Speaker 0: Thank you very much. Let me go ahead and go to the last item, which is item 17.
Speaker 1: Please report from Development Services recommendation to receive a report and confirm the proposed Climate Action and Adaptation Plan and direct staff to prepare the subsequent IIR citywide.
Speaker 0: Mr. MODICA.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the Council were here in front of you tonight with a really significant policy action for your consideration. This has been several years in the making. It's clear that this council has prioritized climate change and that staff has embraced that. This is a multi-year effort that is really grounded and based on science. And we came to you in a study session a couple of months ago when we were close to a climate adaptation plan, but not quite there yet, where we got some direction from the council to focus on a couple of areas, including electricity, oil and the port, among other things. We're happy to be back to you in front of you tonight, having resolved all of those and met our targets and are looking to present that to you tonight and get your feedback so we can start the process. So I will turn this over to our development services staff to walk through the presentation.
Speaker 4: Council members. Jennifer Lee will be making this presentation. Thank you.
Speaker 8: Hi council members and Jennifer Li, planner with development services. So as an overview, what is the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan or the CAP? It's a road map for the city to reach state greenhouse gas or GHG emissions mandates and to adapt to the impacts of climate change. It does this by establishing a framework for creating new or updating existing policies, programs and practices for Long Beach to reduce its carbon footprint. The plan aims to cut carbon emissions while fostering a healthier and prosperous city. The cap is informed by technical studies of climate stressors and community wide vulnerabilities. As a timeline of of recent Council actions and direction. The City Council heard a study session update on March 19th, 2019, and provided direction to establish an aspirational carbon neutrality goal by 2045 consistent with state goals. The City Council recently heard a study session update on Oct 20, 2020 and directed staff to work with departments to identify reduction measures. Staff did that and this is what was identified. These are the key actions which we will tell you more about later in this presentation. So why do we need a cap? The state mandates that 40% below 1990 levels are reached by 2030. The CAP is the plan for Long Beach to meet the state requirement. Long Beach has established an aspirational goal of net carbon neutrality by 2045, consistent with the state's recent executive order. However Long Beach Long Beach is, CAP is a plan to the 2030 Horizon year. There are a variety of additional laws that the CAP helps Long Beach comply with. Additionally, the City of Long Beach joined the Global Covenant of Mayors in 2015, which is the Global Alliance for City Climate Leadership. Additionally, the cap is a mitigation measure of the general plan. Land use element or GHG emissions are associated with growth anticipated by the iwi, which would include things like vehicle trips and electricity usage associated with future development as a mitigation measure to address GHG emissions associated with the plan. The city has committed to adoption of a cap within three years of the adoption of the EUI and subsequent monitoring of GHG emissions. California is doing well and is on track to meeting GHG reduction targets statewide. However, local climate action plans are needed to implement mitigation measures locally, help communities adapt to climate change and to advance equity . Examples of actions that occur at the local level are updating building codes and zoning and siting electric vehicle infrastructure. Local climate action plans help studies be more resilient against current and future climate threats and help ensure that efforts address environmental justice, such as by steering climate finance opportunities to communities most impacted by climate change. The Long Beach City Council has adopted a resolution acknowledging racism as a public health crisis and adopted the framework for reconciliation. The camp supports this initiative, which calls for advancing environmental and climate justice in the communities most impacted by racism. Very extensive community outreach and engagement was done to provide information and engage the public, reaching more than 10,000 community members. The cap is divided into mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation actions reduce GHG emissions their across transportation, building and waste sectors. Reducing vehicle trips, for example, is an important mitigation measure. Adaptation actions help adapt to the impacts of climate change. An example of an adaptation measure is to address extreme heat by increasing shade. The cap increase includes a number of actions across mitigation and adaptation in the plan. The plan includes an equity strategy for each action. An example of an equity strategy is to identify corridors in the areas most impacted by extreme heat or poor air quality, to prioritize them for urban forest, cover, shade, pavement and other cooler surfaces. Emissions come from three main sectors stationary energy at 49%, transportation at 44%, and waste at 6%. The stationary energy category is made up of emissions from building electricity and natural gas use in residential, commercial, institutional and industrial buildings, as well as emissions from energy industries operating within the city. The transportation category is made up of emissions associated with passenger vehicles, busses, trucks, rail transit, freight rail, Off-Road Vehicles and aviation operations within the city limits. Most of emissions coming from the transportation sector come from gasoline vehicles. The waste category is made up of emissions from waste disposal and emissions from wastewater treatment. The CAP implements the state's GHG reduction strategy. The graph shows business as usual forecasts which protect emissions in the absence of specific local action, as provided through the city's cap. As you can see in the graph business as usual, forecasts decline over time, which is due to statewide actions that decrease emissions from the energy sector, as well as improved vehicle efficiency standards in the transportation sector. The CAP also implements the city's general plan element, which provides for greater density and mixed use. Mix of uses in development of the city. This graph shows city emissions targets versus forecasts from 2015 to 2050. GHG emissions forecasts or business as usual forecasts and the Purple Line have a general downward trend due to efficiency improvements at the state level. The solid blue line that goes from 2015 to 2030 represents GHG reductions from actions that the city will take to reach target levels and the dotted blue line, which is the GHG reduction goal , which goes to zero in 2045 representing the state and the city's goal of net carbon neutrality. The production needed between the business as usual forecast and target emission level in 2030 is 192,600 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. Provide a better idea of the amount of this reduction target based on the EPA's equivalencies calculator? On the left you can see that 192,600 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent is about the