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Afternoon, everyone. 00:00:00
4:30 on January 20th, I'd like to call this. 00:00:01
Meaning of the Floyd County Solid Waste Management District to order if you would join me for the pledge. 00:00:05
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. 00:00:11
And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God. 00:00:15
Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:19
All right, so. 00:00:28
We present, we have. 00:00:29
Councilman Bagshaw. 00:00:31
Commissioner Sharp, Commissioner. Canable Commissioner. 00:00:32
Loop and apps that we have. 00:00:35
Councilman Dickey. 00:00:38
Council, I'm sorry, Council Member Hope. 00:00:39
And they're gay hand. 00:00:42
But we do have quorum. 00:00:43
Approval of the December 16th. 00:00:47
Motion to approve as submitted. 00:00:50
I got a motion by I have a second by Dale. 00:00:53
Any further discussion? 00:00:56
All in favor signify by saying aye. 00:00:58
Aye, any opposed? 00:00:59
That carries. 00:01:01
Approval, January claims. 00:01:05
So move. 00:01:09
2nd. 00:01:10
OK, kind of motion by. 00:01:11
Dale in a second by Frank. 00:01:13
Any further discussion? 00:01:15
All in favor signify by saying. 00:01:17
Aye, any opposed? 00:01:18
That carries. 00:01:21
And I'm sorry, I just realized that there was number organizational meeting items on here. So if you all can vote for President 00:01:22
and Vice President as well for organizational purposes. 00:01:26
All right. Sorry about that. 00:01:30
And a motion nominated Slate. 00:01:32
Jason Sharp for president and Dale Bagshaw for vice president. 00:01:35
I'll second that. 00:01:40
All right, we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? 00:01:42
All in favor signify by saying aye. 00:01:45
Aye, Secretary. 00:01:47
Position for this. 00:01:50
Particular board doing. I meant that sometimes there's a secretary. 00:01:51
You know, is that an official appointment that they've done in the past? 00:01:56
First signature in an event. 00:01:59
Secretary of this board. 00:02:02
That was the question. OK. So I don't have one. All right. Thank you. 00:02:06
Did we go through that vote all the way? I want to make sure that we did. 00:02:12
Revised salary ordinance. Chrissy. 00:02:17
Of course. So this will be Ordinance 2026-01. 00:02:18
This is going to be to repeal and replace. 00:02:23
Ordinance 20/25/01, which was the South. The ordinance fixing salaries and wages for employees of the Solid Waste Management 00:02:26
District for 2025. 00:02:30
There were some administrative errors and things left off of that prior ordinance and so it needed to be corrected. 00:02:35
So this ordinance repeals that ordinance 202501. 00:02:41
And replaces it with. 00:02:45
I believe that to be all the correct information I would lean on. 00:02:47
The two staff members to confirm that, but. 00:02:52
OK. 00:02:59
So it should now have all the. 00:03:01
Correct information on 2026-01. 00:03:02
This is correct. Yes, yes I do. 00:03:06
All right, I'll make a motion. 00:03:09
We accept. 00:03:13
Floyd County South Waste Ordinance 202601. 00:03:15
By unanimous approval. 00:03:19
By unanimous support. 00:03:20
I got a motion and a second. 00:03:24
Motion was made by Frank, secondly. 00:03:27
By Dale Any further discussion? 00:03:29
OK, all in favor signify by saying aye. 00:03:33
Aye, any opposed? 00:03:36
Carries. 00:03:37
Directors report. 00:03:41
Thank you. 00:03:54
OK, so. 00:04:02
January 20th Director report. 00:04:04
Social media. 00:04:07
Was up 3.4%. 00:04:09
Traffic count for December. 00:04:12
I've seen a 14.74% increase from last month. 00:04:15
Total recycled volume. 00:04:21
Or December was up 3 tons. 00:04:22
Versus last month. 00:04:25
Year to date comparison. The highlights. 00:04:31
25 to 20 from 24. 00:04:33
5% increase in total recycle. 00:04:36
Product volume. 00:04:39
A 2% increase in year to date traffic count volume. 00:04:40
11% increase in cardboard. 00:04:45
Volume. 00:04:48
3% decrease in year to date single stream volume. 00:04:49
Getting a 5% increase in service income. 00:04:56
Revenue here today. 00:04:59
Staffing We are currently at 10 employees. 00:05:03
We did bring on one person. 00:05:06
That was approved on the last meeting. 00:05:09
I'd like to have some discussion about maybe having a backup person. 00:05:11
For weekend work. 00:05:15
So I may you know, do that via e-mail. 00:05:19
But you know right now if someone sick. 00:05:23
It's hard to fill those. 00:05:25
We we are staffed. 00:05:28
For the current. 00:05:31
Locations that we have. 00:05:36
With staffing also, I know that the weather right now is kind of up and down. 00:05:40
We're supposed to have some 16° weather on Saturday. 00:05:45
So there's a good chance that we will not be open on Saturday if that holds true. 00:05:48
And we just can't be out in that weather with the. 00:05:54
With the wind blowing. 00:05:56
So again, I'll. 00:05:58
Let everyone know. 00:06:01
You by text or by e-mail? 00:06:02
What we decide to do with that? 00:06:04
Year to date for special projects. 00:06:08
We continue to partner with Hope. 00:06:12
I think we're up around £750 of non perishable items that we've taken in. 00:06:14
At Grandline Rd. 00:06:19
Budgets and financial. 00:06:23
So total expenses for the month of December? 00:06:27
Were under about 12.5%. 00:06:31
The. 00:06:38
The budget versus actuals. 00:06:40
I'm not going to go where every one of those. 00:06:42
We're over on the. 00:06:46
Insurance. 00:06:48
Liability. 00:06:50
Because the premium went up. 00:06:51
For this year. 00:06:53
And we did not, uh. 00:06:55
Vote for that, But we did do the. 00:06:57
All the trips before the end of the year, so we are good with that everything. 00:07:01
Lined out so. 00:07:06
Our checking account balance right now is running about 47,000. 00:07:09
With 165,000 left in the money market. 00:07:14
We may need to transfer. 00:07:19
Some money. 00:07:21
Again in the next month or so. 00:07:22
To continue by. 00:07:24
Our business. 00:07:26
Going forward, I know we had talked about. 00:07:28
