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Environmental Initiatives Committee
Minutes
DATE: Monday, July 21, 2008
TIME: 7:30pm
LOCATION: Parks & Recreation Building
26379 Fremont Road
Los Altos Hills
1. Roll Call: The following were present: Ian Earnest, John Harpootlian, Lew Jamison,
Mark Jensen, Steve Schmidt, Raj Reddy & Jay Shideler. Guest: Rich Larson
2. Committee acceptance of the minutes: All present acceptance the June 21, 2008
Minutes as-is.
Energy:
1. Energy Renewable & Consumption Reduction Initiatives – (H-H) Steve:
• EIC shopping list for PG&E – Papia has been promoted; a replacement will
be appointed shortly – follow up - (H-H) Steve
• ICLEI – Town Government Inventory CO2 by ICLEI has been approved and
certified by ICLEI, but resident portion is still ongoing. Data on cars and air
travel will be missing although Jay requested that this data be estimated (but
not included in the formal report) so as to obtain comparisons and visibility.
AB32 – reduce CO2 levels back to baseline 1990 by 2020. Actera has been
active in numerous communities, mostly Palo Alto where they have
completed resident audits.
a. Put together proposal related to that promoted by Actera for LAH –
(H-H) – Steve.
b. Get PG&E “wired” back into the program for real-time metering and
for residential audits – (H-H) – Steve.
c. Continue working with ICLEI for residential carbon footprinting – (H-
H) – Steve.
d. Los Altos Garbage has not submitted necessary information to Steve
for consumption of diesel and driven miles of garbage trucks in LAH –
(H-H) – Jay.
Town Hall energy monitoring:
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.
• A meeting between FSI (Allen & Alix) & EIC representatives (Jay &
Mark) was held to rectify report shortcomings. FSI agreed to present
pie-charts representing energy consumption (HVAC, lighting, plug-
in electrical, etc. for the three areas of Town Council chambers,
offices and data room). Continue to engage and to monitor progress
of FSI – (H-H) - Mark
• Submit written request to Town staff outlining agreement of actions
items agreed in this meeting – (H-H) Mark
• Follow up on getting LAH building LEED certified – (H-H) –
Mark.
2. Solar Energy Generation:
• Solar website monitoring: No new information (M-L) Jay
• No-money-down solar installation for LAH similar to that promoted by San
Jose is currently being looked into: (M-M) - Jay
Green Construction and Demolition (H-H) - Raj:
1. Entire program, as outlined by Debbie Pedro and Raj, was accepted without
change by the Planning Commission.
2. Guidelines for new and remodeled homes: Remodels will be voluntary at this
time (H-H) – Raj.
3. Follow through with submission to the Town Council in the August timeframe
(H-H) Raj.
Recycling:
1. Green Waste Recovery’s proposal: No new information (H-H) - Jay
2. LAG Co. residential recycling/landfill data: Waiting for new formation (M-M) –
Jay
3. Green Waste Recovery’s new recycle processing line – finalize date ( now
expected about 10:00AM either July 29 or 30) (M-H) - Jay
Water Consumption, S.O.D. and Fire Prevention:
1. Documents for both S.O.D. (Sudden Oak Death) & Fire Prevention for LAH will
be submitted to council this Thursday – (H-H) - John
2. Landscape Water & Conservation Guidelines – no new information - (H-M) John
3. 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. EIC members are encouraged to continue to submit articles for publications for
either the Town Newsletter or the Town Crier: (M-H)
• ICLEI CO2 emission data & the BlueWiki (Sept) – Steve
• Build it Green Guidelines (Sept) – Raj
• Green Waste recycle processing line plus G.W. updates (Sept) – Jay
• Town Hall audit results – won’t make it for Sept but schedule for Dec. –
Mark
• Water Management (Sept) – John
3. Presentation format standardization – PowerPoint (all)
Next Meeting: Monday, July 18, 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.
JAS 7-17-08