Environmental Commission - Regular Meeting

All right, it is 7 o'clock and I will call the meeting of the Environmental Commission to order. Um, if we could go ahead and we'll start down here with Virginia. If you could just say your name, make sure you're present. Virginia Schmidt, present. Gina Hutter, present. Jonah Pette, present. John MacArthur, present. Michael Walton, present. Helen Mings, present. Patrick Jeffers, present. David Post, present. All right, thank you guys. Welcome back. Uh, next on our agenda is approval of the minutes. Are there any changes that need to be made? You should have all received them. I saw one change. Um, I I closed it, so I don't know where it was. It said Mr. Walter, not Mr. Walton in there somewhere.

Second, Mr. Walter. Okay. On the one, two, three, fourth on the fourth bullet point. So, I would make a motion to change Mr. Walter to uh Mr. Walton. Walton on the fourth bullet point of the commissioner reports. Is there a second? I'll second that one. Seconded by Mr. Walton. All those in favor, please say I. I. All oppose, please say nay. All right. Any other changes that need to be made? Okay. I would I'll make a motion that we approve the minutes as amended. Is there a second? I'll second. Seconded by Helen. All those in favor of approving the minutes as amended, please say I. I.

All oppose, please say nay. The minutes are approved unanimously. We have no presentations this evening. Unfortunately, nobody joined us here this evening, so there's no audience participation. And that brings us to commissioner reports. Um, does anybody want to start? If not, I'm going to start with you, Helen. Um, I enjoyed the uh the two little field trips we had this summer. Yes. Um, they were very informative. Um, I didn't realize the, uh, recycling thing was going to be so dusty. I swear I was like blowing my nose getting rid of the dust for a week. Uh, both I really enjoyed those. I was really impressed with both of them.

Yeah, they were fantastic. Yeah. Um, yeah, I had a great time with them. So, anything else report wise? No, I don't have anything else to report. It's absolutely okay. It's been a long summer, so we're all coming back. We're all waking ourselves back up to how we do this. Michael, do you have any reports?

I have nothing to report. I was uh I would also like to mention that I Yeah, I was able to to attend the recycling plant tour this year for the first time. Uh last year I was out of town when the when the tour occurred. So, yeah, it was it was very impressive. It was I mean it's a great facility and it's it's really interesting to see how much work they do put into basically you know recycling and keeping not just Twinsburg but the whole area. They they do a lot of good work there. So but that's really all I have. Absolutely. Thank you. John and no report from me. Just happy to be here and happy to see everyone back. We're happy to have everybody back.

We're going to skip me and move on to Gina for a second. Um, according to the library, the events calendar coming up. Um, there's an electronics recycling day on October 4th, and it goes from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. And, um, there is a preparedness 101 um, that's being put on Thursday, September 18th in the evening at 6:00 to 7:30. And it's all about the different types of natural disasters and service interruptions um, and just a um, it's sponsored by CERT and um, that's happening in our community. It's free. Just call to say that you'll be there. Um, so some two good things coming up. Awesome. Thank you. Anything else to report? I That's all.

All right, Virginia, we'll move on down to you. I have a couple things. Um, has anyone is anyone familiar with spotted lantern flies there? Okay, so um earlier in the summer they were in the nymph phase and now they're in the adult phase. And um Jonah, if I find an article or a good resource, I can email it to you. You can post it on our Facebook. Yes. page. Okay. Because I was surprised to see them because you think, oh, they're not coming this far or whatever. There's nothing to eat in my yard. But yes, there were the there was a few. So I instructed my husband, squash them.

And then um also you can look in trees to see if there's an egg mass and then you can like scrape it off. So that'll be in the resource that we send. Um just supporting our uh community organizations. The Twinsburg Historical Society is having their oldtime fair this coming Saturday and Sunday. Uh 10:00 to 5:00 Saturday, noon to 5:00 on Sunday. And they are looking for entries for homegrown things. So if you have flowers that you grew or vegetables, eggs, baked goods, even uh pickles, stuff like that. So, um, they accept the entries until like 9:30 on Saturday morning, 8:30 to 9:30. And, um, Twinsburg Native Habitat Association, which I'm a part of also, uh, is going to tour the sewage treatment, uh, plant on Thursday, September 11th at 1:30. And there's a few openings. If anybody, if you have any friends or family that's interested, you could send me an email. um because as we all said it was a wonderful experience and then the last thing um I was just uh I was not here the meeting where the good neighbor was selected but I think that's a wonderful program that that you came up with Jonah and I think it was uh great support from the community wondering if we could have like multiple winners even next year because I don't know what the prize was but I think just the recognition and the certificate is really um memorable like you mentioned John too that you had received that and you were very proud of it. So something to think about for next year.

