Top-level priority · Trades · Parks · Power · Water
Park services, plumbing, electrical, heat, water, waste, roads, and all the rest of it. Not patched when it fails — rebuilt to hold, to be maintained, and to carry itself. Everything we touch gets pointed at the sun first. 🌞
And the people who provide services to the rest of us get upgraded too: paid, equipped, trained, insured, and cared for. Healthy people and a healthy planet — from 💙 for a true green 💚 future. No strings attached.
Including but not limited to. If it is under the street, behind the wall, or holding up a park, it belongs on this list.
Mowing, pruning, trail and shoreline repair, playground safety checks, tree planting and watering, trash and needle sweeps, winter clearing. Solar lighting and solar irrigation pumps so a park doesn't need a trench and a meter to stay usable after dark.
Solar path lighting, solar well and irrigation pumps, solar charging benches
Leak repair, lead service line replacement, water heater swaps, drain and sewer clearing, frozen-pipe prevention, fixture and shutoff upgrades, backflow and sump work. Rain capture, greywater reuse, and cisterns where a lot floods every spring.
Solar and heat-pump water heating, solar-driven circulation and sump backup
Panel and service upgrades, grounding and bonding, knob-and-tube and aluminum remediation, GFCI and AFCI, dedicated circuits for heat pumps and EV charging, code correction so a house passes instead of getting condemned.
Rooftop PV, battery backup, islanded critical loads, EV charging
Heat pumps and mini-splits, furnace and boiler safety, venting and combustion checks, duct sealing, ventilation and filtration so the air inside is not the reason a kid has asthma.
PV-offset heat pumps, solar thermal preheat, solar attic and crawl ventilation
Haul-out with sorting, scrap and metal recovery, appliance and mattress handling, composting for blocks and gardens, illegal dump cleanup, bulk pickup days coordinated street by street.
Solar compactors, solar-powered sorting yard, electric haul vehicles
Full-depth repaving instead of another patch, sidewalk and curb-cut repair, ramps and railings, alley grading, striping, snow and ice routes, bus stop shelters and benches — the difference between a neighborhood you can leave and one you can't.
Solar street and crosswalk lighting, solar shelter lighting and charging
Rain gardens, bioswales, permeable surfaces, downspout redirection, culvert clearing, riverbank and Goat Island shoreline stabilization and planting.
Solar monitoring and telemetry on flow, level, and water quality
Smoke and CO alarms, gas leak detection, egress and stairs, locks and lighting, roof and envelope emergency patching, board-up and secure-and-hold on vacant buildings coming back instead of coming down.
Solar security lighting and cameras on properties with no active service
Services with and for the providers. The plumber, the lineworker, the parks crew, the hauler — they are the infrastructure, and they get taken care of like it.
Tradespeople get a real wage on this work. The people who keep the water on and the parks open should not be the last ones taken care of. Funds in, funds out — what comes in from fair-rate work pays the crews doing free work.
Every crew draws from the shared fleet and the equipment library — no one buying a $4,000 camera out of pocket. Respirators, harnesses, monitors, and fit testing are issued with the job, never a line item.
Help with exam fees, CEUs, insurance, and paperwork. Apprentice hours logged and signed so they count. Open to people with records and gaps in their history — the half of recovery nobody funds.
Work orders bundled by block so a plumber isn't burning a day in traffic. Materials staged before the crew arrives. Photos, scope, and sign-off documented so nobody gets blamed for someone else's mess.
A second set of hands, a code question answered, a permit chased, a household calmed down. Providers get support instead of getting left holding it alone.
The crew gets the same care coordination we give households — treatment access, rides, food, housing help. You cannot ask people to rebuild a city while their own life is on fire.
Filling potholes isn't finding solutions. It's paying every year to keep a street broken. The answer is to fund real reconstruction — base, drainage, utilities, and pavement done to spec, once.
So this is what we push for, budget for, and bid honestly: pay for a road, get a road.
Cold patch thrown in a hole is gone by the next freeze-thaw, so the same hole gets billed again every spring. Paying three times for a failure is more expensive than paying once for a road.
Most street failure starts underneath: saturated subgrade, no drainage, crushed stone that was never compacted right. Milling and repaving over a bad base just hides it for a season. Dig it out, rebuild the base, compact it in lifts, then pave.
Catch basins cleared, culverts opened, curbs and crown set so water leaves instead of sitting. Water in the base is what turns a road into potholes — drainage is the paving job.
Water lines, sewer, gas, conduit, and fiber get replaced or sleeved before the asphalt goes down — not cut open eighteen months later. One trench, one closure, one bill.
Written thickness, mix design, compaction and density testing, tack coat, joint construction, and a warranty period with retainage held until it holds. Documented and photographed so nobody argues later.
Crack sealing and surface treatment at year five and ten keeps a good street good for decades. Preventive maintenance on a sound road costs a fraction of reconstruction on a failed one.
Same doctrine everywhere else on this page: a patch buys a month, a rebuild buys a generation. Sun-powered lighting and drainage telemetry go in during the same closure so the street never gets opened twice.
Six rules. Every one of them exists so the work keeps happening after the grant, the news cycle, and the good intentions run out.
Sun first, on every roof, lot, shelter, and pump we touch. Batteries where an outage means a flooded basement or a lost fridge full of insulin. The cheapest kilowatt is the one you never have to purchase.
Community-held tools, vehicles, materials yard, and salvage stock. Once the pool owns them, the same dollar does the job again next month instead of going to a rental counter.
Every job is a teaching job. A block with three trained residents stops needing an emergency call for what a Saturday could fix.
What comes out of one house — fixtures, lumber, appliances, panels, wire — is cleaned, logged, and installed in the next one. The waste stream is the supply chain.
Scheduled upkeep on parks, pumps, panels, and vehicles. Prevention is a fraction of replacement, and it keeps the lights on for the people counting on them.
Kilowatt-hours generated, gallons saved, jobs closed, wages paid, dollars kept in the neighborhood. Written down where anybody can read it.
The vehicles, equipment, and crews are how this work rolls up to a curb. Green energy for families covers the bills and the retrofits inside the house, building reinvigoration brings vacant properties back instead of down, rides and the fleet move people and material, and care coordination looks after the crews and the households alike. Emissions and recycling is where the material and the exhaust from all of it get accounted for. All of it is part of the international green 💚 blue 💙 work. Love is the one true universal language.
A park nobody maintains, a block with brown water, a panel that should have been replaced twenty years ago, a licensed electrician with open days, a hauler with a slow week — all of it goes into the same pool, and the sun does the rest of the lifting.
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