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Resolution: R-07-0198
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3500 Pan American
Drive
Miami, FL 33133
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File Number: 07-00493 Final Action Date: 4/12/2007
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION DIRECTING THE CITY
MANAGER TO DEVELOP AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A "MIAMI GREEN
PROCUREMENT PROGRAM," THAT ESTABLISHES PURCHASING POLICIES
THAT ENCOURAGE THE USE OF ENVIRONMENTALLY PREFERABLE GOODS
AND SERVICES BY THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY"); DIRECTING THE CITY
ADMINISTRATION TO PRESENT SAID ORDINANCE WITHIN SIXTY DAYS TO THE
CITY COMMISSION FOR ITS CONSIDERATION.
WHEREAS, during the past five (5) years, the City of Miami ("City") 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 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
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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
WHEREAS, the City 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 recitals and findings contained in the Preamble to this Resolution are adopted by
reference and incorporated as if fully set forth in this Section.
Section 2. The City Manager is directed to develop an ordinance establishing a "Miami Green
Procurement Program," that establishes purchasing policies that encourage the use of
environmentally preferable goods and services by the City.
Section 3. The City Administration is directed to present said ordinance within sixty days to the
City Commission for its consideration.
Section 4. 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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