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| March my teeth. Go ahead and call this meeting with Floyd County Solid Waste Management District Board of Directors. You would | 00:00:00 | |
| rise for the pledge for it. | 00:00:03 | |
| Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, | 00:00:08 | |
| indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:00:14 | |
| Happy 1st day of Spring where it's a little cool and windy outside the summertime in the assembly room here at Pineview. Always. | 00:00:24 | |
| All right. So let's go ahead and get started. Started. | 00:00:34 | |
| Do we do a roll caller here typically or you usually just? | 00:00:38 | |
| OK. Do you want to call the rolled in? | 00:00:42 | |
| What works for me OK. | 00:00:48 | |
| All right, well, looks like the only person. | 00:00:52 | |
| Missing today. Is Mr. Gang here, Mayor Graham? | 00:00:56 | |
| Approval of the January 16 Minutes. | 00:01:02 | |
| Motion to Approve. We have Motion to approve. Thank you Second. | 00:01:06 | |
| I was. I'll second that. So I got a motion in a second. | 00:01:12 | |
| Any discussion? | 00:01:18 | |
| All in favor signify by saying aye, aye any opposed? | 00:01:20 | |
| Motion character. | 00:01:24 | |
| Approval the February provisional claims. | 00:01:26 | |
| Much different. I'll 2nd that I got a motion in a second. Any further discussion I just. I just have a clarification Scott, I know | 00:01:33 | |
| the answer. | 00:01:37 | |
| In February and in early March, we purchased fuel from. | 00:01:42 | |
| Road department, but then later on March is when we had our own tank install. | 00:01:48 | |
| Out there at early March. So that's why there's. | 00:01:54 | |
| From the Floyd County Road Department, then Jacobi later on. OK, That's what I was thinking. Thank you. | 00:01:59 | |
| I'm good. All right. So I got a motion in a second. | 00:02:07 | |
| Any further discussion? | 00:02:13 | |
| OK, all in favor signify by saying aye, aye, Anthony opposed. | 00:02:15 | |
| Look first. | 00:02:19 | |
| Approval Resolution 202401 Amendment Exhibit A. | 00:02:22 | |
| All favor signify by saying aye opposed. | 00:02:41 | |
| Motion carries. | 00:02:45 | |
| Approval of the Resolution 202401 Amendment Exhibit A. | 00:02:47 | |
| Again just clarification on that and given the off month that the President and Vice President Board authorized to claim. | 00:02:52 | |
| Pending formal approval of following months that allows us to. | 00:03:03 | |
| Mr. Fox, have you looked at this? Is everything good for the resolution side? | 00:03:12 | |
| I don't see that I have it here. | 00:03:19 | |
| Probably would not be with that. | 00:03:23 | |
| Yeah. This John brought up at the last meeting that maybe there's a way that we could reduce the amount of paperwork. So what we | 00:03:27 | |
| purposely did is leave out all the financials that are somewhat the majority part of the 31 pages in this case, left out the state | 00:03:35 | |
| of resolution that we've been using since the implementation of these. | 00:03:44 | |
| Provision. | 00:03:53 | |
| OK, so I'm going to make a motion that we approve the resolution. | 00:03:56 | |
| 2024-01 with the and allow the president to sign outside the meeting with the contingency that the attorney reviews and is | 00:04:01 | |
| approved is OK with it. | 00:04:06 | |
| Again, the resolution has to change. It's just that we need the work approval what we add names to the vendor list. | 00:04:12 | |
| If somebody's not on that list, then you're not so empowered. These would be the original resolutions to provide the traditional | 00:04:20 | |
| approval. So no change at all ever to the original resolution that enables president, vice president. | 00:04:29 | |
| All we did was add a couple vendors to the list. | 00:04:38 | |
| OK, that's fine. All right, then I I will withdraw the original motion and make a motion to approve the resolution as advertised. | 00:04:43 | |
| I'll second. OK. I got a motion in a second. Any further discussion? | 00:04:49 | |
| All in favor signify by saying aye, aye any opposed? | 00:04:55 | |
| Motion carries. | 00:04:59 | |
| Director's report. | 00:05:01 | |
| So we have a substantive agenda today. That doesn't necessarily mean that we will run time at all, but please what we have to talk | 00:05:03 | |
| about today. | 00:05:09 | |
| You can always start with Marketing and communications and you'll see in recovery records reporting metrics for. | 00:05:15 | |
| But then full points around the school education initiative that you're aware of and a couple other things going on. So I'd like | 00:05:26 | |
| my colleague Laura Riggle to come up and provide a little bit of an update on her initiative to give recycling education to the | 00:05:32 | |
| 4th grade classroom account. | 00:05:38 | |
| Thank you for hearing me speak and good afternoon. | 00:05:47 | |
| I'm a retired educator from Greater Clark and it's been my privilege to have this opportunity to reach out to 4th graders and try | 00:05:51 | |
| to inspire them to become ambassadors of recycling. I want to. Really. I. | 00:06:00 | |
| Point to Mr. Tony Duffy. He has been very instrumental in getting the word out to New Albany Floyd County Schools. | 00:06:10 | |
| Elementary education, yes. And he he wanted the whole package. He wanted to see it and I wrote the curriculum and he has just been | 00:06:20 | |
| ecstatic about getting it started. We have a teacher, Mr. Scott Birch, who has been instrumental in recycling for a few years now. | 00:06:31 | |
| And it's just a tremendous partner for recycling. Dave and Davo have worked with Scott, and other teachers at Mount Tabor have | 00:06:43 | |
| joined forces with this, as well as Miss Hannah Striegel at Christian Academy. She's welcomed me into her class and I've begun | 00:06:52 | |
| teaching there. We also have Grant Line Elementary and Slave Run coming up in April, so I'll be starting classes with them. | 00:07:02 | |
| And this fall, Saint Mary's of the Knobs. They would have started earlier, but due to a few conflicts back in January, I was | 00:07:13 | |
| unable to get there. But they're starting in the fall and so is SLN and Jones, so I'm very happy to be of service to these. | 00:07:21 | |
| Children and their teachers. It's been a positive experience so far. Lots of good questions, lots of questions. I've had to go in | 00:07:29 | |
| Google, so I'm I'm looking forward to continuing that with them. | 00:07:36 | |
| As of today, there's been 29. | 00:07:45 | |
| Lessons taught OK since it started in February. | 00:07:50 | |
| And I think that's kind of rounds it out again. We want them to help us. | 00:07:54 | |
| Increase recycling in the county 50% you know by 2030. | 00:08:01 | |
| So I'm hoping that we can continue that. Laura, is this a one time visit or do you go back? | 00:08:07 | |
| Additional times or what? | 00:08:14 | |
| Mount Tabor I know Scott had already begun recycling with his kids, so I think there were like 3 lessons I did with them and the | 00:08:17 | |
| other three teachers that teach 4th grade, I did 8 lessons with them and I may go back for some experiments with them. | 00:08:26 | |
| About how many 4th graders do you think you're reaching? I don't know how many there are in Floyd County and how many you have. | 00:08:37 | |
| Reached at this point 1200, if I go to all the schools. | 00:08:43 | |
| And in the paper that you have regarding the education initiative? | 00:08:49 | |
| They they have been notified of it, but some of them did not get that information maybe from their principal just yet. | 00:08:55 | |
| And plus, we have to remember their standardized testing going on. So I look for this fall. | 00:09:03 | |
| To be a greater push for this. | 00:09:09 | |
| Thank you for your time. Thank you, Thank you. | 00:09:15 | |
| Now maybe we can help the Holy Family a little bit. It's been tough to get in there and Our Lady of Perpetual Health, actually. So | 00:09:21 | |
| we have a little momentum with Drop me a text with a reminder and I will see what I can do. | 00:09:27 | |
| Yeah, I should show up. | 00:09:35 | |
| Have Operations Manager, Dave Watson with us today as well. Wanted Dave to talk about the completion of the building, renovation | 00:09:39 | |
| and a few other points as well that you'll find interesting. | 00:09:47 | |
| Ladies and gentlemen. | 00:09:58 | |
| We are making progress, there's no doubt there. | 00:10:00 | |
| The construction is completed as far as the structure. | 00:10:03 | |
| We're in the process now of going to get some inside walls. | 00:10:08 | |
| And do our finished work inside the. | 00:10:13 | |
| It's we are surprised that once we got to look at how big the room became. | 00:10:17 | |
| And looking from the shed to now our our new home, we're in the process. Now like I said, you want to get some materials we'll be | 00:10:24 | |
| moving out of. | 00:10:29 | |
| What would be the? | 00:10:35 | |
| Building for the Baylor and so we have to get that cleaned out before we can progress. | 00:10:37 | |
| Were there, we were able to get the Hazmat connex box. | 00:10:43 | |
| Moved from down. | 00:10:50 | |
| Know about that, so you have in your packet. | 00:10:53 | |
| Pictures. | 00:10:58 | |
| A raise. | 00:11:01 | |
| Specifically built through this and that has been sitting at the wastewater treatment plant. | 00:11:06 | |
| For 20 years, Yeah, for years. | 00:11:11 | |
| I've been with. | 00:11:16 | |
| Yeah, almost six years. | 00:11:17 | |
| And we've never used it since. I've been with the firm, as we would love to call it. | 00:11:19 | |
| So but we were able to move it. | 00:11:27 | |
| And Davos and Jessica were working today, you know, working on our entrance way. | 00:11:32 | |
| It's It is designed for this specific purpose of storing hazardous waste. | 00:11:41 | |
| And materials. | 00:11:47 | |
| As that's its function and it's what it will be. | 00:11:49 | |
| We. | 00:11:54 | |
| Have just a few items left. | 00:11:55 | |
| Finalize that, but it is. | 00:11:57 | |
| Near completion. So essentially you'll recall that we have the second pull bar that we dedicated to long term employee, Dorothy | 00:12:01 | |
| Lee. | 00:12:05 | |
| Back when she left in the summertime. | 00:12:09 | |
| And that will. | 00:12:13 | |
| Will be now reassigned in its primary task. I'll ask Dave Nashville to talk about that in a second. | 00:12:16 | |
| But essentially. | 00:12:23 | |
| The. | 00:12:27 | |
| Yesterday by Pageant in fact will be the center of our HHW activities and feel really good about that. And I'm going to say thank | 00:12:29 | |
| you to Adam Dickey for making the contact. Thanks to Mike Wallace of the city's wastewater utility for his cooperation as well to | 00:12:37 | |
| allow Hedges to come in and cherry pick the container. | 00:12:44 | |
| Didn't even have to takedown the fence, lifted it over the fence and put it on the flatbed and brought it out to the atoms. So | 00:12:52 | |
| we're delighted with that. That was a thoughtful move to capture that, to give us as much capability in terms of efficiently and | 00:12:59 | |
| effectively manage HHW. | 00:13:06 | |
| I'm I'm going to ask this question real quick. | 00:13:16 | |
| The hydrant was obviously there first. | 00:13:20 | |
| But do we place this there with the idea that it would also be close to the hydrant, the fire hydrant? | 00:13:23 | |
| Or was that? | 00:13:29 | |
| The space was the preferable space. The hybrid is not operational. | 00:13:33 | |
| Oh, you see that tag? | 00:13:38 | |
| Well, yeah, I did see that. I did see that, yes. | 00:13:42 | |
| It's like because I actually had, I kind of had the same question, I noticed that the hybrid was out of services. Has it been out | 00:13:44 | |
| of service for a long time up there? | 00:13:48 | |
| OK, yeah, there was, there was a water leak in along the roadway. | 00:13:54 | |
| And because it was a. | 00:14:01 | |
| Whether they call it property or probably own the, we own the hydrant, yes. | 00:14:04 | |
| American Water was not involved with it. It was up to us to make any repairs and put it back in service, and that's never been | 00:14:10 | |
| done. I've never turned it off. I've never. | 00:14:15 | |
| As a result. That's why we have 1/4. | 00:14:22 | |
| Adam, I do want to say that they get a lot of pets, so this is pet friendly. If the dogs want to use that, they're more than | 00:14:27 | |
| welcome to. | 00:14:31 | |
| Sure. I I guess as a side note. | 00:14:36 | |
| That's terrible. I don't know what the repairs would be to the line or the hydrant, but. | 00:14:40 | |
| Don't. Don't we want that? Yeah, I would think that it would probably be worth looking at, quite honestly. It really depends on | 00:14:47 | |
| where the closest hybrid is. | 00:14:52 | |
| To that well played down the fire department is me apart. I I mean I'm I'm I'm thinking. I'm thinking my my fireman would would | 00:14:57 | |
| very much appreciate me. | 00:15:03 | |
| Raising that concern if something actually occurred there. | 00:15:09 | |
| This aside, I mean, honestly, you know, we've talked about it really in the context of bathroom facilities and just have never | 00:15:14 | |
| found it that fiscally doable to. | 00:15:20 | |
| Make that happen, honestly and all kidding aside, and we certainly will paint it. | 00:15:28 | |
| Make it an attractive icon of some kind, But you know, no plans to move it at this point in time. | 00:15:35 | |
| Well, I I mean, my first thought was that was. | 00:15:45 | |
| Pretty convenient placement, but I didn't think about it having the tag on it either. So and they talk a little bit about the | 00:15:48 | |
| partnership with the folks next door that have helped make that grading possible. We've had a real good neighbor in the National | 00:15:55 | |
| Guard Armory. | 00:16:01 | |
| Through some contacts, we talked with them. | 00:16:10 | |
| They've come over with their bobcat and have done some work for us. | 00:16:13 | |
| Doing some grading, doing some digging. | 00:16:18 | |
| They have just and. | 00:16:21 | |
| It's always been a real pleasure to work with them. | 00:16:23 | |
| Are they? They like having things, things to do, and if they're not busy, they. | 00:16:27 | |
| Jump on and they come right on over. | 00:16:32 | |
| So it has really been a pleasure working with them. | 00:16:35 | |
| I did spring for some pizzas up there down to. | 00:16:41 | |
| You know, to help the guys out, they probably like that. | 00:16:44 | |
| But now they have, they really have helped a lot and and they're always there and they they said anytime if we're not busy we'll | 00:16:51 | |
| be glad to help out. And so it's been really good neighbors. And then we'll start the HHW collection from the springtime on April | 00:16:57 | |
| the 13th. | 00:17:03 | |
| And that's something that William Lara and another one of our employees, Raymond Thomas. | 00:17:11 | |
| Maybe just generally on The Saturdays from 9:00 to 1:00 with everybody pitching in as needed. | 00:17:17 | |
| So we'll report that. | 00:17:24 | |
| Dave. Dave helped by getting the entire place where there's no current inventory. | 00:17:27 | |
| Including some complicated unknown chemicals that have been leftover. | 00:17:35 | |
| Way to address. | 00:17:42 | |
| Have tested and then transported off site within the next week. | 00:17:43 | |
| Scott, you you help me with this. | 00:17:49 | |
| When you were talking, I have an idea or just a thought about our pricing. Is our pricing in good shape when it comes to the | 00:17:54 | |
| collection of? | 00:17:58 | |
| You balance the. | 00:18:04 | |
| $4.00 a gallon for paint. | 00:18:08 | |
| The couple bucks for cans of pesticides or what have you. | 00:18:12 | |
| More often than not, do the pushback from one of the cities who don't like paying. | 00:18:20 | |
| So clearly the county is subsidizing this activity. | 00:18:26 | |
| And my judgment, we're at the right price point now. | 00:18:31 | |
| Not to disadvantage ourselves. | 00:18:36 | |
| In disincentivizing. | 00:18:40 | |
| Maybe had somebody and we had a. | 00:18:45 | |
| We have several people that are longtime patrons and we've had a lady came through the other day and she wanted us to know. | 00:18:50 | |
| That the work we are doing at the site has made a big difference as far as the looks, she said. She was. She was impressed at how | 00:19:00 | |
| we were getting things cleaned up and looking more professional. | 00:19:07 | |
| And so of course we thanked her for that, but she she was adamant about San Diego. You go really put some effort in that here and | 00:19:15 | |
| so sometimes it shows. | 00:19:20 | |
| Sometimes you don't think it does, but it does. So we've made some good efforts and we've got more to do. | 00:19:26 | |
| When he also. | 00:19:33 | |
| Were the yeah, the cardboard. It had a grassy area there. | 00:19:35 | |
| You know, we had your dumpsters and then you got rid of grass. You put gravel down, right? Yeah. | 00:19:41 | |
| Yeah, we are. Once, once we get finished with our grading, we're going to try a different alignment on the trailer parking. | 00:19:47 | |
| And we're kind of experimenting to see what works best, right? But we are. | 00:19:54 | |
| We're looking to be more efficient. | 00:20:00 | |
| That's what the way we're doing. | 00:20:04 | |
| Let me ask the question. | 00:20:07 | |
| TV's and stuff, you store those outside, is that right? | 00:20:10 | |
| But flat screen is going to. | 00:20:15 | |
| OK. | 00:20:21 | |
| Good. Thank you. | 00:20:22 | |
| To talk a little bit about the new life and vision for the old HHW building. And again, remind you, Dave, how long have you been | 00:20:25 | |
| with us now? Almost 2 two years in September. That's amazing. So a year and a half retired from the Kentucky truck. | 00:20:34 | |
| We look at him as our deficiency expert. | 00:20:46 | |
| You know, 6 Sigma, you know he's the guy who. | 00:20:49 | |
| Talks about when he's at home at night, he gets up from his chair to build a kitchen. He tries to think what can I do between here | 00:20:53 | |
| and there to be more efficient and I'll get inside. And that's not a proof of the world lesson for us as well. So a great member | 00:20:59 | |
| of the team and and it's always pushing us to look at things differently. So talk a little bit about I guess from my side, we | 00:21:05 | |
| currently run five trucks. | 00:21:11 | |
| 9 trailers and four containers, right? | 00:21:18 | |
| So we're just constantly looking at ways to make things more efficient with the bringing on the the new container for the | 00:21:21 | |
| chemicals it opens up that garage for us to be able to. | 00:21:27 | |
| Do our maintenance to the trailers and to the trucks. | 00:21:34 | |
| And you know, of course we're saving costs by doing that way. We're not doing major stuff and like we just had a truck breakdown | 00:21:39 | |
| this week that we had to have put in the shop. The simple stuff, light bulb goes out, you know, the trailer tire needs a plug in | 00:21:45 | |
| it, then we take care of that stuff. And since I've been there, I mean. | 00:21:51 | |
| That has improved pretty significantly. You know the less we have, a lot less flats because we're running you know a commercial | 00:21:58 | |
| grade ceiling and the trailer tires, so you know we can pull 3 or 4 nails out and not even have a flat. | 00:22:05 | |
| So that saves us 25 bucks a pump. | 00:22:12 | |
| From that so again having the. | 00:22:16 | |
| The container and opening up. | 00:22:20 | |
| Garage for us to workout of is going to be pretty significant across. | 00:22:23 | |
| Continuing to be efficient, safe money and truck was 12 that we get told last week that. | 00:22:27 | |
| That we had the only reason I'm bringing that up. | 00:22:34 | |
| If we have agreed as part of the edit funding settlement to. | 00:22:36 | |
| Not asked Edit to fund a new truck this year. It's not because we don't need it. | 00:22:41 | |
| Think it's the right decision to put this on the back order? No problem with that. But just you know that trucks in 2012. | 00:22:47 | |
| It's not the oldest truck you've got. | 00:22:59 | |
| It's got 90,000 miles on it. | 00:23:01 | |
| The highest mileage truck we have as 100. | 00:23:04 | |
| 302,000 which is truck. | 00:23:07 | |
| Truck 12112 right? Yeah so everything else is hovered in between other than the the the 24 Chevy. | 00:23:11 | |
| You have 8000 miles of that already. | 00:23:22 | |
| So here we update two other former Kentucky truck plant employees who are saving this money out of pocket, what they're able to do | 00:23:25 | |
| because of their expertise and we go off of my Chevy truck. | 00:23:31 | |
| Is because it's more ergonomically easier on the older people to get in and out of that truck. | 00:23:39 | |
| Thank you. Thanks. | 00:23:50 | |
| Let me talk a little bit about our. | 00:23:56 | |
| Grants which. | 00:23:58 | |
| Well, the dashboard, the February traffic count, we had nearly 4200 vehicles. | 00:24:02 | |
| And 100, almost 111,000 lbs. | 00:24:08 | |
| Our item grants all sound sealed and delivered at this point in time. So just a reminder, we'll call it grant number one that we | 00:24:12 | |
| call the, it's the recycling recycled market development program. That's what will give us the additional trailers and the | 00:24:19 | |
| marketing and education program. | 00:24:25 | |
| For community purposes, really focused on these 13 neighborhoods that with John and Nick's help in county planning. | 00:24:33 | |
| We identified nearly a year ago when we submitted the grant application that we would try to bring recycling to those underserved | 00:24:42 | |
| areas of the county, so with Lars help. | 00:24:48 | |
| And with the help of a professor at IUS and a student at IUS, a marketing student, we're already putting plans together. We've | 00:24:55 | |
| already knocked on some doors in some of these neighborhoods. | 00:25:02 | |
