- I can call to order the meeting of the Waste Reduction District of Monroe County Board of Directors
- for Thursday, December 11th, 2025. Mr. McGlassen, will you please call the roll? Piedmont Smith? Here.
- Thomas? Wilkes? Here. Jones? Here. Swofford? Here. Thompson?
- Madeira. You have a quorum with four in the room and one present virtually. Thank you. So the first
- item on our agenda is the executive committee meeting minutes. This is not a voting item this is just
- for your information. Did anybody take a look at these and have any questions. Seeing none we can move
- on to the numbers.
- Three, which is approval of board of director meeting minutes from November 13th. So that is a voting
- item. So if we could get a motion. Move to approve. Second. All right. It's been moved to approve the
- minutes from November 13th. Are there any questions or comments from directors? Seeing none, Mr. McClassen,
- will you please take a roll call vote? Jones?
- Yes. Swafford. Yes. Piedmont Smith. Yes. Madera. Yes. Wilts. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. OK, those
- minutes are approved. And then we will welcome our controller, Teresa Goins, for the cash flows. Cash
- flow summary is on page eight of your board packet. Here are the balances as of November 30th for the
- following accounts. Operating them.
- $4,339,608.27, debt service $16,502.53, capital $46,133.74, landfill closure $820,265.62. The individual
- cash flow statements for each of these are on pages nine through 14 of your packet.
- And the operating fund graph is on page 11. What questions are there on the account balances? Are there
- any questions regarding the cash flow? And I will note, we still have a significant chunk of money coming
- in from property taxes this month. So our cash flow looks pretty good.
- Let us go on to the payroll and claims. On page 15 of the packet, you have a summary of the pre-approved
- payroll and claims since your last meeting in the amount of $219,116.83. The backup for those numbers
- are on pages 16 through 41. The payroll and claims for approval this week were sent in an email on Wednesday,
- the amount of $122,834.80. Documentation was included in the Wednesday email. That brings the total
- of all payroll claims that we are recommending for approval to $341,951.63. Also noted in the email,
- we had two new vendors not on the approved vendor list, Richard Small Engine
- for a mower and mire trucking equipment for snow plow. These were mentioned in the executive committee
- meeting as we are taking on in-house mowing and snow plowing. Are there any questions regarding the
- claim? Thank you. Are there any questions on payroll and claims?
- a question on page numbers. So I do have a question. There are three items. This is in the page nine
- of the packet that was sent to us by email yesterday. There are three payments to DEQ, Inc.
- from the landfill, totaling about $9,000. What is that for?
- The SCADA computer that we use to operate the leachate treatment plant out at the landfill, the software
- package on that has become outdated and is no longer supported by the company. So we've had to purchase
- a new software agreement and pay the vendor to come up and install that. And so the various charges
- associated with that are split into three payments due to applying the
- the types of service provided to the appropriate budget line items. Okay, so that's an unusual expense.
- It's not like we'll see this every year. Correct. Okay, great. Okay, any other questions on payroll
- and claims? If not, I'll entertain a motion. Move to approve. Is there a second? Second.
- And I cannot see Commissioner Jones. So Mr. McClassen, if she raises a hand, please notify me. I will.
- All right. So I don't think there are further questions. So could you please call the vote, Mr. McClassen?
- Before we do the roll call, I would ask Commissioner Jones to turn her camera on, remind the board that
- one of the rules of virtual participation when voting is to be seen and heard.
- Yeah, I know that my camera doesn't. I I don't think my camera has been enabled. So TSD, can you confirm
- Commissioner Jones camera is enabled? She has the correct permissions. Is it just is not turning on?
- I can try to log off and get back in and see if that helps. Okay, yeah, why don't you go ahead?
- All right. Well, I'm glad we got snow plows. We may need them soon. Yes, I don't believe Mr. Long is
- looking forward to tonight.
- Commissioner Jones back on. I do see her back on. Technical difficulties, always fun.
- I can see her there. She is muted and still no camera on. Now she's unmuted. No, it's not. I'm unmuted
- and the camera won't turn on. And I'm afraid dealing with this kind of thing is a bit beyond me.
- So I guess I'll have to leave the meeting. Well, I think it's fine for Commissioner Jones to stay on
- and participate in the meeting, just not partake in action or voting items. That's right. Yes,
- that's right. OK, great. Thank you. Well, seeing as Commissioner Jones will not be able to vote, we
- can do a voice vote on approval of payroll and claims. So all in favor, please say aye.
