Priorities

 
Form Mayor’s Community Committee on Carbon Neutral Government to
develop a strategy to meet the provincial targets to be Carbon Neutral by 
            2012.

o        Council approved funding for first-ever Environmental Strategic Plan. This will be the first step towards reducing our carbon footprint.

o        The Community Committee on Carbon Neutral Government will follow the completion of the Environmental Strategic Plan; targeted for 2010.

      
Develop a pass/fail criteria for the Sustainability Checklist.

Implement water metering in all homes by 2020.

 Develop a street beautification strategy to make our main streets safer, more welcoming and aesthetically pleasing.

  
Create a municipal E-Waste Facility.

o        Researching partnership opportunities.

     
Enhance Port Coquitlam’s urban forest by planting 50 trees per year.

o        By generating carbon offsets, this initiative will save the municipality up to $835,000 over the next five years by eliminating the requirement for Port Coquitlam to pay the provincial carbon tax.

o       Tasked Healthy Communities Committee with creating a strategy, to be complete in 2009.

o       Applied for $20,000 provincial funding grant under Trees for Tomorrow program.

   
Benchmark and set targets to reduce Green House Gas exports both as an organization and as a community.