| And our key focus over the next two to three weeks will be to really isolate exactly those neighborhoods and the timetable we're | 00:25:09 | |
| going to be going into them and how we're going to best serve them. | 00:25:15 | |
| So we're really excited about that. The second item grant, the community Recycling Grant program essentially funds the Baylor. | 00:25:22 | |
| And funds the some out of pocket education materials that Laura will be able to use as she continues to expand her in school | 00:25:33 | |
| education effort. | 00:25:38 | |
| That leads us to recommendations for equipment purchases. Today, we looked at three different balers. | 00:25:46 | |
| And while the grant is for 23,000 for a failure. | 00:25:54 | |
| We're recommending the $24,000 failure. | 00:26:00 | |
| Short of not the $29,000 failure, but one that not only comes with full. | 00:26:06 | |
| Installation and labor included, but also ongoing maintenance. | 00:26:14 | |
| That being from the Allstate Equipment Company for 24,650 and I think we could make up the difference on that. | 00:26:20 | |
| Jason, do you want to take these like one at a time because of basically 2 trailers? | 00:26:31 | |
| Or 1 trailer. | 00:26:37 | |
| Two bins that we're talking about in addition to the Baylor. | 00:26:39 | |
| Like the board's approval. | 00:26:44 | |
| Or purchase. Rick, do you have any thoughts on that? I take them one at a time. OK. OK. | 00:26:46 | |
| So our recommendation would be the Allstate equipment. | 00:26:54 | |
| Baylor. | 00:26:58 | |
| At 24650, of which again 50% of the purchase cost will come from. | 00:27:00 | |
| Motion to approve second. | 00:27:09 | |
| Got a motion in a second? Any further discussion? | 00:27:11 | |
| OK, sorry. | 00:27:20 | |
| OK, all in favor signify by saying aye, aye, opposed. | 00:27:22 | |
| We go down to the trailers. | 00:27:27 | |
| The we have had. | 00:27:29 | |
| Basically just a single trailer for most of my tenure we did back in September, you'll recall by a smaller trailer and a smaller | 00:27:32 | |
| bin to go on that trailer from Big Tex. At this time, it was our interest in buying a. | 00:27:41 | |
| Another trailer, because the one that we have originally protein is the brand name. | 00:27:52 | |
| Is, is. | 00:28:00 | |
| Not in as bad as shape as Truck 112. | 00:28:02 | |
| But in fact, that needs to be replaced in a day-to-day operational way and then we're asking for a bin to go on that, which will | 00:28:05 | |
| enable us to be more efficient in our collections. | 00:28:12 | |
| And that essentially is. | 00:28:21 | |
| Listed. | 00:28:24 | |
| Under second from the bottom you'll see the PROR. | 00:28:30 | |
| 16 TR. | 00:28:35 | |
| It's The trailer itself is at 27995. | 00:28:37 | |
| Again, I then pays for 50% of that. | 00:28:42 | |
| In addition to that, we have a open bin at 58180 dollars. | 00:28:46 | |
| That would go with that. | 00:28:53 | |
| And we had at. | 00:28:56 | |
| At the end of. | 00:29:00 | |
| Oh, let's see. | 00:29:02 | |
| The grant was turned in in June and then they came back. I didn't came back to us and said hey, you really can't fund $5000 in | 00:29:04 | |
| stipends for the IUS students because they don't cover personnel cost and they asked me to throw in. | 00:29:12 | |
| Another five or $6000 to replace that in order to beat the threshold of the $100,000. | 00:29:22 | |
| Grant minimum. | 00:29:29 | |
| And so I threw in another bit. So what we're talking about here is a a bin for. | 00:29:31 | |
| Two bins at the bottom of the page. There are 58180 apiece that go with the trailer. That's 27995. | 00:29:39 | |
| And again, that's complementing. | 00:29:49 | |
| The model that we currently have. | 00:29:52 | |
| And we found nothing at any price that would be preferable to that. So recommendation would be for that trailer and the two. | 00:29:55 | |
| Protainer bins. | 00:30:06 | |
| 5880 apiece. | 00:30:09 | |
| For your approval. | 00:30:12 | |
| I'll make a motion for the first one, The trailer, I believe it is. | 00:30:15 | |
| For the Pro R16. | 00:30:21 | |
| TR for 27995. | 00:30:25 | |
| Second OK, I got a motion by Brad and second by John. | 00:30:28 | |
| Any further discussion? | 00:30:32 | |
| Super 5 by saying aye aye opposed. | 00:30:36 | |
| Motion carries. | 00:30:40 | |
| Third thing is a. | 00:30:42 | |
| I hope I'm saying this right because we also requested a protainer. So for those of you who have visited our sites, you're quite | 00:30:45 | |
| used to seeing the green trailers with the slots on the side. We had envisioned that. | 00:30:52 | |
| Yeah, back in the springtime of 2023. | 00:31:00 | |
| But as we have thought, more as a team. | 00:31:04 | |
| About how do we most effectively execute serving these neighborhoods. We've come up with a thought that instead of just having a | 00:31:07 | |
| another protein or. | 00:31:13 | |
| Typable. | 00:31:19 | |
| Trailer. | 00:31:21 | |
| And it would be. | 00:31:26 | |
| And again those trailers? | 00:31:30 | |
| Or like this? | 00:31:35 | |
| Instead of this. | 00:31:37 | |
| We would like something more basic. | 00:31:39 | |
| Like this? Well, we can put totes on them. | 00:31:42 | |
| Facility easier to go to the neighborhoods is facilitates separation of materials. | 00:31:45 | |
| As we look to maximize revenue from from that the only. | 00:31:51 | |
| Item. | 00:31:57 | |
| That makes that a little bit complicated. Is that with the grant agreement from item? | 00:32:00 | |
| Any changes to it, they need to approve, so I submitted last Wednesday a request for a trade off. | 00:32:06 | |
| Of the 1 trailer. | 00:32:14 | |
| And 20,270. | 00:32:16 | |
| For two $8000. | 00:32:19 | |
| Trailers. | 00:32:22 | |
| With the totes and some additional materials that basically comes within $750 of that original trailer that I requested. | 00:32:24 | |
| I was hoping that they would come back and say. | 00:32:36 | |
| Don't need to modify the agreement. | 00:32:38 | |
| But they haven't come back and said anything yet, so. | 00:32:42 | |
| I'm highly confident that they will. | 00:32:46 | |
| Because they want us to do the right thing, we want to support us in a way that we feel we will be most efficient and carrying out | 00:32:49 | |
| that the objectives of the grant application so. | 00:32:55 | |
| What with the idea that they will say yes to the two utility trailers? | 00:33:02 | |
| Recommendation is that we move forward with board approval. | 00:33:08 | |
| Again, pending item confirmation. | 00:33:14 | |
| The purchase of these two big techs utility trailers as noted in the. | 00:33:18 | |
| Fourth line of the equipment. | 00:33:25 | |
| Itemization, Scott. I'll give you come back to that in just a second because I'm going to make another motion for. | 00:33:27 | |
| The Pro Pro R1420. | 00:33:35 | |
| Those there's two of those, plus the shipping and handling at 58885 thousand 880 a piece. | 00:33:41 | |
| Yes, the bends. I didn't get around to those. | 00:33:48 | |
| With the original motion, so I'm going to make a motion for that. It's the very bottom one. | 00:33:53 | |
| Second Got a motion by Brian, a second by Mr. Dickey. | 00:33:58 | |
| Aye opposed. | 00:34:07 | |
| Now I'll make a motion for. I'm sorry, go ahead. I'm sorry. | 00:34:10 | |
| Motion for the. | 00:34:14 | |
| The pro trailer, Pro Tilt that. | 00:34:16 | |
| You have advertised here the big Tex 14PI-20. | 00:34:21 | |
| BK utility trailers, both of them as you have advertised here, both for $8000 with the contingency that I den approves the. | 00:34:27 | |
| Change order? Well, set. | 00:34:38 | |
| Got a motion by Brad. I'll second, second by John. | 00:34:41 | |
| Any further discussion? | 00:34:47 | |
| All I think favor signify by saying Aye, aye. | 00:34:49 | |
| Opposed social characters. Thank you all. | 00:34:53 | |
| Want to talk just very briefly about the edit modifications that we've referenced. | 00:34:58 | |
| That's what we went back and forth and seeking to resolve this issue first brought up at our January meeting with Jason and John's | 00:35:03 | |
| input for spread involved prior to that point essentially got that to the agreement with the commissioners that we would. | 00:35:12 | |
| Freeze the $50,000 capital request for a truck for 2024 #1 #2 agreed that that there would be 25,000 in other spending frozen as | 00:35:22 | |
| well. | 00:35:28 | |
| That would. | 00:35:35 | |
| Basically reduce the contribution from added from the amount requested less 75,000. | 00:35:37 | |
| In the meantime, County has. | 00:35:45 | |
| Given us the initial draw of 335,000. | 00:35:50 | |
| And then we look forward to in July to receive another 65. | 00:35:57 | |
| From edit and another 17478 from the CCD fund also on the approximate time of July. | 00:36:03 | |
| Everybody, I think is in agreement. We're happy with it. We'll live with it. The only thing that we will do is that we will. | 00:36:14 | |
| From our operational standpoint. | 00:36:21 | |
| We will have. | 00:36:24 | |
| A certain amount of money unappropriated and so we will isolate at least 25,000. | 00:36:27 | |
| Of unappropriated dollars come back to you, seek that appropriation that then we'll have to go before the County Council as well | 00:36:33 | |
| in order to make up for the 25,000. | 00:36:38 | |
| That we are freezing up front. | 00:36:44 | |
| If that makes sense. | 00:36:48 | |
| It does. | 00:36:51 | |
| Is that a confident look? | 00:36:53 | |
| No, you just had me going to the County Council for approval. | 00:36:55 | |
| Good luck. | 00:37:00 | |
| That's all right. That's. | 00:37:02 | |
| Think I'm on vacation that day. | 00:37:03 | |
| Feel right to everybody. | 00:37:08 | |
| And again, thank you for your patience, Jason and John, Brad for helping work through this. Thanks for helping us work through it | 00:37:10 | |
| as well. And to be absolutely clear about it, I have no intention for any capital dollars in 2024. | 00:37:17 | |
| Because we're not that far away from the initial draft of the 2020. | 00:37:25 | |
| 2025 budget. | 00:37:30 | |
| And so we would anticipate no capital request. | 00:37:32 | |
| Assuming that we have some success in competing with the legacy foundation on a truck request. | 00:37:38 | |
| And then of course you know. | 00:37:44 | |
| Be asking for no money for matching grants because we'll be completely focused on the full execution of the two grants we have in | 00:37:48 | |
| 2024 that actually lasts for 18 months. | 00:37:53 | |
| So we don't have time to. | 00:38:00 | |
| You know, buy anything else? | 00:38:03 | |
| Let me talk a little bit about. | 00:38:08 | |
| Our cost savings initiative and I think this has been a fun exercise actually, but. | 00:38:10 | |
| Essentially, as most of you know. | 00:38:18 | |
| Our team currently makes 500 trips a year. | 00:38:20 | |
| To Fern Valley Rd. just east of the Ford Louisville Assembly Plant. | 00:38:24 | |
| And primarily taking? | 00:38:30 | |
| Corrugated boxes and that. | 00:38:33 | |
| Has the greatest value, currently at $6065 a ton for loose, corrugated but. | 00:38:40 | |
| 30% thirty 2% premium with a bail arrangement. But that's a long way to go. | 00:38:48 | |
| And and so we went through the calc. | 00:38:57 | |
| The couch of you know, to 38 minutes, 27 mile drive. | 00:38:59 | |
| To Industrial Blvd. | 00:39:05 | |
| We looked at the web key as an alternative. | 00:39:08 | |
| That's twenty mile, 20 minutes, 12 miles just on West Oak St. | 00:39:11 | |
| So if you take the 9th St. exit. | 00:39:19 | |
| And just keep going straight. You're 10 to 12 minutes from. | 00:39:22 | |
| Facility. | 00:39:26 | |
| We really thought about wear and tear on our vehicles. We thought about. | 00:39:29 | |
| Of the time because usually we have two. | 00:39:33 | |
| Employees in the truck making that run and that's just downtime that we cannot afford. | 00:39:37 | |
| What we're trying to do a lot of things without asking for more money for more people. So that really was our key incentive to | 00:39:44 | |
| really examine are there cost saving opportunities. So we looked at it from a personnel standpoint, the fuel consumption | 00:39:49 | |
| standpoint. | 00:39:54 | |
| We think that we can save in excess of 6200 a year. | 00:39:59 | |
| Just a fuel costs. | 00:40:03 | |
| By making some changes the productivity I mentioned and then the revenue. | 00:40:06 | |
| One of the big considerations though. | 00:40:14 | |
| Is that as we've talked to? | 00:40:16 | |
| Even though they offered some benefits. | 00:40:18 | |
| As far as lesser distance, they don't service Galena. | 00:40:22 | |
| And we have 11 bids that we call single string bins. At the annex we have 10. | 00:40:27 | |
| At the Galena site and then he's Galena's service once a week. | 00:40:33 | |
| And grant line of service twice a week. | 00:40:39 | |
| We simply can't have a. | 00:40:42 | |
| Productive relationship with the firm that doesn't go to Galena. | 00:40:45 | |
| And so that that became disqualified for erupting. | 00:40:48 | |
| So what do W rock our current provider? | 00:40:52 | |
| And said. | 00:40:56 | |
| We're happy with your service. | 00:40:59 | |
| Very efficient. They are open 24/7. | 00:41:01 | |
| Dave Massiguel particular has talked about that their new checking system thinks about as efficient as it can be from a mechanical | 00:41:04 | |
| standpoint. Marquee has more condensed hours and and not as sophisticated. | 00:41:11 | |
| A check in checkout system. | 00:41:19 | |
| But I asked West Rocks help in solving the problems. | 00:41:22 | |
| Laura Bellman, our contact. | 00:41:29 | |
| Had what proved to be an excellent idea. | 00:41:31 | |
| As we look forward to the implementation of our bailed era. | 00:41:34 | |
| Then I would say what she offered would be that W Rock would dispatch, at our request, a box truck. | 00:41:41 | |
| Within 24 hours of said request. | 00:41:50 | |
| And that box truck would cost us $150.00. | 00:41:52 | |
| But it would take up to 14 males. | 00:41:56 | |
| Of which, again at $95 a ton. | 00:42:00 | |
| Can put us north of between 5:00 and $600.00 net revenue on the transaction. Yes, we pay them 150 to come get it. | 00:42:05 | |
| But because we're paying them 1:50 to come get it. | 00:42:15 | |
| Not sending Dave and Jessica and Ron and Mike over to Fern Valley Rd. That's a big deal. | 00:42:18 | |
| Because we can reallocate those hours in terms of serving the neighborhoods that we've identified in the first item grant. So the | 00:42:27 | |
| recommendation don't really need your formal approval on. We want you to understand that we've gone through a pretty much a three | 00:42:35 | |
| to four month process of weighing the pros and cons. I feel really, really good about staying. | 00:42:43 | |
| The course, But then turning some of the transportation burden onto our vendor, West Dr. freeing up our people a little bit more. | 00:42:52 | |
| And reducing the learning term or equipment more? | 00:43:04 | |
| Not to say fuel savings to boot. | 00:43:08 | |
| On top of that. | 00:43:12 | |
| John brought it up initially. We've now again Dave Watsons initiative to go to Jacobi and have them place a 500 gallon tank at the | 00:43:17 | |
| annex. | 00:43:22 | |
| Because our folks and you can read it at your convenience. | 00:43:29 | |
| Where we've done the calculations on. | 00:43:33 | |
| But just the highlight. | 00:43:35 | |
| We would make at least 23 trips a month to the county garage on average. | 00:43:38 | |
| That's 418 miles a month. Assuming an average of 10 miles per gallon, it's 42 gallons of fuel saved generating. | 00:43:43 | |
| $109 a month savings. | 00:43:52 | |
| And then at the county garage being the 28th round trip from the annex. | 00:43:55 | |
| And again, two people. | 00:44:00 | |
| Perhaps in the vehicle? | 00:44:02 | |
| We come down to the point that we feel that there's a material savings of having. | 00:44:04 | |
| Fuel at the same rate as the county pace of the garage. | 00:44:10 | |
| There at the Annex so. | 00:44:14 | |
| Attaboy to Dave for stepping forward on that because you have as a board, you have complete confidence that we're looking at every | 00:44:18 | |
| possibility to reduce spending. | 00:44:23 | |
| Be it wear and tear maintenance, you know you have skilled folks like the masculine. | 00:44:29 | |
| We'll turn you know, the old HHW shed to a little bit of a garage for some grease monkey activity. | 00:44:36 | |
| And we're delighted at that. And that's money that we're not spending at any other vendor throughout the city. I think that can be | 00:44:45 | |
| completely avoided. But I'm really pleased that we have good momentum, good sensitivity to what those costs are and how we can | 00:44:51 | |
| continue to reduce that. | 00:44:57 | |
| Final point of the day is relative to partnership initiatives. All of you've heard Agnosium discussions ongoing for many, many, | 00:45:06 | |
| many, many months with Baptist Floyd. | 00:45:12 | |
| And I'm happy to report. | 00:45:18 | |
| That after my most recent sit down with the. | 00:45:20 | |
| Environmental services at the hospital at noon today. | 00:45:25 | |
| That they are delighted that we've completed our expansion. | 00:45:29 | |
| Delighted that we have a bin that we can place at the hospital. Delighted that we're in a position to take their corrugated not | 00:45:34 | |
| only. | 00:45:39 | |
| Generating the normal course of hospital operations, but they have major construction ongoing and we'll have for many, many months | 00:45:45 | |
| to come. And so my next step is to complete a draft partnership agreement. | 00:45:53 | |
| That. | 00:46:03 | |
| We'd like to make sure that those of us in the trenches, Lamont read at Environmental Services and and our team agrees to | 00:46:05 | |
| completely in terms of how does this work. | 00:46:10 | |
| But I think you'll be helpful to the hospital to allow other people to focus more on their primary responsibilities would be | 00:46:16 | |
| helpful to us in terms of engineering and volume for which we can generate revenue. But what I would like is that the Boards of | 00:46:22 | |
| Motion, if you will. | 00:46:28 | |
| To appoint the President and the Vice President of the authority to sign such a. | 00:46:36 | |
| Partnership agreement between now and the time that we beat the next time as a board in May. | 00:46:42 | |
| And I would estimate that there would be around April 15th. | 00:46:48 | |
| If we can pull that off. | 00:46:52 | |
| Request such a. | 00:46:56 | |
| I'll make that motion, but also to subject to Rick's review. | 00:46:57 | |
| Subject to your review, Rick, to make sure that we're not kosher elective motion that we do that but pending. | 00:47:01 | |
| Rich review to allow Brad and Jason to sign outside the meeting. Actually, I'll get the draft to Rick before you all see it then. | 00:47:11 | |
| Yep, second. | 00:47:20 | |
| John second, I have. | 00:47:24 | |
| Any further discussion? | 00:47:26 | |
| Adam, Adam. Yeah. | 00:47:30 | |
| Yeah, I don't care. | 00:47:34 | |
| All in favor signify by saying aye any opposed? | 00:47:39 | |
| Those carries. | 00:47:43 | |
| Final point and great team, got momentum, lots of moving parts. | 00:47:44 | |
| Nothing's going to be easy. | 00:47:50 | |
| Especially with the execution of the grants, but as we talked about in our team meeting this morning, given this is our management | 00:47:53 | |
| team. | 00:47:57 | |
| And we could choose to do nothing. | 00:48:02 | |
| And just be opening up the gates, collecting the recycling and lock the gates and then do it again tomorrow. We don't choose to do | 00:48:05 | |
| that. And you know, we're confident enough that, you know, we have enough brain power. | 00:48:11 | |
| In this world, you've included to figure out any barrier that we need to. | 00:48:17 | |
| Figure out as we move forward to reach that point of 50% recycling household wastes. | 00:48:24 | |
| In county household by 23rd. So again thank you for your support and thank you 3 for all you do in particular. | 00:48:32 | |
| I have a quick question on the backtrack little bit on this W rock. | 00:48:40 | |
| Do you have a formal agreement you're going to be signing with them on the pickup? | 00:48:45 | |
| I she didn't say there needed to be one. We currently don't have one, I don't believe, even though they come. | 00:48:49 | |
| To three to the two locations 3 * a week to pick up. I just think for insurance workman's comp, it needs to be spelled out. Who's | 00:48:57 | |
| going to be loading material onto what piece of equipment. We don't want their folks using our equipment, they don't want us using | 00:49:02 | |
| theirs in case something gets banged up. So I would just. | 00:49:08 | |
| Ideally they would load it and that gives you even more freedom with your staff, but. | 00:49:15 | |
| But now that we have the. | 00:49:21 | |
| New used forklift. | 00:49:24 | |
| My guess is that the forklift will be employed and loading the box truck. | 00:49:26 | |
| I doubt if the box chart would have one with it. Probably not. I think just needs to be spelled out in case the new used forklift | 00:49:31 | |
| bands up the happy to accommodate. | 00:49:35 | |
| Thank you, Sir. Thank you. | 00:49:43 | |
| All right, Any public input today? | 00:49:45 | |
| No. All right. So the next meeting is going to be May 21st at 4:20. | 00:49:50 | |
| Look for a motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. | 00:49:56 | |
| Second motion by John. Second by All in favor, signify the city. Aye. Aye. All right. | 00:49:58 | |
| Have a great day. Thank you all for what you what you're doing. Got a great team going and. | 00:50:06 | |
| I love the energy and the thoughts. | 00:50:11 | |
| It's been nice. | 00:50:17 | |
| March my teeth. Go ahead and call this meeting with Floyd County Solid Waste Management District Board of Directors so you would | 00:50:20 | |