Is do we know if we want to have a public hearing? 00:07:31
For the. 00:07:35
You know, talk about the dissolving of the district. Yeah. So a couple things with that. Yeah. So. 00:07:36
Obviously the Commissioners. 00:07:41
We'll take a vote and you know, any types of hearings or any things that we hold will be. 00:07:43
You know, in accordance with statute so that she had to be determined. 00:07:47
And I I knew that. 00:07:52
There was a question. 00:07:53
And it's on the agenda here about. 00:07:54
Whether we're gonna have. 00:07:56
A meeting in February? Yes, they had. 00:07:57
We are planning on having a meeting in February, so. 00:07:59
You know. 00:08:02
Probably. Go ahead, Kristi. 00:08:07
I mean, I think we would continue to have the meetings as scheduled unless they get cancelled for any reason. 00:08:09
Yeah, I recommend having one in February because it's a transitional period and. 00:08:16
Yeah, I think so. Meetings are easier to cancel if they're not needed than they are to schedule. So. 00:08:21
And good point to. 00:08:27
So yeah. 00:08:29
So when you say transitional period, I mean what are we? 00:08:32
What do you mean? Well, we're going to be having a vote at some point with regards to the possibility of dissolution and so. 00:08:35
I just think it's better to touch base. 00:08:42
More frequently rather than less frequently with regards to that. 00:08:44
I mean, I would. 00:08:48
Think that that. 00:08:49
Votes probably gonna take place. 00:08:51
Late February, early March. And according to statute, there's going to be a. 00:08:53
A 10 day notice with publication of any plan that's put into place so. 00:08:57
You know that that'll all be made public well in advance of that. 00:09:03
OK, another thing we did. 00:09:07
Give. 00:09:12
The county backed one truck in one. 00:09:14
Cardboard trailer. 00:09:17
And we need to have those titles signed to make that transfer. I think with that we're going to include that into our plan going 00:09:18
forward. Chris, if you want to guess my question there would be why were. 00:09:23
Why are they being given back right now? Was there? 00:09:29
Are they not being used? 00:09:31
They were, or were they titled? 00:09:33
They were titled to solid waste, but. 00:09:35
The the county. 00:09:37
Request there's a need for it done middle last year or something. 00:09:39
Now there's a need for those for cardboard handout and down at the jail and the county building. 00:09:42
So if they need to be titled ahead of that plan, I guess we could do it. That's perfectly fine. I didn't realize what the basis 00:09:48
was. So with that knowledge, yes, those can be the. 00:09:53
Need be titled to Foley County, Indiana is how those will be held. 00:09:58
I have a question or two. 00:10:01
So isn't the vehicle whether it's? 00:10:03
Floyd County solid waste or Floyd County government? 00:10:09
Isn't it still government vehicle? 00:10:12
Yes. 00:10:16
Well, why can't any government employee drive it? 00:10:17
Why do we have to retitle it? 00:10:21
At this point. 00:10:23
And why do we? 00:10:24
Why do we worry about that? 00:10:26
As long as the insurance coverage is exactly, I would assume we have insurance coverage, yeah. So do you pay the insurance or the 00:10:27
county commissioners pay? We pay the insurance out of our budget. 00:10:32
Yeah. 00:10:38
When the district, if, when, and if the district gets in. 00:10:44
Dissolved. 00:10:47
Any property that there comes to the county commissioners which would be covered under the county policy. 00:10:48
So I don't know why we would read. 00:10:55
Title. Anything at this point. 00:10:58
Just wait. 00:11:03
That would be dealt with with any transfer at disillusion if, if and when that occurs. 00:11:07
Yeah, that's what I was thinking, that we would take care of that. 00:11:13
Yeah, which is perfectly fine plan, but. 00:11:15
I would recommend and we don't. 00:11:18
The trying to retitle vehicles and worry about insurance when. 00:11:20
The insurance company only cares if it was a. 00:11:25
Government employee that worked for Floyd County, that's driving it. 00:11:29
So Dave, do you know the renewal date on the insurance? 00:11:33
You know when the, when you're, how far your policy is. 00:11:37
June July reached out to the insurance company and made it. 00:11:40
OK. 00:11:50
Were they going to prorate you on the premium and? 00:12:01
The last, Sir. 00:12:04
I would recommend you all this table it for now. 00:12:07
Yeah. I just if it's if the insurance coverage is there, then it probably is easier to. 00:12:11
Do everything in a bundle wins. 00:12:16
When and if that day comes? 00:12:18
So do we need a formal motion to table that or? 00:12:21
Question. 00:12:24
Anyone have any further questions for Dave? 00:12:27
No, thank you. 00:12:29
No, just one last thing I know. 00:12:30
Cardboard, even though we've stopped our cardboard services to the county, I mean to the businesses in the county, a lot of those 00:12:32
businesses. 00:12:36
Are still bringing their cardboard to us. 00:12:41
So we're still having to handle that. 00:12:43
You know, so it's still. 00:12:46
That's one of our. 00:12:48
And we, I guess we weren't expecting that, yeah. 00:12:49
So we're getting. 00:12:53
You know, inundated with cardboard right now. 00:12:54
The people just bring it to us. 00:12:57
So it's not. 00:12:58
It's not making us any less busier. 00:13:00
So it's kind of an FYI. 00:13:05
Thank you. 00:13:07
All right, three people who are signed up. 00:13:12
To speak tonight. 00:13:15
Can we talk about the? 00:13:17
Options on that cardboard. 00:13:19
Certainly, I just I mean. 00:13:20
I guess the options would be to. 00:13:22
Give them notification that we're no longer accepting that either if you feel like it's overburdening the employees that we have. 00:13:24
I mean, what we've had to do as a county is. 00:13:31
You know, we've made arrangements to take that and. 00:13:34
Donnie, are we at this point in time hauling that over? 00:13:37
To the Louisville site occasionally. So it may be that those businesses are going to have to come up with alternative plans just 00:13:40
