City Council Study Session Agenda and Packet 2010 04 27

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Page 1 of 3 Resource Conservation Advisory Board Activities & Accomplishments for 2009 For 2009, members of LRCAB listed our goals and intended projects as: FIRST: We had previously recommended the City of Louisville adopt a comprehensive program for collection of trash and recyclables for Louisville residents, using Lafayette’s program as a model. That issue came before City Council early last year, and members of our board spoke in favor of the program at several public meetings. Council approved the program’s adoption, with the inclusion of compostable materials as part of the program! That added component makes our program one of the most comprehensive in Boulder County and in Colorado! We certainly appreciate Council’s decision to adopt that program, which has been of great benefit and cost-savings to our residents, and will continue to benefit us in the future. Reports from our contractor - Western Disposal - of the tonnages collected during 2009 show that on average, our residents sent 53% of their household waste to landfill, 27% for recycling, and 20% for composting. We now have figures we can use as a baseline for tracking our residents’ waste-disposal practices. Our board will explore possibilities to improve our residents’ diversion of waste from landfill by better usage of our program’s options and pricing structure, and the possibilities to ex-pand our program to include residents of multi-family units and businesses within Louisville. NEXT: We had recommended the City of Louisville adopt “Green-Build” residential and commercial construction programs. We supported the work done by Planning-Department Director Paul Wood and Chief Building Official Mike Jones during the past year to adopt the 2009 series of International Construction Codes, and we appreciate Council’s approval of the codes’ adoption. If the following subjects are not covered in the 2009 IECC, we continue to propose the City adopt an ordinance amending our building codes, to provide: 1. Jobsite recycling of selected materials; 2. No new installations of incandescent lighting; 3. Inclusion of Energy-Star rated appliances, water heaters, and HVAC equipment in new structures; 4. Inclusion of ‘chases’ in new structures, to allow passage of service lines for roof-mounted solar panels of all types. NEXT: Since 2007, our board has conducted programs at various public events, to sell more energy-efficient light bulbs (CFLs & LEDs) to city residents to replace their much-less-efficient incandes-cent bulbs, at a significant discount. These programs have been primarily funded by annual grants from Boulder County’s High-Efficiency Lighting Program. Last year our staff liaison, Tom Phare, secured another grant from Boulder County’s program for us to encourage