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Louisville Sustainability Advisory Board Meeting Minutes August 15, 2018 Page 2 of 5 IV. A Louisville resident suggested City Council should consider a local grow operation of conventional produce at the old Sam's Club site. V. Sam's club location is still for sale. The location is a complicated code zone. The city is doing a marketing study on what would be feasible in that location. VI. The second reading of the adoption of various building codes is on September 4. Currently using the 2013 IECC, the City Council will consider leapfrogging the 2015 IECC and adopt the 2018 IECC which may cause issues. The CC4CA recommends adopting the 2015 IECC; so if the 2018 is adopted, Louisville will be the first community in Boulder County to adopt 2018. VII. City of Louisville Boards and Commissions interviews happen in December. City Council will use the same interview process as last year. Sue asked LSAB members to review last year's questions to determine if they are still appropriate. VIII. "Let's Go, Colorado" will be a transportation initiative on the ballot in November. This initiative aims to provide sales tax funding for transportation -- divided 45% for state highways, 40% (20% for counties and 20% for cities) for local transportation priorities, and 15% for multimodal transportation options. If this initiative passes, the City of Louisville could receive approximately $700,000 annually for local transportation projects. f. Katie's Minute: I. Renewable connect awarded us 493 KW brings up to 46-50% with that online. EFC's second reading is on August 21st 2018. Next stage creating a work plan and action items. II. PIE is starting to wrap up. III. Green business Breakfast next Tuesday August 20th. All three cities Chamber of commerce is putting it together. Mark, Sue, Katie and Laura will be attending. IV. The promotions will end September 30th 2018. Another run with schools conservation kits paid for from Excel energy. V. Excel has a van to raise awareness on energy and conservation. Mark suggested Labor Day at Community Park would be a good location for the event possibly. VI. Hoping Excel will be coming out to the September meeting to discuss PIE and energy use. VII. RACK - Rec Center will have a new Electric charging station VIII. Boulder Retrack — Is updating the language on solid waste ordinance. IX. Boulder County required haulers to use the online reporting tool. September 4th first reading. We will have real data on hauling X. Transportation master plan moving forward. Xl. Sustainability series