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Worksession on Draft Climate Action Plan 2 November 9, 2009 community input by conducting a Climate Action Survey both with the homeowner associations and business groups as well as on line through the City website. The City has also continued working with the Alameda County Climate Protection Project and Alameda County Waste Management Authority (StopWaste.org) on region-wide efforts. Most recently, this has involved work on a proposal to create an Alameda County-based municipal financing program and the residential energy efficiency retrofit technical program called Green Packages. DRAFT CLIMATE ACTION PLAN Since January 2009, the Task Force has been meeting on a regular basis to develop the proposed programs that are contained in the Draft CAP. The draft encompasses programs from several City departments, including the City Manager's Office, Public Works, Engineering, Community Development, Finance, and other City staff. The energy consulting firm, KEMA, began work on the CAP in May 2009. They presented a draft set of GHG reduction goals and measures to the Task Force in July 2009. Then, they performed a cost benefit analysis for those measures that were deemed to be both feasible and effective, which was reviewed by the Task Force in September 2009. Finally, the draft CAP was presented to the Task Force in October. The draft being reviewed in this worksession has been reviewed and commented on by the full Task Force. Public outreach will continue with the posting of the draft CAP on the website after this worksession and additional outreach to community groups as time allows. The Climate Action Survey, which has been on the City website since June 2009, will continue to be monitored for responses. During the first month that it was posted, 200 responses were collected; since June, the response rate has slowed considerably (30 responses from July 2009 to date), but the survey remains available both as a method to collect public opinion and as an educational tool. A copy of the survey is attached to this report. With the imminent adoption of the Climate Action Plan slated for December 2009, the City will have completed the third of the five-step ICLEI process for Climate Action. The next two steps, Implementation and MonitoringlProgress, will be ongoing now and for the foreseeable future. One main effort related to Implementation is the upcoming grant proposal to the Department of Energy, for funding from the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant. The measures that will be reviewed by City Council in early December were analyzed within the Cost Benefit Analysis that forms part of the attached draft CAP. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION Since the adoption of the Climate Action goals in February 2007, the City has embarked upon a myriad of environmentally sustainable actions and programs as well as continued a number of