[Captioner] 19:01:58 FREMONT.GOV. I'D LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE MEETING WILL GO UP UNTIL 11:30 P.M. THIS [Captioner] 19:02:03 EVENING IF NEEDED AND WE'LL ALLOW FOR 30 MINUTES OF GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IN THE BEGINNING, AND IF [Captioner] 19:02:07 THERE ARE ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS FOR ORAL COMMUNICATIONS AFTER THE INITIAL 30 MINUTES, WE [Captioner] 19:02:11 WILL TAKE ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS AT THE END OF THE MEETING IF TIME [Captioner] 19:02:15 REMAINS. I WILL NOW TURN THE MEETING OVER TO OUR CITY MANAGER, [Captioner] 19:02:19 KARENA SHACKELFORD, TO MAKE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS AND INTRODUCE HER STAFF AT THIS TIME. [Captioner] 19:02:23 THANK YOU. >> City Mgr. Shackelford: THANK YOU, MADAME MAYOR, AND [Captioner] 19:02:27 GOOD EVENING TO YOU AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. SO [Captioner] 19:02:32 BEFORE I INTRODUCE MY COLLEAGUES, I JUST WANT TO MAKE A QUICK ANNOUNCEMENT [Captioner] 19:02:36 TO REITERATE WHAT WE'VE ALREADY PUT OUT THERE PUBLICLY, SO THIS EVENING [Captioner] 19:02:40 AS WE COMMENCE THIS MEETING, I JUST WANTED TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACKNOWLEDGE [Captioner] 19:02:45 THAT THE CITY OF FREMONT HAS ENDED ITS PRACTICE OF ALLOWING [Captioner] 19:02:49 VIRTUAL PUBLIC COMMENT BY PHONE AND ZOOM DURING COUNCIL MEETINGS. [Captioner] 19:02:55 WE TAKE THIS ACTION IN RESPONSE TO A TROUBLING WAVE OF ABUSE OF [Captioner] 19:02:59 VIRTUAL COMMENT, ONE IN WHICH SEVERAL OF OUR NEIGHBORING CITIES, CITY [Captioner] 19:03:04 COUNCILS AND REGIONAL ELECTED DECISION-MAKING BODIES HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO [Captioner] 19:03:08 DISRUPTIVE RACIST VERBAL ATTACKS BY ANONYMOUS CALLERS. UNFORTUNATELY, [Captioner] 19:03:13 ELIMINATING VIRTUAL PUBLIC COMMENTS ENTIRELY IS THE ONLY [Captioner] 19:03:17 FEASIBLE OPTION TO PREVENT OUR MEETINGS FROM BECOMING A MEANS OF [Captioner] 19:03:21 BROADCASTING DISRUPTIVE, TROUBLING HATE SPEECH. [Captioner] 19:03:25 REGULARLY SCHEDULED COUNCIL MEETINGS WILL CONTINUE TO BE BROADCAST ON ZOOM ON [Captioner] 19:03:30 FREMONT.GOV, AND OUR CABLE TELEVISION CHANNEL 27. MEMBERS OF [Captioner] 19:03:34 THE PUBLIC MAY STILL WATCH MEETINGS REMOTELY AND ARE WELCOME TO [Captioner] 19:03:38 SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENTS IN ADVANCE OF COUNCIL MEETINGS VIA [Captioner] 19:03:42 EMAIL. ALL EMAIL COMMENTS RECEIVED BY 4:00 P.M. ON THE DAY OF THE [Captioner] 19:03:46 COUNCIL MEETING WILL BE DISTRIBUTED TO COUNCIL MEMBERS AND PUBLISHED IN THE [Captioner] 19:03:50 CITY'S AGENDA CENTER ON [Captioner] 19:03:55 FREMONT.GOV IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING. SO THAT COMPLETES MY ANNOUNCEMENT, [Captioner] 19:03:59 AND I'LL TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE MY COLLEAGUES. WE [Captioner] 19:04:03 HAVE RAFAEL ALVARADO, OUR CITY ATTORNEY WITH US THIS EVENING, SUSAN GAUTHIER, [Captioner] 19:04:08 OUR CITY CLERK, [Captioner] 19:04:12 AND KHANH VO, OUR I.T. SPECIALIST HELPING US OUT THIS EVENING. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:04:16 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. SO AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO ALSO [Captioner] 19:04:22 SHARE THAT I NOTICE WE HAVE SEVERAL SIGNS IN THE AUDIENCE [Captioner] 19:04:26 AND THAT'S FINE, BUT DURING THE SPEAKERS, I WANTED TO NOTE THAT WE NEED TO MAKE [Captioner] 19:04:30 SURE PEOPLE CAN SEE, SO PLEASE DO NOT LIFT THE SIGNS UP SO THAT PEOPLE DON'T [Captioner] 19:04:34 HAVE AN OBSTRUCTED VIEW AND PLEASE DON'T WAVE THEM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE [Captioner] 19:04:39 SPEECH, BUT YOU'RE WELCOME TO HAVE THEM. ALSO I WANTED [Captioner] 19:04:44 TO NOTE AT THIS TIME THE CONSENT CALENDAR ARE ITEMS THAT WILL BE PASSED WITH ONE COUNCIL VOTE [Captioner] 19:04:48 AND STAFF RECOMMENDATION WILL STAND. DOES ANY MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL [Captioner] 19:04:52 WISH -- OH, ONE OTHER THING REAL QUICK, I JUST REMEMBERED. SORRY, WE HAD CLOSED SESSION RIGHT [Captioner] 19:04:56 BEFORE THIS AND I WANTED TO TURN IT TO THE CITY ATTORNEY. IS THERE ANYTHING TO REPORT OUT FROM [Captioner] 19:05:01 CLOSED SESSION? >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: THANK YOU, GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND COUNCIL. [Captioner] 19:05:06 IN CLOSED SESSION THE COUNCIL DISCUSSED TWO CATEGORIES OF [Captioner] 19:05:10 ITEM, FIRST WAS ANTICIPATED LITIGATION, ONE CASE, THE COUNCIL TOOK NO REPORTABLE ACTION. [Captioner] 19:05:15 THE COUNCIL ALSO CONDUCTED ITS BIANNUAL LITIGATION UPDATE [Captioner] 19:05:19 PURSUANT TO THE EXISTING LITIGATION PROVISION UNDER GOVERNMENT CODE [Captioner] 19:05:25 SECTION 54,956.9, DISCUSSED THE 15 CASES ON THE AGENDA BUT ALSO TOOK NO REPORTABLE [Captioner] 19:05:27 ACTION. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT. [Captioner] 19:05:31 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. AND SO AGAIN I RETURN TO THE CONSENT [Captioner] 19:05:35 CALENDAR ITEMS, AND CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS ARE THOSE PASSED [Captioner] 19:05:39 WITH ONE COUNCIL VOTE AND THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION WILL STAND. DOES ANY MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL WISH TO [Captioner] 19:05:43 REMOVE AN ITEM FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR? [Captioner] 19:05:48 SEEING NONE, IS THERE ANY SPEAKER CARDS FOR AN ITEM ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR FROM [Captioner] 19:05:52 THE PUBLIC OR EITHER ON ZOOM? >> Ms. Gauthier: [Captioner] 19:05:54 NO SPEAKERS ON ZOOM. WE WILL NOT BE HAVING THAT ANY LONGER. [Captioner] 19:05:59 >> Mayor Mei: OH, THAT'S RIGHT. >> Ms. Gauthier: AND [Captioner] 19:06:03 NO SPEAKERS FOR CONSENT, NO. >> Mayor Mei: OKAY, THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:06:16 SO AT THIS TIME CAN I GET A MOTION TO MOVE THE CONSENT CALENDAR AS IT STANDS? [Captioner] 19:06:21 COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN AND VICE MAYOR COX? [Captioner] 19:06:28 >> Vice Mayor Cox: YES, I WAS GOING TO MAKE A MOTION TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE CONSENT [Captioner] 19:06:32 AGENDA FOR ITEMS C THROUGH I ON TONIGHT'S CONSENT AGENDA. [Captioner] 19:06:37 >> Mayor Mei: SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN. PLEASE VOTE. [Captioner] 19:06:48 >> Ms. Gauthier: COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL? >> Councilmember Campbell: I'M SORRY, [Captioner] 19:06:52 I HAD A CLARIFYING QUESTION BEFORE THE VOTE WAS CAST. >> Mayor Mei: I DIDN'T SEE [Captioner] 19:06:56 THAT. >> Councilmember Campbell: I HEARD COUNCILMEMBER COX SAY CONSENT [Captioner] 19:07:00 C THROUGH F, BUT I THOUGHT IT STARTED AT A. AND [Captioner] 19:07:04 MOVED DOWN TO I. [Captioner] 19:07:09 >> Mayor Mei: THE CONSENT CALENDAR, YES, IT'S CORRECT, THE IT'S ENTIRE CONSENT [Captioner] 19:07:14 CALENDAR, SO IT WOULD BE A THROUGH I. >> Councilmember Campbell: THANK YOU. >> Mayor Mei: SO WE'LL CLARIFY THAT. [Captioner] 19:07:17 THANK YOU. THE WHOLE CONSENT CALENDAR AS IT STANDS. [Captioner] 19:07:22 PLEASE VOTE. [Captioner] 19:07:27 AND SO THE CONSENT CALENDAR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY, NOTING THE [Captioner] 19:07:29 ONLY -- THE ABSENCE OF COUNCILMEMBER SHAO. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:07:36 AND AT THIS TIME, I ALSO HAVE SEVERAL CEREMONIAL ITEMS. AND [Captioner] 19:07:41 WE HAVE A PROCLAMATION FOR EXTRA MILE DAY BUT THAT'S ALREADY GOING TO BE SENT [Captioner] 19:07:46 TO THE -- >> Ms. Gauthier: RIGHT, MADAME MAYOR. WE LEARNED THAT MS. OTT IS UNABLE [Captioner] 19:07:50 TO ATTEND THE MEETING THIS EVENING, SO WE WILL NOT BE READING THAT THIS [Captioner] 19:07:54 EVENING, AND WE WILL SEND THE PROCLAMATION TO HER. >> Mayor Mei: OKAY. [Captioner] 19:07:58 THANK YOU. THEN THE OTHER CEREMONIAL ITEM [Captioner] 19:08:03 TODAY IS A CHECK PRESENTATION, AND I'D LIKE TO [Captioner] 19:08:08 INVITE SENATOR WAHAB TO JOIN ME FOR THE CHECK PRESENTATION. IS [Captioner] 19:08:12 SHE COMING? OKAY. [Captioner] 19:08:17 AND I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO INVITE, I BELIEVE THERE'S ALSO [Captioner] 19:08:22 BACS CEO JAMIE ALMANZA. [Captioner] 19:08:26 IS SHE COMING TODAY TOO? [Captioner] 19:08:32 OKAY, THEN LET ME SEE WHO ELSE. [Captioner] 19:08:37 ANY MEMBERS OF THE CITY'S I.T. OR HUMAN SERVICES [Captioner] 19:08:41 DEPARTMENT. [Captioner] 19:08:49 I'LL GO DOWN THERE FIRST, WE'LL READ THIS FIRST. [Captioner] 19:09:21 SO ON BEHALF OF THE FREMONT CITY COUNCIL AND CITY STAFF AND THE FREMONT COMMUNITY, I'D LIKE TO [Captioner] 19:09:25 THANK SENATOR WAHAB FOR HER EFFORTS IN HELPING US SECURE $2 MILLION IN FUNDING [Captioner] 19:09:29 FOR THE 2023-24 STATE BUDGET FOR THE HOUSING [Captioner] 19:09:33 NAVIGATION CENTER, AND THAT'S WHY WE ALSO HAVE THE REPRESENTATION FROM [Captioner] 19:09:37 BACS, AND TO EXPAND FREE COMMUNITY WIFI FOR [Captioner] 19:09:41 THE FREMONT SIX COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS. AND SO I [Captioner] 19:09:45 BELIEVE THAT THE $500,000 IN PARTICULAR IS [Captioner] 19:09:50 OUR SECOND ROUND OF FUNDING WHICH WE'VE UTILIZED IN THE PAST FOR OPERATIONAL FUNDS, WHICH [Captioner] 19:09:54 I THINK ARE IMPORTANT FOR OUR CITY'S HOUSING NAVIGATION CENTER, WHICH IS LOCATED [Captioner] 19:09:58 RIGHT BEHIND US OVER AT THE CITY HALL. AND IT'S ALSO IN PARTNERSHIP [Captioner] 19:10:03 WITH BAY AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES, AND IT'S A [Captioner] 19:10:07 45-BED AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE FULLY OPERATIONAL NOW IN TERMS OF THE [Captioner] 19:10:11 FULL CAPACITY? OH, WONDERFUL, WE'RE BACK UP NOW IN TERMS OF FULL CAPACITY, AND IT [Captioner] 19:10:16 OPENED DURING COVID IN 2020, AND HAS SERVED MORE [Captioner] 19:10:20 THAN 160 COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO DATE, AND WE'RE REALLY PLEASED TO SHOW THAT FROM THE REPORTS THAT WE'VE [Captioner] 19:10:24 HAD OUT OF THAT, THAT IT'S BEEN ABLE TO DELIVER EXCELLENT QUALITY CARE, [Captioner] 19:10:28 AND THE RESIDENTS OF THE AGENCY RECEIVE WRAP-AROUND SERVICES [Captioner] 19:10:33 INCLUDING HEALTH AND WELLNESS, EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE, SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND COUNSELING, AND I [Captioner] 19:10:37 THINK WE HAVE A 68% PLACEMENT RATE, THE TWO-YEAR REPORT. [Captioner] 19:10:43 IS IT 60%? [Captioner] 19:10:48 OKAY. AND WE ALSO WANT TO NOTE THAT WE PLACED 60% OF THE PEOPLE [Captioner] 19:10:52 SO FAR IN HOUSING. THE SECOND PIECE OF IT IS FOR THE COMMERCIAL DISTRICT [Captioner] 19:10:56 WIFI PROJECT, WHICH IS FOR ACCESS FREMONT, AND WE [Captioner] 19:11:00 HAD A PRESENTATION ALSO FROM OUR ASSEMBLYMEMBER, AND IT'S [Captioner] 19:11:06 FOR $1.5 MILLION, WHICH WAS SECURED IN THE STATE BUDGET FOR THE CITY OF FREMONT'S COMMERCIAL DISTRICT [Captioner] 19:11:11 WIFI ACCESS EXPANSION PROJECT KNOWN AS ACCESS FREMONT, [Captioner] 19:11:16 AND [Captioner] 19:11:20 IT'S -- THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR [Captioner] 19:11:24 US, DURING THE PANDEMIC WE'VE HAD MANY STUDENTS AND FAMILIES WHO NEED ACCESS AND WE WANT TO [Captioner] 19:11:29 HAVE EQUITY IN DELIVERY OF THAT. SO THESE DISTRICTS [Captioner] 19:11:33 COMPRISE OF CENTERVILLE, IRVINGTON, MILES, MISSION SAN JOSÉ, WARM SPRINGS AND OUR [Captioner] 19:11:37 DOWNTOWN CITY CENTER. SO IN 2022, THE CITY [Captioner] 19:11:41 RECEIVED $1.5 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDING WHICH WAS HALF THE PROJECTED COST FOR THIS, AND [Captioner] 19:11:46 THIS STATE FUNDING ALLOCATION WILL ALLOW THE CITY TO BUILD OUT OUR [Captioner] 19:11:50 WIFI PROJECT TO SERVE A LARGER AREA OF EACH DISTRICT AND [Captioner] 19:11:55 TO INCLUDE PLAZAS AND GATHERING SPACES WHICH ARE SO IMPORTANT FOR OUR COMMUNITY WHICH WILL HAVE A GREATER [Captioner] 19:11:59 IMPACT ON RESIDENTS AND SMALL BUSINESSES INCLUDING THOSE WHO COME TO [Captioner] 19:12:03 FREMONT FOR EVENTS LIKE WEEKLY FARMERS' MARKETS, FOOD, TRUCK EVENTS AND [Captioner] 19:12:07 OUR FESTIVAL OF ARTS. SO ON BEHALF OF THE CITY COUNCIL, WE JUST WANT TO SHARE THAT WE ARE VERY [Captioner] 19:12:13 GRATEFUL FOR OUR EFFORTS TO HELP OUR COMMUNITY. SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE SENATOR WAHAB TO [Captioner] 19:12:17 SAY A FEW WORDS AND AFTERWARDS I'LL INVITE THE COUNCIL DOWN TO TAKE A PHOTO. [Captioner] 19:12:21 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MAYOR MEI. I DO JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I'M VERY [Captioner] 19:12:25 PROUD TO BE ABLE TO SERVE THIS CITY. I GREW UP IN [Captioner] 19:12:29 THE CITY AND IT'S VERY INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO GIVE BACK AND, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 19:12:34 GRANTED WE ARE FACING MORE TOUGHER ECONOMIC TIMES. IT'S [Captioner] 19:12:38 INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT OUR HOMELESS POPULATION IS A GROWING [Captioner] 19:12:42 POPULATION. AND I OFTEN STATE THAT WITH OUR HOMELESS POPULATION, THE [Captioner] 19:12:46 FASTEST DEMOGRAPHIC WITHIN THAT HOMELESS POPULATION [Captioner] 19:12:51 IS OUR SENIOR COMMUNITY. THOSE ARE OUR GRANDPARENT AND MUCH [Captioner] 19:12:56 MORE, AND AT THE SAME TIME, WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO [Captioner] 19:13:01 SECURE $500,000, HALF A MILLION DOLLARS TO THE NAVIGATION CENTER THAT [Captioner] 19:13:05 FREMONT HAS ESTABLISHED AT THE 2,022-POINT IN TIME [Captioner] 19:13:10 COUNT, FREMONT'S HOMELESS POPULATION GREW BY NEARLY 69% IN THREE YEARS. [Captioner] 19:13:14 NO DOUBT IN LARGE PART DUE TO THE PANDEMIC AND MUCH MORE, AND [Captioner] 19:13:18 NAVIGATION CENTERS ARE A PROVEN MODEL FOR MOVING PEOPLE OFF OF THE [Captioner] 19:13:22 STREETS AND EVENTUALLY INTO MORE PERMANENT HOUSING. NOT JUST HOUSING BUT [Captioner] 19:13:27 ALSO SUPPORTIVE SERVICES THAT SUPPORT THE WHOLE INDIVIDUAL, [Captioner] 19:13:31 WRAP-AROUND SERVICES AND MUCH MORE, AND THAT'S THROUGH THE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BAY AREA COMMUNITY [Captioner] 19:13:36 SERVICES, WHICH I'M VERY HAPPY TO SEE. I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT FREMONT IS ALSO [Captioner] 19:13:40 INVESTING IN PROGRAMS AND MODELS THAT WE KNOW WORK. AND AT THE SAME TIME, [Captioner] 19:13:44 I WOULD LIKE TO ALSO JUST ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT THAT WE WERE ALSO ABLE [Captioner] 19:13:48 TO SECURE $1.5 MILLION FOR THE WIFI ACCESS [Captioner] 19:13:53 EXPANSION PROJECT. DIGITAL LITERACY IS A KEY TO SUCCESS AND A TOOL [Captioner] 19:13:57 FOR SELF EMPOWERMENT, AND WE SEE THE GROWING DIGITAL DIVIDE AND HERE [Captioner] 19:14:01 EVEN IN THE SILICON VALLEY, WE STILL SEE HUGE GAPS, AND THE FACT [Captioner] 19:14:05 THAT FREMONT IS MOVING FORWARD IS VERY BENEFICIAL [Captioner] 19:14:09 TO THE LARGER COMMUNITY, AND WE NEED THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS TO [Captioner] 19:14:13 SUPPORT ACCESS. PANDEMIC HIGHLIGHTED THE ISSUES FOR K THROUGH 12 [Captioner] 19:14:18 STUDENTS, REGARDLESS OF WHAT CITY YOU BELONGED INTO, WE SAW THAT [Captioner] 19:14:22 PEOPLE DID NOT HAVE ACCESS TO CHROMEBOOKS, TO WIFI, TO HOT SPOTS, TO YOU NAME IT. [Captioner] 19:14:26 AND IT'S ALSO AN ISSUE FOR AGING ADULTS ATTEMPTING TO ACCESS [Captioner] 19:14:31 SAFETY NETS AND THE BENEFIT AROUND IT. EVEN THE COVID SHOTS, YOU HAD TO SIGN [Captioner] 19:14:35 UP ONLINE. SO I'M PROUD TO SUPPORT THIS [Captioner] 19:14:39 EVIDENT THAT BRIDGES GAPS IN THE DIGITAL DIVIDE. I WELCOME ALL OF THE COUNCILMEMBERS TO [Captioner] 19:14:43 TAKE A PHOTO AND I'M VERY PROUD TO PARTNER WITH THE CITY OF FREMONT. THANK YOU TO [Captioner] 19:14:47 THE STAFF. WE REALLY COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU GUYS AND FOR THAT VISION AND WE REALLY [Captioner] 19:14:52 APPRECIATE THAT, AND I JUST REALLY WANT TO THANK THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS ALSO FOR JUST [Captioner] 19:14:54 TRUSTING THE MOVEMENT THAT WE'RE TRYING TO START. SO THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:15:03 >> Mayor Mei: WHY DON'T WE INVITE THE COUNCILMEMBERS TO COME DOWN AND TAKE A PHOTO. [Captioner] 19:15:08 WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE? >> I JUST WANT TO [Captioner] 19:15:12 SAY THANK YOU TO THE BOARD AND TO THE SUPERVISORS WHO ARE HERE [Captioner] 19:15:17 THIS EVENING, AND WE REALLY COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT THE CITY OF FREMONT'S HELP. [Captioner] 19:15:22 IT'S BEEN A GREAT WORK-AROUND AND A GREAT WORKABILITY THAT WE'VE HAD [Captioner] 19:15:26 WITH THEM TO MAKE THIS WORK AND BE SUCCESSFUL. [Captioner] 19:15:30 >> Mayor Mei: NO, THANK YOU. IT CERTAINLY TOOK A LOT OF SUPPORT FROM [Captioner] 19:15:34 THE COMMUNITY AND THE COUNCIL TO BE ABLE TO MOVE THE AGENCY FORWARD. [Captioner] 19:17:54 >> Mayor Mei: SO THANK YOU FOR ALL WHO HAVE JOINED US THIS EVENING. I ALSO AT THIS TIME AM GOING [Captioner] 19:17:58 TO THEN OPEN US UP TO PUBLIC COMMENTS. AND THOSE ARE ITEMS THAT ARE [Captioner] 19:18:03 NOT AGENDIZED FOR ORAL COMMUNICATIONS THIS EVENING. IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN SPEAKING, [Captioner] 19:18:07 PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COMPLETE A SPEAKER CARD, AND YOU'LL BE ALLOCATED TIME [Captioner] 19:18:11 TO SPEAK ON ITEMS THAT ARE NOT AGENDIZED THIS EVENING. [Captioner] 19:18:16 SO ANY PERSON DESIRING TO SPEAK ON A MATTER, PLEASE COMPLETE THE SPEAKER CARDS. [Captioner] 19:18:21 I KNOW THIS IS A CHANGE IN OUR FORMAT. AND AGAIN, PLEASE NOTE ALL [Captioner] 19:18:25 COMMUNICATIONS THAT ARE SUBMITTED AND RECEIVED VIA EMAIL WILL BE PLACED ON FILE AND [Captioner] 19:18:29 CONSIDERED PART OF PUBLIC RECORD. [Captioner] 19:18:38 MS. GAUTHIER, ARE THERE ANY SPEAKER CARDS FOR THE ITEMS THIS EVENING? [Captioner] 19:18:44 >> Ms. Gauthier: THERE ARE CURRENTLY 10 SPEAKERS FOR ORAL COMMUNICATIONS. SO WE'LL [Captioner] 19:18:49 BE AT A MINUTE, TWO MINUTES? >> Mayor Mei: TWO MINUTES EACH. [Captioner] 19:19:00 >> Ms. Gauthier: THE FIRST SPEAKER IS KATE MILLS FOLLOWED BY JOHN HINDS. [Captioner] 19:19:05 >> Mayor Mei: WELCOME, KATE. >> GOOD EVENING. [Captioner] 19:19:10 HONORED COUNCILMEMBERS, CITY STAFF, EXECUTIVES, AND [Captioner] 19:19:14 ART LOVERS EVERYWHERE IN FREMONT! I WANT [Captioner] 19:19:18 TO TELL YOU THAT ART IS A -- IT CAN CAPTURE AN [Captioner] 19:19:22 HISTORICAL MOMENT. MAYBE A [Captioner] 19:19:27 SOCIAL ISSUE. MAYBE A PORTRAIT OR A LANDSCAPE. [Captioner] 19:19:32 BUT ART IS ALSO A HEALING THING. [Captioner] 19:19:36 THOSE THAT CREATE ART ARE OFTEN HEALING THEMSELVES. [Captioner] 19:19:41 MY NAME IS KATE, AND TONIGHT I'M [Captioner] 19:19:46 REPRESENTING THE OLIVE HEIGHT ART GUILD. AND I'D LIKE TO INVITE [Captioner] 19:19:50 YOU TO THE GALA, WHICH IS OCTOBER 20TH. IT'S A BIG [Captioner] 19:19:53 EVENT, IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD A REALLY FUN DATE OR NIGHT OUT, THIS WOULD BE THE ONE. [Captioner] 19:19:58 IT HAS ART AND MUSIC AND FOOD AND IT'S KIND OF A FUB [Captioner] 19:20:03 FUN THING ON A FRIDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 20TH COMING UP. [Captioner] 19:20:07 WE'VE GOT FLYERS IN THE BACK IF YOU'D LIKE TO TAKE ONE. AND THEN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY IS THE [Captioner] 19:20:11 SALE. OF ART. SO WHY IS THIS A BIG [Captioner] 19:20:15 DEAL? THIS IS OUR ANNUAL FUNDRAISING EVENT, AND WE DO IT IN [Captioner] 19:20:19 ORDER TO SUPPORT THE PROGRAMS THAT BRING ART OUT IN THE [Captioner] 19:20:23 COMMUNITY AND SUPPORT THE ARTISTS. [Captioner] 19:20:28 WE WORK HAND IN HAND WITH THE CITY OF FREMONT, THE MAIN LIBRARY, TO MAKE SURE [Captioner] 19:20:32 THAT THERE ARE LOTS OF ART THINGS IN [Captioner] 19:20:36 THE LIBRARY FOR STUDENTS, FOR OTHER PEOPLE, WE HAVE [Captioner] 19:20:41 THE -- THAT'S MY WARNING. FOR THE MENTALLY CHALLENGED ARTISTS, FOR [Captioner] 19:20:45 THE PEOPLE COMING OUT, THE MENTALLY -- THE CHILDREN'S [Captioner] 19:20:49 ART PROGRAMS, WE SUPPORT ALL KINDS OF ART BECAUSE [Captioner] 19:20:53 WE BELIEVE IT IS FUNDAMENTAL IN A SOCIETY AND FUNDAMENTAL FOR FREMONT. [Captioner] 19:20:58 PLEASE JOIN US AT THE ANNUAL HOLIDAY FOR THE ARTS. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:21:05 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> Ms. Gauthier: NEXT SPEAKER IS [Captioner] 19:21:10 JOHN HINDS FOLLOWED BY BRIDGET [Captioner] 19:21:14 MACK. >> WELCOME, [Captioner] 19:21:18 MR. HINDS. >> Ms. Gauthier: BRIDGET MACK FOLLOWED BY SHARON. [Captioner] 19:21:32 >> Mayor Mei: WELCOME, BRIDGET. >> HELLO, MADAME [Captioner] 19:21:36 MAYOR AND COUNCILMEMBERS. I WANTED TO SPEAK ABOUT MY CONCERNS REGARDING [Captioner] 19:21:40 THE FREMONT TRI-CITY ANIMAL SHELTER. I HAD TO HAVE CONTACT WITH THEM [Captioner] 19:21:44 RECENTLY REGARDING AN ANIMAL THAT I FOUND. I'VE NOT BEEN ABLE [Captioner] 19:21:49 TO GET AHOLD OF ANYBODY AT THE SHELTER WHEN I CALLED FOR ANIMAL OFFICER [Captioner] 19:21:53 ASSISTANCE, THEY SAID THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANYONE AND THAT I WOULD HAVE TO CAPTURE THE ANIMAL MYSELF AND TAKE [Captioner] 19:21:58 TO BEACON ANIMAL HOSPITAL, WHICH I DID. SINCE [Captioner] 19:22:02 THEN I'VE BEEN TRYING TO REACH SOMEBODY AT THE ANIMAL SHELTER BUT NO MATTER WHEN YOU [Captioner] 19:22:06 CALL, NOBODY ANSWERS THE PHONE. AND I'VE [Captioner] 19:22:10 KIND OF DONE A DEEPER DIVE INTO THE ISSUES THERE AND THEY'RE VERY [Captioner] 19:22:15 UNDERSTAFFED. THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO HIRE STAFF IN. I LOOKED AT THE [Captioner] 19:22:19 ANIMAL ASSISTANCE, THE POLICE ASSISTANCE THAT WILL HELP IN THE [Captioner] 19:22:23 PROGRAM AND THEY'RE PAYING THEM HORRIBLY SMALL SALARY. [Captioner] 19:22:27 IF SOMEBODY WOULD WORK FULL TIME AT $16 AN HOUR, NO BENEFITS ARE [Captioner] 19:22:32 , THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE $32,000 A [Captioner] 19:22:36 YEAR. TO WORK THERE OR EEN VOLUNTEER, YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH POLICE VETTING [Captioner] 19:22:40 INCLUDING GOING THROUGH LIE DETECTOR TESTS AND SECURITY CLEARANCES SO PEOPLE THAT DO WANT TO HELP [Captioner] 19:22:44 ARE NOT ABLE TO VOLUNTEER BECAUSE THE PROCESS IS VERY DIFFICULT. [Captioner] 19:22:49 SO I FEEL LIKE A CITY OF FREMONT THAT HAS THE WEALTH [Captioner] 19:22:53 THAT WE HAVE, WE SHOULD HAVE A WORLD CLASS ANIMAL SHELTER AND [Captioner] 19:22:57 NOT ONE THAT THE PUBLIC CAN'T EVEN ACCESS. AS A PUBLIC CITIZEN, I CAN'T GO TO THE [Captioner] 19:23:01 ANIMAL SHELTER. THE SHELTER IS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC. [Captioner] 19:23:05 WHEN I COULDN'T REACH ANYBODY BY PHONE I DROVE TO THE [Captioner] 19:23:09 SHELTER, THE LOBBY WAS CLOSED AND THERE WAS NO WAY TO GAIN ENTRANCE. SO I WOULD APPEAL TO YOU [Captioner] 19:23:13 TO FIND WAYS TO BETTER FUND THE SHELTER, TO GIVE THE PUBLIC [Captioner] 19:23:18 ACCESS BACK TO THE SHELTER, AND TO TAKE CARE OF THE ANIMALS HERE [Captioner] 19:23:22 IN FREMONT IN A BETTER MANNER THAN WHAT THEY'RE BEING CARED FOR. [Captioner] 19:23:27 AND THE LAST COUPLE ANIMALS I HAVE ADOPTED THROUGH THE HUMANE SOCIETY [Captioner] 19:23:31 OF SILICON VALLEY IN MILIPITAS, AND THEY HAVE LIKE A WORLD CLASS SHELTER THERE, AND FREMONT [Captioner] 19:23:35 SHOULD TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THEY HAVE AVAILABLE AND TRY TO EMULATE THAT. [Captioner] 19:23:40 SO THOSE ARE MY CONCERNS. AS A CONCERNED CITIZEN OF LIVING HERE IN FREMONT [Captioner] 19:23:44 FOR 30 YEARS. THANK YOU. >> Ms. Gauthier: THANK [Captioner] 19:23:49 YOU. >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. I KNOW YOU SENT AN EMAIL [Captioner] 19:23:54 TO SOME OF US TOO, SO THANK YOU. >> Ms. Gauthier: THE NEXT SPEAKER [Captioner] 19:23:58 IS SHARON GIOHONINI. [Captioner] 19:24:07 >> Mayor Mei: WELCOME, SHARON. [Captioner] 19:24:12 >> I HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT OF FREMONT SINCE 1973. [Captioner] 19:24:17 AND I'M CURRENTLY A MEMBER, HAVE BEEN FOR SOME TIME, OF THE [Captioner] 19:24:21 OHLONE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE LAST THREE MONTHS, I'VE BEEN ON THE INFORMATION [Captioner] 19:24:25 LINE. AND THE PROBLEM [Captioner] 19:24:29 WITH COMMUNITY OR FERAL CATS [Captioner] 19:24:33 IS EXTREME. IF ANYONE IS READING THEIR NEXTDOOR, [Captioner] 19:24:38 THINK EVERYBODY NEIGHBORHOOD IN FREMONT, UNION CITY AND NEWARK IS EXPERIENCING [Captioner] 19:24:42 THIS HEAVY INCREASE IN COMMUNITY STRAY [Captioner] 19:24:47 CATS. AND SO YOU MAY THINK THAT IT IS JUST AN ANIMAL [Captioner] 19:24:51 PROBLEM, BUT THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE CALLING ME ON THE INFORMATION LINE. AND [Captioner] 19:24:55 THEY'RE UPSET. SOME OF THEM ARE CRYING, SOME OF THEM ARE YELLING, AND THEY'RE SAYING [Captioner] 19:24:59 THEY'RE NOT GETTING HELP. AND THEY'RE SO GLAD [Captioner] 19:25:03 THAT SOMEONE PICKS UP THE PHONE AT THE HUMANE SOCIETY THAT THEY'RE ALWAYS SO PLEASANT TO [Captioner] 19:25:07 ME. BUT IT IS A REAL [Captioner] 19:25:12 PROBLEM, AND TRYING TO FIND SPAY AND NEUTER SERVICES [Captioner] 19:25:16 FOR THEM, AND PEOPLE ARE WILLING IN THE COMMUNITY TO PAY [Captioner] 19:25:20 THIS [Captioner] 19:25:27 LOW CO-PAY, EVEN THOUGH THE COMMUNITY CATS ARE NOT THEIRS, [Captioner] 19:25:31 THEY'RE OFTEN WILLING TO PAY, BUT WE HAVE RECENTLY SHUT DOWN OUR [Captioner] 19:25:35 LOW COST VOUCHER PROGRAM BECAUSE WE'VE GONE THROUGH OUR BUDGET. AND [Captioner] 19:25:39 I WONDER IF THIS IS THE BEST FREMONT CAN DO FOR ITS [Captioner] 19:25:43 CITIZENS. THANK YOU. >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:25:47 NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. >> Ms. Gauthier: [Captioner] 19:25:52 CHRISTINA MARTINEZ, FOLLOWED BY FABIAN MEYER. [Captioner] 19:26:04 >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCILMEMBER, STAFF AND MAYOR. MY NAME IS [Captioner] 19:26:08 CHRISTINA MARTINEZ. I'VE BEEN VOLUNTEERING FOR THE OHLONE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE LAST [Captioner] 19:26:12 YEAR AND A HALF. YOU WON'T BELIEVE THE NUMBER OF HOURS [Captioner] 19:26:16 WE HAVE -- I HAVE SPENT DOING THE [Captioner] 19:26:21 TNR PART OF THE PROGRAM, DRIVING TO RICHMOND, DRIVING TO [Captioner] 19:26:26 PLEASANTON, DRIVING TO SAN FRANCISCO, I DON'T DO THAT, SOMEBODY ELSE DOES THAT, [Captioner] 19:26:30 DRIVING TO REDWOOD CITY, HERE IN [Captioner] 19:26:34 FREMONT, FOUR PAWS, ALL OVER THE BAY AREA, TRYING TO FIND A [Captioner] 19:26:38 PLACE WHERE WE CAN NEUTER AND SPAY THE FERAL CATS THAT ARE FOUND IN FREMONT. [Captioner] 19:26:43 WHEN I LOOK AT THE WEBSITE IN FREMONT, I [Captioner] 19:26:48 SEE A LINE THAT SAYS "HOW CAN I HELP? [Captioner] 19:26:52 PLEASE FILL OUT THIS COMMUNITY QUESTIONNAIRE THAT ASKS [Captioner] 19:26:56 IF THE PERSON IS ABLE TO TRAP AND TRANSPORT TO THE SHELTER. MANY RESIDENTS [Captioner] 19:27:01 OF FREMONT FILL OUT THIS QUESTIONNAIRE WITH NO RESPONSE FROM THE SHELTER. [Captioner] 19:27:06 IT'S ABSOLUTELY BEYOND BELIEF THAT WE HAVE A SHELTER THAT DOES NOT COMMUNICATE WITH [Captioner] 19:27:12 THE COMMUNITY. YOU'RE ALSO MISLEADING THE PUBLIC. YOU'RE BASICALLY SAYING THAT WE'RE [Captioner] 19:27:16 DOING SPAY AND NEUTER WHEN YOU'RE NOT. THAT WEBSITE NEEDS TO BE UPDATED. [Captioner] 19:27:23 IN TERMS OF LIKE SHARON SAID, SHOWING UP AT THE [Captioner] 19:27:27 SHELTER, IT FEELS VERY HOSTILE. IT FEELS THAT YOU ARE NOT WELCOME. [Captioner] 19:27:32 AND WHEN YOU'RE PART OF THE CITY, THE CITY SHOULD BE WELCOMING ITS [Captioner] 19:27:36 RESIDENTS. THE DAYS OF CLOSING DOORS ON PEOPLE ARE OVER, AND WE SHOULD BE [Captioner] 19:27:40 ALLOWED TO GO INSIDE AND HAVE A WORD WITH THE SHELTER. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:27:45 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER? AND PLEAS NOTE THE COMMENTS THAT ARE [Captioner] 19:27:50 BEING MADE WILL BE SHARED WITH OUR STAFF AND TEAM. [Captioner] 19:27:56 >> Ms. Gauthier: NEXT SPEAKER IS FABIAN MEYER, FOLLOWED BY KELLY ABREU. [Captioner] 19:28:03 >> HELLO, GOOD EVENING. I'M HERE TODAY BECAUSE I WANT TO RAISE [Captioner] 19:28:06 AWARENESS TO A TOPIC THAT WAS EASY TO IGNORE UNTIL IT GREW OUT OF PROPORTION. [Captioner] 19:28:11 I'M TALKING ABOUT THE FERAL AND STRAY CAT POPULATION IN THE TRI-CITY [Captioner] 19:28:15 AREA. I CONSIDER MYSELF AN ANIMAL ADVOCATE AND I GOT [Captioner] 19:28:18 INVOLVED WITH RESCUING CATS WHEN WE FOUND 25 KITTENS IN SOMEONE'S BACKYARD. [Captioner] 19:28:22 THIS IS WHEN I JOINED THE OHLONE HUMANE SOCIETY AND I'M NOW PART OF A GROUP THAT [Captioner] 19:28:27 PROVIDES A SERVICE TO THE CITY CALLED TRAP, NEUTER AND RETURN, IN [Captioner] 19:28:31 SHORT, TNR. WE MAINLY TRAP FERAL AND STRAY [Captioner] 19:28:35 CATS, SPAY AND NEUTER THEM BY A VETERINARIAN AND RETURN THEM TO THE ORIGINAL LOCATION. [Captioner] 19:28:39 WE RUN A FOSTER PROGRAM FOR KITTENS THAT WOULD OTHERWISE DIE ON THE STREET OR CONTRIBUTE TO [Captioner] 19:28:43 THE PROBLEM OF CAT COLONIES WITH 100 AND MORE [Captioner] 19:28:46 CATS ACROSS FREMONT. FREMONT IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BEST PLACES TO LIVE IN THE BAY AREA. [Captioner] 19:28:51 IT IS ALSO KNOWN, WELL, FOR HUMANS, IT IS ALSO [Captioner] 19:28:55 KNOWN, DO YOU KNOW WHAT FREMONT IS ALSO KNOWN FOR? SUPPLYING [Captioner] 19:28:59 THE ENTIRE BAY AREA WITH RESCUE KITTENS. I HELP A LOT OF [Captioner] 19:29:04 CITIZENS WITH INJURED CATS AND KITTENS THAT NEED TO GET RESCUED. I LOVE [Captioner] 19:29:08 ANIMALS AND IT SADDENS ME, HOW MANY SUFFER IN THIS CITY. HAVING [Captioner] 19:29:12 BATTLED THIS PROBLEM IN FREMONT FOR OVER THREE YEARS NOW I'VE NOTICED IT IS GETTING WORSE [Captioner] 19:29:16 SINCE THE SHELTER SHUT DOWN DURING THE PANDEMIC AND DIDN'T RE-OPEN. [Captioner] 19:29:21 THE NUMBER OF REQUESTS OF [Captioner] 19:29:25 FOSTER CATS, INJURED KIT TENS HAVE ALSO INCREASED. WHAT HAS ALSO [Captioner] 19:29:29 INCREASED ARE DISEASES WE CAN ALSO SPREAD TO HUMANS. THE PUBLIC IS OUTRAGED BECAUSE THEY [Captioner] 19:29:32 WANT TO HELP BUT IT IS TOO DIFFICULT AND EXPENSIVE TO DO THE RIGHT THING IN OUR CITY. [Captioner] 19:29:37 THIS IS A PRINTOUT OF A NEXTDOOR THREAD ABOUT THE TRI-CITY SHELTER [Captioner] 19:29:41 THAT SKYROCKETED TO OVER 20 PAGES WITHIN HOURS AND GOT MANY REACTIONS FROM CONCERNED [Captioner] 19:29:45 CITIZENS. OTHER CITIES SHOW [Captioner] 19:29:49 HOW TO RUN AN EFFECTIVE SHELTER BY PROVIDING TRANSPARENCY, ATTRACTIVE SALARIES [Captioner] 19:29:54 AND ALLOWING DONATIONS, ADOPTION EVENTS AND SO ON. WE CAN DO BETTER [Captioner] 19:29:58 AND I'M HERE BECAUSE I WANT TO BE PART OF THE SOLUTION. [Captioner] 19:30:02 >> Ms. Gauthier: THE NEXT SPEAKER IS KELLY ABREU. [Captioner] 19:30:07 FOLLOWED BY RAJ NANDU. [Captioner] 19:30:16 >> FIRST I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT THE INCONSISTENCY AND ILL LOGIC IN CUTTING OFF [Captioner] 19:30:20 ZOOM. YOU KNOW, YOU JUST HAD A MEETING AN HOUR AND A HALF AGO [Captioner] 19:30:25 AT 5:30 P.M., AND YOU DECIDED YOU WOULD ACCEPT ZOOM. CLOSED [Captioner] 19:30:29 SESSION. SAID RIGHT THERE ON YOUR AGENDA. CALL US AT THIS NUMBER [Captioner] 19:30:33 FOR ZOOM. SO WHAT IS THIS? YOU'RE GOING TO SELECTIVELY PICK WHICH [Captioner] 19:30:37 MEETINGS YOU WANT TO ACCEPT ZOOM ON? AND YOU ALREADY HAD, REMEMBER, AS OF LAST [Captioner] 19:30:41 WEEK AND FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, YOU HAD SOMETHING ABOUT [Captioner] 19:30:45 DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR WILL NOT BE TOLERATED, BLAH BLAH PLA, AND I'M SURE YOU HAVE METHODS [Captioner] 19:30:49 OF DELAYING ZOOM CALLS BY A FEW SECONDS AND YOU HAVE METHODS OF CUTTING THEM OFF, [Captioner] 19:30:54 SO THIS IDEA OF CUTTING OFF ZOOM [Captioner] 19:30:58 PREEMPTIVELY PRECAUTIONARY, AND HOW MANY DISRUPTIVE ZOOM [Captioner] 19:31:02 CALLERS HAVE YOU HAD? I THINK IT'S A GRAND TOTAL [Captioner] 19:31:07 OF ZERO? ZERO. SO THIS -- YOU [Captioner] 19:31:11 KNOW, IT'S A PREEMPTIVE ASSAULT ON FREE SPEECH IS WHAT IT IS. [Captioner] 19:31:15 AND THEN AT MISSION PEAK, WE DO HAVE GOOD [Captioner] 19:31:20 NEWS. PEOPLE HERE WERE WHISPERING, MAYBE WE SHOULDN'T BE OUT THERE REPAIRING [Captioner] 19:31:24 THE POLE. MAYBE THAT POLE JUST GOT CUT OFF BY ITSELF. [Captioner] 19:31:31 DAMAGED. BUT WHEN IT WAS REPAIRED, JUST [Captioner] 19:31:37 RECENTLY, 1,000 LIKES ON FACEBOOK WHICH I'M TOLD IS A [Captioner] 19:31:41 VERY -- 1300 LIKES ON FACEBOOK, WHICH IS A [Captioner] 19:31:46 VERY, VERY INTENSE ENGAGEMENT, AND ONE-THIRD OF THOSE PEOPLE WERE FORWARDING THOSE [Captioner] 19:31:49 MESSAGES TO THEIR FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK. A LOT OF FORWARDING GOING ON. [Captioner] 19:31:56 THE BAY AREA COMMUNITY IS ECSTATIC OVER THE PROTECTION AND [Captioner] 19:31:59 PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION OF THE MISSION PEAK POLE. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:32:11 >> Ms. Gauthier: RAJ NANDU FOLLOWED BY DANIEL [Captioner] 19:32:16 CARPELOVICH. >> THANK YOU. I'M SPECIFICALLY HERE TO THANK STATE [Captioner] 19:32:21 OF CALIFORNIA, SPECIFICALLY GOVERNOR NEWSOM AND ALSO [Captioner] 19:32:25 SPECIFICALLY THE CITY COUNCIL, FREMONT CITY COUNCIL FOR [Captioner] 19:32:31 OPPOSING THE POINTLESS [Captioner] 19:32:37 UNCONSTITUTIONAL SB -- BILL, AS YOU KNOW, GAVIN NEWSOM HAS VETOED [Captioner] 19:32:41 THE BILL SATURDAY, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT SO FAR WE GOT [Captioner] 19:32:45 FROM CITY OF FREMONT. I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST THE CITY, CITY [Captioner] 19:32:49 CAN PASS A RESOLUTION, NOT THAT [Captioner] 19:32:52 UPSETS BILLS IN THE FUTURE IN ANY OTHER FORM OR SHAPE. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:33:04 >> Ms. Gauthier: DANIEL CARPELOVICH FOLLOWED BY [Captioner] 19:33:09 HILLARY. [Captioner] 19:33:14 >> HI. GOOD EVENING. IS THIS THING ON? [Captioner] 19:33:20 >> Mayor Mei: YES. >> MY FIRST COMMENT, I JUST WANTED TO COMMENT ON [Captioner] 19:33:24 THE ZOOM COMMENTS THING. I PERSONALLY THINK IT'S A GOOD [Captioner] 19:33:29 IDEA TO KEEP IT JUST IN PERSON ONLY. I THINK IT IMPROVES THE [Captioner] 19:33:33 QUALITY OF THE RESPONSES, IT PUTS A FACE TO A NAME, IT [Captioner] 19:33:38 KIND OF MAYBE ACTS AS A BIT OF A BARRIER TO ENTRY IF YOU CARE ABOUT AN ISSUE ENOUGH [Captioner] 19:33:42 TO GET OUT OF YOUR -- OFF YOUR COUCH AND GO TO THE MEETING AND TALK ABOUT IT. [Captioner] 19:33:46 I THINK THAT'S A GOOD THING. YOU KNOW, THERE ARE OBVIOUSLY ACCESSIBILITY [Captioner] 19:33:50 CONCERNS BUT I THINK LEAVING THE EMAIL OPTION OPEN [Captioner] 19:33:55 IS A GOOD IDEA FOR THAT. BUT I ALSO WANT TO [Captioner] 19:33:59 TALK ABOUT A DIFFERENT TOPIC. I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO ON [Captioner] 19:34:03 A FEW COMMUNITY BIKE RIDES WITH CITY STAFF, AND I WAS HAPPY TO SEE A [Captioner] 19:34:07 FEW OF THE COUNCILMEMBERS THERE AS WELL, AS WELL AS THE MAYOR. [Captioner] 19:34:12 AND ONE THING I LEARNED BASICALLY FROM THOSE [Captioner] 19:34:16 EXPERIENCES IS FOR ALL OF THE GREAT PLANNING, ALL THE GREAT [Captioner] 19:34:20 PLANS THAT WE HAVE, WE HAVE SO MANY PROJECTS [Captioner] 19:34:24 THAT ARE JUST [Captioner] 19:34:28 WAITING ON FUNDING. PLACES WE'VE DONE THE ENGINEERING, THE [Captioner] 19:34:33 DESIGN, SOMETIMES EVEN THE ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCES, AND WE'RE JUST [Captioner] 19:34:37 WAITING ON FUNDING. WE CAN MAKE ALL THESE GREAT [Captioner] 19:34:41 PLANS, WE CAN VOTE ON THEM, WE CAN PASS THEM, WE [Captioner] 19:34:45 CAN TALK ABOUT HOW GREAT OF A JOB WE DID ON PASSING THOSE PLANS AND RUNNING [Captioner] 19:34:49 THEM UP AND THEY'RE GREAT PLANS, BUT IT DOESN'T REALLY COUNT FOR MUCH [Captioner] 19:34:54 IF WE DON'T ACTUALLY PUT OUR MONEY WHERE OUR MOUTH IS AND ACTUALLY FUND THOSE PROJECTS [Captioner] 19:34:57 AND FUND THEM QUICKLY AND FUND THEM FULLY FROM THE START. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:35:05 >> Ms. Gauthier: THE NEXT SPEAKER IS HILLARY FOLLOWED BY DOTTIE. [Captioner] 19:35:14 >> GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO SPEAK. I'M HERE AS [Captioner] 19:35:19 A REPRESENTATIVE OF OHLONE HUMANE SOCIETY. MY WHOLE EFFORT IS [Captioner] 19:35:23 TO SEE THE CATS AND FOR THE LOW INCOME [Captioner] 19:35:28 RESIDENTS IN FREMONT, CATS, DOGS AND BUNNIES GET SPAYED AND NEUTERED. MY [Captioner] 19:35:33 UNPAID JOB AS DIRECTOR OF SPAY AND NEUTER FOR OHLONE HUMANE SOCIETY. [Captioner] 19:35:37 I WANTED TO ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR TONIGHT BECAUSE WE'RE VERY CONCERNED. [Captioner] 19:35:41 WE DO HAVE A LOW INCOME SUBSIDIZED SPAY AND [Captioner] 19:35:46 NEUTER PROGRAM AS WELL AS THE TNR PROGRAM FOR THE FERAL CATS AND WE'VE RUN OUT [Captioner] 19:35:50 OF MONEY. WHAT DO WE DO AT THIS POINT? WE HAVE HELPED -- WE HAVE SPENT [Captioner] 19:35:56 OVER $52,000 AS OF SEPTEMBER SPAYING AND NEUTERING, [Captioner] 19:36:00 VACCINATING AND TREATING FOR PARASITES, BUT WE HAVE NO MORE MONEY. [Captioner] 19:36:06 WHAT IS THE PUBLIC GOING TO DO? THE LOW INCOME RESIDENTS HAVE DEPENDED ON US FOR [Captioner] 19:36:11 ASSISTANCE, THE TNR CATS WHO HAVE NO ONE TO SPEAK FOR THEM ARE DEPENDING ON US AND [Captioner] 19:36:15 OUR K KITTEN PROGRAM. WE [Captioner] 19:36:18 NEED MORE ASSISTANCE FROM THE SHELTER. WE REALLY HAD A GOOD PROGRAM GOING [Captioner] 19:36:22 THERE FOR A WHILE WHERE WE COULD BRING IN CATS FROM [Captioner] 19:36:27 THE COMMUNITY, GET THEM SPAYED AND NEUTERED, AND THAT WAS EVEN [Captioner] 19:36:32 DURING COVID, AND THEN THAT STOPPED. SO I IMPLORE YOU, WE [Captioner] 19:36:36 NEED TO FIND A WAY TO FUND A VETERINARIAN AT OUR SHELTER [Captioner] 19:36:40 TO SUPPORT SERVICES THAT THE RESIDENTS OF FREMONT ARE PAYING FOR. [Captioner] 19:36:47 THIS IS NOT SOMETHING INORDINATE. WE CAN DO THIS. SO WE [Captioner] 19:36:51 NEED EVERYONE'S SUPPORT AND WE WILL BE BACK TO CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS IF NEED [Captioner] 19:36:55 BE, WE'LL START A PETITION TO TALK ABOUT WHAT [Captioner] 19:36:58 NEEDS TO BE DONE. WE NEED YOUR HELP. OHLONE HAS DONE THEIR PART. [Captioner] 19:37:03 WE'RE OUT OF MONEY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [Captioner] 19:37:08 >> Ms. Gauthier: THANK YOU. