainability work, because we do believe that PSF brings some additional criteria and requirements.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-816", "start": 5997.836, "end": 6008.126, "text": "So that was also, we would work from what we already understand about energy trust grants or B trust sustainability grants and start to see where we could be additive.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-817", "start": 6008.174, "end": 6008.351, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-818", "start": 6008.752, "end": 6015.289, "text": "To other granting to ensure that PSF is really delivering another layer of value to the community.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-819", "start": 6015.898, "end": 6039.728, "text": "So I will say, after we've been through this and Prosper and the city and our partners took on our benefit criteria to feed into this first tranche of money that's coming out later this year, we then actually revisited with individual conversations what we call temperature checks of all the individual Thank you.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-820", "start": 6040.642, "end": 6049.884, "text": "And out of that, I just want to give you, you know, with— you can— so out of that, I just want to give you an idea of where people are standing today of feeling.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-821", "start": 6049.949, "end": 6061.469, "text": "They've participated now in this collaborative for about 18 months, and they haven't seen any money go out the door yet in investments to industry, but we wanted to find out how they're feeling about it.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-822", "start": 6061.822, "end": 6064.935, "text": "And I will say, people continue to remain optimistic.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-823", "start": 6065.433, "end": 6072.01, "text": "They continue to feel that they've been heard and that the community benefits can be embedded in this grant.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-824", "start": 6072.315, "end": 6073.181, "text": "And they're excited.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-825", "start": 6073.518, "end": 6082.325, "text": "They're actually excited that if this is a real indication of what local industry leadership and business leadership is offering, they're excited about this direction.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-826", "start": 6082.983, "end": 6085.261, "text": "And they're eager to continue to work on it.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-827", "start": 6085.325, "end": 6094.967, "text": "That was the other thing we asked because we've got, as Jules laid out, 3+ years ahead of us and they are continued to excited to be part of this, which I thought was really good.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-828", "start": 6095.015, "end": 6095.127, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-829", "start": 6095.434, "end": 6105.374, "text": "And I just want to share one quote from one of the members because I thought this was a really great indication of what they feel like the process has been to date.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-830", "start": 6105.943, "end": 6108.038, "text": "And they were very happy to be part of this process.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-831", "start": 6108.74, "end": 6111.769, "text": "They saw the uniqueness of it, that it was cross-sector.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-832", "start": 6111.866, "end": 6116.82, "text": "We did bring in all the partners, businesses, and we really shared information.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-833", "start": 6117.096, "end": 6127.648, "text": "And people felt that that was very unusual to truly bring a collaborative process forward that values community input at the equal level of the other inputs.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-834", "start": 6128.16, "end": 6136.551, "text": "And so I just thought that it was really important to share that because, again, we are in the middle of process that is very hard for community to sustain.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-835", "start": 6136.729, "end": 6140.473, "text": "And I feel really, really confident and great about the ongoing work here.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-836", "start": 6140.876, "end": 6141.715, "text": "So thank you very much.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-837", "start": 6143.576, "end": 6147.759, "text": "Chair, with your leave, we'll bring up our other panel members, but we'll be here if you have questions.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-838", "start": 6148.968, "end": 6149.451, "text": "That's great.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-839", "start": 6149.708, "end": 6150.208, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-840", "start": 6151.319, "end": 6154.524, "text": "And thank you to the 3 of you for sharing information with us.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-841", "start": 6159.22, "end": 6161.256, "text": "I know I'm up next because I like following Mary.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-842", "start": 6161.452, "end": 6162.445, "text": "She's great to work with.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-843", "start": 6164.051, "end": 6165.089, "text": "So is Beth.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-844", "start": 6166.629, "end": 6167.855, "text": "I'm digging a hole here.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-845", "start": 6167.904, "end": 6168.345, "text": "I'm going to stop.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-846", "start": 6168.411, "end": 6171.648, "text": "My name is Corky Collier, Executive Director of the Columbia Corridor Association.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-847", "start": 6172.568, "end": 6186.36, "text": "A few months ago, I was introducing this program to a big aluminum company in the Columbia Corridor, and I talked about how carbon reduction is good for business, and the plant manager interrupted me and said, I've got 5 big ovens venting heat into the air.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-848", "start": 6187.065, "end": 6188.829, "text": "Can we do something with that?", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-849", "start": 6189.391, "end": 6191.171, "text": "I said, yeah, I think we can do something with that.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-850", "start": 6191.716, "end": 6213.941, "text": "And then there's the food manufacturer in North Portland that's considering extracting starch from their wash water for washing vegetables so they can reuse the water more, a little bit more, before sending it to the sewage and then a few months after that, I'm having coffee with a landscape company, and I asked them if they could use water with starch and little bits of vegetables in it to water plants.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-851", "start": 6214.584, "end": 6219.883, "text": "That would save the food manufacturer from sending waste— sending off wastewater, and the landscaper from buying fresh water.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-852", "start": 6220.204, "end": 6223.255, "text": "And all of this saves carbon emissions.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-853", "start": 6224.379, "end": 6227.639, "text": "There's a thirst out there for industrial decarbonization.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-854", "start": 6228.233, "end": 6234.758, "text": "We saw this with our Department of Energy grant that Sunrisa mentioned— she— I don't think she mentioned that that won second place in the nation.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-855", "start": 6236.562, "end": 6240.627, "text": "People want to do this, but they lack the resources and the knowledge.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-856", "start": 6241.222, "end": 6260.766, "text": "There are some simple projects like electrical connections for idling food delivery vehicles, and then there's the more interesting projects like one I discussed with the Silicon Chip Plant about upgrading their heating and cooling systems with new equipment which is tied into a district heating and cooling system for a nearby housing project.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-857", "start": 6261.952, "end": 6265.334, "text": "These projects are based on partnerships, which are based on trust.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-858", "start": 6266.264, "end": 6272.388, "text": "This program is a tremendous step toward building those partnerships and making those more complicated projects pencil out.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-859", "start": 6273.254, "end": 6274.536, "text": "And here's why this is important.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-860", "start": 6275.418, "end": 6280.227, "text": "When we create projects with multiple partners, we get multiple carbon reductions.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-861", "start": 6281.269, "end": 6282.327, "text": "Kind of a 2-for-1 sale.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-862", "start": 6283.417, "end": 6290.723, "text": "This program helps us create complex projects that create jobs, reduce carbon, grow the economy, and improve resilience.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-863", "start": 6291.284, "end": 6297.565, "text": "And maybe, just maybe, it'll make Portland the U.S. leader in industrial decarbonization.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-864", "start": 6298.398, "end": 6299.263, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Corky Collier" }, { "id": "cue-865", "start": 6300.24, "end": 6302.147, "text": "Good afternoon, Chair Pirtle-Guiney.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-866", "start": 6302.323, "end": 6305.848, "text": "I'm Randal Friesen, and also the rest of the committee members too, thank you.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-867", "start": 6306.409, "end": 6309.085, "text": "I'm Randal Friesen with the Columbia Pacific Building Trades Council.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-868", "start": 6309.629, "end": 6314.349, "text": "We represent over 20,000 workers in the Portland metropolitan and Southwest Washington region.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-869", "start": 6316.133, "end": 6321.52, "text": "Labor is committed to the intersection of equity, economic growth, and sustainable environment.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-870", "start": 6322.407, "end": 6328.087, "text": "PSEF plays a critical role in catalyzing transformational projects, and the funding is doing something remarkable here.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-871", "start": 6329.087, "end": 6333.607, "text": "A large portion of dollars are going through Prosper Portland, which will help get big projects going quickly.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-872", "start": 6334.732, "end": 6343.938, "text": "But there are also catalytic dollars going through the new business-led Portland Partnership for Clean Industry, This innovative and— this is innovative and will put Portland on the map.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-873", "start": 6345.22, "end": 6355.139, "text": "The PPCI is still identifying projects and organizing outside capital to match and exceed PSAP dollars, but it has already made commitments to use the best quality labor possible.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-874", "start": 6356.277, "end": 6362.382, "text": "When investments in business reduce carbon, create community benefits, and support good jobs, that's where Portland wins.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-875", "start": 6363.792, "end": 6366.083, "text": "Quality labor means projects done right the first time.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-876", "start": 6370.962, "end": 6380.164, "text": "We look forward to partnering with the partnership as it rolls out as an advisor, as part of the project pipeline, and as a resource for the workforce that can make these projects the best they can be.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-877", "start": 6380.84, "end": 6383.913, "text": "Thank you for the opportunity to voice our support for this important work today.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-878", "start": 6384.091, "end": 6386.127, "text": "Appreciate it.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-879", "start": 6386.887, "end": 6388.26, "text": "Hello, thank you for having us.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-880", "start": 6388.519, "end": 6390.07, "text": "I'm excited to speak with you.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-881", "start": 6390.119, "end": 6390.636, "text": "My name is Beth Gilden.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-882", "start": 6390.701, "end": 6391.638, "text": "I am the city's deputy city attorney.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-883", "start": 6391.82, "end": 6398.708, "text": "Sustainability and Resilience Partnership Manager at the Center for Public Service at Portland State and the lead for the Clean Industry Initiative.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-884", "start": 6400.105, "end": 6409.048, "text": "I've had the opportunity to work with the partners here through the PSF-funded Industrial Modernization Grant Program, but also the larger vision that everybody's shared with you today.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-885", "start": 6410.14, "end": 6430.804, "text": "I believe that our vision, bridging alignment and bridging sectors and creating alignment across different interests a strategy driven by both values and expertise, a focus on genuine collaboration and trust building, and critically following through to implementation, we can pull off something truly transformational for Portland.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-886", "start": 6431.911, "end": 6441.432, "text": "Portland State is contributing to this larger vision by supporting effective collaboration, partnership alignment, and identifying funding pathways to implement projects that support our shared goals.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-887", "start": 6442.411, "end": 6446.361, "text": "We're also asking what the Clean Industry Initiative is producing for the community.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-888", "start": 6446.409, "end": 6446.505, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-889", "start": 6447.259, "end": 6455.831, "text": "Successful implementation means dedicating real resources here, prioritizing this work over other choices, and being strategic about where we invest.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-890", "start": 6456.536, "end": 6459.709, "text": "That's something we would not want to do without measurement and evaluation.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-891", "start": 6460.766, "end": 6465.702, "text": "The typical ways we measure success in economic development or carbon accounting might not fit here.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-892", "start": 6466.695, "end": 6473.617, "text": "Those measures are useful, but they don't necessarily tell us whether we're reaching our complex goals or producing a real public value.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-893", "start": 6474.885, "end": 6486.617, "text": "So as part of our work, we're asking what are the actual public benefits, who benefits, what are the equity and environmental implications, what are the costs, and how do we know what adjustments to make along the way.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-894", "start": 6487.885, "end": 6493.84, "text": "My colleagues in PSU's Economics and Public Administration departments are developing a program to help answer those questions.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-895", "start": 6495.268, "end": 6506.756, "text": "From the university perspective, their role is to provide an independent look at programs costs, benefits, and outcomes, and they provide feedback to us about where we are achieving and where we might need to improve our work.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-896", "start": 6507.926, "end": 6518.112, "text": "Their work draws on academic expertise, but it's grounded in data from the Industrial Modernization Grant and other work that we're doing, and uses a transparent methodology to describe the impacts.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-897", "start": 6519.154, "end": 6531.493, "text": "As this initiative expands, the Portland State role can grow to support related regional-scale research questions, invest in talent development, and be a resource or technical challenges presented by decarbonization and the energy transition.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-898", "start": 6532.488, "end": 6543.535, "text": "If we get this right, we will demonstrate how to build a distinctly Portland model of economic development that aligns the city, businesses, community-based organizations, and academia around shared goals.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-899", "start": 6544.37, "end": 6551.756, "text": "We will deliver on our environmental values and provide an example that other cities can learn, learn from, and we can be proud of in Portland.", "speaker": "Beth Gilden" }, { "id": "cue-900", "start": 6555.273, "end": 6560.204, "text": "Madam Chair, I know we are over time, and I said at the beginning that we could talk for hours about this.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-901", "start": 6560.333, "end": 6560.75, "text": "We could.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-902", "start": 6560.814, "end": 6566.067, "text": "There's so much to talk about here, and we look forward to coming back and talking with this committee as much as possible and keeping you updated.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-903", "start": 6566.131, "end": 6568.026, "text": "And with that, we'll conclude the presentation.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-904", "start": 6568.299, "end": 6570.773, "text": "Thank you so much for allowing us to present.