SC 08-18-2016CITY OF CUPERTINO SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION
Environmental Education Center 22221 McClellan Road
ROLL CALL
The meeting convened at 4:13pm
Thursday August 18, 2016 4:00 PM
MINUTES
Commissioners Present: Gary Latshaw, Angela Chen, Anna Weber, Meera Ramanathan (arrive @ 4:50)
Vignesh Swaminathan, (arrive @ 5 :08)
Commissioner Absent: None
Staff: Misty Mersich
Guests: None
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
None .
APPROVAL OF MINUTES -
1. Subject: Draft minutes of June 16, 2016 meeting.
Correct Mistake -Meera Ramanathan name is misspelled .
Move to approve minutes with mistake corrected: Gary Latshaw, 2nd by Anna Weber. Passes 4-0-1
absent
NEW BUSINESS
2.· Subject: Sustainability Commission Year Workplan
Commissioners discussed the need to create a workplan for the Commission. Item to be focus of
September meeting, and Staff will bring information on implementation of Climate Action Plan to help
guide the discussion.
3. Subject: Staff Updates
• Utility Analyst Katy Nomura has been recruited to cover Managmeent Analyst position with
City Managers office. 50% of her duties will remain with Sustainability di vision.
• Hiring Climate Corp Bay Area member to help with SVCE and Sustainabilty programs.
• Silicon Valley Clean Energy Updates-100 % carbon free, all muni accounts going in Phase 1.
• REV Sustainability Ciricle-to begin on September 23rd .
• Adding Sustainability Commissioner names to Agenda-Roll Call section is embedded and
can not be done.
• Utility Art Boxes-check them out around the City! 5 are being paited dming September.
4. Subject: Commissioner Reports
Latshaw gave an update on the the video, with filming to take place on August 26th.
Reminder to all Commissioners that the Quarterly meetings are important to attend and if you
miss more than one, you will be asked to leave the Commission. This same rule does not count
for Special Monthly meetings.
Commissioner Chen shared information on a LEED platimum building she visited in Fremont
and offered to set up a field trip for the Commission to visit.
Commissiner Raminathan offered to look into arranging a sirnliar visit to the Google campus.
Commissioner Chen visited a conference and learned about a Sanitation District using Tesla
batteries to store power.
Comissioner Latsshaw reporeted that the next Sierra Club meeting is on Sept 14th @ 7pm.
Subject will be the VTA Tax measure. Invitiations to Commissioners will be sent through staff.
Commissioner Swaminathan attended the Mayor's meeting and received a report from Mayor
Chang on this recent grip to China. Interesting presentation on electric bike share and successful
BRT.
OLD BUSINESS-
5 .. Subject: PACE Discussion
The Commission discussed the a few concerns raised by Sunnyvale satff regarding predatory lending.
The Commission will agendize this item in October or November to see if there are any other issues
that arrise before they are comfortable brining it to City Council.
6. Subject: Coordination with Library Commission-Sustainaiblity Series
The Commission would like to add this item to the workplan, they can prepare for a Sustainaiblity
Series for next year.
PUBLIC HEARINGS-None.
ADJOURNMENT-5:51Qm,