1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,300 Good morning and call this for the district of DuPage County, commission meeting, agenda to order. Today, Tuesday, May 16th, 2023, right here at District Headquarters. You please rise and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance. 2 00:00:11,300 --> 00:00:20,380 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which 3 00:00:20,380 --> 00:00:26,960 it stands, one nation under our indivisible authority, justice, and all. 4 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:34,460 And this morning, for invocation, we welcome Deacon Ron Yerkes from St. Petron, Perish, 5 00:00:34,620 --> 00:00:35,020 England out. 6 00:00:35,780 --> 00:00:36,200 Good morning. 7 00:00:36,860 --> 00:00:37,460 Good to be with you. 8 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:37,900 It's always. 9 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:43,820 There's an expression that he who sings grace twice, let me see if I can do this. 10 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:57,880 We are called to act with justice, we are called to love tenderly, we are called to serve one another to walk humbly with us. 11 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,900 So this morning I was thinking of all the changes that are going on in our lives. 12 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,700 I think of Chicago yesterday with their big celebrations and stuff. 13 00:01:05,900 --> 00:01:07,840 There's a change. Change is part of our life. 14 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,580 But we just pray that God is present with us here in this morning. 15 00:01:10,820 --> 00:01:16,280 We've all been called, as the song says, we have often called to do his will to do it and see his way. 16 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:18,060 We have the gift of creation. 17 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,760 Oh, I love to go out into the forest reserves and hear the birds singing, so that's what I was thinking and singing. 18 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:27,560 So may God be with us today, may all of our decisions that we make in this room. 19 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:32,060 They've made with wisdom, love, knowledge that we all are God's keepers. 20 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,700 And this is our gift that has been given to us this property with all these wild animals. 21 00:01:36,700 --> 00:01:40,580 was trying to have so wild where the wild ones had blessed us all we asked for 22 00:01:40,580 --> 00:01:43,740 as blessings upon all of you through the father of the Son and Holy Spirit in the 23 00:01:43,740 --> 00:01:44,160 end. 24 00:01:51,500 --> 00:01:56,820 Will call please. Mr. Garris. Here. President Hebrard. Here. 25 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:04,840 Mr. Al Murphy. Marsha Murphy. Here. Omira. Here. Painter. Here. Tyson Dunn. 26 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:11,200 Here. Sixth President and one absent, Mr. President. Thank you. Spring is 27 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:16,300 certainly sprung and right on time so as our popular native plant sale. While the 28 00:02:16,300 --> 00:02:20,780 presale tickets are sold out for this Thursday, both Friday and Saturday are 29 00:02:21,540 --> 00:02:24,700 open to the public and they can come out in person for native flowers, 30 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:31,180 grasses, shrubs, and trees at May's Lake Peabody Estate in Oakbrook. There will be 31 00:02:31,180 --> 00:02:34,760 plant experts on site to answer your questions and make recommendations regarding 32 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:40,920 over 160 species you can choose from. Be sure to come early if you want the best 33 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:45,460 selection as plants are not restocked and when they are gone, they are gone. 34 00:02:46,580 --> 00:02:50,700 Also in conjunction with the sale, free wood chips will be available to the public on 35 00:02:50,700 --> 00:02:55,780 Saturday, May 20th, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Forest Reserve District's Native Plant 36 00:02:55,780 --> 00:03:00,200 Nursery at 29 West 220 Mac Road in West Chicago. 37 00:03:00,940 --> 00:03:04,700 More information is available on our website, DuPageForest.org. 38 00:03:04,700 --> 00:03:10,920 This morning, we have an informational on the District's Clean Energy Resiliency and Sustainability 39 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:11,280 Plan. 40 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:17,100 This initiative was identified in the District's approved 2019 Master Plan to study ways 41 00:03:17,100 --> 00:03:23,640 to support strategic plan priorities of increasing energy efficiencies and reducing the agency's 42 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:24,240 carbon footprint. 43 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,900 We are proud of the many steps we have taken to move forward over the past several years, 44 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:33,700 but this will help accelerate our progress and keep us moving on the most viable options 45 00:03:33,700 --> 00:03:40,840 first. The entire plan can also be found on our website. Finally I am pulling our 46 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:46,060 seven, our eight and our nine from our agenda today as they are not ready. 47 00:03:52,220 --> 00:03:52,320 We 48 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:57,880 do have multiple public comments. I woke up this morning I just want to 49 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:02,140 remind everybody it's a beautiful day so let's not make it too long because we 50 00:04:02,140 --> 00:04:06,040 have three minutes for our public comments and please be respectful of our 51 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,180 one's time. Karen Rugg, you want to come up to the microphone? 52 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:21,060 I'm trying to get the word out about getting in a proper retention pond or reservoir, whatever 53 00:04:21,060 --> 00:04:30,100 you want to call it. They're at Songbird Slu and I test it and I went to the county board of health 54 00:04:30,900 --> 00:04:36,300 last Thursday night for their public comment and I didn't know that they were having a huge meeting 55 00:04:36,300 --> 00:04:44,260 for retirement of Karen Isle, however, when I pulled into the parking lot in front of 56 00:04:44,260 --> 00:04:49,600 the public health building on County Farm Road, all of a sudden right in front of me was 57 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:58,620 this big wall, this big, vast, old, black, macularly groomed deep, and I guess that's a reservoir 58 00:04:58,620 --> 00:04:59,120 were to keep. 59 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:28,080 The county board of health building from flooding out, and also to protect county from road from flooding out. So the county absolutely cares about people in that campus. But I haven't heard a word from you. You keep on flooding out that building, that medical building. That's right up next to your property. I'm anxiously waiting for a phone call to hear when you're going to start. 60 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:34,560 just like you said about your plants when they run out they run out it's 61 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:42,820 important that you act on this is a team that humans in your community. Humans count 62 00:05:42,820 --> 00:05:50,480 too and those are sick and dying humans and they have to run their wheelchairs 63 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:56,980 through your water and I haven't heard a word of what you're doing to correct it 64 00:05:56,980 --> 00:06:00,640 You've had seven years, Jim says, known about this. 65 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,820 I put a film up just like I did with Mr. Jacobson on his back 66 00:06:06,820 --> 00:06:08,940 wooden porch of his office building. 67 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:10,880 He's known about it. 68 00:06:11,860 --> 00:06:13,920 You've known about it for how long? 69 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,160 And nobody's taking any action. 70 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:19,240 And it's saddens me. 71 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,260 So I hope I get to hear from you, from somebody. 72 00:06:23,260 --> 00:06:26,680 When you're going to start this project, you 73 00:06:29,850 --> 00:06:31,970 can't be flooding people out. 74 00:06:32,210 --> 00:06:34,630 Does somebody made a mistake years ago? 75 00:06:35,350 --> 00:06:37,070 Nobody's blaming you personally. 76 00:06:38,390 --> 00:06:39,690 But you're on the watch. 77 00:06:39,850 --> 00:06:42,230 No, it's your duty to correct it. 78 00:06:42,850 --> 00:06:44,470 I'll be back next week. 79 00:06:47,340 --> 00:06:51,100 Next we have Becky Simon with Naperville Preservation. 80 00:06:51,860 --> 00:06:53,200 Step forward to the microphone. 81 00:07:00,180 --> 00:07:03,280 Hi, I'm Becky Simon with Naperville Preservation. 82 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:11,580 And I am here today to ask the Board to formally convene an ad hoc committee to study alternative 83 00:07:11,580 --> 00:07:13,660 uses for oak cottage. 84 00:07:14,300 --> 00:07:20,660 Oak cottage was recently identified as one of the most endangered historic sites in Illinois. 85 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:26,660 We have found ourselves third parties who are willing to help fund signage for the site 86 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,120 and people who are willing to serve on an ad hoc committee. 87 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:36,240 So, again, my request for all of you here today is to form an ad hoc committee while 88 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:40,700 we have time to identify alternative uses for oak cottage. 