TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND FROM: Toni J. Taber, CMC
CITY COUNCIL City Clerk
SUBJECT: SEE BELOW DATE: September 19, 2023
SUBJECT: Brilliant at the Basics Infrastructure Strategy Status Report
Recommendation
As recommended by the Transportation and Environment Committee on June 5, 2023, accept a status report on the Brilliant at the Basics Infrastructure Strategy that addresses meeting our 2030 carbon mitigation goals, municipal regional permit requirements, water supply needs, and strategies to pursue federal and state funding for aligned programs.
CEQA: Not a Project, File No. PP17-009, Staff Reports, Assessments, Annual Reports, and Informational Memos that involve no approvals of any City action. (City Manager) [Transportation and Environment Committee referral 6/5/2023 - Item (d)5]
COUNCIL AGENDA: 9/19/2023
ITEM: 3.3
FILE NO: 23-1239
TO: TRANSPORTATION AND FROM: ERICA GARAFFO
ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE
SUBJECT: SEE BELOW DATE: May 26, 2023
Approved Date
5/26/23
SUBJECT: CITY INFRASTRUCTURE STRATEGY REPORT
RECOMMENDATION
Accept a report on the City Infrastructure Strategy that addresses meeting our 2030 carbon mitigation goals, municipal regional permit requirements, water supply needs, and strategies to pursue federal and state funding for aligned programs.
BACKGROUND
As directed in the Mayor’s March Budget Message for Fiscal Year 2023-2024, the City’s Manager’s Office will report to the Transportation and Environment Committee on the plan and return as part of the budget process with recommendations for a Brilliant at the Basics Infrastructure Strategy that addresses meeting our 2030 carbon mitigation goals, municipal regional permit requirements, water supply needs, and strategies to pursue federal and state funding for aligned programs.
The Analysis section below lays out the high-level approach. The comprehensive City Infrastructure Strategy can be found in Attachment A at the end of this report.
ANALYSIS
A great City has great infrastructure, the often-invisible networks of pipes, conduits, wires, roads, vehicles, facilities, and natural spaces that connect us and enables the daily utilities that make modern life possible. Every day this infrastructure quietly brings us water, electricity, broadband, and takes away our sewage, storm water, garbage, and recycling. In San José, our city’s infrastructure faces four simultaneous challenges, we must:
1. Rehabilitate our existing aging infrastructure to ensure we can continue to provide the backbone of day-to-day public services our community relies on.
T&E AGENDA: 06/05/23
ITEM: (d) 5
TRANSPORTATION AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE
May 26, 2023
Subject: City Infrastructure Strategy Report
2. Grow our infrastructure to accommodate more people as we welcome an additional 280,000 to San José by 2035.
3. Mitigate climate change and become more sustainable by reducing the carbon pollution we put into the atmosphere and powering our economy with carbon-free electrical energy.
4. Adapt to climate change and become more resilient and in the face of deeper droughts, more frequent wildfires, changing weather, and sea level rise.
Following the direction of the Mayor’s March Budget Message unanimously approved by City Council, this document presents a City Infrastructure Strategy to meet these challenges. The strategy is an evolution of the current Infrastructure Enterprise Priority and focuses on five objectives: Disaster Ready & Climate Smart, Transportation & Aviation, Clean Energy Resilience, Water Resilience, and Natural Environment Restoration. Sixteen (16) workstreams align with these Objectives and represent the most impactful change initiatives underway. This is in addition to the daily service delivery of Core Services.
Successful implementation will require: Addressing inequity and historical disinvestment; identifying ongoing/new local, state, and federal funding sources, and building the team to deliver these outcomes. Each of the 16 workstreams has an identified lead and the proposed operating budget includes over $14 Million in investments that align with the strategy1. Progress and Key Results toward these Objectives will be reported out regularly to the Transportation and Environment Committee.
1 The details of these investments can be found in the City Infrastructure Strategy (Appendix A) of this report. The FY2023-24 Proposed Operating Budget is linked here:
https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/97189/638194951743370000
TRANSPORTATION AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE
May 26, 2023
Subject: City Infrastructure Strategy Report
COORDINATION
This memo has been coordinated with the Planning, Building, and Code Enforcement Department, Environmental Services Department, Department of Public Works, Airport, Community Energy Department, Department of Transportation, the City Attorney’s Office and City Manager’s Budget Office, Office of Emergency Management, and Administration, Policy and Intergovernmental Relations.
/s/
ERICA GARAFFO
Lead Resilience Strategist, City Manager’s
Office
For questions, please contact Erica Garaffo, Lead Resilience Strategist, Assistant to the City Manager, at [email protected].
ATTACHMENT A – City Infrastructure Strategy