REPORT TO COUNCIL
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Appointed Members to the Climate Action Plan (CAP 2.0) Advisory Committee (Information Only)
Report
BACKGROUND
As a part of the Council Priority, Accelerating Climate Action, the City is embarking on the CAP 2.0 Initiative - a planning and community engagement effort to update the City's Climate Action Plan (CAP) to address bolder, longer-term goals.
In June 2017, City Council approved the creation of a CAP 2.0 Advisory Committee (RTC 17-0592), a community advisory committee that represents the broad interests of the Sunnyvale community to guide the development of CAP 2.0. The CAC will facilitate more in-depth education, dialogue, and deliberations on relevant policy issues and will ultimately provide a more open and transparent public review process. The CAC will have 11 primary members (including 4 representatives from Commissions) and 3 alternate members.
In June, the Mayor appointed a Council Ad Hoc Subcommittee (Vice Mayor Larsson, and Councilmembers Klein and Smith) to review applications and select members to serve on the CAC. Staff met with the Subcommittee in July to review and discuss the CAC recruitment process, including the draft application form, anticipated schedule, and outreach strategy for recruitment.
Staff began the CAC recruitment process in mid-July. The recruitment was advertised widely across the City to ensure that the applicant pool was demographically and geographically broad and had representatives of key organizations and interest groups (e.g., residents, businesses, volunteer/non-profit groups). Advertising included announcements on the City website, in the Sunnyvale Sun, through the City's social media outlets, and via fliers on City bulletin boards and at local businesses. Email announcements were also sent to: neighborhood associations, registered users of Open City Hall, the City's business and real estate contact lists, Chamber of Commerce, Downtown Association, Silicon Valley Association...
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