Warwick Buildings and Energy Committee draft minutes
August 29th, 2011, at 6:59 pm

Attending: Jack Cadwell, Jim Toth, Janice Kurkoski, Steve Kurkoski, Dan Dibble

July meeting minutes accepted 

NEW SAFETY BUILDING
Jack will call Mike Mankowski and attend the Sept. 6th meeting of the
Firemen's Association.

TOWN HALL 
Windows
Discussion about how to seal around the windows. Dining room windows
measure 2' 10" x 3' 10". Jack will ask David to buy enough weather strip
sealing (24pcs of 7') material for the job.
David said he is following up with Carbonne's on the storm window
replacement for the remaining TH windows.

	Improvement Account
David says there will be no money left in the account after the window
work is completed. Can this account be set up so the money that gets
saved because of energy saving work be put back into this fund? Should
each building have its own Energy Improvement Account as an incentive to
reduce energy consumption? Discussion to be continued and resolved
before May town meeting.

SCHOOL 
Lease 
The PVRSD will form an ad hoc committee to address capital improvements
and how the energy savings could come back to the town. If we do
improvements to the building now we should be able to use the historic
energy data to make a case so we get credit for the improvements. We
should be working with Linda Gale, our town's representative to PVRS.
Jim will send an initial contact e-mail to Linda. Dan will ask Tom
Zinitti if he can help us with this.

Abbot Report
Dan will ask Jaylin if she can research the chimney clearance issue.
Other maintenance/small budget items gleaned from the report that could
be addressed right away are:
Install a range hood baffle
Install door gasket at the gym thermal boundary door
Identify and turn OFF phantom loads - re-train staff.
Gym walls - air seal around posts

HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Martha Morse asked Jack to ask the committee to consider ways to
preserve sensitive items in the Historical Society building. Jack
proposed it might be possible to find room in the school to house some.
Janice will call or e-mail Martha with the August 24, 2010 suggestions
that our committee gave to the society a year ago regarding simple
things to do in the building.
	
MISCELLANEOUS
There will be an Energy Roundtable for the North Quabbin town energy
committees Oct 1st, 10:15-12:30 am, at the Garlic  & Arts Festival.
Ideas for a Warwick poster for this event are pictures of the school
thermal images, town hall work bees, town hall solar system, and the
energy use charts.

	Green Communities Act
David has asked that our committee address this, particularly the
stretch code. Discussion to be continued at next mtg..

Meeting adjourned; 8:53

Next meeting September 21th 6:30