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PLANNING & COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
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APRIL 26, 2010
SPECIAL MEETING MINUTES
I. CALL TO ORDER
Chair Lynn Norman called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. in Annex Conference Room
1 located on the second floor of One Main Building, 1 East Main Street, Auburn, WA.
Planning & Community Development Committee members present were: Chair Lynn Norman and Vice Chair Nancy Backus. Member Rich Wagnerwas excused. Municipal
Services Committee members present were: Chair Bill Peloza, Vice Chair Sue Singer
and Member John Partridge.
Staff members present included: Interim Director Kevin Snyder, Environmental
Protection Manager Chris Andersen, Environmental Planner Jennifer Shih, Planner
Stuart Wagner, Police Chief Jim Kelly, and Planning Secretary Renee Tobias.
Audience members included: Wayne Osborne, Michelle Caulfield Cascadia Consultant,
students from Green River Community College included Tyler Schunzel, Zachary Kesti, Eric Haugland, Susan Homan, Tiffany McDonald and Robert Spears.
II. JOINT MEETING WITH MUNICIPAL SERVICES COMMITTEE
A. Draft Greenhouse Gas Inventory
Interim Planning Director Kevin Snyder introduced Michelle Caulfield from the
Cascadia Consulting Group to the Committees. The project was funded by the
Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant in the amount of $25,000. Mr. Snyder
noted that many Federal and State grant applications require evidence of ways that
cities are positively addressing carbon footprint. In order to do this, a baseline level
of information to identify how the grant funded projects are improving the City's
carbon footprint is needed.
Environmental Planner Jennifer Shih provided background information, assumptions and methodology, key findings and highlights of recommendations of the draft
greenhouse gas inventory report utilizing a PowerPoint presentation. The following
are key points from this presentation:
• Council adopted Resolution No. 4368 in support of local, regional, national, and
global sustainability (July 2008}. Council adopted Resolution No. 4477 to join ICLEI -Local Governments for sustainability (May 2009)
• Two data inventories were collected -municipal and community. Data collection
efforts were made by all City departments.
• Waterlwastewaternperations and building operations are the largest emissions
sectors for municipal operations. Electricity is the largest source of emissions,
accounting for 61 % of emissions from municipal operations
• The Auburn community's largest emissions sectors were transportation (42%)
and commercial energy (21
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• Report recommended setting a municipal reduction targets modeled after the targets set by the State of Washington departments with 15% below the 2008
baseline by the year 2020 and 36% below the 2008 baseline by the year 2035.
• Specific municipal policy recommendations included:
a. The use of a building energy performance monitoring system;
b. Formalize best management practices forthe fleet;
c. Reduce the amount of water that needs to be conveyed
d. Track waste production at City buildings
e. Switch to metered traffic signals and street lights where possible
f. Encourage employees to use alternate transportation
• Staff reviewed other jurisdictions community best practices with the Committee
which included:
a. Facilitate the use of car-sharing programs
b. Minimum energy efficiency standards for building energy
c. Recycle or yard waste ordinance.
• Next steps:
a. Finalize draft greenhouse gas inventory report
b. Continue the implementation of municipal recommendations
c. Coordinate with Mayor and Council on future policy development
d. Plan for inventory and report update in three years (recommended timeline)
Committee discussed the report and provided feedback and suggestions to staff.
III. ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business to come before the Planning and Community
Development Committee, Chair Norman adjourned the meeting at 8:00 p.m.
APPROVED THIS DAY OF MAY 2010.
Lynn Norman, Chair Renee S. Tobias, Planning Secretary
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