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Orange County Commission for the Environment <br />IIIIIIIIII'� VIII " " " "' "" "11111 "" Meeting Summary <br />April 10, 2017 <br />Solid Waste Management Administration Building, Eubanks Road, Chapel Hill <br />Present: Lynne Gronback (Chair), Bill Kaiser (Vice Chair), May Becker, Jeremy Marzuola, Jeanette <br />O'Connor, Alan Parry, Sheila Thomas - Ambat, Marshall Gray, Matt Crook <br />Absent: Lydia Wegman, Rebecca Ray, Peter Cada, Alex Nicodem, Bill Newby <br />Staff: Tom Davis, Brennan Bouma <br />I. Call to Order — Gronback called the meeting to order at 7 :31. <br />II. Additions or Changes to Agenda - Bouma gave an update on the CFE Facebook page setup. <br />III. Approval of Draft Minutes from March 13, 2017. Gray motioned to approve the minutes as written. <br />O'Connor seconded. Minutes were approved unanimously. <br />IV. CFE Annual Work Plan Discussion with BOCC — Kaiser discussed meeting with BOCC on March <br />28th concerning CFE Annual Wok Plan. CFE officers met with BOCC on March 28th to provide the annual <br />update on the CFE workplan. Kaiser and Bouma presented to the BOCC highlighting the CFE's work on <br />hydrilla, and ongoing series of educational articles. <br />V. Carrboro Climate Action Plan Update- O'Connor led discussion concerning Carrboro effort. <br />O'Connor also serves on the Carrboro Climate Task Force whose work began in 2014. They worked <br />together for 2 years with staff to create the plan, meeting at least once per month. <br />• Created a 2 part plan: 1.) The town works to control mitigate their own operational footprint; 2.) <br />Citizens will organize and work on specialty areas which would have a larger impact. They are now <br />moving into the next phase of monitoring goal progress. One specific focus area is how to create <br />incentives for renters /owners to become more efficient and reducing the carbon footprint. <br />Randy Dodd was the person who managed the final plan. Helped to coordinate the subgroups. <br />• Gronback asked about the diversity of the Task Force. The Task Force had good gender diversity, but <br />not racial or socioeconomic diversity. The Aldermen are hoping that additional and more diverse input <br />can be gathered in the next phase. Gronback mentioned that school Parent - Teacher Associations <br />(PTAs) could be a good idea since they are often diverse and the structure is already in place. <br />Not much input from businesses on many items, but there was one recommendation that focused on <br />business interests in the final version. <br />Took a lot of guidance from ICLEI, and wrote it in a very accessible way so that it would be most <br />useful. <br />• 50% GHG reduction per capita by 2025 is a bold goal, but it is arguably attainable. Energy efficiency <br />and fuel economy standards are going. <br />