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NASWAC Meeting Minutes
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December 42008
DPW Conference Room
Attendees: Tina Klein chair,Steve Daly vice-chair,Keith Alter,Lisa Conti,Susan
Almono,Steve Parks,Peter Murley,Judy Walker
1)Call to order and confirm minute recorder
a.Meeting started at 7pm
b.Keith D. Alter to record minutes
2)Accept last month’s minutes
November meeting minutes accepted
3)Old Business
A.Multi Family-Tina reviewed the draftdocument that will allow
Carolyn Dannto produce aneducational tool kit. It will include
materials that will help us ‘pitch’ recycling to property managers
and condo associations, and will include materials to help
educate the complexes with the new recyclingprograms. Bruce
has signed and returned the scope document to MassDEP.
We will choose threecomplexes to us as Beta sites for this program.
Preliminary selections are:
Mill pond
Royal Crest
Brookside
Next step is to work with Carolyn Dann on presentation materials
and then to contact the Beta sites.
Action Item
:Keith will send Beth Mazin’s contact informationto
Judy Walker. Beth will be thecontact for Mill Pond
nd
B.Wheeled Carts:Mid-Decemberdeliveryisexpected forthe 2
order of 54 carts.Approx. 27 carts have been pre-ordered. Sales
Action Item:
have slowed. Steve D.will contact the cable
Action Item:
about an ad for the Carts.Tina to send email
blastabout the availability of wheeled carts.
C.School Recycling:Lisa C. and Tina K. have been invited to
attend a meeting held regularlybetween the Supr and principles
Action Item: Lisa and
of the schools to present our program.
Bruce
to coordinate meeting with Superintendents office. Tina
will attend if possible.
4)New Business
A. Discussion took place regarding a new charter and direction of NASWAC and
possible forming a new “Energy Committee” to look at the energy consumption in
municipal, residentialand commercial areas of buildings. But instead of focusing
just on energy consumption of buildings, we discussed a more comprehensive
framework that would include transportation and waste. Time was spent on the
type oforganization that would be set. Tinaproposed modelthatincludes a
Coordinating Committee that will guide three sub-committees: Municipal,
Residential and Commercial. Each sub-committeewill look at three areas for the
purpose of reducing greenhouse gas impact: A) Buildings (energy use), B)
Transportation and C) Waste. The new model describes approximately 26 roles.
Multiple roles may be filled by the same person, and all roles need not be filled at
the same time. Included among the CoordinatingCommittee and sub-committees
would be certain town officials and town employees, people with specific
expertise and resident volunteers.
The NASWAC committee is in general supportiveof this new mission and
Action Item:
structure which will effectively disband the current committee.
Tina
will meet with Mark Rees to review the reorganization proposal and obtain
his feedback.
B. Becoming a “Green Community”: Susanand Bruce attended a meeting hosted
by DOERwhich outlined the requirements of becoming a “Green Community”
eligible for state funds ($10 million set aside each year for Green Communities).
The bar is set very high. There are many qualifications which we do not currently
meet. We may want to discuss the qualifying criteria further at a future meeting.
C. The November 16 MCAN Symposium (MA Climate Action Network) was
attended by Tina, Steve D. Steve P. and Susan. Steve D. presentedan overview of
the process set by David Gershon,the author of the book “The Low Carbon Diet:
How to Lose 5000 pounds in 30Days” (of carbongas emissions per household).
Thereis interest among NASWACcommittee members to beta test the concept
by forming the first North Andover “EcoTeam”. The team works together to help
each other identify opportunities to reduce energy use and CO2 emissions in our
own households. Based on this success, the group would look to generate new
EcoTeams in our neighborhoods to expand the concept with the goal of reducing
CO2 emissions across a broad spectrum in town. For next month’s agenda:
determine next steps
5. Adjourn
Next Meeting(s):1/8/09 ,2/5/09