This wording is adapted for a city from California Executive Order S-01-07.

WHEREAS the State of California Executive Order S-01-07 mandates state agencies to achieve GHG mandates to which the City will be subject; and

WHEREAS greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions pose a serious threat to the health of California’s citizens and the quality of the environment; and

WHEREAS California’s transportation sector is the leading source of GHG emissions in the state, contributing over 40 percent of the state’s annual GHG emissions; and

WHEREAS Assembly Bill 32 (Chapter 488, Statutes of 2006) requires a cap on GHG emissions by 2020, mandatory emissions reporting, identification of discrete early action measures, achievement of the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective emission reductions from sources, and authorizes the development of a market-based compliance program; and

WHEREAS California is almost entirely dependent on one energy source for its transportation economy, relying on petroleum-based fuels to meet 96 percent of its transportation needs; and

WHEREAS there were more than 24 million motor vehicles registered in California in 2005 which is more than one per licensed driver; statewide gasoline consumption was almost 16 billion gallons in 2005 which is second only to the United States and slightly more than that of Japan (a country with four times the population); and there are only 80,000 hybrids and 240,000 flex-fuel vehicles on our roads today, together composing only 1.3% of all cars in California; and

WHEREAS California's dependence on a single type of transportation fuel whose price is highly volatile imperils our economic security, endangers our jobs, and jeopardizes our industries; and

WHEREAS diversification of the sources of transportation fuel will help protect our jobs and economy from the consequences of oil price shocks; and

WHEREAS solar energy is plentiful and locally available in the City; and

WHEREAS alternative fuels can provide economic development opportunities and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxic air contaminants; and

WHEREAS the City encourages to creation of sustainable energy and sustainable infrastructure jobs; and

Be it resolved that the City will:

1. Implement policies that encourage sustainable infrastructure to reduce health, economic and ecological damage and risks caused by nearly complete dependence on oil and its highly volatile price.


2. Comply with the State goal to reduce the carbon intensity of California’s transportation fuels by at least 10 percent by 2020 (“2020 Target”).


3. Encourage the use of solar energy as the most abundant and sustainable source of locally available transportation fuel.


4. Implement a “Place to Innovation” policy by inviting transportation inventors and manufacturers to build development, test and operational systems in the City.


5. Implement policies that encourage market-based creation of 1,000 sustainable infrastructure jobs by Dec 2008.


6. Implement a process for granting right of ways to encourage market-based deployment of transportation innovations and solar powered transportation networks that reduce the carbon intensity and oil dependency of transportation fuels.


7. As an interest of the general welfare and common defense, implement policy similar to communications policy for using Eminent Domain to secure passage of solar powered transportation networks (Note: Solar energy should receive special consideration because it distributed power generation enhances social and defense needs).


8. Define solar powered transportation networks as those that derive at least 51% of their operational power from sunshine.


9. Recommend to government agencies managing utilities that excess electricity generated by solar powered transportation systems be sold to utilities at 120% of the retail price for electricity as an incentive to locally generate as much solar electricity as practical (Note: Germany, with this policy, is ahead of schedule to provide 30% of their power generation from solar and has created 100,000 new jobs in the solar sector).


10. Using 2005 traffic statistics as a baseline, recognize GHG credits to solar and other innovative transportation systems on their ability to displace life-cycle equivalents of oil based transportation.


11. Establish an Energy Commission to advice the City Council on compliance with Federal, State, and other agencies to coordinate means and monitor progress on achieving the City’s objectives for sustainable infrastructure and job creation in the sustainable infrastructure economy.


12. Solicit other governments’ support for support of this resolution.