[25:20] It's meeting to order. I'd like to acknowledge that we meet on the traditional land of Treaty 6 territory and the May-T homeland.

[25:28] And acknowledge that the recent indigenous peoples whose ancestors' footsteps have marked this territory for centuries, such as the Cree, Denny, Soto, Blackfoot, Nikotta, Esca, as well as May-T in Inuit, and now settlers from around the world.

[25:40] And I'll start with a roll call, calcertain. Good morning.

[25:48] Good morning.

[25:51] I know they might have some technical things that prevent them, but they'll probably be here at some point throughout.

[25:59] Councillor Palmer.

[26:01] Good morning.

[26:03] Good morning.

[26:04] Good morning.

[26:05] Okay.

[26:05] Thank you.

[26:06] So before we consider today's agenda,

[26:10] I will ask all members of President.

[26:12] If they have any pecuniary or conflicts of interest to declare regarding any of the items

[26:15] to be discussed and a pecuniary interest exists, when an item can monetarily affect

[26:19] member of Council, their employer or family member, the conflict of interest exists when an item

[26:24] could affect a private interest of a member of Council, their employer or family member.

[26:28] Do any members of Council on the Canary or Conflict of Interest to the Claire?

[26:33] Hearing no declare the Canary or Conflict of Interest will move to the adoption of the agenda

[26:37] Councillor Tain?

[26:39] I'll move that the September 2nd, 2026 Executive Committee meeting agenda be adopted with

[26:44] the following changes.

[26:45] the addition of 722-27 update, climate implementation priorities, and replacement report for

[26:52] 711 Chinatown Community Cleanup Program, Urban Planning and Economy Report, UPE-03491.

[27:00] Thank you, any questions on the agenda?

[27:04] Seeing none, please vote?

[27:08] Yes. Thank you so much, Councillor. We have a vote.

[27:12] Thank you, please. There we go. Oh, we couldn't be due of Councillor Elliot now as

[27:17] Good morning Councillor Elliot. Oh, and I should double check all other members of Council that are joining us. I see Councilor Stevenson

[27:25] Good morning. Good morning. Councilor Rutherford

[27:30] Good morning. Good morning. Councilor Wright

[27:34] Good morning. Good morning. Councilor Prince Pay

[27:37] Good morning. Good morning and

[27:41] I think I got everyone who's here is any other members of council that I've missed

[27:46] No, all right. Seeing none, let's move to the approval of the minutes from the August

[27:51] 12, 20, 26 executive committee meeting. Councillor Salvatore, please go ahead.

[27:55] Yeah, I'll move that the August 12, 2020, 26 executive committee meeting minutes be approved.

[28:01] Thank you very much. Please vote. Are any questions, errors or emissions?

[28:07] Not seeing any

[28:07] these votes. Oh,

[28:12] he did. That showed you.

[28:18] Yeah. Councillor Palmer. I mean yes. Thank you,

[28:21] much, we have all those. Thank you, please. This is where the vote. That is carried five to zero.

[28:28] Council protocol recognition. I don't believe we had any, although I don't know if

[28:36] we got acknowledged yesterday. So I did just want to briefly acknowledge although we were

[28:41] in City Hall yesterday doing it, but yesterday was the kickoff to Vietnamese heritage month,

[28:49] and we had an opportunity to recognize that with a number of cultural performances, songs,

[28:55] dances, we had cultural food. Many community members came together, and it was a great opportunity

[29:02] to join together, and we gave Councillor Palmer who is also our first ever Vietnamese City Council

[29:09] the opportunity to provide that proclamation. So I think it's just important to acknowledge that.

[29:15] I think I don't think it was on yesterday's protocol items. So thank you. Next is selection

[29:21] of items for debate. Please click on to members of committee if you'd like to select items for

[29:26] debate. Councillor Tain? We have three requests to speak, so I'll just select those 712 and

[29:36] You selected 7172 and 74. Do we have others?

[29:43] You do have a request on 73 as well.

[29:45] Oh, we do have a request on 73, sir.

[29:47] You're the ones like that as well.

[29:50] Councillor Tang has selected that.

[29:52] Great. That leaves us really just with item 75.

[29:56] Anyone wishing to select that?

[29:59] Not seen.

[30:00] Anything any? I'll take a motion to approve all remaining items, which is 7.

[30:03] I'm so moved. That's moved by Councillor Selvedor. Please vote on all remaining items.

[30:11] Thank you. We have all of those.

[30:13] Thank you. Please display the vote. That is carried 5 to 0. Wonderful. Next.

[30:21] And so, yeah, we'll review what's been passed, which is, I believe, just item 7.5. Is that correct?

[30:36] Thank you very much. Next, request to speak, and there are many. I believe Councillor

[30:43] Tang has the list and we'll read through the names and we'll have a little discussion

[30:46] about that after we go through the list.

[30:54] I'll move that exactly to committee here from the following speakers and panels. One appropriate

[30:58] on 7-1 Chinatown Community Cleanup of Program, Edwin Schale, Sandy Pohn, Chinatown

[31:04] Transformation, Collaborative Society, Lanchan, Chinatown Transformation Collaborative Society,

[31:10] Car Mille, Jackson Ho, Katherine Lou from Chinatown, BIA, Julia Tran, Jeremy Wong,

[31:16] Colin Campbell, Manho from Revita, Jack Zhang, Joanna Wong,

[31:22] And on 72, on the climate implementation priorities, we have several panels, panel 1, Annabella

[31:30] Bonata from the University of Waterloo in Tax Center on Climate Adaptation. Mike Melros,

[31:36] Alberta Equal Trust Foundation, Laura Lynn Gregoir from Bill Ementon Metro, Floor Good

[31:42] Paul Kovak from Institute of catastrophic loss reduction.

[31:49] Satya Brata Das, Laura Khanin-Hengish-Balay,

[31:53] Minton Federation of Communilies, Erin Olafilt,

[31:57] Minton Federation of Communilies,

[32:00] Ranjan Data, Jason Unger,

[32:03] Environmental Law Center,

[32:06] Cricin Cricin Vessa Wessel from Campbell Energy Group Juliana Weber,

[32:14] Climagessa Semitin, Maureen Kola, Energy Futures Lab, Jerry Hof Seniors

[32:20] for Climate Action now, Emintin Tessa Yakin-Chuk, Panel 2, Heather McKenzie,

[32:28] Solar Alberta, Taylor Kid, Miriam Jaleighly, Olivia Carr, Catherine Joel, Pre-Con,

[32:38] Solar Alberta,

[32:41] Jenika Kirkland, Sarah Keller, Sherry Hescheck, Samantha Baron,

[32:48] ILO Santa Cocca, Econjoes Singh, Rebecca Pinto, Retroficana, Society, Jason Wang, Laura

[33:00] Delay Hay, Delay Hay, Panel 3, Julia Tran, Angelina Dianne Hoffman, Eric Arthur, Trissimbe

[33:11] Dell, Hemanton Youth for Climate, Christy Jackson, RDBZ, North Lift, Belts, Simpar, Melanie

[33:18] Kaufman Beverly Zubah residential in film working group Emily Hayes Kassara Nurena

[33:26] Jay McKenna Julia May Sarah Jubinville, Edmonton, Permaculture Guild, Jenna Paray

[33:35] And panel four we have Leonard Zes Dayco, Kennedy Daniels Peterson, Albert in parents protecting

[33:46] public learning and education.

[33:49] Dolly Sapita Montefore, Sabihah Nova, Clarissa Atienza, Jay Lawrence.

[33:57] And on 73 we have 311 service experience, one speaker, Eric Astrada from Alberta Avenue

[34:04] Business Association, and on 74 Azola Hydergen Limited Amendment Agreement, Melanie Hoffman.

[34:13] And there are an additional 10 that our clerk has received.

[34:17] That's not on your list.

[34:19] So please go ahead if you want to read those in to our clerk.

[34:21] Yes, if I just read the manual, conclude them in the motion.

[34:24] For item 7.1, I'm Nicholas Newin.

[34:27] Also for 7.1, Julia Davis.

[34:30] 7.1, Lewis Trans, speaking on behalf of Revitah.

[34:34] 7.1, Jacqueline Armistead.

[34:39] 7.1, Jenny Suns, speaking on behalf of Revitah.

[34:43] Item 7.1, William Lousy, being on a China-town revita, item 7.1, and your whoys, being

[34:50] at have a revita, 7.1, Claudia Venezwega,

[34:59] item 7.1, speaking on China-town revita,

[35:02] Michael, William Morn, Wolfe, Dumont, item 7.1, Rihanna Shave, item 7.2, also Rihanna

[35:11] and if there is a kai ma mo shahalak, I just don't know which item you're here to speak to.

[35:18] We can.

[35:19] 7.1.

[35:20] Okay.

[35:21] Thank you.

[35:22] And you had one.

[35:24] I think I see Erica Strado from Alberta F.

[35:27] On some of them in one as well.

[35:29] That's on our list.

[35:30] We'll take that for now.

[35:31] And if that's incorrect, we can change it later.

[35:33] Might as well move it as we can.

[35:35] Thank you so much.

[35:36] Okay.

[35:36] That's the list of speakers.

[35:37] We'll talk about a gentleman management in a moment.

[35:39] but please vote to hear from those speakers.

[35:49] We have other votes.

[35:50] Thank you, please display the vote.

[35:57] That is carried five to zero.

[36:00] Excellent.

[36:01] So before we continue any further,

[36:03] I'll just note we don't have any time specific on the agenda,

[36:06] but we essentially have speakers on every agenda items.

[36:09] So we will proceed in order.

[36:12] But I think it is important,

[36:14] as similar to a recent infrastructure committee meeting

[36:17] with the number of speakers registered,

[36:18] And if we stick with our normal course of action, which is five minutes for all members of

[36:25] Council, committee, and public, the agenda will not be completed today.

[36:30] I can give 100% guarantee on that, recognizing, looking at, for sure, on 7.2 needs to

[36:38] be able to make a motion to create service packages that would come for climate items.

[36:45] If we don't make it at this meeting, it makes it that much harder for men to actually do the work to bring things back.

[36:53] So while I don't love it, because I know folks probably prepared five minutes speeches as often they do,

[37:00] I think it's, well, I'm speaking to something that I think I should just make the motion of.

[37:05] So maybe one and I do that, I'll make a motion then I'll introduce it and explain why I'm making it.

[37:11] So we'll pull it up on the screen for you, but essentially be the executive committee adjust the rules on time limit to set out in the by law.

[37:17] For today's meeting, so that each speaker may speak for a maximum of three minutes.

[37:21] Each member of council most three minutes to speak and three minutes to speak or close it to be on a motion.

[37:25] Okay, so that's what I'm going to be moving.

[37:27] To take just a brief moment to make sure.

[37:30] Members of the public know what's being moved and why I'm moving into the first place. So what this would mean is that normally when we do committee meetings, every person gets five minutes to speak, that's members of the public, that's members of committee, that's members of council, we get five minutes to ask questions, we get five minutes to speak, we get five minutes on a regular rotation and you can do that as often as possible, at least members of council and it comes to questions.

[37:55] This would limit all of that to three.

[37:57] That means all members of committee would be limited to three minutes.

[38:00] Any member of council would be limited to three minutes.

[38:02] Any member of the public would be limited to three minutes.

[38:05] I don't do that lightly, but in the trade-off, I'm facing two trade-offs.

[38:09] One, we don't finish the meeting, which means everyone who's taken the day off work,

[38:14] has to then come yet another day.

[38:17] And we have another full agenda in the next executive committee,

[38:20] which I think creates a challenge for those who have already taken the time

[38:24] give up on work. I don't like that. I don't want people to have to try to give up two days of

[38:29] work or two days of school or two days of whatever that is. I appreciate that that can sometimes

[38:35] be challenging if you've prepared a five-minute speech. I don't love making you have to adjust it

[38:39] on the fly but in a world of trade-offs I would rather try to do everything possible to get these items

[38:45] dealt with today because there are items on this agenda that if we don't finish today and if you

[38:52] don't get a chance to make a motion, and I'll particularly pick on 7.2 because 7.1, China

[38:58] will be first item of business.

[39:00] I expect we would finish that.

[39:01] But for anyone here who's registered on that climate implementation item, if we do not finish

[39:07] that item, folks like myself who have a motion that would create service packages that can then

[39:13] be debated at budget to implement, it means administration has less time to actually do the

[39:20] So the council can debate that at the budget and I would really like without preempting my climate discussion

[39:27] I would really like to make sure we're taking action on climate things based off the last eight to ten months in our city

[39:34] And so that's why I'm willing to make a motion to ask everyone to shorten their time

[39:39] Because I think we need to get moving on those things

[39:42] That's so that's my introduction and just hopefully explains it to the members of the public. So now I've made that motion any questions on the motion from

[39:50] committee members or members of council.

[39:56] I'm not seeing anyone, click on the board from

[39:59] committee or council, anyone wishing to speak to the motion to,

[40:07] nope. Okay, I'll just

[40:08] close by saying, obviously, I think this might pass because it doesn't sound like there's

[40:13] a lot of debate. What that means is for everyone planning to speak, start shortening your speech

[40:17] a little bit and I don't love doing it, but it's important because we want to hear from as many

[40:21] people as possible and I just don't want to have to have you come back for those on 7.2

[40:27] and future that you have a little bit easier time because we're going to probably spend about

[40:31] two hours at least on the first item, but for the ones here on Chinatown begin adjusting your

[40:37] speeches as best you can. So please vote.

[40:45] We have a vote. Thank you, please.

[40:48] That is carried

[40:49] five to zero. So again what this means for agenda management is we will still be starting with

[40:54] item 7.1, which is the Chinatown Community Cleanup Program, how this process works actually

[41:00] all. This is a perfect time to read through this. So the way this works is for each item in

[41:06] administration may provide opening remarks or presentation. And members of the public and

[41:11] while I'm doing this administration who's coming down for 7.1 can begin to make their way down,

[41:15] so we'll save as much time as possible. So what we'll have is they'll make the presentation,

[41:20] then we'll move to speakers in panels and you'll see on my left side many viewers right side there's 15 numbers there.

[41:30] Each speaker will now have three minutes to present and the clerks will run the official timer in the meeting room.

[41:35] It'll be up on our screens and also be seen for those who are participating virtually.

[41:41] When everyone in the panel has had a chance to present members of Council and committee may ask questions of you or other panel members.

[41:48] And for this reason, if you can, we encourage you to please stay and remain in the meeting

[41:52] until all questions have been asked of your panel.

[41:55] For those who are participating virtually, we ask that you please meet your microphone when

[41:59] you're not speaking.

[42:00] And if you're experiencing any technical difficulties, please reach out to the office of the

[42:04] city clerk using the contact information provided in your confirmation of registration or

[42:09] at city.click at mintend.ca.

[42:12] And for those in person, city staff will guide you to your seat when it is time for your panel.

[42:19] And the last thing I mentioned just before we get our presentation is they're still getting settled in, is if you are here for item 7-3 and 7-4

[42:30] And I think the good news is both of those folks are here for other items, but just wanted to flag if you're here for 7-3 and 7-4

[42:37] We're absolutely getting to closer to the end of the day because we have many speakers registered on 7.1.

[42:45] We have even more speakers registered for 7.2, which is our climate item.

[42:51] So even under this new timeline at 3 minutes, we have about 17 to 20 speakers, I think, on 7.1.

[42:58] We have at this stage at least 50-ish speakers on the climate item, so even for many of you

[43:07] on the climate item, we will likely not get started on that item until I'm guessing at

[43:13] the very earliest 11 in the morning, if not after lunch, because we still have to debate the

[43:20] Chinatown item that's before us, we have to discuss that there's many speakers, so I just

[43:24] to give you a sense of where you're at. If you heard your name listed in panels 2, 3, or 4,

[43:30] you can guarantee we're not getting to you before lunch, so you're welcome to stay. I'd love

[43:34] to have you joined, and you're welcome to watch our work, but I also don't want to waste

[43:37] your time. So if you have other things you want to do, you're welcome to head on out the Stanley

[43:41] Miller's Library's a great place if you're looking for a little office. You can work here

[43:45] as long as you're not making too much noise, but I just want to make sure everyone has

[43:50] understanding of where you'll be in the agenda. So without further ado, now that our

[43:56] administration team is ready, let's let the presentation begin on item 7.1.

[44:10] Good morning, members of Executive Committee and City Council. My name is Tom Mansfield,

[44:15] director of the local economy section in the economic development branch. With me today,

[44:20] both in person and virtually are a list of the Liberty Branch Manager, Economic

[44:24] development, Julia Jow, Manager, Chinatown Recovery, Brett Lachford, Director, Economic Strategy,

[44:31] Nicole Fraser, Acting Director, Parks and Urban Forestry, and Sikar Dahal, General

[44:37] Supervisor, Parks and Open Spaces, Space Specialized Services.

[44:42] I also wish to acknowledge the community partners that have taken the time to be with us

[44:45] today who have contributed to addressing the March 4th, 2026 motion that administration

[44:51] work with Chinatown Community Groups to explore a community cleanup program focused on Chinatown

[44:57] and prepare a report for committee that outlines options.

[45:00] For such a program in advance of the 2027-2030 budget discussions. Next slide, please.

[45:07] The engagement conducted for this report conferred two things. First, there is a broad support for

[45:13] cleaner and more consistently maintained public spaces in Chinatown. Second, there are different delivery

[45:19] models and no consensus from those engaged on which is best. Because of this, agreement

[45:25] on the need does not translate into a defined program design,

[45:29] service standard, or potential funding requirement.

[45:33] In addition to maintaining the status quo,

[45:35] administration is outlined two different community-led approaches,

[45:39] compared to one city-led approach.

[45:42] Should committee wish to advance this further,

[45:44] the practical next step would be to define the service level required,

[45:48] the scope of services required to meet this,

[45:51] and to decide which approach can provide the best service

[45:54] value. Next slide please.

[45:58] The engagement revealed more agreement than disagreement about the desired

[46:02] outcome. Participants generally saw professional, reliable cleaning as the foundation. Current

[46:08] volunteer cleanups are valued for community building and pride, visibility and stewardship,

[46:14] but should not be viewed as a substitute for routine operational service. Volunteer cleanups

[46:19] also have limitations when it comes to dealing with hazardous types of waste. The differing

[46:25] Perspectives were mainly centered on control and delivery.

[46:29] Who should hold the funding?

[46:30] How priorities should be set?

[46:32] How local knowledge should influence deployment?

[46:35] And whether the work should be city-led or community-led?

[46:39] Across those perspectives, the shared expectations were quite consistent.

[46:44] Stable funding, clearly assigned responsibilities, coordination with existing services,

[46:49] and evidence that the work is producing results.

[46:53] This means that governance and performance requirements should be designed based on the common expectations regardless of which delivery option is eventually selected.

[47:03] Next slide please.

[47:06] The three options represent different choices about cost, control, and community ownership.

[47:12] Maintaining the current service avoids an increase in operating costs, but it leaves the service gaps identified through engagement.

[47:20] Enhancing City Delivered Service provides the clearest line of operational control and integration with existing programs.

[47:28] The trade-off is the need for additional operating funding and an absence of community ownership of data data delivery.

[47:36] A community delivery model could provide a strong local presence, flexibility and broader social or community benefits.

[47:42] It's trade-off as additional complexity.

[47:46] The city should conduct a transparent process to select the most capable delivery partner,

[47:51] agree on clear service levels and delivery methods, and establish an active contract oversight.

[47:58] It is also worth noting that gaining consensus is often difficult to achieve.

[48:03] Next slide, please.

[48:07] If Council wishes to explore community delivery,

[48:10] Administration recommends a request for proposal process with the fine scope and outcomes as there may be other suitable options not uncovered by the engagement for this report.

[48:21] An open process would allow qualified organizations to demonstrate how they would meet the service requirements in a fair and transparent manner and would specify the geography hours or frequency response standards safety practices reporting requirements and coordination expectations.

[48:39] Community benefits could be included as an outcome.

[48:43] Evaluation should consider governance, financial controls, insurance, equipment, workforce capacity, and procedures for needles,

[48:51] biohazards and other high risk materials.

[48:54] Any proposed community-led programming would need a clear boundary between the community-led programming,

[48:59] and work already delivered by the city or other partners.

[49:03] This protects against duplication and makes performance measurable.

[49:07] Finally, regular performance reviews, corrective action requirements, and renewal or termination

[49:13] conditions should be considered.

[49:15] For programs where public funding is allocated, oversight acts as the mandatory check

[49:20] to ensure those funds are spent legitimately, efficiently and as intended.

[49:25] Next slide, please.

[49:28] Thank you.

[49:28] We would be pleased to answer any questions you may have.

[49:31] Great.

[49:31] thank you very much, I think at this time we will bring down the speakers, I'll just read

[49:41] all the names and then I think,

[49:53] anyways, I will read the names and as you guys see it, I'll

[49:56] read out the expectations for speaking. So, which list do I have?

[50:04] Okay, I will do the with

[50:11] Okay, speaker one at one shell, are you here in a line,

[50:20] nope. Okay, Sandy Pond, in person, land chan, are you online?

[50:32] Sandy just come on down, we're going to see you. So if I read your name for here, please come down. If you're online, please unmute yourself and let us know you're here.

[50:41] If you're not here online or in person, we'll just come back to you at the very end.

[50:48] Carl Mew, please come on down, Jackson Ho, come on down, Catherine Lou.

[50:59] Catherine, are you online?

[51:02] I'll root, okay, perfect.

[51:05] Julia Tran,

[51:09] this present, present, thank you.

[51:12] Jeremy Wong.

[51:15] I am also present, thanks.

[51:16] you call in Campbell, come on down, man hosts email that he would not be able to join

[51:25] for speaking, but he doesn't a letter. Jack, Jane.

[51:31] President, thank you. Thank you, Joanna Wong. Come on down. Eric, Estrada.

[51:37] All right. Great. Thank you. Nicholas Guren. Come on down. If I read your name, please just come on down to your seat. Julia Davis. Lewis Tran. Jacqueline Armistead. Jenny sung.

[52:00] Is Jenny here? Okay. William Lau. Oh no. William Lann. William Lann. William Lann. Okay.

[52:10] Yes, it says William Lent.

[52:12] And you will,

[52:15] Claudia Venov-Bongsa,

[52:21] Michelle William Moore Wolf-Dumont,

[52:27] Rihanna Shave, and...

[52:30] Hi, ma, more like. Okay, so I think we're just missing Edwin and Lan. And Catherine is here, so you just need to calm down to your speaker seat.

[52:53] Hey, so as folks are getting seated, I just want to remind everyone of the respectful behavior, expectations required while participating in this meeting, both in person and virtually.

[53:03] Hearing from the public is an important part of the council process that provides us with the opportunity to hear the full diversity of opinions that exist in our community.

[53:13] As meeting chair, my role is not to moderate the nature of the content being discussed, but to ensure behavior support a safe, respectful and neutral space for my colleagues, city employees and the public.

[53:25] Disrespectful comments include the use of profane language, or gestures, and behaviors such

[53:30] as shouting, cheering, or clapping would not be tolerated, as well any use of the race, hand

[53:36] feature, chat, and moticon response, or AI, no taking tools in the virtual meeting are not permitted.

[53:43] I will direct the clerk to have security remove anyone violating these expectations,

[53:46] and they will not be permitted to rejoin the meeting. I will not provide any additional warnings

[53:51] this meeting is being live streamed and everyone is welcome to watch online okay let's

[53:59] I hope we can get through with everyone but if we do run into a lunch hour just a reminder

[54:04] folks can also leave and then come back or join online so there's a few different options out there

[54:12] and I think I saw some folks just just walked in for the climate item we will very likely not

[54:19] going to get to that or any of the speakers this morning. So just FYI. Thank you. We'll go with

[54:27] our first speaker. Sandy, please go ahead.

[54:37] Sandy, you have three minutes.

[54:40] You are starting.

[54:47] Sorry, and then the lights on the podium are not going to be working. So you'll just follow the

[54:53] timer on the screen. We're going to get a timer on the screen just as soon as we can, but otherwise

[54:58] I'll give you a signal. Yes. Thank you for me. Thank you. Good morning, Mayor Nax,

[55:06] Councillor Cairn-Tank, Ashley Salvador, Councillor online, and also, too, Parma, and I

[55:14] see how a wonderful Councillor and Stevenson present. I'm Sandy Pond, the co-founder and

[55:20] chair of the China Town Transformation Collaborative Society of Edmonton, the CTC, as you

[55:25] And also, I'm a board member of the Chinese Beneverse Association.

[55:29] CDC also co-lead the Chinatown Safety Council with the assistance of reach.

[55:34] Debbie Brown of reach is not here today due to personal matters.

[55:38] So she sends her regret.

[55:39] On behalf of the CDC, we had our meeting with Julia Schau, Manager of Chinatown Recovery Strategy

[55:44] and Emerging Economy in July.

[55:47] We have expressed our gross concern of the following.

[55:49] garbage accumulation, rapidly on weekends due to increased visitations and limit at weekend cleaning.

[55:56] Overflowing garbage bins contribute to litter being dispersed throughout the neighborhood.

[56:01] In cabins and activities surrounding social services and agency generating additional garbage and sanitation concerns,

[56:08] sidewalks require power washing to remove consistent staining odors and biological contaminants.

[56:12] human ways, urine, needles, and other biohazards as a material, require specialized cleaning

[56:18] beyond routine litter, clean up, and collection, deteriorating cleanliness negatively impact

[56:25] and affects our public image perception of China town.

[56:28] And discourage visitor and customers, residents and private investment, CDC's mandate is to

[56:34] revitalize China town.

[56:35] This is also the same concern expressed at our China town safety council monthly meeting.

[56:40] Our members include building owners with residential and commercial tenants, China Town

[56:45] BIA, downtown Business Association, CBA and other community association, Macauly

[56:51] Community League, furthermore, EPS police commissioners, ministers at police commissioners

[56:58] and all other social agency in China town, such as Hope Mission, BISO Boyle Street Community

[57:03] Services, Master Seats, I Human, Marion Center, also at the table.

[57:07] We are all striving for the same goal to make Chinatown a safe and welcome environment for all people.

[57:14] No wearing eminent has the same kind of disproportionate of filth and biohazard like in our Chinatown.

[57:22] Volunteer weekly or bi-weekly clean up or meet up for an hour to do not make a dent in the impact.

[57:30] It's good PR, previous CTC board had that for two years and we banned it after consultation with you representative.

[57:39] Without proper health and biohazardous education, liability waivers, CTC will not allow public members to come to harm.

[57:47] This is why CTC is asking the city council to lead the funding, manage the funding,

[57:55] BIA Chinatown to lead the coordination and then have the Chinatown Safety Council provide oversight and feedback.

[58:03] Because this is what we need. If Ementon has to be a big city and a major hub, then we need to do what they do in Paris, New York and Tokyo.

[58:11] We know the city park and road services have the heavy equipment such as power washing, steam cleaning machines, spray trucks and so forth.

[58:21] So, therefore, we'd like to see, thank you, and we can be provided.

[58:25] Thank you.

[58:25] That three minutes just fly by quickly.

[58:27] So, thank you, no, no, no, thank you.

[58:30] Next is Carl.

[58:33] Please go ahead.

[58:38] It's Russian Mayor Ned, Councilor Kantan, and members of the Council.

[58:44] My name is Carl Mew, the Vice Chair of Chinatown and Area Business Association.

[58:49] The administration proposed three options for enhancing cleaning as in China Town.

[58:57] We support option 2, which is the city we will take the lead in providing professional

[59:01] cleaning services with increased funding.

[59:05] However, if the council be further option 3, a community lead cleaning service with city

[59:12] funding, the China Town BIA would like to be considered to manage the contract.

[59:17] We would like the council to consider the foreign bonds.

[59:22] Number one, a professional cleaning contract required professional capacity.

[59:28] Cleaning in China terming in most cleaning of hazardous waste, human excretion, bodily fluid, needles, illegal dumping,

[59:37] Try the beast left by ushen, and be courting sanitation problems.

[59:43] This are not ordinary littering concern.

[59:46] They are serious health and safety hazard.

[59:51] Community won't clear clean up are valuable when they pick up garbage in a relatively

[59:56] safe area, but they should come bring it.

[1:00:00] Not repressed, a professional sanitation program. Besides, we should also consider the personal safety of the warrantiers.

[1:00:10] Number two, the China-TombIA has existing capacity. China-TombIA understands local conditions, recurring

[1:00:18] problem areas and the urgent needs of businesses.

[1:00:23] A BIA managed program would expand an existing service, rather than create a parallel system.

[1:00:31] Business in China has been reporting to China BIA about the sanitation problem they encounter

[1:00:37] on a daily basis and it has been providing businesses with a clear point of contact and solution.

[1:00:47] Number 3, Building on Existing Capacity.

[1:00:53] China Town Business has an established passage in China Town.

[1:00:58] China Town, BIA has direct relationship and trust with businesses.

[1:01:03] We have no racial local problem area.

[1:01:06] We have experienced working with professional cleaning companies.

[1:01:10] We have good working relationships with China Town.

[1:01:13] Organizations such as CDC.

[1:01:15] Canada Safety Council and also agency including home mission, Bois 3, BSL and MasterCit.

[1:01:25] A direct economic interest and responsibility in providing improving the district.

[1:01:33] So finally, I would like to end my submission by saying that Chinatown deserve a professional cleaning system.

[1:01:40] Chinatown businesses deserve a responsive surface and Chinatown and eminent and

[1:01:47] thank you very much for all the money. Thank you. Jackson, please go ahead.

[1:01:58] Hi there. City Clerk, I don't know if you were able to get presentation for myself from this morning.

[1:02:07] Sorry for the late submission.

[1:02:10] Will you take a quick look here?

[1:02:14] As they're pulling off, you'll free to start.

[1:02:17] Yeah.

[1:02:19] I guess I wanted to speak directly today on some of the information.

[1:02:25] I guess I was able to extrapolate from city center optimization project dashboard.

[1:02:33] We get reports.

[1:02:34] And I just kind of looked at August reporting, and I guess the report emphasizes a Chinatown

[1:02:46] north edge downtown and other locations within, I guess, this project scope.

[1:02:52] Overall, there's definitely a need for additional resources with the emphasis on Chinatown

[1:03:02] as a comparison, Chinatown receives, I guess, one-third of the overall services of this

[1:03:14] project. In fact, in some cases, Chinatown is probably the overall winner when it comes to

[1:03:23] bio-hazard waste in comparison to North Edge. We're four times more the volume compared to

[1:03:30] downtown, we're 1.4 times more compared to all other locations involved in this process.

[1:03:36] We're 1.6 times more.

[1:03:39] So basically, we're 40% of our hazard is waste within Chinatown in area.

[1:03:45] Those statistics are significant needles.

[1:03:50] also we are clearly the hate to say at the winner here we're 45% of overall and the number

[1:04:03] of incidents in this project just for August alone shows that I guess the city operations

[1:04:08] side, parks and road services, the recorded $12,579 instances, that is astronomical.

[1:04:23] That being said, just when it comes to option 2 with the city proposal, I absolutely

[1:04:30] believe that this program or we need additional resources with the emphasis prioritizing

[1:04:37] China Town with the additional resources, the report states around four to six additional

[1:04:42] FTE.

[1:04:43] I support that, again, you know, with like to make sure we prioritize China Town.

[1:04:49] If it comes to Option 3, we already have direct working relationships and contractual

[1:04:54] obligation relationships with hope mission and hard-good, running cleaning programs within

[1:05:02] China Town.

[1:05:03] So, with that being said, if it was option 3, I believe Chinatown BIA would be the best suited candidate to manage these contracts going forward.

[1:05:13] Thank you.

[1:05:17] Thank you.

[1:05:17] I think I lost the timer.

[1:05:20] But that's okay.

[1:05:20] Thank you very much, Jackson.

[1:05:22] Next I'll go to Catherine on this side.

[1:05:26] Hi, good morning members of Council.

[1:05:28] My name is Kat Liu, and I'm the Interim Executive Director of Chinatown BIA.

[1:05:32] Every morning before many businesses can open their doors, our community is dealing with human

[1:05:38] waste, urine, vomit, blood, discarded needles, abandoned clothing and overflowing garbage.

[1:05:45] Imagine arriving at a business your family has spent decades building, only to discover

[1:05:50] that customers cannot enter until you clean human waste from the doorway.

[1:05:55] Our reality is having to do this repeatedly, while to support our employees attract customers

[1:06:02] and convince the public that China Town is still safe and welcoming place.

[1:06:06] This is a daily reality for many of our merchants.

[1:06:10] This is not simply litter and it's not something volunteers or business owners

[1:06:14] should be expected to clean.

[1:06:16] These are bio-hazards requiring train professionals proper protective equipment and safe disposal.

[1:06:22] We are grateful that conditions have improved recently.

[1:06:25] King Thunderbird sensors hire good program.

[1:06:27] doesn't an amazing job keeping our area clean, including the merchant's parking lots.

[1:06:33] Hope missions, dedicated cleaning program, increased the city attention, and a strong police

[1:06:37] presence also have made a noticeable difference.

[1:06:41] But these improvements are fragile.

[1:06:44] China Town cannot be cleaned only from Monday to Friday.

[1:06:47] Saturdays and Sundays are amongst our busiest business days, yet garbage accumulates

[1:06:52] throughout the weekend and often remains until Monday morning.

[1:06:55] public, garbage bins filled too quickly, sidewalks and alleys need more frequent pressure,

[1:07:04] washing and biohazards require reliable and professional response. We're not asking

[1:07:09] the city to replace what is working, we are asking you to build beyond it.

[1:07:14] Chinatown needs continue municipal cleaning and maintenance together with dedicated neighbor,

[1:07:20] neighborhood cleaning team, such as hope mission and hire good. We need seven days coverage,

[1:07:24] more frequent garbage collection, additional bins, expanded pressure washing, trained professionals

[1:07:28] who can respond safely.

[1:07:30] Two-bile hazards. The people doing this work also need protection. Cleaners have been threatened, robbed, and assaulted while simply trying to do their job. Some have shown us bruises from being attacked and others have sought safety inside our businesses. Nobody should risk being assaulted or becoming seriously injured, just to remove garbage or human race from a public space. Volunteers have an important role in Chinatown. We would love for them to plant flowers, paint, celebrate our culture, and welcome visitors. Please,

[1:08:00] I just don't want to place them at their risk,

[1:08:04] like their health and their safety are at risk, right?

[1:08:07] Clownliness is not cosmetic.

[1:08:08] It's a public health.

[1:08:09] It's safety, it's dignity, and it's also the foundation

[1:08:11] of China Townsend Economic Survival.

[1:08:15] Our merchants continue opening their doors

[1:08:16] because they believe in the community.

[1:08:18] China Town is part of Edmonton's history,

[1:08:20] but we do not want to be remembered for only for our past.

[1:08:24] We want the opportunity to build a strong and hopeful future.

[1:08:27] Council, please protect the progress we have made, sustain and expand professional cleaning

[1:08:32] throughout Chinatown, especially on weekends.

[1:08:35] If you have our things, thank you.

[1:08:37] Thank you.

[1:08:37] Thank you so much.

[1:08:39] I think the next person we have is, sorry, was Julia Tran here?

[1:08:47] I don't see her own.

[1:08:50] Oh, yeah.

[1:08:50] Hello.

[1:08:50] Yes, yes.

[1:08:51] Here you go.

[1:08:52] And I'll hand the chair back to Mr. Mayor.

[1:08:54] Thank you.

[1:08:54] You're not going, Julia.

[1:08:56] Thank you.

[1:08:57] Hello mayor, council administration, my name is Julia Tran.

[1:09:00] I currently work as a social policy and innovation analyst.

[1:09:04] I have worked many years in the McCullee area, and I'm also a face painter and I painted

[1:09:08] for many events in Chinatown.

[1:09:10] I have volunteered with Chinatown cleanups, and I was born and raised in Edmonton.

[1:09:14] Chinatown is a familiar place to me.

[1:09:16] The topic of Chinatown cleanup program is not just a matter of what cleaning service

[1:09:20] where and when, even after cleaning people are still helpless.

[1:09:24] The topic of Chinatown cleanup requires an integrated operational and

[1:09:28] soulful strategy. Yes, cleaning is needed and cleaning alone is insufficient.

[1:09:33] I love our Chinatown. I don't want just the clean street. I want safety, vibrancy.

[1:09:38] I want shares humanity and dignity. The most top tier highest level of professional

[1:09:42] cleaning services cannot deliver that. But together in combination with a strategy

[1:09:47] also anchored in connection and relationships, maybe it is.

[1:09:51] Existing approaches are designed for the operational component.

[1:09:54] If we continue to design with the sole focus on operations,

[1:09:58] how can we expect human and social outcomes to materialize?

[1:10:02] Revitis community led pilot proposal describes

[1:10:04] four functions with unique points of intervention.

[1:10:07] Revitis is anchored in a relational approach and it is through the ways in which

[1:10:11] Revitis is embedded in community that Revitis has generated outcomes and

[1:10:15] staying power capacity that are beyond temporarily clean streets.

[1:10:18] It is through these relationships.

[1:10:20] They have generative community intelligence that has given insight into more possibility than

[1:10:26] who can be hired to clean and where do we clean?

[1:10:28] Revitalis proposal represents a different kind of intervention that uses operational activity

[1:10:33] for relational, strategic, and systems of work.

[1:10:36] They propose actions such as working together for coordination, and consolidation of coverage

[1:10:40] disposal, and donation distribution, engaging in educating public, community, and business.

[1:10:45] working together to build community storage that and community pride.

[1:10:49] That is a cleaning end.

[1:10:51] I'm not saying this attempts to solve the underlying issue of housing and

[1:10:55] situation of public spaces, social disorder, or negative perceptions of

[1:10:58] Chinatown.

[1:10:59] But I am saying we need something different.

[1:11:02] We need investments and integrated strategies that create the

[1:11:05] foundational building blocks so that we can't.

[1:11:08] The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

[1:11:10] Revita is proposing a different approach, existing operations and approaches

[1:11:14] are operationally focused. What continues to be explored in the alternative proposal are

[1:11:19] other ways to administer operations. This is not an ordinary cleaning or kitchen situation

[1:11:24] where we pick up the poster, give it a wipe underneath and put the poster back. This is not

[1:11:28] just simply contracting an administering service. This is our opportunity to make an investment.

[1:11:33] If our desired outcome is a safe, vibrant connected Chinatown, cleaning is only one component

[1:11:38] of the response. We are missing a critical human piece to address a human element and

[1:11:43] provided gives us at the very least a strong starting point.

[1:11:46] This is my advocacy to Council to do something and change everything.

[1:11:51] Thank you.

[1:11:51] Thank you very much.

[1:11:53] And just a reminder, and again, I'll just flag for those online.

[1:11:57] We ask that you don't use the raise hand function.

[1:11:59] If you have questions, you can reach out to the city clerk in the email that you would

[1:12:02] have received.

[1:12:03] Although, again, I'll flag.

[1:12:04] If you're here for the climate item, we are currently working through the Chinatown

[1:12:08] Community Cleanup Program item first, that we've got a number of speakers, 24

[1:12:13] speakers that have registered a few that are not available any more.

[1:12:17] After we finish that item, which, again, if we're lucky, we'll finish before lunch.

[1:12:22] There is a very good possibility that we won't. After that item is complete, then we'll

[1:12:28] move on to the climate item and just noting for everyone to ensure we try to have the best

[1:12:34] chance to finish the meeting today, although it's still not a guarantee by any stretch

[1:12:39] with the number of speakers, we've already changed the speaking time to three minutes.

[1:12:43] So if you've prepared a five-minute speech, begin to pair that down because I'm going

[1:12:47] to be very firm on time because we're going to try to get through the entire agenda today

[1:12:52] if it all possible.

[1:12:53] So next up on this item, Jeremy Wong.

[1:12:58] All right.

[1:12:59] Good morning, council and mayor, thanks for letting me speak here.

[1:13:04] Yeah, my name is Jeremy Wong.

[1:13:06] I'm a lifelong, a mental audience, a living engineer and project manager.

[1:13:10] I've been the giant town for a long time since the 1990s, and I've seen parts of the, you know, the air is deteriorated for sure from a business function, a cultural function, and of course a cleanliness function.

[1:13:23] Since this deterioration of this has occurred, I've started to, as of last year, start to volunteer for a variety of some of the monthly cleanups,

[1:13:34] which it is increased my desire to find ways to support interventions to help restore the conditions in China town.

[1:13:42] I would say that based on this city report, I would say that's the option free city supported.

[1:13:48] Can we let services?

[1:13:50] I would recommend versus a private sector delivery.

[1:13:53] This would increase engagement of local residences, businesses, and other more vested in the visuals rather than just have a generic private sector or a vendor provide services.

[1:14:04] There's so many issues that I've compounded in China town where you need specialized community involvement to actually make more systemic change.

[1:14:14] This is also a need space service that returns the heart and ownership to the core of this service.

[1:14:20] It also facilitates the allowance networking, community collaboration and synergies that will facilitate

[1:14:27] further action in other areas, such as security, business, cultural initiatives, all which would

[1:14:34] help to solve some of these compounding issues.

[1:14:38] This would help to community to serve itself, progress towards cleaning up more effectively and

[1:14:43] contributing to more positive developments.

[1:14:45] What are some strengths in the Revita proposals specifically?

[1:14:49] Some strengths include having an actual site coordinator that would help with more

[1:14:56] frequent consistent and structured activation of the human resources that would be

[1:15:00] I'm trained properly to do the work. Also, it would provide needs-based cleanings to supplement the city of

[1:15:06] emissions existing programs. I ease like the activations in all six avenue corridor or potentially in

[1:15:12] self-chided town were required. Also, it may involve, it involve activations both during, during the

[1:15:24] Wednesday's Friday's, right, and then parts of the, I guess that this proposal that would bring excitement to myself as a long time inventory and as a project leader is the expense and already existing grassroots clean up initiative, which of course right now in its current form once a month doesn't perform all the functions that we need it to do into a more systematic community route program of measurable metrics that demonstrate to the entire community its effectiveness.

[1:15:53] So thanks for the time, everyone. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. Our next speaker is Colin Campbell.

[1:16:03] Good morning Councillors. I'm here as the property manager for five Oaks. I manage approximately 150 residential units and seven commercial properties in the quarters directly affected by the conditions discussed in this report.

[1:16:17] I support increased professional cleaning, seven day coverage and sustained investment in the entire area.

[1:16:23] However, I believe the report would benefit from greater clarity regarding its geographic scope,

[1:16:28] consultation process, and the evidence informing the proposed allocation of resources.

[1:16:34] The report proposes direct ding approximately 75-80% of resources to North Chinatown and 20-25% to South Chinatown,

[1:16:42] but South Chinatown is never clearly defined.

[1:16:45] There is no boundary map. It is not within the Chinatown BIA, and the report does not explain its relationship to the quarters,

[1:16:51] or identify the affected streets, properties, and problem locations.

[1:16:57] Within our properties, we do a deal directly with persistent,

[1:16:59] weightoring, public drug use, biohazards, obstructed instances,

[1:17:04] and property damage, particularly around the GWG

[1:17:06] braiding around the across from the law courts,

[1:17:09] and along 96th Street, or quarter near the double tree hotel.

[1:17:13] These conditions affect our residents, businesses,

[1:17:16] customers, and staff.

