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Councilmember Sullivan thanked the energy committee, said it was a huge effort, felt it was important to get the plan in place not only for environmental benefits, but also economic benefits, reliability of power, noted the element has changed significantly and he supported the final result with the few changes. He felt there was one policy missing that he wanted to see added, which was a climate change policy and a program for the ICLEI Cities for Climate Protection Program the city just joined. He said they struggled a lot with transportation at the energy committee and he thinks they decided that it primarily belonged in the circulation element and even the land use element and supported Councilmember McGovern’s proposed changes. He referred to page 3 of the agenda report; it states “Elimination of former Policy 1 and Programs, which was a City Energy Manager. While he does not necessarily feel the city should have a title of City Energy Manager, the City should have someone whose function it is to coordinate and pay attention to these issues. They discussed also having a commission on energy and the environment which is a City Council priority and to him, that person would be the staff representative of that commission. But if we do not have someone who focuses on these issues, we will not pay attention to them and felt the City Manager could establish that function. He was supportive of transferring many of the other policies to other elements but questioned the process for this happening. Ms. Stern said the Council has not looked at the elements of land use, circulation or noise yet and staff could certainly include those concepts. Councilmember Sullivan referred to Attachment 2, page 10-1, second paragraph, blue text, second paragraph, second sentence add the following to the sentence; “This element strives to maintain the highest quality environment and quality of life through the use of energy efficiency, renewal energy or energy that can be recycled or be returned to nature to generate more resources.” On page 10-4, he felt PV reduces demand, which is power, which also drives the need to build power plants. So, if we can reduce demand, we also reduce the need to build additional power plants. He asked that “thus reducing demand” th be added to the next to the last sentence in the paragraph. He referred to page 10-6, 5 paragraph, and asked to delete the last sentence; “PG&E paid for half of the $4.6 million project” and said ratepayers actually paid for his and PG&E simply administers those funds. Regarding page 10-9, he felt there was a lot of focus on lighting. He felt it was more comprehensive issue and said focusing on energy demand and energy efficiency was a comprehensive picture and includes things like lighting, heating, A/C, ventilation and building siting, not just focusing on lighting. Mayor Hosterman said lighting and signage issues were huge for her and Councilmember Sullivan was supportive of the wording, but wanted to see additional language that talks about a more comprehensive look at energy efficiency projects or strategies included. He supported page 10-11 and the deleting the section on living roofs, agreed with changes suggested for page 10-12, and agreed with page 10-14 to change the word that talks about establishing financial incentives to encourage development of low energy homes. He agreed with the new program 9.4 changes on page 10-14, but he wanted to leave in, “Establish a category of “Energy Efficient Housing” under the City’s growth management program and establish a sub-allocation of housing units for this category.” He was okay with also moving both to Policy 3. Regarding page 10-15 under Local Control, he was supportive of this, but wanted to leave in program 14.5; consider a range of Municipal Utility options for Pleasanton.” City Council Minutes 13 June 5, 2007