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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> December 9, 2004 <br /> Approved January 6, 2005 <br /> 3 . Annual Solid Waste Mange Report to BOCC Sassaman states that in an effort to <br /> educate elected officials on what we are doing, Gayle has provided an outline of what <br /> an annual solid waste report should include . <br /> Pollock states that staff has contemplated in the past doing a report to the governing <br /> board detailing the accomplishments of the SWAB for a time period . We have not <br /> done that other than the newsletter . The Commission on the Environment is doing <br /> their report, so that was an impetus for a separate Solid Waste Report . The outcome of <br /> that was this outline . Staff proposes that, because of a timing issue for this year, we <br /> just get it together for next year rather than try to target the BOCC ' s annual retreat . <br /> There are other options for time of presentation . Issues on the table are the notion of <br /> this outline and the notion of the timing how deep into the following fiscal year is it <br /> useful to discuss the previous fiscal year ' s work . Thus the issues are the timing, this <br /> particular outline, and the overarching notion if having an annual report to the <br /> Commissioners is a good idea . <br /> Sassaman states that an annual or semi-annual report would be good . If it is a large <br /> report 20 -30 pages it becomes burden to do it every year . You should be judicious of <br /> what you put in and how big the report is . How much of the information do you <br /> already have to put together a report this year ? <br /> Pollock states that looking at this outline as a checklist most of the material is readily <br /> available . <br /> Smith asks what information other than program and service are we wanting them to <br /> know? <br /> Sassaman states that part of it is blowing our horn . I raise the issue to staff, if it is <br /> feasible to come up with a 6-10 page report in the next two months ? <br /> Pollock states that it isn' t infeasible to do it but what do you want to say other than <br /> summarize . It is not a problem to go back to last year' s data and present a couple of <br /> pages of data summary issues . It is a significant amount of work as you look at this <br /> outline to make sure that we present to the BOCC the things we really want them to <br /> know in this key issues and challenges section and State and Federal legislation . We <br /> don ' t want to get ahead of ourselves in terms of what we ' re going to say in terms of <br /> the solid waste plan . In the last section of the outline would you the chairman and <br /> other board members be willing to write that. What do we want to accomplish and <br /> what time frame of getting it to the BOCC . <br /> Sassaman states that stuff from the SWAB has already been written . A lot of the other <br /> information could be combined . The things the elected officials would like to know <br /> 6 <br />