 And welcome to the May 21st Select Board meeting. This meeting is called to order at 6.33. And we are in the middle school again. We hope the final town meeting session, we fully expected to be the final town meeting session. Select Board will not meet again until June 11th, Monday, June 11th. So we're taking care of all the business we couldn't do between now and then. And that's it. So our first item tonight, oh first I'll just note that our 6.40 item, which was a temporary easement related to the bike path resurfacing and the replacement of the Snill Street Bridge, that has been postponed to our June meeting. That's not ready for tonight. But our first item is the five year energy reduction plan for the Green Communities Act application. We have Stephanie Ciccarello, the sustainability coordinator here to talk with us about that. Welcome. Thank you. I'd first like to introduce Sally Miller, who is our University of Massachusetts graduate intern who has actually done most of the grueling work of the energy number data crunching. So Sally's been incredibly valuable and helpful in putting this together. So before you, you have a draft plan of the energy reduction plan. We decided upon our baseline year of fiscal year of 2011. So it sort of goes out from there. So baseline year of fiscal year 2011 and then our target year to reach our 20% reduction goal from that baseline year between fiscal year 2016. So what you have is just an overview. Really the information is really in the tables. The narrative section is just kind of a reference to some of the things that we have in the tables, but the data is really all laid out very clearly in the tables. Sally could even talk to you a little bit about that, but we only reached a 15% reduction, actually like a tangible reduction 15% with what we have here. Then we're allowed an additional 5% reduction that can be kind of projects that we're planning on working on, but we don't actually have the calculations and the data available just yet, but it is something that we plan on doing, projects that we plan on doing. So that's where the 20% comes from and why you will see 15% on your table, just so you understand that. That was the figure that we absolutely had to meet in order to apply for the green green desalination status. So I'll let Sally talk a little bit about how you took the role to just help on a little bit. So one thing that's been really helpful in moving forward in years, that starting with our baseline year, we now have a pretty comprehensive collection of data to review every year, which they require a review every year to check in and to see how the progress is going. So things will be much more centralized and we're using one of the software or the website that they require you to use. So it's a lot easier to collect the information from here. And then, so at first we have the baseline, that's the one page is four and five and a lot of numbers. Our current energy use as a fiscal year to have more of it. And then the next table, pages 89 are the energy reduction measures. And that's happy to have you. Question about you with that question. I noticed that on baseline, you have the Jones and the Munson libraries, but they're not on table, on the second table. And I think they're a good bet for actually saving energy this year because they had an energy audit that showed there was actually a hole where the new section meets the old section. There's a lot of energy wasted going through some of what they found. And they already have 15,000 towards added insulation and a good chance of getting the other 15,000 next year for JCPC. Obviously I can't speak on behalf of that committee, but I think those are good to add because I think they're gonna show energy saving. Some of what, and those might be something that we add to that 5% narrative because we really have to have firm data and calculations, everything has to be verifiable. So anything that we include within that 15%, most of what we have are from audits, but they were things that we could pull from an engineering study. So if they have that information, we could use it. But I think at this point, as long as it's part of our 5%, it certainly can be included in the narrative as something we're gonna be working on. I think they do have some data, but you should look at it and decide for yourselves whether that's appropriate at this point or whether you wanna save them for the 5%. I do have one more question. I didn't quite understand the last section, Appendix A. What is item 3.1 on the chart to, I couldn't quite make it match up with anything. Item 3.1 is the Wildwood natural gas conversion of two boilers, so that's a calculation based on the efficiency, the percentage efficiency of the current usage. Moving forward, an improvement in efficiency. Perhaps you could make it a little clearer by saying in parans or even break next item 3.1, whatever it refers to. You mean in the table? Yeah, in Appendix, in the Appendix. Put the building name next to the item number. Yeah, I think it'll help people, at least it'll help. Other questions or comments from select board? Mr. Hayden. I just have a quick question. How does this, it looks awfully familiar, like the old Ikele climate plan that happened a number of years ago. Does this fit into that, are those similar baselines or could they be not only? No, because they're different programs that we used and that was really geared towards carbon dioxide emission reduction, whereas this is very specifically energy reduction, so they're similar, but not identical. Okay, other questions or comments, Mr. Wall. Okay, I realized an unrelated thing, just that Mr. Chikarello is going to be doing a tour of the solar proposed area on the landfill in the near future and we might want to alert our viewers to that. Yes, it may have been advertised as June 9th, unfortunately I had a conflict, so it is actually Sunday June 10th from two to four and I'll just be rocking people when they go in. So I'm talking about the blue wave proposal that was submitted to the town and just giving some information about what was proposed and as much information as we have at this point, which is nothing definitive and I have been very clear that this is not a definitive proposal right now, it's what was proposed by blue wave is what we'll be discussing. Thanks, Mr. Ian. Two things and they're both numbers, one of which I don't know, which is the amazing effort that goes into this. I do remember from our old energy task force days sort of wrestling with these numbers of the ground and so I might