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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMIN RAWEEMC 2021/04/06 2020-2022Committee on Regenerative Agriculture, Water, Energy, and Environmental Management 5th Session Hawaii County Building 25 Aupuni Street Hilo, Hawai i April 6, 2021 CALL TO The regular meeting of the Committee on Regenerative Agriculture, Water, ORDER: Energy and Environmental Management was called to order at 2:00 p.m., in the Council Chambers, Hilo, by Mr. Herbert M. "Tim" Richards, III, Chair. ROLL CALL: Present: Mr. Herbert M. "Tim" Richards, III, Chair Mr. Holeka Goro Inaba, Vice Chair Mr. Aaron S. Y. Chung, Member Ms. Maile Medeiros David, Member Mr. Matt Kaneali`i-Kleinfelder, Member Ms. Ashley L. Kierkiewicz, Member Ms. Heather L. Kimball, Member Ms. Susan L. K. Lee Loy, Member Ms. Rebecca Villegas, Member Change Order As directed by the Chair and with no objection from the Council Members, of Business: the following items were taken out of order: COMMUNI- The Chair directed the Committee to proceed to the next order of business, CATIONS: Communications. Comm. 182: NOMINATION OF CARRIE HOOPII TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION From Mayor Mitchell D. Roth, dated March 23, 2021, requesting the Council's review and confirmation. Requires Council Confirmation by: May 6, 2021 (Section 13-4(k), Hawaii County Charter) RAWEEMC-5 April 6, 2021 Vote on Comm. 182: Ms. Lee Loy moved to recommend confirmation (Approved) of the nomination of Carrie Hoopii to the Environmental Management Commission. Seconded by Mr. Kaneali`i-Kleinfelder and carried by the following voice vote: Ayes: Committee Members Chung, David, Inaba Kierkiewicz, Kimball, Lee Loy, Villegas and Chair Richards — 8. Noes: None. Absent: Committee Member Kaneali`i-Kleinfelder —1. Excused: None. Executive Assistant to the Mayor Pomaika`i Bartolome came forward and provided a brief narrative of the nominee's background and experience. Committee Members spoke in favor of the nomination. Chair Richards informed Ms. Hoopii that she does not need to appear before the full Council for final confirmation. CHR. RICHARDS: Going back let's bring on our testifier, please. STATEMENTS The Chair directed the Committee to proceed to the next order of business, FROM THE Statements from the Public on Agenda Items. PUBLIC ON AGENDA ITEMS: The Chair called Carolyn Pellett, who registered to comment on Res.73-21, and came forward when called. CHR. RICHARDS: And just to verify, that is the end of our public testifiers? MR. BROWN: That is correct Chair, that's the last testifier. CHR. RICHARDS: Okay, thank you. We will close public testimony and move on to Order of Resolution. Clerk, Resolution 73-21, please. Return to Order The Chair directed the Committee to return to the order of business. of Business: ORDER OF The Chair directed the Committee to proceed to the next order of business, RESOLUTIONS: Order of Resolutions. Page 2 RAWEEMC-5 April 6, 2021 Res. 73-21: AUTHORIZES THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE 2019 INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN UPDATE FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII Presents for the County Council's consideration an updated integrated Solid Waste Management Plan, as required pursuant to Hawai` i Revised Statutes Chapter 342G, Part III. Reference Comm. 175 Intr. by: Mr. Richards (B/R) Motion to Approve: Mr. Inaba moved to recommend adoption of Res. 73-21. Seconded by Ms. David. CHR. RICHARDS: Alright hearing that, okay, I've got Solid Waste sitting in front of me. Come on up guys. (At this time, Recycling Coordinator George Hayducsko and Solid Waste Division Chief Gregory Goodale came forward to address the members of the Committee.) MR. HAYDUCSKO: I'm George Hayducsko, I'm the county's Recycling Coordinator. CHR. RICHARDS: Little closer to the mic, please. MR. HAYDUCSKO: Okay. You want this CHR. RICHARDS: You can take it off for the presentation. MR. HAYDUCSKO: Okay. George Hayducsko, I'm the county's Recycling Coordinator. Good afternoon, and thank you for this opportunity to review the Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan. Before I start, I just wanted to let you know that our Waste Management Director, wanted to let you know that he's not able to be here today, Ramzi Mansour. But he wanted to make sure that we mention that this is a living document, and that between now and the next time it's done, you know, if things come up that shows that it can be improved on or more efficient that the county is just not going to be stagnant. The department is just not going to be stagnant, but we will be making improvements as time goes on. So he just wanted me to make sure I mention that. (Note: At this time, Mr. Hayducsko and Mr. Goodale provided a PowerPoint presentation to the members of the Committee. For viewing of the presentation, see the DVD copy of the proceedings on file in the Clerk's Office, or online at http://hawaiicounty.,granicus.com. A copy of the presentation is made part of the record, see Comm. 175. 