Hello, everyone. I want to welcome you all to this presentation where I'll be discussing how you can build CI CD pipelines that support ARM architectures and processors. My name is Angel Rivera. I'm a developer advocate for CircleCI. And again, I'm super excited to be talking to you about ARM architectures and processors. As many of you know, ARM architectures have been around for quite some time, right? Processors have been embedded in hardware in different shapes and forms for some years now. And these are the more commonly types of devices or hardware that have ARM processors powering them. Things such as mobile phones or smartphones, tablets, raspberry pies, and IoT and smart devices, such as TVs, appliances, wearables, and even certain medical devices.  There are a lot of the devices that we use on a daily basis. And the reason for their high adoption in the mobile space and other smart device type spaces is because of their low power consumption. So we're usually carrying a phone around, and that requires a battery. The processor's ability to process data using very minimal energy is one of the appealing aspects of implementing or adopting ARM architecture within the mobile devices. Certain operating systems have been supporting ARM architectures and processors for quite some time. And more recently, Apple has basically adopted the ARM processors into their current and new releases of their MacBook laptop devices, as well as any other kind of desktop or server devices that they're going to push out in the future. So having that popularity of adoption with ARM by Apple, it's just gaining more popularity in the industry. Now, servers have adopted ARM architectures and processors for a while now. This is not anything new, but it is gaining popularity in the infrastructure spaces. So the cloud providers are now providing options for developers to basically leverage ARM hardware within their services. AWS Graviton 2 is a good example of that. They've actually implemented a new instance type that basically is powered by ARM processors that enables, again, the floodgates to open for the usage of ARM within these provider services. The problem is that ARM and x86 processors are not compatible, which leads to applications that were built for x86. Processors are not going to function well with an ARM ecosystem, right? So that means the instructions sets are just different. So again, that basically means that the applications have to be compiled for the processor that they're targeting. Again, code doesn't really care about where it's executed on, but it does need to be compiled for whatever processor or environment it's going to be working on. In this case, we're going to be compiling applications for ARM architectures and processors, and that must actually be done on the hardware itself, right, so that you can get the proper instructions for your application. CircleCI has recognized this, and we're actually, we've created a new resource class is what we're calling it, which is a compute node where you can execute your CI CD pipelines on ARM hardware. Now, while doing that, essentially, you know, we'll give the developer the ability again to, you know, compile their code, and then ensure, test their code, ensure that it's actually functioning specifically on the ARM architecture, right, for the ARM processors, as well as the ability to do the same for an x86 architecture. So now we're just giving the developer a bunch more power to be able to, you know, build applications for whatever target hardware that they need to, you know, build for. So now I'm going to jump into a demonstration of how you can build CI CD pipelines and support those builds using ARM platforms within your CI CD pipelines. So before we jump in, I wanted to show you some code. I have a project here that essentially is a simple Node.js application. The application should not be your focus at this point. What I'm going to focus in on is how you can implement ARM capabilities into your CI CD pipelines using the CircleCI config.yaml file, which is the way you define CI CD pipelines in the CircleCI platform. Now, this is a collapsed version of the pipeline. And the reason why it collapsed it was so that I can focus in on the bits that actually matter. So this configuration pipeline configuration has four jobs in it. One is obviously to run some tests. The other one is to build a Docker image. And then the other two are leveraging infrastructure as code, a tool called Terraform created by or maintained by created and maintained by a company called HashiCorp. So basically what's going to happen here is we're going to run some build our code, run some tests, we're going to build a Docker image based off of that code. And it's going to be an ARM compatible Docker image. And then finally we're going to deploy, we're going to create using infrastructure as code, create a Amazon elastic container service cluster. And that's going to be powered by ARM compute nodes that are basically powering the cluster. So finally we're going to destroy all of that using a manual button push and circle CI. So let's jump into it real quick. I just want to show you how you can easily implement this. And in the run test job, which I'm showing here, we're going to create a machine executor, which is the resource class or the type of environment that we're going to execute our code on. And we're going to be using an Ubuntu image, Linux Ubuntu image. And this is basically how you would just, you know, specify that you want to use an ARM compatible or ARM capable hardware or executor within your CI CD builds. And it's just that simple, right, just saying ARM dot medium or ARM dot large.  I'm not going to go too deep into this code, but essentially, right, you're just looking at the important bits of how to build a CI CD pipeline that supports ARM. And this is essentially how you would do it. You just tell the resource class key that you want an ARM resource class, and then it will create that for you. So let's go ahead and just change the application. I just want to demonstrate how easy it is to implement this in your pipeline. So I'm going to go ahead and create a version to just change the value. Again, the application is not really the focus here. But we're going to go ahead and commit those changes. So let's do a get status, make sure that we do have some changes to commit. And we do want to do a get commit. And then it's the application fjs that we want to commit, give it a message with the lower M. And then we're going to say, I don't know, updated the version number, which is what we did, right? And then we're going to go ahead and essentially just push our changes upstream to our version control system. Now, this is where CircleCI will jump in and pick up the fact that, you know, we push some changes to our version control system, and it detected those changes. CircleCI triggered that pipeline build that we had in our config.yaml file. So all of these things are now running, right, inside of our pipeline, and they're running on ARM based executors or hardware. So while that's happening, let's go ahead and look at the dashboard real quick so that we can see exactly what's going on. I'm running three jobs in parallel, right? So this is what that kind of looks like. And as you can see, we're running our tests, we're building our Docker image, and we're also creating the AWS infrastructure that we're going to deploy to. So the initial segments of our build have completed. And if we want to dig into one of these, let's go ahead and look at the build Docker image job. Essentially, what we've done here is created an ARM compatible Docker image, right, so that we can deploy this to ARM hardware. And what we have here is essentially, you know, the designator for the executor, which is where the environment where we, you know, built our code and built our Docker image. And again, right, it's an ARM Linux medium, as opposed to an x86 platform. Now let's take a look at what exactly happened within our pipeline again. So we've run our tests, we've built the Docker image. And now let's take a look at our deploy to AWS ECS. So with the Terraform application running, again, we're using an ARM executor here. And it's built the infrastructure using Terraform on an AWS cloud. So let's go ahead and just see if our application is actually running. Now remember, we updated the application to version two. So hopefully, oh, it's still running version one. So let's go ahead and see what's going on there. I'm going to go ahead and click in here in our cluster. And then I'm going to look at the task because that's what we're looking at. So now we have tasks that are updated, they look like they're running. It may have been that they were still in the process of updating. So the way it works is because of its scaling, and you can see here, right, basically, it's a deployment. So it's just replacing the old containers with the new containers which contain this release of the application. So let's go ahead and try it again and see if we can get to our version two of the application, which is version two. Great. So we've deployed this application with ARM capable docker images that were built on ARM, CircleCI's ARM resource class executors. And then also we've used Terraform to build out a Amazon ECS cluster based off of EC2 instances that are powered by the Amazon Graviton 2 ARM instances, right? So now everything's kind of end-to-end ARM. You know that your application compiled in ARM infrastructures, you know that your application has been deployed using a docker container to an ECS cluster that is also based off of ARM capable or ARM powered compute nodes. So you have a full end-to-end experience there with ARM, and you know that your application is basically fully compatible with the ARM architecture. Now coming back to the pipeline, I wanted to show you that these are three things that ran in parallel, they ran pretty quickly as you can see. Sometimes it takes a little bit of time for the underlying cloud infrastructure or the environment you're deploying to to actually change the application and update the new version through a rolling release or a rolling deployment, I should say. So finally I just wanted to show you this last bit, which is basically where you get to, you can instantiate or define a step in your pipeline that adds some manual capabilities. So this manual step requires someone to actually click a button, in this case it's the approve this job, and once you click this button, it's like a block and then it continues to the next job in the pipeline, which in this case is going to be destroying all of that awesome AWS ECS clusters and all that stuff that we built. So let's go ahead and click on that button so that we can destroy our infrastructure since we don't need it anymore, right? This is for demonstration purposes, but what it'll essentially do again is to go into Amazon and terminate all of the resources and all of the objects that it created that were needed for our ECS cluster, things like VPC, security groups, IAM roles, the Graviton 2 cluster nodes that we created to support to host our application in our ECS cluster. So I click the approval button, the destroy process is happening. Let's go ahead and take a look at what's happening actually, and it's essentially running Terraform right and destroying all this cloud infrastructure that was created in our previous job within this pipeline. Now, when this is completed, all of that stuff will be terminated, that we created in Amazon will be gone and not functioning anymore. And again, this will have a should lead to a green build, but I just wanted to show you the power of the CircleCI pipelines and how it can be used to implement ARM architectures so that now developers can build their applications with confidence using ARM processors as well as deploying to ARM powered infrastructures such as Amazon ECS on Amazon's Graviton 2 compute nodes. So I want to say thank you to all of you for attending and if there's any questions or comments or just want to have a chat, please hit me up on Twitter. My handle is at punkdata. And once again, thank you all.


