05/25/2022 Regular MeetingSOLID WASTE ADVISORY BOARD
REGULAR MEETING MINUTES
May 25, 2022 - 5:15 PM
Kodiak Island Borough —Teleconference
Call to Order
Chair Andie Wall called the regular meeting to order at 5:25p.m. on Wednesday May 25, 2022.
Roll Call
P. Valerio conducted a roll call, a quorum was established. Board members present were Chair
Andie Wall, Vice Chair Doug Hogen, Kerry Irons, Terri Pruitt, Robert Williams, and Patrick
Cummings. Nathan Svoboda was absent. Other's present were Kodiak Island Borough Assembly
Member Scott Smiley and Scott Arndt, Kodiak Island Borough Engineering and Facilities Director
David Conrad, Kodiak Island Borough Solid Waste Manager Jena Hassinger, and Kodiak Island
Borough Finance Director Dora Cross.
Approval of Agenda
HOGEN MOVED to approve the agenda. CUMMINGS seconded.
VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
Approval of Minutes
PRUITT MOVED to approve the minutes of March 23, 2022. HOGEN seconded.
Patrick Cummings clarified his Board Member comments from last meeting - he did not intend
for his comments to make it seem like he was against electric cars. They are better than gas
vehicles. But the community needs to think of how to deal with the repercussions of the
changes and proper disposal of items when the time comes.
VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
Acknowledgement of Financial Report
Chair Acknowledged receipt.
David Conrad announced the end of the fiscal year and suggested that the Board consider
spending funds available sooner than later. The Board had a discussion on options of what to
spend.
PRUITT MOVED to authorize expenditure of the budget with $1,500 towards three corvex signs
for the dumpster sites, $1,500 for three more banners (stand up banners for events), $2,000 for
swag items for SWAB, and any funds left to be handled by Engineering and Facilities to decide
what to do with. IRONS seconded.
ROLL CALL VOTE ON MOTION CARRRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
Visitor Comments:
Discussion Items:
A. Threshold Services Report (if present)
B. Alaska Waste Report (if present)
C. City of Kodiak Report (if present)
D. Engineering and Facilities Report
David Conrad made the report for the Engineering & Facilities Department. Dumpsters
have been an issue for a long time, and he is looking for assistance from the Board to
come up with ideas of how to address. He shared a summary of ideas. He reviewed the
changes going on with dumpsters; Chiniak has a new site, Selief dumpsters are moving
to Dark Lake, and Kalsin Bay and Pasagshak are receiving extra dumpsters for the
summer months. There was discussion with Dave and the Board on options for
dumpsters, green waste, transfer sites, reuse locations, glass crushing, the history of
each and possible solutions. Direction was given to the Board to research ideas for the
transfer site and reuse area and present their findings at the next meeting.
Dave apologized to the Board that it has taken so long but would like to try to move
forward with tours of the Landfill for them. He also reviewed the current projects that
are going on or will be starting soon; Landfill Stage 3 Closure and Leachate Treatment
Plan Aeration Facility.
E. Outreach Reports
1. Household Hazardous Waste Event Summary:
Patricia Valerio gave an overall review of what was in the packet. Jena Hassinger
reviewed the quantities of items that came in for the event. The 2022 Spring
Household Hazardous Waste Event produced one 40-foot Conex this year to be
shipped off.
2. Banners Arrived
Patricia Valerio indicated that there are photos in the packet and that the banners
have been put up for the meeting so everyone can see them. Dave suggested leaving
one up for the Assembly meeting.
3. Future Event: National Recycle Day (November 1511)
Patricia wanted to bring this date to the Board's attention to start thinking ahead of
what they might like to do for an event.
F. Plastic Bag Return:
Robert Williams discussed what he has seen with the plastic bags and paper bags
recently. He knows that other communities charge for bags and presented that as an
l idea to obtain funds for programs to help increase awareness. Robert said he would
it
share the ordinances from the other cities around Alaska with the Board. Direction was
given to the Board to research the idea, come up with possible verbiage, and present
findings at next meeting.
G. Education Committee Report:
No action was taken by committee this month. Kerry apologized that she was super
excited to get something together for Earth Day but just ran out of time. Excited to
move onto National Recycling Day in November. Andie Wall said that she attended the
Brown Bear Trust presentations and talked about SWAB's efforts and encouraged a
student to join the Board.
H. Strategic Planning & Organization:
Doug Hogen read the draft plan into the record. There was discussion among the Board
to clarify some items. The Strategic Committee is requesting the rest of the Board
provide feed back on the draft. There was a discussion among the Board about the
community survey. Direction was given the Board to come up with topics or questions
that they would like to see on the survey to start building the survey.
SWAB Summer Schedule:
Andie Wall said that Nathan Svoboda brought this up in an email. He suggested that the
Board take a summer hiatus and was open to suggestions of the Board. There was
discussion, but the consensus of the Board was to keep the schedule as normal and just
do their best to hold meetings.
Visitor Comments: None
Board Member Comments:
P. Cummings — Dave this is tough stuff. Its hard to manage the expectations of the community.
The survey will be a good help. But thank you for all your hard work on this. Senator Murkowski
held a symposium, and it was nice to see Kodiak Borough and City was represented there.
Again, electric cars are good ideas, and I didn't mean to make it sound like I was against them. I
recently traveled to Germany, and they have jumped right to Hydrogen powered vehicles — very
interesting. Thank you.
K. Irons — Thank you to the Staff for all the support
D. Hogen — None.
T. Pruitt — None.
R. Williams — None.
D. Conrad — I will send some more ideas via email.
S. Smiley — None.
A. Wall —Survey is exciting. I have also been approached by folks wanting to do net recycling.
Having the survey be a tangible thing that people can submit and provide input on will be
wonderful.
Meeting Schedule —June 22°d, 2022.
Adjournment
Chair announced the meeting was adjourned at 7:17p.m.
SUBMITTED BY:
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Paici`aValerio, Board Secretary
KIB Engineering/facilities Department
APPROVED BY:
Andie Wall, Chair
Solid Waste Advisory Board
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