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Home My WebLink About2017-05-24 CAC minutes final Jefferson County/City of Port Townsend Climate Action Committee Meeting Minutes Wednesday, May 24th, 2017, 3:30 - 5:30 PM Jefferson County Public Health, Port Townsend, WA Members Present: Laura Tucker, Sonja Hammer, Matt Ready (Jefferson Healthcare), Cindy Jayne, Deb Stinson, Darren Wilson (PTPC Environmental Manager), Kate Dean, David Wilkinson Absent: Eric Toews, Scott Walker, Jeff Randall, Tammi Rubert, Staff: Laura Tucker, Jefferson County Guests: Kate Chadwick, Mike Doherty, Bob Roche Scribes: Laura Tucker and Cindy Jayne Topic Recommendation/Action Call to order 3:32PM. Did brief introductions. Approval of Agenda & Minutes Motion to approve agenda by Deborah Stinson, second by Kate Dean, approved. Motion to approve March 8, 2017 minutes by Deborah Stinson, second by Kate Dean, approved. Public Comment No comments. Goals for 2017 Kate - Jefferson County BOCC Mitigation: • building a covered bike rack at the Courthouse • lighting at the Courthouse has been almost completely converted to LED lighting Adaptation: • Potential goal of inclusion of climate change preparedness into the updated county comprehensive plan. Will discuss further at CAC presentation to BOCC. • flood plain acquisition in Quilcene, Duckabush • building more bike trails • looking at connecting the Larry Scott Trail to the Olympic Discovery Trail • putting in electric vehicle charging stations at the Park-n-Ride Deb – City of Port Townsend: Mitigation: LED lighting currently being switched out throughout the City; possibly completed by the end of the year; working in partnership with the PUD; it’s a process due to adjusting the height of the lights, color balance, etc. Matt - Jefferson Healthcare: Mitigation: • Green Committee is up and going again! Matt is moving them to reducing their carbon footprint • Laura offered to help the hospital with their recycling program by giving a presentation to the Green Committee about what is recyclable in Jefferson County; she offered a training slide show that can be used by the Green Committee with hospital staff Adaptation: • Cindy offered to provide assistance for adaptation planning Darren – PTPC: Mitigation: • currently produce a lot of solid waste and are looking to mitigate the amount generated and how the materials are used • using reverse osmosis system for de-mineralizing the water resources; could save a few thousand gallons a day Adaptation: Suggestion to consider adding a goal related to water usage given projections for reduction in snowpack and summer precipitation Sonja - Energy Mitigation: • electric bike sharing program • also looking at a shared fossil fuel vehicle, especially a truck • looking at ways to get insurance coverage to cover shared vehicles CAC / Emergency management Cindy and Kate met to discuss the county’s plan for emergency management resulting from climate change issues • Lynn Sterbenz (Director of Emergency Management) enthusiastic to be involved with the CAC, she will look to attend a future meeting • Jefferson County/City of Port Townsend Hazard Mitigation Plan approved; now being moved up to the state level, then FEMA • Lynn steering the Natural Hazards Planning Committee; perhaps she could have a member with a climate change focus on the committee; CAC could be a resource CAC update to City and County councils – review draft PowerPoint Cindy presented slides to solicit input from the committee on a proposed presentation to the BOCC; members provided input to fine tune the presentation • Cindy asked Darren to provide an update on GHG from Port Townsend Paper; Kate Dean has appropriate data that can be provided as well • Cindy cited the following: - SEPA guidance for GHG emissions as well as King County’s Executive Order PUT 7-10-1 - City of Olympia’s 2014 Work Plan for Climate Preparedness - Clallam County’s Resolution encouraging emergency management and DCD to consider climate mitigation and adaptation measures for their comp plan • Cindy reviewed the proposed CAC recommendations Recent Events: • Cindy thanked Kate and Deb for speaking at the Climate March in Port Angeles on April 29th • King Tide Project this Saturday, May 27th with a high tide at 7:48PM  Local 20/20 Taming Bigfoot had an anniversary meeting, with check in’s on individual’s current footprint.  Cindy presented update on adaptation progress to the Strait Ecoystem Recovery Network Public Comment Kate Chadwick asked what this committee is doing for funding to implement climate action and implementation. Does it get embedded in the City/County budget? What about private, state or federal funding? In response to that comment, Kate Dean mentioned that the North Olympic Development Council has maintained implementation of the Climate Action Plan as a near term action in the Puget Sound Partnership (PSP) Action Plan. The North Olympic Peninsula climate change preparedness plan was the first funded by the EPA and sets local jurisdictions up for priority funding in the future. Applications for PSP funding are due this summer. The City is currently tasking their advisory boards for seeking various funding sources. This would be an appropriate ask from this committee to the City. CAC members agreed to add to the CAC updates to the county and citya recommendation that seeking funding for local climate mitigation and adaptation be added to the CAC’s work plan Next Steps & Agenda Planning It was agreed that the next meeting will be on August 23rd, 2017, 3:30 – 5:30 pm. Jeff will scribe. [Note: after the meeting, the next meeting was changed to July 26th, 2017, 3:30 – 5:30 pm, see below]. Agenda items: - brainstorm near term actions in the Puget Sound Partnership and City funding cycles - update on ideas from the Local 20/20 Climate Outreach group Adjourn The meeting was adjourned at 5:42 p.m. Next Meeting Next meeting is scheduled for July 26th, 2017, 3:30-5:30 pm, at the Jefferson County Public Health Pacific conference room, 615 Sheridan Street.