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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNASWAC MeetingMinutes_05.12.05 Meeting Minutes, NASWAC May 12, 2005 Place: DPW Conference Room Present: Bill Hmurciak, Steve Daly, Tina Klein, Joanne Parrill, Karen Kline Minutes recorded by Joanne Parrill 1. Meeting was called to order 7:20 p.m.. 2. March and April minutes accepted 3. Old Business a. cardboard recycling Tina called Cathy Pereira to say that she sent an e-mail to recycling captains with phone number of Waste Management to call if cardboard is not being stickered. Need to continue with stickers on improperly disposed cardboard. Town collectors should be taking cardboard if the resident has made areasonable attempt to dispose properly. Some cardboard is being left behind because paper section of truck fills first and to finish route, collectors may leave some paper behind and come back later Town currently runs 3 recycling trucks on T,W, Th and 2 recycling trucks on M, F (the third truck was added in January). b. water conservation kits Town will receive 50 kits to give away at sheep shearing; will separate into components; kits include low flow shower heads, faucet aerators, hose nozzles, and rain gauges. Will follow up with recipients of these items. c. poster contest Have CD with power point presentation of posters from contest to display on CAM-TV. Discussed taping essay authors reading essays and using this as voice over for poster display. ACTIONS ITEMS Steve took the CD and will follow-up with CAM-TV Karen Kline to work with Steve to schedule students to read their essays for the camera. d. tonnage numbers March '05 tonnage is 94 tons less trash than March '04. No numbers for April yet; recycling is up but don't have exact amount Try to get these numbers into summer OPT e. summer OPT second edit date 5/17/05 final copy date 5/24/05 f. changes to Earth day try to get businesses to donate money for 3 mil bags which are available at Home Depot/Lowes; currently can't get 3 mil bags donated try to get more businesses involved perhaps by encouraging business participant teams change date to one week later to avoid school vacation week ACTION ITEMS: Karen Kline to sendthank you notes to bag donors Tina to send spreadsheet of volunteers to Mark Rees for thank you notes Tina to send thank you to Scott Emerson for dumpster donation Karen to send thank you to teacherswho participated in poster and essay contest g. poster/essay contest follow-up gave lapel pins to all participants younger than high school ACTION ITEMS: Karen to draft letter to high schoolers acknowledging appreciation of their effort Tina to put essays in notebook Tina to send Bill receipts to get reimbursement for prizes h. school update currently, Franklin, Sargent and Kittredge are recycling water bottles Sargent will do end-of-year recycling clean-up with four extra toters and pick-up on two Mondays Sargent shoe collection successful; collected over 200 pairs of shoes to be delivered to DPW on May 21 and then to Boston on May 23 along with several other town collections by Tina and Carolyn Dann. Carolyn is working on trying to get a more local site for shoe collection so this can be th an annual event, targeting America Recycles Day on November 15. ACTION ITEMS: Joanne to send Karen and Leslie information on implementing water bottle recycling so they can talk to Thomson, High school and Middle School Joanne to follow up with Atkinson i. OPT OPT is funded for '05 -'06 all items in for summer except one photo which Tina will take care of 4. New Business a. Web page Margaret and Tina will meet with concerned citizen Deb Lynch on 5/18;need to update web site before OPT publish date of 6/17 b. sheep shearing Will have booth manned by some committee members and by recycling captains c. summer meeting schedule: 6/9, 7/14, 8/11. We will meet on an as needed basis MEETING ADJOURNED AT 9:30 p.m.