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San Jose staff report progress on shoreline levee, airport preservation and building electrification; committee accepts update
Summary
City staff told the Transportation and Environment Committee that work on the South San Francisco Bay shoreline levee, an airport asset preservation plan and a building electrification pilot is underway. The committee voted 4-0 to accept the quarterly infrastructure report.
Erica Garafo, the city’s resilience strategist, told the Transportation and Environment Committee that San Jose completed year one of its city infrastructure strategy and has refined five objectives — climate ready and climate smart, modern and sustainable mobility, clean energy resilience, water resilience and natural environment restoration — supported by 19 work streams.
The update described three work streams in detail. On the shoreline levee, Garafo said the city’s partnership with the Santa Clara Valley Water District focuses on North San Jose and the Alviso neighborhood to protect regional wastewater facility lands and critical infrastructure. Staff said a draft memorandum of understanding based on a previously executed shoreline levee letter of intent has been developed to roughly the 30% design stage and the goal this quarter is to advance the MOU toward roughly 70–75% completion. Staff emphasized the need to consolidate land transfers (including a parcel called Pond A18) and pursue value engineering with Valley Water and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers before construction can proceed.
On Mineta San Jose International Airport, staff told the committee the airport hired a consultant this past quarter to assess conditions at Terminals A and B, interview airport personnel, prepare a visual facility condition assessment and issue draft findings and a rough order-of-magnitude capital investment plan to guide future preservation work.
On citywide building electrification, staff described efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, which the report says account for 31% of the city’s emissions. San Jose Clean Energy launched an Eco Home rebate for heat-pump water and space heating and a pilot on-bill financing product called the Eco Home payment plan to help customers cover upfront costs. Laurie Mitchell, acting director of the Environmental Services Department and a presenter on the item, said the rebate and financing pilots were newly launched and “there’s plenty of capacity available right now,” but could not give an exact count of applicants during the meeting; staff said they would follow up with specific application and remaining-budget figures.
The committee held no public comment on the item and discussed follow-ups including how federal funding and land transfers affect the levee schedule and requests for later reporting on program uptake for the electrification rebates and on-bill financing. Chair Cohen led a motion to accept the quarterly infrastructure update; the committee recorded a voice vote of 4-0 in favor and the report was accepted.
The presentation materials and the memo appendices (key results and Q3 planned key results) were referenced by staff as the source of the quarter-by-quarter status details.
