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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - Energy Committee - 07/10/2014Thursday July 10, 2014 7:00 PM South Burlington Municipal Offices 575 Dorset Street South Burlington Energy Committee Meeting Minutes Approved Present: Don Cummings, Karen Mckenny, Marcy Murray, Marc Companion, Keith Epstein, Brendan Taylor Absent: Fred Kosnitsky, Sam Swanson, Peter Tousley Staff Present: Ilona Blanchard Public Present: Wayne Maceyka Don convened the meeting at 7:00 PM. Karen volunteered to serve as scribe. Meeting Minutes: Keith moved to approve the June meeting minutes with edits by Marcy; members present voted unanimously to approve. Public : Wayne Maceyka attending the meeting as a new SB resident who is interested in energy related topics and investigating what our group is working on. City and Staff Updates:  The city has invited our committee to send a representative to join a task force on how to utilize the recently purchased Underwood property. Members present at the meeting are committed currently to the South Burlington Energy Prize (GUEP) work and have decided to pass. An email will go out to the full group to garner possible interest from any absent members. If you are interested please let Don know.  School Landfill project: currently waiting for letter of intent from the school board.  Municipal building inspection: A full inspection of city buildings is currently underway by an engineering firm.  Committee on Committees: City reviewing-no scheduled discussion at this time. Project Updates:  SB Energy Prize (GUEP) Keith and Don presented an overview of what our current status is with the GUEP and what the next steps are. They provided materials including an overview of the timeline, program planning requirements, information about the program, resources, strategic focus areas, current champion filled roles, and project charters. Keith and Don met with Kathryn Blume and Nick Lange who have volunteered to also help with our GUEP efforts. Plans are underway for our marketing/outreach kick off meeting date TBD but will be this month.  LDR review: Members of the committee reviewed the proposed LDR red line items. Discussion continues as to what we would like to recommend. Multiple areas we would like to respond to. Please submit any language recommendations of the red line items to Ilona. Discussion tabled and recommendations that another meeting specifically to discuss this issue be convened and warned. Don will send out a doodle poll to set up this meeting.  Keith moved to adjourn the meeting at 9:20, members voted unanimously to adjourn.