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File Number: 07-00493
Final Action Date:
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION DIRECTING THE CITY
MANAGER TO DEVELOP AN ORDINANCE FOR ESTABLISHING A MIAMI GREEN
PROCUREMENT PROGRAM TO INTEGRATE ENVIRONMENTALLY
PREFERABLE POLICIES INTO ALL CITY PURCHASES OF GOODS AND
SERVICES; SAID ORDINANCE WILL BE DEVELOPED BY CITY STAFF WITHIN
60 DAYS.
WHEREAS, during the past five (5) years, the City of Miami has launched a comprehensive and
ambitious environmental program to clean our streets, our waterways, brown fields, storm drains, and
improve our air and water quality, thus reversing decades of environmental neglect; and,
WHEREAS, in furtherance of this environmental program, Mayor Manuel A. Diaz ("Mayor") was one of
the first United States Mayors to sign the Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement (the "Agreement")
committing cities to take actions to reduce global warming pollution by striving to meet or exceed
Kyoto Protocol targets; and,
WHEREAS, the Mayor's commitment to join other mayors throughout the country (today 400 Mayors
representing over 58 million people have signed the Agreement) brought the issue of environmental
policy to the forefront of South Florida priorities; and,
WHEREAS, during the Mayor's 2006 State of the City Address, core steps for environmental policy
were etched out, increasing the level of focus on innovation, and developing a strong foundation for
environmentalism; and,
WHEREAS, one of those steps was to develop a procurement program that favors environmentally
preferable goods and services; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Miami recognizes the need to support markets for recycled and other
environmentally preferable goods and services by affirmatively encouraging city departments, offices,
agencies and contractors to buy and use such goods and services whenever practicable and to
encourage vendors to make such goods and services available in the marketplace; and
WHEREAS, the City recognizes as a long term objective the need to integrate environmentally
preferable policies into all city purchases; and
WHEREAS, the City recognizes that its departments have a significant role to play in creating and
encouraging a market for environmentally preferable goods and services through their procurement
practices; and
WHEREAS, the City wishes to exercise its power as a participant in the marketplace to ensure that
purchases and expenditures of public monies are made in a manner consistent with the policy of
encouraging the development and sales of environmentally preferable goods and services; and
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WHEREAS, the City of Miami wishes to establish a "Miami Green Procurement" policy addressing the
management, operation, and procurement of environmentally preferable goods and services;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI FLORIDA
Section 1. The City Manager will direct City Staff to develop an ordinance for establishing a "Green
Procurement" Program.
Section 2, City Staff will provide and introduce said ordinance within 60 days of resolution approval.
Section 3. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon its adoption and signature of the
Mayor.{1}
Footnotes:
{1} If the Mayor does not sign this Resolution, it shall become effective at the end of ten calendar days
from the date it was passed and adopted. If the Mayor vetoes this Resolution, it shall become
effective immediately upon override of the veto by the City Commission.
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