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The committee would be working with members to post “N/A” in these cells and <br />color them grey, so they would not show up as gaps. <br /> <br />The committee has also added a new column to align the actions listed with the <br />appropriate category in the new LEED for Cities and Communities Standards, and <br />has invited the Policy committee to join with them to explore alignment of the <br />Policy list and the CARD. <br /> <br /> <br />IV. Update from Communications Committee <br />Marcoplos the newly formed committee is poised to meet in the next week. The <br />committee plans to send an update as needed afterwards. <br /> <br /> <br />V. Update from Policy Committee <br />Trueblood updated the Council on the work of the Policy Committee, saying that Janway <br />and Richardson had joined the Committee and that they had met recently. They were <br />working through the Policy Ideas spreadsheet shared at the last meeting. <br /> <br />They announced that they would be breaking into small groups to cover low-cost relatively <br />straightforward items highlighted in green to create explanatory language and any model <br />verbiage that could help to launch a project or policies. They hope to share this at the <br />August meeting. <br /> <br />The other group will tackle harder items highlighted in blue and yellow, thinking through <br />regulatory issues and projects with costs. They aim to develop ranking criteria to help make <br />clear which are most worth the effort. Likely it will take another month or two to work <br />through the spreadsheet and create sample language. <br /> <br />Marcoplos said that this could be a topic on the agenda in August to deliver <br />recommendations if the committee wishes. <br /> <br />Trueblood then said that different combinations of actions will work better in different <br />situations, so they desire to leave the rankings open enough to local interpretation and not <br />limit the spreadsheet options. <br /> <br />Marcoplos referred to the Climate Tax and the plan to distribute the next round. He said it <br />might be good to share this notification with others. <br /> <br />Bouma shared the background on the current thinking about the Climate Action Fund grant <br />program and offered to send out the criteria and eligibility guidelines after this meeting. <br /> <br />Slade then said that gathering policy ideas may be useful for grant applicants and the policy <br />committee may benefit from seeing the criteria. <br /> <br />Trueblood recommended that the grant be announced soon to give organizations extra <br />time to prepare in the first round. <br /> <br />VI. Discussion of Succession planning <br />