Responsibilities
This Committee is charged with evaluating City operations and community practices for sustainability impacts, and with making recommendations to City Council on policy changes or changes to operational practices. Individuals with expertise in environmental fields or operations and maintenance practices are encouraged to apply. The Committee meets as needed.
Green Committee Subcommittee Information
- Alternatives to Synthetics - supports the city's Department of Public Works in its management of city-owned properties without synthetic pesticides and fertilizers and promotes sustainable practices for all city residents, institutions, and businesses.
- Waste Diversion - seeks to reduce the city's waste footprint by encouraging the use of the city's new Resource Recovery Facility and by promoting recycling of food wastes, e-wastes, and hazardous wastes as well as all recyclable materials.
- De-Icing - explores strategies for maintaining safety in the winter while reducing the amount of salt used on city streets and by its businesses, institutions, and residents.
- Climate Smart Community - seeks to meet the goals for designation as a Climate Smart Community which enables the city to benefit from grant programs.
- Community Aggregate - explores ways the city and its residents, institutions, and businesses can obtain sustainable sources of energy at reduced cost.