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Hello and welcome to the session in which we would look at CPA exam questions that deal with audit sampling Audit sampling is a major topic on the CPA exam Don't sit for the CPA exam if you are not very comfortable with this topic audit sampling Now many candidate they may tell you we only got few questions two or three Maximum four questions about audit sampling. 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I do have other accounting courses Connect with me on LinkedIn and if you're not sure if whether you should sign up or not check out my LinkedIn recommendation people that used my system to pass the CPA exam Please like this recording share it connect with me on Instagram and Facebook Let's take a look at the first question and the first question reads which of the following best illustrate the concept of Sampling risk so you have to understand we have sampling risk and non sampling risk and how should you know? What is a sampling risk versus non sampling risk? Well, if you know what sampling risk is Everything else is non sampling risk. Let's let's let's let's let's put it this way. So what is sampling risk? What is sampling risk? Okay, is it a an auditor may select an audit procedure that are not appropriate to achieve the specific objective Is this a sampling risk? What is sampling sampling is when you select something and You did not select the right thing to examine. Okay? Basically, your sample is not representative That's that's what sampling risk is. That's the definition of it. Well a it's it reads the auditor select an audit procedure It's not the items that you select incorrect. You selected the procedure. That's incorrect. So would that be a sampling risk? I would say not because we're not dealing with the problem is not with the population The problem with the with the procedures that we were doing and we did not select the right one I'll see this is not the answer a is not an Auditor may feel to recognize error and the document examined for the choosing sample Well here it seems we have the right document. We have the right and we have the right population So it has nothing to do with sampling. Just we did not We did not recognize the error. We made we made the wrong judgment Maybe we don't have enough training. We did not evaluate it properly is a sampling risk. It's not sampling risk Because remember sampling risk is when you select the population n and that n is not representative Simply put it's not representative A randomly choosing sample may not be representative of the population as a whole regarding the characteristic being tested I think this is what I've been saying. So you selected a sample And that sample is not representative. It doesn't matter whether you use the right procedure You read it wrong. All right. That doesn't matter here. You are you see the whole sample is incorrect If the sample is incorrect, that's a sampling risk You may use the right procedures here. You may use You may read the conclusion properly, but you're not dealing with the right sample You're not dealing with the right sample. Therefore see represent what a sampling risk is the other one I would say non sampling risk. Let's just make sure these incorrect the documents related to the chosen sample May not be available for inspection here. It's not available altogether That's that's not sampling that you have you have another problem on your hand But that's not a sampling risk. Let's take a look at this question the risk of incorrect acceptance So you have to know what is the risk of incorrect acceptance? We have incorrect acceptance We have incorrect rejection. You have to know what's the risk of that relate to what? Is it a effectiveness of the audit efficiency of the audit? preliminary estimates of the material materiality level or tolerable misstatement When we are dealing with incorrect acceptance or incorrect Incorrect rejection. We are dealing with either effectiveness or efficiency. So basically just knowing a little bit I can eliminate c and d and focus on a and b So when you are dealing with incorrect acceptance and incorrect rejection You are dealing with either effectiveness or efficiency. You have to understand those two. Okay, so incorrect acceptance deals with what is it efficiency or is it effectiveness? What is the difference between the two? Well Effectiveness means you are accepting You are accepting a book value or a control That's not really working properly. Let's assume we're talking about internal control It's not working properly, but you assume it's working properly. That's effectiveness So it's not good. So effectiveness. It's Not good. Whatever you are dealing with it's not good, but you think it's good Okay, and what happened if you think it's good and if it's not good, you're gonna rely on it That's gonna affect the effectiveness of the audit now If you think the control is It's not good So we said effectiveness. It's not good, but you think it's good. That's bad, but efficiency the control is good But you think it's not good That's not a problem. It's it's not a problem relative to a what happened if you don't if the control is good But you don't think it's not good What you do is you don't rely on it you will do more substantive testing What happened is you did more work than you're supposed to that you should have therefore you have an efficiency problem here Incorrect acceptance. You accept it that the control is Is good. Well in reality, it's not good. So it's not good, but you think it's good Therefore it's it's the effectiveness. It's gonna influence the effectiveness and which is it's a more dangerous Problem than a incorrect rejection. Well, you're not efficient. You're gonna do more than what you should have Not a big deal. We we spend more time Okay, but effectiveness guess what we relied on control that it's not good. We assumed it's good We were driving blindly therefore the risk of incorrect acceptance is a deals with effectiveness Okay, incorrect rejection would deal with efficiency because it was good But we we incorrectly rejected the control or dealing with same thing if we're dealing with the book value of an item Okay, we either accept the book value or reject the book value incorrectly Let's take a look at this question For which of the following audit tests would an auditor most likely use Attribute sampling so first you need to know what attribute sampling is actually I gave you a hint early on I told you we're dealing with audit sampling that deals with test of control So attribute sampling deals with test of control and what we're doing is we're looking for a characteristic of the population of interest to the auditor Some characteristics. We're looking for something for the approval by the manager the approval by the Credit manager the approval by the person that's inspecting the time card. We are looking for the approval of the Purchasing department so on and so forth So making an independent estimate of the amount of life or inventory here. We are dealing with amount Amount basically deal with valuation. It's not really attribute sampling. It's dealing with a dollar amount Therefore a is out Examine invoices in support of the valuation again valuation. We're dealing with some dollar amount of the assets addition Selecting a counter sieble for confirmation. That's a substantive Procedure that's not test of control by process of elimination. D is the answer And this is an example of attribute sampling Inspecting employee time card for proper approval by the supervisor. Do we have the supervisor's initial? That's all what you're looking for you're looking for the initial you don't care about the hours You don't care about the dollar amount. You're looking for that attribute to determine Whether the supervisor approves the time card before the company issues issues the check That's all what you're looking for. You're looking at that characteristic at that attribute and this happens during the Learn it testing the internal control attribute sampling. Let's take a look at this question adam smith CPA use statistical sampling to test control procedure What is the benefit of using statistical sampling? It eliminates the use of judgment required of adam because a icps established numerical criteria for this type of testing No way We eliminate a judgment. Okay Okay We you can't eliminate the judgment part. Okay, so a is not right. That's not the benefit of statistical sampling You know, you say I use the statistical sampling. I don't have to use my judgment not at all You have to use your judgment be it increases jones's knowledge of the entities prescribe procedures and their limitation That's going too far. Um, it's statistical sampling. You're only looking at a sample I'm not sure. You know, that's that's that's going too far with this it increases Jones's knowledge. That's not really the purpose of statistical sampling. Okay, so b is out It's required by the generally accepted accounting standard. It's not it's not required It's not required to use statistical sampling. Therefore by process of elimination b is the answer It provides a me a means of mathematically measuring the sampling risk that results from examining Only a part of the data So notice because you are using sampling you're only looking at a part of the data, which is that's why b is incorrect Okay, it doesn't tell you, you know, it can't go too far and that's all what it's doing It's a mathematical measure of the sampling. That's all what you're doing is you are putting a number on the sampling risk You still have to use your judgment. You still have to use your judgment. You cannot eliminate this It's not required by generally accepted accounting standard and you cannot go as far as b. So d is the correct answer At the end of the session, I would like to remind you that audit sampling is an important topic on the exam You cannot set for the audit exam if you are not comfortable 100 with this topic What I can do is I can offer you supplemental material To teach you audit sampling all what I ask you to do if you if you want to, you know, just Kind of make sure what you are doing is correct. Check out my LinkedIn account where I have recommendation from students that used my system specifically for audit sampling to pass the exam Stay safe study hard And good luck


