Historical - Climate Action Committee - 2020-2023

City of Bellingham Climate Action Committee Minutes August 29, 2022, 10:30 AM Mayor: Seth Fleetwood Contact: (360) 778-8100, mayorsoffice@cob.org Council Members: Kristina Michele Martens, Chair Contact: (360) 778-8200, ccmail@cob.org Daniel Hammill, Michael Lilliquist https://cob.org/council All meetings are held in the City Hall Council Chambers at 210 Lottie Street, Bellingham, WA, unless otherwise noted. Call to Order The Climate Action Committee was called to order by President Stone at 10:39am. Roll Call Present: Committee Chair Kristina Michele Martens, At Large Committee Member Daniel Hammill, Third Ward Committee Member Michael Lilliquist, Sixth Ward Council Standing Committee Meetings: Open to the public to attend. Note: there is generally no public comment period for Committee sessions. Standing Committee Members receive reports and information, ask questions and, when appropriate, vote on a recommended action for consideration by the full Council at the Regular Meeting. The notice of Committee Meetings identified below also serves as notice of Special Meetings of the City Council at the times identified as Council Members who are not members of the committee routinely attend and participate in the Committee Meetings. Committee Chairs give a report of the Committee Meeting at the Regular Meeting in the evening prior to deliberation and formal vote in the order shown below: 23426 1. Resolution Correcting Scrivener's Error in Resolution 2020-45 - p. 3 Amending the Climate Action Plan At the November 23, 2020 meeting, City Council approved Resolution #2020-45 to amend the Climate Action Plan to include new items from the Climate Action Task Force Report. City Council approved the resolution with changes to two of the ten items. One of those changes was inadvertently omitted in the final, signed version of Resolution #2020-45. The proposed resolution corrects this scrivener's error. Daniel Hammill moved approval of the amended resolution. MOTION CARRIED 3-0. Climate Action Committee Minutes Page 1 August 29, 2022 23427 2. Cool City Challenge p. 22 Clare Fogelsong, Public Works, presented on the City Council's request for staff to evaluate the Cool City Challenge and determine if the City of Bellingham should participate. The Cool Cities Challenge aims to motivate communities to be carbon neutral by 2030 with no offsets via a $1 million grant from the Empowerment Institute. Given the arduous application process, the redundancies with existing city programs, the limited carbon emission reductions, and the administration of 400 Cool Blocks staff recommends the City maintain focus on existing climate mitigation, adaptation, and outreach initiatives with higher emissions reductions benefits. Climate related outreach and education should continue to build on the ALL IN: for Climate Action campaign and consider including the concepts of the Cool City ideas in those programs when feasible. Councilmember Martens will follow-up with community members to see if they wish to take the lead on this project. Adjournment There being no further business, the committee adjourned at 11:00am. Climate Action Committee Minutes Page 2 August 29, 2022