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City of Indio

AGENDA

Sustainability Commission

Monday, April 25, 2022 @ 5:30 PM

150 Civic Center Mall

 

 

The City Council Chamber will be open to the public and Sustainability Commission meetings will be conducted in person and remotely through Zoom in compliance with Government Code Section 54953(e) (AB 361

 

Members of the public will be required to comply with the California Department of Health Guidance for the Use of Face Coverings which strongly recommends that all persons, regardless of vaccine status, continue to mask while in indoor public settings and businesses. [Eff. 3/1/22].

 

You may view the meeting via Livestream on the City’s website

 

or via Facebook Live

 

or via YouTube

 

 or view and participate via Zoom

When: Apr 25, 2022 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Please click the link below to join the webinar:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89562015998?pwd=QzhBbDlqdnpUYWx4ejlIQ0xBT2hHUT09

Passcode: 563990

Or One tap mobile :

    US: +14086380968,,89562015998#,,,,*563990#  or +16699006833,,89562015998#,,,,*563990#

Or Telephone:

    Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):

        US: +1 408 638 0968  or +1 669 900 6833  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 876 9923  or +1 301 715 8592

Webinar ID: 895 6201 5998

Passcode: 563990

    International numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kwOg9Rdyz

 

Consistent with Government Code Section 54953(e) (Assembly Bill 361), members of the Community Services Commission and City Staff are permitted to attend the meeting by teleconference and such teleconference locations are not accessible to the public and are not subject to special posting requirements.  If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable modification or accommodation pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) please contact the office of the City Clerk at 760-391-4007 prior to the meeting for assistance.

 

Members of the public who desire to address the Sustainability Commission during the meeting may do so either in person or orally or in writing as described below.

 

Oral Comments: Oral testimony can be provided in person or during the virtual live session. Individual speakers are limited to three minutes each, unless the Chairperson amends the time limit. To address the Commission in person please complete speaker request card located at the entrance and give it to the Secretary. Your name will be called when it is your turn to speak. To address the Commission during the virtual live session via zoom, please email the secretary at stoyoda@indio.org or alternatively, during the specific agenda item or general comment period (i.e. non-agenda items), please use the “raise your hand” function on zoom in order to be recognized by the secretary in order to provide comments in real time.  The secretary will facilitate to the extent possible any email requests to provide oral comments that are sent during the live meeting.  Please specify on the subject line of the email “Oral Comment” and note the agenda item number or if general comment (i.e. non-agenda item). To participate during the live session, please keep track of the meeting proceedings by watching the meeting via Livestream, Facebook Live, YouTube, or Zoom. Please raise your hand and your name or other identifier (phone number) will be called when it is your turn to speak.

 

Written Comments: identifiers unable to provide comments during the meeting (whether in person or the virtual live session), written public comments on agenda and non-agenda items, or both, may be submitted by email to the secretary at stoyoda@indio.org . Please specify on the subject line the agenda item number or if general public comment (i.e. non-agenda item). For example on a specific item, write "agenda item 8a" on the email subject line. Email/Written comments must be received by the City Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting and such comments will be distributed to the Secretary, Sustainability Commission, posted on the agenda landing page and be made part of the agenda packet and public record of the meeting; however, they will not be read during the meeting. 

 

Public Hearing Items: Any person may provide in-person comments on public hearing items. Oral or written comments will also be accepted on public hearing items in the manner prescribed in the notice at the top of this agenda except that comments will be accepted during the public hearing until the hearing is closed.

 

 

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION MAY ACT ON

 ANY ITEM LISTED ON THE AGENDA

 

 

 

 

1.

CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL

Chair   Morgen Bentsen

Vice-Chair  Anetha Lue

Commissioner Miguel Romero

Commissioner Robert Patterson

 Commissioner Jerry Tack

 

 

 

2.

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

 

 

3.

PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA

This is the time set aside for public comment for items not on the agenda. Public comments may be provided in the manner prescribed at the top of this agenda. If the total time of comments extend beyond 30 minutes, the Mayor may defer further public comments for items Not on the Agenda until the end of the Agenda.

 

 

4.

MINUTES

 

 

 

4.1

Minutes of March 28, 2022

 

March 28 minutes

4 - 6

 

5.

ACTION ITEMS

 

 

 

5.1

Approval of the Sustainability Plan and 2022 Annual Work Plan Draft to be presented to the City Council

 

Staff Report - Sustainability Plan and 2022 Annual Work Plan Draft - Pdf

7 - 37

 

6.

COMMISSIONER COMMENTS

 

 

7.

STAFF ITEMS

 

 

8.

ADJOURN

Next Sustainability Commission Meeting: May 23, 2022

 

Agenda packets are available on the city’s website at www.indio.org and at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall at 100 Civic Center Mall, Indio, California.  Materials related to an item on this Agenda submitted after distribution of the agenda packet are available for public inspection in the City Clerk’s Office, during normal City business hours.

 

PUBLIC NOTICE

 

The Indio City Council Chamber is accessible to person(s) with disabilities. If special equipment is needed, for the hearing impaired, please call the City Clerk's office.  Persons with disabilities can receive this agenda in an alternative format and should call the City Clerk's office at 391 4007. Notification 48 hours prior to a meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to the meeting (28 CFR 35.102.35.104 ADA Title 11).

 

RULES OF DECORUM

 

To help conduct the business of the Sustainability Commission in an orderly fashion, the City has adopted rules pertaining to decorum and order, as provided for in Ordinance No. 1205. The Sustainability Commission will strictly enforce these rules in order to allow full expression of ideas and opinions by councilmembers, staff and the public. Generally, the City's rules of decorum prohibit comments or actions which willfully disrupt the meeting. All remarks and questions shall be addressed to the Commission as a whole and not to any particular member. No individual Commissioner or member of the City staff shall be questioned without first obtaining permission from the Presiding Officer. The Sustainability Commission asks that all persons - including commissioners, staff and the public - act and speak respectfully.

 

DECLARATION OF POSTING

 

 

I, Sara Toyoda, Commission Secretary of the Sustainability Commission of the City of Indio, California, do hereby declare that the foregoing agenda was posted on 4/22/2022, at least seventy-two (72) hours prior to the meeting per Government Code 54954.2, at the following locations:

 

City of Indio Council Chamber, 150 Civic Center Mall, Indio, CA 92201

City of Indio website www.indio.org

 

 

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