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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the City of Santa Ana will investigate the feasibility of building
<br />microgrids to ensure safe and reliable access to electricity, providing community renewable
<br />energy programs to expand access to the benefits of renewable energy (such as solar panels)
<br />to low-income and renter households and frontline and vulnerable communities; and
<br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the city of Santa Ana intends to continue to investigate
<br />Community Choice Aggregation and the Orange County Power Authority as a means to meet
<br />the city's 100% clean, renewable zero -emission equitable electricity by 2025 goals; and
<br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the City of Santa Ana will explore how to achieve a just transition
<br />through job creation goals centering frontline and vulnerable communities, including labor
<br />strengthening projects, education, and job retraining programs to spur clean energy investment,
<br />decarbonize the City of Santa Ana's local economy, benefit local ecosystems, access to nature,
<br />boost biodiversity, end poverty, and tackle systemic injustices; and
<br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, during the just transition to a decarbonized economy, the City of
<br />Santa Ana will support the rights of workers to organize, unionize, and collectively bargain free
<br />of coercion, intimidation, and harassment, and strengthen workplace health and safety
<br />protections, anti -discrimination protections, and wage and hour standards across all employers,
<br />industries, and sectors; and
<br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Santa Ana will work with the labor and business
<br />communities to investigate how to achieve a just climate transition and zero greenhouse gas
<br />emissions by 2030 across all industries, sectors, and communities; and
<br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Santa Ana's 2015 Climate Action Plan be
<br />updated, improved, and expanded by the end of 2022 to maximize our city's public and private
<br />contributions to reaching zero emissions as soon and as socially equitable and possible; and
<br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that city staff are directed to explore, develop, and incorporate
<br />policies that will lead to a just transition, limit fossil fuel infrastructure expansion (SAFE Cities
<br />policies'), promote electrification, begin lead remediation, and create a clean energy future in
<br />order to protect public health and safety as part of the General Plan Update process; and
<br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the City of Santa Ana will empower the Environmental and
<br />Transportation Advisory Committee to carry forward the commitments of this resolution; and
<br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Santa Ana, in their commitment to transparency,
<br />will make any and all findings of such a body publicly available, as well as the actions they are
<br />planning to take in response to such findings, and;
<br />BE IT FINALLY FURTHER RESOLVED, in furtherance of this resolution, the City of Santa Ana
<br />shall submit a certified copy of this resolution to federal, state, regional, county, city, tribal and
<br />'Stand.earth. "SAFE Cities Binder of Resources for Elected Officials and Staff," pg. 4-7
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