Los Altos Hills City Council
August 18, 2022

Staff Report to City Council Page 2
Amendment to CalPERS Contract
August 18, 2022
that this section of the government code shall not supersede Gov. Code section 20305. Gov.

Code section 20305 supersedes any contract provision excluding persons in any temporary or seasonal employment basis who enter employment on and after January 1, 1975.

DISCUSSION:

MAPD’s preliminary determination is that the Contract Exclusion of all hourly employees is superseded by Gov. Code section 20305(b). The staff was not aware of the exclusion in the retirement contract. The Town is adhering to the membership eligibility requirements in Gov.

Code section 20305. Therefore, the Contract Exclusion is invalid as it is superseded by Gov.

Code section 20305(b) and should be removed from the Contract.

To amend the Contract with CalPERS, the Town must approve the attached Resolution of Intention and introduce and adopt the attached Ordinance to amend the contract. The proposed date for adoption of the Ordinance is September 15, 2022. The proposed effective date of the contract amendment is October 16, 2022.

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW:

This action does not qualify as a “Project” as defined in California Government Code Section 15378(b) of the Guidelines for California Environmental Quality Act.” 2022 CITY COUNCIL STRATEGIC PRIORITIES:

This is not part of the 2022 City Council Strategic Priorities.

FISCAL IMPACT:

There is no fiscal impact.

ATTACHMENTS:

1. Ordinance Amending Contract with CalPERS

2. Resolution of Intention to Approve Amendment

3. CalPERS Contract Amendment
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Ordinance Page 1

ORDINANCE

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF

LOS ALTOS HILLS AUTHORIZING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONTRACT

BETWEEN THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS AND THE BOARD OF

ADMINISTRATION OF THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM
WHEREAS, the Town of Los Altos Hills (“Town”) entered into a contract with the Board of Administration of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (“CalPERS”) effective July 1, 1967, amended effective June 1, 1976, July 1, 1998, January 1, 2006, September 1, 2011, and January 1, 2013, which provides for participation in CalPERS (“Contract”); and WHEREAS, the CalPERS’ Office of audit services (“OFAS”) conducted and provided a Public Agency Review (“PAR”) in March of 2021; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of the PAR was to determine how the Town applies the retirement exclusion in the Contract for all hourly employees (“Contract Exclusion”); and WHEREAS, the Town is adhering to the membership eligibility requirements in Government (Gov.) Code section 20305 and amending the Contract because the Contract Exclusion for all hourly employees is invalid as it is superseded by Gov. Code section 20305(b); and WHEREAS, the Town now desires to remove the Contract Exclusion from the Contract.

NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills does ORDAIN as follows:

Section 1.

FINDINGS. The City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills finds that all Recitals are true and correct and incorporated herein by reference.

Section 2.

CONTRACT AMENDMENT. That an amendment to the contract between the Town of Los Altos Hills and the Board of Administration, California Public Employees’ Retirement System is hereby authorized, a copy of said amendment being attached hereto as Exhibit A, and by such reference made a part hereof as though herein set out in full.

Section 3.

The City Manager of the Town of Los Altos Hills is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to execute said amendment for and on behalf of the Town.

Section 4.

SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this Ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid or unconstitutional, the remainder of this Ordinance, including the application of such part or provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby and shall continue in full force and effect. To this end, provisions of this Ordinance are severable. The City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills hereby declares that it would have passed each section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase hereof Attachment 1

Ordinance Page 2
irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, or phrases be held unconstitutional, invalid, or unenforceable.

Section 5.

EFFECTIVE DATE AND PUBLICATION. This ordinance shall become effective thirty (30) days from the date of its adoption. Within 15 days after the passage of this ordinance, the Town Clerk shall cause the Ordinance or a summary thereof to be published once with the names of those Town Councilmembers voting for or against it in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town of Los Altos Hills, as required by the law.

Section 6.

The City Council hereby finds approval of this Ordinance is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code §§ 21000 et seq., “CEQA,” and 14 Cal.

Code Reg. §§ 15000 et seq., “CEQA Guidelines”) as this action does not qualify as a “Project” as defined in California Government Code Section 15378(b) of the Guidelines for California Environmental Quality Act.”

