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Environmental Initiatives Committee Minutes DATE: Monday, December 8, 2008 TIME: 7:30pm LOCATION: Parks & Recreation Building 26379 Fremont Road Los Altos Hills Roll Call: The following were present: Ian Earnest, John Harpootlian, Lew Jameson, Breene Kerr, Raj Reddy, Steve Schmidt, Jay Shideler. Guest attendees: Rich Larson & Margie Suozzo.. Committee acceptance of the minutes: All present accepted the November 24, 2008 Minutes as-is. Energy: 1. Energy Renewable & Consumption Reduction Initiatives: Steve presented a graph-spreadsheet presentation for reduction of GHG (by GHG contributing category) for both LAH Government and separately, for the LAH residential community. Seven GHG contributing categories were analyzed for both the government and the residential community. A reasonable and logical year-by-year reduction proposal was made for each category and plotted in an excel spreadsheet for the years 2008 through 2015. Each category was analyzed for year-by-year feasibility. The analysis indicated that by the year 2015, net LAH GHG reduction goals of 50% for government and 30% for residential was a feasible and viable goal. The EIC voted unanimously to accept these goals and to recommend these goals to the Town Council: • Present the LAH GHG analysis to the next Town Council – (H-H) Steve, Peter. • Continue to refine GHG analysis spreadsheet – (H-H) Steve, Peter. 2. PG&E and LAH audits: A detailed excel spreadsheet was presented by Steve for entering and tabulating specific GHG related items when doing residential audits. Spreadsheet is still a “work in progress” but will serve as a good starting point. A mock home audit was performed on both Steve and Peter’s homes to test the audit spreadsheet. Some talk pursued on making the audit spreadsheet web-based so Any writings or documents provided to a majority of the Environmental Initiatives Committee regarding any item of the open session portion of this agenda will be made available for public inspection in the City Clerk’s office located at 26379 Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills, California during normal business hours.