Yeah, absolutely. Okay, that's it.

All right. And that was actually that brings me to my report. I have a couple things to talk about. One being the awards. Um I wanted to see if we liked our timeline last year of when we presented that award. Um I I kind of liked it. Although it felt rushed when we were going through it, I did like how we uh did present it at council with the the allowance of council president and uh I I liked how it was sort of on the tail end of our our s or spring session of meetings. Um rather than trying to do it during the fall, I thought during, you know, the tail end of our spring session in the summer. I thought that was really ideal. Um, and so I wanted to see if everybody else thought the timing was good because we could probably start getting everything set up on with Mark Katowski now on on his end so he's not, you know, rushed as we're trying to get everything set up.

No, I think that's good because then they get the recognition and more people are out in the spring and summer. So if the Did we end up putting something in his yard? Yes. So that way that's more visible.

Yes. So and that's a good point. Um Steve Piccolo who was the the first inaugural uh good neighbor award from our commission. He received a a plaque that Mayor Sciti and uh Jenny our marketing coordinator helped create and it basically said you know good neighbor award presented by the environmental commission. Um you know it was framed. It was very nice. He received a yard sign that said good neighbor award uh Steve Piccolo. And I I went and you know stuck that in his yard and I was going to try to surprise him but his wife came out so I couldn't surprise him with that and you know we gave him a shirt from our commission as well um because we had some extras and it was council post great idea to give him a shirt as well

and so they did receive quite a bit and I thought that was a great way to to recognize them and you know they they they're so out in the community and proud of it. So they received quite a bit for that. you did a nice job with the presentation and there was other groups here kids so he had a full house. Yeah, he brought his family. There were some other people there but yeah, so um thank you for that. It was my first time giving a presentation council but you know it was it was I I wanted to give something special for him. So um just your comment about it being rushed this next year will be much smoother because we have everything figured out. Yeah, and that was part of the problem I felt was

we had essentially one and a half meetings and well that's not possible. You know, we we needed two meetings, we had one to really figure everything out. Now, if we're we like the idea, I could start talking to Mark about, hey, can we get the form set up? We could have it ready, you know, we could wait till next month, you know, to talk about when we want to publish everything. So, there's not a rush. We could get it done by this winter session so it's ready to roll, start of spring session. Yeah, that's that's a lot of firsts already established. Yeah. And Gina worked on creating the sign. So that's the templates already done. We don't have to do that again. So there was a lot of first as Gina said, but Yeah. But first time through everything's always harder. So now you now we got the process figured out.

But I'm really proud of our commission for for getting that done right away. Um we'd always talk about maybe more awards or or multiple winners as as Virginia mentioned. Um, and this doesn't have to be a solidified decision right now, but it's something to think about for maybe next meeting. Do we want to start seeing if we can introduce a second award? Maybe not the good neighbor, but you know, we talked about good student or a friend of the commission or business or something. Yeah, something of the sorts.

We want to try introducing a second award or maybe seeing if we could now capture two good neighbor neighbor award recipients. So, it's just something to think about. We don't need a decision today. Um I often feel if you take time to think something over, it usually yields better results. But next meeting if we could come prepared kind of with your thoughts on what route we want to go. I think that'd be really helpful. But that was my award part. Are there questions, comments on the awards, council post? Yes. The only thing I was going to say is sometimes less is more. Yes. meaning um if you do too much then the award itself loses its value for the ones that get it there awards.

So um I would just say less is more. I mean you did the one and I don't know if you just want to run with that one for a little while or see how that goes. But I'm not saying you shouldn't do more. I'm just you said they're conversation. This is just conversation. I just think that if you have lots of awards out there that they're not as special and that's all. No. And then the other question I had is um it went on the website. I'm guessing this the good neighbor award. Did it go on the website or anywhere out there? The form to collect submissions? No, no, no, no. Like now that you found the first Good Neighbor Award, was he recognized

on the website? I don't know if he was recognized on the city website or anything. So, what I'm thinking is um we should recognize him. Mhm.

