Employee engagement

Implement IT efforts and city employee engagement to reduce plug loads, building energy use and workflow efficiency.

Phase in bike, e-bike, foot or horseback modes for police, inspectors and other city staff.

Efficiently use your existing fleet of city vehicles by encouraging trip bundling, video conferencing, carpooling, vehicle sharing and incentives/technology.

Increase walking, biking and transit use by one or more of the following means:

Budget for and achieve resilient urban canopy/tree planting goals.

Build community capacity to protect existing trees by one or more of:

Improve city operations and procurement to prevent and reuse, recycle and compost waste from all public facilities (including libraries, parks, schools, municipal health care facilities), and minimize use of toxics and generation of hazardous waste.

Integrate climate resilience into city or tribal planning, policy, operations, and budgeting processes.

Adopt a sustainable purchasing policy or administrative guidelines/practices directing that the city purchase at least:

Adopt a comprehensive plan or (for Category B & C cities) adopt a future land use plan that was adopted by the county or a regional entity.