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Meeting Minutes for May 7, 2019 North Andover Sustainability Committee
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Location: 2 Floor, Town Hall
1. Attendees:
a. Bryan Sheckman
b. Andrew Mitchell
c. Joanna O’Connell
d. Devin Smolak
e. Kevin Craig
f. Adrienne Goldman
g. Vishvesh Dhar
h. Madhu Dhar
i. Mike Magliaro
2. Introductions
3. Mike – Guest
a. Previously owned recycling companies and can potentially help with contacts for
purchasing materials that need a home
4. Andy will post meeting minutes to Google docs
5. Town Wide Clean Up
a. Grabbers
b. DPW preparation – staff education
c. Scheduling needs to be firmly in place
d. Exchange cell numbers
e. Better marketing
i. Robocall
ii. Police Sign?
iii. Lawn signs?
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6. Sheep Shearing on May 19
a. 10am to 4am
b. We need signup commitments
c. Vish might bring some materials
7. Stevens Memorial – JUST EAT IT
a. Committee likes the Green Schools logo
b. Andy will print out the Logo on a big sign for the Sheep Shearing
8. We’ll be at the September Artisan market
a. Joanna will be at the June market with OffBeat
9. Not doing Farmer’s Market
10. RDP Program
a. Joanna got the RDP Points to-do list yesterday
b. She’ll send out emails for things to do
11. Adrienne
a. Plastic Bag Ban
i. Julie and Adrienne are drafting a presentation to go to the Board of Selectman
ii. Research how other towns did it. What it works
iii. If approved by Selectman, added to Warrant
iv. How to enforce is undecided.
1. Should be enforce to retail or food stores?
2. Discussion ensued
v. Mike will look into CVS
b. Mill Pond – No Recycling
i. Jim Stanford
ii. Spoke with Brian Thompson at Northside Carting about curbside pickup
iii. She’s going to talk to Jim Stanford
12. T-Shirt update
13. Madhu will be in charge of Twitter and Instagram
14. Newspaper Articles
a. Maybe an interview will Vish about his bench
15. We all need to complete the Code of Ethics
16. Upcoming Meetings
a. June 4
17. July – Let’s take a vacation
a. August 6
b. September 3
c. October 1
d. Nov 5
18. Meeting adjourned
19. Kevin gave up an update on finances
20. We need more fundraising ideas
21. Meeting Adjourned