WEBVTT 00:00:02.050 --> 00:00:17.485 - Where are we? Here. Austin? Present. Lucas? Here. Goins? Here. Arnold? Present. White? I have a quorum 00:00:17.485 --> 00:00:28.574 - of CAC present in the room and none online. All right. Thank you so much. 00:00:29.922 --> 00:00:38.993 - So we have on our agenda one item, which is just a review of our five year solid waste management plan 00:00:38.993 --> 00:00:48.063 - to see how we are doing as far as the goals that we set for ourselves in 2020, 2021, sorry. So I think 00:00:48.063 --> 00:00:57.662 - Mr. McLaughlin is gonna share his screen and we can get some updates from him on how things have progressed. 00:01:00.162 --> 00:01:10.703 - and we can have a discussion. Yeah. So I think we just go through the general goals and objectives that 00:01:10.703 --> 00:01:20.940 - are outlined in the solid waste management plan. I believe in the plan itself on pages 12 through 14 00:01:20.940 --> 00:01:29.150 - is where those are identified. Yeah. So I want to just kind of briefly summarize 00:01:29.570 --> 00:01:37.871 - You know, the district's efforts towards those goals and objectives. So for education, the first one 00:01:37.871 --> 00:01:46.254 - was a Quick Byte media outreach campaign. This one, unfortunately, is not something that we got done. 00:01:46.254 --> 00:01:55.294 - You know, we have existing educational materials and advertising that touches on some of this, but we did not 00:01:55.554 --> 00:02:04.100 - create any new materials specific to this goal. And then kind of I'll address two and three together, 00:02:04.100 --> 00:02:12.981 - review and update the district's website and waste management guide flyers and rebranding of the district 00:02:12.981 --> 00:02:17.086 - because those kind of coincided with each other. 00:02:17.314 --> 00:02:26.678 - Obviously, we did get the district rebranded from Go Green District to Waste Reduction District. And 00:02:26.678 --> 00:02:35.486 - then in doing so, that just resulted in a new website being developed to rebrand the district. 00:02:35.874 --> 00:02:46.026 - And also the updating of, you know, not just the waste management guide flyers, but all of our literature 00:02:46.026 --> 00:02:55.795 - materials to be rebranded. So those two, I think that we did, if not achieve to the desired, I guess, 00:02:55.795 --> 00:03:04.702 - effect or impact, but we did get those two things done. Improve and expand outreach network. 00:03:04.802 --> 00:03:14.401 - This is something that if the board and CAC will recall, in 2003 we created a new position, a waste 00:03:14.401 --> 00:03:24.191 - reduction specialist position. And Kayla Strand, who was hired for that position, has really done the 00:03:24.191 --> 00:03:32.254 - bulk of this for us. She's taken over the management of our green business network. 00:03:33.282 --> 00:03:44.441 - and has worked with a number of not just existing GBN customers but other businesses. Brought on a number 00:03:44.441 --> 00:03:55.705 - of new customers to the Green Business Network and has offered Waste Audit and other services to countless 00:03:55.705 --> 00:03:59.390 - other businesses in the community. 00:03:59.490 --> 00:04:06.973 - Unfortunately, we did not have a lot of response or organizations that took us up on those offers, but 00:04:06.973 --> 00:04:14.384 - she has really done a good job of putting us out there and trying to reach those organizations in the 00:04:14.384 --> 00:04:21.939 - community and offering services and education to staff to help them work on ways that they could reduce 00:04:21.939 --> 00:04:25.790 - their waste and or increase their recycling efforts. 00:04:28.674 --> 00:04:38.382 - Any questions on the education goals and objectives? Yes, Councillor Wells. On number one, you said 00:04:38.382 --> 00:04:48.382 - that you didn't do it. Was there a specific decision made to not pursue it at some point over the last 00:04:48.482 --> 00:04:57.821 - Several years. No, there was no specific decision made to dismiss or not attempt to achieve that goal. 00:04:57.821 --> 00:05:07.160 - I think it's just something that slipped through the cracks as we were moving forward with everything. 