All right so we've got quorum so we'll call this meeting of the Bloomington
 Commission on Sustainability to order at 6 p.m. and we'll call the roll.
 Tara Dunnerdale, Justin Vassel, I'm here, Matt Austin, Zero Rose, John Eldon, Dave
 Rallo, Quentin Gilley, Hunter Hawley, Jamie Scholl, Evan Nix, and Shenghuai Xu.
 All righty so yeah I think a couple people will probably trickle in within
 the next few minutes and maybe jump in online. Great okay so we'll move to the
 approval of the agenda. Is there a motion to approve the agenda? And there's a
 second okay any debate? All those in favor say aye. All opposed nay. Any abstentions?
 Okay the agenda is approved. So we have approval of the minutes next but we
 don't have the minutes quite ready yet. I don't think Zero is probably gonna make
 it tonight he was feeling a little under the weather and I know he set some
 technical issues recently so he wasn't able to get the minutes ready quite yet but
 should have them ready to go for next time. So that brings us to public comment.
 Three minutes per person for a total of ten minutes. Are there any members of the
 public in here or online that would like to address the Commission?
 That's right.
 Oh yeah would you mind doing that? Thank you appreciate that. Okay perfect not
 seeing any public comment that brings us to report from Commissioners. So the
 chair's report is up first.
 I can jump on.
 Yeah trying that out largely for myself to keep myself on track. Yeah right we'll
 see how it goes. Okay great so the upcoming tentative calendar pretty
 standard. We were meant to have a work session between this last meeting and
 this one and I had things come up in my own schedule that didn't work very well
 for that and then also at the same time I did try to actually book a room at the
 library and they were all booked up. So gonna try to get on top of that this
 time I'll probably book that tonight for two weeks from now. I think we'll have
 stuff to work on at that point so I think it'll be worth doing. And it's
 actually Earth Day. Yeah, that's a good point. So yeah, it's appropriate. Perfect.
 We'll move on to the org chart there. Not a whole lot new since the last time
 except for we've got the updated executive committee positions filled in
 there and we've currently got three vacancies.
 Before we're on this, we had talked at one point, I don't know how much influence we have on this,
 but would it make sense and if so could we actually do it to have like a IU student position? I
 think they bring a lot of energy and a lot of potential networking. Is that something we have the
 power to add? If so, where would we go? Could we just recommend somebody to the mayor? But would
 that make sense as like a standard representative along with
 Clinton representing IU sustainability? Yeah, I would have to look at the municipal code and remind
 myself what the rules are for that. It's possible that we might, we certainly can't change any of
 these positions that are up here, but it's possible that maybe we can add to it. I mean, I could
 suggest students apply for the vacant one. They can apply if they're city residents. What's that?
 They're city residents. I mean, there's nothing to apply for because the mayoral appointments.
 Okay, could we appeal to the mayor? Well, you still apply to them away. It's the same application
 form for all seats, I think. And the city clerk directs them to either the council or the mayor or
 in the case of the county one, the county commissioners. They don't have a separate application
 form.
 A few people I talked to, I don't know about you, Hunter, but they said that they weren't, they
 didn't even necessarily apply. They just said, here you go, would you like to do this? Yeah. I had
 to apply, though. Okay.
 I've been applied through the council, but your seat is mayoral. Or it's like applied through that
 same form. The city clerk directs them to the mayor.
 So yeah, so we can see if we have that power, but while we have vacancies, we'll try to fill those
 first.
 Yeah, that's true. We don't want to make it harder for ourselves.
 Adding a seat does add to the needs for people. Yeah, and I don't know if adding a seat or just dedicating
 a seat that currently exists.
 Yeah, a lot of it might just be on me saying like, hey, this is an option, you all might want to
 get involved, and I can just kind of advertise it as it is.
 Yeah, yeah, that's probably the best way to go about it. Does that interest folks to have a kind of
 student, a student representative, either formally or informally?
 I think it's good. There's Jamie in the waiting room. I think it'd be a good. Yeah, I mean, I think
 having a student on here, you know, even if it's informally, it would be good.
 I think this would be a good experience for a lot of students that if you put something on
 something, I think a lot of students don't even realize that this is a thing.
 I assuredly, when I was in school, didn't realize that I would even be allowed to apply for
 something like this, but yeah, I think they would bring a lot of enthusiasm to it.
 And we might already technically have. Sorry. I have some suggestions for some outreach for getting
 those seats built for the birthday thing.
 So we can. Clinton, we're just looking at some vacant seats and discussing whether we should
 encourage IU students to apply, whether we can have kind of a.
 Semi-designated student seat, that's probably a lot harder, but whether we should try to get a
 little more IU representative from people half our age with more energy.
 Yeah, well, I think. Is it one of the new? Also, are you OK as well?
 Yeah, he's the sustainability officer for GPSG graduate student professional graduate professional
 student government.
 Yeah, OK, but I yeah, I think yes, somebody. I think for sure.
 I think it's definitely good to have student perspectives and, you know, especially folks that are
 wanting to get involved in some way, it never hurts to have more people applying for these
 positions, right?
 The way in which those seats get filled, we have no control over that's written into the code.
 But yeah, if you know people that might be interested, definitely encourage them. Yeah, building,
 building kind of like community connections between the university and we can have more.
 In line with our priorities as an organization, right? There's some opportunity there.
 And then a lot of other people, you know, they'll live here while they're in school. A lot of them
 will live here a lot longer, you know, even afterwards.
 And there's Ivy Tech as well. That's a good idea. Cool. Anything else on Porkchart recruitment?
 Upcoming events, I'm sure there's some more that probably should have gone on to this slide, but I
 just put a couple up there.
 Obviously, Earth Day event at Switchyard Park coming up on the 19th, not the 22nd, as I had listed
 last time.
 And we'll maybe circle back around to that in just a minute or two.
 And then I don't know if everyone's like plugged into the email announcements for the green drinks
 forum that happens, I think, once a month.
 But there's some cool talks that come to Upland Brewing Company at their wood shop every month.
 So if you're not on that email list already, it's worth Googling and getting onto it.
 And so this is what they've got coming up this month. It's all about birding, celebrating warblers.
 So I don't know anything about birding, so I might go and try to learn something.
 I don't know my list. Did you check one of those out? I just haven't had time yet, but yeah.
 Yeah, and since I've got kind of a blank space up there, are there any other like events that
 people know of that are coming up this month that maybe folks should be aware of?
 Okay, cool. Well, if you learn anything, it should be an email or something. I'll try to keep this
 list populated each time.
 Okay, general updates. So the annual report for 2024, we talked about it a little bit before that I
 was working on a draft for that. I sort of got the first full draft ready to go and sent it around
 to folks. We'll dive into that in a little more detail here in a few minutes.
 Bylaws reform is the other thing that we're going to be chatting about today. So we had sort of
 come up with a few steps last time to take on this step one is just identifying the parts of the bylaws
 that might need some work.
