WEBVTT 00:00:01.282 --> 00:00:09.660 - I'd like to call to order this meeting of the Board of Directors of the Waste Reduction District of 00:00:09.660 --> 00:00:18.290 - Monroe County for July 9th, 2026. Mr. Glasson, would you please call the roll? Piedmont Smith? Thomas? 00:00:18.290 --> 00:00:27.004 - Here. Wilkes? Here. Jones? Ellis? Here. Thompson? Here. Madhu? You have a quorum. Excellent. No members 00:00:27.004 --> 00:00:29.182 - present online currently. 00:00:32.642 --> 00:00:41.539 - First order of business is approving the minutes for May 14th. Can I get a motion for that? I move approval 00:00:41.539 --> 00:00:49.941 - of the minutes as presented. Can I have a second? Second. Excellent. So we have a motion and a second 00:00:49.941 --> 00:00:58.673 - to approve the minutes. Any comments or questions? All right. Can we do a roll call vote on that? Thomas? 00:00:58.673 --> 00:01:02.462 - Yes. Elvis? Yes. Madeira? Yes. Thompson? Yes. 00:01:02.978 --> 00:01:14.100 - Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Excellent. It should be okay. Just move it closer to you, Tom, and you 00:01:14.100 --> 00:01:25.006 - should be fine. Awesome. Let me know if that doesn't improve. Yeah. Yeah. TSC can change out the mic 00:01:25.006 --> 00:01:28.030 - or something if we need to. 00:01:28.418 --> 00:01:37.341 - All right, so the next item of business is we're going to ratify the hiring of our new controller. 00:01:37.341 --> 00:01:46.355 - So Mr. Glasson, I'd like to shoot that one to you. Yeah, that's not working. So maybe you take this 00:01:46.355 --> 00:01:55.458 - one here, this short one, or switch it out with the one. Well, that's not ideal because we've got to 00:01:55.458 --> 00:01:57.982 - hurry through this meeting. 00:01:58.274 --> 00:02:07.082 - Okay. We've got another mic here. Is that one working better? There we go. There we go. We're good. 00:02:07.082 --> 00:02:15.891 - Page seven of the packet. If you recall the May board meeting due to some time constraints with Ms. 00:02:15.891 --> 00:02:25.139 - Gowin's departure date, the board did delegate the authority to make an offer of the controller position 00:02:25.139 --> 00:02:27.870 - to Chairperson Piedmont-Smith. 00:02:27.970 --> 00:02:35.647 - Interviews, you know, were conducted with the full executive committee. And after those rounds, two 00:02:35.647 --> 00:02:43.632 - rounds of interviews, Ms. Piedmont-Smith did offer the position to Mr. John Arnold, who is sitting here 00:02:43.632 --> 00:02:51.539 - with me. He did accept the position and has been with us for a few weeks now, working under Ms. Goin's 00:02:51.539 --> 00:02:57.758 - tutelage. And we are asking the board as a whole to ratify that hiring decision. 00:02:58.754 --> 00:03:06.468 - I make a motion to ratify the decision to hire the new controller, John Arnold. Second. And before we 00:03:06.468 --> 00:03:14.031 - vote, I would just like to say I've worked with John before, so I'm pleasantly surprised to see him 00:03:14.031 --> 00:03:21.971 - as part of this. Wonderful. So we need a roll call vote on that, I would guess. With all members present 00:03:21.971 --> 00:03:28.702 - in the room, I do not believe a roll call vote is necessary. A voice vote would suffice. 00:03:29.154 --> 00:03:39.463 - And that's, we can do, we can vote aye or nay. So all in favor of ratifying the hiring of the new controller, 00:03:39.463 --> 00:03:49.022 - say aye. Aye. Aye. Those opposed say nay. That ratification is unanimously approved. Congratulations, 00:03:49.022 --> 00:03:55.582 - welcome aboard. Next item in the business is the controller's report. 00:04:00.866 --> 00:04:09.969 - First of all, I want to thank you all for offering the position to me, and I'm excited to be here. For 00:04:09.969 --> 00:04:18.895 - the May 2026 cash bounces, see the June 26 board packet. The May meeting was canceled. The cash flow 00:04:18.895 --> 00:04:27.998 - summary memo is on page eight of your board packet. The cash flow summaries were emailed on Wednesday. 00:04:28.546 --> 00:04:47.068 - So here are the balances as of June 30th. Operating $5,452,474.37, debt service $153,301.76, 00:04:47.068 --> 00:04:57.822 - capital $46,228.50, and the landfill post closure was 00:04:58.018 --> 00:05:09.999 - $831,755.99. And the cash flow summaries are in the Wednesday email. Does anyone have any questions 00:05:09.999 --> 00:05:22.100 - about this? I do not. Does anyone else? Excellent. Can we get a motion on the table for the approval 00:05:22.100 --> 00:05:26.174 - of payroll and claims? Excellent. 