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Summary of Inter - Agency Meeting to Discuss <br />Potential Community Forum on Energy <br />August 4, 2015, 5:30 p.m. — 7:00 p.m. <br />OWASA Boardroom <br />Meeting Attendees <br />Brennan Bouma, Orange County <br />Terri Buckner, OWASA Board of Directors <br />Brad Ives, UNC Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus Enterprises /Chief Sustainability Officer <br />Pat Davis, OWASA <br />Randy Dodd, Town of Carrboro <br />Jesse Freedman, Town of Chapel Hill <br />George Jacobs, UNC Energy Management <br />Kathy Kaufman, Carrboro Climate and Energy Task Force <br />John Richardson, Town of Chapel Hill <br />Gary Saunders, Orange County Commission for the Environment <br />Overview Presentation <br />Terri Buckner welcomed the meeting participants and thanked them for attending the meeting. <br />She said that OWASA was in the early stages of developing an energy management plan, and it <br />seeks to inform and actively engage customers, local governments, the University, and others as <br />it develops the plan. The purpose of this meeting is to determine if there is interest in working <br />together to organize and hold a community forum on energy management, similar to the <br />Community Solid Waste Forum that was hosted by Chapel Hill's Sustainability Committee and <br />the Orange County Commission for the Environment on May 30, 2013 (held at the Chapel Hill <br />Public Library). <br />An energy forum would provide participating agencies the opportunity to: (1) share information <br />about their respective goals and objectives, efforts, and successes to date, and (2) receive <br />feedback and ideas from the public, and (3) identify opportunities for collaboration. <br />The OWASA Board of Directors and Orange County Commission for the Environment support <br />the forum concept, and requested that this group develop preliminary goals and objectives and a <br />proposed approach, format and timetable for such a forum for review by each groups governing <br />body before committing to the forum. <br />Agency Updates <br />Participants provided a brief summary of their respective agency's energy and carbon <br />management goals and objectives and ongoing efforts. <br />