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\"We attained the 2008 ozone national ambient air quality standard,\" Ayala said, and staff described the milestone as the result of 15 years of coordinated work with partner air agencies (Yolo-Solano, Placer, El Dorado, Feather River) and community and business participation. Ayala said EPA Region 9 Administrator Josh Cook and U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui attended a recent celebration in Folsom and staff emphasized the achievement as a regional collaborative effort.

Ayala also provided details about community engagement activities: district staff participated in multiple National Night Out events to share program information and attend community gatherings. Staff also supported demonstrations of cleaner event technologies — including a hydrogen-powered equipment demonstration for food-truck events — and attended community festivals to raise awareness about incentives and clean-technology demonstrations.

Regarding the AB 617 portable lab move reported earlier in the meeting, Ayala said the district plans to locate the lab adjacent to Executive Airport and is coordinating with airport officials. He acknowledged potential controversy and community concern over airport emissions and lead but said prior sampling campaigns have not found ambient lead concentrations near national standards. \"We are not seeing those emissions impact the ambient air around the community,\" Ayala said, while noting the new yearlong monitoring deployment will produce updated, more advanced instrumentation data to inform future discussion.

The board had no public speakers on the APCO report item and no immediate action was taken; Ayala said staff will return later in the year with a fuller discussion of airport-related monitoring results and contextual analysis.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","AQMD - 8/28/2025","oneSentenceSummary","Dr. Alberto Ayala, the district's Air Pollution Control Officer, reported on Aug. 28 that the Sacramento region has attained the 2008 ozone national ambient air quality standard and previewed a yearlong mobile monitoring deployment adjacent to Executive Airport.","taxTitle","Sacramento County, California","taxId",2889,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6476815,"Sac Metro consultants brief board on state budget, cap-and-trade negotiations and AB 617 funding priorities",817,1310000,2127000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5716805-7092957dc5945250f0cd0f42bdd4bdc2&start=1310&end=2127","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5716805-7092957dc5945250f0cd0f42bdd4bdc2/thumbnail_1310000.jpg","/articles/6476815/Sacramento-County/California/Sac-Metro-consultants-brief-board-on-state-budget-cap-and-trade-negotiations-and-AB-617-funding-priorities","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6476815-5d9d4ef9e9d995a5494b9e390f0063ba/orig.mp4?Expires=1771074889&Signature=EU6tExnmfmJ2AexTcwz0YlWeO8pbuJIl8BhRi07vsltP1zMiF3JNINGH7ste1UolUrESkF-n8LiVwO3T60wIJb54BJx~sq1OXgaJiA-97HbzT9OOnZXaqXsCU1CcDmMPvo2G~N1CJbgrrlP4yC62fSODKdtYEfo0J15muhvIMK3K6Z9QxeLuyoiifjnQ3x2SysDHVeijgvWRu5~5DmPYflFKcq5pfRqZJFmPUfoF3yVpX5oFDV91XS~28lnAPBb1casqzIg0oFF3UsZYiF1RpOqrXt7XNTXkFK7gkDx4Msf2B36x8NcbXu4I96Escdv5hOP5OhttyRK4Q4o3sysHlg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Amy Brown and Dominic Demare of Arc Strategies briefed the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District board on Aug. 28 about the state budget, active cap-and-trade negotiations and district legislative priorities for 2025.

Brown said the legislative session was nearing adjournment — \"Session ends on September 12,\" — and that lawmakers, the governor and stakeholders were negotiating cap-and-trade extensions to provide market stability. She summarized the recently enacted 2025–26 state budget, passed June 30, noting officials used portions of the rainy day fund and that a multi-billion-dollar deficit was reduced during the year-long budget process. Brown highlighted air-quality-related allocations in the budget including a $132,000,000 one-time allocation from the Air Pollution Control Fund for hybrid and zero-emission truck and voucher incentives, plus $2,300,000 in ongoing air pollution control fund support for incentive implementation.

Arc Strategies emphasized two district priorities: sustaining AB 617 funding for community programs and fully implementing a reallocation authority for Clean Cars for All funds so districts can direct unspent monies to immediate needs. Brown said AB 617 funding and continued investment were important because of the trust and implementation infrastructure built with communities in South Sacramento.

