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Oversight Committee Overview Members Agenda Meeting Notes |
Overview In early 2007 both the City of La Crosse Common Council and the La Crosse County Board adopted resolutions endorsing The Natural Step framework for its principles of sustainable development. Click here for the resolutions. The La Crosse Joint Oversight Committee on Sustainability includes a total of seven members, three City representatives, three County representatives, and one community member. The group has been meeting monthly since August of 2007 and their main task is to draft a joint sustainable strategic plan for the City and County of La Crosse. The sustainable strategic plan will include La Crosse’s vision and common understanding of sustainability, goals, strategies, and actions for both the City and County organizations. Actions will include items such as improving energy conservation measures and exploring new technologies, installing new “green” playground equipment, installing rain gardens to help manage stormwater, looking at methane recovery/conversion projects to generate electricity, to name a few. It is hoped that these types of projects will save taxpayer dollars, reduce energy consumption, and help reduce the City’s and County’s impact on our natural resources. Members  Jai Johnson is a member of the La Crosse City Council and County Board. In March of 2007 she co-sponsored the legislation designating La Crosse an Eco-Municipality and endorsing The Natural Step model along with Dorothy Lenard. In June 2007 she successfully introduced companion legislation to the County Board. Jai is chairperson of the city/county Joint Oversight Committee on Sustainability.
 Dorothy Lenard is a member of the La Crosse City Council. In March of 2007 she co-sponsored the legislation designating the City of La Crosse as an Eco-Municipality and endorsing The Natural Step model along with Jai Johnson. Dorothy is a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Forest
Hydrology and worked with environmental issues in the 70's and 80's.
She feels fortunate to be working on sustainability issues again and
contributing towards important policy changes that are happening around
the world. She works as an Administrator at Viterbo University in the
Natural Sciences Division.
 Dale Hexom is the City of La Crosse’s Director of Public Works.
 Brad Pfaff is a member of the La Crosse County Board.
 Marilyn Pedretti is a member of the La Crosse County Board. Pedretti, one of eight children raised on a dairy farm in Holmen, spent ten years after high school exploring the world of politics both in Madison and Washington, D.C., a few years experiencing the Catholic Worker movement in Kansas City, attended Viterbo University, and later volunteered for two years in El Paso, TX building strawbale houses. Currently the Town Clerk of the Town of Holland, she has built her own off-grid strawbale home on the family farm.
 Brian Fukuda is the Community Development Specialist for La Crosse County, and the County staff representative on the Joint Oversight Committee on Sustainability. Brian received a Masters Degree in Real Estate and Urban Economics from the University of Wisconsin Madison, and worked as a planner for both the City of La Crosse and the City of Onalaska before joining the County. His primary area of interest with regard to sustainability is in land use planning and building development - encouraging more sustainable growth patterns and building designs.
 Nick Nichols is the Joint Oversight Committee on Sustainability community member. He was recently hired as the La Crosse County Sustainability Coordinator. Prior to that Nick worked as Gundersen Lutheran Healthcare’s Environmental Coordinator.
Agenda September 11th Agenda (pdf) Meeting Notes 08-26-2008: Meeting Notes (pdf) 07-08-2008: Meeting Notes (pdf) 11-07-2007: Meeting Notes (pdf) 10-10-2007: Meeting Notes (pdf) 09-26-2007: Meeting Notes (pdf) 07-31-2007: Meeting Notes (pdf) 07-26-2007: Meeting Notes (pdf) | 
The City passed a 25 by 25 resolution endorsing the Governor’s mission to generate 25% of Wisconsin’s electricity and transportation fuels from renewable sources by 2025. |
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