City Council Meeting: October 28, 2024

Ok, welcome everyone to the OCTOBER 28 twenty twenty four meeting of the passing the city council. The council did meet in closed session and regarding items and b and there is no reportable action MR. Clarke. Thank you, mayor. COUNCILMAN Hampton go dodgers blessed and honored to be here . That's a requisite now COUNCILMAN Jones here, COUNCILMAN I am here. COUNCILMAN Massouda here. COUNCILMAN Davis here. COUNCILMAN Williams here, vice mayor of madison, your mayor gordo here there's a quorum the council present MR. Hampton, if you'll let us in the pledge of allegiance everyone please rise if you're able right hand over your hearts ready begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under GOD indivisible with liberty and justice for all you MAY be seated. Anybody watching the game right now cheering is allowed. It's ok that way I can know what the score is. Do you hear that MR. Clarke? Ok, the clerk has a couple of votes of studeman christian jones and melissa barnwell scott ok. All right. Raise your right hand. Repeat after me. I state your name christian GOD do solemnly affirm do solemnly swear that I will support and defend that I will support and defend the constitution of the united states, the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies, against all enemies foreign and domestic foreign and domestic that I will bear true faith and allegiance and allegiance to the constitution of the united states to the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california and the constitution of the state of california that I take this obligation freely. without any mental reservation, or purpose of evasion or purpose of evasion and that I will well and faithfully and that I will well and faithfully discharge a duties. This is the duties state your position commish of the human services commissioner of the northwest upon which I'm about to enter upon which I'm about to enter. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you and sorry for the delay. Thank you. This is just thank you MR. Indigenous. ok that brings us to a couple of ceremonial matters. First I'd like to announce that monday NOVEMBER 11th is veterans day and the city has always paused to remember this important holiday and throughout all of our military veterans and this year will continue in that tradition in recognition of veterans day, an event will take place at the steps of city hall on NOVEMBER 11th beginning at ten thirty A.M. To honor those who have served in the military and we will pay special tribute to our 2nd battalion twenty third division marines who will be deployed for a year long term of duty. The public is of course welcome and encouraged to attend this event saluting our veterans and this year our special guest speaker will be colonel juan mora, chief of staff of the 4th infantry division along with remakes from I'm sorry remarks from army veteran james zemmour, center director of the los angeles county department military and veterans affairs. There will also be a flyover that will take place at 11:00 11:00 A.M. I hope you'll all attend and I know that will be that event will be a moving and fitting tribute to our country's veterans next I'd like to ask that we call center anthony porten teno who I did see in the room up. I want to send important teno on behalf of the city of pasadena extend a heartfelt appreciation for your service dedicated service to pasadena and other communities including your own home city of lakita as a member of the city council and one time mayor, you've certainly played a crucial role in making our respective communities stronger through years of service. Your advocacy advocacy for educational opportunity, opportunities to ensuring public safety and economic growth are highlights of your many accomplishments and so I'd be remiss if I didn't also mention your work on the 710 relinquishment as well as your efforts to support the rose bowl. Just a couple of highlights in your many, many years of public service and on behalf of the city council and residents of pasadena, just want to congratulate you and thank you for your public service. Thank you, MR. Mayor. It truly has been an honor to have represented pasadena both in the state assembly and now in the state senate to be 14 years total time that I've represented this great city and as a kid, you know, growing up in new jersey watching the rose bowl on tv, watching the parade, it's just been exciting for me to be here as as a friend and a neighbor to go to the parade and go to the game and just work with all of you on this great city. And as you know, your predecessor, MR. Bogarde is probably one of the nicest human beings and such such a great example. So MR. Mayor, I really appreciate your leadership carrying bill's legacy as well. So thank you. It's it's been terrific and I'm here to highlight a few of the things that we've accomplished together. You mentioned the seven 10 freeway. Obviously your staff should be commended in that situation is as well because as sb seven was navigating through the system I got a call from terry at the time saying our legal team says we need legislation to authorize the relinquishment and so was sort of an 11th hour plea. Can we fit it into a bill and we were able to put it in sb seven. So now I understand the process is going forward which creates a whole nother situation. So GOD bless you and you're in your efforts to figure out what to do with the stuff. What are those lessons? Careful what you wish for. Exactly. So I don't know which city staffer was or which attorney on the team that recognized that there was part of california law that needed to be changed in order to to facilitate the relinquishment. So I got the frantic call and again it's an example of a partnership when you talk to your counselors, when you talk to your your mayors, sometimes they need help and if you're in a position to do it, you do it and you know, clearly with the rose bowl, you know, your vision of trying to create a way to bring the tax increment back to the right and I see jens and dominic here from the rose bowl. I know you're going to hear from them later but that was your vision to to create a tax increment for those historic venues. And again, you know, I was honored you asked me to carry that legislation and here we are passing it and we're not only going to help the rose bowl with the coliseum and the hollywood bowl and an historic venues around the state. So I love our partnership obviously with pcc I was able to help them when there was a logjam freeing up the 40 million dollars for their sarafian building. I actually sat down with the governor's office one and only time I ever pounded the table in my 14 years and I said free up that 40 million dollars and they responded and so we were able to get that and of course three and a half million dollars for osako 20 million carnegie science is coming to pasadena. That's exciting. And so I was able to help facilitate that 20 million dollars again, I don't remember which city came to me first burbank, glendale or pasadena. But to create the housing trust the three of you I think came to it was it was it you housing trust for these three great cities to work together and we were able not just to create the trust but to get twenty three million dollars to to stake it. Bill and and his team came and asked me for money for a one arroyo project and we were