A RESOLUTION reaffirming Seattle’s commitment to the Climate Action Plan and setting expectations for increasing commercial building energy efficiency through the year 2035.
Agenda. Item three resolution 31714 reaffirmed Seattle's commitment to the Climate Action Plan and setting expectations for increasing commercial building energy efficiency through the year 2035. The committee recommends the full council drop the resolution as amended. Councilmember So what? So for this, I would turn it over to guys from Iran. Thank you. This bill does a number of things. And I just want to give folks a little bit of background here. Earlier this year, the council passed legislation to require mandatory tune ups in existing buildings of certain sizes. And we talk about tune ups. This is making sure that buildings on a go on on a regular basis. And they phased in from the largest buildings to smaller sized commercial buildings. Can we in an update make sure that their mechanical infrastructure has been optimized to minimize the amount of energy that's been used? It was a great step forward and folks throughout the community are planning to implement that. And our hope is that by simply going in and making sure that your existing HVAC and lighting equipment is optimized to work as well as possible, we will start to achieve the energy savings that we need to from the building sector to be on our trajectory to be carbon neutral by 2050. But it's not there's not certainty around that. And 2050 is going to come sooner than we think. And so what this bill does is it recognizes that plan is in place. It calls on the sustainability environment to monitor the results of that, which won't be fully known for another about five years. But if we see that we are not on that trajectory to and the bill defines that to reach carbon neutrality, it would call upon implementing some mandatory requirements for energy upgrades in those buildings at that point sometime five or six years out from now. Thank you very much, Councilwoman Brainard. Any further comments or questions? Councilmember Herbold. Just a question. So the report back that we're asking for is 2022. Can you talk a little bit about what we're. Expecting to occur between now and then and whether or. Not there will be some report back from O.C. on on that work? It just seems like a long time. Yeah. So I don't have it corrected. Sure. Yeah. I don't have the previous resolution in front of me, so I'm going to speak from my recollection here. But there were three essentially tiers of buildings that would phase in from the largest on down to, I think, buildings to 50,000 square feet. Those get phased in towards the end of this decade, I believe, 18, 19 and 20. And so for us to monitor what kind of savings we would need a year of full operation under the tune up to compared to the previous year to see if we're on that trajectory. And as these phase in thing would take a couple of years for them all to phase in to see if the net effect is going to be enough. And so we will certainly be monitoring those. The reality with with these types of changes is that there's a fair amount of lead time necessary for folks to make it . And the reason why we're passing this legislation today, even though there is some really long lead times, is to just acknowledge that if we get to a point five years from now, six years from now, and we're not on track, we don't have two or three years to wait to debate, we want to signal immediately that we're going to switch to something else. But we know that. So for the phase in that's supposed to happen in 2018. I understand that the the the results of. That phase in will take a couple of years. But but there's no question of whether or not the buildings that are required to phase in in 2018 actually do that. That just happens. That's a requirement, though. That's a requirement of both the building size and what the tune up is. The the open question because this was a folks talk about a couple of ways to approach this work. One is requiring that you take certain actions. One is the requirement that you achieve certain energy savings. This was the former requiring them to take actions. But the ultimate climate goal we need is to achieve the energy savings. And we we're hoping those match up, but we don't know for certain yet. Thank you. Thank you. Any further comments or questions? All those in favor of adopting the resolution vote i. I. Those oppose vote no. The motion carries the resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it. I think that will conclude our business. I did want to tell some of our guests on the council member, where is this proposed legislation on the Arch Highway peer? How are we going to describe it that we'll take that up in the next full council, sign a referral calendar would take that up at full council next week. Councilman, where is it? You want to address it? Just something. To say. Please. Could I be excused on December 5th? No, you cannot. It's been. It's been moved and seconded, councilmember. Whereas be excused on December 5th. All those in favor of that motion say I. I opposed the ayes have it is any further business to for the council. I would just like to say I thought we were going to be addressing further the resolution today about. The slice. Of the off ramps on ramps that are going to be saved. And I just want to say for my colleagues that I had the pleasure of going out with Keenan BLOCK to go look at it, because when I. First heard of it. What I heard in my mind was we're going to keep one of those off ramps. And I just couldn't believe that anybody would be recommending that. So knowing Keenan and knowing that he has good ideas, I walked out. And what's impressive about it is that if you can imagine slicing off a piece of bread or a piece of meatloaf, that's what we're talking about. It is the end of one space. I was impressed because it's the vines have grown up on it. It looks like something that totally would fit in with what you're trying to do down at the arboretum. And so I just wanted all of you who came to know that I appreciate the hard work both 50 years ago and also today to retain something that's important. So in case you didn't all come back next week, I just wanted you to know how much. I appreciate your work. Thank you there, Councilmember Gonzalez. I move to be excused on November 28th, December 5th and December 12th. Just from second. November. I'm going to be in Spain. December 11th, 2012, five. And what. 11, 28, 12, five and 12, 12 or 12/2? It's been moved in second. And that comes from Gonzales be excused from 11, 11, 2812, five and 1212. All those in favor say I, I oppose. The ayes have it. Are they is there any further business, Councilmember O'Brien? Well, we're at it. I'll ask to be excused on 1128 also. Where are you? I don't know where we're going to go. I'll second that. All those in favor of Councilmember O'Brien being excused for 1128 say I. I oppose the ayes have it any further business? Confer the council. Mr. President, I would just point out that November 28 is our backup day to adopt the city budget. So if we don't do it on the day it's scheduled, you'll miss the opportunity. And who knows what we'll do? No. We're going to get it done. We're going to get done, which is why the Budget Committee is going to reconvene as soon as we're done. As soon as we're done. So we thank you for being here. We will reconvene and budget just in a few moments. Councilman Burgess wants us there in 3 minutes. 3 minutes will stand adjourn.