MEMORANDUM
CITY OF BURBANK,
WATER AND
POWER
DATE: May 20, 2025
TO: Justin Hess, City Manager
FROM: By: Drew oh, Gone, Sl Mamarty Bricer Burban and per and Power D. 1. 0 3Y: Drew Johnsione,
Rodney Hupalo, Marketing Associate
SUBJECT: Budget Discussion Paper - Estimate for Implementation of a Green Business Certification Program in the City of Burbank
BACKGROUND
At the May 6, 2025, Council meeting, Vice Mayor Takahashi requested that Burbank Water and Power (BWP) prepare a budget discussion paper on the California Green Business Network and implementing a green business certification program.
DISCUSSION
The California Green Business Network (CAGBN) is a membership-supported non-profit comprised of cities and counties that provide assistance to help small to medium-sized businesses implement measures to reduce pollution, save water, conserve energy, and protect human health. There are a variety of sustainable practices that are included in CAGBN's framework and certification checklists for local businesses to consider. They range from no-cost practices like changing behavior to larger investments in efficient appliances or renewable energy. CAGBN dues provide cities with a system to run a local green business certification program with customizable checklists and resources for local businesses, as well as recognition and promotion for businesses that meet their green accomplishments.
Burbank Water and Power currently has a robust set of existing programs to support the business community. They include Business Bucks, which is a no-cost energy survey and retrofit program, Energy Saving Trees, which provides no-cost shade trees, and BWP offers a wide variety of rebates to reduce the cost of investments in energy efficiency, 1 water conservation devices, EV charging, landscape equipment electrification, as well as water-wise outdoor landscaping.
• Business Bucks: The program utilizes a vendor to provide small and mid-sized businesses with an energy efficiency audit, a report of cost-effective retrofits, and the direct installation of retrofits. The program will pay for up to $5,000 in retrofits from the provided report. Business Bucks will be returning from a brief program pause in July 2025.
• Energy Saving Trees: BWP has a partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation, which offers business customers an intuitive online platform for selecting and receiving up to 20 trees at no cost to the customer. This streamlined process enables BWP to deliver more trees to customers while supporting ongoing efforts to reduce air conditioning energy use.
• Energy Rebates: Businesses in Burbank can receive rebates by retiring inefficient equipment and installing new energy-efficient equipment. Customers apply with a description and pictures of equipment removed and replacement equipment installed, as well as the estimated annual energy savings resulting from the retrofit.
BWP then performs a post-installation inspection before approving the rebate.
Starting July 1, 2025, businesses can receive rebates totaling up to $200,000 per year.
• Water Rebates: Through BWP's partnership with the Metropolitan Water District, businesses in Burbank can receive enhanced rebates for premium high-efficiency toilets, urinals, irrigation controllers, sprinkler nozzles, drought-tolerant landscaping, food equipment, and more.
There are currently 22 cities and 16 counties that participate in the CAGBN. Cities in the region include Beverly Hills, Culver City, El Segundo, Glendale, Hawthorne, Irvine, Laguna Beach, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Manhattan Beach, Riverside, Santa Monica, Torrance, and Ventura. Green Business Certification Programs can be managed either internally with City staff or outsourced to a local consultant. BWP has explored these two pathways below.
FISCAL IMPACT
The cost for BWP to administer this program would be approximately $66,720 per year if administered by City staff or approximately $150,000 if administered by a contractor.
Additional staffing would be required for the program to be run internally by City staff. A dedicated staff member would be required to oversee operations, conduct on-site evaluations, provide guidance to businesses, and handle administrative duties associated with the program. Cost estimates for a program managed by internal staff are listed below:
2 Item Estimated
Cost
Member dues to CAGBN $ 6,970
Coordinator at 50% FTE (1,040 hours x $50/hr) $52,000
Marketing and outreach materials $ 1,500
Incentives ($500 per business) x 10 businesses $ 5,000
Burbank Green Business artwork design and window decal production $ 1,250 TOTAL $66,720
Another option is to outsource the program coordination to a local consultant. Based on publicly available information from neighboring cities that have Green Business Certification Programs, the following costs were allocated to have a consultant provide program coordination:
Green Business Certification Program Annual ($)
City of Santa Monica $ 148,000.00
City of Glendale $ 155,250.00
City of West Hollywood $ 189,760.00
City of Los Angeles $ 750,000.00
CONCLUSION
BWP is committed to supporting local businesses in Burbank by providing valuable resources and incentives to enhance energy and water efficiency. Implementation and oversight of the Green Business Certification Program would require additional staffing to manage various aspects of the program effectively. With a variety of initiatives in place that support local businesses, staff recommends continuing to develop and administer BWP's existing initiatives related to supporting local businesses in their sustainability efforts and considering potential funding for the Green Business Certification Program with the FY 2027-28 budget.