1.) MR. HAYDUCSKO: Thank you. Page 3 RAWEEMC-5 April 6, 2021 CHR. RICHARDS: Thank you, George. And I appreciate that update. So I'm going to open this up to the Council for any questions they might have, I think you've touched on the big highlights which is greatly appreciated. And I say, it is thoughtful. So with that I'm looking around for any lights on. Ms. Lee Loy. MR. GOODALE: Just real quick, Greg Goodale, Solid Waste Division Chief. I just wanted to say thanks to George and his staff for the great job they did with this report. And also to our SWAC (Solid Waste Advisory Committee) members. Because this was a long process, it's a lot of information to take in during the time period that they had. And the finish product, I mean while it may be very lengthy, it's a pretty complicated subject matter. So again, thank you, to George and his staff and to all of our Solid Waste Advisory Committee. So I'll get back to the questions. CHR. RICHARDS: Thanks, Greg. Ms. Lee Loy. MS. LEE LOY: Thanks, George, for being here. I actually wanted to dive a little deeper into it. Because you know, we got the recommendation some policy shifts, but way in the back is the funding pieces. And we had Ramzi come before us, related to wastewater. And again, this enterprise fund popped up, again. And if we truly want to adjust our waste, whether it's solid and/or water there has to be this balancing act between how we're going to pay for it with all the educational pieces. So can you please dive into that section on the enterprise fund, and some of the resource opportunities or options that are available? MR. HAYDUCSKO: I'll start. But fortunately for the county, you have two individuals that have operated under enterprise funds. So the enterprise fund is a system where the program brings in revenue, and makes sure they bring enough revenue that covers their expenses. And it's an enterprise fund that's separate from the other county levy money, so it's completely separate. And toI think that, I'm not going to talk for Greg, but I would prefer going to the enterprise fund, it's self-supporting. Now, the benefit of having an enterprise fund for recycling on the mainland is that you make money with the recyclables, a lot of them. You know, corrugated cardboard, aluminum, and lot of those commodities you can make money so it's easier. It would be more difficult here, being a complete enterprise fund for recycling. But if we went to more of the EPR, the Extended Producer Responsibility, where the manufacturers paid for the materials that they're bringing in, and for the disposal of it once the life expectancy is done, then we could get closer to it. But I think we should aspire to that, I think we should aspire trying to get the programs off the taxpayers' back and out of the levy, and closer to our enterprise fund. Yeah, we should definitely get there, maybe ultimately but it's going to take time. And to do that, you can always the landfill's a big one. And the tipping fee I'll let Greg talk about. The tipping fee would have to be increased to support that. Page 4 RAWEEMC-5 April 6, 2021 MR. GOODALL Yeah, no, I appreciate that topic coming up. But as George says, you know, going towards an enterprise fund -type system, you know, it is kind of my background. But that is something I definitely, you know, support from the standpoint of a utility. Essentially that's what we're looking at, this is a utility that should operate like any other utility when, you know, costs go up you would have to raise your rates accordingly. You know, all the things that it takes to operate a utility like this. What you find a lot of times though when you operate, you know, under an enterprise fund is it's the rate payers that are paying for the service. So if you are someone that chooses to do more recycling, there's an economic incentive to that. As George says, you know, we may not be able to get as much back from the materials that we collect from the recycling standpoint, but also it acts as incentive for waste reduction. So you know, going to but often times people, you know, when they look at how some of these things are funded, they may not necessarily, you know, like what that might look like upfront. But generally after the enterprise fund's up and running, most people find the value in it and it definitely serves the populations. So you know, back to the original question that do we support something like that? Yeah, we believe that's the direction we should be heading. MS. LEE LOY: Thank you, for that. You know, what I really liked about the report, they have this no action alternative, right? If we do absolutely nothing, what is the consequences and you guys outlined that. How do we balance that against, right, if we do nothing, there's a cost. And you've talked about lifecycle piece, right, which is a recommendation of the SWAC. Has that been extrapolated a little bit, so that we could actually begin to see every year that we don't meet these benchmarks related to recycling, we're actually having to pay a whole lot more. MR. HAYDUCSKO: Excellent question. No, we haven't. But that's something that, you know, lifecycle analysis could look at. You know, what is the impact of putting that material into the landfill, and not diverting it. So this study doesn't do it, but it's recommending that it be done along with their lifecycle analysis. MS LEE LOY: I just have one more question. This is just really ono stuff inside here, which doesn't make sense because it's about waste. But you know, in the composition study, where is the e -waste on this graph? Is that with special mix, or is that kind of scattered throughout the different glass and metals? MR. GOODALL Yeah. Typically when you're looking at something like an electronic waste stream, that would fall under, you know, the same type of category as like your household hazardous waste. And a lot of times folks will actually even