[Captioner] 19:00:21 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:00:25 ROLL CALL, PLEASE. [Captioner] 19:00:29 >> Ms. Gauthier: COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN, PRESENT. [Captioner] 19:00:33 COUNCILMEMBER SHAO, PRESENT. COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN, [Captioner] 19:00:35 HERE. COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL, HERE. [Captioner] 19:00:39 COUNCILMEMBER KENG, HERE. VICE MAYOR COX, HERE. [Captioner] 19:00:42 MAYOR MEI, HERE. >> Mayor Mei: AND AT [Captioner] 19:00:45 THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO SHARE THERE ARE VACANCIES ON OUR BOARDS AND [Captioner] 19:00:47 COMMISSIONS. THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE ACCEPTS [Captioner] 19:00:50 APPLICATIONS FOR ALL BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, AND [Captioner] 19:00:53 IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN APPLYING, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT [Captioner] 19:00:58 FREMONT.GOV, AND ON THE COMMISSIONS, BOARDS, COMMITTEES PAGE [Captioner] 19:01:01 ON OUR WEBSITE, OR PLEASE CONTACT THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE [Captioner] 19:01:05 AT 510-284-4060. MEMBERS OF [Captioner] 19:01:09 THE PUBLIC WISHING TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS EVENING'S MEETING MAY DO [Captioner] 19:01:13 SO BY -- DURING PUBLIC COMMENT BY CLICKING [Captioner] 19:01:16 ON THE RAISE HAND ICON, AND IF YOU'RE CALLING [Captioner] 19:01:18 IN, DIALING IN, BY PRESSING STAR NINE. [Captioner] 19:01:20 I'LL MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT BEFORE EACH SECTION OF THE AGENDA. [Captioner] 19:01:26 IF NOT NOTED ON THE ZOOM SCREEN, KINDLY STATE YOUR NAME AND [Captioner] 19:01:29 IF SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF AN ORGANIZATION, STATE YOUR NAME THE [Captioner] 19:01:32 ORGANIZATION YOU'RE REPRESENTING. [Captioner] 19:01:36 EMAILS ARE PUBLISHED ON THE CITY [Captioner] 19:01:39 AGENDA CENTER ON FREMONT.GOV AND WILL BE PLACED [Captioner] 19:01:41 ON FILE AND CONSIDERED PART OF THE PUBLIC RECORD. [Captioner] 19:01:44 I WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THAT THIS MEETING WILL GO UP UNTIL [Captioner] 19:01:47 11:30 P.M. THIS EVENING IF NEEDED AND WE'LL ALLOW FOR 30 MINUTES OF GENERAL [Captioner] 19:01:50 PUBLIC COMMENT. IF THERE ARE ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS FOR [Captioner] 19:01:54 ORAL COMMUNICATIONS AFTER THE INITIAL 30 MINUTES, THOSE WILL BE TAKEN AT THE [Captioner] 19:01:57 END OF THE MEETING IF TIME REMAINS. I WILL NOW TURN [Captioner] 19:02:00 THE MEETING OVER TO OUR CITY MANAGER, KARENA [Captioner] 19:02:03 SHACKELFORD, WHO WOULD MAKE ANNOUNCEMENTS AND INTRODUCE [Captioner] 19:02:04 HER STAFF AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:02:07 >> City Mgr. Shackelford: ALL RIGHT, WELL, THANK YOU, MADAME MAYOR. [Captioner] 19:02:10 YEAH, NO ANNOUNCEMENTS TODAY, [Captioner] 19:02:14 BUT IT IS MY PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE MY COLLEAGUES, RAFAEL [Captioner] 19:02:18 ALVARADO, CITY ATTORNEY, CITY CLERK, SUSAN [Captioner] 19:02:21 GAUTHIER, AND ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, [Captioner] 19:02:25 ALBERTO QUINTANILLA. SO THANK [Captioner] 19:02:28 YOU, AND GOOD TO BE HERE WITH YOU AND [Captioner] 19:02:29 THE COUNCILMEMBERS. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:02:32 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. DOES THE CITY ATTORNEY HAVE A REPORT [Captioner] 19:02:35 OUT FROM CLOSED SESSION? FROM THIS EVENING? [Captioner] 19:02:37 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: YES, MAYOR, THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:02:40 GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. IN CLOSED SESSION THE COUNCIL [Captioner] 19:02:43 DISCUSSED TWO ITEMS, BOTH ITEMS WERE CONFERENCE WITH LABOR [Captioner] 19:02:47 NEGOTIATORS PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE [Captioner] 19:02:51 54957.6 FOR THE TWO UNREPRESENTED EMPLOYEES LISTED ON THE AGENDA, [Captioner] 19:02:54 CITY MANAGER AND CITY ATTORNEY. THE COUNCIL PROVIDED STAFF DIRECTION [Captioner] 19:02:56 BUT TOOK NO REPORTABLE ACTION. THANK YOU, MAYOR. [Captioner] 19:02:59 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. AND AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE [Captioner] 19:03:03 TO PRESENT THE CONSENT CALENDAR. THOSE ARE ITEMS THAT WILL BE PASSED [Captioner] 19:03:05 WITH ONE COUNCIL VOTE AND THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION WILL STAND. [Captioner] 19:03:08 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WISHING TO COMMENT ON A CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM [Captioner] 19:03:12 MAY DO SO NOW BY PRESSING RAISING THEIR HAND OR [Captioner] 19:03:15 CLICKING THE RAISE HAND ICON OR IF BY CALLING IN, DIALING [Captioner] 19:03:18 STAR NINE. OR IF YOU HAVE ANY SPEAKER CARDS. [Captioner] 19:03:22 DOES THE CITY CLERK HAVE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH [Captioner] 19:03:25 TO REMOVE OR ADDRESS AN ITEM ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR? [Captioner] 19:03:27 >> Ms. Gauthier: THERE ARE NO SPEAKERS AT THIS TIME. [Captioner] 19:03:31 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:03:35 AS A REMINDER, ITEMS PULLED FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR WILL BE HEARD [Captioner] 19:03:39 AFTER THE AGENDA ITEM FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS AT THAT TIME. [Captioner] 19:03:42 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE PUBLIC [Captioner] 19:03:45 COMMENT. ARE THERE ANY ITEMS THAT THE COUNCIL [Captioner] 19:03:46 WOULD LIKE TO PULL FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR? [Captioner] 19:03:52 OR ADDRESS? COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 19:03:54 CAMPBELL, DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING YOU'D LIKE TO ADDRESS? [Captioner] 19:03:57 >> Councilmember Campbell: I JUST WANTED TO ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THE [Captioner] 19:04:00 GREEN SHEET. THAT WAS PROVIDED FOR THE [Captioner] 19:04:03 MINUTES. WOULD THAT BE PART OF THE MOTION? [Captioner] 19:04:06 >> Mayor Mei: YOU CAN ASK FOR THAT CLARIFICATION. [Captioner] 19:04:10 BECAUSE I THINK WE ALL NOTE THAT, YES. >> Councilmember Campbell: OKAY. [Captioner] 19:04:13 THEN I'D LIKE TO MOVE TO [Captioner] 19:04:15 APPROVE WITH THE GREEN SHEET, PLEASE. >> Mayor Mei: OKAY. [Captioner] 19:04:21 SORRY, GO AHEAD. MOVED BY COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 19:04:23 CAMPBELL AND SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER COX. [Captioner] 19:04:27 OR VICE MAYOR COX. PLEASE VOTE. [Captioner] 19:04:41 THE CONSENT CALENDAR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. [Captioner] 19:04:45 NEXT IS ORAL COMMUNICATIONS. PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS ARE A [Captioner] 19:04:49 TIME WHERE ANY PERSON DESIRING TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM THAT'S NOT SCHEDULED [Captioner] 19:04:52 ON THE AGENDA THIS EVENING MAY DO SO UNDER [Captioner] 19:04:55 ORAL COMMUNICATIONS SECTION OF PUBLIC COMMENTS. [Captioner] 19:04:59 COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED VIA EMAIL WILL BE PLACED ON FILE AND CONSIDERED [Captioner] 19:05:02 OF PUBLIC RECORD. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WISHING TO DO [Captioner] 19:05:05 SO, IF YOU'RE ON ZOOM BY PRESSING THE RAISE HAND ICON OR BY DIALING IN, [Captioner] 19:05:08 PRESSING STAR NINE. AGAIN IF NOT NOTED ON [Captioner] 19:05:12 ZOOM, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME, IF IT'S NOT NOTED ON THE [Captioner] 19:05:14 ZOOM SCREEN, AND WHEN SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE ORGANIZATION, PLEASE [Captioner] 19:05:17 STATE YOUR NAME THE ORGANIZATION. [Captioner] 19:05:24 I JUST WAS CHECKING TO SEE, DO WE HAVE ANY SPEAKERS AT THIS TIME, BOTH IN [Captioner] 19:05:27 THE ROOM AND ALSO ON THE ZOOM [Captioner] 19:05:30 ? >> Ms. Gauthier: THERE ARE NO SPEAKERS [Captioner] 19:05:33 ON ZOOM. MR. ABREU JUST TURNED IN A CARD. [Captioner] 19:05:37 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:05:42 WELCOME. [Captioner] 19:05:49 >> SO PREVIOUSLY I MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT [Captioner] 19:05:52 THE FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE CITY OF FREMONT [Captioner] 19:05:56 . [Captioner] 19:05:59 THE REPORTS SHOW FREMONT'S SHARE OF THE COUNTYWIDE POOL [Captioner] 19:06:02 FOR SALES AND USE TAX, COUNTYWIDE POOL, THAT'S THE KEY PHRASE, OVER [Captioner] 19:06:05 THE LAST 10 YEARS INCREASED FROM [Captioner] 19:06:08 14% OF THE POOL TO 27%. [Captioner] 19:06:14 AND FREMONT'S SHARE OF THE COUNTY-WIDE POPULATION IS [Captioner] 19:06:18 ABOUT 14%. SO FREMONT SEEMS TO BE [Captioner] 19:06:21 OUTPERFORMING THE COUNTYWIDE POOL. [Captioner] 19:06:25 THE CITY HAS ASCRIBED ITS [Captioner] 19:06:29 OUTPERFORMANCE TO VOLATILE NEW AUTO SALES [Captioner] 19:06:32 TAX CATEGORY, WHICH IS A 1% SALES AND USE TAX. [Captioner] 19:06:35 THE CITY SAYS THE NEW AUTO SPIKE CAUSED A CORRESPONDING SPIKE [Captioner] 19:06:38 IN COUNTY POOL ALLOCATION, AND ALSO NOTES THAT, QUOTE, [Captioner] 19:06:42 CONTINUING STRONG GROWTH IN SALES TAX FROM NEW AUTO SALES, END [Captioner] 19:06:45 QUOTE. HOWEVER, OTHER CITIES HAVEN'T HAD A [Captioner] 19:06:47 CORRESPONDING SPIKE IN THE NEW AUTO SALES. [Captioner] 19:06:52 AND THE VOLATILITY EXPLANATION IS DIFFICULT [Captioner] 19:06:55 TO UNDERSTAND. IF YOU PULL OUT YOUR [Captioner] 19:06:59 CALCULATOR, YOU'LL NOTE THAT A 1% [Captioner] 19:07:03 TAX WOULD -- ON $38 MILLION, WHICH IS THE [Captioner] 19:07:08 UNEXPECTED OVERAGE IN THE REVENUES, THAT WOULD [Captioner] 19:07:11 CORRESPOND TO GROSS SALES OF $3.8 BILLION. [Captioner] 19:07:18 AND NEW AUTOS ARE SELLING FOR ABOUT $48,000 A PIECE. [Captioner] 19:07:22 SO THAT WOULD BE ABOUT 77,000 NEW AUTOS IN [Captioner] 19:07:25 A ONE-YEAR PERIOD. NOW, THE [Captioner] 19:07:28 NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS IN FREMONT IS ABOUT 75,000. [Captioner] 19:07:32 SO THAT MEANS ONE NEW AUTO FOR [Captioner] 19:07:36 EVERY SINGLE HOUSEHOLD IN THE CITY. [Captioner] 19:07:39 IT'S JUST DIFFICULT TO SWALLOW. AND I REALLY DON'T [Captioner] 19:07:43 THINK THAT THE HOUSEHOLDS IN FREMONT HAVE THE CAPACITY [Captioner] 19:07:47 TO ABSORB THAT MANY NEW CARS. [Captioner] 19:07:51 AND CALIFORNIA HAS A POPULATION OF 39 MILLION, IT [Captioner] 19:07:54 PURCHASED 1.7 MILLION CARS LAST YEAR, SO FREMONT, WE'RE IN LINE WITH THE [Captioner] 19:07:57 STATE AVERAGE, THEN YOU WOULD EXPECT ABOUT 10,000 NEW CARS IN FREMONT. [Captioner] 19:08:02 SO THESE ARE JUST -- YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 19:08:05 SANITY CHECKING ON THE NUMBERS. AND THE NUMBERS DON'T [Captioner] 19:08:08 PASS THE SMELL TEST. [Captioner] 19:08:12 NEW CAR SALES CANNOT -- NO AMOUNT OF [Captioner] 19:08:16 VOLATILITY THERE IS GOING TO [Captioner] 19:08:19 PRODUCE $3.8 BILLION [Captioner] 19:08:23 IN OVERAGE IN EXCESSIVE REVENUE, UNEXPECTED REVENUE. [Captioner] 19:08:26 SO THE REAL CAUSE IS ELSEWHERE [Captioner] 19:08:29 , AND I REALLY THINK THAT [Captioner] 19:08:33 YOUR ACCOUNTANTS AND YOUR POLITICIANS [Captioner] 19:08:36 HERE TODAY NEED TO TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT THIS AND THINK [Captioner] 19:08:39 ABOUT THESE ISSUES. NEW CAR SALES ARE NOT THE [Captioner] 19:08:40 CAUSE OF THE SPIKE. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:08:49 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. ARE THERE ANY OTHER [Captioner] 19:08:53 SPEAKERS? [Captioner] 19:09:02 OKAY. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:09:05 AT THIS TIME, I WILL CLOSE PUBLIC [Captioner] 19:09:09 COMMUNICATIONS. AND WE'LL RETURN TO [Captioner] 19:09:12 OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED ITEMS. AND WE'LL BEGIN [Captioner] 19:09:16 WITH ITEM 5A, WHICH IS A PUBLIC HEARING [Captioner] 19:09:19 FOR THE 2023 ACCESSORY DWELLING [Captioner] 19:09:21 UNIT ZONING, AND IT'S A TEXT AMENDMENT. [Captioner] 19:09:24 AND WE HAVE ASSOCIATE [Captioner] 19:09:28 PLANNER [Captioner] 19:09:32 MAYANK PATEL WHO WILL I PROVIDING US [Captioner] 19:09:35 A PRESENTATION ALONG WITH -- JOINED BY WAYLAND. [Captioner] 19:09:39 I SEE HIM THERE SO I'M LIKE I'M PRETTY [Captioner] 19:09:42 SURE. I I WANT [Captioner] 19:09:45 I WASN'T SURE [Captioner] 19:09:47 IF HE WAS HIDING. SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR [Captioner] 19:09:48 PRESENTATION AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:09:58 WELCOME, [Captioner] 19:10:03 MAYANK. >> THANK YOU, MAYOR, AND GOOD EVENING, [Captioner] 19:10:06 CITY COUNCILMEMBERS. TONIGHT YOU WILL CONSIDER TEXT [Captioner] 19:10:09 AMENDMENTS TO THE FREMONT MUNICIPAL CODE, OR [Captioner] 19:10:12 FMC. PRIMARILY THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS [Captioner] 19:10:15 INVOLVE REPEALING AND REPLACING THE CITY'S CURRENT [Captioner] 19:10:19 ADU ORDINANCE. STAFF HAS ALSO PROPOSED ANCILLARY [Captioner] 19:10:22 CHANGES TO OTHER PARTS OF THE FMC TO ENSURE [Captioner] 19:10:25 INTERNAL CONSISTENCY AS THOSE CHANGES RELATE TO [Captioner] 19:10:29 THE CITY'S ADU ORDINANCE. THE [Captioner] 19:10:31 AMENDMENTS ARE PROPOSED FOR TWO REASONS. [Captioner] 19:10:34 FIRST, TO IMPLEMENT THE CITY'S HOUSING [Captioner] 19:10:38 ELEMENT, AND SECOND, TO IMPLEMENT CHANGES IN STATE LAW. [Captioner] 19:10:46 EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE STATE DEPARTMENT [Captioner] 19:10:49 ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [Captioner] 19:10:53 APPROVED THE CITY'S SIX-CYCLE HOUSING ELEMENT, WHICH COVERS THE [Captioner] 19:10:56 EIGHT-YEAR PLANNING PERIOD FROM 2023 TO 2031. [Captioner] 19:11:00 AS OUTLINED IN THE HOUSING ELEMENT, A KEY COMPONENT OF [Captioner] 19:11:04 THE CITY'S STRATEGY FOR MEETING ITS FUTURE HOUSING NEEDS IS [Captioner] 19:11:07 TO ENCOURAGE THE PRODUCTION OF ADUs. [Captioner] 19:11:11 SPECIFICALLY, IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM 31 OF THE HOUSING [Captioner] 19:11:15 ELEMENT CALLS FOR AMENDING THE CITY'S [Captioner] 19:11:18 EXISTING ADU ORDINANCE TO ELIMINATE UNNECESSARY DEVELOPMENT [Captioner] 19:11:21 STANDARDS AND MAKE OTHER AMENDMENTS THAT WOULD FACILITATE [Captioner] 19:11:25 THE PRODUCTION OF ADUs. THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS [Captioner] 19:11:27 ARE DRAFTED WITH THIS COMMITMENT IN MIND. [Captioner] 19:11:32 SIMILARLY, THE STATE LEGISLATURE HAS ALSO MADE ITS [Captioner] 19:11:36 INTENT CLEAR, WHICH IS TO ADDRESS BARRIERS, [Captioner] 19:11:39 STREAMLINE APPROVAL, AND EXPAND POTENTIAL CAPACITY [Captioner] 19:11:42 FOR ADUs. THE LEGISLATURE'S INTENT HAS BEEN [Captioner] 19:11:46 SPELLED OUT IN VARIOUS BILLS THAT HAVE COME -- THAT HAVE BECOME LAW OVER [Captioner] 19:11:49 THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS. [Captioner] 19:12:02 SO IN OTHER WORDS, CALIFORNIA REGULATORS SEE ADUs AS [Captioner] 19:12:05 A POSSIBLE ANSWER TO THE STATE'S HOUSING CRISIS, AND THE LAWS [Captioner] 19:12:08 THAT HAVE RECENTLY COME BEFORE [Captioner] 19:12:12 US ARE BEFORE US AND MAY SOON BE BEFORE US, [Captioner] 19:12:15 ARE DESIGNED TO ENSURE THAT ADUs ARE PART OF THE SOLUTION [Captioner] 19:12:18 TO THE PROBLEM OF HOUSING. THIS IS [Captioner] 19:12:22 EVIDENCED AS STATE ADU LAW HAS EVOLVED OVER THE [Captioner] 19:12:25 YEARS TO LIFT REGULATIONS THAT MAY OTHERWISE [Captioner] 19:12:28 LIMIT ADU SIZE, LOCATION, ZONE, [Captioner] 19:12:32 AND OTHER DEVELOPMENT CAPACITIES. [Captioner] 19:12:35 AS REGULATIONS HAVE EASED AND FLEXIBILITY HAS INCREASED, [Captioner] 19:12:37 THE PRODUCTION OF ADUs HAS ALSO INCREASED. [Captioner] 19:12:41 THIS POSITIVE CORRELATION IS TRUE AT THE STATE AND LOCAL [Captioner] 19:12:45 LEVEL. AS YOU MAY RECALL FROM [Captioner] 19:12:48 THE 2022 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT [Captioner] 19:12:52 , 149 ADUs WERE PERMITTED IN 2022, WHICH [Captioner] 19:12:55 IS NEARLY TWICE AS MANY FROM 2021, AND [Captioner] 19:12:58 ABOUT FIVE TIMES AS MANY FROM 2018. [Captioner] 19:13:08 TONIGHT'S CONSIDERATION IS NOT NEW IN THAT THE CITY HAS AMENDED ITS [Captioner] 19:13:11 ADU REGULATIONS MULTIPLE TIMES OVER THE YEARS [Captioner] 19:13:14 IN RESPONSE TO CHANGES IN STATE ADU LAW. [Captioner] 19:13:18 THE LAST SET OF CODE AMENDMENTS WERE CONSIDERED BY THIS BODY A LITTLE [Captioner] 19:13:21 OVER TWO YEARS AGO, AND ULTIMATELY ADOPTED BY [Captioner] 19:13:24 THE COUNCIL IN APRIL 2021. [Captioner] 19:13:28 THE 2021 AMENDMENTS CLARIFIED LOT COVERAGE, [Captioner] 19:13:31 REAR AND SIDE YARD ENCROACHMENTS, AND FIRST [Captioner] 19:13:33 TO SECOND STORY RATIO REQUIREMENTS FOR ADUs. [Captioner] 19:13:37 WITH RESPECT TO TONIGHT'S ITEM, THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS [Captioner] 19:13:39 WERE INFORMED BY THREE DIFFERENT EXERCISES. [Captioner] 19:13:43 THE FIRST WAS A CLOSE STUDY OF STATE LAW, OR CHANGES [Captioner] 19:13:47 THERETO. THE SECOND EXERCISE INVOLVED REVIEWING [Captioner] 19:13:51 RECENT LETTERS FROM HCD TO JURISDICTIONS THAT HAVE ADOPTED AN [Captioner] 19:13:54 ADU ORDINANCE. AND THE THIRD EXERCISE RELIED [Captioner] 19:13:58 ON REFERENCING HCD'S [Captioner] 19:14:00 ADU HANDBOOK FOR GUIDANCE AND INSIGHT WHERE THE STATE LAW WAS UNCLEAR. [Captioner] 19:14:04 STAFF BELIEVES THIS MULTIPRONGED [Captioner] 19:14:08 APPROACH HAS HELPED PRODUCE AN ORDINANCE THAT IS [Captioner] 19:14:11 COMPLIANT WITH STATE LAW. [Captioner] 19:14:16 SINCE THE 2021 ADU ORDINANCE UPDATE, A [Captioner] 19:14:19 COUPLE OF NEW BILLS WENT INTO EFFECT. THE [Captioner] 19:14:22 MAIN ONES BEING ASSEMBLY BILL [Captioner] 19:14:27 2221 AND SENATE BILL 897. [Captioner] 19:14:30 THE BILLS IMPOSE ADDITIONAL PROCESSING REQUIREMENTS AT THE [Captioner] 19:14:33 LOCAL LEVEL, AND ARE INTENDED TO CLARIFY AMBIGUITIES [Captioner] 19:14:36 IN EXISTING REGULATIONS. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT [Captioner] 19:14:40 PROVISIONS OF THESE TWO BILLS MAKE CHANGES IN THE [Captioner] 19:14:43 DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO ADUs BY REQUIRING [Captioner] 19:14:46 CITIES TO ALLOW ADUs TO BE TALLER [Captioner] 19:14:49 AND BE LOCATED CLOSER TO THE FRONT PROPERTY [Captioner] 19:14:53 LINE. [Captioner] 19:15:00 THIS SLIDE NOTES ALL OF THE FM C-SECTIONS THAT ARE AFFECTED [Captioner] 19:15:03 BY THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS. AS [Captioner] 19:15:06 PART OF THIS LIST, THE AMENDMENTS HAVE BEEN CATEGORIZED [Captioner] 19:15:09 INTO THREE CATEGORIES. THE FIRST CATEGORY INCLUDES [Captioner] 19:15:12 CLARIFICATIONS AND/OR CORRECTIONS TO PARTS OF THE FMC [Captioner] 19:15:16 THAT MAKE REFERENCE TO ADUs [Captioner] 19:15:19 OR JADUs. THE [Captioner] 19:15:22 SECOND CATEGORY INCLUDES MINOR CHANGES TO REFLECT PROPOSED ADU ORDINANCE AND [Captioner] 19:15:26 THE THIRD CATEGORY INCLUDES MAJOR CHANGES, WHICH INVOLVES SUBSTANTIAL [Captioner] 19:15:28 UPDATES AND RESTRUCTURING OF THE ORDINANCE. [Captioner] 19:15:33 SO AS YOU'LL NOTE, THE ONLY MAJOR CHANGE TO THE EXISTING [Captioner] 19:15:37 ADU ORDINANCE -- THE ONLY MAJOR CHANGE IS TO THE [Captioner] 19:15:40 EXISTING ADU ORDINANCE, BECAUSE STAFF IS RECOMMENDING THAT IT BE [Captioner] 19:15:44 REPEALED AND REPLACED. [Captioner] 19:16:00 THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE KEY STANDARDS OR REGULATIONS AS [Captioner] 19:16:03 THEY PERTAIN TO ADUs AND [Captioner] 19:16:07 JADUs, STARTING WITH LOCATION, ADUs ARE [Captioner] 19:16:10 PERMITTED IN ANY RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT, WHEREAS [Captioner] 19:16:13 JADUs ARE ONLY ALLOWED ON LOTS ZONED FOR SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL. [Captioner] 19:16:16 THIS IS NOT A CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS REQUIREMENTS. [Captioner] 19:16:21 MOVING ON TO THE SIZE, ADUs CAN [Captioner] 19:16:24 VARY, DEPENDING ON -- SORRY. THE SIZE OF ADUs CAN [Captioner] 19:16:27 VARY, DEPENDING ON WHETHER THE ADU IS A CONVERSION OF [Captioner] 19:16:31 EXISTING SPACE, ATTACHED TO THE PRIMARY DWELLING, [Captioner] 19:16:34 OR DETACHED FROM THE PRIMARY DWELLING. [Captioner] 19:16:37 THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS WOULD ALLOW AN UNATTACHED ADU TO BE [Captioner] 19:16:41 A MAXIMUM OF 1,000 SQUARE FEET, AND A [Captioner] 19:16:44 DETACHED ADU TO BE A MAXIMUM OF 1200 SQUARE [Captioner] 19:16:48 FEET, REGARDLESS OF LOT SIZE, TO COMPLY WITH STATE [Captioner] 19:16:51 LAW. [Captioner] 19:16:55 JADUs ON THE OTHER HAND WOULD BE LIMITED TO A MAXIMUM [Captioner] 19:16:57 OF 500 SQUARE FEET. AGAIN, THIS IS NOT A CHANGE FROM [Captioner] 19:17:01 PREVIOUS REQUIREMENTS. WITH RESPECT TO [Captioner] 19:17:04 SETBACKS, ADUs ARE SUBJECT TO A 4-FOOT SIDE AND [Captioner] 19:17:07 REAR YARD SETBACK, AND AS MENTIONED EARLIER, UNDER NEW [Captioner] 19:17:10 STATE LAW, CERTAIN ADUs COULD BE [Captioner] 19:17:14 LOCATED IN THE FRONT YARD. BECAUSE [Captioner] 19:17:17 JADUs HAVE TO BE WITHIN THE WALLS OF A PRIMARY HOME, THEY WOULD [Captioner] 19:17:21 BE SUBJECT TO THE UNDERLYING SETBACKS REQUIRED FOR THE PRIMARY [Captioner] 19:17:24 RESIDENCE. LIKE THE [Captioner] 19:17:27 SIZE UNDER NEW STATE LAW, [Captioner] 19:17:30 ADU HEIGHT CAN ALSO VARY ANYWHERE FROM 16 TO 30 FEET. [Captioner] 19:17:33 THE HEIGHT ALLOWANCE DEPENDS ON, [Captioner] 19:17:37 ONE, THE TYPE OF ADU, AND TWO, [Captioner] 19:17:39 PROXIMITY TO MAJOR TRANSIT AS DEFINED BY STATE LAW. [Captioner] 19:17:45 AGAIN, BECAUSE JADUs NEED TO BE PART OF THE PRIMARY HOME, [Captioner] 19:17:47 THEY ARE NOT AFFORDED DIFFERENT HEIGHT STANDARDS. [Captioner] 19:17:56 LASTLY, AS INFORMED BY STATE LAW, ADUs WOULD NOT BE REQUIRED [Captioner] 19:18:00 TO PROVIDE ON-SITE PARKING UNDER THE PROPOSED [Captioner] 19:18:04 AMENDMENTS. ONE ADDITIONAL NOTE HERE THAT'S [Captioner] 19:18:07 NOT REPRESENTED ON THE SCREEN, BECAUSE IT'S NOT A STANDARD, BUT I WOULD [Captioner] 19:18:10 LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT ADUs DID NOT [Captioner] 19:18:13 REQUIRE OWNER OCCUPANCY OR DEED RESTRICTION. [Captioner] 19:18:17 HOWEVER, UNDER STATE LAW, JADUs DO [Captioner] 19:18:20 REQUIRE OWNER OCCUPANCY, AND ARE REQUIRED TO [Captioner] 19:18:23 PROVIDE A DEED RESTRICTION TO THE CITY PROHIBITING THE [Captioner] 19:18:26 SEPARATE SALE OF THAT UNIT FROM THE PRIMARY RESIDENCE. [Captioner] 19:18:36 WITH THAT BEING THE SUMMARY OF CHANGES, STAFF RECOMMENDS THAT THE [Captioner] 19:18:39 CITY COUNCIL FIND THAT THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS ARE [Captioner] 19:18:43 EXEMPT FROM THE REQUIREMENTS OF CEQA, CONSISTENT WITH THE GENERAL [Captioner] 19:18:47 PLAN, AND FURTHER THE PUBLIC INTEREST, [Captioner] 19:18:50 CONVENIENCE, AND GENERAL WELFARE OF THE CITY, ENSURING CONSISTENCY [Captioner] 19:18:54 BETWEEN THE FMC, THE CITY'S GENERAL PLAN, AND STATE [Captioner] 19:18:57 LAW. AND RECOMMEND