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Meeting Minutes - October 9, 2002
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k Members Present: Mary Ellen Becker, Keith Becker, Bob Brown, Susan Giacalone, Ted
McIntire (Staff Liaison), Gail Wood (Board of Selectmen), Judith Mitchel (Guest).
1. Meeting called to order at 7:40 p.m. Went over minutes from August meeting.
Some corrections were made. Minutes were seconded and approved as amended.
2. Ted's report: John Merit has been on vacation. Ted sent rough draft of recycling
letter to him. Ted may in the future appear before Chamber with him mainly to
appeal to business owners to recycle. Ted passed out memo regarding Recycling
Update. Ted will be e-mailing to all committee members for feed-back. They
received several more recycling bins at the DPW. October 29 is the Recycling
Vendor Fair. Ted Michael and Dave Lee are attending in Worcester.
3.
America Recycles Day - is on November 15. Keith asked if any members could
write a letter in support of recycling.
4.
We all discussed changing the night from the second Wednesday to hold the
meeting. All members should e-mail Keith with feed-back or ideas.
5.
Bob's Memo on Single Stream Recycling - This is not a concept yet for Reading.
6.
Product Takeback - Legislature may possibly begin in the fall concerning this.
7.
Meeting was adjourned at 8:59 p.m.
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