categorize their e -waste, along with their household hazard waste. So yeah, that's the section that would fall under. Page 5 RAWEEMC-5 April 6, 2021 MS. LEE LOY: Great, thank you, for this. I really do appreciate it, it's very well done. And I know one testifier mentioned, there was a lot that was given to us just in a week. It's not actually, it's been out there for a year, right. Council Member Richards and I attended those meetings back in 2019. So there really is some really great things in this, including the recommendations. And even some of the work the Council has to with policy shifts. I really do appreciate this. Chair, I yield. CHR. RICHARDS: Thank you, Ms. Lee Loy. Do I see any other lights? Mr. Chung. MR. CHUNG: Yeah, hi you guys. Just very simple question for my uneducated mind. You know, I'm looking at Ramzi's submission letter, dated March 9, 2021. And on the last paragraph it says something like, "Because of COVID related delays affecting the final publication of this plan, the department would like to clarify that the data referenced in Chapter 10 subchapter 10.3 existing conditions and elsewhere presented as current, should be considered current at the time the plan was developed." Yeah, rather than the conditions that exist in early 2021, where we're at right now. I'm just wondering, what's the purpose of approving 2019 Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan? As I said, this is an uneducated mind in terms of Waste Management. And I know George you said that we have to do this every 10 years, the last one was in 2009 or something. So we've got 10 years right, 2019. But isn't it kind of odd? MR. HAYDUCSKO: Good point. The plan itself, the recommendations are still valid. But there has to be a time when you cut off the writing, so the data at that particular time when it was written was correct. So no, that's a good point that you made, but to go and revise it even more would take even more time, more effort, submitting again, to the Department of Health. So that was our timeframe that we cut it off then. It just has taken time to get it here, it has taken time. MR. CHUNG: I mean, I know that's how it's been done all these years. But I just would feel comfortable, you know, approving a 2021 Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan, right, rather than a 2019 one. It's just my thoughts. But thank you for all the hard work though George, great. CHR. RICHARDS: Mr. Inaba. MR. INABA: Yeah, I'm going to echo that. In 10 years are we going to get it done prior to, so if it's due 2029 will it be started prior so we can approve it by 2029 not two years after it's supposed to be done? MR. GOODALE: Just so everybody knows, the plan was done within the timeframe that was specified. So we had a plan that was ready, and actually had been in the process to be submitted. But as you know, as we go through, you know, the transition that we went through it takes a while to get new Page 6 RAWEEMC-5 April 6, 2021 Administration, you know, familiar with all the things that we're looking at. So the reality is, you know, the group, everything had fallen into place within the timelines that were necessary to get it to the State. This is basically just the timeline that it ended up coming to you folks. And you know, when you do look at some of the affects that COVID brought, slow downs, and you know, even having to do meetings and such virtually. I guess, you know, the reality is from the standpoint of the development of the plan, we would have really actually liked to have seen this get before you folks months ago. But I'm sure we could say that about a lot of different things that are before people now days. So, yeah, that's just my comment on that. MR. INABA: Okay, so my question again, are we going to get this done and approved in 2029, or is this going to happen again where were approving it two years later? Because my understanding on this is that it should have been done, and we approve it in 2019. I mean the process starts earlier, so we have the plan and we approve the plan to submit to the State. MR. GOODALE: That would be our intention, yeah. Yes. MR. INABA: Because COVID, I mean this is 2019. COVID is 2020. So we had this special committee formed, was the Environmental Management Commission a part of this process at all? MR. HAYDUCSKO: The staff did update the commission, so we were able to update them as it was occurring. But the SWAC the Solid Waste Advisory Committee is completely separate from the commission. Completely separate entity. MR. INABA: Okay, so they were just provided updates. MR. HAYDUCSKO: Correct. MR. INABA: Okay. And I see one of the major themes is education. Greg came and did a presentation in Kona. And I think this touches back to what Council Member Lee Loy said about funding, because this isI'm still in school yeah, and this is basically a dissertation of all this information. But you said it yourself, the education piece to this is key. So how are we going to make that happen? Because we can have all kinds of recommendations, the public isn't going to do it if we don't have the education. And I spoke with Director Mansour about this, but how are we going to make it happen? MR. GOODALE: Well that's a very lengthy question, but I'll try and condense it down to one word. Budget. If we don't have the money to do the education programs, we know what the programs are that we want to put out in front. We've had very successful programs, we do working with keiki, working with