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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNatural Resources Advisory Board - Minutes - 09/20/2023Page 1 09/20/2023 – MINUTES Natural Resources Advisory Board REGULAR MEETING Wednesday, September 20, 2023 – 6:00 PM 222 Laporte Avenue, Colorado River Room 1. CALL TO ORDER: 6:04 PM 2. ROLL CALL a. Board Members Present – • Barry Noon • Danielle Buttke • Kelly Stewart (Vice Chair) • Kevin Krause • Lisa Andrews • Matt Zoccali b. Board Members Absent – • Dawson Metcalf (Chair) • Drew Derderian c. Staff Members Present – • Honoré Depew, Staff Liaison • Nick Combs, Comms & Marketing Manager, Utilities • Eric Keselburg, Parking Services Manager • Drew Brooks, Deputy Director, PDT d. Guest(s) – • Javier Camacho, Platte River Power Authority • Masood Ahmad, Platte River Power Authority • Carly Lynch, Platte River Power Authority 3. AGENDA REVIEW 4. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION 5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES a. No minutes to approve this month. 6. UNFINISHED BUSINESS 7. NEW BUSINESS a. Platte River Integrated Resource Plan – Platte River Power Authority (PRPA) will be presenting their upcoming Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for awareness and discussion. (Discussion) Page 2 09/20/2023 – MINUTES • Discussion | Q + A • Matt – Q – (Regarding the slide with budget system total) Can you give me an idea of what other purchases are? Javier – A – So that is our purchasing power, right? Masood – A – We are well connected with other utilities here. We buy and sell with all the transactions. In any hour, if our marginal cost is, say $20, and there is a power available at $19, we will buy it because that saves our customers money. And the same way, if our marginal cost is $20 and somebody’s willing to pay us $22, we’ll sell it. That is in real time. Then we also make forward transactions like we’ve made sales for next summer if we think we have access, energy and capacity. Matt – Q – If I did my math right, those numbers are not included in the non-carbon resource percentages. Masood – A – Yes, they are sperate. We have to keep them separate. It is hard to pinpoint the carbon structure of those purchases. A lot of times, this energy is available when there’s a lot of wind in the area. It’s very windy. They have, I think, 4,000 megawatts of wind. The prices drop. So, we say, hey, why should we be running coal. Typically, if it is below our marginal cost, it has to be renewable because renewable is a 0 marginal cost energy, but we don’t count the carbon of that. That is what our team is looking at. There are a number of options our team is considering. • Kevin – Q – As far as the modeling and opportunities, clearly on the demand side there has to be some gives there because you have additive sources coming online with EVs and home electronification and so forth. How much can that contribute when you think about changes in behavior, changes in improved installation building envelopes, and these things. Is there modeling and data that can come back to the City or already provided to the City to say this is how much of a difference these other things can make. Otherwise, as you indicated, it’s just more expensive. You either spend the money here with those efficiency upgrades that we talk about in. I guess I am trying to understand how much of an impact that can have, that actually changes behaviorally or on demand through these other methods that are just reducing demand from an unneeded demand perspective, is the best-case scenario versus the needed when you’re saying we’re electrifying the transportation side. Masood – A – There are two different demand areas. One is electrification the other is thermostat/electric heating. Let’s take them one by one. On electrification, as I mentioned, as more and more customers buy electric vehicles, that is a demand we have to meet. To the extent that the customers work with us to charge when we tell them it’s a better time to charge. When we tell them it’s a better time to charge, the price of electricity is lower and renewable is available, and don’t charge during certain hours to the extent to give us control of your charging time. That’s very valuable. You can give us the flexibility. That will definitely help us reduce the resources that we have to bring on time. Kevin – Q – Just to clarify, my question is not about those new sources of demand, but about existing demand, existing efficiencies. So, saying, should the City actually be spending four times what it’s spending to have more homes insulated more effectively rather than wait to spend the money by having to create Page 3 09/20/2023 – MINUTES these demand response technologies and additional battery storage and feeding that information back to the City? You’re going to spend money, so maybe we should be tripling down over here first because our model is showing that will take this demand down and we have to put online less sources. Is any of that in the modeling? Masood – A – Yeah, its not only modeling, which is future, it's happening now. Don’t quote me on these numbers but I can tell you ballpark. Our cost of electricity that we charge to our cities is a little over 100 million dollars a year for the four cities. We spent almost 10 million dollars on energy efficiency programs on behalf of the four cities. We have been doing this for the last 10-15 years. We have a track record where we are working with residential customers, industrial customers, and commercial. We are helping to reduce the demand. I have heard the City of Fort Collins has been able to reduce