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