Common use of Best Practice Clause in Contracts

Best Practice. Improve the alignment and integration of YouthWorks and Connecting Activities programs for local high school students pursuing summer jobs and paid internships. Best Practice: Strengthen partnerships between public safety, social services, healthcare providers, and local public and private schools to establish systems and protocols for assessing and identifying children and young adults who present risks to themselves or to others, in order to ensure effective and pro-active responses that can prevent violence and provide timely supports to individuals in need. Energy and Environment Best Practices Greenhouse Gas Reduction‌ Best Practice: Plan Ahead to mitigate climate change by establishing goals, creating an action plan, assigning responsibility, and tracking progress Best Practice: Use Renewable Energy instead of fossil fuels by generating or purchasing clean power and by zoning for renewable power generation Best Practice: Increase Energy Efficiency in order to reduce power consumption, fuel costs, and GHG emissions Best Practice: Promote Zero or Low Carbon Transportation to reduce municipal transportation emissions & those from people living/working in the community Best Practice: Encourage Sustainable Development to reduce, through higher density & mixed-use, the number distance of car trips & resulting GHG emissions Best Practice: Protect and Manage Natural Resources to reduce carbon emissions from loss of natural land cover and to encourage carbon sequestration Best Practice: Reduce Municipal Solid Waste and Increase Recycling in order to reduce GHG emissions associated with solid waste disposal Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Best Practice: Complete a Climate Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan through the Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Program to assess local risks from climate change and identify potential actions to enhance community resiliency Best Practice: Use Municipal Vulnerability Action Grant or Other Funding to Implement Adaptation Actions that utilize nature-based solutions & engage Environmental Justice communities.

Best Practice. Improve the alignment and integration of YouthWorks and Connecting Activities programs for local high school students pursuing summer jobs and paid internships. Engage & Protect Vulnerable Populations in adaptation planning & action to decrease risk to those who are more susceptible to climate change effects Best Practice: Strengthen partnerships between public safetyMainstream Climate Resilience into Capital Planning & Budgeting to ensure investments decrease risk & enhance resilience to a changing climate Best Practice: Integrate Climate Adaptation into Land Use and Environmental Regulation to minimize future risk & costs for new and redevelopment Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Best Practice: Become a Green Community pursuant to M.G.L. c. 25A §10 to realize the energy & environmental benefits Best Practice: Construct Zero Energy Buildings (or communities) to eliminate GHG emissions, social servicesreduce cost, healthcare providers, and local public and private schools & enhance resiliency Best Practice: Provide Electric Vehicle Infrastructure to establish systems and protocols for assessing and identifying children and young adults who present risks to themselves facilitate the purchase & use of electric vehicles Best Practice: Become a Solarize Mass or to others, Solarize Mass Plus Community in order to ensure effective and pro-active responses that can prevent violence and provide timely supports to individuals in need. Energy and Environment Best Practices Greenhouse Gas Reduction‌ Best Practice: Plan Ahead to mitigate climate change by establishing goals, creating an action plan, assigning responsibility, and tracking progress Best Practice: Use Renewable Energy instead of fossil fuels by generating or purchasing clean power and by zoning for help achieve renewable power generation Best Practice: Increase Energy Efficiency in order to reduce power consumption, fuel costs, and energy use & GHG emissions Best Practice: Promote Zero or Low Carbon Transportation to reduce municipal transportation emissions & those from people living/working in the community Best Practice: Encourage reduction goals Sustainable Development to reduce, through higher density & mixed-use, the number distance of car trips & resulting GHG emissions Best Practice: Protect and Manage Natural Resources to reduce carbon emissions from loss of natural land cover and to encourage carbon sequestration Best Practice: Reduce Municipal Solid Waste and Increase Recycling in order to reduce GHG emissions associated with solid waste disposal Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Land Protection Best Practice: Complete a Climate Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Master or Open Space & Recreation Plan through the Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Program to assess local risks from climate change and identify potential actions to enhance community resiliency guide land conservation & development decisions including zoning & land acquisition Best Practice: Use Municipal Vulnerability Action Grant Zone for Natural Resource Protection, Transfer of Development Rights, Traditional Neighborhood, or Other Funding Transit Oriented Development Best Practice: Invest in Land Conservation or Park Creation/Restoration via Community Preservation Act or other funds to Implement Adaptation Actions that utilize nature-based solutions protect land & engage Environmental Justice communitiesprovide outdoor recreation Best Practice: Plant Trees or Adopt a Tree Retention Bylaw/Ordinance to preserve and enhance tree cover Water Resource Management Best Practice: Require Localized Flood Protection Best Practices, including Stormwater Management Measures to increase recharge, manage water movement, reduce pollution, and control flooding to protect lives, public safety, infrastructure, the environment, & critical assets. Best Practice: Protect Public Water Sources in order to reduce potential threats to water quality and the public health of system customers; establish and maintain emergency connections with other municipal or regional systems.

