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Qy�ASAiyTo�G <br />n y <br />O�PL'INNED f� V <br />Full Name <br />City Council Regular <br />Submit your written <br />comment <br />City of Pleasanton <br />Email (this entry is disclosable <br />if included) <br />City Council Meeting Date <br />Meeting Type <br />Agenda Item Number <br />Comments <br />Meeting - <br />public <br />First Name: Terry <br />Last Name: Chag <br />terrylchang@ hotmaiI.com <br />Submitted On: <br />April 08, 2025 09:44 AM <br />Special Meeting at 5:00 pm <br />21 <br />Hello Mayor and City Council Members, <br />Apr 6, 2025, 09:54AM PDT <br />First, I would like to express my appreciation for the hard work city <br />leaders and staff are doing to navigate through this fiscally <br />challenging time. I understand there will be unpopular cuts, and no <br />one will be happy with the loss of services and support for the place <br />we call home. In going over the agenda for the April 8, 2025, <br />Tuesday meeting, I noticed one item (number 21) about pausing the <br />Energy & Environment Commission, even when the Sustainability <br />Manager Position is already frozen and there are no new savings to <br />attain with this item. <br />As a resident who cares about the necessities of life, such as clean <br />water, clean air, and a habitable and healthy world for the present <br />and future, I find the suggestion to pause this commission <br />symbolically downplays the important work of the Energy & <br />Environment Commission and the city's leadership on this issue. Are <br />we trying to muffle the citizen's voice, shelf CAP 2.0, and tell our <br />children that this is a town that isn't concerned about environmental <br />stewardship or sustainability? What exactly is the message the city <br />is sending to its youths with the advice to pause the Energy & <br />Environment Commission, especially with Earth Day coming up? <br />The commission meets every 2 months, and I've been informed that <br />they have two priority items they want to pursue: the Sustainability <br />Newsletter and the Sustainability Award Program. With minimal or no <br />cost to the city, this group of passionate and talented residents <br />provides a steadfast voice about this issue, a voice very much <br />needed in this tumultuous time of anti -science and climate disaster <br />skepticism. M require our city to continue to be a place of forward - <br />thinking as much as practical -minded leadership. The two are not <br />mutually exclusive. <br />Please do not add environmental stewardship to the chopping block, <br />