- Any opposed. All right those are approved. Thank you to our controller. Next we'll move on to resolution
- twenty twenty five dash twenty four to establish a community grant program. Yeah this is a field recall
- back to our budgeting process. This is something that
- some board members have acquired about previously, and we were able to appropriate funds in the twenty
- twenty six budget to make grant funds available to Monroe County organizations and businesses within
- parameters outlined by the district. So so what this resolution does is establish that program to establish
- the criteria and the process by which grant funds will be awarded.
- I would note for the board this what you're looking at as has been through a couple of iterations with
- the executive committee. And this is this is where staff and the executive committee wound up with a
- program that we thought would serve the purpose that we were looking for and be something that could
- be utilized by local organizations within the county to help further the district's mission.
- Thank you for that overview. Can we get a motion on the table please. Move to approve the resolution.
- OK. It's been moved and seconded to approve resolution 20 25 24. Are there any questions about the community
- grant program. OK. I don't see any any comments.
- Yes, Mr. McClassen. I would just, assuming that the vote is affirmative and we do pass this resolution,
- would note for any public watching or listening that we're a little tight on a schedule for doing this
- this year. So if the resolution is adopted and we implement the program,
- Staff will attempt to, as quickly as possible, open up the application process and expedite the review
- and awarding process for grants so that people applying and awarded grants or organizations applying
- and awarded grants would have ample time to implement their project and seek reimbursement in the calendar
- year 2026, as that is when the funds are available, and that should the grant program continue in future years,
- Uh, the, the idea would be to have the application process occur, uh, late, uh, in the year prior to
- when the funds are available so that, um, grant awardees would, would have the bulk, uh, if not an entire
- calendar year, uh, to implement their project. Yes. Counselor wealth. So can, do you have an idea of
- when, if this is approved, when,
- the due date, the cutoff date for applying might be? I don't know if I've thought that far ahead. Ideally,
- you know, we would have applications out and available before the end of the year and would probably
- give the month of January to get applications in. Would note that for the review process, as established
- in this program,
- The CAC has a key component of that of doing an initial review of applications and making recommendations
- to the board for award. So that would probably put us in the March board meeting to bring applications
- and recommendations to the board for the board to vote on awarding any grant funds. Yes, go ahead. I
- just would, if you would make sure that we all get
- the information so that we can kind of promote it as well. As soon as you know about the application
- and how and when that would be great. Thank you. Certainly. Any other questions. If not let's go to
- the public. Is there any public comment on the resolution to establish the community grant program.
- Okay. All right. We will come back. Any final comments before we vote? All right. Do we need to do a
- roll call for resolutions in any case or can we do a voice vote? You can do a voice vote for this. Okay.
- All in favor of approving resolution 2025-24, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed?
- I think that passes 4-0. Next, we will move on to resolution 2025-25 to establish the board of directors
- meeting schedule for next year. Mr. Mclassen. Yeah, and this I just would note that a little unusual
- for us to seek to establish the board schedule via a resolution, but just
- Given how involved it is these days scheduling meetings with the virtual component to them and working
- with room reservations and working with county tech services to get teams meetings set up, I thought
- it would be more efficient for staff to have the resolution to take to the various county entities needed
- to coordinate and schedule the board meetings for the year.
- Can we get a motion on the table regarding this resolution, please? I move to approve resolution 2025-25
- to establish 2026 Board of Director meeting schedule. Second. All right, it's been moved and seconded.
- Is there any member of the public who would like to comment on the proposed meeting schedule?
- Seeing none, any final comments from directors? I will just say that we may, that Councillor Wills'
- term does end on December 31st as does town council members Walford. So we may have some new members,
- we may not, but we can, if there are conflicts, we could
- discuss those. The meeting schedule can always be amended at the, yeah, at the will of the board. Councilor
- Wilson. I just will say that we try to share this information amongst our body so that when people volunteer
- or say, hey, I'm interested, they have the meeting schedule in front of them. So we try to make sure
- that that's not something that comes up and has to happen. Terrific. Thank you.
- And I missed who was the second on the motion. Thank you. All right. We already went to the public right.
- Yes. All right. So all those in favor of resolution 20 25 dash 25 please say aye aye. Any opposed. And
- that resolution passes with a vote of 4 0.
