Meeting Date: Friday, April 22, 2022
Please see the PDFs for the Official record of the City Council Agenda and Minutes, including the action taken during the meeting.
FINISHED AGENDA & DRAFT MINUTES
CLIMATE ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEE MEETING VIA
TELECONFERENCE PURSUANT TO AB 361 (GOV. CODE SECTION 54953(e)(1) (2))
CALL TO ORDER (2:01 PM)
ROLL CALL (2:01 PM)
Also present: Oscar Orci, Director of Development Services; Arturo D. Sanchez, Deputy City Attorney; Tamela Austin, City Clerk Specialist.
REGULAR AGENDA (2:02 PM)
1. 220453 Recommendation to approve the minutes of the Climate Action & Environmental Committee meeting held Tuesday, March 15, 2022.
2. 220454 WITHDRAWN Recommendation to concur in the recommendation of the Climate Action and Environmental Committee to direct City Manager to take the following actions: Request inclusion in the County and/or City of Los Angeles amortization studies or work with consultants to conduct a similar study and report back with the cost of doing so; Direct a percentage of surplus oil revenues to the abandonment fund and any other costs associated with abandonment, alongside important onetime capital projects; Direct City staff and the State Legislative Committee request the State to fully fund their portion of the abandonment liability; Work with South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) to prioritize leakage mitigation and detection, emissions control, and carbon capture measures; Work with labor organizations in the transition of workers from the local energy sector; Work with City Attorney and State Lands Commission and other applicable state entities to determine the legal options available to the City to end new drilling as soon as is legally defensible, including studying prohibiting new oil and gas extraction in all zones and, studying changing oil and gas extraction to a legal nonconforming use in all zones; and Request City Manager report back with timelines and costs associated with the above recommendations as well as potential funding streams for them. (Citywide)
3. 220455 Recommendation to receive and file a discussion on green shipping and forward the below recommendations to the City Council: Request City Manager to work with the Harbor Department to explore discussions with another major international port city with the intentions of creating a green shipping corridor similar to the one in development between the Ports of Los Angeles and Shanghai, including exploring joining the Los Angeles/Shanghai clean shipping corridor as a partner; Add support for legislation or administrative action to rapidly decarbonize the maritime shipping industry and to create green shipping corridors along the California coast, the West Coast of the United States, and across the transPacific trade route to the City’s 20222023 State and Federal Legislative Agendas; and Request City Attorney to draft a resolution calling on top maritime importers to Long Beach to adopt existing emissionsreducing technologies and take steps towards making port calls to the San Pedro Port Complex on zerocarbon ships by 2030.
4. 220485 eComments received for the Climate Action & Environmental Committee meeting of Friday, April 22, 2022.
PUBLIC COMMENT (3:23 PM)
ADJOURNMENT (3:27 PM)
Meeting Date: Friday, April 22, 2022
Please see the PDFs for the Official record of the City Council Agenda and Minutes, including the action taken during the meeting.
FINISHED AGENDA & DRAFT MINUTES
CLIMATE ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEE MEETING VIA
TELECONFERENCE PURSUANT TO AB 361 (GOV. CODE SECTION 54953(e)(1) (2))
CALL TO ORDER (2:01 PM)
ROLL CALL (2:01 PM)
Also present: Oscar Orci, Director of Development Services; Arturo D. Sanchez, Deputy City Attorney; Tamela Austin, City Clerk Specialist.
REGULAR AGENDA (2:02 PM)
1. 220453 Recommendation to approve the minutes of the Climate Action & Environmental Committee meeting held Tuesday, March 15, 2022.
2. 220454 WITHDRAWN Recommendation to concur in the recommendation of the Climate Action and Environmental Committee to direct City Manager to take the following actions: Request inclusion in the County and/or City of Los Angeles amortization studies or work with consultants to conduct a similar study and report back with the cost of doing so; Direct a percentage of surplus oil revenues to the abandonment fund and any other costs associated with abandonment, alongside important onetime capital projects; Direct City staff and the State Legislative Committee request the State to fully fund their portion of the abandonment liability; Work with South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) to prioritize leakage mitigation and detection, emissions control, and carbon capture measures; Work with labor organizations in the transition of workers from the local energy sector; Work with City Attorney and State Lands Commission and other applicable state entities to determine the legal options available to the City to end new drilling as soon as is legally defensible, including studying prohibiting new oil and gas extraction in all zones and, studying changing oil and gas extraction to a legal nonconforming use in all zones; and Request City Manager report back with timelines and costs associated with the above recommendations as well as potential funding streams for them. (Citywide)
3. 220455 Recommendation to receive and file a discussion on green shipping and forward the below recommendations to the City Council: Request City Manager to work with the Harbor Department to explore discussions with another major international port city with the intentions of creating a green shipping corridor similar to the one in development between the Ports of Los Angeles and Shanghai, including exploring joining the Los Angeles/Shanghai clean shipping corridor as a partner; Add support for legislation or administrative action to rapidly decarbonize the maritime shipping industry and to create green shipping corridors along the California coast, the West Coast of the United States, and across the transPacific trade route to the City’s 20222023 State and Federal Legislative Agendas; and Request City Attorney to draft a resolution calling on top maritime importers to Long Beach to adopt existing emissionsreducing technologies and take steps towards making port calls to the San Pedro Port Complex on zerocarbon ships by 2030.
4. 220485 eComments received for the Climate Action & Environmental Committee meeting of Friday, April 22, 2022.
PUBLIC COMMENT (3:23 PM)
ADJOURNMENT (3:27 PM)