demand to the tune of one percent for energy efficiency measures. What we are looking at is less than overall. If you didn’t have energy efficiency programs, our demand would be growing at about a half percent per year more at the wholesale level. I think the City of Fort Collins is close to one percent but again, these numbers are just ballpark. A lot of activity is happening in this area. One quick comment; unfortunately, the heating load, there is not a lot of flexibility. We can, especially if it is extreme cold, we will not be shutting down your heater. What is the best scenario for electric utilities is you have your gas heat as well available as back up. Obviously, gas heat is more polluting but when the extreme temperatures come, if you have that back up, that puts less pressure on electric utilities because at some temperatures, the heat pump efficiency goes. At that time, everybody resorts to resistance heating. We see the demand growth is going to be really high. Now, peak demand is in summer but in the next two decades, we could become winter peaking if many of our customers have heat pumps, and they resort to resistance heating in extreme weather rather than keeping the gas heating as a backup. That is a better scenario for electric utilities. • Barry – Q – So candidly to ask you this, how optimistic are you that advances in technology can keep pace with advances in demand particularly along the Front Range, where population is growing almost exponentially. Masood – A – We all collectively made a forecast. Let’s look at the demand. In the 1990s the demand really grew fast. Since then, the energy efficiency efforts that Platte River and its communities made the demand, we have made a dent in that demand growth. It has been around one percent or so. Because of electrification and because of the heating load, the demand could jump up to two or three percent again. The demand is going to continue to grow, and the growth rate will be determined. We know electric adoption is already here. It’s accelerating and the electric heating is a little bit unfancy. So, it’s going to grow a little bit slower than electric transportation. But the technologies to go 100%, that’s the second part of your question, we have our consultant and advisors telling us, for example green hydrogen. There’s a lot of money being spent and it’s not commercial today but maybe by the middle of the next decade hydrogen could be a viable source where you don’t need to burn natural gas. You make green hydrogen when Page 4 09/20/2023 – MINUTES there is access renewable and you store it underground or in tanks and then tap on that every day in the evening when you need it or when there is extended dark period. That is hydrogen. Similar situation with the long duration energy storage, that technology a lot of R&D on that. Some pilots happening. We are thinking of a pilot ourselves but again by the middle of the next decade. Jaiver – Comment – I know this is not part of your question but something I do want to underscore that Masood did mention is we need to pursue these technologies because they are emerging technologies. We’re one of many utilities that are keeping an eye on how quickly these technologies are evolving but we are also looking from a tactical standpoint how we can actually integrate them into our portfolio versus other utilities, they are just keeping a pulse on how to eventually transition to their portfolio. What we have to do, because of our size of utility, we are 700-800 peaking utility as well as we are all around the generation and transmission side. We need to determine that these technologies are commercially viable which means we have to determine that they can actually function across other utilities. We also monitor how other utilities are adopting them. There are a lot of factors that we keep in. So yes, the demand is definitely continuing to grow, and we are keeping forecasts on that. Technology is evolving but, in a nutshell, at a slower pace. We need to just keep in mind that financial sustainability piece and make sure it does make sense when we want to introduce a new technology to our portfolio. • Barry – Q – I have a follow up comment. Let’s have a simple metric here. If we look at the demand to availability ratio and as that ratio, let’s say, approaches one or on some occasions even exceeds one. Then then price for megawatt or kilowatt, whatever the measurement unit is, access to that becomes socially inequitable. So, people who are already empowered and wealthy can afford to pay additional dollars for access to energy, but those who don’t have that ability… I have a broad thesis that so many of the social problems around the world can be explained by one metric, and that is the ratio of the distribution of wealth and opportunity. I’m concerned that this demand availability ratio, a simple metric like that, could exacerbate the inequitable distribution of access to energy. Javier – Comment – Your comment is well taken, which is why, as we continue to pursue our goal of the resource diversification policy, we are not relinquishing, and we’re relentless in that effort of our three foundational pillars. That of reliability, ensuring that we are living up to our responsibility and obligation that has been founded in our organic contract. The environmental responsibility which is one of the guiding principles that we were founded on, and the financial sustainability factor. As I mentioned we are not going to avoid rate increases but how do we actually ensure that it’s in a measurable amount? Masood – Comment – And minimal. That’s our starting point. We want to make sure