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Quinlan Conf Room: I'm doing… I'm starting a…
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes, Commissioner Carter?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Sure.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Padgar.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): avocar? Yeah.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Yang?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yes.
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Quinlan Conf Room: She's going to be delayed. Absolutely. Vice Chair
Fung?
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Commissioner Fung: Present?
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Quinlan Conf Room: And Chair Hansen. Sure.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, can we move on to approval of the
minutes? Does anybody want to make any comments or anything while we look
at them?
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Quinlan Conf Room: performance.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Anybody have anything to say about them?
Hi, are you guys speaking?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I can take your speakerphone.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): This is important. If you want to go ahead
and sit, right?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sunil, did you get a chance to look at the
minutes? Yes. Okay, and Lufana? No, I'm fine.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Alex? Any comments?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, can I have a motion to approve?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I can… Do you want to? I'll second.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I can motion to approve a minute.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'll second.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, Commissioner Carter?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Bye.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Pat Doncard? Aye.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sherry Yang is still absent. Vice Chair
Feng.
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Commissioner Fung: Aye.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Hansen? Aye. The motion
carries by the Commissioner Yang-Hepson.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, let's go ahead and move on to
postponements. Do we have any postponements?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have no postponements.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, how about Global Communications?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have two speakers in person. Our first
speaker is Nazeem, and our second speaker is Anna. Okay. So you can go
ahead and stand up and come right here, and I'm going to bring up the
timer. Okay. So, one second while I bring that up.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, and go ahead. Hi, my name is Nazeem.
I actually belong to the Rotary Club of Cuptino.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And I also work with the CCL folks, who's,
of my office. We're focused on engaging and educating people on home
electrification. We had a booth in the, birthday…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): You know, they… I'm mostly here to thank
you guys for supporting us and helping us.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): get the booth in the right place, and, you
know, communicate the booth, and we visited your booth, and you guys
referred a lot of people to us, and there's a lot of traffic in our
booth, so wanted to mostly come here and thank you guys for that. The
second topic, and really brief.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Is we had these home tours for people who
wanted to see what it takes to do electrification, and we got a pretty
good turnout, and there was about 248 people signed up, about 225 home
visits to see whether they want to
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): 86% of the people left the event feeling
more prepared to do electrification, and greater than 50% are considering
replacing their gas appliance. So, I wanted to thank you guys for
supporting us, and wanted to let you guys know that.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Any questions?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): No, so how do you sign?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sign up for that, home club.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): tour? So we did that last month, and there
was many means of signing up, and we got a lot of turnout. In the next
home tour, we can let you know if you're interested in signing up for a
home tour.
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Victoria Morin: The email was sent to all of the commissioners, before
the event, so we ask you to help spread the word and promote.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Alright, so next time also… Next time,
also, you'll get the email from me.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you for summarizing. It's nice to
know what the results showed, so that I really appreciate getting that
84% number. Thank you.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, are you all speaking on an agenda
item, or just general oral communication?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): We would like to discuss dismantle of
education.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, so I'll call you guys when we get to
that item.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, we have person-person.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): We've got 11 questions?
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Victoria Morin: No, that's okay.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have no hands raised on the Zoom chair.
Okay.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, that closes the… that closes the oral
communication.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): then. Do… can we move on to old business?
Do we have any old business?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have no old business shirt. Okay? How
about new business?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): For the subject, we have chair and vice
chair elections.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Should we defer until we have Connie, or…
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Victoria Morin: We skipped over staff reports, staff and commissioner
reports, so we can…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, I'm sorry. Okay.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thanks. Let's do staff for…
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Victoria Morin: Great. I just have a few, for any of you who are block
leaders, we had an incredible block leader presentation last night.
Jasmine Liu went and presented, all of our different programs, and we
heard wonderful feedback and have been asked to come back and present
more.
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Victoria Morin: Active transportation plan got adopted by Council, so
that was a big win for us.
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Victoria Morin: If you have any questions about that, we can email. And
for your calendars, the Creek Cleanup is May 16th. Cherry Blossom
Festival, we have Commissioner Hansen, Commissioner Carter.
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Victoria Morin: Commissioner Fung and Commissioner Padguankar signed up
for Cherry Blossom. If that changes, let us know. And then the Fremont
Unified Earth Day on the 22nd, we have two more of you, and then the next
Environmental Day is April 18th. As always, it's 8 to 12.
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Victoria Morin: And then Ursula, if you have anything else to add to
that?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): No.
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Victoria Morin: Commissioners, do you have anything to share?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I just want to apologize, I could not go
to…
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): I just came from India, and I was sick.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, I had to stop it at the last minute.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Apologies.
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Victoria Morin: Those of you who did table at Earth Day, did you have any
takeaways that you wanted to share?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): The turnout was interesting. I thought the
venue being smaller was really nice.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): The music stand was too close to where we
were, though. It was so loud, couldn't hear anybody, so, it was
interesting being smaller. I kind of think I like the green better. Is
that the library green out there because there's more space for everybody
to stand?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Does that make sense? Because where we
were, it was nice and small, but because the band was so loud, it made it
more difficult to kind of… it felt more crowded, but more friendly. I
don't know, it feels like the library green could have been
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Can you lay it out a little bit? I don't
know, what did you think?
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Victoria Morin: I think your comment is what I have also heard, that the
volume needed to be turned down.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): It was super loud.
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Victoria Morin: I believe we had around 250 participants, so a ton of
thoughts at our booth. We played a game where there was a board where we
asked people to identify what type of
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Victoria Morin: Appliance fuel source they had, and so we had 5 different
appliances that we were asking about, and we had associated dots, colored
dots that we put on
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Victoria Morin: Different areas, and, depending on if they were gas or
electric, and then we asked them if those, appliances had rebates, or if
they got permits when they installed them.
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Victoria Morin: So it was an interactive conversation that we had with
all of the people and attendees, and then they won a prize. And, Jack did
a great job trying to manage all of the prize giveaways, because it
seemed like that was the big hit, is that we got some really cool prizes
this year.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): But it was pretty much constant.
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Quinlan Conf Room: We didn't have… and there was actually…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): A fair amount of people who wanted to do.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): the survey and the prize was sort of
secondary. That was Sally's thing.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): with the boosting of the prizes. So, nice
to see that people really wanted to participate in the survey.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Nope.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Did anybody.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): come the second half, do we have staff? I
was only the.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): It was… what did you feel? No, no, I was
sick.
