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City of St. Lauds Park Greenhouse Gas Assessment City Operations, 2005 to 2015 Contractor Services: Table 1 shows the fuel consumption for private companies that Public Works hired to perform services that are a normal part of Public Works operational responsibility (e.g. snow plowing, street sweeping, seal coating, tree trimming, etc.).' Fuel consumption by contractor services constitute about 7% of the total consumption needed to perform the above operational responsibilities. Table 2 shows that the changes in GHG emissions tracked accordingly with the changes in fuel consumption figures. Since contractor services are a Scope 3 source of emissions, they are not counted along with the Scope 1 emissions from fuel consumption by Public Works. However, it is valuable to examine the combined fuel consumption data since it is associated with the same activities. Table 1 shows that fuel consumption was 12% higher in 2010 compared to 2005, and 1 % lower in 2015 compared to 2005. Business travel: Table 2 also lists the estimated GHG emissions associate with official business travel, which is a very small Scope 3 emission source. Waste management: The estimate of the municipal solid waste (MSW) generated by City operations is based on the assumption that a City job will generate MSW at a rate comparable to a job elsewhere in Hennepin County. This approach yielded an estimate of slightly less than 1 ton of waste per FTE job in the City. GHG emissions associated with waste management result in a small amount of emissions. Since they are in the Scope 3 category, they are reported but not counted with the Scope 1 & 2 emissions on Table 2. Wastewater treatment- The Environmental Services division of the Metropolitan Council provided the City with the number of gallons of wastewater sent to the Metropolitan Waste Treatment Plant from the City's sanitary sewer system (which has been stable at about 102 gallons per day on a per -capita basis), and the City's share of the plant's GHG footprint. Table 2 shows the associated GHG emissions; however, they are not counted in the City's total because they are Scope 3 emissions. Emissions are declining significantly. The 2015 level was half that in 2005. GHG reduction goal: One of the reasons the City chose 2005 as a base year for comparison purposes was that it matched the base year for the Minnesota Next Generation Energy Act of 2007. The Act established nationally aggressive statewide greenhouse gas reduction goals, using 2005 as a baseline, of 15% by 2015, 30% by 2025, and 80% by 2050. As Table 2 and Figures 4 and 5 show, the City met and even exceeded the state's 15% reduction goal because it's emissions were 18% lower in 2015 compared to 2005. One way to put the value of these reductions into perspective is to consider them offsetting other emissions. The average St. Louis Park household's share of the citywide emissions equals about 5 City staff estimated that 95% of normal street maintenance responsibilities are performed by City crews and 5%by private contractors. City staff have determined these estimations are reasonably accurate for all City contracts and that, since fuel consumption doesn'tvary significantly from year-to-year, they are applicable for all of the study years. City staff estimated that the City normally pays private contractors about $290,000 per year for the maintenance of street trees and trees in parks. Of that amount, City staff estimated that no more than 3% of those costs are for fuels. It is assumed that 90%of the fuel is gasoline and 10%diesel. ORANGE ENVIRONMENTAL