The Radnor Township Environmental Advisory Council (EAC) met on March 18, 2026, at 6:00 PM in the Radnorshire Room. The council reviewed minutes, received public comment, and discussed a wide range of environmental initiatives including building energy benchmarking, public education programs, road salt pollution, a proposed gas leaf blower phase-out, and budget allocations. Several action items were set for future meetings.
Welcome associate members, members, esteemed guests. Any any comments on the minutes from February 18th. Okay. Those who approve raise their hands. Okay, unanimous. Thank you. Um I will be drafting the 2025 EAC annual report. And uh we'll um be submitting it to the EAC for review uh within two weeks. Um concerning uh child abuse clearances, uh Bess. Uh are we all cleared? Uh we are one is pending. One okay. So and anything we can do to remind that person. Yes, I will yes. You'll you'll take your okay. Yeah. Um ecology club at Radner High School, and uh I hear we're blessed already with ecology clubs, but uh Bess and Anjana, please update us. Well, we uh we are administering a survey to with the associate members just to see what their interest is and what the current situation is at the high school, and then once we see sort of what the existing clubs are like at the high school and how we might be able to plug into the clubs, I think we'll be able to report better next next go round next month. Okay, but I think it'd be wonderful to have Margie's involvement. She's here tonight. So thank you, Margie. So does it unjust okay sure if Margie would like to add something about this? Yes. Oh would you like to add anything to it? Oh any comments? Sure. Do I turn this on somehow? Can you hear me? Yes. Okay. Um, yeah, so I at first went to as under the impression there are no clubs. Um I was the advisor for the um environmental sustainability club at the college where I I taught. And I thought ever since I left the EAC, that's one thing I would like to work with. So st if any of the students or any of you would want me to assist or advise or or do anything, um, Dan knows all about me. Um I would be very willing to help and uh in any way, um, whether whatever, whatever is needed. Because my educate my background is in education, and I feel it's so important for the you know, the young people to be involved. Um, and the best way really is clubs, you know, at the school. So anyway, that's all I had. Yeah, thank you. So we're focusing on high school, is that correct, not middle school. I I'll do anything. I mean any club. Okay. Um, yeah. Now our associate members, uh anyone here weigh in on this. Uh is there a gap in the clubs that you're aware of that we could help fill, or uh do you need you feel that you need some more stimulus uh motivation for the clubs? I mean, I will say at least I know with some of the clubs, although they might say they have like a very high number, a lot of them I do think tend to go inactive um after the first few months of the year. I know at least I'd worked with the guarding club for a bit, but then due to the the club advisor was out for health circumstances and the club just kind of fell into inactivity. So I think a lot of the clubs they exist, they have students who are in the group meet students who are interested, but for whatever reason the clubs have kind of gone inactive. So I think that there are a lot of good like bases we can build up on if we can get some of the clubs to be more active.