00:05:26.338 --> 00:05:36.078 - Since there are no questions here, we can go to the public. Is there any member? He didn't go over payroll 00:05:36.078 --> 00:05:45.636 - and claims yet. I'm sorry. I'm jumping ahead of myself. We need to get out of here, so I'm jumping ahead 00:05:45.636 --> 00:05:54.830 - of on the agenda as well. Nail, the next item on the agenda is moving forward to payroll and claims. 00:05:54.830 --> 00:05:56.286 - So back to you. 00:05:57.026 --> 00:06:08.362 - On page 11 of the packet, you have a summary of the pre-approved payroll and claims since our last meeting 00:06:08.362 --> 00:06:18.426 - in the amount of $422,205.16. And the backup for those are on pages 12 through 81. The payroll 00:06:18.426 --> 00:06:25.630 - was $206,735.29. Documentation was included in the Wednesday email. 00:06:26.178 --> 00:06:35.703 - That brings a total of all payroll and claims that we are recommending for approval at $628,940.45. 00:06:35.703 --> 00:06:45.894 - And are there any questions regarding these claims? Any questions? All right. Looks like the board members 00:06:45.894 --> 00:06:55.038 - have no questions about payroll and claims. Now, I believe we shoot this to the public as well. 00:06:55.138 --> 00:07:06.454 - There are no members of the public present in the NatU Hill Room that I can see. Online have any questions? 00:07:06.454 --> 00:07:17.036 - Seeing no hands, we can come back. Since there's no comments or questions, Mr. Blassen, can you call 00:07:17.036 --> 00:07:24.894 - a roll call vote to approve payroll and claims? Ellis? Yes. Thompson? Yes. 00:07:26.146 --> 00:07:34.174 - Thomas? Yes. Wilts? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Excellent. Thank you so much. The next item on our 00:07:34.174 --> 00:07:40.254 - agenda is item five, resolution 2026-07 to amend the district fee resolution. 00:07:42.338 --> 00:07:51.149 - Yeah, this is strictly on for introductory purposes. By rule, we have to introduce a resolution to adjust 00:07:51.149 --> 00:08:00.542 - fees and allow, I think, a minimum of 14 days for public review before we hold a public hearing before the board 00:08:00.738 --> 00:08:08.295 - board votes on it. Historically, when we have done this, we presented at one meeting and then hold the 00:08:08.295 --> 00:08:15.852 - public hearing followed by the vote at the following meeting. So that would be the plan again for this 00:08:15.852 --> 00:08:23.189 - one and bring it back in August for a vote. Just to summarize, what you see in there is specific to 00:08:23.189 --> 00:08:26.270 - our household hazardous waste department. 00:08:26.402 --> 00:08:36.061 - has to do really with two items that we're seeing more of that have a substantial cost to the district. 00:08:36.061 --> 00:08:45.441 - That would be lithium ion batteries, those that are in excess of 300 watt hours, as well as damaged, 00:08:45.441 --> 00:08:54.078 - defective, and recalled lithium ion batteries. And part of this has to do with I think where 00:08:54.274 --> 00:09:02.775 - The system hasn't really caught up with where we are. With the prevalence of scooters and e-bikes and 00:09:02.775 --> 00:09:11.109 - so forth, those batteries in excess of 300 watt hours are more prevalent now and more accessible to 00:09:11.109 --> 00:09:18.526 - the average consumer. We are beginning to see some of those come through our facilities. 00:09:18.658 --> 00:09:26.080 - And then when it comes to the damaged, defective, and recalled ones, size really doesn't matter. The 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:33.943 - damaged ones are the ones that present a hazard. That's the cause when you see about a semi-truck catching 00:09:33.943 --> 00:09:41.806 - on fire on I-70 east of Indianapolis. So there's a safety concern for our employees as well as our vendors 00:09:41.806 --> 00:09:48.126 - and the drivers that are transporting those. Because of that, there's some additional 00:09:48.258 --> 00:09:57.957 - requirements for packaging those materials that are costly. And on the back end, the cost for us