At the same time, a number of project members formed a new, non-profit organization, Priorities Partners, to lobby for implementation of project recommendations and track the City's progress. In September 1996, the City released its internal review of Priorities '95 recommendations. The report pointed out many of the recommendations were currently being addressed in some fashion. The City made a tentative commitment to implement a significant number of new actions. At the same time, policy makers maintained that barriers would prevent implementation of others.
Some recommendations deal with multiple ideas and are reflected in more than one chart column.
Since the project's conclusion, the City has attempted to track the status of project recommendations to determine how many are actually being implemented. Because the recommendations, in most cases, deal with general environmental strategies, it's sometimes difficult to link specific City actions to individual project recommendations. On the other hand, the general nature of many strategies also means that a single City action may address the central idea in many different project recommendations. All of this means that implementing these strategies is a fluid process, that drawing conclusions about progress can be a matter of interpretation, and that evidence of change may not be immediately apparent. Each year since 1996, City department heads have been asked to review all project recommendations.