2006-05-24 Cities for Climate Protection Minutes

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Reading Advisory Committee on Cities for Climate Protection Program Committee Notes for ay 24, 2006 Present were Stephanie Anderberg, Michele Benson, Ron Daddario, Gina Snyder, and Ray Porter. The minutes for May 10 were accepted unanimously. Ron provided a handout listing needs for Reading Town Day, June 17 from 10 AM to 2 PM. There is a coordination meeting for all tables June 7'h at Old South Methodist church. Michele, Gina, Ron can attend for sure. The space is 8X6: Ron or Michele will provide a table, Gina and Ron 2 chairs each, Stephanie a tent cover. The tote bags will be handed out to those taking the pledge, they will contain various literature, such as Ray_ has train schedules, RMLD is providi_ 'ng CFLs, pledge sheets, info sheets, etc. We will fill totes at next meeting, just prior to Town Day (the fee for Totes due to s, came out to $172 more than we had, so we agreed to each give Stephanie the $30 if we can.) Michele will be borrowing the RMLD bike with the lights for us to attract attention and give kids eehing to do if they visit our table. Ron will check with the town about whether we can ask Home Depot to be at our table to have a display on energy conservation home improvement materials available. The next RMLD board meeting is June 21 (7:30 PM) and there will be a presentation on green power. We also need to see if the board members will sign on to the pledge. We WI-so need to get the town going on using the matching funds that are an annual opportunity through RMLD. The first opportunity might be from the Library - to change over the lighting since they already indicated that they want to do this. The problem is the matching funds aspect. We might have to go to Town Meeting and have the $ am mn nn h , wa runt. Ray handed out an updated time line (see). The key dates come off the intern starting date which is set at June 12, but not confirmed as the first thing is to get training on the software. Michele will check on Tim's availability to train the intern on the software and we'll get a starting date for Emily based on his availability. The idea is to have a gap analysis in early July; Baseline and future forecast in August; final inventory complete by September. There are opportunities to partner with schools and the RMLD. Education programs and posters could be developed. The school safety T-shirt design contest could become an energy savings contest. An ever co vation to e could be provided to each town, or the HS and Comcast could develop a tape for each town. These are opportunities to consider. We could work with the energy star program to evaluate a town building. Since the schools indicated an interest, perhaps one of the schools benchmarked with energy star's K-12 program. The RMLD might be able to help with energy audits. Michele will check with the smaller accounts contact person at RMLD (Joe Beliki (sp?)) on the contact person for school facilities. Ron has been trading emails with Walkable Communities. They wanted to advertise the walk and they need a suggested route. The walk has been postponed to later in June. The group works toward more walkable communities, looking at opportunities to improve walkability, such as sidewalks and safety, benches and trees. June 2°d "An Inconvenient Truth'- Waltham Boston Embassy Theater June 7d' Town Day committee at Old South, Ron will attend, and Gina thinks she can attend June ? 12 or? Intern begins June 13'' Meeting on Pledge with Selectmen June 14Committee meeting June 17 (Saturday) Town Day 10-2 June 21 RMLD Board meeting June 28 Walkable Communities, 2 PM? Followed by their workshop and our Committee meeting.