THAT [Captioner] 19:19:01 THE CITY COUNCIL INTRODUCE AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AMENDMENTS [Captioner] 19:19:05 TO THE -- TO FMC TITLES 9 AND 18. [Captioner] 19:19:15 SHOULD THE CITY COUNCIL ADOPT THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE, THE CITY WILL NEED [Captioner] 19:19:18 TO SUBMIT A COPY OF ITS ADU ORDINANCE [Captioner] 19:19:21 TO HCD WITHIN 60 DAYS AFTER [Captioner] 19:19:24 ADOPTION. IN CLOSING, I WOULD [Captioner] 19:19:27 LIKE TO SHARE THAT THERE ARE ADDITIONAL ADU [Captioner] 19:19:30 BILLS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSIDERATION WITH THE STATE [Captioner] 19:19:33 LEGISLATURE. IF THESE BILLS COME TO PASS, THE CITY [Captioner] 19:19:36 WILL NEED TO UPDATE ITS ORDINANCE TO COMPLY WITH [Captioner] 19:19:39 THOSE CHANGES IN THE NOT SO DISTANT FUTURE. [Captioner] 19:19:43 ACCORDINGLY, STAFF WILL PREPARE AN AMENDMENT FOR THE CONSIDERATION BY [Captioner] 19:19:47 THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL [Captioner] 19:19:50 TO IMPLEMENT THOSE CHANGES. [Captioner] 19:19:57 THAT WILL CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS [Captioner] 19:19:59 YOU MAY HAVE. >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [Captioner] 19:20:03 I APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION AND JUST TO CLARIFY FOR THE AUDIENCE IN CASE [Captioner] 19:20:06 PEOPLE ARE WONDERING WHAT FMC IS, FREMONT [Captioner] 19:20:08 MUNICIPAL CODE. I THINK THAT'S BEEN STATED. [Captioner] 19:20:11 JUST IN CASE -- I KNOW THERE'S BEEN SOME REQUESTS IN THE PAST FROM MY [Captioner] 19:20:13 FELLOW COUNCIL TO MAKE SURE -- AND SAME WITH THE PUBLIC. [Captioner] 19:20:16 WE USE A LOT OF ACRONYMS. SO AT THIS TIME, I WANTED TO SEE, ARE [Captioner] 19:20:19 THERE ANY CLARIFYING QUESTIONS FROM THE COUNCILMEMBERS? [Captioner] 19:20:28 COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL? >> Councilmember Campbell: THANK YOU [Captioner] 19:20:30 FOR THE PRESENTATION. I DO HAVE ONE QUICK QUESTION. [Captioner] 19:20:35 THANKS FOR ANSWERING MY EARLIER [Captioner] 19:20:38 QUESTION VIA THE Q & A. BUT I DO HAVE [Captioner] 19:20:41 A QUESTION REGARDING -- IT'S [Captioner] 19:20:44 ON PAGE -- [Captioner] 19:20:47 UH-OH -- 7 OF 11 OF THE SLIDES, AND IT'S WITH PARKING. [Captioner] 19:20:51 IT'S ABOUT THE PARKING. IT SAYS, REQUIRED PARKING SPACES, [Captioner] 19:20:53 AND THEN -- AND IT SAYS TANDEM PARKING. [Captioner] 19:20:55 WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE TWO? [Captioner] 19:21:00 >> TANDEM PARKING IS WHEN YOU HAVE TWO [Captioner] 19:21:03 VEHICLES PARKED IN VERTICAL ALIGNMENT, ONE BEHIND [Captioner] 19:21:06 ANOTHER. THAT'S CALLED TANDEM PARKING. [Captioner] 19:21:14 >> Councilmember Campbell: OKAY, SO WHAT [Captioner] 19:21:16 DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE REQUIRED PARKING? [Captioner] 19:21:18 I'M JUST TRYING TO DRAW THE CONNECTION. [Captioner] 19:21:21 >> SURE. SO THERE IS ANOTHER SECTION [Captioner] 19:21:24 OUTSIDE OF THE CITY'S ADU [Captioner] 19:21:28 ORDINANCE, OUR PARKING REQUIREMENTS, OUR PARKING ORDINANCE THAT REFERENCES [Captioner] 19:21:31 PARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR ADUs. AND SO THAT WAS A [Captioner] 19:21:35 CLEAN-UP ITEM BECAUSE THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS DO NOT REQUIRE ANY PARKING [Captioner] 19:21:38 FOR ADUs, SO WE HAD TO TOUCH OTHER [Captioner] 19:21:41 AREAS OF THE CODE TO ELIMINATE THAT REQUIREMENT. [Captioner] 19:21:45 SO THAT'S THE CONNECTION THERE, IS ONLY [Captioner] 19:21:48 BY REFERENCE ONLY, BUT IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH [Captioner] 19:21:51 THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS. >> Councilmember Campbell: AND FOR THE [Captioner] 19:21:55 TANDEM PARKING, IT'S REMOVED ALL TOGETHER, SO THERE'S NO PARKING [Captioner] 19:21:58 REQUIREMENTS FOR EITHER THE JUNIOR ADUs [Captioner] 19:22:01 OR THE ADUs? >> JUNIOR ADUs ARE NOT SUBJECT TO [Captioner] 19:22:04 PARKING REQUIREMENTS. AGAIN, BECAUSE THEY ARE -- THEY HAVE [Captioner] 19:22:06 TO BE WHOLLY WITHIN THE PRIMARY RESIDENCE. [Captioner] 19:22:10 AND BASED ON STAFF'S UNDERSTANDING OF STATE [Captioner] 19:22:13 LAW, PARKING IS ALSO NOT REQUIRED FOR [Captioner] 19:22:16 ADUs. >> Councilmember Campbell: AND THEN [Captioner] 19:22:20 JUST A CLARIFYING QUESTION ON SOMETHING YOU SAID EARLIER ABOUT DEED [Captioner] 19:22:22 RESTRICTIONS. I THOUGHT IT APPLIED TO BOTH. [Captioner] 19:22:26 >> OUR CURRENT ORDINANCE REQUIRES A DEED RESTRICTION FOR [Captioner] 19:22:30 ADUs. AFTER STUDYING [Captioner] 19:22:33 THE STATE LEGISLATION MORE CLOSELY [Captioner] 19:22:36 , WE'VE REALIZED THAT A DEED RESTRICTION IS NOT REQUIRED [Captioner] 19:22:39 FOR THE ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT, HOWEVER, UNDER STATE [Captioner] 19:22:43 LAW, THE CITY IS REQUIRED TO HAVE [Captioner] 19:22:46 A DEED RESTRICTION OR HAVE [Captioner] 19:22:50 APPLICANTS PROVIDE A DEED RESTRICTION FOR JUNIOR [Captioner] 19:22:53 ADUs. >> Councilmember Campbell: BUT YOU [Captioner] 19:22:56 CAN'T SELL THE PROPERTY WITHOUT [Captioner] 19:23:00 SELLING THE ADUs WITH THE PROPERTY, SO WHY WOULDN'T IT BE DEEDED [Captioner] 19:23:03 TOGETHER? [Captioner] 19:23:06 >> I'M SORRY, COULD YOU CLARIFY YOUR QUESTION? [Captioner] 19:23:08 DEED IT TOGETHER -- >> Councilmember Campbell: RIGHT, SO I [Captioner] 19:23:12 HAVE A HOUSE AND I WANT TO BUILD AN ADU ON IT, NOT A [Captioner] 19:23:15 JUNIOR. AND IT BECOMES A PART OF [Captioner] 19:23:18 MY EXISTING PROPERTY. [Captioner] 19:23:22 AND THEN I DECIDE I WANT TO SELL IT. THEY BOTH HAVE TO BE [Captioner] 19:23:25 SOLD AT THE SAME TIME, SO DOES THE [Captioner] 19:23:28 -- DO YOU HAVE TO REDO THE DEED WHEN YOU ADD IT OR YOU DON'T? [Captioner] 19:23:32 >> SO LET ME TRY TO EXPLAIN THIS A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY. [Captioner] 19:23:36 >> Mayor Mei: MAY I ASK A FAVOR? IF YOU'RE NOT SPEAKING AT THIS TIME, [Captioner] 19:23:39 PLEASE MUTE YOUR MICS BECAUSE I KNOW THERE'S SOME SIDE NOISE, I'M NOT SURE [Captioner] 19:23:41 WHERE IT'S COMING FROM. SO IF YOU DON'T SEE THE RED LIGHT, IT [Captioner] 19:23:44 MEANS YOUR MIC IS NOT MUTED. THANKS. [Captioner] 19:23:47 I JUST DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT'S COMING FROM. [Captioner] 19:23:55 >> City Mgr. Shackelford: GO AHEAD, [Captioner] 19:23:56 MAYANK. >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:23:59 >> SO WITH RESPECT TO [Captioner] 19:24:03 THE DIFFERENT REQUIREMENTS UNDER GOVERNMENT CODE FOR ADUs AND [Captioner] 19:24:07 JUNIOR ADUs, THERE IS A LIST OF PROVISIONS THAT -- [Captioner] 19:24:10 OR REGULATIONS THAT NEED TO BE INCLUDED IN OUR ORDINANCE. [Captioner] 19:24:13 WITH RESPECT TO THE ADUs [Captioner] 19:24:16 , AND WE'RE JUST LIMITED TO THAT WHICH IS IN THE [Captioner] 19:24:20 STATUTE, SO THERE'S NOTHING IN THAT GOVERNMENT [Captioner] 19:24:24 CODE THAT SAYS, HEY, CITY, YOU HAVE TO [Captioner] 19:24:27 REQUIRE ADUs TO PROVIDE SOME SORT OF DEED RESTRICTION. [Captioner] 19:24:30 NOW THAT DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN SELL THE ADU SEPARATELY FROM [Captioner] 19:24:33 THE PRIMARY DWELLING. THAT GOES WITHOUT [Captioner] 19:24:36 SAYING. [Captioner] 19:24:40 WHEREAS THE GOVERNMENT CODE FOR JUNIOR ADUs EX-BLESS [Captioner] 19:24:43 EXPLICITLY STATES THAT WHEN A LOCAL [Captioner] 19:24:46 JURISDICTION ADOPTS AN ORDINANCE, IT MUST CONTAIN THIS REQUIREMENT, AND, [Captioner] 19:24:48 THEREFORE, WE HAVE THAT REQUIREMENT FOR JUNIOR ADUs. [Captioner] 19:24:51 NOW, AS TO WHY ONE IS [Captioner] 19:24:55 REQUIRED, WHY A DEED RESTRICTION IS REQUIRED FOR A JUNIOR ADU AND NOT [Captioner] 19:24:58 AN ADU, I'M NOT SURE WHAT [Captioner] 19:25:01 THE STATE LEGISLATURE HAS IN MIND. HOWEVER, ONE OF THE BILLS [Captioner] 19:25:04 THAT ARE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSIDERATION [Captioner] 19:25:08 IS THE POSSIBLE SELL OF ADUs SEPARATELY FROM THE [Captioner] 19:25:11 PRIMARY DWELLING. NOW, THAT HASN'T PASSED YET, [Captioner] 19:25:14 BUT IT IS UNDER CONSIDERATION AND MAYBE [Captioner] 19:25:17 THAT'S ONE REASON WHY ADUs DON'T HAVE THAT LIMITATION. [Captioner] 19:25:23 >> Councilmember Campbell: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:25:27 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. NEXT FOR CLARIFYING [Captioner] 19:25:31 QUESTIONS IS VICE MAYOR COX. [Captioner] 19:25:37 >> Vice Mayor Cox: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE INFORMATION, ESPECIALLY [Captioner] 19:25:40 BREAKING IT DOWN IN YOUR PRESENTATION, WHICH REALLY HELPS. [Captioner] 19:25:43 I LIKE THE CHARTS. AND [Captioner] 19:25:47 MAKING IT SIMPLER TO UNDERSTAND. I HAD A GENERAL [Captioner] 19:25:50 QUESTION. AND I GOT A COUPLE CALL [Captioner] 19:25:54 S ABOUT THIS. WHAT IS [Captioner] 19:25:57 PREVENTING SOMEONE FROM TURNING THEIR [Captioner] 19:26:01 ADU UNIT INTO A [Captioner] 19:26:04 B & B? [Captioner] 19:26:12 >> THERE IS A REQUIREMENT UNDER [Captioner] 19:26:16 STATE LAW AND INCLUDED IN OUR [Captioner] 19:26:19 ORDINANCE THAT ADUs [Captioner] 19:26:22 AND JUNIOR ADUs CANNOT BE USED FOR SHORT-TERM [Captioner] 19:26:25 RENTALS. >> Vice Mayor [Captioner] 19:26:28 Cox: AND COULD YOU DEFINE WHAT SHORT TERM [Captioner] 19:26:31 RENTALS MEAN? >> SHORT TERM RENTAL MEANS A RENTAL [Captioner] 19:26:34 THAT IS LESS THAN 30 DAYS. [Captioner] 19:26:39 >> Vice Mayor Cox: BUT SOMEONE COULD THEN RENT IT [Captioner] 19:26:41 31 DAYS? >> THAT'S CORRECT. [Captioner] 19:26:45 >> Vice Mayor Cox: DID YOU SEE ANYTHING PENDING [Captioner] 19:26:49 IN THE PENDING BILLS THAT MIGHT ADDRESS SOMETHING TO THAT [Captioner] 19:26:52 EFFECT? >> [Captioner] 19:26:55 NO, ANY RENT -- SHORT TERM [Captioner] 19:26:59 RENTALS, ANYTHING MORE THAN -- THAT'S GOING TO BE AT LEAST A MONTH [Captioner] 19:27:02 OR MORE, 30 DAYS AND GREATER [Captioner] 19:27:05 , IT WOULD SEEM TO NOT HAVE THE [Captioner] 19:27:09 SAME POTENTIAL ADVERSE IMPACTS AS, SAY, A SHORT-TERM [Captioner] 19:27:13 RENTAL TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. THE STATE IS PRETTY [Captioner] 19:27:17 CLEAR THAT THESE [Captioner] 19:27:20 REGULATIONS HAVE BEEN DESIGNED [Captioner] 19:27:23 TO PROVIDE MORE LONG-TERM [Captioner] 19:27:26 AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN COMMUNITIES, AND THAT'S WHY, [Captioner] 19:27:30 AGAIN, IT'S STATE LAW THAT SAYS THESE UNITS ARE NOT MEANT TO BE [Captioner] 19:27:33 USED FOR SHORT TERM RENTALS, IN FACT, THEY'RE PROHIBITED, [Captioner] 19:27:36 BUT WITH SPECIFIC ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS [Captioner] 19:27:40 THAT ARE MAYBE UNDER CONSIDERATION, I HAVE NOT [Captioner] 19:27:43 SEEN ANYTHING UNDER THIS [Captioner] 19:27:46 CURRENT LEGISLATIVE CYCLE. >> Vice Mayor Cox: OKAY. [Captioner] 19:27:52 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [Captioner] 19:27:54 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. AND I BELIEVE THAT'S THE LAST OF OUR [Captioner] 19:27:56 COUNCIL CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME. [Captioner] 19:27:59 I'D LIKE TO TURN IT -- OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING AT THIS [Captioner] 19:28:02 TIME. [Captioner] 19:28:06 AND I'D LIKE TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WISHING TO SPEAK [Captioner] 19:28:09 ON THIS AGENDA ITEM, ON ZOOM MAY DO SO AT [Captioner] 19:28:12 THIS TIME BY PRESSING THE RAISE HAND ICON OR, IF BY DIALING [Captioner] 19:28:15 IN, BY PRESSING STAR NINE, AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE [Captioner] 19:28:18 ANY SPEAKER CARDS HERE FOR THIS ITEM? >> Ms. Gauthier: WE DO HAVE A CARD [Captioner] 19:28:22 TURNED IN. [Captioner] 19:28:24 NAREN IMADI. >> Mayor Mei: OKAY. [Captioner] 19:28:27 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:28:33 WELCOME. >> GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. [Captioner] 19:28:36 SO IT'S JUST -- I'M JUST THINKING OUT LOUD. [Captioner] 19:28:40 IN 2019, WE THOUGHT OF EXTENDING OUR HOME, LIKE ADDING [Captioner] 19:28:43 A FEW SQUARE FEET, AND THEN WHEN WE REACHED [Captioner] 19:28:47 OUT TO PROBABLY 8 TO 10 [Captioner] 19:28:50 DESIGNERS AND CONSTRUCTING COMPANIES, CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES, EVERYONE [Captioner] 19:28:53 SAID, HEY, [Captioner] 19:28:56 OUR FIRST INTENTION IS TO ADD ADU BECAUSE IT'S EASIER, [Captioner] 19:29:00 BUT EVERYONE AT THAT TIME SAID IT'S VERY HARD [Captioner] 19:29:03 FOR THE CITY TO APPROVE AN ADU BECAUSE WE [Captioner] 19:29:06 ARE CLOSE TO OVER FAULT [Captioner] 19:29:09 ZONE, SEISMIC ZONE, SO THE EXISTING AREAS USUALLY WON'T HAVE [Captioner] 19:29:12 THE SAME BUILDING CODES AS THE MAIN RESIDENCE. [Captioner] 19:29:16 SO THERE IS A RISK INVOLVED IN ADDING [Captioner] 19:29:19 AN ADU AT THAT TIME, SO IT WAS A BIT TIGHTER FOR THE CITY TO [Captioner] 19:29:23 APPROVE ANY OF THE AREA, SO WE JUST THOUGHT OKAY, WE'LL [Captioner] 19:29:26 JUST LEAVE IT OUT. AND THEN LAST YEAR, WHEN WE AGAIN [Captioner] 19:29:29 REACHED OUT ONE MORE TIME TO [Captioner] 19:29:32 DESIGNERS, EVERYONE AT THIS TIME, LIKE, SAID, WE'LL DO [Captioner] 19:29:35 ADUs, BECAUSE CITY IS RIGHT NOW APPROVING ADUs EASILY. [Captioner] 19:29:39 SO MY QUESTION IS, LIKE, WHAT HAS CHANGED, LIKE, IN [Captioner] 19:29:42 THIS THREE YEARS, ALL OF A SUDDEN, OUR AREA [Captioner] 19:29:45 HAS BECAME LIKE LESS [Captioner] 19:29:49 RISK-PRONE FOR EARTHQUAKES? [Captioner] 19:29:52 I TRIED TO SEE THE ORDINANCE LIKE, YOU KNOW, IF THERE ARE ANY [Captioner] 19:29:55 ADDITIONAL BUILDING PERMITS THAT WERE [Captioner] 19:29:59 ADDED AS PART OF THESE CHANGES THAT WE ARE [Captioner] 19:30:02 DOING FOR THE ADU ORDINANCE AND I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY, SO I DON'T [Captioner] 19:30:05 KNOW WHETHER THERE ARE ANY OR NOT, ESPECIALLY [Captioner] 19:30:08 WHEN WE ARE INCREASING THE EXISTING [Captioner] 19:30:11 FLOOR AREA SIZE LIMIT TO 30 FEET AND IT [Captioner] 19:30:15 ALSO EXPLICITLY SAYS IT CAN'T BE THREE FLOORS, WHICH [Captioner] 19:30:18 MEANS IT CAN BE TWO FLOORS. SO BASICALLY WE ARE [Captioner] 19:30:21 EXTENDING THE SIZE TO 1200 SQUARE FEET, [Captioner] 19:30:24 1200 -- YEAH, SQUARE FEET AND THEN TWO STORIES, IT'S ALMOST AS [Captioner] 19:30:27 EQUAL TO TYPICAL THOUSAND TO 1200 [Captioner] 19:30:30 SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES, RESIDENCES IN FREMONT, BY SIZE [Captioner] 19:30:34 AND BY UNIT CAPACITY. [Captioner] 19:30:39 SO IDEALLY I FEEL LIKE IT SHOULD HAVE STRINGENT [Captioner] 19:30:42 BUILDING CODES BECAUSE IT'S ALMOST AS EQUAL TO A PRIMARY RESIDENCE, BUT [Captioner] 19:30:45 I DON'T SEE ANYTHING AS SUCH. SO THAT PART IS MISSING. [Captioner] 19:30:49 AND ANOTHER THING IS, SAYING LIKE WE DON'T [Captioner] 19:30:52 NEED PARKING AT ALL FOR ANY OF THESE RESIDENCES, [Captioner] 19:30:55 I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS LIKE THE RIGHT [Captioner] 19:30:58 THING TO DO OR NOT, ESPECIALLY WE ARE HAVING SO MUCH CRIME [Captioner] 19:31:01 GOING ON, ESPECIALLY THE LAST THREE TO SIX MONTHS IF [Captioner] 19:31:05 YOU ARE SEEING NEXT DOOR OR ANYTHING, WE ARE SEEING EVERYDAY NOT [Captioner] 19:31:09 JUST BREAKINS, LITERALLY PEOPLE ARE STEALING [Captioner] 19:31:12 CAR, SO NOW WITH THESE ADUs, ADDITIONAL CARS WILL BE ON [Captioner] 19:31:15 THE STREET BECAUSE THERE IS NO PARKING REQUIREMENT OR -- [Captioner] 19:31:18 THAT WILL PROBABLY INCREASE THE CRIME AS WELL ON THAT [Captioner] 19:31:20 ASPECT, UNLESS WE TACKLE IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY. [Captioner] 19:31:22 SO JUST MY THOUGHTS. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:31:28 >> Ms. Gauthier: THAT'S THE LAST SPEAKER. [Captioner] 19:31:32 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. AT THIS TIME, I'LL CLOSE THE [Captioner] 19:31:35 PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS. AND I'LL BRING IT BACK TO THE COUNCIL [Captioner] 19:31:38 FOR DISCUSSIONS. [Captioner] 19:31:56 COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN. [Captioner] 19:31:59 >> Councilmember Salwan: IF THERE WAS NO DISCUSSION, I'M HAPPY TO MAKE [Captioner] 19:32:02 THE MOTION TO MOVE THIS FORWARD. >> Vice Mayor [Captioner] 19:32:05 Cox: SECOND. >> Mayor Mei: I [Captioner] 19:32:08 SEE ALSO A MOTION AND A SECOND. [Captioner] 19:32:12 I WOULD CALL A VOTE BUT I KNOW COUNCILMEMBER KENG, DID YOU WANT [Captioner] 19:32:14 TO MAKE A SECOND? IS THAT WHAT YOU WERE DOING OR DID YOU [Captioner] 19:32:18 HAVE -- OKAY. SEEING THAT WE HAVE A MOTION AND [Captioner] 19:32:21 A SECOND, THE ONLY THING I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY FOR THOSE IN THE [Captioner] 19:32:24 AUDIENCE THAT WANTED TO KNOW, THE PARKING CHANGES HAVE TO [Captioner] 19:32:27 DO WITH THE STATE DECISION ON A LOT OF DIFFERENT [Captioner] 19:32:30 HOUSING, AND IT'S NOT JUST UNIQUE TO ADUs, BUT THEY'RE TRYING TO [Captioner] 19:32:33 REMOVE THAT. AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE ALSO [Captioner] 19:32:37 LOOKING AT FOR THE [Captioner] 19:32:40 QUESTION THAT CAME YOU THE, LOOKING AT SOME SHORT TERM RENTAL [Captioner] 19:32:43 ORDINANCES, JUST TO LET PEOPLE KNOW. WE HAVE A MOTION AND SECOND. [Captioner] 19:32:46 PLEASE CALL THE VOTE. [Captioner] 19:32:56 SO THE MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. [Captioner] 19:33:00 >> WHEN YOU'RE READY, I'LL READ THE TITLE INTO THE RECORD. [Captioner] 19:33:03 >> Mayor Mei: I WAS GOING TO ASK IF YOU WOULD BE SO KIND. [Captioner] 19:33:05 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF THE FREMONT TO REPEAL [Captioner] 19:33:09 AND REPLACE FREMONT MUNICIPAL CODE [Captioner] 19:33:12 SECTION 18.190.005, ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS, TO [Captioner] 19:33:15 COMPLY WITH NEW STATE LAW AS WELL AS TO CARRY OUT PROGRAM [Captioner] 19:33:19 IMPLEMENTATION FROM THE CITY'S 2023 [Captioner] 19:33:22 THROUGH 2031 HOUSING ELEMENT, AND AMEND OTHER RELATED CODE [Captioner] 19:33:25 SECTIONS OF THE FREMONT MUNICIPAL CODE TITLE IX, [Captioner] 19:33:28 AND TITLE 18, AND [Captioner] 19:33:31 MAKING FINDINGS OF CEQA EXEMPTION. THANK YOU, MAYOR. [Captioner] 19:33:36 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU FOR READING THOSE INTO THE PUBLIC RECORDS. [Captioner] 19:33:41 NEXT ON OUR AGENDA THIS EVENING IS [Captioner] 19:33:45 ITEM 6A AS IN APPLE, AND IT'S THE CLIMATE READY FREMONT [Captioner] 19:33:48 PUBLIC DRAFT. AND I'D LIKE TO WELCOME OUR [Captioner] 19:33:51 SUSTAINABILITY MANAGER, RACHEL DIFRANCO, AS WELL AS OUR COMMUNITY [Captioner] 19:33:54 DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, DAN SCHOENHOLZ, WHO WILL PROVIDE US [Captioner] 19:33:56 A PRESENTATION THIS EVENING. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:34:03 >> GOOD [Captioner] 19:34:06 EVENING, MAYOR MEI AND COUNCIL. I'M HAPPY TO COME TONIGHT TO PRESENT [Captioner] 19:34:09 TO YOU THE DRAFT UPDATE OF OUR CLIMATE ACTION PLAN. [Captioner] 19:34:14 THE TITLE OF THE DRAFT CLIMATE PLAN IS CLIMATE READY FREMONT, [Captioner] 19:34:17 FREMONT'S PATHWAY TO A LOW-CARBON, SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT FUTURE. [Captioner] 19:34:20 THIS IS AN UPDATE TO OUR 2012 CLIMATE [Captioner] 19:34:24 ACTION PLAN THAT WAS ADOPTED A YEAR [Captioner] 19:34:27 AFTER THE GENERAL PLAN, AND IT'S A [Captioner] 19:34:30 ROAD MAP FOR WHAT WE CAN DO IN THE CITY [Captioner] 19:34:33 WITH LOCAL ACTIONS TO [Captioner] 19:34:37 ACHIEVE LONG TERM CARBON NEUTRALITY GOAL OF THE CITY THAT WAS ADOPTED [Captioner] 19:34:41 BACK IN 2019. FOR 2045 [Captioner] 19:34:44 CARBON NEUTRALITY, AND IT PRESENTS BOTH SOME SHORT TERM AND [Captioner] 19:34:47 KIND OF LONGER TERM MEASURES AND ACTIONS RELATED TO [Captioner] 19:34:50 WHAT WE CAN DO. [Captioner] 19:34:55 SO JUST A QUICK BACKGROUND. IN OUR GENERAL [Captioner] 19:34:58 PLAN THAT WAS ADOPTED IN 2011, WE HAVE A VISION [Captioner] 19:35:02 OF TRANSITIONING FROM AB [Captioner] 19:35:05 AUTO ORIENTED SUBURB NO A [Captioner] 19:35:07 SUSTAINABLE, STRATEGICALLY URBAN, MODERN CITY. [Captioner] 19:35:10 WE PRESENTED OUR FIRST CLIMATE ACTION PLAN WHICH WAS A ROAD MAP FOR [Captioner] 19:35:14 ACHIEVING THAT GOAL AND SPECIFICALLY SET A [Captioner] 19:35:17 25% GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION REDUCTION TARGET [Captioner] 19:35:21 TO ACHIEVE BY THE YEAR 2020 FROM A 2005 [Captioner] 19:35:24 BASELINE LEVEL. SO THAT'S LOOKING AT CARBON [Captioner] 19:35:27 EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVITIES THAT ARE HAPPENING IN FREMONT, [Captioner] 19:35:30 PRIMARILY FROM THE BUILDING SECTOR, THE TRANSPORTATION SECTOR, AND THE [Captioner] 19:35:33 WASTE AND WATER SECTORS. [Captioner] 19:35:39 THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN UPDATE ALIGNS WITH SOME [Captioner] 19:35:42 ESTABLISHED TARGETS ALREADY ADOPTED IN THE CITY OF [Captioner] 19:35:45 FREMONT, AND TARGETS THAT HAVE BEEN ADOPTED BY [Captioner] 19:35:48 THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. SO AS I MENTIONED IN [Captioner] 19:35:51 2019, FREMONT CITY COUNCIL ADOPTED A CARBON NEUTRALITY RESOLUTION THAT [Captioner] 19:35:54 WAS RECOMMENDED BY OUR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION, [Captioner] 19:35:58 AND THAT WAS TO ACHIEVE CARBON NEUTRALITY BY THE [Captioner] 19:36:01 YEAR 2045, AND ALSO TO ACHIEVE AN INTERIM TARGET [Captioner] 19:36:05 OF 55% GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS BY THE YEAR 2030. [Captioner] 19:36:09 THIS ALIGNS WITH A VARIETY OF [Captioner] 19:36:13 ADOPTED CALIFORNIA POLICIES. BACK IN 2005, THE STATE [Captioner] 19:36:16 PUT FORWARD AN EXECUTIVE ORDER TO REDUCE STATEWIDE [Captioner] 19:36:19 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TO 1990 LEVELS BY THE [Captioner] 19:36:23 YEAR 2020, AND TO ACHIEVE A TARGET OF [Captioner] 19:36:26 80% BELOW THOSE 1990 LEVELS BY THE YEAR [Captioner] 19:36:30 2050. AND ON THE COATTAILS OF THAT, [Captioner] 19:36:33 AB32, THE GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTIONS ACT, ESTABLISHED REGULATORY [Captioner] 19:36:36 AUTHORITY UNDER THE CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD TO ACHIEVE THOSE [Captioner] 19:36:40 GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION TARGETS. IN 2016, [Captioner] 19:36:43 SB32 SET AN INTERIM TARGET TO [Captioner] 19:36:47 ACHIEVE THE STATEWIDE GREENHOUSE [Captioner] 19:36:50 GAS REDUCTIONS BY 40% [Captioner] 19:36:53 BELOW 1990 LEVELS BY THE YEAR 2030 AND MOST RECENTLY, [Captioner] 19:36:57 AB1279 SAID THAT THE STATE WILL ACHIEVE NET ZERO GREENHOUSE GAS [Captioner] 19:37:00 EMISSIONS NO LATER THAN THE YEAR 2045 AND TO [Captioner] 19:37:04 REDUCE ANTHROPOGENIC GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS SO [Captioner] 19:37:07 ANY HUMAN CAUSED GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY AT LEAST [Captioner] 19:37:11 85% BY THE YEAR 2050. [Captioner] 19:37:15 SO IN DEVELOPING THIS UPDATE TO OUR CLIMATE [Captioner] 19:37:19 ACTION PLAN, WE STARTED WITH SOME ROBUST COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND [Captioner] 19:37:23 LAUNCHED ACTUALLY RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PANDEMIC, SO ALL [Captioner] 19:37:26 OF OUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND [Captioner] 19:37:30 VARIOUS SURVEYS [Captioner] 19:37:33 AND -- WE HAD A WHOLE SERIES OF CLIMATE TALKS, ALL OF [Captioner] 19:37:36 THAT WAS DONE VIRTUALLY. [Captioner] 19:37:39 SO WE ACTUALLY, THROUGH THOSE VARIOUS EVENTS, HEARD [Captioner] 19:37:43 FROM -- WE HAD OVER 500 EVENT PARTICIPANTS, [Captioner] 19:37:46 HEARD FROM 145 ONLINE COMMUNITY FORUM PARTICIPANTS. [Captioner] 19:37:49 WE LAUNCHED AN ONLINE FORUM THAT [Captioner] 19:37:52 ALLOWED PEOPLE TO RESPOND TO POTENTIAL MEASURES FOR [Captioner] 19:37:56 THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN, AND WE HAD A SERIES OF [Captioner] 19:37:59 STAKEHOLDER GROUP MEETINGS AS WELL. AND WE HEARD, YOU KNOW, A VARIETY OF [Captioner] 19:38:02 THINGS. PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO SEE THAT [Captioner] 19:38:05 WE CAN SHIFT EQUITILY TO 100% CLEAN AND [Captioner] 19:38:08 RENEWABLE POWER. THEY REALLY WANT TO SEE ON-SITE SOLAR [Captioner] 19:38:12 AND ENERGY STORAGE. WHEN IT COMES TO LAND [Captioner] 19:38:15 USE AND MOBILITY, THEY WANT TO SEE MORE EV CHARGING [Captioner] 19:38:18 INFRASTRUCTURE, THEY WANT TO SEE SUPPORT OF LOW CARBON [Captioner] 19:38:21 DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF REGIONAL TRANSIT. [Captioner] 19:38:25 IN THE NATURAL AND URBAN LANDSCAPE [Captioner] 19:38:27 SPACE. PEOPLE WANT TO SEE THAT WE CAN [Captioner] 19:38:31 SEQUESTER OR DRAW DOWN GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS LOCALLY THROUGH [Captioner] 19:38:34 THE USE OF OUR URBAN FOREST, LOCAL URBAN [Captioner] 19:38:37 FARMING, AND THEY ALSO WANT TO SEE US PROMOTE [Captioner] 19:38:40 NATURE-BASED SHORELINE RESILIENCE. IN THE MATERIALS WASTE [Captioner] 19:38:44 AND WATER AREA, OUR COMMUNITY WANTS TO SEE A DECREASE IN [Captioner] 19:38:47 PACKAGING WASTE AND INCREASE IN STORMWATER CAPTURE [Captioner] 19:38:50 AND WATER RE-USE, ESPECIALLY DURING TIMES OF DROUGHT, AND [Captioner] 19:38:54 TO PROMOTE MATERIAL RE-USE IN THE SHARING OF MATERIALS. [Captioner] 19:38:57 AND THEN WHEN IT COMES TO HEALTH AND [Captioner] 19:39:00 RESILIENCY, OUR COMMUNITY REALLY WANTS TO SEE THE REDUCTION IN THE URBAN [Captioner] 19:39:04 HEAT ISLAND EFFECT. THEY WANT TO SEE [Captioner] 19:39:07 US PROTECT AGAINST CLIMATE-RELATED DISASTERS LIKE [Captioner] 19:39:11 DROUGHT, EXTREME HEAT, AND THEY WANT US [Captioner] 19:39:14 TO SEE -- TO EXPAND OUR CLIMATE EMERGENCY [Captioner] 19:39:14 PREPAREDNESS EDUCATION OF THE COMMUNITY. [Captioner] 19:39:20 NEXT SLIDE. IN TERMS OF [Captioner] 19:39:23 WHO WE ENGAGED, YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE A NUMBER OF [Captioner] 19:39:27 DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUPS THAT WE [Captioner] 19:39:30 ENGAGED THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS IN 2020 AND [Captioner] 19:39:33 INTO 2021. INCLUDING A NUMBER OF CITY DEPARTMENTS [Captioner] 19:39:37 AND DIVISIONS. PRESENTATIONS TO [Captioner] 19:39:41 SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF OUR BOARDS, [Captioner] 19:39:44 COMMISSIONS, THE CITY, SCHOOL DISTRICT LIAISON COMMITTEE. [Captioner] 19:39:47 WE ALSO TALKED WITH A NUMBER [Captioner] 19:39:50 OF BUSINESSES AND ESPECIALLY [Captioner] 19:39:54 CLEANTECH, BIOTECH SECTOR, THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY AS [Captioner] 19:39:57 WELL, DIFFERENT HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS. [Captioner] 19:40:00 WE SPOKE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS IN FREMONT, INCLUDING [Captioner] 19:40:05 FIERCE, LEAF, THE ECOLOGY CENTER, WE TALKED [Captioner] 19:40:09 WITH BOY SCOUT AND GIRL SCOUT GROUPS AND YOUTH IN GENERAL, A [Captioner] 19:40:12 LOT OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, AND THEN WE ALSO SPOKE WITH A NUMBER OF OUR [Captioner] 19:40:15 REGIONAL AGENCIES THAT WE WORK CLOSELY WITH IN TERMS OF THE WATER DISTRICT, [Captioner] 19:40:19 THE FREMONT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY, [Captioner] 19:40:22 OUR LOCAL CLEAN ENERGY SUPPLIER, [Captioner] 19:40:26 PG&E, STOPWASTE AND THE BAY AREA QUALITY MANAGEMENT [Captioner] 19:40:29 DISTRICT. SO THE OBJECTIVE AND VISION OF CLIMATE [Captioner] 19:40:32 READY FREMONT IS TO ACHIEVE A HEALTHY, SAFE AND [Captioner] 19:40:35 LIVABLE CLIMATE READY COMMUNITY THAT CAN PROVIDE FOR ECONOMIC [Captioner] 19:40:38 AND SOCIAL OPPORTUNITY ACROSS ALL AGES, CULTURES [Captioner] 19:40:42 AND ABILITIES THROUGH EQUITABLE, RESILIENT, AND [Captioner] 19:40:45 ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INFRASTRUCTURE, POLICIES, [Captioner] 19:40:48 AND PROGRAMS. AND THE GOALS [Captioner] 19:40:51 OF CLIMATE READY FREMONT ARE TO, [Captioner] 19:40:55 ONE, OVERALL REDUCE OUR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, [Captioner] 19:40:58 AND TWO, TO BUILD COMMUNITY RESILIENCE TO PREPARE [Captioner] 19:41:01 FOR AND ADAPT TO THE [Captioner] 19:41:04 CHANGING CLIMATE AROUND US. [Captioner] 19:41:09 IN ADDITION TO CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION, [Captioner] 19:41:12 WHICH IS THE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION REDUCTION [Captioner] 19:41:15 AND ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCY, WE'RE ALSO PRESENTING A [Captioner] 19:41:18 PLAN THAT WILL ALIGN WITH THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT. [Captioner] 19:41:21 SO THIS IS A CEQA [Captioner] 19:41:25 STREAMLINE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN, AND THE GOAL OF THAT IS [Captioner] 19:41:28 TO HAVE QUALIFIED MEASURES WITHIN THE CLIMATE ACTION [Captioner] 19:41:31 PLAN THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN SHOWN [Captioner] 19:41:34 AND EVALUATED FOR THEIR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION [Captioner] 19:41:38 REDUCTION POTENTIAL, AND THEN AS DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS COME THROUGH [Captioner] 19:41:41 PLANNING, THEY CAN ALIGN WITH OR TIER OFF OF OUR CLIMATE [Captioner] 19:41:45 ACTION PLAN SO THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO DO THEIR OWN [Captioner] 19:41:48 CEQA ANALYSIS, SO IT HELPS TO STREAMLINE THAT PROCESS [Captioner] 19:41:51 FOR THOSE DEVELOPERS, BUT IT ALSO ENSURES THAT WE'RE SEEING [Captioner] 19:41:54 THE GOALS OF OUR CLIMATE ACTION PLAN BE REALIZED [Captioner] 19:41:56 AS NEW DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS COME THROUGH. [Captioner] 19:42:03 IN TERMS OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE PLAN, WE HAVE A SERIES OF [Captioner] 19:42:07 CHAPTERS, YOU KNOW, THE SNAPSHOT IS OUR EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND [Captioner] 19:42:10 CHAPTER 1 REALLY INTRODUCES THE GOALS OF THE PLAN AND THE VISION. [Captioner] 19:42:13 AND THEN CHAPTER 2 IS THE GREEP HOUSE [Captioner] 19:42:20 GREENHOUSE GAS LONG [Captioner] 19:42:23 TERM FORECAST TO SHOW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IN OUR COMMUNITY IF NO [Captioner] 19:42:26 CLIMATE ACTION WERE TO HAPPEN BY THE YEAR 2045. [Captioner] 19:42:29 SO WE'RE LOOKING AT IF EVERYTHING THAT'S IMPLEMENTED NOW IS [Captioner] 19:42:33 BASED ON CURRENT STATE POLICY BUT THERE'S NO NEW STATE POLICY AND [Captioner] 19:42:36 THERE'S NO LOCAL ACTION TAKEN [Captioner] 19:42:38 , WHAT WOULD EMISSIONS LOOK LIKE BY THE YEAR 2045? [Captioner] 19:42:43 CHAPTER 3 PRESENTS THEN OUR STRATEGIES AND MEASURES FOR HOW WE CAN [Captioner] 19:42:46 ACHIEVE EMISSIONS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. SO IT'S REALLY OUR [Captioner] 19:42:50 MIDTERM GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION ROAD MAP [Captioner] 19:42:53 TO ACHIEVE OUR 2030 TARGET, WHICH IS 55% REDUCTION [Captioner] 19:42:57 FROM OUR 2005 BASELINE YEAR, OR A [Captioner] 19:43:00 30% REDUCTION FROM 2018 LEVELS, WHICH IS THE [Captioner] 19:43:01 BASELINE THAT WE'RE USING IN THIS PLAN. [Captioner] 19:43:06 AND THEN CHAPTER 4 PRESENTS A SHORT-TERM [Captioner] 19:43:09 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, AND IT'S REALLY FOCUSING ON WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO IN [Captioner] 19:43:12 THE NEXT THREE YEARS TO ACHIEVE SOME [Captioner] 19:43:15 PRIORITY ACTIONS THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED [Captioner] 19:43:19 THROUGH DISCUSSIONS WITH STAFF AND IDENTIFICATION [Captioner] 19:43:23 OF OPPORTUNITIES, WITH PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS, AND [Captioner] 19:43:26 WHAT WE REALLY THINK THERE'S APPETITE TO DO HERE IN THE CITY OF [Captioner] 19:43:29 FREMONT IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS. THERE'S [Captioner] 19:43:33 ALSO SOME APPENDICES ATTACHED TO THE PLAN THAT GO IN [Captioner] 19:43:36 DEPTH INTO THE ANALYSIS THAT WENT INTO OUR [Captioner] 19:43:38 GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY AND FORECASTING. [Captioner] 19:43:42 THERE'S THE ROBUST MEASURE LIST AND GREENHOUSE [Captioner] 19:43:46 GAS QUANTIFICATION MEMO, SO SOME OF THE MEASURES IN THE PLAN ARE [Captioner] 19:43:49 QUALIFIED FOR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION REDUCTIONS BUT NOT ALL OF THEM, SO [Captioner] 19:43:52 THAT MEMO REALLY GETS INTO THE ANALYSIS FOR THOSE [Captioner] 19:43:55 THAT ARE ASSOCIATED DIRECTLY WITH GREENHOUSE GAS [Captioner] 19:43:58 EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS, AND THEN WE HAVE A THIRD APPENDICES THAT IS [Captioner] 19:44:02 FOCUSED -- OR APPENDIX THAT'S FOCUSED SPECIFICALLY ON OUR OWN [Captioner] 19:44:06 CITY OPERATIONS, AND THE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AND [Captioner] 19:44:09 FORECASTS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT. [Captioner] 19:44:13 IN TERMS OF THE [Captioner] 19:44:17 STRUCTURE OF THE MEASURES PRESENTED, WE'VE PRESENTED EIGHT [Captioner] 19:44:20 KIND OF KEY FOCAL AREAS IN CHAPTER 3, AND [Captioner] 19:44:23 THEN WITHIN EACH OF THOSE FOCAL AREAS, THERE'S A HIGH LEVEL [Captioner] 19:44:27 STRATEGY, AND THAT HIGH LEVEL STRATEGY HAS A NARRATIVE AROUND IT AND [Captioner] 19:44:30 A VISION FOR WHAT A 2045 FREMONT WOULD LOOK [Captioner] 19:44:32 LIKE IF THAT STRATEGY WERE TO BE ACHIEVED. [Captioner] 19:44:35 AND THEN WITHIN THAT STRATEGY, THERE'S A SERIES OF [Captioner] 19:44:39 MEASURES, AND AT THE MEASURE LEVEL, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE DOING A [Captioner] 19:44:42 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION CALCULATION [Captioner] 19:44:45 . SO FOR ANY OF THE QUANTIFIED MEASURES [Captioner] 19:44:48 THAT WOULD BE CEQA STREAMLINED FOR PROJECT [Captioner] 19:44:50 TIERING, THAT'S WHERE THAT ANALYSIS LEVEL IS COMING IN. [Captioner] 19:44:54 THEN THE ACTIONS ARE SPECIFIC WAYS THAT WE [Captioner] 19:44:57 CAN ACHIEVE THE MEASURE. SO SOME OF THOSE [Captioner] 19:45:00 ACTIONS ARE GOING TO BE MORE POLICY-ORIENTED, SOME [Captioner] 19:45:03 OF THOSE ACTIONS MAY BE FOCUSED MORE ON [Captioner] 19:45:07 COLLABORATIONS WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS [Captioner] 19:45:11 , THEY COULD BE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE DOING IN [Captioner] 19:45:14 PARTNERSHIP WITH REGIONAL AGENCIES, AND THERE'S [Captioner] 19:45:17 ALSO BOTH GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION MEASURES AS WELL AS [Captioner] 19:45:20 ADAPTATION RESILIENCY MEASURES. [Captioner] 19:45:25 THEY'RE ACTIONS. IN TERMS [Captioner] 19:45:28 OF THE CO-BENEFITS OF THE PLAN, ON TOP OF THE GREENHOUSE [Captioner] 19:45:31 GAS EMISSION REDUCTIONS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE, THERE'S A NUMBER [Captioner] 19:45:35 OF SIGNIFICANT CO-BENEFITS, AND SO WHAT WE DID AT THE [Captioner] 19:45:38 MEASURE LEVEL IS IDENTIFY THOSE [Captioner] 19:45:40 CO-BENEFITS WITH AN ICON YOU CAN SEE HERE. [Captioner] 19:45:43 SO WE'RE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, EQUITY, AIR POLLUTION [Captioner] 19:45:46 PREVENTION, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, INFRASTRUCTURE [Captioner] 19:45:51 RELIABILITY, COMMUNITY RESILIENCE, A LOCAL ECONOMIC IMPACT, [Captioner] 19:45:54 AND RESOURCE PRESERVATION. [Captioner] 19:45:59 ALL RIGHT. SO IN TERMS OF THE GAME PLAN, WHICH IS [Captioner] 19:46:03 REALLY WHERE WE WANTED TO FOCUS TONIGHT, THAT'S [Captioner] 19:46:06 THE THREE-YEAR IMPLEMENTATION [Captioner] 19:46:09 PLAN, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF COMMUNITY [Captioner] 19:46:12 LEVEL ACTIONS AS WELL AS CITY MUNICIPAL ACTIONS [Captioner] 19:46:16 IN THAT PLAN. SO THE COMMUNITY [Captioner] 19:46:19 LEVEL ACTIONS THAT ARE WITHIN THE GAME [Captioner] 19:46:22 PLAN INCLUDE OPTING UP ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS AND [Captioner] 19:46:25 BUSINESSES TO EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY'S RENEWABLE 100 RATE [Captioner] 19:46:28 PLAN, WHICH IS 100% GREENHOUSE [Captioner] 19:46:31 GAS-FREE POWER MADE FROM CALIFORNIA-BASED WIND AND SOLAR. [Captioner] 19:46:35 AND SO THAT WOULD REQUIRE COUNCIL [Captioner] 19:46:38 ACTION. ABOUT HALF OF THE CITIES WITHIN [Captioner] 19:46:41 EAST BAY COMMUNITY'S TERRITORY HAVE ALREADY DOB THAT FOR [Captioner] 19:46:44 DONE THAT FOR RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES. [Captioner] 19:46:47 REQUIRING NEW RESIDENTIAL AND NON-RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS TO BE AT [Captioner] 19:46:51 THE SIGNED AS ALL ELECTRIC, SO ELIMINATING NATURAL GAS OR [Captioner] 19:46:54 FOSSIL FUELS FROM THOSE DEVELOPMENTS. PARTNERING [Captioner] 19:46:57 WITH EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY TO INSTALL [Captioner] 19:47:00 PUBLIC-FACING DC FAST CHARGING ELECTRIC VEHICLE HUBS, AND THAT'S [Captioner] 19:47:03 ACTUALLY AN EFFORT THAT'S UNDERWAY AT THE STAFF LEVEL, WE'VE BEEN [Captioner] 19:47:06 HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY TO [Captioner] 19:47:10 IDENTIFY WHERE WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO INSTALL THESE D.C. FAST [Captioner] 19:47:13 CHARGING HUBS ON CITY PROPERTY. TO CONTINUE [Captioner] 19:47:16 IMPLEMENTING THE MOBILITY ACTION PLAN AND [Captioner] 19:47:19 SPECIFICALLY FOCUSING ON MODE SHIFT AND TRAFFIC [Captioner] 19:47:23 SIGNAL MODERNIZATION, AND TO CONTINUE IMPLEMENTING OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION [Captioner] 19:47:26 OPTIONS, ESPECIALLY WITH A FOCUS ON SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL, [Captioner] 19:47:29 AND AS YOU KNOW THE ACTIVE -- WE'RE IN [Captioner] 19:47:32 THE PROCESS DEVELOPING AN ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN THAT WILL [Captioner] 19:47:35 REPLACE THE BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN MASTER PLANS. [Captioner] 19:47:39 EVALUATING A MODEL PLASTIC [Captioner] 19:47:43 WASTE/RE-USE ORDINANCE THAT IS CURRENTLY BEING DEVELOPED BY STOPWASTE [Captioner] 19:47:47 AT THE COUNTY LEVEL FOR CITIES TO ADOPT AT A [Captioner] 19:47:50 LOCAL LEVEL. DEVELOPING [Captioner] 19:47:53 AN OUTREACH AND ENFORCEMENT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR [Captioner] 19:47:57 OUR ORGANIC WASTE AND SB1383, [Captioner] 19:48:00 WHICH IS FOOD WASTE EFFORTS. [Captioner] 19:48:05 ADOPTING THE URBAN [Captioner] 19:48:10 FORESTRY MANAGEMENT PLAN WHICH WE'VE ALREADY DONE AND BEGINNING [Captioner] 19:48:13 TO PLANT 800 TREES ANNUALLY WHICH WILL HELP WITH [Captioner] 19:48:17 OUR CARBON SEQUESTRATION EFFORTS. COLLABORATING WITH INDUSTRY [Captioner] 19:48:21 PARTNERS TO HOST GREEN BUSINESS BEST [Captioner] 19:48:24 PRACTICES AND EVENTS/FORUMS. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT OUR ECONOMIC [Captioner] 19:48:27 DEVELOPMENT DIVISION AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT AND HOPE TO DO ACTUALLY PRIOR TO [Captioner] 19:48:31 THE PANDEMIC AND ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO GOING [Captioner] 19:48:35 BACK TO SHORTLY. COLLABORATING WITH THE [Captioner] 19:48:38 SCHOOL DISTRICT AND COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS [Captioner] 19:48:41 TO EXPAND PARTICIPATION IN THE FREMONT GREEN CHALLENGE, WHICH IS OUR [Captioner] 19:48:44 RESIDENTIAL CLIMATE ACTION ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM THAT WE LAUNCHED [Captioner] 19:48:47 BACK IN 2016. AND THEN TO LAUNCH A [Captioner] 19:48:51 CLIMATE READY FREMONT PUBLIC FACING ONLINE TRACKING AND REPORTING [Captioner] 19:48:54 DASHBOARD, WHERE WE WOULD BE ABLE TO [Captioner] 19:48:58 PUT IN INFORMATION ABOUT OUR IMPLEMENTATION EFFORTS [Captioner] 19:49:02 AND HAVE DIFFERENT REPORTS AND VISUALS [Captioner] 19:49:06 SHOWING HOW MUCH WE ARE ON TRACK IN MEETING OUR [Captioner] 19:49:10 GOALS. [Captioner] 19:49:14 AT THE CITY LEVEL, CITY OPERATIONAL LEVEL, YOU KNOW, THERE'S [Captioner] 19:49:17 A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT HAVE ACTUALLY ALREADY BEEN IMPLEMENTED OR ARE [Captioner] 19:49:20 UNDERWAY. SO OPTING UP OUR CITY ACCOUNTS TO EAST [Captioner] 19:49:23 BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY'S RENEWABLE 100 RATE PLAN. [Captioner] 19:49:26 WE DID THAT LAST YEAR. ESTABLISHING AN [Captioner] 19:49:30 ALL-ELECTRIC OR ZERO NET ENERGY DESIGN REQUIREMENT FOR OUR [Captioner] 19:49:33 OWN CITY FACILITIES. SOMETHING THAT, YOU [Captioner] 19:49:36 KNOW, WE'VE BEEN DOING IN PRACTICE BUT WE DON'T HAVE [Captioner] 19:49:40 A POLICY AROUND. OUR DOWNTOWN [Captioner] 19:49:43 EVENT CENTER WAS DESIGNED AS ALL ELECTRIC AND HAS SOLAR ON [Captioner] 19:49:47 SITE. REPLACING OUR EXISTING GAS POWERED [Captioner] 19:49:49 HVAC SYSTEMS WITH ELECTRIC HEAT PUMPS WHERE FEASIBLE. [Captioner] 19:49:52 SO IN THE CIP THAT WAS ADOPTED LAST WEEK, WE HAVE [Captioner] 19:49:55 FUNDING FOR HVAC UPGRADES AND THE INTENTION IS [Captioner] 19:49:58 TO REPLACE THOSE WITH HEAT PUMPS WHEREVER POSSIBLE. [Captioner] 19:50:03 PARTNERING WITH EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY TO INSTALL RENEWABLE [Captioner] 19:50:05 MICROGRIDS ON CRITICAL CITY FACILITIES. [Captioner] 19:50:09 THIS IS ANOTHER EVIDENT [Captioner] 19:50:12 EFFORT THE COUNCIL WEIGHED IN ON A COUPLE [Captioner] 19:50:15 YEARS AGO WHERE WE GAVE EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY PERMISSION TO [Captioner] 19:50:18 MOVE FORWARD IN PUTTING OUT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS AND [Captioner] 19:50:22 IDENTIFYING WHERE WE MAY HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO INSTALL [Captioner] 19:50:25 SOLAR AND BATTERY STORAGE ON CITY FACILITIES, [Captioner] 19:50:29 SO THERE'S EIGHT FACILITIES THAT ARE POTENTIALLY PART OF THAT PROJECT [Captioner] 19:50:32 AND WE'RE WAITING TO HEAR BACK FROM EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY [Captioner] 19:50:35 ANY MINUTE NOW ON WHAT THOSE PROPOSALS LOOK LIKE, [Captioner] 19:50:37 AND THEN WE'LL BE COMING BACK TO COUNCIL WITH THAT PROJECT. [Captioner] 19:50:42 REPLACING OUR CITY FLEET VEHICLES WITH ELECTRIC VEHICLES [Captioner] 19:50:46 AND INSTALLING SUPPORTING EV CHARGING [Captioner] 19:50:48 INFRASTRUCTURE. THAT WAS ANOTHER EFFORT THAT WAS [Captioner] 19:50:52 FUNDED UNDER THE CIP, SO WE'RE NOW LOOKING AT HOW CAN [Captioner] 19:50:55 WE UPGRADE OUR ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE TO REALLY SUPPORT A [Captioner] 19:50:59 ROBUST CONVERSION OF OUR CITY FLEET VEHICLES TO [Captioner] 19:51:03 ELECTRIC. WE'VE IMPLEMENTED A CITY [Captioner] 19:51:06 HYBRID TELEWORK POLICY FOR EMPLOYEES, AND ARE WORKING ON [Captioner] 19:51:09 ADOPTING THAT, SO THAT'S ALLOWING OUR EMPLOYEE COMMUTE TO [Captioner] 19:51:12 ACTUALLY REDUCE OUR CARBON IMPACT SIGNIFICANTLY BECAUSE [Captioner] 19:51:16 EMPLOYEES CAN TELEWORK MULTIPLE DAYS A [Captioner] 19:51:19 WEEK. EXPANDING INTEGRATION OF A [Captioner] 19:51:21 REUSABLE FOOD WARE OPTIONS AT CITY FACILITIES. [Captioner] 19:51:25 WE'VE DONE A PILOT AT THE AQUA ADVENTURE WATER PARK AND ARE [Captioner] 19:51:27 EVALUATING THE RESULTS OF THAT RIGHT NOW. [Captioner] 19:51:31 APPLYING COMPOST AND MULCH TO CITY LANDSCAPES IN [Captioner] 19:51:34 ALIGNMENT WITH THE GOALS OF SB1383, SO [Captioner] 19:51:37 WE ACTUALLY UPDATED OUR [Captioner] 19:51:41 ENVIRONMENTALLY PREFERABLE PURCHASING POLICY IN THE [Captioner] 19:51:44 LAST YEAR TO ENSURE THAT INTEGRATION [Captioner] 19:51:48 OF THE GOALS WITHIN SB1383 [Captioner] 19:51:51 REGARDING APPLICATION OF MULCH TO CITY LANDSCAPES HAS BEEN [Captioner] 19:51:54 PART OF OUR PURCHASING POLICY. AND THEN [Captioner] 19:51:58 FINALLY, CERTIFYING ANY CITY FACILITIES AS CALIFORNIA GREEN [Captioner] 19:52:02 BUSINESSES WHERE WE MIGHT HAVE THAT [Captioner] 19:52:06 OPPORTUNITY, WE'VE IDENTIFIED IN THE PAST THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO THAT [Captioner] 19:52:07 POTENTIALLY STARTING WITH OUR FIRE STATIONS. [Captioner] 19:52:11 AND THEN ESTABLISHING AN INTERDEPARTMENTAL GREEN [Captioner] 19:52:15 PURCHASING TRAINING AND CHAMPIONS PROGRAM TO HELP [Captioner] 19:52:18 WITH IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT ENVIRONMENTALLY [Captioner] 19:52:19 PREFERABLE PURCHASING POLICY THAT I MENTIONED. [Captioner] 19:52:27 THERE'S SOME OTHER NOTEWORTHY ACTIONS I WANTED TO MENTION WITHIN THE [Captioner] 19:52:29 PLAN ITSELF THAT DO HAVE POLICY IMPLICATIONS. [Captioner] 19:52:32 THESE ARE NOT WITHIN THE GAME PLAN, BUT THESE ARE THINGS THAT [Captioner] 19:52:35 WE MIGHT BE CONSIDERING LONGER [Captioner] 19:52:38 TERM OR COULD COME UP IN THE SHORTER TERM IF [Captioner] 19:52:42 THERE ARE -- IF THERE'S MOMENTUM [Captioner] 19:52:45 BEHIND THEM FROM THE COMMUNITY OR FROM COUNCIL OR IF [Captioner] 19:52:48 THERE'S A STATE LEVEL ACTION THAT PROVOKES IT. [Captioner] 19:52:52 SO ONE OF THOSE IS TO THINK ABOUT A FINAL [Captioner] 19:52:55 PHASEOUT DATE FOR NON-INDUSTRIAL [Captioner] 19:52:58 METHANE GAS PROCUREMENT, SO THAT MEANS NATURAL GAS PROCUREMENT. [Captioner] 19:53:03 ANOTHER IS TO CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE THAT MIGHT [Captioner] 19:53:07 PROHIBIT THE INSTALLATION OF NEW GASOLINE SERVICE [Captioner] 19:53:11 STATIONS. THE CITY OF PETALUMA WAS THE FIRST TO [Captioner] 19:53:14 DO THAT BACK IN 2021 AND SINCE THEN, ABOUT A HANDFUL OF NORTH BAY [Captioner] 19:53:17 CITIES HAVE DONE THE SAME. [Captioner] 19:53:20 CONSIDERING AN ORDINANCE BANNING THE USE OF GAS POWERED LANDSCAPING [Captioner] 19:53:23 EQUIPMENT. A NUMBER OF CITIES HAVE DONE THIS AS [Captioner] 19:53:26 WELL. SOME OF THEM HAVE DONE IT FROM A NOISE [Captioner] 19:53:30 ORDINANCE PERSPECTIVE. IN FREMONT, WE [Captioner] 19:53:33 HAVE NOT DISCUSSED THIS IN DEPTH WITH COUNCIL, [Captioner] 19:53:37 BUT THERE'S ALSO A STATE LEVEL [Captioner] 19:53:41 POLICY THAT HAS BEEN PUT IN PLACE SO [Captioner] 19:53:44 THAT THE SALE OF LANDSCAPING EQUIPMENT STARTING [Captioner] 19:53:48 IN 2024 WILL NO LONGER BE GAS, IT WILL BE ELECTRIC, SO THERE [Captioner] 19:53:52 WILL BE -- FROM A KIND [Captioner] 19:53:55 OF CONSUMER PERSPECTIVE, THERE