| rise for the pledge for it. | 00:50:24 | |
| Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, | 00:50:29 | |
| indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:50:35 | |
| Happy 1st day of Spring where it's a little cool and windy outside the summertime in the Assembly Room here at Pineview. | 00:50:45 | |
| Always. | 00:50:53 | |
| All right. So let's go ahead get started. | 00:50:55 | |
| Do we do a roll caller here typically or you usually just? | 00:50:59 | |
| OK. Do you want to call the world in? | 00:51:04 | |
| What works for me OK. | 00:51:09 | |
| All right, well, looks like the only person. | 00:51:14 | |
| Missing today. Is Mr. Gang here, Mayor Graham? | 00:51:17 | |
| Approval of the January 16 Minutes. | 00:51:23 | |
| Motion to Approve. | 00:51:27 | |
| We have motion approved. Can I get a second? | 00:51:29 | |
| I was. I'll second that. So I got a motion in a second. | 00:51:33 | |
| Any discussion? | 00:51:39 | |
| All in favor signify by saying aye, aye any opposed? | 00:51:41 | |
| Motion carries. | 00:51:45 | |
| Approval the February provisional claims. | 00:51:48 | |
| I'll 2nd that I got a motion in a second. Any further discussion I just. I just have a clarification. Scotland, I know the answer. | 00:51:55 | |
| In February and in early March we purchased fuel from the road department, but then later on March is when we had our own tank | 00:52:03 | |
| install. | 00:52:09 | |
| Out there at early March. So that's why there's two. | 00:52:15 | |
| From the Floyd County Road Department, then Jacobi later on, OK. | 00:52:20 | |
| That's what I was thinking. Thank you. I'm good. | 00:52:25 | |
| All right, so I got a motion in a second. | 00:52:30 | |
| Any further discussion? | 00:52:34 | |
| OK, all in favor signify by saying aye, aye, Anthony opposed. | 00:52:36 | |
| Look first. | 00:52:40 | |
| Approval Resolution 202401 Amendment Exhibit A. | 00:52:43 | |
| Looking for approval of the March 2nd, any further discussion? Second, John? | 00:52:49 | |
| All right, all for every signify by saying aye, opposed. | 00:53:01 | |
| Motion carries. | 00:53:06 | |
| Approval of the Resolution 202401 Amendment Exhibit A. | 00:53:08 | |
| To get this clarification on that and given the off month that the President and Vice President of course authorized to claim. | 00:53:13 | |
| Pending formal approval to follow the month that allows us to be highly. | 00:53:24 | |
| Mr. Fox, have you looked at this? Is everything good for the resolution side? | 00:53:33 | |
| I don't see that I have it here. | 00:53:41 | |
| You probably would not be that. | 00:53:44 | |
| Yeah. This John brought up at the last meeting that maybe there's a way that we could reduce the amount of paperwork. So what we | 00:53:48 | |
| purposely didn't leave out all the financials about that are somewhat. | 00:53:56 | |
| Majority department for 31 pages in this case left out the. | 00:54:04 | |
| State of resolution that we've been using since the implementation of these. | 00:54:10 | |
| Provision. | 00:54:15 | |
| OK, so I'm going to make a motion that we approve the resolution. | 00:54:17 | |
| 2024-01 with the and allow the president to sign outside the meeting with the contingency that the attorney reviews in in is is | 00:54:22 | |
| approved is OK with it. Again, the resolution has to change. It's just that we need the board approval where we add names to the | 00:54:30 | |
| defender list and if somebody's not on that list then you're not so empowered. These would be the original resolutions to provide | 00:54:37 | |
| the provisional approval so. | 00:54:45 | |
| No change at all, ever to the original resolution that enables the president and vice president. All we did was add a couple | 00:54:53 | |
| vendors to the list of the right. OK, that's fine. All right. Then I I will withdraw the original motion and make a motion to | 00:54:58 | |
| approve the resolution as advertised. | 00:55:04 | |
| I'll second. OK. I got a motion in a second. Any further discussion? | 00:55:10 | |
| All in favor signify by saying aye any opposed? | 00:55:16 | |
| Carries. | 00:55:20 | |
| Director's report. | 00:55:22 | |
| Say we have a substantive agenda today. That doesn't necessarily mean that we will run time at all, but pleased with what we have | 00:55:24 | |
| to talk about today. | 00:55:30 | |
| You can always start with Marketing and communications and you'll see in recovery records reporting metricsfor.com. | 00:55:36 | |
| But then the full points around the school education initiative that you're aware of and a couple other things going on. So I'd | 00:55:47 | |
| like my colleague Laura Riggle to come up and provide a little bit of an update on her initiative to get recycling education to | 00:55:54 | |
| the 4th grade classrooms in the county, Florida. | 00:56:00 | |
| Thank you for hearing me speak and good afternoon. | 00:56:08 | |
| I'm a retired educator from Greater Park and it's been my privilege to have this opportunity to reach out to 4th graders and try | 00:56:13 | |
| to inspire them to become ambassadors of recycling. I want to, really. | 00:56:21 | |
| Point to. | 00:56:31 | |
| Mr. Tony Duffy He has been very instrumental in getting the word out to New Albany Floyd County Schools. | 00:56:32 | |
| Elementary education, yes. And he he wanted the whole package. He wanted to see it and I wrote the curriculum and he has just been | 00:56:42 | |
| ecstatic about getting it started. We have a teacher, Mr. Scott Birch, who has been instrumental in recycling for a few years now. | 00:56:53 | |
| And it's just a tremendous partner for recycling. Dave and Davo have worked with Scott, and other teachers at Mount Tabor have | 00:57:04 | |
| joined forces with this, as well as Miss Hannah Striegel at Christian Academy. She's welcomed me into her class and I've begun | 00:57:14 | |
| teaching there. We also have Grant Line Elementary and Slave Run coming up in April, so I'll be starting classes with them. | 00:57:23 | |
| And this fall of Saint Mary's of the Knobs, They would have started earlier, but due to a few conflicts back in January, I was | 00:57:34 | |
| unable to get there. But they're starting in the fall and so is S Ellen and Jones, so I'm very happy to be of service to these. | 00:57:42 | |
| Children and their teachers. It's been a positive experience so far. Lots of good questions, lots of questions. I've had to go and | 00:57:51 | |
| Google, so I'm I'm looking forward to continuing that with them. | 00:57:58 | |
| As of today, there's been 29 I. | 00:58:06 | |
| Lessons taught OK since it started in February. | 00:58:11 | |
| And I think that's kind of rounds it out again. We want them to help us. | 00:58:15 | |
| Increase recycling in the county 50%, you know by 20-30, so I'm hoping that we can continue that. | 00:58:22 | |
| Laura, is this a one time visit or do you go back additional times or what? | 00:58:32 | |
| Mount Tabor I know Scott had already begun recycling with his kids, so I think there were like 3 lessons I did with them. | 00:58:38 | |
| And the other three teachers that teach 4th grade. | 00:58:47 | |
| I did 8 lessons with them well, and I may go back for some experiments with them. OK, so about how many 4th graders you think | 00:58:51 | |
| you're reaching? I don't know how many there are in Floyd County and how many you have. | 00:58:57 | |
| Reached at this point 1200, if I go to all the schools. | 00:59:04 | |
| And in the paper that you have regarding the education initiative? | 00:59:10 | |
| They they have been notified of it, but some of them did not get that information maybe from their principal just yet. | 00:59:16 | |
| And plus, we have to remember their standardized testing going on. So I look for this fall. | 00:59:24 | |
| To be a greater push for this. | 00:59:30 | |
| Thank you for your time. Thank you, thank you all you're doing. | 00:59:37 | |
| Now maybe we can help the Holy Family a little bit. It's been tough to get in there and Our Lady of Perpetual Health Action, | 00:59:42 | |
| really. So we have a little momentum with Drop me a text with a reminder and I will see what I can do. | 00:59:48 | |
| Yeah, I should show up. | 00:59:56 | |
| Have Operations Manager Dave Watson with us today as well. Wanted Dave to talk about the completion. | 01:00:00 | |
| Of the building renovation and a few other points as well. | 01:00:08 | |
| You'll find interesting. | 01:00:14 | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, we are making progress, there's no doubt there. | 01:00:19 | |
| The construction is completed as far as the structure. | 01:00:24 | |
| We're in the process now of going to get some inside walls up. | 01:00:30 | |
| And do our finished work inside the. | 01:00:34 | |
| It's we are surprised that once we got to look at how big the room became. | 01:00:38 | |
| Looking from the shed to now our our new home, we're in the process. Now like I said, you want to get some materials we'll be | 01:00:46 | |
| moving out of the what would be the. | 01:00:51 | |
| Building for the. | 01:00:58 | |
| Baylor And so we have to get that cleaned out before we progress, so. | 01:00:59 | |
| We're there. We were able to get the Hazmat connex box. | 01:01:05 | |
| Moved from down. | 01:01:11 | |
| Waterfront still know about that, so you have in your packet. | 01:01:14 | |
| Pictures of. | 01:01:19 | |
| A raise on this? | 01:01:22 | |
| Specifically built through this and that has been sitting at the wastewater treatment plant. | 01:01:26 | |
| For years, Yeah, for years. | 01:01:32 | |
| I've been with. | 01:01:37 | |
| Almost six years myself. | 01:01:38 | |
| And we've never used it since. I've been with the. | 01:01:40 | |
| The firm, as we would love to call it so, but we were able to move it. | 01:01:45 | |
| And Davos and Jessica were working today, you know, working on our. | 01:01:53 | |
| Entrance way. | 01:02:00 | |
| It's It is designed for this specific purpose of storing hazardous waste. | 01:02:02 | |
| And materials. | 01:02:08 | |
| As that's its function and it's what it will be. | 01:02:10 | |
| We. | 01:02:15 | |
| Have just a few items left to. | 01:02:16 | |
| Finalize that, but it is. | 01:02:19 | |
| Near completion. | 01:02:22 | |
| So essentially you'll recall that we have the second whole part that we dedicated to long term employee, Dorothy Lee. | 01:02:23 | |
| Back, which she left in the summertime. | 01:02:31 | |
| And that will. | 01:02:34 | |
| Will be now reassigned in its primary task. I'll ask Dave Nashville to talk about that in a second. | 01:02:37 | |
| But essentially. | 01:02:45 | |
| The. | 01:02:48 | |
| Yesterday by Pageant. | 01:02:50 | |
| In fact, will be the center of our HHW activities and feel really good about that. And I'm going to say thank you to Adam Dickey | 01:02:54 | |
| for making the contact. Thanks to Mike Wallace of the city's wastewater utility for his cooperation as well to allow Pegasus to | 01:03:00 | |
| come in and cherry picture the container. | 01:03:06 | |
| Didn't even have to take down the fence, Lifted it over the fence and put it on the flatbed and. | 01:03:13 | |
| Brought it out to. | 01:03:19 | |
| The Adams, So we're delighted with that that. | 01:03:21 | |
| Yeah, that was like a thoughtful move to capture that to give us as much capability in terms of efficiently and effectively | 01:03:24 | |
| matching HHW. | 01:03:29 | |
| All right, I'm going to ask this question real quick. | 01:03:36 | |
| The hydrant was obviously there first. | 01:03:41 | |
| But do we place this there with the idea that it would also be close to the hydrant, the fire hydrant? | 01:03:44 | |
| Or was that? | 01:03:50 | |
| The space was the preferable space. The hybrid is not operational. | 01:03:54 | |
| Oh, you see that tag? Well, yeah, I did see that. I did see that, yes. | 01:03:59 | |
| It's because I actually had, I kind of had the same question. I noticed that the hybrid was out of services. Has it been out of | 01:04:05 | |
| service for a long time out there? | 01:04:09 | |
| OK, yeah, there was, there was a water leak in along the roadway. | 01:04:14 | |
| And because it was a, whether they call it property or we own the, we own the hydrant. Though American Water was not involved with | 01:04:22 | |
| it, it was up to us to make through any repairs and put it back in service and that's never been done. | 01:04:30 | |
| As a result. That's why we have 1/4. | 01:04:41 | |
| Adam, I do want to say that they get a lot of pets, so this is pet friendly. | 01:04:48 | |
| If the dogs want to use that the morning, welcome to well, sure, I I guess as a side note. | 01:04:52 | |
| That's terrible. I don't know what the repairs would be to the line or the hydrant, but. | 01:05:01 | |
| Don't. Don't we want that? Yeah, I would think that would probably be worth looking at, quite honestly. It really depends on where | 01:05:09 | |
| the closest hydrant is. | 01:05:13 | |
| To that as well. | 01:05:18 | |
| I I I mean, I'm, I'm I'm thinking. I'm thinking my my fireman would would very much appreciate me. | 01:05:22 | |
| Raising that concern if something actually occurred there. | 01:05:30 | |
| This aside, I mean honestly, you know we've talked about it is really the context of the bathroom facilities and just have never | 01:05:35 | |
| found it that fiscally doable to. | 01:05:42 | |
| Make that happen. Honestly and all kidding aside. | 01:05:49 | |
| Certainly will paint it. | 01:05:54 | |
| And make it attractive icon of some kind. But you know, no plans to move it at this point in time. | 01:05:56 | |
| Well, I I mean, my first thought was that was. | 01:06:07 | |
| Pretty convenient placement, but I didn't think about it having the tag on it either. | 01:06:10 | |
| So if they talk a little bit about the partnership with the folks next door that have helped make that grating possible, we've | 01:06:15 | |
| had. | 01:06:19 | |
| Real good neighbor in the National Guard Armory. | 01:06:25 | |
| Throughout some contacts, we talked with them. | 01:06:31 | |
| They've come over with their bobcat and have done some work for us. | 01:06:34 | |
| Doing some grading, doing some digging. | 01:06:39 | |
| They have just and. | 01:06:42 | |
| It's always been a real pleasure to work with them. | 01:06:44 | |
| They they like having things, things to do. And if they're not busy, they. | 01:06:48 | |
| Jump on and they come right on over. | 01:06:54 | |
| So it has really been a pleasure working with them. | 01:06:56 | |
| I did spring for some pizzas up there now and. | 01:07:02 | |
| You know, to help the guys out, they probably like that. | 01:07:05 | |
| But now they have, they really have helped a lot and and they're always there and they they said anytime. | 01:07:13 | |
| If we're not busy, we'll be glad to help out. And so they've been really good neighbors. | 01:07:21 | |
| Then we'll start the HHW collection from the springtime on April 13th. And that's something that Lara and another one of our | 01:07:26 | |
| employees, Raven Thomas manages generally on The Saturdays from 9:00 to 1:00 with everybody pitching in as needed. So we're | 01:07:36 | |
| reporting that Dave help getting the entire place speaking stands where there's no current inventory. | 01:07:45 | |
| Includes some complicated. | 01:07:56 | |
| Unknown chemicals that have been leftover. | 01:07:58 | |
| Tested and then transported off site within the next week. | 01:08:04 | |
| Scott, you you help me with this. | 01:08:10 | |
| When you were talking, I have an idea or just a thought about our pricing. Is our pricing in good shape when it comes to the | 01:08:15 | |
| collection of? | 01:08:19 | |
| The $4.00 a gallon for paint. | 01:08:26 | |
| The couple bucks for cans of pesticides or what have you. | 01:08:34 | |
| More often than not, do the pushback from one of the cities who don't like paying. | 01:08:41 | |
| So clearly the county is subsidizing. | 01:08:47 | |
| This activity. | 01:08:52 | |
| And my judgment, we're at the right price point now. | 01:08:53 | |
| Not to disadvantage ourselves. | 01:08:57 | |
| Disincentivizing. | 01:09:01 | |
| Today you had somebody and we had. | 01:09:06 | |
| We have several people that are longtime patrons and we've had a lady came through the other day and she. | 01:09:11 | |
| Wanted us to know. | 01:09:19 | |
| That the work we are doing at the site has made a big difference as far as the looks, she said she was. She was impressed. | 01:09:21 | |
| At how we were getting things cleaned up and looking professional. | 01:09:31 | |
| And so of course, we thanked her for that, but she she was adamant about San Diego. You go home, really put some effort in out | 01:09:36 | |
| here. And so it sometimes it shows. | 01:09:41 | |
| Sometimes you don't think it does, but it does. So we've made some good efforts and we've got more to do. | 01:09:47 | |
| When he also. | 01:09:54 | |
| Were the yeah, the cardboard. It had a grassy area there. | 01:09:56 | |
| You know, we had your dumpsters and then you got rid of grass. You put gravel down. That's right. Yeah. | 01:10:02 | |
| Yeah, we are. Once once we get finished with our grading. | 01:10:08 | |
| We're going to try a different alignment on the trailer parking. | 01:10:12 | |
| And we're kind of experimenting to see what works best, right? But we are. | 01:10:15 | |
| We're looking to be more efficient. | 01:10:21 | |
| That's what the way we're doing. | 01:10:25 | |
| Let me ask the question. | 01:10:28 | |
| TV's and stuff, you store those outside, is that right? | 01:10:31 | |
| But flat screen is going to. | 01:10:36 | |
| OK. | 01:10:40 | |
| Good. Thank you. | 01:10:43 | |
| To talk a little bit about the new life and vision for the old HHW building. | 01:10:46 | |
| And and again, remind you Dave, how long have you been with us now almost 2, two years in September. That's amazing. So a year and | 01:10:54 | |
| a half retired from the Kentucky truck. | 01:10:59 | |
| We look at him as our efficiency expert. | 01:11:07 | |
| You know, 6 Sigma, you know he's the guy who. | 01:11:10 | |
| Talks about when he's at home at night, he gets up from his chair to build a kitchen. He tries to think, what can I do between | 01:11:15 | |
| here and there to be more efficient and I'll get inside. And that's the proof of the world lesson for us as well. So he's a great | 01:11:21 | |
| member of the team and and it's always pushing us to look at things differently. So talk a little bit about, I guess from my side, | 01:11:28 | |
| we currently run five trucks, 9 trailers and four containers, right? | 01:11:35 | |
| So we're just constantly looking at ways to make things more efficient with the bringing on the the new container for the | 01:11:42 | |
| chemicals it opens up that garage for us to be able to. | 01:11:48 | |
| Do our maintenance to the trailers and to the trucks. | 01:11:55 | |
| And you know, of course we're saving costs by doing that way is we're not doing major stuff and like we just had a truck breakdown | 01:12:00 | |
| this week that we had to have put in the shop. The simple stuff, light bulb goes out, you know a trailer tire needs a plug in, | 01:12:06 | |
| then we take care of that stuff. And since I've been there, I mean. | 01:12:12 | |
| That has improved pretty significantly. You know, the less we have, a lot less flats because we're running you know, a commercial | 01:12:19 | |
| grade ceiling and the trailer tires. | 01:12:24 | |
| So you know we can pull 3 or 4 nails out and not even have a flat. | 01:12:29 | |
| So that saves us 25 bucks a pawn from that. So again having the. | 01:12:33 | |
| The container and opening up that. | 01:12:41 | |
| Garage for us to workout up, it's going to be pretty significant across. | 01:12:44 | |
| Continuing to be efficient, save money. | 01:12:48 | |
| And truck was 12 that we get told last week that. | 01:12:51 | |
| We had no liberation. I'm bringing that up. | 01:12:55 | |
| We have agreed as part of the edit funding settlement to. | 01:12:58 | |
| Not asked Edit to fund a new truck this year. It's not because we don't need it. | 01:13:02 | |
| Think it's the right decision to put this on the back order? No problem with that. But just you know that trucks in 2012. | 01:13:08 | |
| It's not the oldest truck you've got. | 01:13:19 | |
| It's got 90,000 miles on it. | 01:13:22 | |
| Highest mileage truck we have is 100. | 01:13:25 | |
| 102,000. | 01:13:28 | |
| Which is truck. | 01:13:30 | |
| Truck 12112 is 1 down. Yeah so everything else is hovering in between other than the the the 24 Chevy. | 01:13:32 | |
| If you have 30,000 miles of that already. | 01:13:42 | |
| So here we update two other former Kentucky truck plant employees who are saving us money out of pocket, what they're able to do | 01:13:46 | |
| because of their expertise and we go off of my Chevy truck. | 01:13:52 | |
| Is because it's more ergonomically easier on the older people to get in and out of that truck. | 01:14:00 | |
| Thank you. Thanks. | 01:14:11 | |
| Let me talk a little bit about our. | 01:14:17 | |
| Grants which. | 01:14:19 | |
| Well, the dashboard, the February traffic count, we had nearly 4200 vehicles. | 01:14:23 | |
| And 100, almost 111,000 lbs. | 01:14:29 | |
| Our item grants all signed, sealed, and delivered at this point in time. So just a reminder. | 01:14:33 | |
| We'll call it grant number one that we call them. It's the recycling recycled market development program. That's what will give us | 01:14:39 | |
| the additional trailers. | 01:14:45 | |
| And the marketing and education program. | 01:14:51 | |
| For community purposes, fully focused on these 13 neighborhoods that with John and Nick's help in county planning. | 01:14:55 | |
| We identified nearly a year ago when we submitted the grant application that we would try to bring recycling to those underserved | 01:15:03 | |
| areas of the county, so with Laura's help. | 01:15:09 | |
