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MEETING OF THE ELK RIVER ENERGY CITY COMMISSION HELD AT ELK RIVER CITY HALL ELK RIVER, MN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2009 Members Present: Vance Zehringer, Maureen Griffiths for Deb Walters, Bruce Sayler, John Setala, and Mayor Stephanie Klinzing Members Absent: Todd Berreman, Denny Chuba, Martin Gagliardi, Stephen Rohlf, Susie Overholser, and Ron Touchette Staff Present: Jeff Gongoll, Community Development Director Rebecca Haug, Environmental Administrator Nicola (Nicki) Blake-Bradley, Environmental Technician The regular meeting of the Energy City Commission was called to order by Chair Zehringer at 1:31 p.m. Due to a lack of a quorum, no actions will be taken at this meeting. Consider ECC Agenda Environmental Administrator Haug added two updates to "Other"... discussion of a company named Energy Cost Cutters and discussion regarding Cushman/Zenn. 2. Consider November 19, 2008 ECC Minutes No changes or corrections were given regarding the minutes. 3. Project Conserve Update Environmental Administrator Haug stated that a brief summary was attached with the meeting reminder. She added that blower door tests and infrared scans are currently being done. Three participants are having infrared tests done because they are not Centerpoint Enerq~y customers. The next set of meetings has been changed to February 26th (a Thursday) and 28t (a Saturday) from later this month due to the blower door tests not being complete. The results will be discussed at the next set of meetings. Many of the participants are still really enthusiastic and they seemed to like the Saturday morning meeting time best so future meetings may need to follow this pattern. Those who have had their blower door tests done already have stated that they were very impressed with the detail and also found them to be informative. Building inspectors will be attending the next meeting as speakers. Chair Zehringer stated concern that the auditors have not asked for energy usage histories yet. He will be checking into that and will cover that at the meetings. Commissioner Setala stated that GRE has historically done audits without histories and explained their methodology. Environmental Administrator Haug stated that a third set of meetings will likely be held in June or July with inclusion of the children. Information regarding the organics program will be available at that time as well. Currently, she is trying to figure out how Project Conserve will fit into the Energy Expo (booth, speaker, etc.). Environmental Administrator Haug stated that she has spoken with Joni (from Star News) and, although she's on other assignments at the moment, Joni does still have Project Conserve down as an item on her "to do" list.