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New Brighton Energy Action Plan 17 Strategy Considerations The Energy Action Team identified certain considerations that applied to all the strategies to ensure their success. These considerations were: • A full-time sustainability City staff position will be considered as part of implementing this plan and other efforts for the City’s long-term resilience. • Successes in this work will be celebrated and communicated publicly. • Policies and ordinances created and changed by this plan should remain business friendly as standard practice. • The creation of a commission or other team of volunteers focused on sustainability to guide these strategies will be considered to ensure success. • An accessible City webpage with energy and climate information will be created to ensure that the information developed in these strategies can be widely shared. • Collaboration with other cities and public entities will be considered in this work whenever possible. • This plan will ensure these strategies reach diverse audiences including school districts, business councils, faith organizations, building owners, and industry. • All outreach in this plan will incorporate information on financing and grants for projects, include all levels of support from federal to local opportunities. • The City of New Brighton will lead by example and will build partnerships intentionally. Timeline and Priorities The Energy Action Team developed the strategies and actions in this plan by brainstorming all possible strategies and prioritizing them based on impact and feasibility. The words “impact” and “feasibility” had different meanings to each of the team members depending on their perspective. For example, “feasibility” for City staff and City Council might mean a dollar figure or budget consideration. To community members, it may mean availability of community resources and support. Similarly, “impact” might mean greenhouse gas impacts to some, while to others it might mean community mobilization or visibility. Each perspective was carefully considered in ranking the strategies. Depending on where the strategy fell in the impact-feasibility matrix during the workshop exercise, that strategy could then be put into a short-, medium- or long-term category. Those timelines were described as follows. • Short-Term: Begin implementing within six months of plan launch. • Medium-Term: Begin implementing within one year of plan launch. • Long-Term: Begin implementation within two years of plan launch. These timelines were set to take advantage of the Partners in Energy program’s implementation period to maximize resources for each strategy. The timeline for the strategies will continue throughout the plan as the strategies are refined and repeated.