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SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION
An Advisory Body to the Board of Supervisors
August 26, 2019
5:00 P.M.
30 Muir Road, Martinez
Howdy Goudey, Chair, At-Large, Community
Group
Nick Despota, Vice-Chair, Member, District 1
Shoshana Wechsler, Alternate, District 1
Victoria Smith, Member, District 2
Ryan Buckley, Alternate, District 2
John Sierra, Member, District 3
Gretchen Logue, Alternate, District 3
Wes Sullens, Member, District 4
Travis Curran, Alternate, District 4
Charles Davidson, Member, District 5
Vacant, Alternate, District 5
Harry Thurston, At-Large, Community Group
Russell Driver, At-Large, Business
Nicholas Snyder, At-Large, Business
Doria Robinson, At-Large, Environmental Justice
Vacant, At-Large, Environmental Justice
Kim Hazard, At-Large, Education
Agenda
Items:
Items may be taken out of order based on the business of the day and preference of the
Committee
1. Call to Order and Introductions
2.Pledge of Allegiance
3.Public Comment
4.APPROVE Record of Action for June 24, 2019 meeting.
5.DISCUSS Ideas for Goals for Updated Climate Action Plan and PROVIDE ADVICE
Regarding Same
6. ADOPT Environmental Justice Assessment Tool Developed by the Commission’s
Environmental Justice Working Group and RECOMMEND Its Use in Updating the County’s
General Plan.
7.RECEIVE UPDATE on proposal from Member, District 1, to Recommend the Use of Carbon-
Neutral Building Materials in County Projects.
8.AMEND Sustainability Commission Bylaws to Extend Term of Service for 60 days or Until an
Appointment Is Made to a Vacant Seat
9.REVIEW Proposed Polystyrene Ordinance
10.APPOINT one member of the Sustainability Commission to the Contra Costa County
Integrated Pest Management Advisory Committee
11.RECEIVE Reports from Sustainability Commission members and alternates, and PROVIDE
DIRECTION as needed.
12.RECEIVE Report from Sustainability Coordinator.
13. RECEIVE Report from Sustainability Commission Chair and IDENTIFY TOPICS for next
report to Ad Hoc Committee on Sustainability.
14.The next meeting is currently scheduled for October 21, 2019.
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15. Adjourn
The Sustainability Commission will provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities planning to attend
Commission meetings. Contact the staff person listed below at least 72 hours before the meeting.
Any disclosable public records related to an open session item on a regular meeting agenda and distributed by the County to a
majority of members of the Commission less than 96 hours prior to that meeting are available for public inspection at 30 Muir
Road, Martinez, CA during normal business hours. Staff reports related to items on the agenda are also accessible on line at
www.co.contra-costa.ca.us.
Public comment may be submitted via electronic mail on agenda items at least one full work day prior to the published
meeting time.
For Additional Information Contact: Jody London, Commission Staff jody.london@dcd.cccounty.us
Phone (925) 674-7871 · Fax (925) 674-7250
Glossary of Acronyms, Abbreviations, and other Terms (in alphabetical order): Contra Costa County has a
policy of making limited use of acronyms, abbreviations, and industry-specific language in meetings of its
Board of Supervisors and Committees. Following is a list of commonly used abbreviations that may appear
in presentations and written materials at meetings of the Ad Hoc Sustainability Committee:
AB Assembly Bill
ABAG Association of Bay Area Governments
ACA Assembly Constitutional Amendment
ADA Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
BAAQMD Bay Area Air Quality Management District
BART Bay Area Rapid Transit District
BAYREN Bay Area Regional Energy Network
BGO Better Government Ordinance (Contra Costa County)
BOS Board of Supervisors
CALTRANS California Department of Transportation
AO County Administrative Officer or Office
CAP Climate Action Plan
CARB California Air Resources Board
CCA Community Choice
CCE Community Choice Energy Aggregation
CCWD Contra Costa Water District
CEQA California Environmental Quality Act
CSA County Service Area
CSAC California State Association of Counties
DCC Delta Counties Coalition
DCD Contra Costa County Dept. of Conservation &
Development
DPC Delta Protection Commission
DSC Delta Stewardship Council
DWR California Department of Water Resources
EBEW East Bay Energy Watch
EBMUD East Bay Municipal Utility District
EIR Environmental Impact Report (a state requirement)
EIS Environmental Impact Statement (a federal requirement)
FTE Full Time Equivalent
FY Fiscal Year
GHG Greenhouse Gas
GGRF Greenhouse Gas Reduction Funds
GIS Geographic Information System
HSD Contra Costa County Health Services Department
IPM Integrated Pest Management
JPA/JEPA Joint (Exercise of) Powers Authority or Agreement
LAMORINDA Area of Lafayette-Moraga-Orinda
MAC Municipal Advisory Council
MBE Minority Business Enterprise
MOA Memorandum of Agreement
MOE Maintenance of Effort
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
MTC Metropolitan Transportation Commission
NACo National Association of Counties
NEPA National Environmental Protection Act
PDA Priority Development Area
PV Photovoltaic
PWD Contra Costa County Public Works Department
RDA Redevelopment Agency or Area
RFI Request For Information
RFP Request For Proposals
RFQ Request For Qualifications
SB Senate Bill
SGC Strategic Growth Council
SR2S Safe Routes to Schools
TWIC Transportation, Water, and Infrastructure Committee
U.S. EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency
WBE Women-Owned Business Enterprise
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Contra Costa County
Sustainability Commission
4.
Meeting Date: 6/24/2019
Subject: APPROVE Record of Action for June 24, 2019, Sustainability Commission
Meeting.
Department: Conservation & Development
Presenter: Jody London, DCD Contact: Jody London, (925) 674-7871
Referral History:
County Ordinance (Better Government Ordinance 95-6, Article 25-205, [d]) requires that each County
Body keep a record of its meetings. Though the record need not be verbatim, it must accurately reflect
the agenda and the decisions made in the meeting.
Referral Update:
Any handouts or printed copies of testimony distributed at the meeting will be attached to this meeting
record. Links to the agenda and minutes will be available at the Committee web page, to be announced.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
Staff recommends approval of the attached Record of Action for the June 24, 2019, Sustainability
Commission Meeting with any necessary corrections.
Fiscal Impact (if any):
N/A
06-24-19 Record of Action
ATTACHMENT(S)
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Record of Action
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION
An Advisory Body to the Board of Supervisors
June 24, 2019
5:00 P.M.
30 Muir Road, Martinez
Howdy Goudey, Chair, At-Large, Community
Group
Nick Despota, Vice-Chair, Member, District 1
Shoshana Wechsler, Alternate, District 1
Victoria Smith, Member, District 2
Ryan Buckley, Alternate, District 2
John Sierra, Member, District 3
Gretchen Logue, Alternate, District 3
Wes Sullens, Member, District 4
Travis Curran, Alternate, District 4
Charles Davidson, Member, District 5
Vacant, Alternate, District 5
Harry Thurston, At-Large, Community Group
Russell Driver, At-Large, Business
Nicholas Snyder, At-Large, Business
Doria Robinson, At-Large, Environmental Justice
Kim Hazard, At-Large, Education
Agenda
Items:
Items may be taken out of order based on the business of the day and preference of the
Committee
DRAFT
Present: Howdy Goudey, Chair, At-Large, Community Group
Nick Despota, Vice-Chair, Member, District 1
Shoshana Wechsler, Alternate, District 1
Victoria Smith, Member, District 2
Ryan Buckley, Alternate, District 2
Travis Curran, Alternate, District 4
Charles Davidson, Member, District 5
Harry Thurston, At-Large, Community Group
Kim Hazard, At-Large, Education
Absent: John Sierra, Member, District 3
Gretchen Logue, Alternate, District 3
Wes Sullens, Member, District 4
Russell Driver, At-Large, Business
Nicholas Snyder, At-Large, Business
Doria Robinson, At-Large, Environmental Justice
Staff Present: Jody London, Sustainability Coordinator
Will Nelson, Department of Conservation and Development
Demian Hardman, Senior Energy Planner, Department of Conservation and Development
Chris Wikler, Field Representative, Supervisor Mitchoff
Jill Ray, Field Representative, Supervisor Andersen
Warren Lai, Deputy Director, Department of Public Works
Attendees: Marti Roach, Carol Weed, Jan Warren, Eli Krispi, Tammy Seale, Peter Engel, Tim Haile,
Joanna Jansen, Joanne Fanucchi
16. Call to Order and Introductions
17.Pledge of Allegiance
18.Public Comment
Joanne Fanucchi called for government agencies to wake up to the climate emergency in our community
and our world. She asked that we speak out as a collective and apply pressure to decision makers to
change things; no more business as usual.
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19.APPROVE Record of Action for April 22, 2019 meeting.
The Record of Action was unanimously approved.
Motion: Despota; Second: Smith
20.RECEIVE Presentation on Contra Costa County Transportation Expenditure Plan and
Sales Tax
Tim Haile, Deputy Executive Director, Contra Costa Transportation Authority (CCTA), reviewed the
timeline for ongoing updates to the County Transportation Expenditure Plan (TEP). CCTA is on an
accelerated schedule to adopt the TEP, which is required before CCTA can go to the voters to seek
approval for a sales tax. CCTA is working to have this measure on the March 2020 ballot; a decision by
the CCTA Board is needed in early November.
Haile reviewed the public outreach process in which CCTA is engaged. CCTA is finding that Contra
Costa County residents are interested in congestion relief. There is a lot of interest in better transit as
well as additional, safer modes, for example bicycling and walking. The Commission discussed with
Haile the outreach strategies, the proposed allocation of funds, focus on environmental justice, polling,
and other aspects of the TEP and potential sales tax measure. Haile clarified that there is not any
proposal to alter the Urban Limit Line.
21. CONSIDER Recommendation to Board of Supervisors to Support Local and Regional
Non-Profit Groups Regarding CCTA Transportation Expenditure Plan
Nick Despota reviewed the letter included in the agenda from a group of environmental, transit, and
land use advocates regarding priorities for the County Transportation Expenditure Plan and proposed
allocation of any sales tax funds. The Sustainability Commission discussed the letter and clarified with
Tim Haile from CCTA that the advocates and the current CCTA proposal are aligned on the goals, and
not aligned on the allocation of funds.
Nick Despota moved that the Sustainability Commission send a letter to the Board of Supervisors
endorsing the priorities of the letter from the advocates, and indicating that the Sustainability
Commission has no recommendation regarding allocation of funds. Kim Hazard provided a second.
The Sustainability Commission endorsed this action unanimously.
22. RECEIVE Presentation on Public Involvement Strategy and Environmental Justice
Issues in the General Plan and Climate Action Plan and PROVIDE SUGGESTIONS, as
needed
Joanna Jansen from PlaceWorks, the consultants on the General Plan, reviewed the community meetings
held to date for the General Plan and upcoming opportunities for community involvement. Jansen said
the team is hearing concerns from the public regarding air quality and health, and greater access to safe
bicycling, walking, and transit. Jansen encouraged people to review the Briefing Book posted at
EnvisionContraCosta2040.org, which contains information on the existing conditions on a range of
topics and will be considered the “baseline” for analysis purposes.
Jansen described anticipated upcoming community engagement meetings. These will include focused
meetings in the fall that take advantage of specific expertise. Environmental justice and sustainability will
likely be combined.
Sustainability Commission members asked about large industrial facilities and how they are accounted
for in the General Plan and Climate Action Plan. There is concern about compounded health risks in
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communities near these facilities. Jansen noted that new State requirements for environmental justice and
general plans have not changed the regulatory structure for large industrial facilities, which continue to
be regulated by the State and regional air quality management districts. Will Nelson (County staff) noted
that the uses at large industrial facilities predate the County’s zoning ordinances (which were first
adopted in 1947) and General Plan. Sustainability Commission members were encouraged to review the
online Briefing Book and provide feedback. Some Sustainability Commission members suggested it
would be interesting to consider land use designations near large industrial facilities, and consider how
to move people further away from them. Some also expressed interest in exploring what it would look like
in Contra Costa County if these facilities closed, how to implement a Just Transition, consider green
jobs, and strategies for divesting.
The group discussed outreach specific to the Climate Action Plan, in addition to the ongoing outreach for
the General Plan. There is interest in helping the Sustainability Coordinator conduct community
meetings in different areas of the County.
