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Climate Action Plan 3 December 21, 2009 The CAP lays out reduction policies to address each of the areas of emissions identified in the January 2007 inventory. Chapter 1, Introduction, outlines a series of background data on climate change and is derived from the Global Change Impacts in the United States, a report by a federal task force led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Chapter 2, Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Forecast, delineates the results of San Leandro's emissions inventory. Chapters 3 to 6 present the goals and policies that the City is proposing to reduce emissions in: • Chapter 3: Building Energy Use • Chapter 4: Transportation and Land Use • Chapter 5: Waste Reduction and Recycling • Chapter 6: Municipal Operations These core chapters form the framework for developing future actions both for municipal programs as well as programs for the San Leandro community. Chapter 7, Implementation, lays out the roadmap for near-, medium-, and longer-term action and methods for monitoring progress. Finally, Chapter 8, Funding Sources, provides a list of federal, state, and local sources to finance many of the efforts. Comments on the draft CAP, received from City Council members and Planning Commissioners, as well as from the public, during the work sessions have been compiled and responses made (see attached summaries.) Staff has made changes to the draft CAP in response to these comments. Responses to the comments are also provided in the attached summary. Staff recommends that the City Council review and adopt the attached Climate Action Plan. With its adoption, the City will have completed the third of the five-step ICLEI process for Climate Action. The CAP is a living document that will provide a general guideline for future programs and policies. It is an intermediary document, based on General Plan policies but also providing a basis for further development of ordinances that will be brought before the City Council. Milestone 4 -Implementation Implementation of the programs and policies in the CAP has been ongoing and will continue for the foreseeable future. Staff will be developing an Implementation Plan from the programs listed in the CAP. Staff proposes to have regular updates to the City Council on programs already implemented as well as presentation of a Sustainability Work Plan, in order to receive direction on priorities for implementation on an annual basis. The City has also continued working with the Alameda County Climate Protection Project and with 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. Both of these efforts have coalesced around programs eligible for funding under the State of California Energy Commission's State Energy Program (SEP). In December, the City will request its allocation of funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency Block Grant (EECBG) to finance a series of municipal building retrofits, a residential do-it-yourself home performance program, a revolving loan program, as well as contributions toward the before-mentioned StopWaste.Org Green Packages.