[1:17:18] I spoke to our tenant uncle as just on Monday,

[1:17:20] And staff raise legitimate safety concerns that are affecting its cost employees, customers, and ongoing communication with EPS is not doing up to deal with the circumstances.

[1:17:31] Either the quarters is included in the program, in which case its stakeholders almost be consulted, or if it's not, administration must define where self-trained town ends, and explain how the quarters will be served.

[1:17:42] This submission is especially concerning because I was invited to participate in crime prevention

[1:17:46] through environment design work, connected to the city of Edmonton's neighborhood empowerment

[1:17:51] team, about six months ago, and I don't like today's report, that process defined as

[1:17:56] study area, mapping specific hospitals and examined public safety data, it recorded 103 emergency

[1:18:02] calls between March 23 and March 26, on 96th street, which included 77 overdose-related

[1:18:08] and eminent fire responses.

[1:18:11] That report identified 96-3 is a focal point, and specifically recommended prioritizing

[1:18:17] cleaning and around the hotel on the alleyway west of 96-3, that evidence directly concerns

[1:18:22] the quarter five oaks managers, yet it does not appear to have informed the report.

[1:18:26] Before endorsing a geographic allocation, I asked Council and Administration to clearly define

[1:18:33] South China Town is relationship to the quarters, consult effective property owners, businesses,

[1:18:38] residents and cultural organizations. Incorporate the SIPTED findings and relevant EPS,

[1:18:45] Emmaton Fire and 311 data, identify service gaps and hotspots across the entire service area,

[1:18:51] and base resource allocation on undocumented conditions and measurable need. Thank you.

[1:18:56] Thank you very much. I think we already just confirmed a man who is not available, but they've

[1:19:01] into their information, a Jock Zang is next.

[1:19:12] So, they're on live, very good.

[1:19:13] Thank you.

[1:19:14] I'm excited.

[1:19:15] Thank you for taking the time to listen and hear our stories.

[1:19:18] My name is Jock Zang.

[1:19:20] I've been involved in Chinatown for several years.

[1:19:22] I was part of the CVU Council from 2022 to 2025.

[1:19:25] And I'm a clearly a member of the Revita,

[1:19:28] hard to see me in the monthly cleanups

[1:19:29] and also helping set up those, a Chinatown after drugs.

[1:19:34] So I first became involved with Chinatown

[1:19:35] in 2020. I was first about why I basically have spurred necessary. My memories of trying to

[1:19:41] help grow very different. Remember, volunteering at the MN-10 Chinese LT Cultural Center,

[1:19:46] getting dim sum in Chinese barbecue, shopping at 99 supermarkets with my parents. So when I first

[1:19:51] joined my first cleanup, I was shocked by what I saw. I remember picking on my first to start

[1:19:56] in needles and realizing how low I understood about the opioid crisis and the challenges

[1:20:01] that our inner city was facing. I became curious that the circumstances behind it

[1:20:05] and I learned about harm reduction, also since the safety and many barriers facing Chinatown.

[1:20:11] That experience also showed me that I could do something about it.

[1:20:14] If you wanted to change the narratives around Chinatown, you need to take a gift that an extra push.

[1:20:19] That is why through Revita, I did partner with a social worker to incorporate drug poisoning response

[1:20:24] and relax in a administration experience into our females.

[1:20:28] And what I learned from that is that we are not just cleaning up garbage.

[1:20:31] We're creating opportunities for people to see, learn from, and build relationships within the space.

[1:20:37] Through all my clean-ups and being in Chinatown, I've also seen on-house community members caring for these spaces themselves,

[1:20:43] which has made me also think about where our plans could be done.

[1:20:46] To my knowledge, they have not yet joined our organized clean-ups at Reavider,

[1:20:51] but I believe that there is an opportunity to create space for one to participate and be recognized for the work they are already doing.

[1:20:57] To a community led up approach, we can view more than just clean time down.

[1:21:02] You can create opportunities for people to contribute, build relationships, and take ownership of the community.

[1:21:07] They call home.

[1:21:08] That to me is how we build a sustainable community.

[1:21:11] Thank you for listening to me.

[1:21:14] Thank you very much.

[1:21:15] Our next speaker is Joanna Wong.

[1:21:20] The city clerk, I think we miss Catluse slides.

[1:21:24] If we bring her slides up and that came in with Jackson's presentation.

[1:21:28] We'll get those up before we start your time.

[1:21:32] While we're getting that up,

[1:21:33] I think a speaker number one that was on this list Edwin Schale,

[1:21:36] I see you, are you, you're here for the Chinatown item,

[1:21:39] so perfect. So we'll figure out a way to get you a spot

[1:21:42] because I think are we doing all the speakers in this one panel?

[1:21:44] Yeah. Okay, so we're going to, we'll figure out a way to get you a seat

[1:21:48] in there at some point.

[1:21:50] I believe the presentation for this speaker is up now

[1:21:55] and so whenever you're ready please go ahead.

[1:21:57] So, good morning council, my name is Joanna Wong, I'm a director with a CDC and I run the student-led

[1:22:06] Jagging Food Tourist and I'm also serve as a chair of the Emmington Dragon Festival.

[1:22:11] But my connection to China town goes back much further than any of these roles.

[1:22:15] I grew up in this community, I work here as a pharmacist for over 30 years,

[1:22:19] caring for people in neighborhood.

[1:22:20] I own a business, I want to property there, I've spent decades working alongside our businesses

[1:22:25] rather than seniors in community organization.

[1:22:28] I am at the front line.

[1:22:30] In both South and North Chinatown. I think it really agrees that Chinatown needs to be clean. The question is

[1:22:37] how we can accomplish that effectively, safely, in response, and how we get the greatest value from

[1:22:42] our public dollars. I absolutely support volunteerism. I am a volunteer. Volunteer, the

[1:22:49] wonderful for our community, of activation, beautification, and building neighborhood pride. But we

[1:23:00] Volunteers are not professional street cleaning cleaners.

[1:23:03] Once we start talking about dedicating city funding for consistent 7 day services, we are

[1:23:09] no longer simply talking about volunteers' civic engagement.

[1:23:12] We're purchasing a service with public money, and we're purchasing a service, counsel

[1:23:17] should be asking, who is best qualified to deliver that service and what exactly are we paying

[1:23:22] for?

[1:23:23] Because clean in China today is simply not picking up coffee cups and pieces of paper.

[1:23:28] Our streets can contain needles, feces, body fluids, and we flip the cats so I can show everything

[1:23:35] every day that we're dealing with is the bad hazards in front of our businesses.

[1:23:39] Workers doing this job need appropriate training, PPE, equipment, proper procedure.

[1:23:45] This is specialized work.

[1:23:47] This is where the significant difference between the proposals.

[1:23:50] The professional model includes regular litter collection, pressure washing, graffiti removal

[1:23:55] I work sweeping waste receptacle, monitoring and rapid response.

[1:24:00] Under the other model, specialized cleaning is required.

[1:24:03] Pressure washing, graffeding removal removal will be dispatched to hope mission.

[1:24:06] We bow hazard encampment and junk removal will be dispatched back to the city.

[1:24:10] This raises a very simple question for me.

[1:24:12] If another organization or city still have to perform the specialized cleaning,

[1:24:17] why are we creating another layer in the middle?

[1:24:20] Why not contract directly with qualified professions

[1:24:22] who can actually perform work, China needs.

[1:24:26] The City Commasure Contract, BIA or Safety Council could potentially play a role in the oversight.

[1:24:32] Most importantly, there should be a strong community oversight, ensure services are being purchased, are actually being delivered.

[1:24:39] So I think Council need to ask, how much of every dollar is actually going onto a street in China?

[1:24:45] For me, the priority is clear, put the money on the streets.

[1:24:48] Give Chin Town Professional Consistence Seven Days Cleaning, give us adequate garbage

[1:24:52] to receptacle and frequent garbage collection, give us power washing, graffiti removal, give us

[1:24:57] train people who can deal safely with needle species and other bio hazards.

[1:25:01] And established clear measurable service standards, so we know what taxpayers are receiving

[1:25:06] for their money.

[1:25:07] Thank you very much.

[1:25:08] Next up is Erica Strada.

[1:25:15] Thank you.

[1:25:20] Good morning everyone.

[1:25:20] I'm in a research show, I'm the executive director of Alberta Avenue Business Association.

[1:25:27] We do invest from all business collective, about $100,000 worth of cleaning.

[1:25:37] Besides the funding available by the grants and programs highlighted in cities report

[1:25:48] in cities administration report.

[1:25:50] We're in support of the Chinatown Cleanup project,

[1:25:58] especially option number three I believe.

[1:26:02] We're, you have a administration and power to collaborate

[1:26:06] with communities and fund those efforts.

[1:26:13] I think I have walked a Chinatown,

[1:26:16] I'm very fond of Chinatown.

[1:26:17] Personally, though there are a lot, I walk the streets with the executive director for

[1:26:24] days, Chinatown, attend the committee events, the safety council, and a lot of activities

[1:26:30] that happen in the part of Chinatown, and I do recognize that the level of need that is there

[1:26:37] requires more than one single approach. I think you all need to work together there, and I hope

[1:26:45] that city administration and council can support them on this work and also just be mindful

[1:26:56] that unintended consequences will push people away from Chinatown and that will create

[1:27:04] cost across the city. We're not going to be solving the problem, we're not going to be solving

[1:27:08] the root cost. I think that's impossible, but I think we need to be cautious of where else

[1:27:16] are going to be leader problems created with any specific program that happens and it's not

[1:27:28] thoughtfully considered a city-wide.

[1:27:32] Yeah, and I think I don't know when was the last review on the

[1:27:36] and funding that is out there for all RBS that are doing cleanup but I think making sure

[1:27:42] there is adjustment for cost of living and inflation on those programs is needed.

[1:27:48] I think that's a business improvement area or goal is to provide welcoming beautiful spaces.

[1:27:53] Sadly, we have to deal with the challenges that we're faced with and I'm very optimistic

[1:27:58] like that, they can't go in that project and turn around, turn around, turn around, turn around and make it beautiful and come back to everybody. Thank you.

[1:28:08] Thank you very much. Next up is Nicholas Newman. Please go ahead.

[1:28:13] This is Andrew. I did switch Nicholas and he can did consent to that.

[1:28:16] Oh, perfect. Sorry. I didn't realize that. That's no problem. Andrew, then you go ahead.

[1:28:20] Sounds good. Thank you.

[1:28:21] Hello, Mayor, counselors, and administration. My name is Andrew Halley, and today I'm speaking as a co-founder and vice president of Revital.

[1:28:30] I've participated in a monthly community cleanup since early 2022. That's over 50 cleanups.

[1:28:36] And I'm speaking in support of Option 3, city supported community led services.

[1:28:42] I want to start by first naming our definition of community, since everyone reads that differently.

[1:28:46] We define it as anyone drawn as the Tritans, drew a graphical space for whatever reason.

[1:28:53] Now all those liver work here, but we all care enough to be here today.

[1:28:57] At its core, people come to our cleanups not to just pick garbage, but to start building

[1:29:01] meaning of a meaningful relationship with Tritans.

[1:29:04] Conversations at the cleanups have sparked many discussions and ideas that impacted our community.

[1:29:09] Such as conceiving a community activation in the alleyway that would become one of our

[1:29:17] This work also lines up closely with the Priorities Council has already set for 2020-2020,

[1:29:22] under Quality Services. The framework calls for building and fostering civic pride,

[1:29:26] and that's really the heart of what our cleanup is doing. We have multiple scope and

[1:29:32] cost of proposals, ready to submit, showcasing our flexibility depending on funding,

[1:29:37] appetite, and service expectations. Keeping that flexibility in mind, we feel it is

[1:29:42] modest and responsible to request a one-year community-led pilot that adds what the city does.

[1:29:47] Covering the weekends, the city's own negligent flaged, and has ambition to not only pick up,

[1:29:53] but also to start to patch the system that fills the street in the first place.

[1:29:57] We've been doing this work in Shaxon indirectly and directly.

[1:30:02] We are asking that one of the real decision comes, we are ready to step up, whether it's being directly brought in to you to work, or to simply pass that on to other communities for our, I mean, or to simply pass that, our community focus clear practice to other groups willing to do that work.

[1:30:23] We picked a wall of garbage over the years and occasionally each other's spirits both need regular maintenance

[1:30:29] Thank you, and I'm happy to connect afterwards. If I don't want to continue to the conversation

[1:30:34] Thank you very much. So now then we'll go to Julia Davis. This is next try

[1:30:38] Hi everyone. Thank you for the

[1:30:41] Opportunity to speak today. My name is Julia Davis and I am a volunteer with the Chinatown town cleanup

[1:30:47] I was born and raised in Hamilton, and I am the season of life where I spend much of my time with my kids who are eight six and four

[1:30:54] China Town is a big part of my childhood, and as someone who's trying to pass down my heritage to my children is important to me that China Town thrives, and that China Town is a part of their lives too.

[1:31:03] So I took my little kids to the China Town cleanup.

[1:31:07] And to those raising safety concerns, I welcome questions about my parenting choices.

[1:31:11] We return to the China Town cleanup actually on request of my children.

[1:31:15] When I watch them at these events, I think it's apparent that they're getting something valuable from chatting with the other volunteers.

[1:31:23] from sharing a meal at the end, from the pride of transforming a small patch of grass or sidewalk or parking lot.

[1:31:30] They seem more energized at the end despite walking around for hours and the elements picking up garbage.

[1:31:36] No whining, which is saying something.

[1:31:39] I don't think they have the words to describe, but they're experiencing, you know, they might say, fine, was fine.

[1:31:44] But I think it's really the magic of community and contribution.

[1:31:48] In my experience, community is not something you just stumble upon.

[1:31:53] It is something you show up for, something you must build.

[1:31:57] And this is what is most exciting to me about Revita's proposal,

[1:32:01] the priority on community and growing it.

[1:32:04] To quote Manho, who couldn't make it today,

[1:32:07] he's a fellow volunteer and revita team member.

[1:32:10] When a project is truly community driven,

[1:32:13] it tends to attract passionate people who are willing to work together

[1:32:16] to solve problems and create positive change.

[1:32:19] And I think you will be hearing and feeling

[1:32:22] some of the passion and heart and care in this room.

[1:32:25] I hope the Executive Committee considers option three.

[1:32:28] Community led cleanups and engages the community

[1:32:31] to accomplish more than just more picking

[1:32:35] and pressure-washing.

[1:32:37] Thank you.

[1:32:38] Thank you very much.

[1:32:39] Our next speaker is Lewis Tran.

[1:32:44] Good morning.

[1:32:46] My name is Lewis Tran.

[1:32:47] I'm a long time provider, member, former Chinatown after dark event planner, and volunteer regular since 2021 with the Chinatown cleanups.

[1:32:55] Throughout my involvement, I was amazed to see the benefits such as community gatherings, team collaboration, and folks showing interest towards Chinatown.

[1:33:03] This convinced me enough to join in on this initiative.

[1:33:07] Many of us care about Chinatown's future.

[1:33:09] For me, as a kid, I was personally a member of this in grocery stores like Black and Any Southern,

[1:33:13] And sometimes, in any of our restaurants like Danny C, Century Palace, my family, I charge those memories a lot.

[1:33:19] And I plan to keep it moving further and further.

[1:33:22] Also, being involved in this work gave me the opportunity to connect with business owners and leaders.

[1:33:28] I got a chance to defend, defend them, learn more about them and finding ways to support their businesses.

[1:33:34] And yeah, being part of a change rate.

[1:33:37] Back then, I was known for being shy and introverted.

[1:33:40] I never thought I would accomplish something huge in my life, however I wanted to hear about the

[1:33:45] Chinatown cleanups.

[1:33:46] I thought maybe it was good opportunity to push myself, try to change the narrative, that people

[1:33:50] see me back then, and turn my first clean up in October 2021 and it taught me how to be confident

[1:33:57] either motivated, to even help me gain the skills, experience, even make connections, and even further

[1:34:04] spend my scope to to to I'm being involved in the other Chinatown events. This one thing I

[1:34:10] truly learned is if you're included. I want to be useful and we'll prove myself to others

[1:34:17] that I'm capable of doing this work and after that I would be seeing some results. As I move forward

[1:34:22] I like to be viewed as someone that has great passion for Chinatown coming with the positive mindset

[1:34:26] and one of the work hard. The most part factor for me is ensuring I have to feel fully satisfied

[1:34:33] So the more chance of events I keep contributing to, the more I feel a great sense of pride and accomplishment.

[1:34:38] And I hope the Executive Committee can serve as Option 3, Community Light Cleanups,

[1:34:42] and engage the community to accomplish more than just more peating and fresh washing.

[1:34:48] Thank you.

[1:34:49] Thank you very much.

[1:34:50] Our next speaker is Jacqueline Armistead.

[1:34:54] Did I get it?

[1:34:54] Yeah, Armistead is good.

[1:34:55] Thank you.

[1:34:57] My name is Jacqueline, and I'm a recent graduate student from the U of Ace Sign Program.

[1:35:01] I also just work at Riemagine Architects on the block.

[1:35:04] When I moved to the city four years ago for city, I had very few connections or reasons

[1:35:08] to be an eminent in downtown, and even less so in Chinatown.

[1:35:12] I was living in Ruperbent, my grandparents, and I never really sought community outside of my

[1:35:16] university environment until I was almost graduated.

[1:35:20] I sought out an opportunity to be in the Chinatown cleanups, because it gave me a reason

[1:35:24] to be in this place, and over time it became more of a gateway to understanding and appreciating

[1:35:28] which Chinatown had to offer.

[1:35:30] I'm really John to the people here in the spirit

[1:35:31] that they bring to build their communities back stronger.

[1:35:34] Every time I volunteer, I try and bridge more people

[1:35:37] into this community, so I'll invite friends, family members,

[1:35:41] even just people off Met one time through sporting events,

[1:35:43] so I've brought to the client the cleanups.

[1:35:46] And they've created a pathway for me

[1:35:47] to find other people, shared interests,

[1:35:49] to discover new businesses and foods,

[1:35:51] and to understand some of the more delicate needs

[1:35:53] of the community members there and how we may support them.

[1:35:57] When we come to volunteer, we always linger, and for me, would prevent us doing has created

[1:36:04] deep supporters of Chinatown in my friends and family.

[1:36:09] I ask that the Executive Committee considers option three community-like cleanups.

[1:36:13] Thank you.

[1:36:15] Thank you.

[1:36:15] Next up is Jenny Sun.

[1:36:21] Hi there.

[1:36:21] Hello Mayor, counselors, and administration.

[1:36:24] My name is Jenny, and I've been attending Revitas Cleanups for about a year now.

[1:36:29] So, Chinatown means a lot to me as an immigrant to Canada, when I first got here, I struggled

[1:36:35] to fit in to understand my identity and Chinatown provided for me a sense of belonging.

[1:36:41] And working at Revita has allowed me to learn about the people who live, who work, and

[1:36:46] who spend their time in Chinatown, including the unhoused population.

[1:36:51] One thing that really seeks out to me when doing clean-ups is when I find personal belongings

[1:36:55] on the ground. And I'm talking about like pillows, blankets, makeup bags, shoes. It's really hard

[1:37:02] to know what to do when I see these items. Do I put them away? Do I leave them there? So during

[1:37:08] one of the cleanups I had the opportunity to talk with an unhoused individual. They were

[1:37:13] carrying a very large and heavy bag. And it was quite sad. They were struggling to walk. They

[1:37:19] didn't have socks on. They were shivering from the cold. We just had a conversation and he

[1:37:24] mentioned to me that due to having to walk around a lot, he's not really able to carry too much with him.

[1:37:30] So, sometimes he would have to leave some of his personal belongings just somewhere that he thinks is safe, and then he would try to go back to retrieve them later.

[1:37:40] However, he did mention to that a lot of the times these items just go missing, they are just gone, and he believes it might be due to being cleaned up or thrown away.

[1:37:51] So, what I really want to emphasize is that, you know, one person might see as garbage,

[1:37:59] could be somebody else's treasure, could be their personal belongings.

[1:38:03] And if we as a community were to clean up their belongings, we might be making it harder

[1:38:09] for them unintentionally.

[1:38:12] And so, I think this really highlights the importance of collaboration and community building.

[1:38:17] we want to work together with our on-house population and not against them.

[1:38:22] So we want people who would be willing to build these relationships over time and not just clean.

[1:38:28] And that's why I'm in favor of community-led cleanup initiatives.

[1:38:33] I hope the Executive Committee will consider option three encouraging more community engagement

[1:38:38] and showing consideration for all groups living in Chinatown. Thank you.

[1:38:43] Thank you very much. I think our next speaker is actually William

[1:38:46] or no, not anymore, pass it over to Michael.

[1:38:53] Hello, Mayor Councillors.

[1:38:55] I volunteer with Chinatown Screen Up.

[1:38:58] My name is Michael Williams, I'm one Wolf Demont.

[1:39:00] I'm a descendant of John Baptist Demont,

[1:39:03] a family from Fishing Lake Settlement.

[1:39:05] I live the NEMOTINMA whole life.

[1:39:07] I live across the city and the inner city

[1:39:09] for many years as well.

[1:39:10] I come on behalf of my native and mate tea brothers

[1:39:13] and sisters who have deep roots

[1:39:14] on the same very land that Chinatown

[1:39:17] exist before as even a corporation and even tell this day my family still has a lot of

[1:39:24] deep roots in the neighborhood. I think cleaning up and it's very well needed in the community

[1:39:30] because it brings people together from all walks of life towards a common goal to help others

[1:39:35] which is needed in life plus when a place gets too dirty it could overwhelm the mind to the point

[1:39:41] that the health system business owners become upset and cleaning up can help reduce the yelling and screaming

[1:39:47] which often leads to things in the neighborhood, being broken from fights breaking out, which could also lead to things like theft.

[1:39:54] So cleaning up can also help reduce mental health and can reduce crime.

[1:39:59] When too much garbage builds up, it can create opportunities for mice and roaches to thrive, which is not good for your health,

[1:40:06] because it creates room for diseases and food contamination, which can cause not the greatest smells in the neighborhood either.

[1:40:17] and I'm pretty sure none of the health system business owners and even those who visit from different countries want to come here and experience that.

[1:40:26] People who are going through struggles often have a hard time taking care of themselves.

[1:40:30] The more it collects, the more it builds up, the more mental stress it causes.

[1:40:36] And there are so many people in Emmettin given out donations that the garbage has gotten worse, so much to the point that it causes anxiety,

[1:40:44] which also prevents people from having motivation and inspiration to even want to do anything

[1:40:49] productive in the first place. So it's very important to keep the streets clean

[1:40:55] where the vulnerable people are located. I've lived over the city growing up. I've never seen

[1:41:02] anywhere with more garbage than Chinatown. It's important to show people in the community that people

[1:41:09] care and want to help and it's important to inspire change for others to help give people

[1:41:15] a sense of purpose and there's been many times where walking downtown cleaning up where

[1:41:21] people would come up to me and thank me. So for that Chinatown Revada gives a sense of belonging,

[1:41:28] a direction, and safety. Some say one of the secrets to life is given back to the community

[1:41:35] and Chinatown Revita provides that in the space space where anyone is welcome to join.

[1:41:41] I volunteer my time because I believe in being the change you want to see and taking action

[1:41:46] and leading by example.

[1:41:48] So thankful that an organization can exist.

[1:41:53] Thank you very much.

[1:41:55] So now going to Nicholas.

[1:41:58] Is that right?

[1:41:59] Okay Nicholas.

[1:42:01] Good morning, Mayor, council and administration.

[1:42:05] My name is Nicholson Win.

[1:42:06] I am a student at McNally High School,

[1:42:08] and I took the time out of my school day to share my experiences

[1:42:10] volunteering, sorry, with Revita Chinatown cleanup program.

[1:42:16] Chinatown is an area that I love to visit,

[1:42:18] and has been a place of welcoming and well-being for my family

[1:42:21] when they first arrived here, especially my dad.

[1:42:24] He had spent a lot of his years in Chinatown when he was young.

[1:42:27] And so it's important to me to want to help the community and as a young person to be around and

[1:42:33] involved in the area that my family found a sense of home through the years they have been in

[1:42:39] Emmington and hopefully attract more young people to see the beauties that Chinatown can provide.

[1:42:45] That's why the work that's being done by Revita is so essential to making this part of the city

[1:42:49] better than it already is. By joining and volunteering with the amazing people who have put this

[1:42:54] I really have gotten a true sense of understanding of the community.

[1:42:59] Revitas a group of which everyone from everywhere is welcomed and all of these helpful, amazing people

[1:43:05] who are willing to help with community just a tiny bit are so, so amazing.

[1:43:12] But this organization would need more hands and more support not to just continue this work but expand it and get more done for Chinatown,

[1:43:19] which I believe should be led by the community and community members.

[1:43:23] I hope executive committee considers option three.

[1:43:25] Community led cleanups and engages the community to accomplish more than just picking and pressure washing.

[1:43:31] Thank you for your time and consideration.

[1:43:33] Thank you very much.

[1:43:37] Next is Claude.

[1:43:39] Where's what?

[1:43:40] When am I bringing back William?

[1:43:42] Where are you taking Michael's spot?

[1:43:43] that. Okay, so I'm going up here Claudia, then Rihanna. Is that right? Okay, let's go. There we

[1:43:51] go, sorry. Yes, hello. Hello, council, hello mayor. My name is Claudia, I'm a

[1:43:58] volunteer today. When I first moved to Edmonton about three years ago, people often

[1:44:06] warned me about China town. They told me it wasn't a place worth visiting. Unfortunately,

[1:44:12] I quickly realized that this negative perception is shared amongst many

[1:44:15] Edmontonians. But through spending time in Chinatown visiting its businesses

[1:44:20] and volunteering alongside the community, I've come to know a very different place.

[1:44:25] For the past two years, I've volunteered with robotics, Chinatown cleanups,

[1:44:28] because I want to challenge this narrative. I want to rewrite it.

[1:44:33] I want Chinatown to be a place that's known for its vibrancy and to be known as a place

[1:44:38] that's being cared for.

[1:44:41] Chinatown is a vital institution within our city.

[1:44:44] It's a place where members of Edmonton's community gather

[1:44:46] and where businesses and cultural institutions

[1:44:48] have very deep roots.

[1:44:51] This community deserves an equitable opportunity to flourish.

[1:44:54] Cleanliness and environmental infrastructure

[1:44:57] should not be a privilege determined by which neighbor.

[1:45:00] 11. At first glance walking through Chinatown and picking up garbage may seem like a small act, but I've witnessed

[1:45:08] how this impacts these community-led initiatives extend beyond cleanliness. During cleanups is common to have many encounters with people who stop and express their gratitude. For instance, older adults running errands, smiling and running and giving thumbs-ups to us. Maybe not running.

[1:45:29] But you'll often see people waiting for social supports and expressing thank yous.

[1:45:35] You'll have people that are driving through Chinatown that will roll down their windows and cheer up for us.

[1:45:41] As we carry big, big, big garbage during our clean-ups.

[1:45:46] These may seem like small interactions, but they matter.

[1:45:50] They are moments of acknowledgement.

[1:45:51] They tell people who live, work and spend their time in Chinatown that we see you and that they're this neighborhood matters.

[1:45:59] What makes community led initiatives powerful is that people doing the work are deeply embedded

[1:46:04] in the community. They're constantly engaging with the people who live and work there.

[1:46:08] They understand that the neighborhood is not just...

[1:46:12] They understand the neighborhood not just through reports or statistics, but through the relationships

[1:46:16] and lived experiences. There's a passion in understanding that cannot simply be replicated

[1:46:21] by a city-led service. By investing in engaging in the community, we can build something more meaningful.

[1:46:27] This is why I hope the Executive Committee considers option three a community led

[1:46:32] clean up and engages the community to accomplish more. They're just picking up and

[1:46:36] pressure watching. Thank you. Thank you. Just before we move on I realize I do

[1:46:41] see we have one additional speaker register on this item. So we'll maybe just make that

[1:46:44] motion and then if we can add Judith Gail. Thank you. Please vote to add.

[1:47:10] That's

[1:47:10] Thank you. That's carried five to zero. So what we'll do is we still have three more speakers on this panel

[1:47:18] Then we'll go back up to the top of the, we'll then we'll hear Judith then we'll go back up to the top of the panel where I think we have Edwin and

[1:47:25] Long, uh, luncheon are as back. So we'll just go through as I think next is Rihanna and a sheath

[1:47:32] You can tell me if I pronounce that. Hello, so the counselors in Marinac, my name is Rihanna Shaw. I was born and raised in Edmonton and I'm here today in support

[1:47:40] of the Chinatown Community Cleanup Program.

[1:47:43] For the last eight years, I've been a professional living

[1:47:46] and working in downtown Edmonton.

[1:47:48] In those years, there has been a great deal

[1:47:50] of change in downtown life and atmosphere.

[1:47:52] The liveliness, cleanliness, and community

[1:47:55] togetherness are not what they once were.

[1:47:57] It's easy to be sitting in an office tower,

[1:48:00] peeking outside, and looking away from the problem.

[1:48:03] It's easy to say it's somebody else's responsibility.

[1:48:05] It's a bigger challenge to do something about it

[1:48:08] and I like a challenge.

[1:48:09] I began volunteering with Revita at the start of 2026.

[1:48:13] I dropped in at the community space in the Colab and was welcomed by a group of friendly

[1:48:17] strangers and brought into the fold.

[1:48:19] Did you know that there is a group of passionate people that come together to give up their

[1:48:24] free time on a Saturday to clean up the streets in Chinatown?

[1:48:28] Did you know they do this every month?

[1:48:30] Would you believe that they'd like to meet more often if they could?

[1:48:34] They're incredible people, many of them are here today to speak on this issue.

[1:48:40] On my first clean dozens of people bundled up in the cold in January with

[1:48:45] trash pickers and trash bags. Ready to go out and make a difference. We all came

[1:48:51] back together and chillier, sweatier, with bags full of trash and smells on our

[1:48:56] faces. We got to reconnect and share our stories together over lunch. No one likes

[1:49:02] looking at the messy streets or touching the trash, but we all love the opportunity to show

[1:49:08] up together and help the community. It was incredible meeting people who are so passionate

[1:49:14] about Chinatown and revitalization through community effort. I've come back every month since

[1:49:19] then and I encourage more people to join. Seeing these regular volunteer efforts and presence is

[1:49:25] welcomed by the businesses and local residents, these clinics give us a chance to talk to people

[1:49:29] of your stories and concerns and share smiles and laughs.

[1:49:33] I've heard from several business owners and residents

[1:49:35] that they would love to see us out more often.

[1:49:37] It's not just for picking up the trash,

[1:49:39] but for showing that there is a continued consistent presence

[1:49:42] of welcoming and caring community members.

[1:49:46] New comeers may hear rumors that the neighborhood is unsafe,

[1:49:49] unclean or unwelcoming.

[1:49:51] My experience has been that Chinatown

[1:49:52] is a largely safe and vibrant neighborhood

[1:49:54] with a strong and active caring community.

[1:49:57] It is also burdened with a disproportionate level of community support needs that need addressing.

[1:50:03] Any approach to remediation involves bringing the community back in together, investing their efforts for growth.

[1:50:12] There are people that care that want to help more, and there's the opportunity to enable these people to help their community.

[1:50:18] I hope the Executive Committee, or Executive Committee, considers option three, community-led

[1:50:24] cleanups, and engages the community to support itself.

[1:50:28] Thank you.

[1:50:29] Thank you.

[1:50:30] I think it's next is Kai Ma, more, more, more, I think you can print out, tell me that.

[1:50:36] That's a close-up.

[1:50:38] You'll tell me the right one, too, but I can, we can draw it down, thank you.

[1:50:41] So hello, everyone.

[1:50:42] My name is Kai Ma, more Hallick.

[1:50:44] I'm a graduate from the University of British Columbia, but I was born in

[1:50:48] here in Edmonton. And I've been volunteering with Revitah for the past year, helping them with

[1:50:54] their monthly cleanups, and their Chinatown after dark events. My family name is also Ma.

[1:50:59] And I'm actively involved with the Ma Society of Edmonton, which is one of the leading Chinese

[1:51:03] societies in South Chinatown. My family has been in Chinatown since its inception. And my own great

[1:51:09] grandfather was among the first to settle here around 100 years ago. He helped formed Edmonton's

[1:51:15] in a community where people could gather, celebrate their culture, and feel at home, which is something I still believe Chinatown deserves to be.

[1:51:24] And I believe allowing these cleanups to grow through the direction of the community is one of the best avenues to honor the legacy of our ancestors and their dreams for Chinatown.

[1:51:33] More personally, writers' cleanups have always meant more to me than just keeping the streets clean.

[1:51:38] I grew up mixed race, being half Chinese and half Ukrainian, and I often found myself really

[1:51:44] ashamed of my Chinese side.

[1:51:46] And it wasn't until I went away for school that I realized I wanted to be more in touch

[1:51:50] with my Chinese heritage, and when I came home from university, I was left in an awkward

[1:51:54] phase of not really knowing where to find that, and provided gave that to me.

[1:51:59] Through these clean-ups, I could connect with many people with similar upbringing, goals,

[1:52:04] and stories where I felt like I belonged.

[1:52:07] I felt, for the first time in my home city, I could really celebrate my heritage and be proud

[1:52:12] of where I came from, which is something fundamental for any individual with a history

[1:52:17] of immigration to experience.

[1:52:19] These clear-up have indeed fostered a community, but to me, they have gone beyond that,

[1:52:24] is created a haven for cultures and identities to flourish and it cultivates a sense of belonging.

[1:52:30] In China town that continues to attract so many passionate volunteers, is my understanding that the city wants to promote a living heritage strategy.

[1:52:38] And these cleanups are exactly that, bringing Edmontonians together in a way that makes them feel like they belong.

[1:52:45] Cleaning up China town is far more than just keeping these streets clean. Each piece of garbage that has picked up carries the legacy of our ancestors, the passion of our community,

[1:52:55] and a promise that Empty's Chinatown is a place where we all can belong.

[1:52:59] Those meetings deserve to stay with the people that make these meetings real.

[1:53:04] So I hope the Council considers Option 3 and realizes the impact that community-driven cleanup program can have.

[1:53:12] Thank you.

[1:53:12] Thank you very much.

[1:53:13] And I think now we're going to William Lau, who's really given up his small guests to Cat instead of us.

[1:53:20] in the chamber, but that's fine. I guess a whole lot of that. Williams, please go ahead.

[1:53:25] Thank you, Mayor. Members of Council. I think by now we can see what we're really trying to do here,

[1:53:31] not just clean streets, but foster neighborhood where we grow together. For every speaker that

[1:53:36] came out to share today there's easily fiber 10 more that aren't here. And if a second

[1:53:41] committee is considering allocating more resources towards climbing this in Chinatown,

[1:53:46] we believe deeply that we are something special that is going to be the best thing for your buck.

[1:53:51] Scaling will take cleanups from monthly to weekly will be your highest returns, you've heard what that means.

[1:53:56] And our one-year pile is just even more.

[1:53:59] The five years of cleanups have taught us that the garbage on the streets is a symptom.

[1:54:03] And we've seen some causes.

[1:54:05] On our walks on how neighbors have told us claiming that they put their garbage in the bins,

[1:54:08] but the bins are full, and the wind takes it out.

[1:54:11] They don't want to release streets either.

[1:54:13] Donation drop-offs of our lives radically and can be a major source for what becomes garbage.

[1:54:19] And commercial bins and alleys are serviced on schedules nobody has ever coordinated, and many are simply neglected, left to overflow into the alleys.

[1:54:28] None of this is solved by picking up faster.

[1:54:32] It's solved by picking up consistently while fixing the system and habits that fill the street in the first place.

[1:54:38] It's solved by inspiring each other to care.

[1:54:42] Beyond the scaling of our cleanups, our one-year pile is for one coordinator and a two-person crew, so that we can have a full-time presence to address these causes on the spot.

[1:54:50] We'd be ecstatic to report to the Chantan safety council to ensure strong community accountability.

[1:54:56] And as you get to know, our civil goal is in just climate.

[1:54:58] It's vibrancy and community.

[1:55:00] So we'd curated team from Chantan town that is passionate about getting to know one another.

[1:55:05] Build a more interconnected neighborhood, sharing knowledge between groups.

[1:55:09] And this team, I'm going to assume that we'll do more than we're asked to do.

[1:55:13] These were choosing to do this.

[1:55:16] Chantan means something to us.

[1:55:18] A couple months ago, Andrew and I were visiting an uncool, not just moved into Chinatown,

[1:55:22] lives in the woods in the elders mansion, and right away I thought about how beautiful it would be

[1:55:26] for him to join us on a clean-up, I said, in a block away, when he brought it up to him, he

[1:55:31] cast me out. In a friendly way, of course. I finally retired, and I'm getting to join myself,

[1:55:37] and you want me to come pick up garbage with you, Andrew and I burst out laughing,

[1:55:42] because the first time it ever occurred to us, that Queen of Work, might not be something

[1:55:47] someone's proud of. I, on the other hand, I'm so proud of our work, and I'm so proud of

[1:55:53] everyone that's a part of it. I hope this spark in this passion can continue to be nurtured,

[1:55:58] so that we can continue inviting neighbors into communities to a trip. Maybe not, like when

[1:56:03] they retire, but one of the get-bord of Karokin Majam. Thanks. Thank you very much. So what we'll

[1:56:11] now we'll jump to Judith Gale and then I'm going to have Edwin maybe come down and take cat

[1:56:19] seats for a moment while cats have our has our little guests thank you for offering some

[1:56:24] child care services for William while we're doing this community working together so we

[1:56:29] I'd like to see Judith.

[1:56:32] I don't

[1:56:36] see him personally.

[1:56:37] Oh, Judith, are you there?

[1:56:38] Oh, sorry.

[1:56:39] All right.

[1:56:40] All right.

[1:56:41] Judith.

[1:56:42] Yeah, y'all.

[1:56:43] Thank you for joining us.

[1:56:44] You'll have three minutes.

[1:56:45] And please go ahead whenever you're ready.

[1:56:48] Okay.

[1:56:48] Right on.

[1:56:48] Thank you.

[1:56:49] Thank you for talking about this really important endeavor.

[1:56:55] I'll tell you when I first came.

[1:56:58] Edmonton from Montreal, Quebec.

[1:57:00] One of the things I looked forward to seeing was Chinatown because in Montreal and Vancouver

[1:57:07] in New York all the other places I've been Chinatown is a beautiful revitalizing part of

[1:57:14] a great city and I was shocked to see the state of affairs in Chinatown and I need

[1:57:23] more sudden that it has gone on so long and that you know now where it's gone on so long

[1:57:33] that community has to step up. And I think that is an important part. That's what is needed.

[1:57:40] That's why it has worked before because community hasn't stepped up. So I'm very eager for community

[1:57:48] to do the good work. And I recognize a revital doing that essential service. But what we

[1:57:58] have to also realize is that our brothers and sisters are also a part of the community. And

[1:58:06] if we give them the tools and the resources to help clean up, they would be more than willing

[1:58:16] to be a part of the solution, you know, because they recognize that other brothers and sisters

[1:58:24] with mental health issues are incapable of cleaning up after themselves, and the fact that

[1:58:32] yes, there are mutual aid groups that do come in and we've quite a bit of garbage behind in the

[1:58:46] And so it would be lovely to include our unhoused communities and give them incentives to

[1:58:54] clean up their area in a good way and give them a piece of their dignity back to them.

[1:59:00] And that would help them to get out of the folk variant, so to speak.

[1:59:07] Okay, so thank you very much for doing this because I do look forward to seeing a beautiful

[1:59:13] shine it down. It's a vital part of a beautiful beautiful city. And Edmonton, I believe, is a beautiful city. Thank you.

[1:59:23] Thank you very much. And now we're going to go to Edvin Schale. Please go ahead.

[1:59:29] All right. Can you hear me? Yes, please go ahead. I did not everyone is going to be so early.

[1:59:33] I apologize for being late there. Good morning, members of Executive Committee. Thank you for listening to me. My name is Edvin Schale.

[1:59:39] and I volunteer with Revita Cleanup.

[1:59:42] So just off the top, what I like about endorsing option 3

[1:59:47] and I'd like Council to walk away with that for information.

[1:59:51] And what I like about options 3, aside from the nice

[1:59:54] soft feelings of community led to programming,

[1:59:58] is that there's a strategy there.

[1:59:59] The work...

[2:00:00] To revitalize Chinatown needs all of that, and Revita has provided a very accessible entryway to let that happen for anyone who comes from any part of the city to do that.

[2:00:13] The sticker shock that we might see from the upfront investment will be, I think, more than compensated by the quicker rejuvenation of our streets, because community safety starts with community being on the street and actually knowing where what's going on.

[2:00:28] with community investment being a close second, and that's how we solve the problem of China

[2:00:36] town.

[2:00:37] So I won't belabor what's been said through our panel speakers today, but in addition

[2:00:42] to Revita's strategy to bring more Edmontonians to see China town to understand that it

[2:00:49] has its problems, but it can be solved just with your help.

[2:00:54] It also provides a springboard for collaboration.

[2:00:57] Nothing from the provider's approach precludes any of the other work that has been recommended

[2:01:04] by administration.

[2:01:06] And in fact, can empower additional conversation with well-informed community activation

[2:01:11] and presence.

[2:01:13] I know that might make things a little complicated for admin and I do apologize Jennifer

[2:01:17] if you're in the room.

[2:01:18] But I think when Ementonians have ownership of their community, we see solutions that are better

[2:01:25] informed more geared towards humanity, and critically, if Ementonians are going to come to Chinatown

[2:01:34] to help revitalize it, we have to make sure that it's on Chinatown space, and Rilada has

[2:01:39] been a steward in that work. Thank you. I can see the rest of my time.

[2:01:42] Thank you very much. And I'll ask you, you can grab a seat anywhere in the gallery that way a

[2:01:46] cat and her young guests can come back down and be in close review to us. And if we have questions

[2:01:52] for you, you'll just have to make the track back down, but that's okay. I want to make sure we go to

[2:01:57] Lanchan, who is also here online. Please go ahead, Lange. I'll have three minutes.

[2:02:04] Good morning, Laura. I'm excited to come here to meet members. Thank you for the opportunity to speak

[2:02:10] today on Chinatown Community Cleanup Program. My name is Lanchan, Vice Chair of the Chinatown

[2:02:17] transformation collaborative society and a Chinatown advocate and volunteer for nearly

[2:02:22] twenty-five years. I've watched this level that evolved from a bustling cultural help

[2:02:28] to an area in need of support and now to what revitalization uses strides like festivals

[2:02:34] through the streetscape improvements of their life back to Chinatown. However, these efforts are

[2:02:41] the pat, the visitors are greeted by garbage, dirty sidewalks, and foul orders.

[2:02:48] First, to dedicate it, we take cleaning efforts, allow partnership with hope mission.

[2:02:53] We have seen them real, noticeable improvement.

[2:02:57] But when you follow the ends, the progress stops.

[2:03:00] Our weekend, the label that we've reached to this away, leaving weekend, visitors

[2:03:05] who are completely different million of experience.

[2:03:07] And I've experienced that myself because I've been in China town during the weekdays, as well as the weekends.

[2:03:16] For China town to five street cleaning and garbage pick up must happen seven days a week.

[2:03:22] To your choose list, I'd try to urge you to support two key recommendations.

