Minutes_Resilient Community Advisory Commission 6 6 19 Copyrighted
July 1, 2019
City of Dubuque Consent Items # 1.
ITEM TITLE: Minutes and Reports Submitted
SUMMARY: City Council proceedings of 6/17; Five Flags Civic Center
Advisory Commission of 5/28; Housing Commission of
4/23, 5/28; Resilient Community Advisory Commission of
6/6; Transit Advisory Board of 6/20; Proof of publication for
City Council Proceedings of 6/3; Proof of publication for
List of Claims and Summary of Revenues for Month
Ending 5/31.
SUGGESTED DISPOSITION: Suggested Disposition: Receive and File
ATTACHMENTS:
Description Type
City Council Proceedings of 6/17/19 Supporting Documentation
Five Flags Civic CenterAdvisory Commission Minutes Supporting Documentation
of 5/28/19
Housing Commission Minutes of 4/23/19 Supporting Documentation
Housing Commission Minutes of 5/28/19 Supporting Documentation
TransitAdvisory Board Minutes of 6/20/19 Supporting Documentation
Resilient Community Advisory Commission Minutes of Supporting Documentation
6/6/19
Proof of Publication for City Council Proceedings of Supporting Documentation
6/4/19
Proof of Publication for List of Claims/Summary of Supporting Documentation
Revenues for ME 5/31/19
City of Dubuque
COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES
GOVERNMENTAL BODY: Resilient Community Advisory Commission
DATE: June 6, 2019
TIME: 5:00 pm
LOCATION: Main Conference Room
Jules Operations and Training Center, 949 Kerper Blvd., Dubuque IA 52001
MEMBERS PRESENT: Dean Boles, Lalith Jayawickrama, Robin Kennicker, Carrie Lohrmann, Laura Roussell, Leah Specht.
MEMBERS ABSENT: Sara Booth, Adam Hoffman, Jake Kohlhaas
STAFF PRESENT: Gina Bell, Sustainable Community Coordinator
Chair Specht called the meeting to order at 5:07 pm. Bell confirmed the meeting was in compliance with the lowa Open Meeting
Law.
TEST AGENDA
PUBLIC COMMENT: Wanjiku Gatua introduced herself to the Commission. She is working as the Sustainability Fellow for the
City of Dubuque this summer. She will focus her work on increasing equity and sustainability in the procurement process.
MINUTES APPROVAL: Motion by Commissioner Roussell to approve minutes. Seconded by Commissioner Kennicker.
Motion carries.
SUSTAINABLE DUBUQUE GRANTS—OUTREACH PLAN CREATION: Commission provided ideas of how to attract more
projects to apply for Sustainable Dubuque grants. Discussion as follows:
• Farmers Market- booth with brochures from past grantees
• Reach out to schools with suggestion that every school should have a garden and greenhouse and they should all be
applying.
• Schools - mailer/something to pass out
• Share an "Ideas LisY'of possible projects that an individual or group could apply and implement to show the
potential of scope or inspire new ideas and projects.
• Put poster boards up at university and teacher trainings - (use $$to make this -a visual in every school!!)
• A printable poster &share widely. Have Green lowa put up posters.
• Highlight-a broad swath of funded projects
• WEB of Life at UD- reach-out to them +Jake can help at Loras
• Audubon Society
• Google on City's website -of all past grantees with descriptions (ideally a link to their application and their reports)
discussion about quantity-of grant award.
• Imagine Dubuque - pitch it at these outreach events
• Sustainable Dubuque and City's website - if someone Googles Sustainable Dubuque grant
• Neighborhood Association grants - share this information cross referenced; come to an association meeting or reach
out to the
• Ask past grantees if we can share their information as a resource
• A video with past grantees sharing what they did (use council clips +and interview)
• KDTH
• City Newsletter-Water bills, etc.
• Facebook/ IG/Snapchat
• lowa Public Radio/ PBS/ lowa Public TV
• send Lalith info for his August faculty meeting
SUSTAINABLE DUBUQUE COMMUNITY GRANT—REPORTS: Commissioners requested a clarification about what was
included in the reports. Bell explained that one was an example of a brochure and the file that was unopenable was a thank
you note/shared success of Winter Farmers Market (round 18 recipient). Received and filed.
