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Sustainability Commission Proposed Study Issues, Calendar Year: 2020
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Proposed Study Issues*
Date
Working Title
Summary of Scope
Staff Comments
9/16/2019
**Create a new city commission...
Consider the creation of a Commission focused on taking a holistic approach to all forms of mobility in the city to reduce GHG emissions and increase transparency for the community.
Pending Review
9/16/2019
**Subsidized public transit
This study issue should investigate the use of reduced fares for public transit to encourage more use.
Pending Review
9/16/2019
**Fossil fuel infrastructure and equipment
Study the City's fossil fuel infrastructure maintenance and replacement plan and carry out a cost-benefit analysis to be more proactive by budgeting funds for upgrading to electric or renewable infrastructure.
Pending Review
9/16/2019
**Encourage Decarbonization-Readiness During Electrical Upgrades
This study issue aims to help implement the moves in the City's Climate Action Playbook by asking the City to identify & adopt strategies such as education, incentives, and policies to ensure that when existing building owners prepare to electrify one part of their home they will have the information and incentives to make other electrical upgrades when requesting permits with the City.
Pending Review
9/16/2019
*Community Condition Indicators
Identify and evaluate top level sustainability metrics that are currently missing from the City's existing Community Condition Indicators that convey the environmental health of the City and are in alignment with the City's Climate Action Playbook.
Pending Review
*This Study Issue has been proposed for future sponsorship.
**These Study Issues have been proposed and sponsored as of September 16, 2019.
Toward the end of the calendar year, no later than October, boards and commissions will review the list of proposed study issues and officially vote on sponsorship for each individually listed study issue. Official sponsorship means t...
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