WEBVTT 00:00:01.570 --> 00:00:10.091 - So I'd like to call to order this joint meeting of the Board of Directors of the Waste Reduction District 00:00:10.091 --> 00:00:18.291 - of Monroe County and the Citizen Advisory Commission of the Waste Reduction District of Monroe County 00:00:18.291 --> 00:00:26.329 - for July 9th, 2026 at 4.46 p.m. We do have an amended agenda on the website. And the first order of 00:00:26.329 --> 00:00:30.590 - business is Board of Directors attendance roll call. 00:00:31.330 --> 00:00:45.233 - So, Mr. Lawson. Piedmont Smith. Thomas. Yes. Wilts. Yes. Jones. Ellis. Here. Thompson. Here. Madera. 00:00:45.233 --> 00:00:53.630 - Here. You have a quorum, all present in the room. Thank you. 00:01:01.762 --> 00:01:16.762 - have a battery in there I don't know all right the CAC will do a roll call Matt Austin Brad Lucas here 00:01:16.762 --> 00:01:30.014 - Joe Sears Jake Youngblood Allison Sears Elizabeth Carter and the CAC as a quorum wonderful 00:01:30.754 --> 00:01:44.344 - So moving to the heart of today's business is the waste reduction district budget. Twenty twenty seven 00:01:44.344 --> 00:01:58.462 - budget proposals. I believe first up is a twenty twenty seven operating fund budget proposal. Yeah. So the 00:01:59.138 --> 00:02:09.596 - In the joint meeting packet, starting on page two, memo kind of summarizing the basis of predominantly 00:02:09.596 --> 00:02:19.850 - the operating budget, but of all the three budgets and some of the significant changes, increases or 00:02:19.850 --> 00:02:27.262 - decreases from the current year budget to what's proposed for next year. 00:02:28.098 --> 00:02:42.200 - So you would note the state budgeting agency did publish a 6% growth quotient. So that is factored into 00:02:42.200 --> 00:02:45.726 - the property tax revenue. 00:02:45.826 --> 00:02:54.202 - The excise, the two vehicle and the commercial excise tax, those are estimated as indicated in the memo. 00:02:54.202 --> 00:03:02.180 - We have our budget workshop with DLGF scheduled for July 17th, and we will get numbers from them to 00:03:02.180 --> 00:03:10.397 - move forward with. So there may be between now and when it's presented for a vote in August, there may 00:03:10.397 --> 00:03:15.582 - be some slight changes to that. And just in the essence of time, 00:03:15.682 --> 00:03:24.055 - We'll jump right in, I guess. So the first slide just kind of gives you an overview from 26 to what's 00:03:24.055 --> 00:03:32.265 - proposed for 27 for the various revenue categories. You can see at the bottom line we're projecting 00:03:32.265 --> 00:03:40.720 - a little over a $41,000 increase in revenues, the bulk of that being from the growth quotient property 00:03:40.720 --> 00:03:42.526 - tax revenue increase. 00:03:43.298 --> 00:03:52.877 - In the expense categories, the bottom line of just about the same, slightly higher total increase in 00:03:52.877 --> 00:04:02.457 - expenses of $41,753. Getting into the detail of that and I'm in the essence of time, I'm going to go 00:04:02.457 --> 00:04:12.510 - through this pretty quick. Please stop me if you have any questions, either board members or CAC members. 00:04:12.802 --> 00:04:20.796 - So again, for the tax lines, we went over that. The 6 percent growth quotient, the excise taxes are 00:04:20.796 --> 00:04:28.951 - estimated. The only real big significant change here would be in the orange bag sales, just based on, 00:04:28.951 --> 00:04:37.345 - you know, trends over recent years and where we are year to date. We're not going to meet that projected 00:04:37.345 --> 00:04:41.182 - revenue total for 26, so we did drop that down. 00:04:42.626 --> 00:04:51.742 - a little bit, and then I guess the GBN comes up 7,000, and you can see in the comparison spreadsheet 00:04:51.742 --> 00:05:00.858 - or the 26 budget status that's included in the packet, that's in line with where we are year to date 00:05:00.858 --> 00:05:05.822 - this year, and that's based on our current membership. 