Best Practice. Improve the alignment and integration of YouthWorks and Connecting Activities programs Utilize Advanced Financing Tools such as an enterprise fund, stormwater utility, full cost pricing, or water bank for local high school students pursuing summer jobs and paid internships. water/waste/storm water systems Waste Management Best Practice: Strengthen partnerships between public safety, social services, healthcare providers, Enhance Waste Ban Compliance so that recyclable and local public hazardous materials are diverted from the waste stream and private schools to establish systems and protocols for assessing and identifying children and young adults who present risks to themselves reused or to others, in order to ensure effective and pro-active responses that can prevent violence and provide timely supports to individuals in need. Energy and Environment Best Practices Greenhouse Gas Reduction‌ recycled Best Practice: Plan Ahead to mitigate climate change by establishing goalsDevelop Waste Contracts that are fiscally, creating an action plan, assigning responsibilityenvironmentally, and tracking progress Best Practice: Use Renewable Energy instead of fossil fuels by generating or purchasing clean power and by zoning for renewable power generation Best Practice: Increase Energy Efficiency in order otherwise beneficial to reduce power consumption, fuel costs, and GHG emissions Best Practice: Promote Zero or Low Carbon Transportation to reduce municipal transportation emissions & those from people living/working in the community Best Practice: Encourage Sustainable Development Adopt Pay-As-You-Throw so that residents have an incentive to reduce, through higher density & mixed-use, the number distance of car trips & resulting GHG emissions reduce trash disposal and save money Best Practice: Protect Increase the Recycling Rate through regulatory improvements, service expansion, and Manage Natural Resources to reduce carbon emissions from loss of natural land cover and to encourage carbon sequestration Best Practice: Reduce Municipal Solid Waste and Increase Recycling other mean in order to reduce GHG emissions associated with solid waste and disposal Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience costs Best Practice: Enhance Education via Recycle Smart MA, the Recycling IQ Kit, etc. so residents throw away less, recycle more, & follow smart waste practices Site Cleanup Best Practice: Complete a Climate Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan through Brownfields Inventory so that the Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Program to assess local risks from climate change and identify potential actions to enhance community resiliency is aware of all abandoned & underutilized properties & can develop plan of action Best Practice: Use Municipal Vulnerability Action Grant Conduct Site Assessments to determine the nature and extent of contamination and develop a plan of action Best Practice: Clean Sites to prevent further releases or Other Funding the spreading of contaminants and to Implement Adaptation Actions bring sites back into productive use Best Practice: Facilitate Site Cleanup and Reuse to encourage assessment, cleanup, & reuse of privately held sites offer tax incentives or update regulation Agriculture Best Practice: Adopt a Right to Farm By-law/Ordinance to clearly indicate that utilize nature-based solutions agriculture is a local priority and to minimize abutter conflicts Best Practice: Establish an Agricultural Commission to advocate for local farms, administer a right to farm bylaw, & engage Environmental Justice communitiesotherwise represent agricultural interests Best Practice: Support Sustainable Forestry to help the forest economy in rural areas, improve forest habitats, and assist in the conservation of forest land Best Practice: Support Local Agriculture including Urban Agriculture, Aquaculture, Floriculture, & Horticulture, via marketing, food sourcing, & Farmers Markets to help local businesses and increase awareness of and access to fresh agricultural products Financial Management Best Practices Best Practice: Establish a Budget document that details all revenues and expenditures, provides a narrative describing priorities and challenges, and offers clear and transparent communication of financial policies to residents and businesses. Best Practice: Develop, document and implement Financial Policies and Practices including reserve levels, capital financing, and use of Free Cash. Such policies should identify the responsible parties and procedural steps necessary to carrying out the directed strategy or action.

Best Practice. Improve the alignment and integration of YouthWorks and Connecting Activities programs for local high school students pursuing summer jobs and paid internships. Best Practice: Strengthen partnerships between public safety, social services, healthcare providers, and local public and private schools to establish systems and protocols for assessing and identifying children and young adults who present risks to themselves or to others, in order to ensure effective and pro-active responses that can prevent violence and provide timely supports to individuals in need. Energy and Environment Best Practices Greenhouse Gas Reduction‌ Reduction Best Practice: Plan Ahead to mitigate climate change by establishing goals, creating an action plan, assigning responsibility, and tracking progress progress. Best Practice: Use Renewable Energy instead of fossil fuels by generating or purchasing clean power and by zoning for renewable power generation generation. Best Practice: Increase Energy Efficiency in order to reduce power consumption, fuel costs, and GHG emissions emissions. Best Practice: Promote Zero or Low Carbon Transportation to reduce municipal transportation emissions & those from people living/working in the community community. Best Practice: Encourage Sustainable Development to reduce, through higher density & mixed-mixed- use, the number distance of car trips & resulting GHG emissions emissions. Best Practice: Protect and Manage Natural Resources to reduce carbon emissions from loss of natural land cover and to encourage carbon sequestration sequestration. Best Practice: Reduce Municipal Solid Waste and Increase Recycling in order to reduce GHG emissions associated with solid waste disposal Climate Change Adaptation disposal. Energy Efficiency and Resilience Renewable Energy Best Practice: Complete Become a Climate Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan through Green Community pursuant to M.G.L. c. 25A §10 to realize the Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Program to assess local risks from climate change and identify potential actions to enhance community resiliency energy & environmental benefits. Best Practice: Use Municipal Vulnerability Action Grant Construct high performance all electric buildings (or Other Funding communities) to Implement Adaptation Actions that utilize nature-based solutions reduce GHG emissions & engage Environmental Justice communitiesenhance resiliency. Examples include Zero Energy or Passive House buildings. Best Practice: Convert streetlights to LED technology to reduce cost and GHG emissions. Best Practice: Reduce energy use at times of peak demand to reduce GHG emissions and enhance resiliency. Best Practice: Provide electric vehicle infrastructure to facilitate the purchase & use of electric vehicles and when replacing municipal vehicles evaluate feasibility to integrate electric vehicles into existing fleet(s).