Recycling Committee Regular Meeting April 24, 2014-Approved
SIMSBURY RECYCLING COMMITTEE
TOWN HALL OFFICES – ROOM 103
AGENDA for Thursday, April 24 at 6:30 p.m.
• Call to Order: Mary called the meeting to order at 6:40 p.m.
In attendance was: Lori Fernand, Claudia Szerakowski, Rosemary Fusco, Carol Miller, Dave Chase and Mary Turner. Absent was Janice Kern.
• Approval of Minutes: (Oct 24, 2013) March 2014
Dave made a motion to accept the October minutes and Lori seconded. The motion passed
The March minutes were not available for approval
• Correspondence and Recycling News
Claudia presented a newspaper clipping regarding the "Compost Queen" Susannah Castle who takes food from garbage to garden. Article was written by Lynn Woike. A discussion pursued at which point Claudia said she will contact the compost queen to see if she will address groups and the Simsbury community farm and or Simsbury community garden. Carol will get contact info for the Simsbury Community Garden to see if they would be willing to share this info with the folks who rent space at the garden.
Lori informed the committee the Girl Scouts are working on the banning of Styrofoam. She suggested they come to our committee to do a presentation perhaps at our next meeting. Mary will ask Lydia if she can put the banning of Styrofoam in the schools on the BOE agenda.
Lori said she would do an article on the Patch regarding recycling the week of Arbor Day.
• Reports:
Swap Shoppe Participation and Report
All members signed up to participate at the Swap Shoppe for the 2014 Season.
Rebate Account
An article in Valley Press dated February 20, 2014 reported Simsbury will be receiving $23,511. Tom Roy, Director of Public Works stated "the rebate would be deposited into an account for the Recycling Committee to enable it to perform a recycling study or audit to make sure the town is keeping up with recycling."
Mary suggested we get the full $23,000 into an account specifically for the recycle committee so we don’t have to run it by the BOF every time we want to spend some. Also, discussed was splitting the cost of the Hazardous waste fees with other the towns. Hazardous waste event for town costs $18,000.
Household Circular, review and possible approval
Mary submitted Paine's circular which was mailed with their statements to their customers. A review of the circular would be made to ensure the Recycling Committee's circular would not be redundant.
•Old Business:
None
•New Business:
Dave suggests we do an informational session on SCTV. More details to come soon.
•Adjournment:
Carol made a motion to adjourn at 8:24 p.m. and Dave seconded. The motion passed.
Notes taken by:
Carol Miller and Mary Turner