00:05:06.274 --> 00:05:15.531 - Again, another one, the host fee dropped about $20,000. That's just based on what we've seen over the 00:05:15.531 --> 00:05:24.969 - recent years and where we are here to date. And another decrease in interest rates, unfortunately, have 00:05:24.969 --> 00:05:34.226 - come down from where we've been in recent years. And based on what we're trending to in 26, we had to 00:05:34.226 --> 00:05:35.678 - drop that some. 00:05:35.874 --> 00:05:48.829 - question on the operating budget comparison. 2026 shows 7,000. 2027 is 8,000. And it says it's a $2,000 00:05:48.829 --> 00:06:01.410 - decrease. Not seen. My spreadsheets have been known to have errors. And I'm sorry, where were you on 00:06:01.410 --> 00:06:05.022 - that again? It is on page 5. 00:06:09.698 --> 00:06:27.284 - Second, I guess, second, what do you call this? Grid? The second slide? Yes, second grid, yeah. Under 00:06:27.284 --> 00:06:36.766 - paint disposal. Yeah. Yeah, that's going to be a typo. 00:06:36.962 --> 00:06:46.248 - Yeah, that's the seven thousand for this year is correct. And eight thousand is what is proposed for 00:06:46.248 --> 00:06:55.902 - twenty seven. So the difference is a typo. Just didn't want that to make it into the gateway. And again, 00:06:55.902 --> 00:07:02.430 - we won't be finalized till after our budget workshop. Gotcha. And then 00:07:02.690 --> 00:07:11.324 - The two sale of OCC recycling, sale of paper recycling, there are significant drops, but they're really, 00:07:11.324 --> 00:07:19.794 - they're corrections. In 2026, we budgeted that. We had entering into a new agreement with RUMKEY where 00:07:19.794 --> 00:07:29.086 - they were gonna give us a rebate on that material that we have not received in some time. And I guess, you know, 00:07:29.314 --> 00:07:37.775 - The market has changed some since, you know, those budget projections were put together. Volumes have 00:07:37.775 --> 00:07:45.739 - changed some. And so that's just really, you know, a correction for what we're actually seeing, 00:07:45.739 --> 00:07:52.126 - you know, having about a year of experience now working with Rumpke on that. 00:07:52.450 --> 00:08:01.441 - A new one on there. We did a line for grant funds for the past two years. We have applied for and received 00:08:01.441 --> 00:08:10.095 - a waste tire grant from ITEM in the amount of $10,000. I've had tire amnesty events that I believe two 00:08:10.095 --> 00:08:18.581 - to this point that have been very successful. And I think I apologize. We did the department reports 00:08:18.581 --> 00:08:20.766 - got tabled. I believe the 00:08:20.898 --> 00:08:27.060 - The event we did in May, we had some data available for that, and we can certainly present that next 00:08:27.060 --> 00:08:33.466 - month. But the event we did this May brought in more tires than what we did last fall. And we're looking 00:08:33.466 --> 00:08:39.567 - at doing another event in late August, early September of this year. I plan to pursue a grant again 00:08:39.567 --> 00:08:45.729 - next year and continue to do those. As long as the volume of tires is there, we'll pursue that grant 00:08:45.729 --> 00:08:47.742 - and continue to do those events. 00:08:51.394 --> 00:08:59.491 - All right. So in the personnel services category, moving on, I guess, over to the expenses, salaries 00:08:59.491 --> 00:09:07.747 - and wages, we do have a 3.5 percent wage increase in this post in this budget that is based on the CPI 00:09:07.747 --> 00:09:12.958 - wage earner index that we have historically used for 26 over 25. 00:09:13.858 --> 00:09:22.267 - And also proposing office manager position currently is budgeted and scheduled for 30 hours a week, 00:09:22.267 --> 00:09:31.096 - asking to move that up to 35 hours a week. The workload is there to justify that. And it would certainly 00:09:31.096 --> 00:09:39.842 - help the office to have those extra five hours a week from that position. Health insurance, it actually 00:09:39.842 --> 00:09:43.710 - came down quite a bit, but it is an estimate. 