Warwick Buildings and Energy Committee
Draft Meeting Minutes
March 18, 2009
Warwick Town Hall
Meeting called to order: 6:35 p.m.
Attending: Janice Kurkoski, Steve Kurkoski, Les Goodman, Jim Toth, Dan
Dibble, Jack Cadwell
Minutes moved, seconded and passed for February

SCHOOL
The next step for us concerning the school is that we need to write a
letter to Ellen with cc's to Dale, Gail, Steve, the selectboard and David
asking for a liaison person from the school to sit with the WBEC and
discuss the school project. This new liaison school person could become
a full fledged member through the selectboard, or just a non-voting
participant. They could be a school staff person or a parent, etc. If
this position was not an official member of the WBEC then the person
filling the position could live out of town. David Young would still be
the point person for the town.

Janice reported that she learned a lot from NESEA's Building Energy
conference last week. A Deep Energy Retrofit may be a more appropriate
way to approach the school. She reported that Marc Rosenbaum of
Energysmiths or Peter Talmage of Talmage Engineering, in Northfield,
both P.E.s, may be a better fit for the school. It was asked if Mark or
Peter could look at our buildings that are no longer on the ESCO list,
and maybe even the school. There was some discussion around the issue of
having Siemens go forward with the Investment Grade Audit. We decided to
have Siemens continue as planned, and even if we do not have them do the
work, the Investment Grade Audit and the accumulated information could
be used later by another engineer. We should tell Siemens that we want
them to do an audit of the school coming from a Deep Energy Retrofit
point of view. David pictures us going through something similar to a
self funding ESCO. It was asked if the second round of FRCOG audits
would be cheaper. If the Warwick school was in round two then it is
likely the district would pay for the audit. It was mentioned that
Siemens and Mark may have their own strengths. Janice will call David
and ask him to call Siemens to see where we are in the queue.

TOWN HALL
Do we want to generate a 5 year plan for the Town Hall and give it to
the finance committee and selectboard? Yes. We can give the list to the
selectboard and they will write the articles as they see fit. David has
asked us to make Winserts for the town Clerk's office (4 large windows).
Les said OK, and that David should have asked him first. Chris Cody who
is a steam guy from Orange, and/or Royal Steam in Gardner may be able to
help us with the Town Hall steam system. We will ask David to call them.
It was decided to generate a list of what needs to be done at the Town
Hall, prioritize it and give it to the selectboard before Monday.

The list is as follows, though not in this order:
Roof
Chimney, foundation, Chimney Cap
Air seal, Insulate walls and ceiling
Scrape and Paint exterior
Steam system, trouble shoot, repair and upgrade
Replace storm window and repair window sashes

MISCELLANEOUS
Royalston has asked if we would mentor an Energy committee for them. We
will pass this information off to the North Quabbin Energy Committee,
and also tell Nancy Hickler to pass on to whoever it is that is
interested that they can ask any of us for guidance at any time.

Meeting adjourned: 8:11 p.m.
Next Meeting: April 15, 6:30 p.m.