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:16.227 - OK, great. No, I'll pause. It's good. Thanks. So did any businesses take Kayla up on the offer of a 00:05:16.227 --> 00:05:17.406 - waste audit? 00:05:18.274 --> 00:05:27.037 - I was at zero. Off the top of my head, I don't know. Mr. Long, do you happen to know if we did any waste 00:05:27.037 --> 00:05:35.550 - audits with any businesses over the last few years? Yeah, we've done a few waste audits. Not complete 00:05:35.550 --> 00:05:43.979 - waste audits as complete as we want to do, but they are letting us go in and walk around and do some 00:05:43.979 --> 00:05:47.902 - audits and work with the different businesses. 00:05:48.418 --> 00:05:59.244 - and see how we can help them. I think, you know, off top of my head, I think we've done five or six 00:05:59.244 --> 00:06:10.502 - that I know of. Yes, Mr. Winnia. Yeah. Are there any records kept when those types of transactions take 00:06:10.502 --> 00:06:17.214 - place? Like, is there any way of knowing which ones they are? 00:06:17.538 --> 00:06:26.281 - Or when it happened? Like the waste audits? Yeah, yeah. I'm sure that Ms. Strand would have that information. 00:06:26.281 --> 00:06:34.546 - I don't have it readily available, but we certainly look into making that available. But you're dealing 00:06:34.546 --> 00:06:42.494 - with private businesses. Some may request that we only release so much. OK, that was it. Thank you. 00:06:45.698 --> 00:06:58.011 - Any other questions before Mr. McGlasson continues? Yes, Councillor Woods. So in the plan, later on 00:06:58.011 --> 00:07:11.678 - in the plan, it lists metrics. Are you reporting on those metrics? Are we going to get specific information on 00:07:12.482 --> 00:07:20.043 - the X number of whatever and that kind of thing? Unfortunately, that is something that staff, we basically, 00:07:20.043 --> 00:07:27.113 - we failed at. We did not track everything using that metric sheet, which is not to say that we don't 00:07:27.113 --> 00:07:34.044 - have some of that information, but it would not be readily available. But if there is any specific 00:07:34.044 --> 00:07:40.414 - information that board members or CAC members would like, we could certainly compile that. 00:07:46.498 --> 00:07:55.945 - Any other questions on the education section? All right, Mr. McGlasson, go ahead to continue to the 00:07:55.945 --> 00:08:05.393 - next part, please. On source reduction, so as far as broad education, a lot of that, things that we 00:08:05.393 --> 00:08:15.218 - already had in place, I mean, we were doing a substantial amount of education already. We did make some 00:08:15.218 --> 00:08:16.446 - attempts to, 00:08:16.770 --> 00:08:27.692 - I guess to refocus some of that, a lot of it is geared toward the school system and dealing with children, 00:08:27.692 --> 00:08:38.103 - school-aged residents versus businesses and or governmental entities. So we did try to revise or take 00:08:38.103 --> 00:08:45.758 - some of those and make them more applicable to businesses and governments. 00:08:45.954 --> 00:08:54.741 - And that's, again, something that Ms. Strand worked with and tried to distribute, disseminate 00:08:54.741 --> 00:09:04.183 - that information to those local businesses and governmental entities. As far as, you know, measuring 00:09:04.183 --> 00:09:13.437 - what core sort of effectiveness that had, we don't really, we never really set up a way, you know, 00:09:13.437 --> 00:09:15.774 - to do that, which again, 00:09:16.002 --> 00:09:23.495 - We probably could have done better follow up with those entities that we were reaching out and working 00:09:23.495 --> 00:09:30.989 - with to see what things they implemented or, you know, what actual data they might have had that would 00:09:30.989 --> 00:09:38.846 - have showed reductions in waste generation or increases in recycling or composting, but we did not do that. 00:09:40.898 --> 00:09:50.158 - And the proactive business outreach, again, that comes back to Ms. Strand. And it kind of, I guess, 00:09:50.158 --> 00:10:00.252 - overlaps with some of the things we've already discussed that she's done is reaching out with the businesses 00:10:00.252 --> 00:10:09.790 - with information and education materials and offering waste audits and doing things along those lines. 