Agenda Date: 04/23/2024
Subject:
Title
Environmental Stewardship Action Plan
Body
From:
James L. Becklenberg, City Manager
Prepared by:
Elizabeth Watts, Management Fellow
Presentations:
Environmental Stewardship Board
PURPOSE:
The Environmental Stewardship Board (ESB) was tasked by council in 2023 with drafting an Environmental Stewardship Action Plan, and the board is presenting those suggestions to council this evening.
LONG-TERM OUTCOME(S) SERVED:
Sustainable Community with Natural Beauty
DISCUSSION:
The ESB's Environmental Stewardship Action Plan highlights existing initiatives, quick wins, and long-term efforts in environmental categories of air quality/emissions, the built environment, consumption and waste diversion, the natural environment, water, and community. The board deliberately chose to provide council with this format of the plan to encourage readability and ensure any reader is able to quickly look through the document and effortlessly parse out recommendations. The Plan lists a total of 89 actions and highlights nine (9) priorities listed below:
* Complete a GHG inventory and create a climate action plan
* Hire a sustainability coordinator
* Allow the ESB to act as an accountability body for the city's relationship with South Suburban Parks and Recreation Department
* Educate and inform the public about environmental efforts
* Get people out of cars
* Electrify the built environment, transportation, and lawn and garden equipment
* Incentivize water conservation
* Provide every building with recycling and composting options
* Implement community-supported agriculture (e.g., at the Littleton Museum)
Selecting these nine priorities was a difficult task for the board because each of the recommendations in the Plan have been included because the board finds them critical and worthwhile. With that said, the priority areas seek to represent a range of impactful actions the board is recommending.
The recommended plan was compiled by...
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