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This plan is organized into 5 goals. The goals focus on buildings and grounds, employee support services, supporting sustainable communities, regulatory activities and employee involvement and awareness.
The plan identifies those responsible for accomplishing the strategies
with anticipated dates of completion.
This is an ambitious plan. It is intended to push the agency beyond the
familiar. We anticipate that we will accomplish the strategies discussed in the
plan. And, we may run into unanticipated barriers that will prevent progress. In
any event, we will continue to set the pace and maintain the vision that has
brought us to this point, as illustrated by our prior successes.
Funding new initiatives is always a challenge within government. It is
especially challenging now, due to revenue shortfalls and budget cuts. With that
in mind, the agency is looking at funding alternatives to implement this plan.
One potential idea is to create a Sustainability Reinvestment Pool. Using this
approach, savings realized through sustainability strategies could be used to
help fund others.
Employees will be encouraged to continue to provide input, even after we
implement the plan. We will set up a system to update the plan that will allow
for infusion of new ideas. The plan, rather than publishing a paper document,
will be presented on the agency web site. We will track our accomplishments and
present the results as well.
Updates and revisions will be inevitable as we learn. Many strategies
outlined in this plan have not been tried before. We believe that we can
accomplish them, but breaking new trail is often not easy. Sometimes you have to
back track and re-direct efforts. Where appropriate we will use the “plan, do,
check, act” cycle of total quality improvement.
The only way we learn is to try. The only way we accomplish anything is
to be willing to risk failure.
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