to 00:09:57.957 --> 00:10:07.656 - get those properly managed by the vendor can be substantial. Mr. Long can correct me if I am wrong, 00:10:07.656 --> 00:10:09.790 - but we currently have 00:10:09.986 --> 00:10:17.550 - two EV batteries at our facility that were delivered by the fire department from vehicle accidents that 00:10:17.550 --> 00:10:25.114 - we are still trying to find somebody that will take off of our hands. We are probably looking at $2,000 00:10:25.114 --> 00:10:32.751 - apiece for those. You will note in the fee resolution for even the next material I am going to describe, 00:10:32.751 --> 00:10:35.006 - what we are asking for is that 00:10:35.202 --> 00:10:43.081 - The resident bringing that material to us pay for 50% of the district's cost up to a maximum of $500. 00:10:43.081 --> 00:10:51.192 - So for those really expensive items, we're still willing to bear the brunt of the cost, but we're seeing 00:10:51.192 --> 00:10:59.380 - enough of them now that it is impacting our HHW costs and having a budgetary impact. So you might recall, 00:10:59.380 --> 00:11:02.238 - I think at the last meeting we had a 00:11:02.658 --> 00:11:11.561 - HHW disposal bill that was about $81,000 I think so it does make an impact and So then the third item 00:11:11.561 --> 00:11:20.464 - in there that excuse me that we're seeing are spray foam insulation canisters those are now available 00:11:20.464 --> 00:11:29.368 - at some of the do-it-yourself box stores that For people do their own insulation projects But they're 00:11:29.368 --> 00:11:32.510 - classified as a compressed cylinder 00:11:32.898 --> 00:11:40.672 - by our vendors. They are not an aerosol can, and because of the material that is in them and some of 00:11:40.672 --> 00:11:48.524 - the hazards that it can present, that bears a substantial cost to us, I think Mr. Long said. And that 00:11:48.524 --> 00:11:56.221 - was a big part of that $81,000 bill. I think we had about 34 of them at $1,400 apiece. So again, we 00:11:56.221 --> 00:12:02.302 - are willing to bear the bulk of that cost, but it is getting to the point that 00:12:02.402 --> 00:12:13.862 - You know, we would like the public to assist with that if they're going to bring those to us. So that's 00:12:13.862 --> 00:12:24.881 - the gist of what's in the requested and the amended fee resolution. Excellent. For T to weigh in on 00:12:24.881 --> 00:12:27.966 - that in the August meeting. 00:12:28.322 --> 00:12:39.099 - a public hearing held at the August meeting before the board were to vote on the resolution. Yes. Yes. 00:12:39.099 --> 00:12:50.085 - Any comments from directors? Questions? I just have a quick question. I'm supportive of recouping costs. 00:12:50.085 --> 00:12:56.990 - I am curious if there's any thought that residents may attempt to 00:12:57.986 --> 00:13:08.178 - Dispose of these inappropriately given the fees and do we have any data or any ideas for how to encourage 00:13:08.178 --> 00:13:15.294 - them to continue to dispose of them through the waste reduction district? 00:13:16.642 --> 00:13:24.650 - Well, I mean, for the batteries, the data's out there. The experience is out there. We see on the news 00:13:24.650 --> 00:13:32.814 - all the time where these damaged lithium ion batteries are causing fires and, in some cases, explosions. 00:13:32.814 --> 00:13:41.056 - So that evidence is definitely out there. The spray foam canisters, for us at least, is a newer commodity 00:13:41.056 --> 00:13:46.110 - that we're seeing. There's certainly, I don't know that we have, 00:13:46.274 --> 00:13:55.273 - any data or specific events to point to, but I think we can all imagine what happens if a compressed 00:13:55.273 --> 00:14:04.807 - cylinder winds up in a packer truck that is collecting garbage. So I think the potential hazard is obvious 00:14:04.807 --> 00:14:08.638 - that is there, certainly a concern. And if 00:14:09.730 --> 00:14:16.360 - You know, if we can always, you know, reassess, you know, what we're charging, if we start to, you know, 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:22.549 - if our compliance department starts finding these things along the side of the road, which would, 00:14:22.549 --> 00:14:29.368 - you know, indicate people aren't willing to pay the expense. And granted, that's, you know, those canisters 00:14:29.368 --> 00:14:36.062 - are going to be $500 through us under this, you know, fee resolution. I get it. That's a substantial fee. 00:14:36.258 --> 00:14:43.920 - but that's part of the cost of doing a project yourself. You're doing it yourself to save money because 00:14:43.920 --> 00:14:51.950 - the contractor, that's the type of cost the contractor is looking at when they need to dispose of materials. 