Hello Stockton CSC,

Thanks to all who made our May CSC Meeting! Please see below for standing updates and we’ll see you Wednesday, June 4^th for our next CSC meeting.

District 

• Ride & Drive Event in Stockton this Saturday (5/10)

Valley Clean Air Now (Valley CAN) is teaming up with the community to bring a RIDE & DRIVE Event at the Stockton Flea Market on Saturday, May 10th! This is a great opportunity for community members to learn more about electric vehicles, engage with local leaders and experience being behind the wheel of an electric vehicle. Help us make this event a success by sharing this information with your friends, family, and anyone who might be interested (see flyers attached)!

• [CSC ASK] Join Us to Sign Up Residents for Clean Air Room Program

District staff will have a booth to share air quality and grant information and help residents within the Stockton AB 617 boundary apply for a FREE air purifier through the AB 617 Clean Air Rooms Program! We invite the CSC to join us at this event and help us get your neighbors, friends, and fellow community members signed up. If you are interested, please respond to this email, AB617@valleyair.org and our team will connect with you.

• Ride & Drive Event Details

Saturday, May 10th

8:00 am – 12:00 pm

Stockton Flea Market, 2542 S. El Dorado St, Stockton, CA 95206

• Use entry gate on California

• Clean Air Rooms Postcard

Based on CSC feedback, the District worked with an advertising agency to send a targeted mailer to over 21,000 households within the Stockton AB617 boundary in April. See the postcard below.

• Clean Air Rooms: Filter Replacement Coupon

Please see below on how to receive 20% off on MedifyAir replacement filters with the below coupon and feel free to share with anyone who has received a Medify air purifier through the Clean Air Rooms program!

• Coupon code can be used up to three times (per customer)
• See attached flyer and visit Tinyurl.com/ma-filters and use coupon code SJV20
• Please note that this coupon is ONLY for MedifyAir filters, which is the brand of the majority of purifiers we distributed

• CERP Tracker

The Community Emissions Reduction Program (CERP) tracker is updated monthly to share updates and most current status of CERP measures. The latest updates can be found in green text.

• Link to CERP tracker: https://community.valleyair.org/stockton-tracker/

California Air Resources Board (CARB)

The District is sharing the message below on behalf of CARB. 

Cycle 5 Community Air Grants Awarded!

• These are grants intended to help build community capacity to participate in AB 617 via technical assistance, education, community air monitoring, development of local emission reduction programs, and more
• $20.9 million in this latest cycle’s Air Grants have been awarded to over 43 nonprofit groups and 4 California Tribes for a total of 51 projects; we just published a press release earlier this week with all the details!

Upcoming regular meetings of interest:

• May 15, 1-5pm on Zoom and in-person: Monthly Environmental Justice Advisory Committee Meeting
• Agenda includes guest speakers to present on building decarbonization efforts, as well as the equity and affordability of the Cap-and-Trade program (the latter item has a strong connection back to the very foundations of AB 617)
• May 20, 5-7pm on Zoom: Monthly Clean Transportation Incentives Evening Workshop
• Agenda includes updates on the State budget, sharing info on Access Clean California (a great tool for helping folks access incentives), and a summary of the recent 2025 Clean Transportation Equity Incentives Symposium held on April 10

Upcoming CARB Board Meetings

• May 22-23: Next scheduled Board meeting
• Agenda is posted! Includes an informational updates on the CA Air Toxics Assessment and Natural and Working Lands and Nature-Based Strategies
• June 26: agenda won’t be posted until 10 days prior, but currently OCAP is slated to present on the revitalized AB 617 Consultation Group (folks may recall we were previously slated to bring this to our Board a bit earlier in the year – you’re not misremembering, the timeline did indeed change a bit)
• OCAP will be presenting its annual progress report on AB 617 to the Board a bit later on this year – keep an eye out for more information soon on that!

Port of Stockton

The District is sharing the message below on behalf of the Port of Stockton. 

It was great seeing everyone at the April 2nd in person AB-617 meeting! 

• Through funding received from the 1st golf tournament the Port was able to support Edible School Yard to replace a fence that was not safe and was allowing dogs onto the property.
• 2nd Annual Port of Stockton Golf Tournament, benefiting the Boggs Tract Community will be held on June 9, 2025.
• The Tenant Jobs Board Lunch and Learn was hosted at the Lindley House on April 11, 2025. Jobs Board promotional and tutorial videos have been completed. 8 jobs are currently posted and we are working with platform developers to optimize user functions.
• Clean California Community Days (April 19) – event was a success we had around 40 volunteers including Stockton’s Mayor. 3 containers worth and several thousand pounds of trash was removed from the sites.
• We are working with Washington Elementary on some items they need including an outdoor track and projector system. We were able to purchase a PA system, sponsor the 8th grade trip, and their 8th grade dance will be at the Lindley House later this month.
• Earth Day at Victory Park was a success! We gave away over 400 plants and promoted the owl program and the jobs board. It was cold but great seeing everyone!
• We will be doing an owl/Port presentation for Native American Center summer school program at Edison, this will be our 3rd year.
• At our last Port Outreach meeting we had a presentation from California Trucking Association and Edible Schoolyard, this month’s outreach meeting will be on Thursday, May 22nd, due to travel. We will have a SSA (port tenant) talk about their sustainability initiatives and EPA Clean Ports.

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.