This municipal sustainability and adaptation plan from the City of Fort Collins establishes its commitment to operating and building a healthy and sustainable organization for city employees by 2050.
Summary
This Municipal Sustainability and Adaptation Plan (MSAP) is the employee roadmap for operating and building a healthy and sustainable organization by 2050. The City defines sustainability: To systematically, creatively, and thoughtfully utilize environmental, human and economic resources to meet our present needs and those of future generations without compromising the ecosystems on which we depend. For nearly two decades the City of Fort Collins organization has been leading the nation and the Fort Collins community in addressing complex and interrelated challenges. In this update to the 2013 Municipal Sustainability Plan, the 2019 Municipal Sustainability and Adaptation Plan outlines a systems-oriented and triple bottom line approach for the organization to lead by example. The MSAP includes six goals and 17 objectives that provide direction for long term action up to 2050, while strategies and an implementation plan provide a five-year focus for implementation from 2019 to 2023. To further demonstrate the City’s commitment to addressing climate change, in 2015 Mayor Wade Troxell signed the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, joining over 600 other cities. This agreement committed Fort Collins to not only reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but also enhancing the City’s resilience to climate change with an adaptation plan. As part of the 2017-2018 Budgeting for Outcomes process, Offer 26.4 for $50,000 was approved for the development of this plan.