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McCullough then said that one of the opportunities in participating in the grant program <br />might be to suggest a list of projects to consider for various types of applicants. This would <br />leverage work the Council has already done., and may encourage additional applications by <br />seeding ideas. <br /> <br />Bouma added that the Council should approach advocacy carefully so as not to put staff <br />members in an awkward position. He pointed out that a strength of the Council is that we <br />have elected officials as members who are elected to represent residents and advocate for <br />policies, and it may be best for the Council to work through those elected officials to carry <br />messages back to the member governments where the final decisions will be made. <br /> <br />Cough then voiced his support for Rubinoff’s focus on actions that require more than one <br />government to act in order to be effective. That logic can apply to our own priority list and <br />aligning it with the state’s climate action plans. <br /> <br />Trueblood said that it would be useful to know whether we intend for their policy lists to be <br />merged with the CARD or stay separate. <br /> <br />Bouma responded that the CARD committee had discussed a way to align those lists under <br />the logic that the CARD would represent actions that at least one member had already <br />started and the policy list could represent actions that no one has done yet and could pull <br />Council members into further action. This may be a difficult thing to pull off in practice, so it <br />may be best to have a meeting of the two committees to explore this further. <br /> <br />The Policy Committee agreed to have a separate meeting with the Climate Action Reporting <br />Committee on this topic, ideally in advance of the public-facing event. <br /> <br /> <br />VI. Update from Communications Committee <br />Bouma summarized that the Communications Committee had primarily discussed <br />plans for the upcoming public-facing event. Current plans were to highlight voices <br />from the Council itself in presentations. Marcoplos and McCullough would provide <br />an introduction highlighting overall progress and purpose, and tying to the present <br />moment in the pandemic. Then we would move into presentations from two <br />members on each of the three committees since that is where the Climate Council <br />has been conducting its focused work. We would begin with the Climate Action <br />Reporting Committee giving a snapshot of where we are, then move to the Policy <br />committee to say where we could go and then the Communications Committee <br />could take it from there. <br /> <br />This proposed agenda moves away from our earlier discussions around having a big <br />name outside speaker and ensures we focus on communicating about our efforts. <br />Having two speakers per committee should allow for us to highlight the diversity of <br />our membership and organizations. <br /> <br />McCullough added that we would also have a Q and A session for the public and <br />then a closing statement. <br /> <br />Cole then added that we wanted to ask Cavalier to kick off the meeting with a land <br />acknowledgement.