San Anselmo Quality of Life Commission Monday, Oct. 17, 2011-7P.M. Town Hall conference room 525 San Anselmo Ave. San Anselmo, CA 94960 Meeting Minutes  1. Call to Order [1 minute] 2. Roll call [1 minute] Woody' Weingarten Kevin Donahue Chantal Mahèr Quinne Fokkes Lea Dutton Sita Khufu  7:05 p.m.  3. Approval of Agenda [1 minute] 4. Approval of Minutes [1 minute]  Kevin moves, Quinne seconds. Agenda is approved.  Quinne moves, Kevin seconds. Minutes from September meeting are approved.  5. Open Time for Public Expression [3 minutes]  None  6. Post-mortem re Country Fair Day and parade (all) [11 minutes] Feedback provided by each commission member: Great job to all----huge improvement over last years'.  Quinne  1. Inr meeting we agreed that the primary focus of booth was to encourage visitors to take action to support SA Climate Plan; secondary focus was to gain visibility for QOL. 2. See sketch; large sign was to be displayed centrally with all other, items around it, Next year let's follow the plan, and be less exhausted over the tools (that is to say booth set up-- better planning less time executing and making decisions on the. fly), soas to 3. Int the sketch, the book of award articles was shown open-- this was to be an interactive part of the booth, taking precedence over all of the pieces of paper --of which Next year, on table, display the book OPEN; brochures such as Marin Conservation league, which are compelling, could be on table, along with Honda literature, and the BYOB sheets. (In other words- let's choose in advance which items to feature  which didn't happen.  have more time to interact with people. Let's be more efficient!  there were WAY too many, on the table.    prominently-we delivered information overload.) Tip sheets hang in clusters (see sketch) minus other stuff hanging, except for the round logo. The booth was way too (Someone suggested that we put the San Anselmo items in one area, and other items All of those ancillary pages of paper info--can be held in vertical holders, and if someone 3. The front sign near hanging just below tent, was to remain up all day--even during parade for visibility purposes; (pull only) side signs off to use on car. 4. Tent, raise it upi to full height. Since we cannot fix the issue of having the banners below the white area- tape does not work-- so let's stop worrying 'bout the limitations of 5. The tree of volunteers was to have paper (renewable resource star ornaments) the plastic ones while certainly cuter, are not in keeping with our mission. (We can justify laminating tip sheets due to their being re-used all year). It would be great if we could come up with a source or cardboard stars that were cheap-- barring that--I'd be willing to 6. Also need to lose the plastic water droplets-people did not know what they were--cute as they were-- and they are plastic and distracted from what we wanted people to see-- 7. Fantastic to have the crayons and issue related paper print out for kids-occupy kids  cluttered.  elsewhere-- good idea)  asks for a specific item topic, give it to them.  this tent--and go to plan B-- raise the tent to full height.  host a star cutting party at my place.  the tip sheets..  while parents are talking. 8. Great to have water. different demo next year.  9. Great to have a related demo--LEDS are happening-- SO let's have either same ora 10. Parade: ideally-- we will have a t-shirt for everyone, and/or, posters with logo, some with "how is your quality of life," some with "support your town's climate action plan," (or whatever the initiative might be) etc. Oreven green bandannas for all concerned. If we can sell t-shirts- great. Maybe custom bandanas-could also use as prizes/raffle. 11. Lea's idea: laptop available to people can sign up right there and then for deep green. Which means we'll need ai fact sheet about it sO they can read (if they want to-- prior to signing up. THIS IS Al BIG DEAL-- DEEP GREEN makes a huge difference. 12. Elevator pitches/sound bites-- Woody- we can use your help here--While the mission statement is accurate--it isn't sexy-- sO rather than worry about changing it- let's have  some sound bites to quickly say the things we do. Need to position our stuff in one place  Woody    Kevin  Quantum leap improvement from previous year.  100 people asked about us, VS. 5 last year. Far more traffic. Great location.  