- on to a report from Garden Quest who received financial support from the district for the festival food
- waste pilot project. So I think we have Mr. Austin to report. Mr. McClassen what was the
- amount again of this award? Was it $5,000? $5,000, yes. Yeah. So we found this to be a very successful
- project. There was a lot of interest in the food waste. There was a great response. Could you introduce
- yourself just for the record? Thank you. Matthew Austin, volunteer at Garden Quest, standing in for
- the executive director because she, Ellie Spear, because she is out of town.
- So the community festival food race pilot project we found to be very successful. We had very good attendance
- at the various training trainings at Will Detmer as well as the community orchard. And we were finding
- we were getting increasing numbers. I think the max we had was about 19 households at one training.
- And from that 19 households we had seven that adopted Bokashi buckets.
- So we're finding increasing percentages of more people adopting it. And there was a large amount of
- interest at the taste of Bloomington. We added on the food waste collection.
- And that was a real, I guess, surprise as to the success of that. It was multiple hundreds of pounds
- of food that was going to get wasted that ended up going to those in need in the community. And one
- thing that we discovered that was unexpected was the commingling of waste and recycling. And so we've
- made the directors of the taste very aware of that. And that is something that can be greatly improved
- because we don't think that any of the recycling
- The recyclables probably ended up in recycling. They probably all ended up in the landfill.
- people coming through, we see that as room for real improvement in their waste management plan.
- So GardenQuest has talked to various entities, one being Coke Consolidated, hoping that they could help
- fund some signs and some other things to help with that collection in a more efficient manner. There
- were many people that came to the tent, to GardenQuest's tent, and to find out more information about
- what was going on.
- The exposure of the idea of Bokashi to residents was very successful. And then we really found that
- having the National Honor Society students from Monroe County was also fantastic. Their excitement,
- their volunteering, it just really brought another level of energy. In fact, some of the work, and this
- doesn't relate to this, but there was a child who,
- their birthday and eight-year-old at Marlin that asked for a Bokashi set to start Bokashi-ing at home.
- So that's a really good feel, good thing. So there definitely is some momentum here. And then working
- with Will Dettmer to get all the food waste out there, there were three more pits dug that are open
- and ready for additional food waste. And so Will Dettmer really likes the
- the soil amendments and that aspect. And so we're still working on getting some of the members of the
- community who garden at Will Dettmer to start adopting Bokashi and then they would have that area to
- bring their food waste to. So overall, we saw a great response from the community. And yeah, it's step
- one in building this to make it a habit in our community so that people are fully responsible for their
- food waste.
- What questions can I answer on the report that we provided? Thank you. Are there questions from directors
- about the Garden Quest report? I don't have a question on the report necessarily, but where do you envision
- going for the future? Well, we hope to find funding to work with the Taste of Bloomington again.
- because we definitely see a lot of improvements that could be made there. So that would be one. Two
- would be expanding and having more trainings. But with those trainings, people sign up and they don't
- show up. So it would be having more, I guess, marketing to the community so they know that this is there.
- We constantly are
- putting out more information because we've tried to cover all the what ifs, but there are things that
- we haven't run into. And so we're constantly updating our best practices because if somebody gets a
- couple of fruit flies in there, which is normal with food waste, and they find the little bugs in there
- that could dissuade them
- from doing it. So we're working through all those aspects, but it's really just continuing to help people
- adopt it, hold their hand through the process, and then it would be more like, actually, some of the
- real benefits was ERI approached us. Mother Hubbard's Cubber, they want to be a community hub for
- So we're working to set up a training with them so that they can then be a training center. So it's
- really expanding and having other leaders take it on, and then it spreads through that. So that would
- be the idea, expanding into other nonprofits and having more captains that take it on for their
- neighborhoods. And we have neighborhoods that are interested
- They just haven't found enough people to qualify as a captain yet. Yeah, you're welcome. I have a question.
- So on one of your last slides, you have the financial summary. And the total expenditures were $3,200.
- Does that mean that you didn't draw down the total $5,000 of the grant?
- Yeah, we did not draw down the toll. I think the total was 4700. And I think that that number is that
- is for the for all the hours and the rest was for the supplies. So I see 3200 for garden quest training
- and management and then 2500 in kind.
- Donation, right. And then the remaining, I think the check was written out for 47 and change. I forget
- the exact number. So we did not use the entire 5,000. And the remaining was for all the buckets.
