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��MkEn <br />F <br />Town of Reading <br />Meeting Minutes <br />ttLcEivEO <br />OWN CLERK <br />" ",OINI MASS. <br />Board - Committee - Commission - Council: <br />Climate Advisory Committee <br />Date: 2014 -12 -17 <br />Building: Reading Town Hall <br />Address: 16 Lowell Street <br />Purpose: BI- monthly meeting <br />Attendees: Members - Present: <br />M5 AN 28 P It 08 <br />Time: 7:00 PM <br />Location: Conference Room <br />Ron D'Addario, member; David Williams, Chair and member; Laurie Ann <br />Sylvia, member; Gina Snyder, associate member <br />Members - Not Present: <br />Joan Boegel, member; Ray Porter, member; Michele Benson, associate <br />member <br />Others Present: <br />n/a <br />Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Gina Snyder <br />Topics of Discussion: <br />• Review and approve minutes of recent meeting. The committee voted to approve <br />minutes of the 12/03/2014 meeting as written by Joan Boegel with minor revisions. <br />Adopt an Island. Ray emailed to follow up on the site visit to the island on High <br />Street (Sunday, December 7 at 1) resulted in findings that the island would need <br />some tree trimming and glossy buckthorn removal. Additional plantings could be <br />decided by the committee. Gina noted that there had been a bench and the <br />committee could put in another. Dave contacted Jane Fiore to verify that DPW will <br />deliver wood chips /mulch and then confirmed that the committee would adopt. <br />No action needed at this time with frozen ground, start up around April 2015. <br />• Reading Public Library project. No new information. <br />Business cardboard recycling. Ron surveyed nine businesses abutting the town <br />Parking Area behind Main St. All were positive to the idea, however, 2 felt that they <br />generated no cardboard waste to speak of; 2 surveys were kept to be completed <br />when managers get in; and 5 said they'd like to see it and would be willing to walk <br />across the lot to get to it. Of those 5, one indicated they would not want to see a <br />parking spot used. Ron will ask a few more along Haven Street, and draft a report <br />that Gina will help with and Laurie Ann will pull the results together after January 5th. <br />Aiming for short report to be ready by next meeting January 14th for approval for <br />chair to then provide to Town Manager. A tenth business, CVS, referred Ron to <br />"Corporate ". Gina offered to write to CVS corporate to ask what is done in Reading <br />and if they would participate. <br />• Vehicle eV charging stations. A company in Wilmington continues to work to get <br />one or more ChargePolnt stations installed, they intend to publicize when they are in. <br />Page 1 1 n.soaa, <br />