emissions from 41,600 passenger vehicles for one year. Or electricity usage for 32,600 homes for one year. This is a relatively small reduction compared to that needed to achieve net carbon neutrality in 2045, which is 1.5 million metric tons of CO2, i.e.. On an individual basis, each person living and working in the city would need to reduce their emissions by about 90 sorry 9% in 2030 to achieve the GHG reduction target. The city must reduce GHG emissions by 190 to 600 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030 in order to reach our target. Here's how we'll meet and even exceed the target reduction. The GHG reduction pathway includes GHG emissions reductions achieved from implementation of cities, commitment to providing 80% of carbon free energy by 2030, an increase from 48% carbon free electricity delivered in 2019, as well as the additional net emissions reductions that would occur from 10% voluntary participation as these 100% green rate program relating to oil extraction activities in the city. The GHG reduction pathway accounts for decreased oil production by 20%. The GHG reduction pathway includes the city purchasing 100% carbon free electricity for ominous by accounts, as well as an increase in solar power use for a continued community wide from an estimated 2% of current solar potential developed to 5% of solar potential developed. In the transportation sector, the duty reduction pathway includes actions to implement the ports clean trucks program and reduction of vehicle miles traveled or VMT consistent with the state's VMT reduction in the waste sector. The GHG reduction pathway includes actions to increase commercial recycling and organics diversion. A total emissions reduction achieved by the actions on this slide and the previous is 363,200 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent exceeding the reduction needed to reach the target. There are additional actions that were not included in the quantified GHG reduction target at this time, but are anticipated to be implemented and will result in reduced GHG emissions . The port has committed to 100% emissions free cargo handling equipment by 2030. The port will also implement curbs oceangoing vessels at berth regulation that will result in reduced use by certain vessel types when at berth. The port's waterborne emissions are not included in the city's jurisdictional GHG inventory because they're not regulated by the city. So the reductions are not reflected in the city's pathway. But emissions reductions are going to be achieved through these efforts on the part of the port. The Long Beach Airport is implementing programs to increase use of electric ground service equipment, to reduce emissions from gasoline and diesel powered equipment, which will also result in GHG emissions reductions that will be tracked by the city through implementation and monitoring. The recommendation at this time is to receive the report and supporting documentation, confirm the CAP and direct staff to prepare the subsequent environmental impact report. Next steps are to prepare the subsequent EMR and when that is complete, adopt the final plan and environmental document. Thank you. Includes the president.
Speaker 0: Thank you very much. Wonderful presentation. Why don't we do a public comment first?
Speaker 2: Our first speaker is Dave Shukla. Eve Shukla. Hello? Yes, please begin. And thoughts and prayers for everyone in Long Beach with the coronavirus. The proposed cap in front of you today is an important starting point to formalize and catalyze legislative. Efforts to. Not only account for, but. Drastically. To reduce the carbon emissions. Many of those carbon emissions or. Specifically tied to. The utilities we. And the electricity factored in. The gloss put especially in the presentation on how one of the pathways by sticking with you. A proposed schedule of slowly adding in 10% of the population by year over the next ten years. They are on record proposing rate increases, which no doubt will increase even further. More recently, the. Rate increases each and every year along with improving. There's a lot of hard decisions, especially it's one of our legislative priorities of the city is local control. The city has to make. I've been on record many times supporting the development of a Long Beach specific. Community Choice Energy Program. And I think that is not only a viable, but increasingly necessary. Pathway for not only meeting eight targets that are reflected maybe in SPF 30 to, but increasingly in more ambitious 2030 part as a signatory of the Climate Safe California campaign. I think it's only possible existing renewable along with emergent clean energy economy technologies, especially distributed energy resources to achieve. The goals of. Not only that, but. With an understanding of climate science and what realistically we want business as usual to become. What the embassy. What a climate stabilized. California and specifically Long Beach after all the. Climate change is the reason people have come and gone, really that kind of vision of how everyone can participate in building that for the future. That's more what I like to see coming out of this plan and look forward to providing further written testimony along with the county plan on Friday. Thank you.
Speaker 6: Thank you. Your next speaker is Elaine Vernon.
Speaker 1: Good evening, members of Council. My name is Dr. Elaine Bray and we have a. I live in the fourth district and my address is on file. I teach chemistry at Cal State Long Beach, and I teach global climate change in Catholic Dominguez Hills. My comments are Appendices D and E for the CAP report. Regarding appendix, the IT states that the AOP and 2015 study showed a recent downward trend in air pollution in the region. However, the American Lung Association states that there was an increase in average number of unhealthy ozone days in the Los Angeles Miami area, and the area had the worst ozone pollution in the nation between 2015 and 2017 too. Ozone is only regionally monitored by Air Canada and the EPA, but levels can change on an hourly basis and differs from neighborhood to neighborhood. We need to be specific and transparent about where we are placing air quality monitors and advocate for census level data. Most of our sensors in the region are clustered in Islam Beach, but you have more north and west side residents being impacted by asthma, and we have less sensors in those areas. And finally, for community outreach as listed in Appendix E, we need to shift more effort towards listening to the community by working with grassroots, local organizations about how they are being impacted by environmental racism and climate change, rather than pushing information out from local, state and academic institutions. We have a wealth of cultural and indigenous with them on how to steward our land, and I believe that as a city we have failed to acknowledge that. Thank you.
Speaker 6: Think your next speaker is Maryanne Buchanan.
Speaker 1: Hi. This is Mary Ann Buchanan, District three. I attended all of the city's forums on the Climate Action Plan, and they were there were informed speakers from the good people at Development Services who just brought you that slideshow. There were easels outlining the climate threat. We looked at maps and found where we lived and could see just where the climate problems will be worse. Many solutions were added to those evils by ordinary citizens, and I thought we were off to a great start.
Speaker 0: Now I am just disappointed.
