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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Clean City Advisory Committee - 06/05/2014 CLEAN CITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE Meeting Minutes Thursday, June 5, 2014 @ 3:00 p.m. Solid Waste Operations Office, 2525 Hygeia, Corpus Christi, Texas 78415 I. Call to Order: Meeting Called to order at 3:07pm II. Roll Call of Members: Present Absent Contact Notes Scot Barker X Beth Becerra X Kimberly Brumley X Unable to attend Brian Cornelius X Chelsea Craig X Micah DeBenedetto X Lori Galan-Garcia X No response Carolyn Moon X Amanda Stephens X Joan Veith X Sharlene Walker X No response Other City Staff: Lawrence Mikolajczyk, Celina Pulcher Committee Approved Minutes from the May 3, 2014 meeting-Scot Barker motioned, Chelsea Craig seconded;the committee voted to approve the minutes with one spelling correction of Saint Lewis to St. Louis. III. Public Comment: No public comment at this time. IV. Business for Discussion and Possible Action: A. Introduction of City Liaison with discussion on expected outlooks and responsibilities.Celina Pulcher was introduced to the Committee as the new City Liaison. She detailed her work experience including 15 years with the City and her various duties with other committees. B. Pellet gun litter discussion and possible action.Scot Barker explained there was a typo on the Agenda.The discussion was to be about air-soft guns and not pellet guns. Lawrence Mikolajcyzk made the decision to go ahead and discuss. Scot asked if there had been any initiatives about the soft guns. Lawrence explained there was an ordinance saying they could not be fired and that he thought the CCPD was watching whether guns were being fired out in the area being discussed (south of Bill Witt Park, by Oso Creek, by the Steel Mill). Carolyn Moon explained that there are several groups that utilize the park out there and there are guns being fired and Clean City Meeting Minuteso`I it poses a danger to the community.They are also concerned about the litter that is being left behind. Lawrence said the ordinance does address air soft guns and that he would contact Captain David Blackmon to take a look at the issue. Laurie Turner believes that youth are going out there to avoid being detected. She would like a presence to be made out there. Carolyn asked if we could post signs addressing dumping, shooting and trucks. Scot asked if this would be the most cost effective way and Lawrence said we could start with Capt. Blackmon and discuss with Parks and Recreation as well. Will check on progress for next agenda item. Micah DeBenetto asked about clean up and it was discussed that the committee would consider perhaps doing a clean-up out there.They did not want to think about adopting the park but would keep an eye on it. C. Review of Litter ordinance and responsibility of litter with discussion and possible action. Lawrence gave an update on enforcement of the ordinance. He said there were a few proposed changes to the ordinance and they are working on presenting to Council again. One of the items to add is addressing handouts and airbills. Also, special event ordinance which will require a solid waste plan, recycling and required signage. Celina will email a draft of the ordinance to the Committee. The committee also discussed problems with inlets and trash during special events. Solid Waste is looking to provide signage/sandwich boards that can be checked out during events and BMP variations of items to block debris from going into the storm drains. Depending on the size of the event, a compliance officer will follow-up on their event/ recycling plan. If they are not following,the City can charge$200. The Litter Ordinance has already been adopted, there were just some language changes. The new Special Event ordinance has not gone to Council yet and may require some town hall meetings. It does define what an event is and how many constitute a special event and it defines that special markings can only be done by a water soluble solution. Question was asked if there would be a requirement of number of trash cans required by larger stores and yes it would be. Carolyn asked about the fence area near Mt. Carmel. Lawrence explained that once trash is airborne, it becomes the responsibility of the property owner.The litter ordinance will dictate responsibility but the City is going to try an education campaign before enforcing heavy-handed ordinances. Micah asked about a video he saw on YouTube regarding the outflow that goes out to the bay. He asked why there is not another catch there. Lawrence explained the catch basins are located where the storm water drain inlets are on the street side. If you want to reduce trash like that the city needs to allocate more resources to address those and vacuum out the trash more than once a year. He further explained that it works until it rain and what was really alarming was the oil sheen. He also stated that there will be increased street sweeping. Clean City Meeting Minuteso`I Lawrence mentioned the Louisiana Parkway outlet.This is the area that is most impaired. It takes in a large area and the oldest infrastructure in the city. The committee stated they would like a packet of the Litter Ordinance for next month's meeting. D. Litter Campaign marketing update.Celina gave an update about The Wrath app, stating that it just became available on Android and IOS phones. Various vendors have come on board to give prizes away. In September, a community wide pledge will start. Laurie asked about the use of zombies, in which Lawrence explained that the target audience is males 18-35 which is what the campaign is targeting. In September,the campaign will change to Leave It Better CC which will target the entire community. He invited the Pride Committee to get involved and asked for the Clean City Committee to get involved as well. E. Update on litter education in schools with discussion and possible action.Celina gave the committee an update on the educator, Dawn Stubblefield. She has been out visiting different schools, mainly focusing on the elementaries but she will continue with some of the older youth. Laurie asked what the second educator would be doing, and Celina explained that they would be hitting areas outside of the inner city and they would be working on the outer areas. Beth asked if there was any education to the older senior citizens on littering and some suggestions were given on how to address them. V. Future Agenda items: Asked about separating minutes and absences for two different agenda items. Metrics on the marketing Taking a look at the litter ordinance Follow-up with Captain Blackmon and the signs Air soft gun litter discussion. VI. Adjourn:4:05pm Approved: Scot Barker, Chair Date