Climate and Energy Action Plan (CEAP)

Strategy CC-2. Educate and empower City staff. Tasked with implementing the Climate and Energy Action Plan, City staff and leadership must understand threats and issues related to climate change and the actions needed to address it. This strategy deals with ensuring that all City departments inform their staff members about the Climate and Energy Action Plan and clarify their roles and expectations for its implementation. CC-2-1. Ensure all City departments educate their staff members about the Climate and Energy Action Plan. This action includes identifying the expecta - tions, roles, and responsibility of each depart - ment in meeting specific community and City operations actions within the Climate and Energy Action Plan. Strategy CC-3. Mainstream and integrate climate considerations. As a cross-cutting issue, climate change should be integrated into all other City activities and processes, as relevant. This means that any decision that could affect or be affected by climate change should explicitly address that connection and ensure coherence with the city’s climate action goals. For example, climate change should be considered in all City Council policy, budgetary, or legislative decisions, and as part of regular City Council communications.M Mi Ad M Mi AdM Mi AdCC-3-1. Consider climate change in all City Council policy, budgetary, or legislative decisions and as part of the Council Communication document template. Council decisions present key points in the pol - icy-setting process for incorporating and con - sidering City priorities. Analyzing how policy, budgetary, and legislative decisions may affect or be affected by climate change during these key decision points will provide further assurance that no new policy or decisions hinder progress toward reaching Ashland’s climate goals. CC-3-2. Incorporate CEAP goals and actions in future updates of city plans. To enhance integration of climate change across City activities, climate mitigation and resiliency goals set forth in this plan should be promul - gated through future updates of related City plans. Example plans to which this action would apply include the City Comprehensive Plan, Water Master Plan, Transportation System Plan, Neighborhood Master Plans, Forest Plan, and Emergency Management Plans. 102 ASHLAND CLIMATE & ENERGY ACTION PLANCROSS-CUTTING STRATEGIES