the cost increase is minimal. Javier – Comment – Minimal knowing that they inevitably will increase. So, your comment is well taken and definitely something that guides us as part of this ongoing process. • Danielle – Comment – I think it’s really remarkable that you’re seeing a decrease in demand, because we know writ large globally, we are Page 5 09/20/2023 – MINUTES experiencing Jevon’s Paradox. Where we make more energy and people just simply consume more energy. We’re not actually seeing a net reduction in overall global energy use. Even as these renewable energies come on board, we’re just seeing demand increase because everything’s electrified. We used to sweep our floors, now we have a robot vacuum. We used to hand grind our own flour, now we have all these gadgets and screens that simply demand more electricity. I want to commend you on that because that is really remarkable. However, I still think it’s concerning particularly given Barry’s comment about equity and knowing that all the statics you stated about how much money is spent on attempting to reduce demand and yet, even with those pieces in place, we’re still just seeing that 1% reduction. So, I think a lot of the efforts to reduce demand are focused on simply making the infrastructure we have perform better but very little of that is actually spent on behavioral modification. How do we get people to actually change their behaviors, to turn off lights, to not have so many screens, etc. So, I feel like there’s a huge gaping hole in a lot of the portfolio. Javier – Comment – So you are talking about education and that is definitely something that keeps me up at night. Part of what I do at PRPA is managing our marketing outreach. What we’re doing in this very moment is crafting a strategy that is working regionally with our owner communities and really amplifying that education outreach. As Masood mentioned, through our efficiency works program, which you probably have heard of, and Fort Collins has a piece of that as well as the homes program, but we work very closely with the Fort Collins Utilities on that education. Now we’re starting to amplify that because we are seeing an evolution not only on the operations and the generation side, but what that’s going to look like on the consumer side. So, the relationship that an electric utility has with its customer is also changing. We are now having a relationship, not just transactional but relational. We need to influence behaviors or educate consumers on how to better utilize their appliances or what tools they have. We need to access data too because we also recognize that customers may already know how to use their home in an efficient way. That question is do they want to share the data with us. We are actively developing that strategy and recognizing that we’re not the only region or the only utility trying to figure this out. We are collaborating and establishing that strategy right now. • Danielle – Q – So along those lines, from a social equity standpoint, and I apologize that this is already in place, but when it comes to water usage, we know that there are surcharges placed on those high users. When it comes to electricity there’s other factors that need to be put in place, such as is this home owned or a rental. Someone that rents a home can probably not participate in efficiency works and cannot upgrade appliances or perform those energy reducing measures the same way that a homeowner can. Are those user search charges something you’re looking into to attempt to modulate those behaviors? Javier – A – That is a really good question, and I honestly couldn’t sit here and say yes. I would need to go back to our team to determine that. Since we are on the wholesale side, we at PRPA do not get down to what the actual customer bills look like. We Page 6 09/20/2023 – MINUTES have four major customers. Those are the four municipalities that we serve. It would be more on the distribution side that we need to be examining that. It’s definitely a conversation worth having. Honore – A – The City of Fort Collins, I don’t know about the other partners, has the EPIC homes program, which is a finance program that specifically targets landlords to make efficiency improvements in rentals. Javier – A – But your question about the billing side; how can you influence behavior on the billing side and I worked for water utilities so I know what you are talking about with the tier structure. You incentivize the water efficiency users. Danielle – Comment – And some of the best social marketing research has come out of utility billing social marketing approaches. I think there’s a lot of opportunity there. • Danielle – Q– The other thing that struck me was in your projections looking at hydropower, looking as though staying pretty static, despite the acknowledgement and I have a little bit of a miff by calling it a drought because we are not experiencing a drought; we are experiencing climate change. So, water and hydro will continue to decline and yet on your models it looked as though it was projected as being rather static. I think that’s somewhat questionable. The other thing I had a really bit question about was why rooftop solar was expected to remain static. I would have thought that rooftop solar production would grow over time. Masood – A – So let me address your comment about hydro. It is decreasing but very minutely. We do run scenarios and cases where there is less hydro available like “dark calms.” We want to make sure if there is hydro is less, we can provide electricity. We covered that at the wholesale level. Now your comment on the rooftop solar. This is