00:14:51.950 --> 00:14:59.317 - But if we put this in place and we start to see issues, we can certainly reassess that and consider 00:14:59.317 --> 00:15:04.990 - changes to encourage people to bring it to us so that it's managed properly. 00:15:13.378 --> 00:15:22.715 - Any other comments, questions? So we will hold the vote on this after public comment in August. Yeah, 00:15:22.715 --> 00:15:32.144 - it would be up to the board to decide whether to take it up for a vote after the public hearing at the 00:15:32.144 --> 00:15:41.573 - August meeting. Okay, excellent. Thank you very much. Then moving on, we have the 2026 Community Grant 00:15:41.573 --> 00:15:43.038 - Program Awards. 00:15:46.146 --> 00:16:01.394 - I'm trying to get there. All right. Yeah, so if I guess starting with the memo on page 93 of the packet, 00:16:01.394 --> 00:16:06.622 - if you recall at the March meeting, 00:16:06.914 --> 00:16:14.673 - I believe the CAC actually recommended that the board reopen the grant program for bids as we'd only 00:16:14.673 --> 00:16:22.356 - received one application at the beginning of the year. So staff did do that. And those second round 00:16:22.356 --> 00:16:30.576 - of grant applications, I believe, were due May 15th. We received four. They're all in your packet. They've 00:16:30.576 --> 00:16:35.262 - been reviewed by the CAC as well as the executive committee. 00:16:36.642 --> 00:16:46.319 - They are here for the board's, I guess, consideration. I believe they all all four of them have to do 00:16:46.319 --> 00:16:55.996 - with food waste and efforts to remove food waste from the waste stream. And and with that, I would be 00:16:55.996 --> 00:17:03.966 - happy to let the board discuss or answer any other questions that I have. I believe 00:17:04.290 --> 00:17:13.366 - Uh, we have at least one grant applicant, uh, in attendance online. So that's your questions. Yes. Um, 00:17:13.366 --> 00:17:22.177 - okay. So, um, it would be useful to have the remaining fun total and then to have a list of each of 00:17:22.177 --> 00:17:26.142 - the four funding amounts that are requested. 00:17:27.106 --> 00:17:34.375 - Okay, yeah, I apologize to not put that together and I don't have the numbers off the top of my head, 00:17:34.375 --> 00:17:41.501 - but we did review that with the executive committee and the combined total of the four applications 00:17:41.501 --> 00:17:49.055 - before you plus the one awarded earlier this year, it came out to right around $17,000 and we had $20,000 00:17:49.055 --> 00:17:55.326 - appropriated. I just want to say I'm concerned because really this is one organization. 00:17:56.578 --> 00:18:12.255 - for the funding, in essence, but in four different programs. So it's a little different. Any other comments, 00:18:12.255 --> 00:18:26.206 - questions? Yeah. Well, I noted that as well, that each of these programs is utilizing in various 00:18:26.882 --> 00:18:37.904 - maybe differing ways, the services from one program. That said, the four different applications are 00:18:37.904 --> 00:18:49.257 - applying it in different ways in different environments with different audiences and do offer the kind 00:18:49.257 --> 00:18:55.870 - of impact I think we are looking to make with these grants. 00:18:56.642 --> 00:19:06.587 - Being that it's the first year, I'm hopeful that we will have more diverse applicants perhaps in the 00:19:06.587 --> 00:19:17.024 - future. One of the questions I'd be interested in exploring in the future too is distributing information 00:19:17.024 --> 00:19:23.326 - about this program out in the community so that we do have more 00:19:27.810 --> 00:19:40.632 - Any other comments, questions? Right. Seeing none, do we do a roll call vote on this? We need a motion. 00:19:40.632 --> 00:19:53.332 - We need a motion and then I believe it would be permissible, acceptable. The board could take all four 00:19:53.332 --> 00:19:56.414 - applications as a group. 