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BACKGROUND Since the November 2020 City Council meeting, an initial list of more than 150 potential CAP 2.0 actions was prepared based on review of the City's initial Climate Action Plan, review of best practices and recently adopted CAPs, and input from the public, City staff, the Committee (including the action workshop), and focus groups with stakeholders and implementation partners (e.g., East Bay Community Energy, Zone 7, and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District). The action list was reviewed through several outreach meetings including with commissions, the community (e.g., at a community workshop and through a community survey), and the Committee. Attachment 1 is a summary of the outreach done to date. Based on the feedback received, the actions were modified, clarified, and combined. Action 1164 Existing Building Electrification represents the most substantive change based on the outreach. Across the outreach meetings, concerns were raised regarding existing building electrification mandates. Given the concerns regarding regulatory aspects of this action that were daylighted throughout the outreach process, the action was modified to remove the regulatory components of this action. The action now focuses on grid resilience, evaluation of existing buildings, municipal building electrification, voluntary and incentive -based community building electrification, outreach and education, and tracking progress toward electrification in Pleasanton. The initial list of more than 150 actions was then reduced to a shorter list of approximately 50 actions that qualitatively ranked highly across the action selection criteria (i.e., effectiveness, cost, feasibility, level of community support, equity, and co - benefits). A quantitative analysis was then prepared for the short list of actions which includes estimated costs and GHG emissions reductions for each action on the short list. This Cost -Benefit Analysis was then used to recommend a final set of actions for inclusion in the CAP 2.0. Staff recommends a set of 15 primary actions and 10 secondary actions for inclusion in the CAP 2.0 with the Committee recommending one additional primary action, as detailed further below. The set of recommended actions is summarized in Attachment 2. Attachment 3 provides the full text of the proposed actions. DISCUSSION Several combinations of actions can achieve the CAP 2.0 emissions reductions pathway and the Council will need to make a strategic decision about the final package of new actions, recognizing various tradeoffs to be made between cost and effectiveness in reaching GHG targets. As described further below, staff does not recommend including every action analyzed in the Cost -Benefit Analysis. It is worth noting that an Implementation and Monitoring Plan will be developed as part of CAP 2.0, which will identify potential funding sources (e.g., grants and federal, state, and local funding measures) that will help to offset costs of implementation estimated in the Cost -Benefit Analysis. Page 2 of 11