Goal 1: Manage Energy CostsOverarching Goals This Sustainability and Energy Action Plan has five overall goals. Through adoption of this Plan, the Council is establishing these goals as new City policy. GOAL 1: Manage energy costs, allowing for better allocation of limited City funds. GOAL 2: Improve energy resilience to allow Grants Pass to continue to provide essential services in the event of a grid failure or catastrophic natural disaster. GOAL 3: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions incrementally over the next 20 years, reaching net -zero by 2045. GOAL 4: Integrate sustainability into all City decision -making and consider sustainability measures whenever a project is undertaken. GOAL 5: Establish a standing Sustainability and Energy Advisory Committee to monitor progress, advise on new technologies, and engage in citizen outreach . Without action, energy costs are projected to increase more than 100% from 2021 to 2045. 27 This Plan sets the goal of maintaining energy expenditures within 30% of the 2021 baseline. The projects within this Plan are projected to make this feasible. This Plan seeks to avoid the financial pressures on both the City budget and its citizens that are discussed in “ It’s the Climate” by investing in projects to manage long -term energy costs . To pursue this goal, the Plan includes: •energy -efficiency improvements; •investment in sustainability improvements that produce long -term savings; •pursuit of available (grant) funding opportunities; and •efforts to becomes less dependent on expensive energy sources with volatile and/or rising costs 33VISION FOR THE FUTURE GRANTS PASS SUSTAINABILITY AND ENERGY ACTION PLAN