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Climate Action Committee
Approved Minutes
October 27, 2010
3:30-5:30
Point Hudson Administration Building Conference Room
375 Hudson Street, Port Townsend, WA
Members Present: Kees Kolff, Deborah Stinson, Barney Burke, Stan Willard, Pete Raab, Scott
Walker, John Austin, Mark Welch
Staff: Zoe Ann Lamp, Judy Surber
Guests: Harry Doyle, Gene Farr
Scribe: Zoe Ann Lamp
Topic Recommendation/Action Follow-up (if needed)
Call to order 3:42
Approval of
Minutes and
Agenda
The committee approved the minutes from the
June 10, 2010 meeting by consensus.
Public Comments Harry Doyle explained the local efforts to reduce
greenhouse gases will have no global impact due
to overwhelming emissions from Brazil, Russia,
India and China. He expects technological
advances in the future to reduce GHG emissions.
Mr. Doyle handed out information from the
Chicago Climate Exchange (copy attached)
explaining that currently the city and county
could buy enough carbon offsets for $38.75 to
address 775 metric tons of CO2 emissions.
Revised Work
Plan and Review
Draft Climate
Action Plan
Judy Surber distributed a draft Revised Work
Plan dated October 2010 to the committee. She
reviewed the progress to date.
It was suggested the Resource Conservation
Manager (RCM) could be responsible for the
monitoring portion of the local government
section of the Climate Action Plan.
As part of the revised work plan Judy proposed a
reauthorization of the CAC for a period of time to
launch a Community Task Force for public
outreach to encourage voluntary action to reduce
GHG emissions. Barney Burke suggested the
Judy Surber will revise
the work plan and the
Climate Action Plan
based on the committee’s
discussion. She will send
the committee the revised
draft documents a week
prior to the next meeting.
John Austin and Mark
Welch will work with
their staffs to schedule a
joint City Council and
Board of County
existing CAC evolve into a community outreach
group. Kees Kolff suggested we look at HAPN
(Housing Action Plan Network) as a model.
HAPN is a network for communication for
affordable housing partners. Kees summarized
discussion of the group: the CAC could meet
quarterly and could act as a facilitator between
partners and collaborate. This approach
minimizes staff time. The CAC would remain
open to requests from the city and the county to
look into specific projects and tasks. Stan
Willard suggested the CAC have fewer members.
Scott Walker called attention to the need for a PR
campaign.
Judy Surber distributed a suggested Climate
Action Plan she created based on work completed
by the CAC and the Skagit County Climate
Action Plan. By consensus the committee
directed Judy Surber to complete the Work Plan
and the Climate Action Plan based on the
comments given during the meeting.
Commissioners meeting
for early 2011.
Zoe Ann Lamp will
discuss the Sunset
Provision with Al Scalf
and request he extend the
CAC.
Next Meeting The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday,
December 15th 3:00 – 5:00.
Adjourn 5:30