23.RECEIVE Presentation on Climate Action Plan Vulnerability Assessment and
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets and PROVIDE DIRECTION as needed
Tammy Seale and Eli Krispi from PlaceWorks reviewed the vulnerability assessment, which is a
component of the General plan. They also discussed goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. They
noted that the State is shifting the methodology for establishing these goals to a per capita (per person)
system starting in 2030, as opposed to a total reduction methodology. This is something Contra Costa
County will need to decide for its Climate Action Plan. Seale and Krispi described the spectrum of
implementation measures, from mandatory to voluntary to incentive-based. Sustainability Commission
members agreed to research options for setting reduction goals and report back to each other at the
August meeting.
24. ADOPT Environmental Justice Rubric Developed by the Commission’s Environmental
Justice Working Group and RECOMMEND Its Use in Updating the County’s General
Plan.
The Commission lost its quorum and was unable to take up this item.
25.RECEIVE UPDATE on proposal from Member, District 1, to Recommend the Use of
Carbon-Neutral Building Materials in County Projects.
The Commission lost its quorum and was unable to take up this item.
26. AMEND Sustainability Commission Bylaws to Extend Term of Service for 60 days or
Until an Appointment Is Made to a Vacant Seat
The Commission lost its quorum and was unable to take up this item.
27. DISCUSS Proposed Polystyrene Ordinance, and PROVIDE DIRECTION as needed
The Commission lost its quorum and was unable to take up this item.
28.RECEIVE Reports from Sustainability Commission members and alternates, and
PROVIDE DIRECTION as needed.
The Commission lost its quorum and was unable to take up this item.
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29. RECEIVE Report from Sustainability Coordinator.
The Commission lost its quorum and was unable to take up this item.
30. RECEIVE Report from Sustainability Commission Chair and IDENTIFY TOPICS for
next report to Sustainability Committee.
The Commission lost its quorum and was unable to take up this item.
31.The next meeting is currently scheduled for August 26, 2019.
32. Adjourn
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Contra Costa County
Sustainability Commission
5.
Meeting Date: 6/24/2019
Subject: DISCUSS Ideas for Goals for Updated Climate Action Plan and MAKE
RECOMMENDATIONS Regarding Same
Department:
Presenter: Sustainability Commission Members
Contact: Jody London, Department of Conservation and Development
Referral History:
On December 19, 2017, the Board of Supervisors (Board) authorized the Department of Conservation
and Development (DCD) to proceed with retaining a consultant to prepare an update to the County’s
General Plan, which was last updated in 1991 and expires in December 2020. On August 14, 2018,
the Board approved and authorized the Department of Conservation and Development to enter into
contract with PlaceWorks for this project. PlaceWorks included in its proposal an update to the
County Climate Action Plan.
PlaceWorks has been providing presentations to the Sustainability Commission since December 2018
on various aspects of the General Plan and Climate Action Plan updates.
Referral Update:
At its June 2019 meeting, the Sustainability Commission determined that it wished to advise and
work with staff and the consultant team on the goals, strategies, and metrics included in the updated
Climate Action Plan. Sustainability Commission members have been working since the June meeting
to develop the attached ideas. Also attached to this memo are source documents that Sustainability
Commission members have consulted in developing their suggestions, as well as background
information developed by PlaceWorks to inform the Commission’s deliberations.
Staff anticipates that the recommendations that result from the Sustainability Commission’s
discussion will be shared with County staff who would have responsibility for the identified
strategies. These recommendations will also be the basis for outreach meetings that the Sustainability
Commission will be hosting in September and October across the County.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
DISCUSS Ideas for Goals for Updated Climate Action Plan and MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS
Regarding Same.
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Fiscal Impact (if any):
N/A.
ATTACHMENT(S)
Att. 1 - Recommendations for Climate Action Plan
Att. 2 - Sustainability Commission Presentation
Att. 3 - Cleveland CAP 2018 App. A, Racial Equity Tool
Att. 4 - PCC-West-Coast-Food-Waste-Reduction-Commitment
Att. 5 - Recycle Smart Food Waste Program
Att. 6 - Battery Storage for Renewable Energy
Att. 7 - CARB Workshop - Carbon Neutrality Scenarios for Deep Decarbonization Webinar Notes
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Goal: To enable carbon-free County operations by 2030 and carbon-free Unincorporated Community Areas by 2040, energy efficiency, electrification and demand
response programs will shrink per capita energy demand while also enabling a shift to renewable sources, improving residential health factors and resiliency to utility
outages and disasters. Disadvantaged communities and low-income residents will be well served with efficiency and electrification residential upgrades.
Line
#
Strategy Measure(s) of effectiveness Description/Sources County or
Community
1 Continue efficiency programs, such as BayREN
(including electrification, as available)
# of housing units with upgrade
through efficiency programs, projected
energy savings associated with retrofits
BayREN, PGE/MCE Cmty
2 Continue to grow the existing low-income
weatherization program with Public Health Dept.
coordination (including electrification)
# of weatherized homes each year,
catalog positive residential health
outcomes associated with retrofit work
Weatherization programs,
County Health Dept.
Cmty
3 Encourage electrification of residential and business
natural gas uses (space heating and water heating)
# of retrofits per year, fraction of gas
utility annual consumption relative to
electrical utility annual consumption
Permit records (DCD),
PGE/MCE, rebate programs
Commu
nity
4 Encourage business and residential participation in
demand response programs to make tolerant loads
responsive to grid conditions
# of points of active demand response
in unincorporated county, annual hours
of participation
Demand response program Cmty
5 Explore financing options to improve access to
renewable and battery installations (including how to
reduce interest rates for PACE, on-bill financing, public
banking)
Availability of low-interest credit for
efficiency and electrification retrofits
PACE providers, PGE/MCE,
efficiency programs and
lenders
Cmty
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Goal: To enable carbon-free County operations by 2030 and carbon-free Unincorporated Community Areas by 2040, energy efficiency, electrification and demand
response programs will shrink per capita energy demand while also enabling a shift to renewable sources, improving residential health factors and resiliency to utility
outages and disasters. Disadvantaged communities and low-income residents will be well served with efficiency and electrification residential upgrades.
Line
#
Strategy Measure(s) of effectiveness Description/Sources County or
Community
6 Lower the CEQA EIR threshold of significance for CO2
emissions for new program and project EIRs to
encourage all-electric buildings served by renewables
(design prioritized over operations, external offsets a
last resort). Include embodied GHG of building
materials and construction in EIR evaluation of
projects
Implementation in the EIR process DCD Cmty
7 Permit streamlining for electrification (heat pumps for
space heating and water heating)
Implementation of efficiency
regulatory process
DCD Cmty
8 Continue to conduct energy audits of existing and
recently acquired facilities, prioritize improvements,
and upgrade facilities to save energy
# of projects in County facilities with
energy efficiency upgrades, projected
energy savings associated with retrofits
Public Works, ESCOs County
9 Electrify natural gas use in County facilities (space
heating and water heating), target 100% carbon free
sourcing for current natural gas uses by 2030
# of retrofits per year, fraction of
County utilities on gas versus electric
County Public Works County
10 Implement demand response technology to make
tolerant loads responsive to grid conditions
# of points of demand response in
County operations, annual hours of
participation
County Public Works or
Administration
County
11 Implement energy saving operation practices (avoid
waste, energy consumption that is not necessary)
Annual reporting of new energy saving
practices and estimate of energy saved
by practice
Departments reporting to
County administrator
(information sharing between
depts.)
County
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Goal: Use of carbon-free energy sources by County operations by 2030 and Unincorporated Community Areas by 2040.Disadvantaged communities and low-
income residents will be well served with renewables and power resiliency programs
Line
#
Strategy Measure(s) of effectiveness Description/Sources County or
Community
1a All electric utility accounts for County facilities on MCE Deep Green
option by 2022
# and percent of accounts on MCE Deep Green MCE County
1b Encourage residents and businesses in unincorporated CCC to choose
MCE Deep Green
# of accounts signed up for Deep Green MCE Communi
ty
1c Encourage MCE to increase the carbon-free and renewable content of
their default product
Percent of MCE default product comprised of
carbon-free and renewable sources
MCE Communi
ty
2a Electrify natural gas use in County facilities (space heating and water
heating), target 100% carbon free sourcing for current natural gas uses
by 2030
# of retrofits per year, fraction of County utilities
on gas versus electric
County Public Works County
2b Encourage electrification of residential and business natural gas uses
(space heating and water heating), to allow serving these needs with
renewable power
# of retrofits per year, fraction of gas utility annual
consumption relative to electrical utility annual
consumption
Permit records (DCD),
PGE/MCE, rebate
programs
Communi
ty
3a All new county vehicle purchases electric powered, unless technically
not available or undue burden to operations, target 100% of fleet
electric by 2030
# of EVs purchased annually and fraction of fleet
that is 100% electric
County Public Works County
3b Implement adequate EV charging infrastructure for County fleet and
employee charging
# of installed level II and DC fast charge stations,
survey data of employee charging needs
County Public Works County
3c Encourage electric vehicle adoption by residents and businesses # of EVs, registered in the unincorporated County DMV records or CA
rebate data while it
exists
Communi
ty
3d Encourage adequate EV charging infrastructure deployment # of installed level II and DC fast charge stations
for both private and public locations
Permit records (DCD),
rebate programs
(MCE/PGE)
Communi
ty
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Goal: Use of carbon-free energy sources by County operations by 2030 and Unincorporated Community Areas by 2040.Disadvantaged communities and low-
income residents will be well served with renewables and power resiliency programs
Line
#
Strategy Measure(s) of effectiveness Description/Sources County or
Community
4a Continue to install solar on County facilities where feasible,emphasis on
multiple-use solar sites (such as roof top and parking lot installations), as
well as integrated energy storage (batteries)to build resiliency,
especially at County sites with critical services (cooling centers, etc.)
Total capacity (+ annual addition), in MW, of
County-installed solar
Total capacity (+annual addition), in MW and
MWh, of County-installed battery storage
County Public Works,
Renewable Resource
Potential Study
County
4b Implement recommendations of Renewable Resource Potential Study Implementation of planning and zoning options DCD, Renewable
Resource Potential
Study
Cmty
4c Encourage solar installations, including integrated energy storage
(batteries)to build resiliency
# of solar and battery storage installations County building
permit records (DCD)
Cmty
4d Explore financing options to improve access to renewable and battery
installations (including how to reduce interest rates for PACE, public
banking, etc.)
Availability of low-interest credit for renewables
and storage
PACE providers, solar
lease companies
Cmty
4e Encourage MCE to help develop (invest in)local solar (and storage)
projects in CCC commensurate with the fraction of deep green accounts
in CCC
# of MCE facilitated (invested) solar/storage
projects
MCE Cmty
5 Implement permit streamlining for commercial and home installations
of battery energy storage by 2022
Implementation of efficient regulatory process DCD Cmty
6 Lower the CEQA EIR threshold of significance for CO2 emissions for new
program and project EIRs to encourage all-electric buildings served by
renewables (design prioritized over operations)
Implementation in the EIR process DCD Cmty
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Goal: Increase Carbon Free Electricity
Line
#Strategy Measure(s) of effectiveness Description/Sources County or
Community
Measure?
1 Increase Participation in Carbon Free Electric Service •Promote MCE’s Deep Green Electricity
Product
•Opt-up Municipal Accounts to MCE’s
Deep Green Product
Cmty
2 Increase Renewable Electricity Generation in Contra Costa
County
•Collaborate with regional partners to
provide outreach and education to
property owners on renewable energy
systems financing programs
•Collaborate with PG&E, MCE, and PV
developers to increase battery storage
capacity in the unincorporated county to
maximize use of on-site solar.
(San Diego/Berkeley)
(San Diego)
County
County
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Goal: Electrify the Built Environment
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#Strategy Measure(s) of effectiveness Description/Sources County or
Community
Measure?
1 Electrify New Construction •Adopt Electrification Reach Codes.
•Provide fee waivers or expedited
processing for all-electric homes and
commercial facilities, including major
renovations.
Peninsula Clean Energy
Jurisdictions
Community
County
2 Electrify Existing Buildings •Promote heat pumps—for space and
water heating—through education and
training for contractors, City staff, and
the public, highlighting the benefits,
challenges, and permitting requirements
to installing this technology.
•Incentivize through rebates, fee waivers,
and/or expedited processing heat
pumps—for space and water heating—in
residential and commercial sectors.
