[CALL TO ORDER]
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AND, UH, THE MEETING IS PRETTY, UH, IT'S A PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD AGENDA.
COMMISSIONERS, I MEAN, WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF ITEMS HERE BEFORE WE JUMP INTO, UH, THE, UH, ELECTIONS OF ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
UH, THE FIRST TWO ITEMS, WELL, FIRST OFF, ANY PUBLIC COMMUNICATION.
ANYBODY SIGN UP TO SPEAK, SEE NO PUBLIC, UH, COMMUNICATION.
[APPROVAL OF MINUTES ]
MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER ONE, WHICH IS BASICALLY THE APPROVAL OF OUR FEBRUARY 11TH MINUTES FROM OUR PREVIOUS MEETING.DO I HEAR A SECOND? CAN SECOND THAT SETH MOVES AS A SECOND.
UH, ANY DISCUSSION ON THESE ITEMS OR ON THIS ITEM? HEARING? NO DISCUSSION.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
NEXT ITEM IS ITEM NUMBER TWO, WHICH IS THE APPROVAL OF THE, UH, SPECIAL CALLED, UH, MEETING WE HAD ON MARCH 25TH.
THAT WAS THE BUDGET, UH, RESOLUTION MEETING THERE TOO.
I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR, FOR APPROVAL.
CAITLYN, I MOVE TO APPROVE AGAIN.
IT WORKED THE FIRST TIME, SO I'LL SECOND ALL.
ALL RIGHT, COMMISSIONERS, WE HAVE A, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
ANY QUESTIONS, DISCUSSIONS ON THIS ITEM? HEARING NO DISCUSSIONS OR QUESTIONS? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, RAISE YOUR HAND.
[3.Conduct officer elections for the Chair and Vice Chair of the Zero Waste Advisory Commission.]
OF BUSINESS IS ITEM NUMBER THREE, WHICH IS AN ACTION ITEM.AND THAT'S LITERALLY THE, UH, ELECTION OF OUR 20 26, 27, UH, MEMBERSHIP.
OR I SHOULD, OFFICERS, WERE, UH, SEEKING THE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR POSITIONS.
AND, UH, AGAIN, FOLKS, THIS IS YOURS.
I MEAN, MAKE, IT'S UP TO US TO, UH, TO FILL THOSE TWO SEATS HERE.
DO WE JUST MAKE A MOTION TO YEAH, WE, WE, YES.
HOW, HOW DO WE FEEL ABOUT JERRY
I DON'T, IS IT, SHOULD I SAY A MOTION OR SHOULD I NOMINATE GARY AS CHAIR? CAITLYN? OKAY.
THE CHECK'S IN THE MAIL, BY THE WAY, BUT, UH, NO, JUST KIDDING.
NOMINATES IS PROBABLY THE BETTER TERM HERE.
I CAN SECOND THE NOMINATION OF JERRY FOR THE CARE.
DO YOU ACCEPT THAT NOMINATION? I ABSOLUTELY DID.
AND I THANK YOU GUYS VERY MUCH.
I MEAN, YOU GUYS MAKE IT EASY TO, TO DO THIS.
I, I'M NOT GONNA SAY EASY, BUT YOU MAKE IT FUN.
ALRIGHT, SO WE HAVE A MOTION AND, UH, WE HAVE A SECOND ON THAT MOTION.
WELL, ACTUALLY, SO HOW DOES IT PROCEED? DO WE DO A VOTE FIRST? YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WE COULD, I THINK IN THE PAST WE ACTUALLY HAD 'EM BOTH TOGETHER AND OH, OKAY.
BUT, UH, BUT IF YOU WANNA DO IT, UH, INDIVIDUALLY, WE CAN CERTAINLY DO THAT.
WHATEVER WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO.
JAN, CAN I NOMINATE YOU TO, UH, CONTINUE YOUR REIGN AS THE VICE CHAIR? YOUR OBLIGATION? I WAS GONNA SAY, AS LONG AS YOU DON'T CALL IT A REIGN.
UH, YEAH, I'M WILLING TO DO IT.
IF SOMEONE ELSE WOULD LOVE TO JUMP IN.
I WAS GONNA BEAT YOU TO IT, BUT NO, THANK YOU.
DO YOU ACCEPT THAT? I WILL ACCEPT IT.
WE HAVE A, UH, MOTION OR NOMINEES FOR THE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR POSITIONS, MYSELF AND JAN.
UH, I GUESS, UH, OPEN THE VOTE NOW.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, RAISE YOUR HAND.
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WE HAVE TO VOTE TO MAKE IT OFFICIAL, BUT COMMISSIONERS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, JAN.AND YES, YOUR OBLIGATIONS HAVE, UH, STARTED.
[Items 4 & 6]
GUYS.THE NEXT ITEM OF BUSINESS IS ITEM NUMBER FOUR, WHICH IS LITERALLY A DISCUSSION ON THE, UH, AMENDED ADMINISTRATIVE RULES FOR DROP OFF AND CURBSIDE SERVICES.
I THINK STAFF, THIS IS PRESENTATION.
SORRY, THE QUESTION IS, 'CAUSE UH, I THINK THERE'S A BRIEFING LATER ON THE AGENDA AS WELL, UM, WITH THE DISCUSSION.
SO, UM, BUT I CAN DO THEM TOGETHER, I IMAGINE.
IF YOU CAN DO THAT, IF YOU WANT TO.
AND A QUICK QUESTION, THIS IS A SECOND RENDITION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE RULES, OR THIRD, I THINK BY, IT'S THE THIRD OVERALL ROUND THAT WE'VE DONE.
BUT WE, SO THEN WE'RE, WE PRESENTED THIS, THESE RULES.
IT WAS A WHILE BACK, BUT IT WAS AN AUGUST, CORRECT? YES.
SO, SO THIS GOES TO COUNSEL FROM HERE, CORRECT.
I GUESS, LEMME, LET'S GET THE PRESENTATION PULLED UP AND THEN WE ALL QUESTIONS.
IT'S THE, UH, OH, NO, YOU'RE GOOD.
OH, YOU LUCKY WEREN HERE FOR, OKAY.
WELL, WE'LL GET, WE'LL GET GOING.
UM, UH, MY NAME IS JASON MCCOMBS.
I'M DIVISION MANAGER WITH AUSTIN RESOURCE RECOVERY.
AND, UH, WE'VE GOT SOME PROPOSED, UM, ADMINISTRATIVE RULES FOR THE DEPARTMENT HERE TO CONSIDER THIS EVENING.
SO, UH, JUST A QUICK REMINDER ABOUT WHAT ADMINISTRATIVE RULES ARE.
THESE ARE SOMETIMES CALLED DEPARTMENT RULES, BUT THIS IS NOT, IT IS NOT CODE, UM, RULES FOLLOW CODE.
AND IT'S HOW, UM, IT PROVIDES DETAIL AND HOW DEPARTMENT STAFF WILL IMPLEMENT CODE AND, UM, MOST ADMINISTRATIVE RULES WITHIN THE CITY GO THROUGH THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE.
AUSTIN RESOURCE FOR RECOVERY IS UNIQUE IN THAT WE GO THROUGH, UM, CITY COUNCIL TO DO THAT.
SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY PRESENTING THESE.
OH, LEMME GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
YEAH, SO JUST A REMINDER OF KIND OF WHERE WE'VE BEEN, UM, SO FAR WITH THESE RULES THAT WE'VE GOT HERE BEFORE US.
WE PRESENTED THE FIRST DRAFT OF THESE RULES BACK, IT WAS A WHILE AGO, BUT IT WAS BACK IN AUGUST.
AND SO, UH, WE HAD A GOOD DISCUSSION AROUND THOSE AFTER THAT.
WE THEN POSTED, UM, THESE RULES ONLINE FOR ABOUT 30 DAYS WITH SPEAKUP AUSTIN, AND GOT ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK FROM THE PUBLIC.
UH, WE DO HAVE, UM, IN YOUR BACKUP, YOU CAN SEE COMMENTS FROM SPEAKUP AND HOW STAFF RESPONDED TO THOSE, UM, AS WELL.
SO, UM, WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW IS WE'RE HERE.
WE PRESENTED TO C WEP, WHICH IS THE CLIMATE WATER ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS COMMITTEE.
UH, WE'VE, UH, BRIEFED THEM BY MEMO IN MARCH, AND THEN WE'RE HERE.
UM, TODAY WAS WHACK TO PRESENT THE RULES THEMSELVES.
AND SO WE'LL BE SEEKING, UM, POTENTIAL RECOMMENDATION TO GO TO CITY COUNCIL, UM, HOPEFULLY IN MAY, GO TO THE NEXT LINE.
UM, AND THEN, SO JUST TO OVERALL, WHY WE'RE DOING THIS, UM, WAS WE JUST SORT, WE HAD NOT HAD A NUMBER OF RURAL CHANGES FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, UM, WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT.
AND SO STAFF HAD IDENTIFIED A NUMBER OF AREAS THAT NEEDED, UM, UPDATING.
AND SO UP THERE'S ARE THE ONES WE'VE, UH, IDENTIFIED.
UM, WE'VE GONE THROUGH TWO ROUNDS ALREADY.
WE'VE GOT ANOTHER ONE, NUMBER FOUR COMING UP AFTER THIS IN THE FUTURE.
