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MINUTES OF RECYCLING COMMITTEE MEETING
OCTOBER 7, 2003
The Costa Mesa Sanitary District Recycling Committee met at 9:00 a.m. in
conference room 1A at the Civic Center, 77 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa.
Directors Present: Dan Worthington, Arlene Schafer
Staff Present: Rob Hamers, Tom Fauth, Joan Revak, Bobby Young
Director Worthington called the meeting to order at 9:00 a. m.
STRATEGIC PLANNING 2003 — PUBLIC OUTREACH — CLASSROOM RECYCLING
• PROJECTS
Director Worthington reported vermi- composting presentations have been made at
Anderson School and TeWinkle Middle School. The two schools now have
composting bins in their classrooms, teaching students the usefulness of food
scraps and diverting them from the landfills.
COSTAMAZING — DISTRICT PARTICIPATION
Ms. Revak presented a card prepared by Staff with a picture of the Adobe at the
Costa Mesa Estancia at 1900 Adams Avenue with history on the Adobe and the
peppercorns. The card will be placed in a plastic bag with peppercorns collected
from the tree and distributed at the CostaMazing Fun Run on February 7, 2004.
MINI TELEPHONE BOOK RECYCLING PROGRAM - 2003
Ms. Revak presented the final report for the 2003 Mini Telephone Book Recycling
Program. The 2003 program ran from August 8 through September 19 with bins
located at City Hall and the Orange Coast College Recycling Center. Books totaling
1,800 were collected in the mini program comparing to 2,825 books collected in the
2002 program. Many residents may be saving their yellow pages for the school
• program in December.
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2003 SCHOOL TELEPHONE BOOK RECYCLING PROGRAM
Ms. Revak presented the letter inviting school participation in the 2003 Telephone
Book Recycling Program. This year's program will run from December 1, 2003 to
January 12, 2004. Participating schools can earn $200 to $650 based on the
enrollment population of each school with a grand prize award of $250 to the
Elementary, Jr. High and High School collecting the greatest number of pounds of
phone books per student.
The schools must designate how they will use the award funds and in the past such
items include classroom supplies, science equipment, library books, technology
supplies and field trips.
The District's program challenges the students to collect the most telephone books
and be rewarded in addition to providing a hands -on opportunity to learn about
recycling.
USED TIRE ROUNDUP — SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2003
• Mr. Fauth informed the Committee of the upcoming Used Tire Roundup that will
occur from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 11, 2003 at the City
Corporation Yard, 2300 Placentia Avenue. The annual event offers residents the
free drop off opportunity to dispose of unwanted tires.
Staff learned from Mike Carey of the Orange Coast College Recycling Center of a
need to dispose of 400 tires that were recently illegally dumped at the Center. The
Center has requested monetary assistance to dispose of the tires by having them
removed by the Orange County Conservation Corps and transported to American
Tire Disposal. The request will be presented to the Board of Directors for
consideration at the October 8, 2003 regular meeting.
PUBLIC COMMENTS
There were no public comments.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:04 a.m.
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