Speaker 1: It is bad enough that this plan does not meet the state's greenhouse gas reduction targets. But it also suggests that Edison will solve our energy problems, and it leaves us both sort of out of it. Where did all that community input go? It's time to get out the city's equity tool kit and take a harder look at the solutions, not just the problems. This plan has almost no actionable items that address equity and frontline communities. If you're under the Gun City Council to get this process started so you meet a state deadline, I beg you to also revisit this particular climate plan so it's made more accessible and actually attainable. There's climate trouble coming and we can fix it. We just need a clearer plan than this one. I thank you.
Speaker 6: Thank you. Your next speaker is Grace Lawrenson. Grace Lawrenson. Grace Lorenzen, please meet yourself. We'll move on to.
Speaker 2: Dean Todd, you. You know. Okay. The intrigue. Please begin. Yes, sir. D.A., can you hear me? Yes, please begin.
Speaker 0: So what would you say? This has been.
Speaker 2: Yes. Please begin. I look. My name.
Speaker 0: Dean told me. Or Star six. What do you.
Speaker 2: Need?
Speaker 6: Oh, please begin your public comment.
Speaker 2: Okay? Yes. Okay. And ready to go.
Speaker 0: I don't see the number going in.
Speaker 2: Please begin. Your time has already started. Okay. My name is hello. My name is Dean Todd.
Speaker 0: I live in the seventh district. I teach at Cal State Long Beach, and I'm a member of Long Beach 350, which put together the community letter you got today.
Speaker 2: And I also.
Speaker 0: Served on the scientific advisory committee for the CAP.
Speaker 2: We are recommending that.
Speaker 0: The Council not confirm the proposed cap and to return it for revision, to put.
Speaker 2: It in the more.
Speaker 0: Readable form that's actually more usable to you and to the community. There's two reasons that I'll talk about. The first one is on page two that talks about the greenhouse gas reductions. The state law requires a 40% reduction in greenhouse gases that.
Speaker 2: Cause global warming.
Speaker 0: The chart, if you look at it, shows how the cap is supposed to reduce those gases. Take a look at the line that starts in the year 2015. It's the lower solid line that goes down to 2030. If you do the arithmetic based on that, that's a decrease of only 29% rather than 40%. So by its own evidence, on page two of the document, you got a 17. The cap is a failure on the most basic thing it's supposed to do.
Speaker 2: The other problem is that it might even be worse.
Speaker 0: There's other information in the appendix that talks about reductions are case by case, by different actions. And I could find that it only added up to a 13% decrease. So this seems to be serious deficiencies.
Speaker 2: In the most.
Speaker 0: Basic thing that the cap is supposed to do. The other problem is that it's extremely hard to evaluate the proposals. It's written and organized in a way that prevents policymakers. That's the city council and the community from evaluating the proposed actions. It's basically it's really.
Speaker 2: Hard to find the evidence that supports the.
Speaker 0: Proposals issues. If there's a proposal that you're interested.
Speaker 2: In, the.
Speaker 0: Action proposal, you can't find the evidence to back it up. There's no way to get from the main draft to the appendices. It might be somewhere in there, but the proposed cap doesn't see where that is, and the appendices don't have useful tables of context, content or indexes. So you have to scroll and go through the whole thing to find what's there.
Speaker 2: I don't think I have.
Speaker 0: To make an analysis for this problem. Try it yourself. Choose an interesting issue that you're interested in or a proposal, and see if you can find the facts to back it up. You might find it after a couple of hours.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 6: I think your next speaker is Grace Lawrenson.
Speaker 1: GRACE. Hi, this is Grace. Grace LAURENSON Hello.
Speaker 2: Yes. Please begin.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm a resident of District seven and I've been following the cap since the early neighborhood meetings. And I know the plan is not perfect, but I do think it is a start. Climate solutions are urgent and we need to start on one item at a time. And I would urge the Council to approve the plan and then make sure that any of the climate actions take into account the equity toolkit that asks us to consider how the action reduces racial, economic and social disparities. That is very important in the climate change issues, reducing the economic and social disparities. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Thank you. That concludes public comment for this item.
Speaker 0: Okay. Well, thank you. Let me go to the council and start with Councilwoman Price.
Speaker 3: You, Mr. Mayor, I want to thank staff for this excellent presentation and the briefing that I'm sure we all have the opportunity to participate in prior to council on the report. The attachment that were prepared, I thought, were very thorough and very, for me, educational in terms of some of the need and some of the goals. So I want to thank staff for that presentation. I do have a couple of questions that I have for staff. When we're talking about reduction of greenhouse gases and our emissions numbers, is there any way that we can somehow quantify that for residents in terms of what that means.
Speaker 1: On an individual.
Speaker 3: Basis or a household basis? For example, is that one less car per week or conservation practices that might help? That's a question that I get a lot from residents is how can they individually contribute to our broader goals? Is it realistic for them to individually contribute?
Speaker 8: Yes. So we've done a give, just a brief overview about that. So the website is this, to meet the state GHG target, it would require that each person who lives and works in the city would reduce their GHG emissions by 9% for because their GHG target reduces emissions beyond the required state target that would result of a 363,000 metric tons of CO2. E would be a 17% reduction per person who lives and works in the city. And we can do a little bit more to to put those in terms of like, you know, cars driven our electricity.
Speaker 3: Usage, right? Yeah. But basically, what does 9% look like? That's just a question that we get a lot of what is 9% like. So yeah, if there's if there's any way to quantify that with examples, real life examples that people can, you know, one, utilize themselves but also educate the youth and the community about. That would be really fantastic. I did have a couple of teachers collectively email me today and say that this is a topic they've been talking about in schools and and finding ways to bring it home in terms of what these percentages mean to to children and the youth would be really helpful. So I'm not sure if there's any way to quantify that, but just something for you to think about. And the other thing is the community outreach component. I know staff has been really gracious with their availability in terms of providing information at community meetings. But what's the community outreach process moving forward from here? I know that. There's some information in the staff report regarding, you know, regular progress reports and updates. How frequent do we expect those to be? I certainly hope that we can engage the community more frequently than on an annual basis.
