Minutes of Transfer Station Committee Meeting -- February 9, 2005 10:30 a.m.
In Attendance: Steve Maddock, Pete Bleyler, Simon Carr, Cynthia Bagnolo, Marya Klee.
Apologies: Al Pryor.
1. Warrant & Budget: Pete reported that the Selectboard had voted in favor of the proposed pay-per-throw plan, agreeing that, if approved, the Selectboard had the authority and would set the rates. There is a budget committee meeting tonight to approve the proposed warrant articles. It was felt that this was the final meeting to approve these and that it was not necessary for this committee to attend.
2. Planning for Open Meeting:
3. Funding: there was concern with the fact that we were proposing to generate funds for the budget, but that we were not able to utilize any of these funds to provide for our program, neither in extended opening hours nor in having sufficient staffing to police our proposed pay-per-throw system. The first public meeting of the budget committee and we should ensure as good a turnout as possible. However, it is likely that we should raise the issue of income and expenditure privately first.
4. NRRA:
a. The January meeting was cancelled due to weather.
b. Pete had received the 2004 report and passed this on for other members.
5. Pay-per-throw:
a. Pete had talked with Liz Bedard and received information on pre-printed bags, including a pre-printed sample from Lancaster. The majority of other towns ran a dual bag size of 33 and 15 gals, although there were also bag mixes of 33, 20 and 13 gals. He also had information on suppliers.
b. We need to clarify the accounting system for bags distributed by Nichols’ and the Country Store.
c. Steve had started looking at the various charges and would prepare a list for the next meeting. It was agreed that we should emphasize that scrap metal was a recyclable and not charged. Also that, although we would sell coupons of different values for C&D and other pay-per-throw items, there would have to be some flexibility in assessing volumes of materials thrown.
6. Open Meeting:
a. NRRA has a table display showing recycling principles which they will provide for us in time for the meeting.
b. Our pitch for the meeting should be Equable, Economic, Environmental. Pete will tackle Economic and Simon Environmental.
c. It would be desirable to see if we could get Tony Ilacqua of Littleton to talk to the meeting.
7. Next meetings: The next meeting will be Wednesday February 16th 2005 10.30 a.m. at Lyme Center Academy. The Open meeting will be Wednesday 16th February 7.30 p.m. at the Town offices.
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