Sustainability Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2013 03 20

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Louisville Sustainability Advisory Board Meeting Minutes:Wednesday, February20, 2013 City Hall,749 Main Street, Spruce Room I.Call to Order:Themeeting was called to order at 6:37pm by Chair Mary Ann Heaney.Minutes to be taken by Mark Persichetti. II.Roll Call:Members present(in bold):Jim Bradford,Cullen Choi,Mary Ann Heaney,Andy Johnson,Claudia Lenz,Mark Persichetti,Ted Sontrop; Staff Liaison Dave Szabados; City- Council Liaison Emily Jasiack. III.Approval of Current-Meeting’sAgenda:The agenda was approved as-is. th IV. Approval of January Meeting Minutes:The minutes from the January 16meeting were approved as-is. V. Public Commentson Items Not on the Agenda:none. VI. Board Guidelines:For our new members, we discussed our meeting procedures: rotation of all members to act as Chair & Secretary; start-stop times for meetings; no more than one guest speaker at a meeting; restrictions on outside multi-member meetings per our open-government requirements, etc. VII. Review of February12, 2013City Council Meeting:Mary Ann will oversee our proposed Community-Gardens project; she’ll also oversee urban-gardens and urban poultry proposals. Andy will act as liaison with our Building-Code Board, during their review of the 2012ICC energy- conservation and green building codes. Mark will work with community business groups to increase waste diversion by local businesses. It was noted Council members seem to prefer educational efforts and tools, to possible mandatory requirements. VIII. 2013-14 Policy Goals/Projects for Council Consideration:Jim plans to attend the next meeting of the Populus group; a means to get local energy-conservation movement going; low initial investments to generate greater activity; possible tie-ins with results from our Energy-Efficiency Study. Andy discussed possibilities of adopting new ICC building codes; he’ll attend BCBoA meetings; likely push-back from area builders; using training programs (eg Xcel). He also proposed promoting Solar- Friendly Communities; use a program w industry sponsors (eg COSIA); get recognition for local projects. Mark will meet with CoC and DBA; promote zero-waste at their events this year; try to develop a list of local-businesses’ recycling levels, consider some kind of public-recognition–a ‘sticker’ program? He’ll also follow-up on acquiring community recycling bins (such as offered by Waste Mgmt), and try to get recycling bins installed along Main St and in public areas. City of Louisville Public Works Department749 Main Street Louisville CO 80027 303.335.4608(phone) 303.335.4550(fax) www.louisvilleco.gov