Daly City's Green Vision - City of Daly City

for government operations. Recently, the Action Team completed the mission statement, guiding principles and
goals for this action plan. Each City department will be instrumental in developing the overall Plan by identifying
ways the department can modify current operating practices to reduce energy and resource consumption, maximize
resource life-cycles and enhance energy efficiency. The City Council, by adopting the U.S. Mayors Climate
Protection Agreement in June 2009, paved the way for further climate action initiatives. Additionally, the Climate
Protection Action Team has been working with all City departments to complete the development of the City’s
Climate Action Plan in conjunction with the preparation of the City’s next two-year budget (Fiscal Years 2010-
2012).
Daly City has already made significant progress in minimizing greenhouse gas emissions resulting from government
operations. Below is a brief list of the efforts already undertaken by the City:
Operation of hybrid vehicles and of bio-diesel vehicles;
Exploitation and sale of tertiary recycled water; and,
Energy audits and facilities improvements
Daly City continues to explore and implement solutions to reduce the causes of global warming and preserve and
protect our climate and environment. Through the adoption of the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, as
well as the completion of the ICLEI Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and the Climate Action Plan, Daly City
will again demonstrate its leadership on one of the most pressing social and environmental issues of our time.
1.5 The Silicon Valley Climate Protection Partnership
The Silicon Valley Climate Protection Partnership is a joint effort between Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network
(JV:SVN); Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV); local governments in San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties
(hereby referred to as the “Silicon Valley area”); and ICLEI. The Partnership was initiated in 2008 to provide a solid
regional platform for local governments to follow ICLEI’s Five-Milestone process (described in Section 1.2), as
well as a shared learning experience.
In early 2008, JV:SVN contracted with ICLEI to conduct government operations emissions inventories for
participating local governments, using the standards outlined in the then soon-to-be-released Local Government
Operations Protocol (LGOP—see Appendix A for details). For this project, 27 local governments have signed onto
this contract. SSV joined the Partnership to provide additional educational and other services to facilitate more rapid
progress by participating governments through the Five Milestones. While ICLEI created these inventories
concurrently using the same tools and methods, each inventory was conducted independently using data specific to
each local government’s operations. For this reason, inventories from different jurisdictions will involve different
sources of data and emissions calculation methods.
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