Review of Minutes and approval

Goals, Projects, and Tasks

Place Holders:

• All - Reminder of EAC-initiated projects for next 6+ months: Brightside Farm Riparian Buffer Planting, Deerfield Riparian Buffer; Earth Day; Charlestown Bird Town; Battery Recycling Program; Education Series; EAC adoption of Charlestown road for semiannual cleanups; New developments for review; EAC website on where residents can dispose of household items; Kendig and Jenkins conservation parks; synthetic turf fields in Charlestown; Beyond Pesticides Parks for a Sustainable Future proposal; Reviewing HOA practices regarding pesticides, trash hauling, and recycling; Charlestown township composting.

New:

1. Ordinances on Release of plastic balloons into the environment.

On Going

2. Review of BoS, PC, P&R meeting highlights
3. Bird Town Annual Report and Backyard Bird Count Feb. 14-17.
4. Adoption by EAC of Charlestown Road for PennDOT: April 5; notifications
5. Social media subcommittee of EAC, Posting a schedule of EAC events
6. Charlestown HOA sustainability plan
7. Swiss Pines update
8. Kwiamwis Siputët signage – Discussion of concept and review with P&R and Lenape tribe
9. Plastic bag/single-use items ordinance
10. Status of EAC membership in WeConservePA – Goodman.
11. EAC logo.
12. Nature News (Jan., Apr., July., Oct.) – Solomon
13. Township newsletter articles due dates (1/15, 4/15, 7/15, & 10/15). Propose articles for 4/15 on PA Game Commission information resources on improving property for conservation to protect wildlife, and on Beech Leaf Disease
14. Riparian buffer maintenance: Updates – PA Outdoor Corp
15. Battery collection program for Charlestown.
16. Information for PC on increasing stream temperature – update: Armstrong
17. Community Education: March 13, 7pm - “There’s Plastic in Our Bodies…Now What? Risks and Realities”. Posted on Chester County Planning Commission Sustainability Commission “event repository”. Finalize technical arrangements for posting.

Adjourn