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Town of Groton
Meeting Notice
Town Clerk
173 Main Street
Groton, MA 01450
(978) 448-1100
North Central Climate Change Coalition Meeting
Wednesday, June 21 2023 at 7:00 PM
Other: See Agenda, Specified in Agenda ,
This meeting was posted Wednesday, June 14 2023 at 3:36 PM
Agenda
North Central Climate Change Coalition (NC4) Meeting Agenda
Date: June 21, 2023 Time: 7:00 pm Location: Remote
REMOTE PARTICIPATION ONLY
Instructions for residents to participate remotely can be found on the homepage of the Town of
Pepperell’s website. https://town.pepperell.ma.us/683/Remote-Public-MeetingAGENDA
1. Welcome and thanks to Pepperell Community Media for recording
2. Approval of minutes (April 2023)
3. NC4 Member Updates
4. NC4’s role in supporting policy efforts with and without municipal member approval
5. Update on May 31st North Central Climate Connections Event with Climate Chief
Melissa Hoffer
6. Welcome to Leandro, Website Chief for NC4
7. Guest speaker, Josie Ahlberg, MMA legislative analyst, climate change programming
and organization alliances
8. Rural/urban roles in solving climate change including discussion of Climate Pollution
Reduction Grant Program
9. Possible yard sign campaign discussion
10. Scheduling a follow up meeting with Chief Hoffer and Sec. Jones
11. Adjournment
NC4 is composed of municipal and civic leaders across Massachusetts Congressional District 3 working
on the frontlines of climate change resistance, resilience, and adaptation. We see first-hand climate
change’s impacts to the health and well-being of our communities and to our natural and built
environment. Our hopes are to harness the power of people and communities working together to build
awareness and attract funding for regional efforts to address already baked in climate impacts and
opportunities to create a healthier and safer future. The mission of The North Central Climate Change
Collaborative (NC4) is to foster and strengthen regional municipal collaborative efforts to combat climate
change through:
● shared projects, educational efforts, and best practices, and
● informing state and federal legislative actions.
Since convening on an informal basis in the Summer of 2021, people from communities in the 3rd
Congressional District have met regularly to share knowledge on climate initiatives in their communities
and ideas for how a regional group of communities could more effectively work togethe