Common use of Best Practice Clause in Contracts

Best Practice. Utilize Advanced Financing Tools such as an enterprise fund, stormwater utility, full cost pricing, or water bank for water/waste/storm water systems Waste Management Best Practice: Enhance Waste Ban Compliance so that recyclable and hazardous materials are diverted from the waste stream and reused or recycled Best Practice: Develop Waste Contracts that are fiscally, environmentally, and otherwise beneficial to the community Best Practice: Adopt Pay-As-You-Throw so that residents have an incentive to reduce trash disposal and save money Best Practice: Increase the Recycling Rate through regulatory improvements, service expansion, and other mean in order to reduce waste and disposal 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 Brownfields Inventory so that the community is aware of all abandoned & underutilized properties & can develop plan of action Best Practice: 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 the spreading of contaminants and to 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 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, & otherwise 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. Utilize Advanced Financing Tools such as an enterprise fundImplement a Local Hazard Mitigation Plan that outlines natural hazards that affect your municipality, stormwater utilityidentify actions to reduce any impacts from those hazards, full cost pricingand create a pipeline of shovel ready projects for state and federal funding. Use the data and information from the State Hazard Mitigation & Climate Adaptation Plan (SHMCAP) to help guide local officials and community leaders during Local Hazard Mitigation Plan development and other strategic planning efforts that address risks and vulnerabilities to natural hazards, or water bank for water/waste/storm water systems Waste Management especially those exacerbated by climate change. xxxxx://xxx.xxxx.xxx/info-details/local-hazard-mitigation- planning. Best Practice: Enhance Waste Ban Compliance so Collaborate with the Municipal Police Training Committee (MPTC) to implement the 2020 police reform legislation fully, including: use of force training focusing on de-escalation, school resource officer training, Bridge Academy compliance for any part-time officers and 40 hours of annual in-service training. Best Practice: Ensure compliance with policies that recyclable govern the use of the statewide Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit (SAECK) tracking system with special attention on meeting statutory deadlines for hospitals and hazardous materials are diverted from the waste stream and reused or recycled collection sites. Best Practice: Develop Waste Contracts that are fiscallywhole community plan to divert, environmentallyprevent, and otherwise beneficial suppress behaviors that lead to the community gun violence, especially among young people. Best Practice: Adopt Pay-As-You-Throw so Collaborate with the Statewide Interoperability Coordinator (SWIC) and develop policies that residents have an incentive to reduce trash disposal integrate with the Statewide Communications Interoperability Plan (SCIP) and save money the Massachusetts Interoperable Emergency Communications Best Practices guideline regarding your public safety agency’s communications and interoperable resource utilization and planning. Best Practice: Increase the Recycling Rate Pursue opportunities for returning citizens to reintegrate into their community after incarceration through regulatory improvementspersonal connection, service expansionmeaningful work, sustainable housing, and other mean in order effective treatment according to reduce waste and disposal costs their unique personal needs. Regionalization/Shared Services Best Practices Best Practice: Enhance Education via Recycle Smart MARegionalize services and share resources among municipalities for efficient and effective service delivery to residents and taxpayers in this era of shrinking budgets, the Recycling IQ Kitloss of seasoned employees to retirement, etcand increased need for service improvements. so residents throw away less, recycle more, & follow smart waste practices Site Cleanup Best Practice: Complete School/Municipal Shared Services Feasibility Study: Conduct a Brownfields Inventory so that the community is aware feasibility study on options for shared services among school districts and municipalities for efficient and effective service delivery to residents and taxpayers in this era of all abandoned & underutilized properties & can develop plan shrinking budgets, loss of action seasoned employees to retirement, and increased need for service improvements. Best Practice: Review Existing Regional or Shared Services Arrangements: Existing regional or shared services arrangements can be difficult to sustain over time. Conduct Site Assessments an organizational and operational review of existing an existing arrangement to determine the nature improve its long-term viability. This study should include substantial engagement of all partners and extent development of contamination and develop a plan of action future-focused strategies. Transportation & Public Works Best Practice: Clean Sites to prevent further releases or the spreading of contaminants and to bring sites back into productive use Best Practice: Facilitate Site Cleanup and Reuse to encourage assessment, cleanup, Practices Safe & reuse of privately held sites offer tax incentives or update regulation Agriculture Active Transportation Best Practice: Adopt a Right to Farm By-law/Ordinance to clearly indicate Transit Oriented Development (XXX) plan or policy that agriculture is a local priority and to minimize abutter conflicts Best Practice: Establish an Agricultural Commission to advocate for local farmsestablishes zoning regulation around transit centers that maximizes bicyclist, administer a right to farm bylaw, & otherwise represent agricultural interests Best Practice: Support Sustainable Forestry to help the forest economy in rural areas, improve forest habitatspedestrian, and assist in the conservation transit use, allows for lower levels 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 challengesrequired parking, and offers clear and transparent communication of financial policies encourages mixed use development 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 actionensure basic amenities are placed near population centers.

