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WHEREAS, steps taken toward sustainable solutions aim to improve community quality of life, building community capital and increasing government efficiency, accountability and transparency. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RAMSEY, ANOKA COUNTY, STATE OF MINNESOTA, as follows: 1. The City of Ramsey will participate in the Minnesota GreenStep Cities program that offers a free, voluntary continuous improvement framework. 2. Appoints the City Planner to serve as the City's GreenStep coordinator for best practice documentation/implementation (and, as appropriate, identifies the Environmental Policy Board [EPB] as the city's GreenStep coordination team). 3. Will facilitate the involvement of community members and other units of government as appropriate in the planning, promoting and/or implementing of GreenStep Cities best practices. 4. Grants to the GreenStep program's buildings advisor read-only access to the City's B3 Benchmarking Database so as to facilitate analysis and cost -savings advice to the City regarding its buildings' energy use. 5. The City of Ramsey will identify a short list of best practices specific to City operations for initial implementation by January 1, 2015. 6. The City of Ramsey will claim credit for having implemented and, at its own pace, will attempt to work toward implementing at least sixteen (16) GreenStep best practices that will result in energy use reduction, economic savings, quality of life improvement and reduction in the City's greenhouse gas footprint. An on- going summary of the City's implementation of best practices will be posted on the Minnesota GreenStep Cities web site. The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by Councilmember , and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: and the following voted against the same: and the following abstained: and the following were absent: RESOLUTION #14-05-089 Page 2 of 3