| And with the help of a professor at IUS. | 01:15:16 | |
| And a student at IUSA, Marketing student. We're already putting plans together. We've already knocked on some doors in some of | 01:15:20 | |
| these neighborhoods. | 01:15:25 | |
| And our key focus over the next two to three weeks will be to really isolate exactly those neighborhoods and the timetable we're | 01:15:30 | |
| going to be going into them and how we're going to best serve them. | 01:15:36 | |
| So we're really excited about that. The second item grant, the community Recycling Grant program essentially funds the Baylor. | 01:15:43 | |
| And funds the some out of pocket education materials that Laura will be able to use as she continues to expand her in school | 01:15:54 | |
| education efforts. | 01:15:59 | |
| That leads us to recommendations for equipment purchases. Today we looked at three different balers, and. | 01:16:07 | |
| While the grant is for 23,000 for a baler. | 01:16:16 | |
| We're recommending. | 01:16:21 | |
| The $24,000 payer. | 01:16:24 | |
| Short of not the $29,000 failure, but one that not only comes with full installation. | 01:16:27 | |
| And labor included but also ongoing maintenance that being from the Allstate Equipment Company for 24,650 and I think we can make | 01:16:37 | |
| up the difference on that. | 01:16:43 | |
| Jason, do you want to take these like one at a time because of basically 2 trailers? | 01:16:52 | |
| A1 Trailer. | 01:16:58 | |
| Two bins that we're talking about in addition to the Baylor. | 01:17:00 | |
| That would like the board's approval. | 01:17:05 | |
| Or purchase or if you have any thoughts on that, I take them one at a time, OK. OK. | 01:17:07 | |
| So our recommendation that would be the Allstate equipment. | 01:17:15 | |
| Baylor. | 01:17:19 | |
| At 24650, of which again 50% of the purchase cost will come from. | 01:17:21 | |
| Motion to approve second. | 01:17:30 | |
| Got a motion in a second? Any further discussion? | 01:17:32 | |
| OK, so. | 01:17:41 | |
| OK, all in favor signify by saying aye, aye, opposed. | 01:17:43 | |
| The we have had. | 01:17:50 | |
| Basically just a single trailer for most of my tenure we did back in September, you'll recall by a smaller trailer and a smaller | 01:17:53 | |
| bin to go on that trailer from Big Tex. At this time, it was our interest in buying a. | 01:18:02 | |
| Another trailer, because the one that we have originally protein is the brand name. | 01:18:13 | |
| Is, is. | 01:18:21 | |
| Not in as bad as shape as Truck 112. | 01:18:23 | |
| But in fact, that needs to be replaced in a day-to-day operational way and then we're asking for a bin. | 01:18:26 | |
| To go on that which will enable us to be more efficient in our collections. | 01:18:33 | |
| And that essentially is. | 01:18:42 | |
| Listed. | 01:18:45 | |
| Under second from the bottom you'll see the PRO R16 TR. | 01:18:51 | |
| It's The trailer itself is at 27995. | 01:18:58 | |
| Again, I then pays for 50% of that. | 01:19:03 | |
| In addition to that, we have a open bin at 58180 dollars. | 01:19:07 | |
| That would go with that. | 01:19:14 | |
| And we had at the. | 01:19:17 | |
| At the end. | 01:19:21 | |
| Let's see, the grant was turned in in June and then they came back. I didn't came back to us and said hey, you really can't fund | 01:19:23 | |
| $5000 in stipends for the IUS students because they don't cover personnel cost and they asked me to throw in. | 01:19:33 | |
| Another five or $6000 to replace that in order to beat the threshold of the $100,000. | 01:19:43 | |
| Grant Minimum. And so I threw in another bit. So what we're talking about here is a a bin for. | 01:19:50 | |
| Two bins at the bottom of the page. There are 58180 apiece that go with the trailer. That's 27995. | 01:20:00 | |
| And again, that's. | 01:20:10 | |
| Complementing the model that we currently have. | 01:20:12 | |
| And we found nothing at any price that would be preferable to that. So recommendation would be for that trailer and the. | 01:20:16 | |
| 2 protainer. | 01:20:27 | |
| Bins 5880 apiece. | 01:20:29 | |
| For your approval. | 01:20:34 | |
| I'll make a motion for the first one, The trailer, I believe it is. | 01:20:36 | |
| For the Pro R-16. | 01:20:42 | |
| TR for 27995. | 01:20:46 | |
| Second OK, got a motion by Brad and second by John. | 01:20:50 | |
| Any further discussion? | 01:20:53 | |
| All suck signify by saying aye aye opposed. | 01:20:56 | |
| Motion carries. | 01:21:01 | |
| Third thing is a. | 01:21:03 | |
| I hope I'm saying this right because we also requested a protainer. So for those of you who have visited our sites, you're quite | 01:21:07 | |
| used to seeing the green trailers with the slots on the side. We had envisioned that. | 01:21:13 | |
| You know, back in the springtime of 2023. | 01:21:21 | |
| But as we have thought, more as a team. | 01:21:25 | |
| About how do we most effectively execute serving these neighborhoods. We've come up with a thought that instead of just having a | 01:21:28 | |
| another protein or. | 01:21:34 | |
| Typable. | 01:21:40 | |
| Trailer. | 01:21:42 | |
| And it would be. | 01:21:47 | |
| And again those trailers? | 01:21:51 | |
| Or like this? | 01:21:56 | |
| Instead of this. | 01:21:58 | |
| We would like something more basic. | 01:22:01 | |
| Like this where we can put totes on them. | 01:22:03 | |
| Facility easier to go to the neighborhoods is facilitates separation of materials. | 01:22:06 | |
| As we look to maximize revenue from from that the only. | 01:22:13 | |
| Item. | 01:22:19 | |
| That makes that a little bit complicated. Is that with the grant agreement for my DEM? | 01:22:21 | |
| Any changes to it, they need to approve. | 01:22:27 | |
| So I submitted last Wednesday a request for. | 01:22:30 | |
| A trade off? | 01:22:33 | |
| Of the 1 trailer. | 01:22:35 | |
| And 20,270. | 01:22:37 | |
| For two $8000. | 01:22:40 | |
| Trailers. | 01:22:43 | |
| With the totes and some additional materials that basically comes within $750 of that original trailer that I requested. | 01:22:46 | |
| I was hoping that they would come back and say. | 01:22:57 | |
| Don't need to modify the agreement. | 01:23:00 | |
| But they haven't come back and said anything yet, so. | 01:23:03 | |
| I'm highly confident that they will. | 01:23:07 | |
| Because they want us to do the right thing. We want to support us in a way that we feel. | 01:23:10 | |
| We will be more sufficient and carrying out that the objectives of the grant application so. | 01:23:15 | |
| What was the idea that they will say yes to the two utility trailers? | 01:23:23 | |
| Recommendation is that we move forward with board approval. | 01:23:30 | |
| Again, pending item confirmation. | 01:23:35 | |
| The purchase of these two big techs utility trailers as noted in the. | 01:23:39 | |
| Fourth line of the equipment. | 01:23:46 | |
| Itemization, Scott. I'll give you come back to that in just a second because I'm going to make another motion for. | 01:23:49 | |
| The Pro Pro R1420. | 01:23:56 | |
| Those there's two of those plus the shipping handling at 5888. | 01:24:02 | |
| 5880 apiece. | 01:24:07 | |
| Yes, the bends. I didn't get around to those. | 01:24:09 | |
| With the original motion, so I'm going to make a motion for that. It's the very bottom one. | 01:24:14 | |
| Second Got a motion by Brian, a second by Mr. Dickey. | 01:24:19 | |
| Discussion. | 01:24:25 | |
| Aye opposed. | 01:24:28 | |
| Now I'll make a motion for. I'm sorry, go ahead. | 01:24:31 | |
| Motion for the. | 01:24:35 | |
| The pro trailer Pro Tilt that you have advertised here. The big text 14PI-20. | 01:24:37 | |
| K. | 01:24:49 | |
| So utility trailers, utility trailers, both of them as you have advertised here, both for $8000 with the contingency that I dem | 01:24:51 | |
| approves the. | 01:24:55 | |
| Change order? Well, set. | 01:25:00 | |
| Got a motion by Brad? | 01:25:02 | |
| Any further discussion? | 01:25:06 | |
| All, I think is favorite saying. | 01:25:10 | |
| Opposed social character. Thank you all. | 01:25:14 | |
| Want to talk just very briefly about the edit modifications that we've referenced. | 01:25:20 | |
| That's what we went back and forth and seeking to resolve this issue first brought up at our January meeting with Jason and John's | 01:25:25 | |
| input for spread involved prior to that point essentially got that to the agreement with the commissioners that we would. | 01:25:33 | |
| Freeze the $50,000 capital request for a truck for 2024 #1 #2 agreed that that there would be 25,000 in other spending. | 01:25:43 | |
| As well that would. | 01:25:55 | |
| Basically reduce the contribution from added from the amount requested less 75,000. | 01:25:58 | |
| In the meantime, County has. | 01:26:07 | |
| Given us the initial draw, 335,000. | 01:26:11 | |
| And then, you know, we look forward to in July to receive another 65. | 01:26:18 | |
| From edit and. | 01:26:24 | |
| Another 17478 from the CCD fund also on the approximate timing of July. | 01:26:26 | |
| But everybody, I think is in agreement. We're happy with it. We'll live with it. The only thing that we will do is that we will. | 01:26:35 | |
| From our operational standpoint. | 01:26:42 | |
| We will have. | 01:26:45 | |
| A certain amount of money unappropriated and so we will isolate at least 25,000. | 01:26:48 | |
| Of unappropriated dollars come back to you, seek that appropriation that then we'll have to go before the County Council as well | 01:26:54 | |
| in order to make up for the 25,000. | 01:26:59 | |
| That we are freezing up front. | 01:27:05 | |
| If that makes sense. | 01:27:09 | |
| It does. | 01:27:12 | |
| Is that a confident look? | 01:27:14 | |
| No, you just had me. I go into the County Council for approval. | 01:27:16 | |
| Good luck. | 01:27:21 | |
| That's all right. | 01:27:23 | |
| Think I'm on vacation that day. | 01:27:24 | |
| Feel right to everybody. | 01:27:30 | |
| And again, thank you for your patience, Jason and John, Brad for helping work through this. Thanks for helping us work through it | 01:27:31 | |
| as well. And to be absolutely clear about, I have no intention for any capital dollars in 2024. | 01:27:38 | |
| Because we're not that far away from the initial draft of the 2020. | 01:27:46 | |
| 2025 budget. | 01:27:51 | |
| And so would anticipate no capital requests. | 01:27:53 | |
| Assuming that we have some success in competing with the legacy foundation on a truck request. | 01:27:59 | |
| And then of course, you know, we'll be asking for no money for matching grants because we'll be completely focused on the full | 01:28:06 | |
| execution of the two grants we have in 2024 that actually lasts for 18 months. | 01:28:13 | |
| So we don't have time to. | 01:28:21 | |
| Buy anything else? | 01:28:24 | |
| Let me talk a little bit about. | 01:28:29 | |
| Our cost savings initiative and I think this has been a fun exercise actually, but. | 01:28:31 | |
| Essentially as you know. | 01:28:39 | |
| Our team currently makes 500 trips a year. | 01:28:41 | |
| To Fern Valley Rd. just east of the Ford Louisville Assembly Plant. | 01:28:45 | |
| And primarily taking corrugated boxes and that. | 01:28:51 | |
| It has the greatest value currently at $6065 a ton for loose, corrugated but. | 01:29:01 | |
| A 30% thirty, 2% premium with a bail arrangement. But that's a long way to go. | 01:29:09 | |
| And and so we went through the calc. | 01:29:18 | |
| The couch, so you know to 38 minutes, 27 mile drive. | 01:29:20 | |
| To Industrial Blvd. | 01:29:27 | |
| We looked at the web key as an alternative. | 01:29:29 | |
| That's twenty mile, 20 minutes, 12 miles just on West Oak St. | 01:29:32 | |
| So if you take the 9th St. exit. | 01:29:40 | |
| And just keep going straight, you're 1012 minutes from the rocky facility. | 01:29:43 | |
| We really thought about wear and tear on our vehicles. We thought about. | 01:29:50 | |
| Of the time because usually we have two. | 01:29:54 | |
| Employees in the truck making that run and that's just downtime that we cannot afford. | 01:29:58 | |
| But we're trying to do a lot of things without asking for more money for more people. | 01:30:05 | |
| So that really was our key incentive to really examine are there cost saving opportunities. So we looked at it from a personnel | 01:30:09 | |
| standpoint, the fuel consumption standpoint. | 01:30:14 | |
| We think that we can save in excess of 6200 a year. | 01:30:20 | |
| Just the fuel costs? | 01:30:25 | |
| By. | 01:30:27 | |
| Making some changes, the productivity I mentioned and then the revenue. | 01:30:30 | |
| One of the big considerations though. | 01:30:35 | |
| Is that as we've talked to? | 01:30:37 | |
| Even though they offered some benefits. | 01:30:39 | |
| As far as lesser distance, they don't service Galena. | 01:30:43 | |
| And we have 11 bids that we call single string bins. At the annex we have 10. | 01:30:48 | |
| At the Galena site. | 01:30:55 | |
| And Denny's Galena service once a week. | 01:30:56 | |
| And grant line of service twice a week. | 01:31:00 | |
| We simply can't have. | 01:31:03 | |
| Productive relationship with the firm that doesn't go to Galena. | 01:31:06 | |
| And so that that became disqualified for Ruby. | 01:31:10 | |
| So what do W rock our current provider? | 01:31:14 | |
| And said. | 01:31:17 | |
| We're happy with your. | 01:31:20 | |
| Very efficient. They are open 24/7. | 01:31:22 | |
| Dave Masseyville in particular has talked about that their new checking system thinks about as efficient as it can be from the | 01:31:25 | |
| mechanical standpoint. Rocky has more condensed hours and and not as sophisticated a check in, check out system. | 01:31:34 | |
| But I asked West Rocks help in solving the problems. | 01:31:44 | |
| Laura Bellman, our contact, had what proved to be an excellent idea. | 01:31:50 | |
| As we look forward to the implementation of our bailed era. | 01:31:55 | |
| Then I would say what she offered would be that Westrock would dispatch, at our request, a box truck. | 01:32:02 | |
| Within 24 hours of said request. | 01:32:11 | |
| And that box truck would cost us $150.00. | 01:32:13 | |
| But it would take up to 14 males. | 01:32:17 | |
| Of which, again at $95 a ton. | 01:32:21 | |
| Can put us north of between 5:00 and $600 in net revenue on the transaction. Yes, we pay them 150 to come get it. | 01:32:26 | |
| But because we're paying them 150 to come get it. | 01:32:36 | |
| We're not sending Dave and Jessica and Ron and Mike over to Fern Valley Rd. That's a big deal. | 01:32:39 | |
| Because we we can reallocate those hours in terms of serving the neighborhoods that we've identified in the first item grant. So | 01:32:48 | |
| the recommendation don't really need your formal approval on one should understand that we've gone through pretty much a three to | 01:32:55 | |
| four month process but weighing the pros and cons. | 01:33:02 | |
| I feel really, really good about staying. | 01:33:10 | |
| The course, But then turning some of the transportation burden onto our vendor, West Dr. freeing up our people a little bit more. | 01:33:13 | |
| And reducing the warrant term our equipment more. | 01:33:25 | |
| Not to say fuel savings to boot. | 01:33:30 | |
| On top of that. | 01:33:33 | |
| John brought it up initially. We've now again Dave Watsons initiative to go to Jacobi and have them place a 500 gallon tank at the | 01:33:38 | |
| Annex because our folks and you can read it at your convenience. | 01:33:45 | |
| Where we've done the calculations on, but just. | 01:33:54 | |
| The highlight. | 01:33:58 | |
| We would make at least 23 trips a month to the cattle garage on average. | 01:33:59 | |
| That's 418 miles a month, assuming an average of 10 miles per gallon. | 01:34:04 | |
| It's 42 gallons of fuel saved, generating 109 dollars a month savings. | 01:34:09 | |
| And then the county garage being the 28 minute round trip from the annex. | 01:34:16 | |
| And again, two people. | 01:34:21 | |
| Perhaps in the vehicle? | 01:34:23 | |
| We come down to the point that we feel that there's a material savings of having. | 01:34:25 | |
| Fuel. | 01:34:31 | |
| At the same rate as the county pace of the garage. | 01:34:32 | |
| There at the Annex so. | 01:34:35 | |
| Attaboy to Dave for stepping forward on that because you have as a board, you have complete confidence that we're looking at every | 01:34:39 | |
| possibility to reduce spending. | 01:34:44 | |
| Be it. | 01:34:50 | |
| Wear and tear maintenance. You know you have skilled folks like the masculine. | 01:34:53 | |
| Will turn you know, the old HHW shed into a little bit of a garage for some grease monkey activity. | 01:34:57 | |
| And we're delighted at that and that's money that we're not spending. | 01:35:06 | |
| And any other vendor throughout the city. | 01:35:09 | |
| Not that that can be completely avoided, but I'm really pleased that we have good momentum, good sensitivity to. | 01:35:12 | |
| What those costs are and how we can continue to reduce that. | 01:35:20 | |
| Final point of the day is relative to partnership initiatives. All of you've heard agnesium discussions ongoing for many, many, | 01:35:27 | |
| many, many months with Baptist Lloyd. | 01:35:33 | |
| And I'm happy to. | 01:35:40 | |
| That after my most recent sit down with the. | 01:35:42 | |
| Environmental services at the hospital at noon today. | 01:35:46 | |
| That they are delighted that we've completed our expansion. | 01:35:50 | |
| Delighted that we have a bin that we can place at the hospital. Delighted that we're in a position to take their corrugated not | 01:35:55 | |
| only. | 01:36:00 | |
| Generating a normal course of hospital operations, but they have major construction ongoing and we'll have for many, many months | 01:36:06 | |
| to come. And so my next step is to complete a draft partnership agreement. | 01:36:14 | |
| That. | 01:36:24 | |
| We'd like to make sure that those of us in the trenches, Lamont read at Environmental Services and our team agrees to completely | 01:36:26 | |
| in terms of how does this work. But I think it'll be helpful to the hospital to allow other people to focus more on their primary | 01:36:33 | |
| responsibilities would be helpful to us in terms of engineering and volume for which we can generate revenue. But what I would | 01:36:41 | |
| like is that the Board's of motion, if you will. | 01:36:48 | |
| To appoint the President and the Vice President of the authority to sign such a partnership agreement between now and the time | 01:36:56 | |
| that we meet the next time as a board in May. | 01:37:02 | |
| And I would estimate that there would be around April 15th. | 01:37:09 | |
| But we can pull that off, so. | 01:37:13 | |
| Request such a motion. | 01:37:17 | |
| I'll make that motion, but also to subject to Rick's review. | 01:37:18 | |
| Subject to your review, Rick, to make sure that we're not. | 01:37:22 | |
| Kosher. I'd like a motion that we do that, but pending. | 01:37:27 | |
| Rick's review to allow Brad and Jason to sign outside the meeting. | 01:37:32 | |
| Actually, I'll get the draft to Rick before you all see it then. Yep. | 01:37:37 | |
| 2nd. | 01:37:42 | |
| John the second vibe. | 01:37:45 | |
| Any further discussion? | 01:37:48 | |
| Adam, Adam. Yeah. | 01:37:51 | |
| All in favor signify by saying aye, aye any opposed? | 01:38:00 | |
| Those carries. | 01:38:04 | |
| Final Point and Freight team got momentum, lots of moving parts. | 01:38:05 | |
| Nothing's going to be easy, especially with the execution of the Grants, but as we talked about in our team meeting this morning. | 01:38:12 | |
| Given this is our management team. | 01:38:20 | |
| We could choose to do nothing. | 01:38:24 | |
| And just be opening up the gates, collecting the recycling and lock the gates and then do it again tomorrow. We don't choose to do | 01:38:26 | |
| that. And you know, we're confident enough that, you know, we have enough brain power. | 01:38:32 | |
| In this world, you've included to figure out any barrier that we need to. | 01:38:38 | |
| Figure out as we move forward to reach that point of 50% recycling household wastes. | 01:38:45 | |
| In county households by 20. | 01:38:53 | |
| So again, thank you for your support and thank you 3 for all you do in particular. | 01:38:56 | |
| I have a quick question on backtrackable business W Rock. | 01:39:01 | |
| Do you have a formal agreement you're going to be signing with them on the pickup? I've? | 01:39:06 | |
| She didn't say there needed to be one. We currently don't have one, I don't believe, even though they come. | 01:39:12 | |
| To three to the two locations 3 * a week to pick up. I just think for insurance workman's comp, it needs to be spelled out. Who's | 01:39:18 | |
| going to be loading material onto what piece of equipment. We don't want their folks using our equipment, they don't want us using | 01:39:24 | |
| theirs in case something gets banged up. So I would just. | 01:39:29 | |
| Ideally they would load it and that gives you even more freedom with your staff, but. | 01:39:36 | |
| But now that we have the. | 01:39:42 | |
| New used forklift. | 01:39:45 | |
| My guess is that the forklift will be employed and loading the box truck. | 01:39:47 | |
| I'm out-of-the-box. Truck would have one with it. Probably not. I think just needs to be spelled out in case the new used forklift | 01:39:52 | |
| bands up the. | 01:39:56 | |
| Thank you, Sir. Thank you. | 01:40:04 | |
| All right, Any public input today? | 01:40:07 | |
| No. All right. So the next meeting is going to be May 21st at 4:20. | 01:40:11 | |
| Look for a motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. | 01:40:17 | |
| Second motion by John. Second by all in favor, signify the city, aye, aye. | 01:40:20 | |
| Have a great day. Thank you all for what you what you're doing. Got a great team going and. | 01:40:27 | |
| I love the energy and the thoughts. | 01:40:32 | |
| It's been nice. | 01:40:38 | |
