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Extracted from Consolidated Report

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San Mateo County Grand Jury • 2018-2019

Electric Vehicle Adoption in the Cities and County of SAN Mateo Issue | Summary | Glossary | Background | Discussion |

Published: September 13, 2018 106 pages Consolidated Report

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As of December 2018, eleven of the twenty cities in San Mateo County have no electric vehicles in their government fleets. These are:  Atherton  Belmont  Colma  Daly City  East Palo Alto  Half Moon Bay  Hillsborough  San Bruno  San Carlos  South San Francisco  Woodside

As of December 2018, in two of the twenty cities in San Mateo County approximately one percent of the city fleet are electric vehicles. These are:  Burlingame  Foster City

As of December 2018, in three of the twenty cities in San Mateo County approximately three percent of the city fleet are electric vehicles. These are:  Pacifica  Redwood City  San Mateo

As of December 2018, in the City of Millbrae approximately seven percent of the city fleet is electric vehicles.

As of December 2018, in two of the twenty cities in San Mateo County approximately ten percent of the city fleet are electric vehicles. These are:  Brisbane  Menlo Park

As of December 2018, the Town of Portola Valley has converted two of its six city vehicles to electric vehicles, or approximately 33 percent.

San Mateo County has 709 fleet vehicles. Of those, 218 are Enhanced AT PZEVs and two are ZEVs (approximately 31 percent).

The County and eleven of the cities in the county have Climate Action Plans that discuss adoption of sustainable purchasing policies for converting their fleets to fuel efficient vehicles (hybrid, electric, alternative fuel). The cities are:  Atherton  Belmont  Brisbane  Burlingame  East Palo Alto  Foster City  Menlo Park  Pacifica  Redwood City  San Carlos  San Mateo

San Mateo Office of Sustainability released a “Green Municipal Fleet Toolkit” in March of 2019. The purpose of this Toolkit is to assist jurisdictions on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from their municipal fleets.

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The San Mateo County Office of Sustainability technical support pilot program for municipal fleets, which is funded to assist up to four cities in converting their fleets to ZEVs, runs through December 2019.

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The Climate Mayors EV Purchasing Collaborative is available to assist the cities and the County in conversion of fleet vehicles to ZEVs through aggregate purchasing.

Recommendations 4

R1

By March 31, 2020, the County of San Mateo and each city within the county should conduct a review of its government fleet procurement policy relating to electric vehicles and present a report at a public meeting. At a minimum, the review should be based on an analysis that includes up-to-date life-cycle costs of commercially available electric vehicles and an up-to-date assessment of whether electric vehicles can meet the performance needs of local jurisdictions for power, range, battery life, and other relevant factors. If an agency has completed such a review within the last three years, then such review should be presented to its governing body at a public meeting on or before December 31, 2019.
R2

By March 31, 2020, the County of San Mateo and each city within the county should conduct an analysis of the obstacles, if any, to the implementation of an EV government fleet procurement policy and present a report at a public meeting. This could include, for example, the availability of electric vehicle charging stations to serve the vehicle fleet and training of vehicle maintenance staff. If an agency has completed such an analysis within the last three years, then such analysis should be presented to its governing body at a public meeting on or before December 31, 2019.
R3

By September 30, 2019, the County of San Mateo Department of Public Works and each city within the county should review the “Roadmap for Municipal Green Fleets” toolkit from the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability, including the information on the possibility of adopting an EV First Policy.
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By September 30, 2019, the County of San Mateo and each city within the county, if they have not already initiated such a process, should investigate joining the Climate Mayors EV Purchasing Collaborative to take advantage of aggregate purchasing.