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Trash & Recycling Task Force Ad Hoc. Committee
May 3, 2021 fC11FRIKS OFFICE
MEETING MINUTES
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MEMBERS PRESENT: Steve Schoonveld, Select Board Membel.,}�SF`FLD
Lee Azinheira, DPW Director s , � ycUSETTS
Mike Ahern, Public Buildings/Specidl P'r'6Jes anager
Christina Collins, DPW Office Manager
Neil Rhein, Select Board Member
Jack Cooney, Finance Committee
Graham Wilson, Board of Health
MEMBERS NOT PRESENT:
SPECIAL GUEST:
1. Call to Order —
Reading of virtual meeting law —
2. Approval of Minutes —
Kevin Dumas, Town Manager
Amy Donovan -Palmer, Board of Health
Kathi Mirza, MassDEP
Regional Municipal Assistance Coordinator
Jessica Wozniak
Approval of March 29, 2021 and April 8, 2021 Meeting Minutes; Mike makes a motion to
approve the minutes; Lee seconds motion; roll call vote motion passes 5-0 to approve the March
29, 2021 and April 8, 2021 Minutes.
3. Resident Questions & Comments —
Mr. Bryer of 187 Copeland Drive would like the current cost per ton of trash and recycling at the
current time. Currently it is roughly 69.82 per ton for trash and $66.00 per ton for recycling.
Mr. Schoonveld does advise resident that trash and recycling make up roughly 2% of the Town's
budget.
4. Survey Discussion
Jessica has been working on the surveys and compiling a lot of information with regard to same.
Committee feels the overall take from survey is that people think the trash/recycling program we
currently have is working. Residents would like to see more education on what can be recycled
and what cannot. Jessica will continue to review the surveys and compile the information.
Discussion about what Committee would like to see in survey results.
5. Development of Recommendations for the Select Board —
Discussions begin as to recommendations that the Committee is going to make to the Select
Board at either the June 2 or possibly June 16 Select Board Meeting. Steve is creating a
document of how the presentation should look — after an introduction of the committee and its
mission and purpose, the presentation could be broken down as follows:
Update
Present current program, current costs, per household figures and existing contracts and other
important information;
Results of Survey
Breakdown of survey information that Committee wants to highlight; along with main
comments- mostly that residents seem happy or satisfied with current program and would like
more recycling education;
Service Recommendations & RFP
Discuss recommendations which may include continuing with similar program as we currently
have for both trash & recycling; possibility of a fee to upgrade from the standard 64 gallon carts
to a 96 gallon cart for each trash and recycling; should small business and multi -families four or
less still be included in program; continuation of bulky and white good stickers; would like to
conduct an audit of the existing containers for compliance purposes and various other issues;
Additional Recommendations and Considerations
Could be ideas to reduce tonnage; ideas to reduce recycling contamination which could include
stickers on the bins so that residents can see what should actually go in there; ideas for hazardous
waste; improvements to the Mansfield Green and review of prices especially for CRTs; other
ideas such as re -use facility; by-law changes; donation collection bins, review of regulations,
which are quite old.
Tasks Going Forward
Ideas of what the Committee or the Town could work on going forward -
6. Discussion of Recommendations for RFP and Status Update
Meeting with Kessler regarding what the RFP should look like is going well. Will meet again
with Kessler to continue working on same. Discussion continues about the RFP and good idea
of what should be included but need to finalize exactly how committee wants the RFP to look
and what the Committee wants to include in the RFP exactly.
7. Next Meeting
May 18 at 4:30 p.m. and June 8 at 6:00 p.m.
8. Adjournment
Lee makes motion to adjourn; Mike seconds motion to adjourn; Roll call vote to adjourn.
Motion passes 7-0. Meeting Adjourned.
Respectfully Submitted
Christina Collins
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Signature of Commission Clerk
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Date of Acceptance -