Correspondence received 2021-FEB-03 from Councillor Hamilton, City of Courtenay re: Help Cities Lead Campaign
Motion
It was moved and seconded that City of Nanaimo write a letter to the: • Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy • Minister of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation • Minister of Municipal Affairs • Attorney-General • Minister responsible for Housing • Minister of Finance expressing its endorsement of the Help Cities Lead campaign; support for the directions set out in the November 2020 Ministerial mandate letters regarding GHG requirements for new buildings, PACE financing, and home energy labelling; and also requesting that the province empower local governments to opt to take action, if they so choose, on the two remaining items of the Help Cities Lead’s campaign, namely GHG requirements for existing buildings and building energy benchmarking.