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Climate Advisory Committee
Date: 2020-01-08 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; Peter MacGown, Associate
member; Patti Cameron RMLD, member; Denise McCarthy, associate
member
Members - Not Present:
Gina Snyder, Associate member,Celeste Kracke, member; Jeff
Everson;member
Others Present:
Travis Estes
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Ray Porter
Topics of Discussion:
Welcome to Members and Guests
Review minutes, vote on acceptance
Minutes from December 11, 2019 accepted
Ongoing Business:
Sustainability Plan
• Subcommittee: Ray Celeste and Denise to prepare draft
• Key topics Health, Food, Transportation, Buildings, and Climate Change.
• Discussed and reviewed the status of the action items
• Evaluation Criteria include:
o Scope or Responsible Agency
o Magnitude of Impact
o Cost of Action (CapEx and OpEx)
o Consequence of Inaction
o Complexity of Action
Ron D'Addarlo Next Presentation
• Dave to work with Ron
• What is the message?
• What actions are to be taken?
• MassCEC grant for speakers (Tim Bless - hip hop artist) - Travis
• Need to put together a proposal with activities for students
• Connect with Revlson solar energy company (Certified B Corp.)
• Connected with Linda Dockser and directed to work directly with Principle of Birch
Meadows School, Julie Hendrix
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• Arbor Day
• Interested in installing another tree at another school.
• MVP Emergency Planning Grant
• Workshop to be held at the Library with select Town Members
• Plans to be reviewed include:
o Abergona River
o Climate Change Risks
• Send response letter
• Conflict of Interest Form
• Need to review and send back the signed form to Town Clerk
• Winter Social
• Gina moving to Maine, still interested in writing Green Sense
• Need a party to celebrate Gina's service to the Committee
• Possible Dates, Feb 5 and 19, March 4 and 18 (Wednesdays)
• Locations: Bertucci's or Ioye as a possible sites
• EV Charging Stations
• Travis with connections for electrical services to install residential services
• Start Smart MA CEC
The meeting adjourned at 8:30 pm
Next meeting 1/22/ 2020 at 7:00 pm
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