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Middleton committee pushes to embed sustainable purchasing in bids; staff warns of staffing limits
Summary
Committee members urged embedding sustainable purchasing criteria (including embodied-carbon considerations) into bids and discussed centralizing procurement; staff warned the city lacks capacity for centralized purchasing without additional staff or a procurement officer and proposed short-term and systemic steps.
Members of Middleton’s Sustainability Committee on July 15 discussed next steps to turn the Sustainable Purchasing Policy (SPP) into implementation practice across city departments.
Laura, who has been drafting recommendations and collecting staff survey responses, said existing SPP language (dated 2019) is general and should be updated to include specifics such as embodied carbon in…
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