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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Clean City Advisory Committee - 08/07/2014 CLEAN CITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE Meeting Minutes Thursday, August 7, 2014 @ 3:00 p.m. Solid Waste Operations Office, 2525 Hygeia, Corpus Christi, Texas 78415 I. Call to Order: Meeting Called to order at 3:04pm II. Roll Call of Members: Present Absent Contact Notes Scot Barker X Beth Becerra X Vacant Vacant Chelsea Craig X Micah DeBenedetto X Lori Galan-Garcia X Carolyn Moon X Amanda Stephens X Vacant Sharlene Walker X Other City Staff: Celina Pulcher III. Public Comment: No public comment at this time. IV. Review and approval of absences from June 5,2014: Chelsea Craig made the motion that absences shall be voted excused or unexcused beginning with the August 7, 2014 meeting. Carolyn Moon, seconded and the motion passed unanimously. V. Review and approval of meeting minutes from June 5,2014: Carolyn Moon made the motion to approve the minutes as written. Chelsea Craig seconded and minutes were passed as written. VI. Business for Discussion and Possible Action: A. Review of airsoft gun litter:The committee held a discussion regarding the use of airsoft pellets and discussed use of biodegradable pellets.The committee would like to know what are the current regulations regarding this issue and would like to invite the Police Department to come and discuss. B. Review of current City Litter Ordinance. Committee was given a copy of the current litter ordinance to review and discuss.The committee discussed the requirement of trash cans for local businesses and the traveling of trash into other lots. Lawrence explained that the ordinance had been approved but they are currently working on Clean City Meeting Minutes 2 0"14 additional revisions.There was also some discussion regarding plastic bags/ containers and current definitions. Scot asked about yards that were unkept and what is Code Enforcement experiencing which Lawrence explained that normally the problem is solved before a citation is issued.There are many repeat offenders that choose to just have the city take care of the problem. C. Litter Campaign Marketing Update including up-to-date metrics: Celina Pulcher discussed the current anti-litter campaign and distributed current metrics including downloads and pledge partners.The "Stop the Wrath" campaign will now be moving in the "Leave It Better Than You Found It" phase. Sharlene Walker asked about moving the campaign into the schools and there was some discussion about using it as a competition between schools. Chelsea suggested having the schools actually doing a competition of picking up real trash. Carolyn asked about the Pledge Partners and what that entails which Celina explained that the community is bing asked to take a pledge to pick up litter.The pledge partners are asked to put the message out to the community, their customers and employees. Chelsea expressed concern that there is a continuation of community awareness for the ordinance once the campaign is complete which will be looked into further. The committee discussed follow-up for the next meeting to include a discussion with Capt. Blackmon on the air soft regulations.The committee would like the opportunity to talk with the Educator, Dawn Stubblefield, to find out more about her efforts. VII. Scot Barker motioned to adjourn the meeting, Carolyn Moon seconded and meeting was adjourned at 4:02pm.