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, October 13, 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 Attendance ( members): Pam Ritger, chair, Linda Frank, Anne White, Renee Clair, Rock Ridolfi, left 11:00, Victor Nino, Glen Radford, Cara Walls, Jennifer Evans, joined 10:16; Dan Kalkman Absent: Freida Webb – NAACP, Yvonne McCaskill, Erick Shambarger , Kathleen Ellis, Ted Kraig, Korinne Haeffel, Michael Olen, Rob Zimmerman, Jermaine Alexander Guests/Visitors: Diane (community member), Dayona Rimmer (Public Allies) City of Milwaukee Page 1 CITY-COUNTY TASK FORCE ON Meeting Minutes October 13, 2021 CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY Minute taker for this meeting, Linda Frank and Pam Ritger. Following info to be recorded: • Call to order time, 11:06 • Roll call o Ritger announced that guest, Dayona Rimmer, is with Public Allies • Actions (with votes) if appropriate (including approval of prior meeting minutes) • Appearances • Adjournment time 2. Approve minutes from 9.29.21 Green Buildings Work Group meeting. Motion by Evans/Kalkman to approve with one amendment and with no objections, minutes were approved as amended 3. Review Residential Retrofit recommendation language Ritger presented a summary that she prepared of the recommendations from our work group on this topic; she will check with Shambarger on whether we need to complete the Chapter Template; Ritger aims to get a general summary right now that the group can approve and submit to the report-drafting expert Breakout Room for Residential Retrofits, 10:45 – 11:00; discussion of Ritger’s summary – Ritger confirmed that the summary is based on the Green & Healthy Homes approach; Health Dept. and ECO are both contracting with GHHI; $28M in ARPA funding for lead abatement and energy efficiency has good potential of passing; it was suggested that energy efficiency should be listed in front of lead abatement in our report; Kane noted that only one contractor in the City performs both lead and efficiency work; these are two quite different types of work; Milwaukee Lead and Asbestos does it and offers trainings but the trainings are not attracting students; however, we are looking at fully embracing the GHHI approach 4. Review updates to Commercial Buildings recommendations Ritger shared a summary of the recommendations; large commercial buildings (which inclues industrial buildings) account for 37% of buildings emissions; reductions targets must vary per building depending on the baseline for that building per Nino, so that portion of the summary should be modified and Nino will write the revisions; Energy Star score below 75 could be the determining factor per Ridolfi; DC created community-based targets based on the DC baseline; EUI, Energy Use Index is a measure for each building type; Ridolfi reminded us that we had discussed starting with benchmarking and following up with performance targets later; this should be reflected in the summary; Ritger will contact the Council Secretary re the application of Dave Madsen, who has energy efficiency expertise, for an open seat on the Council; White noted that Indianapolis exluded industrial buildings from their benchmarking and performance ordinance. 5. Presentation from City of Indianapolis staff and partners regarding their passage of a Commercial Benchmarking Ordinance. Presentation from City of Indianapolis staff and partners regarding their passage of a Commercial Benchmarking Ordinance. Morgan Mickelson, Amber Rose Greaney and Doug Fick presented the Indianapolis City of Milwaukee Page 2 CITY-COUNTY TASK FORCE ON Meeting Minutes October 13, 2021 CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY experience; Joe also joined by phone Fick, CMTA firm, consulting engineer, involved with ASHRAE Mickelson,Office of Sustainability Director Greaney, Office of Sustainability; she is taking over the benchmarking project Mickelson gave a presentation Thrive Indianapolis is the anme of their plan Stakeholders were identified; 12-15 one-on-one meetings were held with large corporations to identify champions; notices were sent out informing people of the process underway; Greenlink Analytics was utilized; did socializing of the plan with the public and elected officials; public comment period was offered; standard recommendation is to exclude manufacturing industrial buildings because of the difficulty in separating process energy from building energy use; it is important for the utilities to supply the necessary data which may require updating of their systems especially in terms of tracking tenant energy usage info; getting the largest corporation on board was critical to bringing the public along; passing an ordinanace is a critical first step; American Cities Climate Challenge helped with identifying stakeholders and Mickelson took advantage of the assistance; equity issues were addressed by offering resources to building owners so that they did not need to hire outside help to comply; equity capacity building fund is planned – underinvested communities, BIPOC, non-English speaking and other indicators will be taken into account; ordinance was drafted; stakeholder mapping was done; outreach began; socializing with elected officials; ordinance passed; IMT identified their stakeholders and found primary contacts for each one; large employers is a starting point; White is doing the mapping for our group; it needs to be whittled down for forming focus groups; you can put out a call for applications to participate in a task force/focus group; stakeholder list is on the website; make a record that you have reached out to an organization, even if they decide not to participate; look at major employers who would benefit from it, like electrical contractors; Greenlink did an estimate of money saved and emissions reduced based on number of buildings and square footage to be included in the benchmarking and performance standards; Ritger raised a question of whether the County could pass such an ordinance; Unigov exists in Indianapolis; outreach was addressed in an amendment that committed to do at least 4 events each year during implementation; 4-year implementation timeline put people at ease; first voluntary phase is currently happening; Mickelson can answer questions for Evans and the Education/Outreach group; small businesses are not directly impacted but landlords that are large building owners may need to reach out to the small business tenant for energy usage data 6. Suggestions of future meeting agenda items. Suggestions of future meeting agenda items. None 7. Adjourn. Adjourn at 11:39 Minutes provided by Pam Ritger. City of Milwaukee Page 3