Recommendation to receive and file a presentation by Green Education, Inc. regarding local community efforts to comply with Green House Gas reduction goals.
Item 25 is communication from Councilwoman Gonzalez, Council Member Peers and Council Member Turanga. Recommendation to receive and file presentation by Green Education regarding local community efforts to comply with greenhouse gas reduction goals. Councilmember Gonzales. Yes, I would like to welcome up Estella, and I would like to thank Green Education Inc for putting together this presentation. It is essential that we have this dialog with the community to identify best practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, especially with the goals that Governor Brown and the legislative legislature have put in place. And before you leave, will have a beautiful presentation and certificate for you. Thank you all for your hard work. And I know we've worked together, but we'd like to hear the presentation and then we'll go forward from there. Thank you. Thank you. Let me actually join me with Councilmember Pearce first or I will go back to sorry, Councilmember Pearce. Well, thank you. I want to thank my colleague for our agenda using this great presentation to for two of my neighbors who work really hard for all of Long Beach. We know that Sacramento has put forward some greenhouse gas reduction goals that we have to comply with. But as a coastal town, climate change and climate resiliency are things we have to take very seriously. So one of the reasons I ran for office was to make sure that my daughter and all the future generations have a clean and safe environment to call home. And so I really want to thank you guys for the presentation you're about to give in all the hard work that you do every single day, trying to get us to listen and do the right thing on small things and big things. So looking forward to it. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Gonzalez and Councilmember Pearce. Mayor and city council members and staff, we really appreciate this opportunity and to be able to share what we're trying to do to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in our city and also in L.A. County. You know, you know, green education. As the founder and producer of the Green Praise Festival, that's our yearly Earth Day event. We've been doing this for approximately four years, five years, holding festivals throughout the community, and we are really appreciative of everyone's support. Everyone that has helped us to conduct a festival in their in their district, in their backyard. This festival is our homegrown effort to recognize and. Reward the leaders. In environmental, health and justice and sustainability and to engage and educate communities that typically might not have access to so many organizations and subject matter experts all in one place. And to have fun while learning about climate change, about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and how to create a more sustainable city in the process. But our other efforts include engaging disadvantaged communities and connecting them to vital energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. Day in and day out, we're outreaching to small businesses to connect them to programs that will help them save energy, reduce their energy bills and, of course, reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We're conducting workshops, town halls, green block events to connect residents struggling to purchase a new home or to stay in their homes to programs that will help create healthy energy saving, high performing homes. Marcia, a.k.a. Pinky, has trained approximately 1200 realtors across California about energy efficiency mortgage program. And we believe this is a key component not only for future homeowners, but for our city's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change via the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan. With that, I'm going to hand it over to Marcia. Hello, everybody. And thank you again for letting us present. So for those of you that are not familiar with the SB 350 goals, which is the Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act, it is law to reduce our greenhouse gas emission to 40% below the 1990 levels by 2030, and to the 80% to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. Also to increase access to energy efficiency and weatherization projects for low income families and ensure that the 16 largest publicly owned utility companies meet their greenhouse gas emission target by 2050 while maintaining reasonable customer rates and reliable electric service. Some of the barriers for SB 350 is to access solar, solar panels, solar photovoltaic energy generation, access to renewable energy by low income families, access to energy efficiency and weatherization investments, including those in disadvantaged communities, as well as increase access to energy efficiency and weatherization projects. All homeowners, as well as homebuyers, including first time homebuyers, can access can can. Have access to find. Financial resources to help pay for energy efficient repairs and weatherization projects. I study that a case study that I did in Walnut, California, back in 2012, which was an investor flip. The purchase price back then was $340,000. Appraised value after repairs was 465,000. Energy efficient upgrade was spent. $21,000 in cosmetic repairs was $25,000. This was a home that was built in the seventies and no upgrades has been done to this home. It's sold in five days. And mind you, in 2012, market was not moving. It sold in 2012, in five days and it sold for 485,000. And the scope of work for that for for that energy efficiency repairs was an upgrade to the HVAC system. I. Three design added insulation, exterior wall insulation and high