89 00:07:41,300 --> 00:07:41,660 Thank you. 90 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:43,200 Thank you for your public comment. 91 00:07:46,070 --> 00:07:48,070 And with that, we will move into the regular agenda. 92 00:07:52,140 --> 00:07:57,520 Mr. President, under R1, we have a motion approving and placing on file the open planning session 93 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:03,620 meeting minutes from 425-23 and open commission meeting minutes from 522-23. 94 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:04,360 Second. 95 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,220 motion and a second. Is there any discussion? 96 00:08:08,580 --> 00:08:09,560 Both call please. 97 00:08:10,500 --> 00:08:10,880 Oh, Mira. 98 00:08:11,220 --> 00:08:11,400 Aye. 99 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:12,300 Painter. 100 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:12,840 Aye. 101 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:14,220 Tyson Dunn. 102 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:14,500 Aye. 103 00:08:15,020 --> 00:08:15,340 Gareth. 104 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:15,960 Aye. 105 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:17,040 Hebrew R. 106 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:17,560 Aye. 107 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:18,700 Al Murphy. 108 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:19,880 Martian Murphy. 109 00:08:20,140 --> 00:08:20,300 Aye. 110 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:21,180 Oh, aye. 111 00:08:21,340 --> 00:08:21,900 Mr. President. 112 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:22,760 Motion passes. 113 00:08:24,500 --> 00:08:26,480 Mr. President, under R2. 114 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:32,960 We have a resolution, number 23-095, authorizing the payment of goods and services for payment. 115 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:34,360 518-23. 116 00:08:35,620 --> 00:08:36,620 A motion and a second. 117 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:37,800 Any discussion? 118 00:08:39,260 --> 00:08:40,000 We'll call please. 119 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:41,960 Omira. 120 00:08:42,300 --> 00:08:42,480 Aye. 121 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:43,200 Painter. 122 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:43,840 Aye. 123 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:45,160 Highson Dunn. 124 00:08:45,300 --> 00:08:45,500 Aye. 125 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:46,220 Harris. 126 00:08:46,580 --> 00:08:46,800 Aye. 127 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:47,780 Hebrard. 128 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:48,160 Aye. 129 00:08:48,580 --> 00:08:49,160 Almerfi. 130 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:50,160 Martian Murphy. 131 00:08:50,220 --> 00:08:50,380 Aye. 132 00:08:51,420 --> 00:08:51,820 Aye. 133 00:08:52,140 --> 00:08:52,660 Mr. President. 134 00:08:52,980 --> 00:08:53,560 Motion passes. 135 00:08:54,300 --> 00:09:01,920 Mr. President, under R3, we have resolution number 23-071, authorizing the execution of a contract 136 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:08,020 for professional services between the Forest Reserve District of DuPage County and Equity Research 137 00:09:08,020 --> 00:09:12,040 and Insights Incorporated for Professional Services Countywide. 138 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:12,760 Second. 139 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:14,720 Motion and a second. 140 00:09:15,020 --> 00:09:16,140 Is there any discussion? 141 00:09:17,220 --> 00:09:18,720 Okay, please. 142 00:09:19,980 --> 00:09:20,560 Umira. 143 00:09:20,900 --> 00:09:21,060 Aye. 144 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:21,840 Painter. 145 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:22,440 Aye. 146 00:09:22,860 --> 00:09:23,660 Tyson Dunn. 147 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:23,880 Aye. 148 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:24,580 Harris. 149 00:09:24,980 --> 00:09:25,200 Aye. 150 00:09:25,660 --> 00:09:26,360 February Ard. 151 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:26,680 Aye. 152 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:27,500 Al Murphy. 153 00:09:27,820 --> 00:09:28,600 Marsha Murphy. 154 00:09:28,860 --> 00:09:29,040 Aye. 155 00:09:31,540 --> 00:09:39,600 Mr. President, under our four, we have an ordinance number 23-099, authorizing an extension 156 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:43,600 to the license agreement between the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County and 157 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:48,380 the Friends of Denata, Incorporated for their operation of the Denata House and Denata 158 00:09:48,380 --> 00:09:49,940 of Model Farm Complex. 159 00:09:50,340 --> 00:09:50,620 Second. 160 00:09:51,380 --> 00:09:52,480 I have a motion and a second. 161 00:09:52,900 --> 00:09:53,740 Is there any discussion? 162 00:09:55,680 --> 00:09:56,460 Oh, call, please. 163 00:09:57,640 --> 00:09:58,340 Oh, mirror. 164 00:09:58,740 --> 00:09:59,900 Aye, painter. 165 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:07,260 Vice palope has an ểer. I, Tyson dan a virus, Zach, Al Murphy, Marshall Murphy, 166 00:10:07,620 --> 00:10:08,920 I, I ins. 167 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:10,580 Motion passes. 168 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:18,220 Mr. President under r5, we have a pozi various, we have a resolution number 23 – 05 – 075 169 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:24,060 authorizing the execution of a contract for the purchase of liquid propane, auto gas fuel 170 00:10:24,060 --> 00:10:28,860 between the forest preserve district of Du please county and heritage F S and corporate 171 00:10:28,860 --> 00:10:29,020 it? 172 00:10:29,020 --> 00:10:32,560 Second of a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? 173 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:34,980 Roll call, please. 174 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:38,900 Omira. Aye. Painter. Aye. 175 00:10:39,420 --> 00:10:40,540 Heisen, Dan. Aye. 176 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:41,880 Harris. Aye. 177 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:43,300 Fabriard. Aye. 178 00:10:43,700 --> 00:10:45,280 Almurphy. Marshmurphy. 179 00:10:45,580 --> 00:10:45,740 Aye. 180 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:47,980 Oh, aye. Mr. President. 181 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:48,900 Motion passes. 182 00:10:49,860 --> 00:10:55,120 Mr. President, under R6, we have resolution number 23-090. 183 00:10:56,040 --> 00:11:00,000 authorizing the execution of an easement agreement between the Forest Preserve District 184 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:05,460 of DuPage County and the county of DuPage for the operation and maintenance of a sanitary 185 00:11:05,460 --> 00:11:08,640 sewer force main in Green Valley Forest Preserve. 186 00:11:08,940 --> 00:11:09,360 Second. 187 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:10,940 The motion in a second. 188 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:11,960 Is there any discussion? 189 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:14,260 Go call please. 190 00:11:15,220 --> 00:11:15,860 Omiro. 191 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:16,460 Aye. 192 00:11:16,980 --> 00:11:17,320 Painter. 193 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:17,820 Aye. 194 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:19,140 Tyson Dunn. 195 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:19,360 Aye. 196 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:20,240 Harris. 197 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:20,860 Aye. 198 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:21,860 Hebrard. 199 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:22,240 Aye. 200 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:48,380 I am very happy to make a motion on our 10 Resolution 23-089 authorizing the execution of a contract for professional services between the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County and HW Lockhearing Company and Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve. 201 00:11:48,380 --> 00:11:52,340 Second, I have a motion or any second. Is there any discussion? 202 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:57,920 Wrong cited for this to happen. Absolutely. Roll call please. 203 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:01,880 Painter, aye. Tyson Dunn. Aye. 204 00:12:02,420 --> 00:12:03,340 Harris. Aye. 205 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:04,680 Kibriard. Aye. 206 00:12:05,220 --> 00:12:05,760 Al Murphy. 207 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:07,600 Martian Murphy. Aye. 208 00:12:07,980 --> 00:12:09,100 Omira. Aye. 209 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:11,080 Oh, aye, Mr. President. 210 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:11,960 Motion passes. 211 00:12:12,340 --> 00:12:14,380 I'm following up on it. Our 11. 212 00:12:14,380 --> 00:12:21,960 I would like to make a motion on resolution 23-103, authorizing the execution of a contract 213 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:28,280 between the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County and MYS, Incorporated for Construction 214 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:33,640 of the Sawmill Creek Pedustrian Bridge Replacement in Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve. 215 00:12:33,980 --> 00:12:34,180 Second. 216 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:36,140 I have a motion and a second. 217 00:12:36,340 --> 00:12:36,980 Is there any discussion? 218 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:39,460 Will you call please? 219 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:42,240 Hainter, aye. 220 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:43,920 Heisen Don, aye. 221 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:45,240 Iris, aye. 222 00:12:45,660 --> 00:12:46,560 Kybriard, aye. 223 00:12:46,940 --> 00:12:49,000 Al Murphy, Marche Murphy, aye. 224 00:12:49,420 --> 00:12:49,900 O'Meara. 