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2024-06-14 Environmental Commitee AgendaAGENDA CITY OF EL SEGUNDO ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEE MEETING LOCATION: CITY HALL Executive Conference Room 350 Main Street, El Segundo, CA 90245 REGULAR MEETING OF THE EL SEGUNDO ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEE Friday, June 14, 2024 — 12:00 P.M. How Can Members of the Public Observe and Provide Public Comments? Members of the Public are welcome to attend the live meeting and speak during the Public Communications agenda item. Members of the Public may provide comments electronically to Erica Miramontes via email at emiramontes(a)elsegundo.org, with a limit of 150 words and accepted up until 30 minutes prior to the meeting. The emails will be read to the Environmental Committee during public communications and are subject to disclosure under the Public Records Act. Additional Information The Environmental Committee, with certain statutory exceptions, can only take action upon properly posted and listed agenda items. Unless otherwise noted in the Agenda, the public can only comment on City -related business that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Environmental Committee, and items listed on the Agenda during the Public Communications portion of the meeting. REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Government Code Section 54953(g), the City Council has adopted a reasonable accommodation policy to swiftly resolve accommodation requests. The policy can also be found on the City's website at https.11www.eisegundo.orp/_government/departments/city- clerk. Please contact the City Clerk's Office at (310) 524-2308 to make an accommodation request or to obtain a copy of the policy. 1. CALL TO ORDER 2. ROLL CALL 3. PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS — (Related to City Business Only and for which the Committee is responsible — 5-minute limit per person, 30-minute limit total) While all comments are welcome, the Brown Act does not allow the Committee to take action on any item not on the agenda. Committee members may respond to comments after Public Communications is closed. 4. REPORTS: PUBLIC WORKS —this portion of the agenda is for City staff to provide brief reports to the Committee. These are "receive and file, " non -action items only. Any actions needed to be taken must be included on an upcoming agenda. a. Hyperion Update b. Commercial Wastehauler Update 5. REPORTS: ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS— this portion of the agenda is for members to discuss various ideas and for subcommittees established by the Committee to provide brief reports on the work being done by the subcommittee. These are "receive and file, " non -action items only. Any actions needed to be taken must be included on an upcoming agenda. a. Environmental Work Plan: Sub -committee Updates i. Community Event Greening: Case Study Update ii. Liaisons with Local Agencies i. Chevron Tour Date and Time iii. WRD Community Class iv. Blue Butterfly Update 6. CONSENT AGENDA: i. Approval of May 10, 2024 Environmental Committee Meeting Minutes (attachment). Recommendation: Approval. 7. ADJOURNMENT GtT I' OA s� Gv� ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES Friday, May 10, 2024, 12:00 p.m. 1) CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order at 12:01pm, held in the Executive Conference Room of City Hall in person. 2. ROLL CALL The following Committee Members were present: • Tracey Miller-Zarneke, Local Business, Committee Chair • Kevin Butler, Resident, Vice Chair • Shannon O'Toole, Member • Kevin Atmore, Resident, Member • Dennis Falk, Member Heather Sutherland, ESUSD Representative, Member, was not present. The following City staff were present: • Elias K. Sassoon, Public Works Director • Erica Miramontes, Senior Management Analyst • Daniel Pankau, Environmental Programs Manager Ryan Baldino, Councilmember, was not present 3. PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: Brandee Keith / Public Affairs Specialist / SCAQMD: Gave agency updates on upcoming May 16 Annual Network Plan workshop, Clean Air Choices incentive program and Compliance Training Program. She also stated the online citizen complaint system will be down on Monday May 13. The phone complaint system will still be operational. Phil Friess a South Bay resident attended the commission meeting and shared insights from his long career working for LASAN (County) in the wastewater realm. 4. SPECIAL PRESENTATION: Follow-up from previous months Blue Butterly Presentation. Environmental Committee members voiced concerns that many of the native plant plantings specific to supporting Blue Butterfly habitat had been removed or potentially harmed by city landscape staff. Also suggesting additional education and outreach to the business community on native plantings and benefits to the Blue Butterfly. 5. REPORTS: PUBLIC WORKS Hyperion Update: Director Sassoon reiterated 5/7/24 city council updates to the commission including, City Efforts: provided feedback to the City of Los Angeles regarding the job description of new position that will head up the planned organizational changes at Hyperion. AQMD: issued three more notices of violation (NOV) to Hyperion for odor on April 22nd, 24th and 261". Fenceline monitoring down for a few hours on April 26. April 15-16 leak was a result of lack of maintenance equipment failure. Hyperion: Will perform maintenance activities that require temporary shutdown of the odor scrubbers for about one hour, Tuesday, May 7th and Wednesday, May 8th. The work is anticipated to have odor impacts. Precautions will be taken to minimize inconvenience and impacts, and to ensure safety during this planned maintenance period. Hyperion continues recovery activities at the plant through the end of this month, and cleaning of Hyperion Primary Battery D tanks will continue intermittently through June 6th, 2024. b. Staffing Update: Director Sassoon introduced new Environmental Programs Manager, Daniel Pankau. He started with the Public Works department on 5/7/2024. 6. REPORTS: ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS a. Environmental Work Plan: Subcommittee Updates i. Community Event Greening: Case Study Update: Member O'Toole reported on Chilipalooza event hosted by the Kiwanis. Vendors were informed to limit and or eliminate single use plastic items including giveaways, cutlery and water bottles. There were five "plant based" chefs present. Member O'Toole would like to establish more set guidelines for zero waste events. ii. Liaisons with Local Agencies: i. Chevron Tour Date: Chair Miller-Zarneke and the group decided on June 28 for the group Chevron Tour iii. WRD Community Class Options and Dates: Chair Miller-Zarneke reported that the Water Replenishment District (WRD) offered to provide some classes for the committee. The members selected "Drought Tolerant Garden" Chair Miller-Zarneke stated that the class would be held on 6/22. iv. Green Business Request: Chair Miller-Zarneke reported that the committee has received requests from businesses that want to be certified as a "Green Business" with the City. The members wanted to know if the committee can certify businesses on their own. Director Sassoon responded that they cannot. The businesses must be certified by SBCCOG. 7. ACTION ITEM: a. Environmental Work Plan: Discuss and Adopt Revision: Chair Miller-Zarneke and PW Director Sassoon went through each work plan line item for the education benefit of new Environmental Programs Manager. The committee voted to bring the current draft plan to City Council sometime in June if they need to officially sign off on it beyond what was said in the March presentation meeting. Vice Chair, Kevin Butler moved to approve. Member, Kevin Atmore seconded the motion. The motion was approved unanimously. 8. CONSENT AGENDA: b. Approval of Minutes for April 5, 2024 meeting. Vice Chair, Kevin Butler moved to approve. Member Shannon O'Toole seconded the motion. The motion was approved unanimously. 9. ADJOURNMENT: Closing announcement: Next meeting will be held in person on June 14, 2024, at noon, in the Executive Conference Room. Meeting was adjourned at 1:25 p.m.