| Got a few? | 01:40:41 |
Transcript
| March my teeth. Go ahead and call this meeting with Floyd County Solid Waste Management District Board of Directors. You would | 00:00:00 | |
| rise for the pledge for it. | 00:00:03 | |
| Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, | 00:00:08 | |
| indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:00:14 | |
| Happy 1st day of Spring where it's a little cool and windy outside the summertime in the assembly room here at Pineview. Always. | 00:00:24 | |
| All right. So let's go ahead and get started. Started. | 00:00:34 | |
| Do we do a roll caller here typically or you usually just? | 00:00:38 | |
| OK. Do you want to call the rolled in? | 00:00:42 | |
| What works for me OK. | 00:00:48 | |
| All right, well, looks like the only person. | 00:00:52 | |
| Missing today. Is Mr. Gang here, Mayor Graham? | 00:00:56 | |
| Approval of the January 16 Minutes. | 00:01:02 | |
| Motion to Approve. We have Motion to approve. Thank you Second. | 00:01:06 | |
| I was. I'll second that. So I got a motion in a second. | 00:01:12 | |
| Any discussion? | 00:01:18 | |
| All in favor signify by saying aye, aye any opposed? | 00:01:20 | |
| Motion character. | 00:01:24 | |
| Approval the February provisional claims. | 00:01:26 | |
| Much different. I'll 2nd that I got a motion in a second. Any further discussion I just. I just have a clarification Scott, I know | 00:01:33 | |
| the answer. | 00:01:37 | |
| In February and in early March, we purchased fuel from. | 00:01:42 | |
| Road department, but then later on March is when we had our own tank install. | 00:01:48 | |
| Out there at early March. So that's why there's. | 00:01:54 | |
| From the Floyd County Road Department, then Jacobi later on. OK, That's what I was thinking. Thank you. | 00:01:59 | |
| I'm good. All right. So I got a motion in a second. | 00:02:07 | |
| Any further discussion? | 00:02:13 | |
| OK, all in favor signify by saying aye, aye, Anthony opposed. | 00:02:15 | |
| Look first. | 00:02:19 | |
| Approval Resolution 202401 Amendment Exhibit A. | 00:02:22 | |
| All favor signify by saying aye opposed. | 00:02:41 | |
| Motion carries. | 00:02:45 | |
| Approval of the Resolution 202401 Amendment Exhibit A. | 00:02:47 | |
| Again just clarification on that and given the off month that the President and Vice President Board authorized to claim. | 00:02:52 | |
| Pending formal approval of following months that allows us to. | 00:03:03 | |
| Mr. Fox, have you looked at this? Is everything good for the resolution side? | 00:03:12 | |
| I don't see that I have it here. | 00:03:19 | |
| Probably would not be with that. | 00:03:23 | |
| Yeah. This John brought up at the last meeting that maybe there's a way that we could reduce the amount of paperwork. So what we | 00:03:27 | |
| purposely did is leave out all the financials that are somewhat the majority part of the 31 pages in this case, left out the state | 00:03:35 | |
| of resolution that we've been using since the implementation of these. | 00:03:44 | |
| Provision. | 00:03:53 | |
| OK, so I'm going to make a motion that we approve the resolution. | 00:03:56 | |
| 2024-01 with the and allow the president to sign outside the meeting with the contingency that the attorney reviews and is | 00:04:01 | |
| approved is OK with it. | 00:04:06 | |
| Again, the resolution has to change. It's just that we need the work approval what we add names to the vendor list. | 00:04:12 | |
| If somebody's not on that list, then you're not so empowered. These would be the original resolutions to provide the traditional | 00:04:20 | |
| approval. So no change at all ever to the original resolution that enables president, vice president. | 00:04:29 | |
| All we did was add a couple vendors to the list. | 00:04:38 | |
| OK, that's fine. All right, then I I will withdraw the original motion and make a motion to approve the resolution as advertised. | 00:04:43 | |
| I'll second. OK. I got a motion in a second. Any further discussion? | 00:04:49 | |
| All in favor signify by saying aye, aye any opposed? | 00:04:55 | |
| Motion carries. | 00:04:59 | |
| Director's report. | 00:05:01 | |
| So we have a substantive agenda today. That doesn't necessarily mean that we will run time at all, but please what we have to talk | 00:05:03 | |
| about today. | 00:05:09 | |
| You can always start with Marketing and communications and you'll see in recovery records reporting metrics for. | 00:05:15 | |
| But then full points around the school education initiative that you're aware of and a couple other things going on. So I'd like | 00:05:26 | |
| my colleague Laura Riggle to come up and provide a little bit of an update on her initiative to give recycling education to the | 00:05:32 | |
| 4th grade classroom account. | 00:05:38 | |
| Thank you for hearing me speak and good afternoon. | 00:05:47 | |
| I'm a retired educator from Greater Clark and it's been my privilege to have this opportunity to reach out to 4th graders and try | 00:05:51 | |
| to inspire them to become ambassadors of recycling. I want to. Really. I. | 00:06:00 | |
| Point to Mr. Tony Duffy. He has been very instrumental in getting the word out to New Albany Floyd County Schools. | 00:06:10 | |
| Elementary education, yes. And he he wanted the whole package. He wanted to see it and I wrote the curriculum and he has just been | 00:06:20 | |
| ecstatic about getting it started. We have a teacher, Mr. Scott Birch, who has been instrumental in recycling for a few years now. | 00:06:31 | |
| And it's just a tremendous partner for recycling. Dave and Davo have worked with Scott, and other teachers at Mount Tabor have | 00:06:43 | |
| joined forces with this, as well as Miss Hannah Striegel at Christian Academy. She's welcomed me into her class and I've begun | 00:06:52 | |
| teaching there. We also have Grant Line Elementary and Slave Run coming up in April, so I'll be starting classes with them. | 00:07:02 | |
| And this fall, Saint Mary's of the Knobs. They would have started earlier, but due to a few conflicts back in January, I was | 00:07:13 | |
| unable to get there. But they're starting in the fall and so is SLN and Jones, so I'm very happy to be of service to these. | 00:07:21 | |
| Children and their teachers. It's been a positive experience so far. Lots of good questions, lots of questions. I've had to go in | 00:07:29 | |
| Google, so I'm I'm looking forward to continuing that with them. | 00:07:36 | |
| As of today, there's been 29. | 00:07:45 | |
| Lessons taught OK since it started in February. | 00:07:50 | |
| And I think that's kind of rounds it out again. We want them to help us. | 00:07:54 | |
| Increase recycling in the county 50% you know by 2030. | 00:08:01 | |
| So I'm hoping that we can continue that. Laura, is this a one time visit or do you go back? | 00:08:07 | |
| Additional times or what? | 00:08:14 | |
| Mount Tabor I know Scott had already begun recycling with his kids, so I think there were like 3 lessons I did with them and the | 00:08:17 | |
| other three teachers that teach 4th grade, I did 8 lessons with them and I may go back for some experiments with them. | 00:08:26 | |
| About how many 4th graders do you think you're reaching? I don't know how many there are in Floyd County and how many you have. | 00:08:37 | |
| Reached at this point 1200, if I go to all the schools. | 00:08:43 | |
| And in the paper that you have regarding the education initiative? | 00:08:49 | |
| They they have been notified of it, but some of them did not get that information maybe from their principal just yet. | 00:08:55 | |
| And plus, we have to remember their standardized testing going on. So I look for this fall. | 00:09:03 | |
| To be a greater push for this. | 00:09:09 | |
| Thank you for your time. Thank you, Thank you. | 00:09:15 | |
| Now maybe we can help the Holy Family a little bit. It's been tough to get in there and Our Lady of Perpetual Health, actually. So | 00:09:21 | |
| we have a little momentum with Drop me a text with a reminder and I will see what I can do. | 00:09:27 | |
| Yeah, I should show up. | 00:09:35 | |
| Have Operations Manager, Dave Watson with us today as well. Wanted Dave to talk about the completion of the building, renovation | 00:09:39 | |
| and a few other points as well that you'll find interesting. | 00:09:47 | |
| Ladies and gentlemen. | 00:09:58 | |
| We are making progress, there's no doubt there. | 00:10:00 | |
| The construction is completed as far as the structure. | 00:10:03 | |
| We're in the process now of going to get some inside walls. | 00:10:08 | |
| And do our finished work inside the. | 00:10:13 | |
| It's we are surprised that once we got to look at how big the room became. | 00:10:17 | |
| And looking from the shed to now our our new home, we're in the process. Now like I said, you want to get some materials we'll be | 00:10:24 | |
| moving out of. | 00:10:29 | |
| What would be the? | 00:10:35 | |
| Building for the Baylor and so we have to get that cleaned out before we can progress. | 00:10:37 | |
| Were there, we were able to get the Hazmat connex box. | 00:10:43 | |
| Moved from down. | 00:10:50 | |
| Know about that, so you have in your packet. | 00:10:53 | |
| Pictures. | 00:10:58 | |
| A raise. | 00:11:01 | |
| Specifically built through this and that has been sitting at the wastewater treatment plant. | 00:11:06 | |
| For 20 years, Yeah, for years. | 00:11:11 | |
| I've been with. | 00:11:16 | |
| Yeah, almost six years. | 00:11:17 | |
| And we've never used it since. I've been with the firm, as we would love to call it. | 00:11:19 | |
| So but we were able to move it. | 00:11:27 | |
| And Davos and Jessica were working today, you know, working on our entrance way. | 00:11:32 | |
| It's It is designed for this specific purpose of storing hazardous waste. | 00:11:41 | |
| And materials. | 00:11:47 | |
| As that's its function and it's what it will be. | 00:11:49 | |
| We. | 00:11:54 | |
| Have just a few items left. | 00:11:55 | |
| Finalize that, but it is. | 00:11:57 | |
| Near completion. So essentially you'll recall that we have the second pull bar that we dedicated to long term employee, Dorothy | 00:12:01 | |
| Lee. | 00:12:05 | |
| Back when she left in the summertime. | 00:12:09 | |
| And that will. | 00:12:13 | |
| Will be now reassigned in its primary task. I'll ask Dave Nashville to talk about that in a second. | 00:12:16 | |
| But essentially. | 00:12:23 | |
| The. | 00:12:27 | |
| Yesterday by Pageant in fact will be the center of our HHW activities and feel really good about that. And I'm going to say thank | 00:12:29 | |
| you to Adam Dickey for making the contact. Thanks to Mike Wallace of the city's wastewater utility for his cooperation as well to | 00:12:37 | |
| allow Hedges to come in and cherry pick the container. | 00:12:44 | |
| Didn't even have to takedown the fence, lifted it over the fence and put it on the flatbed and brought it out to the atoms. So | 00:12:52 | |
| we're delighted with that. That was a thoughtful move to capture that, to give us as much capability in terms of efficiently and | 00:12:59 | |
| effectively manage HHW. | 00:13:06 | |
| I'm I'm going to ask this question real quick. | 00:13:16 | |
| The hydrant was obviously there first. | 00:13:20 | |
| But do we place this there with the idea that it would also be close to the hydrant, the fire hydrant? | 00:13:23 | |
| Or was that? | 00:13:29 | |
| The space was the preferable space. The hybrid is not operational. | 00:13:33 | |
| Oh, you see that tag? | 00:13:38 | |
| Well, yeah, I did see that. I did see that, yes. | 00:13:42 | |
| It's like because I actually had, I kind of had the same question, I noticed that the hybrid was out of services. Has it been out | 00:13:44 | |
| of service for a long time up there? | 00:13:48 | |
| OK, yeah, there was, there was a water leak in along the roadway. | 00:13:54 | |
| And because it was a. | 00:14:01 | |
| Whether they call it property or probably own the, we own the hydrant, yes. | 00:14:04 | |
| American Water was not involved with it. It was up to us to make any repairs and put it back in service, and that's never been | 00:14:10 | |
| done. I've never turned it off. I've never. | 00:14:15 | |
| As a result. That's why we have 1/4. | 00:14:22 | |
| Adam, I do want to say that they get a lot of pets, so this is pet friendly. If the dogs want to use that, they're more than | 00:14:27 | |
| welcome to. | 00:14:31 | |
| Sure. I I guess as a side note. | 00:14:36 | |
| That's terrible. I don't know what the repairs would be to the line or the hydrant, but. | 00:14:40 | |
| Don't. Don't we want that? Yeah, I would think that it would probably be worth looking at, quite honestly. It really depends on | 00:14:47 | |
| where the closest hybrid is. | 00:14:52 | |
| To that well played down the fire department is me apart. I I mean I'm I'm I'm thinking. I'm thinking my my fireman would would | 00:14:57 | |
| very much appreciate me. | 00:15:03 | |
| Raising that concern if something actually occurred there. | 00:15:09 | |
| This aside, I mean, honestly, you know, we've talked about it really in the context of bathroom facilities and just have never | 00:15:14 | |
| found it that fiscally doable to. | 00:15:20 | |
| Make that happen, honestly and all kidding aside, and we certainly will paint it. | 00:15:28 | |
| Make it an attractive icon of some kind, But you know, no plans to move it at this point in time. | 00:15:35 | |
| Well, I I mean, my first thought was that was. | 00:15:45 | |
| Pretty convenient placement, but I didn't think about it having the tag on it either. So and they talk a little bit about the | 00:15:48 | |
| partnership with the folks next door that have helped make that grading possible. We've had a real good neighbor in the National | 00:15:55 | |
| Guard Armory. | 00:16:01 | |
| Through some contacts, we talked with them. | 00:16:10 | |
| They've come over with their bobcat and have done some work for us. | 00:16:13 | |
| Doing some grading, doing some digging. | 00:16:18 | |
| They have just and. | 00:16:21 | |
| It's always been a real pleasure to work with them. | 00:16:23 | |
| Are they? They like having things, things to do, and if they're not busy, they. | 00:16:27 | |
| Jump on and they come right on over. | 00:16:32 | |
| So it has really been a pleasure working with them. | 00:16:35 | |
| I did spring for some pizzas up there down to. | 00:16:41 | |
| You know, to help the guys out, they probably like that. | 00:16:44 | |
| But now they have, they really have helped a lot and and they're always there and they they said anytime if we're not busy we'll | 00:16:51 | |
| be glad to help out. And so it's been really good neighbors. And then we'll start the HHW collection from the springtime on April | 00:16:57 | |
| the 13th. | 00:17:03 | |
| And that's something that William Lara and another one of our employees, Raymond Thomas. | 00:17:11 | |
| Maybe just generally on The Saturdays from 9:00 to 1:00 with everybody pitching in as needed. | 00:17:17 | |
| So we'll report that. | 00:17:24 | |
| Dave. Dave helped by getting the entire place where there's no current inventory. | 00:17:27 | |
| Including some complicated unknown chemicals that have been leftover. | 00:17:35 | |
| Way to address. | 00:17:42 | |
| Have tested and then transported off site within the next week. | 00:17:43 | |
| Scott, you you help me with this. | 00:17:49 | |
| When you were talking, I have an idea or just a thought about our pricing. Is our pricing in good shape when it comes to the | 00:17:54 | |
| collection of? | 00:17:58 | |
| You balance the. | 00:18:04 | |
| $4.00 a gallon for paint. | 00:18:08 | |
| The couple bucks for cans of pesticides or what have you. | 00:18:12 | |
| More often than not, do the pushback from one of the cities who don't like paying. | 00:18:20 | |
| So clearly the county is subsidizing this activity. | 00:18:26 | |
| And my judgment, we're at the right price point now. | 00:18:31 | |
| Not to disadvantage ourselves. | 00:18:36 | |
| In disincentivizing. | 00:18:40 | |
| Maybe had somebody and we had a. | 00:18:45 | |
| We have several people that are longtime patrons and we've had a lady came through the other day and she wanted us to know. | 00:18:50 | |
| That the work we are doing at the site has made a big difference as far as the looks, she said. She was. She was impressed at how | 00:19:00 | |
| we were getting things cleaned up and looking more professional. | 00:19:07 | |
| And so of course we thanked her for that, but she she was adamant about San Diego. You go really put some effort in that here and | 00:19:15 | |
| so sometimes it shows. | 00:19:20 | |
| Sometimes you don't think it does, but it does. So we've made some good efforts and we've got more to do. | 00:19:26 | |
| When he also. | 00:19:33 | |
| Were the yeah, the cardboard. It had a grassy area there. | 00:19:35 | |
| You know, we had your dumpsters and then you got rid of grass. You put gravel down, right? Yeah. | 00:19:41 | |
| Yeah, we are. Once, once we get finished with our grading, we're going to try a different alignment on the trailer parking. | 00:19:47 | |
| And we're kind of experimenting to see what works best, right? But we are. | 00:19:54 | |
| We're looking to be more efficient. | 00:20:00 | |
| That's what the way we're doing. | 00:20:04 | |
| Let me ask the question. | 00:20:07 | |
| TV's and stuff, you store those outside, is that right? | 00:20:10 | |
| But flat screen is going to. | 00:20:15 | |
| OK. | 00:20:21 | |
| Good. Thank you. | 00:20:22 | |
| To talk a little bit about the new life and vision for the old HHW building. And again, remind you, Dave, how long have you been | 00:20:25 | |
| with us now? Almost 2 two years in September. That's amazing. So a year and a half retired from the Kentucky truck. | 00:20:34 | |
| We look at him as our deficiency expert. | 00:20:46 | |
| You know, 6 Sigma, you know he's the guy who. | 00:20:49 | |
| Talks about when he's at home at night, he gets up from his chair to build a kitchen. He tries to think what can I do between here | 00:20:53 | |
| and there to be more efficient and I'll get inside. And that's not a proof of the world lesson for us as well. So a great member | 00:20:59 | |
| of the team and and it's always pushing us to look at things differently. So talk a little bit about I guess from my side, we | 00:21:05 | |
| currently run five trucks. | 00:21:11 | |
| 9 trailers and four containers, right? | 00:21:18 | |
| So we're just constantly looking at ways to make things more efficient with the bringing on the the new container for the | 00:21:21 | |
| chemicals it opens up that garage for us to be able to. | 00:21:27 | |
| Do our maintenance to the trailers and to the trucks. | 00:21:34 | |
| And you know, of course we're saving costs by doing that way. We're not doing major stuff and like we just had a truck breakdown | 00:21:39 | |
| this week that we had to have put in the shop. The simple stuff, light bulb goes out, you know, the trailer tire needs a plug in | 00:21:45 | |
| it, then we take care of that stuff. And since I've been there, I mean. | 00:21:51 | |
| That has improved pretty significantly. You know the less we have, a lot less flats because we're running you know a commercial | 00:21:58 | |
| grade ceiling and the trailer tires, so you know we can pull 3 or 4 nails out and not even have a flat. | 00:22:05 | |
| So that saves us 25 bucks a pump. | 00:22:12 | |
| From that so again having the. | 00:22:16 | |
| The container and opening up. | 00:22:20 | |
| Garage for us to workout of is going to be pretty significant across. | 00:22:23 | |
| Continuing to be efficient, safe money and truck was 12 that we get told last week that. | 00:22:27 | |
| That we had the only reason I'm bringing that up. | 00:22:34 | |
| If we have agreed as part of the edit funding settlement to. | 00:22:36 | |
| Not asked Edit to fund a new truck this year. It's not because we don't need it. | 00:22:41 | |
| Think it's the right decision to put this on the back order? No problem with that. But just you know that trucks in 2012. | 00:22:47 | |
| It's not the oldest truck you've got. | 00:22:59 | |
| It's got 90,000 miles on it. | 00:23:01 | |
| The highest mileage truck we have as 100. | 00:23:04 | |
| 302,000 which is truck. | 00:23:07 | |
| Truck 12112 right? Yeah so everything else is hovered in between other than the the the 24 Chevy. | 00:23:11 | |
| You have 8000 miles of that already. | 00:23:22 | |
| So here we update two other former Kentucky truck plant employees who are saving this money out of pocket, what they're able to do | 00:23:25 | |
| because of their expertise and we go off of my Chevy truck. | 00:23:31 | |
| Is because it's more ergonomically easier on the older people to get in and out of that truck. | 00:23:39 | |
| Thank you. Thanks. | 00:23:50 | |
| Let me talk a little bit about our. | 00:23:56 | |
| Grants which. | 00:23:58 | |
| Well, the dashboard, the February traffic count, we had nearly 4200 vehicles. | 00:24:02 | |
| And 100, almost 111,000 lbs. | 00:24:08 | |
| Our item grants all sound sealed and delivered at this point in time. So just a reminder, we'll call it grant number one that we | 00:24:12 | |
| call the, it's the recycling recycled market development program. That's what will give us the additional trailers and the | 00:24:19 | |
| marketing and education program. | 00:24:25 | |
| For community purposes, really focused on these 13 neighborhoods that with John and Nick's help in county planning. | 00:24:33 | |
| We identified nearly a year ago when we submitted the grant application that we would try to bring recycling to those underserved | 00:24:42 | |
| areas of the county, so with Lars help. | 00:24:48 | |
| And with the help of a professor at IUS and a student at IUS, a marketing student, we're already putting plans together. We've | 00:24:55 | |
| already knocked on some doors in some of these neighborhoods. | 00:25:02 | |