Um both on the environmental commission page uh on the website and also uh maybe a um very small very small uh little ad and I know that again it'd be have to talk to the the mayor and the admin about that. It's just an idea I'm having. Every um every month there's a Twinsford Bolton that goes out now and it's it's a little bit bigger this year. Uh this year he just made it a little bit bigger to have a little more advertising. Even just a small little put his picture there, good neighbor award and a little blurb about him will give him a recognition to literally every home in the community because that is something that's seen by literally everyone.

That's true. And so very very small, but it'll just if nothing else give a plug to him and give a plug to the environmental commission. Very true. in everyone's face right there that it that the environmental commission exists. Um, just to get you out in the forefront there cuz with the website, uh, you got to go looking for it. That's true. With the twins, with this, with the sewer bill, with this, it comes to you. It's in your face. You're not looking for it. So, I thought that'd be a nice way to recognize it. It would help promote for future. For future. That's a good point. Well, I could reach out to Mayor Sciti if everybody in the commission is okay with that and see if he'd be willing to Yeah. plug it in the bulletin. We just got a bulletin. So, what

it'll be next month. I think it'd be good if we're starting to talk about next year's more recent fresh people's minds. Even if we did it next month, it's not that we just presented it in the in the beginning of the summer. So, it's not too crazy. Yeah. You just see the 2025 awards now. You don't have to, right? And you can picture the sun. If you're interested, um, consider nominating your neighbor. Something like that. You could have one line encouraging, um, involvement. So, are we okay as a commission if I reach out to Mayor Steve? Sure. Okay. I think you has I have to maybe say to Steve, hey, is this a Steve P thing or are we doing first and last name if we're putting your name out? Like, we should make sure he is not surprised.

Oh, absolutely. Yes. I I'll kind of talk to Steve as well. I'm not going to surprise him with that. Steve, guess what? I would also when you talk to mayors just say hey David came up with this thought that would bode well you know I always name drop your great ideas name drop that because then he'll be like okay fine I always drop your great ideas so you know I'm just you know it's it just a small corner you know big corner and you know what that's it's good for the it's not just you know good for I mean it's good for the community then it's for the city to put that in there as well. Something else. And yes, absolutely. And I don't don't worry. I always name drop your good ideas. So,

no, it's not about getting the idea. It's I'm not looking for the idea. I'm just saying, you know, I don't I got you. I I don't need the recognition for that. It's just I got you. Um, and my second thing, my second bullet point was the Arbor Day Earth Day event. It's still way too far off for us to start talking nitty-gritty details. Um, I do know it's going to be probably third week in April around there. I need to talk with Director Benson at Parks and Recck. Um, I I just there was something I remember us talking about and I I'm blanking on. I think it was the time, right? We wanted to see if we could push the time back an hour for that event because it was a little too early, right? I remember. Yeah,

it was it was crazy early and then nobody showed up the first hour of it. And so when I reach out via email, see if it's possible to adjust the time maybe. But that's I just wanted to put that on your radar. I'm gonna I'm gonna reach out to her um informally and and make sure she's still willing to do it with us and that we don't have to plan our own birthday event together. A stroke of genius that really worked out well. It did. It was a fantastic event. Someone say something about a food truck and I don't know if that was in Jest or something. The DEI event had a food truck and they and and it was um

it was enough people went. It was just not like food heavy food. It was more like um fries and just like stuff and stuff to drink and it was really hot that day. So that I thought was really nice. Yeah. I I could reach out and see if it'd be possible to have a food truck there. Maybe a local something of the sort. She did. Director Benson is amazing. She did a bulk of the planning for us. She did a great job that that last Arbor Day Earth Day event and she got the venue, the space, the seating, everything. Um, and so she really arranged that we had our own individual table, but it took a huge load off of us. So grateful for her. So I don't want to add more to her plate if it's not

possible with with within reason. So I'll I'll reach out to her. I'll see what's possible and I'll report back if that's okay with you guys. Yeah.

