Coordinator Report  - May 21, 2015

Congratulations to newly elected member Lawrence (Doc) Pruyne. Thanks to
all the candidates. This being the first meeting following the election
the board needs to reorganize and appoint a chairman, vice-chair, and
clerk. Dawn has indicated to me her willingness to continue as chair for
another year.

I have asked Patricia, Miryam and Dana to attend the meeting so we can
recognize them for their long and valued service as outgoing elected
town officials. I'll have some notes for you to speak from and
certificates to present the former Moderator, Selectboard Member, and
Tree Warden.

The Town Clerk has requested appointment of Transfer Station
Commissioner until the next annual election; a chance to provide
information about the June 23rd tech school special election; and
requests the board vote to change the date for late fees on dog licenses
from June 1st to July 1st. I recommend we wait a meeting cycle so I can
publicize the Transfer Station Commissioner vacancy as Jim M
corresponded with me that he intentionally did not take out papers and
would prefer not to be appointed. I recommend the board appoint Denise
Dar to Recreation Committee to fill a long-term vacancy.

Warwick Police Chief will report.

To demonstrate compliance with Department of Environmental Protection
(MA) recycling requirements for grant eligibility, I provided copies of
the 1998 town policy and a memo on recycled product purchases to town
departments and commissions. As procurement officer I wish to report
that whenever available we purchase office paper and other supplies with
at least 30% post-consumer recycled component and have complied to date
in FY15.

The Women's Guild is donating new town hall tables to the Town. I
request the Selectboard vote to accept the gift and I will write them a
letter of thanks.

I am not seeking approval at this meeting, and do want the board to
begin discussion of the proposed five-year transfer station recycling
contract which increases the receiving facility handling charge;
decreases the base / guaranteed payment amount to us; and increases our
theoretical up-side on shared revenue, if any. We are a dual stream
community. That means we segregate at our site paper products from
bottles and cans. This is sensible because of shipping costs which are
in part a function of distance and weight is not a factor except that we
can't tandem haul two compacted loads. We compact our paper and get five
times the weight in a load. The heavier load costs the same as hauling a
box of material that is not compacted. We dual stream towns are being
used in this new contract to subsidize "single stream" recycling. I'll
walk us through the proposed contract and then ask the Selectboard to
consider having discussions with neighboring towns. While this proposal
is annoying, it probably will cost us $1000 a year in lost revenue, our
income going from very little to almost none. The up side of being under
contract is that we can get rid of our recyclable materials and we don't
have to pay $66 / ton disposal fee as for landfilled trash. The down
side is we have no other revenue stream, transport costs are about $75 /
ton and we will get even less for our efforts. We lose money on
recycling already.