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2017-01-09 Regular MeetingSOLID WASTE ADVISORY BOARD REGULAR MEETING MINUTES IV,Wax. A' A: January 9, 2017@ 5:15 PM Kodiak Fisheries Research Center Call to Order Chair Szabo called to order the Regular Meeting of the Solid Waste Advisory Board at 5:15 p.m. on January 9, 2017 at the Kodiak Fisheries Research Center. Roll Call J. Clay conducted a roll call and a quorum was established. The following members were present; Chair Nick Szabo, Jeff Stewart, Jennifer Culbertson, Nathan Svoboda and Scott Arndt. Steven Neff was absent. Also in attendance were Bob Tucker and Jenny Clay of the Kodiak Island Borough, Ex -Officio member Robert Gray of USCG, Mike Shrewsbury and Lee Hickle of Alaska Waste, Stephanie Mason and Chris Lynch of Threshold and Visitor Don Roberts Jr. Approval of Agenda ARNDT moved to approve the agenda. VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRRIED UNANIMOUSLY. Approval of Minutes ARNDT moved to approve the minutes of October 3, 2016. VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. Visitor Comments: Don Roberts Jr. — Spoke to the Board regarding his inability to recycle due to lack of storage and vehicle.Subsidized housing was small and there was nowhere to sort recyclables. A convenient recycle center was discussed. Chris Lynch — President of Threshold Services Inc. who has the current contract for Kodiak Island Borough recycling services. They have volunteers help short recyclables. Businesses can recycle by calling for pickup or come to the drive through. They do charge a fee of $20 for pick up services. She was here tonight to introduce Stephanie Mason, their new Executive Director who started October 1, 2016. Stephanie comes to us from the State of Washington with Non Profit experience. Threshold's main mission was to provide jobs for disadvantaged people in 11 ' MAR 15 2011 SOLID WASTE ADVISORY BOARD REGULAR MEETING MINUTES IV,Wax. A' A: January 9, 2017@ 5:15 PM Kodiak Fisheries Research Center Call to Order Chair Szabo called to order the Regular Meeting of the Solid Waste Advisory Board at 5:15 p.m. on January 9, 2017 at the Kodiak Fisheries Research Center. Roll Call J. Clay conducted a roll call and a quorum was established. The following members were present; Chair Nick Szabo, Jeff Stewart, Jennifer Culbertson, Nathan Svoboda and Scott Arndt. Steven Neff was absent. Also in attendance were Bob Tucker and Jenny Clay of the Kodiak Island Borough, Ex -Officio member Robert Gray of USCG, Mike Shrewsbury and Lee Hickle of Alaska Waste, Stephanie Mason and Chris Lynch of Threshold and Visitor Don Roberts Jr. Approval of Agenda ARNDT moved to approve the agenda. VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRRIED UNANIMOUSLY. Approval of Minutes ARNDT moved to approve the minutes of October 3, 2016. VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. Visitor Comments: Don Roberts Jr. — Spoke to the Board regarding his inability to recycle due to lack of storage and vehicle.Subsidized housing was small and there was nowhere to sort recyclables. A convenient recycle center was discussed. Chris Lynch — President of Threshold Services Inc. who has the current contract for Kodiak Island Borough recycling services. They have volunteers help short recyclables. Businesses can recycle by calling for pickup or come to the drive through. They do charge a fee of $20 for pick up services. She was here tonight to introduce Stephanie Mason, their new Executive Director who started October 1, 2016. Stephanie comes to us from the State of Washington with Non Profit experience. Threshold's main mission was to provide jobs for disadvantaged people in 11 Kodiak. They employ about eight people who sort paper products and five floor employees. One of Threshold missions was to provide jobs for those people. They currently take plastics Stype one and two, office paper, cardboard, minor metals and electronics for a fee. They are L--T,—V6' working with the Landfill to pull more recyclables out at the baler building. There are L `fiVe drop off places around town for after- hours drop off. Bob Tucker— Part of Threshold's contract was to take a certain amount of poundage of electronic waste from the customer to keep it out of the Landfill. The Landfill was considering the purchase of a baler to help with the cardboard they receive. He also introduced Dora Cross to the SWAB Board as the new Borough Finance Director. Robert Gray — Stressed to the Board that CFL -Compact Florescent Lamps/Bulbs contain a lot more mercury. They must be recycled and not put in the landfill. Discussion/Action Items a. Review Solid Waste RFP and Contract Chair Szabo was invited