L.M. Meeting Preview: Recycling to Get New Look From Environmental Council

The Lower Merion Environmental Advisory Council meets tonight at 7 to discuss land development plans, sustainable parking lots, a new recycling logo and slogan, and other items on a rather full agenda.

The EAC is applying for a Watershed Education Grant from the Pennsylvania Water Resources Education Network (WREN), a “nonpartisan informal collaboration among organizations and public officials” that works to protect the state’s water resources through education and policy-making, according to the group’s website.

The meeting will also include a follow-up on the township’s Go For The Green Awards, and Acting Chair Barry Jeffries will be giving a “Morris Arboretum tour.”

The full agenda for the meeting, in this scheduled order, is:

• Go For the Green Awards Ceremony Follow-up
• Morris Arboretum tour (Jeffries)
• Recycling Logo and Slogan for new Recycling Trucks (Staff)
• Subdivision/Land Development Plans (Andrea Campisi)
• Green/Sustainable Parking Lots Update
• WREN Grant Application Update (Kate Galer)
• 2010 Annual Report
• Compost Tea Project at Linwood Park (Kate Galer)
• Preservation Area Update (Andrea Campisi)
• Green Building Resolution Status Update
• Update on EECB Grant and Energy Audit (Staff)
• Review Environmental Action Plan
• Assignment to Public Meetings:

—June 3:   Land Development Committee, 8:30 a.m.

—June 6:   Planning Commission, 7 p.m.

—June 8:   Building & Planning Committee, 6 p.m.

—June 15:  Board of Commissioners, 8 p.m.

—June 17:  Land Development Committee, 8:30 a.m.

—June 21:  Special Planning Commission, Commercial Land Use, 7 a.m.

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Unless otherwise noted, all Lower Merion Township meetings are held in the Township Administration Building’s 2nd Floor Board Room, at 75 East Lancaster Ave. in Ardmore.