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[3:18] All our meeting to order.
[3:24] So we'll set it up. So that's 4.30 PM. We're at the administration building and we're in conference rooms.
[3:32] The main conference room. And today is Thursday 11th of July 2019.
[3:41] 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,
[3:49] concerning the solid waste update, steering committees report?
[3:57] Yes.
[3:58] I'd like to comment that it is in very, very.
[4:19] Okay.
[4:20] If there are no other public comments at this time,
[4:23] I will close the public comments.
[4:26] And I'll turn the meeting over to Heidi for the five year update.
[4:32] Thank you, Chairman Brish.
[4:34] The solid waste updates, five year updates document.
[4:38] And it just too note was, for this public hearing tonight, there was notice put into the
[4:45] Morris Daily Girl.
[4:48] The five-year document is starts with an executive summary and is all executive summaries
[4:55] and includes the goals that we try to attain with our solid waste program, but it added
[5:02] into this five-year update was the wind farm or energy generation.
[5:07] We updated the population and our municipal waste recycling is up a percentage to 15% as
[5:16] compared to 2014, which was at 14%, so that is good news.
[5:22] For the current waste management portion, we include our licensed waste haulers that we currently
[5:29] have in Grundy County. The landfills that our garbage does go to and those in the area that
[5:38] they could go to in regard to how many years they have left before they are full and how far away
[5:46] from Morris that they are located. In regard to recycling, we have the items that we do recycle
[5:53] or areas that we have in the green guide that people can actually go to to recycle those items
[5:59] and those are listed in the document. Composting is 5% for Granny County and that is also good
[6:08] because people are starting again to move other things to better suited use and future of course
[6:23] not manufacturing but industrial use for Granny County. At this point we don't have anything
[6:28] like that and certainly with the landfill that is closed, do something for us to continue
[6:34] to look forward to in the future. For recommendations,
[6:41] which is on the pages 13, I'm sorry,
[6:47] we tracked that 11 through 13, includes all the goals that we would like to see for recycling and
[6:53] using a monitoring of the landfill, but we want to do as far as trying to obtain an alternative
[7:00] waste and waste energy type of system and energy efficiency. And then the next couple of
[7:08] pages on pages 14 through 18, I'm sorry, 16 includes all the different goals that we have that
[7:20] we are going to either continue or that we are going to start.
[7:24] Certain things like education, we are going to be working with the Farm Bureau.
[7:28] The grantee can do Farm Bureau to teach with them and act in the classroom, which is
[7:34] going to be a huge help for us.
[7:37] Some things will continue to go for grants.
[7:40] For disposal, for landfills, there will be no landfills.
[7:44] As far as any type of compost facility, we'll continue to look for companies maybe to come
[7:52] to a Grundy County specifically to have a compost facility here, and then of course, something
[7:59] for alternative waste energy technology.
[8:02] We have had in the past a couple of people that have come and talked to the committee to
[8:07] land use committee specifically, but at this point right now, they look towards the county
[8:11] and this pallet is to actually pay for a facility to come to you instead of them coming
[8:16] here on their own.
[8:18] As far as an environmental education, we will continue to work with this soil and water
[8:24] conservation district for a peri conservation program at Goose Lake Prairie, looking
[8:30] towards Green Lead Buildings trying to expand that education to our developers here through
[8:36] building and zoning office and things that you know certainly would help as far as promoting
[8:45] more recycling for our residents and the grant that we received this year for CFL recycling
[8:51] will start to institute that soon and you know that's that's a great option for us.
[8:57] Next couple of pages just kind of describes the things that we have already in the county that
[9:04] are doing specifically that we notify all of the miscellities that we put something in the
[9:10] newspaper that we have a website that includes all that information and you know that it
[9:15] really is a cooperative effort with the miscellities and I note that it is cooperative with
[9:21] the libraries. Libraries have been extremely helpful to us if it hasn't been for the libraries.
[9:27] If haven't been for them we would have never gotten as many toys during the toy drive or as many
[9:31] books, we've gotten during our book drive that we have right now.
[9:35] The next is just the last portion of the plan, which is just the glossy of terms, and then
[9:41] the appendices, which include the meeting agenda, or will be, once we complete the public hearing.
[9:49] And then all of the different types of flyers that we have for different things like Tariah
[9:55] Drive, book drive, transformation, and so on, and last but not least is our green guide
[10:01] for 2019 that includes everything that people could think of that they would want to recycle
[10:06] in places they could take it to.
[10:08] And that is our summary of our plan.
[10:15] Are there any questions that anyone has concerning the review that Heidi gave us?
[10:26] If there are none for the record, you can show that there are no additional questions that
[10:32] raised or any issues that were brought up, starting the review?
[10:38] Is that being the case?
[10:40] Just answer the adjournment.
[10:41] I'm just going to need a motion to approve it.
[10:48] Why don't we have maybe possibly a motion from someone
[10:53] about approving the review that Heidi just gave us
[10:57] of the five-year update to the 20-year solid waste plan?
[11:05] Tim, may the motion is there second?
[11:07] Second, all those who are seeking the five by saying aye, propose the same sign.
[11:17] Next we need a motion to adjourn.
[11:27] Gene.
[11:28] All right.
[11:29] Motion made to adjourn.
[11:30] There's been a second.
[11:32] All in favor, aye.
[11:34] Opposed the same sign.
[11:35] Thank you all very much.
[11:37] Okay.
[11:37] Yep.
[11:38] Thank you.