| And our key focus over the next two to three weeks will be to really isolate exactly those neighborhoods and the timetable we're | 00:25:09 | |
| going to be going into them and how we're going to best serve them. | 00:25:15 | |
| So we're really excited about that. The second item grant, the community Recycling Grant program essentially funds the Baylor. | 00:25:22 | |
| And funds the some out of pocket education materials that Laura will be able to use as she continues to expand her in school | 00:25:33 | |
| education effort. | 00:25:38 | |
| That leads us to recommendations for equipment purchases. Today, we looked at three different balers. | 00:25:46 | |
| And while the grant is for 23,000 for a failure. | 00:25:54 | |
| We're recommending the $24,000 failure. | 00:26:00 | |
| Short of not the $29,000 failure, but one that not only comes with full. | 00:26:06 | |
| Installation and labor included, but also ongoing maintenance. | 00:26:14 | |
| That being from the Allstate Equipment Company for 24,650 and I think we could make up the difference on that. | 00:26:20 | |
| Jason, do you want to take these like one at a time because of basically 2 trailers? | 00:26:31 | |
| Or 1 trailer. | 00:26:37 | |
| Two bins that we're talking about in addition to the Baylor. | 00:26:39 | |
| Like the board's approval. | 00:26:44 | |
| Or purchase. Rick, do you have any thoughts on that? I take them one at a time. OK. OK. | 00:26:46 | |
| So our recommendation would be the Allstate equipment. | 00:26:54 | |
| Baylor. | 00:26:58 | |
| At 24650, of which again 50% of the purchase cost will come from. | 00:27:00 | |
| Motion to approve second. | 00:27:09 | |
| Got a motion in a second? Any further discussion? | 00:27:11 | |
| OK, sorry. | 00:27:20 | |
| OK, all in favor signify by saying aye, aye, opposed. | 00:27:22 | |
| We go down to the trailers. | 00:27:27 | |
| The we have had. | 00:27:29 | |
| Basically just a single trailer for most of my tenure we did back in September, you'll recall by a smaller trailer and a smaller | 00:27:32 | |
| bin to go on that trailer from Big Tex. At this time, it was our interest in buying a. | 00:27:41 | |
| Another trailer, because the one that we have originally protein is the brand name. | 00:27:52 | |
| Is, is. | 00:28:00 | |
| Not in as bad as shape as Truck 112. | 00:28:02 | |
| But in fact, that needs to be replaced in a day-to-day operational way and then we're asking for a bin to go on that, which will | 00:28:05 | |
| enable us to be more efficient in our collections. | 00:28:12 | |
| And that essentially is. | 00:28:21 | |
| Listed. | 00:28:24 | |
| Under second from the bottom you'll see the PROR. | 00:28:30 | |
| 16 TR. | 00:28:35 | |
| It's The trailer itself is at 27995. | 00:28:37 | |
| Again, I then pays for 50% of that. | 00:28:42 | |
| In addition to that, we have a open bin at 58180 dollars. | 00:28:46 | |
| That would go with that. | 00:28:53 | |
| And we had at. | 00:28:56 | |
| At the end of. | 00:29:00 | |
| Oh, let's see. | 00:29:02 | |
| The grant was turned in in June and then they came back. I didn't came back to us and said hey, you really can't fund $5000 in | 00:29:04 | |
| stipends for the IUS students because they don't cover personnel cost and they asked me to throw in. | 00:29:12 | |
| Another five or $6000 to replace that in order to beat the threshold of the $100,000. | 00:29:22 | |
| Grant minimum. | 00:29:29 | |
| And so I threw in another bit. So what we're talking about here is a a bin for. | 00:29:31 | |
| Two bins at the bottom of the page. There are 58180 apiece that go with the trailer. That's 27995. | 00:29:39 | |
| And again, that's complementing. | 00:29:49 | |
| The model that we currently have. | 00:29:52 | |
| And we found nothing at any price that would be preferable to that. So recommendation would be for that trailer and the two. | 00:29:55 | |
| Protainer bins. | 00:30:06 | |
| 5880 apiece. | 00:30:09 | |
| For your approval. | 00:30:12 | |
| I'll make a motion for the first one, The trailer, I believe it is. | 00:30:15 | |
| For the Pro R16. | 00:30:21 | |
| TR for 27995. | 00:30:25 | |
| Second OK, I got a motion by Brad and second by John. | 00:30:28 | |
| Any further discussion? | 00:30:32 | |
| Super 5 by saying aye aye opposed. | 00:30:36 | |
| Motion carries. | 00:30:40 | |
| Third thing is a. | 00:30:42 | |
| I hope I'm saying this right because we also requested a protainer. So for those of you who have visited our sites, you're quite | 00:30:45 | |
| used to seeing the green trailers with the slots on the side. We had envisioned that. | 00:30:52 | |
| Yeah, back in the springtime of 2023. | 00:31:00 | |
| But as we have thought, more as a team. | 00:31:04 | |
| About how do we most effectively execute serving these neighborhoods. We've come up with a thought that instead of just having a | 00:31:07 | |
| another protein or. | 00:31:13 | |
| Typable. | 00:31:19 | |
| Trailer. | 00:31:21 | |
| And it would be. | 00:31:26 | |
| And again those trailers? | 00:31:30 | |
| Or like this? | 00:31:35 | |
| Instead of this. | 00:31:37 | |
| We would like something more basic. | 00:31:39 | |
| Like this? Well, we can put totes on them. | 00:31:42 | |
| Facility easier to go to the neighborhoods is facilitates separation of materials. | 00:31:45 | |
| As we look to maximize revenue from from that the only. | 00:31:51 | |
| Item. | 00:31:57 | |
| That makes that a little bit complicated. Is that with the grant agreement from item? | 00:32:00 | |
| Any changes to it, they need to approve, so I submitted last Wednesday a request for a trade off. | 00:32:06 | |
| Of the 1 trailer. | 00:32:14 | |
| And 20,270. | 00:32:16 | |
| For two $8000. | 00:32:19 | |
| Trailers. | 00:32:22 | |
| With the totes and some additional materials that basically comes within $750 of that original trailer that I requested. | 00:32:24 | |
| I was hoping that they would come back and say. | 00:32:36 | |
| Don't need to modify the agreement. | 00:32:38 | |
| But they haven't come back and said anything yet, so. | 00:32:42 | |
| I'm highly confident that they will. | 00:32:46 | |
| Because they want us to do the right thing, we want to support us in a way that we feel we will be most efficient and carrying out | 00:32:49 | |
| that the objectives of the grant application so. | 00:32:55 | |
| What with the idea that they will say yes to the two utility trailers? | 00:33:02 | |
| Recommendation is that we move forward with board approval. | 00:33:08 | |
| Again, pending item confirmation. | 00:33:14 | |
| The purchase of these two big techs utility trailers as noted in the. | 00:33:18 | |
| Fourth line of the equipment. | 00:33:25 | |
| Itemization, Scott. I'll give you come back to that in just a second because I'm going to make another motion for. | 00:33:27 | |
| The Pro Pro R1420. | 00:33:35 | |
| Those there's two of those, plus the shipping and handling at 58885 thousand 880 a piece. | 00:33:41 | |
| Yes, the bends. I didn't get around to those. | 00:33:48 | |
| With the original motion, so I'm going to make a motion for that. It's the very bottom one. | 00:33:53 | |
| Second Got a motion by Brian, a second by Mr. Dickey. | 00:33:58 | |
| Aye opposed. | 00:34:07 | |
| Now I'll make a motion for. I'm sorry, go ahead. I'm sorry. | 00:34:10 | |
| Motion for the. | 00:34:14 | |
| The pro trailer, Pro Tilt that. | 00:34:16 | |
| You have advertised here the big Tex 14PI-20. | 00:34:21 | |
| BK utility trailers, both of them as you have advertised here, both for $8000 with the contingency that I den approves the. | 00:34:27 | |
| Change order? Well, set. | 00:34:38 | |
| Got a motion by Brad. I'll second, second by John. | 00:34:41 | |
| Any further discussion? | 00:34:47 | |
| All I think favor signify by saying Aye, aye. | 00:34:49 | |
| Opposed social characters. Thank you all. | 00:34:53 | |
| Want to talk just very briefly about the edit modifications that we've referenced. | 00:34:58 | |
| That's what we went back and forth and seeking to resolve this issue first brought up at our January meeting with Jason and John's | 00:35:03 | |
| input for spread involved prior to that point essentially got that to the agreement with the commissioners that we would. | 00:35:12 | |
| Freeze the $50,000 capital request for a truck for 2024 #1 #2 agreed that that there would be 25,000 in other spending frozen as | 00:35:22 | |
| well. | 00:35:28 | |
| That would. | 00:35:35 | |
| Basically reduce the contribution from added from the amount requested less 75,000. | 00:35:37 | |
| In the meantime, County has. | 00:35:45 | |
| Given us the initial draw of 335,000. | 00:35:50 | |
| And then we look forward to in July to receive another 65. | 00:35:57 | |
| From edit and another 17478 from the CCD fund also on the approximate time of July. | 00:36:03 | |
| Everybody, I think is in agreement. We're happy with it. We'll live with it. The only thing that we will do is that we will. | 00:36:14 | |
| From our operational standpoint. | 00:36:21 | |
| We will have. | 00:36:24 | |
| A certain amount of money unappropriated and so we will isolate at least 25,000. | 00:36:27 | |
| Of unappropriated dollars come back to you, seek that appropriation that then we'll have to go before the County Council as well | 00:36:33 | |
| in order to make up for the 25,000. | 00:36:38 | |
| That we are freezing up front. | 00:36:44 | |
| If that makes sense. | 00:36:48 | |
| It does. | 00:36:51 | |
| Is that a confident look? | 00:36:53 | |
| No, you just had me going to the County Council for approval. | 00:36:55 | |
| Good luck. | 00:37:00 | |
| That's all right. That's. | 00:37:02 | |
| Think I'm on vacation that day. | 00:37:03 | |
| Feel right to everybody. | 00:37:08 | |
| And again, thank you for your patience, Jason and John, Brad for helping work through this. Thanks for helping us work through it | 00:37:10 | |
| as well. And to be absolutely clear about it, I have no intention for any capital dollars in 2024. | 00:37:17 | |
| Because we're not that far away from the initial draft of the 2020. | 00:37:25 | |
| 2025 budget. | 00:37:30 | |
| And so we would anticipate no capital request. | 00:37:32 | |
| Assuming that we have some success in competing with the legacy foundation on a truck request. | 00:37:38 | |
| And then of course you know. | 00:37:44 | |
| Be asking for no money for matching grants because we'll be completely focused on the full execution of the two grants we have in | 00:37:48 | |
| 2024 that actually lasts for 18 months. | 00:37:53 | |
| So we don't have time to. | 00:38:00 | |
| You know, buy anything else? | 00:38:03 | |
| Let me talk a little bit about. | 00:38:08 | |
| Our cost savings initiative and I think this has been a fun exercise actually, but. | 00:38:10 | |
| Essentially, as most of you know. | 00:38:18 | |
| Our team currently makes 500 trips a year. | 00:38:20 | |
| To Fern Valley Rd. just east of the Ford Louisville Assembly Plant. | 00:38:24 | |
| And primarily taking? | 00:38:30 | |
| Corrugated boxes and that. | 00:38:33 | |
| Has the greatest value, currently at $6065 a ton for loose, corrugated but. | 00:38:40 | |
| 30% thirty 2% premium with a bail arrangement. But that's a long way to go. | 00:38:48 | |
| And and so we went through the calc. | 00:38:57 | |
| The couch of you know, to 38 minutes, 27 mile drive. | 00:38:59 | |
| To Industrial Blvd. | 00:39:05 | |
| We looked at the web key as an alternative. | 00:39:08 | |
| That's twenty mile, 20 minutes, 12 miles just on West Oak St. | 00:39:11 | |
| So if you take the 9th St. exit. | 00:39:19 | |
| And just keep going straight. You're 10 to 12 minutes from. | 00:39:22 | |
| Facility. | 00:39:26 | |
| We really thought about wear and tear on our vehicles. We thought about. | 00:39:29 | |
| Of the time because usually we have two. | 00:39:33 | |
| Employees in the truck making that run and that's just downtime that we cannot afford. | 00:39:37 | |
| What we're trying to do a lot of things without asking for more money for more people. So that really was our key incentive to | 00:39:44 | |
| really examine are there cost saving opportunities. So we looked at it from a personnel standpoint, the fuel consumption | 00:39:49 | |
| standpoint. | 00:39:54 | |
| We think that we can save in excess of 6200 a year. | 00:39:59 | |
| Just a fuel costs. | 00:40:03 | |
| By making some changes the productivity I mentioned and then the revenue. | 00:40:06 | |
| One of the big considerations though. | 00:40:14 | |
| Is that as we've talked to? | 00:40:16 | |
| Even though they offered some benefits. | 00:40:18 | |
| As far as lesser distance, they don't service Galena. | 00:40:22 | |
| And we have 11 bids that we call single string bins. At the annex we have 10. | 00:40:27 | |
| At the Galena site and then he's Galena's service once a week. | 00:40:33 | |
| And grant line of service twice a week. | 00:40:39 | |
| We simply can't have a. | 00:40:42 | |
| Productive relationship with the firm that doesn't go to Galena. | 00:40:45 | |
| And so that that became disqualified for erupting. | 00:40:48 | |
| So what do W rock our current provider? | 00:40:52 | |
| And said. | 00:40:56 | |
| We're happy with your service. | 00:40:59 | |
| Very efficient. They are open 24/7. | 00:41:01 | |
| Dave Massiguel particular has talked about that their new checking system thinks about as efficient as it can be from a mechanical | 00:41:04 | |
| standpoint. Marquee has more condensed hours and and not as sophisticated. | 00:41:11 | |
| A check in checkout system. | 00:41:19 | |
| But I asked West Rocks help in solving the problems. | 00:41:22 | |
| Laura Bellman, our contact. | 00:41:29 | |
| Had what proved to be an excellent idea. | 00:41:31 | |
| As we look forward to the implementation of our bailed era. | 00:41:34 | |
| Then I would say what she offered would be that W Rock would dispatch, at our request, a box truck. | 00:41:41 | |
| Within 24 hours of said request. | 00:41:50 | |
| And that box truck would cost us $150.00. | 00:41:52 | |
| But it would take up to 14 males. | 00:41:56 | |
| Of which, again at $95 a ton. | 00:42:00 | |
| Can put us north of between 5:00 and $600.00 net revenue on the transaction. Yes, we pay them 150 to come get it. | 00:42:05 | |
| But because we're paying them 1:50 to come get it. | 00:42:15 | |
| Not sending Dave and Jessica and Ron and Mike over to Fern Valley Rd. That's a big deal. | 00:42:18 | |
| Because we can reallocate those hours in terms of serving the neighborhoods that we've identified in the first item grant. So the | 00:42:27 | |
| recommendation don't really need your formal approval on. We want you to understand that we've gone through a pretty much a three | 00:42:35 | |
| to four month process of weighing the pros and cons. I feel really, really good about staying. | 00:42:43 | |
| The course, But then turning some of the transportation burden onto our vendor, West Dr. freeing up our people a little bit more. | 00:42:52 | |
| And reducing the learning term or equipment more? | 00:43:04 | |
| Not to say fuel savings to boot. | 00:43:08 | |
| On top of that. | 00:43:12 | |
| John brought it up initially. We've now again Dave Watsons initiative to go to Jacobi and have them place a 500 gallon tank at the | 00:43:17 | |
| annex. | 00:43:22 | |
| Because our folks and you can read it at your convenience. | 00:43:29 | |
| Where we've done the calculations on. | 00:43:33 | |
| But just the highlight. | 00:43:35 | |
| We would make at least 23 trips a month to the county garage on average. | 00:43:38 | |
| That's 418 miles a month. Assuming an average of 10 miles per gallon, it's 42 gallons of fuel saved generating. | 00:43:43 | |
| $109 a month savings. | 00:43:52 | |
| And then at the county garage being the 28th round trip from the annex. | 00:43:55 | |
| And again, two people. | 00:44:00 | |
| Perhaps in the vehicle? | 00:44:02 | |
| We come down to the point that we feel that there's a material savings of having. | 00:44:04 | |
| Fuel at the same rate as the county pace of the garage. | 00:44:10 | |
| There at the Annex so. | 00:44:14 | |
| Attaboy to Dave for stepping forward on that because you have as a board, you have complete confidence that we're looking at every | 00:44:18 | |
| possibility to reduce spending. | 00:44:23 | |
| Be it wear and tear maintenance, you know you have skilled folks like the masculine. | 00:44:29 | |
| We'll turn you know, the old HHW shed to a little bit of a garage for some grease monkey activity. | 00:44:36 | |
| And we're delighted at that. And that's money that we're not spending at any other vendor throughout the city. I think that can be | 00:44:45 | |
| completely avoided. But I'm really pleased that we have good momentum, good sensitivity to what those costs are and how we can | 00:44:51 | |
| continue to reduce that. | 00:44:57 | |
| Final point of the day is relative to partnership initiatives. All of you've heard Agnosium discussions ongoing for many, many, | 00:45:06 | |
| many, many months with Baptist Floyd. | 00:45:12 | |
| And I'm happy to report. | 00:45:18 | |
| That after my most recent sit down with the. | 00:45:20 | |
| Environmental services at the hospital at noon today. | 00:45:25 | |
| That they are delighted that we've completed our expansion. | 00:45:29 | |
| Delighted that we have a bin that we can place at the hospital. Delighted that we're in a position to take their corrugated not | 00:45:34 | |
| only. | 00:45:39 | |
| Generating the normal course of hospital operations, but they have major construction ongoing and we'll have for many, many months | 00:45:45 | |
| to come. And so my next step is to complete a draft partnership agreement. | 00:45:53 | |
| That. | 00:46:03 | |
| We'd like to make sure that those of us in the trenches, Lamont read at Environmental Services and and our team agrees to | 00:46:05 | |
| completely in terms of how does this work. | 00:46:10 | |
| But I think you'll be helpful to the hospital to allow other people to focus more on their primary responsibilities would be | 00:46:16 | |
| helpful to us in terms of engineering and volume for which we can generate revenue. But what I would like is that the Boards of | 00:46:22 | |
| Motion, if you will. | 00:46:28 | |
| To appoint the President and the Vice President of the authority to sign such a. | 00:46:36 | |
| Partnership agreement between now and the time that we beat the next time as a board in May. | 00:46:42 | |
| And I would estimate that there would be around April 15th. | 00:46:48 | |
| If we can pull that off. | 00:46:52 | |
| Request such a. | 00:46:56 | |
| I'll make that motion, but also to subject to Rick's review. | 00:46:57 | |
| Subject to your review, Rick, to make sure that we're not kosher elective motion that we do that but pending. | 00:47:01 | |
| Rich review to allow Brad and Jason to sign outside the meeting. Actually, I'll get the draft to Rick before you all see it then. | 00:47:11 | |
| Yep, second. | 00:47:20 | |
| John second, I have. | 00:47:24 | |
| Any further discussion? | 00:47:26 | |
| Adam, Adam. Yeah. | 00:47:30 | |
| Yeah, I don't care. | 00:47:34 | |
| All in favor signify by saying aye any opposed? | 00:47:39 | |
| Those carries. | 00:47:43 | |
| Final point and great team, got momentum, lots of moving parts. | 00:47:44 | |
| Nothing's going to be easy. | 00:47:50 | |
| Especially with the execution of the grants, but as we talked about in our team meeting this morning, given this is our management | 00:47:53 | |
| team. | 00:47:57 | |
| And we could choose to do nothing. | 00:48:02 | |
| And just be opening up the gates, collecting the recycling and lock the gates and then do it again tomorrow. We don't choose to do | 00:48:05 | |
| that. And you know, we're confident enough that, you know, we have enough brain power. | 00:48:11 | |
| In this world, you've included to figure out any barrier that we need to. | 00:48:17 | |
| Figure out as we move forward to reach that point of 50% recycling household wastes. | 00:48:24 | |
| In county household by 23rd. So again thank you for your support and thank you 3 for all you do in particular. | 00:48:32 | |
| I have a quick question on the backtrack little bit on this W rock. | 00:48:40 | |
| Do you have a formal agreement you're going to be signing with them on the pickup? | 00:48:45 | |
| I she didn't say there needed to be one. We currently don't have one, I don't believe, even though they come. | 00:48:49 | |
| To three to the two locations 3 * a week to pick up. I just think for insurance workman's comp, it needs to be spelled out. Who's | 00:48:57 | |
| going to be loading material onto what piece of equipment. We don't want their folks using our equipment, they don't want us using | 00:49:02 | |
| theirs in case something gets banged up. So I would just. | 00:49:08 | |
| Ideally they would load it and that gives you even more freedom with your staff, but. | 00:49:15 | |
| But now that we have the. | 00:49:21 | |
| New used forklift. | 00:49:24 | |
| My guess is that the forklift will be employed and loading the box truck. | 00:49:26 | |
| I doubt if the box chart would have one with it. Probably not. I think just needs to be spelled out in case the new used forklift | 00:49:31 | |
| bands up the happy to accommodate. | 00:49:35 | |
| Thank you, Sir. Thank you. | 00:49:43 | |
| All right, Any public input today? | 00:49:45 | |
| No. All right. So the next meeting is going to be May 21st at 4:20. | 00:49:50 | |
| Look for a motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. | 00:49:56 | |
| Second motion by John. Second by All in favor, signify the city. Aye. Aye. All right. | 00:49:58 | |
| Have a great day. Thank you all for what you what you're doing. Got a great team going and. | 00:50:06 | |
| I love the energy and the thoughts. | 00:50:11 | |
| It's been nice. | 00:50:17 | |
| March my teeth. Go ahead and call this meeting with Floyd County Solid Waste Management District Board of Directors so you would | 00:50:20 | |