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Victoria Morin: There was no commissioners in the second half of the
event, no.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): I was sick. I just came from India, and I
was pretty sick.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, I'm sorry. It was busy the whole
time. Yeah, it was busy.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): really busy, it was overwhelming, I had to
take a break.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Because I was standing in the sun, and it
was like everybody was coming. Yeah. They were…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): People were very excited about the prizes.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So they were really ex… they really wanted
to take that survey. I mean, I kept saying, using my best teacher voice,
get in line, wait your turn. It was kind of like…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): anti… we felt calm a little bit, yeah,
please. We could have sold, or given away.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Five times as many flashlights.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think those were the first things we ran
out of.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, but I think you went… they went over
to, to the…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Safety guys? Was it safety, or I…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Emergency, the emergency team, right?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Terrific.
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Victoria Morin: flashlights?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, they went over to the emergency
room.
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Victoria Morin: We ran out of the rechargeable ones.
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Victoria Morin: And then there was the little push-button ones that
actually were emergency management, and somehow ended up in our VIN.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): But the kids like those. Yeah.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I actually sold quite a few flappers, even
though they're not Holy sense.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): They were pretty good. I thought that was
a good thing.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Anyway, so next is Cherry Blossom. Are we
going to play the game at Cherry Blossom again?
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Victoria Morin: No, I think we're gonna change it up a little bit. We're
gonna do a spin the wheel and, associate the prize that they get with the
type of question that they answer. So this time it will be a more formed
line, so we won't have to wrangle.
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Quinlan Conf Room: That was…
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Victoria Morin: Easy people.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I know, I really had to take a break,
because then, not only that, but the board was in the sun, and I was
like, I gotta get, I gotta… I gotta move. So, it was a lot.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): But anyway, but Jasmine and the other
person did a really good job managing while I escaped, and they came in.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So…
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Victoria Morin: Great, thanks for the feedback.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thanks.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you for all the work.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Jasmine.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, does anybody else have a commission
report?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): staff or commissioner point. I did go to
the mayor's meeting. I'm trying to find my minutes here, and I was
looking at them, and
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): There was just so much information. It's
the report from all of the different commissions.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And, I think what my takeaway was is that
Mayor.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): the mayor does a really good job of
running that meeting and getting the information out of the commissioner,
so she was good at organizing it. People had a fair chance to talk.
Everybody gave status on their different commissions.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And I think the minutes have been
published for that.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oopsie.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Punched up.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, any questions?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, can we move on, then, to new
business?
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Victoria Morin: Yes, so Chair and Vice Chair Elections, Connie just
messaged that she's parking now, so I will do my one slide presentation.
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Victoria Morin: Can you see that okay?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes.
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Victoria Morin: So this is just a review of the chair responsibilities.
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Victoria Morin: It seems pretty straightforward. Susan can probably speak
more to how it's gone in the past year, but generally working with me at
least once every 3 months to help plan the agenda, manage the meetings
when you're here in person, and then attend the Mayor's Commission
meetings.
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Victoria Morin: Which are 5 to 6.30 at Quinlan Community Center, and the
dates for the rest of the year are listed. So I want to make sure if you
are nominated or nominating yourself for the position of chair, that you
are hopefully able to attend these following dates.
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Victoria Morin: And then if you can't attend one of them due to illness
or something else pops up, then the vice chair would attend.
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Victoria Morin: That concludes my presentation, but I can leave it up if
it, goes into questions about what the responsibilities are.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): implications.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Any questions? No questions. Okay.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Do we want to take nominations? Where do
we want to start?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Vice Chair, Chair? I don't want to start?
I can…
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): I mean, is Alex interested? We can all
meet Alex. Generally, that is what we do, right? I would stick with that.
The vice chair becomes the chair next year. Is Alex there?
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Commissioner Fung: Yeah, I'm here, it's whatever the commission is happy
with.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, you are okay with the meeting dates,
right?
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Commissioner Fung: Yeah, those dates I can work around, and I appreciate
staff for putting this up, because I love a fan's planning.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, okay, so… Aren't you second? Yes,
I'm second. Okay.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Can we take a roll call?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes, Commissioner Carter?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Bye.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Pat-Gomkart? Aye.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Yang is still absent. Vice
Chair Feng?
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Commissioner Fung: Abstain.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): And Chair Hansen. Aye.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): The motion carries, with Vice Chair Fung
abstaining and Commissioner Yang absent.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): All right, okay. Do we wanna…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Go ahead, Alex, and… Take nominations for
a vice chair for that?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, we have… Dr. Commissioner Cart and
Commissioner Spang.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): one of my denominations? I, I… Does she
interests you?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): One of you can be.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): I know two more years, so… I'm not gonna
chat. Okay.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Normally, one nominates a person because
of your Are you here?
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): No, I'm fighting this back in a bell.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, he needs somebody… Although I don't
look as good in the suit as she does. Well, we'll see.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, second is, okay, all in favor, or do
we want to take the vote? Congratulations coming in.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sure. Oh, I thought you? No, no, okay, it
scared me.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, we are under vice chair nomination.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Weird.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Are you interested, or no? No. No, no,
you're good. I'll be on the side.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, Commissioner Carter?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Upstain.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Hansen? Aye.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Haddon-Car? Aye.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Yang? Aye.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Chair Feng?
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Commissioner Fung: I…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Question carries with Commissioner Carter
abstaining.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Lindsay, how do you want to do this since
this is remote? Do you want to have remote?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Is the position there?
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Commissioner Fung: Yeah.
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Commissioner Fung: I think, Susan, it would be best if you could take
care of the rest of this meeting, since I'm participating virtually. It
just makes everything smoother for staff.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, that's fine.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Poor Vice Chair.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): You want to sit here? No, fine, you don't
always… Fine.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Alright, alright.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): You should finish the meat? Yeah.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We're supposed to switch chairs, okay.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): inauguration, yeah. All right, so, got me
to…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Vice Chair. So then the next one is to
receive a presentation and provide input on the development of the
proposed fiscal year 2026-2027 capital improvement programs, and a five-
year plan related to sustainability projects. Is that your slide? Or
Chad?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, Michael is here. I'm a program
manager.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Victoria, you're sharing your screen?
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Good afternoon.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Hi, Commissioners. I'm Susan Michael, I'm
the CIP Manager, and as you figured out, Director Chad Mosley, Public
Works is behind me for support. If we have questions,
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so I'm here to give a report,
basically, on the status of CIP. In March, we went to Council to go over
new projects, but I'm using this as a check-in to just let you know where
we are with the sustainability projects, for current projects and the…
what's being proposed in the next…
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): 5 years.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): the… after the title page, we have this,
this is just a tickler to say there is a page under… on the city website,
under Public Works, that has a bunch of CIP information. You can see the
tab for projects. We put updates there on various projects when they
occur.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): And there's a bunch of other resources, so
do look at that once in a while if you have questions, and of course,
feel free to reach out.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Next page, please?
