Okay, it looks like We are good to go Anybody is here? Okay, I will go ahead and begin afternoon welcome January 18th 2022 study session of the city council. I have a few announcements and then we will move on to our meeting Today's meeting is being broadcast live on community television channel 25 and Streaming on the city's website cityofsanta.com If you wish comment on an agenda item today, call in at the beginning of the item using the instructions on your screen Please mute your television or streaming device once you call in and listen through the phone Please also note. There is a delay in streaming So if you continue to listen on your television or streaming device You may miss your opportunity to speak when it is your time for public comment Press star nine on your phone. Raise your hand when it is your time And I would like to ask the clerk I'll roll Remember Okay Members of the public for streaming this meeting if this is an item Want to comment on that was the time all in the instructions on your screen First the order will be a presentation of the item by staff Followed by question from the council We will then take any public comment and then return to council for further And with that I'd like to reduce The wise west ability and climate action manager Thank you very much there Members I'm Tiffany wise but sustainability and climate action manager. I'm the manager's office I do also have today to assist with any questions that you might have that are maybe beyond what I For That's on and that would be Camila Bobroff and Ryan Gardner are also I'm on the line And I'm going to go ahead that and share my screen Okay, I believe you can see my screen at this point. Yes, and see me has not yet wonderful Okay, just want to start off with support land acknowledgment That I as any of you are like working from the end of the a lot last week we tried And those lands are now being escorted by the Okay, before we jump into things. I just wanted to review Goal of the overarching climate action plan development process which is called misery is together You can see our logo in the upper right-hand corner and that is number one to prepare a qualified State targets and we're going to talk a lot more about that means that later on and Also determining the year in the most equitable path carbon neutrality. I should say that equity is of Paramount value to this planning process and the outcomes that results and you're going to hear more about that So The objectives of this specific study session today I'd like to provide you Updates on the plan development progress And so forth that we have conducted and then I'll take a short break to see if you have any questions on that Before we dive into the real meat of this study session, which is to discuss Considerations of various potential emissions reductions targets for the planet Before I get started on the process of embark upon or I do want to take a moment to really emphasize and and Regroup us on the reason why we are really Undertaking this very important process and that is because carbon dioxide is at an all-time high I'm achieving global warming about 1.2 degrees Celsius or 2 degrees Fahrenheit to date Should we surpass 1.5 degrees Celsius, which is projected to her between 2030 and 2040? There will be irreversible tipping points in our climate and cities will bear the front of this We know this is caused from carbon dioxide from fossil fuels question and methane or natural gas That is important love Previous Resolutions that you've adopted number one declaring a climate emergency number two supporting a Paris climate agreement number three supporting a green new deal We know that it's very important to adopt this target that we can manage, but as you Learn today, there are realities of this massive community-wide change management that we must undertake that will require many hundreds millions of dollars Oh One other thing on this before I move on from this One thing to keep in context is talk about actually the social costs are coming more and more included into climate planning For the amount of conditions that we as a city community-wide each year We are experiencing in 14 and 25 billion dollars in impact for our community These are impacts through right health care costs construction of property free food prices and more so these are the heat This is the economic harm from those impact and that's something to keep in mind Talk about the class that will take for us to meet our share of emissions reduction So to start out here our climate action plan process really can be simplified down to these core The values vision goals and targets measures, which are the high-level types of activities that need to take place in order to reach our goals and targets the actions which are the policies program the Infrastructure that will need to take place and all of that then Climate action plan which will include a funding and implementation plan both municipally and community-wide Now this is to simplify I'm also finished here with kind of a bigger flow chart here that really shows us what we're going to be focusing on here today because The emissions targets through the emissions reduction actions But we see we move on to that. I do want to orientate you to You know where we where we are Started this April of last year We had two major community engagement since then that it helps us to establish values for this climate action plan We have been iterative process over the past several in determining our Emissions targets as well as You will learn that there are other areas that are community values around climate Restoration and climate economy to fall outside people qualified climate action plans Emission reduction measures and actions So In addition to the goals and targets as I mentioned we have high-level measures both emissions reductions Climate economy with the revolver outings that are a lot of that are Underclass Operations roles by the city those relate green jobs the embedded carbon assumption online ordering those kinds of things and diet as well as climate restoration measures which includes things like carbon sequestration of regenerative landscapes and urban forests We also have been iteratively developing an equity screenings that we've applied to the measures And to the actions again with a specific policy program And you can see we have a little loop going on Because this is an iterative process As I mentioned all of this bundled into the climate action plan Including funding and implementation plan But for today, we really are focusing on the emissions reduction targets the emissions reduction measures And we'll be touching briefly on the act as well So our so far as started in April of last year. We've had two major engagements from visioning and goal-setting Where we had a variety of different ways both virtual and live that folks could Engage in this process. We have been conducting small group teams with Transparency agencies on sheltered folks Bipos folks As well as a number of other groups to ground truth what we're hearing in our broader Engagement And through these two engagements, we really have begun to establish an initial community value and instead of values And really What we've heard from our community is that they really are seeking an aspirational and equitable climate That's grounded in science And that's going to be a very important point that I'm going to continue to return to and so just I Really don't want to read things up, but I think the vision is important enough to do so Our community seek to rapidly enact climate solutions that support and enhance an equitable community with robust active and public transportation clinical housing that's affordable sustainable and filial and regenerative landscape and the values really revolve on equity people-centeredation efficient and low to no carbon building energy and water The protection and enhancement of natural resources in urban parks and the elimination of waste and supporting local We also have been developing this FD screening tool over these past few months The screening areas you can see in the yellow box on the left-hand side. They really Stay on a wide range of considerations for equity And you can see also on the screen a couple of different exercises that we have utilized to help us to provide some equity about our evaluation of equity with respect to Developing the values and vision as well as our measures And we did that through our climate action task force and our equity advice How about it doesn't hope? from different historically underrepresented underserved groups that come in and out of our project and We have equity considerations for serious measures and then we've gone into the community With the small purposes I've mentioned that's on shelters both and double the key youth to really ground through what we are hearing That was for the values vision and measures But then and this is what we learned Is that there are a number of equity considerations around our major emissions reduction areas or measures? They're really revolved around affordability and accessibility and I'm not going to read all it and We can certainly come back to them But these are the initial set of equity considerations that came out of those exercises. I just showed you from there we Refind this equity screening tool that we have just applied to our Infrastructure that we specify to reach these emissions reduction measures and targets and And what our screening tool looks like is that screening areas? I so do accessibility affordability Just stop so for us. We had a piece of question 22 questions And we have According to these different screening areas beneficial neutral by knowing some communities or communities of color and If an action in the scoring process each action has about 22 questions that we ask and we score plus zero minus and One of our guiding principles is if any action does cause harm or gets a negative score. It must be revised Or Complementary act that mitigates that harm meaning we will not accept any negative And so just to give you an example of that for example if we call for say Building electric that we know That gets passed on to a homeowner That makes that even negative for because it could have a negative effect on a Complementary action would be ensuring that there are rebates or incentives for low-income folks That would transition that negative score to a zero or two of us. So that's an example of how an action that would have a complementary action or to include that Incentives We have just went through with our tasks and our equity advisors applying the equity screening tool to all of our actions They're about a half of them and have made initial revisions So this is where we're going sorry that process now being now From the values that I just shared with you We're going to be launching a public dialogue on our draft act You can see a screenshot exactly from Santa Barbara County using the same platform right now And this will allow our team to have really robust dialogue on The actions and indicates their level of agreement. Yeah We will take this will be open through the month of February. It will launch The last week of January it will be open for about five Close that up Come back. We will take what we learned today at the study session what we learned from Public dialogue platform We will refine the goals targets that we talk about today. We will refine the actions We will add in Work that our consultants are producing on the funding and implementation planning as well as some internal work We're doing with our various teams We will conduct more focus group over the month of February including with Both both from the business community bikers and Others and then we're going to coming back to City Council with another another study session in March with recommendation for the goals and targets the actions themselves and the draft We will then have a webinar a broader tend to have this Bring higher plan to council the first meeting in August for adoption So we really are rounding the corner here And moving towards completion of this project Really important project. I just want to pause there. There are any questions on the process will we dig into the target setting? Anybody have anything I'm trying to and I'm not seeing any Okay, very good and go ahead and go on for it. I just want to leave some space for that going to be shifting gears there Okay, the time that I'll Okay, it's really on specifically a missions reduction target setting And don't know why there's two ones here. It could be a one and a two But there are two ways to think about There is the sequel qualified time at action plan targets and there is the potential for or stretch targets the sequel qualified Adopt unity wide Target Amid 280,000 Emissions here and we're trying to get the Which divides that full-fledged target by our We are Target qualified cap targets, although we're going to stop what that target Because the birth capital allows for growth Councilmember Cummings, they see that you have your hand raised. Do you want me to take your question right now? I? Just wanted to ask for clarification for the community No, we talk about emissions reductions. Are we talking about the city like city governments emission reductions? Are we talking about the entire community as a whole and individuals reductions along with the city's reductions? I just want to make sure it's clear when we're talking about Climate action Thank you for that. And I think the next slide will will definitely clarify that but it's community-wide So that does include every individuals emissions every business emissions Every all of our municipal operations, so we're talking about community-wide And with respect to these two different types of targets we can adopt one Or we stop both We do we have however committed to adopting a target of Producing a people-qualified climate action plan And let me talk a little bit about that before we talk about that Or stretch targets so the people qualified climate action plan allows us to produce thresholds by Developing needs to design their projects sign and build their projects and it really one of the strongest levers in development it also allows Rewind the people requirements for those developments that can meet those thresholds in order to develop a People-qualified climate action We must conduct is in emissions inventory for areas under local influence, which we've done for 2019 You can see on the right-hand side our community-wide story We all need to identify Some production targets that since it was stateful we're going to talk about that and then We need to monitor our progress of reaching those stateful if you look on the right-hand side of the 29th community-wide emissions inventory this includes the different sectors Transportation Residential commercial energy solid waste wastewater that are included in what's called the stateful And so the sequel qualified Let's only include the measures Sectors that are included in the stateful plan So you can see the does not include carbon sequestration for example of urban forests The state is considering adding that to this hoping plan, but that has not happened yet And what you see on the screen here is that? 69% of our emissions come from transportation and that is a revision from what was presented to you late last summer in our 2020 closeout report We realized that inventories produced by handbag did not include vehicle miles travel for half Started and ended started outside of the city ended within the city and those that Started within the city and ended outside of adding those additional DMT's Bunk our transportation related emissions from 43% to 69% The massive massive area where we need to reduce emissions Another 26% is in Residential and commercial energy and industrial energy by the way is is bundled