City of Port Moody
Agenda
Climate Action Committee

Monday, May 29, 2023

7:00 P.m. - 8:00 P.m.

Electronic Webinar via Zoom

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1.

Call to Order

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You can view the meeting in the Brovold Room, City Hall, 100 Newport Drive,
Port Moody.

1.1

Territory Acknowledgement

The City of Port Moody carries out our business on the ancestral and unceded homelands of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh),
xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie),
qʼʷa:n̓ ƛʼən̓ (Kwantlen), qiqéyt (Qayqayt), and Stó:lō (Sto:lo) Peoples, and extends appreciation for the opportunity to work on this territory.

2.

Adoption of Minutes

2.1

Minutes

• Recommendation(s):

  
  THAT the minutes of the Climate Action Committee meeting held on
  April 24, 2023, be adopted.

3.

Unfinished Business

4.

New Business

4.1

Terms of Reference Overview

Procedure – Legislative Services Coordinator

Purpose – Sustainability and Energy Coordinator

4.2

Introduction of Draft Work Plan

Verbal Report: Sustainability and Energy Coordinator

4.3

Resolution to UBCM to Advocate for Schools to Include AC

Verbal Report: Sustainability and Energy Coordinator

• Recommendation(s):

  
  THAT the Climate Action Committee endorses the following resolutions:

  WHEREAS the BC Coroners Service attributes 526 deaths to the extreme heat events experienced in southern BC between June and August 2021;

  AND WHEREAS the Province of BC completed a Preliminary Strategic Climate Risk Assessment for BC in 2019 that found that extreme weather events will continue to worsen across the province in coming years including heat waves;

  AND WHEREAS some middle and high schools could be used as emergency, disaster or extreme weather shelters;

  THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT UBCM advocate to the Ministry of Education to increase funding to school districts with facilities capable of being used as emergency, disaster or extreme weather shelters to implement and increase resiliency measures including but not limited to mechanical cooling.

5.

Information

5.1

Staff Updates

Survey for Urban Forest Management Strategy and Tree Protection Bylaw

Link: Trees in Port Moody | Engage Port Moody

6.

Adjournment