00:09:43.842 --> 00:09:52.140 - We can't get renewal quotes on that until late October, early November, because it's a January 1st renewal. 00:09:52.140 --> 00:09:59.822 - But based on what we've done this year to date, what we project our enrollment for next year to be, 00:09:59.822 --> 00:10:07.198 - and kind of estimating a 10 percent rate increase, the amount you'll see is what we calculated. 00:10:09.474 --> 00:10:18.268 - So there are the top two lines. You see the wages with the two increases. You get into the FICA and 00:10:18.268 --> 00:10:27.765 - the Medicare. Those increases are directly rated to the wage increases. There you see the health insurance. 00:10:27.765 --> 00:10:36.735 - Still it is a significant drop, $70,000 in that line with what we calculated. One thing you will see, 00:10:36.735 --> 00:10:37.790 - we did have 00:10:38.050 --> 00:10:45.284 - one employee in the health savings account plan that has dropped off. So we are some of the turnover 00:10:45.284 --> 00:10:52.517 - that we have had. We have lost some people that were on the insurance and they have been replaced by 00:10:52.517 --> 00:10:58.462 - people that aren't taking the insurance because they have other means of coverage. 00:11:00.514 --> 00:11:07.178 - You know, on this on this page, I think the road based material is the only significant increase. And 00:11:07.178 --> 00:11:13.776 - that's just we've got some work that needs to be done at our rural sites and on some of the roads at 00:11:13.776 --> 00:11:20.636 - the landfill. And those are all all gravel. And, you know, we're just cost are going up. So we're trying 00:11:20.636 --> 00:11:27.038 - to appropriate more money to have the funds available to get the work done that needs to be done. 00:11:30.882 --> 00:11:41.321 - Nothing significant on this page. The consultant line, $22,000 drop, but that's, if you'll recall, beginning 00:11:41.321 --> 00:11:51.376 - of this year, the one sustainable Joe that was doing our Back to Earth program, our apartment composting 00:11:51.376 --> 00:11:58.942 - moved and kind of turned that over to us, so we're managing that in-house now. 00:11:59.746 --> 00:12:06.807 - Uh, did increase, uh, the grant program by $10,000. Uh, just when we got through the rest of the budget 00:12:06.807 --> 00:12:13.868 - lines, there was, uh, potential funds available to offer up more money for next year. I would certainly 00:12:13.868 --> 00:12:20.793 - give us cause to be more proactive and pushing and promoting that program as we got toward the end of 00:12:20.793 --> 00:12:28.126 - this year. I have, I have a question on this slide if I might. Sure. Okay. Um, the groundwater well survey. 00:12:28.514 --> 00:12:36.724 - $2,000 increase. Is that just an additional survey or is that the cost has increased? It's an additional 00:12:36.724 --> 00:12:44.856 - survey. It's a survey that we do every three years, I believe, and that is at items request. We do have 00:12:44.856 --> 00:12:53.300 - things are moving out there. So the the top of what's called the top of casing elevation of our groundwater 00:12:53.300 --> 00:12:54.942 - wells are is moving. 00:12:55.234 --> 00:13:01.270 - And so item is asked that we regularly survey those to reestablish the topic casing to confirm that 00:13:01.270 --> 00:13:05.374 - we're getting accurate groundwater elevation data. Okay. Thank you. 00:13:10.946 --> 00:13:18.005 - And so then this one, we are asking for a $5,000 increase in media advertising. We'd like to look to 00:13:18.005 --> 00:13:25.343 - increase our presence on some additional platforms from what we're currently doing. There's things other 00:13:25.343 --> 00:13:32.750 - than radio and TV out there that we think we need to be more visible on, so. That does not include social 00:13:32.750 --> 00:13:36.734 - media, right, because that's the previous line for that. 00:13:37.250 --> 00:13:44.136 - So yeah, there was a previous line for doing. Yeah, this is more traditional advertising media. Yeah. 00:13:44.136 --> 