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Community Resilience & Wellbeing | 61Pleasanton Climate Action Plan 2.0 The City’s expanded efforts may include: • Develop and implement an empowerment program that helps residents, businesses, neighborhood leaders, and visitors reduce their personal carbon footprint and improve climate literacy. The program should consider including a carbon footprint calculator that generates a list of actions to reduce emissions at the household level and creating competitions to encourage adoption of programs. • Develop a Library and Recreation Department program dedicated to conservation and stewardship projects for varying age groups, expanding upon existing programs (e.g., Ridge Runner, Arbor Day, and future bee and butterfly gardens programs). • Create “sustainability awards” presented by the City Council during Earth Week to recognize community efforts and increase climate awareness. The community could also play a role in nominating “green” efforts throughout the city for business operations, development projects, and individual efforts throughout the city. • Consider preparation of a checklist comparing LEED with CALGreen to simplify the process for development applications. • Bolster education around community preparedness including using ZoneHaven, signing up for AC Alert, and participating in Family Disaster Preparedness training and Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) through LPFD. Secondary Actions S9. Wildfire preparation, prevention, and education Emissions reduction City Cost $0 Co-benefits Community Cost $0 The City will increase wildfire resilience through a range of prevention and preparation initiatives. Together, these initiatives will address one of Pleasanton’s greatest sources of climate vulnerability—wildfire and wildfire smoke—to increase resilience, support ecosystem health, and reduce exposure to wildfire smoke. As part of these efforts, the City will: • Leverage existing outreach and education campaigns and work with local organizations, (e.g., California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection [CalFire], Firewise, and Tri-Valley Air Quality Community Alliance) to increase awareness of homeowner actions to reduce and mitigate wildfire risk (e.g., create defensible space, reduce fuel loads, clean out leaves in rain gutters). • Expand and improve targeted community messaging on how to respond to heat risks and poor air quality due to smoke. • Work with regional partners to modify development regulations and codes and implement retrofit programs to increase resilience to wildfires. • Work with CalFire and other partners to identify and implement controlled burns and other means to reduce combustible biomass and improve early wildfire detection for the city. • Explore grant opportunities to assist with wildfire preparation, prevention, and education across the community. • Provide clean air shelters in the event of poor air quality due to wildfires.