ACADIA DISPOSAL DISTRICT
Meeting of the Board of Directors
February 19, 2009 at the Somesville Fire House
PRESENT: Robin Bennett (SWH), Ellen Brawley (clerk), Peter Rees (Trenton), Tony Smith (Mount Desert), Elliott Spiker (Tremont) (director Spiker arrived after minutes had been approved.)
ABSENT: Cynthia Lief (Cranberry), Robert Roxby (Frenchboro)
VISITORS: Lee Worcester and Damaris Smith (EMR)
OPEN PUBLIC HEARING ON BUDGET: 9:30 am.
CLOSE PUBLIC HEARING ON BUDGET: 9:31 am.
MOTION: (Smith, Bennett) to approve the budget for FY 2010 as distributed. Carried (3-0).
MOTION: (Smith, Rees) to approve the minutes of Jan 23, 2009 after amendment to include that the Trash Fair will be funded $250 from EMR, $250 from Bar Harbor and $500 from ADD. Carried 5-0.
EMR Negotiations Update: Tony asked Lee Worcester what’s the status. Lee responded that he would have a proposal back to us on Thursday next week (2/27/09). Tony specified that this contract should include an option of no recycling for Trenton, Tremont and SWH.
Treasurer’s Report: Elliott reported that we have made a partial payments for the HHW collection, and still owe about $3000. He will invoice all the towns for the HHW balance when he’s calculated the Universal Waste expenses for each. He asked for approval to pay two CES invoices, one for $1606.20 and one for $1273.50.
MOTION: (Smith, Rees) to authorize the payment of the two CES invoices for a total of $2879.70. Carried (4-0).
Trash Fair: Peter reported that he will meet with the most active schools and make a plan.
Universal Waste: Tony and Elliott will look at the numbers and decide whether we should consider dropping UW from our annual collection as a monthly UW collection is part of the proposed EMR contract.
Assignments per director:
Tony and Elliott: UW calculations
Elliott: HHW and UW invoices to towns
NEXT MEETING: March 19, 2009 at 9:30 am, Somesville Fire House.
ADJOURNMENT: 9:55.
Respectfully submitted,
Ellen T. Brawley
Clerk
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