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Attachment B <br />Search <br />Home � About � The 28 best practices � Become a GreenStep City � Model Ordinances � City log-in � Contact/Feedback Stay Connected � t <br />Frequently Asked Questions <br />What are the benefits of implementing the GreenStep best practices? <br />The answers to this question will be different for different cities, but here is a list of answers we have been hearing from interested cities and around <br />which we have been designing the program. We think the GreenStep best practices: <br />• Are a continuous improvement pathwayfor cities to "go green," become more sustainable and resilient. <br />• Will save citystafftime in researching cost-effective actions for cutting energy use, decreasing the citys carbon footprint, and accomplishing other sustainabilitygoals <br />thatexceed regulatoryrequirements. <br />• Will save cities moneyand deliver a stream of multiple environmental, social and financial benefits. <br />• Are tailored to Minnesota cities and provide mapmum flebbilityand choice in how to implement a proven best practice. <br />• Flesh out how to follow-through on the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, signed byover40 Minnesota cities, and the Minnesota Legislature's aggressive <br />Next Generation EnergyAct. <br />• Provide leadership and action roles for community members and institutions so as to stretch limited cityfunds and strengthen a civic culture of innovation. <br />What sort of recognition and benefits are there for a GreenStep City? <br />Recognition will take several forms and evolve over the next fewyears. Currently in the works: <br />• Mnual recognition at the June conference ofthe League of Minnesota Cities. <br />• Artwork and recognition materials (such as logos, sample press releases). <br />• Asponsorship program is envisioned to raise cash awards forcities, to recognize manydimensions ofcityaccomplishments, such as: completing the mostactions; i <br />completing the "hardesY' actions; completing the most new actions during one year. <br />• Other benefts of GreenStep Cityrecognition are under consideration: publicityofyour cit�/s completed actions via the League of Minnesota CitiesA Twitter feed; priority <br />in securing free consultant help via Minnesota RETAP. <br />• Yourcit�s accomplishments will be visible on the GreenStep web site, the mostcomprehensive web site in Minnesota devoted to cityinnovation and accomplishment. <br />• Fourstepsofrecognitionepstcurrently. <br />o Step One: for cities that have passed a cityresolution, posted cityinformation on the GreenStep website, indicated which best practices the cityinitially plans to <br />implement, and described alreadyimplemented bestpractices. <br />o Step Two: for cities that have implemented 4, 6 or 8 best practices (depending on citycategory). <br />o Step Three: for cities that have implemented 8, 12 or 16 best practices (depending on citycategory). <br />o Step Four program requirements will be developed during 2011, as we learn from cities during 2010, and will be designed to challenge recognized GreenStep <br />Cities to implement more actions and be recogni�d for these accomplishments. <br />What if my city is collaborating with surrounding townships, or the surrounding county or school district? <br />While the GreenStep Cities program recognizes best practice actions taken by or catalyzed by city government and occurring within city limits, some <br />cities may choose to report actions taking place within and outside of city boundaries. If your city is working with adjacent areas, let us know by <br />listing (when you register on the web site) the township(s) by name and/or the school district with whom you are working to implement best practices <br />that affect territory within and outside of the city proper. <br />What are the city categories and why have them? <br />Cities with greater capacity for making civic improvements are able to implement more best practices and "harder" actions. <br />But city capacity is not tightly tied to city population: a small city in the Twin Cities metro area for e�mple benefits, by taking no action themselves, <br />from access to existing regional systems such as transit, wastewater, water and stormwater that a city with the same population in Greater <br />Minnesota does not. So the GreenStep program has each city complete a simple 10-question spreadsheet to determine their city category. In <br />general: <br />• CategoryC cities have no oronlya handful ofcitybuildings and staff <br />• Category8 cities have overa dozen buildings and staff, maintain roads, and have a publicworks and planning/developmentdepartment <br />• CategoryAcities are within a metro area or serve as a regional economic and service center. Theyare served byregular transit routes and have distinct commercial <br />� and industrial areas. <br />
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