up with commercial energy 7% is solid waste and a little less than 1% comes from wastewater emissions About 3% of our community-wide emissions are from municipal So actually a very small portion of emissions come from our municipal that is operation of various city facilities our fleet free Any I just wanted to chime in and ask that going forward any acronyms spelled out the first time It would be helpful for sure. So why don't I? Why don't I take the two that are on the screen here? One is people up, which is the California environmental And that is the environmental process that is specified for development and then PhD is greenhouse gas and I'm trying to consistently use the term emissions and not But thank you for that and I will strive to clarify any other You're welcome Okay, so let's get down to emissions reduction part as I shared with you from the beginning There is the potential people qualified targets that need to be legally Defensible so we need to have a set of acts that are reasonable and civil And there are aspirational or strict targets or visions That are ball and so two separate targets. We can adopt one or we can adopt both So starting with the people qualified are the potential targets So we might assembly bill 32 that's 32 and 80% reduction by 2050 from 1990 levels. This is from 2006 it was adopted in our 2020 climate action plan But since that time the state has adopted through Senate bill as the 32 a 40% reduction by 2030 from 1990 levels so an interim kind of target We have Reduced emissions nine percent between 1990 and 2020. We as a community 32 targets highlighted because it is the minimum require for us It's also as you will see in some future charts What's this on the path to carbon neutrality by 2045? We can also adopt or in in addition to or as a replacement to 32 something that we're calling We can go beyond the Rainer than 40 if we can demonstrate in a chain feasible act So we have a couple of points for the people qualified at 32 minimum at a 40% reduction or At We're going to give you a lot of considerations from this the next few slides Are the aspirational or the stress target is concerned, which again? We don't have to adopt an aspirational or stress target as the dogs turn from all off They're not our legal targets, and they are balling One can be the state carbon neutrality goal, which is set by executive order and right now that's 2045 I Should mention that the state is considering revising the carbon neutrality target to 2035 although that has We can also adopt a science-based target Which our science-based target? Says that we need to reduce by about 61% emissions between 2019 and 2030 so much more aggressive than the ST 32 We are we are not recommending the science-based target because the science-based target is Computed on a national level, and it is not a Comfort the emissions reduction that we in the state of California, and we as the city of Santa Cruz have already been very abreast in nature And then lastly there is the possibility of other targets of carbon neutrality by 2035 or as early as 2030 And I will give you some considerations around that as So two different kinds of targets and different options Member Meyer they see your hand up Inter into our emissions So thank you for that question Anything that's related to urban forest Is as I said it's outside of Qualified so that would not be Or against us for that We would revise our And the state would revise the coping plan to include those emissions forces So something like that we know the state's accounting for those types of emissions That is something that we could break into you know Hey, if an event like that happens do we want to count that towards our aspirational or stretch targets? But right now it is not being accounted for Okay, so let's continue on let's take a look at what our forecast like both times So the blue line On this part represents a business as usual for a VA forecast That is it's nothing at all What would our like both times and what you see is an increase towards 2025 Then a bit of a reduction and then some more things and we have this funky bump because of central post community energy and The shift they've made and how they're Electricity and I'm not going to get into the minutiae details of that right now But that's what causes this bump at 2025 as Grants down by 20 have a hundred percent Global energy they have committed to do which incidentally is not the same as carbon neutral Hey, there are still emissions associated Global energy, so this is our business as usual starting over here on the far left side And all the missions are quantified See on the y-axis tons of metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent that mpCO2 e per person so that's that per capita that we're looking at and carbon dioxide For all greenhouse gas one common unit carbon dioxide equivalent And so you can see we go up go down a little bit and then we go up a little bit more The orange line is our adopted this as usual forecast that Takes into account state legislation and regulations things like renewable portfolios the energy codes and building codes and Shows us what kind of reductions do we get from simply the state Legislation and regulation alone is do we do get quite a bit of a red up and Then we want to look at what would that minimum required target people qualified And that's where the star is right there. That's the ST 30 Senate bill 32 a 40% reduction from 2030 by night night, so you see right at Right at 2030 where the star is and then if you continue in a linear fashion You see that we've reached carbon neutrality by 2045. So f 32 puts us on a track Do carbon neutrality minimum that 40% reduction from 2030 from 1990? Well, we have a baby of climate action and measure So these are the high-level measures not the actions. They're not the specific Program, but they're the high-level measures Will take for us to reach those parts and as you can see they revolve around active transportation electric vehicles and public transit Electric buildings and renewable energy water Really comes down to energy and we And we are showing carbon saturation on the upper right hand corner Even though it is outside of people qualified to have Under consideration by the state bring it in state hoping and in the future. So it is something that we're quantifying Putting actions around When people were fine there with what that looks like we held working meetings with the park and has different visions within the city other stakeholder groups like our transportation agencies That are responsible for these measures and their implementation Because we wanted to understand, you know, what is ambitious but possible in terms of meeting different areas like We developed a suite of actions and measures that it sees the state and amongst them. I'll show you that in just a moment and Let me assure you that these are aggressive yet feasible Implementable and defensible and it's very important to remember implementable actions are Requirements for a sequel qualified Let's get into those Let's start building energy reduction measures. So this is where we utilize that we have dial-in in order to reach that SP32 minimum, so we're just talking about the minimum. We're going to get to those So this is where we have to This is 20 percent of our emissions just as a reminder in the building energy In order to reach the SP32 minimum We determined that we need to reduce natural gas usage by 33 percent residential buildings by 30 percent commercial buildings and That we will have to do so at time over place. So when a water heater burns out We would have that that was placed in electric waters and we do assume. There's some non-compliance But so did with that. We know that not everyone comes to get a permit like those two for these different appliances In terms of the cost to do this We are looking at about a hundred twenty million dollars in total for our community to reach The 33 percent reduction residential and 30 percent in commercial What does that mean for dwelling unit for her home? It depends on the home type And what some things they have but that could range between five thousand and thirty thousand dollars For dwelling unit and that's without keeping think it's important to know that we have existing rebates From central central post community energy, and we will continue to need those rebates At levels in order to make this happen particularly in affordable fashion The one other thing I want to mention on this that we also have right now a Project that is happening in current the climate action plan development project Who develop our road map for what? Elections could look like in the city what policy to adopt What about do we need to make and that is being done? as part of a rock mountain Institute of Project we have the end of late. He is our equity partner and that will also be complete by July I'm member Boulder. I have your hand up Hi, thank you. So I just have a question when looking at this through an equity lens I'm thinking how much more expensive it is to run an electric Appliance versus a gas appliance in terms of like a dryer or a water here And then there's actually some appliances that just don't come in electric models yet And so has there been any talk? statewide, you know in your in your energy circles about how to address issues Yes, yes, absolutely the state does not allow any Portable The long building so beyond the building code To come into effect that are not considered The cost effective is half demonstrated in order for us to adopt anything and That is obviously some of these rebates come in but also It's great and that is something that we're studying as part of this Project that we have going on parallel to the climate action plan, and I don't have Answers for exactly how that will unfold at this moment, but that is all Thank you for that question Okay, so what kind of act then do we need to take three these reductions in building energy? Well, you all know that it's Some of you were on the council adopted a natural gas prohibition in new buildings, so that's already We will need to continue enforcement of that Ordinance, but we will also need to pass an existing building electrification Ordnance for visiting new gas that's what's in the city by 2024 in order to reach these reductions and This would only be for appliances for which there are readily available electrical alternatives So obvious require any of those things that's already We will need for staff to enforce compliance with both of the ordinances And we will need to co-develop a tariff on the finance program with central folks Energy community energy in order for folks to be able to finance this as well as Access rebates that will be available in order to make this transition happen So this really prohibits any new gas from being solved Many jurisdictions are looking at this, but this has not been done yet But this is what we'll like to have So let's move on to transportation Give you a feel and again, we're looking at what is it going to take to meet me to XB 30 to minimum and we will be slightly You will see that we need to bump up our Accommodation mode share so that's biking and pedestrians are walking rather from 19.5 25% we expect it can feasibly increase mode share on public transportation by 1% from 7 to 8% That's assuming the rail through 2030 That's area. I love the Coordination and and cooperation where that could be free, but that's what's the feasible We also need to increase from a little less than 5% mode here for electric vehicles 35% of passenger vehicles and 25% of commercial vehicles and on the commercial vehicle side. We really need to focus in on commercial seats like Car sharing Not our strength things like Uber lift Things like u-hauls our own That is further a lot of them and we also need to focus on medium and heavy Put out more emissions than lighter-duty commercial vehicles We also will need to decarbonize or electrify 50% of our off-road equipment and that is things that are that includes things like landscaping equipment construction equipment and so forth now Recently there was a state regulation adopted that Will require only electric floors in 2020 for so that's going to help We would see that 2% reduction In terms of possible I think you all know that the city, you know, bolstered by trans really bears the most of active transportation infrastructure class public transit General part part of the population and make grand investments And we've estimated all You by the way our high-level order of magnitude estimates We are going to be coming back with our funding and implementation plan with war refined estimates But community-wide terms of electrical adoption and the charging infrastructure investment that we're looking at is over half a billion dollars And again, this is to meet the S32 minimum We know that residential electric vehicles, you know, depending on whether they're used or new We're looking at between five and thirty thousand dollars in investment Which by the way are already Did it and in fact if you're in country base Or here's your base based on some And those will need to continue and be increased And you know that commercial EV investments can exceed a hundred thousand dollars depending on what this is No, if it's a medium duty truck, it could be around a hundred thousand that as well A lot of rescue trucks or heavy duty are on the order of so almost a million dollars. So Big investment transportation sector which again represents 69 percent of our overall So what is that look like? From the actions again the specific college program structure. It's about 1200 new EV chargers. We currently have about 16 public chargers that the city owns and then a number across Private sector that's going to have to ramp up. It's the country We also will need to require residential venerals and rentals the community of commercial building owners since all working chargers 20% of parking spaces We will need right now require electric ready and I get a couple spots Her Not sure off-hand, but it's the you can jump We also are going to need to reduce the number of vehicles in high traffic zones or on Other transit options available Potentially implementing a congestion charge that applies to passenger cars car sharing service obviously with sections for differently able drivers and residents of those areas We also will need to significantly focus on fellow working and evaluate and use To make sure that we have and available in zone to keep people working in town and that gets a debt Additional 26% of emissions that result from Start or end in the but go outside In terms of waste and wastewater reduction measures and the 8% of our overall emissions We need to we will need to reduce our organic 85% by 2030 We do your council just approved the plan for 1383 which is the food waste program which will get a 75 Organic waste, but we will need to go further With a likely regional solution to get it that other By 2030 we need a 35 step in organic waste And we're showing zero reduction wastewater treatment that process emissions because recognize that the unit treatment Plants are tens of millions of dollars Cumulatively hundreds of millions of dollars that are very difficult to change out and if we implement the measure reductions that I've We can get to do without waste water process emissions so All of that some of the key actions and is to implement an organic waste solution beyond the food waste Program and heavy Getting to you know people's choices and the ways that they produce So in some that's pretty minimum for a people qualified cast requires a reduction For the per capita emissions from 4.2 to 3.7 metric tons per person by 2030 It requires the 750 million dollar investment about Order thanks community-wide by 2030 and we'll require Staffing an investment by 20 which we estimate 