00:19:56.546 --> 00:20:06.749 - or could vote on them one by one? Excellent. I can see it makes sense to vote on them as a group. I 00:20:06.749 --> 00:20:16.953 - have no objections to that. Yes, Councilor Wilt. I have no objections to that. I do have a question 00:20:16.953 --> 00:20:26.238 - about the Wonderlab application and the application requesting funds for a student intern. 00:20:26.978 --> 00:20:37.417 - I think that the executive committee had asked about perhaps looking more closely into how much of that 00:20:37.417 --> 00:20:48.157 - intern's responsibilities relate to this grant project and considering a partial funding of that position. 00:20:48.157 --> 00:20:52.574 - Mr. McGlasson, was there an update on that? 00:20:54.530 --> 00:21:04.394 - Well, unfortunately, due to lack of forum, the executive committee meeting last week was canceled. 00:21:04.394 --> 00:21:15.255 - I did, prior to that, have some individual conversations with some of the members of the executive committee 00:21:15.255 --> 00:21:18.942 - and similar concerns were expressed. 00:21:19.234 --> 00:21:27.145 - make an attempt to kind of quantify the amount of time and, you know, looked into and the way that the 00:21:27.145 --> 00:21:35.210 - program and the applications are worded, you know, the board would have the discretion to award a lesser 00:21:35.210 --> 00:21:43.121 - amount than what was requested. I believe in the application, Wonder Lab did indicate that if a lesser 00:21:43.121 --> 00:21:45.886 - amount were awarded that they would 00:21:45.986 --> 00:21:57.251 - continue the project, just perhaps at a reduced scope. And, you know, I would offer, you know, in my 00:21:57.251 --> 00:22:08.405 - review of the description for the intern position, and I'm trying to pull it up, I think they asked 00:22:08.405 --> 00:22:13.982 - for $1,250 for the intern. Does that sound right? 00:22:16.450 --> 00:22:24.524 - but, you know, would say that probably, you know, 25% of those duties would not be directly related 00:22:24.524 --> 00:22:32.679 - to the project outlined in the grant application and perhaps it would be reasonable for the board to 00:22:32.679 --> 00:22:40.915 - make, you know, a similar reduction in the dollar amount of the award. I'm curious because what I see 00:22:40.915 --> 00:22:45.598 - from Wonder Lab is a $4,500 request for an actual system. 00:22:47.682 --> 00:22:57.701 - 1250 is the intern seat. I'm sorry. On page 127 of the packet, they do have an itemized outline. Okay. 00:22:57.701 --> 00:23:08.011 - And I guess it was, actually it was 1250 per semester and requesting two semesters. I see it now, thanks. 00:23:08.011 --> 00:23:09.470 - So $2,500, so. 00:23:10.594 --> 00:23:19.444 - but that would be the board's decision, the board's discretion as to whether or not to make any changes 00:23:19.444 --> 00:23:28.124 - to that amount. And you said that it's 80% of what they do is related to this project? It's 75, maybe 00:23:28.124 --> 00:23:36.889 - 80% at most, based on my review of the job description. Well, I got my calculator out. That's 1875 for 00:23:36.889 --> 00:23:39.102 - the two, instead of 2500. 00:23:44.578 --> 00:23:58.493 - be like a $625 reduction in the total amount. I would like to move the award amount by $625 for the 00:23:58.493 --> 00:24:11.294 - Wonder Lab application. So that would give us a total of $3,875? Yes, for that application. 00:24:15.490 --> 00:24:25.798 - Second. Right. So all in favor of reducing the amount of the wonder lab grant to thirty eight seventy 00:24:25.798 --> 00:24:36.105 - five. Say aye. Aye. All opposed. Motion passes unanimously. And I believe other than that we can take 00:24:36.105 --> 00:24:44.190 - is there any opposition to taking these grants together with that modification. 00:24:46.466 --> 00:24:58.622 - Okay, so we need a motion to approve the Community 2026 Community Grant Program Awards. How about I 00:24:58.622 --> 00:25:11.264 - just make a motion to approve the Community Grant Awards for 2026 with the amended amount for Wonderlab 00:25:11.264 --> 00:25:15.518 - noted as it appears in our packet. 