foreign
everybody we're gonna uh call the
meeting to order at 1002 a.m Ken informs
me we have a quorum which is terrific uh
we're gonna dispatch with member
introductions we did that uh at our last
meeting and folks can see who's on the
uh who's on the call thanks to teams so
I'm going to go to the next order of
business on the agenda which is the one
thing we really need to accomplish today
and that is the election of the new
chair
so Ken I believe we called for um folks
to raise their hands and uh who do we
have that's raised our hands to be
considered for new chair
no one yet okay all right well let me
then let me uh let me nominate someone
and um then I would enter Then I would
entertain nominations from the floor I'm
going to nominate nominate our current
Vice chair Skyler zunk uh and uh of
course Skyler's the opportunity to to
decline this honor but um uh
so Skyler let me first ascertain would
you you would you accept the position if
nominated
I'd be happy to thank you cleaner okay
uh any further nominations for the
board's consideration from the floor
hearing none I would uh entertain a vote
now on uh Skyler as our new chair moving
from up from Vice chair all in favor say
aye hey cleaner I do think we need to do
a Voice vote okay because of foia
I think we just need to go around and
whoever is in favor say their name and
yeah so let me let me go through the
role then so uh I I'll say I uh and then
Paul Duncan
hi
uh roomie
hi
Michael Walsh
I
Joanne whip
all right uh Skyler
aye
uh Greg Habib
all right Pauline Lucan
aye
Catherine Bond
Michael Herbert
hi
Jace counts
hi
John Hillis
Harry Godfrey
hi
John Ackerman
hi
Angela King
all right let me Circle back to the
folks I missed in case they join later
or we're having trouble getting get
knocked me Joanne Webb
John Hillis
Angela King
all right so I count then for the eyes
one two three four five six seven
eight nine 10 11. Ken is that sufficient
it is for me
all right
so congratulations Skyler glad to have
you on board now this does of course
create a vice chair vacancy uh and you
know where under our bylaws and just
proper protocol we should uh have advice
share as well if we can is anyone
willing to be considered for vice chair
I'll throw my hat in the name
Paul Paul Duncan all right any any
further nominations from the floor
okay hearing none uh we're going to go
through the same exercise uh on voting
for Paul as Vice chair so I'll go first
I uh Paul
hi uh roomie hi
Michael Walsh
hi
Joanne Webb
dialer Zonk
aye
Greg Habib
hi
Lucan
hi
Catherine Bond
Michael Herbert oh thanks Catherine
Michael Herbert
aye
Chase counts
hi
John Hillis
Perry Godfrey
hi
John Ackerman
hi
Angela King
very good the eyes have it so
congratulations to Skyler and to Paul on
their new roles on the authority
uh so that that uh was the biggest
business we had to accomplish the next
order of business is the approval of
minutes from our April meeting as Ken
pointed out they were a little more
detailed because you had a lot going on
in our April meeting so first
um for the minutes as distributed by Ken
are there any corrections or updates to
the minutes
hearing none I would entertain a motion
to approve the minutes as distributed
Summit
all right Ken do you have the first and
the second
I didn't hear who the first was
I'm happy to make the motion I didn't
catch you who seconded it
so Skyler Skyler's the first motion and
can you have the second I do not just a
second I think it was Michael
Michael yeah okay very good all in favor
say aye
again
all right very good all right uh I'm an
eye Paul
for the approval of the minutes
aye
Remy hi Michael Walsh
John Webb
guy luzonk
hi Becca beat
Pauline Lucan
aye
Catherine Bond
hi
Michael Herbert
hi
Chase camps
aye
John Hillis
Mary Godfrey
aye
John Ackerman
hi
Angela King
very good
so we've gone through the the parts of
our agenda that required a quorum I
really appreciate folks uh meeting again
so soon after the April meeting and
getting this uh important business of
the authority done uh the next next up
on the agenda is Administration guidance
on annual report preparation you will be
grateful to know that we are now uh have
guidance that limits us to uh no more
than 5 to 15 pages describing board
activities
further guidance is that we can find the
report to Rel and this is General
guidance provided to all but it
certainly applies to us uh the report
should be confined to relevant board
activities as described in our
legislative Charter uh they shouldn't
contain non-board related materials such
as descriptions of regulatory
legislative developments that did not
actively involve the board in question
and uh the report the write-up notes
that when there are non-board related
sections in a report the agency or
secretary's office may elect to remove
the sections rather than employee
resources to to review
immaterial content
uh and then the further guidance is that
reports would reasonably describe board
activities without being overly detailed
especially when additional information
is available to the public such as
meeting minutes and so on
so that's the guidance for the annual
report
um the uh of course the next order of
business under the new chair and vice
chair will be to decide what activities
the the
um
Authority wants to undertake uh we've
been focusing on an annual report we
haven't pastors done a a a a study on
storage
but so um that this remains in the
capable hands of the chair and the vice
chair and I didn't know if uh the chair
