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• Environmental Board Goals 2001 GOAL #1. Educate developers about the benefits of including prairie gardens in their landscape designs. Potential Activity – Provide developers with the opportunity to see examples of blooming prairie gardens and to talk with the people who "maintain" them. GOAL #2. Increase citizen understanding and appreciation Lino Lakes' unique environmental qualities. Potential Activities — create a web site Pilot Restoration Project Update Environmental Board Packet Encourage landscaping companies to advertise in city Investigate possibility of using the "City Wagon" Work with Homeowners Associations to educate and implement sound conservation practices. GOAL #3. Identify and pursue preservation of, unique environmental assets of the city. Potential Activity -- Promote the preservation of the property located on the north side of Lino Lakes Elementary. GOAL #4. Restructure monthly meetings to preserve 50% (one hour) of the meeting to advance our proactive goals. Potential Activity— assign responsibilities (e.g., tree preservation, buffers) to individual board members GOAL #5. Increase communication with analogous units in other metro -area cities to avoid "re- inventing the wheel" and to look for collaborative opportunities. Potential Activity — develop a fist of cities that have groups focused on the environment Host a social event that brings these groups together to share ideas, goals, and experiences. GOAL #6. Investigate and promote the possibility of developing a conservation development ordinance for the city. Potential Activity —get examples of such ordinances from other cities. GOAL #7. Develop and implement a strategy to obtain more resources (staff and financial) to enable the city to establish itself as the leader in the metro area in terms of development that is both economically and environmentally intelligent.