Office of Sustainability & Resilience 2025 Annual Progress Report

Trash Bash In March 2025, OSR partnered with Reconsidered Goods, a creative reuse store and nonprofit organization, to host a Trash Bash competition. At this event, four teams of local artists competed to create art installations using only repurposed materials.

Sustainability & Resilience Team Shree Dorestant, DM Chief Sustainability Officer Katie Farina Environmental Services Analyst OSR Staff & CSC Members

Michelle Gill-Moffat Sustainability Analyst John Hendricks Sustainability Analyst (GIS)

Sergey Kobelev Energy Manager Richard Lovett Environmental Compliance Support Manager Sarah Montgomery Environmental Compliance Specialist Eddie Raynard Environmental Compliance Coordinator John Ridge

Telematics Pilot Program: Fleet Efficiency Study In July, OSR started a partnership with the fleet technology company Samsara, to monitor the idle time and use of City vehicles. This one-year pilot program involves installing telematic devices in 100 vehicles across seven departments. Telematic devices collect real-time data to evaluate fuel efficiency, idling, driving behaviors, and other information. The data is analyzed to identify opportunities to right-size the fleet and transition to alternative-fuel vehicles as lease periods end. As of December, 2025, initial findings showed the 100 study vehicles accumulated more than 5,000 hours of idle time, approximately 50% of the vehicles' total operating time. This idling time consumed roughly 3,000 gallons of fuel, at a cost of nearly $10,000. Following the study’s completion in Summer 2026, full data from the study vehicles will be analyzed to identify specific action items. Examples may include creating idling reduction training required for all authorized City fleet users, identifying initial candidates for replacement with hybrid or electric vehicles, and developing a strategy to expand telematic deployment to the full City fleet.

Landfill Technician Jeff Sovich, AICP Sustainability Planning Administrator Michael Szychowicz

Landfill Specialist Gregory Williams Energy Program Coordinator

2025 Community Sustainability Council Conor Baker, Co-Chair Andrew Randall, Vice Chair Melissa Bullins Sheeba Dawood Nicole Gaines Eric Ireland Jacques Pierre Will Yearns

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