able to get a million dollars there and then a small thing it's not related to pasadena but it's related to all of us as far as the budget goes. I was very excited that we had we got 25 million dollars in the budget for dyslexia screening. You mentioned education policy which is we don't help kids become readers. You bad things happen and there's a study out of texas that had seven out of 10 inmates were dyslexic and we said against 70 percent of the prison population in this study were dyslexic and california was one of only a handful of states that did not screen all first graders for the risk of dyslexia. And so working with the governor's office took three years and now there's twenty five dollars million in the budget to facilitate dyslexia screening from around the state. You want to talk about a social justice issue? You know, if you're a suburban parent you've got your pediatrician on speed dial and you know, a week into first grade your kid has a challenge. They're not very many families have that ability and many families are just working and so in my own case my mother didn't find out I was a dyslexic till the eighth grade and so we're going to help kids become readers. A number of wonderful pass based non-profits I've been able to honor when we do the nonprofit of the year we had arlington garden as one of our honorees friends indeed the pasadena alumni chapter of the delta sigma theta sorority and then this past year the sycamores. So I've been able to to recognize the laudable nonprofit communities, small businesses. Hey there. Baba was one of my small businesses of the year luke walker barbershop when I lived close luke was my barber so it was I remember my staff saying oh what are we going to do? I said we're doing my barber. And so I was able to recognize luke in that paper rice recently we recognized for one of our api community champions. Over the years we've honored twenty six women including how do I refer to virginia when victor's looking at me right now the the the the de facto no the boss the boss, the main cog how's that we should say the the main cog in the in the gordo administration I was honored to recognize virginia dellacqua as one of my distinguished women of the year obviously claire bogarde and sherry bonner and and others have all distinguished himself . It's been great to be in a position to recognize and support laudable, laudable women and laudable businesses and laudable non-profits and that's the exciting part of my time if you remember when I did the open carry legislation when I was in the assembly, the gun enthusiasts for lack of a better phrase decided to take the goal line to old town and all come packing their weapons before the bill went into remember that and we were able to to get that sign when it had failed in years past. so california banned open carry which is a handguns and then they started carrying their long guns and then we had to come back next year and ban long guns. You don't need a gun to go to a soccer game. You just need an orange slice. And so I was worked with the governor and the attorney general on implementing new gun permitting processes in the wake of a supreme court decision. The supreme court said you can no longer have an arbitrary discretion based permitting system and as in california, every sheriff in every county had a different system and the supreme court said you have to have a uniform system. And so I worked with the attorney general and the governor and we created that system and I look at it as common sense. You know, if you're on facebook threatening to kill people, we probably shouldn't give you a gun right? If you have a history of domestic violence right. And you beat your loved one up, we probably shouldn't be arming you. That shouldn't be controversial if you know you have a violent history, we're not going to harm you and so we define that in law who should and shouldn't be honored with having a gun permit. The supreme court said you can have sensitive places so we define sensitive places. This is one of them, you know, in a government building you shouldn't bring your gun to a city council meeting. You shouldn't bring your gun to a soccer game. You shouldn't bring your gun to dodger stadium. You should you know, bring a hot dog and a water bottle. And so we defined all of that this year the governor and I worked on safe storage again, I don't see storing your gun as a partizan issue if I say lock your car, most people say yeah, I should lock my car, lock your gun. We also hold you responsible to what happens with your gun 70 percent of all school shootings happen because the teenager gets the gun from home. It's not locked up. And so we know statistically that safe storage laws save lives and so it just makes sense and we also should hold people accountable for what happens with their weapon. Again, that shouldn't be partizan if you let your 13 year old take your car on a joyride and they drive through your neighbor's front yard through their property there you're going to be held liable. So if you let your gun be used for a heinous crime, we should hold you responsible. So I worked with the governor on first first storage bill and a second one and PRESIDENT Biden wants to take it national . It's a national movement to get people to store their weapons. We talked a little bit about sb 96, the historic preservation bill and again I want to give the mayor shout out for bringing that forward. I was able to work with your housing folks on the bill to allow the 710 homes to be sold and historic properties again give claire bogarde props first for all of her work and all of the activists work on the 710 and then to be able to to preserve those historic homes. And so that's I think just a win win for everyone. Last year we worked with the governor's office on making sure that large venues where teenagers congregate have narcan available and so all those large concert venues and large venues where teenagers typically go narcan which you know helps in an opioid crisis this year one of my interns will last year an intern suggests that a bill idea that students be able to carry the testing strips on campus and narcan on campus without having any bureaucratic permissions. They can just carry it because a lot of the overdoses that happen with opioids are unintended because students don't even know what they're ingesting and so if they can test it, they know that it's it's not an motrin. It's an opioid and not take it. And so the governor signed that bill which I'm very excited about. We change state law around behavioral health and all know that that's a big issue for me . You know, having lost a brother to suicide and just you know, in this district people come forward with with behavioral health challenges all the time and asked me to do something about it. And one thing I learned on that journey is if you were home sick with a sprained ankle or with a cold from school that was an approved absence. But if you were home with a behavioral health challenge depression, anxiety that was not an approved absence. And so imagine being a 15 year old wondering if your teacher would accommodate your absence due to behavioral health issue when you don't have to worry if you had a sprained ankle. So we changed state law to make behavioral health and physical health treated the same way. We also, you know, having daughters 10 years apart this generation is far more nurturing of