UM, BUT YEAH, HERE'S WHERE WE'RE TODAY.
THAT'S WHAT WE'VE GOT BEFORE US.
AND THEN, UM, YEAH, AND SO JUST SOME KIND OF HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT WE'VE GOT HERE.
AND SO, LIKE I SAID, THIS WAS PRESENTED BACK ORIGINALLY BACK IN AUGUST.
UM, YOU SHOULD HAVE IN YOUR BACKUP A FULL STRIKE THROUGH DETAILED VERSION OF THIS.
UM, BUT YEAH, JUST SOME KEY HIGHLIGHTS.
THERE'S A LOT OF DETAIL ON THERE, BUT JUST SOME KEY HIGHLIGHTS I THINK TO HIT ARE, UM, ARE ONE IS THE, WE'RE REVISING, UM, INTAKE PROCEDURES AT HORNSBY BEND.
UM, THERE'S GONNA BE A NEW LIMIT OF SIX CUBIC YARDS PER PERSON, UM, PER DAY BEING INTRODUCED.
AND THIS IS, UH, BEING INTRODUCED TO HELP MITIGATE LARGE LOADS BEING DROPPED OFF BY COMMERCIAL CONTRACTORS AT HORNSBY.
SIX CUBIC YARDS WAS IDENTIFIED, UM, AS A REASONABLE LIMIT FOR THE AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD DROP OFF.
UH, HORNSBY BEND IS, UH, NOT DESIGNED, UH, FOR COMMERCIAL LOADS.
AND, UH, SO RIGHT NOW ALL RESIDENTS WITHIN AUSTIN PAY, UH, AS PART OF THE, UH, BASE FEE FOR, TO HAVE ACCESS TO HORNSBY.
SO THAT FEE IS GONNA BE REMOVED AND, UM, IT, IT WILL NOW BE OPEN TO ANYONE TO DROP OFF AT HORNSBY UNDER SIX CUBIC YARDS.
AND A FEE WILL BE ASSESSED ON SITE.
UM, THIS FEE IS GONNA BE PART OF THE FY 27 BUDGET, AND WE'LL START ASSESSING FEES IN OCTOBER OF 2026.
UH, JUST ADDITIONALLY, THERE ARE SOME, UH, UM, UPDATES TO THE EXTRA TRASH RULES.
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UPDATING ON CURRENT OPERATIONAL PRACTICES, LIKE, LIKE ALLOWING CUSTOMERS TO REQUEST EXTRA RECYCLING CARTS OR HAVING A LIMIT OF, UH, 15, UH, YARD TRIMMING BAGS THEY COLLECTED EACH WEEK, PROVIDED SOME CLARIFICATION ON SIZE LIMITS, UM, OF EXTRA TRASH THAT WILL BE COLLECTED, UM, LIKE A 35 POUND LIMIT OF WHAT CAN BE LIFTED, FOR EXAMPLE.UM, AND THEN WE ALSO HAD ADDED LANGUAGE, UM, THAT CAPTURES THE ON DEMAND PROGRAM.
SO THIS IS THE BULK HOUSEHOLD HOUSE WASTE BRUSHED, UH, THE NEW PROGRAM WE, WE HAD NO, UM, REFERENCE TO THE NEW ON DEMAND KINDA SYSTEM.
AND SO THAT'S BEEN ADDED AS WELL.
AND SO, UM, HERE WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
I THINK TODAY WE'RE REALLY LOOKING FOR RECOMMENDATION, UH, RECOMMENDATION ON THESE RULES TO GO TO COUNCIL ON MAY.
AND, UM, IF THAT THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER 'EM.
COMMISSIONERS, UH, ANY QUESTIONS, COMMISSIONERS ON THE, UH, PRESENTATION? MELISSA? I HAVE A QUESTION.
UM, I WAS WONDERING IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE C WILL BE? THANK YOU.
YEAH, WE'RE STILL IN THE PROCESS OF CALCULATING THAT.
UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, KIND OF WHAT, WHAT'S BEING CHARGED REGIONALLY.
SO I, I DON'T HAVE A, A FIRM ANSWER AS OF TODAY.
UM, WE ARE KIND OF SEEING IN THE $10 PER CUBIC YARD KIND OF BALLPARK RANGE.
UM, BUT THAT'S, LIKE I SAID, THAT'S VERY MUCH, UM, BEING CALCULATED RIGHT NOW.
AND WE'LL HAVE, YOU KNOW, BETTER INFORMATION, I THINK WHEN WE GET CLOSER TO, UH, LIKE OCTOBER LATER THIS SUMMER.
INSTEAD OF THE FEE THAT'S BAKED INTO OUR BILL NOW, THEY TOOK SOMETHING TO HORNSBY BEN, AND IT WAS THE SIX CUBIC, SAY IT'S THE 10, IT'D BE $60 TO DROP OFF SIX CUBIC FEE WORTH OF BRUSH EVERY TIME.
UM, YEAH, IF YOU TOOK THE FULL SIX CUBIC YARDS, POTENTIALLY.
LIKE I SAID, I DON'T HAVE THE FULL FEE.
SO WHAT WE'VE GOT RIGHT NOW IS A SYSTEM THAT IS SUBSIDIZED ACROSS THE CITY WHERE EVERYONE IS PAYING RIGHT NOW.
AND SO, LIKE I SAID, THAT WILL BE TAKEN OFF OF EVERYONE'S BILL AND THEN NOW BE FOR THE PEOPLE THAT DO USE IT, UM, IT WILL BE CHARGED.
AND THEN ANOTHER QUESTION THAT I HAD IS, I, I MEAN, I WOULD ASSUME THAT DURING, UM, SIMILAR EMERGENCY WEATHER EVENTS THAT WE'VE HAD IN THE PAST WHERE, YOU KNOW, A LARGE AMOUNT OF BRUSHES BEING, YOU KNOW, DISPERSED THROUGHOUT THE CITY, THAT THIS LIMIT WOULD BE TEMPORARILY LIFTED.
WE'VE, WE'VE GOT LANGUAGE IN THERE RIGHT NOW ALLOWING THE DIRECTOR TO WAIVE THOSE FEES IN, IN CON WHEN THERE'S AN EMERGENCY SITUATION.
LIKE A FREEZE OR FLOOD OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I HAVE A QUESTION, JASON.
IN OUR RESEARCH HERE, DID WE LOOK AT, UH, AT THE FEES THAT WERE BEING ASSESSED BY SAY, AUSTIN WOOD RECYCLING AND OR TEXAS DISPOSAL SYSTEMS ON THERE? WE DO, YES.
YEAH, WE, OUR, OUR TEAM IS DOING THE RESEARCH THERE,
AND WHAT WERE THOSE FEES? I DON'T HAVE THOSE NUMBERS IN FRONT OF ME, BUT THEY ARE KIND OF HOVERING AROUND THAT, THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE, WE EXPECT TO BE COMPETITIVE, YOU KNOW, WITH THEM.
SO, AND AGAIN, SIX CUBIT YARDS IS, AGAIN, THAT'S NOT A WHOLE LOT, BUT IT'S, IT'S, YEAH.
IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S A, LIKE, SHOULD BE A TRAILER LOAD AND IT'S KIND OF WHAT, WHAT OUR, OUR TEAM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S OUT THERE EVERY DAY KIND OF DETERMINED WAS LIKE A GOOD NUMBER TO USE IS A, IS A REASONABLE KIND OF LARGE LOAD FOR A, A RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO, TRYING TO STAY CLEAR OF THE, UH, BIG ROLL OFF TRUCKS SHOWING UP THERE WITH A CORRECT, CORRECT ROLL.
YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S THE PRIMARY ISSUE WE'RE TRYING TO SOLVE FOR HERE.
AND THAT, HAS THAT HAPPENED BEFORE? I MEAN YES, YES.
SO I'VE NEVER BROUGHT ANYTHING OUT THERE, BUT IT SEEMS AS THOUGH A FEE, YOU CAN STILL GET YOUR BRUSH PICKED UP THREE TIMES A YEAR.
SO YES, IF YOU'RE DOING BIG CLEANUPS, YOU CAN STILL TAKE CARE OF THAT.
THIS IS JUST BE ABOVE AND BEYOND THAT, WHICH PROBABLY MOST PEOPLE AREN'T HAVING TO DO THAT ANYWAY.
I MEAN, I, I CAN'T SPEAK FOR EVERYBODY.
YOU WILL, YOU WILL STILL HAVE THE CURBSIDE BRUSH PICKUP AS WELL.
SO YES, THIS WOULD BE A SITUATION WHERE SOMEONE WOULD WANT, HAVE A SITUATION WHERE THEY'D WANT TO DRIVE IT OUT THERE AND PAY FOR IT.
IT DOES SEEM LIKE ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT LIKE A REGULAR YARD MAINTENANCE WOULD, WOULD REQUIRE.
AND THE CURBSIDE COLLECTION, I MEAN, DIMENSIONS ARE 15 BY 15 BY HOW TALL? 15 BY 15.
IS THAT IT? AND YEAH, BECAUSE THAT'S, UH, THAT'S PROBABLY MORE THAN SEE IF I'VE GOT IT IN HERE.
YOU'RE, YOU'RE TESTING ME RIGHT NOW.
YEAH, THAT'S A, THAT'S A GOOD CHUNK OF YEAH.
