Village Of Northbrook: Public Hearing For Climate Action Plan At July 27 Board Meeting

Press release from the Village of Northbrook:

July 6, 2021

What is the Climate Action Plan?

In 2020 the Board of Trustees directed Village staff to oversee the creation of a Climate Action Plan (CAP), put together in collaboration with 30 community stakeholders and an expert environmental consultant. The draft Climate Action Plan to reduce Village-wide greenhouse gas emissions (35% by 2030, 80% by 2040) and foster sustainability in our community can be viewed here.

Next Steps

On July 27 at 7:30pm, the Board of Trustees will conduct a public hearing the draft Climate Action Plan. Members of the public are invited to speak at the public hearing. All online review comments that have been received to date will be included in the packet distributed the week prior to the meeting along with the draft CAP. 

The meeting will take place in person at Village Hall in the Sandra “Sandy” Frum Board Room. This public hearing can be viewed live online here or NCTV Channel 17 (AT&T U-verse customers tune to Channel 99 and search "Northbrook"). If members of the public would like to share comments but cannot attend, comments may be emailed to Tessa.Murray@northbrook.il.us. 

The meeting agenda will posted no later than July 23.  

This press release was produced by the Village of Northbrook. The views expressed here are the author’s own.