Last Advocacy Week in Review of 2013
Reminders for 2014
2014 Advocacy Planning - Chapter Priorities
It was great to see so many chapter volunteers and staff at Greenbuild. Many of you heard about the 2014 Chapter priorities, specifically about Advocacy in 2014, in Philly or prior to that when the Community Advancement team hosted an online forum to role out the priorities in the Fall.
The 2014 chapter advocacy priority will continue to carry forward USGBC’s seven advocacy campaigns. In addition, USGBC will collaborate with chapters to establish critical infrastructure for our advocacy work in 2015 and beyond. We will provide resources, support and training to help each chapter craft their unique 2015 Chapter Advocacy Plan. We have provided two documents to help chapters move towards this new approach. One of the documents is a tool developed by the Aspen Institute to help organizations do long-term planning and an internal guideline we have put together for chapters.
2014 Monthly Advocacy Call
Apologies for the confusion with this month's advocacy call. In 2014, our monthly calls will be 4pm every 3rd Monday of the Month. However, January's call will be on Monday, January 13th and February's call is on Monday, February 10th. USGBC observes Martin Luther King, Jr Day and Presidents Day, the office is closed those days.
Click to add the calls/webex to your calendar. The calendar invite will include the webex link and call in number.
Federal Update
With only a few
short weeks before the New Year, the House and Senate completed a series of
important legislative milestones including the bipartisan budget deal. With this
budget deal in place, the House and Senate Appropriations Committee will
begin to formally negotiate over the holiday recess by dividing up some $498.1
billion in domestic discretionary spending.
They will have until January 15th to negotiate
a spending package to replace the expiring continuing
resolution to fund the government for rest
of the fiscal year. More details will become available in early January so stay
tuned for developments.
Congress has also
cleared the re-authorization of programs at the Department of
Defense, which authorizes
$632.8 billion for the Pentagon and defense-related programs for FY 2014.This
year’s authorization no longer contains limitations regarding the Department of
Defense's use of green building codes and rating systems, including LEED. For more
information on these provisions and others the summary of the defense
bills are included here.
Chapter News
New Jersey Priority Permitting bill
SB
2732 directs the Department of Community Affairs, the Department of
Environmental Protection, the Department of Transportation, municipal agencies,
and county planning boards to give priority consideration to permit
applications for green building projects.
USGBC-North Pole News
In case anyone was wondering about about the greenness of Santa's workshop.
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Happy Holidays! See you in 2014.
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