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Canton Sustainability Minutes December 6, 2021
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Canton Sustainability Committee Meeting Minutes December 6, 2021 – 7:00 pm Via Zoom Topic: Canton Sustainability Committee Meeting Time: Dec 6, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85219900087?pwd=cUp1dkh4TVdNaVNTaHJzSm1OdmhUdz09 Participants: Christine, Tarini, Erin, Patti, Carolyn, Tim Meeting called to Order at 7:06 Review and approval of prior Meeting Minutes October 2021 meeting minutes to be approved at next meeting Update on Recycling Mailer Sent to every household in Canton Fundedby MA DEP ($1250) and Canton Sustainability DEP points will be earned towards future grant awards Update on Energy Aggregation RFP Reviewed by Christine and Tim Christine received feedback from MAPC, examples from other towns Look into potential options to fund Sus. Coordinator? Charlie asked for additional edits. Awaiting feedback Composting RFP & Vote to Award Composting RFP Bid Committee reviewed Black Earth Compost bid Tim made motion to award the bid Patti seconded Unanimously approved FY’23 Budget Request $1k for the Committee in 2021 Requesting $3k in 2022 (due January 3) Advertising for events, sandwich board, mailings, speakers Potential to combine with Library/School funding Goal – request for more and leverage with other sources Sustainability Articles in Canton Citizen Discussion on promoting articles. Can promote Citizen articles on Facebook Erin and Katie to connect Erin, Tierney and Christine are administrators and post content Will be regularly posting recycling content on Wednesdays Share content with Katie if we have ideas; shooting for a story every 3 weeks Discussion on featuring environmentally friendly businesses Discuss with Committee and business first Discussion/Updates Tasks Needed to Qualify for RDP Grant https://www.mass.gov/doc/smrp-municipal-grant-application-guidelines/download Small scale initiative grant awarded in 2021 Opportunities to gain more points for July 2022 application, need to accumulate the minimum number of points to qualify (fix-it-event) Review items to earn more points so DPW can apply for a larger grant in the future: Outreach (5 points)media, sandwich board, public tabling event, poster campaign, newsletter, links to MADEP Social Media Promotion of Recycling Electronics recycling Annual event by the robotics team Could help promote and support in the future Food/Business recycling School recycling (Steve lead – January update) Climate Action Plans (research – folder o n the google drive) identify examples from other towns Goals from the Master Plan Revere site event in May (community event) Tree tagging in the park
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Next Meeting – January 13, 2022 Meeting Adjourned – 8:16