 Things that are maybe outdated need to be removed or confusing and need clarification, that sort of
 thing and then discuss, you know what those areas are here. Step two is then to take that input and
 actually draft some new language, bring it back to the commission for us to discuss and then step
 three would be, you know, incorporating those those final changes into the bylaws and taking an
 actual vote on it.
 So we're on step one today.
 And, yeah, the Earth Day BCOS table so I just spent a few minutes talking about that this to make
 sure we sort of have a game plan for this because we're going to have some table space.
 And I know Tara said she's going to be there. I think another person or two said that they were
 definitely going to be there but I can't remember who.
 Zero, zero, and Matt said they'd be there with Father Ornstein.
 Yeah, right, right.
 So, that's April 19 to switch our park. I think we need to make probably a final decision about
 what materials if any do we need to like, bring with us.
 And if anyone else is available to volunteer for part of the day to hang out and answer questions
 about sustainability.
 I have it on my calendar, I can be there for a visit from noon to four, is that right?
 Maybe, if I take a shift, maybe the second half would be better.
 Okay. I forget, it's a separate agenda item to talk about that, right?
 I don't know if I actually put it on there or not so I figured now would be a sneak it in.
 So we have a table at Switcher and we talked a little bit about what to do.
 Sean had a recommendation to like have our priorities that we identified at that work session and
 talked about more at the last meeting.
 Sort of like the high level things that we as a commission have, are like focused on in our work.
 And having folks like take a sticker and vote, not vote but like, you know, kind of give their,
 which of those they think is like the highest priority.
 I got some poster board and stickers from Art Remains, so all like secondhand stuff, you know, reused
 stuff and the stickers are very random.
 They're like Christmas and feet and stuff. So that we can do that if that's something we want to do.
 The other thing that I was thinking about, I have some NFC business cards that I was thinking we
 would have out on the table.
 And we could also put a QR code and a link, but the nice thing about an NFC tag is that you can
 just tap your phone to it and it will open something up.
 So you don't have to like figure out which app opens a QR code as long as your phone has that
 feature.
 You just touch it and it can work a little faster.
 But having kind of like get involved, so like get involved as a citizen and apply it and take it to
 the application.
 Get involved, like come to a meeting with a link to our webpage where our meeting calendar is.
 And then maybe get involved for organizations, because we've talked about wanting to partner more
 with organizations and working group grants.
 Which again would probably just bring people to our website and get our contact information.
 So that's all I have thought of. I am open to other ideas.
 It might be good if we have materials or things to hand out, but we don't have to.
 If we want to like push other things that we know are going on for the city,
 maybe like the grants or home improvement grants or other things like that, but I'm sure the city's
 table will also have that information.
 But, you know, multiple ways of getting that information and the public isn't bad.
 I'm happy to print out anything that you need.
 Okay.
 Yeah, maybe we could do like a one pager, put together one pager or something just about the
 commission and like some of those, you know, grants that are available,
 ways for people to get involved, how to reach out to us and that sort of thing.
 We could have those for people to take with them.
 Open to other ideas as well.
 So that was one of the things I thought of.
 I figured of people that are coming to the Earth Day Festival might be an audience of people that
 don't know that this exists but might be interested in applying to the commission and filling some
 of those seats too.
 That's a way of getting close. I've certainly talked to lots of people and I say I'm on this
 commission and they're like, I didn't know that existed.
 In a way, kind of demystify the process a little bit.
 I like the NFC tag thing. That's a fun, futuristic sort of thing.
 We use them for ADHD accommodation around our house.
 Would it be a great time to promote the sustainable neighborhoods that are still going this year?
 It is. We're working on getting it uploaded to CIBI form. We've had all of our other programs
 uploaded and so that's the next program.
 Yeah, as mentioned, it's at your table anyway. Speaking of things people don't know about, joining
 the commission, okay, maybe, but get some money and do something in the neighborhood.
 I think the green home improvement plans and the sustainable neighborhoods, if there's literature
 we can hand out or even something we can just have at the table, I think these are good.
 Yep.
 I can't guarantee that that sustainable neighborhoods will be uploaded to CIBI form before, but at
 least people will know about it.
 Okay.
 Any other ideas.
 Easy demos.
 I used to be having some, some sustainability related events open to the public.
 One on the 11th, 11 to 3 and the other one on the 21st, 11 to 3.
 The one on the 11th is in front of the Ballantine Hall building and then the other one is in front
 of the Wells Library on 10th Street.
 Anybody who shows up, it'll be outside.
 Yeah, on the 11th and on the 21st, 11 to 3 p.m.
 Yeah, the one on the 11th is in Ballantine Hall, there's like a bike hub right there by the main
 entrance.
 Yeah, if anybody shows up, first comes first serve, they're happy to check out your bike.
 We're working with the local company Revolution Bike and Beans over on 10th Street.
 The 21st one's at Wells Library, yeah, there's like an overhang sitting there.
 And then I think anybody who wanted to, if they were interested, want to participate in our campus
 river cleanup event,
 that's going to be on April 18th, 10 to 3.
 And that's a cleanup and restoration project?
 Yeah.
 Yeah, so there's no RSVP necessary, anybody who wants to show up, just...
 Where is that?
 Right off of Eagleson, there's a parking garage there.
 Yeah, where the, like, overpass is to the...
 It says Riverbank Near East Parking Garage.
 Like over to the theater, to the auditorium?
 Yes, yeah, that sounds right, like across the street from there, kind of,
 or then that little bottleneck area there, yeah, by the new Eskenazi Building, I think.
 There are no bottleneck areas on campus, do you think?
 I wish that were true.
 You said April 18th, 10 to 3, that's where I get mad at every time I go to a live show because
 nobody knows how that's different.
 They just waste.
 Yeah, I mean, this one is, I don't know that this is open to the public or not, it probably would
 be, but I'm not really sure I'd have to ask.
 But we're going to pilot a fix-it clinic, and I know this is something we were talking about maybe
 doing in the city,
 so we're purchasing some supplies to, you know, we don't really quite know what we're going to get,
 but I'll at least have some lessons learned maybe from the event coming up, doing that on the 21st
 as well.
 Fix-it clinic, what's that?
 People bring in stuff that maybe if you could fix it instead of throwing it away and buying
 something new, you can fix it, repair it.
 We've got anything from clothing, sewing on a button, fixing watches, eyeglasses, you know, shoes,
 these little things like how to fix, repair a keyboard when there's something on your computer.
 We'll see how it goes.
 But if I find out that this is open to the public eye, I can send a note out.
 That's the sort of project I think would be great if somebody pitched to us.
 I mean, I also think it's pretty tough if you don't scope it to something, but like you scope it to
 clothing, it would work really well.
 Preparation, it might be glasses, it might be a phone, it might be a shirt.
 It's hard to get ready for that.
 Discardia does mending clinics once a month at the library.
 Maybe eligible to apply for a grant from us?
 That's one of the things that at Earth Day, what I would like to try to do is to connect with other
 organizations that are there as like,
 hey, what project do you want to do, but you can't because you need $1,000.
 Come talk to us, let's do a working group grant.