•Conduct electrification retrofits on
municipal facilities.
Berkeley
Berkeley
County
County
County
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Goal: Strengthen Community Resiliency
(Emergency Preparedness for power shutoffs)
Line
#Strategy Measure(s) of effectiveness Description/Sources County or
Community
Measure?
1 Deploy Microgrids in Critical Facilities and/or Activity Centers •Complete research and feasibility
analysis for a microgrid for renewable
backup power for City buildings and
critical facilities, including fully
connected and islandable solar+storage.
Berkeley ??
2 Increase Adoption of Grid-interactive Technologies •Create incentives for use of smart
appliances (smart thermostats, heat
pumps with controls, etc.) that can be
paired with demand response programs
to save energy during peak
periods/events.
•Install smart appliances in municipal
facilities and participate in utility
demand response programs.
Community
County
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Goal:Zero Waste Contra Costa
2.0 pounds per person per day (ppd) (*need input from consultants/staff re correct/feasible number to use)
Line
#
Strategy Measure(s) of effectiveness Description/Sources County or
Community
Measure?
1 Promote repair and reuse before disposal Permanent fix-it clinic (library rotation)County
2 Reduce food waste and hunger See Cleveland, OH CAP Cmty
3 Support 4R’s education Not just K-12 but all residents,
businesses, pre-K, and college
education
See RecycleSmart School Recycling
Programs; Wastebusters and School
zero lunch
Cmty
4 Reduce emissions from Landfill Include what’s in current CAP re
landfill management, add
electrification
??
5 Implement Commercial waste to energy program See RecyleSmart Food Recycling
Project
Cmty
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Goal:Zero Waste Contra Costa
2.0 pounds per person per day (ppd) (*need input from consultants/staff re correct/feasible number to use)
Line
#
Strategy Measure(s) of effectiveness Description/Sources County or
Community
Measure
6 Integrate workforce development as co-benefit Permanent fix-it clinic (library rotation)County
7 Reducing →banning single-use plastics and other hard-to-
recycle items / extended producer responsibility
See Cleveland, OH CAP County
8 Support and create incentives to implement State regulations Not just K-12 but all residents,
businesses, pre-K, and college
education
See RecycleSmart School Recycling
Programs; Wastebusters and School
zero lunch
9 Purchasing, green events, 3-stream system at every County
building
County
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Goal:Reduce Water Use and Increase Drought Resilience
Line
#
Strategy Measure(s) of effectiveness Description/Sources County or
Community
Measure
1 Promote Grey water/rainwater system, including at County
facilities
% reduction of flushing clean water?County
Cmty
2 Reduce energy costs of water (solar heaters)??
3 Water conservation education Workshops Water conservation education ??
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Goal: Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions From The Built
Environment
Line #Strategy Measure(s) of
effectiveness
Description/
Sources
County or
Community
1 Prohibit gas lines in new construction and retrofits City of Berkeley
model
County
Cmty
2 Increase urban canopy Cmty
3 Foster urban agriculture by increasing access to fresh foods, urban greening and
decreasing food deserts
Cmty
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Goal: Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Transportation
Strategy Measure(s) of
effectiveness
Description/
Sources
Potential
Lead
Integrate jobs, housing and transportation San Francisco
Attract good quality local jobs
Increase transit and shift towards alternative modes of transportation San Diego County
Reduce vehicle miles traveled San Diego County
Increase telecommuting (particularly for County employees)County
Electrify the County Fleet County
Increase use of electric vehicles by following the Contra Costa
Transportation Authority’s EV Readiness Blueprint, and increasing
electric vehicle charging stations on public property.
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Climate Action Plan Update
Sustainability Commission | August 26, 2019
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Overview
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Climate Action Plan Update
Topics to support CAP strategies
»Review of East Bay Energy
Watch regional GHG
inventories.
»Targets and existing activities.
»Developing new GHG
reduction strategies.
»Next steps.
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Climate Action Plan Update
CAP Update Process
Inventory Forecast Target setting
Existing
accomplishments
New and
revised
measures
Environmental
Review
Community and Staff Engagement
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Climate Action Plan Update
CAP Update Guiding Principles
Ambitious Inclusive Fair Comprehensive
and integrated
Relevant Actionable Evidence-
based
Transparent
and verifiable
Image from UN Habitat Guiding Principles for Climate Action Planning
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Regional
GHG
Inventories
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Climate Action Plan Update
East Bay Energy Watch Inventories
»Regional GHG inventory for the East Bay,
coordinated by East Bay Energy Watch
(StopWaste).
»33 incorporated communities and both
counties (Alameda and Contra Costa).
»2017 inventory prepared (2005, 2010, and
2015 in progress).
»Same data sources as GHG inventories for
CA Ps .
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Climate Action Plan Update
East Bay Energy Watch Inventory
Sectors compared to County CAP
EBEW
•Energy
•Transportation
•Solid waste
•BART
•Off-road
CAP
•Energy
•Transportation
•Solid waste
•BART
•Off-road
•Water and wastewater
•Agriculture
•Landfill
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Climate Action Plan Update
East Bay Energy Watch Inventories
0 500,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 2,000,000 2,500,000 3,000,000 3,500,000 4,000,000 4,500,000 5,000,000
Contra Costa County (unincorporated)Incorporated communities
0 200,000 400,000 600,000 800,000 1,000,000 1,200,000
Residential energy Nonresidential energy Transportation Solid waste Off-road BART
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Climate Action Plan Update
East Bay Energy Watch Inventories
»Data sources for unincorporated county
PG&E energy use
reports
MCE energy use
reports
Highway
Performance
Monitoring
System (Caltrans)
Disposal
Reporting System
(CalRecycle)
BART ridership
reports OFFROAD model
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GHG Reduction
goals and
targets
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Climate Action Plan Update
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Climate Action Plan Update
State GHG Targets and goals
2020
State target:
1990 levels
Local guidance:
15% below
2005-2008
levels
2030
State target:
40% below
1990 levels
Local guidance:
6 MTCO 2e per
capita
2045
State goal: Net
carbon
neutrality
2050
State goal: 80%
below 1990
levels
Local guidance:
2 MTCO 2e per
capita
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Climate Action Plan Update
State issue-specific goals
Renewable and
clean electricity
33% renewable
electricity by
2020
60% renewable
electricity by
2030
100% carbon-
free electricity by
2045
Zero-emission
vehicles
5 million ZEVs on
the road by
2030
40% of new car
purchases are
ZEVs by 2030
All transit buses
are zero-emission
by 2040
Building energy
efficiency
New homes are
zero-net electric
by 2020
All new buildings
are zero-net
electric by 2030
50% reduction in
energy use in
existing buildings
by 2030
Waste
reduction
75% of waste
diverted or
source-reduced
by 2020
50% reduction in
organic waste by
2020
75% reduction in
organic waste by
2025
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Climate Action Plan Update
Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance Targets
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Climate Action Plan Update
Local plans to reduce GHG emissions
»General Plan –Envision Contra Costa 2040
»Climate Action Plan
»Sector specific plan
»Active Transportation Plan
»Bicycle Master Plan
»Long Range Transit Plan
»Zero Waste Plan
»Energy Action Plan
»Other implementation programs (i.e., zoning
code, parking program)
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Climate Action Plan Update
Climate Action Plan
»Strategic plan to address climate change:
»Specific GHG reduction target(s) -Informed by
GHG emissions inventory and forecast. Consistent
with state goals and targets (science-based).
»Timeframe for implementation tied to target.
»Reduction strategies should achieve the target(s).
»Can include a vision, goals, and guiding principles
for the planning process and/or implementation.
»Can be implementation programs of the General
Plan.
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Climate Action Plan Update
Local plans to reduce GHG emissions
»General Plans: Long-term plan for growth and
development in Contra Costa County.
»Vision: Overarching concept for the future of the
community.
»Goals: Vision for specific issues. Desired end state.
»Policies: A specific statement to guide decision
making and achieve the goals.
»Implementation actions: An action, procedure,
plan, or program to carry out the policies.
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Climate Action Plan Update
Local GHG goal language
»General Plan should include GHG reduction
goals.
»Goals can apply to all emissions or specific
sectors.
»Goals can specify a numeric target or be
qualitative.
»Goals provide a framework for reduction
measures in the CAP and support
implementation.
»General Plan and CAP can share same goals.
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Climate Action Plan Update
Example General Plan Goals
»Greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to
levels consistent with state goals.
-Huntington Beach
»Reduce greenhouse gas emissions each year
consistent with the Climate Action Plan.
-San Mateo
»Reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990
levels by 2020.
-Butte County
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Local GHG
reductions
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Climate Action Plan Update
State sectors for GHG reduction
Energy Transportation Industry Water
Waste
management Agriculture Natural and
working lands
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Climate Action Plan Update
Existing GHG Reduction Measures
Category Quantifiable Supportive Total
Energy efficiency (EE)5 1 6
Renewable energy (RE)2 1 3
Land use and transportation (LUT)4 1 5
Solid waste (W)2 0 2
Water conservation (WE)1 1 2
Government operations (GO)1 4 5
Total 15 8 23
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Climate Action Plan Update
Existing GHG Reduction Measures
»Primary goal of reduction
measures is to reach
target.
»County has flexibility on
measure design.
»Issues addressed.
»Level of implementation.
»Measures can be
supportive as well.
Mandate
Incentivize
Encourage
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Climate Action Plan Update
Existing GHG Reduction Measures
»Measures can be
quantifiable or
supportive.
»Quantifiable: We can
estimate specific GHG
reductions.
»Supportive: GHG
reductions cannot be
effectively estimated.
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Climate Action Plan Update
Existing GHG Reduction Measures
»Continue effective
existing measures.
»Update language as
needed.
»Remove measures that
are no longer viable.
»Develop new measures
to fill gaps.
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Climate Action Plan Update
Updated Local GHG Reductions
»County can receive credit
for GHG reduction
activities since 2017.
»Switch to MCE
»Recent solar installations
»Increased EV adoption
»eBART extension
»Other actions
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Climate Action Plan Update
New GHG Reduction Measures
»Fill in gaps not covered
by existing measures.
»Take advantage of new
opportunities since 2015.
»New regulations.
»New technologies.
»Changes in feasibility.
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Climate Action Plan Update
Examples of GHG Reduction
measure topics
»Building electrification
and fuel switching.
»EV charging in private
buildings.
»First -mile and last-mile
connections.
»Waste source reduction.
»Swimming pool energy
efficiency.
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Climate Action Plan Update
Reduction Measure Monitoring
»Quantifiable measures
should be trackable.
»Clear metric.
»Easy to collect.
»Verifiable data.
»Helps measure progress
to targets.
»Supportive measures do
not need to be tracked.
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Climate Action Plan Update
Supportive Measures
»Affirmation of County
preferences.
»Support GHG reductions
that cannot be accurately
calculated.
»Example: embodied
energy.
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Climate Action Plan Update
Co-benefits
»Additional benefits
provided by GHG
reduction strategies.
»Advance community
goals and priorities.
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Climate Action Plan Update
Co-benefits in adopted CAP
Adaptive
measure
Conserves
energy
Conserves
resources
Improves air
quality
Improves
community
livability
Improves
mobility
Improves
public health
Provides
educational
opportunities
Reduces
water use
Saves money
Supports
local
economy
Climate risk
adaptation Green space Health equity
Healthy food Improved access Indoor air
quality
Job creation Outdoor air
quality
Physical activity,
walkability, and
bikability
General co-benefits Public health co-benefits
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Climate Action Plan Update
Co-benefits
Public health co-benefits
General co-benefits
GHG reduction benefits
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Climate Action Plan Update
Example co-benefits
Economic
benefits
Promotes jobs
Reduces
network
disruptions
Social
benefits
Increases
public
awareness
Maintains
educational
opportunities
Environmental
improvement
Promotes
nature-based
solutions
Improves
water quality
ABAG/ART co-benefit framework
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Next steps
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Climate Action Plan Update
Next Steps
»Continue to prepare government operations
inventory.
»Continue to conduct stakeholder engagement.
»Identify reductions from existing and planned
local actions.
»Revise existing measures and develop new ones.
»Evaluate costs associated with GHG reduction.
»Update CAP document.
»Integrate with General Plan and EIR.
