MINUTES

Meeting No. 2
Conservation and Green Building Subcommittee
Mayor’s Energy Task Force
November 4, 2003, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Room 300, Madison Municipal Building

Resume

1. The Mayor’s vision is to develop goals that are 5, 10, or 15 years out that will make Madison on the cutting edge as an energy conservation leader.

2. The Committee’s role will be to develop a plan and implementation strategies for energy conservation and green buildings. Develop demonstration projects through public and private partnerships.

3. The Committee needs to look at the big picture and create new ideas. Costs are not an issue for the big picture items. The steps are to create the vision, prioritize items, make recommendations, and determine funding.

4. Karl Van Lith facilitated group ideas for vision and mission statement development.

AIM

• Motivate action.
• Whole energy use.
• Minimize environment impact.
• City’s energy use.
• Develop innovated programs.
• Travel/circulation/bike paths.
• Benchmark policies and procedures for renewable energy-based economy.
• Leader in renewables, energy conservation/green buildings.
• Improve built environment, land use.
• Plans and strategies for energy conservation and green buildings.
• Impact infrastructure.
• Creating benchmarking methodology.
• Become a leader.
• Motivate and inspire.
• Preserve natural environment with less fossil fuel and reduce toxins/increase livability.
• Scope: Energy impacts on siting, land use, smart growth, green building practices, building energy use.
• Change fundamentally the way we design, build, operate buildings, communities and environment in the City.

AUDIENCE

• Citizens of Madison, target audiences that can effect change – City of Madison, University of Wisconsin, large commercial businesses (American Family, Oscar Mayer), Madison Building Community.
• City of Madison residents, businesses, visitors (and those impacted by our consumption and economy).
• Future generations.
• City of Madison taxpayers and service providers.
• Businesses, schools, government and taxpayers, citizens and policy makers, developers and owners, designers and builders, greater world.
• Madison citizens and policy makers, developers and owners, and designers and builders.
• Madison-area community and City of Madison agencies.
• City government, Madison businesses and industry, residents, the greater world.
• City of Madison (citizenry and Madison employees), environment of Madison, citizens of Madison and large target audiences that can leverage change.
• Citizens feel tax dollars are spent wisely and City was cost-effective programs. City government (which will lead by example then form partnerships to implement similar goals) and wider community.
• Employees, homeowners, renters, low-income, businesses, manufacturing, government.
• For the greater good of our community, its environment, its economy, as well as the global climate.
• The environment of Madison.
• In the City of Madison.
• City seniors, public, businesses, schools, and taxpaying/citizens (policy makers).
• Public and private organizations.

ACTION

• Develop green building guidelines (energy, water, day lighting, material choices), C&D waste management policy, City zoning review (how can we affect sprawl), coordination with Dane County measures (if any).
• Adopt best practices. Coordinate with national and international initiatives, standards, etc., set goals, track progress, make sure all new spending incorporates energy considerations; inspire and facilitate citizen and business participation, consider all alternatives before fossil fuel power plants and other environmental destructive energy building (transmission, nukes).
• Educating citizens, cutting energy use in public buildings and schools (including the UW), creating incentives to agencies and individuals to use less energy; promoting transit-oriented development.
• Establishing education and training, decision models, sustainable funding, and public and City employee mindset.
• Set goals, measure progress, decrease E growth demand rate, education and research, increase investment in renewal, market transformation, diverse and balance E supply, review other communities, ID stakeholders, develop budgets and cost estimates, long term benefits, implement time lines and schedules, prioritizing strategies, propose specific implementable policies and projects
• Propose specific, implementable policies and project initiatives.
• Reviewing what others have done, looking at what will work in Madison, identifying stakeholders, developing cost estimates and budgets, identifying log-term benefits, developing implementation timeline/schedule, prioritizing strategies.
• Research, measurement/benchmarking, continuous improvement, development BMPs, restructuring City approaches – collaborative inter-departmental work, use community-based approach, use systems approach.
• Develop green building guidelines, establish education and training/develop decision model to apply, seek sustainable funding (public and private), document benefits, demonstration projects, effect zoning ordinance and develop policies, drastically increase energy efficiency, address costs of energy – not just price, benchmark current consumption levels, effect change in local building codes/zoning ordinances, long term result focus.
• Setting example, starting education/outreach, forming partnerships, and setting new building code standards.
• Define motivation points, savvy, emission reductions, set goals for reducing, develop partnership to leverage resources, provide education, ask for action, provide feedback and reinforcement.
• Education/promotion/demonstrations, ordinances/laws, capital and operating and design and engineering expenditures, information and feedback mechanisms.
• Focusing on developing renewable energy markets, drastically increasing energy efficiency, address in costs of energy and not simply price, developing a mechanism to fund energy-related projects (public and private), benchmarking current consumption levels.
• Showing people the possibilities (demonstration), documenting the benefits (research), developing design guidelines, creating building performance requirements, changes in codes and zoning ordinances to promote, encourage, and require energy efficient/sustainable practices within the built environment that focuses on long-term results rather than short-term barriers.
• Setting goals and measuring progress, decrease E-growth demand rate, education/research, market transformation and diverse/datum and supply.
• Creating compliance standards and programs.

RESULTS

• More productive workplaces.
• Improved school/learning environments.
• Better lakes.
• Individuals linking their choices to energy/environmental issues.
• Significantly reduce environmental footprint.
• Improve local/City economy.
• Improve quality of life.
• Long-term reduction in energy demand: perception of.
• Green building standard established with performance metrics.
• On-going green program.
• Stabilization of energy.
• Energy conservation issues are up front.
• Involved citizens-educated.
• Livable beautiful community.
• Improved health.
• Benefits seen from actions they take.
• Concentrate on long-term results vs. short-term.
• Informed decision-makers.

5. In addition to the AIM and RESULTS categories, the group identified the following audiences, actions, and goals:

GOALS

• Develop green building standards with performance metrics, for City.
• Create and implement benchmark methodology.
• Rewrite City rules and policies to require/ensure green building, conservation practices.
• Reduce long-term energy use/capita.
• Educate Common Council members on green building.
• Create on-going green program.
• Create life-cycle/decision-making methodology for the City.
• Educate residents (%) on energy usage so that decisions are made with understanding implication/behaviors.
• On-going systems based education of Common Council on environmental issues.
• Develop City agency collaboration program/method on energy/environment.
• Create systems-based mechanism for continuous education on issues.

6. Committee members to prepare a written draft mission statement and bring to the next meeting.

7. Determine if we need to bring in additional people into the Committee to represent minority groups or missing partners to collaborate with. E-mail your ideas to Sherrie Gruder.

8. Send e-mail list of committee members to all in the group (Jim Whitney).

9. To open the committee work to the public, the meeting minutes can be posted on the Mayor’s website. Post the meeting agendas on the website. Post meeting minutes after review at the next meeting.

10. The next meeting will be on November 18, 2003, from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m., located at Madison Gas & Electric offices, 133 South Blair Street. Visitor parking is available adjacent to the building or in the lot across the street. Meeting room is on the first floor. Go to reception desk for directions.

End of report.

Hand-out from Sherrie Gruder – Arlington Way