 Because that was one of the things we talked about in the work section in setting our priorities is
 that us trying to do everything from the ground up, it's not sustainable.
 But those are just not realistic. There are tons of organizations that have the groundwork laid
 already to do this.
 And they just need resources for access.
 Where do we stand on working group funding if we spend anything this year?
 I think everything that's approved for the 2024 budget.
 And I can give an update on where those are.
 Do we know how much we get for 2025?
 $10,000.
 Yeah, I would love to see projects like that come through and kind of seed fund them or whatever.
 And then as we're funding some of these, is there a resource that we can point people to for where
 they get their next round of funding if it's a successful pilot or something?
 Like, they get $1,000 from us to try something, if it works, and they want to kind of scale it up,
 do we have a resource?
 Pretty volatile right now in the economy and industry.
 So I've heard.
 The nonprofit industry is upside down, let's say.
 We need to see what happens and make it a little bit better than what it looks like.
 That's a really good idea, though.
 But it could bridge, I mean, there could be lots of organizations that need to bridge their funding.
 I'd like us to kind of be linking Oliver in for the project.
 There is a grant that I was, well, I don't know if now is the right time to bring it up.
 There is a grant that I'm going to look into.
 It's through the Department of Transportation.
 And it sort of builds on some of the work that was done.
 In order to apply to it, you have to have completed this city's transportation safety action plan.
 And if you've done that, then you can go for additional funding.
 And it sounds like there might be a good amount there.
 Would it not hang our hat on any federal funding right now?
 No, no.
 Yeah, definitely not.
 But like I said, if I was reading through this campus safety or the city safety,
 Bloomington has one, a safety transportation plan.
 Is it the Safe Streets for All?
 Maybe. I have it right here.
 Yeah, Safe Streets for All plan, yep.
 And it looked like there were potentially like opportunities that would overlap
 where safety, sustainability, city, university could work together.
 Regarding the $10,000 working group fund,
 is that something we want to kind of put out to the public
 to be like come with us for an idea and maybe we'll find something
 like Beyond the Sustainable Neighborhood grant?
 Is that something we want to kind of distribute ourselves?
 How do we feel about that? I'd love to see it spent.
 You mean like advertise basically?
 Yeah, do we want to say like, hey, pitch your sustainability project
 beyond the sustainable neighborhoods, which is how much again?
 $10,000 for a sustainable neighborhood.
 But that's cashed at $1,000 per project, right?
 Where the working groups theoretically could be more.
 Yeah, and I don't think we want to say, hey, there's $10,000 available,
 but something to just like come to us with ideas because it's hard to do stuff on our own.
 And that's what I want to do.
 Yeah, so I don't know quite how to phrase that.
 I mean, what the money is, is it's like money for BCCOS working groups to like do their work.
 It's very loose in terms of how it's described.
 And so basically it's like we sponsor.
 If somebody else is doing BCCOS working group stuff, then great.
 But one of us is like, you know, sponsoring or like the connection to it.
 So, yeah, so I don't know if it's like a thing on the website
 because I don't know that we want to field that many potential applications.
 Well, the sustainable neighborhoods, how are they?
 Are you getting applications this year and it's been out for a little while?
 We haven't uploaded it to set up yet, but we will be hopefully within the next couple of weeks.
 Well, we should definitely use Earth Day as a venue to at least, you know, verbally.
 Yeah, verbally.
 Start looking for opportunities out there and seeing.
 You got some cool idea, pitch it to us.
 Yeah, because I think like, you know, the one that.
 Partying with us is maybe the verb.
 Yeah, right.
 Because I think the one that, you know, that Andrew initiated,
 the canopy Bloomington was like a great example of somebody else already has like the
 infrastructure
 and the plan ready to go and he found them and like they were able to get something
 worked out really quick.
 Great.
 Yeah.
 So.
 And any of us can do that if we know we work like we don't have to do it through.
 But that was that that was sort of like how I was going to frame it for the, you know,
 get the like materials that we have out is sort of like get involved, like be a part
 of the commission, get involved, like come to the public comment period or just watch
 a meeting or partner with us, like like work with because for organizations for that.
 And I'm not quite sure what the best like venue for like getting them in touch with
 us is.
 I don't really want to put like my personal email address on there.
 Oh, sure.
 But I can direct it to the website.
 Yeah.
 Which I think directs to Sean's contact info.
 Right, yeah, there's the IU sustainability email I think on the website and I assume that
 goes to you or somebody else in the office.
 It's like a general info.
 Have we in the past thought about like working with local high schools, as you know, a lot
 of them probably have.
 Okay, I don't know what I'm talking about.
 My kids are way too young.
 I would suspect they have some sort of sustainability clubs, projects, classes, and can be like,
 hey, you know, come up with a plan for a thousand bucks and pitch it to us and that's a great
 way to get money out doing something in a really kind of visible, high-impact way.
 Yeah.
 Like, you want a greenhouse?
 Yeah, pitch us what it would take.
 I don't know.
 I just, I hate that money.
 Oh yeah.
 Yeah.
 There's definitely a priority for us this year.
 It's something that we specifically identified, you know, in the process, right?
 So yeah, we don't want to be waiting until the end of the year.
 I think we do want to keep moving on.
 We've got a little off track here.
 But just to wrap up the topic on Earth Day.
 So we've got at least two volunteers for, like, the table.
 There will be others from the commission that are there as well.
 Maybe you guys can, like, coordinate.
 I'll be there.
 I plan to be there the whole time.
 If somebody else can be there, give me a break.
 That's great.
 I'll look into putting together maybe, like, a one-pager or something.
 So we can have, like, a flyer to hand out to people at least.
 Something like that.
 And I can reach out.
 If you have materials about the grants that are going to be at your table,
 we can submit ours as well.
 The more we can get the money, opportunities in front of people, I think, the better.
 Yeah, yeah.
 Absolutely.
 Great.
 The next bullet point I have on here is about the Council 2026 budget priorities process,
 just to make people aware.
 And this is good timing for Council Member Aralo to come in.
 I could probably speak in a lot more detail about this than I can.
 But from what I understand, they're doing the budget priority process on the Council
 side a little bit different this year.
 It's an outcome-based budgeting model.
 And there's just a list of dates there just to kind of give you a sense for what the
 timeline is looking like.
 I think, you know, budgeting stuff is something that a commission like ours should always
 be at least aware of and kind of following along with.
 We might not always necessarily have something that we want to say about it, but we might.
 And so we should be aware of kind of what the timeline looks like.
 So there's going to be, you know, the members of the Council are bringing their own sort
 of priorities to Council, I think, tomorrow just for the initial discussion.
 And then there's going to be a special committee that kind of workshops that and brings it
 back to a vote.
 The actual, like, you know, budget process where the administration proposes a budget
 and the Council votes on it is not going to happen until later in the year.
 But this is sort of getting the ball rolling on that.
 And just so folks are aware, you know, this might be a time where we're kind of following
 along with what some of these priorities are.
