CC RESOLUTION 4303RESOLUTION NO. 4303
A RESOLUTION URGING THE CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES
BOARD TO SUPPORT AND EXPAND CURRENT
REQUIREMENTS FOR ZERO EMISSION VEHICLES.
BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of El Segundo as follows:
SECTION 1: The City Council finds as follows:
A. Programs promoting commercial development of Zero Emission Vehicles
( "ZEVs ") helps reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil; reduces
ninety -five percent (95 %) of automobile tailpipe emissions (compared to
the most efficient gasoline powered vehicles); will help decrease the
amount of urban smog in California (70% of which is caused by tailpipe
emissions).
B. Ninety -five percent (95 %) of all Californians live in areas that do not meet
federal or state standards for healthy air.
C. Smog - forming emissions, especially those from mobile sources, have been
dramatically underestimated in California's air quality planning process.
Accordingly, programs such as the California ZEV Program have even
greater importance in developing vehicles that decrease air quality impacts
when compared with vehicles powered by other energy sources.
D. Staff for the California Air Resources Board ( "CARB ") is recommending
changes to California's existing ZEV Program at a CARB hearing on
March 27, 2003. Among other things, staff's recommendations, if
implemented, would delay until 2005 the time for manufacturing start
percentages of ZEVs; halve the percentage requirement for manufacturing
"pure" ZEVs; reduce the number of ZEVs required to be manufactured by
increasing ZEV credit values; in conjunction with the ZEV Credit Trading
Program, would allow automakers to sell or trade ZEV credits with other
automakers; and, by allowing credit trading, enable manufacturers to delay
ZEV production until 2009 or beyond.
E. Adopting the CARB's staff proposal would result in a blackout of new
ZEV production until the 2008 or 2009 model year, significantly
undercutting efforts to advance ZEV technology and commercialization.
SECTION 2: The city manager, or designee, is directed to inform the CARB that the
City Council
Page 1 of 3
A. Supports maintaining or expanding California's current ZEV production
requirements;
B. Opposes any reduction in California's ZEV standards including, without
limitation, extending time for compliance;
C. Supports stronger incentives for high - quality hybrid emission vehicles that
will provide real "pure ZEV" miles and accelerate the introduction of
ZEVs.
SECTION 3: The City Clerk is directed to certify the adoption of this Resolution; record
this Resolution in the book of the City's original resolutions; and make a minute of the
adoption of the Resolution in the City Council's records and the minutes of this meeting.
SECTION 4: This Resolution will become effective immediately upon adoption and
will remain effective unless repealed or superseded.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this igtt,day of March 2003.
Mike Gordon,
Mayor
Page 2 of 3
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, Cindy Mortesen, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, hereby certify that the
whole number of members of the City Council of the City is five; that the foregoing
Resolution No. 4303 was duly passed and adopted by said City Council, approved and
signed by the Mayor of said City, and attested to by the City Clerk of said City, all at a
regular meeting of said Council held on the 18th day of March , 2003, and
the same was so passed and adopted by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Gordon, Jacobs, McDowell, Wernick
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
NOT PARTICIPATING: Gaines
ATTEST:
1 CQ/)1/i1 c
Cindy Morte en,
City Clerk
APPROVED
Mark D. Hei2
By:
Karl H. Berl
Assistant U
Page 3 of 3