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Town of Lexington <br />Sustainable Lexington Committee <br />Minutes of Meeting of March 29, 2011 <br />A meeting of the Sustainable Lexington Committee (SLC) was held on March 29, 2011 <br />in Cary Hall. A quorum of three was present. <br />Members Present: <br />Members Absent: <br />Mark Sandeen, Chair <br />Risk Abrams, Todd Rhodes <br />Ken Moraff <br />The meeting was called to order at 8:15 pm. <br />Minutes from the March I , 2011 meeting were approved. <br />Mr. Sandeen updated the committee on activities related to the Sagewell (IR imaging) <br />p roject: <br />• Ian Finlayson (Massachusetts DOER) has funding for IR imaging. DOER is <br />looking for an endorsement from the down. The Selectmen are scheduled to <br />discuss whether to approve the project at next Monday's meeting. <br />• DOER may provide Sagewell with enough funding to take images of 4,000 to <br />5,000 homes. They may also be able to do all 11,000 homes. <br />• Sagewell is currently being funded by DOER to complete a similar program in <br />Springfield. <br />The committee discussed how to structure a program to gain the greatest value from the <br />use of these images. Key issues to resolve include how the involved parties (Town of <br />Lexington, the SLC Committee, Sagewell, DOER) will manage: <br />• Ownership of the data collected <br />• Control of the data and privacy <br />• Administration of the program <br />The committee discussed the value of treating this project as a campaign in order to <br />effectively communicate to the town and get residents to take action as a result of the <br />information they receive. Topics discussed include: <br />• Using white papers, articles, and email notifications to alert residents about the <br />program. <br />• How to communicate the information to residents: <br />o Send the images as a postcard or <br />in an envelope? <br />o From whom should the IR image be sent? <br />• Include a step in the process where residents can sign a release to share their <br />utility usage data (NStar, National Grid) so that it will be possible to track <br />improvement. <br />o Iblogix may have contacts at the utilities that could help identify how this <br />could be done. <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />