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Climate Advisory Committee
Date: 2023-01-11 Time: 7:00 PM
Building: Reading Town Hall Location: Berger Room
Address: 16 Lowell Street
Purpose: Bi -monthly meeting
Attendees: Members - Present:
David Zeek, Chair; Ray Porter, Secretary; Genady Pilyaysky, Member; Travis
Estes, Member; Walt Talbot, Member
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Mary Ellen O'Neill
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
Meeting minutes
New Building Toolkit
• Travis to follow-up with Ajey Pande of RMLD on the status of the plan
• Travis passed along a plan from another community for Ajey to review
• Scope of heat pumps discussed vs hybrid HP and fossil fuel coordinated systems
• MA Clean Energy & Climate Plan 2023-2030 shows slow adoption of air -air HPs
• Economic impact to low and moderate income households
Climate Action Plan (revised) Walt Talbot
• Organization of CAP - Outline
o Infrastructure
• Transportation
o Exterior/Outside Environment
o Sustainability/Resilience
• Review success achieve since last CAP plan (Ray)
• Goal of the CAP is to support future grants, maybe have a tech writer to prepare
document (MAPC?)
• Public Engagement input to draft plan (Andrew McNicol)
• Community survey to be developed (Travis and Genady)
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Town of Reading - Meeting Minutes
Joint Meeting of Other Town Committee's
• Endorsement of concept but can be complicated by Open Meeting requirements
• Liaisons to other committees with the task of reporting back to our committee
• Invite other committees to have input to parts of the CAP
Goals of this Committee for 2023
• Current commitments
o Polystyrene ban
o Heating / cooling survey for 2023
• Green Community Application
o Previously lead through Town Planning
o Need to pass article at Town Meeting (fee contribution)
o RMLD to implement charging system
• Solar Installations on Town Building Roofs
• Heat Pumps Adoption
• Energy Stretch Code Adoption
• Transportation topics
• Create a survey of Town engagement and priorities (Travis and Genady)
Tree and Native Plantings (Wait and Genady)
• Tree Warden discussion has responsibility of managing trees
• Replace trees that removed
Polystyrene Bylaw
• Under review by Attorney General's Office
• Needs to be posted
CAC Update to Select Board
• No date established
Palmer Energy
• Palmer Energy requesting an extension of the power purchase agreement
• Remind RMLD that they have a policy against purchasing biomass power
Calendar of Coming Events
1/25 Climate Advisory Committee - Zoom
Next meeting 1/25/2023 at 7:00 pm
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