- And actually, that was the other thing we found out is that we thought that more people would be interested
- in the non-spigoted buckets. But we've ran out of the spigoted buckets. And we find that we actually
- have a waiting list for spigoted buckets at this point in time. So because it's a four-month cycle,
- once that four month is up, those get returned.
- give those to the next folks in the waiting list. So as part of our next funding ask wherever we look
- for funding is going to be specifically for the spigoted buckets because we're having more demand for
- that than originally anticipated. So I'm a little confused because you said forty seven hundred. So
- so the difference is was for all the spigoted and non spigoted buckets for the try it program to be
- able to hand those things out.
- So you had about $1,500 expended on buckets? Yeah. Based on these numbers, that's what I'm saying, yeah.
- Mr. McClassen, does that track what you've seen as far as the claims coming in? Yeah, they submitted
- one reimbursement claim. And I apologize. I don't have it in front of me. Roughly $4,700.
- what I recall, somewhere in that range, the report, the invoice that was submitted under the agreement
- that the board entered into. I don't recall how that broke down. You know, that claim obviously came
- to the board to approve issuing that check, but and Ms. Goanzer, I could certainly
- pull that information back out and get that forwarded to the board members if that would be desired.
- Oh, that's OK. I just wanted to see if your recollection matched what Mr. Austin said just to make sure
- that we're all on the same page. All right. Any other questions about the report or the Garden Quest
- Bokashi program in general? Yes, Councilor Wills.
- I'm looking for here what I was trying to find. You mentioned that one of your considerations for future
- trainings revolves around attendance after registering. And I'm wondering on two fronts, have you thought
- of charging a small fee for attendance? I do a lot of training in-
- we've found that that actually increases attendance in some cases because people have literally invested.
- Just a thought. They've skinned the game, yeah. Yeah. And the other is you used one of the county parks
- as a location. Have you looked into partnering and becoming part of the parks and recreation departments
- programming either for the city parks or the county parks so that
- that might help with advertising and getting the word out? We have not gone that route. The county has
- been much more accessible and easy to work with. We've been trying to work with city parks for a while
- and we just haven't been getting a response. But we love that idea. As for the charging, I feel like
- my sister would not
- like that because we want to make it accessible to everybody. But I do understand the skin of the game.
- So maybe it's like two bucks or something like that. But we do have interns that we now have and they're
- helping us with the follow up. What we've been doing is we just found we just started sending a follow
- up email to find out if people why they didn't sign up for buckets or if they're signing up for buckets
- how it's going. And that feedback has been very valuable because we've been finding some
- best practices that we need to institute because of that. So the follow-up is very important. But yeah,
- I do like the idea of potentially being programming for the county as a way to market it more. I think
- that's a great idea. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Any other questions or comments? Again, I can't
- Maybe if anybody's got a hand raised as far as Commissioner Jones. Nope. Okay. All right. Well, thank
- you very much. We're glad to hear that of your success. Thank you very much. All right. Next on the
- agenda is CAC report. We have Mr. Austin again.
- My name is Matthew Austin and I'm the vice chair of the CAC and I have the report for October and November
- 2025. So in our regular meeting October 16th we had Daniel Duncan with Richland Farms provide a presentation
- explaining the services and options that they offer residential commercial industrial around food waste
- collection and event services. When I say event services they offer plates bowls cups
- Cutlery and that's all been fully approved for them to compost so like a hundred hundred percent turnkey
- services essentially CSE membership was very encouraged by the presentation with Richmond farms now
- offering service in Monroe County So I highly encourage you to to review his presentation. Do you see
- what what they offer and how they're working? And They have already had their first
- customer pick up a bin from the waste reduction district. And then we discussed the proposed waste reduction
- district $20,000 grant. We were very excited about that. Joe Winnia gave a notice that he would be moving
- out of Monroe County and thus stepping down from the CAC. Yes, I agree with that face. We are very saddened
- by that because he has been a champion in our community and we wish he would stay longer and continue
- to champion, but we understand.
- And then we talked about the AIS WMD Association of Indiana Solid Waste Management District Conference
- attendees, reviewed takeaways from the conference, including potentially joining the Indiana Compost
- Council, the impacts of SB1, co-consolidated recycling efforts, and more. And then we discussed items,
- new materials, management plan, and how that impacts the district's future plans.
- So that was from the October regular meeting, from the December regular meeting. We discussed the 2026
- meeting location since the usual room is under construction. We confirmed availability of CSE members
- for the joint meeting with the board of directors today. And then we continued our discussion on the
- items, new materials, management plan, and how that impacts the district's future plans. And that is
- the end of my report. Any questions?
