Sustainability and Resiliency Committee - Regular Meeting

All right.

Good afternoon, everybody. It is Thursday, November 20th at noon, and we are going to call our Sustainability Resiliency Committee meeting to order. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Chair Daniel Deitch. Here. Vice Chair Patrick Manos.

Here.

Committee Member Tiffany Canava.

Here.

Chair, you have a quorum.

Excellent. Any changes to the agenda or an order of business?

the loop at this point. I don't even know.

So I will share. I have a hard stop at 1245. So as we get to items, there's some must review items. So If it's okay with the clerk, we will adjust any order as we need to as we go through.

Would you, can we move my item up or should we leave it there? You think we'll get to it?

Let's move item 6G to the top of the list. Is there a motion? Yes, aye.

Motion to second. Okay, yes.

All in favor, aye. All right, catching on. Okay, I was advised that our town commission liaison is unavailable, so don't hold your breath for a report. Anything around the room? There are no members of the public, so we will consider public comment over. Next is approval of the minutes.

Right. I have these. And then we had some minor amendments from Vice Mayor Paul, which I highlighted. She wanted you to review before we accept it. It's on this page and on the following page, just some minor strike proof.

This is just minor edits. So the Vice Mayor suggested having composting in town as opposed to in town and limiting partnership to one company. So I take that as it is. And the other relates to the final walk and talk that could be done with the city's director.

Okay. At the youth combined meeting, though, we did parks and rec. So I guess those minutes are fine, but... That was just her suggestion.

It's not defended.

But if we have a motion to accept as shared.

Motion to accept means second. All in favor?

Aye.

All right, we're opposed.

Motion carries.

Okay. Hi, Jason Neal, Waste Management. Oh, you're here. In person. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. I've met Dan through phone and email and text, but never in person. I was at one of these meetings prior.

You look much better in three dimensions.

Yes, yes, yes. I have an associate on his way. We had some parking challenges. But he won't say anything.

I thought you were joining through the Zoom.

Oh, no, no. I was in the area. Liz was going to try to join by Zoom from Florida Beverage because she's you know, if need be, I can help explain the program.

Okay, awesome. So we did move the agenda deadline dates up, and of course, if you want to introduce this item.

Okay, so for each board and committee, we've already set up for the calendar year the deadline dates. So we have the days of your meetings, and then the days that we distribute the agenda, which is a week before. And then we also, the most important part is the deadlines to submit the items to us and the staff liaison. So we do the Friday before we post the agenda. We're trying to stick to it more just so we have them in time so everything could be orderly. So I was just looking for a motion to approve these deadlines.

Motion to approve the 2026 agenda deadlines. I'll second it.

Thank you.

All in favor, aye. Aye. All right, after many, many months, the next item is we forwarded resources to every bottle back initiative. We received the agenda package over the last couple of months. The cover memo has not changed. The guidance that we were given is this really should be carried forward to the town commission with a recommendation from this committee. And that's exactly what I'm looking for. I don't want to tell the commission whether it should be a resolution or something else. motion to complete the endorsement form and prepare a resolution and place it on the agenda for the next available town commission meeting with the strongest recommendation and urging from the sustainability and resiliency committee.

I support that motion to complete that target and bring it forward to the next meeting.

Second. So for discussion, there's also an opportunity to tie this together with an improvement program for the town, which Waste Management has offered to support in spirit, if not in deeds, and also work collaboratively with the town and the Florida Beverage Association to secure a grant for labeling for our recycling carts. Yeah, I think that sums up pretty well.

Florida Beverage has offered the funding and it doesn't have to be a real formal grant process according to Liz DeWitt, who's the president. They've been kind of pushing this for several months and they have the funding available so they will design the decal in conjunction with the town, whatever you want it to look like. Our only guidance on what the decal is, it has to have the right materials. We will not have between more participation and less contamination. So that's what we'd like to see. Waste management would provide collateral. We have all kinds of online material. We have poster templates that you can put in trash rooms. You can put, you know, on dumpsters. We have email templates property managers can send to new residents. There's videos. There's curriculum for students. There's all kinds on the containers and one suggestion was use your youth group if there's no liabilities with that the students can do it they're engaged with the community and they get community service so that was the suggestion I doubt Public Works has staff that's going around and put 2,000 stickers on of beverages and they are committed to that. So Liz cannot be here. She's traveling today, but I told her I'd be happy to reiterate that message. So pretty simple. I'm sure you've got to get commission approval A couple of months ago, sort of outlining what I just said, but happy to forward that again if anybody needs to see it.