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-905", "start": 6571.511, "end": 6574.419, "text": "Thank you all for being a part of the conversation today.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-906", "start": 6574.643, "end": 6587.367, "text": "I do want to move us toward a quick break, but committee members, are there any quick questions that we need to ask now before we move on and then come back to it in committee discussion later.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-907", "start": 6587.624, "end": 6589.324, "text": "Will the panel members be here after the break?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-908", "start": 6590.35, "end": 6592.467, "text": "Do you have at least a few people who are able to stay to the end?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-909", "start": 6593.076, "end": 6593.204, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "David Raycroft" }, { "id": "cue-910", "start": 6593.653, "end": 6593.83, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-911", "start": 6594.038, "end": 6594.375, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-912", "start": 6594.92, "end": 6595.193, "text": "Perfect.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-913", "start": 6595.321, "end": 6595.738, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-914", "start": 6595.882, "end": 6611.817, "text": "And I just want to highlight before we take a break the emphasis that I heard through many speakers on equity and making sure that this is not only the alignment of environmental and economic, but that we get that 3rd E of equity in our impact as well.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-915", "start": 6611.945, "end": 6618.244, "text": "I think having all 3 of those values coming together in this work is, is part of the critical sweet sauce.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-916", "start": 6618.935, "end": 6622.486, "text": "I want to thank you, Vivian, for our one meeting about the big picture.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-917", "start": 6622.951, "end": 6626.454, "text": "I feel listened to, that I wanted to really see cross-collaboration.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-918", "start": 6627.113, "end": 6630.873, "text": "Um, usually this doesn't happen, and that's why we're not getting the results that we need.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-919", "start": 6631.307, "end": 6633.363, "text": "So it's hard, But it's necessary.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-920", "start": 6633.54, "end": 6633.796, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-921", "start": 6633.893, "end": 6636.382, "text": "Okay, thank you all.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-922", "start": 6636.928, "end": 6640.526, "text": "We are going to take a 10-minute break.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-923", "start": 6640.687, "end": 6651.961, "text": "We will be back here at 3:55 to hear from our final 2 panels and then have time for a quick council discussion about what some next steps might be for us to take.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-924", "start": 6652.411, "end": 6654.354, "text": "With that, we will take a quick break.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-925", "start": 6654.435, "end": 6654.756, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-926", "start": 7280.064, "end": 7286.52, "text": "Thank you all for giving us that quick We are going to get started again as soon as we have a quorum back of committee.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-927", "start": 7286.616, "end": 7292.396, "text": "To that end, Councilors Murillo and Avalos, do I have either or both of you back yet?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-928", "start": 7294.46, "end": 7294.962, "text": "Yes, I'm here.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-929", "start": 7296.26, "end": 7296.534, "text": "Fantastic.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-930", "start": 7296.841, "end": 7298.035, "text": "And Councilor Avalos.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-931", "start": 7298.148, "end": 7300.166, "text": "So we have a quorum back.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-932", "start": 7300.876, "end": 7308.857, "text": "We are going to go ahead and jump right into our 3rd presentation today with Jason Lewis, Executive Director for the Climate Optimists.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-933", "start": 7308.905, "end": 7311.571, "text": "And I know Councilor Ryan will be back momentarily.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-934", "start": 7312.389, "end": 7315.05, "text": "Uh, thank you all for bearing with us for a quick break.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-935", "start": 7315.114, "end": 7317.006, "text": "And Jason, go right ahead.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-936", "start": 7317.214, "end": 7317.551, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-937", "start": 7318.416, "end": 7324.556, "text": "You know, we tried to make it happen during the Climate Committee, and so then the change of committees.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-938", "start": 7324.604, "end": 7327.185, "text": "So appreciate this is coming to fruition.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-939", "start": 7328.66, "end": 7333.405, "text": "So briefly, uh, as mentioned, I'm the executive director of Climate Optimists.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-940", "start": 7333.63, "end": 7346.326, "text": "Uh, we're a Portland-based organization focused on educating people on climate solutions and ways to advance those solutions through a number of mediums— podcasts, newsletter events, etc.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-941", "start": 7347.771, "end": 7352.01, "text": "You know, I— this topic in terms of climate change in Portland is special to me.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-942", "start": 7352.09, "end": 7361.788, "text": "I'm a native Oregonian, grew up on a farm in the northeast corner of the state, and have spent 20 years of my career working in the energy sector in various capacities.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-943", "start": 7362.595, "end": 7366.006, "text": "Including building wind farms in, in the US and Canada.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-944", "start": 7369.121, "end": 7377.455, "text": "So I know we've talked about this a little bit already, but I think it's worth just stepping back and talking about, you know, a case for a bolder climate response.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-945", "start": 7378.371, "end": 7382.613, "text": "I think first and foremost, this is something that matters to Portlanders.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-946", "start": 7383.369, "end": 7387.182, "text": "The data I have here are from Multnomah County.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-947", "start": 7388.47, "end": 7397.743, "text": "But as you can see, you've got roughly 80% of Portlanders that are worried and want to see us hit that net zero mark by 2050.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-948", "start": 7399.608, "end": 7411.403, "text": "In addition, while most people feel like, you know, addressing climate change falls to state and national, still two-thirds of people feeling like local officials should be doing more.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-949", "start": 7411.532, "end": 7422.191, "text": "And I would argue that's all the more important given the current administration and the As we all know, impacts are worsening.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-950", "start": 7423.05, "end": 7427.141, "text": "I think it's worth just calling out some of the events that we've seen so far just this year.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-951", "start": 7427.979, "end": 7431.587, "text": "I know someone mentioned the tragic events in Nepal earlier.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-952", "start": 7432.75, "end": 7438.809, "text": "There was heavy flooding in India that resulted in 50 deaths and 700,000 folks displaced.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-953", "start": 7439.97, "end": 7445.342, "text": "In Europe, the extreme heat there has led to 35,000 Heat-related deaths.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-954", "start": 7446.262, "end": 7457.487, "text": "And if we look more locally, even in Oregon, we had a record-low snowpack this year, which not surprisingly led to a record wildfire season that is still continuing.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-955", "start": 7460.03, "end": 7465.122, "text": "But, you know, I think the most important point to be made here is that transformation is possible.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-956", "start": 7465.462, "end": 7475.756, "text": "And, you know, as somebody who is kind of engrossed in this stuff, a climate geek, if you will, It's fun to see all the progress being made in other places in the world.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-957", "start": 7476.92, "end": 7484.471, "text": "The EU, for instance, just this year hit a milestone where they produced 50% of their electricity from renewables, which is pretty outstanding.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-958", "start": 7486.44, "end": 7496.198, "text": "The city of Paris has been diligently working on getting more folks on bikes and was able to double their numbers to 11% of trips by bike in just the last couple years.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-959", "start": 7498.398, "end": 7505.988, "text": "And China, we all think of as a leader in EVs, and no doubt 50% of new car sales there are now electric.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-960", "start": 7506.713, "end": 7510.418, "text": "For context, the U.S., it sits at about 7%, so we've got ways to go.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-961", "start": 7512.61, "end": 7522.289, "text": "And then finally, the city of Boston last year became the first city in the U.S. to require that all new buildings are net-zero carbon upon opening.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-962", "start": 7522.64, "end": 7524.293, "text": "Which is, which is pretty dramatic.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-963", "start": 7526.344, "end": 7528.941, "text": "So what's a win-win climate opportunity?", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-964", "start": 7529.925, "end": 7532.894, "text": "First and foremost, it provides multiple benefits.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-965", "start": 7533.491, "end": 7543.656, "text": "I think the focus with climate solutions tends to get caught up in just reducing emissions, but the reality is that in many cases climate solutions also provide health benefits.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-966", "start": 7543.865, "end": 7546.026, "text": "They help with, you know, road safety.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-967", "start": 7546.208, "end": 7548.017, "text": "They help with affordability.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-968", "start": 7548.512, "end": 7551.134, "text": "And I think it's important not to lose sight of those things.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-969", "start": 7553.99, "end": 7557.821, "text": "I think it's also important to have climate actions that provide a, a high return on investment.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-970", "start": 7558.048, "end": 7564.167, "text": "Um, the reality is that money is always finite, and we want to ensure that gets stretched, uh, to its maximum.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-971", "start": 7567.006, "end": 7569.787, "text": "In addition, win-win opportunities should build momentum.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-972", "start": 7570.125, "end": 7576.994, "text": "Uh, we need to close a gap, and so having things that help Get the ball rolling is, is really essential.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-973", "start": 7577.803, "end": 7583.821, "text": "And then finally, um, in our context here, we're talking about things that, that address policy gaps.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-974", "start": 7584.515, "end": 7589.356, "text": "Uh, there's obviously a lot of great work, um, underway in city bureaus and with PCF.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-975", "start": 7590.001, "end": 7594.153, "text": "Um, some of these concepts we're floating are just things where we see additional opportunity.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-976", "start": 7597.423, "end": 7600.525, "text": "So the first one we wanted to talk about, uh, is yes.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-977", "start": 7600.622, "end": 7602.82, "text": "One of the things we looked at is reducing Biketown rates.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-978", "start": 7603.062, "end": 7608.395, "text": "I don't know how many folks have been on a Biketown bike in the last year, but I can tell you that it's not cheap.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-979", "start": 7610.1, "end": 7617.575, "text": "Lyft, the operator, has raised rates a couple times, and we are now at the upper end of the range looking at some of the cities we examined.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-980", "start": 7619.2, "end": 7627.694, "text": "We think reducing those rates could not only bring about some modest emission reductions, but more importantly, really help encourage more people to get on bikes.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-981", "start": 7629.057, "end": 7634.976, "text": "You know, you have one good ride on a bike that, you know, leads to the next, and then hopefully, you know, those sort of things becoming habits.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-982", "start": 7637.265, "end": 7650.202, "text": "With high gasoline prices, I think having a good way to get around by bike also helps with transportation affordability, in addition to helping with local air quality, health outcomes, and reducing traffic congestion.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-983", "start": 7652.213, "end": 7655.419, "text": "In each of these, we were sort of asked to come up with a kind of yeah.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-984", "start": 7655.468, "end": 7659.032, "text": "Hypothetical scenario with reducing bike town rates.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-985", "start": 7659.113, "end": 7666.799, "text": "We said, well, what if we were to cut the rates by 75% and that led to a 50% increase?", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-986", "start": 7667.72, "end": 7670.742, "text": "What would that mean in the context of emissions?", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-987", "start": 7671.436, "end": 7693.077, "text": "We'd be talking about roughly 400,000 more miles traveled by bike per year in the city than by car, and you'd have a revenue shortfall you'd have to fill second opportunity we wanted to highlight is kind of an expansion of car-free zones.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-988", "start": 7694.11, "end": 7707.903, "text": "There are some small blocks, you know, each folks probably has some in their neighborhood where, you know, been closed off to cars, some of that, you know, because of COVID we also have a Green Loop project that many of you are probably aware about.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-989", "start": 7707.951, "end": 7708.128, "text": "I'm not.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-990", "start": 7708.177, "end": 7708.225, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Khalid bin El-Mutab El" }, { "id": "cue-991", "start": 7709.143, "end": 7713.309, "text": "But we want to see, you know, basically car-free zones at scale.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-992", "start": 7714.254, "end": 7722.811, "text": "And the reason for that, admittedly, car-free zones are not going to yield direct emission reductions, at least not very measurable.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-993", "start": 7723.804, "end": 7728.547, "text": "But I think critically, they demonstrate the value of having areas without vehicles.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-994", "start": 7729.396, "end": 7740.564, "text": "And when you talk about having to build the cycling and pedestrian infrastructure we need to move folks around, It's important to have the community at large be supportive of those sort of improvements.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-995", "start": 7742.41, "end": 7748.511, "text": "In our case, you know, having car-free zones downtown offers the potential to revitalize things, right?", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-996", "start": 7748.753, "end": 7757.551, "text": "Becomes, you know, an attract— attract locals down, attract tourists, in addition to providing, you know, other, again, health and air quality benefits.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-997", "start": 7760.414, "end": 7775.453, "text": "In terms of scenarios here, the most obvious one for us is to accelerate the Green Loop it's my understanding it's been in planning since at least 2018, now going on roughly a decade.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-998", "start": 7776.835, "end": 7795.3, "text": "And so, you know, looking to some of these other car-free zone projects, while it's hard to compare apples to apples, the photo here of a street in Vienna, their major shopping district, basically started in 2011 as a concept, and in 2015, was implemented.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-999", "start": 7795.882, "end": 7800.43, "text": "And so we think being able to accelerate that Green Loop project could bring big benefits.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1000", "start": 7804.496, "end": 7809.869, "text": "Uh, the third opportunity we wanted to touch upon, uh, is focused on expanding EV charging at rental properties.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1001", "start": 7810.748, "end": 7816.54, "text": "Um, we recognize that, you know, one of the biggest impediments to owning an EV is having access to charging.