past generations. They look out for each other. It's really wonderful to see but it's also indicative of a generation that realizes they have challenges in their lives. In particular, post covered the behavioral challenges are far more significant than than pre cogat and so we did a bill to add behavioral health education as part of health class so students should know what the cues of behavioral health crises are and we did a bill to make sure that teachers know and administrators know and staff know when there's a student on campus that's struggling they should help them get the need that they they need. So that's an area that's been very important to me. Obviously I changed school start time to move it back. There was 35 years of research . It said test scores went up and the frequency of suicidal thoughts went down when you started school later in the day. Thirty five years of research drug use goes down, car accidents go down, sports injuries go down. Unintended pregnancies go down, drug use goes down. Guess what goes up. Test scores, attendance and graduation rates all go up by allowing teenagers to sleep in the morning based on their brain chemistry. So that was a three year fight. Governor brown vetoed it. Governor newsome signed it and so I was excited to get that through. And so, you know, my tenure has been I think marked by collaborations with the cities in my district, you know, the the three mayors from pasadena that I've served with have all been I consider friends and collaborators. The city council members have all been terrific to work with. And so I think that's a something I'm very proud of and obviously the education policy, the the sensible gun control policy and then trying to represent the district regionally I know the goal line is continue to do well based on a lot of local efforts and so I'm happy that that's progressing and after I got elected to the senate I was able to sit down with governor brown's administration and negotiate the end of the the 710 freeway and help the city get its stubbe so just thank you for letting me come share a little bit and it's been an honor to represent this great city. Thank you. If anybody has any questions or you coming out oh my goodness. So move out of the way. Let me I know you get a frame where this is the first frame when I get to give out let me just say on behalf of mayor bogarde, mayor tornadic my colleagues on the city council both present and past that we've enjoyed working with you as our states and our assembly member and state senator and on behalf of all people who've had the honor to serve here and on behalf of all residents of pasadena, we thank you for your service. Oh, no. Get the rest of the the rest of the planet to go. MR. Hamdan. It's four 2.0 now you're what are you doing here? You just give us your your name two three. Great. Thank questions. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it and be well I wish council member williams well in her next endeavor as well. Thank you all. Thank you senator. And again thank you for your many years of service and hard work on behalf of all of us. Thank you. Ok, so next we'll move to to public comment for matters not on the agenda. We'll start with rene gonzales followed by golden denim followed by alan shay, marilyn myers and then walter butler two minutes. MR. Gonzales, thank you for giving me your me your madison city council city manager. I'm here to ask the city council and the pasadena government to look into some type of taxpayer spending accountability at pasadena unified. I know they're separate entities. We understand that perfectly but we saved them before with MR. Gay and I know there's some language about accountability for those funds. And so right now church is going through a transition in their facilities. Department of safeword bendat I continuously pointed out several discrepancies and froud fraudulent contracts was terminated earlier this year after a one year effort to to get rid of them. And so this is a district that is going through a transition and so with the measure arani on the ballot, we know that we support education but it's very important to make sure that the spending from the taxpayers dollars gets done responsibly and pasadena finally has some type of accountability at the district. The many people don't know but the citizens oversight committee does not have any jurisdiction over comparables or to even stop any spending. There's just a basically body that oversees the spending and all they do is approve. So I been asking for them to implement a citizens oversight and reform committee that will allow you know, that reform ward will allow eventually you know, looking at areas of improvement the district. So I encourage this body to to look into some type of accountability at the district because is really needed. Thank you very much. You thank you all. And denham followed by alan shepard and marilyn myers if your name please work your way to the front of the room. MR. Denham, good to see you. Good to see you. Good evening, gentlemen. And ladies and I call you gentlemen I can honestly call your gentlemen from dealing with you. I've been coming down here for years and I hear you guys all know what I'm about. Trying to put the truth on the table is sometimes not easy and sometimes really ugly. I just want to say to you this country the whole country is in trouble right now. We're at a turning point where we got to take a choice. We make it a choice between truth and some other stuff. House of lies I call you gentlemen and in front of you all your names we ladies to but we'll put honorable in front of you names but I really can't say that right off the bat because I'm here questioning your morality of this whole situation. Gentlemen, we don't need gentlemen to fight for us. We need some we need some soldiers. We need some rough riders like teddy or we need some trouble starters like john lewis. We need some men and women with true grit because the lies that are embedded in this government, our government, we have to fight them and there are many lies even even I I I, I cringe when I say the pledge of allegiance because even though we want it to be true it's not this is one country indivisible this country is divided up in so many different ways. Why not just color by not just color but by your political aspirations is divided into so many different ways and it says one nation under GOD. Why in the world would they say separation of GOD and state? First of all we can't take GOD out of anything anymore. Remember because you will be held accountable on a spiritual battleground. I would like to come up in here and make every one of you do the right thing but it's going to take courage from you just going to take some changing of your minds. It's going to take some courage and you can't step back in and not fight. There is no progress without struggle. So you're going to have to struggle to get some progress in this country definitely needs a progress to top down time is all I know my time is up. Thank you. I never have enough time to complete my whole train of thought but it's all about making things better for all of us and thank you MR. King. But I say in order for us to do that we have to put the truth on the table, think truth is kind of ugly and deal with that. thank thank you for your time. MR. Bush followed by maryland irs than walter butler. MR. Shea, welcome. Good afternoon. City