Recycling

TAYLOR COUNTY RECYCLING AUTHORITY Tuesday, October 17, 2023 First Presbyterian Church, Town of Cleveland The meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM by motion from Scott Capelle and seconded by Norm Mudgett. Motion carried. Michelle Grimm conducted the meeting until Chairman Hoffman arrived. Pledge of allegiance. Members present/absent were: Browning: absent Chelsea: absent Cleveland: Scott Capelle, Joe Liegl, Norm Mudgett & Vince Anglemyer Deer Creek: Ray Sackmann Ford: Brad/Kim Meyer, and Scott Nichols Goodrich: absent Grover: Ron Sromek & Kevin Hauglie Hammel: Joe & Renee Zenner Holway: Amber Larson & Mary Eder Jump River/McKinley: Billy/Brenda Miller Little Black: Dan Hoffman Maplehurst: Amber Larson Pershing: Ron Brenner Roosevelt/Lublin: Sam Zagorski Stetsonville: excused absence Taft: excused absence Also present were Kyle Noonan, Michelle Grimm and Sue Noland. Meeting Minutes: Motion by Joe Zenner and seconded by Scott Capelle, to approve the June 20, 2023, minutes as mailed. Motion carried. Agenda: Motion by Scott Nichols and seconded by Renee Zenner, to approve the agenda as posted. Motion carried. Tonnages & Expenses through September 2023: Tons: Report was reviewed through September 2023 vs. 20 22 comparison. Most of the towns increased in volume, with a few going down. Overall, we are up in volume by approx. 10,000 pounds compared to last year at the same time. Expenses: Administrator reported expenses to date are $ 43,150. The current balance available is $81,185. The tire bill for $13,107 has not been paid nor have we received Melvin Company payment for their tire disposal. It is anticipated there will be an additional $ 22,000 of expenses before Year-End. An anticipated balance forward to 2024 is around $60,000. Clean Sweep: The Clean Sweep collection was conducted on May 13 in Medford. There were 222 participants. Collected were 11,990 pounds of hazardous waste, 3567 fluorescent tubes along with ballasts, batteries, and antifreeze. We are assuming our volumes were up from 2022 due to a weekend event this year. It is noteworthy to see that 53 participants have never been to Clean Sweep before. This is the 29th year we have been conducting Clean Sweeps. Tire collection: The 2023 tire collection was conducted in Augus t at 3 different sites. There was a total of 108 participants with 1764 tires collected, plus tubes and motorcycle tires. There were 6 towns that brought in tires from road ditches . Bee Line picked up 52.43 tons of tires, which included tires from th e Highway Dept. & Melvin Company. Highway and Melvin wil l reimburse their charges back to the Recycling Authority. Summaries were reviewed for number of tires collected by site, by town, number of participants and expenses/revenues. Total expenses for t he tire collection were $14,196.80 with revenue re imbursements of $ 11,171.00 which leaves a balance of $3025.80 made up by the Recycling Authority . The participants were surveyed as to how they learned of the event: by radio, by newspaper, or other. Of t he 108 participants, 43 were by paper, 13 were by radio and 52 were other, i.e., Flyer, poster, website or zoning dept. It was decided based on participant response that radio advertising will be reduced in the future. Cooperative Agreement (Joint Rib La ke): A cooperative agreement with Joint Rib Lake was signed by Rib Lake to allow all parties involved to obtain more grant dollars rather than if submitted separately. The Recycling Office prepares the grant application and does annual report based on each entity’s expenses and tonnages. Joint Rib Lake has signed for a one-year term. Motion by Joe Zenner and seconded by Scott Nichols, to accept the recycling cooperative agreement with Joint Rib Lake for 2024. Motion carried. Meeting Schedule: Discussion occurred to reduce the Recycling Authority to meet two times a year. Currently it is three times. When the authority was first started, they had monthly meetings, then kept reducing as the program became more established. Motion by Scott Nichols and seconded by Kim Meyer, to have meetings twice a year in May and October. The meeting time will also adjust to 6:00 PM rather than 7:00. Motion carried. Other Business: a) 2024 grant was submitted to the DNR by the October 1st deadline. The application