 We might want to, you know, have input on that and say, you know, we think this should
 be a priority or something along those lines.
 Speaking of policy, on the next slide here, I want to say a few words about resolutions
 because we've -- I think the policy side of things is something that we could, you know,
 get more active with.
 We've talked about this before.
 It's something that we kind of want to do a little bit more of in 2025, you know, really
 kind of lean into that advisory role where we can actually make recommendations.
 So I want to just like take a few minutes to talk about resolutions because I think it's
 a tool that is underused in this commission.
 We could do a lot more with it.
 So I just want to make sure everyone kind of understands how it works.
 So what is a resolution?
 Really, it's just like a formal expression of our commission's collective position or
 maybe a recommendation that we want to make or some intent that we want to declare.
 It generally doesn't have any sort of power to it, right?
 We can't pass a resolution and force anybody to do anything.
 We don't have any authority.
 We could, you know, in principle, pass a resolution directed towards ourselves and maybe that
 would have some, you know, some authority.
 But we can only affect, you know, what we have here in the commission.
 They're usually split up into a couple different sections.
 So you've got the whereas clauses where you're kind of explaining, you know, background information,
 context or rationale behind the resolution.
 And then you have the resolved clauses, the therefore be it resolved clauses that actually
 give the specific recommendations or positions or what have you.
 And it sort of serves as an official record of the commission's consensus.
 So you can go back in time and see resolutions that this commission has passed in years prior
 to get a sense for what issues were important to them.
 It's nice to kind of have that trail to follow.
 So there's a few different ways that we could use resolutions here and because we could recommend
 policies to council or city administration.
 We could, you know, use it to really emphasize, you know, commission priorities and action plans
 that we have.
 We could request other people.
 We can't force anybody to do anything, but we can of course request for them to do something if we
 wanted
 information or studies conducted.
 We can organize our own internal initiatives and working groups.
 Again, just documenting like consensus positions if we really want to take a stand on a particular
 issue
 and just let the world know that that's where we stand.
 We can do that.
 And again, just to create that historical record.
 So I want to make sure folks understand that you don't have to come to the commission and say, you
 know,
 can we draft a resolution about this thing or that thing?
 Any BCCOS commissioner can draft one, and you don't need permission to start.
 So you can always just work on something and bring it to us when you think that it's ready.
 Or you can start working on something, get it kind of halfway there, and then bring it to us just
 to review
 and get some input on, and then you take it back and keep working on it.
 So it's not too hard to start.
 You can just choose a topic that you're passionate about that you think we should take a position
 on
 and figure out what you want that outcome to be.
 Do you want to make a recommendation to somebody?
 Do you want a change in policy?
 Do you want just to make a statement?
 And then consider some of the arguments that you would make in order to support that position
 and then start drafting it using the new template that we've created for resolutions.
 So there's a link there on the slides you can click to get to that.
 It's also on the shared Google Drive, the read-only shared Google Drive that we have.
 And then just real quick, we'll walk through kind of what a resolution looks like.
 The next slide there.
 So this might be reviewed to some folks, but this is sort of what the template looks like.
 Well, actually, this is just a copy of the resolution we passed last December.
 You know, it can have a sponsor.
 There could be multiple commissioners that sort of want to be the ones that are putting this
 forward.
 It has a resolution number, which is just the year followed by a sequential incremental number.
 And then there's sort of like a title, which is just a description of what it's doing,
 starting with the word "to" to support changes, blah, blah, blah.
 And then in the red, you have all these "whereas" clauses, which kind of lays out the rationale.
 And then the blue section here, you have the different "therefore" clauses, which is where the real
 meat of the resolution is.
 So not too hard to decode.
 On the next slide, I borrowed this chart.
 I sort of adapted it from what I found on the IUB Graduate and Professional Student Government
 website, the resolution process.
 So if you're not totally sure where to start and how it works, you can just kind of follow this.
 Step one is just to brainstorm an idea, come up with an idea for a resolution.
 Step two is sort of to think about, is this the right place for this idea?
 Is it appropriate for BCOS to take a stance on this thing? Is it within our purview?
 Then do some research, collect your ideas, collect your arguments.
 And then you might strategize sort of what does this really need to look like in terms of crafting
 the resolution to get the desired effect.
 And then it's time to start writing. So you can draft it.
 And then submitting a resolution, you can just send it to me or whoever the chair is at the time.
 Maybe for just a quick spot check to make sure the formatting and stuff looks good.
 And then we'll get it circulated to everyone on the commission just to get a chance to read it.
 And then we'll bring it up at the next meeting that we can.
 And for resolutions, the bylaws say that we have to do two votes on it. So we have two readings on
 it.
 So we bring it up in one meeting as a first reading. Folks can discuss, ask questions.
 And then we would bring it up again at the following meeting for a second reading, a final vote.
 And as we've done in the past, there is a way to do all that in one meeting, but it's a slightly
 higher bar to do.
 And then step 10 is also an important one, which is follow up.
 So if the resolution is like making a recommendation to council, for example, then, you know, in
 that case, I would probably take that to a council meeting or translated by email or something to
 say, hey, because did this thing, you know, here's what we believe.
 I wanted to let you know.
 Yeah, so we want to make sure that those resolutions are actually having an impact.
 So, that's all I have on resolutions but I just want to encourage folks to be thinking about, you
 know, what kind of policy stances can we take, you know, if we were.
 We can put out a handful of resolutions, this year, I think that would be a good thing helps helps
 keep us active and keep us thinking.
 I'm just curious if there's any like specific times of the year where it would try to make sense to
 line up resolution areas that just sort of as it's ready we can bring it.
 Content so so for example, you know, since we were just talking about the budgeting process if
 there was a resolution that we want to pass that specifically recommended a budget priority or
 something like that, then it might be time sensitive
 we might need to get it in by a certain time to have people consider it right.
 Other than that, I don't think so.
 What does it take to be an official resolution from because, like unanimous agreement, 51%
 agreement. I believe it's a simple majority for the two readings the two separate readings.
 And that's a simple majority of the field seats on the commission.
 And, yeah, and that would be like a recorded vote.
 And we can, if I understand correctly, we can.
 If we want to see what the city is done. Previously, we can look at the climate action dashboard.
 And that's sort of the hub for all the information so that way we're not recommending something
 that's already been done.
 Yeah, I think that would be sort of part of the like the research phase is to figure out what, you
 know, is there a way that we can already if we're going to make a recommendation, how can we get
 information about what's been done already so that we're making that in an intelligent way.
 So yeah, in that case, like the climate dashboard would be a good resource to go to, you know, and
 then, you know, following up with the SD, you're right, if there's something that like isn't on the
 dashboard, it might, it might still be in progress, it's just not on the web page yet.
 Yeah, good question.
 Yeah, it's something that I think it's important to do this.
 I think it's a great idea for this commission or other commissions, because it helps to guide city
 policy, I think, you know, adopted by a commission presented to the city council and to the mayor.
 It does have an effect at times.
 But, so for instance, the whole climate action process began with a resolution to support Kyoto
 back in 2003.
