City Council Meeting Date: March 10, 2020
To: Mayor and City Council
City Administrator
From: Beth Kallestad
Program Coordinator
Title
Consider a Resolution Application for 2020-2021 Minnesota Greencorps Member.
Body
Action Requested:
The Northfield City Council adopts the attached resolution Application for 2020-2021 Minnesota Greencorps Member.
Summary Report:
The City of Northfield adopted a Climate Action Plan in November 2019 to help the City both mitigate greenhouse gas emissions as well as to build resiliency. Some of the strategies in this plan relate to waste reduction and prevention as well as food and organics management. In 2019, the City also received a donation from a resident to help implement some of these actions. We have been working with some interns from the local colleges to develop programming but would like to expand our capacity with a GreenCorps member.
The overall scope of the project will be to provide expertise and assistance to strengthen community resilience through waste prevention, recycling, prevention of wasted food, and composting/organics management. Outreach and education will be the primary focus and will include such items as: 1) Reducing contamination of recycling through bin tagging and educational materials for residents, 2) Recycling Champions program where residents will be trained to teach others about recycling, 3) Composting/Organics management options, 4) Assisting in the development of a Zero Waste plan to help Northfield be zero waste by 2030, 5) Assist local volunteers to explore developing a Food Coordinator position which can assit with prevention of food waste, locally grown food opportunities, expanding the Farm to School program and other possibilities to build resilience around food production. As a portion of the City is in the Environmental Justice Story Map area for at least 40% of people reported income less than 185% of the federal poverty level, the Member will work with communi...
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