WILL ONLY BE AN OPTION TO [Captioner] 19:53:59 PURCHASE ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT MOVING FORWARD, BUT ANY [Captioner] 19:54:02 GAS EQUIPMENT THAT'S STILL OUT THERE COULD BE USED UNLESS [Captioner] 19:54:05 THERE WAS A LOCAL BAN. REMOVING PARKING MINIMUMS FOR [Captioner] 19:54:07 NEW DEVELOPMENTS WITHIN HALF A MILE OF TRANSIT. [Captioner] 19:54:12 SO THIS COULD REALLY [Captioner] 19:54:16 RESULT IN A MORE [Captioner] 19:54:19 URBANIZED AREA AND THINKING ABOUT HOW CAN WE [Captioner] 19:54:22 REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE DRIVING [Captioner] 19:54:25 WITHIN THOSE AREAS WHERE WE DO HAVE THE USE OF PUBLIC [Captioner] 19:54:29 TRANSIT AVAILABLE. ANOTHER IS EXPLORING THE [Captioner] 19:54:32 PHASING IN OF A METHANE GAS USE [Captioner] 19:54:36 TAX, SO [Captioner] 19:54:39 UNTIL WE WERE TO BAN METHANE GAS, WE CAN THINK ABOUT TAXING [Captioner] 19:54:42 THE USE OF IT AND THAT COULD THEN GO TOWARD A FUND [Captioner] 19:54:45 TO HELP WITH ELECTRIFICATION EFFORTS. [Captioner] 19:54:49 PRIORITIZING GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION AND RESILIENCY EFFORTS [Captioner] 19:54:52 THROUGH THE CITY BUDGETARY PROCESS, AND THEN ALSO PROVIDING CIP [Captioner] 19:54:55 FUNDING FOR CLIMATE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS. [Captioner] 19:54:58 SO WE HAVE JUST IN THIS LAST CIP [Captioner] 19:55:02 CYCLE PUT FUNDING TOWARD CLIMATE INFRASTRUCTURE [Captioner] 19:55:05 PROJECTS, AND THAT'S REALLY THE FIRST TIME WE'VE DONE THAT IN A [Captioner] 19:55:08 VERY SUBSTANTIAL WAY, SO I'M [Captioner] 19:55:11 EXCITED TO SEE OUR ABILITY TO DO THIS [Captioner] 19:55:15 IN A MORE IN DEPTH WAY, AND WE CAN ALSO THINK ABOUT HOW [Captioner] 19:55:18 WE CAN PRIORITIZE RESILIENCY IN THE [Captioner] 19:55:21 SAME WAY. [Captioner] 19:55:24 IN TERMS OF THE TIMELINE, YOU [Captioner] 19:55:27 KNOW, THROUGH THE LAST COUPLE MONTHS, WE WERE PREPARING [Captioner] 19:55:30 A FINAL DRAFT AND REVIEWING IT WITH [Captioner] 19:55:34 CITY LEADERSHIP, AND THEN ON JUNE 1ST, WE BROUGHT [Captioner] 19:55:37 THE DRAFT PLAN TO OUR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION. [Captioner] 19:55:40 THEY GAVE US SOME FEEDBACK WHICH WAS ATTACHED [Captioner] 19:55:43 TO THE STAFF [Captioner] 19:55:47 REPORT IN SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDED THAT THE DRAFT PLAN COME [Captioner] 19:55:50 TO COUNCIL AND BE OPENED UP FOR A [Captioner] 19:55:53 PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. [Captioner] 19:55:57 SO THE GOAL IS THEN IF COUNCIL DECIDES TO OPEN IT [Captioner] 19:56:00 UP TO PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, WE WOULD HAVE THAT PUBLIC COMMENT [Captioner] 19:56:03 PERIOD OPEN FOR THE REMAINDER OF JUNE [Captioner] 19:56:06 AND THROUGH JULY, AND IT WOULD BE A TOPIC [Captioner] 19:56:11 ON MYFREMONT, AND THEN BY LATE SUMMER/EARLY FALL [Captioner] 19:56:14 AS WE HAVE TIME TO TAKE IN THE COMMENTS FROM [Captioner] 19:56:18 THE COMMISSION AND FROM COUNCIL AND FROM THE PUBLIC, REVISE THE [Captioner] 19:56:21 PLAN AND THEN BRING IT BACK TO THE [Captioner] 19:56:23 SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION AND THEN TO COUNCIL FOR FINAL ADOPTION. [Captioner] 19:56:31 SO WITH THAT, WE'RE LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK [Captioner] 19:56:34 FROM COUNCIL, HIGH LEVEL THOUGHTS ON THE CONTENT, THE ORGANIZATION, [Captioner] 19:56:38 THE PRESENTATION OF THE PLAN. ANY SPECIFIC COMMENTS YOU MIGHT [Captioner] 19:56:42 HAVE ON THE GAME PLAN, WHICH, AGAIN, IS THAT THREE-YEAR KIND OF [Captioner] 19:56:45 FOCUSED IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. AND THEN ANY QUESTIONS OR [Captioner] 19:56:48 CONCERNS YOU MIGHT HAVE WITH SOME OF THE STRATEGIES, [Captioner] 19:56:51 MEASURES OR ACTIONS PRESENTED, AND WE'RE [Captioner] 19:56:54 HAPPY TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS, [Captioner] 19:56:57 NOTE ANY COMMENTS THAT YOU HAVE, AND [Captioner] 19:57:01 INCORPORATE THAT INTO THE NEXT VERSION OF THE PLAN THAT WE'LL [Captioner] 19:57:04 BRING BACK TO YOU. [Captioner] 19:57:09 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU FOR THE THOROUGH PRESENTATION. [Captioner] 19:57:12 AND AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO OPEN IT UP TO THE COUNCIL FOR [Captioner] 19:57:15 CLARIFYING QUESTIONS. [Captioner] 19:57:17 COUNCILMEMBER SHAO, PLEASE. >> Councilmember Shao: THANK YOU, [Captioner] 19:57:21 MADAME MAYOR. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. [Captioner] 19:57:24 THROUGHOUT THE PRESENTATION, I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR ONE WORD [Captioner] 19:57:28 OR ONE BRAND, WHICH IS TESLA [Captioner] 19:57:31 . BECAUSE TESLA ADMITS, YOU KNOW, THAT [Captioner] 19:57:35 EVEN THOUGH THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT [Captioner] 19:57:38 IN 2021 [Captioner] 19:57:42 BRAGS THAT THE WORLDWIDE [Captioner] 19:57:45 SAVING OF GREENHOUSE GAS [Captioner] 19:57:50 EMISSION COMES TO [Captioner] 19:57:53 6.5 MILLION METRIC TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE [Captioner] 19:57:57 BY SIMPLY DRIVING THE ELECTRIC CARS [Captioner] 19:58:00 INSTEAD OF THE GAS-DRIVEN CARS, [Captioner] 19:58:03 THEIR OPERATION AND THEIR [Captioner] 19:58:06 SUPPLY CHAIN GREENHOUSE CARBON DIOXIDE [Captioner] 19:58:09 EMISSION ACTUALLY TOTALS [Captioner] 19:58:14 ABOUT 33 MILLION METRIC TONS [Captioner] 19:58:17 OF CARBON DIOXIDE, WHICH IS ABOUT [Captioner] 19:58:20 5 TIMES WHAT THEY CLAIM THAT THEY HAVE SAVED. [Captioner] 19:58:24 SO CONSIDERING THAT THEY ARE THE [Captioner] 19:58:28 BIGGEST EMPLOYER IN THE CITY AND [Captioner] 19:58:31 ALSO PROBABLY THE LARG [Captioner] 19:58:35 EST OPERATION IN TERMS [Captioner] 19:58:38 OF MANUFACTURING IN FREMONT, ALSO [Captioner] 19:58:41 CONSIDERING THAT RECENTLY THEY ARE ADDING A NEW [Captioner] 19:58:45 BATTERY [Captioner] 19:58:49 MANUFACTURING FACILITY IN [Captioner] 19:58:52 FREMONT, THE QUESTION IS, HOW DO [Captioner] 19:58:55 WE MEASURE [Captioner] 19:58:58 THEIR CARBON DIOXIDE [Captioner] 19:59:03 FOR PAINT, CONSIDERING IT'S ACTUALLY [Captioner] 19:59:07 ADDING THE CITY-WIDE CARBON [Captioner] 19:59:11 DIOXIDE EMISSION RATHER THAN REDUCING [Captioner] 19:59:14 THE EMISSION. SO CAN YOU ADDRESS [Captioner] 19:59:18 THAT? >> SO WHEN WE DO OUR GREENHOUSE GAS [Captioner] 19:59:21 EMISSIONS INVENTORY ACCOUNTING, WE ARE LOOKING AT EMISSIONS [Captioner] 19:59:25 ASSOCIATED WITH MANUFACTURING THAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR [Captioner] 19:59:28 COMMUNITY, IN TERMS OF WHAT WE CAN CAPTURE FROM ELECTRIC [Captioner] 19:59:31 AND GAS USAGE, AND THEN WE'RE ALSO LOOKING [Captioner] 19:59:34 AT TRANSPORTATION, SO TRIPS THAT ARE STARTING OR ENDING IN FREMONT WILL [Captioner] 19:59:38 CAPTURE HALF OF THE EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT TRIP AND THEN [Captioner] 19:59:41 WHERE THEY END OR START, YOU KNOW, THAT COMMUNITY IS ALSO [Captioner] 19:59:44 CAPTURING HALF. SO IN TERMS OF THE OTHER [Captioner] 19:59:48 EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH TESLA'S GLOBAL [Captioner] 19:59:51 OPERATIONS, WE'RE NOT SEEING THOSE EMISSIONS IN OUR ACCOUNTING AND WE [Captioner] 19:59:55 DON'T REALLY HAVE CONTROL OVER IT. I WILL SAY, [Captioner] 19:59:59 WE HAVE A SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGE WHEN IT COMES [Captioner] 20:00:02 TO LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, THE IMPACT [Captioner] 20:00:06 OF INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING IN OUR COMMUNITY VERSUS, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 20:00:09 WHAT THE PRODUCTS THAT ARE BEING MADE CAN [Captioner] 20:00:12 DO FOR THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY. SO IN THE CASE OF [Captioner] 20:00:16 TESLA, YOU KNOW, THEY ARE USING ELECTRICITY AND GAS FOR [Captioner] 20:00:19 THEIR MANUFACTURING IN A SUBSTANTIAL [Captioner] 20:00:22 WAY. THE VEHICLES THAT THEY'RE PRODUCING, [Captioner] 20:00:25 YOU KNOW, IF THAT ELECTRICITY [Captioner] 20:00:29 BEING SUPPLIED TO THOSE VEHICLES [Captioner] 20:00:32 ARE RENEWABLE THEN THOSE VEHICLES ARE RUNNING 100% CLEAN. [Captioner] 20:00:35 SO WE DO HAVE A LOT OF CLEANTECH INDUSTRY IN [Captioner] 20:00:38 FREMONT, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE SUPPORT [Captioner] 20:00:41 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE CLEANTECH BUSINESSES [Captioner] 20:00:45 , ALLOW THEM TO CONTINUE TO GROW AND OPERATE, BUT ALSO, [Captioner] 20:00:48 YOU KNOW, RECOGNIZE THAT AT THE SAME TIME, THERE NEEDS TO [Captioner] 20:00:52 BE A TAPERING OFF OF FOSSIL [Captioner] 20:00:54 FUEL CONSUMPTION ASSOCIATED WITH THAT MANUFACTURING, SO SOME OF THE MEASURES [Captioner] 20:00:58 YOU'LL SEE IN THE PLAN, WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT THE COMMERCIAL [Captioner] 20:01:01 SECTOR, THE NON-RESIDENTIAL SECTOR, WE DO MAKE [Captioner] 20:01:04 PROVISIONS FOR CORE INDUSTRIAL [Captioner] 20:01:08 OPERATIONS BECAUSE AT THIS TIME, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 20:01:11 THERE ARE NOT NECESSARILY [Captioner] 20:01:15 EASY REPLACEMENTS FOR USING GAS IN THE [Captioner] 20:01:18 PRODUCTION OF SOME OF THE EQUIPMENT BEING MADE HERE. [Captioner] 20:01:23 BUT LONG TERM, YES, THAT IS THE GOAL [Captioner] 20:01:26 . AND IT IS CHALLENGING, ALSO, TO BE [Captioner] 20:01:29 ABLE TO GET INSIGHT SOMETIMES ON ALL OF THE [Captioner] 20:01:33 MISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH A COMPANY LIKE TESLA, WHO, YOU KNOW, MAY [Captioner] 20:01:36 ALSO KEEP SOME INDUSTRY SECRETS. >> Councilmember Shao: THANK YOU VERY [Captioner] 20:01:39 MUCH. YOU KNOW, TOO BAD [Captioner] 20:01:42 YOU HAVEN'T [Captioner] 20:01:46 ENENACTED ANY LAW TO LEVY A CARBON [Captioner] 20:01:49 TAX UNLIKE SOME EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. OTHERWISE [Captioner] 20:01:52 JUST BY THE AMOUNT OF TAX THEY PAY, THAT CAN [Captioner] 20:01:56 CALCULATE HOW MUCH CARBON FOOTPRINT THEY GENERATED EVERY YEAR. [Captioner] 20:02:04 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. CLARIFYING QUESTIONS, COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 20:02:09 SALWAN. >> Councilmember Salwan: THANK YOU, [Captioner] 20:02:11 MADAME MAYOR, AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. [Captioner] 20:02:14 YOU MENTIONED THE SCHOOLS, AND IN THE PAST, THE SCHOOLS [Captioner] 20:02:17 HAVE BEEN THE LARGEST GENERATOR OF GREENHOUSE [Captioner] 20:02:20 GASES. HOW DO WE GET THEM [Captioner] 20:02:23 INVOLVED TO REDUCE THEIR CARBON FOOTPRINT? [Captioner] 20:02:26 >> YEAH, SO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS, YOU KNOW, BEEN [Captioner] 20:02:29 DOING A LOT IN TERMS OF TRYING TO IMPROVE THEIR OWN OPERATIONS. [Captioner] 20:02:33 OBVIOUSLY WE DON'T HAVE AS MUCH CONTROL OVER WHAT [Captioner] 20:02:36 THEY DO WITH THEIR OPERATIONS, BUT IN TERMS OF [Captioner] 20:02:40 ENERGY CONSUMPTION, YOU KNOW, I'M AWARE THAT THERE ARE EFFORTS [Captioner] 20:02:43 UNDERWAY TO GET SOLAR AND BATTERY ON A NUMBER OF SCHOOL SITES. [Captioner] 20:02:47 THERE'S ALSO ELECTRIFICATION OF THE SCHOOL [Captioner] 20:02:50 DISTRICT'S BUS FLEET, AND THEN [Captioner] 20:02:53 ON THE SIDE OF [Captioner] 20:02:56 THE STUDENTS AND CURRICULUM, THERE'S SOME REALLY SUBSTANTIAL EFFORTS [Captioner] 20:02:59 UNDERWAY, SO CLEAN, THE CLIMATE LITERACY, ENVIRONMENTAL [Captioner] 20:03:02 EDUCATION NETWORK WAS ESTABLISHED TWO YEARS [Captioner] 20:03:05 AGO AFTER THE FREMONT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT [Captioner] 20:03:09 ADOPTED A POLICY THAT WAS ACTUALLY BROUGHT TO [Captioner] 20:03:12 THEM BY STUDENTS FOR CLIMATE LITERACY TO ENSURE [Captioner] 20:03:16 THAT ALL STUDENTS WOULD BE GRADUATED AS [Captioner] 20:03:19 CLIMATE-LITERATE. SO NOW THIS EFFORT, THE CLEAN [Captioner] 20:03:22 EFFORT IS KIND OF A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS [Captioner] 20:03:25 AND THE STAFF, AND [Captioner] 20:03:28 TEACHERS TO IDENTIFY [Captioner] 20:03:32 WHERE CURRICULUM CAN BE DEVELOPED AND ENHANCED TO FOCUS [Captioner] 20:03:35 ON CLIMATE EDUCATION AND IMPROVE THE STUDENTS' CLIMATE [Captioner] 20:03:39 LITERACY, AS WELL AS BRING IN PROGRAMMING THAT, YOU [Captioner] 20:03:42 KNOW, IS RELATED TO [Captioner] 20:03:43 COMMUNITY-WIDE CLIMATE ACTION EFFORTS. [Captioner] 20:03:47 AND SO I'VE BEEN WORKING CLOSELY WITH [Captioner] 20:03:50 STUDENTS AND STAFF, NATE [Captioner] 20:03:53 IVY IS ONE OF OUR SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSIONERS AND HE'S LEADING [Captioner] 20:03:57 THE CLEAN EFFORT TO REALLY LOOK AT WHAT ARE [Captioner] 20:04:00 SOME OF THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE CAN PROVIDE AS THE [Captioner] 20:04:03 CITY TO ENGAGE STUDENTS IN, YOU [Captioner] 20:04:06 KNOW, PROGRAMS AND EFFORTS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN [Captioner] 20:04:09 THE COMMUNITY, AND THE STUDENTS, YOU KNOW, ARE ALSO VERY [Captioner] 20:04:13 STRONG ADVOCATES TO THE BOARD ITSELF IN TERMS OF [Captioner] 20:04:16 PUSHING FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO IMPROVE ITS [Captioner] 20:04:20 OWN ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT. [Captioner] 20:04:23 DO YOU WANT TO ADD? >> I WOULD JUST ADD, COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 20:04:26 SALWAN, THAT ON THE SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION, WE HAVE [Captioner] 20:04:29 ONE SEAT THAT'S SET ASIDE FOR A REPRESENTATIVE [Captioner] 20:04:33 FROM FREMONT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THAT'S [Captioner] 20:04:36 NATE IVY THAT RACHEL MENTIONED. WE ALSO HAVE [Captioner] 20:04:39 A STUDENT COMMISSIONER, SO THAT IS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO HAVE [Captioner] 20:04:42 LIAISONS WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND SORT OF A GOOD WAY TO FOSTER [Captioner] 20:04:45 COLLABORATION. >> Councilmember [Captioner] 20:04:48 Salwan: THANK YOU. SO IN THIS 2045 PLAN, LIKE WHAT ARE [Captioner] 20:04:51 THE BIG THINGS THAT WE'RE GOING TO TACKLE SO THAT WE [Captioner] 20:04:54 CAN GO TO NET ZERO? >> YEAH, I MEAN, THE [Captioner] 20:04:58 AREAS WHERE MOST OF OUR EMISSIONS ARE ARE THE [Captioner] 20:05:01 TRANSPORTATION SECTOR AND THE BUILDING [Captioner] 20:05:05 SECTOR, SO WHEN IT COMES TO THE BUILT [Captioner] 20:05:08 ENVIRONMENT, YOU KNOW, EMISSIONS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH [Captioner] 20:05:11 ELECTRICITY -- GAS [Captioner] 20:05:13 USAGE. ELECTRICITY IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY [Captioner] 20:05:16 CLEAN. IF WE WERE TO ADOPT A CITY-WIDE POLICY [Captioner] 20:05:19 TO BRING EVERYBODY ON TO THE RENEWAL 100 RATE [Captioner] 20:05:22 PLAN UNDER EAST [Captioner] 20:05:25 BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY THAT WOULD MEAN ALL ELECTRICITY CONSUMED BY [Captioner] 20:05:29 FREMONT RES DEANSD BUSINESSES WHO ARE PART OF [Captioner] 20:05:33 EBCE WOULD BE ZERO EMISSIONS. AND THEN WE HAVE TO LOOK AT GAS [Captioner] 20:05:36 CONSUMPTION. SO THAT'S HOW CAN [Captioner] 20:05:40 WE ENCOURAGE REPLACEMENT OF GAS APPLIANCES AND [Captioner] 20:05:43 PROCESSES WITH ELECTRIC ONES WHEN THOSE [Captioner] 20:05:47 APPLIANCES ARE AT THE END OF THEIR LIFE, HOW CAN [Captioner] 20:05:51 WE REQUIRE NEW DEVELOPMENTS TO BE [Captioner] 20:05:54 ALL ELECTRIC IN DESIGN, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, FROM A [Captioner] 20:05:57 LARGER INFRASTRUCTURE PERSPECTIVE, YOU KNOW, WHAT CAN WE [Captioner] 20:06:01 DO TO, YOU KNOW, PARTNER WITH EAST BAY COMMUNITY [Captioner] 20:06:04 ENERGY AND [Captioner] 20:06:08 PG&E TO ENSURE THERE'S ENOUGH GRID CAPACITY [Captioner] 20:06:11 TO SUPPORT ELECTRIFICATION AND ALSO TO START TO TAPER OFF OF [Captioner] 20:06:14 GAS AND MAYBE, YOU KNOW, LONG TERM LOOK AT [Captioner] 20:06:16 RETIREMENT OF SOME OF THOSE GAS PIPELINES. [Captioner] 20:06:22 THEN ON THE TRANSPORTATION SIDE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT EMISSIONS [Captioner] 20:06:24 FROM BOTH PASSENGER VEHICLES AND FREIGHT VEHICLES. [Captioner] 20:06:28 AND THE PASSENGER VEHICLE SIDE, WE'VE SEEN AN INCREASING [Captioner] 20:06:31 TREND AND ADOPTION OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES. [Captioner] 20:06:34 FREMONT HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST EV OWNERSHIP LEVELS IN THE [Captioner] 20:06:37 STATE, AND YOU KNOW, AS WE HAVE [Captioner] 20:06:41 DONE OUR EMISSIONS INVENTORIES OVER THE YEARS, WE'VE [Captioner] 20:06:43 SEEN A REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH PASSENGER VEHICLES. [Captioner] 20:06:48 THAT'S BOTH BECAUSE OF TOTAL VEHICLE MILES [Captioner] 20:06:51 TRAVELED AS WELL AS IMPROVEMENTS IN OVERALL FUEL EFFICIENCY, [Captioner] 20:06:53 AND THAT INCREASE IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES. [Captioner] 20:06:57 AND THEN ON THE FREIGHT SIDE, WE REALLY [Captioner] 20:07:00 HAVEN'T SEEN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FUEL EFFICIENCY OF [Captioner] 20:07:02 THOSE FREIGHT VEHICLES IN A SIGNIFICANT WAY YET. [Captioner] 20:07:06 WE'RE JUST AT THE PRECIPICE OF FREIGHT VEHICLES, YOU [Captioner] 20:07:09 KNOW, STARTING TO CONVERT TO HYDROGEN FUEL [Captioner] 20:07:12 OR ELECTRICITY, [Captioner] 20:07:15 AND WE'VE ALSO SEEN A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN THE VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED [Captioner] 20:07:18 OF FREIGHT VEHICLES. SO THE EMISSIONS IMPACT OF THE FREIGHT [Captioner] 20:07:21 SECTOR HAS ACTUALLY GONE UP. [Captioner] 20:07:25 SO THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE SIGNIFICANT AREAS [Captioner] 20:07:28 TO FOCUS ON IN TERMS OF INCREASING ELECTRIC [Captioner] 20:07:31 VEHICLE CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE, [Captioner] 20:07:34 SUPPLYING THAT ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING WITH CLEANPOWER FROM [Captioner] 20:07:37 THE GRID, LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, HYDROGEN [Captioner] 20:07:40 FUELING AS WELL, AND THEN [Captioner] 20:07:43 IN TERMS OF PASSENGER VEHICLES AND VEHICLE MILES [Captioner] 20:07:47 TRAVELED, GETTING PEOPLE TO DRIVE [Captioner] 20:07:50 LESS, SO USING PUBLIC TRANSIT, WALKING, BIKING, [Captioner] 20:07:54 ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, MICROMOBILITY, [Captioner] 20:07:57 AND THEN ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO USE PUBLIC [Captioner] 20:08:00 TRANSIT, WHICH WE'VE SEEN A SUBSTANTIAL DECLINE IN THE USE [Captioner] 20:08:03 OF PUBLIC TRANSIT SINCE THE PANDEMIC [Captioner] 20:08:07 , AND THEN FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE DRIVING, DRIVING CLEAN VEHICLES, [Captioner] 20:08:11 AND ALSO NOT DRIVING ALONE. SO WE HAVE GOALS [Captioner] 20:08:14 ALREADY ESTABLISHED UNDER THE MOBILITY ACTION PLAN, FOR [Captioner] 20:08:17 INSTANCE, TO DECREASE THE DRIVE-ALONE RATE OF PASSENGER [Captioner] 20:08:21 VEHICLES AND TO INCREASE USE OF [Captioner] 20:08:23 MICROMOBILITY. SO THOSE ARE ALL THINGS WE CAN DO. [Captioner] 20:08:27 THOSE ARE REALLY THE BIG HITTERS IN TERMS OF [Captioner] 20:08:29 EMISSIONS. >> Councilmember Salwan: THANK YOU FOR [Captioner] 20:08:29 THAT OVERVIEW. THAT WAS GREAT. [Captioner] 20:08:33 WERE YOU GOING TO SAY ANYTHING? >> City Mgr. Shackelford: NO, GO [Captioner] 20:08:34 AHEAD. WAS THERE ANOTHER QUESTION? [Captioner] 20:08:37 >> Councilmember Salwan: OH, YES. DO WE MEASURE OUR GREENHOUSE GASES? [Captioner] 20:08:40 I MEAN, I KNOW WE HAD [Captioner] 20:08:43 THE 2012 PLAN. ARE WE HITTING THE GOALS WE SET SO [Captioner] 20:08:46 FAR? >> YES, SO YOU KNOW, WE [Captioner] 20:08:50 DO A GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY AT LEAST ON A [Captioner] 20:08:53 FIVE-YEAR BASIS. WE TRY TO DO IT MORE OFTEN THAN THAT. [Captioner] 20:08:56 THERE'S A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF WORK THAT GOES INTO COLLECTING THE [Captioner] 20:08:59 DATA ASSOCIATED WITH THE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS INVENTORY, [Captioner] 20:09:03 SO OUR [Captioner] 20:09:06 -- FOR 2005. WE HAD A 2010 UPDATE, A 2015 UPDATE [Captioner] 20:09:09 AND THEN FOR THE PLAN, WE LOOKED AT EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE [Captioner] 20:09:12 YEAR 2018, BECAUSE WE STARTED TO COLLECT THAT DATA [Captioner] 20:09:16 IN 2020 AS WE WERE WORKING ON THIS PLAN, [Captioner] 20:09:21 AND CONSIDERED POTENTIALLY USING 2020 BUT [Captioner] 20:09:24 REALIZED THAT YOU KNOW, AS WE ENTERED THE PANDEMIC, THERE [Captioner] 20:09:27 WERE ANOMALIES IN THE DATA THAT WE DIDN'T WANT TO [Captioner] 20:09:30 KIND RELY ON IN TERMS OF LOOKING AT LONG TERM [Captioner] 20:09:34 TRENDS, SO WHEN WE [Captioner] 20:09:37 DID OUR 2018 INVENTORY UPDATE, WE SAW WE HAD ACTUALLY ACHIEVED [Captioner] 20:09:41 THE GOAL OF THE FIRST CLIMATE ACTION PLAN IN TERMS OF THAT [Captioner] 20:09:43 25% EMISSION REDUCTION BY THE YEAR 2020. [Captioner] 20:09:47 A BIG PORTION OF THOSE EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS ACTUALLY [Captioner] 20:09:50 CAME FROM CLEANER ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION, SO [Captioner] 20:09:53 WHEN WE JOINED EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY, WE IMMEDIATELY HAD A [Captioner] 20:09:56 REDUCTION IN THE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH ENERGY BEING [Captioner] 20:10:00 USED FROM THE GRID, BECAUSE [Captioner] 20:10:04 EBCE PUT OUT A CLEANER RATE [Captioner] 20:10:07 PLAN THAN PG&E HAD AT THE TIME. SO WE SAW A [Captioner] 20:10:10 10% REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS FROM THAT. MOVING [Captioner] 20:10:13 FORWARD, THOUGH, YOU KNOW, TO ACHIEVE [Captioner] 20:10:17 THOSE ADDITIONAL GOALS WE HAVE FOR 2030 [Captioner] 20:10:20 AND 2045, IT WILL REQUIRE LOOKING AT THOSE AREAS THAT I MENTIONED [Captioner] 20:10:23 PREVIOUSLY. [Captioner] 20:10:27 >> Councilmember Salwan: YOU MENTIONED A NEW FRAMEWORK ABOUT LIKE [Captioner] 20:10:30 SEE [Captioner] 20:10:33 CEQA AND LOOKING AT PROJECTS THROUGH THIS CLIMATE ACTION PLAN. [Captioner] 20:10:35 COULD YOU KIND OF EXPLAIN THAT A LITTLE FURTHER? [Captioner] 20:10:38 I WAS KIND OF INTRIGUED BY THAT. >> SO OUR FIRST CLIMATE [Captioner] 20:10:41 ACTION PLAN WAS NOT WHAT WE'D TERM A SEE [Captioner] 20:10:45 CEQA [Captioner] 20:10:48 QUALIFIED PLAN. IT DIDN'T TIE INTO THE [Captioner] 20:10:51 DEVELOPMENT PROCESS. THIS CLIMATE ACTION PLAN, YOU [Captioner] 20:10:55 KNOW, WHAT WE'LL BE DOING AND WHAT [Captioner] 20:10:58 OUR CONSULTANT IS WORKING ON NOW [Captioner] 20:11:02 IS A DOCUMENT THAT PROVIDES THE [Captioner] 20:11:05 BASIS FOR EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE [Captioner] 20:11:09 MEASURES AND ACTIONS IN OUR PLAN, AND THEN PROVIDING [Captioner] 20:11:13 A CHECKLIST THAT CAN BE UTILIZED AT THE PROJECT LEVEL BY OUR [Captioner] 20:11:16 PLANNERS TO SAY, WHEN A NEW PROJECT COMES [Captioner] 20:11:19 THROUGH, IF YOU DO THESE THINGS, THESE ACTIONS, IF [Captioner] 