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 Sup. Marcelia Nicholson, Co-Chairs Pam Fendt, Linda Frank, Julie Kerksick, Ted Kraig, Janet Meissner Pritchard, Supreme Moore Omokunde, Pamela Ritger, Erick Shambarger, Rafael Smith, and Freida Webb 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 Wednesday, April 28, 2021 10:00 AM Virtual Green Buildings Work Group Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87156655349?pwd=Vi9tbStvL0ZqRGJGSFVrZUhIcXdEdz09 Meeting ID: 871 5665 5349 Passcode: 622331 One tap mobile +13126266799,,87156655349# US (Chicago) +16465588656,,87156655349# US (New York) 1. Minute taker for this meeting. Following info to be recorded: • Call to order time. • Roll call • Actions (with votes) if appropriate (including approval of prior meeting minutes) • Appearances • Adjournment time 1. Call to order, roll call, minute taker; 10:06 Present, 28, (including guests and visitors): Pam Ritger (chair), Linda Frank, Ted Kraig, Kevin Kane, Cara Walls, Elizabeth Hittman Amanda Schienebeck, Glen Radford, Gordie Bennett, Jennifer Evans, Jill McClellan, Kathleen Ellis, Joseph Peletis, Maithilee Kanthi, Larry Kilmer (DCD), Michael Olen, Renee Clair, Rock Ridolfi, Ted Wilinski, Victor Nino, Yvonne McCaskill (left 10:44), Warren Jones, Jermaine Alexander, Kimya Green, Rob Zimmerman, Joseph Peletis, Erick Shambarger (project manager); Korinne Haeffel (10:15) City of Milwaukee Page 1 CITY-COUNTY TASK FORCE ON Meeting Minutes April 28, 2021 CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY Absent: Anne White, Celaneese Landon, Nathan Jurowski, Akira Mabon Guests Larry Hoffman Visitors None 2. Approve meeting minutes from April 14th meeting. 3. Discuss timeline for narrowing policy and project proposals to seek feedback from community members. Ritger gave an update on putting the Outreach briefly on hold Shambarger announced a Preliminary Proposal approved at the latest task force meeting for American Rescue Plan funds; we can refine that Evans said that Education/Outreach will meet on Monday and will contact the us after that with a timeline for participating in outreach Shambarger suggested topics for teams to address in breakout rooms 4. Discuss Building Codes Update at the state level and potential additions to statement from the Commercial Buildings sub-group. 5. Continue discussing policy/project ideas in Break-Out Rooms for Commercial Buildings, Residential Retrofits and Residential New Housing Strategies. The three subgroups met and then reported back to the full working group 6. Report-out from Break-Out room discussions. Retrofits - Ritger shared that Item 1 of ARP proposal was discussed; Plan B on that proposal will be our refinement which will be to bill for energy efficiency through the water utility in lieu of the electric and gas utility bill; follow up will be done with Pritchard and with director of Milwaukee Water Works; another element is expanding green mortgages and making sure that the term is at least 15 years; weatherization will be defined in terms of what improvements are included; economics of building electrification discussed; rebate programs to be highlighted; deferred home repair process will be explored Commercial – McClellan reported that Ellis presented on benchmarking; Energy Star software is free and can be used for benchmarking; professional sports teams to be approached; Shambarger says only large buildings, 25000 square feet minimum, are being modeled for benchmarking – disclosure of electric and gas usage, how much per square foot; City is setting up for successful mandatory benchmarking by addressing its own buildings; Better Buildings Challenge was intended to recruit amenable businesses to promote mandatory benchmarking; people don’t change what they don’t measure per Ellis – Chicago, San Francisco and others have passed this; City has collected its Energy Star data; County is working on it; this is to be used for City leading the way City’s draft letter on new Commercial Building Code recommendations was reviewed City of Milwaukee Page 2 CITY-COUNTY TASK FORCE ON Meeting Minutes April 28, 2021 CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY and some modifications made; it is to be presented to the task force for approval, then shared with Local Government Climate Coalition and possibly other groups and leaders, perhaps including Governor Evers; recommendation to adopt the most recent energy code - history is that last minute amendments will be proposed to ratchet it down based on weather challenges; the team proposes getting ahead of this, pointing out benefits to building owners of the new code, not watered down; Council member recruitment should include an expectation that the member be an advocate for energy conservation; some of our members are suggested for Council – Nino and McClellan, as well as Dave Madsen New Buildings by Shambarger – affordability of installation and maintenance of different heating and cooling systems was explored, with a concern that maintenance be affordable for low income residents; backup sources considered; modular homes and aging in place/accessibility was considered, such as no basement and few stairs in the design 7. Future meeting agenda items. Shambarger wants to know more about the retrofit programs currently in place McClellan had a request on how to weave equity into commercial recommendations Kraig brought up new property developments, esp. those requiring public support and new policies needed to address this, as urged by Hoffman; Hoffman stresses community engagement during the approval process for property developments and advocating for project modifications 8. Adjourn. 11:32 A.M. Minutes provides by Pam Ritger. City of Milwaukee Page 3