Attachment 1 - California Green Business Network Burbank Slide Deck Attachment 2 - California Green Business Network Impact Report 2024 3 Attachment 1
GREEN
CALIFORNIA
GREEN BUSINESS
NETWORK
City of May 9, 2025
Burbank
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CALIFORNIA
GREEN BUSINESS
NETWORK
WHO WE ARE
The California Green Business Network leads
the nation in working with hard-to-reach
businesses to create a vibrant, green economy.
What is our
Since 1996, the Network has offered technical
Mission? assistance and economic incentives to help
business owners improve their bottom line,
protect the environment, expand the
workforce, and provide a green marketplace.
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Led by a coalition of state and local
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achieves a shared mission of recognizing and
promoting businesses that meet high
sustainability standards. The Network was
formalized as an official state program in 2011
(A.B. 913 Feuer) and is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit.
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Solano • 40 Green Business Programs
San Joaquin Manhattan Beach
Sonoma
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Ventura
Stanislaus Santa Cruz
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WHAT WE DO
THE GREEN ECONOMY HARTS
What we do:
• Provide free technical and financial assistance
to small and medium-sized businesses.
• Offer easy to use framework
• Recognize and promote businesses for their
green accomplishments.
• Provide a local green marketplace for
consumers and employees.
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• CA Green Business Network
• Coordinate with Cities, Waste Haulers, & other
community partners
• Funding from Municipalities and State of CA
OUR IMPACT
Businesses that join our network conserve precious resources, prevent harmful pollution, and enhance their bottom-line.
In 2024 Green Businesses Reduced:
37,986 Tons 59 Million kWh
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STEP 1 - Enrollment and Registration (free and voluntary) STEP 2 - Initial Walk-Through and Consultation (Free Technical Assistance) STEP 3 - Audits from Partners (i.e. utilities and water districts) STEP 4 - Implementation of Measures
STEP 5 - Final Site Visit and Verification
STEP 6 - Certification and Business Promotion!
• 6 week certification cycles, ideally
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chemicals
Program Benefits: What do businesses get?
• Use of Green Business logo
• Window decals
• Printed wall certificate
• CA Green Business Directory listing
• Mixers & Award Ceremonies
• Free marketing & promotions.
• Social media promotion
• Print & Digital Advertising
• Marketing Toolkit
• Access to rebates, grants and funding
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• Meet City/County sustainability goals through GHG reductions, resource conservation mandates: Climate Action Plans, solid waste diversion targets, water conservation, etc.
• Better environmental compliance: Businesses adopt more "beyond compliance" measures
• Better stakeholder relationships: public, business, utilities, agencies
• Plug and play systems to run a program
• Waived member dues the first year
• Free access to all materials, marketing, resources, conference, Basecamp GREEN
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Strong Stakeholder Building CALIFORNIA
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Electric utilities
• Air districts
• Wastewater facilities • Climate/GHG reduction groups
(pretreatment programs) • Transportation agencies
• Stormwater programs Environmental Health/CUPAs
• Solid waste/ recycling/reclamation Public Works/Offices of facilities Sustainability
• Water districts • Economic Development
• Business Groups (chambers, • Universities, Colleges, Green Job associations) Training Programs
Support for ALL Business
• Mini-Grants to Community Based Orgs,
Trairing Gaining
Black business orgs, Latinx business orgs
• Staff Training, resources, prebates
• Trusted community members
• Utilize the right language and culture
• Outcome Driven: How many 'vulnerable'
businesses going through certification?
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Equality Equity
Program Testimonials
"As the former administrator of the City of Manhattan Beach:
"The San Benito County Green Business Huntington Beach Sustainable Business Program has been instrumental in Certification program and now the engaging our businesses in waste Fullerton Sustainable Business reduction, recycling, water conservation Certification program, I can and efficiency, stormwater pollution wholeheartedly say that this program prevention, and energy efficiency helps businesses become more initiatives. This program helps our sustainable not just environmentally but County's businesses meet several financially as well. Businesses are not City of Culver City:
environmental state mandates, while used to governments wanting to help forming positive relationships between them but this program proved to show local government staff and the business businesses that City Hall was here to community." help."
