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HomeMy WebLinkAbout5.26.16 Final MinutesJEFFERSON COUNTY SOLID WASTE ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES – Thursday, May 26, Jefferson County Public Works Building, Conference Room Opening Business: Meeting called to order at 3:03 PM by Al Cairns. Members Present: Al Cairns Port of Port Townsend Alyssa Russell Skookum Bart Kale Citizen-at-large Chad Young Olympic/DM Disposal Dave Zellar City of Port Townsend Jean Ball District #3 Jenifer Taylor District #2 John Merchant City of Port Townsend John Olneck DM/Murrey’s Disposal (Temporary replacement for Kent) Lisa Crosby District #1 Members Absent: Kathleen Kler County Commissioner Staff Present: Jerry Mingo Public Works MRW Coordinator Tom Boatman Public Works Solid Waste Manager Tina Anderson Public Works Administration Guests: Tracy Crisman Citizen Steve Gilman Republic Services There is a quorum. Approval of March 24, 2016 minutes. Al moved and Dave seconded to accept the minutes as presented. Correspondence: none Business: 1. SWAC Membership and training. Jerry reported on letters from #1 Chad to remain a representative of Olympic/DM and #2 Robin to remain a representative of Skookum. Al moved and Bart seconded to recommend the appointment to the Board of County Commissioners. There is still a vacancy in District #1. Thank you to everyone for taking the on-line training. Jerry will send the training information to those that still need to take the training. Jerry also reported that on approval the MRW facility will be open the first Saturday of the month with the same hours as Friday. There will be an announcement in the newspaper when this will begin. Discussion on the reason for increasing the availability of the MRW facility to the public. Jerry has been tracking how people get information about our facilities. There are several hundred hits per day on the website. Jerry reported on the HHW Event on May 21st in Quilcene. There were 44 participants that brought in 2,400 pounds of moderate risk waste. Most of the materials were paint, fuel and solvents. A discussion followed on where the items were shipped for recycling or destruction. 2. Expanded Polystyrene Recycling (EPS). With information from Commissioner Kler about possible Grants for polystyrene recycling equipment, Jerry researched and did a cost analysis for purchase and use of the compression equipment. The nearest processing plant is in Seattle. Jerry used 48 tons per year of Styrofoam to create calculations and examples. He used a one year expense and a 15 year depreciation. Costs include set-ups, training, wages and overhead, utilities and transportation. Revenue was based on the current 15 cents per pound. The cost would be approximately $137.00 per ton. But there would be a loss of revenue or “Avoided Revenue” going across the scale. Cost for the first year would be about $70,000.00 to $103,000.00. Subsequent years would cost less. Fine points were not researched as this is just preliminary information. Assumptions were made using what is currently on hand. The equipment is surprisingly small and compresses the Styrofoam into blocks for handling. A discussion followed about equipment, grant funding, collection, off gassing, trucking, avoided trips, Skookum and housing the material. This is not a proposal, just a discussion on the possibilities. Discussion followed on what selection criteria to use for packaging materials and other commodities currently not being recycled. Staff will come back with a matrix for remaining products not currently recycled. Jean shared the impressive recycling at Yellowstone Park. Bart added information about the propane “recycler” that empties the bottles to run the machine. The metal bottles are then able to be recycled. They are the only currently known recycler of small propane bottles. *Item #3 on the Agenda has been moved to the end of business.* 3. 20 year Expectations: Using power point, Tom presented a summary of the presentation given at the Public Meeting in April of the Solid Waste Management Plan. He explained the process used by the board. With the SWMP almost complete the board can now begin to focus on the Solid Waste Comprehensive Strategic Plan for inclusion in the Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan. Items/analysis needed to be covered in the Strategic Plan were covered in Chapter 7 of the Management Plan. The analysis will be covering in depth the facilities and Level of Service (LOS) for the next 20 years. Population growth of Jefferson County will impact LOS. The Solid Waste Management Plan will be completed in 2016. The Solid Waste Facility Plan goal (part of the Comprehensive Plan) is to be updated and completed by the end of 2017. Tom presented and discussion followed on the slide for analysis of populations and waste trends projected from 1990 to 2040. Discussion of operation improvements made recently. One being the transaction decreased time at the scale shack and faster traffic time going in and out of the facility. 4. Preliminary Draft Public Comments: Tom presented a summary of the comments about the plan. Rick Hlavka will be presenting the comments for discussion at a future meeting. Community Development is going through their requirements for their approval of the plan. The City Council has sent a letter of support. Comments were made about composting. Composting and septage is averaging about 10,000 gallons a week. The dewatering of the septage has been causing a bottleneck. John has been working with the Department of Ecology and looking for a better process to dewater the septage material. 5. Recycling Open Discussion: In the future a discussion of plastics. From the Floor Question about corrugated political signs accepted at the recycling center. They are NOT acceptable in the recycling. Next Scheduled Meeting Date is July 28th, 2016. Meeting Adjourned at 4:35 PM.