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MPCA is offering the services of three retired environmental professionals from the MPCA's Retiree Environmental Technical Assistance Program - RETAP. They would work up to approximately 40 hours per registered GreenStep city (including cities in the process of submitting a resolution to their city council). If your city could use this assistance, please contact Philipp Muessig, GreenStep Coordinator, to discuss further: 651/757-2594 or philipp.muessig@state.mn.us 10 -toMinnesota GreenStep itis www MnGreenStep.org Assistance would focus on one or more of the following tasks. An inventory of past city accomplishments and planned actions: Interviews with city staff and others Documentation of which GreenStep best practice actions have been completed and which are in the planning/implementation stage Either entry of this information onto the GreenStep web site or preparation for another person to do this Recommendations for completing a few high -impact best practice actions. ® Either begin to help the city plan, and/or help the city bring in expert help Recommendations on sustainability indicators. ® Explore what metrics are gathered currently and what a suite of sustainability indicators might look like Rick person was Program Administrator for Waste Management and Recycling, and Right -of -Way Management for the St. Paul Department of Public Works for 29 years. He coordinated the city's Environmental/Economic Partnership Project and Urban CO2 Reduction Plan as a member of the Sustainable Saint Paul Working Group. He is currently serving on the City of St. Louis Park Planning Commission. Rick has worked on RETAP projects for the cities of Woodbury, Stillwater, Maplewood, and Shorewood, as well as the Como Zoo and Conservatory, Metro Transit, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and Dodge County. Michael ®range served Minneapolis as a city planner and environmental manager (1976-2007) and wrote the first draft of the Minneapolis Sustainability Plan. Since leaving the city, he has prepared a zoning analysis for the city of St. Paul, a recycling study for the city of Farmington, and carbon baseline assessments for 5 metro cities and Washington County. The sustainability assessment he prepared for the city of West St. Paul formed the basis for subsequent work to integrate sustainability into that city's zoning ordinance. He teaches a graduate -level course, Sustainable City Planning, at MSU -Mankato. Don Graves has 2.6 years of experience teaching biology and environmental science in the Minnesota community college system and was a 2007 recipient of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities' Board of Trustees Award for Teaching Excellence. As Sustainability Coordinator at Hibbing Community College, Don initiated and oversees the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment initiative and works at promoting sustainability across the five colleges of the Northeast Higher Education District. A recent addition to RETAP's Community Sustainability Assistance program, Don works with communities and governments to undertake actions that promotesustainability.