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have a… this is the list of the current
projects, prior to…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): the proposal for fiscal year 26-27. So the
colors are the different types of projects. The yellow, gold is the
facilities projects.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Green are the parks projects. Orange are
the streets and infrastructure projects.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Blue were the transportation iPad
projects.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And Magenta, our new category last year,
are the sustainability projects.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And we have two projects. One of them
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): we reported as gonna be finished by the
end of the year, which is the PV project.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): But we'll talk more about that in a
minute.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, the electric vehicle charging
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): station expansion at the service center is
underway. We've gone out for bid, and we're trying to sign up a
contractor for that project. So we're making progress.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next page, please.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): We also reported to Council at that
meeting that the LED project was complete. Basically, we took all of the
existing city street lights and the ones that weren't LED, we converted
them to LED.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's a big project, thousands of lights.
So that's done, finally. And I think on the next page, we also…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next page, please, Lori.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): We also reported that the PV project was
nearly complete, and yeah. I think that,
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I can give them more of an update on that,
too. Is the next page… can you go to the next page for me?
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, so I have a picture of each of the
sites. It's… we did…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): solar panels on the roof of Community
Hall, depending on carports at SportsCenter, and we also are doing a
carport in the parking lot.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): At… outside Quinlan.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I did that in the right direction. So the
Sports Center and Community Hall are almost done. Both of them have,
like, the scaffolding needs to be removed at Community Hall, and the
Sports Center is… can you go back?
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thanks. The SportsCenter, the carport,
it's… it's a big project, actually. There's a lot of solar panels, and I
think it's turned out really well. Right now, they're working on getting
the EV charging solutions.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): at the front, installed and operational.
So, as far as we know, we've met all of our… the whole reason to do the
project now is to meet the NEM 2 requirements from PG&E, so we get a
higher rate of
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): return when we sell back electricity, and
as far as we know, we've met all of the requirements for those two sites,
so that's awesome. So that… that project will be wrapping up, let's say
in the next month. So then when we get to Quinlan.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): You can go to the next slide, Tori. That's
what it looks like, which you could see if you looked out the window. We
had to add a sprinkler system
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): to the carport, because of the size of it.
So, it put a pause on it. We're still going to meet the requirements for
Neem 2, but it's because it's a long story, it's a technical kind of out,
such that we have another year, which was surprising to all of us, so
that's great news.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): What you'll see when the… when the PV
project, the park port goes up, we made this one taller than we did at
SportsCenter so that we can get food trucks underneath it and keep the
festival activities that happen here at the park going. So, it's going
well, and
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Probably gonna see more activity this
summer, actually even in the next month.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Trying to get… Next stage is going. I
think it's supposed to be done by September.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, September, October, actually. So,
watch that space, and hopefully it'll all go well.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's impressive, because usually people
find out that you need that extra space after the installation. Yep,
yeah, you mean the height? Yeah.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, we tried playing ahead.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next slide, please.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, the CIP… I wanted to show the list of
projects that are proposed this year for the CIP overall. There's…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Four new projects, and two projects that
we're asking for additional funding for.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): The first two are the ones we're asking
for additional funding. It's the Facilities Condition Assessment. It's
ongoing improvement of our facilities. We had a report that showed
they're very deficient years ago.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And, this is working on things like roofs
and fire alarm systems. We're getting towards the end of the highest
priority project, so that's good, we're making progress.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And the City Hall Index, we're putting $5
million in the budget. I know that it's going to be approximately an $8
million project. We already had $3 million in place, so we wanted to hold
the other $5 million while we
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): We're hoping to get the contractor's
pricing sometime this fall.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): The four new projects? 2, 3, 4, 5… 5…
Blessed residents.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): we… This is a… this came after the March,
presentation.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): There's a house that's over by, Blue
Pheasant.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So if you're looking at the Blackberry
Farm Golf Course Blue Pheasant, to your right, there's that house. The
city owns that. So the proposal is to tear the house down and put in
native planting, keep it real simple. So we're working on what is that
going to cost. The council asked us to add it to the list.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): The golf course, pro shop needs a
renovation badly, so we've been asked to put that in here. The sports
center courts need resurfacing, that's also become a CIP project, because
it has some engineering.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And, we have, so the ramp… at…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Stevens Creek Boulevard, where you get
onto northbound 85.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): That… that intersection needs,
improvement. It's, it's difficult to cross as a pedestrian or bike.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so the Westport development
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): said that they would do the work, but then
they got hung up in permit and, permitting with Valley Water Country, I'm
sorry, not water.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So they asked if we would take over the
project. So there's a… there's been funding that's been given to us by
the developers as an in-lieu fee, and that's what we're using for this
project to move forward, and Council approved to move forward with the
work, as we would.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then we're also working on, Memorial
Park Pickleball adding sound panels. We have to actually rebuild the
fence somehow.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Structurally supported in order to add
things.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So that's on here.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next page.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So the 5-year plan…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): is those projects in the first year. The
next year, we're going to ask for the last project that's the highest
priority in the facilities projects, which is the fire alarm system at
the library. That's a $1.3 million project.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then we'll also resume funding the ADA
work and the outfalls repairs, both
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): very important infrastructure improvements
that are required, and those will continue for all four years. And we're
going to… we're hoping to work on the Blackberry Farm Golf Course. The
irrigation system needs to be…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): basically replaced. So that is meant for
year 3, and right now we've put park shade structures on the last two
years.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): We'll see what… happens.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): The… the 5-year plan is our best guess at
what's upcoming. There's two things to highlight.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): One is that things come up that we didn't
see coming. Like the Sports Center courts resurfacing. The people that
run the courts knew that it needed to happen. We didn't see it as a CIP
project, so it wasn't on our radar, so that kind of thing happens, as we
develop five-year plans.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Secondly, it's important to note that the
CIP typically has $2 million every year. That's our budget, the figure
that Citi has said, this is your working number.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so we try to stay within that budget,
and as you can imagine, with things being expensive, our…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): our focus is always going to be health and
safety, very, unglamorous projects, like just, the streets, sidewalks,
right-of-way, keeping bridges from falling down, the infrastructure. So,
that is where the focus is, and
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): than other…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Priorities come from Council and
community, and, you know, if you obviously see something happening in a
building, it's…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): things from Pear, we get in there, but…
That's our next steps.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, if you want to go to the next page,
Tori?