[2:03:28] Please, I'll do a proof option to expand street cleaning services for five days to seven days a week.

[2:03:35] using professional cleaning companies.

[2:03:38] Future house to this materials and health lists,

[2:03:42] this requires properly trained, well-protected staff,

[2:03:46] well-formed tiers, full volunteers can certainly offer supplemental support.

[2:03:52] If option 3 is considered, which has come in to let,

[2:03:58] the China-Temps' and proven area is in the best decision to lead a community-driven initiative.

[2:04:04] They represent local businesses and property owners who spawn immediately to label

[2:04:10] what needs, and have the board commitments required to manage this effectively.

[2:04:16] CTC stands ready to support them, and Postgres can be monitored by the System Chinatown Safety

[2:04:23] Council.

[2:04:25] On the list is the foundation of economic recovery, and safety in a community.

[2:04:30] Please give serious consideration to expand any of these final services to seven days a week.

[2:04:38] Thank you for your time and continue support of China Tech.

[2:04:43] Thank you very much.

[2:04:45] And I think we've got through all of our speakers.

[2:04:48] So now we're going to be moving on to questions of our speakers.

[2:04:52] So please click on.

[2:04:53] I think it's likely by Councillor Ting.

[2:04:55] Just before she starts, I just want to note.

[2:04:57] Based on the fact we still have to ask questions,

[2:04:59] of speakers and questions of administration and potentially debate emotion. I'm just going

[2:05:03] to make a real clear, if you're here for the climate item, I can now think I can officially

[2:05:08] guarantee we won't get to you until after lunch at this point, just based off the fact

[2:05:12] that we still have questions potentially emotions. So anyone here for the climate item, including

[2:05:17] those in panel one, and I see some of the folks who are panel one in the room, you're welcome

[2:05:20] to still stay in watch. It's a great topic of discussion, but I also just want to make sure

[2:05:25] If you want to go grab a nearly lunch, you're welcome to, and we'll start the climate item

[2:05:31] after lunch. Hopefully we'll finish this before lunch, but we'll do our best.

[2:05:35] Councillor Tain questions, please go ahead.

[2:05:44] Great, thank you all so much. There is a lot there. I do have a lot of questions, so probably

[2:05:51] we'll need a couple of rounds. Most of my questions will be directed to representatives from

[2:05:58] I want to acknowledge that there's a few of you, maybe not part of the group, and you

[2:06:02] share some really important questions about a no boundary, and I think the existing

[2:06:07] BIA grants, those are good questions to direct to administration, there will probably

[2:06:11] raise. And I also want to recognize a lot of volunteers. I mean, you're all volunteer. You're

[2:06:17] all volunteer in your time to be here, so I just want to thank all of you for for your

[2:06:22] in this community, maybe I'll start with CTC slash BIA. I'm not sure. I'm wondering if you can

[2:06:30] talk a little bit more about what you're proposing because I'm hearing option 2, but you

[2:06:36] want you want more enhanced service, but you want to take the lead to coordinate that, but I'm

[2:06:42] also hearing from BIA that you, you're positioned to lead that as well. So I guess I'm just

[2:06:49] want to hear a bit more from your group. So Sandy, why don't you start?

[2:06:59] We have quite a discussion together with the BIA, CTC and BIA, and we've come to the consensus

[2:07:04] is that the funding should be managed by the funding should be managed by the city,

[2:07:21] but

[2:07:22] notification from the business owners, property owners, and even with the social agencies on a daily

[2:07:31] So, it is best for them to coordinate, do all that. And CTC is there to support in whatever way they need, because we are there to be the backbone, like to be the backbone to support them.

[2:07:46] Okay. Understand. So, city manager funding, I provide the oversight in collaboration, but the lead with CTC and CTC Council.

[2:07:58] The thing is that it's just because we do so much collaboration together, under the Chinatown Safety Council,

[2:08:05] and you get every stakeholder in the same room and able to provide them input right away.

[2:08:12] Thank you.

[2:08:13] So for BIA, should I direct questions to Carl or Jackson, are you have you been accessing any of the existing BIA cleanup grants that's mentioned in the report?

[2:08:24] because there are a number of them that are exclusive to BIAs.

[2:08:32] Yes, we have been. We have the Capital City Cleanup Grant,

[2:08:36] which we have relationships between hope machines.

[2:08:39] That's good.

[2:08:40] Yeah.

[2:08:41] The funding is supportive, however, not sufficient.

[2:08:49] So I would say definitely a deeper or cohesive approach is needed.

[2:08:56] We're finding situations where community is communicating, whether it's feces or other types of problems.

[2:09:08] We'll come back.

[2:09:09] Don't worry, there will be multiple rounds.

[2:09:12] Councillor Salvatore's next, please go ahead.

[2:09:13] Yeah, thank you so much.

[2:09:14] And thanks to all the speakers for being with us today.

[2:09:17] And thank you for your dedication and commitment to trying it out.

[2:09:20] I had a similar question to CTC that Councillor Tang discovered

[2:09:24] So I might, actually, I might ask this one of Revita, sort of a similar, similar line around the governance framework and what that would look like proposed oversight.

[2:09:38] Can you provide a little bit more information in detail around that piece?

[2:09:44] I don't know who wants to take that.

[2:09:46] You're asking Revita or CTC?

[2:09:48] Revita, yeah.

[2:09:49] Sure, I can start.

[2:09:51] I think Revita would be ecstatic to have oversight provided by the safety council.

[2:09:55] Right.

[2:09:56] Look, there's existing mechanisms in place and in community for accountability, yeah.

[2:10:02] And then I think we'd be proud to ensure that all stakeholders are at the table to

[2:10:07] really guide and shape this work.

[2:10:10] Okay.

[2:10:10] Thanks for that.

[2:10:12] And I also just wanted to get a little bit more clarity around the folks who are providing

[2:10:16] mentioned a pilot, can you just share what your, what your, what your

[2:10:24] hope for expectations would be around that pilot and kind of the boundaries of

[2:10:28] that pilot, scalable, what's the intention there? Yeah, I'd say there's perhaps a

[2:10:35] 4 key functions. So what the pilot does, it'd be staffing for three people,

[2:10:46] one

[2:10:46] And the weekly volunteer cleanups would run in parallel on weekends, including a community building shared meal, like we currently do, so the cleanups scale up from monthly to weekly.

[2:10:56] And then we would have two folks on the streets picking up garbage five days a week. We've scaled it for two FTE, we think taking Monday and Tuesday off and working the weekends would be one way to have support over the weekends while there's existing city supports that do the weekdays already.

[2:11:17] And I think what's really unique about our work besides the crew that's going out to pick

[2:11:22] and how we would build that team is the engagement that we are looking to do.

[2:11:28] We're looking to support the businesses, community, and and vibrancy by directly addressing

[2:11:32] these shared challenges together.

[2:11:33] I mentioned some of them already in our in my speaking time, but I think that's what

[2:11:38] would be really excited to accomplish at the end of year one is to make meaningful progress

[2:11:42] on some of these major sources of garbage.

[2:11:45] Thank you so much. I'll come back for another round.

[2:11:49] Thank you, Councillor Jones.

[2:12:01] Councillor Jones.

[2:12:02] Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Sorry, I was having trouble with my computer here.

[2:12:06] I want to thank all the speakers. I guess my question is maybe if you provide out

[2:12:10] order to the CTC.

[2:12:13] We've had discussions recently about concentration of services

[2:12:16] in China, in the town. We had the minister a couple years ago.

[2:12:21] We did this submission to the minister about

[2:12:25] supporting distributed services across the city, but we also have information here about

[2:12:31] how there's no day shelters. There's no support of housing. There's no women's shelters.

[2:12:36] There's no supports in the Barotter Edmonton region as one thing through as many supporters

[2:12:42] of Chinatown, no no boundary and no no neighborhood and some of them even live in St.

[2:12:47] Alvarez shirt or spree scow over surgeon. As I've been in here, I'll reach to these folks

[2:12:51] about helping upload and move some of the supportive services out of

[2:12:57] trying to count into the region.

[2:13:01] Thank you, Councillor, Councillor Janst.

[2:13:04] We have many discussion about that.

[2:13:07] Houseless situations all over the city and many of the

[2:13:11] houseless that who or people on the marginal populations can seek

[2:13:17] services in China town, but many are afraid because of the

[2:13:20] environmental issues that is there.

[2:13:24] We are working with a comprehensive approach to help everybody.

[2:13:29] And then if you're talking about decentralizations,

[2:13:33] we believe that people have the choice to be wherever they want to be.

[2:13:37] And we are in favor of day shelters, space, places where people can

[2:13:42] seek resources and get help.

[2:13:44] Having a clean environment is the first thing to make people feel welcome.

[2:13:49] I agree with the shareholders. It's just why are there no

[2:13:57] day shelters in St. Albert? Why are there no day shelters? Why are there

[2:14:00] no day shelters in St. Albert?

[2:14:01] I would be a question to talk to those men.

[2:14:04] Yes, and sorry, Councillor Jans, this particular report is about the cleanup program,

[2:14:09] not about shelters. It's really important conversation, but we have such a

[2:14:12] packed agenda. I need to be really tight on questions about the cleanup program,

[2:14:16] which is what's before us today.

[2:14:18] Okay, I'll follow up with them. I'll follow up with this figure down for you. Thank you so much.

[2:14:22] Thank you. Sorry to be. Sorry to be difficult.

[2:14:24] I'm going to be pretty tight on everyone. So, including my council colleagues as you just see.

[2:14:28] So, councilor Stevenson.

[2:14:30] Thank you very much. I really appreciate all the speakers joining us today.

[2:14:35] Just a few quick clarifications. I think all the presentations were very clear.

[2:14:40] Just to the BIA currently are the cleanup efforts, so you mentioned some of the grants.

[2:14:49] I assume that's just for the BIA boundary, like it's not going into self-try to town currently.

[2:14:59] Yeah.

[2:15:00] Let's correct the funding that we receive. We focus on North China.

[2:15:06] I'm sure that's a requirement of the grant as it is. And then with the CTC, again, currently, there's

[2:15:17] no specific cleaning funding that you have. You do do programming in South China Town, though,

[2:15:24] with a driving pass, for example.

[2:15:28] You talk about cell China town.

[2:15:31] Unfortunately, the EDBA director is not available today.

[2:15:36] He's out of town.

[2:15:38] So I refrain from speaking on his behalf.

[2:15:41] He has submitted a letter, and we will be meeting with him and talking.

[2:15:45] Yep, sorry.

[2:15:45] Just wanted to confirm, no, no.

[2:15:48] The current state, so CDC doesn't have any cleanup programs in cell China, but you do have

[2:15:52] different events that you hold in the area. Like Dragon Fest was it?

[2:15:57] The cleaning program is not a minister by CTC. South or North? Correct.

[2:16:04] And it's under BIA jurisdiction. Great. And then just to

[2:16:11] revita. So right now, your cleanup program is that North and South China

[2:16:19] town presently. Yes, Councilor. Currently our monthly

[2:16:24] volunteer clean up does cover both north and south

[2:16:26] try and town. Okay. Okay, great. You know what I think I'll just have

[2:16:30] questions for our administration but really appreciate the presentation.

[2:16:32] Thank you, Councilor Ray.

[2:16:36] Thank you very much. I'm just wondering, um, I know we're talking

[2:16:41] about clean up and rather than dealing I guess maybe of this, um,

[2:16:45] dealing with the symptoms of the problem. Um, would it help if we enhance

[2:16:50] like our public washrooms strategy and I will put that out to any of the bits of honor

[2:16:56] or thought.

[2:16:59] May I speak on behalf of CTC?

[2:17:02] Sure, yes.

[2:17:03] Thank you, Councillor Wright.

[2:17:06] We are supportive of public washrooms that would definitely alleviate some of the issues

[2:17:13] about biohazard.

[2:17:17] And I would say, I'll speak on behalf of the BIA, I believe we're dealing with ongoing human substance daily.

[2:17:30] So yes, definitely more washrooms.

[2:17:33] Definitely a needed, however, you know, secondary to that.

[2:17:38] During events festivals, we do need monitoring of these facilities because sometimes people tend to go in.

[2:17:45] stay in there over dosing potential so you know there is that risk potential too so we

[2:17:50] recognize you know the challenges but we definitely do need it. Yeah and I think that's part

[2:17:56] of a public Washington strategy is to make sure that they are safe and accessible facilities

[2:18:01] for people to use. Is anybody else? I tell you. Yeah sorry thank you for asking that question

[2:18:10] to win right because yes that is something our brothers and sisters do need more of in that area

[2:18:17] our public washrooms accessibility and as well what's more what's needed even more that was taken

[2:18:26] out from certain corners our garbage cans there's not enough garbage cans and as well it would be nice

[2:18:34] for a brothers and sisters to have access to dumpsters. Currently there are no dumpsters. There was one dumpster,

[2:18:42] just right at the start next to Mary Burley Park that everybody used to use and it was always full.

[2:18:50] So we need more dumpsters, more garbage and more toilets. Just basic dignity of life.

[2:18:58] You know, okay, and then my other question was I know there are community groups that go

[2:19:03] out and do food distribution and clothing distribution and that has been any attempt to

[2:19:11] connect with those groups and let them know sort of the impact of, you know, providing

[2:19:16] these services and then leading the garbage behind.

[2:19:19] Absolutely.

[2:19:20] I really bear Cloppy for Hills House and that's one of the things that I do highlight in a lot

[2:19:27] of my lives and stuff is that when mutual aid groups do come in, quite often, they have dumped

[2:19:35] stuff into the community. For instance, I came across a whole box full of big sandwiches.

[2:19:47] It's dumped in the alley. I'm not talking about that yet. Sorry. Sorry, I got everyone

[2:19:53] But we're going to be firm on this, Councilor Tain.

[2:19:56] Okay, great.

[2:19:57] Thank you.

[2:19:58] Back to Jackson.

[2:20:00] So you have access existing BIA grants.

[2:20:03] But you're just saying you will like to see option two for city to manage the funding to deliver

[2:20:08] enhanced service.

[2:20:09] But you want this extra step of oversight with your group.

[2:20:14] And then you want just the BIA grants to be increased in general for all BIAs.

[2:20:20] Is that correct?

[2:20:21] I would say I'll clarify, I think the BIs position is we believe that city is still best

[2:20:28] to manage the budget.

[2:20:33] We support council given administration additional funding to support the additional needs.

[2:20:44] Just again, just looking at the report that I had provided.

[2:20:47] Okay, there's substantial, I guess, instances of cleaning within Chinatown, like we're definitely

[2:20:56] all the way.

[2:20:56] So I want to prioritize the fact that if we do put additional funding, please look at it

[2:21:03] from a instance perspective.

[2:21:06] Okay.

[2:21:06] Thank you.

[2:21:08] I'll turn over to Revita.

[2:21:11] You mentioned safety counsel.

[2:21:12] Have you talked to them?

[2:21:13] Are they open to that as a governing body?

[2:21:16] Andrew,

[2:21:19] formally not yet, Council, but as with one of the previous City Council meetings, there was the creation of a subcommittee in the Toronto City Council and preparation for the motion that you created back in March 4.

[2:21:34] Okay, so that's the line of communication you have with them then?

[2:21:38] Yes, since as to my knowledge, the City Council has not had any meetings since May.

[2:21:43] I see. Okay.

[2:21:46] For the rewrite of folks, you've heard some of the comments around volunteers

[2:21:51] are good for supplemental stuff, for activations. However, when you are talking about

[2:21:56] some pretty serious waste industry, you're also putting your volunteers at risk. And you talk

[2:22:02] about building relationships, also with the businesses there. I guess how would you go about building

[2:22:09] those relationship when that is a sentiment,

[2:22:14] volume.

[2:22:15] Yeah, I'll start, and if others want to chime in.

[2:22:17] That's 45 seconds.

[2:22:19] I think we're already pretty good at that, because we don't just clean.

[2:22:22] We already have our Chinatown afterdark events.

[2:22:25] We're picking up dining week this year as well.

[2:22:27] So we already have really broad interactions with businesses.

[2:22:30] So we have a good foundation of relationship, they're already. It's not a new question.

[2:22:34] I guess then my question is how would you overcome this perception that you're putting people at risk who are not professionals to deal with some of these particular ways?

[2:22:42] Would it as reproposal cover those types of ways? How do you go about doing this?

[2:22:48] Yeah, well, well, Mike, I can take this to you.

[2:22:50] Sure, if you will head to Mike.

[2:22:52] Uh, yeah, in the past, we have parner of certain, I guess, other vendors that are more

[2:22:58] specialist, like GFL, like a few others that have provided garbage and stuff.

[2:23:03] I guess I'll come back. Hang on with that.

[2:23:05] Yeah, I'll just take my round and say, yeah, if you don't mind answering, you can use part of Mike.

[2:23:09] Okay, please go. So we're, we're going to, you know, provide the proper training to

[2:23:15] qualified personals that would be hired for the

[2:23:17] bottom two full time equivalent, like we would provide training for

[2:23:20] how the deal of hazardous waste that you'd find.

[2:23:23] Like, and the proper PPE, such as ballazards,

[2:23:26] sweets, and it would be, we would develop a program in

[2:23:29] house to try to provide the correct training.

[2:23:32] You won't just be sending volunteers out to

[2:23:35] Fenford himself, because that would be a live building issue for

[2:23:37] us in the city, but also for personal safety, right?

[2:23:40] So we would develop those HSC programs in

[2:23:43] also in conjunction with our partners.

[2:23:45] Well, do you want to add anything?

[2:23:48] Okay, so I'm just confirming it.

[2:23:50] Yeah, because right now the volunteers are picking up like

[2:23:54] some biohazard waste, right?

[2:23:56] No, we're not.

[2:23:57] We're not.

[2:23:57] Okay.

[2:23:58] We have traps containers though.

[2:24:00] Shrups containers.

[2:24:01] That's what I said yesterday.

[2:24:02] We try not to pick up poop because it gets the picker's dirty.

[2:24:06] Yes.

[2:24:07] Okay.

[2:24:08] And even in our proposal, like our proposal is scoped and costed.

[2:24:12] So we had to leave certain things out.

[2:24:13] Like we don't need to buy equipment for pressure washing and do pressure washing because there's already teams doing that.

[2:24:19] Right? Like we don't see the need for us to like in our proposal,

[2:24:22] revite it would not do everything.

[2:24:24] There's already city, you know services in place, there's already Wall Street and

[2:24:28] hope mission by doing some work BIA's doing some good work.

[2:24:31] We're offering what it would look like to do community lead programming as an addition.

[2:24:36] That's how we read the motion.

[2:24:38] But at the end of the day, I think we're very collaborative with our work.

[2:24:42] When we first started, we started at the cleanest in 2023, we did go back to the CDC for half a year to see if they wanted to restart it under CDC before starting Revita.

[2:24:54] So I think like a part of that, it's just that reminder to say, yeah, we'll work with who's here. We're not here to duplicate a solution that's moving forward must be cost efficient.

[2:25:04] Or it's not worth doing. You're even in our eyes.

[2:25:06] And remind me, for the, for the Trientown Safety Council, I know number you brought up is everyone involved so all all the groups who are represented here involved in some capacity in the safety council.

[2:25:19] Yes?

[2:25:20] Yes, it's here.

[2:25:21] They're open, that's right.

[2:25:21] Everyone's there.

[2:25:23] Everyone's there.

[2:25:23] Everybody's welcome.

[2:25:24] So the thing is that the Revider comes in.

[2:25:27] We have no problem with it.

[2:25:28] If they have concerns speak up.

[2:25:30] The thing is that having all the member,

[2:25:33] all the stakeholders in Chinatown,

[2:25:35] North and South,

[2:25:37] are able to allow us to be very efficient

[2:25:40] in terms of prioritizing issues

[2:25:44] that we need to deal with right away.

[2:25:47] Thank you.

[2:25:48] Thank you.

[2:25:48] So you want to clarify that?

[2:25:49] Revide that is part of the safety council.

[2:25:51] Yes.

[2:25:51] That's why her Revide is part of the safety council.

[2:25:54] That's right.

[2:25:54] Perfection that Andrew is invited to join in Mark.

[2:25:57] Yeah.

[2:25:57] But it hasn't been a meeting since May.

[2:25:59] Which that they out.

[2:25:59] That's the other piece.

[2:26:00] Just not.

[2:26:02] The reason is there isn't a meeting because reach is our code lead.

[2:26:07] Correct.

[2:26:08] They have their schedule plus the fact that because those are employees.

[2:26:14] They are allowed to take the case.

[2:26:15] Absolutely.

[2:26:15] And we have, we are all volunteers without paying every one of us here, and we have several

[2:26:22] festivals that is for the revitalization of China town.

[2:26:27] So, that's why I don't have a meeting.

[2:26:28] No, no.

[2:26:29] I appreciate that.

[2:26:30] I'm out of time.

[2:26:31] Councillor Selber.

[2:26:32] Thank you.

[2:26:34] Just wanted to make sure that my understanding is correct when it comes to, I'll go to CTC first,

[2:26:42] Just around integration with existing service levels,

[2:26:47] thinking about how to compliment existing service levels,

[2:26:50] maybe not necessarily duplicating existing service levels.

[2:26:52] Can you speak to that piece?

[2:26:56] Excessing services are great.

[2:26:58] We have also approached the,

[2:27:01] with the social enterprises such as a home mission,

[2:27:03] mustard seed, pistol,

[2:27:06] world street community services.

[2:27:07] We want them to expand,

[2:27:09] create a more job opportunities

[2:27:11] and for some of the members, but the heavy lifting, it is spray trucks, they call it

[2:27:19] flushing trucks, to clean the major arteries, so that China town is more welcoming, especially

[2:27:28] the morning after, that business can open residents feel more comfortable regardless your

[2:27:37] box of life. People deserve a clean space. Thank you.

[2:27:42] Every day. Thanks so much. And same same question to Revita, just around integration

[2:27:48] with existing service levels. I think you somewhat answer that in the previous question

[2:27:52] around complementary services and complementary approach, I'll say, but not necessarily duplicating.

[2:28:00] Yeah, I can start with that. So when we first submitted our proposal to administration in July,

[2:28:03] We had some next steps that we wanted to request, we didn't expect it to go come straight to Council.

[2:28:10] Our executive committee at that point, we had quite a few questions around how to integrate and how to best fit in.

[2:28:15] So I think that's work to be discussed.

[2:28:19] Okay, thank you.

[2:28:20] Thank you, Councillor Tane.

[2:28:22] Just a couple of final questions.

[2:28:27] Okay, so you submitted proposal.

[2:28:28] You were hoping to workshop it a little bit, but that was never the opportunity.

[2:28:31] And then I think, excuse you, you had a proposal, but did you get any of that?

[2:28:38] We're shopping, we're back and forth, or did you just submit something, right?

[2:28:43] We just had a meeting with the manager, Julia.

[2:28:46] Yeah, but the conversation about heavy duty cleaning,

[2:28:49] we got in Biohazard, has been constantly on the agenda of the China Town Safety Council.

[2:28:56] Okay, great. Thank you.

[2:28:57] Okay, just I want a reminder to address this question around a soul and incidents. You're not there every day.

[2:29:03] It's you're cleaning is once a month one day a month or half day, right?

[2:29:09] What is your experience around some of these incidents? How what?

[2:29:14] What do you do to mitigate that for your volunteers?

[2:29:19] Any volunteers want to speak up?

[2:29:26] Okay, as you think about that.

[2:29:31] And it's not a matter of thinking about, we've never had any incidents, like five years in.

[2:29:36] But why? Why? Why? Why are you having those not having those experience, but why is it?

[2:29:43] Other circumstances, there is, what is the mitigating factor?

[2:29:47] I think one of the things that have come up every now and then to some folks ask,

[2:29:50] I thought, oh, why don't you wear hives when you go around?

[2:29:53] Yeah, why don't you? We don't. And we say, no, we want to show clearly that we're citizens doing this work.

[2:29:58] We're not paid staff, we're not here.

[2:30:00] On some cleaning initiative we're here to step up and contribute, and I think that shapes the relationships we build within the community.

[2:30:08] Like what Claudia mentioned, there's so many mentions of so many people showing appreciation, whether they're driving through, walking through, sitting on the sidewalk, or in their businesses.

[2:30:20] I think when people see us stepping up, it's clear that where they are to not just pick up garbage.

[2:30:26] great. Thank you. I just have one last one. I heard a comment to say that for the monthly

[2:30:31] meet-up, people want to meet more if they could. But can these scale up just happen?

[2:30:37] Can't, well, why can't volunteers just meet up more?

[2:30:43] Good question. Well, right now, as volunteers, without a coordinator, once a month was,

[2:30:49] I think at our capacity, we also have other events. We run weekly. All on volunteer capacity,

[2:30:54] you know paid staff and why do you have you look at other resource opportunities

[2:30:58] were you able to look at some of the cleanup grants have you ever reached out to BIA to

[2:31:02] collaborate on accessing those opportunities?

[2:31:04] No, no we have no.

[2:31:06] And why?

[2:31:07] Why?

[2:31:08] I think the topic of cleanliness has come up for a while and it wasn't until this motion

[2:31:15] that our gears really started turning.

[2:31:18] It wasn't until this motion to say hey, maybe there is an appetite to chat more.

[2:31:22] even like throughout this process of our speakers coming together to chat, I think there's

[2:31:27] some responsibility from us organizers to say, actually, yeah, we haven't talked as much and reflected

[2:31:33] as much about the personal experience.

[2:31:35] I'd like to like watch any mention about the belongings that she'd see on the other time and thank

[2:31:40] you very much.

[2:31:41] Thank you, Councillor Farron.

[2:31:42] Thank you, Ms. Mary.

[2:31:43] Thank you for everybody for coming and speaking today.

[2:31:45] My questions are around to Revita and because I do think when I see the emotion and impact

[2:31:51] that you've had on the community and bringing people together,

[2:31:55] you remind me a lot like a community league.

[2:31:58] And I think, you know, community leagues,

[2:32:00] do community cleanups kind of all the time.

[2:32:02] Obviously, it's different in Chinatown by the extent that's there.

[2:32:06] So I do think that there is lots of opportunity for grants

[2:32:09] and for that, even not including one-time funding,

[2:32:12] but cleanup grants that are actually ongoing.

[2:32:15] And so you have not applied to any of those grants.

[2:32:19] So, on the topic of community leagues, this was inspired by my colleague community league that started the cleanups and both street community league does currently offer storage space for us for all of our goods and then it's reached that funds our shared meals as we gather.

[2:32:36] So, and since we have pieced that together we have not yet sought to grow until this point.

[2:32:41] That's perfect because I do think it is available to not-for-profit, so you know, setting up your own kind of Chinatown community grant when we actually already have these grants available and you haven't had an opportunity to apply for the, that's a really good opportunity for you.

[2:32:57] Well, one thing I'll add there is about four or five years ago when this was first started, we immediately lost capital city cleanup support.

[2:33:06] Um, and where it was first funded by the micro grants and then once support came in through

[2:33:11] reach, we lost micro grant support and we lost capital city clean up support.

[2:33:15] Those were years where they said no, like you already have, you're, you're, you're, you're

[2:33:19] your support.

[2:33:19] They didn't offer us any additional supplies after you were alive.

[2:33:22] So did you apply and we're denied, is that what you're saying?

[2:33:25] We reached up a email and said, yeah, like you have to apply to these capital city grants.

[2:33:29] So I think that, but I understand your points.

[2:33:32] And so, reach is spending you currently, have you asked reach to expand, expand to go to...

[2:33:37] Actually, it's been downsizing.

[2:33:40] You know, it's been four years in.

[2:33:42] See, reach has been very clear since day one that they can't offer on going on operational funding.

[2:33:47] So this year we're getting what we've been going on this last year.

[2:33:49] Are you able to share publicly?

[2:33:51] Yeah, $5,000 for $24,000.

[2:33:53] $5,000 from $20 and then it's going down to...

[2:33:56] I know, down to $5,000 from 10 last year.

[2:33:58] Okay, so it was 10,000.

[2:33:59] So this program was receiving 10,000 and now it's going to 5,000 in 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 26, and then 20, 27, to be determined.

[2:34:10] Right, because we also need to determine reaches.

[2:34:13] Okay, and understanding, do you, are you supportive of the public and the garbage washroom strategy?

[2:34:18] Like, I think a lot of our stuff is downstream, but like, how do we actually get the upstream?

[2:34:23] Yeah, huge.

[2:34:23] I think even for those of us, like when we plan events as well, when we have to bring in,

[2:34:28] rent in a point of party or a couple for an event on weekends it's okay okay I'll ask a bit

[2:34:34] students to thank you thank you thank you very much I believe those are all the questions for our

[2:34:39] speakers so you're all welcome to grab your seats in the main seating area as we move on to questions

[2:34:44] of our administration so we'll keep powering through this and we'll move on to questions of

[2:34:50] situation, sorry, in the council or 10?

[2:34:52] Great. Thank you very much.

[2:34:56] Okay. I have to say I was really frustrated when I was reading this report.

[2:35:02] Because if I were to look at the original motion, it says to work with Chinatown Community

[2:35:07] Group to explore a community cleanup program, focus on Chinatown.

[2:35:10] Already that's option 3. And then the options,

[2:35:19] and then the rest of the

[2:35:19] program, but the options we received are service levels,

[2:35:25] and so I'm actually really confused

[2:35:27] about how we ended today, like where this report is, is actually the starting point of

[2:35:34] where it was meant to start.

[2:35:37] So I just want to, so I want to maybe start there. I think it's

[2:35:42] obvious, you know, there is a status quo, which is always the option, but that's not sufficient.

[2:35:48] And I'm wondering maybe if I'll start with Mr. McCune, can you just highlight we spent a

[2:35:55] lot of time talking about a well maintained city this week? What does well maintain city

[2:35:59] package do for cleanups? Does it do anything for enhanced service level as I'll outline

[2:36:05] in option two?

[2:36:09] Yeah, so what we have in the well maintained city service package that will

[2:36:12] be a part of the four-year budget. So we've got street sweeping, sanitation, enforcement,

[2:36:19] and auxiliary structures, communication, turf and horticulture.

[2:36:24] This is, this is to benefit across the entire city as a whole.

[2:36:28] So the types of things that we have here, you know,

[2:36:33] 100% service level increase for illegal dumping response and event support.

[2:36:36] So that would be going from roughly 90 days to about 30 days

[2:36:39] if we're removal of illegal dumping and areas,

[2:36:42] more loose litter clean up ahead of civic events, those types of things.

[2:36:45] So it's a, it's a, it's a broad city wide.

[2:36:47] It is citywide, and so can you describe to me if we fund while maintaining city for example?

[2:36:55] What does it do for center city optimization?

[2:36:58] What does it do for the core and some of the service levels mentioned in this report?

[2:37:06] It doesn't, so center city is independent to that particular service package.

[2:37:10] So we would continue to have center city overlay as a level above what we're already providing to the city.

[2:37:17] So well maintained city kind of lifts the entire city across the board, and then that would

[2:37:21] alleviate pressure from center city, but it's not intended as a targeted downtown, or within

[2:37:29] downtown.

[2:37:30] In the China town to target that, it's intended to target everything across the city.

[2:37:34] Okay. So, while maintaining city will elevate the service level to some degree, maybe not what's

[2:37:41] outlined here for this particular area, what is the administration planning for a city optimization?

[2:37:49] Will it continue? We've heard in the, you can come back in my next round to answer that question,

[2:37:55] but we heard in the act of rapport

[2:37:58] that cleaning is a enabler for economic development,

[2:38:01] so I'm wondering how do we enhance that?

[2:38:05] So, I really come back to that in a moment,

[2:38:08] so Councillor Palmer.

[2:38:09] You can continue, speaker, McEwen.

[2:38:12] I was just gonna say there's it's plan to be ongoing

[2:38:15] and continue to be funded.

[2:38:17] I think for me, like what I'm seeing is like,

[2:38:21] when we increase the well-maintained city package,

[2:38:23] It should go to those that need it most.

[2:38:25] You don't need to, and not everything needs to be what, you know, maintained at a higher

[2:38:30] service standard.

[2:38:31] But as you heard today, this like Chinatown is in a need of increased cleaning.

[2:38:39] So what are we as the city doing about that?

[2:38:44] So we, I'd start by saying, that is exactly what we did with Center City.

[2:38:49] was we took the city plan, the boundaries of city plan, and we injected about $3 million to

[2:38:55] start a lift up the center city. The well maintained service package lifts the entire city as a whole,

[2:39:05] so the concentration of events are really in like downtown Chinatown, Chinatown,

[2:39:10] so there would be like an impact to those areas, just like all BIAs are prioritized

[2:39:16] Yeah, with an existing system.

[2:39:17] So do you think that we are funding Chinatown waste management

[2:39:22] operations to what it needs to be?

[2:39:24] Like do you think our funding is fine?

[2:39:26] And this is the service level that, you know?

[2:39:30] So to answer that question, I'd say like we always

[2:39:33] want to publish our service levels and be transparent

[2:39:35] with the budget and resources that we have.

[2:39:37] So if the demand increases, like we are treating

[2:39:42] the symptom of the problem here and if that symptom

[2:39:44] continues to increase in order to maintain or sustain the existing service levels, it would

[2:39:50] be like a supply demand type issue.

[2:39:54] So, it's completely here all of the speakers in terms of the demand is increasing.

[2:39:58] I did have lots of projects.

[2:39:59] Key also received a bunch of services as well, so I can confirm the demand in that footprint

[2:40:05] exceeds the current service levels that we have.

[2:40:07] We have services that are out to the maximum of the audio that resources and it outpices

[2:40:12] the resource and budget we haven't available to do so.

[2:40:15] And so, does option two then change that resource thing?

[2:40:18] That's correct.

[2:40:19] So option two would see at basically to summarize it,

[2:40:24] the areas within the downtown will have specific hotspots.

[2:40:27] So which should be would service every single day?

[2:40:29] Other ones are each 10 days or a small.

[2:40:31] Where the option two, you would have the entire year

[2:40:34] of China Town, which is a hotspot,

[2:40:36] which is the daily service set basically.

[2:40:38] Okay, and then are you supportive of option three as well?

[2:40:43] Option 3 has some complexities to it, which we have to work through and being able to do it.

[2:40:48] Between what the city does, worse as like a community like us.

[2:40:52] So if we needed to see an improvement as soon as possible, would be option 2 over option 3 is that correct?

[2:41:01] I would say that there's opportunities and both options, but the city is more of the functional services option 2 to receive the most immediate.

[2:41:10] Thank you.

[2:41:14] Thank you, Councilor Salvador.

[2:41:17] Yep, thank you.

[2:41:18] Um, just coming, coming back to sort of the original wording of the motion, yeah, just wanted

[2:41:28] to dig in there around, uh, kind of some of the back and forth that maybe did, or did

[2:41:32] or didn't happen with community groups in the lead up to this, um, just wanted to hear administrations

[2:41:39] thoughts on that and kind of the, um, uh, workshopping that happened or didn't.

[2:41:46] Sure. So just going back a little bit to what Councilor Tang was raising in terms of the options

[2:41:54] that were presented. So the community led programming through our engagement. We did here

[2:42:00] a city option. So that's why you see what's reflected here. Because this is based on input.

[2:42:06] We got from community members along the way. And in terms of back and forth, I'm going to ask the team

[2:42:11] to elaborate there.

[2:42:16] As Council of the Engagement was intentionally targeted, it was based on the programs objectives,

[2:42:22] the operational requirements that we understood that we heard about, and the community

[2:42:26] organizations most directly impacted, were able to contribute to the solution.

[2:42:33] Okay, so when some of those proposals were sort of shared or submitted with their

[2:42:38] opportunity for some dialogue? Back and forth, they're not really, or is that where we're

[2:42:44] at today's end? I think that's more of where we're at today. The motion was to explore and

[2:42:50] provide options, which we've presented here today, which are being discussed. Okay, and then

[2:42:57] you know, expectations going forward.

[2:43:02] We were, you know, prior direction around a pathway around

[2:43:05] options would there be my expectation I guess was there'd be additional

[2:43:10] conversations at that time as well?

[2:43:14] If option three was to be pursued then yes additional conversations are required.

[2:43:18] We don't have a clear scope or service level defined at this point in time.

[2:43:22] We have input from community on what they feel the needs are, which we think is very valuable

[2:43:27] to taking next steps but next steps would have to include scalping and determining what

[2:43:33] to be an appropriate approach to seek proposals.

[2:43:36] Right. Right.

[2:43:38] Okay. Thanks.

[2:43:40] Thank you.

[2:43:41] I'm still not entirely clear what the Well-Maintained Service package will get us for additional support in the BIAs. Can you just walk me through what we should expect?

[2:43:51] So, right now, we don't necessarily, it would increase everywhere.

[2:43:56] How we have it laid out right now is across the city.

[2:44:01] So I don't have that service package broken down by a particular community, but what I could say is,

[2:44:08] you know, there would be an increase of 100% graffiti removal, so that would mean like having,

[2:44:13] like taking the response time and cutting that in half, there'd be about a 20% increase in spring

[2:44:18] suite productivity, 100% service level increase in the illegal dumping response. There's currently

[2:44:23] plan for 16 piece officers to help with parking bands and so I'd like clearing those types of things.

[2:44:30] There's a host of different features around turf,

[2:44:32] horticulture, snow and ice control,

[2:44:34] support to festivals and events.

[2:44:37] But yeah.

[2:44:39] So I think the question that I'm just wanting to,

[2:44:41] and that's fine if this is the case,

[2:44:43] you know, we just heard an answer from Caitlin that,

[2:44:45] that essentially right now we're not.

[2:44:47] Based off the need that exists in China,

[2:44:49] we're not able to hit that need,

[2:44:51] and that's the reality, and that's the demand is out.

[2:44:53] The demand is outpacing.

[2:44:55] Those things you listed while I think will be certainly beneficial might not address

[2:45:00] That's the demand pressures of garbage or biohazard in the same way. Those things will still help the area, certainly. But maybe not the specific gap that I think I've heard a lot of community members identify. Is that fair to say?

[2:45:14] I think that's fair to say. Okay. So if we're looking to do that above and beyond whether that be just for Chinatown or in other areas, we would need to look at these two options. That's why that's what we're facing with.

[2:45:28] That's great.

[2:45:29] Okay, sorry.

[2:45:30] I'm just like, yeah.

[2:45:30] I saw you nodding your head.

[2:45:31] I always say for that.

[2:45:33] Okay.

[2:45:34] And I probably have more, but I think I'm going to keep the skill in Councillor Stevenson.

[2:45:39] Yeah.

[2:45:39] Thank you very much.

[2:45:40] Just a few clarification questions.

[2:45:45] Maybe just to Mr. Besske's point earlier.

[2:45:49] Do you think that there is an opportunity like recognizing it would take some more kinds

[2:45:52] of conversations just for some coordination between, you know, a community led and

[2:45:58] initiative and existing state resources, so sort of like a delegation of, of either work areas

[2:46:04] or work tasks.

[2:46:08] So, can some students and we do that now, in some areas where the VIAs are given things

[2:46:13] your capital city create up for grant funding or different initiatives in which they can use, in

[2:46:17] order of a little pickup or things that they want with them, they're all climate-ness of the

[2:46:21] VIA footprints.

[2:46:23] So, we hope to see what that will look really close to the VDA on this basis around the things

[2:46:27] that there is often for service.

[2:46:29] So yes, I think the opportunity for that,

[2:46:31] it needs to be clearly deleted on

[2:46:33] who does what and how things are triaged,

[2:46:36] but also the making sure that we're working closely together.

[2:46:38] There is always the consideration of city assets

[2:46:41] and the risk of that.

[2:46:42] So as an example, we're moving to Fiji,

[2:46:44] has as old as those that come to life

[2:46:45] as in the specific requests.

[2:46:47] Specifically to the materials that are used.

[2:46:50] But yeah, there's opportunities

[2:46:51] that move it always want to be work closely

[2:46:54] with community of the species.

[2:46:56] But it was really well today with the BIs.

[2:46:58] OK, OK, that's really helpful.

[2:47:00] So there's an opportunity to sort of maximize

[2:47:02] what our crews are doing in coordination

[2:47:05] with what a community group can maybe bring.

[2:47:07] OK, thank you for that.

[2:47:09] Just another question I think a lot of important issues

[2:47:11] have come up.

[2:47:12] I know we're internally having some ongoing conversations

[2:47:16] about the sort of charitable dumping

[2:47:18] that is happening in the area.

[2:47:20] I just want to confirm the new Mary Burley Park

[2:47:23] that we'll have public washrooms, have you believe?

[2:47:28] Yes, Councilor Stephenson and the Library Park will have permanent public washrooms with

[2:47:33] permanent public washroom attendance.

[2:47:35] So that's the great, great, wonderful, and so that we would anticipate that that might

[2:47:42] alleviate some of the sanitation pressures that we're currently seeing in the area.

[2:47:46] That's correct, and there will work to complete public washrooms in the Chinatown for

[2:47:50] which we're not going to place this here with the anticipation and the ability to come in on board,

[2:47:54] and we have supported operating impacts of capital for it, so we do anticipate that to be a benefit.

[2:48:00] Okay, great. Great. I think that's it for me. Thank you.

[2:48:03] Thank you, Councillor Tane.

[2:48:08] Great. Thank you.

[2:48:14] Just in the interest of time, I think I will table the motion and then we can ask questions about it.

[2:48:25] And then just to the clerk have a slight modification to the one that you had earlier.

[2:48:31] That administration prepared an unfunded service package for grant funded community

[2:48:35] led and delivered cleanup pilot.

[2:48:37] The addresses gaps identify in the September 2nd, 2026 urban planning and the economy report

[2:48:42] UPE-03491, Chinatown Community Cleanup Program, complement existing, sorry, two complement

[2:48:49] existing, municipal and community services.

[2:48:52] and activate community involvement.

[2:48:54] Thank you, did you want to take your two minutes left and

[2:48:56] introduce?

[2:48:57] Yeah, so I feel like I'm doing a full circle to the intent of the original motion that

[2:49:02] led to the report today, because I think in general enhanced service level for

[2:49:10] cleanup for downtown areas is a conversation we've been having for a long time.

[2:49:15] This is also, you know, a citywide conversation, this is why we have been talking

[2:49:19] about while maintaining city for a long time.

[2:49:21] And that is going to be a table at budget this year.

[2:49:26] Does additional, absolutely.

[2:49:28] And we can have that conversation for the budget.

[2:49:30] And that's speaking to that option too.

[2:49:32] I think the original intent of my motion

[2:49:35] that led to the report today is to see how community groups

[2:49:39] who are already doing the work out there

[2:49:41] can complement existing services.

[2:49:45] I think straight out and doing a four-year thing program is too much, too fast, and that's

[2:49:52] why I'm proposing a more a pilot approach in this case.

[2:49:56] And I think what is different in a complementary way is that we're not just talking about

[2:50:00] cleanup here.

[2:50:01] It is a deeper community building involving house population, as well building relationships

[2:50:07] with businesses.

[2:50:09] And I like to see where that goes, because it is something different than what we have

[2:50:13] doing all along, which we know that the status quo is not enough.

[2:50:17] And I think if we get to the enhanced service during budget, it will add another layer to

[2:50:22] close some of the gaps that this report has identified.

[2:50:26] But I do think we can coverage talking about some of the elements outside of what is already

[2:50:34] being talked about is an important gap that right now there's no one to fill that and I like

[2:50:42] to see what a community led approach that activates people,

[2:50:45] bringing new volunteers into Chinatown, can't do.

