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January 24th, 2007
OFFICIAL MINUTES
(UNAPPROVED)
Dr. Merritt Warren called the Board of Health to order on Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 at
7:00 p.m. at the City Hall Commission room.
Committee Members present: Dr. Merritt Warren, Emil Klavetter, LuAnn Napton, Pat Lyons,
Trish Matson Buus, Jesse Ronning, Marry Wagner and Karen Cook.
Others present: Robert McGrath and Todd Langland
Committee Members Absent: Paul Irwin
1. Approval of Minutes: (Cook/Lyons) Motion to approve minutes for the October 26th, 2006
meeting.
All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED.
2. Additions to agenda: No additions
3. Approve Agenda: (Wagner/Napton) Motion to approve agenda.
All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED.
4. Preliminary 2006 Year End Number- Bob presented the preliminary end of year numbers
based on the material summary report from the landfill. Bob explained the different codes used
for each type of material and also said that each material may have up to five different meanings
based on who brings in the material. An example of this would be if we received material from a
government agency versus a private company in which there is no tax on the governmental
agency and there is tax on the private. He also stated that the landfill collected two kinds of tax:
One is the normal sales tax and the other is a tax/tonnage fee based on the number tons received,
but not all material is taxed.
To recap the total numbers the landfill took in 56,685.05 tons of material, which was total gross
revenue of $1,850,141.00 and of this figure local sales tax, state fees and the cost of spring clean
up would need to be subtracted out.
The landfill had increase in the tons based on 2006 of around 6,500. The extra material came
mainly from some large projects to include the K-Mart building, Big O Tires, SDSU houses and
the City of Elkton taking down some old buildings.
The year 2007 revenue is projected at $ 1,650,000 which is more in line with normal growth.
5. Review Board of Health Annual Report: The Board of Health reviewed the Annual report
and made the following changes:
Activities for the year 2006: 1.add: Cost of Crawler Loader
2. Add: Amount of transfer to GF in 2006 $ 330,000.00
Board member Karen Cook informed the members that no recycling advertising has been done
for a long time between the Landfill and Cook’s Wastepaper & Recycling. Bob informed the
Board that it is no longer in the contract and the issue of the recycling advertising that was
once placed in the telephone is no longer there.
Bob said there was a disagreement between the city and the utilities and they decided to
discontinue the one page ad. One reason was they wanted a front and back page.
(Lyons/Cook) Motion was made to contact the Brookings utilities and set up a front and
back page to be placed in the telephone book for public information.
All present voted Aye. MOTION CARRIED.
Bob and Todd will visit with the utilities and draft up a new ad to be place in the phone book.
6. Goals for Board of Health in 2007 – See List Below
• Purchase a new leachate (water) truck to replace our 1977 IHC truck.
• Purchase a new pickup to replace our 1982 S-10.
• Do an amendment to our solid waste permit to allow petroleum contaminated
soils to be buried directly as a waste versus being land farmed prior to use as an
alternative cover. (this reflects a change in the state regulations)
• Buyout or replace the trommel screen we own with the City of Sioux Falls (Sioux
Falls owns 80% of the current trommel screen).
• To continue to develop a strategy to manage electronic waste. A subcommittee of
the Board of Health made up of Paul Irwin, Pat Lyons and Bob McGrath has
already been established.
Items the committee will look at:
1. Cost to set up a long term project.
2. How to build in a fee structure to cover the costs of managing
electronic waste.
3. Determine the percentage of electronic waste coming to landfill.
4. Review EPA guidelines.
5. Review other cities in South Dakota and Minnesota to find out
what they are doing to manage electronic waste.
• To continue working on planning for a pandemic influenza outbreak with other
entities.
(Lyons/Napton) Motion was made to approve the Annual Report as Amended.
All present voted Aye. MOTION CARRIED.
7. Pandemic Influenza Planning- There are 25 – 30 plans in place with more to come. They
will be contacting retired people to help if needed. The grant they received from the state, which
is handled by Brookings Health systems was $ 15,800.00
8. Other Business- Bob informed the board that the balance in the Future Solid Waste fund for
siting a new landfill after the 2007 payment is $ 210,000.
9. Next Meeting- April or May 2007
9. (Buus/Ronning) Motion to adjourn the meeting.
All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED.
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Todd Langland, Secretary Dr. Merritt Warren, Chairman