Ordinance Page 3
INTRODUCED: August 18, 2022
PASSED:

AYES:

NOES:

ABSTENTIONS:

ABSENT:

BY: _________________________
Mayor George Tyson
ATTEST:
_________________________
Deborah Padovan, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
_________________________
City Attorney
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RESOLUTION OF INTENTION

TO APPROVE AN AMENDMENT TO CONTRACT

BETWEEN THE

BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION

CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM

AND THE

TOWN COUNCIL

TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS
WHEREAS, the Public Employees' Retirement Law permits the participation of public agencies and their employees in the Public Employees' Retirement System by the execution of a contract, and sets forth the procedure by which said public agencies may elect to subject themselves and their employees to amendments to said Law; and
WHEREAS, one of the steps in the procedures to amend this contract is the adoption by the governing body of the public agency of a resolution giving notice of its intention to approve an amendment to said contract, which resolution shall contain a summary of the change proposed in said contract; and
WHEREAS, the following is a statement of the proposed change:

To provide Section 20503 (Removal of the Contract Exclusion of "Persons Compensated On An Hourly Basis," prospectively from the effective date of this amendment to contract).

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the governing body of the above agency does hereby give notice of intention to approve an amendment to the contract between said public agency and the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System, a copy of said amendment being attached hereto, as an "Exhibit" and by this reference made a part hereof.

By:_________________________________
Presiding Officer
_________________________________
Title
________________________________
Date adopted and approved
(Amendment)
CON-302 (Rev. 3/9/2016 rc)
Attachment 2

Attachment 3

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9. REPORTS FROM COUNCIL LIAISONS ON STANDING COMMITTEES, AD HOC

COMMITTEES, AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ON OUTSIDE AGENCIES
A. Report by the Undergrounding Subcommittee (Mayor Tyson) B. Report from the Council Ad Hoc Committee on Community Surveys (Mayor Tyson/Councilmember Schmidt)
C. Report from the Council Town Hall Ad Hoc Committee (Mayor Tyson/Councilmember Schmidt)
D. Report from the Council Ad Hoc Committee Focusing on Broadband (Councilmembers Mok and Tankha)
E. Status Reports from All Councilmembers on Subcommittee and Outside Agencies Activities There are no reports for these items. They will be presented verbally.

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9. REPORTS FROM COUNCIL LIAISONS ON STANDING COMMITTEES, AD HOC

COMMITTEES, AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ON OUTSIDE AGENCIES
A. Report by the Undergrounding Subcommittee (Mayor Tyson) B. Report from the Council Ad Hoc Committee on Community Surveys (Mayor Tyson/Councilmember Schmidt)
C. Report from the Council Town Hall Ad Hoc Committee (Mayor Tyson/Councilmember Schmidt)
D. Report from the Council Ad Hoc Committee Focusing on Broadband (Councilmembers Mok and Tankha)
E. Status Reports from All Councilmembers on Subcommittee and Outside Agencies Activities There are no reports for these items. They will be presented verbally.

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9. REPORTS FROM COUNCIL LIAISONS ON STANDING COMMITTEES, AD HOC

COMMITTEES, AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ON OUTSIDE AGENCIES
A. Report by the Undergrounding Subcommittee (Mayor Tyson) B. Report from the Council Ad Hoc Committee on Community Surveys (Mayor Tyson/Councilmember Schmidt)
C. Report from the Council Town Hall Ad Hoc Committee (Mayor Tyson/Councilmember Schmidt)
D. Report from the Council Ad Hoc Committee Focusing on Broadband (Councilmembers Mok and Tankha)
E. Status Reports from All Councilmembers on Subcommittee and Outside Agencies Activities There are no reports for these items. They will be presented verbally.

AGENDA ITEM #9

9. REPORTS FROM COUNCIL LIAISONS ON STANDING COMMITTEES, AD HOC

COMMITTEES, AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ON OUTSIDE AGENCIES
A. Report by the Undergrounding Subcommittee (Mayor Tyson) B. Report from the Council Ad Hoc Committee on Community Surveys (Mayor Tyson/Councilmember Schmidt)
C. Report from the Council Town Hall Ad Hoc Committee (Mayor Tyson/Councilmember Schmidt)
D. Report from the Council Ad Hoc Committee Focusing on Broadband (Councilmembers Mok and Tankha)
E. Status Reports from All Councilmembers on Subcommittee and Outside Agencies Activities There are no reports for these items. They will be presented verbally.

AGENDA ITEM #9

9. REPORTS FROM COUNCIL LIAISONS ON STANDING COMMITTEES, AD HOC

COMMITTEES, AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ON OUTSIDE AGENCIES
A. Report by the Undergrounding Subcommittee (Mayor Tyson) B. Report from the Council Ad Hoc Committee on Community Surveys (Mayor Tyson/Councilmember Schmidt)
C. Report from the Council Town Hall Ad Hoc Committee (Mayor Tyson/Councilmember Schmidt)
D. Report from the Council Ad Hoc Committee Focusing on Broadband (Councilmembers Mok and Tankha)
E. Status Reports from All Councilmembers on Subcommittee and Outside Agencies Activities There are no reports for these items. They will be presented verbally.

TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS

MEMORANDUM
DATE: August 18, 2022
TO: Peter Pirnejad, City Manager
FROM: Oscar Antillon, Public Works Director
Deborah Padovan, City Clerk
RE: Use of Electric Leaf Blowers
The Issue
In an effort to inform the council’s discussion regarding the potential banning of gaspowered appliances such as gas leaf blowers the staff has prepared this memo to consider the operational impacts to said change. An additional confidential memo was written by the City Attorney’s office to consider the enforceability and lessons learned from other cities.

Background
The Council has asked that staff investigate the potential benefits and challenges of transitioning to gas-powered appliances such as electric leaf blowers. The issue can be analyzed from two perspectives beneficial to the environment. First it can play a significant role in reducing the Green House gas emissions (GHE) and second, reduces the noise as compared to the gas-powered equipment.

Line trimmers, Hedge trimmers power shears, power pole saws, and small chainsaws can all be easily replaced with minimal impact to work efficiency and quality. Staff’s larger chainsaws cannot be replaced with electric at this time. The main issue with electrification of these small tools is on tasks with extended trigger time, like ROW mowing. This would require multiple backpack batteries per person per day.

The majority of the debate, of late, has been centered around the Gas-powered blowers.

These blowers are one of the most useful tolls in our inventory during certain times of the year to maintain our public facilities to the level our residents are accustomed to, however the gas-powered equipment is noisy and emit Green House Gases. The use of blowers is critical for:
• Street maintenance (crack filling)
• Blowing of Parking lots and road in the fall
• Pathway and roadway clearing after mowing and tree trimming • Debris clean up
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Memo to City Manager Page 2
Use of Electric Leaf Blowers in Town
August 18, 2022
Research shows that many Cities in CA have banned gas-powered equipment via noise ordinances, in some cases it is a time restrictive ordinance. The town already has a noise ordinance 5-2.02, the standard is 50 dBA at 50 feet from the source during the day and 40dBA at night.

Gas backpack blowers are not as easily replaced with electric blowers at this time, especially for heavy and wet use. The tasks that the maintenance crews use gas blowers for are leaf blowing of parking lots and roads in fall and winter, pathway clearing after trimming/mowing, debris clean up, and crack fill cleaning. To replace the work done with gas blowers at this time would take a combination of heavy fossil fuel based equipment.

These might include increased street sweeper scheduling, increased blowing with the town tractor and blower attachment or new sweeping equipment for town staff to use.

Road condition quality may suffer a bit with increased debris. Pathway clearing can be done with raking and new electric blowers, electric blowers are not strong enough to move heavier debris from pathways. Debris, dirt/rockslides, and such, clean up would require shovels, brooms and more time but are doable.

With respect to the physical impacts to the users of electric leaf blowers compared to gas blowers comes down to weight distribution. With gas backpack blowers the engine and most of the weight is carried on the shoulders, the current electric blowers have the engine and majority of weight in the hand of the user. This can potentially lead to more fatigue and possible hand or wrist injuries.

All that being said, the largest difficulty with transitioning to electric is the loss of power.

Our current gas blowers, not the strongest on the market, blow air at 197 MPH and a blowing force of 35 Newtons. The strongest electric currently on the market blows air at 188MPH, a 5% reduction compared to our gas blowers and 21 Newtons, a 40% reduction compared to our current gas blowers.

With respect to the reduction of noise, our current gas blowers have a decibel rating of 75 and electric is rated at 59, a 12% reduction.

MPH Blowing Force
in Newtons
Gas powered (town use) 197 35
Electric highest power available 188 21
Loss in Power / Force (5%) (40%)
At the January 18, 2018 regular City Council meeting, the Council discussed leaf blower regulations. To view the discussion, please click the link below. The portion of the video begins at 4:28:00.

City Council Regular Meeting (civicclerk.com)
Additionally, an excerpt of the City Council minutes are attached for further review.

Memo to City Manager Page 3
Use of Electric Leaf Blowers in Town
August 18, 2022
Discussion
The primary concern would be the impact to town and residents by restricting the use of gas-powered equipment. Although there are not many commercial properties in the town there is many residences that require extensive landscape maintenance and benefit from the use of the leaf blowers. Restricting the use of gas-powered blowers or shifting to electric blowers can have an impact to both the town operations and residents. The impact can be an increase of maintenance hours due to less powerful equipment, additional cost shifting to electric and or alternative tools like, manual and powered sweepers.