Speaker 4: Council member this is Patricia Defender for be happy to answer that question so that the plan has a section that sort of identifies city leadership actions. And among those actions are you will see ongoing education, outreach and engagement. It's actually on page 182 of the plan. So really this demonstrates the or expresses the city's commitment to continuing to do outreach on climate issues through the implementation of the plan, engaging the public, raising public awareness. The comment you made about helping people understand what some of these numbers mean on a very kind of individual level, I think those are things that we can really strive and attempt to do through the ongoing engagement. There's also targeted education working with the schools, so there are a number of strategies outlined in the plan, in the ways in which the city content will continue to engage the public going forward.
Speaker 3: Great. The other question that I wanted to ask was about the conversion of our city fleet to electric or zero emission. What's the plan for that? Maybe that's a better question for the city manager moving forward.
Speaker 5: I got it. I got it. Councilmember. This is Christopher Coons. So well, this is a plan developed by a development services. We have a lot of partners and that includes public works and RFM. And we've had a lot of discussions about fleet. You know, we've made a lot of improvement on the efficiency of our fleet already. So you're going to see by 2030 a basically almost entirely electric fleet, but that's not going to happen overnight. So one of your budget balancing measures this year was to actually delay certain fleet purchases and to extend the lifespan of certain vehicles in the city. And that's going to have an unintended positive consequence climate wise, because technology improves every single year. So what performance we get out of electric vehicles and the cost efficiency of those vehicles improves every year. So there are a it sounds a little counterintuitive, but there are times where delaying that changeover by an additional year or an additional two years actually helps us in achieving our 2030 goals because we're trying to hit that future number. And that doesn't necessarily require us to turn over everything tomorrow, and it requires us to be knowledgeable of that future goal point. And that's what we're working with all the parties on.
Speaker 6: And just to add to that, Councilmember, this is Tom Modica. We currently are a leader in terms of Green Fleet. We just won an award for that. I think we're the third best fleet in the nation and we also have a policy in place that every replacement that comes up, we ask the question first Can it be an electric vehicle or an electric plug in vehicle? That has to be disproven before we can move on to purchase other types of vehicles. So that's already in place.
Speaker 3: Okay. Understood. I'm probably running a little bit short on time, so I'm.
Speaker 2: In or 5 minutes are up.
Speaker 3: Okay. Sounds good. I'll come back up. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Councilman's in the house. Councilman's and day house.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mayor. First of all, I'm saying the staff that has been working on this for you. I want to thank the sustainability committee that also has been working on this for years. But most importantly, I want to thank our community organizers that without their organizing, we wouldn't have what we have before us today. And I think that we've you know, there's been a lot of work that has been put into this camp, both by the community and our city staff. And we've been trying to be as creative as possible, trying to be as forthcoming and forward thinking as possible when creating this plan. So thank you very much for all your hard work on this. Would it be possible to force staff to explain how much? How much of this adaptation plan that we have before us. I know that in my mind I see it as, you know, we're giving permission or we're in this plan. We're giving Southern California the chance to meet our requirements by 30 years. And from what I understand then, if that those are not met and then we can go into CCR. Is it my understanding that correctly?
Speaker 4: Council member, Mrs. Patricia Devendorf. Her I think what you're alluding to is the fact that the plan itself is meant to be kind of an iterative plan. There are provisions in the plan that call for monitoring all of these measures that we've quantified. Biannually, we will look at that the how we're doing in terms of meeting those reductions. And we will have opportunities to evaluate whether those strategies are resulting in the emissions we expect or whether we need to pursue other strategies.
Speaker 6: And this is time the council action is still stands, which says for us to continue to look at CCR, especially as the market changes. And that was instead of delaying it for two years of a look at what it is to bring that down to one year. So we'll be back at the end of the year. Things have changed. For example, when we were comparing CCR to Edison, Edison was not nearly at the level that they're making the commitment under the cap here. So that is increased substantially is the level of commitment to greenhouse gas emission reductions by Edison.
Speaker 3: Yes, thank you. And so I see this as a win win. I'm hoping that Edison will help us get to where we want to get with this plan. And I like the fact that we're not completely omitting the ACA with this plan, but actually, you know, providing some some opportunity for it. So I look forward to that. And I think that. That right now it is very important. And, you know, for this plan to move forward, I, I also wanted to ask I know that some community members were thinking that we're not ready to move forward with this plan. But if we were to halt it, for instance, which you know, I I'm not sure that I support that right now, but because I don't understand what it would do if we were to halt it right now. Can you explain can somebody on stuff explain that to me?
Speaker 4: This is Patricia Devendorf. I think that there's a lot of cost. I mean, we always talk about the cost of inaction and not having a plan in place that allows us to pursue grant funding and other opportunities to partner with other agencies. So there is, you know, sort of urgency to 2030 is not that far away. And we do have to have a plan in place so that it provides that roadmap so that the city departments can work together and pursue funding and help to implement some of these measures.
Speaker 3: Yes. Thank you. Thank you for the explanation, Patricia. I think that that not only does it you know, does that prevent us from getting some financial assistance? But I'm really hopeful that with this new administration coming on board and the new administration really having some some plans for for these kinds of plans, I think it's important that we as the city have a plan like this in place already so that we can be in the front of the line to be able to receive some of those funding. So, again, I thank you guys for all the work that you've been doing on this. I know that a lot of my residents here in the First District would benefit a lot from having an action plan like this, because right now we are obviously one of the districts that is the hardest hit with having, you know, the 710 adjacent to our district, which is obviously one of the freeways that supports our port and all the traveling that goes in and out to our port. And as identified in the presentation that we're.
Speaker 2: Going to have 5 minutes.
