Hayward GHG Emissions Inventory

Community GHG inventories measure the GHG emissions generated by residents and businesses operating in the community, as well as municipal operations. The process of creating a GHG inventory includes first identifying activities that are major sources of emissions and collecting summary data on those activities for a calendar year. Then, the City uses science-based GHG emissions factors to convert the collected activity data into GHG emissions produced.

In 2021, the Hayward People’s Budget awarded a total of $350,000 to fund community-generated, community-led projects. Through community voting, residents picked their top 12 proposals for projects they wanted to see in their neighborhoods. Following the results of the votes, City of Hayward's staff have met with project leads to implement their projects' vision in order to increase community connections across Hayward neighborhoods.

Over the last five months, the City of Hayward has been working diligently to understand the causes of and find solutions for a structural deficit in our General Fund that pays for most non-utility-related municipal services.

We have looked at decisions that contributed to the deficit, identified budget and fiscal practices that needed shoring up and ways to reduce spending and bolster revenues in the short term while beginning work on more structural change—change in how we serve the Hayward community that will be necessary to restore our financial stability and sustainability.