to speak at the work session by Mayor Rorher, to give an update on the RFP and Contract. Bob Tucker received the RFP and Contract back from the attorney and spoke about changes made. The Board reviewed the RFP and Contract with their suggestions and changes. The RFP would be advertised by the end of February 2017 and Contract would begin July 1, 2018. Chair Szabo and board members were asked by Mayor Rohrer to attend the Assembly Work Session on Thursday at 6:30PM to update them on the RFP and Contract. b. Election of Officers ARNDT MOVED to leave the officers the same for another year, Nick Szabo as Chair and Scott Arndt as Vice Chair. VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRRIED UNANIMOUSLY. c. Food Waste Disposal Chair Szabo spoke about letters and a survey sent to three grocery vendors by SWAB to ask what they did with their expired foods and to take a survey. They have not received a response. The Assembly requested SWAB follow up on the food waste disposal of those vendors. Mayor Rorher suggested SWAB discuss with the Assembly at the Thursday work session, if there should be a requirement of grocers to recycle food instead of disposing of it. The question before them would be: "Should recycling remain optional in the Borough?" Board discussion ensued. Jeff Stewart stated last month Safeway had changed their policy and were now giving expired food to the food bank. Chair Szabo will report to the Assembly. d. 2017 Strategic Plan This will be discussed at a future meeting. Visitor Comments: None. Board Member Comments: Jeff Stewart — Would like to investigate further the recycling of electronics. He was very interested in the glass pulvarizer and would like to work with the Borough and Threshold. He would like a report from Threshold on where they have advanced in recycling. Nathan Svoboda — He wanted to thank Bob and his staff regarding the RFP and Contract. The high school students received another grant of $1,000 from the Brown Bear Trust to retro fit more dumpsters. The Brown Bear Trust thinks highly of that program and really appreciates the work of the students. In future meetings he would like to discuss recycling of glass and also to make an effort, post holidays, to advertise or add temporary places for people to dump cardboard. The dumpsters after the holidays are full of cardboard boxes. He would like to encourage people to get rid of wrapping paper and cardboard boxes through recycling them. He would like to work with Threshold on this through advertising and service announcements. In the future he would like to discuss an outreach to the villages and banning plastic bags from Kodiak Island. He also requested a tour of the landfill. Mike Shrewsbury — He thanked the board for their compliments on getting the residential roll offs hauled more often. This makes more space to throw your trash. Piggy backing the high school welding class, they were able to get three more lids done this first semester for materials that were purchased in the spring. With the Brown Bears Trust help we are going to continue. Dennis Symmons —This was a good meeting. Thanked Stephanie Mason for being part of Threshold. It takes someone very special to be in that position. You sound like you know what you have gotten yourself into. He thanked Dora Cross, the Borough Finance Director for attending the meeting. It was good to hear the board compliment the contractor, Alaska Waste on theirjob well done. Also compliments to the Borough staff on a good job. Bob Gray — He didn't feel the board had any right to be accusatory toward Stephanie Mason of Threshold. He offered his apology to her as he felt it was unacceptable what happened to her here tonight. We as a board do not have the right to accuse anybody. Scott Arndt — He welcomed Stephanie to Kodiak and looked forward to her attending the meetings and helping in what we do. He also thanked Alaska Waste and noticed in the last six months that there were no garbage issues around the dumpsters. He looks forward to pulling the cardboard from the tipping floor. With the dumpsters not being so full it would be easier to pull the cardboard out. Nick Szabo - He thanked Stephanie for coming to the meeting and welcomed her to Kodiak. He thanked the Borough staff and realized it was difficult to put the RFP and Contract together. Meeting Schedule The next regular meeting was to be determined. Adjournment ARNDT moved to adjourn meeting. VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. The meeting was adjourned at 7:30 p.m. SUBMITTED BY: J nny Clay, Secletary KIB Engineering/Facilities Department APPROVED BY: Nick zabo, Chair Solid Waste Advisory Board Date: 3-//`5/17 Date: 'e ` 7-