Public Works Department
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Sustainable Broomfield Community Task Force

DRAFT Minutes Meeting #4

 July 13, 2009

In this fourth meeting, the Task Force was reminded to take the Policy Opinions survey and they were provided with follow-up information on the MWH presentation from the last meeting.  A drafting committee presented a vision statement to the Task Force.  The Task Force agreed that more work needed to be done to capture the social and economic themes missing from the statement.  The Task Force then agreed upon a definition of sustainability in order to have a clear idea of what sustainability is to the Task Force.  From the previous group activity on the five focus areas in Broomfield, five priority areas were developed: Community Education, Economic Development, Natural Resources/Ecosystem, Energy – Conservation and Renewable, and Transportation.  Finally, the Task Force split up into these five groups to begin working on these focus areas. 

Task Force Members Present: Derek Okubo, Mayor Pat Quinn, Linda Fahrenbruch, Kevin Jacobs, Judy Enderle, Bryce Isaacson, Jini Bates, Jessica Erickson, Hal Lunka, Felix Flechas, Rick Ahrens, Marcia Heiser, Irene Lalich, Beverly Pneuman, Mark Kuhl, Liz Law-Evans, David Hastings, Jeffery McPherson, Lisa Moore, Sam Taylor, Patrick Tennyson, Jean Wilkie, Don Dunshee, Jeffery Kerrane, Jeremy Fancher

Absent: Aaron Loertscher, Geoffrey Urland, Linda Reynolds, Susan MacGregor, Jennifer Kerr, Roger Kelley, Klea Jones, Nicholas Fazzini

Others in attendance:  Kevin Standbridge, Kathy Schnoor, Anita Davis, Debbi Main, Bob Gaiser, Meghan Bernard, Shirley Garcia

6:30 – Approval of the June 24^th Minutes – Linda Fahrenbruch

Announcements – Kathy Schnoor
The Task Force was reminded to take Policy Opinions Survey by July 20, 2009.  The members were given a hand out that addressed questions to the MWH presentation from the previous meeting.  A list of no-cost actions the City is currently doing was distributed called the Lean Thinking Top 25 list, addressing a question from the previous meeting. 

6:40 – Review from last meeting’s small group activity – Derek Okubo
Derek presented a summary of the collective responses from the small group activity in the June meeting.  Broomfield’s strengths, opportunities, dangers and threats, a future with no intervention and the five focus areas were reviewed. 

6:55 – Vision Statements 1, 2, 3 and 4 – Irene Lalich
Irene presented the drafting committee’s vision statement developed from the group visioning activity from the May meeting.  The drafting committee took the sticky notes from each group and condensed it into a shorter vision statement that captured the ideas in these sticky notes.  The group expressed concern that the statement did not include social and economic aspects and has a mostly environmental focus.  Linda Fahrenbruch, Kevin Jacobs, and Don Dunshee volunteered to join Irene Lalich, Judy Enderle, and David Hastings on the drafting committee to continue developing a second version of the vision statement. 

7:20 – Sustainability Definitions
The Task Force was given three definitions of sustainability to choose from.  The group agreed upon the third definition with a few minor changes.  The final definition of sustainability: "Integrating the economic, social and environmental objectives of society in order to maximize well-being in the present while ensuring the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". 

7:30 – Work Teams
The five priority areas from the previous group activity were Community Education, Economic Development, Natural Resources, Energy – Conservation and Renewable, and Transportation.  There was some concern that wildlife was not included in any of these categories, so Natural Resources was changed to Natural Resources/Ecosystem to capture other concerns such as wildlife that may not have been included otherwise. 

8:00 – Work Team Guide descriptions
The Task Force would split up into five groups according to their interest in the subject area.  Descriptions of a desirable guide were developed by the Task Force.  They used this as a guideline for choosing a group guide that would be responsible for organizing the group and keeping the group on track with its goals.

8:05 – Break

8:15 – Break up into groups
The Task Force split up into these five groups and were charged with deciding on a person to guide the team, deciding on when they would meet between meetings and identifying any resources that would be helpful information for the next meeting. 

The following are the groups, the team leader with an asterisk, what materials they requested and the group members:
-  Community Education – Requested Kathy Schnoor to speak on current education of the community on sustainability.  Group Members:  * Jean Wilkie, Lisa Moore, Jeff McPherson, Kevin Jacobs, Mark Kuhl
-  Economic Development – Requested 2009 Long Range Financial Plan.  Group Members:  Patrick Tennyson, Don Dunshee, Jessica Erickson, Marcia Heiser (Jennifer Kerr was absent, but requested this group by email) (Team leader TBD)
-   Natural Resources/Ecosystem – Requested information TBD.  Group Members:  *Felix Flechas, Irene Lalich, Jini Bates, Jeff Kerrane, Bryce Isaacson
-  Energy - Conservation and Renewable – Checking into information on renewable energy in the area.  Group Members: *Beverly Pneuman, Judy Enderle, Jeremy Fancher, Bob Gaiser, Hal Lunka, Linda Fahrenbruch
-  Transportation – Requested Kristan Pritz and Debra Baskett to speak at the next meeting.   Group Members:  *Sam Taylor, Liz Law-Evans, David Hastings, Rick Ahrens, Pat Quinn, (Geoff Urland was absent, but requested this group by email.)

8:55 – Report Back to the whole Task Force
Each group reported back on their group leader decision and their information needs for the next meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at  ___9:00__.

Minutes Prepared by _Meghan Bernard__

Approved by (Consideration of Approval 8/17/09)

                        Chair