Benicia City Council will decide Tuesday whether to accept a $150,000 grant that would pay for an assessment of the effects of climate change on Benicia’s coastal areas, as well as the development of a plan to address vulnerabilities.

City Manager Brad Kilger has recommended the Council take the California State Coastal Conservancy up on its offer of a Climate Ready Grant.

The group announced the availability of the grants in June 2013, Kilger wrote in a report to the Council. The awards are intended for use by local governments and non-governmental groups to lessen the impacts of climate change through greenhouse gas emissions reductions and other approaches, he wrote.

Targets of the grants are the state’s coastal communities and natural resources, Kilger wrote.

Benicia employees developed the city’s grant application, and learned in January the city was eligible for an award of up to $150,000, the city manager wrote.

“The funding will allow the city to conduct an assessment of the risks from climate change to natural resources and public infrastructure,” he wrote.

In addition, the grant would underwrite the development of a plan that outlines ways the city can reduce those risks.

Kilger wrote that the project “will incorporate lessons learned as part of the University of California-Berkeley Innovative Solutions project, and leverage the existing Business Resource Incentive Program (BRIP) to conduct at least one additional site assessment in the Industrial Park.”

Under BRIP, Benicia companies can have their workplaces assessed to determine how to save energy and reduce waste and greenhouse gas emissions. The companies then are eligible for grants or low-cost or free assistance to help make the recommended changes.

The project also may use free Pacific Gas and Electric Company energy audits, Kilger wrote.

“The current project budget indicates that $149,996 will be needed to complete the scope of work,” Kilger wrote, “but the city will accept the grant for up to $150,000.”

No match is required in exchange for accepting the grant, and the matter is being considered so routine that it has been placed on Tuesday’s consent agenda.

That means the grant acceptance and several other items could be decided without comment and by a single vote.

Kilger wrote that Alex Porteshawver, the city’s Climate Action Plan coordinator, would be the project manager. She would spend about 180 hours on that work, including reviewing reports and helping inform the public about the project, he wrote.

The city would hire a consultant to help assess local climate change risks to local buildings and infrastructure, including the Port of Benicia and the Benicia Industrial Park, as well as the city’s parks and trails near Benicia’s 15-mile shoreline, Kilger wrote.

Some of that information already is being gathered as part of the development of the city’s Urban Waterfront Restoration Master Plan, Kilger wrote, but this additional project will examine areas the waterfront plan doesn’t cover.

Those include the storm drain water system, shoreline parks and trails, he wrote.

During the 14-month effort, other employees also would spend about 180 hours on the project, including staff members from the Community Development, Public Works, Finance and Economic Development departments, and the offices of the city attorney and city manager, Kilger wrote.

That’s 110 hours more than anticipated when the city applied for the grant, he wrote, explaining that principal engineering work hadn’t been included in the original application, and more time was allocated for Finance, Economic and administrative support.

But this represents no additional cost, he wrote: “All city staff time will be reimbursed with grant funds.” Moreover, “This information can be leveraged and included in future updates to the Stormwater Management Plan and the Open Space, Parks and Trails Master Plan.”

The data also may be included in Benicia’s other plans, programs and codes, he wrote, and the grant would be used to expand on existing health, safety and hazard mitigation planning the city already has started.

The work is expected to be finished about June 2015, Kilger wrote, stressing that the grant covers only planning and feasibility analyses, not the actions Benicia may choose to take after learning about its vulnerabilities.

Benicia City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Council Chamber of City Hall, 250 East L St.