All right. That was my two bullet points I had on here that I wanted to make. And that's all I have for my commissioner's report. Um I did just want to say I had a fun time at the wastewater plant tour, the waste management treatment tour. Both fantastic. I learned a lot. Um I'm glad that we continue to do stuff even during our off seasons as a commission. We're one of the more productive I'm going to say a little bias, but we're one of the more productive commissions and I I really appreciate all of your hard work and dedication. So, thank you. And that bounces us to John. I do have something. Uh, Virginia, and John, make sure you speak in the mic so they can hear.

Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, Virginia and Gina and John were at the rainy treading day. Treading day one. Yes, the first one. And they must have turned away 50 cars. And that's not an exaggeration. And every one of them were really happy about being sent on a U-turn and back out the room when they were and then they had they rescheduled another one. Yes. For the later in the month. Well, it was it was good that I is it Dennis? I can't remember the name of the that he was the one speaking to them. So, he got the message that it would be good to have another one. So that was wonderful.

Well, I speak at every council meeting and so I I was not unable able to make the shred day, but I remember that we had the second and I remember all of you were there and I I told council and the mayor. Um but I also thank them for planning a second one so urgently and expeditiously because again there were so many people turned away. Yeah. Um you know again I mentioned it might be something we really are are just there to help. It's city. It's really the service department. The mayor that plans that. But I mentioned it might be something we want to consider adding two to start with. Maybe one in June when we typically have it and one toward September when people go back to school. You know, school year starts going. What about two trucks on the same day? Or two trucks in the same day.

Well, I think what happened was is that, you know, they looked at the past and they've never ever needed a second truck. I I don't I don't think they've ever come close to filling the first truck. They hadn't Well, they might have come close to filling, but I don't think they've ever actually filled it. Have they? Yes. Have they? I thought past couple years we filmed the truck. Mhm. And there were a lot of people turned away. No, not a lot. Not a lot. There were more people this year turned away, but Okay. I It's usually usually not a lot more than the than the one truck. Okay. I I was under the impression that this there were way more people that came this year and they can't you and how do you know to account for that? And you you don't. Yeah. Right. That's why you don't

that was the point is that they don't know. maybe two shred days spread so far apart in case the first one has our normal attendance. There's not that huge line, it it still might be possible to cancel a September one, for example, and not cost the city anything extra. They might be able to back out and something of that sort. It's not my planning. I don't I don't deal with planning. We show up, we help the assistance. See, I I would think that having one, you know, very beginning of spring, maybe the very end of summer, two trucks at two different one truck two different times versus two trucks one time is a much more um

and that's where my brain goes as well. But again, that's that's the service department plans that and% we just we help them out and we help organize it. Just one comment. Um on the first day, they did not check IDs. I went on the second day cuz I had some extra and they did. Okay. So, I don't know if there were any out of town people or not, but no. Okay. Now, was there company in from Pittsburgh? Uh, I don't remember this. I remember they were out of state. exactly where they there's no company like in Ohio or Cleveland which surprised me

cuz I know the driver was saying he it was you know a really crummy day and he wanted to get back on the road to go to Pittsburgh. It was like Pittsburgh. Yeah. I think part of it had to do with uh trying to get an agreement in place uh with the the company. I think the company that they have traditionally used, uh, the law director had an issue with some of the language in their contract and they weren't willing to change it. So, they had to try to kind of scramble and search for for another company that was willing to to come out that day. So, it's all the bids and the contracts way above my pay grade. So, I uh Yeah, I I don't know. Wasn't there, but that was a good point and I I forgot that happened over the summer. We did a lot this summer. Yes.

But any other commissioner report? We do have miscellaneous later if we need something that bounces us to our favorite Councilman Post and his report. I don't think I have a report today. I just I I love uh the energy that you guys bring. Uh I I it's really great and you guys do do a lot. So, thank you for that. Yeah. But I don't have a I have nothing. Good job. We'll bounce it to engineer pack.

