Erie Sustainability Advisory Board looks ahead to plans for 2021 – Colorado Hometown Weekly

After seeing quite a few successes final 12 months from its first 5 12 months Sustainability Grasp Plan, Erie’s Sustainability Advisory Board is planning to purpose excessive for extra in 2021.

This master plan, serving as a information and decision-making software for future sustainability planning, outlines 42 methods for the city throughout 4 classes: vitality use, transportation, schooling and outreach, and waste, recycling and composting.

Sustainability Advisory Board Chair Adam Jackson wrote in an e-mail that the board’s first precedence for this 12 months is to proceed to enhance its digital outreach on sustainable subjects.

“We have to turn out to be extra related in these occasions and a whole lot of sustainability could be began and targeted on the residence,” Jackson wrote. “One board associated merchandise we’re exploring is to get our constitution amended so as to add a youth advisor place for his or her higher inclusion in our steerage to the city’s board of trustees.”

In response to a weekly replace from the Erie city administrator, some successes the board has seen up to now 12 months embrace putting in electrical car charging stations at three completely different high-traffic areas, being awarded $247,000 from the Colorado Division of Public Well being and Atmosphere to work on seven grasp plan targets, and internet hosting digital Earth Day academic occasions.

Jackson wrote the funding from CDPHE’s Entrance Vary Waste Diversion Grant will probably be used for vital upgrades to the city’s recycling middle, further schooling and outreach, and updating the city’s insurance policies.

One other success Jackson mentioned was the board of trustees’ approval of the Re-TRAC ordinance which permits the city to measure the waste and recycling volumes collected yearly from residents.

“With this information, we are able to start to trace and work on enhancing public data of recycling and different waste diversion choices,” wrote Jackson.

Jackson wrote the advisory board is pleased with the accomplishments of the grasp plan in its first 12 months. Extra tangible targets for the 12 months will probably be targeted on city composting availability via distributors and development within the city’s recycling middle.