00:25:23.330 --> 00:25:30.805 - Lasset, would you call the roll? Do you have to take public comment on this? I would. Excellent. So 00:25:30.805 --> 00:25:38.654 - is there anyone in the NatU Hill Room who would like to offer public comment on the 2026 Community Grant 00:25:38.654 --> 00:25:46.129 - Program Awards? Is there anyone online who would like to offer public comment on the 2026 Community 00:25:46.129 --> 00:25:47.774 - Grant Program Awards? 00:25:52.034 --> 00:26:02.959 - Seeing no public comment, Mr. Glesson, would you call the roll? Wills? Yes. Thompson? Yes. Thomas? Yes. 00:26:02.959 --> 00:26:13.673 - Ellis? Yes. Madhu? Motion passes unanimously. Excellent. Thank you so much for that. The next item on 00:26:13.673 --> 00:26:20.606 - the agenda is the request for a new appointment to the CAC. Yeah. 00:26:20.738 --> 00:26:28.624 - I apologize as I try to get there in the packet. But you'll note included in the packet, you do have 00:26:28.624 --> 00:26:37.057 - two different requests for appointment to the CAC. The memo on page 139 summarizing, or I guess identifying 00:26:37.057 --> 00:26:45.255 - the applicants. The first is Allison Sears, who is an employee from Rumpke Waste and Recycling, actually 00:26:45.255 --> 00:26:48.222 - is present in the room with us today. 00:26:48.482 --> 00:26:57.588 - The second is Elizabeth Liz Carter, who is the MS4 coordinator for City of Bloomington utilities. 00:26:57.588 --> 00:27:07.159 - And then, you know, would note additionally to that in the memo, with Mr. Arnold being ratified as the 00:27:07.159 --> 00:27:09.854 - controller for the district, 00:27:10.018 --> 00:27:18.545 - He has indicated he does plan to resign from the CAC. He does not feel it's appropriate for him to hold 00:27:18.545 --> 00:27:26.909 - such a position with the district and also serve on the CAC, which would bring the number of members, 00:27:26.909 --> 00:27:32.894 - I believe, to four with two being representatives of the waste industry. 00:27:32.994 --> 00:27:41.933 - which is the maximum allowable under statute. 50% of the membership is the maximum waste industry 00:27:41.933 --> 00:27:51.328 - representation they could have. So just to make the board aware that if Ms. Sears appointed by herself 00:27:51.328 --> 00:28:00.723 - would exceed the statutory threshold for waste industry representation. Any questions or comments from 00:28:00.723 --> 00:28:01.726 - directors? 00:28:08.002 --> 00:28:19.617 - I move that we approve the two appointments together, as indicated, so appointing Alison Sears and Liz 00:28:19.617 --> 00:28:31.233 - Carter to the CAC. Do I have a second? Second. With a motion and a second, I would like to take public 00:28:31.233 --> 00:28:37.886 - comment on this matter. Anyone in the U-Hill room have any 00:28:38.530 --> 00:28:47.385 - comments on these appointments? Seeing none, would anyone online like to offer comments on 00:28:47.385 --> 00:28:57.310 - these appointments? With no public comment on these appointments, Mr. Glassen, would you like to call 00:28:57.310 --> 00:29:06.846 - the roll? Madera? Yes. Thomas? Yes. Ellis? Yes. Wilts? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. 00:29:07.906 --> 00:29:15.038 - I believe the next item is department reports. I would just call to the board's attention that we do 00:29:15.038 --> 00:29:22.170 - have the joint meeting with the CAC that was scheduled, advertised at 430 to immediately follow this 00:29:22.170 --> 00:29:29.231 - meeting. I think it's okay that we're a little past that, but we have concluded the action items on 00:29:29.231 --> 00:29:30.078 - the agenda. 00:29:30.658 --> 00:29:38.075 - It would be you know up to the board if they wish to table any of the Subsequent agenda items in order 00:29:38.075 --> 00:29:45.420 - to start the joint meeting and before I I guess allow the board to make such a decision I at least do 00:29:45.420 --> 00:29:52.694 - want to announce for public information that the district has begun piloting the hefty renew program 00:29:52.694 --> 00:29:55.070 - at our south walnut facility and 00:29:55.714 --> 00:30:02.819 - That is a program that recycles or accepts for recycling hard-to-recycle plastics, like straws, 00:30:02.819 --> 00:30:10.293 - plastic bags, styrofoam egg containers, food containers, things to that effect. In the packet, there 00:30:10.293 --> 00:30:17.768 - is a flyer from HEFTE regarding the acceptable materials. Certainly that information is available on 00:30:17.768 --> 00:30:18.878 - their website. 