Meeting Tomorrow!

[deb henigson]

Hey folks!

Meeting, live and in person, this Thursday the 26th: 6pm at Google as usual.

We will:
1) go over comments from the Steering Committee and
2) discuss ways to research Fiscal and GHG impact for each of our recommendations.
We've been told that recommendations without some hard data in both sections may not be included in the final report, so we really gotta get our research on!

NOTE: Meeting schedule for the forseeable future will go to every other week, unless we need another meeting in between. That way you'll have more time to compile data and send it to me for inclusion in the final recommendations!

Thanks folks, see you tomorrow!

--deb

[Elizabeth Mezias]

Can't make it this time, I'm going to a show in SF, the Art of Satire.
Have a good meeting!

[Cliff Chambers]

Can you cite the source for the following statement:

"We've been told that recommendations without some hard data in both
sections
may not be included in the final report, so we really gotta get our
research
on!"

Thanks,

Cliff

[deb henigson]

Bruce K. said "if you don't have financial and environmental data to back up your recommendations, there's no point in putting them in" or something like that. This was during our debate about requiring a cost-benefit analysis for each recommendation, as opposed to separate financial impact and environmental impact estimates.

I'm sure the exact quote was captured on video, but I really don't want to re-live any of these meetings. ;^)

--deb

[Cliff Chambers]

Providing consistent calculations for cost/metric ton of C02 reduction/
elimination is a very complex task. Any review of the literature will
confirm that. We discussed this at some length last night at our
working group meeting, and decided to only utilize easily available
and off the shelf data as readily availalbe as benchmark
approximation. We agreed in many cases some of our important
recommendations do not have off the shelf data. Both the Grand
Boulevard and Green Parking recommendations are particularly
complicated. I really do think the City of Mountain View should hire
an economist to provide consistent professional calculations...relying
on volunteer efforts, in my humble opinion, will not result in
consistent, defensible results. I have a call into Steve to discuss
this. After that conversation, I will likely send a recommended
course of action to the Steering Committee for consideration.

FYI, after MUCH discussion, we also decided to keep 13 recommendations
in the short-term, mid-term, and long-term summary matrix format,
which we feel will provide good guidance for the City Council.

See you tonight!

Cliff

On Jun 25, 5:35 pm, "deb henigson" <red...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bruce K. said "if you don't have financial and environmental data to back up
> your recommendations, there's no point in putting them in" or something like
> that. This was during our debate about requiring a cost-benefit analysis for
> each recommendation, as opposed to separate financial impact and
> environmental impact estimates.
>
> I'm sure the exact quote was captured on video, but I really don't want to
> re-live any of these meetings. ;^)
>
> --deb
>

> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Cliff Chambers <cliffchamb...@earthlink.net>

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[Bena]

I'm planning on being there tonight, although I'm running from a
meeting in south SJ and might be a tad late.

Bena

On Jun 26, 12:29 pm, Cliff Chambers <cliffchamb...@earthlink.net>
wrote:

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