Campaign 01 · Council votes pledged
Ready by 2030
100% clean electricity for city operations
A city council resolution committing every municipal building, streetlight, and pump station in Calder City to 100% clean electricity by 2030. It comes with a public progress dashboard, so nobody has to take anyone's word for it.
Seven votes. One city.
Seven makes it veto-proof. The committee sent it to a full vote on July 9.
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Full council vote expected September 2026
The plan, plainly
Calder City government runs 214 electricity accounts: city hall, two libraries, the water treatment plant, every streetlight. Together they used 46 GWh last year, about as much as 4,300 homes. Our Clean Power Gap report found the city could cover most of that from twelve large municipal roofs and a community solar subscription. The net cost is about 1.2% of the operations budget in the first five years, with savings after that.
Ready by 2030 asks the council to commit to that switch on a public timeline. Not a press release, but a resolution with annual reporting, so residents can check the dashboard every year and see the line move.
This is the kind of climate work that belongs to a city: its own buildings, its own budget, its own roofs. It does not need a statehouse or a treaty. It needs five votes, and six are pledged. The seventh makes it veto-proof, and that is what we are organizing for between now and September.
The ask: One more councilmember. Six of nine votes are pledged; the resolution needs a seventh to be veto-proof.
This week
Three ways to move this campaign
Phone call 5 minutes
Call your councilmember about Ready by 2030
Staff tally every call and report them to the member before a vote. The full script is below. Most calls are over in ninety seconds, and voicemail counts.
Show up One evening
Pack the chamber for the Ready by 2030 vote
Councils count the room. You do not have to speak: a full chamber of neighbors in yellow is testimony by itself. September 3, City Hall. We will save you a seat.
Share 2 minutes
Send the plain-language explainer to one person
Most people are worried and busy, not indifferent. Our explainer is the no-doom version of what is happening here and what fixes exist, written to be forwarded.
On the calendar: Pack the chamber: Ready by 2030 council vote , Thursday, September 3, 2026
The other fronts
Your move
Worry is common. Invitations are scarce.
Consider this yours: three questions, and you'll have a first action that fits your week, with the script, template, or seat included.