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City staff outlines Green Bay resiliency and sustainability initiatives, names new Resiliency and Sustainability Team
Summary
City staff presented a three-page memo summarizing current sustainability and resiliency efforts, including a new 14-member Resiliency and Sustainability Team, ongoing facility energy benchmarking, and plans for public dashboards and greenhouse gas tracking.
Melissa, a City of Green Bay staff member, presented an overview memo summarizing the city’s ongoing sustainability and resiliency initiatives and the formation of a Resiliency and Sustainability Team. She described the memo as “about 3 pages long” and said it focuses on current, not past, initiatives.
The memo, Melissa said, groups city work into categories such as energy and emissions, flood resiliency, and food systems. She said the city is a participating member in the Green Tier Legacy Communities program run by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and that staff are developing a resiliency and sustainability hub for the city website to collect and share inputs from departments and partner organizations.
City staff emphasized existing data work. Melissa said the city has benchmarked 26 facilities regularly using Energy Star Portfolio Manager and that staff plan to promote benchmarking to commercial property owners, working with the city’s Energy Connector and external partners. She said the city’s data governance team is developing dashboards (the platform referenced is a Microsoft product) that could display metrics publicly when ready. The commission asked about membership and governance: Melissa said the Resiliency and Sustainability Team (RST) currently has 14 members, will meet quarterly, and that she coordinates the meetings. She described a senior-leadership liaison who helps move ideas from the team up to department directors when needed.
Melissa also noted ongoing collaborations that feed the city’s work, including the Green Bay Conservation Corps and a cohort-based greenhouse-gas tool the city is using with other local governments. Commissioners discussed tying commission work plans to city dashboards and aligning reporting metrics with the city’s clean-energy and resiliency goals.
A motion to receive the memo and place it on file was made and approved by the commission.
