Climate Action Committee

Members:

Position 1: Jefferson County BoCC - Heather Dudley-Nollette (Vice Chair)

Position 2: Port Townsend City Council - Owen Rowe

Position 3: PUD Number 1 of Jefferson County - Jeff Randall 

Position 4: Jefferson County Public Health - Laura Tucker

Position 5: Jefferson Healthcare - Kees Kolff 

Position 6: Jefferson Transit - Nicole Gauthier / Amy Hall

Position 7: Port of Port Townsend - Carol Hasse: primary; Eric Towes: secondary

Position 8: Port Townsend Paper Corporation - Michael Clea 

Position 9: Cindy Jayne (Chair) - Citizen at Large

Position 10: Crystie Kisler - Citizen at Large

Position 11: David Wilkinson - Citizen at Large

Position 12: Jamie Duyck - Citizen at Large

Position 13: Krista Myers - Citizen at Large

Position 14: Open

Position 15: Dave Seabrook - Citizen at Large

Meetings:

The CAC meets every other month on the second Tuesday from 3 - 5:00 p.m.  Meetings are hosted by Jefferson County.  For the next scheduled meeting, please visit the Jefferson County webpage at: 

https://www.co.jefferson.wa.us/637/Climate-Action-Committee

About the Commission:

The CAC is a joint committee of the City of Port Townsend and Jefferson County created in January 2008 as an advisory group to address the problems and opportunities posed by global warming/climate change. A joint City-County resolution has set a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% below 1990 levels by the year 2050. The CAC successfully completed an inventory of greenhouse gases and drafted a Climate Action Plan. On September 22, 2011, the City and County jointly adopted the Climate Action Plan (CAP). The plan outlines strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions which include:

• Specific measures to reduce emissions from City and County government operations (Chapter V.A) – A resource conservation manager (RCM) has been retained to assist in the implementation of these measures.
• Community outreach and engagement - This is the focus of the CAC; Chapter V. B includes several measures that the community should consider and emphasizes partnerships.
• Outlines land use and transportation policies that the City and County should be referred to their respective City and County planning commissions for further consideration. The CAC is charged with launching a community engagement campaign which builds on existing efforts, fosters partnerships and develops new initiatives. The campaign shall be designed to
  • Inspire individual action leading to substantial community-wide reductions in energy use and greenhouse gas emissions
  • Raise public awareness
  • Engage community members
  • Promote successes
  • Deliver calls for action  
  • Inspire behavioral change

Climate Action Committee agendas, minutes, contact information, and adopted documents can be found on Jefferson County's Climate Action Committee page

Public comment will be accepted by the Public Comment Submission form and will be included in the meeting record, provided submissions are received two hours before the start of each meeting.  Please submit public comment at Public Comment Submission (fillout.com). Persons wishing to mail in public comment can do so by sending comments to City Hall at 250 Madison Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368. Please make sure "Public Comment" is clearly visible as part of the document.