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS DOTTIE. [Captioner] 19:37:13 AND SUNIL SINGH TURNED IN [Captioner] 19:37:17 A CARD BUT DID NOT NOTE WHICH ITEM. IF YOU CAN PLEASE TELL ME [Captioner] 19:37:21 WHICH ITEM YOU WANT TO SPEAK ON? [Captioner] 19:37:29 >> GOOD EVENING. [Captioner] 19:37:43 >> Mayor Mei: WELCOME, DOTTIE. >> HI, GOOD EVENING TO EVERYONE. I'M HERE [Captioner] 19:37:48 KIND OF AS AN INDEPENDENT BUT ALSO AS A BUSINESS OWNER IN [Captioner] 19:37:52 FREMONT. MY BUSINESS IS FOUR PAWS SPAY AND NEUTER [Captioner] 19:37:56 CLINIC. I WAS AN EMPLOYEE FOR THE CITY OF FREMONT FOR THE [Captioner] 19:38:00 TRI-CITY ANIMAL SHELTER FOR NEAR 20 YEARS, AND UNFORTUNATELY, [Captioner] 19:38:05 THIS IS A VERY REPETITIVE CONVERSATION. SO HISTORICALLY, THE [Captioner] 19:38:10 SHELTER HAS PROVIDED SOME LIMITED SERVICES FOR THE FREMONT [Captioner] 19:38:15 RESIDENTS, AND IT JUST SEEMS TO GO UP AND DOWN ON A STEADY, [Captioner] 19:38:19 STEADY BASIS, AND UNTIL SOMEONE ACTUALLY TAKES AN INTEREST IN THE [Captioner] 19:38:24 SHELTER, I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE. OHLONE [Captioner] 19:38:28 HUMANE SOCIETY HAS SUPPORTED THE PUBLIC OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF [Captioner] 19:38:32 YEARS AS THE SHELTER, QUOTE, QUOTE, TRIES TO GET THEIR [Captioner] 19:38:36 ACT TOGETHER. I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE ANY [Captioner] 19:38:40 LONGER. I DON'T KEEP IN CONTACT WITH ANYONE AT THE SHELTER [Captioner] 19:38:45 REALLY. BUT I WILL TELL YOU WORKING THERE, I WAS A WITNESS [Captioner] 19:38:49 TO THE ONGOING TURNOVER OF EMPLOYEES. THE ONGOING [Captioner] 19:38:53 STRESSES OF SHELTERING. THIS IS NOT NEW. IT'S NOT DIFFERENT. [Captioner] 19:38:57 BUT IT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED AND I DON'T KNOW THAT ANYONE [Captioner] 19:39:01 REALLY IS GOING TO TAKE THAT ON. SO I GUESS [Captioner] 19:39:06 THAT'S KIND OF THE QUESTION AS TO WHO'S REALLY GOING TO GET IN DEPTH, THERE'S A LOT OF [Captioner] 19:39:10 THINGS GOING ON IN THE CITY OF FREMONT, THERE'S NO DOUBT, BUT THE SHELTER SEEMS TO ALWAYS SLIDE TO THE [Captioner] 19:39:16 BOTTOM, AND I DO HOPE THAT YOU WILL ADDRESS THAT AND ALSO DISCUSS [Captioner] 19:39:20 POSSIBLE CHANGES WITH THE DIRECTOR OF OHLONE HUMANE SOCIETY. THEY REALLY DO [Captioner] 19:39:25 A WONDERFUL THING AS FAR AS COMMUNICATION, COMMUNITY [Captioner] 19:39:29 SUPPORT, EDUCATION IS INTENSE, AND FOUR PAWS IS THERE TO SUPPORT THEM [Captioner] 19:39:33 AS BEST WE CAN. WE HAVE VERY LIMITED SERVICES, BUT WE DO TRY AND HELP AS MUCH AS [Captioner] 19:39:37 WE CAN. TO THE TUNE OF 30 SURGERIES A DAY. SO THERE YOU HAVE IT. [Captioner] 19:39:41 PLEASE HELP OHLONE AND PLEASE GET SOMEONE TO IDENTIFY WITH THE SHELTER. [Captioner] 19:39:46 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:39:52 >> Ms. Gauthier: SUNIL SINGH FOLLOWED BY [Captioner] 19:39:57 SUNITA LODA. >> [Captioner] 19:40:02 GOOD EVENING. THIS IS SUNIL SINGH FROM [Captioner] 19:40:06 FREMONT, PERALTA BOULEVARD RESIDENT. I WOULD LIKE TO [Captioner] 19:40:11 DRAW THE ATTENTION OF THE ROAD CONDITION, PERALTA AND [Captioner] 19:40:15 THORNTON AREA, [Captioner] 19:40:20 ROAD CONDITION IS NOT NICE, PARTICULARLY PERALTA AND THORNTON IS [Captioner] 19:40:24 VERY BAD. YOU GO, VERY BIG BUMP, ON PERALTA THERE'S A [Captioner] 19:40:28 VERY BIG BUMP, AND I WAS HEARING SINCE TWO YEARS THAT PERALTA [Captioner] 19:40:33 ROAD HAS BEEN TAKEN BY THE FREMONT CITY BUT NOTHING IS [Captioner] 19:40:37 HAPPENING, NO CONSTRUCTION THING IS HAPPENING. A LOT OF [Captioner] 19:40:41 MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT IN MAKING CONGESTION, MAKING [Captioner] 19:40:45 A BIKE LANE FOR THAT WHICH IS OF NO USE. ANY PUBLIC YOU GO AND ASK, WHICH IS [Captioner] 19:40:49 HAVING NO USE, AND -- OR MAKING THE ROAD, YOU DON'T HAVE MONEY. I [Captioner] 19:40:54 DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS LOGIC. AND ALSO [Captioner] 19:40:59 NEAR TO ARTIST WALK, THE ROAD WAS TWO LANE, [Captioner] 19:41:03 BUILDER HAS BEEN GIVEN [Captioner] 19:41:07 PERMISSION, NOW THE PARKING LOT, ONLY ONE LANE IS THERE WHICH [Captioner] 19:41:12 MAKES A VERY BIG QUEUE. I DON'T KNOW WHO [Captioner] 19:41:16 IS DOING THIS KIND OF PLANNING. I COULD HAVE THOUGHT SO MANY [Captioner] 19:41:20 TIMES TO GO TO THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND RAISE THIS QUESTION BUT SOMEHOW I COULD NOT MAKE IT. [Captioner] 19:41:25 AND THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO RAISE [Captioner] 19:41:30 MY CONCERN, ROAD CONDITION IN GENERAL, FREMONT. [Captioner] 19:41:34 SO MORE ATTENTION SHOULD BE GIVEN ON THE [Captioner] 19:41:37 ROAD CONDITION THAN ANY OTHER THINGS. THANK YOU. >> Ms. Gauthier: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:41:42 THE LAST SPEAKER IS [Captioner] 19:41:46 SUNITA. >> HI. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK [Captioner] 19:41:51 THE FREMONT CITY COUNCIL AND HONORABLE [Captioner] 19:41:55 MAYOR AND I WOULD LIKE TO ESPECIALLY THANK GOVERNOR GAVIN [Captioner] 19:41:59 NEWSOM FOR -- THE [Captioner] 19:42:04 BILL 403. I'D LIKE TO THANK ALL THE DEMOCRATS AND ALL THE ORGANIZATIONS, [Captioner] 19:42:10 HINDU,, MANY WHO HAVE COME OUT TO HELP THE HINDU COMMUNITY, AND [Captioner] 19:42:14 I HOPE THAT WE DON'T HAVE SUCH BILL PRESENTED IN THE [Captioner] 19:42:18 FREMONT COUNCIL AND THANK YOU TO FREMONT CITY COUNCIL FOR [Captioner] 19:42:23 SUPPORTING US IN SB403 BILL TO OPPOSE IT, AND I JUST [Captioner] 19:42:28 HOPE THAT FREMONT CITY ALSO FOCUSES [Captioner] 19:42:34 AND -- TO CONTROL THE CRIME IN THE CITY AND HELP THIS HOMELESSNESS BY [Captioner] 19:42:38 PROVIDING SHELTER TO THE HOMELESSNESS SO WE DON'T HAVE MORE CRIME. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK [Captioner] 19:42:42 FREMONT CITY FOR DOING A GREAT JOB. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:42:51 >> Ms. Gauthier: THAT'S THE LAST SPEAKER UNDER ORAL COMMUNICATIONS. >> Mayor Mei: SO I JUST [Captioner] 19:42:55 WANT TO SAY REAL BRIEFLY THAT ORAL COMMUNICATIONS ARE ITEMS THAT ARE NOT AGENDIZED [Captioner] 19:42:59 BUT PLEASE NOTE THAT THE COMMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN PROVIDED -- IS THERE ONE MORE [Captioner] 19:43:03 CARD? OKAY. COMMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN PROVIDED TO [Captioner] 19:43:06 THE COUNCIL -- >> Ms. Gauthier: SORRY, YES, THERE ARE TWO MORE CARDS HERE. [Captioner] 19:43:10 >> Mayor Mei: OKAY. [Captioner] 19:43:20 SORRY, RANJITA FOLLOWED BY KATHY WILLIAMS. [Captioner] 19:43:24 >> Mayor Mei: WELCOME, RANJITA. >> THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. [Captioner] 19:43:30 >> Mayor Mei: COULD YOU GET A LITTLE CLOSER, PLEASE? I'M SORRY, I CAN'T HEAR YOU. [Captioner] 19:43:39 >> FIRST I WANT TO THANK GOVERNOR NEWSOM AND THE FREMONT CITY [Captioner] 19:43:43 COUNCIL, THE TOWNSHIP OF FREMONT FOR RECOGNIZING THE DIVISIVE AND [Captioner] 19:43:49 HINDUPHOBIC BILL AND VETOING 403(B). SECONDLY, AFTER HEARING ALL THE COMMENTS [Captioner] 19:43:54 AND THE PLEAS FOR HELP WITH ALL THE FUNDING NEEDED FOR [Captioner] 19:43:58 ANIMALS AROUND FREMONT AND ANYBODY HAS TO TAKE A WALK AROUND CENTRAL PARK TO [Captioner] 19:44:02 RECOGNIZE THE EXPLOSION IN THE FERAL CAT POPULATION, I WONDER [Captioner] 19:44:06 IF THAT MONEY THAT SENATOR WAHAB HAD [Captioner] 19:44:11 USED WAS FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND HER [Captioner] 19:44:16 OWN PERSONAL FUNDRAISING TO ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTE TO SOMETHING THAT IS MORE MEANINGFUL AND A [Captioner] 19:44:20 PROBLEM THAT ACTUALLY EXISTED RATHER THAN SOMETHING SUCH [Captioner] 19:44:25 AS CASTE THAT BEFORE SHE INTRODUCED FOUR SEE OWE [Captioner] 19:44:28 3B IF YOU ASKED THE AVERAGE CITIZEN WHAT CAST IS, NOBODY WOULD KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. [Captioner] 19:44:33 SO I WOULD AGAIN COMMEND THE CITY FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING, BUT AT THE SAME [Captioner] 19:44:39 TIME, RE-THINKING WHAT'S THE BEST PLACE TO INVEST OUR FUNDRAISING DOLLARS. [Captioner] 19:44:43 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:44:49 >> Ms. Gauthier: KATHY WILLIAMS. [Captioner] 19:44:54 AND THERE ARE NO OTHER CARDS IN THE TRAY, MADAME MAYOR, SO THIS WILL BE THE LAST SPEAKER. [Captioner] 19:44:58 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. >> GOOD EVENING. I CAME HERE THIS [Captioner] 19:45:02 EVENING TO SUPPORT A GROUP. I HAD NO [Captioner] 19:45:06 INTENTIONS OF GETTING UP AND SPEAKING. OTHERWISE I MIGHT HAVE DONE SOMETHING [Captioner] 19:45:10 WITH MY HAIR AND SLAPPED ON A LITTLE BIT OF MAKEUP. [Captioner] 19:45:14 SO HERE I AM. OHS IS OUT OF MONEY BUT I DON'T [Captioner] 19:45:19 THINK THAT OUR SHELTER IS. ON AUGUST 19TH, I [Captioner] 19:45:23 DEPOSITED A CHECK IN THE DROPBOX FOR LICENSING. [Captioner] 19:45:28 IT TOOK THEM UP UNTIL TWO DAYS AGO TO PUT [Captioner] 19:45:32 MY CHECK THROUGH. TRYING TO CALL THE [Captioner] 19:45:37 SHELTER IS RIDICULOUS. THERE IS NOBODY ANSWERING PHONES. [Captioner] 19:45:41 THIS SHELTER IN FREMONT IS A DISGRACE IN COMPARISON TO THE [Captioner] 19:45:45 SHELTERS THAT SURROUND OUR BAY AREA. I'D LIKE TO GIVE YOU [Captioner] 19:45:49 A LITTLE STATISTIC THAT [Captioner] 19:45:54 MIGHT HELP SHOCK YOU INTO HELPING OHS AND DOING SOMETHING [Captioner] 19:45:58 WITH OUR SHELTER. ONE FEMALE KITTEN [Captioner] 19:46:03 AND ONE MALE KITTEN THAT ARE NOT SPAYED OR NEUTERED IN SEVEN YEARS [Captioner] 19:46:08 CAN PRODUCE 420,000 KITTENS. [Captioner] 19:46:12 IF WE DON'T START WORKING ON THIS SITUATION NOW, YOU WILL BE [Captioner] 19:46:16 HEARING FROM ALL OF THESE RESIDENTS IN FREMONT, NEWARK, [Captioner] 19:46:20 AND UNION CITY. BECAUSE NOBODY [Captioner] 19:46:25 WANTS THAT MANY CATS IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD. [Captioner] 19:46:29 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. [Captioner] 19:46:33 [APPLAUSE] [Captioner] 19:46:39 >> Mayor Mei: THAT'S THE LAST OF OUR SPEAKERS. AT THIS TIME I'M GOING TO CLOSE ORAL [Captioner] 19:46:44 COMMUNICATION. I WANTED TO SAY AGAIN THAT SINCE ITEMS ARE NOT AGENDIZED, WE WILL NOT BE [Captioner] 19:46:48 DIRECTLY ADDRESSING THEM BUT WE WILL BE FOLLOWING UP AND I KNOW THAT OUR STAFF HAS TAKEN DOWN NOTES [Captioner] 19:46:54 ON THIS, SO I'M SURE WE'LL BE FOLLOWING UP WITH OUR DIFFERENT [Captioner] 19:46:58 DEPARTMENTS FROM THE TRI-CITY ANIMAL SHELTER TO OUR [Captioner] 19:47:03 PUBLIC WORKS AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS SUCH AS HUMAN SERVICES, AND PLEASE NOTE THAT [Captioner] 19:47:07 ALL THESE ARE CONSIDERED PART OF PUBLIC RECORDS. [Captioner] 19:47:13 NEXT ON OUR AGENDA ITEM THIS EVENING IS ACTUALLY [Captioner] 19:47:17 ITEM 6A, A CLIMATE READY FREMONT PLAN. AND SO I'D LIKE TO [Captioner] 19:47:22 INVITE OUR SUSTAINABILITY MANAGER RACHEL DIFRANCO, [Captioner] 19:47:26 WHO WILL PROVIDE A PRESENTATION, AND ALSO PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WAS A [Captioner] 19:47:30 GREEN SHEET THAT WAS UPDATED BY HER STAFF, AND ALSO DAN SCHOENHOLZ. [Captioner] 19:47:35 WELCOME THIS EVENING, AND THANKS FOR JOINING US. [Captioner] 19:47:52 >> GOOD EVENING, MADAME MAYOR, VICE MAYOR COX AND THE REST OF THE CITY COUNCIL. [Captioner] 19:47:56 THANK YOU FOR HAVING US TONIGHT. ARE WE GETTING THE [Captioner] 19:48:00 SLIDES UP? SO I'D LIKE TO THANK [Captioner] 19:48:06 YOU FOR [Captioner] 19:48:17 -- I'M HERE TO PRESENT THE [Captioner] 19:48:22 CLIMATE PLAN. WE'VE MADE SOME REVISIONS TO THE [Captioner] 19:48:26 PLAN AND ARE BRINGING YOU THE FINAL PLAN TONIGHT. FIRST I [Captioner] 19:48:30 WANT TO GIVE JUST A QUICK BACKGROUND ON [Captioner] 19:48:34 OUR CLIMATE ACTION PLANNING EFFORTS AND HOW WE GOT TO THIS POINT TODAY. SO AS YOU ARE AWARE, OUR GENERAL PLAN [Captioner] 19:48:39 WAS ADOPTED IN 2011 AND THAT SET FORTH A VISION FOR FREMONT TO [Captioner] 19:48:44 TRANSITION FROM AN AUTO ORIENTED SUBURB TO A SUSTAINABLE STRATEGICALLY [Captioner] 19:48:48 URBAN AND MODERN CITY. AND THE GENERAL PLAN MEMORIALIZED OUR GOAL OF [Captioner] 19:48:52 REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS 25% FROM A 2005 [Captioner] 19:48:57 BASELINE LEVEL BY THE YEAR 2020. OUR CLIMATE ACTION PLAN FOLLOWED A YEAR [Captioner] 19:49:03 LATER, AND THAT REALLY SET A PATHWAY FOR HOW WE COULD REDUCE EMISSIONS OVER [Captioner] 19:49:07 THE NEXT YEARS TO ACHIEVE THAT [Captioner] 19:49:12 GOAL. IN 2018, WE ACTUALLY ACHIEVED [Captioner] 19:49:16 A 24% REDUCTION FROM OUR 2005 BASELINE. AND SO [Captioner] 19:49:21 IN 2019, THE CITY COUNCIL AS RECOMMENDED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL [Captioner] 19:49:26 SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION ADOPTED A CARBON NEUTRALITY [Captioner] 19:49:30 RESOLUTION TO LOOK TOWARD A LONG TERM NEUTRALITY GOAL BY THE [Captioner] 19:49:34 YEAR 2045, WHICH IS IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA'S GOALS FOR [Captioner] 19:49:39 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS AND A TARGET AT A [Captioner] 19:49:43 COMMUNITY WIDE LEVEL BY 55% FROM OUR SAME 2005 BASELINE YEAR. [Captioner] 19:49:47 THAT REDUCTION IS EQUIVALENT TO 30% REDUCTION FROM OUR 2018 [Captioner] 19:49:54 BASELINE. [Captioner] 19:50:01 SO GOALS OF THE CLIMATE READY FREMONT PLAN ARE THREE FOLD. FIRST WE'RE [Captioner] 19:50:06 FOCUSING ON GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION REDUCTIONS OR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND [Captioner] 19:50:10 REALLY LOOKING AT MEASURES THAT WILL ACHIEVE OUR 2030 GOAL OF REDUCING EMISSIONS BY [Captioner] 19:50:14 30%. IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE'RE PRESENTING [Captioner] 19:50:18 A PLAN THAT REALLY ADDRESSES CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCY IN A [Captioner] 19:50:22 MUCH MORE ROBUST WAY THAN WE DID IN OUR FIRST CLIMATE ACTION PLAN, SO REALLY LOOKING AT [Captioner] 19:50:27 WAYS THAT THE CITY CAN PREPARE AND RESPOND AND ADAPT TO A CHANGING CLIMATE [Captioner] 19:50:31 AROUND US. AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THE FUTURE EFFECTS [Captioner] 19:50:35 OF CLIMATE CHANGE MIGHT BE IN OUR COMMUNITY. THE THIRD IS [Captioner] 19:50:39 TO PROVIDE CEQA STREAMLINING FOR DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS. SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT [Captioner] 19:50:43 OUR FIRST CLIMATE ACTION PLAN DID NOT DO, WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT [Captioner] 19:50:48 DISCRETIONARY PROJECTS AND THEIR ABILITY TO TIER OFF OF OUR CLIMATE ACTION PLAN UTILIZING THE [Captioner] 19:50:52 EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS THAT WE'VE CALCULATED FROM OUR CLIMATE [Captioner] 19:50:56 ACTION PLAN AS A WAY TO ADDRESS THEIR CLIMATE MITIGATION [Captioner] 19:51:01 NEEDS. [Captioner] 19:51:06 IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN PREPARATION FOR THE PLAN, WE KICKED [Captioner] 19:51:10 OFF A SERIES OF CONVERSATIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY. [Captioner] 19:51:15 WE HAD KEY STAKEHOLDER CONVERSATIONS WITH DOZENS [Captioner] 19:51:19 OF COMMUNITY GROUPS, WE TALKED TO A NUMBER OF BOARDS AND [Captioner] 19:51:23 COMMISSIONS. WE KICKED OFF A VIRTUAL WORKSHOP IN SEPTEMBER [Captioner] 19:51:28 OF 2020 WITH 160 PARTICIPANTS AND HAD A SERIES OF [Captioner] 19:51:33 LUNCHTIME CLIMATE TALKS. WE ALSO LAUNCHED A VIRTUAL COMMUNITY FORUM [Captioner] 19:51:37 CALLED CONSIDERATE, WHERE WE PRESENTED POSSIBLE MEASURES THAT COULD [Captioner] 19:51:41 GO INTO THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN AND GOT A NUMBER OF COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON IF THEY [Captioner] 19:51:46 SUPPORTED THOSE MEASURES AND THEY COULD ALSO PRESENT THEIR OWN [Captioner] 19:51:50 MEASURES. THEN WE TOOK ALL OF THAT INFORMATION AND WORKED WITH A TECHNICAL [Captioner] 19:51:55 CONSULTANT FROM ASCENT ENVIRONMENTAL TO CALCULATE EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH [Captioner] 19:51:59 VARIOUS MEASURES THAT HAVE ULTIMATELY MADE THEIR WAY INTO THE [Captioner] 19:52:03 CLIMATE READY FREMONT PLAN THAT YOU SEE BEFORE YOU TODAY. [Captioner] 19:52:08 WE HAD PREPARED A DRAFT CLIMATE ACTION PLAN THAT WE BROUGHT TO OUR SUSTAINABILITY [Captioner] 19:52:12 COMMISSION AND TO CITY COUNCIL EARLIER THIS SUMMER, AND [Captioner] 19:52:16 THEN WITH THE COUNCIL'S APPROVAL PUT THAT [Captioner] 19:52:21 OUT UTILIZING THE MYFREMONT PLATFORM FOR COMMUNITY [Captioner] 19:52:25 COMMENT. WE HAD 77 PEOPLE COMMENT ON THE PLAN AND ALL OF THAT FEEDBACK FROM COUNCIL [Captioner] 19:52:29 FROM THE COMMISSION AND FROM THE PUBLIC HAS BEEN INCORPORATED INTO [Captioner] 19:52:33 THE FINAL PLAN THAT YOU SEE BEFORE YOU. [Captioner] 19:52:41 IN TERMS OF OUR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION REDUCTION [Captioner] 19:52:45 TARGETS, THE CLIMATE READY FREMONT PLAN ACTUALLY EXCEEDS OUR 2030 GOAL BY REDUCING [Captioner] 19:52:49 EMISSIONS BY 39%. [Captioner] 19:52:53 AND IN TERMS OF THE LONG TERM TRAJECTORY FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY WE STILL, WITH [Captioner] 19:52:57 THE MEASURES THE IN PLAN, WILL NOT ACHIEVE CARBON NEUTRALITY [Captioner] 19:53:02 BY 2045, BUT THE PLAN IS REALLY FOCUSED ON THE [Captioner] 19:53:06 NEXT SEVEN YEARS OF IMPLEMENTATION THROUGH 2030, AND WE RECOGNIZE THERE WILL BE A [Captioner] 19:53:11 NUMBER OF POLICY CHANGES AT THE STATE LEVEL AS WELL AS TECHNOLOGY CHANGES THAT LIMB [Captioner] 19:53:15 PACT OUR ABILITY TO ACTUALLY ACHIEVE OUR LONG TERM CARBON NEUTRALITY [Captioner] 19:53:19 GOAL, AND SO THIS PLAN IS REALLY FOCUSED ON MEETING AND EXCEEDING OUR 2030 [Captioner] 19:53:23 TARGET, AND THEN COMING BACK AND UPDATING THE PLAN AGAIN [Captioner] 19:53:28 TO WORK TOWARD CARBON NEUTRALITY AT A LATER TIME. ONE OF THE THINGS [Captioner] 19:53:32 I WANTED TO POINT OUT ON THE SLIDE ACTUALLY IS IF YOU LOOK AT THE [Captioner] 19:53:36 EMISSIONS BY SECTOR, BUILDING [Captioner] 19:53:40 ENERGY AND ONWARD TRANSPORTATION MAKE UP THE BULK OF EMISSIONS AND THOSE ARE THE [Captioner] 19:53:45 SECTORS THAT WE'RE REALLY SEEING THE ABILITY TO REDUCE EMISSION AND WITH THE CLIMATE READY FREMONT [Captioner] 19:53:49 PLAN. [Captioner] 19:53:53 IN TERMS OF THE CONTENT OF THE [Captioner] 19:53:58 PLAN, OUR CHAPTERS KIND OF FLOW IN TERMS OF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, WE HAVE AB INTRODUCTION OF ALL THE MEASURES [Captioner] 19:54:02 WITHIN THE PLAN, CHAPTER 1 PROVIDES [Captioner] 19:54:06 AN OVERVIEW OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE IN TERMS OF PAST CLIMATE ACTION [Captioner] 19:54:12 IMPLEMENTATION, AS WELL AS THE OUTREACH THAT WE'VE CONDUCTED AROUND THIS PLAN [Captioner] 19:54:17 UPDATE PROCESS. CHAPTER 2 PRESENTS A LONG-TERM [Captioner] 19:54:22 EMISSIONS FORECAST IF NO NEW CLIMATE ACTIONS ARE TAKEN BY THE YEAR 2045, SO IT'S REALLY [Captioner] 19:54:27 LOOKING AT BASED ON CURRENT POLICY ADOPTED AT THE STATE LEVEL, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN [Captioner] 19:54:32 TO LONG TERM GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS OVER TIME. SO IT'S A NO [Captioner] 19:54:36 LOCAL ACTION SCENARIO. AND THEN CHAPTER 3 GOES INTO A SERIES OF MEASURES [Captioner] 19:54:40 THAT THE CITY OF FREMONT CAN UNDERTAKE WITHIN OUR OWN OPERATIONS AND ON [Captioner] 19:54:45 A COMMUNITY SCALE TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS SO THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE [Captioner] 19:54:50 OUR 2030 GOAL AND REDUCE EMISSIONS BEYOND [Captioner] 19:54:54 THAT LONG TERM FORECAST OF NO LOCAL ACTION. CHAPTER 4 FOCUSES [Captioner] 19:54:58 ON IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING AND PRESENTS A GAME PLAN [Captioner] 19:55:02 FOR SHORT TERM PRIORITY IMPLEMENTATION ACTIONS THAT THE CITY PLANS TO [Captioner] 19:55:06 UNDERTAKE OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS. BOTH AT THE COMMUNITY SCALE AND THE MUNICIPAL LEVEL. [Captioner] 19:55:10 AND THEN WE HAVE A SERIES OF APPENDICES THAT PROVIDE ALL OF THE TECHNICAL [Captioner] 19:55:14 ANALYSIS BEHIND THE EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS CALCULATIONS IN THE PLAN. [Captioner] 19:55:22 SO I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT FOR YOU SOME OF THE MEASURES WITH THE LARGEST [Captioner] 19:55:26 GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTIONS. AS YOU RECALL FROM THE CHART I PROVIDED A COUPLE SLIDES BACK, [Captioner] 19:55:30 THE LARGEST SECTORS OF EMISSIONS ARE TRANSPORTATION AND THE BUILDING [Captioner] 19:55:34 SECTOR, AND THAT'S REALLY WHERE WE CAN SEE THE DEEPEST EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS WITH THE PLAN. [Captioner] 19:55:38 SO THE FOCUS IS ON ELECTRIFICATION OF BOTH OUR BUILDING [Captioner] 19:55:43 SECTOR AND OUR TRANSPORTATION SECTOR. SO YOU CAN SEE WITH [Captioner] 19:55:49 THE FIRST MEASURE THAT IS LISTED HERE, INSTALLING INFRASTRUCTURE [Captioner] 19:55:53 TO SUPPORT ELECTRIFICATION OF OUR VEHICLES IS GOING TO ACHIEVE 28% OF THE TOTAL EMISSIONS [Captioner] 19:55:57 THAT WE'VE CALCULATED WE CAN ACHIEVE BY 2030. AND THEN THE [Captioner] 19:56:01 NEXT TWO MEASURES, MEASURE BU-1 WHICH IS THE [Captioner] 19:56:05 TRANSITION TO CLEAN ENERGY, WILL FOCUS ON TAPERING [Captioner] 19:56:09 OFF OF THE USE OF -- REDUCING THE EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED [Captioner] 19:56:13 WITH ELECTRICITY FROM NON-RENEWABLE SOURCES LIKE [Captioner] 19:56:17 FOSSIL FUELS, AND THEN MEASURE BU-4 WHICH IS FOCUSED ON [Captioner] 19:56:22 RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS AND THEN A SEPARATE MEASURE WHICH HAS AN [Captioner] 19:56:26 ADDITIONAL 4% REDUCTION, SO TOGETHER 18% IS FOCUSED ON [Captioner] 19:56:30 THE EMISSION REDUCTIONS WE CAN ACHIEVE IN THE EXISTING BUILDING SECTOR. SO ALL [Captioner] 19:56:35 TOGETHER, THOSE THREE THAT YOU SEE THERE AND THEN THE FOURTH THAT I MENTIONED WILL [Captioner] 19:56:39 ACHIEVE ABOUT A 64% REDUCTION IN OUR EMISSIONS [Captioner] 19:56:43 BY 2030. I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT [Captioner] 19:56:47 A FEW OF THE PRIORITY ACTIONS WITHIN THE GAME [Captioner] 19:56:51 PLAN FOCUSED AROUND THE FIRST YEAR OF [Captioner] 19:56:55 IMPLEMENTATION AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL. WE'RE LOOKING TO ESTABLISH THE [Captioner] 19:57:00 RENEWABLE 100 RATE PLAN UNDER WHAT IS CURRENTLY KNOWN AS EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY [Captioner] 19:57:04 BUT TRANSITIONING ITS NAME TO AVA COMMUNITY ENERGY AS THE DEFAULT [Captioner] 19:57:08 FOR RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES. SO THAT ACHIEVES THE [Captioner] 19:57:12 GOAL OF THE CLEAN ENERGY MEASURE THAT I MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY. WE'RE [Captioner] 19:57:17 ALSO LOOKING AT PROPOSING REACH CODES FOR BUILDING [Captioner] 19:57:21 ELECTRIFICATION, ELECTRIC VEHICLE READINESS AND GREEN BUILDING IN NEW CONSTRUCTION. [Captioner] 19:57:25 THERE'S A NUMBER OF OTHER MEASURES HERE [Captioner] 19:57:29 FOCUSED ON ENGAGING WITH THE SCHOOLS TO IMPLEMENT SAFE [Captioner] 19:57:33 ROUTES TO SCHOOL, AND FOCUSING ON PLASTIC [Captioner] 19:57:37 WASTE AND ORGANICS WASTE REDUCTION AND PROPER MANAGEMENT. THERE'S [Captioner] 19:57:42 ALSO A FOCUS ON TREE [Captioner] 19:57:46 PLANTING IN ALIGNMENT WITH OUR URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT PLAN AND ALSO [Captioner] 19:57:50 LAUNCHING A PUBLIC-FACING DASHBOARD TO TRACK PROGRESS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION [Captioner] 19:57:54 OF CLIMATE-READY FREMONT. [Captioner] 19:57:58 IN TERMS OF CITY OPERATIONAL ACTIONS, WE'RE [Captioner] 19:58:03 LOOKING AT PROPOSING A [Captioner] 19:58:08 ALL-ELECTRIC OR ZERO NET ENERGY DESIGN REQUIREMENT FOR CITY FACILITIES THAT WOULD [Captioner] 19:58:12 UPDATE OUR EXISTING SUSTAINABILITY POLICY ADOPTED BACK IN 2006. WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT [Captioner] 19:58:17 REPLACING EXISTING GAS POWER HVAC SYSTEMS IN [Captioner] 19:58:21 OUR CITY BUILDINGS WITH HEAT PUMPS AND CONTINUING TO UPDATE [Captioner] 19:58:25 OUR CITY FLEET VEHICLES WITH ELECTRIC VEHICLES, REALLY FOCUSING ON INSTALLING [Captioner] 19:58:30 THE SUPPORTING CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE. THOSE TWO MEASURES HAVE BEEN FUNDED [Captioner] 19:58:34 UNDER THE CITY'S CIP THAT WAS RECENTLY ADOPTED THIS YEAR. WE'RE ALSO [Captioner] 19:58:40 LOOKINGALITY OTHER ACTIONS THAT WOULD FOCUS ON UTILIZING REUSABLE [Captioner] 19:58:45 FOODWARE AT SOME OF OUR CITY FACILITIES, DOING [Captioner] 19:58:49 A WASTE AUDIT AT CITY FACILITIES TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE INCREASING OUR OWN [Captioner] 19:58:53 WASTE DIVERSION EFFORTS, APPLYING ADDITIONAL MULCH AT CITY FACILITIES IN [Captioner] 19:58:57 ALIGNMENT WITH THE GOALS OF SB1383, AND THEN [Captioner] 19:59:02 FOCUSING ON GREEN PURCHASING IMPLEMENTATION OF OUR UPDATED ENVIRONMENTAL [Captioner] 19:59:06 PURCHASING POLICY. [Captioner] 19:59:11 IN TERMS OF PREPARING THE FINAL DRAFT OF CLIMATE-READY FREMONT, WE [Captioner] 19:59:16 DID MAKE A NUMBER OF CHANGES I ATTACHED A DOCUMENT TO [Captioner] 19:59:20 THE STAFF REPORT THAT HIGHLIGHTS ALL THE CHANGES MADE, BUT I WANTED TO MENTION [Captioner] 19:59:25 A FEW HERE. SO FIRST I ALREADY MENTIONED EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY [Captioner] 19:59:29 IS CHANGING THEIR NAME TO AVA SO IN THE PLAN WE'RE REFERENCING AVA THROUGHOUT [Captioner] 19:59:33 THE DOCUMENT. WE'VE ALSO MADE SOME CHANGES TO SOME OF [Captioner] 19:59:37 THE SPECIFIC ACTION LEVEL LANGUAGE WHERE WE HEARD FROM THE PUBLIC [Captioner] 19:59:42 OR FROM COUNCIL OR THE SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION THAT IT WAS UNCLEAR WE [Captioner] 19:59:46 NEEDED MORE SPECIFICITY. WE ALSO PROVIDED SOME [Captioner] 19:59:51 LANGUAGE AROUND THE CONSUMER CHOICE THAT [Captioner] 19:59:55 IS STILL AVAILABLE TO RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES [Captioner] 20:00:00 REGARDING THE OPT UP TO RENEWABLE 100 FOR THE AVA RATE PLAN. WE RECEIVED [Captioner] 20:00:05 SOME FEEDBACK FROM THE ALAMEDA COUNTY WATER DISTRICT REGARDING SOME OF THE ASSUMPTIONS WE [Captioner] 20:00:09 HAD FOR WATER USE REDUCTIONS AND INCORPORATED THOSE INTO OUR [Captioner] 20:00:13 CALCULATIONS. WE ALSO PROVIDED -- OR [Captioner] 20:00:17 CLARIFIED THAT THE GAME PLAN WILL BE UPDATED ON A [Captioner] 20:00:21 THREE-YEAR BASIS SO AFTER THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF IMPLEMENTATION, WE WILL REVIEW THE [Captioner] 20:00:26 GAME PLAN AND PROVIDE SOME UPDATES TO THAT. [Captioner] 20:00:30 AND THEN WE ALSO WHERE APPROPRIATE UPDATED TIMES IN THE GAME PLAN [Captioner] 20:00:34 FOR SPECIFIC ACTIONS. [Captioner] 20:00:39 FINALLY I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT THE STAFF REPORT [Captioner] 20:00:44 INCLUDES AN AGENERAL DUMB TO THE GENERAL PLAN EIR FOR THE [Captioner] 20:00:49 CAP UPDATE, THE SPECIFIC ADAPTATION MEASURES WITHIN THE CLIMATE ACTION [Captioner] 20:00:53 PLAN AND DEMONSTRATES THAT THE CLIMATE READY FREMONT PLAN WON'T RESULT IN [Captioner] 20:00:57 ANY NEW OR SUBSTANTIALLY MORE SEVERE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS THAN THOSE ALREADY [Captioner] 20:01:01 IDENTIFIED IN THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE EIR AND THIS ALLOWS FOR [Captioner] 20:01:08 PROJECTS, DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS UNDER DISCRETIONARY REVIEW TO STREAMLINE [Captioner] 20:01:13 WITH THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN AND DEMONSTRATE THEY ARE [Captioner] 20:01:17 MEETING THE GOALS OF THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN AND THEREFORE THEY ARE [Captioner] 20:01:21 MEETING THEIR CEQA MITIGATION NEEDS. [Captioner] 20:01:30 SO TONIGHT ADOPTION OF THE CLIMATE [Captioner] 20:01:34 READY FREMONT PLAN, THE COUNCIL WILL MAKE FINDINGS RELATED TO THE [Captioner] 20:01:38 THE ADDENDUM TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE CLIMATE READY FREMONT PLAN DOES [Captioner] 20:01:43 NOT HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS BEYOND THE GENERAL [Captioner] 20:01:47 PLAN UPDATE EIR. THERE'S A RESOLUTION IN THE [Captioner] 20:01:52 ADDENDUM AND THEN GIVING DIRECTION TO STAFF TO AGAIN IMPLEMENTATION OF CLIMATE READY FREMONT WITH A [Captioner] 20:01:57 FOCUS ON THE PRIORITY ACTIONS THAT ARE IDENTIFIED WITHIN THE GAME PLAN [Captioner] 20:02:02 IN CHAPTER 4. WITH THAT, I WANTED TO OPEN IT UP [Captioner] 20:02:06 FOR COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL AND [Captioner] 20:02:10 LET YOU KNOW HERE WITH ME IS OUR DEVELOPMENT [Captioner] 20:02:14 DIRECTOR DAN AND IN THE AUDIENCE WE HAVE HANS FROM [Captioner] 20:02:18 PUBLIC WORKS AS WELL AS JOEL FROM OUR PLANNING DIVISION [Captioner] 20:02:23 TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AND ON THE LINE WE HAVE HONEY WALTERS FROM [Captioner] 20:02:27 ASCENT ENVIRONMENTAL WHO CAN ANSWER ANY TECHNICAL QUESTIONS REGARDING THE GHG [Captioner] 20:02:31 CALCULATIONS AND THE ADDENDUM TO THE [Captioner] 20:02:35 GENERAL PLAN EIR. >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION ON [Captioner] 20:02:39 BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE COUNCIL AND AT THIS TIME, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO [Captioner] 20:02:44 THE COUNCIL FOR QUESTIONS FOR THE STAFF. I SEE AT [Captioner] 20:02:49 THIS TIME COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN. THIS IS FOR CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AND WE HAVE SOME PUBLIC [Captioner] 20:02:53 SPEAKERS TOO. >> Councilmember Kassan: ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:02:59 SO MY BIGGEST QUESTION IS, I FEEL LIKE THERE'S NOT A LOT OF DISCUSSION [Captioner] 20:03:03 ON TIMING OF A LOT OF THE MEASURES EXCEPT FOR [Captioner] 20:03:08 THE SHORT TERM ACTIONS IN CHAPTER 4. AND SO [Captioner] 20:03:12 I ASSUME THAT TO BE ABLE TO CALCULATE THE [Captioner] 20:03:17 POTENTIAL REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS FOR EACH ACTION, THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME [Captioner] 20:03:21 IDEA OF WHEN THEY WOULD BE IMPLEMENTED, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU DO [Captioner] 20:03:25 IT 10 YEARS FROM NOW VERSUS FIVE YEARS FROM NOW, THAT'S GOING TO AFFECT THE [Captioner] 20:03:29 TOTAL REDUCTION. SO HOW DID YOU DEAL WITH THOSE [Captioner] 20:03:34 ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT TIMING FOR SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT -- YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO [Captioner] 20:03:38 TIMELINE ASSOCIATED WITH THEM IN THE [Captioner] 20:03:42 PLAN, AND HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT THESE THINGS GET IMPLEMENTED IF THEY'RE NOT -- [Captioner] 20:03:46 YOU KNOW, THERE'S REALLY NO TIMELINE ASSOCIATED WITH THEM? >> [Captioner] 20:03:51 SO FOR ALL OF THE MEASURES THAT HAVE QUANTIFIED GREENHOUSE GAS [Captioner] 20:03:55 REDUCTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM, THERE ARE ASSUMPTIONS IN TERMS OF [Captioner] 20:03:59 HOW WE ARE GOING TO ACHIEVE THOSE EMISSION REDUCTIONS. FOR [Captioner] 20:04:03 INSTANCE, WHEN WE LOOK AT [Captioner] 20:04:08 THE TRANSITION TO 100% CLEAN ENERGY, WE KNOW THAT [Captioner] 20:04:12 BY 2030, EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY HAS ADOPTED A GOAL THAT [Captioner] 20:04:16 ALL OF THE ELECTRICITY THEY PROVIDE WILL BE 100% CLEAN. [Captioner] 20:04:21 SO ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION OR [Captioner] 20:04:25 AN ORDINANCE TO OPT UP -- IT WOULD BE A RESOLUTION TO OPT UP ALL [Captioner] 20:04:29 OF OUR RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES TO THE RENEWABLE 100 RATE PLAN AHEAD OF [Captioner] 20:04:34 THAT SCHEDULE GETS US THOSE EMISSION REDUCTIONS SOONER. [Captioner] 20:04:38 SO FOR EACH OF THOSE CALCULATIONS, WE DO HAVE [Captioner] 20:04:42 ASSUMPTIONS WITH DIFFERENT TIME LINES ASSOCIATED WITH THEM. I WON'T BE ABLE TO GO THROUGH ALL OF [Captioner] 20:04:46 THEM RIGHT NOW. IN TERMS OF IMPLEMENTATION, THE GAME [Captioner] 20:04:50 PLAN IS REALLY FOCUSED ON WHAT WE CAN DO [Captioner] 20:04:54 WITHIN THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF PLAN IMPLEMENTATION [Captioner] 20:04:59 BASED ON AN ANALYSIS OF WHAT WE [Captioner] 20:05:03 THINK, YOU KNOW, IS GOING TO ACHIEVE A GOOD AMOUNT OF EMISSION REDUCTIONS FROM THE QUANTIFICATIONS [Captioner] 20:05:07 THAT WE'VE ALREADY DONE, AS WELL AS THINGS THAT ALREADY [Captioner] 20:05:11 MIGHT BE UNDERWAY BASED ON OTHER -- ALIGNMENT WITH OTHER CITY [Captioner] 20:05:16 PLANS, THINGS THAT MAY BE FUNDED [Captioner] 20:05:20 THROUGH OUTSIDE FUNDING RESOURCES OR THE CITY CIP, SO WHAT CAN [Captioner] 20:05:25 WE DO AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, WHERE DO WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO MOVE THE NEEDLE [Captioner] 20:05:29 QUICKLY AND THEN REVISIT THAT GAME PLAN WITHIN THREE YEARS OR LESS IF WE HAVE DIRECTION FROM [Captioner] 20:05:33 COUNCIL TO DO SO, TO UPDATE THAT GAME PLAN AND LOOK AT [Captioner] 20:05:37 OTHER ACTIONS THAT WE MAY WANT TO FOCUS ON NEXT. [Captioner] 20:05:41 >> Councilmember Kassan: IS IT POSSIBLE TO GET MORE TRANSPARENCY ON THE ASSUMPTIONS ON TIMELINE? [Captioner] 20:05:46 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THOSE ASSUMPTIONS ARE [Captioner] 20:05:50 SO THAT AS A COUNCIL, WE CAN BE PLANNING AHEAD, OH, YOU [Captioner] 20:05:54 KNOW, THIS THING REALLY IDEALLY NEEDS TO HAPPEN BY YEAR, YOU [Captioner] 20:05:59 KNOW, 2028 OR WHATEVER. I FEEL LIKE THAT'S AN [Captioner] 20:06:03 IMPORTANT COMPONENT, AND IT MIGHT BE BURIED KIND OF IN THE APPENDICES, BUT [Captioner] 20:06:07 I DON'T FEEL LIKE THERE'S ANY CLARITY ON THOSE TIMING ASSUMPTIONS [Captioner] 20:06:11 THAT I SAW. >> SO WE [Captioner] 20:06:16 CAN DO THAT AS A FOLLOW-UP, IF THAT'S SOMETHING OF INTEREST. [Captioner] 20:06:21 I THINK THE FOCUS WITH THE GAME PLAN WAS TO LOOK [Captioner] 20:06:25 AT, YOU KNOW, KIND OF ALL OF THE DIFFERENT CRITERIA THAT ARE LISTED WITHIN [Captioner] 20:06:30 CHAPTER 4 AROUND, YOU KNOW, OUR ABILITY TO IMPLEMENT BASED ON ARE THERE OTHER CITIES THAT [Captioner] 20:06:34 HAVE DONE IT THAT WE CAN EASILY KIND OF PIGGY BACK OFF OF, IS THERE, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 20:06:39 SUPPORTING POLICY OR REGIONAL RESOURCES TO SUPPORT US, ARE THERE, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 20:06:44 FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE CAN LEVERAGE. SO ALL OF THAT DID FACTOR [Captioner] 20:06:48 IN. BUT IT WAS MORE OF A QUALITATIVE RATHER THAN A [Captioner] 20:06:54 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS. IN TERMS OF THE, YOU KNOW, STRICT EMISSION REDUCTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH [Captioner] 20:06:59 MEASURES, WE COULD, YOU KNOW, PROVIDE THAT IN A DIFFERENT [Captioner] 20:07:04 FORMAT IF THAT'S HELPFUL, BUT I THINK REALLY WITHIN THE PLAN, EACH MEASURE DOES [Captioner] 20:07:08 HAVE THAT PERCENTAGE REDUCTION ASSOCIATED WITH IT, AND THAT'S BASED ON [Captioner] 20:07:13 THE PERCENTAGE OF THE TOTAL 2030 EMISSION REDUCTIONS, SO [Captioner] 20:07:17 IT REALLY HELPS TO HIGHLIGHT WHICH MEASURES ARE GOING TO GET US TO [Captioner] 20:07:22 OUR 2030 GOAL IN A SUBSTANTIAL WAY, AND THEN THE ACTIONS WITHIN THOSE MEASURES [Captioner] 20:07:26 ARE THE PATHWAY FOR DOING THAT. >> Councilmember Kassan: RIGHT, BUT I MEAN, IF WE DON'T KNOW -- [Captioner] 20:07:31 YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A 2030 GOAL AND THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT SHOULD HAPPEN [Captioner] 20:07:36 BEFORE 2030, WE NEED TO KNOW THAT SO THAT WE'RE NOT IN 2029 AND [Captioner] 20:07:40 SAYING, OOPS, WE FORGOT TO DO THESE THINGS. SO I'M [Captioner] 20:07:44 JUST -- I'M JUST A LITTLE CONFUSED HOW WE WOULD [Captioner] 20:07:48 KNOW, YOU KNOW, A PLAN IS SUPPOSED TO TELL US NOT JUST WHAT WE SHOULD BE [Captioner] 20:07:52 DOING, BUT WHEN WE SHOULD BE DOING [Captioner] 20:07:57 IT, SO I'M JUST A LITTLE CONFUSED IF THAT'S NOT LAID OUT, HOW DOES THE LEADERSHIP OF [Captioner] 20:08:01 THE CITY KNOW WHAT THINGS NEED TO COME WHEN. ESPECIALLY IF [Captioner] 20:08:05 THOSE -- THERE WERE TIMING ASSUMPTIONS BUILT INTO THE [Captioner] 20:08:09 CALCULATIONS OF THE EMISSION REDUCTIONS. >> ONE OF THE [Captioner] 20:08:15 THINGS THAT WE HAVE LEARNED THROUGH IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FIRST CLIMATE ACTION [Captioner] 20:08:20 PLAN IS THAT THIS SPACE IS EVER-CHANGING, SO A NEW [Captioner] 20:08:24 POLICY AT THE STATE LEVEL, A NEW OPPORTUNITY AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL SUCH [Captioner] 20:08:29 AS INFLATION REDUCTION ACT CAN REALLY BE A GAME-CHANGING [Captioner] 20:08:33 MOMENT IN TIME WHERE ALL OF A SUDDEN, [Captioner] 20:08:37 SOMETHING WITHIN THE PLAN THAT WE THOUGHT WAS GOING TO BE A LONGER TERM [Captioner] 20:08:42 IMPLEMENTATION MEASURE CAN NOW BE FOCUSED ON IMMEDIATELY. AND SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT [Captioner] 20:08:46 WE CAN CONTINUE TO BE NIMBLE ON, AND IN TERMS OF UPDATES [Captioner] 20:08:51 TO COUNCIL, IF THERE'S DIRECTION [Captioner] 20:08:55 TO UPDATE THE GAME PLAN ON A MORE REGULAR BASIS [Captioner] 20:09:00 THAN THREE YEARS, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO AT [Captioner] 20:09:04 A STAFF LEVEL. AT THE SAME TIME, A LOT OF THE ACTIONS THAT WE'RE FOCUSED ON IN THE GAME PLAN [Captioner] 20:09:08 WILL TAKE MULTIPLE YEARS TO IMPLEMENT, SO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I DIDN'T HIGHLIGHT IN THE PRESENTATION THAT [Captioner] 20:09:12 WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON BUT WILL TAKE A FEW YEARS TO IMPLEMENT ARE IN PARTNERSHIP [Captioner] 20:09:16 WITH EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE'RE LOOKING [Captioner] 20:09:21 AT INSTALLING DIRECT CHARGING, FAST [Captioner] 20:09:25 CHARGING HUBS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN PUBLIC SPACES, AND WE'RE ALSO WORKING WITH [Captioner] 20:09:29 EBCE TO INSTALL SOLAR AND STORAGE ON A NUMBER OF OUR CITY [Captioner] 20:09:33 FACILITIES. SO THOSE [Captioner] 20:09:38 ARE BIG MEASURES THAT CAN HAVE SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS, BUT THEY WILL TAKE [Captioner] 20:09:42 A COUPLE YEARS TO IMPLEMENT. >> Councilmember Kassan: I THINK THAT DOES [Captioner] 20:09:46 MAKE A LOT OF SENSE. OBVIOUSLY WE DON'T -- IT'S HARD TO PLAN THINGS THAT FAR [Captioner] 20:09:50 IN ADVANCE BUT YOU KNOW, IT JUST CONCERNS ME THAT THERE [Captioner] 20:09:54 WERE ASSUMPTIONS MADE ABOUT TIMING SO I WOULD LOVE FOR THOSE TO BE MORE [Captioner] 20:09:58 TRANSPARENT. THE OTHER QUESTION I HAVE IS ABOUT THE USE OF THE WORD ENCOURAGE. [Captioner] 20:10:03 THAT IS USED QUITE A BIT IN THE PLAN, AND I FEEL LIKE THAT'S [Captioner] 20:10:07 VERY VAGUE. WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO SWITCH FROM [Captioner] 20:10:12 GAS POWERED LEAF BLOWERS TO ELECTRIC LEAF BLOWERS, YOU KNOW, WHAT [Captioner] 20:10:16 DOES THAT MEAN EXACTLY? YOU KNOW, IN THE CASE OF [Captioner] 20:10:20 THAT, I KNOW THAT THERE IS SOME STATE LEGISLATION THAT WILL ADDRESS [Captioner] 20:10:24 THAT, BUT YOU KNOW, THE WORD ENCOURAGE KIND OF CONCERNS ME ALSO BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE [Captioner] 20:10:28 IT'S QUITE VAGUE. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, YOU KNOW, WHAT ACTION DO WE TAKE [Captioner] 20:10:32 TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO DO SOMETHING. >> [Captioner] 20:10:39 YEAH, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT ACTION VERBS THAT WE'VE USED FOR VARIOUS [Captioner] 20:10:45 ACTIONS DEPENDING ON THE LEVEL BASED [Captioner] 20:10:49 ON CONVERSATIONS WITHIN STAFF AND WITH THE PUBLIC [Captioner] 20:10:54 SEEMED MOST APPROPRIATE FOR THAT EXAMPLE, LIKE YOU SAID, [Captioner] 20:10:58 THERE IS A STATE LAW THAT WILL PROHIBIT THE [Captioner] 20:11:02 SALE OF NEW GAS POWERED LANDSCAPING EQUIPMENT [Captioner] 20:11:07 AFTER 2024 IN TERMS OF EXISTING EQUIPMENT BEING USED, YOU KNOW, WE CAN [Captioner] 20:11:11 PROVIDE INCENTIVES, IF THERE ARE ANY AVAILABLE REGIONALLY, WE [Captioner] 20:11:15 CAN PROVIDE INFORMATION AROUND RESOURCES THAT ARE [Captioner] 20:11:21 OUT THERE TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO MAKE THAT TRANSITION. SO ENCOURAGE CAN INVOLVE A LOT OF [Captioner] 20:11:25 DIFFERENT THINGS AND I UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, THERE CAN [Captioner] 20:11:29 BE [Captioner] 20:11:34 VAGUARITY BEHIND IT FOR A REASON. >> Councilmember Kassan: OKAY, THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:11:38 >> Mayor Mei: NEXT FOR CLARIFYING QUESTIONS IS COUNCILMEMBER KENG. >> Councilmember Keng: THANK [Captioner] 20:11:43 YOU, MADAME MAYOR, AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE STAFF TEAM FOR YOUR IMPORTANT WORK [Captioner] 20:11:47 ON THIS MATTER. I JUST HAVE A QUICK QUESTION. HOW ARE WE LOOKING [Captioner] 20:11:51 FUNDING-WISE, AND IF WE ARE LOOKING AT ANY GRANT [Captioner] 20:11:56 FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO PURSUE? >> WELL, [Captioner] 20:12:00 CURRENTLY FOR SOME OF THE CITY OPERATIONAL ACTIONS, WE DO [Captioner] 20:12:04 HAVE SOME CIP FUNDING TO SUPPORT THAT WORK WHEN IT COMES TO FLEET [Captioner] 20:12:08 ELECTRIFICATION AND ALSO EXISTING BUILDING ELECTRIFICATION. [Captioner] 20:12:12 THERE ARE A NUMBER OF INCENTIVE PROGRAMS OUT THERE [Captioner] 20:12:18 TO SUPPORT EXISTING RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES TO TAKE ACTION, ESPECIALLY COMING [Captioner] 20:12:22 OUT OF THE INFLATION [Captioner] 20:12:27 REDUCTION ACT, A LOT OF TAX CREDIT AND INCENTIVES AS WELL. WE'RE ALSO LOOKING [Captioner] 20:12:31 AT VARIOUS OPPORTUNITIES THAT MIGHT BE AVAILABLE TO THE CITY EITHER TO APPLY FOR DIRECTLY OR [Captioner] 20:12:35 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER REGIONAL AGENCIES FOR FUNDING TO SUPPORT CLIMATE [Captioner] 20:12:39 ACTION IMPLEMENTATION. FOR EXAMPLE, CURRENTLY [Captioner] 20:12:43 THE BAY AREA AIR QUALITY DISTRICT IS GOING AFTER FUNDING FROM THE [Captioner] 20:12:47 EPA FOR CLIMATE ACTION IMPLEMENTATION AND THEY HAVE BEEN ENGAGING [Captioner] 20:12:53 CITY STAFF AROUND THE BAY AREA INCLUDING THE CITY OF FREMONT [Captioner] 20:12:57 ON MEASURES THAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN SEEING IMPLEMENTED IN OUR COMMUNITY IN [Captioner] 20:13:01 WAYS THAT THAT FUNDING PROVIDED AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL COULD SUPPORT OUR CLIMATE [Captioner] 20:13:05 ACTION IMPLEMENTATION EFFORTS. [Captioner] 20:14:50 THOROUGH, SO I THINK IT'S GREAT WE'RE CONTINUING WITH THAT THEME. IT'S A GREAT GENERAL PLAN, EVERYBODY [Captioner] 20:14:54 SHOULD READ IT. REQUIRED READING. [Captioner] 20:15:00 SO I GUESS ONE THING THAT WAS TROUBLING WAS 2030 [Captioner] 20:15:04 SEEMED LIKE WE'RE DOING GREAT, BUT 2040, THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT [Captioner] 20:15:09 GAP SO HOW DO WE GET THERE IN 2040? >> THANK [Captioner] 20:15:13 YOU FOR THE QUESTION. SO YOU KNOW, AGAIN, THE [Captioner] 20:15:17 ASSUMPTIONS FOR OUR EMISSION REDUCTIONS, THE BASIS FOR IT [Captioner] 20:15:21 IS LOOKING AT WHAT'S CURRENTLY ADOPTED BY [Captioner] 20:15:26 THE STATE, WHAT'S ENACTED AT THE STATE LEVEL FOR CLIMATE [Captioner] 20:15:30 POLICY, AND WE LOOK AT THE EMISSION REDUCTIONS THAT THOSE [Captioner] 20:15:35 ACTIONS HAVE, AND THEN WE LOOK AT WHAT CAN WE DO AT THE LOCAL LEVEL TO [Captioner] 20:15:39 REDUCE EMISSIONS FURTHER. SO ALL THE MEASURES WITHIN CLIMATE READY FREMONT ARE [Captioner] 20:15:44 REDUCING EMISSIONS FURTHER FROM CURRENTLY ADOPTED STATE [Captioner] 20:15:49 POLICY. WE KNOW THAT THERE WILL BE NEW [Captioner] 20:15:54 CLIMATE FOCUSED STATE POLICIES MOVING FORWARD. THOSE CAN REDUCE EMISSIONS FURTHER. [Captioner] 20:15:58 WE ALSO KNOW THAT THERE WILL BE ADVANCEMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY THAT MAY [Captioner] 20:16:02 BE ABLE TO TAKE US [Captioner] 20:16:07 TO THE NEXT LEVEL IN TERMS OF GREENHOUSE GAS [Captioner] 20:16:10 EMISSION REDUCTIONS AND THERE CAN BE POSSIBILITIES THAT WE'RE NOT EVEN AWARE OF OR THINKING OF YET. [Captioner] 20:16:14 FOR INSTANCE, WITH THE FIR CLIMATE ACTION PLAN, WE DIDN'T ANTICIPATE [Captioner] 20:16:18 THE ROLLOUT OF COMMUNITY CHOICE ENERGY. ONCE WE JOINED EAST BAY COMMUNITY [Captioner] 20:16:23 ENERGY, BECAUSE WE HAD A CLEANER ELECTRICITY PRODUCT, THAT REDUCED OUR COMMUNITY-WIDE [Captioner] 20:16:27 EMISSIONS BY 10%. SO THOSE ARE, YOU KNOW, THINGS [Captioner] 20:16:32 THAT MAY COME UP DURING IMPLEMENTATION OF [Captioner] 20:16:36 CLIMATE READY FREMONT BEFORE 2030 THAT CAN HAVE AN IMPACT ON OUR LONGER [Captioner] 20:16:40 TERM EMISSION TRAJECTORY THAT WE'RE NOT YET AWARE OF, AND WHEN [Captioner] 20:16:44 WE LOOK AT WHAT'S TO COME AFTER 2030, WE'LL BE LOOKING AT [Captioner] 20:16:49 ACTIONS THAT GO DEEPER OR MORE WIDESPREAD THAN WHAT WE'VE BEEN [Captioner] 20:16:53 ABLE TO DO SO FAR, AND THE GOAL IS [Captioner] 20:16:58 THEN TO MEET OUR 2045 CARBON NEUTRALITY [Captioner] 20:17:01 TARGET. OR SOONER. >> Councilmember Salwan: GOT IT. [Captioner] 20:17:06 SO PART OF THE CONCEPT IS PREPARING FOR LUCK OR CHANCES THAT COME UP AND BE [Captioner] 20:17:10 OPPORTUNISTIC TO SEIZE THEM AT THAT TIME. >> YEAH, AND JUST TO ADD TO THAT, IN [Captioner] 20:17:14 THE FIRST CLIMATE ACTION PLAN, WE HAD A GAP. WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW WE [Captioner] 20:17:18 WERE GOING TO ACTUALLY ACHIEVE THE 25% REDUCTION GOAL. WE [Captioner] 20:17:22 KNEW WITH LOCAL ACTIONS THAT WE WOULD ACHIEVE ABOUT A 15% [Captioner] 20:17:28 REDUCTION. JOINING EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY GOT US THAT ADDITIONAL 10%. [Captioner] 20:17:32 >> Councilmember Salwan: OKAY. SO SPEAKING OF COMMUNITY ENERGY, I THOUGHT [Captioner] 20:17:36 WE ALREADY WENT TO 100%. ISN'T THAT ALREADY THE CASE? >> WE HAVE FOR CITY [Captioner] 20:17:40 OPERATIONS. >> Councilmember Salwan: OH, OKAY. >> SO WE'RE LOOKING AT SETTING AS A [Captioner] 20:17:44 DEFAULT RENEWABLE 100 FOR RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES AS WELL. >> Councilmember Salwan: [Captioner] 20:17:48 AND WHEN WOULD THAT START? >> SO I WAS LOOKING AT THE TIMELINES WITH THE STAFF [Captioner] 20:17:53 FROM EBCE, AND THE GOAL [Captioner] 20:17:57 WOULD BE TO [Captioner] 20:18:01 TARGET A RESOLUTION WE BRING TO CITY COUNCIL IN THE [Captioner] 20:18:06 SPRINGTIME, BECAUSE EBCE SAYS WE NEED TO HAVE BOARD APPROVAL BY [Captioner] 20:18:10 APRIL 30TH OF 2024 IN ORDER TO HAVE IMPLEMENTATION [Captioner] 20:18:14 ROLLING OUT AT THE END OF OCTOBER 2024. THEY HAVE TWO [Captioner] 20:18:19 ENROLLMENT WINDOWS EVERY YEAR, SO SIX-MONTH PERIOD. IF WE MISS THAT, [Captioner] 20:18:23 SPRINGTIME ENROLLMENT, THEN WE'D HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL FALL WHICH [Captioner] 20:18:28 WOULD THEN PUSH OUT ACTUAL MOVING OF PEOPLE ON TO THE NEW RATE [Captioner] 20:18:32 PLAN INTO EARLY 2025. >> Councilmember Salwan: GOT [Captioner] 20:18:36 IT. THEN THE LAST THING ABOUT THE CEQA STREAMLINING, IS [Captioner] 20:18:40 THERE CRITERIA THAT THEY CHECK CERTAIN THINGS OR HOW DOES THAT [Captioner] 20:18:45 WORK? >> RIGHT, SO AT THE STAFF LEVEL, WE WILL HAVE A [Captioner] 20:18:49 CHECKLIST. WE'RE PREPARING THAT CURRENTLY WITH OUR CONSULTANT, AND IT ALIGNS WITH [Captioner] 20:18:54 THE MEASURES WITHIN CLIMATE-READY FREMONT, SO THAT CHECKLIST WOULD [Captioner] 20:18:59 THEN BE SOMETHING AT THE PROJECT LEVEL THE DEVELOPER COULD FILL OUT [Captioner] 20:19:03 AND SAY OKAY, WE'RE DOING THESE THINGS THAT ALIGN WITH CLIMATE-READY FREMONT [Captioner] 20:19:07 AND THAT WOULD BE [Captioner] 20:19:11 PROVIDED AS THEY GO THROUGH THE APPROVAL PROCESS. >> Councilmember Salwan: SO IT WOULD [Captioner] 20:19:15 KIND OF LIKE BE AN INCENTIVE TO MAKE THE PROJECT PROCEED FASTER? >> [Captioner] 20:19:20 RIGHT. DAN? >> Mr. Schoenholz: I THINK IN MOST [Captioner] 20:19:24 CASES, THEY'LL WANT TO USE OUR CHECKLIST AND DO WHAT IT TAKES TO BE CONSISTENT WITH OUR PLAN. [Captioner] 20:19:29 OTHERWISE THEY HAVE TO DO A SEPARATE CEQA GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ANALYSIS, [Captioner] 20:19:33 AND THAT WILL BE COSTLY AND TAKE LONGER [Captioner] 20:19:37 AND HAVE AN UNCERTAIN OUTCOME. >> Councilmember Salwan: EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:19:41 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. I JUST WANTED TO NOTE REAL QUICKLY, WE HAVE [Captioner] 20:19:45 ALSO COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL, BUT WE ARE GOING TO BE TAKING A BREAK [Captioner] 20:19:49 AT 8:30 FOR OUR STENOCAPTIONER. SO COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL, QUESTIONS? [Captioner] 20:19:55 >> Councilmember Campbell: WELL, THANK YOU FOR THIS CLIMATE ACTION PLAN. [Captioner] 20:19:59 IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S GOTTEN A LOT OF TRACTION. WE'VE GO TON SOME [Captioner] 20:20:03 GOTTEN SOME REALLY WONDERFUL NOTES FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, WATER [Captioner] 20:20:08 DISTRICT, EAST BAY ENERGY, LOTS OF WONDERFUL COMMENTS AND SUPPORT OF THIS [Captioner] 20:20:12 GREAT PRODUCT THAT YOU'VE DONE. I'VE DUG A LITTLE DEEPER INTO [Captioner] 20:20:18 IT AND DAN, I THINK I SENT -- I KNOW I DID, I SENT [Captioner] 20:20:22 YOU A [Captioner] 20:20:27 SCORECARD I RECEIVED FROM THE BERKELEY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM THAT WAS ACTUALLY [Captioner] 20:20:32 LOOKING AT OUR SURROUNDING CITIES AND DETERMINING WHERE WE SCORED ON THIS. IT'S [Captioner] 20:20:36 THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION TASK FORCE [Captioner] 20:20:40 THAT HAD DONE [Captioner] 20:20:45 THIS. OUR SCORE CAME BACK A LITTLE LOW ON SOME OF THE [Captioner] 20:20:49 AREAS THAT AT LEAST THIS [Captioner] 20:20:53 GROUP HAD BEEN INVESTIGATING AND HAD BEEN LOOKING AT, AND [Captioner] 20:20:57 YOU GAVE ME SOME GREAT INFORMATION THAT I THINK MAYBE WE SHOULD SHARE [Captioner] 20:21:01 WHILE WE'RE CELEBRATING AND I GUESS THAT WOULD BE A [Captioner] 20:21:04 QUESTION. I NEED TO ASK A QUESTION AND NOT MAKE A STATEMENT SO THE QUESTION IS, HOW DO [Captioner] 20:21:10 YOU THINK WE FARED ON THE [Captioner] 20:21:13 SCORECARD? >> Mr. Schoenholz: THIS IS LIKE JEOPARDY, YOU HAVE TO PUT IT IN A [Captioner] 20:21:17 QUESTION FORM. SO COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL HAD FORWARDED A SCORECARD THAT WAS [Captioner] 20:21:23 DONE BY A STUDENT GROUP ON BEHALF OF THE NON-PROFIT, I THINK. THAT WE WEREN'T [Captioner] 20:21:27 FAMILIAR WITH. IT RATED ALL THE CITIES [Captioner] 20:21:32 IN ALAMEDA COUNTY, WE CAME OUT PROBABLY LOWER MIDDLE IN TERMS [Captioner] 20:21:36 OF OUR SCORE. ONE OF [Captioner] 20:21:40 MY COMMENTS BACK TO COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL IS THAT ASSUMING COUNCIL ADOPTS THE PLAN TONIGHT WE CAN GO [Captioner] 20:21:44 BACK TOMORROW AND OUR SCORE WILL INCREASE DRAMATICALLY BECAUSE PART OF WHAT THEY WERE LOOKING AT WAS [Captioner] 20:21:48 HOW OLD OUR PLAN WAS AND SOME OF THE LANGUAGE IN OUR [Captioner] 20:21:53 PLAN AND THEY WERE LOOKING AT THE 2012 PLAN SO [Captioner] 20:21:57 THAT'S ONE COMPONENT. ANOTHER IS THEY PICKED SOME SORT OF RANDOM CRITERIA [Captioner] 20:22:01 THAT WERE SORT OF IN MY MIND TANGENTIALLY [Captioner] 20:22:07 RELATED TO THE QUALITY OF OUR PLAN BUT WE CAN ALSO TALK TO THEM [Captioner] 20:22:10 ABOUT THAT AND GIVE THEM SOME SUGGESTIONS. ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS I POINTED OUT [Captioner] 20:22:14 TO COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL IS THAT ON OTHER SCORE CARDS, [Captioner] 20:22:18 FREMONT HAS RATED EXTREMELY HIGH, WE WERE [Captioner] 20:22:23 RATED THE NINTH GREENEST CITY IN THE WHOLE [Captioner] 20:22:27 COUNTRY. WHAT WAS THE OTHER ONE? >> THE INSTITUTE [Captioner] 20:22:31 FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT BEACON AWARD. [Captioner] 20:22:36 BACK IN 2016 OR 2017 WE RECEIVED THE SILVER LEVEL BEACON AWARD FROM [Captioner] 20:22:40 THE ILG AND IN 2021, WE [Captioner] 20:22:44 ACTUALLY RE-APPLIED IN [Captioner] 20:22:48 TERMS OF REDUCTIONS AND ENERGY SAVINGS BOTH WITHIN [Captioner] 20:22:52 OUR CITY OPERATIONS AND OUR CLIMATE ACTION BEST PRACTICES AND WE RECEIVED [Captioner] 20:22:56 A PLATINUM LEVEL AWARD FROM THE ILG WHICH WE'RE STILL ONE OF A [Captioner] 20:23:01 HANDFUL OF CITIES WITH THAT RANKING. [Captioner] 20:23:07 >> Councilmember Campbell: THAT'S ACTUALLY VERY WONDERFUL IN TERMS OF ANSWERING THAT QUESTION. [Captioner] 20:23:11 SO IN TERMS OF THAT SCORECARD, I NOTICED THERE WERE SEVERAL OF OUR SURROUNDING CITIES. [Captioner] 20:23:16 DUBLIN, NEWARK AND FREMONT. WE ALL SCORED THE SAME [Captioner] 20:23:20 IN THAT. SO MY QUESTION IS, DOES THE SURROUNDING [Captioner] 20:23:23 CITIES' CLIMATE READINESS HAVE AN IMPACT ON US, SINCE WE'RE SO CLOSE TOGETHER? [Captioner] 20:23:31 >> THAT'S AN INTERESTING QUESTION. I THINK, YOU [Captioner] 20:23:37 KNOW, I'LL RESPOND IN A WAY THAT HOPEFULLY IS HELPFUL. SO WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR [Captioner] 20:23:42 EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE LOCALLY, WE'RE REALLY FOCUSED ON WHAT IS HAPPENING WITHIN [Captioner] 20:23:46 OUR BORDERS THAT WE HAVE LOCAL CONTROL OVER THAT [Captioner] 20:23:51 WE CAN ADOPT NEW POLICIES THAT WE CAN IMPLEMENT PROJECTS, THAT WE [Captioner] 20:23:55 CAN PARTNER WITH OTHER AGENCIES FOR [Captioner] 20:24:00 IMPLEMENTATION. ALAMEDA COUNTY HAS BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF CLIMATE ACTION FOR [Captioner] 20:24:04 A LONG TIME. WE WERE THE FIRST COUNTY TO HAVE EVERY CITY ADOPT A CLIMATE ACTION PLAN [Captioner] 20:24:08 WITH THE SUPPORT OF STOPWASTE YEARS AGO. [Captioner] 20:24:14 ALAMEDA COUNTY ACTUALLY HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF POPULATION THAT BELIEVE IN THE SCIENCE OF CLIMATE [Captioner] 20:24:18 CHANGE AND THAT WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. [Captioner] 20:24:23 SO IN TERMS OF THE REGIONAL COOPERATION FOR CLIMATE ACTION PLAN [Captioner] 20:24:27 IMPLEMENTATION, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT AND IT'S INTEGRAL TO THE WORK THAT I [Captioner] 20:24:31 DO, BECAUSE MOST OF THE STAFF WITHIN THE CITIES IN ALAMEDA [Captioner] 20:24:35 COUNTY THAT WORK ON CLIMATE ARE, YOU KNOW, A TEAM OF A FEW PEOPLE AT [Captioner] 20:24:39 MOST. SO WE REALLY RELY ON EACH OTHER FOR LEARNING BEST [Captioner] 20:24:44 PRACTICES, SUPPORTING THINGS THAT MAY BE MORE REGIONAL IN [Captioner] 20:24:48 IMPLEMENTATION THAT CROSS OUR BORDERS. SO YOU KNOW, THERE'S [Captioner] 20:24:52 THE LOCAL SIDE TO IT AND THERE'S DEFINITELY THE REGIONAL SIDE TO IT. [Captioner] 20:24:56 >> Councilmember Campbell: WONDERFUL. THANK YOU FOR THAT. THE OTHER QUESTION I HAVE, I HAVE TWO [Captioner] 20:25:01 OTHER QUESTIONS. ONE IS, WHERE IS THE CARBON [Captioner] 20:25:05 STORED WHEN IT'S SEQUESTERED? I MEAN, I COULDN'T [Captioner] 20:25:09 FIND THAT IN THE PLAN, SO I MEAN -- BECAUSE THAT'S OUR [Captioner] 20:25:14 ULTIMATE GOAL, IS TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT, BUT WHERE DOES IT [Captioner] 20:25:18 GO ONCE IT'S SEQUESTERED? >> SO WHAT WE'RE FOCUSED ON [Captioner] 20:25:23 WITH CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN OUR CLIMATE ACTION PLAN ARE BIOLOGICAL WAYS OF [Captioner] 20:25:28 SEQUESTERING CARBON. SO THAT'S LITERALLY DRAWING DOWN THE CARBON [Captioner] 20:25:32 DIOXIDE FROM THE ATMOSPHERE AND TURNING IT [Captioner] 20:25:37 INTO CARBON IN THE FORM OF TREE GROWTH OR [Captioner] 20:25:42 VEGETATIVE GROWTH, AND THEN ALSO WE CAN DRAW DOWN [Captioner] 20:25:47 CARBON DIOXIDE INTO THE SOIL WHEN WE APPLY COMPOST AND [Captioner] 20:25:51 MULCH, THE MICROORGANISMS WITHIN THAT TAKE IN THE CARBON [Captioner] 20:25:55 DIOXIDE. SO THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS TO SEQUESTER CARBON [Captioner] 20:25:59 THAT WE'RE NOT ADDRESSING IN OUR CLIMATE ACTION PLAN. [Captioner] 20:26:03 TECHNOLOGICAL WAYS OF DOING THAT THROUGH CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE, THAT'S BEYOND WHAT WE [Captioner] 20:26:07 CAN DO AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. BUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE [Captioner] 20:26:12 IS PLANTING TREES. AS THOSE TREES GROW, THEY TAKE IN [Captioner] 20:26:16 CARBON DIOXIDE AND TURN THAT [Captioner] 20:26:20 INTO CARBON IN TERMS OF THEIR TRUNKS, THEIR BRANCHES, THEIR LEAVESMENT >> Councilmember [Captioner] 20:26:24 Campbell: OKAY. I DID SEE A LOT OF THAT IN THE PLAN. [Captioner] 20:26:29 WITH THAT. AND THEN MY FINAL QUESTION [Captioner] 20:26:34 IS, THIS -- WELL, ACTUALLY I WAS THINKING ABOUT PG&E AND THEIR ABILITY TO BE ABLE [Captioner] 20:26:39 TO HANDLE EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR IN OUR PLAN, BUT THE [Captioner] 20:26:43 GRAY WATER PIECE WAS VERY INTERESTING TO ME. SO I WOULD LIKE [Captioner] 20:26:48 TO KNOW, HOW ARE WE GOING TO -- WHAT IS THE [Captioner] 20:26:52 PROCESS OF 5% OF HOUSEHOLDS WILL RE-USE THEIR GRAY [Captioner] 20:26:57 WATER IN [Captioner] 20:27:01 2030? HOW DO WE PLAN TO GET THERE? >> SO [Captioner] 20:27:06 GRAY WATER IS AN INTERESTING TOPIC [Captioner] 20:27:11 AND ONE THAT ONE OF OUR COMMISSIONERS, OUR STUDENT COMMISSIONER IS VERY WELL VERSED IN, [Captioner] 20:27:15 SO THIS IS HER SWEET SPOT. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT WHEN WE'RE [Captioner] 20:27:19 TALKING ABOUT GRAY WATER IS BEING ABLE TO RE-USE [Captioner] 20:27:24 THE WATER THAT IS USED IN HOMES FOR, YOU [Captioner] 20:27:28 KNOW, WASHING OUR HANDS, FOR WASHING OUR LAUNDRY, IF [Captioner] 20:27:32 THAT WATER IS NOT CONTAMINATED, IT CAN BE [Captioner] 20:27:37 RE-USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF WATERING LANDSCAPES. AND SO THERE'S A [Captioner] 20:27:42 LOT OF BEST PRACTICES FOR GRAY WATER IN TERMS OF WHAT TYPE OF SOAPS ARE [Captioner] 20:27:46 APPROPRIATE TO USE FOR LAUNDRY, WHERE YOU CAN DO A LAUNDRY [Captioner] 20:27:51 TO LANDSCAPE SYSTEM WHERE YOU DIVERT THE RINSE CYCLE OF YOUR LAUNDRY INTO YOUR [Captioner] 20:27:55 LANDSCAPE. THE WATER DISTRICT HAS A LOT OF INTEREST IN MAKING SURE [Captioner] 20:27:59 THAT THESE TYPES OF SYSTEMS ARE DESIGNED PROPERLY TO ENSURE THAT [Captioner] 20:28:03 WE'RE PRESERVING THE QUALITY OF THE GROUNDWATER. [Captioner] 20:28:07 AND SO THERE ARE EFFORTS THAT HAVE BEEN DONE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL [Captioner] 20:28:12 TO EDUCATE RESIDENTS IN EXISTING SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES ON HOW TO INSTALL [Captioner] 20:28:17 GRAY WATER SYSTEMS. TRI-CITY ECOLOGY CENTER HAS DONE SOME DEMONSTRATIONS [Captioner] 20:28:21 OF THAT. [Captioner] 20:28:25 AND THE GRAY WATER [Captioner] 20:28:29 ACTION ORGANIZATION HAS PROVIDED A LOT OF INFORMATION TO OUR RESIDENTS AS WELL AS [Captioner] 20:28:33 RESIDENTS BEYOND THE BORDERS OF FREMONT ON THE BENEFITS OF GRAY WATER USE. [Captioner] 20:28:37 >> Councilmember Campbell: THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS. GREAT JOB. [Captioner] 20:28:41 >> THANK YOU. >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. SO WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A 10-MINUTE [Captioner] 20:28:45 BREAK AND WE'LL RETURN WITH COUNCILMEMBER COX'S QUESTIONS. AND THEN I ALSO KNOW [Captioner] 20:28:49 WE HAVE NINE OR 10 PUBLIC SPEAKERS AT LEAST. [Captioner] 20:28:54 VICE MAYOR. OKAY. BUT SO WE'LL RETURN AFTER THE [Captioner] 20:28:58 10-MINUTE BREAK. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:29:59 [ RECESS ] [Captioner] 20:42:25 >> The Clerk: ASK WE COME [Captioner] 20:42:29 CAN WE COME BACK TO THE DAIS [Captioner] 20:42:32 PLEASE, COUNCILMEMBERS BACK TO THE DAIS PLEASE. [Captioner] 20:42:43 >> Mayor Mei: WELCOME BACK. [Captioner] 20:42:52 AND I SEE WE ALSO HAVE QUITE A FEW PEOPLE WHO ARE SPEAKING ON THE [Captioner] 20:42:57 ITEM AFTERWARDS BUT VICE MAYOR COX IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO START [Captioner] 20:43:01 WITH YOUR QUESTIONS. THANKS FOR YOUR QUESTIONS. [Captioner] 20:43:06 >> Vice Mayor Cox: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THE HARD [Captioner] 20:43:10 WORK THAT'S GONE IN ON THE TEAM FOR SUSTAINABILITY IN [Captioner] 20:43:14 OUR CLIMATE ACTION PLAN AND I APPRECIATE ALLOWING US [Captioner] 20:43:18 OPPORTUNITY TO ASK QUESTIONS. YOU KNOW ONE OF THE BIG THINGS AS YOU CARRY OUT THE CLIMATE [Captioner] 20:43:23 ACTION PLAN IS HOW STRONG IS OUR PURCHASE [Captioner] 20:43:27 ING PROCUREMENT DEPARTMENT? BECAUSE A LOT OF THESE ACTIONS [Captioner] 20:43:31 THAT YOU'RE TAKING ARE GOING TO REQUIRE A LOT OF COMPETITIVE SOLICITATIONS [Captioner] 20:43:36 , NEGOTIATIONS, [Captioner] 20:43:40 AND SOME OF THOSE THINGS COULD TAKE TWO YEARS OUT JUST TO COMPLETE [Captioner] 20:43:44 THOSE. MAYBE YOU HAVE HAD SOME OF THOSE COMPLETED AN YOUR PHASING THEM [Captioner] 20:43:48 IN NOW BUT IF YOU COULD ADDRESS MY QUESTION IN TERMS OF UNDERSTAND [Captioner] 20:43:53 ING ALSO DE F [Captioner] 20:43:57 ALCO, BUT ALSO IN PROCUREMENT AS WELL IN [Captioner] 20:44:01 DOING THAT ASPECT BUT JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND YOUR TEAM [Captioner] 20:44:05 YOUR STAFF TO IMPLEMENT THIS CLIMATE ACTION PLAN THAT WOULD BE MOST HELPFUL IN [Captioner] 20:44:08 UNDERSTANDING THIS PIECE. >> SO I SAID IN COMMUNITY [Captioner] 20:44:14 -- I SIT IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AS WE WORK ON CONTRACTS WE [Captioner] 20:44:18 HAVE TO WORK ON PROCUREMENT WITH PURCHASING PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY. [Captioner] 20:44:22 SO WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT PROJECTS THAT WE'RE DOING DIRECTLY TO [Captioner] 20:44:28 IMPLEMENT [Captioner] 20:44:34 TO CITY OPERATIONS THOSE ARE THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO BE CLEAN ENERGY [Captioner] 20:44:39 PROJECTS OR BATTERY BACKUPS, EV CHARGING FOR [Captioner] 20:44:43 OUR FLEET. I THINK WHERE WE LOOK AT KIND [Captioner] 20:44:47 OF THE OPPORTUNITIES AROUND PURCHASING MORE HOLISTICALLY [Captioner] 20:44:51 ARE HOW ARE WE INTEGRATING IN SOME OF THE GOALS AROUND CLEAN [Captioner] 20:44:55 ER PRODUCTS, LOW CARBON PRODUCTS INTO MORE STANDARD DECISION [Captioner] 20:45:00 MAKING. YOU KNOW, SO FOR INSTANCE, [Captioner] 20:45:09 UTILIZING [Captioner] 20:45:13 LOWER PAVING MATERIALS IN OUR STREET. THOSE ARE THINGS THAT [Captioner] 20:45:18 WE INCLUDED IN THE CLIMATE PLAN GREEN [Captioner] 20:45:22 AND CIRCULAR PURCHASING, GREEN PURCHASING [Captioner] 20:45:26 AS A STRATEGY. SO YOU'LL SEE KIND OF WHERE WE IDENTIFIED THE OPPORTUNITIES [Captioner] 20:45:31 TO MORE DEEPLY INTEGRATE GREEN PURCHASING DECISIONS INTO KIND [Captioner] 20:45:36 OF OUR STANDARD BUSINESS OPERATIONS. >> Vice Mayor Cox: YES [Captioner] 20:45:40 , THAT'S IMPORTANT BUT ALSO MAKING SURE IN OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS THAT [Captioner] 20:45:42 WE'RE ADDING THAT TYPE OF LANGUAGE. [Captioner] 20:45:46 BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE PART OF WHAT IS THE CRITERIA WHEN WE SELECT VENDORS [Captioner] 20:45:51 , YOU KNOW, TO DO EVEN THE [Captioner] 20:45:55 MULCH. EVEN TO DO THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE YOU KNOW ELECTRIFICATION [Captioner] 20:45:59 THAT ALL THESE TYPES OF THINGS, PORTS AND CHARGING STATIONS THAT ALL [Captioner] 20:46:03 