- I'm not sure if you guys had started or not, but the mic keeps cutting in and out. We can't really hear
- anything on this end. Can you hear me now? Yeah, now I can hear you. I wasn't sure if he had started
- and the mic was just really weak or or not. OK, well, I don't know. I know that the last meeting I had
- in here a couple of weeks ago we did have some issues with sound on the owl so. But sound good now. OK,
- Then without all the detail, I will just repeat for people that might have missed that starting on Monday,
- we will make the landfill property available for woody and vegetative debris from last night's tornado.
- So starting Monday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. facility will be open for people to bring woody and vegetative
- debris so they can get it out of their way. The camera is also off as well. That's part of it.
- again now. There we go. I did talk about some some staffing turnover that we're having that announced
- CAC member John Arnold has accepted position of controller replacing our current controller we resigned
- and as a result of that we'll be resigning from the CAC
- Nobody's comfortable with him being both the controller of the district and a member of the CAC. Then
- it was getting into our budget. As I said, 2025 General Assembly passed a property tax reform bill that,
- to put it bluntly from my perception, nobody really seems to understand the full impact of.
- And since about two thirds of our annual revenue is for property taxes, it's hard to put a budget together
- without knowing what the tax, what the estimate is about tax revenue in a given year. We do have our
- budget workshop with DLGF on July 17th.
- So at the very least, we will have good numbers to move forward with after that meeting. But unfortunately,
- that does fall after the July board meeting where we generally do the first presentation of the budget
- to the board, which is a first version. And it does sometimes change between that and the August meeting
- and the board.
- would vote to approve submitting the budget to the County Council for adoption. But we'll get it done,
- we always get it done and we'll have a budget for 27, one way shape or form. Other than that, I don't,
- oh, I will, I guess go ahead and announce
- I hope Jacob's is aware. We are going to pilot taking hard to recycle plastics to the Hefty Renew program
- at our South Walnut facility beginning in July. So for those who aren't aware, the Hefty Renew program
- is a program that Hefty Company has started.
- where you have to purchase bags, hefty, renewed bags, which unfortunately at this time, because the
- program's not here, aren't available locally, but can be purchased online through Amazon. I believe,
- I know Walmart has them through online. I believe you should be able to get them delivered to the local
- store. So there are some online options to purchase the bags. And, you know, hard to recycle plastics,
- straw slits, styrofoam, plastic bags, things like that are accepted to that program. What we've worked
- out with the Rumpke representatives is those bags will just go in with our commingled plastics and will
- be sorted out at the sorting facility by Rumpke down the road. So we're gonna start filing that in July
- and we'll see where that goes. Did you know that? Yes.
- That's the same one we're doing in Cincinnati? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Rumpi is currently doing the renew program
- in the greater Cincinnati area. And beyond that, I'm not sure. A new pilot in Cincinnati. Yeah. And
- since ultimately our plastics wind up in Cincinnati, on that side of it, it doesn't seem like logistically
- a big deal to do it.
- The bags are going to be compacted at our sites, and then taken to the local facility, put on a semi-truck
- to sense if there's some concern about are the bags going to hold up through all the transportation
- process and all of that. And obviously, Ramkey wants the bags intact when they get to that facility
- so they don't contaminate the other plastics that are going to be processed there. But we're going to pilot it.
- Hopefully it works and it's successful, and if so, we'll expand it to other facilities. If it doesn't,
- unfortunately it doesn't. I'm not sure you can do without that. And a similar question about that, you
- said hard plastics? Hard to recycle. Which is actually probably going to be mostly softer plastics.
- booth again at the fair this year where we will have more announcements and more information about the
- Renew program available. It will be sometime after the fair that we'll start rolling that program out.
- And I got that. I don't know if we have a whole lot of the normal that's going on. Happy to answer any
- questions. Any questions?
- I do have one. I found the executive committee meeting very interesting around the batteries and the
- challenges of the fire department bringing a burnt-up car electric battery. How do you guys deal with
- that? Is there any plans for additional education with lithium ion and keeping those separate? I feel
- like especially with vapes and a lot of those are lithium and
- shock those I'm sure you yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
- yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
- For some procedural, it had really good support, but for some procedural reasons, in a short session,
- it wound up not getting out of committee because it got assigned to a second committee and there wasn't
- time for that committee to hear it. So we do anticipate that. We're very similar to legislation coming
- back beginning of next year and the next legislative session.
- And what that legislation proposes to do is put some mandates regarding how waste lithium-ion batteries
- are handled. And it, in essence, imposes what's termed extended producer responsibility on manufacturers
- and distributors of the batteries, where they'll be able to put up money
- how exactly that will be managed. I think it's just an ending workout, but the money we put up will
- probably create what's called a batteries stewardship organization, something for that VSO, something
- to that effect. And then those funds will be made available to the collectors and all the people that
- have to deal with these waste batteries once the users of them need to get rid of them.
- that will hopefully keep them out of the waste stream, have them packaged in such a manner that limits
- the hazards they pose when they're being transported. So for that reason, anything that we do right
- now is going to be viewed as a temporary, education-wise or fee-wise or anything like that is temporary
- because we hope that
- that legislation will go through in the next session and that will create funding that will be available
- that will change the way that we manage them on our end and the cost associated with that. Very interesting.
