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Marcoplos suggested that a small subcommittee be formed to take this up and <br />bring back a recommendation at the next meeting. <br /> <br />Marcoplos asked if McCullough could lead this subcommittee and she agreed. <br /> <br />Other volunteers for this committee were Kaufman, Rubinoff, and Ryerson. <br /> <br />Tiger asked for whole council to be invited to join the review committee and Bouma <br />agreed to email the whole council and see if additional volunteers are interested. <br /> <br />Trueblood renewed the conversation about how we manage these types of <br />requests for advocacy or support from external groups. It will be important to <br />decide how we manage these types of actions so that we feel comfortable that we <br />are not getting ahead of the local governments. <br /> <br />Marcoplos agreed, and said that we are learning as we go. <br /> <br />Trueblood said that she would be interested in hearing options on how we <br />approach these actions because this is especially important for governmental staff. <br /> <br />Bouma called back to a previous Climate Council conversation that offered one <br />example which was to have the Council make recommendations to the member <br />governments instead of acting as the entity that is advocating or making the policy <br />recommendation. <br /> <br />Janway agreed. <br /> <br />V. Update from Climate Action Reporting Committee <br />Bouma reported that the committee had carried forward the changes that were discussed <br />at the last meeting, summarizing results quantitatively and qualitatively, and preparing for <br />the Community Update Event. Bouma expressed the committee’s openness to further <br />analysis suggestions or key takeaways that the Council had from the CARD that they wanted <br />to present at the event. <br /> <br />Bouma mentioned that the committee had not yet met with the Policy committee <br />to consider alignment of the two lists and would reach out to invite them. <br /> <br />Tiger and Janway said that we were also working on a written summary with visuals <br />to provide at the event. <br /> <br />Long reiterated that the committee was open to other ways of summarizing the <br />CARD data. <br /> <br />Slade thanked the committee for the work and said that it would be important to <br />align with the Policy committee, especially given the urgency of the needs we are <br />facing to take further action and the potential to take advantage of a potentially <br />changing political landscape. <br />