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Climate Action Plan Update
CAP Timeline
GHG inventory: January 2019
Forecast and target setting: Spring/Summer 2019
Measure development: Summer/Autumn
2019
CAP development and cost assessment: Winter 2020
CAP adoption: End of 2020 (same as General Plan)Engagement
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Cleveland Climate
Action Plan:
Racial Equity Tool
Appendix A
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The Cleveland Climate Action Plan Racial Equity Tool can be used
prior to making decisions related to policy, planning, programming
and budgeting within city government and other institutions
looking to advance racial equity and shared prosperity. This
framework is adopted from the Government Alliance on Race &
Equity (GARE) and the City of Portland Oregon’s Climate Equity
Considerations. Because racial inequities are compounded by
institutional policies and decisions, the cumulative implementation
of these tools by institutions can create transformational systemic
change. Equity in climate planning, in particular, ensures the
just distribution of the benefits of climate protection efforts
and alleviates unequal burdens created by climate change. This
requires intentional policies and projects that simultaneously
address the on-the-ground effects and larger structural forces of
the systems that perpetuate both climate change and inequity1.
What is a Racial Equity Tool?
How does it work in Climate Action Planning?
Climate change and other environmental issues are
sometimes viewed as issues that are not relevant to low-
income communities and communities of color. Concern for
the environment is frequently perceived as a concern of more
affluent and less diverse communities. This narrative paints a
false portrait and obscures the real diversity that exists. While
there may be a lack of representation of low-income people
and people of color in mainstream environmental organizations,
this does not translate to a lack of concern with environmental
issues. On the contrary, research has shown that people of color
support environmental protection at a higher rate than whites.
68 percent of voters of color feel that climate change is an issue
we need to be worried about right now, not something we can
put off into the future2.
Additionally, compounded inequities do not play out broadly
across the common equity factors (age, income, gender), but
they do almost always involve race. For example, socio-economic
Why racial equity?
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difference does not explain racial inequity and racial disparity
persists in every system across the country, without exception3.
The naming of race and racism explicitly in its many forms is
critical in order to correctly target and eliminate root causes of
inequities4.
The 2017-2018 Climate Action Plan represents concerted
efforts that are connecting climate change with other community
concerns of low-income communities and communities of color.
The tool will be used to: 1) Analyze each climate action objective
and its corresponding suite of actions, and 2) Aid in the
development of an implementation strategy. When using this tool,
distinguish between short-term ‘wins’ and structural changes that
will generate long-term, ongoing ‘wins’. The tool is not intended
to solve all problems related to inequities in climate planning and
sustainability. Rather, it is intended to guide stakeholders through
the process of recognizing inequities, the conditions under which
they thrive, and the possible solutions and environments that
would mitigate negative effects and enhance positive results5.
How does the Cleveland Climate Action Racial Equity
Tool work?
1 - Climate Action Through Equity:
The integration of equity in the Port-
land/Multnomah County 2015 Climate
Action Plan, July 2016
2 - Climate Change and Communities
of Color, Key Poll Findings and Top
Lines Report
3 - Racial Equity Institute Groundwa-
ter Racial Equity Training, Cleveland
September 2017
4 - Curry-Stevens & Cross-Hemmer,
2010
5 - Balajee, Sonali S., et al., (2012).
Equity and Empowerment Lens
(Racial Justice Focus). Portland, OR:
Multnomah County.
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Shared economic prosperity and inclusion: The CAP will
promote the creation of employment and small business/entrepreneurial
opportunities with potential to lift up and empower communities. It
supports equitable hiring and contracting policies that target these
opportunities toward historically underrepresented populations. An
equity lens in the CAP will also support community-wide (corporate
and institutional) investment in equity practices that will not only impart
benefits to vulnerable populations, but to all.
Improved health: The CAP will mitigate environmental factors
leading to health disparities, such as barriers to active lifestyles and
transportation, pollution exposure, disparate access to greenspace and
other natural resources.
Resilient and vital neighborhoods: The CAP will promote
investments in housing energy efficiency that will make them safer,
more comfortable and affordable; and in community infrastructure that
enhances the ability to respond to climate change, pedestrian and bike
safety and other elements of resilience.
Engaging: Communities of color and under-represented populations
will be included in the CAP process, from defining priorities at the
neighborhood level to implementation via the Cleveland Climate Action
Fund. Proactive, culturally-appropriate strategies will be undertaken to
reach out to these populations and involve and empower them through
climate actions.
Transformational Change: The CAP Racial Equity Tool will
serve as a foundation to guide decision-makers through the process
of recognizing inequities, the conditions under which they thrive, and
the possible solutions and environments that would mitigate negative
effects and enhance positive results. While these discussions are initially
occurring under the Climate Action Advisory Committee, the intention is
that use of the tool will expand and be adapted for further institutional
use. Interest in adapting this tool for other uses should be reported to
the City of Cleveland, Office of Sustainability staff for approximating
the extent to which the tool is meeting this goal.
Climate
Action Plan
Equity Goals
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The Cleveland CAP Racial Equity Tool is made up of 5
question areas that help determine the extent to which
proposed climate action objectives and corresponding actions
prioritize equity. The CAP also acts as an aid for building an
implementation strategy.
1. Language
2. Accountability & Data
3. Disproportional Impacts
4. Economic Opportunity
5. Neighborhood Engagement (see ‘Spectrum of
Engagement” below)
SPECTRUM OF ENGAGEMENT
IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation, https://www.iap2.org/
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Consider for each objective and corresponding actions the extent to which they advance
equitable outcomes:
SIGNIFICANT: At least half of the actions under this objective advance equity. Keep as is. Clearly
advances equitable outcomes, proceed with this climate action.
MODERATE: At least one action under this objective advances equity. Refine to more explicitly
advance equity. These actions should be brought back to the Equity and Neighborhood Engagement
Subcommittee for input and/or people this action may impact, including people of color, elderly,
English as a second language population, etc.
INSIGNIFICANT: No actions under this objective advance equity. Rewrite with corrective action.
Proceeding without making substantial changes is not recommended.
KEY QUESTIONS:
How have communities been engaged (refer to ‘Engagement Continuum’)? Specifically,
have communities of color been engaged? Are there opportunities to expand
engagement? Does the proposed objective and its corresponding actions align with and
support existing neighborhood priorities (refer to neighborhood workshops if possible)?
How communities have informed or
co-designed this objective and its
corresponding actions
1. NEIGHBORHOOD
ENGAGEMENT
NOTES:
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KEY QUESTIONS:
Who will benefit/be burdened by this objective and its corresponding actions? Is there a
geographic priority for this action in an identified vulnerable geography?
NOTES:
Anticipating disproportionate
impacts3. DISPROPORTIONAL
IMPACTS
KEY QUESTIONS:
What is the best indicator to track the outcome we are looking for? What is the current
data collected and what does the data tell us? Is the data disaggregated to illuminate
disparity (by race, age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, language, income, etc.)? Who
is accountable?
NOTES:
Determining the available data concerning
inequities, its ability to illuminate the extent
to which a climate objective drives desired
results, and who is accountable
2. DATA &
ACCOUNTABILITY
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KEY QUESTIONS:
Does the proposed objective and its corresponding actions support communities of color
and low-income populations through workforce development, contracting opportunities
or the increased diversity of employees/staff across any sectors?
NOTES:
The ability to provide equitable economic
benefit via training, jobs, and contracts4. ECONOMIC
OPPORTUNITY
KEY QUESTIONS:
Is this objective and its corresponding actions explicitly addressing factors of equity or
racial equity in particular? Is the language easily understood and will it resonate with the
community?
NOTES:
The objective and its corresponding actions under
consideration and their wording5. LANGUAGE
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SIGNIFICANT:
At least half of the actions under this objective advance equity. Keep as is. Clearly
advances equitable outcomes, proceed with this climate action.
MODERATE:
At least one action under this objective advances equity. Refine to more explicitly
advance equity. These actions should be brought back to the Equity and
Neighborhood Engagement Subcommittee for input and/or people this action may
impact, including people of color, elderly, English as a second language population,
etc.
INSIGNIFICANT:
No actions under this objective advance equity. Rewrite with corrective action.
Proceeding without making substantial changes is not recommended.
As a result of going through this tool’s set of questions,
climate objectives and actions can fall into one of the
following three categories that rate the extent they
advance equity.
How does the Cleveland
Climate Action Racial
Equity Tool work?
REVIEWERS
(please write down first and last name):
As a result of using this tool, the proposed climate objective:
is rated:
NOTES:
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Food waste is a global problem that touches everyone.
Preventing and managing wasted food offers significant
potential to reduce greenhouse gases. While some food
waste can be composted, leading to reductions in methane
emissions from landfills, preventing the wasting of edible
food in the first place must be a priority.
The United Nations has called for a 50 percent reduction in per
capita global food waste by 2030, a goal the U.S. federal
government has also adopted. In the U.S. and Canada, food
manufacturers, grocers, restaurants, nonprofits and foundations
are increasingly working to prevent the wasting of food.
This policy brief summarizes the Pacific Coast Collaborative's
shared regional approach to reduce the amount of edible food that
is wasted and the amount of inedible food that is landfilled through
prevention, rescue and recovery.
THE WEST COAST COMMITMENT: 50% BY 2030
1. PCC partners—Washington, Oregon, California, British
Columbia, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Oakland and
Vancouver, British Columbia—have committed to a regional
goal of halving food waste by 2030. This includes efforts to
prevent, rescue and recover wasted food.
2. These PCC partners will engage industry, food retailers and
brand manufacturers, in setting industry-wide voluntary agreements to prevent food and supply
chain waste that will move the industry toward halving wasted food by 2030.
3. As a critical part of meeting this regional goal, these PCC partners also commit to the development
of jurisdictional specific strategies, including prevention goals, that will reduce the amount of edible
food that is wasted.
Climate Action Through Food
Waste Reduction on the
West Coast
ABOUT THE PACIFIC COAST
COLLABORATIVE
The Pacific Coast of North
America represents the world’s
fifth largest economy, a thriving
region of 55 million people with
a combined GDP of $3 trillion.
Through the Pacific Coast
Collaborative (PCC), British
Columbia, Washington,
Oregon, California, and the
cities of Vancouver, Seattle,
Portland, San Francisco,
Oakland, and Los Angeles are
working together to build the
low carbon economy of the
future.
In 2016, PCC partners
committed to reduce carbon
emissions by preventing and
recovering wasted food.
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WHY REDUCE FOOD WASTE?
Between 25% and 40% of all food grown or imported into the US for human consumption is never
eaten, costing businesses and consumers about $218 billion annually. Approximately 30 to 40 percent
of the food produced in Canada is discarded at an annual cost of about $31 billion.1 This means
enormous amounts of food - and the resources used to produce it - are wasted. All this waste comes at
a very high cost for consumers, businesses, and the environment. While billions of dollars’ worth of
edible food goes to waste every year, millions of people in the US and Canada lack access to sufficient,
nutritious food every day.
HOW DO WE REDUCE WAS TED FOOD?
There are three primary pathways for reducing
wasted food: prevention, rescue and recovery.
Prevention refers to avoiding the wasting of food
in the first place and represents the greatest
potential for cost savings and environmental
benefits for businesses, governments, and
consumers.
Of the three strategies needed to reduce wasted
food, prevention has the greatest potential to
reduce greenhouse gases. This is because most
of the carbon footprint of food is in production, not
disposal. By preventing edible food from being
thrown away, we prevent the generation of
greenhouse gases associated with growing,
harvesting, transporting, preparing, and storing
food that is never eaten.
Changes in manufacturing, packaging, retailing,
food service and labeling all offer potential to
prevent the wasting of food. Individual households, food and meal providers and consumers also have
the ability to prevent the wasting of food through improved purchasing decisions, food storage, and
meal planning.
Governments also play an important role in leading and informing prevention efforts. For example,
governments can set food waste prevention goals and targets, develop baselines, tools and criteria for
measuring prevention, lead or partner with the private sector to support public information and
awareness campaigns, conduct an inventory of management and consumer norms, and conduct
research to improve understanding of the impacts of wasted food recovery programs on wasted food
prevention efforts. Governments at the state, provincial and local level can also leverage grants and
partner with private organizations.
1 Value Chain Management Report
Wasted Food Hierarchy
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Several West Coast jurisdictions at the state, provincial, and local level have already taken
action to prevent the generation of wasted food:
• The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality adopted a prevention goal to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, water use, energy use and wasted resources by reducing the generation of wasted
edible food by 15 percent by 2025 and 40 percent by 2050.
