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Meeting Minutes
Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Climate Advisory Committee
Date: 2014 -04 -09
Building: Reading Town Hall
Address: 16 Lowell Street
Purpose: Bi- monthly meeting
Attendees: Members - Present:
Time: 7:00 PM
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Location: Lower Level Conference Room
Joan Boegel, member; Ray Porter, Member; Gina Snyder, associate; Ron
D'Addario, member
Members - Not Present:
Laurie Ann Sylvia, Michele Benson, David Williams
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Ronald M. D'Addario
Topics of Discussion:
Agenda Item: Review and approve minutes of March 26, 2014.
Earth Day Review:
a. Joan spoke of a job well -done. Ray's relay went very well; birdhouses and
walks also seemed to be appreciated. Joan recommended that next year we
reach out to nursery schools.
b. Compasses and magnifying glasses went over very well.
c. Garden club binocular giveaways and RMLD light bulbs were also well
received.
Gina mentioned the "Walk Reading Weekend ". May 31St and June 1St. Wear red and
walk Reading. Walkable Reading is attempting to find out how many miles they
walked. Need to log onto Facebook.
Girl Scout Meeting on March 28th occurred with Gina. Four fifth grade girls were
working on the energy badge. Gina has done presentations with girl scouts before.
Gina also has an Energy Saving program put out by the Girl Scouts; it's designed to
be used by the older girls to present the program to younger girls.
Green Business Award: Laurie Ann is not present.
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Recycle Bin at the M.F. Charles Building. Joan will contact Jean Delios to see how
we can influence the developer to include a recycle bin in the parking lot.
Joan will contact the town manager on,
a. how our committee can publicize the positive energy savings that he said
are not well known by the town.
b. an update on LED street lighting and a possible recycle bin at M.F.
Charles'development.
c. the Road Diet that Walkable Reading supported during our Earth Day
event. Gina says that the next step would be a feasibility study. Gas lines
and sewer lines would need to be done. The TM said to us previously that
Mass DOT supports things like the Road Diet.
Reading Public Library Presentation, Ray and Ron need to meet prior to the
presentation.
Friends and Family day, June 14th: We need to let them know by May 22nd. Joan
suggested that we focus on our Climate Adaptation Report. We could make up
some disaster kits, summer and winter kits could be different. We'll make a
decision at our next meeting as to whether or not we participate in the day, and if
so, what our theme will be.
Assisting RMLD: We can prepare for the peak electrical load summer days by
devising ways to reduce our individual electrical load to lower peak load. We could
do this for RMLD by using mobile devices such as twitter to let people know when
they need to turn off some of their electrical equipment. In this way, RMLD would
need to purchase less "spot" electrical power which costs more.
RMHS: Jen Cambra has asked the committee to give a RMHS presentation on
climate change for the week of April 28th.
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