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JEFFERSON COUNTY
SOLID WASTE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
MEETING MINUTES – Thursday, March 26, 2015
Jefferson County Public Works Building, Conference Room
1. OPENING BUSINESS:
Meeting called to order by Kent Kovalenko at 3:03 PM
Members Present:
John Merchant City of Port Townsend
Lisa Crosby District #1
Kent Kovalenko DM/Murrey’s Disposal
Hank Fly District #1
Kathleen Kler Commissioner
Members Absent:
Al Cairns Port of Port Townsend
Matt Hall Skookum
Jenifer Taylor Citizen at Large
Staff Present:
Richard Talbot PW Solid Waste Manager
Jerry Mingo PW MRW/Solid Waste Coordinator
Laura Tucker Public Health Education
Julie Robertson Department of Ecology
Tina Anderson PW Support Staff
Guest: Bart Kale Citizen
There was no quorum until Hank Fly arrived at 3:30.
Approval of minutes from January 2015 meeting:
John motioned and Kathleen seconded to accept the minutes as presented. Motion carried.
No Correspondence
No Guest Speakers
No Action Items
2. OPERATIONAL REPORTS:
No presentations as summaries were sent to members before the meeting, except:
Education: Public Health, Laura Tucker
Just a quick showing of the new recycle flyer that was included in PUD, City, DM billings and also
appeared on the last page of the Jefferson County Who’s Who in this week’s Leader. There
was an article in the Leader on March 4th on the new plastics. Signs are going up and getting
feedback on the changes from the public. Now considering information about hazardous waste in
the recycling.
Jerry notes there seems to be confusion about tubs which are new item. Mainly a retraining of
what is recyclable and not using numbers.
Brief discussion about notices at point of purchase for packaging that is not recyclable.
Solid Waste: Jerry
Just a reminder about the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event on April 18th in Port
Ludlow. The flyer is also in the current edition of the Port Ludlow Village Voice.
3. OLD BUSINESS:
Solid Waste Management Plan:
§ Review revision topics and schedule, including anticipated April, July and August reviews: All will
be the 4th Thursday of the month from 3:00 to 4:30 PM in the Public Works Conference Room.
Jerry will notify the members and papers.
Discussion of updates to Chapter 1
1.1 The City Resolution #92-79 is still current. The City has not rescinded it. John has Resolution 88-1 and
one from 2008 approving the update. The City can provide a letter stating it is still current.
1.3 Status of the Recommendations from the Previous Plan. (Table 1-1)
PE1) classroom presentations are still accomplished but also still ongoing.
WC1) Certificate haulers and municipal contracts – accomplished
PE13) A review will be conducted periodically of the public education program is on-going
R-5) The County and City will continue to support is on-going
C2) The County will promote organics is accomplished
C3) Small-scale vermicomposting projects will be encouraged is on-going
RA1) Solid waste operations in JC shall be financially self-supporting is accomplished but should be on-
going
Where in the plan are difficult items to recycle addressed? In the encouragement of public/private nitch
recycling.
S4) City of Port Townsend and Jefferson County, with the assistance from the SWAC, will continue to
contribute to the discussion of Septage is on-going.
S9) Restaurant inspectors is on-going
S10) the County will consider methods to encourage conversion of grease to biofuel is inactive
S14) more education needed for MRW is accomplished
Note that Accomplished does not mean that it isn’t still ongoing.
Page 1-6:
First paragraph: What changes led to the conclusion that the plan needed to be updated? Combination of
requirement to update every 5 years and changes in the facility and fees structures.
Either remove the statement of “several changes” or include a listing of the changes
Page 1-7:
Vision Statement for the SWMP: Jerry will send the vision statement to all members for comment and
bring back to next meeting.
From: Laura: Durawaste is a term currently being used. Vision Statements are meant to be short and very
broad. Where you get into specifics is in your actual plan. It’s meant to draw a bright future or broad goals
of what we have. It’s an attitude more than anything else. To the extent that we do have bi-products of our
existence but that it gets channeled into recycled resources or somehow some sort of upcycle rather than
throw away. Get it out of my sight and throw it away somewhere I don’t care versus using it as a
resource/viewing waste as a resource and that there are things that we can recover from what we no longer
need in ways that often are sustainable.
Comments:
Would like to see more responsibility or more actions required.
This is an item that can be worked on through the whole process.
You have the classic reduce, reuse, recycle in that order and is that something you want to reflect in your
mission statement where recycling is your last priority.
Use a way to personalize it for Jefferson County.
Like it the way it is.
Page 1-8:
Goals:
5th Bullet – Use of the word encourage.
Page 1-9:
Page 1-10:
Possible line-in and line-out markup if possible. Jerry will send out future emails with markups.
Chapter 2
Page 2-3:
Population numbers. City should be 9,355.
Page 2-4:
Graph: change the colored lines to dots etc. When printed in black and white you can’t tell the difference.
Page 2-5:
End of first paragraph at top of page: construction debris “where a local disposal facility is no longer
available”, maybe this should be “where a Jefferson County local disposal facility is not available”.
Under Current Solid Waste Quantities: does the sign say Management rather than Disposal?
Table 2-3: check the percentages
Last paragraph: Figure 2.1 should be Table 2-4?
Page 2-6:
Current Recycling Levels: Most recent recycling survey will clarify statewide survey reported to individual
counties.
Page 2-7:
Change the colored lines in Figure 2-2 for black and white printing
Next to last paragraph, date should be data.
Page 2-8 to 2-11:
The 2014 totals may not be included, it depends on when Ecology gets the numbers done and out.
Is there a reason why recycling trends are down? Is there some part of the plan that would look at that?
Check the totals and percentages in all tables.
Page 2-12:
Four other recycling facilities: All are open to the public.
Other composting facility: Shorts Family Farm, Clearwater Corrections and PT
Four other biosolids facilities: Clearwater Corrections
John Merchant can do a resolution for City Council to confirm they are still working jointly on the plan
Extra meetings will be the fourth Thursday from 3 to 4:30 for consistency.
4. NEW BUSINESS: None
5. FROM THE FLOOR:
Julie; The State draft plan and comments are on the State DOE web site
Port Townsend Spring Cleanup will be the week of April 13th. Extra yard waste and 1 appliance.
There will be 2 trucks picking up appliances.
Next Scheduled Meeting is April 23, 2015
John motioned and Kathleen seconded to adjourn.
Meeting Adjourned at 4:44 PM