The next Haverhill Energy Task Force meeting will be held at 7:00 pm, Wednesday December 16, in room 301 at Haverhill City Hall, 4 Summer Street, Haverhill, MA.
The agenda is still open for discussion. We will have an update on Haverhill’s final grant application to MTC under the Clean Energy Choice program, discussed at our last meeting. Wind zoning ordinances may be on the agenda. Please reply with any ideas you have.
The agenda for the Haverhill Energy Task Force meeting Wednesday, September 2nd is posted here. The meeting will be held at 7:00 pm in the Atrium Room at the Merrimack Valley Hospital, 140 Lincoln Ave., Haverhill, MA. Enter through the revolving door. The room is near the gift shop.
This meeting will be largely dedicated to finding ways to use $6,072 in grant money, which must be spent on energy related items. All ideas are appreciated.
The next Haverhill Energy Task meeting will be held at 7:00 pm, Wednesday September 2, in the Atrium Room at the Merrimack Valley Hospital, 140 Lincoln Ave in Haverhill, MA.
Good news! The Mayor’s Chief of Staff Andrew Herlihy reports that the task force is requested to decide how to spend the $6072 remaining in Haverhill’s MTC grant account. We only have until November 30th to spend the money. Anyone planning to attend the meeting is encouraged to read the MTC Clean Energy Choice Grant Agreement document, which describes how the money can be used. How can we leverage those dollars to best advance Haverhill’s journey into a clean, sustainable energy future?
Brian Messenger writes about the regional energy manager in the Eagle Tribune story “Green team: Valley communities working with energy consultant“. The story mentions a group I had not previously heard of, the Merrimack Valley Mayors and Managers Coalition. This project is important, so I hope to see more information and viewpoints in the future.
Haverhill’s cost in the project is $15,000, and the funding was made possible by all the Haverhill citizens who opted to buy clean electric power. Eventually we will see if this one-time project leads to a more permanent energy manager for Haverhill, a position the Energy Task Force recommends. The Eagle Tribune story mentions helping “the six participating communities monitor energy use”, and someone will have to do that on an ongoing basis.
Hopefully great things will come from this. Congratulations and thanks to the mayors and organizations who made it happen.
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The latest newsletter from Mayor Fiorentini has very good news on the energy front. The Energy Task Force is pleased to see another of it’s recommendations, in particular recommendation #1 “Have a city energy manager”, become reality. And energy audits are the first step toward recommendation #4, which is about building energy efficiency.
City Works To Conserve Energy, Save Money
ABOVE: Principal Larry Marino, Mayor, State Rep. Brian Dempsey who assisted in obtaining the audit grant, Superintendent Buchanan, facilities manager Jeffrey Dill with energy auditors [center and far left]
The agenda document for the June 11, 2009 7:00 pm Haverhill Energy Task Force meeting in the Haverhill Public Library Milhendler room has been updated. In addition to Steve Weisman of Peregrine Group, we will have Gabe Shapiro of Next Step Living, to tell us about a novel residential energy efficiency program that could be made available to Haverhill citizens.
