- Okay, seeing as we have a quorum, I'd like to call to order this meeting of the Board of Directors of
- the Waste Reduction District of Monroe County for Thursday, November 13th, 2025. Mr. McGlasson, will
- you please call the roll? Piedmont Smith? Here. Thomas? Here. Wilkes? Jones? Here. Swafford? Here.
- You have a quorum in the room and one present virtually. Right, thank you. So the first item of business
- today is the public hearing on resolution 2025-21 to amend the district's fee resolution. This resolution
- was introduced at our last meeting.
- in October, and it was noticed in the Herald Times on Wednesday, October 29th, per Indiana code. Let
- me just briefly summarize what the resolution pertains to. It's about amending the district's fee resolution.
- Proposed amendments include changes to the fees
- for copying services, latex paint disposal, household hazardous waste, material fees for commercially
- exempt small quantity generators, and green business network membership. So it mostly impacts those
- commercially exempt small quantity generators with minor impacts on other residents of, well, just county
- residents.
- So is there anybody here to speak to resolution 2025-21? This is the official public hearing on this
- item. See anybody here in the NatU Hill Room? I also don't see any hands raised. Mr. McClassen, do you
- see any hands raised? I do not.
- call for comments from the public on the resolution 2025-21. Right. Seeing none, we will actually vote
- on this item later in our meeting. So that closes the public hearing portion. Next on, oh, yes. If I
- could get TST, we appear to be having a couple of issues. Lee Jones says her camera is still not working.
- And our controller, Teresa Gowan, says that her mic is disabled. We could get those corrected, please.
- Yes. Should I wait or? OK, we don't have a vote yet, so I think we can. For Commissioner Jones, for
- her vote to count, she needs to be seen and heard for the minutes. Right. And actually, can she vote
- remotely since it is having to do with fees?
- On the resolution for fees, no. She should be able to now. She cannot vote virtually for that. But the
- other items she could. All right. So the next item is just informational executive committee meeting
- minutes from September 30th. Are there any questions or comments on that? Okay. Then we will move on
- to board of director meeting minutes from October 9th and that is a voting item.
- So we'll need a motion, please. I'm going to go ahead and move approval of the board of directors minutes
- for Thursday, October 9th, 2025. I second. OK, we have a motion and a second. Any comments or questions
- about those minutes? We'll have a roll call vote, please. Mr. McClasson. Thomas? Yes. Jones? Yes. Swafford?
- Yes. Piedmont Smith. Yes. Madera. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Those minutes are approved.
- Thank you. We'll move on to the controller's report. And Ms. Goins, are you able to? Yeah, she can.
- Yeah, it looks like you're unmuted, so hopefully we'll be able to hear you. Yep. The cash flow summary
- is on page 25 of your board packet. Here are the balances as of October 31st for the following account.
- Operating $4,479,905.54. Debt service $17,252.53. Capital $46,121.36. landfill postposure $819,433.23.
- The individual cash flow statements for each of these are on pages 26 through 31 of your packet, and
- the operating fund graph is on page 28. Are there any questions on the account balances? Any questions
- from directors about the cash flows? All right. Thank you, Ms. Goins. I don't see any questions, so
- please continue to the payroll and claims.
- On page 32 of the packet, you will have a summary of the pre-approved payroll claims since our last
- meeting in the amount of $205,448.89. The backup for those numbers are on pages 33 through 69. The payroll
- claims for approval this week were sent in and emailed Wednesday are in an amount of $55,435.87.
- documentation was included in the Wednesday email. That brings the total of payroll and claims that
- we're recommending for approval to $260,884.76. Are there any questions regarding any of these claims?
- Thank you. Are there any questions about payroll and claims, either from the packet or from what was
- emailed yesterday?
- I have one question. In the packet that was emailed to us, or the claims emailed to us yesterday on
- page 8, there's a payment to Plews Shadley Ratcher for $1,162. What is that?
- The law firm that we use for the Phillips Services Site Superfund settlement. Okay, thank you. And has
- the payment for that settlement gone out yet? Yeah, that's in the packet. That's the first payment in
- the detail. Sorry. So we can have motion then for approval.
- I'll go ahead and move approval of payroll and claims pre-approved and also today's. Second. All right,
- any final comments or questions regarding the payroll and claims? Mr. McClassen, will you please do
- a roll call vote? Jones? Yes. Slawford? Yes. Madera? Yes. Thomas? Yes. Piedmont-Smith? Yes.
- Motion passes unanimously. All right, thank you, Ms. Goins. We move on to resolution 25-21. This is
- what the public hearing was about earlier to amend the district's fee resolution. So let's get a motion
- on the table, please. I'm gonna go ahead and move approval of resolution 20-25-21. Second. All right,
- we have a motion and a second to amend
- the district's fee resolution via resolution 2025-21. Mr. McGlasson, do you have anything to add? I
- know we already introduced this in October. Yeah, just to remind, this was introduced in October and
- the public hearing at the start of the meeting was required under the statute before the board could
- vote on the changes to the fee resolutions.
- The resolution is on page 71 of the packet, and it has the revised fees attached to that. Following
- that in the packet is redlined versions and a side by side showing the changes from what was previous.
