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Sunnyvale sustainability staff outlines study-issue process, earlier timeline for commissioners

2687147 · March 18, 2025
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City sustainability staff walked commissioners through the study-issue submission, review and sponsorship process, emphasizing a 30‑day staff response, July/October deadlines for ensuring study issue papers are ready for council ranking, and coordination across departments for fiscal and staffing impacts.

Christina Raby, sustainability coordinator and staff liaison, gave the Sustainability Commission an early overview of the city’s study-issue process on March 17, describing how commissioners, residents and council members can submit ideas for study and eventual policy.

“For the record, my name is Christina Raby. I am the sustainability coordinator here for the city, and I'm also the staff liaison for this commission,” Raby said, and summarized the purpose of the process: “the study issue process is a way for commissioners, the community, and council members to submit ideas that could potentially become a policy or program here at the city and for us to implement.”

Raby said the first step is a…

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