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8e Page 2 such as neighborhoods, or historic housing - these vary depending upon the town. To aid in understanding traffic implications and traffic counts, they created a traffic district to attribute the number of trips and understand the value of linked trips. An overall mobility strategy was created with multiple types of mobility and uses such as shuttle, train, bike~ pedestrian and trolley help to show the entire picture and benefit of development that is dense but has multimodal movement. Climate change and jurisdictions responsibilities to respond were discussed in length. Especially valuable was ICLEI staff person, Garrett Fitzgerald's five point approach to climate protection: fnventoty your emissions, establish targets, develop your climate action plan, implement climate action plan, then monitor/evaluate progress. The first three can be done through oW' relationship with ICLEI; the last two rely upon us. ICLEI has tool kits, a handbook and 150 different strategies to choose from. Their website is www.icleLusa.org (Redwood City is a new member ofICLEl.) fn developing a plan we would want to know our choices and what options are best. A sample of the 150 different strategies and resource areas include: energy efficiency, renewable energy, energy generation. alternative fuel vehicles, TOO, and trip reduction. Benefits can be achieved from bicycle and pedestrian planning with linked circles of activity for housing, jobs, shopping and recreation. PLACES transportation software can help with linking transportation and housing to show the impacts of smart growth on traffic and trip generation. ICLEI also provided sOme suggestions about talking about global warming on their website. Frame the message - responsibility, planning a legacy for the community. Bring it down to earth, explain - don't prove. Give a simplifying model. Use a reasonable not a rhetorical tone. Emphasize solutions and mention them early in any communications. Choose messengers from business, faith, and science. Use a strategic sequence that works. Don't be Chicken Little but little engineer that could! Remember - "The more scary the information, the more it puts people into a state of denial - inspire not terrify!" ~1l:~~-4 4~14-2008 Date Signature of Council Member The Administrative Code requires reports of conferences or meetings for which a council member requests per diem or expense reimbursement Reports must be subrnitt8d to the City Clerk of no later than the Wednesday of the week before the next City CouncD meeting. Reports must be submitted before the CIty of Redwood City will pay per diem or reimbursement for the conference or the meeting. Reports are not required for City Council meetings, or meetings with Council members, the City Manager, City Attorney or City Clerk.