council members. We like your car. Well, you know, I wanted to break out of the dodgers attiya but got kind of chilly so I better put a jacket on. But I wanted to first and foremost thank senator anthony porte}o oh for his leadership because we had I had to get the good opportunity of working with him for with me. He was actually one of my committee members when we built the art center there and we did a lot of hard work to bring all that money in to make sure it worked and I really enjoyed that. One of the things I wanted to share with everyone tonight again goes back to a couple of statements that he made while he was standing before you and he continued to articulate about accountability fact he said three times accountability responsibility in our ability again I come before you because those the same things that I asked for that this city council provide across the board and certainly seems to fall on deaf ears now I'm calling out because I'm asking that you agenda izz s.B seven as it relates to the housing issues along 17 that were purchased by the city of pasadena 17 houses that did not fall into the category of considerations for reparation for some unknown reason and I have my mentor here tonight, MR. Walt butler hopefully he will get up and attest to african-americans living below dalmar below california. He lived in that area and certainly he's a oji that can testify who lived where. So I hope that you take that into account. I hope that it is a genuine dies because I think it should be vetted out and certainly established from a policy standpoint since last week's agenda item certainly rose some really relevant issues about how important policy is here in pasadena. So I'd like to thank you for the time and hopefully you'll adhere to what I'm asked for. Thank you. Thank you, MR. Maryland myers. Yes. Excuse me. I'm a little bit of a sore throat but good evening. I'm here to talk about facilities at john miller high school in pasadena high school. Um, I have four grandsons and some have already attended the public schools and who are currently attending and it's really to me catastrophe for the city of pasadena to have both of those fields looking the way they do. It's a very unsanitary there. This is a city of roses in pasadena and to have those two high schools continue to have people to have to use porta potties and all of their athletic events is is just not something that we can continue to stand for. It's a disgrace to the city. It's a disgrace to our students . It's a disgrace to the community also they don't the grounds are dirty. There's dirt everywhere. The bleachers are old and decrepit and there I understand they're being borrowed by the tournament of roses. Our students deserve better our community, our families, you know, parents, grandparents, visitors, they don't want to even come out to the activities there because of the conditions. There's nowhere to wash your hands. There's food being served. This is a health issue. You know this pasadena has been around for how long. There's many athletic programs there. The field is being used twelve months out of the year at meare also pasadena high school. The field is being utilized. We've had a pandemic and we still are using porta potties at these two great high schools in pasadena. I had a parent come to me and say she had to call her son to come pick her up to take her home to use the facilities at home because things were so horrible at the school. You know, I'm from new jersey like senator like assemblyman porte}o time is expired. Oh, it has. I'm sorry. Sorry. Well, I just wanted to make that plea and to challenge you guys to help the pasadena board of education get this done immediately or else the health department will know or maybe even tv station. Thank you, ma'am. thank you. And walter butler, final speaker under matters not on the agenda. Well welcome to doing so. Some part of the oldest person in here to solidify about the south and I grew up on the south end and I went to garfield elementary which they have torn down. So I've been around a long time . The freeway got me but that was the reason here I just up to those guys I'm here pertaining to what MISS Myers we're talking about about the facilities up there which is on senator and the school. I've been up there a long time, mac went to the he went there and he went to the olympics 1936 and so I was looking into it since I worked and student and student government. So I'm pretty good at it. I'm not an attorney but in that area that I am, you know, governed by the students, the students and but the students have been pretty good. So I'm here to ask you guys for some help. I went to the school board and so they threw me out more or less and so I've checked with the high school which is in the same district as mere the games at play so mia and james can play home games at arkadia, monrovia and glendale. They don't have a problem with that but they're going to stop coming to pasadena. We are one of the richest cities in the world and I've gone to other schools, checked out the facilities. It's no excuse. so I asked them if they would give me permission to get the toilet down wouldn't cost a penny so what I'm really here for you guys the man of the hour which I know was a good man, they said I'm looking at him to get me permission to get it done. The school district would not have to spend a penny. All I wanted in writing that I can get some toilet at the school that's all. School district is old and I'm old. I'm running out of time. So MR. Mayor, you're the man. That's what they've been telling me and we know I know you can help me to get it done . I mean I don't want to go to the cia and all this I mean those type of games I'm good at because I worked in student government so you learn both sides of it. I don't want to do those things. I don't want to embarrass the city of pasadena. I don't want to do it. So I need some help if you guys don't help me, I'm off to the races. MR. You're good at that. Thank you. And you're good at the races. That's right and I'm good at winning. So I mean I don't want to embarrass it. I'll reach out I'll reach out to you. Thank you. It's good to see you. What's your what's your time nowadays an old guy I can run under twelve. well I believe that you MR. Butler you look amazing and it is always good to see you sir. MR. Butler, if you don't know MR. Butler he is a long term, long time business owner in the community and every pair of shoes and still to this day I still buy tennis shoes because of MR. Well butler always I try to keep him clean but I just want to kind of answer some of the questions you mentioned about ptsd. So I had lots of email correspondence earlier last year with the superintendent of schools. It was voted and approved for improvements at john muir high school for twenty five for the year of 25. So that work is supposed to be happening actually I just looked in their lie online at their website in 2005. It is 2014. I just looked at their website right now to see if was updated and codified on their mesmero upgrades and it is so if you go to the past the unified school district's website and look at facilities page, it says that jamir are going to have upgrades to their sports facilities. I I just read it right now but I did have email from the from the superintendent after the vote to increase to to fix the facilities at john muir. And by the way, just to let you know, the