{"id":10685,"date":"2020-04-07T18:37:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T22:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/?p=10685"},"modified":"2020-04-07T18:37:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T22:37:15","slug":"support-ann-arbors-a2zero-carbon-neutrality-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/2020\/support-ann-arbors-a2zero-carbon-neutrality-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Support Ann Arbor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s A2Zero Carbon Neutrality Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Please considering asking the Ann\nArbor City Council to take two actions:
\n1) Approve the new A2Zero Carbon Neutrality Plan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) Approve the first-year budget to\nimplement that Plan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These issues will be\ndiscussed at virtual City Council meetings now scheduled for April 20, May 6,\nand May 20. Here\nis the plan itself<\/a>, the slide presentation<\/a>, Missy Stults\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 videotaped presentation<\/a>\nto Council, and the M-Live article<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typically there would be\nopportunities for members of the public to formally address the Council during\nthose meetings. With the shelter-in-place order, the best ways to communicate\nwith Mayor Taylor and City Council are through petition, email, phone, and\nsocial media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Please sign and circulate this petition<\/a> as widely\nas possible<\/strong>.\nThe petition is being circulated by the Ann Arbor Climate Partnership, a\ncoalition of environmental groups such as the Sierra Club, the Ecology Center,\nthe Huron River Watershed Council, and Interfaith Council for Peace &\nJustice. We would like to have hundreds of signers on it to share with City\nCouncil as early as April 20, and no later than May 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Please contact City Council members\nand the Mayor<\/strong>\nto express your support for the plan and related budget and to stress the\nimportance of this plan, even during the COVID-19 emergency. If you live in Ann Arbor<\/strong> find email addresses and phone\nnumbers for your Councilpersons at https:\/\/www.a2gov.org\/departments\/city-council\/pages\/home.aspx<\/a>.\nIf you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t live in A2,<\/strong> you can\nstill contact Council and the Mayor at CityCouncil@a2gov.org<\/a>.\nGreenhouse gases\ndon’t recognize city borders, and other communities are affected by the action\nor lack of action that Ann Arbor takes. For more information, contact Jan\nWright (janwrigh@umich.edu<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*There is a new process to publically speak\nto City Council by phone. As with the usual process, you must call right at\n8:00 a.m. on the day of the council meeting to get one of the ten allotted spots.\nMore\ninformation about public participation in virtual meetings here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More Information\nabout the Draft Plan:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will not be easy. Some of the plan\ncan be done by the City but much of it will require<\/strong> help from\nindividuals (such as us!) and groups (such as ones we are a part of!) as well as\nchanges in state legislation (which we will need to lobby for).<\/strong> We will\ncontinue to communicate with you about ways you can be part of these efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key Elements of the\nDraft Plan<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n