[Iscn-members] FY 23-25 Budgeting and Energy, Climate, Sustainability

[WORTMAN David * DAS]

Sustainability Champions and Facility Managers:

Believe it or not, agencies are already well underway at building up proposed budgets for the 2023-2025 Fiscal Year. With current projections, the biennium is looking fairly good in terms of being able to support healthy budgets. At the same time, we know that energy, climate issues and sustainability remain priorities in our planning, budgeting and operations. As such now is the time to be putting forth ideas in your agencies to support efforts to reduce your agency carbon footprint, save energy, and support other sustainability issues. A few ideas:


  1.  Does your agency own and operate its own buildings? Are you challenged to meet your energy efficiency targets as reported to the legislature in ODOE's SEED report<https://www.oregon.gov/energy/Data-and-Reports/Documents/2021-SEED-Report.pdf>? Many agencies are and we are taking notice. Now may be a good time to seek funding for studies or projects to meaningfully reduce your building energy use intensity (EUI) as directed by Executive Order 17-20. Energy efficiency pays off over the longer run with lower utility bills.
  2.  Are you planning any new buildings or major renovations? Again, now may be the time to invest to ensure they are lower carbon, high performing buildings as directed by EO 17-20.
  3.  Does your agency struggle to manage sustainability efforts because of a lack of staff time? Now may be the chance to re-classify or add FTE to help manage these programs. Even an 0.5 FTE can really make a difference.
  4.  Do you have un-metered water wells or other water uses? Now may be an opportunity to fund some additional metering so you can track water use, which will only increase in focus as we experience more frequent droughts.

I'm sure many of you have other ideas within your agencies, so I encourage you to take the following actions:


  1.  tap the expertise of your green teams, put your thinking caps on, and generate ideas
  2.  share this email with others in your office
  3.  speak up to the decision makers about this opportunity and the importance for agencies to "lead by example"

Please reach out if you're like to discuss.

Thanks much,

Dave

Dave Wortman (he/him), LEED AP BD+C, ISSP-SA
Statewide Sustainability Officer
Department of Administrative Services | State of Oregon
1225 Ferry St. SE, U100 | Salem, OR 97301-4281
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**NOTE:  Beginning October 20, 2021, my email address will change: david.wortman at das.oregon.gov<mailto:david.wortman at das.oregon.gov>



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