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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemo - Mail Packet - 11/2/2021 - Memorandum From Honore Depew Re: Lpt Follow-Up On Climate Action And 2022 Budget Offers 1 Environmental Services Department 222 Laporte Avenue Fort Collins, CO 80522 970.21.6600 MEMORANDUM Date: October 27, 2021 To: Mayor Arndt and City Council Thru: From: CC: Kelly DiMartino, Interim City Manager Kyle Stannert, Deputy City Manager Jackie Kozak Thiel, Chief Sustainability Officer Lindsay Ex, Environmental Services Director Honore Depew, Climate Program Manager Lawrence Pollock, Budget Director Re: LPT Follow Up on Climate Action and 2022 Budget Offers The purpose of this memo is to follow up on a request from the October 25 Leadership Planning Team meeting. Staff was asked if any specific budget offer or offers that went unfunded will negatively impact our ability to meet our 2030 climate goals. See below an updated table of 2022 Budget Offers that advance Climate Action, including a column indicating whether offers were funded or unfunded in the . On this list are four additional offers that will be included in the Budget Ordinance to be considered for First Reading on November 2, based on discussion at the October 12 Work Session. 13.8 Shift Your Ride Travel Options Program ($200,000) 1.16 Utilities: Light & Power Energy Services (Full restore with additional $99,259) 48.14 1.0 FTE Construction and Demolition Waste ($100,355) 55.14 Lincoln Center - Sustainable Performance Hall Lighting ($174,167) This additional investment of $573,781 brings the impact of the 2022 Budget to an estimated 2.9% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, which is in addition to the investments and partnership impacts from 100% renewable electricity commitment and investments via Platte River, impacts via policies such as Building Codes, and much more. Additional context on goals, as well as how other tools and partnerships are also critical to advancing and accelerating climate work is included in the Attachment. Next Steps: Council will consider, on First Reading, adoption of the 2022 budget at its November 2 Regular Meeting. Attachment: October 12, 2021 Memorandum from Lawrence Pollack RE: Councilmember Requests from the September 14 and 18 Work Sessions on the 2022 Budget Part 2 List of Budget Offers that Advance Climate Action Outcome Area Offer # Offer Name Offer Type Funded in 2022 Budget? Relevant Our Climate Future (OCF) Big Move Environmental Health 1.10 Utilities: Light & Power - Community Renewable Purchased Power Ongoing Yes 100% Renewable Electricity Environmental Health 1.11 Utilities: Light & Power - Energy Services Ongoing Yes 100% Renewable Electricity; Efficient, Emissions-Free Buildings Environmental Health 1.12 Utilities: Light & Power - Demand Response Ongoing Yes Efficient, Emissions-Free Buildings Environmental Health 1.13 Utilities: Light & Power - Renewable Customer Programs Ongoing Yes Efficient, Emissions-Free Buildings Environmental Health 1.14 Utilities: Light & Power - Demand Response Equipment Technology Replacement Capital Yes Efficient, Emissions-Free Buildings Environmental Health 1.15 Utilities: Light & Power - Epic Loans Capital Accounting Ongoing Yes 100% Renewable Electricity Environmental Health 1.16 RESTORE: Utilities: Light & Power - Energy Services Restore Yes (Full restore recommended for funding at the 10/12 Work Session) Efficient, Emissions-Free Buildings Environmental Health 1.17 Utilities: Light & Power - Electric Vehicle Monitoring and Management Demonstration Enhancement Yes Electric Cars and Fleets Environmental Health 1.65 Utilities: Stormwater - Dirt Recycling & Management Study Enhancement Yes Zero Waste Economy Environmental Health 48.1 Environmental Services Leadership Ongoing Yes Shared Leadership and Community Partnership Environmental Health 48.4 Climate Commitment Ongoing Yes Climate Resilient Community Environmental Health 48.5 Municipal Sustainability Ongoing Yes Shared Leadership and Community Partnership Environmental Health 48.2 Waste Reduction & Recycling Ongoing Yes Zero Waste Neighborhoods Environmental Health 48.6 Timberline