Specifically to town operation it will require additional investment in the equipment and possible upgrades to the Corporation Yard facility to provide enough power for significant number of chargers necessary to power all the electric chargers. There will be investment in an entire new line of equipment.

Town staff is aware of the ban of new gas-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers starting in 2024, and continue to monitor the development of the electric equipment that can match the performance of our current equipment. The ban is an effort to reduce harmful pollutants and transition toward a carbon-free economy. And town staff is slowly transitioning to all electric equipment as the technology matures and matches the performance of our current equipment.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-09/california-regulators-phaseoutnew-gas-powered-lawnmowers-and-leafblowers#:~:text=California%20regulators%20voted%20on%20Thursday,toward%20a%2 0carbon%2Dfree%20economy.

Conclusion
The transition to electric equipment is inevitable and town staff is prepared for that, however the equipment available at this time is not powerful enough to maintain the same level of efficiency by town staff. Transitioning to electric leaf blowers would require modifications to work-load and procurement of equipment and upgrading facilities that would need additional analysis and consideration to keep the same service level.

Attachments:

1. Environmental Initiatives Committee Approved Minutes of April 28, 2022

2. Excerpt of City Council Meeting Minutes of January 18, 2018

ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES COMMITTEE
Regular Meeting Minutes
Date: April 28, 2022

1. Attendees:
a. Committee: Vrinda, Sasha, Anand, Steve, Pat, April & Stan b. Others: PeterP, Cris Scheibold, Daniel Liang(staff)

2. Approval of minutes:Anand moved & seconded by Pat, approved as written unanimously

3. Agenda review: Sasha Moved & seconded by Pat as is; unanimous

4. Addition of new EV chargers
a. Peter described his options: With panel upgrades there is capacity to add 2 more EV chargers. Two alternatives: ChargePoint chargers ( about $12K already budgeted for) with one system, one provider, or donation of two chargers by town resident, as long as he gets the tax exemptions and carbon credits. b. Sasha: Might be more resilient to have different types. c. Vrinda: Too complicated later on to accept the donated ones. d. Recommended to go with Peter's suggestion with 2 Chargepoint.

5. Gas powered Leaf Blower Ordinance by Cris Schiebold (refer to Appendix 1 below) a. No leaf blower ordinance today in LAH. Adjacent towns have some kind of ordinance, some have banned gas powered, others have limited the sound levels. Compliance is improving. Manufacturers have adopted that standard of 65dB.Most achieve this by using mufflers.
b. Peter: Can the town do aits work with electric. Later this year, our staff will check. c. Cris The technology is there but are expensive, battery lasts for 3-4 hours. Don’t want to ban gas powered ones but looking for an ordinance that will regulate noise levels and hours of usage
d. April, Anand, Sasha : maintain the time schedule by cross referencing the construction noise ordinance
e. Peter: In Palo Alto, enforcement was an issue. In LAH staffing is an issue. This would be a Priority 3 issue–public nuisance– for Sheriffs when the town hall is closed with response time of 20-30mins, with mi\unicipal code issue–likely to get a warning. During office hours it will be addressed by code enforcement officers–give citations to the gardners (not the owners) and charge according to a fee schedule for the violation. The violation will have to be witnessed by the officer, with a dB meter.
f. Anand: Should not be criminalized, Stan: Against use of law enforcement-for budgetary reasons and for ethical reasons. Gardeners work very hard in difficult conditions for not much pay.
g. April: Town sends courtesy letter for violation
Attachment 1

h. Anand believes town agreed "no mandates". If mandates cannot be imposed on residents then why on gardeners.It is unfair and immoral. Concerned that it is a hardship we are imposing on garners without any incentives. i. Cris: The hours of operation have to be different for leaf blowers and construction equipment.
j. Steve moved and April seconded to recommend to council Cris' recommended proposal as written with two amendments:
i. Enforcement will be light handed, done only by city staff when a code enforcement officer is at hand. EIC does not recommend the police be involved for enforcement.
ii. EIC recommends, but suggests the council debate the pros and cons of the ban on gas devices starting January 2024.
k. Vote: 5 (Aileen, April, Pat, Steve, Vrinda in favor) 2 opposed. Motion passed. l. Stan will decide to take it to the council

6. Petition to Mayor to sign the Mayor’s Pledge to Electrify a. Discussion of how it aligns with our CAP and our town's actions. b. Petition introduced by Rewiring America–Menlo Park, HMB, San Jose, Palo Alto have already pledged.
c. Sasha: What is the purpose? To show growing support for electrification nationwide.
d. Steve moved, Pat seconded. Unanimous support. Motion passed.