00:13:50.887 - Big increase in the liability line, but that is, as most of you, I think, are aware. And Mr. Ellis, 00:13:50.887 --> 00:13:57.773 - for your benefit, we at the landfill were required to have a pollution prevention policy, and that is 00:13:57.773 --> 00:14:04.862 - a three year term. And that will be up for renewal next December or December of twenty twenty seven. And 00:14:05.058 --> 00:14:17.887 - hefty price tag because it's a three-year policy. The water and sewer, I think we all know that the 00:14:17.887 --> 00:14:31.486 - CBU recently got a rate increase, so we're anticipating higher water bill than we've had in recent years. 00:14:31.650 --> 00:14:39.690 - Vehicle repair and maintenance went up. That's just kind of based on experience that we've had in recent 00:14:39.690 --> 00:14:47.347 - years and year to date. Same with machinery and equipment repair and maintenance. Snow removal gets 00:14:47.347 --> 00:14:55.158 - zeroed out. If you'll recall, we did purchase snow plows and we've brought that in-house with our own 00:14:55.158 --> 00:15:01.054 - equipment. And the Bethel Lane site lease has an annual 5% increase in that. 00:15:06.242 --> 00:15:14.801 - So machinery increment rental is going up. This is something we've been having some discussions with 00:15:14.801 --> 00:15:23.699 - the executive committee. Our equipment is aging well past what the industry standard is for useful life. 00:15:23.699 --> 00:15:32.343 - And we are talking with potential vendors, considering options to purchase, put it out for bid, renew 00:15:32.343 --> 00:15:34.462 - with the current vendor. 00:15:34.626 --> 00:15:45.298 - But at any rate, it is something that one way or another we need to start replacing that equipment and 00:15:45.298 --> 00:15:56.282 - it's gonna cost us more money. And we get leachate disposal up 10,000. They're just, I think we're almost 00:15:56.282 --> 00:15:59.390 - at $90,000 already this year. 00:15:59.522 --> 00:16:07.027 - Right now is generally a dry time that we're not hauling in historically, but that's not where we're 00:16:07.027 --> 00:16:14.756 - at. That's where the past few years have gone. So we just, we want to make sure we have funds available 00:16:14.756 --> 00:16:22.336 - to manage that leachate if the volumes continue to stay where they are. HHW disposal going up. Again, 00:16:22.336 --> 00:16:27.166 - I earlier referred to the most recent HHW bill that was $80,000. 00:16:27.938 --> 00:16:38.363 - Unfortunately, in addition to the lithium ion batteries and the spray foam canisters, other costs are 00:16:38.363 --> 00:16:48.789 - just going up like with everything else. We do have a good decrease in the hauling contract, $35,000. 00:16:48.789 --> 00:16:54.206 - You can look at where we are year to date this year. 00:16:54.338 --> 00:17:01.572 - You know, we're well under budget projection at this point for the year and we, you know, made some 00:17:01.572 --> 00:17:09.169 - changes in the way that we, you know, manage the boxes on the sites and how and when that they're hauled 00:17:09.169 --> 00:17:16.476 - and that's reducing the number of hauls. And we think that that cost will continue to stay down. The 00:17:16.476 --> 00:17:23.710 - waste tire processing, you know, it goes up, but that's the grant. We put the grant funds in there. 00:17:23.874 --> 00:17:31.023 - That's where that cost come from, comes from, excuse me. Recycling fees, you know, similar to where 00:17:31.023 --> 00:17:38.172 - we were on the revenue side with the cardboard and the paper revenue, that's the recycling fees are 00:17:38.172 --> 00:17:45.464 - all the plastics that we collect and, you know, it was budgeted conservatively going into 26 with the 00:17:45.464 --> 00:17:51.326 - new contract with Rumpke and the year of experience shows us that we can probably 00:17:51.490 --> 00:18:00.217 - You know, manage that at a lower dollar amount. For some reason, that's on there twice. I apologize. 