CITY-COUNTY ADVISORY BOARD ON CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY

200 E. Wells Street City of Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 Meeting Minutes CITY-COUNTY TASK FORCE ON CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY Ald. Nik Kovac and Marcelia Nicholson, Co-Chairs Pam Fendt, Linda Frank, Julie Kerksick, Ted Kraig, Janet Meissner Pritchard, Supreme Moore Omokunde, Pamela Ritger, Erick Shambarger, and Rafael Smith Staff Assistant: Linda Elmer, lelmer@milwaukee.gov, 414-286-2231 Legislative Liason: Luke Knapp, luke.knapp@milwaukee.gov, 414-286-8637 Google documents for this body can be found at : http://bit.ly/CCTFCEE Thursday, March 25, 2021 1:30 PM Virtual Adaptation and Climate Resilience Work Group Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85637283606?pwd=S0ZqMWlyaVZtQVJuMS9PcHF2YUU5Zz09 Meeting ID: 856 3728 3606 Passcode: 729304 One tap mobile +13017158592,,85637283606# US (Washington DC) +13126266799,,85637283606# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 856 3728 3606 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/keEXFRVURU 1. Call to order. 1:35 p.m. City of Milwaukee Page 1 CITY-COUNTY TASK FORCE ON Meeting Minutes March 25, 2021 CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY 2. Roll call Jamie Ferschinger, Rebecca Gries, Meg McKenna, Laura Herrick, John Willis Gardner, Urbain Boudjou, Cheryl Nenn and Pam Ritger 3. Review and vote to approve meeting minutes from 3.11.2021 meeting Meg moves to approve, Rebecca seconds. 4. Brainstorm and discuss policy and project ideas for this Adaptation and Climate Resilience Work Group focused around the following categories - Extreme weather and flooding - Managing extreme heat - The Work Group moved to the publicly available spreadsheet to continue adding ideas there. We talked about extreme heat, and ways Milwaukeeans could manage the heat, including having pools, splash pads, green spaces, etc. and how having sufficient funding for Milwaukee County Parks was a critical piece of maintaining these amenities and, ideally, expanding them. - We also discussed accessibility or facilities that could serve as cooling centers in the City and County of Milwaukee. - Pam will also reach out to Nick Tamara at the City of Milwaukee regarding recent surveying he conducted over the past year on extreme heat, cooling centers, and related topics. - We also talked a lot about water safety and adequate funding to provide that (lifeguards) but also opportunities for swimming lessons, etc. - We discussed inviting the Hispanic Collaborative(?) to come and speak at one of our meetings regarding how the Hispanic/Latino population is growing fairly rapidly in Wisconsin and Milwaukee. Rebecca will discuss that with her contacts there. - We further discussed needing to include some anti-displacement policy recommendations in our Work Group’s recommendations, to avoid the threat of what has been deemed “climate gentrification” where existing, lower-income residents could be displaced by new people moving to the Milwaukee area due its better positioning the manage climate change impacts. 5. Call for future agenda items and discuss/prep for next meeting - Pam will create a few more documents in the shared folder: one for standing research questions and another for Stakeholders we would like to review the Adaptation and Climate Resilience Work Group recommendations once they are complete. Pam will also send the Work Group a number of articles discussing potential climate migration within the U.S., though there have not been conclusive studies or projected population increases to Milwaukee induced by climate change yet – more just studies of the places where people in the U.S. will need to move from due mostly to sea-level rise, City of Milwaukee Page 2 CITY-COUNTY TASK FORCE ON Meeting Minutes March 25, 2021 CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY but also more extreme heat in the southeastern U.S., or other locations. 6. Adjourn meeting 2:32 p.m. Minutes provided by Pam Ritger. City of Milwaukee Page 3