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Green Update 2 October 6, 2008 soliciting community input in various forms, including public workshops, the formation of a community task force and business and homeowner surveys. To achieve regional consistency in these efforts, the City is working as part of the Alameda County Climate Protection Project. A Climate Summit for elected officials is being organized for all Alameda County jurisdictions, in coordination with StopWaste.Org. The City of San Leandro will host the meeting at the San Leandro Main Library. The tentative date for this gathering is January 23, 2009. CITY PROGRAMS The following is a list of our recent accomplishments aswell asplans for the future. The list encompasses programs from several City departments, including the City Managers Office, Public Works, Engineering, Community Development, Finance, and other City staff. Members of all of these departments are participating in a Climate Task Force and contributed information contained in the program list. The list also includes several private sector initiatives that have come to the attention of City staff, but is not an all-inclusive list of private sector actions. A progress report for the BAAQMD grant in a future phase will involve a survey of private sector activities and will be presented to the City Council at that time. The following list of environmentally sustainable programs is presented without particular order of importance. Acost-benefit analysis of the various Sustainability measures will be conducted for the BAAQMD grant at a future date. ENERGY CONSERVATION/AIR QUALITY Streetlights • Green and red traffic lights have been switched to more energy efficient Light-Emitting Diode (LED) traffic signals. • Yellow LED traffic signals are installed at approximately 25% of the intersections. The remainder of the switch is expected to be completed in approximately 1.5 to 2 years. ABAG Energywatch • Last fall, the Public Works Department began participating in the Association of Bay Area Government (ABAG) Energy Watch program. The program includes free energy audits and subsidies for retrofits within City facilities. • As part of this program, Fire Stations No. 12, No. 13, and the South Offices building have had a lighting retrofit completed for an estimated yearly energy savings of 22,258 Kilowatt-hours (KWh) and a Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emission savings of approximately 5 tons. Facilities • Phase I of athree-part Civic Center heating, ventilation and cooling (HVAC) and water heating system upgrade was completed in late 2007. This phase began in December of 2006 and the new boilers were brought online in April of 2007. Phase I included