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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Next Meeting: September 15, 8:30-9:30

Town Hall, Selectmen’s Room

Dates To Remember: 

September 11, 2010 from Noon to 4:00 Yard Sale at Dewey Field

10/10/10 Event at Cedar Circle Farm

November 13/14 Naked Table Weekend

Attending: Lyn Miller (Chairing), Larry Litten, Chris Soderquist, Marjorie Rogalski, Mary Ann Cadwallader, Emily Neuman, Peter Kulbacki (Public Works), and Julia Griffin (Town Manager).

Regrets:  Chris Kennedy; Joanna Whitcomb

Minutes:  June 16 minutes need to be approved with July 21, and August 18 minutes when we have a quorum. Lyn will send all past Minutes for approval today.

Action Items:

• Grant: Lyn will create a draft Grant proposal for the New England Grass Roots Funds and share with Larry, Julia and all by Sept. 8, in order to send in by the Sept. 15th deadline;
• Vision: Lyn will create a draft Sustainable Hanover vision ‘paper’ that will include relevant graphics and text.  She will distribute this to the committee by Sept. 12 so that all can review and discuss at the Sept. 15 meeting;
• Yard Sale (Sept. 11): 
• Sign up sheets will be at the Farmers Market, using the packet that hangs in Town Hall;
• Lyn will bring the kiosk to the Yard Sale to showcase Sustainable Hanover’s initiatives.
• Lyn will publicize the Yard Sale in the weekly school newsletter
• Farmers Market (Sept. 8): Emily and Lyn will do set up and Mary Ann and Lyn will breakdown.
• Sept. 14 Polling Location:  We may bring the ‘kiosk’ to the gymnasium.
  
  Farmers Market (Timing):
• Marjorie and Larry redid our posters and have assembled everything.  They will set up and take down at the market today. 
• Thanks to Joanna Whitcomb for helping with the printing.
• Marjorie will leave the materials at Lyn’s for the following week.
  
  Yard Sale: We have 24 registrations for the Yard Sale, September 11 from noon-4:00.  Some research could be done at the sale to find out how people heard about it.  Publicity to date has consisted of our Farmers Market kiosk, posters placed around town and one in the Town Hall with registration forms attached.  Julia offered Emily Penny’s help with a Transaction ad and the possibility of assistance with an insert to advertise the event that could go out with the Town’s mailing about street lights.

Next spring, after the Town’s new web site is in place, e-mailing residents will be possible. 

 

Grant Proposal for Displays:  We will apply for a grant from the New England Grass Roots Fund for the funds (up to $2,500) to create two movable, triangular, free-standing kiosks that Sustainable Hanover can use in public places like the Town Hall, the Howe, the Black Center and the schools to inform and engage others in our work.  It’s hoped that the grant will cover supplies and the work of a professional graphics designer to help us with the design and graphics for the posters advertising our work and the 6 frames that will surround the cork boards on which the posters are displayed. Some of the graphics developed might be used on our website and on a bulletin board in the vestibule of the Town Hall. The possibility of the designer’s help with a new logo was not resolved as some on the committee felt we’ve already become identified with our current logo.  Lyn thought that a new logo could be developed by a high school student if needed. 

The proposal is due, September 15.

 

Lyn, Larry, and Julia will work on the grant.  Lyn will do a draft and get it to Larry before the 6th for his input and then she and Julia’s office will put the final touches on it and send it out.  Julia will find out the name of the graphics designer who did the fine work on the parking brochures for the Chamber.  Chris S.  also knows someone who could be asked. 

 

Town Street Lights: Mailings to neighborhoods about street lights are going out next week. They will inform householders about the street lights slated to be removed and about the dates of 2 informational meetings. The committee hoped that the concept of ‘public funds to light public spaces’ and the research that shows personal lighting is safer than street lights would be stressed.  Our effort to save National Grid some trouble came to naught as they are changing all the bulbs to high pressure sodium before they know which lights we will eliminate.  .

 

Vision (Review core principles with Julia): Lyn will be making revisions on this document as we discuss them.  Sometime in October we will roll out the Vision Statement and have a conversation in the community.

Julia’s observations-

• We need to have a regularly updated  “TO DONE” list. 
• We need to have work for both kinds of groups; ones that are action oriented and ones that are interested in citizen education.  Sustainable Hanover could provide a forum for these groups quarterly to create the Done list and then publish it on their website. 
• We need to continue our positive conversations with the principals and teachers at the various schools about their work. Julia agreed that having goals was critical. 
• She said that, ultimately, we need to put out a resource guide for our citizens.  The state appears to be getting the grants to do this and it would be our job to publicize this and other resources.
• Julia felt that the committee has been branded, Sustainable Hanover, and should stay with that name rather than call itself a ’Counsel’. 
• We will need to recruit people interested in action and those interested in education as we move forward.

Lyn reported on her conversation with Jonathan Brush about an energy report.  He has said that he could put one together.  We could also approach individuals working on sustainability at the schools to add to our TO DONE list.



Lyn spoke of the need to have goals and a structure in order to have a way to assess the relative importance of new ideas and where they fit into our work, as well as to be able to report progress being made. All of which are important for grant writing as well. 

Beginning today, Larry will be vice-chair, rather than co-chair of the committee, as this makes better use of Larry and Lyn’s time. 


Our goals are clear and now we need to invite people to do the work. Lyn will make a report/manual to introduce our vision and structure.  She will send it out to all of us.  At our next meeting we will review the 6 page document and work on making it shorter.  The committee felt that it should reference the Town’s work with Natural Step in the document.

 

Energy Conservation: Julia told us that Fannie and Freddie have tied up the PACE program and it’s in trouble, postponing if not ending all plans for Hanover’s participation as a demonstration site, but that Christine Walker has applied to HUD for money that could be used to hire an energy planner and help with publicity for Enfield and Hanover. 

If the PACE program clears its federal hurdles, our participation in it would have to be approved at a Town Meeting.

It was noted that the building inspector can give the committee information on who has installed solar and we can get their feedback on costs and savings.


The meeting adjourned at 9:30.

Respectfully submitted,

Mary Ann Cadwallader