health department is very aware and that is the reason why I'm here is getting upgrades to the pool. Thank you. That complete that's true. that completes public comment on matters not on the agenda. Thank you. Yeah. Why don't we go to the consent calendar for those of you who don't know what butler you he's a local legend somewhere. I know that item six and seven need to be pulled off or just seven. You just need to make an announcement and then for item twelve if the council reviews in your yellow folder there is a memo that explains that there was a difference in the square footage of the lease for item twelve which changes the not to exceed amount by fifteen thousand two hundred and ten dollars over the three year term for that lease. And so there's a new not to exceed amount of five hundred and forty three thousand seven hundred thirty seven dollars. So there's a memo to that that explains that. So when you make the motion to approve the consent for item twelve it's as amended for item twelve. Ok, so I'm going to need to recuse myself on item seven isn't all liuna and I do work for liuna and but before I go I should read a statement related to six item six and then you're going to take the sweet notion that except for seven so so let me read the following statement regarding item six and this is as required by the brown act prior to taking action on item six regarding compensation of the deputy city manager deputy finance director treasurer deputy public works directors slash city engineer and economic development director. This is to announce the recommend the recommendation that these classifications and incumbents will receive a one percent market adjustment increase effective NOVEMBER 4th ,2024 and again this this statement is required by sb fourteen thirty six which became effective JANUARY 1st of twenty seventeen with that I would entertain emotion on the consent calendar calling item seven which I intend to recuse myself for the reasons I stated I'm of the consent calendar their second second. Are there any objections and now as it relates to item seven I will recuse myself and step out of the room. Thank you. Thank you mayor. And as the mayor leaves until entertain a motion to adjourn to go watch the dodger game some I don't get a vote. Is this a legit ok, we have item number seven. Um, I think other than the mayor's recusal there's no issue with this so consider a motion to adopt. So thank council member williams there's a second second council to rely on any objection that carries seven to zero with the mayor having step out. Thank you. I you going to go to the water and power one? Yes. Next uh, we will go to item twenty two twenty eighteen. He's reaching no I think it's according to my notes it's twenty two but maybe I'm wrong we'll go to item twenty to twenty two. No and as they proceed in mayor I'll let you know that interim general manager david is will make an introduction and the presentation will be made by nixonland as a consultant with e3 and kelly nawin assistant general manager. So MR. Reyes. Thank you MR. Marquez mayor city council. We're very pleased to present an update on the optimized strategic plan this evening. You might recall the council direction in resolution ninety nine seventy seven to do our very best to be green by 2030. So so the resolution speaks to procuring all of our energy from carbon free materials by 2030 in consideration of affordability, sustainability and equity including reliability. Miskelly when our agm assistant general manager for power supply is just a quick intro I would like to say before I turn it over to kelly that we've had six tap meetings, technical assistance meetings. We've been in front of the msi committee three times and we've been in front of the larger audience larger a community with the community meeting once and so we have an update that we're very excited to share this evening and it's a short presentation but we're here for any questions you might have. Thanks, kelly. Thank you, david. Good evening. Honorable mayor gordo and city council members. My name is kelly pwp assistant general manager for power supply and I'll give a brief introduction along with an update on our clean energy tracker. So on DECEMBER 11, 2023, a city council approved and adopted the 2003 integrated resource plan or irp. The city council directed the city manager's office to utilize the 2003 irp or and in a process to plan multiple approaches to transition to this goal and to optimize affordability rate equity stability and reliability while achieving this goal. So upon approval of the irp, the city council issued guidance to use a third party with expertize in green energy to develop and optimize strategic plan or osp. So for the key metrics are forecasted progress in addition ,as part of the approval the 2023 irp the city council requested that we develop a dashboard to track progress toward meeting that the carbon free goals of resolution 1970 seven. So here we have the clean energy tracker which we believe includes good relevant metrics to help us track and communicate our progress. The tracker tippex key targets and milestones tracking our progress towards achieving carbon free goals of resolution nineteen seventy seven. Our goal is to update the tracker approximately every three months or whenever new information becomes available. So the first metric number one demonstrates progress towards the a bill 100 california state compliance we're currently forecasting to exceed sb 100 target of 100 percent renewable and zero carbon by 2045 before 2030 more than 15 years ahead of the mandate. So next metric number two in the middle demonstrates progress toward carbon free generation this metric focuses on pwp energy portfolio and how resource investments that we make impact our overall carbon free percentage. And as of today we forecast that 91 percent of our annual generation portfolio will be carbon free by 2030. Lastly, metric number three demonstrates progress toward average hourly matching and we are currently currently forecasting that an average of 89 percent of delivering energy will be carbon free for all hours in a year by 2030. You can view this information by visiting the clean energy tracker on our pwp web page. So now it is my pleasure to introduce nicholas a partner for me three who will be discussing the series of studies and analysis they're conducting to assist pasadena in transitioning to a clean energy future. Thank you. Welcome. Ok, good evening mayor. Members of city council my name is nick schlag. I'm a partner with e3. Really pleased to be here in person today to share with you a brief informational update on the progress we've been making towards the creation of this optimized strategic plan. This has been a really rewarding initiative already for us to be involved in. We kick this off midway through this year and I think we've already made some very interesting progress towards developing supporting the city in developing this plan. So I've got roughly 10 slides to cover off tonight. Again, this is a really a brief informational update on the progress we've made. I did want to start with just a brief overview of e3 for those of you who MAY not be familiar with our work, we are a consultancy based out of san francisco roughly one in size focusing on the clean energy transition. Much of our work focuses on supporting utilities, states and other types of clients who are