all right everybody we're gonna uh call
the meeting to order at 10:02 a. Ken
informs me we have a quorum which is
terrific uh we're going to dispense with
me member introductions we did that uh
at our last meeting and folks can see
who's on the um 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 to accomplish
today and that is the election of the
new chair so Ken I believe uh we called
for um folks to raise their hands and uh
who do we have that's raised their 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 H entertain nominations from the
floor I'm going to nominate nominate our
current Vice chair Skyler zunk uh and uh
of course Skylar's the opportunity to to
decline this honor but um uh so Sky let
let me first ascertain would you you
would you accept the position if
nominated I'd be happy to thank you Cina
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 I I hey Clea I do think we
need to do a Voice vote okay because of
Foya so I think we just need to go
around and whoever is in favor say their
name and so let 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
W
hi Joanne
wet all right uh
Skyler
hi uh Greg
khib hi Colleen
Lucan hi Katherine
Bond Michael
Herbert
hi Chase counts
hi John
Hillis Harry
Godfrey
hi John
oan
I Angela
King all right let me Circle back to the
folks I missed in case they join later
or we're having trouble getting getting
off mute Joanne
web John
Hillis Angela
King all right so I count then for the
eyes 1 two three four five six 7 8 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 and you know we're under
our our bylaws and just proper protocol
we should uh have a vice chair 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 is vice chair so I'll go
first I uh
Paul
hi roomie
hi Michael
Walsh
hi Joan
Webb guer
zunk
I Greg
khabib hi paen
Lucan hi cath Katherine Bond
Michael Herbert oh thanks Katherine
Michael Herbert
hi Chase
counts
hi John
helis Harry
Godfrey hi John
ochman hi Angela
k very good the eyes have it so
congratulations to Skyler and to Paul on
their new roles uh 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 uh for the minutes as
distributed by Ken are there any
corrections or updates to the
minut hearing none I would entertain a
motion to approve the minutes as
distributed seconded so
moved 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 who who seconded it
this very so Skyler Skyler's the first
motion and can you have the second I do
not who's the second I think it was
Michael Michael yeah I can very good all
in favor say
I again I think we need to do a voice
Voice vote all right very good all right
I'm and I
Paul for the approval of the
minutes I roomy hi Michael
Walsh hi Joan
web guer zank hi Greg
khabib paen
Lucan
hi Katherine
Bond hi Michael Herbert hi Chase
camps hi John
Hillis Harry
Godfrey hi John
ochman hi Angela
King very good so we've gotten 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 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 five to 15
pages describing board activities
further guidance is that we confine 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 material 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 section rather than employee
resources to to review um immaterial
content uh and then the further guidance
is that report should reasonably discard
board activities without being overly
detailed especially when additional
information is available um to the
public such as meeting minutes and so on
so that's the guidance for the annual
report um the uh 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 uh we have in past years's
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 the vice chair
wanted to provide some remarks on uh
further business after today in regards
to the annual report or
otherwise thanks Cina I'll I'll keep
this brief but uh we have the chance to
touch base with uh director Davis of the
energy Department last week to uh
discuss his priorities and ways that he
could see the solar and storage
Authority fitting into his uh overall
mission uh at the department and his new
role um 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 uh and information that
we may be able to provide to him in his
office so I hope to be um shepherding
The Authority into a useful uh path
forward for the Department uh working
hand and glove with them on their
different priorities and helping to get
more solar and storage cited across the
Commonwealth I think that our uh 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
um those presentations and the minutes
that Ken put together can certainly be a
part of our report to uh the governor at
the end of this year I hope to do more
of that I think that um 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 the
department as well as the governor so
hope that's the direction that we hope
to head in this very open to uh 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 um some
more Salient pieces and some solid
recommendations to accomplish our state
Mission can I ask at this point if it
would make any sense 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
book 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 ever you know I
can send out some invites
and see if that
helps or we can
wait well can 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 the
group I just pulled that out of the air
that's
the sorry I missed that whoever spoke up
Catherine 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
yeah would the first one then be in July
or is that too soon
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 with 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 inperson 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 inperson ones no longer have the
option for remote participation or is it
if you have an inperson Quorum you can
remotely participate that is correct you
have to have an in-person Quorum you
have to have a legitimate reason that
meets these four criteria and I can send
that out again if yall 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 are illness or having to deal
with a sick person at home
or gotcha thanks Ken so it sounds like
this July that is um that is the
meetings of Richmond is that correct K
that's 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 push back from people who have to
drive long distances I know our offshore
wind Development Authority uh they
basically said no we're going to 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 Kim 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
General 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
IND
different 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
blocker me this is
John say that again
John yeah Wednesday would be fine with
May t Okay so again why don't you send
out a 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 4th 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 meet as often or as little as
you want when is the report du
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 of
babe that is still up in the air but
they want it as early as
possible okay now with 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 Paul
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 uh
I will be
out right now it looks like I'll be out
of the
country part of the August if we do
something in August so yeah 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 right less less
worries there but you want me to send
something out for the first Wednesday
yeah let's take a look there that'll be
the sixth so sixth or 13th could be two
options okay
yeah 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 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 and colen if you have any
suggestions for presenters who can
address those topics uh that would be
great thanks I'll think about it and
send you suggestions great and Colleen
this Paul I could work with you on that
too because I lead the New York joint
utility interconnection technical
working group so I can I can bring some
perspectives there too if necessary that
would be wonderful thanks
yep you're our first work
group so any further suggested topics
for consideration the Ann 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 pering
decisions at the local level um might
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 to make a lot of exciting exciting
decisions yeah good it sounds like the
annual report already has three meaty
topics I I look forward to reading it as
a civilian all
right so uh any further discussion on
topics for the annual
report here hearing none we'll we'll
move into the last bit of our agenda and
we are moving with lightning speed I'm
I'm 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 CLE 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 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
Cina certainly we know we know where she
working 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 shoes very big
shoes so ever since I've been at the
authority you've you've been in the
chair and that's uh that's remarkable
and and we we've got a lot of work ahead
of us SC
yep y big big pumps to fill there we
go all right so I now stand ready to
entertain a motion to
adjourn so moved next spot Skylar first
do you have a second second Ry who who
was that ryy Ry okay uh all oh okay
let's let's go through the row um go
back to okay I I I'll say I Paul I roomy
hi Michael
watch Joan
web Skyler sunk hi
Greg sorry I think Mike was on mute oh
Mike Michael Michael W oh I okay great
uh uh
Skyler hi Greg
khabib
Colleen hi
Katherine hi Michael
Harbert hi
Chase hi John Hillis
hi
carrett hi John urman hi and Angela
King all right the eyes have it we stand
to journ thanks very much everybody
really appreciate y'all making the time
for the for the June meeting yes I
agreed thank you all you thank you
Cina thank
you have a great weekend
everyone
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