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Board - Committee - Commission - Council: 2019 JUL - I PN 12: 01
Climate Advisory Committee
Date: 2018-10-10 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; Jeff Everson, associate member
Members - Not Present:
Gretchen Latowsky, member; Gina Snyder, associate member
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Ray Porter
Topics of Discussion:
Welcome to Members and Guests
Review minutes, vote on acceptance
Minutes for 9/26/2018 meeting
Ongoing Business:
• Miscellaneous items
o Promotion of Associate members - Laura Gemme clarified that associate
members can be promoted to voting status for that meeting
o Ask Gretchen in December whether she wishes to continue as a member.
o Meet with Laura Gemme to upload past meeting minutes - Ray
• Health Effects of Natural Gas
o Distributed testimony Dr. Brita Lundberg of to Salem Board of Health
meeting.
o Reading Board of Health has not met on this issue.
• Electric Heat Pump (Heat Smart)
o Jennifer Cally and Julie Smith-Galvin still interested in working with us.
o RMLD can not take lead.
• Electric Charging Stations
o DEP grant for workspace charging stations to cover 50% of a station.
o Best places to put a system would be somewhere that one would be for an
extended period. Close to highways are also good spots.
o Power access for Jordans will be evaluated (easy, hard, impossible)
o Raoul is setting up a business plan to implement EV stations at various
businesses. Laurie Ann to get Raoul's list of active and potential EV stations.
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o EV charging station now showing up at the Reading Coop Office on Walker Brook
Drive
o Mass EVIP incentive for employers: School lots for teachers.
o Need to understand pricing models.
• Open and unrestricted (non-networked)
• Restricted use to those with key card access (Employer managed)
• Subscriber to a networked system (Charge Point, EV Go)
o EV Go has government and municipal partners.
o RMLD rebates, time of use and other energy management features
o Possible town lots: Haven Street, High Street, Front of Town Hall, behind CVS.
o Potential private lots: Jordans and Home Depot, Planet Fitness.
• Movie nights
o Children suing for environmental damages
o Umbrella license may be already available through the library.
o Feature length films (screening costs significant). Licensing issue.
• Dave Williams Contacts
o Contacts that Dave has with Solid Waste People
o Black Earth Compost - to promote or not promote?
The meeting adjourned at 8:35 pm
Next meeting 10-24-2018 at 7:00 pm
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