Chair Kaiba White updated the committee on activities of the Bond Advisory Task Force (BTF), which is compiling project information and developing criteria for evaluating proposed bond projects ahead of council recommendations.

White said working groups are collecting department submissions and that the full task force is expected to consider recommendations in January. The task force will discuss a resolution requesting greenhouse‑gas analyses of candidate projects and the criteria weights the task force will use to score projects. “One of the buckets is basically climate and environmental,” White said, listing greenhouse gases, resilience, air pollution reduction and green infrastructure as example metrics.

White asked committee members to help publicize three public listening sessions in November (two in person and one via Zoom): Saturday, Nov. 15 at Gus Garcia Recreation Center (Rundberg) at 5 p.m.; Tuesday, Nov. 18 (Zoom) at 6 p.m.; and Thursday, Nov. 20 at 6 p.m. at the Rudy Menendez Recreation Center on Canterbury. The task force will accept public testimony at meetings and through posted materials, White said.

Committee members noted cross‑commission coordination opportunities. Andy (Food Policy Board) said his board recently approved a recommendation to ask the BTF to consider farmland‑preservation funding and plans to present that proposal to the task force; White encouraged commissioners to use working‑group meetings and the listening sessions to submit project ideas or present for two minutes at task force meetings. White also reminded commissioners that boards’ budget recommendations are due to city staff in March and suggested reconstituting working groups to begin preparing those recommendations.

The task force is also developing scoring criteria and a proposed weighting of categories; White said the draft includes four buckets and the relative weighting is under discussion. Public input and greenhouse‑gas analysis will be part of the evaluation process leading to a recommended project list to city council.