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• Water conservation and reuse strategies; • Public education programs that promote behavior change. We will work with the City to refine existing practices and policies and develop strategies and measures appropriate for inclusion in the CAP to achieve consistency with AB 32, SB 97, and SB 375. The CAP will be developed through the following process, as outlined in the City's RFP and supplemented by our experience working on CAPs in diverse jurisdictions: • Determine preliminary strategies and measures to reduce GHG emissions, and criteria by which to evaluate potential measures; • Evaluate the emissions reduction and cost-effectiveness of GHG emission reduction measures, and recommend a suite of measures that meets the criteria and the emissions reduction targets; • Prepare an implementation strategy for the CAP detailing costs, funding sources, timelines, and progress indicators for each measure; • Establish a GHG reduction monitoring and verification system to track GHG reduction progress over time for each measure. • Ensure compliance with provisions of State CEQA Guidelines Section 15183.5 regarding tiering future environmental documents from the CAP; • Facilitate a meaningful community outreach and public involvement process This approach is consistent with the methodology ICLEI team members have employed or are employing in the preparation of CAPS throughout California and the nation. These items will be developed through a collaborative process among project team members and City staff. In addition to the project team and City staff, stakeholders from diverse sectors of the community will be engaged throughout the project to provide input on emissions goals, potential measures, and the Draft CAP. The stakeholder engagement effort will be led by Global Green, which has substantial experience facilitating public processes for sustainability_ Global Green recognizes that effective stakeholder outreach requires both knowledge of group interaction and facilitation, and expertise in the subject area. Over the past decade, Global Green has developed an integrated approach to outreach that is based on listening, engagement, and collaboration (asking the community to help decide what will happen), that has proven to be highly effective and more engaging than traditional linear approaches that focus on informing or educating the public (letting the community know what is going to happen)- Key aspects to the Global Green approach are: Enable inclusiveness and diversity. We believe that the best ideas emerge from groups with diverse viewpoints. We devote significant time to identifying what groups, organizations, and individuals should be included in the outreach process in order to enable the greatest possible creativity and synergy once the process is underway-