225 00:12:50,260 --> 00:12:50,560 Aye. 226 00:12:52,680 --> 00:12:53,920 Motion passes. 227 00:12:55,380 --> 00:13:03,560 Mr. President, under R12, we have a resolution number 23-102, authorizing the application 228 00:13:03,560 --> 00:13:09,120 for Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Public Museum Capital Grants program for 229 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,960 We'll all break phase two master plan improvements. 230 00:13:12,180 --> 00:13:12,580 Second. 231 00:13:13,140 --> 00:13:15,280 If a motion and a second, is there any discussion? 232 00:13:16,820 --> 00:13:17,580 Go call please. 233 00:13:18,980 --> 00:13:19,500 Omira. 234 00:13:19,940 --> 00:13:20,120 Aye. 235 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:21,020 Painter. 236 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:21,580 Aye. 237 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:22,980 Tyson Dunn. 238 00:13:23,140 --> 00:13:23,300 Aye. 239 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:24,100 Ferris. 240 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:24,600 Aye. 241 00:13:25,100 --> 00:13:25,700 Fabriars. 242 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:25,960 Aye. 243 00:13:26,340 --> 00:13:26,900 Al Murphy. 244 00:13:27,660 --> 00:13:28,340 Martian Murphy. 245 00:13:28,780 --> 00:13:28,940 Aye. 246 00:13:29,660 --> 00:13:31,000 All eyes, Mr. President. 247 00:13:31,420 --> 00:13:32,060 Motion passes. 248 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:35,020 We do have informational agenda items today. 249 00:13:35,020 --> 00:13:41,320 I won is our Clean Energy Resiliency and Sustainability Plan, gaps, barriers, and opportunities 250 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:41,840 report. 251 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:42,920 Welcome, Jessica. 252 00:13:43,460 --> 00:13:43,460 Good 253 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:55,720 morning, everyone. 254 00:13:56,560 --> 00:14:01,440 I'm Jessica Ritega, Manager of Strategic Plans and Initiatives, and here at present 255 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:05,120 this item today, Clean Energy Resiliency Sustainability Plan. 256 00:14:05,900 --> 00:14:11,620 So as you recall, the 2019 Master Plan called for completing a Green Energy Study that would 257 00:14:11,620 --> 00:14:16,700 help identify ways to increase energy efficiencies and reduce the district's carbon footprint. 258 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:22,420 And so to that end, the board approved a contract with Delta Institute to identify gaps, barriers 259 00:14:22,420 --> 00:14:26,220 and opportunities related to clean energy resiliency and sustainability. 260 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:32,720 Delta Institute then worked with staff to assess the ecosystem services that the district currently 261 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:39,020 provides, assess the feasibility of options for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and alternative 262 00:14:39,020 --> 00:14:45,700 fuel vehicles, explore green energy infrastructure opportunities, analyze the district's waste 263 00:14:45,700 --> 00:14:51,160 streams, assess transportation-related emissions, and explore options for carbon sequestration. 264 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:57,900 I'll just note as well in addition to this work, the district contracted separately with SCS 265 00:14:57,900 --> 00:14:59,960 engineers to do analysis of clean energy. 266 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:23,560 So today, Kevin Dick and his team from Delta Institute are here to share the findings from the report. And after they go through their presentation, I'll come back and talk about a few next steps. So at this point, I'm going to introduce Patrick Murphy, who from Delta Institute, who's going to start off their presentation. 267 00:15:29,060 --> 00:15:34,880 Thank you, Jessica. Good morning, everybody. It's a pleasure to be here today. My name is Patrick Murphy. 268 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:42,160 I'm a senior lead at Delta Institute and in my role, I've largely been focused on the communications of this project. 269 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:47,420 Much of my colleagues who are here with me are much more knowledgeable on all the ins and outs of this. 270 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:55,560 But it's my pleasure to introduce us, talk about some of the background, about what brought us here and what the next steps are ahead for us. 271 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:06,260 As Jessica introduced us, Delta Institute is a 5-1-C-3-profit organization that has a 25-year 272 00:16:06,260 --> 00:16:10,240 history of collaborating with communities across the Midwest to solve complex environmental 273 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:10,960 challenges. 274 00:16:11,460 --> 00:16:18,880 In partnership with ECT, we responded to RFP to address the Clean Energy Resiliency and 275 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:24,220 Sustainability Plan that's surfaced from the 2019 Master Plan, and it's been a pleasure 276 00:16:24,220 --> 00:16:30,720 to work on this everything up until today to talk about what we saw and what we see for 277 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:36,560 opportunities going forward. But of course this work doesn't happen in a vacuum. This requires 278 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:44,800 collaboration across board level, staff level, and we just wanted to take a brief moment 279 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:49,520 to acknowledge the many people who have been participating with us throughout this, sharing, 280 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:53,960 providing lots of feedback, reviews. There's been a lot of help not just by the people that 281 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:58,940 you see here on the screen, but also people that make the district run on a daily basis. 282 00:16:59,140 --> 00:17:03,920 So we want to make sure that we acknowledge everybody here and everybody on the screen as 283 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:04,240 well. 284 00:17:06,020 --> 00:17:10,320 So dipping into the results here, again, I won't take too much every time because we have 285 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:17,060 a lot to cover and I'm just going to cover where we started off with and just a note saying 286 00:17:17,060 --> 00:17:21,260 that this does not cover any of the adjacent landfill operations as well. 287 00:17:21,260 --> 00:17:25,940 We did factor that into the equation, but this is not specifically covering any of that 288 00:17:27,220 --> 00:17:33,920 So looking as far as background where we've come from so far the great news is that we are starting off with a great 289 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:37,420 footing so far and that's built upon the hundred years of 290 00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:46,360 Conservation and preservation that the district has been investing in but not just that also with many of the recent accomplishments that the district has 291 00:17:47,260 --> 00:17:56,660 for many years, all of which you see here, several, several, several more that are listed in the report itself and beyond. 292 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:06,120 Things like investing in 100% renewable energy credits for the year 2023, already installing and designing green infrastructure sites 293 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:11,320 throughout many of the preserves and developing and constructing trails throughout many of the preserves. 294 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:21,760 What we find is that to achieve the district's next targeted goals of reducing its carbon footprint, increasing clean energy opportunities. 295 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:29,280 And we find that the district is in a great position and only moving forward. 296 00:18:29,940 --> 00:18:36,540 If this opportunity, it's my pleasure to introduce the person who has been spearheading the entirety of this project team. 297 00:18:36,540 --> 00:18:38,700 He's a senior advisor at Delta Institute. 298 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,120 My pleasure to introduce Kevin Dick. 299 00:18:46,500 --> 00:18:50,160 He's the ECT on the slide. 300 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:51,780 They were part of this project. 301 00:18:53,990 --> 00:18:55,810 It's to talk as well. 302 00:18:56,830 --> 00:18:59,130 So one of the things we did in this project 303 00:19:00,330 --> 00:19:05,150 was to really look at the emissions that we were generating 304 00:19:05,150 --> 00:19:07,530 by the top of the sheets. 305 00:19:07,970 --> 00:19:09,810 And we've really done some on that. 306 00:19:10,210 --> 00:19:11,750 We're going to go into that a little bit. 307 00:19:11,750 --> 00:19:18,210 But before I do, I want to give Tom an opportunity to talk about the other aspects of this 308 00:19:18,210 --> 00:19:24,950 plan, the buoyancy side, which is what the forcemen of our district provides as it 309 00:19:24,950 --> 00:19:25,150 is. 310 00:19:25,630 --> 00:19:30,990 So their equally important, and actually offset a lot of the additions that the operations 311 00:19:30,990 --> 00:19:35,110 of the forcemen have as an operator. 