• The City of Vancouver and Province of British Columbia have recently taken steps to address food
waste by partnering with Canada’s National Zero Waste Council on a national Love Food Hate
Waste (LFHW) campaign. The campaign is based on a successful model in the United Kingdom,
where avoidable household food waste was cut by 21% in its first five years.
• City of Portland’s Climate Action Now! provides residents with meal planning and food storage tools
and information to help reduce food waste at home. Portland is also gathering food waste
prevention case studies from restaurants to inform outreach efforts and develop waste prevention
tools.
• In the Portland Metro region, Rockwood Rising, a neighborhood revitalization effort, received a
grant to distribute information on preventing wasted food to startups in its food business incubator
and to purchase equipment to help these businesses quick freeze or dehydrate food for later use or
donation.
• San Diego County is using LeanPath,2 a smart technology system designed to address food waste,
in hospitality, colleges & universities, and corporate dining facilities to increase understanding of
where and why food is being wasted.
• Alameda County received a grant to help the unified school district in Livermore and Oakland
achieve a 25% source reduction goal through a student challenge, integrate food waste prevention
curriculum at students’ homes, and help nutrition services reduce food waste through tracking and
measuring toward an overall reduction in the generation of wasted food.
Rescue involves redistributing surplus edible food to other users, such as a grocery store donating
blemished but perfectly edible produce to food banks, or a caterer distributing uneaten meals to
homeless shelters.
Many food rescue efforts face challenges including high costs, liability concerns, and ensuring the
nutritional needs of recipients are met.
Governments can assist in rescue efforts by engaging with or formally convening food banks, hunger
relief agencies and other appropriate stakeholders to reduce barriers and better enable food donation
opportunities through funding infrastructure, building donor awareness and developing policies that help
streamline and enhance the donation process. Governments can also direct research to better
understand the social, economic and nutritional tradeoffs of different food rescue models and share
results.
Examples of rescue efforts across the West Coast include the following:
• In 2017, CalRecycle provided $9 million in funding to expand food rescue efforts by local
governments and hunger relief organizations, in alignment with SB 1383, which requires at least 20
percent of edible food currently disposed to be recovered for human consumption by 2025.
• In Washington State, Thurston (county) Food Rescue was funded by the Department of Ecology
through a comprehensive program grant that builds upon household food waste prevention
campaigns previously implemented in the county. The program improved infrastructure to rescue
and process more food within the county’s food rescue network.
2 https://www.leanpath.com/
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• In Oregon, the Department of Environmental Quality partnered with the regional government
supporting the Portland metro area to provide over $100,000 to expand capacity for food donation
infrastructure, including expanding the fresh produce donation program developed by the Oregon
Food Bank.
Recovery refers to processing inedible food waste to extract value from it, typically through composting
or anaerobic digestion. Composting and anaerobic digestion reduce methane emissions from landfills
and produce soil amendments that can store biogenic carbon in soils and replenish nutrients.
Anaerobic digestion also produces biogas which can displace fossil fuel use. Inedible food waste is also
used to feed animals by turning it into feedstock. For example, West Coast corporate and college
cafeterias operated by Bon Appetit and Compass Group currently provide inedible food scraps as
animal feed for farmers who also serve as local suppliers.
Many governments are working on aspects of recovery. Studies show that using compost or digestate
derived from food and other organic materials provides significant carbon sequestration benefits in
soils, but further research is necessary to quantify the benefit, particularly in soils along the West Coast
of North America.
After 10 years of research the Marin Carbon Project, along with associated science and soil institutions,
have shown dramatic levels of carbon sequestered in grassland soils when treated with a thin layer of
finished compost. The city of San Francisco's system for producing high quality, finished compost from
the urban organics discards stream has collected over 2 million tons of organics and produced nearly
700,000 tons of finished compost over the last 20 years.
Governments can share information and take a collaborative approach to recovering wasted
food by:
• Compiling existing study results that examine soil carbon sequestration impacts of compost,
anaerobic digestate and other products that include food waste.
• Designing , funding and implementing additional research across a variety of soil conditions to
improve understanding of the carbon sequestration impacts of compost, digestate and other
products that incorporate food waste.
• If research suggests significant soil carbon sequestration benefits of compost and other recovery
products that incorporate food waste, governments can work on creating new incentives, financial
support and market development initiatives.
Through regional collaboration, we have an opportunity to address environmental, hunger, and
climate change crises by reducing wasted food and increasing food recover.
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The future widespread deployment of battery technology for non-transportation
electricity storage purposes is inevitable and its proliferation will depend upon many
factors, not the least is the size and scale of the battery systems. (1,2) The most rapid
growth of battery system installations will depend upon them being paired with
undependable and intermittent renewable electricity sources, such as solar photovoltaic
(PV) panels or wind generators (which both produce variable amounts of electricity).
(3,4) The opposite is also true, that solar PV and wind power growth will be limited
without more widespread battery deployment.
Over the next two decades, locally, nationally and globally, there is expected to be
dynamic growth in the numbers of three general sizes of electrical battery storage
systems, which will reflect their different contexts, uses and purpose. Large and mid-
size battery systems will have similarities in how they automatically and dynamically
interact with the electrical grid.
The greatest financial and greenhouse gas reduction benefits of renewable energy
occurs when it is paired with battery storage to the maximum degree possible and the
excess electricity generated is simultaneously stored when the sun is shining or the
wind is blowing, so that no electricity is wasted. (3,4) Germany has established a
special feed-in-tariff that financially compensates homeowners in order to promote the
deployment of combined solar and battery electricity systems and removes the major
limitation of solar-generated electricity being available only during the day. (5,6)
Large, utility-scale battery storage systems for the electrical grid, supply ten to several
hundred megawatts of electricity for several hours and have the capacity to supply that
electricity to a minimum of several thousand homes. Large battery systems can be
coupled to a photovoltaic (PV) solar farms and wind farms. Mid-size community-scale
battery systems having of storage capacities ranging from several hundred kilowatt
hours to a few megawatt hours, such as for solar PV cooperatives, could potentially
supply electricity to several hundred homes or be used for various business purposes.
And small cabinet-size, low kilowatt systems would supply single-family residential
households having rooftop solar PV panels.
Large and mid-size battery systems are capable of autonomously and almost
instantaneously counteracting grid instability and so can help to prevent unexpected
grid electricity supply disruptions. Battery systems can provide the most rapid
(milliseconds) response time to sudden grid fluctuations compared to any other storage
system. Battery systems are modular and can be built in size to meet the demand.
The utility-scale electricity battery storage systems, now almost entirely lithium ion in the
U.S., have the advantage that they are can be deployed in-county locally, as opposed to
hydroelectric storage from far away dams. Utility-scale batteries, such as Tesla’s
recently deployed one hundred megawatt system in Australia (7), can perform a wide
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variety of computer-coordinated grid services, including voltage and frequency
stabilization and potentially, storage for intermittent renewable electricity generated by
solar panels or wind turbines.
Owners of large-size battery systems (who are not grid owners) will be able to receive
significant financial compensation (from grid owners) above the retail or wholesale rates
for electricity, at peak demand times in order to help stabilize the grid and reduce the
peak physical stresses upon it. Battery electricity will be delivered to the grid, as
megawatt hours. (8,9)
The largest current battery storage system, globally in 2020 and located in China, will
be a non-lithium vanadium redox flow battery capable of delivering 200 megawatts of
electricity for four hours. Moreover, the duration of flow battery electricity service can be
simply increased by the on-site storage of additional liquid electrolyte. A redox flow
battery would need to be placed on exiting heavy industrial sites, which also would have
a nearby robust electrical grid hook-up and would less likely to require major zoning
changes. (8) Sodium-sulfur batteries are another large-scale battery system just
beginning to be deployed globally.
Contra Costa County is the most industrial county in the Bay Area and is intersected by
electricity transmission lines to four of the five Bay Area refineries and high power lines
from hydroelectric dams. Large-scale electricity storage for these markets would be
immensely valuable for the robust functioning of the grid.
Large battery systems could be deployed by the grid operator (the investor-owned
utility), by Contra Costa County’s Community Choice Aggregator (MCE), or by a
refinery, by another heavy industry or by a large commercial electricity consumer.
The environmental benefits of large-scale storage, such as carbon dioxide greenhouse
gas reduction, depends on the type of energy used to charge the battery, as only
electricity being generated renewably actually reduces carbon dioxide greenhouse
gasses. In contrast, charging batteries with electricity generated by coal or natural gas,
when the grid demand is low, such as in late evening, has been determined to raise the
greenhouse gas impact of the same battery systems and to incentivize fossil fuel usage
(because batteries increase the value of the source from which they draw upon). (3,4)
Mid-size, community-scale combined solar PV and battery storage systems could be
used for a joint community solar program, where a group of several hundred customers
are aggregated into a single purchase block in order to acquire renewable electricity
cooperatively. For example, a homeowners association or senior housing community
could create a joint solar-battery benefits program for members. Like large-scale battery
systems, mid-size systems can also help to manage the grid by absorbing and storing
any excess of renewable energy and for improving grid quality and robustness. (9,10)
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Mid-size, community-scale combined solar PV and battery storage systems will be
increasingly common as commercial enterprises, especially if a large enough area of
suitable rooftop is available, such as on large warehouses. Several “battery
cooperatives” have recently been formed which allow business enterprises to “peak
shave”, by drawing on coop-managed battery power in order to reduce their electricity
costs at high demand times, when their purchase costs would otherwise also be the
highest. (10)
Behind-the-meter, single household-scale battery systems would eventually allow an
individual household to store electricity from their solar rooftop PV panels and
theoretically, operate independently from the grid (called “islanding”). Behind-the-meter
household battery systems would allow for peak shaving (to save on monthly grid
electricity costs). For example, in the evening hours during an intense California
heatwave, in an air conditioned household having solar panels, the addition of sufficient
batteries would prevent people from having to purchase grid electricity.
The added effect of widespread battery-solar households would be to cumulatively
lower the cost of electricity for everyone who must use the grid (by decreasing overall
demand). With the dispersion of household battery systems, here would tend to be
decreased stress on the grid at its peak usage times, plus a significant amount of
greenhouse gas reduction from deceased collective peak energy use. On the other
hand, there will have to be an accelerated deployment of combined solar-battery
systems in order to compensate for the expected increased total household electrical
use, as more modern homes become increasingly electrified, such as having all electric
stoves, water heaters and heat pumps (instead of furnaces).
Modern electric vehicles can store (in their batteries), several times more than an
average home’s daily electrical demand. The “Vehicle-to-Grid” (V2G) concept (not yet
deployed, but well researched) would allow plug-in electric vehicle to provide energy to
the grid and generate a profit. For large cohorts of aggregated electric vehicles, battery
electricity delivered collectively through the grid and integrated using high-speed
internet, could also help to create a more efficient grid. (11,12)
A virtual power plant is an internet-based control center that uses sophisticated
software, information and communication technologies interacting with the energy-using
devices or consumers to aggregate the capacities of physically dispersed (renewable or
fossil fuel) electricity resources for the purpose of energy trading on the wholesale
electricity markets or providing ancillary grid services for system operators on behalf of
owners who by themselves are unable to participate in that market. A battery-equipped
virtual power plant would be ideal for aggregating numerous dispersed solar energy
resources, which will become increasingly available in Contra Costa County. The
battery systems, themselves could be large and centrally located or else dispersed and
either small or mid-size. (13)
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As a public health measures, in the event of an electricity blackout, small-scale battery
systems should be paired with compact refrigerators for storing biologic medicines
(such as for insulin) or used as a back-up electrical storage system for oxygen-
generators. Future household battery systems will be robust enough to operate most
functions of a typical Contra Costa County home for many hours in an emergency or
longer with rationed use of electricity.
The almost instantaneous capability of battery systems to improve the grid's electrical
quality and stability, makes battery systems a high economic value asset and a potential
source of profit, even if operated by a non-profit organization or government agency.
Mid-size rooftop solar PV systems, such as for schools, colleges, public buildings and
large commercial facilities would all benefit from having battery storage for both back-up
supply and ancillary grid services. The California legislature has past several laws in
recent years that incentivize nearly two-thousand megawatts of both residential “behind-
the-meter” and larger battery storage systems, for mandated greenhouse gas reduction
goals (AB2514, AB2868). (14-16)
For those persons who live in areas impacted by polluting industries, under the existing
State cap-and-trade law (AB398) and associated laws, potential free electricity benefits
for qualified lower-income community members are available (SB535, SB700, AB693,
AB1550). (17,18) As a Joint Community Solar Cooperative, low-cost carbon-free
electricity could be provided (over the grid) to lower income non-homeowners, after
having been generated from mid-scale solar farms supplied with batteries. Recipients
would be qualified under the sponsorship of either a private non-profit organization or
similarly, by a government agency, as a cohort of lower income non-homeowners.
