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Meeting Minutes
WILLITS ECONOMIC LOCALIZATION
Shelter Committee
Minutes from 1/3/05 Meeting
Attendance: Kevin Rowell, Marisha Farnsworth, Sam Synersha, Bill White, Phil Jorgenson, John Cross, Holly Madrigal, Gabe Madrigal, Judi Berdis.
• Introductions
• Review of previous meeting and today’s goals
• COMMITTEE ROLES
1. Note Taker (Judi Berdis-rotating)
2. Steering Committee Liaison (Judi Berdis-rotating)
3. Information Coordinator (Holly Madrigal)
4. Facilitator (Kevin Rowell/Sam Synersha-rotating)
5. Time Keeper (Sam Synersha/Gabe Madrigal-rotating)
6. Computer Input (Kevin Rowell/ Holly Madrigal/ Marisha Farnsworth- rotating)
⎫ Discussion: It was decided by consensus that the roles would rotate.
⎫ The Note Taker would type the minutes, e-mail them to the committee members and to Jason, and would act as the rotating Steering Committee Liaison, to report on the notes that he/she had just taken.
⎫ The Information Coordinator is Holly Madrigal and her position will be a permanent position.
• SHELTER QUESTIONS
1. How many housing units are there in Willits?
2. What type of housing units are there?
3. How many people live in outlying areas?
4. How far are they from stores?
5. How much attic/wall/floor insulation does the average house have now?
6. How much does the average person pay for gas and electric, heat and water?
7. What are the indigenous building materials?
8. What have been the best building methods here in the past?
9. What’s the best “bang for the buck”-i.e. the most economic way to build a sustainable shelter?
10. What is the current building cost per square foot?
11. What are the energy saving building techniques?
12 .What are people doing now to conserve housing
energy and resources?
13. What Statistics does PG&E have for housing units,
solar rebates, insulation rebates?
• ACTION ITEMS / HOMEWORK
1. Holly Madrigal (one_visionary@yahoo.com) will collect the Shelter Information. Email her.
2. Holly Madrigal: Obtain city plan of Willits or web site.
3. Holly Madrigal: type minutes from 2 meetings ago.
4. Judi Berdis: research www.footprintnetwork.org
5. John Cross: research available building sites in Willits, and city demographics.
6. Phil Jorgeson: contact PG&E re use, costs & other data.
7. Kevin Rowell: type up 12/16/04 meeting minutes (Kevin, I have fair notes on that meeting and can type them up if you’d like. Judi)
8. All: Search fro resources already existing.
• BRAINSTORMING / NETWORKING DISCUSSION
1. How can we tax ourselves and create our own energy savings account?
2. Sam Synersha: “The construction industry is responsible for about half of all the waste in this country.”
3. Confessions of frustrated builders wanting action instead of meetings – Consensus.
4. We might consider doing a Needs Assessment for Shelter.
5. Meetings include new people and people of different levels of readiness.
6. Phil Jorgenson from REDI (Renewable Energy Institute), 21 West Commercial Street, Willits, says they have a model home project/ office there with a 1.5 UniSolar roofing solar collection system. They would like to have workshops and volunteer projects ongoing like the UniSolar Certification workshop they had there last year. He brought and will zerox for us a list of 62 projects he would like to do.
7. Vital Systems is a company many of the participants are working with (Kevin Rowell, Marisha Farnsworth, Holly Madrigal, Gabe Madrigal, & Sam Synersha). Vital Systems works with alternative building techniques and has good resources for various building materials. They are interested in doing projects in, for and with the schools, and are interested in developing workshops or projects with REDI
• RESOURCES
1. Direct Use of the Sun’s Energy by Farrington Daniels, has all the facts and figures needed for solar development. It’s out of print and can be found at used bookstores.
(Phil Jorgenson)
2. The Willits City Housing Report is being revised and can be obtained from the City Offices soon. (City officer).
3. Www.footprintnetwork.org (510/ 839-8879). Ecological footprint of you or your town about how much we consume. Goal is to influence and change policy makers’ policies.
“The average American requires 24 acres of land to support his lifestyle, while the average Italian requires only 8. Now, only 4.5 acres per person are available.”
“”Americans have a 20% ‘overshoot’ – we consume 20% more than we can replenish, in fish, for example.” (KZYX120304)
4. Energy Conversion Devices. Steve Heckeroff, Fort Bragg
(KZYX 120304)
5. Earth-policy.org. (KZYX, Barry Vogle 9:44AM, 122404)
6. Plan B: Rescuing the planet under stress & a civilization
in trouble. Lester R. Brown. (Free online).
“It takes 10 thousand pounds of water to grow one thousand pounds of grain.
China is the largest grain producer but production is falling.
As water becomes scarce, it will be drawn off from agriculture.
The US, India, France, Europe & Ukraine all have had reduced crop production last year due to heat.
Food prices will go up in the next 2 to 3 years.
(Lester R. Brown talking with Barry Vogel on Radio Curious, 122104 on KZYX).
7. Www.ecofriendlyflooring.com. Bamboo, cork, recycled
glass, tile, certified hardwoods. Toll free: 866/ 250-3273. Ecofriendlyfloor@AOL.com. (KZYX 122104).
- Judi Berdis 1/3/