Yeah. Uh I was mentioned to a couple of you guys before the the meeting here, but um the Glenwood Bridge uh over Tinker Creek is scheduled for uh replacement. Uh probably fall 2026, they're looking at starting the demolition of that bridge. And there are several uh state and federally endangered bats um that that live under that structure there. Um the the city is doing a a project where uh we've got a number of bat houses that were put up in the area over there to try and help uh help encourage the bats to possibly take up roosts elsewhere before the the project uh goes down. Um, and then also the the timing of when they they take down the bridge is outside of their their hibernation period so that hopefully if there's demolition work being on the done on the bridge, the bats can relocate to some of these bat houses if they haven't already. um OD or not a yeah ODNR um there's a representative from uh the Ohio Department of Transportation and also Summit Metrop Parks uh was out doing a bat survey uh a few weeks ago under the bridge there uh identified several several bats uh under the the bridge there that were state and federally endangered. They tagged a few with radio transmitters and were able to kind of track where they were going. Another kind of interest thing was that uh they had earlier in the the year found a a little brown bat that was living under the Everett Bridge in Ka Valley National Park. And uh the person doing that research wasn't able to to locate that that bat that they tagged there any longer. They knew that there were some little browns that lived up here in Twinsburg and came up here and found the the the same bat living under the the Glenwood Bridge over here,

which was uh substantial distance farther than they they usually see these bats travel. I said they usually only expect them to travel in like a 5 mile radius and this was 15 miles away. Um so they're doing some research on trying to identify kind of the the range of of these bats as well. Um, but thought it was something that the environmental commission might be interested in. Uh, knowing what was going on out there. I don't know if uh you wanted to try and incorporate any projects or any education or something for for bats as well, but just throwing it out there something I thought you guys might be interested in.

Awesome. That's that's incredibly informative. Thank you. Anything else? Councilman post engineer pad on today. No,

I did actually just think of something actually. It's not really environmental, but I suppose when you think of the beautifification of the community, sometimes that's related to the environmental commission. And so the city for years has wanted to develop this more formative as opposed to a working bullet point. Um the the cities for years has wanted to make our downtown look better. And this goes back years where we've talked about, you know, uniformity. You know, you go to Hudson, it looks cute and quaint and Sugar Falls looks cute and quaint where we look nothing cute and quaint. So, we did just um pass a resolution to authorize Mayor's Graffiti to work with a company that's going to help us uh with the streetscape design and it's going to redo our downtown look. So, it's not as much the building facade necessarily as opposed the things that will make it uniform. uh big planter boxes everywhere, putting in sidewalks that are more uniform or the stamped concrete, putting them around, making it more walkable. Um all of those things that tie everything together, you know, have signs, welcome to downtown Twinsburg and all of those that you're familiar with this whole project. I don't know if you want to add to it or not, but uh so we just got the initial green light to just start working with the company just to, you know, get some ideas, whatnot. It's going to be years in the making, but it's just it's just starting now. So, I just thought I'd really more informative just to let you know that that is coming down the line. The downtown Swed will be better looking. They're going to be working with um some of the other buildings that are older looking and offer them um incentives to fix up the front. Uh maybe

loans to help them out with that if they need it or interest free loans, who knows? just all these kinds of ideas were brainstorming just to make downtown look better. I think it's a great time with the square being renovated too. Um, thank you township for that. Um, it is so crazy that the township is just the square. I was going to say, so how does that work? Is it Twinsburg is the buildings and the township is the square. The township actually owns the square in the middle, right? That's getting the construction, right? And Twinsburg owns everything else around it. Crazy, right? That is weird because the township the distance

from what I understand the way it happened a long time ago is that there was a lot of township. Okay. And the township could not offer things that the city could and so anyone who's in the township who was adjacent to the city could say I want to be annexed into the city so that way I could get the amenities of the city. Stop me from saying anything wrong. So this I got from the one of the trustees told me this. So that's why lots of people were going, "All right, let's move to the city. Let's move to the city. Let's move to the city." Which is why every now and then you see one little isolated patch of township because that little patch never okay

switched over. So you've got township up here, township up here, township there, and it's just kind of sporadic where it is. Actually, we learned about a year ago by accident. We were trying to fix something. There's a little I think one strip of parking lot in front of Geonino's is actually township that we thought was the city and we were looking to do something there and turns out that's town. I don't know if you knew that or not, but that one one strip we think is township there right in front of you. That's funny. What's the timet on the center there? Um, how's the township coming along on that project?