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1002", "start": 7817.363, "end": 7825.078, "text": "As an EV owner myself, uh, I can't say I You know, want to be having to travel around and to try to charge at high-speed charging that's far more expensive.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1003", "start": 7827.159, "end": 7836.594, "text": "As far as the current state is concerned, we do have good EV-ready requirements for new construction, but access to charging at rental properties is very limited.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1004", "start": 7837.982, "end": 7845.1, "text": "And while PCF does accept grants for charging, there have been limited sort of dollars doled out there so far.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1005", "start": 7848.275, "end": 7849.045, "text": "Of course, benefits.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1006", "start": 7849.302, "end": 7854.245, "text": "Everybody who purchases an electric vehicle, that results in direct emission benefits for the city.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1007", "start": 7855.641, "end": 7861.579, "text": "It also— having charging removes a key ownership barrier for people who might not otherwise consider buying an EV.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1008", "start": 7862.606, "end": 7876.292, "text": "And, you know, while we tend to focus on, or hear the media focus on, the price of EVs, luxury EVs, the reality is purchasing a used EV The cost of ownership is at the end of the spectrum, right?", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1009", "start": 7876.34, "end": 7883.88, "text": "It's some of the cheapest driving you can do is in a used EV, especially with a $5 gallon of gasoline.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1010", "start": 7886.219, "end": 7897.562, "text": "As far as a potential scenario is concerned, you know, we envision something like an incentive program that leads to, say, you know, 1,000 additional charging ports spread throughout the city.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1011", "start": 7898.409, "end": 7903.225, "text": "And in turn, you know, seeing 2 EVs for every charging port that's put in.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1012", "start": 7904.706, "end": 7910.026, "text": "In that scenario, we'd be looking at, you know, the equivalent of taking roughly 1,500 cars off the road.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1013", "start": 7911.461, "end": 7918.479, "text": "And financial impact, if looking at incentives that we looked at in New York, probably around $3 million price tag.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1014", "start": 7922.614, "end": 7929.77, "text": "And not to leave out buildings, our final opportunity is It's really about focusing on incentivizing greener new housing.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1015", "start": 7931.098, "end": 7934.695, "text": "The city is obviously in the midst of trying to increase housing supply.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1016", "start": 7936.61, "end": 7942.604, "text": "I feel like it'd be a huge missed opportunity if those new housing units aren't fully electric and high efficiency.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1017", "start": 7944.418, "end": 7946.433, "text": "Excuse me.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1018", "start": 7946.739, "end": 7957.081, "text": "PSEF does have dollars— PSEF does have dollars that they're, you know, have available for affordable housing, you know, complexes 20 units and above.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1019", "start": 7957.998, "end": 7961.907, "text": "But when you start talking about incentives beyond that, they're pretty nominal.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1020", "start": 7964.36, "end": 7970.642, "text": "Obviously, the benefits of having a, you know, a greener new housing stock is direct emission reductions.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1021", "start": 7971.646, "end": 7975.111, "text": "I think maybe equally important, it improves housing affordability.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1022", "start": 7975.875, "end": 7980.33, "text": "When we talk about utility rates going up, that trajectory is not set to change.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1023", "start": 7980.732, "end": 7988.267, "text": "And so, you know, having a home that consumes less energy means less out-of-pocket money for future tenants and homeowners.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1024", "start": 7990.243, "end": 7996.056, "text": "And then, you know, additionally, you know, having a home that operates on electric, you improve air quality internally.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1025", "start": 7996.748, "end": 8005.689, "text": "And, you know, the benefit of doing this with new housing is, as you can imagine, it's far more expensive to come back later and try to do this to existing buildings.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1026", "start": 8009.304, "end": 8024.246, "text": "As far as the scenario is concerned, given that our existing, you know, kind of housing supply, new units coming out about 5,000 a year, we said, well, you know, in an ideal world, 90%, you know, 90% of those would be fully electric and high efficiency.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1027", "start": 8026.4, "end": 8034.483, "text": "Admittedly, when we started to go down the path of trying to estimate emissions and costs for those, You really need more data in order to do that.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1028", "start": 8035.53, "end": 8040.105, "text": "And partially it's about deciding what kinds of incentives need to be put forth.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1029", "start": 8040.202, "end": 8041.955, "text": "You know, is it streamlining permitting?", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1030", "start": 8042.614, "end": 8044.8, "text": "Is it, you know, property tax abatement?", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1031", "start": 8045.106, "end": 8046.713, "text": "Is it cash incentives, etc.?", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1032", "start": 8047.453, "end": 8050.314, "text": "But I do feel like there's a big opportunity there.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1033", "start": 8053.844, "end": 8059.289, "text": "So in summary, win-win climate actions improve affordability and livability in the city.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1034", "start": 8059.84, "end": 8065.757, "text": "I think it's really important as we're looking at climate actions to remember that this isn't just about reducing emissions.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1035", "start": 8065.934, "end": 8067.321, "text": "These things come with other benefits.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1036", "start": 8068.935, "end": 8070.064, "text": "And it's about building momentum.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1037", "start": 8070.467, "end": 8081.275, "text": "We have an emissions gap to close and having things that we can do that give us some of that incremental progress while we're getting to the more transformative actions, I think is really essential.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1038", "start": 8083.33, "end": 8086.785, "text": "And so sort of leaving you with kind of high-level recommendations.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1039", "start": 8086.834, "end": 8086.884, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1040", "start": 8087.226, "end": 8092.706, "text": "From us, I think, you know, and we heard some of this here today, but recommitting to the 2030 targets.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1041", "start": 8092.771, "end": 8097.338, "text": "You know, if we're going to achieve them, I think everybody needs to be on board with the work that that's going to take.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1042", "start": 8098.363, "end": 8108.123, "text": "Establishing climate metrics, not just metrics for tracking the progress of an action, but also metrics for helping us select our climate actions.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1043", "start": 8108.876, "end": 8112.257, "text": "Again, like, there's a lot of potential solutions out there.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1044", "start": 8112.305, "end": 8112.465, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1045", "start": 8113.289, "end": 8115.368, "text": "They're not all apples to apples.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1046", "start": 8115.416, "end": 8119.46, "text": "Some of them are far more expensive for the amount of emission reduction that they generate.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1047", "start": 8121.062, "end": 8132.881, "text": "And then our, I guess, challenge to you would be to pick some actions in the next year and find some you can refine and implement while the broader climate action plan is being formed.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1048", "start": 8133.98, "end": 8137.809, "text": "And at the end of the day, we need a high-level strategy.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1049", "start": 8137.874, "end": 8142.603, "text": "The beauty is with climate action, we know what the solutions are.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1050", "start": 8142.748, "end": 8146.859, "text": "It's just a matter of figuring out about how best to implement those solutions, so.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1051", "start": 8149.092, "end": 8149.928, "text": "Thank you so much.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1052", "start": 8150.073, "end": 8165.12, "text": "And thank you for, in bringing these forward, having that section there about what this could actually look like and what the impact would be and what the cost would be, being able to really see those trade-offs spelled out as we think about some of these proposals.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1053", "start": 8172.96, "end": 8174.179, "text": "Well, you used the word quick.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1054", "start": 8174.26, "end": 8174.992, "text": "Can you tell me why?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1055", "start": 8176.29, "end": 8182.431, "text": "We have about 5 minutes left for this presentation before we move to our Youth Commission representatives.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1056", "start": 8182.495, "end": 8183.395, "text": "Oh, okay, great.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1057", "start": 8183.556, "end": 8189.477, "text": "And so I just don't want a meandering 10-minute response to any of the proposals.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1058", "start": 8189.558, "end": 8191.048, "text": "Well, I'm not going to be meandering.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1059", "start": 8191.16, "end": 8197.898, "text": "Well, it's too bad we don't have more time right now because I was listening to the whole thing and it was really fascinating.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1060", "start": 8197.946, "end": 8200.994, "text": "So I'll just get rid of my notes and look at Vivian.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1061", "start": 8201.042, "end": 8202.486, "text": "I think if you came up, that'd be helpful.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1062", "start": 8202.807, "end": 8205.887, "text": "We'll have time for discussion on all the presentations at the end.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1063", "start": 8205.936, "end": 8207.363, "text": "We still have one more presentation.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1064", "start": 8207.556, "end": 8207.973, "text": "Oh, sorry.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1065", "start": 8208.021, "end": 8210.46, "text": "This is for quick questions specific to this presentation.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1066", "start": 8210.588, "end": 8212.048, "text": "It's not a separate presentation.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1067", "start": 8212.128, "end": 8212.337, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1068", "start": 8212.529, "end": 8215.514, "text": "All right, I, um, I stand corrected.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1069", "start": 8215.578, "end": 8216.877, "text": "So thank you.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1070", "start": 8217.166, "end": 8219.288, "text": "And I can't wait to hear the— on the Youth Commission.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1071", "start": 8219.352, "end": 8223.708, "text": "And happy, I talked to Devin already, happy to provide additional context on this stuff.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1072", "start": 8223.853, "end": 8225.557, "text": "Yeah, you'll be around when we do our debrief.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1073", "start": 8226.302, "end": 8226.56, "text": "What's that?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1074", "start": 8226.769, "end": 8229.186, "text": "You'll be here after the Youth Commission to do the big picture.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1075", "start": 8229.364, "end": 8229.686, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1076", "start": 8229.992, "end": 8230.089, "text": "Yep.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1077", "start": 8230.153, "end": 8230.411, "text": "Perfect.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1078", "start": 8230.637, "end": 8231.233, "text": "Thank you so much.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1079", "start": 8231.297, "end": 8232.313, "text": "Sorry about that, I wasn't following.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1080", "start": 8232.748, "end": 8233.231, "text": "That's okay.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1081", "start": 8233.376, "end": 8235.197, "text": "One more presentation in this.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1082", "start": 8237.283, "end": 8239.076, "text": "There are even more groups we could have invited.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1083", "start": 8242.732, "end": 8249.375, "text": "I'd like to move us to our final panel, which is our representatives from the Multnomah Youth Commission.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1084", "start": 8250.04, "end": 8257.011, "text": "And Hazel, if you want to bring— is it you and Enzo, or do you have other folks coming up as well?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1085", "start": 8257.896, "end": 8258.282, "text": "Just us.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1086", "start": 8258.619, "end": 8259.358, "text": "Okay, perfect.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1087", "start": 8259.423, "end": 8268.133, "text": "Why don't you guys come on up, and if you can introduce yourselves, and then we'll have your names on the record and you can get right into the materials that you brought.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1088", "start": 8268.342, "end": 8270.053, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1089", "start": 8270.586, "end": 8271.941, "text": "Good afternoon, committee members.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1090", "start": 8272.216, "end": 8279.046, "text": "It's a pleasure to be here, and I want to thank City Life Chair Pirtle-Guiney for inviting the Multnomah Youth Commission to this meeting.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1091", "start": 8279.969, "end": 8280.924, "text": "My name is Hazel.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1092", "start": 8281.345, "end": 8284.275, "text": "I live in District 2, and I am a junior at Jefferson High School.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1093", "start": 8284.987, "end": 8290.811, "text": "I am also a member of the Transit Equity and Environmental Advocacy Subcommittee of the Multnomah Youth Commission.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1094", "start": 8292.99, "end": 8293.879, "text": "Good afternoon, councilors.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1095", "start": 8293.992, "end": 8294.979, "text": "My name is Enzo.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1096", "start": 8295.351, "end": 8296.58, "text": "I also live in District 2.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1097", "start": 8297.312, "end": 8299.01, "text": "And I am a junior at Reynolds High School.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1098", "start": 8299.899, "end": 8305.837, "text": "I am on the Multnomah Youth Commission where I serve as the co-chair for the Education Youth Voice Subcommittee.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1099", "start": 8307.246, "end": 8307.852, "text": "Next slide, please.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1100", "start": 8310.13, "end": 8320.991, "text": "Housed under the Office of Community and Civic Life, the Multnomah Youth Commission, or MYC, is the official youth policy body of the City of Portland and Multnomah County.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1101", "start": 8322.507, "end": 8336.92, "text": "The goals of the Multnomah Youth Commission are to uplift youth voices in city and county decision-making, as well as advocate for issues outlined in our city and county's own Youth Bill of Rights.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1102", "start": 8338.286, "end": 8346.323, "text": "Currently, the Youth Bill of Rights is undergoing this process of being updated, as it was created by the NYC 2 decades ago.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1103", "start": 8347.327, "end": 8351.618, "text": "It is lacking in certain issues that are more prevalent now than in the past.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1104", "start": 8352.795, "end": 8357.666, "text": "We will be reaching out to all of you in the upcoming year as we continue through that process, however.