I went to the Metropolitan Mayor Caucus annual meeting yesterday downtown in Chicago. There were about 40 of the area mayors present including Rich Daley of Chicago. There were reports by some of the task forces on the various issues affecting us in the 6 county Chicagoland area. The most interesting one was the Clean Air Counts Campaign. A variety of Mayors talked about things that did in their communities that saved money, saved trees and reduced emissions.
I asked the staff liaison for the Clean Air Counts to come visit our Village Administrator and Public Works Director to discuss how to move this forward.
The Mayor of Northbrook had the most interesting talk on this subject, when he talked about how his community was able to use lawn care buy back programs, gas can replacement events and diesel retrofits among many other things to do some amazing things.
There is a lot more that I will write on over the next few days, the 2016 Olympics, Education Reform, Local Housing Strategies and much more. Overall an excellent day out!
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