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Town of Trenton
Solid Waste Committee
Agenda for July 2, 2008 meeting
1. Attendees:
2.
Administrative:
-Vote to accept minutes from June 4, 2008
meeting (attached)
- is everyone sworn in?
3.
Old Business:
-Report
on results of presentation to Selectmen (Jim Cameron and Mike Hodgkins)
-dumpsters pending (insurance
issues with using Town Office parking lot?)
-communication to residents
starting – preparation of first mailing, website
-Jim is hopefully that we will
come up with a way to bypass EMR for MSW (possibly
involving curbside pickup?)
-Monies from Planning Commission
account
-Status of town’s
insurance liability (question MMA)
-Progress
of information on dumpsters
-Status/Action
to be taken with Janet on web site coordination
-Update
on status of Eastern Maine Recycling (EMR) contract
4.
New Business:
-Addressing Jim Cameron’s
hope: How do we address if curbside
pickup makes sense, and how to get MSW to PERC without paying the EMR
middleman charge?
-Presuming the recycling effort for
paper and cardboard is successful; do we want to try finding someone who
would pay us for the material, rather than just taking it off of our
hands?
-Bulk purchase of recycling bins through
Hancock County Planning Commission?
-Town paying for business MSW (a
clarification)
-Recycling operations once
up-and-running?
5. Discussion and Action Items:
6. Adjourn meeting
Next
meeting is Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 7PM in the town office.
Minutes for July 2, 2008 meeting
Attendees:
Tom Sproule, Chuck Starr,
Dotty Young, Mike Gilmartin
Administrative:
1.
Meeting
called to order at 7:00 PM.
2.
Minutes
approved from June 4, 2008.
Unanimous with one abstain.
3.
All present have been sworn in.
4.
Need to get
contact lists up-to-date, alternate email, and correct phone numbers.
Discussion and action items:
1.
Town has given approval for recycle
dumpsters. Janet Muise
to order from Gott’s. Tom Sproule will contact Janet to initiate
rental at $21/month and $13/pick up.
2.
Size of
dumpsters voted to be six yard with rental and pick up. Chuck Starr and Dotty Young have offered
to monitor use and request pick up when nearing capacity.
3.
No news on a
new contract from EMR.
4.
Tom Sproule presented examples of web site pages for comment
and feedback. He will be emailing files to Janet Muise
and James Curtis soon for inclusion on the town website.
5.
Further
discussion on additional communication methodology:
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Free radio
public service announcement.
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Town bulk
mailing. Peter Rees to draft first
mailing.
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Newspaper
public service or town section notice.
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Email address
on town site for solid waste committee.
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Doty Young
will look into presence on the Govt Access
channel.
6.
Discussion of
location for dumpsters. Tom Sproule, Chuck Starr, and Mike Gilmartin looked at parking lot after
meeting and agreeing on location on east side parking lot parallel to Oak
Point Road. Dotty Young’s
suggestion to get close to Oak
Point Rd so residents can see the dumpsters
was agreed to be best location.
7.
Procedures
for going to PERC was discussed in general, deferred for further discussion
on the process and procedure for curb-side pick up and transport to PERC.
8.
Question of
recycling bin purchase from HCPC was discussed with no participation
suggested since it was for 100 lots and town should not need this for
residents.
9.
Discussion
was deferred for future meeting on business use of cardboard and newspaper
dumpsters.
The meeting was adjourned
at 9:00 PM. Next meeting is August
6, 2008 at 7PM, town office.
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