CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE|SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORY BOARD May 20, 2019 Meeting Final Agenda Packet

Contents:

• Presentation: Sustainability Division Report {Dr. Nancy Gassman, Assistant Public Works Director of Sustainability}

• Final Proposal: Green Business Certification Program

Sustainability Division Report Nancy J. Gassman, Ph.D.

Assistant Director, Public Works

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Sustainability Division 1. 32 Community Builders 2. 5 Programs

• Solid Waste and Recycling (FY 2020 =$15.6M) • Fleet Services ($19.2M) • Environmental and Regulatory Affairs ($2.18M) • Sustainability and Climate Resilience ($1.74M) • AND...

     

               

 

    

               

              

   

    

  

  

   

 

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Our Division

Stormwater Operations ($10.8M)

1. 32 Community Builders 2. 6 Sections

• Inspections/Customer Service • Stormwater Cleaning • Street Cleaning • TV Inspections • Storm Drain Repairs • Swales

Implementation

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Sustainability and Climate Resilience

AWARDS

INITIATIVES

Comprehensive Plan Update

Cool Roof and other Ordinances

Adaptation Action Areas

• 17 Adaptation Action Areas meeting • 42 Capital Projects listed for funding • 14 projects completed since FY2016

• $200M Water and Sewer Bond issued • $200M Stormwater Bond Planned

Sustainability and Climate Resilience

PERFORMANCE METRICS

Through 2018, City Operations has reduced Greenhouse Gases by 16% from the 2010 baseline.

Tree Canopy has exceeded the Strategic Plan target of 23.6% since 2016.

Fleet Services

AWARDS

INITIATIVES

• #16 Best Fleet in North Americas (2018; #30 in 2019)

• #46 Best Green Fleet in North Americas

• Right sizing the vehicle • 89 Hybrids, 5 Electric • Planning for addl charging

stations • Upgrading fuel stations • Investigating Propane

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Fleet Services

INITIATIVES

• Solar Charger for Electric Vehicles

Fleet Services

PERFORMANCE METRICS

City Operations has reduced fuel usage from the 2010 baseline while still growing the fleet.

We have increased the number of low emission vehicles to 11% of the fleet.

Solid Waste and Recycling

Winner 2015 Honorable Mention 2017

AWARDS

INITIATIVES

• Expansion of Residential Electronics Recycling

• Household Hazardous Waste Events • Expans Collection

Full Circle Fort Lauderdale Our Mission

Full Circle Fort Lauderdale builds community by rescuing valuable resources and goods throughout

the City and redirecting these items to those in need. • Homeless neighbors • Veterans • Seniors with limited incomes and resources • Underserved children • Young adults leaving foster care

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Green Your Routine Volunteers

Mission: promote waste reduction, recycling, and sustainable initiatives at home, school, work and play, all while having associations earn funds through the Sustainability Incentive Grant.

• Awards points to associations for sustainability volunteerism and initiatives

• Helps neighborhoods invest in sustainable community projects of their choosing

Solid Waste and Recycling

PERFORMANCE METRICS

Diversion of yard waste and recycling represent diversion of 38% of the total residential waste stream. 34%

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38.0% 40.55%

36.64% 35.47%

37.32% 38.31%

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City has recouped $143,703 since tracking scrap metal diversion in FY 2015.

Environmental And Regulatory Affairs

INITIATIVES

• Environmental Inspections (500/month)

• Backflow prevention to protect the potable water supply

• NPDES –Protect environmental water quality

• Environmental Permit Tracking • Monitoring Algal Blooms • Training New Employees on

Sustainability

Environmental And Regulatory Affairs

PERFORMANCE METRICS We steward 214 environmental permits, tracking compliance with permit conditions.

This group assures proper reporting to regulatory agencies on Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSO).

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Stormwater Operations

INITIATIVES Stormwater Master Plan • Streetsweeping program (FY 2014‐ FY2024)• Stormwater master plan

implementation • Phase I ‐ 37 Capital Improvement • Tidal Valve Program Projects • Save our Swales Program

• Phase II ‐Modeling & Design of 7 • Watershed Asset Management Neighborhoods (Dec 2017)

• Phase III ‐ Construction of Phase II projects (Pending $200 M Bond – ~Sept 2019)

SEAWALL REPAIRS & UPGRADES

TIDAL VALVES

Stormwater Operations

PERFORMANCE METRICS

Additional staff and equipment has resulted in a greater number of the ~9,000 catch basins being cleaned quarterly.

Since taking over the administration of the Save our Swales program, Stormwater Operations has reduced the waiting list from 200 to just a few dozen.

Questions?

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City of Fort Lauderdale

Green Business Certificate Development Project Proposal

5/21/2019

Muge Nurgun

On behalf of City of Fort Lauderdale Sustainability Advisory Board

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Goal To design and deploy a “Green Business Certificate” program to be offered by the City of Fort Lauderdale.

Benefits of a Green Business Certificate offered by cities • Recognition of environmentally and socially responsible efforts of local businesses.

• Competitive marketing edge for businesses through becoming better corporate citizens.

• Business opportunity to optimize costs, better risk management and maximize efficient use of natural resources.

• Motivate and train small/mid-size businesses for becoming sustainable and socially responsible.

• A step towards a greener and an economically resilient city supported by SE Florida Regional Climate Change Compact - Climate Action Plan.

• A medium to build a tighter community that embraces sustainable business and living.

Proposed Resource Requirements • The program to be administered by a task force collaborating under the management of

the City of Fort Lauderdale Sustainability department.

• The task force to be comprised of a City of Fort Lauderdale Sustainability Department representative (initially 1 person-halftime), Chamber of Commerce representative, and a sustainability consultant, at the minimum. This task force might also include other stakeholders as necessary, such as Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance, Department of Sustainable Development Economic and Community Investment Division, Broward County Environmental Growth & Management Department.

