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Environmental Initiatives Committee
Minutes
DATE: Monday, August 18, 2008
TIME: 7:30pm
LOCATION: Parks & Recreation Building
26379 Fremont Road
Los Altos Hills
1. Roll Call: The following were present: Lew Jamison, Mark Jensen, Steve Schmidt,
Raj Reddy & Jay Shideler. Guest: Margaret Suozzo
2. Committee acceptance of the minutes: All present acceptance the June 21, 2008
Minutes with minor changes (see final EIC Minutes of July 21, 2008).
3. EIC elections: Jay Shideler was unanimously elected as Chair, and Steve Schmidt as
Vice Chair of the EIC for the upcoming year.
Energy:
1. Energy Renewable & Consumption Reduction Initiatives – (H-H) Steve:
• EIC shopping list for PG&E – Papia has been promoted but her replacement
has not been selected – follow up - (H-H) Steve
• ICLEI – Steve gave a presentation about GreenHouse Gases (GHG) inventory
soliciting comments/recommendations from the EIC. A “guestimation” for
automobile GHG contirbution was included, which is more than that of either
home gas or electricity contribution by residents. The contribution from
Town Government Inventory CO2 is minor compared to that from LAH
residents. Actera has been active in numerous communities, mostly Palo Alto
where they have completed resident audits.
a. Sent out presentation electronically to EIC members – (H-H) – Steve.
b. Residential audits for LAH by Actera is currently on hold waiting for
PG&E’s replacement of Papia. Go ahead for GHG grant certification
for GHG inventory – (H-H) – Steve.
c. Continue working with ICLEI for residential carbon footprinting – (H-
H) – Steve.
d. Los Altos Garbage submitted new data for fuel consumption but
refuge collection for the town of LAH may not be inclusive of all
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.
refuge generate by contractors and landscapers that may have been
taken directly to the landfills - investigate– (H-H) – Jay.
e. G.W. will be using smaller split/body trucks than originally planned –
firm up new estimated fuel consumption for these trucks – (H-H) - Jay
2. Town Hall energy monitoring:
• FSI had taken more on-site data for analysis of energy consumption
of The Town hall facilities. Recent data indicated cell tower is
consuming 30% of total Town hall electricity. FSI is making
progress in “pie-charting” the hall energy consumption. Continue to
engage and to monitor progress of FSI – (H-H) – Mark/Walt.
• Have FSI justify $8k extra costs for energy consumption fixes – (H-
H) – Mark/Walt.
• Follow up on getting LAH building LEED certified – (H-H) –
Mark/Walt.
3. Solar Energy Generation:
• Solar website monitoring: No new information (M-L) - Jay
• A short presentation was given by Jay concerning P.V. solar installations
being either financed or leased and the advantages/disadvantages of each
approach:
o Continue investigation and make a formal presentation to the EIC
and consider a publication: (H-M) – Jay
o Send out spreadsheet on inflation data to EIC – (H-H) - Jay
Green Construction and Demolition (H-H) - Raj:
1. Build-it-Green proposal will be submitted September 11, to the Town
Council. The committee expressed concerns about incremental costs for
“green” requirements that may cause pushback by residents. Prepare
documentation delineating this costs and also a cost-of-ownership analysis -
(H-H) – Raj.
Recycling:
1. Green Waste Recovery’s proposal: No new information (H-H) - Jay
2. LAG Co. residential recycling/landfill data – June figures show recycling by LAH
unchanged at ~62% - (M-M) – Jay
3. Green Waste Recovery’s new recycle processing line tour was taken by Mark,
John and Jay – see publication that is due to occur in the September Town News
Letter for details.
Water Consumption, S.O.D. and Fire Prevention:
1. Documents for both S.O.D. (Sudden Oak Death) & Fire Prevention for LAH were
submitted to the Town Council – need updates and comments/recommendations
from the Town Council (H-H) – John
2. Water conservation – a publication was submitted for September Town News
Letter.
3. Landscape Water & Conservation Guidelines – no new information - (H-M) John
4. Little League Field – no new updates (M-M) - Breene.
Miscellaneous:
1. EIC Website–Town – still waiting for Town staff to go-ahead (H-M) Lew
2. Steve’s Wiki’s address has changed to “LAHGreen.org” – all EIC members are
requested to contribute to it at-will – (H-M) – (all).
3. “Low Carbon Diet” document – sent to Jay for distribution – (H-H) – Margaret
4. EIC membership limitations – petition to the Town Council for increasing the
maximum membership of the EIC from 10 to 11 – (H-H) - Breene
Next Meeting: Monday, September 15, 2008 at 7:30PM (Parks and Recreation
Building).
Concept for establishing Goals and setting Priority: These minutes, henceforth, shall
follow this format of denoting priority as (Value-Time) until further notice. “Value” and
“Time” are expressed as one of three letters: “H” – high, “M”- medium or “L” – low.
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