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Sustainable Lexington Committee
Minutes of Meeting of January 22, 2019
A meeting of the Sustainable Lexington Committee (SLC) was held at Cary Hall. A
quorum of six was present.
Members Present: Cells Brisbane, Rick Reibstein, Todd Rhodes, Mark Sandeen,
Dan Voss, Charlie Wyman
Members Absent: Marcia Gens
Other Attendees: Joe Pato (Board of Selectmen)
Paul Chernek
Alan Sherman
Ricki Pappo
The meeting was called to order at 7:05 pm.
1. Sustainable Building Policy
• M. Sandeen provided an overview of the history of the building policy effort.
• The committee reviewed the draft Building Policy provided by Jim Malloy,
Town Manager.
• Recommendations:
o Mark: Make the Sustainable Lexington member of the PBC a voting
member.
o Cells: the process should include consideration of funding sources (e.g.,
Mass Save)
o Dan: revise update "every 3 years" to "at least every 3 years".
o Todd: For the goals, add a header that identifies that the list of goals needs to
be considered for each project and a rationale is required if any of the goals
will not be met.
o Agreed to remove the two tables from the goals section.
• The committee voted to support the policy and goals with the agreed
recommendations.
2. Warrant articles
• Ricki Pappo presented the latest versions of citizen warrant articles.
• Article 9: Sustainability Director
• Article 8: Funding for Sustainable Actions
• The committee voted to support the two articles.
3. Waste Task Force
• Charlie and Rick provided a summary of the discussions they held with Marcia
about setting up a task force.
• Rick recommended that the Town reinstate a Waste Advisory Group to work
with the DPW on waste issues.
• Marcia(on phone) recommended that the Green Teams be involved.
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• Charlie, Rick, and Marcia will set up a meeting with Dave Pinsonneault and Rob
Beaudoin to discuss the effort.
4. Solar
• Bids for solar on Hasting and the Fire Station will be in on Monday.
5. EV Charging Stations
• Need to go to Town Meeting for money for the charging stations.
The meeting concluded at 9:00 pm.
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