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TOWN OF TRUCKEE
GREEN BUILDING COMMITTEE
Regular Meeting
October 1, 2007 - 3:30 p.m.
TRUCKEE TOWN HALL – ADMINISTRATIVE CONFERENCE ROOM
10183 TRUCKEE AIRPORT ROAD – TRUCKEE, CALIFORNIA
MINUTES
1. CALL TO ORDER.
The meeting was called to order at 3:35 PM. Committee members,
Meyer, Donova, Hook, Jones, Havorka, Kerton, and Laudenschlager were present.
Planning Commissioner Bender, community members Christie Skirvin, Lisa Peterson
(Wells Fargo), Dave Parsons (Truckee River Watershed Council), Alan Marshall
(contractor), and Community Development Director, John McLaughlin and staff member
Nishimori were also present.
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Dave Parsons of the Truckee River Watershed Council announced the Low
Impact Development (for BMPs) workshop on October 25-26. Parsons stated
that this is the same workshop previously offered in June.
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Greg Jones passed out the draft CATT/SiGBA workshop agenda for the October
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24 workshop.
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The Committee asked for an update on the Town Corporation yard.
3. REVIEW ITEMS.
3.1 Green Building Committee Mission—How are we doing?
(Denyelle Nishimori)
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Review of mission statement, goals, policies, and work program.
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Overview of staff input from the Building Working Group.
Staff summarized the Building Working Group’s discussion on requiring a green building
checklist on building submittal plans. Some members of the Building Working Group felt
that the checklist would be a stepping stone to mandatory green building while other
thought that if it were to be included in the application, it would be less of a an issue.
Generally the working group thought that there were alternatives to collecting data than
requiring a checklist no one would be enforcing, such as talking to green builders, taking
a survey, calling people direct, etc. The group stated that there needs to be significant
public involvement on green building to determine if a mandatory versus incentive-based
program makes sense. To date the Committee has talked about education and an
incentive-based program which seems to no longer be the direction.
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The Committee discussed the Committee goals and objectives noting that the mission
statement focuses on education. The previous years work also focused on education,
promotion and incentive-based green building—not mandatory green building. Education
should still be the focus and maybe the goals and objectives need to be reviewed to see
if they still apply. The Committee discussed the need to do the following:
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Review the Committee goals and objectives
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Discuss future workshop topics (after CATT/SiGBA meeting on Ocotber 24)
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Take a closer look at incentives and create a list for Truckee (maybe a
special sticker on the plans, award recognition, etc.)
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Highlight Town successes such as BMPs, workshops, green buildings, etc.
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Create a list of local resources like the SiGBA resource guide
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Put an article in the Town newsletter with a survey and helpful hints
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Work with SiGBA and CATT
3.2. Peter Bruck’s “Developing a Green Building Ordinance”
(Denyelle Nishimori)
Staff provided an overview of Peter Bruck’s presentation on developing a green building
ordinance. The Committee discussed Bruck’s ideas and felt he provided a good
example.
4. INFORMATIONAL ITEMS.
5. ADJOURNMENT. To the next regularly scheduled Commission meeting on
October 1, 2007 in the Town Hall Administrative Conference Room at 10183
Truckee Airport Road.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 PM.
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