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So lately, we all know that Bernie Sanders and even Kamala Harris to an extent has been taking a beating by the press because they were asked this question at CNN's Town Halls about whether or not their extension of voting rights to prisoners would mean that someone like the Boston Marathon bomber would be able to vote. And because of the way they answered that question, the media is priming people to only think very narrowly about this issue in terms of should the Boston bomber be allowed to vote. But I've been trying to explain that it's not about the Boston bomber. This is about acknowledging the reality that we have a racially biased criminal justice system. And if we want to start righting the wrongs and re-enfranchising Americans, then we do need to allow prisoners the right to vote. Now thankfully, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came out and she made a defense of this position and I think she did a really good job at making a persuasive case as to why we need to support the rights of prisoners to be able to vote. She tweeted to avoid looking completely and utterly out of touch with the reality of our prison system, instead of asking should the Boston bomber have the right to vote, try should a nonviolent person stopped with a dime bag lose the right to vote. Because that question reflects way more people. Reminder, slavery led to Jim Crow and redlining, which then led to the war on drugs and mass incarceration. Black Americans and people of color are far more likely to be convicted and sentenced longer than white Americans for similar crimes. Our system routinely criminalizes poverty and exonerates wealth. Many rebut the voting question by saying, well, those people shouldn't be jailed. Glad you feel that way. But the truth is, the US incarcerates more people per capita than anywhere in the world, even more than China. Our system is built to disenfranchise people of color. And she then showed two cases of mothers committing fraud in order to get their kids into school.  So what AOC is pointing to here is how institutional racism is a very real thing. And racial bias is embedded in our system. It's not, you know, an unintentional flaw. It's a product of our system. It's a feature. So if we want to truly be a more just society, then this is one of the many ways that we can be more just. Now with that being said, Kyle Kalinsky made a video about this, and I think that his take is incredibly fascinating and important because he approached this from a different angle than I took. So for me, for those of you who've seen my video on this, I defended Bernie Sanders position, but the way that Kyle approached this was really important because he talks about the strategic angle and how Bernie Sanders should have answered this question in a way that couldn't allow him to fall into this trap, essentially where he should have just swatted away this question. And I do think that because this question was a trap, you couldn't answer this and come out on top. What Kyle says about this is incredibly important. Progressives, they're on the right side of every single issue, but I think that we have a problem with marketing some of our ideas because the media, I mean, within the course of a couple of days, they took a very nuanced and complex conversation that we were having about voting rights and they turned this into a conversation about the Boston bomber. So what we need to do is be more politically savvy and strategically astute and acknowledge that if we take the bait, then all we're going to do is allow the media to monopolize the conversation that we're trying to have. Now that doesn't mean that you sacrifice your principles. That's not really what Kyle is saying we're alluding to here. But what he is saying is we need to get better, essentially in marketing. This is what I took away from the video and I would encourage everyone to watch it. I'll link to it down below.  I want to have good faith arguments with people about the policy issues and I want to state my position, but the problem is that it's not that simple. It's just not that simple. We need to portray our ideas in a way that is easily digestible for the American population. So for example, if you're progressive, you've been screaming about single payer for decades, but it didn't start to catch on until we started to reframe the conversation and talk about it as Medicare for all. Because when you say single payer to someone, it's incredibly unfamiliar. It sounds foreign because it quite literally is foreign, right? We don't have that in this country. But when you start calling it Medicare for all, that is something that people can tolerate the idea of because they know what Medicare is. We have Medicare in this country. They know that they love it. It has a couple of shortcomings currently because obviously people need Medicare advantage to fill in the gaps. But if you communicate to them, look, we're willing to fix Medicare or not necessarily fix it, but close those gaps and expand it to everyone. They can visualize that in a better way. So I think that's a lesson that is important. And we need to do this with other policies because there are policy positions that we take that aren't necessarily popular. We're lucky that a lot of our ideas are populist positions. And it's easy to make the case for those. But for more controversial positions that we take, like wanting to abolish the death penalty, we need to be more savvy in how we present these ideas. And that means not taking the bait if it's presented to us in a way where we're not going to come out as winners. And it's tough to anticipate how these questions will be framed. But we've got to do better, I think, at playing the PR game. And I hate to say that. I don't want to talk about marketing. I want to talk about policy because I'm more of a wonky nerd than a PR advertising person. That being said, that's the game of politics. And if you want to win, you've got to play the game, right? So I'm not a populist. I just so happen to take ideas that are incredibly popular, but I've never been on the side of saying, well, I only support policies that are popular because a lot of times Americans don't get it right. They're on the wrong side of history. They were on the wrong side of history on a number of civil rights issues, right?  So I'm not someone who's only going to take a policy position because it's popular. But with that being said, because I have so many more, I guess you could say fringe ideas because technically they are, if they're not supported by most people. Because I have more fringe ideas in comparison with the electorate, like I support reparations, I support prisoners voting, I support ending the death penalty. I think that, you know, for someone like me and just progressives at large, we need to do a better job at marketing our ideas. And we need to, we need to make it so people can empathize and sympathize with our position more because if we don't do that, then we allow for situations like this where they can take our position and make it about the Boston Bomber when that's not really the conversation that we care about. We don't care about the Boston Bomber. So I think that also what Kyle points out here is that what was lacking in Bernie's answer was the human approach because he brought up the Michael Dukakis answer on the death penalty, which we all admit. I think it's universally acknowledged that he face planted when he answered that question, but we need to make it more human. If Bernie would have said, look, I think that someone like the Boston Bomber is a morally reprehensible human being. And of course, I don't personally want him to vote, but I don't want to have a conversation about him. Like if Bernie tailored his answer to really address the main crux of the person who was asking that question, I think it would have come off a lot better. So I think that what Kyle's point is in approaching this strategically is that we've got to do better. And I wholeheartedly agree. Well, I think it's important for us to defend the merits of Bernie's argument based on principle. We do have to simultaneously acknowledge that our boys got to do better. He's just got to do better answering questions and marketing his ideas. And for the most part, Bernie does do a phenomenal job at marketing a lot of his progressive ideas. But we've got to grapple with this fact that some of our ideas are not mainstream yet. They're just not. Now, do I think that if we made the case and educated people, they could be mainstream one day? Absolutely. It's just a matter of how we do that. And one thing that Kyle noted that I hadn't previously thought about, which is important, is that with the establishment we'll try to do going forward is try to draw out some of Bernie's more unpopular stances and really focus on those in a hammer away at those stances so you can kind of drive down his populist appeal. So we need to anticipate what's going to happen better. I think and we've got to adjust. So with that being said, I am unequivocally on the side of allowing prisoners to vote. But I think that we need to learn a little bit from this week. And Bernie, I hope, takes away, you know, something from this week in that he just he's more astute and savvy in answering some of these questions that are got your questions. I mean, again, there is no way you can come out on top answering that question. So at this point in time, what do you do? You reframe the question, answer the question that you just reframed because it's a biased question, right? You're asking a very leading question that you want a very specific answer to. You want Bernie to say, I want the Boston bomber to vote. So Bernie needs to realize that this is going to be something that comes up. And he's got to adjust his strategy to make sure that he maintains control of the conversation and he's able to continuously monopolize the discussion with regard to all of these issues. But I'm glad that AOC made the case. But yeah, overall, unfortunately, we have to play the PR game if we want to win because you can't win unless you play the PR game. And it's that simple. So I'm glad that AOC made the case because morally we're right. It's just a matter of convincing people that our position is in fact the just position. And we've got to educate people simple as that.


