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NASWAC Meeting Minutes
November 8, 2007
Attendees: Tina Klein, Chair; Bill Hmurciak; Debbie Eaton. Also Martha Mittelstaedt, Norm Bagley, Steve Parkes
and Pete Murley attended as invitees of the committee.
I. Call to order
Meeting commenced at 7:05 PM.
Debbie Eaton recorded minutes.
IIAccept October Meeting Minutes
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Committee accepted October Meeting Minutes.
III. Introductions
Tina discussed the committee’s history and current membership.
All attendees introduced themselves and discussed their backgrounds and interest in the committee.
IV. Old Business
A) Growing membership in the committee
Debbie was officially appointed by the Board of Selectmen to NASWAC. Four additional positions still open.
Specific roles are still needed to be filled: School liaison, Web Site liaison, and communications coordinator in
particular
B) Mass Recycles Paper Campaign
Martha discussed her review of the MRPC program binder.
She suggested the committee focus its efforts to promote the MRP campaign on businesses as she assumed most
individuals were already recycling paper.
Committee felt that efforts should be made to promote this campaign to individuals. As such, Martha agreed to
Will be
re-examine the program binder, including looking for flyers and ads that could be posted in town.
discussed again at December meeting.
C) Municipal Waste Reduction Outreach Toolkit
Pete discussed his review of the Outreach Toolkit.
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Committee agreed that public service announcements from Toolkit should be aired on the NA-CAM cable channel
Pete will talk with Steve Daly about getting CD-ROMS from Toolkit to Ellie Pye for broadcast on the
cable channel.
V. New Business
A) OPT Draft
No draft was available to review. Tina will forward draft around to the committee for review and comment.
B) Calendar Year 2008 NASWAC-Sponsored Events
Earth Day Cleanup
–Saturday, May 3rd; Tina explained event and described need for help with promoting and
organizing event; Steve P., Norm and Debbie expressed interest in helping with this event.
Zero Waste Day
–to be held in Andover on Saturday, May 3rd; as this is same day as our Earth Day Cleanup,
committee agreed that it should focus on promoting this event with North Andover residents rather than
soliciting volunteers to help at event.
Sheep Shearing
–Date TBD, either Sunday, May 18th or May 25th, Bill indicated he does not expect that this
event will be held on the Common in 2008; as such, committee agreed that it would not host an information
table at this event.
Town-Wide Yard Sale
–June 21st & 22nd,Tina explained event and described need for help with promoting and
organizing event; Norm and Debbie expressed interest in helping with this event.
Fourth of July Festival
–Committee agreed it would consider hosting an information booth if the event is to be
held on the Common.
America Recycles Day
–November 15th, as it is too late in the year to organize any events in support of this day,
Committee agreed to add this to event calendar for 2008. The committee members are encouraged to think
about waysto promote the recycling message. We will take this up at a future meeting.
Shredding Event
–targeting late May; Pete expressed interest in talking to Universal Shredding to discuss pricing
Pete will get in touch with Steve Daly
and helping to coordinate event;
C) Calendar of events and Publicity checklist
Committee reviewed Recycling Outreach & General Task Calendar and Recycling Publicity Checklist used by the
City of Cambridge Recycling Office
Committee agreed to use these documents as a guideline for the committee’s efforts
Martha offered to create a NASWAC events calendar; Tina to e-mail Cambridge’s calendar document to
Martha
Tina to forward OPT publication deadlines for 2008 to Martha for inclusion in event calendar
Committee agreed to create a Publicity Checklist for each event in the coming year.
D) Grant Update
Tina indicated that it appears we will only receive rain barrels; we should know by end of November
If barrels are awarded, we will target distribution of rain barrels on Saturday, April 19th (same day as Spring ’08
Household Hazardous Waste Day)
Tina will contact
New England Rainbarrel to reserve the date in the event that North Andover is awarded this
grant.
E) Business Recycling
Discussed promoting a specific business’recycling/waste reduction efforts in each OPT issue
Discussed communicating with businesses through Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce or North Andover
Rotary Club; to be discussed with Steve Daly at next monthly meeting he attends
Bill printed out listof all North Andover businesses, with contact names and phone numbers. This database of
information was collected as a result of a technical assistance grant North Andover received from MassDEP in
FY03.
Committee agreed to further discuss business recycling efforts at upcoming monthly meetings.
Tina to will bring copies of the MassDEP brochure “Your Business and the Waste Bans” to the next meeting.
Tina to forward Waste Wise information to Debbie
VI. Adjourn
Next meetings: December 13, 2007 and January 10, 2008
Place: Library (small conference room)
Respectfully submitted,
Debbie Eaton