Town of Underhill
Energy Committee
7:00 pm
11 May 2011
Underhill Town Hall
Call to Order (7:10 pm) by Tom Moore.
Present: Tom Moore, Steve Webster, Jerry Adams, Chris Miller, Bob Murphy, Peter Duval (by videoconference).
1) Agenda
2) Public Comment
NONE
3) Minutes Approval
MOTION (Bob, Jerry): To accept the minutes of 9 March 2011. UNANIMOUS.
4) Correspondence
NONE
5) Reorganization
MOTION (Jerry, Chris): To elect Steve Webster as Chair of the Energy Committee. UNANIMOUS.
MOTION (Peter, Steve): To elect Bob Murphy as Secretary of the Energy Committee. UNANIMOUS.
MOTION (Peter, Chris): To elect Chuck Weger as Vice Chair of the Energy Committee. UNANIMOUS.
6) Appointments
Bob was reappointed by the Selectboard. Peter and Tom's reappointments are pending.
7) BRMS Energy Day
Steve reported on the state of the There will be 100 kids total, split into two sessions 60/40. We will have a couple of bicycle generators. We will have about two hours for each sessions in the library.
Bob is bringing: Light strips, several wattmeters and a bike.
VEEP has wind turbine kits, and 5-6 meters. They would like to get paid ($350 suggested), if possible.
Chris is working on "Appliance Lab" and "Light Lab." Chris will bring a toaster oven. Other items would be interesting: Playstation versus Wii, minifridge(Tom), battery charger. Maybe the kids could bring in their own items.
Chuck has organized the "Energy Bowl."
Jerry has arranged Paul Metruk's Solar Trailer and the solar thermal person, Bill Koliskoe, are being organized by Jerry.
Peter gave a demonstration of "On the way to great-great-grandaughter's," which will be a facilitator-led discussion, time traveling to the future with .The goal is to imagine other ways of thinking about the problems of global warming, the climate crisis, ecosystem destruction and energy. Suggestions were made to define the alternative future scenarios, suggest sources of ideas (backpacking), and close the discussion by steering the discussion toward energy.
BRMS Energy Day Rehearsal Meeting, Saturday June 9 am, at Tom's house, 122 Stevensville Rd.
8) News
Steve reported that the VECM project will give a $200 bonus to the Jericho-Underhill for having 4 houses participate in energy audits. We will probably split this with Jericho.
The next Energy Tour with the Jericho Energy Task Force would be October 1. Do we want to continue the joint project?
Shelburne is doing a VECM project, and asked Bob to help.
Bob mentioned that lighting replacement in the town hall needs to happen by Oct 1 in order to be eligible for rebates.
Bob passed around magazine article. Summary: Three air changes @50 per Hour is excellent and can be achieved through best practices and visual inspection. A good builder can do a good job without blower door directed air sealing.
LED lights with rebates are making there way into stores: Cree-CR6, Cooper ($49) are good fixtures at Lowe's/HomeDepot. Philips yellow, and GE "claw" ($14) are some of the first nondirectional LED bulb replacement units.
10) Adjournment
MOTION (Peter, Bob): To Adjourn. UNANIMOUS. (8:46)
Respectfully Submitted,
-Peter Duval
TODO:
Peter: script for facilitated discussion.