investigating hard questions as to how quickly, how far and how fast they can move towards a transition to greener and cleaner energy. We have worked with a number of utilities throughout california to support these types of questions. One of our notable efforts recently was supporting the sacramento municipal utilities district and their establishment of a clean energy plan for twenty thirty. We also recently worked with the city of glendale to map out options to help that city achieve higher and higher penetrations of rooftop solar. So this is very much a topic that we've worked broadly on throughout the industry and it's very close to many of our hearts at e3 to be supporting our clients in working with the clean energy transition so i won't go into depth recapping kind of the history of resolution nine nine seven seven I'm sure you all know that well, what I will say about it is two things. One is that this resolution which requires the city to achieve 100 percent carbon free energy by the end of 2030 really establishes the city as a leader within a state that's already very aggressive on climate policy. And so I think that's something that is very notable and an important attribute of this effort. At the same time, what I'll say about it is is that it does kind of set up a confrontation with a series of very difficult technical questions about making that transition happen. Kelly introduced the three metrics and the fact that the city is already on track to get to roughly 90 percent clean energy by 20 30. What that means is this optimized strategic plan is an effort that is focused and focused on solving the proverbial last 10 percent of the transition and that inherently means that we're going to be asking and having to answer some difficult questions about what that transition looks like. This is something that's well-established by the literature that investigates these types of questions. But I'll just note that pasadena specifically faces some I think unique circumstance is as a relatively small electric system, dense urban area with limited land use and a limited intertek capability to the broader california grid. So these are all aspects of the question that I think are going to make this a sort of unique effort to look at what the transition to 100 percent clean energy looks like. So as we started off on the sort of road map to developing and optimized strategic plan and we worked through this with pwp staff and the city manager's office and with our technical advisory panel, what we wanted to start by doing in this process as a whole is really try to define what is an optimized strategic plan and what we came to is the definition that you see here on the screen what we see this as is an effort to define a roadmap that lays out key steps and future decision points that will best position the utility to achieve its goal of sourcing all energy from carbon free sources by the end of 20 30 while also importantly maintaining reliability and limiting cost impacts to customers. These are questions that implicate the entire energy system and so it means that as we go through this process will be looking to investigate the implications for new types of generation resources but also the effects and impacts on pasadena's transmission and distribution system as well as customer programs all of which will play a role in facilitating this transition. Ok, so I have one technical slide in this presentation and we'll see how this goes. One of the things that we believe in at e3 is helping to establish a shared understanding of the dynamics that we're trying to plan for as we make this transition happen. And so what we've done is we've taken the metrics that kelly showed you in the introduction and try to take them a step further to understand where are we starting from as we work towards establishing this optimized teaching plan. So what you see in front of you is basically a represents of pasadena's energy supply today twenty twenty five and in thirty. But instead of looking at things annually we're looking at every hour of the year so every tiny rectangle in each of these graphics represents one hour of the year. You can read the three hundred and sixty five days across the rows twenty four hours of the day down and I think this illustrates some really interesting dynamics about how the power system is changing over time already in the top chart this is twenty twenty five. This graphic is mostly red and that color coding reflects the fact that pasadena's supply of energy is less than 100 percent carbon free every hour of the year. The annual average metric today for metric three that kelly reported is about twenty five percent now with many of the contracts that the utility has signed in the past year for new solar and energy storage and wind and geothermal picture changes pretty dramatically in that 20 30 time frame you can see that the color coding has shifted pretty dramatically so green in that bottom figure actually represents periods of the year where pasadena portfolio will be more than one hundred percent carbon free essentially pasadena has excess carbon free energy to sell back to a broader california grid. The white color there is one load is perfectly balanced by carbon free resources and the red are the remaining periods where there is still some carbon emitting generation being used to serve pasadena's load. This tells a really interesting story about the emerging challenges that the city faces in this transition namely the fact that with the increasing levels of solar that we're seeing pasadena in the same way that we're seeing this in the broader california grid, we're looking at periods where we have surplus more carbon free energy than we need at certain times of day and year and we're looking for resources that can help fill in those red gaps which typically overnight when the sun's not shining and when the storage resource have been dispatched to their full capacity. So I share this with you just as kind of an informational update this is really again framing the start of this entire effort and this is really what we're working to extend beyond is what where do we go from this picture so towards the beginning of this year I think city council approved our scope of work for this effort. But I wanted to just revisit this briefly and remind you all of the different studies that are coming together within the context of this broader effort. There were 10 different studies that were mapped out in the process of scoping out the development of the optimized strategic plan and we have those laid out here. We have in the process of developing this plan organize these into three phases. The first phase which we describe as our preparatory studies is really an exercise to examine what are all the potential building blocks that could contribute to the city's efforts to transition to carbon free energy. So we've been very busy on this phase for the past three to three to four months we've been looking at essentially what are the options for distributed solar and storage within the city limits? What are new and emerging technologies for energy generation that MAY become available in the future to help the city meet its carbon free energy needs? What could we do to harness additional flexibility from our own customers shift loads from times of day when energy is scarce to times of day when energy is plentiful and have customers respond to signals