like we have. 00:13:43
I hesitate to call the county of business, but you know. 00:13:47
We have found other vendors to handle the cardboard for us. We're not. 00:13:50
Just dumping it so. 00:13:54
It may be that I mean that that's an option or else we continue to handle it. 00:13:55
Until. 00:13:59
It's sorted out whether there's going to be dissolution or not. 00:14:00
And my recommendation would be to let them know that. 00:14:03
There's even if we continue. 00:14:07
As a solid waste district, that was something that. 00:14:09
We've discussed not being able to. 00:14:12
Provide that service any longer. 00:14:15
So I don't know what your thoughts are. 00:14:17
Whether it's cardboard is. 00:14:21
Is we have done that with somebody. 00:14:23
The businesses, it'll sound like a Body Shop. 00:14:26
Right. 00:14:34
Guess what we call it perfect cardboard for us it mails quick, it bells easy. I'm just saying that we are staying very busy 00:14:39
knowing hard. 00:14:44
That's true. 00:14:49
It's it's hard. 00:14:53
So are those people paying now to bring cardboard to you? 00:14:59
Are people pay? Are those businesses paying to bring the cardboard to you then? 00:15:02
OK, that was before. 00:15:08
Shouldn't it be a cost of doing business? 00:15:10
I just was. I'm sorry. 00:15:12
I heard him say revenues. I assume that that's what was happening. Well, the revenue comes when that's turned into the recycling, 00:15:13
yeah. 00:15:17
Right now is like $85 or. 00:15:21
How do we sit on that? I mean, as far as. 00:15:32
Money wise that we lost. 00:15:35
On cardboard. 00:15:38
Didn't we? 00:15:39
The businesses. 00:15:44
To do that. 00:15:47
Was for the gravity. I think through October you said we lost about 20,000. So extrapolating that for the year, I figured we'd 00:15:50
lost about 25 or something like that. But there's an opportunity there possibly to charge for a drop off. 00:15:56
In addition to the. 00:16:03
The money that you would be. 00:16:05
Bringing in on. 00:16:07
You know, once you turn it over. 00:16:11
That could be discussed, yeah. So at this point in time. 00:16:13
Your recommendation is would be that we continue to. 00:16:16
Bring it in, or do we? 00:16:19
Put people on notice that they you may need to. 00:16:21
Find another vendor for this for. 00:16:24
OK. 00:16:34
OK, I mean that sounds. 00:16:42
Very logical. Donnie, do you have a list of the people that were taking the? 00:16:44
The larger. 00:16:48
Less easy to handle cardboard that you could provide with Dave or share with him. 00:16:52
You don't have to do it here, but just after the meeting maybe? I think you'd export a couple different options, correct? 00:16:57
I think so, yeah. OK. 00:17:04
I mean, just something that you could share with these people that are bringing things in. 00:17:06
As I said, as the county, we had to do that ourselves. 00:17:11
Which is why we. 00:17:15
Borrowed your trailer? 00:17:19
Yeah, OK. 00:17:21
That's all. 00:17:25
All right, public input. I have three people who have signed up to speak. 00:17:28
The first is Susan Locker. 00:17:31
If you could just come up to the podium, just. 00:17:33
Give your name and your address please. 00:17:36
Susan Lockhart, 7009 Jennifer Dr. Georgetown IN 471. 00:17:40
2/2 and. 00:17:46
You all know I have been talking about recycling. 00:17:49
For months, how important it is. 00:17:52
How many people rely on it? 00:17:55
The fact that. 00:17:58
Have have you guys had any? 00:18:01
Have you come out to look at what's going on there? 00:18:03
Has anybody been out to Galena or Grant line? 00:18:07
To see the number of cars lined up to recycle. 00:18:11
Is that a yes, no or? 00:18:17
So this a. 00:18:19
Public comment section where you're allowed to comment but the board is not required to answer. It's just public comments. OK. 00:18:19
OK, no, no answer so nobody knows. This is not question answer session operations. 00:18:26
One thing there was an article in the paper. 00:18:33
And it says improvements. 00:18:36
To recycling operations. 00:18:39
During an upcoming transition. 00:18:41
And direct engagement with residents. 00:18:44
Through open door conversations. 00:18:46
In on site visits. 00:18:49
Well, as far as I know there have been no on site visits. 00:18:52
Open door conversations are limited to what we have to say. 00:18:57
With no feedback. 00:19:02
And improvements to recycling operations. 00:19:04
During transition, if you're going to. 00:19:08
Dissolve the whole thing. 00:19:11
Why would you say you're going to make? 00:19:13
Improvements. 00:19:15
To the recycling operation. 00:19:16
That's my grandmother would say. That's kind of talking out of both sides of your mouth. 00:19:19
Anyway, you know. 00:19:24
That I have been busy. 00:19:26
And in two days time I was able to get 100. 00:19:28
And 62 signatures. 00:19:32
Just at the Gallina. 00:19:35
A friend of mine was able to get over 1300 signatures. 00:19:37
At grant line. 00:19:42
So I think there is. 00:19:43
There's a real need. 00:19:45
For this recycling. 00:19:47
I think it's a lot less expensive to keep the recycling open. 00:19:49
Than it is to try to. 00:19:54
Purchase land. 00:19:56
For more landfills. 00:19:57
Land around here is going at a premium price, we all know that. 00:19:59
And if we don't have the recycling the way we have it now? 00:20:03
What are people going to do? 00:20:09
They're going to put it in the garbage. Where's the garbage going to go? 00:20:10
Going to go in the landfill. 00:20:14
And what are we going to have to do? 00:20:15
We're going to have to buy more land for the landfill. 00:20:18
We're going to have to go back to cleaning out the. 00:20:21
Hollers in the creeks because people are dunking. 00:20:24
They're recycling. 00:20:27
There is a huge. 00:20:30
Need for the recycling the way we have it now. 00:20:32
Cut down the hours. 00:20:36
Maybe. 00:20:37
Couple days at Grant line, a day at Galena. 00:20:38
But this is something the more I talk to people. 00:20:42
The more they're saying. 00:20:45
We need this. 00:20:47
We need this service. 00:20:48
We need this for our community. 00:20:50