Recycling Center Ongoing Yes Zero Waste Neighborhoods Outcome Area Offer # Offer Name Offer Type Funded in 2022 Budget? Relevant Our Climate Future (OCF) Big Move Environmental Health 48.8 Timberline Recycling Center Equipment Replacement - Enhanced Enhancement Yes Zero Waste Neighborhoods Environmental Health 48.14 1.0 FTE Construction and Demolition Waste Enhancement Yes - Recommended for funding at the 10/12 Work Session Zero Waste Economy Environmental Health 48.9 Timberline Recycling Center - Budget Right-Sizing for Ongoing Operations Enhancement Yes Zero Waste Neighborhoods Economic Health 2.7 Utilities: Light & Power - Attrition- Based LED Streetlight Conversion Program - Ongoing Asset Management Yes Efficient, Emissions-Free Buildings Culture and Recreation 55.14 Lincoln Center - Sustainable Performance Hall Lighting Enhancement Yes - Recommended for funding at the 10/12 Work Session Efficient, Emissions-Free Buildings High Performing Government 17.3 Planning, Development & Transportation Administration Ongoing Yes Convenient Transportation Choices High Performing Government 45.1 Sustainability Services Administration Ongoing Yes Shared Leadership and Community Partnership Neighborhood Livability and Social Health 40.1 Urban Forest Management Ongoing Yes Healthy Natural Spaces Neighborhood Livability and Social Health 40.2 Urban Forest Management - Tree Replacement - Ongoing Ongoing Yes Healthy Natural Spaces Neighborhood Livability and Social Health 40.6 RESTORE: Tree Replacement Reduction Enhancement Yes Healthy Natural Spaces Neighborhood Livability & Social Health 68.1 Strengthening Relationships with Indigenous Communities to Develop City Land Acknowledgement 1-Time Enhancement Yes Shared Leadership and Community Partnership Transportation and Mobility 13.11 School Traffic Safety Assessments & Strategic Traffic Infrastructure for Youth Enhancement Yes Live, Work, and Play Nearby Outcome Area Offer # Offer Name Offer Type Funded in 2022 Budget? Relevant Our Climate Future (OCF) Big Move Transportation and Mobility 13.2 Safe Routes to School Ongoing Yes Live, Work, and Play Nearby Transportation and Mobility 13.6 School Crossing Guard Program Ongoing Yes Live, Work, and Play Nearby Transportation and Mobility 19.11 ADA Bus Stop Easements Enhancement Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 19.5 Capital Assets & Projects - Ongoing Ongoing Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 19.6 CCIP - ADA Bus Stop Improvements Capital Project Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 21.1 Capital Projects Division and Administration Ongoing Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 21.10 Engineering Survey Ongoing Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 21.16 Siphon Bike / Pedestrian Overpass Capital Project Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 21.3 Transportation Capital Expansion Fee Program Ongoing Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 21.5 CCIP - Pedestrian Sidewalk - ADA Capital Project Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 21.6 Railroad Crossing Maintenance - Ongoing Ongoing Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 11.12 Traffic Signal Timing Optimization Enhancement Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 13.1 FC Moves Mobility Management Ongoing Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 13.3 Active Modes Ongoing Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 13.4 FC Moves Education & Engagement Ongoing Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 13.7 RESTORE: Mobility Management in FC Moves Enhancement Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 13.5 CCIP - Bicycle Infrastructure Capital Project Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 19.4 Poudre Express Regional Transit Service Partnership from Greeley to Fort Collins Cont. Enhancement Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 19.7 Midday and Weekend FLEX to Boulder Bus Service Ongoing Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 9.3 Essential Street Operations Ongoing Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Outcome Area Offer # Offer Name Offer Type Funded in 2022 