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Utilize Advanced Financing Tools such as Perform an assessment of the municipality’s enterprise fundfunds, stormwater utilityincluding revenues, full cost pricingexpenditures, or water bank for water/waste/storm water systems Waste Management Best Practice: Enhance Waste Ban Compliance so that recyclable and hazardous materials are diverted from the waste stream and reused or recycled Best Practice: Develop Waste Contracts that are fiscally, environmentallyindirect costs, and otherwise beneficial to the community Best Practice: Adopt Pay-As-You-Throw so that residents have an incentive to reduce trash disposal related policies and save money Best Practice: Increase the Recycling Rate through regulatory improvements, service expansion, and other mean in order to reduce waste and disposal 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 Brownfields Inventory so that the community is aware of all abandoned & underutilized properties & can develop plan of action Best Practice: Conduct Site Assessments procedures to determine the nature whether enterprise fund(s) are self-sufficient and extent of contamination make recommendations for best financial policies and develop a plan of action Best Practice: Clean Sites to prevent further releases or the spreading of contaminants practices. Housing and to 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 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, & otherwise 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 Livable Communities Best Practices Best Practice: Establish a Budget document that details all revenues Create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund and/or adopt the Community Preservation Act to fund production and expenditures, provides a narrative describing priorities and challenges, and offers clear and transparent communication preservation of financial policies to residents and businessesaffordable housing in your community. Best Practice: Develop, document Take steps to demonstrate housing production and/or zoning best practices in an effort to obtain Housing Choice Community Designation. Designation provides access to an exclusive grant program and priority status for state grants. Best Practice: Create and implement Financial Policies and Practices a Housing Production Plan (HPP) that accounts for changing demographics, including reserve levelsyoung families, capital financingchanging workforce, and an aging population. Conduct ongoing and robust outreach and education about housing needs in your community to dispel common myths about the effects of new housing. Create an inventory of municipally owned and publicly controlled land that can potentially developed for housing production. Best Practice: Adopt Chapter 40R Smart Growth as of right zoning for “missing middle housing” to facilitate the creation of dense residential or mixed-use smart growth zoning districts, including a set percentage of Free Cashaffordable housing units, to be located near transit stations, if applicable, or in areas of concentrated development such as existing city and town centers, and in other locations near activity centers. Such policies should identify Best Practice: Amend zoning to reduce required off street parking spaces for residential development. Review MAPC “Perfect fit Parking” study of parking utilization compared to requirements demonstrating requirements for multi-family parking are almost universally too high. Best Practice: Adopt or amend zoning to streamline the responsible parties process for homeowners to build Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) which are also known as “in law apartments”. Consider removing requirements for familial relationship. Distribute materials from AARP promoting advantages of ADUs. Best Practice: Perform a comprehensive review of Zoning Bylaws through an informed racial equity and procedural steps necessary civil rights lens and recommend any changes for adoption by Town Meeting/City Council. Provide information to carrying out officials and the directed strategy public about exclusionary practices in zoning. Consider reducing minimum lot sizes. Best Practice: Pursue land use and housing training opportunities such as the Citizen Planner Training Collaborative (CPTC), Massachusetts Housing Partnership’s Housing Institute, or actiontrainings by state and regional entities. Become versed in available state, regional and federal funding opportunities, tax credits, and incentive programs. Best Practice: Complete and submit to HUD an “Assessment of Fair Housing Report,” incorporating HUD data and assessment tools, local data and knowledge, a significant community participation process, and the assessment tool. Access technical assistance from non- profit groups with expertise. Best Practice: Develop a re-use plan or feasibility analysis for revitalization of existing municipal or publicly owned land or buildings Human Resources Best Practices Best Practice: Cost-Out Collective Bargaining proposals so that the impact of the total package is known. This provides the municipality with a clear understanding of both short-term and long-term budgetary impacts. Best Practice: Develop a Workplace Safety program so that the risk of on-the-job injuries is minimized.

