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Town of Reading - Meeting Minutes <br />• Various ways to approach taken to get started with incremental restrictions. <br />• Committee resources are limited and has completing priorities to reach Net Zero <br />goals <br />• Priorities educational efforts and look to approaching Town Meeting in spring of 2024 <br />• Electric lawn mowers are also a viable option. <br />• Batteries are Interchangeable between various yard devices <br />Polystyrene Bylaw Implementation <br />• Ben Cares updating the Town Website to have information on the bylaw and <br />background material <br />• Second page will have the history of the bylaw development <br />Friends and Family Day <br />• Confirmed that the plastics sorting game would be our child activity <br />• Student poster about stormwater mitigation <br />• Community Garden poster <br />• Suggestion box to get to Zero Waste (referred to Select Board) <br />Bicycling Recycling Event <br />• Over 180 received <br />• Great support from all those that participated <br />• Great interest and support from RMLD <br />Funding Request from the Town <br />• Fidel prompted to ask for fiscal 2023/4 funding <br />• Cover expected expenses related to redoing the energy survey <br />• Provide an allowance for additional printing <br />• Estimated request of $2000 <br />Required Training for Open Meeting Law <br />• Laura Gemme provided information about taken the training. <br />• Other training on Conflict of Interest <br />Goals of this Committee for 2023 <br />• Current commitments <br />o Polystyrene ban <br />o Heating / cooling survey for 2023 <br />• Green Community Application <br />o Previously lead through Town Planning <br />o Need to pass article at Town Meeting (fee contribution) <br />o RMLD to implement charging system <br />• Solar Installations on Town Building Roofs <br />• Heat Pumps Adoption <br />• Energy Stretch Code Adoption <br />• Transportation topics <br />• Create a survey of Town engagement and priorities (Travis and Genady) <br />Page 1 2 m3o�o� <br />