00:18:00.217 --> 00:18:08.944 - So. I'm sorry? The same as stormwater fees or? Stormwater fees is at the, it's the landfill. No, I'm 00:18:08.944 --> 00:18:17.844 - saying it's on there twice. Oh, it's on there twice? Yeah. I apologize. Just want to make sure they're 00:18:17.844 --> 00:18:21.214 - not added into the totals twice. Yeah. 00:18:21.826 --> 00:18:32.476 - We will confirm that and try to have everything on there only once, I guess, before you vote. But I 00:18:32.476 --> 00:18:43.446 - think the bolded totals at the bottom match my spreadsheet, so I don't think things are double counted 00:18:43.446 --> 00:18:51.646 - there. I had math, but mileage may vary there. And then for capital outlays, 00:18:51.970 --> 00:18:59.972 - The $10,000 other improvements is just that's we do this every year that is that is a landfill appropriation 00:18:59.972 --> 00:19:06.800 - as adjusting case. If something were to happen out there where we had to rebuild a pump box, 00:19:06.800 --> 00:19:14.289 - purchase a pump, we need the funds available to do that. Yes, ma'am. Have we used that this year? Not 00:19:14.289 --> 00:19:15.390 - this year, no. 00:19:17.218 --> 00:19:24.223 - The vehicle purchase zeros out. We don't have any vehicle purchases planned for 2027. And if you'll 00:19:24.223 --> 00:19:31.227 - recall from the May meeting with our additional appropriation request, we're appropriating funds to 00:19:31.227 --> 00:19:38.512 - continue to replace the aging inventory of roll-off boxes. And that wraps up the operating fund budget. 00:19:38.512 --> 00:19:45.657 - I can go through the debt and capital real fast or if you would rather pause and have a discussion on 00:19:45.657 --> 00:19:47.198 - the operating that is 00:19:47.714 --> 00:19:56.715 - Board and CAC's call. Comments on the operating? Let's proceed with the 2027 service bond budget. CAC 00:19:56.715 --> 00:20:05.805 - has questions. Oh, sorry. Any comments or questions on the operating or I can go through the other two 00:20:05.805 --> 00:20:14.718 - and then we can look at them all and just you guys can discuss. All right, so the debt service bond. 00:20:15.906 --> 00:20:26.594 - Our final payment is due in February. Yay. But unfortunately, the way that that all works out is that 00:20:26.594 --> 00:20:36.862 - because the tax disbursements in June and December of 27 are there to cover the February payment, 00:20:37.698 --> 00:20:45.246 - And I think we've discussed this previously because we're in the same position in 26. The operating 00:20:45.246 --> 00:20:52.793 - fund is having to make temporary loans to the debt service fund because those payments come due and 00:20:52.793 --> 00:21:00.341 - have to be made. In fact, we just approved one at the previous meeting. And so for 27, you know, we 00:21:00.341 --> 00:21:07.134 - won't know the amount that needs to be loaned until we get the December tax disbursement. 00:21:07.522 --> 00:21:17.437 - But it'll probably be a hefty amount because it's got to cover, the payment is going to be, the revenue 00:21:17.437 --> 00:21:27.352 - for that payment is going to come in June and again in December. And the way the DLGF explained it last 00:21:27.352 --> 00:21:35.646 - year, it will be under full tax disbursement. So we will get the December disbursement 00:21:36.418 --> 00:21:44.514 - We will repay the currently outstanding temporary loan that was issued to cover the payment that was 00:21:44.514 --> 00:21:52.851 - approved earlier. And then calculate how much we need to loan in January to cover the February payment. 00:21:52.851 --> 00:22:01.028 - And all this will be discussed with DLGF on our meeting on the 17th. And they had indicated that that 00:22:01.028 --> 00:22:05.918 - will all be taken into account when they determine the levy. 00:22:06.114 --> 00:22:18.942 - for the debt service and that when we receive the December disbursement, that that fund should be made 00:22:18.942 --> 00:22:32.766 - whole and the operating fund should be repaid. But at any rate, you see we have $136,485 is the final payment. 