Resource Conservation Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2010 01 11

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Page 10f2 Subject: LRCAB Activities & Accomplishments during 2008 From: Louisville Resource Conservation Advisory Board (LRCAB) Date: 22-April-2009 For 2008, members of LRCAB listed their goals and intended projects as: 1. We proposed the City adopt a "Natural Environment" section as part of the City's Comprehensive Plan. We had first prepared a draft for this proposed section three years ago during the last overall review of the Comp Plan. Our proposal was forwarded for review by the Planning Department, Planning Commission, and finally to City Council, as part of the overall review of the Comprehensive Plan in 2008. During that review process, our proposed new section was renamed "Sustainable Environ- ment", to better describe the section's intent to result in better human-environment interaction. Members of LRCAB attended the various public hearings during the overall review process to express support for our proposed changes, and submitted written comments. Our proposed new Sustainable Environment section was passed by City Council as part of the overall revisions to the Comprehensive Plan. Many of our detailed proposals for various sub-sections within were also approved at that same time. 2. Another goal expressed by LRCAB was our intent to review the countywide Sustainable Energy Plan (SEP), adopted in principle by City Council early last year. A poll of our members to find out which portions of the SEP each member thought the City should adopt was included as part of our meeting with City Council in June 2008. One project listed in the SEP was a High- Efficiency Lighting Program (listed under the SEP's ClimateSmart at Home). In 2007, LRCAB began a program to sell Compact Fluorescent (CFL) Bulbs to Louisville residents for a nominal fee, done by members of LRCAB at summer public events. That program was funded by a grant from Boulder County, with matching funds from LRCAB's budget, to acquire 500 CFL bulbs at reduced cost from our local Home-Depot store. Last year our staff liaison, Tom Phare, secured a larger grant from Boulder County (triple 2007's grant) that allowed us to continue the program. More CFL bulbs were acquired at reduced cost from our local Home-Depot store. LRCAB members sold those bulbs at public events during the summer, and city staff members sold the remaining bulbs at the front desk at City Hall. We still had grant funds for the lighting program available last autumn after deducting our program costs from the summer. The County's grant administrator suggested we use those funds for a program to replace incandescent holiday lights, similar to the City of Boulder's LED Holiday-Lights exchange program. Our board initiated such an exchange program right after last Thanksgiving. We contacted all local merchants who were selling LED holiday lights, inviting them to participate in our program; many enthusiastically supported us. Members of LRCAB collected strings of older incandescent holiday lights from our residents at the Rec-Center and Parade of Lights; about 140 old light strings were collected and sent to be recycled. We gave those residents discount coupons to purchase new LED holiday lights, good at several local participating merchants; we passed along 110 coupons. 3. Last year, members of LRCAB stated our willingness to support the efforts of City Staff to implement a City-administered program for more efficient residential trash collection and increased recycling. In January 2008, LRCAB hosted a presentation by members of Eco-Cycle on (then- )current trash & recycling collection practices throughout 9