Page 7 RAWEEMC-5 April 6, 2021 high school, and college. I mean we've been very successful in putting out a lot of these different programs, you know, to the public at large trying to get them educated on the programs that we have. Why they benefit the island, and how they better divert waste away from the landfill. But all those things, come at a cost. And even with working with a lot of the different like nonprofit groups, you know, some of the folks can do these things in partnership with the county at little to no cost. But trying to put those programs together, trying to coordinate, trying to get these things happening on a regular basis does come at a cost. So as I said before, that's kind of the short answer to that. MR. INABA: Okay. Well it's comprehensive. This is all, you know, we got to just actually do it. And then there's community meetings in Kona that I attended, the public is not happy. And I'm hoping we can actually implement. Because I don't think anybody from the public is going read through this 400 pages, I'm sure not. And it makes me hesitant to offer approval for something that is so lengthy, and I would say not very clear to be honest. But I'll support this today, and I'm hoping that we can enact what's in here and get it done in a timely manner next time around. Although none of us will probably be here then, maybe you folks will. Chair, I yield. CHR. RICHARDS: Thank you, Mr. Inaba. Ms. Villegas. MS. VILLEGAS: Yeah. First off, I want to thank you guys for all the time and energy that it took to put this together. And the broad and all-encompassing ideas, that when I look through thisI had the chance to take a circular economy course last fall. And so many of the concepts listed here are in direct alignment with what other municipalities, and European countries are looking at in order to reduce their waste stream, to put the responsibility back on the manufacturer. We know that we live in a society of where so many of the products that are created are created to break, and then have to be replaced. But we haven't been thinking far enough into the future, and what that costs. And the concept of circular economy is allowing for continued economic growth, but decoupling it from it having anything to do with extraction enterprises. So it's using what we already have. I myself find this exciting, and I'd love to talk more. And I've been having great conversations with Ramzi, and introducing him to some people doing some really cool work. On the west side, something that my office just participated in was a gigaton challenge. So representatives from my office participated with a number of people, and the goal was in two weeks to identify a way to remove a ton of greenhouse gas emissions from ending up in our landfill. And they were able to do that, and more so by just collecting cardboard from stores and different business that weren't recycling that cardboard. It couldn't be taken from something that was already going into the recycling program. Page 8 RAWEEMC-5 April 6, 2021 But I just saw that as like wow, what a way to do it so quickly and with such success, and a lot of it is being used. I mean we don't have enough compost, right. When we look at this foodwaste and the organic materials I see opportunities for us to transition how we're managing our waste. It's a bear, you know, you've got to deal with Department of Health and there's all these different things. But I get excited when I see something like this, because it's actually being written down. You know, and it can be worked through. I also, you know, was doing some research and to having just, you know, this is the first time staying at the Naniloa in the last year. And now coming back, and the single use toiletries. I did the math on this recently for a project, and if every hotel room has on average four toiletries and there like a one -fluid ounce container. So for all of your hotel rooms, and I found out all the hotel rooms there's 9,478 hotel rooms in Hawaii County. And so if all those rooms are fully stocked, that's 37,912 one -ounce units to fully stock these hotel rooms. Now if just one out of those four toiletries is thrown out every day and replaced, it means, and I won't go through all the math and whatnot, but essentially it equates to, 111,296 pounds of plastic that end up in our landfill. Every year. So just transitioning to bulk dispensers in our hotels, reduces the amount of waste we're seeing in our landfills. So I hope to, and I look forward to continuing to work together. California passed a law, no more single use toiletries in their hotels with 50 rooms or less. But how we can get creative that way, I mean we live on an island. What more profound space to return to a circular economy. So this is big, this is broad, this is a lot to work on, but there's things that can be done. So I look forward to working together, and continuing to explore the ways we can do that, because it's kind of cool to just have an actual tangible instead of just paper. So thank you guys for that, I really appreciate it. CHR. RICHARDS: Alright. Ms. Kierkiewicz. MS. KIERKIEWICZ: Thank you, Chair. George, good to see you. I always see you every morning and afternoon, I think walking to your office, so thank you. Greg, great to see you as well. Really appreciate the many years, and time and effort it took to put such an exhaustive plan together. Appreciated how in each section you identify, you know, what was called out in 2009 and progress made to date