2006-10-25 Cities for Climate Protection Minutes

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October 25, 2006 Reading Advisory Committee on Cities for Climate Protection Program ' Committee Notes for Oct. 25, 2006 (Next Meeting Nov. 8 at Town Hall) Present were Ron Daddario, Michele Benson, Tracy Sopchak, Gina Snyder, Dan Blodgett and Ray Porter The minutes for Oct. 18 were accepted unanimously. Town Manager Peter Hechenbleikner has provided a letter to encourage Reading citizens to join the EnergySTAR Change a Light Campaign. He has given the okay for our committee to set up a table at the Town Voting on November 7"', but we need to let Ron know if and when we can help staff it. The committee voted unanimously to send a letter of interest for the Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization solicitation that Peter had forwarded to the committee on funding for the Suburban Mobility. To be eligible to submit for a grant, letters of interest must be submitted by November 28 to Barbara Lucas, Chair; Boston Region MPO, Suburban Mobility Subcommittee; 10 Park Plaza, Suite 2150; Boston MA 02116 (fax 617- 973-8855 or email blucas@mapc.org). Green Transit can be a start, some of the requirements include describing existing conditions, administrative and financial structure of the proposed program, a service, a marketing and a financial plan and other information. Ron will check with Peter on sending the letter. Joan had emailed Ron that she spoke with John Doherty at the schools as a followup to our last meeting and John introduced her to Mary Delai (Director of Human Resources and Finance, and Chair of the new Town Energy Committee) who then asked if she'd like to be our CCP representative on the building energy committee. The meetings are during the day and the first meeting is Nov. I" at 2:45 PM. Dan offered to be the official committee liaison after some discussion. Michele and Joe Bilicki of the RMLD are also on the committee as representatives of the accounts at the high school and other town and school buildings. Ron will call Mary 781- 670-2509) and formally introduce the committee. RMLD has a Halloween part for kids and parents on Oct. 26"' from 2-5 PM. Ron will be our CFL set up to help people pledge to the Change a Light Campaign. Dan and Gina as well as some RMLD folks and someone from the Town Energy Committee will be taking the EnergySTAR webcast training on Oct. 26th. (note from the 26th: Dan, Gina, Joe Bilicki and Joe Donoho, Dominic Cacciapuoti). The next Green Sense will be around Peter's letter. The main topic of this meeting was the CCP software results. The community analysis includes: - Residential Electric use from RMLD archives year 2000. This was the first data that Emily entered, and it was for the year that the committee voted as baseline. - Residential gas is from Keyspan. They were only able to go back to 2003 to give us a baseline. Residential oil is based on assessor's records of how many homes use oil for heat, and the CT Heating Council average for residential use of 800 gallons a year, plus data that Michele was able to obtain from co- workers to ground truth the average, which seemed reasonable. - Commercial data is similar, however, there is no oil use available from the assessor for commercial district. (See below on municipal) - Municipal building data for electrical use was not available from the archives, so the data entered is from 2005. - Municipal gas and oil use is from the School Department and they were able to provide data from 2001. Some of the newer town buildings near town center (e.g., Police and Fire Department buildings) are supplied with heating oil, so there is a question as to whether commercial buildings downtown would heat with oil too. Percent C02 by Sector Baseline 70 60 50 d 40- - - 0 U Set ies1 30 0 20 10 0 Al e`GQ oo ~ay~e c~` o Discussion: • The committee is concerned that the data set isn't from a single baseline year (data suppliers weren't all able to provide the year 2000 data, we have the earliest we could get); • As noted at earlier meetings, transportation is by far the largest emission source. There is a lot of traffic traveling on Reading roads, much of it because of state highways even though Interstates were removed from the data (I-93 + I-95 data had to be removed because it was so overwhelming); • The transportation data are from the state and consist of vehicle miles traveled based on state studies, numbers are averaged over the years and over segments of roadways. While the mnde.] is nhle to make ectimntec of ernkzinnc hnw rnn