- Thank you very much. You mentioned you discussed items new requirements. Do we actually have those yet
- or just this was like a theoretical theoretical theoretical about how if they don't have their plan
- out how can the district have a plan when that could just all be for not. We are wondering the same
- thing. Other questions for the CAC.
- Thank you very much. Thank you. I have a question for Mr. McGlassen related to the CAC. Do we need to
- reappoint the three members who are willing to be reappointed? Yeah, I do apologize. We had discussed
- that at the executive committee meeting. And as we were all, sorry to hear that we actually only had
- three members that did ask to be reappointed.
- Uh, we could, we could certainly do that via a voice vote. I could present those verbally. Uh, but my,
- um, as I was going to report in my department report, uh, you know, the staff has, uh, actively promoting
- the CAC. And my hope was that, uh, if we, if we brought this to the board in January, in addition to
- the three members that had requested reappointment, we might also have some new members, uh, to appoint
- ahead of their January meeting.
- But if you would wish to go ahead and make the reappointments now, I can identify those. I think I would
- prefer to do that. OK. Lest we lose somebody else. You're going to get them committed now before they
- have a chance. All right. So for 2026, current members,
- John Arnold, Matt Austin, and Brad Lucas have been asked to be reappointed. All three are on the committee
- as Monroe County residents, as opposed to a waste industry representative. Thank you. Would somebody
- like to make a motion to reappoint those three? I move appointment of the three existing
- CAC members for the coming year. Second. All right. It's been moved and seconded. Any comments, questions?
- All right. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. We thank the three members who
- are continuing and we also thank the three who are stepping down for their service.
- So now I think we're ready for department reports. All right. I guess I will, since we just did those
- reappointments, I will, I guess, publicly identify the members not returning, Joe Winnie, William Goins,
- and Paul White, and thank them all.
- for their time and their service while they served on the committee. They have all been valuable members
- of that committee during the terms that they served, and we thank them. As I mentioned, we're actively
- promoting the committee and trying to recruit new members to bring to the board for appointment. I would
- quickly follow up. Matt Austin in his report referenced Richland Farms. They are offering curbside.
- compost collection in Monroe County at this time. I do know they have at least one residential customer
- at this point and some business customers at this point. So they are they are active in the community
- and there is a link on the home page of our website to their website for anybody interested in looking
- at their services and what they offer and what it takes to subscribe.
- And I'll let Joey give you the details. But last, I'll just report that, again, this year we will be
- accepting holiday trees for recycling, composting at all the district recycling centers after the Christmas
- holiday. With that, I would take any questions. Are there any questions on the administration report?
- Oh, Commissioner Jones, we can see you.
- I don't know what happened. A little late in the game. Did you have any question about the report? No,
- I didn't. All right. I just have one question. When I clicked on the Richland Farms link and I looked
- at their website, it looked like they were only serving Northern Monroe County. Does anybody know? Is
- there a line?
- There is not a definitive line. You know, their focus right now is the city of Bloomington just because
- of the potentially concentrated subscribership that's in that area. And what he has said is, you know,
- depending on, you know, how quickly they get subscribers and where those subscribers are and how frequently
- they have trucks running routes in the area, that that service area would potentially expand.
- Thank you. All right, if there are no other questions on that report, we can move on to recycling and
- household hazardous waste with Mr. Long. TTSD, we're going to need Joey Long and Lee Paulson to be able
- to speak and have video.
- Hi, everyone. So I'll start off with our recycling centers in the rural sites. We will be doing a holiday
- tree recycling from December 26 to January the 17th. We will be partnering with Blue Stone Tree Service.
- They will take the trees, grind up, and you'll eventually be able to get them back in mulch form at
- some point. We also will be doing snow removal in-house for the first time at all five sites. And we'll
- be doing the mowing at all five sites in-house.
- taking that in and adding that to the staff. The household hazardous waste, everything is operating
- as normal. We slow down in the winter time a little bit, and that's about all I have for you guys. So
- if you have any questions, I'll do my best to answer them. Thank you, Mr. Long. Are there any questions
- for Mr. Long on his report?
- If somebody at TSD could click the little down arrow so we can catch up with our closed captioning here
- on the screen. Thank you. I do have just a small question. So I believe you accept Christmas wreaths
- too? Yeah, so any live form of, go ahead, sorry. Oh, I was just going to say even if they're on wire,
- do you accept those? Yeah.
