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All our meeting to order.

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So we'll set it up. So that's 4.30 PM. We're at the administration building and we're in conference rooms.

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The main conference room. And today is Thursday 11th of July 2019.

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Calling this meeting to water. First thing that we're going to do here is, is there any public comments that anybody has to make at this time,

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concerning the solid waste update, steering committees report?

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Yes.

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I'd like to comment that it is in very, very.

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Okay.

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If there are no other public comments at this time,

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I will close the public comments.

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And I'll turn the meeting over to Heidi for the five year update.

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Thank you, Chairman Brish.

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The solid waste updates, five year updates document.

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And it just too note was, for this public hearing tonight, there was notice put into the

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Morris Daily Girl.

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The five-year document is starts with an executive summary and is all executive summaries

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and includes the goals that we try to attain with our solid waste program, but it added

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into this five-year update was the wind farm or energy generation.

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We updated the population and our municipal waste recycling is up a percentage to 15% as

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compared to 2014, which was at 14%, so that is good news.

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For the current waste management portion, we include our licensed waste haulers that we currently

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have in Grundy County. The landfills that our garbage does go to and those in the area that

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they could go to in regard to how many years they have left before they are full and how far away

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from Morris that they are located. In regard to recycling, we have the items that we do recycle

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or areas that we have in the green guide that people can actually go to to recycle those items

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and those are listed in the document. Composting is 5% for Granny County and that is also good

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because people are starting again to move other things to better suited use and future of course

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not manufacturing but industrial use for Granny County. At this point we don't have anything

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like that and certainly with the landfill that is closed, do something for us to continue

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to look forward to in the future. For recommendations,

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which is on the pages 13, I'm sorry,

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we tracked that 11 through 13, includes all the goals that we would like to see for recycling and

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using a monitoring of the landfill, but we want to do as far as trying to obtain an alternative

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waste and waste energy type of system and energy efficiency. And then the next couple of

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pages on pages 14 through 18, I'm sorry, 16 includes all the different goals that we have that

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we are going to either continue or that we are going to start.

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Certain things like education, we are going to be working with the Farm Bureau.

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The grantee can do Farm Bureau to teach with them and act in the classroom, which is

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going to be a huge help for us.

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Some things will continue to go for grants.

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For disposal, for landfills, there will be no landfills.

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As far as any type of compost facility, we'll continue to look for companies maybe to come

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to a Grundy County specifically to have a compost facility here, and then of course, something

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for alternative waste energy technology.

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We have had in the past a couple of people that have come and talked to the committee to

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land use committee specifically, but at this point right now, they look towards the county

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and this pallet is to actually pay for a facility to come to you instead of them coming

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here on their own.

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As far as an environmental education, we will continue to work with this soil and water

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conservation district for a peri conservation program at Goose Lake Prairie, looking

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towards Green Lead Buildings trying to expand that education to our developers here through

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building and zoning office and things that you know certainly would help as far as promoting

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more recycling for our residents and the grant that we received this year for CFL recycling

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will start to institute that soon and you know that's that's a great option for us.

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Next couple of pages just kind of describes the things that we have already in the county that

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are doing specifically that we notify all of the miscellities that we put something in the

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newspaper that we have a website that includes all that information and you know that it

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really is a cooperative effort with the miscellities and I note that it is cooperative with

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the libraries. Libraries have been extremely helpful to us if it hasn't been for the libraries.

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If haven't been for them we would have never gotten as many toys during the toy drive or as many

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books, we've gotten during our book drive that we have right now.

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The next is just the last portion of the plan, which is just the glossy of terms, and then

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the appendices, which include the meeting agenda, or will be, once we complete the public hearing.

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And then all of the different types of flyers that we have for different things like Tariah

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Drive, book drive, transformation, and so on, and last but not least is our green guide

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for 2019 that includes everything that people could think of that they would want to recycle

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in places they could take it to.

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And that is our summary of our plan.

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Are there any questions that anyone has concerning the review that Heidi gave us?

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If there are none for the record, you can show that there are no additional questions that

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raised or any issues that were brought up, starting the review?

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Is that being the case?

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Just answer the adjournment.

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I'm just going to need a motion to approve it.

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Why don't we have maybe possibly a motion from someone

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about approving the review that Heidi just gave us

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of the five-year update to the 20-year solid waste plan?

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Tim, may the motion is there second?

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Second, all those who are seeking the five by saying aye, propose the same sign.

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Next we need a motion to adjourn.

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Gene.

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All right.

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Motion made to adjourn.

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There's been a second.

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All in favor, aye.

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Opposed the same sign.

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Thank you all very much.

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Okay.

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Yep.

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Thank you.