San Anselmo Quality of Life Commission Monday, March 21, 2011-7P.M. Town Hall conference room 525 San Anselmo Ave. San Anselmo, CA 94960 Meeting Minutes  1. Call to Order 7:05 p.m. Kevin Donahue Lea Dutton Quinne Fokes Chantal Maher Woody Weingarten 3. Approval of Agenda Agenda is approved. 4. Approval of Minutes  2. Roll call; welcome to Lea Dutton  Quinne moves to approve, Woody seconds. Minutes are approved.  5. Open Time for Public Expression  Debbie Stutsman will attend meetings periodically from this point forward. Greetings from Matt Brasler, now a member of Planning Commission. 6. Speaker: Peter Yolles on water conservation and product, 15-minute limit, 20% of state energy use goes to heating, retrieving and using water. Marin Municipal Water District does not track water use by day. Reports monthly  Barbara Thornton will be absent for several months.  followed by Q&A Company - WaterSmart CCF usage only.  Water use is function of people, not size of home. Chart - Australia uses only 40 gallons/person = VS. 120+ in U.S. WaterSmart offers personalized home water reports. Includes rebate programs available for town, Personalized reports enable people to think more about water use. Taking some action to conserve - even 1 action per year = can make a significant  difference. Try to reduce by 2%.  Will also enable a city/town to reduce costs. 1year, 6 billing cycles Serves as a consultantivendor to cities  WaterSmart's first contract is with City of Cotati - pilot program is there,    Towork, just 10 percent of people would need to take action to make WaterSmart  worthwhile  Cost- - $5/home per year, plus $2.50 set up fee. Would like to consider a MMWD partnership.  7. BYOB (bring your own bags) update re posters and suit against county (Sita, Woody read from speech Sita gave to Environmental Forum in Marin on March 12. Sita reported (via email) that Safeway in San Anselmo posted the MYOB flyers on  Barbara)  the screens for their cash registers. 8. Green Fair update (Chantal/Lea, Barbara) Not much progress yet. Research any activity. happening in county. One possibility - Marin Human Race. Woody re letters to PUC, PG&E)  Marin County holding EcoFair in September this year on Labor Day weekend. Earth Day - Chantal to email QOL commissioners a list of events/activities. 9. SmartMeters update (Barbara, Debbie re county, San Anselmo positions; Marin County passed resolution, but County Sherriff and District Attorney are not San Anselmo essentially voted "no" on banning SmartMeters since vote was a tie. QOLI letter to PUC - they responded. PUC will not take any action at all. They're waiting for Huffman bill to go through Assembly, and then the Senate. Doesn'tt think it But now, PUC apparently has given PG&E ultimatum to provide optionslaltematives  enforcing it.  will get through the Senate. for SmartMeters. 10. Sharing eco-tips (Lea) Postponed until next meeting 11. Use of surveys (Lea) Postponed until next meeting 12. Climate Action Plan (Debbie) itwill deliver presentation. Not at this time.  Postponed - but coming up to Planning Commission on April 4. Woman who drafted 13.' Water conservation: Shall QOL Commission do anything? (Quinne, all)  14. Vacancy in seventh seat (Woody re Tom Robinson) Tom Robinson is going to fill out application to become 7th member.  15. Future QOL speakers (Quinne) so that we can get through agenda. Quinne and others agree.  Next month, Dan' Williams is scheduled. Woody requests one month postponement    16. Commission comments & questions, requests for future agenda items  None.  17. Next meeting: April 11, 2011 or April 18, 2011?  Quinne moves to move next meeting to April 11. Kevin seconds. Motion is approved.  Next meeting is April 11, 2011.  18. Adjournment