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Sustainability Advisory Board <br />Minutes <br />February 21, 2024 <br />Page 7 of 11 <br />community members who have done some of these upgrades, similar to what <br />was done at meetings promoting Solar Co-Ops. From personal experiences, they <br />could answer questions about costs and other issues that need clarification <br />For our workshops, after the presentations the attendees could go to someone's <br />house and watch a demonstration on an induction stove, for example. They <br />could visit basements to examine duct -work or state-of-the-art insulation <br />(perhaps with imaging from infrared cameras). They could get the feel of being <br />in a house that's heated with a heat pump (or in the summer, cooled). They <br />could experience the chill of being near a heat -pump type water heater. <br />There are organizations that can arrange to drive groups of people to individual <br />homes, the volunteer showcases. Also, it could be smart to announce that the <br />addresses of the open houses won't be available until people attend the <br />workshops, assuring that residents attend to get this information. <br />Importantly, how do you incentivize people to take the next steps and actually <br />transition (make the jump) to the installing low -emissions options? And how do <br />you validate the success of the outreach programs, tracking and quantifying how <br />many such transitions have taken place, and how much carbon dioxide they have <br />prevented? (Quantifying could partly come from tracking Xcel and EnergySmart <br />rebates.) Resources to help residents make this step include software such as <br />Buildee for creating a decarbonization capital investment roadmap. <br />Putting in place a system of Neighborhood Captains could be one way to help <br />assure followups with residents who show interest in decarbonizing their homes. <br />For example, the Captains could help interested residents fill out software <br />questions for decarbonization planning, mentioned above. <br />Additionally, board members recommended the City split the workshops into two <br />parts — part two would include a tour of the community after the workshop <br />