20:11:22 YOU INCORPORATE THESE DIFFERENT ACTIONS INTO [Captioner] 20:11:25 YOUR PROJECT, WHICH ARE SPECIFICALLY TIED TO OUR [Captioner] 20:11:29 CLIMATE ACTION PLAN WHICH WE'VE DONE EMISSION REDUCTION CALCULATIONS [Captioner] 20:11:33 FOR, THEN YOU ARE ALIGNING WITH OUR CLIMATE ACTION PLAN, YOU DON'T [Captioner] 20:11:36 HAVE -- YOU KNOW, YOU'RE SHOWING THAT YOU'RE REDUCING [Captioner] 20:11:39 THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF YOUR PROJECT, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO YOUR OWN [Captioner] 20:11:43 EMISSIONS REDUCTION ANALYSIS AND PROPOSE [Captioner] 20:11:46 MEASURES FOR MITIGATION THAT MIGHT NOT BE EXACTLY ALIGNED WITH [Captioner] 20:11:50 OUR PLAN. SO BY DOING A [Captioner] 20:11:53 CEQA QUALIFIED PLAN, [Captioner] 20:11:57 WE'RE, ONE, HELPING THOSE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS THAT ARE [Captioner] 20:12:00 ENVIRONMENTALLY FOCUSED TO GET THROUGH THE PROCESS [Captioner] 20:12:03 POTENTIALLY FASTER, BUT THEN ALSO ENSURE [Captioner] 20:12:07 ING THAT THOSE PROJECTS THAT ARE COMING THROUGH THAT ARE ENVIRONMENTALLY [Captioner] 20:12:11 ALIGNED ARE ACHIEVING THE GOALS OF OUR PLAN [Captioner] 20:12:15 BECAUSE THEY'RE TIERING OFF OF IT. DOES THAT [Captioner] 20:12:18 MAKE SENSE? >> Councilmember Salwan: YEAH, THAT'S [Captioner] 20:12:21 GOOD. HOPEFULLY WE CAN GRADE THEM, HOW [Captioner] 20:12:22 CLIMATE-FRIENDLY THEY ARE. THEN YOU MENTIONED THE GRID. [Captioner] 20:12:26 I KNOW THAT'S A BIG FACTOR IN ALL THIS ELECTRIFICATION, IS [Captioner] 20:12:29 CAN THE GRID HANDLE IT. SO HOPEFULLY -- I [Captioner] 20:12:31 GUESS WE'LL HAVE TO WORK WITH THE STATE OR -- [Captioner] 20:12:34 >> YEAH, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME INTERESTING [Captioner] 20:12:38 STUDIES BEING DONE RIGHT NOW, I ACTUALLY WAS JUST READING [Captioner] 20:12:41 AN ARTICLE TODAY THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A STUDY DONE AT THE STATE [Captioner] 20:12:45 LEVEL THAT SAID THE COST OF MODERNIZING THE GRID [Captioner] 20:12:48 TO SUPPORT ELECTRIFICATION, YOU KNOW, REALLY KIND OF [Captioner] 20:12:52 FOCUSING ON [Captioner] 20:12:56 THE ELECTRIC VEHICLES COMING ON TO THE GRID WOULD BE [Captioner] 20:12:59 $50 BILLION, AND THEN THIS NEW STUDY SAID [Captioner] 20:13:03 ACTUALLY IF WE LOOK AT THE TIME THOSE VEHICLES ARE CHARGING [Captioner] 20:13:06 AND WE DO MANAGE CHARGING AND NOT HAVE ALL THE VEHICLES [Captioner] 20:13:09 PLUGGING IN AT ONCE, THEN IT COULD BE SUBSTANTIALLY LESS, [Captioner] 20:13:12 SO THIS AREA WAS SAYING LIKE 15 [Captioner] 20:13:15 TO $20 BILLION, STILL A VERY LARGE [Captioner] 20:13:19 CHUNK OF CHANGE, BUT THERE'S [Captioner] 20:13:22 A SIGNIFICANT RECOGNITION FROM THE STATE AND THE UTILITIES [Captioner] 20:13:26 THAT INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADES ARE GOING TO HAVE TO HAPPEN [Captioner] 20:13:29 TO SUPPORT THE GOALS THAT THE STATE HAS [Captioner] 20:13:34 ADOPTED, AND WE'RE -- IN THINKING [Captioner] 20:13:37 ABOUT OUR OWN FACILITIES AND TRYING TO ELECTRIFY OUR [Captioner] 20:13:40 BUILDINGS AND CONVERT OUR FLEET VEHICLES TO [Captioner] 20:13:43 ELECTRIC, YOU KNOW, CAN OUR OWN INFRASTRUCTURE HANDLE THAT AND [Captioner] 20:13:47 WHAT KIND OF INVESTMENTS DO WE NEED TO MAKE TO BRING [Captioner] 20:13:50 THEM, YOU KNOW, TO THAT TIER. SO IT IS [Captioner] 20:13:53 A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT. THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME [Captioner] 20:13:57 STRUGGLES OVER THE COMING YEARS FROM THIS BIGGER INFRASTRUCTURE [Captioner] 20:14:00 PERSPECTIVE, BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE KNOW NEED TO HAPPENS A WELL. [Captioner] 20:14:04 >> Councilmember Salwan: THANK YOU. AND LAST QUESTION, I THINK YOU [Captioner] 20:14:06 MENTIONED DEDICATED FUNDING FOR THE FIRST TIME FROM THE CIP. [Captioner] 20:14:10 IS THAT REFERRING TO THE NEW EV CARS AND THE [Captioner] 20:14:14 ELECTRICAL CHARGING STATIONS? >> [Captioner] 20:14:18 YEAH, SO THERE ARE [Captioner] 20:14:21 5 MILLION ALLOCATION FOR EV STRUCTURE UPGRADES [Captioner] 20:14:24 AND ALSO AN ALLOCATION FOR HVAC REPLACEMENT, I BELIEVE -- [Captioner] 20:14:28 WAS IT 9 MILLION, DAN? HANS WOULD REMEMBER. [Captioner] 20:14:31 BUT IT'S AN ALLOCATION FOR THE FACILITY [Captioner] 20:14:34 UPGRADES, ESPECIALLY RELATED TO THE HVAC [Captioner] 20:14:38 REPLACEMENT, AND LOOKING AT ELECTRIFY [Captioner] 20:14:41 ING THOSE AGO WELL. I HAVE A NOTE ON IT SOMEWHERE. [Captioner] 20:14:43 >> Councilmember Salwan: IT'S OKAY, THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:14:44 I REMEMBER. THANK YOU SO MUCH. [Captioner] 20:14:46 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN. [Captioner] 20:14:50 NEXT FOR CLARIFYING QUESTIONS, COUNCILMEMBER KENG. [Captioner] 20:14:55 >> Councilmember Keng: THANK [Captioner] 20:14:58 YOU, MADAME MAYOR, AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH [Captioner] 20:15:02 , FOR YOUR REPORT. I SEE WE HAVE THE DATA [Captioner] 20:15:06 THAT THE CITY OF FREMONT, OUR GREENHOUSE [Captioner] 20:15:09 EMISSION HAD A REDUCTION OF 29.7% [Captioner] 20:15:12 FROM 2005, AND I THINK WE HAD COME A LONG [Captioner] 20:15:16 WAY AND OUR NEXT GOAL [Captioner] 20:15:20 OF -- TO GREENHOUSE EMISSION LEVEL IS [Captioner] 20:15:24 TO BE REDUCED BY 55% [Captioner] 20:15:27 BY 2030, WHICH BY MY CALCULATION IF NOT [Captioner] 20:15:31 WRONG IS 25% IN THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS. SO DO [Captioner] 20:15:34 YOU THINK -- I THINK MAYBE SOME OVERLAPPING WITH SOME OF YOUR [Captioner] 20:15:37 PREVIOUS ANSWERS BUT MAYBE IF YOU COULD RECAP FOR [Captioner] 20:15:40 US HOW THE PREVIOUS REDUCTION [Captioner] 20:15:44 OF 29.7%, HOW THAT WAS MEASURED [Captioner] 20:15:47 AND HOW THASTLES ACHIEVED, MAJORITY [Captioner] 20:15:50 OF IT. >> SO THE REDUCTION WAS ACTUALLY [Captioner] 20:15:54 CLOSER TO 25%, AND YOU KNOW, THERE'S ALSO -- [Captioner] 20:15:57 WHEN WE'VE DONE INVENTORY UPDATES, WE'VE INCLUDED SOME NEW [Captioner] 20:16:00 SECTORS THAT WEREN'T IN THE ORIGINAL INVENTORY, SO YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 20:16:03 IT MIGHT LOOK KIND OF WEIRD IF YOU'RE LOOKING BACK AT [Captioner] 20:16:06 OLD NUMBERS. BUT YEAH, SO YOU KNOW, IT'S ANOTHER [Captioner] 20:16:10 30% REDUCTION FROM THE 2018 LEVELS [Captioner] 20:16:13 TO 2030 THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO ACHIEVE WITH THIS [Captioner] 20:16:17 PLAN, AND LIKE I WAS SAYING [Captioner] 20:16:20 TO COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN, THERE'S A LOT OF WORK THAT [Captioner] 20:16:23 WE CAN DO IN THE BUILDING AND THE TRANSPORTATION [Captioner] 20:16:27 SECTORS TO ACHIEVE THOSE EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS. [Captioner] 20:16:30 YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO ARE [Captioner] 20:16:34 ENCOURAGING BUSINESSES AND RESIDENTS TO ADOPT [Captioner] 20:16:37 NEW TECHNOLOGIES. SOME OF THE THINGS WE CAN DO ARE [Captioner] 20:16:40 GOING TO REQUIRE POLICY MEASURES, [Captioner] 20:16:43 SO IF WE, FOR INSTANCE, WERE [Captioner] 20:16:46 TO ADOPT RENEWABLE 100 AS THE [Captioner] 20:16:50 BASE ELECTRIC RATE PLAN FOR RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES IN [Captioner] 20:16:53 FREMONT, THEN THAT WOULD BE 100% CLEAN ELECTRICITY. [Captioner] 20:16:57 SO THERE ARE POLICY ME [Captioner] 20:17:00 MEASURES WE CAN TAKE THAT WILL HAVE THOSE [Captioner] 20:17:03 REDUCTIONS. THE NEW CONSTRUCTION SECTOR IS NOT [Captioner] 20:17:07 GOING TO ACHIEVE NEARLY AS MUCH OF A EMISSIONS REDUCTION [Captioner] 20:17:10 AS LOOKING AT EXISTING BUILDINGS. SO THAT IS [Captioner] 20:17:14 SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT AS WELL. YOU KNOW, HOW [Captioner] 20:17:17 CAN WE ENSURE THAT EXISTING BUILDINGS ARE [Captioner] 20:17:20 REDUCING THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT BY USING [Captioner] 20:17:24 CLEANPOWER, YOU KNOW, INSTALLING SOLAR, [Captioner] 20:17:27 AND THEN ELECTRIFYING THEIR PROCESSES [Captioner] 20:17:30 AND APPLIANCES AS WELL. DID I ANSWER THAT QUESTION? [Captioner] 20:17:32 >> Councilmember Keng: YES, THANK YOU. >> OKAY. [Captioner] 20:17:37 >> Mayor Mei: NEXT CLARIFYING QUESTIONS, COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL. [Captioner] 20:17:43 >> Councilmember Campbell: HELLO [Captioner] 20:17:46 . THANK YOU, YOU ANSWERED QUITE A FEW OF [Captioner] 20:17:50 MY QUESTIONS DURING THE Q & A, AND YOU ALSO SPENT [Captioner] 20:17:54 A WHOLE HOUR WITH ME, SHARING YOUR PLAN, AND I REALLY, [Captioner] 20:17:57 REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT. ESPECIALLY BEING THE NEWEST [Captioner] 20:18:01 COUNCILMEMBER. BUT I [Captioner] 20:18:04 DID -- THROUGH YOUR PRESENTATION, [Captioner] 20:18:06 I COULD ASK A COUPLE OF ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. [Captioner] 20:18:09 ONE IS ABOUT THE GASOLINE STATIONS. I NOTICED [Captioner] 20:18:12 THAT A NEW STATION IS COMING UP AT MISSION [Captioner] 20:18:15 AND NILES BOULEVARD, THERE'S A BIG ONE ON THE CORNER THERE. [Captioner] 20:18:20 AND I WAS WONDERING ABOUT [Captioner] 20:18:24 WHETHER OR NOT FREMONT NEEDS MORE GASOLINE [Captioner] 20:18:27 STATIONS. WHO WE BE [Captioner] 20:18:30 GETTING AHEAD OF OURSELVES IF WE PROHIBITED GASOLINE STATIONS BECAUSE [Captioner] 20:18:33 WE NEED THEM OR BECAUSE THERE'S STILL ATE [Captioner] 20:18:37 A LOT OF CARS OUT THERE THAT TAKE [Captioner] 20:18:40 GAS, MINE BEING ONE OF THEM, AND SO I [Captioner] 20:18:43 WOULD NOT LIKE TO HAVE TO TRAVEL WAY ACROSS THE [Captioner] 20:18:46 CITY TO GET GAS. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT? [Captioner] 20:18:49 >> YEAH, SO, YOU KNOW, THE ACTION [Captioner] 20:18:52 THAT'S IN THE PLAN RELATED TO PUTTING A [Captioner] 20:18:55 MORATORIUM ON NEW GASOLINE SERVICE STATIONS IS SOMETHING THAT WOULD HAVE [Captioner] 20:18:59 TO COME TO COUNCIL AS AN [Captioner] 20:19:02 ITEM. IT'S NOT IN THE [Captioner] 20:19:05 THREE-YEAR GAME PLAN AT THIS TIME. BUT [Captioner] 20:19:08 THERE WOULD BE ANALYSIS WE WOULD DO [Captioner] 20:19:11 AT THAT POINT TO LOOK AT HOW MANY GASOLINE SERVICE STATIONS DO WE HAVE [Captioner] 20:19:14 IN FREMONT, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE AMOUNT [Captioner] 20:19:18 OF GAS VEHICLE VERSUS ELECTRIC VEHICLE OWNERSHIP, YOU [Captioner] 20:19:22 KNOW, WHAT ARE THE TRENDS, YOU KNOW [Captioner] 20:19:25 , WOULD IT BE A BURDEN TO DISALLOW [Captioner] 20:19:28 NEW GAS STATIONS AND WOULD [Captioner] 20:19:31 THAT BURDEN BE OVERSHADOWED BY THE [Captioner] 20:19:34 BENEFIT OF THE EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS ACHIEVED. [Captioner] 20:19:37 SO WE WOULD BE DOING SOME SUBSTANTIAL ANALYSIS IF WE [Captioner] 20:19:40 WERE TO BRING THAT FORWARD. IN THE SHORT TERM, [Captioner] 20:19:44 THE FOCUS IS REALLY TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE [Captioner] 20:19:48 CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE AVAILABLE IN THE COMMUNITY, SO THAT [Captioner] 20:19:51 WE'RE CONTINUING TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO ADOPT EVs. [Captioner] 20:19:54 YOU KNOW, EVs HAVE [Captioner] 20:19:58 BEEN MORE EXPENSIVE THAN GAS VEHICLES, [Captioner] 20:20:01 TRADITIONALLY THERE HAVE BEEN INCENTIVES TO HELP REDUCE THAT [Captioner] 20:20:04 COST. CURRENTLY THE FEDERAL TAX CREDIT [Captioner] 20:20:08 ASSOCIATED WITH ELECTRIC VEHICLES ARE LIMITED TO VEHICLES [Captioner] 20:20:11 THAT HAVE A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF THEIR COMPONENTS [Captioner] 20:20:15 MANUFACTURED IN THE U.S., SO THAT IS A VERY LIMITED AMOUNT [Captioner] 20:20:18 OF VEHICLES. BUT THERE ARE ALSO PROGRAMS LIKE [Captioner] 20:20:21 THE CLEAN CARS FOR ALL THAT IS MANAGED BY [Captioner] 20:20:25 THE BAY AREA QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT THAT [Captioner] 20:20:28 ALLOWS THE PURCHASE OF USED ELECTRIC VEHICLES FOR [Captioner] 20:20:31 PEOPLE WHO BECOME QUALIFIED. SO WE WANT TO [Captioner] 20:20:35 ENCOURAGE THOSE KINDS OF PROGRAMS TO [Captioner] 20:20:39 ALLOW ELECTRIC VEHICLE [Captioner] 20:20:42 OWNERSHIP OVER ALL LEVELS SO REALLY THINKING ABOUT [Captioner] 20:20:45 THE EQUITY CONSIDERATIONS THERE, AND THEN PROVIDING THAT INFRASTRUCTURE [Captioner] 20:20:48 THAT CAN SUPPORT THAT. SO CURRENTLY IF YOU'RE IN A [Captioner] 20:20:52 SINGLE-FAMILY HOME, IT'S FAIRLY EASY TO PUT [Captioner] 20:20:55 IN YOUR OWN, YOU KNOW, CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT [Captioner] 20:20:58 AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE, BUT IF YOU LIVE IN [Captioner] 20:21:01 MULTIFAMILY HOUSING, APARTMENTS OR CONDOS, IT'S A LOT MORE [Captioner] 20:21:05 DIFFICULT TO DO THAT. AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE [Captioner] 20:21:08 BEEN WORKING ON IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY [Captioner] 20:21:11 IS IDENTIFYING LOCATIONS THAT EBCE [Captioner] 20:21:15 CONSIDERS MULTIFAMILY HOT SPOTS. SO WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF [Captioner] 20:21:18 MULTIFAMILY PROPERTIES IN A LOCAL AREA [Captioner] 20:21:23 , AND LOOKING AT CITY PROPERTIES WHERE EAST BAY [Captioner] 20:21:26 COMMUNITY ENERGY COULD ACTUALLY INSTALL [Captioner] 20:21:29 DC FAST CHARGING STATIONS, THESE HUBS OF FAST CHARGING STATIONS, [Captioner] 20:21:32 SO 12 OR MORE CHARGERS IN ONE LOCATION, TO ALLOW FOR [Captioner] 20:21:36 PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THOSE KINDS OF UNITS [Captioner] 20:21:39 TO COME AND CHARGE THEIR VEHICLES QUICKLY AND THEN [Captioner] 20:21:42 GO BACK HOME, SO THAT THEY'RE NOT DEALING WITH THE [Captioner] 20:21:45 CHALLENGES OF AN HOA OR PROPERTY [Captioner] 20:21:48 MANAGER WHO DOESN'T WANT TO SUPPORT THAT INFRASTRUCTURE. [Captioner] 20:21:53 SO HOPEFULLY THAT'S HELPFUL. >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 20:21:56 YES, THAT WAS VERY HELPFUL. BUT MY NEXT QUESTION, SPEAKING OF [Captioner] 20:22:00 INCENTIVES, THAT WAS MY NEXT QUESTION. [Captioner] 20:22:06 BECAUSE YOU MENTIONED TWO THINGS. ONE WAS [Captioner] 20:22:09 INCENTIVE -- OR HAVING SOME [Captioner] 20:22:12 PLAN AROUND RESIDENTIAL [Captioner] 20:22:15 PROPERTY TURNING THEIR HOMES INTO, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 20:22:19 FROM GAS TO ELECTRIC, FROM GAS STOVES, FROM [Captioner] 20:22:22 GAS FURNACES, AND THEN YOU ALSO MENTIONED [Captioner] 20:22:27 THE BUSINESSES AND ESPECIALLY NEW [Captioner] 20:22:30 DEVELOPMENT GOING TO ELECTRIC [Captioner] 20:22:33 . ARE THERE ANY -- [Captioner] 20:22:37 IS THE CITY CONSIDERING ANY INCENTIVE PROGRAMS FOR EACH OF THESE [Captioner] 20:22:40 TYPES OF CONVERSIONS? >> YEAH, SO WE'RE [Captioner] 20:22:43 NOT OFFERING INCENTIVE DISTRICT DRECTLY FROM THE [Captioner] 20:22:46 S [Captioner] 20:22:49 DIRECTLY FROM THE CITY BUT THERE ARE STATE, REGIONAL AND [Captioner] 20:22:52 FEDERAL PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT THAT. [Captioner] 20:22:56 SO OUR JOB IS REALLY TO ADVERTISE [Captioner] 20:22:59 THOSE PROGRAMS, TO WORK WITH THE ORGANIZES THAT HAVE [Captioner] 20:23:02 THOSE INCENTIVES AVAILABLE AND MAKE SURE PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THEM AND ARE [Captioner] 20:23:05 ABLE TO ACCESS THEM. SOME OF THOSE 16TIVES GO DIRECTLY TO [Captioner] 20:23:08 THE CONSUMER, AND SOME OF THEM MAY GO TO, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 20:23:11 THE VENDOR, THE INSTALLER, SO THAT, [Captioner] 20:23:14 YOU KNOW, WHAT THE HOMEOWNER OR BUSINESS [Captioner] 20:23:18 OWNER IS PAYING FOR IS JUST THE POST [Captioner] 20:23:21 REBATE COST. SO FOR INSTANCE, [Captioner] 20:23:24 THE BAY AREA REGIONAL ENERGY NETWORK, WHICH IS [Captioner] 20:23:28 THE NINE BAY AREA COUNTY PROGRAM FOR ENERGY [Captioner] 20:23:31 UPGRADES, CURRENTLY HAS AN INCENTIVE PROGRAM [Captioner] 20:23:34 FOR HOME UPGRADES WHERE, YOU KNOW, THEY LOOK AT KIND OF [Captioner] 20:23:38 A PACKAGE OF MEASURES SO YOU CAN DO INSTALLATION, [Captioner] 20:23:41 YOU CAN DO APPLIANCE UPGRADES, FURNACE, WATER [Captioner] 20:23:44 HEATER UPGRADES, AND THEY HAVE SPECIFIC INCENTIVES THAT [Captioner] 20:23:47 HELP WITH ELECTRIFICATION. [Captioner] 20:23:52 SO THERE'S A HEAT PUMP WATER HEATER INCENTIVE THAT [Captioner] 20:23:55 REALLY HELPS TO OFFSET THE EXTRA COST OF [Captioner] 20:23:58 A HEAT PUMP WATER HEATER COMPARED TO A [Captioner] 20:24:02 CONVENTIONAL WATER E [Captioner] 20:24:05 HEATER. SO THOSE ARE THE TYPES OF PROGRAMS WE [Captioner] 20:24:09 WANT TO ENCOURAGE, THERE'S A LOT OF EFFORT TO [Captioner] 20:24:12 INCREASE INCENTIVES TO PEOPLE WHO ARE LOW INCOME [Captioner] 20:24:15 OR OTHERWISE DISADVANTAGED. WE'RE CURRENTLY LOOKING [Captioner] 20:24:18 AT WHAT ARE THOSE SOME OPPORTUNITIES? WE [Captioner] 20:24:22 ACTUALLY JUST PUT OUT A FLYER TO ALL OF OUR MULTIFAMILY [Captioner] 20:24:26 AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROPERTY OWNERS AND MANAGERS ABOUT A [Captioner] 20:24:29 NUMBER OF DIFFERENT INCENTIVES THAT ARE OUT THERE FROM THE [Captioner] 20:24:33 REGIONAL AND THE STATE AND EVEN THE FEDERAL LEVEL TO HELP SUPPORT [Captioner] 20:24:36 THE UPGRADE OF LOW INCOME [Captioner] 20:24:39 AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROPERTIES. [Captioner] 20:24:42 SO WE'RE CONSTANTLY TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, IDENTIFY THOSE OPPORTUNITY [Captioner] 20:24:45 AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. I MEAN, WE DON'T HAVE A [Captioner] 20:24:49 BUDGET TO OFFER INCENTIVES OURSELVES, BUT WE CAN SUPPORT THE WORK [Captioner] 20:24:51 THAT'S HAPPENING AT THE REGIONAL AND STATEWIDE LEVEL. [Captioner] 20:24:55 >> Councilmember Campbell: WONDERFUL. THAT WOULD BE GREAT INFORMATION TO [Captioner] 20:24:58 SHARE WITH ALL OF OUR FAMILIES [Captioner] 20:25:01 ACROSS OUR PLATFORMS OF [Captioner] 20:25:05 NEWSLETTERS, ET CETERA. AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION IS, IN [Captioner] 20:25:09 TERMS OF BUILDING STANDARD, ARE THERE [Captioner] 20:25:12 BUILDING STANDARDS THAT WE WILL BE ADOPTING FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT, WHETHER [Captioner] 20:25:15 IT FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING OR [Captioner] 20:25:19 OTHERWISE, IN ADDITION TO BUSINESSES, RESIDENTIAL HOUSING, ET [Captioner] 20:25:22 CETERA? >> SO THE CALIFORNIA [Captioner] 20:25:25 BUILDING STANDARD CODE GET UPDATED ON A THREE-YEAR CYCLE. [Captioner] 20:25:30 AND THEN EVERY YEAR, THEY'RE [Captioner] 20:25:33 MAKING IMPROVEMENTS TO THE BUILDING STANDARDS RELATED [Captioner] 20:25:36 TO ENERGY, SO THE CALIFORNIA ENERGY CODE IS THE MOST [Captioner] 20:25:40 STRINGENT ENERGY CODE IN THE COUNTRY, AND A LOT OF [Captioner] 20:25:43 OTHER STATE ACTUALLY PIGGY BACK OFF OF OUR CALIFORNIA ENERGY [Captioner] 20:25:47 CODE, AND YET AT THE SAME TIME, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE [Captioner] 20:25:49 THINGS THAT STATEWIDE CODE MAY STILL NOT DO. [Captioner] 20:25:53 AND SO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS CAN ADOPT WHAT WE [Captioner] 20:25:56 CALL REACH CODES TO GO BEYOND THE STATE CODE, AND [Captioner] 20:25:59 WE HAVE TO DO IT AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, AND WE [Captioner] 20:26:02 HAVE TO PROVE THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF THOSE CODES [Captioner] 20:26:05 SO THERE IS ALL THESE EFFORTS SUPPORTED BY THE [Captioner] 20:26:09 UTILITY TO DO COST-EFFECTIVENESS STUDIES THAT WILL BACK [Captioner] 20:26:13 UP THOSE CODES [Captioner] 20:26:16 AND SO ONE OF THE VERY POPULAR MEASURES IN THIS [Captioner] 20:26:19 LAST BUILDING COLD CYCLE WAS TO [Captioner] 20:26:23 ADOPT -- REQUIRING NEW [Captioner] 20:26:26 CONSTRUCTION ESPECIALLY ON THE RESIDENTIAL SIDE TO BE ALL [Captioner] 20:26:29 ELECTRIC. THERE'S NOW SOME CHALLENGES THE CITY [Captioner] 20:26:32 OF BERKELEY IS FACING BECAUSE OF THAT CODE, AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT, YOU [Captioner] 20:26:36 KNOW, WHERE THERE MAY BE [Captioner] 20:26:39 OPPORTUNITY STILL TO ADOPT REACH CODES THAT [Captioner] 20:26:43 DON'T CONFLICT WITH -- OR CONFLICT [Captioner] 20:26:46 WITH, YOU KNOW, THE LEGAL CHALLENGES THAT BERKELEY IS [Captioner] 20:26:49 FACING, AND THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN [Captioner] 20:26:52 PROPOSE, YOU KNOW, TO THE SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION TO RECOMMEND [Captioner] 20:26:55 TO COUNCIL. THERE'S ALSO ON TOP OF [Captioner] 20:26:58 THE ENERGY CODE, THE CALIFORNIA GREEN BUILDING COAT, [Captioner] 20:27:01 AND THAT HAS MEASURES NOT JUST RELATED TO ENERGY, BUT [Captioner] 20:27:04 ALSO RELATED TO WATER CONSERVATION [Captioner] 20:27:08 AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF MATERIALS BEING USED [Captioner] 20:27:12 IN CONSTRUCTION AND SITE [Captioner] 20:27:15 CONSIDERATIONS, SO THAT'S ALSO SOMETHING WE CAN LOOK AT. [Captioner] 20:27:19 THE CALIFORNIA GREEN BUILDING CODE HAS KIND OF MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS AND [Captioner] 20:27:22 THEN THEY HAVE WHAT WE CALL TIERS, SO TIER 1 AND [Captioner] 20:27:25 TIER 2, WHICH GO BEYOND THE BASE CODE, AND THOSE ARE [Captioner] 20:27:28 THINGS THAT LOOK REALLY -- CAN [Captioner] 20:27:30 ADOPT AS A PACKAGE OR INDIVIDUALLY AS MEASURES. [Captioner] 20:27:34 SO SOME OF THOSE WE'VE LOOKED AT IN THE PAST AND HAVE ADOPTED IN [Captioner] 20:27:37 THE PAST, BUT AGAIN, IT A THREE-YEAR CYCLE, SO [Captioner] 20:27:40 ANYTHING WE ADOPT IN ONE THREE-YEAR CYCLE, [Captioner] 20:27:43 WE'D HAVE TO RE-EVALUATE AGAIN FOR [Captioner] 20:27:46 THE NEXT BUILDING CODE CYCLE. >> Councilmember Campbell: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:27:49 >> Mayor Mei: SO REAL QUICKLY, I THINK WE HAVE MORE SPEAKERS [Captioner] 20:27:52 AND I KNOW QUESTIONS FROM THE COUNCIL BEFORE WE [Captioner] 20:27:55 CONTINUE AND WE'RE ABOUT TO GO TO A BREAK AT 8:30. [Captioner] 20:27:58 SO I WAS GOING TO JUST RECOMMEND THAT WE TAKE A PAUSE FOR 10 MINUTES AND [Captioner] 20:28:00 THEN WE'LL RETURN BACK. THANK YOU, AT THIS TIME. [Captioner] 20:28:03 SO REALLY APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION. WE'LL BE BACK IN 10 MINUTES. [Captioner] 20:29:08 [ RECESS [Captioner] 20:29:12 ] [Captioner] 20:36:01 IS [Captioner] 20:40:36 >> Mayor Mei: HI. [Captioner] 20:40:38 WELCOME BACK TO THE JUNE 20th, CITY COUNCIL MEETING [Captioner] 20:40:42 AND WE'LL RESUME WITH OUR CLARIFYING [Captioner] 20:40:45 QUESTIONS BEGINNING WITH [Captioner] 20:40:46 COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN. [Captioner] 20:40:51 >> Councilmember Kassan: I JUST PUT AN M [Captioner] 20:40:55 &M IN MY MOUTH. I [Captioner] 20:40:58 WAS WONDERING IF YOU COULD TALK A BIT ABOUT THE FACT [Captioner] 20:41:00 THAT THE PLAN DOES SHOW THAT WE DON'T [Captioner] 20:41:04 MEET THE GOAL OF ZERO EMISSIONS [Captioner] 20:41:06 BY I BELIEVE 2045. [Captioner] 20:41:09 AND YOU KNOW I KNOW IT'S REALLY HARD TO PREDICT [Captioner] 20:41:12 THAT FAR IN ADVANCE BUT NEW COULD JUST [Captioner] 20:41:14 SAY A FEW WORDS