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, so we were also.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, it's not that… even though there were
no Magenta projects on that list,
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): We're definitely working on sustainability
as a focus for projects.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): The…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): this is actually the work, really, of
Ursula and Tori to come up with what these, the focus is, and it's really
something that reflects… the words reflect what they're already doing,
which is working on, reducing overall energy use with improvements to
equipment and building envelopes.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Moving away from natural gas, to electric
wherever we can.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): improving our HVAC and power, especially
at our bigger places, the Quinlan and the library, in service of our,
cooling centers and resiliency, centers.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And also then looking to, meet water
conservation requirements for non-functional fire.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, I think you can go to the next page.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, that's not really where I was going,
but that's fine. Ursula and Tori have been working with Bay Run to
identify opportunities in our real estate portfolio, so we've got a lot
of good information. And what we're basically… I think what we've learned
is that there's big projects, and there's
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): more that are maintenance projects, so a
lot of the efforts are not CIP, per se. They're in the working with the
facilities group to, when a piece of equipment breaks down, to make sure
that we get high efficiency equipment in there, go towards electric,
anywhere we can make those
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): reading power improvements wherever
possible. And so the conversation is ongoing.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And this reflects some of the bigger
projects that
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have on the list, and things that we're
definitely focused on.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think that's it. Is that it, Tori?
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, that's it. So we're available if you
have questions.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think at the end of the thing, you made
a comment, but I was looking at all the projects, and it looks like they
all should have some piece that's sustainability-focused, like the bike
lanes, and just the overall movement to a more sustainable city.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's what it looks like. It's not just
the magenta piece, but there's, like, the subpiece in there.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then you said you needed sprinklers?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): At the parking, it said… Can you explain
that?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Customs are so big, you need to spring… do
they overcome.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): E? It is, no. It is, because you're
creating a shaded
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Structure that's 5,000 square feet or
bigger.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And it is over 5,000 square feet. Fire
sprinkler. Oh, fire, okay. Yeah.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Not… not…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, not watering the greens, no.
Attached to the actual.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): structured list? Yes.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Actually, I see, focused up. Okay.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Push your hands, dude.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Have a long on your car?
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Don't I have what? Perf on your car.
Doesn't it need to be water.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay. So when do we, questions… clarifying
question. That's not…
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, and then I have.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): One more question. It has to do with the
pickleball courts. You were talking about soundproofing, and I mean,
there's ways to soundproof. You can put up barriers, you can change the
surface, like they did along 85, and change the actual surface of the
court, change the surface of the racket.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Do we require that if they're gonna play,
that they use quiet rapids?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I've probably talked to that a little bit.
We currently have, kind of, a request that.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): After certain hours, and before certain
hours, they used to… they were all quiet and picked up a ball.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Tools. Yeah. But…
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): The folks that are playing on the court
have, you know, some have switched over.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): They're starting to switch back because
they don't like the way they play.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, we've heard complaints from some of
the folks using pickleball that they…
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): The quiet equipment doesn't play the same
as the home.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, let's just…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I know the surface can change, though,
right? I mean, I'm really impressed with…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That sounds right. Yeah, I think…
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Most of the sound with pickleball isn't
necessarily the ball hitting the surface, it sucks.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Smack of the paddles.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): And yes, there's quiet pickleball paddles,
but I have heard that they don't play. I can't guarantee it, I don't play
pickleball.
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thanks.
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): Alex, we have a question for Alex?
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, Alex!
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Commissioner Fung: Thank you, Susan, and thank you, staff, for putting
this presentation together.
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Commissioner Fung: In the staff report, it is mentioned that the city is
part of a regional coalition of several jurisdictions working together to
secure grant funding for Resilience Center, upgrades. I'm just kind of
curious to see, is there a timeline, on, like, these grant funding? And
yeah, I'm just kind of curious on that one.
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sure, I can speak to that. We are…
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): Forming a coalition for bringing the.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): memo, random agreement to Council,
hopefully, in June. It's San Jose, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Cupertino,
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): I might be leaving someone out. We're
small, but we… the MOA allows room for growth, but there's a lot of, the
climate bond money that's making its way into grants.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): funding. We were kind of excited about a
couple opportunities, then found it wasn't going to be quite right, and
then maybe we're going to pivot over to planning. So we're still in sort
of looking at which ones we might go for, but, all across the county.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Jurisdictions are in a similar boat of
trying to get their resiliency, their facilities, you know, more
resilient and ready to deal with
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): heat and cold and air quality and things,
so that's the focus of the group. So it's sort of in the…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Getting ready to get ready stage.
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Commissioner Fung: Got it, thank you. And one more clarifying question,
since there are no sustainability-colored category projects for the
upcoming fiscal year.
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Commissioner Fung: In this case, this is more of, like, a receive and
file for the commission, right? There's no direction that is… okay, I see
Tori nodding her head. Alright, okay, sounds good, thank you.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Chat?
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Hey, I noticed that when I was reading
through the stuff earlier, that Quinnolin uses about 30% of the
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Natural gas usage for the city.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): the city facilities. Yeah. Or you can
close that pass.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Corey's our utility… enabler. Should we
do that?
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Victoria Morin: I'm here. What was the question? Are you just confirming
that it's 30%?
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, no, I just… basically, that's the
beginning of my question, is that I want to make sure that I'm talking
correctly on it.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): the… It seems to me, since we have… our
thrust is going… is getting people off the gas,
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): bus.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): the city… These not having something to
address that?
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Is… is a little striking. And then a
secondary question is…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I thought when we were talking about
electrification.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): The library was not our territory, because
it's county… But then… Almost.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): 15-20% of the gas usage is for the
library, and we bring it up as our usage.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): So I'm… I don't… that… my second question
is, What am I missing here?
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I can add to that. So…
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Quinlan and the library both to electrify.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's roughly estimated million dollar
projects each.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So… We are trying to work on…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): The smaller projects that are achievable
before we take on those
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): massive projects. And so those would be
the best candidates for grant opportunities as well, because they're both
tied into
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): being cooling centers, or some kind of
emergency shelter for the community. So, keeping that in mind. Your
question's about the library. The library building is owned by the city.
It's our property. We lease it to the Santa Clara County Library
District.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And they actually pay the electric bill.
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Quinlan Conf Room: the… the…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): The cooling center is a directive from
Santa Clara County Emergency Management Group.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so, all three entities have an
interest, if you will, in making the cooling center and emergency
shelters aspects of those buildings.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): better. That's part of why the coalition
that Ursula was speaking of is so important.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): There's a lot of opportunity there, but it
is… there is some complication as to who benefits the most from that
work.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): County Library, and I'm paying the
electrical bill.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I wouldn't want it to be converted to…
Electric heating.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): They're paying the… they're paying the
utilities, I think. They're paying gas, also. Yes.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): For the guests as well. Yeah.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, so… It's not a financial issue in
terms of the gas payment.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's more of a philosophical.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): getting the, carbon gap, carbon… suture
downs.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): No, the…
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): They had presentation last year, right?
