CC RESOLUTION 4396RESOLUTION NO. 4396
A RESOLUTION OF THE EL SEGUNDO CITY COUNCIL EXPRESSING ITS
SUPPORT OF EFFORTS URGING THE CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES
BOARD TO ADOPT REGULATIONS TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS
EMISSIONS FROM MOTOR VEHICLES
The City Council of the City of El Segundo does hereby resolve as follows:
Section 1: The City Council finds and declares as follows:
A. The scientific community is in general agreement that global warming is a real
occurrence that is due in large part from the burning of fossil fuels and that the
phenomenon poses a threat to our health, environment, economy and way of life;
B. It is clear that a significant contributor to the global warming problem is
greenhouse gas emissions from millions of motor vehicles in use today.
C. It is in the public interest to support policies that will result in a measurable
reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles;
D. AB 1493 (Pavley) has been signed into law and provides the California Air
Resources Board with the authority necessary to implement guidelines requiring
significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions;
E. The implementation of AB 1493 would require motor vehicle manufacturers to
build cars that burn cleaner and contribute low emissions of greenhouse gases
and criteria pollutants;
F. If fully implemented by the Air Resources Board, the guidelines suggested by AB
1493 would result in reduces levels of pollutants (including ozone precursors,
particulates and toxic air contaminants) typically referred to as "upstream
emissions ;"
G. AB 1493 does not require specific technologies, but does encourage the use of
hybrid electric vehicles and alternative fuel vehicles;
H. The City of El Segundo has already embraced that those vehicle technologies
through its use of electric and alternative fuel vehicles in the City fleet.
Section 2: The City Council of the City of El Segundo expresses its support of
measures considered by the California Air Resources Board to limit the
amount of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles operating in
California.
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Section 3: The City Clerk is directed to send a copy of this resolution to the Chairman
of the California Air Resources Board.
Section 4: The City Clerk will certify to the passage and adoption of this Resolution;
will enter the same in the book of original Resolutions of the City; and will
make a record of proceedings of the City Council in the Minutes of the
Meeting at which same is passed and adopted.
Section 5: This Resolution will become effective immediately upon adoption.
APPROVED
Mark D. Herl
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PASSED AND ADOPTED this 21st day of September , 2004.
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Kelly
Mayor
City Attorney
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ATTEST:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO 1
I, Cindy Mortesen, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, do hereby certify that
the whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five; that the foregoing
Resolution No. 4396 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 21 st day of September 2004, and the same
was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: McDowell, Boulgarides, Busch
NOES: Gaines
ABSENT: None
ABST IN' Jacobson
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Cindy Mollesen, City Clerk