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Town of Mamaroneck Sustainability Collaborative
Meeting Notes, December 5, 2017
Attendees: Nancy Seligson, Mitch Green, Frank Owens, Tony Gelber, Michele Lewis, Marc Karell, Steve
Moser,Arlene Novich, Steve Altieri, Sue Odierna, Karen Khor,June Wallach, Colin Goldberg,
Shannon Purdy, George Roniger,Vic Tafur
Minutes of November meeting were approved.
Biking Lane Network
1. Bike racks purchased and have arrived(Town Center and Memorial Park—racks for 10 bikes
each). The bike racks at Memorial Park have already been installed;older bike racks from
Memorial Park will be moved to Larchmont Train Station. The bike racks for the Town Center
need for the location to be determined and installed.
2. Paint sharrows on appropriate roads
Action Item 1: Collabs' sharrow suggestions were provided to the Police and Highway departments for their
review. Their responses and the request of the Collabs will be shared with the Town Board. —Steve A.to
follow up.
Action Item 2: Mitch to revise bike route map with better/clearer graphics to improve location information
Action Item 3: Present revised bike route map with one recommended bike route to Town Board in January
Action Item 4: Mitch, Steve M. and Shannon to put together document creating shoulder lines on Town roads
Food Waste Recycling
Karen reported that quantity of food waste picked up weekly increased from 2 to 9 barrels. Discussion regarding
featuring a "food waste recycling family of the month"—potentially involve realtors to help show what a great,
"green"town we have.
Action Item 1: Need banners promoting program for VFW wall,TOM Kiosk at Myrtle/Chatsworth corner and
sign for Weaver/Palmer corner. (Update: Sue ordered VFW banner, kiosk sign; need to order
sign for Palmer/Weaver)
Action Item 2: Should a survey be created to see why residents sign up? Marketing/Communications
strategy going forward?
Action Item 3: Send Marc K. email addresses of VOM residents interested in program(Sue 0 to do)
Action Item 4: VOM volunteer Colin asked about picking up restaurants'food waste.VOL restaurants get
their trash picked up by Joint Commission so this could work. Steve Altieri is working with one
restaurant to be the"pilot"for this initiative.
Action Item 5: Could compostable bags be sold at local stores such as Foley's?
Action Item 6: Could we speak to Bedford 2020 to see if we could replicate their food waste info on our new
Sanitation Website?
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Reusable Bag Initiative(RBI)
Gabrielle A is leading up the RBI. Next step is Bag Design Contest for interested kids and adults. Contest to start
in January 2018 after school holiday break and end prior to February break. (California schools use reusable bags
as school fundraisers and programs are very successful.) Gabrielle to update us at Jan 2018 Collabs meeting.
Follow up from Collaborative Retreat...
Collabs would like to know how much energy the Town uses(including residents and businesses). Is an individual
carbon footprint survey possible?Can we show residents how much better off we are than in other cities like
Houston,Atlanta,for example, and also compare us to cities we strive to be like?
Action Item 2: Sue to contact Europa McGovern with NYSERDA to see if she could give us a sense of how
much energy the Town uses,community-wide. (Sue has info from Europa; see attached)
Budget
Collabs to request$10,000 budget(Update: Collab budget passed at 12/6/2018 Town Board meeting.)
Members/Volunteers from Collaborative need to come to TB meetings to promote Collabs agenda. Mitch and
June presented to TB on Dec 20th and discussed Collab accomplishments in 2017 and how the Town is becoming
more resilient, more sustainable and improving our quality of life. We have also doubled our member/volunteer
count in the Collaborative! Suggestion was also made that Collabs come to a TB work session in January to
introduce new members and discuss 2018 goals.
Nancy reported Sustainable Westchester is working with companies who use electric lawn mowers and leaf
blowers and suggested George R contact SW as this info might help us to roll out better legislation.
Greening the Building Code,Steve A. will update
Should we budget for a Charrette? Perhaps Fall 2018?
Action Item 1: Sue to send TB meeting calendar to Collabs members so they can decide who will attend which
meeting(s).
Action Item 2: For Jan 2018 Collabs meeting,determine what topic(s)Collabs should discuss at TB meetings.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:25 pm.The next Collaborative meeting will be Tuesday,January 9, 2018 at 6 pm
at the VFW in the large dining room.
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