Sec. 2-805. Powers and duties.
a. The Commission will identify and advise the City Council on environmental quality and sustainability issues affecting the City and recommend to the City Council policies, positions, roles, and action the City might take to address those issues in a manner that protects, promotes, restores, or enhances the City’s natural and built environments.
b. To the above end, the Commission will at the request of the City Council, and in consultation with the City Manager, engage in the following:
1. Recommend to the City Council policy to guide City actions on environmental quality and sustainability issues;
2. Recommend to the City Council positions the City might take on existing and proposed City, State and Federal laws, regulations, and programs affecting the environmental quality and sustainability of the City’s natural and built environments;
3. Make recommendations to the City Council on new or existing City ordinances, regulations, policies, programs and activities to protect, promote, restore, or enhance the City’s natural and built environments;
4. Foster citizen involvement within City and with other regional, national, and global events and activities on environmental quality and sustainability issues;
5. Assist the City Council and City departments to identify the effect of new and existing City programs, actions, activities, events, ordinances, and resolutions on the City’s natural and built environments;
6. Hold regularly scheduled meetings, hold hearings as needed, and make information available on environmental quality and sustainability issues that affect the City’s natural and built environments; and
7. Consult with the City and other regional, national, and global experts on environmental quality and sustainability issues. (Ord. No. G-3033, § 1; Ord. No. G-6292, 2017)