Plan Progress

As of May 2023, 23 of the original 77 actions have been completed or are complete and ongoing activities. Many more actions are in progress.

Starting in 2022, the Sustainable Resources division collected community and County staff feedback on the Plan to inform the

2023 update process. In response to that feedback, some actions have been edited, some removed, and some new actions have been added.

This updated Plan now divides greenhouse gas emission reduction actions into community and municipal focus areas, with

48 and 16 actions, respectively. These actions will steer countywide activities in 2024-2025. The Sustainability 2030 Plan will continue to go through updates every two years to keep the Plan aligned with community priorities, new State and Federal policies, and emerging technologies and innovations. The next update will take place in 2025 to guide countywide emission reduction activities in 2026-2027.

Completed actions can be found in the Plan Archive, Appendix 1. Actions removed from the Plan and an explanation of their omission can be found in Appendix 2.

Community Voice: What are we hearing from our community?

One of the main goals of the 2023 update to the Sustainability 2030 Plan is for actions to reflect community priorities. Our team gathered community feedback in multiple ways including attending community events, scheduling interviews with interested and invested groups, hosting workshops, and more. Each Community Focus Area contains a “Community Voice” section that illustrates what we’ve heard from our community and how we have incorporated their feedback.

The 2023 update also features a new section, “Growing Community Capacity”, that recognizes the need to include actions that do not directly impact greenhouse gas reduction, but instead address other priorities that build our community’s readiness to have ownership over community-led greenhouse gas reduction projects.

When the first iteration of the Plan was passed in 2021, we committed to creating a list of community-generated greenhouse gas reduction actions. A indicates which actions in each section were proposed by our community.

Appendix 3 explains in more detail the organizations that the 2030 team met with and events the team were invited to participate in to hear directly from community members.