ON YOUR THINKING ABOUT [Captioner] 20:41:16 THAT AND HOW WE MIGHT ADDRESS THAT. [Captioner] 20:41:19 >> YES. SO IT IS PRETTY DIFFICULT TO [Captioner] 20:41:22 LOOK, YOU KNOW, THAT FAR [Captioner] 20:41:26 , AND BE ABLE TO ACCURATELY [Captioner] 20:41:28 PREDICT WHAT OUR EMISSIONS WOULD LOOK LIKE. [Captioner] 20:41:31 SO WHAT WE FOCUSED ON WAS THE EMISSIONS [Captioner] 20:41:34 DIRECTION ANALYSIS FOR 2030 WITH THE ACTIONS THAT ARE [Captioner] 20:41:38 PRESENTED IN CHAPTER 3. THE [Captioner] 20:41:41 ANALYSIS IF YOU GO INTO THE TECHNICAL MEMOS [Captioner] 20:41:45 PREPARED BY THE CONSULTANT TEAM DO LOOK AT [Captioner] 20:41:47 EMISSIONS ASSOCIATE ED WITH 2045. [Captioner] 20:41:50 WHAT WE HAVE TO REMEMBER IS THAT THEY ALL USE A BASELINE [Captioner] 20:41:52 ASSUMPTION OF STATE POLICY [Captioner] 20:41:56 THAT'S CURRENTLY ENACTED AND NOT ANYTHING THAT MIGHT BE COMING [Captioner] 20:42:00 DOWN THE PIKE LATER ON. SO AS NEW STATE [Captioner] 20:42:03 POLICIES ARE ADOPTED, THERE WILL BE EMISSION [Captioner] 20:42:05 S REDUCTIONS IMPACTS ASSOCIATED [Captioner] 20:42:08 WITH THOSE AS WELL. AND SO YOU KNOW WHAT WE CAN KIND [Captioner] 20:42:12 OF LOOK LIKE WITH A LITTLE BIT MORE CERTAINTY IS WHAT CAN WE [Captioner] 20:42:15 DO AT THE LOCAL LEVEL IN THE NEXT, [Captioner] 20:42:18 YOU KNOW, THREE TO SEVEN YEARS TO MAKE [Captioner] 20:42:22 A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT AND TO MEET OUR 2030 GOAL AND [Captioner] 20:42:24 THEN REEVALUATE, YOU KNOW, BEYOND [Captioner] 20:42:28 THAT TIME TO LOOK AT WHICH POLICIES ARE ADOPTED [Captioner] 20:42:31 NOW, WHAT TECHNOLOGIES ARE AVAILABLE NOW [Captioner] 20:42:34 AND HOW CAN THAT GET US TO THE 2045 TARGET [Captioner] 20:42:35 . >> Councilmember Kassan: YES [Captioner] 20:42:39 THAT MAKES SENSE. AND THEN IN TERMS OF VEHICLE [Captioner] 20:42:42 MILES TRAVELED, I THINK [Captioner] 20:42:44 I SAW THAT IN THE LAST PERIOD OF [Captioner] 20:42:47 MEASUREMENT THEY HAD INCREASED EVEN THOUGH THE [Captioner] 20:42:51 TOTAL EMISSIONS HAD GONE DOWN BECAUSE OF CLEANER [Captioner] 20:42:54 CARS, THE TOTAL VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED HAD GONE UP QUITE A [Captioner] 20:42:55 BIT. [Captioner] 20:42:58 I THINK IT WAS LIKE 60% OR SOMETHING [Captioner] 20:43:00 . AND I ALSO NOTICED THAT A LOT OF [Captioner] 20:43:04 THE PROJECTED REDUCTIONS IN EMISSIONS GOING FORWARD [Captioner] 20:43:06 ARE BASED ON POLICIES THAT WOULD [Captioner] 20:43:10 REDUCE VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED. SO I'M JUST WONDERING [Captioner] 20:43:13 HOW REALISTIC IT IS GIVEN THAT WE, [Captioner] 20:43:15 MANY PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN FROAVMENT ARE VERY ATTACHED TO [Captioner] 20:43:19 DRIVING ALONE. [Captioner] 20:43:21 HOW REALISTIC IS IT SOME OF [Captioner] 20:43:25 THESE PROJECTIONS OF VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED BEING REDUCE [Captioner] 20:43:28 ED? >> YES, SO THE VEHICLE MILE [Captioner] 20:43:31 TRAVEL INCREASE I THINK THAT [Captioner] 20:43:34 YOU'RE SPEAKING OF INCLUDED BOTH THE [Captioner] 20:43:42 THE PASSENGER AND FREIGHT [Captioner] 20:43:45 VEHICLES. THE PASSENGER [Captioner] 20:43:49 MILES REMAINED CONSTANT BUT [Captioner] 20:43:53 THE FREIGHT MILES GOING UP. [Captioner] 20:43:56 THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO AND WE HAVE DONE RELATED [Captioner] 20:43:58 TO LAND USE PLANNING. [Captioner] 20:44:01 AND THEN YOU KNOW THERE ARE THE EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED [Captioner] 20:44:04 WITH THE VEHICLE MIMES TRAVELED [Captioner] 20:44:07 THEMSELVES, RIGHT? SO THERE ARE MEASURES THAT WORK [Captioner] 20:44:10 TO ACHIEVE BOTH. YOU KNOW WE HAVE [Captioner] 20:44:14 BEEN VERY FOCUSED ON TRYING TO IMPROVE OUR [Captioner] 20:44:16 BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN [Captioner] 20:44:19 INFRASTRUCTURE IN FREMONT AND MAKE IT SAFER IN ALIGNMENT WITH [Captioner] 20:44:22 VISION ZERO AND OUR MOBILITY ACTION PLAN. [Captioner] 20:44:26 AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S CHALLENGING [Captioner] 20:44:30 BECAUSE WE DO HAVE AS YOU SAID A CAR CULTURE HERE, [Captioner] 20:44:33 RIGHT? FREMONT IS DESIGNED AROUND [Captioner] 20:44:35 USE OF THE VEHICLE. [Captioner] 20:44:38 AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE LONG TERM LAND USE PLANNING [Captioner] 20:44:41 CHANGES TO INCREASE TRANSIT [Captioner] 20:44:44 ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT AND MAKE IT EASIER [Captioner] 20:44:47 TO GET TO PLACES WITHOUT USE OF A [Captioner] 20:44:50 VEHICLE, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE GOING TO TAKE SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT [Captioner] 20:44:52 OF TIME. [Captioner] 20:44:55 AND SO IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TYPES OF VEHICLES THAT ARE [Captioner] 20:44:58 BEING USED ALSO ACHIEVE REDUCTION. [Captioner] 20:45:00 SO WE'RE TRYING TO KIND OF GET [Captioner] 20:45:03 AT IT IN BOTH DIRECTIONS AND WE KNOW SOME THINGS ARE [Captioner] 20:45:07 GOING TO BE FASTER THAN OTHERS BUT [Captioner] 20:45:10 OVERALL BOTH NEED TO HAPPEN. [Captioner] 20:45:12 >> Councilmember Kassan: ONE LAST QUESTION. [Captioner] 20:45:15 OFTEN WE MAKE DECISIONS AS A COUNCIL THAT AFFECT THESE THINGS [Captioner] 20:45:17 THAT ARE BEING MEASURED AS [Captioner] 20:45:20 POTENTIAL THINGS THAT COULD AFFECT OUR [Captioner] 20:45:21 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. [Captioner] 20:45:25 AND I DON'T THINK THAT WE OFTEN GET A REPORT THAT TIES [Captioner] 20:45:28 THE DECISION TO A PARTICULAR MEASURE [Captioner] 20:45:30 OF, YOU KNOW, WHAT DIFFERENT [Captioner] 20:45:33 DECISIONS -- WHAT THE RESULT OF DIFFERENT DECISIONS WOULD BE [Captioner] 20:45:36 WITH RESPECT TO GREENHOUSE GAS [Captioner] 20:45:39 EMISSIONS. AND I KNOW IT MAY BE REALLY [Captioner] 20:45:41 DIFFICULT TO QUANTIFY THAT FOR A SINGLE DECISION. [Captioner] 20:45:44 BUT AT LEAST I WONDER IF PART OF THE PLAN [Captioner] 20:45:48 IS TO START TO GIVE A LITTLE BIT MORE [Captioner] 20:45:51 CONTEXT WHEN WE ARE MAKING LAND USE DECISIONS, [Captioner] 20:45:52 TRANSPORTATION DECISIONS, YOU [Captioner] 20:45:56 KNOW, CITY SPENDING DECISIONS, TO TIE THAT TO [Captioner] 20:45:59 THIS PLAN. SO THAT WE KEEP GET [Captioner] 20:46:02 TING REMINDED OH YEAH WE SAID THIS IS PART OF [Captioner] 20:46:04 ASSUMING THIS PLAN IS ADOPTED, [Captioner] 20:46:07 YOU KNOW, SO THAT THERE IS MORE CONNECTION BETWEEN DECISIONS WE [Captioner] 20:46:10 MAKE AS A COUNCIL AND THIS PLAN. AND HOW [Captioner] 20:46:14 OUR DECISIONS GO AGAINST OR [Captioner] 20:46:17 SUPPORT THE PLAN. [Captioner] 20:46:20 >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN. [Captioner] 20:46:23 WE'LL TAKE THAT AS A COMMENT THAT WE'LL TAKE BACK. [Captioner] 20:46:24 >> Councilmember Kassan: SORRY [Captioner] 20:46:26 I KNOW THIS IS QUESTION TIME BUT THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:46:30 >> THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION, THANK YOU FOR [Captioner] 20:46:32 THAT. >> Mayor Mei: NEXT IS [Captioner] 20:46:34 COUNCILMEMBER SHAO FOR CLARIFYING QUESTIONS. [Captioner] 20:46:37 WE'LL HEAR FROM THE PUBLIC TOO. >> Councilmember Shao: THANK [Captioner] 20:46:40 YOU, MADAM MAYOR. I ALREADY ASKED A QUESTION. [Captioner] 20:46:43 MY SECOND QUESTION WOULD BE THAT CONSIDERING THAT THE [Captioner] 20:46:46 GREENHOUSE CARBON E [Captioner] 20:46:49 MISSION MAINLY BY YOUR MEASUREMENT [Captioner] 20:46:53 , YOU KNOW, OR JUST VEHICLE TRANSPORTATION [Captioner] 20:46:56 , WHICH COMES FOR ABOUT 70 [Captioner] 20:47:00 TO 80%, BASED ON THE MEMO THAT [Captioner] 20:47:03 YOU GENERATED MARCH 2022 [Captioner] 20:47:07 , SO YOU ALSO MENTION [Captioner] 20:47:10 MENTIONED THAT BY CONVERTING [Captioner] 20:47:14 THE GAS-BURNING VEHICLES TO ELECTRIC [Captioner] 20:47:17 VEHICLES WOULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE [Captioner] 20:47:19 FINAL GOAL. [Captioner] 20:47:22 THAT REMINDS ME OF OUR [Captioner] 20:47:25 CITY FLEET, WHICH NOT ONLY HAVE LIKE [Captioner] 20:47:28 SEDANS OR POLICE CARS BUT ALSO [Captioner] 20:47:32 TRUCKS AND SOME HEAVY EQUIPMENT. [Captioner] 20:47:36 RECENTLY WE ATTENDED THE [Captioner] 20:47:39 BREAKFAST HELD BY THE AC TRANSIT [Captioner] 20:47:43 WHICH SHARED THEIR [Captioner] 20:47:46 RESEARCH RESULT THAT SHOWED THAT [Captioner] 20:47:50 ACTUALLY CONVERTING THEIR BUSES IN GAS [Captioner] 20:47:56 FROM GAS-BURNING TO HYDROGEN SELL IS [Captioner] 20:47:58 A BETTER OPTION THAN MAKING ALL [Captioner] 20:48:02 OF THEM ELECTRIC. ENVIRONMENTAL WISE AND [Captioner] 20:48:03 OPTIONAL WISE. [Captioner] 20:48:06 SO MY QUESTION TO YOU IS [Captioner] 20:48:10 , IS HYDROGEN SELL ALSO [Captioner] 20:48:14 HYDROGEN [Captioner] 20:48:19 CELL ONE OF THE OPTIONS WHEN THE CITY [Captioner] 20:48:22 WANTS TO CONVERT THEIR FLEET AND TRY [Captioner] 20:48:25 TO REDUCE CARBON EMISSION? [Captioner] 20:48:28 >> CURRENTLY ON CITY FLEET WE ARE FOCUSED [Captioner] 20:48:31 PRIMARILY ON ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND LOOKING AT [Captioner] 20:48:35 THE LIGHT DUTY VEHICLE TYPES, MEM [Captioner] 20:48:39 AND HEAVY DUTY VEHICLE TYPES OAR FEW YEARS DOWN [Captioner] 20:48:42 THE ROAD IN TERMS OF HAVING GOOD OPTIONS FOR [Captioner] 20:48:44 REPLACEMENT. SO WE CAN EVALUATE AT THAT TIME [Captioner] 20:48:47 IF HYDROGEN MIGHT MAKE MORE SENSE THAN ELECTRIC ON [Captioner] 20:48:50 THE COMMUNITY SIDE, YOU KNOW, WE ARE [Captioner] 20:48:54 SUPPORTING EFFORTS THAT WOULD BRING [Captioner] 20:48:57 IN HYDROGEN FUELING STATIONS FOR HEAVY- [Captioner] 20:49:01 DUTY FREIGHT TRANSPORT. [Captioner] 20:49:01 >> Councilmember Shao: THANK [Captioner] 20:49:04 YOU. >> Mayor Mei: SO JUST TO [Captioner] 20:49:07 CLARIFY REAL QUICKLY, TO LET YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 20:49:10 ACTC IS ALSO LOOKING AT THAT FORK [Captioner] 20:49:14 HYDROGEN IN TERMS OF EXPLORATION FOR THE NEXT PHASE [Captioner] 20:49:15 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER [Captioner] 20:49:19 ORGANIZATIONS LIKE ABC. NEXT [Captioner] 20:49:23 IS VICE MAYOR COX FOR CLARIFYING QUESTIONS [Captioner] 20:49:25 . >> Vice Mayor Cox: THANK YOU, [Captioner] 20:49:28 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION AND A LOT OF [Captioner] 20:49:29 DETAIL. AND IT IS VERY ROBUST. [Captioner] 20:49:32 I THINK IT IS ALSO A LITTLE ON THE AGGRESSIVE SIDE. [Captioner] 20:49:35 AND I THINK AS I'M TRYING TO LOOK AT IT AS LOOK [Captioner] 20:49:38 ING LIKE FOCUSING ON YOUR GAME [Captioner] 20:49:41 PLAN, WHAT WOULD KIND OF HELP, I MEAN YOU [Captioner] 20:49:44 HAVE A LAUNDRY LIST, EITHER IT'S CITY [Captioner] 20:49:47 RESPONSIBILITY DRIVEN OR COMMUNITY LEVEL ACTIONS. [Captioner] 20:49:50 WHAT WOULD REALLY HELP IS TO KIND OF GET A PHASE BECAUSE [Captioner] 20:49:53 YOU'RE TALKING OVER A THREE YEAR [Captioner] 20:49:55 PLAN. IF YOU WOULD LOOK AT WHAT ARE [Captioner] 20:49:58 REALLY THE PRIORITIES IN THIS FIRST YEAR, WHAT'S THE PRIORITY [Captioner] 20:50:02 SECOND YEAR, THIRD YEAR, [Captioner] 20:50:04 BUT SHOWING LIKE WHAT IS GOING TO BE [Captioner] 20:50:07 EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED OR ESTIMATED TO BE COMPLETED [Captioner] 20:50:10 , AND THOSE THAT WILL BE JUST IN FROG [Captioner] 20:50:14 OR JUST PENDING. BECAUSE THERE'S JUST A LOT [Captioner] 20:50:17 THAT -- TO TRY TO FOCUS ON. [Captioner] 20:50:20 AND I KNOW WE COULDN'T DO IT ALL, [Captioner] 20:50:23 WE JUST APPROVED THE ONE YEAR BUDGET RIGHT FOR THIS [Captioner] 20:50:26 COMING YEAR. BUT IT GOES BEYOND THAT AND [Captioner] 20:50:29 DEPENDING ON THINGS GO, THERE COULD BE [Captioner] 20:50:32 SOME ADJUSTMENTS MADE BUT IN AN [Captioner] 20:50:36 ACTION GAME PLAN STANDPOINT FROM ACTIVITIES LIST [Captioner] 20:50:37 LISTED IN YOUR GAME PLAIB PLAN I [Captioner] 20:50:40 WOULD LIKE TO SEIZE THAT A LITTLE MORE CLEAR. [Captioner] 20:50:43 I KNOW IT IS A CATCHALL OF A [Captioner] 20:50:44 LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING TO BE [Captioner] 20:50:47 LISTED AND YOU LEFT NO GRAPES [Captioner] 20:50:48 TO BE FOUND THERE. [Captioner] 20:50:52 SO BUT WHAT I WOULD THINK IT WOULD JUST HELP IN KIND [Captioner] 20:50:55 OF UNDERSTANDING WHERE WE'RE GOING, [Captioner] 20:50:58 WHAT ARE WE PLANNING TO ACCOMPLISH AND BEING REALISTIC [Captioner] 20:51:02 . BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOME OF [Captioner] 20:51:06 THE INSTALLATION FOR HVAC SYSTEMS [Captioner] 20:51:10 SOME PARTS OF NOT AVAILABLE AND YOU STILL HAVE [Captioner] 20:51:11 PART SHORTAGES GOING ON THAT [Captioner] 20:51:15 WOULD CHANGE THE LOOK OF BEING ABLE TO IMPLEMENT IT IN A TIME [Captioner] 20:51:18 PERIOD YOU'RE SHOWING THREE YEARS, IT COULD TAKE LONGER [Captioner] 20:51:21 DEPENDING ON THE MODEL, DEPENDING ON THE COST AND THAT [Captioner] 20:51:22 SORT OF THING. [Captioner] 20:51:25 SO THAT'S MY FIRST COMMENT. AND [Captioner] 20:51:28 TRYING TO GET SOME CLARIFICATION IN TERMS OF THAT [Captioner] 20:51:32 . ANOTHER PART THAT I WANTED TO -- [Captioner] 20:51:34 I WAS GLAD TO HEAR A LOT ABOUT [Captioner] 20:51:37 YOUR VENDOR AND PARTICIPATION [Captioner] 20:51:40 , ACTUALLY IT IS LIKE YOUR [Captioner] 20:51:43 EXPANSION OF THE COMMUNITY OF AN EDUCATION [Captioner] 20:51:46 OF GROWN AND SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES. [Captioner] 20:51:49 WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IS THAT AS WE OPERATE AND ROLL IT OUT [Captioner] 20:51:52 TO THE COMMUNITY, IN TERMS OF GET [Captioner] 20:51:53 GETTING UNDERSTANDING OF SOME [Captioner] 20:51:56 SORT OF GREEN PURCHASING BUT ADDING ALL THE DIFFERENT [Captioner] 20:51:59 ELEMENTS. BECAUSE I DIDN'T EVEN SEE, I [Captioner] 20:52:02 KNOW THERE'S THE AB 1383, BUT I DIDN'T SEE YOU MENTIONING [Captioner] 20:52:05 THE AB 6 [Captioner] 20:52:08 61. WHICH IS ALSO JANITORIAL [Captioner] 20:52:12 RECYCLED PAPER GOODS AND ALSO LOOKING [Captioner] 20:52:15 AT WOULD IT BE ANY TYPE OF FOOD SERVICE TYPE PROGRAM [Captioner] 20:52:18 . LIKE EVEN WE HAVE THE FREMONT [Captioner] 20:52:20 EATS EVERY FRIDAY AND HOW IS [Captioner] 20:52:23 THAT GOING TO HELP US TO ELIMINATE THE WASTE THERE? [Captioner] 20:52:26 AND WORKING WITH, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 20:52:29 TRAINING SOME OF OUR -- EVEN THE FOOD [Captioner] 20:52:32 VENDOR TRUCKS, YOU KNOW PEOPLE THAT WORK IN THAT SPACE. [Captioner] 20:52:35 BECAUSE THIS IS GOING ON FROM MAY NOW UNTIL THE [Captioner] 20:52:38 END OF OCTOBER AND THAT'S A WHOLE LOT [Captioner] 20:52:41 OF WASTE THAT NEEDS TO BE KIND OF [Captioner] 20:52:44 ADDRESSED AND I KNOW WE'RE, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 20:52:46 TAKING CARE OF THAT AS PART OF THE CITY OF FREMONT [Captioner] 20:52:49 PROPERTY. BUT JUST KIND OF SEEING HOW I [Captioner] 20:52:51 THINK THOSE ARE SOME OPPORTUNITIES I DIDN'T SEE [Captioner] 20:52:53 LISTED. IT MAY BE UNDER YOUR GENERAL [Captioner] 20:52:57 STOP -- STOP WASTE INITIATIVE BUT KIND OF LIKE [Captioner] 20:53:00 ADD A LITTLE BIT MORE LIKE COULD BE PRESENTLY [Captioner] 20:53:03 DONE, VERSUS THREE YEARS DOWN THE LINE [Captioner] 20:53:06 . AND THEN ALSO, TRAINING THE [Captioner] 20:53:09 VENDORS, BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE THAT [Captioner] 20:53:12 THERE'S GOT TO BE AN EDUCATION PIECE AND [Captioner] 20:53:14 NOT ALL BIG COMPANIES THEY ARE ALREADY [Captioner] 20:53:17 DRIVING A LOT OF THIS ALREADY. THEY HAVE THINGS IN PLACE. [Captioner] 20:53:20 THEY HAVE CONTRACTS IN PLACE. THEY ARE ROLLING IT OUT [Captioner] 20:53:23 AND TAKING DIFFERENT PHASES. [Captioner] 20:53:26 BUT ALSO WHEN YOU ARE PARTNERING WITH THE FREMONT CHAMBER AND [Captioner] 20:53:28 ALL THE VENDORS THAT WOULD, YOU [Captioner] 20:53:31 KNOW, BE IN THESE DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE [Captioner] 20:53:34 TALKED TO, THAT I THINK WE NEED SOME SPECIAL TRAINING [Captioner] 20:53:37 FOR THE VENDORS AND SUSTAIN [Captioner] 20:53:39 ABILITY PURCHASING PROGRAM JUST SO THAT [Captioner] 20:53:43 THEY CAN GET CERTIFIED, THEY CAN KNOW WHAT WE LIKE [Captioner] 20:53:46 , AND ALSO ANY HORIZONS THAT MAY COME THAT [Captioner] 20:53:49 WE MAY HAVE TO GET WAVERS FOR [Captioner] 20:53:53 WAIVERS FOR CERTIFICATIONS OR [Captioner] 20:53:55 SEEK NEW SOURCES FOR THAT. [Captioner] 20:53:58 BUT I THINK THAT'S ANOTHER WIN-WIN [Captioner] 20:54:01 THAT COULD HELP US. BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF DAILY [Captioner] 20:54:04 SERVICES AND GOODS WE PROCURE DAILY, ESPECIALLY [Captioner] 20:54:07 THE COPY PAPER AND THINGS LIKE THAT AND THE [Captioner] 20:54:11 JANITORIAL PAPER PRODUCTS. ANOTHER THING I WAS WONDERING [Captioner] 20:54:14 ABOUT AS YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE EMISSION GOALS [Captioner] 20:54:17 , ARE YOU COUNTING HYBRID [Captioner] 20:54:21 CARS IN YOUR COUNT WITH GAS [Captioner] 20:54:24 AND EV? SO SOME CARS THAT ARE HYBRID DO [Captioner] 20:54:27 NOT NEED TO BE CHARGED AT ALL BECAUSE THEY GOT A [Captioner] 20:54:30 RECHARGEABLE [Captioner] 20:54:34 ELECTROPHOTOSTATIC BATTERY [Captioner] 20:54:38 INSIDE. IT DOESN'T NEED TO HAVE [Captioner] 20:54:40 ANY -- IT IS A SESTLES SUSTAINING [Captioner] 20:54:44 SYSTEM. JUST ASKING, ARE [Captioner] 20:54:47 THOSE I TEEN OF VEHICLES INCLUDED IN YOUR COUNT [Captioner] 20:54:50 ? I WANT TO INCLUDE E VFORT/GAS [Captioner] 20:54:53 BUT IT USES LESS GAS DEPENDING IF YOU ARE ON THE [Captioner] 20:54:58 HIGHWAY VERSUS THE LOCAL STREET [Captioner] 20:55:01 . CAN YOU LET ME KNOW HOW THAT [Captioner] 20:55:04 COUNT IS INCLUDED IN YOUR GOALS? >> THANK YOU FOR THE OTHER [Captioner] 20:55:07 COMMENTS. FOR THE VEHICLES YOU KNOW WHAT [Captioner] 20:55:10 WE LOOK AT IS OVERALL FUEL EFFICIENCY OF [Captioner] 20:55:13 THE ENTIRE VEHICLE FLEET OWNED AND [Captioner] 20:55:15 BEING DRIVEN IN FREMONT. [Captioner] 20:55:18 SO AS MORE EVs AND PLUG IN HYBRID [Captioner] 20:55:22 S AND HYBRID ELECTRICS [Captioner] 20:55:25 AND HYBRID AND [Captioner] 20:55:29 CELL [Captioner] 20:55:32 ARE PURCHASED THAT IS A FACTOR THAT IS USED [Captioner] 20:55:36 TO CALCULATE [Captioner] 20:55:41 THE HOW MANY EVs ARE OWNED, PLUG IN [Captioner] 20:55:44 HYBRIDS, HI BRIDES ET CETERA AND [Captioner] 20:55:47 THE TREND IS TOWARDS THOSE VEHICLES AND [Captioner] 20:55:50 AND AWAY [Captioner] 20:55:54 FROM CONVENTIONAL COMBUSTION VEHICLES [Captioner] 20:55:55 . >> Vice Mayor Cox: THANK YOU [Captioner] 20:55:58 FOR THAT. AS THE CITY HAS ALREADY [Captioner] 20:56:01 DEVELOPED THE TELEWORK, YOU ARE CALCULATING THOSE NUMBERS OF [Captioner] 20:56:04 EMISSIONS THAT ARE BEING SAVED. FROM [Captioner] 20:56:07 THAT BACK AND FORTH IN THE COMMUNITY. [Captioner] 20:56:09 >> IN TERMS OF OUR MUNICIPAL [Captioner] 20:56:12 OPERATIONS THAT'S KIND OF THE OVERALL TOTAL COMMUNITY [Captioner] 20:56:15 EMISSIONS. BUT THEN WE ALSO PARSE OUT [Captioner] 20:56:18 OUR MUNICIPAL OPERATIONS TO LOOK AT, [Captioner] 20:56:21 YOU KNOW, WHAT SPECIFICALLY CAN WE DO WITHIN OUR OWN CITY [Captioner] 20:56:24 OPERATIONS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. AND SO [Captioner] 20:56:27 , YOU KNOW, WE CALCULATE EMPLOYEE COMMUTE AS PART OF [Captioner] 20:56:30 THE MUNICIPAL INVENTORY. [Captioner] 20:56:33 AND THE TELEWORK POLICY WILL SIGNIFICANTLY [Captioner] 20:56:36 CONTRIBUTE TO REDUCTIONS IN EMPLOYEE COMMUTES [Captioner] 20:56:37 . >> Vice Mayor Cox: OKAY. [Captioner] 20:56:40 I HAD ANOTHER QUESTION. I KNOW I'M GLAD TO SEE ABOUT [Captioner] 20:56:42 THE PARTNERSHIP BECAUSE I'M ONE OF [Captioner] 20:56:45 YOUR REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY. [Captioner] 20:56:48 AND I APPRECIATE A LOT OF THE [Captioner] 20:56:51 PARTNERSHIPS THAT ARE HAPPENING. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT [Captioner] 20:56:54 I'M A LITTLE WEARY ABOUT IS THAT [Captioner] 20:56:57 WHEN WE AS THE GOVERNMENT MAY ENFORCE [Captioner] 20:57:01 AND MAKE IT MANDATORY THAT EVERYONE MUST CONVERT [Captioner] 20:57:03 TO RENEWABLE ENERGY, I MEAN THAT'S [Captioner] 20:57:06 IDEAL. BUT I WANT US TO BE A LITTLE [Captioner] 20:57:09 SENSITIVE ABOUT THAT. [Captioner] 20:57:12 BECAUSE NOT EVERYBODY IS GOING TO CONVERT TO 100 [Captioner] 20:57:14 % FOR VARIOUS REASONS. [Captioner] 20:57:17 EVEN THOUGH THERE IS A LOT OF GOOD BENEFIT. [Captioner] 20:57:20 BUT I DON'T WANT US TO BE LIKE, [Captioner] 20:57:23 YOU KNOW, WE'RE KIND OF TAKING OVER AS THE ENFORCE [Captioner] 20:57:27 ERS THAT MAKE IT MANDATORY FOR [Captioner] 20:57:29 PEOPLE. AND JUST TO KIND OF WATCH THAT [Captioner] 20:57:32 KIND OF LANGUAGE OF WHEN YOU SAY OPT-OUT, ALL RESIDENTS [Captioner] 20:57:35 AND BUSINESSES, THAT MAY NOT BE [Captioner] 20:57:38 POSSIBLE. >> RIGHT. [Captioner] 20:57:40 >> Vice Mayor Cox: AND REALISTIC, RIGHT? [Captioner] 20:57:42 EVEN THOUGH WE COULD, YOU KNOW, SHARE THE BENEFITS IT COULD BE [Captioner] 20:57:46 ALL THE THINGS THAT FROM HEALTH TO BUSINESS TO [Captioner] 20:57:49 ECONOMICS ALL THOSE THINGS OF ARE GREAT [Captioner] 20:57:52 ARE GREAT. BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE [Captioner] 20:57:55 WE KIND OF WATCH THAT LANGUAGE MAKING IT [Captioner] 20:57:57 MANDATORY. [Captioner] 20:58:00 >> WITH EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY IT IS COMMUNITY CHOICE [Captioner] 20:58:03 ENERGY SO THE IDEA IS WE WOULD ESTABLISH RENEWAL [Captioner] 20:58:06 100 AS A BASELINE FOR EVERYBODY BUT [Captioner] 20:58:09 MEDIUM WOULD STILL HAVE THAT OPTION TO, YOU KNOW, CALL ABC [Captioner] 20:58:12 E OR FILL A FORM OUT ONLINE [Captioner] 20:58:15 TO SAY NO I WANT TO STICK WITH RIGHT [Captioner] 20:58:19 CHOICE OR I DON'T WANT TO PARTICIPATE, I WANT TO BE [Captioner] 20:58:20 A PG&E CUSTOMER. [Captioner] 20:58:23 THERE IS STILL A CHOICE THERE. WE ARE [Captioner] 20:58:26 ESTABLISHING BY DEFAULT AS THE BASELINE [Captioner] 20:58:28 INSTEAD OF BRIGHT CHOICE. [Captioner] 20:58:31 SO AND YOU KNOW WE CAN DO ANALYSIS [Captioner] 20:58:33 , YOU KNOW, WHEN WE BRING THAT TOWARD TO COUNCIL TO [Captioner] 20:58:37 SHOW WHAT OPT-OUT OR DEFAULT OPTIONS [Captioner] 20:58:39 LOOK LIKE IN OTHER CITIES. [Captioner] 20:58:42 ANOTHER THING TO AT THERE IS THAT IN EVERY CITY THAT HAS DONE [Captioner] 20:58:44 THIS AS A CAMPAIGN, THEY HAVE [Captioner] 20:58:47 CHOSEN TO EXCLUDE THE CARE [Captioner] 20:58:50 AND FER AFORT CUSTOMERS WHICH ARE [Captioner] 20:58:53 THE LOW INCOME CUSTOMERS AND THE CUSTOMERS THAT HAVE MEDICAL [Captioner] 20:58:55 NEEDS. FROM THAT OPT-UP. [Captioner] 20:58:59 >> Vice Mayor Cox: RIGHT. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WHEN WE [Captioner] 20:59:02 STATE THIS THAT THERE IS OTHER ALTERNATIVES. [Captioner] 20:59:05 BECAUSE IT IS LIKE THE WAY THAT IT IS WRITTEN I KNOW THAT YOU [Captioner] 20:59:08 DIDN'T MEAN IT BASED ON YOUR EXPLANATION JUST NOW BUT THE WAY [Captioner] 20:59:11 IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS JUST LIKE WE'RE GOING TO DEMAND THAT. [Captioner] 20:59:14 AND JUST TO BE CAREFUL THAT THERE IS SOME [Captioner] 20:59:17 OTHER OPTIONS THAT IT'S UP [Captioner] 20:59:20 TO THE RESIDENTS TO MAKE THAT DECISION. [Captioner] 20:59:23 AND NOT ENFORCE IT AS -- IT MAY [Captioner] 20:59:25 BE PART OF YOUR GOAL BUT YOU [Captioner] 20:59:28 ALSO KIND OF GOT TO BE EXPLAINING A LITTLE BIT MORE THE [Captioner] 20:59:29 DETAIL BEHIND THAT PART. [Captioner] 20:59:33 THAT'S JUST FOR EXAMPLE THAT [Captioner] 20:59:36 HAD JUMPED OUT AT ME THERE. [Captioner] 20:59:39 ANOTHER PART WAS I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING OUT FOR SOLICITATION [Captioner] 20:59:42 FOR CHARGING STATIONS FOR THE PORTS [Captioner] 20:59:44 . FOR ELECTRIFICATION. [Captioner] 20:59:47 IS THAT SOLICITATION STARTED YET OR -- [Captioner] 20:59:50 >> WITH ABCE? >> Vice Mayor Cox: NO, NO, [Captioner] 20:59:53 THIS IS EV JUST IN GENERAL FOR THE CITY [Captioner] 20:59:57 , WE WERE GOING OUT FOR SOME SORT OF [Captioner] 20:59:59 EV. >> FOR OUR OWN FLEET. [Captioner] 21:00:01 >> Vice Mayor Cox: THAT WAS PART OF WHAT WAS IN THE BUDGET [Captioner] 21:00:04 FOR THIS COMING YEAR. >> SO YES, WE [Captioner] 21:00:08 WILL BE WORKING ON THOSE [Captioner] 21:00:11 INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADES FOR OUR OWN CITY EV FLEET. [Captioner] 21:00:13 AND WE'LL BE LOOKING FOR SOME [Captioner] 21:00:16 ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS IN THE SHORT TERM WHERE WE WOULDN'T [Captioner] 21:00:19 NECESSARY NEED ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE [Captioner] 21:00:22 UPGRADES TO GET D CRFORT FAST CHARGING IN PLACE. [Captioner] 21:00:26 THERE IS BATTERY BOOSTED EV [Captioner] 21:00:29 CHARGING OPTIONS THAT ARE BEING CONSIDERED NOW BY PUBLIC WORKS [Captioner] 21:00:30 . >> Vice Mayor Cox: YOU ARE [Captioner] 21:00:32 BUILDING A STRATEGY FIRST BEFORE YOU GO OUT FOR THE RFP [Captioner] 21:00:36 SOLICITATION SO YOU'RE KIND OF DOING YOUR OWN ANALYSIS, SO [Captioner] 21:00:38 THAT'S WHY I KIND OF NEEDED THAT [Captioner] 21:00:42 CHART TO KIND OF KNOW WHICH ONES WE'RE KIND OF HITTING NOW OR [Captioner] 21:00:44 IN SIX MONTHS OR A YEAR DOWN THE [Captioner] 21:00:47 LINE FOR THAT. AND ALSO, I KNOW [Captioner] 21:00:50 THAT EAST BAY ENERGY HAS ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE [Captioner] 21:00:52 INDUCTION COOKING AND THEY HAD [Captioner] 21:00:55 THINGS THAT WERE OFFERED FOR PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE INTERESTED [Captioner] 21:00:58 IN USING THOSE TYPE OF QUALITY [Captioner] 21:01:01 PRODUCTS TO REDUCE THE EMISSIONS [Captioner] 21:01:04 THAT, YOU KNOW, IT STARTS KIND OF LIKE IN THE HOME AND THEN IT [Captioner] 21:01:08 CAN SPREAD IN TERMS OF REDUCING THE EMISSIONS. [Captioner] 21:01:09 AND THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING ELSE [Captioner] 21:01:13 LIKE IF THERE'S A SEPARATE -- YOU MAY HAVE AN [Captioner] 21:01:16 ENVIRONMENTAL WEB PAGE BUT SOMETHING ELSE THAT [Captioner] 21:01:19 KIND OF HELPED THE RESIDENTS UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE [Captioner] 21:01:22 POINTS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE AND [Captioner] 21:01:25 HOW THEY CAN PLAY A PART IN IT. AND IT DOESN'T HAVE [Captioner] 21:01:28 TO BE A LIST OF YOUR TOP 20 BUT MAYBE THE [Captioner] 21:01:31 TOP THREE THAT COULD BE [Captioner] 21:01:34 MOST IMPACTFUL AND THEN LEAD FROM [Captioner] 21:01:38 THERE AS A PHASE TWO-THREE [Captioner] 21:01:40 , DEPEND ON EACH YEAR AND TIMING. [Captioner] 21:01:43 BUT SOMETHING I'VE SEEN OTHER CITIES HAVE THEIR OWN WEBSITE [Captioner] 21:01:46 AND THEY DIRECT THE RESIDENTS TO BE ABLE TO SAY HOW CAN YOU [Captioner] 21:01:49 HELP OUT ON EMITIGATIONS, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 21:01:51 LIKE THE PLANNING AND THINGS LIKE THAT WHICH WE KIND OF [Captioner] 21:01:55 TALKED ABOUT ALREADY IN PREVIOUS CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS. [Captioner] 21:01:56 BUT JUST THE OTHER THINGS [Captioner] 21:02:00 BECAUSE THAT COULD BE A ROLE THAT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE PLAY, [Captioner] 21:02:03 OF ALL AGES PLAY A PART IN PLANTING [Captioner] 21:02:06 TREES AND LIKE THAT. BUT HOW IT CAN ALL TIE TOGETHER [Captioner] 21:02:08 FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF OUR COMMUNITY. [Captioner] 21:02:11 >> JUST A QUICK NOTE ON THAT. WE [Captioner] 21:02:14 DID LAUNCH [Captioner] 21:02:18 THE FREMONT GREEN CHALLENGE, BACK [Captioner] 21:02:21 IN 2016, WE BETA TEST [Captioner] 21:02:23 ED THAT WITH THE COMMUNITY CONTACT SOLUTIONS. [Captioner] 21:02:26 THERE ARE A NUMBER OF CITIES THAT ARE USING THAT CONTACT NOW [Captioner] 21:02:29 AND AS A WAY TO ENGAGE HOUSEHOLDS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT [Captioner] 21:02:32 THEIR OPTIONS ARE NOR REDUCING THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT [Captioner] 21:02:35 . AND WE'VE BUILT IN ALL THE [Captioner] 21:02:37 DIFFERENT INCENTIVE PROGRAMS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO HELP THEM [Captioner] 21:02:41 DO THAT. >> Vice Mayor Cox: OKAY, [Captioner] 21:02:44 THAT'S GOOD BUT I STILL SAY, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME OTHER PARTS [Captioner] 21:02:47 THAT COULD BE DIRECTED TO HELP [Captioner] 21:02:49 . AND I JUST DON'T SEE THE TIE IN [Captioner] 21:02:52 JUST YET FROM LOOKING FROM THE OUTSIDE IN. [Captioner] 21:02:55 BUT THAT'S ALL OF MY QUESTIONS FOR RIGHT NOW. [Captioner] 21:02:58 THANK YOU. >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:03:01 I SEE ANOTHER QUESTION FROM COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL. [Captioner] 21:03:06 >> Councilmember Campbell: I THINK I'M GOING TO [Captioner] 21:03:10 WAIT AND PERHAPS DISCUSS IT LATER BECAUSE [Captioner] 21:03:14 WE DID TALK ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT. [Captioner] 21:03:15 AND THAT WAS AIR TRAFFIC BUT WE [Captioner] 21:03:17 CAN TALK ABOUT THAT LATER. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:03:19 >> Mayor Mei: OKAY. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:03:21 AND AT THIS TIME I THINK I WANT TO OPEN THE PUBLIC COMMENT [Captioner] 21:03:24 PERIOD. I HAVE QUESTIONS BUT I'LL MAKE [Captioner] 21:03:27 THEM DURING MY OTHER COMMENTS AT THE SAME TIME BECAUSE I THINK [Captioner] 21:03:29 OUR PUBLIC HAS BEEN WAITING FOR SOME TIME. [Captioner] 21:03:32 DO WE HAVE SPEAKER CARDS? >> The Clerk: [Captioner] 21:03:36 WE DO. SPEAKER CARDS AND ON ZOOM. [Captioner] 21:03:37 HOW MANY MINUTES? [Captioner] 21:03:38 >> Mayor Mei: HOW MANY DO WE HAVE? [Captioner] 21:03:41 >> The Clerk: A TOTAL OF THREE SPEAKERS AT THE MOMENT. [Captioner] 21:03:44 >> Mayor Mei: WE'LL DO THREE MINUTES EACH. [Captioner] 21:03:46 >> The Clerk: THE FIRST SPEAKER IS JOHN HINES. [Captioner] 21:03:52 >> HELLO EVERYONE. >> Mayor Mei: WELCOME JOHN. [Captioner] 21:03:54 >> THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION GOT [Captioner] 21:03:58 ROLLING ABOUT 200 YEARS AGO. IT WAS [Captioner] 21:04:01 POWERED FROM THE GET GO FROM FOSSIL FUELS AND IT [Captioner] 21:04:05 MADE TREMENDOUS STANDARDS IN THE [Captioner] 21:04:08 WORLD, AROUND THE GLOBE, ONE OF [Captioner] 21:04:11 THE EARLIEST ADVANCES WAS MAKING CLOTHING MORE [Captioner] 21:04:14 AFFORDABLE. AT THE TIME MOST PEOPLE HAD [Captioner] 21:04:17 EXACTLY ONE OUTFIT THE ONE THEY WERE WEARING WHICH [Captioner] 21:04:20 WAS PATCHED AND HEAVILY REPATCHED. [Captioner] 21:04:23 FOSSIL FUELS GAVE US ALL THE CLOTHING CHOICES WE'RE [Captioner] 21:04:25 ACCUSTOMED TO TODAY. [Captioner] 21:04:28 AMONG THE OTHER AREAS OF GAINS WAS FOOD PRODUCTION. [Captioner] 21:04:31 FOR MUCH OF HISTORY PEOPLE [Captioner] 21:04:33 STRUGGLE TO FIND ENOUGH CALORIES [Captioner] 21:04:36 TO STAY ALIVE. HERE SOME OF US STRUGGLE WITH [Captioner] 21:04:37 HAVING FOUND TOO MANY. [Captioner] 21:04:41 BUT MOST OF THE WORLD HAS NOT REACHED [Captioner] 21:04:44 THAT STAGE AND THEY WOULD MUCH RATHER HAVE OUR [Captioner] 21:04:47 PROBLEMS THAN THEIRS. THEY WOULD NOT BE HELD BACK FROM [Captioner] 21:04:50 RAISING THEIR LIVING STANDARDS THE SAME WAY WE DID [Captioner] 21:04:52 WITH FOSSIL FUELS. [Captioner] 21:04:55 CHINA HAS ALREADY PASSED US IN THEIR CARBON E [Captioner] 21:04:58 MISSIONS AND THEY'RE BUILDING ONE COAL FIRED [Captioner] 21:05:00 PLANT AFTER ANOTHER. [Captioner] 21:05:03 INDIA IS ON TRACK TO SURPASS US BY [Captioner] 21:05:07 2030 AND MANY OTHER OCCURRENCE ARE FOLLOWING [Captioner] 21:05:09 SIMILAR PLANS BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT TO [Captioner] 21:05:12 LIVE BETTER. NOTE THE ONLY TIME WE DON'T BUY [Captioner] 21:05:16 A BARREL OF [Captioner] 21:05:19 OIL OR TON OF COAL THAT MAKES IT [Captioner] 21:05:22 BETTER FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO BURN IT WHICH THEY [Captioner] 21:05:25 WILL. EVERY BIT OF CARBON WE DON'T [Captioner] 21:05:27 TOSS UP INTO THE AIR SOMEONE [Captioner] 21:05:30 ELSE DOES. THE ACTUAL EFFECT OF POLICIES [Captioner] 21:05:33 LIKE THESE ON SPEAKER CARBON IS [Captioner] 21:05:39 ATMOSPHERIC CARBON IS NOTHING. [Captioner] 21:05:42 DEDICATED FOLLOWERS OF FASHION [Captioner] 21:05:46 WHICH IS PROBABLY WORTH SOMETHING SO LONG AS WE ARE RICH [Captioner] 21:05:49 ENOUGH TO FORWARD IT. [Captioner] 21:05:52 AFFORD IT. STOP FOR A MOMENT TO [Captioner] 21:05:54 THINK OF SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS WE [Captioner] 21:05:57 COULD HAVE DONE WITH THAT MONEY. BECAUSE THESE ARE OPPORTUNITIES [Captioner] 21:06:00 WE WILL FORGO. THESE ARE NEEDS THAT WILL [Captioner] 21:06:03 BE SACRIFICED AT THE AM TAR OF GAI [Captioner] 21:06:06 A WITH ALL THE EFFICACY OF [Captioner] 21:06:09 THROWING [Captioner] 21:06:13 VIRGINS INTO VOLCANOES. AS LONG AS [Captioner] 21:06:16 SOMEONE ELSE WILL BURN EVERY SCRAP OF [Captioner] 21:06:19 CARBON WE DON'T. [Captioner] 21:06:22 OUR EFFECT ON [Captioner] 21:06:24 ATMOSPHERIC CARBON IS ZERO. [Captioner] 21:06:28 WE'RE GOING TO DO SOME OF THIS SO I ASK [Captioner] 21:06:32 YOU KEEP THE WAYSOF LOSS TO A MINIMUM. [Captioner] 21:06:35 WE WILL SEE SOME IMPROVEMENTS IN AIR QUALITY WITH REDUCING [Captioner] 21:06:36 VEHICLE EXHAUST BUT ASIDE FROM [Captioner] 21:06:40 THAT I THINK THIS IS A MISGUIDED INITIATIVE BASED [Captioner] 21:06:43 ON WEAK PREMISES WITH ALMOST NO [Captioner] 21:06:44 REAL BENEFIT. [Captioner] 21:06:46 THANK YOU. >> The Clerk: THE NEXT SPEAKER [Captioner] 21:06:50 IS ON ZOOM. IT IS LISA DA [Captioner] 21:06:53 NS. >> Mayor Mei: WELCOME, LISA. [Captioner] 21:06:55 >> HI, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [Captioner] 21:06:58 MY FIRST -- YES, LISA DANS [Captioner] 21:07:00 HAVE DISTRICT 4 IN FREMONT. [Captioner] 21:07:03 THIS IS SO IMPORTANT. YOU KNOW, CLIMATE IS OUR [Captioner] 21:07:05 FUTURE AND I LOOK TOWARD MY FUTURE AND [Captioner] 21:07:09 I WORRY BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE SEE ALREADY THINGS GETTING BAD [Captioner] 21:07:13 WITH WILDFIRES, AND [Captioner] 21:07:15 THINGS THAT IN THE PRICE OF THE WORLD AND WE [Captioner] 21:07:19 KNOW IT IS GOING TO GET WORSE. SO I JUST WANTED TO KIND OF [Captioner] 21:07:21 GROUND US IN LIKE WHY THIS MATTERS. [Captioner] 21:07:24 BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN TALKING A LOT ABOUT DETAILS AND THAT IS [Captioner] 21:07:25 ALL CRITICAL. [Captioner] 21:07:28 AND THIS IS WHY. I WANT TO SPECIFICALLY [Captioner] 21:07:32 THANK RACHEL DE FRA [Captioner] 21:07:35 NCO, THE CITY OF FREMONT IS LUCKY TO HAVE YOU [Captioner] 21:07:37 . THIS IS A HUGE AMOUNT OF WORK. [Captioner] 21:07:40 I'M ESPECIALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE CEQA PORTION OF [Captioner] 21:07:44 THIS CLIERMT ACTION PLAN BECAUSE STREAMING [Captioner] 21:07:46 CLIMATE POSITIVE PROJECTS IS [Captioner] 21:07:49 CRITICAL TO ACHIEVE OUR GOALS AND MAKE SURE [Captioner] 21:07:52 OUR ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS ARE WORKING WITH US INSTEAD [Captioner] 21:07:55 OF AGAINST US. AND I DO HELP WE WILL IMPLEMENT [Captioner] 21:07:58 THESE FRESH GOALS THAT ARE LISTED AND I CHALLENGE THE CITY [Captioner] 21:08:01 TO KEEP THE CLIMATE LENS IN EVERY DECISION THAT WE MAKE. [Captioner] 21:08:04 WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BUDGET LET'S MAKE SURE [Captioner] 21:08:06 WE'RE FULLY FUNDING THESE PROGRAMS. [Captioner] 21:08:09 FOR EXAMPLE WITH TREES I KNOW IT WILL TAKE STAFF TO [Captioner] 21:08:11 PLANT AND MAINTAIN THAT MANY TREES SO WE [Captioner] 21:08:14 NEED TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THAT KIND OF STAFF FUNDING. [Captioner] 21:08:17 WITH LAND USE, WE DO HAVE AND I THINK [Captioner] 21:08:19 COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN KIND OF ALLUDED TO THIS AND THERE IS [Captioner] 21:08:22 A NOTE ABOUT IT IN THE PLAN AS WELL THAT WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY [Captioner] 21:08:26 TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GASES BY BUILDING MORE IN- [Captioner] 21:08:29 FILL HOUSING THAT IS MORE AFFORDABLE WHICH [Captioner] 21:08:32 WOULD ALLOW MORE PEOPLE TO STAY IN FREMONT RATHER THAN MOVING [Captioner] 21:08:35 FURTHER AWAY AND HAVING SUPER-COMOOUTLE [Captioner] 21:08:38 COMMUTES. AS FAR AS PARKING I [Captioner] 21:08:41 THINK IT WAS MENTIONED THAT IT WAS A STRETCH [Captioner] 21:08:44 GOAL TO NOT HAVE PARKING MINIMUMS NEAR TRANSIT. [Captioner] 21:08:47 THAT IS REALLY STATE LAW AB 127, I MISSED [Captioner] 21:08:50 IF THERE WAS A NUANCE THAT WAS PUSHING US [Captioner] 21:08:53 FURTHER BUT I'D SAY LET'S BE ALL THE WAY, [Captioner] 21:08:56 I'D LOVE FOR FREMONT TO BE A [Captioner] 21:08:59 LEADER, THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT HOMES AND BUSINESSES CAN'T [Captioner] 21:09:04 BUILD PARKING, THEY'RE NOT FORCE [Captioner] 21:09:06 ED TO BUILD MORE PARKING THAN THEY [Captioner] 21:09:08 NEED. THANK YOU FOR COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 21:09:12 KASSAN TO CALL OUT DAY TO DAY DECISIONS ON [Captioner] 21:09:15 CLIMATE IMPACTS. I ALSO WANT TO GIVE A [Captioner] 21:09:18 SHOUT OUT TO COUNCILMEMBER SHAO FOR [Captioner] 21:09:21 A, NATIONAL CARBON TAX. [Captioner] 21:09:24 THAT WOULD BE THE BEST, NATIONAL CARBON TAMP, [Captioner] 21:09:27 THAT IS A POLICY WE COULD ABSOLUTELY ADOPT. [Captioner] 21:09:30 THANK YOU, PLEASE LET'S PUSH OUR CLIMATE AGENDA AS FAR AS [Captioner] 21:09:31 WE POSSIBLY CAN. [Captioner] 21:09:36 >> The Clerk: THANK YOU. THE NEXT PERSON OR THE LAST [Captioner] 21:09:39 SPEAKER IS KELLY [Captioner] 21:09:42 ABREW. [Captioner] 21:09:49 >> SO TALK ABOUT GASOLINE STATIONS OVERALL NUMBER OF [Captioner] 21:09:52 GASOLINE STATIONS IN THE U.S. HAS BEEN DECLINING FOR MANY [Captioner] 21:09:55 YEARS DUE TO VARIOUS FACTORS LIKE INCREASED COMPETITION, [Captioner] 21:09:56 STRICTLIER ENVIRONMENTAL [Captioner] 21:10:00 REGULATIONS, SHRINKING [Captioner] 21:10:01 PROFIT MARGINS AND SO ON. [Captioner] 21:10:04 SO FOR EXAMPLE, WALGREEN'S [Captioner] 21:10:07 NEAR IRVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, THAT USED [Captioner] 21:10:11 TO BE A GAS STATION, GOT PAVED OVER. [Captioner] 21:10:14 HOW ABOUT MISSION PROGRAM NEAR [Captioner] 21:10:17 KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL, IT'S A CHRISTMAS TREE LOT NOW [Captioner] 21:10:20 , EVERY CHRISTMAS TIME, LOTS OF [Captioner] 21:10:24 CHRISTMAS TREES ON THE EMPTY LOT, ON THE CORNER [Captioner] 21:10:26 OF STEVENSON, BLACOW. [Captioner] 21:10:29 WHEN THIS CITY ITSELF HAD THINGS UNDER ITS [Captioner] 21:10:33 CONTROL TALKING ABOUT FLEET VEHICLE REPLACEMENT, A LOT [Captioner] 21:10:35 OF PEOPLE SAY WHEN YOU REPLACE [Captioner] 21:10:38 YOUR OLD CAR AND BUY A FANCY [Captioner] 21:10:40 NEW CAR YOU ARE WASTING A LOT OF [Captioner] 21:10:43 RESOURCES AND IF THE OLD CAR RUNS YOU SHOULD BE [Captioner] 21:10:46 MAYBE RUNNING IT TO BE MORE [Captioner] 21:10:49 ENVIRONMENTAL. IF YOU THINK THAT THE CITY CAN [Captioner] 21:10:52 REDUCE ITS CARBON EMISSIONS BY PLACING ALL THE CARS, [Captioner] 21:10:55 THE AVERAGE LIFETIME OF THOSE CARS [Captioner] 21:10:58 IS WHAT, TEN YEARS, FIVE YEARS, WHATEVER IT IS. [Captioner] 21:11:01 AND IF YOU REPLACE THEM SOONER YOU'RE GETTING -- [Captioner] 21:11:03 YOU'RE USING MORE RESOURCES. [Captioner] 21:11:06 AND THEN THERE IS [Captioner] 21:11:10 SO RELIANCE ON MOON SHOT TECHNOLOGIES, [Captioner] 21:11:13 WE HAVE SO MANY TECHNOLOGIES, IF WE [Captioner] 21:11:16 WANT CO 2, WE WOULD HAVE WALKING [Captioner] 21:11:21 E-BIKES, LITTLE DINK YEAH NONSEX [Captioner] 21:11:23 NONSEXY TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE [Captioner] 21:11:26 REALLY CHEAPER AND EASIER, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 21:11:29 STREETS IN CHINA ARE FULL OF E- [Captioner] 21:11:32 BIKES. AND OUR DEPARTMENT HEADS, THEY [Captioner] 21:11:35 TREAT THESE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES [Captioner] 21:11:39 IT IS AN ACCESSORY ADD ON, ANOTHER BELL AND WHISTLE [Captioner] 21:11:42 . LIKE ALL THE OTHER BELLS AND [Captioner] 21:11:45 WHISTLES THAT OTHER DEPARTMENTS HAVE LOADED ON THEM. [Captioner] 21:11:48 LEGAL COMPLIANCE, DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND HR ISSUES. [Captioner] 21:11:52 HEALTH AND SAFETY. JUST LITTLE, YOU KNOW. [Captioner] 21:11:55 THAT'S NOT THEIR MAIN THING BUT IT'S SOMEBODY ELSE COMES [Captioner] 21:11:58 IN AND KIND OF LOADS THE EXTRA STUFF ON [Captioner] 21:12:00 THEM FOR THEM TO DO. [Captioner] 21:12:03 AND, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE RIGHT WAY TO DO THIS IS TO HAVE [Captioner] 21:12:05 THEM DO IT THEMSELVES AND NOT HAVE IT [Captioner] 21:12:08 COME FROM OUTSIDE. INTERNALLY DRIVEN. [Captioner] 21:12:11 AND MY MOST -- MY [Captioner] 21:12:14 , YOU KNOW, NITTY-GRITTY SUGGESTION HERE IN [Captioner] 21:12:17 THIS CITY IS IF YOU LOOK AROUND AT THESE CITY VEHICLES, A LOT [Captioner] 21:12:19 OF THE WORKERS DRIVE VEHICLES AND [Captioner] 21:12:21 THEY ARE IDLING. THEY PARK THEM THEY GET OUT OF [Captioner] 21:12:24 THE CAR OR TRUCK AND THEY'RE IDLING. [Captioner] 21:12:27 THE U.S. AND I SAY POSTAL [Captioner] 21:12:30 SERVICE HAS FIGURED OUT HOW [Captioner] 21:12:33 TO FIX THIS, YOU NEVER HAVE [Captioner] 21:12:37 THE POSTAL SERVICE HAVE [Captioner] 21:12:41 THE POSTAL WORKER [Captioner] 21:12:44 HAVE THE TRUCK I'D LINGS [Captioner] 21:12:47 . BUT LOTS OF TECHNOLOGIES, LOTS [Captioner] 21:12:50 OF IDLING GOING ON THANKS. >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU SO [Captioner] 21:12:53 MUCH. AND AT THIS TIME, I'M GOING TO [Captioner] 21:12:57 CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD FOR THIS ITEM AND I'LL BRING IT [Captioner] 21:13:00 BACK TO COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL. FOR YOUR COMMENTS [Captioner] 21:13:03 . COMMENTS. [Captioner] 21:13:10 YOUR COMMENTS, THANK YOU. >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 21:13:13 AM I FORGETTING HOW TO DO THIS [Captioner] 21:13:15 ? >> Mayor Mei: YOU'RE ON. [Captioner] 21:13:16 >> Councilmember Campbell: IT'S GETTING LATE. [Captioner] 21:13:19 WE HAD A LONG CONVERSATION ABOUT AIR TRAFFIC AND THE IMPACT [Captioner] 21:13:23 OF THE DIESEL JET FUEL THAT GOES [Captioner] 21:13:26 ACROSS OUR CITIES FROM [Captioner] 21:13:29 THE AIRPLANES AND I KNOW THAT'S NOT [Captioner] 21:13:32 A CAL NET 4 BECAUSE WE'RE LOOKING AT GROUND, [Captioner] 21:13:35 GROUND TRAFFIC IN TERMS OF CARBON [Captioner] 21:13:40 FOOTPRINT. SO EXCUSE ME MY QUESTION IS, ARE [Captioner] 21:13:43 WE PARTNERING WITH OR ARE WE WORKING WITH [Captioner] 21:13:47 ANY OF THE [Captioner] 21:13:50 AIR TRAFFIC PEOPLE TO TALK [Captioner] 21:13:53 ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THIS IN FREMONT [Captioner] 21:13:58 ? >> NOT CURRENTLY [Captioner] 21:14:01 . YOU KNOW, THERE ARE [Captioner] 21:14:03 SIGNIFICANT EFFORTS HAPPENING ESPECIALLY OUT [Captioner] 21:14:07 OF SFO AROUND IMPROVEMENTS IN JET FUEL [Captioner] 21:14:09 , EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH IT. [Captioner] 21:14:12 AND DECREASING EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH AIR [Captioner] 21:14:16 TRAFFIC. IT'S A CONSUMPTION BASED [Captioner] 21:14:19 EMISSION, YOU KNOW, IF PEOPLE ARE FLYING, THAT'S PART OF THEIR [Captioner] 21:14:23 OWN FOOTPRINT. BUT YEAH, IT'S [Captioner] 21:14:26 SOMETHING THAT WE CAN THINK ABOUT [Captioner] 21:14:30 AND, YOU KNOW, ENCOURAGE PEOPLE AT THE [Captioner] 21:14:31 INDIVIDUAL LEVEL TO CONSIDER, [Captioner] 21:14:35 YOU KNOW, LOOKING INTO CLEAN [Captioner] 21:14:38 ER PLANES AS THEY BECOME [Captioner] 21:14:41 AVAILABLE, EMISSIONS OFFSETS OR THE PLANE [Captioner] 21:14:44 TRIPS IN THE MEANTIME. [Captioner] 21:14:47 >> Councilmember Campbell: I THINK I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT IT [Captioner] 21:14:51 BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT HOW WE DID THE [Captioner] 21:14:54 MILES TRAVELED AND HOW THAT IMPACTS CARBON [Captioner] 21:14:56 AND HOW WE'RE TRYING TO KEEP PEOPLE OFF [Captioner] 21:15:00 THE ROADS. AND I'M WONDERING IF WE'RE [Captioner] 21:15:03 REALLY WORKING -- BECAUSE THE JET FUEL COMES DOWN [Captioner] 21:15:06 , SO IT DEFINITELY IMPACTS OUR AIR [Captioner] 21:15:08 QUALITY. [Captioner] 21:15:11 AND THEY HAD A WHOLE THING WITH THE AIRPORT DOWN IN [Captioner] 21:15:14 SAN JOSE, WHERE THE FAMILIES WERE COMING [Captioner] 21:15:18 OUT KIDS WERE GETTING ASTHMA BECAUSE [Captioner] 21:15:21 IF THEY LIFT CLOSE TO THE AIRPORT THERE WAS HEALTH [Captioner] 21:15:23 RISK INVOLVED IN THAT. AND I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S [Captioner] 21:15:25 SOMETHING THAT CITIES ARE TAKING ON. [Captioner] 21:15:28 BUT THE [Captioner] 21:15:32 CITY OF SAN JOSE CERTAINLY DID BEGIN TO TAKE THAT [Captioner] 21:15:34 ON AS A CONCERN ABOUT THE AIR [Captioner] 21:15:38 QUALITY IN SAN JOSE. [Captioner] 21:15:46 >> Dan Schoenholz: THANK YOU FOR THE COMMENTS AND THE [Captioner] 21:15:50 QUESTION COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL. THERE ISN'T MUCH FOCUS ON [Captioner] 21:15:52 AIR TRANSPORTATION BECAUSE WE HAVE [Captioner] 21:15:55 LITTLE CONTROL OVER THAT. AS RACHEL SAID, [Captioner] 21:15:58 IF WE COULD INFLUENCE PEOPLE FOR AIR TRAVEL [Captioner] 21:16:01 THAT WOULD HAVE SOME EFFECT BUT IT ISN'T QUANTIFIABLE [Captioner] 21:16:03 . >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:16:05 DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? [Captioner] 21:16:08 THANK YOU. NEXT IS COUNCILMEMBER SHAO. [Captioner] 21:16:11 >> Councilmember Shao: THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. [Captioner] 21:16:14 I JUST HAVE SOME COMMENTS. YOU KNOW, I REALLY [Captioner] 21:16:18 APPRECIATE JOHN HINES COMMENT [Captioner] 21:16:21 ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF GLOBAL [Captioner] 21:16:26 COLLABORATION IN COMBATING CARBON EMISSION [Captioner] 21:16:28 . ALSO I JUST LEARNED THAT IN YEAR [Captioner] 21:16:31 2020, THE WILDFIRE IN [Captioner] 21:16:33 CALIFORNIA WHICH A LOT OF PEOPLE STILL [Captioner] 21:16:37 REMEMBER, ARE REMINDED RECENTLY BY [Captioner] 21:16:40 THE ORANGE SKY [Captioner] 21:16:43 IN NEW YORK CITY. [Captioner] 21:16:46 