SUPPLEMENTAL SPECIAL MEETING (5:00 PM)

Qy�ASAiyTo�G n y O�PL'INNED f� V Full Name City Council Regular Submit your written comment City of Pleasanton Email (this entry is disclosable if included) City Council Meeting Date Meeting Type Agenda Item Number Comments Meeting - public First Name: Philip Last Name: Bowman phiIbowman@tvagca.org Submitted On: Apr 8, 2025, 10:00AM PDT April 08, 2025 09:56 AM Special Meeting at 5:00 pm 2 Summary: PLEASE DO NOT PAUSE THE ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT COMMISSION. It is essentially no cost to the city and can still provide significant value to our community! In the list of proposed reductions, Item 21 refers to freezing the Sustainability Manager position and PAUSING the Energy and Environment Commission. Whether or not the Council decides to freeze the Sustainability Manager role, it would be unwise and irresponsible to stop the E&E Commission. The E&E Commission has been operating at practically zero cost with meetings only once every 2 months with minimal staff time to facilitate the meetings. But the Commission provides valuable input to the city for reviewing material like the Urban Forest Master Plan and the Comprehensive Facility Upgrade Plan. The City greatly benefits from the free consulting services from the talented members of E&E Commission on documents like this. For example, for the —800 page Urban Forest Master Plan, the Commission provided dozens of very specific improvement suggestions that the authors welcomed. Going forward, the only two priority items the Commission is pursuing are: 1) Sustainability Newsletter. The intent is that the content of the ---bi- monthly newsletters, which would include suggestions for citizens to reduce their carbon footprint, would be written by volunteer commissioners who have tremendous background in energy and environmental issues. The city cost would be to approve the final version of each newsletter and post a link to it on the City website.