Recommendation to Accept 2020 Annual Report on the Climate Action and Resiliency Plan (CARP).  (City Manager 2110) [Not heard March 17, 2020]
See, Madam Kirk, were you introduced that item plus. Recommendation to accept 2020 annual report on the Climate Action and Resiliency Plan. All right. Well, and I cannot tell you how excited I am about this plan and which of our public works staff is present here on this. Good evening, Mayor. As you Ashcraft, members of council, you know, you get. The nod now that this is our assistant city manager, Jerry Byrd, and we're happy to have you. Hi. And my mike is working, so. That's great. So good. Yeah. So I'm really fortunate tonight to be here with Patrick Pellegrino Day, our climate action coordinator, and Liam Garland, our public works director, to present this item. It just a quick shout out to the two of these folks. It's really a pleasure to work on the Caap implementation with Patrick and Liam. Passionate about the topic, innovative and really just instrumental in developing the plan and leading the way on key components of the development and implementation that we're working on now. Also a whole host of other members of staff across the organization who are working on this. So as you know, we're recommending adoption or excuse me, acceptance of the 2020 annual report tonight for the the 2019 Climate Action Resiliency Plan. The timing of this is a little in advance of what would be a year for the plan, but we are trying to align it with the transportation plan annual report that you just heard earlier tonight, because in addition to the dozens of strategies that are in the carp, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is really a big part of it, and that transportation plan helps to do that. That's another focus of the plan is also sequestering carbon. And then a final strategy or list of strategies are around building resilience to change related to climate impacts for the city of Alameda. The plan was adopted on September 3rd, 2019. Three key goals reducing greenhouse gas emissions adaptation to climate change. And then the third is what we're here talking about tonight. It's really the effective implementation and capacity building to ensure that the plan comes to fruition. That was really important to the city council when the plan was adopted, and it's important for all the plans that we work on. But for this plan in particular, because climate change is really is a really important topic for this year for the city of alameda and the community as a whole. A cornerstone of the caap is the the annual report and this is our first annual report for this document. So it's worth summarizing the progress where we're basically looking at some key metrics that we've put together into a dashboard. And we've launched that dashboard publicly. And I'll talk a little bit more about that in a few minutes. And then we're describing the next steps for the near medium and longer term actions associated with the plan and is our first effort. So we really want to make sure that we're hitting the high highlights, but also hearing from council, if there are things that you'd like to hear from us, hear more about or you'd like built into future plans, feel free to give us that information tonight or going forward as as part of as part of other communications. And before I really get into the details of the annual report, the three pillars of sustainability are mentioned in the in the Climate Action and Resiliency Plan there, the economy, the environment and equity. And we all know that with the coronavirus right now, all three all three of those pillars are being pretty significantly impacted. So we have taken the time to step back, look at the plan, and we remain confident that we'll be able to move forward with the implementation. But much like some of our transportation efforts, there'll be new challenges that we'll have to face as we come through the COVID 19 public health pandemic. So with that, I'll move on to the highlights and accomplishments. They're called out in pretty significant amount of detail in the the annual report, but also in the appendix, which does summarize the action steps that have been taken so far. I'll just give a few examples tonight. In January, Alameda Municipal Power went to providing 100% clean power for the community. The council passed a resolution requiring all electric vehicle development for new residential projects on city owned land. And we also property say we but it really is the royal we in this case property owners in the community passed out water quality and flood protection fee that will help us improve our our overall infrastructure. And looking ahead, we're focusing on some near-term projects like our communications plan, our master tree plan update. We're also moving forward with design work for Veteran's Court, which will translate into a longer term capital investment and and physical improvements for that area. And of course, we're looking at sea level rise for due and big projects for us, projects that we're working on now that will take a little time to to develop solutions for and work with our our neighbors and our. Partners on our Doolittle Drive and flooding at the entrances to our at the entrance to our tubes which are significant infrastructure projects more than likely for us and will involve significant budget and planning processes. Just