2001-09-26 Enviromental Management Commission Minutes

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Minutes for Wednesday, September 26, 2001Page 5 of 7 Barbara Bell motioned that the Environmental Management Commission send a letter to Mayor Harry Kim using the language that Galen has laid out. Peter Martin seconded. A suggestion was made that we change "disbanding" to "reorganization". Motion was unanimously carried. Barbara Bell moved that the Environmental Management Commission form a subcommittee to be titled SWAC Subcommittee. Luana Jones seconded. Motion was unanimously carried. DISCUSSION AND VOTE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AND THE ROLES OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION Gerald Takase was asked to look at the two entities and to try and mesh the two. The SWAC is established through State Statute and are given the specific task of looking at the Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan. There is a statutory basis for them and they are prescribed certain duties to formally do. It is really going to be up to the Mayor if he is going to disband that group. The Commission could assume that duties by reappointing the Commission as the Solid Waste Advisory Committee and serving in that capacity. Right now, I think that if there is an option for the two to exist, it may be redundant in a lot of places, but listening to the recyclers, there is a different group of people sitting on both, so you may have different opinions. He recommended that body be allowed to continue to exist. The Commission will place itself in between the Solid Waste Advisory Committee and the Council so that whatever recommendations they make, which used to go straight to Council, will pass through the Commission first and then on to Council. It may be redundant and we can’t stop that right now, but the Commission, the SWAC, and the Mayor can decide what the future is. If you don’t want that Committee, he recommended that the Mayor reappoint the members of the Commission as the Solid Waste Advisory Committee, also. He doesn’t think they can be disbanded because there is a requirement for them to exist in the State Statute. Peter Martin questioned why we could not appoint the SWAC members as an ad hoc committee attached to this Commission. We are being redundant and very confused by having two separate bodies. Add them to the Commission for the duration and those people who had valuable input should be meeting with us. Gerald stated that the SWAC has a specific function and creation in State Statute already so they could exist independent of anything the Commission wants to do. They don’t have to be ad hoc. It was not anticipated in State Statute that the Commission would be created. That is really the part we need to mesh in there. The position of this Commission and the Mayor was to do away with the Solid Waste Advisory Committee. We would probably stop it from doing that by saying there is a requirement in State Statute that there be this body. Whether the body is constituted right now or he dismisses all of them and reappoints you folks as that body, there is still that requirement. Somebody has to perform that function. Bottom line is that the Solid Waste Advisory Committee cannot just disappear all together. IN THE UPDATE OF THE INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN  Discussed with Director’s Report. OFFICIAL PARTICIPATION ON THE SOLID WASTE ADVISORY COMMITTEE  Discussed with Director’s Report. ON THE EXISTING SOLID WASTE ADVISORY COMMITTEE AS A SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE  COMMISSION Discussed with Director’s Report. ANY RELATED ISSUES  No other issues discussed. UPDATES FROM SOLID WASTE DIVISION file://C:\Test1\minutes092601.htm6/22/2011