Climate Resilience Advisory Committee - Regular Meeting
The Climate Resilience Advisory Committee reviewed updates to the climate plan document and discussed infrastructure impacts.
About this meeting
- Government Body
- Climate Resilience Advisory Committee
- Meeting Type
- Climate Resilience Advisory Committee
- Location
- Sunnyside, WA
- Meeting Date
- September 15, 2026
Transcript
100 sections
TV screens are no longer available. They are no longer there. They are no longer there. They are so useful and practical. How is that possible?
Because we have a training room downstairs that receives them, and the other, I think someone broke it. They train, so we take them there. But we have a TV there for you, don't we? Usually, we have a lot of money like that. Yeah, we have this one. I talked to M. Hey. So we were making sure everything was fine. So I was supposed to contact him to let him know this. So we have it there. But after this one, we won't have to come back here.
Well, thank you very much then. So she talked to Lisa.
And I'll follow up here after the meeting. Make sure she's in touch.
Great, thank you very much.
Very good. We didn't get any news from Katalina. Julia is a little late. She...
I thought Cathy said she would be online. Okay. I never received. Have you received an email? Je l'ai reçu.
Rien de mon côté. J'ai seulement eu des nouvelles de Julia.
Donc... Mais c'est mon digraphe. Elle était là plus tôt. Elle a déclaré qu'elle allait revenir. Je ne sais pas où elle est. Euh... Donc je vais juste faire l'appel nominal maintenant. Je vois que Vanny n'est pas là. Euh... Juan Alvarez est là. Voulez-vous que je préside ?
Désolé, je saute.
We're going to open the session. So yes, nominating senators. Does anyone want to ask Vendée Grâce to apologize at this stage?
I think we're waiting for the very end, because if there are jumps in line too, then we can do all that if it suits you. Or not. Not waiting for the end for everyone. We can wait for the end for the presence. No.
So right now, what is present? I am present.
Miranda.
Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Hector. A simple time of the day. Yeah. So the active time of the day is to review the climate plan document. So I know you want a bunch of changes or some changes. When you say work plan, refer to the Excel spreadsheet, to the classifier, au travail aux classeurs, les classeurs que nous avons.
Donc ce matin, et merci pour ces commentaires, j'ai pris le... Vous voyez, je peux partager l'écran. J'ai fait un certain nombre de modifications en fonction de vos commentaires.
Désolé.
Mon écran est devenu un peu bizarre. Pouvez-vous voir la page ici ?
Je peux la voir. Pouvez-vous zoomer dessus ?
Vieux.
Ouais, c'est mieux.
Je peux aussi me débarrasser de cet écran latéral. So it's in section 2 that deals with risks identified related to assets. Basically, I added, you know, after having addressed the details of the UDAB climate cartography, I added the text, provided that I added this paragraph, in addition to the risks identified in the web tool. The team consulting in climate resilience recognizes the following subjects as regards climate resilience. And so I added the text relating to the quality of the water and the contamination of groundwater, the quality of the air and PM2.5, then the accumulated environmental impacts and then, excuse me, having gone too far.
I added the objectives and the policies. I made some formatting changes compared to what had been provided
I somehow combined the language of the objective in a single statement instead of having different spaces between the two just because it follows the rest of the Shan formatting. But otherwise, all this text is also provided. So objective 13 and corresponding policies, I think it goes from 14 to 16 or 17. 17, 17, yeah. So all of this was added, and then there were some modifications to the 7th objective of the use of land, and then... Excuse me for going too fast. The economic objective too, the economic development objective too.
So these changes were all integrated. I know there were a lot more things in the comment section itself.
What I put seems to be the specific requests for text modifications. I hope this sums up what was wanted in terms of concrete modifications to be brought to the project. Do you want to examine or discuss other elements?
