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Home My WebLink About02-10-2023 Regular MeetingFEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page 1 FEAB MEETING MINUTES Friday, February 10th, 2023 3:00 p.m. in the Fairhope Public Library, Board Room Member Attendees: Gary Gover, Amy Paulson, Nigel Temple, Jennifer Foutch, Nicole Love, Steven Scyphers, Anna Miller Members not in attendance: Jim Horner, Ben Frater City of Fairhope: Kim Burmeister and Christina LeJeune -Planning and Zoning Department City Council: None Honored Guests: Hadley Scyphers and Carl Couret (FEAB active participants) Minutes taken by: Kim Burmeister Amy called the meeting to order at 3:00 p.m. Summary of meeting: 1.Draft minutes were revised from January: a. Reworded Summary Item #7 to read: FEAB suggests city consider website update and include a place for FEAB to offer information / environmental outreach items. b. Reworded Summary Item #8 to read: City should promote natural nature based features (versus bulkheads and other hardened features) with possible demonstration projects on city property. 2. FEAB is using a Google share on-line source for document sharing 3. Membership is now full (9 members) with the two nominees accepted at January’s meeting: Anna Miller and Steven Scyphers. 4. FEAB would like to set up the annual meeting with Mayor and Staff in March as a special meeting. Time and date to be set at Mayor’s request. 5. FEAB has approved the evaluation of stretch codes into Building Codes for potential relevance to Fairhope building codes to incentivize sustainable building practices, above and beyond code. 6. Fairhope’s social media presence (Instagram) could be one source of outreach from FEAB (monthly or quarterly item of interest from FEAB, etc.) 7. Fairhope Dock’s is close to receiving certification as a “Clean Marina”. FEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page | 2 FEAB Minutes: January’s minutes were approved with these amendments: See summary above. Amy accepted the amended minutes for approval; Gary- 2nd. Minutes approved as amended. Amy provided an agenda for today’s meeting: FEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page | 3 FEAB Membership Anna Miller and Steven Scyphers were accepted for FEAB membership in January at Council. Membership is now full at 9 members. Document Sharing The on-line account Nigel set up on Google is working well for most. Jim Horner is being mailed updates via regular mail. Amy suggested edits to documents be done using the track changes feature. If there is a difference in opinion, comment with bubble. Amy said she would “approve”or “deny” the tracked changes. Carl (non member but active participant) is welcome to make changes per Amy. Kim will use the documents on line to be copied into the minutes. Priorities, Goals for 2023 Amy went over the current draft of goals and priorities for 2023, noting she is recommending removing water quality and recycling. Gary would like to keep recycling on the priorities list. Amy gave Nicole kudos for her work on the Clean Marina program. Certification is coming soon, per Nicole. FEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page | 4 FEAB has representation on all relevant City Committees, and FEAB reprensetative is listed on this document: FEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page | 5 FEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page | 6 FEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page | 7 FEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page | 8 FEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page | 9 FEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page | 10 FEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page | 11 Council Meeting Attendance Schedule and Talking Points: Amy shared the current draft which also includes agenda POC (Point of Contact) for each item. Kim commented, per Jim (absent today): there appear to be four members left off the Council attendance agenda for end of the year. FEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page | 12 FEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page | 13 FEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page | 14 FEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page | 15 FEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page | 16 Fairhope Water Quality Initiative: Litter Abatement Nigel and Gary both have been in discussion with Don Bates, Osprey Initiative, who is in charge of the litter abatement program at the city-owned Winn Dixie pond. Jennifer has concerns over boom not being within the pond. Kim mentioned the boom is not a floating boom but instead is placed in the flow of the stormwater outside of the pond. The litter collected has been minimal, but is being profiled and appears to be mostly plastic. She said City may consider outreach programs for Fairhope soon similar to Mobile’s program. Mobile’s program does not ban plastic from being used in businesses but instead encourages and celebrates the companies pledging to be single use plastic free. Breaking The Habit: Mobile’s Kiss-Off To Single-Use Plastic — Mobile Baykeeper Nigel said Don has a good concept for Fairhope which is to bring the litter abatement program to all Fairhope watersheds in one fashion or another, and to improve the Fairhope recycling program. Jennifer mentioned the natural barriers (plants) in the pond and their usefulness in collecting/trapping litter. Nigel has more ideas on enhancing the natural habitat here at the Winn Dixie pond. Stretch Building Codes / CRI Anna discussed her stretch goal ideas which would enhance current building code with optional methods and mentioned how these ties into CRI. She would like to include economic impacts of stretch goals. Stephen thinks including economic impact might limit the ability to push the green agenda of stretch goals. Nigel suggests a 2 page hand out for the stretch goals. Nicole said Erik and Auburn Extension had a meeting and identified a potential date and initial list of invitees for the CRI workshop. FEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page | 17 Internships: Per Steven: If city needs interns, USA may be able to provide internships as early as Spring 2023 and then every quarter. Social Media: Nigel would like to suggest that City implement Instagram and/or Facebook for environmental outreach, which could be drafted by FEAB (quarterly or monthly). March Annual Special Meeting with Mayor and staff: Action item for Kim: Amy asked Kim to reach out to the Mayor to get a tentative time and date for special annual meeting. This one hour meeting will preferably be held aside from regular FEAB meeting. March is the projected month for the meeting. Meeting will target staff: 1. Mayor 2. Corey – Council 3. Department heads- to include as many as possible: a. Richard Johnson, Public Works b. Hunter Simmons, Planning and Zoning (Michelle Melton also encouraged to attend, staff Planner). c. Jason Langley, Water and Sewer d. Pat White, Recreation Department e. Erik Cortinas, Building Official Meeting adjourned at 4 p.m. Next regular monthly meeting is Friday, March 10 @ 3 p.m. @ Library Board Room. FEAB CONTACT INFORMATION: Chairman: Gary Gover govers@bellsouth.net (251) 990-8662 Co-Chair: Amy Paulson amy.paulson@yahoo.com (251) 654-7401 Members: Ben Frater ben.frater@gmail.com (404) 314-8815 Jim Horner none (251) 928-9722 Nigel Temple 757nigel@gmail.com (757) 803-3589 Jennifer Foutch Foutch.jennifer@gmail.com (618) 318-0354 Nicole Love nlove@thompsonengineering.com (407)-312-1362 Steven Scyphers sscyphers@scsengineers.com (334)-701-8864 Anna Miller anna@keenliving.pro (251) 279-0395 FEAB February 10th, 2023 Minutes Page | 18 CITY CONTACTS: Corey Martin, City Council corey.martin@fairhopeal.gov Kim Burmeister, Planning and Zoning Department kim.burmeister@fairhopeal.gov Christina LeJeune, Planning and Zoning Department christina.lejeune@fairhopeal.gov