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Sustainable Lexington Committee
Minutes of Meeting of April 26, 2016
A meeting of the Sustainable Lexington Committee (SLC) was held on April 26, 2016 at
the Hadley Building. A quorum of five was present.
Members Present: Mark Sandeen, Chair
Marcia Gens, Dan Voss, Rick Reibstein, Todd Rhodes
Members Absent: None
Other Attendees: Kris Spriano, Anthony Clough
The meeting was called to order at 6:30 pm.
Review of Upcoming Events (M. Sandeen)
• May 171h: Gas Leaks Forum
• May 201h Bike, Walk Day (Mark, Todd until lam, Marcia at 8:30)
• May 281h: Discovery Day
Discovery Day Planning (M. Sandeen)
• Partner with Mothers Out Front
• SLC Topics:
• Solar Task Force
• Community Choice
• New Building Programs —Integrative Design
• T. Rhodes to reach out to Mass Save to see it we can sign folks up for HEAs.
• Sign up potential new committee members and interested folks
■ Have sign-up sheet for interested participants
• Physical Layout:
• T. Rhodes to work with S. Rosner, L. Fitzgibbons, and M. Gans to create a
banner for the two tents. Make them modular for future use.
• Need tents
• M. Sandeen to provide posters from last year.
• Coverage:
• Rick(all day)
• Dan (9 to 11)
• Todd(setup, 11 to 1pm, break-down)
• Kris (1 to 3pm)
Gas Leak Meeting (M. Sandeen)
• M. Sandeen to send email to J. Pato and C. Valente to identify who from staff(DPW,
Police, Fire) should attend to address National Grid objections to fixing leaks.
• Ideally have staff identify policies first before National Grid to make it clear
that not all leaks get fixed.
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• The request to National Grid will be to have them identify super-emitters.
Community Choice Aggregation (M. Sandeen)
• Selected Peregrine to serve as our broker.
• Targeting implementation in January 2017.
• Plan is to go with-4% local green energy and the rest national wind energy.
Solar Task Force (D. Voss)
• Plan to implement in the next 9 months. It needs to be mechanically complete by
January 8, 2017 to get SRECs.
• Breaking ground in May.
The meeting adjourned at 7:45 pm
Respectfully Submitted,
Todd Rhodes, Scribe
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