We need it for the environment. 00:20:53
And we need it for the climate. 00:20:55
They don't want this to come to an end. 00:20:57
And. 00:21:00
The only thing that's going to happen is going to go in the landfill. 00:21:01
Or it's going to go on the street. 00:21:05
Or it's going to go in the ditches. 00:21:07
But having the recycling the way we have it now. 00:21:10
People are used to it. 00:21:13
They love it. 00:21:14
I go to Galena. 00:21:15
And there is no time I've. 00:21:17
Ever been there? 00:21:18
When there are less than 5 or 6 cars lined up. 00:21:20
We want the service kept. 00:21:25
We want our recycling. 00:21:27
Kept it's a. 00:21:29
It's a great outreach program. 00:21:31
For the county. 00:21:33
We have no, we have nowhere else to take it. 00:21:35
Except the landfill. 00:21:38
And with the price of land. 00:21:40
We don't want to have to do that. 00:21:42
I would. 00:21:44
Ask name your cops coming up close so I want to. 00:21:46
I would ask. 00:21:49
All four of you. 00:21:50
To come out to either grant line. 00:21:52
Or Galena. 00:21:54
Talk to people. 00:21:56
You know, have conversations with people. 00:21:57
And see how they actually feel. 00:22:00
As elected public servants. 00:22:03
I would think you would want to know what the people of Floyd County. 00:22:05
Are wanting and needing. 00:22:08
Thank you. Thank you. 00:22:10
Next up is. 00:22:16
Daryl Henzell. 00:22:18
I think I said that correctly. 00:22:19
If you would just come up to the podium and. 00:22:21
Give us your name and your address please. 00:22:24
Hello, I'm Darrell Hensel. 00:22:28
The address is 7030 Corydon Ridge Rd. 00:22:30
Uh, I'm more close to Georgetown that I am to Lanesville. 00:22:36
Anyway, uh. 00:22:41
I'd just like to say. 00:22:42
She's right. 00:22:44
We do really need. 00:22:46
This and. 00:22:47
I've got down that. 00:22:51
Yeah, you know, landfills. 00:22:52
Usually start up. 00:22:55
And $1,000,000 per acre. 00:22:57
In Rising and the Board. 00:22:59
Now just recently added on. 00:23:03
To their landfill site. 00:23:06
I believe that's where everybody takes their trash. 00:23:09
Or waste. 00:23:12
And. 00:23:14
If it hadn't added on to it, it'd be pretty full. 00:23:17
I've been out there and I've I've seen, I'm, I'm really impressed how big it is. 00:23:20
It's like climbing a mount. 00:23:25
Anyway, I don't know how this thing is paid for. 00:23:27
I don't know how it's set up. 00:23:30
But I assume that it's property taxes. 00:23:32
Anyway, my property taxes. 00:23:36
And gone through the roof. 00:23:38
The last three years, four years. 00:23:41
And I don't appreciate it. 00:23:44
And. 00:23:46
And this is actually which seems like we're paying. 00:23:50
More and getting less. 00:23:54
All the time. 00:23:56
And from what I've seen, there's nothing but construction going on around me. 00:23:57
There's apartment buildings. 00:24:02
Galore. 00:24:04
They I'm sure they're paying big taxes. 00:24:05
I'm sure they've got lots of waste too. 00:24:09
And this could all. 00:24:12
It could be a bigger mountain than you could expect if you let this thing go. 00:24:16
Into. 00:24:21
Just landfill. 00:24:23
I've got. I've got the. 00:24:27
The worst state for recycling is West Virginia. 00:24:29
Louisiana's. 00:24:33
This second, Alaska's third Indiana is. 00:24:34
They've recycled 21%. 00:24:39
Of their solid waste. 00:24:41
Anyway, when I'm. 00:24:44
I guess what I'm trying to say is that. 00:24:47
We need to do something efficient. 00:24:50
And keep. 00:24:53
Expenses down for everybody. 00:24:54
I'm personally I recycle about 1/3. 00:24:57
Everything I've got. 00:25:02
That comes into my house. 00:25:04
And you got 30 seconds, Sir? 00:25:06
You got 30 seconds, your time's going to close. Well, that's about all I want to say. I'm just trying to get people to do things 00:25:10
efficiently. 00:25:13
And I'm sure that. 00:25:16
Floyd County can afford. 00:25:19
To keep this thing going. 00:25:21
Thank you, Hansel. 00:25:23
David. 00:25:29
David, I think you know the procedure. 00:25:32
I have a handout. 00:25:39
This is what happens when you get a next teacher. 00:25:41
This and this. 00:25:46
Thank you. 00:25:49
Keep my mouth shut back there. 00:25:52
There's more the topics that's on here. 00:25:53
Is 1 of y'all were talking about? 00:25:56
I'm not going to try to talk you out of. 00:25:59
If you could just give your name and address real quick. Oh, I'm sorry, name and dad. David Isaacs, 1060 Cordon Rd. New Albany, 00:26:01
IN. 00:26:04
I'm not going to try to talk you out of doing away with the district, but I am going to. 00:26:10
Tell you about what happens. 00:26:13
Once you do that. 00:26:15
So I'm giving you. 00:26:17
Handouts that are on the. 00:26:18
State laws. 00:26:21
And the one that's got a whole bunch of. 00:26:23
Yellow. 00:26:26
The exotic tells you what. 00:26:27
Your obligations are if you dissolve the district. 00:26:29
And the second one. 00:26:33
Has what I think is a key phrase to be which. 00:26:36
Again, deals with this. 00:26:40
Upon the dissolution of the district, the following apply. 00:26:43
#3. 00:26:47
To the extent. 00:26:48
There are assets of the district that are not needed to satisfy the legal obligations described in subdivision 1. 00:26:50
Those assets show. 00:26:58
A. Be transferred to the county and become assets of the county. 00:27:00
And B shall be used by the county and providing services. 00:27:05
Previously provided by the district. 00:27:08
Which to me says the state expects. 00:27:12
That we will continue to provide those services. 00:27:15
But it'll be provided within the county government. 00:27:17
Which my understanding is. 00:27:20
Several people is. 00:27:23
The objective of this whole thing. 00:27:24
Is to get it from. 00:27:26
Outside the county government into the county government. 00:27:28
But not to do away with it. 00:27:33
So. 00:27:36
I'll leave this with you. 00:27:38
And I get it. 00:27:41
Thank you, Mr. Thank you. 00:27:42
Does anyone have any further comment? 00:27:45
Does the board have any closing comments? 00:27:49
Move to adjourn, right? 00:27:52