Budget? Relevant Our Climate Future (OCF) Big Move Transportation and Mobility 19.9 Battery Electric Buses and Related Equipment - Enhanced Enhancement Yes Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 13.8 Shift Your Ride Travel Options Program Enhancement Yes - Recommended for funding at the 10/12 Work Session Convenient Transportation Choices Environmental Health 48.12 1.0 FTE Contractual - Environmental Volunteer Coordinator Enhancement No Shared Leadership and Community Partnership Environmental Health 48.7 Municipal Innovation Fund Enhancement No Efficient, Emissions Free Buildings High Performing Government 29.9 Print Management and Auditing Software Enhancement No Zero Waste Neighborhoods Neighborhood Livability and Social Health 22.14 Land Use Code Updates - Phase 2 Enhancement No Live, Work, and Play Nearby Transportation and Mobility 19.12 2.0 FTE Facilities Maintenance Technicians - Part- time Hourly Conversion to 1.0 FTE Classified and additional 1.0 FTE Enhancement No Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 19.13 3.0 FTE Transit Service Officers - 2 Officers & 1 Supervisor Enhancement No Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 21.8 Laporte Avenue Roadway and Multimodal Safety Improvements Capital Project No Convenient Transportation Choices Transportation and Mobility 13.13 0.73 FTE Hourly Conversion and Increase to 1.0 FTE Classified - Active Modes Specialist Enhancement No Convenient Transportation Choices EXCERPT FROM 10/12/21 MEMORANDUM FROM LAWRENCE POLLACK RE: COUNCILMEMBER REQUESTS FROM THE SEPTEMBER 14 AND 28 WORK SESSIONS ON THE 2022 BUDGET - PART 2 Attachment 1: Responses to Council Questions about the 2022 Recommended Budget - Climate Action Response Outcome: Environmental Health 3) Question from Kelly Ohlson: Please summarize the offers supporting the City's climate commitment along with the budget for each component. Response from Lindsay Ex (Environmental Services): Bottom Line: Forty-five offers across multiple Outcome Areas in the 2022 Recommended Budget advance Fort Collin critical tool and one of several mechanisms for advancing this work. Achieving the 2030 and 2050 climate action goals will require continued and new partnerships and community leadership to be successful. greenhouse gas emissions approximately 2.7% below 2005 levels next year. Based on Council feedback at the September 14 Work Session, the Budget Lead Team has identified three additional offers that could be funded by Council, which would have an additional 0.2% impact mate goals, for a total impact of reducing emissions by approximately 2.9% in 2022. Pathways to Fort Collins Climate Goals - Our Climate Future, Collaboration and Partnerships: Our Climate Future (OCF), the recently adopted plan to advance our climate, energy, and zero waste goals, is a holistic, people-centered approach to addressing the climate emergency. The budget analysis below examines City-led efforts through the lens of direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions and future analyses will be inclusive of community/partner-led efforts as well as equity and resilience considerations. OCF highlights three critical paths to the 2030 goal of 80% below 2005 levels - composting, transit, and renewable electricity - all of which are supported in this budget while necessarily being community-wide efforts. Numerous partnerships and additional work not directly reflected in the City budget contribute to the 2030 goal, including: o To help advance critical path climate objectives for waste, energy, and transportation, the City relies on regional partnerships with Larimer County, Platte River Power Authority, the North Front Range Metropolitan Planning Organization, and others. o Updates to the building, energy and land use codes, currently underway, will have long-term benefits. o Ongoing policy engagement through Colorado Communities for Climate Action (CC4CA) helps us to engage at a state level to support climate outcomes, such as the 2019 commitment via HB19- commitment to reduce GHG emissions by at least 26% by 2025 (below 2005 levels), 50% by 2030, and 90% by 2050. 