Town Recycling Committee Minutes for September 6, 2007
Present: Neal Brown, Candi Fowler, Roger Lessard, and Dan Wolaver
Absent: Patrick Foy
The first item of business was consideration of a report from Brian Wakeman (the new, "temporary" part-time person at the GRC) that certain town employees were coming to the Recycling Center during closed hours to dump their trash in the dumpster. The TRC will forward this concern to the BOS for their consideration.
The next item of business was discussion of the following question about "non-cardboard" paper that was raised by Selectman Jarvis Adams at a recent BOS meeting: Which is more cost effective? Selling unbaled, loose paper or preparing and selling bailed paper? The TRC concluded that the RC Attendant is well qualified to investigate this issue, and therefore, will recommend that the BOS refer the question to him for his consideration.
Storage Trailers – Member Lessard reported that his company will soon have additional trailers for sale. He will continue to monitor their availability and price and report back to the BOS and the RC Attendant when appropriate.
Loading Dock – The committee was pleased to learn that the BOS has chosen the DPW to site and construct a concrete block-based dock. The project has been targeted for completion before Oct 23rd to ensure capture of the $ 4000 allocated for the project in Frank's grant from NH the Beautiful. Member Fowler will start to remove some plants in the hill before they are destroyed in the construction. She plans to transplant as many of them as possible to safe keeping over the winter. Once a garden area is re-established at the GRC she will replant them for the town.
Brochures and Fees. The committee also was very pleased to learn that the GRC has begun to accept check and cash for fee items! Member Fowler will consult with Deb to detrmine the need for an electronic version of the flyer.
The BOS has asked the TRC to participate in its next "Round Table" to be held on Sept 16th at 2PM at the Meeting House. Members Wolaver and Brown plan to be there.
Future of the TRC and Scheduled Volunteers - After considerable discussion of these issues, the members came to two conclusions: (1) It is now appropriate for the TRC to significantly reduce its "active" advisory role in the administration and planning for the RC. Specifically the comitteee has chosen to propose to the Board that the TRC cease meeting regularly and be retained for ad hoc consultation at the Board's pleasure (2) It is time for the BOS and the RC Attendant to exploit the personnel funding actions approved in the '07 budget and become independent of the need to use scheduled volunteers. To that end, the committee decide that its regular volunteers will serve per the current schedule through Oct. 27, 2007. Thereafter, any or all volunteer recruitment will become the
direct responsibility of the RC Attendant A memo outlining the rationale for these above positions will be sent from the TRC to the BOS and the RC Attendant by Sept. 11, 2007
Minutes respectfully submitted by Candi Fowler
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