or not, lack thereof. So that's great. Really appreciate the matrix upfront, where you identify high, moderate, low priorities. And so my question is around that. Because we've got 83 recommendations, 10 years to implement, wanting to gage your confidence and our ability to implement all of those recommendations. You know, what is the critical pathway that you are putting our county on to achieve all this? Are there certain things that are elevated as high priority that really set us up, to be able to achieve these more moderate and low level items? So just wondering, is this it? Are these six things what we're going to work on over the next 10 years? I mean how are we going to Page 9 RAWEEMC-5 April 6, 2021 be tackling this in a very thoughtful and strategic way, recognizing great budget constraints, but guess what we got American Rescue Plan Act money heading our way. What's being done within the department, to ready ourselves to take meaningful and sustained action? MR. GOODALL The six recommendations, I mean those are our priorities. You know, when you look at a program like the Solid Waste Program. Unfortunately you've got the day to day work that has to happen. Basically get in the trucks day in day out, seven days a week, from the transfer stations to the landfill. That's where the bulk of our budget goes. And that's probably the highest from the standpoint of priority, in terms of public health is making sure that happens. Now unfortunately when we start to look at things, you know, like the education program, the adding to the household hazardous waste, those are all things that we know were important as a community to have available from people. We don't want to see things like household hazardous waste, going into the landfill. But again, you know, trying to look at utilizing some of the money that is being made available, we're still not 100 percent clear what all these things would qualify for some of that funding. Now we're totally open to any types of, whether it's grant money, or even if it's just basically direct pass-through the confounds some of these kinds of things. The kind of things we're primarily, you know, looking at trying to utilize some of that money, would be updating our fleet of the trucks and the things that actually get the regular Solid Waste to the place it's supposed to go. So some of these types of programs may not necessarily qualify for that kind of funding, but it doesn't mean it's any less important for us. What we really want to be able to see, is us have a funding mechanism for the division that can take all of these things so that while we're prioritizing them, we can actually say to ourselves—and we actually have the funding to put towards these things. Unfortunately this last budget go around, we ended up having to take some of these things off the table because the funding just isn't there. You know, when we're put in the position of having to do cuts to budgets, some of the things that aren't what would be seen as essential, end up having to get scaled back. As George said, we already had to submit a budget that scaled back household hazard waste collection events. It kind of seems a little bit counter -intuitive, when you look at what the recommendations have come from this plan. Now the plan doesn't necessarily go into things like funding. You know, it may talk about trying to setup an enterprise fund, but it's not going to go into the specifics, about how you're going to set something like that up. But obviously for us when we look at, you know, a plan like this what we want to be able to see is that we can follow along with the plan and try and check these things off. It doesn't mean that it's all of a sudden accomplished, just because you get a good education program going doesn't mean you don't have to keep working on it, and keep updating it, and keep engaging with folks. There's always going to be new, and Page 10 RAWEEMC-5 April 6, 2021 better ways of being able to do those things. But you got to be able to do it, in the first place. So for us, that's where we really want to be able to get to. We want to be able to take those things and establish baselines and say, okay, here's where we're at right now, here's where we want to be. And try and strive and get there. But again, if you don't have the funding to do that—even with what we see coming in from the Federal Government we don't know that a lot of these kinds of things would necessarily be eligible for that funding. As I said, it's kind of a roundabout way of saying, you know, what's some of the different priorities we face within the division, but they're real to us. I meanI think George and I as, you know, being involved from, you know, the management of these types of programs for many years. This is where we kind of try to thrive, is coming up with these new and different ways of putting these things out to the public. Not just regurgitating the same old thing over and over again. So we're optimistic that we're going to be able to see a lot of these things through. Can I tell you that every single one of those things, is going to be accomplished in the 10 year time period? I'll be honest with you, that's not really the whole point for the State. What the State is looking for, is the programs for the State aren't just staying stagnant that they are thinking about these things. They're looking at what are the new challenges in front of the various counties. Because obviously our plan's going to look a lot different