2022 Budget and Climate Action Offers: Funded offers in the Recommended Budget would reduce GHG emissions in 2022 by ~2.7%, and staff would offer the following notes: EXCERPT FROM 10/12/21 MEMORANDUM FROM LAWRENCE POLLACK RE: COUNCILMEMBER REQUESTS FROM THE SEPTEMBER 14 AND 28 WORK SESSIONS ON THE 2022 BUDGET - PART 2 Though steady progress of 2.7% each year would not achieve the 2030 goal, this work and its results are not expected to be linear. For example, due to the Roundhouse wind project and more local solar, community-wide renewable electricity sources doubled from 2019 to 2020 and accounted for approximately 4% progress alone. Many of the offers funded in this cycle lay the foundation for future, deeper reductions, e.g., 19.9 Battery Electric Buses and Related Equipment; 13.5 CCIP Bicycle Infrastructure. Further, while the 2019 community GHG inventory was only 7% below the 2005 baseline no later than 2021. Renewable electricity projects by Platte River Power Authority will show reductions in emissions in 2021 beyond those reported for 2020 (scheduled for October 19 staff report for Council). The full year of operations for the Roundhouse wind project and Rawhide Prairie solar projects are anticipated to bring the non-carbon electricity resource mix to be greater than 50% in 2021. With the Black Hollow solar project scheduled for 2024, this percentage will increase to approximately 60%. Additionally, several of the funded offers that do not have calculated GHG reductions enable stronger partnerships, which are critical for meeting the goals and reaching beyond the work the City can do on its own, e.g., 45.1 Sustainability Services Admin, includes annual dues for Colorado Communities for Climate Actions; 48.1 Environmental Services Leadership; 48.4 Climate Commitment. Additional Offers Identified for Funding Based on Council Direction to Scale Up Climate Action Impacts: Since the September 14 Work Session discussion on the Environmental Health outcome area, the Budget Lead Team identified three additional offers that could be 12 Work Session. These offers are included in the table below and have an additional 0.2% impact on our climate action goals and represent an additional $473,426 investment in climate action. 2022 Recommended Budget & Offers that Measurably Impact Climate Action: Forty-five Attachment 2). Of these forty-five, eight offers are quantified below for direct carbon inventory savings. The three offers that the Budget Lead Team recommends Council consider for additional funding at the October 12 Work Session are highlighted in grey. Offer # Offer Name Funded in Recommended Budget? Estimated annual carbon savings (MTCO2e)* 2.7 Utilities: Light & Power - Attrition-Based LED Streetlight Conversion Program (Ongoing) Yes 2,500 1.11 Utilities: Light & Power - Energy Services (Ongoing) Yes 35,000 1.13 Utilities: Light & Power - Renewable Customer Programs (Ongoing) Yes 4,500 1.16 Utilities: Light & Power Energy Services (Restore) Yes 1,750 48.11 Innovate Fort Collins Challenge Housing/Climate Nexus (Enhancement) Yes 2,850 EXCERPT FROM 10/12/21 MEMORANDUM FROM LAWRENCE POLLACK RE: COUNCILMEMBER REQUESTS FROM THE SEPTEMBER 14 AND 28 WORK SESSIONS ON THE 2022 BUDGET - PART 2 19.5, 19.6, 19.11 Capital Assets and Projects (Ongoing); CCIP ADA Bus Stop Improvements; and ADA Bus Stop Easements Yes 16,000 13.8 Shift Your Ride Travel Options Program (Enhancement) Note: Scaled offer of $200K will be presented at the 10/12 Work Session. To be considered by Council at the 10/12 Work Session ~4,200 1.16 Utilities: Light & Power Energy Services (Restore) Note: fully restores the offer with an additional $99,259 in resources. To be considered by Council at the 10/12 Work Session ~875 55.14 Lincoln Center - Sustainable Performance Hall Lighting (Enhancement) Note: investment of $174,167 To be considered by Council at the 10/12 Work Session 66 *Note: Every ~23,300 MTCO2e reduced equals 1% of impact on our community carbon goals. The MTCO2e, or approximately 2.7% toward the goals. If the additional offers identified are also funded by *The offers in the table above are those that are directly quantifiable. Others in the attached table are difficult to quantify with confidence.