Welcome to the Democratic Women's Club of Santa Cruz County. We're at the police community room in Santa Cruz, and today is Friday, May 24th.  Our speaker is Mary Arman. She's the Public Works Operations Manager with Citi, and she's going to talk to us about an important subject. The Citi's response to climate action. Climate change. It's the Citi's Climate Action Plan. She'll talk to us for a little while, and then we'll have time for some questions. I'm Judy Warner, your Democratic Women's Club President. Mary? Thank you. Hi, everyone. Thanks for coming today. I want to explain who I am and why I'm here. I think you were expecting Ross Clark. Ross Clark is the City of Santa Cruz Climate Action Coordinator, and he is off on some very important business. He works half-time for the city, and he works half-time on water issues, and they had applied for a multi-million dollar grant, and the person who was supposed to go to North Carolina to pitch for the grant, was the former mayor of Salinas, had eye surgery and couldn't go. So Ross needed to fill in, and it's for a sustainable agriculture grant, so I'm sure you're all hoping that we get that. So it's a county-wide program. Anyway, Ross asked me to fill in. I'm the Public Works Operations Manager, or one of two for the city. Most of my day-to-day job has to do with the city's recycling and resource recovery programs, but I also work on climate action, and I work on a number of environmental programs in the city. And in 1998, when the city first got involved with climate action and trying to reduce our greenhouse gases, I was the staff person at that time that got a very small amount of my time assigned to that. So I worked with climate action directly for about seven or eight years before Ross was hired. And when the city first got involved was in 1998, and Celia Scott, who many of you probably know, was on the city council at that time, and she felt that the city should get involved with a program that was called a very difficult name, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, which had an equally unwieldy acronym, ICLEI, and it's now called Local Governments for Sustainability. But Celia at that time said this is something we should do, and the Public Works Department should staff it. And so it kind of fell to me at that point, and I worked on it a little bit here and there for about six or seven years, and unfortunately the city was able to bring Ross on half time. And since that time a lot of work has been done, and the city just recently adopted a climate action plan, which I'm going to talk a little bit about today. I think all of you, I'm not really planning to go into what climate change is, or what greenhouse gas effects are, because I think most of you already know that. I will give the one sentence explanation. Basically, greenhouse gases, which is largely carbon dioxide, but also methane and some others, when they build up in the atmosphere, they trap the heat from the sun and prevent it from going back out into the atmosphere, and it creates a warming effect and causes temperature rise and water temperature rise and sea level rise, and a number of other nasty problems like changes in our plants and animals and forest fires, flood events, all of that. All of those things that we don't really want to happen. Some of the things that are local here, of course, sea level rise would affect us hugely. Our downtown area is right at sea level, so if it rose very much, we would have inundation in our downtown. The whole beach area is basically at sea level, and then coastal erosion along the cliffs is another impact of that. The other thing is that our redwoods, which the backdrop to Santa Cruz, are dependent upon that nice coastal fog that we, at this time of year, are glad isn't hanging around, but they would be greatly impacted by a raise in temperature and might eventually not survive that. That's why we're interested in reducing greenhouse gases and in preventing more climate change from taking effect. Let's get started a little bit. I hope you guys can see this. I'm sorry I had all the problems with the projectors. The City of Santa Cruz has set some climate action goals for how much greenhouse gas reduction we are targeting to achieve, and the goals that the city has adopted are to reduce greenhouse gases 30% by the year 2020, and 80% by the year 2050, and also that by 2030, all buildings, new buildings in the city would be carbon neutral, meaning they wouldn't be adding any greenhouse gas impacts, and that could be done through a variety of mechanisms. Now, cut 30% below what? You know, just cut 30%, you have to have something to cut from, and I'm going to talk a little bit about that, but we have established a baseline, and it's based on an estimate of what the greenhouse gases were that were produced in the city in 1990. We don't actually have data from 1990, but we had 1996 data, and we projected back. And then the last thing on the slide here is responding to climate change. It's one thing to know how much greenhouse gases you have, and to, you know, be working toward reducing them, but there are already changes happening. Unfortunately, we didn't get onto this quick enough, and there are changes that are impacts that we are seeing. I think the fact that it's very dry here this year, most of you are aware we don't have much rain this year, and that's one of the impacts that may be related to climate change. Many people think it is at this point, but it's hard to define climate change in small bites, but that kind of thing is the kind of changes we're expecting to see. So you're not going to be able to read these numbers, and you don't need to read all these numbers, but I just wanted to give you an overview that, as I said, we did a baseline study in 1996. That was back when I was working with the program. I had a UCSC intern, and he basically gathered data on how much fuel is used in the community, how much electric power is used in the community for lighting, heating, and that was broken down into the commercial and industrial segment of the community, the residential, the city offices and buildings and functions, and then also transportation. And that inventory in 1996, we then backed off a few years to come up with our 1990 baseline. And then we've since done an inventory again in 2000, in 2005, and then most recently in 2008 to see, well, what's the progress been. In the city of Santa Cruz, we have a couple of things that have happened. That's a pretty long period of time. There's been growth that's been happening during that time, not a lot, but some population growth. But we had a couple of big things happen. The greenhouse gas emissions actually went up quite a lot between 1990 and 1996. And one of the reasons for that is many of you, if you think back, will remember that the wastewater treatment plant, which is down off of California and Bay, went through a massive process in the early 90s to go from primary treatment to secondary treatment. And that was a good thing because it puts cleaner water back out into the ocean, but it also uses a lot more power. And so that and some additional water treatment improvements that were done are a large part of the increase between 90 and 96. The other thing that happened in Santa Cruz, and this is kind of a bad news thing as far as the industry in our area and the jobs in our area go, most of you remember we used to have some fairly large industries here. We had Wrigley's, we had Lipton's, we had Salt's, Leather's. All those things went away. And they also took away that when they went out of business a lot of energy use went away. And so our greenhouse gas emissions for the commercial and industrial sector took a big drop, which normally would be a good thing. And you know, it is a good thing from a greenhouse gas perspective, but that's not exactly how you want to have things decrease is by losing a lot of jobs and business. So we have a big decrease in that commercial industrial sector and we recognize that that may grow back at some point. So we kind of left some room in that category to say it's not all a bad thing if we see some increase in business growth that leads to some increase in the, I would say increase, but not increase from where it was in that sector. So in just kind of as an overview where we're looking to be, and these numbers are really hard to put them together with anything that means anything, but our goal for 2020 in the city of Santa Cruz is to have greenhouse gas emissions just right at about 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year. And right now, well in 2008, we haven't changed too much since 2008. We're at about 351,000. So we need to come down quite a bit to hit that 2020 goal. And just to give you an idea, and this is the real challenge in Santa Cruz City and Santa Cruz County. A huge part of our emissions are from transportation. Driving cars. In effect, basically almost all of our transportation is driving. We don't have, we have bus systems, but those are also carbon fueled for the most part. We do have seeing G buses in the metro fleet, which is a great thing. But on this picture is all transportation. So the blue is highway traffic, and the green is local road traffic in Santa Cruz. And so it's probably at least two thirds of our greenhouse gas emissions in Santa Cruz come from the transportation sector. So we need to get really creative. This is city, but I think if you looked at the counties, it would look very, very similar. The red pie shape is the commercial and industrial wedge. The brighter green little less than a quarter on the lower left is the residential and then we also show the little slender green pie shape is the municipal. And municipal means all the city operations itself. So like the city fleet, the city buildings, the city waste water plant, that kind of thing is just that one little sliver. And then the brown is waste, meaning garbage.  