Item 5: Implementation Strategies for Sustainable Business Initiative

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3. Establish a Sustainability Board or Commission 4. Adopt a Goal of Becoming Carbon Neutral by 2020 and Develop a Climate Action Plan 5. Purchase and Use Sustainable Practices and Local Products and Services 6. Adopt Sustainability Criteria for Decision-Making, Beginning with Triple Bottom Line Policy Assessments and Purchasing Policies 7. Adopt Goal and Develop Strategy to Achieve Zero Waste 8. Adopt Sustainability Indicators and a Measurement System 9. Educate Employees 10. Provide Incentives and Awards and Remove Barriers 11. Form Partnerships The SBI Task Force emphasizes the first three recommendations for the City of Eugene, as these provide the foundation of the institutional mechanisms to establish and sustain the remainder of the recommendations. To that end, staff is proposing six action strategies to more fully vet the SBI recommendations through the City planning, budgeting and administrative processes. These are: A. Reaffirm the commitment to sustainability by adopting a resolution which builds upon Resolution #4618 and incorporates the additional concepts and recommendations of the SBI report. B. Accept the SBI report as the basis for future actions. C. Consider the recommendations of the SBI report to be a new council priority action item at the January 2007 council goals session. D. Prepare an ordinance to establish a sustainability commission which makes it a standing committee advisory to the City Council. E. Develop a budget package to implement the recommendations of the SBI report within the budgetary cycle for FY08. F. Assign a City of Eugene staff person to more fully develop the ideas, concepts and recommendations in the SBI report for the remainder (or less) of FY07; funding for this coming from the $100,000 set aside by the City Council in the FY07 budget. As discussed at the work session on October 11, 2006, and as noted below (see Related City Policies), the City is already engaged in sustainable practices, and, in order to further reinforce that commitment, the City Manager has drafted an Administrative Order creating the Sustainable Development office as a function of Central Services. The order charges this new work unit with the responsibility of supporting the work of the existing Green Team, serving as a central clearinghouse for sustainability information, and serving as an official City link on sustainability to the public, and such further responsibilities and duties as may be assigned in the future. Further, it states that funding for this new function will be sought in as a part of the FY08 City budget proposal. RELATED CITY POLICIES As noted above, Resolution #4618, adopted in February of 2000, committed city elected officials and staff to abide by sustainable practices in carrying out their duties. That resolution states: “The concept of sustainability guides city policy and actions. The City of Eugene is committed to meeting its current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The City will ensure that each of its policy decisions and programs are interconnected through the common bond of sustainability as expressed in these principles. The cumulative and long-term impacts of policy choices will be considered as we work to ensure a sustainable legacy.” L:\CMO\2006 Council Agendas\M061023\S0610235.doc