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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Climate Advisory Committee
Date: 2020-04-08
Building: Reading Town Hall
Address: 16 Lowell Street
Purpose: BI -monthly meeting
Attendees: Members - Present:
Time: 7:00 PM
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Location: Conference Room
David Zeek, chair; Ray Porter, secretary; Jeff Everson; member; Patti
Cameron RMLD, member; Denise McCarthy, associate member; Peter
MacGown, Associate member; Gina Snyder, Associate member, Celeste
Kracke, member;
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
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
None
Ongoing Business:
• Planned Activities for Coming Months
• Most May activities are probably going to be cancelled or postponed
• Bike event best to be postponed to mid -summer
• Ron's speaking event cancelled, may be reschedule.
• New Resident's meeting cancelled
• Sustainability Plan - Draft
• Draft sections have been sent, but may need some editing
• Distribute completed draft to committee for review
• Need input on deliverable with Karen Herrick
• Route 28 Road Diet
• Repaving program pending
• Not sure if there will be a public hearing on the planned actions
• Road diet simulations to be conducted
• Walkable Reading received a notice of work on Rt. 28
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• Other Actions
• Increase web presence through increased postings
• Share movies, books or topics of interest.
• MCAN has been holding webcast events
• Local farms are expanding their CSA programs
• Future Hosting
• Future meetings can be held on Zoom
• May need a Host that has the full featured program
Next meeting 4/22/2020 at 7:00 pm
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