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Project Conserve is getting a lot of good press. Citizen's Energy Plan want the ECC to be "on board" with them. The Isaac Walton League has asked Chair Zehringer to speak at a meeting. An article will possibly be in the Star Tribune (Chair Zehringer and Environmental Administrator Haug have been interviewed). 5. 2009 Energy Expo Environmental Administrator Haug informed the Commission that planning is moving along well. Chair Zehringer passed around the biography information for the keynote speaker, Joe Shuster. The keynote was excited to hear of Spectrum High School's involvement and is coming to speak with the school as well. Sherburne County gave the City a grant for up to $5,000 and several other exhibitors or sponsors have come on board so the budget is looking good. The gymnasium will be separated so that public presentations will be in half the gym and exhibitors in the other half. Children's programming across the hall means all presentations are fairly centralized and food will be available in the lunchroom. Spectrum High School will do a presentation on a service learning project rather than the Energy Innovations Contest, but will still have Energy Ennys. Scripts are needed for the demonstration site bus tours. Commissioners Setala and Chuba volunteered to be tour guides for the day. Chair Zehringer intends to discuss the Energy Expo with possible exhibitors at the Business Expo. He stated that there is currently an absence of HVAC (Heating and Air) consultants. Commissioner Touchette suggested inserts in the paper and will get information to Environmental Administrator Haug. He added that Office Max sometimes prints flyers for free (as a sponsor). A flyer was put together for the Business Expo, which will be distributed at the booths of commissioners there. Commissioners without a booth are asked to be at the Expo by 9:00 and to check in with the Registration table. Bus tours have been pushed back to 11:00 rather than 10:00. 6. Energy City Commission Ordinance Amendment Environmental Administrator Haug asked that this item be tabled until after the Energy Expo. The Energy Expo and Project Conserve are taking more time than expected. She feels the amendment is important enough to give it the extra thought it deserves (which isn't possible at this time). 7. Foreclosure Situation Discussion concerning the water freezing issues continued. The City now has an ordinance giving the water utility the right to shut off water and get into the house if they can't shut the water off from the outside. Winterizing costs will be assessed to taxes. 8. Cancel April ECC Meeting Chair Zehringer agreed that the April ECC meeting could be cancelled due to planning for the Energy Expo. 9. Other 2