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35 36 Ms. Sherry Hood, President of League of Women Voters of the Roseville Area, 37 2220 Midland Grove Road, explained she was at the last meeting and there was a 38 member from Resilient Roseville, which she is also a member of, talk to the 39 Commission about the clubs concerns about the environment and what the city is 40 doing about the concerns about energy consumption. The Commission stressed it 41 would like to know more about energy consumption and if Resilient Roseville 42 could provide some kind of education regarding that. She indicated there are many 43 ways that can be done but there is a Board called the Citizens Utility Board (CUB), 44 that does speaking engagements on reducing energy costs, etc. That group is 45 willing to come to the Commission meeting. 46 47 Mr. Culver indicated the Commission does have a meeting scheduled in November, 48 but the Met Council is scheduled to speak at that meeting and talking about transit 49 and Met Council items. The Commission has targeted January as kind of a 50 sustainability super meeting and have opened it up to ideas for that meeting so that 51 might be a good opportunity to invite them to speak in January. 52 53 Vice Chair Wozniak understand at the Resilient Roseville meeting there was 54 discussion about the Neel Energy program "Partnership in Energy" and that is a 55 program that wherein Neel provides resources to communities who submit an 56 application to identify goals and formulate a plan to reach those goals over a set 57 time period, including a number of meetings with groups of interest in the 58 community to try and formulate that plan and put it into action. He thought this 59 was something that could be talked about at the January meeting and discuss 60 preparing something for the application deadline period in July 2020. 61 62 Mr. Culver indicated someone talked at the city Council meeting about an 63 upcoming educational program being held at Cederholm on November 20ffi about 64 climate change and the individual that mentioned it indicated they have gone to 65 some training program on how to present this educational material on climate 66 change. 67 68 Chair Cihacek arrived at 6:42 p.m. Vice Chair Wozniak turned the meeting over 69 to Chair Cihacek. 70 71 3. Approval of September 24, 2019 Meeting Minutes 72 Comments and corrections to draft minutes had been submitted by PWETC 73 commissioners prior to tonight's meeting and those revisions incorporated into the 74 draft presented in meeting materials. 75 76 Mr. Culver noted Vice Chair Wozniak pointed out a spelling error for one of the 77 speakers from last month that would be corrected in the minutes. 78 79 Motion Page 2 of 9