That's composting aerobically. So if it's got air in it, it's not producing methane. But when garbage gets buried in the landfill without air, then it produces methane. And methane is a very strong greenhouse gas. And so that's why waste is not a great thing. And that's the program I work with the most of the city is trying to get everybody to recycle and reduce their waste and compost. And you've all, and we've all done a great job of that. And so our little sliver of the pie has gotten much smaller. This little bar chart is to show you that we have made some progress. So this is 1996, 2000, 2005, 2008. And then the last bar out there is to show where we need to go. And if you took away that top dark red section, all the rest of what's under there would be the goal. That's to show you how much we need to cut down. And it's a pretty big chunk. So the large kind of brownish red bars across the bottom, that is transportation. That's the most, transportation. The green is the residential sector, the light blue is the commercial and then there's a little sliver of municipal, a little sliver of waste and then that big red bar over there is what we need to reduce. And you can see it's come down just a little bit. We started almost up by the 500,000 and we've edged down just a little bit but we still have a big chunk to get to. So the climate action plan this is something that Ross has been working on for about five years. This was recently adopted by the city of Santa Cruz City Council. The county also has a climate action plan and I can't remember. I think they also recently adopted theirs and it has some of these charts and a lot of this information in it. And even though it was just adopted this year, Santa Cruz goes way back with this. As I mentioned, we started in 1998 a variety of people that have been on the council and a variety of mayors have done different things over the years as far as goals and actions to reduce climate change in Santa Cruz. This plan is really the same goals that were adopted in 2006. So even as far back as 2006 the city had committed to these climate action goals. And then recently we also adopted another document that's called the climate adaptation plan. And so the little difference, people talk about mitigation and adaptation. And some people are irritated about adaptation. Adaptation assumes climate change is going to happen. We've already allowed things to get to the point that we have some warming, we're going to have some sea level rise, we're going to have some impacts. And how do you deal with those impacts? So that's adapting to the change we already have. Mitigating, which is kind of a weird word for it if you ask me, I think of it as avoiding. But the climate action plan and the mitigation is to try to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases to keep any more stuff from happening. So there's kind of two branches and to give you an idea of adaptation, adaptation might be if the city thought that our sea level rise was going to be enough that it was going to inundate, for example, our wastewater treatment plant as I mentioned, which is on Bay in California, the wastewater treatment plant is actually below sea level. So if you drive by on California you realize the plant's down in a hole. And right behind the plant is Neri Lagoon, which is also a little bit below sea level. And between them and the ocean there's development that's keeping the water out of there. If we had a significant sea level rise we would have issues with our wastewater plant having water, particularly groundwater, putting pressure on it. So we're already starting to talk about as a result of discussing adaptation, what kinds of things we might need to do to, it'd be very difficult to move it and so we're looking at ways we can adapt to that. And there's some other major issues with adaptation. So the climate action plan has, it actually has eight chapters. The first chapter is kind of background on climate change and what it is. The second chapter is about the process of identifying and inventorying our gases. The third chapter is a bit of an overview. And then chapters four, five, six, seven and eight are about the thing that the plan is actually about. Identifying what needs to be done, what could be done, what kind of actions and changes we could make in Santa Cruz to reduce climate change and reduce the impacts. So we're going to talk a little bit more about this, but energy use is one. Energy, pretty much, unless it's renewable energy, if it's electric energy right now unless it's solar, all solar, if electric energy, natural gas, coal, obviously, oil, fuel for vehicles, all of those things have greenhouse gas impacts. So the more we can reduce energy use in all aspects, better off we are. Sustainable transportation and land use planning. You saw the big chunk of greenhouse gases that are coming from transportation and land use planning is in with that because obviously the reason we're driving around is because we need to get from point A to point B. You've probably heard and read about smart transportation, I mean smart land use planning. There's an effort to do smart communities and that has to do with trying to put things closer together so people don't have to drive as much. You live closer to where you work. You're able to shop closer to where you work. Some of the things that Santa Cruz is doing with regard to this are some of the quarter plans. You may have heard about efforts to look at Ocean Street, Mission Street, some of those areas where there's a lot of commercial development already is it possible to figure out how to put residential closer, especially the new residential homes we need to build or apartments we need to build, put them so that those people don't have to drive as far. So that's something that the planning department is working on now. Another chapter is on water conservation and solid waste management. Water conservation the biggest impact for water on greenhouse gases is the energy it takes to treat and pump water and especially in our community we spend a lot of energy and money on pumping water. So the more conservation the more savings there is because of reducing energy for greenhouse gas production. There's a section on solar Santa Cruz which is about renewable energy and trying to generate more power from renewables and there's a section in the plan on sustainability through public partnerships, education and outreach which is key because it's one thing to identify all these things that could be done, it's quite another thing to get them done and the only people that can make those kind of changes are all of you and everybody else in the community. It doesn't happen by the city saying this is what we need to do, it happens by people making behavioral changes. So one of the things this kind of document is pretty hard to get your head around and so one of the things Ross has done is try to identify just 12 milestones that he can talk about and people can be working toward and I handed out or they were back there on the table a copy of some of those milestones and there's also attached to that a report that was recently given to the city council about some of the recent progress toward those milestones and the milestones are things, these are from the climate action plan, they're just a smaller segment of reducing energy use in municipal buildings is one for example increasing solar our goal on that is, well you'll see that in a minute I'm not going to go through all of these but suffice to say double bike ridership switch 20% of cars to low carbon fuel so these are things that people can understand what are we talking about here, what kind of behavior changes need to happen and the plan goes into more detail about what kinds of actions would help achieve those things so doubling bike ridership and that's from what it was in 1990 by 2020 frankly right now we don't know what it was in 1990 so one of the things they're trying to establish is what's the baseline on that and then it's one thing to say it but how do you do it I think people choose to ride their bikes instead of drive to work or walk, walking is good too what do you do to get people to do that and there was just, I just read the paper this morning there was a meeting on that, some of you may have attended that, there's a current process underway to try to do a regional transportation planning and sustainable planning on that so some of these milestones are two things, one of the milestones is to reduce energy use in municipal buildings by an additional 40% by municipal buildings we mean like this building our corporation yard, the library, city hall wastewater plant, water plant so that's what we mean by municipal and additional 40% is over where it is basically now and some of the things that we're doing right now and have just done were just about to receive a study where we did benchmarks on 20 buildings we hired a consultant and they studied the energy use and the operation of 20 different city buildings, this one was one of them Loudon Nelson for example was one and they're going to be recommending strategies to make them more efficient and they're also looking at things that just need to be done to create a new roof, does it need a new furnace, for example the civic, the furnace we've known for years the furnace is in really bad shape at the civic and the recommendations will be both for maintenance and energy efficiency but the goal out of that one project is to reduce the energy use in those buildings by 10% many of you probably have noticed some of the street lights around town look different and we have been changing our street lights over to LED lights there's multiple benefits from that they save a lot of energy, they're brighter light and they last a lot longer and it's very hard to change the light bulb into street light as you can imagine and so anything that keeps those bulbs going longer reduces the maintenance cost of it so far we've changed out over half of the street lights that the city owns so street lights are kind of an odd thing the city owns and maintains half of the street lights in town just based on the age of when they were put in the other half are owned by PG&E and the city still pays for the maintenance and power on the ones that PG&E owns PG&E's