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County-Wide Resource Efficiency Project 2 June 15, 2009 For participating jurisdictions, the Green Packages program will deliver: • Retrofit standards and product specifications for single-family residences; • Collateral marketing materials for consumers in each jurisdiction; • Community specific audits and targeting; • Training for local installers and building inspectors; • Verification procedures, tracking and reporting; and • Participation in the Technical Advisory Group; • Joint-application for competitive funding from state, federal and other sources. The Green Packages project is not a proposal for a loan program such as that being circulated by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and California Communities. Rather, this proposal would provide aready-to-implement technical basis for the loan programs that our jurisdictions in Alameda County may undertake in the future. StopWaste.Org has been an established leader in promoting green building and landscape practices in Alameda County. They developed green building guidelines in 2000 that are suited to residential development, which have served as an educational tool for City staff, builders and homeowners. A companion program called GreenPoint Rated, implemented by the non-profit Build It Green, allows builders to track the green features of their projects. StopWaste.Org has also developed Bay-Friendly Landscaping guidelines which establish a "whole systems" approach to landscape design, construction and maintenance, in order to reduce plant debris, conserve water, minimize runoff and pollution, thus decreasing the impact on the San Francisco Bay watershed. These two programs were endorsed by a Council resolution in February 2006. The Green Packages program is intended to maximize the long-term benefits from the federal stimulus distributions to Alameda County jurisdictions. Participating jurisdictions will contribute a portion of their Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (stimulus funding) to create Green Packages. The original cost-sharing plan, presented at the April 8, 2009 Mayor's Conference, proposed a $130,000 contribution from Stopwaste.Org with most cities contributing four percent of their Block Grant allocation. Staff is recommending the use of EECBG funds to fulfill half of this commitment, with the other portion coming from Measure D funds. The City receives Measure D Block Grant funding from the Alameda County Waste Management Authority (aka Stopwaste.org) each year. The funding is derived from a fee placed on all waste that goes to the two county landfills from Alameda County jurisdictions. The funding must be used on diversion programs as outlined in the Alameda County Source Reduction and Recycling Plan which includes activities related to Green Building. The resolution would authorize the City Manager to enter into acost-sharing agreement with Stopwaste.Org to participate in the Green Packages project. It is estimated that San Leandro's contribution would be approximately $26,700, of which $13,350 will be allocated from the $732,000 EECBG monies, and $13,350 from Measure D. One of the primary purposes of pooling resources countywide is to increase competitiveness for additional funding. In addition to leveraging stimulus funds, the Green Packages project is estimated to create over 1,100 job-years in its first two years and over 74,000 job-years by 2020. Additionally, the Green Packages project is estimated to reduce carbon emissions by more than 46,000 tons in its first two years, and over 3 million tons by 2020.