00:10:10.818 --> 00:10:19.116 - I don't have the exact number. Mr. Long, do you know how many new GBN clients we've got signed up since 00:10:19.116 --> 00:10:27.175 - Ms. Strand started? I do not have an exact number, but I know we was at an all-time low in 2020, and 00:10:27.175 --> 00:10:35.154 - we are back to, I just talked to her today, and we are at the highest that we have been in the last 00:10:35.154 --> 00:10:36.670 - five or six years. 00:10:40.258 --> 00:10:50.392 - I can get an exact number from her tomorrow. So there, you know, we have we have that number and that, 00:10:50.392 --> 00:11:00.231 - you know, at least is some measurement of the effectiveness of that outreach that she's been doing. 00:11:00.231 --> 00:11:06.430 - Excuse me. Ongoing dialogue with major community stakeholders. 00:11:07.842 --> 00:11:16.769 - Again, that's something that to some degree is always happening. I think the intent with identifying 00:11:16.769 --> 00:11:25.695 - that as a goal and objective in the plan was to make efforts to increase that. And to an extent that 00:11:25.695 --> 00:11:34.887 - has happened. We've worked with the city's department or office of economic and sustainable development 00:11:34.887 --> 00:11:36.478 - on some projects. 00:11:36.994 --> 00:11:47.071 - The city helped to co-fund the back to earth program that Mr. Guinnia referenced earlier. So that's 00:11:47.071 --> 00:11:57.249 - had that done. We've created a waste organic waste task force that has city representation on it and 00:11:57.249 --> 00:12:00.574 - university representation on it. 00:12:00.738 --> 00:12:11.095 - So, you know, we've made efforts to increase and have better dialogue. And unfortunately, to this point, 00:12:11.095 --> 00:12:20.958 - I think the Back to Earth program is probably the only tangible outcome of any of that. But what we 00:12:20.958 --> 00:12:30.526 - have at least, you know, in my mind, have increased that dialogue with those other stakeholders. 00:12:32.994 --> 00:12:41.894 - Local political engagement is also something that is kind of a continuous ongoing thing for 00:12:41.894 --> 00:12:51.568 - us. My recollection within the plan was that there was some interest in trying to increase that and 00:12:51.568 --> 00:13:01.726 - try to help push some legislative efforts that might potentially help or further the district's mission. 00:13:02.018 --> 00:13:13.371 - Locally, there hasn't been things done. It's sometimes hard to do that locally. I think we learned some 00:13:13.371 --> 00:13:24.614 - years ago when the city tried to implement a plastic bag ban, sometimes higher authorities step in and 00:13:24.614 --> 00:13:27.998 - prevent things from happening. 00:13:28.706 --> 00:13:37.591 - Beyond that, you know, at the state level there is lobbying and there are things going on that unfortunately 00:13:37.591 --> 00:13:45.743 - have no tangible, you know, results for it at this point. But, you know, either myself working with 00:13:45.743 --> 00:13:53.976 - our local state representatives or through the Association of Solid Waste Districts, you know, there 00:13:53.976 --> 00:13:57.726 - are lobbying efforts going on to do things to 00:13:57.890 --> 00:14:07.998 - require or promote organic waste diversion from the waste stream, looking at doing expanded producer 00:14:07.998 --> 00:14:19.007 - responsibility when it comes to things like batteries and electronic waste and trying to get some legislative 00:14:19.007 --> 00:14:27.614 - efforts done at the state level toward those ends. Any questions on source reduction? 00:14:31.362 --> 00:14:44.329 - I'm sorry. No? It doesn't look like it. I'm sorry? I said it doesn't look like it. Okay. Oh, Councillor 00:14:44.329 --> 00:14:57.047 - Wells. No, please, go ahead. I'm slow. After we go through this, which I'm hearing what you're saying 00:14:57.047 --> 00:15:00.414 - and it's very interesting. 