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Louisville Sustainability Advisory Board Meeting Minutes January 16, 2019 Page 2 of 4 e. Jorge's Minute — i. Looking at 5 years of energy usage and putting that into the Energy Star Manager Program. f. Katie's Minute — i. The official work plan for Xcel's Energy Futures Collaboration has been approved and the timeline is being worked out. Year 1 will be a benchmarking year. 1. Quarter 1 will be focused on data collection including renewable and energy usage in the city. 2. Working with Green Business Program to tie in business energy usage into Xcel Energy Futures by signing up business with a voluntary pledge to share energy usage data. ii. Green Business. There were 29 businesses signed up for 2018. This is a decrease of 10 businesses from 2017. 2019 will focus on business retention. The Green Business Award dinner will be on February 21 st iii. The City is working on getting information about the facilities on to the Energy Star Manager Program. iv. The Waste RFP is coming up. Waste hauler reporting licensing beings in 2019. v. There is a sunsetting to the renewable energy credits. The City will evaluate if additional onsite solar makes sense to quality under the credits. vi. The City is doing internal Sustainability Lunch and Learns. Upcoming meetings will focus on waste reduction. vii. Xcel is committed to be carbon neutral by 2050. I I. Sustainability Action Plan process, update, and county plan comparison. Discussion: Board members started populated a matrix comparing the 2018 Boulder County Sustainability Plan to the 2016 City of Louisville Sustainability Action Plan. This will assist in evaluating updating the City's Plan. Scope and need for updating the Sustainability Action Plan will be discussed with the City Manager Office. III. PACE and Green Business program: Explore business impact on GHG emissions, discuss LSAB support in contacting businesses, Laura Levesque- Catalona Discussion: A large portion of GHG in Louisville is from businesses. Laura discussed with Zac and Matt at PACE to expand Green Business program. Laura spoke with a few business owners to talk about the PACE program. a. Laura is proposing that the Board members speak to additional businesses in Louisville. b. Katie has PACE brochures and is looking to put together a Louisville specific brochure.