 And something I know that Jamie Scholl worked on was a food, food charter, was a resolution to
 endorse a food charter to help guide community decisions about policies and programs that affect
 the local food system.
 So when she was chair of the food policy council, that was in 2015. And we've done some, some
 things directed at food policy, for instance, the farm stock that was supported.
 Certainly supporting the farmers markets and going in for one time, but the point is, is that I
 think that it's not just empty air, it can be, you know, it can be adopted and we can pursue it,
 try to put money toward
 the aims that are, you know, endorsed by the council or commission like the sustainability
 commission.
 Thank you.
 Okay, great. So, yeah, I put those timestamps on the agenda. I'm already behind so you can see how
 effective they really are. I think we'll make up ground a little bit later on.
 So yeah, we can move on then to Waste Management Working Group report. Matt, do you have anything
 for us this week?
 Yeah, as everybody's heard, or maybe haven't heard, Taste of Bloomington is coming back, and the
 Taste of Bloomington.
 And, as some of you know, I tried to do a food waste working groups grant last year for Lotus.
 Well, it makes complete sense just to move that to the Taste of Bloomington.
 So I sent an email out to, what's his name? Last name Davis?
 Yeah, Jordan Davis.
 Jordan Davis, who's spearheading the taste with chocolate mousse, trying to get him to come in and
 speak to us.
 Because ultimately, if we're dealing with food, it would be a great place to educate the public
 about food,
 options on how to deal with their food waste, specifically bocaccio. So I'm going to just take that,
 all the work that we did previously and apply that to the Taste of Bloomington.
 Still going to ask for $5,000 and on Thursday I'm going to be doing public comment
 at the race reduction district board of directors meeting to put this on to their radar.
 Because the exec committee last year loved the idea.
 And then the other part of it is we're talking to, this will be an extension,
 talking to a farmer who wants to set up a black soldier fly larva set up.
 He's given us a quote of about $7,000 to set that up with the idea of all festivals in Bloomington
 would now ideally have some sort of bocaccio component and then they would be tied to the farmers
 and that food waste would go out to the farmer who would then grow black soldier flies from that
 which would then feed chicken, pigs, so on and so forth, keeping that whole circle.
 Which farmer?
 His name is Larry. He was all part of the food policy council, Harvest Partners.
 That's where we get a lot of our meat.
 And he currently does take food prep, food waste, which he's allowed to for his pigs.
 But he's really wanting to do this black soldier flag thing.
 So we're trying to tie that in at a higher level.
 So I'll be rehashing from last year that, but specifically for the taste.
 So we're going to try and ask Jordan Davis to come and speak to the commission,
 hopefully next month or the month after that.
 When is the taste scheduled?
 August 2nd, and it was just announced last week.
 So we're trying to get on that as soon as possible.
 I can help with rewriting the grant if you need.
 Yeah, absolutely.
 I think a lot of what we did we can re-supress.
 Yeah, just change a couple of words here and there.
 Yeah, but yeah, I want to definitely get them in so we can show that they're interested in that as
 well.
 Just a fantastic opportunity to introduce it to the community
 and start to build a consensus that this is what the community needs to take action on.
 Awesome. Yeah, that sounds great.
 Cool.
 I had sort of a question just sort of on that, you know, sort of same line about,
 because it's great that, you know, if we get farmers that can use the food scraps, that's amazing.
 I'm thinking like, okay, you know, a future where we scale up composting, you know,
 it might be a little bit harder to, you know, maintain the quality and things like that.
 I was looking on the dashboard on the City of Bloomington website,
 and it was talking about how we've looked at anaerobic digesters
 at the wastewater treatment plant in the past.
 Did that go anywhere?
 There wasn't enough.
 There wasn't enough?
 Sewage.
 Yeah, there wasn't enough HSOW, high strength organic HSOW.
 So there were three scenarios when they were looking at it,
 and one, the city would have lost money on it.
 One would have been a breakeven, and one, they would have been in the black,
 and they weren't able to find enough material.
 Food waste.
 It's not just food waste.
 Or like any organic material.
 Yeah, they'd have to find, and they made a call out to companies within,
 I don't know, 100 miles, I could be in grief on that,
 and they just didn't get enough responses to show that they would have enough material.
 But I did have the field trip to Colwell's Inc. out in Shelby County,
 and they have permits already for an anaerobic biodigester 366 miles away,
 but they're doing all that stuff, and the field trip was very enlightening.
 They have everything that Monroe County, they can handle all of Monroe County's food waste.
 It's just we need more stakeholders, we need multiple entities,
 like IU, like Cook, like the city of Bloomington, to split.
 So could they potentially take IU food waste?
 Yes, it's just collection and getting it.
 That's not worse than trash going in.
 Correct, it's almost the exact same amount of miles.
 So yeah, 66 miles both ways.
 That's interesting, because we're going to pilot a digester, or I'm sorry, a dehydrator.
 Dehydrator, yeah, you mentioned that.
 And that might make it easier, but we shouldn't touch on that.
 The waste reduction district already has the infrastructure to take smaller cans and aggregate into
 a larger.
 Once again, the waste reduction district's budget can handle the cost for two years maybe,
 but we just need to split it up between larger entities to start.
 I'd contact Kido Foods out on the east side of Indianapolis.
 It's the biggest produce and fruit packing plant in the Midwest.
 So Colwell's already has a de-packing facility.
 Like I saw them have boxes of insurer.
 And there was one employee that was just opening the boxes and dumping the bottles of insurer there.
 And then another machine was picking it up and dumping it into the de-packing, and they just
 crushed them all.
 And all this went into a pit.
 And then from that pit, they sucked that up into a tanker.
 The tanker took it over to their, I call it facility, which is an outdoor area.
 And there's a pit that they dumped it all in.
 And then they took manure and wood chips and put it all in there to suck it up.
 And then it went into the windmills.
 This is Colwell's?
 Yeah, this is Colwell's.
 They're getting stuff from major corporations, like you're talking about, from Colorado, from New
 York.
 They have the capacity.
 They've got 4,000 acres of which to turn those windrows into compost and use them.
 So they have the capacity to take care of everything that the program has got.
 It's just you can't have one entity paying for it all.
 That's why we need a collaboration of stakeholders.
 We should probably move on.
 Is there anything else for voice management?
 We can keep going on that.
 Thanks.
 I appreciate that.
 Okay, next on the agenda, we have the Ad Hoc Committee Sustainability Assessment Report from TARA.
 And there is a draft document for us.
 So after our meeting last week, I incorporated some of the feedback from the commission.
 I've added the 2025 approved numbers to all of the figures to show sort of the trend in all of
 these areas.
 I added also just a little bit more language of what is in this section, why we're looking at
 budget numbers as a way of assessing the city's investment in sustainability.
 And remember, specifically, we're looking at the climate action plan goals around energy in the
 built environment and reducing emissions from our built environment in the city.
 So if we scroll down a little bit, so these are all the same figures that we looked at last year
 just with the addition of the 2025 adopted numbers.
