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RESOLUTION NO. 17-160
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF LAKEVILLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE
MINNESOTA GREENSTEP CITIES PROGRAM
WHEREAS, Minnesota GreenStep Cities is a voluntary challenge, assistance and recognition
program to help cities achieve sustainability and quality -of -life goals through a free, continuous
improvement program, managed by a public-private partnership, and
WHEREAS, local governments have the unique opportunity to achieve both energy use
and climate change gas reductions and cost savings through building and facilities
management, land use, transportation planning, environmental management, and economic
and community development, and
WHEREAS, steps taken toward sustainable solutions aim to improve community quality of life,
building community capital and increasing government efficiency, accountability and
transparency.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Lakeville does
hereby authorize the City of Lakeville (the City) to participate in the Minnesota GreenStep Cities
program. Passage of this participation resolution allows the City to be recognized as a Step One
GreenStep City. Be it further resolved that the City:
1. Appoints Neil Normandin to serve as the City's GreenStep coordinator for best practice
documentation/implementation and identifies the Parks, Recreation, & Natural
Resources Committee as the city's GreenStep coordination team, and
2. Will facilitate the involvement of community members and other units of government as
appropriate in the planning, promoting and/or implementing of GreenStep Cities best
practices, and
3. Grants to the GreenStep program's buildings advisor review access to the City's B3
Benchmarking Database to facilitate analysis and cost-saving technical assistance to the
City regarding its buildings' energy use, and
4. Will provide feedback once a year on how well the GreenStep program is serving the city
and on city needs from the program, and
5. Will claim credit for having implemented and will work at its own pace toward
implementing any eight GreenStep best practices that will result in energy use reduction,
economic savings, quality of life improvement, reduction in the City's greenhouse gas
footprint, and recognition by the League of Minnesota Cities as a Step Two GreenStep
City. An on-going summary of the City's implementation of best practices will be posted
by the City on the Minnesota GreenStep Cities web site.
ADOPTED by the Lakeville City Council this 6th day of November 2017
Douglas P. Anderson, Mayor
Charlene Friedges, Ci Jerk