Public Works Department
Environmental Services

Sustainable Broomfield Community Task Force

DRAFT Minutes Meeting #12

 April 12, 2010

In this twelfth meeting, the Task Force received a compilation of the public comments received on the preliminary draft Sustainability Plan.  Eighty-eight public comments were received from sixteen individuals. The Task Force split up into their topic groups to develop responses to all of the comments. UCD staff introduced Survey #3 that will be sent to the Task Force and the Virtual Committee this month.  The final Task Force meeting was re-scheduled to May 20, 2010.

Task Force Members Present:  Derek Okubo, Mayor Pat Quinn, Linda Reynolds, Kevin Jacobs, Patrick Tennyson, Beverly Pneuman, Marcia Heiser, Sam Taylor, Felix Flechas, Jeffrey Kerrane, Jean Wilkie, Judy Enderle, Roger Kelley, Jini Bates, Geoffrey Urland, Nicholas Fazzini, Klea Jones, Bryce Isaacson, Liz Law-Evans, David Hastings, Don Dunshee, Jennifer Kerr

 Absent: Aaron Loertscher, Susan MacGregor, Linda Fahrenbruch, Irene Lalich, Rick Ahrens, Lisa Moore, Jessica Erickson, Jeremy Fancher, Jeffery McPherson

Others in attendance: Kevin Standbridge, Kathy Schnoor, Meghan Bernard, Bob Gaiser

6:30 – Welcome/Agenda Review

 6:35 – Chair Comments-Linda Fahrenbruch recognized staff who have worked on the project for the last 14 months and thanked them on behalf of the Task Force.

 6:40 – Approval of the Minutes

6:45 – Process Review

-       Calendar

o   Move the last Task Force meeting from May 17^th to May 20^th

o   City Council Study Session – June 29^th-present plan to City Council for discussion, clarification and comment.

o   City Council Consideration – July 27^th -present final plan to City Council for consideration of adoption.

-       Survey- UCD will send the Task Force Members and the Virtual Committee the link to the final Survey #3.  This survey is a follow-up to the public process to see if the knowledge gained through the process has changed individual member's attitudes towards sustainability. Survey #1 questions will be included in this survey along with several new questions about the process.  Surveys should be completed by April 30.

 6:50 – Task Force Time

-       The task Force split up into groups to discuss the comments on the different topics. The five groups submitted their responses to staff to finalize the comment/response matrix. The responses will be sent to the Task Force, the Virtual Committee and all of the individuals that submitted comments on the plan.  

-       As groups finished responding to comments, they began to work on identifying the most important action steps for their topic area.

 9:20 – Next Steps

The meeting was adjourned at  ___9:30__

Minutes Prepared by _ Meghan Bernard__

Approved by (Consideration of Approval 5/20/10)

                        Chair