older data, almost a year and a half to two years old. What we have seen is the actuals are coming in higher than we projected. We are almost up to 25 or 30 megawatts in our system with our peak demand of 700 megawatts. That’s 5%. It is coming at a higher rate. So, we’ve updated the forecast and if you see the latest charge almost double that but its 60-70% higher than that you have seen in that chart. • Danielle – Q – Really phenomenal modeling and explaining that is being shown tonight. There is an issue of aging infrastructure. A lot of homes that were built, prior to even 2000 only have 150-amp service, which is not supportive of a lot of the new heat pump technologies, particularly when electricity demands under our consumer driven lifestyle with all the screens and other electronic devices are asking so much. So, there’s a lot of debate that I’ve been exposed to in how are these technologies really going to be adopted when there’s an even bigger entry cost because that infrastructure is not set up to be able to allow us to switch directly from natural gas to the heat pump, to geothermal, or something along those lines. I am wondering how the industry is going to handle that there is more incentive and more investment in upgrading aging infrastructure or as Kevin alluded to could we instead focus that money on simply increasing efficiency and reducing demand to allow that transition to take place? Masood – A – First on the demand side, when we hired a consultant to do the forecast of heating demand, they brought up the limiting factor will not be customers desire but will be the constrains in the last mile as you Page 7 09/20/2023 – MINUTES referred to. That is why we may not become winter peaking as fast as customers would like, because of the limitations not on the supply side of not having enough green electrons but we don’t have enough pipeline at the end. I am also aware, and I think it’s an early stage, but the City of Fort Collins is starting to look at what they call feeder by feeder study. There are thousands of feeders for serving all those customers. I don’t want to speak on behalf of the City, but I am aware that the City is aware that some feeders may need upgrading and they are looking at it. When we were doing this study, this was an active discussion with the City. • Kevin – Comment – Just one more comment on the point of behavior change. I feel like we have to figure this out. There’s this human problem in this modern society problem where nobody wants change. We’re not figuring out ways to dive that change at scale. I hope that everyone can come together from all your customer utilities and you all. This psychology focused podcast I listened to recently on how to drive change and there has to be some different things attempted. If people are aware of how much more their existing unavoidable loads are going to cost them in the future, if they don’t take out their avoidable loads for example. If that picture isn’t painted for them in a very obvious way or if they don’t see that Danielle over here manages her energy this way, you can too. We need to crack that because all these other things aren’t lining up perfectly. It’s not a question just a hope that we are trying really innovative, maybe non-traditional things to get that messaging. Get that opportunity to resonate. Masood – Comment – I will add people respond to their pockets. If you look at Europe or even Japan, the cost of electricity is two or three times as much. They import energy there. GDP to energy consumption ratio is much better than ours. We are blessed with a lot of resources. It’s difficult to become more efficient when its 10 cents a kilowatt hour, when in Germany people are paying 32 cents. It is easier for them. Javier – Comment – Customers respond to incentives and it’s usually financial incentives or competitive incentives. You create a competition out of it and there are apps that are out there that allow you to compare your energy consumption to your neighbor or you compare your energy consumption to a household that looks like your household. The previous utility I was at had an app that did that. We saw great success with it and how customers were doing, particularly with those that were lower income. Even though you are low income, talking about the social and equity issue, smartphones are very affordable. It’s the computer that even low-income households couldn’t afford. So, you put the app in their hand and suddenly, you’re creating an equity issue and helping address it. Kevin – Comment – I think part of it is personalizing it, humanizing it. We’re unfamiliar with the neighbor comparisons. I’m picking on Danielle, but This is what Danielle did. Danielle doesn’t turn lights on during our meetings as you can see in her background because why does she need to. Danielle can keep her lights off. There’s a difference in saying what can I specifically do or what is someone specifically doing that’s worth it? It’s not everything but you have to start somewhere. That is my hope. • Page 8 09/20/2023 – MINUTES b. Downtown Parking System Update – Eric Keselburg (Parking Services Manager) and Drew Brooks (Deputy Director, Planning Development and Transportation) will share current activities, financial and maintenance trends, and seek input on future policy/operational improvements prior to an October 24 City Council Work Session. (Discussion) • Discussion | Q + A • Kevin – Q – Is what you just said in the slides? Drew – A – I don’t think so. Kevin – Comment – To me, it’s so painfully obvious. I would throw it out there. Shouldn’t that be the story we are telling so the decision makers can understand we are very different and it’s not working. Drew – Comment – I don’t think anybody doesn’t know that. I think the problem has been, I guess I would say politically, it has been difficult to make that change. Eric – Comment – I think the first 2013 plan identified if this than that. So, if we have a certain capacity off street, then we need to relook at our model. 