[2:50:48] And this doesn't take away from the grants

[2:50:51] as outlined in the report.

[2:50:53] It doesn't take away from current cleaning efforts.

[2:50:55] I think it's really about complementarity,

[2:50:59] doing it in a efficient and cost effective way,

[2:51:02] and activates broader community building.

[2:51:05] Thank you, Councilor Potter.

[2:51:07] Thank you to the mover.

[2:51:10] We heard from the not-for-profit group that they hadn't applied for our existing grant-funded community-led cleanup projects.

[2:51:25] Why would we create another stream for a stream that may already exist today?

[2:51:33] Yeah, I think if we look at existing grant programs as presented in the report, they're largely exclusive to the BIAs and BIAs are accessing them and many times are putting in their own resource.

[2:51:48] But if you are a group that is just doing a very basic function that's not about a festival that's not a public art or a mural project, it's not like an event.

[2:51:58] It's just a very basic function that's foundational to, you know, the look and feel of a community,

[2:52:04] they can't actually access that or anything else. Even the capital cleanup one, that is

[2:52:11] for BIAs. And that's probably one of the reasons why they were no longer available to this group.

[2:52:17] There are multiple, there are multiple grant streams. One of them is BIA. There's a community

[2:52:24] clean up grant. There's a litter clean up program. There are multiple programs so it's not just

[2:52:30] And we focus on not-for-profits and community leagues. So I just didn't know if that was after it.

[2:52:37] And that program is $60,000 for all of those groups. And I think that's pretty underserved to begin with.

[2:52:45] And if we want to augment that to encapsulate this shirt, we can talk about that during budget as well.

[2:52:51] But I think in this case, I am thinking of something quite specific.

[2:52:54] Okay, in two administration, what do you think the range of this package would be?

[2:53:06] In terms of the cost or in terms of the service situation?

[2:53:11] In terms of the cost, yeah.

[2:53:12] So I think that needs to be defined.

[2:53:15] We don't have clearly, what we would need to do is clearly list out what the city's providing,

[2:53:20] what the BIA is providing through the grants they have available to,

[2:53:23] to then clearly identify what gaps remain.

[2:53:25] and that's what we should focus on and in cost based on those gaps.

[2:53:30] So does this motion give you direction on what the pilot should be,

[2:53:35] what the outcome should be, how often the cleaning should be,

[2:53:38] or do you, will you infer that?

[2:53:41] That would all need to be determined as part of developing a service package.

[2:53:46] And the service package would be that it would go to RFP for people to bid on this correct.

[2:53:52] The service package would, if approved, would provide the budget and then once the budgets in place,

[2:53:59] our recommendation would be some sort of expression of interest process, so that community groups

[2:54:03] have the opportunity to provide proposals.

[2:54:06] Yeah, so this would be like an 18 month process at least before.

[2:54:13] I'm not tracking confirm that timeline.

[2:54:15] It sounds long, but it would take some time.

[2:54:18] Thanks.

[2:54:18] Thank you.

[2:54:20] I don't see others on the board for questions.

[2:54:22] So, do we want to extend by a few minutes to finish this? Is that okay?

[2:54:28] Can we take, can we do a 10 minute extension?

[2:54:32] Do I just have unanimous consent of Council?

[2:54:33] Is that okay? Just that way we can just get a moving.

[2:54:36] Therefore, anyone wishing to speak please click on the board.

[2:54:42] Well, they'll technically have three if you want to make it less than that.

[2:54:44] That'll be even better if multiple people want to speak.

[2:54:47] Councillor Stevenson, please go ahead.

[2:54:49] Thank you just want to express my support for this motion and appreciate the mover bringing it forward.

[2:54:53] I've been really excited by what I've heard today about the options that exist and I think we are so blessed and lucky to have such an engaged and activated community.

[2:55:07] You know, I love community cleanup. I love this friend cleanup. It is always surprisingly satisfying and energizing to go around cleaning up a neighborhood.

[2:55:17] And I love this idea of maintaining that momentum, not just once a month, as already happening in a really phenomenal way.

[2:55:28] But making a regular part of people's lives.

[2:55:32] And, you know, volunteerism is just such a, such a force multiplier.

[2:55:37] It's not only more hands cleaning, but it's activating more volunteers.

[2:55:42] It's activating more champions for Chinatown.

[2:55:45] It's actually building that community and that for me is what will really help transform the area.

[2:55:53] I think coupling some staff having continuous staff not just falling on volunteers to be coordinating,

[2:56:03] but having full time staff supporting the backbone of the cleaning work and then complemented and enhanced with volunteers.

[2:56:10] I think it's an incredibly exciting model and would love to see it happen in Chinatown.

[2:56:14] So, full support. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor Salviter.

[2:56:18] Yeah, I'll be brief as well, but just wanted to express my gratitude to all the speakers

[2:56:21] for coming forward today and sharing their perspectives. And also to Councillor Tang, for bringing

[2:56:25] this forward. I'm also very supportive of this approach and absolutely agree that we need

[2:56:29] to move forward in this way. Yeah, I really appreciated the recognition and thought shared today

[2:56:38] that this is absolutely about more than just cleaning. It's also about building relationships,

[2:56:42] fostering civic pride and and bring people together to connect with one another. I think that

[2:56:49] as we're sure to community led a approach like this helps complement the work that we are already

[2:56:53] doing and and that there's going to be opportunities to scale up that work through the well-maintained

[2:56:57] city package to help close some of those gaps. So very excited about the work that is already being done

[2:57:03] and the existing cleanups and I see this as an opportunity to scale that and to build on the momentum

[2:57:08] that is already existing in community. Thanks so much. Thank you, Councilor Kat.

[2:57:16] Yeah, thank you.

[2:58:04] The things that we haven't been talking about

[2:58:19] in use, and again,

[2:58:20] had a rapid

[2:58:31] year ago that doesn't hold proof of areas.

[2:58:39] Visual communication,

[2:58:55] anything that we

[2:59:14] can.

[2:59:15] Hi there, yeah. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Yeah, I will also be supporting this. I do definitely

[2:59:19] am supporting it with reluctance, so I do think there is inefficiency of setting up another program

[2:59:23] instead of actually just taking the program that we have in modifying it for hotspots such

[2:59:28] as Chinatown in some other areas. I will support it because it will bring back options,

[2:59:33] but I really, really will be pushing to see whether or not we can go through existing programs

[2:59:38] and not in inefficiency of setting up a whole new process for one area. So yeah, thank you.

[2:59:44] Thank you all be quick as well. I'll be supporting this. Thank you Councillor Tane for bringing this

[2:59:50] I put out the challenge to administration, which is that I think I hear the hesitancy in the report and I know why.

[2:59:59] I'm going to...

[3:00:00] I challenge us to not be hesitant. I think, you know, I'm going to rewind back to when we changed the tri-partite agreement, and I remember those conversations with administration about allowing community leagues to lease out their spaces, and we were terrified as a city legally that this would upset the development industry, and everyone would be, and we want to two years of engagement, and then we just did it. And you know what happened? Nothing. Nobody cared.

[3:00:28] Developing in the Susan Care. Nobody cares. There's one of those to move. Let's let community move if they want to do things

[3:00:34] Let's let community get we can't we are coming into a budget where we cannot do everything and so I need and I I will speak for myself

[3:00:43] I will need administration's help to make sure we can allow community to do all of the things that we want to do because we will not be able to do them in the next four year budget

[3:00:52] So it's either we don't do them or we say let's try it out with community

[3:00:56] So I'm looking forward to an administration working on this making sure that they, you know, I get there's legal stuff. Let's let's let's be willing to actually follow the

[3:01:06] The billboard outside or the building outside of the like taken a risk. Let's actually make it the most feminine thing to do. So I'll support it. Councilor Tang to close.

[3:01:14] Thank you. Just wanted to speak to a few pieces about the process and about this motion.

[3:01:20] I think cleaning, the cleanliness of our communities is really important, like there's no debate about that.

[3:01:29] There's a question earlier, I didn't manage to ask you administration was around.

[3:01:33] What are we going to do about existing clean up grant for BIAs?

[3:01:37] There is a cost of living adjustment, you know, can we consider that?

[3:01:41] So I would just kind of say that just to for some consideration because I think the amount of the BIA,

[3:01:47] All 13 BIAs get to split through $1000, you know,

[3:01:51] they can hire social enterprises, which is all good.

[3:01:54] But the others, I feel are just far from adequate.

[3:02:03] So I want to put that discussion, you know,

[3:02:06] I'm sure we're going to talk about it during budget, as well.

[3:02:10] You know, ideally, I didn't have to put this motion forward.

[3:02:12] Ideally, this would have just been under administration's authority

[3:02:16] for the conversations that they have been having with community groups to come to a bit of a

[3:02:24] resolution about amount and scope and what would a complementary

[3:02:29] complementarity mean. I will encourage a administration to kind of look at what information you

[3:02:34] have received from the different proposals which we don't have in this meeting, not even as private

[3:02:39] attachments. So we're kind of working with what is the high level summary in the report and what

[3:02:45] But you have received some information and I would just encourage you to review those and determine a bit of the parameters for a pilot in the range of two to three hundred thousand.

[3:03:00] We've also heard that cleaning and safety are economic development in Naeblers.

[3:03:08] We've heard that from the business community, we have heard that from administration's

[3:03:12] own report.

[3:03:14] And if cleaning is so important, I actually think we should double down on it.

[3:03:17] While maintaining city will get us so far, I think it will elevate this community as well.

[3:03:21] But if we can double down that, we should.

[3:03:25] And then just to, you know, to some of the council's comments around this is a symptom of a much broader issue.

[3:03:35] I think this is exactly what secondary downloading of provincial responsibility looks like.

[3:03:41] When I go China Town right now, I can see that our current recovery strategy is not working fast enough or what working at all.

[3:03:49] And municipalities and communities and volunteers have to deal with the consequence of that.

[3:03:53] So I don't want to, you know, neglect that point either.

[3:04:00] You know, again, I think where I started with the motion that led to the report today is

[3:04:07] option three.

[3:04:08] I like to see where that can go, how that can scale.

[3:04:13] And because quite frankly, even in the high-level summary, if commercial bins, alleyways,

[3:04:19] donation drop-offs, equipping houses folks to take care of their own sites is already happening

[3:04:23] through the existing programs, they will already be done and not even be on the table.

[3:04:28] Thank you, please vote.

[3:04:40] We have a vote.

[3:04:40] Thank you, please display the vote.

[3:04:43] That's carried five to zero, just for an agenda piece.

[3:04:46] When we get back from break, we'll definitely move off three, seven, three, and seven, four,

[3:04:50] we've confirmed they're not time-sensitive so they can go to the next executive committee

[3:04:55] because based off the number of speakers on seven, two, that's three hours of speakers at three

[3:05:00] minutes each if everyone takes their full three minutes.

[3:05:02] that's not including questions, of the speakers, that's not including questions of

[3:05:06] admin, and that's not including any motions. We might want to talk about some slight

[3:05:12] addition to the end of the meeting, if we need to, we can talk about that for staffing, but

[3:05:17] I also appreciate none of us a plan to be here beyond five, but I want to see if we can finish

[3:05:23] that item, because there are things that are important. Anyway, we'll do what we can.

[3:05:28] We're going to be back from recess at one thirty and we will start very firm at one thirty. Thank you

[4:24:29] Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Councillor Elliott.

[4:24:34] Might be with us. I'll just double check online. Councillor Elliott.

[4:24:41] Is. On line, maybe.

[4:24:46] Not yet. Councillor Palmer. Good afternoon. Good afternoon.

[4:24:49] Good afternoon. Good afternoon.

[4:24:50] Good afternoon. Let's see from other, and I think Councillor Elliott is now here as well.

[4:24:55] Good afternoon. Good afternoon.

[4:24:58] In terms of other members of Councillor, I have Councillor Stevenson. Good afternoon.

[4:25:02] Good afternoon. I see I think that's it for the moment unless I missed anyone. They'll probably be jumping in throat.

[4:25:13] So, let's continue. Let's do a few agenda things. A agenda clean-ups just before we go.

[4:25:19] I think we had a motion on the attachment. Is that, did we have that?

[4:25:25] Yes to add attachment 3 to the item 7.1.

[4:25:28] Okay. Do you want to make that a council problem?

[4:25:30] Sure. I'll move to add the new private attachment 3 for item 7.

[4:25:34] point one and to confirm to keep it private under section 19.

[4:25:39] That's what you're moving.

[4:25:40] That is what I'm adding.

[4:25:41] And that attachment three of the September 2nd,

[4:25:43] 2026 urban plumbing and economy reports.

[4:25:46] UPE-034 and I would remain private pursue a

[4:25:49] section 19 of the access to information act.

[4:25:53] Thank you.

[4:25:54] Any questions?

[4:25:57] Maybe just one because that does feel.

[4:25:58] Maybe I'll just ask it out loud to

[4:26:00] So our team from administration still here can they just give a sense of generally what that attachment is and the reason

[4:26:07] I mean he's keeping in private I think is because it's got some it's information from those groups who are doing that work

[4:26:13] That's correct Mr. Mayor and there's just some private information related to the proposals that the community

[4:26:19] From from the community proposals that they've given us it's not our information. So, okay, just thought we should ask that out loud to make sure people know

[4:26:26] great

[4:26:27] Any other questions

[4:26:30] any one wishing to speak? Please vote.

[4:26:40] We have a vote. Thank you. Please display the vote.

[4:26:47] That is carried

[4:26:48] five to zero. I was going to just think I was originally planning on moving off the items for

[4:26:55] seven three and seven four. I know at least the speaker on seven four is also on this item, which

[4:27:03] we can keep it. I don't think we're going to get to it, but I also think is a lot of the staff that would be

[4:27:09] here for seven is there any staff for 7.4 that is only needed for 7.4 because

[4:27:18] if they are I don't want to have them spend their day here.

[4:27:24] Do we know? Mr.

[4:27:25] Mayor I'm not sure who's online but I can take that away. Let's let's get

[4:27:29] confident before we move though and and I think same with 7.3 let's just get

[4:27:34] confirmation that if they're if the staff for those items are exclusively for

[4:27:39] of one or both of those items, let's let them probably go, but if it's overlap, then we might

[4:27:45] as we'll keep it on and somehow we finish early, then we can just keep powering through.

[4:27:50] Okay, excellent.

[4:27:52] So I think next is the presentation on item 7.2, which is the update on climate implementation

[4:27:58] priorities.

[4:27:59] Please go ahead.

[4:28:00] Good afternoon.

[4:28:02] I am Kent Snyder, Branch Manager of Planning and Environment Services, and with me today

[4:28:05] our Shandra Tamaris, Director of Environment and Climate Resilience and Sarah Chikini,

[4:28:11] General Supervisor of Climate Strategy and Planning. Our presentation will provide a brief

[4:28:16] background context for the discussion today and highlight the proposed updates to the climate

[4:28:21] priorities. I'll now turn the presentation over to Shandra.

[4:28:27] Thank you. The fundamental vision

[4:28:29] guiding the city remains unchanged. Our two core climate strategies, sorry if we have the next slide.

[4:28:35] The Community Energy Transition Strategy and the Climate Adaptation Strategy continue to be the frameworks

[4:28:41] that guide the city's climate efforts.

[4:28:44] Becoming more resilient and carbon neutral requires long-term commitment, and a administration

[4:28:49] is not recommending changing that direction.

[4:28:52] We're staying the course to those goals but we're seeking council direction on the next

[4:28:56] set of priorities for these strategies.

[4:29:01] Edmonton has started, sorry, next slide,

[4:29:05] Edmonton has started this long and important

[4:29:07] and transformational journey, and progress has been made.

[4:29:11] 88% of the actions in the energy transition strategy

[4:29:13] and climate adaptation strategy have begun.

[4:29:17] Council has approved the adoption

[4:29:18] of the transformational city plan,

[4:29:21] an updated zoning bylaw, the first ever clean energy

[4:29:23] improvement bylaw, which establishes accessible

[4:29:26] property tax-based financing,

[4:29:30] an updated river valley planning framework

[4:29:32] to protect ecosystems.

[4:29:34] And most recently, Council has approved

[4:29:35] the first ever wildland urban interface wildfire risk strategy to proactively minimize wildfire

[4:29:42] risk.

[4:29:43] Just going to freeze for a second.

[4:29:45] Paul, go back.

[4:29:46] Can you meet your microphone just to you are on muted and I want to make sure you don't

[4:29:51] actually stand the same thing.

[4:29:53] Thank you.

[4:29:54] Please continue.

[4:29:55] So our discussion today is on the recommended new actions needed.

[4:30:00] To build on this work to date. Can we move slides, please?

[4:30:06] Climate change has the potential to impact every aspect of life in Edmonton, including municipal infrastructure

[4:30:11] and services, private property, the local economy, the natural environment, and health safety, and well-being of those who call Edmonton home.

[4:30:19] Municipalities are at the forefront of climate-related impacts and opportunities. Edmonton has had to navigate record-breaking events.

[4:30:28] In 2023, Edmonton saw our warmest year to date, and we experienced unprecedented levels of poor

[4:30:36] air quality, making it one of the most severe years on record for short-term air pollution

[4:30:41] exposure, which impacts both respiratory health and municipal operations. In 2024, we saw

[4:30:48] Alberta's earliest wildfire season. The city's emergency support response team successfully

[4:30:53] provide a support to 1,845 evacuees from the regional municipality of Woodbufflo and 2,856

[4:31:03] evacuees from Jasper.

[4:31:05] We saw a Dutch album disease detected for the first time in Edmonton, which could threaten

[4:31:09] over 80,000 album trees in the city.

[4:31:13] In 2025, Edmonton had our snowiest December on record and in 2026, we faced the wetest summer

[4:31:20] on record.

[4:31:20] These events are no longer just weather anomalies, their tests of our infrastructure, our public health, and our municipal resources.

[4:31:28] Next slide, please.

[4:31:31] The impacts of these events is not theoretical.

[4:31:34] It's measured in significant economic and operational costs.

[4:31:38] For example, the storm events in May and June resulted in 406 million in insured losses for the Edmonton region.

[4:31:45] These events are having long-term impacts.

[4:31:48] Climate-related insurance claims are steadily rising.

[4:31:50] With Alberta Insurance rates, increasing roughly 390% since 2005.

[4:31:59] The disruption from climate hazards are projected to impact our local economy and the health of Ementonians.

[4:32:06] Estimates suggest climate hazards could reduce Ementon's annual GDP by an average of $2 billion a year by the 2040s and cause an additional 22,000 health incidence a year.

[4:32:20] Next slide please.

[4:32:23] What we're experiencing is that early stages of this change.

[4:32:28] The science is clear that our climate is expected to change even more significantly into

[4:32:32] the future, and will be defined by the actions taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

[4:32:37] As temperatures increase, risks get more severe.

[4:32:42] I'll now hand it over to Sarah Chikini, who will run through some of the actions that

[4:32:46] can be taken.

[4:32:49] The updated priorities were developed based on technical analysis, public engagement and input across

[4:32:56] city departments.

[4:32:57] Our public engagement gathered over 4,000 insights.

[4:33:00] We saw strong support for climate action, though we heard from some residents that we

[4:33:05] need to go further, and some residents who think that the city should focus on core services.

[4:33:10] Public feedback emphasize the need for equitable and accessible climate action that is backed

[4:33:15] by clear accountability, measurable objectives, and sustained funding.

[4:33:21] A technical analysis was completed on the identified climate priorities, to identify

[4:33:25] greenhouse gas and climate risk reductions, implementation costs, economic benefits such

[4:33:31] as job creation and social benefits such as affordability and health outcomes.

[4:33:36] And the actions are designed to support Council's key priorities, specifically economic development,

[4:33:42] growth management, safety and quality services.

[4:33:48] Next slide, please.

[4:33:51] The actions are organized into five key sectors that will

[4:33:54] we will highlight on the following slides.

[4:33:57] Standing alongside the key sectors,

[4:33:59] establishing an ongoing accountable

[4:34:01] relationship between indigenous peoples and

[4:34:04] the city is one of our 27 priorities,

[4:34:07] applying across all of the work.

[4:34:10] The city cannot undertake the work alone,

[4:34:12] and the priorities include actions

[4:34:14] involving advocacy, exploring funding opportunities, and collaborating with indigenous peoples,

[4:34:20] other governments, businesses, and communities.

[4:34:24] Through our engagement, we heard that Ementonians see these priorities as a way to improve

[4:34:28] their daily lives for more reliable transit to protecting our natural spaces, lowering utility

[4:34:34] costs, and protecting public health.

[4:34:37] Next slide, please.

[4:34:40] Buildings and land-use sector actions include advancing resilient planning to help build communities

[4:34:46] that are prepared for future conditions, supporting energy-efficient private buildings with incentives

[4:34:51] and educational resources, advocating for legislative changes on indoor temperatures in buildings

[4:34:58] and providing guidance for landlords and tenants to manage extreme heat and poor air quality,

[4:35:03] and expanding brown-field redevelopment. Next slide, Chief.

[4:35:10] Transportation sector actions include

[4:35:12] advancing bus rapid transit and transit priority measures, building active transportation networks,

[4:35:19] identifying and advancing opportunities for third-party investment to deliver EV charging

[4:35:23] infrastructure, and transitioning the city fleet to lower emission vehicles.

[4:35:29] Next slide, please.

[4:35:33] Nature and water sector actions include protecting urban forests and natural

[4:35:37] areas, enhancing water and flood resilience, implementing the city's wildfire risk strategy,

[4:35:43] and incorporating traditional ecological knowledge into land management processes.

[4:35:50] Next slide, please.

[4:35:53] Infrastructure sector actions include establishing a resilience hub network for extreme events,

[4:35:59] strengthening emergency response and business continuity,

[4:36:03] and embedding climate standards into infrastructure design and renewals.

[4:36:08] Next slide, please.

[4:36:11] Low-carbon energy and waste sector actions include supporting renewable energy and grid resilience,

[4:36:18] enabling district energy, installing solar EV charging at city facilities, capturing landfill

[4:36:24] gas and advancing waste reduction, as well as pursuing alternative climate funding.

[4:36:31] Next slide, please.

[4:36:34] Over the next two slides, I'll provide a brief update on our carbon budget

[4:36:37] and an overview of the climate budget we will be bringing forward as part of the 2027-2030 budget process.

[4:36:45] As part of our budget processes, we track the deflation of the corporate and community carbon budgets.

[4:36:50] The emissions allowable from the carbon budget are based on the city's energy transition

[4:36:55] emission targets. The carbon budget process assesses funded and unfunded capital and operating

[4:37:02] budget profiles for a mission impacts to understand the implication for the trajectory

[4:37:07] of future emissions.

[4:37:09] The figure shown here provides the most recent status of community emissions.

[4:37:14] As you can see, the city did not meet the 2025 community emission target, exceeding it by

[4:37:19] 3.8 megatons CO2 equivalent.

[4:37:24] The carbon budget achievement trend outlines the emissions trajectory needed to meet emissions

[4:37:28] targets.

[4:37:29] Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next one.

[4:37:30] And is the basis for the establishment of the city's carbon budget. Under the current emissions forecast, it is projected that we will exceed our 2030 target by 6.1 megatons and our 2050 target by of 17.8 megatons.

[4:37:46] With the city's contracted renewable wind and solar facilities now online, corporate emissions are expected to be back on track to meeting our corporate 2040 target.

[4:37:56] Next slide, please.

[4:38:00] In the 2027 to 2030 budget cycle, we will be presenting a climate budget.

[4:38:06] The climate budgeting is an emerging governance and management approach that integrates

[4:38:11] two main climate objectives, achieving that zero community emissions by 2050 and ensuring

[4:38:17] the city is adapted and prepared for the impacts of climate change.

[4:38:21] It integrates information on these objectives into the standard processes of public budgeting

[4:38:26] and financial decision making.

[4:38:29] In a climate budgeting system, the budget becomes a key instrument for implementing a city's

[4:38:34] climate goals and targets by linking financial allocations to measurable climate outcomes.

[4:38:39] This means that climate targets, actions, and performance indicators are embedded in each

[4:38:44] stage of the budget cycle.

[4:38:46] The output of this process is a climate budget, a structure to count a climate relevant

[4:38:51] expenditures, actions, and expected outcomes presented alongside the capital and operating budgets.

[4:38:59] As part of the Climate Budget Report, we will continue to track our carbon budget, indicating

[4:39:03] the year in which the budget is expected to be depleted, based on current emissions

[4:39:08] trajectories. To provide leadership a bit more detailed understanding of how municipal

[4:39:13] greenhouse gas reduction opportunities can impact community emissions, reductions will now

[4:39:19] categorized into different municipal levers of control. As shown on the bubble graph, the city

[4:39:24] has direct control on its corporate operations. The city can also indirectly influence

[4:39:29] how and what is constructed through policy incentives or seed investments. But these efforts

[4:39:35] are also required public to participate to reduce emissions. And the city has limited control

[4:39:41] over actions like decarbonization of Alberta's electricity grid and global markets.

[4:39:47] Next slide, please.

[4:39:50] While we're not on track to achieve our community targets,

[4:39:53] there is data that demonstrates real progress is happening.

[4:39:56] Edmonton's per capita emissions show a significant reduction since 2005.

[4:40:02] We're also seeing signals of a more compact and connected city

[4:40:06] with a higher proportion of new homes in the redeveloping area

[4:40:09] and more housing within walking distance of transit routes.

[4:40:14] Our mobility network is diversifying

[4:40:16] which creates more opportunities for zero or lower mission trips,

[4:40:20] evidence through increased transit use and more active transportation trips.

[4:40:25] Our reality is that the majority of trips completed in

[4:40:28] eminent and are with personal vehicles, but more of these trips are being completed

[4:40:32] with low or zero emissions through electric vehicle registrations that are surging.

[4:40:39] And lastly, the provincial phase out of coal is significantly lowering the carbon intensity

[4:40:44] of our electricity grid. Together, these signals show that the city's investments are making

[4:40:49] differences in the lives of Edmontonians. Next slide, please.

[4:40:55] The priority actions are projected

[4:40:57] to create thousands of direct, indirect and induced jobs, was strong economic benefits driven

[4:41:02] by household cost savings, avoided losses, and new economic investment. This impact also extends

[4:41:09] beyond financial benefits, with projections of hundreds of millions in social benefits such

[4:41:14] improvements to quality of life, better housing, greater affordability, and reduced health care costs.

[4:41:20] Next slide please.

[4:41:23] The implementation priorities presented require $257 million in investment.

[4:41:29] However, there are a number of potential funding streams that could be leveraged.

[4:41:34] The city has a track record of successfully leveraging external partners to help deliver this

[4:41:39] important work. Having secured over $7 billion for climate, sustainability, and transit

[4:41:46] initiative since 2014. Next slide, please.

[4:41:51] A number of the actions included in these priorities have already come to Council earlier

[4:41:55] this year. Future upcoming reports, after today, will provide additional details and operational

[4:42:03] of context to help confirm the pace of implementation of specific actions.

[4:42:09] Approving the priorities today sets our baseline and establishes the overarching umbrella

[4:42:14] for implementation in a single unified plan for filling our city charter requirement.

[4:42:22] It's important to note the priorities are scalable, both in breadth and pace, allowing

[4:42:26] Council to use upcoming budget cycles and supplemental adjustments to determine how fast

[4:42:32] administration proceeds with implementation.

[4:42:36] Last slide, please.

[4:42:38] For the upcoming 27-30 budget process,

[4:42:42] administration will consolidate council direction

[4:42:45] into the proposed operating capital and utility budgets.

[4:42:49] And present these alongside the Climate Budget

[4:42:52] to evaluate the greenhouse gas reduction and resiliency impacts.

[4:42:56] The consolidation, the consolidated direction, includes prior council motions, and any direction

[4:43:04] received today and in future reports leading up to budget deliberations.

[4:43:10] Following the budget process, implementation progress will be reported regularly to council

[4:43:15] and the public through key mechanisms.

[4:43:18] The annual climate budget reports, the public climate action tracker, and the climate related

[4:43:24] financial disclosures in the city's annual financial report.

[4:43:28] Thank you and we would please be pleased to answer any questions after the public speakers.

[4:43:33] Thank you very much.

[4:43:34] Before we bring down the first group of public speakers, it's been confirmed that

[4:43:38] there is no staff over a lot for 7374.

[4:43:42] So I actually think it's worth postponing them so we can give them the rest of their day back.

[4:43:47] So somebody wants to make that motion to bring forward 7374 for postponing.

[4:43:52] So moved by Councillor Primer, please vote to bring those two items forward in order to be postponed.

[4:44:09] We

[4:44:12] have all the votes.

[4:44:13] Thank you, please.

[4:44:14] By the vote,

[4:44:19] that is carried.

[4:44:21] Now we'll technically make the motion to postpone them.

[4:44:24] Councillor Primer.

[4:44:25] Thank you.

[4:44:25] That has been moved.

[4:44:27] So just for clarity, that means the 3-1-1 service experience.

[4:44:30] And the ESL hydrogen limited amendment agreement.

[4:44:33] Those would be postponed until the next executive committee meeting, which is one month from today, please, October 2nd.

[4:44:40] October 2nd, yes.

[4:44:41] They neither of them are time sensitive, but since they do include staff that are separate from who we have for this item,

[4:44:48] there's really little chance we'll get to them and so no sense in holding them back.

[4:44:54] Any questions on this? Anyone wishing to speak from committee?

[4:45:00] Please vote to respond.

[4:45:07] We have a vote.

[4:45:08] Thank you, please.

[4:45:08] This is by the vote.

[4:45:11] That is carried forward to zero.

[4:45:15] Do we lose?

[4:45:16] Or zero.

[4:45:17] Oh, what the sorry.

[4:45:18] I missed that. There we go.

[4:45:21] Excellent.

[4:45:22] So, let's continue on here.

[4:45:23] Let's call down our first panel of speakers.

[4:45:27] So, for those in person, if you hear your name, please come down

[4:45:29] and our clerks will guide you to the appropriate seat.

[4:45:32] If you are online, you can unmute yourself and I call your name.

[4:45:35] just to let us know that you are here. So the first Annabella Bonnida.

[4:45:42] Here. Thank you. Mike Milleros is here in person.

[4:45:48] Lorylyn Grigwar from Bill Dementon. Here. Here, here. Okay.

[4:45:55] Flora Nguyen. Here here in person. Paul Covax is here, I believe, online.

[4:46:03] here virtually.

[4:46:06] Satya Dawts.

[4:46:08] Come on down.

[4:46:09] You're almost there already.

[4:46:11] Laura coming to have Shepley.

[4:46:14] Here.

[4:46:15] Thank you.

[4:46:16] Erin, old felt.

[4:46:20] Yeah.

[4:46:20] I'm here.

[4:46:20] Thank you.

[4:46:21] Thank you.

[4:46:24] Ranjada.

[4:46:26] Thank you.

[4:46:27] Thank you.

[4:46:27] Jason Nunker.

[4:46:30] Here.

[4:46:33] Kristen Wessel.

[4:46:35] Here.

[4:46:36] Thank you.

[4:46:37] Julie Annette Weber.

[4:46:40] Thank you.

[4:46:40] Come on down.

[4:46:41] Mooring Kola.

[4:46:45] Here.

[4:46:45] Thank you.

[4:46:47] Jerry Hoffs.

[4:46:49] Thank you.

[4:46:49] Come on down.

[4:46:50] And Tessa Yackim Chuck.

[4:46:57] Tessa.

[4:46:59] Tessa is the only one not in this panel here.

[4:47:03] So I can go to the first of our next one.

[4:47:05] which is Heather McKenzie, who I think I do see online.

[4:47:10] Heather, are you there?

[4:47:16] Yes, I'm here. Thank you.

[4:47:17] Fantastic. Thank you. So that will be our first panel.

[4:47:20] We're getting everyone settled in, as mentioned at the start.

[4:47:23] I know many folks are here, but in case you didn't get to join until later.

[4:47:28] Recognizing the number of speakers we have, even at the newly-changed and we've changed

[4:47:33] every once-time to three minutes, even if everyone takes their three minutes in full,

[4:47:38] We're still coming up against the clock.

[4:47:41] So I just want to be clear that's not to discourage you from taking your full three minutes.

[4:47:44] I do just want to highlight as noted in the presentation that today is not our budget deliberation.

[4:47:50] So council is not making any budget decisions today.

[4:47:53] So if you're here to convince us to fund things, you can still say that.

[4:47:57] I'm just going to let you know we can't make that decision today.

[4:47:59] That's going to be a decision of council in December.

[4:48:02] What we're being asked for today is for this committee to make a recommendation to council

[4:48:07] to adopt the priorities that are in that report, and then there might be subsequent

[4:48:14] direction.

[4:48:14] I've hinted at this many times that there might be somebody myself who has a

[4:48:18] motion to say, bring additional work on some of those actions to the budget so that

[4:48:24] we can make an even more informed budget decision.

[4:48:27] All of that is to be said is that I am not at all interested in discouraging speakers

[4:48:31] from speaking, but if your point has been raised by a previous speaker, you're also more

[4:48:36] and welcome to say, hey, speaker X already covered everything I wanted to say, I agree 100%

[4:48:43] because if we don't finish today just to set expectations, this would go to the October

[4:48:50] second meeting, meaning any direction to do things for budget are now reduced by four weeks

[4:48:56] to our administration, which means if we're looking to see if we can do some of these things,

[4:49:00] administration has less time to put it together because the budget I think gets released November

[4:49:05] second. So I just share that again not at all to discourage you from sharing your piece but I do want to

[4:49:13] I think folks I'm guessing most of our speakers today are interested in action and so if you're interested in action

[4:49:20] finishing this item would allow us to take action

[4:49:24] leading into that budget. So with that in mind let us go to our list of speakers

[4:49:29] This, each person will have at maximum three minutes, and I'll be very firm on that.

[4:49:33] Annabella, bonadup, please go ahead.

[4:49:37] Good afternoon, Mayor and members of Council.

[4:49:40] Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today.

[4:49:42] My name is Dr. Annabella Bonadah, and I'm managing director at the Intex Center on Climate

[4:49:46] Adaptation at the University of Waterloo.

[4:49:49] Our work focuses on helping governments, communities, and residents reduce their vulnerability

[4:49:53] to flooding while fire and extreme heat.

[4:49:55] I would like to make three points about M&P's proposed climate implementation priorities, and that urgency was reinforced today by a new UN report, concluding that the world will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming for many decades, making adaptation to unavoidable climate impacts increasingly essential.

[4:50:15] First, the cost of extreme weather tells us why implementation matters.

[4:50:18] matters. In just a few weeks this summer, severe storms and flooding across

[4:50:22] Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Quebec, and Ontario caused almost 1.7 billion in

[4:50:27] insured damage. And insured losses capture only part of the cost. For every

[4:50:31] dollar and insured losses, an estimated additional 2 to 4 of an uninsured

[4:50:35] cost are borne by household's businesses and governments. These public

[4:50:39] costs can persist for years. In January, the federal government made a

[4:50:44] The $78 million disaster recovery payment to Alberta for the 2016 Fort McMurray

[4:50:50] Welfare, the total federal disaster assistance over the last 10 years has reached $385 million.

[4:50:57] The question is therefore not whether climate impacts will cost money.

[4:51:01] It is whether we invest the four disaster occurs or pay considerably more afterward.

[4:51:06] Second, we know adaptation works.

[4:51:08] Since 2013, flood Calgary and the government of Alberta have invested more than 1.3 billion

[4:51:14] and flood mitigation and resilience.

[4:51:16] Calgary reports that these measures have reduced its flood damage risk by approximately 70 percent,

[4:51:22] protect more than 4,200 properties and approximately $68 billion in property and infrastructure

[4:51:28] and reduce expected flood damages by about $118 million every year.

[4:51:34] That is what adaptation looks like when it moves from planning to implementation.

[4:51:38] Third, Edmonton has an opportunity to apply that same discipline across the class of climate risks.

[4:51:44] The Intex Center, our municipal preparedness work follows a simple progression.

[4:51:48] Understand the risk, benchmark preparedness, identify gaps, prioritize action, and then reassess whether preparedness has improved.

[4:51:56] That is why support Edmonton's move towards more focused priorities, stronger monitoring and evaluation,

[4:52:01] and particularly the proposed climate budget.

[4:52:04] Climate risk should be incorporated into decisions about infrastructure, buildings, land

[4:52:09] use, natural assets, and capital investment, not considered after those decisions have already

[4:52:14] been made.

[4:52:15] So I would leave Council with three recommendations.

[4:52:18] One maintained the focus on implementation, two embed climate risk into routine municipal

[4:52:24] investment decisions, and three measure outcomes, not simply activities.

[4:52:28] Ultimately, the question should be

[4:52:30] Our Edmonton's residents, homes and infrastructure and neighborhoods, becoming less vulnerable to extreme heat, flooding and welfare.

[4:52:38] The goal should not simply be to implement a climate plan.

[4:52:41] Very much. Sorry. Thank you.

[4:52:43] Thank you. Mike Melarosses. Next, please go ahead.

[4:52:46] Thank you and good afternoon. I'm Mike Melaross, Vice President of the Alberta EcoTrust Foundation.

[4:52:51] As per our MOU, we signed with the City of Edmonton in 2020.

[4:52:55] We take our lead from plans like the one before you today.

[4:52:58] We believe conceptually in this priorities plan, particularly on the social equity lens that was applied.

[4:53:04] The end goal of an emissions neutral Edmonton that is resilient to a changing climate must be preserved and we should carefully monitor the implementation of this plan to make sure it is doing enough.

[4:53:14] Attachment 2 is signaling that we are not on track to our targets.

[4:53:18] I don't think we can escape the conclusion then that more ambition is required to get back onto a trajectory to low carbon climate resilient Edmonton.

[4:53:25] Some of the actions are clearly in the city's direct control, examples of these include the EV and solar ready bylaw amendments, updating the design and construction standards, which I think can be quite impactful if done right.

[4:53:38] And other elements this plan are better positioned to be catalyzed with funding to community organizations like Alberta EcoTrust, that are already delivering on this work.

[4:53:47] Example of these are found throughout the document, including providing capacity building initiatives, energy coaching and implementing grant programs.

[4:53:55] We are very encouraged by the direction in the plan to provide sponsorships and subsidies to non-profit organizations and groups to expand their impact.

[4:54:03] We believe this partnership model is the right model.

[4:54:06] seed funding provided to community groups can be leveraged and multiplied, increasing that

[4:54:11] impact.

[4:54:12] We have proven this out.

[4:54:13] For example, our city of Emmetin catalyzed Enbix program has raised $6 additional for every

[4:54:19] dollar invested by the city of Emmetin.

[4:54:22] We can access philanthropic corporate dollars and often bring other governments to the

[4:54:26] table.

[4:54:27] Last note is that at times in this plan, difficult to understand the ultimate impacts of the

[4:54:36] provide targeted incentive programs to encourage

[4:54:39] Edmonton, Tonyans and businesses to act, the how who

[4:54:42] and what are missing for us, the administration might

[4:54:45] have them, but they aren't in the plan.

[4:54:47] It is a great start committing to this action, but details

[4:54:50] lack, and the funding bucket actually is quite modest.

[4:54:53] That's proposed.

[4:54:55] As a community partner of the city for many years,

[4:54:59] Alberta Ecotresti is actively working on many of these

[4:55:01] initiatives in eager to partner.

[4:55:03] As the operator of the low carbon city's Canada center,

[4:55:05] We mobilize our endowment into climate tech investments that directly help Edmonton.

[4:55:10] Within Bix, we assist in developing the capacity of industry to achieve higher efficiency standards.

[4:55:15] We provide grant funding to community partners.

[4:55:18] And through our retrofitting accelerator, we coach building owners through the retrofitting journey.

[4:55:23] We urge you to pass this plan to fund the city's core elements and see the delivery ecosystem with catalytic funding in the next budget cycle.

[4:55:31] As I read it only half of the 257 millionists are going to be presented to Council on this budget,

[4:55:36] so that might provide a bit of a challenge. We hope that changes. My team is happy to speak to you further,

[4:55:42] and thank you very much for the time.

[4:55:43] Thank you. Next up, Lori Lynn, Gregor.

[4:55:47] Thank you.

[4:55:48] Thank you.

[4:55:50] Thank you.

[4:55:57] We should build the overall direction of the climate implementation priorities and recognize the importance of building resiliency.

[4:56:05] The comments today focus on implementation and how we can achieve climate objectives while continuing to improve housing affordability and supply.

[4:56:13] Our two messages simple are request is to ensure climate action is implemented in a way that protects housing affordability and housing supply.

[4:56:21] First, we encourage the city to carefully assess the cost and locations of any new climate related requirements.

[4:56:27] Whether related to zoning lands, keeping development standards or other regulations, even well intention measures can affect project liability, housing affordability and housing supply.

[4:56:38] It costs are not fully understood upfront. Second, we encourage a risk-based and evidence-based approach.

[4:56:43] Climate actions should be proportionate to the risk they are addressing, the word digitization

[4:56:48] is the interventional building code requirements, and prioritized practical solutions

[4:56:53] that deliverable measurable outcomes.

[4:56:55] Third, the answer is to consider the two million effect of regulations and costs.

[4:57:00] Individual policy changes may appear more as done now, but when combined with other requirements

[4:57:05] across planning infrastructure, permitting and development, it can be a significant impact

[4:57:10] on the housing cost and delivery timelines.

[4:57:12] As the priorities we have been to implementation, we respectfully ask Council to ensure that

[4:57:17] climate initiatives are accompanied by cost analysis, consideration of housing impacts

[4:57:23] and ongoing industry engagement. Climate resilience and housing affordability are

[4:57:28] both important public priorities, and we believe that they can ensure that it grants together.

[4:57:34] In three times, the bill looks forward to continuing to work with administration intensifies

[4:57:40] Thank you very much next up, Floor Nguyen.

[4:57:44] Good afternoon Mayor, council members and executive committee.

[4:57:47] My name is Floor Nguyen and I am a university student and resident of Edmonton.

[4:57:52] I first want to give thanks for prioritizing this important matter

[4:57:55] and for all of the planning and time put into this report.

[4:57:58] Within the climate implementation priorities, GBA plus consideration,

[4:58:02] it identifies that while climate change is a citywide concern.

[4:58:05] marginalized people and groups will experience the impacts of climate change more significantly.

[4:58:11] This includes vulnerable populations such as low-income, black, indigenous, homeless, disabled, recently immigrated and people of color communities as well.

[4:58:19] These residents often face unique barriers to accessing resources, have a lower financial capacity to implement necessary mitigation,

[4:58:27] and are often more severely impacted by climate events or face greater challenges during recovery processes.

[4:58:32] This concept is not unique to Edmonton and it is something well established across academic literature as well.

[4:58:40] Environmental equity research has often identified disparities in access to environmental amenities for these populations,

[4:58:46] and these residents are more likely to live in areas with fear, health, supportive environmental conditions,

[4:58:52] potentially increasing exposure to health risks.

[4:58:54] Truths in their canopy are environmental amenity, they can improve air quality, moderate temperatures, mitigate floods and reduce urban heat island effects.

[4:59:03] Therefore, their placement in urban settings and role within mitigating a change in climate are very important and of priority.

[4:59:10] Truths fall within the nature and water sector priority to protect and grow Edmonton's natural areas to strengthen our defenses against climate risk, specifically through actions 15 and 16.