7. Methane Monitoring Program from Rob Jackson (Refer to Appendix 2) a. Steve summarized. No regs on gas companies to declare what is the composition of the gas delivered. Funding required for establishing a national network. There are no permissions required, Aski. community volunteer testing sites to test and approval to publish the findings
ii. Little bit of funding $1200 a quarter or $3600 for the year b. Vrinda: Any Liability? RJ does not know
c. Anand: Good research, but why should we pay for this? d. Stan: We have to pay for it, and probably pay more than others. e. Sasha: Great idea, but what is the benefit of regular monitoring? (Steve didn't know but trusts Rob that it's important.)
f. Steve made a motion to recommend the description (below) to council for approval, with the amendment that we recommend paying for monthly measurements ($3600).
g. Sasha & Pat seconded. 5 in favor, 1 opposed. Motion passed.

8. Update on CAP: Vrinda
a. EIC was at the Erth Day celebrations, could not get much response to the Air Travel survey since it was not well attended by the residents of LAH. b. Sofia working on RFQ for Electrification Assessments c. Town has assigned contractor to work on streamlining permit process.

9. Topics of Interest:
a. Anand:PG&E is taking sign up for trying out Induction stoves for two weeks.

Sasha: You can also borrow infrared camera from PG&E
b. April asked for volunteers for picnic June 5th. All committees invited. Expecting 1500 (down from 2000) due to COVID.
c. April will request canopy for EIC.
d. Discussion about EIC activity will be on the next meeting agenda

10. Next EIC meeting May 26th at 6:30pm. Stan may be late; we will hold any critical items for him.

11. Adjourned at 8:15pm Sasha moves to adjourn, Anand seconded __________________________________________
Appendix 1
Recommended Leaf Blower Ordinance “Asks”:

Hours of Operation:
8:30 to 5:30 Weekdays, 9:00 to 5:00 Saturdays, operation of leaf blowers not allowed on Sundays and holidays.

Noise Limit:

Leaf blowers (both gas and electric) must not exceed 65 dB as specified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard B175 for leaf blowers. Leaf blowers must carry the manufacturer's sticker certifying 65 dB compliance or be approved and stamped by the city. No modification to the muffler or the manufacturer's noise suppression system is allowed after certification.

Gas Leaf Blowers:

Use of all gas leaf blowers will be banned starting on January 1, 2024, coinciding with the California state ban on the sale of gas leaf blowers. ______________________________________
Appendix 2
Request for EIC consideration:
● Approve a petition to the Town Council to participate in a new community-based network to sample the chemical composition of natural gas delivered to LAH homes.
● The study will help determine any health issues associated with natural gas use. ● Funding request is $3,600 for the first year for monthly gas sampling (preferred), or $1,200 for quarterly.

Background:

Professor Rob Jackson runs the Jackson Lab at Stanford. Rob has studied leaks in our natural gas system in Boston streets and New Mexico oil fields, and leaks and health impacts of gas appliances in CA homes.

The lab is now developing a community-based network to sample the chemical composition of natural gas in homes and buildings across the United States. Leaks from oil and gas infrastructure outdoors have raised concerns about the chemicals found in gas, such as benzene detected at the Aliso Canyon blowout, but we have no publicly available information on the chemical constituents in natural gas leaking into our homes and buildings. Therefore, we’d like to establish a national network by collecting monthly or quarterly unburned gas samples from home stoves in as many cities as possible. We’ll have them analyzed at certified

laboratories using the EPA’s TO-15A method for measuring the concentrations of volatile organic carbon compounds (VOCs), including benzene, butadiene, ethylbenzene, and toluene.

An important part of the network will be to make all of the national data we find available to the public.

For gas sampling, ideally we’d collect monthly or quarterly from one home in each city (could be the same home). There’s no reason to expect PG&E gas to differ across houses in LAH. We hope the city would pay for the canister analysis (either ~$300x4 for quarterly or $300x12 for monthly). We just sampled our first home in Menlo Park.

The "ask" would be for the city council to support the concept of disclosure for what’s in the natural gas supplied to LAH residents and support the costs of the chemical analyses to determine the chemical constituents. We would request funding for one year and then revisit for continued testing.

Additional Q&A from Rob:

1. Is there any risk or downside to the city for allowing you to publish your findings? No, I can’t imagine any possible downside. The city is not liable for the chemical composition of the gas.

