The program:

Overview of City Light Environmental Programs and Green Purchasing

Speaker:

Larry Garcia, Senior Environmental Analyst,

Seattle City Light

LOCATION: ROCK SALT STEAK HOUSE - 1232 Westlake Avenue North, Seattle

DIRECTIONS: Follow I-5 or Highway 99 to Mercer exit; Follow traffic to intersection with Westlake North; (far right hand lane) turn north;

restaurant is about 1/2 mile north of the intersection on the lake. Parking is limited - carpool if possible.

MENU: Choose from one of the following menu items:

1) Chicken Marsala

2) Top Sirloin

3) Southwestern Veggie Cakes

All menu choices include Caesar dinner salads. Baby red potatoes accompany the steak and fish.

TO ATTEND: RSVP by 5:00 pm, Thursday, September 2nd to reserve your space and provide your menu choice to Chad Kean, ChadK@net-compliance.com. When making a dinner reservation, please provide the following:

Your name and full names of any guests,

Phone number or e-mail address, and

Dinner choice for each name given.

Reservations will not be taken after 5:00 p.m. on the deadline date. Make checks payable to: PNWC AHMM. Dinner cost is $30 before the deadline. After the deadline, the cost is $35.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Larry Garcia is responsible for nine programs at Seattle City Light. Pollution prevention, recycling, SPCC, IPM, chemical use reduction, poles, HAZMAT Transportation, remote location hazardous material fire code compliance, and green purchasing are his program areas. He is the president of Northwest Hazmat Services and has been the lead instructor for the OSHA 2015 Hazardous Materials course at the OSHA Training Institute at the University of Washington for 15 years. Prior to his current roles, Mr. Garcia was a Principal and Hazardous Materials Specialist at Prezant Associates, an Environmental Scientist for the U.S. EPA Zone II 8(a) Technical Assistance Team, and worked as both a research and analytical chemist for two pharmaceutical firms. He has a B.A. in Biology and Environmental Science and Engineering from Rice University.

Seattle City Light has six hydroelectric dams and power plants, two wastewater treatment plants, drinking water supplies, a fleet of vehicles, hundreds of miles of right of way, hundreds of buildings (many historic), two visitor’s centers, campgrounds, and industrial shops. As such, they have a wide variety of environmental issues and compliance-driven programs. Green Purchasing is a hot topic and one that Seattle City Light is adopting. The City of Seattle has been aggressively pursuing environmentally preferable products including office supplies, paints, and building materials.