Resolution No.
STOCKTON CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION TO ACCEPT A FEDERAL CLIMATE POLLUTION REDUCTION GRANT PROGRAM AWARD IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,000,000 FOR PLANNING THE NEW CLIMATE ACTION PLAN The City Manager authorized staff to apply for a United States Environmental Protection Agency Climate Pollution Reduction Planning Grant opportunity in the amount of $1,000,000; and On April 1, 2024, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9, Air and Radiation Division, AIR-1, awarded the City of Stockton a $1,000,000 Climate Pollution Reduction Planning grant through the Inflation Reduction Act to develop a Priority Climate Action Plan and a Comprehensive Climate Action Plan; and The Climate Pollution Reduction Grant for planning will provide funding needed to develop a new Climate Action Plan for the City of Stockton Metropolitan Statistical Area with emphasis on the City of Stockton with regional benefits; and The new Climate Action Plan will require the development, updating and evaluation of plans to reduce climate pollution, developing a greenhouse gas inventory, quantifying greenhouse gas reduction measures, conducting a low income and disadvantaged communities benefit analysis, review of authority to implement and stakeholder engagement; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF STOCKTON, AS FOLLOWS:
1. Authorize the City Manager to execute a grant agreement from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9, Air and Radiation Division, AIR-1 in the amount of $1,000,000 (Exhibit 1).
2. Authorize the City Manager to appropriate grant revenues and expenditures in the amount of $1,000,000.
3. Authorize the City Manager to execute and manage contractor agreements and consultant agreements in amounts consistent with the Grant Agreement. //
//
//
//
//
4. The City Manager is hereby authorized to take whatever actions are necessary and appropriate to carry out the purpose and intent of this Resolution.
PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED May 14, 2024 .
KEVIN J. LINCOLN II
Mayor of the City of Stockton
ATTEST:
ELIZA R. GARZA, CMC
City Clerk of the City of Stockton