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SR-09-10-2013-13B13 - September 10, 2013 Council Meeting: September 10, 2013 Santa Monica, California CITY CLERK'S OFFICE — MEMORANDUM To: City Council From: Mayor Pro Tempore O'Day and Councilmembers Vazquez and Winterer Date: September 10, 2013 13-8: Request of Mayor Pro Tempore O'Day and Councilmembers Vazquez and Winterer that the Council allocate $5000 of contingency funds to the Church in Ocean Park, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, for its California Climate Change Exchange to produce several broad-based community forums on climate change, to disseminate information to individuals who want to address climate change and to match those individuals to nonprofits according to their specific interests and concerns. 13 - September 10, 2013 To: City of Santa Monica City Council From: Mark Gold, Chair, Task Force on the Environment Signature 2��LVY A Date August 19, 2013 Re: Task Force and the Environment Motion Regarding the New Local: California Climate Change Exchange At the Task Force on the Environment (ETF) August 19th meeting, the new locally formed organization, California Climate Change Exchange (CCCX) provided a presentation and request. They stated that the goal of the CCCX is to facilitate people "coming to grips with Climate Change" by hosting, free of charge, a series of forums at the Church in Ocean Park and developing a one-stop online educational resource linking individuals, through the use of a questionnaire, to organizations dealing with climate change. The CCCX requested co-sponsors, both fiscal and in-kind, for the first CCCX Forum which will take place the afternoon of Sunday, October 27, 2013, at the Church in Ocean Park at 235 Hill Street, Santa Monica. They requested that the Task Force on the Environment 1) be a co-sponsor, 2) recommend that the City Council support our work, and 3) have ETF members and/or staff enter discussions on how we might enhance CCCX and the October 27, 2013 CCCX Forum. After discussion, the Task Force on the Environment (ETF) unanimously adopted the following motion and requests that the City Council provide this position: Motion: The Santa Monica Task Force on the Environment (ETF) recommends City Council support the beneficial efforts of the California Climate Change Exchange (CCCX), including their first CCCX Forum at the Church in Ocean Park on October 27, 2013, to help the community move from climate awareness to action.