60 50 million dollars for us So if we implement those measures as a percentage as I just described That's the threat right here that I'm showing the green line Is the sd32 target where the star is and you can see that the red line is below the blue line Which means that what I've just laid out would exceed the sd32 minimum Emissions reduction target that we need for qualified cast and we'd be more aggressive This is what we're calling sd32 plus and yes He can be more aggressive But this would require even more aggressive and here's some samples of what that might like Mike require replacement of natural gas applied before the end of their useful life through mandatory ordinance And it's important to remember that the city itself has just made investments in really efficient But on the left infrastructure and equipment at the city that is expect its life On some of this equipment could extend out 20 30 by 40 20 40 We would also need to increase the cost of driving single occupants gas All taxes parking fees We would need to institute other zero-emission vehicle areas city and ban cars and traffic zones To increase public and active transportation Public and act transportation. We would need to set a date for natural gas shut off city-wide The thing for a number of those adoption sd32 plus target We must be able to achieve real reductions be legally defensible and Things to think of others things to think about with this is that you know the city as a municipality as Some of our stretch will move into that. So we lack places about Right, we can make the infrastructure. We can you know But the policies themselves have come from or rather places themselves have to come from our And there are also equity impacts accelerating all the numbers. They showed you They will increase if we if we pursue an sd32 as a people-qualified target and by squeezing all of that to You know a 20 30 Years there is possible that we're not going to be able to provide the incentives that are needed to make this transition possible for Lowering some folks folks that are historically underrepresented for underserved And we really need that So sd32 plus is possible. There are some real considerations with that for a people-qualified Let's look at but some of these other targets might like So what we have again on the screen here is a blue line as business as usual The orange line is the business as usual adjusted forecast for California regulation The gray line is that sd32 minimum that we just looked at We also a linear reduction From 2045 a straight line linear reduction. That's the dark blue line, right? And that could be something that could be a potential stress goal. It is the State target for carbon neutrality We also looked at the science-based target Which is this green line the science-based target ends at 20 30 However, as I mentioned previously that is not California specific do not recommend stopping that as a target as a stretch And then lastly we show and the orange line to 2035 That was great production to carbon neutrality by 2035 And we could show that same thing to 2030 which is the The aspiration of the time at California Let's talk about those little words As you can there's a big differential between 2045 25 when we're talking about an aspirational target or an aspirational goal and The ways that we can reach that are Around heart rate like building energy transportation and so forth Equestration because it's the stress target outside of all sides For its balance. We can start to think about carbon registration Climate economy. That's where some of these things around diet and food choices come into play and Then future carbon capture technology that maybe doesn't exist right now or isn't on the market, right? So those would be the ways that the things that the clever to get to an earlier threat Yes need to be balanced. We could not adopt the people qualified with a 2035 2030 carbon neutrality goal because there is no it's a Impeasable to demonstrate how to get So our About the linear reduction the carbon neutrality by 2045 Or establish a visionary or aspirational targets carbon neutrality by 2035 or 2030 With a strong focus on equity where we're leaning in climate restoration and economy measures Which again are outside the peak qualified cap We focus our acceleration on municipally that under the areas of control that we do have and Also, we would ask also to facilitate or enable us to innovate and pursue next new technologies Opportunities and we would have the need just to address equity as surprise We also come not coming with a recommendation. This is what discussions But we are recommend that we go from updating the climate action plan every ten years to every five To account for new opportunities new technologies new legislation That would put us on the same The same Frequency or cycle as our climate Which gets updated every five years and by the way inning by here and in fact in our next cycle like Integrated together as very common In the field of study One other thing I want to mention on carbon sequestration as a point of caution, however Is that we did take a look at from our recent free free plan and resource analysis conducted? adopted last year We looked at our urban forests and even if we doubled our urban forest that we have We would get a very minimal reduction in the Per capita that's it comes here for carbon of carbon dioxide is what one It's on the order of point zero one And remember I said we need to reach from four point to the three point seven for the sequel qualified cats Which exclude sequestration so if you bring sequestration into that thinking about a stress target There isn't a ton of potential with Existing sequestrations In our urban space. So what are other girls doing and we're almost finished here and and almost ready to discuss all of this So other jurisdictions has taken a number of different approaches Many have them have adopted the sd-32 minimum target of 40 percent below 1990 by 2030 and His either said that they would make progress towards carbon neutrality by 2045 or earlier Or in fact have adopted a threat target or a threat pool that Is around 2045 2035 or 2030 Some Jurisdiction have a legal target that it's easy to do so that would be the sd-32 plus But those are jurisdictions that had already made significant progress on the sd-32 target prior to for example Watsonville adopted their legal target is 80 percent below 1990 by 2030 However, they have achieved a 40% reduction already by 20 And remember we've only achieved a 9% reduction So there are a bunch of different flavors here. Some have not adopted All of my staff we have we have determined that we would like to adopt all of my staff in our work in that Directly I want to talk about I mentioned Watsonville And I want to talk about that that's going to really require across our monetary And in fact, we climate practitioners are already We're working very closely with the county who is developing their climate action plan. They're just starting it right now Watsonville finished and adopted their plan and we're all together right now on building electrification Regional workforce development initiative That we are pursuing federal funding You can see here the infrastructure investment and jobs act has unprecedented funding coming across all of our Doctors and it is going to be incredibly important for us to be able to unlock this funding as a region and That acknowledging we will be able to compete as a region more so than if we go individually I do want to say the last thing on the strike target is that You know, I've shown you a lot of them today, but the correct target does Allow us to explore Carbon neutrality clear than the state target 2045 in anticipation of the state potentially ramping it up it could also Open up funding opportunities for us And it provides more conservative approach to keep global warming below that one five Celsius although as well we need global collective work on on that as well And I just want to say it is okay to have technical Equal legal target and an act of rational target Although there's you know There is a potential confusion with that, but a lot of systems have done that Just recognize that are clear funding Limitations to achieving an aspirational target With that I want to include by the sharing that are recruiting there's time it act and have force right now I encourage you to visit city of Santa Cruz calm board slash time it act plan to apply that's one-year term that's complete and It works the city to develop and implement the climate action plan And I think very much our time at our current and our past there's time it act have force They've been involved Hoping and the RTE preparation And I have on the screen here Upcoming things that are happening. I should say that the mark study session has not been Termined exactly when that's going to be up, but it's going to be somewhere around the second or third week mark But we have a lot of stuff happening We're that I've mentioned that our community engagement platform and more focus groups are going to be happening through January and February Got our task force recruitment ending in February And in part come back study sessions on our refined approach to all of this well as implement With that, thank you so much. I know that's a lot of Here any questions that you might have any comments that you might have this is really meant to be the discussion portion of Oh You so much the portion where I will bring it out to council members or any further question I see Sorry, mayor Please go ahead council member Myers And a council member Golder and Brown Thank you Tiffany for the great presentation Pretty sobering say the least My first question is you mentioned sort of You know in the past sometimes hurt for our region of being federal and state funds, right? There is success that I'm trying to weigh some of the other needs like Some of the other big Based on the funding and and is there about Building for example regional charging Like that for you're not having every single business have to build charging For anybody Benefit so that you think more collectively around our company is so pressed We have one transportation corridor. We have You know, and so I'm just curious Think that way with this kind of objective or do you really have to When we just It is clear, you know very well on the state level and on the federal level particularly with perspective transportation But we know that that's gonna come more and more competitive with this new funding coming out And as I mentioned it's and regional collaboration of cooperation will be essential for us to compete For the magnitude of dollars that we need in order to implement these plans I will say that Watsonville City of Santa Cruz the county are all have We all have building energy transportation and weight How we so is maybe a little bit different But we are looking for those synergies across the region I can't see necessarily the regional parking facilities, but of course with respect to transportation Waste and building energy. There's ongoing it going right now Which I do think will make us more competitive for these larger But I need you know to be as you saw we're talking about a minimal seven million dollars likely to be able to implement this plan and You know, we're gonna have to be thinking differently about how we access funding and it's not all gonna come from grants either And as and you recognize the great point that I still mention is that we already have a couple hundred million dollars deferred capital that We can't fund right through our general fund So that is another very important consideration. It's how does this work? You know step up and some of that's overlapping, but it is different and those are the difficult choices You know that we're gonna need to make going forward My only other question. Thank you. Yeah, I was in like regional like Places where people pull in there's more of a regional charging ability, you know, not so much like you're gonna park there all day But like I mean back across the county is I guess my other question is You know, I think about the bar development pattern and the downtown sense or over the next years Over the decade which really that focus quite a lot of focus I would imagine if someone's so how do you calculate if someone being downtown, you know Where they are now, how do you? How do you make those assumptions about where they may travel for school or other? I mean is there kind of calculation that's Bellups, I'm just curious like maybe a family couple families who are living in live. Oh for other places up and down ever They're able to get into one of these whether it's whatever level of portability or market rate or what have you moved downtown City or they were county or what have you how do they how do you how do you measure that? Yeah, thank you for that question. So the miles are Modeled through a number of different inputs Included including transit oriented development like you just mentioned on central Housing and so it all gets plugged in for a model and then that Obviously black box that I'm saying But theoretically in what I just presented to you in 2019 in 2030 our VMT should look different because of that transit brain to develop and what that model States so that's that's how we go about Quantifying and there's obvious full back-end of calculations that go into that but from a simplified perspective. That's how we would Understand if what we're doing it is working Thank You Rosemary your presentation was so informative and really You know inspirational for what we can look forward to in the years moving forward I Guess my question is the same one that I caught up click on my first council meeting is that We have those The natural gas power plant moss landing that supplies a lot of power to our region and so for me I'm still confused How converting it from natural glass to electricity is More carbon neutral than just using it as natural gas appliances dryers water heaters That's right. Like how does that? Yeah, so you're you're asking that kind of and that is electricity that we We procure will be a hundred percent renewable by 2030 Natural gas is not renewable and one thing just about is you can think about the grid is like the swimming and All of the power that's being provided is you know, like the water It's mixed together electrons get mixed together and now what we pull from yet Some that's to us, but it also could be electrons that come from somewhere else, right? And there's really no wayarily freeze that But I kind of digress So really the state Understands the state Objective is also to try to get away from natural gas mission natural gas power plants and to get everything into Electricity and then for us that's a hundred percent renewable electricity now PG&E the default Rider although they are not on as aggressive as a trajectory to Bring on renewable energy. They still have Lots of renewable energy assets that make electricity cleaner than natural gas The others related to natural gas aside from the high emission potential of converting to electricity is that natural gas is that has serious safety issues There has been a lot of deferred maintenance on natural gas equipment and Infrastructure where we see things like the San Bruno explosion happening and we know that the investor on utilities like PG&E Good up supported natural gas positions like ours because they recognize need to get rid of our Of the natural gas Infrastructure and then finally I want to point to indoor air quality and indoor space So those are some of the reasons why converting to elect for city is the way that the state and all of us are going and putting On climate action strategy. Thank you for the opportunity for a lot I need to explain that because I kind of jumped into that with just the assumption that everyone