HomeMy Public PortalAbout2019-06-20 Jocelyn Tager
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS: Solar energy installations are a powerful tool for limiting greenhouse gas
emissions and counteracting global climate change; and
WHEREAS: Jocelyn Tager, known to all as “Jolly,” has been a tireless advocate for
increasing solar panels in Watertown through the state’s Neighborhood Solar program;
and
WHEREAS: In 2017, when town regulations required that new developments assess
their projects for solar-readiness, Jolly Tager raised what seemed like a farfetched idea
of requiring that solar arrays actually be required when feasible; and
WHEREAS: From that moment Jolly never wavered in her determination to educate
the Town Council on the need and value of requiring solar installations and to work
with Town staff and the Town Attorney to craft language for an ordinance; and
WHEREAS: Her efforts paid off with a unanimous vote at the November 27, 2018
Town Council meeting, making Watertown the first community in Massachusetts to
require solar installations on commercial or industrial projects of 10,000 square foot
or more and on residential developments of 10 units or more; and
WHEREAS: Publicity in major media outlets has inspired other communities
throughout the state, and state lawmakers, to consider similar proposals; and
WHEREAS: Ms Tager is being honored on June 20 at the Solar Energy Business
Association of New England’s Summer Solstice Celebration for her tireless advocacy
on behalf of solar energy as a way to limit greenhouse gas emissions and thus moderate
climate change;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: that the City known as the Town of
Watertown extends our congratulations to Ms. Tager on receiving this honor and offers
our gratitude for all that she has accomplished on behalf of increasing solar energy use
in Watertown and throughout the Commonwealth.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have
Hereunto set our hand and caused the
Great Seal of the Town of Watertown
To be affixed on this 20th day of June 2019
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Mark S. Sideris, Council President