00:15:00.994 --> 00:15:10.470 - I would like to hear more from the CAC on what their take on the how realistic some of this was and 00:15:10.470 --> 00:15:20.136 - and how successful it was. So I don't know if it's best to wait till the end or because I'm just very 00:15:20.136 --> 00:15:28.286 - interested in the broader perspective there. It's you're in the CAC's meeting. I can. 00:15:28.578 --> 00:15:36.214 - If you want me to stop going through this right now, we can do that. If you want me to continue to finish 00:15:36.214 --> 00:15:43.418 - going through those goals and objectives and summarize our efforts, it's your meeting. It's totally 00:15:43.418 --> 00:15:50.910 - what you guys want to do. Does anybody have a hard stop at a certain time? Actually, I do. 530. Oh, OK. 00:15:51.106 --> 00:16:01.096 - Well, let's take a pause from going through the goals in the plan and kind of open it up to the CAC 00:16:01.096 --> 00:16:11.186 - giving us some input in general about how you think the plan is going, what you had in mind when you 00:16:11.186 --> 00:16:19.678 - gave input to create the plan, things like that, what we might be doing differently, 00:16:20.290 --> 00:16:27.042 - to achieve some of these goals. Do you have a thought if I may. I think there are several elements of 00:16:27.042 --> 00:16:33.992 - the goals and objectives. I think in general I think they were ambitious. I wouldn't say that I expected 00:16:33.992 --> 00:16:40.876 - all of them to be knocked out of the park checked off the list. I think one thing that would be helpful 00:16:40.876 --> 00:16:46.238 - is if we did have that some more specific numbers from the district like on that 00:16:47.682 --> 00:16:53.659 - Goals, no, the metrics portion. If those were completed, I think that would help inform sort of how 00:16:53.659 --> 00:16:59.995 - much time was spent on it and maybe how difficult it was. But I will say, like for instance, particularly 00:16:59.995 --> 00:17:06.033 - in the education section, everything but the outreach campaign I think was really knocked out of the 00:17:06.033 --> 00:17:12.189 - park and I think was done really well. And I was just really pleased with how that all worked out. And 00:17:12.189 --> 00:17:16.254 - I think that, I don't know, it was probably a year's worth of work. 00:17:16.418 --> 00:17:22.359 - a significant effort, but I also know it was like one year out of four, so I don't know if we had put, 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:28.299 - if we were able, if the district was able to put a similar amount of effort into other things, and Mr. 00:17:28.299 --> 00:17:34.240 - McGlasson mentioned something like falling through the cracks, so it'd be interesting to know sort of, 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:40.066 - yeah, how difficult it was for the district and for staff to be able to get to these things as well. 00:17:40.066 --> 00:17:42.142 - So that's sort of my overall sense. 00:17:42.242 --> 00:17:55.258 - I think some things were done excellently, some things, yeah, didn't get attention, and I'd like to 00:17:55.258 --> 00:18:09.054 - hear from the district sort of how that felt on their end as well. Any other thoughts from the CAC? Okay. 00:18:09.762 --> 00:18:18.353 - A year or two after the plan was adopted, we did, I know Mr. Buenia did kind of create a tracking sheet. 00:18:18.353 --> 00:18:26.535 - And I think that maybe the staff didn't have time to put into that tracking. Is that something that 00:18:26.535 --> 00:18:34.962 - maybe could be revisited, Mr. McGlasson? Or was it just too much of an administrative burden? It could 00:18:34.962 --> 00:18:36.926 - certainly be revisited. 00:18:38.850 --> 00:18:48.283 - I don't know. It was too much of an administrative version versus a priority of time for various staff 00:18:48.283 --> 00:18:58.082 - members as to how the time it would take to work and complete that. But I think we could certainly revisit 00:18:58.082 --> 00:19:06.782 - time management of the staff and see what we could. I mean, if the board wants to direct staff 00:19:07.266 --> 00:19:15.521 - produce such a tracking document, then we don't really have a choice but to do it, do we? Councilor 00:19:15.521 --> 00:19:23.776 - Welts. So it is not my intent to overburden anyone on reporting just for my interests and curiosity 00:19:23.776 --> 00:19:32.031 - at all. I appreciate what I think I hear everyone saying about that. We get a lot of information at 00:19:32.031 --> 00:19:34.590 - every meeting from your staff. 