312 00:19:36,270 --> 00:19:39,350 So we want to make sure that that's the other group really well. 313 00:19:42,630 --> 00:19:48,710 We'll get into a little deeper dive in a little bit, but the district is the largest 314 00:19:49,330 --> 00:19:55,510 holder of floodplain in the county, and most of that land is pervious area that's 315 00:19:55,510 --> 00:19:59,850 able to absorb runoff, cluster carbon is Kevin said and 316 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:29,940 So that's been working well. The also been working with the county to how how's or sort of locate some of the flood control facilities that are helping countywide. And that's important because we've got some very patient increases that are predicted that's no surprise to you. And as we all sort of feel it, 100 year of answer just keep getting worse and our events are getting bigger. At the same time we're seeing reductions or greater drought as well. 317 00:20:29,940 --> 00:20:35,360 Also, we're getting maybe similar amounts of total rainfall, but the amounts are all 318 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:39,400 occurring as part of events, and then we have these dry periods, and even still events 319 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:39,980 are affected. 320 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:42,900 So, but we'll get into some further details. 321 00:20:43,860 --> 00:20:49,040 And that's a good foundation because part of the reason we're looking at emissions is it's 322 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:55,260 part of the mission, obviously, for this organization to, you know, be a steward of the environment. 323 00:20:55,260 --> 00:21:02,840 And as things get worse, the emissions of the course of the district does become a part 324 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:08,240 of the issue and we want to make sure that you're aware of what those opportunities for 325 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:08,980 reducing those are. 326 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:16,680 So I'm going to give you a two sentence, hopefully review of what carbon accounting is. 327 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,280 And you can think about this in your own terms as well. 328 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,000 There's three scopes in carbon accounting. 329 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:28,000 And what you do when you do a carbon accounting is you understand the boundary of the organization 330 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,200 you're working with, whether it's a municipality or a company or even a household. 331 00:21:31,860 --> 00:21:34,260 What is in your herbivore? 332 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:42,600 And so the scope one emissions are what is used on site, so natural gas that's used for 333 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:48,620 the boilers and anything that's used on site, like a forklift or something like that. 334 00:21:48,620 --> 00:21:52,080 Let's go to emissions are your electricity use. 335 00:21:52,180 --> 00:21:54,980 It's emissions that are due to your operations, 336 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,220 but happen elsewhere. 337 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,420 So a coal plant emits it somewhere else, 338 00:21:58,500 --> 00:22:00,200 but it's because you guys are using electricity. 339 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:02,300 And then scope three emissions, 340 00:22:02,300 --> 00:22:04,700 which is the largest usually about 40% 341 00:22:04,700 --> 00:22:06,980 or more of the emissions of an operation, 342 00:22:07,660 --> 00:22:10,560 is all of the supply chain emissions that you have. 343 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,060 So everything you purchase because you purchase 344 00:22:13,460 --> 00:22:15,760 becomes a source of an emission. 345 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:18,600 We didn't really look at scope 3 emissions. 346 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:25,620 It's a very big undertaking and really is much bigger than scope 1 and scope 2 except for waste. 347 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:29,680 We actually looked at your waste emissions as well because that is under scope 3. 348 00:22:30,460 --> 00:22:35,820 So when we look at the emissions of an organization or municipality, 349 00:22:35,980 --> 00:22:38,660 we also are taking into account where those are coming from. 350 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,780 So not all of the greenhouse gas emissions are created equal. 351 00:22:41,780 --> 00:22:48,600 You may have heard that methane creates more emissions than CO2 and nitrous oxides are 352 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:49,320 one of the bigger ones. 353 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:50,540 So we did look at that as well. 354 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,460 We look at your non-anfile operation. 355 00:22:55,980 --> 00:23:03,340 The bottom line is that boundary total or tons of CO2E is 8,000 tons a year. 356 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,120 We included your visitors in that. 357 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:12,440 As you can see, all of their driving to your to your force route of district sites are part of that. 358 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,740 We want to include that because it is part of your operations. 359 00:23:17,420 --> 00:23:25,180 It's not necessary to keep it in and we'll show you how that works out when you're looking at just your direct operations. 360 00:23:26,120 --> 00:23:32,920 We also look at your carbon sequestration as well, so we'll get into that a little bit deeper. 361 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:40,640 When we look at just your operations emissions on the right side, you have about 2,700 tons 362 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:41,800 of operations emissions. 363 00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:46,680 And to put this in perspective for you guys, a typical DuPage County household uses about 364 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:50,660 18 tons for their household and their driving. 365 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:56,460 So that will give you about 250 or so households is what your emissions kind of comes out to 366 00:23:56,460 --> 00:23:56,960 if you do that. 367 00:23:58,160 --> 00:23:59,100 So we'll get into that. 368 00:23:59,100 --> 00:24:06,000 And you can see your landfill emissions at the bottom left there, absolutely dwarf your operations emissions, and that's a separate issue. 369 00:24:09,070 --> 00:24:14,190 So scope one, as I mentioned, is what you use on site. This is all of the fleet and maintenance equipment. 370 00:24:14,670 --> 00:24:26,570 You guys do a lot of great work using ethanol, which reduces your E85, reduces your emissions because of gasoline, biodiesel, reduces emissions versus regular diesel, 371 00:24:26,570 --> 00:24:31,450 So, in compressed natural gas, it reduces emissions versus regular motor gasoline. 372 00:24:31,930 --> 00:24:36,050 This is one of the biggest portions of your emissions in one of the areas that we think 373 00:24:36,050 --> 00:24:36,730 there's opportunity. 374 00:24:37,030 --> 00:24:40,610 And as you can see, most of it is from vehicles, your cars and trucks. 375 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:49,180 As Patrick mentioned, one of the things you've done recently is you started buying renewable 376 00:24:49,180 --> 00:24:51,760 energy credits for your electricity generation. 377 00:24:51,940 --> 00:24:58,160 When you're doing carbon accounting, you actually offset 100% of your emissions. 378 00:24:58,160 --> 00:24:59,780 That's wonderful. So you literally 379 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:06,320 There's zero out your scope to emissions for this purpose. What you're doing is you're purchasing 380 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:16,780 100% wind credits and you're eliminating natural gas and coal and some bio biomass used 381 00:25:16,780 --> 00:25:24,560 from the emissions of the grid. So, congratulations on that. And this just so you know, this is the 382 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:30,280 generation mix for where you get your electricity. This will continue to get more green as coal plants 383 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:35,500 close by 2050. Most of them will be closed. They'll convert to natural gas and wind power is 384 00:25:35,500 --> 00:25:42,640 slated to double triple, quadruple by 2050 as we go on as well. So you're going to see a big greening 385 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:43,020 of the grid. 386 00:25:45,220 --> 00:25:52,460 So just as I said earlier, here's the numbers. You have a huge gross carbon sequestration 387 00:25:52,460 --> 00:25:57,760 number. This is all of the the ecosystem services provided by your forest 388 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:03,680 preserve district lands 7400 tons that's enormous and that gets your your 389 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:08,760 gross emissions if you keep your visitor emissions in and you keep your scope 390 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:15,460 two emissions in down to about 4,500 that's great. As we mentioned though you offset 391 00:26:15,460 --> 00:26:20,380 your scope two emissions and we can take the visitor emissions out when you're 392 00:26:20,380 --> 00:26:27,440 really considering just your operations and you actually operate at a deficit of $891. 393 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,480 So you actually offset about 50 households of emissions. 394 00:26:31,860 --> 00:26:33,920 That's a wonderful bottom line for you guys. 395 00:26:34,220 --> 00:26:36,700 You are less than that zero. 396 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:39,480 So that is great. 397 00:26:40,060 --> 00:26:40,820 You guys are doing awesome. 398 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,560 There are opportunities, but and we'll get into those a little bit. 399 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:49,780 But we did look at how we wanted to kind of talk about those opportunities. 400 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:50,600 We looked at gaps. 401 00:26:50,820 --> 00:26:51,620 We looked at opportunities. 