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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Climate Advisory Committee
Date: 2020-09-23
Building: Reading Town Hall
Address: 16 Lowell Street
Purpose: Bi -monthly meeting
Attendees: Members - Present:
Time: 7:00 PM
REC'EnED
TOWN CLERK
READING, MA.
2023 MAR -8 PM 3: 06
Location: Conference Room
David Zeek, Chair; Ray Porter, Secretary; Peter MacGown, Associate
Member; Jeff Everson; Member; Celeste Kracke, Member; Denise McCarthy,
Member; Patti Cameron RMLD, Associate Member; Travis Estes, Associate
Member
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Gina Snyder, Member Emeritas
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Ray Porter
Topics of Discussion:
Meeting was held via a Zoom Conference Call
Welcome to Members and Guests
Review minutes, vote on acceptance
Accepted as amended the meeting minutes for 9/9/2020
Sharing of Patti's Trip Photos
• Traveled across the northern States
RCAC Website Review
• General observations on the WordPress Site
o Make theme of site consistent
• Notes by Webpage (i.e., www.meiroseenergy.org)
o Upcoming events
o Bag Bylaw (maybe outdated now)
o Gretchen's Kids' Page (redirect for teachers, parents and kids)
o Discussion about Green Sense articles as blogs or Google Docs
o Climate Science / Future Outlook for Climate Change (sections thin on
content) - focus on local predictions and video links or resources
o Reading Climate Adaptation Report (one of 3 reports on Reading Climate
Issues)
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Town of Reading - Meeting Minutes
o About page - Mission statement and Goals (restate what is on the Town
website)
o Contact form
o Home page
• Mission Statement
• Current activities
• News and announcements
o New Ideas (brainstorming of issues or topics to post
• Town Webpage for RCAC
• Prepare a requirements document which defines what we want, the details of what
that should be, confirm whether the need was met.
• Clarify who our audience is.
• Mission of the committee has been to tie larger issues to local actions.
• Amplify what is going on in the Reading community
• Connections to other organizations (i.e., MCANN, MAPC, Mass Save)
• Getting a more user friendly domain name, which may require a redirect from a
host site to the Committee website
• Unsplash.com for free images to use on the site.
Promote the Stretch Code at the Town Meeting
• The Stretch Code is an item in the Town Warrant
Handout for New Residents (9/28)
• Material to go out to new residents on 9/28.
• No feedback on the acceptance of the material
531 Main Street Project
• Dave talked with Karen about next steps.
• Possible attend the Community Planning and Development Commission when the
developers discuss the project.
• RMLD is also talking with developers about electrical features (EV charging
stations).
Meetings in Town
9/29 - Meeting on the Road Diet
10/7 - Economic development Summit
11/9 (start) - Town Meeting
Next meeting 10/14/2020 at 7:00 pm
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