00:22:33.314 --> 00:22:42.672 - The to be determined there under the proposed budget is that unknown, the amount that the operating 00:22:42.672 --> 00:22:52.029 - fund will have to loan. And but it's going to be nice to be out from under that and moving forward. 00:22:52.029 --> 00:23:00.638 - But that's, so that's where we sit on the debt service budget. The cumulative capital fund, 00:23:01.762 --> 00:23:08.653 - You know, we do we'll have a beginning balance of just over a thousand dollars once the additional 00:23:08.653 --> 00:23:15.752 - appropriation that was approved comes out of that, which is to replace the roof on the administration 00:23:15.752 --> 00:23:22.713 - building. As we always do, it's a zero sum budget. DLGF has always advised us to go ahead and adopt 00:23:22.713 --> 00:23:29.534 - the zero sum budget so that it's on file. So in the event that what we just went through happens, 00:23:30.306 --> 00:23:38.433 - when we seek that additional appropriation, it eliminates a couple of steps in getting that processed 00:23:38.433 --> 00:23:46.401 - by having the adopted budget on record. And then I would also note that, you know, the taxing units 00:23:46.401 --> 00:23:54.608 - do have the option to budget for, you know, contributions on an annual basis to a mutual capital fund. 00:23:54.608 --> 00:23:59.070 - And given that with the appropriation that we just did, 00:23:59.202 --> 00:24:07.396 - that the balance of our cumulative capital fund is down around $1,000 that I think the board should 00:24:07.396 --> 00:24:15.590 - consider whether or not it wants to transfer that money back to the operating fund and be done with 00:24:15.590 --> 00:24:24.030 - the cumulative capital fund or is it something we want to look at trying to budget to rebuild that for 00:24:24.030 --> 00:24:27.390 - any potential future projects or events? 00:24:31.970 --> 00:24:46.178 - that takes care of the budgets. Any comments or questions from directors? Yes. I have what is probably 00:24:46.178 --> 00:25:01.214 - a pretty dumb question. But the debt service is being paid from disbursements in 27 from these it looks like 00:25:02.114 --> 00:25:11.265 - several taxes what happens to that tax revenue in 28 and 28 I'm not sure it goes away I believe it's 00:25:11.265 --> 00:25:20.325 - a separate tax levy from you know our general operating fund tax levy from the county tax levy city 00:25:20.325 --> 00:25:23.134 - tax it's a completely separate 00:25:23.298 --> 00:25:32.213 - levy and it you know it doesn't it doesn't get to get absorbed by the district's operating fund or the 00:25:32.213 --> 00:25:40.954 - county or the city or Ellisville or anybody is my knowledge so it goes away goes away and so for the 00:25:40.954 --> 00:25:49.695 - excise tax commercial vehicle excise tax and presumably a component of county property tax will be a 00:25:49.695 --> 00:25:52.638 - reduction and potentially seen by 00:25:52.898 --> 00:26:00.992 - county residents. For property I believe so. One of the questions I'm glad you mentioned that because 00:26:00.992 --> 00:26:09.245 - one of the questions I'm going to have for DLGF when we have our meeting that there was a recent change 00:26:09.245 --> 00:26:17.259 - made regarding the excise taxes and they are not specific to any fund or purpose now that the unit I 00:26:17.259 --> 00:26:22.814 - guess has more discretion in what those excise tax funds go to and so 00:26:22.946 --> 00:26:30.925 - I need to clarify with TLGF if, you know, are the excise tax funds for operating and debt separate or 00:26:30.925 --> 00:26:38.747 - are they split between the two funds because we have the debt service fund and so that's, you know, 00:26:38.747 --> 00:26:46.725 - that and that's part of the reason that those numbers are estimated in the current budget projections 00:26:46.725 --> 00:26:51.966 - and we'll get more clarity on that after our workshop on the 17th. 00:26:52.610 --> 00:27:10.703 - I'm just very appreciative of all the work that Tom does to make this