REFERENCES:
1) Department of Energy. Office of Electricity. Energy Storage Fact Sheet. https://www.energy.gov/oe/information-
center/library/fact-sheets#storage
2) Power Shift: The Battery Revolution Has Begun. Wilson da Silva
Jun 1, 2019. https://medium.com/dialogue-and-discourse/power-shift-the-battery-revolution-has-begun-bc3f750e8c89
3) Managing the Future of Energy Storage Systems: Implications for Greenhouse Gas Emissions. April 2018 Madison
Condon Richard L. Revesz Burcin Unel, Ph.D. Center for P{olicy Integrity. NYU School of Law.
https://policyintegrity.org/files/publications/Managing_the_Future_of_Energy_Storage.pdf
4) Batteries have a dirty secret: Energy storage is considered a green technology. But it actually increases carbon
emissions. VOX. David Roberts. 21, 2018. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/4/27/17283830/batteries-
energy-storage-carbon-emissions
5) In Germany, Consumers Embrace a Shift to Home Batteries. Paul Hokenos. March 18, 2019. YaleEnvironment360.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/in-germany-consumers-embrace-a-shift-to-home-batteries
6) Electricity storage is next feat for Germany’s energy transition. Sören Amelang10 Oct 2018
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/dossiers/energy-storage-and-energiewende
7) Tesla mega-battery in Australia activated> Dec, 1, 2017. BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-42190358
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8) World’s largest battery: 200MW/800MWh vanadium flow battery – site work ongoingWorld’s largest battery:
200MW/800MWh vanadium flow battery – site work ongoing
John Fitzgerald Weaver. Dec. 21st 2017. https://electrek.co/2017/12/21/worlds-largest-battery-200mw-800mwh-vanadium-
flow-battery-rongke-power/
9) Community Energy Storage: A New Revenue Stream for Utilities and Communities? KYLE FLANEGIN.
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018. HTTPS://WWW.NREL.GOV/STATE-LOCAL-TRIBAL/BLOG/POSTS/COMMUNITY-ENERGY-STORAGE-
A-NEW-REVENUE-STREAM -FOR-UTILITIES-AND-COMMUNITIES.HTML
10) Colorado electric co-op rolls out 'community battery' program. By
Peter Maloney Nov. 14, 2017. https://www.utilitydive.com/news/colorado-electric-co-op-rolls-out-community-battery-
program/510809/
11) The Latest in Vehicle to Grid (V2G) Charging. Eric Schmidt. October 25, 2017. https://www.fleetcarma.com/latest-vehicle-
grid-v2g-charging/
12) Vehicle-to-grid (V2G). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-grid
13) Virtual Power Plant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_power_plant
14) California Passes Huge Grid Energy Storage Mandate. CPUC passes controversial mandate for 1.3 gigawatts of
batteries, grid storage by 2020. JEFF ST. JOHN. OCTOBER 17, 2013.
HTTPS://WWW.GREENTECHMEDIA.COM/ARTICLES/READ/CALIFORNIA-PASSES-HUGE-GRID-ENERGY-STORAGE-
MANDATE#GS.XBC2Z8
15) California PUC finalizes new 500 MW BTM battery storage mandate. Peter Maloney. May 4, 2017.
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/california-puc-finalizes-new-500-mw-btm-battery-storage-mandate/441901/
16) California will require solar panels on all new homes. That’s not necessarily a good thing. More solar is not always and
everywhere better. David Roberts. Vox Dec 6, 2018. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-
environment/2018/5/15/17351236/california-rooftop-solar-pv-panels-mandate-energy-experts
17) SB 535 Disadvantaged Communities. California Office of Health and Hazard Risk Assesment. .
https://oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscreen/sb535
“In 2012, the Legislature passed Senate Bill 535 (de Leon), directing that 25 percent of the proceeds from the Greenhouse
Gas Reduction Fund go to projects that provide a benefit to disadvantaged communities. The legislation gave CalEPA
responsibility for identifying those communities. In 2016, the Legislature passed AB 1550 (Gomez), which now requires
that 25 percent of proceeds from the fund be spent on projects located in disadvantaged communities.“
18) California passes bill to bring more energy storage to residents and businesses. Kathie Zipp. June 2, 2017.
https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2017/06/california-passes-bill-bring-energy-storage-residents-businesses/
“The California Housing Partnership strongly supports SB 700. By setting aside 30 percent of incentives for low-income
homes across the state, along with small businesses and public institutions in disadvantaged and low-income
communities, this bill will empower Californians to equitably share in the benefits of energy storage,” said Stephanie
Wang, policy director for the California Housing Partnership. “By prioritizing projects that will receive AB 693 Multifamily
Affordable Housing Solar Roofs incentives, this bill will also support the long-term success of a key solar program for low-
income California renters.”
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California Air Resources Board Public Workshop
Carbon Neutrality: Scenarios for Deep Decarbonization
August 15, 2019
Notes taken by Carolyn Glanton, Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority
Four experts presented scenarios for achieving deep decarbonization of California’s economy. Discussed
implications for meeting California’s carbon neutrality goals and key aspects of these scenarios that lead
to economic transformations needed to achieve carbon neutrality goals.
Materials
Key Takeaways
• IPCC report require us to focus on sequestration and reduction in GHG emissions. Near zero
emissions is not enough; need to be at zero or net negative.
• First, we must minimize emissions. Then transition natural and working lands from source of
emissions to a carbon sink while keeping in mind that some regions are net emitters, other
regions are sinks.
• Definition of carbon neutrality – the amount of GHGs produced must be the same as the
amount of sequestration
• Deep Decarbonization in a High Renewables Future - Amber Mahone, E3 (slides)
o 2018 CEC study evaluated 10 scenarios to 80% reductions by 2050
To achieve carbon neutrality by 2045, will require additional work
o 4 pillars to 80% reduction
Energy Efficiency and Conservation
Electrification
Low carbon fuels
Sequester carbon and reduce non combustion GHG
To achieve carbon neutrality, add negative emission technologies
o Lower cost, lower risk scenario – high electrification of buildings and transportation
Can start now, mitigates uncertainty of other technologies (including those that
haven’t been created yet)
Will require some form of long duration storage or dispatachable capacity
(battery or other) to maintain electric reliability
Remaining challenges - 2050 emissions are mostly from industry, trucking,
aviation, cement, and waste, dairy and agricultural methane
o Key Conclusions:
Consumer decisions are the lynchpin to meeting 2030 GHG target
85-95% zero carbon electricity is needed by 2050
At least one “reach technology” that has not been completely proven is needed
to help meet the longer-term 2050 GHG goal, and to mitigation risk of other
solutions falling short
• Optionality, Flexibility and Innovation: Pathways for Deep Decarbonization in California –
Melanie Kenderdine, Energy Futures Initiative (slides)
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o Energy conservation is important, not just efficiency. What can we do mechanically that
is currently done electronically (i.e. paper towel dispensers).
o Focused on how to meet 2030 targets
Buildings – easiest to decarbonize with energy efficiency and electrification
Carbon capture and utilization (CCUS) a large potential for electricity and
industry sector
Agriculture
• Biogas capture (also helps to decarbonize fuel sector)
o Challenges with integrating intermittent renewables
No battery storage option for extended periods of time
Seasonal variation in solar and wind
o Industry – multiple subsectors – require range of pathways
Most difficult to decarbonization
Innovation is needed in hydrogen, carbon capture, storage and utilization and
biogas
o Post 2030 – will need breakthrough technologies to help reach 2050 goals
• Net Zero Emissions Energy Systems - Nate Lewis, California Institute of Technology (slides)
o Reducing emissions by 80% is very different than 100%
o We don’t have technology that we need to fully decarbonize yet, need energy R&D
o Challenges
Aviation
• Whose emissions are they?
• Potential for biofuels?
• Carbon free options for liquid fuels with high energy density
• Need to invent solutions
Industrial materials (cement and steel)
• What are alternative processes?
• Carbon capture and storage
To achieve high reliability in a power sector with a large share of variable,
uncertain renewables, need storage or flexible generators that have low fixed
costs and/or alternate products
• Pathways to 2050: Alternative Scenarios for Decarbonizing the US Economy - Brad Townsend,
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (slides)
o Climate Innovation 2050 Scenario Exercise looked at 3 scenarios to reach 80% emission
reductions (A Competitive Climate, Climate Federalism, and Low-Carbon Lifestyles)
o To meet goals
All sectors and everyone must act
Broad public support is required
o Decarbonizing economy requires certain fundamental shifts in the ways we generate
energy, produce foods, deliver services, and manage lands. These shifts can be achieved
in different ways.
o Decarbonization requires that everyone plays their part—policy-makers at all levels,
investors, entrepreneurs, consumers, voters, and companies across key sectors of the
economy
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Private sector plays a very important role – timely business leadership in helping
to capture economic benefit
Broad public support is needed
o Must use all the tools available – technology and policy
• Panel discussion:
o Have to maintain optionality/flexibility because what will really happen will not be what
we have modeled
o What factors should we be considering
Carbon emissions shouldn’t be everything we look at – clean air and water,
what types of cities do people want to be living in, equity
Electricity as a national security concern
• Cyber security
• More reliable on it
o Role of consumer
Like “how can we get people to stop smoking?”
Multiple steps, all rowing in same direction
• Social norms, taxes, getting out of movies, public ads, etc.
Have it be default choices for people, information overload, if we are dependent
on people making the “right choice” we will never get there
• Codes and standards
• Upstream, industry wide standards
• Consumer doesn’t have to think about it
o Fire is now our largest source of black carbon
Cannot achieve our emissions without addressing wildfires
o Questions:
How can we maximize synergy between currently distinct sectors and
industries?
How do we bridge the gap between existing mid-century deep decarbonization
goals and achievement of statewide carbon neutrality by 2045?
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Contra Costa County
Sustainability Commission
6.
Meeting Date: 8/26/2019
Subject: ADOPT Environmental Justice Assessment Tool Developed by the
Commission’s Environmental Justice Working Group and
RECOMMEND Its Use in Updating the County’s General Plan.
Department: Conservation and Development
Presenter: Doria Robinson, Nick Despota, Wes Sullens, Sustainability Commission
Contact: Jody London, DCD
Referral History:
At the August 2018 retreat, the Sustainability Commission discussed its responsibility to advise the
Board of Supervisors on opportunities to realize equity and fairness across the diverse communities of
Contra Costa County in sustainability programs that support the Climate Action Plan. The
Sustainability Commission had a presentation at its October 2018 meeting from Vivian Huang of the
Asian Pacific Environmental Network on environmental justice.
Referral Update:
Nick Despota, Doria Robinson, and Wes Sullens have collaborated to better understand the history of
environmental justice initiatives in Contra Costa County. The Sustainability Commission discussed
the rubric at its February 25, 2019 and April 24, 2019 meetings. The attached version is the
recommendation from the working group.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
ADOPT Environmental Justice Assessment Tool Developed by the Commission’s Environmental
Justice Working Group and RECOMMEND Its Use in Updating the County’s General Plan.
Fiscal Impact (if any):
None.
ATTACHMENT(S)
Environmental Justice Assessment Tool Recommendation
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Proposed assessment tool for inclusion in Contra Costa County General Plan. It purpose is to
bridge the gap between the County’s Environmental Policy (2007) and day-to-day operations
within each department.*
*Cities and counties are required to adopt an Environmental Justice element, or integrate EJ-related
policies, objectives, and goals throughout other elements of their General Plan. An Environmental
Justice Element is required by the Government Code Section 65302(h) (1), which specifies requirements
for a city or county’s General Plan. An environmental justice element is also required by under SB 1000.
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ASSESSMENT TOOL
Do our county’s projects and policies meet environmental justice goals?
The following set of questions is proposed for internal use by all departments of
Contra Costa County government. The questions are intended to help staff determine
the degree to which its outreach, programs and policies align with the County’s
environmental justice goals.
1. Are public materials and workshops presented in the languages of residents
who may be affected by a project or policy?
