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facilities and identify opportunities for increased efficiencies and cost savings, maintain relationships with partner agencies and identify grants and funding opportunities as they become available, track legislative changes relating to the climate that affect municipal operations, track City emissions, and promote climate change awareness across all City functions. Action 1216 does not have direct GHG impacts, nor does it have a community cost. However, creating a dedicated staff position, filled by a new Full -Time Equivalent Employee (FTE) would cost the City approximately $1.9 million through the 10 -year implementation of the plan. Implementation of the proposed CAP 2.0 action list and other related climate tasks spans across all City departments and requires coordination with staff City wide. For example, the City Manager's office implements SB 1383, the Operations Services Department implements the recycled water program, the Economic Development Department implements the Commendable Commutes program, and the Community Development Department implements the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master plan. Because of this, having a specific staff person or position (e.g., a Sustainability Manager), and/or expanding staff capacity to manage the implementation of the CAP may facilitate the successful implementation of CAP and ensure its programs and priorities are more likely to remain on track. At this time, however, staff suggests that it is premature to commit to creating a new FTE as a CAP action, since there may be other ways to organize staff positions and resources to assist with CAP implementation. To provide an appropriate degree of flexibility, staff suggests once the CAP 2.0 is adopted the City Manager review existing staffing and the range of existing/new climate and sustainability tasks and their respective level of effort and timing, and on that basis evaluate how best to meet the staffing needs. RECOMMENDATION, CONCLUSION, AND NEXT STEPS Staff currently recommends 15 primary actions and 10 secondary actions be included in the CAP 2.0, as represented in Attachment 2. The Committee's recommendation includes one additional primary action (creation of a dedicated staff position) as described above. Staff seeks the City Council's direction on a set of actions to include in the CAP 2.0. Once the Council has provided direction on recommended actions, a draft CAP 2.0 will be prepared and circulated for public review, along with its accompanying CEQA document. Page 10 of 11