Green committee
Minutes
3/7/07
Present: Darrel Gerber, Dave Saddoris
Also Present: Sarah Linnes-Robinson
This was a working meeting to review and modify the Stormwater Implementation Contract. Property Owners and KFNA will sign this agreement at the same time the Property Owners are signing a contract with the selected contractor for ground work. The revised document was submitted to the Executive Committee for review and green has approved the final draft for submission to the board.
The Committee also discussed the fact that Leonardo’s has withdrawn from the stormwater project due to the inclusion of the living wall as part of the system design. Sebastian Joe’s also declined taking over the project, since they did not want to maintain the wall. In Steve Jevning’s words:
“For Leonardo’s there is simply not enough financial benefit for us to achieve our only goal which was to use stormwater for a foundation demonstration. The cost of filtering the water did not seem worth it to us. We will still try to build our fountain or perhaps develop a more modest plan.
Sebastian Joe’s does not want to consider the project on their own. The on-going maintenance responsibility is not attractive to them.â€
The Committee discussed the possibility of placing the living wall on another site and a list of potential locations was brainstormed. As a second option, it was also discussed that we could opt to work with Leonardo’s and not install the living wall portion of the system; although this would make the project ineligible for the City’s stormwater credit due to the lack of “treatment†of stormwater, the project could then be used as an argument for why the city should accept cisterns (and possibly rain barrels) as stormwater management techniques and these items should qualify for the credit.
Minutes prepared and submitted by Sarah Linnes-Robinson, KFNA executive Director, 3/10/07.