SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION
Meeting Date: December 8, 2025
Subject: RECEIVE Report on Resilient Communities and Natural Infrastructure section of the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan and PROVIDE DIRECTION, as needed
Submitted For: SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION
Department: DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT
Presenter: Jody London || Sustainability Coordinator | DCD
Contact: Jody London | (925) 655-2815
The County’s Sustainability Team prepares an annual report on progress in meeting the goals in the County’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (“CAAP”). Members of the Sustainability Commission have suggested over the years that the County should also maintain an online dashboard that provides updates on climate action progress in a graphic format.
In November 2024, the Board of Supervisors adopted the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan. This provides a good opportunity to explore again how best to structure a CAAP dashboard.
Staff provided an initial progress report to the Commission on the development of a CAAP dashboard at the July 28, 2025, meeting. Staff received a suggestion from a member of the Sustainability Commission that the dashboards for Issaquah, Washington and San Diego could be good models. The County’s dashboard for Measure X expenditures is another good model.
Since then, staff have been working with the County’s Department of Information Technology (“DoIT”) to develop an initial draft of a CAAP dashboard, exploring effective ways to display the County’s available historical climate action data and focusing initially on the CAAP strategies with the greatest greenhouse gas emissions reduction potential: 1) Clean and Efficient Built Environment and 2) Clean Transportation Network. The dashboard will continue to evolve as staff receive feedback and begin compiling the annual progress report on the updated CAAP.
The Sustainability Commission can assist staff by providing suggestions to support the draft CAAP dashboard’s ease of use, availability of data of interest, and communication of progress.
Staff will provide a walkthrough of the draft CAAP dashboard live during the December 8, 2025, meeting.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
RECEIVE Progress Report on Dashboard for Climate Action and Adaptation Plan and PROVIDE SUGGESTIONS
Fiscal Impact (if any):
Establishing and maintaining a dashboard will create costs, primarily for staff time to develop, update, and maintain the dashboard. These costs will accrue primarily to the Department of Information Technology and the Department of Conservation and Development, although all departments that have a role in implementing the CAAP will need to assign staff to work on monitoring and reporting on progress.