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Consider a memorandum/resolution authorizing the City of Killeen to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with the United States Army Garrison Fort Cavazos for the Cen-Tex Sustainable Communities Partnership.
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DATE: March 5, 2024
TO: Kent Cagle, City Manger
FROM: Edwin Revell, Executive Director of Development Services
SUBJECT: Consider a memorandum/resolution authorizing the City of Killeen to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with the United States Army Garrison Fort Cavazos for the Cen-Tex Sustainable Communities Partnership
BACKGROUND AND FINDINGS:
In 2009, Fort Cavazos initiated the Central Texas (Cen-Tex) Sustainable Communities Partnership to cultivate and foster collaboration with our neighboring cities and to bring the government and communities together to share experiences and challenges related to implementing sustainability and develop a regional plan for successful integration. The goal for this partnership is to create a regional baseline to see where we are now and then developed strategies to reduce our consumption of resources and track our progress towards developing a sustainable future. By collectively creating targets and milestones, our communities can develop projects that will create measurable environmental benefits. By exchanging sustainability ideas, providing training, and tracking our shared efforts, we can have a large impact on regional sustainability.
The long-term goal of this partnership is to help foster a regional collaboration among city managers, engineers, planners, and other representatives from the Village of Salado and from the cities of Killeen, Harker Heights, Copperas Cove, Nolanville, Belton, Lampasas, and Gatesville. We will help build self-sustaining, community-based partnerships that will achieve positive environmental impacts, livability, and economic development benefits for many generations to come.
Fort Cavazos is looking for entities willing to commit the time and staff resource...
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