I have opened and I can bring modifications in real time while we discuss. have you said that it was a land use element? So one of the things I examined for the land use element was the L2.2 policy. The city must take into account the impacts of new developments or redevelopments on the quality and quantity of water in the context of the examination process, will require appropriate attenuation efforts. The impacts that may affect the quantity or quality of drinking water must be a priority and a concern in these communities. Is there a way to add that these lucrative projects, whether they are Catholic Charities, the development of Aarau, the development that will take place in the north of the city, is that they should put money aside for the modernization of infrastructures, because, you know, because of this climate element in which we find ourselves, we will need a new reservoir, we will need a new well. So, although the city invoices a water service, the development company itself should also help some of these expensive infrastructures, wells, pumping stations, and at the request that this will have on our systems.
It is therefore a broader discussion that I think should take place after the process of the development plan. What you are talking about is the implementation of impact fees that cities can impose. Sunnyside does not currently have impact fees. So the development, when it is proposed and passes through the authorization process, is necessary to extend new public service lines. things of this nature. But you know, like a kind of... I don't want to say a global shift, but you know, a... Whatever you think about it, you know, whether it's by unit or by, if it's a commercial project, by square foot or something like that. Determine a kind of cost of impact that the city will then put aside for other projects. It's a broader discussion that should take place. There is a formal process that the city should follow to identify what these impacts are, how they are evaluated, etc. This is not what is indicated for the land use element. Here, these are not all the objectives and policies of the land use element.
These are just elements related to the climate.
I should go and see in the development of the territory or the immobilizations, if there are objectives, policies. discussions concerning immobilizations or impact costs.
But we could not comment on it just so that we could have it there for future references, as if it would end up happening, especially with the amount of development that is taking place around us.
I think, because I see that it's related to the climate. I mean, it's always the case, it's also a very direct climate problem. I'm not saying it's not a climate problem.
I'm just saying that this is part of a broader discussion that should take place if the city had to institute impact costs of this type.
What would these types of costs be? It would be impact costs.
And there are RCWs related to the way it is done. And there is a specific process, isn't there?
And I understand that. I would just like to know if we could add a comment on this subject, you know, so that things can be evaluated according to the impact on the infrastructure. But I think it's more for planning.
So when we do the developments, that's where I think we can put these comments in our understanding plan. As Joseph said, it's more about climate, you know, groundwater, air and pollution. You know, if we want to put this, as I said, a broader conversation to have with the Planning Commission to ensure that this is something we want in our compensation plan.
Well, the only reason I was saying that is because part of our plan also applies to our protection against fires. You know, more houses, you know, our protection against fires decreases because there are many more houses that consume our water supply. So that's it. And as I said, it's a different zone. Well, that's great. It was just a comment I had.
In your plan?
Yes.
In the planning you have for future wells and reservoirs, you have already planned to increase the number of houses, haven't you? That's because you said you had already planned it in the plan.
We have a plan. To drill another well and renovate it.
So when you decided to do that, in your planning, did you intend to increase the number of housing or additional houses here?
Yes, because of our streets, we have a lot of development here. So with that, our streets, I mean, equivalent residential units. So we have to make sure that all this goes to the Minister of Health. You know, they gave us a member of the Senate. And with that, they said that we had to have a new well and we had to have a new reservoir.
So it's already in progress.
It's already in the plan.
Because of the increase in the number of homes, isn't it?
I was just looking at the project of the elements related to the immobilization facilities and there is a section that talks about the impact costs that explains, in a way, the process that the state authorizes Origin and that reviews the different requirements of the RCW.
Would this therefore relate to the element of public services or the fund for the immobilization facilities?
So, it is one of the many income options that cities have, the implementation of impact costs.
You have to be careful not to stifle development. You know that with impact costs, you have to be competitive in relation to what other cities are doing so that they do not end up short of resources. So, are we going to have a little time to review all this with the revisions? Because I know I would like to reread them.
Well, I sent everything, I mean, I just received the text this morning and I brought all these modifications and I sent them a little later. We are at the stage where we are preparing to schedule the public audience with the planning commission.
