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Parks and Environmental Commission Regular Meeting Minutes December 4, 2023 Page 5 1 Energy, and Transportation. The City Council will review the Climate Plan for adoption at 2 their December 12, 2023 Meeting. The Annual Goal Setting scheduled in January will review 3 prioritization of Climate Plan action steps for 2024. 4 5 Chair Bordeau stated this would not be possible without the work of City Staff and WSB. She 6 loves Appendix A. This is a sort of Train the Trainer where learnings are provided to the 7 community. 8 9 Commissioner Holliday referred to Transportation the second initiative, under policy the 10 second bullet adding the word to “encouraging”. 11 12 Chair Bordeau suggested it be requiring or encouraging adding some flexibility to the 13 language. Mr. Yunker suggested the word encourage be used. 14 15 Commissioner Doolan referred to Appendix A – Under Water the last initiative. Changing the 16 word from strongest to resilient tree species. Under Waste, education third bullet should be 17 moved under third initiative. Under Waste, the last bullet the Operation Staff tracking should 18 be changed from water to waste. Under Energy, increase usage of renewables, the last bullet is 19 a duplicate. Under transportation – reduce avoidable emissions – implement infrastructure for 20 high speed access that enables residents to work remotely. This would be more 21 measurable/tangible. 22 23 Commissioner Fee noted on page 9 remove “are”. On page 10 there needs to be words added 24 regarding community engagement. On page 28, natural should be capitalized and on page 31, 25 the last two bullets are the same. 26 27 Dog Park Discussion. 28 29 City Manager Yunker stated this was requested to be put on the agenda by the Commission. 30 Commissioner Guest asked if the City Council had any feedback on options provided. Mr. 31 Yunker stated it didn’t make it into a priority. The Mayor had mentioned a possible dog park 32 at Silverwood. The Mayor reached out to Silverwood and was told that isn’t something they 33 would look at doing. 34 35 Commissioner Doolan stated she was at the Council Meeting where this was discussed and it 36 was a 2:2 vote. There was discussion about having one at Highway 88 and if that was too 37 close to a run-off space. She spoke with someone at MWMO and she was directed to Rice 38 Creek where there is a dog park next to the creek and as long as BMP’s are put in place that is 39 allowed. 40 41 Commissioner Guest asked if this should be put back on the agenda in January or should 42 Commissioners start talking to the County Board to try and use the parcel on 88 as a dog park. 43 Mr. Yunker suggested keeping it on the Work Plan. 44 45 Commissioner Holliday recommended advising the Council the Parks and Environmental 46 Commission will continue to look at the feasibility of a Dog Park.