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1105", "start": 8359.264, "end": 8378.661, "text": "Additionally, the Multnomah Youth Commission divides its work into 3 subcommittees, one of which is the Transit Equity and Environmental Advocacy Committee, which aims to protect youth in our community from the impacts of climate change And reduce barriers to accessing public transit for youth.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1106", "start": 8379.565, "end": 8380.194, "text": "Next slide, please.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1107", "start": 8383.71, "end": 8390.924, "text": "Let's get into our Transit Subcommittee's 3 current initiatives: Youth Pass, a TriMet Youth Survey, and climate mini grants.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1108", "start": 8392.73, "end": 8393.62, "text": "Are we on the next slide?", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1109", "start": 8393.749, "end": 8394.446, "text": "Slide 3.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1110", "start": 8395.336, "end": 8395.66, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1111", "start": 8396.485, "end": 8400.29, "text": "Youth Pass is the free TriMet pass available to all PPS students.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1112", "start": 8400.672, "end": 8403.494, "text": "And a small number of youth from 2 neighboring school districts.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1113", "start": 8404.296, "end": 8408.53, "text": "NYC's ultimate vision is Youth Pass for all youth in TriMet's service area.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1114", "start": 8409.396, "end": 8417.382, "text": "The Multnomah Youth Commission started advocating for Youth Pass in 2005, but the cost of public transit for youth was already a recognized concern.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1115", "start": 8418.312, "end": 8429.219, "text": "A few years before, Sisters in Action for Power, an organization made up of girls and women of color, successfully campaigned for free transit passes for low-income youth in the PPS district.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1116", "start": 8430.005, "end": 8442.944, "text": "The Multnomah Youth Commission's efforts, along with other partner youth organizations, have since expanded the program to include all high schoolers in PPS, as well as eligible students in the David Douglas and Parkrose districts.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1117", "start": 8443.971, "end": 8446.54, "text": "The MYC sees multiple benefits to Youth Pass.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1118", "start": 8447.198, "end": 8454.213, "text": "Aside from reducing Oregon's chronic absenteeism rate, free public transportation opens up more job opportunities for youth.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1119", "start": 8454.261, "end": 8454.357, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1120", "start": 8454.822, "end": 8464.49, "text": "Promotes extracurricular participation, and most appropriate for the topic at hand, it builds lifelong transit users who would make a measurable difference in the city's carbon emissions.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1121", "start": 8465.324, "end": 8469.171, "text": "Increased ridership has immediate as well as long-term climate impacts.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1122", "start": 8470.63, "end": 8492.71, "text": "Our idea for a TriMet survey for youth emerged when we learned that TriMet is prohibited from gathering demographic data on people under 18 years of age, meaning that youth perspectives are not currently represented in their attitude and awareness In response, we have created a youth-specific survey which will be distributed to schools in the next few months.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1123", "start": 8493.481, "end": 8502.285, "text": "We are hoping to identify why youth ridership remains low and what steps we can take to make TriMet more safe, reliable, and affordable for youth.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1124", "start": 8503.506, "end": 8510.415, "text": "Finally, we have the Community 101 grant, which is made possible thanks to pass-through funds of the Oregon Community Foundation.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1125", "start": 8511.377, "end": 8519.565, "text": "Every year, our committee gives out $7,500 in grants to youth-led, youth-serving organizations within the tri-county area.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1126", "start": 8520.526, "end": 8526.054, "text": "Previous grant recipients include Trash for Peace and the Oregon Rohingya Myanmar Muslim Society.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1127", "start": 8526.936, "end": 8541.907, "text": "Trash for Peace is using their grant to hire a student coordinator for a bicycle repair shop in Fairview, and the Oregon Rohingya Myanmar Muslim Society is conducting a report on heat islands Next slide, please.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1128", "start": 8546.394, "end": 8549.893, "text": "Now we will get into the Multnomah Youth Commission's climate priorities.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1129", "start": 8550.827, "end": 8556.675, "text": "Our first priority is equitable access to the benefits of the city's climate efforts.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1130", "start": 8558.52, "end": 8564.739, "text": "Going back to our youth transit survey, we know cost is a barrier to riding public transit.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1131", "start": 8566.78, "end": 8573.082, "text": "Additionally, other environmentally friendly initiatives also come at high price for everyday people.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1132", "start": 8574.2, "end": 8584.513, "text": "Solar panels are too expensive for many property owners, and proper recycling requires people to navigate a changing and somewhat complicated system.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1133", "start": 8586.487, "end": 8590.259, "text": "Therefore, one of our climate priorities is to make sustainable choices accessible.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1134", "start": 8590.37, "end": 8590.579, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1135", "start": 8590.643, "end": 8592.142, "text": "Our first priority is to make climate action accessible for everyone.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1136", "start": 8592.641, "end": 8604.446, "text": "When thinking about climate projects that involve public participation, it is important to consider who can participate, and if it's not everyone, then what we can do to minimize the barriers.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1137", "start": 8606.51, "end": 8614.498, "text": "Our second priority is to include youth in the climate conversation, especially when speaking about the long-term visions for the city.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1138", "start": 8615.821, "end": 8622.526, "text": "As a Youth Commission, We see youth as one of the most important demographics when talking about the environment.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1139", "start": 8624.45, "end": 8630.588, "text": "Climate action plans are proposals for a future that our generation will inherit.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1140", "start": 8631.697, "end": 8639.949, "text": "And if governments and corporations fail to adequately address climate change, the youth of today will have to live and see those results.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1141", "start": 8642.066, "end": 8642.217, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1142", "start": 8642.868, "end": 8653.74, "text": "Therefore, youth have a very big reason to be deeply concerned about environmental issues, as well as bringing their essential perspectives to the table.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1143", "start": 8655.099, "end": 8686.078, "text": "Thirdly, the Multnomah Youth Commission has worked with Portland Parks Urban Forestry team in the past and recognizes the need to increase tree coverage in significantly— in low canopy, in low in Portland, low-income and minority neighborhoods have significantly lower coverage with a tree canopy that's over 2.5 times denser in the area west of the Willamette than it is in the east of the Willamette.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1144", "start": 8687.138, "end": 8692.905, "text": "The number comes from the July report from the Urban Forestry Division of Portland Parks and Rec.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1145", "start": 8692.953, "end": 8693.081, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1146", "start": 8694.302, "end": 8703.907, "text": "Planting and caring for trees will help mitigate extreme heat, poor air quality, and stormwater runoff in historically marginalized neighborhoods.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1147", "start": 8705.369, "end": 8711.681, "text": "It is an economic project that offers substantial and long-lasting benefits for the city's environment.", "speaker": "Enzo Carpio" }, { "id": "cue-1148", "start": 8713.175, "end": 8718.202, "text": "In conclusion, and above all, is our work to center and prioritize YouthPASS expansion.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1149", "start": 8718.957, "end": 8730.245, "text": "We know that research shows Youth access to transit builds the next generation of transit riders, and a fully inclusive and expansive Youth Pass program would reduce congestion and carbon pollution.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1150", "start": 8731.305, "end": 8736.924, "text": "This is why we will continue our advocacy efforts and ask that you include this in our next climate plan.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1151", "start": 8738.386, "end": 8740.425, "text": "So that covers all that we have for council today.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1152", "start": 8740.874, "end": 8741.709, "text": "Thank you for your time.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1153", "start": 8741.918, "end": 8745.178, "text": "We are happy to answer any questions, and our contact page is on the last slide.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1154", "start": 8745.274, "end": 8745.434, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1155", "start": 8746.573, "end": 8748.577, "text": "Thank you so much for being here today.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1156", "start": 8749.363, "end": 8751.639, "text": "And I'll word this a little bit differently this time.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1157", "start": 8751.847, "end": 8760.809, "text": "Any questions specific to this panel before we move to the broader discussion and questions that cross the different panels?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1158", "start": 8762.284, "end": 8764.464, "text": "I just want to thank Hazel— you're Hazel, right?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1159", "start": 8764.929, "end": 8766.724, "text": "And Zell for being here.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1160", "start": 8767.077, "end": 8768.103, "text": "Thanks for the presentation.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1161", "start": 8768.696, "end": 8771.325, "text": "I thought it had been a while since you've been advocating for that youth pass.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1162", "start": 8771.486, "end": 8774.488, "text": "Yeah, 2005, Mayor Potter was really big on that.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1163", "start": 8774.569, "end": 8781.585, "text": "So I like that every group that comes on continues to carry that message forward.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1164", "start": 8781.794, "end": 8786.033, "text": "So good work that you have a streamline of productivity.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1165", "start": 8786.659, "end": 8792.279, "text": "And I have to say, I miss being the liaison to the Youth Commission, which I was for a few years in the old form of government.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1166", "start": 8792.456, "end": 8793.821, "text": "So it's good to see both of you.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1167", "start": 8794.206, "end": 8794.672, "text": "If you would—.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1168", "start": 8794.704, "end": 8796.101, "text": "She goes to Jefferson High School, right?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1169", "start": 8796.63, "end": 8796.839, "text": "All right.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1170", "start": 8797.128, "end": 8797.69, "text": "In our district.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1171", "start": 8797.77, "end": 8798.734, "text": "In our district.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1172", "start": 8798.943, "end": 8804.739, "text": "And if you would like to work with a youth commissioner, you can still do that even though you're not the city liaison anymore.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1173", "start": 8805.445, "end": 8805.654, "text": "Really?", "speaker": "Lynn Felton" }, { "id": "cue-1174", "start": 8806.023, "end": 8806.441, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Mary Pivetto" }, { "id": "cue-1175", "start": 8806.81, "end": 8807.067, "text": "Who knew?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1176", "start": 8807.484, "end": 8807.789, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1177", "start": 8809.138, "end": 8812.269, "text": "Um, I'll just note as we're talking about YouthPASS that there's a—.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1178", "start": 8812.365, "end": 8813.184, "text": "I just wanted one more.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1179", "start": 8813.329, "end": 8814.244, "text": "I'm sorry, I thought you were—.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1180", "start": 8814.453, "end": 8830.2, "text": "No, I just wanted to ask Vivian, are you, um, making certain that all of these, uh, committees that I see in the slides earlier that That was one of their asks.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1181", "start": 8830.281, "end": 8831.695, "text": "I want to hear how we're doing on that.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1182", "start": 8833.89, "end": 8836.068, "text": "Yeah, I appreciate the question, Councilor Ryan.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1183", "start": 8836.326, "end": 8838.085, "text": "For the record, Vivian Satterfield, CSO.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1184", "start": 8838.989, "end": 8845.694, "text": "I can speak for the Sustainability and Climate Commission, which does have 4 dedicated youth seats, and council did confirm all of those members.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1185", "start": 8846.444, "end": 8848.628, "text": "You'll recall that the youth seats actually expire on June 30th, so we have 4 seats to fill.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1186", "start": 8848.906, "end": 8853.377, "text": "On a year basis rather than the rest of the adult commissioners expire on a 4-year basis.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1187", "start": 8854.53, "end": 8862.222, "text": "But all the new, the new ones that we'll talk about in depth in a minute, um, do they also— are they going to be targeted to have youth at the table for some of them?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1188", "start": 8863.088, "end": 8865.283, "text": "Um, I am unsure.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1189", "start": 8865.652, "end": 8872.254, "text": "The Sustainability and Climate Commission is the only commission that's attached to my office and therefore the only one that has response that, um, I can seat.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1190", "start": 8872.943, "end": 8877.752, "text": "Um, However, I do know that the—.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1191", "start": 8877.768, "end": 8881.535, "text": "Community, environment, government, workforce, contractor.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1192", "start": 8881.839, "end": 8884.276, "text": "I mean, some of them make sense, maybe some of them don't.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1193", "start": 8884.725, "end": 8885.831, "text": "Ah, I understand.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1194", "start": 8886.023, "end": 8887.434, "text": "The current collaborators.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1195", "start": 8888.588, "end": 8889.261, "text": "I understand now.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1196", "start": 8889.95, "end": 8894.166, "text": "I can describe a little bit more about the climate action planning process and why there are those focus areas.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1197", "start": 8894.343, "end": 8903.663, "text": "Youth empowerment is one of the cross-cutting focus areas we have in the climate action plan, and all of our youth commissioners are dedicated to that That'd help.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1198", "start": 8903.727, "end": 8904.05, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1199", "start": 8905.081, "end": 8906.71, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1200", "start": 8906.951, "end": 8919.943, "text": "And I'll just note, as we talk about a youth pass, that TriMet ridership is free up until age 7, and PPS students get that pass, though it's not comprehensive enough yet when they enter high school.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1201", "start": 8920.526, "end": 8928.241, "text": "But youth between the ages of 7 and entering high school who are within PPS Still have to pay that youth fare.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1202", "start": 8929.284, "end": 8931.995, "text": "So we have a lot of work to do, I think, broadly on this.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1203", "start": 8933.021, "end": 8934.417, "text": "Thank you both so much for being here.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1204", "start": 8934.481, "end": 8939.549, "text": "I think we're going to move into our broader conversation and, and questions right now.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1205", "start": 8940.48, "end": 8950.12, "text": "And colleagues, I know that there's been a lot that we have thrown at you over the last 2 hours or so.