do that So thank you. No, I appreciate that. I didn't know thank you Thank you mayor and thank you so much Tiffany for the presentation and batting with me last week as well to get a little bit more background and understand this as best I can and So I just I think this great. I want to highlight a couple of things one the the incorporation of Transportation and vehicle miles traveled into the equation there to get us a more accurate Sense of what what I'm going to take and where the real balance is I think that Certainly, that's an area that we are doing a lot of good work And we have a lot of challenges as well at the regional level around what our transportation infrastructure build out is to look like and so And You know, I just appreciate that that but I have I have a couple of questions. So I'm one is related to this So I am but I before I do that. I just want to say, you know, I also really really Focus on equity and you know really trying to think about This proportionate impact of making some of these shifts either with respect to residential infrastructure building electrification, but also We know the cost The ability for people to move around in our community is constrained and so Having that as a lens through which we make our decisions is is just like I'm just thrilled that it's happening I'll leave it there So with respect to the question around and I know that the city has done Very very well Promoting active transportation developing infrastructure bike head infrastructure. I wish we were doing better on Protected bike lanes and some of the other things I think will make bicycling more attractive to people and Obviously a lot of other things, but I wanted to ask specifically about our own vehicle fleet This is something that and this mate. This is really a question kind of more broadly. I'm not a quick This question, but I have been I've been on the couple really tried advocate for and bring up in at appropriate times the need for transitioning our own and Have had a lot of pushback. I'll just say I've had pushback from, you know, the staff and among my colleague And so I'm just wondering if and talk about The challenges or source if someone from staff, I don't I mark that all you're here You know, why is it so hard for us to really start moving in that direction and make a real dent in our field What are the challenges associated with that? What do you and then maybe back and mark as well On what we get more aggressive about that. I think that is fundamental No, like principle and out of actions that we can take And the sooner the better so but I also understand I mean the pushback I when I say that I mean they That's based on the reality is Operating and I'd just like to hear more about that. I think it's an area we better. I Also get So and I'm talking about now are all of her and I know that public work kind of has some Domain over those Or if I can handle that one mark that'll direct for public work. Um, that's a great question and one of the things that We'd all love to have is all that fleet. It does take some effort to get there First of all, let's talk about the steps that we've already done Most of our pool cars are all these Leafs and electric and we've done that probably That we're on the third generation vehicles now. So we've been doing this for multiple years And we encourage people to use the pool cars and reduce our fleet actually that's the best They have less less vehicles um Second thing is is having the charging infrastructure in place and we've gone ahead and we have charging at our All for those vehicles. We also have charging in our court guards But we're ready bring in vehicles electric vehicles when they are available That's the third thing you can't go and buy an electric truck right now. Which is the majority of our fleet You can't go to Ford and pick out Like the the advertisement on on television You can put in a reservation if they're still taking those and they're way out there months out as they haven't used yet We're going to start seeing those in the next year. They should start eating the street, but to ramp up their production you have all the cities and counties and Commercial looking to purchase these vehicles. They're just currently not available So what have we done? We've got our infrastructure our charging infrastructure in place. So when they are available We're also we've ordered one refuse truck and we have Grants that covered the additional four hundred thousand probably six hundred thousand total difference in cost of the vehicles between a diesel or a natural gas Or and an electric truck and that's just they are not making the volume and battery technology getting more efficient it the prices are coming down and We're gonna learn on the first generation Electric refuse truck just like we learned on the hybrid refuse trucks that we ordered And they have problems first generation always has problems just because they haven't worked out all the details yet And we'll help them figure those out, but it's a it's a transition process. So I Wish I wish we could go to the store and purchase those Electric vehicles. They're not there right now. They are that's We're we're very excited to get those vehicles. There's a lot less movie part of those things to repair The motor goes out you swap it out. It's not a major deal that have with a diesel engine enough So I think the technology is coming The height may be here before that actual, you know boots on the ground and we get get our hands on the vehicles But I will tell you as soon as we get that electric truck you struck We will be driving that around and highlight April or May is my understanding it should be here. So we're very excited Well, I hope that answers the question. It's it's availability of vehicles and it's cost those additional costs We go after the grant. We're having the infrastructure in place so we can charge those vehicles when we do Yeah I think in the past two years, we have just made a chance for progress in this area There's also a front loader and other medium and heavy-duty equipment that we're getting as Mark said We are stacking and you know, there's very real cost for charging when we have to replace major Transformers, it's not as easy as this You know putting an electric vehicle charger in So, yeah, I think that you're making substantial progress in this regard. We finished the study last summer to understand What else is possible? We need to test and innovate and grab Thank you. So it sounds like Then we are well positioned to take advantage of new technologies and Opportunities as they become available and I guess I'll just kind of harken back here to your point about the incorporation of social costs who are our cost analysis and I mean, if we're serious about Dressing our climate impact internally. I think that thinking about Maybe it is gonna cost a little it's gonna cost more money. I know it's not just a little more money now But over time that that goes in to our prioritization Make those kinds of decisions and you know, I don't know if it sounds like we're that's happening and I also think that Thinking about how how we But are you know our priorities What that means or so so I'll just that one aside it how many things I'd love to say Also the police fleet right the police vehicles, I mean I hear we hear that while you get them or they Customize but then we'll send me Information all the time saying yes it can so you know, I agree that there's there is some hype That kind of gets out in front, but then at the same time, how are we how are we so glad to hear it and Doing more my other question is I guess it's really more of a comment but sort of a question related to the equity component of this and how it is that well, who are alone come any members people who are struggling and Access the kind of assisted one for Your appliances for you know for it to electrify their homes but also I think member Goulders point about The monthly costs for using electric utilities and even when they're very efficient You know your electrical a lot higher. So I'm just and that rebates are going to be really important for Infrastructure and kind of equipment side, but also the ongoing costs and wondering Where is central post energy services and part of this Conversation and collaboration. I figured as much Because I know that they do a lot of really great work whether home weatherization and you know direct But other work as well Yes So like you I've been hearing from these focus groups that hey We didn't know there was income here incentives for electric vehicles. Hey, we didn't know about so number one Engagement it's going to be so critical on this Number two central post energy services is already in the low-income homes doing weatherization They can help us connect that they're part of the federal doing with Watsonville for just that And then secondly for the third rather We also need to look at folks who are on the fair and the fair rates, which are the rates for low-income folks and Look at how can we Is there something else that we can do to make sure that when they are electrofitted That they are energy groups not being increased and that is a primary goal of our building Electrification study that we have going on right now. So yes, you touch on all the right Steps to be looking at and again, I can't emphasize enough the engagement piece one thing I didn't mention, but I know I've talked to each of you about it under this project We will be launching a community activation platform that will help link people Into this like hey come on be part of this process teaming in Gamification to bring people in to understand how this collectively we can reach these goals But also to connect them to those rebates Senate that are out there and Yeah Hopefully we're gonna help us on that engagement piece that connects all so thank you for raising that issue Thank you, and I'll I'm finished for now. Thanks. Thank you for those questions Member coming thank you Thanks that presentation Tiffany and then You know great to be able to follow this process for a long time being on the climate action task force and Appreciate all your hard work and all the hard work of all the members of the community One question that I think comes up pretty often is how are carbon emissions measured in terms of you know like what cities are producing and Like how are they measured over time? I think A lot of people have been curious about the vehicle mouse travel this one, but are there other ways that? carbon emissions are measured Yes, and I would refer back to our 2020 climate action plan closeout report which Gives the specific metrics that we tracked to measure emissions Energy usage is another of those and we we are that data are readily available vehicle miles traveled is the other for transportation for waste it is the The volume of waste exposed And for wastewater treatment and process emissions, which there are specific calculations for now We know that those are State coping plan areas, but there are other areas where there is embodied carbon for example as I mentioned before in You know online purchasing and delivery diet Pardon sequestration Right now that's for carbon sequestration. They're not good measurement techniques They would require function based inventories that are complex and And we do not and nor do many jurisdictions in Calif that kind of Next question I'll try to make these quick because I know we have some other items We need to get to imagine the public want to ask questions So you mentioned that Watsonville met the like 40% reduction in their carbon emissions what we had nine I'm wondering if there's any Lessons that we can learn from lots of learning takeaways that can help us improve our meeting our emission goals Yeah, that isn't a matter necessarily of you know, one or the other doing better Watsonville does not include the Emissions of the vehicle miles traveled That and force starts within and or outside of the city And we do and as I said, you know We originally thought we met Our 20 30 our 2020 goal of a 30% reduction. So we thought we had a Reduction until we added in to an all vehicle miles travel which bumped up our emissions by 23 additional percentage and so, you know, they have lots of all has a different situation than we do is You know, they have a form and for equestration, which they Are going to rely on to meet their carbon neutrality at the rational target I do think that Watsonville has done a really great job of engaging their community Especially obviously the Spanish speaking community that we can take lessons from they are innovating outside of the box on things like bio car and other kind of, you know Technologies that we're not necessarily talking about here right now So I'm not sure it's an apple to apple comparison, but as I said, we are certainly learning from one another We talk every week and we are coordinating on a lot of people Priorities that we have really are what I share. Thanks. I think it would be good to as you all are having those kind of conversations around regional approach good to like Get a sense or see if there's any opportunity for us to be able to set with jurisdictions to be able to set With their metrics so that for example, if we're comparing ourselves to Watsonville, you know Watsonville's that 40% Santa Cruz is meeting nine There's different metrics. It's gonna be really hard for people in the community to understand why we're not meeting The goals that other companies are meeting So maybe even just showing those as like two different options like under, you know, this scenario With the apple miles travel taken out how other people Measure carbon emissions in the region, you know, we have a 30% reduction But putting this, you know adding this factor brings us down and I know that we've explained that to us today But I'm just trying to think if there's ways that we can try to streamline this across the region It would really think be helpful for people throughout the region to understand how well we're doing No, absolutely. You raise a great point and there has been a lot of discussion around Preparing regional climate action plan now that ambags very interested in something like that So there's a lot of questions because it is confusing. It's, you know Even when I showed you all the different targets that both have they're all different Different things some are sequel qualified. Some aren't can be really confusing and I really discourage people from Comparing apples to apples across the jurisdiction because of those nuances So thank you for that comment and hopefully more to come on the Collaboration of potential targets metric track and climate action. Thanks, and then my last question So You've given us a number of options today, I guess first part of the I guess I'll ask my first question. Do we need to adopt One of these party goals today. We don't okay, um, then I guess my second question is You know, you've provided us with a number of different options today As examples of how we can kind of set our goals I guess the first part of the question is Is there any consequence to not meeting those targets? And um, and I asked that because I you know Climate change is probably one of the biggest, you know threats to public health and threats to communities across the globe and Think that in our community many people want to see it set really high ambitious targets And so, you know, I feel like if there's not negative consequences to settle an ambitious goal Why don't we just go for that knowing that that's our that's our goal We're setting the bar high. We might not make it. We're going to do our best And so just wondering if you could maybe Speak to that a little because it sounded like trying to have a really ambitious goal could have negative impact on Like how we try to meet the goal. So Speak to that a little