THREE BY THREE BY THREE WOULD BE CUBIC YARD, RIGHT?
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I'M SO SORRY.YEAH, WE'RE 15 BY 15 BY 15 BY FOUR BY FIVE IS THE, ARE THE BRUSH DIMENSIONS.
ALRIGHT, SO THAT'S STILL A GOOD CHUNK OF OF WOOD.
THE ONLY OTHER QUESTION I HAVE IS IF THE IS ABOUT RECYCLING, UM, YOU CAN GET AN EXTRA RECYCLING CAN AT YOUR HOME.
YOU CAN HAVE TWO RECYCLING CANS.
YOU CAN ONE, THREE OR WHATEVER.
YEAH, WE, YEAH, WE CAN GET ONE MORE.
BUT YOU CAN GET ANOTHER, ANOTHER ONE FOR FREE.
IS THERE ANY CONSIDERATION TO DOING THE RECYCLING PICKUP WEEKLY AS WELL? UM, WE HAVE CONSIDERED IT OVER THE YEARS.
IT'S A, IT'S A REGULAR QUESTION.
THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A STEEP KIND OF OPERATIONAL, YOU KNOW, COST TO DO THAT.
UM, SO IT'S SOMETHING WE, WE'VE LOOKED AT A NUMBER OF TIMES, BUT AT THIS TIME, NO, IT'S NOT SOMETHING.
UM, BUT YOU CAN HAVE TWO, UM, RECYCLING CARTS, WHICH THAT SEEMS LIKE I FIND HELPS A LOT.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONERS? I'VE GOT ONE.
UM, I'M IMAGINING THIS ISN'T THE ONLY, I'M IMAGINING THAT HORNS WE BEND ISN'T THE ONLY LOCATION WHERE COMMERCIAL LOADS TAKE THEIR STUFF.
UM, WHAT ARE THE OTHER OPTIONS FOR WHERE COMMERCIAL LOADS CAN, CAN BRING THEIR LARGE BRUSH? AUSTIN WOOD RECYCLING, TEXAS DISPOSAL SYSTEMS? UH, OH MY GOD.
WHO'S THE OTHER GUY? THERE'S ANOTHER LOCATION NORTH.
YEAH, I LOVE ONE EVENT AND I ALSO DON'T WANT THEM TO BE COVERED IN
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMISSIONERS HERE OR NO OTHER QUESTIONS? THIS, THIS IS AN ACTION ITEM AND I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.
DO I HEAR A SECOND ON THAT? I CAN SECOND THAT APPROVAL.
ANY DISCUSSION ON THE ITEM? HEARING? NO FURTHER DISCUSSION.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, RAISE YOUR HAND.
ALRIGHT GUYS, THE NEXT ITEM IS
[5.Staff briefing regarding the one-year update of the On Demand Bulk Collection program by Samuel Gilbert and Donald Hardee, Litter Abatement and Diversion Facilities Division Managers of Austin Resource Recovery.]
STATE BRIEFING ON THE, UH, ON-DEMAND BULK COLLECTION PROGRAM.I'M SAMUEL GILBERT WITH AUSTIN RESOURCE RECOVERY.
I'M DIVISION MANAGER WITH OUR LITTER ABATEMENT DIVISION, AND WE ALSO HAVE, UH, MR. ANDY DAWSON, HE'S OUR ASSISTANT DIVISION MANAGER, UH, WITH THE HHW AND THE R-R-D-L-C IN THE ABSENCE OF DIVISION MANAGER DONALD HARDY.
AND SO WHAT WE WANT TO GO OVER THIS EVENING IS THE ON DEMAND SERVICES FOR, UH, BRUSH BULK AND HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE.
JUST KIND OF GIVING YOU ALL A, A CALENDAR YEAR UPDATE ON HOW WE DID AND CALENDAR YEAR 25 5.
SO IN JANUARY, 2025, AUSTIN RESOURCE RECOVERY BEGAN A CITYWIDE COLLECTION FOR, UH, BRUSH BULK AND HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE MATERIAL, UH, THROUGH AN EMPLOYMENT BASED SERVICE MODEL.
AND SO WHAT THIS ALLOWS FOR, IT ALLOWS FOR THE CUSTOMERS TO HAVE THREE COLLECTIONS PER YEAR, UH, SCHEDULED APPOINTMENTS, UH, BASED ON WHEN THEY WANT TO HAVE THESE APPOINTMENTS SCHEDULED.
UH, THE EASE OF SCHEDULING, UH, BASICALLY CREATES A LEVEL OF CONVENIENCE FOR THE CUSTOMER AND ALLOWS THEM TO CONTROL, UH, WHEN THEY SET OUT THEIR MATERIAL.
AND SO IT'S, IT'S NOT LIKE THE TRADITIONAL MODEL.
AND SO THE COLLECTIONS ARE SCHEDULED ON WHAT ARE OFF SERVICE DAYS.
AND SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT, IF YOU ARE IN A MONDAY SERVICE AREA, UH, THEN YOUR ON DEMAND SCHEDULING, UH, AND COLLECTIONS WOULD BE DONE ON THAT TUESDAY OFF SERVICE DAY.
AND SO IT ALLOWS FOR, YOU KNOW, A LARGER SET OUT AREA AT THE CURBSIDE AND, YOU KNOW, NOT HAVING CARTS PILED ON TOP OF, YOU KNOW, BRUSH OR BULK SET OUTS OR THE, UH, HHW SET OUTS.
AND SO OUR PREVIOUS COLLECTION MODEL, UH, IN THE FORMER BRUSH AND BULK MODEL ALLOWED FOR CUSTOMERS TO SCHEDULE, UH, COLLECTIONS THROUGH NOTIFICATIONS VIA MAILERS THAT WE WOULD, WE WOULD SEND OUT TO THE PUBLIC.
AND THOSE MAILERS WENT OUT TWICE A YEAR, UH, FOR TWICE ANNUALLY COLLECTIONS.
AND IT GENERALLY WAS SET ON ON A SIX MONTH TIMEFRAME, YOU KNOW, FIRST PART OF THE YEAR.
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YOU GET PICKED UP AGAIN SOMETIME, UH, IN JULY.AND SO, BUT WHAT IT, IT DIDN'T DO FOR THE CUSTOMERS WHEN IT CAME TO THE IDEA OF BULK COLLECTION, THERE WERE, UH, LIMITED SET OUTS, UH, FOR DIVERSION, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE A LOT OF THIS MATERIAL WAS COMMINGLED.
AND SO WHEN YOU'RE, WHEN WE WOULD GO OUT TO THESE LOCATIONS, YOU'D SEE APPLIANCES MIXED WITH REGULAR BULK, UH, THERE WAS GOING TO BE LANDFILL, AND IT BECAME A TEDIOUS EFFORT TO TRY TO PULL THIS MATERIAL, UH, OUT OF WHAT WAS COMMINGLED AT THE CURBSIDE.
AND THEN WHEN IT CAME TO THE APPOINTMENTS FOR THE HHW, HHW WAS APPOINTMENT BASED, BUT IT WAS BY DROP OFF ONLY.
AND SO IT WAS CAUSED TO HAVE, UH, CUSTOMERS THAT DIDN'T HAVE TRANSPORTATION, MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO, UH, GET TO THE LOCATIONS.
AND THERE WAS NO CURBSIDE COLLECTIONS, UH, BEING OFFERED AT THAT TIME.
UH, WHAT YOU'LL SEE HERE IS THE BRUSH AND BULK ON DEMAND APPOINTMENTS, UH, FOR CALENDAR YEAR 25, UH, STARTING IN JANUARY AROUND JANUARY 13TH, ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE END OF THE YEAR.
AND SO BASICALLY, UH, YOU SEE 14, OVER 14,000, UH, APPOINTMENTS SCHEDULED FOR THE BRUSH COLLECTION, AND OVER 52,000 APPOINTMENTS SCHEDULED FOR THE, UH, BULK COLLECTION.
AND THEN YOU KIND OF SEE A PEAK IN SOME OF THE SUMMER MONTHS.
BUT THAT IS ALSO DUE TO A GRADUAL INCREASE IN APPOINTMENTS BECAUSE IN ORDER TO FILL OUT THE, UH, SERVICES, WE STARTED WITH A LOWER NUMBER OF APPOINTMENTS RIGHT AROUND, YOU KNOW, UH, 40 TO 60 APPOINTMENTS FOR BRUSH, AND THEN 120, 140 APPOINTMENTS FOR BULK.
AND THEN WE JUST GRADUALLY INCREASE TO WHERE WE'RE AT NOW, WHICH ARE 300 APPOINTMENTS FOR BULK, UH, DAILY, AND THEN, UH, 120 APPOINTMENTS FOR A BRUSH.
AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU CAN STOP ME AT ANY TIME, AND I'LL BE GLAD TO ADDRESS THOSE.
SO ALSO, UH, WE HAVE THE, UH, BRUSH AND BULK ON DEMAND TONNAGE, UH, FOR THE YEAR.
YOU KNOW, THE APPOINTMENT BASED SERVICING, UH, HA HAS CAUSED A DECREASE, UH, IN OUR TONNAGE, UH, FOR BOTH BRUSH AND BULK LANDFILL.