is requesting about the same funds as prior years. b) 202 4 recycling brochures will be prepared with updated report card and distributed with tax bills. Any site changes were reviewed. The next meeting will be held on May 21, 2024, hosted by the Village of Stetsonville at 6:00 PM. Location to be determined. Motion by Scott Nichols and seconded by Joe Zenner , to adjourn the meeting at 7:55 PM. Motion carried. Susan Noland, Secretary TAYLOR COUNTY RECYCLING AUTHORITY Tuesday, June 20, 2023 Town of Roosevelt Town Hall The meeting was called to order by Chairman Hoffman at 7:00 PM. The Pledge of Allegiance was said. Members present/absent were: Browning: absent Chelsea: absent Cleveland: absent Deer Creek: Ray Sackmann Ford: Brad & Kim Meyer Goodrich: absent Grover: Ron Sromek & Kevin Hauglie Hammel: absent Holway: absent Jump River/McKinley: Bill Miller & Brenda Miller Little Black: Dan Hoffman Maplehurst: absent Pershing: Ron Brenner Roosevelt/Lublin: Sam Zagorski Stetsonville: Randy Mayer Taft: Darrell Thompson & Del Kroeplin Also, present were Kyle Noonan and Sue Noland. Michelle Grimm was excused. Meeting Minutes: Motion by Sromek and seconded by Meyer, to appro ve the February 21, 2023, minutes as written. Motion carried. Agenda: Motion by Sackmann and seconded by Sromek, to approve the agenda as posted with 11 items. Motion carried. Tonnages through May 2023: Recycle status report was reviewed through May 2023 vs. 2022 comparison. We are currently down approx imately 30,000 pounds from last year. Two municipalities are down significantly. The recycling group collected 225.4 tons so far this year. Expenses & Revenues through mid -June 202 3: Administrator reported grant dollars were received from the DNR of $88,373.64 which is down slightly ($361) from last year. The Recycling Authority share of grant dollars is $43,846 .23. The City of Medford ($25,977.17) and Joint Rib Lake ($18,550.24) have been paid their share. To date, expenses are $ 24,705. The container expenses are up slightly from previous years with new contract negotiations taking effect January 1, 2023. The current balance available is $ 89,868 (this includes the balance carried forward from 2022 and the Recycling Authority share of grant dollars). Appliance & Electronic collections: The collections were held on Saturday, May 13 in Medford and Gilman. This year we were fortunate to offer up to 5 free TVs or monitor screens. There was a total of 696 participants which brought in 48,111 pounds of miscellaneous electronics, 230 gallons waste oil, 356 old appliances, and 704 TVs and computer monitors. There were 17 lead acid batteries. The Administrator also applied and the county was award ed a $5,000 grant award for the electronic collection fr om the DNR. We had great volunteers helping with the collection. Clean Sweep collection: The Clean Sweep collection was also held on Saturday, May 13 in Medford only. There were 222 households/participants. We do not ha ve the volume of waste collected at this time, nor the number of fluorescent tubes . It is noteworthy to see 53 of the participants have never been to a Clean Sweep before. This is the 2 9th year we have been conducting Clean Sweep. Tire collection: Companies were contacted to obtain bids for doing a tire collection. B ee Line bid is $250/ton (same as last year) and Liberty bid is $350 -400/ton depending upon whether they pick up or we drop off at their facility . Motion by Sackmann and seconded by Thompson, to go with Bee Line bid for our collection. Motion carried. The group felt we should keep the same prices as last year since the disposal fee is the same. The collection dates will be August 12, 2023, at th e Medford and Gilman Highway Shops and on August 19 at the Town of Holway site. Advertising and costs were reviewed and it was decided to poll the participants to determine where most individuals hear about the collection. Also discussed were “No Show” town workers. Motio n by Thompson and seconded by Mayer, to increase the fee from $60 up to $100 if a town does not provide a worker. Motion carried. Members present had no problem if other entities (Westboro, Aurora & Melvin Company) wanted to participat e in the collection . Prices will be the same : up to 22” (car/SUV/pick-up) is $ 4/tire; 23” to 24” (includes