Speaker 3: And thank you. I thank you very much. And I'm just out recue if I have more questions. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilman Ciro.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mayor. I, too, would like to thank the community organizers and advocates for working hard to ensure that it's a community engagement and led process with the council members, thanks to council members and staff who have been working so hard to get us to this point. I know that a lot of work for many years was done, and as a new, new council member, I appreciate all of that. I want to speak to just how do we ensure that there are accountable mutual accountability points that maybe we can put into the process to ensure that community is engaged in this? Perhaps we can consider kind of a quarterly meeting where, you know, community can provide feedback and also ensuring that we hopefully set up markers or measures about, you know, around equity. And for example, you know, I would like to see how do we ensure that we also have measures on addressing environmental racism and inequity in the communities that are largely impacted, such as my district, for example. How can we be sure that there are green jobs allocated to marginalized community or disadvantaged communities impacted by pollution or other other issues? So for example, are we going to make sure that they are getting maybe green jobs like just installing EV charging stations? So so that's one of the things that I'd like to ask is can we create a quarterly, you know, a mutually accountable meeting, a mutual accountable meeting with community members to ensure that we keep equity in the forefront of this plan as well?
Speaker 4: Council members, I'll start out by answering and saying that, you know, part of this plan involves creating a dashboard. We are working with other departments to create a dashboard that's going to be available to the public that will create a lot of transparency about how we're doing in terms of reaching these different metrics. Many of the actions of the plan, you will see that there are specifically actions associated with ensuring that there's local workforce and economic development is integrated into any of the of these measures. So, for example, many of the building and energy actions that are associated with clean energy, solar power, many of them have actions that would involve , you know, involve entities like the Pacific Gateway Workforce Innovation Network and educational institutions like Long Beach Community College in the School District. So there's there's a commitment on the part of the city already expressed through this plan about and this is part of that equity lens as well, about trying to ensure that there are, you know, economic opportunities created for those communities that are most impacted by the effects of climate change. There will be biannual reports when we do the monitoring to to report to the city council on how we're doing. And so there may be opportunities to to do certainly more outreach in that the plan expresses the commitment to do outreach through the implementation process.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I do hope that we ensure there is a process to include community input in these plans and reports so that we're not only certainly using science and data, but also are we being effective in is it actually getting through to communities that are low income but also speaking other languages as well, such as Spanish and climbing? So I just want to make sure that we don't overlap those communities and sometimes it's a great way to just do a check in. I do like the idea of dashboards. It's a great way to look at markers for some of these, I think, actions we can measure. But sometimes it's a little harder, I think for, you know, in a community is feeling like the plan is is working for them. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Next up is Councilwoman Mongo.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Big thank you to the community for their input. Big thank you to the staff for putting this together. And it's just an introductory step. We have a lot more to do. I did have some specific questions about the plan. It's extensive and I know we've seen it twice and I just wanted to see if I understood this plan by 2030. Expects what percentage of the city fleet to be electric.
Speaker 4: Councilmember. I'm looking for a particular page in the plan. I don't think there's an express number of like a target for the city fleet. It it does have a we have an action associated with just increasing electric vehicle charging stations in the city overall. And that is. Sorry, one moment. I'm just looking for that. So that is a there's a one of the options is to develop an electric vehicle infrastructure master plan in the city. And there is an ongoing partnership right now with among the city, between the city and the Southern California Edison. It's called the Charge Ready Program, and it has installed. There's a plan to install 140 electric vehicle charging ports at public and city fleet locations between 2018 and 2020. And there's a target to by the end of 2020 to have 65 more charging stations. I guess we just passed in 2020. But so there there has been a very concerted partnership between the city and Southern California Edison to increase vehicle charging stations. And that is that is the commitment that's in the plan right now.
Speaker 3: Okay. Wonderful, great plan. And I just want to echo the comments of Councilman Zoro. I also love dashboards to see our progress.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Next up is, uh, who hasn't gone yet, Councilmember? I'm sorry. Vice Mayor Richardson then comes from a supermarket.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just a few things. So can we. Can we see that that the slide that showed the totals of our goal for the carbon and how we how we plan to make that up. And while they're pulling that up, I'll just give some my comments, though. First, I think the outreach was impressive here. I love the slide. The infographic talks about 10,260 total participants, 67 events, so on and so forth. So really great work for the staff and consultants and the community based groups and the community members who participate in this. That's fantastic. Also appreciate the fact that the feedback from October is clear and evident here. We, you know, we talked about, you know, accelerating the timetable and what's presented in front of us today accelerates the timetable by five years. And I think that's that's a good thing. And I'm looking for that. I'll wait on that slide. You know, today briefing with with with me and talked about, you know, the L.A. Times op ed and, you know, how we are at the place where we have the worst air quality index in a decade in our L.A. region . And, you know, how does that happen when all of our technology is newer, everything is cleaner and the cars are cleaner, mobile sources are a lot cleaner. How does that how does that actually happen? And the answer is really that we're beginning to see we're seeing the impacts of climate change. You're seeing you know, you're seeing hotter summers, you seeing wildfires. All of those things accelerate. They're causing intersectional problems with air quality and other issues. So we have a more responsibility to accelerate our climate action adaptation plan. That just makes sense. The slide I'm looking for, it is the one that shows how we're going to meet our what the target is and how we're going to be our target. You keep going. No, it's not. Okay. This is it. This is the one. So it shows that what's needed is 190,000 metric tons is what we need to reduce. And the plan, if you go to the next slide shows 363,000 is what will be produced if we follow these these strategy. I love that each strategy has a one pager that outlines what's needed, what we need to do as a city , and what external factors need to be part of it. I think, you know, I think that a lot of this is outside of our direct control. Some of it is reflected in the port. Some of it is reflected in partnerships with Edison. I think we want to know that what we like to see are what are some things that the council can do within our own power to accelerate this? For example, I know there's a big conversation about the waste incinerator facility. I know that. And I want to ask staff about this. I know that, you know, we've seen that, you know, eliminating it outright. Maybe it directs things into landfills and it creates other methane issues and it doesn't give you the same impacts. But moving forward, what we have isn't feasible option either. So I'm looking for sort of some strategies or something that shows that there's a B or C, option B, option C is that can you speak to some alternatives or how you plan to think about the incineration facility?
