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1:36:35 All right, returning to the work plan. The priority projects that we are including in this work plan are intended to align with council's direction from earlier this year. One of the biggest priorities that council expressed was that we get our own house in order and work work aggressively to meet our municipal greenhouse gas reduction targets. As you can see in the pie chart of our 2023 municipal greenhouse gas emissions our biggest emission categories from the city's operations are water and wastewater treatment plant accounting for nearly half of our emissions footprint. Our buildings and facilities all of the energy required to operate those comes in next at about 23 percent and then fleet is accounts for 11 percent of our municipal emissions so accordingly we'll be prioritizing a wastewater solids renewal program that minimizes emissions building energy efficiency and clean energy product projects for city facilities and the

1:37:35 development of a road map towards full fleet decarbonization. Other work plan items like a tree canopy expansion goal and sidewalk infill goals are in response to that feedback we've gotten through community engagement and we'll address the second goal from council of projects that will make a tangible difference in our residents day-to-day lives. I think it's also worth noting that all of the projects that we have listed here are underway by city departments so this is outlining some specific goals and targets for us to achieve under these different categories with our with cooperation from all of our departments. This is also not a comprehensive list just a couple of examples to illustrate how we're responding to council's earlier direction. At this time we expect the work plan to include the elements that you see here. In 2027 after we know the outcome of the budget process we'll finalize the development of performance measures to accompany the

1:38:33 work plan elements. What gets funded this year through the biennium budget process will have a big impact on what we're able to accomplish over the next five years. All right on to the fun part community engagement. Our small team has been very busy this summer thanks to the extra capacity provided by our climate fellow Lexi and our excellent summer intern Ezekiel Wells both courtesy of the Bloomberg Harvard city leadership program. The climate team has connected with nearly 600 community members at 22 outreach events across the city. This includes the council community forum in June. Many of our council members here attended thank you so much for being a part of those conversations. We've also had tabling sessions at community centers libraries and city-wide events like the waterfront concert series movies in the park and community fence festivals like Juneteenth and the

1:39:30 pollinator festival. The one planned event that the climate team didn't make it to was the national night out on august 4th that had to be rescheduled on account of wildfire smoke and extreme heat. We also hosted four events for pacific northwest climate week and conducted an online survey which we'll go into a little more detail next. We also have a few other activities like presenting to neighborhood associations on request but this has kept us pretty busy this summer. And just a quick note on pacific northwest climate week we wanted to call out this part of the engagement program to highlight some of our great partners. Pacific northwest climate week is a regional celebration of climate action that extends from Vancouver bc to Eugene origin or Oregon that brings people together for fun interactive events education civic participation and community building.

1:40:26 Vancouver was participating in climate week for its first time this year and thanks to some great partners including waste connections clark county our own solid waste and urban forestry programs and even the fort vancouver pipe band the city hosted four events for our community members. We all get by with a little help from our friends but we truly could not have done this without these great partners. In particular urban forestry's excellent heritage tree ride was booked to capacity and got a wonderful write-up in the columbians so if you haven't gotten a chance to join that that ride or they also have a walking tour please try to add it to your schedule so it's really a treat. All right and i will pass it over to Lexi to talk about the survey. Thanks so much Rebecca good afternoon mayor and councilors. Another key part of our climate engagement this summer has been the online survey that was really designed to understand residents concerns and priorities related to climate action all across the

1:41:26 city and i want to give a big shout out to our intern Rebecca mentioned Zeke Wells who really played a pivotal role in the design outreach and analysis of the survey. Fortunately he's already back in Boston getting geared up to start back up at school so he can't be with us today but i'm going to share a little bit about how we got out in the community and what some of the findings were that we heard. So outreach was conducted through lots of different community event tablings at the concert series and movies in the park across the city as well as placing flyers around the city at everyday locations that residents frequent just in case that we want to be able to ensure that we reach people that are not