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1206", "start": 8950.906, "end": 8954.515, "text": "I'll note that across the presentations there have been some themes.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1207", "start": 8954.595, "end": 8954.803, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1208", "start": 8955.012, "end": 8961.842, "text": "Themes around recommitting to our 2030 targets, themes around making sure our work is data-driven.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1209", "start": 8962.307, "end": 8966.685, "text": "We know what will have the largest impact on carbon reduction.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1210", "start": 8966.797, "end": 8974.574, "text": "We know what has the highest cost, and we know what has the highest impact on people and the day-to-day lives of individuals in our community.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1211", "start": 8974.654, "end": 8979.945, "text": "And starting with those solutions that have high impact is always a good place to start.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1212", "start": 8980.186, "end": 8981.597, "text": "A lot of that work has been done.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1213", "start": 8981.709, "end": 8986.871, "text": "We're getting down to the next level of work that has to happen, but we can continue to be data-driven.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1214", "start": 8987.946, "end": 9001.604, "text": "We know that we need to couple the high-level strategy— what policies are we trying to move toward, things like getting more people into transit ridership— with the evidence-based initiatives.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1215", "start": 9001.748, "end": 9007.728, "text": "What do we know is working in other communities that we haven't yet taken on that we should make sure to adopt?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1216", "start": 9007.792, "end": 9007.937, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1217", "start": 9008.869, "end": 9024.597, "text": "And we know that there is cross-sector interest, there is cross-community commitment, and when we work collaboratively, we can have longer-term solutions that really work to sustain our community.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1218", "start": 9024.871, "end": 9040.669, "text": "And we heard some of that with Councilor Ryan's questions about making sure that our youth members of our climate Commission are engaged in every piece of the climate plan, but I think there are probably more pieces we should explore there as well.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1219", "start": 9041.712, "end": 9049.572, "text": "I would like to open it up to broad discussion and questions for any of our panels and Councilors Avalos and Murillo.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1220", "start": 9050.053, "end": 9071.465, "text": "We have representatives from all of our panels still in the room, but I also hope that if you heard something today that you would like us to take on as a committee, that you point that out because we had concrete proposals from a few of the panels that we heard from.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1221", "start": 9071.689, "end": 9087.917, "text": "And if there are things we should start working on now to make sure that we're moving, as Mr. Lewis said, before we get to the next climate action plan, let's air those and see if those are things that have broad support across the, across the committee that we might be able to take on.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1222", "start": 9087.981, "end": 9088.077, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1223", "start": 9088.665, "end": 9090.06, "text": "Councilor Avalos, go right ahead.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1224", "start": 9095.27, "end": 9095.72, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1225", "start": 9097.299, "end": 9101.051, "text": "Um, I'm processing your question.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1226", "start": 9101.164, "end": 9104.901, "text": "Let me see if I can come up with an answer by the end of my, um, comments.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1227", "start": 9105.03, "end": 9110.71, "text": "But yeah, thank you again to everyone who, uh, has been here today to present.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1228", "start": 9110.759, "end": 9123.977, "text": "I think that this conversation has been really good to not just focus on our goals, but actually what steps we're needing to take to actually make meaningful progress towards them.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1229", "start": 9124.154, "end": 9134.321, "text": "And, you know, climate policy, we know, has to be beyond just setting these ambitious targets, of which we have many, but we need these policies that are going to actually reduce emissions.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1230", "start": 9134.497, "end": 9140.928, "text": "And we need to be thoughtful too about how those policies affect people's housing costs and health and jobs and everyday lives.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1231", "start": 9140.992, "end": 9142.936, "text": "And I think it's important we continue to Thank you.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1232", "start": 9143.001, "end": 9161.236, "text": "And I think it's important to connect those dots because I know, trust me, as somebody who entered the environmental justice world, I was— I didn't make as many connections to the way that environmental justice connects to racial and economic justice, for example.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1233", "start": 9161.284, "end": 9164.958, "text": "And so I think it's good that we elevate that continuously.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1234", "start": 9166.499, "end": 9173.409, "text": "That is very much also the approach that I'm taking with my Climate and Health Standards Policy that, you know, I've emailed to council.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1235", "start": 9173.473, "end": 9176.458, "text": "You know, I've been keeping you apprised of that.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1236", "start": 9176.506, "end": 9182.236, "text": "We've done some really good outreach, and it will be coming to committee in a few weeks.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1237", "start": 9182.364, "end": 9200.354, "text": "But, you know, the goal of that policy is really to meaningfully reduce emissions from our buildings while also thinking intentionally about things like tenant protections and affordability and indoor air quality and public health, and also how we're going to support buildings that may need help making that transition.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1238", "start": 9201.06, "end": 9212.355, "text": "Really encouraged by the Sustainability and Climate Commission recently voting to make the climate and health standards their primary policy priority and emphasize the urgency of getting this work across the finish line.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1239", "start": 9212.868, "end": 9221.339, "text": "And also Multnomah County recently adopted their climate justice plan, which also recommends many of the same building actions that we're pursuing through the climate and health standards.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1240", "start": 9221.42, "end": 9230.143, "text": "So to me, that speaks to further confirmation that this is an area that we all know is the direction that we need to go in.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1241", "start": 9230.593, "end": 9237.732, "text": "And we also need to do the hard work of implementing it well, because policy to implementation is always key, as we know.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1242", "start": 9238.816, "end": 9244.368, "text": "And I don't think too that the choice should be between ambitious climate policy and things like affordability, for example.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1243", "start": 9245.939, "end": 9256.66, "text": "The harder and more important work I also have a personal connection to some of that industry work that we were hearing about today.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1244", "start": 9256.66, "end": 9266.93, "text": "In 2022, I had the opportunity to travel to Denmark to study industrial symbiosis and see firsthand how industry and government and community can work together differently.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1245", "start": 9267.48, "end": 9273.46, "text": "Obviously, Denmark is a very different place than Portland, Oregon, and America for that matter, but there are important lessons to be learned from that experience.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1246", "start": 9273.46, "end": 9273.5, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1247", "start": 9274.089, "end": 9281.544, "text": "And I'm really encouraged to see that what came out of that being the Portland Clean Industry Hub initiative.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1248", "start": 9281.961, "end": 9287.279, "text": "I'm really glad to see that we're continuing to move forward and evolving towards this broader partnership.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1249", "start": 9288.227, "end": 9293.867, "text": "And just in general, that we're, you know, continuing to use that model that we learned from in Denmark.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1250", "start": 9294.011, "end": 9299.458, "text": "And that's— there's a larger lesson there that we also don't have to reinvent every climate solution ourselves.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1251", "start": 9299.538, "end": 9299.667, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1252", "start": 9300.052, "end": 9315.918, "text": "In fact, there are so many policies moving across the country that I think we as a committee, as far as actions, should be looking to and just seeing what are things that are emerging issues that we can start to adapt here in Portland.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1253", "start": 9316.11, "end": 9319.319, "text": "And so that's the lens that I'm bringing to this conversation.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1254", "start": 9319.383, "end": 9330.003, "text": "And I have a couple of questions around— maybe I'll start with the Youth Commission since they were our last presentation, but I've got some questions of the industry.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1255", "start": 9330.067, "end": 9330.195, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1256", "start": 9330.468, "end": 9331.334, "text": "Absolutely.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1257", "start": 9332.601, "end": 9335.343, "text": "And just depending on time, we'll see what other questions I have.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1258", "start": 9335.423, "end": 9353.031, "text": "But, you know, we started to talk at the end there about what we heard from the Youth Commission, which is one of their goals of equitable access of youth to these, you know, ways to participate and, you know, have an ongoing meaningful role in shaping climate policy.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1259", "start": 9353.624, "end": 9361.656, "text": "I know that having the youth commissioners on Sustainability and Climate Commission is great because we have intentional spaces for them.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1260", "start": 9361.737, "end": 9380.011, "text": "But I guess just wanted to hear from the youth, you know, maybe there are things that you are seeing either not around, you know, near us in the region, maybe in other states where local governments are taking action to work with youth, and would love to hear if you have any thoughts about any tangible things you think we should be doing better.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1261", "start": 9381.422, "end": 9396.869, "text": "Yeah, I'm looking to see if Hazel's able to come back up, or anybody else from the Youth Commission, to weigh in on where we might as a city be able to do better about engaging your peers in a way that we're not currently doing.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1262", "start": 9403.527, "end": 9405.324, "text": "Thank you for letting us put you on the spot.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1263", "start": 9407.45, "end": 9410.404, "text": "Um, yeah, I think I might need a little bit more time to think about that.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1264", "start": 9411.54, "end": 9428.275, "text": "We also— the Transit Equity and Environmental Advocacy Committee is starting up again in a couple weeks, and we might talk about— talk more about like citywide climate interests and stuff once that starts up again.", "speaker": "Hazel Chan" }, { "id": "cue-1265", "start": 9429.88, "end": 9429.977, "text": "Great.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1266", "start": 9430.025, "end": 9440.664, "text": "Councilor Avalos, are you open to a delayed response where we might be able to get some input on more specific and Yes, absolutely.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1267", "start": 9441.002, "end": 9455.962, "text": "And I would just add to that, I just got an email a couple hours ago of OPAL unfortunately closing officially, but in their email they mentioned that the Bus Riders United is continuing on through a different fiscal sponsor.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1268", "start": 9456.589, "end": 9475.837, "text": "I know that has been a space where youth in particular have organized, and so I think it would be great to see how we can just in general get all of these groups together and start looking towards solutions, especially as we're looking at these TriMet cuts and closing that gap of access for youth to our TriMet system is critical.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1269", "start": 9475.967, "end": 9494.046, "text": "And frankly, if we're talking about ridership and needing to improve it, I feel like that would be such a huge way to increase ridership by giving access to all youth to the bus so that they can get around and, you know, make the most of their time in the city.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1270", "start": 9494.158, "end": 9501.182, "text": "And so, yeah, would love to have a follow-up with you and happy to continue supporting efforts for that.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1271", "start": 9501.278, "end": 9504.437, "text": "So thanks for thinking about that question and look forward to talking more.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1272", "start": 9504.517, "end": 9506.233, "text": "Okay, thank you, Councilor.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1273", "start": 9507.387, "end": 9507.884, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1274", "start": 9509.376, "end": 9512.727, "text": "Let's see, let me just move on quickly to one more question.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1275", "start": 9512.903, "end": 9532.249, "text": "I guess I just wanted to hear more as far as the Industry Hub, you know, I appreciate that we're hearing that the Industry Hub has been seemingly successful in really bringing together some quite different sectors and to have this conversation.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1276", "start": 9532.297, "end": 9537.264, "text": "So bringing business and labor and community and environmental orgs and government into the same place.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1277", "start": 9537.361, "end": 9544.155, "text": "And so would love to just hear from anyone if they're willing to share, what are we learning from that collaboration?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1278", "start": 9544.652, "end": 9557.77, "text": "That could inform how we approach other areas of climate policy, because I think my underlying message there is that, you know, we need to do more to be more cross-cutting about and thinking about climate policy in all our decision-making.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1279", "start": 9557.818, "end": 9564.032, "text": "So yeah, I would love to hear any lessons you've learned building this broad coalition that we could take and apply.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1280", "start": 9565.268, "end": 9577.582, "text": "Yeah, Councilor, I see folks looking to decide who from that panel is the best person to Do you want to go first?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1281", "start": 9578.226, "end": 9578.419, "text": "Sure.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1282", "start": 9579.512, "end": 9582.671, "text": "Ask a good question and you get all of us coming up eager to talk about it.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1283", "start": 9583.403, "end": 9585.372, "text": "Councilor, this is Jules Bailey for the record.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1284", "start": 9585.502, "end": 9588.577, "text": "I think that's a great, really, really, really important question.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1285", "start": 9589.726, "end": 9599.768, "text": "And I think coming especially from a place historically where there was a lot of tension between the different groups that are now part of it and now collaborating on this.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1286", "start": 9599.833, "end": 9625.363, "text": "I think one of the take-homes that I have is that a focus on results matters, that really being clear about what we're trying to achieve and bringing together the expertise from different communities to be able to achieve it together and making sure that everybody's at the table and has a chance to inform that process about what we're trying to achieve and then have confidence in the results, I think, has built a lot of trust.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1287", "start": 9626.777, "end": 9629.508, "text": "And we're not there yet.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1288", "start": 9629.588, "end": 9631.018, "text": "I don't want to declare victory on this.