Select. 00:27:55

Transcript

Event transcript
Afternoon, everyone. 00:00:00
4:30 on January 20th, I'd like to call this. 00:00:01
Meaning of the Floyd County Solid Waste Management District to order if you would join me for the pledge. 00:00:05
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. 00:00:11
And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God. 00:00:15
Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:19
All right, so. 00:00:28
We present, we have. 00:00:29
Councilman Bagshaw. 00:00:31
Commissioner Sharp, Commissioner. Canable Commissioner. 00:00:32
Loop and apps that we have. 00:00:35
Councilman Dickey. 00:00:38
Council, I'm sorry, Council Member Hope. 00:00:39
And they're gay hand. 00:00:42
But we do have quorum. 00:00:43
Approval of the December 16th. 00:00:47
Motion to approve as submitted. 00:00:50
I got a motion by I have a second by Dale. 00:00:53
Any further discussion? 00:00:56
All in favor signify by saying aye. 00:00:58
Aye, any opposed? 00:00:59
That carries. 00:01:01
Approval, January claims. 00:01:05
So move. 00:01:09
2nd. 00:01:10
OK, kind of motion by. 00:01:11
Dale in a second by Frank. 00:01:13
Any further discussion? 00:01:15
All in favor signify by saying. 00:01:17
Aye, any opposed? 00:01:18
That carries. 00:01:21
And I'm sorry, I just realized that there was number organizational meeting items on here. So if you all can vote for President 00:01:22
and Vice President as well for organizational purposes. 00:01:26
All right. Sorry about that. 00:01:30
And a motion nominated Slate. 00:01:32
Jason Sharp for president and Dale Bagshaw for vice president. 00:01:35
I'll second that. 00:01:40
All right, we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? 00:01:42
All in favor signify by saying aye. 00:01:45
Aye, Secretary. 00:01:47
Position for this. 00:01:50
Particular board doing. I meant that sometimes there's a secretary. 00:01:51
You know, is that an official appointment that they've done in the past? 00:01:56
First signature in an event. 00:01:59
Secretary of this board. 00:02:02
That was the question. OK. So I don't have one. All right. Thank you. 00:02:06
Did we go through that vote all the way? I want to make sure that we did. 00:02:12
Revised salary ordinance. Chrissy. 00:02:17
Of course. So this will be Ordinance 2026-01. 00:02:18
This is going to be to repeal and replace. 00:02:23
Ordinance 20/25/01, which was the South. The ordinance fixing salaries and wages for employees of the Solid Waste Management 00:02:26
District for 2025. 00:02:30
There were some administrative errors and things left off of that prior ordinance and so it needed to be corrected. 00:02:35
So this ordinance repeals that ordinance 202501. 00:02:41
And replaces it with. 00:02:45
I believe that to be all the correct information I would lean on. 00:02:47
The two staff members to confirm that, but. 00:02:52
OK. 00:02:59
So it should now have all the. 00:03:01
Correct information on 2026-01. 00:03:02
This is correct. Yes, yes I do. 00:03:06
All right, I'll make a motion. 00:03:09
We accept. 00:03:13
Floyd County South Waste Ordinance 202601. 00:03:15
By unanimous approval. 00:03:19
By unanimous support. 00:03:20
I got a motion and a second. 00:03:24
Motion was made by Frank, secondly. 00:03:27
By Dale Any further discussion? 00:03:29
OK, all in favor signify by saying aye. 00:03:33
Aye, any opposed? 00:03:36
Carries. 00:03:37
Directors report. 00:03:41
Thank you. 00:03:54
OK, so. 00:04:02
January 20th Director report. 00:04:04
Social media. 00:04:07
Was up 3.4%. 00:04:09
Traffic count for December. 00:04:12
I've seen a 14.74% increase from last month. 00:04:15
Total recycled volume. 00:04:21
Or December was up 3 tons. 00:04:22
Versus last month. 00:04:25
Year to date comparison. The highlights. 00:04:31
25 to 20 from 24. 00:04:33
5% increase in total recycle. 00:04:36
Product volume. 00:04:39
A 2% increase in year to date traffic count volume. 00:04:40
11% increase in cardboard. 00:04:45
Volume. 00:04:48
3% decrease in year to date single stream volume. 00:04:49
Getting a 5% increase in service income. 00:04:56
Revenue here today. 00:04:59
Staffing We are currently at 10 employees. 00:05:03
We did bring on one person. 00:05:06
That was approved on the last meeting. 00:05:09
I'd like to have some discussion about maybe having a backup person. 00:05:11
For weekend work. 00:05:15
So I may you know, do that via e-mail. 00:05:19
But you know right now if someone sick. 00:05:23
It's hard to fill those. 00:05:25
We we are staffed. 00:05:28
For the current. 00:05:31
Locations that we have. 00:05:36
With staffing also, I know that the weather right now is kind of up and down. 00:05:40
We're supposed to have some 16° weather on Saturday. 00:05:45
So there's a good chance that we will not be open on Saturday if that holds true. 00:05:48
And we just can't be out in that weather with the. 00:05:54
With the wind blowing. 00:05:56
So again, I'll. 00:05:58
Let everyone know. 00:06:01
You by text or by e-mail? 00:06:02
What we decide to do with that? 00:06:04
Year to date for special projects. 00:06:08
We continue to partner with Hope. 00:06:12
I think we're up around £750 of non perishable items that we've taken in. 00:06:14
At Grandline Rd. 00:06:19
Budgets and financial. 00:06:23
So total expenses for the month of December? 00:06:27
Were under about 12.5%. 00:06:31
The. 00:06:38
The budget versus actuals. 00:06:40
I'm not going to go where every one of those. 00:06:42
We're over on the. 00:06:46
Insurance. 00:06:48
Liability. 00:06:50
Because the premium went up. 00:06:51
For this year. 00:06:53
And we did not, uh. 00:06:55
Vote for that, But we did do the. 00:06:57
All the trips before the end of the year, so we are good with that everything. 00:07:01
Lined out so. 00:07:06
Our checking account balance right now is running about 47,000. 00:07:09
With 165,000 left in the money market. 00:07:14
We may need to transfer. 00:07:19
Some money. 00:07:21
Again in the next month or so. 00:07:22
To continue by. 00:07:24
Our business. 00:07:26
Going forward, I know we had talked about. 00:07:28
