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• FALCON HEIGHTS JOINT C _ <br />OUNCIL COMMISSION MEETING <br />Wednesday, March 23, 2005 <br />City Hall <br />NOTES FROM FLIP CHARTS <br />Potential Future Actions <br />• Recommendation to City Council on "environmental commission", list of goals, projects, priority <br />list, engage other commissions, publicize <br />• Rewriting of City [zoning] Code <br />• Meet again <br />Ecological Workshops/Topics/isaupc <br />• Rain Gardens/Rain Barrels <br />• Energy <br />• Watershed District: <br />ideas <br />grants <br />• Landscape restoration: <br />reducing bad plants <br />"preferred trees" <br />native plantings <br />• Revisit Tree Inventory <br />• ideal trees <br />planting techniques <br />"Multiple use approach" <br />Cost sharing with other cities <br />• Air Quality <br />• Reduction of solid waste <br />• Recycling <br />Reduction and follow-up <br />• Composting <br />Process Questions: <br />• Expand solid waste commission, changed with lead on education, <br />• Develop principles as starting point <br />• Include members of other commissions <br />• Priority list for all commissions <br />• Who takes lead (i.e. which commission)? <br />• Utilize existing resources <br />• Utilize resident expertise <br />• Use existing events at parks <br />• Create "Traveling Resources" <br />• Focus on "nuts and bolts" training. <br />Res-°urces <br />• University of MN <br />• Bell Museum <br />• Local schools-intergenerational education <br />• Living Green Expo <br />• Neighborhood Block Parties <br />• Northern Garden Center <br />"Environmental commission" <br />~a <br />