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City Council Meeting: June 23, 2020 Santa Monica, California
RESOLUTION NUMBER 11259 (CCS)
(City Council Series)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA TO ADOPT
THE INNOVATIVE CLEAN TRANSIT ROLLOUT PLAN.
WHEREAS, in 2018, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted the
Innovative Clean Transit (ICT) Regulation, which requires public transit agencies to
transition to a 100 percent zero-emission bus (ZEB) fleet, such as battery-electric or fuel
cell electric, by 2040; and
WHEREAS, the ICT includes the following requirements for bus purchases for
large public transit agencies such as Big Blue Bus:
• starting in January 1, 2023, twenty-five percent of the total number of new
bus purchases in each calendar year must be zero-emission buses; and
• starting in January 1, 2026, fifty percent of the total number of new bus
purchases in each calendar year must be zero-emission buses; and
• starting in January 1, 2029, all new bus purchases must be zero-emission
buses; and
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WHEREAS, under the ICT regulation, a large public transit agency is required to
submit to the CARB Executive Officer a Rollout Plan that is a living document intended to
guide the agency’s conversion to a ZEB fleet; and
WHEREAS, the Rollout Plan must be approved by the transit agency’s governing
body through the adoption of a resolution prior to submission to CARB, and this approval
must be submitted to CARB along with the Rollout Plan;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council, as the governing body of the Big Blue Bus, a large
public transit agency, hereby approves the Rollout Plan attached to this resolution as
Exhibit A.
SECTION 2. The Big Blue Bus is authorized to comply with all conditions and
requirements set forth in the Innovative Clean Transit (ICT) regulation adopted by the
California Air Resources Board (CARB) and codified at Cal. Code Regs., tit. 13 §§ 2023,
2023.1-2023.11.
SECTION 3. The City Manager or designee is authorized to execute and cause
to be submitted to the CARB all documents required for the Big Blue Bus to comply with
the ICT regulation.
SECTION 4. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this
Resolution is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any
court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining
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portions of this Resolution. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed
this Resolution and each and every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not
declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether any portion of this
Resolution would be subsequently declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution, and
thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be in full force and effect.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
George S. Cardona
Interim City Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 23rd day of June 2020.
Kevin McKeown, Mayor
I, Denise Anderson-Warren, City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do
hereby certify that Resolution No. 11259 (CCS) was duly adopted at a meeting of
the Santa Monica City Council held on the 23rd day of June 2020, by the following
vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Davis, Himmelrich, Jara, Morena, Winterer,
Mayor Pro Tem O’Day, Mayor McKeown
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ATTEST:
Denise Anderson-Warren, City Clerk