yes Yes, thank you for that question. So there is a consequence To not meeting people qualified tasks and that is it can be sued So that is important to remember that we are trying to go for a people qualified cap We are going Because it is strongest driver for us to reduce emissions and new development And it gives us that streamlined people approach However, you can adopt both the people qualified staff And a voluntary aspirational target Where if you do not meet the voluntary aspirational target that is outside of the People qualified staff There is not a legal consequence to that Right That's yeah, those are my questions and I guess comment. I think you know as we move forward I know the community that many community members have expressed this one. It's taking an aggressive approach So my hope is that you can Adopt a target that seems reasonable and feasible But then also as you've mentioned have an aspirational Kind of voluntary target that we're willing to try to meet as well So we can kind of have a win-win situation for everyone Thanks Thank you council member Cummings Uh, let's meet council member Calentari Johnson and then council member Watts Thank you mayor and thank you so much tiffani for the presentation and all the work Um, I have a couple of questions and some comments I had a similar question is that council member Cummings but sort of the flip side is Are we more competitive for funding opportunities if we do Commit to the aspirational more aggressive targets potentially If we're aligned with the state carbon neutrality target that bodes well for us on the state level There is some private sector funding that wants to see a 2030 aspirational target adopted that we may or may not be competitive for So potentially Okay, that's great. So it's something for us to consider Um, and then you know in in terms of thinking about regional metrics where and I don't know Know the answer to this or how we can think about it, but how do the four cities fit Within the county targets as the county is going through that process I know you said that we're we're communicating with each of the jurisdictions and we're talking to the county But but is there Um, you said there isn't apples to apples, but how do the four cities fit within the county targets? That is tbd the county has started their process and they have been Incredibly inclusive and thoughtful in their process Had a number of streets already As as a city, but I don't know how that's going to play out so far in their existing climate action strategy We did not There was not any kind of crosswalk like that But they are seeing they do see also that They don't need to reinvest the wheel on a lot of work that we've done Whether it comes to the equity-based work community engagement the building electrification. So, you know Again, it's really to say because they're just started the process. They're coping right now very early Okay, great And then just a couple comments. I know you mentioned that you're working very closely with each of the departments but as we heard weeks ago around State housing bills and that we will be engaging On advising our housing element in our general plan It's a really great opportunity to look at the intersection of our climate action efforts transportation and housing and how we want to move forward with housing Um, so that's a great opportunity there. And then I was also really pleased to hear and see about the equity screening tool and the community engagement efforts that that you have put into place And I know that you've already reached out and done focus groups with youth But we've now formalized our relationship with the youth action network And they're youth steering committee. So hopefully we can continue to engage Um, um, at least that youth group with not others has continued this work I welcome I talk with anybody that wants to talk about this stuff particularly youth and shortly underrepresented folks We're seeking to talk Great. Thank you so much for all the work Thank you Thank you Calentari Johnson and uh councilmember Watkins I um, well, I'll just echo my colleague's comments and appreciation of the plan and the work that has gotten us this far I think the majority actually of my questions have been asked and answered in regards to the fleet and the challenges associated with that I guess I was curious about the penalty or sort of the accountability of state legislation And I know you got into it a little bit with, uh The potential of being sued I just I'm thinking about how far along the city of Santa Cruz is in terms of our prioritizing, um climate action and mitigations and, um adaptability And in comparison to other jurisdictions with more urban sprawl or less of an In doing so Where do like where does that fall in terms of state legislation in terms of accountability with you know, how we move forward In terms of operationalizing the legislation and the plans Yes, thank you for that question comes to member Watkins the accountability on the resilience work is not tied To the emissions work that we're doing right now. Um, that is through separate legislation In terms of the accountability on the climate action plan itself It comes down to thresholds that we're developing for development comes through and If we cannot demonstrate the progress that we said we needed to make which I outlined today as the sp32 minimum If we cannot so that we made that progress that sucks up for legal risk and so and could invalid some of Developments that came through on a streamlined environmental And so that that's I have to say though. I am not expert um, but that is From a high level Stand the risk to be in terms of accountability now with that said Part of our implementation plan Will include accountability mechanisms to ensure that we are making sufficient progress for whatever our Qualified target will And so that will be an important part is that whole accountability mechanism Allowing us to of course, you're not on track Because we do need to you know, we will need to make those emissions reductions to adopt And in terms of like how that relates to other locations like with urban sprawl and such like that how do you I mean just generally how do you anticipate them, you know adapting to this new legislation in full Well, if if they choose to pursue a people qualified cap They will have to develop their own threshold that they will be held to You know that their climate action plan demonstrates Hey, the city itself is going to make these reductions and You know these developments then get this streamlined review process, but also have lower emissions Health other That have a school qualified cap will have will be under the same Types of scenario that they have to have some accountability. Otherwise, they'll be in Okay, um, no, I appreciate that and then in terms of the You know the I know you mentioned it in your presentation about a five-year update And I think that makes a lot of sense, especially because I feel like You know from the meta level of the count, you know, the state of california is really setting this Um aspirational target kind of goal with technology. Hopefully kind of you know, hopefully Keeping up and then innovating to the next level. So having those checkpoints and earlier Kind of update potential to really adapt that I think really benefit our community and our plan in general. Okay. Thank you, Tiffany Absolutely. Thank you so much council members Thank you. Um, I and I'll just chime in uh quickly. Thank you for all the questions All of my questions regarding the equity Screening tool I just have to emphasize I appreciate the focus on You know looking at affordability and accessibility and um I have two questions. What is biotar and what are next steps being now in March? Well, biotar is not something I know a lot about but it's basically converting bio Facility into a From what we understand that's a very very early kind of nice technology You you had mentioned that in uh context waxenville. So I was Okay Now and or In the next study session, what do you see as kind of those next steps? We will be having more focus groups. We'll have the online engagement platform on the actions And we will be developing our implementate our draft implementation funding So those are the three key things that we'll be doing in preparation for that wonderful. Thank you so much Um public comment and we'll return to council for any further Back. So let me go to attendee List, um, if you're interested in comment on this climate action plan 2030 target setting study session press star nine On your phone to raise your hand And when it's your turn to speak you will hear an announcement And unmuted and the timer will be set to two minutes It looks like our first telephone number ends in 4 8 3 9 Hello press start Hello, I think I just been unmuted. Um, thank you so much for having this uh council session And because climate change is on my mind every day every moment My name is Megan Clements. I've been working. Um, we've been volunteering to the last few last month.  It's not an easy thing to do and you guys are our heroes for my children and our grandchildren that are going to be raised um in the town hopefully And um, we just really want to minimize the risk of climate change and you guys have the power to do it So I really appreciate you Tiffany so much for bringing everything you know to this point And I hope that all you council members will Support Tiffany because I think she's super smart and she's including so many people to help create this plan And um, I I just want to say I vote for the aspiration to include the aspirational goals I think it builds hope in our community and it shows that we really want to do as much as we can And um, thank you very much. That's it. Thank you so much, Megan The next caller is Pauline Stills calling press stars I'm on zoom Okay I can hear you. Thank you. Thanks siphoning. This was great. I've been on the climate action task force for Two years and represent central cruise climate action network There was a lot of good stuff in this One of the things we have to keep in mind Is that the ultimate inequity this equity is not feeling adequately with climate Because the poor people will be hurt the most uh People who live in beach flats for example people who work outside working fields, et cetera, et cetera I'm very happy that equity Parts are being considered I want to really urge council to strongly consider these aspirations I'm old enough That I was around when Kennedy said goodness. What a man on the moon Now I was an aspirational goal. NASA had no clue About the detail But they knew they had a lot of good people And in that case what was lacking was the money technology was not there We have the opposite city The technologies we need are here It's just difficult to apply them without But the state budget is good. There will be more money in the future. Please go for the aspirational goal Thank you A Next caller I am watching you You are and plan on spending a lot of public money and plan to over-regulate people's lives and Choices under the guise of one of the greatest scams in history Namely the co2 climate change panic saved the planet fast as serious down I missed any slide where tiffany indicated a certain change to the earth's climate as a result of proposed action That is at what cost and are only discussing this in terms of government mandates in place that have no predictive value As climate is based on fear not unlike the covid response Which is the other fear-based current mass abuse of freedom Based on assumptions with no real scientific certainty The reason volcano near tanga probably had more climate effect than anything factors could ever do The eu which is the globalist control and and generally has embraced the climate change hysteria Has now declared gas and nuclear power green Because they realize there is currently no reliable energy alternatives to generate the power We need to turn an inhospitable planet into a hospitable planet My gas bill is pink and natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel essentially to water molecules in one CEO Because byproducts wouldn't burn plants love co2 and the earth is very resilient I won't get into the unresolved science for this but it is quite unresolved Consider we cannot predict a control even short term future weather to any extent let alone climate Need to embrace the idea we're in a 100 year warming trend in a longer 20,000 year warming No clue as to what really comes next perhaps even another ice age No one knows opinion largely follows the money mandates cannot be viable solutions I applaud the density per minute of climate buzzwords that Do out is aggressively advocating the maximum of changes on people's lives with no proof of value Climate change is all about money all about power and to quote George Carlin I have certain rules to live by and the first I don't believe anything the government does I'm not giving up my gas water here Or my gas fireplace Thank you. I am watching you Next caller is Sure be here Hello, city cap. This is a Peter B. Shea Can you hear me now? Good. Thanks. Um, and uh, I just want to let you know that I've done some Again, this is Peter B. Shea community is on for the city of Santa Cruz. I've done several Um several service for Tiffany and especially in lower ocean and each flat the underrepresented areas and just uh Over there throughout the community is always asking the question First of all, they say that always their word about getting electrified mostly because as it is in their neighborhoods The electricity goes off many times and when it comes back it ruins their appliances So there were the more and more we get off the grid that this is going to happen in the future And then the another major question they always have Yeah, I don't expect you to answer it But just throughout your communications in the future is also with the lower income people and underrepresented is also Where is all this energy going to come from kind of like The overall bigger question of where the power and the grid or the capability of the grid to Change all our economy and all appliances and our vehicles Uh, with an electrical system that's maybe beyond the city, but still something to think about uh as of the future Thank you so much Peter for that input Next caller allen Uh, can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you. Thank you. Great Well, uh, first, uh, great huge thanks Tiffany and her whole team for the work that went into this presentation and the ongoing work with the task force Which i'm hoping to finally get to join Uh, there was a lot to unpack It is a huge challenge That was not was getting the uh, two speakers ago viewpoints. I think the scientists 99.7 percent of them agree that we have a serious problem that's human cause what I was going to address is Your point about engagement and getting more people kind of riled up and divided participate Both in low income moderate income and affluent just across the board getting people really engaged And one way to do that Is this cool city dot earth organization that i've been working with i'm trying to get the city to be interested in working with them It's about working with people block by block And there's a pretty big amount of work involved in getting the application Together, but we take a look at petaluma which pulled it off or Irvine Believe it or not the city of la they've all won the award for this past year And I would love kennecrews win the award for this year And I would love to work closely with tiff me to make that happen It's a moonshot similar to the apollo program in a way trying to engage people at level of excitement and enthusiasm And it comes down to building relationship and really well organized employment So I hope hopefully you'll hear more from me over the coming weeks That's