on the grid and number four is what are the options potential options for transmission expansion to relieve some of the bottlenecks that exist within that system today. So phase one it's the building blocks it tells us what are the potential options? Phase two which is what we're moving into today is taking those building blocks and putting them together to create portfolios that show what it would take to actually get to 100 percent carbon free energy . We have two components to this study. I'm not going to go into great technical depth on these but these bring together some very advanced power systems models that we use to again combine these building blocks into portfolios that let us see this holistic picture of a carbon free electricity system phase three which is coming down the line. This is our impacts assessment . That's where we take all of the portfolios that we've created and really dig into what they will cost, how they operate and what impacts they have on the distribution system. We want to provide a holistic picture of the effects of these transitions and help city council the public and the utility really understand not only what the options are but what the implications are of choosing different pathways. Ultimately we see this all concluding in an action plan, a final report that really lays out what this optimized strategic plan is sets the city up with a series of steps that it can take to get as far and as fast as it can towards one percent carbon free energy. i'll just briefly flash our project schedule up on the screen. We are coming up on our sort of midway point through this effort. So I mentioned we've already been busy at work on this for a number of months. Many of the preparatory studies that I mentioned are coming towards their conclusions and we've learned a lot already about what those options look like for the city to support its needs to transition towards carbon free. And we are beginning to dig into those more advanced power systems models that I mentioned to help us piece those to piece those together. So we've made a lot of interesting progress and I'll be excited to share that with you once we have the chance to really validate and vet our results in great detail in addition to just the ongoing work in terms of our technical studies, what I'll mention is that we've made great efforts to incorporate public and stakeholder feedback in this process. David mentioned at the outset the technical advisory panel who we've convened six times at this point and from whom we've received a lot of valuable input that has helped us really focus our research questions and understand the specific needs that the city has. We've also been before the municipal services committee environmental advisory committee several times to report out and finally have had one community meeting at this point we have a schedule of those planned out into the future and we really are looking forward to continued public engagement on this. So I mentioned that our preparatory studies are beginning to come towards their conclusion in this effort and that's what that's converging towards is a process in which will be piecing those those the pieces of the preparatory studies together into these case studies that once again illustrate what does it look like for the city to achieve its 2030 goals with different mixes of technologies so when we presented to the mzee I think close to a month ago at this point we presented a relatively detailed matrix of the different cases that we plan to analyze at that point there were eight different cases that we plan to analyze and what I'll say is that our work plan has not changed dramatically at all since that point. But what we've attempted to do based on feedback that we received from the msi based on feedback that we received from the tap and from the fsc, we've attempted to clarify this a little bit more to help this group the public and everyone interested in this effort really understand why we're focused on the case studies that we are and how they fit together to tell us what we need to know to create this optimized strategic plan. So what you see on the screen are three core case studies that we're really focused on investigating to understand different potential visions of this 2030 carbon free energy system. So I'll walk through these one at a time. Each one of these represents a different set of technologies that might be put together to support the city's needs. The first of these is what we call mature technologies only this would be a case study. It focuses on the question of what would it take to to utilize technologies that are available today and scale those to the level necessary to entirely decarbonize the energy supply the electricity supply in pasadena. So this will leverage technologies like solar pv both utility scale within the broader california grid as well as local distributed solar within the pasadena service territory land based wind resources and geothermal as additional renewable resource options different sources of demand response and load flexibile and finally lithium ion battery storage which has really exploded onto the california grid as a balancing resource has already brought great benefits to california. So we'll be stacking all those pieces together in combinations that essentially once again illustrate how much and when those resources need to come online to facilitate this transition. Now the next two case studies that we have are each variations on the first that incorporate additional technologies into consideration . the first of these is layers in green hydrogen at the potential for a green hydrogen conversion at the glenarm power plant on top of those mature technologies and the second of these instead layers on long duration energy storage on top of the mature technology set it's worth noting at this point that both of these are emerging technologies that are not yet available on the market today. And so in many respects these represent an optimistic view of what might be possible by 2030. But once again our goal and this is to show you what it would take to get to that goal by that 2030 time frame and these three these three case studies together I think will provide us with a really rich set of information once again that illustrates what those different options might look like across these three different case studies. There are a number of common methods and assumptions that will be built into each of them. One is that by the end of 2030 we would see combustion of natural gas at the glenarm power plant within the city consistent with the requirements of resolution nine nine seven seven. Number two is that all of these portfolios would would entirely eliminate reliance on wholesale market purchases from the california grid meaning that you could honestly call them 24/7 carbon free supply portfolios and number three is that they all rely on a common set of methods to once again balance all these puzzle pieces in in quantities that make sense. It fit together to meet the needs of the power system. Now on the far right here you see that what we've listed is a number of different variations on these three case studies that we think are useful to provide a holistic set of information to support the development of the ospi. These include variations that might consider things like the acceleration of distributed energy resources above and beyond status quo levels