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, June 23, 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 Minute taker for this meeting, Linda Frank. Following info to be recorded: • Call to order time, 10:05 • Roll call - Pamela Ritger, chair; Jennifer Evans, Linda Frank, Anne White, Erick Shambarger, Ted Wilinski, Jermaine Alexander, Glen Radford (left 11:23), Michael Olen, Yvonne McCaskill (left 11:23), Rock Ridolfi (left 11:23), Victor Nino (left 11:23), Ted Kraig, Korinne Haeffel; Kathleen Ellis (joined 11:23), George Martin (joined 11:23) • Guest Pepita Johnson-Supervisor • Visitor Frieda Webb, 10:20 City of Milwaukee Page 1 CITY-COUNTY TASK FORCE ON Meeting Minutes June 23, 2021 CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY 2. Approve minutes from 6.9.21 Green Buildings Work Group meeting On motion of Evans and no objections, and with one minor revision, the minutes were approved. 3. Reminders: June 24th Virtual Kick-off event and July 7th meeting cancelled Many working group members did not receive the invitation; Ritger will resend it; the registration link was also shared in the chat. July 7th Green Buildings meeting cancelled; next meeting is planned for July 21st 4. Update and request from Jennifer Evans for volunteers to organize events to gain community feedback on Green Buildings recommendations Social Pinpoint platform will be used for public feedback Events proposed by Education/Outreach group Virtual events Simple Zoom Q&A on particular proposals Green Buildings could do one on commercial buildings Target this event to the real estate community In person events Green Buildings – energy efficiency and retrofits Target this to residents Community meetings to explore concerns and obstacles should be included in the planning, per Haeffel More details on the actual proposal will be helpful prior to the event These events could reach people without much access to technology Shambarger points out that many of the proposals address low-income populations; we need to reach these populations and communicate to them how they will benefit from the proposals Ritger commented that in future certain organizations could be solicited for feedback on more specific proposals from the task force 5. Opportunity for further discussion of ICLEI modeling results Shambarger reported that a deep retrofit would be required in order to achieve a greater result than the 2% that was modeled; 15% energy savings per home that was modeled could potentially be bumped up to as much as 30% Electrification of buildings must be highlighted and planned out in order for us to achieve the modeled results Affordability of energy efficiency and electrification is a critical piece for getting customers on board The utility portion of the model is the largest; We Energies has committed to zero carbon by 2050 and the PSC is working on a Roadmap to Zero; economics and pressure in the industry seem to be driving this turn around in renewable energy adoption by We Energies City of Milwaukee Page 2 CITY-COUNTY TASK FORCE ON Meeting Minutes June 23, 2021 CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY 6. Discuss outstanding issues on draft policy and project recommendations in Break-Out Rooms for Commercial Buildings and Residential Retrofits. 7. Report-out from Break-Out room discussions. Residential Retrofits – discussed filling the gap between LIHEAP and ME2; explored reaching people with incomes just above current eligibility guidelines based on federal poverty level; discussed Green Box proposal Commercial – they are essentially done; however, Shambarger pointed out that the performance standards must be worked on 8. Review and approve draft policies and projects for community feedback. 9. Suggestions of future meeting agenda items. Martin announced that information may be forthcoming from Congresswoman Gwen Moore’s office on federal legislation related to energy; this is pursuant to a request by 350.org Milwaukee 10. Adjourn. Adjourn at 11:34 AM City of Milwaukee Page 3