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Attachment 1 Orange County Commission for the Environment DRAFT Meeting Summary September 14, 2015 Orange County Solid Waste Administration Building, Chapel Hill PRESENT: Jan Sassaman (Chair), May Becker, Lynne Gronback, Loren Hintz, David Neal, Bill Newby, Jeanette O'Connor, Rebecca Ray, Gary Saunders ABSENT: Sheila Thomas - Ambat, Peter Cada, Tom Eisenhart, Lydia Wegman, David Welch STAFF: Tom Davis, Brennan Bouma GUESTS: Terri Buckner ( OWASA Board of Directors), Pat Davis ( OWASA Sustainability Mgr.) Call to Order — Sassaman called the meeting to order at 7:34 pm. Additions or Changes to Agenda — Sassaman said he would like to add a brief update and discussion on the status of CFE membership and appointments. He said he would insert this item between Items IV. and V. on the agenda. III. Minutes — Hintz motioned to approve the August 10 minutes as written; seconded by Saunders. Sassaman pointed out a typo on Page 2. Approved unanimously. IV. Energy Conservation / Management Forum — Terri Buckner ( OWASA Board of Directors) and Gary Saunders reported on the first two meetings to plan for a community forum on energy conservation and management. Buckner said the meetings have also included representatives from Carrboro, Chapel Hill, UNC, and OWASA. Buckner reported the group decided that a community forum is not desirable at this time after all. Instead they will identify projects of mutual interest where there are opportunities for collaboration among the different entities. Buckner said the group might want to hold a public forum after identifying one or more projects. She noted the Town of Carrboro held a public forum on climate change and did not get adequate public participation. The plan is to have something specific for members of the public to consider and react to in the future. Bucker said the group developed an initial list of potential projects that also included metrics on how each group would measure and report on energy conservation and management. It also included metrics on social value. Bucker said the next task is for people to review the list and prioritize projects of interest to the entity they represent. The group will consider those prioritize and decide where to go next. Bucker said the next two meetings will be September 30 and October 28, during which the group will identify the projects of mutual interest and to determine what is necessary to make them happen. She noted this is different from what she had presented in August and hopes this new idea will also be of interest to the CFE for further participation. Sassaman asked Saunders what he wanted from the full CFE. Saunders asked CFE members look over the list of potential energy conservation collaboration projects and provide comments to him in time for him to report to Mary Tiger of OWASA by Sept 18.