Speaker 5: Councilman Richardson, this is Christopher Koonce. So there's a few things to understand. As you see in the slide, everything is quantified and it totals 363,000, which is far in excess of the reduction we need, which is 192,000. So we fully anticipate, while we will try to execute every recommendation in this plan and every implementation measure, that we won't be successful on every single one. So there's a little bit of wiggle room worked into the plan to start with. But then when you talk about waste, you know what's in the plan talks about improving commercial recycling and improving organics diversion. The most plan A is to be able to do that at Serv and to be able to do anaerobic digestion at surface and be able to handle organics there. That requires a whole series of decisions that this council will be a part of and that have financial implications for the city. So that's the plan. A but that's not the only plan. So while it may not appear in this document, there's working groups across the departments that are looking at it. If we had to send waste to a different organics facility, where would that be? How would that happen if we had to? Unfortunately, which would not be a good outcome. But if we had to just start landfilling everything that actually results in a number in the other direction, that's an increase in emissions. But we're thinking about in that case, how can we achieve greater reductions elsewhere to offset any of those increased emissions from from waste? So we're doing a lot of that scenario planning. There's only so much we can put in the plan. I think it's like a thousand pages with all the appendices already, but I want you to feel comfortable that that type of scenario work is happening at the staff level today.
Speaker 2: Okay. Thank you. I'm happy to back up. But three things I want to just note. One, I think, you know, organics and commercial waste is important. I want to make sure that we are revisiting the conversation on the commercial waste and franchising system. There are benefits here and it makes a lot of sense. Secondly, the plan needs funding. We know that measure was passed. There will be some portion of funding to go help implement and make and bring this plan to life. But there will certainly be more. And and third, I think new industry can be created through through these regulations. New industry can be created. That's the plan on the state's mandates, on getting rid of combustion vehicles is going to create entire industries around infrastructure and clean vehicle infrastructure within our within our state. I would like to see a real I like programing an emphasis on the green industries and the things that be correct created by going through this transition. This will require changing traffic, creating jobs through transitioning equipment and all these other things. I'm really interested in that. So the last thing on task relates to funding. Do you have an idea of what your gap in funding is to implement this? Or can you come back with your update with some ideas of what the gap in funding.
Speaker 6: This is Tom so we have a general sense of what we tried to do in the plan was to for you like lay out what are the relatively inexpensive ones and what are the the heavy the heavy duty items that we would have to do pay for. So we categorize that in the plan. We would suggest, when this comes back to you, that we come back with a more robust financial analysis. We are certainly going to need money. So this is going to be costly both to the city and there will be some cost to it, to our business and residents as well. We think it's manageable, but we would like to come back to you on that.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you. What you have Councilmember Supernova and Councilmember Allen who have not spoken yet. And then I'll go back. Councilmember Supernova.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Thanks to the staff and the public for a presentation and a question on one of the slides, you don't have to go back to the site, but it was on the reduction of oil production and I was just curious how we get there. Does this reference I just city of Long Beach production or is it both public and private sector production?
Speaker 4: Councilmember this is Patricia defender over this represents reductions in in oil production in the city boundaries. So the in on the inventory side any oil production activity has a certain amount of emissions. And this is a reduction. This is GHG reductions, emissions reductions from reducing oil production in the city by 20%. In 2030 by 2030.
Speaker 2: And so the answer to that is both public and private production.
Speaker 4: Yes, oil production.
Speaker 2: Okay. Thank you. Then during public comment, I just wanted to commend Dr. Elaine Banal for her comments, one in particular about something. I think it's just very practical, and that is when we have something where we have fewer air quality monitors in the areas of need. That seems to be something that's very tangible, very measurable. And to Councilwoman Price's point, something the public could really understand if we make some inroads in that area. So I would just like staff to keep that in mind. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Now, Councilwoman Price. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Councilwoman Allen. And then we'll go back to Councilman Price. Thanks.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mayor. I, too, would like to thank all of my council colleagues with comments and think generally for the presentation and the staff for providing a road map for a more sustainable and equitable city. I know I met with the staff earlier today and I know that you guys have been working on this for a lot of years, and I know you put a lot of work into this, and I do appreciate the time that you spent with me today answering a lot of my questions and as I have heard from members of our community and advocates. One of the things that I'd like to say is we must be willing to change aspects of this plan, even those that are already approved and underway, if they don't significantly tackle air quality issues and track and tackle climate change. I also look forward, I know there was a huge community involvement in the plan and I look forward to continuing at forward and the process and some of my questions have already been answered. I know with regards to compliance and the dashboard, but a follow up question to that is so when the dashboard shows that we're not meeting our goals, then what do we do? What is the process for making sure that we're ensuring compliance? And I also had a question on a gap in funding that Councilman Richardson talked about. So I look forward to seeing any reports on that. And then also, I had a question that I didn't ask earlier today. When you look at the city multifamily organic waste ordinances ordinance, what is that? I'm not familiar with that.
Speaker 4: Councilmember, I'll start with your question about what happens when we're not meeting our goal. So that's the purpose of the monitoring. The biannual monitoring is to see how we're doing in relation to those goals. And then the plan also has provisions for plan updates. They're contemplated to be potentially as much as every five years. If the measures are not achieving the objectives that they were intended to achieve, then we would come back to council with essentially updates to this plan that would suggest new measures that might need to be addressed. And then also those those biannual monitoring. When we do the biennial monitoring, we also measure redo the inventory. So we have an understanding of what our emissions are, how they are changing, and then also whether the measures that we have we're pursuing are reducing, resulting in the reductions that we are had estimated. So that's that's the answer to the question of what happens when we don't achieve the targets, the funding. Okay. And then I'm sorry, can you remind me what your last question was?
