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8A Page 3 . and serves as a catalyst for these organizations to work together toward the goal of reducing regional carbon dioxide emissions. SSV provides a variety of workshops and seminars, access to possible grants from its Energy Efficiency Incentive Funds, education and information sharing, best practices, and tools and resources including a progress reporting tool. This initiative's standard goal is for its participants to reduce carbon output to 20% below 1990 levels by the year 2010. The membership cost is $1,000 annually. 3. International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) . ICLEI's initiative provides cities with a variety of resources, and obliges a city to report quantified results and progress annually, following the ICLEI format. ICLEI provides its members with information resources, material for articles and stories, and software and training packages, organizes conferences, facilitates networking and city-to-city exchanges, carries out research and pilot projects, and offers technical services and consultancy. Member cities can set their own targets for emission reduction. The membership cost is $1,200 annually. ICLEl's technical and consulting services can be provided, on a contract fee basis, in a variety of areas including: . Support to implement planning, environmental management, green purchasing, and other climate protection actions; . Surveys, best practices research, methodological research, and other studies; . Development of pilot and demonstration projects. Aside from becoming formal partners in one of these ongoing initiatives, the City can perform a number of activities, at varying levels of effort depending on the resources that are or will become available. These approaches include: 1. Level 1: City Operations ~ Reduce emission in all City operations This approach is feasible with existing human resources, although it would require re~ prioritizing and shifting projects that staff are currently working on. It would consist of the City doing all it can to reduce our own carbon footprint, and would include only minimal actual measuring and reporting; it would not measure and report on the community-at-Iarge efforts and results. We could: . Use 2000 as the baseline for the City's own operations' carbon emissions inventory, which can be done primarily in-house with some additional funding, although again this approach will require redirection of human resources from current work. An inventory performed by staff would, by necessity due to our resource limitations, be somewhat rudimentary