UH, BUT WE'VE ALL, BUT WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS AN INCREASE IN THE TONNAGES FOR THE RECYCLING, UH, DIVERTED, UH, FROM THE LANDFILLS.
AND SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS, YOU KNOW, THE, THE ONE THING THAT JUMPS OUT, UH, WITH THE BULK RECYCLED IN CALENDAR YEAR 24, WE HAD 198 TONS OF, OF RECYCLABLES.
AND THEN, BUT IN CALENDAR YEAR 25, WE INCREASED TO, UH, 334, UH, TONS OF RECYCLABLE MATERIALS.
AND THEN AS, AS YOU GO THROUGH, YOU ALSO SEE THE CHART, WHICH SHOWS FROM, UH, JANUARY THROUGH, UH, OUT, UH, THE YEAR OF 2025 ALL THE WAY TO DECEMBER.
AND SO OUR TOTAL OF BULK LANDFILL REDUCED FROM, UH, CALENDAR YEAR 24, UH, ABOUT 3000 TONS IN, IN CALENDAR YEAR, 25 TO 6,072 TONS.
AND THEN THE BRUSH COLLECTED, THERE WAS ALSO REDUCTION FROM, UH, 6,100 TONS TO NEARLY 3000 TONS.
SO OPERATIONAL COSTS, UH, REVENUE DIVERSION AND MILEAGE, YOU KNOW, WITH ON DEMAND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE EXPERIENCED CHANGES IN THE PROGRAM, AND THOSE CHANGES ARE REPRESENTATIVE, UH, OF THE SERVICE MODEL.
AND SO WHAT YOU SEE FOR BRUSH, UM, IS YOU SEE OUR OVERTIME SAVINGS IN BRUSH IN BULK.
UH, THEN YOU ALSO SEE FUEL SAVINGS, UH, IN BRUSH.
AND THEN IN PART OF THAT FUEL SAVINGS, UH, FOR BRUSH COMES FROM THE IDEA OF POINT TO POINT ROUTING.
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE OLD SERVICE MODEL, WHEN YOU'RE SERVICING ANYWHERE FROM SIX TO 8,000 HOMES, AN OPERATOR HAS TO DRIVE DOWN EVERY SINGLE STREET IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH THE COMPLETION OF A ROUTE.
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU GO FROM TO AN APPOINTMENT BASED SERVICE MODEL, IT'S GOING FROM ONE ADDRESS TO THE VERY NEXT ADDRESS.
BYPASSING FULL STREETS THAT MAY HAVE NOT BEEN SET OUT, MAY HAVE NOT BEEN SET OUT ON THAT FIRST MONTH CYCLE OR THAT, THAT SECOND ANNUAL CYCLE.
AND SO THERE'S A RE THERE'S A REDUCTION, UH, IN, IN YOUR FUEL COSTS AS IT RELATES TO, TO BRUSH.
UH, WHEN YOU LOOK AT BULK, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A REDUCTION IN LANDFILL COSTS, YOU KNOW, OVER THE COURSE OF TIME, LANDFILL COSTS HAVE, HAVE INCREASED YEARLY.
AND SO, BUT HERE WE HAVE A REDUCTION IN TONNAGE, WHICH IS ALSO ALLOWED FOR A REDUCTION IN THE AMOUNT THAT WE'RE PAYING FOR LANDFILL COSTS.
AND SO THOSE LANDFILL, THOSE DISPOSAL COSTS IN, UH, CALENDAR YEAR 24 WAS 2058, UH, $258,000.
WHEREAS IN CALENDAR YEAR 25, WE SEE, UH, A
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172,000, A REDUCTION OF, OF NEARLY 86 K IN OUR, IN OUR LANDFILL COSTS.AND THEN YOU ALSO SEE, UH, AN INCREASE IN FUEL COSTS.
BUT THERE'S A CAVEAT TO THAT BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE INCREASE REVENUE FOR, UH, FROM DIVERSION EFFORTS, UH, IT KIND OF OFFSETS OUR FUEL COSTS.
BUT BECAUSE OF THAT ADDITIONAL, UH, ABILITY TO INCREASE OUR DIVERSION, YOU KNOW, OUR MILEAGE NUMBERS INCREASE BECAUSE WE ARE RUNNING JUST A FEW MORE TRUCKS IN ORDER TO DIVERT THIS MATERIAL FROM THE CURBSIDE, UH, TO, UH, RECYCLING FACILITIES AND, AND THUS INCREASING THE MILEAGE.
AND SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT MILEAGE INCREASE, OVERALL, IT'S ABOUT AN IN 22% OF IT CAME FROM JUST DIVERSION ALONE.
AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO MR. DAWSON.
ALRIGHT, SAM, THANKS AGAIN FOR THAT EARLIER INTRODUCTION.
UH, MY NAME IS ANDY DAWSON, ASSISTANT DIVISION MANAGER WITH AUSTIN RESOURCE RECOVERY.
UM, WE LAUNCHED THE HHW ON DEMAND PROGRAM IN JANUARY OF 2025.
UH, THERE'S A TABLE ON THE BOTTOM LEFT THAT KIND OF BREAKS DOWN A LOT OF THE INDIVIDUAL COSTS.
WE DID SEE AN INCREASE OF ABOUT 2000 MORE RESIDENTS UTILIZING THE HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE PROGRAM.
UM, AND ABOUT 20% OF THOSE TOTAL WORK FROM THE HHW ON DEMAND PROGRAM.
YOU CAN SEE IN THAT TABLE, THERE'S ABOUT 7,300, UH, CUSTOMERS IN ADDITION TO THE 28,000, UH, CUSTOMERS THAT COME TO THE DROP OFF CENTER.
IT IS MORE EXPENSIVE, UH, OR AT LEAST THE, THE DROP OFF SERVICE IS THE MORE EFFICIENT, UH, COST EFFECTIVE WAY TO, TO DIS UH, TO COLLECT AND DISPOSE OF OUR HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTED.
BUT, UM, I WANTED TO, UM, DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO THE, THE BOTTOM OF THE TABLE, UM, WHERE WE HAVE AN EFFECTIVE COST PER HOUSEHOLD FOR DROP OFF, FOR HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE DROP OFF, AND, UH, THE EFFECTIVE COST PER HOUSEHOLD FOR, FOR PICKUP.
UM, BUT ONE THING I WANTED TO, TO BRING UP WAS THAT THE AVERAGE WEIGHT PER HOUSEHOLD IS NEARLY TRIPLE, UM, FOR PICKUP THAN IT IS FOR DROP OFF.
UH, WE HAVE A FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT.
WE'RE THINKING THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, FOLKS ARE, WHEN THEY'RE COMING TO THE DROP OFF CENTER, THEY ARE ALSO BRINGING STYROFOAM AND OTHER RECYCLABLES AND OTHER BULKY ITEMS, AND THERE'S JUST NOT ENOUGH PHYSICAL ROOM WITHIN THE, WITHIN THEIR VEHICLE TO, TO BRING, YOU KNOW, ALL THOSE CHEMICALS DOWN.
UM, SIMILARLY IF WE GO TO, OR ALTERNATIVELY, IF WE GO TO A PERSON'S RESIDENCE, THEY HAVE A LOT OF, UH, THEY MAY AS WELL TAKE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO CLEAN OUT ALL OF THE STUFF THAT THEY ORDINARILY MAY HAVE BEEN HANGING ONTO.
UM, OUR POPULARITY, OUR, UH, HOW, HOW THE CUSTOMERS THAT WE SEE MONTHLY, UH, DOES FOLLOW A LITTLE BIT OF A, A SEASONALITY, UH, ASPECT TO IT WITH, YOU KNOW, THE MORE TEMPERATE MONTHS HAVING A, A HIGHER, UH, PARTICIPATION RATE.
UM, WE DO SEE A, A BUMP IN, UH, OCTOBER, UH, FOLLOWING A PRETTY SUCCESSFUL MARKETING CAMPAIGN BY OUR PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE HERE FOR, UH, THE ACTUAL, THE, THE TOTAL TONNAGE COLLECTED IN, UH, AND, YOU KNOW, THE, THE NOVEMBER DECEMBER DECLINE IS, IS TO BE EXPECTED DUE TO THE, THE COLDER WEATHER.
UM, SO IT'S BEEN, WE FEEL PRETTY SUCCESSFUL.
UM, WE'VE GOT AN ADDITIONAL 5%, UH, CUSTOMERS, YOU KNOW, THIS YEAR VERSUS LAST YEAR.
UM, WE TEND TO FIND THAT THE, UH, DROP OFF MATERIALS ARE OF A LITTLE BIT HIGHER QUALITY, UM, OR MORE REUSABILITY THAN, UM, FOLKS THAT ARE COMING TO, TO DROP OFF MATERIALS.
UM, SO A LOT OF THAT MATERIAL IS SUITABLE FOR REUSE IN OUR REUSE STORE.
SO THE, UH, DEPARTMENT DOES NOT HAVE TO PAY FOR A GREATER PERCENTAGE OF THE MATERIALS PICKED UP VERSUS DROPPED OFF.
UM, THIS DOES ALSO, YOU KNOW, REMOVE IT FROM, UM, OUR, OUR STAFF IS COLLECTING IT DIRECTLY FROM THE PERSON.