| rise for the pledge for it. | 00:50:24 | |
| Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, | 00:50:29 | |
| indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:50:35 | |
| Happy 1st day of Spring where it's a little cool and windy outside the summertime in the Assembly Room here at Pineview. | 00:50:45 | |
| Always. | 00:50:53 | |
| All right. So let's go ahead get started. | 00:50:55 | |
| Do we do a roll caller here typically or you usually just? | 00:50:59 | |
| OK. Do you want to call the world in? | 00:51:04 | |
| What works for me OK. | 00:51:09 | |
| All right, well, looks like the only person. | 00:51:14 | |
| Missing today. Is Mr. Gang here, Mayor Graham? | 00:51:17 | |
| Approval of the January 16 Minutes. | 00:51:23 | |
| Motion to Approve. | 00:51:27 | |
| We have motion approved. Can I get a second? | 00:51:29 | |
| I was. I'll second that. So I got a motion in a second. | 00:51:33 | |
| Any discussion? | 00:51:39 | |
| All in favor signify by saying aye, aye any opposed? | 00:51:41 | |
| Motion carries. | 00:51:45 | |
| Approval the February provisional claims. | 00:51:48 | |
| I'll 2nd that I got a motion in a second. Any further discussion I just. I just have a clarification. Scotland, I know the answer. | 00:51:55 | |
| In February and in early March we purchased fuel from the road department, but then later on March is when we had our own tank | 00:52:03 | |
| install. | 00:52:09 | |
| Out there at early March. So that's why there's two. | 00:52:15 | |
| From the Floyd County Road Department, then Jacobi later on, OK. | 00:52:20 | |
| That's what I was thinking. Thank you. I'm good. | 00:52:25 | |
| All right, so I got a motion in a second. | 00:52:30 | |
| Any further discussion? | 00:52:34 | |
| OK, all in favor signify by saying aye, aye, Anthony opposed. | 00:52:36 | |
| Look first. | 00:52:40 | |
| Approval Resolution 202401 Amendment Exhibit A. | 00:52:43 | |
| Looking for approval of the March 2nd, any further discussion? Second, John? | 00:52:49 | |
| All right, all for every signify by saying aye, opposed. | 00:53:01 | |
| Motion carries. | 00:53:06 | |
| Approval of the Resolution 202401 Amendment Exhibit A. | 00:53:08 | |
| To get this clarification on that and given the off month that the President and Vice President of course authorized to claim. | 00:53:13 | |
| Pending formal approval to follow the month that allows us to be highly. | 00:53:24 | |
| Mr. Fox, have you looked at this? Is everything good for the resolution side? | 00:53:33 | |
| I don't see that I have it here. | 00:53:41 | |
| You probably would not be that. | 00:53:44 | |
| Yeah. This John brought up at the last meeting that maybe there's a way that we could reduce the amount of paperwork. So what we | 00:53:48 | |
| purposely didn't leave out all the financials about that are somewhat. | 00:53:56 | |
| Majority department for 31 pages in this case left out the. | 00:54:04 | |
| State of resolution that we've been using since the implementation of these. | 00:54:10 | |
| Provision. | 00:54:15 | |
| OK, so I'm going to make a motion that we approve the resolution. | 00:54:17 | |
| 2024-01 with the and allow the president to sign outside the meeting with the contingency that the attorney reviews in in is is | 00:54:22 | |
| approved is OK with it. Again, the resolution has to change. It's just that we need the board approval where we add names to the | 00:54:30 | |
| defender list and if somebody's not on that list then you're not so empowered. These would be the original resolutions to provide | 00:54:37 | |
| the provisional approval so. | 00:54:45 | |
| No change at all, ever to the original resolution that enables the president and vice president. All we did was add a couple | 00:54:53 | |
| vendors to the list of the right. OK, that's fine. All right. Then I I will withdraw the original motion and make a motion to | 00:54:58 | |
| approve the resolution as advertised. | 00:55:04 | |
| I'll second. OK. I got a motion in a second. Any further discussion? | 00:55:10 | |
| All in favor signify by saying aye any opposed? | 00:55:16 | |
| Carries. | 00:55:20 | |
| Director's report. | 00:55:22 | |
| Say we have a substantive agenda today. That doesn't necessarily mean that we will run time at all, but pleased with what we have | 00:55:24 | |
| to talk about today. | 00:55:30 | |
| You can always start with Marketing and communications and you'll see in recovery records reporting metricsfor.com. | 00:55:36 | |
| But then the full points around the school education initiative that you're aware of and a couple other things going on. So I'd | 00:55:47 | |
| like my colleague Laura Riggle to come up and provide a little bit of an update on her initiative to get recycling education to | 00:55:54 | |
| the 4th grade classrooms in the county, Florida. | 00:56:00 | |
| Thank you for hearing me speak and good afternoon. | 00:56:08 | |
| I'm a retired educator from Greater Park and it's been my privilege to have this opportunity to reach out to 4th graders and try | 00:56:13 | |
| to inspire them to become ambassadors of recycling. I want to, really. | 00:56:21 | |
| Point to. | 00:56:31 | |
| Mr. Tony Duffy He has been very instrumental in getting the word out to New Albany Floyd County Schools. | 00:56:32 | |
| Elementary education, yes. And he he wanted the whole package. He wanted to see it and I wrote the curriculum and he has just been | 00:56:42 | |
| ecstatic about getting it started. We have a teacher, Mr. Scott Birch, who has been instrumental in recycling for a few years now. | 00:56:53 | |
| And it's just a tremendous partner for recycling. Dave and Davo have worked with Scott, and other teachers at Mount Tabor have | 00:57:04 | |
| joined forces with this, as well as Miss Hannah Striegel at Christian Academy. She's welcomed me into her class and I've begun | 00:57:14 | |
| teaching there. We also have Grant Line Elementary and Slave Run coming up in April, so I'll be starting classes with them. | 00:57:23 | |
| And this fall of Saint Mary's of the Knobs, They would have started earlier, but due to a few conflicts back in January, I was | 00:57:34 | |
| unable to get there. But they're starting in the fall and so is S Ellen and Jones, so I'm very happy to be of service to these. | 00:57:42 | |
| Children and their teachers. It's been a positive experience so far. Lots of good questions, lots of questions. I've had to go and | 00:57:51 | |
| Google, so I'm I'm looking forward to continuing that with them. | 00:57:58 | |
| As of today, there's been 29 I. | 00:58:06 | |
| Lessons taught OK since it started in February. | 00:58:11 | |
| And I think that's kind of rounds it out again. We want them to help us. | 00:58:15 | |
| Increase recycling in the county 50%, you know by 20-30, so I'm hoping that we can continue that. | 00:58:22 | |
| Laura, is this a one time visit or do you go back additional times or what? | 00:58:32 | |
| Mount Tabor I know Scott had already begun recycling with his kids, so I think there were like 3 lessons I did with them. | 00:58:38 | |
| And the other three teachers that teach 4th grade. | 00:58:47 | |
| I did 8 lessons with them well, and I may go back for some experiments with them. OK, so about how many 4th graders you think | 00:58:51 | |
| you're reaching? I don't know how many there are in Floyd County and how many you have. | 00:58:57 | |
| Reached at this point 1200, if I go to all the schools. | 00:59:04 | |
| And in the paper that you have regarding the education initiative? | 00:59:10 | |
| They they have been notified of it, but some of them did not get that information maybe from their principal just yet. | 00:59:16 | |
| And plus, we have to remember their standardized testing going on. So I look for this fall. | 00:59:24 | |
| To be a greater push for this. | 00:59:30 | |
| Thank you for your time. Thank you, thank you all you're doing. | 00:59:37 | |
| Now maybe we can help the Holy Family a little bit. It's been tough to get in there and Our Lady of Perpetual Health Action, | 00:59:42 | |
| really. So we have a little momentum with Drop me a text with a reminder and I will see what I can do. | 00:59:48 | |
| Yeah, I should show up. | 00:59:56 | |
| Have Operations Manager Dave Watson with us today as well. Wanted Dave to talk about the completion. | 01:00:00 | |
| Of the building renovation and a few other points as well. | 01:00:08 | |
| You'll find interesting. | 01:00:14 | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, we are making progress, there's no doubt there. | 01:00:19 | |
| The construction is completed as far as the structure. | 01:00:24 | |
| We're in the process now of going to get some inside walls up. | 01:00:30 | |
| And do our finished work inside the. | 01:00:34 | |
| It's we are surprised that once we got to look at how big the room became. | 01:00:38 | |
| Looking from the shed to now our our new home, we're in the process. Now like I said, you want to get some materials we'll be | 01:00:46 | |
| moving out of the what would be the. | 01:00:51 | |
| Building for the. | 01:00:58 | |
| Baylor And so we have to get that cleaned out before we progress, so. | 01:00:59 | |
| We're there. We were able to get the Hazmat connex box. | 01:01:05 | |
| Moved from down. | 01:01:11 | |
| Waterfront still know about that, so you have in your packet. | 01:01:14 | |
| Pictures of. | 01:01:19 | |
| A raise on this? | 01:01:22 | |
| Specifically built through this and that has been sitting at the wastewater treatment plant. | 01:01:26 | |
| For years, Yeah, for years. | 01:01:32 | |
| I've been with. | 01:01:37 | |
| Almost six years myself. | 01:01:38 | |
| And we've never used it since. I've been with the. | 01:01:40 | |
| The firm, as we would love to call it so, but we were able to move it. | 01:01:45 | |
| And Davos and Jessica were working today, you know, working on our. | 01:01:53 | |
| Entrance way. | 01:02:00 | |
| It's It is designed for this specific purpose of storing hazardous waste. | 01:02:02 | |
| And materials. | 01:02:08 | |
| As that's its function and it's what it will be. | 01:02:10 | |
| We. | 01:02:15 | |
| Have just a few items left to. | 01:02:16 | |
| Finalize that, but it is. | 01:02:19 | |
| Near completion. | 01:02:22 | |
| So essentially you'll recall that we have the second whole part that we dedicated to long term employee, Dorothy Lee. | 01:02:23 | |
| Back, which she left in the summertime. | 01:02:31 | |
| And that will. | 01:02:34 | |
| Will be now reassigned in its primary task. I'll ask Dave Nashville to talk about that in a second. | 01:02:37 | |
| But essentially. | 01:02:45 | |
| The. | 01:02:48 | |
| Yesterday by Pageant. | 01:02:50 | |
| In fact, will be the center of our HHW activities and feel really good about that. And I'm going to say thank you to Adam Dickey | 01:02:54 | |
| for making the contact. Thanks to Mike Wallace of the city's wastewater utility for his cooperation as well to allow Pegasus to | 01:03:00 | |
| come in and cherry picture the container. | 01:03:06 | |
| Didn't even have to take down the fence, Lifted it over the fence and put it on the flatbed and. | 01:03:13 | |
| Brought it out to. | 01:03:19 | |
| The Adams, So we're delighted with that that. | 01:03:21 | |
| Yeah, that was like a thoughtful move to capture that to give us as much capability in terms of efficiently and effectively | 01:03:24 | |
| matching HHW. | 01:03:29 | |
| All right, I'm going to ask this question real quick. | 01:03:36 | |
| The hydrant was obviously there first. | 01:03:41 | |
| But do we place this there with the idea that it would also be close to the hydrant, the fire hydrant? | 01:03:44 | |
| Or was that? | 01:03:50 | |
| The space was the preferable space. The hybrid is not operational. | 01:03:54 | |
| Oh, you see that tag? Well, yeah, I did see that. I did see that, yes. | 01:03:59 | |
| It's because I actually had, I kind of had the same question. I noticed that the hybrid was out of services. Has it been out of | 01:04:05 | |
| service for a long time out there? | 01:04:09 | |
| OK, yeah, there was, there was a water leak in along the roadway. | 01:04:14 | |
| And because it was a, whether they call it property or we own the, we own the hydrant. Though American Water was not involved with | 01:04:22 | |
| it, it was up to us to make through any repairs and put it back in service and that's never been done. | 01:04:30 | |
| As a result. That's why we have 1/4. | 01:04:41 | |
| Adam, I do want to say that they get a lot of pets, so this is pet friendly. | 01:04:48 | |
| If the dogs want to use that the morning, welcome to well, sure, I I guess as a side note. | 01:04:52 | |
| That's terrible. I don't know what the repairs would be to the line or the hydrant, but. | 01:05:01 | |
| Don't. Don't we want that? Yeah, I would think that would probably be worth looking at, quite honestly. It really depends on where | 01:05:09 | |
| the closest hydrant is. | 01:05:13 | |
| To that as well. | 01:05:18 | |
| I I I mean, I'm, I'm I'm thinking. I'm thinking my my fireman would would very much appreciate me. | 01:05:22 | |
| Raising that concern if something actually occurred there. | 01:05:30 | |
| This aside, I mean honestly, you know we've talked about it is really the context of the bathroom facilities and just have never | 01:05:35 | |
| found it that fiscally doable to. | 01:05:42 | |
| Make that happen. Honestly and all kidding aside. | 01:05:49 | |
| Certainly will paint it. | 01:05:54 | |
| And make it attractive icon of some kind. But you know, no plans to move it at this point in time. | 01:05:56 | |
| Well, I I mean, my first thought was that was. | 01:06:07 | |
| Pretty convenient placement, but I didn't think about it having the tag on it either. | 01:06:10 | |
| So if they talk a little bit about the partnership with the folks next door that have helped make that grating possible, we've | 01:06:15 | |
| had. | 01:06:19 | |
| Real good neighbor in the National Guard Armory. | 01:06:25 | |
| Throughout some contacts, we talked with them. | 01:06:31 | |
| They've come over with their bobcat and have done some work for us. | 01:06:34 | |
| Doing some grading, doing some digging. | 01:06:39 | |
| They have just and. | 01:06:42 | |
| It's always been a real pleasure to work with them. | 01:06:44 | |
| They they like having things, things to do. And if they're not busy, they. | 01:06:48 | |
| Jump on and they come right on over. | 01:06:54 | |
| So it has really been a pleasure working with them. | 01:06:56 | |
| I did spring for some pizzas up there now and. | 01:07:02 | |
| You know, to help the guys out, they probably like that. | 01:07:05 | |
| But now they have, they really have helped a lot and and they're always there and they they said anytime. | 01:07:13 | |
| If we're not busy, we'll be glad to help out. And so they've been really good neighbors. | 01:07:21 | |
| Then we'll start the HHW collection from the springtime on April 13th. And that's something that Lara and another one of our | 01:07:26 | |
| employees, Raven Thomas manages generally on The Saturdays from 9:00 to 1:00 with everybody pitching in as needed. So we're | 01:07:36 | |
| reporting that Dave help getting the entire place speaking stands where there's no current inventory. | 01:07:45 | |
| Includes some complicated. | 01:07:56 | |
| Unknown chemicals that have been leftover. | 01:07:58 | |
| Tested and then transported off site within the next week. | 01:08:04 | |
| Scott, you you help me with this. | 01:08:10 | |
| When you were talking, I have an idea or just a thought about our pricing. Is our pricing in good shape when it comes to the | 01:08:15 | |
| collection of? | 01:08:19 | |
| The $4.00 a gallon for paint. | 01:08:26 | |
| The couple bucks for cans of pesticides or what have you. | 01:08:34 | |
| More often than not, do the pushback from one of the cities who don't like paying. | 01:08:41 | |
| So clearly the county is subsidizing. | 01:08:47 | |
| This activity. | 01:08:52 | |
| And my judgment, we're at the right price point now. | 01:08:53 | |
| Not to disadvantage ourselves. | 01:08:57 | |
| Disincentivizing. | 01:09:01 | |
| Today you had somebody and we had. | 01:09:06 | |
| We have several people that are longtime patrons and we've had a lady came through the other day and she. | 01:09:11 | |
| Wanted us to know. | 01:09:19 | |
| That the work we are doing at the site has made a big difference as far as the looks, she said she was. She was impressed. | 01:09:21 | |
| At how we were getting things cleaned up and looking professional. | 01:09:31 | |
| And so of course, we thanked her for that, but she she was adamant about San Diego. You go home, really put some effort in out | 01:09:36 | |
| here. And so it sometimes it shows. | 01:09:41 | |
| Sometimes you don't think it does, but it does. So we've made some good efforts and we've got more to do. | 01:09:47 | |
| When he also. | 01:09:54 | |
| Were the yeah, the cardboard. It had a grassy area there. | 01:09:56 | |
| You know, we had your dumpsters and then you got rid of grass. You put gravel down. That's right. Yeah. | 01:10:02 | |
| Yeah, we are. Once once we get finished with our grading. | 01:10:08 | |
| We're going to try a different alignment on the trailer parking. | 01:10:12 | |
| And we're kind of experimenting to see what works best, right? But we are. | 01:10:15 | |
| We're looking to be more efficient. | 01:10:21 | |
| That's what the way we're doing. | 01:10:25 | |
| Let me ask the question. | 01:10:28 | |
| TV's and stuff, you store those outside, is that right? | 01:10:31 | |
| But flat screen is going to. | 01:10:36 | |
| OK. | 01:10:40 | |
| Good. Thank you. | 01:10:43 | |
| To talk a little bit about the new life and vision for the old HHW building. | 01:10:46 | |
| And and again, remind you Dave, how long have you been with us now almost 2, two years in September. That's amazing. So a year and | 01:10:54 | |
| a half retired from the Kentucky truck. | 01:10:59 | |
| We look at him as our efficiency expert. | 01:11:07 | |
| You know, 6 Sigma, you know he's the guy who. | 01:11:10 | |
| Talks about when he's at home at night, he gets up from his chair to build a kitchen. He tries to think, what can I do between | 01:11:15 | |
| here and there to be more efficient and I'll get inside. And that's the proof of the world lesson for us as well. So he's a great | 01:11:21 | |
| member of the team and and it's always pushing us to look at things differently. So talk a little bit about, I guess from my side, | 01:11:28 | |
| we currently run five trucks, 9 trailers and four containers, right? | 01:11:35 | |
| So we're just constantly looking at ways to make things more efficient with the bringing on the the new container for the | 01:11:42 | |
| chemicals it opens up that garage for us to be able to. | 01:11:48 | |
| Do our maintenance to the trailers and to the trucks. | 01:11:55 | |
| And you know, of course we're saving costs by doing that way is we're not doing major stuff and like we just had a truck breakdown | 01:12:00 | |
| this week that we had to have put in the shop. The simple stuff, light bulb goes out, you know a trailer tire needs a plug in, | 01:12:06 | |
| then we take care of that stuff. And since I've been there, I mean. | 01:12:12 | |
| That has improved pretty significantly. You know, the less we have, a lot less flats because we're running you know, a commercial | 01:12:19 | |
| grade ceiling and the trailer tires. | 01:12:24 | |
| So you know we can pull 3 or 4 nails out and not even have a flat. | 01:12:29 | |
| So that saves us 25 bucks a pawn from that. So again having the. | 01:12:33 | |
| The container and opening up that. | 01:12:41 | |
| Garage for us to workout up, it's going to be pretty significant across. | 01:12:44 | |
| Continuing to be efficient, save money. | 01:12:48 | |
| And truck was 12 that we get told last week that. | 01:12:51 | |
| We had no liberation. I'm bringing that up. | 01:12:55 | |
| We have agreed as part of the edit funding settlement to. | 01:12:58 | |
| Not asked Edit to fund a new truck this year. It's not because we don't need it. | 01:13:02 | |
| Think it's the right decision to put this on the back order? No problem with that. But just you know that trucks in 2012. | 01:13:08 | |
| It's not the oldest truck you've got. | 01:13:19 | |
| It's got 90,000 miles on it. | 01:13:22 | |
| Highest mileage truck we have is 100. | 01:13:25 | |
| 102,000. | 01:13:28 | |
| Which is truck. | 01:13:30 | |
| Truck 12112 is 1 down. Yeah so everything else is hovering in between other than the the the 24 Chevy. | 01:13:32 | |
| If you have 30,000 miles of that already. | 01:13:42 | |
| So here we update two other former Kentucky truck plant employees who are saving us money out of pocket, what they're able to do | 01:13:46 | |
| because of their expertise and we go off of my Chevy truck. | 01:13:52 | |
| Is because it's more ergonomically easier on the older people to get in and out of that truck. | 01:14:00 | |
| Thank you. Thanks. | 01:14:11 | |
| Let me talk a little bit about our. | 01:14:17 | |
| Grants which. | 01:14:19 | |
| Well, the dashboard, the February traffic count, we had nearly 4200 vehicles. | 01:14:23 | |
| And 100, almost 111,000 lbs. | 01:14:29 | |
| Our item grants all signed, sealed, and delivered at this point in time. So just a reminder. | 01:14:33 | |
| We'll call it grant number one that we call them. It's the recycling recycled market development program. That's what will give us | 01:14:39 | |
| the additional trailers. | 01:14:45 | |
| And the marketing and education program. | 01:14:51 | |
| For community purposes, fully focused on these 13 neighborhoods that with John and Nick's help in county planning. | 01:14:55 | |
| We identified nearly a year ago when we submitted the grant application that we would try to bring recycling to those underserved | 01:15:03 | |
| areas of the county, so with Laura's help. | 01:15:09 | |
| And with the help of a professor at IUS. | 01:15:16 | |
