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Helena sustainability staff report compost and food-waste pilots, solar projects and planned EV purchase; federal EV tax credit available to city purchase
Summary
City sustainability staff updated commissioners on food-waste diversion pilots (including a backyard chicken pilot), solar installations, an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant project, a glass crusher procurement and a Ford Lightning Pro purchase that may qualify for a federal commercial vehicle tax credit of about $7,500.
Sustainability staff updated the Helena City Commission on Oct. 1 on multiple waste-diversion and renewable-energy initiatives, including a food-waste pilot using backyard chickens, a business food-waste composting pilot funded by a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant, solar array installations and a planned municipal electric vehicle purchase.
Sustainability and recycling coordinator Jacobson summarized the chicken pilot (phase two) and an earlier business pilot (phase one) funded by USDA grants. “Every homeowner who participates gets 4 chickens, a coop, a bag of feed, and a kitchen scale,” Jacobson said, adding the program partnered with the Boy Scouts of America for coops.
Jacobson said she did not yet have full…
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