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Presented with a bare-bones list of complete or near-complete tasks, Perth County councillors have deferred a decision on whether to extend the contract for the county’s climate-change co-ordinator until they can review a more detailed report on the contractor’s efforts over the past two years to develop a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions locally.
Hired by the Municipality of North Perth on a two-year contract through a $110,400 climate change staff grant from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, and then shared with Stratford, St. Marys, Perth County and the county’s other three lower-tier municipalities through a local partnership agreement, Rebecca Garlick has been working to develop both individual and an overarching community-wide emissions-reduction plan for all seven municipalities.
The coronavirus has impacted the way of life at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and that will continue into the spring 2021 semester. But a group of faculty, staff and students aims to build upon the successes of the fall semester and improve the UNL experience further.
The âSpring Openâ committee formed in mid-October and is the spring counterpart to the Forward to Fall committee. The committee is chaired by Amy Goodburn, senior associate vice chancellor and dean of undergraduate education, and Bob Wilhelm, vice chancellor for research and economic development. Both Goodburn and Wilhelm also co-chaired Forward to Fall.
During summer 2020, Forward to Fall focused on designing and implementing policies from the ground up to make campus life possible for the fall semester amid the continued pandemic.Â