responsible for maintaining the ones they own and then they bill us and we do everything on the other half so we've replaced more than half of our owned street lights with LED lights and we have another phase coming up so within a couple of years there will probably all the ones we own will be LED lighting we also have a new position that we've managed to get in the budget and just hired and that's a person to actually work on some of these projects, you heard me say Ross is half time, works half time somewhere else, we really don't have anyone in the city whose job is to focus on energy management and on facility maintenance so this is one of the new things we've done so another big goal is to increase the amount of solar power in Santa Cruz and the goal is to have 2,000 homes and 200 businesses with solar power by 2016, this building right out there in the parking lot that the police cars use and City Hall has recently got large new solar arrays, there was articles in the paper and some of you have driven by them, that will make a huge difference in the power cost and the fact that it's renewable power for both of these buildings, the one at City Hall is designed to produce about 90 or 95% of the power used there so it's a big system and it will be well used this one I think is not quite as high for PD but it and this is a very energy intensive building because it's 24 hours a day so I think it comes close to producing almost all the power needs here in Santa Cruz now, last year there were 44 new solar systems added on homes we now have 577 homes in the City of Santa Cruz that have solar systems on them and you can't go a day without seeing big ads in the paper, hearing on the radio that's from the solar system, you probably get them in your mail, this is a big push right now from businesses as well as from the City and it's finally becoming a little bit more affordable there are multiple ways that people can finance solar systems the other thing we have is a program called California First Pace and I'm not going to try to explain what the letters mean it is right now only available to businesses it was designed to be available to residents and I'll explain quickly why not but right now it is available to businesses if businesses want to put solar on their business they can add it as an assessment on the property and pay it off through their property taxes and so it gives them essentially a 20 year payback period on their taxes, I'm sure many people are going to write it off of their taxes I'm not saying that's legal but it's a very and then of course the improvement is an improvement to the property this program was designed to be available to residents as well but unfortunately Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac got in the way and most people's homes, the loans are financed with Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac and they basically would not allow this program to go forward on anything that had their loan on it because they said it basically created a prior lien for those of you that know something about real estate so we're still working on that that's being worked at the national level to try to figure out a way to get around that the last thing on this is something called community choice aggregation ring any bells CCA and they heard about a couple people this is something that's been around for I don't know about seven or eight years, maybe a little longer than that the state passed a bill that allows local either governments or collections of governments or regions to create a district if you will that can buy its own power for the people within that district so right now I'm going to guess virtually all of you get your power from PG&E the city gets its power from PG&E and if you were to just call go out and say I want to buy power from somebody else you can't do that right now in California and that goes back to the days when we had in the year 2000 when we had the energy crisis and the state borrowed a bunch of money to finance energy loans and at that point they said okay well until we get these loans paid off you can't buy your power from anybody else but there was a bill passed that allowed local governments or collections of such to form what's called a community choice aggregation and that that CCA once it's formed can buy power for the people within it so for example the city could form a CCA and could provide all of you with your power through that and of course we don't have a power plant so what we would do is we would buy power from somebody else and resell it to you. It sounds like well why would that be any cheaper right and one of the reasons it's a little bit cheaper there's only two entities that have done it in the state and Marin is the one that has the most going on with it. They've established their CCA they are actually buying power and reselling it and they actually are able to save their customers money over PG&E. It has to do with being able to enter long-term contracts and buy power locally and a variety of things but the biggest thing with regard to greenhouse gases is those CCAs can choose to buy renewable power they might choose to buy 50% renewable power or 70% or 100% and that's one of the things that is driving that particular movement is to be able to buy renewable power. The other really good thing about them is right now if you own a home in Santa Cruz or own a business in Santa Cruz and you want to put in you want to cover every square inch of your roof with solar panels if you don't use that much power it doesn't do you any good. You're not going to be able to sell that excess power to anybody. You just put it into the grid and the grid says thank you and off you go that's it. You're just basically spending money you didn't need to spend on your solar system but with a CCA the local Community Choice Aggregation District could buy that power from you and resell it to the rest of the community and so that's a very attractive part of this and there is an active group of people, Ginny Johnson who used to be the Executive Director of Ecology Action is heading up an effort to create a Santa Cruz County CCA and the City of Santa Cruz has indicated that we're interested in joining it so that's something that's happening now it's an interesting project it'll take a while to get it going it's complicated legally but it has worked so already in Marin actually one option is for us to join Marin's but I kind of think that's not the way that'll go forward. Alright so another area we're working with is we have a huge university up there they have big engineering programs and lots of young students that are interested in doing things so we're trying to partner with them on particularly in the energy research area and one of the things that Ross has worked with him a lot on is our municipal wharf. They are, we have what's called the Green Wharf and there's a couple of programs out there and next time you out there look at the roofs and you'll see a small windmill and it's the Wind on the Wharf project and it was very difficult to get a permit even for a small windmill but that's where it is it's one piece of a larger effort to look at energy options along the coastline. There's another thing happening at the wharf which is fun if you haven't done it yet there is now an eco tour that goes along Westcliff and then goes out onto the wharf for tour guides from UCSC that give the tour on weekends so and they're talking about greenhouse gases, coastal erosion and also all the green efforts that are underway. Another project is switching 20% of cars to low carbon fuels. The city's in the process of installing electric vehicle charging stations. We have 11 of them going in. There is now one on the wharf as a result of that City UC Green Wharf program there's a couple of others around town. There's one at Ecology Action there's one at Staff of Life. Some local businesses are putting them in as they improve things. Another area that we're able to control is trying to convert the city's fleet to low carbon fuel and so we have about 40% of the city's vehicles are now low carbon fuel vehicles not all of those are 100% non carbon but for example our refuse and recycling fleet uses biodiesel B20. We would love to use B50 but we can't because there's a state law that you can't do that. It's kind of like that seems backwards right? It has to do with the emissions from refuse vehicles. There's a whole separate law about that but anyway we're doing what we can and as soon as they up the numbers we'll up the numbers. The other thing that we just did have received as we have a CNG refuse truck and a hybrid refuse truck that we are trying out.  