The consultants also discussed wildfire-related budget moves: a reported $1,540,000,000 shift into the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for wildfire prevention and suppression initiatives, $31,500,000 allocated for a new Cal Fire training center and $39,000,000 in general fund support to transition seasonal firefighters to permanent positions. Brown noted proposals in some frameworks for five-year efficacy reviews of programs funded through cap-and-trade and greenhouse gas revenues.

Arc Strategies described a district-sponsored bill by Senator Anna Caballero that would direct agencies to develop methods to quantify avoided emissions and beneficial uses of forest and agricultural biomass; staff said the bill was on the Assembly Appropriations suspense file and had a reasonable chance of moving forward. The consultants urged the board to emphasize program implementation and outcomes in legislative advocacy, not only application and adoption metrics.

Board members thanked the consultants and district staff for advocacy work. No public comments were offered on the legislative presentation during the meeting.","Arc Strategies representatives updated the board on the state budget passed June 30 and active cap-and-trade negotiations, highlighted one-time and ongoing funding for truck electrification incentives, and outlined district priorities including sustained AB 617 funding, Clean Cars for All allocations, and biomass protocol legislation.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6476818,"AB 617 portable lab to relocate for a yearlong air monitoring campaign; steering committee approved alternate site",351,993000,1344000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5716805-7092957dc5945250f0cd0f42bdd4bdc2&start=993&end=1344","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5716805-7092957dc5945250f0cd0f42bdd4bdc2/thumbnail_993000.jpg","/articles/6476818/Sacramento-County/California/AB-617-portable-lab-to-relocate-for-a-yearlong-air-monitoring-campaign-steering-committee-approved-alternate-site","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6476818-e0de66b859b6bc9b8a58bb51b8d8e4bc/orig.mp4?Expires=1771074889&Signature=F3xoR8kByt0jy4geiT-mY1lDb12Cld-1-uKhh9H3cyxUUB-k9-t~fcZSNLEyD~22V6UwlquBsl~VS~DF6HjjaiMFGCa1ngXLlQC-JQOOEsA43r~OkD3cpHsCzcQ80GC~aT01-Pxei7KoO6FyzasjI32a-OSYrq0h0MAdyfHa0SU~07~jYc8jpS5NtxgazPsriFhaJILLkiIiq4rBFRE0CRzNgV9t3LxWxK6sJn5ehFRUEQ6RwNzc0eueOLuwGC9CMEdfBxXe7Q9fPCtzZS-4PPlCvkfTdVMjv~3ePj009yZCxml8C54izvsX2K4tnh6X0~rMfmYZBG3t5-7Lez0E3g__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Levi Ford, program supervisor for the district's air monitoring section, updated the board on Aug. 28 about the AB 617 portable laboratory and a new portable lab air monitoring campaign in the South Sacramento/Florin community. Ford summarized AB 617's purpose — directing local air districts and communities to develop community air monitoring and emissions-reduction plans — and recounted the portable lab's deployment history, including sampling that began in May 2023 at a Fern Bacon Middle School location.

Ford said that after nearly two years at Fern Bacon Middle School the steering committee recommended moving the portable lab to a different site within the expanded AB 617 boundary. \"The steering committee voted, and the alternate location passed,\" Ford said; the district reported it presented an alternate site in June 2025 and that it met the lab's needs for an on-site power source and unobstructed airflow. Ford said the district is finalizing an agreement with the City of Sacramento and anticipates beginning monitoring in 2025. \"The portable lab will monitor at its location for a minimum of a year to get full diurnal and seasonal patterns,\" he said, and that all data collected will be shared with the community at steering committee meetings and posted on the district website.

During the subsequent APCO report, the Air Pollution Control Officer said the lab is slated to move to a location adjacent to Executive Airport and acknowledged community interest that airport operations could be a source of emissions, including lead. The officer said previous sampling campaigns in the area have not shown ambient concentrations of lead near national standards. \"We are not seeing those emissions impact the ambient air around the community,\" he said, but added the district will collect updated yearlong data and bring a fuller discussion back to the board before the end of the year.

