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<br />www.ucitymo.org <br />resources, a blog, newsletter, and social media. <br />ii. Composting services can be used by farmer’s markets as well as for special events. iii. GDA is about 4 years old and includes approximately 89 restaurants. In order to <br />become part of the GDA, (at a minimum) restaurants need to have no smoking, no Styrofoam, and a recycling program. Composting, energy efficient appliances and <br />projects, and other sustainability actions increase the score of the restaurants. <br />iv. GDA is promoting the program in the U City Loop and hopes to make the Loop a Green Dining District. Four Loop restaurants – Snarf’s, Meshuggah, Salt and <br />Smoke, and Three Kings have joined the program. GDA has significant leads with <br />other U City restaurants as well. v. U City is working with GDA to connect that program with the Commercial Recycling <br />Grant. vi. Restaurants in the program work with GDA as an educational program and marketing tool. The City of Maplewood has leveraged this for local publicity. <br /> 5. New Business <br />a) Ameren is upgrading cobra fixtures with LED lamps. 25,000 lights in the St. Louis metro <br />area will be upgraded per year for the next 5 years. Ameren will start with replacing the lights that go out. This change is supposed to reduce the overall street lighting bill by 10%. U City can request up to 25 lights per year to be upgraded to LED in addition to <br />the outage replacements. The Green Practices Commission would like to investigate U City installing its own lights. This discussion will be put on the March or April meeting <br />agenda. Sinan Alpaslan and an electrician will be invited to the discussion. <br />b) Delmar and Olive pedestrian lighting upgrades: Applications for Economic Development funds were submitted to retrofit the pedestrian lights to LED. Decisions will be <br />announced in April. <br />c) March 10 meeting visitors: Debra Pottinger and Kathleen Beebe will speak about the Ameren PurePower program; Tom Dunn will speak about a future waste to energy plant <br />that is anticipated to be built in the area. 6. Old Business <br />a) Goal Setting Meeting overview and selection: i. The Commission reviewed the goal lists from the goal setting meeting. Each <br />member selected which topics they felt were priority. <br />ii. At the March meeting the Commission will assign goals for each subcommittee. iii. The Commission may reconfigure the seven subcommittees, which would require revising the bylaws. <br />b) Compact of Mayors reporting process: i. The City will be required to complete a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventory. <br />ii. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is one of the avenues for reporting the <br />inventory and determining an action plan. iii. A Greenhouse Gas inventory also needs to be performed for the St. Louis High <br />Performance Building Initiative 25x20 Benchmarking Pledge (link) <br />iv. Jenny will work with Emily Andrews of the U.S. Green Building Council – Missouri Gateway Chapter to hire an intern to perform the inventory. <br />c) 25x20 Benchmarking Jam – February 25: <br />i. Jenny will attend an energy benchmarking session at the Missouri Botanical Gardens. <br />ii. Tim assessed the annual energy use of each City owned building; it was determined the following buildings will be included in the energy benchmarking: <br />• 1045 North and South – Firehouse #2 <br />• 863 Westgate – Firehouse #1 <br />• 7210 Olive – Centennial Commons