How much we will save?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): If we change…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): No, I understand that, that, that
installation.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm just trying to understand when I'm
reading these things, and it doesn't make…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, so basically what you're saying is,
Linden Center, we're looking for grants.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): For both of them.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Actually, both the library and Quinland.
The library is… is both who's the owner, who would benefit, that…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): is a three-part answer for the library.
For Quinlan.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): it is mostly that the Cupertino would
benefit, more straightforward.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, and for.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): the Quinlan, Would that also tie into…
Lifetime of the current system.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Like, if we start having failures, is
this… are we going to just fix them, or I mean, replace gas with gas, or
are we…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): We answer that question on a daily basis.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I don't know if you want to answer that
question.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): We did actually have a failure last year,
and we just replaced the gas for gas, because to switch over to electric
in this was about…
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Four or five times the cost.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): of repairing.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): the existing coolers. So we evaluate each
one of these. Our intention is to switch to electric when possible, but
if it's.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): costs.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): prohibited.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): We potentially stick with the same,
facility.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Right? We're fixing something, and we want
to…
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Do it in a manner that's efficient and
cost-effective.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): All that aside, if… I think we're gonna
get to a point where
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Having gas parts fixed is not reasonable,
because they don't exist anymore, and they'll be looking at transitioning
to a leather.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, see, I'm… I have to…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I go to the… the fairs, And with this
badge on.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I have to tell people.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): You should… you should be switching over
now.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): And… And so, but we're not… I mean, I'm
just basically…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): It just… it's… it's a conflict of… of
things that I have to deal with.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): We are trying to shift over of our
possible. We've had a couple of units go out at the SportsCenter, gas
units, and in that situation, it is… you've got a choice, they're about
equal gas or electric, so as those
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): go bad and replace them with life, or at
least that's… that's our intention, so… Okay.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): replace the AC unit, or AC.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): see here was, I think, $1.6 or $1.7
million, and we could replace the broken piece of equipment for $300,000.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): And it needed to get done as fast as
possible. So we didn't have time to find grants to replace it, so that's
made sense. That's what it was. Okay.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, is those who just think that they,
they, they… Stood out for me.
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Victoria Morin: We are.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Gift.
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Victoria Morin: We're segueing into conversation, so I just wanted to
make sure there's no other questions, and then go to public comment real
quick.
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Victoria Morin: Susan?
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's it, yeah, one comment. You have a
comment?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, basically, whenever we are doing this,
they have big projects.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): We do some kind of sustainability
analysis, like, are we doing… are we using the right material, are we
disposing?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Like, these little…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): To be honest, it depends on the project.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): The tennis courts resurfacing.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): There's only so much you can do there, for
example, but the.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): annex project.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): that we're working on, that is code-
mandated, that you have to do a certain amount of sustainable efforts and
make sure you're hitting your efficiency goals, and that is built into
the project. So, I think one of the keys there is making sure you have
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Professionals working for the city that
have that know how to…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): initiate those conversations. Know what
questions to ask. And you do, so…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, I… just point of clarification, Chad,
when you talk about moving systems, are you talking about, like, a full
HVAC system, or, like, putting in mini-splits where it makes sense?
Because, like, what is that, the social room would do really well to have
a mini-split in it, right?
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm interested.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): when that was evaluated, we had to place
snot checks and equipment on the roof. Also, all of the,
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): won't say venting, but… and I'm not an
HVAC guy, so don't hold me to this, but, like, all of the internal
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Systems as well. So it wasn't just simple,
we have to replace the chiller that's broken, everything's fine.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): No, we had to replace every.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's why I was saying, just do localized
mini-split in the rooms that you want to.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): But that's… Still needed to fix.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): The mess, yeah. So, it was, you know, that
needed to be fixed, and we would have mini-splits in every…
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Room, that would have been tension and
cost per unit, because we're now ordering it for every room, and then…
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): the additional effort.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): We are evaluating Structures, when
something goes bad, and how can we make it better?
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then we look at, is it cost
prohibitive?
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): do have a limited budget, I can't just,
every time we have an HVAC system go down, replace it with electric,
because we'd be down about $9 million in the last 3 years.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Instead, I've done it for a month.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oops.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): budget thing. Okay.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Can we move on? We have comments? Any
other public comment?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): So we have no speakers.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): All right, let's go ahead and move on
then. The Forma Sustainability Subcommittee for Waste Diversion Education
Training Program.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We'll go ahead and move on to that.
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Victoria Morin: Great, that's back to me.
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Victoria Morin: Okay, so we are back to this topic about forming a
subcommittee.
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Victoria Morin: Staff have worked hard on coming up with some structure
that I think will be great for the participation of the subcommittee.
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Victoria Morin: Internally, we have been calling it Waste Warriors, but
one of the things to do for the subcommittee is to help rebrand it, so
pardon me as I call it that, that's just a placeholder name.
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Victoria Morin: So this program, Waste Warriors, would essentially be to
a training and education program. So this is a measure that's in our cap
already, that's free and accessible to residents and employees.
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Victoria Morin: And it's doing exactly what you guys had intended and
doing in the subcommittee to talk about waste prevention and diversion.
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Victoria Morin: So, we're hoping that with this subcommittee, we can
check that one off. This Waste Warriors program is done by other
jurisdictions already, so we've already talked with Santa Cruz, Burbank,
Chula Vista, San Mateo, and then San Francisco has a non-city staff run.
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Victoria Morin: But this is a pretty standard model. It almost mirrors,
like, master composters.
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Victoria Morin: So, so far, the city manager has approved this concept
and said, yes, go forward. We have decided that the curriculum, based off
of conversations with the other jurisdictions, the most common is about 6
classes, so we would do them once a week, and then we have optional field
trips.
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Victoria Morin: We have the space and schedule confirmed, so we're gonna
have 2-hour classes on Wednesday evenings that are going to go September
2nd through October 7th at Mona Vista Rec Center.
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Victoria Morin: And we have some speakers, have agreed to help
participate, including Recology HHW program, and then we have some
pending tour locations and an organics processing facility, and maybe
SMART station, depending on their construction and timing of it.
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Victoria Morin: So we're hoping that this subcommittee will work with us,
and so that would be two members.
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Victoria Morin: Who will help attend at least two planning meetings, and
we have some rough dates based off of our timeline to keep our progress
going forward. So the second week of May and the second week of June
would be those planning meetings.
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Victoria Morin: And then attend at least 3 of these, program meetings. So
that was the dates that I was saying, the Wednesday nights. And then we
would come back, and those two commissioners would provide an update at
our regular meeting in October, so just shortly after the program
concluded.
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Victoria Morin: And so what is this subcommittee hoping to do?