efficiency water heater. And if this home was to put four solar panels on that home, it would have been a net zero home. And this home keeps their their HVAC system at 70 degrees, 24 seven. And the homeowner or the homeowners utility bills or electric bill is $50 a month. Another case study that I did in Southgate Southgate, California, which was a purchase in 2015. The purchase price was 410,000. The appraised value after repair was 520,000. The allowable energy efficient amount was 26,000. And they received a rebate from that energy upgrade, California, of 85,000. So the equity from day one, because this was a purchase, was $110,000 in day one. And again, the house the home was built in 1970. Scope of work for energy efficiency repairs was an upgrade on each HVAC system duct redesign, adequate insulation, exterior wall insulation, high efficiency water heater and a pool pump. And again, the homeowner keeps their HVAC system at 70 degrees with a pool pump pumping 24 seven, and their electric bill is between 20 to $23 a month. So low income barriers there's a single family home that that I research that sold in Wilmington, California. It sold in March March 2015. And the selling price was 240,000. It was it was an investor flip and the investor put a little lipstick on the property and it sold six months later for $365,000. 600. 364,888, to be exact. And this is without energy efficiency improvements. So potential impact for energy efficiency repairs or the what the initiative that we're trying to move forward here is the number of homes sold between January 2016 to December 2016. In the county of L.A.. Was 54,000 homes approximately. And in the city of Long Beach, there was 3000 homes sold approximately. So if we were to assume that 20% of these new homeowners achieved an overall. 25% energy efficiency. Improvements for each of those homes, and that the scope of work would include heating and or cooling system upgrade, ductwork, air sealing and insulation. That is approximately we would reach approximately 1.884 metric tons of CO2 emission reduction from the savings per home. And that's that's an equivalent of 20% of L.A. County wide would be 4300 passenger cars off the road for a year or an annual electric use of 3006 homes per year. And here in our city of Long Beach, it would be out. It would be. 1100 metric tons of reduce CO2 emission, which is an equivalent to 240 passenger cars off the road for a year, or at an annual electrical use of 119. Homes for our beautiful city of Long Beach. By improving energy efficiency for every building and home, we can achieve our 20, 30, 20, 40 and 2050 goals. Energy Efficiency Mortgage is a path for for an initiative such as this because homeowners. All homebuyers and homeowners interested in refinancing. Are automatically pre-approved for an additional 5 to 15% of their approved loan to do energy efficiency repairs without adding to their debt to income ratio benefits is Long Beach will meet greenhouse gas reduction goals. Energy use decreases, healthier homes, less illnesses, more jobs, green economy and a model and model neighborhoods. And we can. Be the poster city for. California. As well as the United States. So we believe that energy efficiency improvements and programs like energy efficiency mortgage program. Will help with the heavy lifting that. Comes with passing and achieving the goals of our Climate Action and Adaptation Plan. Not to mention that then additional benefits that we will. Experience, like keeping families in their homes, creating new green careers here in Long Beach. Thank you again. For letting us speak. Thank you very much. I'm going to turn this over to is there any other public comment on this item casing? None, Councilmember Ringo. You know, and all this PRESENTI forgot to mention your name. It's Stella. Sure. I want to thank you staff for putting this presentation together. I mean, we have had those green events at West Long Beach, which are very useful. And your encouragement to have homeowners improve their housing through making them more efficient is is wonderful. And it really sets the tone for us to keep green in mind at the forefront at any time, whether it's buying a vehicle or how we buy our water or how we recreate. So, I mean, I want to thank you for bringing this forward. I hope that this is able to expand into Long Beach and get more people to buy into buying to, I guess, buy into more higher efficiency products as we as we move forward and to recycle as well. As we move forward. Thank you very much for your presentation. Thank you. And of course, to Pinky and Estella, you guys are, of course, some of our biggest screen advocates in the city. And you guys do great work. So thank you for that presentation. And turn this over back to Councilwoman Gonzales. Anything else? I just want to say Marcia and Stella, again, thank you very much. I know it's been said again, but I cannot thank you for educating me personally on how much this could impact not only the county of California, but the city of Long Beach. You both do incredible work. You're going to have an amazing green press festival. I know Rex couldn't be here. He's having a baby, I think. But I know that he also was very excited to have the event. So thank you both again. And we have a few awards of recognition we'd love to give you for all your hard work. Thank you. And as we do that, we're going to take a voice vote and continue that tonight because there are some challenges with that voting system. So I'm going to start with Councilman Austin at the end. All those in favor, please just make sure you turn your mike on when you say it. I, i, i. All right. I. And I think the two councilwoman. But Isaac passes unanimous. Thank you very much. Let's give them a round of applause. Thank you. We're going to hear item 15, please.