within the city limits while also retaining the glenarm power plant as a last resort for reliability backup. The second category of variations investigates different timing of that transition to the 20 30 goal and essentially what we're interested in exploring there is is there an opportunity to synchronize the transition to carbon free with the eventual upgrades to the transmission system that MAY be coming in the future as well as allowing potentially additional time for technology to mature and the last category of variations investigates the role of markets essentially does allowing some flexibility for purchases and sales with the broader california iso what effect does that have on these different solutions now I guess recognizing the importance of the 20 30 goal that the city has set for itself, I'd also like to recognize that many of the decisions that are made in the process of pursuing that goal will have implications and consequences that last for decades much of the power system is made up of infrastructure whose lifetime is 30, 40, 50 years and so in many sense in many senses the decisions made in pursuit of this plan will have a rippling effect through the communities in pasadena for quite a long time into the future. And so with that in mind, the way that we're thinking about this is that with with these core case studies and with the variations upon them, we're aiming to cast essentially floodlight across the entire landscape of the opportunity here to make sure that you all city council the utility have as much information as possible to make the right decisions for the city. Ok, this is my last slide. We just went through the case studies that we're planning to analyze and I wanted to say briefly how this all comes together at the end. What do we actually do with the results of these case studies as they come together? What I will say is that the goal of this effort in our mind is not to pick a single case study as the one and only preferred path forward from for the city quite frankly, there's a there's a tremendous amount of uncertainty in the power sector right now. There's a tremendous amount of innovation going on within related to the power sector right now and there are things about the future that we just cannot know. So with that in mind, the way that we see this process kind of culminating is that we'll work through these case studies . But in the end what they tell us are what are the common themes that we can see across them? What are potential lease regret's actions? What steps do we need to to do to preserve optionality in this process? And with all of that we think that we can work together to provide once again this roadmap that helps the city pursue its goals to meet 100 percent carbon free electricity by 2030. So thank you thank you for the presentation. Looking to the queue, MR. Madison. Thank you. You said you're from san francisco. Are you a giants fan? I'm what I've been telling people is I would rather see the dodgers win than the yankees. Ok, that's a great answer. Thank you. I'm just it's a great answer that so I know we we let a geothermal contract get away from us a bit ago nobody that's involved here but directly at least. But would that have pushed us over that that final 10 percent you're familiar with the episode I'm describing or I'm not directly familiar with that contract. Yes. MR. Reyes or MR. Marquez. Yeah, health or medicine. We actually did end up getting that contract. it just cost more money. So that was well with the increment the increase would we have been able to buy more geothermal that would have put us over the ten percent? I don't think we put us over the ten percent. I don't have the numbers. It would have gotten us further. Ok, and I don't mean to pick out an old wound but you know, we have to hold ourselves accountable. I think you agree this is a dynamic market that seems to be changing in our favor. I agree it's a dynamic market. I think there are things that are shifting in ways that both could facilitate the city's transition. There are also challenges and headwinds that we're seeing within the industry today that MAY present challenges. Could you just amplify on that one point the I'm sorry, could you because all I read about in the wall street journal and the government and business press is how many billions and billions of dollars are chasing clean energy because of leaders like the city of pasadena that demanding it? Yeah, I think that's absolutely correct. I mean just several years ago we passed the country the united states passed the inflation reduction act followed by the infrastructure and jobs act. This the federal funding that that has created has spurred a tremendous amount of interest in the sector. There's a tremendous amount of private capital flowing into innovation in new technologies. So yes, I agree very much that there is there are many sort of trends that are that are in support of or aligned with the city's transition. And then my last question was about solar and this is probably more symbolic in terms of the, you know, volume but but maybe not the the sort of trend of homeowners that are providing solar panels on their homes is that going to make a difference here? Is it trending in a way that'll be helpful? Is there more we should or could be doing? I think it's a one piece of the puzzle. I alluded to the the notion that there are many building blocks that, you know, through this process will be layering one on top of the other. I don't think at this point we're quite ready to say, you know, how much is the right amount for pasadena? In fact, the question of how much is really more of a policy decision than it is a technical one in some respects. So I don't want to imply that e3 will tell city council what the right number is there. But with that said, we definitely see a role for the rooftop solar as contributing a component to the solution for the city. Please add from the perspective of the utility we also feel that way we are meeting with some caltech professors this thursday to talk about ways that they can help us identify some studies to look at what potential impact it would have in terms an increasing the amount of rooftop solar in the city. So we know that there's some tactical opportunities that exist and we're hoping to leverage caltech to help us with that and we're happy to report out to mzee once that's done great. And I hope they're sort of climate czar will be at least aware of those meetings if not participate. Thank you. I'll make sure that they are and it's actually dr lowe who's coming who was at your town hall several months ago right. Great. Thank you. Thanks very much. Appreciate the thank you. Thank you mr lane. Thank you mayor. Thanks nick. It's good to I've only ever been a disembodied voice for us before so it's good to see you here in person. Thank you for all the work I really and kelly thank you for the I just want to point out to anyone who's keeping score here when we approve the irp ten months ago we were at a projection of fifty five percent carbon free energy an hour by hour basis and we're at eighty nine percent today which already shoots beyond what I want to thank you all for the incredible work I had one question I and first of all I love the way the three studies are designed. They're exactly what all of this is exactly what we ask for. i want to say the way this is set up, the way we're communicating, t