of the vice chair wanted to provide some
remarks on uh further business after
today in regards to the annual report or
otherwise
thanks Karina I'll I'll keep this brief
but uh we had the chance to touch base
with uh director Davis of the energy
Department last week to discuss his
priorities and ways that he could see
the solar and storage Authority fitting
into his uh overall mission at the
department and his new role he is
thinking on it and hopes to have some
guidance for us within last week it was
within the next two weeks so hopefully
within the next seven days just some
feedback from him on elements that we
can include in our annual report
activities that we can Undertake and
recommendations and information that we
may be able to provide to him in his
office so I hope to be shepherding The
Authority into a youthful path forward
for the Department uh working hand in
glove with them on their different
priorities and helping to get more solar
and storage cited across the
Commonwealth I think that our the
presentations that we heard from First
Solar and a number of different utility
and distributed developers at the last
meeting was super helpful I think those
those presentations in the minutes that
can put together can certainly be a part
of our report to the governor at the end
of this year I hope to do more of that I
think that just compiling some testimony
and some opinions from industry leaders
that are trying to invest heavily in
Virginia would be helpful to director
Davis and the department as well as the
governor so let's hope that's the
direction that we hope to head in this
very open to feedback and ideas from
members of The Authority I think you
know in some ways a shorter report at
the end of the year frees up a lot of
Staff time and a lot of our effort let's
condense that into some more Salient
pieces and some solid recommendations to
accomplish our State admission
and I ask at this point if it would make
any sense now to get some meetings on
the book for the rest of the year or do
we want to see what comes out of
director Davis and then and then have
Ken follow up with getting meetings on
the books
I think it wouldn't hurt to get dates on
the calendar because it just gets so
tough
you know to get quorums together if we
can if you all can look at your
calendars now and decide on you know
like the the second Wednesday of each
quarter or whatever you know I can send
out some invites and
see if that helps
or we can wait
okay that sounds helpful and if it's a
regular time folks can get it on their
calendar as a recurring invite
um
you tossed out second Wednesday
of each quarter does that strike any red
flags for anybody in a group
so I just I just pulled that out of the
year that's the case
sorry I missed that whoever spoke up
yeah
I was just asking what that would mean
in terms of what are the dates that
you're contemplating is that what you're
trying to do now
oops would the first one then be in July
or is that too soon
I well I I would think if you're getting
guidance from director Davis you might
want to have a July meeting just to kind
of see what what where that leads us
yeah so the second Wednesday in July
would be the 12th
and Ken would you remind us
are these able to be conducted remotely
on a regular basis or do we need to have
in-person meetings a certain number of
times
uh they need to mostly be in person we
can do you can do two virtual meetings
per year but you can't do them back to
back
so two of them
um can be virtual and the other two have
to be in person
and just for clarification then the
in-person ones no longer have the option
for remote participation or is it if you
have an in-person Quorum you can
remotely participate that is correct yes
I'm an in-person Quorum you have to have
a legitimate reason that meets these
four criteria and I can send that out
again if you all need it uh you you
yours is easy you live more than 60
miles from where we typically have the
meetings so that is a valid uh excuse to
call in
others or illness or having to deal with
a sick person at home or
gotcha thanks again so it sounds like
this July that is um that is at the
meetings of Richmond is that correct Ken
that's what you're using as your base
uh yeah that's typically where we have
had it
um just logistically it's easier for us
but I know there's a lot of pushback
from people who have to drive long
distances I know our offshore wind
Development Authority uh they basically
said no we're gonna have most of them in
the Hampton Roads region because that's
where most of us live so if there's a
strong desire I can try to find a place
in Northern Virginia
um
but
that hasn't happened to date
thanks again well I do have a conflict
on the 12th but I could move it if that
works for
you know majority of the group
um second second Wednesday I just pulled
that out of the air it could be the
third Wednesday it could be the first
Tuesday you know whatever works
how do Wednesdays look generally for the
group are they are they good or bad or
indifferent
they're this is Paul they're they're
good for for me I can move things around
as necessary so I'm not a blogger
with me this is John
say that again John
yeah Wednesday would be fine with me too
okay so again why don't you send out a
poll for the 12th the 19th and the 26th
of July those are the Wednesdays in July
that uh are right next to the fourth and
see see if we can get a quorum
okay I can do that and um do we want to
do the same thing for the next quarter
do you want to have monthly meetings I
