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Sustainability coordinator reports year‑two progress on Titusville action plan; several targets started
Summary
City sustainability coordinator Lily Gallio presented the second annual Sustainability Action Plan report, describing 87 action items across six focus areas and reporting 44% of actions started, new tracking metrics and recent initiatives such as low‑impact development incentives, EV readiness mapping and municipal fleet hybrid additions.
Lily Gallio, the city’s sustainability program coordinator, presented the second annual report on the Titusville Sustainability Action Plan adopted in 2023 and incorporated into 2024 performance measures.
Gallio said the plan contains six focus areas, 28 objectives, 23 targets and 87 action items. “The plan is broken up into six focus areas of 28 objectives, 23 targets and 87 total action items,” she told the council, and described an implementation matrix that staff will update on a set schedule; the first formal update is set for 2028.
Highlights from 2024 and early 2025 include mapping supermarket access (a target of increasing healthy‑food access within a half‑mile of residents), the city’s first sustainability awards to increase public participation, and new web content and performance metrics. Gallio said staff are tracking low‑impact development (LID) uptake, noting that about 32 percent of site permits issued in 2024 incorporated LID techniques.
Infrastructure and resilience work noted includes updated flood‑mapping outreach, an online flood‑reporting tool and installation of about 20 engineered tree boxes designed for bioretention. On energy and fleet measures, Gallio reported 19 new hybrid public‑works vehicles and an ongoing process to perform an energy audit of municipal buildings as part of long‑term greenhouse‑gas reduction planning.
The sustainability coordinator and council discussed measurement challenges: several targets require additional definition to become measurable, and Gallio said staff will continue to refine metrics (for example, defining what “providing safe and comfortable sidewalks” means for tracking purposes). No council actions were requested at this presentation.
Councilmembers commended the outreach work and asked Gallio to continue clarifying target measures, metrics and cross‑department alignment as the plan moves from adoption to implementation.