"Since implementing the Marin Green Business Program in 2002, the County of Marin has built a robust network of over 300 Certified Green Businesses which provide a marketplace for the environmentally-minded Contra Costa County:
consumer. These businesses have contributed to the County's climate action goals by taking advantage of the energy efficiency resources that are available to them, and have been key participants in the County's efforts to engage the community around climate action. Cost-saving measures, GREEN rebates, and marketing benefits help keep these businesses economically
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Susan Psara NETWORK
Contra Costa Business Program
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Burbank Basics CALIFORNIA
GREEN BUSINESS
NETWORK
• Who/How will program be managed/supported?
• Providing compliance and verification checks, as well as business assistance (~10-20 hours per business, depending on • GreenBiz Tracker data input (~5 hours per business)
• Some staff perspective: SF has 4 people working on GB, City of LA has 2 prime contractors and 4 subs for an estimated total of about 6-8 people working on their program.
• Annual Member Dues = $6,969 (5000+(5188* 0.3795))
• Will you provide incentives for Businesses? ($500 - $1,000 per business?) GREEN
Contact Us CALIFORNIA
GREEN BUSINESS
NETWORK
Maria Corona
Co-Exec Director- CAGBN We value our community and
[email protected] our environment.
(323) 441-6822 Proud to be a Certified California
Green Business
Maria Corona GREEN
Co-Exec Director- CAGBN
[email protected]
(831) 521-2630
Sandrine Cassidy
SoCal Representative- CAGBN
[email protected]
310-384-5682
Questions?
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CALIFORNIA
GREEN BUSINESS
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Attachment 2
CALIFORNIA
GREEN BUSINESS NETWORK
IMPACT
REPORT
2024
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An investment in the California Green Business Network
is an investment in California, its small businesses, the environment and local communities.
2024 Impact by the Numbers
The California Green Business Network meets businesses where they are.
This includes providing technical assistance to meet local and State policies, supporting entry-level certification, which provides a soft introduction to certification, full certification or innovator level for those businesses that want to go above and beyond in support of efficient and clean operations. We also continue to follow-up on businesses to ensure continued action, through recertification. 737 2,107 47,255
Total businesses Number of businesses Number of
certified in all that received technical employees reached categories in 2024 assistance 2024 in 2024
In 2024, we supported 737 businesses across our Entry Level, Certified, and Innovator tiers. In contrast, state funding in 2023 enabled us to support 1,259 businesses- nearly triple the 433 businesses served in 2021. Additional funding has shown to triple our capacity.
Impact to the environment
Each of the actions taken by the thousands of businesses served by CAGBN are tracked in the Green Businesses Tracker, a tool used by programs throughout the State to measure impact.
In 2024 Green Businesses Reduced:
37,986 Tons 59 Million kWh
of GHGs of Energy
- planting 118,425 acres of = powering 5,408 houses
urban trees for an entire year
18,431 Tons 106 Million Gallons
of Waste of Water
E 2,306 garbage trucks worth of - 2,529,840 bathtubs of fresh diverted waste drinking water
Impact to communities
We measure our impact by the numbers, but equally important, by the people and businesses we build relationships with and the businesses we connect to each other. 79 Safer Childcare Facilities
Funded by an EPA P2 Grant, we worked with childcare facilities throughout the Monterey Bay and Central Valley Areas, many serving agricultural communities, to transition to safer choice cleaning products and reusable foodware to create a clean and safe environment for children and childcare workers.
"La salud de los niños es lo más importante. Children's health is the most important thing." - Hilda Salcedo, Owner, Morenos Daycare, Watsonville, CA 180 Small Business Efficiency Grants
Funded by our corporate sponsor Intuit, we supported small businesses in adopting environmentally friendly measures to further promote sustainability, save money, and increase efficiency. This innovative partnership has supported 180 businesses to date with planned growth into 2026.
"The Green Business Grant has enabled our business to enhance local delivery timing and efficiency through the purchase of an e-bike. This support allows us to provide our customers with fresher, faster orders while maintaining environmentally sustainable business practices. " -Everlyn Choi, Owner, Booskies Cookies First Green Certified Community Event in California
Pajaro Valley Pride made history as the state's first Green Certified Community Event. The PV Pride board worked tirelessly to ensure their operations, along with those of their vendors, adhered to our sustainability guidelines. Pajaro Valley Pride stands as an inspiration to other community events and members, proving that small steps can lead to significant positive impact.
"The message of our pride event is still here. There's ways you can change your event to make it environmentally friendly. I'm looking forward for more events to go green." - Raudel Covarrubias, Vice President, Pajaro Valley Pride 19 Small Agriculture Businesses Certified
In partnership with the Resource Conservation District small organic farmers in the Monterey Bay Area piloted a small agriculture green business certification in the Salinas area. "Estoy agradecido con el programa de California Green Business Network. Me ayudaron a mejorar las prácticas que uso el campo. La educación sobre el medio ambiente es importante.