402 00:26:51,700 --> 00:26:53,120 We looked at what you were already doing well. 403 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:58,880 And we kind of put them into scoring, if you read the plan, just little icons pop up. 404 00:26:59,460 --> 00:27:01,220 Where are you along a green continuum? 405 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,300 Are you just exploring or are you actually performing and running a scale? 406 00:27:04,580 --> 00:27:09,040 So we wanted to do that for each area, each strategy area that we identified. 407 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:11,800 And you had some wins. 408 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:16,680 We were doing, as I mentioned before, you're using alternative fuels. 409 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:17,520 That's already great. 410 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,900 You used gas, landfill gas to energy. 411 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:21,840 We did some ash ray audits. 412 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,520 There's a lot of wonderful efficiency going on. 413 00:27:24,900 --> 00:27:28,700 There's some opportunities there as well, and you're tracking all this information on 414 00:27:28,700 --> 00:27:29,320 a regular basis. 415 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:34,840 So there's a good amount of work already done on all the buildings that you currently manage. 416 00:27:37,050 --> 00:27:38,150 There's some gaps. 417 00:27:38,450 --> 00:27:41,490 We think that there's opportunity around space utilization. 418 00:27:41,490 --> 00:27:48,210 There are spaces that are heated when they're on occupied, especially during the winter there are ways to reduce that. 419 00:27:48,970 --> 00:27:51,590 Building controls, remote sensing, there's opportunities there. 420 00:27:51,770 --> 00:28:00,490 One of the big ones I found was in some of the ash ray audits, there's more efficient motors for places like the Urban Stream Research Center. 421 00:28:00,750 --> 00:28:03,410 It has an opportunity to lower its footprint that way as well. 422 00:28:06,100 --> 00:28:11,500 And as I mentioned, electrification is a growing opportunity. 423 00:28:11,660 --> 00:28:12,480 We mentioned in the plan. 424 00:28:12,620 --> 00:28:14,240 It's not a recommendation right now. 425 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:16,240 Your natural gas is very cheap. 426 00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:18,100 It's a month of paper. 427 00:28:18,580 --> 00:28:19,460 And I 428 00:28:24,420 --> 00:28:25,400 want to pass it to Tom. 429 00:28:26,980 --> 00:28:27,500 Great. 430 00:28:27,660 --> 00:28:29,500 So some of the things that are already doing, 431 00:28:29,660 --> 00:28:34,100 again, most of your land is natural area or pervious surfaces. 432 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,300 We say not impervious roofs or parking lots. 433 00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:38,220 And so that's great. 434 00:28:38,220 --> 00:28:43,520 and you're restoring a lot of land, in fact, in the next few years, you're scheduled to 435 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:52,160 store 470 acres of crop land to natural land, which will do this runoff by nearly 22 million 436 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:59,300 gallons of water per year. And to put that in perspective, that's about the equivalent 437 00:28:59,300 --> 00:29:06,340 of 50 feet of water over the area of a football field. So it's a lot of water. And as I mentioned 438 00:29:06,340 --> 00:29:12,120 before you're working a lot to do some cooperative efforts to reduce the runoff from the county 439 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:16,480 as a whole, through flight control and such, but also doing some things on your own, 440 00:29:16,660 --> 00:29:20,740 and through green infrastructure and just right out here in your parking lot in this facility 441 00:29:20,740 --> 00:29:25,160 is a good example of a lot of the green infrastructure, green stormwater infrastructure things 442 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:32,140 that you're doing on your restored waterways, your home to more than 5,000 species of plants 443 00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:37,940 and you continue to acquire and protect natural areas and even at some of your 444 00:29:37,940 --> 00:29:42,200 sort of blast sustainable if you will or what some people might say is golf 445 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:48,020 courses you're doing a lot of work to reduce the impact of those. So you've got 446 00:29:48,020 --> 00:29:49,040 some great winds so far. 447 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:56,620 It turns out some with gaps, you know all of these things require maintenance and 448 00:29:56,620 --> 00:29:59,920 green infrastructure is one of those and sometimes we think of if we 449 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:29,220 Just naturalize areas that means we can kind of walk away from them. And as the district, you know, that better than pretty much anybody that, you know, there's still a stewardship component. And that's no less with the stormwater features and just using a lot of nature-based solutions can just continue down that road. Funding is always an issue. And so working on securing additional funding to grant and other sources. And I'm looking at some of the agricultural lands. 450 00:30:29,220 --> 00:30:33,120 how can, you know, doing some good things already, but how can we get that better? 451 00:30:33,580 --> 00:30:40,320 And then how is water used and looking at, you know, again, looking at rather than 452 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:45,500 using portable water, you're not doing that, but even as we draw it out of our local streams 453 00:30:45,500 --> 00:30:50,020 and such, there's opportunities to just use it more efficiently and only irrigate where necessary. 454 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:56,700 And then snow and ice control is definitely an issue, and again, you're using some natural 455 00:30:56,700 --> 00:31:00,640 materials there, but looking at, you know, what areas actually get, um, 456 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,000 snow and ice control may be some areas that don't need it, uh, 457 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:08,580 cause they're not used heavily and being more targeted in terms of the types of 458 00:31:08,580 --> 00:31:14,780 materials that you use for deicing and traction, uh, to the specific resources 459 00:31:14,780 --> 00:31:19,320 that are nearby would be affected by that. So. And then just generally, 460 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,500 there's some limited data on carbon sequestration as it varies by landscape. 461 00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:27,340 that's not specific to you, but just is a sort of an industry. 462 00:31:29,180 --> 00:31:34,280 And some opportunities, you know, as we work into the future and design future facilities, 463 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:40,680 stormwater and other facilities, just looking at what we project rainfall is going to be, 464 00:31:40,820 --> 00:31:42,500 rather than just using the numbers today. 465 00:31:43,100 --> 00:31:45,780 And that's always a challenge and how do you actually do that? 466 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:51,420 City of Madison, for example, uses the 200-year event instead of the 100-year event for design purposes 467 00:31:51,420 --> 00:31:57,880 with really sort of just a way to adjust for the fact that the 100-year event is going to be that big. 468 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,240 Looking for grants, as I mentioned before. 469 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:08,160 And then you do have some exemptions in terms of where you have required to provide stormwater. 470 00:32:08,340 --> 00:32:13,220 And I think that's certainly appropriate for a lot of your linear trails and other sorts of things 471 00:32:13,220 --> 00:32:15,240 where really does just run off in the landscape. 472 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:20,640 In other areas where there's concentrated impervious areas such as parking lots and things 473 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:26,560 like that, roofs that go directly into the system, even though you may be exempt, you 474 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:31,240 know, consider looking at still provided management for those areas required. 475 00:32:32,300 --> 00:32:38,380 And continuing restoration activities, looking at operations at your golf courses and some 476 00:32:38,380 --> 00:32:40,940 of your agricultural areas. 477 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:49,800 And, right, I'll introduce Claire Costello from Delta Institute to talk about the sustainability 478 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:54,560 gaps and wins and opportunities that are available for waste. 479 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,260 Yeah, thank you, Kevin. 480 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:01,620 And, you know, with this sustainability, we really focused on two things, waste management 481 00:33:01,620 --> 00:33:02,700 and transportation. 482 00:33:02,900 --> 00:33:08,160 Though as we've been before, this not include activities happening between the landfills. 483 00:33:08,860 --> 00:33:14,620 The Forest Reserve District is already doing a lot of work in both areas, which is great 484 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:22,620 here, but there are multiple efforts already dedicated towards being materials out of 485 00:33:22,620 --> 00:33:32,460 plantha, all of the recycling, composting, collections for end-of-life materials, and also being 486 00:33:32,460 --> 00:33:33,660 a leader in trail development. 487 00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:47,820 We found that some of the waste management aren't mostly trashed. 