Yeah, if you could send it to the clerk and then transmit that. Okay. So if you could send it to Vice Mayor Paul, he can copy the commission and the town manager and the town attorney so that they're aware. and let them know if they have any questions, they can reach out to Flood and Beverage Association, Waste Management, or a member of this committee.

The other thing I did want to add, and I think I might have advised you if you stand, but we are now taking cups, plastic to-go cups, and paper cups. can get faster processing, more capacity, and cleaner materials in the back end. So we're going to be including those materials. We are asking municipalities to update their websites. And the reason is FTC looks at websites to determine what is widely recyclable, and that's an important designation. So we would like to see Surfside and everyone else update their websites. Miami-Dade County has already done that. question for is to make sure everyone knows these materials can go in there and then update it so your residents know and that could be on your the plastic and the paper cups.

We absolutely want to take advantage of the innovation that you've implemented. And as a separate activity, we'll bring it back before this committee, is to really push forward with the improvement opportunities within town, town operations, engagement with those who live in multifamily properties and in single-family homes. It would be nice if we could bring a group to your new facility. Sure, sure. And just... Let it be a full court press. It's just been sitting too long and. I think there was a motion in a second.

I mean, the only thing I know we were delaying on making them until then and distributing them. Is that still the case?

We don't have to because we're already taking even our old facility. It takes a while to work out the kinks on a new facility. Okay. So we're good to go. Yeah, we're committed.

We'll get those stickers and all of that.

Yeah, yeah. Sounds great.

Regular roll.

It's going to take some time to get all that stuff done anyway. Yeah, yeah. And Liz, again, can work on you with developing the decal that you want to see. Work directly with her on there. And again, our logo will not be on that one. We're very protective on stuff we put out. It's got to be in exact form and the colors and all that. So it's a lot less complicated if our logo's not on there.

So who works with Liz?

With that, through the chair, that would be with public works that she would connect with?

I don't want to presume. It seems reasonable, but it would really be up to the town manager to decide how best to implement it. Again, we'll bring back an agenda item that focuses on the opportunity to improve both the town operations and the behaviors of the folks in town that are placing their own recycling carts.

Does anything need to happen before let's say it's public works that's determined to work with Liz, can that happen now, or there has to be some kind of approval?

No, because it needs, this resolution needs to go to the commission, it needs to get approved, and then that starts the work in earnest.

Okay. Does anyone know the date of the next commission meeting, assuming this makes it to that? December 9th.

I'm not sure, I think that's a regular, yeah, the next regular commission meeting.

Yeah, the next regular.

Would there still be time, uh, approval today to make that agenda?

Yeah, we have time.

Okay.

So it might be beneficial if any or all of us could go to that meeting. December 9th. It's a Tuesday.

December 9th at 7 p.m.

Madam Parker, if you could, just send a reminder. If the item makes it onto the agenda, just send a reminder out to the committee. Okay, so there's a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Excellent. All right, the next item is the town vendor agreements. So, Madam Clerk, thank you for sending them out several times. I'm not sure that's I know that I think you sent the hyperlinks from the agenda item out separately with some good guidance documents. But when I went through them, Thank you very much for coming and for your continued support.

My pleasure. I'm going to speak out here and try not to disrupt your meeting here on the way out. Okay, thanks. Bye.

Bye-bye. The agreements do not specify a prohibition against single-use plastics. There's many instances where there's wills and shoulds rather than shalls, and if we want it to be a requirement, it has to be shalled. um for some of the food some of the events that have food it does not require composting of the food whether they do it themselves or they contract there's a lot of opportunity for improvement so in the city of orlando was one of the go-bys in terms of guidance they have checklists for event organizers for vendors Rather than going through each of those elements now, I would ask that this be advanced through the town manager to the town, whatever department or departments are responsible for the planning, the execution, and the cleanup of town events. I would ask that they look at what is possible and they tighten up the requirements. It's a privilege to be able to serve food and host events or conduct events in town. We've got to hold them to the standards that we deem appropriate. And they have the opportunity to be good stewards. So at the town celebration at the 96th Street Park a few months ago, maybe six months ago, members of the youth council stood by the waste receptacles and had conversations with folks. That's great. I'm not suggesting that vendors do that, but it is a best practice. If you want to maximize capture, it takes that extra bit of effort because we're educating people as they are making the decision what to do with their waste products. Well, here's my ask. But for our next meeting, Let's put together a list of features that we think are important.

