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7A Page 1 ��POR-r To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the Cit l�llana er March 22,2010 SUBJECT Redwoad City Community Climate Action P1an RECOMMENDATION Adopt by resolufiion,the Redw�od City Community Ciimate Action Plan BACKGROUND Redwoad Gity's Comrnunity CGmate Actiar� Pian is a call for the community to join #agether in the City's climate protection efforts.The Plan encourages and provides tools for residents and local business to take a significant leadership role, together with the City,to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and c�rb the impacts of glabal warming.To prepare the Plan, the City convened an eieven member Climate Actian Advisory Team in the spring of 2009. The Team was comprised of community members who brought a diversity of perspectives to the table.The Team met throughout the spring in a planning process that was facilitated by the Peninsula Conflict Resalution Center and staffed by the City's Environmental lnitiatives Manager. The Team's purpose was to create a Redwood City Community Climate Action Plan that would have broad community suppor�and that wouid identify specific actions for reducing the community's impact on climate change. To accomplish its goal, the Team learned abaut the impacts of global warming, read climate action plans developed by similar communities, became #amiliar with State global warrning legislation, learned about current efforts underway in Redwood Cifiy and conducted outreach in the communi#y. The draft Redwond City Community Climate Action Plan is the product of the graups' research, knowledge,thoughtful deliberations and dialogue within the community. After preparing a draft proposal, staff conducted extensive outreach in the community to identify with stakeholders, what aspects of ti�e Pian excitect them, wher� addi#ional infarmation was needed, what was missing and how the community could be engaged in the Plan's impiementation. This outreach included conducting seven focus groups with a total of 164 residents. Three focus groups were conducted with adult audiences (65 participants) and �our focus groups were conducted wifih youth audiences (99 par�icipants). Information gathered during the focus groups was incorpora#ed in the Community Climate Action Plan. An analysis of the data gathered through the focus groups is also provided in the Plan's appendix. Staif observed an overall enthusiasm and pride among participants that the City was close to finalizing a Community Climate Action Plan. Furthermore, many participants identified specific aspects of the Plan's implementation they wauld like to be involved in. During th� outreach process, staff also worked with a graup of Sfanford Urban Studies students. These students gathered information to create climate action plan "toofkits°. These toolkits, in the form of in�ormational resources and website content, have also been incorporated in the completed Community Climats Action Plan.Students focused