00:30:19.042 --> 00:30:26.302 - Unfortunately, because it is not an established program in this area, not aware of any local retailers 00:30:26.302 --> 00:30:33.420 - that have those bags in the store. So those materials would have to be delivered to the South Walnut 00:30:33.420 --> 00:30:40.468 - facility in an actual hefty renew bag. I do know that they are available online through Amazon, the 00:30:40.468 --> 00:30:43.358 - Walmart website, and the Target website. 00:30:43.458 --> 00:30:51.876 - We are looking if we find other options. We will certainly get those posted to our website, but all 00:30:51.876 --> 00:31:00.631 - of that information as well as a link to the Hefty Renew page is on the home page of our website. We're 00:31:00.631 --> 00:31:09.217 - certainly excited to pilot this and hope it goes well and appreciate Romkey's cooperation and support 00:31:09.217 --> 00:31:13.342 - in letting us do this. Thanks for pursuing this. 00:31:13.474 --> 00:31:22.191 - I will just note Amazon does not have the bags right now, but Target Walmart does online. And they also 00:31:22.191 --> 00:31:30.825 - have a line of trash bags called Renew that are not orange. So don't get those. It has to be the hefty 00:31:30.825 --> 00:31:39.710 - Renew. So confusing. It is an orange bag, unfortunately, like our orange bag and household trash program. 00:31:39.842 --> 00:31:47.729 - If this is something that works and we are able to expand it, we will certainly work through the issues 00:31:47.729 --> 00:31:55.616 - with the similarity in the bags. But the official bags are an orange bag with white lettering that says 00:31:55.616 --> 00:32:03.351 - hefty renew on it. And these go in with the plastic? They will go in with our regular plastics in the 00:32:03.351 --> 00:32:09.342 - same container. And we need the bag to survive intact to the sorting facility. 00:32:10.050 --> 00:32:18.058 - Great, thank you, thank you, thank you. Please tie them well, secure them tightly so that the tops don't 00:32:18.058 --> 00:32:25.685 - come open. They will be compacted in our machine, transported and dumped a couple times before they 00:32:25.685 --> 00:32:33.465 - get pulled out of the line to be sent to Hefty for recycling. Okay, awesome, got it. Do we anticipate 00:32:33.465 --> 00:32:37.278 - local retailers selling these at some point soon? 00:32:37.442 --> 00:32:43.998 - Immediately, I would not suspect so. If this is something that works and Rumpke agrees to let us to 00:32:43.998 --> 00:32:50.555 - expand the program to the other sites, at that point, we could probably pursue getting local stores 00:32:50.555 --> 00:32:57.374 - to stock the bags. Great. Thank you. I think we also, I mean, if I'm understanding this correctly, that 00:32:57.374 --> 00:33:02.750 - people need to specify not just the name we knew, but if someone comes out with a 00:33:03.138 --> 00:33:09.897 - you know, a generic brand or a different company that's doing a program that does similar, this is just 00:33:09.897 --> 00:33:11.262 - for the hefty brand. 00:33:16.706 --> 00:33:23.819 - The hefty renew bags are not currently available on Amazon, but I do know Amazon just does have generic 00:33:23.819 --> 00:33:30.727 - orange trash bags that are available to purchase through them. So yes, and staff will be watching to 00:33:30.727 --> 00:33:37.567 - make sure that the bags that are brought are the hefty bags with the white lettering that say hefty 00:33:37.567 --> 00:33:45.022 - renew on them. Excellent. Thank you so much for that information. It sounds like that project is in the bag. 00:33:45.346 --> 00:33:53.429 - Yes, yes, I'll try to trash it. So my fellow directors, are you comfortable tabling the rest of those 00:33:53.429 --> 00:34:01.592 - to proceed with the joint meeting? Yes, please. All right. Then I think we're. Yes, we do need we need 00:34:01.592 --> 00:34:09.834 - to adjourn this meeting, probably take four to five minute break for TSD to queue up. The joint meeting 00:34:09.834 --> 00:34:12.766 - is under a separate team's link, so. 00:34:13.474 --> 00:34:19.250 - Well, then to facilitate that, consider this meeting adjourned and then we can proceed with the joint 00:34:19.250 --> 00:34:20.382 - meeting. Thank you.