Sustainability Update

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Sustainability Update

• B Session Briefing
• City of San Antonio
• June 11, 2008

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Overview

• Opportunity Scan
• 4 Areas of Plan Development and Related Action
  Steps
• Energy Efficiency
• Economic Development
• Transportation
• City Operations
• Current City Initiatives

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Decision Principles

• Focus on a limited but ambitious number of
  attainable objectives
• Have a sound financial basis for decisions
• Tailor initiatives to San Antonio
• Plan and implement with substantial community
  participation

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Double Bottom Line

• Seek double bottom line returns
• Direct Financial Return (it pays for itself)
• Social Benefit
• Environmental
• Economic
• Quality of Life

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Untapped Wealth of Conservation

• COOLRCost of Living Reduction through
  conservation with no loss of quality of life
• Large potential average saving per household in
  energy and transportation
• 10,000 gross savings per household and 5,000
  net increase in annual household incomebetter
  choices

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Keys to Tapping Conservation Wealth

• Finance the infrastructure, programs to extract
  the wealth
• Cut the cost of living for residents and cost of
  business for companies
• Existing businesses improve and new green collar
  businesses and well-paying jobs are created
• Economic multiplier is high as more of this money
  stays in the community

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Priming the Green Pump
Green Capital
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Opportunity Scan

• Findings and Recommendations

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ContextHigh consumption costs local economy
billions

• 4 gasoline, 2012 projections range from 177 to
  504/barrel
• Low rates and bills (100/month) but high
  consumption1266 kwh/month or more
• Above national average in energy consumption per
  household

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Economic ContextArea is not really
recession-proof risk exposure

• Top American concern today is personal economic
  security
• Foreclosures rising in Bexar County
• Relatively low income
• Cost of living rising faster than incomes
• Transportation systems not adequate to growth
• Marketplace is looking for real estate products
  that are hard to supply here
• Sustainable economy will requires skills and
  businesses that are only partly here so far

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San Antonio 2000-2006Median Income Grew
36214-40650, 12.2Mostly in gt 75k
Households60 Percent of HHs Still Earning Less
than50k
Yellow - 2000
Green 2006
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San Antonio 2000-2006Transportation Costs Grew
Twice Rate of IncomeHousing Costs Grew Three
Times Faster than Income
33.2
23.9
12.2
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Energy Costs Rising Universally
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Consultants Report

• Findings are aligned with the key areas of plan
  development
• Energy Efficiency
• Economic Development
• Transportation Optimization
• Improve Sustainability of City Operations

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Key Sustainability Areas

• Plans and Action Steps

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Energy Efficiency
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Energy Action Steps

• Mayor has proposed creating a Task Force on
  Sustainable Buildings
• Proposed Chairman Ed Kelley
• Representatives from key stakeholder groups
• Mission To develop building strategies that
  enhance San Antonio's capacity to experience a
  resilient and environmentally sensitive future,
  emphasizing and focused on energy and water
  conversation

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Energy Action Steps

• Coordinate Advanced Metering Initiatives between
  CPS, SAWS, and COSA

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Energy Action Steps

• Design financing mechanisms for retrofits and
  distributive energy projects
• Double bottom-line investment fund
• Conventional and energy efficient mortgages
• Explore using existing programs, such as the
  Community Reinvestment Act
• CPS rebates
• Involve households and neighborhoods in building
  community wealth through conservation and
  innovative financing

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CPS Plans

• CPS comprehensive energy efficiency study
• New conservation goals and financial commitments
• Advanced Metering Initiative (AMI) and demand
  side management
• Reorganization to support sustainable energy
  solutions
• Plan active partnership with COSA

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Greenonomic Development

• Attracting Capital for Infrastructure and Green
  Jobs

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Greenonomic Action Steps

• Hire consultant to analyze potential for double
  bottom line fund or funds for new green
  development, energy retrofitting, and clean
  energy, bio-med and high-tech business
  development
• Create funds, if feasible

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Greenonomic Action Steps

• Develop strategy for attracting larger share of
  private venture capital investments potential

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Greenonomic Action Steps

• Match opportunities to capital
• Develop a scorecard on economic performance that
  benchmarks resources used for energy,
  transportation and water resources and use of
  capital to support higher wage job creation and
  investment opportunities

