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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> August 6, 2009 <br /> Approved September 3, 2009 <br /> Attendance : Jan Sassaman, Bonnie Norwood, Linda Bowerman, Al Vickers, Remus <br /> Smith, Doug Guild, and Steve Yuhasz <br /> Staff: Blair Pollock, Paul Spire, Terry Thomas, Hary Howard and Wanda McCain <br /> 1 . Opening and Welcome Sassaman states that hopefully you all have had a good <br /> summer . It looks like we will have a fairly busy Fall ahead of us trying to get back on <br /> board with solid waste planning . <br /> 2 . Adoption of Minutes from June 3 SWAB meeting Norwood moves to accept. <br /> Vickers 2nd . Passes unanimously . <br /> 3 . Solid Waste Convenience Center Service Reductions / Changes Thomas states that <br /> effective July 27 mattresses and [landfill] permits were eliminated . Mattresses are <br /> accepted at the landfill, but no longer at the convenience centers . Permits being <br /> eliminated should not affect the general public if they are doing normal cleanup . <br /> The hours of operation will be reduced effective Monday, September 21St. The new <br /> hours will be Monday, Tuesday, and Friday from lam to 6pm and Saturday lam to <br /> 5pm . Closed on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday . <br /> Bradshaw Quarry Center is slated to close on September 20th at 5pm . The property <br /> owner has received notification of termination and arrangements have been made to <br /> move [County goods, building, dumpsters, etc] off the property . There is a timeline <br /> that' s been submitted to the BOCC . <br /> Vickers asks for a definition of the landfill permit program . <br /> Thomas states that the landfill permits program was initiated when the county <br /> changed from non-staffed centers to staffed centers . In an effort to control the waste <br /> they [the County] offered permits for citizens to take larger loads to the landfill . The <br /> permits were supposed to be faded (sic) out as the convenience centers were <br /> upgraded but it never happened . There hasn' t been much comment from the permit <br /> elimination because within the last six months each load has been checked and <br /> instead of three loads per permit it was cut to one . There had been a lot of abuse of <br /> the permit program [with permits] given to contractors or a lot of appliances hauled <br /> in. <br /> Sassaman asks if permits were for landfill <br /> Thomas replies that checks on loads showed many were from contractors . <br /> 1 <br />