Is do we know if we want to have a public hearing? 00:07:31
For the. 00:07:35
You know, talk about the dissolving of the district. Yeah. So a couple things with that. Yeah. So. 00:07:36
Obviously the Commissioners. 00:07:41
We'll take a vote and you know, any types of hearings or any things that we hold will be. 00:07:43
You know, in accordance with statute so that she had to be determined. 00:07:47
And I I knew that. 00:07:52
There was a question. 00:07:53
And it's on the agenda here about. 00:07:54
Whether we're gonna have. 00:07:56
A meeting in February? Yes, they had. 00:07:57
We are planning on having a meeting in February, so. 00:07:59
You know. 00:08:02
Probably. Go ahead, Kristi. 00:08:07
I mean, I think we would continue to have the meetings as scheduled unless they get cancelled for any reason. 00:08:09
Yeah, I recommend having one in February because it's a transitional period and. 00:08:16
Yeah, I think so. Meetings are easier to cancel if they're not needed than they are to schedule. So. 00:08:21
And good point to. 00:08:27
So yeah. 00:08:29
So when you say transitional period, I mean what are we? 00:08:32
What do you mean? Well, we're going to be having a vote at some point with regards to the possibility of dissolution and so. 00:08:35
I just think it's better to touch base. 00:08:42
More frequently rather than less frequently with regards to that. 00:08:44
I mean, I would. 00:08:48
Think that that. 00:08:49
Votes probably gonna take place. 00:08:51
Late February, early March. And according to statute, there's going to be a. 00:08:53
A 10 day notice with publication of any plan that's put into place so. 00:08:57
You know that that'll all be made public well in advance of that. 00:09:03
OK, another thing we did. 00:09:07
Give. 00:09:12
The county backed one truck in one. 00:09:14
Cardboard trailer. 00:09:17
And we need to have those titles signed to make that transfer. I think with that we're going to include that into our plan going 00:09:18
forward. Chris, if you want to guess my question there would be why were. 00:09:23
Why are they being given back right now? Was there? 00:09:29
Are they not being used? 00:09:31
They were, or were they titled? 00:09:33
They were titled to solid waste, but. 00:09:35
The the county. 00:09:37
Request there's a need for it done middle last year or something. 00:09:39
Now there's a need for those for cardboard handout and down at the jail and the county building. 00:09:42
So if they need to be titled ahead of that plan, I guess we could do it. That's perfectly fine. I didn't realize what the basis 00:09:48
was. So with that knowledge, yes, those can be the. 00:09:53
Need be titled to Foley County, Indiana is how those will be held. 00:09:58
I have a question or two. 00:10:01
So isn't the vehicle whether it's? 00:10:03
Floyd County solid waste or Floyd County government? 00:10:09
Isn't it still government vehicle? 00:10:12
Yes. 00:10:16
Well, why can't any government employee drive it? 00:10:17
Why do we have to retitle it? 00:10:21
At this point. 00:10:23
And why do we? 00:10:24
Why do we worry about that? 00:10:26
As long as the insurance coverage is exactly, I would assume we have insurance coverage, yeah. So do you pay the insurance or the 00:10:27
county commissioners pay? We pay the insurance out of our budget. 00:10:32
Yeah. 00:10:38
When the district, if, when, and if the district gets in. 00:10:44
Dissolved. 00:10:47
Any property that there comes to the county commissioners which would be covered under the county policy. 00:10:48
So I don't know why we would read. 00:10:55
Title. Anything at this point. 00:10:58
Just wait. 00:11:03
That would be dealt with with any transfer at disillusion if, if and when that occurs. 00:11:07
Yeah, that's what I was thinking, that we would take care of that. 00:11:13
Yeah, which is perfectly fine plan, but. 00:11:15
I would recommend and we don't. 00:11:18
The trying to retitle vehicles and worry about insurance when. 00:11:20
The insurance company only cares if it was a. 00:11:25
Government employee that worked for Floyd County, that's driving it. 00:11:29
So Dave, do you know the renewal date on the insurance? 00:11:33
You know when the, when you're, how far your policy is. 00:11:37
June July reached out to the insurance company and made it. 00:11:40
OK. 00:11:50
Were they going to prorate you on the premium and? 00:12:01
The last, Sir. 00:12:04
I would recommend you all this table it for now. 00:12:07
Yeah. I just if it's if the insurance coverage is there, then it probably is easier to. 00:12:11
Do everything in a bundle wins. 00:12:16
When and if that day comes? 00:12:18
So do we need a formal motion to table that or? 00:12:21
Question. 00:12:24
Anyone have any further questions for Dave? 00:12:27
No, thank you. 00:12:29
No, just one last thing I know. 00:12:30
Cardboard, even though we've stopped our cardboard services to the county, I mean to the businesses in the county, a lot of those 00:12:32
businesses. 00:12:36
Are still bringing their cardboard to us. 00:12:41
So we're still having to handle that. 00:12:43
You know, so it's still. 00:12:46
That's one of our. 00:12:48
And we, I guess we weren't expecting that, yeah. 00:12:49
So we're getting. 00:12:53
You know, inundated with cardboard right now. 00:12:54
The people just bring it to us. 00:12:57
So it's not. 00:12:58
It's not making us any less busier. 00:13:00
So it's kind of an FYI. 00:13:05
Thank you. 00:13:07
All right, three people who are signed up. 00:13:12
To speak tonight. 00:13:15
Can we talk about the? 00:13:17
Options on that cardboard. 00:13:19
Certainly, I just I mean. 00:13:20
I guess the options would be to. 00:13:22
Give them notification that we're no longer accepting that either if you feel like it's overburdening the employees that we have. 00:13:24
I mean, what we've had to do as a county is. 00:13:31
You know, we've made arrangements to take that and. 00:13:34
Donnie, are we at this point in time hauling that over? 00:13:37
To the Louisville site occasionally. So it may be that those businesses are going to have to come up with alternative plans just 00:13:40
like we have. 00:13:43