Board members asked technical questions about siting, prevailing winds and how the mobile lab's data would be used. One director noted the mobile lab's instruments can measure at or above federal monitoring levels; the district said its mobile laboratory provides robust, model-ready data and that the one-year deployment will help define diurnal and seasonal trends. Ford and APCO staff said they are coordinating with airport officials and will publish results and steering committee updates as data are collected.","Sac Metro Air District will move its AB 617 portable laboratory to a new location adjacent to Executive Airport after the community steering committee approved an alternate site; monitoring will run at least one year and data will be shared with the community.",{"_33":100,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":101,"_41":102,"_43":103,"_45":104,"_47":105,"_49":106,"_51":107,"_53":108,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":109,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":110,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6476821,"Sac Metro Air District highlights community-focused supplemental environmental projects, selects two new grants",504,142000,646000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5716805-7092957dc5945250f0cd0f42bdd4bdc2&start=142&end=646","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5716805-7092957dc5945250f0cd0f42bdd4bdc2/thumbnail_142000.jpg","/articles/6476821/Sacramento-County/California/Sac-Metro-Air-District-highlights-community-focused-supplemental-environmental-projects-selects-two-new-grants","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6476821-8b12ef6e312fb0ced1d0e641586c0b53/orig.mp4?Expires=1771074889&Signature=RcZaaX5lUJu2m-b~RvXS6e20af3kMdTcHZq7XWjdBq1QSbu8DdbXl13JLDpVFnPIePyGfOZkz35lQ3qsUh7vr4q8LTsz3SxpUgWUlBh6kLh3vJA59DEvgWWyNiXCXlAL4MYPTVCbxFqZC3YNBrdr6c4Z3cJXTWMuR2SVn-8~bGQ5Ycn-Im~oFl0KM3Wv-rIsODqSaJveAsPNk1TfuE1doW8wWW5wcYQPzx0NnF2hbyAcbmaTScsmadmOPtOcpHM2HuGwMPo-35056IyE9kw5DWr2nRCnjaL6JcnxzOLPO5POG83yaN9Vx5k6mgXoPhXblOfOufldtadsEU~3AAYwuQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Angela Thompson, a program manager in the district's engineering and compliance division, told the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District board on Aug. 28 that the district's Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEP) program allows violators to fund community-benefiting projects to offset up to 50% of penalty amounts. \"They are legally required elements of air quality enforcement programs,\" Thompson said, describing SEPs as projects that must benefit the public, improve air quality, have a nexus to the violation, go above and beyond compliance and not benefit the violator.

The program has prioritized projects in AB 617 communities and other historically underserved neighborhoods. Thompson reviewed completed SEPs including a Midtown Association carbon footprint reduction program (which replaced two gas-powered trucks with zero-emission vehicles, swapped a gas generator for solar, installed bike racks and drought-tolerant planters) and a SAC 350 air-filtration project that provided workshops and materials enabling families to build low-cost box-fan air filtration systems; the filtration effort served more than 600 families. She also described a near-complete mutual assistance network project at the Firehouse Community Center in Del Paso Heights that removed asphalt and installed native drought-tolerant landscaping to reduce urban heat island effects.

Thompson said the district recently received $518,000 in SEP funding and issued a solicitation in May 2025. From that solicitation staff selected two projects for funding and kept a project list with remaining proposals available for future funding. The selected projects are:

- South Sacramento Tree Alliance (Sacramento Tree Foundation, partnered with United Latinos): a project the district described as aiming to plant 1,000 trees in South Sacramento neighborhoods, provide bilingual outreach and education, engage more than 500 residents and businesses, and pair tree planting with green workforce pathways and civic engagement along Franklin Boulevard.

- Sacramento Community EV Evolution campaign (ET Community): a community-focused outreach and education campaign to promote inclusive electric mobility, highlight electrification opportunities, and deliver four community gatherings and three to six listening sessions tailored to community needs.

Jessica Sanders, executive director of the Sacramento Tree Foundation, addressed the board during the SEP item and described barriers the foundation seeks to remove, including watering and maintenance costs and limited planting space. \"The goal of this funding is to remove the barriers of planting trees so that tree lined neighborhoods are the norm in our region, not the exception,\" Sanders said, adding the project plans to use locally milled wood for planter boxes and to provide planting and watering services where communities need them.

Thompson said the district prioritizes projects that align with the AB 617 community air protection work and district goals and that SEP funds are intentionally flexible and limited to fill gaps where no other funding exists. She closed by inviting questions; none were raised during the board presentation.

The board did not take a formal vote on the SEP presentations during the Aug. 28 session; Thompson said staff had selected two projects for funding following the solicitation and that remaining proposals remain available for future funding opportunities.","The Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District updated the board on its Supplemental Environmental Projects program, reviewed completed projects that funded community air filtration and green infrastructure, and announced two newly selected projects focused on tree planting and inclusive electric mobility.","actionData","errors"]

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