Action

The Regional Health Initiative is an effort to build broad-based community support for the creation of a regional health department to serve all of Lehigh and Northampton Counties.  A regional health department will increase coordination of public-health efforts, increase access to services and improve the region's emergency preparedness.

Water Regionalization Initiative: RenewLV formed a Water Regionalization Sub-Committee to oversee and guide a comprehensive research study co-sponsored by RenewLV and the Water Research Foundation (formerly AwwaRF).  The study "Estimating Benefits of Regional Solutions for Water and Wastewater Service" evaluated the benefits of regionalizing water/wastewater systems in the Lehigh Valley and found that with consolidation residents could save $56 million each year by 2020 . 
Read the Executive Summary of the study here [pdf]. 

The Sustainable Transportation Initiative aims to foster transportation and land-use policies that ensure greater mobility—and greater transportation choice—for all residents, workers and visitors, as a means of both promoting greater investment in the region's core communities and increasing access to jobs, housing, recreational and cultural amenities, and other resources.

Campaign for Equitable Public School Funding in PA: Pennsylvania's method of funding its public schools is outdated, broken and ineffective. And it finally may be abandoned for a better alternative thanks to Govenor Rendell's 2008 budget proposal, which calls for the implementation of a new funding formula based on the results from last year's 'Costing-Out' study conducted by the General Assembly. The legislation would establish a permanent funding formula to provide adequate and equitable funds to schools and would allow school districts the ability to plan with greater certainty about future  funding.