SO THERE'S, THERE'S LESS, UM, WE HAVE OUR, OUR TRAINED STAFF COLLECTING THE MATERIAL INSTEAD OF FOLKS THAT ARE TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING THAT, THAT MAY NOT QUITE HAVE THE, THE CHEMISTRY KNOWLEDGE OR EDUCATION.
DO YOU WANNA TAKE THAT ONE REAL QUICK? SO, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE PROGRAMS IN THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE ALWAYS GONNA HAVE CHALLENGES, YOU KNOW, FROM THE, PROBABLY THE, THE, FROM THE INCEPTION OF, OF, YOU KNOW, THE PREVIOUS BULK MODEL.
THERE WERE, THERE WAS CHALLENGES.
AND THEN TO PRESENT DAY, WE'RE DEALING WITH CHALLENGES.
AND SO SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT YOU SEE WHEN IT COMES TO BRUSH AND BULK,
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UH, THE, WE, WE STILL TEND TO, TO INCUR, YOU KNOW, UH, MATERIALS SET OUT NEAR, UH, OBSTACLES IN THE RIGHT OF WAYS.AND, YOU KNOW, THE GOAL OF THE, THE EMPLOYEES IS TO ENSURE THAT THEY'RE LEAVING LITERATURE FOR THESE CUSTOMERS THAT WE'RE TAKING PICTURES OF THESE STOPS.
AND, AND, AND IN ORDER TO TRY TO EDUCATE THE CUSTOMER TO, UH, CHANGE THE SET OUT PRACTICE AND, AND SET AWAY, YOU KNOW, HAVE THESE MATERIALS AWAY FROM OBSTACLES WHEN IT COMES TO BRUSH, UH, BRUSH, WE ENCOUNTER THE, THE HIDDEN DANGERS, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S MANHOLE COVERS, UH, SPRINKLERS, YOU KNOW, UH, SPRINKLER HEADS, UH, BECAUSE IT'S SET OUT, YOU KNOW, ON THE RIGHT OF WAY AND IN THE GRASS.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, FOR THAT, WE JUST WANT TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THE CUSTOMER EDUCA EDUCATION, WHETHER IT'S VIA OUR, YOU KNOW, LITERATURE THAT WE LEAVE, WHETHER IT'S THROUGH OUR PIO, UH, WHETHER IT'S THROUGH SOME OF THE OTHER, UH, OUTREACHES TOWN HALL MEETINGS, WE DO WANT TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE PROVIDING AS MUCH EDUCATION TO THE CUSTOMERS AS WE POSSIBLY CAN.
AND THEN THE, THE, YOU KNOW, WE STILL ENCOUNTER, UH, UNSCHEDULED SET OUTS.
THERE ARE CERTAIN AREAS, UH, THROUGHOUT THE CITY, UH, THAT, UH, CUSTOMERS HAVE OPERATED ON BEHAVIOR.
AND THAT BEHAVIOR IS BECAUSE MY NEIGHBOR SET OUT, THEN I'M GONNA SET OUT, AND MAYBE THEY'LL COLLECT IT.
AND THE IDEA IS FOR US TO PROVIDE THE CUSTOMER SERVICE, BUT WE'RE STILL TRYING TO DEAL WITH THE BEHAVIOR AND CHANGE THE BEHAVIOR.
UH, ALSO THERE'S IMPROPER SET OUTS.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE STILL SEEING COMMINGLE MATERIALS, UH, CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS, YOU KNOW, EXCESSIVE TIRES, IT STOPS.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, OTHER, OTHER ITEMS THAT ARE JUST A FEW EXAMPLES AS FAR AS THE HHW COLLECTION GOES, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE, UH, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE, IN THE PHOTO, WE DO HA USE, UH, STAKE BED TRUCKS, AND THEY HAVE A FINITE CAPACITY FOR, FOR COLLECTION.
UM, WE HAVE ALL OF THE SAME KIND OF ISSUES WE SEE DOWN AT THE DROP OFF CENTER, JUST ON THE ROUTE AS FAR AS DAMAGE CONTAINERS, UM, SPILL, STUFF LIKE THAT.
BUT NOW, UH, INSTEAD OF HAVING, YOU KNOW, BEING ABLE TO, TO RESPOND TO SPILLS OR, OR REACTIONS AT THE DROP OFF CENTER, NOW WE HAVE TO DO IT OUT ON THE ROUTE.
SO, UH, CREWS DO GO OUT WITH, UH, SPILL CONTAINMENT AND, UH, CLEANUP SUPPLIES, BUT IT IS STILL AN ISSUE THAT THE STAFF HAS TO DEAL WITH NEARLY DAILY.
NEXT, WE HAVE PARTICIPATION BASED ON COUNCIL DISTRICTS.
AND SO AS YOU SIT HERE, I WOULD ASK YOU TO THINK ABOUT YOUR OWN COUNCIL DISTRICT WHERE YOU LIVE, AND, AND THEN TAKE A LOOK AT THE CHART JUST TO SEE HOW YOUR DISTRICT DID IN, IN CALENDAR YEAR 25.
AND SO, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DISTRICTS WERE HIGHER UTILIZATION, UH, COUNCIL DISTRICTS 1, 5, 7, 8, AND 10 HAD ANYWHERE FROM 11% TO 14% UTILIZATION OF, AND FOR THE HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT DISTRICT SEVEN AND DISTRICT 10, THEY ARE THE FURTHEST DISTRICTS FROM THE FACILITY.
BUT THOSE DISTRICTS HAVE A, A HIGH UTILIZATION.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO LOOK AT SOME OF THE, THE DISTRICTS WITH LOWER UTILIZATION AND TARGET THESE AREAS FOR, YOU KNOW, EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGNS, UH, TO INCREASE USAGE.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, UNDERSTANDING THAT THESE OTHER DISTRICTS, AND I WON'T NAME THEM OFF BY DISTRICT NUMBER, UH, BUT THE, THEY HAD A ANYWHERE FROM A SIX TO 9%, UH, UTILIZATION.
AND SO WE WANT TO CHALLENGE YOU ALL IN THE YEARS, UH, GOING FORWARD TO, TO EXCITE YOUR DISTRICT ABOUT OUR ON DEMAND SERVICES IN ORDER TO INCREASE THE UTILIZATION AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION.
GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, UH, IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE PROGRAM, UH, WE DID DO CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SURVEYS.
AND, UH, THOSE SURVEYS, YOU KNOW, WERE SURVEYED ON THE OVERALL SATISFACTION, THE EASE OF SCHEDULING, THE TIMELINESS OF THE SERVICE DELIVERY.
AND THE CUSTOMERS WERE RANDOMLY SELECTED BASED ON, YOU KNOW, WHETHER THEY HAD ONE OR MORE, UH, USE ONE OR MORE OF THE ON DEMAND SERVICES.
AND SO SOME OF THE CHARTER RESULTS ARE 95%, UH, OVERALL CONFIDENCE FROM CUSTOMERS.
UH, THEN WE HAD A 98%, UH, CUSTOMER SERVICES, UH, RATED THAT THEY WERE VERY SATISFIED OR SATISFIED, UH, WITH THE SCHEDULING.
AND THEN 95% WERE ALSO EITHER VERY SATISFIED OR SATISFIED WITH THE TIMELINESS PROGRAM RECOGNITION, YOU KNOW, FOR ALL THREE SERVICES, UH, WE'VE DONE MEDIA INTERVIEWS, UH, K-L-R-U-K-U-T, UH, WE ALSO WERE ONE OF THE, UH, FINALISTS FOR
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THE TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS.THERE'S CUSTOMER SERVICE RECOGNITIONS THAT COME IN, UH, YOU KNOW, QUITE OFTEN FROM AUSTIN 3 1 1, UH, CALLS OR WELL AS EMAILS, WHETHER IT BE FROM, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL, CITY MANAGER, OR JUST CUSTOMERS THEMSELVES.
I EVEN RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM AN EMPLOYEE HERE WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN.
AND WHAT HE DID WAS JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE EXCELLENCE, UH, CUSTOMER SERVICE THAT WAS PROVIDED, UH, FOR HIS ON DEMAND COLLECTIONS.
AND THEN THE, THE ONE THING THAT DOES EXCITE ME MOST IS THE AMOUNT OF MEETINGS THAT I'M ON WITH OTHER CITIES.
YOU KNOW, I'VE, I'VE BEEN ON WITH THE CITY OF HOUSTON, I'VE BEEN ON WITH OTHER CITIES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES, AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS THEY WANT TO KNOW ABOUT WHAT AUSTIN IS DOING IN ORDER TO HAVE THEIR ON DEMAND SERVICES AND WHERE, HOW WE GOT THERE AND WHAT WE'RE DOING TO, TO CONTINUE FORWARD IN THE FUTURE.
UH, BECAUSE THEIR PLAN IS TO IMPLEMENT THESE SERVICES.
AND SO IT, IT EXCITES ME, UH, TO BE ON THOSE MEETINGS.
IT, IT EXCITES ME TO TALK ABOUT THIS CITY AND WHAT WE'RE DOING, UH, FOR THE CITIZENS.
AND FEEL FREE TO ASK US ANY QUESTIONS IF YOU'D LIKE.
SAM AND ANDY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COMMISSIONERS.
ANY QUESTIONS I'VE GOT, I'LL JUST SAY THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK ON THAT.
IT'S, UH, IT'S A GREAT SERVICE AND VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.
