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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />AUGUST 1, 2011 <br />TITLE <br />REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR <br />BASELINE GREENHOUSE GAS <br />EMISSIONS STUDY AND CLIMATE <br />ACTION PLAN <br />CITY MA R <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 1 s` Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2 "d Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For_ <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Authorize the Public Works Agency to send a Request for Proposals to qualified firms to develop <br />a governmental and community baseline Green House Gas Emissions Inventory and Climate <br />Action Plan. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) recently made Local Government Strategic <br />Plan funding available to those cities with an existing Energy Efficiency Partnership with Southern <br />California Edison (SCE). The grant is to advance the goals found in the CPUC's Long -Term <br />Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan. <br />At the June 20, 2011 meeting, Council approved an agreement with Southern California Edison to <br />receive a maximum of $729,928 to implement specific energy efficiency strategic plan activities. <br />Two activities funded with Strategic Plan monies are: (1) development of a governmental and <br />community baseline study of greenhouse gas emissions in Santa Ana, and (2) development of an <br />energy action plan, a significant component of a climate action plan (CAP). The remaining <br />components of the CAP will need to be funded with City funds. Strategic Plan funding includes the <br />use of technical consultants to complete these activities. <br />Previously the Council authorized Requests for Proposals to hire an Environmental and <br />Sustainability Consultant to take the lead in managing the activities in the Strategic Plan funding. <br />The selection of an environmental consultant is in process. <br />This is a request to begin the selection process for a technical consultant to prepare the baseline <br />analysis and the CAP. Due to delays in finalizing the agreement with SCE, and the limited time <br />remaining in the funding period, selecting the technical consultant needs to be expedited. The <br />19E -1 <br />