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Climate Advisory Committee
Date: 2017-05-31 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; Gina
Snyder, associate member; Gretchen Latowsky, member;
Members - Not Present:
Jeff Everson, Associate Member
Others Present:
Andy Friedmann, Selectman, Committee Laison
Jayson Carter, Guest
David Willians, Honorary Member
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Ray Porter
Topics of Discussion:
Welcome to Members and Guests
Andy Friedmann, Selectman and Committee Liaison
Jayson Carter, Guest.
Review minutes, vote on acceptance
5/10/2017 accepted as amended
Ongoing Business:
• Better Bags Bylaw
• Schedule for preparing a bag ban bylaw;
• May 31 form subcommittee
• July 12 Complete proposed draft bylaw
• Aug 23 Communicate proposal to community
• Sept 1 Proposed Bylaw ready for Town Meeting warrant
• Need to break preparation into several subcommittees
• Review the contents of existing bylaws, costs and fees, limits and
exclusion. [Gretchen, Laurie Ann, Ray]
• Interface with bylaws committee about procedure [Dave, Gretchen]
• Community input groups; outreach to business and community groups
[Ray, Gina, Ron?]
• Presentation to town meeting [TBD]
• Discussion about how and when to interact with Bylaw Committee. Meeting
with the Bylaw Committee prematurely may be perceived that we are not well
prepared. Need to meet with them in June to get on their agenda July.
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• Need to provide a means of physically demonstrating the number of bags are
affected by the bylaw.
• Need to understand the fee structure, who collected and how is it enforced.
• Discussion about bag alternatives and issues that may come up from the
public.
• Friends and Family Day
• Not going to participate this year, due to heavy workload for the committee.
• Summer Social
• Ray's house
• Ray to put out possible dates, off Wednesday nights and Sunday afternoon.
• Other projects for after the summer
• Next Community Shared Solar Site
• Locations for EV chargers
The meeting adjourned at 8:15 pm
Next meeting 6-14-2017 at 7:00 pm
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