I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS.
UM, SO I WAS GONNA ASK IF YOU WERE SEEING THAT FOR THE HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE, THAT THE DISTRICTS THAT WERE FURTHER AWAY FROM THE CENTER WERE THE ONES THAT WERE USING THE ON-DEMAND MORE, AND THAT'S THE MORE, MORE EXPENSIVE SERVICE FOR YOU GUYS, UM, AND YOU SAID YES, THAT WAS THE CASE, RIGHT? UH, YES.
TYPICALLY, THE, THE ONES, THE DISTRICTS THAT ARE FURTHER AWAY FROM THE SOUTHEAST, THE DROP OFF CENTER LOCATED IN THE SOUTHEAST ARE OUR, OUR BIGGEST PARTICIPANTS.
YEAH, I, I JUST WANTED TO, UH, CHIME IN 'CAUSE I'M ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO LIVES FAR FROM THE CENTER, AND ACTUALLY I THINK SEVERAL OF THE COMMISSIONERS ON HERE ALSO LIVE IN NORTHEAST AUSTIN.
AND IT IS, YOU KNOW, A TREK FOR US.
AND YOU DO HAVE TO THINK ABOUT, OKAY, I SHOULD BE CONSOLIDATING EVERYTHING I POSSIBLY CAN TO DO THIS TRIP OUT THERE.
AND I WAS JUST THERE RECENTLY AND IT'S A GREAT FACILITY.
UM, IT'S GREAT THAT IT'S AVAILABLE TO US.
UM, YOU KNOW, I DO LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING, YOU KNOW, A NORTH CENTER TO BE ABLE TO DO SOME OF THIS DROP OFF AT INSTEAD.
I THINK THAT OBVIOUSLY THAT'LL HELP BRING DOWN THE OPERATIONAL COSTS THAT YOU'RE SEEING FROM THE ON DEMAND AND FURTHER DISTRICTS IF THERE'S A CLOSER ONE FOR US TO USE.
UM, ANOTHER QUESTION, A QUESTION THAT I HAD IS ABOUT THE, UH, FUEL COSTS BEING INCREASED.
DID YOU GUYS ANTICIPATE THAT THE FUEL COSTS WERE GONNA GO UP THAT MUCH OR AT ALL FOR THE BULK PICKUP? DO YOU HAVE THIS NEXT YEAR'S, UM, BUDGET ACCOMMODATING FOR THE FACT THAT GAS IS NOW MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE? AND SO THE IDEA WAS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE DID WANNA SEE FUEL, A REDUCTION IN THE FUEL COSTS, YOU KNOW, BUT, AND, BUT WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS THE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE, THE TREND AND THE RE THE RECYCLABLES, YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST GENERATING A, A HIGH LEVEL OF RECYCLABLE MATERIALS.
AND SO WE'RE, WE'RE HAVING TO, TO RUN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE HAVING TO OPERATE ADDITIONAL VEHICLES TO, UH, PULL IN THOSE RECYCLABLES AND KUDOS TO THE CUSTOMERS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE, THE, FROM THE ONSET, WE EXPECT IT TO, TO JUST RUN WHAT WE WOULD CALL A METALS TRUCK.
UH, BUT WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS THAT ON ANY GIVEN DAY, WE CAN, BASED ON THE NUMBER OF APPOINTMENTS THAT WE HAVE OF DIVERTED MATERIAL AT THE CURBSIDE, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, YOU KNOW, WE CAN RUN ANYWHERE FROM TWO TO THREE METALS TRUCKS.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S, IT'S BEEN A BENEFIT TO US BECAUSE WE'RE ABLE TO OFFSET IT.
BUT, UH, WE DID NOT EXPECT, YOU KNOW, TO SEE IT, YOU KNOW, INCREASING IN THE, UH, AMOUNT THAT WE DID.
BUT WHAT WE'VE DONE TO TRY TO COUNTER THAT IS, UH, WE'VE SHORTENED THE, WE'VE REDUCED THE NUMBER OF, OF TRUCKS THAT WE WOULD RUN TO THE LANDFILL.
UH, WE'VE ALSO, YOU KNOW, INCREASED THE NUMBER OF APPOINTMENTS, UH, THAT EACH OF A TRUCK IS ABLE TO SERVICE AS THEY BECOME MORE ACCUSTOMED TO HOW THEY NAVIGATE THROUGH THEIR ROUTES.
WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF APPOINTMENTS THAT EACH OPERATOR CAN HANDLE ON A SERVICE DAY.
AND SO IT'S, IT'S ASSISTED SOMEWHAT FOR THIS YEAR.
UM, BUT BACK TO MY QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THE INCREASED FUEL COSTS THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING, YOU KNOW, PERSONALLY, AND OF COURSE YOU GUYS ARE TOO, AS AN ORGANIZATION, IF THAT HAS BEEN
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PUT INTO THE BUDGET, THE, OUR CURRENT BUDGET IS WE, IT'S RIGHT NOW AS FAR AS THE FUEL COSTS THAT, THAT FLUCTUATE BASED ON WHAT COMES OUT OF FLEET.AND SO WHEN, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THOSE COSTS, IT'S, YOU KNOW, WITH THE CURRENT INCREASE THAT IS NOT A FACTOR IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET 'CAUSE WE'RE CURRENTLY OPERATING IN THAT BUDGET.
BUT IT, IT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT COULD BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION, UH, FOR THE UPCOMING BUDGET.
YEAH, I JUST MEANT IN TERMS OF, UH, YEAH, FORECAST, ANTICIPATING THAT THE FUTURE MIGHT STILL BE UNCERTAIN THERE.
UH, AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION IS IF YOU GUYS JUST HAD ANY OTHER LESSONS LEARNED FROM THIS FIRST YEAR OF THIS THAT YOU ARE PUTTING INTO PLACE FOR THIS YEAR IN TERMS OF EFFICIENCIES OR ROUTING
SO THE, YOU KNOW, AND WHAT WE'VE DONE IS, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT OUR FLEET TECHNOLOGY THAT WE UTILIZE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, AS WE'VE INCREASED THE NUMBER OF APPOINTMENTS THAT WE'RE, WE'RE HANDLING PER DAY, UH, WE'RE SEEING THAT, YOU KNOW, THE, WE WERE ABLE TO, TO, YOU KNOW, HELP WITH THE DESIGN FUNCTION, GET HELP WITH THE DESIGN FUNCTION OF THE TECHNOLOGY TO, TO JUST KIND OF MORE ACCURATELY ROUTE US TO CERTAIN AREAS.
AND IT'S CUT DOWN ON, ON KIND OF MIS ROUTING, UH, SOME OF THE VEHICLES THAT HAS HELPED OUT.
YOU KNOW, WHEN IT COMES TO THE, UH, RECYCLABLES OF THE MATERIAL, UH, WE'VE ACTUALLY LOOKED AT, YOU KNOW, LARGER VEHICLES WOULD, YOU KNOW, HELP US IN, IN ESSENCE COLLECT MORE RECYCLABLES AT ONE TIME.
AND SO THAT WAY WE CAN REDUCE THE NUMBER OF, OF, UH, RECYCLABLE, UH, UNITS THAT WE'RE, WE'RE HAVING TO OPERATE OUT ON THE ROUTES.
AND THEN WHEN FROM, UH, AN FTE STANDPOINT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, IN THE LONG RUN AS WE BECOME MORE EFFICIENT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE RETITLING SOME OF THE POSITIONS, RECLASSING SOME OF THE POSITIONS THAT WILL ALSO SAVE US, UH, ON THE, THE COST PER EMPLOYEE.
WE'VE BEEN, UH, AS FAR AS THE HHW ON DEMAND PROGRAM GOES, UM, WE HAD, UH, A LITTLE BIT OF A TRIAL DURING, UH, COVID WHEN THE RECYCLING RE DROP OFF CENTER WAS SHUT DOWN.
SO WE WERE HONESTLY ABLE TO IRON OUT A LOT OF THE KINKS DURING, DURING THAT TIME PERIOD.
BUT SAM AND HIS, UH, TEAM MOSTLY DID MO, UH, DID ALL THE WORK PRETTY MUCH FOR THE, THE ROUTING AND, UH, ALL OF THE EFFICIENCIES THAT KIND OF LED US TO THIS POINT.
SO, UH, I APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK THAT EVERYONE ELSE HAS DONE TO MAKE MY PROGRAM A SUCCESS.
ANDY, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONERS? I'VE, I'VE GOT A COUPLE OF, I GOT, OH, GO AHEAD.
MINE'S GONNA PROBABLY SEEM LIKE A FLUFFY QUESTION, UM,
FROM FROM THE START, THE, THE EMPLOYEES I WOULD SAY WERE SKEPTICAL.
UH, YOU KNOW, THE, YOU KNOW, AND, AND I, I THINK THE, THE, THE BIGGEST THING WAS THE GETTING FROM POINT A TO POINT B AND THEN HAVING THE WILLINGNESS TO, TO FOLLOW THE TECHNOLOGY, YOU KNOW, AND THE TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN SO ASSISTIVE.