don't you know it's up to you all how
often you want to meet the wind
Authority meets every quarter so but you
all can beat as often or as little as
you want when is the report to you
uh October 15th all right so we need
obviously a meeting before then and when
do we actually have to get it to the
secretary or to the Powers it babe
that is still up in the air but they
want it as early as possible
okay now under these new guidelines it
it may be that might be more flexible
but um you know in the past they've
wanted it like in September
so that sounds like a an August or
September meeting for the group right
early early September sometime August
yeah Kim maybe uh in that poll you could
uh
mention the Wednesdays in September as
as options for a second meeting to
finalize the report and gauge folks
availability
yeah I think that works I will be out
right now it looks like I'll be out of
the country
as a part of the August if we do
something in August so yes September
works great
perfect
you want to try a little earlier in
September maybe just to get on top of it
yeah I think we need to get on top of it
given our history
again it's going to be a much shorter
report so
less worries there but you want me to
send something out for the first
Wednesday
yeah let's take a look there'll be the
six so sixth or thirteenth could be two
options okay
all right well we I feel like we've made
a lot of progress in this meeting is
there any further discussion before I
move to the public comment section of
the meeting
um I wanted to suggest uh topics for
discussion just for our for our report
to consider would that be appropriate
right now
sure
um I thought that it would be a great
opportunity for us to offer
um guidance or best practices in line of
uh uh some of the testimony we received
last meeting on the difficulty of
interconnection for solar and storage
projects at the distribution level
I think that in general we have an
opportunity in Virginia
to lead on
um on solar and storage development
especially in light of the blocked and
and frankly Frozen interconnection Queue
at the transmission level
um and so I think this is an area that
we could explore as the authority and
then the second is in light of the quick
growing load growth for data centers in
Northern Virginia there's a lot of
demand for those data centers to have
clean energy
and I wanted to explore the connection
between the rapidly growing data center
demand and the potential for solar and
storage to fulfill that need
so
and Colleen if you have any suggestions
for presenters who can address those
topics that would be great
thanks I'll think about it and send you
suggestions great
and Colleen this is Paul I could work
with you on that too because I lead the
New York joint utility uh
interconnection technical working group
so I can I can bring some perspectives
there too if necessary that would be
wonderful thanks
yep
so you're our first work group
so any further suggested topics for
consideration the end in the shorter
annual report
subject to director Davis's
um guidance I think it'd be really
helpful to hear from local leaders who
are making these decisions and
permitting decisions at the local level
um
I want to put a pin in that but that's
something that I could certainly help
put together and get a broad swap of
folks who are elected at the county
level
exciting decisions
very good it sounds like the annual
report already has three meaty topics
and I look forward to reading it as a
civilian all right
so uh any further discussion on topics
for the annual report
your hearing none we'll move into the
last bit of our agenda and we're moving
with lightning speed
um
amazed and pleased about that uh is
there anyone participating from the
public who would like to make a comment
at this time
all right hearing none I would entertain
a motion to adjourn
before we get there I just want to take
a moment to thank you for your
leadership of the authority on behalf of
the other authority members
um it is a hard job that I'm starting to
appreciate but uh you have handled it so
tactfully and uh it's been a joy to
learn from you and very much appreciate
your help over the last number of years
on the authority so thank you so much we
will miss you and we hope to tap on you
for your expertise in the future thank
you clayna
certainly we know we know where she
works
no it's been fun it's been really fun
the last eight years so I'm looking and
I am really looking forward to this next
report I think you guys will do a
fabulous job
all right
they're not the authority you've you've
been in the chair and that's uh that's
remarkable and and we've got a lot of
work ahead of us
the big big pumps to fill there you go
all right so I now scan ready to
entertain a motion to adjourn
so moved spot Skyler's the first do you
have a second
who's that right
okay uh oh okay let's let's go through
the row
um
okay I I I I'll say I Paul
hi
roommate hi Michael Ross
Dylan Webb
dialer zunk hi
Greg Hadid
sorry I think Mike was on mute oh Mike
Michael Michael Austin
oh I okay great
uh uh Skyler
hi Rebecca beep
Colleen
aye Catherine
I
Michael Herbert
hi Chase
hi John Hillis
hi
Karen
aye John Ackerman hi and Angela King
all right the eyes have it we stand
adjourn thanks very much everybody
really appreciate y'all making the time
for the for the June meeting yes I agree
thank you all thank you thank you
thank you
have a great weekend everyone
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