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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Climate Advisory Committee
Date: 2022-05-11
Building: Reading Town Hall
Address: 16 Lowell Street
Purpose: Bi -monthly meeting
Attendees: Members - Present:
Time: 7:00 PM
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Location: Berger Room
David Zeek, Chair; Ray Porter, Secretary; Jeff Everson, Member; Celeste
Kracke, Member; Walt Talbot, Associate Member; Travis Estes, Associate
Member;
Members - Not Present:
Genady Pilyaysky, Member;
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
Bike Recycling Event Summary
• Over 100 bikes were received
• Over 70 bikes were returned to new homes
• About 2 dozen were taken to "Bikes Not Bombs" for reuse
• About a dozen were taken for donations to other homes
Town Forest Appreciation Day Summary
• Table was setup with posters promoting alternative lawns
• Other items on the table were Community Garden sign-up and Covid Test Kits
• Child activity included making soil, filling a cup and putting a seed into the soil
• Travis, Genady and Reading DPW provide soil mixture components
Friends and Family Day
• Feature heat pump
• Travis has working unit that can be plugged in
• Travis to look into charts or graphs that can be printed for display
• Ray thinking up child engagement activity
• Dave to prepare handout in support of Sustainability Manager
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Town of Reading - Meeting Minutes
Polystyrene Containers Draft Bylaw (Dave Zeek)
• Review draft text for polystyrene ban
• Purpose statement reviewed and edited
• Reviewed definitions related to "Food Establishments"
• Discussion related to polystyrene items, plastic Items and recyclable/compostable
items
• Discussion of regulations to focus on prohibiting use of polystyrene than single use
items, utensils and condiments
• Suggestion to propose 2 bylaws such that one or both approaches may be
accepted
• Dave to create 2 bylaws, one on polystyrene and one on single use items
Coolidge Middle School Social Studies - Climate Actions (Rebecca Mandell)
• Dave, Travis and Ray to review the projects
Calendar of Coming Events
• June 11 - Friends & Family Day
Next meeting 5/25/2022 at 7:00 pm
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