2019-02-14 (draft) Cost of Government Commission minutes

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Cost of Government Commission February 14, 2019 meeting minutes across the scale and you pay the interesting thing that I found is the land fill cost here was pretty much equivalent of what I experienced here than with a private company that manages all of the landfill and garbage collection on the mainland I am not sure why in Hawaii the cost would be significantly higher but those corporations on the mainland post a pretty darn nice profit and we are posting a loss because we are not covering because there is still budget money that has to go into supporting the landfill and all of the associated transfer stations. I haven’t looked into that very closely but there has to be some room for improvement for savings there (55:15): I want to add something waste management it seems that it is the responsibility of our County to do the waste management receipt and what it does with it. I would love to see the county partner with the universities and (?) department because I see so much waste when I go to the dump and I say oh my gosh this is food stuff this is home stuff we buy from Walmart or Target we use for one and we throw it away and I am talking about the food stuff the plastic containers of food that we throw away all of that. That is improduct of agriculture and we talk so much about need of food security in the state of Hawaii and what we do about it and so much of your report is about ag and food security. (56:23): This is (?) report and I want to give her all the kudos because she put it all together. And the part that says promote partnering with private industries to utilize waste food. That is very good. There is other places that do that (56:52): They should partner with ag at the UH not only to teach how to grow the food to harvest the food to eat the food but what do you do with the waste it should be part of the teaching curriculum in part of ag to show how to deal with the waste because it is (?) to work with the county. I am beginning to see that all over the U.S. (Crosstalk) (57:38): Pulling in seniors so we will get to that in a little bit but I agree with you completely (57:49): I see the start of agriculture and I am beginning to see that. Which I am a homemade major so I am into that kind of stuff. And I get info from national and I am saying goodness the County of agriculture needs to expand and close a circle a circle of production of waste. (58:09): I think the County should support the dissemination information on that I don’t know that they have the responsibility of controlling that process but they should support the dissemination of information. There is all sorts of public benefit information that comes out of the county that I think could be included (58:35): I see composting is very important and that’s what it is so what do you do with the waste? 13