- Just working in the mines with all the vapes. I know. Just for general information for anybody, we don't
- take vapes because unfortunately we can't
- determine what's in the faith. And we're not dealing with illegal substances. We do not accept them
- unfortunately because we don't want to have things in our possession that are illegal issues and
- So yeah, vapes are still lithium ion and a whole different animal altogether, though, than just the
- battery by itself. Got it. I guess I was thinking one of the negative basements. Yeah, but there are
- others out there, unfortunately. So that's a whole other challenge for the industry to deal with that
- compared to all the other lithium ions. Yeah. Got it. OK. Thank you. Any other questions? OK.
- Moving on, chair report, not much to report. So we will move on to reports of special committees, nothing,
- special orders, nothing, unfinished business and general orders. So we've got the 2077 CSE budget request.
- Last year, we had $500 for other supplies, $500 for travel, $350 for other rentals. That was to be in the
- farmers market and they're trying to recruit and then $1,500 for training and education which typically
- goes towards the Association of Indian Assault Race Management Districts conference. You certainly aren't
- restricted to that event for the use of the money. Thank you for the clarification. I don't see any
- reason to change any of that outside of maybe the other rentals
- I don't plan on going to the farmers market to recruit this year. Does anybody see any reason to change
- the budget as it stands?
- So as you can see, right here, we've got other supplies later. And then we've got 500 travel. Okay.
- 350 for other rentals and the turnings change to 500. So does anybody see any reason to change any of that?
- I mean, obviously, I can't too far away from my old eyes to read. But obviously, there's a number of
- other lines up there. And so those are the lines that the CDC has historically budgeted out of. But
- if anybody has an idea for all the things to do that there might be a cost associated with, by all means,
- you know, throw it out and I can help you determine what line it would be appropriate to request an
- appropriation form.
- Thank you for that clarification. There we go. Is there all the difference? And those are your other
- revenue lines now. Okay. And you guys don't get paid, so the person actually said that they're relevant.
- We don't need uniforms. These would be another potential
- So if there's no changes, do I hear a motion to approve the existing budget as soon on the screen share?
- Can I ask a clarification? Yeah. You talked about the other end of the line and said you don't intend
- to go to the farmers market to recruit. Does anybody else?
- Or do you think any new members that might come? I guess I just, are we leaving that in there or? I
- guess we're leaving it in there in case somebody wants to, in case I should. Which is fine. I'm just
- asking for clarification because we've got that out. Okay, so any other, any changes? I think we're
- fine, that's all we have.
- So do I hear a motion to approve the budget request as seen on the screen here? I have a motion to approve.
- Give me a second. Okay. Okay.
- since everybody's here in person, we can do a voice vote. All those in favor, say aye. All those abstaining,
- say abstain. All those
- I'll probably say no. The ayes have it. The budget request is approved. Yes, it's approved. Okay, back
- to the agenda.
- We're now down to new business with the joint meeting with the board of directors, which has to be done
- twice a year. And we normally do that in July. What we do, we normally do one meeting in July so that
- the board and the CAC can review the next year's proposed budget together and discuss that. So we generally
- do that either
- piggybacked on the July board meeting and the July CAC meeting so that that occurs before the board
- actually votes on it. One of the caveat in that is the statute does also require that the CAC provide
- the board with written comments regarding the proposed budget before the vote. So generally we do the
- board meeting and then into the joint meeting after that
- or at the CAC meeting, we do the joint meeting before, and then so that after the joint meeting, the
- CAC meets, you can have your own discussion, regard without the board present, and then out of that
- meeting, approve any written comments that would then be provided to me to include at the board pack
- until the August board meeting. And I will say I did, I pulled the board members right now,
- I have a quorum available to meet at the board meeting on July 9th, is that right? Yeah, July 9th. I
- do not have a quorum confirmed to meet 16th at this time. Which is the next year's meeting. Yeah. So
- then that begs the question, can we be able to have quorum at the tomorrow night meeting with the board
- after the board's meeting
- Mr. Harwood will no longer be a member, so we'll be down to. Yeah, and what will probably happen, but
- we have the two pending requests. Right. So if the board, assuming the board approves those appointments
- to the CAC, those appointments will probably be made with an effective date of July 10th, so that they
- don't impact quorum.
- at the, so if there's a joint meeting on the night, those discussions, we don't have any guarantees
- that they'll be present or available to be present at that time, so. So you would, you would need three
- for a quorum. I would ask, let me ask the legal, John technically might still be a member, but
- It's still three out of five. It should be three, yeah. When should my effective date of resigning be?
- It should be the 9th or the 10th. Once the board ratifies your hire, then you will... Not that you're
- not officially the controller now, but then it's all...
- It's the board, the controller reports directly to the board. So the controller is the board's hire.
- They delegated the authority to make that hire to get somebody in place to the chair with the condition
- that the candidate be brought back to the full board at the next meeting for the hire to be ratified.
