Community Outreach Meetings

FITCHBURG CITY CLERK Mar 29 2024 9:39 am North Central Climate Change Coalition (NC4) Meeting Agenda Date: Apr 3, 2024 Time: 7:00 – 8:30 pm Location: Remote Only REMOTE INSTRUCTIONS Instructions for residents to participate remotely can be found on the home page of the Town website. https://town.pepperell.ma.us/683/Remote-Public-Meeting- Agenda: (Apr 3 is a makeup for the Mar 20 meeting) 1. Greetings 2. Minutes to be reviewed and approved. See draft minutes on the Google Drive 2023 Minutes 2024 Minutes 2023-10-18 2024-01-17 2023-11-15 2023-12-20 3. Organic Waste/Compost initiative with Guest Speaker from Black Earth Composting 4. Member updates 5. Update on NC4 website 6. Updates on Local Staffing for Climate Change, with updates from Chief Hoffer’s fireside chat. 7. MRPC Climate Pollution Reduction meeting report 8. Brief discussion of Proposal-for-a-Regional-Net-Zero-Carbon-Plan-covering-the-MA-3rd-Congressional-District.v1.docx. See Draft-Proposals-in-Progress on the Google Drive. 9. Adjournment NC4 is composed of municipal and civic leaders across Massachusetts Congressional District 3 working on the frontlines of climate change resistance, resilience, and adaptation. We see first-hand climate change’s impacts to the health and well-being of our communities and to our natural and built environment. Our hopes are to harness the power of people and communities working together to build awareness and attract funding for regional efforts to address already baked in climate impacts and opportunities to create a healthier and safer future. The mission of The North Central Climate Change Collaborative (NC4) is to foster and strengthen regional municipal collaborative efforts to combat climate change through: • shared projects, educational efforts, and best practices, and • informing state and federal legislative actions. Since convening on an informal basis in the Summer of 2021, people from communities in the 3rd Congressional District have met regularly to share knowledge on climate initiatives in their communities and ideas for how a regional group of communities could more effectively work together. The Town of Pepperell strives to assure that no individual with a disability shall, by reason of such disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of the services, programs or activities of the Town of Pepperell. Towards that end, persons with special needs are asked to contact the Selectmen's Office in advance of any meeting to ensure that prior arrangements are made to assure full participation in the meeting.