2. Why couldn't you just get approval from individual PG&E customers instead? We could. We don’t need city or utility approval or permission to do this. However, our goal is to start a national network of sites, and we can’t pay for sampling all of them.

City endorsements are also helpful to say, “We think this information is important.” Porter Ranch is an example of where such information would have been helpful, had it been available.

3. Is a permit required to hook up a new gas device (e.g. your test canister) within a home?
No permit is required. It’s a one-minute job and we don’t remove or alter any infrastructure to or on the existing gas appliance.

4. Could the gas utility claim the gas mixture is proprietary? Trade secrets and privacy issues shouldn’t impede our network, so long as the sampled gas comes from inside a home or building “post-meter”.

By analogy, it’s illegal to break into a Coca Cola plant to discover its ingredients, but you can buy a can of coke at the store and analyze its ingredients to your heart’s content, no permission needed. The same is true of natural gas in our homes.

9 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes
January 18, 2018

8. REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES, SUB-COMMITTEES,

AND COUNCILMEMBERS ON OUTSIDE AGENCIES
Councilmember Waldeck reported that there is a new FAA roundtable for the South Bay and each city may have a representative.

9. STAFF REPORTS – This item was not considered.

A. City Manager
B. City Attorney
C. City Clerk
D. Planning Director
E. Administrative Services Director
F. Public Works Director 1. Report on the VTA’ s I-280 Corridor Study

2. Presentation on Weekday Afternoon CutThrough Traffic

10. COUNCIL INITIATED ITEMS
A. Discussion to Consider Direction to Staff to Draft a Noise Ordinance Amendment to Include Leaf Blower Noise - continued from the November 16, 2017 City Council meeting
Councilmember Wu summarized the item.

Public Works Director Chen presented a report on the difference between an electric leaf blower and a gas- powered leaf blower.

Council discussion ensued. No action was taken.

Dave Fribush, Los Altos Hills, thanked the City Council for their time and consideration of the matter.

Mayor Radford proposed to Mr. Fribush that he consider writing an article about leaf blowing for the Our Town Newsletter.

B. Discussion and Possible Direction on a Code of Conduct for Elected Officials Mayor Waldeck) - this item was not considered and continued to the February 15, 2018 City Council meeting.

Attachment 2

TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS

MEMORANDUM
DATE: August 11, 2022
TO: Peter Pirnejad, City Manager
FROM: Deborah Padovan, City Clerk
RE: Volunteer Appreciation
Every year for the past 20 years, the Council has recognized the Town’s volunteers with an annual volunteer dinner. Due to the pandemic, the volunteer dinner was cancelled for the last two years, but each volunteer received a gift distributed by the Mayor. The dinner is scheduled to be reinstated this year.

Additionally, for over 35 years, the City of Los Altos and the Town of Los Altos Hills instituted the Joint Community Volunteer Service Awards. The committee holds an annual luncheon to recognize a few select individuals who have provided extraordinary volunteer services in the community and provided with a certificate of recognition.

The awardees are selected by a 12-member committee, who are appointed by the two City Councils. Currently the Town has four committee members and a council liaison (there is one vacancy on the committee). The committee follows set of comprehensive bylaws. The duties and responsibilities of the Committee are to seek and request applications from various organizations and persons for nominations for the potential awardees, select the awardees to be recognized, organize the Recognition Luncheon, and present the awards at the Recognition Luncheon. Attached is a list of past recipients of the award.

Additionally, annual awards are also provided by the Town Crier for both the Los Altos and Los Altos Hills communities. From the January 5, 2021, Town Crier, it states:
“Modeled after Time Magazine’s annual honor, the Town Crier’s Los Altans of the Year, now in its 26th year, recognizes local residents who have spread goodwill through their good deeds, enhancing Los Altos’ reputation as a community. Typically, the honors have gone to older recipients with a long, demonstrated record of volunteerism and impact.”
Other local organizations, not affiliated with the Town or local government, have annual awards such as the local Rotary Club or Lion’s Club Awards for Excellence and Humanitarian causes.