2017 did the same. We are at that stage now. We want to go to Council’s discussion about right sizing. Kevin – Comment – I think that is what they are going to ask you. They are going to want to see that, so they don’t have to draw that out. Eric – Comment – We want the blessing to do some additional work. Kevin – Comment – I think like you said, you did the comparison on fines, why not show the like for like comparison. Drew – Comment – Yes, we certainly have done that with groups that we’ve met. We’ve shown case studies on what other communities are doing. • Matt – Q – Can you let me know who the other groups that you visited are? Drew – A – We have not visited any other boards as of yet. We’ve had several meetings that the DBA helped us to bring in participants, mostly business owners or folks that live in the downtown area. We’ve also had folks that were bicycle advocates and others that sat in on those sessions. We’ve had a pretty diverse group of participants in those settings. We’ve had between 20 and 30 folks that attended each of those three that we have had so far. Eric – Comment – The Parking Advisory Board was dissolved in 2021 due to a lack of form and a lack of interest. Drew – Comment – So there was a parking board before the pandemic and even before the pandemic, it was very difficult to get participants in that board. We very frequently did not have forum so eventually Council opted to dissolve them. Matt – Comment – It’s probably on your list but the commission for disabilities or those kinds of groups are really critical to include and ensure that kind of mobility and impairment is addressed. Drew – Comment – Yes, and to reiterate that the first part of this process is to get state of affairs if you will and take that back to Council. What we’re hoping to do is have a second phase of this where we would be much more robust where we would actually be talking about, okay here’s some actionable or operational changes we’d like to make and then taking that to all of those boards and commissions and having that robust conversation. Matt – Comment – I think the discussion about economics is great because I always think about it too. We mostly ride our bikes downtown but if we do ever drive, we go to the parking garage. It’s free the first hour and a buck for the second, and we are out of there within two hours. Page 9 09/20/2023 – MINUTES Usually, it's not very much money to cover coming down here. I can totally get on board with the discussion about how we need to pay our way to help with this process. Eric – Comment – And to right size. I’m not throwing numbers out but to have the parking structure be less dollar amount than for parking on the street. Does it look like a dollar an hour or is it less than that to incentivize that longer term use to free up that parking space? That’s some of the discussion we’ll be having after the Council meeting. • Lisa – Q – I wondered if that bar graph that showed the portion of occupancy by portion of the part of the day included garages as well. Drew – A – Just on street, on identified streets in the downtown area. Lisa – Q – What would that look like if you included the parking garages availability? Eric – A – A healthy parking garage capacity is 65-70%. They will fill up to capacity like we said, for things like New West Fest, or Taste of Fort Collins. That is when they were full. Overnight is less than daytime but we don’t have solid data around parking structure occupancy. Drew – A – I think anecdotally we could say that they are highly underused for most of the day. Lisa – Comment – That is my impression too. Eric – Comment – We can safely say you can always find a parking space in the parking structure. • Danielle – Q – I am excited to hear you bring up that behavior change approach of making on street parking more expensive than garage parking. I don’t think the answer is to decrease the price in the garage. As mentioned, it’s incredibly cheap and affordable, particularly for a city this size. I think the answer is simply to dramatically increase and/or have paid parking for that street parking. I think generally that parking is an overlooked behavior change modifier for a lot of the City’s carbon goals. When people are participating in optional recreational activities, that is when they are least tolerant of inconvenience. That’s when things are like, I am going to bike because it’s just easier and I don’t want to have to deal with looking for parking. Or I just got off work and I need to get there quickly so I’m going to bike because it’s faster. I’m going to take the Max because it’ faster than having to look for a parking space and walk and the uncertainty that comes there. I think that there needs to be greater integration of parking services into the Climate Action Plan than there currently is. Again, it is such powerful behavior change motivator because when we see that peak occupancy, it’s in the evenings. It’s not during the day and it’s not the morning. It is when people are least tolerant of inconvenience and therefore, we have the most power to nudge them toward different, more carbon friendly forms of transportation. Kevin – Comment – I guess I would add to that integration with the climate action plan and also with the most