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2024-02-20 Regular MeetingKODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH Solid Waste Advisory Board Regular Meeting February 20, 2024 A Solid Waste Advisory Board Regular Meeting was held on February 20, 2024, in the Kodiak Fisheries Research Center. CALL TO ORDER Chair Andie Wall called the meeting to order at 5:19 p.m. ROLL CALL Staff Brian Price conducted a roll call. Members present were Chair Andie Wall, Terri Pruitt, Doug Hogan, and Larry Van Daele. Vice Chair Kerry Irons was absent. A Quorum was established. Also present was Environmental Specialist Jena Hassinger. APPROVAL OF AGENDA VAN DAELE MOVED to approve the agenda. PRUITT seconded. VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY APPROVAL OF PREVIOUS MINUTES VAN DAELE MOVED to approve the minutes of the January 30th regular meeting minutes. HOGEN seconded. VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT OF FINANCIAL REPORT The board acknowledged the receipt of the financial report. Staff Brian Price outlined changes made to the SWAB Expense Tracking document. Purchases made since the last regular meeting were shared in discussion. Jena Hassinger discussed with the board what information had been included in the Chamber of Commerce Relocation Guide for SWAB's page. Chair Andie Wall discussed assigning responsibilities with the board for the remaining purchases on the expense tracker. VISITORS' COMMENTS DISCUSSION ITEMS/ACTION ITEMS Threshold Services Report (if present) Alaska Waste Report (if present) City of Kodiak Report (if present) Kodiak Island Borough Solid Waste Advisory Board Regular Meeting February 20, 2024 Minutes Engineering & Facilities Report (if present) Jena Hassinger began the report. One of the cardboard dumpsters in the Bells Flats had been damaged and will be unavailable until the repair is done. Jena Hassinger proposed several different topics to explore for board education and shared with them what leads she had for information. Topics such as, glass recycling, transfer stations, and others were discussed. The board continued to share their thoughts. Discussion ensued about agenda setting and concerns with topic continuity. Outreach Reports Terri Pruitt began the Outreach Reports. She shared with the board there was not article for this week but expected to have it completed the following week. Terri Pruitt mentioned a contract being worked on for separating grades of plastic at an Ocean Plastics Facility. Terri Pruitt mentioned that grants are likely the best way for upstarting these sorts of recycling projects. Chair Andie Wall continued the Outreach Reports. She requested if Terri Pruitt and herself would be able to meet up and join efforts to try and align the newspaper articles to social media posts. Terri Pruitt mentioned her request to interview David Conrad about the topic of transfer stations. At the time she requested, he was not ready for the interview and would have to do it later. Strategic Planning & Organization Chair Andie Wall began discussion of Strategic Planning & Organization. She shared a comment from Vice Chair Kerry Irons requesting if there could be a work session to focus on the Strategic Plan and review how it is still serving the board. Staff Brian Price mentioned meeting availability in the month of March. Jena Hassinger and Brian Price both informed the board of differences in procedure for a work session. Chair Andie Wall noted in discussion the difficulties posed from having 2 open seats on the board. She encouraged members to invite people to a meeting if they are interested in joining. She continued and stated recruitment of board members as a high priority. Doug Hogen continued the discussion of Strategic Planning and Organization. He had recently reached out to the Manager of Walmart with previous board SWAB member Nick Szabo. The manager was out of town, and so Doug Hogen planned to reach out again the following Thursday. Larry Van Daele began to mention members of other volunteer boards. He speculated that people who volunteer on one board may be willing to do so for SWAB as well. Larry Van Daele further added how there could be a potential synergy created between organizations and that this could provide incentive to join SWAB. Chair Andie Wall asked the board their thoughts regarding if next meeting was changed to a work session and the meeting proceeding the work session would be a "Bring A Friend" meeting to focus on and attempt recruiting. Kodiak Island Borough Solid Waste Advisory Board Regular Meeting February 20, 2024 Minutes HOGEN MOVED to make the next scheduled SWAB Meeting a work session to discuss the Strategic Plan, and the following meeting after that work session to be a Recruiting Meeting. PRUITT seconded. ROLL CALL VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS Doug Hogen - Requesting again if I could be included in the list of names under the Household Hazardous Waste Community Cleanup Event and Crab festival. I attended those events. Larry Van Daele - The Kodiak Brown Bear trust met last week to issue grants, and they approved the grant for the dumpster retrofitting at $2000.00 a year for the next five years with the stipulation that the students and their mentors provide a presentation annually to the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly to review how the program is going. Andie Wall - I heard about the lively discussion at last meeting and was really bummed that I missed it. I would like to expand and explore on topics that are applicable to our community. I'm ready to get back into the headspace of being more present and engaged. Thank you all for your efforts while I was away. NEXT MEETING SCHEDULE The next meeting date was set for March 26th, 2024 at KFRC for 5:15pm. The meeting was noted as a work session. ADJOURNMENT Chair Andie Wall adjourned the meeting at 6:37pm. KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH ATTEST: Andie Wall, Solid Waste Advisory Board Brian Price, Board Secretary KIB Engineering & Facilities Department Chair Approved on: R [ 2q 12G2q SEP 2 5 2024 BOROUGH CLERK'S OFFICE KODIAK, ALASKA Kodiak Island Borough Solid Waste Advisory Board Regular Meeting February 20, 2024 Minutes