Speaker 2: I apologize.
Speaker 5: Councilmember, if I understand your last question, it's about what is multi-family organic diversion. So a couple of things need to happen in the waste sector, both to comply with state law and to achieve our goals. So organic waste is waste that could be composted but oftentimes ends up in the waste stream and is either incinerated or ends up in a landfill. So for some single family homeowners that have the space, they can compost at home and there's programs that encourage them to do so and we can do better. But if you're living in an apartment or a condo, your options to compost on site are zero, right? So right now, we don't have a way to segregate that waste. There's not a separate bin and there's not a separate pick up for that organic waste. What the state and this plan are looking for us to do is to be able to separate that waste, either at the point of pick up or later in the waste stream so that it can be either composted or processed in a way that results in the fewest greenhouse gases possible as part of the waste disposal process.
Speaker 3: Okay. Thank you very much.
Speaker 0: Okay, Councilman Price.
Speaker 3: Mr. Mayor. So I want to go back to one particular issue that I see that that both contains the greenhouse gas goals and measures that we have, but also the add up to climate change adaptation goals that we have. And that's the Senate takes place every day on the peninsula with multiple trucks taking sand from west to east because our sand shifts from east to west during the day.
Speaker 1: And we have.
Speaker 3: Multiple truck trips back and forth every day. And so the city has participated in some pilot projects to try to replenish the sand without utilizing those trucks. And that's an example of us trying to reduce our our emissions, but also think about sea level rise in terms of broadening our beach. So when we're talking about vehicles like these trucks, the fleet, the truck fleet, I don't believe the ones that are currently on the beach doing the sand replenishment are electrical electric trucks. But does the city manager or anyone on the development services team know whether we're moving in that direction for similar projects? I'm not sure that there's any projects that have that much consistent traffic or perhaps sewage, but I'm sure there are some others in public works that I'm not aware of. But I know that in the third district it's a consistent daily, multiple trucks back and forth. So I think reducing or converting those trucks to electric would make a huge difference. What's the status on that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is Tom. So the the market for commercial heavy duty machinery is really just getting developed for battery electric. We're starting to see some battery electric pilots for dredge trucks in the port and they have been exploring those really aren't in big commercial production at this point. The type of equipment that we're using on the beach is really heavy duty and requires a big load. So those are right now still, you know, they're they're the cleanest type of fuel that that we can find when when we're able to buy those new machines. But they are not electric at this point. We would love to if there is a market that would create those for us. We would love to switch those out as we go forward.
Speaker 3: And that's good. And I'm hoping that we have technology available to us that I know will be costly, but that will eliminate the need for those trucks like the the the the pumps the sand pumps that we tried to utilize. And now we're thinking about utilizing a second version of that. I know we've talked about funding gaps. I mean, the funding gap here is is enormous. And I'm hoping that there are state and federal grant opportunities for us to be able to tap into immediately after we've approved this plan. And I'm sure that since this is going to be administered out of the city manager's office, we have committed staff looking at exploring grant opportunities for both the climate change adaptation portion and the greenhouse emissions portion. Is that correct?
Speaker 6: So, yes, our experience has been once you have a solid plan that's been adopted by your policymakers and lines up with what state and federal governments want to fund your chances of getting funding go way, way up. So we do think that will help. We will then look at the various grant opportunities that are out there. We don't have dedicated staff just in our department that only does grants. We do have some high level coordination, and then we'll be working with each individual department to help implement those strategies for their specific department, but coordinated through the city manager's office.
Speaker 3: So in the city manager's office, will we have is there a goal moving forward to have a climate officer or climate action officer, anyone that will be able to take this project on and move it forward through the years?
Speaker 6: Yes. So we're going to be having a task force type model to really maintain accountability and to have a governance structure. It'll be led by our assistant city manager, Linda Tatum, who's got a lot of experience in this area from her previous oversight over development services. If we need to be bringing on dedicated staff, you know that go beyond that. We'll have to address that through our budget process. But we believe we'll have the initial governance structure run kind of each department will have representatives. We have Linda kind of at the top and then we'll use some analyst support as we need to in our office to help support that.
Speaker 3: That's fantastic. And I know Linda is extremely well versed on this topic because we worked with her, all of us worked with her on this before her current position. So that's great to have her leading the team. The other question that I had was for development services in terms of how this plan gets merged with our city policies in terms of buildings or other zoning type of regulations that we might want to adopt. Is that currently being folded into our applications? Let's say I know for Coastal Commission, for example, any project that we put forth, this Coastal Commission has components of this adaptation plan that's required by that regulatory agency. So is that something that's already being factored into our our plans moving forward in terms of permitting, planning, developing specific plans and zoning and things of that nature?
Speaker 5: Sure. So Councilmember, on the adaptation side, absolutely. That's part of our permitting process. And we want to be aware of sea level rise and other climate risk. At the same time, I think it's just important to remember that on the reduction side, these are reductions that are going to be achieved by the city and everyone that lives in the city and every business in the city working together. So we've been very careful not to balance the budget, so to speak, on the carbon carbon reductions, on only new development or only on the business sector. So you will see minor changes to affect, you know, sort of those sectors. But really, the on the reduction side is going to be achieved by small changes across all of society here in the city of Long Beach. So it's not going to it's designed not to burden any individual, new business or new construction, but rather to be something that everyone contributes to in some way. So I hope that answers your question.
Speaker 3: It does work in terms of controlling.
