Austin (TX) Mayor Will Wynn, Chair
May 29, 2006

Resolution #50: Adopting the “2030 Challenge” for City Buildings calls on the Conference of Mayors to increase the fossil-fuel reduction standard for all new buildings to carbon neutral by 2030, in the following increments: 60 percent in 2010, 70 percent in 2015, 80 percent in 2020, 90 percent in 2025 and Carbon-neutral by 2030 (meaning new buildings will use no fossil fuel Green House Gas emitting energy to operate) and urges mayors from around the nation to join this effort by developing plans to fully implement the above mentioned targets as part of their procurement process and by establishing policies to insure compliance and measure results.

Resolution #51: Encourages the Use of Landfill Gas-to-Recovery Technologies endorses landfill gas collection and gas-to-energy initiatives and urges the mayors from across the nation to support federal and state legislative incentives to support further development of landfill gas-to-energy technologies and their use.

Resolution #52: Encouraging Increased Investments in Weatherization to Benefit the Nation’s Communities urges the federal government to substantially increase the amount of federal resources to assist families, businesses and local governments with weatherization efforts, without jeopardizing LIHEAP and encourages the nation’s mayors to educate their communities, businesses and local governments on the benefits of weatherization.

Resolution #53: Encouraging the Use of Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles endorses the Plug-In Partners initiative and urges mayors from around the nation to join this effort; urges automakers to manufacture flexible fuel plug-in hybrid vehicles; encourages its mayors to submit “soft” or “advance” fleet orders to the Plug-In Partners initiative, which only commit the city to seriously consider the purchase, but shows interest to automakers; and encourages its members to support federal and state legislation that funds incentives, demonstration projects, and fleet orders for plug-in hybrid vehicles.

Resolution #54: Endorses the Increased Use of Renewable Fuels endorses the increased use of renewable fuels and urges mayors from around the nation to join this effort; urges fuel suppliers to manufacture renewable fuels; and encourages mayors to support federal and state legislation that funds incentives and demonstration projects for renewable fuels.

Resolution #18: Increased Funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) urges Congress to fully fund appropriations of the LIHEAP program to $5.1 billion in the FY 2007 budget to accommodate the increase in eligible low-income households and rising energy prices.

Resolution #55: Opposes Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) that The U. S. Conference of Mayors does not support a budget resolution nor a National Energy Policy at any time in the future, which includes any language in support of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Resolution #56: Promotion of Clean, Renewable Energy Sources urges the United States government to develop, adopt, and implement a comprehensive energy policy focused on (1) reducing the United States’ dependence on fossil fuels, (2) dramatically increasing the production of energy and fuel from clean, sustainable, and renewable sources, and (3) appropriate pricing of fossil fuels to reflect actual societal and environmental costs and to encourage conservation.