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Supplemental No. 1
AGENDA ITEM #10.B
Distributed 8/16/22
Los Altan of the Year Past Winners

ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES COMMITTEE
Regular Meeting Minutes
Date: April 28, 2022

1. Attendees:
a. Committee: Vrinda, Sasha, Anand, Steve, Pat, April & Stan b. Others: PeterP, Cris Scheibold, Daniel Liang(staff)

2. Approval of minutes:Anand moved & seconded by Pat, approved as written unanimously

3. Agenda review: Sasha Moved & seconded by Pat as is; unanimous

4. Addition of new EV chargers
a. Peter described his options: With panel upgrades there is capacity to add 2 more EV chargers. Two alternatives: ChargePoint chargers ( about $12K already budgeted for) with one system, one provider, or donation of two chargers by town resident, as long as he gets the tax exemptions and carbon credits. b. Sasha: Might be more resilient to have different types. c. Vrinda: Too complicated later on to accept the donated ones. d. Recommended to go with Peter's suggestion with 2 Chargepoint.

5. Gas powered Leaf Blower Ordinance by Cris Schiebold (refer to Appendix 1 below) a. No leaf blower ordinance today in LAH. Adjacent towns have some kind of ordinance, some have banned gas powered, others have limited the sound levels. Compliance is improving. Manufacturers have adopted that standard of 65dB.Most achieve this by using mufflers.
b. Peter: Can the town do aits work with electric. Later this year, our staff will check. c. Cris The technology is there but are expensive, battery lasts for 3-4 hours. Don’t want to ban gas powered ones but looking for an ordinance that will regulate noise levels and hours of usage
d. April, Anand, Sasha : maintain the time schedule by cross referencing the construction noise ordinance
e. Peter: In Palo Alto, enforcement was an issue. In LAH staffing is an issue. This would be a Priority 3 issue–public nuisance– for Sheriffs when the town hall is closed with response time of 20-30mins, with mi\unicipal code issue–likely to get a warning. During office hours it will be addressed by code enforcement officers–give citations to the gardners (not the owners) and charge according to a fee schedule for the violation. The violation will have to be witnessed by the officer, with a dB meter.
f. Anand: Should not be criminalized, Stan: Against use of law enforcement-for budgetary reasons and for ethical reasons. Gardeners work very hard in difficult conditions for not much pay.
g. April: Town sends courtesy letter for violation
AGENDA ITEM #10.C

h. Anand believes town agreed "no mandates". If mandates cannot be imposed on residents then why on gardeners.It is unfair and immoral. Concerned that it is a hardship we are imposing on garners without any incentives. i. Cris: The hours of operation have to be different for leaf blowers and construction equipment.
j. Steve moved and April seconded to recommend to council Cris' recommended proposal as written with two amendments:
i. Enforcement will be light handed, done only by city staff when a code enforcement officer is at hand. EIC does not recommend the police be involved for enforcement.
ii. EIC recommends, but suggests the council debate the pros and cons of the ban on gas devices starting January 2024.
k. Vote: 5 (Aileen, April, Pat, Steve, Vrinda in favor) 2 opposed. Motion passed. l. Stan will decide to take it to the council

6. Petition to Mayor to sign the Mayor’s Pledge to Electrify a. Discussion of how it aligns with our CAP and our town's actions. b. Petition introduced by Rewiring America–Menlo Park, HMB, San Jose, Palo Alto have already pledged.
c. Sasha: What is the purpose? To show growing support for electrification nationwide.
d. Steve moved, Pat seconded. Unanimous support. Motion passed.

7. Methane Monitoring Program from Rob Jackson (Refer to Appendix 2) a. Steve summarized. No regs on gas companies to declare what is the composition of the gas delivered. Funding required for establishing a national network. There are no permissions required, Aski. community volunteer testing sites to test and approval to publish the findings
ii. Little bit of funding $1200 a quarter or $3600 for the year b. Vrinda: Any Liability? RJ does not know
c. Anand: Good research, but why should we pay for this? d. Stan: We have to pay for it, and probably pay more than others. e. Sasha: Great idea, but what is the benefit of regular monitoring? (Steve didn't know but trusts Rob that it's important.)
f. Steve made a motion to recommend the description (below) to council for approval, with the amendment that we recommend paying for monthly measurements ($3600).
g. Sasha & Pat seconded. 5 in favor, 1 opposed. Motion passed.

8. Update on CAP: Vrinda
a. EIC was at the Erth Day celebrations, could not get much response to the Air Travel survey since it was not well attended by the residents of LAH. b. Sofia working on RFQ for Electrification Assessments c. Town has assigned contractor to work on streamlining permit process.

