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Home My WebLink About9F Mayors Regional Indicators Initiative Program 04 PRION N 4646 Dakota Street SE Prior Lake,MN 55372 CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT MEETING DATE: MAY 11, 2015 AGENDA#: 9F PREPARED BY: FRANK BOYLES, CITY MANAGER PRESENTED BY: FRANK BOYLES, CITY MANAGER AGENDA ITEM: CONSIDER APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE MAYORS REGIONAL INDICATORS INITIATIVE PROGRAM DISCUSSION: Introduction The purpose of this agenda item is to determine of the council wishes to endorse a letter of support for the Regional Indicators Initiative. History Mayor Hedberg is a member of the Regional Council of Mayors (RCM) which is composed of mayors of the Cities of Minneapolis, St. Paul and 47 developed and developing metropolitan area suburbs. The purpose of the RCM is to provide a collaborative partnership for a non-partisan platform focused on building action strategies to raise overall economic competitiveness, accelerate innovation and improve the quality of life in the Minneapolis/St. Paul region. The RCM is staffed by representatives of the Urban Land Institute, namely Caren Dewar's and Aubrey Austin. For more information about ULI, visit: http://minnesota.uli.org. Current Circumstances The Regional Indicators Initiative collects, analyzes and makes publically available citywide environmental metrics on: energy, water, travel, waste and greenhouse gas emissions for Minnesota cities. The initiative was started in 2005 and collected annual data for 2007 to 2010. The Regional Indicators Initiative is managed by the consulting firm of LBH, Inc. for the Urban Land Institute. Data for the years collected is portrayed on the website at regionalindicatorsmn(a�lbhcorp.com. The request for a support letter is to allow solicitation of additional funding from the non-regulatory portion of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). Representatives of that agency have indicated that supportive letters or resolutions would be helpful. Conclusion Attached is an information sheet about this project and a resolution supporting the effort if the council wishes to act upon it. Phone 952.447.9800 / Fax 952.447.4245/www.cityofpriorlake.com ISSUES: Early in this process the Regional Council of Mayors were asked if the data generated by this program should be housed and controlled by the Metropolitan Council. While there was an acknowledgement that THRIVE 2040 certainly sets the stage for this, the cities would rather support this initiative themselves and take responsible actions as collaborators rather than as entities regulated by others. Initially the funding for the Regional Indicators Initiative was derived from the participating cities. In an effort to make this program ongoing, a more stable source of funding is being sought. That source could be other public entities like the MPCA, private or philanthropic sources. FINANCIAL None based upon this action. IMPACT: ALTERNATIVES: 1. Motion and second to adopt the resolution of support for the Regional Indicators Initiative and direction to staff to share the resolution with ULI and RCM. 2. Take no action. RECOMMENDED As determined by the City Council. MOTION: 2 6001 P 4646 Dakota Street SE `frNNEso*P Prior Lake,MN 55372 RESOLUTION 15-xxx A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE REGIONAL COUNCIL OF MAYORS REGIONAL INDICATORS INITIATIVE PROGRAM Motion By: Second By: WHEREAS, the Regional Council of Mayors ("RCM"), is composed of the mayors of Minneapolis, St. Paul and 47 municipalities in the developed and developing suburbs. This collaborative partnership provides a non-partisan platform focused on building action strategies to raise overall economic competitiveness, accelerate innovation and improve the quality of life in the MSP region; and WHEREAS, the Regional Indicators Initiative supported by RCM collects, analyzes, and makes publically available citywide environmental metrics including energy, water, travel, waste, and greenhouse gas emissions for Minnesota cities; and WHEREAS, the five-year plan for the institutionalization of the Regional Indicators Initiative includes: a peer review of the project's methodology by a third party, the creation of an automated online database to manage the data, the collection of Regional Indicators data for all metropolitan area cities and counties, support for cities in using Regional Indicators data to integrate energy planning into the comprehensive planning process, the establishment of utility repository for community scale energy data, the collection of Regional Indicators data for all cities and counties in the state of Minnesota, and the continued public tracking of Regional Indicator data to measure progress toward city, region, and state-wide goals; and WHEREAS There is, at present, no stable and dependable funding source to assure the continuance of this worthy program. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF PRIOR LAKE, MINNESOTA as follows: 1. The recitals set forth above are incorporated herein. 2. The City Council supports the further development of this program so that cities in the metropolitan area can collect, analyze and make publically available citywide environmental metrics to be used for a variety of decision making purposes. 3. The City Council supports the identification of a stable and dependable non tax based funding source for the Regional Indicators Initiative Program. PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS 11th DAY OF MAY, 2015. VOTE Hedberg Keeney McGuire Morton Thompson Aye ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ Nay ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ Abstain 0 ❑ 0 ❑ ❑ Absent ❑ ❑ 0 ❑ 0 Frank Boyles, City Manager Attachment #1 REGIONAL INDICATORS INITIATIVE-GET INVOLVED WHAT The Regional Indicators Initiative measures annual performance metrics for WHERE Minnesota cities committed to increasing their overall efficiency and level of Twenty-Seven Minnesota cities(33% sustainability.The project collects the following data that reflect the activities of Minnesota's population), of the people who live, work, learn, travel, visit, and play within each city's including: geographical boundaries: Central/Stand-Alone Cities: Minneapolis ENERGY I Electricity,natural gas,fuel oil,coal and biomass,and Saint Paul district energy consumed for both residential and Rochester commercial/industrial use. Duluth WATER I Potable water consumption for both residential and Saint Cloud commercial/industrial use Bemidji jib TRAVEL I On-road distance traveled by all vehicles within the Inner-Ring Suburbs: municipality boundaries. Richfield Hopkins Tili WASTE I Total municipal solid waste that is landfilled,composted, Saint Louis Park incinerated or recycled. Saint Anthony Edina The greenhouse gas(GHG)emissions and costs associated with each of these Falcon Heights indicators are also calculated, providing common metrics to compare the Maplewood economic and environmental impacts of the indicators. Outer-Ring Suburbs: WHEN White Bear Lake This Initiative was started in 2010,and it collects annual data for 2007-2013. Coon Rapids Oakdale WHO Shoreview The Regional Indicators Initiative is managed by LHB, Inc. for the Urban Land Eagan Institute, with technical assistance from ORANGE Environmental, LLC and Eden Prairie financial support from the Department of Commerce, the Minnesota Minnetonka Pollution Control Agency,and the Great Plains Institute. Woodbury Lake Elmo WHY Burnsville Recording these performance metrics is essential to promoting efficiency and Elk River sustainable change at the city scale.Benefits to cities include: Kasson • Highlight opportunities to save resources and money; • Provide a baseline for estimating the effectiveness of sustainability measures; • Enable comparison with peer cities and within each city over time; • Inform subsequent analyses,plans,and policy decisions; • Improve each city's competitiveness for federal and state funding opportunities that are targeted to cities that have taken steps to measure and improve their energy efficiency and reduce their carbon footprints; • Assist in promoting public understanding of the city's effect on climate HOW change; Contact Rick Carter at LHB, Inc.: • Satisfy criteria for Step Four recognition under the Minnesota GreenStep regionalindicatorsMN@Ihbcorp.com Cities program. 612-752-6923 (rai`! ,r L" h '�` a v ,a te �I' �� i