[4:59:19] Additionally, the city has other ongoing initiatives to increase our tree canopy and to plant

[4:59:24] more trees.

[4:59:26] I believe that this provides a great and crucial opportunity to evaluate how our environmental

[4:59:32] amenities like trees can be equitable accessible and provide benefits for everyone in the community

[4:59:37] as much as possible.

[4:59:39] To be intentional and strategic about where we are planting, to be considered about the short

[4:59:43] and long-term effects of the health and safety of Ementonians, and to try to look through

[4:59:48] Equity Lens to ensure all of our communities can feel resilient and are protected by the climate actions we take now.

[4:59:54] I hope that Equity remains at the core of these decisions and I support that these actions are implemented.

[5:00:00] As a young adult, I hope that youth organizations and universities continue to be encouraged and included during engagement processes.

[5:00:08] I also hope that there will be more initiatives to educate, connect, and improve accessibility for youth with public engagement.

[5:00:14] I know of a lot of students or youth who feel passionately about these topics similar to me, and I know they have a lot of value to add to these discussions, but they still don't know where to go or fully understand how these processes work.

[5:00:26] Thank you for the opportunity to speak today.

[5:00:27] Thank you very much. Next is Paul Kovac.

[5:00:31] Please go ahead.

[5:00:33] Thank you, Mayor, and member of the Council for the opportunity to speak.

[5:00:37] I have a number of slides. I'm going to ask them not to show the slide because of the shortness of time.

[5:00:42] Thank you to staff.

[5:00:44] Thank you again for the opportunity to participate.

[5:00:47] I'm the founder and executive director of the Institute for the Catastrophic Law

[5:00:51] University for the leading science-based advisor on how to protect homes and infrastructure

[5:00:59] from flooding wildfire, severe wind hail and other natural hazards.

[5:01:05] I'm here today to support the proposal.

[5:01:09] I think the staff have done a super job when you've got our comprehensive and detailed plans

[5:01:15] for the city.

[5:01:16] and unreservedly I support the plan as it's presented and encourage council to support it going forward.

[5:01:24] I want to use the very short time I have available to quickly talk about specific protections that Edmonton has provided in the past and can provide going forward for housing in the city of Edmonton.

[5:01:36] The evidence that is in the package for the insurance, the damage of the last 40 years from their

[5:01:42] brother to housing and infrastructure has increased 24 over the last 40 years, and we're projecting over the next 25 years

[5:01:51] because of the possibility of further aid for the increase.

[5:01:54] I would need to go from $10 billion to $80 billion a year of damage, just unimaginable numbers.

[5:02:03] Well, that's the trend that we're on and we're on for 40 years, actions by evidence and

[5:02:08] others can break that trend.

[5:02:12] And we have a very big presentation available to you about how to do that for flooding.

[5:02:16] Well, fire, hail, and we're tornadoes, you know, there's a little bit of a target.

[5:02:22] The short time I have on the issue of this year, which was water getting into baseless.

[5:02:29] In 1989, passed by law requiring that all new homes have a backwater wealth.

[5:02:35] This is one of the core protection services piece of advice that we find again and again.

[5:02:40] For homeowners that avoid damage compared to those that have been damaged.

[5:02:44] Since 1989, half the homes in between have been built and they were built with backwater wealth.

[5:02:51] Hamilton has more backwater of protection, more urban protection to add a community in the world.

[5:02:58] Because of the leadership of the Hamilton to put in the by-law requirement, this is the right way going forward.

[5:03:04] We knew that in 1989 since that time, Hamilton was also brought in by-laws about some of the other key areas,

[5:03:10] like making sure water doesn't build up next to the home, through landscaping requirements for new home.

[5:03:14] A big challenge in Edmonton and most of the communities, what do you do for it?

[5:03:18] The other 50% of homes that don't have protection.

[5:03:21] Edmonton has incentives, this combination of requirements for new homes and incentives

[5:03:26] for these new homes.

[5:03:28] The way Edmonton's left the way on base of flooding and on other hazards.

[5:03:32] Thank you very much for your time.

[5:03:34] Thank you very much.

[5:03:35] Our next speaker is Satsya Das.

[5:03:39] Thank you, Mayor.

[5:03:40] Let's just hit your microphone there and then we'll start your time.

[5:03:42] Thank you, Mayor.

[5:03:43] and Council. First of all, I want to comment, Sandra, Sandra, and Kent for not standing

[5:03:49] job in the report they prepared. I will, I will, I have served Edmonton as a volunteer

[5:03:54] member of the now-defunct Energy Transition Climate Resilience Committee and it's gratifying

[5:04:00] to see that almost all of her advice has made it into your strategy going forward. So thank

[5:04:05] you for that. Folks, I'm here today to go beyond what the report proposes and to invite you

[5:04:13] take a moon shut. As we know, Chinese EVs are going to be the future of cheap affordable

[5:04:20] transportation for individuals and families across the world. Now, we have a singular opportunity

[5:04:28] in Edmonton to invite Chinese EV manufacturers to establish here. I know everyone's going after

[5:04:36] B.Y.D., that's an open secret that Ontario is in trans negotiations with them, but there

[5:04:42] are other carmakers.

[5:04:43] There's Huawei, which makes them the most trans-electric car in the world.

[5:04:47] There's Julie, there's Polestar, and there's Leak.

[5:04:51] All of these companies are now invested in things that Edmonton has in abundance.

[5:04:56] First of all, the new generation batteries are sodium ion.

[5:05:00] They're salt batteries.

[5:05:01] We have tons of salt and Alberta.

[5:05:04] Later, and more resilient automobiles are going to be made from multiple fibers, not from

[5:05:10] steel.

[5:05:10] We have carbon fiber, agricultural fiber, and wood fiber, 20 years ago when I was working

[5:05:17] on the Alberta fiber road map, we showed how composite fibers could really be an economic

[5:05:22] driver.

[5:05:23] So, consoles priorities of economic development, of transportation, of affordability, and

[5:05:31] the overall framework of a more inclusive and welcoming city can all be achieved by the vigorous

[5:05:38] pursuit of Chinese EV manufacturing here.

[5:05:42] We think of ourselves the manufacturing hub in many different ways, but as we make the

[5:05:47] transition from the age of fossil fuels to the age of electrons and photons, as our primary

[5:05:53] energy source, we will be well served by the bold leadership that Edmonton can show to

[5:06:00] line our self with Canada to align our self the priorities of the government of Canada to

[5:06:05] align its city council priorities and then invite the province to join the parade.

[5:06:11] The 7,000 acres of land we have at the Edmonton Airport have already been classified as a

[5:06:16] duty free processing and manufacturing zone.

[5:06:19] We can leverage that.

[5:06:21] We can leverage the recently annexed lands to extend to the airport and I am willing to

[5:06:26] as a volunteer and continue my volunteer service to the city by helping to facilitate any of these

[5:06:33] any of the actions that may arise. Thank you so much for your time.

[5:06:37] Thank you very much. Next is Laura Cunningham Shepaldi.

[5:06:41] Good afternoon, Mayor Nack members of the Executive Committee. My name is Laura Cunningham Shepaldi,

[5:06:45] and I'm the Executive Director of the Ableton Federation of Community Leagues.

[5:06:49] I'm here today to speak to the partnership that's required to turn these priorities and plans

[5:06:53] into meaningful and lasting outcomes.

[5:06:57] Edmonton has an asset that virtually no other city in North America has, an inter-connected

[5:07:01] network of 163 volunteer community leagues rooted in every corner of our city.

[5:07:07] The system forms a direct bridge between municipal policy and the daily lives of the Edmontonians.

[5:07:13] Leagues are advocates for the community, social and recreation, hubs for neighbors,

[5:07:23] and

[5:07:23] don'ts to prolong wildfire smoke, leagues a naturally position to be emergency management asset.

[5:07:30] and hubs for the community, and we have been seeing leagues step into this space. Over the past two years, a green leagues program of EFCL has worked for leagues to apply for green and inclusive community building grants to support energy efficiency and accessibility upgrades.

[5:07:46] We have been successful in leveraging over $7 million of federal grant funding for seven community leagues across the city.

[5:07:53] Community League's managed municipalities on public land run entirely by dedicated volunteers so to deliver on priorities like energy efficient building retrofits,

[5:08:03] sustainable stewardship of the land, and exploring hyperlocal resilience hubs for vulnerable residents,

[5:08:10] leagues need to continue to be supported through predictable and reliable programs and funding streams.

[5:08:15] The funding of Green Leaks at the EFCL has ensured a point of contact for Leaks as they

[5:08:21] look to explore opportunities to make their facilities and amenities more climate

[5:08:26] resilient and energy efficient.

[5:08:29] We believe that in addition to the priorities that are before you today for consideration

[5:08:33] the permitting and approval process required to permit innovative sustainability projects must

[5:08:39] clear, supportive and easy to navigate for the Evan Tonians who want to contribute to creating

[5:08:45] a more green and sustainable future. EFCL was successful in receiving a grant through Alberta

[5:08:51] EcoTrust's Climate Innovation Fund to explore new processes along with city administration,

[5:08:58] to reduce the barriers to implementing sustainability related projects on city land, such as

[5:09:04] building envelope upgrades, geothermal development, solar installations, and community gardens.

[5:09:10] We look forward to undertaking these new projects together with city admin in the new year.

[5:09:15] Moving away from climate action work is not an option when the operational costs of climate impacts are already compounding.

[5:09:23] The ESL and our network of leagues are ready to do the heavy lifting on the ground.

[5:09:27] We ask that these priorities be approved and that necessary funding is committed so that we may all work together to continue to streamline the process.

[5:09:34] is required to implement these important projects. Erin will now speak to the work specifically

[5:09:39] that the EFCO Green League's program is doing across the city.

[5:09:43] Thank you very much, and I will go to Erin. Please go ahead.

[5:09:47] Good afternoon, Mayor Nack, and members of the Executive Committee. My name is Erin Allofalt

[5:09:51] and the Climate Resilience Advisor with the Edmonton Federation of Community Leaks.

[5:09:56] Edmontonians are already experiencing the realities of a change in climate from record-breaking

[5:10:00] heat waves and rainfall to dealing with recurring wildfire smoke.

[5:10:04] Climate action is no longer just about long-term goals.

[5:10:08] It's about implementing actions now to keep our neighborhood safe, affordable, and resilient.

[5:10:14] Our Green Lakes program was built to turn these city-wide climate priorities into neighborhood-level action

[5:10:19] and to respond to the changing needs of our communities.

[5:10:22] We don't just support these goals in principle.

[5:10:24] Our programs are actively delivering on the Macross all five sectors.

[5:10:27] First off, I'd like to say we fully endorse action 1 to establish ongoing accountable relationships

[5:10:33] with indigenous peoples.

[5:10:35] Community League volunteers are stewards of the land on which they sit, and the Green League's

[5:10:39] program encourages League volunteers to embrace this role and commit to reducing their

[5:10:44] impact on the environment.

[5:10:46] Under Buildings in Land Use, the Green League's program is operationalizing these actions

[5:10:51] through our energy benchmarking program, net zero pathways program, and slice the solar power

[5:10:56] investment cooperative of Edmonton pilot program. These programs turn fewer greenhouse gas

[5:11:01] emissions into more savings for leaks so they can continue to support their communities

[5:11:06] and all the great ways that leaks do. Under infrastructure and resilience, Green League

[5:11:11] supported by Alberta EcoTrust is running a pilot project assessing how community league

[5:11:16] halls can serve as neighborhood climate resilience hubs, giving vulnerable residents a safe

[5:11:21] during extended power odages, extreme heat, and severe air quality warnings.

[5:11:27] Under active transportation or annual bike month challenge mobilizes thousands of

[5:11:32] Edmontonians and to friendly competition every June,

[5:11:35] shifting, commuting, and travel habits towards no carbon emission forms of movement.

[5:11:40] Under nature and water security, we support volunteers with resources for sea sharing,

[5:11:45] urban naturalization and stormwater diversion projects,

[5:11:47] which have been active demonstrations for residents to implement these types of projects on their own properties.

[5:11:53] And under low-carbon energy, the EFCIL Spice Solar Pilot Project also aligns with Action 21.

[5:12:00] Spice is an Edmonton-based community development cooperative and certified social enterprise,

[5:12:05] offers project management and affordable financing to reduce financial barriers to install and solar at league buildings.

[5:12:11] The structure also is creating opportunities for adventonians to invest in ethical, local,

[5:12:16] renewable energy projects.

[5:12:18] Community League service information and demonstration hubs in their neighborhoods and platforms

[5:12:22] for action will residents consider solar installation heat pump or a rain garden, all in action

[5:12:27] in their own backyards.

[5:12:28] To continue making these priorities realities, we need to continue funding grassroots

[5:12:33] implementations of initiatives like these.

[5:12:36] The ESCL is ready to scale this work alongside the city to ensure every neighborhood

[5:12:40] And it happened in this climate resilient ready.

[5:12:43] Thank you so much.

[5:12:44] Thank you.

[5:12:45] Next up is Ryan James Data.

[5:12:47] Please go ahead.

[5:12:52] Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this conversation.

[5:12:55] My name is Dr. Ryan James Data.

[5:12:56] And I can let this rest here in Pomegranate disaster research.

[5:12:59] An associate professor at the Indigenous Studies at Mount Valley University.

[5:13:03] I'm also an interested board member for the City of Calgary.

[5:13:08] My research work in Pomegranate.

[5:13:10] We have the opportunity to be closely related with indigenous Black and racialized immigrant

[5:13:14] communities to understand how climate change and disaster are experiencing differently,

[5:13:20] particularly how community knowledge, relation, and governance can shape more equitable

[5:13:26] approach to the climate resiliency.

[5:13:30] From the perspective I want to begin by acknowledging that that internality has a strong kind of

[5:13:40] strong strategy to work community-led, equitable, and accountable implementation.

[5:13:46] I would highlight three batteries, fast-moved from community-endagement to what's community-climate

[5:13:52] governance, climate impact are not experienced equally, heat, forest fires, smoke, flooding,

[5:14:01] energy, and sufficient insecurity, effect, community-slippalantly.

[5:14:05] that means a good established community, a climate level, or network-based climate

[5:14:11] resiliency council, particularly in high risk communities, supported by the community and

[5:14:18] vulnerability industry to guide investment.

[5:14:21] Second, move in the genius participation, V1 consultation towards Indigenous climate governance.

[5:14:28] Indigenous knowledge should not simply because another source of information added to

[5:14:34] question of climate science. This CD could be a such term relationship with TV6 National

[5:14:39] made the communities elder of knowledge keeper potentially through indigenous climate governance

[5:14:46] and knowledge council at Newton proposed the resiliency hub could simply be a co-design

[5:14:54] our appropriate and community managed. Finally we need to

[5:15:00] We should ask not only how much carbon did we reduce, but also, which commonly did become safer? Did heat burn our ability or energy insecurity decline? Or the climate investment distributed equality? Was indigenous governance reflected a decision-making? And did communities gain greater capacity to prepare for and decouper from that disaster?

[5:15:27] My research continually remind me that resilience is not something governance government simply

[5:15:35] deliver to the community.

[5:15:36] It is being through relationship, responsibility, knowledge, and shared decision making.

[5:15:42] For me, the central principle is carbon accountability and social accountability must

[5:15:47] sit together.

[5:15:48] Thermitrizialency should not only be built for community, it should be increasingly

[5:15:53] be governed with the community.

[5:15:56] Thank you very much.

[5:15:57] Sorry, that's three minutes and we'll move over to Jason Doctor, please go ahead.

[5:16:01] Hello, my pleasure to speak to you today.

[5:16:04] My name is Jason Unger and I'm the Executive Director in General Counsel at the Environment Law Center here in Edmonton.

[5:16:11] My talk today I decided to call Smoke or some pumps.

[5:16:15] And I'd say our basement is still flooded with GHG emissions as a city and we need to start pumping those down.

[5:16:22] In terms of my presentation, I'd like to focus on three words, design, advocacy, and communications.

[5:16:29] And really focusing on some of the key actions in the priorities that are identified.

[5:16:34] Action 2, 3 and 7, really focusing on some of the higher GHG impacts there.

[5:16:40] First, for action 2, support climate resilient community planning and design, and I quote from the priorities,

[5:16:46] Edmonton zoning by law supports complete communities through infill and new development that

[5:16:51] advances climate mitigation, clear direction on design outcomes can help integrate climate

[5:16:56] resilient growth and change into developing and redeveloping areas by reducing emissions

[5:17:00] and preparing for future weather conditions.

[5:17:04] Now I'd like to say about that quote, there are no city can infill themselves out of

[5:17:09] what is essentially a system's problem, and so I think the design component becomes

[5:17:14] a major focus for the city going forward. The benefit of clear and substantive design approaches

[5:17:21] at the district level can initiate climate action and can drive benefits beyond the status

[5:17:26] quo. To be successful though, the design must be truly integrated and climate oriented,

[5:17:32] and there will be trade-offs. Design is also foundational to serve those with less means.

[5:17:38] I would encourage council and the city to continue to investigate opportunities to have district

[5:17:42] level of carbon budgeting reflected into statutory plans and authorization processes

[5:17:47] and to be clear that's not, I'm not talking about building codes, I'm talking about district design.

[5:17:53] Action 3 supporting climate prepared and energy-efficient buildings.

[5:17:57] This is the where the word advocacy comes to my mind.

[5:18:01] Recognizing that we've had some challenges and barriers in terms of

[5:18:05] elevator and our code requirements, I think advocacy is what is needed on all levels of government

[5:18:12] And that's where I feel that should be a focus under that action.

[5:18:18] And finally, communications, and I focus on action 7 in relation to active transport networks.

[5:18:25] Often times, and I love the bike infrastructure, often they'll say, build it, and they will come.

[5:18:32] I think that's only true for magical baseball diamonds, perhaps, but I think the focus really needs to be on communications.

[5:18:39] and creating a vision for the active transport and really enabling experiences, enabling

[5:18:46] people to understand what is feasible, what is possible in terms of active modes of transport

[5:18:52] because I think that's something that we need more of. Oftentimes, we're building the infrastructure

[5:18:58] which is essential, but really that communication species is essential. Thanks. Thank you very much.

[5:19:04] Next up, Kristen, let's hope please go ahead.

[5:19:08] Thank you so much, Baron Council, for the opportunity to speak with you today.

[5:19:12] I'm Kristen Russell, Senior Operations Manager with Campbell Energy Group.

[5:19:16] Campbell specializes in designing and delivering programs that help improve affordability

[5:19:20] for households and communities that are traditionally been underserved by conventional energy programs.

[5:19:26] On here today, to speak about being made in Alberta home upgrades program,

[5:19:30] and commonly known as HUM.

[5:19:31] And what I'll experience in delivering this program can contribute to your consideration of the city's climate

[5:19:36] implementation priorities, particularly actions three, four, and twenty-two.

[5:19:40] The Home Laboratory Program is designed to improve affordability for low-income

[5:19:44] operating households, who pay disproportionately high energy bills, because they live in homes

[5:19:49] that are old, inefficient, and expensive to heat and coal.

[5:19:54] Without the financial delivery to pay for upgrades, these households struggle with living

[5:19:58] in the energy poverty. It's a cycle of high bills, power shut-offs, and tough choices

[5:20:03] of whether to heat or heat.

[5:20:06] The city of Edmonton was a key supporter of the hot program in prior phases, which delivered

[5:20:10] fully subsidized energy efficiency upgrades to 333 income qualified households across

[5:20:16] Alberta.

[5:20:17] According to 2021 stat scan census data, approximately 16% of Edmonton households are just

[5:20:24] over 50,000 families, struggle with energy poverty, which is defined spending 10%

[5:20:29] on lower, a after tax income on household energy balls.

[5:20:33] Freeboard on the average participating household in hop had an annual income approximately $40,000.

[5:20:39] And we're spending about 12% of that income on home energy, but four times more than the average Canadian.

[5:20:46] One of the biggest lessons from hop has been that energy poverty isn't simply about a high utility ball.

[5:20:52] It's about the interaction between household income, energy costs, and the condition of the home.

[5:20:57] For a household already struggling to afford everyday life, replacing a furnace, upgrading

[5:21:02] insulation, or addressing electrical problems that need to be fixed before an energy

[5:21:07] retrofit can even be considered, are out-of-a-reach.

[5:21:10] Help these design differently, specifically addressing end-to-end maintenance main concerns.

[5:21:15] Outgrades are provided at low cost, and the program is managed in the beginning process

[5:21:20] assessments through insulation and quality assurance.

[5:21:23] Over those 303 upgrades, the program has saved households around $5500 on your energy

[5:21:29] goals.

[5:21:30] Hub participants also reporting more comfortable homes, lower maintenance costs, improved

[5:21:35] safety, and less financial stress.

[5:21:37] Before upgrades, only 20% of survey participants describe their homes as comfortable after

[5:21:42] where that increased to 95%.

[5:21:45] Since the program shows the eligible homes in October 2024, we received 285 eligible households

[5:21:51] on our weightless.

[5:21:54] Our experience has shown that targeted ink and qualified home energy programs can reduce energy

[5:21:58] and use add emissions while also addressing affordability and improving the condition and comfort of homes.

[5:22:05] We see a strong connection and the direction proposed through climate action 3, 4 and 22.

[5:22:11] And thank you for your attention.

[5:22:12] Thank you very much.

[5:22:13] Next up is Juliana Weber.

[5:22:14] Please go ahead.

[5:22:18] Hello everyone.

[5:22:19] And thanks for having me today.

[5:22:20] My name is Juliana Weber.

[5:22:21] I am a climate justice activist and organizer with climate justice Edmonton.

[5:22:26] I support the adoption of this plan, but I'm here today to ask the...

[5:22:30] Executive committee to make a motion to create a climate funding package to present at the budget for the

[5:22:35] 2027 update climate implementation priorities to ensure that this work can actually happen.

[5:22:40] I'm excited for the opportunities in this plan, better transit, and more active transportation

[5:22:45] options, and I've already been enjoying the ones that are there, too. I'm excited for

[5:22:49] well-built homes and communities that are resilient to climate change and resilience hubs for

[5:22:54] people during extreme weather events. I'm excited to continue to protect our green spaces.

[5:23:00] But mostly I'm here because we need this plan to be rapidly implemented with a clear timeline

[5:23:05] to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. As a young person my whole life will be

[5:23:10] extremely affected by climate change and as an environmental science student every single job I have

[5:23:15] done has been deeply impacted by climate change already as I work outside and past years by wild

[5:23:21] fire smoke and this year by floods and huge storms.

[5:23:24] I, like many youth, feel so much eco grief and eco anxiety, reading headlines and watching

[5:23:29] videos of people losing their homes through wildfires or dying in heat waves and floods.

[5:23:35] But this is reality now.

[5:23:37] Any action we take now will make a difference in how prepared we are for future climate change.

[5:23:41] This means we need to fully fund the 2027 update, climate implementation priorities and

[5:23:47] needs to be implemented fast with a clear and rapid timeline.

[5:23:51] I first spoke at a committee meeting when I was 17, and now at 21, here I am again, still

[5:23:57] asking for climate action.

[5:23:59] I'm grateful for the progress that the city has made on climate change, but it is not enough.

[5:24:03] We are not on track to meet our climate, but carbon budget we never have been, and for a

[5:24:08] city that is declared a climate emergency, we really haven't been treating it like one.

[5:24:12] Mayor Annac, you once told me that every decision you would make would be based on climate change,

[5:24:17] but some of the decisions you made so far like your support of Edmonton becoming a military city

[5:24:21] clearly go against this. Adopting this update is an opportunity for you and city council to show us

[5:24:27] that you are serious about climate justice and protecting our futures. I love Edmonton,

[5:24:32] and I want to live in a city that is a leader in climate mitigation and adaptation,

[5:24:37] and that takes care of those who are most vulnerable to climate change. In some,

[5:24:41] We need a motion to make sure the 2027 update climate implementation priorities has a climate

[5:24:46] funding package and that action is scaled up with a rapid timeline. Thank you.

[5:24:51] Thank you very much, Maureen. Call up please.

[5:24:57] Good afternoon everybody. I think I have slides if they can be brought up for me.

[5:25:02] Perfect. We'll get those first before we start your time and then

[5:25:04] Thank you. We've got that activated, so I think they're popping up and we can see them.

[5:25:09] So, when I restart, we'll start your time.

[5:25:12] Thank you.

[5:25:12] I'd good afternoon.

[5:25:13] I'm Maureen Kola, director of Alberta's Electricity Future, an initiative of the Energy

[5:25:17] Futures Lab.

[5:25:18] I'm happy to be here today to illustrate to you how the city of Edmonton's Climate Implementation

[5:25:23] Priorities are one of the electricity systems change that we are advancing.

[5:25:27] Next slide, please.

[5:25:29] The Energy Futures Lab is a nonpartisan, non-profit platform focused on co-creating action

[5:25:35] that can accelerate the energy transition.

[5:25:37] We can gain and align diverse leaders and innovators to focus collective action.

[5:25:43] One of these action areas is modernizing our electricity system.

[5:25:46] Next slide, please.

[5:25:48] Alberta's electricity future has been underway since 2023, and over the last three years

[5:25:53] we've brought together close to 500 people, including traditional electricity voices, black

[5:25:58] government and utilities, and non-traditional voices, like municipalities, indigenous communities,

[5:26:04] consumer groups, solution providers, and equity security groups.

[5:26:08] Having the level of diverse perspectives, Alps Saint-Table has never been achieved before.

[5:26:14] These people have helped us to co-create a system-wide vision for Alberta

[5:26:17] and identify the distribution system as the priority area.

[5:26:21] This is the customer side of the system.

[5:26:24] Next slide, please.

[5:26:25] Guiding our work is our leadership council,

[5:26:28] who represent the diversity of players in the electricity space.

[5:26:32] Next slide, please.

[5:26:32] For us, the work of engaging across Alberta's electricity system has clearly demonstrated

[5:26:38] that climate action and affordability have to move together, but transition only works

[5:26:44] if all customers can afford to participate and benefit.

[5:26:48] We see the critical role when the facilities have to play in grid modernization, and once we

[5:26:53] acknowledge the leadership of Edmonton in this space, it's captured in your climate implementation

[5:26:58] actions.

[5:26:59] Next slide, please.

[5:27:00] Alberta's electricity future has five solutions that we are advancing over the next two years to create a low-carbon, reliable, and affordable grid.

[5:27:10] Two of these solutions focus on stabilizing distribution system costs by enabling energy efficiency and demand-side management programs,

[5:27:18] making electricity more affordable for all customers.

[5:27:21] These are examples of non-wire solutions. Two solutions are targeting low-income folks,

[5:27:26] And one is really enabling more participation within the grade for those with rooftop solar,

[5:27:34] EVs, and batteries.

[5:27:36] Next slide please.

[5:27:37] These solutions align well with the climate implementation actions and activities, particularly

[5:27:42] action-22, so right next slide.

[5:27:45] There you go.

[5:27:46] And next one, 22, as well as action number three.

[5:27:51] We believe that these actions are critical to helping us move forward.

[5:27:56] So finally, in closing, we see a path forward for a low carbon and a affordable electricity system and it needs municipal leadership to be achieved.

[5:28:04] The actions and activities identified in the climate implementation priorities demonstrate that way you ship.

[5:28:09] So we strongly support of this and hope they will be approved. Thank you very much.

[5:28:14] Thank you very much. Our next speaker is Jerry Hoffs. Please go ahead.

[5:28:19] Hello, all. My name is Jerry Hoffs. I'm a member of Scan Edmonton Seniors for Climate Action now.

[5:28:27] I'm not an expert, but I'm a concerned citizen who cares very much about the climate chaos we are experiencing.

[5:28:34] This matters to me because I feel that the most vulnerable of our society such as marginalized people and seniors will take the brunt of what is to come.

[5:28:42] The story is happening. It is the way we react to the story that will really matter.

[5:28:47] We must reach out to members of our communities in order to plan next steps to work together to ensure

[5:28:53] that everyone is cared for and no one is left behind. City Council is a very important part of the community.

[5:29:00] I'm very concerned that the Climate Committee was abolished and wonder what it's in its place.

[5:29:05] Scan supports and wishes to see the continuation of programs such as route for trees,

[5:29:11] Clean Energy Improvement Program, Edmonton Sustainable.

[5:29:14] We would like to see more solar, especially a balcony and rooftop solar,

[5:29:20] which is very effective and widely used in Europe.

[5:29:24] We require public reporting on the implementation of funding and outcomes decisions by council

[5:29:29] must be made with life-cost analysis, which takes into account all of the benefits and all of the costs to be considered.

[5:29:38] I'm asking the Executive Committee to direct the City Manager and senior admin to identify the funding required,

[5:29:45] establish implementation timelines, measure progress, and report publicly on the City's Climate Priority Actions.

[5:29:53] The time for talk is over. Insurance companies are cautioning that the damage caused by climate change is

[5:30:00] Not only confined to isolated incidents, it also presents a systemic danger to the financial system as a whole.

[5:30:08] Edmonton Edit announced that the city is looking at $42 million in counting in an uninsurable cost.

[5:30:15] This does not even touch what homeowners are going to be expected to pay.

[5:30:19] The city should approve initiatives such as the one that the FCL and EcoTrust are proposing to explore the feasibility of equipping community leagues with the resources equipment processes and training necessary to function as safe spaces during times of extreme weather power outages and days with poor quality.

[5:30:41] Working with community leagues is also an effective method of utilizing labor and existing

[5:30:46] building infrastructure to achieve important goals.

[5:30:50] This will have the potential to mitigate health risks, particularly for vulnerable populations,

[5:30:56] such as children, elderly individuals, the unhoused and those with pre-existing conditions.

[5:31:02] It would be fiscally irresponsible to kick this down the road and force the impacts of the

[5:31:11] residents, focusing on climate change is pain out or pain more later. The last thing I want

[5:31:18] to say is why am I always asking city, the city employees who are driving trucks, all

[5:31:23] are going to be there.

[5:31:24] I'm sorry to have to catch up there. We are turning their vehicles off.

[5:31:28] Next, thank you, though. Heather McKenzie is last on this panel. Please go ahead.

[5:31:34] Hello, my name is Heather McKenzie, and I'm the Executive Director of Solar Alberta. I'm here

[5:31:39] to date speak about the updated climate implementation priorities.

[5:31:43] So we are broadly supportive of the actions that are outlined

[5:31:46] but we do see significant room for improvement.

[5:31:49] The improvements that we would like to see

[5:31:51] with respect to the action items specifically include

[5:31:55] the addition of a commitment to the continuation

[5:31:58] of the clean energy improvement program

[5:32:01] and the addition of a commitment to install solar

[5:32:04] at city facilities wherever possible.

[5:32:06] We're also extremely concerned that 129 million of the estimated cost for these action items

[5:32:14] is not tied to any planned budget request or existing budget.

[5:32:19] Plans for climate action without the funds to pay for them make this process before you

[5:32:25] seem futile. Plans without funds also significantly undermine your ability to achieve your

[5:32:31] reduction targets. Additionally, there is no clear timeline for implementation of the Action

[5:32:38] items. We have already experienced a three-year delay on the promised solar-ready borough,

[5:32:45] which suggests that stronger accountability mechanisms are badly needed when it comes to

[5:32:51] implementation, and I don't just mean more and more reporting. On the delays. Lastly, we are concerned

[5:32:58] that work being done in other departments of the city's administration is sometimes at odds with the actions outlined here.

[5:33:06] For example, the infrastructure committee is advancing a new climate resilience policy, but includes a new focus on ensuring a positive return on investments.

[5:33:16] As outlined in the report, the committee received for information last week, this new policy direction enables the city to ignore buildings that are heavy emitters

[5:33:26] Walking in high emissions for the lifetime of the building,

[5:33:31] poor, downloading significant retrofit costs onto future

[5:33:34] and Italians, just to save a few dollars today.

[5:33:39] The new climate resilience policy also makes no mention of the solar

[5:33:43] ready by-law, which is referenced in the update you are

[5:33:45] contemplating today, and which you have been told for a number of years

[5:33:50] is under development. This council has given multiple mandates

[5:33:54] for administration to be ambitious when it comes to taking climate action both with respect to

[5:34:00] adaptation and emission reductions. However, we continue to see a misalignment between different

[5:34:06] city departments, a significant lack of resource and significant delays on this front.

[5:34:13] A time for climate action is now and we ask that these action items and more are executed without further delay.

[5:34:20] Thank you. Thank you very much and that's our first panel. So for those which are there any questions for first panel

[5:34:27] Councillor Tang you'd like to please go ahead. Yeah, great. Thank you very much for for everybody.

[5:34:33] Everyone's patience and speaking.

[5:34:37] I think a lens that I'm going to be taking with this particular report is really around partnerships. So maybe I'll start there.

[5:34:45] And I'll start with Mike, because ECO trust is something that city funds, so we have an

[5:34:51] MOU.

[5:34:52] I am the Council of Appointed Representative on your Innovation Fund Advisory Committee.

[5:34:58] You have mentioned that you have a program that generates every $6 to every $1 that city

[5:35:07] invested.

[5:35:09] Like, what is that?

[5:35:10] And I think that was related to buildings.

[5:35:12] Can you walk us through how the leverage actually works?

[5:35:18] And can you repeat that larger scale?

[5:35:22] Short answer to that last part is yes.

[5:35:24] That is how we operate, essentially, for every dollar

[5:35:28] from the city of Edmonton, we're able to crowd

[5:35:31] in investment from other levels of government,

[5:35:35] philanthropic sources, and corporate donations.

[5:35:37] I've already equitressed as a relied on that model for over 35 years now.

[5:35:42] That particular program that I mentioned in my speaking notes is the Mission's

[5:35:46] Neutral Buildings Information Exchange, which is an industry-supported capacity building

[5:35:53] organization with peer-to-peer learning resources and how to build better and higher-performing

[5:35:58] buildings.

[5:35:59] So we work very closely with build and the construction association and just not to help industry

[5:36:05] helping industry build better. And we do get a six to one right now leverage on that and that's

[5:36:11] crowding in corporate dollars as well as philanthropic sources and other levels of government,

[5:36:14] including the federal government. On our grant program, which I was really excited that a few

[5:36:19] people mentioned today, we put out approximately $2 million a year into the ecosystem for

[5:36:25] non-for profits and charitable organizations to receive funding from us. That program actually

[5:36:31] leverage is around nine to twelve dollars in additional leverage, again, and that's from philanthropic

[5:36:36] sources, corporate donations, and other contributions.

[5:36:40] How do you, well, given all those programs,

[5:36:48] are those the mech, because you also mentioned

[5:36:50] some of the actions, I think you said action three is missing the how and the what, but like

[5:36:55] is that what's missing the mechanism that you're just describing right now?

[5:37:00] Yeah, I think the bottom line are just the details on that. Who's delivering it? What's the sector?

[5:37:07] What are the expected outcomes? I suspect that administration has that it's just not detailed. Yes,

[5:37:12] Report and you know, delivery agents like ourselves can certainly assist in

[5:37:17] doing those kinds of incentive and grant programs. Again, we have 35 years of grant making

[5:37:22] The expertise behind us. Great. Thank you. I don't have much time, but I mean, I'll just start the question and

[5:37:28] Thank you very much.

[5:37:29] Thank you very much.

[5:37:30] Second, yes. For the folks from the community leagues, because others have also mentioned the community's role in resilience hub.

[5:37:37] I think west of a question, but I was, I was really glad to hear about your role and then this is a particular piece in the action plan.

[5:37:50] Because in the, in the, I'm thinking about like in extreme weather conditions, our

[5:37:55] rec centers are that resilience hub. Like what is, I guess, when communities

[5:38:01] convert to these resilience hubs, do you have data around like uptake? I think Erin,

[5:38:06] you were talking about that a bit?

[5:38:11] Yes, right. Now we're just in the really preliminary

[5:38:13] stages of this. So our graph that we have at the moment is to help understand what

[5:38:19] processes and procedures would need to be in place to make community leak facilities, be able

[5:38:26] to act as these spaces for vulnerable community members.

[5:38:30] We've had a lot of community leaks who have come up with the idea organically on their own

[5:38:34] and then found out that the Green League's program is, you know, pursuing this idea as well.

[5:38:40] So we have about 30 community leaks who are interested and wishing to take part in the focus

[5:38:47] group session and then we hope that we'll be able to organize a pilot to actually

[5:38:53] put this program into action and see what needs to happen to make it work here.

[5:38:59] Okay, so it's a bit more premature.

[5:39:02] I thought I got a message for you that it was a four year in the running.

[5:39:06] It's a program four years in pleasure.

[5:39:11] Well, if, you know, the hubs project, we started this past January, I believe so yeah, it's pretty new this one.

[5:39:20] Okay, thank you.

[5:39:23] Do you counselors at Salvador?

[5:39:24] Yeah, thank you so much.

[5:39:25] I mean,

[5:39:30] Heather, Mike and Annabella all referenced it.

[5:39:34] So, whoever wants to go, but my questions around just timelines for implementation.

[5:39:38] And just this port accountability and follow through that was one thing that I had questions

[5:39:43] about in the last of our administration as well.

[5:39:47] But what would your expectations be around that next step to ensure that there's clear

[5:39:51] schedules, timelines, and outcomes tied to this work?

[5:39:58] I guess I could jump it, but you know, I think a detailed implementation plan I think would

[5:40:03] be required to understand the accountability framework here, the more consistent reporting

[5:40:09] and that public disclosure of that. I know it does happen. I wouldn't criticize the administration

[5:40:14] for not trying to do that. But as we can see, we're not achieving our targets. 88 of the

[5:40:21] actions in the last go around, I think I got that right, I've been completed or started,

[5:40:26] but yet we're still on achieving our targets. So there needs to be some kind of adaptive

[5:40:29] management built into this in accountability framework. That's really clear, I think, to civil society

[5:40:34] as well, not just the administration in council.

[5:40:38] Thank you.

[5:40:40] Heather, or Annabella, do you have anything on that front?

[5:40:43] Do you like to add?

[5:40:47] I think she's going to be half of Heather.

[5:40:49] Can't see who has to bind to it as an actual appointment.

[5:40:51] That's okay.

[5:40:53] Go ahead.

[5:40:54] If that's okay.

[5:40:57] They're going to be in the part of the next panel.

[5:41:00] I know it's sort of weird.

[5:41:02] Yeah.

[5:41:02] Let's wait for the next panel.

[5:41:06] And about anything on your front-around accountability follow-through and just having a more detailed implementation plan.

[5:41:16] Maybe they're not online.

[5:41:18] Okay.

[5:41:18] That's fine.

[5:41:19] I'll follow through with some of those questions of administration.

[5:41:22] But just a different line of questioning to Jason.

[5:41:27] Talk to me more about district-level carbon budgeting and what that might look like.

[5:41:32] Sure.

[5:41:33] Well, I think one would have to approach it very carefully

[5:41:36] in terms of how one looks at designing these districts and integrating mode shifts, integrating

[5:41:43] overall protocols for methodologies for accounting for GHG emissions in the process, whether

[5:41:50] it's through area structure plans or other statutory plans and authorization processes,

[5:41:56] it would probably mean significant changes to the city's planning and approval processes

[5:42:02] in that way. But there's various methodologies out there that have been worked on over

[5:42:08] the years. And I think that's kind of what that opportunity lies there to investigate

[5:42:14] that more under overall district pieces.

[5:42:17] Great. Yeah. Thank you for that. Definitely a point of interest. For me, we have a district

[5:42:23] model that's built into our planning framework already. But I think strengthening the

[5:42:29] Carme budget lens on top of that could be really really interesting. So thank you for that point

[5:42:33] Thank you very much. Those are all the questions for this panel. So you're all welcome to grab your seats

[5:42:38] And we're gonna bring up the next panel here again if you hear your name called in your in person

[5:42:43] Please come on down our clerk's will get you settled in if you're online just please unmute yourself to let us know that you're here and then meet yourself until your turn

[5:42:50] first up it will be Taylor kid

[5:42:54] This here. Yeah in person

[5:42:57] Miriam jettelete is next

[5:43:01] Miriam

[5:43:05] now at the moment Olivia car

[5:43:11] Olivia

[5:43:14] No, yeah Catherine Joel

[5:43:17] Thank you, pre king. We know is here and we'll be part of this panel

[5:43:24] Genica Kirkland

[5:43:29] Genica

[5:43:32] Not yet, okay

[5:43:35] Sarah killer or killer. Thanks you come on down

[5:43:40] Shree House Check. I think it's online. Shree House.

[5:43:46] Shree House. Shree House.

[5:43:48] Shree House, Shree House, Shree.

[5:43:51] Samantha Brun.

[5:43:54] And here.

[5:43:54] Thank you. They're online.

[5:43:56] I love Santa Coc.

[5:43:59] Is here? Yep.

[5:44:02] You can jot sing.

[5:44:09] You can jot sing.

[5:44:13] Rebecca Pinto.

[5:44:18] Rebecca Pinto.

[5:44:21] Jason Wayne.

[5:44:26] Jason Wayne.

[5:44:35] Delahi. Yes, come on down.

[5:44:41] I think someone's been keeping track of how many we had.

[5:44:44] I think we've missing at least six or seven, so I can probably keep calling.

[5:44:50] So I'm just doing a quick tally.

[5:44:53] How many do you have?

[5:44:55] We have space for four more. Okay. Julia Tran.

[5:45:00] I think was here for our first item, not sure if they're here for our second as well.

[5:45:07] No, Angelina deon Hoffman,

[5:45:14] Angelina deon Hoffman,

[5:45:19] you know, Eric Arthur,

[5:45:24] I think Arthur, sorry.

[5:45:25] No, no worries at all. Thank you for a minute there we go next will be Triston Dell

[5:45:32] Triston is here in the room. Okay, great

[5:45:36] Christy Jackson,

[5:45:42] Christy Jackson,

[5:45:48] be busy.

[5:45:52] Yeah, I'm here President. Thank you

[5:45:54] I'm realizing since we have a lot of space in chambers. I'm going to just keep calling because until we fill up the in person

[5:46:00] We can I can just go through and do all the virtual. So

[5:46:03] Simpar,

[5:46:08] Simpar,

[5:46:12] Melanie Hoffman,

[5:46:17] Melanie Hoffman,

[5:46:23] Beth Zubot,

[5:46:27] Beth Zubot,

[5:46:31] Emily Hayes.

[5:46:38] Oh, I had someone who just unmuted with just the letter K associated to them. Is that somebody in this panel?

[5:46:46] Okay, we'll just go to Cassarna, Norena.

[5:46:53] Yeah, I'm here, Virto.

[5:46:54] Thank you.

[5:46:55] J. McKenna.

[5:47:00] J. McKenna.

[5:47:03] Julia May.

[5:47:06] Here.

[5:47:07] Thank you very much.

[5:47:08] Sarah Juvenville.

[5:47:11] Here in person?

[5:47:12] Yep, perfect. Hello.

[5:47:14] Jenna, Jenna, Jenna, par.

[5:47:16] Or par.

[5:47:21] Jenna, par, or Jenna, par.