I hesitate to call the county of business, but you know. 00:13:47
We have found other vendors to handle the cardboard for us. We're not. 00:13:50
Just dumping it so. 00:13:54
It may be that I mean that that's an option or else we continue to handle it. 00:13:55
Until. 00:13:59
It's sorted out whether there's going to be dissolution or not. 00:14:00
And my recommendation would be to let them know that. 00:14:03
There's even if we continue. 00:14:07
As a solid waste district, that was something that. 00:14:09
We've discussed not being able to. 00:14:12
Provide that service any longer. 00:14:15
So I don't know what your thoughts are. 00:14:17
Whether it's cardboard is. 00:14:21
Is we have done that with somebody. 00:14:23
The businesses, it'll sound like a Body Shop. 00:14:26
Right. 00:14:34
Guess what we call it perfect cardboard for us it mails quick, it bells easy. I'm just saying that we are staying very busy 00:14:39
knowing hard. 00:14:44
That's true. 00:14:49
It's it's hard. 00:14:53
So are those people paying now to bring cardboard to you? 00:14:59
Are people pay? Are those businesses paying to bring the cardboard to you then? 00:15:02
OK, that was before. 00:15:08
Shouldn't it be a cost of doing business? 00:15:10
I just was. I'm sorry. 00:15:12
I heard him say revenues. I assume that that's what was happening. Well, the revenue comes when that's turned into the recycling, 00:15:13
yeah. 00:15:17
Right now is like $85 or. 00:15:21
How do we sit on that? I mean, as far as. 00:15:32
Money wise that we lost. 00:15:35
On cardboard. 00:15:38
Didn't we? 00:15:39
The businesses. 00:15:44
To do that. 00:15:47
Was for the gravity. I think through October you said we lost about 20,000. So extrapolating that for the year, I figured we'd 00:15:50
lost about 25 or something like that. But there's an opportunity there possibly to charge for a drop off. 00:15:56
In addition to the. 00:16:03
The money that you would be. 00:16:05
Bringing in on. 00:16:07
You know, once you turn it over. 00:16:11
That could be discussed, yeah. So at this point in time. 00:16:13
Your recommendation is would be that we continue to. 00:16:16
Bring it in, or do we? 00:16:19
Put people on notice that they you may need to. 00:16:21
Find another vendor for this for. 00:16:24
OK. 00:16:34
OK, I mean that sounds. 00:16:42
Very logical. Donnie, do you have a list of the people that were taking the? 00:16:44
The larger. 00:16:48
Less easy to handle cardboard that you could provide with Dave or share with him. 00:16:52
You don't have to do it here, but just after the meeting maybe? I think you'd export a couple different options, correct? 00:16:57
I think so, yeah. OK. 00:17:04
I mean, just something that you could share with these people that are bringing things in. 00:17:06
As I said, as the county, we had to do that ourselves. 00:17:11
Which is why we. 00:17:15
Borrowed your trailer? 00:17:19
Yeah, OK. 00:17:21
That's all. 00:17:25
All right, public input. I have three people who have signed up to speak. 00:17:28
The first is Susan Locker. 00:17:31
If you could just come up to the podium, just. 00:17:33
Give your name and your address please. 00:17:36
Susan Lockhart, 7009 Jennifer Dr. Georgetown IN 471. 00:17:40
2/2 and. 00:17:46
You all know I have been talking about recycling. 00:17:49
For months, how important it is. 00:17:52
How many people rely on it? 00:17:55
The fact that. 00:17:58
Have have you guys had any? 00:18:01
Have you come out to look at what's going on there? 00:18:03
Has anybody been out to Galena or Grant line? 00:18:07
To see the number of cars lined up to recycle. 00:18:11
Is that a yes, no or? 00:18:17
So this a. 00:18:19
Public comment section where you're allowed to comment but the board is not required to answer. It's just public comments. OK. 00:18:19
OK, no, no answer so nobody knows. This is not question answer session operations. 00:18:26
One thing there was an article in the paper. 00:18:33
And it says improvements. 00:18:36
To recycling operations. 00:18:39
During an upcoming transition. 00:18:41
And direct engagement with residents. 00:18:44
Through open door conversations. 00:18:46
In on site visits. 00:18:49
Well, as far as I know there have been no on site visits. 00:18:52
Open door conversations are limited to what we have to say. 00:18:57
With no feedback. 00:19:02
And improvements to recycling operations. 00:19:04
During transition, if you're going to. 00:19:08
Dissolve the whole thing. 00:19:11
Why would you say you're going to make? 00:19:13
Improvements. 00:19:15
To the recycling operation. 00:19:16
That's my grandmother would say. That's kind of talking out of both sides of your mouth. 00:19:19
Anyway, you know. 00:19:24
That I have been busy. 00:19:26
And in two days time I was able to get 100. 00:19:28
And 62 signatures. 00:19:32
Just at the Gallina. 00:19:35
A friend of mine was able to get over 1300 signatures. 00:19:37
At grant line. 00:19:42
So I think there is. 00:19:43
There's a real need. 00:19:45
For this recycling. 00:19:47
I think it's a lot less expensive to keep the recycling open. 00:19:49
Than it is to try to. 00:19:54
Purchase land. 00:19:56
For more landfills. 00:19:57
Land around here is going at a premium price, we all know that. 00:19:59
And if we don't have the recycling the way we have it now? 00:20:03
What are people going to do? 00:20:09
They're going to put it in the garbage. Where's the garbage going to go? 00:20:10
Going to go in the landfill. 00:20:14
And what are we going to have to do? 00:20:15
We're going to have to buy more land for the landfill. 00:20:18
We're going to have to go back to cleaning out the. 00:20:21
Hollers in the creeks because people are dunking. 00:20:24
They're recycling. 00:20:27
There is a huge. 00:20:30
Need for the recycling the way we have it now. 00:20:32
Cut down the hours. 00:20:36
Maybe. 00:20:37
Couple days at Grant line, a day at Galena. 00:20:38
But this is something the more I talk to people. 00:20:42
The more they're saying. 00:20:45
We need this. 00:20:47
We need this service. 00:20:48
We need this for our community. 00:20:50