From that?

Yeah, I would go through the three. I would go through the contracts and identify what you see. And again, to me, it was pretty simple. It relates to single-use plastics. It could be requirements for service wear items. It's also a best practice if somebody is going to host an event that they prepare a solid waste plan as part of their submittal. We don't want to add burden to the town administration. but for to be the steward to make sure that the right actions are in place. So for the next meeting, if you could go through the checklist, identify what you think is reasonable, and if this information can possibly be shared with the town administration so we can get their thoughts. No real action for this meeting. Yes.

Okay.

That'll be an item two.

Oh, okay. I was just going to ask. We have two more, right? Item two. We're short two members. We're short two members.

What happens to the woman that went away and she's coming back for the fall? It's fall.

Well, I've spoken to her and she said now that she can't be back until January, that she won't be back until January. Okay, she can't be on the committee. And we've spoken to... You can say it.

We don't get to decide. That's a privilege of a commissioner.

We spoke to Commissioner Cotto, and he seems to be okay with her not joining until she comes back.

That puts so much pressure on us to be here for every meeting.

That's what we tried to tell him, because we... Well, we also want some other influence that has genuine care for this committee.

Because there's two empty spots now, except for her.

I think the commission has to go back to the applications because I'm not sure if they got to this committee to accept anyone because they were appointing new members to different boards.

So what we can all do individually, speak to Commissioner Cotto and is it Commissioner Velazquez who has an appointment?

I believe so, yes.

You can write to, you can speak to, let them know that the seats have been vacant for a long time, or that we're waiting for someone to be available, and it's adversely impacting our ability to... Like his photo said that he's fine with her being out, but... Well, we could maybe verbalize...

If you speak to him, that'll help. She told me he was supposed to be gone for like three months, and now it's like... Feel free to express your displeasure.

Okay. Okay.

Thank you.

No problem. So moving on to the Sustainability and Resiliency Initiative, this is a table that you've all seen before. We don't have much time left, but there are some items that are listed as immediate priorities. We're already into the next fiscal year. The likelihood, especially with the current... The budget passed. The budget passed. But while there may have been resistance to hire the chief resilience officer in the past, I'm not sure that an acting interim town manager is going to want to carry this. We had invited him to this meeting. But we will be in this position nearly up for that. The town's green management plan, it would be great to get updates on that. Advocating for beach re-nourishment, I think that we're years behind that advocacy, so that's another item for the town administration. I'm not sure that anything is cooking with Syracuse University, so it may be worth reaching out to them. A member of the committee or former member of the committee may be able to do that, but it really should be coming from the town. Increasing intra-governmental cooperation is another. opportunity. We talked about reef protection, certainly greening town operations. Months ago, more than a year ago, we had a presentation, multiple presentations from a composting vendor that could very easily start at town facilities. They could similarly also offer the subscription service in our town. It does not conflict with any of our current practices. It would be a great benefit and something that the town could promote. But I would suggest that the town first lead by example and look at opportunities to bring compost in within town operations, which then dovetails to what we just talked about, town events, anywhere where there's food. let's lead by example and show people how easy it is to compost and then we just talked about the solid waste recycling management so we have multiple agenda items on that it would be great to put together a program if the town has the capacity to do it themselves great if you need support from from a consultant There's plenty out there, including a woman who unfortunately is not able to sit on this committee, but Gigi Gutierrez has offered her services, I'm not sure at no cost, but she has offered her services and she certainly understands the programs and how to communicate with various audiences.

I'm sorry to interrupt. May I ask regarding this improve the effectiveness of solid waste recycling management? I remember that there was supposed to be an analysis conducted internally by Public Works, an audit of some sorts, to see, do we have any update on that, or is that something that we need to bring up as a... I'll have to look into that.

As you know, we have changes in the Public Works Department, so I'll look into it so I can have something for you guys.

You're referring to the... Town of Surfside properties or are you? Yeah. Yes. It's a town of Surfside properties. Okay. Or what is it called? Properties. Buildings.