[5:47:22] Is

[5:47:34] the Denko? I believe it's I know I know I know I know I don't know if I said Leonard's last name very regularly so Leonard

[5:47:42] No

[5:47:44] Kennedy Daniels Peterson

[5:47:50] Kennedy Daniels Peterson from Elbritton's parents protecting public learning and education

[5:48:02] Separate a Montefour Montefar here. Thank you. I think a lot of these people think they're in next panels and not right now

[5:48:10] I'll be calling them again at the end of all of this so so once once I've called this group

[5:48:15] I'll we'll do this panel, and then I'll call again for anyone who wasn't present

[5:48:19] Okay, that way we get everyone still

[5:48:25] SAVAHA NOVA,

[5:48:30] SAVAHA NOVA,

[5:48:34] Clurissa, ATANSA,

[5:48:38] here on mine. Thank you Jonathan Lawrence

[5:48:44] Thank you, and Reonan Shaf.

[5:48:49] And we had one other speaker who had registered, we haven't moved them yet, but Colissa liked

[5:49:00] Colissa.

[5:49:04] Okay, I'll still take a motion to add them just so we have them to the list.

[5:49:08] You want to move that?

[5:49:09] Thank you, please vote to add them to the speaker's list.

[5:49:16] I would also like to know that I am here, it's ever easy for me.

[5:49:20] Thank you very much, Beth.

[5:49:22] Have I really, for flag nuts?

[5:49:24] We do have all of them.

[5:49:25] Thank you, please display the vote.

[5:49:28] That is carried forward as zero.

[5:49:30] So again, what we'll do, we'll go through this list.

[5:49:33] Anyone who wasn't here when we called, no problem at all,

[5:49:35] we'll call again.

[5:49:36] Just thought, since we had a number of in person spots free,

[5:49:40] we might as well just keep going through.

[5:49:43] I was not marking it down, so I'm going to need that

[5:49:45] the speakers list of who I, who is here and who's wasn't here yet, so.

[5:49:51] We'll update it as we go here.

[5:49:52] Thank you.

[5:49:53] So it was Taylor, Kid.

[5:49:54] I believe it's the first, and please go ahead.

[5:50:01] Sorry, we'll get you to turn on your mic and then you'll be ready to go.

[5:50:04] Please go ahead.

[5:50:04] Hello, counselors.

[5:50:05] My name is Taylor Kid.

[5:50:06] I am a student.

[5:50:08] I come to you today on the first day of class.

[5:50:10] I did not go to class today because I believe that investing in my future will be irrelevant

[5:50:14] if there's no future to look forward to.

[5:50:16] Climate change is the most pressing issue of our lifetimes.

[5:50:20] Next year, 2027, we are facing a super El Niño weather pattern that has been raising

[5:50:24] alarms in the climate science community.

[5:50:27] The impacts of this increased warming will affect our food and water supply, as well as

[5:50:30] results in natural disasters throughout the globe.

[5:50:33] We have seen what happened in Nepal, over 5,000 people dead or missing.

[5:50:38] That disaster was the result of a glacier collapsing under rising temperatures.

[5:50:42] Net zero by 2050 is not enough. We are facing upwards of 1.5 degrees by then. I come

[5:50:48] to you today to urge you to take dramatic action to protect our communities for these

[5:50:52] coming changes. I am outraged that the budget of the 2027 climate priorities is being debated.

[5:50:58] I ask that this committee provide the full 257 million dollars in funding with clear timelines

[5:51:03] to prepare us for our uncertain future. Those of my generation feel terrified, hopeless,

[5:51:12] and

[5:51:12] A city council dedicated to climate action could be a lot of hope we need.

[5:51:16] Thank you for your time.

[5:51:18] Thank you very much. Next was Maryam Jalini.

[5:51:28] Are they not over the really on my list?

[5:51:31] Olivia Carr was not yet here, I don't think.

[5:51:36] Okay. Catherine Joel.

[5:51:42] Hi. Thank you, Maryam.

[5:51:44] I can members of the Executive Committee for the opportunity to speak today.

[5:51:47] My name is Katherine Joel. I've lived in Edmonton since 2009. I'm a homeowner in Edmonton's

[5:51:54] Drathcona and a small business owner and employer in Edmonton's Center. Our plan is an

[5:51:59] requirement emergency. In our province and city, this is now a festive itself in fires, smoke,

[5:52:06] excessive rainfall and flooding. I'm really grateful for Edmonton City Council's 2019 decision

[5:52:11] to declare a climate emergency in our city. Now it's imperative for our city council to follow

[5:52:17] through on its declaration of an emergency by identifying the funding to implement its 27 climate

[5:52:23] priority actions. I urge the Executive Committee to direct a administration to identify

[5:52:30] By the cost of implementing these priorities, clearly identify existing funding and funding gaps and bring forward the funding required through the budget process. As a tax pay on Edmonton, I hope to see my tax dollars used in addressing the effects of the climate emergency in our city. We are all experiencing the effects of climate change now, care and around the globe. I urge the executive committee to take urgent action into ensure the rapid implementation of its climate priority actions,

[5:52:59] before it is too late. Thank you for your time.

[5:53:03] Thank you very much. I did see that Miriam did join us online, so I'm just going to go back to Miriam, so we don't lose our place too much.

[5:53:10] Miriam, please go ahead. You have three minutes.

[5:53:13] Yeah, thank you. I just want to keep it short. I want to ask the executive committee to direct that administration to clear targets and timelines for achieving emissions reduction and adaptation measures.

[5:53:27] In most targets and report laid out alongside funding strategy that also includes how the

[5:53:35] it is implemented to close the 199 million gap, so this currently part of that report

[5:53:41] and how this will fit within the upcoming budget.

[5:53:46] My name is NIME TALLELY.

[5:53:48] I work as an architect here in Admitone, my work focuses on that's your energy, vision, buildings

[5:53:53] across our data, Alberta, and it's an important matter.

[5:53:57] subject to my work, as well as myself living here in Edmonton for the last 12 years, it's affecting

[5:54:05] Edmonton in his house, homes and daily lives, and the report shows that there's a lot of

[5:54:14] time and effort put into what to do, but there are no cave targets, then or how it will be

[5:54:20] implemented and a clear plan without a schedule and unsecured funding is very easy to slow down

[5:54:29] and without anyone ever having to say no it'll just disappear.

[5:54:34] So the report also states that this will have an important economic output to Edmonton

[5:54:44] And we'll affect the economic output from Edmonton by 2040, possibly to approximately $2.7 billion annually.

[5:54:55] So we're not fixing the problem now by reducing some of the costs that are need to be implemented now,

[5:55:06] but we're just making the issue even more urgent. Thank you.

[5:55:13] Thank you very much. Next is Preet King. Please go ahead.

[5:55:18] Thank you very much. Under that. Good afternoon.

[5:55:21] And thank you for the opportunity to speak. My name is Preet King.

[5:55:23] And I'm the Network Director for Energy Transition with the Alberta Environmental Network.

[5:55:28] A hand works with environmental organizations, community groups, and algorithms who want to participate in

[5:55:32] decisions affecting our environment and communities.

[5:55:35] We report before you identify as 27 priority action. That is important work.

[5:55:39] When a list of priorities is not yet an implementation plan, and the report gets us a much

[5:55:45] clear picture of the implementation challenge.

[5:55:47] The reviewing all 27 priorities is estimated to require approximately $2.5 million.

[5:55:53] About $5 billion can be accommodated with an existing budget, while approximately $129 million

[5:55:58] currently has low-planned or existing funding source.

[5:56:01] That is more as small implementation detail as a significant gap between the Edmonton

[5:56:06] has identified as a priority and what it currently has upon to deliver.

[5:56:10] As council moves into the 2020 budget, Edmund's home easy to know, what will be funded

[5:56:15] when what happened, who is responsible for delivering it, how will success be measured and

[5:56:20] what is applied for the actions that currently have no funding pathway.

[5:56:24] I also welcome the move from Edmund's credit budget to a broader credit budget.

[5:56:28] A credit budget has helped council understand the emissions implications of financial decisions.

[5:56:32] The new climate budget can go further by incorporating both emissions and climate resilience

[5:56:37] in the budget decision-making.

[5:56:39] But ultimately, that tool makes to help translate climate objectives into actual decisions

[5:56:43] about resources and implementation.

[5:56:45] Seep is one concrete example of why that matters.

[5:56:48] Seep allows a hint of property owners to find this energy efficiency and renewable energy

[5:56:52] improvements to the property taxes.

[5:56:54] The city knows that the program is nearing capacity and new prequalifications submissions

[5:56:58] are being placed on a weight list.

[5:57:00] That tells us of being very important, and the told us are using these programs, they're

[5:57:05] a demand for practical ways to participate in the energy transition.

[5:57:09] When a successful climate program reaches capacity, the questions should be how we sustain

[5:57:14] and scale that is working, not whether the residents are interested.

[5:57:17] So my message to you is simple.

[5:57:19] Find it, schedule it, measure it, report on it.

[5:57:21] I'm asking exactly what you need to do to provide clear direction to senior administration

[5:57:25] and facility manager to bring forward a funded time-bound measurable and publicly accountable.

[5:57:30] institutions on it for all 27 climate priorities, for the 2020-2030 budget process, including

[5:57:36] a pathway for addressing the proxy at the 120-29 million, but certainly has no identified funding

[5:57:42] source. That means identifying resources, timelines and responsibility for delivery, it means using

[5:57:46] the budget climate budget to show how it does its contribute to every since climate and

[5:57:50] other things. And it means you're calling publicly understanding, implementation, and outcomes.

[5:57:55] I think some has been the work of identifying the priorities. The question now is whether Council

[5:57:58] So create the condition and let the place deliver them.

[5:58:01] Climate priority is ignore the approvals they need implementation.

[5:58:05] Thank you very much and I'm happy to answer questions later.

[5:58:07] Thank you very much.

[5:58:08] I'll just confirm, Jenna Kirkland was not here, I think, originally and just confirming

[5:58:14] still not Sarah Keller.

[5:58:22] All right, thank you members of the Executive Committee.

[5:58:25] So my name is Sarah Keller and I have a doctorate in urban and regional planning and for

[5:58:30] last six years I've been a researcher at the University of Alberta's Climate Adaptation and

[5:58:35] Resilience Lab. My research focuses on the decisions that governments make in addressing

[5:58:41] climate risk. So I'm here today in support of this updated climate implementation priorities.

[5:58:47] We are already experiencing the impacts of climate change and risks are growing. The consequences

[5:58:52] are facing those impacts on prepared our catastrophic. My research and others has repeatedly shown

[5:58:58] that municipalities are somehow in the best and worst place to address climate change.

[5:59:04] You are closest to the people in places at risk.

[5:59:07] You understand local impacts and you have planning infrastructure and regulatory tools

[5:59:12] to actually implement real change.

[5:59:14] Yet at the same time, you need to balance competing priorities on certainty and limited budgets

[5:59:19] in external support.

[5:59:21] There are many urgent problems demanding attention that can make proactive climate action

[5:59:24] difficult to prioritize.

[5:59:25] But climate action is already one of those urgent problems, and proactive local actions is one of the most feasible and cost-effective ways we have to limit climate risk.

[5:59:35] Today, marginalized communities are already by the brunt of inaction, living with discrimination, inequity, and greater exposure to climate hazards.

[5:59:43] Tomorrow, the consequences of delay compound costs rise in infrastructure deteriorates and areas that were once relatively safe become hazardous.

[5:59:51] More importantly, when we delay any action, we don't just accept greater risk today.

[5:59:55] We narrow our options for tomorrow when climate

[6:00:00] The impact force us into reactive decisions, our choices are often limited and more expensive, and actions take

[6:00:06] itself one immediate crisis can then amplify a new risk, or create new vulnerabilities of the long term.

[6:00:12] This is malad adaptation, when an action intended to reduce climate risk unintentionally makes the problem worse.

[6:00:18] An avoiding it is one of the strongest arguments for proactive measures.

[6:00:22] Edmonton communities need decisive effect of action today, and to these twenty twenty-seven priorities

[6:00:27] before you, include exactly the kinds of measures that can build long-term adaptive capacity.

[6:00:32] These are not really climate actions that ask us to make sacrifices for an uncertain benefit decades

[6:00:37] turnout. They actually make Edmonton better today. They will improve mobility, infrastructure,

[6:00:43] neighborhoods, and natural systems, while building up the system to withstand future stressors.

[6:00:48] Maintaining this momentum is imperative, and I urge you to support this update and continue

[6:00:52] moving Edmonton from planning to action. Thank you.

[6:00:56] Thank you very much. Next is Sherry Husschuk.

[6:01:02] They're online, I thought. Yes, please go ahead.

[6:01:10] You are on the call.

[6:01:11] Thank you, the caller.

[6:01:11] Go ahead. Sorry. Now we can hear you. Go ahead.

[6:01:15] Thank you, councillors.

[6:01:16] at Manac and Administration and Federation of the Republic Service, and getting

[6:01:21] editing in the broader public, the opportunities to share a view on the member of the

[6:01:27] California and the infrastructure.

[6:01:30] I encourage all of you to support and submit a motion to the Administration by the

[6:01:46] the climate implementation plan.

[6:01:49] Again, my name is Sherry.

[6:01:51] I'm in support of the climate implementation plan with a number of caveats.

[6:01:56] I went to the theme in February 2021 over five years ago,

[6:02:01] but it allows you to pass an approved and potentially impact

[6:02:03] to the city of Amazon as well.

[6:02:06] And the preservative you could ask from the administration,

[6:02:09] which I learned about, in response to developing a headmark protection strategy

[6:02:13] for the city of Amazon in a larger scale,

[6:02:15] by including any of the water-collect strategies that are currently available, and primarily

[6:02:20] for action-80s to develop and implement those in a great case of structural.

[6:02:25] We are going to water future projects that have been given in response to identified as

[6:02:28] up future risks that may affect our products, water, management, and then in fact, then

[6:02:33] as that, the readiness of the system to respond to those emerging challenges and future risks.

[6:02:38] As they have been very influential with the summer, there are any other issues of more

[6:02:43] and we are discussing the impacts in our drinking water.

[6:02:47] On the, if these terms, so we're seeing a month of opportunity to investigate what

[6:02:52] the treatment, I understand water being accountable.

[6:02:55] I would appreciate that when we consider how we would protect the value of the use of those

[6:03:00] that there would be included.

[6:03:02] Um, compensation for feedback and support for water.

[6:03:06] There are many issues related to regulations also regarding treatment and the treatment

[6:03:11] and the changes well explained by a number of the previous speakers.

[6:03:18] If you need part in the city,

[6:03:19] you could benefit post-according non-profit,

[6:03:21] such as Canadian Weeks,

[6:03:23] and to create, create, account, and currency coverage,

[6:03:25] is effective and other than that.

[6:03:27] Canadian Park, ARP is a neighborhood that

[6:03:30] structure queries required support.

[6:03:33] Provided that the other zones,

[6:03:34] you have historically created the ways

[6:03:36] that are not content as early as to be adapted to content change.

[6:03:39] I would like to count for us to update administration for more information on the supplemental energy transition strategy, which I need to help put forth to you and many of the neighborhoods, like the one I need in.

[6:03:51] This is also a nature-based solution for what the fostered investment in natural carbon storage is based on the connection nature.

[6:03:57] This could include by the property treatment and a conservation off that program,

[6:04:02] the two to the purpose of the policy that it did, that is critical coverage of our

[6:04:06] tradition project.

[6:04:07] This is not a draft from the current adjustment, but above the amount, for the hundreds, for

[6:04:11] your money, it could be better.

[6:04:13] I want to thank the council.

[6:04:14] For the property, it's going to be better if you have any questions.

[6:04:17] Thank you very much.

[6:04:18] Next is Samantha Vurn.

[6:04:22] Hello, Mayor and members of Council.

[6:04:25] Thank you for the opportunity to speak today.

[6:04:26] My name is Samantha, and I am the Network Coordinator at the Alberta Environmental Network.

[6:04:32] I'm also fortunate to have lived in Edmonton on Treaty 6 Territory for the past 10 years.

[6:04:37] First, as a university student, and now as a young person, beginning my career.

[6:04:42] I'm here today to ask the Executive Committee to direct senior administration to develop a clear implementation timeline for the city's 2027 climate implementation priorities,

[6:04:53] and bring forward a funding package that fully funds all 27 priorities.

[6:04:59] What makes Edmonton feel like home to me is the ability to move through my neighborhood, spend time in the river valley and outdoor areas,

[6:05:07] gather with my community and feel safe and connected to the place where I live.

[6:05:12] But this summer has shown us how climate change is threatening, not only those experiences, but the health and safety of our city's residents.

[6:05:20] Increasing temperatures, wildfire smoke, severe storms, flooding and drought are already affecting

[6:05:27] how we live, move through an enjoy our city. These are not distant or abstract climate impacts,

[6:05:33] they are real, they are urgent, and they are not felt equally. People who are most vulnerable,

[6:05:40] particularly those facing housing and financial insecurity and barriers to social supports,

[6:05:44] are already and will continue to experience the greatest harms. I recognize that the

[6:05:50] has put forward 27 actions as part of its climate implementation priorities.

[6:05:55] This is an important step, but priorities without funding and a clear timeline are only

[6:06:00] intentions.

[6:06:01] And as attachment to shows, the city is already not on track to meet our emissions targets.

[6:06:07] That's why I'm asking the Executive Committee to direct senior administration

[6:06:10] to provide and publicly report on a clear funding package and implementation timeline

[6:06:16] for all 27 actions identified in the updated 2027 climate implementation priorities.

[6:06:23] Actions like advancing climate resilient community planning, expanding the active transportation network,

[6:06:28] supporting effective resilience hubs, and implementing renewable energy strategies will make evidence safer,

[6:06:34] healthier, and more resilient while improving quality of life for our community.

[6:06:39] But these actions will not succeed without resources, planning, and accountability.

[6:06:44] I'm grateful to live here, and I feel I owe it to the city to advocate for a climate plan that protects its natural spaces and its residents.

[6:06:52] So I urge you to ensure that the 2027 climate implementation priorities come with clear timelines, transparent reporting, and the funding necessary to deliver them.

[6:07:01] Thank you very much.

[6:07:02] Thank you very much.

[6:07:03] Next up is Iowa's Centercock.

[6:07:08] Hello, my name is Isla Sandercock, and I am a student at the University of Alberta.

[6:07:12] I have lived in Edmonton my entire life.

[6:07:15] I urge this committee to ask for full funding from the Administration for the 2027 updated climate

[6:07:20] implementation priorities and all actions within.

[6:07:24] Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing us and our future generations,

[6:07:28] and may do irreparable damage to our city.

[6:07:32] The items inside the proposal are vital to slowing and eventually ending man-made climate change.

[6:07:39] On top of reducing risk through mitigative and adaptive measures, they also have wonderful shorter-term social and economic benefits.

[6:07:48] One good example is action 3. Action 3 in part calls for incentives and subsidies to aid in increasing energy efficiency of buildings.

[6:07:56] Under these incentives and subsidies, alongside lowering greenhouse gas output largely through

[6:08:01] efficient energy consumption, households and businesses will be able to lower their

[6:08:05] own utility bills and create more comfortable spaces.

[6:08:09] I live in a house which was retrofitted in the past few years in part funded by Edmonton's

[6:08:14] Clean Energy Improvement Program.

[6:08:16] A few of the changes made in this retrofit were better insulation in the walls, more insulative

[6:08:20] windows and an air source heat pump.

[6:08:22] This reduces energy consumption due to a better heat seal, particularly around the windows,

[6:08:27] which lowers environmental impact.

[6:08:30] This also creates a much more pleasant indoor environment during both hot and cold days, without

[6:08:34] the need for a portable air conditioning unit.

[6:08:37] When temperatures do swing, our air source heat pump allows high efficiency climate control.

[6:08:42] Whereas once intolerable to occupy the top floor of our home due to high summer temperatures

[6:08:46] it is now perfectly comfortable, our basement once frigid in the winter is now usable the

[6:08:51] your round. Better internal climate control is becoming significantly more important as the global

[6:08:57] climate shift to hotter summers and harsher winters. I highly believe this type of building

[6:09:02] improvement opportunity should be extended to more household and businesses in the city,

[6:09:07] including as this action would allow those who may not be able to afford the upfront cost

[6:09:12] who are also often those who need it most. Action 3 is only one action out of the 27 included in

[6:09:19] proposal. However, every other action

[6:09:21] performed in this updated climate

[6:09:23] implementation priorities also

[6:09:25] has direct benefits for

[6:09:26] Edmontonians on top of their climate

[6:09:28] benefits.

[6:09:31] Every one of these actions is necessary

[6:09:32] to start moving toward a safer

[6:09:34] more equitable Edmonton.

[6:09:36] I implore the executive community to

[6:09:38] call on the administration to fully

[6:09:40] fund all actions within this proposal.

[6:09:43] Thank you for your time.

[6:09:45] Thank you very much. I believe

[6:09:47] our next speaker, who originally wasn't here, it's, uh,

[6:09:50] I come John Singh, or you come John Singh, is he here?

[6:09:53] Yep, I'm here, yeah, yeah, thank you so much, three minutes.

[6:09:58] Yep, thanks so much, and sorry for being late, I was at work.

[6:10:03] I'm a student at the University of Alberta, I'm originally from India.

[6:10:07] I moved to Edmonton four years ago.

[6:10:11] I'm choosing to speak, even as an international student,

[6:10:14] who is currently not even an admit that was in turning in Calgary and BVAC, so,

[6:10:19] because this conflict really hits home to me, especially the climate change. I have seen

[6:10:24] the consequences of complacency, and neglect the regards to these items in my home country.

[6:10:34] My home state are floods for two continuous years or the last three years, and right now this time

[6:10:41] as an agriculture-dependent state, we as 30% less rain.

[6:10:45] That's not normally for us.

[6:10:47] That's not really near.

[6:10:49] That's not the normal climate.

[6:10:51] I have seen what neglect has led to.

[6:10:55] And that same complacency on neglect,

[6:10:57] I am seeing in the place I currently call room,

[6:11:00] which is Edmonton.

[6:11:02] The treason points this down.

[6:11:05] They are stunning, they're amazing.

[6:11:06] But without adequate funding and communication,

[6:11:10] they won't need to anything. They are just good lines on a piece of paper, they're no

[6:11:16] different to the species of your words since the last 20 years. So I request that when

[6:11:24] this passes, administration continuously provides updates to the public regarding the

[6:11:29] progress made, maybe in a press memo or release or document whatever whatever is deemed

[6:11:35] appropriate and this is very important because we have cars outside the city which want

[6:11:41] to influence the city's decision-making ability and to avoid the influence meaning the

[6:11:46] public to be informed on what the impact of this policy is and how the progress is

[6:11:52] leading to positive future. Thank you. Thank you very much. Our next speaker I'll just double check

[6:11:59] They weren't originally a Rebecca Pinto,

[6:12:03] either in person or online, no.

[6:12:06] Jason Wayne.

[6:12:11] Okay. Next was Laura Delahi. Please, guys.

[6:12:18] Kate, my name is Laura, Edmonton Residence.

[6:12:19] I'm here to urge you to move forward with the climate action you've already identified.

[6:12:23] The priorities, targets, necessary measures are already quite clear.

[6:12:26] We need to see funding timelines, accountability put into place.

[6:12:29] Two related anecdotes. A few years ago during a rainy Edmonton summer,

[6:12:32] the basement in my 50s era bungalow flooded and it was damped down there could have taken measures,

[6:12:36] but I ignored the warnings, I found myself vacuuming up more than a foot of water,

[6:12:40] ripping up molding insulation framing drywall as best as tile. I obeyed the framing and

[6:12:44] insulation and drywall myself, poured concrete. I paid somebody else to do the preventative work

[6:12:48] after the fact, the creating the window wells, sewer lined backslow valves, the gutters,

[6:12:53] the digging the enormous trenches and saw whipping tile. This was squarely on me, my responsibility,

[6:12:57] my lack of planning. More recently I rode my bicycle to the city hall to meet with Mayor

[6:13:01] not. We discuss city infrastructure as it relates to the city's climate plan.

[6:13:05] Errorships you move forward with the active transportation

[6:13:07] network. The focus on practice taking our watershed to plan for drainage in an uncertain

[6:13:12] climate future. Upon leaving his office, I decided to

[6:13:15] might provide bicycle on the value line LRTX. The skies were looking really ominous.

[6:13:19] Good call. I made a home through the river valley with minutes to spare, just before

[6:13:22] a mill creek decided to daylight itself, and a tree slammed down on the tracks.

[6:13:27] Perfect call to action. Transportation, drainage, land usage, water

[6:13:30] watershed protection, tax allocation, city issues,

[6:13:33] our shared responsibility, shared planning,

[6:13:36] prevention, adaptation, education, accountability.

[6:13:39] I'm asking you to be pennywise,

[6:13:40] and not to be pennywise and pound foolish, unlike myself.

[6:13:43] We have a climate plan, one backed by evidence.

[6:13:46] We have a well-informed population

[6:13:47] that supports this implementation.

[6:13:50] One of the things I had my basement that I lost

[6:13:51] in the flood was a full wall mural,

[6:13:53] a painting of milk-create signed by Margaret Chappelle.

[6:13:56] It's gone now, due to my own neglect.

[6:13:57] I have no idea if it's past, proof of its existence.

[6:14:00] What I do have is the legacy of Margaret,

[6:14:02] otherwise known as the artist that saved McKenna in Revene,

[6:14:05] that I have the knowledge of her advocacy,

[6:14:07] her monumental effort to save the things that mattered the most

[6:14:10] to the people who live here.

[6:14:11] Let's all be Margaret.

[6:14:13] I haven't laid down in front of a bulldozer yet,

[6:14:15] and hopefully I won't need to because you will do the work.

[6:14:18] You will fund the work, you will schedule the work,

[6:14:20] you will demand accountability from administration,

[6:14:22] and you will report back to us the public who is asking you to do the work.

[6:14:25] put into place the climate mitigation adaptation measures we know are right and necessary

[6:14:30] do it now before it's too late and we're all talking holding soggy drywall to the dump

[6:14:35] let's take care of the foundation of our great city thank you thank you I do think that Jason just

[6:14:40] joined us online as well so Jason I see you're back and you have up to three minutes please go ahead

[6:14:47] yeah thank you very much Mary Nack hopefully I'm coming through clearly

[6:14:51] I can be just like I just wanted to say briefly I do agree with a lot of

[6:14:57] but not this because of that, and I wanted to.

[6:15:00] The line committee that Edmondson is seen as a leader by many other cities, larger and smaller around the world.

[6:15:08] Because we have been taking very innovative and very practical steps towards addressing climate change.

[6:15:16] But we have done a great job of identifying different types of priorities that can address the challenges while meeting other objectives like economic developments

[6:15:28] and providing a better place for people to live.

[6:15:32] So I just urge you to,

[6:15:36] as may or not hinted at,

[6:15:40] encourage administration to follow the action

[6:15:44] and ideal.

[6:15:46] So that's my time.

[6:15:47] Thanks very much.

[6:15:47] Thank you very much.

[6:15:50] I'll double check Julia Trin

[6:15:51] is not here.

[6:15:53] They were here for the other item,

[6:15:55] but I don't see them on this item.

[6:15:58] So we'll keep going, Angelina Deon Hoffman was not here when I first called their name,

[6:16:06] not here right now. Next go to Eric Arthur, who is online, I believe. Please go ahead.

[6:16:11] Three of them.

[6:16:14] Yes, I would like to say first and foremost thank you, Andrew Dax, and to the staff and

[6:16:20] administration for putting all the information together and hosting this conversation.

[6:16:24] My name is Eric Barthor, I am a resident of Ulthorath-Conan, I am also a member of the Federal

[6:16:29] and Presidential NDP, Writing Association and I stand in solidarity with the pilot initiatives

[6:16:37] for the Climate Resiliency that is supported by the Alberta Environment Network, the Alberta

[6:16:43] Eco-Trust, and also the Edmonton Federation of Community Reefs.

[6:16:49] The conversation of its Netherlands and like this is becoming more and more common.

[6:16:52] And I don't have to tell you this.

[6:16:54] You've seen all the footage and all the stories of the horrible degradation of taking place

[6:17:01] of our environment, not only just from the rain, but also the air pollution.

[6:17:05] And people are going to be cutting into our community centers more and more until things

[6:17:10] change for the better and that will take time.

[6:17:12] And so to act now is better than to act later, obviously, pay more now, see you on pay more

[6:17:18] later.

[6:17:20] And I am terrified that if we don't act that people will be forced into spaces that will just keep them confined and keep them equally polluted as if they were outside of not more, if we don't do something to make sure that we are ready for what's coming.

[6:17:34] I hope that people can find true refuge in safety in our community centers and a place of worship in our schools.

[6:17:40] And in our story as because these are the places that we will turn to during this

[6:17:46] challenge time.

[6:17:46] And I will flip the rest of my time for everybody else to share and say thank you again for this

[6:17:51] time and opportunity.

[6:17:53] Thank you very much.

[6:17:53] Tristan Delos, next.

[6:17:54] Please go ahead.

[6:17:59] I think should be able to hear me out of my need to open the door.

[6:18:02] No, you're good.

[6:18:03] We can hear you a lot in clear.

[6:18:04] Thank you.

[6:18:05] All right.

[6:18:06] High counselors.

[6:18:07] My name is Tristan Delos.

[6:18:08] I'm a member of Edenton Youth for Climate and a student at the University of Alberta.

[6:18:12] And I'm here today due to my concerns about the state of our climate.

[6:18:16] The cities made overtures about commitment to climate, but those words are hollow if our

[6:18:20] municipal government isn't willing to follow through.

[6:18:23] It's urgent that the 2027 climate implementation priorities be fully funded, because climate

[6:18:29] emergency is not just a risk, but a reality, and our society continues to put off any meaningful

[6:18:34] action.

[6:18:35] Promises are a start, but they're meaningless without actual effort taken to back them up.

[6:18:40] Among the most important and effective measures proposed in the expansion of pardon me is

[6:18:45] proposed as the expansion of solar panel adoption.

[6:18:48] Reopening and expanding funding for the solar rebate program is extremely important.

[6:18:53] With temperatures rising to unbearable levels, heat sinks and mitigation have become critical.

[6:18:58] Solar panels are excellent mitigators for extreme heat as they reduce temperatures,

[6:19:02] make the summer months much more bearable, and reduce the risk of fires.

[6:19:06] Our city is inundated with concrete buildings, huge and largely empty parking lots and roads,

[6:19:12] which makes for awful heat as a pedestrian.

[6:19:14] I would urge council to take a walk through a parking lot in the sun if you don't believe me.

[6:19:19] And I would also like to take a moment to address the city's push to support AI development.

[6:19:24] AI data centers are extremely irresponsible and environmentally destructive.

[6:19:28] They pull from our power grid, pump out terrible chemicals into the environment,

[6:19:32] output huge noise and heat pollution, replace jobs at an extreme rate and are used to

[6:19:36] prop up extremely dangerous technologies that compromise data security, encourage teenagers

[6:19:41] to commit suicide, discriminate against minority groups, power drone technologies used to

[6:19:47] slaughter innocent people, and even generate images and videos depicting sexual violence against

[6:19:53] children, which by the way is legal in the United States, where big AI companies, including

[6:19:58] meta are located. AI data centers are also responsible for greatly increased miscarriage

[6:20:03] for pregnant women, heightened cancer rates, unbearable noise, massive issues with still

[6:20:08] birth and cattle, disruption of wildlife and more. Our municipal government cannot claim to

[6:20:13] prioritize the climate well-being of Edentonians if this technology continues to be encouraged.

[6:20:18] The last time I've voiced this concern, it was completely ignored, but with the myriad disasters

[6:20:23] decided by AI, I hope that this will be taken seriously this time around.

[6:20:27] Fully funding the 2027 Climate Implementation Priorities is the bare minimum and the city

[6:20:32] had better be doing a lot more to get us ready for the climate emergency to come and if

[6:20:37] you don't you won't be missed. I'll end off by saying as a psychology student AI is responsible

[6:20:43] for something called AI psychosis, which drives down IQ levels, which is obviously an extreme

[6:20:54] problem as a young person, and I find it very depressing because being a student and seeing

[6:21:01] other students hundreds of them fail exams because they don't even, they don't even, they

[6:21:13] have enough time for one more speaker, a Christie Jackson. I don't, oh yes,

[6:21:18] yeah, Christie is here. Yes.

[6:21:21] Christie, I'm here to represent the 75% of residents that believe we must take

[6:21:30] urgent action on climate change, that's from the report. It's a long line of speakers,

[6:21:35] but you and senior admin must get this message. We need you to do what it takes.

[6:21:40] This means taking responsibility to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

[6:21:45] I worry that in your feeling of being cash strapped, we might be losing our ambition on the emissions front.

[6:21:54] And I get that we're being walled into believing it's no longer an emergency.

[6:21:58] For example, as a cyclist commuter, it's a name to me that we're talking about removing bike lanes.

[6:22:04] The rhetoric and hate towards cyclists being stirred up or letting them drive the narrative.

[6:22:09] Well, we, and you as leaders must change the channel, talk about the climate emergency,

[6:22:16] be in front of the cameras, reminding residents of our responsibilities, the seriousness,

[6:22:21] the increasing costs if we don't ask now.

[6:22:25] And then behind the words, the deeds, climate considerations must be at the heart of your

[6:22:30] Budgeting. Like in Oslo, where I'll just highlight their making private delivery vehicles electrified, and they have zero emission

[6:22:38] construction sites to incentives to contractors. We have more power to generate revenue than you believe,

[6:22:46] get creative, and I have one place to start to take seriously the blatant excessive users of fossil fuels.

[6:22:52] There is no useful purpose for those who revel around our city's

[6:22:57] viewing pollution, causing anxiety and rage in people already on the edge.

[6:23:02] Find them and say that it's unacceptable anti-social pastime in a climate emergency.

[6:23:08] Be courageous.

[6:23:10] Where else could we get funds?

[6:23:11] Well, you could increase development permit fees, especially to discourage what we don't want.

[6:23:16] The Alberta government could be loudly herring to allow progressive property tax

[6:23:21] to allow photo radar to make our street safer and less polluting.

[6:23:26] And user voices a city call on the province and the feds to implement a windfall

[6:23:31] profit tax to those who made so much on more.

[6:23:35] And surely they can share some of that with news abilities.

[6:23:39] I'm asking executive committee to fund more than the current $5 million.

[6:23:43] An ambitious climate plan including reducing greenhouse gases with clear implementation

[6:23:49] time lines to the city manager and senior admin. Thank you.

[6:23:54] Thank you very much. So what we'll have in here is we'll take our 15-minute recess. We're

[6:23:59] going to come back at 345. We'll be starting with Artie Vizzi from North Lift Belts and then

[6:24:06] Simpar and we'll continue down the list at that point. We're still 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,

[6:24:15] 1011, give or take 20 speakers, each 9 includes 1, 2 might not have been here yet.

[6:24:21] That brings us to about an hour when we get back at 445.

[6:24:25] That does not leave us with a lot of time for questions of the minimum motions, so we'll

[6:24:28] see if there's a little bit of flexibility, but I think we can work hard.

[6:24:33] I also don't want to rush it, but I think we need motions in order to rush some of the

[6:24:37] action.

[6:24:37] So Ron Rises, until 3.45, sure. Please, thanks everyone.

[6:39:53] That's quite bad. Thank you. Other members of council. Councilor Rutherford is online, I believe. Hello.

[6:40:01] Hello. Councilor Wright is there. Councilor Prince Pay. Hello. Hello. I think that's about everyone for now. So great. We're just going to keep power and through here. So I realize some of our speakers I think had to leave from our panel.

[6:40:21] So that's okay. I understand. It's been a full day for folks, so thanks for everyone sticking it out with us here.

[6:40:28] Argy, are you busy? Is that, can you give me the program?

[6:40:34] Yeah, very good. Yeah, please go ahead. You have about three minutes.

[6:40:40] A lot of the video, thank you for your time today. My name is Argy.

[6:40:43] I'm a business owner in downtown Edmonton, as well as the president of the planet just a seven-day.

[6:40:48] The dollar, like most of the standards of mighty dollar life are plagued by smoke and extreme

[6:40:53] weather, which then finds out that devices create having beautiful and short summer days

[6:40:57] will be lost to smoke and extreme heat.

[6:41:00] The room, which houses my industrial quicker class for my level of defense is quite different

[6:41:04] from the season to rancher of down,

[6:41:09] 40 points of boarding night machines, and shelving, which

[6:41:11] will cost me thousands of dollars in the period out the line.

[6:41:14] This is just a small case that we're almost everybody has experienced the start.

[6:41:17] There are support-based funding priorities in the federal asking amount of $257 million

[6:41:22] before the economic cost.

[6:41:24] Having climate change will be the defining element of my generation.

[6:41:28] I urge council members to travel sub-times cannot let climate crisis

[6:41:31] certification to go back seat.

[6:41:36] The invest in naturalization and offer tax incentives to harm

[6:41:39] owners to install solar and plant by the reverse garden,

[6:41:42] that pollinators.

[6:41:43] I've heard from several city insiders that you guys want to speak in numbers.

[6:41:47] I hope that my sense is in the wrong.

[6:41:49] But you're going to billion dollars in the only damage to the city, it's all that loud.

[6:41:54] And as the prevention is a pound of debt, it's the way that we're going to

[6:42:00] do.

[6:42:00] Like many efforts, you already, the objects that were in the police chief,

[6:42:04] is that in a part-time state to put them in court and learn about policing.

[6:42:09] Doing it nothing about it when you return.

[6:42:12] And then we're voting in a simple order, just line out of it.

[6:42:18] But I know some of you, which that's

[6:42:23] not going to be really simply

[6:42:26] over the blind

[6:42:27] the police funding formula.

[6:42:30] You read it.

[6:42:31] It buys climate changes our collective problem, which will define our lifetimes.

[6:42:38] It is also should be put towards supporting the vulnerable, the local small businesses

[6:42:41] that give life to communities, transitioning evidence and corporate fleet, and making policy decisions that can

[6:42:46] actually offset the lives and cost of living that threatens all of the most fortunate.

[6:42:51] There are no good answers in militarizing the police or it's safe.

[6:42:59] Thank you very much.

[6:43:00] Next is Sim Park.

[6:43:01] Please go ahead.

[6:43:04] Good afternoon everyone, my name is Sim, and I'd like to work every day when there's no snow.

[6:43:10] One of the reasons I love cycling is that it changes how you experience a city.

[6:43:14] You experience the speed differently at a human scale as opposed to women in a car.

[6:43:18] I've had the opportunity to spend time in many different cities and those experiences have shaped how I think about Edmonton's future.

[6:43:25] One thing that stands out in particular is Brazil.

[6:43:27] Brazil is often considered one of the world's greatest planning experiments, but as a visitor,

[6:43:33] I found it incredibly difficult to experience without a car. Even destinations that

[6:43:37] looked close together realistically needed an Uber because the city was designed around cars.

[6:43:42] Stupid wide roads made everyday life feel disconnected. In contrast,

[6:43:47] Montreal feels completely different. Montreal's neighborhoods are built for people first.

[6:43:51] The streets are active, walking feels natural, cycling feels safe, local businesses

[6:43:56] drive because people live work and shop and spend time in the same areas. The city feels connected

[6:44:02] because you can experience it is at the center of its design. I fully support Edmonton's climate

[6:44:08] implementation priorities because they can shape Edmonton to be a more human-centered city, particularly

[6:44:13] the following actions, actions seven, to expand the active transportation network. People need

[6:44:18] transportation choices, creating safe routes for young and old and mountaineans with the city where

[6:44:24] daily trips can happen without a car, yet this important action remains unfunded.

[6:44:29] Action 6 advanced transit improvement projects, reliable transit allows residents to go about the lives,

[6:44:35] whether they own a vehicle or not, better transit also strengthens affordability and quality of life while reducing congestion for everyone.

[6:44:44] Action 2, climate resilient community planning and design also needs funding,

[6:44:49] because the choices we will make today will shape Edmonton for generations.

[6:44:52] We have the opportunity to build neighborhoods where people can comfortably walk to places

[6:44:56] they visit every day, other than we need to drive for every daily life.

[6:45:00] Edmontonans deserve their own version of Montreal's weaponaries. Action 15, to preserve, protect and enhance urban forest and greenery.

[6:45:10] Treats deal far more than improve our environment, because they make streets enjoyable to walk along, while providing shade on hot summer days, low wave stream heat risks associated with the changing climate.

[6:45:20] In finally action 10, support resilience hubs in communities. The best cities invest in gather places, since opportunities are cultivated for connection.

[6:45:28] They make even its stronger and help people feel part of something larger than themselves.

[6:45:33] I strongly encourage the council to support a climate funding package and invest in an

[6:45:37] Edmonton design around people first.

[6:45:40] Thank you.

[6:45:42] Thank you very much.

[6:45:43] I'll just double check Melody Hoffman is still, I don't see online or in person,

[6:45:51] Beverly Zubot

[6:45:52] is next.

[6:45:53] Please go ahead.

[6:45:56] Okay, I'll take you today on behalf of the residential and field working group.

[6:46:03] So, climate technologies have predicted that climate change would eventually create frequent

[6:46:08] threat to raise an element in and then create a dry fire probe AC while we've been seeing

[6:46:15] that.

[6:46:15] Unfortunately, this climate change has come soon and predicted that an advantage has not yet implemented

[6:46:21] any of the adaptation actions approved over five years ago. So now, what this is said to

[6:46:28] do? How do we adapt? Which is critical right now. Scientists roll the world and the United

[6:46:34] Nations, put to the nature based solutions. We need to build a green, we need to green our city

[6:46:42] or keep our city green. To moderate extreme temperatures, mandatory water, protective infrastructure,

[6:46:48] filter, our air, a sink, it's small.

[6:46:52] That's our WJ.

[6:46:54] High energy experience, we find the action to 15 and 16.

[6:46:59] These actions are hyperformers, and can be implemented

[6:47:03] at a modest cost.

[6:47:06] Now, action to integrate through the internet landscape,

[6:47:08] another climate adaptation is to the ZE by law,

[6:47:11] the policy, and either the guidelines.

[6:47:14] Action 15, because there is protection

[6:47:16] and has a stable force and is really, really on public and private lands.

[6:47:23] The majority of them we have a 10-ranked 60% is part of the aim that's clearly on

[6:47:28] private land is critical.

[6:47:31] Action 16 safeguards the actual A is such as our leader value system.

[6:47:36] And I'd like to add there is a while of carbon reduction action, we'd like to suggest as well.

[6:47:42] The citizen encourages the refugee and the expansion of existing buildings

[6:47:45] as an alternative to the Wall Street buildings with good walls. This would reduce embodied carbon,

[6:47:52] reduce construction waste and perhaps save from very valuable historic buildings. However,

[6:47:58] the main point we want to emphasize today is climate adaptation actions are urgently needed.

[6:48:05] So please fully find priority actions to 15 and 16. Thank you. Thank you very much and next

[6:48:12] is Emily Hayes.

[6:48:17] Hello, thank you for your chance to speak. Can you hear me all right?

[6:48:20] Absolutely, please go ahead. We'll start your time.

[6:48:23] All right, thank you. My name is Emily. I'm a recent graduate of the Environmental Studies Program

[6:48:27] at the U of A and I'm a lifelong Edmontonian. I'm extremely passionate about the city and in

[6:48:32] particularly, you go to help push the city towards being a leader and developing a bigger future.

