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New Brighton Climate Action Plan 9 -4 CAP ACTIONS Strategy Action Climate Economy CE 3: Support local businesses operations in building marketplace climate resili- ence. CE 3- 1 Promote the awareness of Habitat For Humanity’s New Brighton ReStore Facility for reusable fur- nishings and salvage including construction / demolition materials. CE 3- 2 Support climate resilience of local economy by preparing water, road, utilities, and other public infra- structure for increased demands from climate change based on city's Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment, Emergency Management Plan, and State climate change data and projections. CE 3- 3 Provide assistance vetting contractors offering energy, waste, and water audits and efflciency up- grades, renewable energy installations, and EV readiness assessments or equipment installations to local businesses. Contractor vetting should include clear indication of important equity considera- tions such as "small locally owned business", "Woman owned business", and "BIPOC owned busi- ness". Include information on flnancing options such grants and low/no cost assistance. CE 3- 4 Create an online assessment of business’ vulnerability/resiliency, including the following topics and content: Incentives or Tax breaks available Zero Waste improvements Climate Resiliency Energy: efflciency and renewables Emergency Response CE 3- 5 Work with community businesses to explore the creation of an incentivized “buy local” campaign to enhance resilience of small local businesses. CE 4: Establish sustainable financing for the City's Climate Action Plan implementa- tion. CE 4- 1 Monitor and identify available federal grants supporting climate action, particularly those from the Infiation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. CE 4- 2 Advocate climate action related funding at State level including support of new state multimodal transportation funding source for transit, bicycle and pedestrian services and facilities and statewide carbon tax or carbon cap generating new decarbonization funding sources. CE 4- 3 Establish a policy that accounts for all energy efflciency, fuel efflciency, and renewable energy opera- tional cost savings of City buildings and fieets. All savings achieved outside of a performance contract to be invested into a Climate Action Fund as one source of flnancing for the City's climate action ef- forts. CE 4- 4 Utilize City Franchise Fee increases to special use funds for relevant climate action plan implementa- tion. CE 4- 5 Explore the potential of a Carbon Impact Fee that would generate funds to be used for climate mitiga- tion and adaptation implementation.