Elle est provisoirement prévue pour le 13 octobre.
Il faudrait qu'on fasse ça assez vite.
D'accord. Eh bien, et si on programmait notre prochaine réunion la semaine avant cette audience publique ? Oh. L'UE2. C'est moi.
Vérifiez mon agenda. Um, that would suit me. I have to leave Yakama at 4.30 pm.
To go to Clem for a meeting tonight. But if we leave at the same time, 4.00 pm.
Zero, 6.00 pm. That would suit me.
If it suits everyone.
I'm leaving for Seattle, so I'll need a little earlier.
The whole day is free until I have to leave.
We're having a new meeting.
Different times. It's up to you.
It's noon. I could do one.
They are open at any time. So as much as possible, as long as there is enough noise and we do one. You can do it, yeah, you can do one or two. We will see the invitations in time. Now everyone has a copy of the new update, right?
Well, I don't know because I got another one this morning, right?
12 and I have a 12h16 here.
So I didn't get the new email. Since early this morning. So you sent the email with all that on it. Well, I'll get it. Later.
While I'm sharing the screen, there's something I wanted to comment on.
I'm sorry I went too far on page 3.
This section here, I have this table of, you know, all the members of the consulting team.
And I filled it out by basing myself on my observations during our meetings last year. And so if there is, I really didn't know anything about the new member.
I don't know if I met her in person. And I think she was available on Zoom during the last meeting, but I don't really know what her background is or what her centers of interest are.
But if someone knows something, let me know.
And if there is something that you would like me to change, let me know. And I want to make sure that it is a real representation of the team,
I think she is, well, she is not. With Save the Children, they are with, they do a lot of education. So, like.
Because she also worked with the school district. I think she's in education. Okay. And if we can add Miranda in there too.
And Juliette, is she still there?
Yeah.
What would be your role?
Is the staff also present? Everything else looks good.
Blind. Really. And then, as I said, everyone will receive an invitation on October 6th to join us. And so we can be ready for October 13th.
We may have to do it. Commentary question. We will close all appearances.
And we came back to this bill. The points of the committee members. Do the members have something?
Sorry. No, I'm sorry. I was thinking of the 230. Does anyone have something?
From the committee? No, from the staff, no.
Then for the future day, we will obviously make sure to have a goal for everyone. Once everyone has finished, on October 6th, we have two dates.
Obviously, on October 13th, I guess it's this one that we have to make sure to have on October 6th, then on October 13th.
So we have two meetings.
No, no, we're just doing it on October 6th.
J'ai mentionné Hector que c'est généralement tous les 3e mardis. Mais je sais que lors de la dernière réunion, nous avons décidé du 13. Vous pouvez donc confirmer à tout le monde que nous étions toujours prévus pour le 13. Et nous annulons le 3e mardi, qui est le 28. Compris. Donc oui, je noterai ça de mon côté.
Et nous annulons le 13. Nous faisons juste le 6.
And then Julia. So you said she was going to be late, but she had made an appointment before. So she said that if she had to join us, it would be by Zoom, late. But since we finish early, I would say that we can excuse her. Why not just go and apologize to both of them? So can I ask for a motion to excuse Julia and... I have a question.
Whittle, because I haven't seen her yet. Have you been there yet?
Well, she was on Zoom. Oh, she's on Zoom. Yeah, she's not on Zoom today. Yeah, but we haven't been informed about the meeting either before, last night or yesterday or this morning or something like that. So we're going to continue.
I propose to dismiss Julia and Catalina from today's meeting. I'm going to call.
All those in favor? Anyone opposed? Okay, motion adopted. And I think we don't need to be so trained. Do we need a motion to resume the session? Thank you all.
I appreciate it. We're on time. See you at six.
I still think it's going to go below, but that's not the case.
And I'm going to catch up with Lisa right now. Thank you. Once.
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