2. Are meetings and workshops scheduled at times and locations that enable
participation by working people and those without cars? Are notices of these
events distributed through diverse media, not just online media?
3. Do all neighborhoods have opportunities to engage in decision-making
conversations?
4. Has data collection reflected the economic, gender and racial diversity of the
affected population?
5. Are the costs and benefits of a project or policy shared equitably by all who
may be affected, or are there disproportionate impacts?
6. Are economic opportunities concentrated within one segment of a population
or area, or are they available to all who may wish to take advantage of them?
7. What will be the indirect or unintended impacts on the quality of life of
residents within different communities?
Proposal by
Nick Despota, Doria Robinson and Wes Sullens
Contra Costa County Sustainability Commission
June 9, 2019
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Proposed assessment tool for inclusion in Contra Costa County General Plan. It purpose is to
bridge the gap between the County’s Environmental Policy (2007) and day-to-day operations
within each department.*
*Cities and counties are required to adopt an Environmental Justice element, or integrate EJ-related
policies, objectives, and goals throughout other elements of their General Plan. An Environmental
Justice Element is required by the Government Code Section 65302(h) (1), which specifies requirements
for a city or county’s General Plan. An environmental justice element is also required by under SB 1000.
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ASSESSMENT TOOL
Do our county’s projects and policies meet environmental justice goals?
The following set of questions is proposed for internal use by all departments of
Contra Costa County government. The questions are intended to help staff determine
the degree to which its outreach, programs and policies align with the County’s
environmental justice goals.
1. Are public materials and workshops presented in the languages of residents
who may be affected by a project or policy?
2. Are meetings and workshops scheduled at times and locations that enable
participation by working people and those without cars? Are notices of these
events distributed through diverse media, not just online media?
3. Do all neighborhoods have opportunities to engage in decision-making
conversations?
4. Has data collection reflected the economic, gender and racial diversity of the
affected population?
5. Are the costs and benefits of a project or policy shared equitably by all who
may be affected, or are there disproportionate impacts?
6. Are economic opportunities concentrated within one segment of a population
or area, or are they available to all who may wish to take advantage of them?
7. What will be the indirect or unintended impacts on the quality of life of
residents within different communities?
Proposal by
Nick Despota, Doria Robinson and Wes Sullens
Contra Costa County Sustainability Commission
June 9, 2019
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Contra Costa County
Sustainability Commission
7.
Meeting Date: 4/22/2019
Subject: CONSIDER proposal from Member, District 1, to Recommend the
Use of Carbon-Neutral Building Materials in County Projects
Department: Conservation and Development
Presenter: Nick Despota, Sustainability Commission Contact: Jody London,
DCD
Referral History:
One part of the Sustainability Commission’s mission is to “Advise the Board of Supervisors and staff
on successful implementation of the Climate Action Plan, including suggestions on how that work
can be performed more efficiently and effectively.” Climate Action Plan Measure EE 6: Energy-
Efficient New Buildings, includes as an action item “Explore making new and significantly retrofitted
County buildings zero net energy.”
Referral Update:
Nick Despota, Sustainability Commission member representing District 1, at the April 22, 2019
meeting suggested that the Sustainability Commission propose to the Board of Supervisors that
County-funded construction projects specify the use of manufactured limestone aggregated,
containing captured and sequestered carbon dioxide (CO2). The Commission directed Despota to
consult with County staff and report back. The attached memo provides that information.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
CONSIDER proposal from Member, District 1, to Recommend the Use of Carbon-
Neutral Building Materials in County Projects.
Fiscal Impact (if any):
None.
ATTACHMENT(S)
Carbon-Neutral Concrete Update
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From: Nick Despota
To: Sustainability Commission
Date: June 17, 2019
Report on carbon-neutral building materials proposal with Public Works staff
At the April 22 meeting of the Sustainability Commission, Commission members authorized Nick
Despota and Wes Sullens to meet with County staff to explore a proposal that the County use its
procurement process to require the use of carbon-neutral or -negative building materials. In
particular, those materials could include concrete made with manufactured limestone aggregates
that sequesters carbon.
On May 13, Sullens, Jody London, and I met with Warren Lai, Deputy Director of the Public Works
Dept., and Kevin Emigh, Division Manager of the Design/Construction Division, to discuss the
proposal.
While supportive of efforts to reduce the county’s GHG emissions, Lai explained that it was not
prudent for the County to “get out ahead” of CalTrans on the specification of concrete for roads and
bridges. Emigh related a story illustrating that the County could be held accountable for
replacement of faulty building materials, or face liability claims. These are significant deterrents.
Sullens noted that Marin County was developing a different approach to reducing GHG emissions
from building materials. That county is amending its building codes to specify the use of low-carbon
concrete for all residential and commercial building. Funded by a Bay Area Air Quality
Management District (BAAQMD) grant, Marin is developing these specifications in a manner that
would enable their adoption by other counties.
Asked what opportunities he saw for GHG reductions, Lai said that the Marin County approach
seemed more promising than the procurement process outlined in our proposal.
Two days after our meeting, Marin County conducted a workshop on carbon-negative or -neutral
building material. None of us were able to attend but to learn what was discussed, Despora talked
to Ken Hines (of Blue Planet, a manufacturer of low-carbon aggregate), who did attend.
In a nutshell, Marin County will use two different approaches for reducing embodied carbon in
concrete: prescriptive and performance-based.
The prescriptive approach specifies the minimum percentage of fly ash v. Portland cement in the
concrete mix. Fly ash reduces the amount of Portland cement required, thus also reducing the
concrete’s global warming potential (GWP). Use of a carbon-negative or neutral aggregate and/or
recycled aggregates would allow for a higher percentage of Portland cement, desirable from an
engineering perspective.
Under the performance approach, the maximum GWP is specified. How to meet the GWP is left up
to the concrete supplier. It will be relatively easy for a government regulatory agency to then
change the maximum GWP requirement for its concrete purchases in order to meet its greenhouse
gas emission targets.
Based on what we heard from our own County’s staff, and what we learned about the Marin County
approach, it appears that the Marin building code amendments and CalTrans evaluations are key.
They may determine how or when Contra Costa County may elect to adopt lower carbon methods
and materials in county construction.
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8.
Meeting Date: 6/24/2019
Subject: AMEND Sustainability Commission Bylaws to Extend Term of Service for 60 days or
Until An Appointment Is Made to a Vacant Seat, Whichever Comes First.
Department: Conservation & Development
Presenter: Jody London, DCD Contact: Jody London (925) 674-7871
Referral History:
At the May 7, 2019 meeting of the Sustainability Committee of the Board of Supervisors, the Sustainability
Committee directed that should a vacant seat on the Sustainability Commission not be filled by the date the
term of service expires, the term of service shall extend 60 days or until an appointment is made to the
vacant seat, whichever comes first.
Referral Update:
The Bylaws of the Sustainability Commission have been amended to reflect that if a vacant seat on the
Sustainability Commission is not filled by the date the term of service expires, the term of service shall
extend 60 days or until an appointment is made to the vacant seat, whichever comes first.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
AMEND Sustainability Commission Bylaws to Extend Term of Service for 60 days or Until An Appointment
Is Made to a Vacant Seat, Whichever Comes First.
Fiscal Impact (if any):
None.
ATTACHMENT(S)
Revised Sustainability Commission Bylaws.
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BY-LAWS
of the
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION
I. Name
The name of this commission shall be the “Contra Costa County Sustainability Commission”
(hereinafter referred to as the “Sustainability Commission” or “Commission”).
II.Purpose
The general purposes of the Commission shall be as follows:
A. Advise the Board of Supervisors and staff on successful implementation of the
Climate Action Plan, including suggestions on how that work can be performed
more efficiently and effectively.
B. Advise the Board of Supervisors on opportunities to realize equity and fairness
across the diverse communities of Contra Costa County in sustainability programs
that support the Climate Action Plan.
C. Advise the Board of Supervisors and staff on how to better engage Contra Costa
County residents and businesses on sustainability issues and implementation of
the Climate Action Plan.
III.Membership
A.Members. The Commission shall consist of members as approved by the Board
of Supervisors. Members serve at the pleasure of the Board of Supervisors and
may be removed during their terms of office by a majority vote of the Board at its
pleasure.
B. Status Changes. If a member’s work status or residence changes, the member
must notify the Commission in writing, within thirty (30) days of the change in
status. The Chair shall review the change of status and determine if the member
is still eligible for membership. If the member is found to be ineligible, the Chair
shall forward the appropriate information to the Board of Supervisors.
C. Terms. Members shall serve a four-year term, after the initial terms approved by
the Board of Supervisors expire. There will not be a term limit and members may
serve more than one (1) term if reappointed. If upon expiration of a term, a seat
has not been filled by the Board of Supervisors, the term of service shall extend
60 days or until an appointment is made to fill the vacant seat, whichever comes
first.
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D. Resignation. Any member who desires to resign his or her position with the
Commission should do so in writing and file it with the Clerk of the Board, the
Chair, and staff to the Commission. Advanced notice is preferred to allow for a
timely appointment to fill the vacancy.
E. Vacancies. A vacancy during the term of any member will be filled by the Board
of Supervisors for the remainder of the then-current term.
F. Member Responsibilities. Each member is expected to:
1.Have an interest in and commitment to the Purpose of the Commission.
2.Attend meetings of the Commission. Members are expected to notify the
Chair in advance of any absence from a meeting. Members may be
excused by the Chair for authorized absences. A member that is absent
from three (3) consecutive scheduled meetings without authorization from
the Chair will be considered to have resigned his or her position with the
Commission, and the Chair will notify the Board of Supervisors of the
vacancy.
3. Comply with the Contra Costa County policy for Board Appointees
concerning Conflict of Interest and Open Meetings, Resolution No.
2002/376.
G. Alternate Members. Alternate members are non-voting members except that
alternates shall fill in for the regular district representative member appointed
from the same district when the regular member is absent from part or all of a
meeting, during which time the alternate member shall constitute a voting
member.
IV.Organization
A.Officers. The officers of the Commission shall be the Chair, Vice-Chair, and
Secretary. The Commission shall annually at its first meeting in the calendar year
elect its Chair and Vice-Chair. The Sustainability Coordinator shall serve as the
Secretary.
1. Duties of the Chair. The Chair shall conduct meetings, develop agendas,
and serve as the official spokesperson for the Commission.
2.Duties of the Vice-Chair. The Vice-Chair shall act for the Chair in the
Chair’s absence.
B. Subcommittees. The Chair may appoint subcommittees composed solely of
members of the Commission. The Chair shall serve as an ex-officio member on
all subcommittees.
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C. Staff. The Sustainability Coordinator shall serve as staff to the Commission.
Staff shall:
1. Prepare and issue agendas in accordance with the Brown Act and the
County’s Better Government Ordinance.
2.Finalize minutes and distribute minutes to members and the Clerk of the
Board after adoption by the Commission.
3. Prepare the annual report at the direction of the Commission for
submission to the Board of Supervisors.
4.Maintain physical and electronic records of the Commission.
5.Keep meeting attendance records.
6. Send and retain copies of correspondence authorized by the Commission.
V. Meetings
A. All meetings of the Commission shall be open public meetings and shall be
conducted in accordance with the Brown Act and the County’s Better
Government Ordinance.
B. Regular meetings of the Commission shall be held on the fourth Monday in
February, April, June, August, October, and December, at 5:00 p.m., at a location
to be determined by the Commission and staff. The December meeting will occur
prior to the fourth Monday in December, as approved by the Commission.
C. Six voting members constitute a quorum. A quorum must be present to hold a
meeting. In the absence of a quorum, no formal action shall be taken except to
adjourn the meeting to a subsequent date.
D. Only regular members and alternates filling in for absent regular members shall
vote on matters before the Commission. The Commission may take action by
approval of a majority of the voting members present.
E. The Commission may call a special meeting if the Commission’s business
requires it to meet more frequently, but a quorum is required for any meeting to
proceed.
VI.Annual Objectives
The Commission shall establish an annual work plan and a list of goals and priorities that will
guide the work of the Commission over the year.
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VII.Reports
The Commission shall submit:
A. Regular reports to the Ad Hoc Sustainability Committee or its successor.
B. An annual report to the Board of Supervisors as required by Resolution No.
2011/498 and as amended.