Yeah. I could, and maybe, and maybe this is. Always generators. Yeah. This perhaps maybe requires to come back on our next meeting, but I feel like what the Florida Beverage Association is doing is and it's part of an approach to tackle our challenges and improvements in our city but then there's what can we do in-house right how do we set the tone as leaders and set an example because we can put stickers all day long and try and control the individuals which is a lot more difficult but our employees and our staff need to comply with what is expected. And so on different occasions it's been brought to my attention and I've witnessed myself that in multifamily areas, in the home areas, and in the areas that lead to the beach, that the staff is commingling the garbage. And so I understand that if it's mixed already, then you can't recycle, but there's occasions where it's not even being checked. but we need an auditing process so that we can educate the staff and that we could, again, lead from a top-down approach. And it's not just happening here, it's happening around the United States in different towns. There's been several news articles that have covered something similar.

Thank you.

We're here to support. Yeah, we want to support. We're also going to be a pain in the rear end.

We've been talking about it for nine months. The other thing, here's an answer. Gigi has written many of the Sustainability Corner articles in the Gazette. She's not always available, but that is our platform. So looking for volunteers, it can be on any topic. We missed the opportunity to talk about America Recycles Day, which is on the 15th. This was last week. So it is an opportunity. It doesn't have to be long. As a matter of fact, you've probably seen them in the Gazette. It's a short blurb. When Gigi gets really enthusiastic and then much longer, it's available online and you can get the rest of the story through a link. So it really just needs to be a couple paragraphs or a couple bullets and it can be of anything.

Like the initiatives that we're working on?

Or topics of interest?

Educational? Yeah, I think for last December we talked about be intentional about what you buy and what you dispose of and how you dispose of it. Who approves?

I was going to say, do you send it to the clerk and then that sends it to you and us?

Send it to the clerk. Typically, I edit. But you can't send it directly to me. Right, right. Just in case something will come before us. So just send it to the clerk, and the clerk can distribute it.

Through the chair? The Gazette is with communications, so it's usually through Cindy. Oh, that's not Gigi. Cindy's the communications director. Cindy Reyes. I could also, if you want to share it, and I can share it with her, too.

Okay.

I don't know if that has, if my question, I mean, I know we talked about hire the resiliency officer and obviously things on here.

And the reason I asked if the budget was approved, and I know the underwiring project was turned down, does that open up the budget at some point to get some of the stuff, because Commissioner, Paul said you don't need to wait for the whole budgeting process if there's something. I understand you need to wait for a new town manager. That I totally get.

There may not be a full-time town manager until after the election. So there was discussion at the last commission meeting about whether they're going to go on a national search or not. They now have a contract person. I don't know what the title is, acting or interim town manager.

And acting town manager.

But it's month to month. And there was discussion. Are we really going to go out on a search when there may be a new commission in March? I didn't stick around long enough to know what the outcome of that discussion was. But it does create some challenges for any expenditures. At some point, I'd like to meet with the acting town manager. Yeah, he did receive this agenda package.

I put my best shirt on. I thought we would meet up. You look great. There you go.

That's where I am. We sent the message forward, but I'm not sure.

Okay. But think about, you know, look out over the horizon. As a committee member, what do you want to accomplish between now and next month?

Climate walk and talk. Can we get that on the calendar?

Yeah. So please come to the next meeting with the December meeting. Oh, this meeting. With your, yeah, our meeting. Proposed.

But I thought you left the youth one saying Parks and Recs was going to do it, and they were going to meet with the town manager or whatever. But Parks and Recs were like, we got this. So we have to have another meeting to discuss that they've got it.

Just for Earth Day?

No, no, just in general. They were ready to go months ago during the youth thing. Now maybe we look at Earth Day because that's coming up. But I mean, I brought them on hold. They're ready to come and do it. They weren't going to charge us any money. And Parks and Rec said, oh, this is great, we could totally do this.

So, all right, so let's move to the walk and talk item. That's the next one.

Yes.

And just make, yeah, make a motion to. Okay.

To get it on the calendar?

Yeah, to, I mean, through the town clerk, through the town manager, to confirm whether Parks and Recreation is going to coordinate a climate walk and talk.

And I can give them the contacts. Sure. But, I mean, however I can help with it, but. Parks and Rec, the two individuals that were at the meeting, they're all excited about it, so.

