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Committee narrows 2025 outreach: develop scorecard and pursue multifamily EV outreach; student and larger programs to follow
Summary
Corte Madera’s Climate Action Committee agreed to develop a public‑facing ‘scorecard’ to track progress on EV adoption and building electrification, proceed with multifamily EV‑charging outreach, and reassess county workshop outcomes in six months; student outreach and a proposed youth conference will be advanced separately.
Members of the Corte Madera Town Climate Action Committee on Jan. 15 discussed a proposed 2025 community engagement plan and a draft “scorecard” to track local progress on transportation electrification, building electrification and overall household carbon footprints.
Committee member Karen (first name only in the record) presented a draft scorecard that would track representative metrics including percent of new vehicles that are electric, number of public EV chargers, building electrification permits (gas‑to‑electric space and water heating), and enrollment in community resilience or carbon‑calculator programs. Karen said the scorecard is intended both as a monitoring tool and a communication device for the public and Town Council.
Committee members discussed how to interpret metrics and what is measurable at Corte Madera’s scale. Presenters and members noted that countywide data are often the best available local proxy (for example, Marin County vehicle and commuting trends), and cautioned that factors such as telecommuting, hybrid vehicles and changes in miles driven can affect gasoline consumption independent of EV adoption. A presenter noted differing vehicle replacement‑rate assumptions (12 years versus about 17 years based on county data) matter for modeled timelines to a given EV‑share goal.
On outreach priorities for 2025, the committee agreed to a practical, limited set of near‑term efforts rather than attempting multiple large events in one year. The group reached consensus to:
- Further develop and finalize a public scorecard format for periodic updates and share it with the Town Council liaison for review; and - Pursue an outreach initiative focused on multifamily EV charging — including creating a resource page and short postcard or flyer with a QR code linking to resources and offering to connect multifamily property owners with residents who have installed chargers.
Committee members said the county is planning countywide workshops (for example, on heat‑pump water heaters) and recommended promoting those events to Corte Madera residents; the committee will evaluate the county workshops’ reach and usefulness after the spring series and reassess committee outreach priorities in six months.
Other outreach ideas raised but not immediately adopted included a larger youth conference proposed by student‑ambassador Sienna, pilot partnerships for resilient‑neighborhood trainings, and a possible community program to help residents use a detailed carbon calculator (one member noted that completing such a calculator can take an hour and might be better broken into smaller modules). Several members volunteered to help with drafting outreach materials; one member offered to contact the Resilient Neighborhoods program for partnership details and report back at the next meeting.
Ending: The committee directed staff and members to finalize the scorecard format and begin development of multifamily EV outreach materials; the committee will promote county workshops in the near term, solicit liaison feedback, and revisit the larger youth and resilient‑neighborhood proposals at a future meeting.