 Can you scroll to the next page?
 I added also the natural resources disaggregation in here to this breakdown. This is within the
 parks and rec budget and these are only inflation adjusted numbers for golf, which is like cascades
 basically urban forestry, urban green spaces and natural resources.
 I also added some context around specifically urban forestry.
 I had some communication also with some folks in the city about urban green spaces that's less
 inventory. So it's harder to provide appropriate context there. Urban forestry was really
 interesting.
 The city's website is a little out of date, but the urban forester shared with me his inventory,
 which is like a website, it's publicly available, that we have at least 23,000 trees that the city
 has inventoried and probably that many more that are in like wooded areas and right of ways and
 things that are not inventoried.
 And that tool also includes the software that that the city uses for inventorying trees also puts
 in an assessed sort of like financial benefit to the city of our canopy, which is, I put it that it
 saves the city about $60,000 in carbon sequestration stormwater
 mitigation and air pollution removal and then I add a little bit of analysis that like we've seen
 small increases in urban forestry's inflation adjusted budget but effectively like every year, they've,
 they've basically doubled the number of inventory trees
 that they're responsible for and in the same period of time their budget has barely increased over
 time so sort of like some commentary on what's in there.
 I did, I had some feedback from Sean and Julie about splitting out the sustainability actions
 specifically I couldn't.
 The way the budget I couldn't find like the line items that would specify the, the sustainable
 action so what I haven't done in here and what I would like to do.
 After this, or add to this draft is adding in some of the grant money and stuff that's been given
 out by that department I also tried to pull out like the tech trades and like some of the areas
 where there's the, the, there's been budget
 approvals for that like that department that maybe are not relevant to this report.
 It's not the data is just like not perfect for doing that but just try to provide that context.
 Can we scroll to the next page.
 And then I also looked at Oh, so this is ESD and then the last thing that's new. Can we go to one
 more page is I added in housing we talked about last year.
 The housing first policy approach that the city should take for dealing with issues of issues of
 housing insecurity and any of the related policy issues that come up for that.
 And so I pulled the housing numbers this was a fascinating one, because it's been really volatile,
 but it's sort of averages out, I put the inflation adjusted average for the years that are included
 to kind of show like about each year, which is
 only slightly more than we approve for golf is also mentioned in the text there. The other, the
 other portion of this report that I'm responsible for that I intended to get for this meeting but
 then I got coven is just some, some other city action
 policies just documenting some of the stuff that yes, that they have on their website, and some of
 the things that the city talks about, and then what we what is still missing from this is if we.
 The other section that Evans working on, and then combining the two, and me, and if we want to make
 any recommendations or conclusions before we finalize the draft and submit it to counsel.
 I can incorporate feedback or those questions.
 Yeah, yeah, it's looking really good.
 Is there is there a public golf course in Bloomington, what is that cascades.
 To spend money like what is that housing budget look like.
 What is it. What are like the wine items within it.
 It's probably my understanding is it's the it's it's the budget for like public housing that is
 managed by the city.
 But people know we can add that context and that's based on my research.
 Is that like building units public units.
 I think it's I think it's management of the public units.
 Yeah, I can look at the disaggregated like line items and see if I can get more insight into like
 what it is.
 But mostly it's the way that it's split out is line items is like salaries maintenance.
 It's not specifically specific facilities like tripling or something between twenty two and twenty
 three.
 Yeah, I wonder if it also might if it's.
 If voucher like housing vouchers are included in that there's particular budgets.
 But yeah, because it was so volatile, that's why I put that line in there to sort of show like year
 over year.
 And also I should note that all of these are basing on approved budgets, which are like the budgets
 that have gone through the approval process.
 Actual expenditures can vary, but I chose the approved budgets.
 I think this is I put this in the introduction, and if it's not clear, I can add some additional
 language that like kind of treating it from the perspective of that.
 Budgets are like moral documents or their document, their statement of like priorities, even if
 like things change during the year and the actual expenditures.
 Yes, I did put that in there, but that it's sort of a proxy of the intent to invest in these areas
 is the analysis approach that I'm taking here.
 Yeah.
 So this is new like city on the public as far as far as I know, but what I can what I can glean
 from from the city budget documents and how they describe the budget items, but I'm pretty sure
 that that it's the city housing authority.
 It does public housing. You know, one thing about this. Is it worth going to people who could desegregate
 this a little bit more and say, hey, you know, before we put this out, can you confirm what this
 number amounts to or why my fluctuate so much or give
 thoughts on this Sean or people we can talk to him be like, hey, could you explain this thing that
 thing.
 I'm wondering for.
 I only if it's included if it's a separate line I this is based like just I've downloaded like the
 CSV is of the budget of the line items but it doesn't.
 Another department's budget it wouldn't show up this is specifically like the urban forestry budget
 line item.
 So there might be other ways and that's maybe context that we can put in here that there might be
 other ways that some of these things get funding.
 But these department like this is what's yeah.
 For residents who have a tree that needs to come down or needs to be proven.
 They can request funding for that, especially for low income residents.
 ESD is providing funding for that and then also the tree tenders program. I don't know if that's
 exactly urban forestry, but can people maintain training high school students on tree maintenance
 throughout the summer.
 So that's another program. So there's three different programs that we're supporting that supports
 the urban forestry.
 And it might still be worth noting what is like regular city budget versus Allen, you know what I
 mean, because those programs might come and go so yeah, but I just hate to put this out with a
 stamp when there's in fact other things that are included in it.
 Yeah, I can look into what I can find and I can also put in, like, that's, that's also why I sort
 of been focusing on just looking at the approved because the expenditures can be so supposed so
 buried.
 There's projects and grants and matches and all that it's, it's, I've sort of reached my limit of
 my area of expertise of budget analysis. I'm not an accountant but, but I think, seeing what else
 we can find and then framing it to say that we're really specifically
 looking at just like where the light outlays are during the budget priority process and also see if
 we could find for example what what does this increase in urban green space investment amount to
 that's what so that's what a handful of questions of like, Hey, what's going on in 2023 housing.
 Yeah, I had a I had, I communicated with it with a couple of folks at person rack and the planning
 department and stuff and the green spaces. They're gonna, they're trying to help me figure out like
 the acreage because that's what I wanted to figure out but it's, it's a lot of it's like right of
 ways
 to kind of reverse and some of the edge for it started putting in butterfly gardens and city hall
 and it's just a lot more work. Yeah, it's, it's, it's a, it's our in our parks acreage is
 documented but the green space.
 The meridian that's like the city is responsible for is included in that and so it's like a harder
 number to get. So I'm trying to find context for that number the same way that I did with the trees,
 but it's a little harder to pin down so I'll update this also to sort of add that
 context that it's just like, but there's been an increase in plan spending there probably because
 there's been an increase in like the number of urban green spaces.
 So it's looking really, really good.
 So once we have both sections of sort of how we split it up to avoid running a foul of open door
 policy, then we can, I can combine them and make some sort of like summary, like make a final draft
 of everything combined.
