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Minutes: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
ATTENDANCE:
Lisa Callahan, Rusty Fleetwood, Frank Kelly, Shelly Krueger, Sandy Major, Judy Miller,
Freda Rutherford, Paul Wolff
CALL TO ORDER:
Rusty called the meeting to order at 4:38pm. Freda commended Rusty, Frank and Ty
for the Grant presentation they spoke to City Council at the meeting last week.
MINUTES FROM THE DECEMBER 20 MEETING:
Rusty requested that the December 20 meeting minutes reflect that during Diane’s
discussion committee members that want to request information from Staff should work
through Rusty. Freda made a motion to approve the December 20 meeting minutes
with the correction that all requests the CRC has for city staff should flow through Rusty
so that he can talk with or email Diane. Sandy seconded the motion. All members in
attendance approved.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
Water Committee –
Water Fair
Judy delivered an update to the committee regarding the Water Fair. Thus far, she has
the presenter’s information and their place. A schedule will be available at the entrance
of the Fair and she will email it out. Shelly offered to email her list serve. Sandy will end
separate emails with information about exhibitors, presenters and the list of door prizes.
Sending emails at different times is intended to continue interest. Many door prizes
have been given. Discussion ensued about the distribution of the flyers and the poster
contest. Judy said volunteers are needed to help with set up in the morning and tear
down in the evening. There is another meeting at Judy’s home Friday afternoon.
Rusty and Frank will help with hanging the poster Wednesday. Sandy discussed the cost
of vendor fees, setup and cleanup. Rusty suggested a motion be made to ask the City
to contribute Chris Shook’s time. Freda made the motion. Frank seconded the motion.
Rusty will email Diane. Judy confirmed Michael Bodine will be videotaping during the
Fair. Libby is going to WTOC on January 24 for a 4 -minute interview. Paul confirmed
Mary Landers is doing an article in the Savannah Morning News. Rusty confirmed with
Judy that Libby is handling the PR. He asked Judy to remind Libby to copy the city with
the PR schedule and to copy him. The poster contest is being advertised. The water
glass contest is coming together. Karen and Lisa are preparing the materials.
Sandy would like to include a painted large water glass as a prize.
Beach Showers
Don and Tommy were not at the meeting to review. Rusty reviewed the points that
came up at the Council meeting with the committee. Council did approve the resolution
to go for the grant and it was delivered to DNR the following day. Situations need to be
addressed prior to finding out if the grant is awarded in spring. Freda expressed the
need to provide an explanation to the public about what is a demonstration effort /
project.
Lisa suggested that one example is that the water committee is trying to get the
community to look at different ways to save water. A demonstration is the use of the
rain barrels at the Community Garden. Frank suggested using part of SCAD’s proposal
from the grant as educational information. Rusty expressed that tangible results of the
beach shower project is difficult to quantify. The educational component of the beach
shower project is half of the project. Rusty recommended that the committee should
make an effort to address how projects can be quantified. He also reported that he
recommended to Don the beach shower project have one voice, one face for PR
throughout the project.
Discussion ensued regarding the committee’s budget and city assistance. Chantel
confirmed that vendor permits would go through her. Paul and Freda discussed
including budget line items in relation to the Community Resource Committee for public
outreach.
Water Resource Task Force
Rusty reported that he spoke with Pat. Council added Jimmy Burke to the Committee
last Thursday with the expressed reason that he is going to be on the Water Resource
Task Force. Paul confirmed that Jim Kennedy will be a presenter at the Water Fair.
Rusty requested that members of the committee sit down to have Jim's input about the
data currently available. Lisa confirmed she is researching salinity data of the aquifer.
Shelly offered to assist Lisa in analyzing the data and reports. Rusty explained that Lisa
is also working on an easily understood scenario to be put together in a format that can
be presented to City Council. He explained that this task force is comprised of former
council members and mayors and other area politicians. Short term and long term
strategy necessities need to be explained. He spoke with Diane about the committee
touring the City’s Water facilities to prepare. Secondarily, Rusty has been in contact
with Hilton Head Island representatives. Judy said that a gentle man from Venice, FL
would be willing to speak to the committee. Rusty suggested this task force be separate
from the CRC in order to provide extreme long range planning for water sewer
situations. Paul confirmed the Infrastructure Committee is working on this with Hussey,
Gay, Bell and DeYoung to develop solutions. Lisa requested the information be provided
to her regarding the pros and cons of getting water from different parts of the aquifer.
Freda mentioned she would like information about the wate r that Savannah pumps
from the river, IP’s involvement and the big picture of how it works and how it all fits
together.
Energy / (New Business) GHG Baseline Audit (combined) –
Rusty gave an update that Tommy and he met to review primary task for the
committee. The first is to establish a baseline greenhouse gas audit. Basically, the audit
will establish a data baseline that the city will use as a comparison of energy
consumption and energy uses, both on residential and municipality standpoint. This
data can be put into a computer program already available to compare to other cities /
regions to see how we are doing energy wise / sustainability wise. Paul passed around
an informational sheet. Rusty stated that the data should be compiled by the city. Once
data is compiled and computerized, Tommy will present it to the committee Mayor and
City Council on the meanings of the data. Rusty requested putting someone on the
committee in charge of collecting data and named Freda. Rusty suggested meeting with
the City Manager to stay on top of it, in order to collect the data.
Paul confirmed that the Chatham County Environmental Forum (CCEF) received money
from Chatham County to set the baseline for Greenhouse Gas Emissions for each city
within the county. CCEF is collecting the data. Freda will work with Tommy and Paul to
make it happen.
Transportation –
Frank updated the committee regarding Transportation. He is planning to attend a
meeting on January 24. He attended the transportation meeting with the County on
Whitemarsh last week regarding alternate types of transportation. He expressed that
the various groups will work together. Frank stated that he still wants to meet with city
representatives to discuss transportation.
Solid Waste –
Karen was not at the meeting to discuss solid waste / recycling for businesses. Paul
reported that a proposal is being worked on to bring in 96 gallon residential recycling
carts with a card system to track weight. Progress is still being made on commercial
district recycling.
Green Space –
N/A
NEW BUSINESS:
GHG Baseline Audit
(see above under Committee Reports: Energy)
OLD BUSINESS:
Rusty discussed the committee by-laws in regards to meeting absences. Freda read the
pertaining section of the by-laws.
ADJOURN:
Judy made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 5:44pm. Rusty seconded the motion.
The motion was unanimous.