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CFS July Meeting Notes

Village Fest (4th parade, 5th for booth)

Parade: Ask if walkers are interested
- Candy
3 messages: Organics, city council, electric cars
- Tent (Kristin)
- Which electric cars
- Lona will get spots for cars and
Organics
- Hauling it
- Compost bin
  - Lona will bring examples of home compost
Questions for city council survey below
- table-sized paper with markers
  - “What questions do you have for the city about your environmental concerns?”
- Suggestion box
- Clipboards with questions
- Display city email address
Transportation Multi-modal
- Bike (electric)–Mary and Clif talking to bike shops
- Walk
- Electric Vehicles

Surveying city council candidates

what questions could we ask of a city council/school board candidate?
- We’re a citizen committee, you’re welcome to come to our September meeting, but we have some questions
- Use Village Fest to generate questions
are there any folks in CFS interested?
- Dan will write up a blurb about local engagement being a good way to get policy change
  - http://www.savmn.com/256/Elections Get involved in Two city council positions are up in the fall, applications are ___
Ask city to make city council commitment clearer
- Mary will check in with

Review of Transition Forum event

Lona and Dan provided a summary of the event
- Meeting in people’s homes
- Having guest speakers
- Reach out to elder neighbors
- Go to transition town national: http://www.transitionus.org

Updates from projects/sub-committees

Ecology Club will happen at Elementary and Middle
- Jay and Erin met about water conservation campaign
- Laura (school board)
Parks Commission presentation (Lona)
- Propose a Parks Commission name change
- Should we become part of the Parks Commission?
  - No, but we should attend every Parks Commission meeting
- Propose a regular environmental update
- Sustainability Fair
  - Make it a city thing

Village Fest booth: Michael will do early shift.

Registration for Parade/Booth

City Council candidates

Wilshire Park and Community Center water conservation poster contest in the Fall
Ecology Club will return for 4th & 5th graders at Wilshire in Fall
Alan Anderson
Future idea: city ordinance
- no styrofoam
- compostables?
Middle/High School has recycling in lunchroom and ordering recyclable plastics
Spring Lake Park schools have a relationship with the local EMS–perhaps integrate in SAVNB
- Reach out to the school board about some vocational training or at least some curriculum about autonomous vehicles/car programs.
“Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise” – Gaylord Nelson
- Written 30-some years after the beginning of Earth Day
- “You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from the public, people who are getting the public to pay their costs of production. All environmental pollution is a subsidy.”
  — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Parks Commission meeting to suggest renaming Parks and Sustainability Commission
Goodwill: Bring in your own bag, get 25% off

Two meetings, one for staff and one for citizens
- No SAV staff went to the staff one (AGENDA ITEM WITH JAY AND MARK?)
Ramsey County Commissioner is ready to get organics collection across Ramsey County
Ramsey County will pay for city drop off locations
- ACTION ITEM: Try to find a Ramsey county location in SAV
Met Council is on board and WSB is in the know given the number of cities they work with being on board
U of M researcher on autonomous vehicles
- rolling out in 10 years
- autonomous cars won’t need to park
- do not build any more parking ramps
- will be electric
- will need a sort of port so there’s no person needed
- rather than parking lots, drop off lanes
- incentive will be that insurance rates will go up for non-autonomous
Osseo was present despite being 1 sq mi

Have we signed up? Do we have two booths? Can we suggest an environment-themed section (with bees)? Solar non-profits (Ask Paul White)? Solar-powered wind turbine display? Solar thing?
Lona is point person
What should we do at the booth?
- Something for kids
- Seed packets
Put environmental related theme booths together
Electric car show
Parade
Free bike work by Recovery Bikes (William)
- Electric-assist bike raffle

Transition Towns meeting 7/8/17 – 3pm
- Tim Jordon (NE Transition Town), Michael R.
- Council chambers. CFS Transition Forum
- Invite: Connie Bernardy, A4S, papers, SAV display, etc.
- Be ready with questions
Free screening of “From the Ashes”
- When: Friday, June 23 at 7 pm
  Where: Northeast United Methodist Church
  (Corner of Lowry and Cleveland in NE Minneapolis)
  What: Free screening of the award-winning documentary, From the Ashes. Open to everyone. The film is 1 hour 20 minutes and will be followed by a discussion. Free popcorn!
  
  https://www.facebook.com/events/224048551442497/?ti=icl
  
  https://www.fromtheashesfilm.com/
DFL Senate District 41 Advocacy Fair in Fridley: 8/19
- CFS could have a booth
Northern Spark Festival along the Green Line tonight

Two Tuesdays before next Parks meeting August 22. 7:30 or 8.
- In advance of Sept 5

Planning for Tuesday morning meeting with Jay and Mark (5/23)
- Present ideas for organics collection
- Comp plan feedback
- Park planning (Friends of the Park idea)
- Village Fest cross promotion?
Review of Earth Day
Updates on any projects/sub-committees

Michael will go in front of the city Tuesday to make his case for owning chickens

Invite Friends of Roseville Parks to a future meeting (first Fridays 9am)
Invite Kristin S to talk about Woodbury at that day
Invite the city to attend this.
Add signs to parks where there will be a cleanup
- Some funding from city for supplies/treats

VillageFest
Transition Towns meeting outside of CFS meeting (Clif will contact Leslie)
- invite social justice groups