00:19:34.818 --> 00:19:42.787 - And that's been something that I've been pleasantly surprised about, not knowing anything about these 00:19:42.787 --> 00:19:50.599 - meetings prior to this year. So I'm new, and that's kind of my perspective. So if there was maybe a 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:58.568 - way as, and not like next month or next week or anything like that, but if there's a way to take what 00:19:58.568 --> 00:20:03.646 - you're already doing in terms of reporting and fit it into this, 00:20:03.938 --> 00:20:11.526 - In a way, I mean, literally not like take a whole month and make it work, but just in moving forward 00:20:11.526 --> 00:20:19.114 - maybe a way of organizing the presentation. Yeah, and I think that's, you're kind of right on target 00:20:19.114 --> 00:20:27.002 - with what we, most of that data we already have and we already compile, we just do it differently. Yeah. 00:20:27.002 --> 00:20:29.406 - So it's not that, I don't know, 00:20:29.698 --> 00:20:36.119 - It is, but it isn't reinventing the wheel. I mean, it's, you know, we're taking something that we're 00:20:36.119 --> 00:20:42.667 - already doing and just maybe breaking it down a little bit differently and reporting it in a different 00:20:42.667 --> 00:20:49.024 - format. So I don't, that's why, I don't know that it's, you know, a burdensome administrative task. 00:20:49.024 --> 00:20:55.509 - It's just getting people to change the way that they're compiling and reporting the data. And I don't 00:20:55.509 --> 00:20:58.878 - think the only reason to do it should be because the 00:20:59.170 --> 00:21:08.226 - board and the CAC have this cool plan that we want to see fulfilled. You know what I mean? It's not 00:21:08.226 --> 00:21:17.553 - just an exercise or it shouldn't be an exercise and just self fulfillment of the paperwork. So I guess 00:21:17.553 --> 00:21:26.700 - maybe having staff input is kind of my first thought is I wouldn't want to impose a different format 00:21:26.700 --> 00:21:29.054 - on staff unless there was 00:21:29.570 --> 00:21:36.361 - a broader understanding of why and what we're doing with that information and to what end you know or 00:21:36.361 --> 00:21:43.020 - maybe maybe it's take a look at the way the plan is written in the future and have it fit more what 00:21:43.020 --> 00:21:49.878 - you all are already reporting if that's a requirement that you report that way you know I I don't know 00:21:49.878 --> 00:21:55.870 - I don't I don't know enough about yeah yeah I'm still learning but some stuff is reported 00:21:56.098 --> 00:22:01.692 - Some things are reported to the board the way they are because that coincides with some of our state 00:22:01.692 --> 00:22:07.618 - reporting requirement. That's how we have to report things to the state. So that data is readily available 00:22:07.618 --> 00:22:13.322 - in, you know, in that manner or broken down the way that it is because we're already having to do that 00:22:13.322 --> 00:22:19.082 - for state reporting requirements. Some stuff, it's just, that's how we've always compiled and tabulated 00:22:19.082 --> 00:22:24.787 - it and reported it. And it doesn't mean that there's not another way to do it. We just, nobody's asked 00:22:24.787 --> 00:22:25.950 - us to change before. 00:22:26.050 --> 00:22:33.082 - Uh, so, you know, um, it's certainly something that, you know, that we could, we could consider doing 00:22:33.082 --> 00:22:39.976 - and, uh, you know, we can meet with staff. Um, perhaps even staff could meet with, you know, bring, 00:22:39.976 --> 00:22:46.940 - come, invite staff to an executive committee meeting and the executive committee can tell staff what 00:22:46.940 --> 00:22:53.972 - it is that, that they're seeking or, or would like to see differently. Ask staff what they might want 00:22:53.972 --> 00:22:55.902 - to do and be interested in. 00:22:56.258 --> 00:23:04.822 - I mean, that's my view. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I think involving staff in formulating requests for data 00:23:04.822 --> 00:23:13.806 - so that we don't ask them to redo something they already do in just a slightly different way is important. 00:23:13.806 --> 00:23:22.539 - And to keep tying it back to our mission and not just like, oh, I have to report this because they told 00:23:22.539 --> 00:23:23.966 - me to report it. 00:23:24.130 --> 00:23:29.928 - There's some reason for that. And I would throw out one thing that I know that's talked a little bit 00:23:29.928 --> 00:23:35.783 - at executive committee meetings about, and I think I've brought it up with the CAC a couple of times. 00:23:35.783 --> 00:23:41.581 - But part of the reason that we're doing this is we are coming to the end of this five-year term that 00:23:41.581 --> 00:23:47.379 - this plan was meant to cover. And one of the things that's happening right now at the state level is 00:23:47.379 --> 00:23:53.465 - that the Department of Environmental Management has been tasked with coming up with a new state materials 00:23:53.465 --> 00:23:54.096 - management 00:23:54.096 --> 00:24:01.600 - plan, which is intended to replace the state's solid waste management plan that was implemented 30-some 00:24:01.600 --> 00:24:09.248 - years ago, 35 years ago about when districts were formed. So, you know, so depending on, you know, what's 00:24:09.248 --> 00:24:16.968 - in that plan, and, you know, I've gotten some information, but the plan's not been made publicly available 00:24:16.968 --> 00:24:19.710 - at this point in time, but, you know, 00:24:20.002 --> 00:24:31.159 - that that plan is going to greatly influence what the state thinks Solid Waste District should be doing. 00:24:31.159 --> 00:24:41.998 - All kinds of fun stuff. Is there other general feedback from CAC or board members since we're looking 00:24:41.998 --> 00:24:46.142 - at 11 minutes left with a quorum here? 00:24:50.594 --> 00:24:58.818 - If not, Mr. McGlassen, if you want to hit the highlights of the other categories. So waste diversion, 00:24:58.818 --> 00:25:07.122 - pile disposal. Yeah, I mean, diversion, you know, the get into the Back to Earth program was promoting 00:25:07.122 --> 00:25:14.782 - composting, you know, organic waste. We have the Organic Waste Task Force, you know, recently. 00:25:15.202 --> 00:25:24.489 - had Richland Farms show up wanting to offer services similar to what Earth Keepers used to do. So those 00:25:24.489 --> 00:25:33.776 - are things that are happening. The Garden Quest pilot that we did for festival and food waste. So there 00:25:33.776 --> 00:25:43.152 - are things happening with regard to education and promoting of waste diversion where possible. Rerouting 00:25:43.152 --> 00:25:44.670 - of usable waste. 00:25:44.802 --> 00:25:51.508 - We've developed any new streams for usable waste, but as Councilmember Wilts pointed out with her time 00:25:51.508 --> 00:25:58.018 - at the Dillman Road site, you know, those things are happening organically. You know, we have reuse 00:25:58.018 --> 00:26:04.789 - facilities at each site at all of our recycling centers. We have the materials for our program at South 00:26:04.789 --> 00:26:11.299 - Walnut, but yet you go to one of the rural recycling centers and stay there long enough, you'll see 00:26:11.299 --> 00:26:14.750 - things that go straight from one vehicle to another. 