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Mayor Hosterman indicated that regardless of what direction the Council takes tonight, the <br /> Council and Planning Commission will continue to refine specific green building measures to <br /> sites. <br /> Councilmember Sullivan disclosed that he serves as the President of the Stopwaste.org Board. <br /> He has been involved in green building issues since 1998 when he was on the Planning <br /> Commission, has a lot of interest, and shares concerns expressed by Councilmember <br /> McGovern that the City has been using a version of the same standards for 10 years and has <br /> not expanded upon them. He also agrees the City should do more rather than going from one <br /> level to the next level. He expressed significant concerns about moving away from a tested and <br /> accepted process with LEED and Build It Green which have been used on a statewide level and <br /> which developers are used to and replacing it with something that is not fully developed. The <br /> tiered system with CalGreen has not yet been fully developed, especially with regard to the <br /> verification process. The City's existing green building ordinance does not require private <br /> developers to go through the third party certification or LEED process where one goes through <br /> extensive verification and the City conducts the process, and therefore, the City is not doing it <br /> the way it was designed in the first place. He also did not want to drop LEED and Build It Green <br /> until the City can obtain more information on the verification process. <br /> Mayor Hosterman proposed the Council consider staff recommendation number 2 of the report <br /> and build upon it on page 5 of 10, which is to adopt CalGreen Tier 1 for those covered projects <br /> currently subject to the Pleasanton green building ordinance. <br /> Councilmember Sullivan suggested working through the guidelines to see what the end result <br /> will be, and said he did not want to drop LEED or Build It Green until the verification processes <br /> can be established and it can be understood. <br /> Mr. Dolan said recommendation number 2 addresses residential verification procedures not <br /> being provided; Stopwaste.org recommended holding off on this until they were provided. He <br /> noted they have never addressed adopting procedures for commercial, and the entire state is in <br /> a dilemma due to lagging guidance. Staff anticipates it may come any day and recommends <br /> moving forward. <br /> Councilmember Sullivan supported not allowing builders to self- certify and made a motion to <br /> adopt the state mandate, and revisit the verification process so that staff and the Council <br /> understand how to implement it. <br /> Mayor Hosterman said staff certifies every project through a series of inspections in the building <br /> process, uses a checklist, and upon completion verifies measures have been implemented. <br /> Therefore, she questioned what the difference was between staff certify and self certify. Mr. <br /> Dolan stated in general, it would be staff certified or third party certified; however, there are <br /> some areas where staff does not have the expertise and requires another third party to handle <br /> that specific area. <br /> Mr. Corbett added that project engineers are involved for the building commissioning of non- <br /> residential buildings of more than 10,000 square feet. Currently, there is nothing exactly self - <br /> certification. He spoke previously of existing requirements in Title 24 for acceptance testing, <br /> which does require forms verifying that certain tests have been done, which can be completed <br /> by the installer. They are signing the official documents and providing them for the building <br /> owner per Title 24 that the system is operating the way it was designed to operate. <br /> City Council Minutes Page 12 of 15 January 4, 2011 <br />