AND THEN TO, TO BE ABLE TO SEE THAT, YOU KNOW, I CAN, WHAT LOOKS LIKE A, A HIGH VOLUME, UH, WHEN IT COMES TO THE NUMBER OF APPOINTMENTS THAT I HAVE SCHEDULED.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT ASSIGNING A TRUCK, 50 APPOINTMENTS, MOST PEOPLE WOULD THINK 50 APPOINTMENTS, AND I'VE GOTTA TRAVEL TO EACH ONE IS GONNA TAKE ME FOREVER TO GET THERE.
BUT WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS THAT, YOU KNOW, THE LONGER DAYS CAN CREATE A LEVEL OF DISSATISFACTION, BUT WHEN AN EMPLOYEE LEAVES OUT AT 5 30, 6 30 IN THE MORNING, AND THEN THEY'RE BACK TO THE FACILITIES BY 2:00 PM AND THEY'VE SERVICED 50, 60 APPOINTMENTS MM-HMM
YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THE QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES.
I CAN SEE MY KIDS PLAY NOW I CAN GO TO, UH, WORK A SECOND JOB IF I CHOOSE TO.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE, THE CUSTOMER SERVICE FROM THE EMPLOYEES HAS IMPROVED.
COUPLE OF COMMENTS HERE ON THE, UH, ACTUAL BULK COLLECTION.
WHEN I SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT, DOES THE SYSTEM ASK ME WHAT I ANTICIPATE HAVING OUT FOR COLLECTION? YES, IT DOES.
SO ONCE WHEN YOU GO INTO THE, UH, SCHEDULING PLATFORM, IT, IT GIVES YOU A, A LIST OF THINGS AND YOU'RE ABLE TO SELECT THOSE THINGS.
AND EVEN AS YOU GET DOWN TO OTHER, YOU'RE ABLE TO TYPE IN, YOU KNOW, OTHER ITEMS THAT YOU MAY HAVE OUT.
NOW WE'RE WORKING NOW TO KIND OF
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REDUCE THAT NUMBER TO, TO, SO IT'S NOT OVERWHELMING WHEN CUSTOMERS GO AND SCHEDULE THE APPOINTMENT, BUT YOU ARE ABLE TO SELECT WHAT YOU HAVE.SO IF I'D SAY, I'VE GOT AN OLD REFRIGERATOR AND I HAVE A STOVE AND, UH, EH, WHATEVER, COUPLE OTHER METAL ITEMS ALONG WITH SOME HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE MATERIAL AND, UH, GOT MAYBE SOME CLOTHES OR WHATEVER THE, IT'LL, IT, IT WILL ALLOW YOU TO, BECAUSE THE, THE TEXTILE PART OF IT IS, IS COMING.
BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE, UH, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE SE SELECTING THE APPOINTMENT FOR THE BULK, YOU'LL HAVE THE, THE BULK ITEMS. AND THEN IF YOU ARE HAVE THE CHEMICALS, THEN YOU'RE ABLE TO SCHEDULE THE, ON THE, THE HHW ON DEMAND.
SO WE'RE USING TWO VEHICLES THEN TO COLLECT THESE? YES, YOU, SO FOR THE BULK, OKAY.
THE, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE LIKE ANDY'S TEAM DOES THE CHEMICALS AND THE HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE, AND THEY'LL COLLECT THOSE, UH, BECAUSE OF THE SPEC, THE, THE, UM, REQUIREMENTS THAT THEY HAVE FOR THE TITLE.
AND THEN WE'RE COLLECTING THE BULK ITEMS. OKAY.
AND THEN BOTH THOSE GO BACK TO, WELL, IF IT'S A, A STRAIGHT METAL TRUCK, DOES THAT GO STRAIGHT TO THE METAL YARDS OR DOES THAT COME BACK HOME AND YOU GUYS SWO THROUGH IT OR? UH, WE, WE HAVE TWO, UH, PLACES WE, WE DO DELIVER, YOU KNOW, AT CERTAIN TIMES DURING THE WEEK, UH, WE DELIVER AT OUR HHW FACILITY, UH, BECAUSE AND, AND DROP IT OFF THERE.
AND THEN TWICE A WEEK WE GO TO A METAL RECYCLER.
I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, BUT AGAIN, JUST THE EFFICIENCIES IS SENDING ONE BIG TRUCK TO PICK UP EVERYTHING, DOES THAT CUT BACK ON FUEL AND TIME OR AGAIN, JUST PRES SORTING AT THE CURB AS YOU'RE DOING NOW? DOES THAT HELP? SO, WELL PRESORTED THE, IT IT, IT HELPS US WHEN IT COMES TO THE DIVERSION BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, ONE TRUCK PICKING UP ALL THESE ITEMS, THERE'S NO WAY TO SORT IT, YOU KNOW, AND, AND THEN IF IT, YOU KNOW, UNDER THE OLD, THE PREVIOUS MODEL, YOU KNOW, AND A LOT OF THESE ITEMS WERE BEING LANDFILLED.
SO THOSE AREN'T TAKEN BACK TO THE HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITY ON TODD LANE.
EXCUSE ME, THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOT TAKEN BACK TO TODD CURRENTLY? THEY ARE, YES.
YEAH, WE DO TAKE THOSE, LIKE I SAID, THREE TIMES OUT OF THE WEEK, WE TAKE THOSE ITEMS BACK TO HHW.
I MEAN, IT SOUNDS LIKE A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL PROGRAM, GREAT OPPORTUNITY, AND, UH, I NEED TO START USING THAT DARN THING.
ARE MOST PEOPLE BOOKING THROUGH THE APP, OR HOW ARE MOST PEOPLE, UM, SCHEDULING THE FOUR? UH, THE BULK, IT'S, YOU KNOW, WE STILL GET, YOU KNOW, BRUSH, BRUSH IN BULK.
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE UTILIZING THE APP IN THE WEBSITE.
UH, WE DO STILL SEE, YOU KNOW, CALLS BEING MADE TO 3 1 1.
UH, THE DIFFERENCE IN THE CALLS MADE TO 3 1 1, IT BECOMES A PROCESS.
AND SO IF YOU GO IN THROUGH THE APP OR GOING THROUGH THE WEBSITE, THEN YOU'RE ABLE TO IMMEDIATELY SEE WHAT'S AVAILABLE.
YOU KNOW, IF YOU MAKE THAT CALL TO THREE ONE ONE, IT BECOMES THE INTAKE CALL.
AND THEN THAT CALL GETS TRANSFERRED TO ARRS PRO CENTER AND OUR CUSTOMER SERVICE TEAM, WHICH THEN MAKES SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO CALL YOU BACK AND SCHEDULE THAT APPOINTMENT.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, AND THEN WHEN THEY CALL YOU BACK, THEY'RE GIVING YOU THE DATES AVAILABLE, BUT SOMETIMES IT'S BETTER FOR THOSE TO JUST A ONE STOP SHOP TO WHERE THEY'RE ABLE TO GO IN, SEE IT, MAKE THE SCHEDULING, KNOW THAT IT'S ON THAT DAY AND BE DONE WITH IT, VERSUS ACTUALLY WAITING ON THAT CALLBACK.
DO, UH, AND OBVIOUSLY SOME PEOPLE JUST AREN'T GONNA BE USING THE APP FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER.
BUT IS 3 1 1 SUGGESTING THAT PEOPLE USE GO THROUGH THE APP? THE, UM, THEY, THEY DO OFFER THAT INFORMATION TO THEM, BUT, AND, AND SO THE, AND SO THAT IT BECOMES, BECAUSE SOMETIMES IT'S ABOUT AWARENESS AND EDUCATION, AND SO THAT INFORMATION IS OFFERED UP.
UH, BUT AGAIN, WE DO HAVE SITUATIONS WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOTTA FOLLOW THE CUSTOMER ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND, AND THEY WANNA SPEAK WITH A LIVE PERSON AND, AND, AND WE ACCOMMODATE THEM.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? MELISSA, GO AHEAD.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A COMMENT.
UM, THIS IS RELATED TO WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
SO MY NEIGHBORHOOD DOES HAVE THE ISSUES THAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT WHERE PEOPLE FORGET THAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO ON-CALL PICKUP.
THEY JUST SET THEIR STUFF OUT, NEIGHBORS, THEN LOOK AND GO, OH, IT MUST BE TIME.
AND, UM, PREVIOUSLY I ASKED AT A DIFFERENT MEETING IF, WHEN I USED THE APP, IF I PUT IN THEIR ADDRESS, IF I COULD SEE IF THEY HAD BULK PICKUP SCHEDULED OR NOT.
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WHETHER OR NOT I NEEDED TO REPORT THEM TO CODE FOR, YOU KNOW, IMPROPER SET OUT OR HOW THEY WERE GONNA BE NOTIFIED THAT THEY ACTUALLY DO HAVE TO CALL IF THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND.UM, PREVIOUSLY I WAS TOLD, YES, YOU COULD, THAT'S NOT ACCURATE.
UM, I CALLED 3 1 1 AND THEY SAID, NO, WE CAN'T GIVE YOU THAT INFORMATION.
THAT'S NOT AVAILABLE IN THE APP OR ONLINE WHEN YOU PUT IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S ADDRESS.
AND, UM, THEY SAID THAT THEY CAN SCHEDULE FOR YOU, BUT THEY TELL YOU THAT THEY'RE USING THE SAME WEBSITE OR APP THAT YOU WOULD BE USING TO SCHEDULE IT.