be more appreciative than most on what's in this very efficient document. Also the second number I do know because it's written down here, 15%. And that's not bad for the first go-around and we have to really appreciate the effort on Ron's part and Stephanie's part and getting to that. And so. Thank you. Really it's a wonderful amount of data here and something for folks to be able to really reference all in one place. It's nice to be able to go wow, holy cow the town has really done a lot of amazing stuff so thank you. And I think it's the state's program really honestly followed the guidelines and they set up the math energy insight data tool which is an incredible resource and I think that people should be aware that the state has really done quite a bit to sort of move cities and towns within the commonwealth forward on this issue so I think we can definitely think that. Excellent. Other questions or comments? This is Anthony. Yeah, just wanted to thank Stephanie and Sally because this was a lot of work to pull this together the criteria for the Green Communities Act, a lot of collaboration coordination necessary with a wide range of town staff and it's coming together. They're literally on the cusp of submitting our Green Communities Act application later this week. And so onward and upward from there we're hoping to hear good news by early fall I think or in the fall. Oh actually we would find that a lot sooner than ever. Okay and then it's you know with state help some assistance in implementing many of these over the next five years so it's good stuff. Other questions or comments? My only comment was on page 10 on part six list of resources just making sure you realize that part's not filled in yet. And so tell us what's the select board's role in this why are you? So the state would like a letter from Mr. Musanti stating that the select board has reviewed the overall plan and will adopt the plan for the town so that the town will actually commit to following through with this five-year energy plan. Okay, is he enough? I don't know, 15% enough? I look at it, let me think about that first. You think we're going to surpass that because we have some other audits in line too so I think it's going to work out a little bit more. And so this is a framework for us and as we get into individual projects or think of new ones, it will be constantly reassessed and we'll come forth with proposals you know primarily through the capital budget but in some ways through operating budget as appropriate and go from there. Great, other questions or comments Mr. Brewer? At some point, not in probably, certainly not in this submission but perhaps as an additional reference for when we have it here as Ms. O'Keefe pointed out this is a great reference plan. It would be helpful reflecting back to something that Stein said a little while ago to have a list of the buildings that aren't included in this plan just kind of to the side saying you know future buildings just so that then there's again that complete picture of where our buildings are because I know we're going to have a different facility as a plant that we'll be seeing but somehow and maybe just having that will be enough but somehow it needs to be referenced that yes we know we have these other buildings but those buildings aren't part of this right now that's a future thing. This is not every single building we have which is what probably a lot of people would guess looking at this and so we just don't want to confuse things in the long run but like I said your submission wouldn't need to include that but some place and an additional list. And I know you're gonna believe it when you see the final tremendous product. Our building needs assessment plan. We'll have a matrix in it. It's mostly about the condition of the building. That's an easy reference guide but we can be working when this gets out the door to think about how they're linked together and cross referenced as well. So then you can see things such as that. Right exactly like some chart in that future report that just has a column for green community. Energy ERP for us. ERP. Thank you. Okay. If I could need one final acknowledgement. I just want to personally, Sally and I have really had to rely a lot on town staff and everyone that we asked for information has been really wonderful and forthcoming with it and understood our timeframe and was really helpful. So I would like to just acknowledge that it's such a great cooperative group of people to be working with and I want the public to know that as well. And especially Ron Bahonowitz has just been absolutely amazing in this process and I really am not sure that we could have done it without his help. So I just want to let people know too that we're very lucky to have him. Thank you. Ms. Stein give a wonderful thank you to him at town meeting the other day as part of the JCPC report. It's good to have some celebration of all his excellent work. So thank you. All right, are we ready for a motion on this? Ms. Stein. I move that the select board approve the five year energy reduction plan. We should put a date on that. I guess dated what draft of. I would say the draft. She's suggesting draft. Submitted five, you know, reviewed by 21 or something like that. All right draft reviewed May 21st. Second. For the discussion, Mr. Hayden. Just a quick question. Do we want to include which is part of the green cities? You know, which is part of the green cities. You know, green land, the Green Communities Act. It's partly, I mean, it's valuable in and of itself. But I want to just hook it into the Green Communities Act that we are also filling with this piece of it. Sure. So to be submitted as part of the green community's application. Yeah. All right. And I assume your second holds for the amendment. Yes, my second. Further discussion. