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Committee asks for EPP update after members flag county purchase of single-use water bottles
Summary
Committee members asked staff to bring the county’s annual environmentally preferred procurement (EPP) report in September after noting continued departmental use of single‑use water bottles that appears to contradict an earlier legislative resolution.
Members of the Planning, Energy and Environmental Quality Committee raised concerns on Aug. 11 about county purchasing practices that appear to conflict with the county’s environmentally preferred procurement (EPP) policy, and asked staff to bring the annual EPP report to September committee meeting.
"I've noticed that in the past year some departments have been providing single‑use water bottles, which is against a resolution that the legislature passed several years ago,"…
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