I don't know that. Do you know that? I think they're looking at trying to have the construction done this fall. I'm not sure if they're going to have all the landscaping uh in place by the by the end of the fall. They may have to do a little bit of landscaping work next spring, but uh I believe that they're looking at having most of the the construction work wrapped up and possibly getting into some of the landscaping here. It's really impressively fast compared to what they did, ripping everything out, moving everything out. Sometimes it's faster to rip out and just start fresh as opposed to try to Yeah, I I suppose it is, you know, they're rebuilding. I mean, it's just it's very impressive, you know, when I drive by. Um,

anything else that Okay, that moves us on to unfinished business, new business, miscellaneous commissioners, do we have any miscellaneous or new business items for discussion? Um, do you think it's a good idea to be in the next billing cycle or just focus on spring? Um, we missed the spring bill um because we weren't like actively on it. Um some challenges um were uh some of the firewalls between emails like from a home email to city hall like I sent pictures and it was really tough. Um when I sent them to Jenny like they weren't downloading properly and so knowing that um I think we can fix that very easily with enough time. Um are you is this something we want to continue to do? I think the most um impressive or useful um sewer bill insert if um Mayor Sam approves it would be right in the spring um with dates like all of the cool things that happen like shred date, arbor day. I think those things um if we were to continue to do that, I think getting ahead of it um will make it even more productive. if you guys want to think about that and we can come back to it later. But um doing it once I think it again back to the first time around you learn a lot. Um but I think the most effective for us and for our council would be early spring when we can give the dates and share that out like have it be something somebody puts in their cabinet or in a spot on the fridge where it has everything um all the upcoming events.

Um in my mind I I agree. Yeah. Um, I think spring is the fastest Gina said and I think we all seem like we're shaking our heads. Yes. Yeah, that makes sense. So, let make sure I understand. So, you're saying that instead of doing So, the sewer bill comes out quarterly. Yes. And you're saying just do that one in the spring with the dates.

I'm not saying no to anything. I'm just saying that we have to be prepared for that because that's the most important one of any of the inserts and I don't know the cost of it. Um, and so we do have to have a really good reason, a good insert to make it valuable and worthwhile um, to continue doing it. But if we had to decide, I would say that would be the most important one. That would be the priority. But if Mayor Sam approves it, I mean, I'm game to put more to continue to do it. And um, and we just have to have content, right? We just have to work on our content. So I I don't know the cost factor. I I don't know the cost. Does anybody know the cost factor?

And I don't know that if there is a cost to it that the environmental commission has any money for anything. So any of it's going to get absorbed by the administration, the admin. Um but I do think that the goal of this commission is educating the community. And I think sometimes a person needs to see something over and over and over before they actually have that aha moment. So go ahead.

The problem with the the multiple times of seeing it is is the quarterly release of billing dates and billing cycles. And Gina is is far more versed in this now than I am because she took it over. But you have the quarterly release of these billing cycles. Our events are often mostly in the spring or early start of the summer. And so we could have the one go out in the early spring, have our dates listed, and then if you have the second quarter billing come out, most of our our events or things have already occurred. Yeah. And so Oh, but I'm not talking about events. I'm talking about just education about recycling, education about storm water management, education about, you know, Well, and that's that's all I'm saying.

Yeah. That's fair. But I think uh Nate and wastewater or you know could could provide his own you know here's what we could do for storm for waste water storm water management um some things like that. I don't know that we you know what I mean. I don't know if we're we should be the ones to No I I'm just thinking like recycling things like you know just

any information is better. I know that um um you know putting out at least once a year the things that you should never put into a recycled bin ever. I don't think people know that they cannot bag their recyclables and put the bag in there. I don't think they know they can't do that because I'm constantly seeing bags

of recycling in the recycl. And so even just a message for that of you cannot put bags in the recycling bin, all items must be loose. Even making that a message, that message is actually good for, you know, the city because if if our they know they do those audits and if our audit is bad, our rates go up. That message would pay for itself. putting it out there to make our audit have less waste. I'm just I'm not even thinking about the cost. I'm just thinking about the education of that aspect. So listen, these are just suggestions. You guys can do with it what you choose. I think sometimes that blurb, it's kind of like when you run for city council, they get it from their mailbox. You have enough time for them to get to the mailbox to get to the garbage to look at

