Climate Council Meeting Summary - 7-16-2020

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Network has provided a list of the climate actions of their members and they will be incorporating those ideas as well. Bouma offered to add the Policy Ideas list link to agendas in the future. VI. Discussion of Succession planning Bouma introduced the item in light of student members and leadership would soon be cycling off. Student member Owen Ryerson who represents UNC will not be moving on but Josh Van Mater who represents Orange County Schools will be. Bouma reiterated that he and Pitts would work together to contact teachers and identify a successor. Bouma continued reviewing the previous discussion saying that the initial idea for succession had been for the Vice-Chair to become the Chair, but then in the June meeting the idea shifted to having a new vote for both positions and creating co-chairs. Bouma then checked for agreement with that summary and heard no comments. He added that in the June discussion the Council agreed that having one of the two co- chairs be an elected official and one be a non-elected community leader would be ideal but not a requirement. The Council also discussed that it takes some time commitment for the Chair and Vice-chair, but we heard from Marcoplos that this time should not be a significant barrier. He summarized further that the Council decided to follow a similar process to electing the co-chairs of accepting nominations publicly in the meeting before and then a polling committee would reach out to members to tally up support. This committee would then bring back a recommendation based on the final tally for formal adoption by the overall Council. Cavalier made a motion to formalize the shift from a Chair/Vice-Chair hierarchal structure to one of equal Co-Chairs. Kaufman seconded. Marcoplos called the vote and it was unanimous. McCollough then motioned to formalize the idea of having staggered terms for the Co- Chairs, and this was seconded by Kaufman. Marcoplos called the vote and this was unanimous as well. Bouma then summarized saying that when the time came to vote on new leadership, we would vote for one of the two co-chairs. He asked for confirmation and received no comment. Based on our discussions so far, this voting would occur after the public facing event and during the regular September meeting. McCullough then proposed that since Mark is going to be rolling off as a Commissioner, the Council should offer him an emeritus position as a member of the Council. Marcoplos agreed that he would like to stay involved. McCullough clarified that this would be a voting member position and that it would have the same terms limits as other positions. McCullough made a motion to create this emeritus position. Kauffman seconded and the motion passed with 12 votes.