The Tulsa Authority for Recovery of Energy (TARE) Board met on April 28, 2026, to discuss routine consent items, staff reports, financial updates, intergovernmental agreements, and a refuse fee proposal for City Council. The meeting also included announcements about a community garden and the retirement of a long-serving board member and outside counsel.
Good afternoon. Welcome to the Telset Authority of Recovery Energy. We've got her 2428 here in North. I call this meeting for order. Hold well. Yes, here finally. Here. Forbes. Father you'll take here. Here. We'll call us established for item three minutes of meetings. A minutes of March 24th, 2026 focused committee meeting and B minutes of March 31st, 2026 poll board meetings. I have a motion to accept. Second. We gotta make one. Oh, make a motion to second. Thanks. I'm doing as well as I want. We'll have you through here. We'll make this in. It'll take you probably ten years. Anyway. All right, item four staff reports and updates. A manager's report first. Yes. Okay. Um residential refuses tracking the same cells our uh recycling. We removed zero carts for contamination in March. Um AEL. Uh the diversions, they've had several issues, or they've had crane issues. It was one crane, then it became two. Uh they got one back on, then it's kind of been bouncing back and forth. They've also had their planned outages at the same time, so that's that's part of the reason for the diversions there. Um we lost 18 customers in the twice-a-week service. Uh next one is the mulch site. Uh as you can see, and I kind of talked uh last month the same numbers. If when you look at the green waste frog end dropped off versus ground, because we're not bringing in quite the volume like we were when we were doing the commercial, so they're able to stockpile a lot more and then grind kind of all at once. So when you look at that bar graph, uh, even though it may seem like there was a lot more dropped off than ground, we're still keeping plenty ahead of what's coming in out there. As you can see, the mulch-site customers, it was 2,731 uh Tulsa residents and 212 MOU customers. Everything else is about the same. I was surprised that we had uh 46 vehicles for firewood because it's been pretty hot. Uh so that was interesting. And then the next page on the bulky waste tonnage, we're plus 40 tons compared to last year at this time. And then our intergovernmental, we're I know there for a few months we were kind of tracking pretty high over the the winter months, and that was like a lot of projects. I know like uh uh flow line was doing a lot of cleanup in our yards, water parts do a lot of cleanups. So if you look at this, uh the numbers for this month, we're actually down um 77 tons. So we're kind of tracking back down to where we typically usually hang out at. Um I just kind of pulled up some of the months of September, October, November, December, and January. They were all 100 plus ton days or 100 plus ton months, and I a lot of that was contributed just I guess a lot of yards cleaning out. Uh we were up 11 tons from last year at this time on a legal dumping.