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1289", "start": 9631.13, "end": 9633.074, "text": "We're still getting this set up.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1290", "start": 9633.219, "end": 9648.785, "text": "And so continuing to make sure that we are having those conversations, that we're meeting with stakeholder advisory groups, that we're continuing to bring people into the process, learn from their expertise, and stay humble about it, I think is really, really important.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1291", "start": 9648.833, "end": 9648.945, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1292", "start": 9649.042, "end": 9655.569, "text": "Going forward as we proceed on the next 3 years of mapping these investments into these businesses.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1293", "start": 9655.682, "end": 9668.706, "text": "And then we're, as we said, working with our research partners to ensure that what we're achieving is documentable and verifiable and responds back to the concerns that we heard at the front end.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1294", "start": 9668.819, "end": 9671.218, "text": "So I think that transparency is really important.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1295", "start": 9673.347, "end": 9673.659, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1296", "start": 9673.906, "end": 9678.301, "text": "For the record, Sonrisa Cooper from the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability Thank you for the question.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1297", "start": 9680.206, "end": 9686.35, "text": "One thing that we do in every meeting that we have is we read our vision statement aloud.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1298", "start": 9687.908, "end": 9700.328, "text": "And that vision statement, I don't have it in front of me, but it talks about basically all the shared goals that we have around a resilient economy, industry that is thriving, communities safe from harm.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1299", "start": 9700.504, "end": 9704.168, "text": "It's basically like our North Star that we're aiming for.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1300", "start": 9704.924, "end": 9710.709, "text": "And we ground our us, our meetings, and that every single time we talk to each other.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1301", "start": 9711.448, "end": 9726.638, "text": "And I do think that that keeps us on the right track because we, we brought these kind of disparate partners together with the recognition that everyone has their own lane, their own constituents, their own kind of strategies that they might use.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1302", "start": 9726.702, "end": 9728.966, "text": "But we are united in a single goal.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1303", "start": 9729.897, "end": 9739.5, "text": "And we We recognize that everyone might take a slightly different path to get to the goal, but we are all working in the same direction.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1304", "start": 9740.397, "end": 9747.175, "text": "And there have definitely been times when we have disagreed, but the other thing that we do in our meetings sometimes is we hash it out.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1305", "start": 9747.463, "end": 9754.561, "text": "We, you know, we're not always getting along perfectly because we do take different approaches and have different perspectives.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1306", "start": 9754.738, "end": 9762.788, "text": "And working really for a long time with the commitment that we all have the same vision has kept us on track towards that.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1307", "start": 9764.227, "end": 9769.839, "text": "It will be kind of a test when we actually start putting the money out there and seeing the projects that come out of it.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1308", "start": 9769.905, "end": 9779.738, "text": "But so far, personally, I have seen a huge improvement in the relationships between all of our different members of our group.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1309", "start": 9780.891, "end": 9792.971, "text": "Portland State University actually, as part of their evaluation, is doing I think every 6 months or so, like an internal evaluation to look at the health of our partnership.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1310", "start": 9793.052, "end": 9797.242, "text": "So we all take a survey to see how well we trust each other.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1311", "start": 9797.55, "end": 9802.691, "text": "Do we understand our roles and have agreement in what we're working towards?", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1312", "start": 9802.836, "end": 9809.081, "text": "And that, we've only done one so far, so I can't say how that's gonna change over time.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1313", "start": 9809.129, "end": 9812.775, "text": "But anecdotally, we do trust each other.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1314", "start": 9813.168, "end": 9814.2, "text": "We work together really well.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1315", "start": 9814.315, "end": 9814.921, "text": "And I think that that—.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1316", "start": 9814.987, "end": 9815.134, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1317", "start": 9815.307, "end": 9823.557, "text": "Grounding in the vision and returning to that regularly is definitely something that we can pull forward into other climate policies.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1318", "start": 9829.1, "end": 9830.219, "text": "Thank you for those answers.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1319", "start": 9830.397, "end": 9847.72, "text": "And, um, yeah, I think that part of why I raise it too is that, um, Mary from Neighbors for Clean Air said, uh, at some point today That it was an enormous responsibility to represent community, and I'm really grateful that she understands that.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1320", "start": 9847.768, "end": 9848.763, "text": "I know she understands that.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1321", "start": 9848.828, "end": 9849.807, "text": "Hi, Mary, good to see you.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1322", "start": 9850.401, "end": 9850.465, "text": "Hi.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1323", "start": 9850.754, "end": 9871.889, "text": "I think that it is a big responsibility to represent community because one thing that stood out to me when I went on that trip to Denmark, I was the only person on the trip representing an environmental justice community org, and so I spent the trip Kind of being that voice and just saying, well, what do the neighbors think?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1324", "start": 9871.937, "end": 9878.442, "text": "For example, we're touring the industry and the smell is not great, right?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1325", "start": 9878.506, "end": 9881.006, "text": "And then there's obviously fumes and all these things.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1326", "start": 9881.054, "end": 9888.312, "text": "And it's like, oh sure, they're showing us the ways that all of these industries are sharing waste so that they aren't wasting it.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1327", "start": 9889.001, "end": 9894.641, "text": "But also when I would ask questions like that, I didn't always get satisfying answers.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1328", "start": 9894.753, "end": 9896.483, "text": "Often people would say, well, what do you mean?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1329", "start": 9896.531, "end": 9896.579, "text": "Right.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1330", "start": 9896.997, "end": 9899.148, "text": "Or, well, we haven't asked directly.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1331", "start": 9899.726, "end": 9908.01, "text": "And so I just say that because we need to pay extra attention to ensuring communities' voices are part of that.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1332", "start": 9908.107, "end": 9909.6, "text": "I'm glad they're at the table.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1333", "start": 9909.68, "end": 9912.907, "text": "I just want us to not let those be outweighed.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1334", "start": 9913.854, "end": 9922.829, "text": "And again, ensuring that we're creating systems in our— as we're continuing to make these plans and, you know, set these visions as a city.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1335", "start": 9922.91, "end": 9933.411, "text": "City that we're involving youth, we're involving community, we're talking to people directly impacted in a geographic area, but also more broadly by these things.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1336", "start": 9933.459, "end": 9949.081, "text": "And I think that there's absolutely ways to make it harmonious, but it does take effort, and it does take the city, I believe, being responsible, taking the responsibility of ensuring that community is Brought along.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1337", "start": 9949.337, "end": 9950.812, "text": "And so that's why I raised that.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1338", "start": 9950.876, "end": 9952.078, "text": "I'm really grateful for your answer.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1339", "start": 9952.159, "end": 9961.072, "text": "I think that you all have been doing a good job of bringing together partners, and I love what you said, that yeah, you're not always going to agree, and great, duke it out, right?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1340", "start": 9961.136, "end": 9964.069, "text": "That's how you make great policy, by having everyone at the table.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1341", "start": 9964.502, "end": 9966.827, "text": "And so happy to support with my office.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1342", "start": 9967.131, "end": 9976.099, "text": "Like I said, I've got a big policy that's moving soon that I'm really excited to bring to council and to talk about because it is something that the nation has seen a trend towards.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1343", "start": 9976.147, "end": 9985.197, "text": "It is something that the commissions have, you know, endorsed, and the recent news that we're hearing, we really need to act quickly on lowering emissions.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1344", "start": 9985.326, "end": 9989.44, "text": "And so again, thank you for this panel, and I look forward to your continued partnership.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1345", "start": 9989.65, "end": 9990.101, "text": "That's all for now.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1346", "start": 9990.775, "end": 9991.035, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1347", "start": 9991.215, "end": 9991.606, "text": "Well said.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1348", "start": 9991.867, "end": 9992.193, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1349", "start": 9992.763, "end": 9993.611, "text": "Thank you, Councilor.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1350", "start": 9993.839, "end": 9995.338, "text": "Councilor Morillo, go right ahead.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1351", "start": 9997.17, "end": 9997.462, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1352", "start": 9998.015, "end": 10000.063, "text": "Thank you everyone so much for your presentations today.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1353", "start": 10000.209, "end": 10004.063, "text": "I think it was really Lovely to hear the different ideas that came out of community.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1354", "start": 10004.961, "end": 10010.777, "text": "And I think that those are— I just took a lot of the bike towns this week when my bike broke, and they are very expensive.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1355", "start": 10010.825, "end": 10013.324, "text": "And I think if they were more affordable, more people would use them.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1356", "start": 10013.388, "end": 10018.259, "text": "So I think there are easy things like that that we can do to try to adjust how people move through the city.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1357", "start": 10019.221, "end": 10025.662, "text": "I think I'm— it was— I don't want to turn this into a whole PSF discussion, so I won't do that.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1358", "start": 10025.71, "end": 10043.08, "text": "But I guess I'll just name for the city staff that, and maybe for my colleagues as well, that It was really interesting to hear how much of PSF dollars goes to private businesses and industry in order for them to become up to the green standard that they're supposed to be.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1359", "start": 10044.732, "end": 10047.591, "text": "And I'm not even saying that's a bad thing or a good thing.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1360", "start": 10047.784, "end": 10048.764, "text": "I'm just noting that.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1361", "start": 10048.828, "end": 10062.923, "text": "And it's interesting to see so much of the opposition coming out of the business industry on PSF when it seems like The way it's been rerouted to go straight back to them for these upgrades seems like it's very beneficial to industry.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1362", "start": 10063.036, "end": 10086.724, "text": "So I think it would be helpful to see, and I think community has asked for this a lot, and even as a councilor, I feel like I've asked for this and not necessarily gotten it, a full breakdown of how PSF dollars go to private businesses, to industry versus going to an individual constituent's household to help them fix their roof and get it solar upgraded, right?", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1363", "start": 10087.159, "end": 10101.442, "text": "I think getting to see who is benefiting from those PSF dollars and how on a one-to-one scale is helpful, while also noting that obviously if you help an industry decarbonize, then that's going to have a larger impact than an individual's house.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1364", "start": 10103.176, "end": 10114.645, "text": "But this presentation just sort of raised that question in me because You would think from the way that people talk about PCEF that it's actively harming businesses or something.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1365", "start": 10115.272, "end": 10117.701, "text": "And then we hear that so much of this money goes back to them.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1366", "start": 10118.011, "end": 10121.204, "text": "And I'm just very curious about how those dollars are used.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1367", "start": 10122.982, "end": 10132.004, "text": "And I think it goes— I've heard from, you know, it goes to nonprofits, goes to private businesses, and then people have to apply for the PCEF grants to upgrade their homes.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1368", "start": 10132.101, "end": 10135.884, "text": "And there's a pretty strict cutoff for individuals trying to upgrade.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1369", "start": 10136.032, "end": 10136.131, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1370", "start": 10136.816, "end": 10141.208, "text": "To get their water bill, electricity bill down because you have to reach a certain income.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1371", "start": 10141.321, "end": 10144.655, "text": "And if you're $1 above that, then, then you get cut off from certain programs.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1372", "start": 10144.703, "end": 10144.992, "text": "So—.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1373", "start": 10145.072, "end": 10150.089, "text": "Councilor, I want to note for you that we don't have PSEF representatives in the room right now.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1374", "start": 10150.394, "end": 10153.183, "text": "So I think these are important points.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1375", "start": 10153.263, "end": 10158.585, "text": "I just want to make sure that you know that folks from that program are not in the room to hear them.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1376", "start": 10159.515, "end": 10160.301, "text": "Yeah, that's okay.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1377", "start": 10160.397, "end": 10163.763, "text": "I think the other industry folks that receive these dollars should hear this as well.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1378", "start": 10163.988, "end": 10165.078, "text": "I think that's fine for them.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1379", "start": 10166.008, "end": 10168.942, "text": "And I'm sure Vivian Satterfield can help us later get those dollars.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1380", "start": 10169.038, "end": 10177.808, "text": "But I think that having that breakdown in this committee would be really important for us to see and for the public to have that transparency around how those dollars are used.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1381", "start": 10177.856, "end": 10187.523, "text": "So, because at the end of the day, I think that we can pass a lot of policies, but the thing that we struggle with at the city right now is the financials of who gets access to what funds and when.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1382", "start": 10188.309, "end": 10188.71, "text": "Right.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1383", "start": 10188.838, "end": 10194.996, "text": "And it seems like every time there's a way to use city dollars, Especially within the clean energy movement.