Sustainability Committee

Minutes of the regular meeting of the Natural Resources and Sustainability Stewardship Advisory Committee held Thursday, October 28th, 2021, at 4:00 p.m. at the Ogden City Municipal Building, 2549 Washington Blvd., 7 th floor conference room, Ogden, Weber County, Utah and via electronic web conferencing in accordance with Utah Code 52-4-202. Members Present: Adam Tobey Bill Hackett Bonnie Christiansen Joe Linford Aimee Urbina Makenzie Truong Riley Allen Heather Root Bridget Barkema Jonathan Melton Members Excused: Ex-Officio: Jay Lowder Ross Watkins Mara Brown Meggin Hill Guests: CALL TO ORDER / WELCOME / ROLL CALL Adam welcomed the committee members and called the meeting to order. Meggin called the roll. APPROVAL OF SEPTEMBER 23RD MEETING MINUTES Bill made a motion to approve the minutes and Heather seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously. INTRODUCTION OF NEW COMMITTEE MEMBER New committee member, Jonathan Melton, introduced himself to the committee. The Committee welcomed him as a new member. STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATE Bill reported that he went through the survey that was sent out to all committee members to give input for their ideas on strategic goals and pulled out three main goals that could be used for the strategic plan. These goals are: o Climate o Connection Connection with Ogden City administration (Mayor, CAO, & City Council) Connection with Weber State University Connection with citizens Connection with Ogden City businesses o Sustainability staff person/manager for Ogden City There was a brief discussion regarding these goals and the committee decided these would be the goals used for the strategic plan. Heather made a motion to adopt these goals and have Bill put them in a written document and Bonnie seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Bill will put these goals into a written document SUBCOMMITTEE RESTRUCTURING DISCUSSION A brief discussion was conducted regarding subcommittee restructuring. The committee decided that they would have three subcommittees based on the strategic goals that were approved. o Climate subcommittee 1|Page  o Connection/outreach subcommittee o Ogden City Sustainability Staff Member subcommittee Adam will create a survey to send out to committee members to find out which members want to be on what Bonnie made a motion to adopt these three subcommittees. Heather seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously. HB 411 UPDATES Mara, Jay, and Ross gave an update to the committee regarding HB 411. The date for the City Council to vote on HB 411 has been extended to April so the City Council has more time to conduct a survey on HB 411. Qualtrics will no longer be used as the survey company because they only offer emailed surveys and were quite expensive. The City has survey software called Survey 123 in place that could be used to conduct a survey with Ogden City residents. Everything is still in the planning phase and there are no definitive answers right now. their input can be shared with City Council. Aimee asked if the committee could be involved to knock on doors to support the survey initiative. Heather and could be swayed. Also, the survey needs to be conducted by people who are trained in conducting surveys, so the results are accurate. COMMITTEE OPEN DISCUSSION Jay and Mara informed the committee that Ogden City had received the Legacy Blue Sky Award from Rocky Mountain Power for switching out all their Christmas Village lights to LED and switching out most of the lights in the City to LED. This award is quite an accomplishment and honor for Ogden City. The Committee had a brief discussion on tasks that each subcommittee could work on. These include water conservation and air quality recommendations to City Council. Heather asked Ross where the City Council was on the clean air recommendations that Bonnie sent them. Ross said the committee should narrow the items down and make a specific ask, instead of several general recommendations. The subcommittees can discuss this and decide what items should be submitted. PUBLIC COMMENT No public comment. DELIVERABLES FOR NEXT MEETING Prepare strategic plan goals into written document- Bill Hackett Send survey for subcommittee restructuring to committee members- Adam Tobey Send questions for HB 411 survey to Jay Lowder- Committee Members ADJOURNMENT With no further business, Adam adjourned the meeting at 5:30 p.m. NEXT MEETING Thursday, December 9th, 2021, at 4:00 p.m. 2|Page __________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ Jay M. Lowder Adam Tobey, Chair Ogden City Public Services Director ________________________________________________ Mara A. Brown Ogden City Management Services Director Date Approved: _____________________________ 3|Pa ge