C. Other reports to the Board of Supervisors as appropriate.
VIII.Conflicts with County Policies
To the extent there are any inconsistencies between these bylaws and the resolutions creating the
Commission or countywide advisory body policies, the resolutions and countywide advisory
body policies will govern.
IX.Bylaws/Amendments
These bylaws and any bylaw amendments shall be recommended by the Commission and be
effective upon approval by the Board of Supervisors.
Adopted by Sustainability Commission August 28, 2017
Amended by Sustainability Commission June 24, 2019
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9.
Meeting Date: 8/26/2019
Subject: REVIEW Proposed Polystyrene Ordinance
Department: Conservation & Development
Presenter: Jody London, DCD Contact: Jody London (925) 674-7871
Referral History:
In 2017, the Board of Supervisors directed the Department of Public Works to proceed with developing a
ban on polystyrene in the unincorporated County and County facilities. The Sustainability Commission
received a presentation on the proposed policy at its April 2018 meeting and provided input to Public Works
staff, prior to bringing the matter to the full Board.
Referral Update:
Public Works has developed the ordinance. It was approved by the Board’s Transportation, Water, and
Infrastructure Committee in July and will be brought to the full Board soon. The draft ordinance is attached.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
REVIEW Proposed Polystyrene Ordinance
Fiscal Impact (if any):
None.
ATTACHMENT(S)
Proposed Polystyrene Ordinance
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Implementation Task Task Objective Task Lead Task Duration Estimated
Completion Date Comments
Prepare draft ordinance Begin adoption process County Counsel One week Done Draft ordinance completed March 15, 2019
PWD/DCD ordinance review Identify potential changes Mitch Avalon Two weeks June 15, 2019 Request to review sent out May 22, 2019
CEQA Determination of Exemption Comply with CEQA process Mitch Avalon Three months September 1, 2019 RTI submitted to Ave May 28, 2019
Update outreach mailing list Identify more stakeholders Michelle Mancuso One week July 1, 2019 Compare current list with Business License list
Public Service Announcement Comply with Board directive Michelle Cordis One month July 15, 2019 Develop storyboard, script, etc. with CCTV
Schedule TWIC meeting Establish public meeting timeline Mitch Avalon One week June 15, 2019 August 12, 2019 TWIC meeting
Prepare/translate meeting notice Notify stakeholders of meeting Mitch Avalon One week June 21, 2019 Translate meeting notice and ordinance
Put ordinance on website Provide easy public access Michelle Cordis One week July 1, 2019 Ordinance/notice in English, Spanish, Chinese
Notice TWIC meeting/public comment Seek public input Mitch Avalon One week July 1, 2019 Use outreach mailing list
PrepareTWIC report Provide staff recommendations Mitch Avalon One week July 1, 2019 Tim will present at the TWIC meeting
Report on cities and Mayors Conf Comply with Board directive Michelle Mancuso One week July 15, 2019 Supervisor Anderson may have done this already
Prepare letter to cities Comply with Board directive Mitch Avalon One week Done Letters sent to Board members January 10, 2019
Prepare/agree on enforcement proposal Establish multi-department agreement Mitch Avalon One month August 1, 2019 Meet with BI and EHS
Finalize ordinance Provide final document County Counsel One week September 1, 2019 Work with County Counsel
Notice Board meeting Provide public notice Mitch Avalon One week September 1, 2019 Use outreach mailing list
Prepare board order Address Board directives and public input Mitch Avalon One week September 15, 2019 Board directives from December 4, 2018 meeting
Adopt ordinance Finalize process Mitch Avalon One day October 1, 2019 Tim will present at the Board meeting
Polystyrene Ban Ordinance Adoption Work Plan: October 2019
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10.
Meeting Date: 8/26/2019
Subject: APPOINT one member of the Sustainability Commission to the Contra Costa County
Integrated Pest Management Advisory Committee
Department: Conservation & Development
Presenter: Jody London, DCD Contact: Jody London (925) 674-7871
Referral History:
On March 7, 2017, the Board of Supervisors re-designated a seat on the Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Advisory Board as the “Sustainability Advisory Committee seat.” On October 23, 2017, the Sustainability
Commission nominated Gretchen Logue to fill the Sustainability Advisory seat. Ms. Logue resigned from
the Sustainability Commission, and therefore the IPM Advisory Committee, on June xx, 2019.
Referral Update:
The Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Advisory Committee was established by the Board of Supervisors in
November 2009 to advise the Board regarding the protection and enhancement of public health, County
resources, and the environment related to pest control methods employed by County departments. The IPM
Advisory Committee has eight voting members as follows: two ex-officio members (Health Services
Department and County/Unincorporated County Storm Water Program) and six public members (one Public
and Environmental Health Advisory Board representative, one Fish and Wildlife Committee representative,
one Environmental Organizations representative, and three At Large appointees); plus one Public Member
Alternate seat.
In November 2016, the Board of Supervisors abolished the Public and Environmental Health Advisory
Board (PEHAB) as part of the Phase I Triennial Advisory Body Review. The abolishment of PEHAB left in
question the disposition of the PEHAB seat on the IPM Advisory Committee: should it be abolished, leaving
7 remaining voting members, or should it be redesignated and if so, to what type of seat? The Internal
Operations Committee of the Board of Supervisors considered this question at its regular meeting on
February 13, 2017, and recommended that the PEHAB seat on the IPM Advisory Committee be redesignated
for a member of the newly forming Sustainability Commission. The Board directed that the Sustainability
Commission will nominate its representative to the IPM Advisory Committee pending approval and
appointment by the Board of Supervisors. Terms are four years in length; the current term of the seat in
question is due to expire on December 31, 2019.
As indicated above, Gretchen Logue had been serving in the Sustainability Advisory Committee seat since
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2017. Because Ms. Logue has resigned from all County advisory bodies, the Sustainability Commission has
an opportunity to nominate another of its members to fill this seat.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
APPOINT one member of the Sustainability Commission to the “Sustainability Advisory Committee” seat
the Integrated Pest Management Advisory Committee.
Fiscal Impact (if any):
N/A
ATTACHMENT(S)
Board Order from March 7, 2017
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
REDESIGNATE the Public and Environmental Health Advisory Board seat on the
Integrated Pest Management Advisory Committee as the "Sustainability Advisory
Committee seat".
FISCAL IMPACT:
None.
BACKGROUND:
The Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Advisory Committee was established by the Board
of Supervisors in November 2009 to advise the Board regarding the protection and
enhancement of public health, County resources, and the environment related to pest control
methods employed by County departments. The IPM Advisory Committee has eight voting
members as follows: two ex-officio members (Health Services Department and
County/Unincorporated County Storm Water Program) and six public members (one Public
and Environmental Health Advisory Board representative, one County Fish and Wildlife
Committee representative, one Environmental Organizations representative, and three At
Large appointees); plus one Public Member Alternate seat.
APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
Action of Board On: 03/07/2017 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
AYE:John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III
Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV
Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V
Supervisor
ABSENT:Candace Andersen, District II
Supervisor
Contact: Julie DiMaggio Enea (925)
335-1077
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the
Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: March 7, 2017
, County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: Stephanie Mello, Deputy
cc: IOC Staff, CoB (Maddy Book Update), IPM Adv Cte Staff, Sustainability Adv Cte Staff
C. 88
To:Board of Supervisors
From:INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE
Date:March 7, 2017
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:REDESIGNATE SEAT ON THE INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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In November 2016, the Board of Supervisors abolished the Public and Environmental
Health Advisory Board (PEHAB) as part of the Phase I Triennial Advisory Body Review.
The abolishment of PEHAB leaves in question the disposition of the PEHAB seat on the
IPM Advisory Committee: Should it be abolished, leaving 7 remaining voting members, or
should it be redesignated and, if so, to what type of seat?
The Internal Operations Committee considered this question at its regular meeting on
February 13, 2017 and recommends that the PEHAB seat on the IPM Advisory Committee
be redesignated for a representative of the County's new Sustainability Advisory
Committee. As with PEHAB, the Sustainability Advisory Committee would nominate its
representative to the IPM Advisory Committee pending approval and appointment by the
Board of Supervisors. Seat terms are four years in length; the current term of the seat in
question is due to expire on December 31, 2019.
BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
If the seat is not redesignated, then recruitment cannot be conducted and the vacancy will
remain indefinitely.
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11.
Meeting Date: 8/26/2019
Subject: RECEIVE reports from Sustainability Commission members and alternates, and
PROVIDE DIRECTION as needed
Department: Conservation & Development
Presenter: Jody London, DCD Contact: Jody London (925)674-7871
Referral History:
This is a standing item of the Commission.
Referral Update:
Commission members and alternates will provide updates to the full Commission.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
RECEIVE reports from Sustainability Commission members and alternates, and PROVIDE DIRECTION as
needed.
Fiscal Impact (if any):
None.
ATTACHMENT(S)
No file(s) attached.
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12.
Meeting Date: 8/26/2019
Subject: RECEIVE Report from Sustainability Coordinator
Department: Conservation & Development
Presenter: Jody London, Sustainability Coordinator Contact: Jody London, DCD
Referral History:
This is a standing item of the Commission.
Referral Update:
This report provides an update to the Sustainability Commission on the work of the County’s Sustainability
staff since the Committee last met in June 2019. Key activities during this period are listed below.
Worked with Sustainability Commission members and County staff to begin developing recommended
goals and strategies for the Climate Action Plan update and to organize community outreach meetings
specific to the CAP. Met with community groups to discuss the same.
Researched how other jurisdictions are approaching updates to their Climate Action Plans. Staff is
working in collaboration with other Bay Area counties in considering whether a coordinated approach
on some CAP issues may be useful.
Presented on Contra Costa Centre as an example of transit-oriented development at the California
Climate Action Planning Conference.
Continued working with the Contra Costa Transportation Authority on the Electric Vehicle Readiness
Blueprint,which was completed July 1. The CCTA Board accepted the report in July.
Continued working on the Cleaner Contra Costa Challenge.
This summer, the Public Works Department is constructing three Active Transportation projects that
include improving bicycle and pedestrian facilities in Contra Costa. The projects include:
Camino Tassajara Bike Lane Gap Closure Project (Finley to Windemere Pkwy)
Tara Hills Pedestrian Infrastructure Project
San Pablo Dam Road Sidewalk Gap Closure Project
Assisted the Board of Supervisors in creating an additional environmental justice seat on the
Sustainability Commission and in advertising that new position plus two vacancies, in the District 3
and 5 alternate seats.
Worked with County staff to develop a draft solar overlay-zoning ordinance, as directed by the Board
of Supervisors in December 2018, when it received the Renewable Resource Potential Study.
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Hosted two briefings for County staff by students from the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public
Policy on suggestions for governance and implementation of the Adapting to Rising Tides studies.
Participated in two working groups of the Urban Sustainability Directors Network. The first is focused
on strategies for increasing local government engagement on sustainability issues with State regulatory
and legislative bodies; the Local Government Sustainable Energy Coalition is one of the few
organizations doing this type of work nationally. Staff is helping co-chair a second group focused on
counties.
County staff learned that PG&E will not be funding the East Bay Energy Watch (EBEW) after this
fiscal year. Major impacts to the County include: (1) Elimination of subsidy provided to our region
for future CivicSpark Fellows; (2) no funding to update GHG inventory work for all jurisdictions in
EBEW territory (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties); and (3) Lack of oversight or knowledge of
PG&E third-party programs implementing energy efficiency programs in Contra Costa County.
Collaborated with County staff working on topics including land use and transportation, hazardous
materials, green business program, economic development, Planning Integration Team for Community
Health (PITCH), codes, solid waste, energy, and related.
Participated in regional activities.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
RECEIVE report from Sustainability Coordinator.
Fiscal Impact (if any):
None.
ATTACHMENT(S)
No file(s) attached.
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13.
Meeting Date: 8/26/2019
Subject: RECEIVE Report from Sustainability Commission Chair and IDENTIFY
TOPICS for next report to Ad Hoc Committee on Sustainability
Department: Conservation & Development
Presenter: Howdy Goudey, Chair Contact: Jody London, DCD
Referral History:
This is a standing item of the Commission.
Referral Update:
The Sustainability Commission Chair provides an update at each meeting to Commission members on the
administration of the Commission, meetings of the Board of Supervisors Ad Hoc Committee on
Sustainability, and other issues of interest to the Commission.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
RECEIVE report from Sustainability Commission Chair.
Fiscal Impact (if any):
None.
ATTACHMENT(S)
No file(s) attached.
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