Project Update: end of September

We've separated this inventory into three categories to help manage the information.

1. The City Municipal Inventory: This includes all the information from and about City of TC municipal operations and responsibilities.
2. The County Municipal Inventory: This includes all the information from and about Grand Traverse County municipal operations and responsibilities.
3. The Community Inventory: This includes information about all residents, businesses and visitors in GT County.

City Update:

• We met with department heads to introduce the data reporting forms and start the formation of the City Climate Team who will help us identify particular areas to collect more information about and also fill in any gray areas we find.
• Employee commuter surveys have been distributed and will tell us how much employees travel - and how much fuel they burn - to get to work.
  

County Update:

• Employee commuter surveys have been distributed and will tell us how much employees travel - and how much fuel they burn - to get to work.
  
• Key staff are filling out reporting forms to tell us about fuel consumption for the County's fleet, heating and cooling buildings, and more.
  

Community Update:

• We are meeting with key individuals who hold important data including representatives from the utility companies that service our region, the Chamber of Commerce, the Council of Governments and the Resource Recovery office.
• As we move through the list we will also meet with others who have important transportation, tourism, and agriculture data.

After collecting the initial data sets, we will start the formation of Climate Teams for each of these three project categories. The Climate Teams will help direct the collection of important data sets that can be analyzed to give us information that will enable all of us to make 'cooler' choices for our future.

We have been fortunate to find people very willing to work with us and provide data and contacts. Even better, we've found people and departments are actively taking actions to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions already.

Clean Air, Clean Water, & a Cool Planet!