Best Practice. Utilize Advanced Financing Tools such as an enterprise fund, stormwater utility, full cost pricing, or water bank for water/waste/storm water systems Waste Management Best Practice: Enhance Waste Ban Compliance so that recyclable and hazardous materials are diverted from the waste stream and reused or recycled Best Practice: Develop Waste Contracts that are fiscally, environmentally, and otherwise beneficial to the community Best Practice: Adopt Pay-As-You-Throw so that residents have an incentive to reduce trash disposal and save money Best Practice: Increase the Recycling Rate through regulatory improvements, service expansion, and other mean in order to reduce waste and disposal 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 Brownfields Inventory so that the community is aware of all abandoned & underutilized properties & can develop plan of action Best Practice: 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 the spreading of contaminants and to 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 agriculture is a local priority and to minimize abutter conflicts conflicts. Best Practice: Establish an Agricultural Commission to advocate for local farms, administer a right to farm bylaw, & otherwise represent agricultural interests 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 land. Best Practice: Support Local Agriculture including Urban Agriculture, Aquaculture, Floriculture, & Horticulture, via education, marketing, food sourcingpromotion, & Farmers Markets and the Farm to School initiative to help local agricultural businesses and increase awareness of and access to fresh as well as value-added agricultural products through the effort of an organized community farmers market and/or an agricultural fair/festival. Best Practice: Establish a city/town/local Food Policy Council to address food system inequities, adopt policies/bylaws, and develop meaningful solutions to eradicate food insecurity in the region. Best Practice: Commit to supporting the protection of agriculture in your community. Commit to co-holding Agricultural Preservation Restriction by contributing towards the acquisition of easements. Best Practice: Identify and assess food aid and hunger relief programming efforts, education and outreach, and opportunities for collaboration with local farms, fisheries, processors, and distributors to engage and reach more community members. Best Practice: Work with local school districts to put in place policies that attempt to purchase food from local farmers and encourage institutions to do the same. Best Practice: Create an inventory of local farms and quantify the fiscal benefits to your community of keeping land in agriculture through a Cost of Community Services study. Also document the cultural and environmental benefits of agriculture in your town. 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: Develop and utilize a Long-range Planning/Forecasting Model that assesses both short-term and long-term financial implications of current and proposed policies, programs and assumptions over a multi-year period.