- Yes and no, we don't want, we don't want very much wire, but I mean, if there is some pieces, they said
- it would be okay. You know, we want the trees and reefs to be as naked as possible, you know, back to
- natural form, that way they can easily grind it up in mulch. They have told me that if there is a little
- bit of tinsel or something in there, they're not gonna complain. All right, that makes sense.
- Thank you. Thank you.
- If there are no other questions, we can move on to landfill and environmental compliance with Mr. Paulson.
- Good afternoon. Outside of what's in the report there, I just want to let everybody know that we got
- the treatment plan up and running last week. Weather conditions have now been wet enough that we got
- enough water in the pond to keep things going, and now we're getting ready for a big cold snap.
- The only other thing to highlight is that the groundwater samples have been all received into
- our Statistician Group Atlas, and that usually takes four to six weeks to eight weeks or so to get the
- stats report back from them before we submit the item. From what I saw with that stuff, nothing really
- looked out of line for our November sampling, so we'll see what the bulk of that data shows and what
- they come back with. But other than that, everything is going pretty well.
- You guys have any questions? I'll be happy to answer. Thank you, Mr. Paulson. Thank you. Any questions?
- All right. Seeing none, I believe we've reached the point in the agenda when it's open to general public
- comment. Does any member of the public want to make a comment? General comment. Yes, step right up.
- All right. Hello once more. Joseph Winnia here, CAC member of five years and now departing member and
- also operator of One Sustainable Joe. And I just wanted to take the opportunity. This is the last board
- meeting that I expect to attend. So I just wanted to express my gratitude one more time to the district,
- particularly Board of Directors and Executive Director McGlasson, for all of your engagement with the CAC.
- and efforts on waste reduction initiatives. It's been really satisfying to work with you all. I've been
- very grateful for the opportunity. I hope it gets to continue in the future. And I want to also note
- a quick update with respect to that going into the future. The Back to Earth Composting Program onboarded
- two new properties in the last month. There's, for a total of, I think it's 20, no, 34 new participating members.
- And to just give you a bit of an idea, the overall current running totals are 8,500 pounds diverted,
- which is about four and a quarter tons. That's about 2,000 times that people have emptied their compost
- into the system, and there have been over 160 participants involved in the program. And a couple of
- sites have actually stopped weighing in their data over the course of this past year, so I can easily
- approximate that it's over 10,000 pounds diverted by the program since it started. So about five tons.
- So thank you so much for the opportunity to get this started and also to the district staff for supporting
- it going into the future as well. And also I wanted to say thank you to the CAC for all of their membership.
- I think everyone's been here for at least two or three years and it's been great to work with you all
- as well. So I hope things continue to go great in the future. So thank you everyone.
- Thank you very much, Mr. William. And now we'll move to comments from directors. Any of the board of
- directors want to make a comment at this point? Councilor Wilz. I just wanted to thank you all for the
- opportunity to hang out.
- and distract folks at the recycling center. I went to the one on Dilman Road on the America Recycles
- Day and felt very welcomed and lots of questions were answered and I greeted lots of people and was
- kind of impressed by the range of items
- that were being brought and at one point exchanged among folks. One person's trash was literally another
- person's treasure sort of thing. It was kind of cool. And anyway, I was glad that you facilitated that.
- It was a cool experience. Thank you. I certainly appreciate you taking the time to spend at one of our
- facilities and other board members that did as well.
- Any other comments? If not, I will. Commissioner Vergara. I just wanted to say thank you for a great
- first year on the commission. And I just wanted to say I'm really happy that our county takes the time
- and resources to do a lot of creative things that a lot of other communities do not. So I look forward
- to the next three years.
- Right, and I would just like to add, I also enjoyed hanging out at the America Recycles Day at the South
- Walnut Street location. But really, what I'd like to focus on is how valuable Joseph Winnie's contributions
- have been for the last five years to the CAC and to the district as a whole and, dare I say,
- to the community.
- He was really instrumental in shoring up the CAC as far as creating bylaws, leading that group for several
- years, and also working on our five-year plan, which we're going to review in the next meeting, and
- working on the rebranding, helping with the new website.
- such a broad range of ways that he has been of service to us, and we're going to miss him a lot.
- So thank you. If there are no other comments, I think we can go ahead and adjourn. And we will meet
- again shortly for the joint meeting with the CAC. Thank you.