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Santa Clara County

Adopting resolution to apply Living Wage to County employees

Agenda Item Name: Adopt Board Policy Resolution adding Board of Supervisors’ Policy Manual Section 4.21 relating to the applicability of the Living Wage standards to County employees, and direct the Clerk of the Board to include Policy in Board of Supervisors’ Policy Manual.
Date/time/location item will be heard: June 23, 2015, 9 am,  Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors

Issue summary: At the December 9th, 2014 meeting of the Board of Supervisors, the Board directed Administration and County Counsel to “draft a Board Policy Resolution that expresses the Board’s intent to assure County employees, through the collective bargaining process or through other County compensation and personnel policies, have a standard of compensation consistent with standards outlined in the Living Wage Policy.”  The attached Board Policy Resolution responds to this direction.

Link to item: http://sccgov.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_LegiFile.aspx?Frame=&MeetingID=6059&MediaPosition=&ID=76996&CssClass
Link to agenda: http://sccgov.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6059

Deciding whether to move forward with next phase of Community Choice Energy project

Agenda Item Name:  Consider recommendations from Office of the County Executive relating to Community Choice Aggregation.
Date/time/location item will be heard: June 23, 2015, 9 am, Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors

In California, the counties of Marin and Sonoma and the City of Lancaster have CCEs in operation.  The following local governments in California are exploring CCE:  the counties of Humboldt, Mendocino, Butte, Lake, Yolo, Napa, Solano, Contra Costa, Alameda, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Benito, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and San Diego, and the cities of Arcata, Davis, San Francisco, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, San Luis Obispo, Morro Bay, and San Diego.

The development and formation costs of CCEs currently range between $1.3 and $1.7 million. Once a CCE is formed, the JPA typically secures a loan instrument for the initial start-up energy purchases.  Based on the experiences of other jurisdictions, the Initial Feasibility Study indicates that the Silicon Valley Community Choice Energy Program (SVCCEP) could begin providing municipal, residential, and business customers with CCE service by late 2016.

Presently, the energy rates charged by the existing three CCEs are competitive with Utility rates.  In addition, CCEs have and are exercising the independence to:

  • Increase the renewable energy generation in its supply chain.
  • Offer customers multiple voluntary programs with the choice to pay more for an even greater renewable energy composition.
  • Use net energy revenues to fund community renewable energy projects and programs (both community and government facilities energy programs).
  • Develop energy efficiency portfolio applications for separate funding by the CPUC.
  • Combine these renewable energy and energy efficiency programs to meet local government goals.

Link to item: http://sccgov.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_LegiFile.aspx?Frame=&MeetingID=6059&MediaPosition=&ID=76968&CssClass
Link to agenda: http://sccgov.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6059

San Jose

Priority Setting Session:

Agenda Item Name:     Council Priority Setting Session.
Date/time/location item will be heard:  June 23, 2015 1:30pm, San Jose City Council

Issue summary: The Priority Setting Session will begin immediately after the ceremonial items at 1:30 pm.

Link to item: http://sanjose.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=51&event_id=735&meta_id=521130
http://sanjose.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=51&event_id=735&meta_id=520822
Link to agenda: http://sanjose.granicus.com/GeneratedAgendaViewer.php?view_id=51&event_id=735

 

Santa Clara City

Chamber of Commerce to host public outreach meeting on proposed City minimum wage

Date/time/location item will be heard: June 25, 2015, 8:30-9:30 am, Lexus of Stevens Creek 3333 Stevens Creek Blvd. San Jose, CA 95117

Issue summary: The City will hold a public outreach meeting on June 25 regarding the proposed plan to adopt a local minimum wage ordinance by January 1, 2016. There will be a brief summary of the draft minimum wage radiance (as of May 14, 2015), followed by Q&A and discussion.

This meeting is hosted by the Santa Clara Chamber of Commerce.

 

 

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