Capital Region Sustainability Plan: Public Forums Round 1

July 23-25, 2012

What is sustainability?

Sustainability is meeting the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations to meet their own needs

“..do onto future generations as you would have them do onto you.”

The Triple Bottom Line

Cleaner Greener Communities Program

• Launched by New York State in 2010• Two phase Regional Sustainability effort

o Phase I: Planning – Must be Complete by end of 2012o Phase II: Implementation

• Funded by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)o Phase I: $10 milliono Phase II: $90 million

Capital RegionSustainability Plan:

AlbanyColumbiaGreene

RensselaerSaratoga

SchenectadyWarren

Washington

Topic Areas for the Plan• Climate Adaptation

• Economic Development

• Energy

• Food Systems

• Land Use and Livable Communities

• Transportation

• Solid Waste

• Water

The Players• Executive Committee

o Consists of one rep from each county, each technical committee chairs, and the lead municipality rep

o Oversee the process, provide framework for initiative identification, make final decision on what is included in the Plan

• Technical Committeeso Develop goals and identify and prioritize initiatives for each focus

areao Review and comment on draft sustainability plan

• The Publico Provide feedback and suggestions for goals and initiatives for each

focus areao Review and comment on draft sustainability plan

ExecutiveCom.

TechnicalCom.

Public Forum #1 Public Forum #2

Online Open House

Plan

ACTION

Basic Process

* Note there are many feedback loops among the public and committees that are not represented directly here.

Public Workshops

Monday July 23rd

Coxsackie-Athens High School 24 Sunset BoulevardCoxsackie7-9 pm

Tuesday July 24th

Doane Stuart Commons Room199 Washington Ave.Rensselaer7-9 pm

Wednesday July 25th

Queensbury High School 409 Aviation RoadQueensbury7-9 pm

Agenda• Welcome

o Overview of the Cleaner Green Communities Processo Keypad Polling: Check-in on Visiono Technical Committee Results

• Goal setting exercise• Interactive Session #1: Best Practices and Existing Projects• CHANGE TABLES: SELECT THE TOPIC YOU ARE MOST

INTERESTED IN• Interaction Session #2: Review and Update Goals/Benchmarks• Interactive Session #3: Identifying Strategies• Wrap-Up

Next Steps

• Continue contributing during the online open houseo http://SustainableCapitalRegion.orgo Click on Share Ideas to access the exercises from tonight

• Input wqill be summarized and reported out after the open house• Find us on Facebook: Sustainable Capital Region• Twitter: @SustainCapReg• Sign up on our mailing list