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THE CITY OF <br /> Economic Vitality <br /> pL£fSfNTON. Commission <br /> Notes <br /> Thursday, September 16, 2010 <br /> 7:30 a.m. <br /> Operation Service Center <br /> 3333 Busch Road <br /> CALL TO ORDER <br /> James Paxson convened the meeting at 7:39 a.m. <br /> Committee members: <br /> Pam Hardy <br /> Natalie Alvanez <br /> Mark Herberger <br /> Gary Dominques <br /> Janice Sangster - Phalen <br /> John Mahoney <br /> Sima Yazdani <br /> James Paxson <br /> Judy Wheeler <br /> Jerri Thom <br /> Chris Crabtree <br /> City staff members: <br /> Economic Development Director Pamela Ott, <br /> Community Development Director Brian Dolan, <br /> Senior Plan Checker Dennis Corbett, <br /> Assistant Planner Rosalind Rondash <br /> Economic Development Coordinator Rebecca Perry. <br /> GREEN BUILDING - CALGreen BUILDING CODE <br /> City staff Dennis Corbett and Rosalind Rondash the Pleasanton Building Department gave a <br /> presentation on the Green Building Code changes that are happening at the state level that will affect us. <br /> Currently the city standards are done with LEED and Build it Green programs. The current programs <br /> are point based which calculates points for the various green measures that are used in the project. <br /> The new state building code- CALGreen was adopted in July 2010 and will automatically go into effect <br /> January 1, 2011. The City is trying to avoid having dual ordinances in effect come January 1, 2011. <br /> Our goal is to have a transition into a single code that is not better or worse than our current standards. <br /> The green building points that we currently use will have a different philosophy and we will need to talk <br /> in the new terms which isn't based on a point system. We were charged with a task at comparing a point <br />