488 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:53,700 We know that things are happening, but we can't always readily answer questions like how 489 00:33:53,700 --> 00:34:02,480 much material is actually being recycled. And with any waste management activity or program, 490 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:07,760 people don't always behave the way that we really want to, you know, this can 491 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:14,720 range from a visitor putting items in the incorrect bin at a preserve, but it can 492 00:34:14,720 --> 00:34:19,500 also go as far as I'm thinking, of course, just plan. 493 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:23,520 Yeah, and then in terms of 494 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:30,220 opportunities increase data tracking and collection around safe, opens a ton 495 00:34:30,220 --> 00:34:36,060 the possibilities, target setting and really having a highly accurate understanding of 496 00:34:36,060 --> 00:34:36,660 things. 497 00:34:39,740 --> 00:34:43,560 Otherwise, just continuing to be a leader in this space, which is already really 498 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:50,280 happening whether it's exploring green purchasing, doing more sustainability outreach and education 499 00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:53,420 or continuing to be an active group. 500 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,260 Anybody want that in mind? 501 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:29,120 So, obviously, this plan was really focused on the baseline operations and getting the data. We see a couple of things that pop out, and there's more than just this. With my top three, the teams top three seem to fall into these areas. We think that there's opportunity around electrifying your transportation. So, a lot of your your fleet vehicles do have existing and developing opportunities around the D, as well as maintenance equipment. 502 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,840 that are readily usable. 503 00:35:36,380 --> 00:35:41,060 So that's a huge opportunity to eliminate over the time period you would implement it. 504 00:35:41,820 --> 00:35:45,800 Probably about half, almost half of your operations emissions. 505 00:35:47,060 --> 00:35:51,620 We think that there's an opportunity around a continued increase in natural area restoration, 506 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:55,820 as has been mentioned in the past, just looking at the numbers. 507 00:35:55,820 --> 00:36:03,060 it doesn't look enormous when you look at just tonnage on a hundred acre per year area, 508 00:36:03,140 --> 00:36:10,600 but that is permanent. So there's no emissions associated with that. As well as Tom mentioned, 509 00:36:10,700 --> 00:36:19,000 there's an enormous amount of stormwater opportunity around converting conventional agriculture, 510 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:25,140 culture converting things, areas back to people. So there's there are opportunities there as 511 00:36:25,140 --> 00:36:33,540 well. And then SCS covers this pretty well in the their report around landfill opportunity with 512 00:36:33,540 --> 00:36:41,940 solar. There's also solar, some solar opportunity and existing, existing land. And there's of course 513 00:36:41,940 --> 00:36:48,560 EV infrastructure. We mentioned your emissions from your, your visitors. They are going to be electrifying 514 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:52,240 their vehicles and currently there isn't a lot of infrastructure available within the 515 00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:56,740 charges to get here so that's an opportunity as well and you can see that there's a decent 516 00:36:56,740 --> 00:37:02,340 amount of reductions. So even though the district is currently not zero because of its resiliency, 517 00:37:03,420 --> 00:37:10,080 its ecosystem services, there is an opportunity to continue to build on that and serve your 518 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:14,380 population as visitors to help them reduce their foot prints as well. 519 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:18,400 And I did want to thank the 520 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:26,700 team, we did a lot of work on this, and it was very heavily done by the team you see here 521 00:37:26,700 --> 00:37:30,900 as well as some other individuals, the ECTNF Delta Institute. 522 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:33,520 And with that, it gets the questions. 523 00:37:36,260 --> 00:37:40,320 I'd like to thank everybody for the presentation and the work on this project. 524 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:45,100 Obviously, it is one of the identified master plan initiatives, so we were excited to see 525 00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:45,820 this come forward. 526 00:37:45,820 --> 00:37:50,300 and obviously I'm excited to hear that we're doing well and have opportunities to do even better. 527 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:56,580 I just wanted to talk quickly about a couple of next steps that staff's been thinking about. 528 00:37:56,900 --> 00:37:59,800 So with all this information, a lot of information today, 529 00:38:00,140 --> 00:38:04,580 staff's going to start thinking about different goals and objectives around these different areas. 530 00:38:04,820 --> 00:38:07,800 You know, what are these different things that are right for our organization? 531 00:38:08,940 --> 00:38:13,460 We're going to also look at outlining potential policies that the board might want to consider 532 00:38:13,460 --> 00:38:20,420 around these three areas, and while we're working on that, Stas can also look at some of 533 00:38:20,420 --> 00:38:25,640 these larger opportunities, you know, about reducing greenhouse gas emissions through solar 534 00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:31,240 installations, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles by making it easier to use electric 535 00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:37,100 vehicles in our preserves. And generating renewable energy through renewable natural gas or 536 00:38:37,100 --> 00:38:41,680 gas to energy at the landfills, and we'll talk more about that when SCS comes back, or when 537 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:47,580 And we bring back that report, generating renewable energy through targeted deployment of solar 538 00:38:47,580 --> 00:38:52,360 panels and increasing energy efficiency or reducing energy consumption. 539 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,400 So we'll be working on some of those things and bring those back to you. 540 00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,780 And happy to answer any questions about what you've heard today. 541 00:39:03,940 --> 00:39:06,340 Well, anyway, this is particularly exciting for me. 542 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:11,200 This is kind of a dream to be working with an organization that's actually attempting 543 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:11,560 this. 544 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:15,700 And I could see how we could establish a goal, say in 20 years, who would be net zero. 545 00:39:16,940 --> 00:39:21,640 And I think the one chart really intrigued me that there was a massive emission reduction 546 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,060 caused by restoration work. 547 00:39:25,780 --> 00:39:29,560 And then there was a remark, and I noticed that also in the literature that's published, 548 00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:32,300 there's not a whole lot of information out there, so I'm wondering how you came up with 549 00:39:32,300 --> 00:39:32,780 that number? 550 00:39:33,180 --> 00:39:35,800 Was that just a scientific guess, or? 551 00:39:43,490 --> 00:39:44,390 Yeah, that's right. 552 00:39:44,390 --> 00:39:50,090 Okay, there is information, there's research that does back those up. 553 00:39:50,110 --> 00:39:55,230 I think there's a table 17 that lists the utilization types. 554 00:39:55,830 --> 00:39:59,970 What is complicated about, especially carbon sequestration, is it's not- 555 00:40:00,050 --> 00:40:26,650 It's not linear. It is very weather dependence, very site dependent. So we've done a lot of work. Delta has around conservation tillage and regenerative agriculture. And you see the numbers go up and down. So you're looking at averages over many years. What is true is that certain types of restoration initiatives will have a larger carbon sequestration opportunity. I think wetland. 556 00:40:28,910 --> 00:40:33,410 And, you know, forestry has, depending on the mix and 557 00:40:33,410 --> 00:40:36,010 prairie have different, different sequestration numbers. 558 00:40:36,650 --> 00:40:41,590 So, what is clear though is the more you do it, the more 559 00:40:41,590 --> 00:40:44,090 positive the carbon sequestration is, because the 560 00:40:44,090 --> 00:40:48,890 natural processes for when plants grow, they, especially 561 00:40:48,890 --> 00:40:50,770 with nitrogen, which is the greenhouse gases, 562 00:40:53,850 --> 00:40:56,630 one of the 563 00:40:56,630 --> 00:41:02,470 It stays in the soil, it doesn't off-guess, it's used by those plants, so that's what usually is happening. 564 00:41:03,790 --> 00:41:08,990 Yeah, because I was thinking, sort of remarked from staff that we get out of bang for our buck out of the 565 00:41:09,690 --> 00:41:14,490 prairies, as opposed to people think of trees all the time, but that may not be the best way just planting trees, but 566 00:41:14,490 --> 00:41:18,830 you recommend even thinning trees, so we're often removing trees. 567 00:41:19,890 --> 00:41:21,950 Yeah, that would be offset by other growth that occurs. 