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Dobbs Ferry trustees approve 2024 Climate Smart Communities report; volunteers propose sustainability coordinator
Summary
The Board of Trustees unanimously approved the village’s 2024 Climate Smart Communities annual progress report and heard volunteers outline grant-funded projects and a proposal for a sustainability coordinator to manage climate and energy programs.
Dobbs Ferry’s Board of Trustees on Monday approved the village’s 2024 Climate Smart Communities annual progress report and agreed to post it to the village website as required by the program.
The report, presented by Janet Roseff, coordinator for the Climate Smart Communities (CSC) task force within Sustainable Dobbs, summarizes 2024 highlights including designation at the CSC silver level, Clean Energy Communities (CEC) grants, and municipal electrification projects. Roseff said the report must be posted publicly to meet CSC requirements and that the village needs to resume annual energy benchmarking; the most recent posted data, she said, is from 2020.
Why it matters: the report documents state-designation achievements that supported several grant awards and capital projects. Volunteers told trustees that continued grant tracking and dedicated coordination could expand…
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