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1384", "start": 10195.126, "end": 10199.098, "text": "It goes into the private sector for things that they can do for upgrades.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1385", "start": 10200.986, "end": 10204.899, "text": "And I'm just thinking about that a lot as I think about the city's finances.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1386", "start": 10204.963, "end": 10206.095, "text": "So thanks for that.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1387", "start": 10207.75, "end": 10208.361, "text": "Thank you, Councilor.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1388", "start": 10208.651, "end": 10209.279, "text": "Councilor Ryan?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1389", "start": 10209.456, "end": 10210.213, "text": "Yes, thank you, Chair.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1390", "start": 10210.583, "end": 10212.902, "text": "And it was really a great presentation.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1391", "start": 10213.014, "end": 10227.998, "text": "It's provided me with something that, you know, I promoted for decades in my own professional career, which is Building those cross-sector tables and having measurable goals and doing continuous improvement results-based facilitation.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1392", "start": 10228.431, "end": 10231.721, "text": "So you don't have biased facilitators, which is often the case.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1393", "start": 10232.138, "end": 10240.548, "text": "So I'm scratching at something here that's very pleasing, and it's something that's been desperately needed in government all over the place.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1394", "start": 10241.43, "end": 10241.992, "text": "Don't I know?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1395", "start": 10242.65, "end": 10245.089, "text": "It's been exhausting trying to build it in government.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1396", "start": 10245.699, "end": 10256.086, "text": "I don't know, maybe it's election cycles that get in the way, but it's really hard for government electeds to oversee that organic objective type work.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1397", "start": 10256.663, "end": 10262.162, "text": "And so the only way it's going to work is if it goes beyond election cycles, that you build something really strong.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1398", "start": 10262.819, "end": 10273.386, "text": "And so I think what I heard today by who's in the room, which is unique unfortunately, so thank you for being a part of this, to hear those stories.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1399", "start": 10273.916, "end": 10283.47, "text": "So Vivian, when I was earlier looking at the current collaborators, are these 4 groups that was advertised, are they frequently meeting now?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1400", "start": 10284.562, "end": 10287.789, "text": "And if so, how often do they meet?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1401", "start": 10288.095, "end": 10289.203, "text": "How long have they been meeting?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1402", "start": 10289.315, "end": 10290.166, "text": "And who's staffing them?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1403", "start": 10291.001, "end": 10295.513, "text": "I'm sorry, Councilor Ryan, do you mind refreshing my memory on which 4 groups?", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1404", "start": 10295.963, "end": 10299.479, "text": "Your presentation provided us with the current collaborators.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1405", "start": 10300.073, "end": 10304.858, "text": "They were listed under community and environment, government, business, utilities services.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1406", "start": 10305.131, "end": 10306.464, "text": "That's a big kitchen sink one.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1407", "start": 10306.897, "end": 10308.712, "text": "And workforce and contractor development.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1408", "start": 10309.29, "end": 10310.815, "text": "Is that not what I heard today?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1409", "start": 10311.313, "end": 10311.57, "text": "It was.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1410", "start": 10311.634, "end": 10314.171, "text": "I'm sorry, I just didn't catch that part on the microphone.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1411", "start": 10314.781, "end": 10320.176, "text": "We've just started the climate action planning development process, and so we'll be having a more public-facing component.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1412", "start": 10320.224, "end": 10324.608, "text": "That's the staff-level focus areas that have been gathering currently.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1413", "start": 10325.538, "end": 10326.934, "text": "So are they meeting currently?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1414", "start": 10327.126, "end": 10327.543, "text": "Yes, they are.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1415", "start": 10327.591, "end": 10328.104, "text": "These groups?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1416", "start": 10328.248, "end": 10328.312, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1417", "start": 10328.377, "end": 10329.259, "text": "How long have they been meeting?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1418", "start": 10329.916, "end": 10333.508, "text": "We just launched the climate action planning process last month internally.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1419", "start": 10334.983, "end": 10335.849, "text": "So they're really new.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1420", "start": 10335.945, "end": 10337.805, "text": "You guys have had your first meetings basically?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1421", "start": 10337.869, "end": 10338.286, "text": "Correct.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1422", "start": 10338.671, "end": 10338.976, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1423", "start": 10339.457, "end": 10342.006, "text": "So we're seeing this at the very beginning state.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1424", "start": 10342.118, "end": 10343.257, "text": "Getting in on the ground floor, that's correct.", "speaker": "Vivian Satterfield" }, { "id": "cue-1425", "start": 10343.305, "end": 10344.283, "text": "Sonrisa's coming up.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1426", "start": 10344.604, "end": 10344.7, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1427", "start": 10345.325, "end": 10345.438, "text": "Hi.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1428", "start": 10345.951, "end": 10346.544, "text": "Hi, Councilor.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1429", "start": 10346.624, "end": 10348.212, "text": "Sunnisa Cooper again for the record.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1430", "start": 10349.318, "end": 10355.587, "text": "The slide that you're referring to is actually from my presentation Which is about the clean industry presentation.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1431", "start": 10357.29, "end": 10364.449, "text": "The current collaborators, the categories are really just for sort of visual organization.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1432", "start": 10364.578, "end": 10367.312, "text": "They're not defined subgroups.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1433", "start": 10368.501, "end": 10380.215, "text": "The one that was community and environment is the only one, and that is the same set of individuals or organizations that were in the co-design group that Mary Pivoteau discussed.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1434", "start": 10380.28, "end": 10380.425, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1435", "start": 10381.511, "end": 10387.95, "text": "The rest of the folks on that list are just examples of a lot of the people that we have at the table.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1436", "start": 10388.063, "end": 10392.892, "text": "We have many people that do kind of different configurations of convening partners.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1437", "start": 10393.439, "end": 10398.817, "text": "So the Portland Partnership for Clean Industry, they have a stakeholder group that meets regularly.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1438", "start": 10399.332, "end": 10402.12, "text": "We have a community stakeholder group that meets regularly.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1439", "start": 10402.636, "end": 10407.358, "text": "We have lots of other individuals that we have sort of one-on-one touchpoints with.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1440", "start": 10408.89, "end": 10417.058, "text": "So those aren't defined groups, I would say, but it's— the categories were mainly to organize the slide.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1441", "start": 10417.123, "end": 10425.172, "text": "But so there isn't a group under business utilities and services that's meeting monthly?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1442", "start": 10426.265, "end": 10428.336, "text": "There's only the one that's community environment?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1443", "start": 10428.728, "end": 10430.246, "text": "Is that what I just heard?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1444", "start": 10432.065, "end": 10451.91, "text": "I am confused officially because this slide— got me excited because I finally saw what I've been asking for, which is actually cross-sector engagement, where I'm hoping we have a North Star, where I'm hoping we have community-wide indicators, where I'm hoping you had really, really difficult meetings with a lot of tension in the room to decide upon those.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1445", "start": 10452.343, "end": 10453.643, "text": "Yes, I have a background in this.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1446", "start": 10453.708, "end": 10468.155, "text": "I know it takes a lot of tough meetings with tension to get there, but we're never going to reach climate goals in Portland, Oregon, which has been I think we're failing miserably in the state and the city of talking a lot about this but not producing results.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1447", "start": 10469.022, "end": 10472.217, "text": "Councilor, I think there may be 3 strings here we need to pull.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1448", "start": 10472.474, "end": 10477.484, "text": "One is where and how are those cross-sector conversations happening?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1449", "start": 10477.548, "end": 10479.555, "text": "Because I think they are happening in this group.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1450", "start": 10480.037, "end": 10482.301, "text": "The second is, are there specific great apps?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1451", "start": 10482.365, "end": 10485.175, "text": "Now, you can sell it for them, but I kind of want to hear it from the—.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1452", "start": 10485.175, "end": 10485.769, "text": "Yes, yes.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1453", "start": 10485.897, "end": 10490.756, "text": "But I want to suggest I suggest that we hear this in 3 pieces because there's that question that you're asking.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1454", "start": 10491.188, "end": 10493.817, "text": "There's the question around, are there these specific breakouts?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1455", "start": 10494.314, "end": 10506.511, "text": "And then there's a question around whether that translates to work happening within the climate action plan separate from the slide that you're looking at, which I should have noticed when you first had it, had a question about it.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1456", "start": 10506.559, "end": 10507.264, "text": "I apologize.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1457", "start": 10507.777, "end": 10509.796, "text": "That came from the presentation from our—.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1458", "start": 10509.796, "end": 10516.335, "text": "Well, I'm just kind of in real time experiencing this where I got excited about what I thought I heard and now I'm hearing something different.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1459", "start": 10517.49, "end": 10518.799, "text": "Councilor, it's a great question.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1460", "start": 10518.932, "end": 10519.977, "text": "You get to the heart of it here.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1461", "start": 10522.04, "end": 10523.405, "text": "We have a regular meeting.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1462", "start": 10523.582, "end": 10524.948, "text": "I mean, just to get very tactical.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1463", "start": 10525.43, "end": 10525.703, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1464", "start": 10525.767, "end": 10532.808, "text": "We have a meeting every other week in which we have the business community represented by a couple different voices.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1465", "start": 10532.921, "end": 10535.129, "text": "We have, in fact, several different voices.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1466", "start": 10535.178, "end": 10543.839, "text": "We have community environmental, we have the public sector, we have developers, Technical providers.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1467", "start": 10543.951, "end": 10545.428, "text": "We have a lot of different people.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1468", "start": 10545.492, "end": 10549.314, "text": "And this is literally every other week we're getting together in a standing meeting.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1469", "start": 10549.812, "end": 10560.377, "text": "And it's in that meeting that we even have, as Sonrisa mentioned, surveys going out and saying, how comfortable are you with these people in the meeting?", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1470", "start": 10560.425, "end": 10561.148, "text": "And what is happening?", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1471", "start": 10561.212, "end": 10562.191, "text": "And is this vision clear?", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1472", "start": 10562.272, "end": 10562.882, "text": "And what's happening?", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1473", "start": 10563.62, "end": 10567.57, "text": "And it is— it can be hard sometimes to see the results of that and say, oh.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1474", "start": 10567.731, "end": 10567.827, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1475", "start": 10568.469, "end": 10569.336, "text": "Yeah, that's me.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1476", "start": 10569.481, "end": 10572.002, "text": "I haven't done a very good job of explaining this to everybody else.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1477", "start": 10572.066, "end": 10574.587, "text": "I need to go and explain my side of this back to them.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1478", "start": 10574.78, "end": 10576.594, "text": "Or there isn't a lot of trust that's been built here.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1479", "start": 10576.706, "end": 10579.259, "text": "We need to dive into this area more regularly.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1480", "start": 10579.773, "end": 10581.893, "text": "But those groups, we have a meeting tomorrow.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1481", "start": 10582.021, "end": 10582.182, "text": "Tomorrow.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1482", "start": 10582.407, "end": 10584.157, "text": "Yeah, so we have a meeting tomorrow.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1483", "start": 10584.349, "end": 10588.942, "text": "And there are a lot of tough conversations that are happening there that are cross-sectoral.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1484", "start": 10589.471, "end": 10595.011, "text": "All of that is very tactical and it's focused on, okay, How are we going to stand this up?", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1485", "start": 10595.107, "end": 10596.086, "text": "What is this going to look like?", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1486", "start": 10596.151, "end": 10597.772, "text": "How are we going to actually make these investments?", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1487", "start": 10597.836, "end": 10601.898, "text": "What's the relationship between the Prosper grants and the Portland Partnership for Clean Industry?", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1488", "start": 10602.332, "end": 10604.949, "text": "How are we making sure that we're reporting back to the public effectively?", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1489", "start": 10605.045, "end": 10607.566, "text": "How are we integrating research and evaluation into this?", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1490", "start": 10607.855, "end": 10611.772, "text": "All of that is happening, and those conversations are regular and ongoing.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1491", "start": 10612.35, "end": 10620.025, "text": "And then all of that is then rolling up into this sort of larger work of how the industrial sector then plugs into the overarching climate action plan.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1492", "start": 10621.101, "end": 10622.948, "text": "And that's been, I think, really effective.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1493", "start": 10623.847, "end": 10629.501, "text": "And frankly, I've never been part of a process like that before.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1494", "start": 10630.353, "end": 10630.867, "text": "Oh, it's great.