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December 29, 2009 Section 7: Implementation <br />7. Implementation <br />The preceding chapters describe the principal sources of the City of San Leandro's greenhouse <br />gas emissions and outline related goals and possible actions for achieving the community's <br />target of reducing emissions to 25 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The San Leandro <br />community, City staff and expert input went into developing the content of these chapters, but <br />the most important component of San Leandro's climate action effort is implementing the <br />actions described. <br />Although significant GHG reduction policies and initiatives are already in place, the actions <br />proposed in this plan, by necessity, far surpass the scale of existing efforts. Implementing the <br />plan and ensuring that it results in real, additional GHG emissions reductions will require <br />increased coordination across sectors and institutionalizing climate protection efforts across the <br />community. <br />The large number of measures and programs recommended in this plan will take many years to <br />implement, given limitations in both staff time and funding. Acost-benefit analysis and <br />prioritization methodology is presented below to assist the City in developing a phased <br />implementation plan. The cost-benefit analysis is based on a subset of the measures previously <br />detailed in this plan. These measures were selected by the San Leandro Climate Protection <br />Task Force as warranting further research on costs and magnitude of GHG reduction potential, <br />in order to determine near-term action. <br />This chapter outlines the main components of the process far turning this plan into action and <br />identifies specific actions from earlier chapters that are recommended for short-term <br />implementation (i.e. by the end of 2012). <br />7.1 Cost-Benefit Analysis <br />In collaboration with the San Leandro Climate Protection Task Force, 26 actions were selected <br />for cost-benefit analysis, from the full list of over 80 implementing actions that were presented in <br />the preceding chapters. <br />For the cost-benefit analysis, costs for implementation, agencies responsible for implementation <br />and the potential greenhouse gas emissions benefit were estimated. Based on this information, <br />the measures are scored for the relative environmental and economic impacts of each measure. <br />The measures were also scored on ease of implementation to prioritize near-term actions. The <br />Page 55 <br />