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Regional Council of Mayors
REGIONAL INDICATORS INITIATIVE - INSTITUTIONALIZATION
Whereas, the Regional Council of Mayors ( "RCM "), is composed of the mayors of Minneapolis, St. Paul
and 47 municipalities in the developed and developing suburbs. The collaborative partnership provides
a non - partisan platform focused on building action strategies to raise overall economic competitiveness,
accelerate innovation and improve the quality of life in the MSP region; and
Whereas, the Regional Indicators Initiative collects, analyzes, and makes publically available citywide
environmental metrics (energy, water, travel, waste, and greenhouse gas emissions) for Minnesota
cities; and
Whereas, the five -year plan for the institutionalization of the Regional Indicators Initiative includes: a
peer review of the project's methodology by a third party, the creation of an automated online database
to manage the data, the collection of Regional Indicators data for all metropolitan area cities and
counties, support for cities in using Regional Indicators data to integrate energy planning into the
comprehensive planning process, the establishment of a utility repository for community scale energy
data, the collection of Regional Indicators data for all cities and counties in the state of Minnesota, and
the continued public tracking of Regional Indicators data to measure progress toward city -, region -, and
state -wide goals;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that as elected leaders representing cities in Minnesota's fast -
growing 11- county metropolitan region, we hereby declare that we support the planned
institutionalization of the Regional Indicators Initiative.
Jerome O. Faust
Mayor
St. Anthony Village
Signature
Adopted city council resolution: 15 -035 April 28, 2015