1. Capital Region Sustainability Plan: Public Forums Round 1 July 23-25, 2012

2. What is sustainability? Sustainability is meeting the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations to meet their own needs “..do onto future generations as you would have them do onto you.”

3. The Triple Bottom Line

4. Cleaner Greener Communities Program Launched by New York State in 2010 Two phase Regional Sustainability effort o Phase I: Planning – Must be Complete by end of 2012 o Phase II: Implementation Funded by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) o Phase I: $10 million o Phase II: $90 million

5. Capital Region Sustainability Plan: Albany Columbia Greene Rensselaer Saratoga Schenectady Warren Washington

6. Topic Areas for the Plan Climate Adaptation Economic Development Energy Food Systems Land Use and Livable Communities Transportation Solid Waste Water

7. The Players Executive Committee o Consists of one rep from each county, each technical committee chairs, and the lead municipality rep o Oversee the process, provide framework for initiative identification, make final decision on what is included in the Plan Technical Committees o Develop goals and identify and prioritize initiatives for each focus area o Review and comment on draft sustainability plan The Public o Provide feedback and suggestions for goals and initiatives for each focus area o Review and comment on draft sustainability plan

8. Executive Com. Technical Com. Public Forum #1Public Forum #2 Online Open House Plan ACTION Basic Process * Note there are many feedback loops among the public and committees that are not represented directly here.

9. Public Workshops Monday July 23 rd Coxsackie-Athens High School 24 Sunset Boulevard Coxsackie 7-9 pm Tuesday July 24 th Doane Stuart Commons Room 199 Washington Ave. Rensselaer 7-9 pm Wednesday July 25 th Queensbury High School 409 Aviation Road Queensbury 7-9 pm

10. Agenda Welcome o Overview of the Cleaner Green Communities Process o Keypad Polling: Check-in on Vision o Technical Committee Results Goal setting exercise Interactive Session #1: Best Practices and Existing Projects CHANGE TABLES: SELECT THE TOPIC YOU ARE MOST INTERESTED IN Interaction Session #2: Review and Update Goals/Benchmarks Interactive Session #3: Identifying Strategies Wrap-Up

11. Next Steps Continue contributing during the online open house o http://SustainableCapitalRegion.org http://SustainableCapitalRegion.org o Click on Share Ideas to access the exercises from tonight Input wqill be summarized and reported out after the open house Find us on Facebook: Sustainable Capital Region Twitter: @SustainCapReg Sign up on our mailing list