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Conservation Commission seeks clearer charter role on sustainability, reporting and grants
Summary
New Canaan’s Conservation Commission told the Charter Review Committee it wants the charter to explicitly add advisory duties on sustainability and resilience, prescribe annual environmental metrics and allow the commission to apply for grants and request budget support.
The Conservation Commission urged the Charter Review Committee to make its advisory role on sustainability and resilience explicit in the town charter, and to tighten reporting so residents and town bodies have clearer information on local environmental work.
Tom Herman, who drafted the suggested edits, said the blue changes were “to advise on sustainability, resilience, and environmental stewardship,” and emphasized adding a recommended set of annual metrics — energy use, emissions, waste diversion and canopy coverage — to the commission’s report. Herman said much of the data already exists and that…
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