[6:48:37] Through my studies, I was able to take a closer look at much of what the city is doing

[6:48:40] environmentally from developing the composting program to neighboring for climate and to the

[6:48:44] implemented 15-9 sitting framework, which is awesome. These are all

[6:48:49] commendable projects that I appreciate and fully support as a long-time

[6:48:52] measurement. As an environmental student and a youth, I understand the

[6:48:56] but that the consequences that climate change will cause and will be faced at

[6:48:59] my generation and those to come the most. We are already seeing the

[6:49:03] unpredictability of whether events from increased rain, thunderstorms, and

[6:49:06] tornadoes across the province this year to the devastating wildfires of the

[6:49:10] past few summers. This is not going to get better if we don't make it better and

[6:49:14] So that's the last time it starts here and it starts with you, and there's no better time to act than right now, and the action is better than no action.

[6:49:21] This is why today I'm going to ask you to adopt the 2027 update, comment implementation priorities to the cities, comment change adaptation and mitigation plan.

[6:49:28] It's a good plan of good things that will greatly push us in the right direction, and it is important that the acceptance of this plan doesn't fall on empty promises either, which is why it also reaches a fully fund the 257 million dollar budget.

[6:49:40] And in particular, it's an effective and achievable timeline to implement a full plan successfully.

[6:49:45] At times like these, where we are seeing much pushback on climate action for many opposing forces, it is crucial that council remains accountable and committed to something as important as climate change mitigation.

[6:49:55] This involves implementing this climate plan, which is why we're here today, and the continuing, continuing investment in other local projects like community gardens with reliable access to water, accessible public transit and other community initiatives.

[6:50:06] but it also involves refraining from investing in home grown initiatives like Defense Technology,

[6:50:12] which is contributing to the insanely high global military emissions, which exceeded 5% of global total emissions in 2025.

[6:50:19] And as I was infinitely better to invest in community and connection instead of foreign violence.

[6:50:23] I want to live in a city that supports our needs long term, that prioritizes its people and their communities over temporary profit,

[6:50:29] and is willing to take risks and reject the status quo in the name of a better future.

[6:50:33] This comment point is one step at doing so and I strongly urge you to take outwards to

[6:50:38] her and adopt this plan.

[6:50:39] Thank you for your time.

[6:50:41] Thank you very much.

[6:50:42] Next is Kassara Norena.

[6:50:45] Yep.

[6:50:46] That's right.

[6:50:46] Please go ahead.

[6:50:49] Yes.

[6:50:49] Hello counselors.

[6:50:50] My name is Kassara.

[6:50:52] I'm an Edmonton and a Quentin resident.

[6:50:54] Young worker and climate organizer and activist with common horizon Edmonton.

[6:50:59] I really just want to share my story of how I got involved with organizing for climate initiatives.

[6:51:03] So, about three years ago, it's another hot day, well above normal for September, and the heat is made even more suffering by the constant haze of wildfire smoke that seems to have become the new normal.

[6:51:16] Usually, I love the heat, summer has always been my favorite season, but over the past few years, the constant smoke has made it harder to enjoy it.

[6:51:23] So, I'm walking down the streets of my neighborhood, we're going to win surrounded by that familiar haze, and I'm feeling something I never thought I would feel about my favorite season, despair.

[6:51:32] I started wondering whether I would ever be able to simply enjoy the summer days again

[6:51:36] to go for a walk, spend time outside, and breathe fresh air.

[6:51:40] And then that disparage her into anger, because I didn't cause this.

[6:51:43] I didn't choose a future or a wild fire smoke would become a regular part of summer.

[6:51:47] I didn't choose to spend money on mass and air pair of fires.

[6:51:50] I didn't choose to stay inside because the air is unsafe to breathe.

[6:51:53] Yet I and the people across the city are being asked to pay the cost.

[6:51:57] Well, rural, ordinary people are adaptor lives around heat, smoke, floods, and other consequences

[6:52:02] of our changing climates.

[6:52:04] We continue to see government subsidizing and supporting the fossil fuel industry, and we

[6:52:09] see political fights over things like bike lanes, even as we know transportation is one

[6:52:13] of the areas where our cities can make meaningful progress on reducing emissions.

[6:52:17] This is incredibly frustrating, but I don't want it just to be frustrating.

[6:52:21] I want it to become action, and that is why I'm asking City Council today to adopt

[6:52:26] the 2021 update for the climate implementation priority.

[6:52:30] As part of the city's climate change adaptation, mitigation plan. But adoption is not enough. A climate plan without implementation is just a document and a plan without funding is a promise that cannot be kept. So I'm also asking city council to make sure that the full climate implementation plan is properly funded when it comes before you.

[6:52:48] Edmonton has an opportunity to choose a different future. A city that is healthier, more resilient, more walkable, less dependent on fossil fuels and better prepared for the climate that is already here.

[6:52:57] So again, please adopt the 2027 update, put it on a timeline, fund it fully, and most importantly implement it.

[6:53:05] Because I want to love summer again, and I want the people who come after us to be able to love it too.

[6:53:09] Thank you.

[6:53:10] Thank you very much. Next up is Jima. Can I please go ahead? You have up to three minutes.

[6:53:16] Hi. My name is Jima Kenner. I'm an organizer with Climate Justice Edmonton.

[6:53:20] A constituent or quoted in them, and like evidence, we can say later about the future of

[6:53:25] our city and climate, I am asking the executive committee to adopt all 27 priority

[6:53:30] actions outlined in the climate implementation update from them in their entirety.

[6:53:36] 257 million is a measly amount in comparison to other parts of the budget, and especially

[6:53:42] in comparison to how much more it's going to cost 3 budget cycles from now if these 27

[6:53:48] actions are taken. 257 million dollars is 6.4 percent of the $4 billion operating budget.

[6:53:57] So take care of these actions now before these costs are in noticeable peace of the budget's

[6:54:02] pie chart. Additionally, type of climate implementation update to a timeline with regular public

[6:54:08] updates for transparency and accountability. I urge you to make a motion for sea-led administration

[6:54:14] and the city manager to create a climate funding package for this upcoming budget cycle for which the climate implementation update can be under.

[6:54:24] We need the assurance they will be followed through on climate resiliency efforts and a budget package, who do you all accountable?

[6:54:32] We all deserve a city in which the future is livable and it's appalling that bare minimum is something we have to fight for.

[6:54:40] Thank you.

[6:54:41] Thank you very much. Our next speaker is Julia May. Please,

[6:54:48] Hello members of Executive Committee. We are thank you for giving me the time to speak today.

[6:54:53] I mainly just want to speak and express and signal how important this discussion is to me as someone who currently lives in and grow the lead in ten.

[6:55:00] I thank you.

[6:55:05] I'm exhausted, Julie.

[6:55:06] I'm tired to the budget.

[6:55:07] Sorry, Julie. Do you want to?

[6:55:08] Sorry, Julie.

[6:55:09] You just cut out for about five seconds. You want to restart yourself.

[6:55:13] We'll restart your time just to give you that.

[6:55:15] you cut out enough to go ahead.

[6:55:17] My apologies.

[6:55:18] Am I stable now?

[6:55:19] It sounds like it.

[6:55:20] Please go ahead.

[6:55:22] I mean we just want to speak and express like how important this discussion is to me as someone

[6:55:27] who currently lives in in group 1110.

[6:55:29] I think just to see the actions outlined in the proposal of 2027 update,

[6:55:33] climate implementation priorities implemented and tied to the budget,

[6:55:38] not just remaining as strategy,

[6:55:40] for my perspective and what immediately affects me as someone who

[6:55:43] a lot of who graduated from post-secondary and doesn't own a home, the affordability of

[6:55:48] a home ownership, especially if homes resilient to climate driven extreme weather is

[6:55:52] a fundamental issue, also thinking of the public health costs of climate consequences.

[6:55:57] Invest in air quality testing and regulating air quality standards, especially if

[6:56:03] Alberta's AI data center strategy, since though to make a province north America's

[6:56:07] destination choice for AI data center investment, we're data centers all run on their own

[6:56:12] natural gas power plants and consume power and generate CO2 emissions at a rate similar to

[6:56:17] as if they're just another city of Edmonton.

[6:56:20] Additionally, the impacts of climate change, such as heat and floods, disproportionately

[6:56:25] affect low-income or vulnerable groups accessing public transportation, highlighting the need

[6:56:30] to invest in low-carbon affordable transit infrastructure.

[6:56:35] In addition to immediate benefits to media and people's eye care growth, investments

[6:56:38] such things as sustainability, energy efficiency, and transition address the present, where

[6:56:44] climate crisis has become today's reality, and also planned for the future directly following.

[6:56:50] So overall, I just want to express my concern. I would like to see these actions implemented.

[6:56:55] This plan adopted and included budget. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today.

[6:57:00] Thank you. Thank you very much. Next is Sarah Jubingville. Mr. and person.

[6:57:06] Good afternoon members of the Council.

[6:57:09] My name is Sarah Jeevenville, and I'm the Vice President of the Eminent and Permaculture

[6:57:13] Guild.

[6:57:14] We're a non-profit organization and our mission is to build ecological and social resilience

[6:57:20] in communities through education, skill and resource sharing, and by training individuals

[6:57:27] in resilient design and systems thinking.

[6:57:31] I'm here today to encourage the CD Council to look for and adopt as priority the multi-functional climate initiatives, especially those that can be spearheaded by community organizations.

[6:57:44] Further initiatives that train individuals, leaders, planners, developers and other designers to think in resilient multi-functional systems that will spur effective local innovation that can then be scaled,

[6:57:58] as well as snowball into proactive adaptations.

[6:58:03] Initiatives such as the resilient landscaping and the urban tree scapes have proven multi-functional

[6:58:08] and intersectional benefits from improved health, greater equity, affordability, better economic activity,

[6:58:16] all while reducing infrastructure and maintenance costs. I also second everything that Laura

[6:58:24] are cutting him sharply said about prioritizing engagement of community leagues, and I will

[6:58:30] add that the same applies to related nonprofits and volunteer groups to effectively mobilize

[6:58:36] the city's monetary investment and deliver those localized solutions for immediate change

[6:58:42] and impact. I'm also encouraging detailed communication initiatives that highlight the reasons

[6:58:48] why these actions are important and then translate successes or shortfalls to the public and

[6:58:56] across departments. This improves transparency and long-term buy-in and makes the policy

[6:59:02] itself more resilient. You have an incredible opportunity here to set the standard for highly

[6:59:10] engaged climate response and to build Edmonton into a positive global example of climate resilience

[6:59:17] in a major northern city.

[6:59:19] For everything I've heard so far today, you have broad public and business support for aggressive

[6:59:25] climate funding, action, and accountability, and I encourage the council to deliver that.

[6:59:31] Thank you.

[6:59:32] Thank you very much.

[6:59:33] I'll confirm earlier Jenna, Jenna, Jenna, par, Jenna, par, not here.

[6:59:42] So our next speaker, Leonard, and you know Leonard, I know you, but I don't think

[6:59:46] said you're last name before so you're gonna have to remind me Leonard how do you say it says

[6:59:51] that go says that's go well thank you I would have knocked out that right but thank you it's

[6:59:55] good to see you please go ahead you have up to three minutes thank you Marinac and executive

[6:59:59] committee

[7:00:00] Like we said, my name is Leonard. I'm a recent graduate of the Academic Union University, where I studied political science of philosophy, and I've lifted less metalwork by entire life, more CP&E walk, and I'm speaking in favor of the climate-finding package.

[7:00:15] I use public transit regularly, and hopefully in a few years' time, a family line, less LRT station, would be just a short walk for my home.

[7:00:21] For me, the next station represents the kind of future I want eminent to build, an eminent

[7:00:27] with transportation choices that makes life more affordable and less vehicle dependent.

[7:00:32] I'm also someone who feels very deeply about climate action, and part of that comes from

[7:00:36] my faith.

[7:00:37] I'm a member of the Income Church, Canada, and in our baptismal covenant, we commit to safeguard

[7:00:41] the integrity of God's creation and respect to state and renew the life of the earth.

[7:00:46] Environmental stewardship is a moral and spiritual obligation that I have to push for.

[7:00:51] This year, the singularly endless rain caused damage to roofed my parish across Hamilton churches and other faith communities,

[7:00:58] owning care for significant properties and extreme weather events, great real costs and real risks for the places that serve our communities every day.

[7:01:08] Our communities need leadership from the city.

[7:01:10] They need a plan from the city on the environment.

[7:01:13] Climate change is not something that only sits in the abstract.

[7:01:16] It's something that we are experiencing in the here and now.

[7:01:20] This is why I support a climate funding package, funding that fully $257 million need

[7:01:25] to.

[7:01:26] I want to see action-sex advance transit improvement projects funded because it'll make

[7:01:30] transit more reliable so that people can get where they need.

[7:01:34] Just as well as if they can with their personal vehicles, I support action-seventh, expand

[7:01:40] the action-transportation network because people should be able to safely make their way in

[7:01:43] their communities.

[7:01:44] This supports Council's four priorities as they deliver quality services.

[7:01:50] I often experience what happens when food pathways and transit is not prioritized in planning,

[7:01:55] or in construction, especially along 87th of that right now.

[7:01:59] The climate exploitation priorities are practical investments that protect the private homes,

[7:02:04] public infrastructure, and all emitonians.

[7:02:07] At the end of the day, my reason for supporting these actions is very simple.

[7:02:10] I'd like a future, I live here, be in this land, in this planet, and most days I'd like to continue to live here.

[7:02:18] I want Edmonton to be a city that prepares for the challenges ahead, instead of reacting after disaster strikes.

[7:02:25] So I am encouraging Council to support a climate funding package of fully funds what we need to make a more resilient and climate ready Edmonton.

[7:02:34] Thank you.

[7:02:35] Thank you very much.

[7:02:36] I do believe our next speaker has joined now, which is Kennedy Daniels Peterson, they're online, and if you are, it looks like you're online.

[7:02:47] Yeah. Yeah. Perfect. Please go ahead. You have up to three minutes.

[7:02:51] Okay. So we're clocked. Okay. Good afternoon, Council. My name is Kang Daniels Peterson. I'm a mother of two young children and a public institution.

[7:02:57] I think about climate change. I don't just think about the numbers and stats. I think about the smoke for days. My kids have been able to play outside.

[7:03:04] I think about the studying of experience this year, and mostly I think about whether our city is prepared for the challenges we know are coming and what that means for young people and families that are across the city.

[7:03:13] As a parent, I don't wait for a number to see before I prepare.

[7:03:16] I buy actually high and up before they get sick. I've installed smoke checkery before they're fired.

[7:03:20] And even though it's nearly an affordable, I buy insurance, hoping we'll have to use it.

[7:03:25] I believe we should approach climate preparedness the same way.

[7:03:28] That's why I'm here today.

[7:03:29] in support of climate funding package that provides a proper funding for the full 27

[7:03:33] climate implementation priorities.

[7:03:36] The cities on the analysis estimates that the climate change could cost in

[7:03:39] attorneys.

[7:03:40] Of emptying the economy approximately 2.2 billion every year by the 24 is

[7:03:44] increasingly to roughly 6.2 billion annually by the 2070s.

[7:03:49] As an early childhood educator myself, I'm big believer in early intervention

[7:03:52] and that it doesn't just supply to education.

[7:03:55] The cost of early intervention preparation today is far less than the cost

[7:03:59] doing nothing. And waiting for crisis. One priority I strongly support is action 10. Support

[7:04:04] resilience helps in communities. As a young family and university students, we don't have

[7:04:09] always a good access to leadership to positive luxuries. Not every family has their

[7:04:13] condition during a heat wave or self-pump during the storms or a safe place to go during

[7:04:18] stroke events. Resilience helps would give families some nearby to go when they need it most.

[7:04:23] as a parent, as a parent, knowing that resources of that exists in a community provides a

[7:04:28] piece of mind. I also support option 18 developed a river and cleave flood relief resilience

[7:04:34] strategy. This year's flooding was a reminder that a student letter doesn't just affect individual

[7:04:38] homes that affects roads, businesses, communities, facilities, and infrastructure we all depend on.

[7:04:43] Better mapping and identifying vulnerable areas allows us to prepare before damage happens,

[7:04:47] as well as for action 19 implement the while-land urban interface while a little higher risk strategy.

[7:04:54] While, always, markets become a regular part of life in Edmonton, investing in prevention, preparedness, and public education now

[7:05:01] makes much more sense than paying significantly more for emergency response and recovery later.

[7:05:06] Also, for Councilful Fund, action 13, improve existing city infrastructure to improve.

[7:05:12] Okay, Kennedy, we lost you.

[7:05:14] Sorry, yeah, Kennedy, you've meted yourself.

[7:05:23] We lost

[7:05:27] you in the meeting.

[7:05:33] So that's what I'm like, I'm all the time.

[7:05:35] Sorry.

[7:05:36] Yeah, I'm talking to you.

[7:05:37] Principal, you know, city building,

[7:05:39] space, very high cloud risk.

[7:05:40] These are a recreation centers, libraries, community facilities,

[7:05:42] other public spaces.

[7:05:44] We like many low income, empty families,

[7:05:46] real-life places and then the termination

[7:05:48] operation and operational and extreme weather hits, and truly have put it's like adding more

[7:05:52] stress to families and the increased feeling of cabin fever when extreme weather conditions are

[7:05:56] along with the one emitting. Finally, I support oxygen 6, so that's transient for the

[7:06:00] public. So, as you know, I don't sometimes drive not because you don't have a car, but because you can't afford it

[7:06:04] right now. Other transportation is essential to our way of life, and our library transportation

[7:06:08] is crucial to our survival. Our library transportation is both the climate solution and

[7:06:13] for the Disability Solution. It helps families get to work for child care

[7:06:15] representation, essential services. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.

[7:06:20] That's your time and sorry. Thank you. Next,

[7:06:26] Dolly, Sepada, Montefour.

[7:06:32] Hi. Hi, dolly, please go. Hi.

[7:06:35] Hi, council. My name is Dolly. I live in New York, but he's a win. And I'm not sure if anyone

[7:06:39] is familiar with going to be doing words in my car. I don't think that, but I've seen the

[7:06:43] And this past week, and I had one interest of thought,

[7:06:46] dude, where's my climate funding package?

[7:06:48] So, executive community, only $122 million worth of associated

[7:06:52] projects are planned for 20, 20, 20, 20, 30 budget consideration.

[7:06:56] This is not even half of the funding literally support the climate

[7:06:59] implementation priorities.

[7:07:01] The school delivery needs 257 million dollars.

[7:07:04] These priorities are nice to have clear critical.

[7:07:06] It is imperative for administrations to receive a motion

[7:07:08] to prepare climate funding packages that fully funds the climate

[7:07:11] implementation priorities.

[7:07:12] And as a time like them, as actions that aren't tight to any existing fund budget, request

[7:07:17] aligned directly with Council's four priorities.

[7:07:20] As the city of Edmonton, there's now the barrel of $42 million of uninsurable flood damage,

[7:07:25] the Edmonton area also suffered $230 million of insurable flood damage.

[7:07:30] This year, where in that every dollar invests in the adaptation measures, saves up to $15, and fully funding the climate implementation plan is in the winner.

[7:07:38] I work in the construction and to illustrate how funds have been off-climbed adaptation measures is.

[7:07:43] The handbook recovery center is an example of building that typically costs $7 million to bill.

[7:07:48] And the flood damage is suspected to cost $5 million.

[7:07:51] Have you used climate adaptation practices in the building? I'm sure we've increased the prices.

[7:07:55] So, possibly 2 to 10%, so it's better spending 7.7 million dollar on a building now, or 7 millions now, and then 5 million in the next sender in the exchange weather event.

[7:08:04] Council's economic development is encapsulated by COC26, and as you prioritize increasing industrial and business investment, this second investment within the COC25 track record with capital power operating facility for 20 years already receiving 10 million dollar from emissions reductions Alberta, it demonstrates the fully funding this plan is only logical.

[7:08:23] The Council must put forward a motion to record administration to provide a climate

[7:08:27] fund in package and to add a timeline to the climate implementation plan because the

[7:08:32] unfunded climate implementation priorities are all actions that can ensure the Council

[7:08:36] delivers on their four priorities, no matter the extreme weather and its receipts.

[7:08:40] 257 million dollars, 6.4 percent of the prison for a billion dollar budget.

[7:08:45] I think you should stand out rather than waiting five budget cycles for us to have

[7:08:48] to spend 46 percent of our budget on climate measures.

[7:08:51] I mean, adaptation saves money and climate mitigation makes our life more affordable.

[7:08:55] One relatively easy moment through option would be for council to consider separating the solar

[7:09:00] radio requirements from EV ready by law if the EV component is what is taking longer to

[7:09:05] develop.

[7:09:05] If the solar portion is ready to move, it shouldn't necessarily be held back.

[7:09:09] It could also be worth noting that this is not a climate measure.

[7:09:12] Along, it's also about long-term energy costs for the city, especially in the city owned

[7:09:16] buildings.

[7:09:21] and they are willing to answer their councillors on their session.

[7:09:24] Thank you.

[7:09:25] Thank you very much.

[7:09:27] Next, I'll just see if they're back here as Sabahanova.

[7:09:35] No, of course at T.N.S.A.

[7:09:40] Perfect.

[7:09:40] Can you hear me away?

[7:09:41] Yes, exactly.

[7:09:42] Yes, we can.

[7:09:42] Please go ahead.

[7:09:44] Excellent.

[7:09:44] Thank you so much.

[7:09:45] second community and to consult the opportunities speak. My name is Clarissa. I've built an

[7:09:50] Edmonton Mindtile Life on a race lived in a number of different places in the city. I'm

[7:09:55] going to be able to enjoy a lot of the nature of natural spaces here in Edmonton. It's one of the things

[7:10:00] that keeps me living here that makes me happy to live in Edmonton. And unfortunately, it also means that

[7:10:06] I experience a great deal of climate anxiety and many of my peers do as well as we see the effects

[7:10:10] climate change, and all of our communities, especially as we have seen everything grow from

[7:10:15] the very small city or the world to the most of the year, when the size of the day is today.

[7:10:21] I think I would really like Council to understand is that, as I'm sure all of us know, actions

[7:10:27] and intentions are one thing, having clear timelines, implementation plans,

[7:10:38] and responsible

[7:10:38] will actually plan, and each of those includes

[7:10:42] the Leopard Head completion of that plan.

[7:10:44] COVID communicating plans and responsibilities to the public,

[7:10:48] as well, can help reduce climate anxiety

[7:10:50] for those of us who are just by nature of being.

[7:10:53] So this is not quite at the same level

[7:10:55] of the tables as all-versive counselors are.

[7:10:58] So I am asking you as a committee

[7:10:59] to commit to time and responsibility

[7:11:01] for completing municipal programs

[7:11:03] for the updated climate action plan

[7:11:07] to senior leadership performance goals, as well as to fully fund the

[7:11:12] counteraction fund as well. As we've heard from the other speakers say,

[7:11:16] there's a lot that Edmonton has to do ahead of us in terms of addressing

[7:11:21] climate change and in the real reality that climate change is happening,

[7:11:25] we'll electrify it and our city is wanting continue to be affected by it.

[7:11:29] It would be really sad to see the city of Edmonton

[7:11:34] these leadership that we have been able to show so far in naming a climate emergency and in doing what we can to address it.

[7:11:42] So I urge executive committee to, again, I was constantly forgetting the rules of the progress of this implementation point to see the leadership of foreign schools and to find a funding for Katie very much.

[7:11:55] Thank you very much. Next is Jonathan Lawrence.

[7:12:01] Can you hear me?

[7:12:02] Yes, we can. Please go ahead.

[7:12:04] Awesome. Thank you.

[7:12:05] So, my name is Jonathan, here at Echoer request that this committee directed

[7:12:09] administration to provide a full $257 million funding package, implementation plan measures

[7:12:14] and reporting plan for all 27 priority actions.

[7:12:19] With my limited time, I want to acknowledge our shared responsibility as treaty people

[7:12:23] to emphasize the climate action according to what action one is an opportunity to advance reconciliation.

[7:12:28] Indigenous co-management and the transition away from Western and economic philosophies

[7:12:33] that perpetuate colonial systems and a growth imperative on a small and finite planet.

[7:12:38] I agree with many speakers that the urgency of climate action cannot be overstated.

[7:12:42] One misinformation persists, there is scientific consensus that without immediate and sustained action to address the drivers of climate and ecosystem breakdown.

[7:12:51] We will hate global tipping points in our systems that will exacerbate existing inequalities, cause sociopolitical breakdown,

[7:12:57] and endanger our collectability to ensure social foundations of people here in M10 and across the world.

[7:13:03] These actions should not be understood or framed as considerations alongside other municipal priorities.

[7:13:09] They need to be understood as emergency measures taken to preserve and protect our critical life systems, whatever the cost.

[7:13:16] This is not only a local issue, but a global obligation.

[7:13:19] Countries like Canada are disproportionately responsible for global historical emissions,

[7:13:23] and we look for partial responsibility to act now in order to mitigate the destructive impacts on communities that are most vulnerable.

[7:13:29] It's important to note that these impacts are not in the future.

[7:13:33] As we approach another hottest year on record, we mourn the loss of people and events that

[7:13:37] are attributed to anthropogenic climate breakdown.

[7:13:40] While Wilmington is in a privileged global position, we're not immune to these events, and

[7:13:44] about three corners of the plutonians recognize that with 74% believing we need to act now

[7:13:49] to address climate change.

[7:13:51] I urge this council to take immediate action in accordance with this mandate and to have

[7:13:56] political courage to push back against narrative which preserve an unsustainable status quo.

[7:14:01] An example that I heard today, and that I'm familiar with as a masters in planning, is the use of

[7:14:06] while being an astronaut group to preserve autumn and suburban growth patterns and

[7:14:10] inventive.

[7:14:11] Polting these development patterns and carefully re-focusing that productive capacity within the

[7:14:15] developed area is essential to address affordability, climate vulnerability, social disintegration,

[7:14:21] online loss and currency instruction.

[7:14:24] It's also important to halt the ballooning cost of public infrastructure, which acts as a transfer of wealth from taxpayers to developers, and women and public funds are urgently needed to support adaptation and mitigation efforts.

[7:14:36] This and other solutions that we've got to profit out of a few for the benefit of the many will not be easy, which makes a clear plan, sufficient funding and citizen leadership.

[7:14:45] All of them are important.

[7:14:46] Thank you and thank you to all of the others.

[7:14:48] be cursed today. Thank you very much and next is Rihanna Shaff.

[7:14:57] Thank you.

[7:14:58] Hello, Mayor Nack and committee.

[7:15:00] My name is Rianan, and I am an Edmonton resident. I am here again today to ask you to adopt the 2027 update climate implementation priorities to the city's climate change adaptation and mitigation plan. Our future depends on the climate we live in and we are in a climate emergency. It is critical to act now.

[7:15:21] I support funding all 27 actions in the plan with approval of the full 257 million dollars required for implementation.

[7:15:29] Please solidify it and publicly release a timeline for implementing these 27 actions, so administration can proceed with forming its implementation strategy.

[7:15:39] A plan without a timeline is just a wish item.

[7:15:42] Many of my concerns have been raised by previous speakers, and once emphasized the critical importance of investing in local naturalization,

[7:15:50] education and outreach. Please prioritize a comment-resignate natural city. Edmonton has a chance

[7:15:57] to do things better and inform you to inform in a mindful and urgent way and use policy

[7:16:03] and funding to adapt to the reality that we are all facing. Fully funding and passing

[7:16:08] the spine will help the city take meaningful action on climate change. Climate change is important

[7:16:13] to me and impacts every resident of the city. I want to live in an Edmonton that continues to be

[7:16:18] of parks, builds green infrastructure, is lively,

[7:16:23] bikeable, and beautifully natural.

[7:16:25] And a city that is adaptive and resilient to climate change,

[7:16:30] adopting and funding all 27 actions of this plan will help us do this.

[7:16:34] Let's make this a real priority by giving it a timeline

[7:16:37] and keeping the public informed and prioritise with these actions.

[7:16:42] Thank you, Fred.

[7:16:44] Thank you very much. Last and then I'll go back to the speakers

[7:16:47] who weren't here before as Coliseum liked.

[7:16:52] Hello Councillors. My name is Coliseum and I'm an Edmonton resident, Climate Activist

[7:16:57] and Environmental Scientist. I'm here today to urge you to adopt the 2027 Climate Implementation

[7:17:03] Priorities into the City's Climate Change Adaptation and Meditation Plan. Furthermore,

[7:17:09] is important to me that the full plan is funded when it comes to Council. So I implore

[7:17:14] one of you to submit a motion asking the administration to tie climate implementation plan

[7:17:18] to a complete timeline and to submit a comment funding package that fully funds the climate implementation plan.

[7:17:27] This issue is important to me because not only do I love the environment that I work in the environmental field.

[7:17:32] And let me say, as the environmental scientist, it is impossible to stay silent on the effects of climate change when they can be observed so clearly in your own backyard.

[7:17:42] I can, I hope they have to tell you that you're overyear these effects are becoming more and more dramatic.

[7:17:46] Observing these effects have caused myself and many others severe grief and anxiety.

[7:17:52] Passing this update will help the city take meaningful and tangible action on climate change and help prevent further dramatic effects.

[7:17:59] It is especially important that these updates be funded.

[7:18:03] Because right now there is no associated climate budget package.

[7:18:07] So there is no guarantee that this plan will actually be implemented even if it is passed out.

[7:18:11] It is critical that this plan be completely funded to ensure accountability and so that Edmonton can become a climate resilience city.

[7:18:19] I want to live in an Edmonton that is vibrant, safe, above all, livable.

[7:18:24] And that means climate resilience and adaptation must be prioritized.

[7:18:29] Adopting this funding plan will help us work towards this.

[7:18:32] Thank you for your time.

[7:18:34] Thank you very much.

[7:18:35] And we'll go back to our list of speakers who were not here.

[7:18:40] I had Tessa Yamkin check.

[7:18:44] Neither in person nor online Olivia Carr.

[7:18:52] Genica Crocland.

[7:18:57] Rebecca Pinto.

[7:19:02] Julia Tran.

[7:19:08] I do see I think we have Angelina Dion Hoffman.

[7:19:10] I think they're here.

[7:19:11] I see them online.

[7:19:13] If you are, please unmute yourself.

[7:19:15] And you'll have up to three minutes.

[7:19:19] Angelina?

[7:19:24] While I'm waiting on Angelina, I do see them in a meeting.

[7:19:26] I'm out. They've just rejoined. If you can unmute and try to.

[7:19:34] Okay, while we're working on that, I do see also, I think, in the meeting, Jenna, Jenna,

[7:19:39] par, Jenna, par.

[7:19:42] Hi, I'm here. Hi, Jenna. I'm going to, I'll get let you start while we work on the others. You'll have up to three minutes.

[7:19:49] Okay, perfect. Thank you. Hello counselors. My name is Jenna, and I'm a youth concerned about climate change. I'm a multi-generational,

[7:19:56] I'm in Tonyan and I truly love this city.

[7:19:59] I grew up here and I love Edmonton so much.

[7:20:01] I actually sent six lots of love again in Europe

[7:20:03] and learned that Edmonton is my home.

[7:20:06] I'm a recent university ball board at graduate

[7:20:07] and for various projects, I've had the opportunity

[7:20:09] to dig into the city of Edmonton's approach

[7:20:11] to see sustainability and climate change.

[7:20:14] I'm in the feeling, presently, surprise,

[7:20:16] learning about the city's commitments to reducing waste,

[7:20:18] factualizing our communities, spaces, and climate resilience.

[7:20:21] I was proud to learn that the city I love

[7:20:23] reflects my values and concerns.

[7:20:24] However, as nice as these flashy reports and commitments are, it's not enough without action,

[7:20:31] and action is not possible without funding.

[7:20:33] Councils I urge you to accept the 2227 comment implementation priorities to the city's climate change

[7:20:39] adaptation and mitigation plan.

[7:20:42] These priorities should be accepted with the approval of the full 257 million dollar budget needed

[7:20:48] to effectively implement these actions.

[7:20:50] Specifically, these actions should be added to the upcoming November budget as a climate

[7:20:54] funding package. This will ensure the council and the administration are accountable to

[7:20:58] follow through on implementing actions. Similarly, I urge the community to solidify and

[7:21:04] publicly release a timeline for implementing actions. We've all witnessed how climate change has

[7:21:09] impacted evidence in the summer. Climate change has been shifting our weather for decades,

[7:21:13] but this summer, I've been told in the face of a significant financial, financial and emotional

[7:21:17] hardships, tornado warnings, extreme rainstorms, and constant flooding, disrupted many

[7:21:22] amytonians' lives.

[7:21:24] Many of my friends lost their jobs because of flooding, my boss had a scramble to find

[7:21:27] child care, because her kids stay care flooded, and I've been really anxious about if this

[7:21:32] will be our new reality.

[7:21:34] Not only will the extreme weather impact amytonians, but it's also impacted the city financially,

[7:21:39] our infrastructure is not built to handle this intense flooding, and we've had to deploy

[7:21:43] and actual resources in response to flood roadways,

[7:21:46] foreign trees, and power outages.

[7:21:48] With all proper climate action,

[7:21:49] the history of mother will just become more frequent

[7:21:52] than the city will spend more money in the long run.

[7:21:55] By investing in climate mitigation and adaptation today,

[7:21:58] the city of Edmonton will save money,

[7:22:00] and be better off in the long run.

[7:22:02] I want to live in the Edmonton

[7:22:03] that is socially and ecologically resilient to climate change,

[7:22:06] a city that is a climate leader.

[7:22:08] A city that aggressively invests in protecting city infrastructure

[7:22:10] and it citizens from the negative impacts of climate change.

[7:22:14] Possibly 27 climate implementation priorities

[7:22:16] is a key way to ensure a broader future for us all.

[7:22:20] Thank you.

[7:22:22] Thank you very much.

[7:22:23] Let's circle back to see if we've got,

[7:22:27] I think it was Angelina Dion Hoffman.

[7:22:30] If you can.

[7:22:32] Hi, can you hear me?

[7:22:33] We can hear you on clear now, perfect.

[7:22:35] Okay, that's great.

[7:22:36] Yeah, please take your time.

[7:22:37] Okay, thank you. Sorry about the technical difficulties there.

[7:22:41] Yeah, my name is Angie and I'm a student at the University of Alberta.

[7:22:44] And I'm also here to ask you to adopt the 2027 update climate implementation priorities.

[7:22:51] And, of course, to tie to a timeline, you get a package that fully funds it.

[7:22:54] I'm a lifelong in my family, my friends, my whole life is here and this plan is going to affect me in a lot of ways.

[7:23:03] My next door neighbor's basement just floated this summer and me and my mom were really worried about

[7:23:08] what that happened to us because our house was built like the same time.

[7:23:11] And if that was the case, we have a very limited budget.

[7:23:14] The house is the only major asset in our family and my bedroom is in the basement.

[7:23:17] If that happened, we wouldn't be able to afford to fix it, just straight up, and our readers

[7:23:24] have a flat-out house.

[7:23:26] Another thing that kind of sucks about the city now environmentally is all the wildfire

[7:23:31] smoke.

[7:23:31] I've lived here forever.

[7:23:33] I don't remember ever being smoky, and now it's smoky like ever summer.

[7:23:36] I have long issues and migraines, and I find the summer is just more and more worrisome

[7:23:41] and uncomfortable and something I'm scared of.

[7:23:44] And long-term knowing that this is if we don't do anything that's just going to get worse.

[7:23:49] I'm considering moving away or I don't know, and that I have made it to do that in the future.

[7:23:55] And plenty of people don't.

[7:23:56] For me, it's like a moderate quality of life effect whereas I can imagine people with less options

[7:24:02] who have asthma or more serious lung conditions or health problems just having their lives

[7:24:07] so heavily restricted or endangered and how horrible that is for people that live in the city.

[7:24:13] The last big thing is transportation is also very important to me.

[7:24:17] I rely on bike and public transport.

[7:24:19] I can't afford a car like money in my generation.

[7:24:23] The idea with limiting bikeways or getting rid of them is ridiculous.

[7:24:27] I mean, to me, it's common sense to expand them because right now, even this public transportation exists today,

[7:24:34] I can only travel so far and this city isn't even a whole city for me.

[7:24:39] It's already severely limiting my ability to find a work.

[7:24:42] And to be a part of my city in my community,

[7:24:46] and yeah, so I'm asking the city to properly address these real practical concerns for Edmontonians, and on a more general global scale, I'm being my part here today to speak up for my little corner of the world to try and mitigate such a terrifying long-term global problem, it works, and it's the best that we can all do. Thank you for listening.

[7:25:09] Thank you very much and let's see so we've got

[7:25:17] wait I don't think I got

[7:25:22] Melanie Hoffman in the mind.

[7:25:24] Yeah, oh sorry Melanie Hoffman.

[7:25:32] I am driving on my way right now but I'll take the opportunity to share my thoughts here so you didn't want me on the advisory committee anymore.

[7:25:44] Still not over that.

[7:25:46] A group of many of them here.

[7:25:48] Seven years ago, when the City of Edmonton declared a climate emergency, I was working

[7:25:54] on a climate solution, virtualization, for chemistry education, as a chemistry educator,

[7:26:01] and become very clear, that it was responsible for us to ensure that our first Syrian

[7:26:07] university students understood how chemistry helps us know that it's human activity that

[7:26:14] causing a change in climate and that it's really bad, but that, you know, you can also like very nicely turn that around and say it's good that it's us because we could do something about that.

[7:26:26] And was very proud to see the city of Edmonton declare climate emergency, the community energy transition strategy was underway already.

[7:26:34] Good work has happened, and even with that plan that had timelines,

[7:26:49] we have underperformed

[7:26:50] and in the words of a fellow presenter back in 2019, when I first spoke at City Council,

[7:26:56] when I first reluctantly became politically active because politicians are not doing enough

[7:27:02] to listen to the clients and support being given by independent advisors.

[7:27:11] When we slowly is still losing, and that is what we've been doing for the last seven years,

[7:27:16] we have not reached the goals that have been set.

[7:27:18] And now you're dealing with an administration that thinks it's appropriate to bring forward

[7:27:23] priorities that are, have no funding attached to them, that have no timelines attached

[7:27:28] to them.

[7:27:29] What is going on?

[7:27:31] Do you, does your administration have your back with the priorities that you have stated?

[7:27:36] I think we were all very expected to have got elected to represent us in the last municipal election, but there are some big questions,

[7:27:57] speaking to the fact that you've not heard of that, we're going to see this kind

[7:28:03] of, I think we have a lot of reports that the city has commissioned in the past that showed that we know that we are increasingly, even if we take all of these actions in the upcoming

[7:28:20] please,

[7:28:21] If

[7:28:25] you find my

[7:28:28] devices back in touch with your administration, lobbyists will have lots of

[7:28:34] time and money here we all are.

[7:28:37] Thank you.

[7:28:38] Thank you.

[7:28:39] Thank you.

[7:28:40] Thank you.

[7:28:41] I'll just do a final check-in for Sabahah Nova.

[7:28:48] Okay.

[7:28:49] I think that's all of the speakers that we're here.

[7:28:53] That was almost everyone.

[7:28:54] There were only a few that weren't able to join it looks like.

[7:28:57] Any questions for this panel before we go on to questions of administration not

[7:29:07] seeing any so thank you

[7:29:08] Well to this panel. I know it was a longer one, but in interest of trying to get this meeting get to a point of conclusion

[7:29:14] It's it worked out well. Thank you everyone really appreciate your willingness to shorten timelines so that we can move on to questions of administration right now

[7:29:23] Councillor Tang, did you want to

[7:29:25] Serve with questions?

[7:29:26] Sure. Yeah, thank you. I think just wanted to kind of speak to some of the comments raised by speakers around.

[7:29:35] Concrete plan timelines. We have a number of action here. What is most priority?

[7:29:42] You know, how do you come break that down? Can you just speak to that bit?

[7:29:48] Sure, Councillor.

[7:29:51] So what's in front of committee today is the 27 actions and they were prepared so that they were all actionable and virtually.

[7:30:00] So what is in front of Council are ones that can move forward. We have the prerequisites in place to move forward if funding is in place.

[7:30:10] And so any of those actions that do get invested in definitely do support and our objectives of meeting our climate goals in terms of adaptation and mitigation.

[7:30:24] So everything within those actions is a viable short-term action that we have thoroughly tested to ensure it's adding value to reach our goals.

[7:30:35] So all of it.

[7:30:37] All of it, but knowing that all of it might be really challenging to support.

[7:30:42] And that's what most communities around the world are challenged with is how can we support the full extent of knowing what needs to be done.

[7:30:51] But even a few moves us in the right direction.

[7:30:55] So we're not suggesting everything would be fantastic,

[7:30:59] but being pragmatic.

[7:31:01] Well, via Top 5, for example.

[7:31:03] And for some of these knowing how long implementation

[7:31:07] can be through all of them for all four years

[7:31:13] of during the budget cycle, for example,

[7:31:18] what's your Top 5?

[7:31:19] and what can be done in your one, for example?

[7:31:25] So, I'll maybe look to the team here in a minute, but thinking about where do our most of our missions come?

[7:31:30] For thinking about mitigation.

[7:31:33] It's around land use, buildings, how are cities developed and how our buildings are fueled and efficiency.

[7:31:40] And then, as well, how a maintenance move around the community.

[7:31:44] Those are nearly 70% of our community emissions.

[7:31:47] is around land use buildings and transportation.

[7:31:49] So anything that targets those are really important.

[7:31:54] I know someone I call these have questions about timelines,

[7:31:57] so I'll let them get to that as well.

[7:32:04] I think I have 30 seconds.

[7:32:07] But I think where my head is at too is all

[7:32:10] of this really important.

[7:32:12] City can't accomplish it all, right?

[7:32:14] And as you say, for example, I will love to know

[7:32:18] which, which one of these will be most prone and most ready and ripe for

[7:32:26] partnership investment, you know, what is most ready for federal opportunity

[7:32:31] what is most ready for private sector, you know, there's some, anyways, I'm done, okay.

[7:32:37] Thank you. I'll do two things first. I'm just going to do a motion to extend to 530. We don't need

[7:32:46] to go to 530 to be very clear, but I will make the motion to extend to 530.

[7:32:51] Any questions on that?

[7:32:56] Seeing none.

[7:32:57] Anyone want to speak?

[7:33:00] Seeing none, please vote.

[7:33:03] Emma, yes?

[7:33:04] Thank you, Councillor Farmer.

[7:33:10] Councillor Elliot, I'm just checking if you're with us.

[7:33:18] Possibly not.

[7:33:19] We may just mark him up.

[7:33:20] Okay, that's fine.

[7:33:20] No problem.

[7:33:21] We have a vote.

[7:33:21] Thank you, please.

[7:33:22] This is by the vote.

[7:33:24] That is carried forward as zero.

[7:33:27] Also, I'll move the recommendation in the report

[7:33:29] noting that I, or did you see one? Okay, so I'll move the recommendation and the report,

[7:33:34] noting there will be many subsequent, because this recommendation has to go to council,

[7:33:38] everything else can be moved by committee. So, I'll just move this first, which is as

[7:33:44] right in here, that it's 2027 update, climate implementation priorities, instead of the attachment,

[7:33:48] one of the report, be adopted as updates to the city's climate change adaptation plan and

[7:33:53] change mitigation plan. Very quick introduction. There's a lot more to come in the

[7:33:59] subsequent, so I don't want to spend as much time for me on this. I mean, it's

[7:34:04] important to adopt these. Cats go to council and again, just flagging that this

[7:34:09] committee can't recommend or can't fund all of those actions. That would have to

[7:34:15] come to council and there will be something in the subsequent about creating

[7:34:18] service packages for council's consideration as well as a few different ideas around

[7:34:22] we might find it. So just so folks who are listening in because I know we still have a lot of folks who

[7:34:27] joined us about that. So I'll turn it over to Council Salvedo for questions and I might have some

[7:34:31] after that. Go ahead. Great. Thank you. And thanks so much for all the work that went into this.