SO THEY, THEY GIVE YOU THAT KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU CAN DO YOURSELF.
AND THEY'RE HAPPY TO HELP YOU BY DOING IT FOR YOU, JUST FOR THE PEOPLE THAT DON'T KNOW THE PROCESS THAT WE'RE ASKING THE QUESTIONS.
YOU'RE NOT GONNA TURN ME IN, ARE YOU?
BUT SOMETIMES PEOPLE, WHENEVER THEY PUT OUT THEIR BULK, YES, THEIR BLOCK.
YOU CAN'T SIT SIT THERE FOREVER.
ALRIGHT, COMMISSIONERS, THIS IS IN A, I GUESS A STAFF BRIEFING HERE.
AND, UH, LITERALLY, GUYS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
THIS IS EXTREMELY INFORMATIVE.
I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY ALL THE QUESTIONS AND, AND, UH, GOSH, THE LEARNING CURVE THAT I, I AS A, AS A COMMISSIONER AND AS A, AS A RESIDENT OF AUSTIN NEEDS TO, TO LEARN.
I MEAN, THIS IS WONDERFUL STUFF.
YOU HAVE A GOOD EVENING, YOU GUYS.
AND I THINK JASON, WE'VE ALREADY COVERED THAT, CORRECT? YOU GOT, YOU KILLED TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE.
[7.Staff briefing on the status of Austin Resource Recovery Operational and Administrative projects by Richard McHale, Director of Austin Resource Recovery]
IS, UH, DIRECTOR'S REPORT.RICHARD MCCAL, DIRECTOR FOR AUSTIN RESOURCE RECOVERY.
WELL, WE DIDN'T MEET BEAT OUR SEVEN MINUTE RECORD, BUT, UH,
A FEW THINGS I JUST WANNA TOUCH ON IN THE, IN THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT, UM, FIRST TO, UH, COMMISSIONER KALL, JUST ON THE, THE BUDGETING OF FUEL, JUST TO KNOW THAT WE GET THOSE NUMBERS FROM FLEET AS FAR AS WHAT THE RATES ARE GONNA BE.
SO ALL THESE HIGH PRICES RIGHT NOW, WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT.
WE'RE KIND OF INSULATED NEXT YEAR.
WE'LL SEE THE IMPACT OF THOSE.
AND SO, WE'LL, SOMETIME THIS SUMMER, FLEET WILL SEND OVER WHAT THOSE RATES WILL BE, SO WE'LL, WE'LL HAVE A, SO WE ARE BUDGETED FOR FUEL FOR THAT.
UM, SO NO ISSUES AT THAT AS FAR AS THAT GOES.
SO, UM, I DO WANNA TALK ABOUT, UH, THE REUSE WAREHOUSE.
I THINK WE GOT THE KEYS TODAY TO THE PLACE.
AND, UH, SO WE ARE REAL EXCITED TO, TO GET THAT, UH, PROJECT GOING.
THE BILLING'S IN GREAT CONDITION, SO NOT A LOT OF WORK HAS TO BE DONE TO IT.
SO, UM, JUST WORKING ON THE PROGRAMMING NOW AND KIND OF LOGISTICS, WE HAVE TO GET SOME, OUR, OUR TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT TO KINDA GET THE BUILDING OUTFITTED WITH ALL THE, THE COMPUTER HARDWARE AND EVERYTHING THAT WE NEED TO HAVE.
BUT, UH, UH, HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE SOME, UH, ENOUGH COMING MONTHS, SOME UPDATES AS TO, UH, AS FAR AS, UH, AN OPENING DATE AND, UH, AND SUCH.
AND I'M SURE WE'LL HAVE A GRAND OPENING, UH, CEREMONY AND, UM, PERHAPS SOME OF THE COMMISSIONERS CAN ATTEND.
UM, THAT'D BE GREAT IF, UH, IF THAT, UH, HAPPENS.
SO THAT WILL BE COMING UP HERE SHORTLY.
UM, WITH ALL THE TALK THAT, UH, ANDY AND SAM DID, UM, THEY DIDN'T MENTION THAT WE'VE ADDED TEXTILES TO THE ON-DEMAND COLLECTION.
SO, UH, THAT IS SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE'VE BEEN ACCEPTING NOW.
SO, UM, YET ANOTHER REASON FOR YOU, UH, JERRY TO GO AHEAD AND CALL UP.
I KNOW YOU GOT A CLOSET FULL OF CLOTHES THAT YOU NEED TO GET RID OF, SO THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY, SO I REALLY, WE'LL COME BY AND PICK THOSE UP FOR YOU.
UM, LAST THING I JUST WANNA TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT IS THE, UH, THE SOLAR ARRAY AT FM A 12.
SO WE'RE GOING TO COUNCIL HERE, ACTUALLY AUSTIN ENERGY'S GOING TO COUNCIL HERE, UH, FOR A, UH, PROJECT OUT AT FM EIGHT 12 ON SOME OF THE CLOSED AREAS OF THE LANDFILL, UM, FOR A, UM, COMMUNITY SOLAR PROJECT.
AND THIS WILL BE UP TO AN EIGHT MEGAWATT FACILITY.
AND SO WE'RE TOLD THIS WILL BE THE LARGEST, UH, SOLAR ARRAY WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS.
SO SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROJECT TOO.
THIS IS ONE THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT A LONG TIME.
I'M TRYING TO GET SOLAR OUT THERE, SO IT'S FINALLY COME TO FRUITION.
SO AGAIN, WE'RE REAL EXCITED ABOUT THAT, AND YOU'LL BE HEARING MORE ABOUT THAT TOO.
WE'LL HAVE A PRESS RELEASE AND, UH, OTHER THINGS COMING UP AS THAT, UH, UH, PROJECT GETS UNDERWAY.
AND WITH THAT, I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE.
ANY QUESTIONS? CBD I'M SORRY, GO AHEAD.
YOU MENTIONED, UM, TEXTILES FOR DROP OFF.
UM, ARE THOSE BY CHANCE GETTING RECYCLED OR WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE TEXTILES THAT ARE GETTING DROPPED OFF, OR, OR BULK PICKUP? YEAH, I THINK CURRENTLY WE HAD AN AGREEMENT WITH GOODWILL.
I THINK THAT AGREEMENT, UH, HAS, UH, EXPIRED.
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BUT I THINK IN THE INTERIM, UNTIL WE HAVE ANOTHER VENDOR, I THINK WE'LL BE DELIVERING THOSE MATERIALS TO GOODWILL STILL.UM, IT WAS A NOT, IT WASN'T A REVENUE CONTRACT TO BEGIN WITH, SO, UM, I THINK WE'LL, UH, I THINK THAT'LL BE THE PLAN OF ACTION AND WE'LL KIND OF LOOK AT, UH, THE AMOUNT OF MATERIAL THAT WE'RE GETTING AND, UH, IF WE NEED TO, UM, PROBABLY DO SOME SORT OF SOLICITATION TO HAVE SOME SORT OF FORMAL AGREEMENT WITH SOME, UH, NONPROFIT OR OTHER ORGANIZATION TO HANDLE THOSE MATERIALS.
RICHARD, THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT MM-HMM
THE PROPOSED RATE STRUCTURE THERE.
HAVE WE, UH, ANY IDEA ON WHAT THAT PERCENTAGE, UH, INCREASE MIGHT BE? OR, UH, THERE'S A RATE SHEET IN THAT, UM, OH, IN YOUR FOLDER THERE? YES.
I THINK IN GENERAL IT WAS ABOUT, UH, OH, HERE WE, YES.
YEAH, ALMOST, UH, IT WAS A CONSIDERABLE RATE INCREASE.
I DON'T, I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT NUMBER NOW.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR, FOR RICHARD, FOR STAFF? RICHARD? THANK YOU GUYS VERY, VERY MUCH FOR EVERYTHING.
AND, UH, MORE IMPORTANTLY GUYS, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
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I GUESS THE NEXT ITEM HERE IS LITERALLY JUST TALKING ABOUT, UH, FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. AND I THINK RICHARD AND I HAD CHATTED ABOUT PERHAPS MAYBE GETTING SOME INFORMATION ON, ON THE OLD, UH, FM, A 12 LANDFILL THAT MAYBE WE CAN PUT THAT ON THE, UH, ON THE AGENDA FOR OUR NEXT MEETING.IT'S ONE DISCUSSION ITEM I SHOULD SAY.
AND THE OTHER THOUGHTS, GUYS, IT'D BE, UM, I'D BE INTERESTED IN HEARING, UM, HOW MOVE OUT A TX PLANNING IS GOING.
I KNOW THAT'S COMING UP HERE PRETTY SOON.
UM, WELL, ACTUALLY
I'M TRYING TO THINK IF WE'RE GONNA HAVE ANOTHER MEETING BY THEN, BUT OF COURSE WE ARE.
UM, SO YEAH, I'D BE INTERESTED IN HEARING HOW THAT PLANNING IS GOING.
ALRIGHT, ANY OTHER THOUGHTS, GUYS? HEARING NONE, I WILL, UH, ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR ADJOURNMENT.
OR CAITLYN, YOU MAY AS WELL GO.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, RAISE YOUR HAND PLEASE.
COMMISSIONERS, THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH.
YOU GUYS ARE WONDERFUL AND PATIENT WITH US.