00:26:15.074 --> 00:26:23.307 - You know, so those things are happening organically, you know, without us, you know, doing a whole lot 00:26:23.307 --> 00:26:31.380 - to promote them. So expansion of recycling, composting services, you know, the multi-family, that's, 00:26:31.380 --> 00:26:38.334 - you know, the Back to Earth program. That was the primary thing done toward that goal. 00:26:38.978 --> 00:26:47.603 - Expand compost end user market, you know that unfortunately that's something that when when earth keepers 00:26:47.603 --> 00:26:55.902 - closed down We lost our product to go promote people to use So there wasn't a whole lot that we could 00:26:55.902 --> 00:27:04.446 - do there and Increase available data on diversion performance and contamination rates and losses. That's 00:27:04.930 --> 00:27:12.605 - That's something that has to happen at the state level. That's something that the Association of Solid 00:27:12.605 --> 00:27:20.430 - Waste Districts has looked at. You have to get the private sector data. We're a long ways from the state 00:27:20.430 --> 00:27:28.478 - forcing this private sector to provide that data, unfortunately. At least it appears that we're a long way. 00:27:28.578 --> 00:27:37.714 - from the state making that same requirement upon the private sector that they have made on solid waste 00:27:37.714 --> 00:27:46.938 - districts. And then final disposal facilities, you know, environmentally safe post-closure maintenance. 00:27:46.938 --> 00:27:53.502 - I mean, we're, that's, you know, Mr. Poulsen and his staff are doing the, 00:27:53.602 --> 00:28:02.647 - groundwater sampling, we're doing the leachate treatment, methane monitoring. We've not had any violations 00:28:02.647 --> 00:28:11.185 - of anything at this point. The state still does inspect that facility roughly annually, I think, and 00:28:11.185 --> 00:28:16.510 - we occasionally get comments that do this better or, you know, 00:28:16.674 --> 00:28:24.138 - Paint paint the groundwater wells, but no no violations of anything at least that mr. Paulson has made 00:28:24.138 --> 00:28:31.457 - me aware of But I think I think we're doing good there Recreational educational opportunities at the 00:28:31.457 --> 00:28:38.777 - landfill We have not done a whole lot with that and I think one of the you know, the issues there is 00:28:38.777 --> 00:28:44.574 - the location you know, I When it was operating, I know I miss pro-crawl used to 00:28:45.186 --> 00:28:53.122 - You occasionally get some classrooms that would take field trips out there, but it's closed and it's 00:28:53.122 --> 00:29:01.451 - out there and there's just not much incentive for a teacher to organize a field trip out to the landfill. 00:29:01.451 --> 00:29:09.309 - There's just not much benefit to the class to do that. And in making the landfill profitable, we've 00:29:09.309 --> 00:29:12.766 - been looking and I think we've got a couple 00:29:13.602 --> 00:29:21.800 - Brief reports, we've been looking at doing a solar panel field out there. The last report we got was 00:29:21.800 --> 00:29:30.242 - not overly positive, unfortunately. But that is, I'm not going to say it's off the table at this point, 00:29:30.242 --> 00:29:38.522 - but doing a solar array out at the landfill does not look promising at this point in time. Through no 00:29:38.522 --> 00:29:43.230 - fault of our own, there's a number of obstacles in place. 00:29:43.682 --> 00:29:52.783 - at the state level and from utilities that would make it expensive for either the district or the off 00:29:52.783 --> 00:30:01.705 - takers of that energy to engage in such a project. So I don't know. I'm not sure that there's a lot 00:30:01.705 --> 00:30:10.806 - of revenue generation possibilities for that facility at this time. I would like to mention something 00:30:10.806 --> 00:30:11.966 - that's under 00:30:12.258 --> 00:30:20.361 - Disposal of specified waste and also under the heading of solid waste problems and that's waste tires 00:30:20.361 --> 00:30:28.384 - So I think it is a good great step forward that the district now is collecting waste tires And there 00:30:28.384 --> 00:30:36.486 - was even an amnesty day that we got some funding for So I would mark that as a success And I think we 00:30:36.486 --> 00:30:39.902 - had Mr. Long or mr. Paulson, do you have a 00:30:40.034 --> 00:30:51.426 - numbers from the waste tire amnesty event? Yeah, so on the amnesty day alone, we took in 2,000 tires. 00:30:51.426 --> 00:31:02.595 - That's a total on-rem and off-rem. That was two semi-loads and a box truck full. Wow, that's great. 