We need it for the environment. 00:20:53
And we need it for the climate. 00:20:55
They don't want this to come to an end. 00:20:57
And. 00:21:00
The only thing that's going to happen is going to go in the landfill. 00:21:01
Or it's going to go on the street. 00:21:05
Or it's going to go in the ditches. 00:21:07
But having the recycling the way we have it now. 00:21:10
People are used to it. 00:21:13
They love it. 00:21:14
I go to Galena. 00:21:15
And there is no time I've. 00:21:17
Ever been there? 00:21:18
When there are less than 5 or 6 cars lined up. 00:21:20
We want the service kept. 00:21:25
We want our recycling. 00:21:27
Kept it's a. 00:21:29
It's a great outreach program. 00:21:31
For the county. 00:21:33
We have no, we have nowhere else to take it. 00:21:35
Except the landfill. 00:21:38
And with the price of land. 00:21:40
We don't want to have to do that. 00:21:42
I would. 00:21:44
Ask name your cops coming up close so I want to. 00:21:46
I would ask. 00:21:49
All four of you. 00:21:50
To come out to either grant line. 00:21:52
Or Galena. 00:21:54
Talk to people. 00:21:56
You know, have conversations with people. 00:21:57
And see how they actually feel. 00:22:00
As elected public servants. 00:22:03
I would think you would want to know what the people of Floyd County. 00:22:05
Are wanting and needing. 00:22:08
Thank you. Thank you. 00:22:10
Next up is. 00:22:16
Daryl Henzell. 00:22:18
I think I said that correctly. 00:22:19
If you would just come up to the podium and. 00:22:21
Give us your name and your address please. 00:22:24
Hello, I'm Darrell Hensel. 00:22:28
The address is 7030 Corydon Ridge Rd. 00:22:30
Uh, I'm more close to Georgetown that I am to Lanesville. 00:22:36
Anyway, uh. 00:22:41
I'd just like to say. 00:22:42
She's right. 00:22:44
We do really need. 00:22:46
This and. 00:22:47
I've got down that. 00:22:51
Yeah, you know, landfills. 00:22:52
Usually start up. 00:22:55
And $1,000,000 per acre. 00:22:57
In Rising and the Board. 00:22:59
Now just recently added on. 00:23:03
To their landfill site. 00:23:06
I believe that's where everybody takes their trash. 00:23:09
Or waste. 00:23:12
And. 00:23:14
If it hadn't added on to it, it'd be pretty full. 00:23:17
I've been out there and I've I've seen, I'm, I'm really impressed how big it is. 00:23:20
It's like climbing a mount. 00:23:25
Anyway, I don't know how this thing is paid for. 00:23:27
I don't know how it's set up. 00:23:30
But I assume that it's property taxes. 00:23:32
Anyway, my property taxes. 00:23:36
And gone through the roof. 00:23:38
The last three years, four years. 00:23:41
And I don't appreciate it. 00:23:44
And. 00:23:46
And this is actually which seems like we're paying. 00:23:50
More and getting less. 00:23:54
All the time. 00:23:56
And from what I've seen, there's nothing but construction going on around me. 00:23:57
There's apartment buildings. 00:24:02
Galore. 00:24:04
They I'm sure they're paying big taxes. 00:24:05
I'm sure they've got lots of waste too. 00:24:09
And this could all. 00:24:12
It could be a bigger mountain than you could expect if you let this thing go. 00:24:16
Into. 00:24:21
Just landfill. 00:24:23
I've got. I've got the. 00:24:27
The worst state for recycling is West Virginia. 00:24:29
Louisiana's. 00:24:33
This second, Alaska's third Indiana is. 00:24:34
They've recycled 21%. 00:24:39
Of their solid waste. 00:24:41
Anyway, when I'm. 00:24:44
I guess what I'm trying to say is that. 00:24:47
We need to do something efficient. 00:24:50
And keep. 00:24:53
Expenses down for everybody. 00:24:54
I'm personally I recycle about 1/3. 00:24:57
Everything I've got. 00:25:02
That comes into my house. 00:25:04
And you got 30 seconds, Sir? 00:25:06
You got 30 seconds, your time's going to close. Well, that's about all I want to say. I'm just trying to get people to do things 00:25:10
efficiently. 00:25:13
And I'm sure that. 00:25:16
Floyd County can afford. 00:25:19
To keep this thing going. 00:25:21
Thank you, Hansel. 00:25:23
David. 00:25:29
David, I think you know the procedure. 00:25:32
I have a handout. 00:25:39
This is what happens when you get a next teacher. 00:25:41
This and this. 00:25:46
Thank you. 00:25:49
Keep my mouth shut back there. 00:25:52
There's more the topics that's on here. 00:25:53
Is 1 of y'all were talking about? 00:25:56
I'm not going to try to talk you out of. 00:25:59
If you could just give your name and address real quick. Oh, I'm sorry, name and dad. David Isaacs, 1060 Cordon Rd. New Albany, 00:26:01
IN. 00:26:04
I'm not going to try to talk you out of doing away with the district, but I am going to. 00:26:10
Tell you about what happens. 00:26:13
Once you do that. 00:26:15
So I'm giving you. 00:26:17
Handouts that are on the. 00:26:18
State laws. 00:26:21
And the one that's got a whole bunch of. 00:26:23
Yellow. 00:26:26
The exotic tells you what. 00:26:27
Your obligations are if you dissolve the district. 00:26:29
And the second one. 00:26:33
Has what I think is a key phrase to be which. 00:26:36
Again, deals with this. 00:26:40
Upon the dissolution of the district, the following apply. 00:26:43
#3. 00:26:47
To the extent. 00:26:48
There are assets of the district that are not needed to satisfy the legal obligations described in subdivision 1. 00:26:50
Those assets show. 00:26:58
A. Be transferred to the county and become assets of the county. 00:27:00
And B shall be used by the county and providing services. 00:27:05
Previously provided by the district. 00:27:08
Which to me says the state expects. 00:27:12
That we will continue to provide those services. 00:27:15
But it'll be provided within the county government. 00:27:17
Which my understanding is. 00:27:20
Several people is. 00:27:23
The objective of this whole thing. 00:27:24
Is to get it from. 00:27:26
Outside the county government into the county government. 00:27:28
But not to do away with it. 00:27:33
So. 00:27:36
I'll leave this with you. 00:27:38
And I get it. 00:27:41
Thank you, Mr. Thank you. 00:27:42
Does anyone have any further comment? 00:27:45
Does the board have any closing comments? 00:27:49
Move to adjourn, right? 00:27:52
Select. 00:27:55