So if you're okay with it, as part of the motion, that you will be this committee's liaison to whatever department ends up taking a lead with it.

So who do I have to, do I have to wait for something, or can I just reach out to Parks and Rec? Like, what's my next step?

You could have a new leadership, I think. Yes. Make a motion to, through the town clerk, through the town manager, To coordinate a climate walk and talk.

That's right now I'm making a motion?

Yeah.

Okay, I'd like to make a motion to coordinate the climate walk and talk with the town manager.

And you will serve as this committee liaison. And we're also looking for the support of Parks and Recreation and or the Tourism Department and the Youth Council.

Can I send an email? Because I don't, do we have to meet? He's so busy.

No, no, that's, well, that's the motion. So it'll be. Okay, the motion is. It'll be conveyed to him. Okay. And then I would encourage you to follow up with him.

Okay, so I'm the one who's going to initiate conveying or just.

Through the motion, it'll be, if it's approved.

Can you just copy me maybe so he has my contact info and then I can.

I can speak with, yeah, now Parks and Rec has a new director, Rudy. So I'm sure maybe he doesn't know about it. I'm not sure if they've communicated.

Was Rudy at the youth meeting?

No. Yes. So I could send him an email and copy the staff that was present at the workshop maybe, and you as well, just to see if it worked out.

I'll do whatever I have to do to help move it along.

So this motion is second. All in favor? Aye. So, topic near and dear to your heart, legislative priorities. I don't know what the commission's schedule for this is. Do you still have lobbyists? I think so. But what I would suggest is that, well, let's go through the list and shout out any that we are specifically endorsing from sustainability and resilience. These are the legislative priorities from last year. So that's what was conveyed to our lobbyists. We did that. No, the commission. So we're at arm's length from the lobbyists. It's the commission. With Town Hall, it's the contract. They take policy direction from the commission. So what we want to do is convey this to the commission. It could just be whole cloth. We support all of the legislative priorities from last year. But let's scan through them to see if there are any that are no longer applicable so that we're not advancing something that doesn't make sense. Right.

Okay, so we're not taking this on looking at it. We're doing it right now.

Scan quickly.

Can we ask questions? Sure.

What number is it? Number 8. Well, we're dealing with that now. Tallahassee is preempted. We live in a world of home rule, or we used to. Tallahassee likes to create local governments for making decisions. They passed legislation last session that essentially would repeal any land use regulations after a date certain, I think it was August of last year, which is devastating because all the changes to our zoning code since that date will be rendered null and void.

Oh, wow. And the house area too? Yeah, like how they did all the votes on the tiered cake model, all that's done. It's not, it can't.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know what votes were taken when, but anything after that date is certain. The only one that doesn't make sense to me is repealing SB 1526. I just don't know if it's still on the books.

Can we see, can we have the lobbyists look at this and they can say what they're actively working on? Because I can imagine they're working on all 37.

As a matter of fact, typically they provide an end-of-session report to the town for the last legislative session. If you could share a copy of that with this committee, that would be helpful. Okay. I mean, everything else I think is still... pending. So basically it will be a motion to endorse carrying forward the same legislation related to sustainability and resiliency that were advanced last year. And if you have any new ones that you would like to add, now would be the time to share.

priority is when they're meeting, when they're in Tallahassee, like what are they focusing on? Because I know they're going to do 37 things when they meet some elected officials.

No, I mean, as you know, they're strategic. They're looking for the sponsors and the managers.

So I don't know, can we ask that? Like what are you really focusing on this list to accomplish for Surfside? Are we allowed to ask that?

Why don't you make a motion to see if we can have a representative from our lobbying team and the town administration in our next meeting and let's discuss this. So bring any items that are not on the list and highlight those that are related to resiliency and sustainability and let's just move it forward to next month.

Okay.

The next meeting at 8?

If you could get us the end of session report. You may have already provided it.

I will, I'll check that.

December 18th is the next meeting. Okay, I'm here. Sorry, where are we? I'm sitting. Yeah. All in favor? Yes, aye.

Any opposed? Don.

Sorry, to the chair. So what was the motion is you're endorsing already or you're moving it to?

We are, we are, we're going to place this item on the agenda for our next meeting. And we are asking for a representative, the town manager, acting town manager, and a representative from the lobbying team, so that we can ask the questions. It's quite a list that we have. Is that too much?