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Victoria Morin: So during these planning meetings, we're helping that you
guys rebrand Waste Warriors to what you think would resonate well with
your community, help refine our curriculum, so we have some ideas on how
things would get laid out, but we're really going to go in-depth into all
of the different subjects, right? And not just sorting, but we're also
gonna do about reuse programs nearby. We're going to talk about
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Victoria Morin: HHW, we're going to talk about all of the different
things that you can imagine with waste, and so essentially, like, one
class will be about, organics, another class could be about plastics,
another class could be about
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Victoria Morin: upcycling, right? Like, so we are… have some rough ideas
based off of what we've heard from the community, and we have a draft of
what we think would be received well, but we really want to hear from the
subcommittee on exactly what you all want to have included in this Waste
Warriors program.
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Victoria Morin: And then another topic that we are hoping to help you get
is
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Victoria Morin: How do we choose who gets to participate?
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Victoria Morin: Right now, we're gonna do a pilot year of 20 slots, 20
participants in this cohort, or in this Waste Warriors program, and we're
trying to figure out, well, if we get 30 applicants, how do we decide?
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Victoria Morin: Is it just first come, first serve, or is there going to
be some sort of… we want to do an application to see if
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Victoria Morin: The people are really interested and dedicated, and so we
would want this subcommittee to help us form that application process,
and then help us decide, based off of the application, well, how do we
prioritize the selection process?
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Victoria Morin: So those are some of the things that I'm hoping to get
help with from this committee during those two planning meetings. And
then the other part would be attending three of the working sessions, and
help with things like breakout groups, or setup, or, you know, running
the field trips, if you wanted to attend the field trip, and organizing
carpooling, and things like that.
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Victoria Morin: And then, doing the presentation, but there is an
optional if you want to do a PowerPoint, so you could develop that
PowerPoint, but I know it's just a week turnover. So we would agendize
that for the October meeting, and you could just speak to it, or you
could also develop a PowerPoint for that.
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Victoria Morin: So that's all I have for this subcommittee's ideas.
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Victoria Morin: So I will take questions.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Corey, can you go back to the dates of the
movie?
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Victoria Morin: Sorry.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm just checking my calendar.
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Quinlan Conf Room: How that lines up. And are these in person or remote?
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Victoria Morin: These are in person at Monta Vista Rec Center.
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Speaker 13 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay. Is there an option to have it
remote, or…
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Victoria Morin: No.
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Victoria Morin: September 2nd through the 7th.
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Victoria Morin: We can do the planning meetings remote.
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Victoria Morin: Or hybrid?
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Speaker 13 (Quinlan Conf Room): Which one are the planning beacons? Oh,
the top secretary. Yeah.
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Speaker 14 (Quinlan Conf Room): Refundo?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): One in May, one in July. Okay.
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Speaker 14 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then the two members, part of the
subcommittee, would choose between the 11th, 12th, or 13th of May?
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Speaker 14 (Quinlan Conf Room): Or is it…
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Victoria Morin: Yeah. So…
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Victoria Morin: It's basically the second week of May and the second week
of June, and so if… if there's a specific date for those two planning
members, whatever members, if they're like, oh, I can't do… I just listed
those weeks because I didn't want someone to say they're out of the
country or can't purchase, you know, on a vacation that week, but we have
some flexibility for the actual planning meetings.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay. And then also, you need to attend
the program? Yes.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): What?
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): What do you expect from the graduates?
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Bo.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): the… the course.
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Victoria Morin: Great question. So a lot of these other master composter,
master recycling programs do have a volunteer requirement, and we decided
not to do that.
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Victoria Morin: Our… one of our pieces of developing that curriculum
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Victoria Morin: that I have an idea and a seed, and maybe this could
happen and maybe not, because we want to develop it together, could be a
homework assignment to talk to your neighbors about it, and get your
neighbors informed.
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Victoria Morin: And so maybe the Waste… or the Waste Warrior participants
would go out and talk to their neighbors and come back and do, like, a
final presentation on week 6 on how that went.
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Victoria Morin: So things like that, where I'm trying to get it to branch
out, but because we don't have any fleshed-out volunteer programs
already, I think the administrative burden to
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Victoria Morin: take this concept and then try to bring them to volunteer
events. Like, we just don't have enough tabling opportunities or
recycling workshops already in place that it wouldn't make sense right
now.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): And the bang for the buck is, I mean…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have a lot of people in Cupertino,
right? Yeah. And… and if 30 people graduate.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's not too many.
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Victoria Morin: Yeah, so this is pilot year.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I asked for a while.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): it will meet a lot of people, even if
it's, like… I mean, to me, it's like, part of the requirement would be to
do some tabling during our
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Regular festivals.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I mean… So at least they're meeting, you
know, disseminating their passion.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): correct information. I don't know, it
just, to me, it seems… There should be some…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I don't know, some continuous help.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): you know… Outreach for them.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Whoever takes the court passes the fourth.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): You can discuss that, probably. Well,
before this.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have nothing.
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have, we have missed.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): So it's a…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): plus 100% or 1000%, right? It's infinitely
better than nothing.
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Speaker 14 (Quinlan Conf Room): And Tori mentioned in the beginning, this
is still very, very…
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Speaker 14 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, for us, at least I see it as we have
something. We have something to show, and they provided this platform for
these… for these individuals to learn off of. So the fact that we have
this, to me, it's a plus. It's a huge plus, and I appreciate the staff,
like, being able to put this together.
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Speaker 14 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think we should focus on, right, what
can we do with this, rather than.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sorry, I have a question, just a point of
clarification. If we're gonna do composting, does that mean we're gonna
have local composting, or are we gonna have to head down to Marshall
Cloud?
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Victoria Morin: Oh, we're not going to be doing the composting.
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Victoria Morin: That's the Master Composters program. So this is more of,
like, a Master Recyclers, which is more about learning how to sort, how
to divert.
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Victoria Morin: And then there would be a field trip, and the field trip
that we're talking about is down to Blossom Valley Organics, which is the
Recology-run Organics, and that's, like, the industrial facility, so they
can see how bags are pulled out of the waste stream once they're put in
the curbside bin. So this is more focused around, like, the concepts and
not actually doing the hands-on work.
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Alright, thanks.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Any other questions?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Huh?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): You ready to move on?
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Victoria Morin: I think we have a public comment.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, public comment?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): One second while I bring up the timer, but
feel free to come on here.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): So we think this sounds…
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's a great idea, and we would like to
discuss some community opinions falling around Cupertino's waste
management education. So, we conducted a survey and collected around 50
responses from various locations and age groups in Cupertino.
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so, according to our data, 41% of
surveyors claimed that they had never received any education on disabling
animal stealing.
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): And the education that people had
received was from social media, the news, or from school.
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): And only 34% were completely confident in
their ability to sort waste correctly.