recent active modes plan. It feels like to have a goal as indicated in that plan, which is 50% mode share via active modes. We can look at space in our city, our space, how do we use our space and how we use our space is indicative of the results that we want to achieve. I would love to see, and I suspect council would love to see that tied to active modes and how that allows us to achieve that particular goal which is going to be a challenge. Tied to that, as you all have Page 10 09/20/2023 – MINUTES indicated, parking should certainly be covering itself and possibly a net positive to then fund the larger initiatives for active modes and these other areas that we’re looking to go back to voters from a taxation perspective for the climate action initiatives and so forth. Parking could be a revenue generator because it is in many ways necessary, and I am not arguing that but how we architect it can really impact those other goal areas which I think is exciting. The average person is not going to be impacted in a way that really detriments their life. It should be positive. The other area I have a concern with that perspective is the call out really, it feels like an ongoing call out of the economic vitality. Parking is the economic vitality is the message that certain groups push over and over but I question if the data across the world and across different municipalities really ties to that. I would love to see research or case studies brough forth to say these changes were made to the parking in these municipalities and they actually saw constant business or even an increase due to the accessibility of businesses by other modes, the ease, and not having to search out parking. I don’t know if its true, but it keeps getting put in there. I am not saying I have the exact studies folks in here might have them more readily, but I feel like I’ve read things on multiple occasions where the business community always pushes against parking changes. The result is parking changes are made and business increases because of other modes being more accessible to said businesses. We can’t keep beating that if it’s not possibly true. • Danielle – Q – Do you handle bike parking as well? Eric – A – We don’t handle bike parking, but we work closely with FC Moves regarding bicycle crowds or the downtown businesses that want to have a bike rack in the parking space in front of their business. So, we work with FC Moves on finding some viable options for bicycle parking. Danielle – Comment – I know I am speaking from a place of extreme privilege but there is a really vibrant and growing cargo bike community in Fort Collins of people using larger bikes to move children. At the same time, I’m seeing a trend of decreasing bike rack space. For example, there’s a big bike rack on East Mountain that was just moved over to the curbs, and you can’t actually get a cargo bike on it. There’s one on Olive that previously stuck out far enough into a parking space so you could get a cargo bike in there. You can no longer do that. When you have to bring a cargo bike up onto a curb through a dismount zone to park it, and you’re not as tall as your bike is long, it’s really challenging. I think we need to think about updating our parking infrastructure. I know it’s legal to park in a car parking spot with a bike in the City of Fort Collins, but no one would risk their integrity of their bike to one of those giant Diesel trucks to do that. I just want to plug in there that we need to be thinking about the changing bike trends that we see in the community when we are planning out this infrastructure. It is really frustrating to not have a safe place to take those bikes when you have little kids. Eric – Comment – That is good feedback. Thank you. 8. BOARD MEMBER REPORTS Page 11 09/20/2023 – MINUTES a. Barry – Barry was interested in learning more about the concept of Fort Collins becoming a dark sky city. He shared that the lights from Fort Collins have grown and dominate the sky. It also has a negative effect on migrating birds. They can see it from their cabin in the mountains. Honore shared the link to the webpage regarding this topic. Honore will add it to the planning calendar for NRAB. b. Kevin – Regarding the proposed changes to the Bicycle Advisory Committee, during the 1st reading, Council did unanimously vote to move it to an Active Modes Board. That will go to a second reading around the beginning of the year. c. Matt – Matt was interested in hearing more about the progress on the ground water contamination at the Larimer County Landfill but was not sure if it was in NRABs purview. 9. STAFF REPORTS a. Honore – Changes came last night regarding boards and commissions. There will be a new manual, flexibility for one or more boards to meet after Council liaison approval, and terms changes for members. 10. OTHER BUSINESS a. Six Month Calendar Review • October • Economic Health Strategic Plan; Circular Economy • Budgeting/Strategic Plan • NRAB 2021 Work Plan – due Nov 30 • November • Discuss Council priority setting (input and influence) • Strategic memo on Council priority setting • NRAB 2024 Work Plan – due Nov 30 • ESD Background/Overview & Input on restructuring (Honore + ESD Lead Team & Director) • Larimer County Landfill • Advancing Transit Initiatives Update • Only if input is desired and helpful prior to Dec 12 Work Session • December • Strategic memo on Council priority setting • Night Sky Initiative • Other business • End of Year Report • Water Supply Requirement fee discussion 11. ADJOURNMENT a. (8:11 pm) Page 12 09/20/2023 – MINUTES Minutes approved by a vote of the Board/Commission on 11/15/23