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Climate Advisory Committee
Date: 2019-03-27 Time: 7:00 PM
Building: Reading Town Hall Location: Lower Level Conference Room
Address: 16 Lowell Street
Purpose: Bi-monthly meeting
Attendees: Members - Present:
David Zeek, chair; Ray Porter, secretary; Laurie Ann Sylvia, member;
Celeste Kracke, member; Gina Snyder, associate member
Members - Not Present:
Gretchen Latowsky, member; Jeff Everson, associate member; Denise
McCarthy
Others Present:
Butch Conory
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Ray Porter
Topics of Discussion:
Welcome to Members and Guests
Review minutes, vote on acceptance
Minutes for 3/13/2019 accepted as prepared
Ongoing Business:
• Green New Deal Discussion
• Discuss the outline for the Green New Deal informational event.
• Need to promote the Sunrise Movement Tour, on Thursday, April 18.
• Goal is to be informed and knowledgeable on the topic
• Tuesday, May 14 (6 to 9, inclusive with the presentation being 7:00 to 8:30)
• Preliminary PowerPoint by April 30, for review by committee
• "Age of Consequence" to follow-Great Decisions" Class
• Craig Brandt has not responded to Dave's inquiry
• Look to add "Age of Consequence" as topic in the fall
• Pass handout to current participants of the class. Resending handout to
committee.
• New Residents Open House - Committee Involvement
• Tuesday April 30 at 5:30 - 7:30pm, Reading Public Library
• Request for table has been submitted.
• Promote the Green New Deal at the table
• Ideas for Arbor Day 2019 (Friday, April 26)
• Rotary hands out a bare root tree. Provide a sheet with planting instructions
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• Have an article in the newspaper to inform parents that the trees are coming
• Students living in apartments could plant into containers for the first year
• Denise confirmed a tree donation from Mahoney's.
• Tree to be planted on one of the school properties
• Promote the event as an "after the fact" news story (RCN, papers, Facebook)
• Legislative Priorities on Environmental Topics
• Distributed a list of proposed Acts being considered in the legislature
• Discussed how we should focus on issues (local vs State level)
• Select Board addresses issues that we might have input, but have not
connected with the Board on.
• Road Diet is a topic for repaving issues in the Town
• Bicycle Recycling Event
• Confirmed for May 3 - 4, 2019
• David passed the paperwork to Laurie-Ann for liability insurance.
The meeting adjourned at 8:35 pm
Next meeting 3/27/ 2019 at 7:00 pm
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