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SustainabilityAdvisory Board Meeting Minutes November 16, 2011 Page 2of 3 Organizing/Supporting Community Gardens (Mary Ann) IX. Andy says he thinks that Troy has shelved it for now. Mary Ann would like to work with him, maybe over this summer to make it happen. Garden Exchange –where people can offer backyards or find backyards for growing gardens. Work with Troy to try to get useof some of the irrigated city owned lands, maybe doing some trial plots this summer. Set up a bee colony. Salt Lake City set one up on their library, education experience for the kids. Get beekeeper to set up a demo.Denver Urban Gardens and other groups may have a framework that she could use. Tom Phare would suggest that we have an organization come to the City and ask. Better to have a group like Growing Gardens. What kind of open space classification would allow this to occur. David said that most cityroofs have very limited access. A lot of them are membrane roofs and very white and reflective. May not be the best environment for bees.Annie to talk with local beekeepers. Discuss schedule for assigning Chair and Secretary. X. Andy will chair and Mary Ann will take minutes at December meeting. Mary Ann will create a new schedule, leaving Cullen out until April. Arno did not reapply. th Discussion items for next meeting (scheduled for December 20) XI. GMOS Community Gardens Council formally adopting Boulder County waste plan for City of Louisville – Mark to prepare draft.Dave Szabadoes to forward CAFR newsletters re hazardous waste. No longer a co-pay for household hazardous waste. Getting 4K month for recyclables that City collects. Dave will do a Presidents Day presentation for City employees. If we want to do something for the public, Dave could put something similar together. CU Denver Audits –asked Mary Ann to write an email requesting an audit. Going back and forth. CSIS program. Look at the entire city. Louisvilleis one of the few cities that has not done something like that. Baseline audit. Longmont, Westminster, Golden, Arvada. Someone from Planning Commission called Andy and wanted to reopen the discussion about green building, IGCC conservation code. Came up because of Troy Russ’ presentation. Troy said he is interested but doesn’t have the bandwidth. There’s a new proposal for the comp plan that does not have a much language supporting green building. 2009 Energy Conservation code adopted by city has not been reinforced.Would like us to make a recommendation about not skipping building code updates. City survey in the spring. Would sustainability question be appropriate?Contact City Manager’s office to recommend questions.LSAB should recommend some questions at December meeting.Can give our questions to Tom Phare and he will forward them.Everyone should come with a question. Tom will let us know whether next month will be enough time.