• Web development resources have to be employed. Since the whole program will be available and administered through the official City website, web development and management services responsible for the existing city website (or another developer) needs to be engaged to add additional webpages with appropriate functionality.

• Full deployment of the program initially is expected to require 1 half-time City sustainability professional as the main contact, and a number of interns from local universities/colleges trained in this program. Extensive popularity of the program might require additional resources. Collaborations with other city/county departments and area non-profits might be critical to provide appropriate targeted assistance to the businesses in the program.

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Proposed Program Development Phases & Timeline

• Gather the task force that would finalize the program: 3 months. Task force creates a time line and defines the program details. The certificate criteria are detailed and customized for a variety of business types: Office, hospitality, landscape, restaurants, manufacturing. The certificate program web page – first version - designed and developed.

• Deploy Phase 1: Six months, pilot program, 5-10 selected businesses, self-verification with City assistance, finalize the program.

• Phase 2: Deploy the program for all (greater)Fort Lauderdale businesses as a verified certificate program.

Phase 1 – First 6 months as a Pilot Program:

• 5-10 interested local business are selected for a pilot program by the task force (size and type of the businesses a factor for deciding the total number). No fee.

• The certificate program is launched as “Self-Reporting”. This means that the program is made available through the website – only to those businesses who are invited to report on their existing sustainable practices and express commitment for better future practices.

• The part-time City employee and the task force provide assistance to these selected businesses to follow the program, identify their strengths and weaknesses and set and pursue goals.

• At the end of this initial 6 months period, these businesses are recognized as the first graduates of the program - as long as they stay committed and responsibly show effort working towards the given program criteria. In the meantime, the City of Fort Lauderdale and the task force further customizes the program as necessary.

• City of Fort Lauderdale, during this timeframe, creates and assigns additional resources such as internships and develop collaborations to provide sustainability and other subject-matter technical assistance for the potential businesses applying for official certification in the next phase.

• The program website is developed to offer a very comprehensive amount of information and links to guide the businesses towards accomplishing the given criteria.

Phase 2 – After the initial 6 months:

• The program website is made available to all (greater) Fort Lauderdale businesses.

• The program is officially announced and offered with the goal of a certificate.

• Based on the verification of the businesses’ successful operations and development at the end of the 6 months program phase, winners are announced. Winners are assigned

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Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum levels and promoted by the City at various events to be developed. They are all awarded a green business logo.

• A new group of 5-10 businesses are accepted into the program every 3 months.

• Based on this schedule, at any given time there would be 10 - 20 businesses in the program. This work load could be increased/decreased depending on the budget and availability of skilled interns.

How does a Green Business Certificate program work?

• Any interested business accesses the city website for the program to get information.

• The program will be available for a fee, determined by the task force. (Most of the programs around the nation use “the number of employees” as the main

criteria and ask a nominal fee: For example, City of Key West has the following fee structure: 1-9 employees $37.50; 10-25 employees $47.50; 26-99 employees $57.50; 100+ employees $87.50. The task force might decide to request a higher fee overall to cover he program expenses

with exceptions based on predefined criteria. Seeking corporate sponsorships and grants would be advisable).

• The business fills in the application form for basic data and pays the fee.

• The website would direct the applicant to choose the right application for the type of business since there are minor but significant sustainability issues specific to a given type of business such as hospitality vs. manufacturing vs. office vs. landscape.

• The business downloads the appropriate Excel file that has all the detailed criteria against which it will be measured.

• The website would offer a comprehensive list of resources and provide appropriate guidance and information to implement all program criteria.

• The designated City contact and/or trained interns responsible for this program will get in touch with the business applicant, to answer questions as necessary, periodically throughout the program. For further help, businesses might be connected with the appropriate water, energy or environmental divisions of the city. (It would be unreasonable to expect the city resources act as sustainability consultants. Their advisory/coaching time needs to be limited to possibly less then 5-10 hours per program period)

• During the program, the task force will plan, manage and execute workshops, seminars, networking events for the participating and interested businesses.

• At the end of the program period (6 months), participants will be evaluated against their final reports, by the City official and/or outside experts. Successful participants will be assigned Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum levels of accomplishment.

• Successful participants will be announced by the City and promoted. Possible rewards: Businesses will be able to display Fort Lauderdale Green Business logo on their websites,

vehicles and promotional materials.

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Businesses will be listed on appropriate City websites as responsible and green. Their proven efforts and results will also be included, to allow positive impact from transparency.

An awards ceremony will be organized for each program period. Successful businesses might be invited to various City/State events, to share their

success stories. Recertification at Platinum and Gold levels could be kept to minimum or waived.

• Businesses must recertify every 2 years to keep their credentials.

What is Measured by the Green Business Certificate program?

There are various existing programs throughout the country and the Florida State. A typical Green Business Certificate Program includes detailed & scientifically developed criteria in the following main areas:

• Organizational commitment

• Environmentally preferable purchasing

• Energy management

• Water management

• Waste management

• Transportation & travel

• Social responsibility

Each list of area specific criteria would include Required and Optional choices with assigned points that add up to 100. The completion of the basic minimum requirements in each section would lead to a Bronze designation. Some of the criteria would be different and targeted per the chosen business type.

Success Factors for the program

• Appropriate leveraging of partnerships with stakeholders.

• Direct city involvement/management to establish respect and interest in the program.

• Ongoing workshops for co-learning & networking.

• Lower program fees would be ideally more attractive. Seeking corporate sponsorships and grants would be advisable.

• Effective and meaningful acknowledgement/promotion by the City.

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