544
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): People struggle to differentiate between
different types of waste, including plastic waste, glass bottles, and
just food containers.
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): So basically, they were unsure of how to
differentiate between recycling and composting waste.
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): Moreover, 48% said that they don't
compost food waste because they didn't know how to and didn't have the
resources to understand how to.
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): And many said that proper waste sorting
was difficult due to lack of clear labels.
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): I just didn't know those.
549
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so, majority of people throw their
waste that they're unsure of in the trash. It's due to improper waste
disposal, and ultimately more cost for the city to sort and collect this
waste.
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): Which leads to increased health hazards
and environmental problems. So, we believe that more education would lead
to more recycling and composting, ultimately better for the environment.
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): So we asked people what their suggestions
were for how to improve waste management.
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Speaker 13 (Quinlan Conf Room): Some suggestions, which…
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): up with the subcommittee's plans.
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): People advocated for waste management
events and workshops for residents, especially new ones, as well as
training local business owners and staff on sowing waste.
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): They also strongly advocated for more
descriptive waist bins with clear labels and examples, and ultimately
just more messages from the city, including flyers and brochures.
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): and more constant communication and
resources provided, including, like, information on their website, social
media news, free seminars, and more newsletters, and better email
communication. Thank you.
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, no remaining speakers.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, do we want to appoint somebody?
Alex, you want to…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Do we want to point.
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Speaker 13 (Quinlan Conf Room): to people.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I am interested.
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Commissioner Fung: I mean, it sounds like Connie also seems to be
interested from her questions, but I would defer that to her.
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Speaker 13 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, I'm interested. Yeah, I am also
interested.
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Victoria Morin: N.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, so we need a motion and a second.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, any motion?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I move to appoint Connie Insanali as the,
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): The, the, Sustainability Subcommittee for
Waste Diversion Education. Waste Warriors. Yes.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Second one.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, we have a motion and a second.
Commissioner Hansen? Aye. No, it's okay, you're good, you're good, you're
chilling. Commissioner Van Go-Kart? Aye.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Yang? Aye.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Vice Chair Carter? Aye.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Chair Feng?
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Commissioner Fung: Aye.
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Quinlan Conf Room: The motion carries unanimously.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Alrighty, so then let's go ahead and move
on to number 5, receive a presentation about current processes and best
practices for recovering building materials during demolition or park
construction projects.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's me. So, wait, next slide, Tori.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): So this…
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): issue of deconstruction is in the Climate
Action Plan, and so this is a high-level overview of what that… what are
we even talking about? And, as I said, it's…
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): measure W1.1 to look at this issue,
determine if we can expand our requirements around it.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): create an ordinance to require it. So, a
little overview of that, and in case you're thinking, wait, didn't we
just do something exciting with CNV materials recently? We did, because
now we
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): under our franchise agreement items go to
Zanker, which does a better job of I'm pulling apart the mixed…
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Items, the mixed… Debris, but
deconstruction is totally different.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's much more, intense, as we will see,
so we'll go to the next slide.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, basics are, you know, instead of just
using heavy equipment to knock down a structure, you carefully
disassemble it.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): And reusable materials that are out there
in the market now that they gather, doors, windows, handling, lumber…
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): This is more an example of just things
they've pulled out, you know, built-in shelves.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Toilet's still in good shape, mantle,
fireplace mantle.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Heating ducts can be recovered.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): So there's a lot of stuff that they
carefully…
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Some photo. And this photo is, courtesy
of City of Palo Alto.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): What?
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): And Palo Alto, which does have an
ordinance, which we'll talk about in a sec, but the basic steps are
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): First, if you are wanting to knock down
your structure and build something new, they require a salvage survey, so
someone's going to come in and see what is possible to pull out of your
building. Then everything gets removed and separated. There's a
certification process, and then
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): To take those materials to approved
facilities.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): It is more expensive. It can be 2 or 3
times more expensive than a traditional
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): demolition is because of the increased
labor, but the cost may be offset by the cash value of donated materials,
so, you know, just…
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Giving it away, there's some benefit back
to you.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): One San Mateo County example, courtesy of
the reuse people, showed a case where deconstruction ought to be less
expensive than the traditional demolition because of donated values, but
it would depend, of course.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Materials are, and their condition.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And again, these are all from Powell.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next slide.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, as you might have guessed, Palo Alto
already requires this. Their ordinance became effective in 2020.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): And San Francisco is… is working on it.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Other than that, Portland, Oregon comes
up a lot in this space for their ordinance, and King County, Washington.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next slide.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): So there are quite a number of businesses
working in this space. This is just a few. The reused people are pretty
well known, Greenlinks, and Pacific Reclaimed Lumber and Supply. We
actually heard from the CEO of that company at a recent one-day
conference up in San Francisco.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's Nicole Tai, so she's been working
in the space for a number of years and was talking about it.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): And… moving on to the next slide, for
some… Regulatory and market context.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): current regulations in the state already
require construction projects to divert 65% of their materials away from
landfill. The original intent of that was the project should work on
figuring out the 65%, but in practice, it's become
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, we just put it on the debris box,
and the facility needs to figure out the 65%, so that's been the push
towards higher diversion facilities. But really, we need to push it more
back on the project to do some separating.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): But that's the existing state. And then
the other aspect is
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's one thing to require the
deconstruction, and then it's a separate thing to require new buildings
to use some of those materials.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): you're trying to generate that whole
circular thing, right? You can't just end up with a whole glut of
recovered materials that no one wants to use, so…
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): that's part of what San Francisco is
working on now, to see if they want to not just require deconstruction,
but also require useful materials. Now.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): certain LEED incentives already exist for
doing that reuse and using those recovered materials.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): But… No jurisdictions around here have
yet taken that extra step to require it at a jurisdictional level.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): So it's an interesting,
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): aspect. And then the other piece is,
okay, once you have all that stuff, how do you let people know what's
available, like a store?
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): I've heard of it, I haven't been, so…
It's like a fun family feat.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): filter.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): I totally love that, I'm sure.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): and windows, and… Yeah, there's really
cool stuff in.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): So this, little picture at the bottom is
an example from Greenlinks of some different lumber that they have on
their website, you know, so contractors could go on their site and other
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Businesses have it as well, to see online
portals of what's available.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): so would workers.
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Quinlan Conf Room: This is an old house.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Some of the wood there is… In thought, I
mean…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's really high quality for a woodwork.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yep. That was it?