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Greenonomic Action Steps

• Raise awareness of green job opportunities,
  counseling and training to be coordinated by the
  P16Plus Council and higher education institutions
• Involve households and neighborhoods in building
  community wealth through conservation and
  innovative financing

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Transportation Plan

• Optimizing Mobility and Cutting Transportation
  Costs for Residents

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Transportation Action Steps

• Judge Wolff and Mayor Hardberger have proposed to
  form and co-chair a Transportation Task Force to
  identify regional transportation challenges and
  create a comprehensive strategy to address them
• Mission Explore the transportation challenges
  and frame the transportation issues facing our
  community. This includes helping prepare our
  community for short- and long-term regulatory,
  environmental, economic, and legislative issues
  affecting transportation. The goal is to unite
  our community around transportation choices that
  meet San Antonios economic and environmental
  needs.

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Transportation Action Steps

• Implement initiatives ripe for adoption while
  Task Force planning proceeds
• Examples include
• Data gathering on the transportation burden on
  residents and using such data in financial
  counseling and value capture programs
• A car sharing program through non-profit and/or
  for-profit model

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COSA Mission Verde

• Turning City Operations as Green as Possible

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City Energy Profile

• Annual Kilowatt-hours 247,299,941 costing
  23,102,990, or 2.6 of the operating budget
• Total water bill 9,705,326
• Total Fuel bill 13,762,478
• GRAND TOTAL 47 million, or 3.3 of Citys
  operating budget

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Fleet Profile

• City fleet comprises
• 980 Heavy-Duty Diesel
• 122 Hybrid (16 arriving Summer 08)
• 193 Propane
• 511 Flex Fuel (includes 400 police cruisers)
• Annual Vehicle Miles Traveled
• 33,663,162
• Annual Number of Hours
• 63,303

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Annual Fuel Consumption
UNLEADED 3,277,288 GALLONS 7,642,513.00
DIESEL 2,386,700 GALLONS 5,922,960.00
PROPANE 155,824 GALLONS 197,005.00
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Mission Verde Action Steps

• Recommend creation/use of three kinds of
  sustainability financing
• Master lease for up to 7-year payback
• Self-Supporting Certificates of Obligation
  (COs)
• State Loan Star Fund
• Seek supplemental funds such as rebates, grants,
  etc.

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Mission Verde Action Steps

• Establish Sustainability Investment Task Force
• Establish performance goals
• Screen and prioritize investments
• Coordinate initiatives and policy recommendations
• Provide guidance to the Office of Environmental
  Policy (OEP)

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Mission Verde Action Steps

• Sustainability Task Force to evaluate
  opportunities in key target areas
• Energy saving and distributed production
• Fleet efficiency
• Waste reduction and recycling
• Green purchasing
• Technology including telecommuting policy and
  support and smart buildings
• Space utilization and sharing
• Trees and green space on City property

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Mission Verde Action Steps

• Utilize free and fee external engineers and
  analysts from vendors and agencies
• Determine proper staffing level for OEP within
  budget process
• Create Sustainability Initiatives Fund to
  support
• Data gathering
• Consulting
• Initiative implementation start-up

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Current City Initiatives

• Review of Existing Efforts

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OEP and City- Wide Efforts

• Full inventory available in handout
• Solar City Grant
• Solar Showcase Grant Application
• AACOG Greenhouse Gas Inventory
• Energy saving power strips
• Convention Center, Alamodome, and Airport energy
  efficiency projects

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Sampling of 162 City Initiatives

• Health Department gathers 200,000 hours air
  quality data per year
• Tree canopy analysis to determine a city-wide
  goal
• Aviation installed a cell phone waiting lot to
  increase traffic efficiency within the Airport

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Sampling of 162 City Initiatives

• Incentive Scorecard System (ISS) provide
  incentives for LEED certified projects and
  Certified Build San Antonio Green projects
• Completed installation of red and green Light
  Emitting Diodes (LEDs) in 2005. resulting in
  significantly reduced energy costs and increased
  visibility of the signals
• Curbside residential recycling program collects 5,
  600 tons of recyclables monthly, an increase
  of 300 over FY2004  

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Questions and Comments

• Council Feedback and Guidance