We bought a diesel one CNG one and a hybrid one all at the same time all the same kind of trucks so we can compare them and we're hoping to decide whether or not we can start turning our fleet over either to CNG or to hybrids and the hybrids have a lot of opportunity. These are hydraulic hybrids and as you can imagine a refuse or recycling truck is hitting the brakes a lot. Stop stop stop stop. Every time it stops it helps recharge the generation system so it's pretty exciting. UPS is using a lot of those. Green businesses. Hopefully some of you shop where you see that little symbol down in the lower left hand corner. That's the Monterey Bay Area Green Business program, Certified Green Business and that's one of the programs I work with. We have a coordinator in the city the county also has a coordinator and we go through a process of certifying a business in areas of water pollution air pollution, waste reduction, energy efficiency and also now climate change and if they meet all of those criteria they're certified as a green business. They get the sticker, they get to advertise that we help advertise that. We have 111 green businesses certified in the city, did about 47 last year and we've got about almost 50 that are currently in process. So many of the businesses you would recognize are green businesses. All of other things that are happening as this climate action plan gets rolled out. One aspect as I mentioned earlier is how do you get people to do this stuff? How do you get people to make these changes? And so we're enlisting the aid of the community. There were a number of groups involved during the plan development environmental groups, community groups and so a working group has been formed that's made up of members of those local organizations that contributed to the climate action plan and we're going to be using those folks to help us figure out how to get people in the community to get on board and what do we need to do to help that process. Each organization was asked to submit names to the mayor and the mayor has recently appointed that committee and I believe they're going to be meeting in June. So then the other side of the house internally we've formed what's called a sustainable transportation and land use planning team and as you can well imagine the city of Santa Cruz has departments and departments often don't work across departments maybe as well as they should. So I'm in the public works department. The traffic division in the city is in public works. There's the planning department there's the economic development department and then there's city manager's office and there's UCSC that has their own transportation and parking department and there's the regional transportation commission and AMBAG which has transportation programs so what we're trying to do is get all those people to regularly be in one place and coordinate transportation planning toward the goal of sustainable transportation. We're aided a little bit by this in the fact that the state said you have to do this which didn't mean we did it for a while we still have put it off for a while but we are working in this area and it's really critical because we as a city can't really change transportation for our whole community. You remember that big chunk that was highway transportation well a lot of that comes from outside the city people coming into work coming to visit we want them to do that but that doesn't mean that we can determine how they get here or where they park or do they ride their bikes that kind of thing so we really need an overall regional effort. Okay so how can you help well some of the things I've mentioned we have this community choice aggregation project going on if that interests you at all I encourage you to get a little more familiar with it and you can certainly contact PG&E or Ross if you're interested in that but support it as it goes forward the good news is nobody has to do it if someone says I don't want to buy my power from that I want to stick with PG&E they can it's an opt out they just send in the card when you get the card in the mail no I want to keep buying my power from PG&E so it's an optional program but it does give if it gets formed it will give the opportunity to have local control over the power we have where we get it from and to a certain degree the cost of it. Advocate for a dedicated implementation of these climate action plans so we have the plans but as you know plans can sit on the shelf for years and years we have lots of them we have shelf fulls of them that are still there and so you know if there's something in it that interests you make sure that that goes forward. The rail trail project the county rail project there's a bunch of things that are involved in that but it has and some parts that people like some they don't but stay involved in that process and see what's gonna you know what the opportunities are there's an effort coming up to try to do one part of a trail across the north well what would that be the western northwestern side of Santa Cruz where we have the rail quarter that would be a huge asset to bicycling in that part of town so even if you don't like the train part the trail part could be a real asset. Green businesses support your local green businesses if you are a business person and you're not certified I encourage you to get certified support the ones that are encourage your local businesses that aren't to become green businesses it really helps their bottom line and it's been interesting to see what people value in it and that's one of the things they value they value the fact that almost all of them their power bills have gone down their water bills have gone down their refuse bills have gone down so it's a real help for sustainable businesses meaning financially sustainable businesses to be green certified and then this one there's just an article in today's paper about this if you're not aware of this issue it's read that article so we went through this process in California that's called cap and trade and basically there were regulations put in place that large power users had a cap placed on the amount of greenhouse gases they could generate and if they want to go above that cap they have to buy additional credits if they beat the cap they can sell to a certain extent the ones that they've saved and the state gets a good chunk of the money of that buy and sell process right now and then there was a large amount of money generated and then the process to determine how that money gets spent is sort of still underway and there's an effort afoot to try to get some of that money back to the local level so that we can use it to implement our climate action plans there's a lot of competition for money as you can well imagine and the article in today's paper is about how the governor is looking to have some of that money to help balance the statewide budget not necessarily even related to greenhouse gas issues so I'm not fully aware of all the details of that last little part there but this is an important thing that there's going to be more money coming it wasn't just a one time thing and we really need to try to make sure that some of it at least is getting invested in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and it would be wonderful if some of it was coming back down to the local level to do some of the projects that we need to do here so those are just a few things and I think that wraps it up so thank you and I'm happy to try to answer any questions if anyone has them excuse me the question was the program that's called the California First Pace program I mentioned that right now it's available to businesses but not homes because of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac restrictions and her question was if you don't have a loan from Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac can you utilize that program and I'm not sure the answer to that but I'll check back and let you know I was trying to think if I ever heard that I don't know I just don't know yes so the question was could a residential housing complex use the commercial paced program and I believe the answer to that is yes Peter I think it's just being used to generate power right now that's used to the building that it's on and it's not generating any excess power it's a really it's a pretty small windmill but the goal of that was to try to figure out how much wind is generated out there and whether the wharf site is an opportunity to have wind on the roofs to help power those businesses so the question what's the time element to figure all that out and again I don't know exactly the answer to that I think it's well they just got their permit extended to 2014 so I think they've got a several year process where they're trying to collect data okay so the questions were on the windmill on the wharf who did the permits have to come from that held it up take a guess what do you do with it being in the view shed and all of that and then you also mentioned that you're getting your natural gas from Tiger and yes natural gas is not locked down the same way that electric power is so again if you think back to the year 2000 and the reason it's interesting the reason I remember the year is because again that was when I was working with some of the climate change issues for the city I had put together a request for proposal for the city to buy 100% green power for all the city facilities we issued the request for proposal in August and the proposals were due back I think it was either the end of September or early October and the power crisis if you will hit in between that period and so we only got one proposal and it wasn't really a valid company so that was when basically everything went to hell in a hand basket if you will and the state ended up having to bail out the private operators PG&E, San Diego Gas and Electric, Cal Edison, borrowed a bunch of money lots of money to help that process and is the payback of all those loans is on your power bill and is tied into the rates and so if everybody bailed on PG&E and SDG&E and all those then the money wouldn't come back in to pay those loans off so they said until we get the loans paid off direct access which is what it was called before when you could go to green mountain power was one of the big ones or something and buy your power you can't do that anymore but it's I think we're edging back to the point of that there several of the loans I think have been paid off now so she wants me to tell you Santa Cruz is normal but Santa Cruz is never normal right? We are way ahead of most and we are a little behind the real leaders which of course are as you might well guess places like San Francisco Marin on this issue San Jose is pretty far ahead but we're well ahead of most places I just went to a conference a couple last week actually and it was on sustainability public works and sustainability and many of the things that were being presented as really forward moving things we were doing and so it was very gratifying to see that there were certainly I came away with things that I wish we were doing as well but no we're pretty far ahead Peter just economically it seems like it would really has that ever been discussed or is that just in the ago zone? the question was just economically as well as environmentally it seems like it would be to our benefit to tax ourselves has that ever been discussed to tax ourselves to fund these programs it has come up I don't know there are a couple of cities that have passed a carbon tax or a climate tax I