than what Maui County's, or O`ahu's might look like. You know, populations are different, topography different, you know, there's just a lot of differences. But everybody has to go through this process, and look at it. And I'm sure the other counties would say the same thing. Are they going to get every single thing they identify as their priorities accomplished within that 10 year period? Some of them are going to be carried over to the next year and we're going say we're going to keep that as a focus. And I think some of the things that are in this, did just that. They were focuses in the last report. Maybe for whatever reason we weren't able to accomplish those things, or maybe we were able to get started but not completed. So again, as George said in the beginning, this is always going to be a work in progress. I guess the main thing and I know that Council Woman Villegas mentioned this, this is something that's written down on paper, this is something we can look at we can review it and we can keep doing that. And be confident that we're at least trying to achieve these goals. CHR. RICHARDS: Okay, now hang on a second here, I want to be a little bit time sensitive here. We've got another meeting coming up, and obviously I've never had waste management, both solid and water waste management trigger so much conversation. Ms. Kierkiewicz, you still have the floor, but I want to be Page 11 RAWEEMC-5 April 6, 2021 sensitive because the next committee is yours, and that's going to be a very long meeting coming up. This is a procedural thing, where we need to have. And to answer your question Mr. Inaba, we need to have this going forward for our Department of Health. This conversation is not over, it's sounding like people want to further this conversation. My suggestion, and I'll let you have the floor back in a second, Ms. Kierkiewicz. That at our meeting, Council Chair David, when this comes before full Council we invite them back to have a further conversation to be mindful of the time coming forward. Procedurally we have to get this going forward, but it is, as was articulated in the beginning, a living document. So my suggestion is we hit the pause button a little bit, get this to the Council bring you back, and both of you and maybe Ramzi can join us well, to continue the conversation. Because this is very important, we've touched on everything. So pardon that commercial, I'll give it back to you Ms. Kierkiewicz. I'm being sensitive to, we have I believe at least a dozen testifiers sitting for the next meeting. And it is your meeting. MS. KIERKIEWICZ: Thank you, Chair. Completely concur, thanks you guys for being here. Look forward to furthering the discussion with you. I know we could just spend days, chatting about how we solve this ongoing crisis that we have on our hands. So thank you, Chair. I yield the floor. CHR. RICHARDS: Okay, thank you very much. So with that, Matt, I see your light on, if it's a very short question I'd ask you to defer to the full Council. MR. KANEALI`I-KLEINFELDER: I'll make one statement then if can? CHR. RICHARDS: Okay, thank you. MR. KANEALI`I-KLEINFELDER: I read through the report, I appreciate your time and energy you put into it. I do have to say after reading through what was in here, and what the objectives were from 2009, how many of those were implemented, I'd say, I'm disappointed and where we're at right now. And some of the ideas that was coming forward was interesting: enterprise funds, pay as you throw, the ideas are interesting. Ultimately, our inaction is going to be left to our kids, and so that's why it may be a problem. And it's 2021, and we really haven't made a lot of headway as a county as far as recycling. And I understand there's reasons for that, but we've got to be a little bit more fore -thinking when it comes to how we deal with waste. And keeping it short, I'll stop right there. But that's what I got in reading this. I do appreciate the time and energy involved in putting this together, but I think we've got a lot of room to grow. Okay, thank you. CHR. RICHARDS: Thanks, Matt, appreciate that. So with that, Council Chair David, we will schedule a little bit more time in Council which is a little bit Page 12 RAWEEMC-5 April 6, 2021 unusual. But procedurally, we have to get this thing going. George, Greg, I do want to thank you guys for being here, and we'll talk story more later. But in the interest of time, we do need to get this going. There's a motion on the floor for the call of the vote all signify by saying "aye" to send this to Council with a positive recommendation, please say "aye." Vote on Res. 73-21: The motion to recommend adoption of Res. 73-21 was (Approved) carried by the following voice vote: Ayes: Committee Members Chung, David, Inaba Kdneali`i-Kleinfelder, Kierkiewicz, Kimball, Lee Loy, Villegas, and Chair Richards — 9 Noes: None. Absent: None. Excused: None. BILLS FOR the Chair directed the Committee to proceed to the next order of business, ORDINANCES: Bills for Ordinances. (There were none.) ADJOURN- There being no further business, at 3:25 p.m., Ms. Lee Loy moved to MENT: adjourn the meeting. Seconded by Mr. Inaba and carried by the following voice vote: Ayes: Committee Members Chung, David, Inaba Kdneali`i-Kleinfelder, Kierkiewicz, Kimball, Lee Loy, Villegas, and Chair Richards — 9 Noes: None. - Absent: None. Excused: None. CHR. RICHARDS: We stand in adjournment. Apprgved: Mr. Herbert M. 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