| And a student at IUSA, Marketing student. We're already putting plans together. We've already knocked on some doors in some of | 01:15:20 | |
| these neighborhoods. | 01:15:25 | |
| And our key focus over the next two to three weeks will be to really isolate exactly those neighborhoods and the timetable we're | 01:15:30 | |
| going to be going into them and how we're going to best serve them. | 01:15:36 | |
| So we're really excited about that. The second item grant, the community Recycling Grant program essentially funds the Baylor. | 01:15:43 | |
| And funds the some out of pocket education materials that Laura will be able to use as she continues to expand her in school | 01:15:54 | |
| education efforts. | 01:15:59 | |
| That leads us to recommendations for equipment purchases. Today we looked at three different balers, and. | 01:16:07 | |
| While the grant is for 23,000 for a baler. | 01:16:16 | |
| We're recommending. | 01:16:21 | |
| The $24,000 payer. | 01:16:24 | |
| Short of not the $29,000 failure, but one that not only comes with full installation. | 01:16:27 | |
| And labor included but also ongoing maintenance that being from the Allstate Equipment Company for 24,650 and I think we can make | 01:16:37 | |
| up the difference on that. | 01:16:43 | |
| Jason, do you want to take these like one at a time because of basically 2 trailers? | 01:16:52 | |
| A1 Trailer. | 01:16:58 | |
| Two bins that we're talking about in addition to the Baylor. | 01:17:00 | |
| That would like the board's approval. | 01:17:05 | |
| Or purchase or if you have any thoughts on that, I take them one at a time, OK. OK. | 01:17:07 | |
| So our recommendation that would be the Allstate equipment. | 01:17:15 | |
| Baylor. | 01:17:19 | |
| At 24650, of which again 50% of the purchase cost will come from. | 01:17:21 | |
| Motion to approve second. | 01:17:30 | |
| Got a motion in a second? Any further discussion? | 01:17:32 | |
| OK, so. | 01:17:41 | |
| OK, all in favor signify by saying aye, aye, opposed. | 01:17:43 | |
| The we have had. | 01:17:50 | |
| Basically just a single trailer for most of my tenure we did back in September, you'll recall by a smaller trailer and a smaller | 01:17:53 | |
| bin to go on that trailer from Big Tex. At this time, it was our interest in buying a. | 01:18:02 | |
| Another trailer, because the one that we have originally protein is the brand name. | 01:18:13 | |
| Is, is. | 01:18:21 | |
| Not in as bad as shape as Truck 112. | 01:18:23 | |
| But in fact, that needs to be replaced in a day-to-day operational way and then we're asking for a bin. | 01:18:26 | |
| To go on that which will enable us to be more efficient in our collections. | 01:18:33 | |
| And that essentially is. | 01:18:42 | |
| Listed. | 01:18:45 | |
| Under second from the bottom you'll see the PRO R16 TR. | 01:18:51 | |
| It's The trailer itself is at 27995. | 01:18:58 | |
| Again, I then pays for 50% of that. | 01:19:03 | |
| In addition to that, we have a open bin at 58180 dollars. | 01:19:07 | |
| That would go with that. | 01:19:14 | |
| And we had at the. | 01:19:17 | |
| At the end. | 01:19:21 | |
| Let's see, the grant was turned in in June and then they came back. I didn't came back to us and said hey, you really can't fund | 01:19:23 | |
| $5000 in stipends for the IUS students because they don't cover personnel cost and they asked me to throw in. | 01:19:33 | |
| Another five or $6000 to replace that in order to beat the threshold of the $100,000. | 01:19:43 | |
| Grant Minimum. And so I threw in another bit. So what we're talking about here is a a bin for. | 01:19:50 | |
| Two bins at the bottom of the page. There are 58180 apiece that go with the trailer. That's 27995. | 01:20:00 | |
| And again, that's. | 01:20:10 | |
| Complementing the model that we currently have. | 01:20:12 | |
| And we found nothing at any price that would be preferable to that. So recommendation would be for that trailer and the. | 01:20:16 | |
| 2 protainer. | 01:20:27 | |
| Bins 5880 apiece. | 01:20:29 | |
| For your approval. | 01:20:34 | |
| I'll make a motion for the first one, The trailer, I believe it is. | 01:20:36 | |
| For the Pro R-16. | 01:20:42 | |
| TR for 27995. | 01:20:46 | |
| Second OK, got a motion by Brad and second by John. | 01:20:50 | |
| Any further discussion? | 01:20:53 | |
| All suck signify by saying aye aye opposed. | 01:20:56 | |
| Motion carries. | 01:21:01 | |
| Third thing is a. | 01:21:03 | |
| I hope I'm saying this right because we also requested a protainer. So for those of you who have visited our sites, you're quite | 01:21:07 | |
| used to seeing the green trailers with the slots on the side. We had envisioned that. | 01:21:13 | |
| You know, back in the springtime of 2023. | 01:21:21 | |
| But as we have thought, more as a team. | 01:21:25 | |
| About how do we most effectively execute serving these neighborhoods. We've come up with a thought that instead of just having a | 01:21:28 | |
| another protein or. | 01:21:34 | |
| Typable. | 01:21:40 | |
| Trailer. | 01:21:42 | |
| And it would be. | 01:21:47 | |
| And again those trailers? | 01:21:51 | |
| Or like this? | 01:21:56 | |
| Instead of this. | 01:21:58 | |
| We would like something more basic. | 01:22:01 | |
| Like this where we can put totes on them. | 01:22:03 | |
| Facility easier to go to the neighborhoods is facilitates separation of materials. | 01:22:06 | |
| As we look to maximize revenue from from that the only. | 01:22:13 | |
| Item. | 01:22:19 | |
| That makes that a little bit complicated. Is that with the grant agreement for my DEM? | 01:22:21 | |
| Any changes to it, they need to approve. | 01:22:27 | |
| So I submitted last Wednesday a request for. | 01:22:30 | |
| A trade off? | 01:22:33 | |
| Of the 1 trailer. | 01:22:35 | |
| And 20,270. | 01:22:37 | |
| For two $8000. | 01:22:40 | |
| Trailers. | 01:22:43 | |
| With the totes and some additional materials that basically comes within $750 of that original trailer that I requested. | 01:22:46 | |
| I was hoping that they would come back and say. | 01:22:57 | |
| Don't need to modify the agreement. | 01:23:00 | |
| But they haven't come back and said anything yet, so. | 01:23:03 | |
| I'm highly confident that they will. | 01:23:07 | |
| Because they want us to do the right thing. We want to support us in a way that we feel. | 01:23:10 | |
| We will be more sufficient and carrying out that the objectives of the grant application so. | 01:23:15 | |
| What was the idea that they will say yes to the two utility trailers? | 01:23:23 | |
| Recommendation is that we move forward with board approval. | 01:23:30 | |
| Again, pending item confirmation. | 01:23:35 | |
| The purchase of these two big techs utility trailers as noted in the. | 01:23:39 | |
| Fourth line of the equipment. | 01:23:46 | |
| Itemization, Scott. I'll give you come back to that in just a second because I'm going to make another motion for. | 01:23:49 | |
| The Pro Pro R1420. | 01:23:56 | |
| Those there's two of those plus the shipping handling at 5888. | 01:24:02 | |
| 5880 apiece. | 01:24:07 | |
| Yes, the bends. I didn't get around to those. | 01:24:09 | |
| With the original motion, so I'm going to make a motion for that. It's the very bottom one. | 01:24:14 | |
| Second Got a motion by Brian, a second by Mr. Dickey. | 01:24:19 | |
| Discussion. | 01:24:25 | |
| Aye opposed. | 01:24:28 | |
| Now I'll make a motion for. I'm sorry, go ahead. | 01:24:31 | |
| Motion for the. | 01:24:35 | |
| The pro trailer Pro Tilt that you have advertised here. The big text 14PI-20. | 01:24:37 | |
| K. | 01:24:49 | |
| So utility trailers, utility trailers, both of them as you have advertised here, both for $8000 with the contingency that I dem | 01:24:51 | |
| approves the. | 01:24:55 | |
| Change order? Well, set. | 01:25:00 | |
| Got a motion by Brad? | 01:25:02 | |
| Any further discussion? | 01:25:06 | |
| All, I think is favorite saying. | 01:25:10 | |
| Opposed social character. Thank you all. | 01:25:14 | |
| Want to talk just very briefly about the edit modifications that we've referenced. | 01:25:20 | |
| That's what we went back and forth and seeking to resolve this issue first brought up at our January meeting with Jason and John's | 01:25:25 | |
| input for spread involved prior to that point essentially got that to the agreement with the commissioners that we would. | 01:25:33 | |
| Freeze the $50,000 capital request for a truck for 2024 #1 #2 agreed that that there would be 25,000 in other spending. | 01:25:43 | |
| As well that would. | 01:25:55 | |
| Basically reduce the contribution from added from the amount requested less 75,000. | 01:25:58 | |
| In the meantime, County has. | 01:26:07 | |
| Given us the initial draw, 335,000. | 01:26:11 | |
| And then, you know, we look forward to in July to receive another 65. | 01:26:18 | |
| From edit and. | 01:26:24 | |
| Another 17478 from the CCD fund also on the approximate timing of July. | 01:26:26 | |
| But everybody, I think is in agreement. We're happy with it. We'll live with it. The only thing that we will do is that we will. | 01:26:35 | |
| From our operational standpoint. | 01:26:42 | |
| We will have. | 01:26:45 | |
| A certain amount of money unappropriated and so we will isolate at least 25,000. | 01:26:48 | |
| Of unappropriated dollars come back to you, seek that appropriation that then we'll have to go before the County Council as well | 01:26:54 | |
| in order to make up for the 25,000. | 01:26:59 | |
| That we are freezing up front. | 01:27:05 | |
| If that makes sense. | 01:27:09 | |
| It does. | 01:27:12 | |
| Is that a confident look? | 01:27:14 | |
| No, you just had me. I go into the County Council for approval. | 01:27:16 | |
| Good luck. | 01:27:21 | |
| That's all right. | 01:27:23 | |
| Think I'm on vacation that day. | 01:27:24 | |
| Feel right to everybody. | 01:27:30 | |
| And again, thank you for your patience, Jason and John, Brad for helping work through this. Thanks for helping us work through it | 01:27:31 | |
| as well. And to be absolutely clear about, I have no intention for any capital dollars in 2024. | 01:27:38 | |
| Because we're not that far away from the initial draft of the 2020. | 01:27:46 | |
| 2025 budget. | 01:27:51 | |
| And so would anticipate no capital requests. | 01:27:53 | |
| Assuming that we have some success in competing with the legacy foundation on a truck request. | 01:27:59 | |
| And then of course, you know, we'll be asking for no money for matching grants because we'll be completely focused on the full | 01:28:06 | |
| execution of the two grants we have in 2024 that actually lasts for 18 months. | 01:28:13 | |
| So we don't have time to. | 01:28:21 | |
| Buy anything else? | 01:28:24 | |
| Let me talk a little bit about. | 01:28:29 | |
| Our cost savings initiative and I think this has been a fun exercise actually, but. | 01:28:31 | |
| Essentially as you know. | 01:28:39 | |
| Our team currently makes 500 trips a year. | 01:28:41 | |
| To Fern Valley Rd. just east of the Ford Louisville Assembly Plant. | 01:28:45 | |
| And primarily taking corrugated boxes and that. | 01:28:51 | |
| It has the greatest value currently at $6065 a ton for loose, corrugated but. | 01:29:01 | |
| A 30% thirty, 2% premium with a bail arrangement. But that's a long way to go. | 01:29:09 | |
| And and so we went through the calc. | 01:29:18 | |
| The couch, so you know to 38 minutes, 27 mile drive. | 01:29:20 | |
| To Industrial Blvd. | 01:29:27 | |
| We looked at the web key as an alternative. | 01:29:29 | |
| That's twenty mile, 20 minutes, 12 miles just on West Oak St. | 01:29:32 | |
| So if you take the 9th St. exit. | 01:29:40 | |
| And just keep going straight, you're 1012 minutes from the rocky facility. | 01:29:43 | |
| We really thought about wear and tear on our vehicles. We thought about. | 01:29:50 | |
| Of the time because usually we have two. | 01:29:54 | |
| Employees in the truck making that run and that's just downtime that we cannot afford. | 01:29:58 | |
| But we're trying to do a lot of things without asking for more money for more people. | 01:30:05 | |
| So that really was our key incentive to really examine are there cost saving opportunities. So we looked at it from a personnel | 01:30:09 | |
| standpoint, the fuel consumption standpoint. | 01:30:14 | |
| We think that we can save in excess of 6200 a year. | 01:30:20 | |
| Just the fuel costs? | 01:30:25 | |
| By. | 01:30:27 | |
| Making some changes, the productivity I mentioned and then the revenue. | 01:30:30 | |
| One of the big considerations though. | 01:30:35 | |
| Is that as we've talked to? | 01:30:37 | |
| Even though they offered some benefits. | 01:30:39 | |
| As far as lesser distance, they don't service Galena. | 01:30:43 | |
| And we have 11 bids that we call single string bins. At the annex we have 10. | 01:30:48 | |
| At the Galena site. | 01:30:55 | |
| And Denny's Galena service once a week. | 01:30:56 | |
| And grant line of service twice a week. | 01:31:00 | |
| We simply can't have. | 01:31:03 | |
| Productive relationship with the firm that doesn't go to Galena. | 01:31:06 | |
| And so that that became disqualified for Ruby. | 01:31:10 | |
| So what do W rock our current provider? | 01:31:14 | |
| And said. | 01:31:17 | |
| We're happy with your. | 01:31:20 | |
| Very efficient. They are open 24/7. | 01:31:22 | |
| Dave Masseyville in particular has talked about that their new checking system thinks about as efficient as it can be from the | 01:31:25 | |
| mechanical standpoint. Rocky has more condensed hours and and not as sophisticated a check in, check out system. | 01:31:34 | |
| But I asked West Rocks help in solving the problems. | 01:31:44 | |
| Laura Bellman, our contact, had what proved to be an excellent idea. | 01:31:50 | |
| As we look forward to the implementation of our bailed era. | 01:31:55 | |
| Then I would say what she offered would be that Westrock would dispatch, at our request, a box truck. | 01:32:02 | |
| Within 24 hours of said request. | 01:32:11 | |
| And that box truck would cost us $150.00. | 01:32:13 | |
| But it would take up to 14 males. | 01:32:17 | |
| Of which, again at $95 a ton. | 01:32:21 | |
| Can put us north of between 5:00 and $600 in net revenue on the transaction. Yes, we pay them 150 to come get it. | 01:32:26 | |
| But because we're paying them 150 to come get it. | 01:32:36 | |
| We're not sending Dave and Jessica and Ron and Mike over to Fern Valley Rd. That's a big deal. | 01:32:39 | |
| Because we we can reallocate those hours in terms of serving the neighborhoods that we've identified in the first item grant. So | 01:32:48 | |
| the recommendation don't really need your formal approval on one should understand that we've gone through pretty much a three to | 01:32:55 | |
| four month process but weighing the pros and cons. | 01:33:02 | |
| I feel really, really good about staying. | 01:33:10 | |
| The course, But then turning some of the transportation burden onto our vendor, West Dr. freeing up our people a little bit more. | 01:33:13 | |
| And reducing the warrant term our equipment more. | 01:33:25 | |
| Not to say fuel savings to boot. | 01:33:30 | |
| On top of that. | 01:33:33 | |
| John brought it up initially. We've now again Dave Watsons initiative to go to Jacobi and have them place a 500 gallon tank at the | 01:33:38 | |
| Annex because our folks and you can read it at your convenience. | 01:33:45 | |
| Where we've done the calculations on, but just. | 01:33:54 | |
| The highlight. | 01:33:58 | |
| We would make at least 23 trips a month to the cattle garage on average. | 01:33:59 | |
| That's 418 miles a month, assuming an average of 10 miles per gallon. | 01:34:04 | |
| It's 42 gallons of fuel saved, generating 109 dollars a month savings. | 01:34:09 | |
| And then the county garage being the 28 minute round trip from the annex. | 01:34:16 | |
| And again, two people. | 01:34:21 | |
| Perhaps in the vehicle? | 01:34:23 | |
| We come down to the point that we feel that there's a material savings of having. | 01:34:25 | |
| Fuel. | 01:34:31 | |
| At the same rate as the county pace of the garage. | 01:34:32 | |
| There at the Annex so. | 01:34:35 | |
| Attaboy to Dave for stepping forward on that because you have as a board, you have complete confidence that we're looking at every | 01:34:39 | |
| possibility to reduce spending. | 01:34:44 | |
| Be it. | 01:34:50 | |
| Wear and tear maintenance. You know you have skilled folks like the masculine. | 01:34:53 | |
| Will turn you know, the old HHW shed into a little bit of a garage for some grease monkey activity. | 01:34:57 | |
| And we're delighted at that and that's money that we're not spending. | 01:35:06 | |
| And any other vendor throughout the city. | 01:35:09 | |
| Not that that can be completely avoided, but I'm really pleased that we have good momentum, good sensitivity to. | 01:35:12 | |
| What those costs are and how we can continue to reduce that. | 01:35:20 | |
| Final point of the day is relative to partnership initiatives. All of you've heard agnesium discussions ongoing for many, many, | 01:35:27 | |
| many, many months with Baptist Lloyd. | 01:35:33 | |
| And I'm happy to. | 01:35:40 | |
| That after my most recent sit down with the. | 01:35:42 | |
| Environmental services at the hospital at noon today. | 01:35:46 | |
| That they are delighted that we've completed our expansion. | 01:35:50 | |
| Delighted that we have a bin that we can place at the hospital. Delighted that we're in a position to take their corrugated not | 01:35:55 | |
| only. | 01:36:00 | |
| Generating a normal course of hospital operations, but they have major construction ongoing and we'll have for many, many months | 01:36:06 | |
| to come. And so my next step is to complete a draft partnership agreement. | 01:36:14 | |
| That. | 01:36:24 | |
| We'd like to make sure that those of us in the trenches, Lamont read at Environmental Services and our team agrees to completely | 01:36:26 | |
| in terms of how does this work. But I think it'll be helpful to the hospital to allow other people to focus more on their primary | 01:36:33 | |
| responsibilities would be helpful to us in terms of engineering and volume for which we can generate revenue. But what I would | 01:36:41 | |
| like is that the Board's of motion, if you will. | 01:36:48 | |
| To appoint the President and the Vice President of the authority to sign such a partnership agreement between now and the time | 01:36:56 | |
| that we meet the next time as a board in May. | 01:37:02 | |
| And I would estimate that there would be around April 15th. | 01:37:09 | |
| But we can pull that off, so. | 01:37:13 | |
| Request such a motion. | 01:37:17 | |
| I'll make that motion, but also to subject to Rick's review. | 01:37:18 | |
| Subject to your review, Rick, to make sure that we're not. | 01:37:22 | |
| Kosher. I'd like a motion that we do that, but pending. | 01:37:27 | |
| Rick's review to allow Brad and Jason to sign outside the meeting. | 01:37:32 | |
| Actually, I'll get the draft to Rick before you all see it then. Yep. | 01:37:37 | |
| 2nd. | 01:37:42 | |
| John the second vibe. | 01:37:45 | |
| Any further discussion? | 01:37:48 | |
| Adam, Adam. Yeah. | 01:37:51 | |
| All in favor signify by saying aye, aye any opposed? | 01:38:00 | |
| Those carries. | 01:38:04 | |
| Final Point and Freight team got momentum, lots of moving parts. | 01:38:05 | |
| Nothing's going to be easy, especially with the execution of the Grants, but as we talked about in our team meeting this morning. | 01:38:12 | |
| Given this is our management team. | 01:38:20 | |
| We could choose to do nothing. | 01:38:24 | |
| And just be opening up the gates, collecting the recycling and lock the gates and then do it again tomorrow. We don't choose to do | 01:38:26 | |
| that. And you know, we're confident enough that, you know, we have enough brain power. | 01:38:32 | |
| In this world, you've included to figure out any barrier that we need to. | 01:38:38 | |
| Figure out as we move forward to reach that point of 50% recycling household wastes. | 01:38:45 | |
| In county households by 20. | 01:38:53 | |
| So again, thank you for your support and thank you 3 for all you do in particular. | 01:38:56 | |
| I have a quick question on backtrackable business W Rock. | 01:39:01 | |
| Do you have a formal agreement you're going to be signing with them on the pickup? I've? | 01:39:06 | |
| She didn't say there needed to be one. We currently don't have one, I don't believe, even though they come. | 01:39:12 | |
| To three to the two locations 3 * a week to pick up. I just think for insurance workman's comp, it needs to be spelled out. Who's | 01:39:18 | |
| going to be loading material onto what piece of equipment. We don't want their folks using our equipment, they don't want us using | 01:39:24 | |
| theirs in case something gets banged up. So I would just. | 01:39:29 | |
| Ideally they would load it and that gives you even more freedom with your staff, but. | 01:39:36 | |
| But now that we have the. | 01:39:42 | |
| New used forklift. | 01:39:45 | |
| My guess is that the forklift will be employed and loading the box truck. | 01:39:47 | |
| I'm out-of-the-box. Truck would have one with it. Probably not. I think just needs to be spelled out in case the new used forklift | 01:39:52 | |
| bands up the. | 01:39:56 | |
| Thank you, Sir. Thank you. | 01:40:04 | |
| All right, Any public input today? | 01:40:07 | |
| No. All right. So the next meeting is going to be May 21st at 4:20. | 01:40:11 | |
| Look for a motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. | 01:40:17 | |
| Second motion by John. Second by all in favor, signify the city, aye, aye. | 01:40:20 | |
| Have a great day. Thank you all for what you what you're doing. Got a great team going and. | 01:40:27 | |
| I love the energy and the thoughts. | 01:40:32 | |
| It's been nice. | 01:40:38 | |
| Got a few? | 01:40:41 |