Tuesday, April 22, 2008
7:30 PM
Village of Lombard
Village Hall Community Room
Environmental Concerns Committee
Trustee Greg Gron-Chairperson |
Trustee Dana Moreau-Alternate Chairperson |
Clark Adams, Jennifer Jendras, Ann Mason, |
Winnie Lyons, Nancy Schukat and Darlene Bartt |
Staff Liaison: Dave Gorman |
Meeting Minutes
Environmental Concerns |
Committee |
Meeting Minutes
April 22, 2008
Call to Order and Roll Call
1.0
Meeting called to order by Chairperson Gron at 7:32 PM.
Greg Gron, Winnie Lyons, Jennifer Jendras, Nancy Schukat, Darlene Bartt, Ann |
Mason and Clark Adams |
Present:
Public Participation
2.0
Laura Johnson, 427 Garfield Terrace, Lombard |
Dan Hildebrand, St. Pius X Parish |
Approval of Minutes
3.0
It was moved by Lyons, seconded by Mason, to approve. The motion carried by |
a voice vote |
New Business
4.0
Presentation by Karrie Gibson of Vintage Tech Recyclers |
Karrie and Todd Gibson from Vintage Tech Recyclers in attendance. Gibson: passed |
out literature to committee members. Discussion ensued. Committee reviewed the |
changes to the setup for the Extravaganza this year regarding the Electronic Recycling. |
TV's are $15.00 per; possibly $2.00 per computer monitor. Would like the forklifts again. |
All cell phones are recycled to seniors and domestic violence victims. Committee |
thanked Karrie and Todd for the presentation. |
Mason: spoke to Ms. Brown about having a booth at the Taste of Lombard. Committee |
will need to set up our own tent and take it down ourselves. We should pick a couple of |
days. The 3rd,4th and 5th should be busy days. Gorman: I have a tent that the |
committee can use; I will not be there. We are getting fluorescent bulbs. A coupon is |
going into the PRIDE for them to bring to the ECC Booth at the Taste of Lombard. |
Items to supply for the Booth: |
Coloring books on water conservation |
Dates: go with July 4th, 5th, 6th from 1PM - 5PM |
Lyons: spoke with Lonnie Morris last night. She is going to get a rain barrel and we can |
use it as a display at the booth. Need an artist to decorate the rain barrel. |
Gron: keep this item on the agenda and establish schedule for the booth at the next |
meeting. |
Environmental Recognition Award Program |
Schukat: found out that they no longer have this award program at Villa Park. Gron: |
we could look at ways to tie this to the Business Awards Recognition Program. Keep |
this on the agenda. |
Prescription Drug Collection |
Gron: spoke with our police chief, Ray Byrne. The Police Department is held to |
different criteria than a church volunteer organization. This is just too much of a task for |
the Police Department to undertake. Hildebrand: this was suggested to me by the State |
of Illinois. Jendras: I went on the EPA website. They do have considerations for Take |
Back Program. Federal Law states you do need to have police presence at the event. |
Elmhurst is taking expired drugs and incinerating them. Hildebrand: at our last event |
we collected 14 boxes of viable meds. They were sent to Bolivia, Ecuador and West |
Africa. Five parishes were involved over a period of 3 weekends. Will make a decision |
on this at the next meeting. |
Recycling Education Grants |
Requests from Glenbard East High School in the amount of $3,516 and Montini Catholic |
High School in the amount of $2,500. |
Award a grant of $3500.00 to Glenbard East High School.
It was moved by Mason, seconded by Bartt, that this matter be recommended to |
the Board of Trustees for approval. The motion carried by a voice vote |
Committee directed Dave Gorman to send a letter to Montini requesting a representative |
from the school to come to the next ECC meeting. Would like them to bring visual aids |
or print out website information. |
It was moved by Mason, seconded by Adams, that this matter be tabled. The |
motion carried by a voice vote |
Unfinished Business
5.0
Solid Waste Contract - Update |
Jim Karls from Waste Management in attendance. Karls: passed out report to |
committee members. Need to figure out a way for businesses to recycle. |
Gron: maybe try to have a round table discussion of about 10 businesses and see what |
happens. Bartt: are all businesses serviced by Waste Management? Karls: yes, and |
that makes it somewhat easier to institute a program and/or pass ordinance to require |
businesses to recycle. Gron: maybe start with glass, cans, etc. Gron: make this an |
item for discussion on the next agenda. |
2008 Recycling Extravaganza |
Gorman: lead-acid batteries - Exide will take care of setting up, and they bring their own |
people. There is no cost to us. Consensus of the committee is to go with this. |
Gorman: gas cans were funded by Clean Air Counts. Consensus of the committee is |
that they do not want to do this again this year. |
Positions for 2008 Recycling Extravaganza: |
Volunteer Coordinator - Jennifer Jendras and Darlene Bartt |
Publicity Coordinator - Winnie Lyons and Nancy Schukat |
Volunteer Desk - Ann Mason |
Volunteer Training - Clark Adams |
Lyons: brought up a letter that Bill Mueller received from SIMS to do the electronics |
recycling for free. Gorman: I know nothing about this letter. Gron: I know nothing |
about this either. |
Vintage Tech Recyclers chosen as the Electronics Recycler for the 2008 Recycling |
Extravaganza. |
It was moved by Jendras, seconded by Schukat, that this matter be |
recommended to the Board of Trustees for approval. The motion carried by the |
following vote: |
Aye:
Jendras, Schukat, Adams, Bartt and Mason
5 -
Abstain:
Lyons
1 -
Absent:
Dana Moreau
1 -
Gorman: I was on radio and television today regarding Idling Cars for Clean Air Counts. |
Some of the schools participated and volunteers were at the train station today for Earth |
Day. We are getting a lot of good recognition for our Clean Air Counts activities. |
Other Business
6.0
Information Only
7.0
Gorman: Trail Clean Up this Saturday 4/26; meet at Moran Water Park at 9:00AM. |
Mason requested committee members fill out schedule for times at the Taste of |
Lombard booth. |
Lyons: collected lots of information regarding recycling, etc. Montini is doing a recycling |
extravaganza over the next 2 weeks. |
Gron: would like to see us incorporate all information and have some sort of an |
environmental conference. Talk about some of the things that we have done for the |
schools, vehicles, the Extravaganza, etc. Possibly call it an Environmental Conference. |
Would have to be run by this committee. Laura Johnson: maybe have a "Green Living |
Expo". Do this on Earth Day next year. |
Adjournment
8.0
It was moved by Schukat, seconded by Adams, to adjourn at 9:20PM The motion |
carried by a voice vote |