- Any questions, be happy to try to answer them. Just to clarify, this better aligns
- the costs that the district incurs with the fees that we ask for, right? For the household hazardous
- waste fees, the latex paint is the only change that residential customers will see as a result of this.
- And then the commercially exempt small quantity generator changes. Yeah. And that's all done to be more
- in line with actual costs incurred by the district to get those items, materials properly managed. Thank you.
- Any questions or comments about this resolution? Seeing none, do we need to go to the public even though
- we already had a public hearing? I would. Okay. Just in case, we'll go to the public. Does any member
- of the public want to comment on this resolution? Seeing none, we will come back for a roll call vote.
- Mr. McClassen. And in this case, as we mentioned, unfortunately, Commissioner Jones cannot vote since
- it does have to do with fees. Correct. Must be in-person to vote on this. Swafford. Yes. Madera. Yes.
- Thomas. Yes. Piedmont Smith. Yes. Motion passes 4-0. Thank you. We will next move on to resolution 2025-22
- to establish the district holiday schedule for next year. Let's get a motion on the table, please. I
- move approval of resolution 2025-22, easy for me to say, which is the 2026 district holiday schedule,
- including administrative offices, South Walnut, and the rural recycling centers. Second. Okay, we have
- a motion and a second. Mr. McClassen, you wanna run through this for us?
- I can try. As Commissioner Thomas indicated, there are three differing holiday schedules for the different
- district facilities or locations due to the different operating schedules of those facilities.
- And as we do every year for the South Walnut and rural recycling center employees, there are floating
- holidays granted to try to equalize the number of paid holiday hours that all employees receive in a
- given year. And then on page 86 of the packet, there is a chart showing that comparison.
- We would note that this year with 15 proposed holidays, that chart came out very nicely. And then also
- we would note for the record that the 15 holidays identified that the administration office observed
- does pretty much mirror what the county has already adopted for 2026 with the exception the county is
- granting January the second Friday January the second as a holiday to its employees however we felt
- that with the recycling centers doing trash and recycling being open the Friday and Saturday after a
- major holiday like New Year's was was important and we needed to be open for that.
- Thank you very much. Are there any questions for Mr. McGlasson or comments? I will just mention since
- she's not here, Councilor Wills was very excited with the spreadsheet working out. And it is always
- nice when it works out so the proportion of holiday hours matches the proportion of hours that the rural
- site operators work
- in proportion to the admin staff. All right, we'll go to the public. Is there any member of the public
- who would like to comment on resolution 2025-22, the holiday schedule? Seeing none, we will come back
- to the board for a roll call vote, please, Mr. McClassen. All members will be voting on this item.
- Thomas. Yes. Piedmont Smith. Yes. Swalford. Yes. Madera. Yes. Jones. Yes. Motion passes unanimously.
- Thank you. We'll move on to resolution 2025-23, salaries for next year. Let's get a motion on the table,
- please. Move approval of resolution 2025-23, a resolution for fixing salaries for calendar year 2026.
- Second. Great, it's been moved and seconded. Mr. McClassen, if you want to take us through this one,
- please. As we do every year, we established maximum fixed salaries and wages for all district positions.
- As indicated in the memo on page 87, what's proposed in the resolution is based on the budget
- for 2026 that was passed by this board and adopted by the County Council and would note that all current
- employees are at and will be for 2026, the maximum fixed rate for their position. All right, any questions
- for Mr. McClassen or comments on this from directors?
- I will just note that this is something I've been thinking about in regard to city salaries and the
- city of Bloomington does have a living wage ordinance where the amount is really not keeping up with
- what you need to live off of in the city. Our lowest salaries are above that, which is great, about
- $3 above that, but per some calculators and one that's
- often used is the MIT living wage calculator. We are still a little bit behind that. I think it's $20.95
- for a single person with no dependents. And we do have wages that are at the $19 range. So we might
- think about that moving forward. But with all the budget uncertainties, we'll have to see if we can
- make that up. But I just did want to note it.
- But of course, this does follow what we have budgeted. Any member of the public care to comment on resolution
- 2025-23? Seeing none, we will come back for a roll call vote, please. Jones? Yes. Thomas? Yes.
- Piedmont-Smith? Yes. Swofford? Yes. Madera? Yes. Motion passes unanimously.
- Thank you. We next have, well, I think Commissioner Thomas is going to leave us here in a moment. So
- believing us without a quorum. So we do have department reports and a report from Garden Quest.
- So I think Mr. McClassen, you'd already notified Garden Quest that it was likely we wouldn't get to
- them. So we'll hear from them in December.
- department reports. If directors have any questions, then we can email those and catch up with our staff
- if there are any clarifications. One last thing I wanted to say before we leave quorum is that it's
- very good to see Commissioner Jones, even if it's virtual and welcome back. Thank you. Thank you. Hopefully
- it'll be in person next time. That would be great. All right. And it's my understanding you can still
- have reports without a quorum here.
- If we can continue the meeting. In the statute, one of the definitions of official action is receiving
- information, and the attorney has advised that a department report would qualify as receiving information.
- Okay, and you do need to leave, Commissioner Thomas, right? Thank you. Okay. All right. Well, let us
- adjourn then, and we'll see you in December. Thank you.