Hello Stockton CSC,

Thanks to all who made our August CSC Meeting! Please see below for standing updates and we’ll see you Wednesday, September 6^th for our next CSC meeting.

District

Quarterly Enforcement Report –

Per request in the August CSC meeting, please see summary of violations found within the community for the quarter attached to this email.

Indoor Air and Weatherization Subcommittee –

During June’s meeting, the Indoor Air and Weatherization Subcommittee discussed updates on Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) rollout valley-wide and Stockton. The group also identified outreach solutions for IAQ rollout. The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, August 22 at 4 pm.

Outreach Subcommittee –

During June’s meeting, the Outreach Subcommittee discussed Residential Air Filtration program and outreach opportunities. The group also discussed wildfire outreach strategies and brainstormed some ideas for working with community members. The next meeting is scheduled for Friday, August 18 at 2 pm to discuss back to school outreach strategies.

Truck Project Plan –

There was great feedback in the last CSC meeting on the Truck Project Plan. The District sent out an email on August 10^th sharing additional information for you all to review to solicit any questions or additional feedback you may have (attached to this email). As discussed in the meeting, we will plan to look for support to submit this project plan during the September CSC meeting. Please email us at AB617@valleyair.org or call (559) 230-5923 if you have any questions or feedback!

AB 617 Text Notification –

A Stockton AB 617 test text notification was sent out today for the next regular CSC meeting. Please reach out to Rocio Calderon if you did not receive a text and would like to opt in. Email: Rocio.calderon@valleyair.org Phone: 559-230-6546.

CARB

Hello Stockton CSC members,

Folks were absolutely right at last week’s CSC meeting that we needed to provide some more complete information to you all about our public process to update the Community Air Protection Blueprint document (in other words, the “Blueprint 2.0” draft). With that in mind I wanted to relay what that process looks like, detail when and how you’ll have opportunities to participate and provide comments, and to provide some additional context on what the Blueprint is and why it’s directly important for the work you’ve all been doing in Stockton.

As background, the Blueprint is basically our overall guidance document for everything relating to AB 617 and the Community Air Protection Program. We outline policies/guidance for ourselves as the implementing State agency, and we also provide guidance to air districts as well as other participating groups and individuals like yourselves. The current Blueprint contains a lot of broad ideas and guidance that have informed how we and the air districts generally approach the Program, structure the steering committees, make community recommendations, direct incentives, and a lot more besides. You can take a look at the old 2018 version right here: Community Air Protection Program Blueprint.

As I’ve mentioned at recent CSC meetings, we’re currently in the middle of a public process to update this Blueprint to the “Blueprint 2.0.” We’re aiming to do quite a few new and different things with the update, but broadly we’re focusing on centering equity, environmental justice, and civil rights as well as steering the overall Program towards more funding transparency and encouraging more participatory budgeting. Also, one aspect I think will interest folks in the Stockton CSC in particular is a specific focus on reinforcing commitments to implement the strategies contained in approved CERPs beyond the initially-proposed five-year implementation period.

Next I’ll go over what our public process is looking like: we released an initial draft the Blueprint 2.0 in two parts – Part 1 (consisting mostly of high concepts and broad goals) and Part 2 (more detailed guidance on actual Program implementation) – in June, and we were accepting comments up to July 31^st through our Blueprint 2.0 webpage. Even though that public comment period is closed, you can reach out to me directly with comments at kyle.goff@arb.ca.gov, and I can make sure the team here receives them and takes them into consideration as they continue to go through all the comments received so far.

Our public process isn’t yet done, though. We’ll be going to our Board to seek their approval to publish the Blueprint 2.0, and we’ll be posting a final draft of it 30 days in advance of that public Board hearing – you’ll have another opportunity to provide public comments to that version, as well as to have your voice heard at the Board hearing itself. We were originally planning to go the Board in September, but we’ve very recently made the decision to delay a bit and instead present to our Board at their October 26^th meeting, meaning we’ll be publishing the final draft version roughly in the last week of September for that 30-day public comment period.

I think that about does it – don’t hesitate to reach out to me with any questions or to provide comments at kyle.goff@arb.ca.gov, and I’ll also re-post the links I sprinkled throughout my message, and add in a few more handy links to additional resources, to boot:

• Original 2018 Blueprint
• Public Process webpage for the Blueprint 2.0
• Draft Blueprint 2.0 documents page: Part 1 (high-level concepts and goals) and Part 2 (detailed implementation guidance)
• 1-pager on incentives
• 1-pager on community-focused enforcement
• 1-pager on Community Air Grants to support Local-CERPs

Looking forward to seeing you all at next month’s CSC meeting!

Kyle Goff

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California Air Resources Board

Community Air Protection incentives

(279) 208-7811

kyle.goff@arb.ca.gov

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please reach out to the District at AB617@valleyair.org or call 559-230-6000 and ask to speak to someone with the AB 617 program. To see communications from the District to the CSC, visit the Communications with Members page.