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Town of Reading RECEIVED <br />Meeting Minutes TOWN CLERK <br />REAOIi ]i, MA. <br />Board -Committee -Commission -Council: 2023 MAR -8 PM 3: 11 <br />Climate Advisory Committee <br />Date: 2022-03-23 Time: 7:00 PM <br />Building: Reading Town Hall Location: Berger Room <br />Address: 16 Lowell Street <br />Purpose: Bi -monthly meeting <br />Attendees: Members - Present: <br />David Zeek, Chair; Ray Porter, Secretary; Jeff Everson, Member; Celeste <br />Kracke, Member; Genady Pilyaysky, Member; Walt Talbot, Associate <br />Member; Travis Estes, Associate Member; <br />Members - Not Present: <br />Others Present: <br />Lori Weir, Resident <br />Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Ray Porter <br />Topics of Discussion: <br />Meeting was held via a Zoom Conference Call <br />Welcome to Members and Guests <br />Review minutes, vote on acceptance <br />Meeting minutes for 3/9/2022 approved as amended <br />Polystyrene Containers and Single use Plastic (Lori Weir) <br />• Propose a by-law for limiting plastics in the form Wakefield passed <br />• Lori to check with Wakefield on how they arrived at their by-law <br />• MassGreen.org has information on banning polystyrene containers and automatic <br />distribution of single use plastic utensils <br />• Any mechanism to incentivize reusable items instead of banning items <br />• Possible work with a local restaurant to pilot a program <br />Outreach Activities — subcommittee report <br />• Presentation of discussion had by the subcommittee <br />• Town Forest Day is May 1 <br />• Seed swap at the Community Garden <br />• Soil conservation topic in concert with ConCom (Ray, Celeste and Walt) <br />• Joe Carnahan of ConCom contact <br />• Draft approach by April 13 <br />• RMLD Energy Fair, rebates <br />• Focus on environmental actions <br />• Need an approach to be more expansive in our outreach <br />Page I 1 a.e <br />