the recycle bin,

right? The recycle bin, right? So if I have too much information on there, they're never going to process it. I got much enough time for that mailer to get from right the mailbox to the recycle bin. So I think even the same thing with the sewer bill, you've going to have a blurb there. It's less is more. Maybe that's the theme for the night. Just, you know what I mean? It doesn't have to be a ton of information, lots of dates, just less is more. And I think the more we do, you know, figure out maybe one quarter every spring is the dates. Maybe this quarter is something about recycling, this quarter is something about this, this quarter is something about this. Next year, repeat. And so that way there's always some information going out there. Again, that's just a suggestion. You guys, it's your commission. You guys can do what you want. I just

the push for this commission education. I think that's a a good idea and that it gets the our name out that we do things and we're a resource and we try to educate and Yeah, I agree. You have the dates of the events and at the events they get educated. You learn to do a lot of I mean, but this many people go to an event, right? And everybody gets a sewer bill, right? Unless you get it online sewer bill. I like I I don't see these inserts. I I agree. And I was going to ask is there a way to get that information with the online version somehow? That would be a good question to ask

because or that's a great suggestion or um I I didn't that's a great question to find out what percent of people get it uh online. What percent? So I I pay it automatically, but I still get a bill in the mail. I didn't know that not receiving the bill was an option. Paperless.

Paperless. I didn't even, you know, because I never really look at it to really read it to see that there's probably a paperless option. I don't even look at it. I just It's paid automatically, which is probably most people, but um maybe again a little baby thing like this in a bulletin, the twins bolt goes out. Don't forget cross. Don't forget you can't put a bag of recyclables in the recycle bin and that's it. You know, just that one line is enough to educate. If we could have like a little corner or something. I think you said something like that. No, just I'm just thinking of the the constant education of people that if they don't see it over and over and over

visual like a kind of thing. Yeah. Well, we did collect a lot of information, I I bet from the recycles, but also from the water plant that we can make, you know, reminders.

Any other miscellaneous items for discussion? Okay, seeing none, uh we'll move on to excuse absent members. Um, Sean Canu did if we did not know that he was going to be I was gonna say did you get an email or anything? No, I did not. Did he Did What was the last time someone checked an email? I'm checking right now. You were saying I cut you off. You were saying No, I'm saying if you only excuse them if they've told you, right, it should really be well in advance that, hey, I can't make the meeting. Um, I locked them out one meeting. We closed the door. I remember that.

What? The doors were locked. I think the door was propped open and I closed it. So, I locked them out. Or you might not have been on yet. The doors locked and for some reason they weren't unlocked. I heard that. We propped it open. Yeah. That's That's when we learned if that ever happens, go to the police department. That's how we learned that. That's for you. And then one time I was locked out of city council and so I had a you I bothered all the city council members until they came and let me in because I I bothered them at their meeting. So um they came and got me. But that's funny. All right. Did I just ask everybody then did anybody get an email from Shant? I did not. I did not. I

All right. So we will go on to remind people our next meeting date is October 7th, 2025 at 7 p.m. here in Twinsburg Government Center. Um, is the November do we have a meeting on election day or do we move it on that Tuesday? Oh, that is a good point. Um, I don't know. It doesn't matter. I think but I just wanted you working the polls. So, I know the last time we did not cuz I worked the polls and there was still a meeting. I think we do have the meeting on the November 4th. I know that's two months away, but I think it's still November 4th. I don't have it in my calendar. So I I'm not on the city website. I'm on my own, but it's showing November 4th. My personal might be wrong.

So my I'm just asking if you guys wanted to reschedule it. That's something that we could always bring up with with Shannon and see if she reschedu that date for you. Is that something how how let's do it this way. How many of us would absolutely not be able to make it November working? So are you working too? Would we want to reschedule that meeting to make sure we could all be here if if the others would consider it? Yeah, I'd be happy to hear. Yes.

Um, we could ask Shannon because we have to get permission and approval. Ask permission, get approval. Um, you know, we it would have to be sometime when council's not meeting. So, it might have to be a Thursday when parks and wreck is also not meeting. Would we be able to maybe make a Thursday work? Because I know council's every other. It'd either be probably in my head either the 18th that Tuesday or the a Thursday if I'm if I'm guessing knowing my city calendar like I do. So well first get permission and give us two dates and we'll figure out perfect right perfect. That works. Yeah.

Who will know better when we have a date to work with November. Writing this down. But our next meeting is October 7th at 7 p.m. here in government center. Uh is there any objection to adjourning? All right, then we are adjourned at 7:40.