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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Clean City Advisory Committee - 01/14/2010 S RECEIVE® ' Clean City Advisory Committee Minutes of January 14, 2010 MAR 1 2 2010 The meeting opened at 3:00 p.m, 5th floor Assistant City Manager's Conference litmattigrakstiFFilgne to conflict the regular meeting was held a week later than the recurring first ThurshyffEd in . Attending: Daiquiri Richard, Paige Dinn, Mikell Smith, Scot Barker, Teresa Klein, and Anthony Castorena. Absent: John Elford, Scott Baker and Joan Veith. Elford and Baker did call and notified of their absences. Ex-officio member representatives were present: Sharon Lewis, Environmental Services, and Diana Garza, Neighborhood Services. City staff present: Angela Rowe, Pride/Clean City Coordinator and Lawrence Mikolaczyjk and Paul Bass, from City's Solid Waste Services. No mention of the adoption of minutes for the regular meeting on November 5, 2009 were made on the posted agenda. D. Richard introduced A. Rowe as the official Pride/Clean City Coordinator. After action reports were made by A. Rowe of the CC Clean Sweep event, E Recycling Event and Free Disposal Days. M. Smith was chosen to chair the Education Outreach Subcommittee. A. Rowe advised that the Keep America Beautiful application had been submitted and that the committee would go through mandatory KAB training during the next regular meeting. A. Rowe briefed the committee about various mascots that work to keep Corpus Christi beautiful, including Picky Pete's efforts in Nueces County, Kirby- the City's Solid Waste robot/mascot and little Flora, a Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle, designed by Ellen Fehrenkamp. D. Richard briefed the group on the Green Living/Building Conference and La Noche Bonita events. A. Rowe briefed the committee on upcoming events: Xmas Tree Recycling Events, MLK March, Be Bold Conference, in partnership with City's Parks & Rec, Graffiti and Pride Committee, Graffiti Summit, Xeriscape Garden Symposium, La Noche Bonita and Adopt A Park initiatives. D. Richard noted that Beautify Corpus Christi adopted Orion's Belt median and have already partnered with several youth groups and master gardener Michael Potter for a work day. D. Richard briefed the group on the upcoming Garden's at Cole Park endeavor, in partnership with Flint Hills Resources Community Action Council and Pride. A. Rowe and Oscar Martinez, Asst. City Manager briefed the group on the latest recycling program developments: the Pride group adopted a resolution to send to Council about the group's support of the enhancements to the current program. The budget shortfall is about $6.6 million, a challenge that the City has not seen in about 40 years. Amendments to budgets have been made, as part of the City's charter requirement, for balanced budget. Regardless of revenues, the City's budget must end with a balanced budget. Many options are on the table at this time, including suspension of the City's recycling program. Alternatives for some level of service were also being reviewed by O. Martinez and Solid Waste Operations. SCANNED