so clear and the fact his breadth 00:27:10.703 --> 00:27:17.662 - of knowledge that enables him to really 00:27:17.762 --> 00:27:25.457 - Once again, make this clear, I was surprised at the increase in the grant funds, and I think it would 00:27:25.457 --> 00:27:33.303 - make sense to get back to the awardees and maybe have a social media post where each one is interviewed 00:27:33.303 --> 00:27:41.073 - so that marketing, because what my experience has been with a two-year pilot program in a neighborhood 00:27:41.073 --> 00:27:47.486 - with TerraCycle, I am really excited about the hefty, is that people need education. 00:27:47.650 --> 00:27:53.463 - that education is very important. People need it over and over again. And back to the grant is that 00:27:53.463 --> 00:27:59.451 - marketing will hopefully help other potential applicants see that, especially because with Will Detmer 00:27:59.451 --> 00:28:05.671 - Community Gardens, with Wonder Lab, these entities that are already well known, I feel like that marketing 00:28:05.671 --> 00:28:11.600 - is very important to get more applicants for next year, because then they can actually see the impact 00:28:11.600 --> 00:28:12.414 - of the grant. 00:28:12.642 --> 00:28:24.263 - So, but once again, thank you for all that you do and making this very clear for somebody who is not 00:28:24.263 --> 00:28:35.998 - fiscally educated on this type of stuff. I'm wondering, just following along that same vein, if there 00:28:35.998 --> 00:28:41.406 - could be credit to the grant program available 00:28:41.666 --> 00:28:50.419 - that on site during a program or somehow available for, especially some place that has public visitation 00:28:50.419 --> 00:28:58.921 - like Wonder Lab, could there be a little sign next to the barrel or, you know? There is a requirement 00:28:58.921 --> 00:29:07.674 - in the grant program that, you know, materials purchased with the grant funds are to have the district's 00:29:07.674 --> 00:29:09.758 - name attached to it, so. 00:29:09.922 --> 00:29:15.579 - But not the idea about the grant specifically, and I think... A little yard signs? Is that what you 00:29:15.579 --> 00:29:21.237 - mean? Like having a little yard sign out or something? Yeah, sure. Or stickers. Or eight and a half 00:29:21.237 --> 00:29:27.007 - by 11 or, you know, it could be anything. I just think it's an opportunity. And we can certainly work 00:29:27.007 --> 00:29:32.382 - with, you know, the awardees from this year and look at their projects and, you know, see what 00:29:32.514 --> 00:29:39.573 - you know, what would make sense to help promote the grant program, you know, and the district, you know, 00:29:39.573 --> 00:29:46.430 - being a part of getting this whatever project program they're doing going. The envision like this was 00:29:46.430 --> 00:29:53.153 - provided by what grant and maybe a QR code so they can scan it and give them more information about 00:29:53.153 --> 00:30:00.414 - the grant. Yeah, I got you. So just a note on that, that's going to cost extra money, which is not included 00:30:00.514 --> 00:30:07.527 - in the grant at this point. I will say on the food waste funding agreement that happened last year with 00:30:07.527 --> 00:30:14.271 - Garden Quest, they did have stickers on every single bucket that said the waste reduction district, 00:30:14.271 --> 00:30:21.217 - and it did have a QR code, but that was more towards direction. So I think it's a great idea. But just 00:30:21.217 --> 00:30:24.926 - once again, realize that those funds are not allotted. 00:30:25.090 --> 00:30:36.352 - Right. Well, I think it would, you know, particularly when you're only talking about, you know, five 00:30:36.352 --> 00:30:47.614 - grant recipients, it was, you know, it would be a minimal cost that I'm sure that the district could 00:30:47.614 --> 00:30:51.294 - absorb. The comments, questions? 00:31:03.842 --> 00:31:17.086 - Seeing that and with those items covered, I don't see any other items on our agenda. Thank you so much.