GHG INVENTORY REPORT: Received and filed with the following suggestions: use bar graphs not pie charts to show change
and give more information to help understand/ interpret as well as offer a comparison to other similar sized cities. Don't
like the pie chart usage to show comparative data.
Questions: If US GHG is rising, why is Dubuque different?Are people changing behavior or is it just that there are more
renewables +the WRRC renovation?
CLIMATE ACTION PLAN: Plan for action includes CAP Update and Outreach. The consultant will update the plan—make it
more visually appealing as well as update the actions.
Commissioners will have conversations in lieu of the July meeting and Bell will provide questions/conversation starters.
Commissioners will capture responses to share at August meeting.
Additional discussion around the Climate Action Plan: What green companies can we attract? New companies?Are we
asking those questions? Request was made to include this is the 50°� by 2030 Plan. Are we planning for what exists or what
is about to come? Can we include the following partners in our CAP work and provide suggestions for their work?
• GDDC
• Chamber
• School District
• Grocery/Industries suggestions
• John Deere -can we see their sustainability plans?Can we see one from HyVee?
Bell will follow up on these requests and report to Commission.
SUMMER MEETING SCHEDULE FOR RCAC: July meeting (which falls on July 4) will be canceled and the Commission will next
meet on August 1 ,2019. Commissioners will use the time to interview residents about climate change and the upcoming
Climate Action Plan.
INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT PLAN: City plans to add 6 pesticide free parks this summer bringing the total to 16. The
IPM team will continue to assess if more parks can be added. Commissioners discussed other alternative products we can
use and Commissioner Lorhmann suggested instead of considering new products, we consider how we can do things
differently. Commissioners also requested we pass along kudos to Leisure Services for all they do to keep our City beautiful
and their efforts to adapt and change what they are doing in terms of IPM strategies. AND, keep using goats!
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF SOLID WASTE OPERATIONS& RATE REVIEW REPORT: Commissioners discussed the report
and thought it lacked a "Now what?" section. They pondered the effectiveness of a survey and weren't sure of its purpose.
What are the next steps?Commission requested that staff inember, Bell, reach out to Resource Management staff to help
answer these questions. Are budget recommendations in order?What are incentives for businesses that are minimizing
waste and packaging? Is there a one-pager that Resource Management Supervisor can share with the Resiliency
Commission? Is there a Solid Waste Task Force that can help with a path toward zero waste? How can the commission be
more action oriented to assist with a zero-waste movement?Can AmeriCorps Education do a survey of all schools to see
where kids are at with climate change?Can Bev Wagner follow up with Cece Darter, a student at Hempstead who is
interested in sustainability (former student of Commissioner SpechYs)?Conversation moved toward sustainability in
education/school system. Commissioner Specht shared that she has embedded sustainability into her English classes.
Commissioner Boles asked, "What are the results of Commissioner SpechYs sustainability unit in school?"Commissioner
Specht shared that awareness among kids has increased and they have taken what they have learned back home and shared
information with their parents.
Commissioners discussed what the recommendation to our school system should be from the Commission? For curriculum.
For practices. For adaptation. Community organizers around resiliency are needed. More teacher training is necessary.
COMMISSIONER REPORTS: CDAC -approved 2020 budget forward to Council; significant sized grants to addiction recovery
centers - expansion and revamping.The depth of the problem wasn't discussed. They are doing something but unclear how
big the problem is. How much more housing do we need?They currently stay full.
Leisure Services - Arboretum has free concerts all summer.They are looking for more fundraising opportunities; there are
rental opportunities and they hope to get the word out.
NEXT MEETING:The next commission meeting will occur on Thursday August 1, 2019 at 5:00 pm. The location of the
meeting will be at the Jule Operations and Training Center, 949 Kerper Boulevard.
ADJOURNMENT:The Commission adjourned at 6:48 pm.
Minutes approved by:
Leah Specht, Commission Chair
Prepared by:
Gina Bell, Sustainable Community Coordinator