568 00:41:21,950 --> 00:41:28,610 nature responds to that, because what is happening is new growth is taking up a lot of that nitrogen 569 00:41:29,510 --> 00:41:35,450 and mixing it in the soil as opposed to being off-gassed. And then you especially has a big 570 00:41:35,450 --> 00:41:40,250 effect on that. Of course, we remove lots of buckthorn and honeysuckle every day. Right, 571 00:41:40,850 --> 00:41:44,210 volunteers and staff alike, and that's an enormous amount of mass there that's been 572 00:41:45,050 --> 00:41:50,070 that we have to manage, that we're moving, that has carbon, and we typically burn it. 573 00:41:50,070 --> 00:42:01,910 Right. I know that staff has looked at the idea of biochar and what our freedom is looking at that. Yes biochar would be a good opportunity there as well. I guess one point I'm leading up to is we could be spending a lot of time talking about this. 574 00:42:02,130 --> 00:42:16,530 I guess we need to and if the public is involved, I'd like the fact that you have a public education component, or at least we can reach out to stakeholders and say like our neighbors and whether it's this kind of issue or flooding. 575 00:42:17,310 --> 00:42:22,390 you know how we you know what can neighbors be doing to because they tend to want to say well 576 00:42:22,390 --> 00:42:28,990 we'll just send the water to the forest preserve. You know your lawns and plants. I think there's 577 00:42:28,990 --> 00:42:33,790 a lot we could be doing with the public and other you know external stakeholders and so I'm excited 578 00:42:33,790 --> 00:42:41,230 about this. Yeah. Yeah. It's these this this plan gave you numbers. Yeah. I think it and what that 579 00:42:41,230 --> 00:42:47,570 What does is it gives you the ability to set targets and to look at what your limited 580 00:42:47,570 --> 00:42:52,370 resources and efforts can go toward actually making a difference in things. 581 00:42:52,590 --> 00:42:54,710 And you guys are already doing such great work. 582 00:42:55,010 --> 00:42:59,890 So, at least we know that we got some ideas for how to start, because this is massive, 583 00:43:00,590 --> 00:43:02,830 potentially, so we just obviously have to prioritize. 584 00:43:03,270 --> 00:43:03,550 Thank you. 585 00:43:03,810 --> 00:43:03,890 Yeah. 586 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:07,320 Quick question. 587 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:09,440 So thank you very much for doing this. 588 00:43:09,580 --> 00:43:10,660 This is fantastic study. 589 00:43:10,660 --> 00:43:14,980 One thing I was kind of honed in on was the public transport side of things. 590 00:43:15,460 --> 00:43:21,920 Do we have anything that tells people, can tell direct people on what are the best ways 591 00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:27,600 to get to our preserve, each preserve using public transport, or is that something that staff 592 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,600 can look at and identify, or how did you actually grade us on that? 593 00:43:32,580 --> 00:43:38,400 Yeah, I mean, I'll rely on Delta for the details here, but just in general, there isn't really 594 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:45,620 great transport access to our preserves. So maybe I'll let them elaborate on that, but in general 595 00:43:45,620 --> 00:43:46,740 that's kind of the answer. 596 00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:56,100 Yeah, so we did take a look at all of these routes, both metro and 597 00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:04,040 forest rivers. I'm running through to Page County, and there are limited nodes for 598 00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:13,260 So many times trying, so much time trying to figure out how to take this into a log line, 599 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:21,840 other difficult, and the other thing we did look at was the community survey that was 600 00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:28,740 painful, and one thing that did stick out to is not only were there other challenges that 601 00:44:28,740 --> 00:44:38,220 come with connectivity, but also at the site, I think we're interested even in taking 602 00:44:38,220 --> 00:44:38,880 public transit. 603 00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:46,460 So I think we wanted to engage with the first person. 604 00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:52,680 Do you have any suggestions of how to gauge, like, what, how much we want to invest in that? 605 00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:54,560 Because I think it's something very important. 606 00:44:54,700 --> 00:44:56,160 We have a lot of people that don't have cars. 607 00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:59,920 they don't have bikes yet or preserves and I think it's important to have 608 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:06,160 That opportunity, but how much do you direct towards that, showing only that two percent interest? 609 00:45:07,860 --> 00:45:10,720 Members will always not talk about my house if it's been in the city. 610 00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:19,180 Do you have, have you had experience with other counties that have been in the situation of, do they work with PACE? 611 00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:25,160 obviously metric and real line their stops, but with pace would that be 612 00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:28,940 something that we work on with them to just maybe highlight one or two of our 613 00:45:28,940 --> 00:45:33,000 larger preserves and try to see if they can put a stop if they're going by 614 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,900 already. Is the sample if that? 615 00:45:36,380 --> 00:45:41,640 Yeah, so I can't speak to what other times are doing it in here, but I think I've been working 616 00:45:43,210 --> 00:45:48,330 collaborating a little bit, where there would be opportunities. 617 00:45:52,130 --> 00:45:52,610 Great, thank you. 618 00:45:54,190 --> 00:46:03,810 Just to feed off of that, we've talked a little bit about it with some of the master plans that we've just gone through 619 00:46:03,810 --> 00:46:13,830 is to make entry points to make it more accessible to neighborhoods so that they don't have to 620 00:46:13,830 --> 00:46:21,110 drive to the parking lot. They can walk to the preserve. I'm very blessed in this part of the 621 00:46:21,110 --> 00:46:26,090 reason I moved where I moved is because there's an accessible block and a half for my house. 622 00:46:26,610 --> 00:46:32,610 So I can go there and walk or ride a bike and I don't have to drive to the forest preserve. If I didn't 623 00:46:32,610 --> 00:46:39,410 have that entrance at that point, I'd have to drive to parking lot and go from there. 624 00:46:39,790 --> 00:46:45,490 So I think entry points is something that we could look at, and we should be with our 625 00:46:45,490 --> 00:46:50,110 big master plan that we're supposed to be looking at, is that we should have easier access 626 00:46:50,110 --> 00:46:57,050 points to the residents. That's one thing. And then on page 80, I don't know which one 627 00:46:57,050 --> 00:47:09,210 And it does talk about that we have over twice as much negative emissions based on our 628 00:47:09,210 --> 00:47:11,450 forests than our prairies. 629 00:47:12,370 --> 00:47:20,630 So I'm a big proponent that, and you can wreck me if I'm wrong, that trees are very important 630 00:47:20,630 --> 00:47:25,930 to our net emissions versus prairies. 631 00:47:28,050 --> 00:47:28,690 You know, 632 00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:32,260 when 633 00:47:36,580 --> 00:47:40,620 you're looking at, you know, kind of the sequestration numbers, you have 634 00:47:40,620 --> 00:47:47,080 to look at both the sequestration rate and the area of that particular cover. 635 00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:52,120 And so anything that's got the most cover amount, even if it's got a lower rate, it's going 636 00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:53,300 to look like a really big number. 637 00:47:53,300 --> 00:47:55,080 So absolutely, your forests are essential. 638 00:47:55,340 --> 00:47:57,580 You won't do you, it's not like you want to get rid of those. 639 00:47:58,020 --> 00:48:05,640 But I also think that, you know, forests get, or maybe I'll put it in other ways, 640 00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:11,160 curries and wetlands probably get a less credit than they deserve in terms of sequestration. 641 00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,040 They actually sequester a carbon at a greater rate. 642 00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:18,580 Most of that carbon in those, in that plant material is actually below ground, 643 00:48:19,180 --> 00:48:21,640 gets incorporated as a soil, makes the soil healthier. 644 00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:28,140 You're most of the organic matter with trees is actually above ground and so eventually 645 00:48:28,140 --> 00:48:31,740 tree dyes at that carbon goes back in the atmosphere. 646 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:33,880 So it's not sort of permanently sequestered. 647 00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:39,400 So not to say that forests aren't amazing and do a great job, it's just fairies and wetlands 648 00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,300 also do a really good job and actually have a higher. 649 00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:46,480 Thanks Tom. 650 00:48:46,660 --> 00:48:48,740 I did want to add one thing to that as well. 651 00:48:48,740 --> 00:48:54,560 Well, one of the things that prairies and wetlands also provide is a little bit more biodiversity 652 00:48:54,560 --> 00:49:00,900 than a forest which has pretty, you know, natural standards tend to see more biodiversity 653 00:49:00,900 --> 00:49:07,060 and edge communities on the edge of a forest or in a prairie than you would even go on a 654 00:49:07,060 --> 00:49:07,600 forest as well. 655 00:49:08,420 --> 00:49:14,280 And while you're talking about the edges of the forest for sure, I did read through your 656 00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:25,100 report, very interesting, very comprehensive. The edges are where a lot of, I raised mine 657 00:49:25,100 --> 00:49:34,340 our butterflies, so I read about your pollinators. And my concern is that we use too much herbicides 658 00:49:35,100 --> 00:49:41,460 around that and that that ranges on the growth of how to keep you know where 659 00:49:41,460 --> 00:49:45,700 there's grass meeting meeting edge barrier something like that well yeah long 660 00:49:45,700 --> 00:49:51,020 and and read around the big heads and things like that that maybe we shouldn't 661 00:49:51,020 --> 00:49:57,640 be using as many herbicides there because that's where the milk we threw one 662 00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,240 and other pollinators. 