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July 28, 2004
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Attendance - Members: Susan Giacalone, Lois MacElhiney, Gregory Russo, David
Williams - Staff Liaison: Michael O'Halloran.
1. Call to order at 7:44 PM by Susan, Vice Chair. David appointed as recorder.
June mu utes'approved as revised (vote 4:0.
2.. `Ted's Report (Mike). The DPW may submit a grant application for state money
for 2005 calendars to indicate recycling dates. The DPW website was
recommended for FY05 information.
3. Old Business:
a. School Recycling: Lois informed the committee that she plans to contact
the school superintendent in August requesting permission to address the
lower grade (or kindergarten) school children about the advantages of
recycling, at home and in school. She will request about 30 minutes of
class time in mid-October. Lois requests appropriate materials from
DPW, and others, for show-and-tell.
b. Trash Rules and Regulations: Mike stated that the regulations are still on
Ted's computer. Dave volunteered to add his corrections if he had a copy
of the regulations in an MS Word format.
c. Apartment Trash Collection and Recycling: Dave stated that the
assessor's office had found 16 units with 12 or more apartment units,
totaling 309 units. This left 14 buildings with 4 to 12 units. Assuming 6
units per building for 84 units, there are 393 apartment units in Reading.
There are fewer owners than buildings; e.g., Highland Realty owns 9
buildings in small groupings. Mike suggested that Dave call Ted for
information, relative to the condominium recycling process. For costs,
Dave suggested that a conservative estimate (for the town) is to charge the
realty company a prorated charge equal to one unit as one household.
Mike noted the opposite extreme, i.e., the value of the apartment goes up
with the collection service, making the tax evaluation high enough to
offset the service. An appropriate cost is probably somewhere between.
4. New Business- Committee Reorganization: Mike took over as chair for the
election of officers for the coming year. David nominated Susan and Lois
seconded: Greg nominated David and Susan seconded. Susan then declined the
nomination and David was voted as chair (3:0:1, David abstained). The elMtion
of a vice chair was tabeled, by unanimous decision until the next meeting.
.5. Meeting adjourned at 8:45 PM.
6. Next meeting will be August 25`h at 7:30PM.
Submitted by:
David L. Williams
Secretary, pro temp
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