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that data could be entered via a blackberry while doing the audits. Some residents are calling in volunteering their home for “beta” home audits. Moreover, progress has been made in the PG&E $20k grant, which unfortunately, would not fund until the 3rd quarter of 2009. Breene stated that the Town Council would be receptive for $20k to help fund the audits in addition to the PG&E funding: • Home audit format and procedure – Continue to solidify, then commence with trial audits of volunteer homes - (H-H) Steve, Peter. • Acterra home audit training in Sunnyvale – Due to time constraints and to the unique nature of LAH homes, the EIC recommends EIC members not necessarily attend this training. Try to get the Acterra training handout for the EIC – (M-H) – Lew. • Lew brought a B&D power meter monitor which costs only $100. Contact B&D to see if a volume purchase discount can be arranged for the home audits (each monitor could be given to each home being monitored free of charge) – (H-H) Lew. 3. Establish home audit game-plan (with milestones) for education and training – (H-H) Lew. • Resident’s annual participation spreadsheets – Evaluate efficacy of using such a flier for residents to tract their own progress. Also, consider converting to a web-base – (H-H) – Lew, Jitze. • Petition the other three Town Council persons to volunteer their homes for the GHG reduction audit – (H-H) – Breene Kerr. 4. Town Hall energy monitoring: • FSI analysis recommendations from report: a) Look into implementing a simple EMS (Energy Management System) that would work for at least controlling the thermostats. - (H-H) Peter.. b) Data room outside cooling – implement ASAP – contact Carl Cahill with recommendation – (H-H) Walt, Jay 5. Solar Energy Generation: • Flier of P.V. Solar Systems Purchase Options has been submitted for the perusal by the Town attorney. Flier needs to be put into a more condensed format - (H-H) Jay. • Check into requirements/restrictions for LAH government funding of solar systems for residential homes – (M-M) Jay, Rich Larson. Green Construction and Demolition (H-H) - Raj: 1. Build-it-Green requirement – procedure ready for next new home applicant Recycling: 2. GreenWaste Recovery’s service – Continue to monitor GreenWaste. - (H-H) – Jay. 3. GreenWaste recycling monthly spreadsheet: Progress has been made about calculating GHG avoidance through recycling. Data has been obtained for all other entries of the spreadsheet - (H-M) – Jay.