 Once he's had an opportunity to share his half with the commission.
 Yeah, but everything we've done because it's part of our packet materials is like publicly
 available now if it's I know the budget processes is happening now.
 Is, is anything being left out, you know, maybe you've got all this in spreadsheets, some kind of
 the year and any item that it was the money was directed on maybe Sean do you think, you know,
 maybe the spreadsheets.
 Maybe we should go to the control office and say, is anything missing.
 Or, or the various departments I mean I guess.
 Yeah, I can reach out I mean that's why I'm not suggesting more work for you, thinking maybe the
 commission can pass it on.
 This is every, everything has been downloaded from it's just I just straight downloaded from open
 finance.
 So, any spreadsheets that I have the city has, and everybody else has because it's publicly
 available data.
 So it's just CSVs that I downloaded from there I don't have. I haven't done any like the only thing
 that I added, like, by hand or the 2025 numbers because those aren't in the spreadsheets but those
 are, they're just in a different, they're on a different dashboard.
 They're not in the exports yet. Although they might be now they just they weren't when I did the
 export originally.
 Well, it's a lot of work.
 These are my fun free time graphs, the graphs that I do at my job. Yeah, what's going to be really
 helpful.
 And I'm using the CPI inflation calculator from BLS to calculate the inflation adjusted numbers and
 I'm using January for all like January of that year, it's all it's in there for context but.
 So it's all inflation adjusted to 2018.
 It's all inflation adjusted January that year to January of 2018.
 Awesome. Well, thank you.
 We'll move on next to report from Council ex officio.
 I don't have a report.
 You know more than any questions, we do have, just to add on to what you said.
 We've got a couple of, it has this fiscal committee and it has a budget committee. And so we're
 looking at this, you know, outcome based budgeting as, as the optimal way, you know, getting
 results, essentially.
 So we're in the process of examining the budget right now, previous year and with the idea of
 proposing our club, what we would like to see.
 So this could come in a very good time.
 I think so I mean I can add based on the feedback that we've had at this meeting to my section and
 then we can either.
 If we want to try to, if you want to incorporate the components that Evans looking at, which are
 some more like policy kind of action things, less boring budget numbers.
 We can combine them and or we could do it as two separate reports, if we think that the timing is
 important to get it out faster.
 Well, we start.
 Actually, I don't know what the schedule is this year, but I think that we would begin considering
 the budget early summer.
 And then we kind of look at it in much more detail in late summer.
 And so, so we have lots of time. Yeah, so I think if Evan can share his stuff at the next meeting
 for feedback from the commission and then we can combine it into a final document for hopefully for
 our June meeting to finalize the report, and I'll, and I'll work on some additional feedback or
 context around the numbers.
 So I had to like, at least in this draft like not do too much editorializing about like what the
 numbers mean like just make some very like apparent, because I want the commission to weigh in on
 sort of like.
 So what does all this mean.
 And what do we, what, if anything, are we recommending to counsel, based on this information.
 Great.
 Thanks so much.
 Okay, our next agenda item is the bylaws review. So, these next two items we can go through fairly
 quickly we had a lot of time on the agenda to flex but.
 So, I'll point you towards the proposed focus areas here in this memo. So, you know, where should
 we look at actually making changes to the bylaws here this is the list that I've come up with and
 interested in input from this.
 So number one is just a kind of structural reorganization of the document so right now there's sort
 of a mix of like Roman numerals and numbers and stuff and it can be a little tricky to like
 reference a particular verbally particular section.
 So maybe just a, you know, making that a little more intuitive, a little easier to navigate.
 Number two is a pretty minor thing just some editorial improvements. There's some areas where the
 language could be a little bit more clear couple maybe grammar spelling things or some formatting
 inconsistencies, nothing too substantive there.
 Number three is municipal code references is the third one this one I think is a little bit more
 substantive. There's a lot of spots in the bylaws where we are just verbatim repeating what's in
 the municipal code.
 And that can be helpful if you're just looking at the bylaws and you kind of want to get the full
 picture and you don't have to go across reference with with the municipal code.
 Number two is if the code changes, you know, in a particular section and now our bylaws are maybe
 out of date, because we're not just referencing it or like, you know, replicating the text doesn't
 happen that often but of course we just had some changes recently to our part of the code.
 So some of that might be out of date now.
 So, you know, my recommendation for that would be basically, you know, instead of actually just
 repeating verbatim the text, you know, referring to the BMC so saying, you know, as pursuant to the
 BMC section and blah blah blah.
 And then here's additional text right on top of that so that it's always deferring back to the code
 is sort of the ultimate authority there.
 Number four is the annual meeting requirements. So March is defined as our annual meeting that's
 when we're supposed to hold elections.
 And we're also supposed to review the bylaws and publish this sustainable assessment report.
 So that sustainable assessment report is no longer a requirement in the code.
 And I would recommend that we don't include that as a requirement in the bylaws, either.
 We may from time to time decide that it would be a good idea to do that.
 I think it's a little cumbersome to require that it's done once per year and at a certain time of
 the year.
 And what was the other one? Oh, the bylaw review.
 I don't think we necessarily need to do that every year either, at least not like a big review.
 Maybe just to check up to see if anything in the code has changed that's now requiring us to make a
 change.
 But I don't know if we necessarily need to do that at a certain time every single year.
 But elections we should still do.
 Number five is the sustainability assessment. I actually just mentioned that in number four.
 Number six is the meeting structure flexibility.
 So right now the order of agenda items is defined in the bylaws and it's fixed.
 This shall be the order of events sort of language.
 So I would recommend prescribing certain things that need to be in an agenda like approval of the
 minutes and that sort of thing and certain reports.
 But maybe providing more flexibility in terms of the order of events, right, so that we're not so
 locked into a particular structure.
 For example, I've kind of got this like member announcements thing hanging out at the end of the
 agenda.
 You know, maybe that's something we want, but we don't really use it for too much and it's required
 that it's there.
 So that's why it's there.
 Number seven is resolution definition.
 So we've had a little bit of like talk in the past about like what really is a resolution and we
 talked about it today.
 So we we kind of know what a resolution is, you know, for the most part.
 But, you know, what things are there, you know, we've had some confusion about like, is this a
 resolution?
 Do we have to vote on it like it's a resolution?
 Like if we're, you know, awarding some grants or something, or can we just do that through normal
 business?
 So it might be good to kind of define a little more clearly what things are resolutions and what
 things are ordinary business.
 And then thinking about the two readings rule revision.
 So like like we've mentioned, we've got the two readings rule for resolutions, which is, you know,
 can be really helpful for, you know, for making a statement to the rest of the world.
 It might be good to have the time to really deliberate on that and give people time to kind of
 absorb it and recommend changes and not do anything too hastily.
 At the same time, it can potentially if we have a quick turnaround that we're trying to get
 something out, it can actually be sort of constraining, especially for a group like ours that meets
 once per month, and sometimes only once every two months.
 You know, we don't have a quorum or something.
