Elgin Sustainability Commission March 2024 Meeting: More About 2024 Priorities

The Elgin Sustainability Commission met on Tuesday, March 12th at the Edward Schock Centre of Elgin. An efficient meeting by all measurements with virtually no tangents, side conversations, talking over each other, and long-winded echoing of each other. Maybe it was because the commission's City Councilperson liaison -- Carol Rauschenberger -- wasn't in attendance. *wink* (Just kidding, Carol). Truthfully, it is more likely the influence of the commission's new lion tamer (aka Sustainability Analyst/city staffer) Kristin Youngmeyer. 
 
In this episode, Tia Aagesen & Erik Anderson  summarize the agenda items and discussions. They also do another deep dive on the issue of the commission's 2024 Priorities. The following is a laundry list of what you will hear talked about in this episode:

• Kimball Street dam removal
• Elgin Earth Month in April 2024
• Elgin Earth Summit on April 20th
• Elgin Climate Action Plan RFP and submissions
• Soon-To-Be new addition to the city's sustainability staff team
• 2024 Budget for the Elgin Sustainability Commission
• Zero Emissions Yard Equipment Rebate program
• Single Use Bag Fee ordinance
• 2024 Priorities for the Sustainability Commission

There were two kinda/sorta big announcements at the end of the meeting:

• The next Strong Towns Elgin meeting is happening on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 from 6:30-8:30pm at the Light Lounge at Vern's Tavern. Click here to RSVP on Facebook
• The next Elgin Earth Summit planning meeting is happening on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 6:00pm at Elgin City Hall

The first episode of The Elgin Watchman's WASTE WARS Season Three deep-dive series dropped a few weeks ago. If you missed it, click here to listen.
 
The Elgin Watchman also announced a community-wide WASTE WARS project that everyone is invited (in fact ... encouraged) to participate in. In involves collectively seeking clarity from the city of Elgin and its private sector waste hauler on questionable recycling items. Click here to read about the details and how you can get involved.

We're only at the beginning of this Season Three and hope you and your friends will join us for what is shaping up to be an amazing season.

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