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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - Energy Committee - 04/06/2017 South Burlington Energy Commiee 575 Dorset Street South Burlington, VT 05403 (802) 846-4106 www.sburl.com facebook.com/SouthBurlington Meeng Minutes April 6, 2017 Commiee members present: Karen Mckenny (Chair), Keith Epstein, Marcy Murray, Pay Tashiro, Jeremy King, James Mount, Don Cummings (Scribe) Commiee members absent: Sam Swanson, Fred Kosnitsky, Linda McGinnis Community members present: Adam Bortz, Donna Leban City staff present: Ilona Blanchard Comments from the Public: Donna Leban suggested that beer Bus Service serving the SE Quadrant could be an energy saver as many workers and students could use it to get to UVM & Med Center and downtown Burlington. We should include this and other transit ideas into our future strategies sessions for the Energy Commiee’s next steps. The commiee suggested that Donna also bring this to the city council as they have a representave on the Green Mountain Transit board. The above lead to an idea from James that perhaps more employers could promote a Flexible Spending Account that could cover transportaon (bus service, parking, etc). Again, the idea of promong this capability can be considered as we develop our future strategies. Presentaon on The City’s Efforts to Improve S.B.’s Future Transportaon: Ilona gave an excellent overview of all the areas that the city (along with CCRPC and other partners) is currently working to define a transportaon system to meet the current and future needs of all S.B. residents. The commiee brought up many ideas – here are a few menoned: improve the bicycle paths along key commung routes so people can safely bike to work, to strengthen the public transit network including the commuter buses within the city, develop Park and Rides in the city for people commung out and Park and Rides served by public transportaon in outside communies to make it easier for people to get to work in S.B. & BTV other than by cars. There seem to be a lot of opportunies here for future work by the E.C. commiee that would align with the good work already underway. Don will forward Ilona’s presentaon to all when he receives it from her. Project updates Members reviewed accomplishments, help needed, and plans for the next month – Addional project discussions noted here: South Burlington Energy Prize: Keith reports that Georgetown sll feels they are on track to announce the final is by the end of April. A moon was made by Keith and seconded by Don to authorize $250.20 to pay for connuing to host the SBEP Website. It was approved unanimously. Net Zero for City Center: In addion to the update provided in the status that was sent out earlier, there was a discussion about how important it is that key people from the city are involved in the early discussions about this important effort. There was a discussion about how to most effecvely use architect Bill Maclay, a leader in the Net Zero movement, who has offered to help us. We discussed having an open session for the general public or perhaps inially focusing only on the key stakeholders and decision makers. We want to be sure that we use Bill’s limited and very valuable me wisely so that he sees that we are a capable group with a viable opportunity to make something this big happen. A moon was made by Don and seconded by Keith to authorize $63.27 to pay for the Net Zero book by Bill Maclay that Marcy purchased for the library. It was approved unanimously. Lending Equipment for the Library: Keith has repaired the thermal imaging camera but needs to purchase a charger before turning it over to the library. Jeremy offered to write up some instrucons on its’ effecve use. Another suggeson was to create a YouTube video. A moon was made by Karen and seconded by James to authorize $65 to purchase a charger for the camera. It was approved unanimously. Commiee Officer Elecons: A moon was made by Don to elect Marcy as the commiee chair. Karen seconded. It was approved unanimously. A moon was made by Karen to elect James as the commiee vice chair. Marcy seconded. It was approved unanimously. Congratulaons to Marcy and James and a big Thank You to Karen for serving as our most recent chair. Adjournment The meeng adjourned before 9 p.m. Next scheduled meeng: Thursday, May 4th, at 6:30 p.m. in the upstairs meeng room at the South Burlington Police Staon (19 Gregory Drive • middle entrance)