Lea  Eye catching booth Loved electric cars Compost bin giveaway was good Water good to have inside  Chantal Great  Was a bit busy in terms of materials at the event Signs were tough, a bit stressful Plastic water droplets -lli like them Lot of fun Lindsay was terrific Sita Booth had a bit much.  But teamwork to pull it together was incredible. 7. Successful removal of book bins (Woody) Book bin gone from Safeway. Woody spoke of possible picketing and boycotts. Was a commercial venture - not nonprofit organization.  8. Updates on Marin Clean Energy, SmartMeters, lawsuit against county plastic  bag ban. tossed out (Barbara, Sita) Ongoing - Barbara not present.  Lawsuit- - Judge threw out lawsuit - more to come.  Quinne and Lea to comprise new subcommittee focused on the MCE Deep Green  program.  9. Commissioners giving items for agenda to chair (Woody)  We are fraying edges of Brown Act by allowing discussions, emails, etc., outside of Ora add agenda items - instead, just send request directly to' Woody, only.  commission meetings.  Woody will then decide if we should add it to agenda. Should not communicate to group outside of meetings.  To conduct such communications, must form subcommittee of fewer than 4 people 10. Resilient Neighborhoods, should QOL participate, should we have Tamara  (less than a quorum).  Peters speak next month, should we endorse? (Woody) Any one of us can do it in our neighborhood. Meet 5-6 times over a few months. then see ifi it happens.  Determine what your carbon footprint is, how you can reduce it, set steps to reduce,    Neighborhood association.  4Commission members interested in participating - 2 are "maybe." Will have her speak, decide on endorsement, forum participation. Rodgers, nominated by Roberta Robinson (Woody)  11.Silver Award nominations: Judy Coy, nominated by Dick Miner, and Connie Connie - should not be nominated as she was nominated for her paid role as head Judy Coy- - Runs Historical Commission. Woody nominates, Kevin seconds. Her 12. Who our future speakers will be (Quinne); appointing three-person Woody has decided to change to a 2-person committee: Woody and Quinne. Will be sticking to 15 minutes for speaker, with 5-10 minutes of Q&A. January - Tamara Peters = Resilient Neighborhoods.  ofs SA Chamber of Commerce. award is approved.  subcommittee (Woody) [6 minutes]  So appointed.  February = representative from SA Climate Action Plan. Alternative, representative 13. Future QOL-sponsored public information forums in council chambers (all) [6 14. QOL endorsements: Reusable diapers, info from Nicole Siminoff (Woody); Saving lighting energy via LEDs, CFLS, tips (Quinne, Woody); SmartMeters (all); quotes from members re green businesses, Marin 100+ Garden Challenge, Cycle Chic blog, our having Facebook and Twitter addresses, and Woody has not heard from Nicole Siminoff, sO postpone this part of the discussion.  from Sustainable Fairfax.  minutes] Postpone discussion.  each of our tips (Woody) Postpone lighting energy discussion. Postpone SmartMeters. Need quotes for, in this order: 1. Green businesses  2. Marin 100+ Garden Challenge - effort to plant 100 trees 3. Cycle Chic blog, Facebook and Twitter 4. Each of our 9 tip sheets (Quinne to email copies to all)  15. Our Yahoo group, where it stands (Chantal) [2 minutes]  Up and running. photos.  Ideal for storing our information, materials, links to other sites, etc. Includes our  16. Cycle Chic blog, a brief update (Lea) [2 minutes] legality of Cycle Chic blog, trademark, etc.  Woody has appointed Lea, Quinne and' Woody. to a subcommittee to review the 17. How do we fill vacancy that still exists in seventh seat? Michael Koehne is a "no," ditto Tim Mock, but potentials are Stephenie Hendricks (a previous QOL    member), Sue Severin, Alison Chapman, Susan Rusche and Louis Gilbert; No one who expressed interest in filling the seat attended tonight's meeting.  youth seat possibility, Liz Orosco (Woody)  Youth seat - still looking. 18. Bios needed (Woody) Everyone needs to send bios. Action Plan (Lea) [4 minutes] Postpone discussion.  19. Introduction to doable, actionable, measureable goal in support of Climate  20. Commission comments & questions, requests for future agenda items: Listing of new ideas (brainstorming session), maximum of two minutes per Encouraging businesses to become green-certified businesses = Quinne and  commissioner (all) [141 minutes]  Chantal.  21. Next meeting: Monday, Nov. 21  22. Adjournment