fine Thank you ellen Lanny Hi, thank you a santa christ city council and um, I only came on uh very shortly recently when I was asked to Come on and I'm glad that I did tiffani. I will definitely be reaching out to you I'm the director of equity transit a local organization here bringing the awareness around transit inequity and environmental justice to our community Um, I definitely want to look and listen to tiffani's presentation. I understand these are reported. So that's wonderful I appreciate justin's comment and agree with pauline. We love to see The reach for those aspirational goals. I think that's really essential Given the critical nature of our environment I just want to make a note that listening to recent global summits and glass cow and number of top environmental leaders Global environmental scientists realm That we really need to be thinking about getting away from any sort of highway widening because the long-term investment of that takes away from Our focus, which is public transportation We know that robust public transportation systems serve both equity and the environment And that really is where um, our razor focus should be leading And uh, let's see others. I wanted Yes, around eva e vehicles. I have a really great presentation. I'd love to offer to the climate action task force Um, that talks really about how even though e vehicles are a great step for us They really aren't the solution. They're part of the solution But they have their own degree of, you know, mining that goes into them and toxic rubber tires and all sorts of things that we have to think about the batteries and and all that go into those So we really think of long-term solutions, which is that we're talking about building systems that last long term Reduce our overall impact Thank you so much And that is um, February 4th is national Day and would really want to spread the information to invite the city and everyone to join us for that And we'll have more information Equity transit dot org. Thank you so much The next caller is phone number Like ending in four two two seven Throw on your phone press star six and mute yourself. I believe I've unmuted. Yes. Yes. Hello. Well, thank you Yes, hi. Thank you. This is Beverly Day show and with the electric auto association as well as I've been on Tiffany's task force and Tiffany and the team have really done a great deal of work. Oh, it's very impressive. So the presentation I had a couple of things that I wanted to clarify That I think got tossed around but didn't really completely get clarified and that's having to do with switching from electric The switching, excuse me from fossil fuels to electric which of course could be fueled by fossil fuel But we're looking for a renewable energy So the the argument is for the argument hasn't actually been clarified the argument is for Electrification because number one is renewable, which I think Tiffany did mention We can have it renewable whereas the natural gas is not renewable But secondly, they're way more efficient. So in my almost 15 years of doing educational events for electric vehicles Um, what we have learned and told people is that when you switch to an electric vehicle you immediately Reduce your emissions by approximately 75 percent because of the efficiency of the vehicle compared to burning gas um, and that's true also of heat comps, which that word was not mentioned. So what you switch from when you switch from your, um Your your heating unit for for air heating and also for water heating is a heat pump And what I've read is that they can be up to three times more efficient than their counterpart in natural gas Um, I've also read that they're not quite that much. So I'm not really sure entirely what that involves You know, what really what the what the um, is that is that cutting me off that noise? Yeah Okay, just one more quick thing and that is that they're um that we have looked For the future of having a lot of used electric vehicles that will allow for there to be equity Because they can be bought for extremely cheap.  Um, okay. Bye. Thank you Um, anybody is is welcome to email us and or especially from the task force for their input that was not able to in this part of comment Wanting to be mindful of other colors. The next caller is First in at least My council members and Tiffany. Thank you for a wonderful presentation. Can you hear me? Yes? great um A lot of wonderful information. I just want to i'm with pierce the whiskey the vice president of community programs that apology action And I just want to acknowledge the great work that tiffany has done and done a great job of including our task force feedback And she is leading our region in and figuring out real ways to center equity Throughout procedurally and involving people and it's been an honor and a privileged and a lesson to be part of that process and just a couple things that I want to um, just share from my perspective is I Really like the direction that it seems like this is heading where adopting real practical practical goals and then aspirational goals What that'll do is if we move the needle on those practical goals and get those advanced but have the aspirational goal As new technologies and opportunities and funding sources emerge We will have already done what we can and be ready for those next step opportunities. So we're strongly in favor In part of just being really real about that if you don't Move toward these aspirational targets, we're going to have more fires. We're going to have more blooding We're going to have more emergencies. We're going to have more health crises And it's going to become a man more unmanageable than it already feels like it is so while climate change feels expensive It's a root cause of a lot of these things that are causing our community a lot of distress And it offers the promise of coming up with some real dramatic and fabulous solutions Like increased community activity and a lot of the Transportation and housing solutions that Tiffany mentioned could really strengthen and create a really exciting new future for Human beings on the planet and here in Santa Cruz. So that's great The couple things I wanted to mention as well is while we're waiting to get the plan adopted Figure out the funding and adopt budgets. There's emerging needs right now One of which is the regional project development that Tiffany has mentioned. We're partnering actively funding to support project Or externally Um, so I'd really recommend you consider that and I'll I'll drop a quick email to the council to let them know Where that's at in the next week or so as we firm up what where that's headed. Thank you Thank you so much your spin and Any other callers that would like to call in for a public comment On climate action plan 2030 strategy target setting study session Okay Then we will return to the council for further feedback and comment any council members A council member brown Thank you mayor. I'll just say very quickly. Uh, thanks again and um, since I I didn't say it before in my comment slash questions I I absolutely agree. I really appreciate the way that organized and laid out the possibilities and I think we must Just absolutely must have been on us to adopt those aspirational goals and to do everything we possibly can to meet them um, it's there's just no There's no question in my mind and I I imagine that that's the case for my colleagues Most of the folks here who have been attended this meeting So I um, I just really appreciate all of the work that you've done the knowledge that you have and your ability to connect across the region with partners to really really, um, focus in and and Um, really really intentional about Aging with uh, community members voices aren't aren't often heard uh, and um, just keep going carry on and um, look forward to Uh, revisiting this in March Uh, as we into implementation Of various uh arenas, so let's let's do it council member brown or any other council members that would like to comment Well, if that is the case then, uh, we Will return at seven for our special Meeting advisory body interviews and this meeting will now be adjourned Thank you so much. I think we're just about ready to begin Looks like we are missing One council member, but we will go ahead and begin Good evening everyone. Welcome to our seven o'clock January 18th 2022 special meeting of the Santa Cruz City Council I have a few announcements and then we will move into our regular meeting Tonight's meeting is being broadcast live on community television channel 25 And streaming on the city's website city of Santa Cruz If you wish to comment on light's agenda item Now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen Please mute your television or streaming device Once you call in and listen through the phone Please note there can be a delay in stream streaming So if you continue to listen on your television or streaming device You may miss your opportunity to speak And it is time for a public comment press star nine On your phone to raise your hand When it is your time to speak during public comment You will hear an announcement that it's your turn to speak and you will need to press star six To unmute yourself You are on your phone The timer will then be set to two minutes You may hang up once you have made your comment And I would like to ask the city clerk, please call roll Mayor, member, commentary Johnson Visit Sir, here Here, thank you Before we get started, I would also like to announce that this is a special meeting Our topic this evening is to hear from applicants who have applied to various city council advisory bodies No oral communications or discussions on other items will be heard at this meeting I'll now open it up for public comment for anyone other than applicant Are there any members of the public who wish to comment on the advisory body interviews? If you are interested in commenting press star nine on your phone to raise your hand When it is your time to speak you will hear an announcement that you can unmute yourself by pressing star six The timer will then be set. Let me look at our attendees And see if anybody has their hand raised Don't see anyone with their hand raised Now on to our interviews The way I'd like to approach the flow of this meeting is to call on applicants by commission And then alphabetically by last name Due to the number of attendees each applicant will have an opportunity to speak one time each And will be called upon to speak on their first place advisory body And if anybody applied for more than one advisory body You may use this time to speak to those as well When I announce if you're turned to speak you will be invited to turn on your cameras to unmute yourself And to speak to council if you do not hear the announcement that you have been unmuted Please press star nine to raise your hand And I'll allow three minutes per person to speak about your experience for each of the advisory bodies who have applied to This time is a time for you to personally introduce yourselves to amplify your qualifications and relevant backgrounds Additionally, the meeting is mostly informal To allow the council to get to know you Council members have received and reviewed all the applications And now I will ask the clerk for any additional updates and or information Yeah, sorry Okay, great. Thank you. Does that conclude the additional any additional information? Okay, so let's jump right in. Thank you all for being here this evening I will Begin with the arts commission Please prepare yourself to be ready to speak. We have the the order of that have applied Alphabetically is Elizabeth Bernbaum Robert Glitzer Mary Pop Everett O'Keele Vivian Vargas and Grant Wickel First up, uh, Elizabeth Bernbaum is seeking re-appointment to the arts commission Elizabeth you will be promoted to the panelists if you are In attendance and then you will be able to unmute yourself and turn on your camera. I do see you here Yeah, welcome. Yeah, I'm not sure how to turn on my camera But I would love to But do you see an eye an icon are you on a device or a computer? I'm on a computer and it um, there's a microphone setting in a Your setting that's okay. If you can hear me. I don't mind. Um, It just I'll be super quick. So I know I'm the first one we can get moving. Um, thank you Yeah, of course. So hi everybody. I'm Liz Bernbaum. Um, been on the arts commission for four years and most recently serving as the vice chair um been thinking back a lot to my very first meeting four years ago when we sat in um In actually kind of like an additional session and talked about equity and inclusivity and environmental justice and I'm really passionate about making sure that those topics They on our radar and I'm really proud of the work I've done over the last four years um with still yet a lot to come And also our last meeting was about the you know, the card program the you know, the arts recovery program and Just listening to all the amazing work that's being done and has potential to be done um made me feel even more excited to just attend and say I would love to be a part of making all of that happen in the coming year and years on the arts commission because I was like emotional and like Screenshotting all these things and like making notes and texting folks about how amazing it all was. Um going to come together. So Um, I would just love to continue to participate. Thank you for listening to me Thank you, elizabeth Okay, next is Robert Blitzer If Robert Blitzer is in attendance If you are are you is your number ending in two three one six Press star nine to raise your hand if it is you are Robert Blitzer If I will move on to the next name alphabetically in the art commission And that would be Mary Name is not showing you have a phone number and I do call your name you need to raise Uh your hand by star nine So I'll move on to Everett Okay, Lynn. I don't I guess that's working Can you hear me? Okay. Yep. Thank you. Okay. I realize this room has a lot of echo I've read okay, um my pronouns are them and um, I am here tonight to um introduce myself and talk a little bit about my interests in joining arts council. Um, I recognize a lot of faces here. It's really brilliant to see everyone. Um, this is my first time for this position and um, I am I currently am the acting manager of exhibitions and special projects at the San Jose Museum of Art and History I'm actually currently in the gallery right now. We're in the throes of installing an exhibition for the Rydel fellowship for 20 and 2021. Um, all very exciting um my background in terms of working within public arts I received my masters in museum studies with the focus in contemporary art and working with public art and also in community collaborations My favorite thing about what I get the opportunity to be here at the MA is work with a range of different artists and communities and so it's just really been such a joy and a pleasure to do that and I would like to see you in doing that if you're working with arts council um, I was a middle school teacher for over 15 years here in the county and I also was the assistant principal at two elementary schools here in the county and I coordinated the after-school program and current outreach programs when I retired I volunteered to help out the census 2020 and I chose an art contest as one way of Sheen the community. This was the children and youth in the beach flats community and the lower ocean communities These were areas that in the previous census were under counted To help me with this contact of this contest. I contacted latinx businesses owners Employees and this is back areas back others the produce stands all of these people to help me Distribute the art and materials for this contest information about the contest and also Flyers on the importance of the census I was also from 2011 to 2015 the latino fairs