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1495", "start": 10631.075, "end": 10635.027, "text": "When you use the word comfortable, that word, I want to pause on that word.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1496", "start": 10635.958, "end": 10641.725, "text": "If the answer is no, I'm not comfortable, what's the person's response that's asking that question?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1497", "start": 10642.881, "end": 10645.098, "text": "That's a great question.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1498", "start": 10645.146, "end": 10660.258, "text": "So So I will say that I think at one point I had done a less than stellar job of maybe explaining some of the things that we were working on in the Portland Partnership for Clean Industry side, and it was a little bit muddled on how that intersected with some of the work that Prosper was doing.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1499", "start": 10661.068, "end": 10667.069, "text": "And so it was just helpful to understand that and to be able to explain it better to people and then get some feedback directly in real time.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1500", "start": 10667.117, "end": 10671.013, "text": "And those are the kinds of conversations that we get to have in that group.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1501", "start": 10671.486, "end": 10677.315, "text": "And it, I think, makes for a much better, much more collaborative working environment to be able to have that level of trust.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1502", "start": 10677.379, "end": 10685.118, "text": "It's hard to get off the rails when you're literally sitting across the table from each other every other week and talking about the issues that are arising.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1503", "start": 10686.098, "end": 10694.64, "text": "Yeah, I think I'm just reminiscing on when I did this type of work called collective impact work, and my staff would come back and say, that was a really hard meeting.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1504", "start": 10694.688, "end": 10695.555, "text": "There was so much tension.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1505", "start": 10695.652, "end": 10696.647, "text": "I'd be like, great.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1506", "start": 10697.354, "end": 10698.413, "text": "That's good news.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1507", "start": 10698.879, "end": 10706.072, "text": "And so instead of doing that Portland polite thing where there must be good people in the meeting and bad people in the meeting, like, that's not working.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1508", "start": 10706.602, "end": 10713.378, "text": "So what I hope that you start to do, and I thought I was starting to hear this, is what are the shared goals?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1509", "start": 10713.555, "end": 10717.986, "text": "What are the shared metrics that we're all going to look at?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1510", "start": 10718.773, "end": 10721.792, "text": "And then of course the real work is in some of those sub-indicators.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1511", "start": 10721.84, "end": 10721.904, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1512", "start": 10722.626, "end": 10730.737, "text": "Who's staffing that type of continuous improvement type thinking that is necessary for this group to be effective and successful?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1513", "start": 10730.817, "end": 10732.099, "text": "Before you answer the staffing part—.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1514", "start": 10732.099, "end": 10737.116, "text": "And why is Metro not a part of the department, by the way, when they're like basically an environmental organization?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1515", "start": 10737.212, "end": 10737.677, "text": "Just curious.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1516", "start": 10737.853, "end": 10738.142, "text": "But yeah.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1517", "start": 10738.19, "end": 10741.732, "text": "Just to comment very quickly on your first part of your question, then you can talk about the staffing part of it.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1518", "start": 10741.797, "end": 10747.711, "text": "But that's why Sunrisa talked about reading out the vision statement at the beginning every single time.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1519", "start": 10747.807, "end": 10748.817, "text": "What are we here to achieve?", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1520", "start": 10748.929, "end": 10752.987, "text": "And let's get everybody focused on the same thing, and that has been incredibly helpful.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1521", "start": 10753.42, "end": 10760.816, "text": "And then to say we're all in the room trying to solve the exact same problem from different perspectives, that's where a lot of that trust building happens, to your point.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1522", "start": 10760.896, "end": 10762.645, "text": "I don't know if you want to speak about staffing, but—.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1523", "start": 10762.645, "end": 10763.431, "text": "Sure, thank you.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1524", "start": 10764.169, "end": 10774.309, "text": "To your question about the continuous improvement and who's leading that, Portland State University has been a really fantastic partner and leader in our coalition around that.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1525", "start": 10775.704, "end": 10798.203, "text": "They have academic expertise doing the more quantitative carbon accounting and the kind of tracking of outcomes from the grants themselves, but also they are looking internally at how well we work together, what we can do to improve those relationships, improve our workflow.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1526", "start": 10800.137, "end": 10808.51, "text": "And that really, I think, speaks to what I mentioned earlier about how everyone kind of has their own expertise, their own lane that they bring to this work.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1527", "start": 10809.126, "end": 10818.898, "text": "And that's a major strength of Portland State University as a convener, as a highly respected institution in our city.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1528", "start": 10819.043, "end": 10822.926, "text": "They really stand out in that role in this group.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" }, { "id": "cue-1529", "start": 10823.169, "end": 10824.236, "text": "That's helpful.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1530", "start": 10824.53, "end": 10826.531, "text": "Who's the philanthropic partners so far?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1531", "start": 10829.03, "end": 10837.829, "text": "I've been working with a number of folks that I don't want to name on the record right now because they're not officially part of it yet, but I'd be happy to have a follow-up conversation.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1532", "start": 10838.98, "end": 10839.097, "text": "Great.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1533", "start": 10839.248, "end": 10840.035, "text": "Love to be helpful there.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1534", "start": 10843.995, "end": 10851.449, "text": "I think what I want to just say is that in District 2, we represent the working waterfront.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1535", "start": 10851.787, "end": 10853.769, "text": "We are where the Columbia and the Willamette come together.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1536", "start": 10854.206, "end": 10857.817, "text": "And there are a lot of great jobs along the waterfront.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1537", "start": 10858.475, "end": 10862.503, "text": "We also have a high industry footprint.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1538", "start": 10863.145, "end": 10866.146, "text": "Those are jobs that are family wage jobs.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1539", "start": 10866.499, "end": 10869.516, "text": "We're also losing some of those mid-sized companies.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1540", "start": 10869.629, "end": 10874.491, "text": "A week doesn't go by where I don't hear about another one relocating, usually just to Clark County, unfortunately.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1541", "start": 10875.005, "end": 10876.096, "text": "Well, no, that's not unfortunate.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1542", "start": 10876.208, "end": 10878.215, "text": "It's really expensive for a business to move.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1543", "start": 10878.712, "end": 10880.237, "text": "So this is a red alert.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1544", "start": 10880.301, "end": 10880.445, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1545", "start": 10880.686, "end": 10888.155, "text": "About the fact that Portland has to figure out how to be a place where green industry really takes off.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1546", "start": 10889.359, "end": 10893.84, "text": "And we've lost a lot of time trying to be perfect, and it's not good.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1547", "start": 10894.434, "end": 10906.785, "text": "And so how can we start to accept the messiness of this kind of work and have the courage to take steps and to measure what that success looks like, even if it makes about half the table uncomfortable?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1548", "start": 10909.713, "end": 10910.004, "text": "Amen.", "speaker": "Jules Bailey" }, { "id": "cue-1549", "start": 10910.279, "end": 10910.586, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1550", "start": 10913.913, "end": 10914.753, "text": "Thank you, Councilor.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1551", "start": 10915.124, "end": 10916.691, "text": "Oh, can I just add one more thing?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1552", "start": 10917.53, "end": 10918.628, "text": "Uh, who was Jason Lewis?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1553", "start": 10918.709, "end": 10919.21, "text": "Is that your name?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1554", "start": 10919.824, "end": 10919.986, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1555", "start": 10920.536, "end": 10921.715, "text": "Um, I am going to call you out.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1556", "start": 10921.909, "end": 10922.863, "text": "Um, it's positive.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1557", "start": 10923.315, "end": 10933.038, "text": "It was so refreshing to hear data-driven dialogue in that you're actually measuring what you want success for.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1558", "start": 10933.89, "end": 10943.27, "text": "And I just hope that when the measurements don't go the way that an optimist would want, we try to figure out why, and then we reload again.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1559", "start": 10943.382, "end": 10944.587, "text": "That's continuous improvement.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1560", "start": 10945.246, "end": 10945.438, "text": "Indeed.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1561", "start": 10945.631, "end": 10952.827, "text": "Big part of continuous improvement, as you know, is acceptance of the truth and then try to move it to a better place by changing behaviors.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1562", "start": 10953.903, "end": 10955.814, "text": "My background's in engineering, so well-versed.", "speaker": "Jason Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1563", "start": 10955.895, "end": 10956.537, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1564", "start": 10956.874, "end": 10960.88, "text": "And usually adults are the toughest to work with in terms of behavior change.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1565", "start": 10961.363, "end": 10966.435, "text": "When I did work in education, the kids were fine, but boy, it was really hard to get adults to change behavior.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1566", "start": 10967.25, "end": 10967.33, "text": "Indeed.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1567", "start": 10967.378, "end": 10968.891, "text": "Hence looping to the addiction crisis.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1568", "start": 10968.988, "end": 10971.24, "text": "So please know that this is so important.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1569", "start": 10971.691, "end": 10971.965, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1570", "start": 10972.029, "end": 10973.075, "text": "Thanks for being at the table.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1571", "start": 10973.3, "end": 10973.719, "text": "Don't give up.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1572", "start": 10974.588, "end": 10975.698, "text": "You won't always be popular there.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1573", "start": 10978.611, "end": 10979.485, "text": "Thank you, Councilor.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1574", "start": 10980.246, "end": 10986.908, "text": "We have just a few minutes left, so I'll hold my questions, but I do want to note a couple I just want to say a couple of things.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1575", "start": 10986.973, "end": 10993.908, "text": "Colleagues, we heard some specific concrete actions today that we were asked to consider taking, and I hope that each of you considers those.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1576", "start": 10994.672, "end": 11002.401, "text": "We still have time in some of our meetings later this year that I am making sure we don't fill too rapidly.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1577", "start": 11002.88, "end": 11006.678, "text": "My staff is in the back of the room saying no, we don't, but I think we have one meeting with a little time.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1578", "start": 11008.424, "end": 11012.63, "text": "So that if we have policies we want to take on as a committee, we can do so.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1579", "start": 11013.597, "end": 11029.365, "text": "And there were some standalone asks as well as things that we'll need to roll into other work and questions that we should just start asking as, as habit about the impact of some of the decisions that we make that I hope this committee can take on.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1580", "start": 11030.84, "end": 11056.78, "text": "I want to note, when I hear about the work in the industrial sector, that I think this is critical work, and I hope that the next I know there's a lot to do still on this step, but I hope that the next step is thinking about how the solutions that you are currently working on can focus on replicable solutions, on scalable solutions, on exportable solutions.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1581", "start": 11057.839, "end": 11070.128, "text": "Finding a solution for one company that lowers their carbon footprint and increases their bottom line, which hopefully is then put toward paying folks more who work there, um, is incredibly important.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1582", "start": 11070.931, "end": 11090.889, "text": "But with limited public resources, we need to make sure that we are supporting work that can move to other companies within Portland and hopefully get marketed outside of our city and help bring dollars into our city while exporting solutions to other cities.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1583", "start": 11091.405, "end": 11094.606, "text": "That allows us to lower the cost per solution.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1584", "start": 11095.139, "end": 11098.97, "text": "I think my colleague noted some concern about the amount of money we're putting in.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1585", "start": 11099.083, "end": 11101.232, "text": "Let's make sure that we're stretching it as far as we can.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1586", "start": 11101.972, "end": 11114.32, "text": "But it also allows us to ensure that our impact in reducing carbon emissions goes beyond just our own city borders, which we will have to do if we really want to make a change bigger than ourselves.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1587", "start": 11116.469, "end": 11122.917, "text": "With that, I will wrap us up, though there is a lot more that we all could say.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1588", "start": 11123.478, "end": 11126.864, "text": "Thank you to everybody who was a part of our panels today.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1589", "start": 11127.409, "end": 11133.875, "text": "This is such critical work, and there is so much more work that we can and absolutely will take on.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1590", "start": 11134.532, "end": 11142.843, "text": "I appreciate everyone making the time, and I just will note a thank you to my team because I know it took a lot of work to coordinate this many panels on a single time.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1591", "start": 11142.891, "end": 11142.987, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1592", "start": 11143.603, "end": 11149.275, "text": "And I, as always, appreciate the work that my staff puts into making things happen for our committee.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1593", "start": 11150.04, "end": 11152.166, "text": "Colleagues, we will be back in 2 weeks.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1594", "start": 11152.263, "end": 11153.935, "text": "With that, I will adjourn our meeting.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1595", "start": 11157.533, "end": 11157.922, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sonrisa Cooper" } ] }