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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008-01-22-CAPAH-minLexington Climate Action Plan Ad Hoc Committee Approved Meeting Minutes January 22, 2008 Room G -15, Town Hall Present: Rick Abrams John Huchra Dan Jones JJ Krawczyk Jeanne Krieger Bob Kvall Andy McClaine Charles Moore Ken Moraff Adam Sacks 1) One change to the December meeting minutes was noted: the change in the date for the March meeting to the 18th. With that change noted, the minutes were approved unanimously. 2) Planning for April 17 Public Meeting Purposes of the meeting: - make people aware of the committee and why we exist - present our baseline data - present plan for going forward - engage the audience (find out what people think and what they might be willing to actually do) Regarding the footprint presentation: Need to be able to back up the data we have. Need to talk about those things we think might have a significant impact but we have no good way to measure. Show a breakdown (pie -chart) for carbon sources. Need a narrative about what the baseline actually means. This might mean comparing per - person numbers to other communities or other countries (how good /bad are we ?). Don't present goals yet (we won't have any) but possibly show trend lines for the goals that are commonly presented in the press (x% reduction by 20YY) to provide examples. Talk a bit about what this might mean for the average Lexington resident. We need a strawman presentation ready for the next meeting. Charlie has agreed to pull this together. Helping him out to fill the gaps in our data: - Jeanne will be getting the number of houses in town that use both gas and oil and house sizes in order to do an estimate of oil usage. - Charlie is meeting with electric (scheduled) & gas (still to be scheduled) utilities, the goal being to get data from them. - Dan is still navigating the political maze of getting DMV information. What he thinks he can possibly have by the next meeting are the numbers of each class of vehicle (trucks, light trucks & SUVs, autos) registered in town. We will have to then use an average MPG and likely have to estimate miles /year driven. - Dan will also think about what sort of PR we can do. We definitely want to get info to the Minuteman so that we get a front page article the issue before the meeting - that would be April 10. Things we might not cover: - Air travel. There is some frustration within the committee because a high- school class collected data that would probably be helpful in getting an estimate of air travel by residents, but it was gathered under the agreement that it would not be shared, apparently not even in an aggregated form. Perhaps there is data GWAC could share (carbon calculator)? Charlie or Dan ( ?) will check with the HS teacher who did the data collection to see if there is any way we could get aggregate data from them. - Consumer goods, particularly food. Charlie will call Stop & Shop to see if there is anything they can do for us. - Lawn care. Could do an estimate of X gallons per year per house. Number would be very low compared to everything else. - Commercial waste. Will have to estimate. Jeanne will contact Robert Beaudon. - Sewage processing (further down the pipe). Is there a source for this data? 3) Future meetings. February 12, March 18 @ Estabrook Hall (downstairs at Cary Hall) April 8, May 13, June 10 @ Room 111, Town Office Building 4) The town report for the committee was submitted by Toby. 5) Support for GWAC warrant article. Unanimous approval. 6) Somerset Coal Plant Letter Jeanne explained that as a committee we cannot send such a letter on our own. It must be approved by the Board of Selectmen. We would like to pursue this, so Jeanne and Toby will talk. 7) Adam's warrant article. The article is a result of Adam's experience with the Economic Development task force and their unwillingness to consider global warming & peak oil. Some discussion about whether this made sense before our committee was ready to give input to other entities in town. Adam welcomes any wording changes or suggestions.