THESE THINGS ARE IN THERE TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S A HIGH REQUIREMENT IN EVALUATE [Captioner] 20:46:08 ING THOSE TYPE OF VENDORS AND CONTRACTORS THAT ARE DOING [Captioner] 20:46:12 THE WORK. BUT ALSO, THAT WE'RE STILL ACHIEVING [Captioner] 20:46:17 THE GOAL EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. AND JUST MAKING SURE [Captioner] 20:46:21 THAT'S BUILT IN THERE SUCCINCTLY. BECAUSE I DON'T REALLY SEE THE [Captioner] 20:46:25 TIE IN ON THE ACTION PLAN. I SEE THE -- [Captioner] 20:46:29 WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE BUT ALSO AHOW WE'RE GOING TO GET THERE [Captioner] 20:46:33 A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL ON EACH ONE OF THOSE ASPECTS OF HITTING THE [Captioner] 20:46:39 DIFFERENT SUB-- I GET IT WOULD BE SUBTARGETS GOING UNDER EACH [Captioner] 20:46:43 LINE THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING. AND YOU KNOW I'M GREAT TO SEE A [Captioner] 20:46:46 LOT OF 74th THAT CAME FROM THE DIFFERENT COMMUNITY [Captioner] 20:46:50 ORGANIZATIONS, STOP WEIGHS AND BAY EAST REALTORS AND [Captioner] 20:46:53 ALAMEDA COUNTY WATER DISTRICT. ALL THESE TYPE OF THINGS ARE [Captioner] 20:46:58 VERY IMPORTANT AND EVEN THE SCHOOLWORKING WITH THE SCHOOLS. THAT IT'S [Captioner] 20:47:02 GREAT BUT I KNOW WE HAD TO COORDINATE WITH OUR [Captioner] 20:47:06 SCHOOL BOARD AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WHOLE [Captioner] 20:47:11 ENTIRE ORGANIZATION, SO THAT CAN COUNT AS PART OF OUR BUILDINGS [Captioner] 20:47:14 IN THE CITY OF FREMONT, THAT WE'RE UTILIZING THE GREEN [Captioner] 20:47:19 TECHNOLOGY. SO I GET A LITTLE CONCERNED WHEN WE ADD IN SCHOOL BOARD AND [Captioner] 20:47:23 THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT THEY'RE OUR PARTNERS BUT WE DON'T HAVE [Captioner] 20:47:26 THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS JURISDICTION TO SAY YOU HAVE TO [Captioner] 20:47:31 DO THIS. BECAUSE WE CAN'T CONTROL THE SCHOOLS PER SE. [Captioner] 20:47:35 BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY SHARE IN OUR VISION AND SEEMS LIKE [Captioner] 20:47:39 THEY'RE VERY SUPPORTIVE BASED ON THE SUPPORT [Captioner] 20:47:44 LETTER, IF I COULD CALL IT THAT, THAT INTAIMS [Captioner] 20:47:48 ENTAILS ALL THE READINESS AND WILLINGNESS TO [Captioner] 20:47:51 WORK WITH US AND ALL THOSE TYPE OF THINGS. [Captioner] 20:47:55 LOOKING FORWARD EVEN IF THERE'S COLLABORATION IN SUSTAINABLE [Captioner] 20:47:59 SUSTAINABLE PUMPING AS WE GO OUT TO REPLACE ALL OF OUR H [Captioner] 20:48:04 VACS MAYBE THEY CAN COMBINE TOGETHER POSSIBLY SO WE CAN HAVE [Captioner] 20:48:08 MORE REDUCTION IN GETTING MORE [Captioner] 20:48:14 QUALITY PRODUCTS AT BETTER PRICING FOR SOME SORT OF LEVERAGING [Captioner] 20:48:18 OR SORTING UP OUR OWN CONSORTIUM OF [Captioner] 20:48:21 SUSTAINABLE PURCHASING. ANOTHER PART THAT I WANTED TO [Captioner] 20:48:26 FIND OUT, YOU KNOW, I SIT ON THE BOARD FOR EAST BAY ENERGY NOW KNOWN AS [Captioner] 20:48:30 AVA. AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE THE [Captioner] 20:48:35 RENEWABLE 100 CLEAN POWER. BUT ALSO, I HAVE TO DO A [Captioner] 20:48:39 BALANCE THAT IN SOME SENSE THERE IS A CONSUMER [Captioner] 20:48:43 PROTECTION ACTS THAT ARE OUT THERE THAT CONSUMERS WE COULD [Captioner] 20:48:48 SAY THIS IS OUR PREFERRED IF WE ARE USING LANGUAGE FOR THE RESOLUTION, THAT [Captioner] 20:48:51 IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE PREFERRING TO DO THIS PLAN. [Captioner] 20:48:55 BUT THE CONSUMER STILL HAS THE RIGHT BY FEDERAL LAW AND STATE LAW TO [Captioner] 20:48:59 EITHER OPT IN OR OPT OUT OF THE PLAN IN CASE THEY MAY [Captioner] 20:49:04 HAVE SOMETHING THAT MAY BETTER -- THAT MAY BE A BETTER [Captioner] 20:49:08 OFFERING. BUT I AM IN SUPPORT OF IT [Captioner] 20:49:12 . WE JUST GOT TO BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT AN ORDINANCE YOU [Captioner] 20:49:16 CAN'T WRITE A CITY ORDINANCE AND IT'S STILL GOING TO BE OUT RESUMED [Captioner] 20:49:20 RULED, RULED OUT BECAUSE WE [Captioner] 20:49:25 HAVE EXISTING CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS, I SAW THAT WORDING WITH [Captioner] 20:49:29 THE ORDINANCE I KIND OF RAISED A FLAG, WORK [Captioner] 20:49:33 IN THE LEGAL FIELD, NOT A LAWYER BUT DO A LOT OF CONTRACT WORK THAT WE [Captioner] 20:49:37 CAN BE KIND OF SENSITIVE ABOUT THAT, THAT WE CAN ENCOURAGE OUR [Captioner] 20:49:42 RESIDENTS TO, THAT MAY BE THE PREFERRED METHOD BUT JUST TO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT THAT [Captioner] 20:49:47 . IN CASE ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE IN SENIOR CITIZENS THEY [Captioner] 20:49:51 HAVE A FIXED RATE THROUGH PG&E AND THEY'RE LESS LIKELY TO SWITCH [Captioner] 20:49:54 OVER IF THEY HAVE A SET RATE AND THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT HAVE [Captioner] 20:49:59 ALREADY BEEN ESTABLISHED AS A LOYAL CUSTOMER FOR YEARS. BUT ENCOURAGING THAT WE CAN [Captioner] 20:50:03 GET THE MAJORITY BUT NOT EVERYONE TO BE UNDERSTOOD THERE [Captioner] 20:50:08 . ANOTHER PART THAT I WANTED TO FIND OUT WAS, YOU KNOW WE TALK [Captioner] 20:50:13 A LOT ABOUT ELECTRIFICATION, EVERYWHERE, BUT I [Captioner] 20:50:17 DON'T SEE AS PART OF THE PLAN WE WANT TO DO ALL THESE [Captioner] 20:50:21 GREAT ACTIONS. BUT WHAT'S THE BACKUP IN CASE [Captioner] 20:50:27 THINGS -- DEPENDENT ON ELECTRICITY AND [Captioner] 20:50:31 THE GRIDS AND ALL THE MICROINTEGRATION AND THINGS LIKE THAT. [Captioner] 20:50:35 WHERE IS THERE A BACKUP TO HELP US CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY [Captioner] 20:50:39 IN THE EVENT THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH OUR ELECTRICAL POWER [Captioner] 20:50:43 JUST ON SUNDAY NIGHT, UNEXPECTEDLY IN [Captioner] 20:50:47 MY AREA OF IRVINGTON WE WENT DOWN FOR ABOUT AN HOUR, HOUR [Captioner] 20:50:51 AND A HALF WITHOUT ANY POWER AND THERE WAS NOT ANY WARNING. [Captioner] 20:50:55 AND SO COULD YOU SHARE A LITTLE BIT MORE ON WHAT WOULD BE YOUR CONTINUITY [Captioner] 20:50:59 OF PLAN IN THE EVENT WHAT'S A BACKUP IN THE EVENT THERE'S [Captioner] 20:51:04 AN ELECTRIFICATION, IF IT GOES DOWN, HOW DO YOU INTEND TO [Captioner] 20:51:07 SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY AND KEEP THINGS UP AND RUNNING? >> YES. [Captioner] 20:51:11 SO IN TERMS OF ELECTRIFICATION, YOU KNOW WE FOCUS A LOT [Captioner] 20:51:15 ON HOW DO WE TAPER OFF OF FOSSIL FUELS BUT ALSO [Captioner] 20:51:20 HOW DO WE INCREASE ENERGY RESILIENCY MORE [Captioner] 20:51:23 HOLISTICALLY? SO WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT, YOU [Captioner] 20:51:27 KNOW, ADOPTING CODES FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION AND THEN WE'RE LOOKING AT WAYS THAT WE CAN [Captioner] 20:51:31 SUPPORT THE TRANSITION IN EXISTING BUILDINGS, THERE IS A VERY HEAVY [Captioner] 20:51:35 FOCUS ON HOW DO WE ENCOURAGE OR REQUIRE ON SITE [Captioner] 20:51:39 RENEWABLES, SUPPORTED WITH BATTERY BACKUP, SO THAT [Captioner] 20:51:43 IN THE EVENT OF AN OUTAGE AT THE GRID LEVEL THERE IS THAT OPPORTUNITY [Captioner] 20:51:47 TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE YOUR OWN ELECTRIC POWER AND [Captioner] 20:51:52 UTILIZE EITHER AN ONSITE BATTERY OR IN THE FUTURE, BE ABLE TO TAP [Captioner] 20:51:56 INTO THE BATTERY WITHIN YOUR ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND PULL FROM YOUR [Captioner] 20:52:00 ELECTRIC VEHICLE THE STORED POWER TO KEEP YOUR [Captioner] 20:52:04 HOUSE RUNNING WHEN THERE IS AN OUTAGE FOR A NUMBER OF HOURS. [Captioner] 20:52:08 AND I'VE SEEN SOME STUDIES WHERE, YOU KNOW, A FULLY CHARGED [Captioner] 20:52:12 ELECTRIC VEHICLE COULD ACTUALLY SUPPORT A HOME FOR A FEW DAYS. [Captioner] 20:52:16 YOU KNOW, DEPENDING ON WHAT KIND OF ELECTRIC LOAD YOU HAVE. SO THOSE [Captioner] 20:52:21 OTHER, YOU KNOW, THINGS THAT WE DEFINITELY HAVE BEEN, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT, [Captioner] 20:52:25 HOW DO WE ENCOURAGE EXISTING HOMES AND BUSINESS [Captioner] 20:52:29 ES, TO CONTINUE TO INSTALL RENEWABLES, ADDING [Captioner] 20:52:34 IN BACKUP POWER, WHEREVER POSSIBLE, WE ALSO HAVE A [Captioner] 20:52:38 FOCUS WITHIN THE RESILIENCY AND [Captioner] 20:52:42 ADAPTATION PART OF THE PLAN AT LOOKING AT A RESILL [Captioner] 20:52:47 RESILIENCY HUBS IN A MORE [Captioner] 20:52:51 PROACTIVE WAY. HEAT EVENTS OR OTHER INCLEMENT [Captioner] 20:52:56 WEATHER, PEOPLE CAN COME TO OUR COMMUNITY CENTERS TO GET THE [Captioner] 20:53:00 RESOURCES WE NEED. WE CAN LOOK AT WAYS TO SUPPORT THOSE LOCATIONS [Captioner] 20:53:04 WITH ENERGY SYSTEMS THAT WOULD MAKE THEM MORE RESILIENT AS WELL. [Captioner] 20:53:09 AGAIN THAT WOULD BE SOLAR AND BATTERY STORAGE AND WE ARE WORKING [Captioner] 20:53:13 CURRENTLY WITH AVA TO INSTALL ADDITIONAL MICROGRIDS ON [Captioner] 20:53:17 OTHER CITY FACILITIES AND WE'VE IDENTIFIED SOME OF OUR COMMUNITY [Captioner] 20:53:21 CENTERS AS PART OF THOSE. I ALSO WANTED TO QUICKLY ADDRESS [Captioner] 20:53:25 THE COMMENT AROUND THE RENEWABLE AND 100 OPT- [Captioner] 20:53:29 UP. SO STATE LAW ALLOWS FOR COMMUNITY [Captioner] 20:53:34 CHOICE AUTHORITIES TO BE, YOU KNOW, A DEFAULT ENROLLMENT AND [Captioner] 20:53:38 THEN OPT OUT AS [Captioner] 20:53:42 AN OPTION FOR CUSTOMERS. THAT'S WHAT HAS REALLY ALLOWED [Captioner] 20:53:47 CCA'S TO BE ABLE TO ROLL OUT IN A FEDERATE SUBSTANTIAL [Captioner] 20:53:51 MANNER ACROSS THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA OVER THE LAST TEN FULL YEARS. [Captioner] 20:53:55 WE HAVE THE ABILITY FOR ANYBODY WHO WOULD BE ENROLLED IN RENEWABLE 100 [Captioner] 20:53:59 TO SAY NO, I DON'T WANT TO GO UP. I WANT TO STAY [Captioner] 20:54:04 AT THE BRIGHT CHOICE LEVEL OR I WOULD PREFER TO NOT BE A PART [Captioner] 20:54:08 OF AVA AND BE A PG&E CUSTOMER. THAT CHOICE IS ALWAYS [Captioner] 20:54:12 THERE. [Captioner] 20:54:17 AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN PURSUING THIS POLICY THERE WILL BE VERY [Captioner] 20:54:21 HEAVY COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT TO BE [Captioner] 20:54:25 SURE EVERYBODY IS WELL AWARE OF THESE CHOICES. WE DID THIS WHEN WE [Captioner] 20:54:29 WERE FIRST ROLLING OUT EVCE IN [Captioner] 20:54:33 2018 TO BUSINESSES AS WELL, THIS IS A BIG CAMPAIGN. [Captioner] 20:54:37 THERE IS ACTUALLY EIGHT CITIES THAT HAVE ADOPTED RENEWABLE 100 [Captioner] 20:54:41 AS THE DEFAULT FOR RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES. AND SIX THAT HAVE NOT. [Captioner] 20:54:45 WE'RE ONE OF THE SIX THAT HAVE NOT. [Captioner] 20:54:51 SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS THERE ARE A FEW CITIES THAT ARE LOOKING TO [Captioner] 20:54:55 DO THIS IN THE COMING YEAR AS WELL AND WE COULD BE PART OF THAT COHORT. [Captioner] 20:54:59 AND THIS IS REALLY TO MOVE THE NEEDLE BEFORE [Captioner] 20:55:03 EBCE HAS ROOUBILITY 100 AS THE DEFAULT FOR [Captioner] 20:55:07 EVERYBODY. AND THERE WILL [Captioner] 20:55:12 BE A [Captioner] 20:55:16 ALTERNATIVE FOR LOW INCOME CUSTOMERS. >> I [Captioner] 20:55:21 APPRECIATE YOU MAKING SURE THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE WORDED ACCORDINGLY BECAUSE [Captioner] 20:55:25 WHEN I JUST READ WHEN I READ THAT IT DOESN'T ALLOW FOR [Captioner] 20:55:29 THAT PART OF THE EXPLANATION THERE. AND I APPRECIATE THE [Captioner] 20:55:33 CLARIFICATION ON THAT. [Captioner] 20:55:38 I KNOW THAT, I FEEL PART OF THE PLAN SHOULD ALSO HAVE A LIST [Captioner] 20:55:41 OF SOME BACKUP OPPORTUNITIES AND OPTIONS FOR US. [Captioner] 20:55:45 BECAUSE IT WOULD NOT BE COMPLETE WITHOUT THAT. AND THAT WOULD BE PROBABLY [Captioner] 20:55:49 SOMETHING THAT WOULD LIKE TO SEE, [Captioner] 20:55:54 TO MAKES SURE THAT THAT'S CLEAR WITH THE RESIDENTS THAT WE ARE [Captioner] 20:55:58 PLANNING TO DO THIS, AND IT'S A PHASE-IN TYPE [Captioner] 20:56:02 OF ARRANGEMENT, BECAUSE EVERYTHING CAN'T BE DONE ALL AT ONCE. [Captioner] 20:56:06 AND -- BUT KNOWING THAT WE HAVE SOME OPTIONS OF BESIDES THE [Captioner] 20:56:09 WARMING CENTER AND THINGS LIKE THAT BUT MORE CONCERN, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 20:56:14 AS WE'VE HEARD ABOUT CONCERN FROM PUBLIC COMMENT [Captioner] 20:56:18 ON CRIME THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR POLICE AND ALL [Captioner] 20:56:22 OF THEIR VEHICLES AND OUR FIRE ARE 24 [Captioner] 20:56:26 /7 AND THEN SOME WITH EXTRA TRANSFORMERS [Captioner] 20:56:30 TRANSFORMERS AND YEERK SUSTAINABILITY THAT IS GOING TO [Captioner] 20:56:35 KEEP THEM UP 24 -- AND BEYOND THE THREE DAYS OF OPERATION JUST IN THE EVENT THAT [Captioner] 20:56:39 WE JUST HAVE CONTINUATION OF CONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS FOR THE [Captioner] 20:56:42 CITY. AND THAT'S WHERE I'M COMING FROM. [Captioner] 20:56:46 AND LOOKING AT THAT WHEN I LOOK AT A PLAN I ALWAYS LOOK AT SOME OF THE [Captioner] 20:56:50 BACKUP AS WELL TO KEEP US GOING. ANOTHER FARTHER [Captioner] 20:56:54 IS ARE YOU PLANNING AT ANY POINT TO USE ANY TYPE OF ARTIFICIAL [Captioner] 20:56:58 INTELLIGENCE, AND ANALYZING HOW THINGS ARE OCCURRING [Captioner] 20:57:03 WITH THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN GOING FORWARD [Captioner] 20:57:08 ? >> I HAVE NEVER HAD THAT QUESTION POSED TO ME SO NO, I'M [Captioner] 20:57:12 NOT PLANNING ON THAT AS OF YET. THERE MAY BE [Captioner] 20:57:16 THOUGHTS AT THE STATE LEVEL ON HOW THEY MIGHT START THINKING ABOUT THAT [Captioner] 20:57:20 . BUT WE'RE REALLY FOCUSED ON, YOU KNOW, DIRECT ACTIONS [Captioner] 20:57:25 THAT INVOLVE EITHER POLICY OR PROJECTS OR [Captioner] 20:57:29 PROGRAMS FOR THE COMMUNITY. >> Vice Mayor Cox: OKAY. [Captioner] 20:57:33 JUST ANOTHER TOOL THAT CONSTANTLY COULD BE OUT THERE FOR PRODUCTIVITY AND [Captioner] 20:57:37 KIND OF HELPING TO RANK SOME OF THESE PROJECTS INTO MORE OF A [Captioner] 20:57:41 HIGHER IMPACT IF THERE'S SOME OTHER TOOLS OUT THERE THAT CAN BE [Captioner] 20:57:45 PURSUED THERE. AT THIS TIME, I THINK I'VE COMPLETED MY [Captioner] 20:57:49 FIRST ROUND OF QUESTIONS BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR [Captioner] 20:57:53 CLARIFICATIONS AND AGAIN THANK YOU FOR YOUR TEAM FOR THEIR HARD WORK ON THIS [Captioner] 20:57:57 . >> THANK YOU. >> Mayor Mei: COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 20:58:01 CAMPBELL DO YOU HAVE CLARIFYING QUESTIONS BEFORE I BEGIN MINE? OKAY THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:58:05 SO THANK YOU AGAIN, SO SOME OF THE CLARIFYING QUESTIONS I HAD IS I KNOW [Captioner] 20:58:09 THAT JUST TO LET YOU KNOW I THINK WE HAD THE CONVERSATION [Captioner] 20:58:13 PREVIOUSLY WITH NOW AVA FORMERLY [Captioner] 20:58:17 EBCE WHEN WE STARTED AND PART OF IT WAS TO ENSURE [Captioner] 20:58:22 THE CONSUMERS ARE BEING PROTECTED, IT WAS NOT JUST THE COST, [Captioner] 20:58:26 BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO GO -- PART OF IT WAS TIMING FOR US [Captioner] 20:58:30 . I THINK HAVING THE POLICY AS WE MOVE FORWARD WHERE IT'S AN OPT [Captioner] 20:58:34 OUT RATHER THAN OPT IN, MAYBE A DIRECTION FOR THE FIRST PHASE [Captioner] 20:58:38 , ONE OF THE DELAYS FOR US IS THE COST FOR THE CONSUMERS AND THE [Captioner] 20:58:41 SENIORS. SO DO YOU THINK THERE'S BEEN [Captioner] 20:58:45 GREATER OUTREACH SINCE THEN THAT WOULD ALLOW US OR JUST THE FACT THAT THERE'S [Captioner] 20:58:49 MORE ADOPTION GRADERS THAT WOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE THAT TRANSITION FOR THE [Captioner] 20:58:52 CITY? I KNOW WE AS A BUSINESS HAVE [Captioner] 20:58:57 DONE THAT BUT ALSO FOR THE CONSUMERS DO YOU THINK WE NEED ODO MORE OUTREACH IN THAT [Captioner] 20:59:01 AREA? >> JUST TO CLARIFY, ARE YOU ASKING ABOUT OUTREACH [Captioner] 20:59:04 TO ENCOURAGE -- >> Mayor Mei: YES. [Captioner] 20:59:08 >> -- OPTING UP TO 100 WITHOUT A POLICY? >> Mayor Mei: [Captioner] 20:59:11 NO WITH A POLICY. I THINK PART OF IT IS HAVING [Captioner] 20:59:16 PEOPLE AS A CARROT AND STICK APPROACH A LITTLE BIT AND WE'RE [Captioner] 20:59:20 TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW CAN WE HAVE THE CARROT ASPECT FROM THE [Captioner] 20:59:23 ENVIRONMENT WE'VE SEEN THESE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, CERTAINLY [Captioner] 20:59:27 SOME OF THE DRAMATIC WEATHER CHANGES AND IMPACTS, DO YOU THINK PEOPLE WOULD MUCH HAVE [Captioner] 20:59:31 -- BECAUSE ALSO WE ARE COMING OUT OF THE PANDEMIC [Captioner] 20:59:35 , WE HOPE TO STAY THAT WAY, AND AT THAT TIME WE WERE LOOKING AT THE [Captioner] 20:59:39 CONSIDERATION THERE WAS A SHUTDOWN AND A LOT OF THEM ARE MORE UNKNOWNS [Captioner] 20:59:43 . DO YOU THINK AT THIS TIME AS A CITY IN YOUR OUTREACH I KNOW [Captioner] 20:59:47 THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION EARLIER THIS EVENING ABOUT SOME OF THE 84th REACH IN OUR [Captioner] 20:59:50 GRAPHIC DESIGN AND CUSTOMERS IN OUR CITY. [Captioner] 20:59:54 DO YOU THINK THE RESIDENTS ARE READY TO ADOPTIVE THE AV [Captioner] 20:59:58 A RENEWABLE 100? >> WE CAN GET A SENSE OF THAT [Captioner] 21:00:02 THROUGH ADDITIONAL OUTREACH. IN TERMS OF THE PERCENTAGE THAT HAVE [Captioner] 21:00:06 OPTED UP WITHOUT A POLICY IN PLACE, YOU KNOW, THAT'S [Captioner] 21:00:11 A VERY SMALL AMOUNT OF OUR CUSTOMERS FROM FREMONT [Captioner] 21:00:15 . THE ONE THING THAT I CAN SHARE IS, IN [Captioner] 21:00:19 JUNE EBCE NOW AVA UPDATED THEIR [Captioner] 21:00:24 RATES AND SO THE PREMIUM ON THE RENEWABLE 100 PLAN [Captioner] 21:00:28 USED TO BE THREE QUARTERS OF A CENT HIGHER THAN PG&E AND NOW IT'S [Captioner] 21:00:32 ONE QUARTER OF A CENT HIGHER THAN PG&E. [Captioner] 21:00:36 IT IS REDUCING IN PRICE COMPARATIVELY SPEAKING TO PG&E. THE BRIGHT CHOICE [Captioner] 21:00:42 PRODUCTS HAVE ALSO BEEN REDUCED IN PRICE SO IT WAS 3% LOWER THAN [Captioner] 21:00:46 PG&E NOW 5% LOWER. SO THERE IS A DIFFERENTIAL [Captioner] 21:00:50 BETWEEN BRIGHT CHOICE AND RENEWABLE 100 AND THAT'S WHAT WE'LL BE COMMUNICATING WITH [Captioner] 21:00:54 RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES. HERE IS WHAT YOU [Captioner] 21:00:58 CAN EXPECT TO SEE THERE THIS CHANGE. AN AVERAGE BILL WOULD INCREASE [Captioner] 21:01:01 BY X AMOUNT. THESE ARE THE BENEFITS IF YOU [Captioner] 21:01:06 CHOOSE TO NOT PARTICIPATE HERE ARE THE WAYS THAT YOU CAN OPT OUT [Captioner] 21:01:07 . >> Mayor Mei: THAT'S VERY HELPFUL. [Captioner] 21:01:11 I KNOW WHEN WE MADE THAT ORIGINAL COMMITMENT AS ONE OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS [Captioner] 21:01:15 THE CITY OF FREMONT AND US SERVING ON IT HAD THE OPPORTUNITY. [Captioner] 21:01:19 I KNOW WE MADE THAT COMMITMENT TO THE CONSUMERS TOO. THE [Captioner] 21:01:23 OTHER PIECE IS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT BATTERY BACKUP AND RESILIENCY AND [Captioner] 21:01:27 REDUNDANCY. ARE WE DOING SOME OUTREACH? I KNOW WE HAVE BEEN VERY [Captioner] 21:01:32 FORTUNATE AS A CITY TO PILOT AND PHI NEAR A LOT OF THIS WITH OUR [Captioner] 21:01:36 FIRE STATIONS AND WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT WE'VE SELECTED ANOTHER [Captioner] 21:01:40 EIGHT LOCATIONS HERE IN THE CITY TO LOOK AT BACKUPS AND THEN ALSO [Captioner] 21:01:44 BECAUSE THE INVENTATION YOU WHICH ARE JUST TALKING ABOUT, [Captioner] 21:01:48 YOU JUST TALKED ABOUT IT IN THE FIRST PHASE, WE DIDN'T KNOW WE WOULD [Captioner] 21:01:53 JOIN EBCE, THE TWO WAY OR BI [Captioner] 21:01:58 LATERAL CHARGING OPTIONS IN THE FUTURE. WITH EACH [Captioner] 21:02:03 REV THAT WE CREATE MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO ADOPT IN [Captioner] 21:02:07 OUR FACILITIES WHETHER IT'S THE COMMUNITY CENTERS AND OTHERS SO WE CAN [Captioner] 21:02:11 HAVE SOME RESILIENCY HUBS. IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE ARE LOOKING INTO WHEN [Captioner] 21:02:14 WE MADE THE PLANS? I KNOW THE PLANS WERE MADE ABOUT [Captioner] 21:02:18 A YEAR AND A HALF TWO YEARS AGO BUT AT THE SAME TIME AS WE'RE ADOPTING AND MAKING [Captioner] 21:02:23 THOSE ACTUAL IMPLEMENTATIONS, WE SHOULD BE UTILIZED WHAT IS THE LATE [Captioner] 21:02:28 -- WE SHOULD BE UTILIZING WHATEVER IS THE LATE [Captioner] 21:02:32 EST. >> COUNCIL PROVIDED A RESOLUTION [Captioner] 21:02:36 SAYING IF THE END OF THE PROJECT LOOKED FAVORABLE FOR [Captioner] 21:02:39 THE CITY WE WOULD MOVE FORWARD ON THOSE SITES. [Captioner] 21:02:43 YOU KNOW, WE ARE WAITING TO RECEIVE MORE INFORMATION [Captioner] 21:02:47 FROM AVCE ON WHAT [Captioner] 21:02:51 THOSE PROJECTS WOULD LOOK LIKE, WHAT THAT EQUIPMENT WOULD EVOLVE [Captioner] 21:02:56 INVOLVE, WHAT [Captioner] 21:03:00 WE'LL HAVE MORE INFORMATION TO SHARE ON A FUTURE DATE. [Captioner] 21:03:04 WHAT THE INFORMATION I WANTED TO SHARE ON RESIDENTIAL, TALKING ABOUT BATTERY [Captioner] 21:03:08 BACKUP, WE PARTICIPATED IN THE BAY AREA SUN SHARES PROGRAM FOR A NUMBER OF [Captioner] 21:03:12 YEARS NOW AND THAT'S AN EFFORT TO PROVIDE UP FRONT DISCOUNTED PRICING [Captioner] 21:03:17 ON SOLAR SYSTEMS FOR FREMONT RESIDENTS. AND THERE'S [Captioner] 21:03:21 A BATTERY STORAGE OPTION THAT'S INCREASINGLY POPULAR [Captioner] 21:03:26 . I'VE SEEN, YOU KNOW, MORE THAN 10% OF [Captioner] 21:03:30 RESIDENTIAL SOLAR INSTALLS NOW IN FREMONT ARE GOING IN WITH BATTERY [Captioner] 21:03:34 SYSTEMS AS WELL. >> Mayor Mei: YES, I JUST [Captioner] 21:03:38 ADOPTED ONE MYSELF A WHILE BACK BUT I HAVE NOT DONE THE BATTERY [Captioner] 21:03:42 STORAGE YET BUT I'M SLOWLY BUILDING TO THAT [Captioner] 21:03:45 INFRASTRUCTURE MYSELF. SPEAKING OF WHICH WHEN IT COMES [Captioner] 21:03:49 TO THIS PAST WEEK WE HAD CMTA AND CALIFORNIA [Captioner] 21:03:53 MANUFACTURERS TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION HAD RECOGNIZED SOME OF OUR VENDORS. [Captioner] 21:03:57 AND SEEING THAT WE HAVE A HUGE BASE AND FOUNDATION [Captioner] 21:04:00 WITH MANUFACTURING, WHAT TYPE OF OUTREACH ARE WE DOING? [Captioner] 21:04:04 BECAUSE I WILL TELL YOU ON THE TOURS THAT I ATTENDED WE HAD 13 TOURS AND I ATTEND [Captioner] 21:04:08 ED SIX OF THEM AND I KNOW THERE IS A LOT OF THE COMPANIES WHO THEMSELVES ARE [Captioner] 21:04:13 MAKING THESE TRANSITIONS AND ADOPTIONS IN THEIR POLICIES AND ARE REALLY WORKING HARD WITH [Captioner] 21:04:16 THEIR OWN TEAMS. IS THERE ANYTHING THAT WE ARE DOING IN TERMS OF ECONOMIC [Captioner] 21:04:20 DEVELOPMENT OR THERE YOUR SIDE TO OUTREACH TO THOSE ORGANIZATIONS OR SOME OF THE [Captioner] 21:04:24 TRADE ASSOCIATIONS? >> I'VE WORKED CLOSELY WITH OUR [Captioner] 21:04:29 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR DONOVAN LAZARO ON [Captioner] 21:04:33 OUTREACHING TO A LOT OF OUR LARGER BUSINESS CUSTOMERS IN TREATMENT IN [Captioner] 21:04:37 PREPARATION FOR THE PLAN DOING OUTREACH ASKING THEM, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 21:04:41 WHAT THEY'RE INTERESTED IN SEEING, WHAT THEY'RE CURRENTLY [Captioner] 21:04:46 DOING, WHAT THEY'D LIKE TO SEE MORE OF, WHAT THEY WOULD BE 74thIVE OF THE CITY [Captioner] 21:04:49 DOING AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED IN THE PLAN THAT WE [Captioner] 21:04:54 WOULD LIKE TO IMPLEMENT ON IN THE SHORT TERM GAME PLAN [Captioner] 21:04:58 IS DOING MORE PROGRAMMING EVENTS TO [Captioner] 21:05:02 SHOWCASE WHAT SOME OF OUR BUSINESSES ARE DOING, [Captioner] 21:05:05 THE INNOVATIVE THINGS THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO IMPLEMENT. [Captioner] 21:05:09 SHARING THAT WITH OTHER BUSINESSES IN FREMONT AND KIND OF PROVIDING A CASE STUDY [Captioner] 21:05:12 AND INFORMATION SHARING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEM. [Captioner] 21:05:16 >> Mayor Mei: NO, I DEFINITELY THINK THERE'S SOME GREAT OPPORTUNITIES [Captioner] 21:05:20 . DELTA ELECTRONICS HAS BEEN NOTED BEING LEED PLATINUM [Captioner] 21:05:24 AND SEAGATE THEY HAVE USED EVERYTHING THERE SOLAR, GEE [Captioner] 21:05:30 GEOTHERMAL, I'M CERTAINLY WILLING [Captioner] 21:05:35 TO RINSE RELOAD AND REPEAT NOT JUST THE WATER [Captioner] 21:05:39 . ESPECIALLY I THINK THERE IS SOME INTERESTING SKEPTICS [Captioner] 21:05:44 INTERESTING CONCEPTS, THEY WERE LOOKING [Captioner] 21:05:49 AT VIRTUAL EARTH AND OTHER CONCEPTS, SOMETHING [Captioner] 21:05:53 YOU CAN INNOVATE, TO HELP [Captioner] 21:05:56 US CALCULATE WHAT IS THE BEST SOLUTIONS. [Captioner] 21:06:00 I KNOW THIS IS AN EVER CHANGING WORLD. HOPEFULLY WE CAN MAKE [Captioner] 21:06:04 GREAT THESE THINGS. I ALSO KNOW WE HAVE NINE [Captioner] 21:06:08 SPEAKERS. IF WE WANT TO GO THROUGH THE SPEAKER CARDS, 10 PUBLIC [Captioner] 21:06:12 SPEAKERS IF WE CAN CALL THEM UP AND ONE IS GOING TO BE OUR [Captioner] 21:06:16 GRAY WATER DISCUSSION. >> The Clerk: JOHN HINES [Captioner] 21:06:20 IS THE FIRST SPEAKER FOLLOWED BY RICHARD GODFREY. [Captioner] 21:06:24 >> HOW MUCH TIME FOR THIS ONE? >> Mayor Mei: TWO MINUTES IS [Captioner] 21:06:28 THAT OKAY? >> I'LL PASS, OKAY. >> Mayor Mei: DO YOU NEED MORE [Captioner] 21:06:32 THAN TWO? >> THIS WOULD BE THREE. BUT EVERYBODY GETS THE SAME [Captioner] 21:06:38 . >> Mayor Mei: OKAY. IF YOU [Captioner] 21:06:42 WOULD LIKE TO SEND IT TO US IN WRITING WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT STILL TOO. [Captioner] 21:06:49 >> I TALK FAST AND THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT. FIRST I WANT TO TALK [Captioner] 21:06:53 A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE GOOD BAD AND THE UGLY AND NICELY THERE'S REALLY [Captioner] 21:06:58 NOTHING UGLY. THE GOOD IS EXTRAORDINARY JOB ON BEHALF OF DAN [Captioner] 21:07:03 AND RACHEL AND ALL OF YOU THAT HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE CLIMATE [Captioner] 21:07:07 ACTION PLAN WE THINK IT'S EXTREMELY WELL DONE WITH THE HUGE AMOUNT OF WORK [Captioner] 21:07:11 THAT WENT INTO IT. SO ONE OF THE AREAS THAT IS [Captioner] 21:07:15 GOOD, AND THIS IS REGARDING WE TALKED EARLIER ABOUT PROBLEMS WITH [Captioner] 21:07:19 ANIMAL CODE AND WITH THE ANIMAL SERVICES HERE IN FREMONT AND [Captioner] 21:07:24 THE OHLONE HEALTH SYSTEM. AND ONE OF THE WAYS THAT [Captioner] 21:07:28 WE ACTUALLY SOLVED A PROBLEM WAS TO GO AND COLLABORATE WITH THE [Captioner] 21:07:31 NONPROFITS. SO IN THIS CASE WE GATHERED A [Captioner] 21:07:36 WAY TO WORK WITH THE ALAMEDA BEE KEEP [Captioner] 21:07:40 ERS WE TAKE CARE OF MOST OF THE BEE PROBLEMS HERE IN TREATMENT AND WE NO [Captioner] 21:07:44 LONGER HAVE TO PAY EXTENSIVE REGISTRATION FEES SO THANK YOU [Captioner] 21:07:48 ALL IN WORKING IN GREEN WITH THAT. I WANT TO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT [Captioner] 21:07:52 TOWARDS TREES AND THAT IS JUST TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, THE [Captioner] 21:07:57 URBAN TREFTARY MASTER PLAN HAS -- FOREST [Captioner] 21:08:02 RY MASTER PLAN HAS 134 PAGE VERY DETAILED PROGRAM. AND [Captioner] 21:08:06 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STANDS OUT WE HAVE 14.4% URBAN [Captioner] 21:08:09 CANOPY BUT WE WANT TO GET TO 24%. [Captioner] 21:08:14 HOW DO WE DO THAT SO THIS YEAR IT'S ANTICIPATED WE'LL [Captioner] 21:08:18 PLANT 800 TREES, TOWARDS THE END IT IS [Captioner] 21:08:22 ANTICIPATED THAT WE WILL [Captioner] 21:08:27 PLANT 700 TREES NOT LIKELY. [Captioner] 21:08:29 SO THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY. [Captioner] 21:08:33 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. >> The Clerk: STEVE SCALO FOLLOWED BY ABE [Captioner] 21:08:37 . >> Mayor Mei: WELCOME STEVE. [Captioner] 21:08:42 >> THANK YOU MAYOR AND COUNCIL. SO AS I REVIEWED THIS PLAN AND DID [Captioner] 21:08:46 A FAIR AMOUNT OF PUBLIC OUTREACH, TO SUPPORT IT [Captioner] 21:08:51 , ONE OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY STRIKES ME ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS [Captioner] 21:08:55 . ONE THERE IS A LOT OF CORRESPONDENCE TO THE GENERAL [Captioner] 21:08:59 PLAN AND THIS ISN'T A PLAN THAT REALLY IS THERE TO SAVE THE PLANET [Captioner] 21:09:03 BUT HAS A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT RELATED TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF EVERYBODY [Captioner] 21:09:07 IN FREMONT. AND MANY OF THE ACTIONS HERE ARE GOING TO HELP PEOPLE IN MANY [Captioner] 21:09:12 WAYS. A FEW EXAMPLES, PEOPLE WANT THE ABILITY TO WALK TO AMENITIES [Captioner] 21:09:15 SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO DRIVE EVERYWHERE. [Captioner] 21:09:19 WELL HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU AND COUNCIL TALKED ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF [Captioner] 21:09:23 HAVING VIBRANT NEIGHBORHOODS? IT'S REALLY THE SAME THING. [Captioner] 21:09:27 WE NEED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN BY IMPLEMENTING THE ACTIONS OF THIS PLAN. [Captioner] 21:09:31 YOU CAN LOOK AROUND TOWN AND SEE MANY IMPORTANT ACTIONS [Captioner] 21:09:35 LIKE AN EXAMPLE, PERSON WHO RECENTLY BOUGHT AN ELECTRIC SCOOTER [Captioner] 21:09:40 AND TAKES IT ON BART TO GET TO WORK BECAUSE IT COST LESS [Captioner] 21:09:43 THAN FIXING HIS CAR. IF YOU SEE THE HANDFUL OF OTHER [Captioner] 21:09:48 PEOPLE THAT TAKE A BICYCLE OR SCOOTER ON AND OFF EVERY [Captioner] 21:09:52 SINGLE BART TRAIFN YOU'LL SEE THAT THE SUPPORT FOR ACTIVE TRANSIT IS [Captioner] 21:09:56 NOT ONLY HELPING THE PLANET BUT IT'S HELPING PEOPLE KEEP THEIR [Captioner] 21:10:00 JOBS AND STILL PAY RENT. THE YOUNG PROFESSIONALS THAT ARE HERE, [Captioner] 21:10:04 AND ARE SHARING A CAR AND TAKING TRANSIT WHENEVER POSSIBLE THEY'RE [Captioner] 21:10:08 NOT ONLY REDUCING VMT BUT THEY'RE ALSO TRYING TO SAVE MONEY FOR [Captioner] 21:10:12 A DOWN PAYMENT FOR WHAT'S NOW LIKE AN $ [Captioner] 21:10:16 800,000 STARTER CONDO WHICH IS SOMETHING WE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO US OLD [Captioner] 21:10:20 ER GENERATION. SO PLEASE I HOPE YOU LOOK AT [Captioner] 21:10:24 THIS NOT JUST AS AN ESOTERIC PLAN [Captioner] 21:10:28 THAT SAVES THE PLANET BUT SOMETHING THAT REALLY HELPS ABOUT [Captioner] 21:10:31 THE PEOPLE IN THE CITY CONTINUE TO STAY HERE. [Captioner] 21:10:35 I HOPE YOU CAN LOOK AT IT [Captioner] 21:10:40 EMBRACE IT AND AGGRESSIVELY IMPLEMENT IT. [Captioner] 21:10:42 THANK YOU. >> Mayor Mei: NEXT SPEAKER, WELCOME ABE. [Captioner] 21:10:51 >> GOOD EVENING. CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, MAYOR MEI [Captioner] 21:10:55 , AND CITY STAFF. I ALSO WOULD [Captioner] 21:10:59 LIKE TO THANK THE SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE FOR ALL THEIR [Captioner] 21:11:03 HARD WORK IN PUTTING THIS PLAN TOGETHER. AND I STRONGLY [Captioner] 21:11:08 RECOMMEND THAT THE CITY COUNCIL ADOPT THIS PLAN AS WRITTEN [Captioner] 21:11:12 . I THINK THE CHALLENGE IS IMPLEMENTATION [Captioner] 21:11:16 . AND IMPLEMENTATION WILL TAKE A LONG TIME AND A LOT OF HARD [Captioner] 21:11:20 WORK. AND I'D LIKE TO SEE THE CITY OF FREMONT TAKE A LEADERSHIP ROLE [Captioner] 21:11:25 IN THIS. WE ARE A GREAT CITY AND I'D LIKE TO [Captioner] 21:11:30 SEE READ IN THE PAPER HOW THE CITY OF FREMONT IS [Captioner] 21:11:34 DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO HELP FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE. [Captioner] 21:11:39 I THINK THE CHALLENGE IS THAT [Captioner] 21:11:43 WE NEED TO GET -- ALLOW THE CITY MANAGER THE POWER TO WORK WITH [Captioner] 21:11:47 ALL THE DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE TO SUPPORT THIS [Captioner] 21:11:52 PLAN AND GIVE THE CITY MANAGER ALL THE SUPPORT AND POWER TO DO THAT [Captioner] 21:11:57 . ALSO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THE CITY [Captioner] 21:12:02 COMMUNICATE WITH THE RESIDENTS OF FREMONT ABOUT ALL THE THINGS [Captioner] 21:12:07 THAT THEY INDIVIDUALLY CAN DO TO REDUCE [Captioner] 21:12:11 THEIR IMPACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE [Captioner] 21:12:14 AND ELECTRIFY THEIR HOME. I THINK THE PROBLEM IS [Captioner] 21:12:19 EDUCATION, AND COMMUNICATION. THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH THAT THE CITY CAN DO WITH [Captioner] 21:12:24 YOUR BUDGET, BUT YOU CAN DO A LOT MORE BY WORKING ON [Captioner] 21:12:28 YOUR WEBSITE, PUSHING THE GREEN CHALLENGE, [Captioner] 21:12:32 MORE, AND LETTING YOUR CITIZENS KNOW [Captioner] 21:12:36 THERE'S MONEY TO BE USED FROM THE [Captioner] 21:12:40 INFLATION REDUCTION ACT AND LET'S GET IT DONE. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:12:45 >> The Clerk: THANK YOU. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS LISA [Captioner] 21:12:49 DANS FOLLOWED BY DANIELLE [Captioner] 21:12:53 CARPELLOVICH. >> GOOD EVENING, I'M LISA [Captioner] 21:12:58 DANS, I BELIEVE I PARTICIPATED IN JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT [Captioner] 21:13:02 WAS ON RACHEL de FRAN [Captioner] 21:13:06 CO'S LIST. I THINK I OPTED UP THE MINI COULD. [Captioner] 21:13:10 AS A RENTER THAT IS THE MAIN WAY THAT I CAN CHOOSE RENEWABLE ENERGY FOR [Captioner] 21:13:15 MY HOME SO I'M GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT AND EXCITE [Captioner] 21:13:18 ED THAT THE OTHER RESIDENTS WILL HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AS THEIR [Captioner] 21:13:22 DEFAULT. I'M HERE TO SAY PLEASE DO SUPPORT [Captioner] 21:13:27 THE CAP, PLEASE SUPPORT THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION AS WRITTEN TO ADOPT [Captioner] 21:13:31 THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN AND TO DIRECT AND SUPPORT STAFF IMPLEMENTING [Captioner] 21:13:35 IT WITH THE RESOURCES AND DIRECTION NEEDED ACROSS THE BOARD AS HAS [Captioner] 21:13:39 BEEN NOTED BY PREVIOUS SPEAKERS. I'M GOING TO TAKE A MINUTE TO BRING [Captioner] 21:13:43 IT BACK TO WHY WE ALL CARE SO MUCH ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE FIRST PLACE. [Captioner] 21:13:47 I KNOW THIS IS REVIEW BUT I THINK IT'S HELPFUL TO REMEMBER. WE'RE ALL [Captioner] 21:13:52 IMPACTED, OUR HEALTH TODAY WITH THE CLIMATE IMPACTS [Captioner] 21:13:56 THAT WE'VE FACED. WE'VE HAD WILDFIRE SMOKE THIS [Captioner] 21:14:00 YEAR, WE'VE HAD WORSE WILDFIRE SMOKE IN PREVIOUS YEARS, [Captioner] 21:14:04 I DON'T LIKE IT YOU DON'T LIKE IT, IT'S BAD FOR US NOW, IT'S [Captioner] 21:14:08 GOING TO BE WORSE IN THE FUTURE, IT'S ALREADY WORSE FOR FOLKS IN OTHER [Captioner] 21:14:13 PLACES NOT FAR FROM HERE AS WELL AS VERY FAR FROM HERE. THIS IS A HUMAN RIGHTS [Captioner] 21:14:17 ISSUE AND IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CITY OF FREMONT TO BE ABLE [Captioner] 21:14:20 TO DO ITS PART. AND THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN [Captioner] 21:14:24 REALLY GETS THAT. IT REALLY ATTACKS THE ISSUES THAT THE CITY OF FREMONT HAS [Captioner] 21:14:27 IN ITS JURISDICTION TO BE ABLE TO DO. [Captioner] 21:14:31 IT HAS THE RIGHT TARGETS, IT HAS THE RIGHT PROGRAMS [Captioner] 21:14:35 . AND I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE CEQA STREAMLINING BECAUSE I [Captioner] 21:14:39 THINK THAT WILL REALLY HELP GOOD PROJECTS GET DONE MORE AND FASTER [Captioner] 21:14:44 . SO TO SUMMARIZE FROM MY LAST EIGHT SECONDS, PLEASE [Captioner] 21:14:46 SUPPORT STAFF RECOMMENDATION. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [Captioner] 21:14:52 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU MS. DANS LISA. NEXT SPEAKER [Captioner] 21:14:56 . >> The Clerk: DANIEL, FOLLOWED BY SHRAI [Captioner] 21:15:00 A. >> Mayor Mei: WELCOME DANIEL [Captioner] 21:15:05 . >> HELLO AGAIN. I'LL JUST START OFF WITH [Captioner] 21:15:09 SAYING YEAH, PASS THE PLAN AS WRITTEN OF COURSE. [Captioner] 21:15:15 THAT IS THE OBVIOUS CHOICE, THERE'S NO REALLY DISCUSSION, THIS IS A GREAT PLAN [Captioner] 21:15:19 . I WILL SAY I WAS SURPRISED JUST HOW WELL ORGANIZED IT [Captioner] 21:15:23 WAS. HAVING EACH SPECIFIC GOAL [Captioner] 21:15:28 , EACH SPECIFIC ACTION, HAVE ITS OWN [Captioner] 21:15:32 LITTLE ABBREVIATED CODE AND BE ORGANIZED BY CATEGORY MAKES IT [Captioner] 21:15:36 REAL EASY TO SEE WHERE YOU'RE DOING, SEE WHERE EVERYONE IS -- WHAT'S [Captioner] 21:15:40 BEING PRIORITIZED, IT'S GREAT. BUT TO MAKE THIS A LITTLE BIT OF [Captioner] 21:15:44 A COMPLIMENT SANDWICH I WILL JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 21:15:48 THERE'S A LOT OF FOCUS ON GRATION [Captioner] 21:15:53 GREENHOUSE GAS E [Captioner] 21:15:57 EMISSIONS, I DON'T WANT TO GET FOCUSED AS THE [Captioner] 21:16:02 ONLY CAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE THE ONLY IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE [Captioner] 21:16:07 . THERE IS OTHER THINGS WE CAN DO TO PREVENT [Captioner] 21:16:11 CLIMATE CHANGE AND HELP ADAPT TO IT. THERE IS A LOT OF FOCUS ON EV'S [Captioner] 21:16:14 . I FIRST OF ALL JUST TO MAKE CLEAR I COMPLETELY AGREE EVERY [Captioner] 21:16:19 NEW VEHICLE SHOULD BE AN EV. WE SHOULD, YOU KNOW, TRY TO REPLACE [Captioner] 21:16:23 GAS CARS AT THE END OF THEIR LIFE WITH EV'S BUT I [Captioner] 21:16:27 DON'T WANT TO CONFUSE THAT WHERE [Captioner] 21:16:31 THINKING MORE EV'S IS BETTER. LESS CARS IS BETTER FOR THE [Captioner] 21:16:35 ENVIRONMENT NO MATTER IF IT'S EV OR NOT. IF WE [Captioner] 21:16:39 JUST MOVE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF CARS INSTEAD OF FROM THE TAIL [Captioner] 21:16:43 PIPE TO THE BATTERY FACTORY, THAT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING BECAUSE [Captioner] 21:16:48 WE ALL SHARE THE SAME ATMOSPHERE NO MATTER IF THE BATTERY FACTORY [Captioner] 21:16:52 IS IN CHINA, DOESN'T REALLY MATTER. AND THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THAT [Captioner] 21:16:56 EV WAS MANUFACTURED IN TREATMENT BECAUSE WE HAVE A TESLA [Captioner] 21:16:59 FACTORY HERE. JUST TO CLOSE OUT, PASS THE PLAN [Captioner] 21:17:03 BUT WE CAN DO A LITTLE BIT BETTER NEXT TIME. THANK YOU [Captioner] 21:17:08 . >> Mayor Mei: SHRAIA RAM [Captioner] 21:17:12 RAMACHANDRAN FOLLOWED BY [Captioner] 21:17:16 WILLIAM UREGY. >> WELCOME SHRA [Captioner] 21:17:20 IA. >> I'M THE YOUTH REPRESENTATIVE ON THE SUSTAINABILITY [Captioner] 21:17:23 COMMISSION. I WANT TO EARTHQUAKE OWE WHAT [Captioner] 21:17:27 OTHERS HAVE SAID AND EXPRESS MY SUPPORT FOR THE FINAL [Captioner] 21:17:30 ADOPTION OF THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN BY THE CITY COUNCIL. [Captioner] 21:17:35 FIRST IT CONTAINS MEASURES THAT ARE [Captioner] 21:17:41 SUSTAINABLE, IN THE BAY AREA AND BEYOND. IT IS A SURPRISE TO IN ONE THAT [Captioner] 21:17:44 I'M MOST EXCITED ABOUT THE MEASURES ABOUT GRAY WATER USE, [Captioner] 21:17:49 INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF GRAY WATER USE THAT WE DO IS CRUCIAL TO MAKE FREMONT [Captioner] 21:17:53 DROUGHT RESILIENT SO I'M GLAD THERE'S MEASURES IN THE PLAN [Captioner] 21:17:57 AND I'M HAPPY TO TALK TO ANYONE WHO IS INTERESTED [Captioner] 21:18:01 IN THAT MORE. I WANT TO TOUCH ON SOMETHING THAT THE [Captioner] 21:18:06 VALUES THAT THE VALUES INCLUDE EQUITY [Captioner] 21:18:10 AND ACCESS ENSURING THAT EVERYONE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO [Captioner] 21:18:14 BENEFIT EQUALLY FROM CLIMATE SOLUTIONS, EFFICIENCY AND [Captioner] 21:18:19 I [Captioner] 21:18:23 INNOVATION. SAFEGUARDING AND ENHANCING OUR ABILITY TO LIVE WORK PLAY [Captioner] 21:18:26 AND CONNECT IN THIS COMMUNITY THAT WE ALL LOVE. [Captioner] 21:18:30 AS WELL AS RESILIENCY AND CAPACITY BUILDING, PROVIDING EDUCATION AND TRAINING [Captioner] 21:18:35 , TO BUILD A MORE RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE [Captioner] 21:18:38 . SO IMPLEMENTING THESE RECOMMENDATION IS REALLY WHERE [Captioner] 21:18:42 WE WILL SEE MOST OF THESE BENEFITS AND WHERE WE WILL SEE THE EMISSIONS REDUCTION HE [Captioner] 21:18:47 THAT OUR SUSTAINABILITY MANAGER HAS ALREADY PLAYED OUT [Captioner] 21:18:50 . I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THESE BEING ADOPTED BY THE CITY [Captioner] 21:18:55 COUNCIL BUT THAT IS WHERE THE REAL WORK WILL BEGIN. I'M EXCITED TO SEE THIS [Captioner] 21:18:59 BEING ADOPTED AND EXCITED TO SEIZE THIS PLAN BEING USED [Captioner] 21:19:03 AS A BASIS UPON WHICH WE CAN BUILD SO ACTIONS MAY BE [Captioner] 21:19:06 TAKEN MOVING FORWARD. THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:19:10 >> The Clerk: WILLIAM UREGI FOLLOWED BY KELLY A [Captioner] 21:19:15 BREW. >> Mayor Mei: WELCOME WILLIAM. >> THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:19:19 GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS WILLIAM UREG [Captioner] 21:19:23 I REPRESENTING THE SIERRA CLUB. WE ARE THE [Captioner] 21:19:28 OLDEST ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES ACTIVELY INVOLVED [Captioner] 21:19:32 IN ACTIONS OF THIS TYPE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY IN TERMS OF CLIMATE [Captioner] 21:19:36 ACTION PLANS. CLIMATE ACTION PLANS ARE -- THEY'RE A DETAILED [Captioner] 21:19:40 PROPOSAL FOR DOING OR ACHIEVING SOMETHING AND THIS PLAN [Captioner] 21:19:45 HAS ENOUGH DETAILS AND ENOUGH OFNTS THAT YOU CAN [Captioner] 21:19:48 ACTUALLY PUT STAKES IN THE GROUND AND THEN PULL TOWARDS [Captioner] 21:19:50 THEM. SO WE'RE SUPPORTIVE OF THIS PLAN. [Captioner] 21:19:54 SURE THERE COULD BE MORE DETAILS AND THERE COULD BE MORE STAKES IN THE GROUND. [Captioner] 21:19:58 BUT YOU START SOMEWHERE AND THEN YOU FINISH SOMEWHERE ELSE. AND SO [Captioner] 21:20:02 WE'RE SUPPORTIVE OF THE PLAN. JUST PERSONALLY [Captioner] 21:20:07 I'VE LIVED IN FREMONT SINCE 1983 APPROXIMATELY, SOME 40 [Captioner] 21:20:11 YEARS. AND THIS CITY HAS CHANGED. IT HAS BECOME GREENER [Captioner] 21:20:15 . I WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE WALKWAYS, MORE [Captioner] 21:20:19 PEDESTRIAN PATHWAYS, MORE BICYCLE PATHS. YOU CAN'T ENCOURAGE PARENTS TO [Captioner] 21:20:23 PUT THEIR KIDS IN BICYCLES IF THE KIDS ARE IN THE STREET GET [Captioner] 21:20:27 GETTING HIT BY CARS. WE HAVE TO FIND MORE PATHS TO [Captioner] 21:20:31 PEDESTRIAN WALKWAYS IN THE CITY AND BY THE WAY WHEN YOU DO THAT YOU'LL HAVE MORE [Captioner] 21:20:36 GREEN TREES SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU [Captioner] 21:20:40 . [Captioner] 21:20:43 WELCOME KELLY. >> AND THEN THE LAST SPEAKER [Captioner] 21:20:47 WILL BE CAROLINE HARRIS. >> SO YEAH, [Captioner] 21:20:52 I SUPPORT THE PLAN. BUT [Captioner] 21:20:56 AS FAR AS HOW THE PLAN IS BEING OVER [Captioner] 21:21:00 SEEN, AND MONITORED OVER TIME [Captioner] 21:21:04 , YOU KNOW, I SEE SOME WEAKNESSES THERE WHERE, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 21:21:09 YOU'RE NOT LOOKING AT IT EVERY YEAR AND SAYING [Captioner] 21:21:11 ARE WE PROCEEDING ACCORDING TO SCHEDULE. [Captioner] 21:21:15 I THINK THIS IS WHAT EVERY FIVE YEARS OR SOMETHING? BECAUSE IT'S A LOT OF WORK [Captioner] 21:21:19 . MAYBE -- SO THAT'S A LITTLE BIT, [Captioner] 21:21:23 YOU REALLY AREN'T FOLLOWING ALONG CHECKING THE [Captioner] 21:21:27 SPEEDOMETER TO SEE OR CHECKING THE MILE POSTS AS [Captioner] 21:21:32 YOU ARE GOING ALONG. ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF [Captioner] 21:21:36 THERE'S SOME INCONGRUITIES IN FOR EXAMPLE THE WATER FORECAST [Captioner] 21:21:40 . PEOPLE WILL COME AND TELL YOU OH YEAH WE'RE GOING TO DROP THE [Captioner] 21:21:44 WATER USE, EACH HOUSEHOLD IS GOING TO DROP ITS WATER USE BY A CERTAIN [Captioner] 21:21:48 AMOUNT. WHICH IS PROBABLY PERFECTLY REALISTIC. [Captioner] 21:21:52 BUT IF WE LOOK AT ALL THESE WATER DISTRICTS, OURS AND [Captioner] 21:21:56 EVERYBODY ELSE'S THEY ARE ALL [Captioner] 21:22:00 FORECASTING STEAD GROWTH OVER LONG TERM [Captioner] 21:22:05 . THEY HAVE ALL BEEN WRONG ABOUT THAT BECAUSE [Captioner] 21:22:09 OVERALL WATER USE HAS BEEN DROPPING. THEY HAVE THIS HABIT OF PUTTING [Captioner] 21:22:13 OUT ROSY FORECAST AND THEN ACTUALLY SEEING WATER [Captioner] 21:22:17 CONSERVATION TAKE HOLD HARDER AND STRONGER THAN THEY EXPECTED [Captioner] 21:22:21 . ELECTRICITY PRICE INCREASES SAME THING. [Captioner] 21:22:25 THERE ARE HUGE PRICE INCREASES FOR ELECTRICITY IN THE PIPELINE, HUGE REGARDLESS OF [Captioner] 21:22:29 THIS PLAN. AND I'M SURE THAT THE IMPACTS OF THAT ARE NOT WELL UNDERSTOOD AND [Captioner] 21:22:34 PEOPLE -- SO THESE ACTIVITIES ARE NOT GOING [Captioner] 21:22:38 TO BE PAINLESS, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE LOW EFFORT, THEY ARE NOT GOING [Captioner] 21:22:43 TO BE UNOBTRUSIVE, THEY ARE NOT GOING [Captioner] 21:22:47 TO BE TECHNOLOGICAL MIRACLES AND THERE WILL BE SOME PAIN HERE. [Captioner] 21:22:53 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. WELCOME CAROLINE. [Captioner] 21:23:01 >> HI, MY NAME IS CAROLINE HARRIS. I'M A LONG TERM, [Captioner] 21:23:05 20 YEARS RESIDENT OF IRVINGTON. I ALSO HAPPEN TO BE THE [Captioner] 21:23:09 CURRENT CHAIR OF THE TRICITY ECOLOGY CENTER. [Captioner] 21:23:14 I'M PASSIONATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT WHICH IS WHY I'M PART [Captioner] 21:23:18 OF THE TRICITY ENVIRONMENT CENTER AND WHY I'M HERE NOW. [Captioner] 21:23:21 WE HAVE GOT TO CHANGE THE PERCEPTION OF THE PEOPLE THAT [Captioner] 21:23:26 IT'S IN THEIR HANDS TO USE LESS VEHICLES, TO DRIVE [Captioner] 21:23:30 LESS, TO ENCOURAGE THE KIDS TO WALK TO SCHOOL TO DRIVE TO SCHOOL [Captioner] 21:23:34 , IT'S REALLY ABOUT THE EDUCATION, ABOUT THE PERCEPTION, WE [Captioner] 21:23:38 NEED TO PICK UP THE CONVENIENCE FACTOR OF GRABBING [Captioner] 21:23:42 UP A PLASTIC [Captioner] 21:23:47 BOTTLE, USING IT AND THROWING IT AWAY. THEIR [Captioner] 21:23:51 DAILY LIVES, I AGREE WITH JENNY WE HAVE GOT TO HAVE TIME LINES OF WHEN THINGS [Captioner] 21:23:55 ARE GOING TO HAPPEN TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS. [Captioner] 21:23:59 I THINK IT'S QUITE DISAPPOINTING THAT EVEN THOUGH WE GOT THIS PLAN WE KNOW WE [Captioner] 21:24:03 HAVE GOT TO FAIL BY 2044 [Captioner] 21:24:07 , 2045, BECAUSE WE'RE HOPING FOR A MIRACLE ON THE [Captioner] 21:24:11 STATE AND FEDERAL LEVEL. OKAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [Captioner] 21:24:14 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. AND AT THIS TIME I'M GOING TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT. [Captioner] 21:24:18 AND I WILL RETURN TO COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN WHO IS [Captioner] 21:24:21 IN THE QUEUE. >> Councilmember Salwan: THANK [Captioner] 21:24:26 YOU MADAM MAYOR. JUST IF YOU COULD ADDRESS THE TWO POINTS, ONE WAS RAISED [Captioner] 21:24:30 BY MR. ABREW ABOUT COMING BACK, I THINK YOU SAID THIS WOULD COME [Captioner] 21:24:33 BACK IN THREE YEARS WE WOULD LOOK AT IT WHAT THE FREQUENCY OF [Captioner] 21:24:38 LOOKING AT THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN. >> YES, SO THE GOAL IS [Captioner] 21:24:43 TO FOCUS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MEASURES OR ACTION HE WITHIN THE [Captioner] 21:24:46 GAME PLAN OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS. [Captioner] 21:24:50 AND AFTER THREE YEARS OF IMPLEMENTATION, YOU KNOW, COMING BACK TO [Captioner] 21:24:54 UPDATE THE GAME PLAN, AND LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER [Captioner] 21:24:59 OTHER ACTIONS THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO UNDERTAKE AT THAT POINT [Captioner] 21:25:04 THAT WE COULD FOCUS ON MOVING FORWARD. THAT SAID, [Captioner] 21:25:09 THERE IS, YOU KNOW, A SHORT TERM PRIORITY IMPLEMENTATION ACTION WITHIN THE [Captioner] 21:25:13 GAME PLAN TO ESTABLISH CLIMATE [Captioner] 21:25:17 READY TREATMENT DASHBOARD THAT WOULD PROVIDE [Captioner] 21:25:20 , YOU KNOW, UPDATES ON THE PLAN IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS. [Captioner] 21:25:24 AND TRACK KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS AS BEST AS POSSIBLE TO BE ABLE TO [Captioner] 21:25:29 SHOW HOW WE ARE DOING ALONG THE WAY. WE DO [Captioner] 21:25:34 REGULAR GREENHOUSE INVENTORY [Captioner] 21:25:38 UPDATES BUT THIS WOULD FOCUS A LITTLE MORE DETAIL IN TERMS OF WHAT ARE THE ADOPTION [Captioner] 21:25:42 RATES OF RENEWABLE ENERGY FOR INSTANCE, [Captioner] 21:25:47 HOW MANY HOMES HAVE INSTALLED SOLAR, HOW ARE WE DOING [Captioner] 21:25:51 IN TERMS OF BEING ABLE TO TRACK THAT IN A [Captioner] 21:25:55 MORE REGULAR FASHION AND BE ABLE TO PRODUCE REPORTS OUT OF THAT AS WELL, [Captioner] 21:26:00 THAT WE CAN SHARE WITH THE SUSTAINABILITY [Captioner] 21:26:02 COMMISSION AND WITH THE COIMENT. >> Councilmember Salwan: THANK [Captioner] 21:26:06 YOU, I LIKE THE DASHBOARD, I THINK THAT'S FANTASTIC. YOU HAVE [Captioner] 21:26:11 DONE GREAT WORK, ALL OF THE FOLKS HERE ARE SUPPORTIVE [Captioner] 21:26:15 OF THIS, COUNCIL IS SUPPORTIVE OF IT SO I WOULD LIKE [Captioner] 21:26:19 TO MOVE THIS FORWARD, MOVE ADOPTION OF THE [Captioner] 21:26:22 RECOMMENDATION. >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU, [Captioner] 21:26:25 COUNCILMEMBER KENG. >> Councilmember Keng: THANK YOU, MAYOR. [Captioner] 21:26:29 FREMONT HAS BEEN A LEADER IN THE ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAIN [Captioner] 21:26:33 ABLE ACTION AND WE RECOGNIZE AS [Captioner] 21:26:37 SUCH, WE ARE RACING WITH TIME ON CLIMATE ACTION AND WE [Captioner] 21:26:41 NEED TO BE AGGRESSIVE IN OUR CLIMATE ACTION GOALS AND POLICIES. [Captioner] 21:26:45 SO I REALLY COMMEND ALL YOUR EFFORT AND GREAT WORK [Captioner] 21:26:49 IN REACHING THIS MILESTONE WITH OUR NEW CLIMATE ACTION PLAN. [Captioner] 21:26:53 AND I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS -- I WOULD MOVE THIS [Captioner] 21:26:57 FORWARD AND TO BE ADOPTED. [Captioner] 21:27:02 THANK YOU. >> Mayor Mei: SO ARE YOU SECONDING THE MOTION [Captioner] 21:27:05 ? >> Councilmember Keng: I WILL. >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:27:08 COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL. >> Councilmember Campbell: ACTUALLY I WAS GOING TO SECOND [Captioner] 21:27:12 THE MOTION. >> Mayor Mei: OKAY THAT'S PERFECT. [Captioner] 21:27:15 >> Councilmember Campbell: BECAUSE I REALLY DO THINK THIS IS A GREAT PLAN AND YOU'VE DONE [Captioner] 21:27:20 SOME FABULOUS WORK ON IT. I AM CONCERNED, AS SOME OF THE COUNCILMEMBERS [Captioner] 21:27:24 HAVE ALLUDED TO, THE SOMETIME LINE IN TERMS OF BEING ABLE -- [Captioner] 21:27:29 THE TIME LINE IN TERMS OF BEING ABLE TO GET, I KNOW YOU HAVE [Captioner] 21:27:33 YOUR FIRST YEAR PRIORITIES, IT WOULD BE ABLE TO SEE THAT HAVE [Captioner] 21:27:37 MADE SOME MILESTONES AS TO WHERE YOU ARE WITHIN THE, YOU KNOW, SIX MONTH [Captioner] 21:27:41 , EIGHT MONTH, 12 MONTH OR WHATEVER THAT THAT PERIOD MIGHT [Captioner] 21:27:45 BE, TO HELP ENSURE THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET THERE. I'M VERY INTEREST [Captioner] 21:27:49 ED IN THE GRAY WATER AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. [Captioner] 21:27:54 I DID HAVE ONE OTHER THING THAT I DIDN'T MENTION EARLIER, WAS ABOUT [Captioner] 21:27:58 THE COMPOST HUBS. ARE THESE GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT ARE GOING TO [Captioner] 21:28:02 BE REGULATED? BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THESE -- WE [Captioner] 21:28:06 HAVE HAD THESE LITTLE BINS SITTING OUT WHERE PEOPLE COULD PUT [Captioner] 21:28:10 CLOTHES IN IT AND SHOES AND ALL THIS OTHER KIND OF STUFF AND THEN IT [Captioner] 21:28:14 WAS RUNNING OVER. I CAN ENVISION THESE COMPOST [Captioner] 21:28:18 HUBS BEING A PLACE WHERE WE MIGHT GET SOME LITTLE PESTS THAT WE MIGHT [Captioner] 21:28:22 NOT WANT TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH. BECAUSE I KNOW MY COMPOST BIN AT [Captioner] 21:28:27 HOME CAN GET A LITTLE, YOU KNOW. SO IS [Captioner] 21:28:31 THERE A PLAN TO HAVE THESE REGULATED OR WHAT [Captioner] 21:28:35 -- OR TREATED? >> THERE IS SUPPOSED [Captioner] 21:28:40 TO BE A LOCATION TO BE ABLE TO PICK UP COMPOST [Captioner] 21:28:44 AND MULCH THAT'S BEEN ALREADY PROCESSED NOT TO DROP OFF FOOD [Captioner] 21:28:47 SO IF THAT HELPS ANSWER THE QUESTION. THE OTHER THING IS THAT THERE IS [Captioner] 21:28:52 SOME EXAMPLES IN SOME OF THE OTHER CITIES IN ALAMEDA COUNTY WHERE THEY PARTNERED [Captioner] 21:28:55 WITH LOCAL NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE FOCUSED [Captioner] 21:29:00 ON COMMUNITY GARDENING TRINS, TO BE ABLE TO ESTABLISH THESE TYPES OF LOCATIONS [Captioner] 21:29:04 FOR PEOPLE TO COME AND ACCESS THAT FREE COMPOST. >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 21:29:08 OKAY, MY BAD. I THOUGHT WE WERE LIKE LETTING [Captioner] 21:29:12 PEOPLE BRING THEIR COMPOST IN. >> WE WOULD LIKE THEM TO [Captioner] 21:29:15 PUT IT IN THEIR GREEN BINS. >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 21:29:19 OKAY, I SUPPORT THIS THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU WE [Captioner] 21:29:23 HAVE A MOTION AND SECOND. I WILL RUN THROUGH MY BULLETS. I WANT TO [Captioner] 21:29:27 THANK EVERYBODY WHO CAME OUT, I'M PROUD OF SOME OF OUR YOUTH TAKING CHARGE [Captioner] 21:29:32 AND TAKING LEADERSHIP SO WHETHER IT'S THROUGH OUR [Captioner] 21:29:36 INTERNATIONAL WALK AND ROLL DAY, OR TO MOVE THROUGH THAT TRANSPORTATION [Captioner] 21:29:40 , I KNOW DANIELLE I SAW YOU AT SOME OF THE BIKE [Captioner] 21:29:44 RIDES TOO. THE MORE WE CAN GET PEOPLE TO ADOPT AND BE [Captioner] 21:29:48 OUR AMBASSADORS, WE CAN'T DO THIS ALONE. THE MORE WE CAN GET [Captioner] 21:29:52 OUR COMMISSIONERS OR PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY OUR [Captioner] 21:29:57 STUDENTS, TO BE OUR AMBASSADORS, THAT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE. OUR [Captioner] 21:30:01 GREEN CHALLENGE THUZ LETTER AND ALL THESE TIPS THAT GO OUT, PEOPLE TO ADOPT [Captioner] 21:30:05 IT WILL MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE. SECOND AGAIN WITH OUR [Captioner] 21:30:09 MANUFACTURERS, WE HAVE SUCH A HUGE BASE, WE HAVE THE [Captioner] 21:30:13 LARGEST MANUFACTURERS IN CALIFORNIA FOR ADVANCE MANUFACTURING. [Captioner] 21:30:16 THAT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE. I SUPPORT ABSOLUTELY THE [Captioner] 21:30:20 DASHBOARD. MANY YEARS AGO, COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL AND I WE HAD SOME FOR [Captioner] 21:30:24 THE SCHOOL BOARD AND WHAT YOU COULD SEE IS WE COULD CREATE A LIST OF METRICS AND [Captioner] 21:30:29 I THINK IT HELPS TO FOCUS AS WE CHIEF [Captioner] 21:30:33 THE GOALS WE WANT TO SEE WHETHER IT'S THE ADOPTION OF [Captioner] 21:30:37 THE RIGHT CHOICE, NOT THE RIGHT CHOICE, THE CLEAN RENEWABLE [Captioner] 21:30:42 100 SORRY, I'VE BEEN UP SINCE 5:30 [Captioner] 21:30:45 , THE RENEWABLE 100 AND ALL THESE OTHER THINGS. [Captioner] 21:30:49 I THINK WE COULD MOVE TOWARDS UPDATING THEM AND TAKING THEM OFF AND ADOPT [Captioner] 21:30:53 ING NEW ONES. BUT EVEN IF WE START WITH A CORE OF [Captioner] 21:30:57 15 OR 20 OF THESE GOALS, I THINK YOU CAN TRACK THE PROGRESS AND WE NEED THE [Captioner] 21:31:01 ADOPTION OF EVERYONE FOR THAT. WE HAVE A MOTION AND SECOND AND [Captioner] 21:31:05 IF WE COULD ALL HAVE -- OOPS [Captioner] 21:31:09 DO YOU HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION? [Captioner] 21:31:12 >> Vice Mayor Cox: I JUST HAVE A QUESTION, BEFORE WE VOTE I [Captioner] 21:31:16 WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE A QUESTION ANSWERED. AS YOU [Captioner] 21:31:20 ROLL OUT THE DASHBOARD WHAT IS THE ESTIMATED TIME PERIOD THAT IT WOULD BE [Captioner] 21:31:23 UP AND RUNNING? BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE A SENSE OF [Captioner] 21:31:27 WHERE WE STAND AT ANY -- IS IT LIVE THAT IT BE UPDATED BUT WHEN [Captioner] 21:31:31 DO YOU THINK THAT WOULD HAPPEN AND HOW OFTEN WOULD IT BE [Captioner] 21:31:35 UPDATED AFTER? >> I'M HOPING TO GET THAT GOING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. [Captioner] 21:31:39 YOU KNOW WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH PROCESS OF SELECTING A [Captioner] 21:31:42 FIRM TO SUPPORT IT. >> Vice Mayor Cox: YOU HAVEN'T [Captioner] 21:31:46 HAD THAT SELECTION YET? >> NO WE HAVEN'T. WE HAVE TALKED TO A COUPLE OF [Captioner] 21:31:50 GROUPS ABOUT WHAT THEY OFFER IN TERMS OF THEIR PRODUCTS. THERE AREN'T THAT MANY OUT [Captioner] 21:31:54 THERE AND HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF, YOU KNOW, WHAT WOULD WORK [Captioner] 21:31:58 FOR THE CITY. AND [Captioner] 21:32:02 , YOU KNOW, THE TIME FRAME IS [Captioner] 21:32:07 AT THIS POINT, NOW THAT WE HAVE ADOPTION, ONE OF THE [Captioner] 21:32:11 THINGS I'D LIKE TO FOCUS ON IN THE COMING MONTHS IS MOVING FORWARD AND [Captioner] 21:32:16 SETTLING UP A CONTRACT FOR THAT WORK AND THEN GETTING A DASHBOARD UP AND GOING [Captioner] 21:32:18 . >> Vice Mayor Cox: YOU DIDN'T REALLY ANSWER THE QUESTION [Captioner] 21:32:23 BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE AN IDEA OF WHEN THAT WOULD GO LIVE. IF YOU HAVEN'T [Captioner] 21:32:27 GONE OUT FOR SOLICITATION YET WHICH COULD TAKE A YEAR OR TWO DEPENDING [Captioner] 21:32:31 ON HOW COMPLEX IT IS. OR COULD YOU ASK A [Captioner] 21:32:35 LITTLE -- [Captioner] 21:32:39 >> IT WOULD PROBABLY TAKE A FEW MONTHS, FOUR TO SIX I WOULD [Captioner] 21:32:43 GUESS. >> Vice Mayor Cox: OKAY. SO THEN YOU'RE PROBABLY LOOKING [Captioner] 21:32:47 AT A YEAR, LESS THAN A YEAR, TO HAVE THE DASHBOARD READY? I'M JUST [Captioner] 21:32:51 TRYING TO ENGAGE SO I CAN UNDERSTAND IF WE APPROVE THIS, I DON'T WANT TO HAVE [Captioner] 21:32:54 TO SEE THE FINAL RESULTS IN THREE YEARS. [Captioner] 21:32:58 BUT SEE SOME SORT OF LIVE DATA -- [Captioner] 21:33:05 >> Dan Schoenholz: I DON'T THINK IT WOULD TAKE US FOUR TO [Captioner] 21:33:09 SIX MONTHS, I THINK IT WOULD TAKE US FOUR TO SIX MONTHS TO GET THE DASHBOARD [Captioner] 21:33:13 STARTED. >> Vice Mayor Cox: TO GET THE IMPLEMENTATION [Captioner] 21:33:18 ? >> Dan Schoenholz: I'D SAY IN THE SPRING WE WOULD BE [Captioner] 21:33:22 UP AND FOCUSED TO HAVE [Captioner] 21:33:25 IT RUNNING. >> Vice Mayor Cox: I'M SURE YOU WILL. [Captioner] 21:33:29 I JUST WANTED TO GET A GAUGE A LITTLE BIT WHERE WE WERE IN THE [Captioner] 21:33:33 PROCESS BEFORE WE TAKE A VOTE SO THAT WOULD HELP ME TO MAKE THE [Captioner] 21:33:37 DECISION. OKAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> Mayor Mei: SO WE HAVE A [Captioner] 21:33:39 MOTION AND SECOND. IF WE COULD PLEASE CALL THE [Captioner] 21:33:44 VOTE. THANK YOU. SO [Captioner] 21:33:48 CONGRATULATIONS. THE CLIMATE PLAN IS ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY. [Captioner] 21:33:52 AND I'M SURE COUNCILMEMBER SHAO WHO IS ABSENT TODAY [Captioner] 21:33:56 WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SUPPORTING. BUT AT THIS TIME [Captioner] 21:33:59 , I THINK THAT WAS THE LAST OF OUR AGENDA ITEMS THIS EVENING. [Captioner] 21:34:04 I WANT TO THANK ALL THE SPEAKERS WHO HAVE COME AND WHO HAVE PARTICIPATED [Captioner] 21:34:09 , AND I ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO HELP US PARTICIPATE IN [Captioner] 21:34:13 THE NEXT PIECE OF IT WHICH IS THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION DEMAND [Captioner] 21:34:17 PLAN AS WELL AS JUST IN GENERAL FOLLOWING ALONG WITH OUR CLIMATE [Captioner] 21:34:21 ACTION NEWSLETTERS IN OUR COMMISSIONS, SO AGAIN ALL OF YOU [Captioner] 21:34:25 THE MORE YOU SPREAD THE AWARENESS WHETHER IT IS THROUGH [Captioner] 21:34:29 CO-HOUSING OR SOME OF THESE TRICITY ECOLOGY AND OTHER [Captioner] 21:34:31 GROUPS I THINK IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY. [Captioner] 21:34:35 IS THERE ANY REPORTS OUT ON COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS AT THIS TIME? [Captioner] 21:34:42 I'LL JUST GIVE A QUICK REPORT OUT ON A COUPLE OF ITEMS. ONE, I WANT [Captioner] 21:34:46 TO THANK ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY FOR PARTICIPATE [Captioner] 21:34:50 ING. LAST FRIDAY WE HAD THE COOLEST [Captioner] 21:34:53 MANUFACTURED PRODUCT MADE IN CALIFORNIA, IT WAS THE FIRST [Captioner] 21:34:58 TIME THEY'D EVER HAD THAT AND I WANT TO THANK OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TEAM [Captioner] 21:35:02 AND ALL THE MANUFACTURERS IN OUR CITY. OF THE 16 ORIGINAL FINALIST [Captioner] 21:35:06 S, THREE OF THEM CAME THERE FREMONT AND SO [Captioner] 21:35:11 THERE'S BOEHRIN [Captioner] 21:35:15 GER INGELHEI [Captioner] 21:35:19 M. AND THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR TO FRERCHT [Captioner] 21:35:23 THE AWARD TO TESLA, IT IS VERY GOOD TO [Captioner] 21:35:27 SEE THAT IS A RECOGNITION FOR OUR CITY. I WANT TO ENCOURAGE, WE [Captioner] 21:35:31 TALKED ABOUT INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITIES, THEY ARE GETTING [Captioner] 21:35:36 READY FOR THE NEXT ROUND I HOPE [Captioner] 21:35:40 THAT WE CAN PARTICIPATE WITH THE COMPANIES AND THE IDEAS. [Captioner] 21:35:44 THE IDEAS DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE [Captioner] 21:35:48 HIGH TECH EITHER. ONE WAS A POPCORN MANUFACTURER [Captioner] 21:35:52 IN SACRAMENTO. IT CAN BE TASTY AND MANY WAYS TO [Captioner] 21:35:57 HELP US NEED THE OPPORTUNITIES AND IDEAS AS WELL AS OUR SOULS. SO I WOULD LIKE [Captioner] 21:36:00 TO ASK A FAVOR AT THIS POINT. I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN A REALLY [Captioner] 21:36:06 DIFFICULT WEEK THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS FOR MANY DIFFERENT REASONS [Captioner] 21:36:10 , WE'VE HAD LOSSES ACROSS THE GLOBE FROM NATIONAL DISASTERS [Captioner] 21:36:14 AND MAN MADE ONES. I'D LIKE US TO PAUSE AND END ON A MOMENT [Captioner] 21:36:18 OF SILENCE. [ MOMENT OF SILENCE ] [Captioner] 21:36:30 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [Captioner] 21:36:35 AND I'D ASK ALL OF YOU TO GO AND BE WELL, BE SAFE, [Captioner] 21:36:37 BE JUST AND BE KIND. THANKS.