Hanover Town Hall, 8:00am – 9:30am
Next Meeting: Wednesday, December 15 at 8:15, Hanover Town Hall

Present: Lyn Swett Miller (Chair), Larry Litten (Vice-Chair), Chris Kennedy, Chris Soderquist, Marjorie Rogalski, Peter Kulbacki, Brian Walsh
Absent:  Joanna Whitcomb, Mary Ann Cadwallader

Agenda:
1. Approve October Minutes (Attached)
2. Naked Table Summary (Lyn)
3. Rotary Club Presentation Summary (Lyn will share @ mtg)
4. February 26, 2011 Community Workshop:
a. Review Goals  (Celebration & Sharing; Context for Action; Developing Plans for Action in Strategic Areas)
b. Data Gathering (Ad Hoc Energy Committee?)
c. Implementation Process:  Power Down Power Ten Families (1 Year Focus Group)
d. Brainstorm attendees & key players from faith communities
5. Other

Action Items:

• Lyn will work with Chris K. to gather data in time for the Feb workshop
• Schools project – Data Gathering, Carbon Challenge. 
• Choose what additional data we want.
• Chris Kennedy:  Town Buildings Report – Write up summary by the end of December;
• Frank Austin will make a Presentation on energy data to the Select Board (When?)
• Chris S., Lyn:  Agenda for February workshop to verify and finalize in December
• Lyn will write a draft advertisement for the Power Ten families & Contact Clean Air, Cool Planet for possible funding

February Event Plan December:

• Identify all champions and agenda for February workshop;
• Food – Ask Emily for Co-op involvement
• Sign off on strategic areas…
• Families – What will the children do?
• Finalize events that will occur in January to stimulate interest/involvement

January:

• Finalize speakers/facilitators for strategic sessions;
• Finalize food, etc.
• Finalize advertising/marketing

February:

• Finalize presentations for the entire group

Discussion:

1. Lyn reported on her Rotary Presentation: Go back to Rotary for lunch to follow up with people – ask if they have additional questions; Program Chair – What could be a sequel – panel – Dartmouth’s program?

1. Feb 2011:  Focused, efficient.  4 focus – Linking to specific goals.  Transportation
1. Composting: Neighborhoods, etc.; Lawn minimization – emissions, noise; we have surrendered our right to silence
2. Highfields still doing downtown composting; Survey – farmers to receive
3. Power 10:  a. lawn; b. composting c. building efficiency d.
4. Brian: Focus – pick focus based on the places we can make the biggest difference.

                                                     i.     Timing – all Staff budget decisions will have been made.  Discussion – focus on residents, not town policies.  What are the town policies that need residential support?
                                                      ii.     Transportation – more people on buses piece:  We need to spend some time with Patrick O’Neal – Chief parking person in the town.  Question:  constant circulation.  Issue now about peripheral lots.  Parking & Transportation board.  Upper Valley Transit Association is a useful part of the conversation, but they don’t have money.  Dartmouth has been and could be more involved. 
                                                        iii.     How many tons of carbon based on dropping kids at the middle, elementary and high school?  HHS students Calculate?

1. Who/Topics:
1. Transportation in Hanover:  Patrick O’Neal in town (Bike/ped)
2. Residential Land Use: Lawns, gardens, rain gardens (Larry)
3. Buildings – Why, Context: Weatherization, energy usage, heat (Bob Walker)
4. Collaborative Consumption/Local economy/Consumerism/Consumption – Waste/Recycling
5. Saving money / saving energy / Financial planner/Physician/Carbon Planning

                                                     i.     Marjorie – NPR

1. Power Ten: Families:  Ad in the paper – recruit to research studies – ad, high school student projects… Track for a year… (Lyn will create structure for this)

Discussion:
Data Collection:  Motivating individuals and families – Contest – people tell us how much they have done… Why measure the whole? Examples.  Add up what is saved by action… Guess that number within 20%… what is the motivator? 

• Both/And:  What is the average per family…?  What are people doing to compete to be below the average…
• High School – Families: Data collection:  Focus on families…
• Carbon Challenge – spits out specific data… 500 households – science teachers – have them have their families – homework assignment in January.  Jeannie, Kurt, MS :  Gardens, Composting…
• Data:  How much square footage of home vegetable gardens?  How many compost?  Use google-maps to drop the pins in each location.

Who:
What groups:

1. Faith groups: How do we get them on board?
2. Schools
3. Service Clubs (Rotary, Lions, etc., Sierra Club)
4. Business (Chamber of Commerce)

Kinds of people available:
Master gardeners…Resources available for Biodiversity (Judy Reeve, Barbara McIlroy) Committee… Garden club… Catherine Hoyle…

Structure:
Timing:  January:  Leaders, agendas, etc. By December
Larry:  4 Topic areas:  Break-out groups, presentations:  15 – 20 minute presentations on each topic area and then two different break-out slots so people could attend two of the four
Timing:
Vision (since 2 years ago…) – 10 min: 4 themes
Global Challenge 15 min
Celebration – 1st steps 20 minutes -  4 themes
Break-out groups each meet twice
4 areas to focus on  : Each Area – 1 hour….
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Action Archive from October Meeting:
    * Chris K., Larry, Marjorie are meeting next Wednesday, November 3
    * Lyn and Chris S. will address website items 2. banner advertising success, 3. how we want to be represented on the Town’s new website, 5. bar graphs showing before and after energy use of Town’s projects. 5. recording Celebrations and Challenges. 7. continuing their work on the NEGEF grant for the kiosks.
·      Lyn will write a 2 page description of Sustainable Hanover following Julia’s suggestion.
·      Lyn will speak at Rotary on 11/10/10
·      Lyn is working to get Valley News coverage and people to build tables 7 and 8 for the Naked Table event.
·      Chris Kennedy will compile and show the carbon-footprint reduction of the improvements made at the Waste Water Treatment Plant.
    * Julia Griffin will share her To Done list with Lyn.  Julia is it in your purview to ask Charlie Sullivan to redo the CPC Energy Audit of the Town as a comparison?
    * Peter Kulbacki will get a summary from Kevin Mclean of the Waste Water project.