Warwick Building and Energy Committee Meeting Minutes 
May 31, 2017

Call to order: 6:20 p.m.

Present: Janice Kurkoski, Chair, Steve Kurkoski, Dan Dibble, Jack
Cadwell, Mary Humphries

Public Comment: Question posed to WBEC members regarding sponsorship of
a Choose Solar Initiative in New Salem on June 26th.  

                                 Members unanimously in favor.  
                                 
Minutes of last meeting were unanimously accepted.

Green Corner Ideas: For July, reporting of new heat pumps as the last
item of current GC funding.  Dan offered to write this article.  Janice
will send Dan a list of all the projects to date and current incentives
for purchasing of heat pumps.  Other ideas: heat pump follow-up and
winterization of houses.  

Town Hall ASHPs:  General discussion of training, programming and
policy.  Heat pumps have wall-mounted, seven-day programmable thermostats
which can be locked and are password protected.  The garage received the
pump with wi-fi capability.  Good installation of the units.  WBEC
suggests this policy: regular users should have control over their own
space.  Discussion of how new heat pump system will impact the steam
boiler function. 

PVRSD: JK and SK attended a tri-town (Bernardston, Northfield and
Warwick) meeting three weeks ago with CEE (Clean Energy Extension), Tim
Brandl, and Jim Barry.  They made a plan to rewrite the current
five-year ERP (Energy Reduction Plan) and address how to reduce energy
usage in our elementary schools.  Numbers and wording will be changed
and and new information entered into the system.  The towns will be
collaborating on this goal.  On June 12th Energy Engineer Ben Weil and
students will to a wak-through of all the schools.  The WBEC voted
unanimously in support of rewriting the five-year ERP.
  
GC Projects/Funding:  All GC grants going forward are competitive
grants.  The baseline year = 2013.  The WCS is being added to the GC
plan.  Tim Brandl, PVRSD Facility Mgr., is applying for a META grant for
the district.  Tim will also arrange for free elec. utility lighting
audits for the schools.  

CEE has interns to input energy use data into the Mass Energy Insight
web-based tracking tool.  

TH attic window:  DY has a carpenter who will take care of this.
  
TH winsert repairs & storage: DY will have the same carpenter manage
this and place hooks to hang ladder.  DY and JC to check all windows
(opening/closing).  DY and BG are working on cleaning out the basement. 
JC to talk to DY about which storm windows to save.
 
Misc:  Visual skirt to be built around the new compressors.  DY will
likely have the contractor do this, but JC will talk to DY about
something more esthetically pleasing.  New fridge is not level, which is
causing the gurgling noise.  Door pulls too (?) hard to open. 
 
Meeting adjourned: 8:07 p.m. Next mtg. TBD