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Laurie Moyer, Assistant City Manager, provided an update on the City Sustainability Plan. Sustainable goal areas include: resource conservation; transportation (reducing congestion, walkability, reducing emissions); land use and environment; sustainable built environment (green building); housing and economic sustainability (how does this affect low income persons?); and education and outreach. Current City Council goals are sustainability goals, and existing City programs support those goals. Research, coordination and education are underway. Member of staff have recently joined the Green Building Council, which assists and promotes green building techniques. The City is coordinating with Texas State University on sustainability issues. 10. Council Reports. A. Update on Education Equals Economics (E3) community dialogues by Councilmember Kim Porterfield. Councilmember Porterfield reported on the community dialogues that will be taking place February 4 and 11 addressing the global marketplace. This event is co-sponsored by SOAR and the E3 Alliance. Dialogue discussions will include: identifying 21st century skills needs for tomorrow's workforce, and preparing today's students for tomorrow's jobs. B. Update of CAMPO and CAPCOG by Mayor Susan Narvaiz. Mayor Narvaiz reported on CAMPO transportation issues and noted they are going through their next 30-year plan. There are big changes regarding the percentage of dollars that go on roads i maintenance versus pedestrian. The current policy directs 85% of funds to further roads. Not accounted for are all the things included when we do a road project that incorporates pedestrian elements. We may be doing more than 15% for pedestrian elements. Another proposal is to change the composition of the CAMPO board. We are the only one with state elected officials. There is a proposal to replace them with more local elected officials. CAPCOG is talking about the impact of ozone standards and emissions. There are reports that the data is not strong and may impact the standards. Changes must be implemented by December 2013. 11. Discussion on Public Safety Citizens Review Board and provide direction to staff. Councilmember Thomaides brought this up because the public safety budget is over 409% of the general fund budget. He wants staff to research how boards like this operate across the state. He feels we need citizen oversight when dealing with such a large portion of budget. Councilmember Jones sees this as an opportunity to increase diversity. It would empower the citizens to step up and assist in finding diverse candidates. This is an opportunity to build a stronger level of support from citizens for public safety areas and would increase the amount of participation in different policing models and input on different issues. 0 There was no consensus to move forward on this. RM020210 Minutes Page 3