Speaker 4: Communication from Council Member Pearce, Chair of Environmental Committee. Recommendation to request City Council to endorse the Climate Action Adaptation Plan. Consider the Community Choice Aggregation Initiative and include a construction career policy with the Climate Action Adaptation Plan.
Speaker 0: Councilmember Pearce.
Speaker 2: Yes. I'd like to make a motion to move this item to another time for re agenda.
Speaker 0: Change there a second.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 0: Is there a second queue up on the factory? Thank you. Okay. There's a second there's a public comment on this item to move it.
Speaker 4: There is public comment on this item.
Speaker 5: Our first speaker is Gabrielle Weekes.
Speaker 2: Choice Aggregate has worked very well.
Speaker 3: For the 30 some odd cities.
Speaker 2: I believe it's 34 that have been using it.
Speaker 3: With CPA and then Lancaster as its own.
Speaker 2: Standalone, and they've been.
Speaker 3: Doing that successfully for years. Take a look at these things. Do their due diligence. It's working in industrial as.
Speaker 2: Well as suburban areas, and it's preposterous.
Speaker 3: To pretend that it's not successful. If we wish to just.
Speaker 2: Deliver more money out of loyalty.
Speaker 3: Let's just admit that.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Our next speaker is Adeline Yoon. Adeline, you.
Speaker 2: Hi. Good afternoon. Good evening, Mayor, vice mayor and council members. My name is widely known and I'm a government relations manager with Southern California Edison. In light of the fact that this is going to be pushed off, I will hold off on my comment. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5: Our next speaker is Kobe Sky.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Given that this item is being moved, I will provide additional comments when it's brought back. But I do hope that the Council recognizes the connection between the Climate Action Plan and the serious climate impacts that we're already facing as a region, and the need to have more flexibility and really control over our own future direction by considering it in, because it really is a critical step in our climate goals, in our environmental goals. Thank you.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Our next speaker is Stella. Ursula.
Speaker 2: Hello. I will hold off on my comments until the item.
Speaker 3: Is brought back to a an.
Speaker 2: Upcoming meeting. Thank you.
Speaker 5: Our next speaker is Maryanne Buchanan.
Speaker 2: I see the council and a mayor. So I am going to talk about this because I'll talk about it when it comes up later, too. But we're talking about two environmental things on this item, a climate action plan. And second, whether we should enter into a community choice energy program. But I suggest we are dealing with a third initiative here, and that is the racial equity and reconciliation report, that report on race in Long Beach. That third thing urges you to address both the other two planned, namely to advance environmental and racial justice by supporting the Climate Action Plan and to explore renewable energy resources. These two environmental plans are nested in that third report on race. We just cannot deal with either of the climate related two without looking through the racial lens of the third, because those three plans have one goal a healthy and happy life for all of us who live and work in Long Beach. Our neighbors are hurting. They are getting sick and dying. And we look to your leadership and compassion to put this right. Thank you. I yield my time.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Our last speaker is Tiffany Davey.
Speaker 2: Hi. Good evening. I'm going to.
Speaker 3: Take this opportunity. To just up the list. Again, the fact that we're in a pandemic mixed with a public health crisis.
Speaker 2: And encouraged in this.
Speaker 3: Time between the items brought back to the Council.
Speaker 2: For us to look.
Speaker 3: At the Council on Foreign Relations report titled Impact of Climate Risk on the Energy System is imperative to understand. For every dollar you spend.
Speaker 2: Now for.
Speaker 3: Mitigation efforts, you save six. So what will cost you $1.6 million to implement? Without doing that, you are raising your cost at least six times that of the. Council convened in March of 2019 for a two day workshop where they essentially spoke about. How are these climate related events separate from just the racial equity aspect, which we are all giving a considerable amount of time to.
Speaker 2: Create risk to the US energy.
Speaker 3: Infrastructure, financial markets and national security. We don't have really a full scope on how to manage and mitigate the future catastrophes that I mean, if we look, we've already kind of taken some damage and lost a part of our peer a number of years ago during a storm. We must think, especially as we're getting ready to deliberate on the oil.
Speaker 2: Wells that are abandoned.
Speaker 3: Coming up on the 27th of Mission Development Services set to be considered. Thank you.
Speaker 5: Thank you. And that concludes public comment for this item. Okay.
Speaker 0: Let's go ahead and take the vote, please. This moves in District one.
Speaker 2: I.
Speaker 4: District two.
Speaker 2: And District three. I.
Speaker 4: District four.
Speaker 5: AI.
Speaker 4: District five AI District six by District seven. By District eight. District nine. All right. Motion carries.
Speaker 0: Okay. And I know we could not get public comment working earlier. Have we. Have we fixed it Madam Court.
Speaker 4: Yes, we have the public comment. Speaker's waiting.
Recommendation to request City Council to endorse the CAAP to include a resilient jobs program; consider the CCA initiative; and include a construction career policy with the CAAP that ensures there are job standards for people who are impacted more with the air quality in their area.