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To: Honorable Mayor Adams and Council From: Julie Feier, City Manager Date: January 8, 2010 Subject: Weekly Update Town Hall Forum with the City There will be an opportunity for the public to attend a Manager on Monday, January 11. The session will focus on the next steps in the budget process; however, questions are welcome on any topic. The session will be held in the EOC Room at City Hall at 8:00 PM. There will be an additional Town Hall Forum to discuss the budget on April 19 at 7:00 PM. This opportunity for residents to ask staff questions about the budget will fall between the Council’s two scheduled budget study sessions. Loop Ice Carnival The annual will take place Saturday, January 16, from 10 AM to 6 PM. The Ice Carnival will host Ice Sculptures, Ice Carving Demos, 5-K & 10-K Frozen Buns Run, S’ mores Roast, Loop Trolley Car Display, Polar Bear and Penguin, 18’ high Giant Slide, Putt-Putt Pub Crawl, Mini-Football Throwing Booth, Temporary Tattoo Scavenger Hunt, Fire Performers, Live Art & DJ, Synchronized Hoop Performers and more. The day’s events will be followed by live entertainment at 10 Loop venues. For more details go to the Loop’s website at http://www.ucityloop.com/. This week we welcomed Ms. Jeanne Baker as our new engineering assistant. She is Green House Gas Inventory conducting the City’s . The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant funded the position. The inventory measures the many outputs of human activity responsible for large amounts of additional greenhouse gases into the atmosphere causing global warming. Greenhouse gas emissions also cause air pollution that is detrimental to our health. Ultimately, the City’s Sustainability Plan will be driven in large measure by greenhouse gas reduction targets established with the inventory. Once the targets are set, the Green Practices Committee will develop goals and action steps for Council’s consideration. To know how far we have come and how far we must still go, the inventory examines a baseline year. The City’s GHG Inventory will measure our emissions of carbon dioxide and methane for the base year of 2005. This year was chosen because it is the first year where information is available on the metrics and it predates the LEED renovation of City Hall and the building of Centennial Commons. By measuring emissions that early, we will be able to see what our green practices to-date have done to reduce emissions. This inventory includes a Community Emissions component and a Government Operations Emissions