01/06/2021 Regular MeetingSOLID WASTE ADVISORY BOARD
REGULAR MEETING MINUTES
January 6, 2021- 5:15 PM
Kodiak Island Borough Assembly Chambers
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Call to Order
Chair Szabo called the regular meeting to order at 5:17 p.m. on Monday, January 6, 2020.
Roll Call
P. Valerio conducted a roll call, a quorum was established. Board members present were Chair
Nick Szabo, Doug Hogan, Patrick Cummings, and Terri Pruitt. Jason Jardine and Nathan Svoboda
were absent.
Approval of Agenda
PRUITT MOVED to approve the agenda. HOGEN seconded.
VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
Approval of Minutes
HOGEN MOVED to approve the minutes of December 2, 2020. PRUITT seconded.
VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
Visitor Comments:
Andie Wall — provided information about what she does at KANA and what her goals are.
Darren Plats — made comments about solid waste contract issues.
Discussion Items:
Election of Officers:
N. SZABO opened nominations for CHAIR.
HOGEN MOVED to nominate Nick Szabo. PRUITT seconded.
N. SZABO opened nominations for VICE CHAIR.
No nominations.
N. SZABO asked if there were any objections to close nominations of Vice Chair until next
meeting.
No objections were made.
Engineering & Facilities Report:
Engineering & Facilities Director David Conrad provided a small update on the Solid Waste
Contract at request of the Chair Nick Szabo. There was an error made on a table that was in the
contract, this is the focus for the Assembly and Sub Committee. The subcommittee has asked
for more information and staff is working to provide that to them. Settlement should be ironed
out in the near future. There is a spreadsheet of other issues that will be fixed later, as we can,
or noted to be fixed in the next solicitation of contract.
There was a discussion about the Household Hazardous waste between Dave and Andie.
Andie's goal is to use resources available to help keep a consistent flow out of the smaller
communities. Dave agreed and there should be more discussion about this.
Outreach:
Terri Pruitt presented information and asked for guidance from the Board and Chair with
getting a student from the High School Student Council involved. Lindsey Glenn contacted her
and stated they had lots of interest. There was discussion on how to get the student on the
Board properly and what involvement there would be.
Terri also discussed the project of having High School students do a documentary about the
landfill and requested to set up tours of the landfill. If we get a documentary out there, we can
spread the information farther.
Coloring Book: KIB submitted the application for the Kodiak Brown Bear Trust. Nathan Svoboda
was a big help with this effort. We have commitments from KIB ($500), KIBSD ($500), KBBT
($500) if awarded, and Alaska Waste would cover 50%. Artist has received payment from
Threshold. KIB and Threshold decided that they would like to put a hold on invoicing other
entities until we have a solid idea of how many we would like to get printed. Need to consider
the smaller communities/villages and if businesses want to have them.
Christmas Tree Recycling: The Boy Scouts used to bring the trees to the City's Waste Water
Treatment Plant and the City would burn them. But due to construction the City is unable to
allow the Boy Scouts to do the same thing this year. The Boy Scouts contacted the Borough to
see if they could bring the Christmas trees to the Landfill. Dave worked out a plan for this year.
The Boy Scouts can bring the trees to the landfill and Kevin Arndt from MK Enterprises would
chip them for free. Dave suggested that SWAB take charge of this and try to set up a better
program for next year and the years to come. Doug offered to call AK Fish & Game to see if they
need trees for habitat use. Terri offered to help. Nick said he would call Craig to see if there can
be more cooperation between City and Borough efforts. Dave said he already talked with Craig
and that he was on board.
Visitor Comments: None
Board Member Comments:
P. Cummings — None.
A. Wall —Thank you — looking forward to more meetings.
D. Hogen — Very excited that the student council wants to get involved. It's the perfect situation
to get kids learning, which causes bigger/better percentage of the population being mindful
about recycling. Its exactly what we need.
A. Williams —Amazing to see what happens behind the scenes at the Borough. Took notes on
comments about the waste contract. We are trying to meet the needs as we can, not the front
focus but trying. Hoping to settle within the next month.
T. Pruitt —None.
D. Conrad — Please call the EF office to set up the Landfill tours. Do not go directly out there.
N. Szabo — Happy new year! Thank you Staff.
Meeting Schedule — Wednesday February 31d, 2021.
Adjournment
HOGEN MOVED to adjourn. CUMMINGS seconded.
VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:38p.m.
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Pat cia Valerio, Board Secretary
KIB Engineering/Facilities Department
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