Sustainable Broomfield Community Task Force
DRAFT Minutes Meeting
#2
May 27,
2009
In the second
Task Force meeting
the group was presented a project overview and history, a group
community visioning activity, a presentation on “What does
sustainability mean to you” survey results, and a greenhouse gas
inventory presentation of the City and County of Broomfield.
Task Force Members Present: Mayor
Pat Quinn,
Kevin Jacobs,
Patrick Tennyson,
Beverly Pneuman,
Marcia Heiser,
Sam Taylor,
Irene Lalich, Jeffery Kerrane, Jeffery McPherson,
Jean Wilkie,
Linda Fahrenbruch,
Judy Enderle,
Roger Kelley,
Jini Bates,
Geoffrey Urland,
Klea Jones,
Mark Kuhl,
Bryce Isaacson,
Jeremy Fancher,
Liz Law-Evans,
Lisa Moore,
David Hastings,
Don Dunshee,
Jennifer Kerr,
Susan MacGregor
Absent:
Aaron Loertscher, Felix Flechas,
Hal Lunka,
Linda Reynolds,
Nicholas Fazzini,
Kerry Pettis,
Jessica Erickson
Others in attendance:
Derek Okubo, Kathy Schnoor, Anu Ramaswami, Debbi Main, Abel
Chavez, Anita Davis,
Charles Ozaki,
Bob Gaiser,
Meghan Bernard
6:30
– Approval of the April
22, 2009 Minutes
6:35
– Overview of what to come.
6:38
– Kathy Schnoor:
History of
the Sustainability Process
The
concept of a sustainable community project with NCL and UCD was
created in Fall 2008.
MWH
conducted an evaluation of
Broomfield
facilities from December 2008 to May 2009.
Community engagement was noted as a key priority in the
development of the process.
Three main goals were developed:
define sustainability for the City and
County
of
Broomfield;
prioritize where they should focus time, energy and money; and document
the process as a Tool-kit for other communities.
The National Civic League’s role is to facilitate Task Force
meetings and develop a model plan and tool kit for other communities.
The
University
of
Colorado Denver is a technical advisor for the
Task Force for researching best practices, analyzing data, and helping
with community engagement.
The whole process is 18 months long:
Initiation phase (January – April 2009), Stakeholder phase (April
– December 2009), Implementation phase (January – June 2010).
6:55
– Comprehensive Plan Action Steps –
Green
Broomfield
Video
This video (which can be found on
the
Broomfield
website) documents what the City and
County
of
Broomfield
has already done to become more “green”.
The Task Force asked questions and participated in a
discussion after the video. It was suggested
that
Broomfield
should look at other cities to see what they are doing to “go green”.
One member added, “We want
to be a benchmark, we want it to be something uniquely defined by us”.
Another member was concerned about how to bring these programs that
are already in place to the resident-at-large.
7:30
– Small Group Activity:
Visioning Exercise
The Task Force split up into three
groups and was asked to answer this question on three sticky notes:
“When
Broomfield
is the model sustainable community, what would be happening?”
The following summarizes the three
groups’ main themes they felt were important to sustainability:
Group 1:
Recycling and renewable resources (zero waste), reduction in
energy, educating the community, alternative transportation models (more
walkability), locally produced food, more local businesses, and concern
for the wildlife in the community.
Group 2:
Community and economic development, community and citizen
involvement, recycling with an emphasis on reuse, alternative forms of
transportation (biking, walking), agricultural sector is involved, an
organic food co-op, concern for air quality, citizens having more
awareness, water conservation efforts, and alternative energies.
Group 3:
Improved infrastructure accessibility by bike, foot, more
education, a focus on reducing waste, locally produced food, continually
looking into the future, retrofitting existing buildings for energy
efficiency, the city should lead the way as an example for other
communities, water conservation, and reducing energy consumption and
focus on it coming from more “friendly sources”.
8:15
–
“What does sustainability mean to you” Survey Results – UCD
Presentation:
Meghan Bernard
The results of the three groups
(Task Force, Virtual Committee, and Community-At-Large) that took the
survey were presented. The survey was meant to qualitatively compare the
views of the three groups on their conceptual understanding of
sustainability, their program priorities and their values.
In a conceptual definition of sustainability, the planet was considered more important than people or
prosperity.
In action there was more balance between people, prosperity, and
planet. Water, energy and
green businesses were top priorities for all three groups.
8:30
–
Greenhouse Gas Accounting – UCD Presentation: Abel Chavez
A presentation was given on the
greenhouse gases the City and
County
of
Broomfield
emitted in 2007. The data
was separated into buildings energy use, transportation tail pipe
emissions, and materials and waste emissions.
The group discussed
the data presented with questions on the calculations and how
Broomfield
compares to
Denver
and the rest of the state.
The total community wide greenhouse gas emissions were 1.19 million
metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (mt-CO2e).
In 2007, the per capita emissions were 22.1 mt-CO2e,
which was close to the state average of 25.2 mt-CO2e.
The building sector contributed the majority of emissions (51% of
the greenhouse gases). In
general, recommendations made were to move towards energy efficiency and
renewable energy strategies in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Following the presentation on
greenhouse gases, the Task Force discussed the data presented on water
use per capita, trash per capita and renewable energy in Broomfield.
Staff agreed to follow up with requests for more information at
the next meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at
___9:20__.
Minutes Prepared by _Meghan
Bernard______
Approved by _(consideration of Approval 6/24/09_
Chair
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