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IV. Discussion of Climate Council Mission and Vision —Hansley-Mace, Weaver, Richards, <br /> and Rubinoff facilitated a discussion and process to solicit input from the Council on the <br /> mission/vision statement that will be drafted for the December meeting.They began with a <br /> review of the 17 Principles of Environmental Justice that were adopted in 1991 at the First <br /> National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit. Weaver said that racial equity <br /> needs to be with the Council from the beginning, and that slowing down to be thoughtful <br /> about racial equity would improve the Council's work and save time in the end. <br /> After reading the principles, there was a brief discussion. Richards said that she felt that on <br /> the whole the principles held up well given their age, and that while these principles <br /> covered a lot of points that would take more time to digest,there are some fundamental <br /> statements here that could guide the Council's work. Slade agreed,thanked the committee <br /> for their work, and expressed that climate justice calls for for those with resources to act <br /> even more quickly on climate change to help balance those who do not have the resources <br /> to act. Slade moved to adopt the 17 principles, and Hansley-Mace seconded. <br /> Rubinoff offered the idea that the Council might want to adopt something broader to serve <br /> as guiding principles, and that it was worth having more discussion. Other members <br /> expressed that one or two of the principles seem out of date or less relevant to the <br /> Council's work. Hansley-Mace expressed concerns about amending these principles given <br /> that they were long-standing and created by people of color.Trueblood asked how these <br /> principles would serve the Council. Richards and Weaver clarified that these guiding <br /> principles would provide a values framework to guide the creation of our mission and vision <br /> statements, and Slade clarified that his intention for the motion was to adopt these <br /> principles as the Climate Council's guiding principles of Environmental Justice.The vote was <br /> called and the motion was passed unanimously. <br /> The Mission and Vision Committee then led the Council through a series of survey questions <br /> and turned live online feedback into word clouds which provided a quick visual <br /> representation of the most commonly used words. With the Council's feedback collected, <br /> both in full text and in Word Clouds, the committee said it would draft a Mission/Vision <br /> statement for review and approval at the December meeting. <br /> Donna Rubinoff also said that she would send out a framework to structure climate policies <br /> that is used around the world.The Council can use this as a resource in formalizing our <br /> actions. Bauman and Cole affirmed the benefits of working from a framework. <br /> V. Identifying and Categorizing Joint Project Ideas— Marcoplos introduced this section by <br /> briefly walking the council through an initial analysis he had conducted of the initial project <br /> ideas. Marcoplos had identified 4 characteristics of each project idea: 1.)Those that would <br /> require funds; 2.)Those with a relatively quick turnaround; 3.)Those with a longer <br /> turnaround, and; 4.)Those where the Council has the power to complete them. Marcoplos <br /> said that these 4 characteristics reflect some of the identified strengths and challenges of <br /> the council e.g.-expertise, information sharing, no budget, little staff time. <br /> With time being limited for further discussion on these initial project ideas,the discussion <br /> turned to a sample framework that staff had created based on the Council's desire for a <br /> climate action gap analysis.The aim was for a gap analysis to communicate what's being <br /> done to address Climate Change already across the County and identify areas where we can <br />