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then, a final slide…
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): is just, kind of circling back to the
Climate Action Plan measures.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): And, so, we… You know, is already in the
measure to think about requiring reuse of materials.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): But we don't have any immediate plans to
pursue either of those. We're…
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): the watching, stay. We talk about it.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Hopefully that gives you a better idea of
what's involved, and the… implications, I think. Thank you.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's a cost-effectiveness thing on that.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes. Ms. Alzheimer's?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): offset cost.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, can I ask questions?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sorry. That's a good job.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, is it… To me, this is…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): It would seem to me that if we had the
requirement for doing the deconstruction, that we would have
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): A contracted specialist or an in-house
specialists go out and determine Is this worth it?
646
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Because, I mean, we had an old…
647
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Farmhouse down the end of our street that
they just came in and destroyed, right?
648
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): That would have been a great
deconstruction progress.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): But some… some houses are pretty… pretty
cheaply put together, and it's not worth the buck, so I would…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): hope that if we did move to one direction,
maybe I'm not asking this question, maybe I'm just making statements,
but,
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): That we would be able to not force people
into a loss-loss situation.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): But at the same time, I am totally bullish
on the deconstruction.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): But only when it makes sense.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): No, I appreciate that. That whole angle.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): the salvage person will come take a look
at what can be salvaged, right? And then, who's paying you? Is one of
those companies who are paying you?
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): For the materials that are recovered. It
sounded more like it's…
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Maybe a tax write-off kind of situation.
The CTs, or… no, it would be the individual property owner.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Who's doing the construction.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): No, no, I'm confused.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, when we did our halls, right?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, our house was very old, and we pretty
much demoed it.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): And they were, like, all the materials.
Our, our, contractor, Just got this huge truck.
663
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): put everything in the tank, and dumped it,
and we all don't know where… this is, like, 15 years old. 10 years ago?
10, 12 years ago. We did not… don't even know where he put it.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, did not go… that's not the way
they're doing it now. So, I just recently went to one in Redwood City. We
salvaged a Dutch door.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So we had to pull it off the framing
material, pull it off the hinges, and put it in the truck. We paid the
recycler, and then he said he was going to continue to demolish. He got
money for demolishing, but I'm not sure what the breakdown was of how
they get the money back, but that's all part of the project.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Like the recycle person.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I paid him, but I'm not sure what the deal
was with the owner.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Nuggets are.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's all details in the contracts. Yeah,
I think they're.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): different ways you can go about it. What
I was reading about was… it sounded more like… It's pretty cool, because
you get… donation, and you're getting a tax benefit. And you are buying
things from you, I'm sure there are different ways about them. But
wouldn't they.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): do the demolishing, they're using an
excavator. They're just smashing. Everything is smashed and gone. When
you're doing deconstruction.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): there's this really beautiful being,
they're… they're salvaging that being.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Our friends did, actually, guys.
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Victoria Morin: Right.
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Victoria Morin: We're going in… we're going into conversation, and I
know… oh, it looks like…
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, if I… if…
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Victoria Morin: just dropped off, but I know Chupong had questions.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Only time. We are all up!
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): covers.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Absolutely, I mean, this… I'm a… I'm a
little…
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Let's go move on, though. Okay, so you
want to finish?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes. So, basically.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): If we were, telling people about the
construction, we need to kind of tell them about how… because it all
comes down to money, as she said, right? So, if I am going to pay two,
three times more for the construction, how do I get the money back? I
think…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): because they'll tax you at a higher rate
if you don't do it. So it's all a project thing. It's all we build an
incentive… San Mateo County has a.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): a very good example where they don't
require it, but they have an information sheet about it. Like, if you're
interested in this, then here are some people that do the work, and
here's a… Okay.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sanity.
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Chair Fung: You have a question? Yes, thank you, Susan. I'm just kind of
curious to see, like, these are best practices that staff just presented,
but do we happen to know, like, what is the percentage of, you know,
like, the contractors who actually follow this approach, in their demos?
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): I mean, I guess it's everybody in Palo
Alto, but he means people voluntarily choosing so much of this.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Because so much construction is going on
in Cupertino. I don't think they follow that in Cupertino. I think that's
a no.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): But are we gonna do the Cupertino house,
the one on Stevens Creek, that way?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, the blush property? The blush
property, are we gonna do that?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yep.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): I feel like it might need that pre-
screening. Yeah, I think you should.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): her about, that CIP project, right? We
should tell her. Yeah.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Let me see if I can find the name of the
fellow that did it. Yeah. For me, Ursula.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): But, Chair Fund, to your question.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Was it more, like, who's voluntarily
doing this, and what percent of projects that would be compared to
overall?
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Chair Fung: Yeah, I'm kind of curious, like, is there a firm, or are
there firms in Cupertino that are actually being proactive?
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Nope.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Well, I don't know, but I could…
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): how I… If I can, I'll try and think of if
there's a way to find out.
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Chair Fung: I don't want to waste unnecessary staff time, but yeah, these
things are hard to track, but it's good information. Thank you for the
presentation.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Only one person I know is our friends in
Saratogan. Their house was very nicely built, and then, again, they built
it nicely, but they did deconstruction, and it costed them a good amount
of money. I can ask them if they got some tax benefit, or how they kind
of recuperated. I can ask her.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): But this is also about 10 years ago. Yeah.
No, my friend didn't…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Portland did it, but Palo Alto has a bunch
of sources, so…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Palo Alto requires it, so they would have
a lot of contractors.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Good?
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Victoria Morin: Public comment?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have no speakers.
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Victoria Morin: Thank you.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay. So we move on to future agenda
setting.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Alex, you want to take that away?
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Chair Fung: I think this is a Tori item, right? She's gonna pull up the
screen?
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Victoria Morin: Okay, let me… So here is our… 2026 work plan.
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Victoria Morin: We are…
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Victoria Morin: have another 7 items, so we just crossed off construction
and demolition study. The single-use plastics got removed, because we're
waiting for our consultant to, finalize their report, but that is on its
way.
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Victoria Morin: July, we'll talk about the,
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Victoria Morin: building permit streamlining and how that's going, and
then, if we're done with the greenhouse gas inventory, we'll have RingCon
come and present that.
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Victoria Morin: And then October, where we've added the, subcommittee
doing a presentation, and, talking with local contractors, realtors, HOA,
and sharing information with staff. And then the Urban Forest Management
Plan, and,
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Victoria Morin: Water conservation policies, if there's updates for this
year, for those.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm affiliate, like…
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Victoria Morin: It's a full year, if there is anything else that you
wanted to add.
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Victoria Morin: Or remove. Takes two people.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Anybody want to add something? I'm okay,
I'm okay. Good. Okay.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Alright?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Anything else, for the good of the order?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Can we call the meeting?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Bye!
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Everything is… It is a favorite park. Yay!
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Victoria Morin: Bye.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's it.
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Chair Fung: Thank you, everyone.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you, Tony. Thank you, Elements.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I looked up recyclers.