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Town of Lexington
Sustainable Lexington Committee
Minutes of Meeting of January 24, 2012
A meeting of the Sustainable Lexington Committee (SLC) was held
at Town Hall. A quorum of three was present.
Members Present: Mark Sandeen, Chair
Rick Abrams, Todd Rhodes
Members Absent: Ken Moraff
Other Attendees: George Burnell
The meeting was called to order at 6:00 pm.
The committee approved the minutes from the January 3, 2012 meet
Mr. Sandeen provided an update of the Better Buildings program (
presentation)
Sagewell reports that the response from Lexington is significant
than the response in other towns. One difference is that the Lex
homes were imaged first and then the message was sent out to vie
image. In other towns, the message was communicated that Sagewel
about to take images and residents needed to contact Sagewell to
that their homes were included. The psychology may be that folks
more interested in making sure that get their fair share of a pr
about to be offered rather than taking advantage of a program th
already been given to them that they did not request.
The committee discussed re-launching the program by using the sa
images that were already taken, but giving residents the opportu
participate in the process by requesting the images.
Mr. Sandeen led a discussion of boiler/furnace upgrades, identif
would be more likely to get a big improvement from a system upgr
R. Abrams and M. Sandeen both offered to contact Larry Sweet to
thoughts on how best to promote a boiler/furnace upgrade program
Ideas to promote the program included:
Free assessment program
Have plumbers aggregate to advertise the program
Give away ÅNestÆ thermostats to first X number of sign-ups (use
Green grant money to fund it)
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G. Burnell recommended that the committee invite local contracto
meeting to get their ideas for how to promote an upgrade program
the we could:
Put flyers up at the permitting dest
Involve anyone that wants to participate
Be conscious of their concerns (e.g., oil to oil conversions)
R. Abrams offered to see what programs are available on the Nati
website.
The meeting adjourned at 6:45 pm.
Respectfully Submitted,
Todd Rhodes, Scribe
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