2019 Engagement Report

2019 2019 Engagement Report BRAMPTON COMMUNITY ENERGY AND EMISSIONS REDUCTION PLAN PROJECT WORKING TEAM Contents 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 2 1.1. Three Main Components of the CEERP ..................................................................................... 2 2. Project Governance ............................................................................................................................... 2 3. Public and Stakeholder Engagement Results ................................................................................... 3 3.1 Mayor & Council ............................................................................................................................... 3 3.2 Brampton Environmental Advisory Committee ........................................................................... 3 3.3 Brampton CEERP Task Force ....................................................................................................... 4 3.4 Target Networks ............................................................................................................................... 4 3.5 Public ................................................................................................................................................. 5 3.5.1 Community Survey ................................................................................................................... 5 3.5.2 Mapping Workshop .................................................................................................................. 6 3.5.3 Public Events ............................................................................................................................ 7 3.5.4 Information Sessions ............................................................................................................... 7 3.6 Municipal Departments ................................................................................................................... 8 4. Communications .................................................................................................................................... 9 4.1 Promote public opportunities to participate ................................................................................. 9 4.2 Raise awareness of the analytical findings ................................................................................ 11 4.3 Communicate final CEERP recommendations ......................................................................... 11 5. List of Appendices ............................................................................................................................... 11 1 CEERP Engagement Report Community Energy and Emissions Reduction Plan (CEERP) 1. Introduction The CEERP Task Force, City of Brampton and Sheridan College, with additional funding support from the Province of Ontario, came together in 2018 to facilitate the development of a Community Energy and Emissions Reduction Plan (CEERP) for Brampton. Brampton’s CEERP is a result of a two-year cross-sector collaboration that draws strength from the expertise and demonstrated leadership of the City, Sheridan College and members of the Brampton CEERP Task Force The support the community energy planning process, an Engagement Plan was developed to: Earn community buy-in for the CEERP goals and strategies, including endorsement by the City Council; Grow the capacity of the community to implement the CEERP; and Motivate the public and community stakeholders to act. The Engagement Plan is found in Appendix 1. The following report summarizes the highlights from the process. 1.1. Three Main Components of the CEERP The Brampton CEERP has been designed for implementation and consists of a set of three documents: - Our 2040 Energy Transition (and Action Plan containing the actions for each strategic direction that need to be accomplished in order to help achieve the objectives and targets), - 2019 Analytical Report (with appendices) that summarizes the evidence-based rationale for the CEERP Task Force strategy and - 2019 Engagement Report (this document) that summarizes the process that culminated in the CEERP Task Force strategy. See section 5 for a list of appendices that support this Engagement Report. 2. Project Governance The City and Sheridan College convened a team of community champions and principal advisors to oversee the community planning process. The CEERP Task Force Charter was approved at the inaugural meeting (see Appendix 2). The composition of the Brampton CEERP Task Force can be found in Appendix 3. A Project Working Team (PWT) was established to lead the analytical process and was comprised of representatives from the City of Brampton, Sheridan Consulting, electricity and gas utilities, Peel Region and the consulting team of Garforth International llc. See the 2019 CEERP Analytical 2 Report for more details on the PWT. The PWT reported the results of their analytical and strategic work to the CEERP Task Force. 3. Public and Stakeholder Engagement Results To determine the CEERP 2016 baseline, the PWT collaborated with local organizations, utilities and internal departments to acquire community electricity, natural gas, transportation, population, economic and property data. Several large local organizations (and fleet where possible) contributed facility energy use data. Data was acquired from: Alectra Utilities Enbridge Inc. The Corporation of the City of Brampton Sheridan College The Regional Municipality of Peel Transportation for Tomorrow Survey Third-party data vendors Province of Ontario HIS Markit Kent Group Ltd Details on the data and information gathered to support the analytical process can be found in Appendix 2 of the 2019 Analytical Report. An Engagement Plan was developed for five stakeholder channels: 1. Mayor & Council 2. Brampton CEERP Task Force (CEERP Task Force; formerly Community Task Force) 3. Target Networks 4. Public 5. Municipal Departments The following sections highlight some key outcomes. 3.1 Mayor & Council Engagements of Mayor and Council were completed (exclusive of final Council Approval).Council appointed City Councillor Doug Whillans to the CEERP Task Force. A Council Orientation Workshop took place in November 2018. Council also received information during a Council Workshop in December 2019 on the process and early analytical findings. 3.2 Brampton Environmental Advisory Committee Presentations were made to the Brampton Environmental Advisory Committee (BEAC) at the February 2018 and August 2019 meeting. Meeting minutes can be found at https://www.brampton.ca/EN/City-Hall/meetings-agendas/Pages/Minutes-Agendas- Archive.aspx. 3 3.3 Brampton CEERP Task Force Brampton’s CEERP Task Force met seven times between March 2019 and February 2020. The Task Force also met virtually in June 2020. All meetings were open for observation from the public. Meeting minutes can be found at: https://www.brampton.ca/EN/residents/GrowGreen/Pages/Community-Energy-and-Emissions- Reduction-Plan.aspx. Key approvals included: an energy vision for Brampton, a mission for the CEERP Task Force, a preferred “Efficiency Scenario” to support the development of goals, strategic objectives and projects while ensuring the community is placed on a path to support the advice of the IPPC. efficiency, emissions and economic goals strategic objectives with targets to achieve the goals, a 5-year implementation framework with priority projects and key Figure 1 - CEERPTask Force Task Meeting Force Meeting #2 #3 performance indicators (KPIs), and a commitment to champion implementation. Refer to Our 2040 Energy Transition for more information on these approvals. 3.4 Target Networks As described in the original Engagement Plan, Task Force members act as a channel to their respective communities and networks. The best format and tools for the engagement of these networks will be determined once they have been identified. The following briefly describes the Targeted Networks identified over the course of the project. Nordic City Solutions 1 Convened by the Danish Embassy on March 26 and 27, 2019, the two-day event sought to bring together stakeholders from across the community and region along with product and service 4 providers from Nordic Europe to present and discuss the various resources, technologies and development processes to implement the goals of Vision 2040 specifically applied to the potential redevelopment of the Bramalea neighborhood1. The Danish Embassy played a convening role in representing economic development interest for countries across Northern Europe. The importance of the CEERP in supporting the goals of Vision 2040 was presented by members of the Project Working Team. Nordic City Solutions 2 Similar to Nordic Cities 1, this meeting reconvened many of the same attendees as Nordic Cities 2. The focus on the meeting was on opportunities to implement the goals of Vision 2040 in the Uptown neighborhood2. Partners in Project Green (PPG) PPG is represented as a member of the CEERP Task Force and act as a conduit mainly to the industrial sector in the City and the region. On November 29, PPG celebrated its 10th anniversary at a conference called Powering the Clean Economy. The CEERP was presented to the audience at this conference with emphasis on the importance of the industrial and commercial sector in achieving the goals and targets of the

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