commissioner for the city of santa cruz And last year I founded riders of color santa cruz county and we are working to bring our stories forward I am interested. I want to be on this arts contest because I believe in the power of art to make our lives better I feel that what I bring to the table is the ability to listen to uh to learn and to also um Years also I have years of experiences So I want to thank you for uh giving me this opportunity To present myself and uh, thank you for considering my application for the arts commission Thank you vivian for that For watkins. I think the loss payer owner Yeah, or just coming back Yeah, yeah, never mind I had to check it wasn't me Okay, I would like to invite our last arts commissioner applicant grant wipple Grant you will be promoted to panelist if you are in attendance And you will then be able to unmute yourself See if you are on a telephone you can press star nine to raise your hands And I do not see grant that will conclude the arts commission applicant We will now hear from applicants who chose the commission for the prevention of violence and women As their first place of advisory body As I call your name, please prepare yourself and be ready We have Debra Christy, Rachel Kippin, Emma Lagina and Samantha Rose Lee that have applied And if I start an alphabetical order Debra Christy will be first I don't see Debra Christy. So I will move on to Rachel Kippin And Rachel Kippin if you are here We'll just take a moment. I believe you will be promoted. There we go to panelists Wonderful technology is working Hi, thank you. Thanks so much for the opportunity to introduce myself and share a little bit more about my My name is Rachel Kippin. My pronouns are she her hers And I know you've seen my application but just to kind of reiterate some of the experience I have that Makes this commission feel like a good fit I've lived in this town for a decade working primarily in sustainability, climate, waste issues, environmental education and ocean conservation And there's a lot of eyes Issues in all of those fields. I have formal academic experience and understanding women's issues And women's rights through graduate studies, social ecology and environmental justice Unfortunately, like most women I have personal lived experience I don't think that needs to be a requirement, but the experience does count In casual daily sexism systemic misogyny and gender violence by places of work and study And I've written about these issues in my twice month call on Santa Cruz I'm currently on the commission on the environment for the county of Santa Cruz where I've helped an ad hoc in a diversity Justice environmental justice understanding the nuances bias And I didn't mention this my application, but I was a grant award winner in 28 As an scholar for my work in sustainability and intersection with feminism and my native Hawaiian heritage And that was under the subtopic of environmental justice Is only genuine if it ain't I think I'd be a good fit for this commission I might understand that there's a wealth of experience people who have careers domestic violence prevention and Women's shelter and housing, job force development, health care, reproductive rights But I also understand the ramifications of women's the betterment of women has been far beyond their traditional understanding in our society Sexism and then violence against women is a commonplace in science and field work and research and in ocean careers and that happens I would hope to help Bridges into those sectors and enhance any work that is already done on the commission in that area I've led training and initiatives related to equity women's rights and most recently received grant for a former organization an LG Training program. I'm amongst multiple environmental education Safe work Typically, yet there are a lot of shared Violence against women. I'm in gender violence. I guess ultimately I'll just keep coming back to the fact that we're Really supporting women and STEM and science and education and sustainability fields and then ultimately leading them to places that are unsafe Pull the bad times or workplaces that they're in. I mean, there's so much opportunity to shift that culture. Um, and I Be great. Thank you Thank you so much for introducing yourself, Rachel Thank you for your application.  You can press star six mute yourself or Here as a panelist Wonderful. Hello. Welcome. Thank you. Um, good evening mayor and council. Thank you for having me Um, also that last person was great. Well done, Rachel Um, as you can see from my application, I have both professional and lived experience that qualify me for this position I have a master's degree in social work from columbia university While I was in school there, I worked in a revolutionary safe house for women and children in manhattan And I also worked as a therapist and advocate for women and children in a safe house when I lived in colorado I also have a decade of experience working with child welfare services in three different states including recently most recently I spent six years at santa cruz county child welfare services Obviously in child welfare, many of my clients were women and children who had experienced violence in their homes In that role, I often was able to work with local law enforcement victim advocates And both monarch services and walnut f women's center and I put solid working relationships around the city and the county Um, I now currently work as a therapist at the parent center where I work with parents who are currently involved in the child welfare system So again, many of my clients have experienced violence in their homes And have navigated all of the systems and programs associated So I have both an intimate and professional understanding of the needs of women and children experiencing violence I've experienced engaging them in their own advocacy and healing And I know what we do well in the city and where the opportunities for growth I have a deep commitment for creating safe spaces for women and children and ensuring the supports that they need to create those spaces for themselves So I'm going to say for now. Thank you so much for considering me for this role Thank you very much for your application Thank you We have one more applicant Samantha Rose Lee Yes, Samantha is here Samantha if you are here and you are on a telephone device you can use your hand by pressing r9 I will move on Let's move on then to the next category. Thank you for the commission for the prevention of violence against women And now the next category will be the downtown commission We will now hear from applicant who chose the downtown commission As their first voice of advisory bodies As I call your name, please prepare yourself. Be ready to speak Carolyn s Kelly generally Dolan Savannah Hartwell Bob radar and Rafa Sonan Feld First step is carolin book. Kelly carolin. You will be promoted panelists And then you will be able to unmute yourself and turn on your camera the carolin here In Welcome carolin Hi, thanks for having me. Um, my name is carolin. Kelly Thank you for having me here today. This is my first commission position. I am applying for I have a lot to learn and appreciate the opportunity to learn from other commissioners and from the community I'm a mother I've had the opportunity to travel and live in many places as a resident owner visitor to the downtown area I hope to have a meaningful impact As well as by the bylaws of downtown commission. I do own property downtown Thank you for your consideration Thank you so much carolin for introducing yourself I have generally Dolan He generally Are here Hey There you go Okay, welcome generally Hello You see out there. Yeah, okay. Hi Hi, welcome. Um, thank you. Thank you guys for having me. I am honored to be here tonight with you guys Um, so I would love to be on this downtown commission as a member um a variety of reasons and What is downtown and my love and passion for it? But just kind of start with the background of history I have been a founding board member of the children's museum of discovery As well as the chair of the children's advisory council for that I co-founded helped launch part enhance the camp for children with cancer. I'm going through their journey and their families Um, but more notable for the downtown in my back there Um, I am why must I'm a single mom of three little amazing girls and I own two businesses downtown yosu wellness spot in yosu the anix And I have been in business nine and a half years, but happily located three and a half in the downtown Um area as well as yosu the anix. I opened during covid in the pandemic Um, as other businesses were unfortunately closing. I was so honored to be able to open a second business um in the heart of our community And still continue to thrive as a personal service business and reach a location in downtown Um, which has been such an honor to be in that space. Um, I have also been a member of the Alliance of Women Entrepreneurs downtown I'm have you know a variety of different impacts I make and volunteering and supporting our downtown Um, well, I'll go again and say like the heart of what is santa cruz Um, I am also for the last three years been a member of the downtown association And um, I'm currently for the last year the chair of the marketing committee for downtown And I have worked spent some time doing some work and sponsoring supporting the downtown streets team doing events with them I participate in a variety of different beautification projects and Um sponsorship and activities within our community And really believe in the longevity and the vibrancy that the downtown Currently has and has to come in our future and would love to be a part in helping that process along um, I've also within our downtown area started with a product what we call bridging the gap and that was to do a River for the San Lorenzo River restoration beautification And we have picked up our first time we did that we got over 500 pounds of trash cleaned Um, we've received awards from the county for the difference award from that and we felt Two of those and we're actually coming up with our third one coming. We've caused due to covet but So my heart is very much dedicated and committed into this downtown base for my business for my own enjoyment for our community That larges enjoyment children and their future enjoyment. And so I'm here to Provide what I can support that process and I would love to be considered sit here Thanks Good timing Thank you so much generally Next we have I would like to invite savannah Hartwell And let me see if savannah is here Don't see savannah. If you have a phone number you Ask star nine to raise your hands Okay, I will move on next in alphabetical order. This is for the downtown commission applicant bub radar Bub if you are here See okay, I will move on I do see rafa sonan felt This is the Final applicant for the downtown mission You will be promoted to panelists Or you are welcome rafa We'll have three minutes. Thank you for having me Um, good evening. My name is rafa sonan felt Speaking now on behalf of my candidacy for an open seat on the downtown commission I'm serving on the council appointed advisory body which I had the honor to do in 2019 when I served On the community advisory committee on homelessness Requires resourcefulness and a dedication to open communication As well as being able to synthesize community feedback and creativity when it comes to identifying solutions that are That work for multiple stakeholders with competing interests These are all qualities and experience that I will bring to this role Having capable leaders experienced in developing public policy is critical to the success and vitality of our downtown I'm committed to bringing an evidence-based approach open-mindedness and responsiveness to help guide our city through some of the more vexing challenges we currently face Whether they be balancing the transportation and parking needs of downtown workers shoppers visitors and residents We're helping our downtown businesses not just recover from pandemic economic challenges, but thrive heading into the future We're meeting the needs of all of our members Of our community downtown with access to adequate hygiene facilities and solutions to security and safety challenges proud to say that during my time serving on the catch many of the policies I helped develop have Been adopted by the city and become official city policy or programs Serving that role as well as in others as a community organizer and resident of downtown Santa Cruz I've had the opportunity to work closely and effectively with city leaders Um elected leaders planning staff the department has including those from our libraries parks and rec police and public works departments I also have experienced being a part of our working professional downtown community Having recently worked for the county managing the covet 19 expansion shelter program at that's hall working with some of the most vulnerable members of our community and being responsive to neighboring businesses needs I've um Are two qualities that I've had in that role I've also been invited to attend meetings of downtown forward and form relationships with many advocates and leaders for the prosperity of our downtown community In summary, I'll be a forward-thinking commissioner who hit the ground running with an understanding of the challenges we face today While having the experience dedication resortsfulness and commitment to help our community Uh, both downtown and at large uh prosper and thrive for years to come. Thank you very much Thank you so much Rafa That concludes our downtown commission applicant We will now move on to it looks like the historic preservation commission I will um Go in alphabetical order. We had two applicants in this category Don Lawrence and Joe Meekalock As I call your name, please prepare yourself be ready to speak Don you will be first alphabetically by last name And I do see you don't work So you will be promoted to a panelist And you will have a minute. Thank you mayor and members of the council Uh, I would like to be Appointed to the city historic commission. I've served on it the last four years Whereas the second choice to be appointed to the city planning commission I've been the chair of the historic commission of last year and I'm a retired retired city planner with a master's degree in urban planning And I'll have almost 40 years experience in planning Been a local resident since 1992 and I'm very interested in the city of Santa Cruz and the county of Santa Having good planning and historic I concentrated in urban design and historic preservation during my work city of Santa planning department in 1994 2000 I was the department's principal staff for the city historic commission at that time for about 10 years In that position, I was in charge of production and hearings for the volume three historic building survey document 2013 And also for associated ordinance amendments to make historic related permit requirements more user During that time I handled permit review for numerous historic buildings including the falls tannery on river street Bobahia building on beat street and the reconstruction of the st. George hotel and del mar theater on pacific I also process numerous sign design permits for construction of large buildings on pacific avenue including the mixed use buildings at the former bookshop santa cruz site At the pacific and so cal corner wherever 21 is located And at the north pacific river street I found a couple of some retails I I serve on the friends of my friends of how line works historic art at ucsc And museum of art and history landmarks community minister The museum's historic As you can tell i'm very interested in historic preservation I thank you for your attention to Wonderful thank you so much don for