December 9, 2009 SAB Meeting Minutes
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Beth Johnson |
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Call Meeting to Order (Daniel Poull, Chairperson)
Take Roll Call to Determine Quorum of Members
ANY PRESSING ITEMS
None.
APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES
Motion and second to approve the November 11, 2009 minutes (Heckler/Sethi). Motion was passed unanimously.
Elect SAB Officers for the Upcoming Year
Motion and second to approve Matt Lehrman as Chair, Sarah Hill-Nelson as Vice-Chair, and Brian Sifton as Secretary (Routh/Cobb). Motion was passed unanimously.
Discuss Goal Setting Session for January Meeting
Staff suggested that the Board wait to have their Goal Setting Session until March instead of January since there are three new board members starting their terms in January and to consider having a facilitator for their Goal Setting Session. Staff suggested Lisa Patterson as a facilitator.
Prior to tonight's meeting, SAB members including the new members were emailed copies of the September 2008 Goal Setting Session notes, board members' surveys and citizens' feedback.
Motion and second to schedule the SAB Goal Setting Session in March 2010, request a facilitator for the meeting, request citizen feedback, and have all board members complete the survey questions prior to the Goal Setting Session (Hill-Nelson/Sethi). Motion was passed unanimously.
SAB discussed keeping it as the same format as the last Goal Setting Session (a couple hours on one evening, board members brought food to share).
Laura Routh requested to be notified of the final scheduling plans for the Goal Setting Session.
Staff Report on Recycling Pilot Program
There was discussion regarding the SAB item on the City Commission Consent Agenda on 12-01-09. The SAB memo was placed on the Consent Agenda together with the City staff memo which was mislabeled "SAB Recycling Information". SAB commented that they were seeking direction from the City Commission and were not expecting the action that staff would respond to their memo as was stated on the Consent Agenda.
Tammy Bennett indicated that staff will re-package the information from the recycling memos, reports and survey results and create a summary or timeline of all of these to present to SAB in the January meeting. This will be helpful information to the new board members as well.
Laura Routh commented to the Board that as a citizen she will not support the SAB suggested option on the recycling matrix: public-private partnership. She believes that in order for the City to get a handle on reducing the amount of waste, the City needs to play a significant role in curbside recycling. She also stated the importance of Pay-as-You-Throw.
Daniel Poull noted that SAB's goal has now evolved to focus on waste reduction and not on curbside recycling. There was discussion on how focusing on waste reduction will lead to more recycling options. SAB expressed excitement regarding the front page article on Pay-as-You-Throw in the Lawrence Journal World on December 7, 2009. Daniel also commented that WASTEZERO, a private firm, contacted him.
Waste Reduction & Recycling Report
Kathy Richardson emailed the WRR November report to SAB (see attached). She announced that the City's Solid Waste Division has scheduled the Christmas tree collection dates on the three Mondays following Christmas: Dec. 28th, Jan. 4th and Jan. 11th.
Miscellaneous Announcements and/or Public Comments
Laura Routh commented that the EPA has opened a public comment website specific to solid waste issues. She will email the link to SAB.
The Board discussed the possibility of getting signage designed and printed for outreach events. Megan Poindexter, Simran Sethi and Brian Sifton will ask friends at KU to see if they can design it and report back to the Board.
Simran Sethi mentioned that the Lawrence Journal World is working on a publication called health commons which has one area focusing on localvore. She wondered if SAB would be interested in participating in this group by providing content. Daniel said he would be interested.
Board members asked staff if there was any news on the hiring timeline of the Sustainability Coordinator. Staff remarked that the County is considering expanding the applicant pool by re-opening and re-posting the position.
Meeting adjourned 6:40 p.m.
Next meeting: January 13th, 2010 at 5:30 pm.
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