County staff presented a five‑year Climate Action Plan for County Operations — branded Pima CAN — that would expand county mitigation, adaptation and resilience efforts and align operations with regional net‑zero goals. The Board of Supervisors voted to continue consideration of the plan to Dec. 2 and asked staff for cost estimates, timelines and a clear accountability framework before final adoption.

What the plan would do: Director Amanda Davis, who led the presentation, said the plan updates and expands the county’s prior Sustainable Action Plan for County Operations and adds water, wildfire, heat resilience and landscapes as operational priorities in addition to energy and fleet. Davis explained the plan seeks to reduce county operational emissions and to set a framework for investments in green infrastructure, water resilience, cooling centers and employee commute reductions.

Why supervisors delayed a vote
- Supervisor Karin Allen asked for additional time for a chapter‑by‑chapter review and recommended the plan be returned for full discussion with cost and funding sources. Allen moved to continue the item to Dec. 2 and the motion passed unanimously.
- Supervisor Rex Scott and Supervisor Andres Cano asked for clearer timelines showing which actions would occur in year 1 versus later years, and for explicit links to the county’s capital plan so departments could align projects with available funding.
- Supervisor Matt Hines and others requested a consolidated estimate of the plan’s cumulative costs to date and projected costs for implementation steps.

Plan features described by staff
- Carbon accounting: The plan supplements prior inventories by adding commuter emissions data and seeks to reduce county operations emissions in line with regional net‑zero timelines.
- Water and landscapes: Staff emphasized strategies to increase stormwater capture, modify detention basins for recharge and plant drought‑resilient landscaping and trees, including a target to plant 10,000 trees across county property.
- Heat and public health: The plan would expand cooling center networks, formalize workforce heat protections and prioritize investments in heat‑impacted neighborhoods.
- Wildfire and invasive species: The plan folds in the county’s recent wildfire mitigation priorities and proposes an administrative procedure for coordinated invasive‑species remediation.

Next steps: The board voted to continue the item to the Dec. 2 meeting so members could review the plan in detail and receive follow‑up cost and timeline estimates. Staff said they would produce chapter‑specific status metrics and a public web hub to present progress and metrics.

Ending: The plan’s authors framed Pima CAN as an operational roadmap rather than a final funding request; supervisors welcomed its goals but asked for tighter fiscal and implementation detail before adoption.