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Janice Sangster - Phalen commented that they had volunteered for this subcommittee in advance of the Chamber of Commerce meeting presentation that staff did recently. That is why there is duplicate attendance, not because they really liked the topic of Green Building. Rosalind responded by offering to shorten this presentation and stated that the meeting would be recorded for future meeting minute preparation. Questions or comments can be interjected or they can be held until the end, whichever was the preference, but requested that the speakers state their name before proceeding with their comment or question. A roundtable introduction was conducted. Rosalind then started the PowerPoint presentation by stating that currently the City uses LEED and Build It Green (BIG) requirements. There is still discussion on where the Pleasanton Municipal Code should be amended to house the CALGreen directives. Originally, the City was proposing to amending 17.50, but have since started to consider repealing 17.50 and amending Title 20 to incorporate the CALGreen codes. This would provide all building code information in the same location. She noted that was probably a little technical, but it is a change from what was stated at the Chamber meeting. Rosalind presented information on what is building green, historical dates starting from the inception of Pleasanton's green building code in 2002, to the current CALGreen adoption date, and stated that the building inspectors would be inspecting these measures as they do with all other elements for the building code. The City of Pleasanton currently deals with two outside agencies, the USGBC for LEED (commercial and civic buildings) and BIG (Build it Green) for the residential (single family and multi - family) projects. Examples of the scorecards and checklists were displayed and explained. The comparison of the current scorecards and checklists to the requirements of CALGreen was done. The comparison was based on applying points to the CALGreen measures to see how a CALGreen project would rate against the current standards. This showed that applying just the basic CALGreen measures would not reach the current standard of green building in Pleasanton. If the measures for Tier 1 were used, the project would then meet the current green building standards in Pleasanton. The benefits of going to the one system - CALGreen code (with Tier 1) rather than running both (17.50 and CALGreen) are: Creates a harmonized code Streamlines customer service One checklist Uniform standards for the whole State Pre - established update timelines (on a 3 year cycle) New building inspectors would likely already be trained Page 2 of 7