RESOLUTION NO. 070436
Adopting recommendations from the
April 2007 Progress Report on Climate Protection submitted by the Citys
Climate Protection Plan Steering Committee.
WHEREAS, the City
Council on August 16, 2006, adopted a resolution directing the City Manager to
undertake a climate protection planning process for Kansas City; and
WHEREAS, Mayor Kay
Barnes appointed an eleven-member Steering Committee of community leaders to
oversee the planning process and work with the City Administration to develop a
climate protection plan; and
WHEREAS, the Steering
Committee received and approved consensus recommendations for specific Phase 1
greenhouse gas reduction measures from four Work Groups comprised of a broad cross-section
of approximately 80 community stakeholders representing government, business
and neighborhoods, for profit and non-profit organizations, and individuals;
and
WHEREAS, the Climate
Protection Plan Steering Committee has submitted a Progress Report on Climate
Protection and Phase 1 Recommendations to Mayor Kay Barnes and the City
Council; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE
COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. It shall
be the policy of the City that climate protection and greenhouse gas reduction
shall be key factors in all decisions and actions by the City.
Section 2. The
Citys goals shall be to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from City government
operations by 30% below year 2000 levels by the year 2020 and the City shall
work with the Climate Protection Plan Steering Committee to develop by the end
of 2007 a realistic, but ambitious, goal for community-wide greenhouse gas
reductions.
Section 3. The City
adopts the Phase 1 greenhouse gas reduction measures in the Progress Report on
Climate Protection and Phase 1 Recommendations, while providing the City
Administration with flexibility to implement them in a timely and workable
manner.
Section 4. The
climate protection planning process shall continue with the existing Steering Committee
throughout 2007.
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