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Town of Lexington Sustainable Lexington Committee Minutes of Meeting of July 28, 2020 A meeting of the Sustainable Lexington Committee (SLC) was held by Zoom conference. A quorum of eight was present. Members Present: Cindy Arens, Celis Brisbin, Paul Chernick, Archana Dayalu, Marcia Gens, Todd Rhodes (vice-chair), Dan Voss (chair), Charlie Wyman Members Absent: Rick Reibstein Other Attendees: Stella Carr (Sustainability Director), Jeffrey Rhodin, Joe Pato (Select Board), Mark Sandeen (Select Board), Mary Hutton (Mothers Out Front), Ricki Pappo (Lexington GWAC), Jennifer Caruso The meeting was called to order at 6:02 pm. Todd read the opening statement requested by the Town Clerk, and all members responded that they could hear. 1. Previous minutes. The minutes of June 16, 2020, circulated previously, were approved as written. 2. Comments from residents; new business. None. 3. Sustainability Director Update. • Stella informed the committee that at a meeting held today with the Town Manager, Dep. TM Kelly Axtell, and representatives of the Dept. of Health, DPW, and DPF in response to the Toxics Use Reduction task force letter,they agreed to begin gathering an inventory of all products on the list and develop recommendations to bring all town departments into compliance. • Two new Nissan Leafs are being acquired for the Dept. of Public Facilities with grant funds, and design is underway on a sticker (identifying the cars as Town of Lexington electric vehicles) that will be used on others as the electric fleet expands. Work is underway on a strategy to electrify the fleet as vehicles come up for replacement. • A meeting of town officials was held to discuss allowable uses of the $30,000 not yet spent of the funds approved by Town Meeting for the second phase of the Getting to Net Zero study, and they asked for recommendations for its use so that it can be determined what falls within the scope of the article and what falls outside, with the understanding that the Town Manager is open to a warrant article to direct unspent funds to any uses not allowed under the previous article. Mark, Archana, and Todd will work with Stella to provide recommendations. 4. Meeting Norms and Operational Update. Celis explained that he'd like to initiate a discussion about norms for how we meet and function, with a view to making our meetings more efficient 1.