Speaker 7: Agenda Item 19. Resolution 31636. Expressing the need to accelerate the transition citys transportation sector away from the oil and increase the use of electricity to transport by and adopting a goal to cut oil use for transportation by half of 2035. The committee recommends the resolution to be adopted as amended.
Speaker 0: Councilmember O'Brien.
Speaker 9: Thank you. I'm really excited about this resolution. I know it's item number 19 on a long agenda, on a long day. But I want to just highlight that this is a bold commitment on how we address climate change in our transportation fleet. The mayor talked about climate change and fossil fuel use and transportation during his speech today, which I really appreciated. This resolution does a number of things. I'll highlight three of them. The first is it endorses the mayor's drive clean Seattle. In this initiative, which he announced last spring, it's a commitment to invest in charging stations to green the city of Seattle's fleet, the ones we use for city workers also working with non non-vehicle machines like forklifts and cranes to get those on electricity. The second thing it does is adopts the have the oil initiative, an initiative initiated by the Union of Concerned Scientists. It's a commitment to reduce our oil consumption by 50% by the year 2035. And the third thing I want to highlight it does is it sets the goal for the city of Seattle, not for the city as an entity, but everyone in the city. That half of the private registered vehicles in the city sorry, 30% of the registered vehicles in the city would be electric by the year 20, 30, 30% by 2030. And that would be a huge I've taken commitment to electric vehicles. We believe that the markets are shifting so rapidly that that will be a very achievable. But there's a lot of work the city needs to do to support that transition, like making sure that everyone who wants an electric vehicle has access to charging someplace so that they can use that vehicle moving forward. And it calls on city departments to come back to us within about six months and report on what those types of investments are, initiatives we need to make so that everyone in the city has access to EVs if they so choose.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilmember Brian. Any further comments on this legislation saying that those in favor of adopting the resolution vote i. I those oppose vote no. The motion carries the resolution is adopted. The chair sign it. Please read agenda item number 20 into the record.
A RESOLUTION expressing the need to accelerate the transition of the City’s transportation sector away from oil and increase the use of electricity for transportation by adopting a goal to cut oil use for transportation by half by 2035; endorsing the Mayor’s Drive Clean Seattle initiative; setting a goal that 30 percent of vehicles in the City will be electric by 2030; and establishing requirements for the Executive to report on initial actions to support these goals.