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. That is unanimous. Thank you very much. Good luck getting to the finish line on this and thank you. That's amazing work. All right, 649. So we don't, oh, we do have a bunch of untimed items to deal with. The night, which are just minutes as far as I know. The folks had a chance to look at the minutes. I did not. Okay. They're very small, but on the April 9th, one Spignetti has one tea, not two. And then on April 18th, under the Common Petroleum License, I would put a rent after frozen yogurt franchise from your world, because we have to. I know it says it down afterwards, but it fits better there. Which means it was on April 18th, page two, I believe. Just adding another one to it, so they don't get separated from each other. Yeah. Okay. Had trouble remembering the things I actually spoke to. That was pretty funny. And then for April 26th, I don't know about Jim Wong, but I was surely at that meeting. And Jim, I think you were, too. No, this was actually a Thursday morning meeting. This was to sign the war answer to them. It's the wrong one. April 30th, I was definitely at that meeting. Oh yes, you just carried over the absences. Okay. And then go back to the, okay. And Jim, I think you were also. Yeah, I think it's correct. Okay, so then back on the 26th, I would put after the town manager's explanation what it was. That is a typo in the previously passed article on funding for Memorial Pool needed to be corrected and have town meeting approve it. Because it's kind of hollow without some explanation of exactly what happened. So that's my opinion. That's it. Anyone else, Ms. Boer? While you're including all that, what turned, you know, one sentence is now a long, two sentence, seven minutes, but part grant should appear in there also. Okay. So Ms. Boer says reference part grant also. In that sentence. It's giving them a sentence. It looks too much like old fashioned select board minutes. Not new fashioned select board minutes. That's all. All right. I have nothing else to say. I just had a couple of typos and location corrections and stuff that I can get those to. Oh, okay. All right. Ms. Steinberg, would you like to make a motion? Sure. I move that the select board accept the amended minutes of April 9th, 2012, April 18th, 2012, April 13th, 2012, April 26th, 2012, and April 30th, 2012. Second as amended. As amended. It's 20. I said as amended earlier. Oh, okay. The dates weren't quite right, but that date was wrong. For the motion. 23rd instead of 13th, but yeah, it all works out. Yeah. Where's that? He said 13th, but that's okay. Instead of 23. This is what happens when you get to the seventh night of town meeting. That's right. What are you gonna do? Okay. It's been moved in second and further discussion. Fever say aye. Aye. Aye. That's unanimous. Okay. Other items. As far as things related to town meeting, the finance committee is going to make the motion on article 30 about referral when we took our position to not recommend your support referral. We weren't sure how the logistics of that would happen, but finance committee is gonna make that. And so then I'll be speaking in support of their referral motion. Other things related to town meeting. We certainly expect this to be the very last night. We would not be intending to come back for anything on Wednesday. So that means we don't meet again until June 11th. One of the things that you should be thinking of between now and then is our traditional wrap up discussion. Any thoughts we had about how town meeting went? Either for our own processes, other folks' processes, the kind of feedback that we can give to other folks. This is a little bit longer between the end of town meeting and our discussion of that. So before you just purge it all from your memory banks, you might just make some notes to yourself because we will have that discussion on the 11th. All I have to mention anyone else have anything about town meetings specifically we want to talk about? Mr. Walsh, y'all ready for tonight? Article 27. Ready as you'll ever be. Okay, anything not related to town meeting that folks want to mention? I'm just going to pass down a handout that I would have brought to you anyway at the table tonight since I put them on the back table myself. It's mentioning the second of the two Amherst Focus Regionalization Public Forum that we were required to have is being held on this Thursday the 24th at ACTV. And it's on the town website, et cetera. But this is a follow up to article one because we said at that time that we weren't sure which day it would be in May and now we know. Thank you. Ms. Walsh. Can we have everything in local coming up? Yes, part one of that is tomorrow night at seven o'clock in the town room. That's Tuesday, May 22nd. And part two is the following Tuesday if I'm not mistaken, the 29th. And that's going to be about talking about whether we can create a place in Amherst that is a total venue for local. Food and products, so. That should be exciting. Also coming up is the Memorial Day Parade on Monday, the 28th. We gather on the town common. I think it's around 9.30 or something. The parade starts off at 9.30, so you want to gather at the Spring Street Lot area in 9.15 or so. We'll do the traditional route down to the Memorial area at Community Field. I have a ceremony there. Bob Romer will be the featured speaker this year. Another Civil War Amherst history lesson. Similar it was talking in the fall, it should be great. So this is, as I understand, the first year that we will have had Memorial Day when we know the graves of the Amherst Civil War, African-American Civil War veterans, is that right? So they'll be marked this year for the first time. We do most, but they weren't marked for some reason. They weren't marked, okay. There might have been one or two. I think he determined some others might have been missing, but basically, yeah. Perfect. So that's it. I don't be good. All right, anybody else have anything to say before we move on to the final town meeting session? Speak now or phone roll your piece. Ms. Brewer. Oh, briefly, I voted against the local. Historic District and I have based on all that's happened since we so long ago took that vote. I'm now in support of it. So do we need to do anything? Would it be appropriate to do anything official associated with that? Or just ask Mr. Wald to mention that or what, for the process oriented? That's a good question. What would be the right way to handle that? I mean, it's not like town meeting where we have to have a big motion for reconsideration, maybe, but. I think that's a nice point for Mr. Wald to just emphasize that when we originally took our vote, one of us opposed it, but because of all the good things that have happened since then, the select board now is unanimously in support. Mr. Hayden, of course, accused because he was. Oh, yes, thank you, Mr. Hayden, thank you. Right. Okay, thank you for making that point. I just wanted to make sure that we didn't need to do anything in the summer. Okay. Ms. Bain, did you have your hand raised? No, well, yeah, I was gonna move for adjourn. Oh, that, yes. All right. We're going good with Mr. Hayden moving for adjourn. Then without objection, this meeting ends at 6.58. Thank you, and we'll see you a couple of weeks.