taking the time to introduce yourself Next I will call joe michela And invite him to speak Welcome joe you will have three minutes. Good evening, uh, mayor brunner and fellow councilman My name is joe michael and I've served on the preservation commission for the last four years Serving as chair for two years and as commission of the last now My focus on the HBC has been public engagement And education and training and with public engagement. I believe with Really, uh, give them a great of contact for preservation Really develop their consciousness about serving neighborhood character Development sense of place And looking at all the significant elements that help build community Uh in terms of education and training As you're probably aware The learning curve the HBC is state you not only have to understand Sequa the ordinances you have to understand how the secondary standards are applied locally and throughout the country so I focused on a considerable amount of training to understand illegal implications of preservation as well as architecture public policy And the areas of that nature. So, um, that's what I have to say and I would think if you Do or do not appoint me the commission again I would just like to point out My colleagues on the commission Are very helpful very talented people and I appreciated, uh, certainly working with That's Thank you Thank you very much Joe Thank you We will now hear from applicants who chose the parks and recreation commission as their first place of advisory bodies As I call your name, please carry yourself be ready to speak In alphabetical order we have Bradley Angel Jorge Leonardo Cruz Jane Mio Pino Paula and Jacob First up is Bradley Angel Bradley Are you in attendance? If you are on a device you Mine Raise your hands Okay, I will move Forward to the next name alphabetically Jorge Leonardo Cruz Are you here? You don't see Jorge Okay Next, uh, I have Jane Mio and I do see Jane here. So Jane Well, you will be promoted to Panelist and then you'll be able to unmute yourself and turn on your camera Everybody is the council members. So I want to thank you for reading my application and I An opportunity to give you my nutshell version Of why I would love to be reelected To the position of park and recreation Permissioner so every fiber in me realizes that Huge improvement tremendous rich experiences to our community's quality Life as has been shown during the provost situation The city and park Open spaces off a wide array of diverse environments that allow For inclusive different recreational activities And also the city staff Build the recreational city staff Builds community spirit with its class and event So I view the park in open spaces as a city community pressure Paired for by the entire entire park and recreation staff And it assures that they make the impossible possible Truly they do And so as a commissioner it was really a huge privilege to be part of that team And striving for win-win situations for any of the issues that would come up He's so honored to keep working on what I love The community pressure our park open spaces And I thank you for all that you do for the Namaste Thank you so much Dane. Thank you for producing yourself less and for your application I will move and invite the next applicant Dino Paula Let's see if Dino is here No, Dino. Okay Jacob Paula I do see Jacob Jacob will be the final applicant for the parks and recreation commission Welcome Jacob Hey, let's see. I got myself on muted Get me a video be me. Yes wonderful Hello, I'm dr. Jacob Paula. I'm a father and a research ecologist And I've been a member of the Santa Cruz community since 1988. I got my BA and At the UCSC environmental studies department. I also got a phd there through the environmental studies and the biology department I've been studying ecology and enjoying this outdoor natural areas in Santa Cruz for many many years As a conservation biologist and a natural naturalist. I have knowledge and appreciation of the outdoor world There will be a strong asset in helping advise the parks Also as a father of twins my family and I have used and enjoyed the park the beaches the open space the pools Fall fields biking and hiking areas and classes These services have literally helped me raise my kids to be compassionate caring people Parks and rep does a wonderful work helps make Santa Cruz a wonderful place to raise kids And improves our collective quality of life. I hope to work toward maintaining and improving all of these services At this point I have some time and would like to give back the community that has helped raise my family so well The parks and rec department is probably the department. I have most familiar with the most qualified to advise As an active community member I have served on numerous nonprofit and educational advisory committees and boards I've worked as an outdoor recreation leader little league coach volunteer ranger and a volunteer natural I've helped teach in the schools here served on hiring committees and interfaced with teachers and parents as a member of site I am clear thorough and independent in my I listen well to others. I'm able to come up with independent opinions and fair compromise My goals for this commission are mainly to help keep parks and rec department running smoothly Ensuring equitable access and encouraging more people to use the wonderful facilities and open spaces we got I would also like to ensure the restoration and conservation for the enjoyment of future generations Thanks for listening. Thanks for hearing me. I'm available if you wish to talk to me or call me and talk to me Ask more detailed questions, etc. Okay, so much forward to your decision Wonderful. Thank you so much. Jacob. Nice to meet you That concludes our parks and recreation commission applicants We will now hear from chose the planning commission as their first voice of advisory bodies As I call your name Please prepare yourself to be ready to speak I think this commission had the most applicant Alphabetically we have elizabeth conlon Candace elliott Pete kennedy Kenneth matlin John macklevy Philip mechis Mark misciti miller Daniel nelson Ron cormorant Charles pro grace William Schultz Sarah wickel and sean williams First up will be alphabetically by last name elizabeth conlon elizabeth I see you here. You will be promoted to panelists and then you will be able to We'll have three minutes Good evening mayor and members of council I'm elizabeth conlon and hoping for the opportunity to serve santa cruz by joining the planning commission Many of you know me through my involvement in local perm housing group santa cruz. YMB I understand that serving on planning commission differs significantly from being community activists If appointed, I will be objective and seek to work with fellow commissioners provide council With the best possible recommendations on issues related to city land use policy I believe that my activism reflects how much I care about our community particularly housing affordability And it has also given me familiarity with many local regulations and state laws that will be relevant to items for planning commission Apart from my interest in housing and land use policy I work as an agricultural researcher and have a master's in horticultural sciences As a scientist, I've experienced experience plunging into unfamiliar topics And i'm ready to read up on new topics and show up to commission meetings prepared with relevant follow-up questions for staff applicants and others I hope to have the opportunity to serve And also to advance land use and building policies that align with your priorities Including affordable housing equity and climate resiliency Thank you for your consideration Wonderful. Thank you so much, elizabeth Next I have applicant Candice elliott. I'd like to invite wonderful Welcome Candice I just want to thank you all for having me and start out by saying what a wonderful group of candidates that you have to choose from My family has participated in planning and construction in central california for close to a hundred years My grandfather was the mayor of his hometown And we continue to provide 30 units of affordable housing to farm workers My father is a construction project manager and owner's rep and has been building in the coastal zone for more than 20 years So i've grown up with planning and construction as a part of our dinner and table conversations forever I am a mother and I rent a home in downtown santa cruz and have been living in the county for about 10 years My involvement in local issues began in 2013 with my position as the hr manager for the glass jar restaurant group I started attending city council rtc and supervisor meetings on issues which affected my staff including housing and transportation specifically advocating for affordable and market rate housing Housing development at transit hubs and enhancing transportation options between north and south county I've been interested in serving on the planning commission for many years But I wanted to spend some time working with local organizations And understanding issues before applying so I worked on measure h the affordable housing bond measure I've been on the boards of directors for paharo valley loaves and fishes the homeless garden project The santa cruz downtown association the santa cruz county business council And the santa cruz county workforce development board I was also the co-chair of the community advisory committee on homelessness And I worked for the city and the economic development department on a variety of issues affecting downtown Including um the property based improvement district project I'm currently a small business owner and consultant and I work with hundreds of local small businesses and non-profit organizations On human resources systems development. That's what my master's degree is in it's in human resources and I understand that the planning commission will be reviewing and making recommendations on the issues that will impact the development of our community for decades to come And I believe in increasing density in already dense areas preserving open space and farmlands And improving infrastructure that supports everyone who lives here And I hope that I represent the direction that you would like to lead Or the direction that you would like to head and thank you for considering my application Thank you very much campus Thank you for your application I will now call on Kennedy to speak I see you with your hand raised You will be promoted to panelists and then you will be able to speak welcome Have three minutes Are sick to unmute yourself All right, is that better? Yes, I can hear you. Sorry about that. Um Yeah, thanks for taking the time Interview me I've uh was served on planning commission for eight years and was turned out for two I'm really interested in getting back to the wonderful work that we did. We had a really good commission built a lot of housing Hard to say what I'm most proud of I think it was our work on the edu's that we did We revised those three times over eight years And each time the state came back a few more two more two more two more So that's what I'm really looking forward to do Doing if I were reappointed is uh doing that good work Building housing for our town The last thing I want to point out is uh, I do working green building clean energy and I just really want to continue to focus on uh Taking the amazing things we're doing on the scale of buildings Doing the neighborhood bigger and bigger as a way to solve this climate crisis We are not getting out of this burning natural gas in single-family homes I'll tell you that as I sit here in my single-family home So, uh, I just see planning and the climate planning coming together here full city planning and So thanks again for your time. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions and uh I promise I'll get better at work soon Thank you so much Pete Now I invite Kenneth Matlin, Kenneth it will be promoted to panelists. You are here But see if I can find you if you are on a device you are Time to raise your hands Kenneth I do not see you I will move on Let's see it looks like I will now call on John Nacklevy Planning commission John are you an attendant? you're Missing anybody be gone Next up We have Philip beckis who I do see Philip you will now be promoted to Panelists so you will be able to introduce yourself and speak You will have three minutes to speak Good evening Having me and for considering me um Just want to say that interested in this I think really because I've grown up here And I'm part of the generation to here continue to live here I have the opportunity to employ lots of people from the area as well as throughout county Able them part of their lives as they continue to hope and I'd like to be able to see them stay Continue to be a part of this community Um, I am a homeowner here interested in preserving character of the city as well as just Godless Do it listening objective learning Liberating coming to conclusions and really just working for common good If I have the opportunity to be a part of this excited to see what we can do what we can accomplish to enable all Santa cruisans to Continue to be Santa cruisans really just Best city opportunity for Who's here ends up living here Hopefully to stay here That's about all I have and just thank you for considering Confliction Wonderful. Thank you so much Philip Thank you for your time I now invite mark misty d miller mark You are here wonderful. You will be promoted to panelists Be able To your application for planning commission. Welcome mark. Now you can see Yeah, greetings mayor Brunner and fellow council members First I just want to say thank you for your service I am well aware of the incredible sacrifices you make to lead our city and deeply grateful I'm also grateful for the opportunity I've had to serve as a planning commissioner in the past Serving two terms by being elected as chair I'm also grateful for the opportunity to serve as a member of the water supply advisory committee As a 39 year resident of the city of Santa Cruz I know one thing Santa Cruz is going to change That not changing is not an option That this change will involve growth Growth be a powerful tool If properly managed For shaping Santa Cruz into a better or sustainable more equitable More prosperous community That we all want Santa Cruz to become I am a big fan of walkable livable communities Active transportation Housing especially affordable housing Transit oriented development The quality design in the built environment I promise to give you the city council The best recommendations and advice Based on thorough review rigorous analysis And deep understanding of the issues brought before the planning commission Thank you for considering my application I would welcome the opportunity to serve the city again Good night Thank you mark Have a wonderful evening Thank you I will now call on Daniel Nelson See Daniel is here. I see yes Daniel welcome You will now be promoted great panelists Getting the hang of this Hello Daniel you will have three minutes And introduce yourself Hey Mayor Brenner and council Thank you for considering my application I'm currently serving on the downtown commission And have enjoyed the work The last year we've collected in luthies for the first time Responded to the changing landscapes of the COVID pandemic Highlighted a popular park program for downtown restaurants I also enjoyed learning about new projects coming up in the downtown area It's really an exciting time as we're going to expand downtown to south Moral options for new and improved courier stadium stadium Building a new library Building a new library I'm applying for the planning commission Because I want to serve the community During this dynamic time of growth Work closely with council staff and the comm