 So maybe kind of re-examining, you know, what the rule is for passing resolutions, if there should
 be a little additional flexibility there, is something we could look at.
 John, question.
 As I recall, the two readings is basically like, the first time is a pretty formal proposal of the
 resolution discussion, the next time you vote on it.
 Is that right?
 Yeah.
 I like the idea of seeing it two times, but even just knowing that somebody's working on a
 resolution that will be proposed next time, and like discussing it earlier, where it's maybe less
 formal, but still you get your eyes on it twice, chance for feedback, that sort of thing.
 Yeah, it could actually be part of it.
 It could be like, what constitutes a first reading?
 Yeah.
 Does it need to be like, the full text ready to go, or could it be like, here's the stuff I'm going
 to put in the resolution, but it's not written yet, and that's maybe like a first reading?
 So, yeah.
 Definitely things to think about, where can we make it more flexible without, you know, like, just
 tearing all the walls down and going crazy.
 So, like I said, next steps would be to start actually working what, you know, draft changes would
 look like.
 But is there anything that folks might want to see that's not on this list yet, or anything that's
 on this list that you don't think we should be touching?
 I think there was also something that we brought up at the last meeting on the responsibilities of
 the officers.
 There was like, the vice president had some responsibility that was something that doesn't exist
 anymore, I forget what it was.
 It was like making recommendations for some committee or something that is like not a thing that
 exists anymore.
 Yeah, that's a good point. Good. Anything else?
 Okay, well, I'll start working on some language changes and then bring that to our next meeting and
 we can workshop that a little bit or talk a little bit more and then sort of get it finalized and
 buttoned up for the following meeting.
 Justin, one quick question regarding resolutions in first or second readings. I'm sure it refers to
 some need for public notice. Do you happen to know what that is?
 So, I mean, we have to do all these things at a publicly noticed meeting, either way, whether it's
 a first reading or a second reading or we're doing it all in one go.
 I don't know if there's, you know, any requirement that's specific to resolutions versus ordinary.
 It's something that's worth checking out. Just make sure you don't run a foul of of that.
 When you have your draft bylaws, I can send them up to legal for review.
 Okay, that would be great.
 Thinking about open door policy, which I know is set by us, I'm wondering if there's any additional
 flexibility that we could build in to the bylaws.
 Because our working groups, specifically working groups, start to shift into a more formal
 structure, which can kind of get in the way of collaborating.
 I don't know what that would look like, but that's something that we've kind of diverted into
 talking to a lot.
 That's obviously a sticking point.
 And the thing is that working groups aren't even defined in the bylaws, so we've sort of built them
 up and structured them on our own, just through regular business.
 But yeah, it's not specifically defined.
 So that might be one question, is whether we want to define something like that, like what a
 working group is and how they're formed, or not, if we want to keep the flexibility and not.
 So something to think about for next time.
 Cool.
 Okay, so let's move on to the next section, which is, let's see, if we scroll.
 We've got the bylaws as an attachment to this one, but then if we scroll a little bit farther.
 We're not going to, a couple more pages.
 So, we're not going to go through the whole draft annual report right now, we don't have the time.
 And also it just wouldn't be fun to read a document like this all together at once.
 So, you know, hopefully between now and the next meeting you'll have a chance to read through this
 at your leisure, mark it up, you know, make some notes or whatever.
 I'm thinking maybe one way that we can do input on this is, you know, I could, I could send around
 like a Google form for submitting feedback on this, you know, got line numbers on everything.
 So if you're like I think we should word the thing in line 10 differently or there's a typo here,
 or you need a figure that shows this, you know, you can fill out the form, list the line number,
 list your comment, that sort of thing.
 And then that can all come to me, and I can review all those and I can start to make those changes
 between meetings.
 And then we wouldn't be running a file of open door a lot because we wouldn't be collaborating with
 each other. I would just be collecting input.
 So, yeah, since we don't have too much time to really go through like, what's covered in the report
 so far and you know what might be missing or what did we not describe well enough.
 Maybe doing that sort of offline, read it in your spare time and then start sending, sending
 feedback, and then we can have a longer discussion about it next time.
 How's that sound to folks. I really like that approach. I think I'll incorporate using line numbers
 into whatever final draft we share for the whole commission.
 It's a great. Yeah, I've used this approach before in large scientific collaborations of like
 hundreds of people where we all have to review a paper before we submit it to the journal and that's
 that seem to be a pretty good system for collating all the different
 things. Cool. Yeah, and I'll just say you know it's basically, you know, the perspective here was
 sort of like looking at what we accomplished in 2024, where we saw challenges in 2024 and then
 looking ahead 2025 what are our priorities.
 You know, what are we hoping to achieve in the year ahead. So that's kind of the basic flow.
 Okay, so look out for an email from me with instructions on how to submit, you know, a feedback and
 comments and stuff on this document that we can start to craft it a little bit more next time.
 Okay, great. We don't have any resolutions for first or second reading so that brings us to the
 staff liaison report from Sean.
 As you all know we lost to city attorneys earlier this year.
 Thankfully we're starting to see some movement on contracts that we've been waiting on.
 And so I have some updates for you. The canopy Bloomington tree replacement project that you
 approved at the end of last year. The contract has been signed by all parties, and the payment will
 be made during our next time cycle.
 So that one's out the door. And then the Grandview Hills neighborhood associations pollinator
 garden project.
 That contract is out for signatures now, as well as the contract with Alicia sphere for the TerraCycle
 2.0 project. That one's out for signature as well.
 So hopefully those two will be signed soon and we'll get the payments out. That's great.
 And then the only other thing is just Earth Day. I just want everyone to be there. All of our
 vendor tables are filled.
 So it's going to be jam packed with fun and lots of educational opportunities. So I hope to see
 everybody there. April 19th, noon to 4 at Switcherica.
 Awesome. Thank you. And thank you for all your help on the different grant applications that we had
 come through.
 I know there's a lot of, you know, sort of work that gets done behind the scenes to make sure that
 they're kind of ready to go for the legal and financial review and all of that.
 So thank you. Okay, that brings us to member announcements. I'll ask in the room, but before I do
 that, Zero had asked me if I could make an announcement on his behalf since he couldn't be here
 today.
 He wanted to say, quote, Blue Bee is currently involved in installing an organic community
 gardening project at the South Noel apartment complex in the Prospect Hill neighborhood for low
 income tenants as a food as medicine, mental and physical health care program.
 Anyone else. Can I go, I'm going back to the Earth Day thing. I was going to use the priorities
 that we outlined in our last meeting there, they should be in the agenda packet from our last
 meeting, unless anybody has a problem.
 Me using those for the Earth Day event for the board that I'll put up verbal approval from the
 group information or handouts or anything.
 I'm going to follow up with Sean to get some of the stuff that some of the grants that ESD does and
 then I'm going to have some contact information for people to apply.
 Any other member announcements or new business? All right. We're going to get out of here early. We'll
 adjourn at 721 p.m. Our next meeting is at May 13th at 6 p.m. in this room.
 Thanks, everybody.
 Thank you.
 Thank you.