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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
City Council Regular Meeting: April 4, 2023
AGENDA ITEM: Mayor’s Water Challenge AGENDA SECTION:
Proclamation
PREPARED BY: Logan Martin, City Administrator AGENDA NO. 3.c.
ATTACHMENTS: Proclamation APPROVED BY: LJM
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Announce enclosed proclamation
BACKGROUND
The 12th annual National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation was received by Mayor Weisensel.
The Mayor has encouraged us to support this challenge by discussing it publicly on all platforms.
The challenge takes place in April and allows residents to make a series of online pledges at
mywaterpledge.com to reduce their impact on the environment and to see immediate savings in their
water, trash, and electricity bills.
This is a program that is intended to explore ways to manage residential consumption of water and power,
and to inspire its residents to care for our natural resources. More information is available on the City’s
website (https://www.rosemountmn.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=496)
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS the city of Rosemount continues to explore ways to manage residential
consumption of water and power, and to inspire its residents to care for our natural
resources; and
WHEREAS cities can engage in efforts to inspire their own communities, as well as their
neighboring cities, to become better environmental stewards; and
WHEREAS the 12th annual National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation
presented by the Wyland Foundation and Toyota, with support from the U.S EPA
WaterSense, The Toro Company, National League of Cities, Hobie Surf, and Petal, is a
non-profit challenge to residents to encourage pollution reduction and smart water use;
and
WHEREAS, with the encouragement of their Mayors, residents may register their
participation in their city's Challenge, online, by making simple pledges to decrease their
water use and to reduce pollution for the period of one year, thereby assisting their cities
to apply State and Federal water conservation strategies and to target mandated
reductions; and
WHEREAS from April 1- 30, 2023, the City of Rosemount wishes to inspire its residents
and its neighboring communities to take the "Wyland Mayor's Challenge for Water
Conservation" by making a series of online pledges at mywaterpledge.com to reduce their
impact on the environment and to see immediate savings in their water, trash, and
electricity bills; Residents will further be provided with tools to take specific measurable
actions throughout the year to improve the sustainable use of natural resources;
Now, Therefore, I, Jeffery D. Weisnesel, Mayor of Rosemount Minnesota, do hereby
proclaim that the City of Rosemount agrees and supports the "Wyland Mayor's Challenge
for Water Conservation" emphasis from April 1- 30, 2023, through a series of
communication and outreach strategies, whether new or existing, to encourage
Rosemount residents to take the conservation "Challenge".
Dated this 4th day of April, 2023.
Mayor _______________________________________________