going back to the carp for a minute. We have over 200 action items in our Climate Action Plan. The appendix that we attach to the annual report includes updates on about 35 of those action items. In our first what was a six month update for you when we initially plan to bring this forward on March 17th? It's now been eight months, but like Anja was saying earlier, it's been the last couple of months have been more about planning for what might be in the next fiscal year. And so we're we're still working on some of those those priorities that have been identified, but we expect to gain momentum again. And then in the coming months on our climate action efforts, we do engage with a number of agencies and other groups around the state and the country where we're also really focused on our local partners. CASA Bruce and Debi were mentioned earlier. Casa in particular has been instrumental in supporting the development of the plan and we see them as key players as we move toward or we move forward with our implementation efforts. And I mentioned it just briefly, but before I wrap up, I really want to give a shout out to Patrick, who was able to take a series of ideas that we had around around indicators and metrics and turn it into a dashboard for us. The dashboard will continue to evolve. We've we've obviously just gotten started with the implementation. So a lot of the data is just is just getting started. But we've planted those seeds. And you can take a look at our dashboard on the the Climate Action and Resilience Plan website. If you if you search for if you search for city of Alameda Karp, you'll end up on the Web page. And the first paragraph has a hot link to our to our our new dashboard. And some of the key metrics are in the areas of transportation, sea level rise and energy. So you'll be able to see what we're doing in those areas and be able to track over time our progress. And so check that out when you have a few minutes and we're available for any questions that you might have increased our presentation with that. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right. And Madam, quick, do we have public comments? Yes, one. All right, counselor, do you have any clarifying questions on this staff before we hear a public comment? Since then. Let's hear the public comment, please. Okay. This is from Ruth. Abby from Community Action for Sustainable Alameda. Mayor Ashcroft and members of the City Council. The 2020 annual report on the Climate Action and Resiliency Plan documents the significant achievements undertaken by the city since the adoption of the plan in September 2019, including 100% clean power provided by Almeida's publicly owned municipal utility. Passage of the water quality and Flood Protection Fee resolution supporting all electric residential development on city owned lands. Implementation of the city's Transportation Choices Plan. And Zero Waste Implementation Plan. Update Initiation of the Active Transportation Plan and Vision Zero Action Plan. Initial recruitment of a Sustainability and Resiliency Manager as you move forward to review the city's budget priorities in light of the COVID 19 process. Please continue to prioritize these efforts in mitigation and adaptation, in particular. At the Budget Workshop on May 20th, we will be encouraging you to move forward to prioritize the hiring of the sustainability and resiliency manager, to ensure that Alameda continues to demonstrate leadership in greenhouse gas emission reduction and to keep Alameda on the climate safe path. We will specifically need these staff resources to ensure that Alameda is prepared to respond in addressing federal, state and regional opportunities for funding shovel ready projects as we emerge from sheltering in place and are able to respond to stimulus funding opportunities. Thank you. Thank you for your leadership and vision for Almeida's future. And that's it. All right. Okay. Thank you. So with that, we will close public comment. Okay. So what we're being asked to do today is to accept this 2020 annual report. It is a very impressive undertaking and achievement so far. And, you know, I think we're all noticing a silver lining of this cloud of COVID 19 that we're under is with fewer cars on the on the roads. The air quality is incredible. And, you know, some beautiful skies at night. And you notice the fragrance of the flowers more because there's not that overlay of air pollution. And I don't know if it's just because it's springtime or maybe the improved air quality, but it seems like there's a lot more birds out there and you're hearing them in. So anyway, that's a good thing. But so council, before we move forward on accepting this annual report, any brief comments or do we just have a motion? We're running a little on energy. I can see. Okay. I'd like to move for approval. Thank you. Councilmember Vela, we have a motion that says so. That's the second. Okay. It is by Councilmember Vela, seconded by Councilmember Ody. Any discussion among council hearing hearing then? Correct hearing then. Okay. Roll call vote, please. Councilmember days. Thanks. Not quite. Hi. Odie. I Bella. By May as the Ashcraft. I. That carries by five eyes. Thank you very nice thank you all for for your good work and good report. Thank you, Mr. Bird and Mr. Garland. And have a great day. All right. All right, then we are moving on to item six, the.