The city’s innovative approach includes agriculture and sustainability.“We’ve received a $300,000 state grant for our agriculture program - we’re the only city in the county with one,” Morris explains.The program supplies fresh, locally grown produce, meats, and dairy products to seniors, homeless shelters, and domestic violence shelters.This initiative has earned and cluster houses outside of areas like the river, floodplain, and high-value USDA farmland to preserve those areas,” Morris notes. The city council’s recent purchase of a 45-acre conservation easement, adding to similar easements and preservation areas, along the river corridor demonstrates this commitment to preservation. 186 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 01
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