City Council support of H.3800 and S.2004 regarding Property Assessed Clean Energy

City of Cambridge O-8 ORIGINAL ORDER IN CITY COUNCIL June 24, 2019 COUNCILLOR ZONDERVAN WHEREAS: Improving energy efficiency and reducing the climate-destroying emissions created by existing buildings is critical to our efforts to combat climate change; and WHEREAS: Cambridge’s Net Zero Action Plan contains many strategies for reducing emissions from the built sector to zero; and WHEREAS: Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing is an important mechanism to facilitate energy efficiency upgrades in buildings; and WHEREAS: H.3800 amends the statewide commercial PACE program to better achieve the desired objectives of facilitating energy efficiency upgrades in buildings; and WHEREAS: S.2004 would establish a statewide PACE program for residential buildings; now therefore be it ORDERED: That the City Council go on record in support of H.3800 and S.2004; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Clerk be and hereby is requested to forward suitably engrossed copies of this resolution to Representative Golden, Senator Pacheco, Representative Eldridge, and Representative Ciccolo, lead sponsors of these efforts, as well as Governor Baker and Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Kathleen A. Theoharides.