I served on the Task Force and now the Advisory Board on Climate & Economic Equity, as well as the leadership team of Our Future Milwaukee, a coalition of 21 organizations with a shared vision to ensure the full and fair implementation of Milwaukee’s Climate & Equity Plan. I believe I write also for the people who filled the chambers last June to express their support for passing the Plan. I ask you to fund climate action like our future depends on it. Because it does. This requires that the Environmental Collaboration Office be fully staffed and its programs fully supported. Programs like Home Energy Efficiency and New Net Zero Energy housing will lower energy burdens in underserved communities while creating healthier, more comfortable homes and reducing emissions. ECO has secured funding for all Ten of the Big Ideas of the Plan, mostly through federal grants. We need to ensure that the federal funding allocated to climate action programs is spent on those programs. In addition, I request your support for the full staffing of ECO, as per their budget request. Utilizing the federal funds and other resources to achieve the City’s climate and equity goals will depend on it.
I am writing to register my support to fully staff the Environmental Collaboration Office, which is charged with implementing Milwaukee’s Climate and Equity Plan. Expanded staffing for the Environmental Collaboration Office has already proven to be a hugely sound fiscal decision, as their staff and partners have secured more than $600 million in federal funds to support every one of the Ten Big Ideas embedded in Milwaukee’s Climate and Equity Plan.
As a long-term resident of District 10, I am aware of the many challenges our city faces regarding housing, street safety, racial inequity, and other issues. I am also aware that climate change is a threat multiplier, which will exacerbate these problems and have the greatest impact on those with the fewest resources.
Our city’s Climate and Equity Plan addresses the local issues that we care about, while fighting climate change and creating economic opportunity. The implementation of complete streets, programs to weatherize homes in our center city, and plans to build new, affordable, net zero homes are just a few examples of programs that will benefit residents and make our city a better place to live.
Jennifer Evans
I served on the Task Force and now the Advisory Board on Climate & Economic Equity, as well as the leadership team of Our Future Milwaukee, a coalition of 21 organizations with a shared vision to ensure the full and fair implementation of Milwaukee’s Climate & Equity Plan. I believe I write also for the people who filled the chambers last June to express their support for passing the Plan. I ask you to fund climate action like our future depends on it. Because it does. This requires that the Environmental Collaboration Office be fully staffed and its programs fully supported. Programs like Home Energy Efficiency and New Net Zero Energy housing will lower energy burdens in underserved communities while creating healthier, more comfortable homes and reducing emissions. ECO has secured funding for all Ten of the Big Ideas of the Plan, mostly through federal grants. We need to ensure that the federal funding allocated to climate action programs is spent on those programs. In addition, I request your support for the full staffing of ECO, as per their budget request. Utilizing the federal funds and other resources to achieve the City’s climate and equity goals will depend on it.
I am writing to register my support to fully staff the Environmental Collaboration Office, which is charged with implementing Milwaukee’s Climate and Equity Plan. Expanded staffing for the Environmental Collaboration Office has already proven to be a hugely sound fiscal decision, as their staff and partners have secured more than $600 million in federal funds to support every one of the Ten Big Ideas embedded in Milwaukee’s Climate and Equity Plan.
As a long-term resident of District 10, I am aware of the many challenges our city faces regarding housing, street safety, racial inequity, and other issues. I am also aware that climate change is a threat multiplier, which will exacerbate these problems and have the greatest impact on those with the fewest resources.
Our city’s Climate and Equity Plan addresses the local issues that we care about, while fighting climate change and creating economic opportunity. The implementation of complete streets, programs to weatherize homes in our center city, and plans to build new, affordable, net zero homes are just a few examples of programs that will benefit residents and make our city a better place to live.
Jennifer Evans