663 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:29,980 I want to need that area to grow so that the pollinators have something to pollinate on. And my concern about the monarch caterpillars is that they're eating the milkweed. And in the past, I mean, where I have my home, I don't put any herbicides, pesticides, anytime because when I started raising monarchs, I had a lot 664 00:50:29,980 --> 00:50:38,920 of caterpillars that just shriveled out. So I really went all natural, didn't put anything 665 00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:47,820 on my lawns or in the way of pesticides or herbicides. Now I have a, last day, 65 and 666 00:50:47,820 --> 00:50:56,420 probably very healthy. So I don't know if we're going to address that. I think it was part 667 00:50:56,420 --> 00:51:00,880 part of the, there's a little bit of part, it wasn't a major part of the, I think you're 668 00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:04,960 out your spawn, if you don't need to be used, if you use your pesticide or an herbicide 669 00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:12,480 or plant control, certainly not in a prairie or even in the edge, but you might get wind 670 00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:17,800 blowing off from, you know, trying to control weeds and you know, so I think that's a consideration 671 00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:25,360 as well. Is the lawn really what's the utilization on? It's really sick. So there are opportunities, 672 00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:33,100 you know, we kind of reviewed this a little bit in the solar to be putting solar panels 673 00:51:33,100 --> 00:51:39,760 where you could possibly have a ferry, even if there's potential for that to not be 674 00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:40,080 that. 675 00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:40,800 So. 676 00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:47,820 And this is, that wasn't in your report, but I just wondering if it's been in my mind. 677 00:51:47,900 --> 00:51:54,040 I read a study that the tires of cars produce more emissions than the gasoline does. 678 00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:55,700 Do you know anything about that? 679 00:51:55,700 --> 00:51:56,800 You mean, well, possibly. 680 00:51:57,860 --> 00:52:00,380 Well, no, when you're driving, 681 00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:04,940 the emissions that come off the tires are really fine. 682 00:52:11,460 --> 00:52:13,280 Yeah, there's particulates, too. 683 00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:13,980 Yeah, you're right. 684 00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:17,180 And it was the particulates, I think. 685 00:52:19,500 --> 00:52:19,700 Yeah. 686 00:52:20,060 --> 00:52:21,380 And I mean, EV's. 687 00:52:21,380 --> 00:52:23,240 I was just wondering if you had any information. 688 00:52:23,380 --> 00:52:24,020 I don't like that. 689 00:52:24,220 --> 00:52:25,240 But I agree with Tom. 690 00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:25,580 It sounds. 691 00:52:25,900 --> 00:52:26,980 I've never heard of that. 692 00:52:26,980 --> 00:52:30,880 and it sounds to me like it might be particularly important. 693 00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:32,760 Yeah, I think it was the latent. 694 00:52:32,940 --> 00:52:33,800 Not hard to take care of. 695 00:52:34,100 --> 00:52:36,240 But EVs have their own environmental issues as well. 696 00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:38,880 So the part of the things that, you know, 697 00:52:39,020 --> 00:52:41,160 when we look at this, it's kind of a whole, it's holistic. 698 00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,620 So it's a good point, you know, kind of trying to look at you. 699 00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:48,420 And Argonne, because I live by Argonne National Lab, 700 00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,160 and they're looking at how to recycle, 701 00:52:50,300 --> 00:52:55,940 if they have a big environment on how to recycle electric vehicle batteries. 702 00:52:55,940 --> 00:53:00,100 Yeah, that's a very, very interesting department. 703 00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:01,600 We're going to get that figured out. 704 00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:03,400 I'm sure I have a lot of faith in our gun. 705 00:53:04,420 --> 00:53:05,660 Further questions or discussion? 706 00:53:07,990 --> 00:53:09,250 Well, again, thank you so much. 707 00:53:09,370 --> 00:53:12,550 I know we have 166 miles of trail that connects 708 00:53:12,550 --> 00:53:15,070 with nearly 250 miles throughout the county. 709 00:53:15,690 --> 00:53:16,210 So that connects. 710 00:53:16,390 --> 00:53:17,910 But we can absolutely keep connecting. 711 00:53:17,950 --> 00:53:20,210 And we are actually have a couple of trail openings 712 00:53:20,210 --> 00:53:22,150 right here at the NATO-1 and down in Springbrook Korea. 713 00:53:22,230 --> 00:53:23,250 Another one to connect more neighborhoods. 714 00:53:23,630 --> 00:53:25,750 So look forward to keep pushing on all 715 00:53:25,750 --> 00:53:26,830 of these environmental issues. 716 00:53:26,830 --> 00:53:29,070 So, thank you again for the presentation. 717 00:53:30,350 --> 00:53:33,190 We do have a second informational agenda item. 718 00:53:33,810 --> 00:53:38,330 We have I-2 excellence in financial reporting fiscal year 2021, 719 00:53:38,710 --> 00:53:39,570 and we welcome Andrew Brown. 720 00:53:40,250 --> 00:53:43,470 Good morning, President Hebrard, Board of Commissioners, Director Freyling. 721 00:53:44,390 --> 00:53:47,970 I'm here to report that we have been recognized by the Government 722 00:53:47,970 --> 00:53:52,070 Finance Officer Association for the 35th time for excellence 723 00:53:52,070 --> 00:53:56,030 in financial reporting for our comprehensive financial report 724 00:53:56,030 --> 00:54:00,570 which also doubles as our audit. It is a more transparent version of the 725 00:54:00,570 --> 00:54:06,430 statutorily required audit that we provide on an annual basis, and again 726 00:54:06,430 --> 00:54:10,590 something that speaks to the transparency that the force preserves provides in 727 00:54:10,590 --> 00:54:14,470 those financial documents, as well as our commitment to excellence in providing 728 00:54:14,470 --> 00:54:23,870 those records and data to the public. I'm also pleased to announce that the 729 00:54:23,870 --> 00:54:28,910 a board for the popular annual financial report from the Government Finance Office Association. 730 00:54:29,270 --> 00:54:35,430 This is a summary version of the comprehensive report that is provided in a manner that 731 00:54:35,430 --> 00:54:40,750 someone without a financial acumen can understand what our financial performance was for the 732 00:54:40,750 --> 00:54:40,950 year. 733 00:54:41,470 --> 00:54:46,390 I need to thank my staff, specifically Brian Kaczewski and Carrie Murders for helping me put 734 00:54:46,390 --> 00:54:46,970 this together. 735 00:54:47,350 --> 00:54:52,650 In our CR team, Jane Banner did a wonderful job helping me bring finance down to a level 736 00:54:52,650 --> 00:54:59,530 that folks can understand. Both of these documents are available on our website and have been since June of last year. 737 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:19,760 I'm happy to take any questions if there are. Congratulations, very exciting, and I do like the new one. It is very, very friendly on the ice. Yeah, did oh, congratulations. And I think finance more understandable on a basic level is great for everybody, not all of them, not everybody loves finances. 738 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:29,620 Yeah, I want to echo previous comments. I think finance is looking good for us and it's well-managed and I appreciate the efforts 739 00:55:29,620 --> 00:55:34,900 to communicate. In the presentation by Adeltence to a 740 00:55:34,900 --> 00:55:39,060 dimension we're buying green credits. I was a little confused on that because I 741 00:55:39,060 --> 00:55:43,140 know we're talking about how we want to acquire electricity and where it 742 00:55:43,140 --> 00:55:49,340 comes from. And that's part of the financial aspect. I mean, we do 743 00:55:49,340 --> 00:55:53,780 environmental stuff that appreciate efforts to communicate what we're doing with 744 00:55:53,780 --> 00:55:56,280 our money and how we're spending it. Thank you. 745 00:56:02,340 --> 00:56:03,960 I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. 746 00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:04,880 Motion to adjourn? 747 00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:05,280 Second. 748 00:56:05,620 --> 00:56:06,080 I have a motion. 749 00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:06,860 Second to adjourn. 750 00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:07,440 Roll call, please. 751 00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:09,280 Hi, Sundan. 752 00:56:09,660 --> 00:56:09,780 Hi. 753 00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:11,320 Gareth. 754 00:56:11,740 --> 00:56:11,860 Hi. 755 00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:13,300 He, we are. 756 00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:13,680 Hi. 757 00:56:15,900 --> 00:56:16,460 Al Murphy. 758 00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:17,180 Martian Murphy. 759 00:56:17,700 --> 00:56:17,880 Hi. 760 00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:18,740 Omiro. 761 00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:19,220 Hi. 762 00:56:19,720 --> 00:56:20,040 Painter. 763 00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:20,560 Hi. 764 00:56:21,380 --> 00:56:22,400 All eyes, Mr. President. 765 00:56:22,860 --> 00:56:23,620 We are adjourned.