Green Team

Minutes Morgantown Municipal Green Team Sept. 18, 2017, Meeting Attending: Joey James, Jim Kotcon, Holly Purpura, Erdogan Gunel, Janis Gunel, Karen Kalafat, Joseph Kanosky, Alex Davis, Penny Thomas (League of Women Voters), Jonathon Rosenbaum, Shirley Rosenbaum, and Christine Wallace. Green Team Chair Joey James announced that he will be resigning and a replacement as Chair is needed. Paris Climate Resolution-Climate Action Plan After adoption of the Resolution, City Council asked the Green Team to prepare an Action Plan. Volunteers included Jim Kotcon, Ryan Wallace, Jing Zhang, Mark Tauger, Rick Landenberger, Ella Belling, and Joey James. Other suggested names included Jonathon Rosenbaum, Jenny Selin, and Sandra Fallon. IAC recommendations After presentation of the IAC report, Council will take up the recommendations in increments. The City Manager was asked to present “Bite-size” pieces for implementation. Energy Audits on other City Buildings Abby Cayton asked for recommendations on other City buildings for an energy audit as part of her internship. Because plans are underway to remodel the Met Theatre and the Ice rink, those were suggested as timely possibilities for an audit. The buildings are on different tariffs so Abby will contact Melissa Burch or “Roger” at BOPARC for energy bills. Recycling Karen met with the City manager and Republic (Molly McWilliams) on sept. 11. No contract is finalized yet. They are working on adding schools and “Blue bins” for commercial clients. The directions for recycling are still unclear, and an updated list of recyclables, as well as plans for schools and businesses, needs to be reviewed by the Green Team. Joey and Pam will work with Paul Brake to review the work. Republic agreed to do quarterly reporting starting in January. No specifics were identified as to what would be in the reports. The green team recommended that the volume of materials picked up, contamination level (percentage of refused cans), follow-up calls to violators, and a contamination report from Green Star should be included. Composting was discussed, but no facility exists in Morgantown, so Republic declined to pick up compostables. Although composting was included in the contract, the City may need to identify a composting site for this to move forward. 1  March 18, 2018 Bike Summit Ella reported that a Bike Summit would be held at the Marriott Water Front Place in Morgantown Sept. 24-25, and she needs people to attend, as WV-DOH will be attending. Register by Tuesday at 5 PM. Citizens Climate Lobby Meeting Janis Gunel attended the meeting and briefly described their goals. Morgantown Dam Trash Clean-up Jenny Selin met with Army Corps of Engineers regarding the trash build-up behind the dam. She discussed the idea of dong a contest at the WVU College of Engineering to design a solution to trash removal. Republic indicated that they will haul the trash away if it can be brought to the shore. Joey and Christine will work with Jenny. Holly mentioned that Kenny Hacher and Chris Dale at MUB had identified the trash as about half trees and lots of plastic. Meeting adjourned at 7:10pm. 2