Best Practice. Utilize Advanced Financing Tools such as an enterprise fundFinancial Trend Monitoring, stormwater utility, full cost pricing, or water bank modeled after the ICMA’s Financial Trend Monitoring System (FTMS). Housing and Economic Development Best Practices Preparing for water/waste/storm water systems Waste Management Success‌ Best Practice: Enhance Waste Ban Compliance so Create an Economic Development Plan that recyclable engages diverse stakeholders, leverages local and hazardous materials are diverted from regional economic strengths and assets, encourages innovation and entrepreneurship, and/or promotes workforce development planning and implementation. Best Practice: Align Land Use Regulations, especially zoning, capital investments, and other municipal actions with Housing Development, Economic Development, Master, Land Use Priority or other plans for future growth. Promote development and reuse of previously developed sites. Best Practice: Create and Distribute an Economic Development Guide/Manual to not only promote development goals and priorities, but also specifically and clearly outlines the waste stream community’s policies and reused procedures related to zoning and permitting. Best Practice: Create Opportunities for Engaging Diverse Stakeholders in economic development efforts, such as to assist with identification of priority development projects, improve local permitting processes, and proactively address obstacles to housing accessibility and affordability as well as job creation. Best Practice: Create Cross-Sector Partnerships to help carry out community-driven responses to community-defined issues and opportunities for economic development. Best Practice: Create a District Management Entity that engages public/private stakeholders to develop and support downtown revitalization efforts. Best Practice: Adopt as-of-Right Zoning and/or Streamlined Permitting to promote development in priority districts. Best Practice: Adopt Zoning for Mixed-Use Development, including Transit Oriented Development, where appropriate. Best Practice: Adopt Chapter 40R Smart Growth zoning to facilitate the creation of dense residential or recycled mixed-use smart growth zoning districts, including a high percentage of affordable housing units, to be located near transit stations, in areas of concentrated development such as existing city and town centers, and in other highly suitable locations. Competitiveness Best Practice: Engage in an Economic Development Self-Assessment exercise to identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas of opportunity. Best Practice: Establish and Utilize Performance Data to evaluate the competitiveness of the community, conduct year to year comparisons, and measure performance against comparable communities. Best Practice: Create a Public Dashboard to benchmark, monitor, and communicate to the public regarding various housing and economic development performance measures. Housing Best Practice: Create a Housing Production Plan (HPP) that accounts for changing demographics, including young families, changing workforce, and an aging population. Best Practice: Amend Zoning By-Laws to allow for increased density and housing opportunities in a manner that is consistent with neighborhood character and supportive of aging in community. Best Practice: Develop Waste Contracts that are fiscallySector Strategies and Plans in collaboration with various providers and stakeholders to address homelessness for specific high need population groups, environmentallysuch as homeless youth, and otherwise beneficial to the community Best Practice: Adopt Pay-As-You-Throw so that residents have an incentive to reduce trash disposal and save money Best Practice: Increase the Recycling Rate through regulatory improvementsveterans, service expansionolder adults, and other mean in order to reduce waste and disposal costs Best Practice: Enhance Education via Recycle Smart MA, the Recycling IQ Kit, etcand/or families. so residents throw away less, recycle more, & follow smart waste practices Site Cleanup Best Practice: Complete an Assessment of Fair Housing Report, including strategic goals in alignment with HUD’s new rules to affirmatively further fair housing. Using HUD data, local data and knowledge, a Brownfields Inventory so that significant community participation process, and the assessment tool provided by HUD, the community is aware of all abandoned & underutilized properties & can develop plan of action will prepare, complete, and submit its AFH to HUD. Urban Renewal Planning Best Practice: Conduct Site Assessments Determine need and appropriateness of establishing an Urban Renewal Entity in accordance with MGL chapter 121B. If prepared to determine proceed, develop action plan and timeline for the nature and extent creation of contamination and develop a plan of action the urban renewal entity. Best Practice: Clean Sites to prevent further releases or Prepare an Urban Renewal Plan Application in accordance with MGL chapter 121B in partnership with the spreading of contaminants and to 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 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, & otherwise 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 urban renewal entity. Human Resources Best Practices Best Practice: Establish Cost-Out Collective Bargaining proposals so that the impact of the total package is known. This provides the municipality with a Budget document that details all revenues clear understanding of both short-term and expenditures, provides a narrative describing priorities and challenges, and offers clear and transparent communication of financial policies to residents and businesseslong-term budgetary impacts. Best Practice: Develop, document and implement Financial Policies and Practices including reserve levels, capital financing, and use Develop a Workplace Safety program so that the risk of Free Cash. Such policies should identify the responsible parties and procedural steps necessary to carrying out the directed strategy or actionon-the-job injuries is minimized.