Page 22 - FY 2022-23 Budget Summary

In 2021, the City negotiated a new franchise agreement with the Southern California Gas
Company (SCG). This updated agreement includes significant increases in environmental
stringency, such as required air quality monitoring and reporting at sites and increased fees. It
also requires SCG to pay a total of $21 million over two installments into a newly created

Climate Equity Fund

to provide for mitigation measures in neighborhoods that suffer disproportionately from
climate impacts. The first payment of $10.5 million will be received in FY 22-23 and will launch:

L.A.'S BUILDING JOBS PILOT AIR QUALITY MONITORING
AT OIL DRILLING SITES
$5 million to launch a pilot to address
the city’s largest GHG emitting sector $1.25 million for the installation of air
and major consumer of natural gas – quality monitoring at all 17 drill sites in
buildings – and demonstrate that the the city to increase accountability of drill
transition away from oil and gas can site operations.
bring job opportunities for historically
disadvantaged communities. The pilot CLIMATE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT
will conduct building retrofit upgrades in & OIL AND GAS RECORD COMPLIANCE
five community-serving buildings and CLEARINGHOUSE
will include workforce training and
placement for disconnected workers. $750,000 to support the identification
and mapping of where cooling centers
are most needed as well as a citywide
AIR PURIFIER GIVEAWAY PROGRAM inventory of oil and gas compliance to

$1.2 million to distribute air purifiers to increase accountability and transparency
households in neighborhoods that bear for constituents regarding oil wells in
a disproportionate burden of air their neighborhoods.
pollution each day and in particular on
high heat days and days of wildfire GRANTS OFFICER FOR THE CLIMATE
smoke exposure.
EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION OFFICE &
A LIVABLE & SUSTAINABLE CITY
OFFICE OF PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS

REBATES FOR HEAT MITIGATION $300,000 to hire a Grants Officer to
HOME IMPROVEMENTS
research and apply for grants focused on
$2 million to provide additional climate mitigation, resilience, and
incentives for the installation of new environmental justice to ensure the City
insulation, cool roofs, and other heat receives its fair share of related state and
mitigation home improvements for federal funding opportunities.
housing in low-income areas with high
heat index scores.

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