semi) is $10/tire; over 24” (tractor) is $20/tire; and oversized ti res (end loader, skidder, etc.) is $50/tire with collection hours from 8 AM to Noon. Towns will be allowed some free tires if picked up out of road ditche s, and advertising will occur in the Star News, Star News Shopper , WCWS and WIGM/WKEB. Other Business: There was no other business to discuss and no changes with containers. The next meeting will be held on October 17, 2023, at 7:00 PM hosted by Town of Cleveland. Motion by Thompson and seconded by Miller, to adjourn the meeting at 7:50 PM. Motion carried. Susan Noland, Secretary TAYLOR COUNTY RECYCLING AUTHORITY Tuesday, February 21, 2023 Community Center – hosted by Town of Chelsea The meeting was called to order by Chairman Hoffman at 7:00 PM. The Pledge of Allegiance was said. Members present/absent were: Browning: absent Chelsea: Jonathan Rief Cleveland: Scott Capelle Deer Creek: Ray Sackman Ford: absent Goodrich: Debbie Fuchs Grover: Kevin Hauglie Hammel: Joe Zenner Holway: Amber Larson & Mary Eder Jump River/McKinley: Bill Miller Little Black: Dan Hoffman Maplehurst: Amber Larson Pershing: absent Roosevelt/Lublin: absent Stetsonville: Randy Mayer Taft: Del Kroeplin & Darrell Thompson Also present were Kyle Noonan, Michelle Grimm and Sue Noland. Meeting Minutes: Motion by Joe Zenner and seconded by Debbie Fuchs , to ap prove the October 18, 2022, minutes as mailed. Motion carried. Agenda: Motion b y Joe Zenner and seconded by Amber Larson , to approve the agend a as posted. Motion carried. Tonnages thru Year-End 2022 & Per Capita: A comparison of 2021 vs. 2022 volumes for each municipality was reviewed. The 202 2 weights are down approximately 8 %. Year End 202 2 indicates our volumes were 575 tons. Only one municipality in the Recycling Authority did not meet the DNR per capita requirement of 83.7# per person ; but ov erall as a group, we were at 128# per capita. Year-End Expenses for 2022: Administrator reported Year End 2022 expenses were $53,477.23. The grant dollars for the Authority were $44,364. The carry-over into 2023 will be $70,728.30. Recycling Contract: Last fall bids were advertised for a new recycling contr act. Only one bid was received for a 5 -year span. The bid increased every year and would eventually be more than our grant money. So, a second round of bids was requested for a 2-year contract. Again, only one bid was received. Final outcome was $45,5 04 for Year 2023 and $49,144.32 for Year 2024. This is an 8% increase each year. Hopefully after a couple years, recycling markets will improve. This new contract will be effective January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2024. Appliance & Electronic colle ction: The appliance and electronic collection has bee n set for Saturday, May 13, 2023, in Medford from 8 AM to Noon and in Gilman from 2:00-3:30 PM. The department is curr ently checking with ve ndors and gathering prices. As usual, we are seeking volunteers to work the event. Clean Sweep collection: This year Veolia has agreed to have a couple Saturday events and we were lucky to be selected. The hazardous waste, fluores cent tubes, etc. colle ction is set for Saturday May 13, 2023 in Medford from 8:00 AM to Noon (the same time as the appliance & electronic collection). NWRPC will run the program. Our department will be working on posters and flyers once the prices have been established for both collection areas. Tire collection: Discussed whether to reduce collection sites down to two. The group was no t in favor of that. Last year, disposal was $250/ton. Bids will be requested for 2023. Cost of tires was discussed. It will be decided on ce bids are received if prices will need to be increased. The department will work on getting quotes and proceed w ith setting up a program which will be reviewed at the June meeting. Other Business: a) Annual report: will be submitted to the DNR by April 30 b) GFL services: members should talk to their towns to see if any containers can be removed from site to help with cost reduction. Currently, Chelsea has one that will be removed. The next scheduled meeting will be on June 20, 2023, at the Roosevelt/Lublin site at 7:00 PM. Motion by Debbie Fuchs to adjourn the meeting at 8:00 PM, seconded by Kevin Haug lie. Motion carried. Susan Noland, Secretary