9. Topics of Interest:
a. Anand:PG&E is taking sign up for trying out Induction stoves for two weeks.

Sasha: You can also borrow infrared camera from PG&E
b. April asked for volunteers for picnic June 5th. All committees invited. Expecting 1500 (down from 2000) due to COVID.
c. April will request canopy for EIC.
d. Discussion about EIC activity will be on the next meeting agenda

10. Next EIC meeting May 26th at 6:30pm. Stan may be late; we will hold any critical items for him.

11. Adjourned at 8:15pm Sasha moves to adjourn, Anand seconded __________________________________________
Appendix 1
Recommended Leaf Blower Ordinance “Asks”:

Hours of Operation:
8:30 to 5:30 Weekdays, 9:00 to 5:00 Saturdays, operation of leaf blowers not allowed on Sundays and holidays.

Noise Limit:

Leaf blowers (both gas and electric) must not exceed 65 dB as specified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard B175 for leaf blowers. Leaf blowers must carry the manufacturer's sticker certifying 65 dB compliance or be approved and stamped by the city. No modification to the muffler or the manufacturer's noise suppression system is allowed after certification.

Gas Leaf Blowers:

Use of all gas leaf blowers will be banned starting on January 1, 2024, coinciding with the California state ban on the sale of gas leaf blowers. ______________________________________
Appendix 2
Request for EIC consideration:
● Approve a petition to the Town Council to participate in a new community-based network to sample the chemical composition of natural gas delivered to LAH homes.
● The study will help determine any health issues associated with natural gas use. ● Funding request is $3,600 for the first year for monthly gas sampling (preferred), or $1,200 for quarterly.

Background:

Professor Rob Jackson runs the Jackson Lab at Stanford. Rob has studied leaks in our natural gas system in Boston streets and New Mexico oil fields, and leaks and health impacts of gas appliances in CA homes.

The lab is now developing a community-based network to sample the chemical composition of natural gas in homes and buildings across the United States. Leaks from oil and gas infrastructure outdoors have raised concerns about the chemicals found in gas, such as benzene detected at the Aliso Canyon blowout, but we have no publicly available information on the chemical constituents in natural gas leaking into our homes and buildings. Therefore, we’d like to establish a national network by collecting monthly or quarterly unburned gas samples from home stoves in as many cities as possible. We’ll have them analyzed at certified

laboratories using the EPA’s TO-15A method for measuring the concentrations of volatile organic carbon compounds (VOCs), including benzene, butadiene, ethylbenzene, and toluene.

An important part of the network will be to make all of the national data we find available to the public.

For gas sampling, ideally we’d collect monthly or quarterly from one home in each city (could be the same home). There’s no reason to expect PG&E gas to differ across houses in LAH. We hope the city would pay for the canister analysis (either ~$300x4 for quarterly or $300x12 for monthly). We just sampled our first home in Menlo Park.

The "ask" would be for the city council to support the concept of disclosure for what’s in the natural gas supplied to LAH residents and support the costs of the chemical analyses to determine the chemical constituents. We would request funding for one year and then revisit for continued testing.

Additional Q&A from Rob:

1. Is there any risk or downside to the city for allowing you to publish your findings? No, I can’t imagine any possible downside. The city is not liable for the chemical composition of the gas.

2. Why couldn't you just get approval from individual PG&E customers instead? We could. We don’t need city or utility approval or permission to do this. However, our goal is to start a national network of sites, and we can’t pay for sampling all of them.

City endorsements are also helpful to say, “We think this information is important.” Porter Ranch is an example of where such information would have been helpful, had it been available.

3. Is a permit required to hook up a new gas device (e.g. your test canister) within a home?
No permit is required. It’s a one-minute job and we don’t remove or alter any infrastructure to or on the existing gas appliance.

4. Could the gas utility claim the gas mixture is proprietary? Trade secrets and privacy issues shouldn’t impede our network, so long as the sampled gas comes from inside a home or building “post-meter”.

By analogy, it’s illegal to break into a Coca Cola plant to discover its ingredients, but you can buy a can of coke at the store and analyze its ingredients to your heart’s content, no permission needed. The same is true of natural gas in our homes.

From: Lisa Schmidt
To: Deborah Padovan
Cc: Peter Pirnejad
Subject: More background for NG sampling
Date: Monday, August 15, 2022 3:07:12 PM
The following NYT article is good background
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/climate/natural-gas-home-toxic-chemicals.html The Town would be billed directly by the analysis company employed by Stanford. The budget is $3600 for a year. There would be no contract with Stanford.

Let me know if you need more.

Thanks,
Lisa
Gas Piped Into Homes Contains
Benzene and Other Risky
Chemicals, Study Finds - The
New York Times
The natural gas delivered to homes contains low
concentrations of several chemicals linked to
cancer, a new study found. Researchers also
found inconsistent levels of odorants —
substances that ...
www.nytimes.com
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