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Environmental Initiatives Committee
Regular Meeting Minutes
DATE: March 1, 2018
TIME: 6:30 PM
LOCATION: Parks & Recreation Building,
1. Roll Call – Committee Members: Sheela Veerina, Peter Evans, Steve Schmidt,
Drew Grewal,April Anair, Pat Lang, Srini Srinivasan; Community members: Kjell
Karlsson
2. Approval of Minutes – Not available for review
3. GHG plan – consideration of new initiatives to help us achieve our targets –
Identify top 5-6 initiatives and get feedback from Mayor Radford
4. Updates on standing agenda items
• Green Building – Drew and Sheela to go over June 15, 2017 council meeting
tape and make improvements to EIC proposal for new residence and second
unit before taking it to John Radford
• SVCE – Brainstorm of potential recommendations for SVCE investment in
customer programs: 1. EV charging station, 2. heat pump water heaters, 3.
efficient appliances, 4. PV solar, 5. Selection of vendors, financing and
rebates package (like Diamond Certified) because homeowners need support
to choose wisely, 6. List of devices that need to be upgraded, more efficient,
closer to code for older homes, 7. SVCE customer outreach web site with
equivalent of PG&E rate calculator (Sun Share as an example of a good
interface), 8. Feedback on carbon footprint, 9. comparison to other cities in
the area
• Water conservation – not discussed
9. Discussion of any potential new initiatives that EIC members are interested in
pursuing
• What to do about Earth Day Sunday April 22? Suggestion: have a booth to give
out free/cheap (but good quality) LED light bulbs then pass out info about GHG
or other environmental issues
• Seminars--EIC needs to give some for LAH. Srini will give educational seminar
on PV and Storage at town hall notification to town via NextDoor through
Deborah
10. Public Comments
11. Adjournment