Los productos que me dieron me ayudan a conservar agua y desechos. I'm grateful for the California Green Business Network program. They helped me improve the practices / use in the field. Environmental education is important. The products they gave me help me conserve water and waste." -Adelio Coronel
We build resilient businesses…
As California continues to feel the impact of a changing climate, small businesses face a range of direct and indirect impacts. Nearly 1,900 small SUPPORT LOCAL businesses were lost in the LA fires in early 2024. While the physical loss of GREEN BUSINESSES! property is devastating, the indirect economic impact to surrounding small greenbusinessca.org businesses is also significant. The customer base for many other small businesses are lost when residents and workers need to relocate.
We help businesses anticipate and plan for these impacts. New checklist measures were recently piloted in San Mateo County. These help businesses think through what they may need:
• Wildfire smoke resilience, such as a stand-alone air filter or HVAC filter upgrade (MERV 13 rated or higher).
• Heat resilience, such as outdoor shading or portable electric heat pump (for cooling and heating). GREF
• Flood resilience, such as sump pump and/or wet-dry vacuum. • Fire resilience items such non-combustible signage, mesh screening for vents and/or fire-resistant windows.
• Climate-friendly back-up power, such as batteries, power blocks, or solar chargers.
• Disaster Kits or Supplies to prepare for emergencies and climate impacts. • Emergency preparedness / response and/or climate resilience plan for employees.
"Our machines are all battery run and require consistent charging to be able to clean floors and carpets. During power outages caused by the recent rain storm, we were able to continue charging critical machines with no disruption to our business operations and client services." Results from a repair business in San Carlos that implemented battery backup with a solar panel recharge attachment.
Equitably.
To build relationships and trust with a variety of businesses, we ensure they receive information in their native language and from someone that understands the cultural norms of the business owners and workers. 8 of our 32 checklists have been translated into Spanish and we are developing a Spanish-speaking business' certification dashboard. We also worked with internal partners to translate and localize outreach materials to Spanish and our highest marketing materials to simplified Chinese, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.
Demographics of businesses that have enrolled in the program since 2020:
402 719 493 74 36 92
Spanish Speaking Woman-owned BIPOC LGBTQIA+-owned Veteran-owned Employee-owned Increased participation from businesses in disadvantaged communities by 40% since 2012 While there was an overall increase over the past 11 years, the decrease in 2024 is attributed to loss of State funding and subsequent reduction in capacity to target these communities.
Years 2012-2014 2021 2022 2023 2024
% DAC 5.5% 15.6% 33.23% 45.12% 42.9%
'Economic Impact of the Los Angeles Wildfires. Zhiyun Li and William Yu. UCLA Anderson Forecast, February 4, 2025 Green Businesses are the entry point for early adoption of California Initiatives.
CA Initiative/Legislation: GHG Reductions AB32, SB253, SB261, Climate Neutrality by 2045 We help businesses:
Be energy efficient
Track their carbon
emissions and reduce through the Simplified
CARBON Savings Program
them every year.
Provide nutritious food to Make energy
communities by eliminating upgrades via Intuit
food deserts and conserving sponsored rebates.
energy and climate through
the CDFA Healthy INTUIT
Refrigeration Grant.
CA Initiative/Legislation: Solid Waste Elimination and Reuse: SB 1383, SB 54, AB 1276, AB1080, AB619 We help businesses:
Transition from single use to Adopt organics recycling
reusable foodware as well and edible food recovery
practices (a decade before
as limit foodware
accessories and eliminate SB1383).
single-use plastic.
CA Initiative/Legislation: Safer Consumer Product, Greener Chemistries: AB-1879 and SB-509 We help businesses:
Switch to greener chemistries, Switch to safer
including nail salons, auto body, janitorial products.
green
chemistry. auto repair, garment cleaning,
dental services, construction,
painting, laboratories, etc.
In addition to state policies, many jurisdictions have local ordinances, we help small businesses navigate this complexity.
CAGBN continues to serve businesses statewide but with the loss of state funding, program reach has been impacted.
