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Climate Advisory Committee
Date: 2019-08-28 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; Celeste Kracke, member; Denise
McCarthy, associate member; Patty Cameron RMLD, member; Jeff
Everson;member; Peter MacGown, Associate member; Gina Snyder,
Associate member
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Karen Gately Harrick, FINCOM
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Ray Porter
Topics of Discussion:
Welcome to Members and Guests
Review minutes, vote on acceptance
Minutes from August 14, 2019 accepted as amended
Ongoing Business:
Road Diet for Main Street, Route 28 (Public Meeting DOT and Town Engineer
at Library)
• Road surfacing on Main Street is planned for Fall 2019/ Spring 2020
• Road diet assessments are not apparent on the DOT website.
• There are No planned changes to lanes and surfacing schedule.
Independent Survey of NG Leaks in Reading
• Cost of survey is about $35,000
• Warrant Article initiated by Select Board. Vote by the Select Board approved
Warrant Article.
• Questions about testing methods and vendors to be used.
• identify responses to potential objections to the expenditure.
• Resolution by the RCAC was submitted to the Select Board.
Presentation to the Select Board (Meeting September 24)
• Participation optional, but welcomed by Dave.
• Dave to review current presentation for relevance now.
• Potential RCAC projects for coming year.
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Street Fair September 8, 2019 (Noon to 5:00)
• Agreed to share a table with the UUC Green Sanctuary
• Scheduled people to support/attend the booth.
• Use existing handouts.
• Promote contacting Town meeting members, prepare handout.
Creation of a Joint Sustainability Group
• Vanessa Alvarado wants to meet with us on Sept. 11.
• Topics for the discussion
• EV charging station discussion did not advance.
• Investigate the Energy Use within the Town Buildings.
• MAPC website has figures for Reading and demographic information to
identify sensitive groups.
• Look at updated IPCC report and National Climate Assessment for climate
risks.
• Hazard Mitigation plan for Reading update in 2017
Review Reports from Other Towns/Cities for Suggestions for Reading
• Jeff to provide a summary of relevant actions based on Newton report
• Type of study to do a similar report was $30 to $40K.
• MVP would provide a grant to do the study.
• Reading Planning Department did not get the resources to support to submit
a proposal.
• Braintree, Brookline and Woburn also did reports from which we can
reference.
• Green Sanctuary having Presentation a the Library September 25
• Decided to not cancel meeting to attend the presentation.
The meeting adjourned at 8:50 pm
Next meeting 9/11/ 2019 at 7:00 pm
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