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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAIR QUALITY ADVISORY BOARD - MINUTES - 09/16/2024 (2)1 09/16/2024 - Minutes Air Quality Advisory Board REGULAR MEETING Monday, September 16, 2024 – 7:00 PM 222 Laporte Avenue, Colorado River Room 1. CALL TO ORDER: 7:07 PM 2. ROLL CALL a. Board Members Present – • Dan Welsh (Chair) • Mark Houdashelt (Vice Chair) • Maria Moore • Michael Cheeseman • Jeremiah Gorske • Adam Schmidt b. Board Members Absent – • Michael Johnson • Matt Ayres • Kaori Keyser c. Staff Members Present – • Selina Lujan de Albers, Staff Liaison • Honore Depew, NRAB Staff Liaison d. Guest(s) – • None 3. AGENDA REVIEW No changes. 4. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION None. 5. NEW BUSINESS a. Council Memos: Budgeting for Outcomes & Urban Forestry Strategic Plan Schmidt made a motion, seconded by Cheeseman, to approve the Urban Forestry Strategic Plan joint memo as presented. The motion was adopted unanimously. Cheeseman made a motion, seconded by Vice Chair Houdashelt, to approve the Budgeting for Outcomes joint memo as presented. The motion was adopted unanimously. 2 09/16/2024 - Minutes Lujan de Albers thanked Chair Welsh and Vice Chair Houdashelt for the coordination and effort put into both memos on behalf of staff. 6. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – JULY 2024 Lujan de Albers recommended future minutes include more general language if it is unclear who was speaking, with the exception of motions, and noted both Chair Welsh and Vice Chair Houdashelt approved that change. Additionally, Lujan de Albers noted the July minutes are reflective of that change. Schmidt made a motion, seconded by Vice Chair Houdashelt, to approve the July 2024 meeting minutes as amended. The motion was adopted unanimously. Lujan de Albers noted the first joint meeting was not recorded; therefore, the minutes will be much more general for that meeting. 7. OTHER BUSINESS Chair Welsh noted the Work Plan needs to be reviewed at the October meeting to be completed and approved at the November meeting. Lujan de Albers discussed the Share Point drive that has been used in the past for Board Member collaboration on documents and stated some IT safety concerns have come up with that drive; therefore, there is no longer the ability to have access to the shared folder members were working within. She noted violations of the Open Meetings laws have technically not occurred as the minutes were typically only reviewed and edited by Vice Chair Houdashelt and Chair Welsh. Moving forward, Lujan de Albers stated minutes can still be shared to the full Board when they are available and one person could be designated to review them and provide edits, or all members can individually send edits to her. Vice Chair Houdashelt stated he is more concerned about being able to collaborate on documents such as the Work Plan and other memos. Lujan de Albers stated there is a third option via Google Docs; however, all changes and comments must be tracked, and members cannot converse with one another within the document or comments. Members concurred they would like to move forward with this option. Lujan de Albers noted the amended documents would be sent out with the agenda and all comments would need to cease after that. She stated she would clarify whether those documents need to include the tracked changes as the Open Meetings law is not particularly clear. Vice Chair Houdashelt asked if the minutes would also be in a Google Doc. Lujan de Albers replied in the affirmative. Lujan de Albers asked Depew how his Board handles track changes in Google Docs. Depew replied the City Attorney’s advice is to not use any shared documents and the approach discussed by his Board was to have any comments or track changes kept in the shared 3 09/16/2024 - Minutes document without back and forth exchanges or comments on the side, then the marked up shared document with the comments can be published with the agenda. Members concurred they would only use comments rather than track changes. 8. BOARD MEMBER REPORTS Schmidt stated he and Moore have been working to set up a meeting regarding getting public outreach to fall under the purview of the Board. Lujan de Albers stated she would work to get a meeting set up. Chair Welsh commented on attending a conference recently and connecting with a representative from the Education Outreach Department of the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory which has a great deal of funding available for education and outreach for things like ozone gardens and community events. A member stated he still has access to the AGU micro-grants program through his membership with Voice for Science. Vice Chair Houdashelt reported on the recent Super Issues Board meeting on housing and the What Wheels Go Where program and online survey. He noted members discussed ensuring the rules around behavior are also more consistent. Additionally, he reported on attending the recent Open Streets event on Shields. Vice Chair Houdashelt noted he is still the Interim Vice Chair and encouraged members to let Chair Welsh or Lujan de Albers know if they are interested in the position. Chair Welsh suggested scheduling a social event for the members and NRAB. 9. ADJOURNMENT • 7:42 pm Minutes approved by a vote of the Board on 10/21/2024