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Long Term Action Planning

• Annually publish the district’s carbon footprint dashboard for internal and external audiences. –
  Team Measurement and Celebration
  
  
• Significantly increase the use of technology to hold virtual meetings throughout the district. –
  Team Business Practices
  
  
• Review impact of carpooling incentive program to determine its effectiveness.  Review the necessity for more directive policy regarding in-district travel. –
  Team Business Practices
  
  
• Continue to meet regularly with vendors and custodial service providers to increase purchase and use of sustainable goods and practices. –
  Team Business Practices
  
  
• Develop a standard RFP for usage of recycled business materials. – Team Business Practices
  
  
• Impose a district-wide design standard for utility consuming devices to include mechanical units, bathroom fixtures, drinking fountains, and light fixtures and controls. – Team Facilities
  
  
• Impose a district-wide energy efficient design standards for construction/renovations to include: LEED Standards, door and window standards, roof design, walls and roof insulation values, recyclable materials, storm water runoff usage, low VOC emitting materials, landscaping standards, construction waste management.  – Team Facilities
  
  
• Impose a district-wide standard for practices of sustainable grounds management including landscaping with native plants, matching use of fertilizer products to soil conditions, reducing use of hazardous herbicides/pesticide, conserving irrigation water, composting yard waste, and on-bagging of grass clippings.  – Team Facilities
  
  
• Develop compost facilities throughout the district. –
  Team Facilities and Team Recycling
  
  
• Develop community organic gardens throughout the district. – Team Community Leadership
  
  
• Evaluate the use of the sustainability speaker’s bureau and use those speakers to expand district/college sponsored events about sustainable practices and issues. – Team Community Leadership
  
  
• Expand district and campus provided training in sustainable practices for staff and students. –
  Team Curriculum