[7:34:38] My questions are primarily going to build on some of the things that I was asking of our speakers around

[7:34:44] implementation plan, timelines,

[7:34:48] and yeah, where to, from here, obviously there's

[7:34:52] a budget component and looking forward to the subsequent that sounds like it's

[7:34:56] coming related to that, but I think it's really, yeah, just really critical that

[7:35:02] there's a through line so that we can see the schedule, the metrics, the associated

[7:35:09] outcomes with each of the action items themselves.

[7:35:11] So you're looking for some commentary on that piece?

[7:35:17] Yeah, sure.

[7:35:20] So once we understand, once administration understands

[7:35:24] what Council is funding later in the budget deliberations,

[7:35:30] we'll then be able to assign implementation plans

[7:35:35] and work through how do we action the actions that have been funded?

[7:35:40] And then there's regular reporting.

[7:35:42] So there's annual financial reporting of our climate budget and progress.

[7:35:48] There is also a publicly posted action status of all of the actions from the strategies,

[7:35:55] but these would be part of that on our website.

[7:36:01] And in any other opportunities we've got throughout the year to talk to Council and committee about progress.

[7:36:06] Okay

[7:36:10] that's helpful to understand yeah I do wonder like I lean towards sort of

[7:36:17] explicitly providing that direction just to make sure that we get that back

[7:36:21] relatively soon after budget is administration open to that. Yeah that could

[7:36:26] be very helpful for us to to make sure there's clarity of expectation and what

[7:36:31] we're all collectively looking to achieve. So yes that would be welcome. Okay great

[7:36:38] I think I might wait until there's something else on the floor to ask some more detailed questions,

[7:36:44] but that's great for now. Thanks. Sure, thank you. Just a few for me on this on this item,

[7:36:50] and then there might be some on the subsequent.

[7:36:53] So I think I want to ask just about it,

[7:36:55] and I think Councillor Ting was asking about some of this already. There are a number of items in here that

[7:37:00] curious if Ep Corps and or are utility can take the lead on and and one

[7:37:06] it's get a sense of do you do you see opportunities for that even though

[7:37:10] it might not be the initial thought process on it

[7:37:15] yeah there's many of the

[7:37:17] actions and and we heard from speakers that that the actions don't necessarily

[7:37:22] have a delivery who is delivering on these that was purposeful because there's

[7:37:27] a number of different paths for the actions and

[7:37:30] Folks like Epcorp, organizations like Epcorp, absolutely can be part of these actions, and we have been exploring and we'll continue to explore how we can further leverage those opportunities, where there is alignment.

[7:37:46] And we regularly work with Epcorp to ensure there's alignment between their actions and what we're trying to achieve.

[7:37:52] because there's a case to be made.

[7:37:53] I mean, we did this, I mean, obviously the flood mitigation programs a little, this was, but,

[7:37:57] you know, that is a large program that's ultimately funded through the utility, and that's

[7:38:02] the way we are able to fund that.

[7:38:04] So, assuming these actually align with a utilities body of work, that could be a place where

[7:38:10] we could fund some of these because we, I don't know, I don't see a path for all of the

[7:38:15] 200 at the moment, but this is a way to potentially do that.

[7:38:21] I think so noting that I'm just going to tackle right now we also and again there's a few packages that already have had motions past the transit improvements

[7:38:36] the wildlife urban interface actor transportation separate coming soon

[7:38:40] maybe

[7:38:42] depending

[7:38:43] but that would be on those are the three that you have direction or soon to be direction on correct

[7:38:50] did you list the wildfire as well

[7:38:53] do i say wildfire oh

[7:38:55] i left that one also there is a number three or four that we've got direction on already

[7:39:00] they will show up as on as service packages for council to consider

[7:39:04] I thought I said well, but yes, that is one, that's I've already identified that one, yes, good, so that one we don't need to worry about.

[7:39:14] And, you know, do we have any examples? I'm not going to have enough time, can I?

[7:39:20] Just on the dollar figures, if I were to look at table 3-1 in attachment 3, maybe I'm not just understanding how to add these up.

[7:39:31] But, if I were to add up all the plus and the double plus items, they come up to be around 26 million.

[7:39:40] So, I'm just, can you explain that portion about how to, how is a 123 million is built into profiles and packages for budget already?

[7:39:49] Yeah, I'll give a try at it. So there's the two symbols. There's the plus, which indicates that that item has partial existing funding on it, but not full funding.

[7:40:00] So only a portion of that amount. Sure. Yeah.

[7:40:03] Be funded and then the plus plus is fully funded. Yeah. So even taking that to account.

[7:40:08] It's still 26 million, not 123 million.

[7:40:11] Is one is one crazy.

[7:40:13] The 123 million. So what we didn't identify in that table were the.

[7:40:20] The actions where we are projecting to potentially have unfunded.

[7:40:24] Or prioritized unfunded packages. This is just the existing funding that I'm already.

[7:40:30] That's going to be 500.

[7:40:32] That's the 5 million.

[7:40:33] Gotcha.

[7:40:34] Okay, so it's not 26.

[7:40:35] It's 5.

[7:40:39] And so the rest are the ones that administration's going to be bringing forward.

[7:40:42] And then we still have an outstanding of 129 that you require some sort of motion to direct that.

[7:40:48] That would be correct.

[7:40:51] I just had a just to clarify for me one of which.

[7:40:58] For example, Action 7,

[7:41:03] for expanding the Attitude Transportation Network.

[7:41:08] This is part of the 129, correct?

[7:41:13] That's not correct.

[7:41:20] Because I'm thinking about the overlap with the mobility network assessment discussion

[7:41:25] we had a few months ago.

[7:41:27] We were able to talk about the four composite profiles, one of which was the Attage Transportation profile and coming out of that entire discussion.

[7:41:38] We understood that no motion was required because all four of those is going to be brought forward by administration.

[7:41:46] And I'm just wondering, is this the same one?

[7:41:49] And if that one is going to be coming forward, why is this one in this report not going to be brought forward?

[7:41:55] Do I mean?

[7:41:56] Yeah, I think so. Okay. And just acknowledging that this is a bit of a confusing time to talk about this.

[7:42:02] It is an eve of budget, but yes, I do believe that that 30 million in action seven is that same.

[7:42:09] Is the same one as package that was requested to be brought forward earlier this year?

[7:42:14] So then this one should be falling to that 123 bucket.

[7:42:16] I believe you're right. Okay. Great. Thank you.

[7:42:19] Thank you, Councillor Salvador.

[7:42:21] Yeah, thanks. I guess I will ask questions now and I won't wait.

[7:42:23] Um, I had the same question, so in that, in that 30, that was part of the mobility network assessment.

[7:42:31] Can I just have a reminder that my, my understanding was that that was limited to closing missing links.

[7:42:39] Um, I think potentially upgrading substandard routes, but there wasn't a ton of expansion of our, of our actor transit network that was included in that.

[7:42:48] Is that correct?

[7:42:50] That is correct.

[7:42:51] Both are correct.

[7:42:52] Okay, so that 30 mil is around existing network and sort of adding improvements, but if there was a desire to actually continue with the expansion of our network would there need to be additional direction.

[7:43:08] Yeah, so it does include the gaps and the improvements, it does have some expansion elements

[7:43:15] to connect to some of those gaps that would connect to perhaps a renewal project, so it

[7:43:21] would be a rather large expansion, but if we're looking at the same magnitude of expansion

[7:43:27] that we currently are working on, finishing that program, that is not this.

[7:43:33] Okay, gosh, so those are separate.

[7:43:34] That's good clarity. I have a question about the Clean Energy Improvement Program as well.

[7:43:42] Where are we at with the full-scale roll-out of the Clean Energy Improvement Program we heard from speakers.

[7:43:50] If I heard correctly, a little bit of concern around weight lists, can I get an update on that?

[7:44:00] is livia, director livia belong to online?

[7:44:05] I'm here.

[7:44:07] We have launched the Clean Energy Improvement Program, the Permanent Program.

[7:44:13] Our uptake has been great.

[7:44:17] So much so that we are going to need,

[7:44:21] need to be coming to the council next year,

[7:44:23] with a Bala to amend the Permanent

[7:44:26] see a program by a lot to increase the 20 million maximum.

[7:44:31] And so currently we do have a waiting list.

[7:44:33] Part of the waiting list as well as Alberta municipalities,

[7:44:36] who's our main delivery agent for this,

[7:44:40] has a lot of applications in the system right now and so we're delayed.

[7:44:45] Okay, but that work is continuing.

[7:44:47] There's no need to provide additional direction right now.

[7:44:50] That's going to come back to Council for us to ensure that the capacity is there for people to keep

[7:44:54] in to and for that program to keep growing.

[7:44:57] That's correct.

[7:44:58] We consider it more of a foundational program.

[7:45:00] Okay, good to hear. I may come back. I'll plant the question right now, just around continued focus on growing in and up and all the good work that we've been doing around densification, transferring to development, just looking for where that fits in and how we can continue the momentum that we have started down that path.

[7:45:25] Thank you, and where does that fit in?

[7:45:31] Absolutely.

[7:45:32] We try to cover a little bit in the presentation in terms of the priorities in front of

[7:45:38] committee that was here today where things that were undone still.

[7:45:43] And in terms of the land use regulations, making sure the city plan was in place, making

[7:45:48] sure the zoning bylaw was redone to facilitate that vision, revising standards, creating

[7:45:54] district plans, removing old statutory area redevelopment plans. All of that work was completed

[7:46:00] and we're starting to see the fruit of that land use component of the strategy.

[7:46:04] Great. Thank you. Do we have any examples in the past cycle budget cycle of climate

[7:46:09] upgrades who you've made and the operational costs savings that we've had or cost avoidance?

[7:46:14] I know that was a harder question to ask a while ago. I think Councillor Stevens asked

[7:46:17] that a long time ago. Do we have that now?

[7:46:20] I could share a few examples, so there's, I would say, two types of kind of cost savings

[7:46:27] that we've been seeing over the last budget cycle.

[7:46:30] So one we received grant from InterCAN, which allowed us to go in and upgrade or tinker

[7:46:37] with sort of our building energy systems.

[7:46:40] And so we were able to pilot 10 city facilities.

[7:46:42] So this isn't going in and adding insulation.

[7:46:44] This isn't going in, adding new equipment.

[7:46:46] This is just adjusting the settings in our energy systems.

[7:46:51] And through that pilot, we saw a $310,000

[7:46:53] in annual savings in our energy bills.

[7:46:57] And then there's been some on the other side.

[7:46:59] So that's sort of one bucket of easier type of improvements.

[7:47:05] And then there's the harder ones.

[7:47:06] So this is going in and actually upgrading infrastructure

[7:47:10] within those buildings.

[7:47:12] And there's a few facilities that we've seen

[7:47:14] like the moot heart conservatory that renovation saved about $40,000, $43,000 annually in

[7:47:23] energy, the ACT Recreation Center has a smaller energy footprint but almost $20,000 in savings,

[7:47:33] the Mitchell Transit Garage, between those physical changes and those energy savings is about

[7:47:40] So we're starting to capture that data that we maybe didn't have before and because we can base that off previous historical amounts for your pain versus what we're paying out, which is last so we can start to see that.

[7:47:53] I think I have a hundred questions, but I am going to stop to get moving to the next thing that Councillor Tank.

[7:47:59] No, no, go ahead. That's all right. I'm going to stop myself, but you can keep asking questions at the end of the time.

[7:48:04] That's whenever.

[7:48:05] I think you go ahead and ask questions and we'll do this one.

[7:48:08] Can you answer my earlier question to surround like out of all these actions, which ones

[7:48:12] are most ripe for those kind of our most investment ready to address those external sources?

[7:48:19] So when we look at, I'll answer and then I'll pass the team for other examples, but probably

[7:48:25] the most recent is the Government of Canada announced a new program, Canada Green or

[7:48:30] programs, the province has signed on to it as well and the city has been invited to participate.

[7:48:36] So that is millions of dollars potentially from funds outside of the community that we will

[7:48:41] be able to access and that's in relation to action three building use and more specifically there's

[7:48:48] a bullet point in that action talking about those in energy poverty so making sure that we're not

[7:48:53] leaving anybody behind in the transition and so that's a most recent example and I'll maybe ask

[7:49:00] team if there's any others.

[7:49:03] We're seeing definitely this is a dynamic space that has lots of announcements in it and

[7:49:10] there is not too long ago a federal announcement for the 51 billion dollars for the build

[7:49:15] community strong fund that also included a six billion dollar stream for FCM by their

[7:49:22] green municipal fund for climate adaptation and clean energy projects.

[7:49:28] but broadly in these 27 actions we were really trying to identify different pathways for partnership

[7:49:35] and all those actions so that you'll see actions like having private sector funding to

[7:49:42] install EV charters on city property, same with solar, we're also seeing that there's partners,

[7:49:48] some have shown up today who are willing to deliver like community programming or convert their

[7:49:55] facilities to support sort of that really resilience hub.

[7:50:00] Yeah, space.

[7:50:00] And I'm also thinking even district energy, for example.

[7:50:03] Yeah, there are some opportunities there.

[7:50:05] So for me, like those are, like, potentially priorities,

[7:50:10] if there are those opportunities ready, right?

[7:50:15] Just on that point, with a group like EcoTrust, this is something we've always invested

[7:50:23] for many years and for each dollar investor we get a return of six or nine or twelve. Sometimes

[7:50:30] I was I was actually curious like it doesn't actually show up in the implement in this in this report.

[7:50:36] For example, how do we capture those kinds of I guess achievements or or a track record or is it just

[7:50:46] for something separate? So in terms of of looking backwards at the progress that we've made and

[7:50:53] of the dollars we've been able to leverage.

[7:50:57] Yeah, that's a really good point. We do record and try

[7:51:01] to celebrate all of those. Yeah, I think I bring that up just because, you know, if there's a

[7:51:07] good thing that's working, how do we do more of that? And does that kind of capture in one of these

[7:51:14] actions that we can kind of further build on? So just I feel like when you'll workshop on this

[7:51:19] implementation report to kind of really dive into so many of these things.

[7:51:25] It's all set there.

[7:51:26] Thank you.

[7:51:27] Those are all the questions for this, noting that we're about to have a couple

[7:51:30] of different subsequent motions.

[7:51:32] Anyone wishing to speak to this specific motion?

[7:51:37] I'm going to speak to you, everyone.

[7:51:39] Councillor Tain.

[7:51:40] I'll speak to you all.

[7:51:41] I'll speak very quickly as I close to say, as we've heard from many of the speakers,

[7:51:45] if we just approve this motion, it wouldn't be enough.

[7:51:48] That would simply just be a proving words on a piece of paper,

[7:51:50] So it's actually not good enough we need the other motions that are coming up.

[7:51:53] So I'll support this, but noting that this alone, it's really great work,

[7:51:58] but I just need to say, I think as many speakers said,

[7:52:01] if all we did is to prove this, this doesn't actually get us where we need to go as a city,

[7:52:04] we need to do the additional steps after so, please vote.

[7:52:12] I mean, yes, thank you Councillor Palmer.

[7:52:17] Councillor Elliott, I'm just checking if we're back online.

[7:52:25] Yes, I mean, yes, as well.

[7:52:27] Thank you.

[7:52:28] We have a vote.

[7:52:28] Thank you.

[7:52:29] Please just wait a little.

[7:52:31] That is carried five to zero. Okay. All make a subsequent motion. It's a long one.

[7:52:41] Four parts. The administration, number one, the administration advanced the implementation of the actions requiring no additional funding, as identified in attachment three of the September 2nd, 2021 report.

[7:52:53] Number two, the administration prepared unfunded capital profiles are unfunded service packages for each of the following actions as identified in the report.

[7:53:00] Climate implementation priorities, and not going to read each one, and I'll just read the numbers.

[7:53:05] A, action 3, B, action 9, C, action 10,

[7:53:08] D, action 11, E, action 13, F, action 15, G, action 16,

[7:53:13] H, action 20, the actions are written in full on the screen there.

[7:53:18] That's the due date for budget deliberations later this year.

[7:53:22] Number three, that administration provide a report outlining options for establishing a dedicated revolving

[7:53:29] climate fun to capture and accumulate financial savings and revenues generated through climate-related

[7:53:35] initiatives and reinvest those funds into implementing the city's climate action plans.

[7:53:40] That's a due date of 2nd quarter of 2027 and then finally that administration provider report

[7:53:44] with an implementation plan for all actions listed in the climate implementation priorities

[7:53:49] included but not limited to timelines, schedules, measurements, and expected outcomes.

[7:53:54] Also do date second quarter 2027. I'll do a quick intro. I'll do a quick I'll do an introduction

[7:54:02] So a point one should be fairly self-explanatory. We do have some no cost options some options that we can capture within that

[7:54:10] That and we need to just move on those. There's no reason not to advance those

[7:54:14] That's again a just a quick quick win

[7:54:17] point two is a number of items that we would I would like more information on and the

[7:54:23] details to help inform a possible funding decision. And even at a minimum, if this is a plan

[7:54:30] to do this over the entirety of the budget, it's things to get them ready. Because if new federal

[7:54:37] programs come available tomorrow, these are things that I think we would want to make sure

[7:54:41] ready and ready to go. There's a few other actions that I think are ones that we can do in partnership

[7:54:47] with our utility and we can work on those separate from this. But these are the ones that I

[7:54:53] we need to get that work done to have in front of us right away.

[7:54:59] The point three is I won't take any credit for this.

[7:55:02] I think this is actually something Councillor Stevens

[7:55:03] and had been asking for over the years about this idea of where we are capturing savings.

[7:55:10] Can we take those savings, those measurable savings,

[7:55:13] and put them back into the things that we need to do?

[7:55:16] It might not be giant dollar amounts,

[7:55:18] but every bit helps if we're trying to figure out how to pay for these actions

[7:55:23] that we here are so clearly needed.

[7:55:26] The final piece, and I'll again, this is just me lumping in Councillor Salvador's writing,

[7:55:31] so Councillor Salvador wrote this motion, that point of the motion in point four, around

[7:55:35] the implementation plan, so it just made more sense to put it all together, it's something

[7:55:40] that had been asked about from gosh almost every speaker I think we heard today of having

[7:55:44] a clear implementation plan being able to report back on that, so that is also captured

[7:55:49] in this motion here as well.

[7:55:51] So it's a long four-part motion, but very necessary to continue the work and actually show

[7:55:59] the action needed and set us up for our budget conversation.

[7:56:04] So happy to take questions or you can of course ask questions on the administration right

[7:56:08] now.

[7:56:10] There is Councillor Tain?

[7:56:11] Just a quick one.

[7:56:12] So the part two, there's all these actions.

[7:56:15] Can you just clarify, I don't know, maybe a administration, which of these is operating,

[7:56:20] which is capital.

[7:56:29] Councilor Tang, we might have to take that away when we develop this

[7:56:31] local packages between operating capital. Yeah, there's a lot to dive into. Okay, thank you.

[7:56:36] Thank you, Councillor Saladar. Yeah, thank you. So just to make sure I sort of understand,

[7:56:43] understand everything. The things that are included in part two will be coming to budget,

[7:56:49] it, debated at that time, and then a decent chunk of the actions require no additional

[7:56:59] funding at this point, and can just be advanced right away, right? So that's what I'm

[7:57:04] understanding. Correct? Like, on the full 27. Correct. Okay, so it's not like you would

[7:57:09] need additional direction to do that, which is why it's not explicitly included in the

[7:57:12] motion, but that long list is already happening. Correct. And just for clarity, the service

[7:57:18] packages that committee and council have already previous this previously

[7:57:22] this year are not here. Those will in addition show up as well.

[7:57:25] Gotcha. Okay. So the wildfire piece bus rapid transit and then the

[7:57:29] active transportation are already accounted for which is why they're not

[7:57:33] listed here. Correct. And there's a few more reports coming to committee

[7:57:36] before budget that have the potential that the committee may ask for

[7:57:39] something as well. Okay. So, and then there's the additional category of

[7:57:43] potential partnerships, right, and so for the partnerships where, where would those

[7:57:51] conversations kind of loop back to counts? I wouldn't want to lose the threads on those.

[7:57:54] I think those are really important ones. Any thoughts around that piece?

[7:57:58] Yeah, and maybe a question for me. So my hope is anything not listed, which is, I think,

[7:58:03] one, two, three, four, five, or so that are captured that would be partners that administration

[7:58:09] is part of that Q2 report could come with that? I don't know if they want absolute clarity and making sure

[7:58:14] that's captured, but that would be my expectation.

[7:58:17] And maybe just human?

[7:58:18] Yeah, we wouldn't require that clarity. I think that's a really good thing that we would look to report on.

[7:58:24] Okay, great. So when we get that in Q2, 2027, all items would be accounted for in that implementation plan,

[7:58:33] that are listed in the 27.

[7:58:34] correct and and that report would talk about then the mechanism of the who who is

[7:58:39] able to okay so that delivery component of it okay good um I think that that

[7:58:47] clear stuff thanks uh thank you I know Council Palmer out just wishes to speak to it

[7:58:55] and I think I'm just going to double check to see if I have any pressing questions

[7:59:01] but can't be answered in Q2.

[7:59:07] No, I think I'm good, I don't want to speak to it.

[7:59:09] Yeah, Councillor Tank, please go ahead.

[7:59:13] I think this is clear, but just that part three

[7:59:16] for the dedicated revolving climate fund, I like it.

[7:59:19] And is obviously the point of it

[7:59:21] is for to be self-perpetuating,

[7:59:28] right?

[7:59:29] Yes, to fund some of these, perhaps,

[7:59:32] like lower-hings.

[7:59:33] Yeah, be low-hanging, a little bit.

[7:59:35] of those major capital funds, maybe more interest on debt rate.

[7:59:46] Sorry, I just want to come back to the federal program you were mentioning.

[7:59:51] I think that was tied to action 3, which I do see here.

[7:59:55] Do you need direction to pursue that?

[8:00:00] So this motion gives us that direction. Perfect. Okay. That's great. Just one double check. Thank you. Thank you.

[8:00:08] I think that's it for questions. It's all good. Yeah. Questions. So now we can move to speaking. I know there's still other subsequent motions on this. Councillor Primer, you wish to speak to this motion.

[8:00:23] Sorry, no, no, just wait. Councillor Palmer. Councillor Elliott does have questions.

[8:00:29] Please go ahead and you can ask more than one if you want to, Councillor Elliott.

[8:00:34] Thank you, Mayor. And hopefully, might as it goes through quite well on one evening with my

[8:00:38] connection. I'm just trying to rationalize this in my head and this is for administration.

[8:00:43] When we talk about the decarbonization we look at the buses and everything, will you also

[8:00:48] I'll try to bring back in the report.

[8:00:51] I was like a tiered level of how things were unfolded.

[8:00:56] I know if you can have to do that's enough information in the question through elaborate.

[8:01:02] That's what I'll read.

[8:01:03] It's urgent here with freedom of disability services.

[8:01:05] We could have been back at your approach, but there's many initiatives under way that we'd like to highlight that we'd also fit in with no cost or no cost bucket.

[8:01:12] Such as operator behavior policies we have in place to replace new vehicles with hybrid to available, etc.

[8:01:19] So we can definitely bring something forward that has a tiered approach in terms of the

[8:01:25] rapidness of decarbonization that we're looking for.

[8:01:27] There has been a lot of what that's been done with the previous 11.2 million dollars as

[8:01:33] a part of the 22-26 budget that has already advanced our goal towards 24-in 2050 for

[8:01:40] the city fleet.

[8:01:41] Okay, thank you.

[8:01:42] And to the mover, I think Mayor Ryu, the mover on this one, yes, that's correct.

[8:01:47] And with, I would like to see something tiered, I don't know, does that need to be changed in the motion or, or, I look at friendly, or is that okay to be implemented if I ask something like that?

[8:01:57] I feel like, you know, again, we're going to get a report back in Q2 about all of the actions will have things coming up to budget that would be, I mean, there's a scale of dollar amounts, so I think, even just practically there has to be a bit of a tiering knowing that we've got certain budget constraints going into December

[8:02:15] and then in Q2 for all the other things, there's going to be a scalable factor, there's going to be a lot of that.

[8:02:22] So I'm not looking to pre, you know, to essentially tie their hands on anything on that.

[8:02:29] So two years.

[8:02:30] Okay.

[8:02:31] Thank you, Kevin.

[8:02:32] Thank you.

[8:02:34] Okay.

[8:02:34] I think that's it for questions.

[8:02:37] We'll move to speaking in Councillor Palmer.

[8:02:40] Does which just speak?

[8:02:41] So please go ahead.

[8:02:44] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[8:02:45] Yeah, you know, I think for me, when we look at the report, 75% were supportive, but they also considered the potential trade-offs for funding.

[8:03:01] And so I think there was, you know, when we look at our budget engagement, this topic falls in the bottom five.

[8:03:10] And so it is going to be a really hard budget with a lot of trade-offs.

[8:03:15] I would have initially thought to split out point two, but I do appreciate that it would

[8:03:21] be helpful to have the profiles in the instance that other levels of government that have

[8:03:26] much more funding for the environmental requirements, such as a federal government, you know,

[8:03:33] maybe able to come up without some programs.

[8:03:35] So I will be supporting this motion, but with very heavy, just when we think about budget

[8:03:42] and how we're trading off priorities, and with a huge structural budget variance on

[8:03:47] our infrastructure already, I just wanted to kind of caveat that part of option to there.

[8:03:56] So thank you very much.

[8:03:58] Thank you very much, Kelsvertain.

[8:04:00] Yeah, I think, like I mentioned, this is a really significant rapport with lots of actions,

[8:04:10] lots of, and I actually guess a little bit confusing in terms of what has already been brought forward.

[8:04:16] Does it overlap with what we have here?

[8:04:18] And I think we need some time to kind of dissect through that.

[8:04:22] Because I'm also thinking about some of the past conversations around transit,

[8:04:26] and some of the decisions may vary that may potentially kind of overlap what we have here as well.

[8:04:33] So, you know, at least this just allows us to have that conversation up budget, which I'm sure,

[8:04:38] you know, today won't be the last time we discussed this.

[8:04:42] So, with that, and I also appreciate some of the things before we're here,

[8:04:49] including the dedicated revolving climate fund.

[8:04:51] You know, I think we've been asking this question about how our investments have been generating savings, and I know for a bit, it wasn't that clear, and I feel like with some of the examples here today, that's really helpful.

[8:05:06] And positions this portfolio with a bit of a plan for self-sustainability, so I do appreciate exploring that as a tool.

[8:05:17] And with that, I'll be supporting this today.

[8:05:20] Thank you, Councillor Elliott.

[8:05:26] Thank you Mayor.

[8:05:29] I think I'm going to support this because there are many aspects in it that are significant. And that we need to look at but I'm also cognizant that coming up with her budget deliberations.

[8:05:42] This is going to be a difficult year for all of us and trying to balance out the cost on

[8:05:52] Edmontonians from the taxpayers and I'm hoping that we can find evers like two grants and other aspects to offset costs.

[8:06:01] You can probably hear the hesitation in my voice because I'm not retreating over.

[8:06:05] I'll support this knowing that we have a delicate and the date that we have to come up with here.

[8:06:12] I'm no member in December, but thank you.

[8:06:14] Thank you, Councillor Saladar.

[8:06:15] Yeah, thanks so much.

[8:06:18] And thank you for putting this motion forward.

[8:06:20] I actually just want to begin by thanking all the speakers

[8:06:22] who took the time to be with us today

[8:06:23] and for your advocacy,

[8:06:26] burden really, really interesting and challenging time right now

[8:06:31] where it seems like there are a lot of voices

[8:06:32] who are trying to minimize the impacts and realities of climate change.

[8:06:36] So conversations like this are critically important

[8:06:39] as we continue to underscore the urgency of this work.

[8:06:42] So, so thank you for that, and it's been really reaffirming, and then it's partying

[8:06:48] to hear the folks who are continuing to voice their concerns and push for more action.

[8:06:58] I have been thinking about the very obvious and clear impacts that we're seeing in our communities,

[8:07:03] and despite some conversations around climate becoming quieter, I've been saying this all summer,

[8:07:08] but the impacts are very loud, more frequent, and extreme weather, hotter summers, heavier rainfall, damaging storm, and wildfire smoke.

[8:07:15] Smoke, all the things that speakers were sharing this morning are very real, and they're having serious consequences for people's, people's enjoyment of their own communities.

[8:07:27] their health, their economic life.

[8:07:30] All being, it's so far reaching and wide-ranging.

[8:07:35] But then I also root myself in the reality that the vast majority of

[8:07:38] that maintenance and all burdens and Canadians are concerned about climate change. And they want to see action, take into

[8:07:43] protect our communities. I'm also reflecting on the reality that has an organization. We know that climate change has been identified as one of the top four risks facing the city of

[8:07:59] every year. And it is far more affordable for all of us to invest in mitigation and adaptation

[8:08:07] today than wait for costly and damaging consequences. And I think we've done some really excellent

[8:08:13] work to address climate change. There's still a long list of urgent actions that we need to

[8:08:18] advance, including the ones that are identified in this update. And a lot of the levers that we have

[8:08:25] uniceably as they relate to climate change are quite powerful. Land use and transportation are two of the biggest

[8:08:30] contributors to climate change. And we have those essential tools in our toolkit.

[8:08:35] I think about the work we've done around zoning reform and allowing for more

[8:08:41] transferring to development, more walkable bikeable transit oriented lifestyles that are lower carbon by design.

[8:08:47] I think about the work that's underway to expand our best rapid transit network. There's a

[8:08:53] of excellent things in the works and we need to keep that momentum going.

[8:08:56] So again, the actions in this plan, while they're not exhaustive, they're concrete ways that we can advance action in the, in the, in the new term.

[8:09:05] So I'm very supportive of this motion to advance all of these actions to budget and look forward to further discussion there.

[8:09:11] And again, my thanks to administration for their continued work on this critically important file.

[8:09:17] Thank you. So for me, I want to just start by noting how investing in climate work is one of the most important things we can do as a city.

[8:09:23] is a council, it aligns squarely with our council priorities, and really should be seen as a non-negotiable

[8:09:30] in our work. These investments span generations. The many of these assets have a lifespan of

[8:09:36] 50 to 100 years, and it could be decades before their renewal or replacement takes place.

[8:09:41] Every building that we build, every vehicle that we purchase, every tree that we plant, or don't,

[8:09:47] has an impact on our climate and our communities in our city.

[8:09:52] It's pretty sobering to think that the city is still not on track to meet its climate goals.

[8:09:57] And I remember the investments that we made in last budget about 371 million towards climate action, the largest investment made by any city council in Edmonton.

[8:10:07] And yet, while that could lead to feeling a bit discouraged, I actually think it's important to remain focused on the future goal of reducing our missions, adapting to a changing climate,

[8:10:16] and enabling an environment where climate solutions and green technologies and environmental sustainability

[8:10:21] is the preferred affordable and common sense choice.

[8:10:26] So those investments were the first tangible commitments to these strategies.

[8:10:29] They brought us a long way and we rapidly expanded our transportation active transportation network.

[8:10:34] So it's already heard in the Christmas building options we've retrofitted an upgraded much of our fleet infrastructure

[8:10:39] and enabled community uptake of climate solutions.

[8:10:43] But the work does need to continue.

[8:10:45] We saw the extreme weather events of this past year are still clear in my mind and probably many of our minds.

[8:10:52] I think about something like the Peter Hemingway pool of silly that just opened after years of renewal that was soon flooded after heavy rains.

[8:11:01] I wish I had a bit of a what if machine that could show us what would have happened had Council not approved the $1.6 billion flood mitigation program in 2019.

[8:11:11] Because my guess is that the cost that we would have incurred as a city, the summer, would have been just

[8:11:19] immeasurable in a way that I think justify why we need to make these types of investments.

[8:11:28] Now, because the fact that we had to do $1.6 billion, I've said this over and over again.

[8:11:32] I would have much rather put that money into so many other things, libraries, and rec centers,

[8:11:36] and fire halls and all of those great things instead we had to do it to help address a

[8:11:41] change in climate.

[8:11:43] So the motion that is before us today doesn't include all the priority actions listed

[8:11:48] in the report and that is intentional, it does acknowledge that there is a bit of a fiscal

[8:11:52] reality we have to navigate through, but it's also reflective of the items that can move

[8:11:58] us forward in the areas that are most within city control.

[8:12:02] And I don't think these are frivolous options, I think these are investments that are going

[8:12:06] protect our assets, reduce our costs, and ensure the safety of

[8:12:10] uh... uh... at mintonians and visitors and staff

[8:12:13] and finally just want to close by thanking all our members of the administration for

[8:12:16] the hard and important work that they do on to help us keep us on our climate

[8:12:20] commitments as well as all the public members who are continuing to hold our

[8:12:24] feet uh... to the fire on this and

[8:12:27] let's get to work so

[8:12:28] please hope

[8:12:36] three-way

[8:12:36] thank you to all our we have a vote

[8:12:39] thank you please this way of

[8:12:40] that is carried five to zero. We have additional substance

[8:12:46] cancer change. Yeah, I think there's a lot. Yeah, let's do it. I'll

[8:12:49] put forward three parts subsequent motion. That administration, one,

[8:12:54] that administration bring forward on fund service package for consideration

[8:12:57] by Council during the 2027-2030 budget deliberations. In the amount of 5

[8:13:02] million to support community climate implementation initiatives

[8:13:05] align with the climate implementation priorities 2027-2030 report,

[8:13:10] including partnership delivery through the Alberta EcoTrust Foundation.

[8:13:14] Two, the administration bring forward a unfunded service package for consideration by council during the

[8:13:19] 2027-2030 budget deliberations in the amount of 5 million to fund Alberta EcoTrust Foundation's

[8:13:26] Climate Innovation Fund in Dallment.

[8:13:29] And three, the administration explore the development of a formal partnership agreement with the

[8:13:34] Alberta EcoTrust Foundation to support implementation of climate-related initiatives,

[8:13:38] including consideration of governance structure, performance measures, funding accountability, and regular reporting to council.

[8:13:46] Thank you. Do you want to introduce?

[8:13:48] Yeah, since we're in the vein of bringing things to budget and sort of dissecting them there and having a discussion there,

[8:13:58] that's really the intent here for one and part one and two.

[8:14:04] So, this is a relationship that the city has had with an external agency for quite a number of years.

[8:14:12] And, you know, as I alluded to in my question earlier, if we have something good, I think we should amplify that and continue that relationship.

[8:14:21] And so, in the past, you know, I think we're for this four year budget cycle, we're changing our process a bit, but in the past,

[8:14:29] This portion has always been bedded in administration's own service package.

[8:14:34] We didn't have to initiate that on the council site. That's not the case this time.

[8:14:38] So, if we wanted the ability to waive this work against other priorities,

[8:14:45] if we want something that can leverage for every dollar that's investing for the $6.9 or $12 back,

[8:14:55] I think we should continue this and we should have this discussion in the fall.

[8:15:00] But we need to build a package now, so we can have that discussion.

[8:15:06] The second part is not too different, actually, from the dedicated revolving climate fund that to the mayor just before, earlier, with an intent to support a self-sustainability with a funding source that can continue the work for climate innovation.

[8:15:26] And this is to match the endowment that has started by the federal government, and for it to

[8:15:34] is essentially to be amplified.

[8:15:36] And then the third piece is something that I felt has been lacking for the past few years

[8:15:40] that we have a funding agreement, we have an MOU, but we don't actually hear a lot from

[8:15:45] EcoTrust, but they have some really, really minds who can provide some very important

[8:15:51] expert of vice when it comes to climate and that will really like to bring some of those

[8:15:57] perspectives back given that we no longer have a more formal advisory structure. So that's

[8:16:03] the intent for the three. Thank you. I haven't seen anyone click on for questions. Therefore,

[8:16:09] anyone wishing to speak?

[8:16:15] Let me check that chat because I know we have two virtuals. No,

[8:16:19] I know what you speak. I can't understand any closing comments. Yeah, go ahead. Just a couple

[8:16:23] to close off. So again, number one is program delivery and I think given what we just approved

[8:16:30] earlier, I think we can kind of see how these stack up come, come budget, but we need this

[8:16:35] work now to have that conversation later. And then number two is a little bit different. And I will

[8:16:40] also add, you know, we're also anticipating Calgary to make a similar contribution through their

[8:16:45] budget deliberation. So we don't want to lose to that. And then three is really around this accountability

[8:16:54] we should not be funding a partnership. We have not defined and I think this allows us to formalize that a bit more.

[8:17:01] So I would just leave it there and look forward to your support. Thank you.

[8:17:06] Thank you, please vote.

[8:17:18] Thank you, Councillor Palmer. We have a vote.

[8:17:21] Yeah, that's right. Sorry. Did you have all of them?

[8:17:24] I do, yes.

[8:17:24] Thank you. Please vote.

[8:17:28] It's carried five to zero. Council, Salvador, for your subsequent.

[8:17:31] Thank you. I'll move the administration in collaboration with AppCore, provide report assessing

[8:17:36] opportunities to advance the restoration and day lighting of historic and buried creeks in

[8:17:42] Edmonton and evaluate the potential benefits of these projects for erosion and flood mitigation,

[8:17:46] stormwater management, ecological health and climate resilience, including one assessed the

[8:17:52] potential for urban creek restoration, day lighting and related green infrastructure improvements

[8:17:55] to reduce flood risk, mitigate erosion, and enhance ecological health to consider previously

[8:18:01] studied or proposed day lighting, restoration, or other storm water management opportunities,

[8:18:06] including but not limited to mill creek, where these approaches could reduce erosion and flood

[8:18:10] risk, replace or defer conventional drainage infrastructure, improve watershed function,

[8:18:15] or reduce flood response and recovery costs, through re-identify opportunities to advance

[8:18:21] eligible components of these projects through app course stormwater integrated resource plan regional

[8:18:26] partnerships grants or other mechanisms for provide cost estimates and quantify where possible

[8:18:32] erosion and flood risk mitigation benefits stormwater management benefits environmental

[8:18:36] and community benefits and potential cost avoidance and finally recommend priority projects

[8:18:41] implementation options and next steps to advance one or more projects.

[8:18:45] Thank you.

[8:18:46] Do you want to go ahead and introduce?

[8:18:47] Yeah, that was, that was a long one, but but essentially what this motion does, it asks

[8:18:53] administration to come back with a report that would allow us to take a closer look at

[8:18:58] daylighting opportunities in our city. And this one really, I mean I've always been very interested

[8:19:03] in daylighting, I think it's a fantastic opportunity not only from a climate perspective but just

[8:19:08] from an ecological perspective, a livability perspective as well, and I witnessed Mill Creek

[8:19:17] when it did it itself, and I think it sparked something in me and a lot of other folks

[8:19:25] to have this conversation in a slightly different way.

[8:19:29] My understanding is that back in 2017 there were some preliminary conversations and

[8:19:34] done around daylighting opportunities, but at that time it wasn't fully explored from a

[8:19:41] flood mitigation perspective. I think that's a really interesting opportunity that I would

[8:19:46] like more information on. So the great thing about this motion is it does ask for administration

[8:19:52] to collaborate with EPCOR to see how this may fit in to some of the ongoing work that we're doing

[8:19:58] through our stormwater integrated service plan.

[8:20:03] Thank you.

[8:20:04] Councillor Taylor?

[8:20:06] I'm sorry.

[8:20:07] Administration just remind me why the 2017 Daylighting Project never went forward?

[8:20:17] I'm not sure if we know here today why the wind didn't move forward, but the focus

[8:20:23] as was noted was more around ecological health and restoration and not so much on the river

[8:20:29] defense and I think this sharpens it to be a little bit stronger focus on river defense,

[8:20:34] cream defense, flooding.

[8:20:36] Yeah, I think it has you with cost, but if you're bringing up core in, are you thinking

[8:20:43] that could help to offset that bit?

[8:20:45] Yes, sorry, obviously costs for sure would be substantial for full day lighting. And then

[8:20:52] if you're looking at the value and just the ecological value, there's a lot there, but it's

[8:20:55] or perhaps to justify the cost.

[8:20:57] But if we look at a flooding aspect and drainage aspect,

[8:21:02] perhaps that cost versus value equation changes

[8:21:05] and bringing up core into the picture,

[8:21:07] does potentially offer more opportunities?

[8:21:11] Yeah, I actually remember, I'm just going to speak

[8:21:15] to a few years ago at the Alberta Recreation

[8:21:19] and Park Association Conference.

[8:21:20] There was a presentation done around daylighting.

[8:21:24] It was an example out of Ontario and they were actually, they had reshow to eminent and, of course,

[8:21:31] to color about our flood medication strategy, to do their daylighting work, and I was really,

[8:21:37] kind of like, how are we not doing that instead? But we have the expertise.

[8:21:43] And I know this is kind of long time coming, so I'm interested in the information coming back,

[8:21:47] and I think it would be a good project.

[8:21:50] Thank you.

[8:21:52] I support it.

[8:21:53] That's my speaking to.

[8:21:53] Calce Salvador.

[8:21:55] Don't think further, please vote.

[8:22:00] I mean yes.

[8:22:01] Thank you.

[8:22:02] It's a farmer.

[8:22:03] We have a vote.

[8:22:04] Thank you, please.

[8:22:04] This is way to vote.

[8:22:06] It's carried five to zero.

[8:22:08] We're not doing the motion pending, because I think the motion pending is going to become a notice of motion for the counts.

[8:22:13] So, okay.

[8:22:14] You want to officially make that, I guess.

[8:22:18] We still need to make it as a notice of motion.

[8:22:20] We have to give notice to send it to council.

[8:22:21] Yeah, so you're getting noticed that you're sending that to Council as worded.

[8:22:26] Is it the same word?

[8:22:27] I'm intending to do that as it is currently worded.

[8:22:30] I don't go first. It's fine. If it's the same wording, I'm going to accept it's notice of motion of that. And then we have one more that you're going to do, I think.

[8:22:39] I will do on behalf of, I can actually do it.

[8:22:43] Great. Council of farmers ready to do it. Please go ahead with your notice of motion. Council of farmer.

[8:22:48] All right. I'm just going to be notice of motion that I will move.

[8:22:52] That city council hold a non-stat, public hearing for the purpose of discussing the reallocation

[8:22:57] of up to 220 million of the neighborhood renewal program dedicated tax-flavvy to fund the

[8:23:03] arterial renewal program up to 100% of its ideal for the 2027 2030 budget cycle and that administration

[8:23:12] provide a memo ahead of the non statutory public hearing on considerations impacts and opportunities

[8:23:19] of relocating up to 220 million for the 2027-2030 budget cycle of the neighborhood renewal program dedicated

[8:23:27] tax for we to fund the RTO renewal program up to 100 percent of its ideal including implementation

[8:23:34] and traffic management plan. Thank you. So that's notice has been received. That will go to the

[8:23:49] I think we're done. We're adjourned. 529. Thanks everyone.

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