Sustainability Committee

Minutes of the regular meeting of the Natural Resources and Sustainability Stewardship Advisory Committee held Thursday, December 9th, 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 Jonathan Melton Members Excused: Heather Root Makenzie Truong Riley Allen Bridget Barkema 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 OCTOBER 22ND MEETING MINUTES Joe made a motion to approve the minutes and Aimee seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously. FLIP THE STRIP PRESENTATION- AMBER CORBRIDGE Amber Corbridge with Ogden City that Ogden City is looking to implement (see recording for full presentation). This is still in the planning phase and any suggestions or comments regarding the program by Committee members are welcome. Please send those questions or comments to Amber Corbridge at ambercorbridge@ogdencity.com. EV CHARGING STATION STUDY PRESENTATION- JENN BODINE & WSU STUDENTS Jenn Bodine and several students from Weber State University gave a presentation on their EV Charging Station Study (see recording for full presentation). This was a well-received presentation and we thank all the students for their hard work! STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATE- BILL HACKETT The strategic plan has been completed and approved by all committee members. Adam will put the strategic plan into a document that can be reviewed by city staff. Once this document is approved by city staff, it will 1|Page SUBCOMMITTEE RESTRUCTURING DISCUSSION The Committee decided to change the name of one of the sub-committees from the Climate sub-committee to the Climate and Clean Air sub-committee. Adam will send out a spreadsheet asking everyone which sub- committee they would like to be on and have that information for the next meeting. Please choose a specific committee instead of doing a rank choice. You can be on multiple committees, but remember to make sure all committees are represented fairly equal. HB 411 UPDATES Jay stated that the city is still in the rough draft stage of the survey and when they get something more substantial, they will bring it to the committee for their input. He also wanted to remind everyone to send him questions for the survey. COMMITTEE OPEN DISCUSSION Jonathan and Bill worked on a water conservation ordinance draft that they had intended to submit to the city for review. Jonathan stated that the Ogden City Planning department is doing great work with their proposed flip the strip program and would like the committee to look at his ordinance draft and the presentation that the planning department gave to start a discussion with ideas or questions on this topic. This can be talked about further in our next meeting. rdinance draft will be sent out to all committee members. Bonnie stated that the January meeting will be the last meeting that she will be attending. She will be resigning from the Committee in January because of work and personal conflicts. We thank her so much for her participation on the Committee. Ross He stated that the City Council is very concerned about water conservation, and they decided they would be putting a large portion of money into some sort of water conservation program necessarily put in place for the , however since the planning department was working on program before City Council talked about putting money into a program, they may put more money towards the program and also may come up with other ideas as welcome to give input. Jay stated they are also looking at redoing the irrigation systems on three city facilities so the city can take the lead on water conservation. PUBLIC COMMENT No public comment. DELIVERABLES FOR NEXT MEETING Prepare strategic plan goals into written document- Adam Tobey Send survey for sub-committee restructuring to committee members- Adam Tobey Send questions for HB 411 survey to Jay Lowder- Committee Members Send all presentations and water conservation ordinance draft to committee members- Meggin Hill Send any questions/input/comments regarding the flip the strip program to Amber Corbridge- Committee Members ADJOURNMENT With no further business, Adam adjourned the meeting. 2|Page NEXT MEETING Thursday, January 27th, 2022, at 4:00 p.m. at the Ogden Municipal Building, 7 th Floor conference room, and via Zoom. APPROVAL SIGNATURES __________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ Jay M. Lowder Adam Tobey, Chair Ogden City Public Services Director ________________________________________________ Mara A. Brown Ogden City Management Services Director th January 27 , 2022 Date Approved: _____________________________ 3|Pa ge