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Minutes
DATE: Monday, June 16, 2008
TIME: 7:30pm
LOCATION: Parks & Recreation Building
26379 Fremont Road
Los Altos Hills
1.Roll Call: The following were present: Ian Earnest, Peter Evans, John Harpootlian,
Mark Jensen, Steve Schmidt, Raj Reddy & Jay Shideler.
2.Committee acceptance of the minutes: All present acceptance the May 26, 2008
Minutes as-is.
Energy:
1.Energy Renewable & Consumption Reduction Initiatives – (H-H) Steve:
•EIC shopping list for PG&E – Steve refined the list and submitted it to Papia
in hopes that PG&E can fund the items (see attachment). Follow-up needed
(H-H) Steve
•Sustainability Silicon Valley program has a lower priority with emphasis
being placed on ICLEI program (H-H) All
•Real-Time PG&E meters – This effort is being folded into Steve’s ICLEI
effort. (H-H) Peter
•ICLEI – Chart for LAH Municipal and Resident CO2 emissions per category
was submitted for review by the committee (see attachment). Project is very
promising and well done. However, it needs specific information on
residential vehicles and other refinements. Overall goals are needed (H-H) -
Steve
•Town Hall energy monitoring: FSI’s report by Allan Pong is lacking specific
detail needed for in-depth understanding of where energy consumption is
going and how to improve conservations with line-item costs. Report is to
“boiler-plate” in nature, probably exacerbated by lack of interaction with the
EIC when data was taken. Set up meeting between EIC sub-committee
members and FSI to improve results (H-H) Mark
•QENSO – Community Green Map: Kevin Lo, substituting for Tim Chou,
gave a high-level presentation on the Qenso program. Although program is of
interest to the EIC because it would bring awareness to LAH residents to
reduce their carbon footprint, the program needs refinement and has not yet
been tested in a real life application. The EIC will not take action at this
juncture but Steve will keep close contact with Kevin and Tim to consider
using it at a later date when the program if more fully developed and tested.
(M-M) Steve.
2. Solar Energy Generation:
• Solar website monitoring: No new information (M-L) Jay
Green Construction and Demolition (H-H) - Raj:
1. Guidelines for new and remodeled homes: A meeting was held, June 9th, to
discuss, Build it Green, guidelines for remodels. No firm criteria was
determined as to what size of remodel would require Build it Green
compliance or when or if the entire house would have to comply. Determine
criteria with Debbie (H-H) Raj.
2. Assist Debbie to prepare an ordinance recommendation (with options) to be
presented to the Town Council in the August timeframe (H-H) Raj.
3. Site Plan Submission with Build it Green Check-off list: A discussion
followed about balancing the need for early introduction of the GreenPoint
Checklist requirements at the time of submission of the site plan, but to give
leave-way for finalization at the time of submission of the building permit.
The EIC voted unanimously to require that the GreenPoint Checklist be
attached to the site plan at the time of submission with those items in Section
“A” to be checked off that pertain to the site plan even if specific items don’t
actually appear in the site plan. Run this requirement through the LAH
Planning Commission for comments and approval (H-H) John.
Recycling:
1. Green Waste Recovery’s proposal: Final draft currently being drafted. Updates
needed (H-H) - Jay
2. LAG Co. residential recycling/landfill data: Data for March was corrected – LAH
recycling came in at 63%.
3. Green Waste Recovery’s new recycle processing line with be up in early July –
arrange for EIC member tour of site (H-M) Jay
Water Consumption:
1. Landscape Water & Conservation Guidelines – John presented results of water
sub-committee dealing with S.O.D., fire safety, landscape guide for recommended
plants, and drought water management. See attachement for details (H-M) John
2. Little League Field – no new updates (H-M) - John, Jay, Breene.
Miscellaneous:
1. EIC Website–Town – no new information (H-H) Lew
2. EIC members are encouraged to continue to submit articles for publications:
• ICLEI CO2 emission data – Steve
• Build it Green Guidelines – Raj
• Green Waste recycle processing line plus G.W. updates – Jay
• Town Hall audit results (maybe) – Mark
• Water Management - John
Next Meeting: Monday, July 21, 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 6-18-08