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Type:
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Motion / Motion Response
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Status:
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Filed
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On agenda:
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10/20/2016
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Final action:
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10/20/2016
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Title:
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RECEIVE AND FILE report back on sustainability strategies, accomplishments and short and long-term plans related to green infrastructure, sustainability transportation and workforce development and resources needs to implement Metro's sustainability program.
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Indexes:
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Air quality, Annual reports, Barriers (Roads), Bids, Board approved a Motion, Budgeting, California Sustainable Freight Action Plan, Capital Project, Cleaning, Connected vehicles, Conservation, Construction, Contractors, Environmental justice, Environmental policy, Eric Garcetti, First/Last Mile, Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, Fuels, Greenways, Guidelines, Highway operations, Hilda Solis, John Fasana?, Landscaping, Local Returns, Location 30, Long Beach, Maintenance, Maintenance facilities, Maintenance of way, Maintenance practices, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Measure M, Metro Orange Line, Metro Rail A Line, Mike Bonin, Mitigation, Monrovia, Motion / Motion Response, Multi County Goods Movement Action Plan, Natural gas, Near zero emissions, Operations and Maintenance, Partnerships, Plan, Policy, Port of Long Beach, Port of Los Angeles, Procurement, Program, Program management, Project, Recycled materials, Regional transportation, Renewable Natural Gas, Research, Research management, Retrofitting, Rolling stock, Safety, Shelia Kuehl, Solar energy, South Coast Air Quality Management District, Southern California Association Of Governments, State Of Good Repair, Transit System, Trucking, Vehicle miles of travel, Vehicle sharing, Water control, Water quality, Zero Emission Bus (ZEB) Master Plan, Zero Emissions, Zero-Emission Truck Collaborative
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Meeting_Body EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE OCTOBER 20, 2016 Subject/Action SUBJECT: SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGIES ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE Heading RECOMMENDATION Title RECEIVE AND FILE report back on sustainability strategies, accomplishments and short and long-term plans related to green infrastructure, sustainability transportation and workforce development and resources needs to implement Metro's sustainability program. Issue ISSUE In February 2016, the Metro Board of Directors passed Motion #57 by Directors Garcetti, Kuehl, Ridley-Thomas, Fasana, Solis and Bonin to direct the CEO on a number of items related to Metro's environmental and sustainability efforts to further Metro's goals to reduce emissions, clean the air, and improve urban areas (Attachment A). There are two reports required by the Motion. Staff reported back on May 31, 2016 on Item A of the Motion. This Receive and File document is the second report that is also required by the Motion. This report includes an outline of staff's response for each of the items pertaining to Water Conservation and Green Infrastructure, First and Last Mile Connections to Metro's transit system, and Strategies to better Deploy Technology and promote Green Jobs. BACKGROUND Central to Metro's mission of continually improving the effectiveness and efficiency of Los Angeles' transportation system is the process of ensuring the implementation of sustainability-related efforts and infrastructure. Transit systems by definition already form a sustainable air quality strategy as any agency that reduces vehicle miles travelled, congestion, and promotes land use co-benefits as a result of transit investments lead to a reduction in criteria air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions. Although Metro has been implementing sustainability strategies, specifically as part of its construction efforts since 2003, sustainability only became a formal part of Metro's priorities in 2007, with our Board's adoption... Click here for full text
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