don't think it's been proposed to the extent of like being on a council agenda for discussion it's been discussed at some meetings I was at there has been we've talked about it in our department about a carbon tax if you will but I think that's one of the things that we're hoping will come up is how do you get the funds to fund some of these things as you can imagine most of these things cost money to get them going and that may be one of the things that comes out of this community focus group so yes I can speak to it to the extent that I know there is Bay Street Reservoir which is up above High Highland we are replacing Bay Street Reservoir and so there were some temporary tanks there and now they have completed the underground tanks so they put the temporary tanks in and then they took out the original Bay Street Reservoir and then they rebuilt those underground tanks for Bay Street Reservoir and now the temporary tanks are going to be moved out so those are the only ones I'm aware of and I don't work in the water department so I don't know a lot about that okay okay well through the treatment plant there are no tanks being added or taken away for wastewater treatment we have recently well we go through a process we have digesters there at the wastewater treatment plant on Bay in California these big tanks and the wastewater goes into those tanks and then bacteria break down the solids in the wastewater and create gas thereby product is gas, methane to be specific that methane is in burn on site in a cogeneration system and produces power and it's a big power generator it dwarfs these solar systems it generates about three and a half gigawatts of power a year but we haven't replaced any tanks or we're really not building any new tanks there and the other thing I'm going to mention I get to toot my own horn a little bit here something that people might not remember so the wastewater plant generation system that's a renewable power system that's been there since 1989 so the city way back in 1989 was way ahead of the game then the other place they were way ahead of the game then they also entered into an agreement in 1988 and it was constructed in 1989 at the landfill which is up highway one about three miles to build a landfill gas collection system and a generator to burn that gas to create renewable power and that system is actually produces even more power than the wastewater plant it's about 4.3 gigawatts a year gigawatt hours a year so those are happening the one at the landfill we don't use that much power up there that system is operated by a franchise business and they pay us royalties and so they handle the operation of it and that power is now sold used to be sold to PG&E and now it's fed into the grid but they're selling it to SMUD which is Sacramento municipal utility district because SMUD was looking to buy renewable power and they give them a better price than they needed so several years ago about four years ago that power started being SMUD's power all goes into the same wires of course but so we have two very large renewable power systems on city facilities and then in addition to these new solar systems at the police station city hall we already had four solar power systems there's one at the wastewater plant one at the water treatment plant one downtown on the building has the library headquarters and the water admin building and then there was already a small solar system on city hall yes how much revenue does the one at the dump generate for the city not a lot but about $200,000 a year from the landfill and the revenue we get is just 15% of the growth so they're making money on it too energy carbon production waste your field doesn't look significant but in fact that is a more harmful gas because it's a smaller percent methane is about 21 times as powerful as the greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide so we want to keep all the methane out of the air that we can that's an excellent question that's a great question and thank you for bringing that up because I didn't explain that the wires and the distribution system all stays PG&E all that happens is the power that goes into the power line from wherever that generation source is is from a different generator yeah oh yeah actually right now one of the things that happened as a result of that power and energy crisis in 2000 is basically the independent operators got told get out of the power sales business so they sold off their power plants they're not really in the business anymore of generating power where they're making their money is transmitting and distributing the power so they own all the wires they own all the big places that you see that have all the what buildings and wires they own those but they don't own the generating facilities anymore PG&E or San Diego Gas and Edison or the plant in Moss Landing that you see the two it's not owned by PG&E so that plant is making power putting it into the wires that are owned by PG&E and then PG&E distributes it to wherever it's going and they charge for the wires maintaining the wires the service delivery they charge an overhead on taking the power from whoever's generating it so that wouldn't change that part doesn't change that's the way it is now no no as a matter of fact that's where Marin found that they were able to buy the power and deliver it into the system cheaper than wherever the power was coming from before so yeah it is very complicated and frankly I worked with this whole CCA thing issue about in about 2003-2004 and at that point I was like you know we don't want to get into this right now because it isn't many of those issues hadn't been figured out and so my recommendation at that time was no we don't want to go there we don't have we're too small we don't have the staff let somebody else figure it out so now somebody else has figured it out and has gotten all the way through the process has done a lot of the legal work and paid for a lot of the legal work with money that we didn't have to spend on it so now it probably is something that is workable for somebody our size so oh yeah yeah we don't want to be in the energy company business okay thank you very much great questions we've been listening to Mary Arman public works operations manager for the city of Santa Cruz talk about the city of Santa Cruz's climate action plan this concludes our program for the Democratic Women's Club see you next time


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Hi and welcome to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food. And I am here today with a Kroger fill-in haul. I spent $78 in some change, so I will jump right in. I'll start over here in the back. I picked up this bolt house farms, breakfast smoothie for my two-year-old son, strawberry parfait, and it has oatmeal, yogurt, and strawberry in it. And then I also grabbed a couple of these promise land strawberry milks. They had some mushrooms on clearance, and I am just gonna go ahead and cook these up before they go bad and use them during the week for dinners or I'm not exactly sure what I'm gonna do with them. Grab some broccoli florets and also some coleslaw. I pretty much grab coleslaw every single time I go to the grocery store because I use it just for quick stir fries, things like that. I grabbed one peach, this little bitty peach here was 75 cents, and I got it for my peach dumplings that I like to make. And I will link that recipe in the description box. You use crescent roll and peaches, and it is so good. I also grabbed some turkey pastrami. I love this lunch meat, and I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband and I both love it. Grabbed some of this salad dressing, simply vinaigrette Greek, and it was on sale. And then I also grabbed just a small jar of mayonnaise. I don't eat mayonnaise really, but I do use it in my chicken salad, so just grabbed a small jar for that. And I also grabbed some canned sweet potatoes because I've been craving sweet potato casserole, and I do have a video of that on our channel as well, and I'll link it in the description box. Got these smoothie melts for my son, strawberry banana. He had them a long time ago and he liked them, so wanted to give them a try again. I needed some green beans, and this is a four pack, and it was cheaper than getting individual cans of green beans. I grabbed some Bush's baked beans. I tend to make baked beans a lot during the summer because I really like them a lot. This Frischetta pizza was on sale. I think it was 377, naturally rising crust, and my husband likes these kinds of pizzas. I grabbed two cartons of ice cream. They were on sale as well. I think they were $2.99 each, and I really love the honey salted caramel almond, and my husband likes the rum trace leches. I grabbed a couple of yogurt melts for Harrison as well. Let me go back up here. Grabbed a couple of goldfish colors, and then the vanilla cupcake, which are basically kind of like graham crackers. I was very excited about this tide being on sale because I was almost out of laundry detergent, and these were on sale for $3.99. I think they were half price, so you can't beat that. Grabbed some of these Cheez-It Snaps, snapped for Howard. He really likes these, and I think these were $1.97 a bag, which is a great deal. The Cheetos, the simply Cheetos were on sale as well. I don't remember exactly how much, but I got the white cheddar puffs, and then I just got the white cheddar crunchy Cheetos, and then I grabbed this to try out on Harrison. It's a pediatric shake since he's a really picky eater. I want to make sure he's getting the right nutrients, so grabbed these to try out as well. So this is everything that I picked up on my quick Kroger fillin hall because I am still working on my pantry and freezer challenge, so I'm not going crazy going grocery shopping, but we did need a few things. So anyway, this is everything I grabbed. I hope you all liked this video. If you did, please give us a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed to our channel, we'd certainly love to have you. Thanks so much for watching, and we'll see you all next time.