HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-16 - Supporting Balanced Energy Solutions and Maintaining Local Control of Energy SolutionsRESOLUTION NO. 2020-16
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, SUPPORTING
BALANCED ENERGY SOLUTIONS AND MAINTAINING
LOCAL CONTROL OF ENERGY SOLUTIONS
WHEREAS, the state legislature and state agencies are increasingly proposing
new legislation and regulations eliminating choice of energy by mandating technologies
to power buildings and public and private fleets, including transit and long-haul trucking,
as a strategy to achieve the state's climate goals;
WHEREAS, clean, affordable and reliable energy is crucial to the material health,
safety and well-being of City of Newport Beach ("City") residents;
WHEREAS, the need for clean, affordable and reliable energy to attract and retain
local businesses, create jobs and spur economic development, which is vital to the City's
success in a highly competitive and increasingly regional and global marketplace;
WHEREAS, the City's residents and businesses value local control and the right
to choose the policies and investments that most affordably and efficiently enable them
to comply with state requirements;
WHEREAS, building and vehicle technology mandates eliminate local control and
customer choice, suppress innovation, reduce reliability and unnecessarily increase costs
for City's residents and businesses; and
WHEREAS, the City understands that relying on a single energy delivery system
unnecessarily increases vulnerabilities to natural and man-made disasters, and that a
diversity of energy delivery systems and resources contribute to greater reliability and
community resilience.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as
follows:
Section 1: The City Council does hereby support diverse and balanced energy
solutions that provide it with decision-making authority, and opposes proposed state
legislation and policies that eliminate local control.
Section 2: The City Council does hereby support state proposals and
regulations that retain local control with respect to energy sources and delivery systems.
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Section 3: The recitals provided in this resolution are true and correct and are
incorporated into the operative part of this resolution.
Section 4: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
resolution is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not
affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this resolution. The City
Council hereby declares that it would have passed this resolution, and each section,
subsection, sentence, clause or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or
more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
Section 5: The City Council finds the adoption of this resolution is not subject to
the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) (the
activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the
environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378)
of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Division 6, Chapter 3,
because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or
indirectly.
Section 6: This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by the
City Council, and the City Clerk shall certify the vote adopting the resolution.
ADOPTED this 11th day of February, 2020.
ATTEST:
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Leilani I. Brown
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
Aaron C. Harp
City Attorney
Will O'Neill
Mayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } ss.
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, Leilani I. Brown, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do hereby certify that the
whole number of members of the City Council is seven; the foregoing resolution, being Resolution
No. 2020-16, was duly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular
meeting of said Council held on the 111h day of February, 2020; and the same was so passed and
adopted by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Mayor Will O'Neill, Mayor Pro Tem Brad Avery, Council Member Joy Brenner, Council
Member Diane Dixon, Council Member Duffy Duffield, Council Member Jeff Herdman,
Council Member Kevin Muldoon
NAYS: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of
said City this 1211 day of February, 2020.
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