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April 25,2014
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY PRIDE
Friday,April 25,2014 4:00 pm 1
Solid Waste Operations 12525 Hygeia Corpus Christi, Texas 78415
1. Call to Order Time: @4:09 pm
11. Roll Call of Members
Present Absent
1. Oscar Carmona x
2. Bob Copes x
3. Iris Martinez x
4. Christina Hernandez x
S. Paul Gottemoller x
6. Frank Franklin x
7. Laurie Turner x
8. Belinda Rocha x
9. Betsy Herring x
10. Jeff Craft x
11.Bill Hoelscher x
12.Kim Womack(Ex-Oficio) x
Other City Staff present : Lawrence Mikolajczyk, Russell Stowers
III. Approval Absences of February 28, 2014
o Motion Frank Franklin,
o 2nd Motion Iris Martinez
IV. Public Comment: Please be advised that the Open Meetings Act prohibits the
committee from responding and discussing your comments at length. The law only
authorizes members to make a statement of factual information, recite an existing
policy in response to the inquiry, or advise the citizen that this subject will be placed
on an agenda at a later date. Iris Martinez asked the Committee to spread the
word of the Coastal Bend Wellness Foundation Town Hall Meeting on drunk
driving and underage drinking to be held April 29th 6:00pm at King High School.
V. Business for Discussion and Possible Action:
A. Picky Pete update- Christina/Iris
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Christina- Committee is determining who owns the copyright for Picky Pete.
Christina asked a gentlemen (didn't get a name) if he knows the status of the 2
copyright. She will follow up with that individual.
Whataburger agrees to support a Picky Pete roll-out in the Fall.
Christina, Iris, and Bob met with Dr. Bissell of Windsor Park Elementary to
learn more of the Picky Pete program.
B. Green and Clean Award plans- Oscar
Bob stated we won't have a Green and Clean award for May and that Oscar
and Jeff are planning to resign from the committee.
Frank and Betsy offered to take on Green and Clean Award responsibilities.
Bob will re-email the list of Green and Clean Award nominees to the entire
Committee so a business can be selected for the May Green and Clean Award.
C. Social Media Discussion/Facebook posting protocol -Bill
Bill- if there is to be a consistent message the committee may want to
designate one person to post on Facebook.
Bob- Because Jeff and Oscar will be resigning from the committee,there may
be an opportunity find new committee members who have a good
background in Social Media communications.
D. Community Outreach Subcommittee-Bill
Bill-Didn't set up an initial meeting which was intended to develop
information handouts on the Pride initiative during events. Below are the
survey results:
Laurie- Reported the Earth Day Bay Day survey results:
1. Do you know what pride is: Yes=39; No=44
(about half didn't know what PRIDE was)
2. Enforcing Litter laws will beautify our city: Yes=82; No=3
(use volunteers to clean city)
3. Community Opinion on litter in city: bad; I don't appreciate
litter bugs; abundant; it's an issue; people should because it's bad
for our environment...Community service, Cleaning downtown is a
good start...
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(Most believe there should be an improvement in litter. Plastic
bags were mentioned frequently. More recycling is needed.) There 3
generally more complaints than compliments.
4. Community Opinions on the meaning of PRIDE: we take pride
where we live; having a clean city; having an organization that is
actively working for the community...
S. Ways to improve the environment: more cleanups; awareness-
more recycling in schools; recycle glass and bottles, education,
enforce current litter laws (beaches)...
Pride Committee also distributed promotional items which included re-
usable shopping bags and stress ball trash trucks. The demand was so high
for the PRIDE bags and trash trucks that the committee ran out of supplies
quickly. Iris suggested using something like a "prize wheel" where
participants would need to answer a question to win a bag. If the contestant
doesn't answer correctly they could win something like a sticker which could
conserve supplies to last through an event.
Laurie asked about upcoming events that the committee could participate.
Russell-mentioned Adopt-a-Beach.
Shred day at KIII news was mentioned. Christina asked about the next Glass
Recycling date which is scheduled for May 10th at the Callalen Wal-Mart. The
committee would like to advertize on the Committee's Facebook page.
The Community Outreach sub-committee will investigate events and
promotional items such as stickers and hand stamps.
Bill asked Iris about sticker costs .24cents per sticker.
The Committee will submit a request to Solid Waste Operations to fund
promotional items.
A Community Outreach sub-committee meeting will be scheduled (Friday
May 16th 4pm-Spm) at the Legacy Center to address promotional products
and events.
Laurie suggested participating in Earth Day Bay Day next year and maybe
have Picky Pete do a demonstration.
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E. Code Enforcement-Bob
Westside Business Association has invited Code Enforcement to make a
presentation at one of their breakfast meetings either the September or
October meeting. Code Enforcement Facebook page is sharing more
interesting things which the Pride Committee's page may be able to share or
"leveraging" off of to get Code's message out.
F. Pride Shirts-Christina
Russell had the remaining Pride shirts available at the meeting for
Committee members to take.
G. How should Pride be involved in Anti-Litter Ordinance Roll-out- Lawrence
City is working on the education campaign through BucketWorks. We will
have a large roll-out of the marketing campaign on the week of May Stn.
Pride will have a lot of opportunities to promote the litter ordinance. There
will be a red carpet ceremony at La Palmera Mall which PRIDE could
participate in.
Bucket Works has already started created some materials such as billboard
advertising and has developed several commercials to advertise "the wrath"
campaign.
We've also developed the litter logo "Leave it better than you found it"which
will be placed on all manner of promotional products and advertizing.
Beaches will have bag stations and Solid Waste is investigating a new
portable digital billboard which could be placed on the entrances of the
beaches.
Solid Waste is investigating hiring a second educator to fill the demand.
Solid Waste will present the results of litter campaign to Council March/April
2015.
The City will have banners in the movie theatres and a movie trailer that will
be the second to last trailer.
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City employees will take litter pledge to keep their areas clean.
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There will be a reality scavenger hunt where an app could be downloaded
and would guide individuals through a "litter scavenger hunt." Corpus
Christi Hooks has partnered with the City by offering free game admission
for those who participate in the scavenger hunt.
H. How do we extend city recycling programs to apartment complexes? - Iris
Iris talked to her apartment manager to address the lack of recycling in her
apartment complex.
Lawrence stated to direct people to the closest recycling drop off center or
contact their private contract hauler for recycling.
Pride Committee decided to find one apartment complex to use as a pilot
program to determine the effectiveness of mandating recycling. Iris will look
for student apartments for a pilot.
I. Would a different meeting time be better for everyone? - Bob Committee
members will email their preference for meeting times to either Russell or
Bob.
I heard it was supposed to go to me. I've heard from a couple people and I'm
following up with the rest.
VI. Meeting Adjourn: 4:56pm