Right. Okay.

Got it.

And I guess it's safe to assume they have this.

That was their marching order for last year. So I presume that it was passed by the commission, and that became their priorities on behalf of Tech. Last item, which is an awesome one. If anybody is not aware...

They're all awesome. What are you talking about?

Sorry. This is less awesome than if you brought up someone else. If anybody is not aware, the Reef Line is a... Very cool. Both an environmental and an artistic endeavor. There are cars, molded concrete cars, that are often... Not real cars. No, concrete cars with... passageways so fish are already there so they dropped them in the ocean maybe a month ago And the next installation will be not. So the cars were made by forming concrete. The next installation, it will be 3D printed, which has some distinct advantages because the material allows coral to adhere a little easier. And there's another phase that will take it closer to surfside. So I was at an event celebrating the project. and was chatting with some of the principals, they would love to continue that initiative north. So this item is simply, if this committee is supportive, I will start the conversation with the folks at ReFly and ask them to make a presentation at a future meeting about what support looks like. It may not be financial support, but it might be legislative or some sort of support, policy support from the commission. Wonderful. I want to second that.

Can I make a motion?

Yeah, I would like to make a motion to have Refund come and present at a future meeting.

Yeah, hopefully.

The next, because the town manager will hopefully be here.

December. As soon as possible. Right, as soon as possible.

And the lobbyists. Hopefully they'll both be here.

Yeah, okay. So there's a motion?

Second. All in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Okay. You're moving along.

We're moving along. Any new business?

I'm just wondering, sustainability, resiliency, all of a sudden.

It would make our jobs easier, your job easier.

I just feel like we just keep talking about stuff and it just takes forever to move forward.

Just for your knowledge, we had one back in 2019 and 2020. And that person, and COVID sent in, that person was repurposed for COVID-related activities. wasn't a good fit for that person, and she left.

And that position has been a sad idol ever since. I'll just say that I re-engaged conversations with the new parks director regarding the wristbands, because I continue to see them all along the path. I guess that with the new application that residents use that took over the wristbands but apparently they're still out there I still see them and they're still using them so that's one and then I've also inquired with Sharon from Florida Beverage to send me some information on the program that Coral Gables took over I think a year ago which is with the reverse machine where residents go and put in their plastic and then get a coupon that they can use at their local store so it incentivizes people and centralize it as a place for them to bring their recyclables.

Are they directly involved with that?

Would you like to add an item for under new business?

To discuss these? Yes. We have a motion to add the reverse vending machine. Yes, a motion to add the reverse vending machine.

And the other one was... For wristbands, right? For the wristbands.

Okay.

So, I don't know if the wristbands are related to the chair service or just for guests. Because I know that they issued a wristband in both instances. Right.

Under the same person though, right? So I think it's trying to find a solution that would accomplish both. Just no wristbands, right?

I like a blue tattoo. I can't support that. You do you. Just like, chair. Chair.

I guess that they can use it multiple days.

Well, what I would suggest for that item is add it to our priorities.

You're saying it's on the app and they just have to show the app. But that is hard for people to do a quick check.

Well, they can have an iPad. Because they already have a clipboard at the beach, so they're already doing work. It's just making the work streamlined and easier. Once they check, it's, you know, you just check it again.

I've heard that they have had some issues with the apps, but I can also follow up with Parks and Rec about the wristbands, too, if you would like. And I have a question. I know we've got to wrap up.

I noticed that we have bins all along the beach.

that are just open bins that things could come out. That's Miami-Dade, right. And it doesn't have, is there something that the town could do or how can I further inquire on this where we can have our own different type of bins? I know it's the next door.

Well, we do. It's not on the heart. So at the street end.

Right, right.

I mean, the advantage for the open-style containers is the county has a dedicated vehicle that collects those, the likelihood of them adding recycling to that, and it's really just another source for potential contamination. Yeah.

You're tough. Okay. I mean, I want that. I got it.

I'm going to go. Okay. What do you feel it's for? Yeah, but I mean, to me, that falls into the category of the town's recycling operations generally. It's just another feature, if you will.

Thank you.

We have one item left. The next meeting date, just really quick.

The next meeting is December 18th at noon.

Do you want a motion to adjourn?

Motion to adjourn.