HOW WE ARE EXPERIENCING 2020. IN THAT YEAR, [Captioner] 21:16:49 THE WILDFIRE GIVE [Captioner] 21:16:51 CARBON EMISSION THAT COUNTS FOR [Captioner] 21:16:54 30% OF THE WHOLE [Captioner] 21:16:58 STATE CARBON EMISSION THAT YEAR [Captioner] 21:17:01 . AND IMAGINE THE SCALE [Captioner] 21:17:04 . AND EVEN LIKE 2021, [Captioner] 21:17:08 THE WILDFIRE WOULD COUNT FOR 20 [Captioner] 21:17:11 % OF THE STATE CARBON EMISSION [Captioner] 21:17:14 . SO WE'RE LOOKING AT THE BIGGEST [Captioner] 21:17:15 TARGETS. [Captioner] 21:17:18 I'M GLAD THAT AT LEAST IN OUR PLAN [Captioner] 21:17:22 WE DO HAVE THE WILDFIRE REDUCTION [Captioner] 21:17:25 IN MIND. AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT [Captioner] 21:17:29 . SO THAT'S MY FIRST COMMENT. [Captioner] 21:17:32 AND SECOND COMMENT IS [Captioner] 21:17:35 THAT WHILE I REPRESENT THE [Captioner] 21:17:38 CITY ON STOP WASTE IN ALAMEDA COUNTY [Captioner] 21:17:42 , WE EMPHASIZE ON [Captioner] 21:17:45 THE ORGANIC WASTE REDUCTION [Captioner] 21:17:47 , ESPECIALLY THE FOOD WASTE REDUCTION. [Captioner] 21:17:50 YOU MAY NOT REALIZE HOW MUCH FOOD WE WASTE [Captioner] 21:17:53 EVERY YEAR. AND IT SHOULDN'T HAVE [Captioner] 21:17:56 BEEN SENT TO THE LANDFILL. [Captioner] 21:18:00 RATHER, IT SHOULD BE MADE BETTER USE. [Captioner] 21:18:03 SO RECENTLY, WE JUST [Captioner] 21:18:06 PRESENTED AWARDS TO TWO OAKLAND [Captioner] 21:18:10 ORGANIZATIONS FOR MAKING BEST [Captioner] 21:18:13 USE OF THE SURPLUS OF ORGANIC [Captioner] 21:18:14 FOOD. [Captioner] 21:18:17 SO THAT ON ONE HAND [Captioner] 21:18:20 , THE WASTE REDUCTION [Captioner] 21:18:23 IS ACHIEVED. ON THE OTHER HAND, [Captioner] 21:18:26 THE FOOD IS SENT TO THE HANDS OF REALLY [Captioner] 21:18:28 THE NEEDY. [Captioner] 21:18:31 SO I WOULD APPRECIATE THAT THE CITY WILL [Captioner] 21:18:35 CONTINUE TO, BY WORKING WITH NOT [Captioner] 21:18:38 ONLY THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT, [Captioner] 21:18:40 BUT ALSO EXISTING NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS [Captioner] 21:18:44 LIKE THE TRICITY VOLUNTEERS BANK, FOOD BANK, [Captioner] 21:18:48 TO REALLY TRY TO REDUCE THE [Captioner] 21:18:51 FOOD WASTE IN THE [Captioner] 21:18:54 CITY AND TRY TO ALSO [Captioner] 21:18:58 PROVIDE PRECIOUS RESOURCES TO [Captioner] 21:19:01 THE LOCAL INCOME FAMILIES AS WELL AS [Captioner] 21:19:04 LOW [Captioner] 21:19:07 INCOME FAMILIES AS WELL AS THE [Captioner] 21:19:11 HOMELESS PEOPLE. THIS IS SOMETHING I WOULD [Captioner] 21:19:14 LIKE TO SEE MORE PLAN IN THE NEAR [Captioner] 21:19:18 FUTURE. THE THIRD THING IS I'M VERY GLAD [Captioner] 21:19:21 ON BEHALF OF STOP WASTE I PRESENTED AN AWARD TO [Captioner] 21:19:25 OUR FUSD INCLINE CLUB [Captioner] 21:19:28 CLEAN CLUB, AMERICAN [Captioner] 21:19:31 HIGH, WHICH ACTUALLY WAS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF [Captioner] 21:19:34 THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WIDE EFFORT TO [Captioner] 21:19:38 USE COMPOST AND HAVE SCHOOL GARDENS THROUGHOUT THE [Captioner] 21:19:41 DISTRICT. I STILL REMEMBER WHEN I WAS ON [Captioner] 21:19:44 THE SCHOOL BOARD I VISITED A LOT OF SCHOOLS AND SAW [Captioner] 21:19:48 THOSE SCHOOL GARDENS [Captioner] 21:19:52 , YOU KNOW, IN MY FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE. [Captioner] 21:19:55 AND I REALLY COMMEND THEIR [Captioner] 21:19:58 EFFORTS OVER THE YEARS, AND I BELIEVE IT IS [Captioner] 21:20:02 THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE [Captioner] 21:20:05 SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT [Captioner] 21:20:07 HELPED ACHIEVE THE GOAL. [Captioner] 21:20:10 SO I LOOK FORWARD TO FURTHER COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE [Captioner] 21:20:14 FUSD AND THE CITY AND TRY TO [Captioner] 21:20:18 REALLY NOT ONLY PROMOTE [Captioner] 21:20:22 AWARENESS OF SUSTAINABILITY, [Captioner] 21:20:23 AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, [Captioner] 21:20:27 REDUCTION OF CARBON EMISSION MORNING OUR [Captioner] 21:20:30 STUDENTS, BUT ALSO TRY [Captioner] 21:20:37 AMONG OUR STUDENTS BUT ALSO MAKE [Captioner] 21:20:40 FUSD A BIG PARTNER IN THE JOINT EFFORT TO ACHIEVE OUR GOAL. [Captioner] 21:20:43 THANK YOU. >> Mayor Mei: [Captioner] 21:20:45 THANK YOU. NEXT IS COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN. [Captioner] 21:20:49 >> Councilmember Salwan: THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. [Captioner] 21:20:52 AND JUST TO CLARIFY OUR FUR [Captioner] 21:20:54 VIEW TODAY JUST TO GIVE FEEDBACK [Captioner] 21:20:57 THERE IS NO COUNCIL ACTION AT THIS TIME. [Captioner] 21:21:00 >> Dan Schoenholz: THE ONLY [Captioner] 21:21:03 ACTION WE ARE ASKING FOR IS DIRECTION TO COUNCIL TO PUT THIS [Captioner] 21:21:05 OUT TO THE PUBLIC FOR COMMENT. >> Councilmember Salwan: WELL, [Captioner] 21:21:07 GREAT. I THINK THIS IS A GREAT START [Captioner] 21:21:10 AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE ROBUST DISCUSSION. [Captioner] 21:21:13 I MEAN THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT WE DO NEED TO DEAL [Captioner] 21:21:16 WITH. IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT [Captioner] 21:21:19 REQUIRES OUR URGENT ATTENTION. AND I APPRECIATE THE EFFORT [Captioner] 21:21:22 THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING AND I LOOK [Captioner] 21:21:25 FORWARD TO THE ENGAGEMENT PROCESS AND I THINK IT WILL COME [Captioner] 21:21:28 BACK TO US FOR A FINAL VOTE, IS THAT CORRECT? [Captioner] 21:21:31 AND THEN LATER HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE SOME [Captioner] 21:21:33 IMPLEMENTS MEASURES THAT WE CAN ACT ON TO FURTHER [Captioner] 21:21:35 CHIP AWAY AT THE CARBON EMISSIONS. [Captioner] 21:21:38 GREAT, THANK YOU. >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:21:41 NEXT IS COUNCILMEMBER KENG AND THEN I HAVE MY COMMENTS, TOO [Captioner] 21:21:43 . THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:21:45 >> Councilmember Keng: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM MAYOR. [Captioner] 21:21:48 MY QUICK QUESTION IS JUST WHAT ARE SOME OF THE ENGAGE [Captioner] 21:21:50 MENTS THAT ARE BEING PLANNED RIGHT NOW ONCE [Captioner] 21:21:54 IT'S BEING PUBLISHED TO THE PUBLIC [Captioner] 21:21:57 ? >> WHAT TYPE OF PUBLIC [Captioner] 21:22:00 ENGAGEMENT ARE WE GOING TO DO? [Captioner] 21:22:03 >> Councilmember Keng: RIGHT. >> FOR PUTTING IT OUT FOR PUBLIC [Captioner] 21:22:04 COMMENT? >> Councilmember Keng: I KNOW [Captioner] 21:22:07 WE ALREADY HAD SOME WORKSHOPS AND GETTING FEEDBACK IN THE LAST [Captioner] 21:22:11 COUPLE OF YEARS AND NOW THAT WE HAVE A DRAFT, WHAT KIND OF [Captioner] 21:22:13 ADDITIONAL ENGAGEMENTS ARE WE [Captioner] 21:22:16 PLANNING NOW? >> YES, SO WE'RE GOING TO [Captioner] 21:22:19 RELEASE THE DRAFT FOR THE PUBLIC TO PROVIDE COMMENTS ON [Captioner] 21:22:22 THROUGH MY FREMONT PLATFORM. [Captioner] 21:22:25 SO WE'LL HAVE A SERIES OF QUESTIONS THAT PEOPLE [Captioner] 21:22:26 CAN PARTICIPATE IN. [Captioner] 21:22:29 WE'LL HAVE AN OPEN [Captioner] 21:22:32 DISCUSSION, FORUM FOR PEOPLE TO [Captioner] 21:22:35 , YOU KNOW, POST QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, AND [Captioner] 21:22:37 OTHER PEOPLE CAN COMMENT ON THOSE. [Captioner] 21:22:40 AND THEN ALSO WE'LL ALSO HAVE A PLACE FOR PEOPLE [Captioner] 21:22:42 TO ASK QUESTIONS FOR STAFF TO RESPOND [Captioner] 21:22:44 TO. >> Dan Schoenholz: I WOULD [Captioner] 21:22:47 JUST ADD THAT WE ARE ADVERTISING WIDELY THE AVAILABILITY OF [Captioner] 21:22:48 THAT FORUM. [Captioner] 21:22:51 SO WE'RE USING SOCIAL MEDIA, WE'RE USING OUR [Captioner] 21:22:54 MAILING LIST. IT'S SORT OF ALL THE CITY'S [Captioner] 21:22:57 COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS TO DRIVE PEOPLE TO THAT ONE PLACE TO [Captioner] 21:23:00 LEAVE COMMENTS. >> Councilmember Keng: [Captioner] 21:23:02 WONDERFUL. I WAS JUST GOING TO ASK WHAT [Captioner] 21:23:05 KIND OF VEHICLES WE ARE UTILIZING, PERFECT, THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:23:08 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. SO I'LL CLOSE ON SOME OF MY [Captioner] 21:23:11 COMMENTS. I JUST WANTED TO ECHO AND I [Captioner] 21:23:14 APPRECIATE THAT WE HAD GOTTEN SOME FEEDBACK FROM THE VINYL [Captioner] 21:23:17 SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION. I KNOW THAT'S ITEM [Captioner] 21:23:21 6 AF AND THEY [Captioner] 21:23:24 WERE GIVING US SOME DIRECTION ON [Captioner] 21:23:27 OUTREACH, WHETHER IT'S ENGAGING [Captioner] 21:23:30 THE BUSINESS SECTOR IN PARTICULAR OR HOW THE PLAN COULD [Captioner] 21:23:33 BE MORE SUCCESSFULLY OUTREACHED IN TERMS OF ROBUST IDEAS. [Captioner] 21:23:36 THEY HAD SOME SUGGESTIONS ON HOW THE [Captioner] 21:23:39 COMMISSIONERS FELT THEY COULD COMMENT ON THE PROPOSED [Captioner] 21:23:41 AREAS. AND SO THE OTHER THINGS WHICH I [Captioner] 21:23:44 THINK IS MUCH APPRECIATED. WE HAVE OUR GREEN CHALLENGE [Captioner] 21:23:47 WEB PAGE AND THEN ALSO OUR REGULAR [Captioner] 21:23:50 GREEN CHALLENGE NEWSLETTER WHICH DOES A PRETTY ROBUST [Captioner] 21:23:53 JOB AND HOPEFULLY PEOPLE ARE SEEING [Captioner] 21:23:55 THAT. FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, IF YOU [Captioner] 21:23:58 HAVEN'T SEEN THE GREEN CHALLENGE NEWSLETTER YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR [Captioner] 21:24:01 THAT. WHICH DOES REGULARLY [Captioner] 21:24:04 PROVIDE THE INSIGHTS, AND I WAS JUST LOOKING [Captioner] 21:24:06 AT THE LAST ISSUE THAT CAME OUT [Captioner] 21:24:09 A FEW DAYS AGO. IT TALKED ABOUT OUR CLIMATE [Captioner] 21:24:13 PLAN PROPOSAL DRAFT, IT TALKS ABOUT [Captioner] 21:24:15 DIFFERENT PROGRAMS LIKE THE BAY [Captioner] 21:24:19 RUN, DIFFERENT PROGRAMS IN THE PAST WE'VE HIGHLIGHT [Captioner] 21:24:22 ED, WE TALKED ABOUT THE CARROT AND [Captioner] 21:24:25 STICK METHOD GETTING PEOPLE TO ADOPTIVE AND ONE OF THE THINGS [Captioner] 21:24:29 THAT EAST BAY [Captioner] 21:24:32 CLEAN ENERGY DOES, THEY HAVE QUARTERLY CONTESTS [Captioner] 21:24:35 FOR THEIR RECIPES AND THE LAST ONE [Captioner] 21:24:38 WAS A SWEET ONE, A RECIPE TO MAKE I GUESS [Captioner] 21:24:42 BLUEBERRY PANCAKES. THEY HAVE DIFFERENT IDEAS AND I [Captioner] 21:24:45 KNOW OUR STUDENTS HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY [Captioner] 21:24:48 GEAMED IN THE PAST AND OUR ENVIRONMENTAL [Captioner] 21:24:51 SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSIONER. [Captioner] 21:24:53 I DO APPRECIATE OUR COUNCILMEMBERS TALKING ABOUT THE [Captioner] 21:24:57 ADOPTION OF GOING TO ROOUNL 100. [Captioner] 21:25:00 RENEWABLE 100. [Captioner] 21:25:02 THERE IS AN ADJUSTMENT IN TERMS OF COST AND THAT IS ONE OF THE [Captioner] 21:25:06 THINGS THAT WE HAD TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION BECAUSE OF THE [Captioner] 21:25:09 PANDEMIC BUT SINCE THAT TIME I WAS LOOKING AT SOME OF THE [Captioner] 21:25:12 REPORTS THAT THEY HAVE OUT NOW FROM EAST BAY COMMUNITY [Captioner] 21:25:13 ENERGY WHICH IS ACTUALLY GOING TO BE [Captioner] 21:25:17 GOING THROUGH A NAME CHANGE TO BEING CALLED AVA [Captioner] 21:25:19 BECAUSE THEY HAVE ADOPTED MORE PEOPLE NOT [Captioner] 21:25:22 ONLY FROM ALAMEDA COUNTY BUT ALSO FROM THE VALLEY. [Captioner] 21:25:24 THAT WILL BE GOING THROUGH A NAME CHANGE. [Captioner] 21:25:27 ONE OF THE REASONS I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT [Captioner] 21:25:30 IT IS WE ARE LOOKING AT THE COST [Captioner] 21:25:34 FOR RESIDENTIAL BILLS AND SMALL [Captioner] 21:25:36 COMMERCIAL AND LARGE COMMERCIAL. [Captioner] 21:25:39 IN PARTICULAR THE RENEWABLE 100 PREMIUM IT HAS A GREAT REDUCTION [Captioner] 21:25:42 IN TERMS OF THE PROPOSED COST [Captioner] 21:25:44 PER RESIDENTIAL USE. I THINK IT WAS ORIGINALLY ABOUT [Captioner] 21:25:47 THREE QUARTERS OF ONE CENT [Captioner] 21:25:48 PER KILOWATT. [Captioner] 21:25:52 AND NOW IT'S ONE QUARTER OF ONE [Captioner] 21:25:54 CENT AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN 2023, [Captioner] 21:25:58 2024, AFTER JULY. AND SO THOSE TYPES OF THINGS [Captioner] 21:25:59 WILL AFFECT SOME OF OUR DECISION [Captioner] 21:26:02 MAKING. BECAUSE I DEFINITELY CONCUR THAT [Captioner] 21:26:06 IT'S SOMETIMES HARD TO FORCE SOMEONE TO MAKE THE ADOPTION. [Captioner] 21:26:09 BUT IF YOU'RE ABLE TO SEE THAT THERE IS ALREADY [Captioner] 21:26:12 SOME FINANCIAL NERVE AS WELL AS [Captioner] 21:26:14 SOME IMPACTS IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 21:26:17 CONSIDERATIONS THAT YOU SAID FOR THOSE WHO ARE AT [Captioner] 21:26:20 FINANCIAL RISK FOR CARE AND FER [Captioner] 21:26:23 A FOR THOSE WHO MAKE SENSE IN TERMS OF LOOKING [Captioner] 21:26:25 AT THAT. I ALSO APPRECIATE THE COMMENT [Captioner] 21:26:29 ABOUT STOP WASTE AND THE ORGANIC FOODS AND WE HAVE [Captioner] 21:26:30 STRONG PARTNERSHIPS AND BEING THAT THE [Captioner] 21:26:33 SCHOOLS HAVE SO MUCH CONSUMPTION OF FOOD SO DO [Captioner] 21:26:36 WE AS A CITY. SO THE OPPORTUNITIES I KNOW THEY [Captioner] 21:26:38 WORKED AND THERE WAS A CHALLENGE [Captioner] 21:26:40 LAST YEAR WITH THE RESTAURANTS, I HOPE WE CONTINUE THAT BECAUSE [Captioner] 21:26:44 WE JUST HAD RESTAURANT WEEK THIS YEAR AND WHEN WE TALK [Captioner] 21:26:46 ABOUT RESTAURANTS AND WASTE THERE IS [Captioner] 21:26:48 AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE HOW WE CAN REDUCE THAT. [Captioner] 21:26:51 I KNOW WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH FARMERS MARKETS TO [Captioner] 21:26:54 SEE IF THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES BECAUSE RATHER [Captioner] 21:26:57 THAN HAVING THOSE DISPOSEOF AND I'VE EVEN SEEN IN SOME [Captioner] 21:27:00 CITIES THEY'VE TAKEN THE EXCESS [Captioner] 21:27:04 FRUIT, QUOTE UNQUOTE UGLY [Captioner] 21:27:07 42nd, TO PROCESS THAT INTO JUICE HE SO IT [Captioner] 21:27:10 DOESN'T GO INTO TOTAL WASTE. IN FACT THIS WEEKEND I [Captioner] 21:27:13 THINK THE NILES HISTORICAL GARDENS AND [Captioner] 21:27:17 NURSERY GARDENS ALSO PROVIDE INSIGHTS AND CLASSES WITH LEAF [Captioner] 21:27:20 AND OTHER GROUPS TO ENCOURAGE OUR RESIDENTS TO BE ENGAGED. [Captioner] 21:27:23 ON THE CITY SIDE I THINK ATHAT WHAT WE COULD DO [Captioner] 21:27:26 IS CONTINUE OUR POLICY AND WORKING WITH CLIMATE [Captioner] 21:27:28 ACTION MAYORS AND THE AMERICAN [Captioner] 21:27:31 CITY SUMMIT BECAUSE WE CAN LOOK AT, I'M NOT ASHAMED TO RINSE [Captioner] 21:27:35 REUSE RECYCLE AND REUSE IN TERMS [Captioner] 21:27:38 OF IDEAS AND SO THAT'S ONE OF THE KEY AREAS. [Captioner] 21:27:40 AND SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS [Captioner] 21:27:43 OPPORTUNITY. I ALSO WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT WHEN [Captioner] 21:27:46 IT COMES TO CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT [Captioner] 21:27:49 WE COULD IMPLEMENT AND I THINK WE'VE TRIED TO ENCOURAGE [Captioner] 21:27:52 ESPECIALLY FOR THE MULTITENANT UNITS, I HAD A CHANCE TO [Captioner] 21:27:55 GO ON A LITTLE BIT OF A WALKING VISIT [Captioner] 21:27:58 WITH A CO-HOUSING THAT WAS IN IRVINGTON THAT'S BEING [Captioner] 21:27:59 BUILT RIGHT NOW. [Captioner] 21:28:02 BUT WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES WITH MULTI [Captioner] 21:28:05 MULTITENANT UNITS, WHETHER IT'S [Captioner] 21:28:08 THESE AGE WELL CENTERS OR THESE -- WE CAN ALSO [Captioner] 21:28:11 HAVE COMMUNITY GARDENS PUT IN, THAT [Captioner] 21:28:14 IS BEEN WELL RECEIVED TO HAVE LITTLE PLANTER [Captioner] 21:28:18 BOXES. PART OF IT IS IN THE SCHOOLS, [Captioner] 21:28:20 COMMUNITY SCHOOL GUARANTEES AND WITHIN OUR SENIORS AND OTHER [Captioner] 21:28:24 MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY. IN FACT WHEN WE HAD OUR [Captioner] 21:28:26 SENIOR AGE WELL ARE IN, THEY HAD A FAIR [Captioner] 21:28:29 ONE DAY, I SEE ONE OF OUR VETERANS THAT [Captioner] 21:28:32 BUILD PLANTER BOXES THAT ARE THE RIGHT [Captioner] 21:28:35 HEIGHT FOR SENIORS. [Captioner] 21:28:38 MYSELF INCLUDED WE DON'T WANT TO BEND OVER AND HURT [Captioner] 21:28:40 YOUR BACK. THAT WAS A HEIGHT APPROPRIATE [Captioner] 21:28:44 TYPES OF WAYS. USING RENEWABLE AND [Captioner] 21:28:47 REPUNCH THAT WOOD TO BUILD PLANTER [Captioner] 21:28:51 BOXES. SO THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS WE [Captioner] 21:28:54 COULD DO TO ENCOURAGE TO WORK [Captioner] 21:28:57 WITH OUR COMMUNITY ACROSS MANY ORGANIZATIONS TO MAKE THAT [Captioner] 21:28:59 HAPPEN. SO I'M REALLY EXCITED TO SEE THE [Captioner] 21:29:00 PROPOSALS THAT HAVE COME THROUGH. [Captioner] 21:29:03 I KNOW THERE'S MUCH TO BE DONE. I ALSO THINK THAT [Captioner] 21:29:05 NOT HERE IN OUR CITY BUT, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 21:29:08 CERTAINLY ON A GLOBAL SCALE, THE COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE [Captioner] 21:29:11 BY ONE OF OUR SPEAKERS EARLIER IS TRUE. [Captioner] 21:29:14 I MEAN WE ARE JUST PART OF THE OVERALL [Captioner] 21:29:17 SOLUTION, CALIFORNIA HAS 61 PHILOSOPHY AND IDEAS AND [Captioner] 21:29:20 TRYING TO SHOVE IDEAS DOWN PEOPLE'S THROATS IS NOT THE [Captioner] 21:29:24 EASIEST BUT WHEN YOU KEY COST [Captioner] 21:29:25 SAVINGS AND ENVIRONMENTAL AND [Captioner] 21:29:28 BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE FOR OUR COMMUNITY IT CAN BE ENCOURAGING [Captioner] 21:29:32 BECAUSE I'VE SEEN THE IMPACT UNFORTUNATELY, AS WE ARE [Captioner] 21:29:34 GOING THROUGH ELECTRONIC WASTE FOR [Captioner] 21:29:38 EXAMPLE IN THE EU AND OTHER GROUPS, HOW MANY OF US HAVE [Captioner] 21:29:40 CHANGED A CELL PHONE OR CHANGED [Captioner] 21:29:43 A COMPUTER OR TECHNOLOGY. SO THOSE TYPES OF THINGS ARE [Captioner] 21:29:46 ALSO THINGS I DON'T KNOW THAT WE [Captioner] 21:29:49 HAVE PUT INTO THE PLAN BUT E-WASTE IS [Captioner] 21:29:52 SOME OF THE THINGS WE SHOULD THINK ABOUT BECAUSE OF [Captioner] 21:29:54 THE MERCURY AND OTHER THINGS THAT ARE IN THERE. [Captioner] 21:29:57 IN TERMS OF THE LONG TERM, WHEN WE UPGRADE OUR COMPUTERS [Captioner] 21:29:58 AND TECHNOLOGY MAKING SURE THAT [Captioner] 21:30:01 THOSE ARE BEING REPURPOSED. I KNOW THAT IN SOME PLACES THEY [Captioner] 21:30:05 HAVE REPURPOSED THOSE TO PROVIDE [Captioner] 21:30:08 THOSE THOSE TO THOSE THAT CAN'T [Captioner] 21:30:09 AFFORD IT. [Captioner] 21:30:12 TECHNOLOGY HAS BECOME ARCHAIC AND IT CAN BE REPURPOSED FOR [Captioner] 21:30:14 SAFETY AND OTHER PURPOSES. [Captioner] 21:30:17 EVEN THINGS LIKE CLOTHING AND ALSO OUR GLASSES. [Captioner] 21:30:21 I APPRECIATE HOW SOME SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS REPURPOSE GLASS [Captioner] 21:30:23 ES AND THE FRAMES TO USE THEM FOR [Captioner] 21:30:25 OTHERS WHO NEED IT. SO THANKS FOR YOUR FEEDBACK. [Captioner] 21:30:27 I HOPE THIS GIVES YOU SOME DIRECTION. [Captioner] 21:30:29 I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANY OTHER COMMENTS FROM THE COUNCIL [Captioner] 21:30:32 BUT THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND THANK YOU FOR ALL THE PUBLIC [Captioner] 21:30:35 MEMBERS AND I REALLY ENCOURAGE ALL OF THOSE WHO HAVEN'T HAD A [Captioner] 21:30:38 CHANCE TO SHARE THEIR VOICE TO DO SO WITH THE SURVEY [Captioner] 21:30:41 S, WITH OUR COMMUNITY LISTENING [Captioner] 21:30:44 TO WITHIN OUR PEERS AND SOME OF THE BEST [Captioner] 21:30:45 IDEAS TRULY COME FROM OUR COMMUNITY. [Captioner] 21:30:48 THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR HEARTFELT DEDICATION TO THIS. [Captioner] 21:30:52 I KNOW IT'S BEEN A LOT OF WORK WHEN THE ADMINISTRATION AT THAT [Captioner] 21:30:53 TIME DECIDED TO PULL OUT OF THE [Captioner] 21:30:56 CLIMATE ACTION PLAN I REALLY ADMIRE OUR CITY AND I'M [Captioner] 21:30:58 REALLY PROUD OF OUR COUNCIL FOR US [Captioner] 21:31:01 STEPPING FORWARD AND DOUBLING DOWN AND MAKING THAT PLEDGE AND [Captioner] 21:31:04 COMMITMENT TO REALLY COMMIT TO SEEING THIS CHANGE. [Captioner] 21:31:07 BUT IT'S NOT ENOUGH JUST TO TALK ABOUT THE PLAN. [Captioner] 21:31:08 THAT'S WHY IT'S IMPORTANT THAT [Captioner] 21:31:12 WE DO THESE CONSTANT UPDATES WHERE IT IS THE [Captioner] 21:31:15 GREENHOUSE GAS CALCULATIONS AND ALL OF THESE [Captioner] 21:31:19 PEOPLE SERVING ON THESE DIFFERENT COMMITTEES TO BRICK [Captioner] 21:31:21 THIS COHESIVENESS. [Captioner] 21:31:24 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. [Captioner] 21:31:26 >> MAYOR I WONDER IF WE COULD [Captioner] 21:31:29 GET A MOTION TO DIRECT STAFF? >> Mayor Mei: SURE IS THERE A [Captioner] 21:31:32 MOTION FROM THE COUNCIL? COUNCILMEMBER KENG AND [Captioner] 21:31:33 COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN I SEE POSTING. [Captioner] 21:31:37 WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY THAT OR JUST SO I DON'T SPEAK FOR YOU. [Captioner] 21:31:41 >> Councilmember Keng: YES, MOTION TO DIRECT STAFF TO [Captioner] 21:31:44 PUBLISH THE DRAFT CIP [Captioner] 21:31:47 TWROP 0. >> Mayor Mei: AND SECONDED BY [Captioner] 21:31:48 COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN. PLEASE VOTE. [Captioner] 21:31:55 THANK YOU. SO THE MOTION PASSES [Captioner] 21:31:57 UNANIMOUSLY. AND WE APPRECIATE ALL THE TIME [Captioner] 21:32:00 THAT YOU HAVE PUT INTO THIS AND FOR ALL THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS [Captioner] 21:32:02 WHO WILL PROVIDE US ADDITIONAL [Captioner] 21:32:05 FEEDBACK SO WE CAN HAVE THE ROBUST DISCUSSION WHEN WE [Captioner] 21:32:08 APPROVE IT. [Captioner] 21:32:11 THANK YOU. NEXT ON OUR CALENDAR [Captioner] 21:32:15 IS SEARCHD IS REPORT OUT [Captioner] 21:32:18 -- SEVEND REPORT OUT ON COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS BE [Captioner] 21:32:20 IS THERE ANY COMMITTEE [Captioner] 21:32:23 ASSIGNMENT YOU WOULD LIKE TO REPORT OUT ON? [Captioner] 21:32:25 OKAY, I'LL MAKE A REALLY QUICK REPORT. [Captioner] 21:32:28 I JUST WANTED TO NOTE ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT CAME UP EARLIER [Captioner] 21:32:31 WAS ABOUT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND THAT HAVING ACCESS OF IT IS [Captioner] 21:32:34 VERY IMPORTANT. AND SO I KNOW THAT WE'VE HAD [Captioner] 21:32:37 SOME COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK AND TRYING TO ENGAGE AND [Captioner] 21:32:40 WORK WITH AC TRANSIT AS WELL AS BART [Captioner] 21:32:43 . AND SO WE'VE BEEN HAVING SOME [Captioner] 21:32:46 LISTENING TOURS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, [Captioner] 21:32:49 WORKING WITH US AND SO WE [Captioner] 21:32:52 HOPE TO CONTINUE THOSE. [Captioner] 21:32:55 WE THINK THAT RIDERSHIP IS REALLY KEY FOR ANY SUCCESS OF [Captioner] 21:32:58 PUBLIC TRANSIT BUT HAVING PUBLIC [Captioner] 21:33:01 TRANSPORTATION THAT'S AFFORDABLE, ACCESSIBLE AND ALSO [Captioner] 21:33:04 RELIABLE AND SAFE ARE KEY AREAS. SO I JUST WANTED TO SHARE [Captioner] 21:33:06 THAT THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT [Captioner] 21:33:09 WE HAD TALKED ABOUT AND WE HOPE TO CONTINUE AS WE LOOK AT [Captioner] 21:33:12 NEXT WEEK, THIS WEEK'S ALAMEDA COUNTY [Captioner] 21:33:13 TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION [Captioner] 21:33:14 BUDGET. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH AND WITH