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Draft <br /> <br />Solid Waste Advisory Group Meeting Summary <br /> <br /> <br />DATE: March 27, 2019 <br /> <br />LOCATION: Solid Waste Administration Training Room <br /> <br />____________________________________________________________________________ <br />MEMBERS PRESENT: County Commissioner Penny Rich, County Commissioner Mark Marcoplos, Chapel <br />Hill Mayor Pam Hemminger, Chapel Hill Council Member Donna Bell, Carrboro Mayor Lydia Lavelle, <br />Hillsborough Commissioner Matt Hughes, Carrboro Alderman Randee Haven-O’Donnell, Hillsborough <br />Commissioner Mark Bell, UNC-Chapel Hill Representative Brad Ives <br /> <br />MEMBERS ABSENT: UNC-Healthcare Representative Mel Hurston <br /> <br />STAFF PRESENT: County Solid Waste Director, Robert Williams, County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, <br />Chapel Hill Public Works Director Lance Norris, Hillsborough Public Works Director Ken Hines, Carrboro <br />Public Works Director Joe Guckavan, County Solid Waste Staff: Cheryl Young, Evan Brown, Blair Pollock, <br />Kristina Witosky, Wanda McCain, Chapel Hill Public Works Staff Wendy Simmons, UNC-Chapel Hill Solid <br />Waste BJ Tipton <br />____________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Call to Order <br /> <br />Approval of Meeting Summary <br />October 29, 2018 meeting summary approved <br /> <br />Introduction of New SWAG Members <br />Orange County Commissioner Penny Rich returning member. Mark Marcoplos designated as <br />chair of SWAG. <br />Presentation – Tree Project, Michael Everhart <br /> Rich asks if this project would be promoted with homeowners also. <br /> Everhart replies yes. There is hope that the program will get large enough that residents will <br />want to give their trees to the program. <br /> Marcoplos asks what is needed to evolve the project further. <br /> Everhart replies after the meeting with the UNC-CH Vice Chancellor, Anna Woo that will give <br />guidance as where this is going. The first thing would be to solidify the skeleton at UNC-CH and then an <br />operations piece with parties involved. <br /> Marcoplos asks if it’s useful to have centralized communication. You could keep Robert in your <br />communications and it could be spread to the rest of us. <br /> M. Bell request contact with Hillsborough Boards. <br />Director Updates/Presentation <br /> Commission for the Environment (CFE)– Bradley Saul Working on state of the environment <br />report with plans to release in October/November and solid waste is a small part of that. We have been <br />talking about trees and tree cover. <br /> <br /> Rich states that the reason for having a member of CFE here is as we talk about how to turn <br />garbage into something that can be reused a way to look at what else we could be doing that we’re not <br />doing now.