00:31:02.595 --> 00:31:04.382 - That's amazing. 00:31:11.202 --> 00:31:19.909 - Did the grant cover all of our expenses for that, or partially cover it? For that event, yes. The event 00:31:19.909 --> 00:31:28.448 - cost a little bit more than we anticipated. We had intended to do two events with the grant, but that 00:31:28.448 --> 00:31:37.154 - event took more than 50% of the grant funds. So we're working with item on options for additional grant 00:31:37.154 --> 00:31:39.582 - funding or what we can do to 00:31:40.066 --> 00:31:49.780 - You know be able to fund a second event in the spring Great counselor wealth Where did the truckloads 00:31:49.780 --> 00:31:59.493 - of tires go? Well Because we we take them at our south walnut facility so we have a relationship with 00:31:59.493 --> 00:32:08.350 - a company called liberty tire recycling and they have a facility up in Indianapolis and they 00:32:08.802 --> 00:32:19.394 - I know they make the crumb rubber out of some of them. I believe not the most ideal solution, but some 00:32:19.394 --> 00:32:29.780 - are sent for cement kiln fuel. Those kilns are under EPA regulations, and they're monitored with the 00:32:29.780 --> 00:32:35.230 - emissions. Like I said, it's not the ideal solution. 00:32:36.194 --> 00:32:45.584 - I would be disingenuous if I did not acknowledge that's what's happening with some of them. Thank you. 00:32:45.584 --> 00:32:54.974 - All right. Any final comments? We're glad to see the CAC here, so I want to give ample opportunity for 00:32:54.974 --> 00:33:04.638 - you all to make any comments about our five-year plan. Yeah, I'm just encouraged by the actions that have 00:33:04.802 --> 00:33:14.365 - that have been taken with everything from Richland Farms to supporting One Sustainable Joe and the grant 00:33:14.365 --> 00:33:23.473 - enables the public and nonprofit entities to take some of that work on and yeah, just making things 00:33:23.473 --> 00:33:32.581 - more accessible and showing that the district is doing what they can in order to allow residents to 00:33:32.581 --> 00:33:34.494 - be more sustainable. 00:33:35.394 --> 00:33:41.067 - So I'm very, very appreciative and grateful for that. And one more shout out to Joe Winnia. 00:33:41.067 --> 00:33:43.102 - We love you. Please don't leave. 00:33:46.082 --> 00:33:50.768 - I also wanted to add, if I may, there were two items that weren't covered that I wanted to touch on 00:33:50.768 --> 00:33:55.500 - that the district did. One was tree planting around the landfill area, and I was really heartened by 00:33:55.500 --> 00:34:00.467 - that, really excited about that project. Yeah, that didn't fall under one specific category, but I wanted 00:34:00.467 --> 00:34:05.246 - to make sure that got acknowledged, because I really enjoyed it, and I think it was a great idea. And 00:34:05.246 --> 00:34:09.979 - there was another time that Mr. Long had mentioned there was some, at least it was during one of the 00:34:09.979 --> 00:34:14.992 - department reports, that there was some pallet worth of material that had been recovered and redistributed 00:34:14.992 --> 00:34:15.742 - to users of the 00:34:16.290 --> 00:34:22.347 - the recycling facilities. I can't remember clearly what it was, but I just remember thinking that that 00:34:22.347 --> 00:34:28.227 - sounded exactly like this part of the management plan for redistributing recoverable materials. And 00:34:28.227 --> 00:34:34.225 - I was just very glad for that as well. So thank you a lot to the district for all of their hard work. 00:34:34.225 --> 00:34:40.165 - Even if it doesn't get listed in the report, I know there's a lot going on. Yes, I agree. Thank you. 00:34:40.165 --> 00:34:44.222 - All right. Mr. McClassen, any final words before we have to wrap up? 00:34:45.378 --> 00:34:53.733 - Just as a take advantage of the last meeting of the year to thank the board and the CAC for, you know, 00:34:53.733 --> 00:35:02.170 - your support of the district and its staff throughout the past year. And we in turn would like to thank 00:35:02.170 --> 00:35:08.254 - the staff for all their hard work. All right, we are adjourned. Thank you.