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Great River Regional Waste Authority
Regular Commission Meeting
July 24, 2002
A
meeting of the Great River Regional Waste Authority Commission was held
Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at the Authority offices, 2092 303rd
Avenue, Fort Madison, Iowa.
The
following Commission Members were present:
Chairman,
Tracy Vance, Lee County;
Commissioner
Marc Lindeen, Henry County;
Alternate
Commissioner Mal Mullin, City of Keokuk
The following were also present at the meeting: Mr. Douglas Napier, Legal Counsel; Mr. Tim
Yoder, Business Manager; Ms. Kjrsten Bobb, Barker Lemar; Mr. Bob Watson; and
Mr. Wade Hamm
I.
Meeting
Called to Order
Chairman
Tracy Vance called the meeting to order at 6:40 p.m. Chairman Vance called for a motion to
enter into Rule 2-B. Commissioner Lindeen moved to enter into 2B, seconded by
Alternate Commissioner Mullin. Motion adopted by unanimous voice vote.
II. Approval
of the Agenda
Chairman Vance called for additions, deletions, or corrections to the
agenda. Alternate Commissioner Mullin moved to approve the agenda, seconded
by Commissioner Lindeen. No discussion. Motion adopted by unanimous voice vote.
III. Approval of Minutes, June 26, 2002
Chairman Vance called for
additions, deletions, or corrections to the minutes as presented.
Motion by Commissioner Lindeen, seconded by Alternate Commissioner Mullin to
approve the minutes. No further discussion. Motion
adopted by unanimous voice vote.
IV. Operations
Report
Mr. Tim Yoder reported to the Commission the tonnage reports for the
Landfill and the Compost Departments for June. The tonnages for the Keokuk Transfer Station were given and it
was noted that the City of Keokuk had brought in 12.56 tons of curbside recyclables into the transfer station in
the month of June. It was noted that
Altorfer, Inc. began the Service Agreements on the equipment during the month
of July. All six of the tires have
been replaced on the Articulated Dump Truck.
The tub grinder was in need of some repair. New hammers, conveyor bolts, and bearings were replaced. Terex Company has brought two new grinders
to our facility for demonstration.
Terex will be sending a xompany representative to oversee the
deomonstration. Terex Company is willing to make changes to the grinder to
fit our application. A motion was
made by Commissioner Lindeen to rent the CMI 400 Grinder for one month and
have a resolution to purchase the grinder on next months meeting, seconded
by Alternate Commissioner Mullin. Motion adopted by unanimous voice
vote. West Liberty Foods along with
Julie Plummer from the Iowa Waste Exchange came for a site visit this
month. West Liberty Foods is
interested in bringing 600 ton per week of sludge and other compostable
material to us. Starting in July,
Price Quotation sheets are sent out to brokers for companies to bid on the
available recyclable material from GRRWA.
Bids are being taken for a new server computer. More hard drive room is needed for the
data that is being stored for the Accounting Software program.
V. Barker
Lemar Updated
Ms. Kjrsten Bobb gave an update on the activities that are taking
place at GRRWA. She went over some of
the results of the drilling. It was
noted that one of the monitoring wells in Phase I will be requested to be
abandoned with approval from the IDNR.
Phase II piezometer readings are being taken weekly. The piezometer that was recently installed
in Phase II has a high reading of leachate.
The Compliance Calendar should be installed August 3rd. Barker Lemar has not heard anything as of
yet on the methane report that was sent on to the EPA.
VI. Financial Report
Mr. Tim Yoder presented the June Financial Statements to the
Commission. A motion was made to
accept the Financial Statements for June by Commissioner Lindeen, seconded by
Commissioner Mullin. No further
discussion. Motion adopted by
unanimous voice vote.
VII.
Legal
Counsel Report
Mr. Doug Napier reported that GRRWA should be receiving a legal
description of the triangle tract of land that was part of the deed from
IDOC.
VIII.
Action Items
Resolution GRRWA 03-01:
Resolution Approving Expenditures of the Authority. Motion by Alternate Commissioner Mullin
seconded by Commissioner Lindeen to adopt Resolution GRRWA 03-01. No further discussion. Motion adopted by unanimous voice vote.
Resolution GRRWA 03-02:
Resolution Approving Rodeo Agreement.
Motion by Commissioner Lindeen seconded by Alternate Commissioner
Mullin to adopt Resolution GRRWA 03-02.
No further discussion. Motion
adopted by unanimous voice vote.
IX.
Executive
Session
None
X.
Other Business
Chairman
Vance reported that the Transition Committee would like to make three
recommendations: 1) the committee met prior to the meeting and would like to
recommend that Mr. Tim Yoder is appointed as Director of GRRWA with a salary
change to the first step of the Director’s salary under the current GRRWA
compensation schedule. 2)Mr. Yoder is
to look at Office Staffing needs. He is to make recommendations to the
Commission at the next regular meeting as to whether some of these functions
should be outsourced or completed in-house. 3) Staffing of the Landfill and
the Transfer Station needs to be addressed.
Mr. Yoder is to make a recommendation at the next regular Commission
meeting. Commissioner Lindeen,
seconded by Alternate Commissioner Mullin, made motion that all three of the
above recommendations are approved.
There was some discussion of not all five of the regular Commissioners
were present to make such a decision but it was felt that this decision needed
to be made since a year of transition has taken place and that all three of
the votes would not be changed by the next month. Motion was adopted by
unanimous voice vote.
XI.
Public
Comments
None
XII.
Adjourns
With no further business before the Commission Commissioner Lindeen
made a motion to adjourn, seconded by Alternate Commissioner Mullin. Motion adopted by unanimous voice vote.
Approved as to form and
content as adopted at the August 28, 2002 GRRWA Commission meeting.
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