- So until the full board ratifies the hiring decision,
- There's not a need for you to resign from the CAC. But that will happen. We assume that will happen
- at the July board meeting prior to the joint team. OK, so with the quorum of the board on July 9 from
- 4 to 5, it's in the Nathill year room. That does County Courthouse. I am available for that.
- and Jacob, is that something that you can either make in person or? It has to be in person. It does
- have to be in person. Okay, thank you. Account 44, you have to be physically present. Okay. If it starts
- my schedule now, I would be available. Okay. That would take place, we'd have the CAC meeting afterwards
- and that would take place at the 16th meeting. So the board will meet at four o'clock on the night.
- We would schedule the joint meeting for
- five o'clock on the night. And then the CDC will have its regular meeting on the 16th, where you can
- discuss the budget amongst yourselves without the board present and develop any comments to provide
- to the board. Thank you for that clarification. So it'll be two weeks next month. Got you. So is that
- something that you want? Yeah, check my schedule. I shouldn't be in the meeting.
- based on the three of us, we won't make one outside of it. I will advise the board and we'll get that.
- What was the time again? At five p.m. And what we'll probably do is in order to get through the board's
- business because they canceled the June meeting, I will not present the budget at the board meeting
- or hold that off and just present it during the joint meeting. I'm sure everybody will see it for the
- first time.
- together. And you expect the board meeting will go in full power. We might be down a little bit early
- and want to start at that. Just asking for it. It'll go to full on. Okay. They may table some items
- to the following month to end in five. Okay. They canceled the June meeting so we got to get through
- the grant applications. There's a lot of stuff.
- And even if for some reason they were to end at 445, we'll hold sit and wait until we'll advertise the
- joint meeting to start at five. But we won't start at 445, we'll start at 5 o'clock. And then I guess
- one last caveat that we will have a board forum until at least 545.
- Beyond that, I don't know what'll happen. That's when they, you know, they're all available at a certain
- time. And that's the first one said 545. So depending on how many show up, we may or may not use them
- all at that time. Any other questions on that? Okay. We'll move on to the Association of Neon Solid
- Waste Management District Retreat, October 13th and 14th. Just wanted to get an initial idea of who
- was interested in attending.
- So we can then, we'll have to deal with the budget once that's approved. No, we already have the budget
- for this year. So we just have to approve who's going, so the response can be applied. And that was
- just the... Yeah, and I don't know, the association, obviously they're planning to retrieve right now.
- I don't know anything about registration fees at this point.
- There's generally a lower fee for early bird registration and accommodate bird bumps up a little bit.
- If everybody on the CAC wants to go, I generally would exceed the CAC's budget, but again, that's happened
- in the past and the district's been able to cover it.
- I know I've always enjoyed it and learned a fair amount as well. It's in Springville State Park, so
- it isn't on this side of the state. I have to go to Indianapolis or something like that, so I know I'm
- interested.
- Um, so, um, is anybody else interested in just to kind of have an initial idea that we have any questions
- about? Okay. Yeah. And for Jacob, I don't run. He generally is represented at the association. That's
- run people, not as members of CACs. You may have to talk to. Yeah, it would be about having one attendance.
- They plan to do. Okay.
- All right. We have no other new business. Public comment is now up. Each member of the public will have
- four minutes to speak. Please indicate your desire to comment by using the raise hand function routine.
- So by typing into the chat and you'll be called on the order that your request is received. Name is
- in the chat. Okay. No losing your room.
- It doesn't appear there's any public comments. Any announcements that you'd like to make? No. When do
- we typically do the adopter road and clean up? I've been driving down that road and been wondering about
- it. I saw somebody out there today picking up trash, and I thought, hey, that's our job. There is. It
- was usually late summer, maybe? From my recollection, there's no set schedule. The program asks for
- four cleanups a year.
- Not all roads need four cleanups a year, blow pockets into that as well, but. It's been a while since
- the AC has done one. We do it every day. Yeah, so it's south Walnut, south of the Crow country. From
- the Crow country to the Valley nursery.
- Yeah, it usually takes an hour and a half, two hours. In the past, we've been fortunate enough to have
- a team on each side of the road, so we usually drive down to the nursery and just cover both sides of
- the road going back towards Crowder's. So I'll put that in the agenda for next month. Okay. We can look
- at what we do with all the hot melts, probably not. You can try and do that during the morning anyways.
- Yeah, I mean, it could be an early fall or something like that. Okay.
- So we do something. We have done it annually. We typically get several bags of trash. Yeah. And I found
- a waste reduction district magnet one time. And it's in the garage now. Well, I will say, I mean, you
- guys are, I mean, it's better now because when they were doing the 69 construction, for some reason,
- of course, the Hoosier disposal was the only transfer station in town at that, and that became
- a main drag for the hauling trucks going to that transfer station with stories known under construction.
- And their stuff coming off the trucks. Any other announcements, anything else that we want to bring
- up? No? Okay. The next regular meeting is Thursday, July 16th. And that's here, Shatters Building North
- Room 106D. And then as a reminder, we're also gonna have the joint meeting on Thursday, July 9th.
- from five to six in the Halloween room in the county courthouse. And if there's no objection, this meeting
- will adjourn. Seeing none, this meeting is adjourned.