Locally run programs are the most effective way to serve businesses. We strive to have a locally run program in every municipality in California. Many communities are eager to participate but lack local financial resources. In 2024, we were unable to support business outside of the network.* Programs that ended ity served l ounty served b
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Alameda Costa Mesa Monterey
El Segundo Culver City Napa
Fresno Encinitas Nevada
Fullerton Glendale Placer
LASSEN Huntington Beach San Benito
TRINITY Hawthorne
Inyo Hayward San Francisco
HUMBOLDT Kern Hermosa Beach San Luis Obispo
Kings Irvine San Mateo
TEHAMA Mission Viejo
PLUMAS La Mesa Santa Barbara
Mono Laguna Beach Santa Clara
Monterey (City) Long Beach Santa Cruz
BUTTE
GLENN San Diego Regional
Los Angeles Solano
MENDOCINO San Joaquin Manhattan Beach Sonoma
NEVADA
COLUSA YUBA PLACER Solano Riverside
Ventura
LAKE
Stanislaus Santa Cruz
Torrance Santa Monica
EL DORADO
YOLO
ALPINE Tulare
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SONOMA NAPA
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CALAVERAS Vista
MARIN TUOLUMNE Watsonville
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Current Annual Funding of CAGBN and Green Business Operations Our current funding priorities include: 1) Directing support to network members by distributing grants and resources, 2) Directing funding to support small business technical assistance, and 3) Maintaining the quality and rigor of our resources and tools.
With funding we can support these priorities and expand programs and services to underserved communities without established programs.
2024 Funding Sources
Corporate Partnerships and Affilite Members
14.0%
Green Business Tracker Licenses to Other States
14.6% Local government member contributions
49.2%
Grants
22.3%
Chart 1: In 2024, nearly 50% of our funding came from local government member contributions. 35% of funding was from grants and corporate sponsorships, nearly all of which is passed through to network programs and/or directly to businesses. Green Business Tracker Software license fees are used to directly support the maintenance of that tool.
Current Funding Distribution vs Projected Funding Distribution with Additional Funds
• Funding Distribution 2024-25 Projected Distribution with Additional Funding $600,000
$400,000
$200,000
50 - Staff and Administration Grants and Rebates Direct Green Business Tracker Local Program Staff and to Businesses and Technology Partners
Chart 2: With additional funding there would be a notable increase in support for businesses and local programs. This increase is an estimate for how future funds would be used, but it is based on how we have historically distributed additional funds when they were available.
We help businesses take
actionable measures that
lead to quantifiable change.
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"We have been looking for more efficient
cooktop to use to reheat and make food. With
the advice of our Green Business Coordinator, The California Green Business Network leads the state we tried induction cooktops through the PGE in working with underserved businesses to create a loaner program. We liked the concept and how
vibrant, green economy.
fast they work. We used the Intuit Mini-Grant to
buy more stoves and compatible pans. Thank
you for this grant, we have been saving time Since 1996, the Network has offered technical cooking and are able to serve more customers." assistance and economic incentives to help business Teranga Restaurant owners make lasting changes that: improve their bottom line, protect the environment, expand the
workforce and provide a green marketplace for
consumers.
Led by a coalition of state and local governments,
utilities, and NGOs, the program achieves a shared
mission of recognizing and promoting businesses that
meet high sustainability standards.
The Network was formalized as an official state
"We changed the air filters on our ac/heating program in 2011 (A.B. 913 Feuer) and is a 501(c)(3) unit to run more efficiently. When they nonprofit that leads and sources locally run Green inspected the ac/heating unit, there were
additional recommendations to clean the Business Programs. equipment. The project has been a success in
enhancing the efficiency of our ac/heater
system. After replacing the filter and addressing
additional issues discovered during the
inspection, the system now operates more
effectively. The temperature regulation has
improved, providing a more comfortable We thank you for your continued support in environment for our clients year-round."
our efforts to make California a greener, more
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equitable economy.
Contact
Lacey M. Raak and Maria Corona
Co-Executive Directors
California Green Business Network
323-441-6822 C
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"Understanding all the information in Spanish greenbusinessca.org has made a big difference and is a big change
for me. Normally the information I receive is
the misinterpretation of people who do not
speak Spanish as their first language, and it is
not 100% understood." Mexical Taqueria
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has helped expose my business to a
supportive community of like-
minded leaders focused on the
importance of conducting local
business in a sustainable way."
- Susan Keefe, Eco Forward, Tustin
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1.2 million
Water:
Reducer
Charging 3,900
OFFICE Businesses
Certified
100,000
Re duced
TACO
Art credit: Matilda, 12 years old OVER 500,000
160 REDUCED
CommuniTY
PARTNERS
Our accomplishments are woven into the fabric of communities throughout the State.
Localized programs have collectively resulted in significant impact to the environment and the economy while expanding our shared sense of community.