Speaker 2: Price for 5 minutes are up.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I'll just finish the thought of converting our existing facilities so that they're most energy efficient would be a major priority and I'm sure something that we can apply for matching grant funds for. And I know that the city manager's team will be looking at that. So thank you very much. I appreciate all the answers.
Speaker 0: Thank you. And then to close this up, we have Councilman Sun in there.
Speaker 3: And I will be quick. I know that this has been long and that this this plan has a lot a lot of information in it. One of the things that I wanted to say that Councilman Price did touch upon was the fact that we now have are moving this plan under the city manager's office, which is a huge win. I know that this is going to be a good place for this plan, but I also want to thank the ability department for all of their work on this on this plan, but really happy to see it in the city manager's office, as well as the fact that I am a big a big fan of leading by example. And I was wondering if someone on staff could explain to me how we might be able to lay out a specific timeline for our city government, for us ourselves to transition to 100% green. And renewable energy. Do we have a timeline for that?
Speaker 6: So that'll be part of it. Sorry, this is Tom. So that'll be a part of when the plan is adopted. Then we go into implementation mode on that. That is, if I memory recall, as from the discussion on CAAs, that's probably about a 3 to $4 million price tag to go to that level of 100%. So that's tough to do in any single year. I think we would look at a phased in implementation plan, but that is what we're trying to do in this plan is to lead by example. So before we asked residents to do about 10% of residents to sign in to that plan to do 100% green power, we wanted to lead by example, so we'll need to plan that in in our financial projections. I do think it'll take several years to get there just because we're facing some budget deficits, but we would include that.
Speaker 3: Just simply wonderful. Thank you for explaining that to me. Time. With that, I'd like to just say thank you once again.
Speaker 0: Thank you. I'm going to make some closing comments. Wait. Actually, I'm sorry. Councilman Allen, did you did you come back up? I think you may have another question. Sorry about that. Councilman Allen.
Speaker 3: Yes, I do have one more question. And one of the things I would like for the staff to speak on is how can we prioritize activities that deliver the most improvement on our day to day life by aligning with the state requirements? Can someone speak on that?
Speaker 5: So this plan has already prioritized actions based on the metric cubic tons of CO2 that are reduced. So there are a number of actions. There's several dozen actions in the plan. But the ones that we showed you on the PowerPoint slides are the ones where we get the most bang for our buck, we get the most actual reduction. So the plan has already gone through that prioritization, and I think we'll be doing some more materials for the public. But I think. If you think about achieving that 10 to 30% reduction, you're in your own life. It's things that are not one time but are recurring. So when we talk about building energy and making buildings more efficient and we talk about transportation and clean vehicles, you know, as COVID subsides, you know, for the individual residents, it's about can they make one trip per week, not just one time, but per week, you know, on foot or on a bicycle rather than in a in a car? Can they think about their next vehicle being electric? So we're going to put together some more public outreach materials as we switch from plan preparation to plan implementation. And that will really help the public better understand their piece of how they prioritize actions. But in terms of the actions in the plan itself, we've already done that prioritizing, and that's based on the amount of carbon reduction and ranking those those measures.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for that. And again, I just appreciate all your hard work on.
Speaker 0: Thank you. And I'm just going to wrap us up. I want to just first thank the staff. Amazing work. This is really a significant, huge contribution to the work around climate change and climate action and ensuring that we have a safe city for all of our healthy families. I want to thank the staff who put in a tremendous amount of work on this. I also want to give a shout out to former Councilmember Pearce. She really wanted push to get this before she you know, her term was up and we tried, but she wanted to come out. Right. And I want to thank her for that. And I know the amount of work that she also spent with staff time. So just a shout out to her and to this entire body. Thank you for your incredible work. Folks on on this body have been working on this plan incredibly hard. And I can think about community meetings and think about, you know, Councilman Price or some of the early meetings in her district that I think happened first. And the involvement of of Councilmember Super not particularly what he was on the Sustainability Commission. The contributions that our council members in the North have made on the issues that matter around equity issues, basically. Richardson So everyone has played a big part in this climate climate action plan and the community has as well. So a huge thank you to the community. I want to just note as we move on to this next, you know, kind of E.R. phase that and I mentioned this to staff already, we have still a lot of work to do as it relates to to oil. And I just want to I know that it's referenced and I think cause we're super and I brought it up. But I think as we as we move forward and we have to also put and dig in a more on how we really, really reduce our fossil fuel consumption and how we really transition from, you know, an oil economy that has been for many years very beneficial from a revenue perspective to the city. And we depend a lot, of course, on oil, but it's also damaging our community and it damages the planet and it damages our long term ability to be sustainable. And so we we have to redouble our efforts in that transition away from oil. And I think that that is a both a part of this discussion, and it certainly is in the plan, but it has to be part of a much broader discussion as well, and one that needs to be more aggressive and that this body has to weigh in on, because so much of our services that are dependent and have been for for decades are on oil and how and how oil the tidelands is doing and so many other aspects. And that's a conversation I look forward to having. And it's one where I think this council is ready to weigh in on. And I want to thank again the staff for their incredible work on this issue. And with that, I want to turn this over to the clerk for the roll call.
Speaker 1: District one.
Speaker 3: I.
Speaker 1: District two. I. District three.
Speaker 3: I.
Speaker 1: District four.
Speaker 2: I.
Speaker 1: District five.
Speaker 3: I.
Speaker 1: District six. Park District seven. District eight.
Speaker 2: II.
Speaker 1: District nine.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Motion carries.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Appreciate the great work here. And again, thank you. And a huge milestone. Well, that concludes the agenda. We are going to go to two closing comments. I do want to really, really close with a few a few folks that we're going to close the meeting in remembrance of some amazing people.
Recommendation to receive a report and confirm the proposed Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, and direct staff to prepare the subsequent Environmental Impact Report.  (Citywide)